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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1901
Page
1
The constitutional convention approved cutting the state tax limit from 75 to 65 cents per $100, amid debate. A 66 to 32 vote backed the reduction, with speakers urging or opposing the change. Section 5 proposes a 50 cent county tax plus up to 25 cents for public buildings and school taxes by voters, while amendment talks about stripping the majority vote requirement.
A thunderbolt felled twelve youths and an elder in a zinc-lined shack under a north shore pier. They sought shelter from a storm as their lines lay abandoned. Willie Anderson survived but lay trapped for minutes before rescue.
Mr. Fred J. Williams of Birmingham leads organizers for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. A local branch will form at the new Anniston Rolling Mill this afternoon with about seventy-five charter members. Williams returns from a Pittsburgh conference where a satisfactory scale was signed.
July heat shatters records across cities from New York to Chicago with highs near 100. In New York 57 deaths and 141 prostrations occur in Manhattan and the Bronx as 98 degrees is logged at 3 10 p m. Washington reports 102 degrees and 50 heat prostrations with two fatalities. Chicago sees five deaths on the streets and many prostrations as streets top 100 degrees.
Fagan and Farabee join with J D O Bryant to form J D O Bryant & Co creating a large general merchandise firm in the city. Stocks replenished, move planned to the Rh C Johnston store, with Lemon store vacated. Post Office money order tax relief issued as war tax ends, refunds distributed. Plumbing call for J P Reynolds appears at end.
The Chatauqua wraps with three final sessions tonight tomorrow morning and tomorrow night. Mrs Frazer in dialect and Mrs Foster sing, Miss Mitchell recites with Rob inson and Douglas, and a grand concert features Brazer Mitchell Foster and others. Admission is twenty five cents and crowds praise the high talent in Anniston.
Nine hundred thirty Boer prisoners were moved to camps on Barrells and Tucker Islands near Hamilton Bermuda. The captives, part of General Cronje’s force, include boys aged 8 and 10 who carried ammunition, and two older men who crawled ashore on all fours saying they had never sailed salt water before.
E L Turner awards contracts for a double store building on the east side of Noble Street near McElreath Drug Co. Grading work awarded to P H L O’Brien began this morning, while the building contract goes to E Houser and will start after grading finishes. Patronize a home industry and buy a Silver Ash union made cigar.
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