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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1901
Page
4
Vienna china dinner sets in new shapes with neat decorations and gold rims. Real value $22.50, our price Mon- BaPlm $14.38. Includes 100 pieces per set and showcases elegant serving ware for dining rooms.
Thirteen year old Roswell Ison was bitten by a dog near Peachtree and Ellis streets. A madstone obtained through The Constitution was applied to the wound, remained attached for hours, and showed poison drew from the wound. After multiple applications the swelling subsided and the skin returned toward normal, with recovery expected. Mrs Dove owned the stone via Augusta relative. Ison’s family kept it on the wound until no longer adhering.
Memphis Tenn May 2 Special Mayor Williams announces new rules for the police and fire departments. Officers must not drink on or off duty under penalty of dismissal and must settle debts or leave the department. The mayor seeks to curb salonist credit to employees and asserts supreme control to remove city workers at will.
The U S S Scorpion arrived at Natchez on May 11 and will depart Monday for Greenville for the Knights of Pythias grand lodge meeting. Lieutenant Commander Sargent is recalled to Washington but will rejoin in Memphis for the Confederate reunion program. Stops include Helena Arkansas and Vicksburg Mississippi with local officers hosting at Prentiss and Elk Grubs.
Major fabric and textile sale with Monday-only prices on 45-inch curtain fabrics India Linen Persian Lawn and more. Includes table damask linen napkins and various laces, borders, and dress fabrics from quality names, plus silk gloves and corsets.
An attempted sale of confidential communications between the attorney general and secretary of war in the Neely case was uncovered. A man posing as John B Dickenson offered copies to Lindsay for 200 dollars, but officials intervened and Williams was dismissed. The papers included an attorney general opinion draft and a Secretary Root letter.
Dr. H. H. Haralson of Vicksburg presents panel before the Mississippi Medical Association in Jackson arguing the Reed commission findings confirm the mosquito as the disease carrier. He calls the discovery a landmark in sanitary science, while others at the convention debate quarantine necessity and state health board funding amid proposed new measures and district reforms.
Jackson Miss May 11 Special An agitation begins for a state hospital in Jackson to be funded by legislative appropriation Mississippi has only two worthy hospitals in Vicksburg and Natches with little state aid Many Mississippi patients seek care in Memphis and New Orleans including about one thousand annually at Charity Hospital in New Orleans The upcoming session may debate creating a home for infirm Confederates and the statewide hospital plan to reduce aid to Louisiana funded care requests
Jackson Miss May 11 The coming Mississippi special session looms large with public debate over proposed measures the governor Longino may call for enactment and lawmakers eye a range of issues to be acted upon when convened in seven months.
The Mississippi state board of education opens a session to select teachers and conductors and to name venues for July and August summer institutes and normals. A phenomenally large batch of applications is reported.
Local ad lists carpets including genuine all wool 3 ply at 1.00 yard and 9c deals on all wool ingrain carpet with new designs. Heavy Brussels carpet priced alongside extra heavy ingrain styles at 6c yard and 290 value patterns, all advertised as Monday specials with strong colorfast claims.
The store clears all stock tomorrow with no damaged goods. Gold en Oak side boards, bed room suits, dining tables, and mahogany suites offered at prices near or below manufacturer cost. Limited stock, a new price cut will be announced by noon Monday.
The board has five hundred applications for less than one hundred teaching and conductor posts. Towns and villages show no sign of modesty in requesting institutes and normal schools to be located within their areas.
In Johnson City Tennessee a seventy five year old deaf man Rev Mr Frazier was struck by an east bound vestibule train on a curve about a mile east of Telford and killed instantly. He was visiting relatives in Tennessee, home in Texas. The event occurred around 4 15 PM. Local boys warned him of the danger but he did not see the approaching train.
Norfolk Va May 1 Battery B Seventh United States heavy artillery left Fort Monroe by the Chesapeake line and Baltimore for the Buffalo exposition. There the battery will give exhibition drills in handling heavy artillery Higdon goes to Huntsville Huntsville Ala May 11 Specialo Colonel E L Higdon of the Third Al
Buffalo May 11 carpenters who struck at the exposition grounds yesterday over unfair lumber used in a booth on display returned to work this morning after the objectionable lumber was removed from the grounds.
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