Officer Kills Burglar During Arrest in Macon
An unknown white man, believed from Atlanta, was shot and killed by Patrolman Ben Gatliff in Macon after resisting arrest at a store owned by C. E. Newton & Bro. The suspect threatened to kill officers, reached toward a hip pocket, and was shot through the heart. He appeared about 40, five feet eight or nine inches tall, 150 pounds, with a gray-tinted beard. Items found on him included a gimlet, a skeleton key, a blank bank check, and cards from Atlanta houses. suggests a professional burglary.
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Macon
Atlanta
Ben Gatliff
C. E. Newton & Bro
Gatliff
Zettler
Arlington Houses
Third National Bank of Atlanta
Stewart
Ludden & Bates Music House
Birmingham
Brooks County
Calomel Elixir Warns Against Harsh Laxatives
A vintage warning touts calomel as dangerous and harsh on the liver and bones. It advises replacing the chemical with Liver Tone a safe pleasant substitute that stirs the liver without harmful effects and promises relief from bilious sluggish feeling.
Military Training for Business Men Heads to Plattsburg Camp
New York August 9 six hundred business and professional men from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore departed tonight for Plattsburg Camp to join military training. Mayor Mitchel leads attendees with L B Chandler Dudley Field Malone Nelson O Shaughnessy Rhinelander Waldo and Dr Richard Derby among those leaving. Many New York police officers will take the training course.
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New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Plattsboro
Mitchel
L. 8
Chandler
Dudley Field Malone
Nelson ‘O'Shaughnessy
Charizel
Mexico City
Rhinelander Waldo
Richard Derby
Theodore Roosevelt
Boston
Dodson
Plattsburg
Central Bank Offers Wider Aid for Distress Cotton
The Central Bank and Trust Corporation of Atlanta led by Aza G. Chandler renews and broadens its support for farmers holding distress cotton. It will loan to any farmer or merchant storing cotton in its Atlanta warehouses and recommended by a local bank, with warehouse storage and financing extended beyond bank correspondents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Bank and Trust Corporat Jtlow
Atlanta
Aza G. Candler
Central Bank and Trust Corporation
Sarapab
Georgia
US Refuses Joint Action Over British Trade Limits
Washington August 9 The United States will act alone on neutral trade with Great Britain. Swedish efforts to gain American backing for a concerted protest failed as the State Department rejected joint notes or a broader entangling alliances plan. Negotiations stalled after Swedish proposals were deemed unsatisfactory and no neutral consensus emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Great Britain
American State Department
Sweden
State Department
Halland
London
Seaboard to Acquire 486 New Mileage
Seaboard Air Line plans a new consolidated mortgage issuing 22,393,000 in 30 year gold bonds to fund a Charleston Savannah line. Proceeds retire obligations, acquire property, improve and exchange underlying bonds. A banking syndicate leads the bond sale with major national banks and Southern officials backing the plan.
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Seaboard Air Line Railway
Firat
Charleston
Savannah
Warfield
Continental Trust Company
Baltimore
Big Hanks
Guaranty Trust Company
National City Bank
Chase National Bank
Bankers’ ‘Trust Company
New York
Haltimore
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Cleveland
Cincinnati
San Francisco
Milwaukee
Detroit
Atlanta
Louisville
Columbia
Ohio
Seattle
Denver
New Orleans
Buffalo
Syracuse
Rochester
Wilmington
Newark
Albany
Seaboard
Cumberland Corporation
Ryan-Blair
South
Robert, F. Maddox
Mills Banc
Gai
A. H. Woodward
Birmingham
Ala
J. P. Tallaferra
Jacksonville
Fla
George W. Watts
Durham
G. C. Fergus Reid
Norfolk Va
W J.harahan
Charles B. Capps
Norfolk
J. William Middendorf
Townsend ‘Scott
Hoom
Maddox
F. Maddox
Ome
Saia
Warela Folay
Bb. Tig
Franklin Q. Brown
Redmond & Co. Bankers
Fine Plese
Kersey Appointed Managing Director of Steamship Line
The Canadian Pacific Steamships limited held its first meeting in Montreal with X. G. Ogden and others present. G. M. Bosworth elected chairman and H. Maitland Kersey named managing director with office in London. The company to begin operations Oct 1, taking over ships from Canadian Pacific Railway and Allan lines. head office in Montreal.
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Montreal
Quebec
Canadian Pacific Steamships, Limited
X. G. Ogden
G. M. Bosworth
B. W. Beatty
K. GC
F. E. Meredith
H. Maitland Kersey
London
England
Canadian Pacific
Canadian Pacific Railway
Allan~lines
President Wilson Rescues Motorists From Crash Near Cornish
In Cornish New Hampshire President Wilson spent hours on official duties and then aided three motorists after their car overturned on a curve. With Mrs Sayre and Dr Cary Grayson he found Miss E A Swasey Mrs Emmat Hathaway and C J Judd beneath the wreck. They were badly bruised but not seriously hurt. Wilson planned to return to Washington soon.
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Cornish
N. H
Wilson
Washington
Lansing
Grayson
E. A Swasey
Emmat Hathaway
C. ¢. Judd
Norwich
Black residents rounded up by two officers in short span
Sunday morning authorities bic Williams and Aus tn arrested and docketed forty Black people in about three hours. Judge Johnson handled cases in court Monday, fining each from five to twenty five dollars plus costs. Thirty nine defendants were convicted, a record for an eight hour watch.
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bicWilliams
Johnson
German Catholics Seek Arms Embargo and Peace Meeting
At St Paul Minnesota on August 9 the National Federation of German American Catholic Societies adopted resolutions endorsing a Chicago peace conference on September 6 and urging state and local branches to send delegates to protest continued shipments of war munitions to Europe. President Joseph Frey of New York said Americans should oppose actions prolonging the war. The federation has grown from 31,000 members in 1899 to 132,000 today and an auxiliary women’s society was to be discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Paul, Minn
Chicago
Central Verein
Euronr
Federate of German-American Catholic Societies Convention
Joseph Frey
New York
Federation
St Paul
Women
Villa grants Red Cross food import permission from Mexico
General Villa via General Orestes Peyrera, military governor, announces the American Red Cross may buy any foodstuffs for distribution in Mexico. J C Weller, Red Cross agent, reached Piedras Negras after a conference in Manclova. Villa says shipments will move under guard of corn or other foods from any Mexican point.
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San_Antonio
Texas
Villa
Orestes Peyrera
Sai Tiro
American Red Cross
Mexico
Ville
J. C. Weller
Hea Crass
Piedras Negras
Weller
Man~clova
Peyrera
Villa Ine
Lynching of Fox After Deputy Shot Near Tunnel Springs
A mob at the Algier-Sullivan Lumber camp eight miles north of Tunnel Springs Alabama hanged Fox after he shot and wounded a deputy sheriff. Reports say Fox may have died before the hanging. details on the deputy were not learned locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunnel Springs
Ala
Fox
Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company
Sherif
Old Monitor Puritan Target for Shells at Norfolk
Norfolk Va August 8 The old monitor Puritan will be the target for 12 inch shells fired by the gunnery experimental ship Tallahassee tomorrow in a test of new navy dig gun ammunition. Ordnance experts will watch the test. The shells are said to be more destructive than any previously designed for navy use. The Puritan was sunk once some years ago during experiments with high explosives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Jong Ego Atracken
Navy Hst
Tallahassee
Navy
Purifoy Favored by Minority Report in Impeachment Inquiry
Montgomery August 9 a minority report prepared by the house judiciary committee to investigate charges against Secretary of State J H Purifoy finds the charges raised by Bradley Brown of Birmingham insufficient for impeachment. A majority report had approved the charges. The original accusation claims Purifoy paid his primary election rival $1000 to withdraw from the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
House Judiciary Committee
J H. Purifoy
Bradley Brown
Birmingham
Purifoy
Atlanta Civic League Sets City Polices and Plans Election
The Atlanta Civic Law and Order League led by Dr. R. R. Kime has distributed petitions at drug stores and public boards seeking new members. The group endorses moral progress, law enforcement, civic efficiency, and purity in politics and plans to influence the September 30 municipal election for councilmen aldermen and a new executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Civic Law and Order League
R. R. Kime
League
New Democratic
Germany Tries to Bribe Romania for Turkish Route
A Bucharest dispatch says a Krupp representative offered Romania thirty six batteries of artillery with ammunition and pounds of barbed wire to allow ammunition bound for Turkey to pass through. The Romanian government refused the bribe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
Paris
Bucharest
Correre Dalla Sera
Krupp
Turkey
Judge Luther 4 Rouser Dismisses Sealy Case
Judge Luther 4 Rouser of the Taunicipal court dismissed 4 Saxe against George W Sealy ex of ficio justice of the peace of 118 Ridge Avenue Sealy charged with malice and oppression. Attorneys Goldberg and Brooks sought to compel delivery of records Sealy refused to show. The judge ordered production, but the case was dismissed after the preliminary hearing.
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Luther 4
Rouser, Sr
Taunicipal Court
Saxe
George W Sealy
Ridge Axenue
Sealy
J. Billet
Lakewood Park Am
Goldberg and
Brooks
Billet
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Palm Beach
Masonic Mutual Accident Co
Springfield
Mass
Massachusetts
State Street
Fescho
Insurance Commissioner
State OF
Hampden
Clyde W. Young
Mazonic Muttalceident Company
Gordon W. Gordon
Walter H. Jones
Walter
Jones
Austell Building
Newspap
Providence
Auburt
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company
Kersey
Steamship Line
Minority Report
Whitehall Street
Corner
Mitchell
Germany
Rumania
Momer
W. J. Betten
Paul P. Reese
Sec
Andler Building
Forrest
George Adair
Foote & Davies Co
George L. Word
Fourth National Bank
Walter Ballard Optical Co
Peachtree St
Lesus
Carter Electric Co
North Broad Street
Ivy
Eage
Lodge
Pything
Pythian Cave
Kiser Buildime
Hunter and Pryor
Jed Walker
GC. Blowens
Capitol View Lodge
Aumant
Stewart Vende
Wforge
P Dickson
W. M. Carl Colvin
Battle Hill Lodge
Unis
Dail Avenue School
Amin
Ir Ballard
Sil
Ita
M. JM Garrison
Galy Cry
Manone Temple
Peachires
Cain Streets
Oeleck
Chemaehen
Order of Manry
Mainz
M. How Dent
Severary
Grand Ledge
East Atlanta
Bullard
Myenus
OM Combally
W. M
Burks
Milton Avenue
Lakewood Ladure
Lakewood Heighte
Virginia
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks
Joel Hunter & CO. Certified Public Accountants
Neal
Neal Institute
Woodside Storage CO
Fnc
Carolina
Bannetee Adame
WM. Fox
Rick
DR. R .Meau
Rosser
Ninrars
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