The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-28
MISSISSIPPI PIP NINCS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF.
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State IN General Boil
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Meridian has begun asphalt
paving
Silver City, near Yazoo, has
been incorporated.
Millsaps College opened with
more than 200 students.
Sneak thieves, for the first time
in many months, have appeared
at Ellisville.
Rev. j. i. Walker succeeds I'll.
u. Wilson as editor of the Blue.
Mountain Standard.
The State chemist has pronounc-
ed coal found in Kemper county,
near DeKalb, Of fine quality.
Blue Mountain College opened
with 325 students, 275 Of them be-
ing boarders in the institution.
Warren Richardson, d former
resident Of Hazlehurst, was
brought to that city from Misou-
ri and buried.
The "A. and M. College opened
with $50 students, the largest
opening attendance in the history
of the college.
Mrs. T.. Newman, Of jackson,
has been appointed matron of the
Insane Hospital at jackson, vice
Miss Mary Swami, deceased.
Lee and Perry counties last
week decided to have their public
roads worked BY contract, thus
following the example of Yazoo.
Shaw, Bolivar county, has been
incorporated. 1t has a population
of 900 and is one of the most -four
ishing towns on the Valley road.
i ,25O, 900 feet Of lumber, valued
at So 900 were destroyed by fire
at the S. Cohn and Son sawmill,
near Magnolia. Insurance was
So, 900.
Mrs. Nancy Odom, who shot
her husband at Richton about a
year ago, was indicted at Augusta
last week and will be given trial
at the next term of court.
The new union depot at Gulf
port has been accepted by Capt.
Jones, president Of the g. & S..
/. road and ]. w. Barnes, chief
inspector of the u. & N. railroad.
Hon. j. 7. Dunn, of Eupora,
Webster county, has been APP
pointed by the Governor Judge Of
the Fifth Circuit Court District,
to succeed Hon. w. F. Stevens,
deceased.
Alonzol Dunn, a negro logger,
was drowned in the Eastnan-GaI
diner Company's mill pond near
Laurel. He fell off log. He
was a good swimmer; but never
rose but once.
Lillian Eulew, Of Iuka, aged 6 !,
went out to ring a heavy farm bell
for dinner. The bell was attach
ed to a post that had rotted below
the ground. When the child pull
ed the rope, the post broke of and
the bell crushed her skull.
r. i. Crook, Jr., has preferred
charges against his brethren Of the
Elks Lodge in. Yicksbnrg, for
gaming and selling liquor without
license. Crook is a prominent
commission merchant; is a mar
ried man and member of a well
known family.
f. r. Gillespie, Of IndianoIa,
has been arrested, charged with
wife murder Shortly after his
wife bad received money from her
father, she was found shot with a
Winchester and her head pounded
to a pulp. The evidence against
her husband is strong
Mr.. Fred lotteries, land agent
|of the Liberty White railroad. !.
states that at Jackson's Com and
Cotton Carnival Pike county will
be on hand with a handsome ex-
Hhibit, which will be made up
largely Of the exhibit to be shown
at the McCornb City Fair this fall.
Congressman MeLain, who has
been sick for the last three or four
weeks with a severe attack Of
rheumatism, upon the advice and
persuasion of friends and family,
left for Hot Springs, Ark Sun
day night, to be gone indefinitely.
Gloster Record
Mississippi friends Of the fami-
~ will regret to learn that Charles
+. Martin, . son Of the late Rev.
III. T. Martin and brother Of the
evangelist, Rev. Z. Martin.
died ii Colorado last week Of con-
sumption, 4 sudden hemorrhage
cut his life short. He leaves q
wife.