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head towards the front are two bru.ses, also some on the throat. neck and be- hind the ears. The Iatp.r bruises could have been, inflicted by a rope lightly and violently drawn
 Many people incline to the theory of murder ard present som= good evidence, while a few others believe death was ac- ciaental.
 AS TO THE MURDER THEORY.
 Webb was a prominent member and an earnest worker in Washington ConeIave, No. 1, Regents of the White Shield. He was very ou.spoker concerning the or der and its aims and objects.
 It is stated that on one occasion Webb was in Johnson's saloon, on the South side. while there was a crowd of negroes in the place. He was drinking somewhat and loudly proclaimed that he was a White Shield, and was then on his way to a meeting. It is said the negroes looked closely at him and then knowingly at each other. Is is known where they are employed.
 Around the Alabama Great Southern shops, where Webb was at work, he off, ten praised the order when negroes were around. It is said they became very much incensed at the organization, and often muttered when Webb made state ments.
 Upon these facts is largely based the belief that foul and cruel murder was committed
 WEBB'S LAST NIGHT.
 A rule enforced by the Alabama Great Southern railroad company compels cer- tainamen to quit work at noon every day. They alternate in turns. This is done to keep from reducing the number of men employed.
 Webb quit at noon Tuesday. Some time during the evening he was at Potts saloon on First avenue and Twenty fourth street.
 Tuesday night at 8 o'clock he was in Twenty-second street. He did not drink anything then, but seemed to be looking for someone. Later he is said to have been seen leaving the Metropolitan sa-
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TWENTYTHOUSAND DOLLARS Appropriated By Congress For
 a Survey OF THE WARRIOR CANAL One of Mayor VanHoose's Flights of Fancy Takes On More Substan-
 tlal Form.

About two years ago MT. Van Hoose, ex-mayor of Birmingham, set forth, among other schemes, the idea of ca- nal from this city to Black Warrior river. This canal would, of course, give direct water outlet from Birmingham to the Gulf.
 At the time the plan was suggested it was called by many "on- of the mayors flights of imagination" "an impossible, impracticable thing" But with time and thought the scheme has emerged from it's phantasmigarical conception, and begins to take on a more substan- tial form. Even the congress of the Unitsd States has had the matter under advisement, through the influence of Hon. Oscar Underwood .et als and passed an appropriation of $20,OOO for a mere survey of the canal proposed MT. Underwood said to an Age-Herald representative last night that the appro- priation had passed, and that he had advice from Brigadier-General Wilson. of the United States surveying corps, that the survey would bsgin the latter part of August or the first of September.
 
 the course of Valley river running from Bessemer to the Black Warrior From Birmingham to Bessemer this is a smaller stream, and is known as Valley creek. The principal work would there- fore be necessary between these points, as it is estimated that below Bessemer the stream can be made navigable by locks and dams. The distance from Bir-. mingham to the point where Valley river empties into the Warrior river is twenty-four miles air lire, and the course pf the stream increases this dis tance possibly one-third, making dis tance of thirty odd miles to be sur veyed.
 In MT. Wilson's communication to Mir Underwood he stated that the very best engineers would be furnished for this work. that their reports to congress might receive due consideration.
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point there is no railing or wire around the bank.
 In the pool, floating near the body, was one lady's new shoe and an old gafer Webb wore a brand new pair of ox-blood shoes. The mat:s to the lady's shoe and the galaer are supposed to be in the vat.
 Ofiosr Johnson was called to the fur mace by telephone, and when ha arrived the body was lying on the ground.
 Miller & Co.'s ambulance was summon ed and the body removed to ilheir morgue on Third avenue.
 in uhs pockets were found only plain handkerchief and a check good for five cents in merchandise.
 Coroner Burkhalter empanelled jury who viewed the remains. Dr. Gillespie topsy but was mot prepared to announce decision, so the inquest was adjourned until ten o'clock this morning.
 There ara several suspicious bruises about the head and neck of the dead maa, which are sources of much perplexfty to the officers. On either side of the foIx-
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besn defeated south of the Mason and Dixon line i'm an importanls contest But he is not only famous for his scientific knowledge of the little globe of polished ivory and his unusual eXecu ution of the game, hl.' is also noitsd for his numerous characteristics and proclivities of suc- cessful mann of the world. Doheriy has played games for $10,0G0 a side and won and in ten days he would be as short of funds as the day before he played the mitsoh.
 Ten years ago when thl= game of bil- lizards was at its best in the southern states amatuers would go hundreds of miles to see his remarkable use of the billiard cue and his equally remarkable game of finger billiards.
 He was often, se,n at the famous sum mer resorts of tlle country, where he play ed many match gam with local and state champions, in most instances dou- ble discounting, or in four ball billiards making 800 or no count. In finger billiards he has givcn many exhibitions of 1000 or no count and in fi,s, humorous manner, says the only opportunity for him to miss a point in finger billiards is to faint from the exerticml
 DoherSy has no fda of the value of a bank roll, and this is especially true where the pleasure of his friends is a consideration. For this reason his purse is not always as large as his heart, and during ths, la ter years he has not been the "plunGer'' he was eight ar ten years ago.
 ago all I had to dc e make a banls account was to play a game of billiards, but the made a fortune in my time, but. it has gone as easily as it was made. Ten years ago ael I had to do 'Jao mae bank account was to ply "a game of billiards; but the game is fast playing out. from sci rl- trfc poin, of view. Very great perfection having been reached. the public sceined to ire very quickly and determined that the early supposed inlaticacles of the game were all q myth. But the public is wrong. Thare are few men who can even attain any great degree of perfection in lhe ex- ecution of a game of billiards"
 However to look at this artissl. one would not think that hia was passing through "dull season." He dresses three times Gay. but wears none of the stripes and flashes of the smaller calber. In ether words, John Doherty is a high toned, big hlAarteds successful man of the world, with due consideration for Its fellow men.
 He is greeted on every corner in every ely by such familiar terms as Hello Johni" How are you, old fellow?" In fact tn, mans acquaintance seems to be unlimited ard his faculty for remember ing names and faces somsthisg remark able.
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CHARGED WITH MURDER.

Mamie White Is Accused of Poisonir
 John Powell.
 Mamie White is in jail charged with poisoning John Powell, the late leader of colored society.
 Sometime ago Powell died suddenly and under suspicious circumstances in the rear of a colored barber shop on Third avenue. A rigid investigation was made and the coroners jury returned a verdict finding that death resulted from poison administered, by Mamie White. The specific charge against her is that of murder, but she stoutly proclaims her innocence.
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Stockholders Meeting.

A meeting of the stockholders of the Virginia and Alabama Coal company is hereby called to be held at the office of the company in the city of Birmingham, Ala bama on the 12th day of August, 1S97 at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of consid- ering a proposition to approve, ratify and confirm all acts and proceedings of all meetings of the directors of said company heretofore held outside of the state of Ala bama; and all acts and proceedings of all meetings of the stockholders of said com- pany held pursuant to the call of any meet ing of the directors held outside of the state of Alabama: and any and all elec- tions of directors and officers of said com pany at any meeting of the stockholders or directors held as aforesaid; and all acts of any officer of said company elected or appointed by or in pursuance of meetings held outside of the state of Alabama; and especially to approve, ratlfy and confirm the execution and disposition of the first mortgage bonds of the company now out standing, issued on the 1st day of May 1S93 and the mortgage executed by said company to the Virginia Safe Deposit and Fidelity Company on the property of said company to secure such issue of bonds bearing even date herewith; and to trans act all other business of said company that may properly come before said meet ing. JAS. B. PAGE,
 President.
 Birmingham, Ala. July 10th, 1897
 7-10-td
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THE CORONER'S JURY
Says William Glass Met His Death Purely
 Ani by Accident.s.#5,..,

stN1py acclueut.e.
 The coroner's jury met at the Warner Smiley companys establishment yester- day afternoon to cortinue the hearing of the William Glses case. Their verdict was one of death by accidentally falling from window.
 Glass was the stone mason who f=ll from a second story window in he Pear son building on Sixteenth street and Sec ond avenue rlasltsMonday' morning.
 It developed that hs came from Scot land ard has been in Birmingham for nearly three years. He had worked in cities in all parts of the country.
 Sa a-urday he drew $6 that was due him and it is said, spert nearly all of n for drink.
 As stated in the Age-Herald yesterday. his remains were buried in pauper's s grave over Red Mountain Tuesday
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WAS IT MURDER
 OR AN ACCIDENT In the Early Morn a Lad Makes a HOFFi-
 ble Discovery. IN A VAT OF BOILING WATER The Nearly Cooked Body of James A.
 Webb Vas Seen. BRUISES ABOUT THE HEAD AND NECK Thought to Be Silent Witnesses of Foul and Unnatural Murder-When Last Seen Webb Was Drinking Officers at Work on
 the Case-Who He Was.
BRUISES ABOUT THE HEAD AND NECK

James A. Webb, a painter, was found dead early yesterday morning in hot waiter vat at the sloss furnaces. Foul murdsr is suspec ed.
 About o'clock in the morning Cal Bennett, twelve year old negro boy, who is employed as coke butler at the furnace, discovered the body in the vat. Th- head was above water.
 Burnett ha.iily informed his fellow workmen of his ghasltly find and they gathered around the pool For some time they excItedly discussed the mat ter, but finally, with the assistance. of long poles, succeeded in recovering the body.
 The water in .he pool is very hot
 When the body was found it was in the southwest cornfr of the pool. At this
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WILL CONTINUE TOMORROW.
Short Service on Enslcy Line Only Tem

Short Service on Enslcy Line Only Tenn
 rorlry-A Change Soon.
 Only one dummy, morning and aftsr- noon, was run on the Ensley line yester- day. This was caused by Ensley City raising quarantine against Birming- ham. Ths regular schedule will be put back today, but when the quarantine line will be raised is not known
 It is stated by officials of the street railway company that the travel has fal- len off about half on the lines affected by the smallpox scare.
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DEATH RECORD.
Thomas J. Francis

MT. Thomas J. Francis, a well known citizen of Woodlawn, dropped dead of heart disease at 7:SO o'clock yesterday morning. while sngaged in a convsrsa- ton with a neighbor.
 He arose as usual yesterday morning and walked out in his garden, when he began to talk with MT. Paynter, his next door neighbor Suddenly he fell to the ground, and bsfore MT. Paynter could climb over the fence and reach him he was dead.
 MT. Francis was a native of Ken lucky and "A years old. He came to this city ten years ago and has resided here ever since.
 He leaves three children, Mr ! B. Francis, county tax collector; Mrs. Sue Hall, of Camden Point, Mo-, and Mrs. R. J. Hardesty, of Woodlawn.
 He was a consistent member of the Christian church and practiced the teachings of Christianity.
 Funsral services will be held at his late residence at 10 o'clock this morning, with interment in Woodlawn cemetery.
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Addison Greenway

Huntsville, Ala, Aug. 4.-(Special9- Relatives in this city today received in- formation of the death of Dr. Addison Gr5enway, in New Mexico. Dr. Green way was on a business trip to New Mexico, and was fatally injured by be- ing thrown from a horse. Dr. Green way was a grandson of General Add- son White, of Huntsville, and his death IS the first during three generations of ths White family. He leaves a wife and child. His body will be buried here.
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\ B|G-HEARTED FRESHMAN Who TwirIs the Polished Ivory
 With Skill. D0HERTY'S BILLIARD GAME Famous Character in Southern Sporting Affairs Visits Birmingham-A Few Entertain
 ing Facts About the Man.

One of the urtque characters in ssouah- ernl sporting life was in Birmingham y.s- terday in the person of John F. Doherty the big hearted IrsIhman from Missis- sippi.
 Doherty is famous throughout the south for his billiard game, having never
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Randolph-Macon Syst e m
 or Endowed Colleges and Academies.

VIM. W. SMITH, A. M., IL. D., Chancellor 1. Randolph Macon College. Ashland, Va,
 for men. 2. Randolph Macon Woman's College. Lynchburg. Va. g. Randolph-Macon Academy, Bedford City
 Va, for boys f. Randolph h-Macon Institute, Danville, Va,
 for girls.
 For catalogues, etc, address Chancellor Smith, Lynchburg, Va. State age of son or daughter.
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EDUCATIONAL.
President. thTsaaCNs HH-Hs
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
NASHVuTE- TENN

NASHVILLE TENN.
 Next Session Opens September 18th. Full graduate as well as under graduate courses. Ten Fellowships for college grad uates. Seven departments-Academ En- gineerng. Biblical, Law, Pharmaceutical Dental Medical. Fully equipped labora- tories and museums
 7-15-eod-12t WILLS WILLIAMS, Sec
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ALADAhIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
GA. 6 NJ. College.)

GA. 6 NJ. College) AIJBURN. ALABAMA. THE SESSION BEGINS SEPTEMBER 15. The following degree courses are offered: l--Course in Chemistry and Agriculture. 2-Course in Civil Engineering. 2--Course in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
 4-General Course, Qncluding Latin, French and German).
 5.-Course in Pharmacy.
 Well equipped laboratories are establish ed fer al the Scientific Departments For catalogue, address 7-i -i:-tacs- thur-10t. PxSsident.
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 The fae- H i's:iis" $ "&>N2zz19 ts.s5.s. s!:ss
Permanently Iyun1pad

From the Indianapolis Journal
 ''Our Iandlady had 'ao lower the diring tabaes three inches"
 ''Why did she oi) ihat?"
 "Nearly all the board.f- ar. sc 5fs..s.a g.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-24
FOREIGN.

Freshets in the River Joro in Peru de-
stroyed numerous valuable esta ties and
coffee plantations, causing also the loss
of many lives.
A train carrying Spanish troops was
blown up by dynamite south of Candel-
aria, Cuba, and nearly $50 soldiers were
killed or injured.
1t is said that the sultan, desiring to
preserve peace, has offered to withdraw
the Turkish garrison from Crete, and
to assign the island to King George, to
be occupied and administered by Greece,
with recognition of the imperial SUI
zeralnty Of the sultan, taking the form
OF an annual tribute.
The London (Ont.) city council has
imposed a license fee of'$1OO on cigar
cite vendors, in the hope of lessening the
cigarette habit among the youths Of the
city.
Grave news has been received in Lon
don regarding the sanity of Emperor
William and the possibility that a re-
gency will have to be established for
the German empire.
The Dutch steamship Utrecht, bound
from Rotterdam for Java with 100 per-
sons on board, was given up as lost.
Louis Day, Charles Scott and Esteban
Vinero, all Americans. have been re-
leased from prisons in Cuba. i@s.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-24
SEvENTY-EIGHT DROWNED.
A Terrible Disaster OF Cape Hatteras
Only Eaur SuEvivors

A Terrible Disaster Off Cape Hattera3
Only Four Survivors.
New York, March 19.-It is now be-
l:eved that 7S persons in all were lost
by the laundering of the French line
steamer Vile de st. Nazaire off Cape
Hatteras, although summary of the
list OF the passengers and crew who
were in the vessel when she left shows
that there were but Ii passengers in
all and the crew list numbered II men.
Of these four are known to be saved.
The officers, crew aud passengers were.
with one or two exceptions, residents
of foreign ports. OF the total number
ON board, 60 were colored. The only
white persons on board besides the
passengers were the officers.
From stories told by the survivors
it is learned that the steamship en-
countered severe weather March
while off Hatteras. Tremendous seas
swept over her. She rolled and pitched.
Great waves bore away the hatch COW
erings. Floods of water found their
way through the gratings to the en-
CINE rooms and distinguished the fires.
Roadway, being waterlogged. Capt.
Jacqueneau gave the order to man the
four boats. In the haste to leave the
vessel it was impossible to get pro-
visions or water to last more than a
day. OF the four boats only one had
been heard from. 1t is believed that
the other three were lost.
The largest boat contained 38 per-
sons. 1t had practically no provisions.
1t was tossed about on the rough sea
for seven days and seven nights and for
six of those days and nights the pas
sengers were without food or drink.
The four survivors passed through an
experience such as has fortunately been
the lot of few, seeing one after another
of the 81 others who left the steamer in
the large boat with them perish of ex-
posture to cold or die of hunger during
the seven days in which they drifted,
helplessly, without sail or compass,
some suffering pangs that drove them
to madness before death came to their
relief. Among the passengers is Senior
Tagado, San DOMINICAN, who was COM
PEELED to witness the death of his wife
and four children without being able
to alleviate their sufferings.
The dead and living were drifting
last Sunday. Tagado, sitting in the
stern, saw the CLEAN of a spar toward
the south, and then schooner hove in
sight. The emaciated survivors stag
gered to their feet and feebly waved
their coats.
The schooner saw them and bore
down toward them. She sent off boat,
and half an hour later the starving men
were between warm blankets and were
eagerly devouring what food the res
cuers would permit them to eat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-24
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings of the Special sessio,

Proceedings of the Special Session.
The Fifty-fifth congress met in extraor-
binary session on the 18th in pursuance of
President McKinley's proclamation. In the
senate business was confined to the read
ing of the presidents message and the seat
ing of the new senator from Kansas. Mr..
Harris. In the house Speaker Reed was
reelected. the ways and means committee
was appointed, a complete tariff bill was In
PRODUCED, the presidents message was read,
and the Indian, sundry civil. deficiency and
agricultural appropriation bills, which
failed to receive President Cleveland's sig
nature, were reintroduced.
The president on the 18th sent to the
senate the names of John Hay to be am
bassador to Great Britain and Gen. Horace
Porter for ambassador to France. Several
hundred bills, public and private, were in
troduced and referred among them being
the immigration and Nicaragua canal
measures. resolution by Senator Frye
(MeD calling for information as to the OPP
grafton of civil service rules to river and
harbor work was agreed to....The mouse
was not In session.
In the senate on the 18th the constitu-
tional amendment for popular election or
United States senators was reintroduced
and a resolution was agreed to instructing
the committee on foreign relations to in
uuire whether the islands of st. Croix, st.
Johns and st. Thomas of the West Indian
group could be purchased by the United
States. In executive session the arbitra-
ton treaty was favorably reported. In
the house Mr.. Jenkins CWis) introduced
bill amending the civil service laws so as to
provide that civil service employees term
Of service shall expire at the end Of five
years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mrs. Ellen d. Warren died at Creal
Springs, H., aged LOG years.
The Rhode Island republicans met in
Providence and nominated Elisha Dyer,
of that city, for governor.
George Goes, an old-time minstrel,
well-known throughout the country,
died at his home in Cambridge, Mass,
aged 50 years.
Ignacio Francisco la Cruz Garcia, who
was said to be the oldest man in the
United States, died in Los Angeles, Cal,
aged III years.
EX-President Cleveland arrived at his
home in Princeton, n. J., from his duck
hunting trip.
Adam Adamicek celebrated his one
hundred and twelfth birthday at his
home in South Chicago, III.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-24
A FULL CONFESSION.
jackson and Wallin& Tell of Pearl
Bryan's Murder.

Frankfort, KY, March 10. = Scott
jackson and Alonzo Walling Thursday
made a full confession of the murder,
duplicating DIR George B. Wagner,
well-known physician of Bellevue, KY,
who is now in an insane asylum at Lex
ington. Special messengers, Wade Ell
lis, manager of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial-Tribune, and j. w. Allison, of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, arrived here and
presented the confession to Gov. Brad
ley, in the handwriting of the two men.
Jackson's confession covers seven pages
of legal cap, while Walling's covers
three Each story corroborates the
other.
In substance the confessions narrate
the history of the meeting of jackson
and Walling, and of the procuring OF
the services of DR.. Wagner in behalf of
Pearl Bryan. Pearl Bryan was written
to go to Cincinnati, which she did. She
was met and taken to the house of DR..
Wagner. They arranged to go over to
see her together on Friday, and DR..
Wagner informed them that she was
not doing well and expressed much con-
Germ about her condition. They ne
turned on Friday night, and Jackson
was sent to the drug store to get pre-
scription consisting of white sub
stance, which he gave to her in big
dose.
He became much alarmed. and said he
believed she was going to die, and that
She did die. DR.. Wagner procured
hack, which they thought was his own.
and all three got into the hack and drove
to Fort Thomas. The hack was
stopped on an incline. All got out, and
jackson held the dead body of Pearl
Bryan in his lap while DR.. Wagner cut
her head off. He let the body fall, and
it rolled down little slope. DIR. Wag-
ner then took the head and wrapped
it in the girls cloak. and placed it in her
satchel. They were then all driven
to the bridge crossing to Cincinnati, and
got out and walked. Here they sep
arated. DIR. Wagner afterward became
insane. Jackson and Walling claimed
they did not know where Pearl Bryan's
head WAS placed or what became Of it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-24

Oscar Cespedes, native of Key West,
Fla, was released from Jail at Cabanas,
Cuba, on condition that he leaves the
island.
The Austrian gunboat Sebinico fred
upon and sunk near Gambia Greek YES
sci loaded with provisions and NUM-
tons which were intended for the Greek
forces in Crete.
The financial statement of India
shows a deficit for the last year Of 49,
$4,000 rupees because of famine and
plague.