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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1902
Page
3
Snow and Trani are delayed by MLALURI IS Ch TAL a OT MIST, a noted disruption affecting their schedule and performance. The incident prompts event coordinators to reassess timing and logistics for upcoming appearances.
Reports from Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska Michigan and Texas describe extreme cold ranging to ten to twenty degrees below zero with heavy snow. Cattle losses are uncertain but some districts report stock sheltering while Kimball Banner and western counties note deaths. Rail traffic slows, gusts ease, and temperatures drop further across states.
Stenographer Lulu Ortman was detained by police in Fort Wayne after attempting to shoot Chick Stahl, angry at a breakup. Stahl reported being threatened. Ortman said she aimed to kill him on sight but provided no credible plan. The incident followed a personal grievance and drew police intervention.
A Treasury Bureau of Statistics monograph, The Progress of the United States in the Material Industries, presents tables on cotton, wool, wheat, corn, copper, iron, petroleum, coal, and gold growth from 1800 to 1901. It also covers exports, imports, wealth, circulation, deposits, and banking, with per capita figures and debt trends.
In five Chicago meetings the city’s Polish community of about two hundred thousand denounced Prussian oppression in Polish provinces. Speakers cited arrests of children punished for praying in Polish, flogging by German teachers, and broader measures aimed at erasing Polish language. Resolutions protesting Prussia were adopted and to be sent to the Prussian government.
The Federation of Catholic Societies, meeting in Columbus on January 24, chose Cincinnati for permanent headquarters with secretary Anthony Matre in charge. An assistant may be hired and a per capita tax was authorized to fund fittings, maintenance, and federation work. About 300,000 members are estimated. the constitution copies were ordered printed.
In Parkersburg West Virginia on January 6 Thomas Tucker a Black man attacked Mary Beatt a white woman in front of a church cutting her with a knife. He fled home told his mother and attempted to shoot himself twice missing both times. He was arrested and is said to be mentally ill. He later cut his own throat with the same knife and is believed to be at risk.
January 26 to August Stagge died from a wheel spoke strike by Michael Rieger, a saloon keeper, after Stagge sought an apology for alleged insult to his daughter. Rieger arrested on murder count as events cross into later unrest with Arabs in Algiers.
Governor Taft outlined U S policy in the Philippines saying the government conceals nothing and that strict measures against insurrection may be needed. He dismissed concentration camps as misunderstood and noted no such camps exist, only possible insurgent cordons. He praised education and local schools while predicting gradual voter reforms and trusted former rebels as citizens. He avoided discussing Aguinaldo’s fate.
A Huntington, Oregon report says G F Locke, son of 3 Locke a stock man and broker, froze while walking to his father’s ranch during a blizzard near Bast Lake Utah. He started the 12 mile trek last Friday evening, collapsed in the snow on reaching the summit, and was found face down by a search party today.
Vancouver reports two Indians arrested for the murder of a Japanese in Metlaketta during a tribal war between Indiana villages. Prisoners say they blamed the Japanese man living with him for practicing sorcery linked to the deaths of several tribe members.
Paris January 2 A press rep saw Miss Sybil Sanderson confirming that her engagement to Count Henri de Fitzjames had been broken off. She offered no reasons, stating that any published explanation would be unjust to both parties. The Count likewise refused to be seen.
Athens reports the St Paul monastery on Mount Athos burned last Thursday night. The prior and nine monks died, twenty others injured. The monastery was damaged to £80,000, occupants sleeping when the fire broke out. London dispatch via Vienna. In New Albany, Indiana, January 26 Andrew Wilson was killed by a Southern Railway train after a fight with Sam Shutters who stabbed him. Shutters fled into his house. Wilson's body was found along the tracks by morning.
Mexico City reports active retail trade with the best week of the year as wholesalers ship goods to the west coast and northern Mexican cities from San Francisco and Denver to southern ports. Native print cloths outsell European, American investors eye tropical lands for plantations, tobacco demand rises, and German firms dominate hardware while US leads machinery.
A government launch named the General Campa carrying important dispatches was sighted near Rio Grande off Agua Dulce coast southwest of Panama. The revolutionary Padilla fired two shots, forcing the General Campa to return toward port as tensions rose between Panama and rebel forces.
Berlin reports express irritation over claims Britain sought to shift blame to Germany regarding policies toward the United States before the Spanish-American War. The Deutsch Zeitung notes motives behind Henry Norman’s January 20 interpellation in Parliament and warns of potential U.S. reactions ahead of Prince Henry’s visit.
Felipe Buencamino, a director of the federal party, aims to inaugurate an exhibition of commerce in Manila next December with displays from the United States, China, Japan, Siam, and Borneo. Manila merchants fear a delay to next year unless strong support materializes, while the United States Philippine Commission may assist. Colonel Charles W Miner reports unrest on Negros with 40 to 60 bolo wielding men and forty armed with rifles under bandit Papaisio causing terror.
Chinese officials recovered wealth valued at over 100 million taels of gold and silver stash tucked in the palace women’s quarters as the court fled Pekin. The government grants 5 million taels annually to Yuan Shikai for an army of 100,000 in Chi Li, with Yuan given control of the army and navy and plans to hire Japanese instructors for the army and British instructors for the navy.
London January 24 The theatrical leaders were guests of the C B Club at a lively annual dinner led by Joan Hare who praised the American invasion as giving new life to Britain and its stage. He welcomed the quick brilliant number of American actors and actresses who returned to rejuvenate the British scene.
London markets report active week with large local loan oversubscription and easy money. American securities quiet awaiting Northern Securities case. rails paused on dividend news. Berlin boerse strong in government bonds, iron and coal shares volatile. two percent loans dominate trading as money remains very easy and foreign exchange drifts higher.
Lord Kitchener reports the capture of General Viljoen near Lyndenburg in the Transvaal and the seizure of small Boer parties. Colonel Wilson captured twenty Boers near Frankfort. A dawn attempt to regroup the captives led to a hot fight with heavy losses on both sides and only three prisoners recaptured.
In Thompson Montana a search for H A Goodchild a leading miller from Butte continues after he disappeared last Tuesday while hunting during a severe blizzard. Ten men are involved but no trace has turned up amid the storm and deep snow.
The committee announces President Roosevelt will attend the 150th anniversary celebration of George Washington’s initiation into the Masons. The event is set for November 4 at the Masonic Temple Philadelphia. Washington was initiated in Fredericksburg, Va on November 4, 1752.
General Hobart Harrigan C. Hobart, last Wisconsin constitutional convention survivor and early planner of the Libby Prison tunnel, died at the Soldiers Home hospital. Born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843 and moved to Wisconsin in 1846 where he served in the legislature.
London reports that Mr. Kruger has received invitations from Chicago New York and Philadelphia to visit those cities. The American tour is planned to begin next April according to a Brussels correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.
William G Nevin energy manager for the Santa Fe lines died suddenly at his home in Los Angeles of heart paralysis aged 47. He awoke and seemed about to rise when he collapsed. Mrs Nevin and their son tried to revive him before a physician arrived. He had earlier suffered creeping paralysis and had taken a six month leave of absence.
A Baltimore man laments spending 9250000 over twelve years on his law practice yet now being worth under 1000 as his wife remodels their home repeatedly. He cites lavish bathroom additions, closets, a rebuilt conservatory, and ever-changing windows driven by her idiosyncrasies. He wonders how long his wealth will last. The piece ends noting Editor’s remarks and a local call to enforce vagrant laws in Milledgeville.
In Tuscaloosa Alabama Arthur Ozment set a kitchen alarm then heard a rear gallery intruder seize him with a hatchet. Ozment freed himself, grabbed a gun, shot the assailant in the head as a 16 year old negro fled, and the wounded youth was treated by Dr. Hargrove.
Florida experts report incubator hatching outperforms natural incubation for ostriches, with eggs hatching in about forty two days. Farmers in Florida raise four broods yearly, selling ostrich feathers and meat valued high, while eggs cost about twenty dollars and plucking yields range from thirty six to fifty dollars per bird.
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