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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
7
The shop promotes its enhanced custom tailoring department with new spring orders and July readiness. It promises prompt and careful attention and features a sale now at $2.90 along with specials in underwear night shirts and boys hose.
Bhuefeld West Virginia June 22 Two bodies found in drift near Landingraff as workers clear debris. Decomposition made identification impossible and they were cremated. Rail progress slow due to rain and bridge breaks. Forty miles still unrepaired though trains run between fixed points. Coal companies resume, loading over two hundred cars. Telegraph lines restored to Vivian, floodwaters complicate repairs. Crossings washed near Gray and Tug River detours into Kentucky.
A Pekin dispatch to the Associated Press from June 71st says the Belga minister at Pelin sent a messenger to Sian Kian with instructions to verify a report of the massacre of four Belgian missionaries. Bryan reports from New York and Shott arrives from Montreal.
Washington June 28 a curious discrepancy shows China agreeing to pay about thirty five million taels or $24 590 009 more than the powers demanded. The excess raises questions on what will be done with 25 000 000 taels and how bonds to Japan will be issued. The Chinese minister said total indemnity may be more than China agreed, and the US position on the excess remains undecided. The matter has drawn attention at the state department and with the president.
Wealthy Americans led by J Plemont Morgan William L Higgin P A B Widener and A Griscom board the Hamburg American liner Deutschland at Southampton after a special train from London. The ten millonaires occupy all promenade deck staterooms and have chartered a deck for 322 006. Morgan is said to discuss international trade with fellow travelers on the voyage to the United States.
The French chamber of deputies approved the law of associations in a single session by 513 to 218, despite Catholic opposition. Premier Waldeck-Rousseau defended the measure as vital to his ministry, while Abbe Gayraud and Count Albert de Mun denounced it as a war on Catholicism. The vote followed heated exchanges and chants of Vive Waldeck Rousseau.
The speaker argues old-time business theories have exploded and that no store is on the wrong side of the street. Inconvenient corners are now popular as customers choose where they are served with the best prices and goods, summarizing the shift in commerce.
Washington June 28 census bulletin lists school age persons five to twenty in Alabama 723 222 Alaska 11 408 Arizona SRE Arkansas 29 375 California 49 081 Colorado 160 531 Connecticut 257 101. It gives militia male counts for each state and voting age males reaching 314 630 in Arkansas and 230 140 in Connecticut. Illiteracy factors and racial notes cited. Alabama and Arkansas have high percentages due to negro populations and other minority groups.
The National Livestock Association and a second annual Livestock exposition will be held in Chicago from December 8 to 6, attracting about 25 000 attendees. John W. Springer, president, has leased the Brubaker Theater for sessions, with talks by leading stock raisers and topics of current interest. Sessions run 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, with visits to Union Stock Yards planned for attendees to view horses cattle sheep and hogs.
Grand President Thomas W. Wheeler of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers visits Atlanta to assist local electricians in pushing for a nine hour work day. He plans conferences with employers to win support as the union strengthens its organization among line workers and others in the city.
The Debray fund, aiding the widow of a fallen officer, reaches 1349.20 with nearly 50 contributed yesterday. Citizens respond to the call in the Constitution, and a charity bolt game between fire department teams is expected to raise about 500 for the tuna. Names listed include Howard Waters Nunemacher W H Moor and Patternon, J M Alexanger Co W Arnald Broyles and others.
Summer School schedules a Monday start in July for preparatory courses at A. T. Means on Wood Avenue and West End Hill. Courses include mathematics English Latin and Greek and invite interested individuals to confer for instruction.
A storm near Pittsburg Jersey County Illinois reports four men slain by lightning while at work on J. C. Halbert farm near Lodi. The victims Frank Bridgewater Anderson Webster John Wiggle Samuel Stewart leave large families. In a separate Pittsburg item a picnic in Riverview park ends in George Young aged six killed instantly. Norman Young unconscious and Mia Young and an infant severely shocked but to recover.
Kentucky claimant Alexander Kennedy, once of Knoxville now Lexington, arrives for depositions in a Civil War era suit alleging $500,000 for cotton and sugar seized. He says most cotton was taken at Rome Georgia and sugar at Memphis. Detective W S Richardson, famed in Tennessee Arkansas and Mississippi, is jailed for two years for bribery.
Articles of incorporation filed by eight companies with 35 060 000 capital by Philadelphia and Pierre citizens. The wireless, telephone and telegraph firms aim to cover operations across the United States including Alaska and other possessions.
The uncle of J. R. Little of this city is mentioned. Rev. Mr. Reeves's wife died about four years ago and is buried at Oakland alongside her nine children. Her husband, who died Thursday, was the sole surviving family member. The community will mourn the news of his death.
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