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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
2
The Detroit News-Tribune discusses epilepsy not equating to insanity, noting many epileptics are highly intelligent. It contrasts petit mal and grand mal, cites Caesar Mahomet and Napoleon I as examples, and considers legal implications if an epileptic encounters the law amid brain-storm episodes.
A New York Sunday World piece reassures readers that only copperheads and small eastern rattlesnakes are truly dangerous in the eastern states, while many other snakes pose little threat. The article aims to counter panic about summer snakes and extols harmless species and natural beauty.
Banks in Atlanta and Augusta report New York and other cities prepared to resume currency shipments. In Georgia 182 corporations went out of business in 1907, mostly small firms. 58 in Atlanta, 16 in Chatham County, 6 in Richmond, 5 in Bibb. Public utilities paid over 615000 in state taxes for 1907, with steam railroads over 475000. Milled georgia locker clubs barred as city assigns 10000 tax license. Trains to Atlanta scheduled by Feb 15 on AB A and T line. Confederate veterans and teachers await pensions and back salaries with funds on hand.
Judge Kohlsaar of the United States circuit court in Chicago ruled for the government in the Carter case. Carter failed to obtain 400000 in Union Pacific bonds and other securities traced to safety vaults and banks. The decision leaves tied funds and pending suits across New York New Jersey West Virginia Georgia and Illinois. Carter claimed the money came from his father in law Robert F Westcott of New York.
Authorities in Lexington Kentucky after night rider raids in Bath and Fleming counties meet at the courthouse and decide to request troops be stationed in the city to protect warehouses from further raids.
California appellate court voids Schmitz extortion conviction and Abe Ruef’s guilty plea findings. It rules restraining or demanding restaurant fees was not a crime, reverses the Schmitz verdict, and dismisses extortion indictments. Bail is set but both men remain jailed pending further appeals and a possible rehearing.
Alexander Forrester a wealthy retired merchant of Cleveland Ohio and passenger on the Southern flyer died in an Atlanta hospital early Thursday. He suffered a dislocated shoulder a broken ankle and multiple contusions from the wreck near Hiram Georgia.
Official liquor statistics for 1907 from Baton Rouge show twenty one parishes, nearly half the state, are completely dry by local option laws. In two additional parishes liquor licenses of 3000 to 5000 dollars have made prohibition an accomplished fact without laws.
The Memphis Tennessee session of the Farmers Educational and Co-Operative Union adjourned after adopting rules that require members seeking political office to resign from the union, and calling for end to gambling in farm products. It pressed for federal money issuance and the abolition of the seed distribution bureau, plus parcels post expansion and a postal savings bank. The Thursday session endorsed building two cotton bagging factories east and west of the Mississippi with funding via member canvassing.
Georgia seeks repayment of state funds deposited at Neal Bank before suspension. The intervention asks the Superior Court to order the Central Bank and Trust, as receiver, to return 204373.98 dollars with 192502.90 dollars from the treasurer and 11871.08 dollars from DeKalb County’s tax collector. Hearing set for January 13 with show cause directed.
The Sunset Express southbound on the Southern Pacific ran an hour late and wrecked Thursday night at Rucker twenty five miles south of San Jose California. Mrs A P Boyd of Portland Oregon and her infant son were killed a tramp is also reported killed Eighteen injured are in San Jose hospitals.
The Georgia Railroad Commission sent an expert track walker to the wreck site near Hiram to inspect the track bed trestle bolts and crosties. He will prepare a minute examination report for investigators.
The Georgia Department of Agriculture awarded a contract for 1908 fertilizer tags to Reyburn Manufacturing of Philadelphia at 386 cents per 1 000. The next bid was 41 cents. The state will pay 2400 dollars to supply tags sufficient for 800 000 tons of fertilizer.
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