The leader., 1903-08-22
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS or INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle Of Mississippi
and the Doinss Of Her People.

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Critz for Governor.
Pass Christian is becoming
famous for its tarpon.
Columbia is to have another
bank, capitalized at $4,000.
DR.. w. T. Boiling, of jackson.
is spending some time in Ken
lucky.
The State Board of Examiners
passed favorably upon IT'S teach
ers' applications for license.
Agents selling all kinds of
household articles kept by local
merchants are getting numerous
in the State.
The best class of attractions
ever visiting jackson is promised
by the manager of The Century
for the coming season.
Mrs. Mary Watson, mother Of
Hon. Hugh Watson, of Green
vile, died at Hazlehurst on We'd
nesday. at the age of 81.
Rev. w. w. Graves will have
charge of Founders Hall, at Mill
saps College. Board and rooms
are offered for SO per month.
John +. Bioos. of Conf ali
county, lost his dwelling and
storehouse by fire on the 18th.
He was located six miles from
Hazlehurst.
Mrs. w. A. Gill, aged So years,
died suddenly at Amite City,
where she was visiting, on the
10th. The remains were inferred
at Magnolia.
Miss Ethel Bailey, the accom-
plished sister of Senator Joe
Bailey, of Texas. has announced
her candidacy for the Office of
State Librarian.
Copiah is assured of an eight
months school tenn next session.
Prof. I. L. Trawick has been very
largely instrumental in bringing
this desired end about.
Elk Congressman, John M. AL
len, has declared for Vardaman.
1t is generally conceded that this is
the private's latest jokes; and it is
good enough to make a fool laugh.
Bigamist George Foster, who
married a Rankin county girl,
while another wife was still living,
was convicted in Judge Enochs'
court and given four years in the
State pen.
B. E. Washington, the negro
who shot and killed Stanley Wood,
aged IS, on the Louisiana and
Mississippi line, last week, was
lynched at Tarbert, near Red
River Landing.
Grasshoppers are so thick at
Red Lodge, Montana, that they
retard trains. The locomotives
and roads are plastered with them
and when train stops it is diff
cult to start again.
The following charters have
been approved: Laurel sash and
door factory, $4,000; McKie &
Henderson Co., at Shelby, Boil
var county, $4,000, merchandise;
Kola Lumber Co., in Covington,
$4,000
Miss Pearl Halleman, aged Is,
was struck by lightning near
Hattiesburg, and killed. She was
standing on her fathers gallery
during a thunder storm. A shot
gun near her was struck and torn
to pieces.
Celeste Grayson, aged one year,
died at Laurel, as the result of
swallowing silver-plating solu-
ton which had been prepared in
tumbler and placed, it was thought,
beyond her reach. No medical
aid could relieve the child.
Secretary of State Power is
sending out a request to the cir
cult clerks of the State asking
them to forward him the names
and addresses of the senators and
representatives nominated in the
recent primary, and to be nomi-
mated in the next primary.
Hon. R. G. Lee, U. S. Dis
trict Attorney, who had been at
tending the meeting of the Federal
grand jury at Biloxi, was called
to his home at Madison Station by
a telegram announcing that his
son, Walthall, had met with an
accident, having severely crushed
his foot in hay press.
At a meeting Of the stock hold
ers ofthe Chautauqua Launch Co.,
at Crystal Springs, an organiza-
tion was affected, charter pre-
pared and the following officers
elected: Mrs. j. w. Bailey, pres
ident; Mrs. /. f. Barnes, Of
Byram, first vice president; Mrs.
j. M. White, second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. r. w. Biggs, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Z. Z. Trawick,
treasurer. The purpose of the
stock company is to operate steam
launches, row boats, skiffs, ETC.,
on Lake Chautauqua. It is, pos
sibly, the only corporation in the
State composed entirely of ladies'.
It has been suggested that when
Vardaman is defeated for Cover
nor. which now seems certain.