The leader., 1902-06-11
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A SHORTHAND Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

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Gloster is paving her streets.
Sardis will have electric lights.
Gloster turned on her lights on the
3rd.
Hattiesburg is to have Acton cotton
seed oil mill.
Lumberton contributed Sill to the
Beauvoir fund.
McHenry lost her brick works by
ire on the 4th.
The addition to Magnolia's court
house will cost $4,000.
Woodmen of the World are to have
head camp established in this State.
West Jackson's sub-postal station
will be established in the Edwards
House.
J. S. Buchanan, of Dallas, Texas,
married Miss Susie Dear, of Terry, on
the 5th.
The spur track has been completed
from the Illinois Central to the Insane
Hospital at Jackson.
The State Chess Association will
hold its tournament at Allison's Wells,
near Canton. It will begin July 8.
Miss Dora Wolbrecht, of Summit,
and Herman L. Duckman, of New Or
leans, were married on last Wednes-
day.
Architect Weathers' plan for the
new schoolhouse in South jackson has
been accepted. The building will cost
$4,000.
The eightieth session of Franklin
Academy, at Columbus, ended on the
4th. The attendance during the term
was about 700.
Sheriff Harding raided some of the
social clubs of Jackson and seized their
whisky. He still has it, as no one has
put in claim.
Jacksons street paving contract has
been let to the Southern Brick &
Manufacturing Company, Of Chatta-
nooga, for 100000.
The Carter Nall Lumber Company,
of Epps, Miss, station on the &. & S.
l., is advertising for 250laborers, white
or colored, and offering $3.50 per day.
Mrs. W. G. Virgins and Mrs. Mollie
Roberts, mother and daughter, died
within few days of each other, of the
same disease, at Yazoo City, last Tues
day.
Prof. Mecklin, who had just been
reelected first assistant of the Winona
Graded School, was accidentally shot
and killed while out hunting last Fri
day.
Dan Mcneil was killed near Yazoo
City by Jesse Fulcher. Both parties
were old men and stood we'll in their
neighborhood. A hoe was the fatal
weapon.
George M. Bankston and Mrs. Ellie
Muir Humphreys, of Vicksburg, we're
married last Thursday. They arrived
at McComb, the home of the bride,
the same day.
A two year old child of a Chinaman
whose wife was a negro, was drowned
in tub of water at Aberdeen on the
9Th. There were no Chinese GER
emonials at the funeral.
M. Kaufman & Sons, of Port Gibson,
received on the 3rd the first cotton
blooms of the season. They came from
their McAlpine plantation in the
Grand Gulf neighborhood.
The Hill City Fishing Club, of Vicks-
burg, will secure a car of fish from
Washington to replenish Thompson's
Lake. Black bass and croppin, or
white perch, will be ordered at once.
John Turner, barber of Canton,
has been arrested for setting fire to
his own shop for the insurance money.
Turner denies the charge. A number
of other buildings were burned at the
same time.
The G. & S. 1. railroad, in the next
few months, will establish a repair
shop and roundhouse at Jackson. The
shops will cost several thousand dol
lars, and will give employment to
number of skilled mechanics.
Officers of the Canton Oil Mill were
elected as follows; I. N. Ellis, pres
ident; George Covingto ton, general man
ager; L. Foot, treasurer. l. N. Ellis,
L. Foot, Geo. Covington, R. N. Miller,
B. L. Roberts, J. S. Sexton, directors.
Hon. A. J. Russell, Speaker of the
House of Representatives expired sud-
denly at Oxford, after having delivered
the commencement address at the Uni
versity. He was found dead in his
bed and his demise is attributed to
heart trouble.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
celebrated the birthday of Jefferson
Davis last Tuesday at Jackson. Flo
quent addresses were made by Maj.
James K. Vardaman and B. G.
HUMPHREYS, of Greenwood, and by
Gen. McClurg.
Andrew TONNES, a prominent and
1 wealthy old negro of Grenada, was
robbed of $1,000 in cash while he was
attending church. Hekept the money,
the savings of years of hard toll, in
strong box in his house, and the whole