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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1902
Page
1
Dallas April 21 The twelfth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans begins ahead of schedule with thousands of visitors flooding the city. Officials estimate 45,000 in town, 4,000 veterans among them, as depots to fairgrounds become a tented city for 12,000, while decorations glow and trains bustle.
The will of Rev T DeWitt Talmage filed in Washington April 21 leaves an estate over $300000 with about $250000 in personal property including secured notes United States bonds stock and cash. Real estate valued at about $50000 includes a high home at 1400 Massachusetts Ave and properties in East Hampton and Brooklyn. The Washington Loan and Trust Company named executor and seeks probate with all heirs consenting. The widow receives a widow's shares and rest goes to children and lineal descendants. Frank DeWitt Talmage of Chicago named literary trustee with authority over books manuscripts copyrights contracts and publishing for the estate.
President-elect Palma outlines proposed reforms in Havana, aiming to unify the Cuban postal and telegraph services under one head. He would appoint Fernando Figuero director, Juan Rios Rivera to lead customs, Carlos Zaldo as secretary of state, and Senor Vere as secretary of instruction. Palma stresses the Spanish element as vital to Cuba’s future republic.
Judge Hollister issued a temporary injunction preventing the local engineers and firemen union the international engineers and firemen unions and AF of L officers from interfering with brewery contracts or disrupting brewery operations in Cincinnati.
Dallas prepares for a large reunion of the United Confederate Veterans with meals arranged for 12 000 at a cantonment shed. Major General K M Van Zandt will open the gathering at 10 oclock as the Sons of Veterans start their activities and dignitaries including Governor Sayers and General Jon B Gordon are slated to speak.
In Cherokee nation west of Collinsville Oklahoma, William Phillips was killed and William Mayfield Jess Skidmore and Lige Johnson were mortally or seriously wounded after a long standing feud between Skidmore and Mayfield. The incident occurred as Skidmore and Johnson met Mayfield and Phillips by the roadside.
The Society of Tammany elected officers for 1902 at Tammany Hall. Supremes named Patrick Keenan John F Carroll Daniel F McMahon John W Keller John J Scannell Charles F Murphy Randolph Guggenheimer Maurice Featherston Asa Bird Galadiner George W Plunkett George Clausen John Fox Thomas J Dunn. New sachems Patrick Keenan and Bryan P Henry succeed predecessors. May 12 set for grand sachem installation.
General Sir Robert Stewart, a top artillery officer of Britain, arrived in Chicago and asserted that mules and horses will continue to be shipped to South Africa as long as God rules America. He dismissed the New Orleans inquiry as nonsense and said Britain may even purchase mustangs for the army.
London Fire Brigade under Commander Weiss fights a major blaze on Barbican Bar by Queen manufactory area. About twenty firms and shops destroyed as three hundred firefighters and forty engines work through the night. two firemen injured. Flames seen for miles. wind fuels spread across Australian and New Zealand avenues. The blaze ranks among the city’s largest since Cripplegate fire in 1897.
London April 21 J Plempont Morgan will finance several millions for a new underground railroad system to rival Chartea T Yerkes scheme to control intramural transportation. Clinton E Dawlins of the Morgan firm will testify before the House of Lords committee investigating underground transit and favor the jet system with Morgan financial support.
Cairo Illinois April 21 After two days of searching the death toll from the City of Pittsburg fire remains at 145 with half still missing. The wreck sits above water and smolders as crews fear cremation of victims in the hull. Court of Inquiry reports Captain Sylvester Doss died from exhaustion and Maria Tiss from smoke inhalation. Fire origin not established, electric wire suspected. Eyewitness accounts describe rapid spread and frantic rescues from the burning ship with many travelers from along the Ohio Valley missing or injured.
The American Chemical Company plant on the belt railroad near Hemphill water works was totally destroyed by fire last night. Estimated value was 915,000 or 20,000 insured. no water supply and out of city fire reach allowed flames to spread through seven years old frame buildings. About seventy five men employed. J C Clark of Atlanta is president, but ill at home.
Wheeling, April 2l. Theodore Shaffer’s annual report to the Amalgamated Association recounts the strike’s rise and fall. He notes initial momentum without AFL support, then desertion and rumor driven by newspapers, limited aid from allied lodges, and a failed meeting with J P Morgan after Gompers stood aside. He closes claiming his willingness to resign if deemed inefficient and reiterates concern for the union’s best interests.
In Shreveport Louisiana on April 21 the Southern Wholesale Grocers Association began its eleventh annual convention with about 200 delegates. President J A Vanhost opened the session reporting the largest attendance in the association’s history with representation from every southern state except the Carolinas and visitors from New York Connecticut Missouri and Kentucky. The day featured routine proceedings and delegates will be banqueted by the Shreveport wholesale grocers.
Arkansas Governor Jefferson Davis is summoned by the Second Baptist discipline committee in Little Rock. Charges are to be read on Wednesday. specifics are withheld until then. The governor asks for either an investigation or a withdrawal letter to enable his peaceful departure.
Governor Taft arrived from St. Louis and will stay about a week as guest of Adjutant General Corbin. He is much improved but not fully recovered. He visited the president late in the afternoon for a lengthy consultation and said he would likely sail from New York on May 11.
Ernest Woodruff announces that the People’s Ice Company and Atlanta Ice Company have been acquired with negotiations pending to buy the Kelly Ice and Coal Company and Woolfolk Ice Company. Under one management, four plants will operate with no planned price increase this summer, and no workers will be displaced. A stockholders meeting will be held to elect officers once all acquisitions are completed.
Washington notes a House debate on the military academy appropriation bill and West Point improvements valued at 6.56 million dollars. Senator Gilbert of Kentucky argues about race at length, sparking exchanges with Messrs Gillett, Blackburn, Kitchin, and Gaines. He claims southern social views oppose racial equality, prompting counterpoints on regional prejudice.
Fair Tuesday and Wednesday with warming in the southeast and cooler northward, fresh south winds. Local items include a fire destroying the American Chemical Works plant near pumping station No. 2, political moves by Warner Hill and Sidney C. Tapp, and Governor Candler organizing a state rifle shoot in Macon. Four ice plants merge into an ice combine. memorial day plans by Captain Hansell. various criminal and legal notes. deaths, crimes, and political campaigns across Georgia and nearby states.
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