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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
2
A sweeping, disorderly clippings page lists varied items from New York and Chicago on parlor matches to monuments, world fairs, coal and public health debates, railroad pay, Boer War figures, Cuban tensions, and religious commentary. It mixes political opinion, crime talk, and international notes with biographical asides and fresh references.
Charles Holloway of Clinton Iowa won a $2,000 prize for his World’s Fair emblem design chosen from nearly 400 entries. The five figure poster features a central woman representing Louisiana, with Columbia and France imagery, Progress and Rectitude, and borders symbolizing agriculture, commerce, art, and science. Holloway, 43, educated in St Louis, later taught art and worked in Chicago in stained glass.
Expo officials stake a large Jerusalem site inside the World's Fair grounds. Dr Palmore and others map gates and sacred points like the Mount of Olives, Vale of Kedron, Garden of Gethsemane, and Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Concessions secured from Catholic orders. dedication planned with ground breaking.
In Armourdale Kansas two packinghouse workers Ernest Damas and Charles Tucker fought a pistol duel over Mabel Randall. Damas was mortally wounded and fatally shot Tucker as he lay. Tucker had fired at Damas as they met on the street, but Damas returned fire while wounded.
Auditor Cole says the oyster tax is tracking the forecast with about $20,000 annual revenue and $5,000 for oyster bed improvements under the oyster commission. The treasury has $2,155.75 from the tax so far this season, after $1,055 spent on salaries and startup costs for the inspection and taxation system.
New York reports Florence Burns the Brooklyn woman once accused and exonerated in Walter Brooks’s murder has wed Charles W. Wildrick. Wildrick, son of late Lieut-Col Abram C Wildrick, faced a prior arrest for passing a bad check at the Hotel Gerard. His companion Mabel Strong died soon after at St Luke's hospital after accompanying him to Cleveland.
Berlin reports the Kreuz Zeitung comments on Ambassador White's letter to Henry Seligman about Hebrews in Roumania. It says the ambassador should first address his own faults before judging others. It notes Romanian Jews fare better than African Americans, facing no lynching or mobbed funeral processions as in New York and Chicago.
Lancaster Kentucky November 29 sheriff Lawson sold three enslaved people after circuit court order. Charles Anderson bought for 7 dollars, Belle Griffin and Emma Reed for 5 dollars each for terms of one and three years. They were convicted for vagrancy and ordered to highest bidder. Death by electrocution in Omaha. Michael Shields found dead with live wires, burns on hands, knife nearby with copper particles.
Austrian Max Sukawatsky leaped seven stories from East Seventy fourth street after shooting Julia Gerber who refused to elope. Sukawatsky died instantly. Gerber was shot in the arm and shoulder. The weapon was a large caliber duelling pistol. Reports from other cities note Fanning's apoplexy death, Isaac Van Brimer's 108 years, William Ross's confession to another murder, and an unconstitutional inheritance tax ruling.
A coroner’s jury in Crystal Springs investigates the death of Mrs. B. Boyd from suspected poisoning. Witnesses describe changing medicines, a dying declaration naming the husband, and an orange with a blue-looking hole. Neighbors note Boyd’s attention to Mrs. Artman and his purchase of rough on rats.
Paducah Ky Nov 30 The City of Savannah was floated off Cottonwood bar today and towed here by the Dick Clyde. She grounded August 1 on her inaugural trip Jeffersonville to Paducah for the St Louis and Tennessee River trade. The steamer, owned by the St Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company, sustained no damage.
A comic tale features lawyer John McSweeney exposing a plaintiff in a leg injury case, revealing both legs crooked to taunt the jurist. The judge orders the second leg shown, and McKinley quips the plaintiff’s treatment by nature. The narrative sits among assorted anecdotes and notices about Epworth, a martyrs tale, and German health remedies.
A Chicago reader reprints glowing testimonials about Peruna from Maggie Welch praising dramatic relief from severe cold and lung trouble. The note urges readers to request literature from the Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus Ohio. The clip also includes scattered anecdotes and quotes on cures and manners from various sources.
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