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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
6
Attorney General Fletcher filed suit to recover 2 573 acres of land alleged fraudulently patented in Winston county and held by Sumpter Lumber Company. Similar to a prior case, the law limits a single person to patent 160 acres per year.
Dr. 8. H. McLean, Secretary of the State Board of Health, plans action against unlicensed medical practitioners. He holds reliable information on many already practicing wildcat medicine in the state and has circulated a letter to every county health officer to alert both the public and officials.
A Mississippi snapshot reports a $6,000 fire loss in Cleveland and a Yazoo City passenger wreck with one seriously injured. In Waynesboro a black man, George Toombs, is hanged for murder. two white girls in Claiborne County are sent to a Salvation Army home in Birmingham. Other items flag a planned sewer project in Brookhaven, Cuban lumber shipments, and political moves by Republican officials.
State Revenue Agent Wirt Adams mails second and final notices to Hinds County and Jackson delinquents for back taxes aiming to settle all disputes in two to three months. Sheriffs and tax collectors around the state report July settlements, with over $3,000 received in the State Treasury as 1907 collections end near February.
Planters in the Delta express considerable uneasiness over the general rains and their impact on the fast advancing cotton crop. While some recovery is possible, much damage is feared and a shorter crop is anticipated.
Hattie Battles seeks divorce from Felix Battles claiming inability to tame him after marriage. She says he was beneath her station and she hoped to refine him, using this as grounds for dissolution of the marriage. The case highlights social status themes in a Mississippi court filing.
Justice Gaynor defined ordinary betting as not a crime, distinguishing it from betting all comers. The Nassau county case involved St George Sterling accused of violating anti gambling laws by wagering on a golf game’s basketball result.
Havana report notes complete returns missing from four municipalities but finds no fraud island wide. Conservatives win governors in Santa Clara Matanzas and Pinafil Del Rio and Miguelistas in Oriente Camarguery. Zayistas strong in Havana. Alfred Zayas to be eliminated from race, Gomez seen as conservative nominee. Moonal or Leouona potential rivals. Presidential vote expected in December after governor Magoon approval.
Wiley Stewart testified about the oath heard among night riders in Murray. The declaration says members must keep orders, remain silent on secrets, and risk death if betraying the order, with God as witness. The testimony forms part of the Jake Ellis trial in Paducah, Kentucky.
A $500 reward is posted for Ira Cody, accused of murdering Mrs Wade Riggan at Cox's Store in Aberdeen, Mississippi after Cody had fought to save Riggan from her brother-in-law. Cody fled after resisting neighbors with a pistol. Riggan survived, suspecting robbery tied to 31,590 in the house. Cody, described as 6 feet tall, slender, sandy mustache and brown eyes, was visiting at his sister-in-law's home.
Corpus Christi Texas at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College H H Harrington resigned as president saying he did so to relieve the board of embarrassment. Harrington was recently investigated on a long series of charges and was exonerated but there was strong protest against him retaining the presidency from alumni and the patron of the school as he was not in harmony with the student body.
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company pleaded guilty to rebating under counsel in U S District Court Chicago and was fined seven thousand dollars by Judge Beathen. The government showed a bonus paid to Garden City Sugar and Land Company of Garden City Kansas acted as a rebate.
Gov Comer orders additional troops to Blocton district after a midnight attack on a train carrying strike-breakers bound for mines. Three men were killed and eleven wounded amid a coal strike row. Soldiers, deputies, and locals faced a fusillade as logs blocked the track. Bloodhounds tracked eight suspects arrested.
Harry K. Thaw, confined in Duchess County jail, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S Court at Pittsburg. He lists assets of 128012.38 and liabilities of 453140.30. The petition seeks a receiver to halt dissipation of property amid lawsuits over numerous alleged unjust claims by lawyers and doctors.
The Chicago & North Western Railway has completed plans for its New Madison Street passenger terminal. The project is expected to cost about 20,009,000 dollars and will handle over a quarter of a million passengers every 24 hours. Upon completion it will surpass all U S. terminals except Boston's South Station.
Missouri Pacific Railroad orders reopening of locomotive shops in Ison Ossawatomie De Soto and Bar ing Cross and places 2000 cars with American Car and Foundry for repair. Reopening will provide jobs for more than 1 000 men.
Scranton, Pa reports that low water on the Ohio river has crippled the Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet Company. The firm, once among the largest lines on the river, is insolvent and has passed into receivership.
John D. Rockefeller visits a rural cottage near Berea where a thrifty German couple, William Kraus and his wife, with a 14 year old daughter, struggle to pay a mortgage on the old farm. He gives a symbolic one dollar offer to help with the debt while recalling his money-free boyhood days.
Fort Worth Texas police chief Mulkey ordered women prisoners to work on the rock pile to avoid overcrowding. Several workers are white women. The measure aims to use rock pile labor to relieve jail pressure.
St. Petersburg reports 876 condemnations from January 1 to July 1 on the Russian calendar, averaging five executions daily. The article notes the crimes are unspecified but likely murder or robbery, with Russia condemning the regimen.
A sweeping unrest across nations is noted with cabinet resignations in Turkey and political shakeups in the United States. Earthquakes shake Algeria while disasters strike Bisbee Arizona. deportment of leaders and prisoners, strikes, and political maneuvers ripple through continents and headlines.
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