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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
GENERALS CONFER.
Gomez Decides on Terms of Proclama-
ton to be Issued Today.

Havana, April 25.-General Gomez this af-
ternoon received five generals of the CON-
sulting committee appointed to consider
with him the army's future. The confer
once agreed as to the precise terms of the
manifesto to be issued by Gomez to the
Cuban people and army tomorrow. already
outlined in dispatches to the Associated
Press.
General Pedro Betancourt, the new civil
governor of Matanzas, who is a vigorous
anti-annexionist has written to General
Gomez, placing the command of his corps
and his own services at the disposition of
Gomez. In concluding his letter he says:
1--WE are now commencing the most diff
cult epoch in the long struggle to secure
our ideal. The reconstruction of the ooun-
try imposes duties upon us which We must
fulfill with the same faithfulness as the
obligations of war;"
The United States hospital ship Missouri
is about to sail for Neuvitas, province of
Puerto Principe, to embark United States
troops suffering from typhoid fever or re-
covering from it,, together with the con-
yalescents in that province.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
YANKO.SPA KOVETS.
First Reunion Will Be Had on Monday
Next.

The necessary preliminaries have been
made and the reunion of Alabama veterans
of the Ameriean-Spanish war will be a
great success.
The boys will say that when a man now
poses as a veteran it is necessary that he
specify in what war he participated, and
they do not wish their organization 10
get confounded with any other.
This will be the first meeting held since
the war, and all the "old soldiers" are ex-
pecting a grand time. The meeting is to
take place at East Lake on next Monday,
May l. and a large attendance is antici-
pated. A big, old-fashioned barbecue will
be given, and as they sit around the rough
tables an opportunity will be afforded to
discuss the many hard times experienced
during the war.
Members of the First and Second Ala
bama, the Fifth Immunes and the Ala
bama national guards are invited to attend
The following address has Deen issued
All arrangements have been made for the
reunion of all members of the First Ala
bama. United States Volunteers, at East
Lake, on next Monday, May l, 1893.
All members are requested to meet at
the Birmingham Rifles Company ~
armory at No. 19l71a First avenue, in the
Potter building, and register their name
and address, and with what company they
served during the enlistment.
Ample arrangements have been made
with the Birmingham Railway and Electric
company to transport all the members to
East Lake.
Those who cannot possibly attend are
requested to send~their name and address
in, if they desire to he enrolled in the per-
rnAnent organization which is to be formed
soon.
Great arrangements have been made for
an "old-iashioned barbecue, and all those
who attend, we heartily assure you, will
have no cause to complain.
All members of the First and Second
Alabama, the Fifth United States I'M
munes and of the Alabama national guard
are invited to attend =
Let every one be at the lake by 1 p, m.
at the fartherst as you know we all want to
be on hand when the mess CALI sounds.
WILLIAM b. LAMB,
Secretary l.. a V.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
On the Death of Lucius Lanier by the
Athletic Club

The Birmingham Athletic Club has passed
the following resolutions on the death of
Lucius Lanier, one of their members
Whereas, In the providence of an All
Wise God, and in obedience to His will.
the spirit of Lucius Lanier, our former
friend, comrade and officer, has taken it's
flight into the great beyond,
Be it resolved, That the officers and
members of the Birmingham Athletic Club
extend to those who mourn the loss of an
upright honest God-fearng son and broth
er, our heartfelt sympathy in their be-
reavement; and
Be it further resolved That a copy CT
these resolutions be suitably drafted and
forwarded to his father at oxford, n. c.;
also copy to bis sister in Baltimore and.
in grateful recognition of his sterling worth
as a man and officer of the Athletic CLUB.
that third copy be framed and placed in
the rooms of the club.
Be it also further resolved, That these
resolutions, expressing the sympathy of
the Birmingham Athletic Club in its en-
tirety, be published in the daily papers of
this city.
BIRMINGHAM ATHLETIC CLUE,
BY ]. Cary Thompson, Secretary.
Scion Jacobs, President.
April %, 1899.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
WATER SUPPLY FOX
PRATT And ENSLEY
Birmingham Water Works Co.
Figuring on a Scheme.
PROPOSITION MADE ToPRATT
Board of Aldermen Will Sell $4,000
Worth of Bonds and Probably
Put in Works to be Oper-
ated by the City

The Birmingham Waterworks company
has scheme on foot to furnish Pratt City
and Ensley with water.
No definite steps have been taken further
Than that General Manager Miner, of the
Birmingham company, made a proposition
to the mayor and board of aldermen of
Pratt City ON Monday afternoon. He told
them that the Birmingham Waterworks
company was prepared to furnish the citi-
zens of Pratt City with water and that it
was not unlikely that they would also put
in a system at Ensley.
Mayor Hudnell, of Pratt City, said yes
terday afternoon that the citizens were de-
ternlined to have a system of water works.
bill authorizing the issuance of $4,000
worth of bonds for this purpose was gotten
through at the last session of the general
assembly. No definite action could be
taken until the bonds were disposed of, al
though he said the idea was to have a
municipal works. He said that Major Mil
ner gave no figures, but simply threw out
the intimation that the Birmingham COM
pany would furnish the citizens of Pratt
with water if they desired it.
Mayor Hudnell said that the only ques-
ton now was whether the city would own
it's own works grant franchise to some
corporation. He was inclined to belive that
the former course would be pursued
Would be Great Addition
To supply Pratt and Ensley with water
would be great addition to the business of
the Birmingham company. 1t is stated
that the source of water supply is ample
for the entire valley and that the only work
would be to run a line of mains out in that
direction.
Both suburbs are on the same line and
Pratt City is already large enough to de-
mand large water supply. The most ex-
tensive industries of the district are going
up at Ensley and it is expected that within
a year it will be a city of anywhere from
five to ten thousand inhabitants.
The city was recently incorporated and al
ready the mayor and board of aldermen
are making preparations on a large scale
for municipal improvements.
The property is rapidly increasing in value
and stock in the EnsIey Land company
which could hardly be sold a year ago is
now a-good paying investment and is in
demand.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
LAUNDERING AWAY
FOR LOWER RATE
Fire Insurance Agents Want
FirSt-CIaSS Rating.
MEETING OF LOCAL BOARD
Resolutions Requesting First-Class Rat
ing for Prescribed Limits-Speeial
Agent Tanner of Southeast Tar
if Association Reports.

The fire insurance agents of Birmingham
are leaving no stone unturned in their eff
forts to have the city placed on a frst-class
basis, which would mean an annual saving
OF about $4,000 to local policy holders, who
now pay on seeond-class basis, or about
80 1-3 per cent. more than the frst-class
rate.
A special meeting of the Birmingham
board of fire insurance underwriters was
held yesterday afternoon to hear the report
of Special Agent Tanner of the Southeast
Tariff association. The meeting was held
in the local Office of the tariff association
in the Challfoux building and was largely
attended.
Mr.. Tanners report was not made pub
lic but it is understood that it was an ex-
preston of the views of the officers of the
association on the local situation, based on
the last annual report of Chief Mullen of
the fire department, and it's bearing upon
the question of rating Birmingham as
tirst-class town.
After the report was read a resolution
was introduced and adopted requesting the
Southeast Tariff association to rate first
class that part OF the city bounded on tho
north by Ninth avenue, on the east by
Twenty-seventh street, on the south by
Avenue II, and on the west by Seventeenth
street, on a 5oJce basis rate on mercan-
property. Under this resolution all
property lying outside of these limits will
remain at the present rate until additional
protection is provided by the re-establish-
ment of the East and West End stations
and tla 1istr, Of tbo ahn oil
gines and aerial ladder in the regular de-
partment.
While there was no intimation by the rep
resentatiyes present as to the probable ac-
ton of the tariff association in the prem
ises, it is believed that the resolution will
be favoraby acted upon, which will mean
a large saving to property owners and
merchants. The limits prescribed in the re-
quest are the original city limits, and the
area contained therein is practically level,
making any portion easily accessible to
the fire department.
In speaking of the matter last night
prominent local agent stated that the Bir-
mingham underwriters were basing their
claims on the splendid record of the Bir-
mingham fire department rather than on its
equipment, which is not up to the require
ments of a first-classs rating.
Some time ago a COMMITTEE from the
local board of underwriters was sent to
Atlanta in the interest of better rating and
were given some encouragement by the Off
GERS of the tariff association who, it is
thought, will see the business of the last
request and grant it without further de-
lay.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
Will Accent the Call

Florence, April 25.-(Special.) REV. ]. H.
Lacy has announced his determination to
accept the call from the Presbyterian
church of Clarksvlle, Tenn, and will leave
Florence as soon as he can arrange his per-
sonal affairs. He has been the pastor of
the Florence church for the past six years,
and has endeared himself to the people both
as a pastor and as citizen. Rev. Lacy
is one of the very strongest preachers in
the Southern Presby terrain church, and has
had many fattering offers during the past
wear
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
Wanted for Stealing $50

Coleman Eldridge, negro, was arrested
yesterday by Officer Disheroon on the
charge of the larceny of $50 from Charlie
Garry some months ago. Eldridge left the
city shortly after, and returned yesterday
afternoon on the Louisville and Nashville
south-bound passenger train, and was
promptly taken in charge by the officer,
who had him ON his list.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
North Alabama League

Florence, April 25.--(Specia1.)-Th efforts
of local baseball enthusiasts to form dis
trict league among the towns of this Sec
tion have already begun to bear fruit and
those behind the scheme are very much en-
couraged over the outlook for the sport in
this section during the summer. Already
four of the eight towns proposed for the
league have signified their intention of
going into the deal il it can be made. The
season will open within the next two
weeks
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
Womap's Whist League

Washington, April 25.-The second annual
congress of the Womans Whist League
began here today with $50 players in at
tendance, including nearly all of the most
prominent women minister's in the country
and representing nearly 4everey city The
congress will continue until Friday morn
ing.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
Charged with Larceny of s15

Nina Ward. a white woman, was arrested
yesterday by Officer Eagan and locked Up
in the city prison on the charge of larceny
of SIS from John Fleming, white man.
The woman was in a high state of intoxi-
cation when arrested, but will probably be
sufficiently sober to state her case to
Judge Feagin this morning
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
follows:
Cotton Made Colonel

Lincoln, Neb., April Ex-Governor Poyntz
this afternoon appointed Northumberland
Cotton to be colonel of the First Nebraska
in place of Colonel Stotsenberg, killed in
battle. The appointment was cabled to
Manila.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
DID NOT REACH 2,ooo. yea
Total Registration for City Election is
1853.

The registration books from the nine
wards of the city were yesterday returned
to Auditor Wood.
The time for registration expired Monday
night and the total list of registered voters
did not reach 1000, the total being only
l,6Ss The registration by wards is as
f,s11,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
WANTED!

Experienced salesladies =
must have experience-apply
at FERD MARX.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
MISS COLE And
Mr.. DONELSON
Wedding With a Delightfully."-
Romantic Side.
THE YOUNG KIDNAPPED
Willingly, of Course, and the Marriage
Vows Consummated by Rev. DR..
Handley at the Residence of
Mayor Frank V. Evans

When Miss Katie Lee Cole left her home,
corner Twenty-fourth street and Seventh
avenue late yesterday afternoon, ostensiby
to spend the night with relative, the de-
vout minister of the Gospel who so delights
in the pretty brown-eyed miss who calls
him father, might not have noticed that she
was a trife nervous when she kissed him
goodbye He may recall this slight nerv-
BUSINESS this morning when he reads in The
Age-Herald that she is Mrs. John e. Donel-
son.
The young couple have been in love for
several years For some reason there was
parental objection, and love making was
done on those opportunities that lovers
only can devise. Not over half a dozen peo-
plo suspected wedding until a carriage
drove up and stopped in front of Mayor
Evans residence shortly before o'clock
last night. The occupants were Mr.. Donel-
son, Miss Cole and two friends
They asked that preacher be summoned
DR.. Handley lives nearby. A messenger
brought him and the marriage was over by
8 o'clock.
Besides Mayor and Mrs. Evans, Captain
and Mrs. ]. B. Donelson, Dr. and Mrs. w.
H. Wilder, Miss Lucille Gregory, NJ p. Nc
Glathery, w. H. Hall and John T. Evans
witnessed the ceremony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donelson left last night on
bridal tour before the Rev. Cole was no.
titled.
Kidnapped Willingly
The plan of kidnapping the young lady
willingly, of course-is old, but always eff
fectual and delightfully."- romantic. Mss
Cole left home to spend the night with her
aunt, Mrs. Gregory. Shortly after supper
Miss Cole and Miss Lucille Gregory left the
house, saying they were going to attend
revival services at a church near by. They
had not proceeded many blocks before Mr..
McGlathery, a mutual friend, caught up
with them in a hack. The young ladies
entered, and a little further along Mr.. Hall
and Mr.. Donelson were in waiting. The
party were then driven hastily to the resi-
dence of Mayor Evans, corner Seventh ave-
nue. and Seventeenth street Mr.. Donelson
is a nephew of the mayor, and Captain and
Mrs. Donelson were awaiting the party.
The ceremony was performed a wedding
feast INDUCED in, and congratulations
showered upon the happy pair.
Miss Cole is a daughter of Rev. ]. b.
Cole, a minister of the Methodist church.
She is a pronounced brunette, with laugh
ing brown eyes, and very attractive in per-
son and manner
Mr.. Donelson is known and liked by al
most everyone in Birmingham. For sew
eral years he has been assistant city engi-
neer and has made himself very popular.
He is the son of Captain and Mrs. j. b.
Donelson. Captain Donelson is the eff
ficient day sergeant of the police force.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
PERSONAL.
INSPECTORS APPOINTED

DR.. e. A. Wilson has returned from two
weeks visit to Southeast Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Gibson Manufacturing Co.
will build your house at a
reasonable price.
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-01
Sta tistics as to LyncbfHg

W. place but little faith in the sta
tistics the Afro-American League al
leges to have collected in reference to
lynchings. The figures given may be
correct, but they ought not to be ac-
cepted as accurate unless further evil
dence to sustain them is given. Besides.
why confine the investigation to the
south? Collect the statistics on lynch
ings from all the states and make a
comparison Of negroes lynched north
and south on the basis of the negro
population in each section. Even this
comparison would do the south an in
justice, as it is a we'll known fact that
most of the lower class of negroes are
extremely cowardly and are frightened
into behaving themselves when they
are in a community where the white
population is overwhelmingly against
them. The density of the population
should also be considered. In the south
the negro brute has many more oppor-
tunities to commit fiendish crimes than
he has in the north, where the popula-
ton is much more dense than it is in
most sections Of the south.-columbus
(Ga.) Enquirer-Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-01
washington Post.)

Mr.. Thomas P. Cleaves, clerk of the
senate committee on appropriations,
and Mr.. Harry H. Smith, ex-journal
clerk Of the house of representatives,
returned to Washington yesterday af-
ter a two months tour Of Europe.
I'VE had a most delightful trip"
said Mr.. Smith, having visited France,
Belgium, the Netherlands, England,
and Scotland, and doing the principal
cities and places Of special interest to
the tourist. We spent three weeks in
London, studying the personnel and
the rules and practice of both houses
of parliament, az we'll as committee
procedure. We were shown special at
tention by Speaker Gully and Sir Reg
inald Palgrave, clerk Of the house of
commons, as we'll as by Mr.. Graham,
clerk of parljaments, who is also clerk
Of the house of lords. We also met sew
eral leading members Of parliament
and got a pretty good idea OF the sit
uation in England.
In spite Of the discomfort and dis
satisfaction with tariff conditions of
Great Britain, I observed that climatic
conditions, i. e., hot weather, accom-
pIiSh the same result in respect to SeS-
sions of, and legislation by, parliament
that they do with sessions Of the
American congress. Debate drags
along interminably through the winter
and spring months in the house of COM
mons, and early in July the govern
ment leader, who is chairman of the
ways and mea committee and ex-
officio deputy speaker, gives notice that
government business must have pref
erence. The house, which usually meets
about 3 p. M, changes it's hour Of
o0o@;~- = - y 800 %Io~ - -~~A
ing one day in each week to 12 M,
while the hour Of adjournment is later,
usually 2 a. M, in spite Of the earlier
meeting. AS a result nearly all Of the
important business of the session is
transacted between May 18th and pro-
rOgation, or adjournment, which usu-
ally occurs about August 18th. This
yea it was August Sth. The house of
lords takes up these Ineasudes and in
a few hours run through the legisla-
tive hopper, so to speak, what it has
taken the house of commons as many
weeks to pass. AS the lords cannot
amend in any respect the supply or
appropriation, bills, their work is COM
paratively easy, and that body sits, in
a Legislative capacity, only about one
third the time the house Of
sits. The lords sit, however, quite as
long in a judicial capacity, so that time
is 'evened I'D with the m
There are many things which our
house of representatives could o
| with advantage from the rules and
practice of the house of no
tably in giving preference to govern
ment administration measures; by
creating the office Of deuty speaker,
who should, ex-officio, preside in COM
| r1ittee of the whole on the state of
the union when revenue and general
| appropriation bills are under consider
l ofiOn an6 nv m limo tho cnnoIyn~ n
| purely parliamentary and administra-
| tive officer
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-01

ference large cities in any country will
cause their local times to differ by odd
numbers of hours, minutes and Sec
onds. Thus a great deal of inconven-
fence has been caused in the past For
instance a train might leave New York
at a certain hour by New York time.
1t would then arrive in Buffalo some
hours later by New York time. But it
would leave Buffalo by Buffalo time,
which is quite different. Thus there
would be a sort of jump in the time-
table at Buffalo. and 1t would be a
jump Of an odd number of minutes. It
would be different in different cities,
and very hard to remember. Indeed as
each railway usually ran it's trains by
the time used in the principal city
along its line, it might happen tn
three or -four different railroad times
would be used in a single city where
several roads met. This has all been
avoided by introducing the standard
time system. According to this, the
Whole country is divided into a series
of time zones, Is degrees wide, and so
arranged that the middle of each zone
falls at a point whose longitude
from Greenwich is so, 70, 90, 105, or 120
degrees. The times at these middle
points are therefore behind Greenwich
time by an ever number of hours. Thus
the 75-degree point is just five hours
behind Greenwich time. All cities then
simply use the time of the nearest one
Of these special points. The effect Of
this is not to do away with time diff
ferences altogether. That would mani
testify be impossible from the nature Of
things. But for the complicated odd
differences in hours and minutes we
have substituted the infinitely simpler
series of differences in even hours. The
traveller from Chicago to New York
Fan reset his watch by putting it just
one hour ahead. The minute hand is
kept unchanged, and no New York
timepiece need be consulted to set the
watch right on arriving. There can be
no doubt hat the standard time sys-
TEN must be considered as one Of the
most important contributions of as
Economical science to the convenience Of
man.-Harold Jacoby in h Chicago
Record.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-01
The United States aud shines .rrade

PRESIDENT Schurman of the Philippine
commission while in Chicago gave ex-
presson to an opinion concerning a
phase of the Chinese situation that is
likely to demand the attention of the
business interests of his country at an
early date. To a reporter for The Rec
ord he said:
L believe hal the United States
should either do as other powers have
done and take possession of a part of
China or insist on the open door. as
England and Japan have lone and as
Germany is about to do in making her
China ports free"
Unless the United States is to be
placed at a great disadvantage in the
struggle for the trade of h orient there
is no doubt that it must do one or the
other Of the things suggested. Either it
must acquire its sphere of influence
along with he rest or it must insist
upon h "open-door' policy for the
empire. President Schurman refrains
from saying which plan he favors, but
there ought to be little hesitation
among the majority of the people as TO
which is the wiser course for the nation
to pursue. The United States does not
desire to become engaged in the scram-
BILE for Chinese territory. It has not use
for such territory except for the DUR
poses Of trade, and all legitimate trade
interests Of the United States will be
satisfied with a fair market, open to
all alike. This nation must suffer. how
ever, if other nations acquire a degree
OF control in various parts of the Chi
nese empire that will enable them to
favor their merchants to the exclusion
of ours.-Chicago Record.