28 Oct 1905
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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1905
Page
1
The message from Cambridge Mass reports President Eliot may curb rough play in inter collegiate football. If slugging continues, he will advise the corporation to stop the sport at Harvard and cancel inter college games. A severe cut or ban could follow if violence persists.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate September figures and nine month totals for grain exports. Mentions shipments and comparisons to prior year, with numbers like six bushels and twenty eight vs twenty four in earlier months. Limited readable names or dates present.
Oct 27 report from York describes a trolley collision on Fourteenth Street at the Williamsburg bridge incline. Fourteen injured, one fatally, as passengers were treated. crowd confusion followed the crash with rumors of a hit and run. The injured woman remained unconscious through the night. others with cuts and bruises went home. A separate fire in Charlotte, North Carolina, destroyed Cochrane's livery stables on North College Street, killing twenty horses and causing heavy property damage.
Houston County completes its new court house, built by M. T. Lewman & Co. The structure, finished on time after a February start, is praised as one of Alabama’s prettiest and best. It features modern furnishings, electric lighting, and a total cost around 54,090 dollars.
Major Geneen Wood has arrived in Manila to take command of the Philippines during Major General Corbin's absence. The agricultural program is under discussion by the Philippine commission. The proposed plan assigns the rank and a budget of 5 million dollars in funds for guidance.
Pensacola Florida October 27 report from the board of health officers states one new fever case and no deaths. The mayor asked the health officer to remove the cordon around the city as he believes the fever has ended its course, but the request has not yet been granted.
Amanda Jones twenty seven was removed to a hospital after two bites thirteen years ago and a later onset of hydrophobia like epileptic hysteria. Physicians suspect a rare chronic epileptic hysteria rather than rabies in this case.
New York, Oct 2 The possibility of arrest for perjury looms as the legislative investigation committee resumes. Assistant District Attorney Rand cites George Plunkitt testimony about a $01 legal expense voucher paid by Mutual Life Insurance. Further disclosures tie vouchers to funds for a house in Albany and the agents’ quarters. Richard A McCurdy of Mutual Life is recalled to explain ties to trust companies being probed. A bond and stock list of Mutual Life was shown as the committee renewed focus on its connections.
In Birmingham Alabama a black man stabbed Berry Peasner a motorman, on a street car platform after an argument over whether the riders would resist or leave. Peasner died the next morning. The suspect Nix a freedman was captured nearby and jailed amid threats of violence from a crowd.
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