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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1902
Page
6
The Batson jury, indicted for murdering the Earl family in La, finally reached a unanimous verdict after initial 10 to 2 and 11 to 1 tallies. Jurors were partly sequestered in the courtroom while awaiting the decision, with ballots showing progress from 10 to 2 to unanimous agreement by 10:20 AM.
Emory College Oxford Ga. will take the student body and faculty to Atlanta next Friday for the oratorical contest. The schedule was shifted to fit travel and practice while in Atlanta, with students decorating the opera house floor in orange and blue to boost their speaker for the medal.
In Waycross Ga on April 26 a report from the board of trustees to the presbytery describes the Blackshear Presbyterian Institute as thriving since its December opening with 165 students. Property valued at about 11,000 includes the school building and 312 acres with furniture. Total indebtedness cited as 6,000. Board urges construction of a boys dormitory and an auditorium. Separately a voluntary bankruptcy case against C E Stewart of McDonald Ga notes 36,000 in assets and liabilities between 31 and 1,000.
A large Covington party departed Sunday for Dallas Texas to attend the Confederate reunion. Their private car bore Lamar camp colors and was well equipped for the journey.
Wilkes County Commissioners rescinded all action on a new court house after bitter opposition to a proposed special tax levy. A bond election had been ordered to raise funds, but leaders realized a majority could not be reached and halted the project. Citizens hoped the county would keep pace with other enterprising counties in funding a handsome system of justice.
The Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus Ga opposes changing Memorial day from April 26. Resolutions affirm originate in 1866 to honor Confederate dead, note Georgia and Alabama laws recognizing April 26 as a holiday, and protest any move to shift to June 3 Jefferson Davis birthday. Delegates to Dallas convention urged. copies to Camp Benning and United Confederate Veterans.
Ira Gillespey alias Dock Hill, held in Sevier county jail for robbery, admits to Kentucky authorities a link to Governor Goebel’s murder and mentions a $900 reward for capture. He says Lexington, Kentucky is his home and that officers have tracked him across states, accompanied by a unnamed woman who is detained with him.
Chattanooga reports a flood of new ventures across the South. The Tradesman lists bottling, canning, cottoning, oil mills, mining, lumber, brick works, and many development companies in states from Tennessee to Texas and Virginia to Florida, with valuations from ten thousand to millions. Entities include Birmingham oil concerns, Memphis cold storage, Norfolk mills, and Atlanta cotton product plant among others.
Brunswick April 20 special report says the Fourth Georgia regiment will likely encamp on St Simons Island this summer. local military leaders favor the site and will invite the regiment when Albany hosts a chautauqua next Tuesday. memorial day exercises in Brunswick include unveiling of the confederate monument by Miss Schule Batkaloo with Colonel Albert Cox delivering the address. a major timber land sale to Charles S. Hebard & Son of Philadelphia spans 46 750 acres in Clinch and Ware counties with plans for a saw mill and related facilities between Brunswick and Jacksonville.
Savannah prepares for the Savannah Volunteer Guards centennial on May 1 with a street parade, park review, and a banquet for about four hundred. Governor likely to attend. 232 active members and 22 officers hold leadership roles. The event honors a unit founded in 1802, tracing its long history through Civil War service and later Georgia leadership connections.
The Guards rose to prominence under Colonel Garrard, with a major armory project on Chariton Street and expansion to a full battalion. They served in the Spanish American War, public debt arose, a receiver was appointed, and the corps now nears recovery under John D. Carswell awaiting judicial action to finalize ownership of holdings.
A London Chronicle note links white coronation robes to violent royal fates from Richard II to Charles I and a 1644 prophecy by William Lilly. A Yale English class story follows, where Professor Blank's charm at a faculty tea leads to a shy student named Ethel revealing her name.
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