Negro Shot Young Man
A young man was shot yesterday by a Black assailant in an incident reported in local police records. No further details on motive or condition were provided in the brief.
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1901
Page
1
Posses Seek Bile Morris After Fatal Wounding
Reports say a Negro named Bill Morris, a worker for Bob Richards in Silver Run, Talladega county, shot Richards four times over pay, wounding him seriously and fleeing. Bloodhounds helped track the suspect, who remains at large as of morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Run
Oxford
Talladega County
Bill Mor
Gratitude for Prompt Death Claim Payment
Mrs J E Ford thanks Metropolitan Life Insurance and Assistant Superintendent M E Block for prompt payment of her son James E Walls death claim. The payment was made six days after proofs of death. 1712 Brown Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
M. E. Block
James E. Walls
J. E. Ford
New Orleans Dispatch on Strike Labor Sourcing
Two men from Pittsburg recruited black labor to replace steel mill strikers for United States Steel Corporation. They secured fifty workers and reported similar efforts in Anniston Alabama and Bessemer Alabama, where forty men were obtained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Anniston
Ala
Bessemer
Heat Wave Smashes Records Across Several Cities
Cincinnati reports a 105 degree high with twenty five prostrations and one death. Paducah records 111, Frankfort 105, and Maysville 105 as crops suffer. Nearby cities show 106 in St. Louis, 104 in Omaha, while Boston 94 and New York 99 temper the eastern heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Omaha
Bismarck
N. D
Lone Wolf’s Last Resort
A brief entry notes the opening of a strip club or venue titled Lone Wolf’s Last Resort. The readable text centers on the launch and setting, with sparse details about the event.
Final struggle over opening new country to settlers begins
An El Reno district court hearing starts to halt President MacKinley’s proclamation opening lands to settlement. Kiowa Comanche and Apache groups seek a temporary injunction against officials in Lawton and El Reno, alleging fraud in the Jerome treaty ratification. Hearing set for next Saturday with Judge Willis Van Deventer likely to represent the government. We also note an adjacent furniture moving ad inserted in the column.
Judge jails money lender in contempt case
In Justice HW J McCarty's court G A Scoggins was jailed for contempt after refusing to produce books in a dispute over licenses. Two cases by Mooring against Scoggins and D C Cryer claimed non payment of $75 licenses for pawnbrokers. Scoggins' habeas corpus bid was denied. attorney vows suit for $1000 against the judge for prejudice. Call for sample bottle "Collars & Cuffs"? Rye among Levi's Leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice McCarty
Blackimon
Wife of Night Watchman to Inherit Texas Estate
Mrs Katherine Kirkus wife of J Wirkus a night watchman at United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry will inherit about fifteen to twenty thousand dollars from John N Sailors Robertson county Texas. Matthews Whiteside lawyers assisted claim from Texas trip to resolve kinship with Sailors. Sailors died two years ago leaving a forty thousand dollar fortune with Georgia heirs also sharing half the estate. James Kirkus the painters son will benefit little from the kinship dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry
Sailors
Kirkus
Mr. Sailors
Ture
Matthews & Whiteside
Texas
Nancy Martin
Georgia
Will not get any negroes here says president Echard
Echard, head of the Anniston Trades Council and Noble lodge, denies an agent is in town to recruit black workers. He praises the harmony between workers and employers in Anniston’s two rolling mills and says few Negroes work in steel here. He doubts the steel trust agent will succeed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echard
Anniston Trades Council and
Excursion to Chattanooga Details Anniston Route July 25
Excursion plan from Union Depot Anniston departs 10 a.m. Thursday July 25 with return from Chattanooga 4 p.m. Friday July 26. Separate coaches for whites and blacks. round trip from Anniston priced at 1.75. Organized by £. & N. BR. BR. CO. with J. G. Savery as manager. Also notes Model Laundry ad and cold cure remedy reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Depot
Anniston
Chattanooga
N. BR. BR. CO
J. G. Savery
Scoggins Sentenced to Jail for Contempt
A local court orders Scoggins confined for contempt as a brief notice reports he is locked up. The action follows the contempt finding and marks a courtroom enforcement of order.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Richards
Richards
Morris
Talladega
Richard
Brown Street
Anniston Negroes
NEW Orleans Dispatch
Cincinnati
Jonal A
Paducah
Frankfort and
Mays
Ville, Ky
Frankfort
Maysville
Concordia
Kas
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Lone Wolfs
Kansas Orry
Cial
el Reno
Lone Wolf
William M. Springer
MacKinley
District Court of the Second Judicial Dis
William A. Richards
Fice and Register and Receiver of
Congress
Reno
Willis van de
Venter
Gov
KR. O. Watson
Mr. Scoggins
The
Justice For
HW. J. McCarty
G. A. Scoggins
Ing
D.C. Cryer
Mooring
McCarty
W. P. Acker
Ross Blackmon
Scoggins
Katherine Kirkus
J. Wirkus
John N. Saile
Ors
Robertson County
Mr. Kirus
Col. T. V. R. Matthews
W. W. Whiteside
Will
James Kirkus
Jom N
President Echard
Noble Lodge
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
Evening Star
Mr. Echard
the Steel Trust
Mills
Noble Streets
Noble Street
Opera House
Ullman’s
Jos. Saks & Co
Head To Foot Outfitters
G. A
Texas Estate
Burnett & Bellingrath
Saks & Co
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