The leader., 1902-07-09
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

IeeLdH uruSBlSCS Vi Iue OblLe meeG al
Jackson to-day.
The Summer Normal opened at Ha-
zlehurst yesterday.
The Baptist State Convention meets
at Water Valley Friday.
The value of farm property in Mis-
sissippi is valued at $200,O00,00O.
G. M. Hamper died in Meridian from
injuries received on street car.
Mississippi chess players have full
swing at Allison's Wells this week.
The grading about the new Capitol
will cost in the neighborhood of $780,
600.
I The house in which L. Q. G. Lamar
died at Macon, Ca, was burned down
last week.
c.. P. Van Norman, aged 81 years,
died at Gloster, after two weeks ill
ness, last week.
Rev. II. J. Cumpsten and wife, of
McComb, are enjoying the hot season
at Mont Eagle.
The State Treasury shows nearly a
half million dollars on hand. Good
for the dry season.
The new National Bank of Com
merce, capitalized at 100000, has
opened at Natchez.
E. Rudolph, an aged German, was
found dead in the woods near Yazoo
City last Saturday.
Four negroes and a mule were shot
near Hazlehurst on the glorious
Fourth. All five will recover.
Harry T. Howard has notified the
city council of Biloxi that he will
present that city school building.
The Y. NJ. G. A., of Laurel, opened
the doors of their new building at
Laurel with an informal reception, on
the End.
W. J. MCGEE, a home contractor,
has the contract to build the Second
Ward Public School at Jackson. It
will cost S13,938.25.
Hon. F. A. McLain arrived from
Washington at his home in Gloster on
the Fourth. He is suffering with in .
fiammatory rheumatism.
TIP. Stone, commanding general of
the United Sons of Veterans, ap-
pointed W. L. Easterling, of Jackson,
adjutant general on his staff.
Postmaster Edwards at Jackson is
making an effort to get the Govern
ment to establish some free rural de-
livery routes out of the State Capital.
The Ida Mitchell Robinson Memo
rial Circle, International Order of
Kings Daughters, have launched de-
termined movement to establish cot
tage hospital at jackson.
July Dan Mcleod shot and killed
Jerry Doyle at Winona. Doyle had
been hired in McLeod's place, and
this was evidently the cause of the
shooting. Mcleod was captured.
A white man, Dave Smith, aged %,
of Covington, Tenn, and a negro,
aged 81, went to sleep while sitting on
a surface cattle guard at Durant last
week, and were killed by a passing
freight.
The annual conference of the Mis-
sissippi branch of the Epworth League
met at Jackson last week. Robert
Ricketts, delivered the address of well
come, which was responded to by Rev.
A. F. Watkins.
The Refuge Oil Mills, of Vicksburg,
have been sold to the Southern Cotton
Oil Company, of Atlanta, a concern
capitalized at s60OOOOOO. 1t now owns
in this State four large mills-at Green
vile, Columbus, Rosedale and Vicks-
burg.
| J. G. Hewitt, labor agent of the
Natchez cotton mill, was arraigned at
Laurel for enticing laborers from the
Laurel cotton mill. He was fined $25
and costs, the latter amounting to
1886. He settled up.
Gov. Lopgino has appointed Ell. T.
Howard, of Meridian, to be trustee of
the University of Mississippi in place
of FL. M. Quinn, who resigned as trustee
to accept the position of financial su-
perintendent of the institution.
Thomas Ryan, locomotive engineer
on the Texas & Pacific, was taken Sc
verely i'll on the depot platform at
Jackson, en- route to his home in
Gouldsboro, La, but insisted on con-
tinuing the journey. He died aboard
the train.
At Alderman, last Saturday, James
McCullic, an escaped lunatic, who had
for six years been confined in the State
Hospital, shot his brother law, who
was trying to protect his sister.
Another brother of Mrs. McCullic
then shot and killed McCullic.
Ben. Matthews, who SO brutally
murdered Mona Giles u few months
ago at jackson, tried to escape from
the Sunfower plantation last Satur-
day and was shot and killed by the
guard, whose order to halt was disre-
garded. He was serving a life sentence
for the crime.
The oratorical contest of Rankin
county took place on July 4th. A
vast assemblage attended and dinner
was served on the grounds. The prize
was awarded David G. Harper with
Sewell Pope, second. The movement
was inaugurated by Prof. Hurst, of the
Gfoon9c GrooE