The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-04-09
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
4 ShOrt-iiaud Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.

Medical Association, held at Scranton
ON the 2nd, DIR. B. f. Duke, vi Pasca-
goula, was elected President.
Vitrified brick will lie used for
Jackson's new streets, exactly identl-
cal with that of Jacksonville, Fla =,
which is said to b. the best im the
South.
The new oil mill TO be cIect' d il
Jackson by the Buckeye Cot Oil
Company, of Cincinnati, viii De COM
pletcd in 80 days. Grouhd was broken
on the last day of March.
After jeff. Collins, negro merchant,
had retired at his home in Oxford, on
the End, some one shot through the
window, tearing the flesh on his skull.
Two negroes we're arrested.
In breaking a jug out of which she
wished to make watering trough for
her chickens, Mrs. Ed. Williams, of Ell
lisville, severed an artery in her wrist
and came very near bleeding to death.
During the high water at Jackson a
house in which negress died was en-
tirely surrounded. Her body was con
yeyed in a skif to higher land, where
it was taken charge of aud buried
properly.
Messrs. Thompson & Hemingway, of
jackson, railroad contract ors, have
secured a $4,000 contract from the
Queen and Crescent Road to repair
the breaks made by the flood on the
track east of jackson.
Mrs. S. A. Mickey, aged 81, of Crystal
Springs, died in that city on the End.
She was the mother of Mesdames DR..
r. E. Jones and NJ. l.. Fulgham, of
Crystal Springs and of Mrs. h. b.
Mimms, of Jackson, and was univer-
sally esteemed.
An immense wood preserving plant
is soon to be erected near Grenada. A
Chicago firm is making preparations to
put it up there, and the outlay will ul-
timately aggregate $4,000 The plant
will cover over 400 acres, and when in
full operation will employ over 200
hands.
The charter of incorporation of the
Security Savings Bank of Yazoo City
has been applied for and the new con-
Germ is now being organized. The cap
ital stock will be $4,000 with power to
increase to $4,000 1t is reported that
there will soon be a new bank at Ellis
vile also with fully paid up capital
stock of $4,000.
Messrs. J. B. Hogan and w. S. Soho
field, the appraisers appointed by the
Penitentiary Board of Control to make
an inventory of the prison property
reported that the realty is valued at
S223, 900 and the personally at $780,
6l6.7l, an increase of S77,933.56 over
last year. This looks like fine show
ing for the prison management.
Eminent domain proceedings have
been entered by the Alabama and
Vicksburg Railroad to condemn a por
ton of the lot now occupied by the
Colored Deaf and Dumb Institute in
West Jackson. The officials wish tC
build aturntable and water tank OF
the property, the improvements to cost
about $4,000. The trustees of the
property have no right to dispose of it
hence this method was nect ssary.
The Mississippi Retail Lumberman'>
Association met in jackson yester
day. The sessions were held al
the Lawrence House, and large at
tendance was expected. Several sub
jects of vital Importance were dis
cussed, followed by the annual election
of officers. Following the meeting OF
the association the Hoo Hoos held
a confederation in Berberovich Hall
and several kittens were captured fol-
the frolic.
Daniel Marshall, we'll known negro
mechanic. was shot in the stomach at
Winona on the Both of March. Or
April LIST he arrived at Jackson on his
way to the Charity Hospital at Vicks
burg. his physicians having failed tc
locate the bullet. He suffered little
pain, but when he arose from his bed
at his stopping place at the Capital
the bullet dropped out, and he died Of
hemorrhage, while his companion went
to telephone the news to the doctors al
Winona.
Volume w., of the publications of the
Mississippi Historical Society, has just
been issued. 1t is much larger thar
the preceding volume and reflects great
credit on the organization whose mem
bers contributed to the table of con
tents. The volume begins with Gen
S. d. Lees paper on the siege of Vicks
burg, which is illustrated by map to
make the military operations around
that city clear "The First Struggle
Over Secession in Mississippi" is the
subject of an interesting article by
Prof James w. Garner, of Columbia
University, whose work, "Reconstruc,
ton in Mississippi, has been issue in
the past year. ia lga Ctnpbell con
| tributes clear resume of the facts
connected with the fam puS Planters
aud Union Bank bonl issues. Bishop
Galloway contributes an article on
"Lorenzo Dow in Mississippi.
A bulletin just issued from the Mis-
sissippi Experiment Station, states
that sit has been demonstrated beyond
doubt by scientific research and prac-
teal experiment, that the germ caus-
ing malaria is conveyed and deposited
ia the blood of human beings by GER
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