The leader., 1903-02-11
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

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Sardis has contracted for cleo
trio lights.
The finances of the State are in
fine condition.
Mt. Olive is assured of $40, :
900 brick plant.
DR.. Fred. Hale, the evangelist,
is now engaged in a meeting at
Clinton.
Warren county candidates are
unusually backward about coming
forward.
Blue Mountain Female College
now has 1926 pupils, 27S of whom
are boarders.
An oil expert has been engaged
to test a well on the banks of the
Pearl at the capital.
An escaped lunatic was an I'M
welcome visitor in one of Nerd
ian's homes last week.
The public school of Clarksdale
has been temporarily suspended
on account of diptheria.
j. T. Tannehill, of Williams
burg, is candidate for State Su-
perintendent of Education.
Ned Billiard fell from a build
ing 25 feet near Sumrall, and
will die from internal injuries.
Greenville's saloon men have
formed an association and pledged
themselves to observe the Sunday
law.
Natchez is going to issue $3.50,
900 of its bonds for the purpose of
purchasing the water works of
that city.
$4,000 in cash has been paid
for the ownership of Beauvoir.
Mrs. Davis granted an extension
of time for the remaining $4,000.
The authorities of Tupelo have
passed an ordinance prohibiting
begging on the streets of that
place, except by certain persons
named.
Mrs. S. Pisko, whose activities
are devoted exclusively to the adj
vancement of all worthy Jewish
causes, spoke at Vicksburg last
Thursday evening.
Capt. E. w. Brown, clerk
of the Supreme Court, has an
nounced that he will be a candi-
date for reelection. He is now
serving his second term.
The Jackson News is moving
into new and more eligible quar-
ters, has purchased new press
and says it will have one of the
best offices in the State.
Mrs. Nancy McCaskill Lewis
died at Jackson last week. She
was 81 years of age and the moth
er of Mrs. J. M. Fuller and
Judge A. G. Lewis.
James F. Delmas, aged 20
years, died at Scranton after an
illness of three weeks. He was
an exemplary young man and
the eldest son of j. F. Delmas.
Some of the States Choctaws
who helped to ''coIonize" near
Ardmore are threatening to re-
turn to their more comfortable
Mississippi homes in the spring Z
if they have to walk.
By the resignation of Attorney
General McClurg, his assistant,
W. W. Williams, now fills that
Office and has selected for his aid
in the prosecution of the duties
of the position, James N. Flow
ers, a young attorney of Walden.
Elder n. L. Clarke, who resides
at Newton, is thought to be the
oldest minister in the country.
He is 80 and has been in the Bap-
fist ministry sixty years and is
still actively engaged. For more
than fifty years he has been the
pastor at Decatur.
The receipts of the State treas
ury for January exceed those of
any former January in the his
tory of the State, being over
100000. This does not include
the amount coming from the rail
road back tax Judgment, which
amounts to 100000.
Frightened at piece of loose
cotton, that blew across his path,
a horse plunged down street in
Vicksburg until he collided with
a team, killing mule and almost
disemboweling himself. His
driver was thrown from the vehi-
Gle, but not seriously injured.
Milton Coleman, aged %, and a
native of Carthage, committed sui
eide On the first day of this month.
He lett a letter to a brother in
Texas, admonishing him not to
reveal somthing; but the nature
of the secret was not explained.
He shot himself through the
heart.
Edgar Harris now scintillates