The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-06
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into
Few Lines.

Meridian will have a coffin fac
tory while she yet lives.
Birmingham negroes have an
Opera House of their own,
A belled buzzard was seen flying
over Corinth the other day.
The bank at Purvis, Lamar
county, opened up on April 2.
Gulfport will have fine water
works system when completed.
Jackson's waterworks are to
pass into municipal ownership.
The Retail Lumberman'ss Asso-
citation met in jackson yesterday.
Southwest of Meridian, forest
fires have been raging for a week.
Mr.. D. NJ. Hui, of Magnolia,
lost by death fine two-year old
colt.
The Mississippi State Medical
Association will meet IN jackson,
April 20.
Gulfport has voted $4,000
worth Of bonds for a central school
building.
A lodge of knights and Ladies
of Honor has been organized at
Gulfport.
Magnolia's electric light plant
shut down several days, because Of
an accident.
McComb's public school has
prepared an educational exhibit
for the Worlds Fair.
The new laws evolved by the
late legislature will be ready for
distribution by June /.
Inez, on the g. & S. I. railroad,
now petitions for passenger trains
to stop when they get there.
William Hampton Bradley, of
jackson, and Miss Alline Hoyt
Rice, of Summit, were married last
Thursday.
James Watts, the IL year old
son of j. w. Watts, of Meridian,
died in that city Of appendicitis
on March 80.
A delegation from the new
County of Lamar, Miss, has sub
mitted officers of the county for
appointment.
Company E, First Regiment
Mississippi National Guard, locat-
ed at Amory, will be mustered
out of service.
Tupelo has awarded the contract
for water and sewer system.
Bonds to the amount of $50, 600
have been sold.
w. S. Collier, of Vicksburg,
has been appointed County Super
intendent of Education, vice j. p.
Carver, resigned.
Judge Jackson M1llsaps, an un-
Gle of Maj. r. w. Millsaps, of
Jackson, died at Lorman, on the
29th. He was in his Goth year.
Hon. a. NJ. Byrd, congressman
from the Fifth district, will
probably have the only opposing
party candidate in the state.
Jim Hooker, convict, has been
summoned to the court at Licking
ton to testify as a witness in the
case of the State VS.. John Hopkins.
For selling Coco Cola over his
counter last Sunday at Meridian,
Eugene Weideman was lined $40.
This was the first violation Of the
Sunday law.
Major E. B. Baker, of Natchez.
has been elected Colonel of the
Third Regiment, Mississippi Ma
tional Guard, succeeding Z. w.
Y uackenboss.
Mississippi is entitled this year
to Is delegates in the National
Democratic Convention. Four Of
them will be McLaurin, Money,
Williams and Vardaman.
Friday night q heavy wind and
rainstorm swept lover Copiah coun-
.6y. Fences, trees, outhouses and
truck patches we're blown away or
badly damaged at Hazlehurst.
The Governor has received i pc
tition from Sunflower county, ask
ing that a special term of Circuit
Court be ordered for that county
on account Of the large criminal
docket.
Gen. T. G. Catchings, Judge A.
III. Whitfield and Col. WI. Ell.
Hardy, three able lawyers. have
been selected by Gov. Yardaman
for the Important work Of codify
ing the laws Of Che state.
]. B. Flowers, prominent res.
ident, was burieu at Hazlehurst
on the 2nd. He was d brother OF
Mrs. r. 2. Willing, Jr., and Mrs. /
g. Il. Nelson. His body was ship
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