The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-03-18
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle Of mississippi
and the DoinSS Of Her People.

and the Doinss Of Her People.
Federal court is in session at
Meridian.
DR.. c. H. Brough lectured at
Newton last Friday.
Congressman Frank A. McLain
has arrived at his home at Clos
ter.
Editor Noble, of the Laurel
Chronicle, is stricken with typhoid
fever.
Copiah officials have accepted
and moved into their new court
house.
The great river is now certain
to pass the memorable high water
stage of 1897.
The Mississippi Press Associa-
ton will meet in New Orleans May
18th and 18TH
Rev. John B. CuIpepper, of Ok
ford, will begin tent meeting at
Wesson in April.
The State Sunday School con-
vention meets at Canton April
2Sth, Goth and 30th.
The Neshoba Democrat contain
ed last week 43 announcements of
candidates in that county.
While hunting near Carthage,
Nathan Boozer shot himself with
a gun that wasn't loaded"
H. Rey Bonney, eldest son of
the editor of the Summit Senti-
mel, has located in New Orleans.
Mrs. Joseph Villa, of Biloxi,
shot herself three times with sui
cidal intent last Friday. She will
die.
Walter Diers bit one of Luther
Herring's fingers entirely off in
an alteration at Laurel on the
18th.
Hon. P. E. Quin, of McComb,
has announced as candidate for
State Senator from Pike and
Franklin.
Judge Enochs opened the Simp-
son county court with payer and
stated that this will be his practice
hereafter.
At the first sign of a break in
the levees 700 State convicts with
teams and tools will be rushed to
the crevasse.
The Merchants and Farmers
Bank opened in Columbus last week
with the first days. deposits of
over $41, 900.
The Meridian Press says the
public library of that city is one
of the towns most delightful
places to visit.
A negro girl who was bitten
seven months ago by a mad dog
at Water Valley, died of hydro
phobia on the 18th.
Miss Evelyn Pulvis, of Yazoo
county, has had published book
of original poems, which she has
named ''Thoughtlets."
The new salary of S., 500 for
justices of the supreme court, an
advance of 81, 900, will begin with
Judge Whitfield's new term.
An electric railway is to be
constructed at once to connect |
Moss Point and Pascagoula with
Scranton On our South coast.
On motion of Commissioner Nc
Innis, the Penitentiary Board has
ordered the State convicts to be
sent where called for keeping the
levees intact.
The New Orleans Live Stock
Enterprise, notes the receipt from
of a few car loads of |
the best cattle ever seen there in
the last ten years.
Engineer F. G. Wheelock died
at McComb last week. He was
81 years of age ad was one of the
oldest and most trusted engineers
on the |. G. road.
Business of the Biloxi postoffice
has so increased that a new clerk
has been added to its force and
the salary of the former one
raised from $500 to 5000.
The Gulfport people are specu-
lating as to the object of the recent
visit of John D. Rockefeller and
several other capitalists to that
and other seacoast towns.
In an apple race at Meridian,
Mrs, j. G. Pope, one of the con-
testants, fell and broke her arm.
The accident occurred in the
railroad Y. M. G. A. rooms.
James w. Norment has sold the
Starkville News to Col. T. j.
Wood. Mr.. Norment, who rep
resents Oktibbeha county in
the present Legislature, will be a
candidatef or reelection.
Gen. Robert Lobwrey has been
invited to deliver an address on
behalf of the Confederate Veter
ans on the occasion of the dedica-
ton ceremonies of the new capt.
tol building on June 3rd.
Hal Robins. of Tupelo. is paw