Bolsy Bryant hanged in Nashville jail for Hyers murder
Bolsy Bryant was hanged in Nashville jail at 11 40 a m after a special term of Berrien Superior Court found him guilty of ambushing Marshal W A Hyers in Adel on May 22. He admitted guilt, exonerated Berry Walls, and his dying statement placed sole blame on himself. Mrs Etta Hall Parker watched the execution and cut down the body. About 500 people attended as Bryant’s body was turned over to friends.
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Tifton
Bolsy Bryant
Nashville
Swindle
Bryant
Hyers
Berry Walls
Etta Hall Parker
Hall
R. C. Parker
Berrien
Jalil
W. A. Hyers
Adel
Marshal Siyers
Bayboro
Babir Sharpe
Hhe Wenton
Hansell
Berrien Superior Court
Spence
Postal Telegraph Seeks Right of Way Wires in Savannah
In Savannah Georgia the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company petitions the Superior Court to force Seaboard Air Line Railway to negotiate allowing telegraph wires along its right of way from Savannah to the Georgia Florida line at Everereen about 104 miles away. The case mirrors a historic dispute between Plant system and Postal. The railroad has refused to negotiate, prompting the petition for compulsion.
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Postal Telegraph Company
Savannah
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
Postal
Postal Company
Georgia
Florida
Everereen
Telegraph Company
Engine Wheels Crush Life Out as Switchman Killed
Savannah, Sept 12 Special Harry King a two year oldboy was run over by a switch engine in Seaboard Air Line yards this morning. He died ten minutes later king rode the tender footboard signaled to stop stepped from the footboard and stumbled wheels passed over his thigh. Body shipped to Augusta where his parents reside Covington public schools open with large attendance and capable staff under Superintendent Dudley Williams.
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Savannah
Harry King
Augusta
Seaboard Air Line
King
Covington Public Schools
Covington
Public Schools of
Columbus
Two Feud Killings Reported In Georgia and Army Encampment
In Fairburn Fayette county September 12 special report Russell shot and killed Whaley after Whaley threatened him at the latter's house. An exoneration jury cleared Russell amid rumors of long standing feuding tied to a previous incident involving a Black worker on Russell's farm. In Carrollton soldiers from three U.S. regular army companies hold annual target practice encampment at the Rifle Range with two Filipino bayonets and veterans returning from the Philippines.
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Fairburn
Borie’ Russell
Fayette County
Whaley
Russell
Carrollton
Wacotie Range
Philippines
Colored man held on trial in Elberton crime case
Elberton Ga September 12 special Sheriff James McIntosh brought Henry Jones colored from the Tower in Atlanta to stand trial on a charge of injuring a white woman. Governor Candlee ordered the Elbert Light Infantry to meet the train and escort him to the courthouse. Guards bivouacked around the building as court opened with Judge Holder appointing Grogan and Rogers to defend. case postponed to nine oclock tomorrow due to the ill health of the alleged victim. The prisoner remained jailed with troops on duty overnight. governor kept informed and the situation not deemed critical.
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Elberton
James McIntosh
Atlanta
Henry Jones
Candlee
Elbert Light Infantry
Court House
Holder
George C. Grogan
Z B Rogers
H. P. Hunter
Nis
A. 3. Jones
Macon
Thompson
Sherif Millicons
Atanta
Tompson
Louis Carter
W. C. Cannon
Justice Dorsetts Court
A. A. Penn
Penn
Marion
Fourth Street
Ads Jones
Recorder
Superior Court
Bush Jamsden
National Farmers’ Congress
Georgia
Park
Young Men's Christian Association
Association
Academy of Music
Henry Frederick
Charlie Bryant
Frederick
Recorder's Court
Schofield's
Chain Gang
Speer
Proudfit
Pulaski Mercantile Company
D. C. Joiner
Rogers & Joiner
Pulaski Company
Sea Girt Question Again Provokes Savannah Editors
Savannah editorial attacks Captain Hope for his Sea Girt remarks and questions why Georgia sent its state contingent when Sea Girt had supposedly insulted the state. It notes Major Williamson and a Savannah meeting of Sea Girters planned to prepare an answer to Captain Hope.
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Savannah
Georgia
Hope
Sea Girt
Sgope
Mr Hope
Sea
New Jersey
W W. Williamson
Painter on train hurt in Griffin incident
Last night around 7 in Griffin Georgia Frank Wille a painter boarded the southbound Southern train at Solomon street crossing. He reportedly tried to jump from the moving train and was thrown against the freight depot, breaking his collar bone and sustaining injuries. He rests easy today and friends assign no blame to the railroad.
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Griffin
Frank Willeams
Southern
Spalding County Democrats Call Meeting Over Independent Bid
The chairman of the Spalding county Democratic executive committee calls a meeting in Griffin for next Saturday after J A Brooks announces his independent candidacy against W M Thomas the regular Democratic nominee for county clerk. The board’s action is awaited with interest as both men have many supporters and politics in Spalding is heated.
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Spalding County
Grima
Griffin
J. A. Brooks
W. M. Thomas
Spalding
Postoffice Discontinued in Georgia Area
Quitman Ga September 12 Special The postoffice department has discontinued the Marchmen postoffice fourteen miles north of Quitman for lack of a postmaster and will also discontinue the Heartpine office on the thirtieth instant for the same reason. Ogiesby and Bro's large sawmill has been moved to Quitman and now runs full time bringing many operatives to this point.
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Quitman
Marchmen
Heartpine
Ogiesby & Bro
Governor Candler to attend Georgia cavalry encampment
Havennah September 12 Special Governor Candler will be guest of honor at the First regiment of cavalry Georgia state troops encampment at Hinesville Liberty county starting September 23 for four days He will arrive September 24 at Walthourville be met by a cavalry detachment and escorted to the encampment Captain A Gordon Cassels of the Liberty Independent troop organized the event and invited other state cavalry units Meantime the War Department reports transport Meade has arrived in San Francisco from Manila with headquarters staff and several infantry Companies and officers.
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Havennah
Candler
Georgia
Hinesville
Liberty County
A. Gordon Cassels
Liberty Independent
Walthourvile
Cassels
Meade
Frisco
Washington
War Department
San Francisco
Manila
P. I
Fifteenth Infantry
Killing of ill wife on Crawford farm shocks Columbus
On a Crawford farm near Ale Joe Munn a Black man shot and killed his feverish wife Lena Mun as she lay in bed. He was arrested and held for grand jury action in Opelika after a preliminary trial. A 10 year old son testified that Munn did not act alone.
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Columbus
Claude Fincher
Crawford
Ale
Joe Munn
Lena Mun
Hoe
Munn
Opelika
Transportation trouble after Savannah fines and expulsion
In Savannah Georgia E M Wilkes and W B Mathewson were fined twenty five dollars or one month in jail for cheating in a police department contract context. They agreed to leave within twenty four hours and then sought free transport to Macon. George A Lathrop Jr. fled town before arrest. Also notes a Greenesboro Odd Fellows lodge being instituted with officers named Louis M Orr C W Alison G A Camp J H McWhorter and a commentary on credit for the Alaska purchase mentioning Seward and Johnson without singular new fact.
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Savannah
E. M. Wilkes
W. B. Mathewson
Richmond
Police Department
Aux
Macon
George A. Lathrop, Jr
New Lodge of Odd Fellows
Greenesboro
W. F. Green
Noble Grand
L. H. Foster
Buckhead Lodge
Louis M. Orr
C. W. Alison
G. A. Camp
J. H. McWhorter
Electric light rate too high in Macon merger talks
Macon Georgia September 12 report on city council and street railways electric light plant consolidation. City Attorney Wimberly revised the ordinance amid price disputes with proposals for maximum electric light charges for public and private use, set now at 100 annually with debates on 86 and 75 as upper limits. Debates on tax structure for railways and electric light receipts, with mergers favoring ad valorem taxes. Possible decision at next mayor and council meeting Tuesday night. Also reports arrests and local notes.
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Macon
Wimberly
Railways and Electric Light Company
Joint Committee
A Good Natured Martyr Knox in Washington
The Saint Louis Wlove Democrat portrays Attorney General Knox as a cheerful martyr who chose public service over private wealth, detailing his sacrifices, hotel life, and a playful view of fame and fortune. It also notes a London antiseptic shaving shop that riffs on sterilization and germ fears with a sixpence price.
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St Louis
Washington
Pittsburg
Paris
General Knox
Nolens Volena
Egypt
Europe
London
Bizpreegs
Jermyn Street
Geome
Gypsy and Bear Wrestling Act Provokes Alarm in Readers
Washington Post notes a circulating tale of a gypsy and his trained bear performing a wrestling routine in which the bear appears to maul the man before the act ends with the duo bowing and retreating. The piece likens the scene to a near tragedy and a sensational circus moment.
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Washington Post
Turkey
Orient
Tms
Lew Wallace
Dan Rice
Disciplined the Chief. Chicago News report on a pistol shot
An army officer recalling a day’s hunt describes meeting a big she bear with two cubs on a ridge. He fired a long shot, the bear scratched herself then boxed the ears of a cub, before resuming the trek, the trio silhouetted against the sky. The officer notes the bear’s grave disapproval of the cubs’ mischief.
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Chicago News
Like FlishP Call Friday in Boston Transcript
A social observer notes a suburban family’s Chinese servant showing quick assimilation to American methods of addressing the tramp problem. A hungry tramp named John tells his woe with a plea for food, saying “Like fish?” and replying “Yes, like fish” before closing the door with a wry smile.
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Boston Transcript
John
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