The leader., 1903-07-01
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Short Hand Chronicle Of Mississippi
and The Doinss OF Her People.

The last of the first cotton.
bloom is in.
Chas. Fuller, of jackson, was
fined $500 by Judge Powell for
gambling.
Vicksburg had a severe electical
storm on the oath. One building
was damaged.
Wharton Green, Jackson boy,
is experimenting a large electl ic
plant in st. Petersburg, Russia.
Oscar Smithwick, white, who
killed Ed Turner, negro, was
released at Hattiesburg on 3d.
900 bond.
Hon. r. w. McAfee, member
of the legislature from Grenada
county, died at Kerrville, Texas,
last week.
Rev" Jean Skyles, alias Ma
son, alias Lane, the convicted big
amist, is now in the Jackson insane
asylum, having been adjudged in
sane by jury.
Miss May Russell, State organ
izer of the w. G. I. o., has lee
tured recently at McComb and
Magnolia. She is highly com
mended by the press.
Freight conductor, I'll. ID. En-
erson, who was crushed between
cars at Cold Springs on the 23rd,
died at McComb on the following
day. He leaves wife and one
child.
Mrs. Walter M. Denny, wife
of Congressman Denny, died al
the age of so at Scranton on the
| oath. She leaves a husband and
eight children.
Rev. Theo Bratton, elected to
succeed Bishop H. M. Thomp-
son in the bishopric of the Episco
palians, this diocese, will be conse'
Grated the latter part of Septem
Der at Jackson.
The schedule between Memphis
and New Orleans has been consid
erably shortened by the completion
of the new branch of the 7. & NJ
V. that extends to both sides Of
the Yazoo River.
The Institute for the Deaf ant
Dumb has closed for the summer
at Jackson. One of the pupils
was baptised by Rev. W. T. Var
borough into the membership Of
Jackson's First Baptist Church
last week.
Street paving bonds to the
amount of $4,000 have been is
sued by Greenville. The election
carried by a vote of 472 to 81.
The large majority was due to
the work of the Young Mems
Business League.
Chas. Rietti, who a few months
ago embezzled 81, 1852 of the Cum
berland Telephone Company's
funds at Jackson, received z sen
tence in the Kinds county circuit
court last week of one year on the
county farm and a fine of 81, 900.
DR.. w. 4. Todd, of Jackson,
was indicted at Jackson last week
for defying the officers Of the law.
DR.. Todd had engaged imam alter
cation and on peace warrants be-
ing served he refused to go to
court and displayed weapon, it is
stated.
Prof. Wansley has been elected
to the chair of Modern Languages
of Millsaps College. Prof. Bert
E. Young has been granted a
years leave of absence and will
spend the time studying in France
and Germany, after which he will
return to Millsaps.
Mrs. F. A. Schmidt, of Vicks-
burg, whose husband was killed
on the Y. & M. V. R. r. by be-
ing struck by erosstie falling
from car, was awarded $35, 900
in court last week. The case will
likely be appealed. The plaintiff
sued for the sum of 500, 900.
The selection of Mr.. j. w. Nc
Grath, of Brookhayen, as mem
Der of the Longino State Cam
paign Committee, was an excel
lent one. Mr.. McGrath in poll
tics, as in everything else he un-
dertakes, is a whole team and
makes things move.
"Bobbie Sullivan son of the
well-known Bill Sullivan, of Sulli-
vans Hollow, was shot and killed
by R. o. Adams on June oath.
Adams says he shot in self de-
Tense and fed because he knew it
meant death to remain in the Hol-
low. He surrendered at Raleigh,
Smith county.
w. Inge Hoskins, aged %, shot
and killed John M. Robinson in
Memphis on the 18th. Robinson
was in the act of cutting his own
l-wife's throat with a razor when
her cries of murder brought the
young man to the rescue. Young
Hoskins is a grandson of Col,
VIM. Inge, of Corinth, and the son
of w. W. Hoskins, formerly of
the Lexington Bulletin.
On the dead body of a negro,
who was killed after shooting and
ldanOerousIy Woundin0 the civ