Roundaway Manufacturing and Land Company Chartered in Mississippi
The Roundaway Manufacturing Company is chartered with $150,000 capital in Coahoma County. Stuyvesant Fish of Illinois Central heads the group, planning cotton seed oil, yarns, cloths, and related products, plus land holdings of about 10,000 acres in the delta. A deadly shootout occurred near Tillatoba creek bottom when Joe Dunn, released from prison, died after firing on officers. his brother is jailed in Charleston.
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Roundaway -Manufact Eastern Capitalists
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Coahoma County
J. C. Jane J. T. Harahan
J. F. Wallace
W. Labare
Mapereahensthien
Delta
Great
Illinoia
Tillatoba Creek Bottom
Charleston
Joe Dunn
Dunn
Penintary
Cook
Mississippi News In Brief From State and Court Actions
The article notes proposed constitutional amendments and their election fate, a special circuit court term for the Whit Owens murder case, and Judge Lowrey planning August sessions. It also covers Attorney General McClurg's tax ruling on corporate stock values, corn replanting after drought, Col William J. Bryan's request for Mississippi marble, and projected rise in educable children by about 30,000 with noted assessors’ reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. H. Lowrey
Oxford
Whit Owens
Owens
Jackson
Supreme Court
Lafayette County
Mississippi
Longino
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Col. Bryan
Planting venture eyed in Grenada State
News from Grenada reports a Booker T. Washington Tuskegee graduate leads a new enterprise to be funded by several white planters with large Mississippi delta farming interests. The project, to be sited in western Grenada County at a scenic hill country valley junction, sits in a region with five negroes for every white man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grenada
Booker T. Wa Cton
Tuskeegee Institute
Mississippi Delta
Grenada County
Sage Buys 60000 Acres of South Mississippi Pine
Russell Sage has purchased 60 000 acres of long leaf yellow pine land in South Mississippi. He plans to hold the timber rather than immediate development until mills exhaust supply and prices rise. The move leverages the region's active paper and lumber industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sage
Mississippi
New York
Governor Longino to Speak at Neshoba County Fair
The governor will deliver an address at the Neshoba county fair August 5 to 9 as thousands gather from surrounding counties for the annual Mississippi event. Also reported a Tallahatchie grand jury indicting the board of supervisors for fraud and misappropriation, plus calls for an extraordinary legislative session to repeal the valued policy clause. Dr A S Agnew, respected minister, died near Guntown. Mrs Helen D Bell urged Mississippi women to form United Daughters of the Confederacy chapters in every county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longino
Neshoba County
Mississippi
Tallahatchie County
Board of Supervisors
DC. Appenk
Helen D. Bell
United Daughters of the Confederacy
One Experience as a Substitute in a Prize Fight
A former prize fight substitute recounts taking Charley Mitchell’s place in a Slavin bout in an Ohio town. The substitute backs out for 100, Slavin taunts, and the ring walk ends with a lad knocked out and a riot in the opera house. The tale ends with the narrator quitting prize fighting for good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Charley Mitchell
Ohio
Mitchell and
Slavin
Mitchell
Whipple
Sahara Dust Reaches England After Africa Sweep in 1902
A Royal Meteorological Society paper notes Sahara dust carried to western Europe in January 1902 with a 2,000 square mile Cornwall drift. Dust from the African deserts may have filled furrows as English farmers plowed sand into winter soil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Meteorological Society
Victoria Street
H. R. Mill
London Telegraph
Italy
Europe
Danish Islands
England
Scotland
Cornwall
Sahara
Senator Receives Letter Pressing Civil Service Favor
The Washington Star reports a letter from a constituent to a United States senator from a prosperous midwestern state. The writer asks for a civil service appointment so relatives can build a house for the family. The senator can only refer the plea to the civil service commission, a cruel fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Service
Washington Star
United States
U. S. Civil Service Commisssion
Civil Service Commission
Mississippi and neighboring states in brief notes
Census work targets Mississippi gun statistics amid regional reports. Biloxi lists 2856 educable children with 462 Negroes. Yazoo City chosen for next Mississippi Baptist meeting. Gulfport bonds for public school building. Lake Providence charters a compress. Macon secures cotton mill funding. Louisiana rice struggles. Snake tale from East Hickman Kentucky. Russell Sage buys 60000 acres pine land in southern Mississippi. Hay informs Longino of two Oxford scholarships. Holland Michigan girl drowns in Pearl River. Paris Tennessee boy drowns after fall from steamer. Conductor shot near Fulton Kentucky. Crow injured by trolley in Waco dies. Negro church near Woodville blows down injuring children. Patrick Fortner commits suicide. Train derailed by tree near McLaurin Mississippi.
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Mississippi
Biloxi
Miss
Yazoo City
Gulfport
Lake Providence
Macon
Louisiana
Man Towns Held in Texas Jail for Wife's Death
A Black man Towns is jailed in Taylor Texas charged with killing his wife after beating her for not having supper ready on time. She died before morning according to police.
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Towns
Taylor
Tex
Train kills Patton killer arrested in Salyversville KY
Jack Collingworth, who killed Pierce Patton in Salyversville Kentucky on February 10, was arrested there and jailed for want of bond. Frank Wilder was fatally struck by a train near Memphis Texas while sleeping on the tracks and his body was mangled.
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Jack Collingworth
Pierce Patton
Salyversville
Frank Wilder
Memphis
Tex
Train accident and factory fire toll in brief
Josh Washington of Jackson Mississippi fell under a train at Bayville Louisiana losing his right foot. A Kentucky tobacco factory in Linton Trigg county burned destroying 100000 pounds of tobacco. Charles Howard a section hand was killed by a south bound Louisville and Nashville train at Walton Kentucky.
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Josh Washington
Jackson, Miss
Bayville
White
Linton
Trigg County
Charles Howard
Louis Ville & Nashville
Walton
Dictionary of Stage Words by Miriam Michelson
Philadelphia drama editor Miriam Michelson drafts a dictionary of stage terms with playful definitions. The sample entries poke fun at dramatic jargon from Curtain to Comedian, reflecting a lighthearted view of theater lexicon and its lovers worldwide.
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Miriam Michelson
Philadelphia
Pachmaker
St. Vitus
Sentiment solidifies against a strike at anthracite convention
Indianapolis July 1 to July 19 reports show delegates remain firmly against a strike with final decisions leaning to support President Mitchells recommendations. The credentials board tallied 2253 voters as the executive session debated relief fund scope and strike management.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Miners’ Convention
Mitchell
Yaskina
Hfe
Indl
Minchell
Lewis
Wilson
Haskins
Hoe
West Virginia
Pittsburg
Ilinois
Record of Central Iowa floods drive loss and alerts
Heavy rains in central Iowa trigger rising floodwaters from Keokuk to Hannibal threatening 300 square miles of farmland. Des Moines River and tributaries rise, warnings issued, with the Egyptian levee strained. Estimates place potential losses from two to four million dollars as towns prepare for overflow and county crops are ruined.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Missouri
Win
Mississippi River
Missouri Bluffs
Keokok
Hannibal
Des Moines
Davenport
de Moines
Thier
Alexsanmiria
Grail
Sean
Quincy
Fland
Kaisa
Corydon
Tumwa
Mississippi
Lagrange
Cuba Recognized by Major Nations in Quick Formalities
A telegram from Mr. Squiers reports Cuba’s new government rapidly gaining recognition from the United States and eight other nations including Great Britain France and Spain. In Metropolis Sam Faughn a semiprofessional ball player was shot and killed near the Julian hotel amid a Friday street fair by Jasper Abbett after an exchange with intoxicated remarks.
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Washington
Cuba
State Department
Squiers
Havana
Republic of Cuba
Ben
United States
Great Britain
France
Spain
Switzerland
Haiti
Nicaragua
Asta Rica
Guatemala
Metropolis
Sam Faughn
Jasper Abbett
Rock
Julian Hotel
Abbett
Faughn
Abbott
Cloudburst floods Lincoln area causing street and basement damage
Lincoln reports a Friday cloudburst flooding streets and cellars with considerable hail damage. In Chicago two hundred girls and 150 men returned to work at McMahon Cracker and Bakery Co after a strike, winning a nine hour day and overtime pay. A dead unknown man found near New Mexico is identified as W H Graham of Sheridan Jennings, Louisiana. Fire at Jennings well continues burning with no progress toward extinction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Chicago
McMahon Cracker and Bakery Co
Santa Rosa, N. M
W. H. Graham
Sheridan
Typewriter Thief Sentenced To Four Years
Kansas City report states Harry Mercer, a typewriter thief active in several eastern states, was sentenced Friday to four years in the penitentiary after handling his own defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Harry Mercer
Bonds for American China Development Co to fund Yangtze road
The Journal of Commerce reports American China Development Co plans a 40.9 million bond issue authorized by imperial decree to fund the Han-Kow to Canton road. Bonds pay 6 percent interest, run long, with foreign board members guiding construction and contracts sourced in the cheapest markets. Funds were deposited with J. P. Morgan & Co. and use remains subject to subscriptions and international market conditions.
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New York
Journal of Commerce
American Chinament Co
Han-Kow
Canton
Dii
Sery
Han River
Weehang
Tragedy at Ornville: Wife shoots husband and brother in home
In Ornville, Mrs Jw, enraged by a drunken husband and a prior history of brutality, shot and killed her husband and his brother in their home Friday morning after an assault. The wife surrendered. Coroner E. Impaneeled jury exonerated her, while the brothers were noted for brutality and drinking problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cartwrmdale
Thelbert Rethers
Coman
Merc. Jaubert
E. E
Jory
Royal ceremony plans and tragic notices blend in July dispatch
London reports an official call for the coronation procession of King Edward and Queen Alexandra on August. Meanwhile, scattered items tell of despondent deaths in Louisville New York and Denver with tales of suicide and sorrow among individuals and fraternal groups.
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London
Edward
Andria
Buckingham Palace
Westmi Abbey
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Mississippi State News
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Sheriffs Posse
RE of
McClurg
Tunica County
Eheel
Neshohbe County Fair
Armin
McMillin
Tennessee
John Anzus
Agnew
A. S. Agnew
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Guntown
Stargens
Tou
Civil Service Rules
Sarehed
Shelby Mitchell
East Hickman
Sage
Hay
Pearl River
Lottie Miller
Holland, Mich
Young Wan
C. Biles
Paris
Tenn
Illinois Central
Dekoren
Paducah
James Arnold
Memphis Road
Fulton
Samuel P. Crow
Waco, Tex
Utright
Nearo
Woodville
Patrick Fortner
Dothan
Alf
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
McLaurin, Miss
Tobacco Factory
Keotuk
Cairo
Peoria
Galesburg
Cedar Fork Erick
Santa Fe
Knox County
Joliet
Squalers
Rkepublic of
Cloudbaret
Lincoln, IL
New Werico
Jennings Well
Jennings
American-China Develops Co
America
Mee-hew
Louis
Maud
Olive Street
Frank Miller
Sophia
Hoffman
Dyin Hospital
Ancient Order of Hibernian
Denver
Col
Keating
Berians
Arch Feehan
Goffer
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