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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1902
Page
8
Jackson announces renewed drive for statutory prohibition at Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention in Oxford starting October 8. Leaders from across the state will push a legislative path to curb liquor sales and elect a legislature favorable to such laws.
Gasoline explosion at Rev. L A Roberts home in Knoxville fires up a fatal blaze. His wife attempted to start a fire with gasoline, inhaled flames, and died almost instantly from internal burns.
A meeting in Memphis between Little Rock chamber of commerce and Memphis railroad traffic officials addressed discrimination claims by Arkansas cotton interests. They argued Little Rock tariffs on cotton are 10 to 16 cents per hundred pounds, diverting shipments to Shreveport and Monroe. Traffic managers recommended a 2 cent reduction, Arkansas delegation remained dissatisfied.
George B. Hiss, president of the Cotton Spinners Association and Republican nominee for Congress in the ninth district, did not open his campaign in Hickory today. He is on the verge of nervous collapse and confined to his room with access limited to physicians. Doctors trace the collapse to overwork and cancel his stump speeches for now.
Bewanee Tenn September 2 The advent term opened with services in the university chapel. Bishop Thomas F Gailor urged new students to begin well and live in present actions. Nearly 100 new students registered. Professors club discussed prehistoric man and ethnological study of local Indian mounds in Sequachee valley. Psychology and science topics followed. Football outlook cited coach's trouble with candidates for Texas game in two weeks. team vows to do its best.
Raleigh dispatch reports 3128 new pension applications to the state board, including 547 from widows and 2581 from soldiers. About 2200 died, boosting total pensioners to about 11,000 and prompting a prorating plan likely to cut widow and fourth class soldier pensions to around 15 dollars. North Carolina notes include education plans, bank charter, and political clashes over race and franchise laws.
In Anderson circuit court Walter Gilmer a 12 year old white boy was tried for assault and battery with intent to kill. The jury found him not guilty after the judge urged acquittal and the grand jury had returned a true bill. The case stemmed from a November mill village fight where Gilmer cut Walter Murray on the neck with a pocket knife.
Archer Peoples, a Southern Bell lineman, was shot by Elias Blount at Peoples boarding house in Gadsden Alabama after returning late. Believing a thief was in the yard Blount fired when he found Peoples near a tree. Peoples was fatally wounded.
Pensacola, Sept 26 Special Governor Sennings appointed E Dixie Beggs to succeed A C Blount as judge of the criminal court in Escambia county. Blount resigned, and Beggs hails from Pensacola.
In Greenville Texas tonight Mrs Eith and her 40 year old daughter were instantly killed when a steam pipe exploded at the electric light plant. Engineer Keith was scalded probably fatally. The bodies were blown 20 feet and fell among the belts of the plant.
Memphis leaders of the populist party organize the Interstate Land and Improvement Company to buy and improve farm lands in Mississippi Arkansas Missouri Kentucky and Illinois. W S Morgan elected president T C Edwards secretary Frank Burkitt treasurer. Main office in St Louis with branches in Louisville Okolona and Hardy.
Representatives of West End Iron owners in Roanoke announce a contract with Norfolk and Western Railway to haul 50 000 tons of lake iron ore from Michigan. Virginia Iron Coal and Coke Co eyes large ore purchases for local furnaces to blend with Virginia ore in pig iron production. A pardoning board in Texas considers commuting a 70 plus year old man who has led a reformed life. governor absent, board to recommend allowing return home.
In Abbeville on September 26 Charles Bruce a Seaboard Air Line night storekeeper and police officer exchanged blows with Lewis Sanders an employee. Bruce allegedly fired injuring Sanders who later died. Bruce is in custody. Sanders is described as a violent Black man.
Richmond September 26. At the order of the board of police commissioners the mayor suspended Captain J. B. Angle of the first district pending investigation of charges of neglect of duty for permitting gambling in the second district where he was recently transferred.
Special dispatch from Montgomery reports a Texas colored minister, Rev. Meredith Provo, arrested here on a sentence for stealing while en route to his Alabama home from Birmingham where he had served as a delegate. The piece hints at a pardon being considered for the minister amid ongoing legal actions.
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