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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1904
Page
18
Dr I Q Stafford, aged and leading physician from ess county, residing nine miles in the entry, was shot five times tonight by a party whose name is withheld. The injuries are reported fatal as he lies in the hospital awaiting further word.
Jackson January 23 Special report says the lower house passed the Wells vagrancy bill to push idle blacks from towns to cotton fields. The act is strict and mirrors the Calvin act previously passed in George.
Federal Judge Grosseur denied Chicago authority to regulate gas prices, ruling the city lacked delegated power. The 75 cent gas case stands as a major limit on municipal price control. The decision came from the United States district court and affects the city’s regulatory reach.
Savannah January 25 Special J The coroner s jury found Mrs Elizabeth Dickerson murdered by beating from her husband Ben Dickerson The daughter Addie Dickerson gave damaging testimony describing repeated abuse and a fatal last beating She urged coroner and inquest and accused her father of threats to poison her mother Witnesses included two sons Willie Reed Dickerson and others neighbors and a party goer corroborated the charge
Williams and Middendorf of the Geaboard Adr Line official family disposed of their holdings in the Palmetto Bank and Trust Company of Columbia. They have been selling for months and the latest sale leaves them with half of the bank’s $250 000 stock.
Special report from Macon Georgia recounts a claimed assassination attempt on Mrs Brunson and her husband that local papers declare false. Colonel Brunson says a pebble from neighborhood boys shattered a window by accident, not a deliberate attack. Prisoners from the last Superior Court term were moved to a state penitentiary including Jordan and Phil Herring remains held pending Supreme Court ruling. Also notes a patent medicine ad promising cold cures in Australia.
In Commerce Georgia on January 25 John Sor-tella, 20, accidentally shot his sister, 14, while playing with a shotgun he believed unloaded. The gun discharged hitting her shoulder. she died forty minutes later. authorities fear possible mental distress for Sor-tella.
London January 26 The Daily News reports a rumor of imminent cabinet resignations likely including Lord Lansdowne secretary of state for foreign affairs Lord Londonderry president of the board of education and Gerald Balfour president of the board of trade Also notes three daily trains from Atlanta via Southern railway and Queen and Crescent route to Cincinnati and Chicago with through sleepers to several cities.
At a January Richmond meeting of Episcopal clergy and lay leaders a resolution was adopted to petition the diocesan council to memorialize the general convention requesting the 1907 gathering be held in Richmond. The meeting occurred at St John M Miller Coats 30 Marietta Street.
In Columbus on January 25 special report Lizzie Spellers the negro woman who stole valuables from Albert Shepherd in Wyanton and then set fire to the house was convicted of attempted arson and sentenced to twelve years. She pleaded guilty to larceny and got six months on the chain gang, to be served before penitentiary time. She entered the home while the family was away, took $25, a gold watch, and started a fire to feed the flames. the closet fire did not burn rapidly and smoke forced the family to intervene and save the house.
In Louisville Georgia on January 26 a sale of four hundred bales of cotton occurred. Stone Murphy Co sold to W G S and Rowe Co for pre renting Knop, Frierichs & Co of Savannah Ga. The deal of about 30000 dollars was drawn through First National Bank and is likely the largest cotton check in the region.
News from Lee City Wolfe county reports Matt Sloan shot Tickey Thorp during a card game. Thorp wounded in arm and chest, with poor prognosis. Thorp was a key witness in Curtin Jett’s earlier murder trial.
A frightened horse pulled a mangled buggy down Second street in Macon flipping driver Arthur Browdy and Bertha Wimberly, a four-year-old, onto the sidewalk. The crowd formed a rescue and a collection of 15 dollars was raised for Browdy. Separately, George Bradshaw, a youth, faced federal charges after allegedly robbing several boxes at Macon post offices. he claimed the name Hitch cock and was held on a 300 dollar bond.
An umbrella mender, believed to be Wendel Peterson from Birmingham, was found dying in his covered wagon in Greensboro on January 25. He had pneumonia and carried deposits including 250 dollars in Birmingham bank bills, 20 dollars in a bag, and 5 dollars in his pocketbook. He was a naturalized German citizen. Cliffs Hotel at Waldens Ridge burned in Chattanooga on January 26, injuring the proprietor’s family with about 12,000 dollars loss.
Charles Jones, manager of the Ponce de Leon Commission Company, was found guilty of keeping a gaming house. Judge L B Roan ordered a fine of 500 dollars or twelve months in jail, with sentence suspended pending the supreme court review. The case may be appealed to the high court, and the company vowed to operate if allowed during appeal. Authorities plan to indict for each day of operation.
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