The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-09-24
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand ChrO'. ,icle of Cur
rent Happenings.

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pupils.
McComb's Public School optne,
with eco students.
Nearly 600 pupils mo 5riculal, d ii: tn
opening of the l. l. & G.
! Hazlehurst is disturbed over the re
moval of it's postoffice building.
The increase in the number of pen
sioners over last year is estimated a
35 per cent.
DR.. j. H. Mcdaniel, aged SO, dice
near Veto on the 14th. He was suf
ferer from cancer
The recent session of the Circus
Court of Yazoo county lasted foul
weeks and three days.
Miss Retta Lehman, of Natchez, anc
Sidney M. Ullman, of Birmingham
were married on the 18th.
In a crap game near Crystal Springs
Vaulden Jesse was shot and killed by
Tom Jenkins. Jenkins is in jail.
Mrs. W. L. Moore, daughter of J
j. Crane, died at Hattiesburg and was
buried at Forest last Wednesday.
Mrs. Isaac Watson, aged 81, died OF
consumption at Fernwood last week
She left husband and three children.
1905 sacks Of cement consigned to
a Jackson firm, passed through Gulf
port from New York last Wednesday,
The October term of the Supreme
Court will be convened on the second
Monday, the 18th day of October next
Armstrong Cole, aged 80, died in
Lawrence county last Monday night
He was the grandfather of Mrs. JOSEPH
Dale.
Cecil Bardwell, aged 10, died neal
Starkville. He was an elder in the
Presbyterian church and a brother Of
Rev. Joseph Bardwell
Miss Lula Hawkins and Rev. W. B
Jones were married at Hattiesburg OF
the 18th. Mr.. Jones is a promisins
young Methodist minister.
The Grand Jury of Alfalfa county
indicted twenty-five white men fol
murder, as sequel to the lynching O
two negroes in that county.
At N. A. Hardin's still, near Ocear
Springs, three negroes we're fatally
wounded in shooting ARRAY. The ne
gro who did the shooting escaped on
bicycle.
VIM. D. Coney, who was born, reared
and had always lived in Pike county
died near Magnolia on the 18th. H,
left a wife, three sons and on,
daughter.
A terrific wind and rain storm de
vastated the western part of Copiat
last Wednesday. Damage to cotton
which was waiting to be picked, cannot
be estimated.
Hazlehurst has a $4,000 lawsuit t.
fight growing out of the cremation O.
Sojourner in the calaboose of the town
last year. Criminal negligence is thu
plea of the plaintiff.
John Regain was shot and killed b,
Hugh Forbes in Pike county. Crap.
and "blind tigers" are said to be at tn,
bottom of the trouble. Regain leave!
a wife and four small children.
When the National Dredging Com
pany completes it's work at Gulfport
the channel will be 300 feet wide anc
p feet deep. 1t is stated that seconc
contract will be made for 25 feet.
John Bond, aged 80, died near Nc
Comb on the 18th. He had neve
united with church, but was a regu
lar attendant upon the services ant
contributed to the support of the min
istry.
Mrs. Louis Westrope's body was re
covered from the waters of the Missis
sippi, near Greenville, and were in
TERED in that city. Mrs. w. was tn
insane woman who had killed her fiv
children.
More than 400 guests attended tn
opening ball at MoComb last Wednes
day night. It was given by the Ladies
Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, with Mines. F. Shafe1
A. Wright and Fl. D. Wood as man
ayers.
At the recent reunion of Confed
crate Veterans at Hattiesburg, ex-Gov
Robt. Lowry was elected Major Gen
eral commanding the Mississippi
Division and Brig Gen. Webb was
elected to the command of the FRS
Brigade.
The Board of Trustees of the De
partment of Archives and History viii
hold their first annual meeting al
Jackson Oct. 3, at 3 p. M, to receive
the report of the director, and tc
transact other business relating to the
department.
Prof. S. M. Tracy, of the A. & M
College, has been appointed by the
Government to investigate the merits
and value of the Cassava plant as food
for stock, and for this purpose will
spend three months in Florida con-
Quoting experiments.
The next meeting of the U. G. VS.
will be held at Jackson, June 2, 1908.
On the occasion of the recent meeting
of the order at Hattiesburg, the speech
of Gen. Lowry. was highly praised.
Maj. James K. Vardaman also ad-
dressed the people, but did not dis.