The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-10-19
MISSISSIPPI HAPPE NINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into i
Few Lines.

A blind tiger operator at Meri-
dian was given $50 days and fined
81, 900.
Vicksburg is soon to have an
other bank with capital of
$100, 900.
Bert Barrett, aged 10, was
caught in the shafting of a gin
near Carthage and fatally injured.
The entire plant Of the Ellis
vile Compress Company was
burned to the ground Oct. IA. $50
bales of cotton we're consumed.
The following charter has been
approved by the GoVernof; Man
or Manufacturing and Realty
Company, domiciled at Purvis,
Lamar county, with acapital stock
Iof $1,000 The incorporators of
this new enterprise, which will
manufacture boxes, barrels, crates,
ETC., are G. ]. Manor and j. A..
Hearn.
Hon. Joseph Power, Secretary
of State, has received a letter
from S. g. MayfeId, of Denmark,
is. c., asking if he could be given
the names of any parties in Mis-
sissippi who had for sale from
$4,000 to 10000 acres of timber
land. This land, Mr.. Mayfeld
says, must be in one or several adj
joining tracts.
Mississippi is Boosting of more
county fairs, more farmers insti-
tutes, more big potatoes and more
white-headed children than ever
before in its history, and with cot
ton at ten cents per pound, and
the crop worth $50, ZOO, 900 there
is no reason why our people
should not observe a thanksgiving
day once every month. Gulfport
News.
The stockmen of jackson have
on foot a scheme looking to the
establishment of stock farm for
| the training oflhorses. The Sec
rotary of the Board Of Trade not
long ago received a letter from a
stockman of Milwaukee proposing
TO come to Jackson and establish a
farm, and in securing this enter
| prise the Board of Trade has had
| the cooperation of the stockmen
of the city.
The money for building and
equipping the Young Mems Chris
tian Association at Meridian is
being received in blocks of thou
sands of dollars. Colonel Fl. M.
Street, Chairman of the Finance
Committee, said this morning that
several subscriptions of more than
ST. 900 each have been promised
by individual prominent citizens
of wealth. One subscription from
a wealthy Meridian man will be
no less than $4,000. Some of
| 81, 900 and $1,000 each are in
sight.
Mississippi will get some good
and very valuable advertising
through the efforts of the Greater
Mississippi Association, of which
j. J. White, of McComb City, is
President, and Fl. E. Blakeslee. Of
jackson, is Secretary. A full
page statement, containing a let
ter of Governor Vardaman inviting
thrifty immigrants to the State;
facts In regard to the wealth and
resources Of the State; the posi-
biIities of the soil, ETC., will be
printed in a syndicate of Northern
papers in Illinois, Indiana and
other States, having a combined
circulation of 5000, 900.
A story has reached the Kinds
county and jackson officials Of the
capture and subsequent escape Of
j. E. Martin, the noted car barn
lrobber and safe blower, who es-
capped from the Kinds county jail
lat Raymond over three months
ago. Martin, it is stated, was ar
rested in Terra Haute, Ind, for
robbery and placed in Jail. A
resident Of Jackson in Terra
Haute at the time, saw Martin in
Jail, and told the officials that he
was very much wanted in Missis-
sippi, but The next day, when Mar
tins cell was visited, the prisoner
was gone. The Kinds county Off
Gals have been breathing easy
ever since Martin made bis es-
cape, for it seemed to be a matter
of impossibility to hold him.
About every other day he would
tear out a section Of the Jail in his
efforts to get away. He walked
out Of the RAYMOND jail in broad
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