The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-05-08
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A ShOrt-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Columbus is to have a new Masonic
temple.
Jackson has begun vigorous cru
SADIE against Migrants.
Jackson's new directory says it has
a population of l2,417.
Yazoo City's mayor has issued
sanitary proclamation.
Enterprise claims iron mines which
only need development.
The Mississippi doctors meet in con-
vention at Jackson today.
The /. o. o. F., two hundred strong,
will meet in Vicksburg next week.
DR.. Polk Watkins, once prominent
citizen of Hattiesburg, died at Bolton,
Texas.
Land sales for the month of April
are reported by Commissioner Nall to
amount to ss,3O7.
The American says Vicksburg "did
herself proud" in the reception ex-
tended MCKINNEY.
The State University and the |. l. &
c. have the same dates for their com
mencement exercises.
Rev. w. p. Price, of Jackson, will
preach the commencement sermon for
the Terry High School.
DR.. E. J. Mitchell, for many years
resident of Wesson, recently moved
with his family to Hattiesburg.
Rev. G. N. Jacks, State Evangelist of
the Christian church, will make his
headquarters at Jackson for the sum-
mer.
The Jackson Fire Company No. l,
the oldest organization of its kind at
the Capital, celebrated it's end birth
day on the LIST.
The bar of Hattieshurg unanimous
ly endorsed Judge Enochs for reap
pointment to the iudgeship of the
eighth judicial district,
The Strong River Lumber Company
domiciled at D1o, has filed petition
in:bankruptcy. Liabilities are $4,000;
assets about half that amount.
Farmers in Kinds have discovered
that the cold wave of several weeks
ago damaged their cotton so that it
has not and apparently, cannot thrive.
1t is stated that company is being
formed to prospect for oil In this
State, not more than 70 miles south of
Jackson. That will just about strike
Brookhaven,
In connection with Meridian's strin-
gent law that all dogs without tags
must be impounded and killed, it is
noted that the Queen City wants
sausage factory.
The Mississippi Department of the
Confederate Veterans and the Daugh:
tiers of the Confederacy and Sons of Vet
Grams convened at Meridian yesterday
and will adjourn tomorrow.
The drygoods house of E. D. Lanctot,
of Aberdeen, has gone into voluntary
bankruptcy. The liabilities are about
5000. Tho assets consist of a stock
of goods and accounts unestimated.
Hon. j. Fl. Neville was appointed
judge in the second district, The law
firm of Neville and Griffith, of Biloxi,
has dissolved and Geo. S. Dodds, of
New Orleans, will succeed Mr.. Neville.
The success of the Columbus Chair
Factory is so satisfactory that a high
er grade of chairs will now be manu-
featured. / handsome dining room
chair will soon be added to the output.
The governor has approved the
charter of the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, at Laufei. The in
corporators were c. G. Warren, Ruth
Warren, Rebecca Clayton, James
Richards, Paralee Richards, John A.
BMnkley and Florence Stratton
Gov. Longino has offered $50 for
the arrest and return to the sheriff of
Attala county of John Bell, the white
man who committed criminal assault
on nine-year old girl in that county
The governor stipulates there must be
no lynching in case Bell is caught.
Geo. w. Christy, for 20 years resi-
dent of Vicksburg, and Veteran of
the Confederate army anll ope of the
pioneer mistrels of the South, has
been engaged by the Southern Lass
Sensation 60, as business manager.
The Company will play in various Mis-.
sissippi towns.
Mrs. Annie Walter Fearn, native
of Meridian, Miss, but who went sew
eral years ago to China, read a paper
on Medical Work" before the recent
General Missionary Conference in New
Orleans. 1t was esteemed one of the
+. strong papers of the conference. Mrs.
FeaFp is an experienced physician.
For ten years s2da has lain 10 the
Capital State Bank at Jackson, to the
credit of the Jefferson Davis monu-
ment fund. Attention being called to
the matter by Maj. Millsaps, the
banks president, the money was sent
to Richmond. Va, where monument
will be erected to the president of the
Confederacy.
Edwards people especially requested
the presidential party to stop at their
station on the way out from Vicks-