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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
13
The J D Mitchell contractor was struck by lightning during a heavy storm in Enterprise Alabama. A stack chimney collapsed and a room was badly shattered requiring rebuild. Several occupants, including two women, were knocked down but recovered. others received minor shocks.
Special to The Georgian reports Salvation Army forces will arrive in Anniston to establish a post here the first attempt to introduce the Army in this section. Captain Paul M. Eichelberger resigns as Oxford Rifles captain and will move to Decatur amid a contest for his successor, with First Lieutenant Hute Bullard favored.
In Gadsden Alabama on August 23 President C E Buck of the Lacey Buck Coal and Tron Company met with Southern Steel Company stockholders. Authorities say a merger is planned around September with Southern Steel capital stock rising from 16 million to 21 million to absorb Lacey Buck coal and mineral lands and two blast furnaces.
The piece notes Miss Be Davison of Long Pine Nebraska as a possible first woman county attorney candidate. It discusses Secretary Shaw predicting Missouri as a hot battleground and forecasts Maine's June election as an early indicator for November outcomes. It mentions Judge William Robert Smith’s renomination in Texas and contrasts Maine prospects with Republican resilience.
Daniel B. Wesson, revolver maker who died August 4, left an estate near 8 million dollars. A sequest of 260 thousand goes to the Hampton Homeopath hospital. The remainder passes to family members.
Lieutenant Governor R. M. Cunningham a gubernatorial candidate spoke to the largest crowd yet in Anniston Alabama and had earlier addressed Jacksonville crowds. He urged rate reform and better school houses and facilities while opposing child labor in cotton mills statewide.
Hartman O Neal lies dying from pistol wounds inflicted by 18 year old James Bruce at a country dance near Flintstock. Bruce is jailed. O Neal, a husband with a family, is not expected to survive. The shooting followed a quarrel over a girl after blows were exchanged.
J. J. Holdway a traveling salesman from Rome Georgia fell from a Southern train on a trestle half a mile above the depot. He stepped from the car believing he was at the depot and plunged more than 30 feet to the ground. He sustained a fractured skull a dislocated hip and internal injuries with doubtful recovery.
During a violent thunderstorm a lightning strike destroyed the Evans schoolhouse three miles from Chester. About fifty pupils had left the building an hour earlier, and the storm’s timing likely saved them from disaster.
Charles R. Robinson once favored for the Sixth district senate denounces W. T. Brown of St. Clair county and urges support for Ed Hamner of Etowah. Robinson says Brown misled him about promises related to the Pell City courthouse controversy.
A delegation from Charlotte North Carolina traveled to Morehead City for the annual meeting of the state division of the United Confederate Veterans now in session there.
A charter was granted to the Concord Realty and Railroad Company to build an electric railway linking Charlotte and Concord, 21 miles apart. The incorporators are W. Johnson of Charlotte R. A. Brown of Concord and EB. H. Johnson of Rock Hill. Capital stock is set at 125000 dollars.
Southern Railway announces trains from Atlanta to a new terminal at Mitchell and Madison with services to Griffin Columbus Charlotte Danville Richmond Asheboro and Jacksonville. No. 12 local to Griffin and Columbus departs early with morning arrivals to major hubs and express No. 40 to New York via Washington arrives in the afternoon.
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