Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
TO SETTLE IN
THE COURTS
RAILROAD COMMISSION RULED
AGAINST THE COMPANIES.
MUST PAY PRIVILEGE TAX


Will Appeal His Case to The Su-
preme Court-The News From Mis-
sissippi
Jackson, Miss.-The Railroad Com
mission has granted the petition of
the state revenue agent in the matter
of classification of the Gulf & Ship
Island and Yazoo & Mississippi Val
ley railroads, so that they may be as
sessed the privilege tax of $40 per
mile hereafter as the law permits in
case of those railroads that do not
come under the supervision of the
commission as to freight rates. The
courts will be called on to settle the
controversy The commission cited
the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City
and the Alabama & Vicksburg rail-
roads to appear at the next meeting
and show cause, if any they can, why
the should not build union depot at
Newton, the point at which the Mo-
bile, Jackson & Kansa City will cross
the other. The traffic department Of
the Illinois Central was adised that
the. schedule it submitted for freight
rates on logs is not satisfactory, and
! they will have to come again. The
matter of freight rates on jugs and
other earthenware from Holly Springs
and other points was taken under adj
visement.
u Adjutant General Fridge has or
ganized new military company here,
several Of the members of the defunct
company enrolling their names as
members Of the new. 1t is understood
that John Shields will be captain, but
the election Of officers has not yet been
had.
| The State Board of Pharmacists
have granted license to the following
young men who stood the required ex-
animation here on Tuesday: Robert
E. Lowe, Hermanville; Thomas O.
Slaughter, Waynesboro, John r. De-
Yelling, jackson; Thomas F. Moore,
Meridian; Jesse Quinn, Greenwood;
George McLarty, Columbus; Charles
M. Tally, Winona; Wiley Miller, Ok
Cord; Wade E. Tungate, Kosciusko;
G. G. Beanland, Oxford; A F.. Parry,
Paragould, Ark, L. e. johnson, Hol-
ly Springs; F. A. McEachen, Carroll
ton CD. Miller, Carrollton-
Albert Baldwin, the negro who was
t-ied and sentenced to hang on the II
of May at Sumner, and who was
brought to Jackson for safekeeping till
that date, states that he going to ap-
peal his case to the Supreme Court.
His attorney is Hon Clarence Greaves,
of Madison county. The negro claims
that the killing of Engineer Fogarty
was done in self-defense.
1t is now suggested that the Frisco
and the Queen & Crescent Railroad
Companies, and not the Southern
railway, are behind the proposed Mem
phis, Indianola & Gulf railroad, and
that after the Frisco has built to Jack
son, distance of 200 miles, it will
use the tracks of the Queen & Cres-
cent to reach the gulf coast and New
Orleans.
The City Council has named July
as the day on which an election shall
be held in Jackson to ascertain if the
people want to issue the bonds of the
municipality to the extent of $780,
900 for the purpose of purchasing the
waterworks. Under a law recently
passed by the Legislature, the city
clerk is authorized to open the city
registration books from now until Ju-
ly l, so as to give all the people of the
city an opportunity to register and
vote on the proposition.
Albert Baldwin, the negro who was
twice guarded by state troops, and
who was convicted at Sumner Of the
murder of Engineer Fogarty, and SEN
fenced to hang, is again in the Jack
son Jail.
At special meeting of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen of Hattiesburg
the following order was passed:
"That the city of Hattiesburg sell
/ 100000 Of bonds, or so much thereof
as is necessary, to build or purchase
irst-class electric light plant
Secretary Power has sent nearly all
the copy of the new laws to the pub
lie printer, and has received proof
sheets of about one-third of them.
There are 275 chapters Of the new
laws. Secretary Power is reading the
proofs carefully by the enrolled bills
land expects to have the printed laws
ready for distribution by June /.
Delcasse and the Pope.
Paris. In consequence Of an off,
cial denial of its statement that For
eign Minister Delcasse is seeking,
through an influential Catholic bishop,
an audience Of the Pope when he ac-