The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-05-29

ClarksdaIe proved a great success.
The Woodmen of the World en-
joyed picnic at Chatawa on the %.
Matt Calvert, negro, was lynched
near Griffith for the same old crime.
An $1,000 cotton ginnery will be
erected at Eupora by the American
Cotton Co.
Hattiesburg has just discovered that
two wide open saloons are being run
in that city.
Castalian Springs held their open
ing ball last Wednesday. $50 guests
we're present.
The Centreville Delinting Company
is new enterprise looking to progress
and prosperity.
Hon. T. L. Sisson will on June D,
be welded to Miss Mary Helen Suth-
erland, of Winona.
Allison Wells, a popular health re-
sort in Madison county, will open for
the season next week.
An artesian well has been sunk on
the Chautauqua grounds at Gulfport,
to depth of $50 feet.
Several telephones were SD urnt out"
during the atmospheric disturbance
last Friday at Vicksburg.
The w. C. T. T., of Vicksburg, is
trying to raise $50 to run an ice wa
ter fountain this summer.
ed principal of the public school
at Low, with his wife as first assistant.
Mrs. Walter Deason was killed in
runaway at Deasonville, Yazoo county.
She was driving a mule hitched to
buggy.
All the Catholic churches of the
State took up collections last Sunday
for the benefit of the Jacksonville fire
sufferers.
For beating numerically an old
mule, negro man was fined $500 and
costs at Wesson, the sum amounting
to s1340,
They say" that jackson is at last
actually going to have new hotel
with up-to-date furnishings, and that
it will cost 100000
Great activity is shown in securing
land at Laurel. An expert Gilman is
on the grounds and interesting devel :
opments are expected
Fifteen colored physicians have
formed the "Medico- Chirurgical Associ-
iation of Mississippi" DR.. S. D. Red
mond, of jackson, is president.
The Jackson Light, Power & Street
Railway Company, has donated to the
Livingston Park Association the neat
sum of 500 to be used in the park
"Jacksons new hostelry" is the way
the Clarion-L Ledger speaks of Jackson's
prospective new hotel. The maximum
of the capital stock is fixed at 100000
Miss Mary Lyle, an educator whose
whole school life was spent in the
Natchez Institute, public school, died
in that city at the age of So on the IS.
Gen. Henry l.. Burkitt, the father of
Hon. Frank Burkitt, a man widely
MaXims," died at his home near Alb
bot on the 10Th inst.
The strange disappearance of Mr..
Eubanks, of the firm of Taylor & Eu-
banks, contractors and brick manu-
facturers of Jackson, is a mystery
that is puzzling Capital people.
Prof. c. S. North, the county super
intendent of education of Kinds coun-
ty, has generously offered to pay the
travelling expenses of all Kinds coun-
ty teachers, who will attend the nor
NAL at Jackson.
A. P. Brady, who for eight years has
been running little grocery store in
jackson, was arrested Friday for a
murder committed p years ago in
Texas. Brady was taken back to be
tried under the charge.
The directors of the experiment sta
ton at the Agricultural and Mechan.
ical College have issued circular in
regard to farmers institutes this sum
mer. The letter states that institutes
will be held between June 20 and
Sept. 10 without cost, as the State has
made an appropriation to defray ex.
penses. Any county desiring an in.
stitute can secure it.
a jackson special says that Secre-
tary Stevens, of the Penitentiary
Board of Control, has received notice
from Meadville informing him that T
}. Howell, another escape, has been cap
tured and is awaiting his disposal
Howell was one of the TRUSTEES who
were employed on the artesian we'll
but who wearied of we'll -doing
and well-digging and left without Civ
ing notice.
Judge Powell opened court at eau.
ton Monday. The first week will be de-
voted to the civil docket and during
the second criminal cases will be tax.
en- up. On Friday of the second week
the celebrated case of Bolls VS. Bradley
is set for trial. At the last term of
the Circuit Court of Kinds county
held at Raymond, the case was trans.
ferred to Madison county on applica
; ton of the attorneys for the defense.
t Whether the attorneys for the defend.
ant are resolved to go at once into tri
al or some further grounds for contin
! nance will be presented is not re,