Police Board Orders Strict Enforcement of Streetcar Rules
The Police Board stated the streetcar ordinance is being violated and instructed Chief John W. Ball to notify Georgia Railway and Electric Company officials that speeding streetcars and failure to ring bells at crossings will be enforced. The board urged close attention by the police and discussed potential misdemeanor charges, while noting blame lies with motormen and conductors rather than the company.
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John W. Ball
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
Yelty Simits
Atreet
Ball
Nym Hurt
Teara
Cara
Hurt
Premier Balfour weighs cotton gambling issue in Manchester
January 12 Manchester Premier Balfour met a delegation from the cotton trade amid protests over gambling in cotton futures. He voiced concern over the evils cited and asked for data on probable cotton yield. He supported careful consideration of an international conference to study the question.
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Balfour
Manchester
Board to Rebuild Walden University at Nashville
At a meeting of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational Society in Cincinnati the board decided to rebuild Walden University at Nashville, Tennessee, which was destroyed some time ago. Plans will include fundraising for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walden University
Cincinnati
Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational Cociery
Nashbville
Tenn
Dowie Seeks Texas Colony After El Paso Visit
Alexander Dowie arrived from the east in El Paso Texas and spent several hours here today. He visited Diverez Mexico and toured the city by carriage. He states plans to establish a colony in Texas and tonight left for San Francisco.
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Alex Dowie
el Paso
Tex
Alexander Dowie
Diverez
Mexico
Texas
Dr. Dowie
San Francisco
Tragic shooting in Jackson as girl dies in sleep
Sadie Currie, years old, was killed in Jackson Tennessee when a boy played with a gun. Phillip Scott reportedly loaded a blank shell and fired, the side of Currie’s head was blown off. Police and trial coverage follow with court martial details in Chattanooga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Tenn
Sadie
Currie
Phillip Scott
Czarina Unwell, Misses Reception for New Year
Petersburg January 12 The czarina’s condition is not believed to be alarming though she is suffering tympanitis. It is announced she will not take part in the reception for the Russian new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Pane
Fishing Club Off to Florida
The Homosoma Club left Atlanta yesterday at 11 40 to begin the annual fishing trip in the Homosassa river. The club will occupy its own clubhouse on the river bank, stocked with warves boats and boat houses for member use. J C A Branon and George Muse went to Florida to prepare the house. The group will stay in Florida until January 31 and several named members are listed as joining the expedition.
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Homosomea Club
Atlanta
Fgh
Homosassa
Warves
J. C. A. Branon
George Muse
Florida
Homosassa Club
Folowing
Omosasse
Frank Potts
George
Lowndes
Mitchell
John Berkele
Henry R. Dugand
W S&s. Duncan
Frank P. Rice
The Bijou Presents The Knickerbocker Girl And More
The Bijou onstage this week features The Knickerbocker Girl as the musical comedy centerpiece with star comedian Little Chip and Mary Marble delivering laughs. Grand's Rose Coghlan appears Monday in The Greatest Thing in the World, Virginia Bryant, a mother and widow, with acclaimed company. next week Alphonse and Gaston musical farce arrives with Wil Landrew Powers Jennie Lamont and others plus Joshua Whitcomb in The Old Homestead offering a moonlit Graze church scene and a celebrated double quartet.
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Little Chip
Atlanta
Smith
Aarons
Mary Marble
Grand
Rose Coghlan
the Grand
Race Coghlan
Virginia Bryant
Miss Coghlan
Miss Caghtan
Alphonse
Gaston
Yench +4L
Wil Andl Landrew Powers
Jennie Lamont
Harry Watson
Harry Montgomery
Tony Pearl
Lawrence Cover
Ole Beardsley
Adelaide
Gretchen
Epry
Tlamestead
Denman Thompson
Joshua Whitcomb
Thompson
International arbitration conference seeks treaty with Britain
Washington held a national conference to form a basis for an arbitration treaty with Great Britain and widen arbitration worldwide. Prominent backers included Andrew Carnegie, Cardinal Gibbons, and John W. Foster. A committee drafted resolutions urging a treaty and submission to the Hague or a new tribunal, with broad support from governors, mayors, and labor leaders.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
California
New York
Boston
Baltimore
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
New Willard Hotel
Andrew Carnegie
Gray
Delaware
Cletrt Court
Nelson A. Miles
David Blair Jordan
Stanford University
John W. Foster
James Cardinal Gibbons
Francis Lynde Stetson
Robert Treat Payne
American Peace Society
Foster
Thomas Nelson Page
Committee On
Judge Gray
Wayne MacVeagh
John B. Moore
Columbia
AC Harris
Indianapolis
Austria
Horace Davis
San Francisco
Strauss
Turkey
William Wimberly
Detroit
Belgium
Francis L Stetson
McClellan
Jordan
Frederick W Seward
Stuyvesant Fish
Permanent Court
The
Hague
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Congress
Fresidert
Callea
Grover Cleveland
Nationa
Lafayette Theater
General Foster
Cardinal Gibbons
Miles
Hale
Norton Miles
Edward Everett Hale
Joseph Silverman
Temple Emanuel
New York City
Carmegl
Steat
Carnegie
Durbin
Machen postal graft trial opens in Washington
The August W. Machen case and the Groffs with the Lorenzos opened with government claims of conspiracy and a 40 percent kickback on fasteners. Key witnesses included John Maston and Howley as the court debated whether to elect the specific indictment count and allow inspectors to remain. The session adjourned after the afternoon testimony and will resume tomorrow.
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Washington
August W. Machen
Graff Bros
George E. Lorens
Ealmest
Post Office Department
Howley
Perry S. Heath
Beach
Bristow
Tohn F. Kxamler
Toledo
Ohio
Lorenzos
Festmaster
Pritchard
Machen
Lorenzes
Groffa
John M Maston
John J. Howley
Benerat
Kamler
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