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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1905
Page
5
Names of residents and visitors frequent a Dothan Eagle column with notes on travel, business trips, new moves, subscriptions, and local developments. Mentioned are Flora Carlisle, Clendinen, J. W. Brown, H. F. McCarty, M. L. Buie, J. J. Crary, Dr. W. J. Blackshear, and others. The piece also notes courthouse finishing and local commerce updates.
Superintendent Beauprie and Civil Engineer Charles W. Brown reviewed a proposed Atlantic Coast Line branch from Wells station to Haleburg. Brown and Hale burg’s J. M. Skipper surveyed the route to estimate probable cost and revenue, noting timber belt and broad farming lands in south Alabama.
The county Commissioners met this week and will reconvene next week to examine the state and county tax assessments and correct errors.
The year and a half old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Burns died on Wednesday and was buried in the city cemetery Thursday. The parents extend their sympathy in this sad hour.
Mrs Chas Outze was seized in her home by Manuel Harty a local negro who stole a pistol and shotgun before fleeing. Sheriff and deputies pursued with armed riders as townspeople gathered vowing lynching while the assailant hid east of the town.
Henry Young, a Mississippi Black man, confessed to killing Edward E. Perry on the Bass plantation near Lake Cormorant. A mob of about 100 seized him from Sheriff Withers at a river ford and hanged him to a tree at the Bass plantation after overpowering the sheriff and deputies.
In Mobile August 18 the crew of T P Shoats yacht Marquedora deserted except the master after a voyage from Mobile to Greenwich. The vessel faced a storm and repairs at Carrabelle and Apalachicola. B L Elmer, secretary to Mr Shonts, seeks a new crew.
Walter P. Craft, transfer clerk at Equitable Trust, is missing and suspected of stealing about $20,000. Officials say brokers who sold stock via Craft must refund the value to the company. police seek Craft with no clue to his whereabouts.
New York reported an organized strike spreading nationwide under orders from the International Association of Structural Iron Workers general executive board. The action targets American Bridge Company contracts with local unions coordinating the stoppage and Secretary Green stating the strike will widen until a settlement is reached.
Berlin dispatch says Emperor William and King Edward will hold an interview on the king’s return from Marienbad. The meeting was arranged through the friendly mediation of Emperor Franz Josef, according to Times reports from Berlin.
A sister asks what annoys her while a boy in the house boasts of camping up her trail. The pair exchange lines in a terse domestic remark reflecting juvenile banter.
Hon H D Clayton reports L M Terrell recommends a mail clerk for the Bowdoin Special. Wright Helms, currently on the Elba branch, is named as clerk. The appointment pleases Coast Line travelers to Montgomery and brings Helms back to Dothan, his old home.
In Scotland, August 19, Jay Mea BAT and sons of Henry Phipps of Pittsburgh were arraigned in the high court on charges of shooting at salmon fishers on the Beauly river. They pleaded not guilty and the case was remanded for trial in Edinburgh. The defense says they fired only toward supposed poachers and intended no harm.
The League of Georgia Municipalities meets in Griffin on Wednesday with the business sessions at the Commercial club ball room. The rooms are praised as the most convenient and coolest for a mayoral gathering. Visitors are impressed by the arrangements and expect a highly interesting session in the league’s history.
Captain Lyman Hall, president of the Georgia School of Technology, died after three weeks of protracted illness at the Jackson health resort in Deanville, NY. His wife and brother arrange funeral plans as mourners in Atlanta and Deanville reflect on his long service to education and the nation.
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