The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-05
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle OF Mississippi
and the Doinss Of Her People.
Carthage will have a bank.

| Carthage will have bank.
i Cotton is generally later thar
last year.
jackson is using coal in the
mornings and ice at noon.
The criminal term of court
opened at Magnolia on Monday.
Six brick and stone buildings
are in course of construction at
Laurel.
Hazlehurst's high school build
ing has been renovated and a new
heating system installed.
Miss Carrie Hester, of Terry,
and Carl F. Schleichardt were
married at Terry Wednesday.
The handsome new parsonage
of the First Methodist church, of
jackson, is nearly completed.
Oswell Tusconi, aged 10, tiled
to kindle fire at Biloxi with a
can of kerosene. The boy died
shortly after.
100 farmers and stockmen were
in attendance upon the first meet
ing of the State farmers institute
at Starkville.
Judge Sedding was killed by
Morris Harrison at Chapel Hill,
Is miles northwest of Crystal
Spiings, on Saturday.
The Daily Press has suspended
at Meridian. The Evening Star
beams steadily on and is the only
paper of the Queen city.
DR.. A. P. Sage, of Starkville,
lost his residence by fire. A de-
fective fiue was the cause. $4,000
value and 500 the insurance.
Lawrence county has voted to
extend the school term from four
to six months. The vote was an
oven whelming one-S70 to 10.
Ellisville voted almost unani-
mously in favor of bond issue for
water works. Only four votes
were cast against the proposition.
The Mobile and Ohio freight
depot; offices and sheds were to-
tally destroyed by fire at West
Point. An explosion caused the
fire.
Mississippi will expend on the
st. Louis Fair more than 20 times
the amount she did on the Colum-
bian Exposition. Progressive
State.
The First National Bank, of
Laurel, after selling its building
to the Y. M. c. A., has decided to
erect brick and stone structure
which will represent an outlay of
$25, 900.
D. j. Nichols, a leading citizen
of Greenwood, died on the first at
the age of Is. He leaves two
daughters, married to Delta plant
ers, and two sons, who are leading
business men of Greenwood.
John W. Hyde won the prize of
$40 in gold for the heaviest bale
of cotton at Oskya. 1t weighed
|S67 pounds. The prize was
awarded by the Osyka Mercantile
Co. The price paid was Is cents.
An ante-election wager was le-
deemed at Florence, when Judge
Weathersoy trundled DR.. VIM.
Flowers from up town to the de-
pot in a wheelbarrow. Flowers
was an enthusiastic Vardama n
man.
Insurance men will be greatly in
terested in the Mississippi In
spection and Advisory Rating
Co.. a new corporation j u t
formed and chartered in this State.
1t is private affair and located at
Vicksburg.
DR.. Yerger Hicks, of Vicks-
burg, attacked DR.. j. III. Purnell
on last Wednesday because the
latter had refused to hold consul
tation with him. DR.. Purnell had
received several blows on the
head when further hostilities were
prevented.
About 5000 people attended the
grand ratification meeting in hon
or of the next Governor at Merid
ian on the second. The like of
such things was never known be-
fore in the history of the State.
Critz men joined patriotically in
| the demonstration.
The right Of way has been
granted for the electric belt rail
road from Hazlehurst into the
western portion of the county. A
large bonus has been offered by
public spirited citizens. Russell
8 Seeckle are tie promoters of the
electric bell route.
Charles Perrault. independent
candidate, was nominated for sher.
if in Adams county. Dissatisfac-
ltion grew out of the agreement oi
1.-THE two regular candidates for the
lofice in the second primal j, under
which the losing candidate was to
Ibe appointed deputy sheriff. 203
1yotes We're cast.
| Brooks Story quietly walked
IaWay from the Rankin county
farm. When he returned from
his last escape, he promised to es
cape no more. Too much conf