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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
7
An illustrated review of a striking Mississippi incident where a delayed respite message over telegraph wires led to the death of Will Harvey. Lawyers and officials debate accountability of the message relay and the telegraph company, while the sheriff acted to carry out the lawful respite.
The text quotes section 1082 of the new code banning sale or gift of cigars cigarettes and tobacco to anyone under 18 with penalties of fines or up to three months in jail. The writer urges earnest enforcement and asks newspapers like Poplarville Free Press to join in promoting the law to curb youth smoking.
The Secretary of State has been drafting commissions for newly elected municipal officers across cities towns and villages under the municipal code. Hundreds of commissions are prepared with more arriving from various towns. The task is arduous as even small offices in obscure villages require ornate commissions with gold seals.
The Retail Grocers' Association of Meridian adopted a resolution to use only one telephone, the home line, reducing expense. The Bureau of Forestry plans to send two experts to Mississippi to collaborate with Prof. G L Clothier on pine resource work and potential hardwood studies in the Delta and valleys.
Prof J G Dupree resigns from the State Board due to university workload. Prof Edward L Bailey, Jackson public schools superintendent, is named to fill the vacancy. Prof G W Huddleston and Prof Hurst remain on the board. Spring exams will dictate the next meeting and chairing. Across the river at Petal a suburb grows with moving yards by the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad, a McInnis saw mill, a foreign-backed mill planned, and S D Russell of Jasper County announcing a large new cotton trade center-store building.
Mississippi bonds outstanding and maturing January 1 1907 were redeemed at the treasury under the issuing law. The total paid was 304000 with interest 22367. Bonds issued at various times and rates are represented. much remains outstanding but will be redeemed, reducing future need for new bonds. December ad valorem tax receipts were heavy, with Washington County over 30000.
Counties deploy the 1906 act to form school libraries with county funds matching local efforts. Attala leads, with ten schools already establishing libraries. Miss Mattie Plunkett, state librarian, received Samuel A. Ashe’s Bibliographical History of North Carolina. The Walnut Street Theater in Vicksburg staged The Girl in the Domino, a two act opera by Norval Richardson with music by G W Crock, directed by Blanche Herman, drawing strong local turnout.
Increase noted with December Gulfpil lumber shipments totaling 2,054,20( feet valued at 50,866 dollars. Imports included 72,820 tons of pyrites. The annual lumber shipments reached 293,125,000 feet, versus 207,614,000 feet in 1905. At today’s stockholders meeting of the State Bank, the old directors were re elected.
The Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Twenty fifth infantry, all colored soldiers in the regular army, are ordered to prepare for service in the Philippines with sailings between March 5 and June 5, 1908. Other colored units join later while white regiments delay.Reasoning cites equal foreign service policy and pay boosts. Brownsville affair claimed unfounded.
Andrew Carnegie provides 750000 dollars for a building to house the Bureau of American Republics. The site is already provided by the United States and South American nations, with Congress not required to accept the gift. Past appropriations and contributions from the U S and neighboring countries total toward the project. Other items note the St Petersburg police seeking the identity of an assassin, Gov Hughes' rising influence in GOP primaries, the Merchant Marine League reporting foreign trusts harming shipping, and a Montana timber trespass settlement of 156000 dollars.
A giant powder bomb dropped from an elevated station on Second Avenue near Forty second Street injured three people, two seriously. Salvatore Ciniluca, 39, and Mary Bailey, 40, sustained severe wounds as the blast shattered fruit stand surroundings. Ciniluca’s 15 year old son and others escaped with cuts and bruises while the bomber fled. Authorities routed crowds and ambulances carried victims to hospital. the fruit store keeper is a key witness in a Mulberry Park murder case set for trial next week.
The George D Emery Company of Boston may urge the U S government to send a warship to Bluefields Nicaragua to protect American interests amid a dispute with the Nicaraguan government over the Emery concession. Arbitration was agreed after seizure of the concession for alleged contract violations.
Washington reports United States wealth tops the world except France. Total U S wealth reaches 32.866 billion dollars while France holds 1.561 billion. Per capita U S wealth 38.68, France 39.94. Australia tops per capita, Japan and Russia near bottom. Metals comprise 70.8 percent of money, paper 29.2 percent.
The Rivers and Harbors subcommittee held a hearing for Congress man Watkins on his bill to survey the Sabine river. James McCrea of Pittsburgh was named president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Interstate Commerce Commission opened an inquiry into the Harriman merger. The IC C also began probe of block signal systems on the Baltimore and Ohio and Southern railroads. Incomplete returns for circuit judge show L. E. Hall of Monroe slightly ahead of J. B. Snyder. Actress Elenora Duce is reported ill with pneumonia at Geneva.
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