Fatal Wreck Claims Grubbs and Guard on North Avenue
At 1 30 P M Monday a Southern switch engine struck a laundry wagon halted on the tracks at North avenue Edgewood. G E Grubbs 23 of Whiteford avenue driver for Guthmans Steam Laundry and a black assistant were killed. The engine No 1647 ran at high speed and the wagon was crushed. Grubbs died after being taken from the wreck. The engineer was Jack Landers the conductor G A Bush and firefighter J H Everett. The negro's name was not learned.
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Southern Railway
North Avenue
G. E. Grubbs
Whiteford Avenue
Edgewood
Guthman
Southern
Grubbs
Jack Landers
G. A. Bush
J. H. Everett
RACES NEW ORLEANS RESULTS OF TODAY'S RACES
Today’s New Orleans race results list winners and quotes from five races. Toy Boy won the first with Spider Web second and Gar gantua third in 55 seconds. Palloday captured race two with Frontenac second and Jolean third in 1 14 1 5. Missouri Lad won race three with Jacomo second and De bar third in 1 14 3-5. Columbia Girl won race four with Bellestrome second and Hannibal Bey third in 1 20 1-5. Sclon won race five with Annie Ruskin second and Lucy Marte third in 1 14 145.
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New Orleans
Toy Boy
Spider Web
Gargantua
Palloday
Frontenac
Jolean
Missouri Lad
Jacomo
Citywide closing of saloons from 4 PM through Christmas
Mayor Woodward ordered all saloons and wholesale whisky houses in Atlanta to close at 4 o clock Monday and stay shut through Christmas Day and until Wednesday. Chief of Police to inform keepers daily and enforce the order, aiming to prevent disorder on holiday crowds.
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Atlanta
Woodward
Nings Monchief
Family Burned In Norfolk Fire Shockful Christmas Tragedy
Special to The Georgian Norfolk article reports Samuel Poyner a Princess Anne county farmer left Saturday night for Christmas shopping and returned to find his home in ashes with his wife sister in law and two children dead. The Grimstead family also suffered as Mrs Grimstead and a child perished while Poyner and another man Henry Wilkins escaped only to die in a separate hut blaze.
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Norfolk
Samuel Poyher
Princess Anne County
Back Bay
Cleveland
Samuel Poyner
William Grimstead
Child
Poyners
Grimsteads
Poyner
Grimatead
Henry Wilkins
Train wreck in Freedom kills two engineers and injures others
Hochester New York December 24 The Pittsburg and Erie Express from Buffalo to Pittsburgh due here at 1 o clock collided with a light freight engine at Freedom New York. Engineer Howe and Fireman Hartwell were killed Several others were badly hurt including George Snett and C Palmer.
Duel on State Street Ends in Double Knifing Tragedy
In Chicago a man named Robert Merring was hacked to death and John Conners fatally wounded in a knife duel sparked by a quarrel over a woman. A crowd gathered as cries echoed, Merring receiving 25 knife wounds and Conners eight, with both men dying or near death from their injuries.
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Chicago
Robert Merring
John Conners
State Street
Merring
Conners
Meldrim declines to run for mayor of Savannah
Savannah Georgia December 24 General P W Meldrim today declined the nomination tendered by the Myers Collins Osborne faction for mayor of Savannah The declination shocks many and weakens opposition to the Peoples Democratic League Meldrim had been nominated by a Collins faction caucus including prominent opponents who bolted from the League He telegraphed regret at not accepting but pressuring forces him to remain out of public life He has previously served as Savannah mayor It is likely Mayor Myers will be the Citizens Club nominee J E Adams died Monday at a private sanitarium in Atlanta
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Savannah
P.W. Meldrim
Myers|Collins-Osborne
People's Democratic League
Meldrim
Collins
Citizen's Club
People’s Democratic League
League
Citizens’ Club
W. W. Osborne
Litica
Hannah
Myers
Club
Woodward
Atlanta
San Francisco
F. L. Seely
Pubkskei
Deaths From Gas in Fort Wayne Hotel Crash
Fort Wayne Indiana December 24B Huston and F Kruse of Auburn Junction Indiana were found dead in a local hotel after blowing out the gas.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
B. Huston
F. Kruse
Auburn Junction
Editor Giver Contributes $5,000 to Famine Fund
Washington December thirty fourth. The state department received the first contribution to the famine relief fund. A check for $5,000 came from Laula Klopke, editor of The Christian Herald of New York, under the president's call for funds.
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Washington
State
Department
China
Laula Klophe
The
Christian Herald
New York
Woodwardism High License Or Prohibition In Atlanta
The Georgian calls for decisive action on the liquor license issue in Atlanta. It criticizes city leadership for past failures, argues the mayor’s veto destabilizes civic life, and urges council to override or face a prohibition election. The piece favors a $2,000 license as a compromise to curb further trouble.
Baby Witnesses Father Killings Then Suicide In House
Walter Hightower, a painter, killed Bessie Jones and shot himself in his home at 144 Itankell Street after his 7 year old son Henry entered the room. Jones died at the scene. Hightower died at Grady hospital. The two had quarrels linked to prior killings of Benjamin Wilmouth and assault on Carrie Bryant. Continued on Page Three.
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Walter Hightower
Bessie Jones
Grady Hospital
Hightower
Itankell ‘Street
Jones
Carrie Bryant
Wilmouth
Webters
Henry
Caustic letter to Dr Broughton made public by mayor
A published full text of Mayor Woodward’s caustic response to Dr. Broughton denounces his Sunday night speech. The letter attacks claims about city expenses, accuses Broughton of malicious falsehoods, and defends Woodward’s conduct and tenure in Atlanta politics. It cites travel routes and criticizes a bucket shop futures stance.
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Woodward
Broughton
Atlanta
W. R. Joyner
Louisville
Loulaville and Nashville Railroad
Southern
Bucket Shop
Mayor’s sensational charge letter over a year old produced
Mayor Woodward releases a 1905 letter to Dr Broughton in which he labels the pastor a sensation monger and falsifying blackguard and claims he warned the pastor against publicizing the remarks. He accuses Broughton of dragging Atlanta into sensational disputes and declares he will not seek Broughton’s guidance in city governance.
Mayors Scapegoat Claims Roil Council Whisky Fight
Dr Len G Broughton denounces council and Mayor Woodward over whisky regulation veto. He calls the council infantile and whisky-obsessed, urges an anti-saloon petition drive in Lowndes building, and promises a prohibition election in Fulton County as public mood shifts. The sermon portrays the council as "whisky acrobats and rollers" bent on political game.
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XMAS
J. E. Adama
Preston
Barclay & Brandon’s
Ben Wilmouth
DR. Broughton
Sensation
Preacher
Ago
Mayor
Dr Broughton
Baptist Tabernacle
Darlington
Ward
Council
Len G. Broughton
General Council
Council of
Whisky Acrobats
Fulton County
Lowndes
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