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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1897
Page
2
A jumble of short items notes wheat crop claims, a doctor’s baldness cure, post office rulings on boycotts, a coal shipment record on the Ohio, and a hypnotic theater performance. It catalogs social, legal, and technological tidbits with names like St Louis, Horner, and Ket Karnin, plus commentary on juries and the civil service.
The column reports Gex, a Cuban insurgent commander, sending a letter to President McKinley and Cleveland urging a remonstrance against Spanish cruelties in Cuba. It notes nominations, Vatican encyclical talk, Cuba inquiry commissioner, tariff talks, and various international and domestic incidents including disasters, strikes, and public notices from early 1900s.
A fragmented Mississippi dispatch covers a brutal street murder in Quitman county where two Beeson brothers were killed, a confession from a suspect about robbed clothes and money, and mob justice in Jonestown. It also notes illicit still raiding in Pontotoc, a fatal freight-train accident at Iuka, a habeas corpus hearing in Aberdeen, and further local crimes and civic notes from Holly Springs to McComb City.
A trade report notes general trade improving with rising prices in many sectors and a shift in western markets, while New England shows mixed results with regional declines. Separately, four leaders of the Button Gang were hanged in Santa Fe for the murder of ex Sheriff Chavez, with authorities securing the jail and reporting a calm scene.
Kuh, Nathan & Tisher firm messenger Sehalte with Wilson were attacked near Rock Island depot. A stranger struck Schultz, bound and gagged him, then fled with a satchel containing $7,100. Schultz and Wilson were found unconscious an hour later. In Kansas City, Frank J Jackson, owner of Jackson laundries, was murdered by Dr. Goddard after a quarrel over his wife. In Georgia, convict Frank Dent died when struck by lightning while chained at a tree during a prison work detail.
The Blane brothers were executed in Lafayette La at 2 p m in front of about 3000 spectators for the murder of Simon Rognand a Scott La merchant. They bound gagged him opened his safe with his key and stabbed him to death after weeks abroad. They were under 20. They confessed. The Headsman of the Post Office Department will make Fifty Appointments. Dew Washington April A Boston syndicate plans Corbett versus Fitzsimmons in New York with 15000 purse and strict conditions.
Dr Fenton B Turck used a machine like an egg beater to launder the inside of a man's stomach at the post graduate medical school. Roentgen rays let him view the internal area as the device worked, marking a new era of progress in the medical field. The experiment was the first of its kind conducted with the operator in full view.
The article reviews legislative clashes over a bill to ban prize fighting and a joint resolution for Mississippi River life and property protection funding. It notes senate and house actions, including nominations to pensions and interior posts, plus an airship sighting near Kansas City and international dispatches about Austria and the US president's forthcoming trip.
Mise Saran Swiru of North Park Street Chillicothe Ohio reports months of ill health with back pain sleepless nights and loss of appetite. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla she regained appetite sleep and flesh and now feels improved and continues the tonic.
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