Wrecking Of An Automobile And Other News Updates
Two men suffer serious injuries in an automobile wreck as rail and road projects progress. Mississippi press drives a fund for a life size Bishop Galloway statue. court actions recap life sentence for Charles R. Smith and antitrust cases. Coal contracts, railroad near completion, pier repairs at Gulfport, a Jackson wreck case, a memorial church edifice plan, local police arrest a disguised negro, and a grist mill reopening.
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Mississippi Press Association
Charles B. Galloway
Methodist Episcopal Church At
Jackson
Meridian church funeral dispute sparks split row
Reports detail a heated altercation at Meridian Mount Zion Baptist Church over a visiting minister to preach a late husband’s funeral. A rival faction supported the visiting preacher, causing a near split before the matter went to court. The Georgia excursion party toured Hattiesburg and local sites amid potential land investments.
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Meridian Mount Zion Baptist Church
Prominent Natchez Cotton Factor Missing Acknowledges Absence
Ben S. Chase a well known cotton factor of Natchez has been missing for several days and his whereabouts are unknown His books and accounts are with creditors and no public statement can be made until audits are complete He had been drinking heavily before his disappearance and friends hope for word soon.
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Ben S. Chase
Natchez
Mr. Chase
Regulation of Autos on Mississippi Roads Prompts Call for Law
A Mississippi advocate urges strict speed limits and passing rules to protect riders and horses as cars proliferate. The piece notes dangers to rural roads, discusses tests and enforcement ideas, and presses lawmakers to enact a fair law balancing rights of horse and auto users. It also promotes agricultural high schools and urges counties to adopt them to improve rural education and resources.
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Jackson
Mississippi
Agricultural High Schools
J. N. Powers
State Superintendent of Public Education
Boards of Supervisors
State Department of Education
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Union
Taft telegram stirs bankers over Hankow loan
A personal telegram from President Taft to Prince Chu en, acting for an American claim of equal participation in the Hankow Sze Chuen Railroad loan of 27500 dollars, has created a sensation among foreign bankers and legation members. Legations say the loan issue was not diplomatic, but the affair now seems political.
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Taft
Prince Chuen
Increase In Employees At Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Master Mechanic Linstrom of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad at Vicksburg orders an immediate increase of the shop force by 100 men.
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Linstrom
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
Vicksburg
Funeral of Don Carlos Pretense to the Spanish Throne
Don Carlos of Bourbon, claimed Spanish succession, died July 18 near Lombardy. His funeral was held at the church of Casbeno with Cardinal Ferrari and 24 priests officiating. The body was shipped to Treste, Austria-Hungary, for burial.
Hundred Thousand Dollar Loss Amid Texas Storm Damage
Reports from Houston indicate property losses exceed one hundred thousand dollars with no additional deaths. The storm devastated Rock Island to about seventy five thousand and Wharton to many thousands, with debris blocking streets and crops prostrated across numerous towns from Galveston to Austin. Deadly impact is estimated around twenty five with about fifty houses blown down in Weimer and a wide stretch of interior counties sustaining heavy crop damage.
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Houston
Tex
Quintana
Columbus
Rock Island
Wharton
Weimer
Galveston
Bay City
Velasco
Angleton
Columbia
Palacios
Eagle Lake
New Ulm
Luling
Schulenberg
Allentoz
Beasley
Kendleton
Sublime
Glidden
Markham
la Grange
Bastrop
el Campo
Yoakum
Garwood
Matthews
Bonus
Waelder
Flatonia
Austin
Texas
Louisiana
New Orleans
Brownsville
Bay, City
Valasco
Fight With Immigrants Resents Deportation To South America
In Brooklyn a clash broke out between immigration inspectors and a group of 24 Gypsies being deported to Buenos Aires after refusing to board the Verdi. During the struggle children were used as shields by parents and several youngsters were injured. one girl was knocked unconscious as the steamer sailed. The Gypsies, who believed they were to be sent back to Russia, reacted with anger upon learning the South American destination.
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South America
New York
Brooklyn
Buenos Ayres
Russia
Rice Fields Stripped by 70 MPH Texas Storm
A Texas storm in the rice belt damaged fields in the San Antonio area, with losses estimated around 100000 dollars. Many fields were headed and ready for harvest when hurricane winds up to seventy miles per hour stripped they of grain.
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San Antonio
Texas
Taft Plans Down the Mississippi River Trip
President Taft is shaping his fall travel to the western and southern states. He will voyage from St. Louis to New Orleans late in October as the guest of the deep waterways convention to be held there upon his arrival.
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Mississippi River
Washington
Taft
St. Louis
New Orleans
Travelers Will Not Insure Air Travel Under Policy
New York report states Travelers Insurance Company warns that operating or riding in aeroplanes or flying machines is not insurable as an accident risk. Agents are told to require waivers or cancel policies for insureds who fly. Ballooning is similarly treated. A single balloon trip may not require a waiver, but repeated flights do.
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Hartford
New York
Travelers’ Insurance Company of
Will Mack Admitted Guilty in Mississippi Hanging
In Jackson Mississippi at Bran Don the biggest crowd in history gathered to witness the hanging of Will Mack the negro who assaulted the 15 year old daughter of William Myers a Rankin county farmer in November 1908 The drop was eight feet breaking his neck The crowd cheered and scrambled for rope souvenirs after the body was removed Mack admitted at the last moment that he was guilty.
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Jackson, Miss
Will Mack
William Myers
Rankin County
Brandon
Mack
War aims questioned as Spain mobilizes for Melilla
Madrid reports King Alfonso cancels engagements amid rising Morocco tension. Parliament to vote for more credits to reinforce Melilla. Gen Weyler may be placed in Morocco. Liberal press protests that war serves private mining interests and calls for Cortes convening and clear government motives.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Morocco
Melilla
Weyler
Cuba
Riff Coast
Cortes
Fast Wire Evidence in Bucket Shop Case
Cincinnati district attorney Hunt secured witnesses in the bucket shop brokers trial. The case centers on a Western Union operated fast wire that reportedly provides stock quotations seven minutes ahead of ticker service. Judge Bramwell had excluded the evidence earlier, ruling on the need to prove brokers other than bucket shop men did not use fast wire.
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Bucket Shop
Cincinnati
Hunt
Western Union Telegraph Company
Bramwell
Cholera checked in Russia with reduced caseload
In St. Petersburg the cholera outbreak is under control and unlikely to reach 1908 levels. After a peak of 120 daily cases, the count has fallen to 52 with about 600 patients in city hospitals. Preventive inoculation, once widespread in 1908, is now considered useless by cholera experts.
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St. Petersburg
Typhoid Epidemic Among Battle Fleet Crews
Reports from the Brooklyn Navy Yard indicate a real typhoid outbreak among crews of ships maneuvering off Providence Rhode Island with the Wisconsin cited as most heavily infected. More than fifty cases have been found aboard the battleship Wisconsin and other vessels in the fleet.
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New York
Providence
Mass
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Wisconsin
Bolivia and Peru move to avert war with Argentina
Washington reports a plan for amicable adjustment of Bolivia and Argentina differences. Bolivia and Peru have agreed to direct negotiations to modify the Argentina territorial award, aiming for a satisfactory settlement and prevention of hostilities among the nations involved.
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Washington
Bolivia
Peru
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Galloway Memorial Fund
Henry
Royal Insurance Company Et al
Rules of Chancery Court
Lee County
Fire, Marine and Casualty
Tate
Charles R. Smith
E. A. Laurent
Artesia Depot
Supreme Court
Lowndes County
Whitfield
Nashville
Roscoe
E. W. Walthall
Peter Lawr
Lawr
Board of Public Contracts
Capitol
Morrison Bros
State Insane Hospital
State Capitol
Blind Institute
Institution For the Deaf and Dumb
National Grand
Jackson Board of Trade
National Guard
Ellisville
Collins
Covington
Jones
Sitka
Seminary
Gulfport
Yacht Club
Clarksdale
Bob Patterson
Memphis
Mr. Hamilton
Jonestown
Alcazar Hotel
Paterson
Hamilton
W. B. Clark
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
Bloomfield
Jeff Clark
Clark
Pine Ridge
Carpenter
Georgia
Commercial Club
Hattiesburg
Beaumont
Miss
C. D. Christian
Meridian
Jim Beasley
Seaborn Norris
Taylorsville
Masonic Order
King‘wagner
H. E. Blakeslee
Legislator
Don Carlos
Spain
President Taft
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