Council to Aid in Charter Revision
The council agrees to assist in revising the city charter and invites further cooperation. A committee approves the request and signals readiness to collaborate on the revision process.
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1902
Page
1
The council agrees to assist in revising the city charter and invites further cooperation. A committee approves the request and signals readiness to collaborate on the revision process.
The meeting resolves to add all city aldermen to the general charter committee, signaling cooperation between the Council and the charter panel. Debate centers on speed versus careful consideration as the Mayor and general council weigh adopting the resolution to expand the committee for a stronger presentation to the legislature.
The Illinois Democratic convention nominated a full ticket including Clerk of the Supreme Court John L Pickering and State Treasurer George W Duddleston with J P Hopkins reelected state central committee chairman after a rancorous clash with Carter H Harrison. Hopkins won the general committee chair by a small margin as Harrison’s faction failed to sway the floor amid heated exchanges and competing reports. Stringer delivered a keynote denouncing trusts and tariffs, urging reform and party purity.
The American cabinet discussed protecting interests in Venezuela and ordered the Cincinnati and Topeka to La Guayra with discretion to head elsewhere. Reports say Ma los advances on Caracas with about 7,000 troops, and a French and German cruiser warned Venezuelan gun boats to limit bombardment, pausing further fire.
Charles Francis Adams spoke at the University of Chicago on the propriety of a Robert E. Lee statue in Washington. He framed Lee as the loftiest Confederate ideal and argued the monument would symbolize loyal acceptance of defeat and the constitutional rebuilding of a people, linking it to Arlington across the Potomac. A later dispatch reports the sudden death of Rev. Eugene Hoffman, dean of the general theological seminary.
Elbow propped gun case ends in murder as E. w. Johnson, 14 year Cuban Rough Rider and vice president of Classen Real Estate, is shot by W. T. McMichael during a land claim dispute over 180 acres in an Oklahoma City addition. Johnson fires back, wounding McMichael. Brown fires in defense but misses. A crowd contemplates lynching McMichael until found wounded. both men are jailed. The disputed land, valued at $60,000, has involved long litigation.
London June 1 to show his disapproval of the attack on his aunt Lady Burne Jones's Rottingdean home Mr Rudyard Kipling has shut up the drill hall he had given to the public His action drew intense feeling The attack occurred June 2 and targeted his pro Boer aunt displayed a black banner reading You Have Killed You Have Conquered.
Governor Candler plans to call the special depot committee within ten days to review the Southern Railway's Atlanta depot proposal. Samuel Spencer sent a reply letter seeking more details, not a rejection or acceptance, and no decision will be final until the committee meets likely Thursday or Friday. The issue remains unresolved but expected to be settled soon.
G H Denny assumed the presidency at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia on June 1 before a large gathering. Notables including Ira Remsen A F West Francis Venable R McTwain and Col William F Peters attended. Denny was sworn in and delivered a strong inaugural address. Ernest B Reutzschnitt delivered the annual address in Lee Memorial chapel.
London reports King Edward will grant a pardon to Mrs Florence Maybrick during coronation week. Mobile relatives have been cable notified. if released she may sail to the United States on the fast steamer. The case has long drawn public attention and support from Maybrick's American friends.
Washington June 17 Special The Republicans in the senate plan a caucus to arrange a decent burial for their dead Cuban bill The administration leaders concede they will drop Cuban reciprocity and thirty four of fifty four Republican senators will yield to insurgent demands not to pass the relief legislation this session The Spooner reciprocity substitute from the house will be proposed The bill will be shelved The beet sugar men now number at
An early summary notes increasing cloudiness on Wednesday and Thursday with probable showers and cooler conditions in the north. Southeast winds along the coast, with a high around 30 and lower temperatures, plus past two hours of no precipitation reported. Details mix forecasts, civic actions, and regional updates from Georgia and beyond.
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