The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-30
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS or
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

rev Lines.
IState.
Columbus has mild cases Of
smallpox.
Mississippi has $50 varieties of
hard and soft woods.
Property is higher in Yazoo
City tnan ever before.
Millsaps College opened with
more than 200 students.
/ The entire business section Of
McHenry was burned last week.
Lalge supplies of shrimp are
being received by canneries along
the coast.
Sixteen dollars a ton is the price
paid at Hazlehurst for cotton seed.
by local buyers.
Edward McDade, brakeman.
was killed at Meridian while max
ing a coupling.
Rev R. A. Conron, of Utica, is
assisting Rev. j. E. Thigpen in
a meeting at Magnolia.
| W. A. Dickson, of Centreville,
is announced for clerk of the
House of Representatives.
The question Of who is the NOM
inee for treasurer of Tunica coun-
ty, will be settled in the supreme
court.
| Hon. George S. Dodds, a native
and former resident of this State,
was the judge in a ''baby show"
at Biloxi the other day.
At Saltillo, near TupeIo, the
two-year-old daughter Of Station
Agent Johnsey was struck and
killed by loose engine.
Captain John Foster, a veteran
of the Mexican and Civil War,
died at his home at Scranton, aged
76. He leaves a wife and twelve
children,
George G. Myers, clerk of the
supreme court, has rendered the
deputy clerkship to R. P. Thomp-
son, ei jackson. The appoint
ment becomes effective Oct. 26.
The Grander Age, a Socialist
newspaper published at Biloxi,
has been refused admission to the
mails as second class matter. It
will appear monthly, instead of
weekly, in consequence.
F. L. Hogan, practical stock
man and farmer of Oktibbeha
county, has been appointed local
trustee of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, to succeed
Col. w. B. Montgomery, resigned.
Centreville has added to its list
of enterprises soap factory,
with a capital Of $1,000. The es-
tablishment will be in active oper-
alton in short time. A fertilizer
factory is also one of the possibil-
tiles Of that city's future.
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Contract has been let for the
graveling of the avenues of the
Vicksburg Natl onal Military
Park. The total length is %
miles; the gravel will be ten
inches thick; it will require 50,-
! 1000 yards and will cost $125, 900.
/ Harrison, Holmes and Noxubee
counties, Mississippi, made their
returns of the assessment on per-
Isonal property for the year, show
ing about $S7, 900 increase in Hol
mes, $40, 900 in Harrison and
81, 900 decrease in Noxubee.
State Commissioner r. H.
Henry desires exhibits of stuffed
fish, preserved in alcohol, Oh
otherwise, as well as canned fish,
canned oysters and canned shrimp
for the ST. Louis Exposition. The
coast ought to have a large exhibit
lof its products in this line.
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E. w. Brister, Of Redmond
lville, Yazoo county, sold forty
1 1.-TWO bales Of cotton in Yazoo City
i last Tuesday. The bales averaged
1910 pounds each and sold at 16
Icents. The cotton was the cele-
|brated yellow bloom variety and
1.-THE staple measured ~ inches.
| Chief Engineer Hencliff, of the
4 jackson Electric Railway and
i Power Company, met with an ac-
tcident, which cost him the loss Of
Ian eye. He was using an electric
.ldrill to bore hole in a bolt, when
la large piece of the bolt flew off,
gouged out his eye and mutilated
the left side of his face.
The Evening Star, Of Meridian,
(which now reigns alone in the
field Of journalism in that city,
has installed a new perfecting
press with d capacity Of 10000
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