The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-13
GADSDEN ID HAVE $25O,OO0 FURNACE Will Probably Be the Largest in
 the South. DAILY CAPACITY 200 TONS Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company Decide to Establish the Large Plant, Which Win Be
 Complete by January.
DAILY CAPACITY 200 TONS

Gadsden, June 12.-(SpeciaL)-The Ala bama Consolidated Coal and Iron Com pany, which has a large furnace here, has decided to build another one here, to be the largest furnace in the south and to cost s25O, 900. The stack will be 95 feet tall and 19 feet in the bush and will turn out 200 tons per day. The very lat est improved machinery, engines boil CTS. etc., will be used. All the material has been ordered and Just soon as it arrives work will be commenced The furnace will be located to the left of the present one and 1t is hoped to have It completed by January. 1908 When the new one Is completed the old furnace will be repaired and enlarged and made the same size as the new one. Gadsden will then have two furnaces of 200 tons daily capacity each. and the two larg- est in the south.
 Mrs Vim. B. Kelly, Misses Roslyn Sayre, Rebecca Pollard. Bessie Stern. Minnie Gibian. Daisie Bloch and Fanny Faber, of Montgomery are in the city today selling tickets to the lecture of Bob Taylor in Montgomery the 14th. 1 benefit of Soldiers Home. A good many tickets were sold.
 The Calhoun County Masonic conven- tion will be held with Ohatchie Lodge No. 3S0, at Peeks Hill, July 23, 24 and 25 There will be a public installation of l officers and also the conferring of the | Eastern Star degree
 This section is experiencing one of the worst drouths known In its history, It has been ten weeks since we have had | good season and there are no pros- poets of rain. The crops are clean and holding up well. but they have now commenced to suffer and unless we have rain soon the farmers will be ruined. J. F. Marlow, contractor of the brick store of W. A. Bellenger, narrowly es- caped death Tuesday A heavy steel beam was being hauled to its place when the scaffold gave way and the beam fell striking Mir. Marlow on the shoulder and bruising him up consider ably. If the beam had fallen two feet farther 1t would have cut his head off close to his shoulders.
 The eighth annual meeting of the Ala bama Commercial and Industrial Asso- citation will be held in Gadsden July g. and 10. W. P. Lay of Gadsden Is presi- dent. A few subjects have been selected as follows: "Alabamas Agricultural Re sources" 'Insurance-Its Rates and Risks" "A Business View of Alabama s New Constitution" The Need of Techn ological School In Alabama" The subjects have not been assigned as yet There will be fully 100 delegates present and 1t Is expected to be the best meeting held. Alabama has the distinction of having the only state organization of commercial bodies in the south and it's meetings weilds a large influence. The horse of o. & Green ran away yesterday and broke both legs and was killed Howard Green was driving when the horse became frightened at bicycle and began to run, when the shaft band broke, throwing the shafts upward. The | boy see-sawed the horse and held him down, but the axle struck the horse g hind leg and broke one and after going some 25 yards farther on three legs the other one was broken the same way, when he fell and was later shot to end his sufferings.