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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
3
The Bristow postal investigation report has been delivered to President Roosevelt by Postmaster General Payne. The 150000 words plus 500 exhibits suggest a voluminous document to be reviewed with Attorney General Knox. No publication date set, but release to the public will occur as soon as practicable.
Richmond Pearson formerly United States consul at Genoa and minister to Persia was fined $60 and costs for insulting an Italian railway official last December before his appointment.
Des Moines Iowa grand jury returns sixteen indictments against minor city officials charged with systematically blackmailing gambling house keepers and saloon operators. Sixty subpoenas issued to probe alleged corruption across the police department.
The Times reports John Alexander Dowie known as Elijah the Restorer left New York at midnight with his family and baggage in a private car. He refused to disclose his return plans and is said to intend sailing with his family for Australia.
Manila report says the Philippine commissioners issue a proclamation demonetizing the Mexican Dollar effective January 1, 1904. Until then the coin will be accepted at government offices at the usual rate, equal to fifty cents in American money.
H Arnold Forster wins re election to Westminster for Belfast West as secretary of war. He defeats nationalist Patrick Dempsey by a slender 245 vote majority. Forster sat out much of the campaign due to a recent accident.
Governor Lanham imposes a statewide quarantine prohibiting rail traffic and freight to San Antonio due to yellow fever. All trains into or out of the city are halted and no passenger or freight service is allowed in any form.
Rome reports Major Cicco di Cola, the Italian minister to Abyssinia, has been directed to assist United States Consul Skinner of Marseilles in carrying out his mission to King Menelik. The effort includes inviting the Ethiopian monarch to visit the St Louis Exposition.
Port Jervis New York reports farmer Richard Bevans and his wife, living near Dingmans Ferry Pennsylvania, were shot as they sat at a window. Both are gravely wounded and expected to die. The neighborhood searches for the shooter yield no clues.
Philadelphia Commissioner of Immigration Rogers received Washington orders to detain the Welsh miners at the immigration office pending an investigation into alleged violations of contract labor laws.
Oliver E. Pagin, assistant United States district attorney in Chicago, has been appointed assistant attorney in the department of justice at Washington. He led indictments in the post office scandal cases in Washington. Beulah York, 15, was killed by Ora Green who then killed himself on the York farm in Bethel, Me. Green had been a laborer on the farm after the girl rejected his advances. The last of the Americans linked to the Alaska boundary commission left London for Southampton to sail on the Philadelphia to New York. Former Lt. Governor Charles T. Saxton of Clyde, N.Y., is dead.
A new corporation, Santa Barbara Cattle Company, with $100,000 capital, is formed in Santa Barbara. It secures 350,000 acres of grazing land in Mexico near Arizona, to be stocked extensively. The incorporation lists L. F. Swilt of Chicago as a member.
United States District Attorney Lee files a civil suit in Jackson against W. B. Leak and J. P. Myers over 280000 feet of pine timber taken from government lands in Covington County valued at 3920 dollars. Case slated for November term, with more to follow nationwide Justice Department guidance. Oyster bed robberies lead to capture of a Swede named Pascka after he was caught taking two boatloads of oysters near Biloxi.
Burglars robbed J H Powers and Sample Burwell Co at Ebenezer twelve miles from Lexington of about 500 dollars. They mounted a store horse, rode to Durant, removed bridle and saddle, then escaped on the railroad. The same two stores were robbed about two years earlier in a similar escape.
A serious cutting scrape near Black Water, Daleville, left farmer Shumake and son badly wounded along with Ben Martin and his son, two Negroes. A gate dispute sparked the clash, while the county poorhouse at Scranton burned, its keeper’s wife and infant saved. Buildings valued at 2500 with 1500 insured.
Fire destroyed the old plantation home four miles north of Raymond, known as the Jones or Ester place. Owned by L. Gaddis, it had been rented to Col. Noyes for a boys' school who moved in only weeks ago. The house was probably worth 500 dollars.
A blaze destroyed the Macon Compress and Warehouse Company buildings and about 25,000 bales of cotton, with only 400 bales saved. High winds threatened the Mobile and Ohio Railroad station but was saved by citizen and trainman efforts. Most cotton owned by buyers carried insurance. Total loss exceeds $175,000. a new press will be ready by season’s end.
Government thermometer readings show a minimum of thirty two degrees in many sections a few nights ago. The first killing frost of the season occurred that night but farmers say it came too late to seriously affect cotton crops.
All traffic was stopped on the South ern Railway between Meridian and Selma by the burning of two trestles. Near Selma, all trains were transferred to the Alabama Great Southern at Akron. Repairs will take several days.
The Iowa Park Commissioners select a site for the National Park monument in Vicksburg. The spot lies just south of the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad between Federal and Confederate Avenues.
James Golden a switchman at the yards in Vicksburg was seriously hurt after falling from the top of a box car. He suffered multiple broken ribs and other injuries in the incident reported a few nights ago.
A Water Valley trial featuring Birdie Wilkes produced landmark rhetoric as jurors weighed one of the era’s notable criminal cases with eloquent speeches from both sides.
Ben Westbrook of twelve miles northeast of Liberty struck Pinkney Jacobs during a store robbery. The ball entered the chest and exited the back, causing instant death. Investigators classify the incident as a fatal confrontation during a crime.
Percy Webb, aged 15, sustained serious injuries near Liberty after a tree he was cutting fell. A limb struck another tree, and that trunk hit him on the head.
Monroe Bullock a young negro was struck by mail train No 1 as it reached Brookhaven a few mornings since and sustained a broken arm and thigh. The German navy department to the Associated Press says 1904 shipbuilding plans are unchanged with three small cruisers sought and no torpedo boats needed for now. It expects twenty one modern battleships by 1910 and thirty eight by 1920 with seventeen replacing old ships.
The London Lancet reports a French hospital nurse attempted suicide by swallowing two tubes of Eberth typhoid bacillus. She developed a brief typhoid fever over eight days, with early headache and later visible spots but apparently survived.
Butte Montana district court Judge Clancey decided the Minnie Healy mining case in favor of Augustus Heinze, delivering a pivotal ruling in a headline making dispute over claims and control of mining interests.
Jacques Lebandy, the self styled emperor of Sahara, may be banished from France after his yacht Fracquita visited the Moroccan coast. The government has issued a prosecution under a penal code provision that bans actions exposing Frenchmen to reprisals by foreigners when not government approved.
The report urges laws to create information bureaus to steer steerage immigrants toward farming regions, warns of alien communities in cities, and calls for tightening naturalization rules. It links immigration to political and moral risk and recommends distributing newcomers across the country. It notes congressional filibuster threats over Cuban reciprocity and the Isthmian Canal.
John O Keene Kentucky trainer who was suspended nine months by Russian officials for alleged dope use has returned from St Petersburg. He plans a few months in Kentucky and will sail for Russia in February. His record of 116 winning races is the best in Europe.
Officials warn that Senator Arciniegas’ push could spark U S Colombia tensions over a possible canal across the Isthmus while observers call Colombia’s opening talks a bluff. In banking news First National Bank of Allegheney plans to resume operations under receiver John P Cunningham. Also, Judge William C Hook may be nominated to the U S circuit court for the eighth circuit. Navy reports Maine’s arrival at Newport News and a strong 24 hour run. Agricultural push against boll weevil and Landvoigt resigns as Chief of Classification. Interior Department needs 156 million next year. Brown Caught: John K Brown, longtime Union Bank cashier, embezzlement case ends with arrest in San Francisco.
Adolph Strausser of Buffalo reported to President Huber that the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners will merge into one organization on January 1, 1908. The new body will retain the brotherhood name.
The Costopay volcano near Guayaquil, Ecuador has remained active for several days with ongoing signs of activity. Local authorities monitor ash emissions and ground tremors as residents report minor lava flow concerns and unsettled skies.
Detectives arrested Leroy Thompson at Seventh and Chestnut streets for being a dangerous suspicious character. He failed to answer questions and eight keys were found on him. Thompson appeared before Judge Hughes and was fined $25 or 30 days.
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