The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-08-03
HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNCENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

Judge Banks, Of Columbia, gave
q pistol toter SO days and a fine.
Mary Jane, daughter Of Hon.
and Mrs. R. L. Saunders, Of Jack
son, died on July 30.
Mr.. Joe Hill, late of Mish, has
moved to Nola, one of the coming
towns in this vicinity.
The houses of jackson are be-
ing remembered and new street
signs are being put up all over the
city.
At Topisaw, this county, the
eIeven-year old daughter Of Mr..
VIM. Sistrunk was burned to
death by lamp explosion.
Mrs. 7. Smith, supposed to be
about 10 years Of age, died in
Marion county and was buried at
Holly Springs Baptist church.
A negro, while riding his horse
home, was waylaid and riddled
with buckshot by two brothers of
his own color, near Port Gibson.
Tomorrow, at high noon, will
take place the wedding Of Miss
Beacham and Mr.. Warburton.
The ceremony will be performed
at the Methodist church.
Browns Wells has been sold by
its owners, Misses Mary and Dora
Morehead, to George Ridgely, of
New Orleans, for $21 900. The
property consists of $50 acres of
land and a number of cottages.
We take from the McComb En-
terprise, the following: "Ml.
Claft Coon, of Edgar. Miss, died
on July 10Th. Mr.. Coon was one
of the most influential RepubIi-
cans of South Mississippi and not
withstanding his political afilia-
ton, he was highly esteemed by
almost every one. He was a
member of the Christian.or Camp
bellite church.
Mrs. Park Tyrone, one Of Lin
coin county's brightest and best
women, passed from the scenes of
earth last Wednesday, at her home
near this city. She had been i'll
several months and death must
have been a happy release to her
bright spirit. Mrs. Tyrone was
a most excellent Christian lady
and we chronicle her death with
regret at her loss and sympathy
for the bereaved family.
At an all day meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the State
University, the three members of
the faculty not selected at the
June meeting, were named as fol-
lows: DIR. j. w. johnson was
reelected to the Chair of Physics,
which be has held for the past
twenty years. a. L. Bondurant
was reelected to the Chair of Lat
in. A motion was then made to
re-elect Dabney Lipscomb to the
Chair of English, and on this mo-
tion Mr.. Lipscomb was defeated
By a vote of 10 to s. The Trus-
tees then went into tie selection
of an instructor for this depart
nent, and Davis Horace Bishop
was chosen by a vote Of Is to 8.
Adit. Zen. Fridge has notified
the Peerless Bakery of New Or
leans that its bid for the furnish
ing Of the bread supply during
the ten days encampment of the
soldiers Of the Mississippi Nation
al Guard at Biloxi has been ac-
cepted. Twelve thousand leaves
are to be used at $3.45 per 100
pounds. The Merchants Coffee
Company Of New Orleans is to
furnish the $50 pounds of coffee
at II % cents per pound. The
Gulfport Grocery Company was
given the contract for the rest Of
the supplies. Mr.. Jake Ehrman|
Of jackson was given the contract
to supply 1900 pounds CT fresh
meat at &c per pound. The Ores
cent Vinegar and Cider Company
furnishes the vinegar free.