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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1900
Page
8
London dispatch reports India's famine deepening with cholera devastations in Bombay and Doab regions. Relief camps empty as workers return home to die, while Doab endures extreme starvation and new fatalities.
Eyewitness accounts describe a seven year old girl trying to care for two younger brothers while their mother lay down to die. A fire feeds under a broken pot holding the rotting remains of a dead animal as famine grimly intensifies in Dohad.
Several cases tried this morning before Mayor Pro Tem McKleroy. George Hill, colored, was fined 5 dollars plus costs for assaulting his wife after she left without his permission. Three young Negroes faced larceny charges with their mothers present. They face punishment and meals as indicated. A young white man paid 2.50 for jumping from a moving train. a small white boy was released after brief confinement. Other docket items were dismissed or fined per evidence.
A brief notice touts Foley's Kidney Cure as a cheap safeguard against Bright's disease diabetes and other ailments, sold by Elam Drug Co. The ad promises a fifty cent bottle as a simple reliable remedy.
A meeting at Parker Memorial church organized plans for a series of New Century Movement gatherings in Calhoun County. Forty one Baptist churches will be reached with two day meetings at listed churches including Jacksonville and Coldwater. Topics cover denomination history, growth, missions, equipment, aims, organization, and pastor leadership. Dates in July and August to be announced by a committee.
The city board of education met in Judge Johnston’s office and unanimously reelected all teachers for three public schools. At Leighton Avenue School Principal Prof. E. M. Murphey and teachers Lois Johnson Elenor Vailey. Pine Street School Principal Prof. S. C. Pelham and teachers Annie Brewer Ethel Ledbetter Mary Agee. Colored School Principal Prof. S. E. B Moses Col teachers Della C Moses Zadie Hadnot and F. E. P. Frazier Col. The session was noted as unusually successful and a tribute to teacher competency.
Double daily service to Hot Springs via Choctaw and the Little Rock Hot Springs and Western railway. Night train leaves Memphis at 11 30 p m with through Pullman sleeper. day train offers reclining chair car. For fares and schedules contact agency representatives in Chattanooga Atlanta and Memphis.
Montgomery June 12 The coroner's jury ruled Aaron Parker's death a justifiable homicide after General Oates testified he shot to save his life. He has received letters and telegrams nationwide congratulating him on his narrow escape.
Choctaw Route sells round trip tickets to Arkansas Indiana Oklahoma Texas New Mexico for one fare plus two dollars. Going limit fifteen days. return limit twenty one days from sale. Dates April 17 May 1 15 June 7 19 July 17 August 7 21. Information from C J Warrick Memphis or J F Holden Little Rock.
The notice states that every person may enter the cotton estimate contest for each dollar spent at the Dixie Hardware Co or at Alexander and Co in Alexandria. It allows one guess per dollar or per minor purchases totaling one dollar.
The article extols Asheville North Carolina as a dry healthful climate and a natural sanitarium for pulmonary and bronchial illness. It notes Asheville as the highest city east of Denver with about 12 000 residents and a thriving urban life. It highlights wealth in suburbs including the Vanderbilt chateau costing over four million dollars.
Alf M. Morgan is announced as a candidate for sheriff of Calhoun county and Tama's prospective congress seat remains subject to the action of the Democratic party.
An old style market notice advertises Western and native beef roasts and steaks at Eldridge's market 14 West Tenth. The fragment mentions cold remedies and chocolates and quinine but emphasizes meat prices and availability.
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