The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-03-13
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.


A negro girl, named Harris. was
burned to death at Utica on the 'th.
Mrs. Katherine c. Gardner, of lazoo
City, has donated $1,000 to the lazoo
library.
Mr.. Faler Mangold and Miss Jessie
Lowe, of Hazlehurst, were married on
the 18th.
Jas. Little aged 50 was found dead
in his field at Andrew, Smith county.
last Thursday.
A switchman, Wiley Fleet, was run
over and killed by the cars at Water
Valley on the 9th.
Half of the town of Shelby in North
Mississippi, was burned last Wednes-
day. Loss, $4,000.
The Grenadian has just entered
upon its sixth year. 1t is live paper,
of good healthy tone.
DR.. A. G.. Pierce, a physician OF
Yazoo City of wide experience, has To-
Gated at Helena, Ark.
J. 2. George has been appointed
manager of the Vicksburg street rail
road and power company.
Ellisyille has authorized the issu-
ance of $4,000 of municipal bonds for
electric lights and waterworks.
The next session of the Grand
Lodge will be held at Natchez, on the
last Thursday in February, 1902.
The Hebrews of Canton celebrated
the annual Purim festivities with a
ball and banquet at the opera house.
The Kiersky Kelly case is contest
over majority of two votes which
Kelly received for the office of as
SCISSOR of Vicksburg.
On petition from citizens of Gordon,
on the Yazoo Delta road, the name OF
that station was changed to Longlno,
in honor of our Governor.
The Grenadian of the Sth inst, con
tanned an able sketch of Judge Albert
H. Whitfield, by Mary V. Duval, a
teacher in the Grenada Female Col
lege.
VIM. T. Allen, of Copiah county
died of typhoid fever at Clinton, where,
since his graduation in 1899 from the
Hazlehurst High School, he had been
attending Mississippi College.
There are more than one thousand
inmates in the Insane Hospital for
whites and more than enough appll.
cants to fill the new coiored annex
which will accommodate 300 patients
The dedicatory exercises of the First
Baptist church, of Jackson. we're held
last Sabbath. Rev. H. f. Sproles
preached the morning sermon anC
Rev. A. V. Rowe filled the pulpit al
night.
James w. Heron aged 81, one OF
the oldest settlers of Brookville, dice
from burns received while standing
before an open fireplace. He had just
recovered from a severe spell OF
illness.
DR.. j. l.. M. Curry, trustee of the
Peabody fund, will visit Jackson al
an early date, at which time Mississip-
pi will learn what amount she will
be allotted for normal work this
summer.
Dr. E. f. King, a native Mississipian
but for several years located in Texas
is delivering lectures in this State OIL
his recent trip to the Holy Land. His
descriptive powers are said to be
matchless.
A negro woman was found dead in
Amite county. The verdict of the ju
ry of inquest was that she came to heI
death by gunshot wounds the shots
being fired by her husband, Bull
ger johnson.
w. NJ. Robertson, former proprietor
of the Robertson House at Hazlehurst
died at Okolona, where he had lived
several years, and was buried at Ha
zlehurst, Rev. A. A. LomaX conducting
the funeral service. He was ~ year,
of age.
At the meeting of the Masonic
Grand Lodge, held at Oxford last
week, Col. j. L. Power was reelected
Grand Secretary, a position he has
held for many years, and Maj. A. Nj
Hicks, of Yazoo, was reelected to the
position of Grand Lecturer.
The last issue of the Laurel Chron-
icle contains charters of publishing
firm, brick and tilecompany, knit
ting mill, and two mercantile compan-
les. There seems to be no end to the
growth and development of this live
and progressive 'piney woods" town.
The latest statistics compiled show
that Mississippi has seventeen cotton
mills, with 14l, 800 spindles and 1914
looms. The State ranks eighth among
the twelve States in the cotton facto-
ries, being next to Maryland, which
has twenty mills, and just preceding
Louisiana with eleven mills.
Sam Williams, a prisoner confined
in Jackson's city Jail, tried to end his
dark career by swallowing the chewed
up bits Of small mirror, quicksilver
and all. His digestive powers seemed
to be equal to the diet, which brightly
reflected the healthy condition of his
stomach. He promises to live on.