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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1906
Page
2
Pittsburg Feb 22 President Mitchell of the Anthracite Miners says there will be a strike as far as he knows now. He arrived from New York and planned to meet with the Pittsburg district delegates and their attorneys before a possible state meeting.
A Townsend Tennessee fire destroyed Lit tle River Lumber Company sawmill 3 1/2 miles southeast of Knoxville with losses around 80 000 and 20 000 insurance. The Little River Railroad roundhouse repair shops two freight cars and one passenger coach valued about 16 000 had no insurance. Fire origin unknown. Towns end plans to rebuild while noting no financial cripple. Lead official W B Townsend confirms.
A man about 45 was found dead in a gutter at Twenty first Street and Cabmet Avenue in a fashionable South Side district. A bullet wound above the right ear and a revolver nearby raise questions of murder or possible suicide, with police unable to decide the cause yet.
Charles Straillie, arrested for passing forged one dollar bills raised to ten, appeared before U S Commissioner W T Colquitt. He was held on bond of 159. Straillie admitted passing the raised bills and said he was compelled to do so to obtain money to live, though he offered no employment reasons.
Three white teens were found dead under the Louisville and Nashville River bridge near Knoxville Tn. their bodies bruised and badly damaged after allegedly jumping from a freight train arrival around midnight. A letter to James Gamble was found with one victim. Police pursue suspects in nearby Alabama tied to a separate rape case.
Two men robbed Israel Rauth’s jewelry store on Eight Avenue, forcing him to watch while they took a tray of diamond earrings worth several hundred dollars. Rauth pursued them, fired in their direction, and they returned fire. He found two earrings and the empty tray on the sidewalk before the men vanished.
Governor Jelks appointed Samuel D. Weakley of Birmingham as chief Justice to fill the vacancy caused by Chief Justice McClellan's death. Weakley, 45, is a leading Alabama attorney. The appointment lasts until November elections, with a Democratic convention likely to nominate a full-term candidate in September.
Madrid reports an important Spanish statesman says the Morrocan question is mooted due to delegates at Algeciras failing to reach an accord. Newspapers say Franco German tensions keep Europe uneasy though war remains unlikely.
A hearing will be held in Washington Friday before the Ways and Means Committee with prominent importers and customs officials. The discussion will cover bills to elevate the board of general appraisers to a judicial body, license customs brokers, and modify customs administration.
Mrs William Jelks wife of the governor and their daughter Miss Catharine Jelks were thrown from a buggy on Commerce street Montgomery. Both suffered cuts and bruises and were rushed to Fowler drug store for treatment after the horse bolted and struck a wagon.
New York reports shipments of eggs to the local market reaching about 22 000 cases on February 22. Prices fell to about nine years low, benefiting buyers but harming storage egg speculators who sold at 20 cents a dozen before cold storage reduced prices to 9 cents.
Samuel Thomas, 79, the largest pig iron maker in the United States, died at his Catasaqua home. His father David Thomas pioneered the anthracite blast for pig iron, and the family later organized several iron ventures across Pennsylvania. Other items note the Willamette meteorite selling for 20600 dollars to a New York scientist for the American Museum of Natural History and a New York state former senator George F Graen facing trial for conspiring to defraud the government over post office supplies.
Highland park has adopted an ordinance forbidding selling pools within its limits threatening the Western Jockey Club's Douglas track in Nienland park. In Louisville officials extend the embargo on freight due to heavy traffic while moving volumes remain, and Gov. Deneen denies Johann Hoch’s petition for commutation of sentence to imprisonment.
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