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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1901
Page
2
For further information address W. R. FAGAN, Traveling Passenger Agent, Woc. 10 North Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga.
Twenty thousand Epworth Leaguers arrived in Salt Lake City for their annual convention near San Francisco. Visitors attended divine services and toured points of interest, with two grand organ recitals at the Mormon Tabernacle and a crowded mass meeting at Salt Lake Theater at 6:30 pm.
Pickpockets raid Epworth Leaguers in Colorado Springs causing about twenty travelers to be stranded in Glenwood Springs. Victims, including Dr. J H Wilson and Mrs Harrington, lose all money and railroad tickets. trunks and baggage checks are stolen. Railroads may need to issue return tickets or seek county aid. Joseph Hi Hooper arranges passes for continued travel to Ogden.
July 14 New York dispatch reports the Central Passenger Association covering lines west of Buffalo and Pittsburg to the Mississippi and Ohio rivers has agreed to concur with rates from the Southwestern Passenger Bureau territory at Merchants' Association urging. The Southwestern bureau will open its July meeting at Glenwood Springs to discuss final rates.
Dense fog tied up New York harbor July 4 hindering iron steamboats bound for Coney Island. Rumors of two excursion boats sinking circulated but were debunked. the small Julia boat grounded at Canarsie Bay and was refloated in two hours with no injuries.
W D Gleason a prominent Brooklyn real estate broker and Baptist temple trustee died at his residence after more than twenty four hours of agony presumed to be hydrophobia The illness showed up Saturday and the death followed today adding to Gleason's standing in the city as a leading figure in business and religion
Trains bring moderate crowds for registration in El Reno Oklahoma with about 10 000 people present. The day remains hot near 100 degrees but orderly and comfortable. Indications point to rain during the night.
A music teacher identified as Mrs Foldas, living in Probile, Ala, was found asleep on a Atlanta sidewalk and confesses spells causing trance like states lasting days. Police suspect morphine use but she insists no opiates, claiming visions may be prophetic. She will be held under surveillance before possible transfer.
Official notices announce the National Socialist Unity convention to be held in Indianapolis on July 29. It will include delegates from all branches and locals of the socialist democratic party with HQs at Chicago and Springfield, Mass, plus sections of the socialist labor party and independent state socialist party affiliates.
President Errazuriz died Friday and his body arrived in Santiago by train. An estimated 100000 people joined the solemn procession and public ceremonies in the capital. The body lay in the chamber of deputies until Tuesday when interment is planned as theaters closed and a nationwide mourning period ensues.
A string of fires in San Francisco yesterday and last night targeted stables. The San Mateo Dairy stable burned with twelve horses dying, the National Transfer Company stable housed fifty horses with eight fatalities, while a third blaze on Ellis Street saw horses rescued with difficulty. Incendiary action is suspected.
In San Francisco on July 14 the annual shooting festival of German societies opened at Shell Mouna park with President F A Kuhlg firing three symbolic shots for country and heritage. A 2000-strong parade of shooting clubs and German associations traveled the city to ferries for the bay crossing to the park. Execution news reports a rebel named Marais hanged publicly for treason in Cape Colony this week.
Zanesville Ohio reports near total blackout as June beetles swarm, clog electric globes and light fixtures. Hotels close offices due to insect swarms, church services disrupted, and bridges obstructed by crowds. Air thick with live beetles and floors littered with dead insects.
The council will consider a plan by the Transit Company to lay double tracks from Oak and Holderness to Peters and Forsyth, Trinity to Whitehall, then via Atlanta Railway lines to Mitchell Street by condemnation. A peak change orders and Grady resolution aim to move franchise and street railway reports to the end of sessions to avoid delaying routine business. The meeting is expected to extend into the afternoon with additional items on the agenda.
Funeral services for Fred T. Stewart who died Saturday afternoon of consumption will be held this morning at 9 o'clock from the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Interment will follow at Oakland. Pallbearers Oscar West H S Cheney Eugene Allen L Donnelly James Kelley and Rogers Nesbit will meet at Patterson's undertaking at 8 o'clock. Stewart, in his twenty first year, died at his mother's home 474 Gordon street West End. He leaves a wife and one child with his mother and three sisters surviving. Stewart was a well known young man in Atlanta.
J R Herren, a white carpenter, while drunk and being placed in a wagon, drew an open knife on Wagon Officer McCarley. The officer used his billy to subdue Herren after a brief struggle, and relatives protested the police action the next day.
David B Hendrick general agent of the Central Eastern department of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York died in Washington aged forty eight He was born in Tennessee and in 1898 served as president of the National Life Underwriters Association The obituary notes his prominence in insurance circles and references his intellect and career.
The notice invites offers on multiple properties in Atlanta neighborhoods. It highlights a corner Connallys and Clarke streets lot near a depot, a Gilmer street frontage near Piedmont avenue, a large Reynoldstown lot on Flat Shoals road beyond city limits at about half value, and a Washington street lot between Bass and Love streets.
Summary of forecast for July 14 and 15 across multiple states. Georgia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Eastern Texas Western Texas Tennessee Kentucky showers or partly cloudy conditions. Monday remains warm with variable or southeast winds. Tuesday turns warmer or drier in many regions.
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