The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-10
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Columbus wants street railway.
Ellisville's building boom continues.
Starkville will have $4,000 cotton
factory.
SUBMITS postoffice is being i'm.
proved.
Amory has organized an oil aud gas
company.
Meridian's fire on the 3rd caused d
loss of $4,000.
Greenwood will hold its first county
fair Oct. Is and IL.
1000 Jseksonites witnessed the races
on the 4th at the Capital.
The Biloxi Herald notes the capture
of turtle weighing eno pounds.
Aberdeen ministers will hold union
services on Sabbath summer nights.
Col. Power is projecting cotton
factory for his beloved city of Jackson
\ hospital will be built on the Ran
kin State farm for the care of sick con.
victs.
-Four negroes were killed in the
breaking up of blind tiger at Friar
Point.
Gulfport's city council has passed
an order to shell the main streets oil
the city.
Columbus will have a $4,000 Mason
ic Temple. Its $4,000 knitting mill is
under way.
Monroe county needs Jail and will
soon vote on the issuance of slo,"
for that purpose.
At Lumberton. Miss. Ethel Bufkln
and Mr.. Fred Potter were married by
Rev. B. 5. Raynor.
Sol Kahn. of Gloster. died suddenly
of appendicitis last Friday. He was
buried at Summit.
The capacity of Lsurels ice plant
will be doubled. The compress IS
nearing completion.
s. Joe Owen has purchased an inter
est in the New Albany Gazette and be
comes its editor. He formerly edited
the Ripley Sentinel.
Hon. Chas. E. Hooker, congressman
from the seventh district, delivered
the principal address at Tammsny
Hall, New York, July 4th.
J.C. S. Undertake. the manager OF
the Mexican Gulf Hotel at Pass Chris
tan. has employed for the season an
orchestra composed of Is ladies.
The Newman Spranley Co, of New
/ Orleans, are contractors for the cleo
trio light plant at Ellisville. The price
of the work will be $3.50 when com
pleted.
G. W. Miller. of Crystal Springs
has propagated peach which he has
named the Lily Miller. in honor of q
beloved daughter that died years age
at the age of 10.
Because he had not paid his taxes
for two years preceding his election as
a member of Jackson's city council,
| Judge Powell declared Thomas Brown
ineligible as member.
Gov. Longino pardoned JADE White
a white man, sent from Copiah county,
+ for burglary, and Dave Sheppard, col
ored, of Washington county, sent W
20 years ago for murder.
During the recent hot spell Colum
bus usual consumption of 10000 gal
Ions of water per week jumped tt
! 10000 gallons, an inadequate supply
being left in case of fire.
/ Booker T. Washington will attend
the colored industrial convention tc
be held at Jackson Friday. On July
/ - the meeting will be addressed b!
! the famous Tuskegee man.
J. A. Brady. resident of Jackson
who was recently arrested for Grim,
committed in Texas 20 years ago, wa
released on 5000 bond at the pre-
liminary trial and is sure of acquittal
a voluntary petition in bankruptc!
was filed in the Federal court at Vicks
burg by Joseph Gravois, engaged il
the liquor business at Mayersville
The liabilities are S4,26212 with asset
amounting to 1881.
\ special from Corinth states tina
the contract for the construction of
railroad from Corinth to the Tennes
see river has been let and that worl
will commence at once. The roai
will be p miles in length.
The second colored annex to the In
sane Hospital was opened last Friday
1t already has 40 inmates and applica
tions from all parts of the State ar
being daily received. The annual pa,
roll of the institution will probabl
reach to $4,000 this year.
The "Deestrick Skule" by promi
nent citizens and bellies of Natche
was great hit at the Opera House
under the auspices of the Ladies' All
Society of the Methodist church 0
Natchez. Capt. Jas. W. Lambert
of the Democrat, aud Mayor Beu
brook were star performers.
John billiard, member of the fir
of Cutlery q billiard, of Pearline
to-, when within "A stones throw of hi
residence Oh the evening of July 3rC
Wa, sand bagged aud clicked all
kicked into insensibility aud robb,
of $3.50. by negroes. The highway
men escaped and Mr.. billiards. il
ljuIies were not serious.
In shooting affray, participated il
by six young men at the depot il
Knoxville on the evening of the BOT