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The age-herald., 1901-10-23
JEMISON TELLS WHY PROPOSITION WAS WITHDRAWN Company Could Not Spend Money for an Uncertain
 Franchise GIVEN IN OTHER CITIES If Not Perpetual Franchise Privileges Are Given for oe Years, Which
 Is Equivalent to Per
 petulty.
GIVEN IN OTHER CITIES

Asked why the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power Company withdrew its request for a franchise for seventy-six blocks of streets and avenues which was before the Board of Aldermen President Jemison said:
 Our company pctltioned for perpct- ual franchise and the judiciary commit tee adopted resolution limiting us to Q 3O-year franchise. The company could not go ahead with it's proposed extensions on limited franchise, hence the with drawal.
 We felt that we were not asking any thing of tho city but what was business like and reasonable. Street car lines in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Nash vile, Chattanooga, Knoxville and Mobile have either perpetual franchises, or in some of these cases what is equivalent to perpetui.y--a 93-year franchise.
 When Street Cars Pay.
 Street car lines do not pay unless they have at least hundred and forty houses to the mile from which to draw patron age. These blocks have an average of only sixty-nine houses to the mile, and some of these houses are only negro shacks which do not count for much
 Our purpose was to develop suburban sections and help Birmingham while VIC helped tho value of our own property.
 ''The people who were ready to put up the capital for extensions were looking far into the future.
 Were Taking Chances.
 lrno hot chances, for the tide of population in any city, especially new city, Is always lia- ble to be diverted. Still. with a perpetual franchise our people thought they saw their way clear to go ahead. They stand ready now to do what they said they would do. But with a thirty-year limit, such as the Judiciary committee proposed. our company would sinnpiy have to aban- don its great scheme of development. We have twenty-three miles of line in the city, and if we got this new franchise we would have only six and a fraction of a mile more. This mileage Is very differen; from the exaggerated statements made by certain citizens who are opposing our efforts.
 We pay as much tax per capita of population as lines in other cities Those persons who are building in the suburbs expecting to be reached by our cars will be seriously affected by this baking of our enterprise. And as I think all Bir- mingham will be affected,
 Will Make No More.
 In reply to the question: What will be your next move in the matter?' Mr. Jem- ison declared he would make no move. Tt is up to the people now" he said. Our company will not go before the council and renew its proposition. If any thing Is done looking to. the granting of franchise along the lines of our peti- tion, the citizens will have to take the in- itiative; and whatever is done will have to materialize by the next meeting of the council, for the new constitution, which Is expected to be ratified on November Il, limits franchises to 30 years"
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
CHORUS REHEARsEs.
Singers for the Festival Practice
 Music for the First Concert.

The first rehearsal of the festival chorus this season took place last night at St. Paul's Hall- There was a large attendance and the singers put in. an hour and a half of solid work
 Wagners Meistersinger music was rehearsed very thoroughly. This is to be sung at the Evan Williams con cert at the Jefferson Theatre Novem- Der 27.
 After practicing the Meistersinger the chorus took up Arthur Foote's Skeleton in Armour" which is to be sung at the festival next spring.
 There will be rehearsals regularly every Tues-ay night.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
JOHN GRIGGS ENDS
 LIFE WITH BULLET
WELL KNOWN MAN COMMITS sUI- clDE AT GRAVES MINES-Book- KEEPER FOR COMPANY THERE AND HIGHLY ESTEEMED.

John w. Griggs of Birmingham com mitted suicide yesterday morning about Il o'clock at Graves mines, where he was a trusted employe, by shooting him self in the temple with 3s-calibre revol- yer. No cause is assigned for the deed, except that MT. Grigss was probably in melancholy frame of mind.
 MT. Griggs Is the son of the late Dr. John G. Griggs, who resided at 1880 Sixth avenue. He was employed as a book keeper by the Graves Mining Company, which operates Graves coal mines about two miles beyond North Birmingham in the direction of Lewisburg, Ala. MT. Griggs was 35 years of age and an Odd Fellow and Mason. He leaves wife and four children.
 About Il o'clock yesterday morning Su- perintendent of the Mines J. B. Ingram heard a pistol shot in the direction of the powder magazine. A few minutes after wards H. S. Matthews, the operator of the mines, found the body of MT. Griggs short distance from the magazine. with bullet hole through his temple, the re- volver lying nearby.
 Justice of the Peace W. E. Hamburger of North Birmingham went to the mines yesterday afternoon and formed jury of inquest The verdict was that the deceased came to his death from pistol shot In his own hands. A futile effort was made to find Coroner W. D. Paris.
 After the inquest the remains of MT. Griggs were brought to Birmingham and prepared for burial. The funeral will take place this afternoon at o'clock, inter- ment being at Oak Hill cemetery. The services will be at the cemetery.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following transfers of real estate were recorded yesterday:
 Birmingham Realty Company to Anna L. Perkins. part of lots 1 and ?. block $40, Birmingham, $500.
 c. W. Benns and wife to w. P. Benns, lots and 2, block 1, Brighton, $16OO.
 G. W. Ratlinf and wife to M. P. McNeal ct al. lot in Pheland addition to Bir- mingham $104O.
 J. A. Wright and husband to the Jeffer- son County Building and Loan Associa- tion. part of lots ,15 and 16. block H. Smith, field. 5000.
 Rubin Burreii to J. Schwab Co.,. lots 2, Il and l2, block A, Rubin Burrell survey, in section 38, township IT. range 4 s11oo
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
JUNIOR ORDER MECHANICS.
Meeting In Ensley Tomorrow Night
 to Organize Council.

There will be a meeting held at Scott Hall. F and Nineteenth streets, Ensley. Thursday night at 7:sO o'clock for the purpose of finally perfecting the organi- zation of council of the Junior Order of American Mechanics State Organizer A. s. Fulguham will be present.
 W. A Berryhill, deputy State coun- cillor. said last night that very large attendance at the peeting was assured, as there was much enthusiasm in Ensley regarding the organization. and some powerful speeches would be delivered.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
NOTHING TO SAY.
Water Works Official Refuses to Be
 Interviewed.

The superintendent of the Birmingham Water Works Company stated yesterday that he had nothing he cared to give out for publication respecting the discussion in the City Council Friday night in re- gard to the water supply.
 Alderman Harry Jones said 1t had not yet been determined when the committee of the council would take up the investi- gation of the water supply.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
A KENTUCKY COLONEL

H NENI OONF OOLONEE says: There's liclVers and lickers, but somes better than others" He was thinking of ours when he spoke. It's the best liquor made, and in purity and flavor stands unrivalled. For this time of year we suggest for your palate and digestion OUT "Samuels" or Oscar Pepper. whis- kies. You have Uncle Sam's' guarantee of purity when you buy our "Samueis" or oscar Pepper whiskies
 SOLOMON G LEVI, Bell and Peoples Phones No. 1o12.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
THAT JOYFUL FEELING

With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength and internal cleanli- ness. which follows the use of Syrup of TIES, IS unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old-tirne n, a5,o cines and the cheap substitutes some- times offered but never accepted bv the well-informed. Buy the genuine. Man,,e factured by the California Fig Syrup co.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
CREATED SENSATION.
Small Boy Tells Department Big Fire
 ls Raging.

The police are very anxious to To- cate the small boy who went up in the building on the corner of Nine teenth street and Second avenue at an early hour yesterday morning and turned on fire alarm. He went into an office and telephoned the depart. ment big fire was raging nearby. The entir~ dane<tment answered the
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-08
WILL SAIL NEXT WEEK
THIRTIETH VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
TO LEAVE MANILA FEB. 10.
Hundreds of American Teachers Ap-
plying for Positions in the Phil
ippfnes-Igorrotes Pleased.

MANILA, Feb. III. p. Whitmarsh, gov
ernor of the province OF Benquet, has re-
turned from a circuit OF that specially or
ganized province. He telegraphs that the
entire province is under the new laws and
that the elections have been eminently sat-
isfactory.
fantry, Col Cornelius Gardner command
ing, arrived here to-day on the transport
Fitzpatrick, from Tayabas province, Island
of Luzon, and will go into camp on the
Lunetta, sailing for home Feb. Is. Colonel
Gardner says there are practically no insur-
gents in the province of Tayabas and that
the pro-American sentiment is strong there.
Eighty-seven members of the regiment
have died Of wounds and diseases and go
have been discharged because of sickness.
The Twentieth Infantry, which has been
two years in Manila on provost duty, has
sailed for Vigan on field service.
Hundreds of teachers in the United States
are applying for positions in the Philip
pines. 1t would be easy to secure thou
sand.
An authorized delegation of Bontoc Igor
rotes are returning to the province with
school books, flags and high opinions of the
Americans.
The authorities have attached the bank
account of Mr.. d. NJ. Carman, partner OF
Theodore GarranZa, the wealthy Spanish
merchant, who is under arrest, charged
with furnishing supplies to aid the insur-
gents. They are taking steps to prevent
Mr.. Carman from disposing OF his property
until the question of his relations with the
insurgents have been settled.
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SCORES OF LIVES LOST
MANY MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
KILLED In MEXICO.
Several Hundred Gases of Dynamite
Exploded I'm a Silver Mine-TOp
Of Mountain Wrecked.

DENVER, Col, Feb. 1.-THE News has 3
special from Chihuahua, Mex, which says:
Several hundred cases of dynamite stored
In an underground chamber of the San
Andreas mine. situated in the Sierra
Madres. in the western nart of the State of
Durango, exploded with terrific force. blow
ing the whole top OF the mountain off and
destroying portion OF the village of miners
there. Eighty-seven men. women and chill
dren were killed and many others badly
injured. None of the men in the mines
was seriously hurt. Among the killed were
Herman Lentiman, superintendent of the
mine, and his family.
The government has ordered an official
investigation of the accident. Electric wires.
connecting with the hosting machinery,
passed through the room in which the
dynamite was stored. and it Is supposed
that these wires became crossed, thereby
causing fire which set off the dynamite.
The San Andreas mine is the most celc-
brated silver mine in Mexico. 1t is valued
at SO, ,000. 900, and has produced many mil
lions of dollars worth of ore.
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INDIANIANS ARE FIRM
UNWILLING TO MAKE CONCESSIONS
TO OTHER COAL OPERATORS.
Opposed to the Illinois Run of Mine
Standard-Scale Committee i'm
Session Last Night.

COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 7.-No agreement
was reached by the miners and operators
at to-day's conferences. At IL p. IN. 1T
looked as If the scale subcommittee would
be in session all night. At 1890 the COM
mittee took a recess and separate caucuses
were held by the miners and operators.
This would seem to indicate that definite
stage i'm the negotiations had been reached.
1t Is understood that strong influence is
being brought TO bear upon the Indiana
run OF mine standard and a reduction in
the machine differential that will put them
more nearly upon an equality with the
Illinois operators. The Indiana operators
have steadfastly refused to make any con-
cessions. however. The Illinois operators
are as determined as ever not to recede
from their original declaration that there
must be adjustment of prices through
out the competitive field. They do not care
so much about prices and conditions in
Ohio and Pennsylvania as in Indiana, how
ever, and it is intimated they would accept
a compromise which would place the Indi-
ana operators on an equal footing with
them. Ii is extremely doubtful, however,
whether the miners would agree to any
Sucn COhupl plohhSc' 1AeJ "dhl the run OF
mine standard and fixed machine differ
entail in all the States. No agreement is
possible that does not concede some of the
demands of the miners. and the position of
the miners is strengthened By the fact
that the Illinois operators are standing with
them in their demand for uniformity.
Later-The sub-scale committee ad-
journed about midnight and will resume its
deliberations at 8 a. N. tomorrow. All that
any member OF the committee would say
was that very little progress had been
made.
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Plans of the House Naval COMMITTEES
Notes About Indianians.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. THE committee
on naval affairs OF the House. OF which
Representative Watson. OF Rushvile. Is a
member. will visit San Francisco 10 wit
ness the launching OF the new battleship
Ohio, May IS next. Immediately after this
ceremony II is the inteption OF the commits
tee 10 take a transport and proceed 10 the
Hawaiian Islands to investigate the various
naval projects which have been recon-
mended as necessary TO be carried out
there in order 10 thoroughly intrench the
United States in those insular possessions.
which are TO be made the mid-?acific base
OF supplies for the navy. When IL returns
the committee should be I'm possession OF
sufficient facts 20 enable II 20 act intelll-
gently on the various propositions for q
naval base OF supplies and repair at or near
Honolulu. IL Is possible that some Of the
members OF the committee may continue
their Investigations 20 include the naval
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at the railway station with party or
guests at o'clock in the afternoon and
boarded a special train waiting there TO
take them to Loo Palace. The people wait
ing in the streets and about the palace IN
The Hague were disappointed to see the
royal escort gallop back alone.
The civil ceremony in the Palace OF JUS
tice was very brief. The bride and groom.
the Queen mother and the mother of the
groom and six witnesses inscribed their
names upon the official document. The
minister of Justice first asked the mothers,
according to the usual form. if they had
any objection to the marriage. and they
answered in the negative amid general
smiling.
In asking the bride and groom IL they
were willing faithfully to fulfill all the
justice said: ''The question is most i'm
portant. not only to you. but to our be-
loved country"
The Queen and her betrothed answered in
the affirmative, whereupon the minister of
justice said: II now declare you married
according to law, and 1 wish you all pos
sible happiness"
Turning to the husband, he said: For
the lOFe cl your DrlQS you nave IeIL your
land and your people. You have promised
to be a true and faithful husband. The
loyalty OF all our people will be assured to
you
Then turning to the Queen the minister
of justice said: You have seen how all
the people from the youngest child have
given you their homage at your coronation
and how they rejoice with you to-day.
praying God that all possible happiness
may be your portion. Your happiness will
reach further than your household. May
God make your marriage a salutary one
for our beloved country"
The Queen and Prince Heinrich have
bound themselves by the contract, in ac-
cordance with the statutes, TO recognize
the husband as the head of the matrimonial
union. and to prov1de for and educate the
children of the union. The husband as
sumes the responsibility of representing the
wife in all civil actions and of administer
ing her property, except as he is restricted
by the marriage contract, by the terms of
which he renounces any right to sell or
mortgage her landed property.
The wife promises to obey the husband,
but by special recent act of the Dutch
Parliament she IS exempted from the usual
promise ''to dwell with him wherever he
deems it best to live" The contract also
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PUNISHMENT OF CHINESE.


PARIS. Feb. IA Havas agency dis
patch from Shanghai says that. in re-
sponse TO the diplomats communication
relative TO the punishments Prince Ching
and Ii Hung Chang made the following
propositions: Prince Tuan TO be exiled TO
Chinese Turkestan: Duke Ian TO be de-
graded and exiled to Manchuria; Yu Lu,
formerly viceroy Of Chilli. 10 be decapi-
tated: Chuang to receive an order TO COM
nit suicide; Ying Men 10 be condemned TO
death. but his sentence TO be commuted TO
life Imprisonment; Chao tn Stiao (Chao Su
kiam): Kisiu (Yu Hsien) and his son. Sin
Tong, TO be degraded. while Sing Tong.
Lipinhang Qi Ping Heng) and Kong vi
(Kany YD. who are dead, are condemned
to posthumous execution.
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Chicago strike Probably over.

CHICAGO. Feb. THE lockout that has
crippled the building industry Of Chicago
over a year seems 10 be at an end. After
a session lasting all afternoon and until
late tonight the arbitration committee OF
the Carpenters and Builders Association
and the Master Carpenters Association on
the one hand and the arbitration committee
Of the carpenters executive council rep
resenting all the unions OF the brotherhood.
and the Amalgamated Society OF Carpen-
ters on the other, reached an agreement,
which there is little doubt will be favorably
acted on by the contractors and the unions.
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Passenger Seriously Hurt.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb IA heavy
freight train ran into the rear of the
Cleveland express on the Pennsylvania line
at the Allegheny-avenue crossing this
morning. and both trains were wrecked.
Only one passenger, Henry Lublang, OF
New York. was seriously injured. but sew
eral suffered slight bruises. Lublang was
internally hurt and lost the power of
speech He was taken to the Mercy Hos
pital. The others were able to continue the
journey. Failure to flag the freight train
is said to have been the cause of the COL
lisiOn.
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flowing by the hundreds who had been at
tracted by the reports of the pyrotechnic
display at last nights session. Scarcely
had the presidents gavel fallen when Mr..
Jones, of Arkansas, suggested the absence
of quorum. Thirty-six senators respond
ed TO their names-not a quorum. Mr..
Jones instantly moved that the Senate ad-
journ. but withdrew the motion when Mr..
Sewer demanded that the absentees be
called. The presence of only forty-one SEN
ators-four less than a quorum-was devel-
oped by the CALL
Addressing the Senate with some delfb-
Grafton, Mr. Hale said: "If there is not
interest enough in this matter to induce
the presence OF a quorum after second
call of the Senate there is very little sense
in keeping others OF us here who do come
| shall not now move TO ADJOURN, but IL,
in view of the efforts that have been made
TO induce the attendance Of quorum,
these efforts shall fail, shall move to adj
journ.''
The attendance of forty-six senators was
secured at Sis, and Mr.. Teller entered an
earnest and emphatic protest against the
holding of night sessions with view to
advancing the shipping bill. He was NOR
ally certain. he said. that the night ses-
sions would not expedite the consideration
OF the measure. He had never known any
measure to be advanced by the exercise OF
pure physical force.
The debate continued until after IL
o'clock. Considerable comedy and badinage
marked the session as it progressed, started
by vain efforts of Mr.. Beveridge In the
chair TO induce senators to gain his recogni-
ton. Mr. Teller closed the evening speech
making and soon had hot war Of warts
with Mr. Frye. An amendment by Mr. Aid
rich was adopted providing that vessels of
eighteen knots and over shall receive sub
sidy of clio cent per gross ton An
attempt to act on another amendment
failed for want of quorum, so the Senate,
at 11:10 o'clock, adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-08
FIRE, STORM AND COLD
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOSS OF
ABOUT ONE THOUSAND LIVES.
Disasters I'm Russia and the Orient
Chinese Proposition as to Pun
tshment of Boxers.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. Ut is feared
that the fatalities resulting from the great
petroleum fire at Baku will reach into the
hundreds. A dispatch to the Rossija says
500 persons perished. and that the flames
are again beyond control.
VANCOUVER, b. c., Feb. THE steam
er Empress of China, which has just arrived
here from Yokohama. reports that on Jan
10 sixty fishing boats near Hashidate were
wrecked and of E0 fishermen only eighteen
escaped.
CANTON, Feb THE intensely cold
weather prevailing is causing widespread
suffering. There have been over a hundred
deaths here from the cold
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-08
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.
DeraiIed Train Crosses n High Bridge
Safely on the Ties.

EASTON, Pa, Feb. THE Lehgh Val
ley milk and paper train from New York
was wrecked at Green's Bridge. n. j., four
miles below here, this morning. The train
was running sixty miles an hour, and
when it approached the bridge, structure
120 feet high, the main rod strap Of the
locomotive broke. dropping the big steel
rods that connect the driving wheels and
throwing the engine and every one of the
ten cars in the train off the rail- The en-
gine and cars crossed the bridge in safety
on the ties, and ran 800 yards on the ties
before coming to standstill. None of the
crew or passengers was injured.
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Doweu Lived at RushviIle.
al to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Feb. flames 7.
Dowell, who was killed at Greenville, Pa.
to-day, was forty-four years old. Dowell
had charge of the shipping department of
the Adams Produce Company, of this city,
and was returning from New York, where
he had taken a car of poultry last Satur-
day. Dowell leaves a widow and daughter.
He will be buried at ais old home at Mo-
non. Ind
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BERLIN, Feb. THE China correspond
ent OF the Kreuz Zeitung continues his de-
scription of the foreign troops. The ing
lish and East India troops" he says. '.are
a mob OF thieves. plundering everywhere
The British officers associate but little with
the other nationalities though when they
do their behavior is perfect. They have
good relations with the Germans. but bad
with the French. My impression OF the
French troops is unfavorable. They are
small. weakly and pale. and their officers
treat them brutally."
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HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.


WASHINGTON, Feb. THE postoffice
appropriation BILL debate on which has oc-
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slowly, as it is believed other bodies are
still beneath the debris.