Disclosures in Frank Phagan Murder Case Shocks Atlanta
James Conley testified that Leo M. Frank helped dispose of 14 year old Mary Phagan's body after she visited Frank's office. Conley detailed scenes in the factory, notes dictated by Frank, and Frank's nervousness and payments to ensure Conley's protection.
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Atlanta
James Conley
Leo M. Frank
Mary Phagan
Conley
Beavers
Sanford
Frank
Ma Phagan
State aid money now available for county road
State aid money for 1913 was available and the county board must match funds. The road committee favors a new Semmes to Lott road with a 30 foot right of way, pending property owner consent. President Bauer and Green clash over Gov ernment street Wragg Swamp versus Conception street road.
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Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Semmes
Ala
Lott Road
John T. Bauer
Henry Brannan
Mobieland Bay Shore Railroad Company
New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad Company
Mobile
And
Mobile Light and Railroad Company
Government Street Loop
Keller
Bauer
Conception Street
Gaillard
Hagan
McClure
Mobile Gravel Company
Lott
Jett Bros. Contracting Company
Dauphin Way
Ozark Military Guard Handles Threatened Black Man
Special to Firelter Montgomery August 4. Adjutant General Scully reports Captain O. C. Speight of the Ozark company says the Black man threatened by a mob at Daleville last night is safely in the Ozark jail and soldiers are on duty. Gov O Neall had called out the militia after a telegram from Judge Mike Solle. Details are awaited.
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Montgomery
Ala
Scully
O. C. Speight
Ozark
Daleville
O'Neall
Mike Solle
Meridian excursion draws large crowd on Sunday
The Meridian excursion by the Mobile and Ohio railroad from Mobile and along the line attracted nearly 250 patrons enjoying cheap rates. Many visited Eastern Shore resorts such as Coden and nearby places. Harvey E. Jones Jr., general agent of the Mo-1an Ohio passenger department, says Sunday’s outing surpassed expectations.
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Meridian
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Mobile
Eastern Shore
Coden
Harvey E. Jones, Jr
Ohio
Lightning damages Whistler house on Gould Street
A house owned by W. J. Swann and occupied by Mr Mason on Gould street Whistler was struck by lightning shortly after 3 o clock Sunday afternoon. The structure suffered heavy fire roof and window damage while the occupants Mr and Mrs Mason and two children were inside but escaped injury. The bolt entered a corner and traversed two front rooms.
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W. J. Swann
Mason
Gould Street
Whistler
Ames Frier son wedding in Mobile at Christ Episcopal Church
Dr. Edward York Ames a Shreport La physician married Miss Magnolia M Frier son Pollard Ala quietly Monday at 3 pm in Christ Episcopal church rectory Rev Matthew Brewster officiated in the presence of a few friends. The couple met here by agreement, Dr. Ames came to Mobile on Sunday.
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Edward York Ames
Shreport
Magnolia M. Frierson
Pollard
Ala
Christ Episcopal Church
Matthew Brewster
Ames
Mobile
New Orleans
R. V. Taylor Returns to Mobile From East
Vice President and General Manager R. V. Taylor of the Mondile and Ohio road has returned to Mobile from New York and Washington after company business with the Southern Railway. He says rumors of his resignation started in Macon are groundless.
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R. V. Taylor
Mondile and
Ohio Road
Mobile
New York
Washington
Southern Railway
Dairy operator fined for incomplete barn floors in Mobile
In Mobile Recorder Edington fined Mrs. 8 E Watkins ten days for violating city ordinance requiring cement floors in dairies barns. Watkins said barn work was underway but unfinished and a previous continuance was granted. Also fined ten days for three others kept open on Sunday and a separate disorderly conduct case involving J R Vogtner and a salesman.
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8. E. Watkins
Mobile
Recorder’s Court
F. R. Harsh
City Court Sets Bond in Larceny Cases and Shooting Incident
Frank Ward a negro was bound over to the city court grand jury under 500 bond for grand larceny after being arrested Saturday for stealing a Jersey cow from L N Ward of Toulminville. Charlie Houston pled guilty to grand larceny and was bound over under 250 bond. The revolver belonged to Patrolman Helton and was stolen from his sister’s home. Robert Green, a negro, surrendered to police on an assault with intent to murder charge and is held without bail as investigation continues into Spencer Porter’s condition after being shot. Porter was wounded in Cedar and remains in precarious condition at the city hospital.
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Frank Ward
L. N. Ward
Toulminville
City Court
Recorder’s Court
Charlie Houston
John Lincoln
City Court Grand Jury
F. .E. Helton
Robert Green
Spencer Porter
Green
Cedar
Porter
Tyrrell pleads guilty in burglary case
Charles Tyrrell, a Negro, arrested on Will Carter’s complaint for burglary pled guilty in recorder's court Monday. He was bound over to the city court grand jury under a $500 bond for allegedly breaking into the warehouse of Sullivan, Long & Hagerty.
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Charles Tyrrell
Will Carter
Recorder’s Court
Tyrrell
Sullivan, Long & Hagerty
Will Williams Case Continued For Counsel
The case of Will Williams arrested Sunday afternoon by Patrolmen Lincoln and Helton on a charge of selling liquor without a license was continued by Recorder Edington Monday until August 5 to allow Williams to employ counsel.
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Will Willams
Lincoln
Helton
Edington
Williams
Charley White Signs for Two East Fights
Chicago lightweight Charley White signed for two bouts in the East. On August 13 he will meet Frank Whitney of Cedar Rapids in Atlanta, Georgia, for ten rounds.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Charley White
Frank Whitney
Cedar Rapids
Atlanta
John V Smith Dies of Typhoid Fever in Montgomery
John V. Smith, 1860 born Georgia native and former Montgomery city attorney, died at 3 a m after a two week typhoid illness. He served as Alabama Railroad Commission president and Montgomery representative, authored the Smith regulation bill, and leaves wife, a son in the Marine Corps, and a daughter. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Montgomery
Ala
John V. Smith
Alabama Railroad Commission
Montgomery County
Georgia
Tallapoosa County
Alabama
Auburn
Waverne
Seale
Russell County
Opelika
Third Circuit
Railroad Commission
Samford
Smith
Holland Smith
United States Marine Corps
Manila
Robert P. Boyd
County Commissioner Bran nan Seriously Ill with Typhoid
County Commissioner Henry Brannan of the second district is gravely ill with typhoid fever at his Wilmer Alabama home. He has been ill since last Thursday with a physician always in attendance, and grave fears are entertained for his recovery.
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Henry Brannan
Wilmer
Ala
Seven Trapped and Cremated in Quebec Fire
In Quebec from an explosion caused fire, Mrs. Joseph Paquet three daughters two sons and an unidentified woman guest died today. Paquet and one child escaped. The Paquet family lived in St. John parish fifteen miles east of Quebec.
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Associated Press
Quebec
Joseph Paquet
Paquet
St. John Parish
Foreigners in Mexico friendly to states says Del Valle
Reginaldo F. Del Valle, returning from Washington, reports Mexicans broadly friendly to the United States and patient amid tension. He says Americans are liked individually, but anti American sentiment exists as a class. He debunks talks of Japanese colonization in Mexico, calling such schemes virtually nonexistent.
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Mexico
del Valle
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Reginaldo F. del Valle
Wilson
Washington
State Department
United States
Rockefeller and Roberts Share Laughs on Ages in Cleveland
In Cleveland at Facud avenue Baptist Church on Sunday morning John D. Rockefeller aged 738 years and Ebenezer Roberts aged 105 years shook hands and complimented each other on good health. Roberts quipped it was once a boy but I am an old man now. Rockefeller replied I was once a boy too and I am still a boy.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
Ebenezer Roberts
Facud-avenue Baptist
Mr. Roberts
Mr. Rockefeller
Woman Shot by Brother-In-Law Dies After Shooting
Mrs. Lacey Moore died after being shot in Waycross Georgia on a Saturday night. The shooter R Smith killed himself before a mob could capture him following threats against Mrs Moore and a confrontation with her father M Freeman. Longfellow’s nephew William Longfellow dies at 72 in Gloucester Massachusetts.
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Associated Press
Waycross
Lacey Moore
Smith
Prest Gomez To Lead Venezuelan Army Against Castro
President Gomez to personally command troops against Cipriano Castro as rebels rise in Falcon Tachira and eastern Venezuela. Veterans and recruits mobilize at Maracay to attack Coro, while another force gathers at Barquisimeto to trap Castro. Business slows but citizenry remains confident the government can quell the rebellion.
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Associated Press
Caracas
Venezuela
Gomez
Cipriano
Astro
Falcon
Tachira
Castro
Maracay
Coro
Barquisimeto
Lara
Burk Jones Arrested for Bootlegging in City
Burk Jones was arrested in the northern part of the city Sunday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff William Washington for bootlegging. He was found with seven half pints concealed on his person and taken to the county jail. Jones will plead guilty to the charge.
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Burk Jones
Wiliam Washington
Jones
Judge Chamberlain Returns From Sea Cliff Holiday
Judge Henry Chamberlain of the inferior criminal court returned from a week's vacation at his Sea Cliff Alabama summer home on the eastern shore. During his absence attorney Mores Kohn served as judge.
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Chamberlain
Henry Chamberlain
Inferior Criminal Court
Sea Cliff
Ala
Mores Kohn
Irish League to Raise Fund for Nationalist Party
Boston reports the United Irish League of America planned to forward the remaining 41,748 of the pledged 100,000 to John Redmond for the Irish Nationalist Party. At a national executive meeting, 53,552 had already been sent and 4,700 on hand, with members pledging immediate steps to complete the balance as the Irish Parliament would open in June 1914.
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Associated Press
Boston
United Irish League of America
John Redmond
League
M. Ryan
Philadelphia
Redmond
Auto Plunge Kills One Injures Others Near Huntington
In Huntington West Virginia on August 4 Joseph L Cook sixty driving his new auto tried to pass on a narrow Mud River road east of Live Sulphur Springs. The car plunged thirty feet into the river. Mrs Cook and three year old Russell were thrown from the vehicle. Mrs Cook likely died at the hospital. Russell was badly bruised and Mr Cook seriously hurt.
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Huntington
W. Va
Mud River
Live Sulphur Springs
Joseph L. Cook
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