The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-22
new SIDEWALKS
FOR HUNTSVILLE
City Council VIII Issue Bonds
for Waterworks.
IN THE MILITARY CAMP
Four Captains of New York Regiment
Under Arrest-Louisville & Nash
vile Settles It's Debts for
Wrecking Sixty-Ninth.

Huntsville, December A.-(special.)-Th
board of mayor and aldermen held their
last regular meeting of the present
year last night at the city hall The first
measure of general interest was the pas
sage of a new sidewalk ordinance under
the provisions, of the new city charter. This
ordinance requires that all walks around
the public square shall be made of concrete
or flagstone, and if not repaired or built
by the owners within ninety days, the work
will be done by the city and the costs as
sessed against the property This is only
the beginning of the sidewalk movement
and other streets for new sidewalks will be
named at each subsequent meeting of the
council until uniform walks are laid on all
streets of the city.
An ordinance was adopted prohibiting the
sale of fresh meats on the streets of the
city within market hours
Notice was received from the state legis-
lature of the passage of an act authoriz-
ing the city to issue $4,000 of waterworks
bonds. The finance committee was direct
ed to have printed and advertised for sale
SIC, 900 of thirty-year bonds of the denom-
ination of $500, to draw 5 per cent inter-
est.
Constitutional Representatives
Madison county's representation in the
proposed state constitutional convention
will likely be as follows: Hon. Robert c.
Briekel, ex-chief justice; Judge William
Richardson and Hon. A. S. Fletcher. Calls
have been made for these men to serve as
representatives and no opposition has yet
developed.
Number of Deaths
4 f1f
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Proctor of Green Grove,
died yesterday morning of membranous
Group.
James Smith, aged twenty-seven years,
died at his home in Lawrence yesterday
morning of typhoid fever The funeral was
held this afternoon.
Thomas Cruise, aged twenty-four years.
died yesterday afternoon at Lawrence of
consumption. The deceased leaves wife,
In the Camps
-FOUR captains in the Sixty-ninth New
York infantry have been placed under ar
rest and confined in quarters for failure to
properly execute orders given b ythe brig
ade commander, Gen. Richard Comba. The
captains under arrest are Captains McCar-
thy, Devlin, Griffin and Roche. Just after
the last pay day, General Comba observed
that the men belonging to the companies of
which the four captains are commanders
were celebrating che occasion with more
disorder than military ethics would allow,
so he ordered a certain number of deep
sinks to be dug in camp This was a task
devised to keep the men out of the CITY, 1t
seems that the order was not executed to
the satisfaction of the brigade commander
and the company commanders are held re-
sponsible.
The Louisville and Nashville railway has
paid $4,000 to about fifty men of Company
f and G, Sixty-ninth New York, as COM
promise for all the suits filed against the
company by the men injured in the wreck
which occurred on that road In August,
when the regiment was being brought to
Huntsville. The banks of the city have
cashed several thousand dollars in checks
and the New Workers are prepared to spend
a jolly Christmas.
Commissary Sergeants Gustave Wrenn
and John Bitter have been ordered to Fort
Columbus, N Y, to report for transporta-
ton to Porto Rico.
Leaves of absence were granted yester-
day to Lieutenant ]. c. Gregg, Fifth infan-
try, aide-de-camp; Lieutenant s. Field
Dallam, Eighth infantry; Captain James Y.
Wilson, First Florida infantry; Captain f.
NJ. Foster, Fifth cavalry
Private William s. Sloane, hospital corps,
is detailed as hospital steward and as
signed for duty with the First infantry