The age-herald., 1901-08-25

bankruptcy were filed yesterday Dy
 Thomas M. Lowery, William Frost,
 Alonzo Burford and c. H. Childress.
 Died on Car-Henry Lane, a ne
 gro residing in Eighth avenue and
 Walker street, Smithfleld, died sud
 denly last night about o'clock, while going home on an Owenton car. COT
 oner Paris is Investigating the case.
 Married In Drug store.-Jeff Du-
 bose, school teacher, and Olivia
 Wilson, two well-known negroes, were married at the Peoples Drug Store yesterday morning, the ceremony be- ing performed by the Rev. W. R. NC Gill.
 Recovers Brooch Stolen Christmas. Detective John B. Cole of the police department has recovered a gold brooch shaped like bug, which was stolen last Christmas. It Is valuable piece of jewelry, being studded with diamonds and pearls, and is worth about $65.
 Their Paper WeddIng.-The celebra- | tion of .--e paper wedding of MT. and Mrs. William Webster at their resi- | dence, 1909 North Twentieth street, was a pretty event. The parlor of the house was tastefully decorated in smi- lax and Southern roses. Refreshments were served during the evening. MT. Burger Returns.-Louis Burger o1 this city, who went to Lawton, Ok lahoma Territory, several weeks ago, has returned to Birmingham. Mir. Burger is well pleased with the newly opened section, and thinks before long the property there will be advanced | 100 per cent. He was accompanied on the trip by J. T. Beasely and J. Harris of this city.
 To Test Fire Apparatus.-Thomas
 R. Polglase, representing the Fire Elk | tinguisher Manufacturing Company of | Chicago, arrived Tn the city last night | from Montgomery. Mir Polglase comes | to Birmingham to install the new fire apparatus which was ordered by the | city from his company. He expects | the two wagons in over the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham Rail- road this morning.
 Big Orders for CoaI.-The contracts
 
 East Coast Line has been secured by the Bessemer Land and Improvement company. This contract calls for the shipment of 10000 tons of coal. The | company has also closed contract for | 36,000 tons of coal to De used by the Western Railway of Alabama and to be shipped immediately.
 Ensien Company Incorporated.-A declaration of incorporation was filed yesterday by the John H. Enslen Com pany The capital stock is S5,000, and the incorporators are Nora H. Enslen, l Christian F. Enslen and John H. Ems len. The object of the corporation Is to | buy and sell groceries at wholesale and retail. John H. Enslen is president of the company. Nora H. Enslen owns all but two shares of the stock. Bed Clothing ldentifed.-Yesterda afternoon Pinkney Roberts, colored woman, called at police headquarters and identified the bed clothing recov- cred by Officer Patton on last Thurs day night in house in Alley c, be- tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. She claims it was taken from her room some time ago by her hus- band, Wesley King, who was after wards arrested for burglarizing house in North Seventeenth street. Typewriting Records.-Dr. John s. Gillespie, clerk of the City Court, is engaged in preparing an index to the volumes of records of the past year. There are seven volumes in all, five of common law records and two of the chancery cases. These seven volumes are all typewriter, and it would re- uuire twenty-one volumes of hand written records to contain the same number of cases. As each of these volumes cost the county about SIP, the saving in cost to the county by using | typewriters is considerable.
 May Come Today or Tomorrow.- | Chief of Fire Department J. T. Mullin expects the new hose wagon and chemical engine, ordered by the city some time ago from the Fire Extin- guisher Manufacturing Company of | Chicago, to arrive either today or to- morrow. The chief has received a telephone message from the travel
 ing sales agent of the firm, who is now in Montgomery, stating that the man ufacturers advised him. by wire that
 the wagons were shipped on the 21st
 instant.
 Trades Council to Meet.-The
 Trades Council will hold meeting
 at Bricklayers' hall this afternoon. Al
 this meeting the question of the Labor
 Day programme will be discussed and
 drawings for positions in the line ol