The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-02-10
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Int a
Few Lines.

/ Hattiesburg is threatened with
a smallpox epidemic.
Mrs. Miriam Cooper, aged 20
years, died in Lawrence county
last week.
There have been "a cases of
measles in the Orphans Home at
jackson. No deaths.
Mr.. Gideon Vardaman, an
uncle of the Governor, died at
Hazlehurst last week, aged 50.
The residence .of ex-sheriff j
L. Haley was destroyed by fire at
ltta Bena. Insurance, 81, 500.
The case of the citizens of
Decatur, Newton county, VS., the
Mobile, jackson & Kansas City
railroad has been transferred to
Rankin County.
Miss Mary Buckell, of Lefore
county, was knocked down and
trampled upon by fractions
horse. She was taken to New
Orleans for treatment.
H. G. Mature, Mayor of New
ton, has been appointed post
master of,that town, succeededing
Miss Julia Brown, who failed to
apply for re-appointment.
| Governor Vardaman has ap.
pointed Capt. Arthur Fridge, of
Ellisville, adjutant general Of the
national guard of the state to
succeed Gen. VIM. Henry.
| Miss Katie Swayze, of Yazoo
City, died of typhoid pneumonia
at Cleveland, Tenn, where she
was attending school. She was
Is years of age and sister of
DIR. o. H. Swayze.
In the Panther Creek vicinity,
near Yazoo City, a wolf was
killed by negro last week. He
said it was one Of a pack of FIVE.
1t was not grown; but was larg-
Fer than the average dog.
Two white men sent to the
convict farm for running blind
tigers at Hermanville, priced up
THE foor of their quarters and es-
capped. Will Pearl and Joe S.
Galway are their names.
j. S. Eastland, son of Mr..
IOliver Eastland, of Forest, was
shot and killed by negro on
his Sunfiower county plantation
Hast Wednesday. The funeral
took place at Forest on Friday.
Out Of 80 mules shipped from
st. Louis to Laurel, 20 died of
pneumonia. They were allowed
to stay a day in the stock yards
of East st. Louis, when the tenn
lperature was near the zero
mark.
Many prominent Mississippians
went to Washington to appear
before the house committee on
rivers and harbors in the interest
lof government control of levees.
Louisiana also sent a delegation,
with the governor at the head.
Mrs. Francis Nafew, of Spring
field, ILL.,, great-grand daugh-
/ ter of President John Quincy
Adams, is visiting at Ocean
Springs. Mrs. Nafew is said to
be sstypical representative OF
1.-THE Colonial dame, of the first
days of our republic. .
i Walter b. Carpenter, a barber
lmysteriously disappeared from
Silver Creek last Tuesday. At
ter practicing with a string band
be went with his companions to
| the very door of bis room. He
excused himself and has not been
seen since.
/ Brooks Story, the noted ex,
press robber, of Attala county,
land the smartest man the peni-
Tertiary officials have had to con.
tend with in years, is now a free
man. He was released on the
first by the board Of control. He
has served out his time, allowing
credit for the time he would have
been entitled to for good be-
havior.
i Governor Vardaman has form
ed the heads Of the different de-
apartments of the state into .
.scabinet. " His object for do
ling this is to bring the Different
Estate officials together once q
month for discussion of the
different branches Of the state
government and to counsel and
aid one another and keep in
touch with each other.
Governor Vardaman started
his pardon list with Copiah