Gober Chosen for Georgia Supreme Bench
Governor Candler named Judge George F. Gober of Marietta to succeed Hal T. Lewis on the Georgia Supreme Bench. The ad interim term lasts until the next state election, with Senator Hiram P. Bell widely seen as a likely successor if needed.
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Candler
George F. Gober
Marietta
Hal T. Lewis
Supreme Bench
Gober
Hal Lewis
Judge Gober
Blue Ridge Circuit
Hiram P. Bell
Forsyth County
University of Georgia
Superior Court
Battle past Fort Adams as navy shells Newport harbor
Newsreel style report recounts Admiral Higginson's fleet bombarding Fort Adams and Fort Wetherill in Narragansett Bay near Newport Rhode Island. Brooklyn Olympia and other ships pressed within broadside range while searchlights and fort gunners responded. The action lasts about two hours with the fleet withdrawing, navy declared victorious.
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Newport
Higginson
Adams
Wetherill
Brooklyn
Fort Adams
Olympia
Beaver Tallight
Fort Greble
Block Island
Indiana
Narragasett Bay
Price's Neck
Fort Adam
Natson
Kearsarge
Alabama
Fort Wetherill
Massachusetts
Seakonet River
Narragansett Bay
Long Island Sound
New Bedford
Price
Montgomery
Narragansett Pier
Peorla
Peoria
Army
Navy
Hamercy
Point Judith
New London
Conn
Roosevelt Speeds to the Southland
Washington September 6 President Roosevelt began a southern tour with Chattanooga Tenn as the objective point. He arrived at 6 12 PM on a two car special from Oyster Bay and was greeted by officials and well wishers. He spoke of his Pittsfield accident and recalled prior brushes with danger. The trip includes Wheeling and Asheville with a quick schedule and visits to a firemen convention.
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Washington
Baltimore and Ohio
Roosevelt
Chattanooga
Tenn
City
Pennsylvania Road
Philadelphia
Oyster Bay
Interior
Hitchcock
Wilkie
Secret Service
Barnes
White House
Pittsfield
Craig
Cowles
Cortelyou
Civil Service
Garfield
Battle of
San Juan
W. M. Johnson
New England
B. Hege
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
I. &. Brown
The
Southern Railway
Wheeling
W. Va
Knoxville
Asheville
Mm. Cc
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
Maryland
Cumberland
Washington Junction
Martinsburg
T. V .Powderly
New York
Murphy
Ferry House
Masyr
Edward
Yildiz
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Abdul Hamid
Villa Vicosa
Portugal
Guatemala
Estrada
Cuba
Havana
Riot and political plea drive coal strike in Pennsylvania
President Roosevelt says government cannot intervene beyond a law preserving body and urges settlement by Republican leadership in Pennsylvania. National Guard orders issued for Carbon and Schuylkill counties as mob violence and nonunion labor tensions flare across the Anthracite region. About 20 000 miners remain out in Kanawha and New River districts with unsettled standoffs and signs of wavering in some fields.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
National Guard of Pennsylvania
Carbon County
Schuylkill County
Panther Creek
Gearhart
Virginia
Wilkesbarre
T. Te Lewis
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Lewis
Pocahontas
Kanawha
New River
Fairmont
Bramwell
Flat Top
Elkhorn
Norfolk and West 1
New
Norfolk and Western
Keystone
West Pocahontas
West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Baker
White
Roanoke
Pocahontas Colleries Company
Baby Mine
West Mine
Silver Ridge
East Mines
W. B. Campbell
Charles 8. Thorne
Philadelphia
Whitesbarre
Lawrence Tarwoski
Hudson
Tarwoski
Roosevelt Gun Accident At North Western Rail Officials Hunt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr a member of the hunting party with Northwestern railway officials near Redfield Dakota experienced a gun discharge. A fragment pierced the coat of A L Johnson general traffic manager for Minnesota and the Dakotas, but no skin was penetrated. The incident did not interrupt the hunt. In another note, ships near New London harbor prepare for a grand final review with Fort Rodman and Fort Terry in sight as hostilities pause for rest and court martial talks between General MacArthur and Admiral Higginson.
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Redfield
Spécelal
Northwestern Railway
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Roosevelt
al Johnson
Trafi
Minnesota
Dakotas
London
Narragansett
Fort Rodman
Fort Terry
MacArthur
Rodman
Wetherill
Greble
Mansard
Wright
Michie
Terry
New London Harbor
General MacArthur
Admiral Higginson
New London
Boies Seeks Congress Nomination at Dubuque Convention
Waterloo reports that Horace Boies will be nominated for Congress at the third district Democratic convention in Dubuque next Thursday. Leaders had expected Laula Boies to be named, but he declined due to professional engagements. Boies showed vigor as a leader at the recent state convention, opposing the Kansas City platform reaffirmation.
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Des Moines
Waterloo
Congressional Committee
Horace Boies
Henderson
Dubuque
Laula Boles
Kansas City
New Defender for the Cup Heads Toward America’s Cup
New York Yacht Club negotiates with Herreschoff of Bristol Rhode Island to order a defender for the America’s Cup with speed claimed above the Columbia and Constitution. J Pierpont Morgan leads a syndicate while a New York meeting is planned and new shops add a bending room for frame shaping and a covered passage to the boat.
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New York
Herrescholt
Boers Trail Web Davis Visit in Kansas City
Baron DeGingberg claims to be Boer agent and confronts Webster Davis at his Kansas City home demanding a $40 relief fund subscription. He accuses Davis of receiving £49,000 from the Boer government in 1900 and threatens to reveal documents unless paid. Davis denounces the charge as false and orders him away.
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Baron Ginzberg
Davis
Kansas City
Haron Henry Lueckenblat DeGingberg
Webster Davis
Baron DeGinzberg
Oil Fuel For Stammers On Mariposa Navy Report
Lieutenant Ward Winchell's report to the Navy Department details the Oceanic Steamship Company Mariposa oil fuel system. The ship displaced 2160 tons with about 2491 horsepower, achieving 254 knots daily and a mean speed of 13.58 knots while using 278 barrels of oil daily. Oil provided 50 percent weight efficiency, requiring 112 pounds per horsepower, and cut engine room crew from thirty six to twenty. Crude oil burned in two burners per furnace with 1000 cubic feet per minute air at 30 pounds pressure. eighteen furnaces used only intermittently.
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Navy Department
Winchell
Washington
Ward Winchell
United States Navy
Oceanic Steamship Company
Mariposa
Number of Banks Increases Amid Growth in Two Years
A comptroller of the currency statement shows from March 14, 1900, to August 31, 1902, 1,141 national banks were organized with aggregate capital stock of 965,534,500. Active banks rose from 3,617 to 4,616, authorized capital stock grew to 707,774,695, bonds on deposit for circulation increased to 322,016,896, and bond secured circulation rose to 319,407,586.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Pittsfield to Regulate Trolley Car Speed
Pittsfield Massachusetts aldermen and nearby town selectmen meet after a presidential party accident to set new trolley speed limits. The city council adopts an order restricting how fast streetcars may run within the city.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Man to Be Sold on the Block in Shelbyville
Shelbyville Kentucky September 6 Fisher Million a Negro indicted in 1901 for vagrancy and at large since has been captured in Lawrenceburg and tried before Judge Devis in county court. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to twelve months servitude, the highest penalty. He will be put on the block and sold into servitude by the sheriff if a purchaser is found. Officials doubt what to do if there is no sale.
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Shelbyville
Fisher
Lawrenceburg
Devis
Local officials shuffled by changes on city and state actions
Governor Candler appointed Judge George F. Gober to the supreme bench to serve until a successor is elected. A $3.4 million water bond vote will be placed before voters. Emmett Park injunction over park use stalls. Ware County raises tax to fund road work. A Covington hardware store was entered for theft of tolls knives and cartridges. Mill men discuss merging southern cotton mills at Huntsville. Confederate Memorial Association outlines defense against General Underwood suit for $17,000. Roosevelt visits the south as Navy guns and forts stand watch.
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Candler
George F. Gober
Supreme Bench
Hal T. Lewis
Water Board
al _ council
Charter Committee of Council
Court House
Coun
Columbus
Emmett Park
Savannah
Ware County
J. B. Stephenson
T Covington
Huntsville
Ala
Tennessee
Knoxville
The
Confederate Memorial Association
Charlotte
Underwood
Roosevelt
Washington
Chattanooga
Higgins Ofenses
Newport
Horace Boles
Henderson
Congress
Idaho
Willam J. Bryan
Kansas City
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Hammond
Brown
Southland
Teddy
Boies
Blue Ridge
Supreme Court
Relief Fund For
Kruger
Hiram P Bell
Thirty-ninth
Kentucky
Georgia
Rudolph Virghow
Berlin
Mont Pelee
Antilles
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