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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1900
Page
8
Fragmented text references candidates Myers Jennings Mayas and others. Mentions attorney for Myers and a political contest involving an executive authority, with garbled phrases about a press and country matters. Details are unclear due to OCR corruption.
The board of health delayed electing sanitary department staff and postponed new rule changes to next Friday at 7:30 PM. Mayor Woodward and Capt. Miller opposed electing or re-electing employees, while Drs. Bizzell and Smith backed the election. The session also addressed depot crossings and a proposed general slaughterhouse in Atlanta.
The city finance committee voted to pave North avenue from Williams to Marietta streets at about $3,000 using chert. Funds to cover the project will be raised by reallocating ward chert appropriations to reach $7,000, with work to start when weather allows and quarries nearby reduce costs.
Finance committee empowered Colonel Park Woodward to proceed with laying 6700 feet of eight inch water main at an estimated city cost of 5000 dollars to supply the new federal penitentiary. Work to begin within thirty days with materials ordered by telegraph and connected to the existing six inch main at Jonesboro and McDonough roads. The government will pay wholesale water rates. a meter may cost about 1000 dollars.
February 16. Clyde Cheek postmaster at Hillsboro and son of J A Cheek the late state senator has smallpox. The disease appeared yesterday and is deemed a genuine case. There is one additional case discovered tonight in Durham North Carolina gathers.
Miss Annie J Kennon, youngest daughter of Colonel R E Kennon, was sent to Canton China by the Southern Baptist Convention. At Fort Gaines Baptist Church the mission was set apart with a consecration prayer and earnest appeals for renewed church zeal and support for foreign missions.
The Baptist Social Union of Atlanta with about 210 members held its annual meeting at the Nonesuch restaurant. Officers elected for 1400 include B. F. Abbot as president and M. L. Brittain as first vice president. Remarks praised Dr. Henry McDonald, longtime pastor of Second Baptist, who will soon move to Shelbyville, Kentucky.
Special from Columbia South Carolinas House of Representatives spent two hours debating sympathy resolutions for Boers and Filipinos. An amendment to withdraw from the Philippines war and protect Filipinos failed by five votes. A pro Boer resolution drew strong but ultimately insufficient support as South Carolinians contrasted Anglo-Saxon kinship with the Confederacy. The pro Boer measure was defeated by a large margin.
Briga dier Generals Alfred E Bates and Bell lead the Fortieth and Forty-fifth Infantry with Keefer s battery and pack mules aboard the cruiser Baltimore and transports Tartar and Athenian plus gunboats. The fleet will land at Nueva Caser es to sweep the province and campaign is expected to begin in the morning.
In Tampa Florida on February 16 twelve men charged with whipping Postmaster W. Crum of Peck were discharged in U S court. Seven were tried for intimidating Dan Morrison the colored assistant postmaster but were acquitted by the jury. United States District Attorney Stripping moved to enter a nolle pros in Crum case due to lack of evidence.
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