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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
10
Daily sale notice urges immediate holiday purchases for men including negligee shirts and Stetson hats. Highlights cotton wear from top Atlanta sellers and new styles. Motivates shoppers to buy now to ensure satisfaction.
Hosiery selections include plain and fancy hose in cotton lisle wool and silk. Values praised as great with lines and styles designed to suit every taste and outfit.
December 15. Special. A missing ledger from Union Cotton Mills has been found hidden behind a counter in the furniture department. The 1903-04 ledger shows thirty plus pages cut out, suggesting hidden crooked transactions. Other ledgers and journals remain missing, and a $2,500 reward previously offered for evidence stands.
Savannah stockholders voted to stop buying spirits of turpentine or resin for five years and act only as a storage agent. The plan aligns with a recent settlement involving the Naval Stores Export Company. Also, Shaker leaders plan to meet President Roosevelt in Washington to present resolutions from the Mount Lebanon community.
The Mechanics and Traders Bank at 251 Marietta Street plans voluntary liquidation effective immediately. Stockholders are slated for dividend, creditors urged to present claims. accounts transferred to Lowry National Bank where liabilities will be settled on demand. The bank began in September 1903 with 25000 capital and has conducted substantial business. Francises claims a steer brain acts as an electrical phenomenon per experiment using platinum electrodes and a galvanometer.
Covington G Dedm and others plan a county branch meeting in the county courthouse tomorrow morning. A large attendance is urged as important association matters are to be discussed. Representatives to the state convention in Atlanta will be appointed at this meeting.
San Francisco December 15 Japan will insist on maintaining a protectorate over Korea despite efforts to oust her. Karl Takahira Japanese Minister to the United States arrived in San Francisco and departed for Japan. He said Korea is not fit to act as an independent country and will remain a subject country until strengthened and stabilized.
Chief Justice Hobson of the court of appeals renders an injunction decision in the Cumberland rail road versus Louisville and Nashville fight over the Greany Creek gap in the Cumberland mountains. The outcome favors Cumberland as a picket war over the outlet through the mountain region continues.
Birmingham December 15 Special Dispatch reports a showdown before the state democratic executive committee in Montgomery on January 9 over the timing of the party primary. Comer supporters push for April or May, Cunningham backers for an early, late, or regular primary to enable new voters. The committee chair Mallory issues call for meeting to issue the primary call and set rules.
Coast Line and Southern Railway executives visited Charleston today with Mayor Rhett to review a new ordinance demanding immediate passenger station repairs and improvements. An accompanying Coast Line committee also met water front progress with Charleston Terminal president W. E. Huger, confirming engineers would be dispatched promptly.
Augusta Ga December 15 Special A case was docketed by police against City Councilman Bryan Lawrence who was yesterday acting recorder and is to appear for trial. After court he fought A F Hollowell hotel clerk at the hotel Lawrence owns. Lawrence with Mrs Lawrence and Miss Lawrence have left the city and are reported in Savannah.
B C Murphy and Frank Smith are identified as the murderer of County Treasurer Cooper of Cope South Carolina and I B Kittrell of Cone is due in Swainsboro to fetch the prisoner. Smith had been jailed in May for horse stealing and was serving on the county chain gang when a photo sent by Kittrell confirmed the identification. Requisition papers will take the prisoner to Carolina at once.
Harper resident W Hoffman claims a bitter battle with chronic stomach and liver trouble ended in victory and cure through electric lanterns. He urges others to use them, says they are a wonderful sedative, and notes they are sold by druggists at 50 cents a bottle with a guarantee.
Rome Georgia December 15 A white section hand for the Southern railway identified as Mr Neal was struck in the leg on Sunday by a Black man reportedly employed with Neal in the roadway service. Police report no further injuries. The incident adds tension to local labor disputes amid railroad maintenance work.
Special item states Hon Thomas M Hell introduced a bill providing for the appropriation of 125000 for a public building at Gainesville Washington D C The December 18 Emory Phoenix at Oxford Georgia notes the latest issue as the best of the year with Emory College coverage and Oxford item.
Western and Atlantic and Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railways announce round trip holiday fares at one and one third fares plus 25 cents. Teachers and students can buy from December 16 to 24 with final limit January 5 1906. General public sale from December 22 to 31 and January 1 with final limit January 4 1906. Chas E Harman General Passenger Agent.
Report from the Paducah test voyage shows 12.8 knots under full load, but the dynamo engine needs repairs as recommended by the board. Paducah ordered to Norfolk Navy Yard for necessary work before further service. Dominica orders continue into January.
Sam W. Crook a former Gadsden Insurance agent and longtime local figure was found guilty by a city court jury on forgery charges. Six indictments covered as many offenses with totals exceeding $1,000. One count resulted in conviction for signing a firm member's name to a $176 note discounted at Queen City bank. He previously worked as a L & N railway conductor and has many supporters and secret-order memberships.
Speer sentences J. J. Parnell of Valdosta to one year and one day in Atlanta prison for counterfeiting after a sealed verdict. Postmaster Wise of Pickens Ga. acquitted of intercepting letters from Hiram Taylor to Miss Mary Jane Odum. Taylor, the prosecutor, is described as a dwarf about three feet tall as letters between Taylor and Odum are read in court.
Macon Georgia December 15 Special Mercer university is ably represented at the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association session in Atlanta by Professor E T Holmes. He holds the secretary post and is known across the south as a strong influence in college athletics. He has supported Mercer athletics and the college will benefit from his participation.
Admiral Sands met with Secretary Bonaparte and Rear Admiral Converse at the navy department to discuss hazing at Annapolis. He outlined cadet officers and petty officers pledging to report interference by upperclassmen and assist the superintendent in stopping hazing, with assurances of full Navy Department support.
The 1905 bureau report shows 150000000 pounds of sugar imported into the United States, with 350000000 worth coming from Hawaii Porto Rico and the Philippines, marking a notable rise. Sugar imports from Cuba also exceed last year though by about 300000 pounds less in quantity. Cuba again leads in sugar cane production with only a small peat sugar import.
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