The leader., 1904-06-01
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
cd Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.
McComb is to have brick side


a negro teamster, killed him and
demolished the wagon on the 25th.
The Lyon Oil Company Of Lau.
rel is now down 800 feet and try,
ing to 60 deeper by night and by
day.
The Mississippi Lumber Com
pany at Vicksburg lost by fire large
quantities of lumber in the yards
on the 25th.
The New York Vicksburg Ma.
tional Military Park Commission
has been in Vicksburg to finally
decide on monument locations.
Rev. w. E. Ellis. pastor of the
Baptist church at Crystal Springs,
viii preach the commencement
sermon for Hillman College, Gin.
ton, Miss.
Judge Robt. Powell has beer
appointed special Judge of the
Supreme court to sit on case ir
which Chief Justice Whitfield is
disqualified.
Rev. F. L. McCue, the pastor
| of the West Side Presbyterian
church, jackson, has received 9
call to the Presbyterian church
at French Camp.
R. w. johnson, a former sec.
ton foreman on the Y. & M. V.
road, was shot and killed by Char,
ley Shirley, proprietor of a lunch
stand at Harriston.
Judge r. B. Mayes, of Halle
hurst. is quoted as saying that
there have been more than two
hundred murders within the State
since December last.
On June Bird, the monument re-
Gently erected in lakewood GENE,
terry in honor of she Confederate
dead at Grenada, will be unveiled
with appropriate ceremonies.
The last session of school re-
Gently closed at Wesson was one
of the most successful in the his
tory of the institution. Hon. F.
A. McLain delivered the annual
address.
The suggestion has been made
by some Of the newspapers of the
state that each paper in Missis-
sippi send copy of its publica-
|tion to the Beauvoir Soldiers
Home.
Yazoo City's mayor, Mr..
Holmes, who was hurt
during the fire, is son-in-law OF
Congl essman John Sharp Will
liams and a young man yet in his
twenties.
Mr.. H. F. Simrall, Sovereign
Escort of the Woodmen of the
World, has been instructed to Sc
cure as an additional investment
100000 of the forthcoming issue
of Mississippi State bonds.
The town marshal of Newton
made a laid on the blind tiger
joints of Pet Williams and Dor.
sey Bender, negroes, last week and
secured about scventy-fiv bot
ties of mean whiskey and beer.
The jaiIor at Belen, forestalled
an attempt at lynching the negro
implicated in the killing of Logan
|O'Neil. He was called on the
pretext of receiving a prisoner;
but suspecting something, took
enough deputies along to empha-
size his suspicion.
A. G. Jones, President Of the
Mississippi Bank and Trust Com
pany, has been elected President
of the Bank of Morton, which has
just been organized, with a CAPT
tai Of $25, 900. Some of the lead
ing men of that section of the
State are interested in the new
bank.
The Supreme Court has
approved the finding of the
court of Hancock county which
condemned Sylvester Pier to
death for the murder Of John
Marshall, in the city of Biloxi
some months ago. The date for
the execution is set for Monday,
July 18th.
Governor Vardaman has OPP
proved the charter of the Magno-
Tia Park Racing Association, Of
Vicksburg. w. B. Griffith, T. r.
Foster and other prominent Vicks-
burg men are the incorporators.
1t is proposed to Civ e yearly race
meets in Vicksburg, ground hav-
ing been secured on which to
build the track and grand stand.
The jackson correspondent Of
the Picayune says the advocates
of the open saloon are preparing
to make a fight for the legalized
sale Of whiskey in Coahoma
county. Coahoma, along with
most of the other counties in the
Delta has been dry for a good
many years, and If the fight does
come up it will be a hard one on
both sides.
The Times Democrat of Mon
day says the remarkable showing
made By Mississippi, ID point Of
increase in the number of banks.
seems to be paralleled in point Of
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