The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-05-20
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle OF Mississippi
and the DoinSs Of Her People.

Rosedale's ice factory has begun
operations.
Rosedale has organized groc-
cry company.
A compress company has been
organized at Laurel.
The railroad commission will
not meet until June 4th.
A Knights of Honor Lodge has
been organized at Lumbe1ton.
A race riot is reported from
Smith county. Two negroes have
been killed.
The ten-months' old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Webb died at
Liberty on the 18th.
Freight conductor W. H. Will
liams was killed between the cars
at McComb last week.
The Kappa Alpha Chapter
house at Milllsaps College will be
dedicated on June End.
For lack of business the spring
term of circuit court was prefer
mitted at Bay St. Louis.
Judge Powell's next term of
court will be at Canton, the
fourth Monday in May.
Rev. Father Huber, of Canton,
one of the best known Catholic
priests in the State, is dead.
Scranton merchants call it early
closing at Z O'Clock, and have
agreed upon that hour for the
summer.
On Sunday morning, May 81,
Bishop Galloway will deliver the
commencement sermon at Mill
saps College.
A monument to the memory of
the troops from Massachusetts,
will be placed in the National
Park at Vicksburg.
Tom Glover, who was working
on the Champion Lumber Co. s
log train, was instantly killed by
a log falling on him at Poplar
vile.
In the Gulf States inter collegi-
ate oratorical association debate,
S. Lamar Field, of the University
of Mississippi won the medal for
excellence.
A meteorological laboratory
now threatens the State. The
State Board of Health will recon-
mend it at the next sitting of the
Legislature.
Rosedale has a new bank, Hon.
Chas. Scott and associates resume
business under the old name of
Bank of Rosedale. 1t has a paid
up capital of $4,000.
In Claiborne county the citi-
zens are agitating the question of
building a new court house at
Port Gibson, and the improve
ments will probably be made.
The charter of the Womans'
Beauvoir Memorial Association
has been approved by the Govern
or. Its object is to assist in the
payment of Beauvoir and its main
tenance.
Chancellor H. G.. Conn died on
the 18th and was buried on the
following day at Hazlehurst. The
funeral was largely attended by
friends and confreres of this splen-
did man.
Zone of the largest audiences
that ever assembled in Wesson,"
was out to hear Gov. Longino
speak on Saturday night, the 9th
inst. A number of ladies we're in
the crowd.
Leland, the craftsman, who
sawed himself out of the Jackson
jail some weeks ago, has been re-
captured in Michigan, along with
Mcdonald, the bigamist. Requi-
sitions have been forwarded.
While in the act of passing
through a wire fence, Terrell
Slaughter, a negro, shot himself
to death at Aberdeen, A full
load of No. 8 filled his neck and
took off the back of his head.
The charter of the Jamestown
Cotton Oil Co., domiciled in Goa
homa county, and capitalized at
$50, 900, and that of the Webb
City Brick Co., capitalized at $40,
900, have been approved and filed.
W. B. Wisner, proprietor of
the Canton Commercial Co., has
sold out to Barrett & Lewis, of
Lexington. Mr.. Wisner has re-
Gently been elected president of
the new bank, which opens up
Sept. 1.
Rev. A. F. Watkins, agent for
the fund to be used for superan-
nuated Methodist ministers, an
nounces that he has SO far raised
$4,000 Of the ST., 100000 ex-
pected and planned for by the
conference.
The party of Northern real es-
tate dealers and homeseekers who
are coming south in charge of
Capt. j. F. Merry, assistant gem
eral passenger agent of the Hi
nois Central will reach jackson
on the afternoon Of May Goth.