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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
3
Madrid reports Alfones believes Edurado Dato will remain premier but with a new cabinet. After meeting the king at La Granja, Dato returned to Madrid. the king is expected to confer with leaders of monarchist parties including former premier Maura and Count Romanones.
Robert LeSueur of Crawford county was elected speaker pro tem after a three way race. C. E. Stewart of Coffee county received 61 votes to LeSueur's 115. Dan T. Paulk of Ben Hill and W. Morris of Talbot were re elected messenger and doorkeeper respectively. A resolution noted a typhoid outbreak at Milledgeville state farm and reformatory, with a committee to report. Athens invited lawmakers to visit on July 10. A debate over buying water from Glenwood springs, Putnam county, included cost concerns and liquor implications.
The Georgia house debated water tastes and voted to reconsider a water resolution while planning to drink Atlanta water. The Senate elected EFP Dobbs president pro tem and introduced numerous bills including infractions on cotton ginning, an electric chair, and allowing women to practice law. A joint session canvassed last election returns and a visit to Athens was accepted for July 10.
Special Judge Emory Speer of the U S court arrived at St Simon to spend two weeks. He will hold a special session with matters to be taken up including the Yaryan Naval Stores company case and a petition for the resite of plants in Brunswick and Gulfport Mississippi. Augusta lawyers and others will attend. Other important cases will be handled during his stay.
Clinton J Calloway head of Tuskegee Normal and Industries Institute experiment department speaks to forty teachers at the sixth annual Tuskegee Institute Summer school session. He notes Alabama has financed twenty one new negro schoolhouses since 1914 costing 51 190 84 with contributions from the state white citizens Rosenwald funds and local colored communities. Rosenwald pledges support for up to 200 rural schools over five years with contributions not exceeding 350 per building and aims to supplement local efforts across several southern states.
Tort Smith Ark June 24 Knox Heath former chief of the internal revenue district of Tennessee and Alabama with headquarters at Nashville. John L Casper of Kansas City distiller and five other men were indicted by a federal grand jury today in connection with a conspiracy to defraud the government by illegal operation of distilleries. The indicted include Newton C Spradling J B Hartman George Hartman J C Brewbaker and B Thomas local saloon keeper. The conspiracy allegedly involved local revenue stamps on barrels of whisky costing the United States many thousands of dollars.
Mobile Alabama June 24 The New Orleans Mobile and Chicago railroad now in receivership was ordered sold by a federal judge A decree of formal foreclosure was issued and the petition to intervene by L B Berg former agent of the road and a number of bondholders was dismissed Special Master H A Lockwood was named to conduct the case of the railroad within two months to satisfy bonded indebtedness totaling 14 293 800 with interest
Brunswick, Ga June 24 Special enthusiasm grows for a state wide good roads drive with auto runs and meetings. Savannah Jacksonville and Jesup participants converge for plans to improve the Savannah Brunswick Jacksonville highway and align with the Dixie highway. A July 5 rally in Brunswick, July 6 events in Waycross and Jesup push new roads to Macon and central Georgia.
Milledgeville Ga June 24 President MM Parks of Georgia Normal and Industrial college stated he did not wish his name considered for the vacancy as state school superintendent He withdrew from all consideration and cannot afford to be a candidate Parks has served as college president eleven years and led a period of notable progress for the school
New York June 24 General Ignacio L Pesqueira assistant secretary of war for Carranza announced the purchase of two steamships to serve as Mexican troop ships and three others for General Diaz. The steamer Atlanta was bought from Chesapeake Steamship Co and Alameda is in dry dock in Baltimore. Alameda flies the Cuban flag and lies in Cuban waters. Both vessels are being overhauled and fitted with wireless gear and will sail to the Gulf of Mexico when ready. The names of the Diaz vessels were not disclosed.
In Cuthbert Georgia Jane 24 Special Sunday a crowd watched as a man named Will Hall killed opponent Ross Killings over a $150 loss in a woodside game near Wade Cross siding six miles north of town. Hall fled taking the money, a pistol fired, and Ross was shot above the neck. Deputies scoured the area but Hall remained at large.
Dr Homer Axford revealed a new cancer treatment tested with apparent success at Wolverine Hospital in New York. The method, discovered two years ago by Dr Alexander Horovitz of Cornell University, was discussed today by members of the Medical Society of New Jersey in Spring Lake New Jersey.
Experiments indicate a curative extract from vegetables may combat cancerous growths and silbnor mal cale developments. Applied at Poly clinic hospital in curable cases, 205 patients treated with one death. Initial tests focused on cheat cancer, abdominal cancer cases show improvement. months needed to complete investigation, Dr. Axford cautions.
Robert G Patterson of Atlanta, local representative of the Western News Paper Union, sails from New York for Paris on July 12 to visit his cousin Ambassador William Graves Sharp for three months. Patterson, a Columbus native, has lived in Atlanta for several months.
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