The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-16

-Four steel bridges will be built
in franklin at cost of $31, 900.
Two will span the Homochitto,
one at Wrights' ford and one at
Holloway Bluffs.
The travelling statesmen of the
State will give a grand banquet at
Jackson, within two weeks, in
honor of Senator Money and Gov
ernor-elect Vardaman.
Rev. Theodore Bratton will be
consecrated Bishop of the Episco-
pal diocese of Mississippi, on Sept.
30. He arrived in jackson with
his family on the 10th.
Boys, white or black, are ar
rested at jackson, when found
loafing about the Union Depot.
Six pickaninnies were placed in
Jail one day last week.
The sawmill plant belonging to
Rocker 6 Fretag of Springfield,
Ill, situated six miles from For
est, G. B. Antley manager, was
destroyed by fire last week.
| Charles McMaster, son of the
deceased former state land COM
missioner, J. w. McMaster, has
married Miss Mary Lane, of Quit
man, and located at McComb.
The Kinds county Board of SUI
pervisors fixed the tax levy for
county purposes at 6 mills. This
is reduction of one-half mill
compared with last years levy.
Charles B. Schmaling, a we'll
known merchant and property
owner Of Vicksburg, shot himself
to death in the presence of his
wife. I'll health is assigned as the
cause of the awful deed.
A correspondent of the Brandon
News wants the next National
Democratic Convention to nomi-
nate VIM. R. Hearst, of New
York, for President, and Anselm
J. McLaulin, of Mississippi, for
Vice-President.
The charter of the Farmers
Union Aid and Brotherhood So
ciety, of Lowndes County, with
Major johnson, Lewis Bratton
and others as incorporators, was
approved last week. The objects
Of the society are benevolent and
charitable.
Mississippi College open e d
Wednesday with 200 students.
Addresses were made byPresident
| w. /. Lowrey, A. G. Watkins,
D. D.; Rev. p. /. Lipsey, Rev. j.
j. w. Mathis, Capt. w. I. Ratliff
a n d others. Every indication
points to the largest attendance
the college ever had.
Miss Mary Ellen hampton, Of
Magnolia, and E. w. Reid we're
married last night at the home of
| the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
| L. L. Hampton. Miss Hampton
was one of The brightest and pref
test Of Whitwerth girls, a couple
Of years ago, and all friends unite
in wishing her Joy.
Joe Grimes, the biggest man in
the world, and who attracted so
much attention at Yazoo City last
! fall by reason of his weight Of TIC
pounds and also because he mar
ried wee bit of a woman weigh
ing less than 100 pounds, died at
Cincinnati. A wagon b r o k e
down beneath his weight and the
fracture received refused to heal.
Yazoo City's cotton receipts for
the present season will represent
not less than four and one-half
millions of dollars. The Sentinel
does not believe that there IS a
city of similar size in the country
which can boast of being the mar
ket for a staple crop Of equal
value, and yet the territory ada
Ecent to the city is only partially
developed.
The Board Of Supervisors of
Pike county have made the fol-
lowing tax levy: For general
county fund 3s1-2 mills, special
school fund 2 mills, road tax q
mills, pauper fund IA, which adj
Ided to the States levy of 8 mills,
makes the total tax levy of the
county Is "a mills. This is
three-quarters of a mill more than
last year.
| Two electric railroads are now
projected in Mississippi. One Of
Them is to run from jackson to
Vicksburg and the other one is d
belt line that will take in d large
territory adjacent to the growing
city Of Vicksburg. The right Of
i way for the former has already
been secured and there is little
ldoubt that The line will be con-
lstructed. Mississippi is moving