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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
6
A Mississippi report covers Birdsong receiving a life sentence for murder, with his remorseful courtroom plea invoking return of the dead man’s life. The piece also summarizes a drainage commission report, bank statements, a church baptism, a Magnolia fire loss, and notes on rescue home plans and Indiana monuments dedication.
Mississippi farmers packed meeting venues during the Boll Weevil Special tour as experts urged diversified crops over a sole cotton policy. The outreach stressed profitable, ready markets for noncotton crops and warned against continuing the all cotton approach. In Lake, George Pace shot and wounded Dr. W. Moody during a dispute over an account, after Moody allegedly used strong language. Ganasi faces a circuit court case over its absorption into Seminary and whether the board’s appeal to the supreme court allows enforcement of municipal ordinances.
Mrs E E Graham of Eatonville county suffers a gunshot wound to the left lung from an accidental discharge by her husband while the pair were in a field after a few weeks of marriage. Doctors fear she may not survive as the rabbit hunting outing went awry.
Ace Hamilton, an African American man, was seriously injured while attempting to board a south bound local freight in Hat tiesburg. He slipped, was dragged along a long trestle, and struck by box cars causing severe foot and leg injuries. He was taken to the South Mississippi Infirmary where part of his foot was amputated.
President elect Taft announces United States Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania will serve as secretary of state. The selection follows Knox’s telegram accepting the premiership offer and Taft’s rapid confirmation after consultation with Secretary Root.
Ira Hatch, a well known Dudley resident, was fatally shot by Badger J Bowden mayor of Dudley after an exchange when Hatch accused Bowden of shooting his dog. Hatch's son fired back wounding Bowden, but not fatally. Local reports place the incident in Goolsboro North Carolina with police expecting investigation.
P S Merrill of Jackson was unanimously chosen president of the Cotton States base ball league at a directors meeting in Jackson Mississippi. Col Walter Weaver of Columbus was named vice president. Merrill, 35, a Harvard graduate and head of the G B Merrill & Brother lumber firm, previously led the Capital City Association.
Chicago report says Summit, a town thirty miles from Chicago, hosts a stockade surrounding a plant thirty feet high. Workmen are kept in debt to their employers and treated as prisoners with some escaping by digging a tunnel under the stockade. The district attorney is investigating the charges.
War claims measure approved provides $215,820 relief to Citizens Bank of Louisiana. Funds seized by Gen Ben Butler in 1862 are cited as the basis, with the claim long argued in the Court of Claims and Senate proceedings.
In Kentucky a mob dragged Elmer Hill from Monticello jail and hanged him at Greasy Creek after breaking down the cell door. Hill had been charged with murdering his cousin Mary Womack in Adair county. No shots were fired. The mob formed from Adair and Russell counties, then dispersed.
The senate committee on appropriations will carry out the intent of the senate to investigate President Roosevelt's secret service message. The matter will be delayed until after the holidays, then a meeting will be held to name a subcommittee with Senator Hemenway of Indiana as probable chairman.
Four Graeters were sentenced in Harrisburg to two years in the penitentiary and a $500 fine plus costs. The defendants include John H Sander son contractor for furnishing the new state capitol ex Auditor General W P Snyder ex State Treasurer W L Mathues and ex Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings Jas M Shumaker convicted of conspiracy to defraud the state in the first case arising from the capital scandal.
Christmas in New York foresees a prosperous season for Wall Street workers with looser money bags and brighter gifts than last year. Brokers expect employees to roam with larger presents, ending pockets fuller and spirits higher in the financial district.
Charles Abbott, a Hampton merchant, was shot and killed at his store, and his brother Bun Abbott, the county treasurer, was wounded by two unnamed Black men after a dispute over a business transaction. Intense excitement spreads as multiple posses pursue the assailants.
In Philadelphia an amateur bout at the Broadway Athletic Club ended in tragedy as James Curren aged 11 died after a chin blow in a match against Benjamin Barnet age 17. Curren was the sole support of his widowed mother and the death followed a day of try-outs witnessed by a large crowd.
Eleven year old Jo Hope, son of City Judge La Hope, was seriously wounded in Alexandria Louisiana when a blank pistol cartridge turned out loaded with a BB. The incident involved Jack McDonald and occurred during play. Also reported in New York Rockefeller Jr faced criminal libel charges over a New York American article alleging peonage.
Chicago authorities hunt a religious fanatic believed to have set five fires in Englewood and nearby districts. Police church leaders and fire officials pursue clues as Frank J. Logan cites information toward arrest in this crusade to solve the mystery.
Miss B I Sisson a Forest Green Md Seminary teacher confirms that on Thanksgiving Day President Roosevelt rebuked four young ladies and rode past with a crop strike. The party rode four abreast. a horse crowd and a blow to a rider followed by a glare as the president rejoined his companions. The women, unnamed to protect their families, felt mortified and unnamed.
Somerville mass district attorney orders inquiry into six deaths in Mrs Mary Kelleher family over three years while she awaits sanity exam in Cambridge jail. Reports mention life insurance payouts to Mrs Kelleher amid the case.
In Danville Virginia the defense called defendant W Belt Samuels as first witness after the Commonwealth rested in the murder trial of Sheriff William V Flannagan. Commonwealth Attorney Thomas Hamlin argued Samuels’ prior perjury conviction in a U S court disqualified him from testifying even for himself. Court adjourned without ruling.
A Manila cable reports ten soldiers of the Eighteenth Infantry at Keithley Mindanao died after drinking columbic acid disguised as a native beverage called vino on December 15. Some died the same day and others the next. Army officials cite the anti-canteen law as the cause.
Shreveport Louisiana mayor Dickson pleaded guilty in city court to playing poker three months before his election and was fined twenty five dollars or twenty five days by Judge Fullilove. The fine was paid.
While lying on a sick bed in a local hotel Mrs Lucrece Godwin Rogers of Bear Station Delaware married her attorney Charles D Stockley of Wilmington who accompanied her here to manage her landed interests. Rogers widow of Theod ire Rogers nephew of Rogers Locomotive Works head. She is several years Stockley’s senior.
New York reports the Council of Jewish Women through Dr. Cornell H. Kahn calls on newspapers to curb indecent details in court evidence at murder and divorce trials. The appeal notes support from prominent individuals and groups and urges conservative treatment of the Lavis murder case to protect homes and children from demoralizing details.
In New York, after a dispute over a $650 debt tied to financing an electric vibrating company, Denis B. Suydam a mining stock broker and curb market figure, was shot in his Broad Street office by inventor John C. Lumsden. Lumsden says the money was owed him and accuses an attempt to defraud him.
Seminary Mississippi reports Mason Lumber Company worker R. L. Ready killed when engine on the dummy line turned over during a curve about three miles from the mill. Ready, an engineer and skidder operator from Dothan Alabama, left a wife and four children.
Four year old Marga O Leary of Chicago saved pennies and purchased a Christmas gift for her father, but he died at a railroad crossing. She placed a wreath of flowers on his casket, the blossoms spelling Papa's last Christmas present, a poignant farewell from a child.
A fatal shooting affray in Glading near Magnolia Miss ends with Frank Newman dead and Tyrn McClendon mortally wounded after a quarrel between the Newman and McClendon families, traced to a store burnings weeks earlier.
New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer arrives at Newport News aboard the yacht Liberty with companions to examine canal zone conditions and likely gather evidence for government plans to acquire canal property.
Six masked robbers dynamited safes at Keene's Farmers State Bank and the Commercial Bank of Gibbons, fled in an automobile with about $5,500 after a pitched battle with residents. One wounded robber likely carried away by comrades as posses pursue. Separately, 5000 gulls fought over fish off New York City Battery, creating a whitecap sea scene.
A shooting affray in Garden City Louisiana left Sydney Robchaux dead and J Coleman fatally wounded after a dispute escalated as several participants drew guns and exchanged fire. More than fifty shots were fired in the confrontation with both white and Black men involved.
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