The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-08-17
HAPPE NINGS
SHORT and PUNCENT PARAGRAPHS or
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of The State In General Boil
ed Down and Put Into 4
Few Lines.

The Wesson High School open
September IA
The May hotel has burned dow
lat Mendenhall.
i Mike DUR, aged 10, died d
Forest Of heart disease.
Gnlfport is to have i new sasl
factory and new school building
Hugh Il Wellman, Of Magnc
liza, and Miss Daisy Cutrer, o
Wesson, were married.
The first import cargo arrived
lin Gulfport on the Italian steam
ship Giovan Maria dali.
Prof. A. Al. Kern, Of Nashville
Tenn, has been selected to TAXI
the chair of English at Millsap'
College.
VIM. D. Mann had his Ie,
crushed and hip dislocated By
train near Laurel. He died leay
ing a wife and several children.
The legality of the election D.
| the people Of jackson, which re
suited in favor of municipal
water works system, is contested,
The Democrats of Kinds coun.
lty, Miss, will be asked to CON
tribute to the fund Of the NationaI
Democratic Committee in Sep
TENDER.
During the rain at Laurel on
the 18th, huge bullfrog, measnr-
ing six and one half inches from
nose to rump fell from the clouds.
The frog is on exhibition.
At Roxie a negro prisoner
| lighted a torch to eat his supper
by and the result was the iai.
burned down and the negro mar.
rowly escaped being cremated.
The Delta Baseball League sea.
son will close Sept. 8. The clubs
of Jackson, Yazoo City, Canton
and Clarksdale announce that they
will play independent ball unit
October.
DR.. z. L. LeaveII, an honorec
Baptist minister, died at the age
of 81 in jackson last week. Ht
was the author of several religious
works and was a Mississippiar
worthy of the name.
It is expected that the contract
for constructing water works al
Terry, Kinds county, will be lei
about the first of the month. The
| plans and specifications, which
we're drawn up by Jackson firm
of engineers, have been complet
/ ed.
Mississippi leads all States il
1.-THE South IN increased percentage
Of bank deposits for the pas
twelve months, excepting Wes
Virginia. Our increase was 81
per cent, that of West Virginia
445.
Governor Vardaman received |
letter from a.. w. Harris & Co.,
the successful bidders for the Mis-
sissippi State bonds, asking foi
documents proving the validity
lof the legislative act authorizing
the bonds.
/ The negro who attempted as
lsauIt on q white girl near Herman
lido, Miss, last October, has beef
captured in Arkansas, and takei
/ to jackson for safe keeping
Governor Vardaman will proven
a lynching.
/ S.W. Rose, editor Of The Grand.
Ter Age, the Socialist paper q
Biloxi, states that there are abou
500 Socialist voters ID the Stat
land the Socialist party will max
Ian effort to have it's electors plac
led on the ticket to be voted j
/ November.
Mississippi's increase in per
sonal assessment this year is esti
mated at over SIS, 900, 900. Tha
lis pretty good showing for
State in which only q small pc
lcent: of its land is improved ant
revenue producing
AT Sardis tragedy was cause.
over a watermelon and Jim Lee
ton, lad Of II, shot and kiIle
W. M. Marley, an old and r.
spected farmer. Marley accuses
Leeton's little brother Of shootin
1 hole through seed melon
Next month the town Of Tunic
is Go vote on the proposition
issue the bonds Of the municipal
Fly in the sum of SIS 900 for th
purpose of constructing Tnunici
pal lighting plant. The indie.
Itions are that the proposition wi
carry, and that the plant will b
erected.
Books at the Y. N. C. 4.