The leader., 1902-12-17
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
\ SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur

WV AOON OOp1So AGAEoo WYNN
A street carnival is an attrac-
ton at Jackson at Smiths Park.
One of GreenvilIe's hotels has
added thirty rooms to its building.
| Columbus Randall was seriously
injured in Nelson's cotton seed oil
mills on the 10th.
| And now Holmes county con-
graduates herself on her contract
system for working her roads.
Another attempt will be made
to have Banker Armistead indict-
ed by the Kinds county grand
jury.
The Meteor says that more ba-
nannas are sold in Crystal Springs
than in any other place in the
State.
Another new railroad has been
incorporated in the State-the BIZ
loxi, Waynesboro & Catawba
Valley.
Baptists ladies held rummage
sale at Jackson last week for the
! pipe organ fund. 1t was a great
/ success.
DR.. Charles Hillman Brough
lectured at Terry on the 10th on
The AUGMENTATION of the
World"
DR.. L. G. Nesbet, of near Aber-
deem, reports having made $4O0
net on ten acres of cotton of the
long staple variety.
About twenty bales of cotton
were burned in Terry's warehouse
on the 10th. Sparks from an en-
CINE caused the fire.
Mrs. J. B. Yellowly, of Ridge
land, died suddenly at her sisters
home at Glass Station, on the Y. &
M. V. r. R., on the 18th.
Richard McMorris and Miss
Gertrude Rodwell were married
at Bogue Chitto last week. They
will make Summit their home.
The handsome two-story home
of J. r. Lacey was destroyed by
fire at Lintonia, Yazoo county,
last week. The house was in
sured for $1,000.
Albert S. Dawson, highly re-
spected citizen of Vicksburg, died
at the age of 81, on the 18th. He
was the only brother of L. B. Da-
vison, and leaves a mother and
three sisters.
The Vicksburg school children,
with the encouragement of their
teachers, refused to sing the
mississippi Ode' at the exer-
cises last Wednesday. They sub
stituted Dixie"
Vicksburg will have new san
itarium and a trained nurse
school. The Wheeler House has
just been purchased at a cost of
$4,000 and will be improved and
fitted up for a sanitarium.
Walter Reed, who married Mrs.
Jessie East, of this city, last Jan
uary, has been arrested for crimi-
nal assault at Jackson. He is a
one EARNED man and bears an I'M
savory reputation generally.
DR.. S. A. Steel, who is president
of the manual training school for
young men at Lumberton, reports
that he has been compelled to
turn away" number of young
men for the want of accommoda-
tions.
The Illinois Central now sets a
dining car out at Jackson each af-
ternoon and the car is attached
to No. l, the south bound train
leaving Jackson at $50 O'Clock
in the morning, and serves break
fast all the way to Hammond.
DIR. R. w. Jones, professor of
chemistry in the State University,
who examined the stomach and
liver of Mrs. Y. B. Boyd, who
died recently in Crystal Springs,
reported that arsenic was discov-
cred in both organs and also in
the bottle from which she had
taken medicine.
Auditor Cole, in recent re-
port, presents a very fiattering
condition of the States finances,
claiming a surplus of over $50, 900
on the first of January, after meet
ing all obligations. The proba
bility is that the 81, 900, 900 voted
for the new State House will
never be needed.
Uncle David Pridgen, of
Covintgon county, who is now so
years of age, expects to witness
the laying of the corner stone of
our new million dollar State capt.
toll next June. Nearly sixty
years ago, he journeyed through
the wilds of the country and at
tended the dedication of the old
building.
Rev. w. P. Price preached on
Social Equality at the jackson
Second Baptist church last Sunday
night. The recent theatrical per-
Torrance in that city in which
Black PATTI was the principal,
figure, was the theme for dis
cussion. The Jackson papers
are quiet about it.