The leader., 1902-09-10
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle Of Cur
rent Happenings.

Meridian claims GOO Woudm, Il within
its precincts.
Continuous rains injured the cotton
again last week.
Inquiries for Delta lands are iu-
crraSing each week.
Copiah's roads are being improved.
That means business.
Meridian has installed the Game
we'll fire alarm system.
Young men of Biloxi gave "a sail
and macaroni supper" one night last
week.
Several wet counties in the Delta are
encouraging the establishment of a
brewery.
Local capital has built cotton oil
mill at Como and also at Crenshaw,
near Sardis.
Official changes have been completed
on the I. G., and new officers have all
taken charge.
Jackson's $4,000 court house expects
to be ready for the January term of
Circuit Court.
st. Stanislaus College opened at Bay
st. Louis with the largest attendance
known in it's history.
Mrs. B. F. Dustin, of Hillsboro, re-
ceived the Home and Farm prize for
best letter on cotton.
Prof. D. G. Hill, of Meridian's Gen.
trail High School, has accepted chair
in the A. & M. College.
Earle Corn, aged IA, lost leg and
arm while jumping on and off train
last week at West Point.
Eva May, the ten-year old daughter
of Auditor Cole, died of typhoid fever
in Tennessee last week.
The Cumberland Telephone Com
pany is charged by Hazlehurst citizens
with violating its contract with the
city.
Will S. Vardaman was for the second
time elected mayor of Greenwood last
week. He defeated Mayor Hicks by %
votes.
Judge Lowry sentenced Whit Owen
to life-imprisonment, having over
ruled the motion to set aside the YER
dict of the jury.
Three children were bitten by mad
dog at jackson last week. The dog
was killed and the head sent to the
Pasteur Institute in Philadelphia.
The Magnolia Marble Works re-
ceived last week the largest piece of
Vermont marble ever shipped to these
parts, says the Kentwood Commercial.
The average price of turpentine this
year has been 43 cents per gallon and
the range has been from 40 to As
cents. Last year the prices were from
% to % cents.
Miss Helen Halls, of Clinton, was
married in Memphis last Thursday to
H. E. Mueller, former citizen of
Corsicana, Texas. The affair was a
surprise to all concerned.
Rev. J. T. Leggett, of Jackson's Cap
itol Street Methodist church, has been
transferred to the Colorado Confer
ence and will leave Immediately for
the future site of his labors.
Miss Minnie McCrory, of Lake, re-
ceived injuries by falling into ditch
while pursued by vicious COW, and
died. The sad accident befel' her at
Meridian on Sunday afternoon.
A negro excursion train running
from Columbus was wrecked at Berry,
Ala, and thirty killed. Three were
white men. There were twelve negro
funerals in Columbus in one day.
A boiler leak in Poitevent & Favre's
mill at Pennington scalded four men,
who died in a brief time. Chief En-,
gineer Stanley Koch was one of the
victims, two of whom we're negroes.
Miss Ida Ward, of Greenville, has
joined the Mabel Paige company and
has commenced tour in the East
Miss Ward is the author of several
dramas and was formerly one of the
editors of the Greenville Spirit.
August Miller, of this State, is said
to be a finished artist, painter and
decorator. His work in the Clarksdale
and Yazoo opera houses and the Yazoo
Presbyterian church, is highly com.
mended by the press of these cities.
The case of lack Moorhead, the
armless and legless Leake county
treasurer defaulter, has been con-
tinued. Sympathy for his condition
gave him office; and now it seems it
will save him prosecution for crime.
E. Fl. Gray, of Dorsey, Itawamba
county, plead guilty to fraudulent
use of the mails last week, shy CORE
spending with merchants of Memphis.
representing himself to be merchant
with capital, buying, receiving and ap-
propriating goods with intent of de-
frauding."
Edgar Smith and Luther Manship,
Jr., were lost in Pearl river swamp near
jackson last Thursday. They lost their
way and decided to lay down and
sleep until daylight, which they did,
unconscious of the search made for
them all night long and the anxiety
felt by their parents and relatives.
Corinth has been deeply agitated by
the murder of Mrs. Carey Whitfield,
whose dead body was found lying on
her room floor when her young hus-
hand raturned home at 6.30 in the