The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-26
TIMELY TOPICS
FROM TWO STATES,
Caught from the Wires at the
Last Moment.
MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA
Matters Cleaned Too Late to Classify
and Served Together in Condensed
Paragraphs---Pers0nal, Pertinent and
Otherwise.
THE LATEST IN MISSISSIPPI

Otherwise.
THE LATEST IN MISSISSIPPI.
hon. IT. Harrison has announced
as candidate for governor.
The Houston Lumber Company's
plant at Vicksburg is now in opera
ton with a capacity of 100000 feet
of lumber per day.
Little Annie Ramsey Longino,
daughter of the governor, sustained
painful injuries by falling down
stairs at the mansion, Monday.
Vicksburg is suffering from coal
famine.
Mr.. j. H. Grifdng, a prominent
Claiborne county planter, has Of
tered novel solution for the labor
troubles prevalent in his section.
He advocates truck farming on more
extensive liLes. thereby decreasing
the amount of unskilled labor neces-
sary to market crop.
Tow barges and a fiat boat were
mysteriously stolen from Vicksburg
few nights ago.
Hon. J. 7. Senter. of Lowndes, is
announced for railroad commissioner
in the northern distict.
A letter has been addressed to the
Confederate Veterans of the State
by the department of archives and
history appealing to them for his
torical information relative to the
war.
Some fourteen recruits for the ma
wy enlisted while the recruiting off
GER was in Jackson. The Office there
is now closed.
The capita! of the Saratoga Lum-
Der Company has been increased
from $lU.OO to va, OUU. -s
Cclored citizens of Vicksburg
showed considerable patriotism on
Washington birthday. A large
number paraded the streets in blue
uniforms and bearing the Stars and
Stripes.
Claiborne county is to have rural
mail delivery.
1t is announced that work on the
new State capitol will be completed
by June l.
The rural school committee of the
State Teachers Association will
meet in West Point, March IA, for
drafting a final report to the associa-
tion of the work recently assigned it.
John G. Cliff has been appointed
postmaster at Senatobia.
The State Teachers Association
will meet at Vicksburg on May 81.
Robert Taylor, an escaped convict
has been unprecedented at Pensacola,
Fla. Taylor was sent up for eight
years on a charge Of manslaughter,
from Harrison county.
The American Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society of New York will do
nate $4,000 for the erection of a
colored college at Jackson. -.
The case of Eugene Brent, of Ray
mond, convicted for perjury, has
been continued by the Kinds county
court until next term.
S. T. Boylestcn, formerly of the
Seaboard Air Line, has been made
general freight and passenger agent
of the Gulf and Ship Island road,
with headquarters at Gulfport.
Geo. G. Myers, Of Holly Springs,
is candidate for the clerksnip OF
the supreme court.
The cruiser Atlanta will remain
at Natchez until March 4.
Jackson county Confederate vet
Grams have organized a camp.
TO INTEREST LOUISIANIANS.
One negro was shot TIC death and
three white men wounded in a
'free-for- all'' riot on Kansas City
Southern train, near Lake Charles.
A Northern visitor says sNew Or
leans is the sweetest hammered city
in the world
The remains of w. Fl. Noble, who
was lost in the woods near Tallulah
during the recent cold snap and
Six Mexicans Die OF Cold.