The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-06-18
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent happenings.

A ShOrt-Haud Chronicle OF Cur
rent Happenings.
The drouth is universal.
June 14th was alag Day..
West Point had $500 fire last
week.
Cotton lice have appeared in Yazoo
county.
Abe Deal will hang at Port Gibson
on July %.
Mississippi cotton is smiling at the
warm sunshine.
John s. Halbert, aged rs, died in
Yazoo county last week.
r. +. McGill is candidate for
street commissioner at Jackson.
Near Lexington last week a cannibal
dog was killed-he ate other dogs.
The Fourth of July promises to be
we'll observed in the State this year.
| N. H. Pepper and Miss Mary Ken
nard were married in Yazoo City on
the 18th.
There were no young men among the
graduates of Jackson's city schools
this year.
Coahoma county received it's first
| cotton bloom on the 10th, Lincoln
county on the 7th.
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Damage suits are numerous against
railroads. The G. & S. I. is defendant
to the tune of nearly $4,000.
Rev. W. M. Mcintosh is conducting
meeting at Ellisville. Rev. T. J. Nors-
worthy issdoing the singing.
Sheriff Harding has placed electric
fans in Jackson's court room. They
are having breezy session this week.
West Point received large ship
ment of cattle from Texas and will ex-
pertinent with summer feeding in Mis-
sissippi.
A. jacobson, Russian jew, shot
and killed A. Lipschitz, at Natchez, on
the 18th. The affair grew out of bust
ness trouble.
Division Commander Daniel, of the
Sons of Veterans, names Oct. Is, 16 and
II as the date for the meeting of the
State Camp at jackson.
James V. Bowen and Miss Mabel
Jenkins, and J. L. Underwood, of Ter
ry, and Miss Susie Gentry, were mar
ried at Oxford ON the 18th.
Mrs. Mary Bell, aged y, was struck
by freight train at Bentonia, as she
was crossing the track, and had her
collar bone broken and suffered severe
bruises.
The annual meeting of the Womans'
Missionary Societies, of the Missis-
sippi Conference, met in Yazoo City
last Saturday. About fifty delegates
attended.
Clyde Fowler, of Natalbany, fell be-
tween the cars and had his foot so
badly crushed it had to be amputated
Clyde was reckless boy who ought to
have known better, or knowing, done
better.
The body of white man was found
in the river at Greenville. A pair of
dice, two nickels and three keys were
found in his pockets. He was not
recognized by any who viewed the re-
mains.
The Board of Trade and Cotton Elk
change of Meridian have appointed a
committee to canvas for subscriptions
to aid in the construction of railroad
from Meridian to Philadelphia. The
amount desired is $4,000.
A bucket brigade extinguished an
incipient fire that threatened Green
wood on the 18th, with loss of only
$500. On the same day the laying of
the city's waterworks and electric light
plant foundation was begun.
Eugene Lewis, negro, lay down on
the railroad track at Meridian to sleep
last Wednesday, after an active rabbit
hunt with a friend, who chose safer
place for slumber and thus escaped
death. Lewis was cut in two by the
train.
In the old college chapel at Clinton,
where her parents were married years
ago, Miss Laura E. Whitfield plighted
her troth to VIM. A. Gore, of Evan
ston, Wy, last Thursday. The GER
emory was performed by President w.
T. Lowrey.
Twenty cooks on a prominent resi-
dence street of Jackson, have thrown
up their jobs this hot weather. All
over the city the lady of the house is
forced to the culinary department by
her servants, who are too delicate to
work in the summer.
The excellence of Mississippi timber
is attracting the attention of manu-
facturers all over the country. One
Illinois pillow company has just aban-
doned the use of oak and adopted
the solid pine found in this State, and
the supplies are being shipped to their
factory now by the millions of feet. /,
On the 18th memorial service was
held in the Capitol Street Methodist
church at Jackson by the two local
lodges of Odd Fellows. A tribute was
paid to the memory of Col. J. l..
Power by W. Fl. Gibbs. John M.
Smiley spoke on the life and character
of Fl. B. Evans, and Fred. Campbell
made short talk on the character of
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