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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1904
Page
2
A miscellaneous column from The Leader of Brookhaven Mississippi cites varied bits. It jokes about Gen Comey, compares hotel and education costs, and notes remarks by Admiral Dewey and Gov elect Higgins. It also touches on Kuropatkin, mosquitoes, rural Free Delivery and the World’s Fair legacy with reflections on wealth, war, and progress.
A Austro-Hungarian emperor selects Admiral Baron von Shaun as the fifth member of the Anglo Russian North Sea commission, joining four others amid potential deadlock. President Woodward of Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co. dies suddenly at a public museum directors meeting.
Mississippi official vote report lists county totals for presidential candidates and Democratic and Republican congressional nominees across six districts. It includes county by county tallies for Grenada Hancock Lincoln Scott Sharkey Simpson Smith Sunflower Tallahatchie Tippah Tishomingo Washington Wayne Webster Wilkinson Winston Yazoo and overall totals with district breakdowns and a Moscow thrust section on a Russian relief.
Moscow reports describe Russian deserters in London living on the streets and seeking aid after exhausting expenditures at the frontier. Hundreds reportedly slept in a synagogue as guards’ funds were spent bribing officials and many remain destitute. A Russian torpedo boat destroyer faced dangerous weather near Tangier, prompting an evacuation warning and alertness at Camaret Bay.
London dispatches report Admiral Kazanakoff claiming the Black Sea fleet will pass the Dardanelles despite British opposition. Moscow reports troop movements toward the Afghan frontier amid fears of a major showdown. Other items note potential export restrictions and legal actions involving the torpedo boat destroyer Carolina and Yarrow & Co.
A Tuesday opening at the Capitol features a brief session with the president’s tariff revision questions looming. New senators Knox and Crane are to be sworn in, public access narrowed, and two new generators ordered. The focus includes possible extra sessions and tariff revision, with Roosevelt’s stance under discussion. Guthrie reports senators Gorman or Stone will introduce statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory next week.
United States and Panama reach terms on a comprehensive order to take effect December 12 subject to congressional sanction. Aimed at free trade, police and sanitary control, with revenues retained by the canal zone and adjusted postal rates. Panama to cut ad valorem duties and consular fees, while preserving separate port rights and transit provisions. Secretary Taft visited Pearl Islands as the first official defalcation case in Ancon is noted with Postmaster Lathrop released on bond.
In Sumner Mississippi Smith Murphy is shot and killed by Jerry Robinson Jr after a long dispute over negro labor. The two planters, both prominent, met in Murphy's commissary around 2 40 pm. Two witnesses, including local laborers, saw the shooting. Robinson surrendered but gave no statement. Nearby reports note burglaries, a boy killed at a Brookhaven mill, a post office safe robbery in Bolivar, and a Chattanooga carnival of crime culminating with a break in at Chief of Police Hill's home.
Knoxv ille Elks held memorial services with graves decorated and a Staube Theater address by Rabbi M Samfield, Memphis Lodge No 27 state chaplain, praised as masterful. Fire strikes H T Hackney warehouse in Knoxville causing total loss of 18 000 with two thirds insured. Saloon raid nets eighteen detained including kin of local police official. Counterfeiting ring busted near Centreville and Nashville. Poultry show in Birmingham eyes 1300+ entries and prize rooster. Cotton seed warehouse fire in Selma caused total loss with 9000 and 400 belts saved from overhaul.
A presidential figure and the cashier were taken into custody by the United States marshal on charges of irregularities tied to the handling of a national bank’s funds. The arrest follows a crackdown on financial misconduct and misuse of bank assets.
A Norse inventor unveils an underwater listening device using a metal plate and microphone linked to a shipboard telephone. Swish watchmakers add phonographs to watches with hourly recordings. Edinburgh showcases a dry seating cover for wet electric cars. Brazilian quartz glass can be heated and cooled without shattering, enabling robust lab glassware and heat resistant test tubes.
A collection of curious notes from various places including Rome Moscow London and Cabul. It mentions a marble leaf book in Rome a busy Moscow marriage market and a stone inscription near Westminster Abbey. Also references mushrooms under Bayswater a Japanese paper kettle and a Kabul durbar with visions of the Haddad Mullah.
The piece lists diverse figures and facts: the late George G. West left an estate of 150000 dollars. Manuel Garcia, once a noted singer, is living in London at 100 years old. Mrs. Lowse G. Smith, a Jefferson relative, died in Louisville. Eight-year-old Lynn Mass. worker Sarah Mc Laughlin binds shoes daily. Cuban official Manuel Lucitaiio Diaz visits the U S to study railroad methods. Dr Chrysander, once Bismarck’s secretary, is in a Hamburg asylum with nervous fits. Seymour Gourlay, Canadian MP defeated, famed for anti US attack. Henry M. Dellinger, 83, wired Morse's telegraph experiments in Washington. John Hollinghheld, London theater manager, linked Gilbert and Sullivan. Pal de Cassagnac, Bonapartist deputy and journalist, died November 4 at 61. began journalism at 19.
A collection of quips and wry anecdotes from Rev Rainsford to a New York preacher and Scots wit. The piece moves through Scottish funeral banter at a railway station, a Paris hair tonic ad plan with stamps on bald heads, a socialist farmer joke, and a tale of misread American slang in Fifth Avenue where a bystander asks if the auto hit him and learns the joke in reverse.
A. A. Boyce of near Trenton Missouri suffered severe kidney related backache that left him unable to walk. He credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with gradually eliminating the pain and restoring his ability to move, noting the relief began soon after use and the ache stopped. Foster Milburn Co. sells the remedy for 80 cents a box.
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