The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-07-09
MISSISSIPPI OPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNCEAT PARAGRAPHS Of
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News 81 the State Ii General Boil
u Down and Pui Into j
Few Lines.

2, uAed ab McSOHlp.
Or. A. H. BRENNAN, aged 49,.
died IN Adams county.
Mrs. II. Levy, Of Meridian.
ldieu At the age Of So.
Dr.. A. j. Ainsworth died at
the age Of SO, At Hazlehurst.
| The capacity 81 Magnolia's new
cotton mills is to be doubled.
10000 people attended the cele-
Ebraticn az Laurel, on the 18th.
We regret that Mr.. e. M. Bee,
ST., is still confined to bis room.
Eden, " ID Yazoo county, is po-
Iced like any other earthly city.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway
will leave tomorrow for the
Orient.
The Raymond Gazette, one Of
Ethe Oldest papers in the State, is
offered for sale.
Prof. j. u. Trawick has been
chosen principal Of the Bay st.
Louis graded school.
Miss Eunice Anding, Mrs. Pc
Igram, Mrs. White and others re-
turned Sunday from the Worlds
Fair.
Our livery stables are doing
lgood service. Brookhayen has
lsOme of the incest turnouts in the
State.
Prof. Foster, Of the Lexington
Training School, has been elected
principal of Nelson's public
school.
Capt. j. T. Jones launch,
Grace, = was destroyed by fire
lat GuIfport. The Captain was
slightly burned.
DR.. q. S. Limerick, Of Vicks-
burg, died at the age of 40. He
was ) prominent physician and
1.-THE remains were inferred at Rod
ney.
Lightning struck the Perry
county courthouse at Hattiesburg
Sunday. 1t passed through the
rear ball into the ground and did
little damage.
Mrs. Mary McCabe died of
fever at Hattiesburg, af-
| ter six weeks of illness. The re-
mains were shipped to her former
home at Syar, Penn.
ID. I. White, q young man of
KosciuskO, prominently connect
! ed, was shot and killed In hotel
l.by Albert Bell. Bell escaped,
white was unarmed.
Military drills are being we'll
attended throughout the State.
According to State law q truant
private may be fined $40 for fail
ure to appear at regular drill.
Ladies Of CIarksdaIe are about
| to locate u hospital in their city.
The last legislature passed bill
tgiving the town and county boards
authority to assist in the work.
Grenada capitalists have inaug-
urated a sand brick factory, to be.
Established in that city at once.
The plant will have capacity of
10, 900 per day, and viii use a
process by which it is possible to
turn ont bricks ready for use from
raw material in ten hours.
Major General Lowry, COM
manding the Mississippi Division
of United Confederate Veterans,
has accepted an invitation to- de-
lliyer an address to the w. r..
Barksdale Camp, Confederate Vet
Grams, at Grenada, at their annual
reunion, which takes place on Ju-
lly ~.
Herbert Applewhite, who shot
land came near killing Sheriff nj.
| III. Holmes, at Tylertown, sever
al months ago, has returned to
THAT place, and after prelimina-
Try investigation has been placed
under bond Of So, 500 for his APP
pearance at the next term DC Cir
Icuit Court. Holmes has recover
led.
The Second Baptist church Of
jackson, Rev. w. p. Price, pas
tor, ranks third ii the State among
Baptist churches in the amounts
contributed during the c0nven-
ltional year to missions, Gl0ster
and Corinth taking the lead. So
members were received into this
church during the year.
At Houston negro was quietly
lhung under a bridge by unknown
parties. He had entered the bed
room of Mrs. j Il. Johnston,
where she was asleep with her
three children. He caught her
lby the throat, when she scream
led and reached for her pistol. He
Ithen disappeared and was later
hung
II is announced today that Ad-
liutant General Bridge will 20 I'd
Biloxi on August and remain
There until August 10. at which
time the encampment of the Ma
ltional 5uard begins. The Adju
tant General goes there for the
purpose of seeing that everything
is III readiness for The coming Of
| the soldiers. He will take per