The leader., 1902-05-28
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent Happenings.
The college commencement season is
with us.
The system of waterworks for Sardis
has been completed.
The State branch of the Kings
Daughters met at Biloxi yesterday.
Mormons are very perslstently at
work for the furtherance of their cause
at Jackson.
McComb leads the State in the
first shipment of tomatoes. The 18th
was the date.
Lightning killed young negro while
he was blowing in his field at Chapel
Hill on the 18th.
Five carloads of beans and ten car
loads of cabbage were Saturdays ship
ment from Crystal Springs.
At Magee one man, negro, was
killed and four wounded by the explo-
sion of dynamite last Friday.
Miss Minnie West Lockhart and Mr..
George Stigler Beall, Jr., will be united
in marriage at Durant June 4.
Oliver Lamar goes to the peniten-
tiary for life for the killing of Will
Sanders at Magee, some time ago.
Robt. Foster was remanded without
bail, for the murder of his wife by
poison at Louisville, last Tuesday.
Prof. c. M. Shaw, who for seven con-
secutive years has been Principal of
Gloster's Public School, has resigned.
The ruling elder of the sect known
as Mormons claims that there are
1000 members of that order in the
State.
On the 25th tramp riding on top of
a car at Bay st. Louis was struck by
the upper structure of bridge and
killed.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain church, which met at Jackson
last week, will convene in Lexington,
Va, next year.
DR.. H. D. Glass, of Durant, and Miss
Julia Eugenia Freeland were married
in McComb last week at the residence
of DR.. G. H. Otken.
The gilded eagle for the dome of the
palatial new Capitol has arrived. 1t
measures Is feet from tip to tip and
weighs several tons.
An iron rail was placed on the track
one mile north of McComb last week,
but the engineer discovered it in time
and avoided wreck.
John Willis shot negro woman,
killing her instantly, as she worked in
the field at Aberdeen on the 23rd. She
had cast him off for rival.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson Gel
ebrated last Sabbath the 50th ami
versary of his ordination to the minis
try of the Episcopal church.
The Mississippi State Sunday School
Convention will meet in Winona Aug.
$685. All Sunday schools of all de-
nominations are entitled to one del
egate each.
Erwin Stackhouse, of Crystal
Springs, was taken very i'll while visit
ing his farm near Dry Grove last week,
and died before medical aid could
reach him.
John P. Bennett, brave young
Demo- rat and native of Rankin coun-
ty, has been made postmaster at Yazoo
City. He has resided in the latter city
for seven years past.
Miss Nancy Gilmore Rice, of Clin-
ton, and Mr.. VIM. H. Anderson, of
Nashville, Tenn, were married at the
former place last Thursday. The we'd
ding was brilliant occasion.
At Sapa, near Eupora, Will Smith
wick, hunchback, shot and killed Joe
Thunderberg, who was engaged in an
alteration with Smithwick's brother
in-law, Onie Britt. The murderer es-
capped.
T. B. Trotter, of Sardis, has erected
two-story machine shop and spoke
factory at Sardis. He has large iron
turning lathe and other machinery
which furnishes feature long needed
in that city.
Chris. Fl. Jackson, an employe of the
Brookhaven Lumber & Manufacturing
Company at Hattiesburg, attempted
suicide by taking laudanum last Tues
day. Remorse over dissipation seems
to have been the cause.
J. G Spencer, of Port Gibson, has
announced his candidacy for election
to the fifty eighth Congress from the
Seventh district. He is So years of
age. Frank McLain will thus have an
aspiring, political opponent.
At the General Conference of the
M. E. Church, South, recently in ses-
sion at Dallas, Texas, DR.. W. B. Muir
rah was selected as chairman of the
committee on educational interests.
DR.. Murrah is the able President of
Millsaps College.
The Newton County Record has sug-
gested that the business men of that
place purchase silver loving cup to
be presented the citizen of Newton
who performs the most meritorious
service for the town within given
period In this way it hopes to inspire
progress and patriotism.