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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1902
Page
1
A Strong effort is noted as Biel Ge ALG faces a challenge to defeat la in a tense match. Key players and team strategies are highlighted as both sides push for an edge. Subtle shifts in defense and attacking tempo shape the contest.
Washington February 16 Special Democrats in the House prepare for a clash over a new rule to repeal war revenue taxes. The Henderson rule bars amendments and recommittals and aims to finish debate quickly. Republicans largely unite behind it while some, led by Babcock, oppose but will not mount a solo fight.
Trieste and Vienna report the gravest riots in Austria in years after strikes led to martial law. At least twelve were killed Friday with twenty five wounded. four more died Saturday including a police chief. A Sanctioned arbitration spurred quiet as troops fired, a town hall declaration, and a special court empowered to issue death sentences within twenty four hours.
General Weyler recommends reducing the Spanish army by four army corps while the queen regent prepares to sign the treaty of friendship with the United States Madrid February 16 1898.
Washington February says the coming week will be active in the house with the war revenue reduction bill to be taken up starting tomorrow. Two days are allotted for debate followed by a stringent rule to bring the bill to a vote at 3 p m Tuesday with no motions to recommit or non verbal amendments. A possible highlight is Representative Wheeler of Kentucky and his foreign policy speech on Prince Henry's visit. The Indian appropriation bill will be considered.
Senate and House planners map a busy week with two or three appropriation bills in reserve and debates on anti-anarchy, Pacific cable, Cuban reciprocity, and the Danish West Indies treaty. Philippine bill votes loom, with final census action set after treaty and before Philippine debate.
Three thousand western horses or cayuses from intermountain states are to be shipped to South Africa for the British army. Agents purchased the herd after weeks of scouring the region and concentrated them in corrals in Grand Junction, Colorado, before shipment.
The Boer delegates Wessels and Wolmarans have sailed for New York to directly engage with pro Boer committees in the United States. Their trip, decided at Kruger’s February 12 conference, aims to organize support. Fischer remains in Brussels. Kruger expects favorable results and the pair plan a U.S. tour to push Boer interests.
The British bark Savernake crew of eighteen and Master Frederick J. Toole arrived in San Francisco aboard the Zealandia after a wreck in the Society Islands. They endured months ashore and at sea, attempting to reach Papeete with aid delayed by local authorities. The party navigated to Manga Reva and finally to Papeete by schooner Maurice with the gunboat Seele joining to reunite Captain Toole with his crew.
M Rouyer reports that the Salvatti mission party aboard a yacht off New Guinea faced a night assault by natives. Twenty five explorers killed including Baron Villars and Count St Remy. several wounded. Rouyer and others bound to trees were spared as rescuers from the yacht fired on attackers. Thirty two dead reported. one body missing.
The Kron Prinz Wilhelm docked at Southampton on February 16 as Prince Henry toured the ship and mingled with passengers. Police and security heightened for the visit while the ship proceeded to Cherbourg and then to New York. The prince praised his US visit and engaged with the crew and embassy officials.
Leopold Schlesinger a former personal bodyguard of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria died at his daughter Mrs Ralph Victor’s Atlanta home after three months of sickness. Born 1819 in Bohemia he served in the Austrian army, earned three medals from the emperor and saved General Gragietz. Immigrating to America in 1866 he built a Wilkes-Barre grocery business before moving to Atlanta to live with his children. He was 83 and survived by his wife and children Harry Jr Morris Schlesinger Mrs Herman Utitz and Mrs Ralph Victor. Funeral at Oakland cemetery with pallbearers named Samuel Meyer J Amster J Loeb L Cohen S Metzger Jacob Biseman J M Alexander Max Kutz.
New York on February 16 reports Captain Benjamin Parker bringing the emperor of Germany s new yacht Mei r Ti to the opposite shore. Parker, his brother, and Mrs J Parker arrive amid crowds from New Jersey to view the craft. Lutheran services aboard the Hohenzollern begin at 10 am led by Admiral von Baudissin with crew present. A wreath is placed on Beatrice Goelet s memorial by the imperial commander per the emperor s orders. A wireless report from Wilhelm s ship near the Lizard notes all well and weather fine.
Philadelphia February 16 Rev George Carter Needham a noted evangelist died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart at his Narberth home after returning from a three week Tennessee campaign. Born in Ireland about sixty, he left Dublin at twenty to evangelize and later worked in Chicago and Canada. He cooperated with Moody and Sankey and helped carry on Moody’s work after his death. He and his wife visited Japan and China, preached and taught, and he wrote on Bible themes including The Spiritual Life Shadows and Substance Confiict and Courage Street Arabs. He contributed to magazines and papers, and one of his small books Father Waffle reached a wide audience.
Circulation figures reach two million as details emerge of Mr. Needham's death. He is survived by a widow and two sons. Three of Mr. Needham's brothers are priests.
In Vincennes Indiana on February 16 a fiery missive signed Fire Eyes appeared in Wheatland. The notice warns that any man employing or harboring negro labor after March 1 or renting lands to negros will have their houses burned after April 1. The document reflects local white prejudice against a small negro settlement where workers live quietly.
David Winget was today convicted of first degree murder for killing Fred Blanche, a prominent vintner. This marked his third trial after two prior convictions and death sentences by electrocution, with civil war service cited in appeals to spare him from the chair.
Fair Monday and likely Tuesday with rising temperatures. Winds variable, mostly west. Obituary notes include the death of policeman James Duncan at Grady hospital after being shot by his wife. Headlines cover a dental association convention in Atlanta, Cuba American vice charges, depot conference in Atlanta, and the Schlesinger death in Macon. Other items mention forgery cases in Georgia, a winter agriculture course starting in Athens, and Brunswick politics.
Police officer James Munroe Duncan shot by his wife at a North Forsyth boarding house. He died at Grady hospital. Mrs Duncan, implicated in the fatal confrontation, claims self defense amid disputed statements from witnesses including a nurse and a visitor. The couple’s history and Duncan’s police status are noted as the investigation unfolds with an inquest likely.
Alexander City Alabama February 16 a saloonist from Goodwater sued the city for five hundred dollars claiming injuries from a survey vehicle lurching on Main Street after an Old Maids Convention trip. Witnesses swore to sobriety, while city saloonman Wilkinsor testified Davis drank two whiskies. The jury did not return a verdict for the plaintiff.
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