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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
2
In this week’s issue of THE Saturday Evexix Post James H. Collins examines welfare work in large corporations. He asks what makes welfare efforts succeed or fail and how they affect workers and employers, noting nonfinancial values beyond bonds.
Prominent Chinese broker Lorens D Kneeland, 55, former senior member of Kneeland Clement Curtis brokers, shot himself in the head at his home in Chicago. He had been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Check Exchange, retired from active business about a year and a half ago, and had longterm health issues. He was known in financial circles and belonged to the Union League and Chicago Athletic clubs.
Representative Byrd of Missinetopi introduced a measure to prohibit dealing in futures in agricultural products by forbidding dealers from using the mails interstate transportation and banking facilities.
A group of about forty Doukhobors stripped to their undergarments and paraded naked in Fort William Ontario this morning. Police arrested about fifteen participants and transported them to the station in closed carriages for trial.
Savannah Ga April 9 The cornerstone of the new Savannah Young Men's Christian Association building was laid on Tuesday with a Masonic ceremony. A box contained a Bible a history of the association copies of local newspapers a building fund subscriber list and a program. Hon E W Froat of Milwaukee delivered the address.
Fire destroyed part of the building of T and Robinson in Buford Georgia after a morning blaze followed a Black Hand note sent to Mr Robinson via the local post. The note warned “You are next” and was discovered with a hand drawn in ink. Neighbors helped save belongings and Mrs Robinson secured minimal insurance on the home.
A Georgia attorney writes to the state Democratic Party executive committee chairman asking that delegates from the state at large be named at the primary. He appeals for a hearing to discuss the platform and stresses the public right to participate, urging the committee to convene and consider the matter.
In Taft and Parkersburg West Virginia on April 9 Congressman Harry Woodyard was renominated by acclamation as the Republican candidate of the fourth district. Delegates to the national convention were instructed to vote for Secretary Taft for the presidential nomination. Grover Cleveland’s status is uncertain amid reports of illness in Lakewood New Jersey as of April 9.
A Minneapolis Tribune report notes Cooper’s stomach regulation medicine has sold at remarkable rates in Minneapolis and across Minnesota. Over twenty two days in the city sales averaged two thousand bottles daily, with statewide totals doubling that figure, prompting hundreds to thank him for his medicine. Jacobs' Pharmacy endorses the preparation as achieving similar records elsewhere.
The Central Passenger Association recommended a fare and a half reduction during summer months for conventions with attendance over 1000. Supporters and opponents debated, with a special session planned next week to decide. Beneficiaries would include the Republican National Convention, Grand Army of the Republic in Toledo, and Educational and Baptist Young People unions in Cleveland. The National Education Association fare issue, previously deemed a violation of Interstate Commerce Commission rulings, will be considered at the meeting.
Washington April 9 Democrats repeatedly forced quorum in the house after Republicans were caught napping. Speaker Cannon invoked the Reed rule to declare a quorum amid a notable clash with Mr. William. Public business progressed with appropriation bills sent to conference and the revenue cutter service measure approved with Democratic help.
The board of trade elected J A Carson as president of the J P Williams Company and of the Merchants National Bank for the coming year. Warvey Granger was named vice president. New directors include I L Al Crans, B H Levy, J B Cheanutt, James Farie Jr, L McNeilt, J C Schwann, JW Mote, HH Bruen, R Va Powell, WT FL Baker.
Multiple death notices and funeral announcements list M C Cox, Martha M Crow, Henry Lee, Annie Sesbloom, and J J Whitehead. Details include residences, dates, and that services or interment will be in LaGrange Irwinton Rome and Ormond, with escorts from lodge.
Short stories from LaCrosse report visiting figures and social notes. Charley Shropshire returns healthy and popular in Atlanta. Senator Ben Tillman's health shows gradual improvement at a sanitarium. A civil suit over damages against Georgia Railway and Electric Company advances with a temporary injunction. A charter petition seeks incorporation of the Charles M. May Company in jewelry and diamonds with $10,000 capital.
Dr Robert L Russell penitentiary physician reports twenty eight cases of severe poisoning at the Arkansas camp after a dead hog fouled the water supply in the branch near Tinsman on the Rock Island line. He treated the patients for two days and sees no deaths, calling the hog the sole cause.
Dresden Tennessee was rocked by a late night incident in which two Black boys around seven years old were dragged from town and severely whipped by a group of young men after allegedly insulting a popular white woman returning from a store. The offenders were then ordered to leave town, with threats later made toward the location and those involved and the youths jailed.
The General Society of the Cincinnati accepted an invitation to meet in Newport Rhode Island in 1911. Members, after a day of tributes and resolutions, toured Magnola gardens on the Ashley and dined at the Dreayten hall with a reception hosted by Captain Thomas Pinckney. Officers will be elected tomorrow.
In Chattanooga on April 9, painters W. W. Evens and W. J. Stanley fell from the fourth floor of the old Southern hotel building when a rope on the scaffold broke. Evens was killed instantly, Stanley died ten minutes later. Stanley was from Cincinnati, Evens had recently moved from Knoxville. both were young and unmarried.
In St Marys Infirmary at Louis, Mrs. Sarah Callett leaped from a fourth floor window and died later. Her muffled half delirium teemed I did it for him while she was questioned about the act.
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