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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
2
Policy details describe a 20 payment life and 20 year endowment with a $10,000 value. Costs include $253.50 for a 20 year endowment and $49 for another plan. Dividends are stated at 13 percent. Text mentions no restrictions from date and incontestability after one quartet.
Recruiting notice seeks agents to represent the Company in towns lacking agents. Prior life insurance experience optional. emphasis on ability and character. Requires bank or mercantile references and diligence in building local coverage.
In Mobile a man known as Mount confessed to shooting and killing Manuel of Monde Ala on December 29 1907. Manuel was a brakeman for the railroad and allegedly owed Mount money for board. The pair argued in a saloon after a garnishment, Manuel fired three times, Mount died minutes later, and Manuel fled by rail to Kansas City area then disappeared until surrender reported by Memphis dispatch.
A Russell Peabody, longtime Southern family member and lawyer famed for defending Harry Thaw in the Stanford White case, died suddenly in New York after being ill since last Saturday. He was 35 and enjoyed stock farming in Tennessee.
Philadelphia on September 23 the actor Wat Goodwin filed for divorce against wife Maxine Elliott alleging desertion. Elliott, who is engaged in a local theater engagement, refused further comment on the charge.
Report from Havana dated September 23 describes Mr Tarler, seated with Captain Fortesque in a restaurant, assaulted by Cuban individuals after provocation. Tarler sustained a severe cut over the right eye, assailant escaped but commitment and identification were expected today.
On September 23 in Pittsboro R J Hood a 25 year old man from No 14/8 Sancua ke street jumped from the Seventh Street bridge into the Alles pheny river in a suicide. Jacob Zimmerman a stranger to Hood met him on the bridge and offered a drink. Hood declined and said well goodbye then leaned over the rail. Hood's body was found hours later and identified.
Havre de Grace Md September 23 A north bound freight train derailed twelve loaded coal cars as a 600 foot span of the Baltimore and Ohio bridge over the Susquehanna River collapsed. William Wilson, a watchman for the American Bridge Company, was injured and may die. No other casualties. The bridge, rebuilt and double tracked since the eighties, has no disclosed cause. Reports say tampering and concealed dynamite in recent weeks are being probed by Baltimore and Ohio officials on the scene.
Army Captain Samuel D McAllister of the Coast Artillery’s Thirtieth Company is ordered to Washington for a retirement board to avert a court martial on the charge of being morally unfit for service. A well known social figure, he reportedly left the Presidio without leave for several days and has previously appeared before a court martial on similar charges, which were dropped in each case.
Mobie Alabama September 23 Reports from the West Indies hurricane show heavy vessel losses and lives as Atlantic and Gulf ports receive delayed ships. Captain Aarsvold, a noted Gulf South America trader, perished after being washed off his vessel near Cuba while the Norwegian steamer Senator bound for New York. The Norge, 1580 tons, wrecked near Kingston after sailing from Le Plata to Falmouth, with crew saved but captain and wife among the losses. The ship had survived the 1908 Wear India hurricane, and its fate underscores the storm’s reach across the Caribbean and Atlantic. A separate dispatch notes no-show of an Independence party speaker at Guthrie Oklahoma City and nearby towns.
Edward Buchanan executive partner of the failed firm 40 Brown & Co testifies at the inquiry. He explains organizing a plow and implement company in which he held 60 percent. capital $109000, but gave all stock to his mother in Georgia. He says he tried to reclaim it, denied by her attorney, and notes recent asset sales before the failure.
Captains Roberts of Atlanta and Smith of Flovilla supervise a survey for an proposed electric car line from Griffin to Jackson. They own the old roadbed and note they control about 86 percent of the right of way. The plan recalls past promoters of the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlanta and links to Machen’s railroad project from Macon to Athens.
Dense fog caused a head on crash on the Southwestern Traction Company line near Philadelphia. About fifty injured, several possibly fatally, as workers from Baldwin Locomotive Company collided with a Chester bound car. Names of injured include Roward Smith and William Mallen. Judge Dunne nominated for reelection by Democratic County Convention in San Francisco.
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