The leader., 1905-09-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

run BY water power.
Bricklayers Of Natchez will
raise the scale of wages after Jan.
/, 62El cents per day.
The Yazoo Sentinel claims
bigger corn crop for Yazoo county
this season than that Of last year.
Prof. Dabney Lipscomb has
been elected to the chair Of Civics
and Political Economy at the |. /.
and G.
A little ten-year-old boy, named
Rainey, was killed near Corinth
by being crushed under log that
fell from a wagon.
Mississippi will receive this
year in taxes from the railroads
ST., ,944.8S an increase of $12,-
301.40 over the previous year.
Mrs. John Shows, the wife of a
farmer, was thrown from buggy
at Mendenhall and killed. Her
back was broken and she died in a
few hours.
Miss Singleton CARROTS retire
ment from the Carthagenian is
regretted by the Press of the
State. The paper was bought by
Rev w. E. Dear.
A large, black bear weighing
over 800 pounds, was killed by
tCol. Batson near Lumberton.
Hunting PARTIES had been out for
him on several occasions.
Neal Brown, a negro boy, who
was sent up from Warren county,
live years for burglary, was killed
by a falling tree while at work in
| the woods in Rankin county.
| Hattiesburg proposes to have a
new city hall, since its treasury is
in excellent condition, and the
county and large corporations are
all erecting handsome and costly
structures.
| The labor problem is becoming
more and more serious at Laurel.
The negroes have quit the farms
for the railroads and sawmills and
lat present labor is not only high
but scarce.
i W. A. Bethune, a young lawyer
Of Bond, Miss, was killed at vii.
mington, N. g., while on a visit
to his mother. He came to this
State several years ago to prac'
tice his profession.
1 Brazil Lotion, one of the mer
wanted for the murder of the ne.
gro tenant on the Brewer planta.
tion in Tallahatchie county last
week, has been captured and LODGED
in the Sumner Jail.
Brevart Butler, of Yazoo coun.
ty, brought in to Yazoo City 81
bales of new cotton Sept. 13. II
was long staple and of excellent
grade; but Mr.. Butler stated moi
as good as that of last year.
The first oyster shipments were
made from Pass Christian Sept
16. They were very large. The
loysters were taken from the Pass
Christian reef and, while not o.
great size, were in excellent con
dition.
|. SUBMITS graded school opened
Monday with over 200 pupils
The city hall and Odd Fellows
Hall are being utilized until The
new two-story brick school build
ing can be finished, which will BIZ
about October Is.
Jefferson county has filed its
personal assessment roll with the
State Auditor showinga total val
uation Of $721, ,767 as compared
with $500, ,239 last year, an in.
crease of $61,52S. The number
of polls reported was 3,760.
i Dr.. Tom Henderson, a promi-
nent physician of Neshoba coun-
lty, was Instantly killed Saturday
afternoon by Albert Morehead,
about fifteen miles west of Phila,
delphia. There had been bad
blood between the men for some
| time.
The electric light and telephone
and telegraph companies of Rip
| ley, object to shade trees that the
ladies of the town are making an
effort to plant, on the grounds that
they interfere with their wires.
Wires, properly constructed,
should not interfere with shade
trees.
| A false report was recently sent
out from Silver City about the
Ilynching of two negroes named
Arthur and Taleum Woodward.
The Yazoo Herald says the Wood
wards were not Iynched. They
are now working in another part
of the county, and will obey the
warning given them by the citi-
zens of Silver City not to come
| there any more.
By request of Capt. j. Z.
4 Storm, The Leader publishes in
lanother column q letter received
by him from Major D. D. Ewing
censuring our local health author
ities for ordering the detail OF
| the StoneWall Guards who re-