The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-29
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

last week.
The Bogue Chitto Standard, by
Ollie G. Mole, reared aloft on the
23rd. 1t starts out with good
display of local advertising.
Jackson needs better depot ia
cilities. The passenger agents
have conferred on the subject and
decided to put an extra help in the
baggage room.
The decision in the Parchman
investigation will be rendered
next month at the request of Gov.
Longino, who is kept away from
Jackson by illness.
w. A. Wilkes raised sixteen
pounds of the luscious yellow
yam in one hill in Yazoo county.
The largest potato in the bunch
weighed four pounds.
Coahoma is the first county in
Mississippi to establish the office
of game warden and to adopt laws
prohibiting non-residents to hunt
or fish within the limits of the
county.
The Crystal Springs Hardware
Co. comes to fill long felt want.
This ENTERPRISE is operated princi-
pally by home capital, organized
by and under the management OF
a home man.
Thomas B. Craig, a valued citi-
zen of Yazoo City for 20 years
past, died suddenly last week.
He was 4S years of age and leaves
a wife, the daughter of Fountain
Barksdale, the oldest resident Of
Yazoo City.
j. G. Hill, a negro lawyer.
was arrested in Meridian for EN-.
bezzlement. He was sitting al
the bar of the court house wher
the arrest was made, and an ugly
looking weapon was found on his
person. He was placed in Jail.
Gov. Longino offered a reward
of 500 each for the arrest and
conviction of the persons who
fired, with such direfuI results
from the HoWe's show train al
Pickens last week.
Senator j. H. McGehee has
been appointed as one of the
board of directors of the soldiers
home at Beauvoir. Mr.. McGehee
represents the fourth brigade.
Sons of Confederate Veterans il
this position, and is elected fol
the long term-three years.
One of the reprehensible follow,
ers of the Wallace Circus, was ar.
rested at Jackson, Tenn. last week
and found to have a half dozen
watches and considerable jewelry
on his person. Jackson and other
victims are requested to send on
descriptions of their confscated
treasures.
The State penitentiary officials
have tested a bullet-proof jacket.
A post was used instead of a man
and the bullet rebounded from the
thin, silken vest without so much
as an indentation. The vests will
be worn by. officials when on a
man-hunt for desperate criminals.
Reports received at this Office
sanction the prediction that the
eighth annual exhibit of the Flo
raj Club will be the largest and
best in the history of the organi-
cation. Elaborate preparations
are being made to celebrate the
event with all the eclat possible.
Crystal Springs Meteor.
Choose your partners" is now
the order of the night at Jackson
hotels. So crowded are the hostel
ries that guests are compelled to
double up; and before retiring
each one must choose between Sc
lecting his or her room mate, and
watching the clock through all
the long hours of repose.
The purchase of Beauvoir, the
home of Jefferson Davis, for a
home for disabled Confederate yet
Grams, has been made and the
deeds to the property have passed
to the Incorporated Division of
the Sons of Veterans. The pur-
chase price of $4,000 was paid,
save about 81, 500, which it is be-
lieved will be subscribed in very
short time.
Director Rowland of the depart
ment of archives and history has
received notice from Hon. John
M. Chiffon, of Issaquena county,
that he will furnish a silhouette
portrait of Governor George Poin-
dexter to be placed in the Hall of
Fame. The portrait is a fine
piece of work, and was presented
to Mr.. Chilton's father in the ear
ly 40's by Governor Poindexter.
Howe's Great London Show ex-
hibited at Pickens last week. AS
the train was pulling out at II at
night, some of the showmen fired
into the crowd and Tom johnson,
a young man of 81, was killed,
and Miss Bertha White was Sc
verely wounded. Fifty three
members of the show were arrest
ed at Crystal Springs next day
and every effort is being made
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