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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
6
Washington May 9 An incident in a hotel lobby involved Senator McLaurin of South Carolina. While in the dining room with a gentleman he faced a man, allegedly intoxicated, whose name he refused to disclose. McLaurin knocked the assailant down at the cigar stand. bystanders helped remove the troublemaker. No arrests were made.
At the north Alabama presbytery meeting in Anniston a plan was launched to require four-year terms for all ministers, with longer terms allowed by presbytery consent. The aim is to reduce periodic unrest and indiscriminate calls, while enabling potential pastorate separations after four years without friction. The proposal draws comparisons to Methodist practice and is regarded as substantial though not sweeping. Full-Fledged Naval Cadets. Annapolis, Md May 9. The class of 1806 cadets named were R P Lemly J B Goldman C P Meyer W H Booth T H Dnaid L D Causey H K K Aiken though one applicant was disqualified for defective eyesight.
At Havana Asheville May 9 the Southern Baptist convention opened with 5060 attendees. Officers were elected as Governor Northen declined reelection, J P Eagle named president, and multiple vice presidents chosen. Afternoon reports showed foreign and home mission boards expanding work though funding and institute efforts wane in several states.
Redlands California May 9 a tallyho stacked with sightseers mostly from Galveston Texas overturned on England Heights injuring nine women and others two likely to die. Names include Mrs F F Hibbert skull crushed likely to die and Mrs Koppern thigh and ankle crushed may die. Several others lightly hurt and two Philadelphians Mrs Jewell and delegates to a Los Angeles womens convention are among the injured.
An unknown scammer pretends to be Norfolk Virginian Pilot figures to obtain loans from U.S. newspapers. Also reported is a lengthy Havana Cuba cemetery debt dispute involving Dr Diaz and Gethsemane church, plus annual Sunday school board revenues and officers elected for a southern Baptist convention in Atlanta.
The bodies of Archbishop Michael Augustine Corri gan of New York and Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson were interred with grand rites. Corri gan lay in state at St. Patrick Cathedral as clergy and crowds observed tinted lights and solemn ritual. Sampson’s funeral in Washington featured naval bands, a large escort from Annapolis, and a simple Arlington burial with taps and prayers.
Stephen N Noble of Anniston is president of the Southern Car Wheel Iron Company, organized at Tallapoosa with 100000 capital. The firm bought from the Georgia Vineyard Company a charcoal furnace with a forty ton daily pig iron capacity, idle for a year. Two other stockholders are Philadelphia financiers. Operations to start in six weeks after changes at the plant.
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