Belfield Led Mob That Killed John Stephenson in Raleigh
Milton Belfield a black man who confessed leading the mob that shot and killed John Stephenson, with others named Julius Bishop and his brother, both jailed in Windsor. Belfield was captured at Weldon after resisting police and was mortally wounded. threats of lynching follow the case.
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Raleigh
N. C
Milton Belfield
John Stephenson
Wreath
Windsor
John
Julius Bishop
Weldon
Stephenson
Tennessee women threaten withdrawal over negro club admission
The Tennessee Federation of Women's Clubs debated admitting negro women's clubs to the general federation in Los Angeles. A motion to vote withdrawal if colored clubs join was adopted, with Mrs A O Granger opposing and Mrs Grive supporting. The federation also reelected Mrs Charles A Perkins as president.
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Tennessee
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs
Los Angeles
N S Woodward
A. O. Granger
Caldtersville
Georgia Federation
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Charles A. Perkins
Monument to Wade Hampton Erection Plan Launched
Columbia April 18 Special The Wade Hampton monument movement is launched with a plan for a statue. Camp Hampton met in extra session adopting tributes and a subscription drive. Survivors in the Confederate arms were invited to join the central committee with district representatives named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Confederate States
Hampton
Theodora G. Barker
J W. Moore
UH Russell
James A Hoyt
Jam Hart
WE James
A. C Haskell
Quarreled over pension leads to fatal wife shot
In Kingston Tennessee on April 19 Abraham May aged 40 was shot dead by his wife Mary Chrisenberry age 35. The couple had married four months earlier. Mary May confessed the killing saying a family quarrel over pension money sparked the tragedy. May, a federal veteran, drew a $12 monthly pension and was highly respected in town. She is jailed pending further proceedings.
Knights Templars Elect New Officers At El Paso Conclave
Texas Knights Templars finished their session in El Paso electing Jacob F. Zurn of Fort Worth as tight eminenter and commander. Buicton chosen as next meeting place. The order has 112 commanderies in the state. Shriners will parade today and a banquet is set at the Sheldon hotel tonight.
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Texas Knights Templars
el Paso
Tex
Jacob F. Zurn
Fort Worth
Buicton
Shriners
Sheldon Hotel
North Alabama presbytery meets in Tuscumbia for fall session
Three sessions of the North Alabama presbytery were held at Anniston and Huntsville with home missions and church education on the agenda. Delegates elected to the general assembly to meet in Jackson Mississippi in May. Tuscumbia chosen as fall meeting site after ballots. several churches invited.
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Tuscumbia
Annistop
Ala
North Alabama
General Assembly
J. L. Bitzer
Hunteville
Jackson
Miss
J. 3. Grier
South Highland Church
Birmingham
A. D. Mooney
Second
J. H. Brye
Furst
Anniston
J. D. Wyker
Decatur
L. Bitzer
Huntsville
J. W. Orr
Ensley
A L. Dupree
Attalla
A. R Lauderdale
Goodwater
Montevallo
Pratt City
Church of ‘Tuscumbia
W H Williams
Injunction Blocks Linden Court House Site Change
In Marengo county Alabama chancery court blocks county commissioners from moving the new Linden court house. Five grand juries condemned the old building. Site renamed between town and railroad depot triggers taxpay er opposition. Court injunction prevents removing the courthouse and raises questions under the new constitution about what constitutes removal. A contract had been let for forty thousand dollars and materials bought. Citizens consider appealing to the state supreme court for a ruling on removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Marengo County
Chancery Court
Court House
Linden
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court
Alabama Doctors Decline to Oppose Washington Marine Hospital Plan
The State Medical Association of Alabama refused to go on record against pending Washington legislation affecting the Marine Hospital Association. The issue arose from a censor report stating the bill would widen federal hospital powers, potentially encroaching on state health boards. Dr Moody urged endorsing the state health officer, while Dr Legrande urged delay for study. the motion to refer back to censors passed. Officers elected include President Glenn Andrews of Montgomery and Vice President A M Stovall of Jasper.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
State Medical Association of Alabama
Washington
Marine Hospital Association
Board of Censors
W. H. Sanders
Sanders
Marine Hospital Service
Moody
J. Legrande
BH M Cunningham
Glenn Andrews
Montgomery
Northern Division
A. M. Stovall
Jasper
L. C. Morris
George S. Brown
Board of
Censors
W. HF. Sanders
H. A. Moody
Man Named William Jackson Held for Beating Wife in Knoxville
A man, first claiming the name William Jackson then William Scott, was arrested in Knoxville on a wife beating charge. He says he married the woman in Atlanta after she had another husband who followed them to Chattanooga. The woman appeared in court to seek her husband’s release, but the request was denied. She refused to give her name before the marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
William Jackson
William Scott
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Lumbermen in Convention in Charleston Convene
Delegates from the Carolinas Georgia Florida and Virginia met in Charleston for the Georgia Sew Mill Association conference to strengthen ties and harmonize price lists. They adopted a plan to form a general conference committee and discussed routine matters with an encouraging outlook for the lumber trade and future cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
D. C
Carolinas
Georgia
Florida
Virginia
Georgia Sew Mill Association
Georgia Organization
South
T.it
Argyle Hotel
Meeting of Bishops Board in Chattanooga Events Planned
The semi annual meeting of the Methodist Episcopal bishops in Chattanooga is outlined with events from April 3 stone laying at Epworth church to May 4 sermons in city churches and a union missionary meeting. Activities include openings, receptions, an outing to Chickamauga, and busyness sessions. Bishops Goodsell Simonds Thoburn Moore Fowler address gatherings and oversee church work reopenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Methodist Episcopal Board of Bishops
Epworth Church
Gilllespie
Short Streets
Goodsell
Bishops’ Conference
Stanton House
D M Steward
First Methodist Church
J .A. Patton
Episcopal Board
Chickamauga Neiana Park
A J Gahagan
Montgomery
Rossville
Royal A. Simonds
Union Missionary Truss
City Auditorium
Thoburn, Moore and Fowler
Preparing for the Admiral in Jackson May Visit
Jackson Mississippi prepares to welcome Admiral Schley on May first with a joint city and state reception. Governor Longino chairs the arrangements committee as national guard units join a planned military parade and federal officials are invited to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Ara
Admiral Schley
Longino
National Guard
Wofford Wins In-Oratorical Contest At Greenwood
In an April 8 Greenwood contest between South Carolina college representatives G W Cunningham of Wofford spoke Darkness and Dawn to win top honors while M H Zeigler of Clemson College placed second with The Golden Rule in a special event reported from Columbia.
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Wofford
Columbia
3. C
Greenwood
South Carolina
G. W. Cunningham
M. HE. Zeigler
Clemson College
Confederate Veterans seek charter for Beauvoir soldiers home
In Jackson Mississippi on April 18 special report states the Mississippi division of United Sons of Confederate Veterans has applied to Governor Longino for a charter to buy Beauvoir the old Jefferson Davis home. At the next legislature session it is proposed to deed the property to the state with the proviso it be maintained as a home for indigent Confederate veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Beauvoir
Jefferaon Davis
Mississippi Division of
United Sons of Confederate Veterans
Longino
Paulding County Politics Quiet Amid Uncertain Judgeship
In Paulding County Georgia on April 13 Special Judge James and Colonel Bartlett were in town to oversee the Tallapoosa circuit judgeship. The political scene remains quiet with no announcements for legislature or county offices and no governor candidates visiting Paulding. Mobile Invites Sehley to Mobile visit
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Paulding County
Dalas
James
Colonel Bartlett
Tallapoosa
Paulding
Death of Major Whiteside and other obituaries in the South
Savannah reports Major Samuel Whiteside vice president of Atlantic Compress died in New York of pneumonia at 71. A Confederate engineer, he built war monitors and later North Carolina compresses, with Savannah projects near complete. Other obituaries include Mrs Louisa Young Cartersville, Mrs Pattie Guild Tuscaloosa, Mrs. Dixon Raleigh, James McDaniels El Paso, and Captain J Henry Cooper Memphis, highlighting regional figures and funeral notes.
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Savannah
Samuel Whitesiie
Atlantic Compress Company
Atlanta
Eighth Avenue
New York
Uge
New York City
Whiteside
Buchanan
Confederacy
Captain Whiteside
Apalachicola
Fla
Columbus
Chattahoochee River
Major Whiteside
Samuel M. Whiteside
George B. Whiteside
Sarah Frye
Green~wood Cemetery
Brooklyn
George Whiteside
Frye
Louisa Young
Cartersville
Thomas F. Jones
Pierce M. B Young
J.C Summer
Pattie Guild
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Pattie Fitts Guild
LaFayette Guild
United States
Thomas Dixon
Raleigh
N. C
Dixon
Shelby
John McCullougsh
San Francisco
McDanisls Pblock
Cheyenne
Wio
Actors’ Association
Clara Morris
Frohman
J. H. Cooper
Memphis
Tenn
J. Henry Cooper
Lee Line
Testimony in Howard Case Sees War Talk Before Shooting
Lucy O Bannon a boarding house keeper testified in Frankfort Kentucky that Berry Howard urged associates not to leave Frankfort and warned a war was coming saying he would stay until the benediction at a meeting. Other witnesses testified Howard was armed on numerous occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Berry Howard
Lucy O'Bannon
Howard
Goebel
Judge Refuses Removal Of Virginia Carolina Chemical Case
In Washington D C April 18 Special Judge Brabantan declined to grant the petition to move the case against the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company from the state court to the United States court for anti trust violations. Other moves in the proceeding are awaited as the company is expected to begin federal court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan
Chemical Company
Columbia, D. C
Brabantan
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
United States
Virgina-Carolina Chemical Company
English Tobacco Company Secures North Carolina License
The Imperial Tobacco Company of England gained state and county authorization to operate in North Carolina, paying 1000 dollars. It plans to establish buyers across every local tobacco market and oppose the American Tobacco Company until victory is achieved. In Roanoke, April 1, friendly talks between Bluefield and Norfolk and Western railway machinists and railroad officials ended without a strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English Tobacco Company
North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
Imperial Tobacco Company
England
American Tobacco Company
Roanoke
Bluefield
W. Va
Norfolk and Western Railway
Norfolk and Western
Knights of Honor Hold Twenty Sixth Session in Columbia
The state grand lodge of the Knights of Honor meets in Columbia for its twenty sixth annual session at Odd Fellows Ball with attendees from across the state. The grand dictator reports thirty nine deaths among members in the past year and urges a Knights of Honor day at the Charleston exposition as the order improves over last year.
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South Carolina
Knights of Honor
Columbia
The
Odd Fellows
Charleston
Cotton sales surge in Huntsville driving price up
Local spot cotton in Huntsville Ala commanded 8.20 yesterday lifting demand. An unusual inch price nearly emptied all personal stocks in the city with over two hundred sales reported, the largest volume in months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Ala
Standard Fertilizer Company Formed in Bessemer
A new fertilizer company with a capital of 1,000,000 dollars was incorporated by the probate court in Birmingham. John C Brain heads the Standard Fertilizer Company, which purchased four Ensley blocks for a large plant to employ about 200 workers at start. The firm plans to produce Thomas meal, brainite meal, and brain ite fertilizer along with 50 tons of sulfuric acid daily, aiming a 760 ton daily capacity and manufacturing fertilizers and other slag-derived products including hydraulic cement and chemical spray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Bessemer
John C Brain
The
Standard Fertilizer Company
Ensley
Two Murderers Executed in Donaldsville La
Washington and Wallace, Negroes, hanged for the murder of Lee Geismar, a wealthy storekeeper. Powell acquitted. The men, last to be executed, had been drinking in a saloon before the fatal fusillade near Geismar store on January 12.
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Washington
Wallace
Donaldsville
Eliis Washington
Phil Wallace
Lee Gelsmar
Lee Geismar
Geismar
Tom Powell
Powell
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New York Post-Graduate Medical School
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Meeting OF Bishops’ Board
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Sehley
Cotton Exchange
Admiral Sehley
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Howse, Hanu & Motor
Coldwell
Eureka
Good Luck
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King
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Indian Territory
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Western & Atl
Tanooga & St. Louis Railway
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America
Madison Square
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Sheesty
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Iria
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Starr
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Slegel
En Boren
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Altmeon
Parker
C. O. Parker
Virginia and Southwestern Railway
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Aiken
Rome
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