The leader., 1903-08-29
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
Or THE PAST WEEK.

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Or THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle Of Mississippi
and The Doinss Of Her People.
Jefferson county has many cases
of smallpox.
Ice at Scranton is 90 cents per
hundred pounds.
There is more politics than news
in the State papers.
Nose Cousins, murderer, was.
hung at West Point Thursday.
The new capitol has been re-
ceived by the proper committee.
f. l.. Crump will erect a new
and complete hostelry at Collins.
Mrs. S. A. Gotten, aged Is, died
at her home in Summit on the
25th.
An excursion will be run to the
experiment station at Mcneil on
Sept. 2.
The Daily Progress, of Hatties-
burg, has been enlarged to a seven
column folio.
Miss Mamie Curlee, of Corinth,
and Joseph Park, of Alabama,
were married on the 25th.
At Monticello, on the 18th, w.
j. Armstrong was united in mar
riage to Mrs. Maggie Garrett.
Dennis Parker, young man of
Laurel, was fatally injured in
alighting from a moving train.
West Points new bale came in
on the 25th and weighed 428
pounds. 1t brought 16 3-4 cents.
D. G. Holmes & Bros, of Nc
Comb, will open up business on
Capitol street at jackson, in Sep
tember.
Charles Hitler, for many years
a resident of Canton, died sud-
denly at Little Rock. He was
buried at Canton.
Hon. Geo. A. Wilson and his
two daughters, Misses Floyd and
Maggie May, have returned from
a trip to Europe.
Miss Alice Mckee, the IS year
old daughter of d. B. Mckee, a
prominent mel chant of jackson,
died on Thursday last.
Prof. Booth Lowrey and party,
who have been touring Europe,
will arrive at Blue Mountain about
the middle of September.
New Hebron is village on the
lColumbil and Mendenhall branch
of the G. & S. l. Railroad, about
two miles west of the old town.
In two days, the Federal grand
Jury at Biloxi returned SO in
dictments. The most of them
were for timber depredations and
unlawful retailing.
The |. /. & c., at Columbus
will open Sept. 16, instead of the
23rd. The total enrolment last
year was $50; this term President
Kincannon expects 750.
Messrs Wells & Wells, the con-
tractors of the new capitol, sent
I. M. Henry, of Jackson, check
for 500, to be used in the pur-
chase of Beauvoir for the old SOL
Idiers.
/ A ten year-old boy, Douglass
Holman, was accidently killed by
This ix-year-old brother at Carroll
|ton. The older boy was trying to
take gun away from his little
Ebrother.
| Magnolia received two bales of
new cotton on the 18th. They
each weighed over 500 pounds and
brought 13 Is cts. The first bale
was received last year at Magno-
lila on Aug. 8.
i Chas. r. Pettis, of Ellisville,
lied his class at West Point in the
| Federal Military Academy. This
lis the third time he has been the
ranking man. He is a native
Mississippian,
j Paul Whitfield was severely in
liured near jackson by the explos-
ion of a keg of powder. Mr..
i Whitfield was manager of the E.
H. Green plantation. Physicians
state that he will be confined to
| his bed for some weeks.
The first legal hanging in Gov
lington county, for near half a
/ Icentury, took place at Collins on
the 2lst, when james Burns was
hanged for the murder of George
Waters. i die with what /
know Z we're his last words.
q 1t is stated in the Magee Herald
that one man at Collins sold $50
worth of water melons off of two
acres and all others engaged in
fruit or vegetable growing have
done equally well in proportion.
Tomatoes brought $50 to $75 per
acre,
We learn that the young man,
John w. Hall, who was killed by
1.-THE train at Crystal Springs last
lweek, was a brother of Mrs. J..
w. Smollen, of this city. He was
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