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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1901
Page
6
Atlanta police lock up 321 convicts in the stockade as a city crusade against idlers. About 125 white and 196 Black men and women are forced to work on the streets, with many rearrested after serving thirty days. The whipping post is dubbed the Mims by critics, while Mayor Mims faces support and opposition.
Weather notes confirm an unsettled day with cloudy skies and a drizzling rain from the west. Astrologer Astor warns birthdays on this date to avoid speculation and money lending, while the damp air makes everyone feel oppressive and prompts comfort indoors.
Mrs Sarah Ellen Anderson aged years died at her granddaughter Mrs Sullivan’s home 610 South Pryor Street at midnight. Funeral services were held at the residence yesterday afternoon and interment was at Westview. New arrival in West End announces a daughter born yesterday at 2 o'clock to Mr and Mrs J C Henson 4 Oak Street.
Audiences are offered a large stock of Diamonds in jewelry or unset forms awaiting buyers choice of stone and setting. The ad highlights hundreds of beautiful stones and appeals to general interest in diamonds.
Local brief notes Maile and Go compete in St Whitehall event. Readers are invited to follow the community page for results and upcoming dates.
Fifteen supernumerary policemen have been discharged following a board action on a short appropriation. Chief Ball ordered that no substitutes fill in for absent regular patrolmen, leaving portions of the city inadequately policed and risking fires and crime. The board may further remove regulars, worsening morale as cash receipts from the recorder's court decline with a reduced force.
Reports from Shaffer and his lieutenants show early strike turnout below expectations yet indicate confidence that more workers will join today. Milwaukee Bay View lodge votes not to obey the general strike, pledging support to eastern strikers while Illinois Steel employees remain at work under contract.
Joliet Illinois August 1 At a meeting of four Amalgamated association lodges including Illinois Steel Company plant workers a secret ballot was held from 10 am to 7 pm to decide striking The vote was unanimous to disregard President Shaffer's order to strike Milwaukee August 11 Bay View lodge unanimously voted not to obey the strike order United Steel plant Silinoa Steel Company will continue running
Indianapolis August 11 The national executive committee of the United Mine Workers calls Gompers to convene a council of presidents and secretaries of affiliated unions to plan aid for the Amalgamated association. The move would affect eighty four national organizations with about two million workers.
Sheriff Mayo arrives in Atlanta with A J Edwards, a notorious convict who escaped from a Alabama penitentiary. Edwards, famed for pursuing a second wife through false warrants and prison schemes, is recaptured and jailed in the Tower after a long history of lunatic asylum transfers and additional jailbreaks.
A notice invites parents to send their sons to a summer school program at the Georgia School of Technology to receive special training and coaching so they can enter the regular fall session. For details, contact Professor S Wallace at Allerta, Ga. The text also lists multiple labor unions and mentions a potential meeting in Pittsburg prompted by mine workers and a call from President Gompers and Vice President Wilson.
Labor leader Samuel Gompers visiting New York said he will return Monday to seek a conference with J P Morgan and other U S Steel figures. The World reported his social visit and plans to press for talks on labor issues.
A mock town meeting in Darktown preludes Jedge Briles departure on a four month vacation. Report notes a jovial, splintered assembly with a jubilee anthem planned and a poetry piece written on a police summons. Local figures and places are named in a satirical tone.
Cobb county resident Saffold T Williams, jailed at police barracks, faces five forgery charges in Atlanta. Detectives White and Simpson allege he deposited forged checks at Lowry Bank and then drew funds, including a $69 against a $100 deposit, with another $160 check deemed worthless. Williams identifies Saffold as the man who aided cashing a forged $18 hogun check and a $5 forged draft. Safford denies and says the officers have the wrong man. He will be brought before a justice of the peace on warrants.
Ancient Order of Hibernians announce its eighteenth annual picnic at Lawrenceville on Thursday the 15th. A large crowd is expected and a Seaboard special train will depart at 8:00 AM, returning at 6:30 PM. Railroad offers a reduced rate and all arrangements are set.
A bomb exploded near the altar of the Church of St Nizier in Troyes during a service, causing significant damage to thirteenth century windows. About one hundred children and a priest were present but unharmed. A Spaniard was arrested on suspicion of being the author of the attack.
Growing Anderson Hardware Company adds a complete line of stores and ranges to become a hardware department store. Charles K. Mitchell leads the new stores and kitchen goods department after returning from stove markets. The expansion reflects progressive methods and honest dealings. Body of Ralph Juhan Jr. shipped to Stone Mountain for burial after his death at home on Clay Street in East Allen.
Miss Lorna Hollingsworth of Atlanta and John D. Lindsey of Senoia wed in a Gretna Green style ceremony at Marietta Street parsonage with parental objections noted Rev Warwick officiated and the couple reside at the Grant house. Funeral services for Rev W H Strickland were held at Decatur Baptist Church with Dr Montgomery leading and local ministers attending.
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