Mid Atlantic brief highlights and incidents
A fourteenth page item notes a derailment with two dead and several injured. A new Charleston Baltimore steamer line aims to cut New York transit by four days. Mrs Jefferson Davis lifts arch objections to a Virginia city project. Clemson professor Hartger resigns amid vindication. Carey Lumber loss near Cary NC totals 75000 with 15000 insured. Memphis Mrs Foster jailed for failing to return borrowed jewelry. Washington Lees endowment check for economics chair arrives. A Black man named Guann lynched in Wise County Virginia after alleged assault on a one year old girl.
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Richmond
New York
Mra
Jefferson Davis
Virginia City
Confederacy
Hartger
Clemson
Carey Lumber Company
Carey
N. C
Dukes
Durham
Madison Foster
Memphis
Washington and Lees University
Guann
Wise County
Virginia
Georgia political and academic events summarized
In June many Georgia events unfold from commencements at Mercer University in Macon and Milledgeville to North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega. Key figures include Gov. Jennings of Florida, Gov. Candler and ex governors visiting Mercer and Emory, and T. W. Hardwick’s victory in the tenth district. Hail damages crops in Hancock and Sumter, while packing house prices face scrutiny and indictments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatham Grand Jury
Georgia
Mercer University
Macon
Georgia Normal and Industrial Institute
Milledgeville
John M. Egan
Ocean Steamship Company
J.F Hanson
Hancock County
Jefferson Davis
General Lafayette
Laws
General Francis
Bartow
Savannah
State House
Jennings
Florida
Mercer College
Candler
Northen
Govenor McDaniel
Joe Terrell
W. B. Merritt
C. B. Stevens
Thomas Eason
T. W. Hardwick
W.H. Fieming
North Georgia Agricultural College
Dahlonena
Sumter
Lucy Cobb Institute
Athens
J. P. Williams
Emory College Board of Trustees
Clement A. Evans
Consolidated
Guerry
Gayvernor
Famous tire patent case decided for Consolidated Rubber
In Atlanta on June 3 Judge Newman ruled in favor of Consolidated Rubber Tire Company in a landmark patent dispute. Other items note city budget actions, library funding, a $1 400 gift to the Georgia School of Technology, and various local political and civic developments through June 7 including school graduations and municipal reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newman
Famous
Rubber Tire
United States
Consolidated Rubber Tire Company
Carnegie Ubrary
H. M Atkinson
Georgia School of Technology
Charley Jones
Minnie Fontaine Stotes
Brod- Beth
Jefferson Davis
Mils
General Miles
Davis
Fulton County
Terrell
L. F Livingston
C. I. Branan
Congress
Della Martin
Girls’ High
Joseph Trotzier
Ashby Street
End. Condition critical. Motive of crime, robbery.
Mayor Mims blames the police for un iledn streets. Says they do not enforce awe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mims
Speed Test Tragedy At Grant City Auto Meet
A new electric motor car owned by W C Baker of Cleveland ran into spectators during a speed test near Grant City Staten Island May Street. One person died and several injured while Baker and chauffeur A Denzer escaped harm. They were arrested for homicide and released on bail. Coroner's jury ruled accidental death. The vehicle featured an enclosed canoe like body and a single peep hole for the driver. Baker claimed excessive speed made steering unmanageable after a wheel collapsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Automobile Club of America
Grant City
Staten Island
May St
W .C. Baker
Baker Motor Vehicle Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Baker
A. Denzer
Humbert
Paris
Tililiotakre
Bank of France
Notable Early 20th Century Figures Die in New York and Oregon
James B. Lord, 43, architect of New York appellate court and city’s first public building, died at home in New York. John H. Barrows, 55, Oberlin College president, died of pneumonia on June 3 in Oberlin, Ohio, after leading Chicago’s First Presbyterian church during the Columbian Exposition era. Sylvester Pennoyer, former Oregon governor, died in Portland, Oregon.
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James B. Lord
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Editor-in-Chiev
Atlanta
South
God
Clark Howell
Judge Jones
Alabama
St. Luke Church
Atelanta
Charleston
Baltimore
Model
Danielsville
James D. Hough
Pope Barrow
Wichomas B. Reed
Esc Arts
First Baptist Church
Savannah, Go
Mr. Latta
The
Second Baptist Church
Montgomery Advertiser
J. B. Gaston
the Constitution
Atlanta, GA
Hiseas
Seine
United States Circuit Court
Tennessee
United States Supreme Court
Colorado Supreme Court
Oneida County
ST Louis
St. Louis
Peter Lynch
Whitehall St
Mitchellse
Pat
Baminets
DR. Long CO
Amtaxes
Aod
Ise
Hellee Fe
L N. Brunswig & Co
New Orleans
Mareen Ee
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