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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1906
Page
1
A small store advertises discounts on hats underwear and dress goods with items like broadcloth cravenettes and winter clothing priced from three to seven dollars. Suits and children's clothing receive marked down prices with many reductions noted.
Readable notes advertise Stetson hats in small and full shapes priced at $4.00, with hats previously $5.00 to $6.50. Douglas men and boys Oxfords range from $2.50 to $5.00. P Reed's ladies Misses shoes Oxfords list $2.00 to $3.50.
Former Speaker Henderson died after nine months of illness from paresis at Kay Hospital. He entered hospital in September and suffered a stroke last Friday causing total blindness. His funeral will be held Thursday at the Episcopal church with a Grand Army escort and eulogy by former Congressman George D. Perkins of Sioux City. The body will lie in state at the church Thursday.
Dre Harris and Daniel announced no poison found in Mrs Tucker’s stomach after a post mortem. Tucker, jailed ten days on an alleged insurance murder charge, was freed by solicitor general order as doctors pursue brain disease as death cause. Bertha Claiches trial opens in New York for murder of Emil Gordon.
Reports state that the Nan Cheng unrest against foreigners continues with attacks on missions. U S and British officials note the scale appears limited so far and predict no broad spread, citing Consul General Rodgers and Navy Department communications as reassurance.
Cable reports from New York reveal eight American missionaries fled Nancheng during a riot at the Methodist mission station. Names include Edward James and wife from Wisconsin, Tr M Charles and wife from Ada Ohio, and four American women ledgers Gertrude Hower Genevieve Hughes Alla Newdy Kate L Ogden, plus one Chinese woman Adi Kebn.
Mei Pauline Webster, a South Carolina woman who caused a stir in Kansas City by marrying a woman, was arrested on a charge but freed after a lengthy leg injury. En route to Galnes she was met by her brother J. E. Webster, Cherokee County probate judge. Webster had been missing ten years and is believed dead by relatives. She arrives to claim about $160,000 in property at Galnes.
The government orders the Governor of Nan Cheng to punish all involved in the massacre that killed six French Jesuit missionaries and four British subjects on February 26. Foreign gunboats from the American, British, and German fleets move toward Nam Cheng as tensions rise.
President Peabody of Mutual Life refuses to discuss William Waldorf Astor’s displeasure amid the Central controversy. He would not answer questions or offer remarks, and the stake in the dispute remains unsettled as rumors circulate through New York and medical circles.
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