Schofield Freed Again After Acquittal
Macon Ga December 15 acquitted tonight of murdering Green King a negro. Jury believed defense that Schofield was insane and a pervert but rearrested by Sheriff Robertson on a lunacy warrant. He will be tried for lunacy with Ordinary Wiley. custody remains with the sheriff. Simmons Wills Go North to wed and honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macus
Hal Schofield
Green King
Schofield
Niintram
Robertson
Wiley
Echo- Held
Ais
Schofied
Simmons
Macon
T. J. Simmons, Jr
Macon News
Knoxville
Peante
Wate Lanier
Brownts Camera Offers for Parents and Amateurs
An ad promotes Brownts Camera with easy operation and good pictures for children. It mentions hiring big ones at $5 to $20, latest models, Kodak supplies, amateur finishing, and Hawkes at 14 Whitehall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodak
Hawkes
Whitehall
Young Boys Involved in Fatal Shooting Near Boogeville
Rome Georgia December 15 A shooting affray occurred Wednesday afternoon near Boogeville involving two youths, Jon Firestone and Wenton Bois both under 14, who lived with parents nearby. A dispute led to a shotgun discharge injuring Bois. condition not yet known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Corexhie
Jon Firestone
Wenton Boi
Hhao
Boogeville
Iestoke
Ini
Young Bolt
Cossacks in clash after commander shot in Moscow crowd
In a Moscow incident Cossacks fired after a commander was shot and killed, four others died and ten were wounded. General Maximovitch pledged imperial aid to bereaved families. An assassin named Amelia Popoff confessed identity but gave no further details. Meanwhile, mutineers in Sebastopol and post telegraph strikes dominated news from St. Petersburg and Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maximovitch
Sakharoff
Amelia Popoff
Tver
Russia
Ivan. Petrunkoviteh
Moscow Agricultural Society
Zemstvo
Neosanta
Novosti Sava
Sebastopol
Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad Claims Vitality Boost
An old advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a rejuvenating tonic for weakness and waning pleasures. It urges purchase by mail, with a plain package and prepaid orders, stating the product is made by Hood Co in Lowell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood Co
Hood's Sarsapariile
Lowell
NASA
Inquest Possible Over Death of Robert Hetta Dargan
Columbia S C December 15 Judge Wattse orders Darlington Coroner C L Clanton to justify withholding or set aside an inquest into the death of Robert Hetta Dargan president of the Independent Cotton Company and Dartington Trust Company who died by self inflicted carbolic acid six months ago. Fidelity Mutual Insurance contested proof of death and may force a new inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
8. C
Fidelity Mutual Insurance Company
Robert Hetta Dargan
Wattse
L. Clanton
Darlington Courtty
Cheraw
Dargan
Independent Cotton of Company
Dartington Trust Company
Darga
Insurance profits Smale liquidation urged for Alabama firm
Special Deputy Insurance Commissioner Marty Shorter recommends liquidation of the Southern Mutual Aid Association of Birmingham after an examination, citing that equities favor policyholders. The firm, one of Alabama’s oldest providers of sick and accident insurance, largely serving Black communities, faces maturing ten year tontine policies and objections from policyholders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabarka
Montgomery
Als
jSpecial
Marty TR. Shorter
Southern Mutual Aid Association
Birmingham
Ae Saald
Senators Talked of Canal Bill and Santo Domingo
The South Carolina Statesman notes Senate discussion of the Panama canal bill. Senator Tillman criticized canal commission methods and asked if President Shonts still headed Clover Leaf railroad, while Spooner defended the president and debate touched Santo Domingo policy. A vote was planned for tomorrow as the bill remained under consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina Statesman
Chairman Shonts
Clover Leaf Road
Wreskington
Panama
Senate
Tillmen
Canal Commission
Shonts
Clover Leaf Railroad
Railroad Register
Bishop
Presa
Hale
Congress
Preas
Tillman
Santo Domingo
Spooner
Postmaster General
Mesara
Tilman
Santo Dominic
Money
Bacon
Canal Committee
House
Washington
House Today
Sheriey
Kentucky
Cockran
New York
Mann
Ilinois
Willams
Annapolis
Pupil Attacks Teacher With Wood in Greenville County
News arrives from Hopewell public schools in Hairview Greenville county of pupil Willem Martin aged 16 striking Professor Milton D. Moore behind the head with a stick as he reached for a switch to chastise him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
Milton D. Moore
Hopewell Public Schools
Hairview
Greenville County
Willem Martin
Martin
Pyramid Pile Cure Promised in Free Mail Offer
An old advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure with claims of immediate relief from piles after one treatment. It offers free samples in plain wrappers to anyone mailing name and address, asserts surgery is deadly, and promises eventual full treatment for 50 cents plus postage from Pyramid Drug Co Marshall Mich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pyramids
Pyramid Pits
George
Pyramid Drug Co
Pyramid Burt Jing
Marshall
Mich
Mills visited by Easterners in Columbus meeting
The Columbus Manufacturing Company held its stockholders meeting with a New England party of mill men arriving by private car Idlewild from West Point. The visitors, led by Treasurer Charice Utley and agents Wellington Sears & Co, include Francis Sears Justin Gale B Townsend Fredericka Mather and W A Bullard among others. The party plans social events and a dinner at Racine hotel with local mill officials while the company considers enlarging the plant and adding power from Clapps factory. A separate note in Chiumins, Ga, reports Joe Talbott fined 50 dollars for buying seed cotton without owner permission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, Ga
Columbus Manufacturing Company
Wiliam HH
Wellington
Horace
Sears
Wellington, Sears,&Co
Francis B. Sears
Lanett Cotcon - Milla
Justin. E. Gale
Brogkaside Mills
Knoxville
Warwick Mills
Centerville
R- 1
Fredericka. Mather
Boot Mills
Lowell
Maas
W. A. Bullard
Htarvard Truat Company
Boston
West Point Manufacturing Company
J. G. Whitten
Stark Mills
Cotton Mill
North Highlands
Clapp
New England Party
Columbus
Racine
Chiumins
Rue
Waiters Confesses in Savannah Slaying Case
Savannah, December 5 Special William Walters a negro named by A B Gott of Nassauville Fla confessed before transfer to the Fargo convict camp that he killed seven people and shot others in Savannah on the night of November He boasted I shot em like ducks on the water claiming whites must have been with the niggers or he would have shot more He added I did not want to hurt white men but I shaved after dem niggers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
William Walter
Gott
Nassauville
Fla
Waiters
Walters
Death sentence pronounced on two murderers in Americus
Judge Littlejohn, in Americus Georgia, sentenced George Broughton and John Graham, both negroes, to death for murder. Lloyd Johnson and John Cato, also murderers, received penitentiary terms. Broughton and Graham are to be hanged January 6. Three more murder cases to be tried next week including Meigs Powell white and Thomas Powell. Stelle Williams negress killed Eben Black, and Heys Lewis colored killed another negro.
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Littlejohn
Americus
Ais
George Broughton
John Graham
Lloyd Johnson
John Cato
Mte
Broughton
Graham
Meigs Powell
White
Fod Kiing
Thomas Powell
Stelle Williams
Eben Black
Heys Lewis
Pinkerton Given Ten Years in Gadsden Mine Case
In Gadsden Alabama on December 15 special agent Boyd Pinkerton, a white miner, was sentenced to ten years for a crime detailed in the report. The court's decision follows a local investigation and reflects a harsh penalty for the offender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinkerton
Gadsden
Ala
Speviat
Boyd Pinkerton
Arkansas claims oldest bride and groom in history
Special dispatch from Ashdown Little River County outlines Harry Taylor aged 108 and Mundy Fisher as the oldest couple to wed with licenses issued by County Clerk W E Kinaworthy. Taylor, born in 1797 in Georgia, recalls events from 1815 and later served as a farm worker in Arkansas, still active in later years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Cupid
Ashdown
Little River County
W. ‘E. Kinaworthy
Harry Taylor
Mundy ‘Fisher
Ogden
Sam Lacy
Harry
Georgia
New Orleans
General Packenham
Office Robbery in Douglasville Leads to Three Arrests
Three men were arrested in Douglasville Georgia on suspicion of robbing the local post office this morning. The safe was blown and about $1,000 in money and stamps were taken. Entry was through the front door and tools from a railroad tool house were used. The night watchman reports seeing no disturbance half an hour before the break in. Suspicious men had been hanging around town recently following the death of postmaster Major Hyatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglasville
Vile Rica
Major Hyatt
Stnday
Factories of West Point in Fine Condition Declares Dividends
West Point Ga December 15 Special The annual meeting of stockholders and directors of the Lanett Cotton Mills West Point Manufacturing Company River Dele Cotton Mills Lanett Bleachery and Dye Works and the Chattahoochee Valley Railway Company was held in President L Lawier’s office Thursday the 14th Reports show each industry in fine condition and the usual dividends were declared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Est Point
Lanett Cotton Mills
West Point Manufacturing Company
River Dele Cotton Mills
Lanett Bleachery and Dye Works
Chattahaochee Valley Railway Company
L. Lawier
Slayer shoots killer of father in Waynesboro incident
Waynesboro Georgia December 18 Special George Gilsson who shot and killed his father W C Gilsson at Hill Tuesday night was seriously wounded when shot by his brother. His brother fired five times at him and three times. No arrest has been made due to his dangerous condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesboro
George Giisson
W. C. Gilsson
Hill Thesday
A M E Conference Held In Quitman Georgia
Large sums are raised as the African Methodist Episcopal conference rushes its sessions in Quitman. Notables include Rev B J Ross and Dr J A Brockett with Bishop Turner leading a special collection for an African student at Morris Brown College. District reports show substantial conference claims and overall totals across Valdosta Savannah West Savannah Quitman districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. E. Conference
Quitman
African Methodist Episcopal Conference
B. J. Ross
Monroe
J. A. Brockett
J.G. Robinson
Turner
Morris Brown College
T. M. Smith
R. H. Singleton
West Africa
Smith
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Valdosta
Dr. W. Singleton
Savannah
J. T. Thomas
West Savannah
Whien
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St.Petersburg
Eydtkuhnen
East Prussia
Dmitri Shipoff
Moscow Gemstvo
Igors
Uberals
M. Guchhoff
Moscow Zemstvo
Alexander Stokovich
National Assembly
Law and Order Party
Moscow Peasants’ Congress
Post Telegraph
Moscow
Zemstvos
Volga
Dan
Saximovitch
Saknaroff
London
Essig Bros
Whitehall Street
Silk
Des
Department of Men’s Furnishings
St. Petersburg
Bydtkulinen
Post
Durnovo
M. Sevastianoff
Ani Telegraphs
Post Office
Boc
SMALE
Commission
Piles
Atlanta
Bell
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co
Atlanta, Ga
New -England
Colum
Cridte
Nassauville, Fla
Bcap Fou
West Point
Moffiers
Law Bros. Co
Mhitchall Street
Decatur Street
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