The leader., 1902-12-10
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

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Two Creole fishermen perish
ed in last Thursdays gale on the
coast near Scranton.
At Harrison Station the new
public school building was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9Th.
An apron bazaar brought the la
dies society of LaurePs Presby-
terian church $S4 last Friday.
Jackson's Y. NJ. c. A. expects
its inaugural meeting to witness
a band of more than 100 members.
Hattiesburg Elks held a Lodge
of Sorrow" last Sabbath in mem
DRY of departed members of the
order.
Three hunters near Hatties=
burg killed a bald eagle, measur-
ing seven feet, three inches from
tip to tip.
Fresh milk is selling IN Jack
son for 10 cents per gallon, and
the supply is not equal to the de-
mand.
Five Vicksburg street car con-
ductors were discharged Saturday
for not having RENTED fares of
passengers,
The docket for the january
term of circuit court at the State
capital is heavier than for years,
says Deputy Clerk Ed. Fondren.
Henry Marks, aged 81, died at
Hazlehurst and was buried at
Jackson last Friday. He was a
merchant of prominence in Co.
piah,
Jackson laid the corner stone of
its new SIS, 900 court house today.
Grand Master Harry T. Howard,
Of the Masonic fraternity, off
ciated
The Vicksbqrg American says
that our State has twice as many
factories as it had three years ago
and three times as many as it had
in 1890,
At Poplaryille a negro was
thrown off LOG train and killed.
A sapling had fallen across the
track and was the cause of the
accident.
The Marina Madre, an Italian
ship, from Genoa, loaded up with
100000 feet of lumber at Gulf
port last week and started for
South America.
Capt. j. T. Cumble, of the Sal
walton Army, Of Vieksburg, will
give Christmas dinner to 200 of
the city's poor. Local charities
will assist the move.
The police of jackson, upon
raiding a negro woman's home,
found Spirits in every drawer
Of her sewing machine and in a
false back that had been made in
the wardrobe.
Rev. DR.. Henry SAMSON, rector
of the Episcopal church at Vicks-
burg, celebrated the 37th anniver-
sary OF his pastorate in that city
on the 30th. The venerable rec
tor is s. years Of age.
At sham battle at Columbia
on Thanksgiving Day, j. E. CHS
holm received the powder explo-
sion full in the face at close range.
He is now in New Orleans under
treatment, blinded by the burns.
The Ridgeland Horticultural
Society will be the host of the
farmers institute to be held in
its town tomorrow and next day.
The institute will be held under
the auspices OF the A: & NJ. Col
lege.
A special session of circuit
court is being held at Philadel-
phia, Neshoba county, for the pur-
pose of trying the case of Attorney
Henry Rogers for the murder of
Tom Byrd, the brother of Hon.
A. M. Byrd.
Sergeant John G. Hardy has
been indicted for whipping Henry
Young, convict, to death. The
grand jury of Coahoma had a num-
Der of conviets before them and
found that Hardy had whipped
them so often and so brutally
that they were in stripes all over
their bodies.
Several car loads of holly
boughs have passed through Jack
son on their way to Christmas up
North. Crystal Springs alone has
shipped three loads; and smilax,
and other Yuletide ever
greens are in demand, and have
been for several years. .'There
may be something in it. p Why
not make a business of it2
Near Corinth, Will Wroten shot
his wife and cut her throat from
ear to ear. She had left him be-
cause of cruel treatment, and up
on his word that he wanted her
to come to his home and divide
their possessions, she started, was
waylaid and killed by her hus-
band. Wroten told her brother
what he had done and escaped.
The Cumberland Telephone Co.
has had its poles and wires de-
clared a public nuisance at Halle