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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
12
Special dispatch from Athenaia details a brutal lynching in Kemper County Mississippi. Four Black men allegedly confessed to the murder and mutilation of a woman, with property including a horse and cart stolen. A separate note from Athenaia lists municipal primary candidates and dates for city offices.
Paris reports the Catholic bishops have declared war on France public schools and push for political action to defend church education. Archbishop Germain forms a Catholic voters association demanding religious peace and liberty for church education while government plans protective measures for teachers. Walsh may stay free on bond as he appeals the Chicago National Bank case to the U.S. Supreme Court. bond set at fifty thousand dollars was cancelled by appeal court ruling.
Martin Williamson aged 20 killed himself by drinking carbolic acid on a Savannah street. He returned home, wrote a note to his mother about suicide, but later failed in attempting to gas. He smashed the poison glass when watched, then died at home with his father and mother present. He had recently moved to Savannah with his parents from Walthourville.
On October 8, reports from the cotton exchange indicate the brokerage firm Johnson & Thorburn failed to meet engagements and did not clear today’s obligations. The collapse prompts concerns over liquidity and potential ripple effects in Liverpool’s cotton trade.
The Anne Wallace Carnegie library branch at Luckie Street and Merritts Avenue will formally open Saturday evening at 8 o'clock with ceremonies. Mrs Howland of New York, namesake Anne Wallace, will attend and speak about city library work. President Robert L Foreman will open the building for the mayor, Councilman Tom Winn will speak, and an informal reception will follow in the auditorium. The navy will then be declared open to the public.
In Washington on October 28 Reverend Donald Guthrie of Baltimore urged Lyt hay to reject life’s meaninglessness by supporting a penny operated suicide machine he described as a humane easy way to die. He spoke on Calvinism at the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, proposing the device as a stark answer to despair.
The first appearance of Atlantas Great White Man will occur Saturday night as Whitehall street between Alabama and Hunter is illuminated with flaming lanterns. A contract with Georgia Railway and Electric Light Company enables lighting from Filig and Peachtree to Mitchell and Whitehall, with sixty lamps testing on Lee. Next Wednesday night the entire route is planned to glow end to end.
New York October 28 William Barbour a Wesleyan University student Middletown nephew of Fleming II Revell the publisher was arrested today charged with illegal registration Barbour from Tennessee proved he had established a legal residence and registered for the approaching election on his uncle gadxtee Police say he had been a legal resident a few days less than the required year Barbour released on 1000 bail
Chicago dispatch reports Police Chief Steward has eliminated 96 soft berths in two months, boosting patrolmen on post duty by 272 percent. At start of his tenure there were 3,909 officers. 1,325 were on traveling post, with the remainder in special detail or “snap jobs.”
A residence in Bowman Georgia owned by J M Warren was burned to the ground at 5 pm yesterday. The dwelling and contents were destroyed while the family was away. The cause of the fire remains undetermined.
The Supreme Court will hear a convict lease dispute from Fulton County involving the Chattahoochee Brick Company. The case tests whether the lessee, by paying the warden, could shift liability for prisoner injuries to the state, with rulings and arguments about who actually held the prisoners and who was responsible.
At a annual meeting in Alexandria Virginia Lanston Mono Type Machine Company voted to increase capital stock from 500,000 to 1,000,000 and par value from 20 to 100 per share both approved unanimously Officers elected include President Maurs Deve Prea, Vice President William McLaffan, Secretary Arthur Bumners, Treasurer Joel G Clemmer, Assistant Treasurer Kimbrough Leaves. Athens report notes Major James M Kimbrough, former cadet commander, ordered to half the regiment and to captain within months. Lt A Arne replaces Kimbrough in the university military department.
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