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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
7
A fragmented text notes a judicial reform push requiring stricter recusal standards for federal circuit judges. It references a tenure review and calls for ensuring impartiality by limiting conflicts of interest across courts.
Fragmentary text references Hodges, a pastor, a college, and a local council. Mentions a resident grace, a pulpit, a leader or candidate named Hodges, and survey fragments. Details are incomplete and ambiguous due to OCR errors.
A garbled OCR fragment references a journey's depth and a deeper south path. It mentions places or routes, a jet, and leftward directions. Details are unclear, but the note implies scanning a map for a southern path and a possible destination. Further context is needed to confirm entities or events.
The Central of Georgia Railway faces a board election for its president with names tied to Macon Savannah and Mexico. Vice President John M Egan and Major J F Hanson are top contenders, with others like General W L Gordon and Captain W G Raoul mentioned. A board vote likely in April or at a special meeting, with final choice possibly at the October annual meeting.
Informal notice about Welns office stock and prices. Blink Books advertises all kinds Tid lvil and Standard phones. John UM Miller Co at 39 Murletta Street invites inquiry for customers to become informed about available items and pricing.
Stockholders of the Atlanta Amusement Company meet at 4 pm to elect officers and decide whether to place the buildings on the market or to save the enterprise. Merchants urge preservation, arguing public benefit from future fairs, while some shareholders favor selling to private buyers for salvage.
Patrolmen Whitley and Bene saved E. P. Moon, a Logansville farmer, from a negro rogue on Decatur street who followed him after drinking too freely. Moon’s money and a watch were recovered. Berry was arrested on suspicion and held for larceny. The report notes a pattern of country visitors being robbed by roaming gangs of negroes in the city. Hood's Sarsaparilla ad closes the piece.
TJ Coolidge Jr president of Old Colony Trust Company, a major Boston financier, is in Atlanta with Samuel Curr to inspect local and southern investments, including a fourteen story office building planned at Broad and Marietta streets. He is also involved in timber lands in southwest Georgia and the Titton, Thomasville and Gulf railroad project.
Park commissioners convene at city hall for the regular monthly session with two elections on the agenda a keeper for the zoo and a manager for the cyclorama. Superintendent Heim Seales attends for the first time since election with plans for park operations and new planting schemes to enhance summer appeal.
Father John James Duffas, an aged priest renowned in the south for sixteen yellow fever outbreaks, died in Selma after serving at St Andrews academy. Born in France eighty years ago, he spent fifty years ministering to the afflicted during epidemics and never contracted the fever. His remains were taken to Mobile for burial.
War Department data show Havana import values for 1899 totaling 348,920,774 with the United States supplying 20,687,140 and the United Kingdom 7,005,419. Germany supplied 1,156,639 Spain 9,377,095 and other countries 10,244,81. Total imports including gold and silver reached 57,206,088 with the United States contributing 98,133,895 and other nations following in order.
The street committee met at city hall and favored grading Currier Street from Tedmont to Fort for dwelling use. It approved an ordinance on sidewalk obstruction requiring open sidewalks during construction, four foot pedestrian walks, and protective awnings.
Huntsville March 1 A prominent cotton buyer met Miss Wheeler daughter of General Joseph Wheeler at Wheeler Station. Asked if Wheeler would seek the governorship she replied that he would like to run but will probably not due to friendly relations with Hon. Jessup Gust.
The Pure Food show opens Monday at 3 PM at the Gate City Guard armory with Miss Andrews of Philadelphia giving cooking demonstrations beginning Tuesday. Carpentry and decorating crews prepare booths for exhibitors including Atlanta Milling, Franklin Mills, and many others as the Atlanta Grocers Association runs the event.
Chairman Moyers of the city Democratic Executive Committee will not name subcommittee members until next fall. He cites two reasons the first they have little work until weeks before the election and manage the primary. He says the public is tired of politics and deserves a rest before naming the committee.
The 10 o'clock commitment trial of Paul Rainwater, who wounded Frank Slappey with a knife, will occur before Justice Bateman this morning. If ruled murder, no bail. if manslaughter, bond will be set. Also an advertisement for Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company through H. L. Cobb of Atlanta.
Out-of-town banks push government bond orders amid a move to refunding into new 2 per cent bonds. A banker reports over a million dollars bought for outside banks with fresh orders. forecasts for note circulation rise from fifty to three hundred million dollars. Banks seek charters as national banks to gain circulation benefits, with over 230 institutions cited. Two large city banks plan to take full advantage of the refunding measure.
Five hundred local union machinists walked out in Columbus on March 1 seeking a wage rise from 2.55 to 3.55 dollars per day as machine shops citywide become involved.
United States grand jury for the coming term has been chosen and summons issued. The list includes William D. Wilson, Samuel W. Day, William G. Archer, James W. Calley, Preston S. B. Ford, Robert C. Bowen, William C. Allen, Henry Gentry, Frs Patterson, Chester B. Howard Jr, Peter G. Grant, William B. Redwine, William Lycett, Henry Ford, William H. Rentfree, David M. Easton, Eawin G. Scott, Frank Hiock, Alfred J. Wurn, Oscar Baker, James W. Clark, Howell Peoples, George Taylor, Francis M. Shaw, John M. Ausum, Richard J. Henry, Joseph B. Eiseman, Thomas F. R. Sawtell, James A. Nunnally, William E. Quillian.
HM Seales began duties as Grant Park superintendent yesterday morning at 8 o’clock. Chairman Verney and Colonel Moyers greeted him. retiring Superintendent H D Austin handed over the books and key tasks. Seales was chosen as the only available expert landscape gardener in the area, and park commissioners hail the appointment as promising.
Selma special report: Mrs Roy, wife of a Wilcox county farmer at Rosebud, killed her six weeks old baby for being cross-eyed. She says she gave two large kerosene doses and, when the child did not die, smothered it with pillows while singing to drown its cries. Authorities suspect she is insane.
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