Mowed Them Down as They Showed Up at Moulton Heights
In Decatur Alabama on August 26 a black farmer Enoch Henderson of Moulton Heights faced a mob of about twenty five masked white men. He used a scythe blade to wound one attacker who led the raid after a dispute over a gate lock and neighbor Grahm. The mob fired into his cabin and fled after sustaining a blow that left the man badly hurt. Authorities search for the wounded assailant while Henderson and nearby black residents anxiety rise as whites express anger over the feud and bloodshed at Moulton Heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Als
Enoch Henderson
Moulton Heights
Henderson
Noel Graham
Graham
Negro Charged with Murder Surrounded in Swamp
A telegraph to the governor reports Bob Brown, accused of killing J. C. McLeod near Batesville Alabama, is surrounded in a swamp near Eufaula. Dogs and bloodhounds were dispatched from Wetumpka to assist. Indignation rises and the captured man could face lynching. a $100 reward was offered for information leading to his capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. McLeod
Batesville
Montgomery
Ala
Bob Brown
Eufaula
Wetumpka
Thrasher
Payne Tendered Alabama Confederate Veterans Command
Scottsboro Ala August 26 Special Warwick H Payne of Scottsboro has been tendered the appointment division commander for the Alabama Sons of Confederate Veterans by Commander in Chief R B Horton of St Louis General Thomas Owen of Montgomery is the present commander Payne has the matter under advisement and will probably accept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottsboro
Ala
Warwick H. Payne
Alabama Bons of
R. B. Horton
St. Louis
Thomas Owen
Montgomery
Payne
Muatter
First Cotton Bale of Season Brought in at 15 Cents
Tuscaloosa Alabama August 26 special report James M Yerby delivered the first bale of this year s cotton crop weighed 486 pounds and sold to S F Alston for 15 cents per pound continues the city s cotton market activity with early pricing and a notable weigh in event for local merchants and growers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
James M. Yerby
Ss. F. Alston
Continental Hotel Atlantic Beach Closes For Season
Jacksonville Fla August 26 Special The Continental Hotel at Atlantic Beach will close tomorrow morning after breakfast. The first season has been a remarkably successful one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Continental
Atlantic Beach
Governor Aycock Calls for End to Lynching After McFarland Case
North Carolina Governor Aycock stated lynching increases crime and harms lawfulness. He proposed a $200 reward for each lyncher and signaled a possible proclamation as inquiries begin into last week’s McFarland lynching. He urged citizens to let the law take its course and promised a full investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aleigh
Aycock
Mcfarland
Gotras Patriant
Gork
North Carcelina
North Carolina
Attempt to Destroy Bridges on Tennessee Turnpike
Unknown parties attempted to destroy two bridges on the Goodlettsville turnpike in Tennessee by placing dynamite under supports. One blast at Dry Fork creek caused damage. another bridge near Goodlettsville saw a partial explosion. Five men suspected. two tollgate houses burned. No motive given. A reward had been offered for protecting wooden bridge supports on the same pike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Goodlettsville Turnpike
Dry Fork Creek
Goodlettaville
Tennessee River Flood Loses County Corn and Cotton
Hamburg Tenn August 26 The Tennessee river is higher than ever known at this season with at least 75 percent of the county's corn under water. Only corn on high ridge land remains dry though hot weather has burned it. The river backs into creeks and sloughs for five miles killing corn and cotton, leaving many residents with destroyed crops and debt for supplies stock and tools. Their condition is critical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Tenn
Tennessee
Rains Bring Oil to Surface on Tennessee Farms
In Hinoxville Tennessee three farmers Perry Blosser T B Lee and M J Brown report oil surfacing on their land about fourteen miles west of Knoxville at Concord after recent rains. In Knoxville a joint convention of Jellico and Coal Creek coal field miners and operators will discuss a new wage scale for the year starting September 1 with a possible eight hour day demand from miners and operator resistance. About fifty delegates are expected with half the Coal Creek operators anticipated to abstain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Hinoxville
Tenn
Perry Blosser
T. B. Lee
M. J. Brown
Knoxville
Concord
Jellico
Coal Creek
Spot Cotton Soars to New Houston Records
The spot cotton market in Houston today advanced a quarter of a cent with middling at 9 cents. For the seven days ending today the rise totals 18 to 16 cents, a new record for spots. Country buyers reportedly paying full market price or seeking more gains from further advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
AuBune
Debate Over Constitution Submission To Electors In Hanover Report
The excerpt describes a debate led by Hilt Carter of Hanover on submitting the completed constitution to electors under the present framework. He opposes the preamble recalling crimes of George VX, arguing closer ties between England and America. No decision was reached as votes hung on related resolutions and memos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilt
Carter
Hanover
George VX
England
America
Stebbing
Parham
Senate
House
Virginian Praises Georgia Single Court System
Richmond reports a special dispatch noting Georgia’s single court system praised as superior to Virginia’s. The judiciary committee chair cites Forsyth County figures showing rapid case disposal and asserts Georgia and North Carolina handle dockets more efficiently, with Virginia courts burdened by delays.
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Georgia
Richmond
Virginia
Withers
North Carolina
Forsyth County
Watson, Buxton & Watson
Texas Senate backs debt resolution amid bank failure
In Austin on August 26 a Texas Senate resolution urged Congress to prevent timber land destruction along the border. The House spent the morning redistricting districts. A concurrent resolution proposed compromising the state's 955 000 indebtedness from the First National Bank failure. It suggested appointing a state speaker committee to transfer the bank from federal to private control so it could resume payments. The governor sent a special message requesting enactments on local conditions across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Texas Senate
Congress
Texas
House
First National Bank
Norfolk Engineers Meet On Seaboard Policy
A committee of eleven engineers from all divisions of the Seaboard Air Line system arrived in Norfolk Virginia and registered at the Atlantic hotel. They planned a conference with Brotherhood representatives and railway management to discuss the road's new policy and engineers’ status. The meeting was not held by midnight and was expected to resume tomorrow morning with General Manager Barr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood and
Seaboard
Norfolk
Seaboard Air Line System
Atlantic Hotel
Brotherhood
Barr
Warren in Trouble Again Shoots Witness Against Him
In Branchville Thomas Watson, a key witness against Bartow Warren in a previous Orangeburg train robbery case, was shot four times by Warren after saying others lied about him. The incident occurred in front of a drug store. Watson is severely wounded but alive, and Warren, blamed for the hold up of an express Smegseniger on a Southern railway train with nearly $200 taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
D. C
Branchville
Thomas Watson
Bartow Warren
Orangeburg
Watson
Warren
Southern Railway
Charleston Port Officer Probes Unlicensed Pilot Issue
Charleston August 26 A Special report says Chisolm manager of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company was notified to show cause why he should not be fined for allowing a steamer to sail with an unlicensed pilot. The Dove had run under his oversight and Captain Mitchell of the revenue cutter Forward lodged charges while an investigation proceeds. Chisolm claimed the steamer was for his workers and himself and that McLaughlan the pilot was capable, but he failed to obtain a license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Chemical Company
D. C
Chisolm
Virginia- Carolina Chemical Company
Mitchell
Revenue Cutter
Forward
McLaughlan
Another Oil Field in Texas Near Henrietta
Henrietta Tex August 26 There is no decrease in the Clay county oil excitement Numerous wells are being sunk and land transactions are booming The new field is said to be the richest in quality yet struck in Texas and next to Beaumont in point of prospective quantity A well is 12 miles north of Henrietta
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henrietta
Tex
Clay County
Texas
Beaumont
Mistakenly Shoots Wife in Darkness Near Holland
Dallas August 28 Owen Bradley a Holland Tex farmer mistook his wife for a burglar in the dark and shot her to death. Conductor Grange Ash of the Houston and Texas Central railroad was killed in an Ennis accident. A Birmingham Alabama shop man denied a report that Sapwanters in her shows hers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Bradley
Dallas
Tex
Holland
Ash
Pallas
Grange Ash
Houston and Texas Central Railroad
Ennis
Birmingham
Als
Raile Way
Mills Refuse Union Labor At Olympia Mills
Five hundred workers at Olympia Granby Richland and Capital City cotton mills were denied entry after failing to prepare for overtime. Union No 211 grows strong as President Whaley vows to bar unionism, with plans for a strike affecting up to three thousand operatives. Police guard mills amid rumors of violence and a tense village awaits tomorrow’s developments.
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Columbia
D. C
Olympia
Granby
Richland
Capital City
Union No
Smith Whaley
mMis
South Carolina
Whaley
Barnes
Machinists Expect Southern Victory Amid Dead Engines
Knoxville August 26 Special The Southern railway district lodge of machinists meets in Knoxville to plan continuing the strike. VP P J Cannon says success will come from the shortage of machinists and the 200 dead engines on the Southern system. A national circular will warn union machinists to avoid Southern shops. New district secretary replaces H H Spedden who left for the Illinois Central shops. Visiting delegates include D W Brown J H McGregor E Tomlinson James Beck William Robinson. meeting to run three days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Knoxville
Tenn
Southern Railway District Lodge of Machinists
P. J. Canlon
International Association of Machinists
District Lodge
H. H. Spedden
Salisbury
N. C
D. W. Brown
Macon
J. H. McGregor
Columbia
E. Tomlinson
Birmingham
Ala
James Beck
William Robinson
Atlanta
Stowers Refuses to Resign as Treasurer in Shortage Case
Jackson MS August 26 Special State Treasurer Stowers will not resign over the treasury shortage blamed on Governor Longino. Longino returned from Biloxi where he reviewed Mississippi National Guard units and may suspend Stowers if the missing 107,000 cannot be accounted for. banks deny possession, and law may compel suspension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longino
Jackson, Miss
Stowers
Commonwealth
Longing
Biloxi
Mississippi National Guard
Jackson
Governo Longino
Poaigerd
Caghier
Neokiey Bie
Epo
Treasurer's Cash Disappearance Hints at Political Fallout
Money outside the treasury remains a rumors mill target. Captain Ratford left the city for a two week trip, making disclosure urgent if misfortune struck him. Governor Longino has been handling cash more than predecessors, raising questions about further disclosures and potential surprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ratford
Longino
How Josh Got His Education Amusing Story of Reconstruction
A Montgomery tale from Reconstruction recounts Josh Simpson, a Black man, buying books and a pistol with a ten dollar bill. A merchant persuades him education is valuable, but the tale ends with Josh poor and the merchant rich. The piece portrays manipulation of Black people by whites amid racial tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Pike Reads
Black Belt
Montgomery County
Josh Simpson
Josh
Republican Party
Excitement in Ashville Over Sheriff Shooting Incident
H C Compton of St. Clair county reports strong local anger toward Sheriff North after the Ashville courthouse shooting last Thursday. A mob attacked the sheriff’s force to seize Brown the Negro for lynching, with a public execution expected on return to Ashville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irmingham
Ale
H. C. Compton
St. Clair County
North
Court House
Ashville
Two Boys Shot by Guard Near Watermelon Patch
In Birmingham on August 26 two boys aged 15 and a companion named Arthur were shot and severely wounded near Owenton while authorities say they attempted to steal watermelons. A local land renter had set a watch. shots fired wounded Kennedy in the shoulder and lung, his condition precarious. The other boy was not seriously hurt and the youths deny entering the patch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Will Kennedy
Arthur
Owenton
Willams
Itl
Fred
Kennedy
Lusky outlines direct Charleston to Honduras steamship line
Colonel Sergio Lusky of Honduras met Pan American commissioners in Charleston to discuss a direct Charleston Honduras steamship line. He aims to attract capital and leverage the South Carolina exposition to show trade advantages. He notes Honduran interest in American goods and expects fruit exports and cotton goods traffic on return trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lusky
Charleston
3. C
Sergio Lusky
Honduras
Jdonduras
Colonel Lusky
England
Birmingham seeks one mill school tax by referendum
Birmingham official John L. Parker proposes a constitutional convention petition to authorize a 1 mill special school tax. If the city’s voters approve, the tax would be set by a three fifths vote. A circulating petition aims to show broad public support for Birmingham’s school finance measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
John L. Parker
Board of Education of
Jefferson County
Parker
Fire Island Schooner Beached to Prevent Sinking
The schooner Bilza A. Scribner, from Promised Land with fertilizer for Savannah, was beached on Fire Island bar to save her from sinking. The tug J. Merritt moved the vessel several hundred feet to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Island
Bilza A. Scribner
Promised Land
S. 1
Savannah
J. Merritt
Cut Throat With Penknife On Train In Raleigh
An insane 40 year old man, James Hill, killed a fellow passenger on a Raleigh bound train near Wake Forest by stabbing him with a penknife after asking for the knife to “clean his nails.” Hill died minutes later. authorities said his act stemmed from distress over a land division and loss of the homestead. Sheriff Sledges took Hill to the Beaufort county asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
Sheriff Sledges
Beaufort County
James Hill
Wake Forest
Hill
Lil
Three Soldiers Injured By Caisson Collapse at Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio August 2. A caisson overturned during artillery drill at Fort Sam Houston trapping three men. Corporal James Clark and Privates Nix and James were crushed and gravely injured, with two possibly fatally. Corporal William Murray escaped by leaping clear. Captain Gatley oversaw the drill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Gatley
Seventeenth Field Artillery
James Clark
Nix
James
William Murray
Preparing To Sow Wheat In North Mississippi
Reports from Pontotoc Marshall and Lafayette counties say many farmers plan fall wheat sowing. In recent years wheat cultivation has grown with some flouring mills built to process grain into flour. Northern areas show good quality wheat if conditions allow, while southern experiments have been hindered by rust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Wuss
Alyguacean
Mississippi
Pontotoc
Marshall
Lafayette
Leading Arkansas merchant drowned at Cadron Creek
Manurice F. Yauenthal a prominent Conway merchant was drowned this afternoon while watering his horse at Cadron Creek about miles west of Conway. The horse plunged into the stream and Yauenthal could not free himself before the flood carried him away. the body was recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conway
Ark
Manurice F.yauenthal
Cadron Creek
Here
Treachers and Legislators Shake Up After Sermon Remarks
In Austin on August 26 the Rev Dr Bradfield of the local Methodist church attacked members of the Texas legislature who pressed for impeachment of State Treasurer Rebbina. His comments sparked protests as accusers warned they would seek personal privilege and raise the matter in the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Mill Owner Acree Ends His Life in North Carolina Office
L. Acree, 40, once of Danville Virginia, co owner of a cotton mill in Jonesboro North Carolina, died by self inflicted gunshot in his mill office after a period of ill health. He had recently returned from a Richmond hospital and was newly married. His family remains prominent in Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acree
Jonesboro
N. C
Raleigh
I— L. Acree
Danville
Jonesporo
Richmond
Virginia
The Mills of North Carolina Textile Mills by County
The North Carolina State Agricultural Department released its annual statement listing 265 cotton mills across 52 counties. Gaston leads with 23 mills, followed by Mecklenburg 19, Cleveland 18, and Alamance and Randolph tied at 13. The report notes a net gain of 21 mills since last year and mentions 15 woolen and 3 silk mills, with spindle totals to be collected by the labor bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Agricultural Department
Raleteh
N. C
North Carolina
Gaston
Alamance
Mecklenburg
Cleveland
Lincoln
Randolph
Labor Bureau
Tennessee Town Is Burned In Lake County Fire
Tiptonville the county seat of Lake county in Tennessee was nearly destroyed by a late yesterday fire. The total loss is not yet known and no further details are available.
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Tennessee
Mempndis
Tenn
Tiptonville
Lake County
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