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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1900
Page
6
A jumble of names places and phrases from an old newspaper page provides scattered references to trials political turmoil and a mix of personal anecdotes. The legible bits mention Norwood Dickson Greenville London and a theatre figure, with indirect allusions to a legislative session and a sentencing context.
Col Wood Broughton announces retirement from Georgia state treasurer race leaving Macon candidate Park with no announced opposition. Health issues and an early primary date prompted withdrawal, with Broughton thanking supporters and wishing the party well. Captain R E Park of Bibb now stands unopposed for the office as discussion of other names wanes.
William J Pitts dies after long illness. Funeral at his Stockbridge home at 9 this morning. The service will move to Atlanta via the Southern at 8 for interment at Oakland Cemetery. Survived by wife, children, and sister Mrs R A Hemphill. city grieved by his loss.
The death of Rev James T Lin a renowned minister and educator in Georgia occurred last Saturday at his Edgewood residence. Funeral services were held there and the body sent to Augusta for burial. Survived by wife Mary Pace Lin and four children Professor J Reese Lin of Wesson Mississippi and daughters Annie Mary and Louise Lin. Lin born Newton county Georgia in 1830 and educated at a minor college. married Mary Pace in 1865.
Father O Hanlon preached an eloquent sermon at the Church of the Sacred Heart last night with Rev Aloysius O Hanson of St Marys College Belmont NC delivering the gospels. A large congregation was deeply impressed by the priest known for his southern eloquence.
Members of the Atlanta Freundschaftsbund will host a calico ball next Thursday night in the society hall at 1172 Whitehall Street. Tickets are widely issued and the event is expected to be a season’s success under the group’s usual ball rules.
Nannie Mitchell was arrested Saturday night in a group of about a dozen African American women labeled loafers on a charge of being common idlers. She had $11 on her, claimed both she and her husband worked and had money in the bank, and asked to post collateral to go home before her husband arrived. She was set to appear before Judge Broyles with letters to prove she is not an idler.
In Chattanooga on March 18 the minority of molders favoring a strike over employment of negro workers failed to reach a settlement with Ross Meehan Company officials. A meeting is planned for tonight to decide action that could affect five large city shops. An effort to bring all non union molders into the union was unsuccessful.
Echols case from 1888 drives postponement as Governor Candler waits for the top Georgia convict to arrive in Covington. The pardon board recommended commutation from a five year penitentiary term to a lighter sentence, based on jurors’ statements and earlier misapplied instructions.
Police on Decatur street units report nightly arrests of women accused of oiling and loitering around restaurants and salons. Fifteen women were taken into custody on Saturday with warnings to others to stay home as the crackdown aims to curb this activity and remove idlers to the stockade. Another notable complaint to Chief Manley involved a Mitchell street via duct law violation, accompanied by a drawing depicting a large officer hiding to catch a small offender.
Mrs Smith in Ruskin observes a ghostly man bending over the dying Mrs Warr A Calkins as family gathers. Calkins, son of the dying woman, later identifies the apparition with his grandfather, who long wandered the land of the unknown. Mrs Calkins dies shortly after the vision.
The Missionary Institute of McRae district has closed its meeting. Rev J T Ryder Eastman and Dr W C Lovett preached powerfully. Mrs B Cobb of Wesleyan College spoke to 300 pupils at South Georgia College. The report highlights the notable sermons and talks during the sessions.
Senator James H Kyle and Colonel Livingston arrive in Atlanta to lead a three day session beginning at 10:30 am at the Kimball House. Captain Elvison Smyth and Colonel Livingston headline the sub commission on labor and capital with witnesses from agriculture, manufacturing and transportation summoned for March 2 and 21 hearings. The commission, created by Congress in 1898, aims to study immigration labor agriculture manufacturing and business and report proposed legislation.
Griffin Ga March 18 Special Griffin is preparing for the coming of the delegates of the state Baptist convention which convenes here next week. Committees have been appointed to canvass the city and homes have been secured for nearly all the delegates about 600 in number. The Baptists of the city are receiving hearty cooperation of the other denominations. Griffin doors will be thrown wide open to the coming Christian workers.
Street Hallway Objects To Having Line Cut in Two as Southern hints at transfer system. Judge Calhoun’s City Court will take up the criminal docket this morning. A petition for a permanent injunction involving the new steel bridge on Whitehall Street is continued before Judge Lumpkin this afternoon at 3:30. The case, brought by the Atlanta Railway and Power Company against Southern Railway Company, argues the wooden bridge removal would disrupt service to West End and East Point. Partial hearing last Friday included affidavits from both sides. the City of Atlanta is now a party defendant. The railroad contends schedules would be harmed if the wooden bridge is removed, while Southern argues a solid float would block a superstructure and transfers may be needed. The court may decide this afternoon whether construction proceeds. Criminal business also ahead as the second division begins its docket under Solicitor Eugene R Black. Both judges Lumpkin and Reid are in session this week.
Mr F M Stearns, a Cleveland capitalist and president of the Cleveland and Chagrin Falls and Eastern electric road, seeks Spartanburg backing for a new railroad. He was elected president of Polk County North Carolina railroad, which the county has voted to fund. The proposed line would run from Poore s Ford to Columbus, then to Mills Springs and Chimney Hock, with a potential junction at Pooresford to connect with the Polk county line. He reports strong local encouragement.
In Griffin Georgia, twenty seven candidates have announced for office and more are in the wings. Eight seek sheriff, thirteen tax collector, with several for tax receiver coroner clerk and treasurer keeping local politics brisk and lively.
Chicago baseball club will leave West Baden on Wednesday for Salem Alabama. Manager Loftus plans games in Memphis were abandoned and expects to play April 7 and 8 in Louisville after returning from Alabama.
Quebec March 18 fire gutted the Academy of Music, the city’s leading theater, with estimated loss around 380000 dollars. The adjacent St Louis hotel sustained about 30000 dollars in damage.
Mayor Woodward remits part of a $100 fine against Will Kean for violating city ticket speculation law, reducing it to $25 after noting Kean knew him since boyhood and acted without criminal intent. Kean paid the amount and the case was cleared from the docket.
An odd dialogue discusses magazines and their influence on American publishing. Mudge praises the magazines' impact and notes winter brews and Christmas editions arriving early, reflecting on how periodicals shape literary tastes and seasonal publishing habits.
A jumble of ideas questions earths age at about three million years and speculates that Venus may be a bullet in the solar system, reflecting speculative science and misinterpretations of astronomy.
Multiple rabid dog incidents sweep South Carolina. Samuel Nelson of Statesburg died after six weeks of hydrophobia. An unnamed man died in Sumter County, and four local children were bitten in neighboring Darlington County. A public fundraiser in Sumter raised $40 to send Samuel F Shiw and three children to Pasteur Institute for treatment.
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