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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1905
Page
16
A detailed forecast outlines proposed Atlanta charter amendments. Key items include creating a chartered park board body and establishing rules for police service and good behavior, with aims to speed passage and meet April discussions.
The Treutlen county delegation led by Colonel I T Orayes will depart Monday to Atlanta. They will pursue tasks to secure the new county’s Japanese involvement. Reports from Port Arthur indicate the Bayan cruiser did not successfully float.
Theaters July brings Billy Clifford back to the Ponce de Leon Casino with A High Born Lady a vaudeville musical comedy. The popular star leads a strong company with Lilian Goldsmith Pinerd and Walters Blanch Leslie and others in a week of performances starting Monday with daily shows and matinees.
Short obituary notes reflect Atlanta area deaths and services including Captain W M Buich Bules a Confederate veteran, age 68, of 140 Decatur Street. Funeral rites set for 10:30 am at HM Patterson chapel with interment in Buford, Ga, along with other memorial notices for local figures.
John Pratt, believed inventor of the typewriter, died yesterday at Judge Snodgrass's home in Chattansegi Tennessee. Born 1831 in Unionville, he devised a typewriter in 1864 in London and exhibited it three years later. He spent much of his life in typewriter invention and patent sales to major firms.
Formal orders issue Rear Admiral Brownson the retiring Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis to command the Fourth Division of the Navy Atlantic Fleet. The flagship vessel is to be the ship of battle and based near Virginia.
Commissioner Johnson defends police credit rule amid uproar over names in the press. He says he sanctioned an existing rule misrecorded by Patterson and criticizes Dr Fox for a misrepresented interview while Chief Jennings notes a twinkle in his eye.
Captain John M Cobb, 72, Confederate veteran and former justice of the peace from Carroll County, Georgia, lies near death at his home after long injuries from Civil War battles including Vicksburg and Chickamauga. He has three sons and three daughters, a devoted wife, and years of paralyzed injuries and brain trauma. A Navy report from Washington dated June 24 discusses turbine engines for torpedo boats and other vessels, noting ongoing trials and anticipated deployment in various ships.
Florence Alabama June 24 Special Rel ative to the press dispatches and circular letters recently sent from the department of commerce Brister Ashcraft of this city secretary of the committee for the extension of the cotton markets of the Southern Cotton Restoration and chairman of a similar committee of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association has expressed himself as much gratified that a few special agents are to be sent to the Orient soon This he says is a distinct recognition of the request made by his committee and in another victory for the Southern Cotton Association The two committees upon which he serves have been very active in pressing this matter on the administration and they have interested the manufacturers and many others in the movement This is the first time said Mr Ashcraft that the former of the south have asked the attention of the government to their interests and they feel that they have a right as the great productive element of the country to expect the government to respond to this request it is no longer a question of production but of proper distribution of all that can be produced The president is carrying out his promise that he would do all within power with the present small appropriation at his command This will in my opinion largely increase and a full commission sent to all the markets of the world when congress convenes.
A plasterer from Boston J A Ryan was struck and fatally injured by a train near mile post five miles south of Tifton on the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway on June 24. His traveling companion last saw him in Daytona after leaving Dryton Thursday night and plans to ship his remains to Washington DC. The crash left Ryan’s body severely mutilated and his home reportedly in Boston Mass.
George Norton of Louisville compiled detailed lists of Confederate dead buried at Cave Hill Cemetery. He sent names to multiple papers with requests to publish the state known graves and unknowns, hoping readers might locate burial sites or relatives. The letter from Norton and the long roster from Georgia and other states accompany the plea for publication.
Two boys from Taunt Ga aged 12 and 15 were picked up by Valdosta police this week and returned home. Clarence Datis and Arthur Strickiaad accompanied by a 14 year old son of Mr Manor were also involved. The conductor turned the youths over to authorities when the train reached the city after a report of a fifty dollar bill in the possession of one boy raised suspicion.
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