29 Jun 1898
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1898
Page
1
Announcements list candidates for Congress including Hon J G Ewcer dealing Coats and Hon Pat Henry of a Pennsylvania district. Text notes party affiliation and campaign context but is garbled with OCR errors and mispellings.
The public was misled into thinking the Board of Control agreed to turn over prison funds to the Governor for college support. The Governor asked, trustees questioned enforceability of the legislative conditions, and no vote occurred. Later, the Board of Control decided to loan 26,000 from the penitentiary to the LL and C trustees, contingent on honoring the vetoed conditions. The Times-Democrat notes its war-news coverage and reliability.
A vintage advertisement proclaims Tutt's Liver Pills can cure stomach liver and bowel diseases, promising savings on doctors' bills. It asserts relief from sick headache dyspepsia malaria constipation and biliousness with wide endorsement by a million people.
Mississippi locales report burglaries in Biloxi and Summit, a fatal shooting in Roxie, fires destroying the American Handle Works at West Point with no insurance, and two new yellow fever cases near McHenry. Officials discus additional militia, quarantine friction, and calls for an extra legislative session to save the Industrial Institute.
The Reveille lauds Judge W K McLaurin for his term in court, commending his grand jury charge, disciplined court, and expeditious handling of business, while noting past criticisms have not outweighed his record. A Baptist Record column contrasts Anglo-American alliance and features Lawrence County’s church project and Brookhaven’s soldier scholars with a dawn rescue report from Chickamauga river.
In a Jackson dispatch the Mississippi legislature approved a 1898 act directing county circuit clerks to maintain alphabetic lists of convicted persons for specified crimes and to receive reports from justices of the peace and mayors. The act, effective on passage, outlines enrollment, cross‑checks with registration, compensation, and a public health ad at the end.
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