Grand Jury Urges Citizens To Unite For Election Reform
Augusta Georgia July 22 Special Judge Cary urged citizens to unite to destroy political evil and endorsed grand jury recommendations. The panel proposed applying general election laws to primaries, closing primary registration four months before voting, prohibiting voter tax payments by candidates, and curbing campaign funds. Clergy judges solicitors mayors editors and party leaders were invited to a court house meeting on July 3 1903 to show support and organize enforcement efforts.
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Augusta
Superior Court
Gary
Grand Jury
Eame
Unita
Summerville
Court House
Keeclock A. m
Tired of life, courted death in two-house tragedy
New York July 22 Gerald Jordan promoter age 42 and wife Laura 20 years younger attempted suicide by laudanum. After a first dose failed to fully take, they drank more at noon. Mrs Jordan relented and called a doctor. both likely to be arraigned tomorrow. Jordan, from the south, lifestyle alleged to be ruinous. Other notes list Atlanta visitors at eastern resorts including Chase, Major W Flaton, Miss Slaten, and several named guests at Fabyan house, Mount Washington, and Ingleside hotels.
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New York
Gerald Jordan
Laura
Jordan
South
Atlanta
Boston
Mass
D Chase
Massacomo
Manchester
W Flaton
Slaten
Twin Mountain House
Tein’ Mountain
Hunter Cooper
Garcia
Ocean Side House
Marblehead Neck
Clifford West
Young's Hotel
Winthrop
Election Managers in Mississippi Urged to Stand Firm at Polls
As the first primary nears, election managers are urged to enforce poll book names only, despite challenges from disqualified voters with dated poll tax receipts. Registration alone not enough. strict adherence to polls aims to prevent post election disputes.
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Mississippi
Jackson Miss
Charter Restored for No 20 Elks After Debate
Baltimore July 22 Special The grand lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks decided to restore the Macon lodge No 20 charter after a full discussion. The Macon delegates argued the violations were technical and unintentional and secured a two thirds majority to regain recognition. The national convention ends with fraternal feasting at Tolchester Beach for 12,000 visitors and a confetti battle in central Baltimore.
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Grand Lodge Benevolent Order of Elks
Maron
Conk
Macon Elks
W. A. Davis
Macon Lodge
Macon
Order
Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
Elks
Cincinnat
Tolchester Beach
Central Park
Greenville
Miss
Cincinnati Lodge
Brooklyn Lodge
Elka Banner
Philadelpals Lodge
Dallas
Tex
Lodge
Bellaire
Ohio
Nne
Cottonpickers
Alliance
Cincinnati
Sergey
Fifi
Inchiefs
Paterson
N.reat Wester Diarte Ae and
Cleveland
Billet Pool to Be Formed by Principal Steel Works
New York July 22 formation of a billet pool to be announced by The Iron Age. Major steel firms including United States Steel Corporation Jones Laughlin Wheeling Cambria Lackawanna and Pennsylvanian Maryland entities form a pool. Base billet price $28 per ton at mill for Bessemer sizes with uniform delivery prices. Carbon ranges 0.02 to 0.40 saw a $1 per ton rise, billets above 0.69 carbon incur $2 extra. Sheet bar and tin plate bar tonnage priced $1 above billets and bicoms.
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New York
The
Iron Ag
Iron Age
United States Steel Corporation
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Wheeling Iron and Steel Company
Cambria Steel Company
Lackawanna Steel Company
Pennsylvanian
Maryland
Steel Rai
Bessemer
Prefers pants to petticoats shocks Mississippi town
In Booneville Mississippi Willie Roy, a woman who passed as a man for eight years, testified in court that she is female after Jim Gatlin was charged with assault. Gatlin was bound over to circuit court on a 23 cent bond. Willie Ray wore trousers and faced no law banning masquerading in male attire, though she was flogged and Gatlin jailed.
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Jackson
Miss
Boonevile
Wille Roy
Jim Gatlin
Villa Ray
Ray
Gatlin
Vie Ray
Cannon Refuses to Rule on Financial Legislation
Oyster Bay article notes James G Cannon, likely future speaker, met with the president and discussed financial and general legislation in a casual, noncommittal way. He indicated no definite decisions on currency measures and stressed his east visit was personal, with potential inquiries into government works and improvements.
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Oyster Bay
New York
James G Cannon
Cannon
House
Cannon la
Lawlessness in Two Mississippi Counties Sparks Record Docket
Special circuits will convene in Williamsburg Covington county this week as crimes surge. The docket grows to a record level with six killings in Covington and eleven awaiting trial in Williamsburg for murder or manslaughter. Smith county reports similar carnage amid whisky bottle and pistol culture. Public demand for harsh penalties rises as trials risk acquittals, highlighting a borderland crime wave across Covington and Smith counties.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Misa
Williamsburg
Covington County
Washington County
Missisippi
Williamsburg Jal
Smith County
Covington
Belknap visits Roosevelt amid Kentucky nominating scene
Morris Belknap of Kentucky, nominated for governor, calls on President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay to relay GOP assurances on his presidential bid and to discuss Kentucky politics. Lunch guests include Senator Platt, Mrs Turner, Ambassador Tower, Speaker-to-be Cannon, and H. C. Frick. Discussion covers elastic currency reform and upcoming congressional session.
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Oyster Bay
I.I
Morris
Belknap
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Nol
Hiss
Platt
New York
George Turner
Spokane
Waah
Yates
Illinois
Charlemagne Tower
United States
Germany
Joseph G Cannon
Ullnois
House of Representatives
H. C Frick
Pittsburg
Turner
Alaskan Boundary Commission
Total
England
Meyer
Berlin
William
Plett
Cannon
Congress
Yatea
Ilinois
Night bell boy dies after fall from window
Otis McMilin, night bell boy at Spartan Inn adjacent to the Southern Express Company in Spartanburg, is found dead in a rear lot with a broken neck. Officials say no foul play is suspected and suggest the man fell asleep in a second story window about fifty five feet high and died in a mysterious dreamlike fall.
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Columbia, FC
Southern Express Company
Spartanburg
Otis McMilin
Spartan Inn
Enictt
Express
McMillin
Heflin to Speak at Reunion in North Alabama
Secretary of State Heflin, famed southern orator, has accepted a call to address the Confederate Veterans reunion August 5 at Sulphur Springs Calhoun county. Represented counties include Cherokee St Clair Calhoun Etowah and Cleburne. He may reply to critics from a Luverne speech on Judge Jones and the Turner peonage case.
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Montgomery
Aia
Tien J T Heflin
South
Sulphur Springs
Cal County
Cherokee
St Clair
Calhoun
Etowah
Cleburn
Nteflin
Hegin
North
Alabama
Hefiln
Say
Summer Resort Travel via Chicago and Northwestern
The Chicago and Northwestern railway offers an excellent train service to summer resorts in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan with special tourist rates now in effect. All lines sell tickets through this route with maps timetables and full information available from N. M. Preese, general agent, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
N. M. Preese
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bath Iron Works and Hyde Windlass to Finish Contracts
In Portland on July 22, Judge Putnam signaled a decree allowing Bath Iron Works and Hyde Windlass Co to complete existing contracts before transfer to the ancillary receiver for U S Shipbuilding Co. The firms hold major orders including the Cleveland cruiser and the Georgia battleship.
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Portland
United States Circuit
Bil
Roland W Conkling
United States Ship Building Company
James Smith, Jr
New Jersey
Maine
Putnam
Bath Iron Works
Hyde Windlass Company
Bath
Bath Company
Cleveland
Georgia
Inter
Tragedy at a Negro Supper in Bee's Ferry
A riot at a Monday night supper near Bee's Ferry left one Black man dead and about six wounded as over a hundred shots were fired. The victim was identified as William Edwards. Authorities reported two arrests by a magistrate in the remote locality, with details still unofficial.
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Charleston
8. C
Bee's Ferry
William Edwards
Ewen Dreamed of Being Killed in Camp Stranger Wakeup
Jackson Ky July 2 The grand jury has indicted Gardner Plummer for perjury and Edward Tharp and Joseph Crawford for burning Ewen's hotel. Officials accused of funding Plummer's offer to Ewen to avoid testifying are under consideration. In the Marcum murder inquiry related murders Cox Cockrill and others are being probed. Mealtime Balliff Newland hunts for Plummer who is missing after laying pipes for the Standard Oil Company. Captain J. B J Ewen caused a stir by yelling in his sleep claiming he dreamed he was being killed.
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Jackson, Ky
Gardner Plummer
Edward Tharp
Joseph Crawford
Ewen's
Plummer
Ewen
Curtis Jett
Thomas White
Marcum
Cox
Cockrill
Ballif Newland
BR J. Ewen
Broughton Preaches to Large Wilmington Congregation
Rev Len G. Broughton of Atlanta preached to a tremendous crowd at First Baptist Church in Wilmington North Carolina on July 2. The Atlanta excursionists visited local sights and enjoyed beach amusements. Seaboard official E Christian attended to party interests as the excursion departs for Atlanta tomorrow night.
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Atlanta
North Carolina
Wilmington
N. C
Len G. Broughton
First Baptist Church
Christian
Seaboard Air Line
Gate City
Pirates Release American Held by River Pirates
Advices from Canton report Lam Ching Wa, a wealthy Honolulu Chinese American, freed after river pirates seized him on June 17 and held him for ransom. Government troops, alerted by the French consul, pursued the pirates who fled, leaving Ching Wa and others as prisoners to be rescued by soldiers. Lim Ching Wa is an American citizen naturalized under the Hawaiian monarchy.
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Francisco
Canton Sey
Lam Ching Wa
Honolulu
Ching Wwe
Lim Ching Wa
Truth, Riddle Testifies in Peonage Case in Montgomery
Montgomery July 22 Special J D H Riddle attorney for R W N Franklin charged with peonage took the stand to deny wrongdoing. He related conversations about a docket and urged Cous to swear truth. Constable F M Pruett testified on arrests and convictions of enslaved individuals sold by Franklin to Pace. Pruett faces seven indictments for peonage.
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H Riddle
WN Franklin
W .A Cous
Pat Till
Cous
Hiddie
Riddle
Tie
Pace
M Pruett
Goodwater
Dadeville
Franklin
Pace Pruett
Joint Debate in Missisippi Governor Race
In Jackson Mississippi a special July 234 gathering was held at Crystal Springs auditorium for a joint debate among three governor candidates Noel, Vardian, and Cruz Han. U S senator candidate H D Money attended and spoke. Governor Longino declined due to prior engagement. Another joint debate is planned for next Wednesday at Neoshoba county fair with the two senatorial candidates expected to clash the following day.
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Jackson
Crystal Springs
Neoshoba County
Ten Deaths From Lockjaw In Cleveland Toy Pistols
Ten deaths have resulted from lockjaw in Cleveland Ohio since July 4 with the latest victim Joseph Blacks who died after a slight wound from handling a toy pistol on July 4 Dr Friedrich head of the health department warns tetanus can develop even after a month and the fatalities may not be complete.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Joseph Blacks
Friedrich
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