The leader., 1903-05-13
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Short-H Hand Chronicle OF Mississippi
and The DoinSs OF Her People.

Messlna, or.
Capt. j. r. McNeely was strick-
en- with apoplexy Sunday, which
resulted fatally.
The Mississippi National Guard
may be modified at Jackson June
3rd, at the States expense.
Miss Myrtis Gwin, of McComb,
and Russell E. Byers, of Water
Valley, were married at McComb.
There were about $50 teachers
in attendance upon the State
Teachers Association at Vicks-
burg.
Jack Taliaferro was given five
years in the. penitentiary for the
murder of Walter Leden at Car
rollton.
John S. Lanier was found dead
in his bed at Columbus last week.
He had been a member of the po-
lice force.
Rev. Geo. W. T1uett, of Dallas,
Tex, will preach the commence
ment sermon for the State Univer-
sity this year.
Tomorrow Hon. +. +. Noel can
didate for Governor, will deliver
the literary address for the Brax-
ton High School.
Aaron Kahn, a prominent
Vicksburg merchant, was shot and
killed by a burglar at Milliken's
Bend, La, on the 10th.
Green B. Yawn, one of the old
est residents of Covington county,
died at Williamsburg, aged 70
years. He was a Confederate vet
eran.
McComb's business men have
organized a Board of Trade, with
j. D. Adcock, president; j. B.
Afford, vice-president; W. r.
CASTOR, treasurer.
Twenty chapters of the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy
have pledged themselves to sup
port, each, a Confederate Veteran
in the Beauvoir Home.
A night clerk in a Water Valley
restaurant was held up and rob-
bed on the 9th, while making
change for his customer" who
presented his six shooter.
DR.. j. J. Harper, implicated
with Mccormick in the murder of
Lawrence at Laurel last winter,
was found guilty and sentenced
for life to the penitentiary last
week.
A new bank, to be known as the
First National Bank, of Canton,
has been organized with a capital
of $500 W. B. Weiner was
chosen president, and Jas. j. Nc
Grath, vice-president.
By a plea of guilty" in the
Federal court at Jackson, Miss
Mollie Matthews put an end to a
sensational suit. She was indicted
for sending an obscene letter to
YOUNG IadV THROUGH the mails.
A bold robber held up a negro
Waterman at the Palm Restaurant
in McComb last Friday night and
took his watch and chain and COM
PEELED him to relinquish $500,
which was all the cash in the
drawer.
A man whom W. A. Powell, of
Star, Miss. had befriended, died
at his home on the 2Sth. He
stated before death that he was
fugitive from justice, having kill
ed three men and that he had a Sis
ter living at Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Jean Skyles, formerly
Miss Teresa Milestone, of Will
kinson county, has applied for
divorce from her husband, who
received a ten-years' sentence for
bigamy recently. There is now
prospect of a reversal of the case
against Rev. Mr.. Skyles.
Miss Onida Stevens and Emmett
Lea were married at Magnolia on
last Friday night. After an en-
tertainment at the BRIDES home in
Summit, the couple went to Mag
nolia, were married and returned,
taking their friends unawares.
Both are well known and popular.
lobe Myers was killed in Rank
in county by a throw from his
horse. The animal was drinking
from a branch, and Mr.. Myers
reached above him to break a
small branch from an overhanging
tree, when the horse made a sud
den lunge and Mr.. NJ. was thrown
packard with the result stated.
There is a communication in
the current issue of the Greenville
Democrat which tells about the
most remarkable old lady in Mis-
sissippi. Her name is Mrs. Viana
Yeager, and she lives at present in
Neshoba county. She was born in
Sumpter county, S. c., in 1896.
Her father, named Mcdonald,
fought at the battle of Bunker
Hill and served throughout the
Revolutionary War. Her hus-
band, Madison Yeager, was sol
der in the Indian wars and was
in Col. Kinds Mississippi com
pany which helped to win the vic
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