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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
BEASLEY GRAHAM
SEVERELY BEATEN
Was Taken from His House Into
the Woods.
WITH HICKORY SWITCHES
His Body Was Terribly Lacerated- Had
Said That Mullen, the Murdered
Overseer, Should Have Been =
Killed-Wholesome Lesson

Selma, May notwithstanding with
the stripes from a hundred aasnes heavily
administered with hickory switches, Beas-
ley Graham, late of Perry county. passed
a restless night in Selma last night, at the
camp yard of the Babcock warehouse.
Yesterday about the hour of noon a white
man, seemingly a tramp stopped at the
county jail and asked to be taken in, say
ing THAI he was worn out with walking a
long way and was sore from beating he
had received. He also stated that he was
a second cousin of Sheriff LumplSn. Jai er
Lide thought the fellow, knowing that the
Sheriff was in Montgomery was trying to
palm himself off upon him, and tod him
he would have TO move on. He then went
to the negro house next door to the jail
and told the occupant of The house that
some white men had numerically beaten
him the night before, and showed to the
negro the bruises on his body.
The white man went on then and was
next heard from about dusk al Babcocks
warehouse, where he met q citizen and
asked for enough money to get something
to eat. The citizen recognized him as
Beasey Graham, who lives about two miles
said that Wednesday night mob of white
men came in his house and took him out
in the woods They cut large hickory
switches from the trees, and after stripping
him to the skin bucked him and laid on
about one hundred lashes, terribly LAGER
ating his flesh. He further stated that but
for the protest of one man they would
have lynched him. Graham said that all
he had done was to make inquiries into the
killing of Mr.. Mullen, the road overseer,
Sanders negroes.
Information received from other sources
is that Gresham, who is only about "a years
of age, has been going about among the
groes in this neighborhood armed and say
ing that what Mullen got was what he
deserved, and that there others who would
be treated in same way After being Sc
verely chastised Graham was allowed to
put on his clothes and was then put in the
road and was told never to show mis- face
in that locality again upon penalty of
DEATH
The trouble in Perry county seems to be
over the new road law now in force. The
law requires every able-bodied person white
and black, to work ten days during the
year on the road or pay so cents per day
instead. This has stirred up a great many
of the whites, who don't want to work,
and they have threa tened to take sides with
the negroes. This has made 1T necessary
for wholesome lesson to be administered,
and Graham is the first example of what
the others may expect.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
SCOTTSBORo
John Mulkey Left With a Mortgaged
Horse and Wagon

Scottsboro, May 5.-(SpeciaL)-DeKalb
and Jackson counties will have an old
fashioned singing at Pisgah, near here, on
Sunday next. People for miles around at
tend these meetings.
John MullSey, of Pisgah, this county, left
for parts unknown recently. taking a horse
and wagon on which j. w. Gay held a
mortgage. Mr.. Gay land deputy sheriff
traced him far as Rising Fawn, Ca,
and then lost track of him.
: The little S-year-old daughter of Ben.
Riddle. near town, while playing around
WELL fell in, and was drowned yesterday
before assistance could reach her.
E. L. Jordan, of Stevenson. this county
while in the wash-room of the Rossmore
MOTEL, Chattanooga. by mistake exchanged
coats with stranger, thereby losing $500
IN cash which was in his coat pocket
The authorities of Scottsboro are deter
mined to break up drunkenness. At re-
cent meeting of the board of mayor and al
dermen an act was passed to make it
nne of not more than fifty dollars for any
one to be caught on the streets drunk
DR.. j. p. Rorex, of Scottsboro and NJ D.
Looney, OF Sturnow, have been appointed
confederate pension examiners for this
county.
A summer school for teachers is now in
session at Pisgah. Jackson county There
are now nearly one hundred in attendance
from the counties of Marshall DeKalb
Etowah and Jackson. There are also quito
a number from Franklin and Lincoln coun-
lies Tennessee
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
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THE CARNEGIE INTERESTS.
Have Been. Purchased by His Co-part-
ners in Business

New York, May 5.-The entire interest of
Andrew Carnegie in the Carnegie Steel
company has been purchased by the CO.
partners in the business, with I'll. c. Prick
at their head The price is said to be over
$3.50, 600 600. The new company includes not
only all the Carnegie steel plants but also
the H. C. Frick Coke company with Its
30, 900 acres of coke lands in the Connells-
vile district the Oliver Mining company,
with its large ere interests in the Lake
Superior district; the Pittsburg, Bessemer
and Lake Erie railroad; the Union railroad
which connects at Homestead with all
trunk lines east and west and all the in
terests in several hundred miles of gas
land. 1t is intended to increase the output
of all the various departments of the joint
company so that the present famine in steel
market may be relieved and the demand
supplied.
In the opinion of those who are well in
formed on the subject the announcement
of the consolidation of all or nearly all the
big steel mills in the country will be made
in few days. No general consolidation
has yet been entered into, but the final
terms may be agreed upon at any time.
Private advices from Pittsburg and Chi
cago yesterday helped to convey the impress
sion while the sentiment In Wall street
is that the talked of consolidation is ex-
tremely probable.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Hiram" said the wife, do you b'leve in
this new way of KILN folks-called lee
trocution?"
81 haint studied much erbout it." was the
reply I'm my family they most ingin'rally
hung emf
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
LEE
OF ADMISSION
Arrested by PoStoAice Inspector
on Charge of ENLIGHTENMENT
AMOUNT INVOLVED IS $33
Has Not Affiliated With Republicans,
and it is Believed They Are Push
ing Prosecution to Secure His
Ejectment from Office

Admission May 5.-(special )-Pos tmaster
George S. Lee was arrested here today by
Postofice Inspector j. R. Rosson on a
charge of embezzlement. He gave bond
and will have a hearing before United
States Commissioner G. B. Randolph on
Saturday, May 18th.
The amount involved is only about $33,
and 1t is not charged that Lee has even
this. The charge is based ON discrepancy
in the salary paid an extra clerk during the
months of October, November and Deem
Der of last year. Lee engaged the clerk at
$500 a year and SO notified the department
by mail. Before the letter reached Wash
ington the department authorized him by
wire to engage the extra clerk a $500 Lee
failed to get the tangle Strengthened out
and paid the extra man at The rate of $3.50
a year.
He thought, however, that the extra man
had earned the larger salary authorized by
the department, and in his accounts at tho
end of the quarter put the man down at
$500 a year. The department allowed the
claim and Lee paid the clerk the difference,
amounting to about $685. taking his receipt
for it.
1t is this that he is charged with en-
bezzling. Lees friends claim that there
was nothing criminal or irregular in his ac-
ton, and that he will be exonerated by the
courts.
Lee, who is from Ohio, got his appoint
ment through Ohio influences, and it is
believed that the latter are pushing the
prosecution in an effort to get even.
1t is also charged that several local re-
pubucans want the office, one of them be-
ing Commissioner Randolph, before whom
Lee is to be arraigned. c. e. Ansley, one OF
Lees bondsmen, is in charge of the post
office. Lee was cashier 70 the United
States Rolling Stock company and the
Southern railroad here prior to his appoint
ment and is prominent Mason and
Knight Of Pytntas
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
ALEXANDER CITY
Deal on Foot for the Gold Mining
Properties

Alexander City, May 5.-(Special)-Colonel
Euderlie, representing mining capitalists of
New Orleans, was in Alexander City this
week investigating gold mining properties.
He made f1attering propositions to the own
ers of certain properties which have not yet
been accepted.
new telephone line between Alexander
City and the Cameron saw mill was COM
pleted this week.
New York parties are again interested in
building the proposed air line railway be-
tween Atlanta and Selma. Correspondence
between them and interested parties here
and at other points along the proposed route
brings out this news. The route extends
through a prosperous section of Georgia
and Alabama, and there. is no doubt but
that 1t Will ultimately be built.
Will ]. Co1ey has returned from the Uni
versity of Virginia, where he has finished
full law course. He will soon enter active
practice.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
axzssA FINISHED IT'S WORK
Alabama Diocese Will Meet at Mobile
Next Year

Admission. May 5.-(Special)-T annual
council of the Alabama diocese of the
Episcopal church, which has been in ses-
sion here since TueLlay, finished its work
tonight and after hearing the minutes to-
morrow morning will adjourn to meet in
Mobile next year on May &c.
The following officers were elected: Jas.
II. Fits, Tuscaloosa, treasurer; r. P. Wet
more, Birmingham, chancellor; B. J..
Baldwin, Montgomery, registrar; C.. E.
Waller, of Greensboro, treasurer of do
cesar missions; Rev. Mcqueen, Harwick
Ruth and j. H. Baker, trustees of Univer-
sity of the South for Alabama; c. C. Cobbs,
treasurer University of the South for Ala
bama; Jas. H. Fits, c. e. Waller, W. w.
Screws. Daniel Coleman and John E..
Mitchell, lay members board of missions;
Rev. s. Peabody and w. p. Wilson, stand
ing committee. A new constitution and
canons were adopted Some important
changes were made in the latter. Hereaf-
ter only communicates can be voters in
parish meetings. The right of suffrage in
parish meetings was also granted to wo-
men.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
GADSDEN
Eastern Men Looking Over Ground for
Purpose of Investment

Gadsden, Ala, May 5-(Speclal.)-A. Fl.
Henderson, W. S. Revs and r. A. Register,
eastern capitalists were in the city this
week taking look at the various enter
prises,. and looking for place to make
some investments. They went away well
pleased.
W. 8. Shropshire has fish worm farm
at Centre-that is, he raises worms for
o<@e for fishers, and he is doing a good
business.
The Queen City Hose company, the crack
volunteer fire company of this section, will
attend the firemen's tournament at Rome
the 9Th and 9Th. Mrs Forney Hughes is
the chaperone; Miss Louise Ross, sponsor,
and Misses Etna Camp and Lola johnson
are the maids of honor. The boys are
practicins daily, and will enter all the con-
tests, and expect to win in most of them.
The county commissioners have let the
contract to BazwelI & Richards for the
erection of a new bridge across Wills
creek The bridge Will be 20 feet long,
one span being 80 feet, while the cover will
be ZIG feet long. 1t will cost $733.
Pupils of the Hole's Bluff school will
give "a concert at Hoke's Bluff next Mon
day night and the Apollo Glee club of
Gadsden will furnish the music.
VIM. Jones, of Branchvine, st. Clair
county, has lea Their pocket book fifty
three years old, which was made for Wal
ter OkdSBS, ana winch ne carried with MIN
in the Mexican war. The book is still In
use and has not been worn very much
Gadsden has at last a curfew law, which
was introduced by Alderman Agricoa and
passed by the board at their last meeting.
The law is in full force and effect, and all
persons under Is years of age caught ON
the streets after p. m. without their pa
rents or guardians, or without their writ
ten consent, win be fined not less than 81
nor more than $25.
The stores of the city now close at $3.50
in order to give the clerks some recrea-
ton.
The total assessment of property in
Etowah county for the year 1899 is $4,112,749
which is $79,942 more than 1898, while 10, 43f
acres more of land was assessed than In
$685. The assessment shows that less than
10000 acres of land escapes taxes in Etc.
wah county and most of this island that
hassnot yet been entered and proved up.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06

ACio FSi y AAA~hA DNs'NA
and was able to do nearly all my own
. work. continued the use of your medi
cine, and feel that 1 owe my recovery to
you. cannot thank you enough foryour
advice and your wonderful medicine.
Any one doubling my statement may
write to me and will gladly answer
all inquiries.-Mrs. NELL HURST. Deep
water, Mo.
Letters like the foregoing, con-
stantly being received, contribute not
little to the satisfaction felt by Mrs.
Pinkham that her medicine and counsel
are assisting women to bear their heavy
burdens. gs
Mrs. Pinkham's address, is Lynn, Mass
All suffering Women are invited to
write to her for advice, which will be
given without charge. 1t is an ex,
perienced woman's advice towomen.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
FIRST EXPERIMENT
In Wireless Telegraphy to Be Made At
Great Yacht Race

London, May 5.-According to state
ment made here to the correspondent of the
Associated Press today by the secretary
of the wireless telegraphy company, the
first attempt to transmit Atlantic mes
sages by the Marconi system win be es-
tablished at Sandy Hook and elsewhere
along the course laid out for the great
yacht race from which the entire contest
will be visible.
Messages recording the progress of the
stations to a point on the Irish coast in
the neighborhood of Waterville. The Sec
rotary of the wireless telegraph company
added that Sir Thomas Upton and the
authorities of the United States and Great
Britain had been notified of the project
and that oil had expressed themselves as
being intensely interested.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
Gates confirms Rumor

Chicago, May 5-John W. Gates has con-
firmed the rumor regarding the combination
of all the large steel companies in the
country and made the assertion that the
deal was as far reaching as the ingenuity
of minds that conceived it could possibly
make it.
Mr.. Gates said that all the difficulties in
the way of the combination had been re-
moved and that the financing of the great
combine which will control the entie steel
industry of the country has been success
fully carried to a conclusion. According to
Mr.. Gates the capital stock will be between
$500, 900 900 and $500, 1000 900 and he coolly re-
marked that the figure might reach one
billion. The president of the new company,
he remarked, would be H C. Frick. of
Pittsburg.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
MRS. PINKHAM'S ADVICE.
What Mrs. Nell Hurst has to Say
About It.

DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-When Iwrote
to you had not been well for five years;
had doctored all the time but got no
better. had womb trouble very bad.
My womb pressed backward, causing
piles. was in such misery 1 could
scarcely walk across the floor. Mem
situation was irregular and too pro-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06

fuse, was also
troubled with
leucorrh@a. I
had given up all
of getting
well; everybody
thought I had
consumption.
After taking
" five bottles of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegeta-
BILE Compound,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06
Kicking to the Wrong Person

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Father-Why, when l was your age
didn't have as much money in month as
you spend in a day.
Son-Well, pa, don't scold me about II.
Why don't you go for grandfather?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-06

The last regular meeting of the CONNER
cial club under the administration of Pres
ident Steiner and the present board of di-
rectors was held yesterday afternoon, and
besides the transaction of routine business
fifteen new members were added to the
roll.
The meeting of the board of directors
was called to order at $3.50 o'clock. The
reports of the officers were read and refer
red. President Steiner submitted the fol-
lowing report:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-11-18

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the rows of swings and asked them
how they liked his garden. They lik-
ed it very much, indeed, bat Archie
couldn't help feeling disappointed I'M
til Mr.. Green said: IT have to be in
the shop most of the time, and I want
some enc to stay around here and let
me know when customers come in. Do
you think you and Nellie could do
this? OF course I'd expect you to
swing a good deal, for that will help
to ADVERTISE So it happened that all
throu Eh the summer in pleasant wealth.
er passers-by saw two blue-eyed chill
dren in swing near the gate, and if
any one entered he was met by Archie
with, DO you want to look at swings?
We have some very nice ones. I'll call
Mr.. Green" The Automatic Swing Co.
did good business that season, and
every Saturday the children dropped
silver quarter into their bank, and even
Archie came to the conclusion that for
a town a swing garden was better than
a vegetable garden.
MARY F. LEONARD
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-11-18
A Lazy Mans Load.

Thump, thump, thud! How many
times it had occurred in the last few
minutes-that noise! Willie didn't
cry, for hadn't grandma caRad him,
only that morning, MY little man."
and who ever heard of a man crying
because he had let fall an armful of
wood? Nevertheless, he did look so
woe-begone and humpty-dumpty-like
sitting on the lowest stair in grand
pas we'll filled woodshed, with his late
armful of wood scattered about him
like a "spill'' Of gigantic jackstraws!
Slowly he picked himself up, and care
fully gathered the struggling sticks,
making "mcst cord" it seemed to
Willie. One, two, three stairs had
been mounted, when again-thump,
thump, thud! went his wood, flying
in more directions than before. ''Well,
we'll, WE'LL" Twas grandpa's jolly
voice as he looked down from the floor
above. 20, grandpa! I've had just
the awfulest time! The wood won't
stay where I put it," and Willie's So
Der, upturned face was met by grand
pas smiling countenance coming down
the stairs. I'm afraid my Willie-boy
has been taking a lazy mans load,'
hey!' said grandpa, as he surveyed the
cr1sscross sticks on the floor. why,
grandpa, I'm not lazy, am II" asked
Willie, quickly. Il tried and tried to
carry as much as you could-I did,
really and truly" ''Ah, there's where
you made your mistake, my boy,
Couldn't you have gone a number of
times easily with a smaller load, while
you were tugging away with so
much?" "Ye-s!" answered Willie.
thoughtful1y. Trying to carry too
much of anything" said grandpa, slow
1y, as he sat down on the sawhorse, lis
what call a lazy mans load;' for a
lazy man always tries to carry every
thing at once, for fear he may take a
few useless steps, and by so doing
causes himself double work, besides
unnecessary worry and trouble Had
you taken smaller load, you would
have had no trouble in carrying it, and
by this time your wood box would
have been full" "Grandpa," and Will
lie put his sturdy little arms resolute-
ly about his grandfather's neck, "I'm
tired carrying lazy mans load. and
shall always carry a smart mons load
hereafter" Then as he ran away
whistling with what wood he could
comfortably carry, grandpa nodded,
And he'll remember it, too!''
ADELBERT F. CALDWELL.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-11-18
SAVING INEBRIATEs.

How the Kelley Cure Restores Men
to q HealthfuI Condition.
ANY man who realizes that he is q
victim of the drink habit or disease,
who considers that it Is not well for
him to drink more, who desires to stop
drinking but cannot do so, Is the kind
OF a man who can be cured at the Min
neapohs Kelley Institute.
He can be completely cured in four
weeks, and every vestige Of the crav-.
Ing Will have been removed. Many
men spend four weeks or more in de-
bauch or in recovering from one. No
man ever leaves the Institute doubtful
OF his cure. A realizing sense Of re-
storation comes to the most skeptical
before the treatment is completed. He
hnds the craving gone, and that he is
man, in Quickened thought. higher
aspiration, re-esta blishment OF will
power and the general upbuilding Of
the entire physical man. Faith is IN
necessary. The remedy does its work
ef1ectually and the man is cured. He
has no more desire for whisky than he
has for carbolic acid
Men have gone to the Minneapolis
Kelley Institute utterly skeptical, and
because of their many failures to be
cured by other means they doubted ev-
erything. But they had an earnest
and an honest desire to be cured, and
they were restored completely and per-
manently. The Kelley Cure is not a
faith cure, but a scientific treatment,
and hence faith is not an essential.
There is no sickness or unpleasa SAINT
ness about the Kelley Cure. The medi-
cines act directly on the system and
the patient begins to feel an improve
uient after the first administration of
the remedy. His improvement is
healthy and natural, until he feels that
his youth has been given back to him.
The four weeks is pleasantly passed in
healthful enjoyment, and he returns
home cured man.
No other cure for inebriety has been
discovered except the Kelley Cure.
There are many shrewd imposters who
will promise cure, and who will sober
a man up, only to have him return to
his former habits again in a very short
time. Such frauds should be severely
punished.
Free literature, in a plain envelope,
will be sent if inquirers will address
the Kelley Institute, corner Tenth
street south and Park avenue, Mime
apolis, MINI.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-11-18
Smile on Me.

A sweet story is told by Miss Anna
Gordon OF little three-year-old girl,
the pet of the household, who came
down few minutes late to breakfast.
She had one foot on the round of her
chair, but was not allowed to climb
up until her papa had asked the bless
ing. Then, as she looked all around
her and saw every face grave and seri-
Gus, she thought the family were Of
Tended, and her child's heart was
broken. "Oh, mammal" she cried,
with quivering lips, "smile on me-"
The child's impulse was natural. A
smile means cheer, love, sunshine, and
the cry of the human heart always is,
Smile on mel" A young girl on her
way to school met a poor old man on
the street corner with flowers to SELL
Il had no pennies to buy flowers
with,' the girl said simply, "but I gave
him SMILE" The smile warmed the
old mans heart for the next hour and
softened his hard life with CLINT of
happiness. 1t is a pity that any one
in the whole world should go hungry
for smile when a smile costs moth
ing. With each one of us, we know
how loneliness and heartache may be
eased and how the aspect of a whole
day may be changed by a kindly
GLANCE, friendly look. Let us see to-
it that we do not withhold this COM
fort from one another. In heaven God
shall wipe away tears from all eyes.
Let us anticipate heaven, and make
earth as much like it as possible by
remembering the little child's cry,
Smile on e."-Frances Bennett Cali
laWay.