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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
1
The House and Senate adjourned just before midnight Saturday closing the legislative session. Key leaders promised to reconvene if needed, with bills awaiting final action deferred until the next session.
The sixtieth Congress ends with the currency bill passed by 43 to 22 in the Senate. The government employes liability bill also passes, with changes striking penalties for fraudulent compensation. The House approves the omnibus public buildings bill as the session wraps up.
Senator LaFollette spoke for eighteen hours and forty three minutes in a lone filibuster against the currency bill conference report. He faced strict rule interpretations as the quorum call battles intensified.
In New Orleans a fire broke out in a five story building near the Shu bert theater where hundreds of women and children watched a moving picture show. Exits opened and the announcer urged motion while flames threatened the arcade wall and the theater, with firefighters fighting to save the venue.
A blood written anonymous letter threatens Father Peter J O’Callaghan and Attorney Francis Hinckley in Chicago. It says St Marys Church in Wa bash avenue and Hubbard court will be blown up by dynamite tied to efforts to pardon Herman Billek, condemned for poisoning and killing six Varal family members.
An observation parlor car of the Royal Blue Flyer bound for New York plunged over an embankment near Garrett Pennsylvania fifty three miles east of Connellsville injuring all aboard. A special train was sent from Connellsville to the wreck site and physicians were called from nearby towns as officials assessed the damage.
Post Wheeler secretary to the United States embassy in Tokyo arrived in San Francisco aboard the Manchuria and said Japan will give a royal welcome to the American fleet. He added ill feeling toward the United States has died out and there is no friction over immigration. Wheeler noted China boycotts are harming Japan China trade suffers from the boycott and noted improved relations.
London reports indicate a possible triple alliance among England France and Russia as talks unfold over terms and royal consultations. In New York pressure grows to send a British cruiser to seize the pirate steamer Goldsboro tied to the Export Shipping Company with $280000 in cargo and missing officers.
General Stephen D. Lee longtime commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans died in Vicksburg Mississippi from cerebral hemorrhage after an exhausting speech at the Vicksburg National Park commission residence. He was 74. He left a military and political career including West Point graduate fights at Second Manassas Sharpsburg Vicksburg Atlanta Nashville and surrender with Johnston. He led Mississippi college Starkville later presiding over the college and served as a Vicksburg National Military Park commissioner since 1899. Succession talks name Cabell Evans Gordon as possible replacements with Evans to lead until Birmingham selection.
President Fallieres hosted a lavish banquet at the French embassy in London honoring the king the prince of Wales and other dignitaries. The event rivaled Buckingham Palace in splendor with Sevres service gold cups and tableware from the Elysee and an exceptional wine selection.
James A. Patten demonstrated absolute control by defeating J Ogden Armour in a May corn corner. Corn rose to a record eighty cents, influencing the market as wheat sold at 1.06 dollars. Helen H Taft, daughter of the secretary of war, graduated from Baldwin school and will attend Bryn Mawr College next year.
Application filed with the railroad commission seeks authority to issue millions in stock and bonds to fund a trolley line from Atlanta to Macon and to Albany and Americus. The venture combines Atlanta Giffin and Macon Electric Railway and Americus and Albany Electric Railway with New York bankers handling securities. The plan envisions 286 miles of track powered by Central Georgia Power facilities, with construction ready to begin once charter amendments are approved.
Bibb County commissioners unanimously approve 75000 for Bibb and Macon schools for the year starting July 1 1908. The education board cites 10000 in planned repairs and improvements. A Boys High School gains momentum with Gresham High School housing 450 pupils and a new institution urged.
In Macon Georgia the city council faces a near beer ban outside the fire limits but must settle the question with County Ordinary C M Wiley. Veterans who receive free licenses fear losing the right to sell the brew if the ordinance passes. The ordinance committee meeting was postponed due to one member’s absence.
Luther Sheffield was found not guilty of murdering his father Duncan Sheffield on last Christmas Eve in Cordele Georgia after a two day trial. The jury deliberated for several hours and the verdict received universal approval with no criticism voiced.
The Savannah Lodge of Elks has purchased Colonel Bierene Gordon’s semi colonial residence on Oglethorpe Avenue near Bull Street for 20000 dollars. The upper floor will become a single lodge room while the lower floor will house club rooms. The Elks plan to move in this fall, creating an attractive home for the Eleven O’Clock club.
The railroad commission ordered passenger schedule Nos 7 and 8 restored between Albany and Americus after Albany leaders urged reinstatement. It also authorized the Georgia Southwestern and Gulf Railroad to issue 4 million in common stock and 4 million in 6 percent bonds to build a 155 mile line from Dawson through Terrell Calhoun Whrogherty Baker Miller and Decatur to Florida Gulf coast. W M Legg is president and H A Bruton secretary.
A large turnout at Andersonville Georgia for Memorial Day included a special Fitzgerald train carrying nearly one thousand people, with 300 Confederate veterans and families. Attendance reached about 4,000 whites. local colored attendance was small. Company L of the Fourth Regiment National Guard helped maintain order and joined in cemetery exercises. The nearby memorial hall at the cemetery was dedicated after lunch as part of the day’s events.
A week-old baby found in a brand new traveling satchel abandoned at Martha Berry's home on Rhodes Street. A stylish man and a woman, who left money with Berry and asked her to care for the child, vanished after theater plans. Satchel contained extra clothes paregoric and talcum powder.
The Georgia Bar association session at Indian Spring elected J Hansell Merrill of Thomasville as President B F Abbott of Atlanta as First Vice President O A Park of Macon as Secretary Z D Harrison of Atlanta as Treasurer Sam Sibley of Union Point as Chairman Executive Committee The group passed a recommendation to change garnishment laws and require bonds from outsiders suing foreign corporations in Georgia This would remove the need for foreign firms to move funds to banks outside the state
Friends and admirers presented a handsome purse for a horse and buggy to Dr and Mrs J M Brittain of First Baptist Church Watenton Ga before their departure for Atlanta. Dr Brittain, a noted Georgia church leader and officer of the Central Baptist Association, is highly regarded locally.
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