Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON APPEAL May 29, 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 May 7, 2010, 1:40 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 29, 1896 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON APPEAL VOL. 1 HAMILTON,, MARION CO., ALA. FRIDAY MAY 29, 1896 NO. 20 DIRECTORY THE COUNTY MAILS AT HAMILTON Guin – Arrives at 6 p.m. and leaves at 5 a.m. Fulton – Arrives at 6 p.m. and leaves at 6 a.m. Hackleburg – Arrives at 12 m and leaves at 1 pm Belgreen – Arrives at 11:40 am and leaves at 12 m AT WINFIELD Train at 11:59 am and 3:48 pm Pearce’s Mill – Arrives at 11:20 am and leaves at 12m Haley’s – Arrives at m and leaves at 12:30 pm on Monday and Friday Fayette – Arrives at 9 am and leaves at 9:30 am on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday AT GUIN Train at 11:45 am and 4:03 am Hamilton – Arrives at 10 am and leaves at 12 m daily except Sunday. Vernon – Arrives Monday and Friday at 5 pm leaves Tuesday and Saturday at 7 am Pharos – Arrives Wednesday and Saturday at 10 am and leaves at 1 pm same days Twin – Arrives Tuesday and Friday at 3 pm and leaves at 5 pm the same days. CIRCUIT COURT Judge – T. R. ROULBAC, of Colbert County Solicitor – A. H. CARMICHAEL, of Colbert Court meets the first Monday after the 4th Monday in January and second Monday in August CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – W. H. SIMPSON of Decatur Court meets on Thursday after the third Monday in April and October. COMMISSIONER’S COURT JASON P. FORD, chairman; A M CANTRELL, J. C. NORTHINGTON, A F M HOWELL and JOHN F. LOWE, members Meets on the 2nd Monday in February and August and the first Monday in April and November COUNTY OFFICERS Sheriff – W. W. HALL, Hamilton Clerk – J. F. HAMILTON, Hamilton Register – W. B. RIGGAN, Hamilton Tax Assessor – T. J. FARIS – Bexar Tax Collector – M. M. FRAZIER – Guin Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton Superintendent of Education – W. A. DUNN PROBATE COURT Judge – JASON P. FORD Meets the second Monday in each month. CHURCH NOTICE M. E. CHURCH SOUTH - Hamilton – Services first Sunday in each month at 11 am and 7 p.m.; fourth Sunday at 7 p.m. and every fifth Sunday at 11 a.m. Rev. S. P. SMITH, pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. W. R. WHITE, Superintendent. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night. MASONIC Hamilton Lodge No. 344 – G. N. STOKES, WM.; A. J. THORN, SW; A. H. BURLESON, JW ; G. B. MIXON, Treas.; R. W. CLARK, Sec’y Guin Lodge No. 478 – T. J. SPRINGFIELD, WM; WATSON BROWN, SW; W. H. MATTHEWS, JW; M T AKERS, Treas. ; J. H. RILEY, Sec’y Winfield Lodge No. 304 – E. VICKERY, WM; J. F. EARNEST, SW; J. M. SPANN, JW. ; J. C. EGAN, Treas. W. T. MUSGROVE, Sec’y Hackleburg Lodge No. 526 – A. M. CANTRELL, WM; W. W. FREDERICK, SW; P. N. GREEN, JW; E. A. MIXON, Treas.; JOHN A. GREEN, Sec’y Bexar Lodge No. 280 – JOHN ARNOLD, WM; W. L. WHITEHEAD, SW ; W. A. BALLARD, JW; A. L. MOORMAN, Treas.; T. J. YOUNG, Sec’y Pleasant Hill Lodge No. 321 – W. H. FLIPPO, WM; PORTER DUBOISE, SW.; SETH BOTTOMS, JW; A. RANDOLPH, Treas., J. J. COATES, Sec’y MOST TRANSPARENT SCHEMES - Of Swindlers Find Simple Citizens Who Greedily Gobble The Bait – (coin swindler claiming to be from Washington DC) THE LAURADA LANDED – (Cuba – Spain) RELIEF FOR STORM VICTIMS The Citizens Relief Committee of Dallas, Texas on Thursday raised nearly $1,300 for the cyclone sufferers at Sherman and other Northern Texas points. An effort will be made to raise $5,000 in cash in Dallas. Liberal donations of clothing and general supplies are being made. EVENTS IN ALABAMA ------- MAN DECAPITATED AT SHEFFIELD Will McDaniel, an employee of the Cole Furnace at Sheffield, Ala. was decapitated Thursday morning by falling in front of a switch engine. His head and one arm were cut off by the engine. CHANCELLOR DOWDELL DISTRICT CONFERENCE – (of M. E. Church South held at Birmingham) MRS. LAURA HOWE ACQUITTED ACCIDENT AT DWIGHT MILLS While working with a dynamo Wednesday morning H. C. NICHOLS agent for the Dwight Cotton Mills, Gadsden, was struck with a heavy piece of timber and seriously injured. He was unconscious most of the day, but the physicians believe he will recover. AN EYE KNOCKED OUT – (E. E. Atkinson – hit by train) HOUSELESS AND DESTITUTE FAMILIES The deadly cyclone of Sunday evening at Seneca, Ka. and vicinity, was far worse than reported. The destruction through the country is dreadful. Sixty families are without homes and with nothing to wear or eat, only as supplied by relief funds. T. C. Vickers, treasure, reports a great demand for the necessaries of life. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH The diocesan council of the Protestant Episcopal Church is holding its annual session in Selma. Bishops Wilmer and Jackson presiding. Notice has been given of a resolution to permit women to participate and vote in church meetings. The council will hold the next annual session with St. Paul’s’ Church. Greensboro, on May 19. DEATH OF MRS. GENERAL WHEELER Mrs. Daniella Wheeler, wife of Congressman Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, died at her residence in Washington City Tuesday night. The cause of her death was appendicitis. Her illness began Sunday morning last, and was complicated with peritonitis. Her attending physicians, three in number, decided that an operation was necessary, and she was performed at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT BESSEMER – John Keller - Bessemer Pipe works A MEXICAN’S VETERAN’S DEATH Gen. John R. Coffey died Thursday at his home, near Wannville, Jackson County. He was born in Bedford County, Tenn. about 86 years ago. He served as colonel in the Mexican war and afterwards brigadier-general of the Alabama militia. Mr. Coffey was one of the wealthiest and most influential men of north Alabama. Hew s stricken with paralysis several years ago and had been confined to his bed for a long time. AN ANCIENT DOCUMENT – land grant with Andrew Jackson signature ECHOS OF THE GREAT TORNADO Additions to the long list of cyclone victims are being made hourly as the news from the remote districts arrive. Mrs. J. J. JOHNSON, wife of a farmer, and JOHN TILDEN, a farm hand, were killed at Nemo. At the same place a little girl named DAVIS was blown against a barbed wire fence and almost cut in two. Her mother and another child were killed in the wreck of their house. Although there are appalling evidences about Sherman of the storm’s fury’ something like order is being restored. These are sixty patients still in the hospitals and as many more in private houses. Up to noon Wednesday sixty-one bodies had been buried at Sherman. BOYS SKULL BADLY CRUSHED – Dwight Mills TRIAL OF ROBERT H. KENNEDY – for killing of Percy Wood GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY HAVOC OF STORM AND FLOOD – (Missouri storm) ANOTHER BAD DISASTER - building falls, burying a number of people in the ruins The Brown Building BURNING IN CHATTANOOGA – (Lookout Lumber Company burned) CUBAN AFFAIRS, VIA KEY WEST PAGE 2 THE APPEAL J. S. CLEMENTS, Editor and Proprietor Subscription Rates One year, 50 cents, Six Months 25 cts. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM -----(Political news and commentary)----- PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST SENATORIAL CONVENTION Ad for The Great Enquirer Ad for Southern Music Co. $65.00 Top Buggy for $45.00 (picture of buggy). Buy good goods and buy them from headquarters where you will always get the right kind of prices. Here we are again! Offering our usual inducements for year 1896. Fifty-five dollars ($55.00) sewing machine fro Twenty Dollars. A full jewel top buggy, worth Sixty-five dollars, for $45.00. Besides above we have many more special bargains too numerous to mention. We are still headquarters for hardware, agricultural implements and machinery of all kinds. Furniture, carpets, rugs, wallpaper. Window shades from 20 cts. up. Buggies, hacks, road carts and the old reliable gestring wagons. McCormick Mowers, Hay rakes, harnesses, bridles, saddles, & c. We ask that you call or write us. We can and will save you money if you will give us an opportunity. We are general agents for the Foos Scientific grinding mills. LANN & CARTER Hardware Co, Aberdeen, Miss. PAGE 3 THE APPEAL Issued Every Friday Hamilton, May 29, 1896 CLUB RATES The District Conference met at Guin yesterday. Born – To Mr. and Mrs. B. R. FITE on last Friday, a fine boy. Mrs. M. M. FRAZIER of Guin, visited relatives here Wednesday. Blackberries will soon be ripe and the hungry editor can have plenty of pie. Call on H. E. MIXON when you need a pair of shoes. Prices as low as you could ask. H. E. MIXON is selling shoes at prices that will astonish you. Call and examine his tock. Mr. RAS KEY, of Harmony Grove, Ga. spent Wednesday night in town with his kinsman, Dr. M. H. KEY W. W. OZBIRN left on Saturday last for Tampa, Fla. He goes to look at the country and will be absent about ten days. Rev. S. B. SMITH and wife, JOHN F. HAMILTON and W. R. WHITE left for Guin yesterday mooring to attend the district conference. If you have disfranchised yourself by failing to register don’t cuss the law but go over and ask your neighbor to administer a sound kicking. The families of Dr. BUYTON, R. W. CASHION and J. Y. MILLER have had a serious time with measles, but we are glad to say that all are improving. J. R. MCMINN, alias “Cyclone Bob” left for his home in Cullman on last Saturday. Mac is a jolly fellow and will always find a cordial welcome at Hamilton. Sheriff HALL returned from Texas on last Friday but OSCAR KENNEDY was not with him. OSCAR is evidently well pleased with Texas and has no desire to return to his old home. The registrars are given two weeks in which to make their report to the Probate Judge and so far only five beats have been heard from. They are as follows: Hamilton, 252; Guin, 1879; Hackleburgh, 121; Bexar, 148; Pikeville, 100. It is thought that the registration will equal if it does not exceed that of two years ago. Hon. JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON, Alabama’s next governor will attend the comment exercises of the Agricultural School at this place on next Tuesday. He will address the citizen of Guin on Wednesday on his return home. A hearty welcome awaits him in Marion and we hope the people of Guin and vicinity will turn out and give him a big crowd. No new cases of measles in town. Several drummers in town this week. Dept Marshal COWART was here yesterday. R. N. TERRELL is clerking for H. E. MIXON Rev. S. B. SMITH occupied the pulpit here on last Sunday and Sunday night delivering two excellent sermons. The city of St. Louis, MO. was swept by a destructive cyclone on last Wednesday and it is estimated that one thousand personas were killed. Steamers were sunk and a heavily loaded passenger train was blown from the bridge into the river carrying death to is hundred s of passengers. The storm passed through the heart of the city sweeping huge buildings like chaff and burying hundreds of human victims beneath the rains. To add to the horror fire followed in wake of the storm and continued the work of destruction. --------(political commentary)----- CLOSING EXCERCISES OF THE WEST ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL Sunday, May 31, 10:30 am – Annual Sermon by Rev. R. W. ANDERSON of Jasper, Ala. Monday, June 1, 8 p.m. – First Anniversary of Philomathic Society Tuesday, June 2, 8 p.m. – Anniversary of Literary Societies 10 a.m. - Annual Meeting of Board of Control Wednesday, June 3 – 10 a.m. - Annual Address by Prof. J. B. CUNNINGHAM of Birmingham 8 pm – Annual Concert All are cordially invited JAMES E. ALEXANDER, President West Alabama Agricultural School – Hamilton, Alabama. Co-Educational. First Session opened September 2, 1895. Tuition absolutely FREE. A thorough and practical course. Expenses very low. Board five to seven dollars per month. JAS. E. ALEXANDER, President. Good job printing. I do the best job printing you can buy. My prices are no highest than you now pay for sorry printing elsewhere. I have new material and years of experience. 1000 Note Heads for $2; 500 for $1.25; 250 for 75c; 100 for 50c; 1000 Envelopes for $2; 500 for $1.25; 250 for 65c; 100 for 35c. I do the best printing and furnish the paper. Printers kick on my low prices, but I am not starving to death at it at all. IF the work is not first-class, I buy it back. Cash must accompany all orders. I print anything you want at very low prices. Write for my price list printed in three colors. “Ask me anything about any kind of printing.” JON ERL GARRISON, Sulligent, Ala. Buy your stationery from Mrs. E. H. CLEMENTS. A good supply always on hand at the very lowest prices. If you are in need of St. Joseph’s medicines, save money by buying of Mrs. CLEMENTS W. H. KEY, Russellville, Ala. C. E. MITCHELL, Hamilton, Ala. KEY & MITCHELL, Attorneys-at-law and Solicitors in Chancery, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. Special attention given to the collection of claims. A RARE BARGAIN For Sale – a pair of the French Burr Mill Rocks – Good as new. Will take $50.00 cash. Rocks will be delivered free on board cars at Eldridge, Ala or they may be seen at Texas, Ala. Call on or address, J. P. PEARCE, Pearce’s Mills, Ala. Ad for T. L. Carter Piano and Organ PAGE 4 -----(small ads)----- LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES TOBACCO – A DIPLOMATIC QUESTION JOINT CUBAN EXPEDITION FUNERAL SERVICES OF MRS. WHEELER CAPTURE OF DEPERADO DELK A dispatch from Senoia, Ga., tells of the capture of the desperado, Tom Delk, who is wanted for the murder of Sheriff Gwinn, of Pike County, Georgia. He was sitting out in the woods when T. H. McWilliams, a farmer of that neighborhood, came up and ordered him to throw his rifle down. Delk spring behind a tree and then commanded McWilliams to throw down his pistol. This McWilliams did. Delk made him give up all his money and then began to deliberate. McWilliams proposed that they lay in wait for a man who would soon be along with $100. While they were talking McWilliams jumped no Delk. They fought for fifteen minutes. Delk tried to get his pistol to kill McWilliams. Finally, McWilliams snatched it and clubbed the desperado with it. Then McWilliams marched the prisoner half a mile to his own farm house and had the bell rung for help. When the farm hands came they chained Delk and started for Senoia. Delk was chained securely to a wagon and started across the country for Atlanta, thirty miles away. They expected to reach there about 3 o’clock Thursday morning BEAUTY’S EYES – (POEM) PITH AND POINT – (jokes) Ad for Ayer’s Hair Vigor. Ad for McElree’s Wine of Cardui Ad for Ripan’s Tabules Ad for Tuerk Water Motor Ad for Mill and Mining Supplies Ad for Pearline Ad for Hires Root Beer Ad for Walter Baker Cocoa File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton62nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 15.4 Kb