30 Nov 1903
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1903
Page
1
Readable items describe fundraising in Atlanta for Baptist Home and Infirmary, a court hearing on stockholder actions, a municipal primary forecast, and various political and social tensions across the South. The report lists economic, legal, and crime items, with references to Birmingham, Atlanta, Savannah, and other locales, plus national issues involving rail lines, post office scandals, and international affairs.
Former Commander Richmond Pearson Hobson proposes a bill via Representative Wiey to the House to build the United States into the world’s premier naval power within eighteen years. The plan calls for a total appropriation of 2.75 billion dollars with annual allocations for new ships, starting at fifty million for present fiscal year and rising yearly by 19 million until a 1.5 billion lump sum funds the program through 1925.
Chisago November 29 Marcus Sheehan a guard on the South Side elevated road was shot and killed by James Berganus restaurant proprietor after shorting 20 cents for a breakfast. Berganus claimed he would be paid later and then fired killing Sheehan. Berganus fled after locking the restaurant. DETHAYER OF DAUGHTER SHOT DEAD BY FATHER Sedalla November 29 Frank Dunton killed Emil Meyers in a revenge act tied to his daughter's death. Dunton confronted Meyers after funeral intentions and fired three times. he is in custody.
Boston and New York financiers will fund a $600,000 program to upgrade the Georgia Railway and Electric Company and related enterprises in Atlanta. Planned improvements include more rail cars, greater gas supply, and expanded operations, with work to begin soon and progress expected to reflect industrial growth and northern faith in Atlanta's future.
frondon November 80 two long cabinet councils Friday and Saturday sparked renewed talk of a parliamentary dissolution. An authorized morning statement said no dissolution was raised and discussions focused on foreign affairs including Macedonia, the Far East, and Tibet.
Pittshore pa November 28 The Moorehead Bros rolling mill at Sharpsburg will resume operations tomorrow morning after a two week shutdown. The plant employs 700 men who returned to work at a 20 percent wage reduction. They will not strike. Indianapolis November 29 About two thousand organized meat workers in Indianapolis voted down a proposal to inaugurate a strike to adopt a new wage schedule.
Advices from South China report a deadly typhoon off Swatow on November 4 devastating hundreds of fishing junks. Rescue operations by Hong Kong and Chinese ships saved 122 men from abandoned vessels, with reports of thousands of lives lost as 300 or more junks were disabled or sunk. In Italy violent storms cause widespread damage. Naples flood, the Tiber rises, and Turin and Milan suffer.
Americus Georgia November 29 Special The second convocation of the archdeaconry of Albany will be held in Americus at Calvary Episcopal church this week starting Wednesday with pre exercises. Archdeacon Harry Casall of Brunswick directs services as Rev G H Whyms will give daily addresses. Clergy from Valdosta Fitzgerald Albany and other towns attend with two daily celebrations at 7 am and prayers and addresses later. a missionary sermon is planned Thursday. Prominent clergy and likely Bishop Cleland Neleph may attend.
Violent protests among University of Athens students halted a modern Greek performance of an Aeschylus play after they tried to force entry into the royal theater. Cavalry charged the crowd, at least one student was killed and several were injured in the disturbances. Gales and shipwrecks reported in northern Spain with heavy losses for the Biscay fishing fleet.
Panama newspapers urge the government to occupy and assert sovereignty over the islands San Andres Providence and Albuquerque and to negotiate their transfer to the United States for use as a coaling station. The piece notes regional tensions and outlines Panama’s reliance on U S protection amid canal treaty ratification and financial concerns about free ports at Colon and Panama.
Peter Neidermeier, a member of a quartet terrorizing Chicago, confesses additional crimes to a police chief, hoping rewards go to his mother. He describes hold ups and robberies including Paducah express theft, a Boone train robbery, and staged wheel robberies, while withholding partner names pending proof his mother receives the rewards. Detectives doubt the tale but anticipate further arrests.
United States consul Robert P Skinner, bound for Abyssinia to negotiate with King Menelik, arrives at Harrar after Abyssinian troops meet the escort outside the town. Ras Makonnen greets the column with a 1080-strong guard as a camp is set, and Menelik sends a welcome message. The scene is described as picturesque and unusually cordial.
Seven Tech men who attended the Georgia Auburn game at Brisbane Park on Thanksgiving Day are labeled derelicts by the student body. A mass meeting at five this afternoon will decide steps, with talk of ostracism and possible hazing but no concrete plan yet. The incident splits among rival game attendees and includes Walter Hodgson Joel Dean Dupont Guerry Fred Richardson and two unnamed others. Local authorities and faculty distance themselves from the affair as students prepare to vote on consequences.
London reports that US pig iron production fell by about 600 tons in six months while UK output rose from 203000 tons in March to 507900 tons in October. The Standard notes gains due to bounty fed Canadian iron and steel imports and warns Canadian competition will intensify, with the US boom masking British losses.
November 29 report that the district council of the painters paperhangers and decorators, in a mass meeting, ordered a strike to begin tomorrow for all craft members not already affected by a two week old lockout imposed by the Builders' Exchange League.
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