The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-02-03
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State In General Boil.
ed Down and Put Into q
Few Lines.

III pOunu uOg iaSU week.
Miss Flora Bailey, of Fayette
died OF pneumonia last week.
Ground has been broken for al
up-to-date hotel at McHenry.
Cotton continues to 90 up. July
futures are now quoted at 1911.
DIR. and Mrs. A. P. Sparkman,
of Magnolia, entertained in honor
of Bishop Bratton, of the Episco.
pal Church on Monday evening.
There is movement on foot to
establish a cotton factory at Sar-
dis.
Greenville purchases text books
for school children and rents them
to pupils.
Writ Adams won his back tax
suit in the Supreme Court against
Vicksburgers.
The peanut crop is reported
very short. There will be a hun,
CRY. market next season.
Will MiIeska, a Bohemian oys.
terman, was smothered to death by
charcoal fumes on last Friday
night.
McHenry's canning factory is
now certainty. Contract has been
let for growing seventy acres OF
tomatoes.
w. j. Taylor a native Mont.
gomery county man, has mounted
the editorial tripod of the Wi.
mona Times.
An orange, fig and pecan farm
of twenty -one acres, is to be cul-
tivated by Mr.. G. G. Bell, Of
Ocean Springs.
A jackson correspondent says
there are about forty applicants
for every position to be filed by
appointment of the Governor.
Two bales of cotton were stolen
from the depot platform at Fay.
cite on the 22nd. Railroad people
think they have a clue to the cul-
prits.
The three year old child of Mr..
and Mrs. r. g. Cogdell, of Clai-
borne county, fell off the gallery
into a tub of water and was
drowned.
Measles is all over the State. A
popularity of the type is stated
to be that it takes so long for the
eruption to appear, after the first
symptoms.
A fire at Bonneville January 80,
destroyed the Cumberland Tele.
phone Exchange and the Banner
Office. Eight business houses were
consumed.
On January goth, part of the
main business portion of Colum-
bia burned down. Among the
losers was the Columbia CONNER
cial Co., to the extent of SO, 900.
In school boy fight at the Pop
larviIle Hioh School Charlie Col.
Inns drew his knife and severely
cut young Coleman in three places.
One thrust penetrated the lung.
Miss Mary Bell Haley, of Crys.
tai Springs, was so badly burned
she died. Her clothing caught
while standing before the fire.
She was Is years of age and a sis.
ter of Mrs. J. Q. Martin, of Ha-
zlehurst.
The House of Representatives
held memorial services in honor
of its late Speaker, the lamented
A.. J. Russell. Many beautiful
and touching tributes were offered
bf those who knew. him we'll and
loved and honored him.
The State of Illinois will soon
erect a monument in the National
Military Park at Vicksburg in
honor of the $4,000 Illinois sol
diers and sailors who participated
in the seige of that city from
March 30 to July 4, 1868.
The new Governor has reap
pointed DR.. Sims as superinten-
dent of the Blind Institute, an
j. R. Dobyns superintendent OF
the Deaf and Dumb Institute.
Both we're appointees to these po-
sitions by Governors McLaurin
and Longino.
E. T.. Passmore retires from
the Canton Times and is succeeded
by Mr.. Walter N. Hurt, vel
known newspaper man, who edited
the Commonwealth, of Green.
wood, during the campaign ii
which its editor became Mississip-
PTS Governor of today.
E. r. Holmes, the brilliant
young lawyer Of Yazoo City, was
elected mayor over the incumbent
by handsome majority. Mayor
Holmes is 25 years Of age. He
was married in November to Miss
Mary Sharp Williams, daughter
of Hon. John Sharp Williams.
Another Case of Rheumatism Cared b,
Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
The efficacy Of Chamberlain's Pair
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