The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-23
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

rent Happenings.
Work has begun on the Port Gibson
ice plant.
Natchez is preparing for her second
Mardi Gras.
The damage suit epidemic coutin-
ues to spread.
Burglaries are common to almost
the entire State.
The ship building industry is grow
ing at Scranton.
Walter N. Hurt has purchased the
Carrollton Conservative.
To night "Quo Vadis" will be given
at Jackson's opera house.
The young men of Laurel have
formed a business League.
The l. c. will be double tracked be-
tween Jackson and Brookhaven.
In Washington county there have
been ia cases of smallpox and %
deaths.
Governor Longino's first year as the
supreme officer of the State expired on
the 10Th.
Robert Quinn, son of City Marshal
Quinn, of Greenville, died of smallpox
last week.
At Summit, the new city officials
were banqueted by the outgoing adj
ministration.
Conductor George Dorsey, of Jack
son, had his leg broken in an accident
near Saratoga.
A negro sick with smallpox was driv-
en- away from Heidelburg. He was
found dead, later.
Winonas cotton factory is complet-
ed. The capital invested is 100000
and has all been paid.
The death of Rev. J. w. Kerr, D. D.,
of Brandon, an aged Presbyterian
minister, is noted with regret.
The smallpox situation is growing
alarming at Columbus. So far it is
confined to the factory quarter.
Hon. A. B. Guynes, of Copiah, fell
down an embankment and is painfully
injured, several ribs being broken.
Capt. w. r. Hodge, of Yazoo City, was
thrown from his wagon and killed.
He was an officer in the Confeder-
ate army.
At Caledonia, DR.. l.. G. Molloy S
store was robbed and burned, on the
18th. $500 in cash was secured by the
depredators. No clue.
The ladies Wesleyan Society OF
Jackson's First Methodist church have
in contemplation the building OF
a new parsonage in that city.
Sergeant Tom Mallory, who has been
absent from this country two years
while serving in the war in the Phillip
pines, has returned to his Natche2
home.
Prof Trawick, of Crystal Springs
holds in his possession, the Oldest le
gal document ever written in Kinds
county. 1t bears the date of Novem
Der 3, 1923.
Hon. r. H. Henry, editor of the Clari
on Ledger, attended a meeting of the
executive committee of the NatiOna
Editorial Association at Indianapolis
last week.
A quantity of cotton slowed in al
open lot in South Vicksburg caught fire
on the 18th and 1900 bales were in
jured. The Vicksburg Cotton Compa
ny is the greatest loser.
The Meridian cotton mill has doub
led its capacity out of its earnings
1t, besides, cleared 20 per cent. divi
dends last year. This is encouraging
to enterprise in other towns.
Ex-Gov. Robert Lowry received /;
verdict of $500 in his damage sui
against the Jackson Electric Ligh
Power and Street Railroad Company
The amount sued for was $1,000.
Dr. Goucher, of the Woman's Col
lege, Baltimore, has been the distin
guished guest of Bishop Galloway
DR.. Goucher is said to be the larges
contributor to missions, in America
Greenville's new hotel will be tire,
stories in height, with about seventy
rooms. 1t will be modern in construc
ton and up-todate in appointments
1t will be heated by steam and will hav'
elevators.
Mr.. o. c. Peterson, of Rankin coun
ty, exchanged some 500 acres of pine
land in Pearl river swamp for valuabl,
milling property in Charleston, ILL.,
and has removed with his family tt
the latter city.
Jesse Maxwell and John Garrett
were fatally injured on the A. &
railroad, near Smiths Station, The,
were running a hand car, when
freight bore down upon them befor
they could clear the track.
Rev. H. r. Revels, presiding eide
of the Holly Springs district, wa
stricken with paralysis while address
ing the Mississippi Methodist confer
ence and died at Aberdeen. Revel.
was one of the m ost prominent and in
fiuential colored men of the State
during the earlier years of Republican
rule. He represented the State in tn
United States Senate in 1870 and 1871
DR.. w. L. KERN died at his home il
Lexington on the 9th. He was nativ
Mississippian and served his Stat,
with distinction in the secession con
vention of 1861 and afterward made al
enViable record as a soldier and office