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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1911
Page
1
Gen Reyes announces he will not seek the Mexican presidency and urges allies to back Francisco Madero. Political observers expect the move to heal party breaches. In related notes, President De La Barra says no relief funds are needed abroad after the earthquake.
Governor Emmet O Neal receives four reports from prison inspector Dr W M Oates condemning two county jails Lawrence and Marion counties at Mounton and Hamilton as unfit for confinement and urging new jails. Also reviews Cal Tall Coun building and Morgan County jail with recommended improvements. Thirty eight mills surveyed show most sanitation fair with Coosa Manufac Co Piedmont as very good. several mills named as bad including Central Cotton Sylacauga Anniston Cordage Anniston Manufacturing Girard Lang Lanette Sosenan Hosiery and others.
Six people died in Pittsburg as a heat wave broke June records with extreme temperatures. Officials reported multiple heat related fatalities linked to the high heat level and humidity. Public health advisories urged residents to stay hydrated and seek shade.
Six people died and about $1,000,000 in damage occurred in and around New York due to wind rain and electrical storms since Saturday night.
The body of Mrs. Smith, a wealthy woman, was discovered under boards in a vacant lot near Central Avenue. Her husband was arrested and charged with her murder.
In Cincinnati on June 12 an echo of the Warriner embezzlement case arises as Edgar Street Cooke of Chicago faces trial for similar charges. Warriner, former Big Four treasurer, served about a year’s prison for 643000 dollars stolen from the railroad. Warriner will be brought to Columbus penitentiary to testify, with Mrs. Jeanette Ford expected to testify as the woman in the case.
The report notes the Tuscaloosa Cotton Mill and other Tuscaloosa firms involved in the local cotton trade, signaling the town's ongoing industrial commerce.
Montgomery reports tension as ex Governor B B Comer and Judge Thomas G Jones may meet after Comer's journalistic attack on Jones in Sunday's papers. discussion centers on potential trouble in the town.
Reno dispatch reports eight leading professors of international law disputing six month Nevada divorces as residence based. They contend such decrees are void outside Nevada and that recipients commit bigamy when they remarry, violating the U S Constitution.
Fire destroyed the sawmill plant of Dr. John Pearce near Peek's Hill on Saturday night. The origin of the blaze and total loss are not yet known. The mill was previously famous for the Kennedy killings and the subsequent murder trial of Pearce and his son Cross, with the father sentenced to life and the son to twenty years.
The court set bail at twenty five thousand dollars for the defendant in a domestic case involving two females. Forecaster Clark notes Sunday’s high reached 96 degrees with today’s expected peak two degrees lower.
Sunday morning a fire destroyed two cottages on Noble Street north of Twenty fifth, owned by French of New York City. One cottage housed Conductor George Heyden of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. the other was vacant awaiting a Monday tenant. Heyden and wife were not home. Heyden was later found safe in Birmingham after a long night delay. Household effects valued about 1300, piano among losses, with only 500 covered by insurance. building losses and insurance on them not yet learned. Fire department faced low water pressure and could not stop the blaze.
Rev. E. Hodges of the First Presbyterian church urged a summer move to outdoor lawn seating to avoid the heat and coat discomfort seen in the Hobson incident during the Merriman address at Alabama Presbyterian College. His Sunday sermon on Positive Christianity was praised.
The U S Department of Agriculture released state by state crop conditions as of June 1 with Alabama featured among leading states. The report lists numbers for Maine to Pennsylvania and notes continuation on the third page.
City finance head A I Agee told Monday the city faces a tight budget for July 1911 to July 1912. He listed fixed charges totaling about 74 400 and estimated receipts around 103 000 including state funds, noting the 90 percent cap on appropriations and unresolved road and bridge funds.
Three children playing along the Pittsburg and Lake Erie track near McKeesport were struck by a freight train and died. The accident occurred as they walked hand in hand, leaving the community in shock.
The senate will vote June 12 on a constitutional amendment for direct election of U.S. senators. A two thirds majority is required. Senator Berah has led the fight through two congresses and expresses confidence the measure will pass.
Stockholm June 12 The congress of the International Suffrage Alliance of the World meets here this week drawing equal suffrage advocates from many countries. The National American Woman Suffrage Association will have a large representation and play a conspicuous part in proceedings. Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt of New York will preside at several sessions. Other American delegates include Rev Anna Howard Shaw Miss Mary B Ely Miss Frances Wills Mrs Frederick Nathan and Mrs Alice Parker Lesser.
A special commissioner opened testimony in Kansas City in a Missouri suit against the Missouri Retail Lumbermen's Association. The case seeks to oust the association from its leadership role in the state's lumber trade.
New York June 12 Lillian Grasl and Ethel Conrad chorus girls of shooting W B E Stokes proprietor of the Hotel Ansonia were admitted to bail of 25000 each due to the serious condition of Stokes who faces possible blood poisoning. Wednesday is set for the hearing.
In Kansas City Baracas begin the sixteenth annual world convention with about two thousand delegates from around the world in attendance. The sessions run through Thursday.
Writ of habeas corpus bought by William S Kennedy John Fowler and John Haton led to bail granted by Chancellor Whiteside. Bond totals 2500 for Kennedy 2000 for Fowler and 2000 for Baton. All three have been jailed since January 15. Ada Kennedy released on bond. Trials deferred to fall term.
State officials seek to stop thirty eight prominent lumber companies from conducting business in Missouri claiming they form a combine in violation of state anti trust laws. The action targets major industry players and aims to curb price fixing and market restraint within the timber sector.
OSSINGNING June 12 In a double execution lasting only ten minutes two murderers paid the penalty for their crimes in Sing Sing prison here today. They were Frederick Gibbart convicted of the murder of Anna Luther near East Islip L I and Thomas Barnes a veggie man who shot John Leonard to death at his home in Brooklyn. Attorney W G Milligan of Heflin was in the city Monday on business.
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