The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-23
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS.
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

An industrial rally will be held
in jackson, June 8.
| Jno. D. Ryan, of Vicksburg.
is dead at the age of 81.
| Human life seems cheap in the
State. It has made a record OF
fifty killings a month sinceJan. /.
Mis-. Mitchell Petty, of Centre
lyille, attended the recital last
night. She has been the guest OF
her niece, Miss Emma HUFF.
Miss Ida Mai Dennis, of Jack
son, and A. A. Hearst, of Hatties-
burg, were married by Rev. W.
lF. Marlborough at Jackson. Mr..
Hearst is a graduate of Millsaps
College.
Greenyille scored the jackson
team, 10 to 8 in its favor.
Mrs. G. D. Andrews, of May
ersville, killed herself with pis-
ttol last Sabbath, after sending her
three little ones to Sabbath school.
LII health is thought to be the
cause of the fatal act.
Rev. j. B. Hutton, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at jackson,
will preach the baccalaureate SER
mon for the 1. |. & C. On June 12.
A body found at Natchez is
thought TO be that of VermaIin,
one of the two duck hunters drown
ed near Greenville a month ago.
| The body of Capt. Sam B. Moore,
who was killed at DonaIdsonville
on election day, was buried at
Summit, his former home. Capt
Moore had numerous relatives in
Amite county.
At a meeting of the Board of
Trade at Laurel, ON the 10 inst, it
was decided to offer the Mississip-
lpi, Louisiana and Texas railroad
Company a free right of way
through Jones county and twenty
acres of land in Laurel for te rmi
nal facilities, if the road would
build through that city en- route
from, Guthrie to Pensacola. This
was in lieu of an offer of the com
pans to build the line through
Laurel If cash bonus of SIS, 900
was given by the citizens of that
town.
The Code Commission, appoint
ed by Governor Vardaman, con-
slsting of Chief Justice Whitfield,
of the Supreme Court; General
I. G. Catchings, of Vicksburg,
and Captain w. H. Hardy, of
Hattiesburg, have had the first
meeti g and discussed the work to
be done. 1t has been decided to
apportion the work in order that
the Commissioners may be able
to work independently of each
other at their homes. The Com
mission has a big task before it,
and one which will consume a
good deal of time. The members
of the Commission will have joint
meetings at intervals to discuss
the work and plan ahead.
Mr.. W. A. Cuddy, of New Or
leans, editor of the Prophetic
Alarm, began a weeks lectures IN
Jackson on the 18th. His lectures
embrace a wide range of subjects,
as follows: "Dodie's Deviltry,''
Errors of Seventh Day Adven-
tism, y How the Election of
Hearst Might Undermine Chris
tianity in This Nation-This is a
Startling Matter,'' 2 'sHow Varda-
man and the Democracy Can Stay
The Wrath of God, = What the
Russia-Japan War Will Eventually
Lead TO-, "What Means the
Movement of the Jews Towards
Jerusalemg'' "Will the Leaders
OF Christianity Escape the Great
Trap Satan is Preparing Under
Our Eyes To-daya'
Mayor Hemingway has served
formal notice on the jackson Elec-
trio Railway. Light and Power
Company that they have been as
sessed with. their share of the
street paving, which was done in
jackson two years ago, and, if.
payment of. the assessment is re-
fused, suit for the sum of 81 ,016. :
66- will be brought. The road
claims that under the franchise
granted it by the city it is not
liable for the cost Of laying the
street paving, and has already
stated it will not make the pay
ment, but no written answer to
this effect has been given. As
Messrs. Frank Jones and T. S.
Carnes, of Memphis, are owners
lof the road, copy of the notice
was forwarded to them.
Some people are so sour they
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