Young Negro Charged With Attempted Assault Near Jefferson
January 26 Jefferson Ga Special report describes Fred Cliver a negro about 20 years old arrested by Marshal J J Pettijohn after a masked assault attempt on a young woman and her sister near their home. A revolver found on the suspect matched a mud-imprinted ground mark. The case rests on circumstantial evidence. Oliver faces commitment trial tomorrow amid local tension.
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Fred Cliver
Frierfiy
Oliver
J. J. Pettijohn
Jackson County Court House
Favorable Chattahoochee Deep Water Boost Favored
Columbus reports a government engineer recommends 500000 dollars to deepen the Chattahoochee Apalachicola harbor with a continuous contract. A dredge for Apalachicola Pensacola and Carrabelle is urged. Deep water at Apalachicola would lower freight and save Columbus merchants thousands yearly.
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D. Grady
Apalachicola
Congress
Pensacola
Carrabelle
West Pass
Chattahoochee
Bloody record of car No 17 second death in Savannah
Charles Williams a colored employee of Southern cotton oil mills was killed when car No 17 of the Electric railway ran over him as he rode a bicycle near his home in Savannah. He attempted to pass the car as it slowed for boarding, became wedged beneath it, and both rider and bicycle were dragged under. The incident follows a previous fatal derailment by the same car at Barnard and Gaston streets a year earlier.
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Savannah
Charles Williams
Southern Cotton Oil Mills
Electric Railway Company
Williams
Barnard and
Gaston Streets
Lopez
Hardeeville
S. C
Plant System
Southern Railway
Voters Slow to Register for Macon Bond Election
Macon Georgia January 7 Special.registration for the February 10 city bond election is progressing slowly with only 680 voters registered and three days left. Voters will decide on $1,000,000 in bonds to take up city bonds and repay floating indebtedness. Considerable interest noted despite low registration.
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Macon
Brunswick and Birmingham Win Freight Case Over Plant System
Brunswick Ga January 26 Special attorneys Twitty Atkinson and Dunwody state the railroad commission decided against the Plant system in a freight weight dispute. The Brunswick and Birmingham line gains a water front advantage along Bay Gate with potential sales and traffic implications.
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Birmingham
Brunswick, Ga
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Fair Democrat and Politician Spar in Lexington Column
In Lexington Kentucky a tense legislative clash unfolds as Mrs A M Harrison confronts Rep W F Klatt over a voting rights bill aimed at school board elections. The piece also recalls McCreary’s Senate bid and a boom town revival tale of Grand Rivers with iron works and new growth.
Elopement of a 16 year old girl and railroad official
In Knoxville on January 26 Sper elalj Ben Scott a railroad official and Misa Zola Davis 16 wed in a hasty elopement after she fled her room despite her father Robert Davis forbidding calls. The couple's quick marriage occurred with a minister nearby before the father could intervene. Davis later confessed that he once stole Mrs Scott's mother under similar circumstances twenty years ago this month.
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Sperelalj
Ben Scott
Misa Zola Davis
Glrl
Robert Davis
Mr. Davis
Aged Moonshiner Caught Near Washington Line
Luther G. Smith a white man near 70 was arrested on the charge of moonshine distilling after officers raided a dense canebrake near Elvert. They destroyed two 50-gallon copper stills and several barrels of beer. Smith was found alone but escaped in a bateau. The canebrake was burned. Two others face complicity charges in Brunswick. A negro woman shot by John E. Moore near Brunswick is reported improving with a fair chance of recovery.
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Washington
United States
Elvert
Brunswick
John E. Moore
Monument Dedicated To S M Patton On Court House Grounds
A monument honoring the late S M Patton was formally dedicated on the Chattanooga Court House grounds in Chattanooga Tenn with hundreds in attendance. Designed by Dr G F Patton the Vermont granite monument features a bust of Patton. Attorney W L Friergan delivered the principal address. Patton burned to death in the Richardson fire on April 3 1807 and formerly lived in New Orleans.
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Chattanooga Court House
Anattanooga
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Sreelal
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Vermont
W. L. Friergan
Patton
Richardson
New Orleana
Small chance for new rate on city fire department
Special Agent H M Tanner of the Southeastern Tariff Association plans to report on securing a first class fire insurance rating for Macon Georgia. He investigated claims, noted the city built two engine houses and bought engines, but says the department is no stronger than when the agreement was made. The city insists it met all conditions and the dispute continues.
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Tennessege
Cumberland
Boston
Grand Rivers
Thomas W. Lawson
Grand Rivers Iron Company
Simmons Hardware Company
St. Louis
Macon
Tanner
Southern Mule Market Slump Hits Columbus Dealers
In Columbus Georgia a leading mule dealer says sales this winter are about one third of last season and fertilizer and cotton acreage in Georgia and Alabama will drop 15 to 25 percent. He notes the downturn mirrors the southern region with mule sales markedly reduced compared with last winter.
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South
Georgia
Alabama
Bishop Potter in Georgia Brings New York Divine to Brunswick
In Brunswick Georgia on January 26 Special report states Bishop Potter of New York will conduct morning prayer and possibly preach at St Judes mission church on February 3 under invitation from Rector Bradley. Also noted Wiley Redding remains at large after killing Hardy Lindsey in Gritlin over a 10 cent debt as bloodhounds lose trail.
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Brunswick
Fashop Potter
St. Judes Mission Church
Badhishan
Redding
Gritin
Wiley Redding
Hardy Lindsey
Broodhounds
Gritlin
Rent Day Crusade Against Vagrants in Columbus
Columbus police have ordered a citywide roundup of vagrants with daily case filings. Chief Reynolds issues explicit directives as enforcement rises. Chattahoochee County to construct a new jail. contract awarded to Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis for about $4,000 with materials being arranged in Cusseta.
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Columbus
Reynolds
Chattahoochee
Chattahoochee County
Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company
St. Louis
Cusseta
Three More Loyal Americans
Columbus Georgia January 26 Special Mr and Mrs C C Chambless of Richland Ga celebrate the birth of three boys arriving at their home a day or two ago in a rare family event for local readers.
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Columbus, Ga
C. C. Chambless
Richland, Ga
Fort Valley engages over Miss Nettle Green and Pew Frank Millers wedding
Fort Valley Ga January 5 Special A coming marriage of great interest is that of Miss Nettle Green to Pew William Frank Miller The wedding will be held on Wednesday February 5 at Lenark the country home of the bride’s parents Miss Green is the daughter of Mr and Mrs FE Greer Both uphold social life in Fort Valley as Borlay members
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Nettle Green
Pew
William Frank Milter
Ruay
Lenark
Rteet
Misa Green Ia
Greer
Milles
Borlay
W. F. Miller
Nettie Green
Dispensary feud heats Rome editorials clash
In Rome Georgia a heated dispensary feud grows as W A Knowles of The Tribune and Seaborn Wright of The Southern Times trade sharp accusations. The Tribune mocks Wright’s record while Wright defends his anti liquor campaign against threats and a circulating circular urging funds for the cause.
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The
Southern Times
Roma
Floyd
Seaborn Wright
General Assembly of
Georgia
Denny
Harris
Rome
Knowles
Kay
Muscogee Teachers Reorganize In Columbus Ga
Muscogee county teachers reorganized their association for the year with Professor J A Fuller as president and Miss Georgia Holt as secretary. They plan a county library and have begun assembling a nucleus of books funded by last half 1901 state distributions.
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Muscogee County
J. A. Fuller
Georgia Holt
Professor J G Smith Joins State University Chemistry
Athens Ga January. Professor J G Smith, of Devtur Ga, named to fill vacancy in chemistry department after Dr Hertz designation at the State University Agricultural and Mechanical Arts. Smith graduated 1893 B S with first honors, earned MS in 1896, Fellow in biology 95-96, later taught at several large schools in the state while pursuing chemistry studies. He is respected by students and residents and regarded a strong addition to the university faculty. Anniversarian Contest notes Phi Kappa Literary Society event with entrants Gees 2 Reynolds Gotucke Barrett and Jackson. Georgia's journal promotes the feature contents: Peseing of the Year L P Goodrich, A Storiiite L P Goodrich, The Nernst Lamp Tom King, In a Moat on Geones at Evening Erwin Vonderau, Strange Experience W T &, Dr Crawford W Long A Kelth Lady s Song Ballad Porter W, Whitmant discussion Wilson Hardy.
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H.C. White
Agricultural and Methenic Arts
J. G. Smith
Devtur
Hertz
Smith
Resi
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Jackson
Univers
Isues
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L P Goodrich
Tom King
Geones
Erwin_Vonderau
W. T
Crawford W. Long
Kelth
Wait Whitmant
Wison Hardy
Life Boat Bravely Saves Periled Italian Crew
Norfolk Virginia January 26 Italian bark Virgine Della Guardia ran ashore in mist last evening off Washwoods coast. Beach patrol from Washwoods life saving station made four perilous trips through bitter cold and darkness to rescue thirteen crew members including Captain Salvatore Lubrano. Rescue vessel towed the damaged ship to Norfolk. crew uninjured, vessel leaking slightly.
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Virgine Della Guardia
Merritt Wrecking Company
Washwoods Life Saving Station
Washwooda Station
Mae
Salvatore Lubrano
Merritts
Crawford Succeeds to State Secretary Post After Father's Death
Tallahassee fra January 26 Special John L Crawford secretary of state died late Saturday Governor Jennings named his son H Clay Crawford 46 a former assistant secretary of state for twelve years to fill the vacancy The appointment meets general approval Shepherd Sues Town in North Carolina A Durham week long suit against Durham for 10 damaged injuries from a market house incident and a five wire end injury to James Ly Shepherd
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Fra
John L. Crawford
Fria
Jennings
H. Clay Crawford
Shepherd
Raleigh
N. C
Durham
Jazwea Ly Shepherd
Boy Charged With Murder At Kilby's Mill
In Knoxville Tennessee on January 26 Sheriff Agee moved Silas McNeely a 13 year old half wit from Bridgeport Alabama to Jacksboro jail. He and Marion Wilson 14 are charged with complicity in the murder of Mynett and Woy ger Hatmaker aged 11 and 14. The Hatmaker boys were fishing when the alleged struggle over fish led to their deaths whose bodies were found at Kilby's mill four miles from Jacksboro. Bruises on the bodies indicate foul play.
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Bale
Knoxville
Tenn
Agee
Bridgeport
Ala
Jacksboro
Silas McNeely
Mynett
Woy Ger
Marion Wilson
McNeely
Wilson
Kilby’s Mill
Carnegie Libraries For Mexico Planned By Carnegie
A Mexican monthly special says United States Consul General Philip C. Hanna aims to spend 34,000,000 of Andrew Carnegie's wealth on libraries in Mexico. One fourth would fund Monterey's grand library and 2,000,000 would go to libraries in Chihuahua Durango Tampico Torreon and San Luis Potosi. General Hanna believes Carnegie will back the plan soon, citing the local steel plant and skilled workers as factors.
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United States
Philip C. Hanna
Andrew Carnegie
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Torreon
San Luis Potasi
Wannabee
Hanna
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