The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1902-08-02
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There is dearth. of the water
melon crop at Jackson and prices
are high.
Only eight true bills were re.
turned by the Wilkinson county
grand jury.
Hancock, Harrison and jack
son are said to be the only coun-
ties in the State having no cotton
gins.
There are nearly $4,000 more
unmarried women than unmarried
men in Mississippi, according to
the Brookhayen Leader.
A 100000 now church will be
built by the Episcopalians at Jack
son. McGehee & Humphries, To-
cal contractors have the job.
A montrosity in human form is
10.year old negroes weighing 260
pounds. She was born on the
Carmichael place, hear Dry Grove.
Ex-county treasurer S. L. Scott
OF Franklin county, who was re-
ported short in his accounts, has
been placed in the lunatic asy-
lum.
The States military record has
been discovered at the Masonic
Hall in Jackson, where it had been
placed by the Federals when they
occupied the city.
The Whit Owens case comes up
in Oxford August 18th. Damae.
ing evidence is expected from Will
Mathis, who will hang in Sept
ember for murder.
Ex-Treasurer Dover, of Shar-
key county, has been charged with
a shortage in his accounts, and
last reports said he was unable to
secure q $4,000 bond.
Due to the splendid speeches
being made by Commissioner II.
III. Henry much interest is being
awakened all over the State for
an exhibit at the St. LOUIS fair In !
1904.
jackson has organized Civic
League, whose endeavor, aim and |
object is announced to be the
suppression of blind tigers, gam
bling resorts, etc. The League
will have much to do.
Succeeding Gen. Il. e. Lee, |
Gen.G. w. Curtis Lee and Ex-
Postmaster Gen. w. L. Wilson, a |
man, Geo. III. Denny, who |
taught school at HazeIhurst in
1890. has hean mode rros;ao.t of
Washington and Lee University,
Virginia.
The Illinois Central is making
to enlarge its shops |
at McComb City, the third larg-
est on the system. The company
is erecting a new boiler house, and |
enlargements and improvements
will be made early IN every de-
partment of the shops.
There is much disappointment
among the Indians in East Mis-
sissippi because of the report Of
the Dawes commission to the five
civilized tribes which approves
only seven of the 5,969 applica-
tions for participation in the al
lotment Of milan Territory lands
that have been filed during the
past five years. Persons familiar
with the working of the commls-
sion say that it will be twenty
years before they finish their work
of identifying the Choctaws, and
by that time respectable major
ity of the present claimants will
be dead, and their heirs will be
compelled to file now claims.
The interior finish Of the new
Statehouse is progressing rapidly.
Expert sub-contractors are high
in their praise of the new capitol,
and have been heard to say that
they never worked on more sub
stantially constructed building.
They state that such building
could not now be duplicated for
81, 500 600. Indications point to
the fact that the building will be
completed easily within the con-
tract time, which will give the
present State officials several
mouths occupancy of it. The
contract for the grading Of the
grounds has not yet been let, but
will be in the due course Of time,
and pushed rapidly, SO that when
the building is finished the grounds
will be laid off and the debris