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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
2
A tropical disturbance near Nassau prompts hurricane warnings from Jacksonville to Key West and storm alerts along South Carolina, Georgia coast and Florida west coast. Official says the system likely won’t reach this area as tropical storms often veer away near the coast.
A severe雨storm caused record rainfall totaling 4.35 inches with 3.60 inches in 53 minutes. Bridges on Noble Street, Fourth Street, and Seventh Street Wilmer Avenue were wrecked or displaced. Flooding crippled major industries including car works Kilby machine works An niston Foundry and Electric Light Plant with widespread property damage and power outages.
A family row on Brown avenue West Aniston yesterday afternoon left Tom Hall dangerously wounded. The dispute over a water bucket led to a fight with Katie Lyle Ball and Kittie Hall involved. Police court will hear assault with intent to murder charges for the Lyles and disorderly conduct charges for the Halls. All parties are white.
Birmingham, Sept 6. W D Nesbitt is nominated for a seat on the State Democratic Executive Committee from the Ninth District at the Montgomery convention. A prominent Birmingham businessman Nesbitt managed Comer campaign and is expected to join the State Railroad Commission after Comer's retirement.
Flooding left the Anniston Cordage plant and nearby facilities in water up to three feet deep. Wagons carried workers at 5 o clock yesterday as the engine room flooded and production halted. The Anniston Electric and Gas plants suffered similarly with workers in boiler rooms through the night. A lightning incident involved a water bucket being tossed by a current, and lumber from Western Steel Car and Foundry Co. near Fourth street was swept into Snow Creek.
Grover Witt, a boy about 12 to 15, a call boy at the Southern railway junction, was crushed beneath two overturned coal cars in the car works yard area this afternoon at about 2 45. His body was recovered from the mud shortly after, and his mother Mrs M E Witt of 129 East Ninth street was notified.
Washington dispatch notes sixteen Filipinos blamed for Madaya slave trading in Havoe district Midano Philippines slain by relatives of abducted women and children. Eight Mandayas attacked slave traffic zones, houses burned. Officials warn slave baiting along eastern coast of Mindanao may fuel further trouble until action is taken.
Texas Senator Bailey, angered by Bryan's railroads ownership stance, declines invitation to attend the Louisville reception next Wednesday. He plans to issue a statement outlining his opposition. Southern Democratic leaders express rebellion against federal ownership ideas and will skip the event, despite national figures.
The body of Dr W A Smith will arrive at 4 45 pm today from Mexia Alabama where he died yesterday at his mother's home. He had been in failing health for some time and left the city to seek recovery. The funeral will be arranged after Mrs Smith travels here with the body. He was city physician for years and active in the First Methodist church and fraternal orders. Tuberculosis and general breakdown led to his death.
B M Pike the long time street tax collector resigned at the city council meeting. Sanitary Officer Cowdnas was elected to replace him. Pike had been nominated by the Democrats for county sheriff.
Westchester Pa September 6 1938 Ricardo Forte attempted suicide by slashing wrists with tobacco tin tags just before his execution for the murder kidnapping of children Marie and John Delucca He was restrained by the jailer and then hanged on the gallows.
In Birmingham on September 6 a dynamite explosion at the residence of John Bell killed him and his wife. A son was fatally injured and a daughter seriously hurt. Three other miners suffered non fatal injuries as the house was blown to pieces.
Washington reports Medical Director Robert A Marmion of the Navy and head of the Naval Museum of Hygiene has been placed on the retired list due to age. A Virginia native, he began as assistant surgeon in 1868 and served forty years across sea shore hospitals and yards, including fleet surgeon in the South.
The Chase family association of America gathered for its annual reunion at the Hotel Vendome in Boston today. Several hundred members attended, with delegates arriving from South Carolina Illinois Colorado and other distant states as well as from various parts of Canada.
Mobile authorities report Thomas J. Jensen was cremated in his east Mobile Bay home on Back road near Montrose Baldwin County. Coroner found fragments of Jensen amid smoldering ashes. no evidence supporting murder or robbery claims, officials say.
A fragment references Atlantic, European, and Asiatic waters and an aggregate from the United States to several international conferences on medicine and hygiene.
A lightning strike at the Woodstock cotton mill ignited 400 bales, dumping water through a broken pipe and shocking the president. Fire spread from the warehouse to workers cottages as crews fought flames with limited alarms and aid from neighboring mills.
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