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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
3
The Nantucket South Shoal lightship No 58 ran aground after rain and rough seas. Crew abandoned ship into a lifeboat but the lightship sank. all thirteen crew members were rescued by the Azalea and brought to safety.
The court martial at Annapolis finds Midshipman Minor Meriwether Jr guilty of two charges arising from the death of Midshipman Branch. He is sentenced to one year confined to Naval Academy limits and a public reprimand by the secretary of the navy. Bonaparte approves the confinement portion and remits the debarment from attached practice ships. Representative Pronsrard says Meriwether is acquitted of manslaughter.
The will of Suan H. Walker, who died November 23, leaves a Charleston house for Captain H. Evans’s life and a transfer to the Charleston hospital for white people only. It also bequeaths a Montgomery Alabama hospital ward fund for whites, $1500 to Montgomery Hospital, and $25,000 each to Alfred S. Malcolmson and Dr. Thomas Aken, with the residue divided. Miss Walker, a divorced woman, had resumed her maiden name. her former husband was Paul.
A Southern railway extra train on the eastbound line jumped the track at 3 AM near Nashville. Engineer Arthur McEvery was fatally hurt, fireman F L Bruce seriously injured, brakeman J M Green, flagman L Fitzsimons, and conductor Fred McDougall seriously hurt. Engine and caboose damaged.
The president sent nominations to the senate for customs collectors in Florida counties including Tampa Key West Pensacola and Apalachicola United States attorneys for Florida Georgia Tennessee the U S marshals for Florida Tennessee and a pension agent in Knoxville Tennessee up for confirmation.
The faculty athletic committees of Stanford University and the University of California met in San Francisco yesterday and adopted a resolution decrying the current American football system. They recommend substituting the Rugby game.
In Atlanta on December 13, the woman known as the "woman in black" was acquitted by a superior court jury of pocket picking tied to President Roosevelt’s visit. Her husband, Henry C. White, was acquitted in a separate case. both trials drew wide local interest amid a series of related legal actions and a final verdict that the defendant is a young, girlishly dressed figure.
In Griffin Georgia on December 13 J M Ingram a noted Confederate veteran almost fatally cut Pentacost an employee of the Central railroad who had testified against him in a domestic case Ingram attacked at police court and struck Pentacost about five times nearly severing the jugular vein Policeman Douglas was also cut Ingram is jailed charged with assault with intent to murder
Three packages containing jewelry articles watch cases and works valued at 2500 disappeared from an express wagon in Houston on Monday. The driver left them under the seat while crossing the street and returned to find them missing. The consignments were headed to Houston jewelers and near delivery. A similar $1000 loss occurred the previous week.
Wire communication with coastal points is restored and reports indicate heavy damage from the recent storm. Schooners Samerset Elith Emory Fanny Orne and Maggie A. ashore at North Sydney. Perry Cain driven ashore at Archat C B and is full of water. No lives reported lost.
In Knoxville on December 13 Roy Walker six was shot and killed by seven year old playmate Jesse Barber with a toy pistol loaded with a Flobert cartridge. They were playing when one urged to shoot the other and the pistol discharged fatally.
Judge Jurnell told the grand jury in Raleigh that the North Carolina landlord and tenant law enacted two years ago places individuals in peonage and violates the federal constitution. He said it was the jury's duty to uphold the constitution and enforce federal protections.
In Boyle Mississippi a Black man Jim Green was hanged by a Black mob. He allegedly assaulted a young Black girl aged eight. Green was captured at Shaw station and returned to the scene where a posse seized him from captors and hanged him from a tree limb.
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