The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-17
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

Miss Katie Brewer, of Whit.
worth, has been a Summit visitor.
81 applicants are before the
State Board of Health for exam
ination for license.
The Bay st. Louis Light & Ice
Company are insolvent. Assets.
E$11, 900; liabilities, SO, 900.
The electric car at Scranton has
made its initial trip. A formal
opening Of this line Nill be held.
The police of Jackson have been
instructed to arrest every man
found loafng or lettering about
the streets.
Mary McGaughey the four-ye
old daughter of H. A. Nc
Gaughey, railroad agent at Sum
NIT, died on the 18th.
Charles Manship, of the Even
ing News, has returned to Jack
son, after visiting England, Scot
land, France and Wales.
Laurel merchants claimed the
six pocket knives found on the
body of Frank Williams, who was
shot and killed by Officer Bounds.
Kinds county has the largest
railroad assessment of any county
in the State. Washington is Sec
ond, Bolivar third and Laudredale
fourth.
The LeFlore County Fair As
sociation held it's third annual
meeting on the 14th. The flower
and trades parade was an immense
success.
The supreme court convened in
the new capitol for the first time
on the 18th. There was the
largest attendance of attorneys
for many years.
The President of the Texas Cot
ton Growers Association esti-
mates that the farmers of that
State have lost $50, ,000,0 900 as a re-
suit of the boil weevil pest.
Capt. John H. Wilson, aged SO,
who for years had lived in snag
boat on a shoal in Pascagoula Bay,
died on the 18th. He made his
living collecting drift wood.
J. 7. ]. Williamson, wealthy
Kinds county farmer, living in
the Tinnin neighborhood fell
through the floor of his gin house
Saturday night and broke his neck.
He was about sixtyfve years old.
The Hattiesburg Evening Post
has suspended publication. Editor
Booth announced Monday that two
dailies could not be run success
fully in that city, and for that rea-
son he decided to change his pub
lieation to a weekly.
Ben. Westbrook, a merchant at
Hustler, Pike county, shot and
instantly killed Pinckney Jacobs,
negro, on the 18th. Jacobs had
broken into Westbrook's store at
night and was storing things in a
cotton sack, when discovered and
commanded to- halt. He resisted
and was killed.
A pleasure party from Gulfport
visited Fort Massachusetts, On
Ship Island, and one of the num-
Der found an old Rogers, AZ"
spoon with "St. Charles HoteP'
stamped on the handle. This is
believed to be a relic of Ben But
ler's 'silverware swiping" cam
paign. Sidney Sandige, of Gulf
port, has the spoon.
Ed. jenkins, a negro, is in Jail
at Jackson on charge of man
slaughter. He went home in a
drunken state and numerically
beat his wife. A few days after
she gave birth to twins-o had
its skull fractured and the bones of
the other were broken. Another
negro is under arrest for helping
Perkins hide the bodies.
Eutopia, a new town on the g /.
& S. /. railroad in Lawrence
county, located at or near Hebron,
is soon to have new bank. The
following are the incorporators
J. P. Moore, A. S. Brinson, S. S.
Dale, w. L. Berry, Jas. H. Price,
| /. N. Ellis, R. N. Miller, A. HI.
Conn, land such other persons
as may hereafter be associated
with them.
During the last week the Treas
urer las received SCI .0S1, 66 from
the sale of cotton and other pro
ducts Of the penitentiary. 1t il
expeeted that from now on the re-
ceipts on account Of the sale ot
cotton and cotton seed from the
State farms will be large. The
lGovernor is absent in the Delta
looking after the marketing of the
cotton crop.
Capt. j. J White and wife, ac-
lcompanied BY their daughters,
Mrs. j. B. Afford and Miss
]Beulah, left today for three
weeks visit to San Francisco
lCal. While 10 the great western
lefty, Capt. White will attend ths
National Bankers Association
| He is the representative from this
Estate. The journal wishes them
Ia pleasant trip. McConeb City
Journal, Get. l3,