The leader., 1904-01-13
|MISSISSIPPlHAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of The State in General Boil.
ed Down and Put Into q
Few Lines.

Five frame buildings were de-
stroyed at Greenville on the 10th.
Two negroes, convicted of mur-
der, will be hung at Bay st. Louis,
Feb. 25.
Mrs. Gracia Walton has accept
ed the position of matron of
'Beauvoir."
There is a great and growing
demand for home made syrup in
Mississippi.
Frank HI. Lewis was elected
president of the Pascagoula
Commercial Club.
4 There were % numbers to a
i Christmas program rendered by
children of Phoenix.
i The residence of Austin Hemp
hill was burned at Yazoo City
on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
i Little Howard Montague, the
Hattiesburg Progress carrier, has
invented an automatic jumping
jack.
The grocery stock of Z. May &
i Son, of Wesson, was attached on
Saturday last. Assets are alb out
$500.
Because of the rural free deliy-
cry, Newton county's postoffices
have been cut down from forty to
twenty-five.
Mr.. Whaley, head sawyer at
R. V. Turner's mill, near Mize,
dropped dead ON a train on the
evening of the 9th.
Miss Evelyn Purvis, of Yazoo,
has issued volume called
Poems It is meeting with fa-
1 vor from the hardest critics.
/ The Forest Register says
| there is not a merchant or bust
ness man in that town that sends
out of town for job printing.
/ Miss Maggie Curlett and
.EMr. w. w. .Easley, of Columbus,
were married at Magnolia last
week, by Rey.J. E. Thigpen.
A novel negro wedding was
that at Yazoo City last week,
when two brothers named jackson
married two sisters named Robin
son.
At Darbun, Mr.. e. II. Car
ruth, of Auburn, and Miss Anna
Hampton, daughter of Mr.. A. F.
Lampton, were married ON the
7th.
Holmes county's sheriff, Hon.
j. E. Stanfield, fell dead near
his home on the Sth. The deputy
will hold the office until special
election.
The jackson legal firm known
as Williamson, Wells & Groom,
has been dissolved and will. in the
future, be known as Williamson
& Wells.
The Christmas numbers of the
Commonwealth and the Yazoo
ISentinel were handsome issues.
These papers are editor +. r. Bird
SAILS twins.
| DR.. Anthony Miller, Sharkey's
representative in the State Leg
islature, was united in marriage
to Miss Elizabeth Reland Mcleod,
of Grenada, on yesterday.
The handsome marble floors
|of the State Capitol had to be
covered with carpets and rubber
mating to deaden the stentorian
tones of the average legislator.
/ w. G. Strong, one of the oldest
land most prominent planters of
Yazoo County, died on the 9th.
He retired at night to what
proved to be his death bed by
morning.
Twenty families Of negroes in
Washington county have gone
to Arkansas. They were per-
suaded to go by letters threaten
ing them with hot times during
Vardaman's reign.
| The large mercantile firm of
Columbia, the Columbia CONNER
cial Company, which has been
Operating for about a year, was
closed by attachment in favor of
j. r. Reagan and others on the
18th.
| Dan Hill, white man, sent
from Montgomery county FIVE
years ago TO the penitentiary and
who escaped after serving four
months, was captured By Albert
Vernon and returned, on Jan. 8.
!. When Hill escaped three others
went with him and one was killed.
| The case of III. II. Rogers.
charged with the murder of Tom
Bryd, Of Neshoba county, will
come up at Meridian Friday on q
lchange of venue. The sensational
circumstances of the killing make
the case an unusually interesting
one.
| The announcement that Beau
yoir reverts back to the heirs Of
jefferson Davis through pro-
vision In the deed given to sons Of
veterans, after it is no longer