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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1906
Page
8
A man claiming the name VM Arnold and posing as a professional thief was jailed in Devon after an alleged attempt to steal a Southern Railway freight conductor’s watch. He was arrested in a drunken state and later claimed to have hidden the water in the police wagon. The prisoner was bound over to the Superior Court.
A head on collision occurred early Monday on the Central of Georgia railway at Columbus. A freight engine and a special train collided in dense fog. Fireman Jerry Hight died after trying to jump. the engineer survived with injuries.
In Melville North Carolina on April 4 thirty High Point furniture and glass factories locked out all their employees who belong to labor unions after a ten day notice. About six hundred men were idle and the vast majority of the plants were seriously hurt though none were forced to quit.
W Sterling of Madison county was arrested in Huntsville on a charge of shooting a rural mail box near Madison station. He appeared before Commissioner Greenleaf of the United States court and was bound over to the grand jury, with a $200 bond.
An explosion at KG McCau's granite quarry in Sparta Georgia on April 4 injured two men, W Macken superintendent of Georgie Quincy Granite Co and Mr McCook manager of his own plant, seriously if not fatally.
Burglars broke into three churches in Kief Ruasta on Monday night and stole all jeweled items. They drained gold from chalices and iconostasis offerings and took bullion from embroidered vestments and altar adornments.
The St. Petersburg edition of the Russ was confiscated by police on April 3 for publishing a sacrilegious travesty of the lenten prayers by M. Ambilatioff the Feullelionist. Ambilatioff, exiled to Siberty in 1902 for a pamphlet about the imperial family and later am nestied, allegedly altered a line of the Lord's Prayer to read Let the people pay our debts but not as we pay our creditors.
A nine month old infant of Mr and Mrs Frank Bovet died when a stray bullet from boys practicing at a nearby site pierced the kitchen window and struck the child in the skull. The incident occurred in the Grenn Mining location neighborhood with no immediate suspects identified.
A wagon stalled in Morris Creek swept away mule team driver Liefeld and wife with their child aboard. The wagon overturned and Mrs. Ghemicid and the girl drowned. The tragedy occurred as the mules bolted during a river crossing.
Montgomery figures Tyrl Goodwyn Joseph J Arnold and John Wallace lead in the speaker race as several counties nominate reps for the legislature A.D Pitts of Selma reconsiders a bid W L Martin of Montgomery may join the move viewed as a Comer ally Martin formerly state attorney general and helped codify laws years ago
A Mexico City report details rail extensions and gauge changes at Veracruz port with expenditures above sixty million dollars. New union stations and dual tracks aim to speed shipments to New York and San Francisco, shortening transatlantic and transcontinental travel times.
In Louisville Georgia on March 31 a Black woman, Dicey Lawrence, was fatally shot by tenant Robert Timmons after he was refused admission. Timmons fired three times at close range. the victim’s clothing caught fire and he fled. The woman is in critical condition.
A bloated body of a Black man was recovered Thursday as the high river rose. Sighted by loggers and hauled ashore, the body appeared to have been in the water about a week. In Macon Georgia a separate notice reports Thomas O Neal of Twiggs County dead after a wreck injury while en route for pension money.
In France, fourteen of about 1,200 miners trapped for twenty days in the Courbress mine were recovered alive and in good health. They survived by eating hay found in an underground stable after nearly three weeks entombed. Rescue attempts had continued for two weeks with little progress and many lives already lost.
The Georgia Supreme Court reversed a lower court verdict in a life insurance transfer case from Americus. Thomas M. Allen transferred two policies valued at 311,006 before death. His heirs had won in superior court, but the high court ruling affects nonrelated policy purchases.
Joseph A Turney, note teller at the Bank of North America, arraigned in police court on embezzlement charges with $44,000 alleged stolen. The cashier testified Turney confessed, with $25,000 taken before 1900 and used in speculation. Turney, 50, remanded without bail until Monday after about 40 years with the bank.
Fire destroyed the main building of the University of Idaho in Moscow early Friday morning. Other campus structures escaped significant damage, but the blaze left the main structure and many offices unusable.
Cecil C. McStride a law-book agent is in the county jail on two embezzlement charges preferred by W. R. Davis. He is alleged to have obtained a law encyclopedia and other books from J. D. Davis to dispose of them, with total value about 150 dollars. Bonds of 300 dollars each have not been met for some time.
Federal prosecutors in Jackson Mississippi plan a conference next week at the office of Federal District Attorney R C Lee to map the May term strategy for the Franklin County whitecap indictments. About 300 indictments are pending with defendants bonded at 1000 dollars each. The case centers on Dr A M Newman Franklin County sheriff named as a kingpin. he stated in Jackson he is willing to face a jury when required.
On a Wrightsville and Tennife passenger train in Georgia Deputy Sheriff John A. Walden fired when a pistol fell during a scuffle over a woman’s satchel. Mrs. Jamie Crabb died within an hour from a bullet to the eye. witnesses say the death was an accident and the deputy acted in duty. Authorities released him with Sedgwick Joiner and others present.
A legislative report refuses the state board of health an appropriation for quarantine purposes and rejects the emergency fund. Lawmakers argue Mississippi does not favor further quarantines amid a surprised session response.
In Johnston Pa on April 5 Frank Keenan aged two son of contractor Jacob Keenan fell into Stony Creek while playing alone. His father James Keenan aged ? jumped in to save him and both boys drowned. A neighbor’s three year old son witnessed and ran to tell the parents. The body of the older boy has been recovered.
A Westoul Lake Shore freight train near Amherst Ohio was derailed when the crown sheet exploded. The fireman A C Stage of Toledo and the head brakeman were badly scalded and injured. The fireman is expected to die. the engineer escaped and brought the train to a stop after rain covered the track.
In Nacogdoches County near Wo den a deputy and a man named Moody were shot during an arrest attempt. Deputy Will Achers was mortally wounded, Moody was killed, and the owner Dave Taylor who fired at the officer was also killed. The fleeing shooter escaped.
A Sunday death ends the life of Reverend Samuel Murray a prominent Baptist minister born in Evansville. The 100th anniversary of his birth was observed with plans for his final sermon as he neared the end of his long ministry of seventy years.
In Zion City Illinois a church meeting ousted John Alexander Dowie as leader amid denouncement by officers and laity. Wilbur Voliva takes control as Dowie and his wife are repudiated with plans to restructure church governance and remove Dowie loyalists.
An inmate Louis said I would die tonight was found dead in the county jail after being arrested for drunkenness. A fellow prisoner described the events, and the man had come to the city from Monongahela, Pennsylvania.
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An Indian observer reports Cherokee Nation tribesmen near Wickliffe shot a crippled boy and captured a man suspected of sympathizing with tribal laws. Officers rushed into Ballridges' area as the incident provoked strong responses among full blood Cherokee leaders.
Washington March 11 Owelor Wolcott of the geological surveys said the Casper Wyoming dispatch claiming the Great dam at Alcora and the steel bridge across the North Platte river were carried away by the flood was erroneous The bridge sighted near the dam site is wooden Wolcott stated the engineer in charge misreported destruction
An external device exploded in the vestibule of the governor general’s residence. The blast shattered the wall and caused damage to the site. War veterans will convene in Knoxville on March 31 and Tennessee veteran divisions meet in Chattanooga on May 21, announced by W. B. Samuels of Dave Ville, division commander.
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