The leader., 1904-02-20
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of Che State IN General Boil.
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

Meridian will have a $1o,o 900
coffin factory.
Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works are
again active in the state.
An increased acreage in truck
will be planted this year.
Merchants of Hattiesburg will
close their stores at 6 p. m. from
Feb. 4th to Dec. 18th, 1904.
Capt. W. W. Humphreys,
a prominent Columbus resident,
died and was buried last week.
While fighting forest fire in
Yazoo county, a negro woman
caught fire and burned to death.
Mt. Olive lost four buildings
by fire recently. The loss is
placed at 5000, with $500 in
surance.
Cotton buyers at Water Valley,
passed resolutions indorsing the
New Orleans and Memphis ex-
change to hold cotton.
Three substantial citizens in
the vicinity of New Albany died
on the 9th. They were W. N.
Branyon, W. &. Bridges and j.
Carlile.
DR.. ]. J. Harper, the accused
murderer, died at Ellisville, while
being taken to his home at Laurel.
He was accused of killing a man
in the camps at Laurel.
Father Joseph M. Kellogg, of
Montgomery, Ala, has purchased
valuable property at Ocean
Springs for the establishment of
an industrial school for boys.
The First Battalion, Second
Regiment, Mississippi National
Guards, have voted to attend the
Worlds Fair and are planning to
raise necessary funds.
In second primary election
for a first ward alderman in
Yazoo City, D. A. Swayze won
by ten votes over his competitor,
d. L. Roberts. The vote stood
SO to SO respectively.
Mt. Olive has organized for a
canning factory, with a capital of
SO, 900, $4,000 of which is SUBJ
scribed. Plans and specifications
for buildings have been prepared
and work will begin at once.
Thomas Mount aged So, is
dead. He was Christian gentle
man and prominent banker. At
the time of his death, he was
president of the Bolton bank.
Maria Booze was murdered in
her home at Port Gibson. Her
divorced husband has been arrest
ed, suspected of the crime. The
woman cooked for white fami-
ly to support herself and child.
The pier on the docks on the
east side of the G. & S. /. rail
road track at Gulfport, gave way
last Wednesday and stopped the
work of loading vessels for some
time. A large force was put to
work to repair the damage.
H. W. Mixsoll, general secte-
tary of the Meridian Railroad Y.
M. G. A, for the past six years,
has resigned and goes to St. Paul,
Mimi, for the benefit of his wife's s
health. The Meridian members
presented him, at parting, with a
gold watch.
Chas. 6. Griffin, aged IA, and
a brother of VIM. Griffin, Depu-
ty Collector of Customs of the
Pearl River District, died at
Natchez, after suffering from a
pistol wound accidentally inflicted
two weeks previous to his demise.
John Doss and Anthony Bell,
two small negroes, burglarized a
grocery store at Columbus and
secured about $25, a part of
which was found hid in the gar
den. Both pleaded guilty and
were bonded over to await the
action of the grand jury.
Governor Vardaman has ap-
pointed the following members
of the Board of Trustees of the
Mississippi Agricultural and Me-
chanical College, located at Stark
vile: FL. E. Blakeslee, Tupelo;
]. 6. Spencer, Port Gibson; w.
Fl. Hardy, Hattiesburg.
Joe Anderson committed sui
eide in the Greenville Jail, while
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