The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-01-29
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Batesville struck water at a depth
of $50 feet.
Natchez' street cars began running
last Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah f. Harvey, aged 20, died
at McComb on the 10Th.
Fred. B. Brown has been commits
stoned postmaster at Denny.
Miss Nethersole played "Sappho" at
Vicksburg last Thursday.
Senator McLaurin doesn't believe
Mississippi will get the army post.
Hazlehurst complains of its oil
What the town needs is electric lights
Senator A. w. Dent was married to
Miss Lou McCallum, of Simpson, last
week.
James Tyson, aged 20, dropped dead
with heart disease at Yazoo City last
Tuesday.
The dissolution of the Gulfporl
Chautauqua Association is foregone
conclusion.
At Meridian, Rev. Mr.. Wallace, OF
Pittsburg, Pa, has become pastor OF
the Christian church.
1t is stated that the |. c. has substi
tuted the telephone for the telegraph
in tran shifting orders.
A train on the Valley road, neal
Fayette, ran into a wagon containing
three negroes. All were killed,
DIR. E. A. Alderman, president Of
Tulane, lectured on Education in thu
South" before the Legislature las
week.
Allen d. Carpenter, a wealthy
Natchez citizen, was shot down anc
killed on the streets of that city by
Thomas Glenn last week.
Miss Agnes Leavitt is exhibiting a
Jackson fifty paintings, mostly of thu
Alps. They were painted at an alti
tude of 1000 and 10000 feet.
S. II. Brister, of Yazoo, sold at Can
ton three shoats only eighteen months
old that weighed 1910 pounds. Sold a
6 cents, they Melted him s64.2O.
Sam Bowie, negro planter ano
school teacher, was mobbed at Stray
horn on the Dist for shooting anc
wounding A. C. Moore, white plan
| ter.
The Legislature left last Frida.
night for visit to Gulfport and thu
coast towns. Beauvoir was visited
The return trip was made Sunda.
night.
Hazlehurst wants its old marke
house, it's stock pen and lot of ole
buildings near the railroad all ere
moved" A good fire would do tn
work la Hattiesburg.
l.. M. jackson, treasurer of the col
ored Order of Jacobs, of Vicksburg
has absconded with several Thousand
dollars. He was perfectly temperat
and man of good habits.
Mrs. Kate Barry, the widow of tn
late M. Barry, who was once tn
grand treasurer of the Mississippi Ma
sonic Lodge, died at Hazlehurst las
week. Mr.. Barry was also membe
of the Legislature from Copiah.
The depot at Edwards, freight, fur
niture, books, papers, telegraph instru
by fire last week. The loss is con
servatively estimated at $1,000. Tn
depot was brick building and ha
been III use since 1878.
Judge Joseph Givin, retired ST
preme judge of Iowa, is spending tn
remainder of the winter season a
Biloxi, in company with his daughte
He won the title of General in the civ
war, and it is said of him "he never OF
pressed non-combatants, and alway
protected women and children"
Sam McGehee, residing near Ne
Zion, Amite county, was accidental
killed by Micajah Cruise on the 2ls
They were burning sedge togethe
when a rabbit was discovered in
brush heap. In handing the gun
) Mr.. McGehee, Mr. Cruise stumbled an
| ha nhar ha IAx
result.
Prof" f. G. Mott, who about a We;
ago organized the "Fete Franchise" {
Yazoo City and afterward went
Memphis where he lost his money in
saloon while on a spree, has ju
jumped Tuscumbia, Ala, where |
pocketed S75 on dancing lessons, ga,
two lessons and skipped. Trust hi
Mott.
Judge Fitzgerald, at Jackson, d
cided that college student at hon
on vacation is liable for road dut
when notified by an overseer. A ST
dent of the Alcorn A. Il NJ. College WI
the cause of the first decision on Il
point in question, ever rendered
Mississippi. The defendant wante
to make an appeal, but TOOK his Law
yer's advice aud paid the commutatiC
, tax.
| DR.. John Brownrigg, formerly one
the oldest practicing physicians
Mississippi, died at st. Louis, whe
he was visiting his son, on the Dot
His remains were inferred in the Gel
etery at Jackson. In early manhoC
DR.. Brownrigg married Miss Elizabe
Yerger, daughter of Judge Villa
Yerger, and practiced his professit
for fifty years at Columbus. He W
20 years of age.
VIM. Davis, a negro, aged 80, W
caught in the act of house breaking