Mississippi Matters Echoes from Lang Syre and More
A Mississippi column recalls the 1877 Mississippi Press Convention in Holly Springs with remarks on Rosa Clark and Senator Money. It notes Delta land purchases by Stuyvesant Fish, the Oktibbeha Journal’s rise, and teachers leaving for summer studies. The piece laments losses, praises public schools, and reports local civic notes from Jackson to Meridian.
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Mississippi Press Convention
Holly Springs
H. D. Money
Rosa Clark
Money
Miss Clark
Mississippi
McLaurin
Earth
And It's Incurable, Judge What is your profession
The fragment presents a witty exchange as if from a courtroom or humor page. A witness declares being a poet, prompting a punchline about poetry not a profession, with the line attributed to Chicago Daily News.
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Chicago Daily News
Uprising Motive Foiled Near Meridian Mississippi
Uprisings by negroes north of Meridian were halted when white residents armed themselves and arrested leaders Green Johnson and Nate Moore. A preacher Ruffin signed a call urging fifty negroes to mobilize from Yio Kemper county to strike White farms. Whites’ intimidation kept the threat from escalating. Marion residents remain on alert.
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Meridian
Miss
Green I. Johnson
Nate Moore
Ruffin
Yio
Kemper County
Green Johnson
Marion
Relief efforts in Martinique face distribution delays
Prof. Robert T. Hill, returning from New York, criticizes the Dixie expedition for Martinique relief. He credits U S Consul Ayme of Guadeloupe and naval and press presence but says supplies were stored and tents left unpacked, with interior areas still lacking aid and shelter.
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Washington
Robert T. Hill
Geological Survey
Martinique
New York
Hill
Dixie
United States
Ayme
Guadeloupe
Tragedy Near Montrose Leads to Arrest in Ashley County
News from Pine Bluff Arkansas reports a brutal murder near Montrose Ashley county. B F Newton merchant of Montrose is jailed for murder with Dr Nickelberry charged as accessory. Newton confesses self defense and says he buried the victim in a wooded area.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Montrose
Ashley County
B. F. Newton
Nickelberry
Newton
Death in lightning bolt claims two in Columbus Georgia
A thunderstorm in Columbus Georgia killed J. J. Willis a carpenter and Louis McClain. M. C. Cochran was injured as Willis and Cochran were struck near Upper First Avenue by a bolt that passed through Willis’ temple.
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Columbus
J. J. Willis
Louis McClain
M. C. Cochran
Willis
Upper First Avenue
Cochran
Gunpowder Plot Uncovered Sparks 60 Arrests in Pretoria
A Daily Mail correspondent reports in a Pretoria letter dated May 18 that sixty people were arrested the previous Thursday after a wide plot to blow up government buildings, Lord Kitchener's residence, and artillery barracks was uncovered. Suspects include lawyers chemists and Boer and Dutch prisoners on parole.
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London
Pretoria
Daily Mail
Lord Kitchener
Liberty Bell Returns to Philadelphia after Exposition Farewell
The historic liberty bell was taken from its exposition building in Charleston and will begin its return to Philadelphia tomorrow. A gaily decorated truck drawn by thirteen bay horses carried the bell, escorted by U S and South Carolina troops. Formal leave taking occurred at the Women’s building with remarks by Mayor Smythe, President Wagener, Mrs Weatherford, and other officials. In Carbondale Illinois Harry Kelly wanted in five states for burglaries, after a seven month chase, escaped from handcuffs on an Illinois Central train and visited Brazil Indiana leaving a warning note. rewards are offered for his capture.
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Newark
N. J
Stuyvesant Fish and His Company
New York
New Jersey
South
Mr. Fish & Co
Delta
Mississippi
Russell
Adoniean
Judson Russell
Mongst
Auld Lang Syne
Longino
Whitfield
Leavell
Meridian
Mobile& Ohio Railroad
House of Representatives
Charleston
S. C
Philadelphia
United States
South Carolina
Woman’s Building
Smythe
Wagener
Weatherford
Oregon
Carbondale
Ill
Harry Kelly
Brazil
Ind
Atwood
Ballard County
Illinois Central
Trial on Water Cure Torture Allegations in Catbalogan
Major E F Glenn of the Fifth Infantry faces court martial in Catbalogan, Manila Province, over alleged water cure torture of a Filipino guide. Defense contends the practice not cruel and widely used in U S policing, and that the guide was a traitor who deserved shooting.
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Manila
Catbalogan
Island of
Samar
E. F. Glenn
Fifth Infantry
America
Maj. Glenn
Wateons Toree
Philippine Islands
President Patton Links Decline in Ministry to Intellectual Unrest
Princeton June 8 The commencement feature was Patton s baccalaureate sermon. Trustees faculty and seniors in Nassau Hall led by Patton and ex President Cleveland marched to Alexander Hall. Mrs Cleveland and Mrs Patton attended. Patton cited falling ministry candidates and blamed intellectual transition and unrest for the trend.
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Princeton
N. J
Pattton
Nassau Hall
Patton
Grover Cleveland
Alexander Hall
Cleveland
Mob Repulsed at Hattiesburg Jail Over Negro Accused
A mob attacked the county jail in Hattiesburg Mississippi seeking to lynch Walter Blankhead a Black man charged with attacking a white woman Mrs Garner. A military company ordered out by Governor Long repulsed the assailants and troops remain deployed. A preliminary trial is set for tomorrow.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Walter Blankhead
Target Rifle Tragedy in Arkansas Kills Young Girl
In Van Buren Arkansas Homer Webb 16 while attempting to shoot a chicken with a target rifle discharged the weapon and fatally wounded Begsie Hutchinson 9 from Rady Mrs J E Hutchinson says the girl died fifteen minutes after the shot This incident occurred while Begsie stayed overnight with Webb's family.
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Arkansas
van Buren
Ark
J. E. Hutchinson
Rady
Homer Webb
Webb
Lightning strikes Odell High School ceremony in church
At the Odell Nebraska High School graduation at the First Methodist Church, a lightning bolt struck mid ceremony causing the tower to collapse and sparking a fire. Several spectators and graduates were knocked unconscious and rushed to safety as firefighters battled the flames with a large water tank. authorities fear no deaths though several women were injured.
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St. Joseph, Mo
Odell
Neb
First Methodist
Ambitious U S Plan to Buy Friars Lands in Philippines
Secretary Root forwards instructions to Taft detailing American aims to negotiate with Rome on purchasing lands held by religious orders in the Philippines. The memo emphasizes church state separation, aims to extinguish titles with fair compensation, and avoid violence while preserving church missions.
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Washington
Root
Senate
House
Gov. Taft
Vatican
United States
Philippines
Congress
Philippine Commission
Manila
Commission
West
Waan Congress
Rome
Philippine Islands
Grean L Buven
Principe
Piippine Islands
Islands
United State
Ucation
Asea
Jety Uu
Elihu Root
William H.taft
Washington, D.C
Gazetted Minister to Washington and Chicago
The former Spanish minister to Morocco has been gazetted as minister to Washington in succession to the Duke De Arcos who becomes minister to Helginin. He travels to Washington and Chicago to assume duties.
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Chicago
Morocco
Washington
Duke de Arcos
Helginin
Summer School of the South offers teachers a key self-improvement avenue
The first session at the University of Tennessee Knoxville runs June 19 to July 31 with about fifty faculty, eighty courses from kindergarten to college level, aimed at Southern schools. Tuition is a $5 registration. board ranges $3.50-$4.50 weekly. Rail tickets affordable. return by Sept 30. Prominent educators will lecture. July 4–5 Campaigners' Convention. Sunday meetings feature top Sunday-school workers.
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North
South
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Knox County
East
Tennessee
North Carolina
Wise and Witty Observations on Women and War
A collection of satirical lines on women and men. It contrasts female pride and hidden meanings with blunt humor about happiness misery and flirtation while noting soldiers from the past and present and the shift to practical duties in Navy and Army.
Fatal Farmhouse Shooting in Melo Uruguay
A man in Melo Cerro Largo Uruguay dies instantly after a revolver misfired during a struggle with a hen that allegedly resisted being killed. The incident occurs in a farmhouse and the victim is identified as Isabeljino Gonzsiez Buenoe Ayres Herald.
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Melo
Cerro Largo
Uruguay
Isabeljino Gonzsiez
Buenoe Ayres Herald
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Kate Markham Power
Oktibbeha Journal
T. W. McKell
W. D. Cochran
the Ladies of
Water Valley
The
Progress
Industrial College
Pratt Institute
Boston
Harvard
Cuba
Cuba Post
Havana
Cienfuegos
Barker
Capt. Barker
Sagua
Aberdeen
Marshall County Business League
Morris Blumenthal
Fort Gibson
Jackson
Chattanooga
Washington Artillery
Albert Q. May
May
W. W. Scott
Bettie Cooper
Fifth Company
Vicksburg
Pemberton
Margaret Lackey
Hillman College
Sean
Sons of Veterans
Senate Chamber
W. E. Daniels
Yazoo City
J. W. Bailey
T. M. Henry
George C. Myers
Monroe McClurg
T. P. Henderson
Hala Hammond Butt
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Ada McLeod
Brooksville
Liberty Bell
Cabbalogan
Hattiesburg, Miss
Summer School OF the South
William T. Harris
Unas
B. Aycock
Montague
Virginia
McMillin
R. B. Fulton
University of Mississippi
Junius Jordan
University of Arkansas
Tures
Navy
Army
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