Converted Jew Evangelist Refuses Persecution Claims
Florence Alabama May 19 A remarkable case involves Rev J C Bielsh who says he was nailed to a cross and bears foot scars from religious persecution He describes himself as a converted Jew educated for Catholic priesthood fluent in twelve languages and now an evangelist with the Birmingham Missionary Baptist church He claims to have baptized about 500 people in the past year and travels with his daughter born in Damascus who accompanies him on his journeys He says he left the old world to escape further danger and persecution.
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Florence
Ala
Snedtal
J C. Bietsh
Wr Bietsh
Bielsh
Birmingham Association
the Missionary Baptist Church
Damascus
Bleish
Court of Bankruptcy records four years yield 447 cases
Huntsville Alabama May 19 Special J B Orr a noted Morgan County merchant filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S court Assets 1400 liabilities 3400 Records show the northern division has produced 417 cases in four years Most came from Decatur Florence Sheffield and Huntsville with Madison County few Richard Waldiner a carriage painter was arrested for wife beating under the new state constitution he may lose voting rights and a church meeting was disrupted Also Huntsville mercantile houses offer prizes for gun club contests this season.
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Huntsville
Sia
B Orr
Morgan County
United States
Orr
Fecal Court
Decatura
Florence
Sheffield
Fluntsville
Madison
Richard Waldiner
Waldiner
Madison County
First Methodist Church
Huntsville Gun Club
Birmingham Strike Broken Ends Lockout for Carpenters
Birmingham carpenters and surrounding suburbs returned to work after an eighteen day lockout. All differences with the Master Builders' Association settled for one year. Cards posted at carpenters' headquarters announce an eight hour and thirty five cent minimum wage and immediate resume of work.
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Birmingham
Ala
Union Carpenters
The
Carpenters
Master Builders’ Association
Trades Council enters politics for state to municipal offices
Birmingham trades council votes to back state county and city races. Harry Markey elected chairman with B W Brumley as secretary as plans for a vigorous campaign unfold. The move prompts guesses in political circles about potential endorsements and outcomes.
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Trades Council
Birmingham
Aia
Sally
Birmingham Trades Council
Harry Markey
B W Brumley
Graham Made Field Agent for Southern Educational Board
Montgomery Alabama May 19 Special 3 B Graham of Talladega has accepted the position of field agent of the Southern Educational Board for Alabama and will oversee the work in the state He was a former teacher and counts superintendent but is now a lawyer and solicitor of his circuit A mass meeting for May 28 is postponed and a May 39 educators conference will inaugurate the board work in the state Dr Butterick secretary of the general board will attend
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Montgomery
Ala
Graham
Talladega
Southern Educational Board For
Alabama
Butterick
Miner Harrell Struck by Engine at Jefferson Station
W J Harrell foreman at West Barrel mines was struck from an engine of the Southern railroad at Jefferson station yesterday and sustained painful injuries. He was brought to Birmingham where the road's physician treated him.
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Harrell
Brookside
Ala
W. J.harrell
West Barrel Mines
Southern Railroad
Jefferson
Birmingham
Morgen Appointed Sheriff of Chilton County Alabama
Montgomery Alabama May 19 The governor appointed J M Morgan to be sheriff of Chilton county to succeed W A Kilgore who resigned due to private business pressures in a formal appointment announced today.
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Morgen
Montgomery
Ala
J M Morgan
Chilton County
W. A. Kilgore
Deliberate suicide ends life of North Carolina farmer
Raleigh notices report a well-to-do Laurinburg area farmer named Alex Lytch who died by shotgun suicide. He left a note saying two years of yearning to die, then carried out a calm, planned end after preparing his room, eating dinner, and undressing before firing the weapon. The act occurred Saturday morning as he completed his ordinary routine.
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Raleigh
N. c
Alex Lytch
Laurinburg
Lytch
CANDIDATE FOR CHANCELLOR IN KNOX COUNTY CONTEST
R H Sansom a Knoxville lawyer and former Fayetteville resident announces his candidacy for chancellor of Knox county chancery court. His supporters allege the 1900 legislature unlawfully consolidated chancellorship with criminal and circuit judgeships, raising potential constitutional questions and a possible supreme court test caso if he wins votes.
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Sansom
Knoxville
Tenn
R. H. Sansom
Fayetteville, Tenn
Knox County Chancery Court
Janer
J W Sneed
Supreme Court
A&s
Felis K Zollicoffer
Wounded by His Own Pistol in Accident on Rail Work
Jackson Mississippi May 19 Special A Smith a section foreman on the Illinois Central road was directing emergency track work near Bryam when his pistol fell from his holster. The hammer struck a rail and discharged striking him in the stomach he is in a precarious condition with little hope of recovery.
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Smith
Jackson
Miss
Ilinois Central Road
Bryam
Cattle Raising Venture Planned at Rankin Place
Jackson Miss May 19 Special The state penitentiary management will develop the Rankin place into a model stock farm Ward en Parchman has bought 200 head of fine steers in Tupelo and they will be shipped to the Tonkin farm this week The purchase was made at 3percent cents per pound due to high beef prices
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Jackson
Miss
State Penitentiary
Rankin Place
Parchman
Tupelo
Tonkin Farm
Mathis Case Up Today
The supreme court is set to hand down a decision tomorrow afternoon in the Owen Mathis and Lester murder cases from Lafayette county circuit court. Prosecution attorneys expect affirmation of the death sentences for three criminals, with the triple hanging likely about thirty days later.
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Mathis
Jackson
Misa
Supreme Court
Owen
Lester
Lafayette County
Gotham Dames in Virginia Visit Jamestown Exposition
Charlottesville Virginia May 19 the old Dominion pilgrimage committee of the Colonial Dames of New York arrived and were tendered a reception by the local colonial dames and faculty of the University of Virginia. The party left for Williamsburg this afternoon where they will be entertained by the Virginia Daughters of the Revolution.
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Gotham Dames
Virginia
Charlottesville
Old Dominion Pilgrimage Committee
Colonial Dames of
New York
University of Virginia
Wiliamsburg
Virginia Daughters of the Revolution
Rhea Named Nominee by Acclamation in Ninth Virginia
Roanoke Va May 19 The filing period for the Ninth Virginia district closed with only W F Rhea listed for the Democratic nomination. The executive committee announced his renomination by acclamation, eliminating a primary.
Merger Formed In New Orleans Banking Scene
In New Orleans on May 19 Southern Trust Company will merge with Hibernia National Bank to form Hibernia Banking and Trust Company with J W Castles as president. The Southern Trust has already absorbed Union National Bank, creating a total of about 13 million dollars in assets across the three institutions.
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New Orleans
Southern Trust Company
Hibernia National Bank
Hibernia Banking and Trust Company
J W. Castles
Union National Bank
Young Wife Slain by Unknown Hand in Laurens
Scream and gunfire in Laurens South Carolina last night left Mrs Edwards, 32, dead from a brain wound. Coroner's jury declares death by unknown person with no arrests made amid town distress. Walker Edwards was on the front porch at the time.
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Columbia
Laurens
Walker Edwards
Impetus to Cotton Miles From Whittam Lectures
Professor Arthur Whittam of the Mississippi textile school delivers talks spurring Mississippi cotton mill development. A Magnolia lecture launches a movement to create a cotton mill, with summer plans to visit other points. The $65,000 textile school bolsters interest, and graduates from the two year course will organize mill ventures across the state.
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Whittam
Jackson
Misa
Misssissippi
Arthur Whittam
Mississippi Textile School
Magnolia
Gontem
Mississippi
Largest Southern Bank Formed In New Orleans
The Southern Trust and Banking Company reorganized today in New Orleans with 2 million capital after absorbing Union National. It will merge with Hibernia National Bank to form the Hibernia National Bank and Trust Company and start with 2.5 million capital and 10,000 600 in deposits, becoming the largest banking concern in the southern states.
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New Orleans
Southern Trust and Banking Company
New York
Union National Bank
Hibernia National Bank
Hibernia National Bank. and Trust Company
Rain Benefits Mississippi Crops After Helpful Downpour
Mississippi nationwide rains saved crops with an estimated two million dollars in benefits. Nearly all cotton tops, first chop finished in southern counties, corn prospects strongest in years. Favorable weather expected to close the two week lag, promising a large harvest and big crops of corn and potatoes.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Gala Day for Brotherhood at Elks Street Carnival
Norfolk Virginia May 19 After a brief morning session the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the grand auxiliary opened the Elks street carnival with a morning telegraph thanking Senator Blackburn Kentucky for backing the Grosvenor anti injunation bill. The later session allocated about a thousand dollars for widows and orphans relief and heard officer reports.
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Norfolk
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Grand Auxiliary
Senator Blackburn
Kentucky
Lightning kills two men at Wertz station depot
During a hunter storm in the county this afternoon Robert Short a bridge contractor and Haden Peters a rural mail carrier entered Wertz station depot for shelter when lightning struck the building setting it on fire and instantly killing both men. They were badly burned about the body and their shoes torn from their feet.
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Roanoke
Robert Short
Haden Peters
Wertz Station
May Annul Consolidation Question Before railroad panel
Jackson Miss May 19 SpecialYma At Its session Tuesday the Mississippi railroad commission will again take up whether to set aside the consolidation of the Mobile and Ohio and Southern railways The Kincannon resolution may be substituted directing an obligatory suit The attorney general McClure declines to discuss the matter in advance Rumors of a quo warranto test on Yazoo Mississippi Valley purchase of the St Bena brand fail to materialize with no broad demand for a legal contest The Ras company not opposed to such action but seeks final settlement RU TER BA prevents appendicitis and cures constipation distributed by druggists.
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Southern
Mobile
Ohio
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi Railroad Commission
Mobile and Ohio and Southern Railway
Attorney General Institute
Oase
McClure
Railroad Commission
Quo Watranto
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Itts Bena
Rativoasl Company
Jis
Gaffney Music Festival Opens Across Venues
The Gaffney May music festival began Wednesday night with a first concert in the Main Auditorium of the First Baptist Church. The remaining four concerts occur Thursday and Friday afternoons and nights in Limestone College auditorium, attracting many visitors despite concurrent events in Spartanburg and Charlotte.
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Gaffney
8. C
First Baptist Church
Limestone College
Spartanburg
Charlotte
Tour of the Congressmen Arrival in Tuskegee Alabama
A Thompson congressional party arrives in Tuskegee after a twenty four hour train ride from Washington. A brass band from Booker Washington’s school welcomes them at the depot as crowds greet the northerners. Tomorrow they tour the Thompson plantation and visit Booker Washington’s school before moving to Mobile. A chorus of fifteen hundred students will perform at the school.
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Booker Washington
Tuskegee
Ala
Thompson
Washington
Alabama
Thompson Plantation
Booker
New $500,000 Cotton Mill Planned in Anderson
Plans call for a 513,000 cotton mill to begin in Anderson within thirty days. Leaders include J A Brock R Ligon N B Sullivan George W Evans and J B Barton. Subscription books open tomorrow in the court room and later at the Bank of Anderson for a limited time. A commission to organize has been granted by the secretary of state.
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Anderson
8. C
5. C
J A. Brock
R &. Ligon
N. B. Sullivan
George W. Evans
J B. Borton
Bank of Anderson
Machinery Contract Prepared After Organization Soon
Text notes that the contract for machinery will be placed shortly after the organization, which is expected to occur within the week. It also states that most of the stock has been subscribed.
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Madras
Executor's sale of estate assets in Atlanta Georgia
By authority of the Last Will and Testament of Amanda H Tanner, deceased, Fulton County, Georgia, the executor will sell at the courthouse door in Atlanta on the first Tuesday in June for cash a mixed estate. The items include jewelry, two bank judgments, five shares of Atlanta Investment and Land Improvement Co stock, numerous land parcels in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and the Cherokee County mining interests. Proceeds are for distribution to devisees of the will. G. H. Tanner, Executor.
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Wun
Uh County
Amanda H Tanner
Fulton County
Atlanta
Amanda TE Tanner
Waiton Ruperior
T Dodd
CC Archer
Carrie Archer
City Court of
Atlanta Investment and Land Improvement Co
Tallahasses
Lake
Orange County
Florida
Cherokee County
North Carolina
Dade
Deeda
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Cobb County
Austell
Mulberry and
Walker Streets
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Walker Street
Art and
Tanner Streets
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Tanner Street
Davis Street
Fort
Fain Streets
Fain Street
Futton County
Fort and Tanner Street
Hilliard Street
Hillard Street
Auburn Avenue
Howell Street
Old Wheat Street
Ihe
Regia
Fain
Fuller
Pullers
L Bb
West Peters Street
Moe
G. H Tanner
Meo
Tanner
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