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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text cites weather forecast notes and official bureau remarks. Mentions forecast for Mary, nightly low temperatures, and unclear projections amid cloud cover. Also references civic notices and various entities in a garbled local news fragment.
The piece reports on President Roosevelt facing Republican criticism for issuing authorized explanations of his social acts from the White House. It notes reactions from Black Republican leaders, who partly praise the president’s words on Negro office appointments but blame administration politicians for shaping the stance. It also discusses Byrne’s Delaware district attorney reappointment and Byrne’s race against Ball, driven by Addicks to influence patronage and party control.
Special correspondence reports that a 2-cent penny postage between England and the United States is nearing arrangement. London officials and British business leaders, including Pierpont Morgan connections, anticipate a rapid path forward as trade expands.
In Billings on December 2 three masked men robbed the Stock Growers' bank of Carbon county at Brigges, forcing Cashier Trombo and mail carrier Williams to surrender 32000 before fleeing on horses toward the hole-in-the-wall country. A pursing party formed as robbers fired to escape. Bridges is a coal town near the Northern Pacific line. A separate note reports jockey Bullman suspended for three days at Ingleside for misbehavior.
Weather forecasts warn of heavy rain and cold snaps as coal shortages force closures of two Brooklyn public schools and threaten 150 more with limited supplies. Dealers cite high prices and scant deliveries, with 40,000 children at risk as winter demand rises.
The Marseilles strike worsened on December 2 as dock work nearly halted. Tug crews joined the strikers, hindering movement of foreign ships. Local officials sought talks with ship owners like the Messageries maritimes, but owners and Admiral Rouvier refused. Messageries Maritimes will temporarily discharge most officers except captains, first mates, and chief engineers. Strikers offered to crew ships only for passenger and mail transport, even offering to sail passengers to Algeria without pay.
A severe wind storm swept the western suburbs just before daylight injuring Professor Dernier and his family. Dernier suffers head injuries and possible fatal complications while his wife is seriously hurt. Others in the house escaped or suffered minor injuries. The wooden structure sits on marsh lands behind the city park, once used by the Gymnasium Gun Club. Wind reached 52 miles per hour with heavy damage to trees, fences, and telegraph wires across north Mississippi and western Tennessee. Memphis reports damaged boats and ruined smokestacks on two steamers as the storm’s path followed the river, with crop and stock losses noted further south in Arkansas and Texas.
Washington reports the senate committee on territories will take up the bill for admitting Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona as states. Republicans apart from Senator Quay discuss testimony from a subcommittee visit to the territories in November. They favor amending the bill to eliminate New Mexico and Arizona and admit Oklahoma only.
News from Albuquerque says Mrs Charles Loddard and her children cremated after their log cabin in the Jenez mountains caught fire from a stove. The mother tried to rescue the 15 year old eldest through a window as the roof collapsed.
Washington reports brief cabinet discussion of foreign affairs including Havana reports on reciprocity with Cuba and Venezuela debt plans. Secretary Hay noted no US commitments beyond nonbinding promises, while inspectors highlighted harmony between Havana officials and a commissions. In Laredo, Grant Gillette leases the Santa Gertrudes Mine for 500 dollars, yielding fifty tons daily and shipments valued at 28.02 a ton, with former operators incurring losses.
Prominent testimonials from Michigan City to Detroit claim Zoa Phora cures ovarian issues, irregular menses, leucorrhea, and childbirth-related ailments. Letters praise nerve strength, energy, and relief from headaches, with patients citing long-term health gains and urging readers to obtain the remedy through local druggists.
Georgia Railway and Electric Company agrees to extend service down the Boulevard to Angier avenue and back to Jackson street and to grant transfers on the Forrest avenue and Pine street lines. The pending superior court suit will be withdrawn once the changes take effect. Attorney Eugene Mitchell announced the move last night, noting other concessions could not be obtained.
A Athens group led by Mayor J F Rhodes and school president F B Branson traveled to Atlanta to urge the appropriation committee to approve 25140 for the State Normal school. The committee lacked a quorum last night, but Chairman Davis set a special meeting at 10:29 am to consider the request, noted as Governor Terrell’s only favored special appropriation this session. Also, Charles F McDonald, former U S consul at Hamilton, Ontario, left funds in his will to improve the postal money order system through experimentation.
Washington, December 2. Rep Dalzell of Pennsylvania withdraws from the speakership race in the fifty-eighth congress in favor of Rep Cannon of Illinois. The Pennsylvania delegation in the House practically votes for Cannon in the Republican caucus, with Cannon endorsed for the post.
A jury visited Chelsea yesterday for the case charging a wife’s murder in a forest area. Police regulation was referenced as a cabman was fined four shillings and ordered to serve a day in prison before appealing the decision.
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