The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-07-29
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.
The Copiah Rifles have been re.
organized.
Poll books are being generally
overhauled.
Mount Olive has organized a.
Fruit Growers Association.
The Crystal Springs Chautauqua
is the most brilliant in its history.
A Farmers Institute will be
HELD at Bay st. Louis Aug. 5th.
A negro was killed at Port Glib
Ison in q dispute over crap game.
GreenWood's retail grocer, w.
4. Anthony, has made an assign
tment.
Many Mississippi teachers are
taking courses at Chicago this
summer.
Judge Julian G. Wilson held
his first term of Chancery Court
at Winona last week.
The agricultural interests ad-
jacent to Bay st. Louis have
grown wonderfully of late years.
The Tallahala Lumber Com
|pany's saw mill at Ellisville burn
ed on the 26th. Loss, SO, 900.
The annual camp meeting at the
Sam Jones camp grounds will be-
gin August 7th, and continue 10
days.
Theodore Cranberry, one of
Hazlehurst's most worthy bust
ness men, died recently, much
lamented.
The Great Southern Hotel at
Gulfport was opened last Satur-
day. Excursions were run on the
q. & S. /. r. r.
Rev. Ira M. Boswell, D. D.,
editor of the New Orleans Christ
ian Advocate, preached at the
Chautauqua last Sunday.
A tour of Mississippi Sunday
Schools will be made by interested
workers at an early date, to
awaken interest in the matter.
At Scranton, Elton Cudabac,
"a brakeman, was dangerously
shot by negro. A negro tramp
has been arrested on suspicion.
s'The biggest white vote in the
history of the State is going to be
cast at the coming primary, in
my opinion says Senator Noel.
Willie Campbell, who had re-
Gently graduated at Soule College,
New Orleans, was killed by light
ming at Bay st. Louis, on the 26.
An infant was badly burned at the
same time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dahlgren were
attacked by four highwaymen
on their return to their home in
Biloxi last week. The speed of
their horses saved them.
Tishomingo county will be rep
resented at the Worlds Fair by
samples of her mineral resources.
Building stone, kaolin, silica,
gravel, amber. iron, pyrites,
mineral water, ETC., will form the
exhibit.
DR.. Yarbrough' S sermon preach
ed at the union service in Jack
son last Sabbath night, was pub
lished in the daily papers of the
capitol. His subject was, The
Family as a Factor in Civic Right
eousness.o
r. L. Smith shot and killed his
wife in the yard of his home in
Greenville. He fed, but was cap
tured by Holt Collier, the negro
bear hunter, who was brought into
notoriety by President Roose-
yelt's bear hunt in this State.
A well defined report says that
the Illinois Central will put on
another passenger train, which
will leave New Orleans at $40
and reach jackson at 1 p. M. The
new train is made necessary by
the increased travel, both local and
Through.
r. u. Reese, of Yazoo City,
won the trophy in the Chess Tour
nament at Vicksburg last week.
The tie between M. D. McGrath
Iof Brookhaven, B. w. Griffith of
lVicksburg and Reese of Yazoo
City was broken by the voluntary
withdrawal of McGrath, followed
Iby like action on the part of
lGrifith. There is dissatisfaction
lover the result.
On Monday, as the result of a
family feud, woman shot her
brother to 1eath near Hattiesburg.
The Rich family had nursed a
feud for years, resulting upon the
division of an estate. 1t had
Igrown very personal among some
Iof the members and on the fatal
/ day, as young Rich advanced on
his sister, Mrs. Prince Odom,
with a stick, she drew her pistol
/ and fired five shots into his body.