The leader., 1902-09-17
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

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tablished at Forest.
Crystal Springs new compress and
gin are now in operation.
The Y. M. G. A., at Laurel, has
bought a $4,000 building.
Officials will move into the new State
house on the first of May.
Pike has adopted the contract system
for working the public roads.
A $4,000 mercantile stock company
has been organized at Columbia.
The trials of Mathis, Lester and
Owens have cost Lafayette county $l2,-
900.
The new primary election law is a
pronounced success, and has come to
stay.
Rev. Mr.. Skipper is assisting Rev. ],
A. B. Jones in meeting at Halle
hurst,
John A. Higdon, who died at Mish
on the 9th, was buried at Ellisville the
following day.
Uncle Josh Whitehead, of Winston
county, 80 years of age, is cutting his
third set of teeth.
"The Mizpah Trion has been in Cen
treville. They gave burlesque on
"Uncle Toms Cabin"
Ed. Jones, a young white man.
stabbed to death, on the 9th, Bertrand
Newman, negro, at Vicksburg.
Hon. E. F. Noel and Major J. K.
Vardaman opened the gubernatorial
campaign at Aberdeen last week.
DR., A. G. Enochs was injured in a
runaway accident at Magnolia last
week. A leg and arm were broken.
The Mississippi Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold its next
meeting at West Point Jan. 5, 1903.
The Natchez Bulletin says the first
daily newspaper ever issued in Missis-
sippi was published at Natchez in
1885,
The town school house was the old
est building in Utica. 1t has been
pulled down and $1,000 will erect
better one,
The Choctaws of Newton county
are preparing to leave for the Indian
Territory to take possession of their
allotments.
Ex.Fire Chief Henry Marx, of Vicks-
burg, will sue the insurance companies
which demanded his removal from the
position of chief.
J. w. Provine has been elected mayor
of Clinton, with G. B. Hawkins, mar
shall; J. D. Coleman, M. Latimer and
]. NJ. Sharp, aldermen.
Howard Lee Weathersby, aged 26,
was buried at Summit last Wednesday.
He left wife and two small children,
beside numerous relatives
Hon. T. r. Maxwell, the present
chancery clerk of DeSoto county, is
worthy candidate for the office of
Auditor of Public Accounts.
Rev. J. B. Culpepper, of Macon, Ga,
is conducting a meeting, which is very
largely attended, at Jackson. He makes
bold attacks on the citadels of sin.
The crap game is fatal amusement
of the Mississippi negro, statistics
showing that twelve have been killed
in crap games during the year past.
On the 8th daughter of Arch Jones
was killed while playing on the gallery
at his home near Hermanville, by fall
ing over a chair. She was six years
old
Albert Barnes, professor of mechan-
ical engineering at Clemson College,
S. c., has accepted the chair of me-
chanical engineering at the A. & M.
College.
Hines Hood killed Leo Pertenee,
Greek fruit dealer, at Gulfport. There
had been a quarrel and Hoods defense
is that the Greek was advancing, with
threats to kill him.
Cotton seed were quoted in Jack
son Monday at 500 ton. This IS
a fancy price and will help the far
mers, especially as their crop of cotton
promises to be short.
Paul A. Leach was found at Green
vile suffering from an overdose of
morphine, from which he died. His eff
fects showed that he had been mem
Der of the Typographical Union.
There are thousands of uncleared
acres of land in the Yazoo and Mis-
sissippi delta. These lands should be
cleared and put into cultivation, but
they are owned by syndicates and are
being held for speculation.
lotteries & Huber, of Crystal
Springs, have bought the entire stock
of Hutchison & Co. J. J. Pritchard,
the largest trucker of the city, has
sold his magnificent farm to Hutchinson
& Co.. and Pritchard has located in
Texas.
If Mississippi does not have credita-
BILE exhibit at the st. Louis Worlds Fair
in 1904, it will not be the fault of State
Commissioner r. Fl. Henry. He is de-
livering speeches in different portions
of the State and getting the people in
terested.
There are now five announced can
didates for Governor, as follows: J.
K. Vardaman, of Leflore; E. F. Noel,