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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1904
Page
1
The item surveys Canada’s rail and waterway boom, postal deficits and rural delivery gains, prominent figures like Mrs. Fairbanks, Helen Gould and John L. Griffiths, along with notes on ships, censorship, Japan’s leadership, and rail traffic. It weaves political, economic and social stories through a mosaic of anecdotes and declarations.
A sweeping Washington day with Senate action on impeaching Judge Charles Swayne after extensive hearings in the House, plus progress and debates on the Philippine government bill and related measures. Caution and procedural steps dominated as adjournments and committee actions framed the day’s pace.
Hull dispatch alleges Russian emissaries bribed and intoxicated fishermen to sign statements claiming the Japanese aided by concealing torpedo boats near Dogger Bank. The alleged evidence will go to the Paris inquiry. Separate reports note Japanese troop movements from Pigeon Bay toward Liuchiatun as General Nogi presses to split Russian HQ from Liaotishan Peninsula and prepare for further land attacks.
Reports from Husashan and Mukden describe a new sickness resembling bubonic plague among Japanese troops, worsened by extreme cold causing post abandonments and Russian raids. Other dispatches note Japanese and Russian forces living in dugouts, and Manchurian front actions with harsh winter conditions.
In the Harold Remington bankruptcy inquiry Mrs Chadwick was reported too ill to testify. Her son Emil Hoover Chadwick and Freda Swanson admitted knowledge of a trunk of furs from the Holland House New York but refused to disclose its location. Witnesses denied seeing a jewel cabinet. Referee Remington ordered two physicians to assess Mrs Chadwick’s condition before any court appearance.
Ashland Kentucky December 19 four more men die bringing the toll to ten with two others dying from effects of wood alcohol at the mouth of Beaver Big Sandy five miles above Prestonburg. Three pushboats with a crew of seventeen laden with freight were en route to Pikeville. At Beaver two boats sank and crew swam ashore with much freight. A jug of wood alcohol was saved. It was dark and cold. A man sold them four bottles of moonshine. They drank and grew ill. Doctors could not help. Three crewmen remain missing. The ten dead are all from Johnson county Capt Henry Spriggs Field and Shade Daniels Sam Harmon Henry Spencer Curtis Adams Henry Salmons Tom Salmon Ike Derossett and John Gobble. Two others die and three missing.
A Rock Island engine near Davenport Iowa exploded today killing Engineer M Calhoun and Fireman H Kinney instantly. Brakeman Thomas Gimmel and trainmen Gib Smith Russell Sherrod and George Nettleton were injured, with Gimmel gravely. The engine and helper were pulling a long freight train several miles west of Davenport when the blast occurred.
St. Louis December 19 United Railroads Company wins tax relief after Judge Adams rules city ordinance taxing 1 mill per passenger illegal effective January 1. Company to pay no city taxes until new law passes. In Fall River Massachusetts December 19 manufacturers oppose arbitration on strike issue though no official statement. Textile unions receive 5000 dollars from AFL, total 20000 raised amid San Francisco convention assessment.
In Vicksburg Mississippi on December 19 1904 Paul Battier failed to answer in a case charging three counts of grand larceny. A 1509 dollar bond forfeiture was entered in Criminal Court after Battier was later found at Hartiston with Mamie Chester who allegedly possessed the stolen diamonds. Battier’s surrender today led to the forfeiture. Also noted is resignation of B Wills from the board of supervisors district No 4 with an election set for January 24 1905 to fill the seat. The notice hints at an indictment related to a separate case and uncertain outcomes. A separate Arkansas report covers the capture of a man named Lige Thomika for a November 19 shooting of Lee Boswell at Hine Point Miss.
A Russian interview with Commander Mizzeneci recounts the ferocious assaults on High Hill in Port Arthur. Japanese troops faced murderous fire and hand to hand fighting, with Russians retaking the summit and heavy casualties on both sides.
Commander Mizzencoft recounts Port Arthur as desolate with shellfire and limited ammunition. He notes 16,000 troops in forts, regular rations, and hospitals overwhelmed by exposure. The Sevastopol remains afloat, torpedo boats attacked, and Rear Admiral Wirenius wounded as the second Pacific squadron nears.
In Cracow on December 18 a joint Christian and Hebrew committee operation aids Russian deserters, with the number estimated at 16,000. The effort avoids government scrutiny as authorities object to the aid phrase. Many deserters are uncounted, some fleeing to Vienna without official records, while others lack employers.
Stuyvesant Fish president of Illinois Central arrives in Washington amid the push for Interstate Commerce Commission power to fix rail rates. He says he is a farmer and part of cotton interests in northern Mississippi, while others say the proposed estimate is too large. Pope Pius X in Rome attends Del Bufalo veneration with 20,000 in attendance and shows illness limits his movement. Huntsville Alabama reports Huntsville Spring Water analysis finds no objectionable content, easing local concerns about typhoid rumors.
A fire at the Inge Bonilitant Infirmary burned the building this morning. All patients were removed, but one died during the evacuation. Only thirtyseven patients remained and were evacuated before flames drove the doctors from the facility.
A jumble of light anecdotes recalls a theater prank on Sir Arthur Sullivan and Alexander Mackenzie, a young boy who joined a Drury Lane pantomime, a Rhodes scholar misreading rowing terms, a New York clergyman and an angel with a cigarette, and a Dundee gas meter tale with a mistaken owed penny.
A string of short items runs through royal and public life. The king of Portugal and the German crown prince are noted for hobbies, England funds a hospital bazaar with bantams, and Countess Oyama is a fluent society figure. Various figures, from Sir Donald Currie to King Edward, appear in brisk anecdotes and curious anecdotes about travels, education, and fame.
A garbled excerpt mocks practicality and law with scattered phrases about trades, justice, marriage, economy, and jealousy. It references a green grocer, a lawyer, Japan and Russia, summer, peaches, and a vagrant collection of sayings about prudence and social roles.
A fragment cites fog letting red toys pass more easily than others. It notes Miss Mary A Booth of Springfield Massachusetts as a noted scientist and Royal Microscopical Society member. It mentions Joseph Dalhuis Howker a leading botanist friend of Huxley, with studies in Utah Colorado California and the Rockies. A claim of fireproofing textiles using oxide of planium is described. An 1278 sky event in the southern hemisphere bands of colored clouds stretched 20 000 miles long and 8 000 miles wide atop Jupiter like a belt.
The late Bishop of Southwell Dr. Ridding is praised as a premier Greek scholar yet careful with English. Rev. Francis Aldin Gasquet, president of the English Benedictines, visiting the U.S. for the first time, is at Notre Dame Indiana and wrote Henry VIII and the English Monasteries and The Eve of the Reformation. Mrs. A. R. McFarland of Alva Ohio is America's first Presbyterian missionary to Alaska, later returning to Oklahoma. Rev. L. M. Foster of Charles City Iowa, a retired Congregational pastor, has Bonaparte lineage through a second cousin of Lucien Jerome and Napoleon, with a royal pardon history ending in America.
A quirky collection of observations on customs and superstitions from around the world. Notes include Heligoland theater rules, Japanese aging display, African gratitude fears, Spanish women swords, Lancashire labor beliefs, and odd Dunstable practices with remedies and death superstitions.
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