Tragedy near Jackson as officers confront armed suspect
Constable Van Buren and Constable Tilford with Ben Chisholm pursued a suspected thief from a New Orleans & Great Northern camp. A confrontation at a negro woman's house led to Van Buren and Tilford being shot, Tilford fatally, and the suspect Jerry Robinson killed by barbed wire while fleeing.
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van Buren
Tilford
Ben Chisholm
Illinois Central
Jackson
Bryan
New Orleans
Great Northern
Jerry Robinson
Constable van Buren
Puppee
Chisholm
Revenue Agent Seeks 1000 Dollar Commission
State Revenue Agent Wirt Adams plans to sue Harrison county and Biloxi Gulfport authorities to recover a 20 percent commission on back tax collections. He maintains statutory authorization to receive the fee, totaling over 1000 dollars. Authorities dispute his right, though Adams often wins such suits and his lawyers expect payment.
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Wirt Adams
Board of Supervisors
Harrison County
Municpal
Biloxi
Gulfport
Vicksburg Post Office Adds Clerks After Washington Order
Postmaster Mulvihill reports increased staff at the Vicksburg office after Washington approved two additional clerks. The office added a clerk tier weeks earlier and about three months ago two more clerks. Vicksburg now serves as the paying office for all rural delivery carriers in the state due to postal fund duties and growing business.
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Mulvihill
Washington
Vicksburg
Malvihill
Millsaps College Day Aims to Raise Endowment
Millsaps College Day will be observed on the third Sunday in September across two Mississippi Methodist conferences. The event seeks to boost the endowment fund, ongoing for months under Rev. T. W. Lewis, with plans to dedicate the new Millsaps Carnegie library building, a $30,000 structure, in late October on campus.
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Millsaps College
Methodist Church
Mississippi
Millsaps College Day
T. W. Lewis
Millsaps-Carnegie Library
Guntown Player Breaks Collar Bone In Game
During a match between Guntown and Nettleton, Dr Will Bryson playing right field for Guntown fell and broke his collar bone. Dr Feemster treated and set the fracture at the field.
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Guntown
Nettleton
Will Bryson
Feemster
Bank Construction Planned in Ferriday Louisiana
William Stiedenroth of Natchez closed a contract to erect a $4,500 building for a newly organized bank at Ferriday Louisiana. The bank was organized last week.
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Ferriday
William Stiedenroth
Natchez
Distress at Judge Truly Family Home in Fayette
Family and friends of Judge Truly express distress over reports concerning the judge and his son amid concerns about appendicitis at the family home in Fayette. Neighbors note support and await further updates on the situation.
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Judge Truly
Judge Jef Truly
Fayette
Southern Cotton Association Launches Reorganization Drive
The Southern Cotton Association has begun an energetic reorganization campaign to revive farmer interest in Mississippi. Clark will visit key cotton counties this month to meet with local branch officers. Executive officers meet in Jackson on September 5 to energize Mississippi’s work before the general gathering.
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Southernton Association
Mississippi
Clark
South
Jackson
Mississippi Telegraphers Strike Deepens Across State
Mississippi feels the telegraphers strike worsen with widespread business paralysed in major offices and delivery hampered in smaller towns. Led by C H McElreath of Memphis Local No 12, strikers receive daily bulletins urging continued absence until an official settlement. News coverage scarce on telegraph pages as press associations push to move reports.
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Mississippi
C. H. McElreath
Memphis
Pension Blanks Readied for Confederate Pensioners
State Auditor T. M. Henry reports many new applications for Confederate pension blanks beyond those already sent out. He expects a heavier fall distribution to meet pensioners needs for holiday and winter supplies and aims to have reapplications ready by mid October or earlier.
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T. M. Henry
Mr. Henry
Episcopal girls college to be built in Vicksburg
The new $100,000 Episcopal diocese school for girls will be located in Vicksburg with Bishop Bratton as chair of the diocesan council committee authorized to receive proposals. The offer includes a $32,500 cash bonus and a 25 acre tract near the National Military Park. Details of acceptance are being arranged with title examination first.
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Episcopal Diocesan College
Vicksburg
Bratton
National Military Park
Meridian Truck Growers Feast At Mount Barton
Lauderdale County hosts the Meridian Fruit and Truck Growers Association annual outing at Mount Barton with barbecue and Brunswick stew. The group is described as a strong, far reaching institution bringing good results to its members and their invited friends.
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Meridian
Lauderdale County
Meridian Fruit and Truck Growers’ Association
Mount Barton
Southland
Crops Improve In Montgomery County Prospects Brighten
Crop prospects in Montgomery County have improved due to recent showers. Late corn would benefit from a heavy soaking rain. Peas and sweet potatoes look best in years, though few peas were planted because seed is scarce.
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Montgomery County
Showes May Live After Fatal Shooting Near Magee
John Showes, who shot and killed his wife and attempted suicide at the couple's home seven miles north of Magee, is under arrest and believed to survive his self inflicted wounds.
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Showes
John Showes
Magee
Will
The Dry South Moves Toward Prohibition
A Harper’s Weekly survey highlighted the temperance wave across the South as states shift toward prohibition. Kentucky shows 90 of 119 counties without liquor licenses while Tennessee is dry except for Memphis Nashville and Chattanooga. Texas North Carolina and Mississippi report widespread saloon closures. The movement emphasizes abstinence from saloons over general liquor ban, reshaping Southern politics and daily life.
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New York City
Kentucky
Edward Lissner
Harper's Weekly
Tennessee
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
Texas
North Carolina
South Carolina
Mississippi
Georgia
Lissner
Knoxville Sentinel
Anti-Saloon League
South
Carolinas
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Maine
North Dakota
Union
Massachusetts
Vermont
Rhode Island
Iowa
United States
Georgia Prohibition Becomes Law After House Vote
Georgia moves toward a prohibition law as the House approves the Senate bill by 139 to 39. Amendments allow prescription liquor sales by retail druggists and stock sales to retailers by wholesale druggists, with January 1 1908 as the effective date. The measure now returns to the Senate and then to Governor Hoke Smith for signature.
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Atlanta
Georgia Senate
House
Senate
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Seat price on NYSE falls to new low at 71500
The New York Stock Exchange traded a seat for 71500, the lowest price in years. The previous sale stood at 73900, while the 1906 record was 95000, showing a sharp decline in seat values.
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New York Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
Cotton Stock Heavy Stuns New York Market
In New York City the stock of low grade cotton breaks all records for this period. Market observers warn the downturn may persist for an extended time, signaling a long drag ahead.
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New York City
Ohio Indorses Taft for Republican Nomination
Ohio Republican State Committee endorses William H Taft for President, with 15 signatures supporting the candidacy amid pressures in Congress. A separate note says Japan seeks U S help to stop smuggling of Japanese laborers across its borders, and the country ranks support to curb this activity.
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Ohio
Taft
William H. Taft
Republican State Committee
Calimbus
Ntc
Rorakersand
United States
Strike situation leaves telegraph firms steady in Chicago
Union officials reiterate no progress in the strike as peacemakers fail to move the dispute. Western Union reports seven men called from twenty states with only scattered returns. Postal and Western Union say the general strike order had no impact on operations, while companies claim they are in better shape than before.
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Chicago
Western Union
United States
Postal
Capitol fraud report calls for criminal action in Pennsylvania
Investigating committee's report to Governor Stuart urges criminal and civil actions against all parties involved in the Capitol construction and procurement fraud. Eighteen individuals are named. the attorney general is urged to act immediately. The report notes a $1.53 million cost for goods sold by Sanderson and the Pennsylvania Construction company at a total of $6.43 million.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Capitol Investigation Commission
Stuart
Pennypacker
Board of Public Grounds
Stone
Sanderson
Pennsylvania Construction Company
Gloomy Outlook for Far East Politics in Pekin
Private dispatches from Pekin predict a bleak future due to political instability in China. The empress dowager, once sole ruler, is gravely ill and has played ministers against each other to avoid centralizing power. As the empress wanes and Manchu mandarins clash, the government faces a baffling, unstable situation.
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Far East
Tokio
Pekin
Six poisoned by condensed milk in Arkansas fishing trip
Paragould Arkansas reports that six people affected by drinking condensed milk on a fishing trip are beyond hope of recovery. The group includes Zollie Carpenter and his wife and Mrs Jane Cravens and her three children from Brookland near Paragould. Two Cravens children remain unconscious.
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Paragould
Ark
Zollie Carpenter
Jane Cravens
Brookland
Cravens
Mine Gage Drops in Sonman Shaft Disaster
In Pittsburg Pennsylvania a mining cage malfunction at Sonman shaft sent eight miners upward instead of down. The cage toppled at the top of the tipple, overturning and throwing five men into the shaft. All five died from the four hundred foot fall.
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Pittsburg
Sonman
Kaiser Pardons Prince Joachim Albrecht in Africa
The Neue Freie Presse reports Kaiser has pardoned Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia banished to German Southwest Africa to separate him from actress Marie Sulzer known as Baroness Leidenburg whom he planned to wed.
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Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Joachim Albrecht
Prussia
Africa
Leidenburg
Marie Sulzer
Pierpont’s cows in Highland Falls hit by tuberculosis
Tuberculosis has been discovered in the dairy herd owned by J. Pierpont Morgan of Highland Falls New York. Six of the nineteen highbred milk cows have been killed. The herd consisted entirely of cows with no table pedigrees.
Two New Yellow Fever Cases Reported in Cuba
Advices from Cuba state two new yellow fever cases at Cienfuegos. One patient is a hospital corpsman and the other a Spaniard. A further case is reported from Alacranes.
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Washington
Cuba
Cienfuegos
Hospital Corps
Alacranes
Sultans Sincerity on Turmoil Hopes Split Council Views
Private Tangier letters from Fez say the sultan is sincere in seeking to halt the troubles, though advisers are divided. Fez consuls are guarded by troops, and a European departure would trigger a signal. The muted dispatch notes caution among officials about further complications.
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Sultan
Tangier
Fez
New Tariff Debates Stir Up Congress Ahead
New Orleans reports a brewing tariff clash as Secretary Root pursues reciprocity with Germany and France. The Dingley act allows executive deals, but Germany’s changes promise a congressional showdown, risking a long tariff fight as Congress convenes.
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New Orleans
La—A Picayune
Germany
Root
Executive Department
France
England
United States
Congress
State Department
Senate
Bubonic Plague Strikes Frisco Washington
Bubonic plague has broken out in San Francisco and already one death has resulted. The Marine Hospital Service reports three cases and death with diagnosis by clinical signs and stained smears. Foci near Chinatown prompted local boards to disinfect infected buildings and plan rat-control campaigns.
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Washington
San Francisco
San Fransico
Marine Hospital Service
Long
Chinatown
Austin
Farmers Pray for Rain in Jonesboro Arkansas
About twenty four farmers from north of Jonesboro met at the Philadelphia church to pray for rain. A small afternoon shower fell but was not enough to wet crops. It marked the first shower in about thirty six days and crops especially young corn were withering and drying up quickly.
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Jonesboro
Ark
City
Philadelphia
Colonel Hiram Bell Dies Atlanta Statesman and Confederate Leader
Colonel Hiram P. Bell, aged 90, died in Atlanta. He was the last surviving member of the Confederate congress and famed for his statesmanship and legal skill. Bell served as a Confederate army colonel, member of secession conventions, and in both the Confederate and United States Congress as well as state legislatures.
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Atlanta
Hiram P. Bell
Confederate Congress
Georgia
Bell
United States’ Congress
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