16 Jan 1901
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1901
Page
1
London reports revolt within the peace commission as three members captured near Lindley by Dewet’s force are described. one flogged and shot, two flogged. British papers condemn the act as murder while urging rapid reinforcement and rejecting conciliation with the Boer leaders.
Jan 14 in Bet ham Carlott o a 16 year old Italian girl elopes with Henry n a black man employed at a store on Carolina avenue. A trace of the pair or the Italian mother is found. authorities think they may have gone to New York or another state where interracial unions are legal. In Anniston Parker Memorial Baptist church raises over 2500 for missions. First Baptist raises 300 for foreign missions. Montevallo and Cahaba coal offered by Anniston Tee Co for sale.
Union Springs reports Capt. N H Frazer father of Bass Frazer a 19 year old student missing from the Atlanta Technological School offers 500 reward for his recovery dead or alive. The reward is on deposit at Merchants and Farmers Bank Union Springs and communications go to Union Springs Alabama. Also notes a widespread grip epidemic across the Atlantic seaboard and Midwest stressing hospital congestion in New York with Bellevue Hospital beds filled.
The Mercury reports Li Hung Chang is broken down in health and his death is imminent after illness in Shanghai on January 14.
A man and woman calling themselves Mr and Mrs BE Shaw, believed to be Morgan parties, were seized at the union depot by Officer Herron on a cheating and swindling charge. They allegedly canvassed Anniston streets soliciting 50 cent a year subscriptions to the Ladies Home Journal and Youth's Companion, collecting in advance. Victims alerted The Curtiss Publishing Company. the pair were jailed to face police court tomorrow.
Norfolk dispatch reports Admiral Cervera denying rumors of critical illness. He states he is in good health at Cadiz. The exchange followed a friendship formed in 1898 when Cervera aided wounded Spanish prisoners in the U S Naval Hospital.
Rev F H Kerfoot will preach at Parker Memorial Baptist Church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o clock as a featured event of the ongoing Bible conference. The noted minister is expected to draw a large crowd to the service tomorrow afternoon.
A blizzard in the Ohio region is reported to have left 120 men dead while coal shipments remain strong. The Daily News correspondent notes 6,000,000 bushels of coal stored and 2,000,000 more likely to be shipped, with 197 boats and 59 barges in the fleet.
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