Local News and Events Roundup in Georgia and South
Local and Georgia news items cover theft case against Samuel McClurkan, arrests of Albert Weinfeld and B. Stephens for stolen tickets, and injuries to George Buice from an attack in Atlanta. City politics note J A Hynds joining Lowry Arnold's solicitor ticket. State updates on smallpox, theater ordinances, Peters Street viaduct opening, Carnegie library evening hours. Georgia and Southern briefs include Sumter county shooting, Macon burglaries, Savannah chamber resolution on Panama Canal, and cotton sales at Milledgeville farm. Domestic and national items include Panama treaty debate, race topics, and Roosevelt’s post office appointment decision. Sports highlight New Orleans racing and Daytona automobile events. Markets show May wheat weak. cotton in New Orleans firm.
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Samuel McClurkan
Atlanta
Weat Point
Albert Weinfeld
H. B. Stephens
George Buice
Macon
J .A. Hynds
Lowry Arnold
City Criminal Court
C. F. Dodge
Houston
Tex
Jerome
Nark
H F Harris
Peters Street
Carnegie Library
Heorgia
Sumter County
Edward Morgan
Peter
Columbus Gray
Morgan
Columbus
Peter Gray
Land Britt Riley
Neave
Ravennah
Arison
Milledgeville
Senate
Simmons
North Caroing
House
Hardwick
Dem. Ga
Roosevelt
Minnie Cox
Neeress
Indianola
Mise
Dr. Martin
Harry Behr
Louisville
Havig
Miss Schaefer
New Bedford
Behr
Memphis
United States
Mason
Berlin
State Department
Europe
Harwich
Pittsburg
Minnie Cox Fails To Halt Postmaster Nomination
In Indianola Mississippi President Roosevelt seeks a white postmaster by nominating William B Martin amid heated resistance to Minnie Cox the local postmistress who refused a reappointment and faced threats and closure of the office News notes that Cox resignations and the Greenville mail arrangement dominate local concerns while nominations continue in Windsor North Carolina and Clayton Alabama.
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Washington
Indianola
Miss
Minnie Cox
Roosevelt
Senate
W. B. Martin
White House
Dr. Martin
State Senate
William B. Martin
Martin
Post Office
Post Office Department
Greenville
Indianoola
William P. King
Windsor
N. C
Charles Valentine
Clayton
Ala
Snow Covers Atlanta In Early Morning Snowfall
A thin white mantle covered Atlanta at 2 am as light flakes began after midnight. Ground remained frozen and turns to white under electric lights. Forecasters predicted rain and warmer weather, with a Texas storm bringing cloud cover east to Augusta and Memphis.
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Atlanta
Texas
Louisiana
Augusta
Mississippi Valley
Memphis
Russia Japan tensions signal possible early conflict
In St Petersburg and Yoko, officials fret over Russia's delayed reply to Japan's note. The czar's council will meet to discuss terms as newspapers in Russia turn bellicose. Officials insist no political divergence exists among Europe, America, or Russia while delays continue.
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T. Petersburg
Council At State
Japan
Yoko
Russia
Europe
America
St. Petersburg
Foreign Office
Japan presses Korea and Manchuria demands amid war tempo
Reports from Paris and London detail Russia seeking to avoid conflict with Japan while Japan hints at taking initiative if Moscow delays. French and British officials deny mediation blocks and stress cautious prep for possible war, with naval movements near Port Arthur watched as precaution.
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Japan
Russia
Korea
Manchuria
Paris
St. Petersburg
Lamsadorf
M Kurino
Tokio
Lamadorff
Kurlna
France
Pekin
Great Britain
United States
Simultaneous European Move to Emancipate Cotton Trade
Washington reports a Berlin dispatch stating Britain France and Germany seek to sever textile industries from American cotton. European powers plan new supply routes and colonial cultivation in East Africa with German guidance. educated labor from Germany to Texas plantations and Chinese coolie labor may be used. The move could take years but may end cotton’s U S supremacy in the south.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Mason
Berlin
Germany
Great Britain
France
Europe
Mr. Mason
East
Africa
Galveston
Texas
China
Vyalle
Poisoned Promoter Wright Ends His Own Life
Post mortem results show Whitaker Wright died by cyanide poisoning swallowed in a final act before the court. A loaded revolver and undissolved poison tabloids found on Wright’s person and in his stomach, suggesting deliberate self destruction to conceal trials and disclosures.
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London
Whitaker Wright
Wrght
Wright
Home Secretary
Nettley
Surrey
Willis
New York
Wills
Bloham
Sayq
The
Westminster Gazette
Chose convict for his bride Chose convict for his bride
Mrs Lulu Prince Kennedy on trial for killing her husband Philip H Kennedy a Merchants Dispatch agent collapsed in court as her mother testified she had secretly married John Kramer a local lawyer since her murder conviction. The headline notes fainting in court and Georgia visitors in Washington.
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Kansas City
Lulu Prince Kennedy
Philip H Kennedy
Merchants’ Dispatch Transportation Company
John Kramer
Quick Release Given to Carter Harrison
Chicago January 27 Mayor Carter Harrison was discharged from custody by Judge Richard W Tuthill on a habeas corpus writ. The judge ruled Harrison not guilty and freed him without responsibility for the Iroquoia theater fire losses. Harrison blamed neglect by appointees Fire Chief Musham and Building Inspector William I.
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Chicago
Carter Harrison
Richard W Tuthill
Iroquoia
Harrison
Tuthill
Mquals
Musham
William
Chicago ,Ore Department
Dagin
Blizzard causes egg famine in Chicago area
Blizzard across Kansas Missouri Arkansas and other egg producing states tightens grip on supply. Chicago merchants face severe shortages with receipts near vanished. Egg prices collapse from 28 cents wholesale to 3 cents as famine signals loom. The piece hints at further notes about public offices and appointments on the newspaper's second page.
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Chicago
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
United States Seeks Immigration Accord With Mexico
Marcus Brain, bearing credentials from Secretary Cortelyou, arrives in Mexico City to negotiate an agreement regulating European immigration on a common basis. A key feature would allow U S immigration inspectors across the country, aiming to bolster enforcement at the border.
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United States
Mexico
Mexico City
Marcus Brain
Cortelyou
Department of Commerce and Labor
Race Question Debate In House By Georgia Congressman Hardwick
In a maiden speech in the house Congressman Hardwick of Georgia argued on the race problem linking literacy to crime. He contrasted northern and southern loyalty, cited census figures showing about 36 percent of southern voters are Black, and urged equal civil rights based on merit while noting political equality is unattainable. General Grosvenor challenged his assertions about Ohio’s historic amendments.
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Washington
Hardwick
Tenth
House
Grosvenor
Ohio
Congress
Grostenor
Hig State
Grosvenor Sald
Burkett
Nebraska
Cochran
Missouri
Georgia
Appropriations’ Committee
Secretary of War
Messrs Hitchcock
Robinson
Indiana
C. R. Landis
Roosevelt
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Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
J. G. Wilhelm
Monroe
N .C
H. M. Eubanks
Pacolet Milla
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Whitman Wright
New Orleans
New Orisona
Arch Otahai
Stella Allen
Scorpio
Blue Mint
Daytona
Fla
Ascot
Golden Rule
Stom Winder
Wasewit
Ockland
Coody
Minnie
Menzie Cox
Admiralty
Far East
Bourse Gazette
Novoe Vremya
Baron Hayashi
Associated Press
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DIKIE
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Harry Fisher
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