The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-02-13
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

u MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of CuI
- rent Happenings.
The State House now has electr
lights.
Jackson now demands new cour
house.
Forest now has a telephone e,
change.
Quitman's postoffice safe was robbie
OF s164.6l on the night of the 9Th.
!. Rev. Sid. Williams, the noted evangeI
,e ist, is engaged in meeting at Por
ty Gibson.
Meridian has abolished her sanitar,
inspector, considering him an unneces
i, sary expense.
The German Club, of McComb, ele
! gantly entertained the ladies of tn,
town last week.
The ladies of McComb's Presbyteri
an church have organized woman's
weekly prayer meeting.
A Christian Scientists church has
been organized at Laurel 1t is the
first of its kind in the State.
Col. Archie Farley, of Hattiesburg
has been appointed 10y the governor
chief of engineers on his military staff.
Mr.. Henry Strauss, of Fayette, and
Miss Flora Abraham, of Port Gibson,
will be married on the 9th.
The ladies of the Baptist Building
Fund, of McComb, will give a Wash
ington Bazaar at the city hall, Feb.
22nd.
The Alcorn Agricultural and Me
chanical College will have a girls dor
mltory added to it's buildings, to cost
$4,000.
Miss Edith May, eldest daughter of
Hon. Joseph Hirsch, of Vicksburg.
married M. ID. Lander, a prominent
young attorney.
For the benefit of the Baptist
church pipe organ fund, Queen Esther
will be given in Jackson, tonight and
tomorrow night.
Hon. James NJ. Tate, one of the rep
resentatives of Pike county in the
State legislature, died at Walkers
Bridge of cancer of the stomach.
One of the statues of Gen. Jackson
that were made in Italy of Carrara
marble, is now in possession of Capt.
W. Fl. Hardy, of Hattiesburg, and is
of great value.
Mr. Lew Shaw, great billiardist and
champion fancy-shot player, accompa-
MED by Nellie Shaw, the champion la
dy billiardist of the world, visited
Vicksburg on the 7th
VIM. S. Hull, of Jackson, has been /
granted patent on a refuse furnace
CRATE bar and incinerating vault,
being a portion of the crematory
plant he is arranging to manufacture.
A negro woman, Sadie Moore, who
was confined in the ia ackson Jail on a
charge of murder, gave birth to an in
fant son, last week, whom the 9th
er prisoners wish discharged as dis
turber of the peace.
George Bell, convict from Warren
county, serving a life time sentence
Tor murder, was discharged for meri
'orlous conduct, having been instru-
mental in preventing the escape of
several prisoners.
Triplett, a negro, arrested Robt.
smith, husband of Minnie Smith. who
was previously arrested in the Gamble
murder case. He will get the $500 re
ward offered by the governor and the
tatutory reward inclusive
Last Thursday, the laundry. the
lnest and largest in the State, belong Z
ng to the Insane Hospital, burned to [
ne ground. All clothing and machi-
ery in the building were total loss,
ne lire originated in the upper story.
Marshal Easterllng, of Tuscanola
hot and killed Frank Austin. a far
ler. Austin was attempting to de-
end his brother, who quarrelled with
'asterling, the brother having but
ne hand. Easterling is out on $1,000
ond.
A large factory is in contemplation :,
Gulfport, Miss, for manufacturinp /
'rtllizer out of fish. All through the
lmmer months they can be bouobt
ong the coast at 81 ton, and have a
value of $3.50 a ton, saws the
arm Gazette.
The foundation of the new State S.
ouse will have to be six feet deeper -
AN contracted for. The discovery of
% existence of gravel makes this
'cessary and entails an additional
pense of $4,000 to be defrayed bv
e commission. r
Or. ). ID. Williams, health officer of =
Inhower county, has issued an order
'slng all negro schools and churches
d preventing public gatherings of
groes In that county west of the
nnower river, and also suspendinp 70
schools, churches and GATHERINGS r.
thin five miles of any locality infect.
with smallpox on the east ern side of
nfi over river.
'rof. j. X. Dobyns, superintendent
the Deaf q Dumb Institute, at Jack =
!, issued invitations to the State
lcers and the trustees and superin. ~
ldents of the various State institn.
us TO De present at dining in the I