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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1913
Page
5
The council wrangled over allocations for a Girls' Commercial School and other items as Aldermen pressed for higher education spending and infrastructure. Humphrey blocked a $25,000 school line, Nutting pushed for $2000 more to yard repairs, and a census budget of $1100 was debated while calls for a $206,000 city margin and a $117,000 amendment loomed amid sewer and park needs.
Chief of Police James L Beavers leaped in front of a runaway horse on Prevator Street to save pedestrians from injury. The horse had already struck a telephone pole, veered, and crashed into a drug store window before Beavers halted it with a firm grip on the bridle.
Washington January 2 4 Chairman Underwood of the house ways and means committee asserted there is no plan to cut duty rates so low as to harm U S business. He disputed Republican insinuations that the Democratic majority aims to disturb prosperity and noted support for maintaining competitive classifications in flax hemp and jute schedules. The committee heard testimony from manufacturers and importers on lace embroideries and related items. it noted the schedule remains highly profitable delivering over 412 million in revenue with duties above 45 percent ad valorem. Some items could be reduced to spur competition and revenue. The Manila hemp export tax was criticized as a relic of colonial policy and the refund benefits to importers were said to aid American consumers. Underwood called the tax bad law and an export act contrary to constitutional spirit.
Frederick Holmes president of Frederick Disinfectant Co died at 74 after a fall into an open shaft while searching for a ladder in the shipping room at 270 West North Avenue. He lived in Atlanta thirteen years and will be buried in Marshallville, Ga, with condolences pouring in from Marshallville and Carbondale, Ga.
Atlanta Law School seniors enjoyed their annual mid year banquet at Durands cafe. Robert W Lindsay led the banquet committee with Ciamsel George G Osborne and C M Willson. Basil Stockbridge acted as toast master. Speakers included W Cheney of the era, Lieutenant Kur Gallogly USA, D B Poster, James J Slaton Sawyer, and J B Hanson with humorous anecdotes.
Washington January 24 Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor asked the house judiciary committee to postpone action on the workmen compensation bill until opposing brotherhoods employees could be heard. The committee took no action.
A promotional note touts poultry and dog shows and a New Modern English Illustrated Dictionary. It claims the compact, portable volume provides literature and facts with colored illustrations of fowls and canines. It promises six certificates from consecutive issues and urges immediate purchase via mail order.
Harry J. Smith aged 18 was convicted in the criminal division of the superior court yesterday of highway robbery. The jury recommended misdemeanor treatment while Judge L Roan delayed sentence to consider the option. Smith, a Birmingham, Alabama native, has been held in jail since the December crime near Luckie Street. He allegedly knocked out L A Doyle a bookkeeper at Third National Bank and robbed him of a watch chain and scarf pin worth 75.
Allies wait for a Turkish reply on Adrianople and the Aegean. if unsatisfactory, an ultimatum may be presented. Rechad Pasha and Selih Bey face a difficult position. Nizami Pasha, a Young Turk, serves as ambassador to Germany and hopes Germany aids Turkey. Mahmoud Shefket Pasha leads a pro German ministry with Enver Bey als military chief prospect. Von Jagow backs Turkey and pressured Italy to relinquish Libye.
Nazim Pasha, commander of the Turkish army, died after admonishing a crowd during a clash at the grand vizierate in Constantinople. Enver Bey led the demonstrators, a Mejid Pasha aide fired, and Nazim Pasha fell as he urged restraint. A secret police agent and Sheik Al Islam’s aide were also killed. Union leaders said the death was unpremeditated yet unavoidable.
Three masked men robbed the State bank at Mounds Oklahoma today. They locked cashier C T Brown in the vault and escaped with 3500 dollars in currency. No other staff were present. After two hours Brown was released and authorities alerted.
Mrs M M Johnson of Athens Ga died the day before and was buried today at Watkinsville. She was 63, mother of L M Johnson editor of The Oconee Enterprise and A B Johnson of local business. She leaves several other children and grandchildren and was over fifty years a member of the Watimgavilia Methodist Church.
At the Atlanta University of Georgia alumni gathering Judge Marcus W Beck was elected president. About 75 members attended at the University club. Funds were pledged for a new dormitory dining hall and a law building, with plans for a February Thalians anniversary and a March glee club concert tour to Gainesville Cartersville Columbus and other cities.
The funeral for Mrs Augusta Lamar Bacon Curry will be held Saturday at noon from Christ Episcopal Church. Rev John Bunting will officiate. Interment will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs Curry is daughter of United Senator A O Bacon.
Abbeville Georgia January 24 Special. P B Oliver was killed by a premature dynamite blast while inspecting a stump on his plantation near Abbeville. The blast threw him several feet, tearing up the stump and catching him under the chin. Oliver was a leading planter merchant, president of the Bank of Abbeville, and a Methodist church steward. He left a wife and seven children and three brothers W C Oliver Abbeville H C Oliver Statesboro and Jack Oliver Virginia.
The grand jury did not indict J C Watters as N A Sanford chief of detectives pressed a perjury charge at yesterday's session. Watters had been arrested on a gambling charge and was alleged to have lied in bail trover proceedings to recover about 1500 dollars worth of jewelry. Sanford claimed Watters knew the valuables had been turned over to the court of justice Harr, before Andy Nolan had a possessory warrant.
Ruby Bell Hollis a 15 year old girl sues the Georgia Railway and Power company for 1000 dollars claiming a December 17 1912 incident where the car started suddenly threw her from the back platform injuring her back left side a finger and causing eight days of lost work. Her mother G B Hollis acts as next friend and attorney W T Moyers filed the suit.
Ty B Smith of Harris county was buried Tuesday afternoon in Sardis cemetery. He belonged to the Primitive Baptist church and left a wife and five children: Rev J T Smith of Riverview, H Sen Smith, Mrs Sallie Weldon of West Point, Mrs J T Sanda, and Mrs G B Avary.
In a domestic disturbance at a granite dresser, Miller was badly beaten and required stitches while his wife wept and concealed a weapon used by the health inspector. Plainclothes officers intervened, separating the combatants as no weapon was found on the wife and charges were not docketed against Carroll Miller.
The body of Colonel A G Sharp a longtime Southern Bell officer died Thursday night at his home in Atlanta. He was a Union veteran and his body left for Washington yesterday aboard the Southern railway for burial Sunday in the national cemetery. An escort from Atlanta included Captain George M Button chief post office inspector for the Atlanta territory and Postmaster McKee of Atlanta.
Montpelier Vermont January 3 election law signed by the governor substitutes electrocution for hanging as the official form of capital punishment in Vermont. The action marks a shift in the state’s method of execution and reflects a broader change in penal policy endorsed by state leadership.
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