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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
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Charles, the 13-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. J. A. Gilliland died Tuesday after an Illness of several weeks from typhoid fever. He was a bright and promising lad and his death Is a sad blow to his parents The remains were inferred at Old Harmony church near Gadsden.
 The ineessant rains the past two weeks has delayed the work some on the found- ation of the steel plant but good pro- gress has been made, and from now on a regular night force will be at work The company has completed the stringing of the electric light wires and a large num- Der of lights put in. The railroads are progressing rapidly on their switch tracks and when they are completed the building material can be shipped.
 Frank Green, the young man who fell eighty feet at the Consolidated furnace several weeks ago and sustained serious injuries is recovering. On Monday it was necessary to amputate the young mans 8 right arm just below the elbow. His arm was badly crushed in the fall.
 The Rev J. D. Sturdevant, the new pastor of the First Methodist church has arrived in the city with his family. The Rev. w. F. Anderson, former pastor has moved with his family to Lafayette. where he will be stationed.
 The little 6-year-old daughter of George P Mooney of East Gadsden fell and broke her right arm just above the el- bow and is suffering very much from the injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
ATHENS.
Street FaIr Was Greatly Enjoyed-Dr.
 Caldwell Preparing to Leave.

Athens, December 4.-(Special.) )-Athens has just closed up a street fair and car nival that lasted for three days and was greatly enjoyed by old and young. The company giving the show was a clever one and there was nothing immoral or wrong in the performances. Athens en- joyed the three days of the carnival very much
 The Rev. H. N. Barbee state clerk of the Robert Donnell Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church has just issued a call In response to a petition of the Rev. J. w. Caldwell, pastor of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church at Huntsville, for a meeting of the Presbytery at Huntsville on the 18th of this month The called session is for the purpose of relieving Dr. Caldwell of his pastorate in that city, he having re- ceived a call from the first church at Fort Worth, Tex.
 Solicitor Sowell has been to see Judge Kyle with a view of having an extra term of the circuit court held in this place with a grand jury for one week. There are a large number of jail cases and it was the desire of the solicitor to have the grand jury act on these and also to get the Bob Howard murder case tried without interfering with the regu- lar business of our circuit court docket. The judge has the matter under advise ment. Bob Howard, who prayed for and obtained a change of venue to this coun- ty from Morgan, will be tried at the January term unless a special term Is called to try it. It will most likely con sume an entire week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
OWNER OF CRBCEUS
 ATA POSSUM FEAST
THE HORSE LOVERS OF SELMA PLAYED TRICK ON THE FAMOUS HoRsEMAN AND KILLED PETS PRESENTED HIM IN ATLANTA.

Selma, December 4-(special. )-When it became certain that MT. George Ketchum. the jovial owner of the noted cresceus. would bring his famous animal to Selma for exhibition some of the horse lovers of the city determined to tender to him and his party, not an elaborate banquet with its accessories. but "'possum" sup DOT with the accompaniment of gravy and brown sweeet potatoes.
 Last night was the occasion selected for the affair and the supper" came off, but there were many obstacles to over come and it is needless to say that a Dallas county host never stops at ob- stacles.s
 Due notice of the event was conveyed to MT. Ketchum upon his arrivel here of the supper on Wednesday night and that gentleman began smaclSing his lips over an experience of which he had heard much about but which had not reached the stage of tasting. Through some mis- understanding the committee having the affair in charge found themselves on yes- terday at noon all ready for the supper with only one thing missing and that was the piece de resistence in the shape of the "'possum." Here was a pretty kettle of fish and something heroic had to be done and done quickly.
 Now, while in Atlanta MT. Keachum had been presented with two opossums and a coon, and these it was found he was carrying from point to point with him, expecting to carry them to his home in Cleveland. O., and keep them as great curiosities
 A stacles were to be passed Those pos sums of Mir. Ketchum's were the only two in town yesterday and that supper had to come off last night.
 We'll, the supper came off on time, and about fifteen citizens gathered around the festal board and picked the bones of two as fat specimens as were ever cooked to a brown.
 During the evenings meal word came to MT. Ketchum that his two highly prized 'possums had escaped from their coops and were nowhere to be found. There was knowing glance around the board, but not a word was said until at the close of the repast and the cigars were lighted, when a waiter brought in and handed to MT. Ketchum a package. The strings were united and then were disclosed a quentity of bones. evidently those just removed from the table. Look ing over to where Ben" Rernick sat MT. Ketchum asked what it meant and was told amid great laughter that 1t was his possums that had escaped
 Today, however, two new opossums were presented to Cresceus' owner. and he will go back to his northern home with his curiosities just the same as if the Dallas county 'possum supper had noJ been "bleedged" to have come off. The track was too heavy for an exhi- bition of Cresceus yesterday and Mir. Ketchum has consented to remain in the city until Saturday, when the trial against the wagon record will be made. | the weather permitting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
HUNTSVILLE
Shareholders of Building and Loan Association Fall to Accomplish Aim.

Huntsville, December 4-(SpeciaD-Pur- suant to a call issued by President s. l.. Whitten, a number of shareholders of the Southern Building and Loan association held a meeting yesterday to discuss the advisability of taking the association out of the hands of the receiver in which 1t was recently placed by order of the United States court. and recognizing to continue business. The shares represented did not constitute a quorum and nothing was accomplished. A prominent trust company submitted a proposition to first wind up the business of the company and issue debenture bonds for the par value of all stock, redeemable in two years, with interest No action could be taken on the proposition. Mrs. Barker of Mo- ble through her attorney declined to take part in the meeting.
 President Whitten asserts that the company is thoroughly solvent He and other shareholders have filed bill in the United States District court asking that the receiver be discharged and the company allowed to reorganize.
 Tennessee cotton planters are bringing their cotton here in large quantities to get fractional advance in price offered by this larger market. Fifty bales were brought here yesterday from Lincoln county and 100 were placed on the mar ket today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
ANNISTON.
Mrs. John Ellis, ST., Dies Very Sud-
 denly of Heart Failure.

Anniston, December 4.-(Special.) )-Mrs. John Ellis, ST., died very suddenly of heart failure yesterday morning about Il o'clock at her home corner Seven teenth street and Wilmer avenue. Mrs. Ellis was apparently well and hearty up to a short time before her death, when she complained of being tired and sat down in a chair, expiring only short time later. Mrs. Ellis was sixty-seven years old and was born in Cornwall, England. She was a devout Christian, and was a member of St. Pauls M. B. church. One of her sons Is Grand Master John Ellis of the Grand Lodge of Ala bama, l. O. O. F., and he was away yesterday on Odd Fellow business, re- turning to the city this morning. The funeral will probably occur Sunday but no definite arrangements have been made owing to the absence of Mir. Ellis. The deceased has son living in Texas, and 1t Is thought that he will attend the funeral.
 | A special to the Hot Blast from Tex arkana, Tex, says: 'Lee Weigal, ac- cused of killing his bride of four days in their apartments at the Cosmopolitan hotel in this city on last Tuesday. was brought from the hospital into court | for preliminary trial today. He waived examination and was sent to Jail without bail. Weiga1 has secured able counsel to defend him, while the prosecution will be assisted by two of the best attor- neys of Anniston, the home of the mur- dered woman"
 |
 | Col. J. G. Farley, in looking over some | old papers yesterday, found General | Ferrys report of the surrender at Appo- matox Courthouse April 10, 1865. Colonel Farley was secretary to General Perry. The report shows total of 970 men and officers surrendered by Perry, as follows: Field and staff officers [; Fourth Ala bama, officers 21, men 199; Fifteenth Ala bama, officers 15, men 204; Forty-fourth Alabama, officers IS, men 184; Forty seventh Alabama. officers 16, men 171; Forty-eighth Alabama, officers A. men | 121.
 At the regular meeting of the Annis- ton Trades Council last night, T. J. Lamar, Jr. resigned as vice president of the organization and Oscar Roper was elected to succeed him.
 Allen Brewer of Louisiana and Miss Ella Ledbetter of Morrisville were united in marriage last Sunday at the residence of the brides father, H. J. Ledbetter, by E. M. Reid, justice Of the peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
TUSCALOOSA.
City Election Passes Off Very Quietly
 as 1t Was Merely Formal.

Tuscaloosa, December 4. - Especially = The city election passed off very quietly yesterday. As the primary in September settled the matter. yesterdays election was merely formal and the vote was very light, there being only 323 cast. The man. agers were Messrs. J. Webb Carson. Wal ter Robertson, J. B. Hays; clerks. Robert c. Cornell and Hugh Prince. The most interesting feature of the election. how ever, was the COW law, which has been greatly discussed for the past several months. Every one is rejoiced that the law passed and Tuscaloosa is now free from the COW. The following is the vote in full: Mayor: William G. Cochrane 245 Aldermen: c. N. Maxwell 245. c. w. Weatherford PAP, W. T. Mccormick 241. W. A. Hughston 2S4. W. A. Ryan PA Executive committee for city-at-large: Henry B. Foster 241. Executive commit tee: Ormond Somerville 23S, s. D. McGee 234. B. B. Nuzum 2S7, w. J. Hester 2S7, E. N. c. Snow 2s6, J. T. Garner 2s1. For COW law 16S. against COW law 136.
 Mrs. J. Henry Fitts and Miss Katherine Dudley left yesterday afternoon for Bir- mingham. where they went to meet the remains of their father, the late Judge A T. Dudley who died at Mobile Tues day. They will accompany 1t to Frank fort, Ky, where the interment will take place.
 pr. J. Hester Ward has resigned his po- sition as surgeon at Cottondale and will go to New York to take post graduate course of lectures.
 Invitations have been issued by the Rev. and Mrs. John VanLear to a recep- tion at their home on Ninth street De- cember g. complimentary to Mrs. W. J. Porter. Miss Porter and Miss Gould.
 MT Norman Shannon, who is in charge of the Semet Solvey company's plant at Holton, has returned from trip to Ems ley accompanied by his bride.
 There will be @ meeting of the board of mayor and aldermen at the city hall this evening to canvass the returns of the city election, and the members of the new board will at the same time be sworn in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
BREWER HAD THE GOODS"
Penltentiary Needed Driver and the
 Right Man Was Convicted.

Mont gomery, December 4.-(Special.)-- Solicitor Brewer was here today, just re- turning from Chiffon court, which fin- ished at Clanton yesterday. The most important conviction was that of George Washington, colored, who for a criminal assault on his step-daughter, was given twelve years in the penitentiary. Ran dall Lee, a railroad hand, was convicted of manslaughter. He knocked another negro down with piece of slag and his victim fell under the cars, which man gled him to death. It was never ascer- tained who the dead man was or from whence he came.
 James Edwards white man. was convicted of grand larceny, having stolen a yoke of oxen.
 Judge Carmichael this morning asked Brewer if he had sent him anybody who would do for driver, as they were needing such a man at the penitentiary. Brewer was enabled to answer that he thought from the peculiar nature of the thing stolen by Edwards he might be in thA driving hnsinass-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
IS A SERIOUS MATTER.
The Most Serious and Fatal Diseases
 Arise From Indigestion.

| Chronic indigestion of dyspepsia, while very common trouble, has for some time 1 been looked upon by able physicians as a
 serious thing, and that no time should be
 lost in treating it properly at the start. | because recent researches have shown
 that the most serious. fatal and incurable | diseases have their origin in simple dys-
 pepsia or indigestion.
 Diabetes is simply one form of indiges-
 tion, the sugar and starchy food not be-
 ing assimilated by the digestive organs.
 In Bright's disease the albumen Is not properly assimilated.
 | While consumption and dyspepsia are
 twin diseases. and 1t Is beyond question | that dyspepsia makes a fertile soil for | the seeds of consumption. But the trou- | ble has been to find a remedy that could | be depended upon to cure dyspepsia, as
 it is notoriously obstinate and difficult to | cure.
 | This has been the question which has 1 puzzled physicians and dyspeptics alike, l until the question was solved three years | ago by the appearance of new discovery | in the medical world known as Stuart s Dyspepsia Tablets, which 1t was claimed
 was a certain reliable cure for every form of stomach trouble.
 Physicians, however, would not accept new remedy many tests and carefully observing results.
 For three years the remedy has been thoroughly tested in every section of the country and with surprising and satis- factory results.
 Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can be hon. estly claimed to be a specific a radical lasting cure for indigestion in the various forms of acid dyspepsia or sour stomach gas or wind on stomach, too much bile, undue fullness or pressure after eat ing and similar symptoms resulting from disordered digestion.
 Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets were not placed before the public until this three
 years trial left no doubt as to their value and they, have recently been placed
 in the trade and can be found on sale at all druggists at the nominal price of 50 cents per package.
 No extravagant claims are made for
 the remedy, 1t will not cure rheumatism,
 pneumonia typhoid fever nor anything but just what 1t is claimed to cure and that is every form of stomach trouble. No dieting is necessary, good wholesome food and plenty of it and you may rest assured that Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will digest it. Druggists claim for it that 1t is pleasure to recommend 1t to dys-
 peptics, because it gives such universal satisfaction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
COAL LAND FIND
 STIRS GADSDEN
TRACT IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN LOCATED ON LOOK. OUT MOUNTAIN JUST g MILES ouT-REAL ESTATE RISES.

Gadsden, December 4-(speeiaI.) 1.-The reported find of a large and valuable tract of coal land near Tahos has eaus- ed much interest in real estate The coal lies on Lookout mountain about nine miles from Gadsden and is said to be of a fine grade and is found to be a large vein. which is being bought up rapidly. The records in the probate office show that there has been some heavy trans- actions in that section recently and in the course of a very short time there will be a large number of both coal and ore mines opened up and the output can be consumed in Gadsden by the furnaces, steel plant and car works.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
ENSLEY
City Council Meets to Hear Reports oi
 City offIeers-other News.


 Ensley, December 4-(speciai.)-The city council meets tonight at the city hall and the reports of the city officials will be submitted The bills for the pay roll will be ordered paid by the board. Dr. Modie Cunningham will be sworn in office as alderman for the Second ward, filling the vacancy of E. W. Whips, who resigned at the last meeting.
 J. E. Hollingsworth, our popular con tractor and manager of the Keystone Brick company. has announced his can didacv for alderman for the Third ward. subject to the action of the democratic primary MT. Hollingsworth has been in Ensley for some years and is well known throughout the entire district, and his entering the aldermanic race will cause considerable enthusiasm among the voters of the city.
 Things have taken quite tumble in political circles since the mass meet ing last night at the city hall.
 w B. Totherow. night captain Of the police force, is out again after severe attack of typhoid fever, His many friends are glad to see him return to his post although he is yet very weak.
 James Merriman is quite i'll with ty- phoid fever at the Ensley hotel.
 J. D. Emery, chief engineer of Ford. Bacon & Davis, Birmingham, was in Ensley today on a business trip.
 R. F. Wells of the Crescent Grocery company Is slowly improving from a severe spell of sickness.
 Tom Winten has accepted position as prescription clerk at Aneryth's phar- macy.
 The supper to be given by the ladies of the M. E. church promises to be a success, as many tickets have been sold already. The supper will be held in the store recently vacated by FowllSes x Nyatt on Avenue E, near Eighteenth street, and will open at o'clock and last until 10 on Friday, the 9th inst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
TO AMEND THE LAW.
Auditor SoweIl Will Make Only One
 Recomme ndatlon.

Montgomery, December 4.-(Special.)- In his forthcoming report, which IS now in the hands of the printer Auditor So- well will make only one recommends tion looking to amending the present law regulating the transactions of his of flee.
 There is at present no way whatever of checking tax collectors on the poll tax, the auditor simply having to take the collectors word for It. MT. Sowell will recommend that blank receipt books with stubs be furnished collectors, who will be required to account for each of the receipts either by remitting the money or producing the blank receipt itself precisely as probate judges are now required to account for the licenses furnished to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
State Appointments.

Montgomery. December 4.-(Special.)- The governor today made the following appointments:
 Jefferson-T. W. Hoss. notary at Bir- mingham; F. R. Matthews. notary at Birmingham.
 Talladega-Hugh Cretz, notary at sy- kacauga-
 Coffee-S. D. McGee, and J. W. Malone, notaries at Enterprise.
 Etowah--J. M. Marley, constable in beat N at Fenton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
LovEJoY CASE ARGUED.
Supreme Court Reserves It's Decision
 for a While.

Montgomery December 4.-(Special.)- In the supreme court today argument was made and concluded in the Love joy Impeachment case, the court reserv- ing its decision Amos Goodhue opened for the prosecution, Hood followed for the defense being followed by W. R. Dortch on the same side. G. D. Motley concluded for the prosecution.
 The court announced that 1t would hold open for the present. though the next di- vision will not be called until the 18th.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
Buckley Is All Smiles.

Montgomery, December 4-(SpeciaI.)- Postmaster Buckley is back from Wash ington all smiles and confident that his tenure of office will not be disturbed. His friends are rejoicing with him. Neither Is there any sign that Money Order Clerk Hughes is in any present danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
NOTICE!

The cold wave isInow here, but I am prepared to fill your orders fer Heaters of the best makes at prices that will make you buy if you only see them. s. SPIRO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05

Auction Monday. Dec. 9th, at 12 o'clock, in front of Court House. 75 feet on End avenue, just 75 feet from corner 0fl7thstreet-5Oxl4 and 25xlOO-will be sold sep erately. Brown Bros. & Go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-05
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