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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1905
Page
1
County officers listed include Lewis Ordinary and Graham Clerk with tax and road roles. Officials, surveyors, coroner, and treasurer names appear alongside church pastors and educators. Board of Education names J B Posey as Chairman with W D Graves and others.
City officials named include Mayor W J Stell and aldermen A Burks B Thornton W W Redwine W R Camp W L Smith. Police Chief is Belton Moore, with eight aldermen and mayor noted in the record.
Fayetteville groups including Fayetteville Chapter No 58 R A M meet first Tuesday at 2 PM with J W Kitchens as high priest. Mt Munriah Lodge No 130 F and A M meets on first and third Friday nights. Fayetteville Council Royal Arcanum meets first and third Tuesday with P Mize as regent. Fayetteville Lodge No 226 F and A M meets on first and third Monday with J W Culpepper as noble grand.
At New Orleans the Southern Interstate Cotton convention gathers 1135 delegates from 13 cotton states to set a program reducing acreage and fertilizer use, promoting bonded warehouses, and forming a southern producers system. Governor Jeter elected temporary chairman with focus on crop diversification and storage reforms.
Antonio Astizarian, from a prominent Mexican family, with two servants, was murdered by Yaqui Indians in the same area where four Americans fell victim a few days earlier. The grandman’s family were robbed but spared.
Washington reports the Senate convened as a court to try Judge Swayne with Chief Justice Fuller administering the oath. Senator Platt of Connecticut presided, pledging all sworne members remain seated. A returnable order for Judge Swayne's appearance Friday at one, a formalized organization, and expectations of a lengthy trial followed amid a large gathering.
Frank Allen killed his sweetheart in Attalla Alabama Monday night after she refused his marriage proposal. He is jailed in Gadsden and reportedly laughs about the bloody tragedy despite the fatal shooting of the young woman.
Dublin reports a surge in receipts surpassing the ten thousand dollar requirement for free delivery facilities and SOS bestones. The article covers local growth, a fatal homicide in Perry, and multiple civic notes across Putnam and nearby counties.
The coal mining districts face a worsening strike with 185000 workers idle, more than double the 1889 peak. Government negotiations show little progress and no favorable settlements in sight.
Seven survivors of the ill fated Norwegian ship Marpesia arrived in New York on the Trinidad from Bermuda. The vessel was wrecked at sea on Christmas day by naptha explosion, killing eleven crew members. They were rescued by the Danish steamer Gallia which happened to be nearby as the Marpesia blew apart.
Frank D. Pavey of New York submits to President Palma in Havana an offer from Clarence Jones & Co. to purchase Cuban bonds totaling 30 million dollars. If Cuba authorizes payment of soldiers' claims balance, terms may follow.
A St Petersburg conference with the finance minister yielded a nine hour day for 5,000 Putiloff plant workers who returned to work. Printers, cotton mill employees, and brewers promised to resume. Proclamations signed by the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party urged an end to autocracy, a constitutional assembly, universal suffrage, free speech, and the seizure of arms, while warning against harming private property.
The Bureau of Entomology reports 1904 Texas cotton damage at 400000 bales worth 22000000 dollars, up from 15000000 the previous year. The pest entered nearly all counties in 1904, unlike earlier years when some were spared.
J B Stewart describes Bostwick village in Morgan County ten miles from Madison. The three room school, with patent desks, library, heating, and 102 attending children, became the district center after consolidation of two outlying schools. Wagons haul students to the town, enabling an extra teacher and graded instruction, while evening district events and talks foster community life and support for schooling.
Presidents of the Bankers' Association of the cotton growing states presented at the national cotton convention in New Orleans a plan to ease growers' burden. Recommendations included a 25 to 38 1 3 percent reduction in acreage, establishing bonded warehouses, using warehouse receipts as collateral, and urgent diversification.
Dr Irvine filed notice of a civil suit for damages against Bishop Talbot alleging slander in a Pennsylvania diocese dispute. The case involves an unfrocked priest appealing to civilian court and a potential airing in civil courts.
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