Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for MARCH 1901 March 1901 ************************************************ 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: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net June 11, 2005, 8:20 pm The Randolph Leader March 1901 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for MARCH 1901 (Note: there are several missing newspaper issues on the microfilm roll for March 1901) NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, March 20, 1901 GRAHAM News March 11th Married on Sunday afternoon at the home of the bride's parents, Miss Elon Stevens to W.H. Beck, the ceremony performed by Rev. Cicero Cole. __ WEHADKEE News Mrs. Robt. Harlan who was very ill at our last writing is convalescing. __ Mrs. Dora Lewis has been confined to her room with three weeks with the grip. __ Ms. H.E. Hester is dangerously ill with pneumonia and is not expected to live. __ CENTER News Mr. Madison McBurnett is fixing to get off to Texas where he expects to spend the rest of this year. We wish for him much success. __ A telegram received here yesterday stated that the governor had commuted the sentence of Lucius Baker to life imprisonment. This young man killed J.I. Cotney some months ago and was sentenced to hang. He had several reprieves, next Friday being the date for his execution before the final reprieve. __ LOCAL News J.M. McBurnett was in town Monday and informed us that he would leave tomorrow for Texas to remain an indefinite time. __ Tom Howell and Miss Ida Jackson were married last Sunday at the home of the bride's father J.M. Jackson, one and a half miles south of town. __ G.W. Cox was called to Bessemer by the illness of his venerable father on the 28th ult., who died in an hour after his son's arrival. The remains were interred at the old home place in Macon County. __ E.A. Zobel is suffering with a relapse of grip. __ Miss Ethel Kennedy of Phenix City is the attractive guest of her cousin Miss Daisy Cox. __ Sheriff Kent passed through Roanoke yesterday, carrying Mr. Hutch Kirk to the insane hospital. __ Last night, Mat Awbrey, a bright little newsboy and son of J.T.B. Awbrey was discovered to me missing from home by his parents. He was last seen asleep in a store in town about 10 o'clock last night. A search was begun at 2 o'clock this morning when he was first misssed. At this writing, 8 a.m., his mysterious disappearance has not been accounted for. __ Olin Mooty is the happy father of a little girl, only five days old. __ Mr. T.F. Maxwell and Miss Emma Waller were married Sunday morning at the home of Mr. J.A. Walden of this place. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W.H. Wright. __ R.K. Nipper, formerly of the Roanoke Drug. Co., left with his family last week to accept a position in Atlanta, Texas. __ Bob Cheney is now on the police force. __ Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Worrill of Thompson, Ga., are spending some time with their daughter, Mrs. J.C. Wright. __ Mrs. M.W. Carlisle was called to Florida Monday by the serious illness of her sister Mrs. Hollinger. __ Dave Denney, a prominent business man of LaFayette died Saturday of pneumonia. __ Miss Addie Wallace has been spending several days with her sister Mrs. E.A. Zobel. __ The widow of the late C.E. Jones has come to make her home in Roanoke with her father John W. Belcher. __ Shelley Prescott had the misfortune to lose his residence in Wedowee by fire Tuesday morning of last week. __ J.M. McBurnett was accompanied to Texas by J.C. Taylor, who also goes to remain an indefinite period. __ Mr. H.A. Napier, aged 67 years, died at his home, 1922 Walnut Street, yesterday. He was a member of Wedowee Lodge No. 181, Knights of Pythias, and will tomorrow morning be buried in the K of P lot in Edgemont Cemetery with Pythian honors. Anniston Correspondent for Montgomery Advertiser, March 18th. __ A very sad death occurred last Thursday several miles south of town. Charles E. Jones, eldest son of T.N. Jones, succumbed to the great enemy, after a brief illness. He was a good citizen, honest and industrious, and highly esteemed by his friends. His remains were interred at Bethel after appropriate funeral services by Rev. A.S. Brannon. He leaves a wife and one child and a large circle of sorrowing relatives and friends. __ We publish with sincere regret the death of Miss Georgia Striplin, which occurred last Wednesday at her home in Ashland. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Striplin and a sister of Russell M. Striplin. She was a beautiful, amiable youn glady and her death is especially sad. Upon receiving a telegram conveying the unwelcome news, Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Striplin and their daughters Misses Lem and Belle, left immediately to attend the funeral. __ A NEGRO MURDERED SATURDAY NIGHT AT A NEGRO CAROUSAL Again a murder has been committed in the town of Roanoke. Saturday night, a large company of disorderly negroes assembled at the house of John Culberson, a noted character, in Roanoke Number 2, to participate in a dance. Just before 12 o'clock a pistol shot was fired, a negro fell dead on the floor and the rest of them ran from the house in various directions, someone locking the door behind them. Sunday morning, some white citizens chanced to learn of the tragedy and going to the scene, they found the murdered man lying in his blood. Coroner Coleman summoned a jury and proceeded to hold an inquest. Dr. W.L. Heflin was called upon to make an examination of the wound. The trial was held in the council chambers and lasted all day. The police were vigilant and soon the callaboose was filled with attendants at the murder and party of the previous evening. The testimony before the coroner stated in brief, was to the effect that the murdered man was Dolphus Mann, that he was held in the collar and shot in the forehead by John (alias Bud) Almon. The latter claimed that some one had stolen his pistol and according to the testimony, finally charged Mann with the theft and then shot him, as above stated. It was proven that Almon used the pistol of Linnie Thomason. Hence the coroner's jury held Almon for the murder of Dolphus Mann and Thomason as an accessory. Almon had made his escape to Georgia from which state he came. Sunday night Policeman Carroll and Cheney went over and captured him. The murdered negro lay on the floor till the middle of Sunday afternoon before anyone would prepare his body for burial. At 10 o'clock that night the body was started to LaGrange for the purpose of shipping to the home of the deceased in Thomasville, Ga. Mann had not lived in Roanoke very long. Yesterday the preliminary trials of Thomason and Almon were held before Judge East. Solicitor Overton represented the state and Henderson and Rowland the defense. The evidence was about the same as developed at the coroner's investigation. Thomason was bound over as an accessory to the crime without bail. The defense filed to appear in Almon's case and he was remanded to jail. Sheriff Kent left yesterday for Wedowee with the prisoners. Gus Almon, a brother of the alleged murderer came over from Georgia with a pistol on his person to investigate the situation and the mayor rewarded him with a fine of $27. in appreciation of his visit. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, March 27, 1901 ROCK MILLS News We are sorry to learn that John Hudson, son of M.V. Hudson near this place, had the misfortune to have one of his eyes badly injured while plowing among cotton stalks a few days ago. __ Mrs. Fannie Hill of Langdale, who has been visiting relatives here, returned home yesterday. __ Walter, son of Mr. J.B. Bishop of near here is still very ill at this writing. __ HAPPY LAND News Ross Sudduth, formerly of this comminity died at his home near Daviston a few days since. __ Melton Hubbard's youngest child fell in the fire last Wednesday and was severely though it is hoped not fatally burned. __ LOCAL News Mrs. P.G. Trent Sr. is seriously ill. __ Glad to note that E.A. Zobel is recovering froma spell of pneumonia. __ Miss Della Burdett returned home last Thursday from an extended visit to relatives in Georgia. __ Mrs. Whitman and little child went to Tallapoosa, Ga., Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. Whitman's father, Dr. Slaughter. Her brother John will remain here for some days longer. __ H.E. Hester, the telephone manager, returned Monday from a month's watching at the bedside of his wife who has been very ill. We are glad to note her steady improvement. __ Last Saturday night was an exciting one in some sections of Roanoke. About 9 o'clock some one was heard disturbing the peaceful repose of the chickens in W.H. Brittain's fowl house. Mr. Brittain being away in town, Mrs. Carrie Blake, a near neighbor, promptly responded to the alarm and sent the marauders feeling before her bullets. At 3 o'clock the same night someone was heard trying to open the rear hall door of the residence occupied by Mrs. Bettie Brittain and Mrs. Maggie Fleeth. Miss Mamie Hearn who boards with the former, secrured a pistol and with rare courage, opened a window and fired two shots. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape582gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.6 Kb