The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-10-02
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
\ Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent happenings.

An experiment station in the Delta |
is being advocated.
w. ID. Wade, Confederate veteran,
died near Raymond on the 18th.
The |. |. Il c. opened with GOO pupils |
This is the sixteenth session of this |
institution.
The Port Gibson Reveille opposes
the admission of girls to the Alcorn
\. Il NJ. College.
Meridan's public schools opened |
with 1923 pupils and jackson has
more than 1900.
Nearly fifty chickens we're stolen
from private yards in Jackson on the
night of the 18th.
Methodist and Baptist Sunday |
schools of Jackson observed last Sab
bath as Rally Day.
Mrs. j. f. Fisher, aged y, died at
Cayuga, Kinds county, where she had
resided forty six years.
Miss Mamie Critz, of West Point,
has received the appointment of train
ed nurse for the |. /. & c.
f. NJ. Boyd and Miss Mamie Cutrer,
of Magnolia, we're married on the
26th by Rev. J. +. Thigpen.
YaZoo City's new cotton mill ex-
poets to be turning out yarns in |
November. 1t is not yet completed.
William Burns, an uncle of Attor- |
ney General McClurg, died last week
at his home in Carroll county at the
age of %.
DR.. Mary Farinholt Jones, the
Columbus Commercial says, is 1.-THE
accomplished and skilled physician"
of the l. !. n c.
Col. Shields has ordered an investi- |
cation of the alleged disorders among
the State militia on their return from
the encampment at Biloxi.
The insurance on the life of the late |
Col. j. L. Power was $4,000. This is
gratifying news to the friends of his |
family who were his friends.
The West Point Leader came out in
enlarged form last week and was I'M
usually readable, there being more
original matter from the editor.
A. l.. Cassell, who has been 50 long
identified with Canton, will move to
Columbus Mr.. Cassell is known all over
the State by the flowers and plants he
sells.
Hazlehursts vote for the issuance
of municipal bonds for electric lights
and water works stood lJ3 in favor of,
l / against the bonds, which amount to
$4,000
1t. Gov. Harrison's brief admins
tration of State affairs during the alb
sence of Gov. LONGING was eminently
satisfactory to the State and credita-
BILE to himself.
Miss Matte Trip, II years of age,
eloped with Will Brown, an employe
of Jackson's street railway, and was
married by DIR. w. C. Black at the
Capital last Wednesday.
Miss Grace Augusta Cox aud Rev.
Dunbar Hunt Ogden will be married
in Columbus on the 10th of October
Miss Cox is we'll known as prominent
worker of the w. c. T. U.
The Yazoo Sentinel appeared on the
Goth with new head and new dress,
all home made. 1t deserves the APP
proval of patrons and is a paper that
is an honor to the State press.
400 boys from St. Mary's Asylum,
New Orleans, enjoyed an outing at
Bay st. Louis, on the 18th. A number
of the citizens rendered their convey
ances for the use of the boys.
! Piggie Crum, negro, was assassi-
mated near Utica. He had been impli-
Gated in the assassination of woman
in that section some months ago; but
was turned loose for lack of evidence.
80 each of bass, white perch and
crappie were deposited in Lake
Chautauqua at Crystal Springs last
week. They were delivered in person by
an attache of the fisheries commission
of the Government, says the Meteor.
Rev. Pinkney A. johnson, aged 62, a
member of the Mississippi Conference,
died at Meridian on the 10Th. On the
same day Y. S. Rhodes, aged S. pio-
neer citizen of Meridian, departed this
| life.
| \. p. Brady, who was arrested at
jackson recently for homicide com
mitted 20 yeas ago, i'll Texas, has
been convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to seven years in the peni-
Tertiary.
At the meeting of the B)yue Chitt)
Baptist Association, - miles north
east of Magnolia, five drunken young
men dis! urbed the exercises and were
arrested by the sheriff. They were
convicted.
Because Booker Virgins, a Aegro,
told Jessie Milo, cook on the G. Il S.
l., road that his food was not fit to eat,
Milo promptly drew pistol and shot
Virgins through the mouth, making
dangerous wound.
Editor Birdsall missed the missile
of death last week by l)rtunate at
sence from his Office, when a would be
assassin who felt aggrieved at some
publication in the Sentinel, entered,
only to be arrested by the authorities.
The petition of Congressman Hook
er for mounted mail carriers in Jack
son has beer granted and the change
will soon b. made. The government