Building Boom and Public Works in Selma and Alabama
Construction activity surges in Selma with a new city hall and a $25,000 Methodist church contract. Projects include the People's Oil Mill buildings by Cook & Lowrie, and brick work by the Alabama firms. The court house aims for completion by March 1, 1901. Knights Templar elects officers in New Decatur and Alabama troops consider encampment in Mobile East Lake area. The Danforth and Armstrong case settles with payment by June. Captain P Sid Jones promotes cotton mills in North Alabama. A man near Edwardsville is badly wounded by accidental gunfire. The Fourth District Democratic committee schedules a meeting in Columbiana to plan the congressional nomination.
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Belma Ia
Cook & Lowrie
Montgomery
J. Hy
Eonhau
Dallas County
Supreme Brick and Tile Company
Court House
Knights Templar
Alabama
New Decatur
Russell M. Cunningham
Birmingham
Robert Manethrop
Eufaula
L. W. Hubbard
Owen W. Fitzsimmons
Charles R. Worcott
Charles E. Pearse
Mobil
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Train Fight Amid Excursion to Birmingham Ends in Death
A fight on an excursion train near Madison involving the Patterson and Blount families led to multiple injuries and arrests. J T Blount fell from the train and is dying in Hauntville hospital. Berney, Will and Houston Patterson were arrested. Separate items report a political withdrawal by Ex-Congressman M W Howard, a Talladega monument bill, Montevallo land allotments, an Anniston public building bill, a Centreville man’s hydrophobia death, and a Lafayette oil mill fire with $16,000 loss.
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J.T. Blount
Blount
Haunteville
Will
Berney
Houston Patterson
Madison
Washington
Morgan
Talladega
Petera
Alabama
Montevallo
Binger Hermann
Land Office
Robbins
Aldrich
Anniston
Judiciary Committee
Lafayette
L. L
C. Torbert
John Bloont
Woosdy
Huntsville
John Blount
Iantsville
Will Berney
Coosa River Improvement Aims At Federal Aid
Alabama and Georgia delegates arrive in Washington to press a $500000 appropriation for Coosa river improvements. The committee plans a memorial outlining commercial and industrial value, with maps of Alabama's coal and iron resources. Also notes Tredegar rail line sale, Mobile National Guard encampment, and local political nominations.
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Alabama
Georgia
Washington
Coosa
Captin PT. Lay
O. R. Hood
Gadsden
Frank Lathrop
Riverside
Cabot Lull
A. Hohenberg
W. A. Austin
Wetumpka
H. H. Henderson
Baltimore
D. B. Hamilton
B. J. Hughes
D. B. Fitzpatrick
Rome
House
Senate
Commuittes
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Farner
W. W. Brandon
T. C. Smith
H. B. Kennedy
Mobile
East Lake
Danforth and Armstrong
Tennessee and Coosa Railroad Company
Etowah
P. Sid Jones
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Cullman
Athens
Wade
Edwardsville
Democratic Executive Committee
Fourth Congressional District
Calhoun
Cleburne
Shelby
Chilton
Dallas
Columbiana
Wiz
Hart
Honard
Fred &. Gardner
Centreville
Mr. Gardner
Congress
William Richardson
General Wheeler
Jesse E. Brown
Scottsboro
Tennessee
Cousa River
Tredegar
Tredegar Mineral
Alex JT. London
Jacksonville
Roniston
General J. W. Burke
East and West
Seaboard Air Line
Alabama National Guards
Brandon
Mobile Bay
Monroe Park
If. L. Hargett
H. L. Hargett
Congregational
Gate City
W. B. Crumpton
John T. Cochrane
Carrollton
Will Linton
New York
Eacinage
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company
New York Stock Exchange
Romsey
Dick Ramsey
Christian Endeavor
Huntaville
J. W. Sibley
O. P. Speigel
H.D. Self
Paul Speake
Nuldo Allen
Dr. Bell
Almont
Eumonia
Misa Stella Howell
Deanne
Ham
Grantaburg
Davia
J. P. Allenville
Bell
E. E. Sutherland Medicine CO
Paducah
R. F. Lovelady & CO
Louisville & Nashville
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Pratt Station
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T. M. Allen
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First Avenue
Pratt City
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St. Louis
R. F. Lovelady
J. EL. Davis
Insley
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