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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
4
A mob in Tar Heel country assaulted Luke Huff after he entered Miss Lena Keith’s home and attacked her with a chair, knife, and throat-slash. Huff was captured, tried by a crowd, then hanged and riddled with bullets near the crime site while a note declaring protection for women was pinned to his back. Miss Keith’s condition is listed as critical.
Two men die and two are seriously injured in a mill explosion near Big Springs Calhoun county caused by dynamite in the grist. The deceased are George Richards and Jake Knight. Injured are Charles Harris and John Reese, both expected to recover.
Frankfort Kentucky August 21 Physicians summoned by special train from Louisville to Mrs Governor Beckham bedside report grave septicemia with nephritis and risk of complications. She remains conscious, temp 106.5, pulse 130, family arrives from Owensboro, doctors rely on her willpower. Also a man struck by a train near Hendersonville, 45, killed. son died similarly two months ago.
The Virginia state convention met in Roanoke at the Academy of Music with 1,206 attendees amid tensions over delegations from Richmond and Roanoke. Delegates backed Hoge for governor after disputed seating, with J. Hampton Hoge finally declared the unanimous choice and other officers nominated. The session adjourned until Thursday morning.
Clyde Grissam left Brownsville for Milwaukee to join the thirty sixth Korner of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Delegates hail from Vanderbilt Law School and southern schools including the University of the South Tulane Ole Miss and Virginia. The national fraternity holds the three day session.
North Carolina crop report dated August 21 from Raleigh cites Cotton 69 percent, corn 68, tobacco 70, peanuts 82, based on 1,500 correspondents. These are among the lowest readings in years. A separate Mississippi item reports George Gordon, a Black man, killed his wife with an ax near Raymond, then chopped the body. a posse hunts him.
Ex-Governor Joseph F. Johnston dominates Alabama political chatter as he visits Montgomery and meets Governor Oates ally W H Lawson, a black belt politician who opposes the new constitution. Lawson hosts a barbecue for Johnston, while Johnston and Oates both reportedly oppose ratification in the ongoing constitutional debate.
Knoxville Tenn August 21 President J W Howe of the United Mine Workers district No 18 has called a separate wage conference for Jellico and Coal Creek operators and miners next Tuesday in Knoxville. At the wake conference Coal Creek operators were absent and Jellico men withdrew upon learning the eight hour day and wage advance were to be fixed for district No 18 comprising sixty five mines. Jellico operators oppose both demands while Coal Creek operators aim to limit discussion to their own district wage scale.
Captain W. J. Walter of the Dallas Morning News editorial staff died suddenly in Dallas today from heart disease. He served under General Stonewall Jackson in the Confederate army and after Appomattox joined a Confederate colony in Mexico, remaining several years. In Mexico he witnessed Maximilian’s execution.
Water Valley Mississippi August 21 a desperate shooting affray occurred at Ray nolds in Panola County ten miles north of Water Valley this afternoon four men wounded three fatally The pistol fight followed a state witness Len Smiths testimony in Johnsons trial with more than one hundred present Otto Johnson Len Smith and J W Dawson were fatally wounded others narrowly escaped all are prominent farmers
Richmond Virginia August 21 Special The condition of Miss Maud Coleman Woods pronounced the most beautiful woman in America who is ill with typhoid fever is precarious and feared not to recover Her father Captain M Woolf was summoned from Charlottesville by telegram stating her fitness has reached a critical stage
Douglass Watkins, a 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. H J Watkins of South Boston, was shot and killed today in Richmond when a man walking ahead dropped a loaded firearm. The accidental discharge struck Watkins in the bowels and he died within minutes.
A day of rumors and non actions in the steel strike saga with Monessen and Cleveland mills partially running, nonunion crews advancing, and Shaffer signaling a possible arbitration approach. Police and pickets tightened around mills as unions prep for possible return to work amid ongoing disruption.
In Knoxville a judge dissolved a temporary injunction that had barred the Ducktown Sulphur Copper and Iron Company from operating its Ducktown plant. The case cited potential idle investment worth about five million dollars and broad petitions from Polk County residents urging dissolution. The Ducktown Copper Mining Company employs about 5000 workers and supports 15,000 people, with sulphur smoke affecting nearby farms. Tennessee Copper Company also operates extensively at Ducktown.
In Knoxville Tennessee seventy street railway employees on strike since August 1 received a weekly benefit fund from the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees. Each striker received 3 dollars and payments will continue weekly until the strike is settled or called off.
Mary Houghtmeyer aged 18, of Foxtown, Tenn., hanged herself from a barn rafters in her father’s barn. The mother found the body and fainted, later revived but in precarious condition. The event occurred at Knoxville, Tenn., on August 21 under special report.
The county boards of supervisors of Mississippi will meet in Jackson on October 16 to discuss mutual interest and propose changes to state laws to the legislature.
In Cleveland Ohio August 2 five workers died when gas exploded in shaft No 2 at water works. The blast hurled steel cylinders into the air and flooding water from the lake rushed onto the men below. Two workers escaped with injuries. several others remain missing as crews prepare to resume operations with safety measures and gas detection efforts.
In Jacksonville Illinois on August 21 the Chicago and Alton flyer collided with a way freight in Prentice yard killing engineer Don Shashan and fireman John Adams along with three unknown men on the tender. Five dead, six injured. passengers unhurt except for minor bruises. The wreckage included engines tenders and a freight car. a theory suggests the freight slid onto the main track as the Hummer passed. Shashan’s body found with hand on the throttle and legs crushed, necessitating amputation to free him from the machinery.
A mob of about 1000 in Sherman Texas burned Abe Wildner, accused murderer of Mrs. Calawell, after he confessed. Caldwell the husband, saying sleep comes now, applied the match and watched the punishment endure about twenty one minutes before extinction. Wildner's legs were burned away and his torso charred as the crowd demanded swift justice.
D Williamson who vanished about two months ago and prompted a reward for his return has been found in the eastern mountains. Relatives and authorities acknowledge his discovery and brief recovery.
A sworn testimonial from Louis F. Cardani Alderman New York City and other citizens extols Peruna as a remedy for summer colds that resist other treatments. They report rapid improvement within days and urge universal family use, inviting readers to write Dr Hartman for free medical advice.
In Nashville on August 21 Dawcon Fletcher a Black man was swiftly found guilty of attempted criminal assault in Hartsville after transport from Nashville. The jury sentenced him to twenty one years in the penitentiary. The case, moved from Smith county amid fears of mob violence, involved an assault on Mrs. Mattle Squires near Gordonville.
Mrs Ruth Hooker widow of Jesse Hooker reputed to be worth nearly 100000 died in Montgomery August 21 She made a will just before dying but legatees are unknown as she left no children She came from Chicago and was not on intimate terms with relatives including Mrs Sweeney Rolling Prairie Wis Mrs Jackson Chicago Mrs Clements and Mrs Julia Jackson Cedar Rapids and a brother in St Paul Minn
Tampa on August 21 reports that after a citizens order to open the cigar factories and protect workers, manufacturers will reopen on Monday. Several Resistencia leaders were ordered to leave the city and complied.
In Madison county a poor farmer, Frank Jacks, found a pot of gold over $20,000 hidden in a spring near Huntsville. The find, believed from the Civil War era, changed Jacks who has shown the treasure only to close friends. A separate note from Birmingham reports James George, a Pratt City beer wagon driver, shot himself in his room, death occurring about an hour later, following a breakup with a woman.
In Norfolk Virginia on August 21 a special dispatch reports the Mutual Fidelity Company has been summoned to Washington to show cause why mail service should not be stopped. The company must demonstrate that pro rata dividend distributions and contract performance are being fulfilled.
In Gaffney North Carolina August 20 three Black workers Bul Lipscomb King Lindsay and Ed Walker were fatally hurt in a rock quarry of Cherokee Fails Manufacturing Company six miles east of town. Two were crushed into atoms and one was found in a tree after the blast. The third died within hours.
Warren County voters chose T. R. Foster over Dabney Marshall by eight votes in a special election to fill a legislative vacancy in Jackson Mississippi Marshall, who had been pardoned from the penitentiary by Governor Longino days earlier after a life sentence for murder, loses the contest.
W R Farley of Pratt City Alabama a member of the UMWA national executive board is in Knoxville conferring with local officers over stalled wage scale talks for the year starting September 1. The coal workers and operators have not set a new price, and coal in the Jellico and Coal Creek district has risen sixteen cents per ton due to the impasse.
Heavy rainfall in the Tennessee mountains floods Roane creek and damages the Virginia and Southwestern railway bridge at Fathery near Elizabethton. Trains are suspended on the line and concern mounts for Elizabethton, previously hit by floods in May.
Reports from Louisville say B. B. Snyder, Owensboro division superintendent, may take over the Memphis division, with J. R. Wheeler, Birmingham master of trains, slated to succeed Snyder in Owensboro.
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