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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1900
Page
2
The University under President James K. Powers shows a total enrollment of 401 students this year. Tuscaloosa hosts 202 academic engineering and 51 law students, while Mobile houses 148 medical and pharmacy students. The growth spans all Alabama regions and several other states.
The secretary of state forms a commission to solicit capital stock for the Oneonta and Attalla Railroad with directors from the Louisville and Nashville system. The line will run from Oneonta in Blount county to Attalla in Etowah county, capital stock set at 200 000 dollars. A dispensary conference is planned in Birmingham to organize Jefferson county advocates and push a dispensary law before the legislature.
The city of Talladega considers issuing bonds to buy the Talladega Gas Light and Water Company and its franchise to erect an electric light plant. Read as a settlement of disputes between the municipality and the company, the move aims to modernize the town's utilities. In other news, various local incidents include mine accidents, disease updates, and legal actions across Alabama and Texas.
James J. Coogan president of the borough of Manhattan and Tammany Hall donor pledges 100000 to the Democratic National Committee with conditions that the gift be rescinded if William J. Bryan is not renominated the committee may use the fund as it sees fit
The report details a broad eclipse observation across Alabama Georgia North Carolina and adjacent areas. United States Naval Observatory teams led by Prof Updegraft and Prof Brown documented photographs and corona displays from Barnesville Opelika Union Springs and Montgomery with observers noting a near totality darkness and birds silencing as the phenomenon progressed.
The U S Supreme Court on Monday denied Admiral Dewey’s bounty claim after a dispute over whether the statute’s reference to superiority or inferiority applied to land battery and mine support. Dewey and crew originally sought about $100000, but the Court of Claims had reduced it to $20000 and their personal share to about $10000.
Military operations in northern Luzon and Palone Island result in enemy casualties and large prisoner captures. Colonel Gardin lands troops from the gunboat Helens and occupies Palong after routing insurgents. Insurgent leaders strengthen conscription, with reports of robbery and outrages as civilians flee Manila.
Fire on the riverfront destroyed a large portion of Appalachi Cole Saturday, wiping out six blocks of business, two hotels, three drug stores, a bank, an armory, a theater, Grady’s General Store, all steamboat wharves, the custom house, four saloons and sixty other structures. Loss estimated at 500000 with no stated insurance. A brisk wind hampered containment as mills escaped the flames.
Galveston cotton expert J. G. Carrie reports discouraging conditions across southwest and central Texas due to continued rains and floods. Planting and replanting are heavily disrupted, and large areas along the Brazos and Colorado bottoms may miss this season. Labor shortages among Black workers further threaten field work as floods deter crop recovery.
The house seeks adjournment by Wednesday June 6 as the senate may approve the house resolution. A crowded coming week promises six public bills including oleomargarine, anti cartel, St Louis fair, Philadelphia museum, and anti trust measures.
Georgia Veach Crop reports the peach season starting in Tifton and Sylvester with first shipments to New York on the 21st and 22nd instant. The fruit belt is optimistic noting a likely very good appeal and a strong market with about 2700 carloads expected.
In a Tuesday night caucus the Democratic members discussed the trust question and tax repeal proposals ahead of three upcoming dates. Resolution supports reducing war taxes and pledges aid to measures achieving at least a 50 percent cut.
Advertised for bids for construction of a new 640 spindle factory in Opelika. Bids open June 12 at the company offices. Governor Johnston appoints I W Thompson to succeed John G Gilchrist on Montgomery county board of revenue.
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