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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
Piu Iron Production.

The short strike in this district and the hard coal strike operated to reduce production in July fully 75,000 tons below what would otherwise have been the output, and the hard coal strike, together with the blowing out of some large furnaces in the central west, will render August a slender month also.
 On August 1 the weekly capacity of the furnaces in blast, 293, stood at 336,465 tons, as compared with 350,- 89O tons on July l. Furnace stocks are still falling, and the demand for iron is pressing, and sales of 1903 iron are taking place on the basis of $177.50 for No. 2 foundry grade There is no want of demand, present or prospective, and the lessening of production is due solely to causes that cannot be readily mastered.
 Alabama made but 90,500 tons in July, as compared with 1000 tons in both May and June. But there were 31 coke and charcoal furnaces in blast on August 1, having a weekly capacity of 28,128 tons, and the Ala bama product of August, now that all strike troubles have been adjusted, may rise to the figures of May or June. The present production of this district is at the rate of 1,5O0,000 tons a year, and this is maximum until more stacks are built.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

of her own composition. When bedtime came the first night at her aunt's, the child called the latter to hear her pray CTS. AS usual when she had finished she bowed her head in her hands and started on her whispered appeal. The aunt, not knowing the little ones habit and thinking 1t a mere manifestation of sleepliness, said somewhat impatiently:
 Hurry, dear!-hurryl'
 Hurry dearl-hurry' ' repeated the child, indignantly mimicking her aunt Then with plous scorn. she added: What kind of a house is this, anyway? Hurry dear!-hurry. A person is not given time here to talk minute to the Lord!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
For the Orphans.

The friends of the orphanage at East Lake will have field day sport at the fair grounds on Labor Day and already many tickets have been sold. There will be athletic games, including quoits and baseball, and horse racing.
 Six thousand tickets have been printed and as no charity appeals more to the sympathies of the public than the care of the orphans, it is safe to say that all the tickets will be sold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
1t Puzzled Him.

From the Baltimore American.
 We give the savage a rainy-day skirt for his wife.
 Tell me, he ventures, timidly, does this indicate that we are gradually heinz brought up to your standard of dress or that you are gradually coming down to ours?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
DistressfuI Haste.

From the Philadelphia Times.
 The small daughter of a Philadelphia dentist was recently sent on an all-sum- mer visit to an aunt In Meshappen, Pa The child had always been very devout and at home had been in the habit of kneeling by her bed, saying a formal prayer aloud in her mothers hearing and then inaudibly adding little invocation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
Spared His Bushes.

From the Philadelphia Press
 T couldn't get out of marrying her. Henpeck explained. When she proposed she said: will you marry me? Have you any objections?' You see, no matter whether I said yes or no, she had me" Why didn't you keep silent, then?" in- quired his friend
 That's what I did, and she said, 'Si- lence gives consent, and that ended me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
One of Ills Troubles.

From the Chicago Post.
 Yes" commented Weary Willie. "dis Is sure a hard world'
 ''You seem to take it easy enough" commented the passing stranger.
 ''Dats what 1t looks like" returned Weary Willie. but 'taint so soft as 1t looks. Wy, feller can't lie in the shade of a tree more'n an hour or two afore the shadow shifts an he has to move over to keep in it''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
New Romance.

Robert Barr" said member of the Cadmean Circle, "has decided on q title for his new romance, "and has hit upon one quite different in its nature from those that have been favorites with him in the past. He has had especial liking for Shakespearean quotations. as shown in The Mutable Many, From Whose Bourne.' and Tn the Midst of Alarms but the new novel is to be called Over the Border
 Publication In book form is not likely to be made until 1903, although the story will be printed serially before that time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
Professionalism in City League.

"The City Baseball league, composed of the T. c. Is, the Athletic Club, the Re publics and the Moore & Handleys, which have been playing such a successful series of baseball games this summer" !" said a lover of amateur sport last night, "are in danger of breaking up their en- tire organization by the introduction of professional ball players. I understand that one of the teams is playing men actually on the pay roll of the Birming- ham professional team, and that other teams are preparing to get professional assistance.
 Nothing so quickly breaks up amateur sport as running in professionals and the games committee of the City League should get together and call a halt at once. Professional ball is good; amateur ball is better, but a mixture of the two is uninteresting and thoroughly objec- tionable."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
DOWN IN MOBILE.

From the Mobile Herald.
 The Herald again reminds the John stonites up the state that they are doomed to disappointment in counting on Mobile for the Birmingham's perpetual candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
City Politics.

"There. has been talk of city primary next fall, but 1t can be positively stated that there will be no such primary be- fore March" said an alderman of much political experience.
 Candidates for Mayor and other mu- nicipal candidates will be energetic in canvassing for votes all fall and winter, but the voters will not be called upon to cast their ballots until the spring; may be in March. but probably not before April. The contest for the different of- fees promises to wax very hot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
HARD TO DECIDE.

From the Baltimore American.
 The public is still hesitating whether or not to add Attorney General Knox to its roll of heroes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
UP IN JACKSON.

From the Scottsboro Citizen.
 There seems to be an upheaval in High Jackson for Jelks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17
WHAT WILL OCCUR NEXT WEEK

From the Huntsville Tribune Rep)
 At the political windup listen for the cries of fraud and see the long faces car ried by the Johnston crew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Gen. Joe Wheeler is lionized in Lon don as the man who licked Spain Well, he did his share of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

The big crops are republican help CTS unbeknownst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

It's the literary gent who gets the best appointments in the Rooseveltian era.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Saratoga's trade Is conducted in blue chips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

The Kaiser Wilhelm II, just launched, is expected to break all records or bust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Aquinaldo's obscurity is so dense that a rescue from it seems impossi- ble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Instead of disarming the powers. let there be a general disarmament in this pistol toting town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

The oleomargarine industry is on the toboggan slide. and the southern consumer is not far away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Attorney General Knox will ask for a change of venue in the trust cases from Atlantic City to some interior point.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

The king of the Belgians rides no more with strange women when the socialists are in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Potter Power lacks John w. Gates nerve. and he cannot. therefore. be- como captain of industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Iowa and Massachusetts are gath ering the fattest federal plums now a-days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

It seems to be determined that Bird s. Coler is to run against Governor odell in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

President Roosevelt did not consult the republicans when he selected a new supreme court justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

The cable never mentions Aguinal- do, who has fallen from fame's shin ing heights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

The sugar trust in California is try ing to fit the injunction to the govern or of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

The selection of the son of sena- tor McNIillan as a senatorial success or would make heredity rival of cap. ital in the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

King Edward has put Osborne House on his country, and he should now rid that country of Mrs. May brick, who is most unjustly detained.
 The coronation was rendered posai. ble by antiseptio surgery, but the pos. sibility came too late to ensure the appearance of Whitelaw Reid's legs,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Johnny-cake will be cheap next winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17

Then let them anatomize Began; see what breeds about her heart.
 king Lear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29
CUT
DURING QUARREL
Twenty-four Stitches Taken in the
Scalp of Frank
Aana.

A cutting ARRAY of rather a serious
nature took place about 1 o'clock this
afternoon in the saloon of Peter
Ghuys, corner of Twenty-fourth
street and Fifth avenue, the victim
being Frank Aana, a Belgian.
Aana became involved in a quarrel
with Edward Elliott, painter, and
the latter drew a knife and proceed
ed to carve him about the head. At
ter Elliott had dulled the edge of his
cutting instrument he was finally in
duced by friends to quit and Aana
was taken to Bieber's drug store to
have his wounds dressed. 1t was
found that he had sustained seven
cuts, all in the back of the head and
running to the skull. The longest cut
was seven inches in length and it re
quired "A stitches to close all of them.
Aana bled fearfully, but did not faint.
and when the surgeon was done he
went home.
In the meantime Officers Thode and
Mccarthy were after Elliott and the
former succeeded in locating him in
hay loft near the scene of the
crime. The handle of razor that he
had evidently broken and thrown
away was found near by. Elliott was
apparently sober when placed under
arrest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29
MOVING PICTURES TO
BE TAKEN TOMORROW

J. F. Shank has telegraphed for the
apparatus of the Selig Polyscope
company to be shipped to the city
tonight and announces that the NOV
ing pictures which the weather pre-
vented taking last week will be taker
tomorrow. The Rock Island fire de-
partment will be taken making run
on Seventeenth street at Q o'clock and
at l O'Clock Second avenue Will be
taken from the rear of n street car
At p. m. the foresters' team of Camp
&c. NJ. w. A., will drill before the ma
chine on Third avenue near the head
office building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29
Circuit Court.

A jury was impaneled this after
noon before Judge Gest for the trial
of the damage case of Sensibaugh VS.
the Fraternal Tribunes.
The bond of Fred Appelquist in the
injunction proceedings against the
Union Electric Telephone q Telc-
graph company was fixed at $1,000.
The judge still has under advise
ment the matter of new trial in the
case of Mrs. Rosa Lynch against
James McElroy, argued Saturday, in
which the plaintiff, against whom the
verdict was found in the first trial.
seeks to secure another hearing on
the ground that a member of the
jury was preiudiced.
Lewella wilkins. of this city.
through her attorneys. McCaskrin &
McCaskrin, has begun proceeding for
a divorce from her husband, William
wilkins. now of Mason county. Ac,
cording to the bill, the couple were
married in 1889 and two months after
the wedding the husband deserted.
Mrs. Wilkins asks for the return of
her maiden name, Luella Caslock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29
TRAPS JAIL GUARD
Ed Saley Executes Neat Coup al
the Rock Island Coun.
ty Prison.
BAILIFF NICHOLSON Is LOCKED VI
Then Flight is Taken Through 4
Window-AIan Still
ut Large.

Ed Saley, generally known as
''Blackie Williams" yesterday work
ed neat trick upon Bailiff Nicholson
at the county Jail by which he was
able to secure his liberty and gef
organized failed and the fugitive is
still roaming the earth free man.
About s o'clock yesterday morning
Saley, who is under an indictment bJ'
the grand jury for larceny, second
offense, and therefore in line for the
penitentiary, was engaged in scrub
bing out the main Office at the Jail
under the watchful eye of Bailiff
Nicholson.
BaIIIR is COrnered.
The officer stood around to keep
out of the way of the mop, and final
~ Saley, by a piece of strategy,
rounded him up in the northwest cor
ner of the room. Out of this corner
is the opening into the main part of
the Jail and on the inside of the thick
wall is a heavy grating. while the
outside is guarded with heavy solid
metal door, the latter being fitted
with lock that catches when the
key.
When the scrubber had worked up
to the officer the latter obligingly
stepped into the opening to allow the
work to proceed. Quicker thar
thought the prisoner seized the door
and iammed it shut, leaving the bail
if locked in the narrow space be-
tween the inner and outer doors and
without keys to fit either. Then Sa.
ley coolly walked into the back room
and raised window. through which
he emerged into the free air.
Nicholson Shouts for Help.
T. B. Cralle, who was on duty as
turnkey, was back in the Jail with
the prisoners and had the only avail
able keys. When the bailiff found
that he was locked and could not get
out without help he shouted. 1t was
some time before he was heard, and
when Mr.. CralIe finally came to his
relief and explanations had been
made the fleeing prisoner had a very
good start. \ searching party COM
posed of all the sheriff's force and
some outsiders at once went out on
the trail and hunted high and low
during the day. but no Saley could
they find. Mr.. Nicholson headed the
searching party and he was out or
the trail again early this morning.
Saley is about IS years of age and
rather heavy of build. He has black
hair. and when he left he bad black
mustache. He wore striped panta
looms and a striped shirt, and escaped
without a coat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29

Great tonic, braces body and brain.
drives away all impurities from your
system. Makes you well. Keeps you
well. Rocky Mountain Tea. IS cents.
I. II. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29
UpholsterIng.

Done by an experienced man. All
work guaranteed satisfactory. Leave
orders at 925 Nineteenth street or at
c. Z. Smiths studio. Phone union 80.
il. SMITH, City Upholsterer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29

Place your order with us and get
the purest and richest ice cream in
the tri-cities. Phone West 1241. Tri-
City Milk & Butter company, Rock
Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-29

Avoid serious results of kidney or
bladder disorder by taking Foley's
Kidney Cure. Sold by all druggists.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
Christian Church Convention.

At the annual state convention of the Christian church held at Hot Springs last week, Dr. Mcconnell of Hot Springs was elected president of the missionary board for the next year. Messrs. John Fletcher, E. Meek, J. N. Jessup, Alex c. Hull, T. O. How land, B. R. Davidson (Fayetteyille) and E. T. Edmondson (Fort Smith) were elected as the executive commit tee. A committee of five, consisting of Messrs. Davidson, chairman, N. M. Ragland (Fayetteville) Edmondson, Fletcher and Hull, was appointed for the purpose of considering plans for the establishment of Bible chair in the state university, also for the edu- cation of ministers. A preachers in stitute was organized by the ministers at the convention.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
BRIEF MENTION.

Gene Llle, aged IS, was drowned in White river while fishing for pearls.
 J. S. Ussey, aged 16, was drowned while bathing in a millpond at Rear ney.
 Louis Ott shielded at Texarkana by opening an artery in his arm with his pocketknife.
 w. K. Pilkington, merchant at Bald Knob, suicided by shooting him self in the mouth.
 Robert Pollard, aged 12 years, of Hot Springs, was horribly burned by the explosion of gasoline.
 A colored boy named Miles Edwards, aged IS, was drowned while bathing in pond in the city limits of Pine Bluff.
 Theo Case, 45 years old and vet eran of the Spanish-American war, dropped dead on the street at Hot Springs.
 A call has been issued for the annual meeting of Arkansas Division, U. C.. ", to be held at Hot Springs Septem- Der 23, "A and 25.
 Gov. Davis offers a reward for the arrest and conviction of Jesse Moore, colored, who killed Eugene Tuck, col ored, in Craighead county, May 5, and is now at large.
 Martin F. Toms, late postmaster at Humphrey, Jefferson county, has been bound over to the federal grand jury to answer the charge of embedding United States funds.
 An unknown white man was killed in a wreck at Baldwin. on the Iron Mountain, ten miles from Pine Bluff. He was about 35 years old. five feet nine inches high and weighed about 150 pounds.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
ARKANSAS STAIE NENS.
Fire Insurance Agents Request Re-
 peal of "Valued Policy Act"
DEMAND ADOPTION OF MORE LIBERAL LAW
Worlds Fair Commission Receives Dona- ton of All Marlbe to Be Used in Build- inR-Ruling Asto State Miiitia Appotnt- ments-Bridge Foremau's Fatal Fall.
Mysterious K,iling.

A dispatch from Pine Bluff tells of a gruesome tragedy which was en- acted near Montrose, small town in Ashley county. Parties from Mon trose, while passing through a stretch of woods about half mile from Mon- trose, came across new-made grave. There was no graveyard in miles of the secluded spot and speculation be- came rife in the party as to the 1den- tity of the grave. It was marked by no tombstone, not even a board slab. The suspicious of some were aroused and the discovery reported in Mon trose. Investigation was set about, and the grave was robbed of it's dead by the proper officials. The discovery astounded every one. In the grave was found the remains of a journey known in the community An exam ination of the remains followed, and the cause of his death was shown. Several gaping bullet wounds were discovered. After a creful investiga- tion into the tragedy a clew was found of sufficient value to cause the arrest of B. F. Newton, a merchant of Montrose, for the murder, and pr. Nickelberry of the same place for ac- cessory. Both were lodged in jail, and Newton confessed to the murder, say ing that the deed was committed in self-defense He also exonerated Nick elberry from any connection with the tragedy
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
Fire Insurance Agents.

The State Fire Insurance Agents Association concluded it's annual meeting at Little Rock on the 18th. A resolution was adopted asking the repeal of the valued policy law, and the adoption of some law by the leg islature authorizing the carrying on of insurance as a business Tin an intelligent manner on the question of rate matters; and that the business of necessity requires cooperation and combining of experience of all com panies in a given territory to ascer- tain the losses on all the different classes or risks which the companies are called on to assume" Officers were elected as follows: President, Al Ian Kennedy, Fort Smith; secretary, Arthur W. Mills, Pine Bluff; treasurer, w. z. Tankersley, Pine Bluff.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
state Guard AppoIntment..

The following important ruling, re- lating to appointments in the state guard, has been promulgated by Major General w. H. Haynes:
 Tt is held by the governor and ad- jutant general that appointive offices of the Arkansas state guard shall be apportioned as near as possibly among the great body of the people at large. Therefore, they shall be, if practica- ble, so chosen that each section of the state may have it's due and proper rep resentation, where the military office is oppointive, and commissions are to issue in either the staff or line of the military establishment of the state.
 Recommendation for official ap- pointments of officers of the guard nuts conform to the ruling of the ex- ecutive."
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
GAS FLAME MAKES MUSIC.
The Singular Instrument Designed by an Eminent Scientist of
 New York City.

l Few men who deal in science from the abstract standpoint ever evolve anything practical from their theories,
 but Prof. Ogden Rood has proved an exception, reports New York ex- change. A New York mechanic has
 constructed, upon the professors sug. gestion, a musical instrument of de-
 cidedly novel description. Until in- formed no one would ever recognize
 the apparatus. It is part of the chande- Her in the owners drawing-room. The
 basis of the affair is the so-called mu- sical flame. When gas is burned in a cylindrical chimney of a certain length and width it produces musical note. According to the angle at which the vapor is emitted from the jet there will be either a sound or silence. A simple contrivance enables the owner
 by touching a button to change the flame from musical to nonmusical at
 his will. There are 90 lamps in his
 chandelier so arranged $ to make four octaves. The keyboardis is in a corner of the room, where it occupies but little
 space and might easily be mistaken for convenient shelf on the wall The music produced by the flames is very pleasant It is not so loud nor so vi- brant as that from either wood or brass wind instruments, but is fuller and more sonorous than a whistle or flute.
 An odd feature of the instrument is that playing on the flames does not vary the amount of light produced. the musical being indistinguishabi bie from the nonmusical flame. All that the spectator notices is delightful mel ody of unusual timbre coming to him from the chandelier.
 The owner has frequently had con- siderable fun by playing the instru- ment when some one was in the room or hall that knew nothing of the af- fair. When the auditor was educated he was puzzled and looked about the parlors in vain for the new-fangled music box he believed to be at work. Where he was ignorant he usually man ifested some fear along with his be wilderment.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
May Visit the Springs.

In response to communication from the Business Mems league in viting President Roosevelt to visit Hot Springs on his southern tour this fall, the following reply has been received: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., June 4, 1902.-To Secretary Cooley, Business Mems League: Dear Sir Your favor of the 2d inst has been re- ceived and in the presidents behalf I beg to thank you for the cordial in vitation you extend to him on behalf of the citizens of Hot Springs, Ark. No plans for a western trip have yet been made, but shall give your wishes full consideration later on. assuring you that your thoughtfulness and courtesy are appreciated"
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
Law School Banuuot.

The annual banquet of the law de- partment of the state university was held at Little Rock on the night of the 10th inst. which was preceded by the election of the following alumni and officers: President, Thomas B. Norfieet of Paris, Logan county; vice president, Julian G. Dunaway, of Lit tie Rock; Secretary, Wm. M. Lewis, of Little Rock; treasurer, Glide E. Petit, of Stuttgart, Arkansas county.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-19
Increase 1928, ,S5S,S9s
prohls VIII Nominate a Tick |.

Martin N Henry, of Jacinto, chair man of the state central committee of the prohibitionists, has issued the fol lowing call: There will be state convention of the prohibition party of the state of Arkansas in Little Rock on the 24th and 25th of June. for the purpose of nominating a full state ticket for state offices and perfecting arrangements for the campaign and such other business as may come be- fore the convention"