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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
FOR COMMISSIONER
OF AGRICULTURE
W. h. Lawson of Montgomery
Announces His Candidacy.
AWAKENS NEW INTEREST
Special Committee to Divide Public
Lands Recently Granted-Judge
Mayfeld's Digest ofSupreme
Court Reports-The Fair

Age-Herald Bureau, Hotel MADISON, Mont
gomery, October -(Special)-Captain w.
II. Lawson, of Montgomery has announced
his candidacy for commissioner of agricul-
ture This announcement awakens a new
interest in this contest, as Captain Lawson
is one of the best-known men in Alabama.
He is loyal democrat, good farmer and
an excellent citizen.
Captain Lawson was a brave confederate
soldier, entering the army as a member of
the Thirteenth Alabama regiment, in July,
1861, when he was 16 years old, and surren-
dered with General Lee at Appomattox. He
was one of the prime movers in the re-
demption of Montgomery county from ne
e"o domination, and served as Ole of the
first democratic members of the legislature
from this county in 1878. He originated and
secured the passage ait that session of the
election law, which was in force until the
adoption of the present law six years ago.
He was also the author of "a bill regulating
tine sale and handling of cotton in Mont
gomery county, which has since been adopt
ed by all of the black belt counties. He
Was again member of the legislature in
1884 He has served as chairman of the
county and congressional executive COM
mittees; also, as a member of the demo-
cratic state and campaign committees for
number of years. He is today one of the
best-posted men In The state on party law.
Captain Lawson is one of the most pro-
sressive farmers of Montgomery county,
owning one of the best improved planta-
tons in the county, where his family re-
sides. He lis pre-eminently qualified for
commissioner of agriculture. The race
promises to be lively one
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
NEGRO MURDERER
BURNED AT STAKE
Confessed to Having Cremated
Woman and Four Children.
TWO OTHERS WILL SUFFER
Joe Lefiore Captured by Posse and
Paid Penalty for His Atrocious
Deed in Yard Where Vic
TINS Residence Stood

Memphis, Tenn, October ga special to
the Scimitar from Canton, Miss, says
1.-THE little town of st. Anne, twenty miles
east of Canton in Leake county, was last
night the scene of horrible tragedy-a
sequel to the burning of the Gambrell fami-
ly the night before.
Joe Lefiore, a negro who was captured
by posse confessed that he in company
with other negroes, had tied Mrs. Gambrell
and her four children to the floor of her
house, saturated the surroundings with
alive.
1.-THE negro, after the confession of his
awful crime, was promptly roped to u
stake and burned to crisp while the citi-
zens looked on in grim silence. Another nc
gro, Bob Smith, was saved just in the nick
of time, as some doubt existed as to his
guilt
1.-THE sheriff of Leake county went to the
scene of the tragedy this evening and took
the negro, Robert Smith, and three negro
women who were implicated by Leflore and
started for Carthage the county seat. 1t is
not thought the sheriff will reach Carthage
with his prisoners as there are about 500 men
gathered about the scene of the crime and
they seem determined to let no one impli-
Gated escape their vengeance. Telephone
communication is very limited, the nearest
connection being St. Annes, about four
miles distant from the Gambrell police.
1.-THE Gambrell tragedy occurred early
Thursday morning, and it was first thought
that the fire was the result of accident. A
casual investigation revealed circumstances
so suspicious that a more searching inves-
tigation was made, and it was soon estab-
lished beyond doubt that the family had
been murdered and the house fired with the
torch of an ncendiary
posses We're Immediately formed to scour
the country and followed every possible
clue. Before the posses left St. Anne it was
discovered that Joe Lefore, negro who
lived in the neighborhood, and who had
heretofore borne good reputation, had
disappeared.
early last evening Lefore was captured
several miles from the scene of the murder.
At first the negro vigorously denied any
knowledge of the crime, but he finally
broke down completely and confessed that
he and Bob and Anderson Smith, two other
negroes, had done the dastardly work. He
hoped for no mercy, and told with brutal
frankness all the details of the crime His
captors were stupefed at the revelation.
in the yard where the Gambrell resi-
dence had stood Leflore was tied to a stake
and burned alive. No one sent merciful
bullet into his body to kill him.
Anderson Smith escaped from the mob
while Lefiore was being burned and has not
yet been captured. Bob Smith was tied to
another stake and fire started though he
was finally released, as there was a posi-
bllity of his proving his innocence
Anderson Smith will be recaptured, and
If it is proven that he and his brother
Bob are guilty, it is thought that no power
can save them from a similar fate to that
melted out to Le1ore
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
WATER WORKS AND
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Ground Broken Wednesday at
CulIman.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
Senator Brown Briefly Reviews Efforts
to Provide the Citizens With Wa
ter Supply-Handle Factory
Will be Erected at Once
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION

Cullman, October 2O.-(Speclal.)-On
Wednesday the ground was broken for
the city waterworks and electric light
plant. Mayor John f. Boyer In a few we'll
chosen words congratulated the city upon
the final success ofthe movement to pro-
vide the city with these modern convent
ences, and introduced the city attorney,
Senator VIII G. Brown, who briefly re-
viewed the efforts to provide the citizens of
Cullman with a water supply and fire pro-
lection.
He showed that since the first step was
taken in tn!s direction in 1893, the property
of citizens of Cullman had been destroyed
equal in value to five times the cost of the
plant. He commended the present city ad-
mlnistration, which had made this plant
possible by Its economy, Showing that in
the three years of their administration
they had paid an Indebtedness of 81, 600 and
have now a balance of $70O in the treasury,
With the taxes of the present year uncol-
lected and This without increasing taxes.
He showed that the reduction in the rate
of fire insurance alone ought to equal the
amount of interest on the bonds issued by
the city for this plant, and promised on be-
half of the city unat its affairs would be
turned over to the people without any
Indebtedness except the bonded debt.
AT the conclusion of his remarks six beau
tiful young ladies, Misses Lillian johnson,
Mae Humphrey, Maggie Blum, Nette Kar-
ter, Lora McMinn and Miss Mclaughlin,
each provided with a shovel and wheel
barrow threw several shovels of dirt into
the wheelbarrows and rolled them to the
site of the plant, where they were emptied
and the ceremony was over
Geisen & Son have located their handle
factory here, and will begin the erection of
the necessary buildings at once. 1t will en-
ploy about twenty hands.
Ten thousand dollars will be expended In
the next few months in the Improvement of
the streets and sidewalks of the city.
An adjourned term of the circuit court
will convene here on the first Monday in
December.
The fight for the postofice is waxing
warm. Miss Lorena Hays, sister of the
late postmaster, and ]. G. Otte are the
leading applicants.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
CHOYNSKI WON
Knocked Out Jimmy Ryan in Seventh
Round

New York, October 2O-Joe Choynski, of
California, knocked out Jimmy Ryan, of
Broadway Athletic club. Ohoynski was far
the cleverest, and the result was expected.
Ryan was out-pointed from the first, and
when the Knockout came Cloynski was as
fresh as when he began.
Ryans previous showing with Choynski,
with whom he stayed twenty rounds, made
some people bet even money that Ryan
would stay the limit. But the even money
they bet was badly invested, and Ryan
never had possible show when it came to
hard work.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
ROOMS WANTED.

Parties having rooms, with
or without board, to rent in
the city will please write, CIV
ing location and number of
beds and price for same. Also
parties living at East Lake,
Woodlawn, Avondale, West
End, Elyton, North Birming-
ham, and in fact all suburban
towns will do likewise. Ad-
dress Information Bureau
State Fair" Birmingham, Ala.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
COLUMBIA WINS
THE THIRD RACE
CONTINUED From First Page.)


up against the weather rail. AS the gallant
Yankee shot across the finish between the
lightship and the committee boat, the
shippers of the fleet that had gotten there
in time almost forgot to open their whis-
ties, so absorbed were they in the stirring
spectacle But they made up for 1t later
The defeated challenger raced across five
minutes and seventeen seconds later. The
much touted rough weather boat had been
beaten in thirty mile course six minutes
and eighteen seconds actual time, or with
the allowance she was to concede Columbia
on account of her longer water line, six
minutes and thirty-four seconds.
The Shamrock got noisier reception than
the Columbia as she finished, because, per-
haps, the beated excursion fleet that could
not reach the line in time for the hnsh,
wanted to exhaust their steam on some
one Patriotic shippers ransacked their old
glories and a good number were stuck in
conspicuous positions The Corsair greeted
her charge with cannon. Then. by Sir
Thomas order, the crew of the Erin lined
the rail and gave three Anglo-Saxon cneers
for the victors. They were returned with
interest by the proud crew of the Column
bia.
Lipton and Iselin
Later Sir Thomas went aboard the Cor
sair and there soon afterward Mr.. lselln,
managing owner of the Columbia, joined
him. There were toasts to victor ana van
ouished; to America and England; TO gen.
tlemen and ladies and all sorts of things,
and so with Fluctuations all around the cup
series for 1899 ended with the best of good
feeling. -
The official summary follows: Start-Co-
,,mbia 11:O1:35; Shamrock, 11:00:3f. Outer
mark-Columbia, 12:19:Oo; Shamrock, 12:l9:11.
Einish-Columbia, $4,000; Shamrock, 245:l7.
Elansed time-CoIumbia, 3:SS:25; Shamrock,
a.A:43. Corrected tme-Columbia, 3:Ssos:
Shamrock. 344:43. The Shamrock allowed
fine Columbia 1862 seconds.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
SPECIAL Committee at Work

Captain Thomas S. Powman and Rev.
{. w. Hare, who constitute a special COM
mittee of the board of trustees of the Mon
tevallo Girls school and Booker Washing
tons school to divide the public lands re-
Gently granted these schools, are in the
city engaged in their work. The lands are
to be as nearly equally divided as possible,
and ON the first of November the two
schools will cast lots for their shares. The
Montevallo trustees have sold to H. +. De-
Bardeleben an option on their %, 900 acres
of land al IS per acre. The Tuskegee school
refuses to sell such an option.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
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his splendid solitude"
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
Relief in Six Hours

Distressing kidney and bladder disease re-
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prise on account of Its exceeding prompt
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you want quick relief and cure this Is the
remedy. Sold by Collier Drug Co., Bir-
mingham, Ala.
2-2S- thurs frj-sat-1yr
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
Mrs. winsIow's Soothing Syrup

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by
MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILL
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edy for DIARRHOEA Sold by druggists
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
FOOTBALL AT OXFORD
Admission Defeated by Score of Eleven
to Ten

Oxford, October 20-(Special) -Oxford won
n holly contested game of football from
Admission this evening by a score of II
to 10. The team work of oxford was per-
feet while the work of Captain Eichet-
berfer at full back was brilliant.
oxford Is wild tonight
Touch downs for Oxford-Isichtberge Q;
goal kick Billiard, 1; touch downs for An
niston, Woodruff and Stillwell.
Oxford plays Gadsden during the fair.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21

The business mems dinner
at the Harvest Festival, given
by the ladies of the Y. M. G.
A., will be up to their usual
standard and cannot be ex-
celled.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21

1t is but two more days until the opening
of the Montgomery street fair. The city is
being beautifully decorated. and Dexter
avenue is half blockaded with beautiful
booths, erected by the merchants A free
street fair is a new undertaking in this Sec
ton of the state, and immense throngs of
people are expected to crowd the streets
next week. KERSH.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
Coal In Puebla

City of Mexico, October 2o.-The engi-
neer's reports confirm the previously re-
ported discovery of extensive and CONNER
cially available coal beds in the state OF
pueh,a which may lead to the resuscitation
of the gas business in this city. The con-
cession for the gas company was granted
for two years and twice renewed, out
nothing has ever come Of It, although the
charter was more liberal than will In all
probability ever be granted again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
"LADIES' DAINTIESo

Cigarettes are now the rage
among the elite of New York
City. For sale by G. w. Brox-
ton & Co., Is N. goth st.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21

Bulb Planting time. Ask Godden's.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21

Godden's Drug Store sells bulbs cheaper.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21
For solid comfort. smoke a
Texie Cigar.

We have a full line OF the
best clear Havana and domes-
tic cigars. Try them.
G. w. BROXTON g. CO.,
Is N. Twentieth st.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-21

Bulb planting time. Ask Godden's.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17
Actors Salaries.

Salaries vary with circumstances. The
manager may find at SIS a week player
whose moderate talent exactly fits part
OF considerable Importance. He may have
to pay $150 II the role is singular and fit
candidates scarce. II he wants celebrity
in addition to ability he may be willing to
make the salary $500 week In that case
he takes into account the public value Of
the name and makes feature Of 1t in his
advertisements. Not more than ten actors
In America, aside from the stars, receive
as much as $3.50 week, and not more than
five actresses are paid this amount. In
fact, $3.50 a week is exceptional, and 800
will engage an excellent hero or heroine.
a fine comedian, or a delineator Of eccen-
trio character The wages run down to,
SIS for soubrette, ingenue, or old man.
to SIS for an old woman, juvenile man, or
Juvenile. and so along to utility and chorus
men and women at $12 to SIS a week. Those
are the wages of thoroughly competent ac-
tors in companies Of good grade.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17
The Great Lakes.

Z The Great lakes have become a great
artery OF our richest commercial blood
One-th:rd Of the population Of the United
States is dependent on these lakes for their
export and import trade, This waterway
taps the richest and most prosperous agri.
cultural territory on this continent Of ours,
together with our most productive mines,
and It Is worth while noting that within
a radius OF 400 miles OF Cleveland lies
one-half the population of the United
States 1t is well-established fact that
deep water transportation is. and necessar-
iIy must be. far below the cost OF trans
portation by rail- indeed, It is computed
that the cost of water transportation by
steam, when the voyage 10 of any con-
adorable length. is about one-quarter Of
The average cost Of transportation by rail,
while by sailboat II II only one-eighth OF
the latter.
AS this question of transportation deter
mines to a great extent the existence or
nonexistence Of a possible industry, and
enhances or dfm.nishes the value Of every
article OF export In proportion to its eff
cheney md economy. the battle cry of the
West for .twenty feet of water between
Duluth and the sea- is no great problem to
account for. In the year 1888 there passed
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17
old Women-l7S4.

There Is not such thing as a decent
old woman left. Everybody curls their hair,
shows their neck, and wears pink but your
humble servant. People who have covered
their heads for forty years now leave of
their caps and think 1t becomes them; in
short, we try TO Guido our patterns. the
French, in every ridiculous vanity. Lady
Northumberland gave an entertainment
last week, in which was an artificial goose
in her feathers, and hen with seven little
chickens The dessert was landscape, with
gates, stiles and cornfelds; but l have,
am afraid, tired you with the account of
such follies."-Letters from Lady Jane
Coke to Mrs. Eyre.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17
Tran.v.al Prep.r.tion..

For the last two or three years guns
and ammunition have been imported
through Delagoa bay Chat convenient
harbor where so little is KNOWN In such
quantities that the whole of Africander-
dom might be said to be armed with guns
from, this source. Here was an open mem
ace to England and to England's power.
In June, July, August of this year (1S99)
thirty tons of ammunition were, accord
ing to q correspondent of the Cape Times,
being piled up at Christiana, small
town at the southwest corner of the
Transvaal. and not far from the town
of Kimberley. This was going on at the
very time OF the Bloemfontein confer
ence, If not before. So we may we'll guess
from this and other facts that war was
in the mind of President Kruger before
the ink of that conference was dry. Then
there was the episode of the ammunition
forwarded through Port Elizabeth to the
Free State when Delagoa bay seemed to
be shut against the Beers. This step was
allowed by Mr.. Schreimer, the premier
of the Cape-the chosen instrument of the
Bond. Where, too, in all this story was
the influence, presumably for peace, of
that amicus curiae. Mr. Jan Hofmeyr?
To be ready when England was embar-
raised elsewhere; to send the signal
across the border when her hands were
full in Asia, 1t might be. or in Egypt; to
raise the cry of africa for the African
DER" meaning the Dutch only; this was
the cue Of crafty Paul Kruger and of
his Hollander satellites.
The prize was worth winning, and both
Germans and French were only too glad
to give sympathy and support to cause
in which the feelings of unreasoning ha-
tired of England were mixed up with
thoughts of filthy lucre and self-aggran-
dizement. In the shrieking disappoint-
ment of the Continental press We can
measure the depth of their baffied malig-
nifty at the turn events have taken.--The
Fortnightly.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17
MALAYS PIN THEIR
FAITH TO CHARMS.
AMULETs, MAGIC WORDS AND TIGER
CLAWS USED TO WARD OFF
DISEASE.
Mystic Speeches Delivered when
Entering . Wood or when Be
gining = Hunt-Belief In
Transmigrntion.

THE Malay IL a firm believer In the ef-
ficacy Of charms He wears amulets.
places written words Of magic In
houses. and sports tigers claw as pre-
ventive of disease. If he 10 specially primi-
tive and backwoodsy, when he enters for
est he says: go to the right. all my enem-
les and assailants! May you not look upon
me; let me walk alone!
TO allay storm he says: 1.-THE elephants
collect. they wallow across the sea; 60 to
the right, go to the left, break the temp
est.
When about to begin an elephant hunt,
according to Thompson, he uses this charm:
1.-THE elephant trimpets, he wallows across
the lake. The pot boils, the pan boils across
the point. Go to the left. 60 to the right.
spirit Of grandfather (the elephanO; loose
the fingers upon the bowstring."
The Malay believes In witches and witch
craft. There is the bottle imp, the Polong,
which feeds on its owners blood till the
time comes for 1t to take possession of an
enemy. Then there IL horrid thing. the
Panangalan, which possesses women. Ere
quentiy It leaves its rightful abode to ny
away at night to feed on blood, taking
the form Of the head and intestines Of the
person 1t inhabited, In which shape 1t wan
ders around.
Such beliefs may perhaps have their
origin In metempsychosis, which in other
ways has some foothold among the common
people. For instance, elephants and tigers
are believed sometimes to be human souls
in disguise. and so the Malay addresses
them as grandfather to allay their wrath