The leader., 1902-04-16
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Sbort-IIand Chronicle of Cur
rent HapDenings.

j. w. Day, OF crystal Springs, Is eN-
perimenting with celery this season.
Biedenharn's furniture factory at
Vicksburg was burned down last week.
The Daughters of the Coufe leracy
will observe the 18th as Decoration
Day.
Madison's aggregate of damages to
bridges during the recent flood is
$1,000.
S. d. Harper, late of the Hazlehurst
Courier, will establish job office at
Jackson.
Mrs. Fannie j. Kicks, of Yazoo City,
has given 500 toward the purchase of
| Beauvoir.
Gov. Bob Taylor lectured on "The
Old Plantation" at Vicksburg last Fri
day night.
The Southern Pine Camp, Woodmen
of the World, of Meridian, gave $50 to
the Beauvoir fund.
P. F. Goolsby, President of the
Board of Supervisors of Lafayette
county, died on the 10th.
Miss Lucille Banks, of this State, has
been appointed social editor of the
Memphis Morning News.
Gov. Longino has named the 9Th day
of May as Mississippi School Day at
the Charleston Exposition.
The recent floods damaged the bean
crop fifty per cent. in Copiah. The
seed rotted before termination.
At Coffeeville young woman shot
and killed 7-year old boy, by careless
handling of borrowed gun, last week.
1900 pounds of radishes and tur
nips formed carload of the succulent
vegetables at Crystal Springs last
week.
J. B. Boatner died near Natchez of
heart disease at the age of AZ. He was
prominent attorney of Catahoula
parish.
The Jones county Board of Super
visors appropriated 5000 to the Ellis
Vile Rifles for the purpose of building
an armory.
The commencement exercises of the
Jackson Graded School will be held on
June 5. There will be graduating
class of sixteen.
A convention of cattlemen will meet
in Jackson, Miss, April %, to organize
a protective association among South
ern stockmen.
Mrs. G. W. Dorsey, whose husband
expired suddenly few months ago,
herself died unexpectedly last Wednes-
day night at Yazoo City.
During ten days, three negresses
killed their respective sweethearts, in
Kinds county recently. The cause of
the crimes was said to be attempted
assault.
The youngest tramp ever seen in
Jackson was in that city last Thurs
day. He was twelve years of age and
said he had adopted tramping as pro-
fession and expected to follow it all of
his life.
Vigorous complaints are made by
citizens and planters against railroad
contractors who have enticed labor for
repair and new construction work on
railways. They offer exceptionally
good wages.
The State Board of Education urges
that all public schools be closed on
May l, 2, 3, so that teachers may have
the opportunity to attend the meeting
of the Mississippi Teachers Associa-
ton at Jackson.
The people of Gulfport are disap
pointed at the action of the committee
of the lower house of Congress which
allows only $4,000 for the improve
ment of the harbor, instead of the mil
lion they had hoped to secure.
Geo. Lee, negro, who had been sent
to the "camel back" just south of
jackson to flag trains as precaution
since the recent high water, went to
sleep with his feet across rail of the
track. When he awoke both pedal ex-
tremities were missing.
The Jackson Circle of the Kings
Daughters, at a meeting last Friday
elected the following delegates to the
State convention, which will be held
at Biloxi on May 26: Mrs. Archie Cor
don, Mrs. r. H. Henry, Mrs. Ernest AL
len, Mrs. j. B. Greaves, Miss Eta
Mitchell, Miss Matte Robinson.
Judge Edward Mayes has presented
to the historical department State
files of the Mississippi Herald
and Natchez Gazette of 1905, 1906, 1907
and 1908. These files contain full
account of the arrest of Aaron Burr,
giving many details of unusual interest
in regard to that stirring period.
A we'll known citizen of Vicksburg
offered Commander Booth Tucker
1000 acres of land upon which to To-
cate colony of members of the Saliva
ton Army. The offer was refused I'M
less $4,000 could be added to the offer.
This makes the Salvation Army colony
dead issue for the present in Vicks-
burg, says the American.
ii. Scarborough, citizen of some
80 odd years, saved himself from death
last Wednesday at Laurel, by jumping
from railroad trestle over which a
train was coming, into creek 20 feet
below. The old man had waved his
hat too late for the engineer to stop