The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-05-07
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS.
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State In General Boil
ed Down and Put Into
Few Lines.

Hermanyille has organized a
gun club.
The Laurel Gun Club has re-
organized.
VIM. Baker, aged 80 died of
consuml tion at Meridian.
Walter Ousler was killed at
Maxine by negro he attempted
to shoot.
Clinton has begun the work of
putting in waterwolks and cleo
trio lights.
The Odd Fellows held this
week, their 66th annual reunion
at Gulfport.
Summit shipped it's first carload
Of cabbage to Eastern markets on
the End inst.
Port Gibson's Female College
will hold its commenceme ent exer-
cises May Is.
Bids have been received at
Starkville for the erection of the
new engineering buildings.
Prentiss county will have a new
court house to cost $34, 900, and a
S., 700 Jail, which will be built at
once.
Tom Dismukes died at Colum-
bus from knife wounds received
in fight with Klmball at Artesia
two weeks previous.
Pascagoula has adopted a reso-
luton for the issuance of $25, 900
city bonds for building and fur
a school house.
1900 citizens of Hattiesburg
held mass meeting for the sup
preston of vice. Blind tigers
were singled out especially.
Engineer Mckee, of Meridian,
died as a result of wounds receiv-
ed in a railroad wreck recently.
He was about 60 years of age.
The Governor granted pardon
to P. K. Murray, white, sent up
for life from Coahoma county.
He had served seven years of his
sentence.
The Biloxi Commercial Club
gave the first exhibition of fruit
and vegetables May 1. Prizes
were awarded for she best vege-
tables.
The Franklin Life Insurance
Company of Springfield, ILL.,, has
been authorized to enter Missis-
sippi. A. l.. Jones of Macon,
Ga., has been designated State
agent.
The Mississippi Bankers Con-
vention will meet in annual ses-
sion at Tupelo on May II. There
is much interest in the gathering,
and the Attendance promises to be
large.
The Board of Control of the
Penitentiary has authorized War
den Henry to visit the peniten-
tiaries of Louisiana and Arkansas
and examine their systems of con-
vict discipline and prison regula-
lions.
S. j. Higginbotham, aged "a, |
and Floyd g. Lewis, aged 81,
died at Meridian. The latter had
practiced law in Meridian for the
past Is years and had recently
married a Miss Lula Simmons, Of |
Texas.
The Governor has issuea his
proclamation incorporating the
village of Silver Creek in Law
renee county, and appointed off
GERS as follows: Capt. j. j. Den
son, mayor; Edgar Carlyle, mar
shall; aldermen, Dale Griffith, |
Carl johnson and j. E. Berry.
Mrs. E. o. Gregory announces
that the collections on account of |
The JEFF Davis portrait fund now
to $114. The Daughters
of the Confederacy have under
aiken to raise this fund for the |
purpose of putting an oil portrait |
Of Mr.. Davis in the Hall of Fame. |
The Office of the jackson Street
Car Company was broken open |
Tuesady night and robbed of $50. |
The cash was returned next morn
ing and warrant sworn out |
j. M. Martin with the
robbery. The money was return
ed by Charles Fuller, who stated |
that it was left with him by Mar
Tin, and that Martin had told him |
how he got it.
Argument was made on We'd
nesday in the Federal court on
the question of jurisdiction over
The twenty cases growing out of
the Kentwood La. J wreck on the |
Illinois Central last winter. The
suits were all brought in the
Circuit Court OF Hinds county,
and the railroad attorneys made
to the Federal court
for removal of the cases to that
Jurisdiction. Attorneys for the
plaintiffs are endeayoring to hold
The cases ID the Civil Court. A.