The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-25
ANNISTON'S
 FATALITIES Fireman on Southern Killed. PRISONER SHOT BY OFFICER Joe Cannon Attempted to Escape
 and Was Fired On. Fight at Oxford Lake Results in Man Receiving Serious Wounds from
 Opponents Knife--Boy
 Was Razored.

Anniston.. June 24--tspeciaL)-- Within the last twenty-four hours An niston and its environs have had more than their share of accidents and per sonai injuries purposely inflicted. One man is dead, one is fatally injured and Tive are more or less seriously hurt.
 This afternoon at five o'clock. Jim King. a fireman on the Southern Rail- road was instantly killed while at- tempting to board a switch engine to which one box car was attached. He made a false step and fell under the front trucks of the box car which passed over his body King was twenty-five years of age.
 Saturday night Joe Cannon, aged Ss. was probably fatally shot by special Policeman W. E. Parker An umbrella was the root of the trouble. Early in the evening Cannon commit ted highway robbery by holding up a negro named Charlie Branch and talk ing his umbrella from him. Branch objected and got several cuts about the face.
 Parker went to Cannon's home in Glen Addle, suburb of Anniston. and vas bringing him to the police sta tion when he tried to escape. Cannon tried to grab Parker's pistol and in the scuffle was shot above the heart and in the left thigh. The bullet in his breast passed all the way through his body. Parker surrendered to Sheriff Woodruff
 Jim Higginbotham on Saturday evening got into a fight with an un- known man at Oxford Lake, four miles from Anniston and had his opponent down kicking him when the latter drew a knife and made several deep gashes in Higginbotham's leg.
 On the same evening at Oxford, which is three miles from this place, boy about nineteen years of age, struck an old man in the head with a stone and the latter went after the youngster with a razor cutting a deep gash in his throat The authori- ties do not know who either of them was.
 A short time before midnight Sat urday. Policeman McNamara arrested Bill Mccain for disorderly conduct and was taking him to the police sta ton when he tried to get away Mo- Namara got his prisoner down and about had him subdued when some unknown person slipped up behind him and drew a knife across his throat tns fiicting a wound about six inches long. He is not seriously hurt Mccain es- caped.
 Ray Owen. young boy, fell at the skating rink Saturday night and broke his right arm.
 In this mornings Hot Blast publica- tion, is made of an ordinance grant ing a franchise to the Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway to con stIuct tracks of It's railroad in. along and across certain streets and alleys in this city.
 This ordinance was read at recent meeting of the city council and will come up for final passage June 2S. The matter has been kept very quiet on account of some trouble in secur- ing options on land through and over which the company desires to run their line. It practically means that the SeAboard Air Line will come into Anniston It a day not far distant. A branch line will be run from Jackson vile or Ohatchie from the main line between Atlanta and Birmingham The lines come into Anniston over the old right -of-way of A line known as the Blue Mountain Mine Railway. which has already been graded The termi- nals will be at Eleventh and Moore streets within one block of the court house, a very desirable location.