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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1906
Page
2
The profile outlines a new newspaper project named Corisened the Way the Meriian Diapetch. A committee is tasked to draft a charter for presentation to authorities. The paper aims to publish its first copy by mid May and will run seven days, with daily editions each morning.
Port Wayne Tex April 2. Eastbound Nickel Plate train No 21 left the tracks near South Whitley. The smoker day coach and five sleeping cars overturned in the ditch injuring 22 people with one killed. Only the baggage car and rear dining car trucks remained on the track.
T P Welten a 44 year old Irish native was electrocuted in Ceeneva Alabama when a broken light wire touched a guy wire. A twenty three thousand volt surge passed through his body. He had no known relatives in America.
In Greasy Lake twenty miles north of Vicksburg Mississippi on April 2 Alex Grant a white man and Alex Claiborne a Black man drowned while Grant’s life was saved by Claiborne’s sacrifice. Grant a wealthy cotton planter and merchant of Hardee Issaquena County.
James H Heeslin a prominent hotel man with ties to properties in New York Chicago and other cities died Saturday after an incident at the Hotel Walcott. Breslin born in Waterford New York was injured, the other victim killed, details scarce but the report notes one killed and one injured.
In Lewisburg near Birmingham Alabama two Georgian workers died and a third injured while on the main slope of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company mine. J O Hitmp aged 28 percent assistant engineer and chemist is killed. Henry Velty, a young assistant to Jim, is injured but not seriously. Remains of Bishop prepared for shipment to Bowden Georgia. The deceased was a Ruhama lodge member and well known locally.
Plato Lacey and C F Bollacker, a merchant, were killed when a wall collapsed in a burning three story brick building in Bel City. Officials fear additional deaths pending search, with losses estimated around $50 000.
A mining region strike widens with a sanguinary clash at Henin-Lietard. One striker was killed and three gendarmes wounded as houses were looted and windows broken. Over 30,000 strikers paraded and rioting continued across Lens and surrounding areas.
A sleet storm in central Indiana coated the region with ice and damaged telegraph and telephone lines. In Indianapolis many electric light wires snapped under the heavy ice, with significant disruption reported.
Powell appoints Demp Sew Porvell of Greenville as special justice to join the Alabama Supreme Court, forming a divided tribunal that cannot be voted off due to Chief Justice Weakly's disqualification.
Mrs Herbert Duckworth fired from her bedroom window at an intruder on Georgia Avenue. The revolver shot pierced glass as the burglar fled into the dark, and no further details are given. Authorities reported the incident occurred April 4 in Macon Georgia.
In Mansachivetts the supreme court announces for the first time that a married woman may sue another woman for alienation of her husband's affections. The ruling, in the case of Mrs Ana Nolin of Newbury versus Ma Rom Pearson of the same town, reverses the century old practice that men could sue for alienation of a wife's affections.
Huntsville, Ala March 36 Jamee J Butler a New Hope Madison county merchant sold 1 804 sales of cotton to Decatur cotton buyer Mr Yan cey This was a large spot cotton sale in recent years Butler received about 71 00 for middling cotton A few weeks earlier he offered the entire lot at 10 35 but failed to sell and kept the cotton earning an extra profit of 4 225 He is holding 400 bales for 11 50 cents
Miss Marie Kramer of the Yankee Consul company from New York fainted entering the stage with chorus girls at the Grand Opera house in Macon Georgia. She was taken to the city hospital by ambulance suffering a complete nervous collapse. Manager John Slocum and company members aided her and assisted as needed.
The Montgomery Bar association unanimously endorses Justice J. R. Tyson for chief justice of Alabama. Judge John D. Weakley, Birmingham, is Tyson’s only opponent. Weakley was appointed by Governor Jelks, who had been his campaign manager, though Tyson is claimed to have broader attorney support statewide.
Huntsville expected the Abingdon cotton mill to begin operations within days. Friday steam up aims to start machinery Monday under C. F Massey who will oversee the plant. Initially about 300 operatives, rising to roughly 800 with 10,000 spindles added.
Dr Z M L Simmons, a Baptist missionary in Canton for thirty years who lost sight from cataracts, received treatment locally. An eye was nearly restored by cataract removal and another operation is planned.
President Mo Joansen of the Georgia division of the Southern Cotton Growers association addressed an enthusiastic Americus crowd Friday on the importance of sustaining the organization. Committeemen were named to solicit membership across Sumter County as farmers pledged solid support for the association.
On April 2 at Stinson Georgia, Bob Anderson a prominent farmer was fatally shot after exchanging gunfire with C Bryant a commissary clerk at the G Y Andrews camp on the Atlantic and Birmingham road near Stinson Anderson fired first hitting Bryant in the arm both men fired until their weapons were empty and Anderson was found fatally wounded.
Macon chamber of commerce and local boosters push for new Shoofly trains on Southern and Central railways to Athens Millen and Hawkinsville. Petitions circulated to railway officials as effort gains momentum in April.
Reports from Mississippi say Hood situation improves as high waters recede. Railroads maintain fair schedules. At Newport Arkansas White River falls slightly but a fresher rise expected. steel bridge safety not yet assured.
Secretary Taft promised to dispatch a cavalry regiment from Fort Meyer and two infantry regiments from Fort McPherson to participate in Mecklenburg declaration of independence celebrations from May 20 to 23 in Charlotte North Carolina.
In Beattyville Kentucky the river rises toward 90 feet as lumber firms catch thousands of logs. Hundreds of men work booms since last night while operations resume after a period of idleness.
Macon Ga April 3 William Smith a negro porter killed by the Southern railway wreck at Holton Saturday died Sunday morning at 6 o clock He was the only victim who died meanwhile surgeons expect all other injured to recover debris removed traffic on the line returned to normal
Madrid April 3 reports authorities uncovered an anarchist plan twenty nine miles from Seville to assassinate King Alfonso the queen mother and Infanta Maria Teresa during a royal visit to Seville. Censorship blocked details of the conspiracy.
William Schroder a 77 year old former Notre Dame academy instructor told police he was duped by two men Jas Low and Aurelius Turpin into delivering property valued at 25000 in Missouri Indiana Michigan and Colorado in exchange for worthless securities. The two men were arrested.
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