Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-01
SELMA IS ON TIP-TOE.
CHANCE TO SECURE A BIG CHICAGO PLANT I
Basket Ball Degenerates Into Rough and Tum- bIe, and Peculiar Injury Results.
 ACycIist's Bad Fall.

Selma, Aug. 3l.-tSpeclal)-Mr A. Y. Opperman, president of the Chicago h. candescent Light company, is in the city endeavorng to arrange for the removal of his plant from Chicago to Selma. The plant manufactures incandescent lamps and other electrical goods, being one of nine factories ill the United States. It will give employment to seventy-fve peo- pie. The Commercial and Industrial as sociation's committee for the encourage ment of new industries have his proposi- tion under consideration.
 An important meeting of the board of health was held last evening and the sanitary condition of the city was dlS- cussed. An order was issued that no more excavations for buildings be made until November l and recommended the better opening up of certain ditches on the outskirts. A committee was appoint ed to wait upon the water company and see of the muddy condition of the water cannot be abated.
 Through the summer basket ball has been very popular with the gymnasium classes of the Young Mems Christian as sociation. The game has been played at night on the gymnasium grounds in the rear of the association building and quite a rivalry has sprung up between the twoi elevens, designated by their uniforms the whites and the blacks. The game is akin to football and can be played very rough. Up to few nights ago the boys have kept within bounds under the re- straining care of General Secretary Cum mings. He is absent on a vacation and the boys grew so rough in the last game that basket ball will doubtless be pro- hibited on the grounds. Three men were disabled in the game, and one of them Mir. Hamp Cullen, has lost his power of articulation as the result of player step ravtr hi lnnl hi fl thinks he may regain his speech In sixty or ninety days. At present he is com pelled to express his desires by signs and writing. Every one connected with the game of course regrets the circumstance very much.
 Burrell Duckworth and Hardy Sawyer. twp negroes indulged in row Thursday night at Salem church, near Richmond in this county. Sawyer shot Duckworth in the mouth, causing, it Is feared a fatal wound. Sawyer made good his escape There was a woman Tn the case
 As. MT. John Straighten was riding down the pavement on Dallas street last evening on his bicycle the little daugh- ter of MT. B. J. Schuster ran out of a gate just in front of him. In his effort to pre- vent striking the child Mir. Straighten fell heavily to the stone pavement break- ing the small bones in his wrist and re- ceiving other bruises. He is resting we'll today.
 President Sol D. Bloch of the Montgom- cry and Camden railroad is in the city. A meeting of the citizens was called to order in the rooms of the Commercial and Industrial association last evening Pres ident Bloch asked that Selma take s25, ,00O to be used in the completion of the road from Camden to McBridge's. on the Pine Apple branch of the Louisville and Nash vile. committee was appointed to con fer with him. Only about twenty citi- zens were present and there was no en- thrSia Sm