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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1913
Page
5
The hearing before Governor Hardwick ends a long session as defense counsel led by Colonel J W Bennett argue for Dr McNaughton, while State Attorney A Lee Moore and allies press for conviction. Testimony centers on arsenic levels and motives amid intense cross examinations and petitions for clemency.
The White Way Burlesque company from Cincinnati opens the new Columbia Burlesque theater on Wall Street opposite Union Depot at 3 PM with a 1000 seat house. The stage was enlarged after a postponed Monday opening. Prices: 1 cent balcony, 25 cents tower floor, 50 cents boxes.
The Martha Berry School for Girls opens with 109 students from Georgia Alabama and Tennessee under founder Martha Berry. The campus adjoins Berry Shoal Road and follows a model similar to the older institution, with Miss Lily Runnally Evelyn Roane Moss Mary Gitiner and others among those entering the thirty seventh term at Shorter College enrollment marks a record high.
Attorneys for the Louisville and Nashville railroad petition Justice Lamar of the Alabama Supreme Court for a stay against enforcing the two and one half cent passenger rate law until the court rules on the case. Federal courts in Alabama recently refused to stay execution of the act pending appeal, with Alabama Attorney General Brickell representing the state. The matter will be presented to Justice Lamar upon his return tonight.
The Ways and Means Committee of the United States and Roads Association meets today to finalize plans for the national convention to be held November 10 to 15. They with Senator T. H. Bankhead will urge Congress to appropriate 1000000 dollars for the construction of southern roads. Bankhead serves as president of the United States Good Roads Association.
The body of William J Gaynor mayor of New York who died at sea September 10 lay in his Brooklyn home. In a drizzling rain it was lowered from the Lusitania to Pier A at the Battery. A funeral ship Corrections preceded to Brooklyn with a guard of police and sailors. The body will lie in state at City Hall Monday before Trinity Church services.
Rome September 19 Ernest Nathan mayor of Rome delivered a bitter anti Catholic address during exercises marking the forty third anniversary of the fall of the temporal power. He condemned political priests and warned against Vatican patronage influencing voters. He cited Catholic league games and said athletic squads paraded Rome in support of restoring papal power.
United States District Judge Cornelius D Murane was asked by the Department of Justice to resign. The article notes his one year remaining in office and mentions United States District Attorney Bernard S Rode, once a New Mexico congress delegate and a former Puerto Rico federal judge, who allegedly sought to restore charges against Judge Murane. The report ties these actions to representatives of Nome gold dredging interests.
In Galveston Texas on September 19 a conference produced an agreement to end the dock workers strike. About 2500 men were involved. Unions will ratify the proposed settlement, terms were not released. Local unions will vote tomorrow on ratification.
Savannah on September 16, Dr LJ Chedel and Alton M Broom were seriously injured in an automobile crash on the Augusta road about three miles from Savannah at night. Chedel sustained internal injuries and Broom possibly broke an arm in three places. R L Miller, also in the car, was shaken up. The vehicle skidded into a ditch after hitting a soft spot in the road. All three were taken to a hospital.
Infant John Fort Himes Jr aged three years, youngest child of Mr and Miss F Hines, died here today after a long spell of whooping cough. Interment set for tomorrow at the local cemetery.
Bloomington September 19 Mack Hurst 50 a stone mason blew up his home with dynamite killing himself and his 17 year old daughter Maude injuring two other daughters Fannie 13 and Elizabeth 6 Wife separated six weeks and refused to take him back He planned to kill his entire family by planting dynamite under beds He tied sticks to his body and died in the blast while daughters Maude Jannie and Elizabeth survived at hospital Two unexploded sticks were found in the ruins
The speech argues wage earners form most of the population, critiques watered stocks that raise prices, and warns government privileges to private interests fuel corruption. It calls for premiums on industry, limits on idle wealth, and a clean ballot with incorruptible office seekers.
In Tifton September 19 a suit was filed in Tift superior court seeking 5006 for damages alleged by Lthel Gibbs then nine years old. The next friend John Brown represents the claimant against the Tifton Cotton Mills. The petition states the child, in 1904, worked in the mills and her right fore finger was crushed in a gear head, requiring amputation at the joint.
The second annual convention of the Southern Labor Congress closed in Birmingham. President Jerome Jones of Atlanta and Secretary Treasurer W P J Parkett of Atlanta were re elected. Robert Gann of Anniston and Tobert H Johnson of Memphis won vice president and second ties president. Luke Lea addressed the session. The congress voted to allow Negro laboring organizations to affiliate with the Southern Labor Congress. two delegates opposed.
Secretary Jennings of the federal civil service commission for the eleventh district with headquarters in the Atlanta federal building will hold an examination for post office clerks and carriers in its offices in Atlanta on Wednesday November 5. All applications must be filed in the district civil service office room 305 before the close of business hours October 1.
Mexico City September 19 the deaths of President Francisco I Madero and Vice President Jose Maria Pino Suarez were not caused by a punishable crime according to a decision by the military court after a six month investigation begun by the federal district commandant following the February street battle that brought Provisional President Huerta to power. General Hugh L Scott said Pancho Villa is not a prisoner of Maximo Castillo but at Casas Grandes with about 1900 men, as Juarez officials check Palomas for Villa’s fate.
Rome September 19 Special The Calhoun Times editor G W Tribble attacks modern preachers and pulpit methods provoking anger from Calhoun ministers who plan replies next Sunday from the pulpit. Tribble, noted writer, criticizes the average preacher for relying on criticism and poor soloist antics to drive away congregations.
Mrs Alexander B Witte of Paris Tenn, president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, announces the site chosen for the Shiloh Confederate monument. The group proposes to spend 350000 on a triangle site formed by the Corinth to Pittsburg Landing road and the Hamburg to Savannah Town road, facing the Confederates’ march toward the Tennessee River.
New York September 19 An investigation into certain features of the death of congressman Timothy Sullivan whose mangled body was recently found at a railroad crossing in the city continues with authorities examining the circumstances and possible foul play.
District Attorney Whitman began the Bronx borough proceedings today as rumors about his former man’s death linger. The funeral provoked persistent speculation that the death was not accidental, with theories ranging from mugging to murder or abandonment on the tracks. An excursion to Birmingham offers a $230 round trip on September 2 with a special train at Ola Depot 8:80 a.m. SEA BOARD adv.
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