The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-03
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

/ Mrs. Austin Morgan. an old
time resident of Jackson is dead.
Sweet potato vines are said to
be nourishing for hogs and cows.
| A deaf man was killed on the
&. and S. |. by passenger train.
I. j. McCallum was nominated
for mayor of Laurel, in the city
primary.
| In the list of Mississippi's
county commissioners, no negro
is named.
A cotton oil company las been
chartered at Natchez, with capt.
tai of 500, 900.
Macon's first new bale brought
Is 7-8 cents. The seed sold at Is
cents perebushel.
Samuel M. Coulson died at Gil
mer, Texas. He was a brother of
Mrs. H. B. Kells, Of Fayette.
The Magee OiLMiII and FertiI
izer Company expects to be in
Operation by the first of next year.
Mrs. Rachel Priestley, of Can
ton, died at Watkins, N. T.,
where she had gone in search of
health.
Mr.. VIM. Thomas Clark, of
Yazoo City, was married to Miss
Eva Stowell Mott, f,St. Albans,
Vermont.
The Aberdeen Iron Works are
Idoing lively business and could
employ several more mechanics if
they could be found.
A. B. Cleveland, freight con-
ductor on the A. and v, was kill
ed on the 9th by falling through
the trap door of coal car.
Richard Peters, charged with
murder, tried to break Jail at Bay
ISt. Louis. He was discovered
and placed in strong steel cell.
At Wingate, the Lyndon Lum-
Der Company's commissary was
totally destroyed by fire. Loss
81, 900; partially covered by in
surance.
We regret to learn that Mr.. A.
j. Friou, who has been so long
bed ridden at his old home in Pc
tersburg, Va. is no better and
there is little hope of his ultimate
recovery.
Mrs. Fannie Langford Noun
1gef, wife of E. Fl. Mounger, a
young attorney of Columbia, ex-
lpired suddenly at her home in
columbia. Mrs. Mounger was 90
years of age.
/ Mr.. f. M. RunneIs has retired
from newspaper work and will ac-
cept the State agency for life
insurance company. Mr.. Run
nels was formerly editor of the
/ Meridian Star.
The 12-year-oId son Of John
Barbour, a prominent farmer at
Forest, was thrown by a horse
land dragged nearly a mile, his
foot having caught in the stirrup.
He was fearfully mutilated.
Miss Fanny Baum and Mr..
Knight Wilton Brough were mar
ried in Vicksburg Thursday. Mr..
Brough is brother of DIR.
Charles Hillman Brough, so pop
#Iularly known all over our State.
The Isthmian canal will create
Ian immense demand for South
Mississippi lumber. The French
company when at work on the
Panama ditch was an immense
consumer but the new demand will
vastly exceed the old record.
4 Much qualification is expressed
lover the announcement from New
Mexico of the splendid victory of
IGeorge p. Money over Jerry
simpson for congress. Mr.. Mon
ley is a son Of United States SEN
lator Money, Mississippi's senior
Senator.
| While Rev. Fl. S. Gibbs was
lconducting mid week services at
1.-THE Episcopal church in Hatties-
burg, the pockets of his coat and
i vest he bad left in the yestry were
Iriied. His purse containing
l$S. so was secured and no trace Of
lit has yet been found.
j Mr.. John Vignes, a well known
Imam of Natchez, was drowned.
| He was clerk on tow boat and
when he saw skiIf washed over
! board BY the waves Of a passing
Esteamer, he jumped into the river
Ito save it.. He was a good swim
liner; but for some unaccountable
treason when within few feet of
1.-THE boat lie was after, he sank
Twice and failed to rise again. His
body was not recovered.
A young white man, named
Dennison, shot a negro through
lthe body III difficulty is miles
below Columbia. He then re-
mounted bis horse when q relative
of the negro shot him ID the back
with small shot, producing pain
lful wounds. Mr. Denison failed
Ito get sight Of bis assailant and
lthe woods are being secured for
him.