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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
1
News arrives from Castleberry, eleven miles from Evergreen, of J. A. Stubbs who, in a drunken frenzy, shot and killed his mother and then killed himself. The family is described as prominent.
The Anniston Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will hold memorial services Sunday at 3:30 PM in the No ble Street theater. Lodges nationwide observe the first Sunday in December to honor members who died during the year. Prominent members will deliver addresses and music will be performed. The program is under rehearsal.
Doctors Gardiner and McDonald reported Former Speaker Thomas B Reed ill with catarrhal appendicitis. Temperature 101 and pulse 80 with nourishment retained, more comfortable. Mrs Reed and Miss Reed arrived from New York. doctors cautioned seriousness but no immediate danger.
The weather forecast indicates a cold wave moving from the Northwest. Tonight will be cold and tomorrow remains cold as the advance guard already reaches the area. The blast follows a blizzard conditions in the Northwest with a likely chilly day ahead locally.
A sale of Jenifer furnace is reported to have occurred this morning though confirmation is lacking. The furnace, rebuilt and enlarged, has a 150 ton daily capacity and was linked to K W H Weller and Eastern capitalists in a pending deal Os. Jenifer today, authorities could not confirm the purchasers or details.
At this season of coughs and colds Foley's Honey and Tar is promoted as the greatest throat and lung remedy. It is claimed to cure quickly and prevent serious results from a cold.
The Calhoun county board may face a dispute over whether D. Martin and A. J. Tarvin are legally elected to the first and third district seats. With the constitution not providing for county commissioner elections the issue hinges on whether Downing and Whiteside vacate. A legislature session in Montgomery next month may order a special election if the election is deemed invalid. The superintendent of education post is discussed but not affected.
John Saunders a Waterbury Conn white man was convicted of larceny in police court. He was fined and found to have worn a dress coat and sold an overcoat to a saloon patron. Saunders claimed he bought the clothes from a black man who had left for Atlanta. The man said to be a recent South Africa veteran discharged last January.
San Francisco December 4. While the steamer Progresso lay at the Fulton Tron works wharf at Harbor View an explosion occurred. Twelve men are missing and about twenty were injured. Property valued at £200,000 was destroyed.
Mary Emmerson killed Solomon Carlisle near Rock Hill yesterday. She says she fired after he grabbed the pistol pressed the barrel to his forehead and ordered her to shoot, claiming the weapon was loaded.
Lee Weigel charged with killing his wife, formerly Miss Marion Quinn of Anniston Alabama, was remanded to jail yesterday afternoon without bond to await grand jury action. He cannot appear in court due to his condition, and the matter was arranged at the sanitarium where he is confined under heavy guard amid bitter local sentiment.
An ad for Miller Drug promotes Foley’s Hooey and Tar as a universal cure for throat and lung ailments. It urges readers to refuse substitutes and seek the product through Miller Drug.
Mise Charlotte Rebecca Jones of Montgomery, famed as Alabama's most beautiful girl and a Washington social belle, will marry John Andrew Barnes, a young southern lawyer, on December 16. The tale mirrors Julia Chambers' novel The Destiny of Doris with a real wedding replacing the Lake Como setting.
The funeral for Mrs. John Ellis Sr. who died at her home yesterday morning of heart failure will be held Sunday at 2 30 p m from St Pauls Methodist church. Rev J G Johnson of Pratt City will conduct the services and relatives in Texas Louisiana and other distant states were invited to attend.
A freight collision at Riversid early today delayed the fast mail from the east about five hours. Several freight cars were wrecked with minor injuries to a brakeman. One train struck a stopped engine for water. both engineers may have believed they had the right of way. Traffic resumed with caution.
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