July 24

1875: Two men place an obstruction on the track of the Air Line Railroad, derailing a passenger train near Central Station. The Pickens Sentinel reports on Thursday, September 2, 1875, that Jim Smith and John Rother are jailed August 26 and charged with the "horrible crime" ... "with the intention of committing murder. Thomas Glaspy was also committed as a witness. Rother has confessed. Capt. Alley (or Nalley), by the assistance of a French gentleman of African persuasion, worked up the case. ("The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens Court House, South Carolina, 1872-1893, Historical and Genealogical Abstracts, Volume 1, compiled by Peggy Burton Rich and Marion Ard Whitehurst, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1994, ISBN 1-55613-985-3, page 8.)
Czech artist Alfons Maria Mucha, born July 24, 1860, passes away July 14, 1939. One of his graphics of a damsel with a mug of beer will be sand-blasted into the windows of the future Study Hall. Works by this artist are not yet in the public domain, and are protected by international copyright law until 70 years after the creator's death, so this website cannot upload an image of the windows at this time. Whether the Study Hall requested permission to use the image for their logo remains unknown at this time.

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