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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1902
Page
7
Birmingham trades council calls mass meeting for next Sunday to decide if the council will participate in city county and state campaigns as an organization and to discuss nominating a ticket for mayor and aldermen. Discussion includes whether workers should engage in the August Democratic primary. politicians eye the council's potentially decisive vote.
11000 striking miners resume operations in Birmingham as furnaces banked for weeks begin to restock coal. full district revival expected by August 1 though furnaces need 7 to 10 days to restart.
In Birmingham on July 14 a special conference of democratic opponents of the current state administration is to meet. It is believed a policy will be declared an address to voters issued and former Governor Joseph F. Johnston will be announced as a candidate. Johnston declines to say he will run but supporters think no other could secure more votes and he may consent if urged by the conference.
Four negro women fought with razors at a church door near Stockbridge Georgia on July 4. Dollie Miller was killed and Rachael Roberts was seriously wounded. Roberts and the dead woman were rivals for the same man, and Roberts’ two sisters joined the fight.
July 4 Macon Georgia Special report says Hart shot and killed Jim Jones a whisky dealer near a church. Jones attempted to draw a pistol but was restrained then Hart shot him in the breast and back as he fled. Jones died minutes later. Hart escaped. coroner's jury returns a verdict of murder.
Clarence B Patterson, who died at Milledgeville state sanitarium, was brought home to Valdosta and buried in the city cemetery at 10 this morning. He was once a promising local businessman, later afflicted in mind and body, leaving a wife and many relatives.
Macon Ga July 14 Special Mayor Herman Myers of Savzonah and Attorney W W Mackall travel to Macon on plans to buy and merge the Macon Consolidated Street Railroad and Macon Electric Light and Railway with their city’s electric plant. Buyers named John L Williams Sons of Richmond and J W Middendorf Co of Baltimore.
In Richmond a dying doctor 80 and his nurse from New York wed at the Jefferson hotel as he lingered between life and death. Nurse Edith Wyman, who had twice revived him, and Dr. Harry Rodman, once a Maine surgeon, married with Rev. Landon Mason officiating before immediate relatives. They then rushed toward New York as the groom neared collapse en route to Washington.
One hundred seven boiler makers in the Birmingham district walked out over a demand for 35 cents per hour, higher than the 30 cents now paid. The walkout affects the Ensley steel plant, Linn from works, Meens and Fulton iron works, and others in the city.
A drive to organize a cooperative association of hatters, gents’ furnishers and haberdashers in the South is under way with M. Henderson of Nashville heading the effort. The plan calls for stores in major southern cities and a ratifying meeting set for July 25 at the Imperial hotel in Knoxville. New York members will aid by securing buyers to obtain lower prices through bulk purchases.
Miss Jessie Morrison arrived at the state penitentiary in Lansing to begin a twenty five year term for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle of Bildorado. She left her home after midnight and bid farewell to her parents as she was taken to the women's department.
Sir Joseph Ygnating Little former chief justice and deputy governor of Newfoundland died at 67 in St Johns. His death leaves Justice George Emerson as the sole surviving member of the supreme court bench, creating a vacancy and prompting calls to fill two seats. Attorney General Horwood Premier Winter and former Premier Whiteway are discussed as candidates.
Nashville report: Chancery Appeals voids 1900 street railway consolidation. Six taxpayer bills seek to undo the deal and revert rights. If Supreme Court upholds, consolidation fails. bonds and stock valued at 6.5 million may be invalidated and terms with the city required.
Columbus Ga July 14 In city court W H Cody was fined 50 dollars after pleading guilty to carrying concealed pistols. A separate case charging obtaining goods by false representations was compromised. Cody claims mistreatment and a possible civil suit. Cody, a former Central railroad detective, carried a pistol as a special officer. he departs Columbus tomorrow. W K Boileau resigns as lighting chief. Mr Reid head of Minneapolis succeeds him.
Chattanooga Tenn July 4 Among the week ending July 12 reports many new manufacturing ventures across states. Entries include automobile works in Knoxville Tenn dye works in Petersburg Va a 30000 flour mill in Denison Tex and coal and coke firms in Fairmont W Va. Rail shops in Louisville Ky lumber plants Shreveport Navasota Tex and Knoxville Tenn plus numerous mills, gas and electric plants, mines, and machinery firms across the region.
On July 14, special laborers on a church building walked off after a contractor refused a 10 cent daily wage increase. Workers left when denied, told to return Tuesday at current wages or stay away as replacements would be found. Local rains boost crops but hundreds of corn acres are beyond revival. Farmers plant long forage crops. peach and melon shipments continue.
In Athens Georgia during a July storm a bolt struck a tree near Colonel Strickland’s Milledge avenue home. Miss Julia McWhorter, visiting Miss Norma Strickland, was knocked unconscious for about thirty minutes. She recovered quickly with medical help and is now reported all right. The incident follows a prior lightning shock she suffered at her father’s Lexington home a few weeks earlier.
Sixteen homing pigeons released at 6 AM from the union station in Savannah. The birds flew northeast in a united start, then straightened their course. They were shipped to Agent Warren Brown of the Southern Express Co from Harrisburg by H Hetterich, who owns many of the birds. A telegram reported light northwest wind and clear weather with slight fog.
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