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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
A Good Deal of Civil Business Being
Cleared OFF the Docket.

Since our last report the mat
ters disposed of have been Of lit
tie Importance except to the liti-
eating parties.
The case of Mary Reed VS..
Pearl River Lumber Co. was dis
missed at plaintiffs cost.
A Judgment for $50 by agree
ment. in favor of plaintiff was. en-
tered in the damage suit of Arthur
Alexander VS.. nj. G. II. R. Co.
X. L. Butler ct al VS.. Illinois
Central Railroad Co. had been
settled and was dismissed at cost
of the plaintiff.
A judgment for defendant was
entered in the case of Alex Will
liams VS.. Illinois Central r. r.
Go.
The jury gave Hannah Powell a
judgment for $94 IN her suit
against W. G. Maxwell ct al fol-
cutting timber from her land.
The eject,nent suit of Moreton.
Wentworth Go. VS.. j. B. Ratcliff
ct al resulted in verdict for plain
tiff for possession of the land sued
for and assessing rent in favor o1
plaintiff at $10O.
I. Fl. Perkins Furniture. Co. vs.
|. e. r. r. Co.-Dismissed al
plaintiffs cost.
A verdict for defendant wss
entered in the case of L. FL. Nc
Gehee VS.. Illinois Central R. R.
Co.
M. G. Jordan VS.. j. P. Brown
Judgment by default against
defendant for $27. IS and cost.
Manion & Co. VS.. r. M. Nalty
Action for debt on note. Jury
and verdict for plaintiff for $646.
81 and $64.67 attorneys fees
The ejectment suit of B. G
Penn VS.. Jno. A. Penn resulted il
verdict for plaintiff.
A judgment for plaintiff was
had in the case of R. W. Nc
Laurin ct al VS.. Fl. Il. McLaurin
This case was a controversy ovel
the possession of some mules anC
other stock.
A judgment for $500 was hat
by the plaintiff in the case of D
w. Price VS.. b. E. Brister Saw
| Mill Go. ct al.
Judge Robt. Powell, of Jack
son, Hon. j. B. Holden, Hon
IClem V. Ratcliff, Hon. II. V
Wall, Hon. L. II. McGehee, o
Summit, and Judge j. Ell. Price
of Magnolia, were in attendance
at Circuit Court Friday; also Jus
tice j. Cassidy, of McComb.
The grand jury expect to maxi
their final report and adjourn to
day.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30
SENTIMENT CHANGED.
MISSISSIPPI sEACOAST COUNTIES NOW
READY FOR PROHIBITION.
4 Prominent Attorney Of Scranton
Writes Significant Letter
on the Subject.

Scranton, Miss, Nov. 26, 'O7.
Mr.. b. /. Hobbs, Brookhaven,
Miss.
Friend Hobbs:-I see there will
be another move to get the Legis-
lature to adopt general prohibition
of the liquor traffic. AS much as
| haze always opposed the traffic
and fought the saloon wherever /
have lived / have always been
partial to local option because of
the necessity for moral backing to
make any law effective, especially
as applied to our coast towns. /
have seen much for object lesson
and Demonstration of the correct
ness of this idea, practical demon
stration of the correctness of the
theory. 1t was this idea, too,
that defeated the proposed
measure in the last Legislature.
Now / have two objects in writ
ing you. One is that the moral
sentiment on the subject of tenn
pefahce, as it is understood to ex-
ist id the Coast Counties, is very
much underrated. Especially is
this true with reference to Scran-
ton and other towns of jackson
county. During the last ten years
there has been vast improvement
in moral tone and temperance and
temperance sentiment here; so
much SO that | am quite sure that
on the question being properly
presented and pressed, this county
would go dry now, and | really
believe Scranton would also give
a dry majority. This is the SEN
timent now of our best posted
public men. And but for the fact
that the next Legislature is ex-
pected to do the work for US we
would 90 into the fight. And I
believe the same can be said for
other Coast Counties. This being
true, | consider the only excuse
for withholding such legislation is
about at an end.
Let the act pass and let Missis-
sippi quit abusing the garden spot
of all her great territory. Let
her investigate and realize the
fact that her hundred miles of
SounS Coast has all and more of
the charms of which Florida and
California so much boast, is sew
eral hundred miles nearer the
great trade and industrial centres
and has the finest natural harbor
facilities on the whole Gulf front,
equal in nearness and accessibility
to the middle West and great East.
Shut up the saloons and quit say
ing we are an immoral and de-
bauched people. At this place we
have invested, during the last five
years, some forty or fifty thous-
and dollars in School and Church
buildings and the general senti-
ment in favor of education and
higher culture and moral living
has gone by leaps and bounds
during the same period.
That is the only kind of boom we
have had, but it is the best of all
booms and all else needful will
folio W in its wake. If anything |
have said will help you any in
getting legislation next session,
use it. ! am a convert so far as
the Coast towns are to be effected.
We can handle blind tiger about
as we'll as Teddy can handle a
bear. Your truly,
III. B. EVERITT.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30
Examination for West Point Military
CadetShip.

GIoster, Miss, Nov. 27. 1907
A competitive examination will
be held at Brookhaven, Miss,
December 81, next, to select a
young man as cadet of the q. S.
Military Academy from the 7th
Congressional District of Mis-
sissippi. The examination will
be conducted by Hon. j. A. Maui
and Prof. Scott of Brookhaven
Applicants must be, white and
actual residents of this 9TH Con-
gressional District, not under II
or over 20 years of age. will
the applicant, who, in the
judgment of the examining COM
mittee, is the best qualified.
T. A. McLAIN, M. G.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30
Marriage Licenses Issued the Past Week.

Whites-Edward Marshall and
Miss Belle Smith; I. E. Mccall
and Miss Eunice Coward; }. W.
Montgomery and Miss Lillian
A Applewhite: George Winborn
and Miss Lille Belle Marcellins.
Colored deco. Williams and
Viola Lee; Joe Guynes and Lena
Hunter; James A. Hilson and
Dora Thompson.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30
Serious Accident Caused by Bad Roads.

Summit, Nov. 81. Bryant Nc.
Gehee, a prominent citizen of Lit
tle Springs, franklin county, met
with a serious accident, near Au-
burn, while hauling load of flour
from Summit to Little Springs.
He was sitting on two barrels of
fiour when the wagon was going
down a slight declivity, and the
front wheels striking a deep rut.
threw him between the wheels and
the tongue, with the result. that
both his jaws we're broken, all of
his teeth knocked out and other
injuries inflicted. He was taken
home and medical assistance pro-
cured. Although bis condition Is
serious, hopes are held for ulti-
mate recovery.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30

toes or molasses, the farmer, in
turn, will probably use it to buy
pair of shoes from the dry goods
merchant or pay his this years
taxes, and so it will come about
that the same two dollar bill sent
for Leader subscription by our
esteemed New Orleans friend and
patron, will pay ten or twelve dol
lars worth of debts in the course
of a week or ten days and still not
have its legal tender value dimin-
ished one cent, and all simply by
keeping it circulating.
Ii Mr.. Penn had not sent us the
two dollars and we couldn't have
secured that much from some one
else, our printer would have gone
unpaid, the printers landlady
would have gone unpaid, the gro
eery bill would have to wait, and
so on down the line. This is SIM
ply a very homeIy example of
how many obligations a small
amount of cash will pay if it is
kept in circulation and not hoard
ed. The same principle applies
to all larger financial TRANSACTIONS.
Mr.. Penn is right. People who
have any money for which they
have no immediate use, should
deposit it in good, reliable banks.
The banks will let it out on sound,
safe securities to people who do
need ready money to pay debts or
to establish and carry on various
legitimate enter lprises, and thus
the dollars are kept circulating
kept busy and on the moye-and
this brings about general business
confidence and prosperous times.
The banks of the country gen.
orally, including our own local
banks, did right in placing a limit
on the amount paid out on any
one day to their depositors, for in
this way they have protected both
themselves and their depositors
and in fact the country at large
from general and protracted
money panic which one time
threatened to prove disastrous to
all property and business inter-
ests.
Banks themselves do not make
it an object, under normal condl-
tions, to hoard money, but loan it
on good security to persons and
various enterprises needing ready
cash, hence very few banks would
be prepared for sudden, steady
run on their cash on hand in time
of general panic. Money panics
once started, like jealousy, make
the meat they feed on. and every
bank suspension or business fail
ure but adds to the store of lost
confidence and increases the panic.
When a panic becomes gener al
money hides out and ceases to
circulate, confidence is lost, busi-
ness stagnates, prices fall on
everything and there is general
shrinkage in all property values.
1t has been to avert just such a
condition of affairs as this follow
ing the few recent failures in New
York, that the banks of the coun-
try placed limit on cash paid
out to depositors, and, as we are
happy to believe, saved the coun-
try from anything approaching a
general panic and protracted
money stringency with all that
that would mean to every
legitimate line of business, farm
ers included.
The Leader will merely add that
if other subscribers will only send
along their two dollars like our
friend Penn and number, of
other valued patrons have done
during the past week. we guaran-
tee to do our full part toward
keeping it circulating.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30
IN THE LOCAL COURTS.
Cases Disposed Of During the Las
Week.
Mayors Court.

City VS.. Will Varner-P Petit
larceny. Fined $25 and costs and
sent to Jail for 80 days.
City VS.. Walter Weathersby--
Petit larceny. Discharged.
Garfield Brown is charged with
the unlawful sale Of whisky.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30

Within the past year three negro
women have been shot by nergo
men in jackson, two being killed.
The last one was shot and wound
ed by d stranger to whose wishes
she refused to aceede.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30

Lucedale is the name of new
county that the legislature will he
asked to create for the Southern
portion OF Green and the northern
part of Jackson counties.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30
Practical Sense and Timely Remarks
from John E. Penn.
Naw (lrleans Nav

New Orleans, Nov. 25, 1907.
Editor LEADER Regardless of
the financial stringency or the
money question, / enclose you two
dollars to cover my subscription
to Dec. 7th, 1907. This is a small
amount, yet you no doubt will
find place for it. just keep it
circulating, if you only buy some
thing to eat with it. What we
need these times is to circulate
money and have confidence in the
local banks. Hoarding up money
in an old sock in the bottom of a
trunk is of no benefit to any one.
Deposit it with the banks, where
it will be secure. The banks will
loan it out on good collateral,
which will keep the money in
circulation. It will give employ.
ment to many idle men. Stop
talking about "Panicky Times"
no such thing in the South. Corn,
cotton, sugar, rice, are plentiful
at good prices ia the South. In a
short while all this excitement
will die out. The crops will
bring plenty of money in circula-
tion. Christmas will soon be
here. Buy all your goods from
your home merchants. Keep the
Filthy Lucreo moving. Things
will soon be in tip top shape.
Yours truly,
JOHN e. PENN,
S23 Baronne ST., N. o.
The above is sensible and time
|Iy. A little while after Mr..
Penn's tWo-dolIar subscription
had been received by The Leader,
it was paid out to one OF its print
ers. The printer passed it on to
bis landlady for board, the land
lady will probably use it to pay q
bill at her groceryman's, the gro
|cery merchant pay tito q farmer
from whom be bought some pota5
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-30

Hon. II. v. Fant was elected
mayor Of Newton.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-07
OIL TRUST ATTORNEYS ID MAKE STRONG FIGHT
WILL STUBBoRNLY CONTEST CHARGES OF VIOLATION OF
 THE ELKINs ACf.

Day in Chicago Court Marked by q Continued Succession of Extended Arguments--Trust Counsel Contends
 That the Government Must Prove
 Certain Facts Alleged In the HndIct-
 ments or Abandon the Case.
 Chicago, March 6.-1t became evident to day that the attorneys for the Stand ard oil company Of Indiana, now on trial in the federal court on indictments for alleged violation of the Elkins act. are determined to make strong fight against the indictments proper. The day in court was marked by contin- ued succession of extended arguments in which the Standard Oil attorneys ccntended that the government must prove certain facts alleged in the in dicements or abandon it's case.
 The principal point upon which their attacks centered was the allegation made in the indictments that the Elk ins law was violated by shipments of oil made from Whiting, Ind. to St. Louis, Mo, over the Chicago and Alton road by the defense that the law could not have been violated in this manner for the simple reason that the Chicago and Alton road does not extend to St. Louis, Mo-, but terminates on the op- posite side of the river at East St.. Louis, Ill. They assert that the tariff sheets published by the Alton road did not contain a joint through rate to St. Louis, saying that the rate between East St. Louis and St. Louis was that of the Wiggins Ferry company. They objected on that ~round to the intro- duction as evidence, of the Alton tariff sheets. Judge Landis ruled, however, that the ferry company tariff sheets might be admitted as evidence, as they had been filed with the interstate com merce commission by the Chicago and Alton railroad, and that the Wiggins Ferry company had never objected to the filing of its sheets with the com- mission by the rialroad company, nor had it objected at any time to the rates given.
 F. S. Hollans, an employe of the freight department of the Alton road was on the stand for almost the entire day. His evidence related almost ex- culsively to uninteresting details re- garding the publication and issuance of the tariff sheets,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-07
MOTOR GOES INTO RIVER
THE CHANNEL AT TOMLINSON
 BRIDGE BLOCKED.

Motor is Entirely Out of sight-Freight
 Car Stops With Forward Trucks
 Over Edge--Driver of Motor Jumps
 and Is Uninjured--Damage to the
 Bridge SmalI--Bridge-Tend Powers
 Hopes for Stricter Rules.
 An accident in which the results might have been more serious than they were occurred at the Tomlinson drawbridge yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, when the motor which was for merly used by the Manufacturers Street railway to draw freight cars, but which is now owned by the Consolidat- ed, broke through the gates while the draw was open and fell into the river. The freight car which 1t was hauling stopped with the front trucks over the edge of the opening. The water is about twenty-two feet deep at this point, and the motor went completely out of sight.
 John Powers, who tends the bridge, was seen by a Courier reporter last night and asked to give an account of the accident. He said; "The motor came down the hill from the Four Cor ners about o'clock, following a trolley car at some little distance I let the trolley car through and then closed the gates and opened the draw to let through the towboat Clara McWil- Hams, which signalled me. l expected the motor to come to stop, as the law requires, and to wait until the bridge was fastened, but she crashed through the gates and went into the river.
 ''When started to open the bridge" continued MT. Powers, "the motor was not or any part of the bridge, and the gates were closed while 1t was still in the causeway. It was not going very fast, either, but was carried along by the momentum of the freight ear, which must have had forty tons of castings on board. The motorman, John Terrible, jumped before the mo- tor got to the edge of the bridge and was not hurt. He said he plugged the motor, and I guess perhaps he did all he could to stop it. The brake on the motor was hand brake, and there was no one to put on the brakes on the freight car"
 MT. Powers said he loped the acci- dent would have the effect of bringing about stricter set of rules governing the approach of the motor to the bridge. He said that the actual dam age done was very small. He does not believe that the motor was damaged, and that it can be easily raised with the wrecker The only damage to the bridge lay in the breaking of the gates.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-07
DIFFERENCES ARE SETTLED.
THREATENED STRIKE ON PENN.
 R. E. NOT TO OCCUR.

Concessions Made by Both the Conn
 pany and the Trainmen--Pittsburg
 Scale Extended--An Annual Wage
 Increase for the Road of Eleven
 Million DOlIass.
 Philadelphia, March. 6.-The differ ence between the Pennsylvania rail- road and its trainmen, which for a time threatened to precipitate a strike, were settled to-day at a conference be- tween General Manager Atterbury, of the railroad, and the trainmen's griiev- ance committee. Concessions were made by both the railroad and the trainmen, The trainmen demanded the Pittsburg rate of pay. and conditions of working in all yards east of Pitts burg and Erie The rates for Pitts burg are thirty-five cents an hour for day conductors, and thirty-six cents m hour for night e1ndu tors; thirty cents an hour for day and thirty-one cents an hour or night brakerflen. The railroad had offered to pay in all yards outside of the Pittsburg and Jersey City districts thirty-three cents an hour for day and thirty-four cents for night conductors, and twenty-eight cents for day an1 twenty-nine cents an hour for night brakemen. The railroad at the conference to-day agreed to ex- tend the Pittsburg scale to a district within a radius of about forty-tive miles of Pittsburg. The trainmen agreed to accept the rates previously offered by the railroad outside of the specified sections. By the extension of the district in which the Pittshurg rate will prevail employees on the main line and west Pennsylvania division as far east as Blairsville intersection the Alleghany valley division as far north as Kititanny, including the Kittanny yards, the entire Monongahela division, an9 the southwest branch of the Pitts burg division will be affected. The to- tai number of men affected by the Pittsburg yard district rate is 300, while the total number of employees of the Pennsylvania classed as trainmen, including freight and passenger, yard and road conductors, brakemen, flag men and baggagemen, on lines east of Pittsburg and Erie, is 16,000,
 The railroad company in an official statement issued tonight says the in- crease it has granted to all employees on lines east of Pittsburg and Erie ap- proximate an annual increas of nearly $11 1000, 900.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-07
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
NUMBER FROM THE ERROR
 COLUMN, HANDED DOWN.

Legacy Did Not Lapse in the Mary
 PheIan Case-Error Found in the
 Appeal of Thomas G. Bennett from
 the "DOing" of Commission in the
 InsoIvent Estate of Robert T. Mer-
 win.
 Hartford, March 6,--Decisions hand ed down to-day by the supreme court of errors of Connecticut are as fol- lows:
 Windham county-Frank V. Hathe- way ct aIs. vs. James M Smith, ad- ministrator; error; decision of lower court reversed.
 Fairfield county-John Pascone vs. the Morning Union, of Bridgeport; no error
 Henry M. Faulkner vs. Thomas Bo- lazzi; no error.
 Louis E. Green vs. Fanny M. Bissell ct als. Case was question of the construction of will of s. B. S. Bis sell, of Norwalx, decision being reserv- ed by Judge Shumway. Bissell left a bequest to a son who died without is- sue. The court ruled that no part of the estate of the father should go to the estate of the son.
 Gertrude M. Anderson's appeal from action of judge of probate court of Nor walk; no error.
 William A. Curtis, trustee, vs. Har- riet E. Osborn ct als.; action for the construction of will. The decision amounts to an interpretation of the will of Charles F. Osborn pertaining to the distribution of certain securities.
 New Haven county-Edward L. Seer ey vs. John Fitzpatrick ct als The will of Mary M. Phelan, Of Waterbury, left her estate to her half-brother, Pat rick Fitzpatrick, He died before her, and the heirs-at-law claimed that the legacy lapsed with Fitzpatrick's death. The latter's heirs opposed this claim. The decision of the court is that the legacy did not lapse.
 Thomas c. Bennett's appeal from the doings of a commissioner In the insol- vent estate of Robert T. Merwin; error.
 New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad vs. Frederick lily ct ux.; no error.
 Leroy B. sperry ct ux. vs the Con- necticut Railway and Lighting com- pany and the Consolidated Railway company; no error.
 Emma Pearne vs. James J. Coyne; no error.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-07
FRENCH NUNS FINED.
Refused to Quit Their Convent in Com
 pliance With Law.

Nantes. France. March GA police court judge to-day inflicted fines of $320 upon each of twenty-seven Ursu- line nuns, and fine of $5 upon the mother superior for refusing to quit their convent in compliance with the law dispersing religious communities,
 The defendants pleaded that both the grounds and the buildings themselves belonged to the other which had been authorized to carry on educational work. The prosecutiong, while not contesting this argument, insisted upon obedience to the act of congregations and at the same time gave warning that further refusal by the nuns to leave the buildings would be followed by election.
 During the trial the court room had to be cleared because of the demon- strations of crowd of Catholic sym pathizers who at the conclusion of the hearing, accompanied the nuns back to their convent with cheers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-07
COY. HUGHES, BILL UP,
New York Legislature Finally Has
 Measure Before It.

Albany, N, r., March 6.-At last the legislature has before 1t the bill sup posed to embody the ideas of Governor Hubhes as to the regulation of so- called public utilities by state commits sioners to take the place of the present state board of railroad commissioners, the state commission of gas and cleo tricity, the New York city board of rapid transit railroad commissioners and the state inspector of gas meters. The bill, in form as described in the statement given out last night by Sen ator Page and Assemblyman Merritt, was introduced by them in the two houses to-day. In the senate it was re- ferred to the committee on finance.
 Senator Cassidy criticized the action of the introducers of the bill in mak- nig d public statement of it's provisions before presenting the measure to the senate,
 Senator Page replied that early cop ies of this bill had been stolen and that erroneous statements were being made in the press for certain purposes and that they considered themselves justI- fled in giving out a correct statement. Tn the assembly the bill was referred to the committee on railroads, of which My. Merritt is chairman.