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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1897
Page
2
Reading across a miscellany of tech feats, population counts, and industry notes, the piece cites inventions like a movable farm railroad, an aluminum airship, and color photography. It also reports on famine relief finance, infantry totals, and wheat price trends for 1898 with numerous named places and organizations.
News of the Week reports a semi centennial celebration for the New York Academy of Medicine on the 20th. It notes President Cleveland’s report and various political rumors including potential appointments in the McKinley administration. The piece covers senate sessions, cabinet posts, and other national political maneuvering with scattered references to figures like Sickles Porter Storer and McKinley advisers.
Tax citizens in Devalls Bluff form a vigilance committee. Over twenty thousand dollars involved in burglaries. Armed Kentuckians under a colonel major and captain under guard in Marion county. Ice gorge on the Ohio River near Louisville released causing high water and drift. T J Skagas jailed for forgery after pardon request by wife No 3. President signs order reducing US pension agencies to nine. Atlantic storm raises North Atlantic squadron unease heading to Charleston. American Sugar Refining builds American Coffee Company capital one million. Weekly US failures 993 vs last year 65 in Canada. Destitution report from South Arkansas provokes local resentment. US bank clearings up four percent. Alabama mine report shows 5,100,000 tons coal mined in Alabama. Jefferson county supplied over half. Heavy snow in the southwest on the 4th. Castral Mis area deepest snow in years. A cane of bandits attempted a raid.
An anti liquor petition circulates in Hinds County asking the board of supervisors to order a dry or wet election. Mississippi has remained dry since June 4 1805 with the license expiring that date. State law restricts elections before January 4 1697 and a petition requires one third of qualified voters. If the petition is presented, an election must be held within forty days.
Proceedings from the senate include an inquiry into the Delaware erection and a debate over a treaty of arbitration. A bill to romanticitate United States staffed districts, imperial diplomacy, and a proposed gold and silver standard were discussed. The immigration bill faced division. the Nicaragua canal topic advanced. the national anthem was declared, and about 50 pension and minor bills passed. The house focused on district appropriations and electoral contests.
Reports from Crete describe dire conditions in Candia and Retimo with Turkish forces allied to local Muslims amid Christian peril. Telegrams warn of a hopeless crisis as mobs threaten and Christians concede to evacuate redoubts while violence continues.
In Tucker county West Virginia Gillespie planned to run a mountain distillery near Parsons. Neighbors prayed for destruction of the still as rain toppled a hillside burying his equipment. The bizarre incident followed a feud over licit liquor amid local religious opposition.
A survey traces iron's global rise from ancient straw horseshoes to modern output. It notes 1893 steel and ore production by the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, and France, and highlights iron ore mountains in Missouri Mexico India and a reported Siberian deposit. It mentions Pacific Railway prospects in Texas and Louisiana land offers, plus assorted ads and anecdotes from the era.
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