The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-07-16
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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Mrs. Mary Howell died near
Crystal Springs, aged 80.
CIops are being seriously dam
aged at Laurel by continuous
rain.
Out Of l3 babies born in Men
denhall during this year, Il are
boys.
Magnolia, like Brookhayen,
needs more residences and busi-
ness houses.
The Confederate Veterans will
have great picnic at Mendcnhall
on the 23rd.
Judge j. w. Wilkinson, prom
linent citizen and business man of
Gloster, is dead.
Near Yazoo City a jar contain
ing an Indians skull was found in
an old Indian mound.
Walter Dixon was shot while
ploughing in his field near
Corilth. No clue to the mis-
creant.
Miss Edith Odeneal, Of Jack
son, and Mr.. David Wilborn, of
Richmond, Va, were married
Thursday evening.
John Smith, the town marshal
of Ruleville, shot and killed Ed
st. Clair, in self defense. st.
Clair had been drinking.
The plans of P. III. Weathers
for the new courthouse at Walden
have been adopted. The plans
call for an $751; structure.
Governor Vardaman has issued
the proclamation consolidating
the town of Pascagoula and Scran-
ton, located in jackson county.
The jackson Evening News has
secured the Dooley letters for its
Saturday editions. This will be
an attractive feature of this up-to-
date daily.
At Hattiesburg lightning struck
the courthouse again on the 18th,
just a week after the first incident,
and contrary to the old 1egend,
struck in the same place. y
twenty-five dollars per acre is
what potatoes are bringing in and
around Coffeeville. And this,
too, on land that would not make
half ! bale of cotton to the acre.
Paul Summe was fined $500 and
sentenced to the county farm for
80 days at Yazoo City for being a
blind tiger. Summe appeal
ed the case to the Circuit Court.
Miss Katie Haining, of Clarks-
dale, was one of the successful
contestants on the Memphis
Morning News offer of a ten days
free trip to the Worlds Fair.
Miss Haining received 1929
votes.
Capt. /. G. Enochs declined to
be run for mayor by opposing
friends of Mayor Hemingway, of
jackson, and ex-Mayor Oliver
Clifton's name has been annonnc-
ed in the papers.
At Winona, the primary cleo
tion resulted in the following
officers: w. A. Holman, mayor;
s. Huntley, marshal; L. Small,
V. D. Rowe, A. G. Diamond, r.
Fl. Cato and John Wood, alder
men.
Yalohusha county expects to-
secure the experiment station,
provided fol by the last Legisla-
ture. The Board of Supervisors
have held several meetings in
Water Valley and hopes are rum
ming high,
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Mr.. Dave Stackhouse Fearing,
died at Raymond, at the age of 81.
He was a good lawyer and a Dem
ocrat of the old school. He had
never married; but was the friend
OF mothers and children with
whom be was always popular.
Mr.. T.. "A. Benoist, of Natchez,
has copy of the Natchez Courier,
published Oct. 25, 1853, which
contains a list Of the dead in that
lefty from July 13 to October "a.
In that time there were 339 deaths
from yellow fever, only 80 of
these heing colored.
Dancy Blewitt, a young white
man aged %, who lived with his
parents ia miles south of Colum-
bus, was waylaid and rlddIed with
buckshot. His horse returning
home without him, search was
made and his dead body was found
lby the roadside. There is no
lclew.
The Methodist Orphans Home
was burned to the ground at
Water Valley. The hundred lit
tile ones were at breakfast when
the fire was discovered and we're
marched out without trouble.
The loss Is estimated at SIS, 900;
insurance, $1,000. The college
buildings will be occupied by the
orphans until the home can be re-
built.
! Il has developed chat the Legis-
llature put q privilege tax on con-
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