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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1901
Page
1
At the First Baptist church in Anniston pastor John F. Barnard conducted a baptismal service yesterday afternoon with about two thousand people in attendance and nearly two hundred converts baptized in roughly one hour. Additional baptisms planned weekly through the work's completion amid a state acclaimed revival.
During yesterday afternoon’s baptismal service over 200 new converts were welcomed, with fewer than ten percent under twelve. Women and girls led the rite, followed by men and boys. Pastor Barnard reported surprising speed, baptizing more than a hundred per hour, averaging seven every two minutes.
Seatrie Washington June 17 The steamer Dolphin from Skagway June 10 brings news that Yukon river navigation opens from headquarters to the mouth. On June 5 Dawson banks report 7500000 dollars in gold dust this season's clean-up ready for shipment.
Reliable reports say oil flowed at 500 barrels per day from a new well in Lawrence County about twenty five miles from Decatur. Prospectors found an eleven foot coal seam in the same area as Alabama Oil and Gas Company of New Decatur lines up equipment to sink eight wells.
Dr T W Ayers of Birmingham writes from Hwang Hien China to Dr J C LeGrand describing arrival last Friday. He describes Shanghai Che Foo and the Baptist hospital network, cost of living, and his pending dispensary work. He requests an anatomy book and notes his Chinese name and his Chinese doctor teacher Dr Chu.
Edmund Converse, former president of National Tube Company and head of United States Steel executives, was arrested in Greensburg on a Westmoreland court warrant charging misappropriation of proceeds from the sale of 590 shares in the McKeesport Duquesne and Wilmerding Railway. He posted bond to appear in September.
In Limestone County near Athens Alabama on Saturday night Joe Harris a Black man was hanged by a mob. Harris was accused of burning a farmer and his barn after a grievance with a fellow farm hand who had stock housed in the barn destroyed.
Louisville man J. D. Robards of 1114 Euford avenue awoke to a sudden loss of speech. Doctors diagnose paralysis of the vocal cords after he slept with normal voice Saturday night.
Dispatches from the cotton belt report a hopeful season despite early seed losses and replanting costs. The acreage may rise 5 to 10 percent, with fair weather later boosting expected yields though grass growth, labor shortages, and pests in limited areas temper prospects.
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