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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1907
Page
9
H E Blakeslee notes a Mississippi editorial urging calm in business and social life. It praises prudence, fairness to employees, and optimism, urging personal self control and a constructive path forward. The piece also covers farming gains, cattle and stock growth, cabbage trucking profits, and regional civic developments.
The article notes doubt over a farmer's claim against the telephone corporation's state monopoly. It promises full publicity once the contract copy is secured. President Lewis of the Hinds County board of supervisors records support for purchasing bloodhounds for criminals, with details to follow.
Isaac Stephen Son was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin to succeed Jo Spooner. The change follows the resignation or departure of Spooner, signaling a new representative for the state.
A fragment notes Hinds County in the state capital region has lagged in road improvement, and that a recent supervisors meeting discussed pursuing better conditions, aiming to follow up on efforts despite uncertain court outcomes.
Senate investigators heard two witnesses describe August 13 gunfire in Brownsville. Lieut Dominguez and Policeman Padrone led accounts of armed men, believed to be soldiers, firing through the town. Other testimonies described shouting, flying bullets, and voices deemed by witnesses as those of black soldiers.
Charles A. Edwards secretary of the Democratic congressional committee was arrested charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. He posted a $2000 bond after allegedly stabbing Alejandro Garland attache of the Peruvian legation. A janitor filed the complaint following a dispute between Edwards and a Mrs. Scott at the capitol, with Edwards later held at the capitol police office.
From every State east of the Mississippi and including Missouri Arkansas Louisiana Texas and Ontario Canada terrapin scale the enemy of peach and other trees has been reported to the Department of Agriculture. Specimens have been received by the Bureau of Entomology and a circular warns of its wide food range on wild and cultivated trees. It notes the pest can be controlled but never eradicated. Lime sulphur wash, effective against San Jose scale and peach leaf curl, is worthless for terrapin scale.
Mr Bowers presented to Dr Wy man Surgeon General for the Public Health and Marins Hospital Service a petition from citizens of Pascagou examined and furnished at that instant of Toland ship. Gent took the matter under advise ment with the promise of an early answer.
Representative Bowers of Mississippi pressed the dredge project authorized by the rivers and harbors bill. He met with army engineers and discussed cost sharing of 200000 dollars with Gulfport 25000 and Pascagoula 50000. They floated borrowing the Barnard dredge for tests, awaiting Gen. MacKenzie’s return to decide.
Oklahoma Republicans plan to petition Attorney General Bonaparte to interpret the new state constitution election ordinance as a possible route to call an August or September election for state and county officers. A Guthrie committee traveled to Washington with Governor Frantz to meet with administration officials and pressed for Roosevelt to address homestead restrictions affecting mixed breed and full-blood people capable of managing their own affairs. Roosevelt indicated he would consider the issue but did not commit to action.
The State Department indicated that American warships now in Central American waters will be retained for some time. The Marietta remains at Puerto Cortez, the Paducah at Port Barrios, and the Yorktown is taking Minister Merry from Costa Rica to Acatula.
A statement from the Bureau of Statistics in the Department of Commerce and Labor notes a continued drop in canned beef exports. The April figures show imports and trade falling across multiple countries, with the April output at 421,000 pounds versus 421,000 pounds in the same month last year.
Abraham Ruef, pale and distressed, pleads guilty to extortion in Judge Dunn's court after previously denying the charge. He speaks of reform and sacrifice, then collapses with emotion as his lawyers withdraw over a dispute. The judge continues the case for two weeks for sentence.
A city figure defends a troubled record after press scrutiny and announces resolve to aid reform. He claims a once honored professional life and a desire to combat corrupt public officials, promising to work as a humble citizen to topple a flawed political machine.
Washington reports rising international tension due to Marshal Collins of Glen Echo Maryland who halted and shot at the auto of W von Rodowitz second secretary of the German embassy. The diplomat was reprimanded and allowed to go after a $50 fine. Rodowitz threatened to complain to the State Department. Collins defends enforcing local law against all.
San Francisco mayor statements to the Evening Post deny handing over governance to any person or commission. He says a Committee of Fifty was formed for crisis advisory work, denies paying bribes to Ruef, and asserts he retains prerogatives and authority.
Vera Cruz dispatch reports Miller, a San Antonio millionaire, arrested in Texan Mexico for alleged cruelties toward employees, with some dying from effects. He is jailed awaiting investigation.
In Dallas Georgia Hugh Starr 13 son of J G Starr was killed when a Southern Railway train struck him as he tried to save his younger brother from a trestle. He pushed the younger child to safety then was fatally struck. The injured child had an arm broken from the fall.
Wheat options for July September and December jumped above the dollar and stayed there at close. A market brain storm fueled buying orders and set a new volume record. California sent orders for half a million bushels to be delivered at granaries, with projected state production nearing ten million bushels.
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