The leader., 1903-06-24
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Short Hand Chronicle Of Mississippi
and The Doinss OF Her People.

Utica's first cotton bloom came
in on the Goth.
The cost of the talent on the
coming Chautauqua program is
50, 800.
The /. C.. is using it's double
track from Johnston Station to
Magnolia.
Sardis' new oil mill is being
built by home capital at a cost
of $4,000.
Miss Camille Goldstein and
Felix Moyse, of Summit, were
married on last Tuesday. i
A party of fishermen on the
coast near Scranton, caught 25OI
red snappers on the Goth.
A train load of snap beans left
Crystal Springs last week. The
train was composed of 25 cars.
Lefore county has adopted the
new road law and will henceforth
work her roads by contract.
Mrs. Harriet Cooke, widow of
the late Capt. j. I. B. Cooke, of
Brandon, died at the age of 70 last
week.
DR.. Charles Hillman Brough
has been elected professor of
Economies at the State University
of Arkansas.
w. N. Hurt, in assuming edi-
torial control of the Common
wealth, has swallowed both Var
daman and Money.
@. G. Maxwell, of Lake Prov
idence, La, died at Vicksburg OF
malarial fever on the Goth. He
was "a years of age.
Three gentlemen from Missouri
are prospecting for another cotton
factory at Tupelo. The mill will
contain 10000 spindles.
|
Robert Bennett, the 20-year-old
son of r. L. Bennett, of Yazoo
City, was run over and killed by
freight train on last Thursday.
H. C. Simmons, an old settler
and Confederate soldier, died at
Newton on the 18th. He was
born in Lawrence county Is
years ago.
Last Thursday Worlds Fair
| Commissioner r. II. Henry left
| for St. Louis to arrange for floor
| space and general plans for the
Mississippi Exhibit.
At Port Gibson Robert Williams
| called his wife out of the house
and shot her down. There was
one eye witness, Jealousy was
the cause of the crime.
The negroes of the AIcorn Col
lege have begun work on their
industrial exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. 1t will consist of wagons,
buggies, implements, steel drills,
etc.
At Hosem, Jones county, Mrs.
Ella Ward struck herself in the
head with an axe, cutting into the
skull, IN AZ attempt to kill her
self. It is thought she will re-
cover.
Mississippi women resent Maj;
Valdaman's recent disrespectfui
illusions to Rooseyelt's mother.
Mrs. Roosevelt was not only a
lady, but splendid Southern
woman.
Mr.. Samuel |, Solomon, of Me
ridian, has been appointed Grand
Lecturer of Mississippi Masons,
to fill out the unexpired term of
the lamented John L. Spinks,
deceased.
F. L. Bellenger, of the Jack
son Evening News, paid a glow
ing and merited tribute to the
memory of the late James Hill.
1t should be preserved in the ar
chives of the States history.
Not satisfied with its new arte-
sian we'll, Jackson is trying to
get her saloons back. Dr.. W. T.
Boiling says jackson may choose
between grog shops and such in
stitutions as Millsaps College.
Claiborne county will spend
between $4,000 and $4,000 in
improving the Jail and court
house; this amount spent in re-
pairing and refitting the present
buildings will give Claiborne's
officers and prisoners very hand
some quarters.
The Mississippi Railroad Com
mission, at its recent meeting,
June Is, made the assessment of |
the railroads operating in the
State. The assessment shows a |
general increase of values of rail
road property as compared with |
the assessment of last year.
A young soldier, W. NJ. Lewis,
jr., OF Ellisville, while ON his way
to drill with his company last Fri
day night. was overpowered by |
two negroes and robbed of his
watch and $f2 in money. Lewis
was choked into insensibiIity |
and was found about Is minutes
after the attack. He did not rec
ognize his assailants.
After a siege of eight weeks
with typhoid fever, appendicitis,