Through Georgia Bits of News Gathered From Day to Day
A Georgia roundup reports the Hudson case verdict in Atlanta a misdemeanor with a $500 fine and six months in Fulton county jail. Lithia Springs plans a 3000 spindle cotton mill backed by Providence capitalists and Atlanta investors, with machinery soon to be installed. Ti. A. Richards expects to survey the Chattanooga extension for the Northeastern railroad, with prospects for a path from Athens to Lula and onward to Chattanooga. Governor signs a warrant to discipline whip master T. J. Price at Camp Warren over brutal punishments. Georgia sells bonds at a 106 premium totaling about $242,000, saving $14,400 over 30 years.
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Atlanta
Fulton County
Lithia Springs
Georgia
Providence
Ti. A. Richards
Northeastern
Chattanooga
Richards
Athens
Lula
North
T. J. Price
Camp Warren
Wilocox County
Price
Turner
Crazy Man
Randolph, Kleybolt & Co
Cincinnati
U. Hardeman
Treasury
Union
Favorable Crop Weather Report Across Georgia
The Georgia weather bureau reports a mostly favorable seven day period with unusually hot sun and scattered showers improving crops. Cotton and corn show strong growth while watermelons and fruit fare well. peaches decline in the belt. Wheat and oats outlook improve though pastures and gardens suffer from drought and moisture shortage.
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Cardona
Nominations and Financial Notes From Washington
The president sent senate nominations including John W. Vandiver as Rome Ga postmaster and Jennie T. Dessert as Macon Mo postmaster while William Churchill of New York is named consul general to Apia Samoa. New York banks have turned 2.5 million in greenbacks to the subtreasury with around 4.5 million more to be called about July 15. The treasury reports May money circulation decreased by 18.4 million and total since June 1, 1895, by 85 million. A Madrid dispatch about a Cuban flag protest is deemed erroneous. Miss Julia Stevenson wed Rev. M D Hardin in Washington with officials in attendance. The Morgan Cuban resolution faces delays in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee due to lack of quorum and objections from some members.
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Senate
John W. Vandiver
Rome
Jennie T. Dessert
Macon
William Churchill
New York
United States
Apia
Samoa
Congress
House
Committee On Rules
Ways and Mornl
Wheeler
Courumittegs
Treasury
Haina
Ramon C. Williames
Havana
Mascotte
General Lee
Jones
Morgan
Miere
Amanda Woodcock
Jonathan Scott
Helen M. Jacob
Madrid
London Morning Post
Dapuy de Lome
Olney
Grand Army
Stevenson
Julia Stevenson
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Washington
M. D. Hardin
Danville
Rateff
Cleveland
Supreme Court of the United States
Diplomatic Corps
Hotel Normandie
Hardin
Bowling Green
Morrill
Harris
Senate pauses with no action on resolution in adjournment plan
Senator Morgan urged committee action and rejected the idea the senate would not vote if given a chance before adjournment. The conference on the general deficiency appropriation bill reported agreement on 257 of 283 senate amendments after several days of work.
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Senate
Morgan
Rioting Mob Lynches Suspect in Columbus GA
A mob of about fifty men seized Jesse Slayton during a Columbus courtroom session and dragged him to Broad Street where he was hanged and shot. They then hanged Will Miles, another Black suspect, before coroner inquest. authorities later determined death by unknown parties.
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Columbus
Georgia
Webster
Jesse Slayton
Howard Bryan
Slayton
Broad Street
Court House
Will Miles
Martin
Ounday
Kate Field Dies in Honolulu at May Nineteenth
Kate Field, longtime Chicago Times-Herald correspondent in Hawaii, died of pneumonia in Honolulu on May 19. Born 1854 in St Louis to Joseph Field and Eliza Riddle, she studied in Boston Italy and England and worked for multiple newspapers and the stage before turning to lecturing and journalism.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Hawaii
Chicago
Kate Field
Honolulu
Thurston
United States
St. Louia
Joseph Field
Eliza Lapsley Riddle
Philadelphia
Kate
Boston
Italy
England
Europe
New York Tribune
Philadelphia Press
Chicago Tribune
Booth
New York
Miss Field
Hawaiian Islands
The
Times-Herald
Mercer University President Gambrell Retires
Mercer University board in Macon accepted the resignation of Dr. J. B. Gambrell as president. The move surprised the city as few close friends knew of his plan. Gambrell is a leading Baptist minister and educator in the South with no announced plans.
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Mercer University
Macon
J. B. Gambrell
Dr. Gambrell
Bae
South
Light Insurance In St Louis Storm Damage
Conservative estimates place storm damage in St Louis at 20.9 million dollars with insurance payments not exceeding 200 thousand. The low payout reflects tornado policies being unpopular in the local market.
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St. Louis
Prohibition National Convention Adopts Single Platform
At the national prohibition convention in Pittsburg the platform calls for legal prohibition by state and national law of the manufacture importation exportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. Ex Governor Hughes of Arizona was proposed but withdrawn. C E Bentley of Nebraska was nominated for president and J H Southgate of North Carolina for vice president. A minority bolted and formed a separate national party.
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Ceesion
Pittsburg
Prohibition Party
Nscale Gle
Friends of Prohibition
Hughes
Arizona
National Party
Prohibit
C. E. Bentley
Nebraska
J. H. Southgate
North Carolina
Preparation for Veterans in Richmond Confederate Reunion
A Richmond letter outlines hospitality plans for visiting Confederate veterans attending the June 30 to July 1 reunion in Richmond Virginia and nearby Bromonp, Va. It promises quarters and meals for all organizations, with lodging at reasonable hotel rates for others and urges early quarter bookings. General Fitzhugh Lee becomes United States consul general at Havana arriving with dignitaries welcoming him.
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Richmond
Rich Bong Va
Bromonp
eAddress
O. T. Loehr
Ppyros Wise
United States
Mis
Fitzhugh Lee
Havana
Ramon O. Williams
Williams
Lee
Bradley T. Johnson
General Lee
Senor Zildo
Yglaterra
Wiliams
Judge Snodgrass Fined for Pistol Carrying Case
In Chattanooga circuit court Chief Justice Snodgrass of the state supreme court confessed to pistol carrying and was fined $50 by the judge and discharged.
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Snodgrass
Circuit Court At
Chattanooga
State Supreme Court
River and Harbor Bill Passed Over Presidential Veto
The house approved the river and harbor bill 220 to 60 despite the president's objections. The report notes most appropriations repeat prior authorizations, with no new 1894 projects. It argues adjustments to plans reflect engineers' modifications to benefit commerce and asserts the president overstates total expenditures. The centennial celebration then featured a 2000-strong parade, 75,000 spectators, a Tennessee History Society program, and a large Camp Thomas sham battle drawing about 50,000 attendees.
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House
Committee On Rivers and Harbors
Hooker
New York
Congrésa
Casey
United States Engineers
Harrison
Congress
Harbers
Baltimore
Portland
Wilmington
Del
Savannah
Micheclat
The
Tennessee Historical Society
John M. Lee
Alf Taylor
West Tennessee
Tennessee
Camp Thomas
Tennessee’s Centennial Amid Rain and Parade of 100th Anniversary
Tennessee marked its centennial as a state with a rain dampened parade in Nashville. President Thomas led flag raising at the exposition grounds, Virginia Frazer Boyle read the centennial poem, and J. M. Dickinson delivered the day’s oration.
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Tennessee
Exposition Grounds
Thomas
Exposition Company
Virginia Frazer Boyle
J. M. Dickinson
Nashville
East Tennessee
North Carolina
Charles II
Mississippi Valley
Watauga
Boone’s Creek
East
William Bean
Virginis
United States of America
Ninety Funerals Over Tornado Victims Buried
A Sunday funeral procession winds through Bellfontaine and Calvary cemeteries in St. Louis and East St. Louis as 90 tornado victims are laid to rest. Fifty-one victims buried in St. Louis and thirty-nine in East St. Louis amid a misty rain and somber skies.
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St. Louis
Grand and Florissant Avenues
Bellfontaine
Calvary
St. Louia
Pointe
East St. Louis
Freedom for Reformers: Pretoria Prisoners Granted Suspension
The British colonial office in London received a telegram from the Pretoria diplomatic agent Advocate Oloste stating that all Johannesburg reform committee prisoners have been released except four who were to death Hammond Farrar Phillips and Rhodes. The banishment sentence was suspended on condition they do not engage in South African publicity or affairs.
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Pretoria
Africa
Colonial Office
London
Advocate Oloste
Johannesburg Reform Committee
Hammond
Farrar
Phillips
Rhodes
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STAT
Georgia Weather Bureau
Atkinson
Shaw
Piywaus
Georgis
Executive Department
W. H. Patterson
Isene Acasedinale Wana
Me Pattaraon
Washington News
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Cuba
National Prohibitionists
Gen. Lee
Freedom For Reformers
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