Lynching After Seed House Shootout Sparks Town Uproar
A tense night in Harriston ends with Walter Jones killed by a posse after exchange of fire at a cotton seed house. Will Jones is hanged from a telegraph pole as crowds gather. Authorities decide against a coroner’s inquest.
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Sherif Hammett
Fayette
Gillis
Hammett
Harriston
Walter Jones
Fred
Guis
Sesd
Governor Brewer
Nesro
Will Jones
Will
Walter
Tom Weeks
Natchez
Jones
Cnal
Edilenes
Natrhes
Jones Or Rathers
Mira
Toey
Passenger on Train Describes Shooting in Harriston
New Orleans dispatch reports Yazoo and Mississippi Valley train stopped at Harriston Mississippi after a massacre. Passengers describe night of shooting by two negro desperadoes that left nine dead. L D Jarvis of Newellton saw Conductor Appleby and Wingman Bond shot. Governor Brewer left for Harriston in the afternoon.
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New Orleans
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Harriston
Miss
L. D. Jarvis
Newellton
Natchez
Appleby
Bond
Mr. Jarvis
Harriaton
Brewer
Mississippi
Troops rushed by special train to aid pursuit in Mississippi
A call for troops from Harris ton Mississippi led Governor Brewer's secretary to dispatch the Natchez company of the Atata Guard by special train under Captain William Harper. Colonel Baker also traveled to Harristes with ammunition for the Natchez guards. Governor Brewer was in New Orleans.
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Zacksor
Wiss
Pepiowmoer
Harriston
Miss
Brawer
Natchez
Atata Guard
William Harper
Blarkiston
B. Baker
Harristes
Turpentine and Rosin Firm During the Week in Savannah
Turpentine for the week was weak closing yesterday at 49 1/4 to 39 1/2 percent versus 39 1/2 percent last Saturday and 39 to 89 percent a year ago. Sales totaled 4,533 with receipts 4,773 and shipments 7,978. Rosin for the week remained firm with sales 15,830 and receipts 14,113 against 12,616 last year. shipments 20,489 and stock 14,344, down from 116,299 last year. Stocks decreased 5,303 for turpentine and 6,436 for rosin during the week.
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Savannah
Atlanta Day to Storm Knoxville October Seventh
Colonel Robert J. Lowry chairs Atlanta transportation committee and urges a large Atlanta delegation for Atlanta day at the National Conservation Exposition in Knoxville. He praises the event as liberal education on Appalachian resources and conservation, noting crowds, entertainments, a baseboat restaurant, a concert band, and a special excursion train by the Louisville and Nashville railroad. He predicts Atlanta will attend in force and expects a proud showing.
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Robert J. Lowry
Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee
Atlanta
Knoxville
Sehow
Appalachian
Appalachian Mountains
Praiaen
Colonel Lowry
Knoxvile
Atlantta
Atlanty
Segecevened
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Record Attendance at Ga Normal and Industrial College
Milledgeville Ga September 26 Special seven hundred six students are in actual daily attendance at the Georgia Normal and Industrial college This figure is a record for any Georgia college. About six hundred more girls were denied admission due to lack of dormitory space The public desires increased dormitories and buildings to admit twelve to fifteen hundred Georgia girls this year the waiting list remains high and anxious to enroll
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Milledgeville
Georgia Normal and Industrial College
Georgia College
Georgia
Theological Seminary Opens This Afternoon
Atlanta Theological seminary welcomes students and friends this afternoon at 8 o'clock. Take Stewart avenue to the campus gate. The largest entering class in the institution's history is indicated. Rev Frank Shipman becomes theology professor and Rev GP Armstrong delivers the address The Unrist life of the Student. A welcome is planned by a board member and dormitory inspection is offered.
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Atlanta Theological Seminary
Stewart Avenue
Frank F. Shipman
Emmanuel Congregational Church
GP. Armstrong
Warcome
State Institutions Make Big Corn Crops
Milledgeville Ga September 23 Special The state farm will yield 5 000 to 5 000 bushels more corn than last year The state reformatory will produce 1 000 bushels more and the woman's department of the penitentiary aims for 2 000 additional bushels while the male department will exceed this figure for a total increase over 5 000 bushels Harvesting is underway with old corn on hand and the dairy crop will be a feature this fall with emphasis on winter farming at the institution.
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Milledgeville
State Reformatory
Woman's Department of the Penitentiary
Harris Finds Bureau Badly Disorganized and Behind
Washington September 28 Special J W Harrie the new census director has taken charge of a bureau that is disorganized and woefully behind. An investigating Republican committee found delayed bulletins and a $160000 set of statistics thrown away as worthless. Harris began reorganizing a workforce that is 90 percent Republican and has demoted several officials. The report says radical reforms are needed to finish the thirteenth census and improve future bureau operations.
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John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
J—W. J. Harrie
Department
Harris
Census Bureau
William IR. Merriam
Minnesota
N. D. Nort
Walter ¥. Willcox
Cornell University
W. 5. Hossiter
Daniel C. Roper
Veteran of Two Wars Dies in Thomasville
C. C. Cleveland, 85, longtime Thomas County resident and pensioned Mexican War veteran, also a Civil War veteran, died at his home near town. He moved from Dawson to Thomas County 28 years ago, leaves a wife and a son in Oklahoma. Funeral conducted by Rev. A. G. Stevenson at his home.
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Thomasville
C. C. Cleveland
Thomas County
Cleveland
Dawson
Terrell County
Stuartcoun
Confederate Veterans Camp
Oklahoma
A .G. Stephenson
Merrillville
Rain Forecast Fails Again on Sunday in Atlanta
The promised rain did not arrive Friday through Sunday in Atlanta. Skies were mostly clear with a hazy afterglow, temperatures around the mid 70s, and pleasant warmth lingered despite expectations. Parks filled as thousands enjoyed a mild day after morning church services.
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Atlanta
Weather Bureau
Buck Pitts to Recover After Threats and Self Harm
Buck Pitts, Athens salesman in Madison, cut his throat during a two hour lockdown after threatening his wife. He is reported alive though in critical condition, held on bond from a prominent Newborn family. The story also advertises a tonic product for general weakness and appetite.
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Buck Pitts
Madison
Athens
Negroes Fight Race Discrimination Across States
Washington reports a broad challenge to race discrimination before the Supreme Court. The Oklahoma grandather clause and Maryland damages precedents are under scrutiny, with appeals questioning a Jim Crow railway system and a fight over Knights of Pythias lodge names. The case includes voting rights prosecutions of Frank Guinn and J. J. Beal and asks the Court to review denial of negro voting rights in 1910.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Maryland
Tennessee
Knights of Pythise
Frank Guinn
J.J. Beal
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Knights of Pythias
South
Patent Commissioner Ewing to Lecture at Atlanta Law School
Patent Commissioner Ewing or Judge Thomas Ewing Jr will deliver a three part lecture course at Atlanta Law School, with expert instruction on patent laws, after a North trip by Dean Hamilton Douglas. The lectures also will occur at Georgetown University later. Matriculation for 1913 14 term begins Monday with books opened at Peachtree and Marietta. The first lecture next Thursday is by Judge Arthur G Powell on The Study of Law.
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Thomas Ewing, Jr
United States Commissioner of Patents
New York Bar
Atlanta
Atlanta Law School
Hamilton Douglas
Law School
Ewing
Georgetown University
Atlanta’ Law School
Peachtree
Marietta
Judes Arthur G. Powell
Hutchens May Oppose Lee For Congress In Georgia
In the seventh district G. R. Hutchens of Rome considers opposing Congressman Gordon Lee for re election to a sixth term. Hutchens, former prison commissioner under Governor Brown, has ties across Haralson and Folk counties and may decide in the coming weeks.
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Rome
Seventh
Gordon Lee
Lea
G. R. Hutchens
Hutchens
Georgia
Brown
Haralson
Ploy
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