Carnegie Endows Tuskegee with 600000 Trust Gift
York April 23 The trustees of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial in Alabama have received 600000 endowment from Andrew Carnegie. The letter from Carnegie praises Booker T. Washington and education as key to solving the race problem. Booker T. Washington comments note Carnegie’s prior gifts and ongoing support as plans to raise a 2 million endowment proceed.
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W York
Wuskeges Normal and Industrial In
Alabama
Yy Carnegie
Rae
Tuskegee Ina
Grover Aland
Carnegie
New York
William HL Iwin. Jr
MM Franks
Regen Institute
Siatex Steel Company
Boner Washington
Moses
Washingtons
Lam
South
Booker Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Realty Company nets big from church site sale
The old First Methodist church site on Peachtree Street in Atlanta sold for about 140,497 dollars, above expectations, to the Atlanta Realty Company led by P. Black and others. The deal, initial cost 100,080 dollars months earlier, yielded a profit exceeding 43,000 dollars as multiple lots fetched high front-foot prices from bidders including Dr L Wilson and C Ashford.
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Operty
Church
Peachtree
Pryor Streets
Ms Deal
Atlanta
Methodist Church
Atlanta Realty Ompany
P. Black
W. T. Ashford
Frank Hankins
John Oliver
Carroll Payne
Adair
Peachree Street
Houston
Tyer
W. MM. Scott
Peachtree Street
Dr .L. Wilson
Seca
Soldier Leper Case Reported From Georgia to Washington
Washington reports the first known army case of leprosy with the patient retained in service for study. A special house near Fort Screven, Georgia, houses the man for three months under Army Surgeon supervision while pay and support are managed by his captain. Savannah officials confirm a leper exists on Tybee Island but the Fort Screven surgeon refuses to discuss the case.
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Washington
Rim
Fort Screven
Savannah
Tybee Island
Brunner
Sale of Old Church and Pryor Street Lots
Pryor street frontage sold for 315 dollars per front foot totaling 15120 dollars. The old church building was auctioned after the lot sale and dismantled within sixty days with all appurtenances reserved by the church. Buyers plan varied from investments to potential building on the lots, with speculation about a unified management or a skyscraper contender on the prime site.
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Pryor Street
Asa G. Candler
Candler
Constitution
G. HH. Ashford
Edgewood
Carroll Payne
Ed Corrigan nearly dies from nosebleed in Kentucky
At Downs in Kentucky Edward Corrigan, a turfman, suffered a severe nosebleed while inspecting a stable. He bled for six hours from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and was too weak to stand. Dr. Frank Corrigan, a cousin, prescribed rest and ordered confinement to his room for several days.
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Sville
Edward Corrie Turfman
Frank Corrigan
Bigad
Corrigan
Budget of 1903 04 in the British House of Commons
London. The budget shows estimated expenditure for 1903-04 at 17977,000,000 with a national debt charge of 135,000,900 and 31,500,000 for the sinking fund. Revenue on taxation stands at 773,750,000, leaving a surplus of 64,090,000. Ritchie proposes abolishing grain duty, keeping sugar and coal taxes, and cutting income tax by four pence.
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London
House of Commons
Mr. Ritchie
Ritchie
Transvaal
South Africa
China
Great Britain
Great’ Britain
France
Edward
Paris
Illinois House in riot over municipal ownership bill
In Springfield on April 3 the Illinois House endured a wild melee as members clashed near the speaker’s chair over civil traction measures and the Mueller and Lindley bills. Charges of bribery against Speaker Isaac Miller were aired as chaos included chairs, desks, and yelling from both Democratic and Republican sides.
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Springfield
Tils
Illinois
Reichsrath
Isaac Miller
Chicago
Union Traction Company
House of Representatives
Miller
Lindley
Murray
Charles Allen
Vermillion
Henry Beitler
Cummings
Mr. Allen
Mr. Sherman
Werdell
Glade
Glide
Mueller
Harrison
Graeme Stewart
John M. Harlan
Mr. Murray
Mr. Erickson
Ji. Murray
Allen
Amin
Murry
Schlagenhaut
Lee Returns to St Louis in Ill Health After Political Fire
Lt Governor John A. Lee arrives in St Louis with his wife after a Chicago stay. He declares he is done with politics and insists he is ill, has little money, and disputes press reports while denying escape from justice. Circuit Attorney Fork says Lee will be given a grand jury opportunity.
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St. Loui
John A. Lee
Kansas City
Chicago
St. Louis
Lee
Fortis
Matthews
Smith
Sullivan
Kelly
Crow
Fork
Russia Presses for Manchuria Gain in China Pact
Pekin April 22 Russia demands that China sign an agreement ceding Manchuria sovereignty and barring other powers. Terms include no ports opened, no new foreign consuls, limited foreign workers, status quo, customs to Russo-Chinese bank, Russian controlled sanitary unit, telegraph control, and no territorial alienation. Japan orders three ships to New Chiang. Marquis Ito meets leaders as Tanaiess press urges action with US and Britain leaning toward support for Japan.
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Pekin
Russia
China
Manchuria
M. Plancon
Prince Ching
Foreign Office
New Chiang
Yokohama
Chiang
Marquis Ito
Tanaiess
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Georgia Weather and Events Mixed News Summary
Georgia forecast fair and warmer Friday, partly cloudy Saturday with east winds. Trial of Millard Lee on insanity issues set for next Tuesday. Phi Delta Theta alumni banquet tonight. Atlanta school population committee appointed by Board of Education. First Methodist church property sold for over 145000 with 45000 profit to syndicate. Savannah aims to host Confederate Veterans reunion. Georgia Royal Arcanum adjourned in Macon. Twenty fifth anniversary of Women’s Foreign Missionary Society in Marietta. Vicksburg three men face felonial charges. Spanish-American veterans reunion proposal for Asheville. Editor McKelway speaks at Southern Educational Conference in Richmond. Coal operators and railroads refuse to show contract to commerce commission. Minneapolis starch plant explosion kills about a dozen. Municipal ownership bill provokes riot in Dn dig legislature. Assistant AG Tyner dismissed. wife may be arrested for safe-cracking. Antisemitic riots in Bessarabia kill 25 and wound 200. British Somalis force wiped out. 190 dead. Budget in House of Commons shows revenue 730 million and surplus 54 million. Cotton markets open easy. stacks long profit-taking, dull, irregular.
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Millard Lee
Phi Delta Theta Alumni Association
Board of Education
Atlanta
First Methodist Church
Georgia
Savannah
Confederate’ Veterans
Georgia Council of the Royal Arcanua
Macon
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the
North Georgia Methodist Conference
Marietta
Southern
Vicksburg
Mls
Asheville
McKelway
Southern Educational Conference
Richmond
Coa
Commerce Commission
Minneapolis
Tyner
Postoffice Department
Postoffice
Clergy Conference Ends With Unresolved Union Plans
In Pittsburg on April 22 representatives of the Congregational Methodist Protestant United Brethren and Christian Union denominations ended a two day closed conference in disagreement over union plans. The meeting closed abruptly with little progress beyond a postponement of further discussion.
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Pittsburg
Congregational
United Brethren
Christian Union
Gin Rickey creator dies by poisoning in New York
Colonel Joseph Skyle Rickey, credited as originator of the Gin Rickey, died in New York after being found intoxicated in Twenty-fifth Street with carbolic acid in his stomach. Police aided him and an ambulance was called. autopsy confirmed carbolic acid as the cause. Rickey had been a former St. Louis resident.
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New York
Joseph Skyle Rickey
Rickey
St. Louis
Twenty-fifth Street
Goffman House
Colonel Rickey
Scholer
King of Ghouls Doomed to Pen
Rufus Cantrell known as the King of the Ghouls was found guilty on two counts in a criminal court. He faces imprisonment for three to ten years for grave robbery and two to fourteen years for conspiracy with Dr. Jose C. Alexander to rob the grave of Rose Neidler. pertains to an Indianapolis case. A second item notes Brigadier General Frederic Funston requesting a court of inquiry over alleged cruelty to Filipinos in the Philippines, likely to be denied by Secretary Root.
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Indianapolis
Adria
Rufus Cantrell
Criminal Court
Rose Neidlinger
Jose C. Alexander
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons
Funston
Washington
Frederi Funston
Philippines
Root
Postal Scandal Explodes Over Tyner Dismissal
Washington reports a vivid post office scandal as Postmaster General Payne dismisses James N. Tyner, assistant attorney general for the Post Office, and accuses Tyner’s wife Mrs. Tyner of removing all papers from a safe with an accomplice. The case, under Justice Department review, signals possible arrests and further disclosures about the Tyner affair.
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Washington
Postofice Department
Payne
James N. Tyner
Post Office Department
Lattern
Tyner
Department of Justice
Consioeraion
Knox
Postoffice Department
Barrett
Tener
Wise
Post Ofice
Chistianes
Pric
Tira
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Wedi Syndicate
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Ilinois
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Bessarabia
Col. “Gin” Rickey
Jared
Mrs. Tyner
Attorney General
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