16 Jan 1890
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1890
Page
1
The week’s news item summary reports Kentucky's reelection of a senator by the legislature alongside scattered items from Africa Europe and North America. It notes political shifts, labor disputes, imperial ambitions and financial moves, with brief mentions of deaths, treaties, and municipal issues shaping the era.
Governor Robert Lowry presents his final message to the Legislature outlining eight years of administration, noting prosperous state growth, rising wealth, and varied industry. He calls for prudent legislation, school expansion, debt management, rail supervision, penitentiary reform, and measures to curb concealed weapon violence, while highlighting tax receipts, education funding, and public works.
Lawyers Wing Donahoe and Forrest file a petition for a new trial in the Cronin murder cases, listing thirty nine alleged errors from Judge McConnell's rulings. They claim separate trials for Coughlin and others, challenge officials, and seek a view trial citing newly discovered evidence.
A basement boiler at John Morris Stationery & Printing Co. exploded yesterday afternoon in 118 to 120 Monroe Street, causing 20000 dollars in damage. Several workers were badly hurt as glass and doors were blown into the street and rear sections torn up. Cause remains undetermined. Injured include Charles Wilson, Harrall, W J Hartman, Herman Swanson, J H Smith, George Burgess, and Senator Gillette.
Southern Gleanings reports Fred Kidd hanged at Grove Hill Clark County Alabama for murder amid four others sentenced to life. Items include Geronimo’s Band talk in North Carolina, a poisoning case in Huntington West Virginia, a fatal fire near Summ mint South Carolina, a doctor scandal in Knoxville Tennessee, Minnie Moses’s highway robbery reversal in Alabama, a fatal blow in Jasper Georgia, an old slave fi fa relic sale in Atlanta, a steam dredge accident near Wilmington North Carolina, a Columbia Tennessee embezzlement case, a fatal street duel in Heflin Alabama, a diphtheria outbreak in Cheat River West Virginia, NC and GA death sentences, 14 men drowned in Louisville Kentucky, Willie Wallace’s jail rescue, and Alabama bonds sold in New York for state funding.
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