The leader., 1903-07-08
MISS. NEWS COLUMN.
STATE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
OF THE PAST, WEEK.
A Short Hand Chronicle Of Mississippi
and the DoinSs OF Her People.

"A business League has UceI
organized at Alderman.
Hazlehurst's rosebud club is
called the merry Thirteen
The State Baptist Convention
convenes at Yazoo City today.
There were three legal hangings
in the State on June 80. All ne
groes.
Ten convicts died at the peni-
Tertiary during the month of
June.
DR.. r. E. Gatlin, of Summit,
died last week. He was Al years
of age.
The chain gang of Jackson was
made to take a bath in honor of
the 18th.
McComb painters work eight
hours a day and receive 80 cents
per hour.
W. L. Pryor has retired and H.
l.. Lyons assumed control of the
Laurel Ledger.
Yazoo City Methodists sub
scribed 50, 900 to the fund for sup
eranuated preachers.
W. E. Flippin, of Vicksburg,
has served the Western Union
Telegraph Company 81 years.
Five hundred pupils have al
ready enrolled for the next term
of the l. l. and c. at Columbus.
HazIehurst has an ordinance
requiring property owners to
keep weeds down on the side
walks.
Mississippi has led all the states
in the Union in the number of
legal executions during the past
six months.
The Lawrence County Press
has entered upon its sixteenth
year. Of course it is sweet at
that magic age.
A company called the Mexican
Gulf Land Company was organ
lied at Gulfport with a capital
stock of 100000.
The departments of the state
government will not be moved
into the new capitol until after
the August primaries.
St. Stanislaus College will be re-
built in time for the fall term.
The loss by fire is estimated at
$65, 900; insurance $4,000.
in a dispute over a horse, Cato
Garrett, negro, shot and killed
Henry Stout, an esteemed young
farmer at Vicksburg, on the 4th.
Mrs. W. B. Nixon, of McComb,
has been appointed lady
county commissioner of the St.
Louis Worlds Fair for Pike coun-
ty.
James w. Robinson, overseer
of the Hardee plantation in Yazoo
county, shot and killed a negro on
July 2, and was bonded in the sum
of $500.
The Kinds county circuit court
sent IL prisoners to the penitenti
airy and collected enough money
on fines to pay expenses of run
ming court.
The 1ual free delivery routes
have been discontinued in the
State On account of the scandals
coming to light in the post Office
department.
On the 4th, Joe Lewis was ac-
cidentaIly killed by the discharge
Of his own gun while out squirrel
hunting near Raymond. Lewis
was negro.
Cards have been issued to the
marriage of Miss Sarah Louise
Harris and Abe Heath Conn of
Hazlehurst. Mr.. Conn is the eld-
est son of the lamented H.C. Conn.
State Superintendent of educa-
ton Whitfield expects to secure
the extension of the rural school
term in at least ten counties of
the state during the summer vaca-
ton.
Contractors of the MendenhalI
branch of the Columbia Branch
of the Gulf and Ship Island R.
R. need teams badly, and would
gladly employ forty or fifty at
once.
Y. B. Boyd the wife murderer
and only prisoner in the Copiah
Jail, was carried to Magnolia last
week for safe keeping, while the
new Jail at Hazlehurst is being
erected.
Magnolia has shipped $4,250
worth of tomatoes up to date;
$500 worth of Irish potatoes and
$1,000 worth of cabbage. This
is Magnolia's first year of ship
ping to any extent.
Miss Harriet Whitney and B.
c Knapp, of Fayette, we're mar
ried on June 30. Mr.. Knapp is
editor of the Fayette Chronicle
and is enjoying a tour to Look
out Mountain with his bride.
The planters Gin and Compress
C0mpanv has hnan orOanizad and