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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1899
Page
6
Educators in Athens discuss forming a yearly chautauqua to attract visitors and scholars. Backers say it would promote pleasure and instruction, bring lecturers from the south and beyond, raise the city’s prominence, and boost local business. Organizers aim for a solid financial plan with University teachers as a nucleus, targeting next summer for launch.
The Cotton States and International Exposition auditorium at Exposition Park in Atlanta burned recently. The structure, formerly used as a theatre, was destroyed in the incident raising concerns about the event center and safety at the exposition grounds.
Fire at the exposition center erupts at 4:80 am burning the theater stock company scenery and ward robes, torching the Georgia state building nearby while threatening the administration structure. The band stand is consumed and a refreshment stand along with a patent wire fence exhibit lost. authorities battle flames to save the administration building.
The Combined Teachers Institute of Oglethorpe and Clarke counties closes after a successful Lexington session. Resolutions thank Lexington residents, Meson Academy trustees for use of their auditorium, and conductors H. J. Guertner and N. H. Ballard for their contributing lectures and valuable information.
Luther F. Perry, a former First South Carolina volunteer infantry member, died today by morphine overdose. He was found on a dray at McKenzie and Reynolds streets in Augusta, Georgia, after writing a letter to his father in Wingate, North Carolina, stating illness drove him to end his life. authorities were unable to learn details of his life from muster out to eight weeks ago. Dr J B Morgan notified the father but no reply had been received.
A ten year old black girl was killed on N D Arnold's farm near Crawford Georgia. Albert Bright, a black man, is jailed in Lexington awaiting trial. Motive alleged as failure to carry a bucket of water to field hands. Body found with severe head injuries and multiple cuts.
The nineteenth annual session of the Georgia State Teachers Association opens in Athens today and runs through the week. Prof L B Clark of Knox Institute presides. Sessions cover primary and industrial work, round table, grammar, institute work, and musical and literary departments with over one hundred visiting teachers attending. Thursday noon features addresses by Gov. Candler and State School Commissioner Glenn.
In Greenville South Carolina near Marietta two farmers, Priolean Southern and Tench Cox, quarreled after a joke. Cox, said to be drunk, shot Southern in the chest and fled as eye witness Bill Goodwin was assaulted. Coroner to hold inquest as authorities pursue Cox. Miss Frankie Florman in Tacoma reports discovery of a rich quartz claim in Alaska and British Columbia with surface assays up to 27 dollars.
Brigadier General Charles King, back from the Philippines, declares in a Milwaukee Journal letter that Filipinos are capable of self government and could manage themselves better than Americans expect. He says they rank higher than Cubans or African Americans, to whom suffrage has been granted.
Colonel W. G. Obear and Major Kendrick arrived in Augusta Georgia to probe equipment losses at the arsenal following the recent blaze. A meeting is scheduled for tonight at Arlington with all Augusta officers in attendance.
News of the sudden death of Mr Myer Marks in New York reaches Athens. He was about twenty four, son of Mrs P B Marks, and formerly with Max Joseph’s enterprise then owner of The Hub clothing shop. Remains to be brought to Athens for interment. funeral plans unavailable.
Brest France June 26 The French first class cruiser Tage put to sea to experiment with carrier pigeons a move seen as signaling possible transfer of Captain Dreyfus from the Sfax. The arrival of gendarmes and an anti Dreyfus organizer in Brest fuels speculation of a forthcoming landing at the port.
Cape May June 26 William L. Moore chief of the United States weather bureau and Philander Johnson a Washington newspaper man were rescued from drowning while bathing by Congressman Henry C Loudensinger of New Jersey and H Kilpatrick of Philadelphia
Miles McDonald a twenty year old resident of St Louis leaped from the center span of the Eads bridge as part of a wager. He fell about 115 feet and landed on his shoulders and upper back. A boat crew nearby provided rapid rescue preventing drowning.
A War Department authorized battalion gains 300 Porto Ricans enlisted, with 100 more expected, per a Washington report cited by the New York Herald. The War Department and Brigadier General Davis confirm the Porto Rico contingent for the division. The dispatch notes Secretary Alger was informed of the enlistment progress.
June 26. The Herald states Admiral Dewey will land in Boston and be entertained here before proceeding to New York. The report cites the United States consul general at Halifax who received word that the Olympia will make its first American appearance and that Dewey would depart for New York after the reception.
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