Current Callings in Mississippi: Violent Incident at Hernando
A shooting at Hernando left opponent sheriff Williamson dead from wounds inflicted by Moody. D. O. Alexander and Jim and Tom Romine were involved with Alexander shot in the hand and under the collarbone, Jim Romine hit in the hand and foot. The Romines were arrested amid ties to a local election dispute. The report also notes gifts to Whitworth College Brookhaven for campus improvements and a major Methodist church property value. United States Commissioner Jon Bhort of Vicksburg remanded three Black men to jail on charges of impersonating a federal officer and fraudulently cashing a pension check. A roofing accident in Leland injured Charles Mudd, risking the loss of an eye.
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Dim
Tom Romine
Sheriff Williamson
Moody
Hernando
Itta Bena
D. O. Alexander
Jim
Alexander
Jim Romine
Romines
Whitworth College
Brookhaven
Institute
Margaret Hall
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
United States
Jon Bhort
Vicksburg
Edmund Brown
Harrison Minger
Andrew Johnson
Brown
Warren County
Shaw
Charles Mudd
James Ramey
Leland
Leland Oil Mills
Ramey
Paducah Cooperage to Open Jackson Branch Factory
The Paducah Cooperage Company plans a Jackson branch, leasing the old Johnson brickyard and erecting a factory in a few weeks. It will employ about forty workers and pay over $1,000 monthly in wages. The Central Trades and Labor Council of Vicksburg plans a Labor Day Parade with over a thousand anticipated participants. The fragmented report notes the burial of George A. Clark after a Victoria railroad accident. he was 28 and connected with the Illinois Central Railroad. The Mexican Gulf Land Company, with $100,000 fully paid capital, organized at Gulfport to develop Henderson Point resort, assist in a hotel and street railway there.
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Paducah Cooperage Company
Jackson
Johnson
Central Trades and Labor Council
Vicksburg
George A. Clark
Victoria
Tex
Water Valley
Illinois Central Railroad
Mexican Gulf Land Company
Gulfport
Henderson Point
Bond Set For Burnsides And Deerman In Hattiesburg Fire
Chancery Judge Stone Deavours presided over the habeas corpus hearing for Walter Burnsides and Marvin Deerman who have been jailed since May 18 on charges of setting fire to a house in the Meridian Quarters of Hattiesburg. A bond of 2500 was set for each to appear in Circuit Court in October.
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Stone Deavours
Walter Burnsides
Marvin Deerman
Meridian Quarters
Hattiesburg
Grief resigns Cuban post. Grimm named Colonial sugars chief
Mr. A J Grief longtime head of Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad and later Colonial Sugars Company Cuba resigns and becomes general manager of Guanica Central Company Porto Rico. W G Grimm succeeds Grief at Colonial Sugars, previously with George M Newhall Engineering. Sheriff L W Williamson of De Soto County dies from wounds after shooting by county surveyor W H Moody. Moody is confined at Senatobia. Fire damages George A Tierney Co warehouse in Vicksburg. loss about 2500 with 750 insured. fire injures Louie Podesta. Frank B Moore of Hattiesburg held on perjury charges in New Orleans. Freight collision kills engineer Brown near McHenry on Gulf and Ship Island line. Delta Hotel and law offices burned at Rolling Fork. library saved. Cardinal Gibbons meets Pope Pius X. papal remarks on U S questions and church interests.
No Murder Confirmed in Harlem River Death
Coroner's physician rules unidentified man from the Harlem river as a drowning victim with head injuries not caused by violence. Police hold three black suspects based on a confessor's claim of murder and robbery, but the main sentence finds the confession false.
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New York
Harlem
Shortage Made Good in Dunlap Case
It is stated that the $200,000 shortage found in the accounts of a former official of Dunlap & Co. has been made good. The shortfall fell largely on the Dunlap private estate of which the man was an executor.
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New York
Dunlap & Co
Dunlap
Fish Pirates Demand Federal Protection in Seattle Waters
Fish pirates have unleashed a reign of terror on the lower Sound, using guns to hold up fish trap keepers after bribes fail. Authorities estimate 150 to 200 pirates are active. A request has been made for federal protection.
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Seattle
Wash
Sound
Election of Cardinal Sarto as Pope Pius X Confirmed
Washington reports confirm the election of Cardinal Joseph Sarto as pope, taking the name Pius X. Apostolic Delegate D. Falcoula issues a formal address to American bishops praising the new pontiff, urging obedience and devotion and predicting a prosperous reign for the church.
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Apostolic Delegate
Rome
Washington
Megr
Falconio
Cardinal Sarto
Merry del Val
Mgr
Paleonio
Washington, D.C
Leo XIII
Joseph Sarto
Venice
Pius X
St. Peter
America
D. Falcoula
Larissa
Explorer Sir James Hector and Kicking Horse Pass Discovery
Sir James Hector, director of the Geological Survey of New Zealand, traveled aboard the steamer Aorangi from Australia to Victoria B C He is noted as the discoverer of the Kicking Horse pass which the Canadian Pacific railway uses to enter British Columbia through the Rockies The pass was found in 1867 and named after an incident in which Hector was kicked by a horse and believed dead.
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Victoria
B. C
Australia
Sir James Hector
Geological Survey of
New Zealand
Canadia Pacific Railway
British Columbia
Rockies
James Hector
Failure Announced in New York Brokerage Firm
Laidlaw and Garrie, members of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, announce their suspension. The firm did a commission business, not extensive, and the failure is described as without general importance. Members named are William B. Laidlaw and Daniel T. Garrie.
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New York
Laidlaw & Garrie
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Wm, B. Laidlaw
Daniel T, Garrie
Veteran Clerk Arrested in Postal Letter Theft Case
Washington. John K. E. Carnell, 63, a veteran clerk in the Auditor's office of the Post Office Department, was arrested by postoffice inspectors for opening letters addressed to the auditor and appropriating their contents. Decoy letters carried the same charge and were found on him.
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Washington
John KE. Carnell
Postoffice Department
Postoffice
Reform Party Telegram Seeks Help for Chinese Reformers
The Chinese Empire Reform Association of New York forwarded a telegram appealing to the United States government through Secretary Hay. It asks for cooperation with the British ambassador in Shanghai to save the lives of patriotic Chinese reformers under his protection.
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New York
United States
Hay
Shanghai
Chinese Empire Reform Association of
Roosevelt Era Military and Commerce Dispatch Highlights
The report from the Department of Commerce and Labor notes no overall decline in commercial activity despite shrinkage in speculative values. Military reshuffles place Lieutenant General Young as army commander and later chief of staff, with other officers filling top posts, while Roosevelt discusses currency elasticity with Senators Millard and Hepburn. Diplomatic changes include Ambassador von Sternberg presenting credentials at Sagamore Hill as Admiral Melville retires from the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Young
Army of the United States
War Department
Army
General Miles
Miles
Corbin
Soldier’s'Home Board
Millard
Nebraska
Hepburn
Idaho
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Sagamore Hill
Baron Lueck von Sternberg
Germany
Ambassador von Holleben
Europe
von Holleben
None but the Brave. Boxer romance ends in Chicago marriage
Phillip Herbert former Olympia gunner who helped a Shanghai widow during the Boxer uprising marries Pearl Seaman, American widow of a Shanghai merchant, in Chicago. He served in Manila Bay and Chinese waters before discharge in February and later learned he inherited 20 000 pounds in England.
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Chicago
China
Phillip Herbert
Pearl Seaman
Shanghai
Gunner Herbert
Manila
Herbert
England
Adverse Talk On Convict Transport And Tonga Landing Incident
Victoria reports by mail show strong opposition in New Caledonia to renewing convict transport. Sir Henry Moore Jackson, Great Britain’s high commissioner, was refused landing at Tonga on HMS Phædrus due to measles. The British consul faced rough treatment from a sentry. An apology from the King followed. Archer and the French ship Meuthé will sit with an Anglo French commission in the New Hebrides, but it delayed by typhoid aboard. A rich gold discovery is reported in Tuona district, Australia, amid a major stampede.
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Victoria
B.C
Aorangi
New Caledonia
Sir Henry Moore Jackson
Great Britain
Tonga
H. M. S. Phades
Fiji
H. M
Archer
Hebrides
Meuthe
Noames
Tuona
Australia
Porto Rican Carpenters Organize Unions
Indianapolis dispatch reports the National Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has received charter applications for three Porto Rico unions. Plan includes studying island climate to estimate death rates before charters are granted.
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Indianapolis
Ind
National Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Porto Rico
Global News in Flux Across Crises and Trials
Reports on Colima volcano eruptions and Macedonia turmoil. Vatican moves stir Liberals. British copyright and tariff battles, Carneg ie library gift to Dublin. Humbert family trial in Paris and a Blake boiler explosion. Kansas woman loses $7300 in a bustle theft. First Texas cotton bale sells for $225 for charity.
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House of Commons
Humbert
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Texas
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DeSoto County
Miss
W. H. Moody
Memphis
Senatobia
George A. Tierney & Co
Vickeburg
Louie Podesta
B. M. Moffett
Frank B. Moore
New Orleans
Moore
Engineer Brown
Maxie
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
McHenry
Delta
McLaurin and Clement
Rolling Fork
McLaurin & Clements
Cardinal Gibbons
Dennis O’connell
Charles P. Grannan
Catholic University At
P. O. Gavan
O’connell
Reform Party
Internal Commerce
Report
George W. Melville
Bureau of Steam Engineering
Charles Rae
Melville
Bureau
Robert Shaw Oliver
Albany
N. Y
William Carey Sanger
Root
Camp Douglas
Wis
Fort Sheridan
State Department
Gudger
Panama
Bogota
Wilson
Howard
Mississippi River
Louisiana Experimental Station
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Columbian Congress
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National Irrigation Congress
Adolphue Busch
St. Louie
Sehwalbach
Ogden
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Clement M. Smith
New Mexico
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Caledonia
Globe
Colima
Macedonia
Balkans
Canada
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Monastir
Turkey
Chamberlain
Alston
Huntsville
Ala
Longley
Potomac River
Bruize
Columbus
Ohio
Sorowitch
National Association of Letter Carriers
Organization
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Widewater
Kansas
St. Paul
Minn
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Blake
Paris
Mexico
London Board of Trade
Andrew Carnegie
Dublin
Alvin Chandliss Road
Louisiana State University
Cincinnati
Francis Kaunts
Houston
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