Burn Everything By Orders Of Filipino Troops In Cuba Letter
Special from Columbia reports Rev. Lewis J Bristow received a letter from an American soldier in the Philippines detailing brutal orders to burn homes and food stocks, kill all except women children and very old men, and describe scenes of pursuit, ambush, and night raids. The letter recalls camps near Layla, ravines, and a six mile dead line around towns. It also notes the use of natives as tools of torture, and the soldier’s grim comparison to olives in facing death. Prices for rice and tobacco are mentioned amid ruin and desolation.
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Columbia
Lewis J. Bristow
Cuba
South Carolina
Philippines
Leyte
Batanzas
Hopper
Layla
Therren
Navy Deserter Arrested in Columba South Carolina
Officer Bates of the Spartanhuts city police arrested Navy deserter Royal T Gregory in Port Royal. Gregory fled from the Toneka training ship in Charleston a week earlier. In Edings Point Creek Morgan River three oyster harbor workers Simbo Poe George Lee and Sinick Chisolm drowned when their overloaded rowboat capsized in heavy winds. Only one swimmer reached shore. bodies not yet recovered.
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Columba
Bates
Spartanhuts City Po
Pet Royal
T. H. Gregory
Navy
Gregory
Port Royal
Charleston
George Lee
Simbo Poe
Sinick Chisolm
Morgan River
Edings Point Creek
Beaufort Univ
The Mississippi Flood Report from March Rainfall Rise
The Mississippi flood spreads as weather bureau data show March rainfall at 12.5 inches, 6.07 inches above the thirty one year average, the highest March record since 1880. The report underscores severe flooding through Jackson and across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
State Department of the Weather Bureau
Rural Free Delivery Planned From Alexander City
Special agent W B Brannon reports full inspection of routes from Alexander City into Talapoosy County. He confirms rural free delivery will begin in a few weeks with Alexander City as the distribution point.
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Alexander City
Ata
W. B. Brannon
Post Office Department
Talispoosy
Savannah Seeks the State for Rifle Ranges in Savannah
Savannah authorities push to host the summer state shoot under Colonel Cann. Captain Postell plans a letter highlighting Savannah ranges with six distances, telephones, bells, and water facilities. Confederate veterans plan Dallas reunion travel and monument location debates stir Forsyth Park. Local politics heat up as Citizens and Union clubs prepare primary slates.
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Savannah
Savannah Miliary Rifle Ranges Association
George T. Cann
J. C. Postell
Cann
N. A
Postell
Colonel Cann
Huguenin
Dallas
Messrs
J. M Solomons
T N. Theus
J. W.W. Menike
M .R. Tunno
George P. Walker
John Krox
John Murray
DP. Morgan
James Leonard
Robert Hunt
Robert H. Lewis
Lemuel C. Downs
J. H. H. Osborne
Henry C. Harden
Walter O'Meara
R. C. Johnson
Lafayette Mc Laws
Francis C. Bartow
D. G. Purse
Bartow
McLaws
Laurel Grove
Bull Street
Forsyth Park
Park and Tree Commission
Laurel Grove Cemetery
Veterans’ Association
Warrenton Court Adjourns After Week of Hearings
Warrenton Georgia saw Warrenton superior court adjourn after a week of arduous work. Judge Horace M Holden presided and boosted his standing as presiding officer. Solicitor General David W Meadow represented the state and ensured its interests. Daily sessions featured speeches by several candidates for office including Hon Thomas W Hardwick who spoke on Tuesday for his congressional bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warrenton
Warren Superior Court
Horace M. Holden
David W. Meadow
Thomas W. Hardwick
Congress
Policeman fatally shoots saloon keeper in Chattanooga
In Chattanooga Tennessee on April 13 Officer W. B. Brown in plain clothes shot and killed Robert Gleason a popular saloon keeper. A crowd threatened lynching but Brown was hustled to jail under police protection. The incident follows efforts to curb Sunday whisky sales.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Brown
Robert Gleason
South Side
Jatt
Prison Sentences Hit 21 in Calhoun County Court
In Anniston Judge Thomas W. Coleman sentenced 21 prisoners to terms totaling 112 years and ten months. Notable cases include Jawton Morton and John Wilson each with 20 years for killings, Bev and Eva McKenzie with 15 years for poisoning attempt, and multiple other burglaries, larcenies, and grand larcenies. All defendants were male except Laura Willis alias Joaura Cunningham for bigamy. The note adds this was the largest share of criminals sentenced in Calhoun county in some time.
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Anniston Court
Anniston
Ala
Thomas W. Coleman
Ag Tojlows
Jawton Morton
Wil Byrd
Iron Queen
John Wilson
Tomlin
Piedmont
Bev
Eva McKenzie
Woodruff
Wil Blockley
John Holt
Lownes W. McCaa
Dave Hamilton
Boozer & Co
Annis Elston
Kim Garner
Smith Chisholm
Frank Owens
Henry Benatti
Dock Williams
Southern Railroad
John Histon
P. H. O’brien
Laura Wiis
Joaura Cunningham
Joe Calloway
John Walker
Jack Jones
Albert Thornton
Sy Scott
Edgar Mitchell
Jim Branch
Calhoun County
Bnai Brith convention draws near hundred delegates in Little Rock
Nearly one hundred delegates attended the twenty ninth annual district grand lodge No 7 convention of Bnai B'rith in Little Rock Arkansas on April 13 with Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee Texas Alabama and Florida represented. Officers were elected including S C Eldridge San Antonio Texas president and Rabbi George Solomon Vicksburg Mississippi first vice president with Joseph Bertman Birmingham Alabama treasurer Lewis Mayer Demopolis Alabama secretary Nathan Strauss New Orleans Louisiana and H J Dannebaum Houston Texas as sergeant at arms. Reports urged ending the endowment to admit no more members while reserving funds for a solvency verdict. The convention reviewed membership since 1891 and a plan to establish a Jewish hospital at Hot Springs Arkansas and a sanitarium at San Antonio Texas. An intellectual culture evening featured Henry Dannebaum Houston Texas as essayist and Rabbi Alfred G Moses Mobile Alabama as orator. The grand lodge session runs to Wednesday.
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Little Rock
Tittle Rock
Ark
District Grand Lodge No. 7
Order of Binai B'rith
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippa
Tennessee
Texas
Alabama
Florida
State Capitol
S. C. Eldridge
San Antonio
Tex
George Solomon
Vicksburg
Miss
Joseph Bertman
Birmingham
Ala
Lewis Mayer
Demopolis
Nathan Strauss
New Orleans
H. J. Dannebaum
Houston
Jacques Loeb
Montgomery
Strauss
Hot Springs Ark
Temple B'nai Israel
Henry Dannebaum
Alfred G. Moses
Mobile
Grand Lodge
Governor Aycock Returns Home From Exposition
A special train carrying Governor Aycock and party reached Raleigh at 6 30 after leaving Charleston. The Raleigh Light Infantry escorted the governor to the mansion. At Cheraw a large crowd welcomed the train and Associate Justice McIver of the South Carolina supreme court joined aboard and Aycock delivered a brief, cheerful five minute address.
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Raleigh
N. C
Aycock
Charleston Exposition
Cheraw
McIver
South Carolina Supreme Court
Letters Found Reveal Early Creek War Dangers
Jackson Mississippi April 19 Special brief details valuable letters unearthed by Mississippi archives director Rowland. Judge Toulmin, first federal judge of the Mississippi territory, writes to Governor Holmes describing dangers to pioneers before Creek War. Included is a Wilkinson communication tied to Aaron Burr era. Toulmin, English born 1770, later held Virginia Kentucky positions and Jefferson appointed judge with fame as jurist and scholar.
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Wilkinson
Mississippi
Aaron Burr
Judge Toulmin
Trenton
King George
Virginia
Lekington
Garrard
Jefferson
Missouri Territory
Mississippi archives seeks portraits for state collection
Jackson Mississippi April 13 Special 3 Dunbar Rowland director of the Mississippi department of archives and history appeals to residents to send information and portraits of eminent state figures. A portrait of Governor James T Alcorn has been donated and more are expected as a museum of art and history will be established in the new capitol.
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Jackson
Miss
Dunbar Rowland
Mississipni Department of Archives and History
Poritrges
Tralia
James T. Alcorn
Stak
Capitol
Soutiding
Plans for a new cemetery location in Tuscaloosa
April 13 Tuscaloosa article notes a lawn cemetery plan discussed by prominent citizens. Dr James T Searcy offers $1,000 from Evergreen funds to buy land. Galld's woods proposed for its suitability and water. Other items include Judge Brown issuing a marriage license, YMCA rooms opening, a Presbyterian church social, Knights of Honor trustee Kilgore elected, Ladies' Relief Society renting two rooms, and a Quakers gathering with wireless telegraphy talk and refreshments.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
James T Searcy
Evergreen Cemetery
Galld’s Woods
Wildman
James C. Brown
Berry Durrett
Victora Swindle
Young Men's Christian Association
Co. c. Kilgore
Knights of Honor
Montgomery
Ladies’ Relief Society
Twenty Third Avenue
Eighth Street
May Powerson
University Avenue
Prominent Southern Donor Gives Record Tuskegee Gift
A wealthy southern white man from Birmingham, born in South Carolina, donates 3500 to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, the largest from a southern white donor. He argues education will produce content and useful Black citizens. Also notes a deWitt’s Little Early Risers endorsement by Justice of the Peace Adam Shock. City offices elected in Madison: Marshal H L Simmons, deputy E B Pitzpatrick, street superintendent A P Richtu, electrician John T Peacoe, clerk S F Beckham.
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Tuskegee, Ala
South Carolina
Biringham
Ala
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Booker T. Washington
South
DeWitt
Justice of the Peace
Adam Shock
New Lisbon
Ind
Madison
H. L. Simmons
E. B. Pitzpatrick
A. P. Richtu
John T. Peacoe
S. F. Beckham
Insurance figures and agency notice in Baltimore firm
An Easy Winner by 611000. John R. Thornton, resident manager of the Maryland Casualty Company personal accident department in Baltimore, reports insurance to April 10. Maryland assets total 2,498,451.69 with surplus 1,492,702.41. Policies issued from Atlanta office. For policy or agency contact 37 South Pryor St or phone 1453 Bell. Aaron Baas & Son, gen. agents.
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John R. Thornton
Maryland Casualty Company
Baltimore
Maryland
Atlanta
South Pryor St
Bell
Mgr
Aaron Baas
Gift to University Increases Psychology Ethics Prizes
Chancellor Hill announced a gift from Judge Horace Russell of New York to Georgia University. The $1,600 endowment funds two annual prizes in psychology and ethics, with $2500 in securities yielding 7 percent and $100 in cash to fund this year's prizes. Prizes of $50 each will be awarded for the best ethics and psychology essays chosen by Professors Fond and Hill.
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Athens
Chapel Chancellor Hill
Georgia
Horace Russell
New York
Russell
Thomas
James
Harvard College
Fond
Hill
Athens to Welcome New Oil Mill and Ginnery Plant
Athens Ga April 13 special Athens gains a large oil mill fertilizer and ginnery with capital stock 100000 the project filed for charter by W M McKenzie A M Dobbs of Atlanta and J C Cooper of Athens to manufacture cotton seed products and fertilizers a modern ginnery will employ about one hundred workers the machinery bought from a major northern plant and the plant aims to process fifty tons of seed daily and boost local farmers.
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Athens
W. M. McKenzie
A. M. Dobbs
Atlanta
J. C. Cooper
Destro
Messrs. McKenzie and
Dobbs
Cooper
Cadets to Albany Parade From Barnesville School
The Gordon Institute cadets accept invitation from Albany Chautauqua Association to join a parade April 22 led by Lt. Col. J. Q. Nash. A 100-strong battalion with two chartered special cars will display drill and mantai bayonet exercises for Georgia state troops, featuring an exhibition drill at the day’s event.
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Barnesville School
Barnesville
Gordon Institute
Albany Chautauqua Association
J. Q. Nash
chau _tauqua association
Georgia State
Georgia State Troops
W. C G. Mashburn
W. R. Woodyard
Fc Manson
H. L. Covington
H. Askew
D. Wright
Eantain
B. Watts
A. Milner
J. A. Kelley, Jr
RH. M. Smith
P. Balb
RB. M. Taylor
J Db. Howard
T. Casey
Atlen
W. R. Autrey
P. Stephers
BE. Hickman
J. Jordan
E. L. Brinson
R. M. Brown
R Blount
BE. T. McIlvaine
P. Anderson
J. E. Arnold
P. B. Birch
B. Franklin
L. Brown
J. C. Clark
Canthen
M. B. Davis
L. A. Elis
J. R. Fambro
G. B. Fitzpatrick
C. Hodge
W. A. Jeter
A. D. Jones
N. We. Jordan
Rev Sam Jones in Tifton Sermon Draws Over a Thousand
Rev Sam Jones arrived Wednesday afternoon and preached to a congregation over one thousand in Tifton Ga. He spoke again Thursday morning but, under his physician's advice, left at 1 PM for Atlanta to receive medical care.
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Sam Jones
Tifton
Atlanta
Bishop Turner Addresses AME Sunday School Institute
Bishop Turner addressed the Sunday school institute of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Palmetto. A large crowd of white attendees heard him. the meeting left a strong impression on the community as it closes tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palineewo, Wi
Turner
Sunday School Institute
The
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Presbytery Session Adopts Proposals for High School
Cuthbert Ga April 14 Special The presbytery heard proposals from Cordele Rochelle Perry Camilla Thomasville and Americus for a proposed high school. It elected to study data and report at the next meeting. The session concluded with a sermon assignment and committee changes.
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J. C. Tims
Synod of Florida
Frederick Perkins
New York
L. H. Wilson
Florida
W. H. McMeen
Savannah
Moultrie
Columbus
Whitney
Boston
J. ¢. Tims
W. R. Owings
Cordele
Presbytery
L. Morris
D.D
P. Hansell
G. W. Bacot
K. L. McIver
Neil McQaod
Home Missions
H. G. Griswold
R. E. Douglass
P. Pelham
W. L. Ler Conte
G. J. McCrary
W H. Frazer
S.C. Hoge
William McKay
General Assembly
R. W. Alexander
Pb, Pelham
J. P. Sharp
Winners Speakers Places Announced at North Georgia College
Dahlonega Ga April 12 Special The following have been announced as successful contestants for speakers places at commencement at the North Georgia Agricultural College Subfreshman B class Paul Abbott Miss Grace Hightower Miss Mary Huff J S Hooks Miss Annie Smith Parks c B Collins W C Stanton C J Fowler Miss Lillie Prater Subfreshman ¢ class W Gaillard Dan Byrd J F MccCrackin W F Thomas O W Steed J H Burkhaiter Miss Eliza McAfee W D Drew Shaman Granger Miss Josie Head Freshman W Townsend J J Broach J R Byers J H Craig Gordon Rogers W H Lewis George Watts J G Stokes C R Sewell and G T Rowe The sophomore contest has not yet closed The junior and senior speakers are appointed according to scholarship and will be announced later Personal Free Dr Brown s Diet Tablets Invaluable to Invalids Sent on request The Dr J C Brown Medical Co 108 110 State Street Albany N Y
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North Georgia Agricultural College
Dahlonega
Subfreshman
Paul Abbott
Grace Hightower
Mary Huff
J. S. Hooks
Annie Smith
Parks
C. B. Collins
W. C. Stanton
C. J. Fowler
Lillie Prater
The Teop ard's Spots Sells in Marietta by Miller
Since Red Rock there has been no book so intensely interesting to southerners as The Teop ard's Spots. Sold by Miller in Marietta.
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Teopard
Miller
Marietta
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