The leader., 1902-08-27
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

The Elks of Yazoo City have new
club house.
Cotton pickers are in great demand
a. Clarksdale.
Frank Prescott, of Amite county,
aged rs, is dead.
Walter L. Kennedy committed sui
eide at Lauderdale
A farmers institute will be held at
Hazlehurst Sept. 4th.
Capt. W. w. George, one of Merchants
prominent citizens, is dead.
McComb merchants have organized
into merchants exchange.
A negro burglar was shot and cap
tured at Thrift by E. w. Melvin.
The contractors have resumed work
on Jefferson county's courthouse.
Jackson's main streets are sail torn
up" by the new street paving work.
J.T. Sample, of Indiana, has become
freight agent of the l. G. at jackson.
Much sickness is reported in the
Delta on account of the extreme heat.
A brick and tile plant is to be es-
tablished at Nicholson by Henry
Egert.
Claiborne's back tax assessment ag-
gregates $2,OOO,0OO, subject to a large
scalage.
DR.. D. W. Coker has been appointed
health officer of Lincoln county, vice
DR.. Irby, deceased.
Ada Riley, one of the soiled doves
of Vicksburg, suicided Saturday night
by taking carbolic acid.
Shockelford's hardware store at
Water Valley was robbed of S4O0 worth
of goods Saturday night.
j. L. Gilbert, who claims to be a
preacher, has been jailed at Ellisville
for passing worthless check.
The Board of Directors of the Mag
nolia Cotton Mills, will open bids for
the construction of the mill on Sept.
| 10th next.
The Yazoo Sentinel, one of the best
and most prosperous weeklies in Mis-
sissippi, has bought and moved into
an Office of its own.
T. j. Clingan, son of Capt. John
w. Clingan, of Jackson, was killed by
sunstroke in the railroad yards at
Vicksburg Thursday.
The Hazlehurst Cotton Oil Mill Com
pany has agreed to pay the back taxes
charged against it, amounting to some
thing more than $4,000.
More than 1000 people met Hon.
John Sharp Williams at the depot of
Yazoo City ON his return home after
his brilliant victory in the Eighth dis
trict
VIM. Raiborn, a reputable citizen of
Amite county, committed suicide by
hanging. His body was found before
it was cold. He leaves a wife and six
children.
Sheriff Harding poured out two
barrels of contraband whisky at Jack
son Saturday and the dry earth drank
ner of men.
The clerical force in the office of the
State Superintendent of Education is
engaged in verifying the school emu
meration, which work is expected to be
completed this week.
Jackson's new chemical fire engine
has been tested and proved highly sat-
isfactory. The new engine is COM
bination chemical engine and hook and
ladder truck, and very up-to-d date ma
chine.
Robert Ford, prisoner confined in
the Claiborne county Jail on charge
of horse stealing, planned an attack on
Deputy Sheriff Magee, last week, but
was frustrated by another prisoner
giving the deputy the tip.
The Auditors office has received nu-
merous inquiries of late asking if the
Western Industrial Association of
Washington, D. c., was authorized to
do business in Mississippi. He has re-
piled stating that this concern is not
now and never has been authorized to
operate in this State.
At Vicksburg last week, woman
who was standing at the depot ap-
parently waiting for a train, stepped
up to gentleman and asked him if he
would not hold her baby just for mo-
ment, until she could get drink of
water. He consented, and at last &C.
countst the woman had failed to return,
and the gentleman still had the baby.
At Scranton Judge Krebs sentenced
Ed. Lake to the county Jail for one
year for interfering with officers in
their efforts to arrest two disturbers
of the peace. Judge Krebs in passing
sentence upon Lake, said that interior
ing with an officer in the discharge of
his duty was very serious charge,
and necessitated the severest punish
ment allowed by the statutes.
The cases against the Harmony Club,
social organization of jackson, came
up in the mayors court last week.
The club was charged with selling
whisky to its members. 1t was shown
on testimony that the club had mum
Der of lockers, and that each member
of the club kept his liquid refresh
ments in locker, to which he carried
key. On this showing, the case
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