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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26

GENUINE Wostenhom I x I. pocket knives, 15c each better get one before they are all sold. Birmingham Gun and Key Co.,. 1906 3rd avenue. S-25-3t ROLL TOP DESKS AT cos For want of floor space we will close out our entire stock of roll top desks at cost
 All quartered oak: beautifully finished; ; also one large Globe Wernicke Filing Cabinet A. R. Dearborn & Co.,. 1921 lst avenue S-25-7t SIGNS for sale cheap. suitable TOT real estate ads. Hermitage. ZIG North goth street +4-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26
HELP WA,1TE- =. FINALE.
HELP VA rEo-MALE.

WANTED-For U. S. army: Able bodied unmarried men between ages of 2l and 35; citizens of United States of good character and temperate habits. who can speak. read and write English. For in- formation apply to Recruiting Officer. I1s N. 2Oth St., Birmingham, Ala.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26
LOST,

LOST. TOSfc0ne coat 6iTe; got 0dd FeIioWsT pin on lapel. Return to National hctel, 18th street, 1st avenue. LOST-Saturday night brown Water Spaniel puppy, about eight months old. Reward if returned to 904 South 18th st.. S-26-2t
 LOST-One red horse. 5 feet high, heavy stomach. two white hind feet. blazed forehead. short tail, between and 10 years old. Ten dollars reward if return ed to J. H. Wheeler. Pinkney, Ala. S-19-3t-Wed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26
SMITH & STlLLMAN.

 We have a large list of salable proper ties. Call and see them.
 FOR RENT-NORTHSIDE. 2224 1st ave-. rooms. $500 2224 7th ave. rooms. $40.00. 716 w. 2Oth st.. rooms, $40. Corner 5th ave.and 18th st.. 12 rooms. $12500 1521 9th ave-, rooms. $4O.00. 2430 7th ave-, rooms &0.00. 2300 4th ave. 8 rooms. $37.50. 1915 9th ave. 5 rooms. $l5.00. HOS 23rd st.. rooms. 5000. 25O0 5th ave. rooms. $50 co. 1130 N. 17th st.. rooms $25.00. 15O0 9th ave. 10 rooms. S75.00. 924, 926. BPS. 93O 1st ave. each rooms. $S50
 SOUTHSIDE. 1900 goth st., 6 rooms. 5000. 6l7 17th st.. rooms. s16.50. SIS 18th st.. rooms. 5000. 1901 30th st., rooms. 5000. 2245 Highland ave. 10 rooms, $65.00. 917 22nd st.. rooms. SLIGO. 619 21st st.. 6 rooms. s25.O0. 1517 Ave. l. 6 rooms $2500 1915 Ave B, rooms s35.Oo. 1872 Ave. E. rooms. $30.o0. 5l7 26th st.. rooms 5000. 519 26th st., 6 rooms. s2O0o 523 26th st.. rooms. 5000 12th st.. between St. Charles and l3tF ave, rooms. $500. 20l5 Ave F, rooms s50.00. 1901 Ave. c, 8 rooms. $50.00. 2005 Ave. c. rooms. 5000. SIP 18th st., 6 rooms. 5000. S15 18th st., rooms. $15.00. 1524 1Ath ave-, rooms. $1750 920 10th st.. 8 rooms. S35.O0. 1909 Ave. c, rooms, $500. We have several brick stores on First avenue, possession October 1st; also brick wholesale and retail stores in other business parts of the city. Those having property for rent or for sale will do we'll to list with us. as we have good opportunities for finding custom CTS.
 MALONE REAL EST. & lNS. co. Do+t, Dt,opao on17 Eiref Ava
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26
eUsINEss oPPoRTONITIEs.

SPLENDID opening for handling buzz g1es on commission. Address R. care
 Age-Herald. 7-24-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26
MoNEYLo LEND.

MONEY furnished salaried people with out security; easy payments. Southern
 Discount Co.,. BOP Cnalifoux. 4-l2-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26

70. N. Cullom. J. H. Taylor. Smith Cullom. President. Manager. Sec. TreaA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-26

FOR RENT. rooms. Avenue K. near 16th street. rooms 2920 Juniper avenue. rooms 210S Avenue F. rooms S. 12th street near Avenue K. rooms 2431 5th avenue. 12 rooms 1900 9th avenue. rooms 2711 7th avenue. We have a few more stores on our rent list.
 FOR SALE. s2500-New cottage N 21st street; pays 12 per cent. s25OO-New houses Ave. F; rents for $40. $1500-Lovely Magnolia Heights lots. s1500-Lot 7th avenue near 18th street $3500-75x190 Sth avenue near 18th street. S16000-3-story brick; pays well. MCCONNELL & CARTWRIGHT. both phones 46. 220 N. Fist St.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
S3O,O0O,OOO FOR
HOLIDAY GIFTS
Chicago Shoppers Will Spend That
Much This Season, Breaking
All Records.
The People Are Buying More Goods
and Better Goods Than
Ever Before.
New York Sun Special Service.


Chicago, Dec. 19.-Thirty million
dollars will be spent by Christmas
shoppers in Chicago, State street ex-
perts yesterday declared. Ten mil
lions on the big down town thorofare
and $2O,O00,000 by wholesale buyers
and in shops thruout the rest of the
city was the estimate of those in a
position to know. ,-. .s
This is an increase Of over % per
cent on last years figures. The in-
crease in the State street department.
stores varies from 25 to 35 per cent
and far better grade of goods is be-
ing purchased this year. In some of
the stores. where this trend Of the
trade has been definitely demonstrated
all cheap toys and holiday articles
have been supplanted by more sub
stantiai and expensive stocks.
While the department stores and
| other retail establishments are indus
| triously vending Christmas gifts the
| postOffice and express companies have
their hands full with an increase vary
ing from 25 to 40 per cent over that
! of last year. ...- D..
| All merchants able to speak from
experience in the handling of holiday
! trade declare the present business in
| Chicago is the greatest ever known.
Every big down town store was
crowded with shoppers yesterday, and
the shopping days Of next week are
| expected to eclipse the record in the
| number Of BUYERS
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
CARS TOSSED
HIGH in The AIR
Caboose and Six Cars of Freight
Train Telescoped by a Pas
senger.
Engineer of the Oregon Short Line
and One Other Likely
to Die.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Boise, Idaho, Dec. 19.-There is lit
tie hope of the recovery of Engineer
Kiser, in charge of the Oregon Short
Line passenger train that crashed into
a freight on Medbury hill, near Noun
tain Home, Idaho, yesterday. The en-
gine of the passenger ploWed it's way
thru the caboose and six cars, smash
ing them to kindling and tossing them
high into the air and down a sixty
foot embankment.
BY the rays of a powerful electric
headlight Kiser was able to see the
dim outline of a broken section OF
the freight train running away on a
heavy grade. and, yelling to his fire
man, jumped as a shower of splintered
wood fell about them. The fireman,
it is feared, suffered internal injuries
in his leap from the cab.
The impact of the collision was a
terrific one, freight cars being tossed
over forty feet into the air and com
ing down on the telegraph wires and
putting the service out Of commission
The mail and baggage cars of the
passenger train were derailed.
Two hoboes were injured, and 1t Is
| believed one will die. One leg was
cut off and the other mangled SO badly
as to necessitate amputation. The
disaster was due, it is believed, to the
freight train travelling on the passen-
ger trains time.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19

thorized to speak, for the president
himself.
If this is true, the public wants to
know it, And the public has a right
to know anything which bears on the
truth or falsity of the charge.
In this light it seems proper to call
attention to a bit Of circumstantia]
confederation furnished in the col
unlns Of this correspondence.
Last spring-to be specific, early In
May-your correspondent. was given a
Tip" that such a conspiracy had been
entered into, and that, the first step
was to be a raid on speculative secu-
rites. The information came from a
well-known member of the United
States senate, who is in notOriously
close relations with the great rail
road magnates of New York, and who
is himself a railroad owner and spec
ulator in such properties.
Your correspondent was not thel
disposed to treat the information very
seriously. It did not seem to him prob
able, that sane business men could be
led by personal malice, or any degree
of political amin Mostly, to enter upor
a course SO criminal. 1t did not seen
possible that they could deliberately
to wreck or check the countrys pros
perity, with all that such a course
would mean of suffering and loss tc
thousands Of innocent people.
But feeling that the incident should
not be entirely ignored,syours CORE
spondent wrote Of the occurrence
treating it rather as a joke. In the
light of subsequent happenings th'
"joke'' seems to deserve more seriou:
consideration.
Later in May T he Journ a
printed in it's Washington gossip col
umn the following:
A wild and wierd tale has reached her
| from New York. 1t is told with whis
perings and pledges of secrecy. The.
say-"they'' being certain parties VIII
| live, move and have their being in tn
speculative atmosphere of Wall street
| that there is fully hatched conspirac.
| to drop the bottom out of the market-fo
political effect! Morgan, Gates and al
the rest of the big fellows are goin
| to Withdraw their support from the mar
ket Without them, it is related, tn
! market will be .bottomless. They, in fact
are the bottom Of the market. Down
| is to go-all securities to go down-wit
I a horrible slump. and all on account Q
/ Roosevelt. The plan it to start a Lowell
! squeeze, put brokers out of business. scar
| the banks into fits and to raise the flu
| generally. That will show, just on tn
eve of the national presidential nomina
| ton. that it's all Roosevelt's fault; tha
they are the ones who really run tn
/
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19

If j. j. Carlisle, husband of former
Miss Bonnie Hinkle, is not bigamist
the West hotel register is in grievous
error; for in his own handwriting,
which will be Sworn to by the clerks
at the desk, there appear on the reg
lister under date of Sept. 25 the words:
j. J. Carlisle and wife, New York. ;"
This was Carlisle's first appearance
at the West hotel, or at any hotel in
the city as far as is known, and the
hotel people had no reason for sus-
pecting any irregularities in the gen.
tleman's domestic arrangements, as
he stopped at the hotel on the Euro
pean plan and very little was seen Of
the woman who stayed with him about
a week.
AS this was several days before he
was seen with Miss Hinkle and nearly
a month before he married her, the
conclusion seems inevitable that this
first woman was either his wife or
that Carlisle is not his real name.
On Oct. he came to the desk with
the Information that his wife had gone
away and that he wanted a cheaper
room. He was, accordingly assigned
to room 448, which he occupied until
Oct 22, as it appears from the hotel
record. Cashier Albert Ladue made
the change desired and registered for
Carlisle, the name standing. on the
book under date of Oct. 6: u. j.
Carlisle, New York.
Clue to the Yelled Lady.
From the descriptions secured at the
hotel, and from other informat al
hand, there is discovered a marked
resemblance between this wife regis.
tered with Carlisle at the West hotel
Sept. rs, and the "veiled lady, whose
tall figure has become so familiar tc
Hennepin county jail officials since
Carlisle has been incarcerated.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
POKER IN
TWO LANGUAGES
And That Is How John w. Gates
s Won from the China
-- man.
The Pot Was Big One and the
Chink Had No Show
to Win.
New York Sun Special Service,

New York, Dec. 19.-Members of
the Waldorf set are telling a new
poker story on John w. Gates. A
short time ago q rich Chinese mer-
chant, who was returning to Canton
from a European tour, stopped at the
Waldorf. His knowledge of English
was meager, but he possessed a fond
ness for games of chance, particularly
poker, and he and Mr.. Gates sat down
to a. friendly game when mutual
acquaintance brought them together
The game progressed until late in
the evening. Finally there was a
Jack pot of substantial proportions
The Chinaman opened it and drew one
card. Mr.. Gates drew one card also
Bet you $1,000" said the Chinese
merchant, thru the interpreter.
Raise you $5,000," said Mr.. Gates
The Chinaman looked at his hand; q
bland smile stole over his round face
and he said something in Chinese.
A $4,000 Raise.
HE raises you ST. 5,000,'' said the in.
terpreter.
'The son of a sea cook" gasped the
astonished Gates. The Chinamar
turned ashen, his chin dropped on hi:
breast, his cards fell from his hand:
and he feebly pushed the pot toward
Mr.. Gates, who was more than ever
astonished.
"The pots yours" said the in
terpreter.
Gates.
:. -ah-see-kuk means I rais'
YOU s3O,0O0,OOO' In Chinese" said tn,
Interpreter and with profound kow
tows he explained that his celestia
| friend would now cash in," havin,
| enough Of the American game a
| played at the Waldorf-Astoria
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
Bertha Morford, Chicago; fracture OF

Bertha Morford, Chicago; fracture of
back and internal injuries, will die.
Victoria Miller, Anchorage, Ky; inter-
nally injured, probably fatal.
jamie Douglass, Huntsville, Ala; leg
broken and possibly internally injured.
Mamie Harris Maysville, KY; leg brok-
EN- and internally injured
Ernestine McCleary, Fernando, Fla;
condition critical.
Minnie Booze, Clarksdale, Miss.
Annie Hail. Birmingham, Ala.
Leonie Miller, st. Louis, Mo-, internal
injuries; will die.
Girlie Walker, address unknown; will
probably die.
Minnie Alston, Covington, Tenn; prob
ably fatal
Lady B. Knox, Greenville, Miss
Susie Cavelle, Macon, Miss; very Sc
riOus.
Fifteen others received minor injuries.
President Hamilton was the first
member of the faculty of the uni
versity, which is an institution for the
education of colored people, apprised
Of the conflagration. He heard the
screams of the women and, rushing
to his window, which is just across
the street from the dOrmitory, saw
the flames bursting from the eastern
end of the building. DR.. Hamilton
fastened to force an entrance into
the building, but when he reached
the door the frightened inmates had
begun to hurl themselves from the
windows. Several of them were killed
in jumping, or crushed to death by
those who followed.
The dormitOry was a four-StOry
building Of brick, and the only means
of exit was down the main stairway
which was cut off shortly after the
fire broke out. The inmates rushed
panic-stricken thru the smoke ant
heat, seeking an avenue Of escape
and, baffled in this, they sought the
| windows and hurled themselves head
| long to the ground.
Most of the women had retired
and only had time to escape in theil
night garments.
| The burned building was known a
the Administration building, and wa
one of the earliest results of the move
ment started by the Freedman's All
society for the elevation and cultur
of the negro after emancipation.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
USED CLUBS
At FUNERAL
Strikers Make a Demonstration and
the Police Act-No Hearses
to Be Had.
Regarded as Likely That stockmen
and stablemen Will Strike
in Sympathy.

Chicago, Dec. 19.-The funeral of
Anna Wick, whose husband is in jail
charged with her murder, was held
to-day under guard of the police, who
were forced to use their clubs to dis
,perse the crowds of striking cabmen
and sympathizers. The children Of
the murdered woman were the only
attendants at the funeral. The corpse
was taken to the cemetery in wagon.
With nearly seventy five funerals to
be held in Chicago to-day, there was
no .sign Of peace between the livery
and hearse drivers and the employers.
) In a cold drizzling rain the relatives
Of those who were to be buried
slipped along the ice and slush-cov-
cred pavements as, in many cases, the
mourners followed to railway stations
the pusiness-like dead" wagons of
the undertakers. Walking was treach-
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19

Guesses as to her identity place her
present residence at a house on the
East Side, and it is more than probable
that her name will be in the possess
sion of the authorities before to-mor-
row morning. Whether her interest
in Carlisle's matrimonial affairs is q
financial one, or whether she is SIM
ply guided by sentimental motives re-
mains to be determined.
The discovery of Carlisle's appear
ance with a wife in September may
explain in part his unwillingness to lay
bare his record prior to becoming in
terested locally in the occult science
business and the Scanlon family. 1t
may also explain why his name is not
discovered in the Princeton list OF
graduates, altho he told M. J. Scanlon
that he had graduated from Princeton
and told Sheriff Dreger that he was
Princeton man.
Larrabee May Defend Him.
Despite J. J. Carlisle's statements
made in and out of court yesterday to
the effect that he would act as his
own attorney it is believed that he will
have prominent legal counsel when the
case comes up for trial.. Frank Lar
rabee was closeted with the prisoner
this morning and when asked whether
or not he was going to take the case
he said: Il have not fully decided as
yet. I may" 1t is learned that Car
| Isle has about $500 in cash to offer
as attorneys fees and has several hun
| dred more in sight.
The prisoner spent q very quiet
| morning. Mrs. Carlisle made her Gus
tomary morning visit and was closeted
| for nearly an hour with her husband.
No other callers appeared and Mr..
Carlisle states that thru necessity he is
becoming used to prison fare, altho
he still insists that the food is not of
sufficiently good quality.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19

Paris, Dec. 19.-The united Colom-
bian committee here gave out a state-
ment yesterday that Colombia would,
first, seek thru a commission to in
duce the United States to recognize
Colombia's rights under the treaty of
1916; second. if the commission fails,
Colombia will ask for the submission
Of the question to The Hague arbitra-
ton court; third, if it's submission
to The Hague court is refused Co
lombia will go to war and rely on
the Latin republics to come to her
a id
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
SECRECY is MAINTAINED
Navy Department Withholds Informa
tiOn-AdmiraI Elliott to Sail.

Washington, Dec. IA cablegram
received from Admiral Coghlan yes
terday was not made public by the
navy department, as it has been de-
cided that the freedom shown during
the last weeks in making known the
course of events in connection with
the Panama situation could no longer
be prudently continued.
After a conference between Secre-
tary Moody, Rear Admiral Taylor,
chief of the bureau of navigation, and
Brigadier General Elliott, command
ant of marine corps. it was decided
that if present conditions on the 18TH
mus continue General Elliott will sail
for Colon on the Dixie from Phila-
de1phia.
General Elliott is familiar with the
isthmus, having served there as a.
marine officer. and the government
desires his views on several matters
which it will be important to know
in the event of hostilities with CO.
lOnbia.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
SEVEN KILLED IN
UNIVERSITY FIRE
Woman's Dormitory Of frWalden Uni.
versity, Nashville, Is Burned
to the Ground.
The Students Are Negroes Many
Were Seriously Injured by Jump
ing from Windows.

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. Sevel
are dead and seventeen seriously in
rjured as result of a fire that broke
out last night In the Woman's DOR
mitory. of Walden- university. zssas
* Dead.
Sst ELLA ADDISON, Port GIBSON Miss.
+, Al. .ELE LEsC,HRISTIAN, Greenboro. Ala
( SALLIE DADE, Hattiesburg, Miss.
! Is MATTE LEE MOORE, Huntsville, Ala.
IULJJz A. TERRY, McMinnWille, Tenn.
MAMIE e. JOHNSON, Hattiesburg.
Cora Bryant, Cleveland, Miss, who was
sick In bed on the fourth door. is miss
ing. It is supposed she perished, as all
efforts to find her have been Intellectual
Seriously Injured.
Miss Eleanor Moore, Chicago; will die
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19

erous, but there was practically no
alternative. No carriages were to be
had.
The undertakers announced that
they would not send out any hearses
until the strikers had been forced into
submission, for it would be dangerous
to send the costly carriages out of the
barns even If nonunion men could be
had. The employers evinced no inten-
ton OF hiring nOnunion drivers how
ever.
A funeral car instead of a hearse,
as we'll as a police guard, was utilized
by Undertaken Joseph Blake to cir
cumvent striking pickets from whom
violence was feared at the funeral of
the 1-year-old daughter of Joseph
Keefer. The body of the child was
wagon instead of d hearse, driven to
Thirty-first and Wallace streets and
put on a street car in waiting. The
mourners boarded a second car and
the trip was made to Oakwood ceme-
terry. The Keefer residence was sur
rounded at the time of the funeral by
pickets. The police were present hold
ing themselves in readiness in case
Of violence, but none was encountered.
A more serious phase of the strike
developed to-day in the threatened
opA SesSA VI IiAS IiS-up " iIlCludC oIdOlC-
men and stockmen. Should these men
go out the ambulance service Of the
city would be seriously crippled.
Pressure is being brought to bear upon
the men employed in these depart
| ments to induce them to call a SYM
pathetic strike.
| Hard ON the Sick.
| Permission to move the sick from
| their homes to hospitals was denied
| in several instances by the striking
| livery drivers. Undertakers John Nc
| Laughlin and Frank Kummerow were
eachm summoned by emergency calls
to remove Catholic clergymen to hos
/ pitals. They sought permission from
/ the strikers, but were denied.
Mclaughlin, accompanied by 3
clerical associate Of the sick priest
finally drove the carriage himself
Altho some Of the pickets threatened
no violence was attempted. Under,
i taker Kummerow also took his patien'
| to the hospital accompanied by the at
/ tending physician and priest.
1 A dead wagon driven by a son o.
/ Undertaken Perrigow, returning from
i Grace1and cemetery after burial, wa
pursued thruout the downtown street,
i by a coal wagon whose union drive
4 attempted to ram the undertaking val
i with the pole of his wagon.
4 Lashing his horse into a gallop
young Perrigo managed to escape
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
Reyes Is DilatOry.

Washington, Dec. 19. - General
Reyes has employed an American
lawyer to assist in the preparation
of the brief for Colombia, which he
is to present to the United States
government. It is not at all certain
when the note will be ready for trans
mission to the state department. IN
deed, General Reyes is not in any
haste to send it, for this may be taken
by the Colombians as the termination
of their envoy's mission here and the
country might seize on the oppor-
tunity to make war, contingency
which General Reyes has thus far
used his utmost endeavor to prevent.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
CHANGE FOR IOWNE
He May Yet Represent Tammany
District in Congress, Tho Not
Mcclellan s..

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Dec. 19.--Authoritative
announcement was made at Tammany
Hall to-day that Ira E. Rider, the
democratic congressman from the
fourteenth district, would resign his
office. within a day or two and that
his successor might be chosen at the
same time that the electors of the
twelfth vote for successor to Con-
gresham Mcclellan.
Mr.. Riders i'll health is given as
the reason for his retirement. 1t is
understood to be the intention of Tam
many to take care of him in another
place in the, city service.
For his place Mr.. Murphy is said to
have selected Charles A. Towne, who
for a half period was senator from
Minnesota.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
COLOMBIA STILL
MOVING TROOPS
Will Seek Submission to The Hague
Tribunal and, Failing Salts
faction, Fight.
General Reyes Is Playing for Time
While Preparing His Official
Note.
Colombian Troops Move.

Washington, Dec. 19.-The
navy department has received a
cablegram from Rear Admiral
Glass at Panama, to the effect
that according to report which
has just reached him from a
steamer the small force of Co
lombian troops, which had been
discovered at the mouth of the
Atrato river, had sailed to the
northward on a Colombian gun
boat. Admiral Glass has not been
able to verify the report.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-19
FOREIGN FLASHES

Copenhagen-The battleship liver Hoitfeldt was
destroyed by fire and sank.
Edinburgh--Char Mcbride. the sculptor,
died here to-day. In recent years he art
advisor to Andrew Carnegie. who entrusted him
with the purchasing Of his pictures.
Calcutta-Lord Kitchener commander of the
British forces in India, who had one of his legs
broken recently while passing thru tunnel on
horseback, is much improved in health.