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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1912
Page
2
The Decatur Daily printed in New Decatur Ala under Tennessee Valley Printing Co. with editor Samuel J. Stockard. Subscription rates listed by carrier and mail, plus a notice on tributes and obituaries. Contact numbers and submission deadlines for advertisements are provided.
Attorney E W Godbey outlines the case against the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the New Decatur ordinance dispute. He summarizes Supreme Court actions, rehearing grants, and opinions suggesting any non exclusive franchise remains valid while exclusive grants are challenged.
The article reviews a hundred million dollar proposal by a telephone and telegraph company with one U S exchange. It notes court decisions that ordinances granting perpetual franchises are invalid without legislative action and recalls city council actions in 1904 to repeal a permit. The company sought injunctions in federal and state courts, with the city prevailing on jurisdiction grounds.
In Philadelphia on May 7 a 14 year old boy, John Holmes, was dragged off a pier by a large fish hooked to his fishing line. He disappeared beneath the Delagrave River waters as playmates watched. Police and workmen recovered the body after hours of searching.
United Press reports Washington May 7 that a mid-summer session of Congress is expected with a short June recess for national conventions. Final adjournment is predicted between July 15 and August 16 as Majority Leader Underwood abandons hope of early adjournment. Appropriation bills will keep the House busy into June with Senate leaders agreeing.
William H. Stanley, Indian superintendent, died at San Jacinto after being shot by Ambrosio Appapis during a Pow Wow arbitration on the Coahuilla reservation. Witnesses testified, and guards seized Appapis as tribesmen rushed to avenge the act.
Cheyenne Wyoming May 7 Union Pacific and Colorado Southern railroads kept delivering railroad cars to military authorities at Fort Russell. Commanding officers deny any orders to halt the rail movements amid War Department concerns.
Prominent local men consider building a three or four story European hotel across from the Decatur City Hall. The project remains confidential while plans mature, with a modern finish and hoped to fill a long standing local need.
Suage Fin C Wyster travels to Huntsville to attend the United States Federal event. Mr and Mrs J M Williams and daughter Gertrude depart for TASEREN Ala. Williams was manager of the Decatur Daily Contest and has worked in local business associations. Adam Karr returns from Kentucky business trip. C B Bartee returns from Georgia and Alabama trip. J A Buttrey in Birmingham today. Paul Giemore the popular actor visits the Masonic tonight in The Bachelor.
Attorney Oscar R. Houston of New York seeks a subpoena duces tecum against President Milton H. Smith and three Louisville and Nashville Railway officials to obtain letters between L N Ry and the Serra Steamship Company of Liverpool from 1905 to 1909. The move ties to Knight Yancey cotton frauds and a $70,000 Eccles Company suit filed in the U S Court for the Northern District of Alabama where Knight Yancey is located.
A reflective poem notes the speaker feeling like a failure in wealth and fame yet finding comfort in five laughing children and a steady home. He values health and family over riches, recounting long friendships and a life lived despite financial struggle. Many baseball game results follow with rain postponements across cities.
Dispatches from Cheyenne report the Ninth Cavalry ordered to the Mexican border as a Tore-runner intervention. Excitement runs high in El Paso and Juarez. Orozco is said to have begun the siege of Torreon this morning. the battle is described as potentially the revolution's most important.
1280 acres of fine farming lands on the Tennessee River in Lawrence county four and a half miles from Trinity with tenant houses and outbuildings. Also 280 acres on the Decatur and Courtland road two miles from the Morgan County pike end. Pike road to be built. land lies on a main thoroughfare. Kadress 18-im non LILE Trinity Alabama agent.
Lester Snyder, 18, confessed plans to kill his mother for a life insurance payout of 25000. He shot both parents and attempted to finish them with the revolver butt but then killed himself while in police custody. His mother and grandmother, wounded, were left alive.
Lattie Bock reports Arkansas Republicans divided between Taft and Roosevelt factions. The split surfaced in separate meetings and indicates continued intra party disagreement over leadership and strategy during the campaign period.
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