The leader., 1904-04-20
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNCENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.
Cold weather has damaged the

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tomato crop.
The Episcopal church OF Sum
NIT will give = May Day. picnic
April 80.
Yazoo City has voted bond
issue to help erect a $685. pub
lie school building.
The citizens of Water Valley
have voted to issue $25, 900 to
erect a public school building.
GTeenyille's business league has
been reorganized and is doing
some good work for that city.
The United States Senate passed
the bill changing the port of entry
at Bay st. Louis to Gulfport.
The annual reunion Of the
Brent Rifles, Company r, Sth
Mississippi Regiment, will take
place at Holmesville, on April
23rd.
The new Temple B'nai Israel to
be erected at Natchez calls for a
contract price of $4,000, exclus-
i've of interior and decorative
work.
Mrs. Sallie Mildred Royal was
burned to death in her bed room
at Vicksburg. She was 80 yeats
of age.
Hon. Fl. Calvin Wells, Jr., has
accepted the invitation to deliver
the annual address before the Pub
lie School. The commencement
exercises will take place May 81.
About 40 citizens of Laurel
have organized themselves into a
Citizens Enforcement League
with the purpose of Kidding the
town of houses of Ill repute, gamb
ling joints and blind tigers.
The towns of Osyka and Ed
wards have taken steps to insure
water works and Osyka will also
| put in electric lights. This is on
lily a faint echo of what is being
done by towns all over the state.
The Aberdeen Examiner has
celebrated its 10th birthday. Dur
ing that time it has missed only
four issues caused by fire each
time, but Phoenix-like it has come
up out of the ashes stronger and
more vigorous than before.
The citizens of Yallobusha
county have petitioned Judge S.
&c. Cook for a special term Of cir
cult court so that Albert Cannon,
1.-THE young man now held for safe
keeping in the jackson Jail for the
murder Of Mr.. Kimsey and daugh-
ter, the latter the sweetheart of
Gammons, may be brought to i'm
mediate trial.
At Hazlehurst the upper floor
lof two-story frame building
ga, way during the commence
ment exercises of the negro school
last night and a large number
we're badly injured. A woman
was seriously hurt by jumping
through window. The hall was
literally packed at the time of the
incident.
The department of Archives
and History OF the State of Vir-
gina has Just discovered an old
and valuable document which will
be sent to the st. Louis Fair. 1t
is the original copy of the indiet-
ment of Aaron Burr for treason,
long supp osed to have been lost,
and is signed BY John Randolph,
foreman of the jury that tried
him.
Governor Vardaman, Commits
tsioner r. II. Henry and o. b.
Quin, Frank Burkitt and v. p.
Still have gone to st. Louis, where
they will look oyer the Mississip-
pi building. 'Beauvoir, = erected
at a cost of SIS, 900, and, If the
building is done according to
plans and specifications, the last
payment will be made the con-
tractor, j. f. Barnes.
Mr.. Thos. Brady has been elect
ed a member Of the State Execu-
tive Committee of the X. M. G.
a. At the recent meeting of the
Tri-State Convention it was de-
|cided to raise SO, 900 to expend on
the work in Mississippi. A new
office, that of college secretary,
was created and a competent man
will be assigned the work of in
Producing the I. M. G. A. into
every college in the State. We
know of no one more competent
or more ready TO do his part ia
the Z. M. G. Al. cause than is
Mr.. Brady and the choice is for
.tunate one, which placed him on
the executive committee.