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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1902
Page
12
Charleston exposition authorities win a hearing before the house committees on industrial arts and expositions on an appropriation of 150000 dollars. The hearing is scheduled for next Wednesday in Washington.
The Georgia Democratic convention will be held July 2 to nominate governor. Joseph M. Terrell leads with 196 votes, Estill 86, Guerry 68. Stevens gains 340 for commissioner of agriculture, Nesbitt 10. Merritt 220, Eason higher, Glenn appeals for support to successor.
An old quotation extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, alleging it strengthens weak women and cures long standing female illnesses by promoting regularity and healing inflammation and ulceration, presented as a remedy for women’s ailments.
In many Georgia counties, primaries were held to choose members of the lower house of the general assembly. The state lists seventy eight counties with elected representatives, noting that additional primaries remain in fifty to sixty counties. The article provides a county by county roster including names such as J. A. Cromartin, John W. Aiken, W. D. Mila, P. A. Stovall, J. F. Cann, C. A. Ward, John M. Slaton, and many others, with multiple selections per county. The final full house list awaits completion of county contests within the next two months.
Preparations for the Mystic Shrine nobles gala events are complete in San Francisco. A day and night parade, a grand ball, a banquet with two guests, and several receptions and excursions are planned. The city will be lit and decorated. Eight Mystic Shrine trains have arrived with more on the way from the east.
Delegates from Southern railway shop unions plan to present grievances in Atlanta tomorrow afternoon. Officials from Washington will hear the issues after delegates are chosen. Agreement followed a yearlong strike by machinists.
In Jackson Mississippi on June 7 Hon I N Stamps horse-drawn buggy terrified by a train rammed into a telephone post. Mrs Stamps formerly Miss Mayes Hazlehurst died almost instantly, leaving the husband injured and their young son unharmed. Mrs Stamps was well connected.
P. B Parks, 65, night clerk at Morris Hotel on Marietta Street, was found hanged in a rear hall to a gas jet early yesterday. The coroner ordered an inquest. no relatives in the city were known and little about his private affairs could be learned.
The first trolley over the Atlanta to College Park line left Atlanta shortly after 5 a m yesterday with many riders joining the trip to College Park. Cars ran all day on a fifteen minute headway and the regular schedule starts at 5 10 a m from Peachtree Marietta and Decatur streets, continuing until 12 40 p m. Return trips from Atlanta run at 10 25 40 and 55 minutes after the hour throughout the day.
At 2 p.m. six miles north of Bloomington, a mob of about fifty men broke into Henry Demming’s home and whipped him and his wife in their night clothes. The couple, injured on the face and hands, were told Demming must leave the county for allegedly whipping his son. Mrs Demming is in serious condition. Demming can walk only with effort. He identified two masked assailants.
The president today sent to the senate nominations for postmasters including John M. Sloat for Chase City Virginia and C T Barksdale for Danville Virginia in a June 7 transmission.
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