Alabama constitutional convention recess extends four days
Montgomery dispatch reports the constitutional convention in recess until August 28 with the harmony committee expected to finish the whole constitution in four days. Delegates seek to keep amendments open to two thirds, debates continue on the corporation article, succession rules, and the Watts ordinance. Governor Jelks backs the measure, while party leaders plan rapid ratification and a prompt Democratic drive.
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Montgomery
Ala
Constitutional Convention
Committee On Harmony
Gti
Georgia
Shelby County
Vincent
Senate
House
Jelks
Pettus
Cobb
Macon
Court House
Watts
Jelika
State Democratic Committee
Lowe
Dry Dock Fire Destroys Plant in Mobile
A noon blaze at Ollinger Dry Dock Company boilers, offices, and machinery in Mobile, Alabama, caused several thousand dollars in damage. The National Dredging Company office was also destroyed, lumber burned, and nearby vessels escaped up the river as the fire started from a pitch barrel.
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Mobile
Ala
Ollinger Dry Dock Company
National Dredging Company
Calvert Re elected Mayor Of Spartanburg For Fifth Term
Arch B Calvert was elected mayor of Spartanburg for the fifth term by a vote of Wi to 1 136. His opponent was E Shockley a wholesale merchant.
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Spartanburg
Arch B. Calvert
F Shockley
Daughter Ends Life After Mother's Scolding in Mobile
Edna Thrower, 415 years old, daughter of the late Hen Thrower, killed herself with a pistol after being scolded by her mother for a trivial fault in Mobile Alabama on August 20. Captain John Karner, veteran of the San Jacinto battle, died in Mexia Texas last night aged years, with Dallas date noted August 2.
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Mobile
Ala
Edna Thrower
Thrower
San Jacinto
Dallas
Tex
John Karner
Battle of
Mexia
City OKs 20 Year Water Contract in Chattanooga
Chattanooga Tenn August 20 The city council directed the mayor and city attorney to sign a new twenty year water contract with the city water company totaling 105000 for water. The agreement allows city option at five year intervals to buy the water works at a price to be set by arbitration. The amendment prevents any raise in existing domestic rates.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Bpeelall
City Water Company
Brown Taken to Asheville for Trial in Assault Case
Sheriff North and ten deputies moved Jim Brown from Birmingham to Asheville where he faces a special grand jury indictment for attempted assault on Miss Farrell near Springville. Crowds gathered but no violence. Brown pleads not guilty and will be tried Thursday under a governor ordered special term of court.
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Birmingham
Ala
North
St. Clair County
Jim Brown
Asheville
Farrell
Springville
Brown
Charleston
D. C
Jelks
Desperado Jece Beach killed by hunter near Berlin
Selma Alabama reported that Jece Beach a negro desperado wanted for murder in Memphis was slain in Berlin by George Hunter. Beach, who had taunted locals, seized a Winchester rifle inside J E Minter’s store and fired on bystanders until Hunter arrived and fatally shot him with buckshot.
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Selma
Ala
Jesce Beach
Memphis
Tenn
Berlin
Here
George Hunter
Beach
Mississippi
J. E Minter
Minter
Hunter
Charged With Burning It Many Citizens Arrested
Asheville August 20. Large numbers of citizens are under arrest charged with burning a church of a sect akin to canonificationists. The enraged community vows the group shall not stay. One defendant denies setting the torch claiming he was busy chopping Hindling wood.
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Asheville
N. C
Murphy
Governor Sayers seeks laws on state finances and public works
Special legislature session hears Governor Sayers push bills to empower the attorney general to recover state funds, tax coastal counties for seawalls, care for disabled children, and refund storm damages. Debate covers impeachment authority in a special session and updates to postal registered mail exchanges across multiple states.
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Austin
Tex
Sayers
Attorney General
Texas
United States
Greer County
Gulf of Mexico
J W. Robbins
First National Bank of Austin
Logan
House
Senate
Dynamite Placed On Knoxville Trolley Car
An attempted dynamite blast on a Knoxville trolley car failed to destroy the vehicle. Motorman T Martin and Conductor L. F P. Satterfield controlled the car as it struck an obstruction, lifting it several inches. Four passengers escaped with fright as a cartridge of dynamite exploded imperfectly tied to the rail.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Specta
T . Martin
L. F P. Satterfield
Boer Sues British Consul General Over Slander Claim
General Samuel Pearson, Boer representative in New Orleans, files suit in U S district court seeking 20000 damages from British Consul Arthur G. Van Sittart. Accuses him of demanding arrest of police superintendent and alleging Boer complicity in a failed attempt to blow up the mule ship Mechanician near stock landing below the city on August 9.
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Pearson
van Sittart
New Orleans
Samuel Pearson
United States District Court
Arthur G. van Sittart
Murder caused by a woman at Fort McKavitt
Dallas dispatch August 20 reports Harry Ball aged 19 killed at Fort McKavitt in an ambush. Jonathan Mules jailed on murder charge. Ball, son of a Texas stock raiser, was described as a pioneer and respected. A young woman is named as the cause of the tragedy.
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Harry Ball
Dallas
Tex
Menardville
Fort McKavitt
Jonathan Mules
Kiling
Miles
Accident shatters life as keg strikes man in North Carolina
In Asheville on August 20 Sam Roberts, a Black man, was killed when a beer keg rolled from a back doorway and struck his neck. A Black porter tossed the empty keg as Roberts stepped from under a back stair. Authorities ruled the death an accident with no inquest.
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Asheville
N. C
Sam Roberts
Roberts
Sanderson Joins Seaboard As Purchasing Agent
Roanoke Virginia August 20 It was learned today that R P Sanderson formerly superintendent of motive power for the Norfolk and Western Railway Company has been appointed purchasing agent for the Seaboard Air Line system.
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Sanderson
Seaboard
Roanoke
R. P . Sanderson
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Seaboard Air Line
Model of Chickamauga Park in relief in Chattanooga
Washington dispatch reports the Chickamauga park commission is making a large relief model of the Chattanooga region and Chickamauga park. After completion two extra models will be cast for West Point and the Fort Hiley School of Instruction.
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Chickamauga Park
Chattanooga
Tenn
Washington Dispatch
Chickamauga Park Commission
West Point
School of Instruction
Fort Hiley
Governor Tyler Off for Buffalo Exposition
Governor Tyler and his staff left at midnight with the Richmond Blues to attend the Buffalo exposition on Virginia day. A separate item reports Melvin Brown, 18, a popular Asheville youth, dying of meningitis after his Christian Science family did not call a physician in time.
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Tyler
Buffalo
Richmond
Richmond Blues
Ight
Buffalo Exposition
Virginia
Asheville
N. C
Melvin Brown
Fie
Shoved bogus bank notes spark arrests by Secret Service
Three men were arrested in San Francisco on August 20 by Secret Service officers for circulating bank notes purporting to be from the defunct State Bank of New Brunswick. Plates survived, enabling a trader network to issue over a million notes from 1 to 2 dollars. Frank J Perrs aided the case, and William B Hogan and E W Smith were taken into custody. Smith is alleged to have led the gang and served eight years as chief clerk of the federal life-saving service in San Francisco. Smith released on bail. others jailed with more arrests expected today.
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Secret Service
San Francisco
State Bank of
New Brunswick
N. J
United States
Frank J Perrs
William B. Hogan
E W Smith
Perry
Federal
Nfe Saving Service
Detroit Journal
Frank J. Lessnar
Detroit
Fort Wayne
Lessnaus
Nineteenth Infantry
Second Cavalry
Havana
New York
Seventh Heavy Artillery
Junction Avenue
Broombeck
Lessnau
Arles
Might Lessnaus
Washington
Oil Found at Jellico Tell Near Knoxville
Oil has been discovered at Jellico Tell sixty miles from Knoxville. The Williamsboro Oil Company, led by R B Hitchcroft, is at Jellico to develop the field. Machinery is on site to sink a well 1500 feet or deeper at Mount Ash near Jellico, with a gusher expected. Several thousand acres have been leased, attracting other investors to the outlook.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jellico Tell
R. B Hitchcroft
Wiliamsboro Oil Company
Yellico
Mount Ash
Jellico
Willamshoro OW Company
Accidental Killing Supposed in Pursell Tragedy
Orlander Pursell fired at what he heard during a dark night in Sneedville Tennessee aiming at dogs threatening his father Martin Pursell. The shot mortally wounded his father, described as accidental with affection noted between them. The son is frantic over the death.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Martin
Pursell
Orlander
Sneedville
Engine plunges from bridge into river in Taunangee accident
An engine on the Nashville and Chattanooga and St. Louis railway plunged from a trestle into the river at Johnsonville during repairs. Two men, George and Charles Bibbs of Bridgeport, Alabama, were injured. Passengers will be transferred in a few days.
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Taunangee
Nashville, Tenn
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Johnsonville
George
Charles Bibbs
Bridgeport
Ala
New Bishop of Durham Appointed in 19th Century Text
London announces August Jeeny Hendley named Bishop of Traham succeeding the late Dr. Weewoth. The note cites Carr Glyn Moule Norriston as professor of divinity at Cambridge in connection with the succession.
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Durham
London
August Jeeny Hendley
Carr Glyn Moule Norriston
Cambridge
Traham
Weewoth
Capital Gossip on Loving Cup for Admiral Cervera
Washington august 20 special a heated push to form a popular subscription to present a loving cup to admiral cervera of spain faces sharp rejection from bishops and naval officers who call it in poor taste and suggest aiding Santiago widows and orphans instead the plan collapses amid strong objections and frank praise of cervera by rear admiral evans and other officers. also notes new post offices in georgia and alabama and a pair of star service route changes.
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Cervera
Bantingo
Bishop Potter
New York
Admiral Cervera
United States
Santiago
Robley D Evans
Iowa
Evans
Battle of
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Lfe
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Hepzibah
John D. W. Goodwin
Finleyson
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Pineview
Fairfield
Stephen R. Mitchall
Alabama
Exie
Wiliam C
Foster
Tinela
Thomas A. McCants
Mentone
Peter K. Smith
Carruth
Danielsville
Shelton
Death of Mrs Nannie Embry Elkin Aunt of Dr Elkin
Mrs Nannie Embry Elkin of Louisville Ky died this morning at her daughter Mrs Wiley Morgan's home in Knoxville Tenn She was aunt to Dr W S Elkin of Elkin Watson Atlanta Survived by two sons two daughters and a brother and sister all in Kentucky except the daughter in Knoxville The death was very sudden
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W. &. Elkin
Knoxville
Tenn
Nannie Embry Elkin
Louisville
Wiley Sr. Morgan
W. 8. Elkin
Elkin & Watson
Atlanta
Kentucky
Bugle Blast In Augusta Tribune Report
The Augusta Tribune notes a brief speech by Durant Gerry that fired up the crowd as Roderick Din responds. The report highlights a single pointed remark and the crowd’s reaction, reflecting the tense political tone of the moment.
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Augusta Tribune
Durant
Gerry Hag
Roderick
Injunctions Dissolved In Copper Region Court Action
In Tennessee a judge dissolved injunctions against the Tennessee Copper Company and Ducktown Sulphur Copper and Iron Company after earlier orders. About 3,000 workers are employed as the plant row centers on pollution claims by Polk County residents and a petition signed by 3,000 citizens urging dissolution of the injunctions. Individual damages suits will be heard at the September term.
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Knoxville
Tenn
McConnell
Cleveland
Ducktown
Polk County
Tennessee Copper Company
Ducktown Sulphur, Copper and Iron Company
Dividend Ordered for Southern Building and Loan Stockholders
Chancery court in Knoxville Tenn. ordered a four percent per cent dividend to stockholders of the Southern Building and Loan Association now in receivership for five years. About 1 0000 have been paid in dividends. the four per cent will wind up affairs with a 65 cent on the dollar record. Offers to sell stock at 20 cents on the dollar failed when the association was placed in receivership.
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Southern Association
Knoxville
Tenn
Chancery Court
Southern Building and Loan Association
Union
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Arkansas
Texas
Trapped in a Cabin Deaths report from a boat wreck
Survivors recount a capsized boat in eighteen feet of water fifty yards from shore. Mrs Charlee Hayden of Metropolis Til the only woman saved, clung to her child and roosters aided rescue. Postmaster R H Garner Bay City XI saved by a miracle after surfacing in wreckage. Frank Endera nephew of a police judge kept climbing as two men drowned. Hogan husband of a drowned woman and three children missing. Clark Grocery Co St Louis worker among the unnamed dead.
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Charlee Hayden
Metropolis
Til
R. H. Garner
Bay City
Clark Grocery Company
St. Louis
Prediction raises race buzz for governor race
Titton Gazette weighs in with Guerry Brown Est ll and possibly Turner in the field. Joe Terrell is seen as having a walk over that would glide him toward the Governor’s chair.
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Titton Gazette
Guerry, Brown
Est Ll
Turner
Joe Terrell
Lynching case bail set as court acts in Raleigh
In Raleigh on August 20 the Supreme Court set bail for Charles Jones at 2000 and Sam McIntosh at 1000 after habeas corpus hearings related to the lynching of George Ritter. The proceedings followed investigation into strong evidence against Jones, with doctors and officials traveling from Lincoln to assist in state matters and agricultural efforts while rail and postal duties continue and local industry faces later cotton arrivals.
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Raleigh NC
Supreme Court
Montromers
Charles Jones
Sam WicIntosh
George Ritter
Bal
Jones
McIntosh
Tait Butler
Lincoln
Kilgore
Patterson
Piedmont
Pou
Corporation Commission
Seaboard Air Line
Southern Railway
J H McAden
Charlotte
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