The leader., 1901-07-17
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.


"auspicious openings"
Thirteen blind tigers we're convicted
and well fined at Raymond.
Prof. w. II. Foster has been elected
principal of the Enterprise public
school.
The Elite Vaudeville Company is
playing in Livingston Park, Jackson
this week.
The r. II. Schercks are invited to
play at Crystal Springs next Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Dabney Marshall will spend several
months at his fathers country home
in Warren county.
Miss Iva Lott, of Jackson, and Mr.
Mark Bailey, of Paducah, KY, were
married on the 9th.
The Baptist State Convention meets
at McComb tomorrow. Several hun
bred delegates and visitors will attend.
Mississippi may have State Med.
zeal college. The State turns out an
nually about 400 doctors of medicine
There were 125 delegates present at
the recent meeting of the negro Grand
Lodge knights of Pythias at Natchez
Judge Neville is holding his first
term of court at Waynesboro and is
receiving concentrations from the
press.
Prof. j. Il. Dobyns was elected secre
tary of the American Teachers Deal
Mute Association at its meeting il
Buffalo.
Bryan spoke to about 800 at Green
wood on the 9th. Baseball brought
LOCO or more people to Brookhaven or
the 18th.
Two business firms of jackson each
took page ad. in the Clarion-LedgeI
of last Saturday they were for sum
mer sales.
W. T. Hayes, of Wesson, gave fine
resume of Sans Jones lecture il
Brookhaven. The article appeared il
the Enterprise.
Miss Lily Mccormick, of Shubuta
has been granted license to practice
dentistry. She is the first and only
practitioner in the State.
The Don't Know Society" is the
name of new organization at Jack.
son. Each member is fined | cent
when caught speaking i'll of some
body.
Rev. O. L. Martin, of Virginia, by
invitation of Hazlehursts Baptist
church, preached there last Sabbath
with a view of being called as a
pastor"
Louis Jenkins, line repairer, fell
from a telephone pole at Hattiesbure
and had his skull fractured. Pieces
of it were removed and he may
recover.
Capt. Jno. \. Webb, secretary of the
railroad commission, lost his handsome
residence in Jackson, by fire, last
week. Loss, $4,000 partly covered by
insurance.
H. King, lumberman of Memphis
has purchased 10000 acres of timber
land near Saratoga. He says lit is the
finest land he ever saw and considers
if better than an oil gusher
Violators of the prohibition law are
| said to be numerous in Yazoo City
Circuit court will soon convene, anC
things will doubtless be lively with
Judge Powell on the bench.
The A. Il NJ. Colleges crop of oats
is expected to yield from 5000 tt
1000 bushels. 1t is mixed with vetct
and will make fine seed for planting
and getting start of vetch.
Strings of bass, weighing from five t.
eleven pounds, are caught in Lake
Chautauqua, Crystal Springs. The
fishing there is said to be splendid
Crayfish are the only bait the fish viii
take.
Oliver Lamar, who killed Will San.
ders at Magee, and J. d. French have
been placed in the Kinds county jail
for safe keeping. Simpsons Jail is too
] frDI fnf To- hrn liz a.,
of mind
! Gay gamesters of Jackson were fineC
S72 by the Mayor Monday morning fol
shooting craps. Some of the suckers
were too poor to pay and had to go tc
work. Hot time for such a crisis iu
their affairs.
William Norman demanded no
bread of Louis Davis, cook in rail
road camp at Pennington, last Thurs
day, and on being told there was none
drew a pistol. He was killed in sci
defense by Davis.
Prof. n. Il. Drummond, of Hebron
a recent graduate of the State Univer
sity, has been elected principal o
Columbia's High School, Prof. Larot
Miller, of Crystal Springs, taking hi
place as master of the school there.
On Big Black River the body of a
man, J. c. Kellogg by name, was seer
in skiff. 1t was pulled in and it wa:
found that buzzards had partly de
voured the remains. 1t is presume
he was overcome by the heat anC
died. He leaves a wife and several
children.
Paul Tatum, who was shot at Gin
ton years ago, the bullet entering
near his left eye at the base of The
nose, had the metal to drop into hi.
throat last week and succeeded in