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The age-herald., 1897-09-16
OFFICIAL.
9-15-tf.

Office of the State Board of Health,
 Montgomery, Ala, Sept. 13, 1897. To Parents:
 The time is near at hand when many of you win be sending your sons and daughters away from home to attend the various schools and colleges of the state. It is known to you, doubtless, that smallpox has recently prevailed to considerable extent in several To- calities of the state, therefore, the danger to your children coming in con- tact with the contagion in some un- foreseen and unknown way is more than usually great.
 The remedy against this danger is well known to you all and if you fail to avail yourselves of it, the fault will be yours, should any of your dear ones be smitten with the loathsome disease
 I urge you, therefore, not to post pone attention to this important matter. but to act promptly by having your children vaccinated. The protection af- forded by vaccination is in proportion to the number of vaccine scars on the body.
 Of persons who are able to show four or more true vaccine scars, less than one-half of 1 per cent. are liable to con- tract smallpox, ard as the scars de- crease the liability increases, until of persons who have only one scar about per cent. contract the disease.
 In order, therefore, to reduce the lia- bility to a minimum, vaccination should be repeated, or the virus should be in- serted at more than one point at the same time The weight of opinion among those who have studied the sub jeot very extensively is decidedly in favor of re-vaccination at intervals of from five to eight years-a rule that should obtain among adults as we'll as among young people.
 The invariable rule should be to give children, while yet young, the benefits of the protective power of vaccination, and in the course of time the entire population would become immune.
 But when vaccination has been neg lected, it is never too late to invoke it's benefits, and parents, no less than children, should avail themselves of it's protecting power It is not my inten- ton to discuss the subject of vaccina- tion in general. but merely to appeal to parents to have their childrei vac- cinated just before the school year be- gins, whether they attend school at or away from home. By giving this matter prompt attention, their arms will be well by the opening of the ses- sions and your minds will be largely at rest as to one of the dangers to which your children may ba exposed.
 w. H. SANDERS M. D.,
 State Health Officer.
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ACTIVE MEASURES TAKEN.
Decntur Determined That the Epidemic of i 888 Fl. Shall Not Be R peated.
Special to The Age-Herald

Special to The Age Herald
 Decatur, Sept. 15.-Active measures are being taken by the authorities to prevent the germs of yellow fever from getting into the city. A full police force is now at work securing the out skirts of the city and railroad yards
 Many strangers attempt to make this their exit point from the south, and coming in on freight trains they hang around the city until they can get out on another freight. They are immediate ly escorted to the river and put across.
 The mass meetings in Decatur also took steps to prevent the coming hsre next Saturday of the negro state Bap- tist convention, by which from 4000 to 10000 negroes would have been dumped in here from all over the state. The railroads have been notified that they will not be allowed to stop here.
 Thorough sanitation and disinfecting is going on, and citizens committees have been given charge of the police force to sse that they perform their du- ties and keep sober.
 The smallpox situation at Hartselle has been lost sight of during the yellow fever excitement. Out of a total of four eases there has been enc death, that of a negro who was convalescing and took a relapse by over-eating, and died from the effects. There are TO more new cases and all the others are getting we'll
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 gubefnatoria1 appointments have been announced:
 II. H. Brown, notary public for Jeffer- son county; H. P. Jordon. commissioner of deeds at Austin, Texas.
 It is announced today that State Ex- aminer Purifoy has escaped from Mobile and is now in Atlanta, where he will re- main until the quarantine regulations win permit of his entering this city. Private Secretary Cory was absent from his dssk today, having gene to Mount Willing to deliver an address on the occasion of the opening of the school there.
 Deputy Tax Commissioner Badham is in his office at the capitol for week, He and State Commissioner Wood are engaged with the reports from the varl- ous county commissioners.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16
SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC.
The Disease Raging at Union, Small Place in
 Madison County
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Special to The Age-Herald.
 Huntsville, Sept. 15.-7An epidemic of scarlet fever IS raging ala Union, small settlement in the southwestern part of Madison county, and the people of the netghborhood are very much alarmed. Wi:hin four weeks there were about twenty eases, seven of which proved fatal. One man, W B. Woody lost five children by the disease.
 Capt. T. P. Denham, superintendent of the southern division of the Alabama Great Southern railway refugeed from New Orleans, ard was quarantined on the outskirts of Chattanooga Capt. Den ham was in his private car and had it attached 10 Memphis and Charleston freight train, and pulled to this city yesterday. After spending the day in the city with friends, he had the car pulled ito Decatur and from there over the Louisville and Nashville 10 Cincin- natl.
 Hotel Monte Sano, the summer resort on the mountain, near here, closed very successful season of three months this morning. Cold weather caused the early closing. Several families from the cities on the gulf had expected to remain at the hci-el until the yellow fever scare died out They were removed to the city and were domiciled at the Hunts vile hotel. which is under the same mana cement as Monte Sano.
 ''Bilp' Reed, dissolute young man of Gurley, has been arrested on the charge of robbing phe Gurley postoffice three weeks ago. Reed has been suspected of the crime for several days, and the officers say they have enough evidence of his guitl to secure conviction.
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q
 rfegfess and will generally be completed earlier than usual. Tn Arkansas the crop will be gathered at one picking.
 showery weather of this and preoedz Ing weeks has caused sight injury to harvesting of grain in Washington and Oregon. Thrashing is about finished in Oregon, but has been somewhat delayed In Washington and portions of Mime sota.
 No improvement in the condition of tobacco is reported from Kentucky, where the outlook is very poor, and it's general condition in Tennessee is also very unfavorable.
 Flowing and seeding of gall grain have been much delayed but unfavorable progress has been made in New England ard portions of the Middle Atlantic states, where conditions have been fa- yofable
The age-herald., 1897-09-16
WoMAN'S HAZARDOUS CALLING.
She Is Intrepid and Clever and Works as a
 Rafter

Towing logs down the Mississippi river is the occupation followed by Mrs. Ida Moore Laehmund. In this oc- equation she is one of the most unique figures in the ranks of the bread-win- ners in the United States. She is con- aceded to be the only woman who has successfully acquired a knowledge of the business of rafting with a towboat, one of the most exciting and hazardous eallings now followed on Western streams. She is the wife of a success full lumber merchant of Clinton, Iowa, is the mother of three boys, and pre- sides over one of the best kept homes in the Hawkeye State. She has been following the river since 1887, during which time she as owned and operated the steamers, Nina, Lily Turner, Gardie Eastman, Reindeer and now the Robert Dodds.
 Mrs Lachmund has been admitted as a member of the Order of Colonial Danes and is an accredited member of the Daughters of the Revolution. She keeps up home which has been adorn- ed by much of her own handiwork. She and her husband have carefully looked after the education of their chil- dren. That which tests the good busi- ness capacity of Mrs. Lachmund is the fact that in her novel occupation she has made and saved money.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16
4 BIG BUILDING C0LLAPSES
Brick Structure at Montgomery
 Falls Down.
ONE DEAD, ANOTHER MAY DIE
cOIlasped Yesterday at O'clOck-Lollie Reese, Colored Coachman, the Victim-Thac
 Collier Probably Fatally Wounded.
Special to The Age-Herald.

Special to The Age-HeCald.
 Montgomery. Ala, Sept. 15.-A dis dressing accident occurred here about 1 o'clock this afternoon. The patchwork above the third story of ths building on Dexter avenue now occupied by Goetter,, Well & Co.,, fell to the pavement without threat or notice, killing Lollie Reese, colored, MT. Goetter's carriage driver, and injuring, 1t is feared, fatally, Thac Collier, white, one of the firms clerks and injuring less seriously Jack Dem= sey a whits electrician, and Dave Ford, his negro helper A horse attached to the wagon of the Mutual Light and Power company was killed.
 An almighty providence alone prevent ed a wholesale loss of life. It Is calcu- lat;d that had the wall fallen at any other moment in the day the destruc- tion would have been greater.
 Goetter Veil & Co. have the most elaborate retail dry goods store in ths city. The firm only lasa week moved from its old location on Court Square to the new quarters, Nos. 20 and 9 Dex- ter avenue, which is just across the avenue from Whit, Woodruff & Fowl ers book store. The two stores have recently been remodeled for the con venence of the firm, and have been thrown into one and practically rebuilt. The front above the first floor was changed in no respect excepting that an ornamental brick capping about eight or ten feet high by fifty feet long was placed over the front of the third floor. It was this that fell, and to layman in the science of building it ap- pears that the architect or contractors are very much to blame.
 Young Collier, the clerk, was just leav- ing the store for dinner The driver was sitting in his carriage at the curb. The electric light companys wagon was passing along the street near the curb.
 The air at the moment was stillsr than it has been for days. Had the accident occurred during the morning hours or on yesterday or the day before it is alarming to contemplate how many good women might have been killed.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Business along the river is very quiet on account of the quarantine.
 The Millsap college at Jackson will not opan until quarantine regulations are removed.
 Belle of Memphis will be abandoned, but her machinery and furnishings will be recovered and placed in another boat.
 Yellow fever is the only topic the aver age Mississ!ppian is capable of discuss ing at the present time.
 Mayor Dial, of Meridian, threatens with arrest any one that spreads any false reports concerning the fever sit uation.
 John German, an employe of the gas company at Natchez, was overcome by heat while repairing some broken pipes Saturday.
 The damage to the cotton by the boil worm along the route of the Natchez, Red River and Texas railroad is very extensive.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16
That Atlanta Quarantine.
The Age Herald.

Special to The ge-Herald.
 Montgomery, Sept. 5.-The local quar- antine regulation regarding Atlanta does not amount to a quarantine of that city, exactly.
 The western trains, whlch are due to reach here from Atlanta at 10:30 a. rn, and at 9:20 p. m., both of which cary the mail from the east and which carry mail cars and sleepers which have been in Mobile and New Orleans since the plague appeared in those places. are not allowed to run into the depot here, but are stopped at Riverside Park, where mail and passengers are swapped with the Louisville & Nashville and from there passengers and mail en route to this city from places other than the infected districts arc brought here on a special
 Tke local from Atlanta, which reaches here at S15 D. n., is, however, allowed to enter the depot. All persons who come here from Atlanta, however, are examined under oath and with certain amount of suspicion for the reason that that city has been so hospitable to the refugees.
 Recent A Anuoiut,pants
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Deatl, ors. Raher
The Aee-Herald.

Special to The Age Herald.
 Edwardsville, Sept 15.-Hon. S. P Ba- ber judge of probate for Cleburne coun- ty, died at his home here last night. He had been confined to his bed with fever for two weeks. A wife and two sons survive him.
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Notice, Telephone Subscribers. If you wish to have your tel ephone moved promptly you should give us at least one weeks notice.
 W. l.. WOODRUFF, Manager Birmingham Tele- phone Exchange. 9-15-tf
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tbis ma, ming. Nearly sixty ladies were enrolled in the boarding department.. With the town giri~@ the enrolment VIII reach nearly 200
 Th.s. with our other-two schools, VIII make about 500 students in town of less than 1000 inhabitants.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16
State Normal College.

(a) Located at Troy, Ala. noted for good health, good public schools, fine newspapers and magazines, seven white and as many colored churches and Sab- bath schools, and hospitable people. Students may expect cordial welcome. Next session opens Sept. 27, 1897, for ten weeks term.
 Co) Full college postgraduate, as well as graduate courses, with a model school of eight grades (years), built upon a Kindergarten of two years course of work.
 Co Has faculty of twenty-two we'll trained teachers, all specialists in their work
 (d) Trains teachers for all grades of work and graduates are in demand in good schools at good wages.
 (e) Expenses are but $7 to S10 for board- ing, by the month, and other things are cheap in proportion.
 Senatorial and representative scholar ships to non-excluded counties give free tuition and incidentals and greatly re- duced board likewise. Scholarships are obtained on nomination by representa- tive or senator, approved by the county superintendent of education, the state superintendent of education for his ap- pointment and certifcation to the collega.
 f This college leads every white school of college grade in Alabama and adjoin- ing states in enrolment and number of graduates for 1S96-7. For information or a good teacher address
 E. K. ELDRIDGE, Pres. 9-4-10t
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Fresh bread and candy made daily at 0. w. Cody's, 1920 to 1926 Sd avenue. je5-tf
TO THE PUBLIC.

We desire especially to call your att tention now, at the beginning of the fall one of the most accomplished of New York tailors to be procured, MT. T. r. Kelly. MT. Kelly, who is thoroughly up-to-date in his familiarity with the demands of fashion, is a tailor of rare taste and exceptional skill, and will have charge of the cutting in our merchant tailoring department -4
 lHis work not only affords complete satisfaction, but ellcits praise on all sides.
 also the fact that we are better prepared than ever to please with the price, as well as the quality of our imported goods they were purchased before the Ding ley tariff bill went into effect, and con- seauently our prices will remain reason- able, while we have gone to pains and additional expenses to meet the require ments of the finest trade, both in the quality and make up of goods.
 With the cordial wish that you may be a full sharer in the return of prosperity, and thanking you for past favors, we are, very truly yours.
 M MEH & RDO
The age-herald., 1897-09-16
ILLICIT DISTILLING.
Three Men Arrested on That Charge at Athens
 Schools Open.
'ecial to The Age-Herald.

Special to The Age-Hel'ald.
 Athens, Ala, Sept. 15.--Deputy United States Marshal Logwood today arrested w. T. Harrison of Salem; John Cavel and Jim Robinson, here, on the charga of illicit distilling, and carried them to Huntsville.
 The Athens Female college opened
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SummER LAw LECTURES

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. July to Aug 31 1s97 Course includes 36 lectures by MT Justice Harlan, of U. s. Supreme Court. For catalogue, address R. 0. MINOR. Secretary,
 Charlottesville, Va.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16

Business along the river is very quiet on account of the quarantine.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16

The Selma stock show is assuming form. The board of directors met Mon day night and prepared the premium list and fixed the purses for the races.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16

The mind of Editor Graham, of ( Coneeuh Record, has become impa ed and he is now confin q in the asylu at Tuskaloosa.
The age-herald., 1897-09-16

The county commissioners of Madison county at a recent session paid out $2,- 900 for the work done on the turnpikes in the last month.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-10
8HEEDY HAS THE FEVER.
The Physician stricken with the Disease mt
PerkinstOn, La.

New Orleans, Sept. 10.-Sherey Sey-
mour died at l o'clock Thursday morn
ing at Ocean Springs Of the prevailing
fever. AS soon as his death was re-
ported arrangements were made to hold
an autopsy. Drs. Murray Carter and
Wasdin Of the Marine hospital service.
and Drs. Lehman, Dunn, Cant and Bail
ey were present.
At 10:30 Thursday morning Surgeon
II. Il. Murray wired the following to
Surgeon General Wyman at Washing
ton: Third autopsy held by Wasdin;
diagnosis of yellow fever Consented to
by Guiteras. Carter and Cant"
No new cases are reported at Biloxi.
The people are anxiously awaiting the
arrival of Drs. Guiteras, Murray, and
Carter. They will be perfectly satisfied
with their diagnosis. DIR. Tackett. who
went TO Perkinston to visit Dr. Sheedy,
who had been in attendance on patients
al Ocean Springs, has returned and re-
ports that DR. Sheedy has yellow fever.
Or. Sheedy himself says the symptoms
are those Of yellow fever.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-10
rorest rIres in wyoming.

Buffalo, Wyo.. Sept. 1O.-The forest
fire which has been burning for two or
three weeks in the Big Horn country
continues undated and is rapidly
spreading, famed by high gale. Al
ready about twenty miles are reported
covered and millions OF feet of timber
destroyed. The settlers have fought the
fire constantly until forced TO give up.
There is no prospect Of rain and unless
something Is done by the government
there Is no limit to the loss which may
be sustained Another fire is reported
over the dlvis- y - fiorn county.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-10
STRIKE NOT SETTLED YET.
Snag Struck at the Convention of Mine
WOrlxers at Columbus.

Workers at Columbus.
Columbus, O.. Sept 10.-The national
convention Of United Mine Workers has
struck a snag. Among the delegates
has grown feeling that even were the
strike settled, Ohio and Pennsylvania
would be the benehciaries. There are
men Of this belief in Illinois, Indiana.
Ohio and West Virginia. the two first
states being practically unanimous.
President Knight and Secretary Ken
nedy of Indiana believe settlement on
the basis proposed would adjust mat
ters i'm Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana ami
eastern Illinois, but would have little
or no effect in northern Illinois. These
men are substantially in favor of con-
tinuance Of the strike. The delegates
from Illinois and Indiana, so far as can
be learned. as the session Is being held
with closed doors, are acting in harmony.
Certain Ohio delegates are standing by
West Virginia. as a settlement without
advantage to that section from the min
ers' point of view, would be tanta-
mount TO the miners union losing the
ground ii has gained there.
Some Indiana and Illinois delegates
feel that they have been made the
cats-paw Of the movement. They say
they have time and again struck at the
request OF other districts and when such
districts gained what they wanted the
contest would be declared off, leaving
Indiana and Illinois without substantial
benefit. The Massllon, o. delegation
is numbered among those who object to
a settlement as proposed. They say
the lowest wages they have been paid
was 54 cents per ton and a settlement
at the proposed Pittsburg rate Of 65
cents would only increase the Massil-
Ion rate 2 cents per ton. They want a
dfferential of cents between the
Massillon and Hooking valley fields
President Carson of northern Illinois
says they viii stay out whether the
strike is settled or not Pittsburg made
a fight Thursday for additional dele
gates and IL is understood the propo-
sition was granted. A Pittsburg dele
gate says settlement will be reached.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-10
BELLE OF MEMPHIS SINKS.
Mississippi River Steamboat Goes 10 the
Bottom Near Chester, Ills


Bottom Near Chester, Ills.
st. Louis, Sept 10.-News of the sink
ing of the Anchor line steamer Belle Of
Memphis Wednesday evening near
Gains island, in the Mississippi river.
just below Chester. Ills, was received
here by General Manager Gus c. Meis-
sonier through the following telegram:
Chester. Ills. Sept. S-Captain Gus
c. Meissonier. General Manager Anchor
Line. st. Louis: Belle Of Memphis sunk
at Gains island $50 tonight in nine feet
of water at head and seven and a half
at stern. Break forty feet long through
keels. Will send passengers forward on
Bluff City. II. c. M'COY."
In speaking Of the wreck Captain
Meissonier said There were about 1C0
passengers on beard many Of them st.
Louis people. all of whom got off with
out accident. The Belle of Memphis
was built about twenty years ago. was
worth from $4,000 to $50. 600 and was in
sured for aoout half her value. From
the damage TO her keels-on II is thought
she Will be total wreck"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-10
ROAD UP COPPER RIVER.
Frisco Man VIII Construct Narrow
Gauge to the Yukon.

SauSe TO the \ hukon. =
San Francisco. Sept 10.-A company
is being organized here and viii be in
corporated under the laws OF Arizona
within the next three days which has
for its object the cor tru ction Of a mar
row gauge railroad from tidewater on
Prince William sound up the valley Of
the much talked Of Copper river, and
therce a cross the divide to a point on
the Yukon river near the boundary line
The name OF the company viii be the
Alaska Central Railway company, and
its capital stock $4,000 600
The promoter Of the enterprise is Col
onel John Underwood of this city. and
former extensive railroad contractor
Associated with him. he says. are Eli
jah Smith Of New York, the controlling
spirit of ths oregon Improvement COM
pany, and John w. Cudahy and +. u.
Armour, the Chicago packers and one
or two local capitalists. The 0ronosed
road will be about 322 miles long. Sena-
tor Perkins aVd Captain Goodall are
mentioned as possible members Of the
board Of directors.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-10
Fancy Horses Sold at Auction.

Kansas City, Sept. l0.-An auction sale
Of fancy horses preceded the regular pro-
gramme at the annual horse show at
Fairmount park. About twenty ami
mails were disposed of at good prices
Notwithstanding the intense heat the
attendance at the show was up to the
standard end the interest in the events
unoiminished. Eleven classes with a
longer list Of entries than any day so far
were judged. A contest of polo ponies
shown with mallet and ball and includ-
ing entries from Fort Riley. Kas.. Sioux
City, Ia, and ST. Louis. was novelty.