The leader., 1903-12-09
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNCENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil.
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

A negro man burned to death
in house at Geenyille.
Miss Georgia Childress, aged
Is, died at Sartartia Of paralysis.
Will Hinton was killed in a
wreck on the logging railroad
at Mt. Olive.
Geo. A. White, native Of
Kinds county, died at Natcbez
on his 50th birthday.
Mississippi exhibits for the
Exposition will be stored in the
old Capitol building.
The Baptists Of Yazoo City
have purchased a home for their
pastor. The consideration was
$2,150.
II is said that new brooms
sweep clean. Jackson's street
sweeper is new; but it won't
sweep at all.
DR.. Z. I. Fitzhugh, president
of~Belhaven College, is in Chica-
go for treatment. His principal
| trouble is weak heart. Friends
regret to hear of his i'll health.
Earl Buckley died of typhoid
pneumonia at Hazlehurst. He had
been in the employ of McClelland
& Son at Jackson and was the
stay of "a widowed mother and sew
eral sisters.
The Steamer Reese Pritchard,
one of the Yazoo Transportation
Company's fleet, has sunk twice
in a month. 400 bales Of cotton
and large quantityof seed went
down with her on the 1st.
Hugh G. Williams, who abduct-
ed a fourteen-ye ar-old school
girl from Clinton, Miss, has
been sentenced to ten years in
the Tennessee penitentiary.
Williams had a wife and an in.
FAINT child.
The inauguration of James X.
Vardaman, as Governor of our
State, promises to be a very quiet
affair, according to his desire.
The only social feature an.
nounced in connection with the
event, is a ball to be given BY
the Elks of the State Capital.
H. A. McGaughey, who sue.
ceeded r. E. TrexIer, as depot
agent at Hazlehurst, resigned his
position on the third day Of his in
Icumbency. He considered the
4 job too heavy for the salary Of
j 500 a month with a $25 clerk tt
assist. The agent was expected
4 to do all of the telegraphing
/ for the railroad as well as tht
other BUSINESS.
4 Pete Herran, yard clerk of tht
Southern railroad at Greenwood
was shot by J. 7. Cannon, o.
Tuscaloosa, Ala, on Thursday
morning, because Of alleged insul
Ito Gammon's wife some tim'
previous. Herran died later O
4 his wounds at his home in Colum
bus, where he was held in higl
esteem. Before death he stated
that he was absolutely innocen
of the charge.
The Hughey Teachers Train
ing School, an institution estab
llished at johnson Station unde,
the management of G. M. Wal
lace for the training of coloret
teachers, gave an educational rail-,
| on the 18th Sunday of November
from which $45.75 was realized
for school purposes. Prof. Wal
lace and the intelligentnegroes o
that community are endeayorins
to make the Hughey School al
important factor in the education
of theil race.
In the last issue Of the Dry
goodsman, trade paper pub
lished at st. Louis, there was
Il cut of Mr.. M. NJ. Levy, formerly
an attache of the Yazoo Sentinel
Mr.. Levy has attained fame as
4 writer and designer of proftabl'
| advertising matter. His frs
productions appeared in tn
Sentinel. The Leader has statet
previously, on several occasions
that there is fine field fol
such work. Business men ii
! Brookhayen complain frequentl,
| of a lack of time and oppor
tunity to prepare ads for th'
Z papers. It is time for any on,
| who has a talent for this kind o
work to unfold it and Eli a new
/ felt want.