Troops Sent to Andalusia as Mob Threatens Jail
December 6 Montgomery dispatch reports Sheriff Bradshaw warning Governor Jelks of a mob from Opp planning to lynch twenty five African Americans jailed after the killing of a town marshal and a merchant at Opp. Governor orders Greenville company to Andalusia. martial law imposed as troops reach the scene to guard prisoners.
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Montgomery
Bradshaw
Tovington County
Jelks
Opp
Andalusia
Andahisha
Greenville
Gamble
Greenville Company
Hhis
Greengilly
Ala
Missing Skipper Thompson Vanishes After Jacksonville Stop
Captain A P Thompson of the barkentine Harry Merryday disappeared after coming ashore in Jacksonville to buy small items. With lumber loaded for Wood Barker & Co of New York, the ship awaits sailing. Police suspect foul play as the captain, holder of the ship’s money, has not been seen for eight days. Owner W E Merritley investigates. Thompson hails from Macais Maine. the vessel Lorenzo was a Spanish prize captured at Key West.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Barker & Co
New York
Harry Merryday
A. P. Thompson
W. E. Merritley
Thompson
Macais
Barkentine
Lorenzo
Key West
Beautiful Rainbow Spotted Over Richmond in Clear Sky
Citizens of Richmond reported a splendid rainbow seen directly overhead this morning in perfectly clear weather. Scientists say such a sight is a very rare occurrence in this region.
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Richmond
Tobagog Goes Up In Smoke
Fire in Danville destroys the leaf plant of John E. Hughes & Co and Brown's storage warehouse at 3 am. The blaze wipes out hogsheads of leaf tobacco, with 500 hogsheads of American Tobacco Company stock in the storage, Dibble Brothers plant and Banner warehouse also damaged. Total loss exceeds 130000, insurance covers most but not the advance in tobacco prices.
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Danville
John E. Hughes & Co
Brown
Hughes & Co
Adams Brothers
Lynchburg
American Tobacco Company
Dibbrell Brothers
State Revenue Agents Unearth Solvent Credits Dodging Tax
Jackson Mississippi December 6 Special State Revenue Agent Adams and deputies devote full effort to locate taxable property not reported for taxation. They quietly survey county seats, compare property lists with deeds and mortgage records, and expose capitalists hiding credits. In Pike County a deputy found collateral and securities valued at 5000.90 not on the assessment books. Work continues across counties to overhaul tax books and mortgage records statewide.
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Jackson
Miss
Adams
Adams County
Pike County
Mississippi Good Roads Association Postpones Road Law Action
The executive committee of the Mississippi Good Roads Association adjourned without final action on a new road law for the next legislative session. A drafted measure by Major J. G. Dabney of Vicksburg was favorably received, but members will study it further via typewritten copies over the next two weeks. A meeting is planned around the 18th in Jackson to review the bill in sections before governor submission. salient features will not be released to the public.
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Mississippi
Redhead
Jackson
Gulf and Ship Island line to lay heavier rails
Jackson Mississippi December 6 Special The Gulf and Ship Island road has begun replacing 160 miles of rails between Jackson and Gulfport with heavier rail. Work will finish across the distance in six months. The company plans to double track the line to Gulfport as business increases, with some double tracking and heavy rail laying occurring simultaneously at certain points.
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Jackson, Miss
Gulf_and
Ship Island
Jackson
Gulfport
Alabama road plan praised by visitors and officials
Jefferson County road superintendent cites furnace slag as the cheapest and most effective road material with costs around 1200 dollars per mile in Jefferson and about 1000 dollars in prairies. Delegates at Alabama goods roads convention totalled 223 with over 100 staying for final day as Edsmich Jackson County roads chief highlighted bonds and savings.
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Jefferson County
Montgomery
Ala
J. M. Falkner
J. Thomas Heflin
Ed Smich
Jackson County
Moore
Martin Dodge
M. A. Hays
Southern Redlway
Alabama
Hailstorm Cited as Cause of Business Assignment
The firm I.3. Lee & Co of Minter Station near Selma Alabama made an assignment to creditors today. Robert K. Lapsley was named assignee. Liabilities run about $15,000 owed to Selma Nashville and New York houses. The hailstorms last May wrecked crops and hit the firm’s advances hard.
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Minter
Als
Selma
Ala
I.3. Lee & Co
Minter Station
Robert K. Lapsley
Nashville
New York
Warship officers tour Charleston exposition exhibits
Captain Browngan and officers of the Alabama and Massachusetts viewed the government and naval displays at the exposition. Commodore Williamson arrives to supervise naval exhibits installation, with Hobgan to oversee arrangements on site. Exhibits from the war department post office and Smithsonian are yet to arrive.
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Charleston
Browngan
Alabama
Massachusetts
Exposition Company
Buffato
War Department
Post Office Department
Smithsonian Institute
Thomas Williamson
Hst
Washington
Richmond P. Hobgan
Johnson Kills Easterlin in Newberry Street Tragedy
Patchy Newberry Florida dispatch reports a fatal street shooting at 6 30 PM in which J B Easterlin a leading local figure was killed by F H Johnson. The motive cited is a dispute over a saloon license with Johnson alleged to have fired at Easterlin who reportedly resisted his bid to obtain the permit. No arrest cited at this time.
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Newberry
Fla
Gainesville
Bla
J. B. Easterlin
FH. Johnson
Johnson
Lcense
Fasterlin
Easterlin
O'Brien Announces Run for Birmingham Mayor
Birmingham and the state interest center on Frank P. O'Brien who declared today his candidacy for mayor in the next city election. He stated he would rather hold Birmingham’s mayoralty than the governorship of Alabama.
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O'Brien
Birmingham
Ala
Frank P. O’brien
Alabama
Charged With Horrific Crime in St Matthews
G B Kittrell of Orangeburg county faces a charge of attempting to assault a young Negro girl under seven in St Matthews. He claims innocence and alleges a Negro conspiracy. His barn and stables burned early Friday. a preliminary trial is set for Monday. White residents demand a full investigation.
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Kittrell
Columbia
S.C
St. Matthews
G. B. Kittrell
Orangeburg County
Kittrel
Degroes
Pollard Amendment Advances in Virginia Constitutional Convention
Pollard's plan to appoint Supreme Court justices by the governor with legislature consent passed at Fitchman Virginia convention. The judiciary report moved forward with debate to next Wednesday and other sections were disposed of without debate. Dr Dunaway proposed expanding circuits from twenty four to thirty amid a long session.
Coal Mines Consolidated Under Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co
Roanoke Virginia December 6 consolidation of Norfolk and Western field mines formed Red Jacket Coal and Coke Company with 2 400 000 capital. Acquired Red Jacket Logan Rutherford Lick Fork and Maritime mines in West Virginia Thacker field owning 6000 acres. Mines operate at one million tons yearly. officers include R M Gilbert president Frank A Hill general manager H D Lafferty vice president and treasurer with offices in Roanoke.
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway
Thacker Field
Virginia Corporation
Red Jacket Coal and Coke ‘Company
Capital
Red Jacket
Logan
Rutherford
Lick Fork
Maritime
Thacker
Railroad Attorney General on Freight Shipments to Texas
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road may not charge interstate rates for shipments from its line to Vicksburg if the cotton seed continues to Texas. Attorney General McClurg argues for interstate rates, while railroad officials and court precedents note shipments already begin commerce across state lines, making interstate rates applicable.
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Jakcon
Mise
McClurg
Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley Road
Vicksburg
Texas
Delta
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Druggists Deny Action On Price Cutting Discussed
Delegates of the trans Mississippi district of the National Wholesale Druggists Association elected D. D. Philips as president and H. H. Sinnege as secretary treasurer in Birmingham. They deny any steps to stop price cutting or actions on drug prices. Freight rates on certain drugs were discussed along with trade conditions in the South.
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Montgomery
Ala
Birmingham
trans‘Mississippi
National
Whole‘sale Druggists’ Association
D. D. Philips
Nashville
H. H. Sinnege
Sensation Among Lawyers Hits Raleigh Court
In Raleigh North Carolina on December 6 special reports say six of Spruit’s clients fear they must hire Republican lawyers to avoid trouble. Ex Judge William R Alien of Goldsboro reports similar pressure from clients and will present the matter to Judge Purnell who he says will render just action.
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Raleigh
N. C
Frank
Spruit
United States Commissioner
Goldsboro
Spruill
Purnell
Permanently Organized Lawn Timber Manufacturers' Assn
Pensacola Florida December 6 The Lawn Timber Manufacturers Association representing 76 percent of Alabama and Florida timber makers has been permanently formed T R Miller Brewton Alabama elected president E L Miller River Falls Alabama as vice president a 15 member board was chosen The group aims to curb square sawn timber production to create scarcity and better price regulation with offices to be maintained here
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Pensacola
Fla
Lawn Timber Manufacturers’ Association
Alabama
Florida
T. R Miller
Brewton
Ala
River Falls
White Man Turned Yellow and Will of Pullman
Read about a Lexington man whose skin yellowed as yellow jaundice afflicted him until two bottles of Hallidrie Bitters cured him. The ad extols its stomach and liver benefits and urges purchase. Also reports George M. Pullman of Redwood City California filing his will dated December 6 noting an estate under $500,000 and unknown heirs at law.
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M. A. Hogarty
Lexington
City
Sidney
George M. Pullman
Redwood City
Cal
Lynching After Woman Shot Near Hartwell Ga
In Ellenton Georgia a few days ago John Ladison a colored man who beat his wife went toward Anderson County South Carolina. He stopped at Farris Craft’s home where Mrs Craft offered potatoes. He shot her in the back after she fled. Captured he was identified by Mrs Craft and then confessed claiming she had insulted him. A crowd hanged him from a tree and fired bullets into his body. Mrs Crafts condition remains serious.
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Eltenton
Savannah River
Anderson County
South Carolina
John Ladison
Hartwell
Anderson
Farris Craft
Taxing Cotton Seed Meal For Fertilizer In North Carolina
North Carolina Board of Agriculture imposes a 20 cent per ton tax on cotton seed meal when used as fertilizer and brands meal sold for feed by nitro content. First grade must contain 1 percent ammonia. lower grades defined. Penalties apply for feed meal under standard. Action takes effect January 1. tonnage tax not charged on meat sold to manufacturers for fertilizer.
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North Carolina
Fire Claims Two Lives In Bayou Des Allemandes Blaze
A deadly fire at Bayou Des Allemandes on the Southern Pacific line in New Orleans area killed FLOSSIE Delabretonne aged two and MISS MARY ERNEST aged seventeen. The Delabretonne home burned after 1:00 am trapping the two, who died of smoke and flames before rescue. The tragedy occurred in a row of five room cottages owned by Bayou De Allemandes Lumber Company with the bodies later interred in Houma.
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New Orleans
Bayou Des Allemandes
Southern Pacific Railway
Charles Delabretonne
Mary Ernest
Alster
H. V. Delabretonne
Bayou de Allemandes
Famous Case Comes to End Livingston Loses
James H. Livingston editor of The Bennington Reformer sued former Governor Carroll S. Page of Hyde Park for editorial services in support of Page s 1900 bid for Congress. Judge Rowell halted the trial with a verdict for Page on grounds the contract was illegal. Livingston will appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court.
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Livingston
Page
Bennington
Vermont
James H. Livingston
The
Reformer
Democratic
Carroll S. Page
Hyde Park
Rowell
Powers
Supreme Court
Whisky Tax Dodging Export of 7,000 Barrels to Germany
In Louisville Kentucky December 6 a deal between the Kentucky Distilleries and Ware House Company and a Louisville warehouse firm exports 7,000 barrels of spring and fall whisky to Hamburg and Bremen Germany to evade taxes as the eight year bond period nears expiry. The shipment totals about 250,000 gallons and will require two large trains to reach the seaboard, marking the largest Kentucky whisky export to date.
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Germany
Loulaville
Kentucky. Distilleries and Ware House Company
Hamburg
Bremen
Kentucky
Seaboard
Marx Goes Into Retirement and a Brooklyn Mystery
Fragmentary OCR reads as a Brooklyn scene with a lawyer named Marx retiring and a Virginia killing linked by canine. The text mentions travel to New York, December, and a family residence in Brooklyn with a sister recalling her brother and a night scene, suggesting a rumor of return and a mysterious process surrounding an unknown young man.
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Brooklyn
New ‘York
Peralstent
Wherl- Oak
Grove
Clairvoyant misleads inquiry into Nellie disappearance
In Elizabeth City a visiting clairvoyant led the five member committee and others to two old wells in a long ride seeking Nellie’s body. No body was found and rumors of a woman’s body at nearby creeks were false. Accused Jim Wilcox remains at his uncle’s farm amid rising public sentiment.
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Elizabeth City
Cropney
Nellie
Committee of Five
New York
New Began Creek
Sand Hill
Jim Wilcox
Chief Velines declares Ela Cropsey alive and well
Norfolk police chief M J Velines states Ela Cropsey is alive and well, though he will not disclose her present whereabouts. He says he has had knowledge of her movements for days and sent a detective to Elizabeth City. the case shifts to exonerating Willcox as a suspect while a clairvoyant is consulted by Elizabeth City citizens.
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Velines
Miss Cropsey
Norfolk
Ela Cropsey
M. J. Velines
Willcox
Elizabeth City
Velimes
Suat
Mise’ Cropsey
Four Lunacy Cases Tried in One Day in Rome
Four lunacy cases were tried before Ordinary John P. Davis in Rome, two white and two colored, all adjudged insane and to be sent to the state asylum. One defendant was a negro, age many years. The Elks fair proved a success despite bad weather, funds to fit up lodge and club rooms. Government cotton crop report lifted prices, drawing farmers to market and crowding Rome streets with wagons. receipts likely to exceed any week in years.
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Rome
John P. Davis
the Elks
Fecal Lodge
Taft Butler Travel To Hyde County Over Horse Disease
Raleigh reports Taft Butler and Dr. Butler left for Hyde county after fresh reports of disease among horses. Last summer and autumn approximately 600 horses and ponies died or fell ill from forage poisoning. An official heads to Rutherford county to probe the Amos Owen Cherry Tree Company amid eight complaints in one day.
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Raleigh
Vetenarflan
Taft - Butler
Hyde County
Butler
Rutherford County
Amos Owen Cherry Tree Company
Huntsville Man Loses Foot In Mill Accident
J A W Wood of Dallas mills had his foot caught in a machine yesterday and an amputation was performed by a physician later in the day. Robert Burdett, renowned lecturer, to speak in Huntsville next week. The first snow of the season fell yesterday for four hours, earlier than in several past years.
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Huntsville
J—A. W. Wood
Dallas Mills
Robert Burdett
Delver
Olympian Games Indorsed at Live Stock Growers Convention
The National Live Stock Association in Chicago on December 6 selected Portland Oregon as the next convention host in January 1903 after a close contest with Kansas City Missouri. Delegates adopted resolutions supporting Olympian games to be held in Chicago in 1904 and backed aid to agricultural colleges while opposing interstate livestock inspections after federal checks. Old officers were reelected led by President J W Springer with vice presidents and secretaries reaffirmed.
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National Convention of
Chicago
Friends of
Portland
Ore
Kansas City
National Live Stock Association
United States
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