Articles From The Pine Belt News, 1895 - Escambia Co., AL ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with the USGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. ALGenWeb File Manager - Lygia Dawkins Cutts ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed by Lygia Dawkins Cutts JAN 1999 The Pine Belt News Brewton, AL Vol. II, No. 2 March 5, 1895 Young Lady Killed by Accident Miss Ada Slaughter, a daughter of Dr. Slaughter of Winchester, TN, was almost instantly killed at Nashville, TN, Monday afternoon. Miss Slaughter was a teacher of Greek and Latin in Ward's Seminary and was out driving with another teacher and two pupils. One of the shafts broke, the vehicle was overturned and Miss Slaughter was thrown out on her breast. The shock was a severe one and a hemorrhage of the lungs was caused, death ensuing within ten minutes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pine Belt News Vol. II No. 2 Brewton, AL March 5, 1895 Enticed To His Death Thomas W. Davis and Jesse Taylor of Sinking Creek, were put in jail at Barboursville, Kentucky, Sunday night for murdering Len Hammicker, Saturday night. They induced Hammicker to leave his house and accompany them to see some girls. Hammicker was found dead, so badly battered in the head that his remains could not be recognized. One of the prisoners has confessed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pine Belt News, Vol.II No.4 Brewton, AL March 18, 1895 Is Your Marriage Recorded? A citizen of Hamilton county, Tenessee, discovered recently that there was no official record of his marriage whcih had taken place several years ago. The minister who performed the ceremony had gone to parts unknown and the gentlemen is searching for him. This circumstance led to an investigation which disclosed the astonishing fact that there is no official record of the marriage of fully 300 of the good husbands and wives of the county. The Chattanooga Sunday Times prints a list of more that 1000 licenses granted from 1894-1895, inclusively of the execution of which ther appears no official record. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pine Belt News Vol. II No. 6 April 2, 1895 A Cowardly Murder ---------------- But Quite in the Fashion of a Mock Herioc Age A team belonging to Robert Mangler, a livery stable keeper at Monticello, Ohio came into the stable yard late Tuesday night with the body of a girl, named Annie Frisch, sitting in the vehicle stone dead. There was a bullet wound in the right temple and another in the left arm. Later in the evening the dead bosy of her lover, Arthur Speyd, who was known to have gone driving with her, was found on the roadside. Speyd had killed the girl & commited suicide, probably as the result of a lover's quarrel. Speyd was twenty-two and the girl nineteen years of age. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pine Belt News, Vo. II No. 2 Brewton, AL March 5, 1895 War To The Knife News has reached English, Indiana, from Bird's Eye of a four - headed fight with knives Monday morning between Charles and Ed Cummins, brothers on one side and Simp and John Lane, brothers on the other. John Lane and Charles Cummins will likely die. Both are cut about the head, breast, and shoulders. All were drunk.