The leader., 1903-03-04
MISS. NEWS COLUMN
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST WEEK.
A Shorthand Chronicle o! Mississippi
and the Doinss Of Her People.

Small poX is on the line of the
G.. & S. /. X. r.
Two residences burned down at
Meridian last Saturday.
There is an epidemic of mumps
in variouus parts of the State.
The Red Men have organized at
Laurel, with membership of fifty.
Copiah lost two fine wooden
bridges by the overflow of recent
date.
The Historical Society of the
State will meet in Yazoo City in
April.
The West Point Leader declares
for Fox for Governor on personal
grounds.
Clarence Anding and Miss Katie
Grafton were married at Halle
hurst last week.
Six carloads of fine beef cattle
we're shipped from Hazlehurst
during February.
The Quin-Sharpe Drug Co., has
been organized at Vicksburg with
a capital of $75, 900.
Mrs. j. D. Coleman, promin-
ent and cultured lady of Clinton,
| died on the 9th inst.
Two negroes confessed to the
murder and robbery of shanty
boat merchant near Natchez.
DR.. S. I. Dunning, a former
resident of Copiah, was stricken
with paralysis at Canton last week.
Gen. John B. Gordon gave his
lecture On ''The Last Days of
the Confederacy," at Clinton last
week.
The prohibition of child labor
in the cotton mills of the State is
receiving the attention of the
press.
Roscoe Henderson, of Oxford,
was run over and killed by a train
at Garland, Tex, on the 28th.
He had started out West.
On Thursday night last the hand
tsome residence of DR.. W. G.
Austin was destroyed by fire at
Utica. Insurance, 81, ,25O.
Meridian has purchased site
for an independent water works
system to cost 100000 and has
begun the work of building dam.
The young mems club rooms at
Scranton, under the direct super
vision of Capt. F. NJ. Allen, have
furnished their apartments at a
cost of So, 900.
The little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. G. Smith, of Copiah,
was burned to death last week.
Her clothing caught from burn
ing brush heap.
While eating his dinner on a
log train at Lumberton, John
Page, a negro laborer, was killed
by a sudden lurch of the train,
which. threw him under the wheels.
The Mississippi State Register,
Jim HIPS new paper, opposes the
nomination of Roosevelt, and con-
ditionally favo1s the ex-slave pen
sion bill introduced by Senator
Hanna.
DR.. H. W. Reaben, died of
tuberculosis at Summit on the
2Sth. DR.. Reaben was native of
Pike county; was a dentist by pro,
fession, and was so years of age
at the time of his death.
East Mississippi Female College
suffered fearful loss in fire last
| week. It is valued at $4,000.
| The property was owned by the
Mississippi NJ. E. Conference and
| was insured for a small sum.
In Lee county, farmers have de-
cided to provide hoes for future
visiting candidates, and will re-
quire them to do certain amount
of work, according to the impor-
tance of the Office to which they
aspire.
Ike Booker, negro whose
name has been recorded on the
criminal docket of Franklin fol
years past and gone, was shot and
killed by Scott Morley, a young
white man, on the goth, Worley |
is under arrest.
Captain Rigby, of the National
Park Commission, reports that |
the State of New Hampshire has
appropriated the sum Of S., 200 to
reestablish positions along the line
of the park occupied by the New |
Hampshire troops during the
Civil War,
Judge Lowrey, who, by the |
way, is the worthy son of that |
worthy sire and soldier, Gen. NJ. !
P. Lowrey, has made a radical
and sensational departure from
the usual form Of charges by
the circuit Judge of courts. He
specifically charged the grand jury
at Holly Springs, last week, to in
dict progressive euchre players.
The department of archives at
Jackson is the proud possessor of
a most interesting relic, in the
shape of historic flag of the Mis-
sissippi First Regiment, used in |
the Mexican war. The regiment |
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