Fatal Train Double Shooting in South Georgia
Joe Redding shot and killed Arch Harby aboard a South Georgia train near Greenville after Harby boarded at Dennett. Redding, not arrested, claimed Harby planned to ambush him. Harby died on the car floor, with shots also hitting another passenger. Both men were prominent locals with a history of conflict. further trouble is feared.
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Joe Redding
Arch Harpy
South Georgia
Greenville
Redding
Hardy Gay
Twro
Quitman
Dennett
Harby
Herby
Harley
Partea
Georgia Tech Scholarship Competition Promises Tuition Paid
The Georgia School of Technology offers a special scholarship competition to December 1901 with expenses paid till graduation for the winner. The school highlights extensive and modern engineering programs in mechanical electrical civil textile and engineering chemistry with a large campus life and dormitories. Over four hundred students from southern states other states and Mexico are represented. For catalogue and details contact Lyman Hall president Atlanta. Alabama Hotel Burns Lafayette hotel fire report notes Brick Hotel burned early Sunday with $80,000 stock lost and $17,000 insurance. building valued at $8,000 with $4,000 insurance.
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Georgia School of Technology
Mexico
Lyman
Hall
Atlanta
Alabama
Burns
Lafayette
Ala
McGehee, Driver & Co
Bonds To Be Sold By City To Local Banks
The injunction against selling $100000 of city bonds has been withdrawn. Bonds will be sold to local banks at par. Proceeds will be used to pay the floating debt.
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Chattanoo
Negro Inflicts Wounds with Razor in Georgia Settlement
In Athens Georgia on November 11 special report says Will Williams a Black man wounded Mannig Landrum a Black woman in the Lickshilet settlement with a razor. Landrum suffered a gash several inches long on her right arm. Williams is under arrest claiming he was not to blame.
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Athens
Will Williams
Mannig Landrum
Lickshilet
Williams
Martin Rejects Revenue Collector Post in Georgia
The article reports H. Martin declining the offer to become collector of internal revenues for Georgia. Despite rumors of presidential consideration and friends promoting his name, Martin states no ambition for the post, resignations from business roles, and plans to focus on business rather than politics. Henry A. Rucker presently holds the position and may be replaced.
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H. Martin
Georgia
Washington
Martin
Roosevelt
Constitution
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Southern Interstate Fair Association
Rucker
Chamber of Commerce
the Fair Association
Will of Captain Grant Leaves $2 Million Estate to Heirs
The will of Captain William D Grant reveals a $2,000,000 estate to be filed with Judge John R Wilkinson. He leaves to his wife Sarah Frances Grant, to their son John W Grant, and to his daughter Sarah Frances Slaton, with numerous real estate parcels in Atlanta and Georgia bonds. Executors are Sarah Frances Grant and John W Grant, with detailed trust provisions for grandchildren, servants, and eventual endowments to the University of Georgia and a family mausoleum.
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William D. Grant
John R. Wilkinson
Sarah Frances Grant
John W Grant
Sarah Frances Slaton
John W. Grant
Captain Grant
Margaret
Hugh Inman
William Daniel Grant, Jr
City of
Atlanta
State of Georgia
Hugh Inman Grant
William Daniel Grant
Peachtree Street
Bnken
Peta
Prudential Insurance ‘Company of America
Centennial
Grant
Loyd and
Decatur Attedts
Station House
Pine
Courtland
Piedmont
Forsyth Street
Austell
South Pryor Street
Chamber of Commerce
National Surgical Institute
Alabama
Kimpall
Marietta and
Forsyth Streets
Concerta Hall
North Broad Street
Marietta Street
Piedmont, Courtland Currier and
Mitchel Street
West Peachtree Strat
Merritts
Mue
Courtland Street
Bailey Boyce
Howart Smith
Sal& Trust
Enaoy
Hugh ©Ingan
John M Binton
Thomas H Morgan
Forrest Adair
Hugene M
Senate Session Reports Several New Bills Introduced
The senate spent about two hours in session yesterday morning. Numerous bills were read a second time and several new measures were introduced by various members including Boynton Cann Sullivan Upchurch. Local bills were passed without opposition and the body adjourned to reconvene at 11 o clock this morning.
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Senate
House
Boynton
Barry County
Cann
Bullivan
Sullivan
Golinty
Wr Upchurch
Chariton Fount
Traders Hill
Folkston
Salt County
City may establish new municipal cemetery in Atlanta
Alderman Pierce plans to urge the council to study creating a city owned cemetery to replace Oakland when current lots run out. He proposes purchasing several hundred acres near the city, arguing the cemetery would generate revenue to offset water bonds and provide steady income for city needs. The matter will be taken up by the finance and cemetery committees and brought before the council next year for investigation. Incendiary destroys barn and stock at Americus plantation, with heavy losses expected.
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Pierce
City of
Atlanta
G. ¥. Pierce
Oakland Cemetery
Dr. Pierce
Oakland
Sullivan Bill Defines Anarchy as Felony in Georgia
The Sullivan bill defining anarchy as a felony passes the Georgia House with near unanimous support after Senate approval. It defines anarchy as advocacy or actions to subvert government and prescribes five to twenty five years in prison, with harsher penalties for assault on public officials with intent to murder. The act aims to eliminate anarchist activity in the state.
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Sullivan
House
Georgia
Eighteenth
Senate
General Assembly of
Shetch
Col John French Dies at Fort McPherson Veteran Officer 68
Col John French, long a commandant at Fort McPherson, died at his residence at 6 PM after a Brights disease battle beginning September 28. He leaves a wife and three children, served in Civil War Spanish American and Philippine campaigns, and was 68. Funeral plans pending, likely at West Point with military honors. Captain Scott assumes post command during illness.
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Fort Mc Pherson
Bright
Colonel French
John W. French
Nineteenth Infantry
William F. Valentine
Honore French
Fifth Cavalry
French
Paria
District of Columbia
C Wren John W. French
Twenty-third Infantry
Manila
Philippines
Twenty-second Infantry
Islands
New York
Eighth Infantry
Fortieth
Twenty-fifth Infantries
Fourteenth Infantry
Twentyseventh Infantry
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Governor's Island
Fort McPherson
Weldon
Virginia
Hatcher's Run
West Point
United States
Scott
Mayor Proposes Monument for Captain L P Grant in Atlanta
The mayor advises the Atlanta council to erect a monument to Captain L P Grant, one of the city’s leading citizens who donated the park bearing his name. The ordinance committee will study the proposal, aiming for action early next year, with a memorial plaque or statue contemplated.
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L. P. Grant
Mims
Atlanta
Grant
Police Board Members Haul to Circus After Meeting
The monthly police board session adjourned with no charges filed. Chief Bail treated the eight commissioners to a patrol wagon ride to a circus, ending a pleasant night. The detective report praised, noting 70 years 7 months in state offenses, $550 in recovered goods, and $21,000 in fines collected, all in one month.
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Police Board
Grady
Recorder’s Court
Bail
Georgia Governor Proclaims Thanksgiving Day Observance
Governor Allen D. Candler issues proclamation designating November 23 as a legal Thanksgiving holiday in Georgia. The document urges gratitude to God for blessings and notes the role of Christian faith in state traditions, with formal gubernatorial signatures and dating.
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Candler
State of Georgia
Hig Excellency
Georgia
Comormite
United States
Allen Dk. Candler
Te Atate
Thaddey
Executive Department
Atlanta
Walter Statning
America
Allen D
Plan For Good Roads Meet In Fulton County
Executive, invitation and press committees of the Good Roads Association of Fulton county met yesterday at the chamber of commerce rooms to map outreach. They plan to invite county commissioners, ordinaries, and mayors of Georgia cities to witness expert road building demonstrations by the second week of next month, via Southern Railway, and distributed through official invitations.
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Good Roads Association
Fulton County
Chamber of Commerce
Southern Railway
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