The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-03-11
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.
r. j. Mallett, a weil-known ex-
Confederate soldier, died in jack
son last week.
Fayette will have new brick
and iron fence erected around her
court house and Jail.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee is Sc
riously i'll at Hot Springs, suffer
ing from rheumatism.
Robt. B. Minis has been select
ed as president of the Mississippi
Bank and Trust Co., at Jackson.
The American Cotton Oil Co.
has purchased the Capital FERTILE
er Co.'s plant at jackson and will
add largely to it.
Arrangements have been made
for the entertainment of the Mis-
sissippi Baptist Press Association
which meets at Biloxi on the 18th.
By decision of the Supreme
Court in the case of DR.. Hayden
VS.. the State, osteopaths may
continue to practice their profess
sion, without medical license.
Hon. j. H. Price, of Magnol-
ia, has been appointed by the
Governor to sit as Supreme
Judge during the rest of the
term, in place of Judge Terrall,
who is incapacitated by illness.
Bishop Galloway has accepted
an invitation to deliver the COM
mencement sermon for Millsaps
G olIege on May 31st. DIR. w.
E. Thompson, Of Memphis, will
lpreach the sermon for Belhaven
College.
The Enterprise says that Green
wood is soon to have a $50, 900
wagon factory. The stock has all
been subscribed. 1t is to be
known and operated under the
firm name of the Langstaff
Wagon Co.
Ellis Jones died at Forest last
week as result of wounds in
fiicted by Anse McLaurin, negro
, now confined in the county Jail.
The negro received the news of
Jones' death without any emotion
whatever.
Miss Annie Armstrong, of Bal
timore, who is at the head of the
woman's work of the Southern
Baptist Convention, has been Wis
iting and lecturing in prominent
cities of the State in the interest
of the work.
E. t. Oglesby shot and killed
Stella Madden at McHenry on the
9th. The woman had sworn out
warrants against the man charging
him with running an unlawful
house and had otherwise aroused
his ire. Parties both coIored.
Barring the miscarriages of
justice, or appeals, Marshall coun-
ty will have a festival of hangings
on the 10th of April. David Lo-
gan, Charles Strickland and Solo
mon GLASGOW were sentenced at
the late term of court to hang on
that date.
On the day set for his execution
at Williamsburg, James Burns
was granted an appeal to the Su-
preme Court. Burns is an Irish
man, 50 years of age, and was
sentenced for the murder of
George Walters, a fellow laborer.
The two men, at the time of the
crime, were engaged in digging
a pond for the Pearl and Leaf
River r. r.
Hon. Rucks Yerger, of Clarks-
dale, a leading Delta lawyer, re-
ports that the people of that por-
ton of the State are viewing the
overflow situation with compla-
cency and their usual fortitude.
Farmers do not consider the out
look more unfavorable than usual.
The levees are strong and neces-
sary funds for fighting the floods
will be forthcoming.
The case of Whit Owens has
been reversed for the second
time. The chief ground for re-
versal was the error of the jury
in returning a verdict of guilty
and fixing the punishment at a
term in the penitentiary, without
specifying the length of the
term. The case against Owens
for the murder of the negro,
Hamp Williams, is still pending.
The total rainfall fol- February
was 11.45 inches, which is the
largest recorded since 1871. The
average rainfall for the 80 year
period is 4.85, and February
shows an excess Of the average
amounting to $3.50. Rain fell on
IA of the % days in the month
and there were only Z clear days
during the period. And, Judging
by the way March has started
out, it will sink its predecessor
clear out of sight.
At a joint meeting of the
United Confederate Veterans,
| Daughters of the Confederacy,
land United Sons of Confederate
Veterans, held last week at jack
con uauc opd Yooanc yrorn do