The leader., 1903-11-11
MISSISSIPPI HAPP ENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The EeWs Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

Show opened Thursday last.
Edward P. Elliott, the imper-
sinator, is again in the State.
1900 bales were sold at Halle
hurst on the 4th to foreign buyers.
Pike and Copiah report the
yield Of cotton less than last year.
r. G. Combs, a merchant of
Shubualak, has gone into bank
ruptcy.
Frank Bishop was killed by a
falling tree at Shaw, near Winona,
on Wednesday.
Noah Gordy, farmer, was
killed near Forest Monday by a
runaway team.
The railroads will give reduced
rates for the Chrysanthemum
Show at Crystal Springs.
Pinola has been incorporated in
Simpson county. The village
claims population of 1875.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
Synod of Mississippi convened in
the church at Batesville on the 4th.
Leon Magee, a contractor, fell
from the roof of building at
HaZelhurst and sustained internal
injuries.
Ike Paul, a sewing machine re-
pairer, in trying to board a fast
moving train, fell and had his foot
cut off at Quitman.
The walls of the Lafayette
county courthouse were cracked by
an earthquake shock, at I'll at
Oxford on the 4th.
Gov. Elect Vardaman is inter-
esting himself in obtaining good
working knowledge Of how the
affairs of the State stand.
Eighty thousand feet Of lumber
was destroyed by fire ID the yards
of Spengler & Co., at Vicksburg
Monday, valued at $4,000.
There is shortage in turkeys.
Mississippi is receiving t h e
Thanksgiving bird from Kentucky,
Tennessee and other states.
Major Vardaman lately went
on bear hunt in the Delta, but
didn't employ any negro guards
to protect him from intruders.
Miss Malvina Mae Scott, the ac-
complished daughter of Hon. Chas.
Scott, of Rosedale, and Octave
Eugene Sykes, will be married
NOV. II.
1000 acres of land were sold at
Ocean Springs on the 4th to A.
Wizard, Of New Orlenas, for $27, :
900. The.seller was /. N. Stray,
of Michigan.
Jackson's water supply was cut
off several hours last Tuesday.
The river reached the lowest stage
in its history and the suction pipes
were left high and dry.
Julius Weis, otherwise Clip"
of the Picayune, has again donated
$500 to the Young Mems Hebrew
Association, of New Orleans.
Mr.. Weis is practical philan-
thropist.
Whit Owens, the notorious insti-
gator of the murder of the Mont
gomery's was given a life sentence
at Water Valley for the killing of
the negro, Hamp Williams. The
case was appealed.
Two negro youths have been
lodged in the Raymond Jail,
charged with incendiarism. They
are accused of setting fire to the
Southern Christian Institute, To-
Gated at Edwards.
There is an organized gang of
young thieves at Meridian. They
broke into two stores on Tuesday
night and got away with consider
able booty. They are believed to
be sons of respectable parents.
On Monday Lena Patrick, three
year-old daughter of William Pat
rick, who, with his family, re-
Gently moved to Laurel from
Rankin county, was perhaps fatal
" burned.
The Llks of Columbus gave a
grand reception on last Monday
night in honor of Miss Katie En-
nett, the only lady Elk in Amer
lea. Miss Emmett is appearing
in THE Waits of New York" in
this State at present.
The City of st. Louis, one of
the last Of the old Anchor Line
steamers, was burned recently on
the Mississippi. The loss was
$35, 900. The handsome boat was
twenty years old and was owned
by a resident Of Greenville, Miss.
Thos. w. Campbell, Of Rolling
Fork, was awarded damages in the
amount Of ST. $50 for injuries re-
ceiyed in a street car collision at
Vicksburg last year. The suit was
for $10,0 900 and at the same time
suits were filed for Mrs. Campbell
and daughter. These latter, we're.
dismissed at.defendant's cost.
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