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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
2
The fragment indicates a notice for a periodical or publication titled One Year Payable in Advance. It hints at a subscription offer or ad line but lacks complete details, dates, prices, or names to confirm the full item or any involved organizations.
The Leaver invites new and renewing subscribers with a special one year free premium of Home and Farm, plus a balance of the year of Leaver, if joined by Jan 1. The offer includes both papers for $1.50, pending withdrawal, praised as Lincoln county’s top newspaper and a premier farm paper. The publisher is B. T. Hobbs.
Mixed prose and clipped notes report on troops heading to the Philippines and unresolved Chinese question, plus civic notes. The Progress urges an opera house for Hattiesburg while New Orleans shows strong business. A Columbus Barracks officer praises the climate for American capitalists. A mob rumor about Harvester ton hangs is denied by locals. A child kidnap ransom in Omaha prompts crime scrutiny. New Orleans train robber remains a macabre spectacle. Poll tax reminders warn voting and schooling implications.
Gulfport reels over the murder of City Marshal Richardson by a black youth. A mob killed an innocent black man and burned a church as race tensions surged after the shooting at the Louisville & Nashville station. The attackers Rankin and Burns fled. Richardson was killed during the confrontation as Alfred Lewis pressed to arrest them. The Lewis family faced possible lynching. the father is held in Mobile. Also notes William Jennings Bryan plans a weekly paper, The Commoner, from Lincoln, Nebraska.
The supreme court reverses its prior ruling in the Mains Tibbette habeas corpus case and awards custody of the children to their father, R. Wy Hains. Chief Justice Whitfield holds the paramount right lies with the father unless moral unfitness or neglect is shown. Contracts conveying custody away are void as public policy. The children, once with aunts in Shreveport, are ordered back to Jackson per the mandate.
The Mississippi codification history spans Poindexter 1821 to 1892, with multiple codes adopted during war and reconstruction. Despite ongoing amendments since 1892, reliance on a new code is deemed unnecessary. a revised edition or annotated supplement could update references and decisions without a full code overhaul.
Secretary Gage reports nine forms of money in circulation on November 1, with per capita wealth claimed at 827.82, the highest in U.S. history. The note list includes gold coins silver dollars treasury notes and bank notes, suggesting ample funds for national needs. Jackson News notes New Year resolutions urge Mississippians to advance in business skills and education. It highlights South Business College of New Orleans and reports Rev Wallace T Palmer's appointment at First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans, praising his abilities.
A traveler recalls a man who lost a case and sought revenge with buckshot. He waited for the defendant, lawyer, and jury to vanish after a courtroom misadventure, vowing to confront the lawyer and recoup his money with a shotgun. The tale ends with the speaker plotting vigilante justice and a final line about kissed mischief in smoke.
Readable fragments reveal a burglar confrontation in a Chicago scene a light joke exchange about employment statuses in Philadelphia and a brief note about First Lieutenant Anita Newcomb McGee resigning from the U S Army Nurse Corps plus city politics turmoil in Atlanta with mayoral resignation mentions.
The Mississippi items recount salary boosts for Jackson city attorneys, multiple marriages and deaths, a cotton company fire loss, a livery stable blaze in Ellisville, a child killed by a flood accident, and a new penitentiary debris removal contract. Other notes cover a Wesson daily paper, libel suit against the Vicksburg Herald, convict transfers, a bishop’s throat operation, and various civic and educational moves including a Jackson cotton factory, a home for aged Black residents, and Millsaps College football policy.
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