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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
2
Praise for farmers as the cornerstone of society. It extols farming as healthier and more independent than urban life, noting broad acres yield abundance and neighborly respect. The author urges youths to stay rural for greater comfort and pleasure, urging young men and women to consider farm life over town life.
The Columbus Ledger argues bears push prices down while farmers rush to sell. It predicts some bears may then lift prices, urging southern farmers to unite for surplus cotton. It claims farmers could realize higher prices next spring if they withhold sales, but only with coordinated action against speculators.
The Bank Examiner plans to introduce a bill to create a state bank examining department. He argues bank examiners should not answer to the treasury and banking laws should change. Hawes is praised as an able, popular Georgia figure with strong convictions, and the Times Recorder endorses the measure.
A garbled preview mentions Friday related flights and trips, as Teddy travels with past mishaps noted. It discusses farm products with poultry and eggs sinking to seventh, along with other crops and dairy. It notes a pending bill to establish a state reform school for juvenile criminals and references Georgia mill expansion to Lindale. It closes with a mumbled jab about politics and race.
The Boston Herald critiques Republican moves to eliminate the colored vote in the South as a political experiment. It notes southern white Republicans see the colored brother as little electoral value while northern Republicans show indifference to his fate. The piece questions why press and pulpit voices remain silent on this moral issue.
In Cordele Georgia George Bundrick shot and killed John J Shrouder as they rode in a buggy toward their home near Raines Bundrick also mortally wounded Shrouder's wife and her unborn child The incident followed an earlier dispute over a pocketknife and farm laborers The county faces high tension and fears vigilante action unless authorities restore order
Four year old Minnie Brouckman, daughter of Henry Brouckman, janitor, stepped into the path of a Garfield boulevard and Michigan avenue car driven by Vernon Cussard, a board of trade broker. She died three hours later. Cussard did not see her until the auto was upon her and halted to avoid crushing her.
Arthur Comer shot his wife five times killing her instantly near Hero. Her father Joe Murphey shot Comer after pursuing him. Comer died on the spot. The couple had been married about two years and left an 11 month old baby.
At a New York meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Fresuent Scott stated that since 1884 the value of U S electrical installations outside telegraph and telephone plants rose from 1 million to over 4 billion. He said the United States with one fifth the population of Europe and Britain has two and one third times the kilowatt capacity in power stations and three and one half the mileage of electric railways. He noted New York power houses could replace Britain's central stations and operate Europe's railways combined.
At Gadsden Alabama on Sept 27 Archer Peoples a Southern Bell lineman was shot by Elias Blount at his boarding house when Peoples slept in the yard by a tree after failing to enter. Blount heard a noise and shot believing Peoples to be a thief.
Montgomery, Sept 27. Henry county candidates John B Ward and 8 B Ward with Thomas L Blackwell contest declared nominees contend fraud at Dothan where 150 ballots were placed before polls opened. County committee to hear case. fight seen to continue to general election. In Abbeville S C a Beaboard shop altercation left Charles Bruce white and Lewis Sanders black, Sanders shot. Bruce crippled from past burn. Sanders, from Chester S C, alive in city.
Mr. Shepherd of Cabarrus county is credited with discovering a fine collection of Indian relics four feet underground after dreaming of the exact spot. He went to the location and unearthed the artifacts following the vision.
Pittsburg September 27. President John Mitchell and Secretary-Treasurer W B Wilson of the United Mine Workers arrived and held a routine conference at the Hotel Hersey. Mitchell said the meeting would be routine and not involve others. Wilson stated the anthracite strike would continue until the miners win, now in its 20th week, with labor leaders and officials expected to attend.
A mob of several hundred men gathered at Centralia Pa to intercept union workers from going to work at Packer No 2 colliery. Some workers waiting for trains to work were chased back to their homes.
Beeft of meat prompts 20 inmates at New Jeremy State Prison in Trenton to strike work in the brush shop and many are chained in the dungeons. The action follows a substitution of rice for liberal meat rations, with the scene noted as a response to price and supply changes. Separately, Shenandoah strikers hijack a coal train near Locust Dale, prompting General Gobin to send infantry under Provost Marshal Farquar to safeguard the line. train movement resumes without further interference.
Isaac Singer dies in New York on September 27. Jenno A. Singer, a major stockholder in Singer Manufacturing, is reported dead in Atlanta. In Tallahassee, Florida, September 27 Governor Jennings appoints E Disio Hexra of Pensacola as judge of the Escambia county criminal court, replacing A. O. Blount Jr who resigned.
A legal notice from Preston Georgia announces ratification by all parties in a real estate action concerning a property in Webster County. The court filing seeks an order related to an estate investment and references multiple local boundaries and parties in the Preston area.
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