Georgia News Highlights From Screven to Atlanta
Reports from Screven county’s Cotton Growers Association meeting in Sylvania urge holding cotton at 11 cents. Ed Lavender of Dublin faced federal bond in Macon for assaulting Revenue Officer Herkstrom. Savannah lawyers Heyward and Myrick face grand jury barratry charges. Roosevelt dinner menu features a miniature of his birthplace. Veterinary service demand rises after new state law. Worth county forms an agricultural college at Isabella. Matheson to lead Georgia Tech indefinitely as president not named. Cordele to Hawkinsville railroad charter filed, 35 miles, $3 million cap. Dewey donates $100 to Brumby monument. $1,800 raised. Milner murder case confessions prompt mother’s arrest. Rawlings capital cases appeal to state supreme court set for Oct 16.
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Herkstrom
Ed Lavender
Dublin
United States
W. —. Martin
Macon
Federal Grand Jury
Escours
Rawlings
State Supreme Court
Valdosta
Carter
Milton Rawlings
Jesse Rawlings
J. G. Rawlings
Superior Court
Lowndes County
Tower Court
Supreme Court
Read House cafe shooting ends with deputy’s justified kill
In Chattanooga eight o clock Friday night a fight at the Read House cafe left Ed Irwin head waiter dead after Chief Deputy Sherri Fred Frawley shot him in front of the hotel as Irwin advanced with a knife. Several quarantine officials were injured in the preliminary trouble. Coroner Gillespie ruled the shooting self defense. Printer notices warn Atlanta typographical workers of wage and conditions offers.
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Chattanooga
Read House
Ed Irwin
Sherri Fred Frawley
Frank Meador
Georgia
Decatur
J. H. Goss
F. C. Forbers
College Park
Walters
Meador
Goss
Forbes
Gillespie
Mr. Frawley
Norway and Sweden Reach Full Dissolution Agreement
Norwegian and Swedish delegates in Karlstad completed negotiations with unanimity. The dissolution agreement will be published simultaneously in Stockholm and Christiania early next week.
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Norway
Sweden
Karlstad
Stockhold
Christiania
Yellow fever reports drag Florida port city into discouraging outlook
Florida port city faces a discouraging yellow fever update as New Orleans officials report growing cases in Louisiana parishes and Mississippi towns. The Monday tally shows 37 new New Orleans cases, 870 total deaths, and 282 patients under treatment, with additional infections in Avoyelles Assumption and other parishes.
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Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
New Orleans
Roosevelt
Borodine
Napoleonville
Bayou Boeuf
Amelia
Terre Bonne Parish
Fisher's Camp
Sparrataria
Patterson
Hamburg
Miss
State Board of Health
Natchez
Vicksburg
Gulfport
Roxie
Mississippi City
Pensacola
Health Office
Wyman
McDavid
Bank Forced to the Wall in Kansas City State Liquidation
The Kansas City State bank under Wiley S. Cox failed to open and entered voluntary liquidation. It had loaned 169000 dollars to the Salmon & Salmon bank at Clinton Missouri, which failed last July, harming depositors with large losses.
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Kansas City State Institution
Kansas City State Bank
Wiley S. Cox
Bank of Salmon & Salmon
Clinton
Train Collision Kills Conductor Injures Twenty Seven
One killed and twenty seven injured when a northbound freight train on the Alabama Great Southern collided with the Blocton accommodation on the Birmingham Mineral at Woodstock Crossing. Conductor HW Uw Harburry of Birmingham died instantly. sixteen whites and eleven Negroes among the injured.
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Alabama Great Southern
Blocton
Birmingham Mineral
Woodstock Crossing
Harburry
Birmingham
Peage Treaty Reaches Russia In St Petersburg
M Plancon secretary of the Russian peace commission arrived in St Petersburg bearing the treaty argued by the envoys. It was turned over to the foreign office which will prepare a copy for the emperor to sign.
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M. Plancon
Green and Gaynor Lose Out in Montreal Habeas Case
In Montreal Judge Ouimet denies the habeas corpus appeal of Colonel J. F. Gaynor and Captain B. D. Green. The ruling upholds the extradition order issued by Judge La Fontaine, quashing the writ. The defense may seek a two week stay or pursue further action.
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Montreal
J. F. Gaynor
B. D. Green
Ouimet
Canada
Court of King’s Bench
la Fontaine
Mother Instigated Grime In Murder Case
Jimmie Epps an eight year old boy and his mother were arrested in Williamsburg Virginia charged with killing his six year old sister Matilda. The boy says he beat the child with a brick at his mother’s instigation who also beat the child. The dead child’s body was exhumed and showed multiple injuries.
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Jimmie Epps
Williamsburg
Matilda
Royal Arcanum Rates Blocked by Court Injunction
Judge Clark of the U S circuit court at Nashville Tenn on Thursday granted an injunction restraining the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum from applying the proposed rate increase. Petitioners allege the new rates will force every member over 60 from the order.
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The
Royal Arcanum
Clark
United States Circuit Court
Nashville
Tenn
Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum
Virginia Peninsula Railway Plans Revealed
A corporation named the Virginia Peninsula Railway is formed with 300000 dollars capital to build a line from Newport News to Yorktown with a branch to Pocouson, and to extend to Hampton Phebus and Old Point Comfort.
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Virginia Peninsular Railway
Newport News
Yorktown
Poquoson
Hampton
Phebus
Old Point Comfort
Missing Savannah Bookkeeper Faces Theft Charge
Scott Haines, a bookkeeper for Savannah Construction Company, is missing after an examination of the firm’s books shows a shortage of $300. Haines was a popular figure in Savannah and active in a local prominent club of young men.
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Savannah Construction Company
Scott Haines
Fashier
Young Haines
Savannah
Younger Mer
Russia and Japan to Sign Peace Treaty in Washington
Reported agreement states Russia and Japan will exchange ratifications of their peace treaty in Washington shortly after each side’s ratification. The ceremony is expected to occur in the White House with President Roosevelt involved.
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Russia
Japan
White House
Japa
Washington
Roosevelt
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