The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-06-05
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mayor Campbell of Gadsden is after the
pistol "toters."
The Wilcox Pointer is new paper that
is published at Camden.
The cotton factory at Roanoke will be
enlarged and thirty more operatives
houses built.
The Madison cotton crop was planted
ten days late, but It is reported to be in
a splendid condition.
During the recent storm at Sheffield.
lightning struck a cherry tree and killed
five cows that had laid down near it.
Tom Lucas was tried for the killing of
John Payne of Clanton and was SEN
fenced to thirty-fve years. imprison-
ment.
Robert King and w. Beggs were pain
fully injured at the plant of the United
States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry COM
pany.
The plans of the Methodist church of
Athens have been decided upon. The
work is to begin about the 10th or goth of
the month";
The Athens Courier says: A prosperous
season is predicted for the planters, and
especially those who make business of
raising cotton.
At a meeting of the board of education
yesterday at Gadsden a raise of 80 per
month in the salaries of all grade teach
ers was made
Tallapoosa county will have a special
term of Circuit court called to convene
Monday, July 27. and continue two weeks
The first week will be for civil and the
second for criminal cases.
Mayor Mclean of Mobile notified the
chief of the fire department to require
his men to wear uniforms in the future,
Complaint is made that the firemen did
not conform to the regulations in this
regard and the mayor wishes a change.
1t Is reported that about twenty carpen-
tiers who are employed by the Alabama
steel and Wire company at Virginia form
ed union one day last week and lmme-
diately went on strike The company is
erecting something like 400 houses at Vir-
ginia and the carpenters who were on a
strike were the only ones available on
short notice.
AT Epes Fred Walker and Eli Jackson
were working at the wharf, when Eli
who was Jealous of Fred's attention to
his wife, Drained him with an axe and
threw his body over the 50-foot bluff into
the Bigbee river after robbing it of a 81
gold piece and a tapeline, which were
afterward shown to have been in Fred's
pockets.
The new postoffce fixtures of Gadsden
will be such as the government approves
and Of the most modern pattern. The
lock boxes will not be the combination
style but each one will have KEY that
can unlock no other box. Mr. Standifer
has about fifty of these boxes on hand
already 1t seems that Gadsden is GER
tain to have free delivery during the next
few months and in this event the fixtures
will, perhaps, be changed
Little Eddie Patterson, the 2-year-old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Patterson of
| Stevenson, was burned to death Several
children were playing on the floor with
some newspapers and the idea occurred
! to one of them to light match to one of
the papers to see 1t burn This done. the
flames sprang up, quickly igniting the
clothing of the child, burning him so
badly that death soon followed.
AT meeting of the city council in Ala
bama City last Saturday night that body
decided to contract the city's limits to
the north line of the steel mill site.
1t was generally known that the steel
mill did not want to be inside the cor
porate limits of the mill village and the
action of the council is generally COM
mended. The limits are too broad anyway
and could not be policed by a small force.
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