Alabama Topics and Elections Stir Huntsville News
Huntsville business leaders push Fourth of July street fair and parade funds as Aug turnout looms for Wheeler successor election. Bishop-elect Jackson dies, Jamar found dead at jail. Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs closes in Birmingham with Mrs. Ross as president. Grand Army of the Republic names officers in Cullman. Anniston to host next meeting. Birmingham furnace blast ruins $75,000 in property. two midget elephants head for Elks Carnival in May.
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Federation of Women’s Clubs
Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs
Birmingham
Montevallo
Ross
Auburn
Grand Army
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Alabama
Cullman
Randolph
Anniston No
R. H. Allison
New Decetor
G. B
Elephania
Carni
Vinemont Canning Factory Incorporation Report
Articles filed to form the Vinemont Canning and Provision Company with 1100 capital. Incorporators include Jon Benesch R Stoll George Sandler MM Shaw and Arthur Elattes. Plan to build a large fruit and vegetable canning factory at Vinemont. Also notes rewards for crimes and local government actions and a Bullock county primary with several offices led by J Chapell and T A Craven.
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Vinemont
Vinemont Canning and Provision Company
Jon Benesch
R. Stoll
George Sandler
Mm, Shaw
Arthur Elattes
Convicted for First Degree Murder in Opelika Case
Frank Littleton was found guilty of murder in the first degree in Opelika after a three day trial over the drowning death of Mrs. Ella Hodges, his wife's sister. He received a life term in the penitentiary with evidence described as circumstantial yet strongly convincing amid a heavily attended Lee county case.
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Frank Littleton
Ella Hodges
Opelika
Lee County
Crop Conditions Report From Southern States
The agricultural department weekly crop bulletin shows corn generally favorable except in Florida and parts of Texas. Winter wheat slow in Ohio Valley. rust and fly injury reported in Tennessee and South Carolina and Georgia. Mid Atlantic and west of Mississippi show good progress. cotton hindered by cool nights in northern areas and heavy rains in Florida and Texas necessitating replanting. Tobacco plants plentiful and transplanting ready in Virginia and Tennessee. bulk planted in South Carolina. Fruit reports are encouraging.
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Jcultural Department
Florida
Texas
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
South Carolina
George
Middle Atlantic
Mississari
Virginia
Insurgents Attack Americans. Three Killed, Seven Wounded
A force of rebels attacked twenty men of Company 1, Forty-fourth regiment, at Barotac in Panay May 2. Three Americans were killed and seven wounded. four Americans were attacked while attempting to reach Dumangas, with one killed and three wounded. A friendly native later relayed news to a company of the twenty-sixth regiment that aided Barotac on May 4. The Filipino losses were heavy.
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Barotac
Hailo Province
Panay
Thhree
Severs
Burotae
Dumangas
Twenty-Sixth Regiment
Secret Senate Session Reveals Navy Shell Invention
Secret legislative session disclosed details about a newly invented naval shell by a prominent U.S. Navy officer. Reported to surpass all current armor in penetration, the facts were kept within a select group of senators and were considered in closed deliberations.
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Senate
United States Navy
United States
Telegraphers Strike Called Off by Railway Telegraphers
President W. W. Powell of the Order of Railway Telegraphers announces the formal end of the Southern Railway telegraphers strike declared on April 12 1900. The resolution halts hostilities and resumes normal operations under the union peak leadership.
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W. W. Powell
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Southern Railway Telegraphers
Young Girl Drowns Crossing Limestone Creek
Dillie Allen an 18 year old daughter of James Allen a Limestone County Alabama farmer drowned while crossing Limestone creek near her father's home. She slipped from a foot log as a child saw it and raised the alarm but help reached too late. Her body was recovered from the swift stream.
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Dillie Allen
James Allen
Limestone County
Alabama
Limestone Creek
Mtore
Bank clearings rise sharply in Birmingham year end April 1900
Bank clearings in Birmingham jumped about 84 percent for the clearing year ended April 1900. Total clearings reached 37,217,803 72 dollars, up 12,118,616 25 from the prior year. The annual figure implies an average monthly total of 8,104,849.11 dollars or about 778,921.46 dollars per week.
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Birmingham
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