The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-11-27
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
a SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

night of the Goth
Harrison county complains Of leak
age in the grand jury room.
Water Valley citizens sent sClo.'6 to
the jackson Orphanage last week.
Catholic ladies of jackson realized
5000 from their bazaar last week.
Mr.. J. p. Case, of Fayette, died after
being taken to the Natchez hospital. .
Col. Il. j. Harding, sheriff and tax
collector of Kinds, is again very Ill.
A double daily has been placed on
the Y. & NJ. V. road from Greenwood
to Jackson.
The Kings Daughters, of jackson,
will give to the poor their Thanksglv-
ing dinner.
The cost of the electric wiring and
steam fitting of the new State House
will be $4,000.
Jackson Baptists contributed $1,000
to the endowment of Mississippi Col
lege last Sabbath.
Mt. Olive expects to handle lO,OOO
bales this season. The receipts up to
date have been 6,0O0 bales.
Fayette has its second case of dipthe-
ria, the first having recovered. The
anti-toxin treatment is used.
A Power Literary Society, in honor
of the lamented Col. j. l.. Power, has
been organized at the l. l. 4 Z. at
Columbus.
Miss Birdie Hardy, a niece of Capt.
w. H. Hardy, and Mr.. James M. Ar
mold will be married at Ellisville, De-
cember 4.
S. P. Bloom, of Wesson, has been
appointed a member Of the board OF
trustees of the Alcorn A. & M. College,
vice J. L. Power, deceased.
Capt. J. F. Merry, in charge of a hun
dred or more real estate dealers OF the
Northwest, arrived in Vicksburg last
Thursday over the Valley road.
A. c. Boyle, a prominent lawyer of
Macon, died at Phoenix, Arizona,
whittier he had gone for his health.
He leaves wife and six children.
DR.. Madden w. Hamilton, of Du-
rant, died of pneumonia while visiting
at Winfield, La. He was single and
thirty-three years of age.
The jackson football team will play
the Meridian team tomorrow. Rev.
Peter Sears coaches for the latter team
and Jack Thompson for the former.
Walter Bailey and Frank PEBBLES, at
their preliminary trial at Fayette, for
the killing of T. M. Harrington on No
vember s, were committed to Jail with
out bail.
The Newton Guards have been mus
tered into the national Guard, and
have been assigned TO the Third
Battalion of the Second Regiment.
l. w. Hardy is captain.
Hon. T. C. Catchings has been ap-
pointed vice president for Mississippi
in the William Mckinley Memorial
Arch Association. Catchings and Nc
Kinley we're in congress together
years ago.
Rev. w. NJ. Mcintosh and wife cele-
brated their crystal wedding at Gre
NADIA on the 1Sth.J. w. Buchanan acted
as toast master, and handsome gifts of
cut glass were received from nearly all
of the Southern States.
Thirty Choctaw Indians were car
ried from Scott county last week to
North Louisiana, where they will be
employed as cotton pickers. Delta
planters have been compelled to resort
to this measure to get their crops out.
A Choctaw Indian was murdered at
Jackson near Pearl River bridge last
Thursday night. His squaw admitted
he drank, and it is presumed that after
patronizing "blind tiger" he got into
a drunken quarrel and was killed
James B. Allen of Port Gibson, sold
his entire crop of long staple cotton to
w. G. Craig & Co, of Vicksburg, at -
cents. The lot consisted of $50 bales
This was the original Allen hybrid
of which Mr.. Allen is the originator.
G. r.. Freeman, of Natchez, and Miss
Stella Smylie, George Ransom and
| Miss Annie Magee, the three latter
of the State Capital, were married
in that city last Wednesday. Mr.
| Ransom is the instructor of music in
the Deaf and Dumb Institute.
The immense planning mills and sheds
of the Queen & Crescent Lumber Com
pany at Nicholson, burned to the
ground on the night of the 10Th. Three
million feet of dry, dressed yellow
pine were consumed. About 600 PEG
pie are thrown out of employment
Loss, 5000, insurance, one-half that
amount.
A new shell road, tw miles in length
| running along the east beach has been
finished at Ocean Springs. Nearly al
of the money used was raised by pri
vate subscription. Col j. B. Rose con
tributed all the shells, beside several
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