The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-11-13
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

was great success.
Over 5000 bales of cotton have al
ready landed in jackson.
Ducks are in great swarms in Lake
Centennial near Vicksburg.
Chickasaw county has 80 schools
and an enrolment of 1000 pupils.
James E. Harrison and Miss Hattie
Long we're married at King last Thurs
day.
This heaviest and most general frost
of the season was on the night of the
9Th.
Catholics of Biloxi will build brick
church to cost between $1,000 and
$4,000.
J. J. Cain, an uncle of Hon. Monroe
McClurg, and one of the pioneers of
West, died on the 9th.
Members of the st. Louis Merchants
& Manufacturers Association will
visit Jackson tomorrow.
Biloxi shipped nearly a million of
oysters in buckets last Sunday. The
demand is great for the bivalve.
The sawmill of Adolph Poitevent,
near Pass Christian, was destroyed by
fire on the 10th. 1t was valued at $780,
600.
The seventh annual chrysanthemum
show of the Crystal Springs Floral
Club will take place tomorrow aud
Friday.
Miss Mary Barksdale Harrington
and Mr.. William Bird Gowdey were
married at the State Capital last
Thursday.
Charles B. Hanford's Tanning of the
Shrew," at The Century, in Jackson,
delighted the people last Tuesday
night in that city.
A man in Pontotoc county has raised
sweet potato four feet one inch long
and from one half to two and half
inches in diameter.
G. McNair, prominent citizen of
Lumberton, died as the result of being
thrown from a wagon in a runaway.
He left large family.
A crosstie falling from freight train
struck Frank A. Schmidt, knocking
him senseless, last Wednesday. He
died the following day at Vicksburg.
DR.. w. B. Murrah gave lecture for
the Y. NJ. c. A., of Canton, last Sun
day night. His subject was: 1.-THE
True Conception of Christian Life
DR.. A. Fairly, who lately moved from
Wesson to Mt. Olive, sold his resi-
dence property at the former place
last week to p. B. Raiford, of that city.
The camps of Confederate Veterans
in the State have adopted resolution
to assess each member % cents per
year for the support of the hospital
annex.
The total vote from fifty three coun-
ties heard from to date gives Power
1907, George 1902, Quin 220l, Eckford
1909, Dial 1889. For Treasurer, Car
Isle 1896, Evans GIGS.
The Bank of Collins has bought $1,000
worth of school bonds issued by the
town of Villa msburg Depot for the
erection of a new school building. A
premium of $40 was paid.
The H. Y. Scott mercantile estab-
lishment was robbed at Rosedale on
the 9th and probably 5000 worth of
goods, ammunition and shoes stolen.
There is no clue to the thieves.
Jesse Gee, colored, who killed James
Nicholson on Oct. Is, was convicted of
murder at Rosedale and sentenced by
Judge Larkin to be hanged. The case
may be carried to the Supreme Court
prohibition at Last in Monroe
County" is an illustrated pamphlet of
60 pages, giving history of the victory
of Aug. 80, 1901. Price, % cents. Ad.
dress, G. F. Kincannon, Aberdeen.
Jack Nichols, aged sixty, ship car
penter engaged by the G. & S. l. Rail
road Company, was jammed between
two freight cars and seriously injured
on the 9th. He is expected to die.
At the meeting of the Synod in
Natchez on the 10Th, efforts will be
made to have Chamberlain Hunt Acad-
envy adopted as a synodical school.
Hon. j. G. Spencer, of Port Gibson, is
the financial agent of the school.
c. G. Johnson, a carpenter, has sued
the Electric Light & Power Company,
of Jackson, for 1000, because brake
slipped and struck him in the back
while he was riding on the rear plat
form. He was laid up for several
weeks.
There were three weddings in Crys
tai Springs last week, and the Meteor's
editor says they "deranged business
considerably" and debated his paper"
We hope they will not become ep
ipemic, or serious results to the town
may follow.
Willie Enslen, of Meridian was SEN
fenced to hard labor in the peniten-
tiary for and during his natural life,
for the murder of Harry Stanton. The
jury was out fourteen and one half
hours. 1t was the third trial.
Miss l.. Graham Crozier, formerly
mistress of modern language at the
L. l. d c., began a series of lectures at
the Waldorf Astoria in New York,
last Thursday, her subject upon the
day named being "The Contribution of
the Women Poets of America to the
New Thought"