What the Georgia legislature accomplished in closing session
The closing session lists measures passed including a $3,000 convict prove expense fund, creation of Greater Atlanta, a Confederate veteran pension amid income limits, a telegraph delivery bill, a pure registration bill, and an elective pension commissioner measure. It also notes actions not taken such as convict lease reforms and anti lobby efforts, plus sessions ended at 3 a.m. with salutations and clock discrepancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
Greater
Atlanta
Foster
Smith
Messare
Neayle
Agricultural College
Athens
House
Enate
Georgia House Passes Bills After Memorials and Debates
The Georgia House, August 12, adopted resolutions mourning former members and heard the governor signal a special session. A major court of action approved a primary date, extended a school book contract, and tabling an eminent domain measure for water powers. Several city and county charter amendments, road and real estate bills, and Confederate veterans' pensions measures passed in the day’s sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
General Assembly
Senate
Georgia
Walch
Uleht
Bush
the Highth
Colquitt
Dobbs
Twenty-fifth
Edgewood
DeKalb County
Atlanta
Rattle Hill
Fulton County
Hawes
Union City
Campbell County
Tela
United States
Dean
Mth
Ollie
Pelder
Tattnall
Felder
Twenty-second
Overstreet
Tatnall County
Cander
DeKalb
Railroad Commission
McMahan
Clarke
G. Houser
Gordy
Twenty-fourth
Muscogee County
Camp
Thirty‘first
Chattanooga
Senate Appropriations Move for University of Georgia
The senate spent the session debating a 1908 1909 appropriations package for the University of Georgia and the State Agricultural College at Athens with additional funds for experiment stations and pension obligations. The afternoon and night sessions saw numerous appropriation bills approved including support for the Normal School at Athens the Georgia Normal and Industrial College Milledgeville the State Sanitarium at the insane and various towns and boards. A constitutional amendment pension bill was advanced and telegraph message dating rules were approved alongside local and police pension measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
University of Georgia
State Agricultural College
Athens
Experiment Station
Experiment
Flynt
State Branch
Waycross
House
Foster
Cobb
Marietta
Davison
Greene
L. H. Ledsinger
Ellison
Harris
Nancy M. Collier
Georgia State Sanitarium
Jones
Mitchell
Queen Shiver
Williams
Dodge
Leon
Ward
Coffee
Buchanan
Dean and Wright
Floyd
Floyd County
Pope
Brooks
Dixie
Mr. White
Madison
Danielsville
Edition
Madison County
Messrs. Alexander and Candler
DeKalb
Kirkwood
Cook
Headlight bill not a law says railway men in Georgia
In Atlanta supporters claimed a headlight bill for locomotives on regular railroads was passed. Opponents say an Senate omission left the measure dead and may be tested in court. The bill, introduced by Tift of Dougherty, passed the House and a substitute in the Senate empowered headlights rather than mandating them. The Senate receded 18 to 12 but not enough for enactment. Railroads argue no law exists and the cost would be two to three hundred thousand dollars. Southern Commercial Secretaries chose Chattanooga as next meeting city with Royster and Benjamin elected top officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Atlanta
Tift
Dougherty
Railroad Commission
House
Drownings Reported Across Several Locations
A cascade of water tragedies from Lake Champlain to the Delaware Bay, Niagara River, and New York Harbor claims multiple lives. Young bathers Lucy Perry, Sarah Disasway, and Elizabeth Disasway drown near Adams Landing after a deep water hole traps them. Additional victims include Clarence Button and Nellie Nickerson at Bowers Beach, and three others lost when a motor boat is struck by a barge in the Niagara River. John Boyd and John Starboro drown off Ellis Island, while Patrick Somer and John Gilson die bathing at Belmar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Isle
Vermont
Adams’ Landing
Lake Champlain
Lucy Perry
Sarah Disasway
Plattsburg
N. Y
Elizabeth Disasway
Brooklyn
Wilmington
Del
Clarence Button
Nellie Nickerson
Chester
Bowers’ Beach
Delaware Bay
Dutton
Miss Nickerson
Buffalo
Niagara River
William Pagels
Charlotte’ Myers
Raymond Pagels
Henry Schauss
New York City
Ellis Island
John Boyd
Fall River
Mass
John Starboro
Patrick Somer
East River
John Gilson
Newark
Belmar
N. J
Settlement of Puerto Rico church land dispute reached
Assistant Secretary Robert Bacon reports a settlement between the federal government and the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico. The agreement grants the United States control of the Santo Domingo convent building and surrounding land and the infantry barracks land for 120000 dollars, while the insular government gains the market place, San Francisco barracks, and the insane asylum land for 180000 dollars in installments. The church receives a chapel and 62 acres near San Juan. This closes the long dispute over church lands once owned by the Dominican and Franciscan orders, seized by Spain in 1838 amid litigation in six legislatures.
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San Juan
P. R
Porto Rico
Robert Bacon
Washington
Congress
Santo Domingo
Market Place
San Francisco Barracks
Insane Asylum
Clock Weight Kills Prominent Columbus Citizen
In Columbus Mississippi Dr A C Hulbert a leading local figure was killed when a clock tower weight fell from the courthouse. The weight broke free from its cable and struck him as he sat beneath the tower, crushing him instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, Miss
A. C. Hulbert
Columbus
Court House
Roosevelt May Pay Damages Dispute Over Schooner Collision
Belfast Maine Captain Guilford Pendleton owner of the schooner Menaway claims President Roosevelt aboard the Mayflower promised to pay for damages if the government did not. The July 22 collision occurred in Long Island Sound between the Menaway and the president's yacht Mayflower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Guilford Pendleton
Long Island Sound
Roosevelt
Menaway
Twelve Thousand Eagles Parade Through Seattle Streets
Twelve thousand members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles from across North America paraded through Seattle. Citizens and visitors cheered as the procession moved along the city avenues in a display of fraternal unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Order of Eagles
North America
Political party fights and national campaign notes
The piece reports on state and national party maneuvers including Texas Republicans nominating John N. Simpson for governor and endorsing local option and licensed saloons, Tennessee factions nominating rival governors, Taft avoiding entanglement in state fights, and Democratic leaders in New York pledging support for Bryan and Kern. It covers Florida GOP ticket picks, the Democratic campaign fund plan, and upcoming appearances by Taft, Bryan, Beveridge, and Hughes, with notes on Taft’s saddle incident and La Follette’s praise for Bryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
John N. Simpson
Dallas
Overnor
Republican Party
Tennessee
George W. Tillman
Evans
T. Asbury Wright
Facon
President Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Amerca
William H. Taft
Republican
West Virginia
Taft
National Committee
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Democratic Party
Hoffman House
New York City
Florida Republican Central Committee
Jacksonville
John M. Cheney
Orlando
J. L. Skipper
Bartow
George W. Holmes
Brevard County
J. F. Strunkel
Leesburg
8. W. Roley
San Mateo
Supreme Court
B. Bly
DeLand
Fred W. Marsh
Pensacola
Bryan
Toledo
Lincoln
Kern
Macon
Arthur J. Beveridge
Indiana
Mr. Taft
Washington
Hot Springs
Epworth Assembly
New York
Charles F. Murphy
W. J. Bryan
U. S. Troops Ready for Haiti Deployment
Rumors persist in Washington that U S troops may be sent to Haiti to restore order under the Monroe Doctrine. Preparations are underway at Fort Myer Virginia to mobilize soldiers at once upon a War Department order.
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Haiti
U. 8
Washington
D. C
United States
Fort Myer
War Department
Matrimonial schemes and civic notes headline late news
A Chicago based matrimonial scam run by Charles A Hudson led to his arrest in Minneapolis amid other late notes. The report also covers a fatal incident in Rochester from food poisoning, a Minneapolis mayoral will romance, a fire insurance convention in St Paul, an Alabama hog attack death, Kingdon Gould’s mining study in Mexico, a Paris asylum case, family ties in Texas, a Missouri university newspaper plan, and various naval and political updates from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Hudson
Chicago
Hudson
Minneapolis
Harry Jarrell
Lillian Jarrell
Rochester
N. Y
Robert Pratt
Mary Bettin
Griffin
Kingdon Gould
George J. Gould
Guanajuato
Mexico
Gould
John Miller Moore
United States Navy
Villeyard Asylum
Paris
Kansas
San Francisco
James H. Stevenson
Pueblo Col
Mecard County
Texas
Wilbur Stevenson
Board of Curators
Missouri State University of Columbia
Department of Journalism
University Missourian
Edward Guerr
Cuyahoga River
Ohio
Richard Harding Davis
White Plains
New York
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Flint
Slaton
Telfair
Board of Commissioners of Roads
County of
Hines
Baldwin
Board of ‘Commissioners of Roads
Messrs. Matthews and Clarke
Lowndes
Adams
Chatham
White
Slater and
Jesus
Screven
Sylvania
Whlte
City Court of
Strickland
Pike
Barnesville
Messrs. Slade, Russell and McMahon
Barrett Stephens
F. M. Rice
W. A. Mitchell
Mr. Bond
Forsyth
W. J. Standford
Messrs. Blackburn and Bell
Fulton
State Board of Health
Noyes of
Butts
Indian Springs
Mr. Foster
Blackburn
Tallulah
Towns
Goode
Perkins
Mary Blackstock
Tyson
Manuel
George M. Brinson
Fowler
Bibb
Southern
Fenn
W. R. Royster
John A. Benjamin
Albany
Vermont Summer Resort
Bacon
Liberty L. Bailey
Cornell College of Agriculture
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Navy Yards
Hague
Netherlands
Venezuela
Treasury Department
Philadelphia
Department
John H. Meyer Company
Otto Goetze Company
The
Hochi
Japan
Count Okuma
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