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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1912
Page
41
Emeline Pankhurst and Frederick Lawrence among militants charged with conspiring to incite malicious damage. Conviction under new law could yield three to seven years in prison. Pankhurst reportedly collapsed several times in her cell amid the case.
New York reports Adolph Segall built a Philadelphia sugar refinery solely to sell for profit to the American Sugar Refining Co. Trial testimony describes a $1,250,000 loan and plans to finance the plant, suggesting intent to profit rather than operate. Counsel argued this framed part of the defense in Sherman anti trust case.
A clarification issued by Edgar A Allanta representative denies that Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco ceased operations in Georgia. The note explains a misread legal filing about withdrawal of a separate organization with a similar name. The San Francisco company maintains its status and continued operations in Georgia after the recent fire.
Calhoun Georgia March 15 One of the happiest bridegrooms in Georgia today is Perry Ledford aged 65 who has won a youthful bride of 15 Miss Mary Fuller of Resaca The groom is a Civil War veteran and the marriage occurred at the bride’s home.
The street committee voted to recommend returning the $500 check placed with Jamison and Hollawell’s bid for sidewalk tiling. The panel split with Hall, Haver ty, Baskin, Smith, Sisson, Vaughan in favor and Boynton, Ragsdale and Andrews against. The committee favors awarding the sidewalk tile contract to Southern Tile and Stone Company at $1.03 per square yard, with Cement Tile Company getting the tile repair contract. council will decide next Monday.
Calhoun Ga March 16 Special politics in Gordon county are very lively as the April 6 county primary nears. All candidates are in the field with the race for ordinary drawing the most attention between incumbent Colonel W R Rankin and challenger Colonel T A Haney. Other races include county treasurer J W Logan and M Moss among several, tax collector candidates O A Mims J T Payne Gray Jackson W J Dunaway W I Morris I P Bowen, sheriff candidates R H Land T N Owen, clerk Henry J Rotf, tax receiver candidates Walker Hill Lovick P Ellis and road commissioners G King C G Kend John Hilley.
Seventeen hundred of 3400 Lehigh Coal and Navigation workers in Panther Creek valley returned to work after assurances they would soon join the union. Nesquehoning and Coaldale mines also idle, totaling about 1700 idle workers. The company employs 6900 in all three collieries.
Sacramento aviator Charles K. Hamilton claims a new American biplane record with a 42.7 mile Sacramento to Maryville flight completed yesterday in 33 minutes at an average speed of 78.9 mph. He reports the feat as the fastest ever by a U S biplane over this route.
Macon Georgia on March 16 reports a joint freight terminal by the Southern Railway and Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, covering inbound and outbound warehouses, a 492 foot main building, seven tracks to accommodate 70 cars, a 250 foot cotton platform, and team tracks for 100 bulk cars. Opening is planned for April 16 with three paved driveways and covered transfer platforms. The facility aims to serve present traffic and anticipated growth, located in the heart of the city’s business district.
Atlanta plans a week long cooking school open March 26 to 30 at the old Capital City club building led by Mrs Gilchrist Strong of Cincinnati. The Home for Incurables backs the event with the directorate lauding her expertise. Season tickets are on sale at Davison Paxon Stokes Co store for fifty cents per lesson.
Hon B W Hunt of Eatonton sent Governor Brown a Gordonia pubescens specimen found only on the Altamaha banks. Brown planted it in a pot at the executive mansion and will transplant it later. Also noted is a Washington tariff board cotton schedule summary to Taft, with a message expected to Congress next week.
All night Oklahoma Republican convention endorses preferential presidential plan and Roosevelt slate. One delegate, 84 year old O. Denlacn of Lexington, died of apoplexy after the closing. Theodore Roosevelt telegrammed thanks for the action. George C. Priestly named national committeeman. James A. Harrrie retains state chairmanship. Taft delegates resisted, with Roosevelt wins in second and third districts. Charles Hunter, a Roosevelt advocate, resigns federal clerk post to support Roosevelt.
Americus Ga March 15 Special Six hundred voters are already registered for the city election next Wednesday when a bond issue of sixty thousand dollars for a municipal electric fighting plant will be decided. The local fighting company opposes the bond while a majority of the city council backs it. Both sides are pushing to maximize the registration with residents being sought out and incentives offered in many cases. The campaign centers on the registration list with notices and cards used to aid turnout.
New York March 15 A Brooklyn grand jury indicted Winifred Ankers a hospital attendant for murder in the first degree. She is charged with killing infants by adding poison to their milk. Nine deaths are attributed to the alleged crimes. The defendant pleaded not guilty and was remanded for trial. A sanity commission conducted an inquiry but has not reported.
The report discusses Prince Tada and Sima’s decrees signed in a Qing context, with references to Prince Tuan, his son Kuwei, and the banishment and death sentence later commuted to exile. It also covers General Sheng-Yun’s reported march on Pekin with Manchus and notes movement in Shan State. In Washington, Attorney General Withersham challenges Williams H. Lewis’s ouster from the American Bar association, citing a Minneapolis lawyer who alleges race and membership irregularities.
Rear Admiral John M Bowyer of Erie Pennsylvania died in a local hospital in Tampa after a long illness He had come to Tampa last fall hoping to regain his health and had been hospitalized since December He retired as superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis Remains to be taken to Erie for interment.
Indianapolis March 15 Robert J. Foster a detective for the National Erectors Association was bound over to the grand jury after being found guilty in a justice court of assault and battery with intent to kill Frank M. Ryan president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Ryan testified that Foster struck him with a pistol after being ejected from the Iron workers office The judge declined to fine Foster noting the law does not authorize it This report is from The Baltimore American.
Bernard M. Baruch of New York announced in Camden that he will donate forty thousand dollars to the city for a hospital named in honor of his father, the renowned retired New York surgeon Dr Simon Baruch, who once lived in Camden.
A committee of women from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Atlanta Civic League appealed to the board of health for a large central market or four smaller markets. Speakers included Mrs. M. L. McLendon, Mrs. Amelia Woodall, Mr. D. E. Ashby and Mrs. F. A. Parkins, with Dr. John C. White supporting the need for clean, purer food and health benefits. A special committee was appointed to report at the next meeting.
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