The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-24

HAVE BEEN MADE
DETAILS FOR SCHLEY'S VISIT
TO JACKSON.
WANTS LAWS ENFORCED
rlcClurg Serves Notice as to Laws
Regarding Testimony by
ConvictS.

OhNh~ho
jackson, Miss, April 19. Arrange
ents have been commenced for the re-
oeption and entertainment of Admiral
Schley during his visit to Jackson on
the first of May. A large number of
committees have been selected to take
charge of the active work and the re-
ception is to be under the joint auspl-
ces of the city and state government.
Governor Longino is at the head of
the committee on arrangements. One
of the features of the entertainment
will be a military display, several
companies of the national guard to be
brought here to take part in the pa
rade. The Federal officials in Jack
son have also been invited to assist in
the arrangements.
jackson, Miss. April 18.-Attor-
ney- General McClurg has served no.
tice OH the circuit judges and district
attorneys of the State that the statutes
must be strictly complied with in TAX
ing prisoners under habeas corpus
proceedings from the penitentiary' to
testify in criminal cases in the vari-
GUS circuit courts of the State. The
law allows convicts only to be taken
from the prison when they were wit
nesses to crime committed in prison.
Warden Parchman makes complaint
that for the past several months one
travelling sergeant has been kept con-
stantly busy carrying convicts to the
court sessions, and often their testi-
mony is irrelevant and ruled ont dur
ing the trial
jackson, Miss, April tS.-Effort is
being made to clear the criminal dock
ct of the Supreme Court before the
summer adjournment. The docket will
be called for the last time on the first
Monday in May, and the Attorney
General intends to vigorously prose-
cute all the cases then pending. Quite
q number of notable murder cases are
yet to be disposed of.
jackson, Miss, April 18.-B. F.
Holmes, alias w. o. Holmes, a mid
dle-aged man who claims to be ply
sician, has been arrested by the Fed
eral officials on the charge of repre-
senting himself as a government officer
and thereby attempting to secure $12
from J. E. Varnado, citizen Of Ma
gee. The arrest was made by Deputy
United States Marshal Robert Henry
at the instance of Postoffice Inspector
Warren. Shortly after his arrest
Holmes attempted to commit suicide,
but the effort was rendered unsucoess-
full by the prompt work Of physicians.
He is now confined in the jackson Jail
in default of 81, 900 bond, and will be
tried at the May term of court.
Jackson, Miss, April 1S.-April the
Goth Is Confederate Decoration Day in
Mississippi and the event will be fit
tingly observed throughout the COM
mon wealth. 1t has been the custom
for many years for all business to be
suspended on the afternoon of the Goth
and the populace goes to the ceme-
teries and load the graves of those
who sleep the last sleep with the
choicest flowers of the Southland, the
graves of Union and Confederate SOL
diers being decorated with beautiful
impartiality.
Jackson, Miss, April 17.-Chief JUS
tice Whitfield, of the Mississippi Su-
preme Court, has accepted an invita-
ton from the Schley entertainment
committee to deliver one of the princI-
pal addresses at the banquet to be
given in Memphis in honor of the hero
of Santiago. He will respond to the
toast, The South
Jackson, Miss, April 18.-Mayor
Hemingway, Of jackson, attributes
the alarming increase of crime among
the negroes of Mississippi to the gem
eral prevalent of pistol-carrying
among members of the race, and he
has determined TO break up the habit,
so far as Jackson is concerned, by fin
ing each and every person arrested ON
that charge the extreme penalty of the
law.
jackson, Miss, April 18.-Proprie-
tors of the meat markets in this city,
and at a number of other points in
this state, give notice to their custom
ers that, owing to the high price of
beef cattle they are compelled to adj
vance the price of meats two and one
half cents per pound. Many people,
those of moderate means,
will quit eating beef.
jackson, Miss, April 17.-lmprove-
ment continues to be the order OF the
day in jackson. Building enterprises