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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
2
Dynamite destroyed a Mormon church in Montreal DeKalb county late at night. Four Mormon elders in charge of services fled town around midnight and are missing. Local hostility toward the church is cited as motive. officials fear the blast was meant to drive the elders away.
New York November 3 Nicholas D Offutt a good looking young man 20 was arrested and held for thirty days extradition to Maryland on a charge of murdering Frank Kretzmer proprietor of a general store at Rockville Md last Saturday night. The killing followed a quarrel over a girl. Offutt was captured after escaping custody while about to be taken to the town lockup. He fled to Washington and then New York arriving at West 23rd Street ferry. His uncle Lee Offutt mayor of Rockville was present at his arraignment and expects his liberty upon return to Maryland. Offutt is said to come from a well to do family.
A Potomac River collision near Washington between the steamer City of Washington and the ferryboat Lackawanna killed Jameel Belamken, a merchant of Alexandria residing in Washington. Samuel Belanken, 40, also died in the mishap caused by signaling confusion and low water. Three others, including Mrs Emma F Swann and two children, were injured but not fatally.
Otis Brogdon, a young white man, bound over by Judge Broyles in 5000 bond after being charged with robbing an unspecified number of gas meters in the past month. He allegedly used a company key and posed as a gas company employee to gain access. Detectives Roberts Dorset and Harper arrested him with over 60 dollars on him. A gas company official cited losses of 700 to 800 dollars in the last month. Bond was raised from 2000 to 5000 after many witnesses appeared with different cases.
Edward Hunter of New York will wed Miss Muabed Shepherd, chorus girl, in Chicago. Hunter, once a Memphis merchant and social leader, was heartbroken by his first wife’s suicide at the altar and left Memphis to work for a New York firm after meeting Shepherd during her theater engagement.
New York November 3 reports indicate the government plans to issue 850 million dollars in Panama Canal 2 percent bonds. The issue aims to finance canal work and redeem 14 million dollars of one year bonds by November 20. Banks are expected to purchase to back currency issuance.
The trial of Mrs Dr Monnish was postponed to this afternoon because Justice J J Ridley was summoned to officiate at the election booth in the sixth ward. The prosecution is ready and the case will positively come to trial.
D W Von Arsdale of Hagan Gas Engine Co died by suicide in his hotel room on Mulberry street Macon Ga shortly after 7 am. His son found the body in the locked bathroom with a brain wound from a head shot. Coroner ruled despondency over health and failed collections as cause. He leaves a son in Macon and a wife and others in Winchester Ky. Remains to be sent for funeral and interment.
Advertisement claims instant relief from catarrh using Eclipse Catarrh Cure a vegetable preparation. Testimonial from Mrs E A Bryngt of Rome Ga cites improved hearing after treatment and urges others to try the remedy. Offer of twenty five cents for trial treatment and a booklet with testimonials upon sending name and address to Eclipse Medicine and Manufacturing Company Atlanta Ga.
Four men arrested after a Fifty sixth street raid yield a complete counterfeiting outfit and a stash of spurious coins. Prisoners named William Farlow Henry Clark Thomas Hay and William Sweeney allegedly connected. Farlow reportedly confesses while others are held. Clarke's Pare Rye whiskey advertised with bonded bottling and mail order sales mentioned.
Henry Crickmore dies of pneumonia in New York at 70. Known as author of Erik's Guide to the Turf he served as clerk of the scales at major tracks across the eastern U S. He was once clerk of the scales for the Westchester Racing Association Coney Island Jockey Club and Washington Jockey Club and secretary of the National Hunt and Steeplechase Association.
The Mississippi River breached its banks at Pine Bluff Arkansas swallowing the historic governor Roane house on the north bank. Citizens urge Congress to provide 100000 dollars to protect two miles of riverfront. In Georgia near Americus on November 3 a ginery burned on George Waiters plantation destroying cotton and seed worth thousands and machines. No insurance coverage reported.
Omaha news reports a petition signed by William R. Mearat before a New York notary asks to move Hearst's $600,000 Oklahoma Governor Haskell damages suit from Nebraska state court to federal court. Local attorneys note jurisdiction questions and punitive damages differences. Also notes Professor W. A. Ingrant resigning from a Louisiana school post.
General Solicitor Boggs of the Great Northern confirms a fifty thousand dollar shortage in the accounts of A J Gordon formerly general counsel for the Great Northern at Spokane. Gordon allegedly took two court payment drafts totaling thirty and twenty thousand dollars and promised to repay, but prosecution is uncertain. Savannah village in Wayne County, New York, was almost wiped off the map by fire with twenty two buildings burned and losses around 208.
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