The leader., 1905-08-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Diphtheria has appeared in Me-
rIdian.
The oIdscourthouse at Westville
will be repaired.
Utica has taken some Of the
stiffening out Of her quarantine.
A Camp of Woodmen Of the
World has been organized at Dar-
bun.
s. S. Starnes, a we'll known far
mer Of Barlow, Copiah county, is
dead.
Lefore county's cotton crop is
estimated at $4,000 bales, as
against $4,000 last year.
Preparations are going actively
forward for the holding of the
Mississippi Exposition in Jackson
in October.
Judge N. G. Niles has prefer
mitted the September term of
Federal Court at Meridian on ac-
count of the quarantine.
Prof. M. Lattimer was elected
mayor of Clinton in a hotly con-
tested election with Rev. s. M.
Ellis as the competitive candidate.
]. G. Hill, negro lawyer Of
Meridian, and a candidate for
Congress at the last election
against Hon. Adam Byrd, was
fined SIS in the Mayors court for
assaulting negro woman.
jackson is to have new bank
called the Commercial, with a cap
ltaI stock Of $4,000. The incor-
polators are Messrs. N. I. An
ders, Chas. Anders, Pierson
Anders and A. B. Derrick.
Ground was broken for the
compress and warehouse to be
erected at Meridian by the Bierce
Compress Company. It is an
nounced the Company will be
ready for business October /.
Governor Vardaman has ap-
pointed Richard Mendes, of Bay
st. Louis, Hancock county, State
Oyster Commissioner for the next
two years. He succeeds Frank j.
Iadner. who did not apDly for
reappointment.
Will E. Wood, the lumberman
of Church Hill, Jefferson county,
who was shot on July 3 by E. G.
CogdelI, died Tuesday night at
1920 o'clock at Chamberlain's
Sanitarium, Natchez, from the
effects of his wounds.
Capt. F. A. Lewis, of jackson
county, the pioneer in pecan and
orange culture of the Gulf Coast,
has notified the carnival manage
ment that he is preparing an ex-
hibit this year which will far sur
pass the splendid showing he
made last season.
A military company has been
organized at Gulfport with the
following commissioned officers:
R. C. Cowan, captain; ]. E.
Adams, first lieutenant; Fl. D.
Foote, second lieutenant; L. B.
Joyce, secretary and treasurer, j.
A. Jones was elected honorary
captain.
The new Winter indie
pendent Telephone Company,
which short time ago got fran
chise for an underground tele-<
phone system in Hattiesburg, is
figuring on erecting a big bust
ness block in the center of the
city for the accommodation of its
exchange.
A suit was filed in the Circuit
Court of Kinds county by Carl
Gartner, of Hamburg, Germany,
against the Illinois Central Rail
road. The plaintiff claims $3.50
because of the alleged failure of
the railroad to deliver shipment
of lumber on board ship at New
Orleans according to contract.
The body of Capt. Walter Bar
ker, who was killed in railroad
accident in ,JaDan. has been en-
balmed and shipped home for bur-
ial. 1t will rest one day at the
home of Mrs. (Judge) Critz, his
sister, at West Point, Miss. 1t
will then be carried to Macon,
Miss, and buried by his mother.
At Meridian FIVE negroes, who
were drunk and very disorderly
at a picnic recently, abusing a
white man and curslng loudly in
the presence of white woman,
were fined $75 each. Attorney
Stone, employed to defend the
negroes, under false impressions
of the testimony to their behalf,
7roundly denounced the defendants
and refused to act for them. His
scathing talk assisted in securing
pleas of guilty from all but one.
All were fined, however.
Cattle Breeders and DaiFymen Attention.