The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-02-06
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

COuit hOuoC'
Mississippi is millionaire-sl, lOO,-
600 in the treasury.
Jackson wants all its front fences
removed from residences,
S. s. Matthews has been appointed
postmaster at Hazlehurst.
The lumbermen of Jackson are do
ing unusually good business.
John Shaw, the biggest man in Ran
kin county, weighs 254 pounds.
The new Presbyterian church at
Hazlehurst was dedicated last Sab
bath.
Sheriff Harding thinks there will be
about 5000 delinquent tax payers in
Kinds.
Milton Mounger shot and killed
Thaddeus McRae, at Collins. Noun
ger was arrested.
Public sentiment, throughout Missi-
sippi, is demanding higher standard
IOr puDl1c OnlclalS.
Jesse benson, of Scott county, killed
negro named North, at Madisonville,
who resisted arrest.
The Dixie Quartette, of Mississippi
College, will appear at Hazlehurst OPP
era House, Feb. 18th.
Sheriff Decell says that during the
two days he had the tax books at Wes-
son he collected over $1,000.
DR.. L. H. Jones, at one time prom
inent Yazoo county resident, died at
the Insane Hospital on the LIST.
The Aberdeen Examiner makes Wig
orous protest against the sale of lands
belonging to State institutions.
J. P. Myer, of Ellisville, has pur-
chased lot and will erect three sto-
ry brick business building at Laurel.
Chancellor A. M. Byrd has been re-
| appointed by the Governor. He was
the unanimous choice of the bar of
his district.
The White & Payne Mercantile Co.
is to be incorporated at McComb by
W. E. Payne, J. J. White, A. Harms, F.
G. Wheelock and Jeff Harrell.
Mrs. Sarah M. Prestridge, wife of
Wiley Prestridge, of Bogue Chitto,
died and was buried at Mt. Pleasant
church, Lincoln county, on the 18th
of January.
Among other progressive things,
Laurel has perpetrated "The Laurel
Cook Book" Its good cooking may
account in some measure for the
healthy tone of the town.
The Hoo Hoos have been rendered a
complimentary excursion to Gulfport,
by General Manager S. S. Bulls, and
the annual concatenation will be held
at that place, the latter part of March.
Laurel is soon to have a complete
and up-to-date water works system
The City Council is advertising for
bids for construction, and the con-
tract will likely be let out on the 10Th
of February.
On Jan. 81, the 1. c. paid over to the
State revenue agent, the sum of $780,
GOO, being the amount of back taxes
due the State and various counties
and municipalities in the State from
1893 to 1900.
The Franklin county Advocate
chronicles.the death of DR., Nathan
Bunckley, at the age of 81. He was a
lifelong resident of Franklin county.
A high tribute is paid to his virtues by
the Advocate.
DIR. b. d. Gray, native Mississippi
an, has been elected to the presidency
OF the Georgetown College at George
town, Kentucky DR.. Gray is a grad
uate of Mississippi College and, at
present, one of the most eminent di-
vines in Alabama
The new hotel at loves Well. near
Halzehurst, will contain thirty rooms.
1t is expected to be ready for use, May
LIST. The Courier says this is the mi
tial step toward improving a piece of
property that is destined to become
one of the most popular resorts in the
State.
Asuggestion by Bishop Galloway that
the corner stone of the new capitol be
laid on Jan. 16, 1902, the second an.
niversary of the Inauguration of Gov.
Longino, who approved the bill, and
in honor of the broad gagged and pro-
gressive legislature which enacted it. is
meeting with much favor.
THE Bankers Daughter" play
that had successful run at the Grand
Opera House, by stock company. in
New Orleans this winter, was under
taken by amateurs at Magnolia last
Friday night. Hon. Nelson Webb and
Miss Stackhouse we're the leading
characters, and the Gazette said the
performance excelled that of manv
professional companies.
Two young cadets from this State
have carried off the first and second
honors OF the fourth year class at the
West Point Military Academy. The
young Mississippians thus honored
are Charles X. Pettus, of .Ellisville
and Henry Roberts, of Starkville, and
1t Is said to be the first instance on
record where two men from the same