26 Nov 1902
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1902
Page
1
A newlywed woman in Anniston was killed by her husband after four days of marriage. The couple did not come to meals that night or the following day, suggesting a domestic violence incident. Further details were not available in the readable text.
Lee Weigel is jailed in Anniston Alabama on a murder charge after his wife was found dead with three throat wounds and he himself with a severed throat. Evidence includes chloroform and laudanum bottles, a bloody razor, and notes mentioning Little Rock Ark Texarkana Tex Anniston. The autopsy is set to determine poison administered before the attack.
Lee Weigel and his wife were found with throats cut in a Cosmopolitan hotel room in Texarkana. The wife was dead. Weigel survived, conscious but unable to move. A bloody razor was on the floor. Weigel, injured, is being treated at a sanitarium and may recover. He had recently claimed plans to marry Miss Marion Quinn of Anniston, Alabama.
In Texarkana yesterday Mrs. Lee Weigel nee Marion Quinn died after a violent incident involving her husband Lee Weigel. The couple had married recently after a courtship in Anniston where Miss Quinn hailed from a pioneer family. The case is under investigation with little known about motives or details.
A Franklin Grove man J B Orner suffered a leg wound after a runaway bicycle and an ugly cat incident, developing a four year stubborn ulcer resistant to doctors and remedies. Bucklen’s Arica Salve healed the ulcer and is promoted for burns skin eruptions and piles at Miller Drug Co and West End Drug Co for 25 cents.
Washington reports President Roosevelt will deliver a lengthy annual message next Wednesday outlining events since spring, reviewing tariff and trust issues, labor and capital relations, the isthmian canal, Cuba reciprocity, and a navy buildup, while noting the end of the Philippine war.
The Vera Cruz and Pacific Railroad in Me xico approaches completion with less than four miles left through a swamp that swallowed piling and riprap. Once finished this gap will complete a key Pan American line aiding cross-continental travel.
An advertise claim describes Abbott's East India Corn Paint as a universal remedy that removes corns and bunions without pain and is touted as a wonderful corn cure with wart healing effects.
Thanksgiving day in Anniston will be fair and pleasant according to the weather report. The calm conditions are expected to enhance the Thanksgiving dinner and general observance with favorable forecasts from the weather man.
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