Peonage charge against two Georgia farmers
Georgia farmers G A Knighton and O F Knighton were bound over on $1000 bonds each on peonage charges. The case, filed in the northern district, marks one of the first peonage prosecutions in that division. Witnesses testified that an employer had advanced funds to hired workers who were prevented from leaving the Knightons’ farm until debts were settled. Knighton contends workers could leave but owed them about $80, with debt arrangements to be settled before departing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conobus
G A
O F Knighton
Randolph County
Georgia
United States
Brown
United States Court
District of
Cuthbert
John S Hartsfield
Jos Jones
Hilliard Har
Knightons
Joe Ives
Hig
Hartfield
Hartsfeld
Hartsfield
Knighton
Gill
Augusta Fire Exit Ordinance Questioned
At the January 15 Augusta police board meeting W T Alexander urged a fire exit ordinance. He noted the opera house is dangerous in fire and panic and that windows used as exits are partly blocked. An inspection showed no such ordinance, leaving police without authority. Mayor Allen said the issue would be brought to city council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Specta
Wo T Alexander
Heeleo
Allen
Body of Former Governor Bushnell In State in Ohio
The body of former Governor Bushnell, who died at Grant hospital in Columbus, was moved to Springfield for funeral arrangements not yet completed. The service is expected Monday with the body in state at Christ Episcopal Church, the deceased’s church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Bushnell
Grant Hospital
Springfield
Christ ‘Episcopal Church
Merchants Bank Organized in Augusta Georgia
Augusta Ga January 16 Special The Merchants bank was organized for business this evening by the election of Maurice Walton president W J Hollingsworth vice president and A S Hatch cashier Other directors include G S Murphy C T Pound W O H Garrett Bryan Lawrence JJ Evans William Martin J E Tarver H H Cumming T R Maxwell and L A L Artington The bank will open for business February
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchants’ Bank
Augusta
Merchants Bank
Maurice Walton
W J Holingsworth
A 5. Hatch
G S Murphy
C T. Pound
W O H Garrett
Bryan Lawrence
JJ Evans William Martin
J E Tarver H H Cumming
T R Maxwell
L. A L. Artington
Barnes Ready For Sacrifice In Georgia State Chair Move
Savannah January 15 Special To save the Republican party in Georgia from foes, United States Marshal John Bates of the Southern District resigns to chair the state central committee for $1,400 a year. A Justice Department rule allowing a federal official to head a political group is under consideration to permit Walter H Johnson of Atlanta, the U S marshal for the Northern District, to become chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Republican Party
Georgia
United States
John of. Bates
Republican State Central Committee
Department of Justice
Barnes
Walter H Johnson
Atlanta
District
Tobacco tag hearing wraps up in House subcommittee
January 15 subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee concluded hearings on Tawney's anti tag bill concerning tobacco packages. Opponents from Bland Tobacco Company Petersburg VA argued against the measure. Supporters from National Cigar Company Pittsburg backed the bill. No committee action taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Tawney
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Tamiacep
R G Hamilton
Bland Tabanea Company
Petersburg
Sherley
Kentucky
Dovener
West Virginia
Congress
H G Wasson
Pittsburg
National Cigar Company
Postoffice Clerks and Carriers Seek Pay Increase Hearing
Postmaster General Payne forwards a letter to Chairman Overstreet urging a public hearing on pay raises for letter carriers rural delivery clerks and post office staff. The statements from each group justify higher compensation and request designation of a hearing time and place before Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Payne
Overstreet
House
United States
Congress
Captain Coleman Seeks Judge Post in 16th Judicial Circuit
Captain Daniel Coleman of Huntsville announces candidacy for judge of the 16th judicial circuit. He commands Egbert Jones Camp of United Confederate Veterans and is backed by many veterans from Madison and Limestone counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleman
Huntsville
Ala
Daniel Coleman
Egbert Jones
United Confederate Veterans
Ipadison
Limestone
Bloodshed as Mountain Park Moves House to Snyder
Five Mountain Park citizens and several Snyder residents were badly wounded in a clash over moving 43 buildings from Mountain Fork to Snyder. A bridge on Dry Otter creek was attacked three times to stop the move. a Snyder posse formed and authorities began arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain Park
Snyder
Guthrie
Okla
ZL Garsough
Wiliam Humphrey
Theodora Coleman
J A. Meelaren
W. D. Meal
Dry Otter Creek
Mountain Fork
Snyder Mountain Park
Gilbert
Notorious Safe Robber Hoolihan Arrested in Chicago
Roanoke Virginia January 16 report that William Hoolihan alias Hid a famed safe cracker was arrested in a Chicago saloon after police trains revolvers aimed at his head He had escaped a Virginia jail after a Roanoke post office safe robbery seven years earlier and is linked to other vault breakins in Norfolk and Salem and a North Carolina prison escape Authorities note Baldwin Detective Agency chief doubts the Chicago dispatch and says no Roanoke post office robbery occurred as claimed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoolihan
Virginia
North Carolina
Chicago
William Hoolinan
Alloa
America
Roanoke
Rosnoke
W. J Baldwin
Baldwin Detective Agency
Railway Special Agents Association of America
Canada
Willam Hoolihan
Norfolks and Western Railway
Rusberg
Salem
Raleigh
Hoolihan 'S
Waulkashaw
Wis
Chicago Dispatch
William Hoolihan
Samuel H. Hoge
Council Orders Houses Burned in Waycross
Waycross Georgia January 16 the city council condemned three small railroad houses near Gilmore street as nuisances and ordered them burned about 10 oclock tomorrow morning Superintendent Hickland was asked to attend and objected to the burning when the nuisance was explained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waycross
Gilmore Street
Hickland
Bullets Fatal to Hines Born in Suwannee Ga
Suwannee Georgia January 15 Special Hines Horn fatally shot by J B Smith at 930 last night died at 180 this morning Smith says two young men Crom were in the yard when an intruder approached and he fired Born, weakly winds, had twice been an inmate of the state insane asylum last two years Smith is a prosperous young merchant and Horn belonged to a prominent county family
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suwannee
Hines Horn
J. B. Smith
Smith
Crom
Tuen
Born
Young Born
State Insane Asylum
Horn
Obituary notices from Wilmington and nearby towns
Summary of multiple short death notices: Amy Morris Bradley longtime Wilmington educator dies at 60 near a school cottage. Judge C C Winn of Marietta dies after partial paralysis and long legal career. OG Childs of Martin Georgia dies aged 68, Civil War veteran and merchant. James Ansley of Norwood Georgia reports two sons ill, one fatal from pneumonia. John N Jewett prominent Chicago lawyer dies at 76 after a long career.
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Wilmington
Sneelall
Amy Morris Bradley
Maine
C. C. Winn
Marietta
C . ‘Winn
Judge Winn
Childs
Martin
Carnesville
OG Childs
Marin
Bright
Russell Jones
Qfartin
Arkansas
Will Move Pat Mulherin to Augusta Home Today
Richmond Legisal will carry Hon Patrick Mulherin from Macon city hospital to his home in Augusta tomorrow. A special car provided at the request of J H Hall and with Mr Brul herrin as well as a Hibernians committee will move Mulherin on a stretcher, accompanied by Mrs Mulherin and daughter. Dr Elder says recovery unlikely but life may be prolonged.
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Richmond
Augusta
Macon
Patrick Mulherin
J H Hall
Birb
Btulherrin
Mulherrin
Hibernians
A A McKenna
Algerman
Joy
Elder
Banquet for Happa Alphas in New York Chapter
Special arrangements completed for the tenth annual banquet of the New York alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha. The event will be at the Hotel Majestic on January 19, 1904, with John M Harrington as toastmaster and Judge Charles Forrest Moora responding to the toast Robert E Lee. Other toasts by John Boyle Jr and Dr Oliver Paul Barku. The fraternity, begun at Washington and Lee University, remains distinctly southern and the New York chapter has over seventy members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kappa Alpha Southern Order
Hotel Majestic
John M Harrington
Chanter
Charles Forrest Moora
Robert E. Lee
John Boyle, Jr
Oliver Paul Baruk
Washington and Lee University
General Lee
Dr Peacock Made Mayor in Cochran County Vote
Dr John B Peacock elected mayor of Cochran Georgia on Wednesday by a 37 vote majority over W B Watts Sr. Result announced January 15 in the local special report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peacock
Cochran
Specia
John B Peacock
W B. Watts
Beard withdraws from sheriff race in Columbus
In Columbus on January 15 special report J A Beard, longtime Linwood Cemetery sexton and sheriff candidate against incumbent F Roberts, announces he will not resign. Ladies sent petitions urging him to stay on as sexton, praising his work and implying a salary increase may follow. The bid notes this petitioning action as a novel local event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
J A Beard
F. Roberts
Beard
Sexton
Linwood
Jie
Cochran Banking Company Declares Dividend at Meeting
At the fifth annual stockholders meeting of Cochran Banking Company in Cochran Georgia a 10 percent dividend was declared. F T Taylor was reelected president P L Peacock vice president J A Waller cashier J P Peacock assistant cashier. The bank building will be improved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cochran Banking Company
Cochran
Taylor
P L. Peacock
J A. Waller
J P Peacock
New Bank for Cochran Planter Bank and Trust Company
A new bank organized to begin business February 1 will be named Planter Bank and Trust Company with 825000 paid up capital. A. J. Thompson serves as president, B. J Wynne as vice president, ZV. Peacock as cashier, J. B. Thompson as assistant cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cochran
The
Planter Bank and Trust Company
A. J. Thompson
B. J Wynne
ZV. Peacock
J. 3. Thompson
Shad and Sturgeon Trade Shapes North Carolina Fisheries
North Carolina’s fish industry employs about 35,000 people. The saltwater fisheries around Roanoke Sound and Albemarle sound use large seines and gill nets to harvest shad and herring, with eggs sold to the U.S. Fish Commission and hatcheries supporting restocking. Noted figures include Dr Capehart and several fishery operations along the Roanoke, Chowan, and Scotch Hall beaches, detailing haul sizes, roe for caviare, and shipments to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke Island
United States Fish Commission
United Ores
Hdenton
Capehart
The
Fish Commission
Roanoke
Sutton Beach
North Carolina
North
Carlina
Seiice
Hussia
New York
Russia
Capehart and
Wood Fisheries
Vame
North Carolin
South
North Carolina Sound
Dr. Capehart
Department of Fish and Fisheries
Chicago Worlds
Len Capehart
Albemarle Sound
Dr Capeharts
G W Capehrt
United States
Coleraine
Chowan River
Serie
P M Warren
Drummond Point
Miss, Roberts
Ea Wood
Holly
Cullen Capehart
Scotch Hall
Edward Wood
Alsoomarle Sound
Wilson
Chowan
Scotch Hall Beach
Philalphia
Baltimore
Richmond
Norfolk
Merchants and Farmers Bank elects officers and declares dividend
At the annual meeting of Merchants and Farmers Bank stockholders in Georgia, 3 A Davis was elected president, H H Mobley cashier, and directors JH Covin M H Hightower Ron Trimble Frank Ward and J F Askew were chosen for the year. The board declared a 10 percent dividend and allocated 2 1 2 percent to the surplus fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
HongansoMe
Merchants and Facmera Bank
A. Davis
H. H. Mobley
JH Covin
M. H. Hightower
Ron Trimble
Frank Ward
J F. Askew
Cotton Mill Declares 22 Percent Dividend
Tifton January 15 Special 1 The Tifton Cotton Mills at their annual meeting yesterday declared a semi annual dividend of 22 percent. The mills show a net profit of $22,000 for the past year. After paying the dividend the balance was passed to the surplus fund. The old officers were reelected H H it president L 3 Shepherd vice president NiD Plokston secretary and treasurer T A Shipp Jr superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tifton
Janary
Tifton Cotton Mills
H H. It
Shepherd
Nid Plokston
T. A. Shipp, Jr
Duke Philip Seeks Divorce From Royal Marriage
Vienna reports that Duke Philip of qu jeans seeks a divorce and a dispensation to wed Princess Clementine, daughter of Princess de Motternich-Sandor. Royalists warned that remarriage would scandalize Catholic circles in France, yet he renews his petition claiming coercion into the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Allgemeine Zeitung
Philp
Qi- Jeans
Curia
Allegelmeine Zeitung
France
Yto
Zeitung
Utilar
Clementine
Poating
de Motternich-Sandor
Atlanta Grocers Dined at Aragon by Local Associations
The Retail Grocers and Butchers' Association of Atlanta were guests of the Natural Food Company at a dinner at the Aragon. WC Mansfield served as toastmaster with Mayor Howell J A Van Woose John Templa Graves J E Maddox W W Orr ROF Maddox John Bratton and George J Williams among speakers. Men discussed city business interests and commerce. A large attendance was noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natural Food Company
Retail Grocers' Am? Butchers’ Association of Atlanta
Aragon
WC Mansfield
Mayor Howell
J A van Woose
John Templa Graves
E Maddox
W W Orr
Rof Maddox
John Bratton
George J Williams
Atlanta Poultry Show Planned At Whitehall Street Venue
The Atlanta Poultry Association announced preparations for its exhibit in Atlanta at 60 Whitehall Street. The meeting at city hall, attended by Mayor E B P Howell, association president, and Fire Chief W R Joyner, discussed halting the exhibit without details and noted strong entries and expected success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Poultry Association
Atlanta
Bullain
Whitehall Street
EB P Howell
W R Joyner
Manufacturers to Dine by Atlanta Association Dinner
The Atlanta Manufacturers' Association will hold a dinner on February 2 at the Piedmont Hotel. Starts about 7 PM with only manufacturers invited. Samuel D Jones chairs the arrangements committee preparing for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Manufacturers’ Association
Piedmont Hotel
IA Committee
Samuel D Jones
They Fought to a Draw in Baltimore Boxing Bout
In a fifteen round light weight match held in Baltimore on January 15 Danny Dougherty of Philadelphia boxed Tomar Feltz of Brooklyn. The bout ended in a draw with Dougherty in fine condition and Feltz showing fatigue. The Philadelphia fighter had the better points, but the agreement split the purse if both were on their feet after the rounds. No injuries were reported and about four hundred spectators approved referee O'Hara's decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Danny Dougherty
Failadelphla
Tomar Feltz
Brooklyn
Eureka
Dougherty
Feltz
Philadelphia
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Eqnell
Oklahoma
Muse
Inverness
Hines
Wilmington, N.C
James Ansley
Norwood
Nortwood
John N. Jewett
John N Jewett
St. Paul
Arizona Republican
Omaha
San Francisco Chronicle
Gordon
Scetow Daily Advertiser
Louisville Evening Post
Siduamah
Nashville Amercan
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Drugelsts
Eaton Deva Co
Pat Mulherin
Happa Alphas
Carolina
Hecufort
Shad
BANKS
Duke Philip
Will
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