The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-28

# STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Evergreen's new ice factory has begun operations
 Ozark will have electric lights in the near future.
 Many new buildings are being erected in Bessemer.
 Cotton bolls are beginning to make their appearance at Eufaula.
 The people of Sheffield are complaining of poor telephone service.
 Teams are hauling material for the new steel bridge at McGowan's ferry.
 c. P. Watson has been appointed jus tice of the peace in St. Clair county.
 The firm of Brown & York at Boaz has made an assignment in favor of creditors. Business is so lively in Athens that the stores will not be closed on the glorious Fourth.
 Joshua Jones. editor of the Fort Gaines Sentinel, died suddenly at his home last Friday.
 The Academy of the Visitation at Mobile held its seventieth commencement last Tuesday.
 A fight is now being waged in Coffee county on the removal of the court house IlNn kl IF..Ao
 The dispensary movement in Walker county was launched Thursday by a mass meeting of citizens of Jasper.
 A teachers normal will be held at AL bertville, beginning tomorrow and con- tinuing all through the week.
 Owing to the advanced price of cotton the Peoples cotton mill at Montgomery is running only four days a week.
 The depot of the Western of Alabama railway at Auburn was struck by light ming Friday and burned to the ground. There were 15o0 baskets of tomatoes and 300 baskets of peaches shipped from Ever green last Wednesday. Growers say they are receiving good price,
 George Rhodes guard at the Pike county convict camp, shot and instantly killed Haywood Calhoun, negro convict who attacked him with spade
 The Southern Car and Foundry company at Anniston has signed the new wage scale of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers for the ensuing year.
 The charcoal furnace of the Southern Car and Foundry company at Gadsden has been sold. The names of the pur- chasers have not been given out.
 w. w. Kent general manager of the Chattanooga Southern railroad. denies that traffic arrangements have been made through Gadsden with the Seaboard Air Line.
 The people of Bay Minette are battling valiantly against the mosquitoes So far neither side has won. The insects are more numerous in that section than ever before.
 Heavy rains caused a washout on the Alabama Great Southern near ColInsviIle Thursday, and the Chattanooga Southern track was used until the damage could be repaired.
 About one-fifth of the members of the Alabama Educational association and three of It's officers during the past year were graduates of the State Normal school at Florence. head-end collision occurred Thursday between two freight trains In Anniston near the plant of the Central Foundry company. The two engines and half a dozen cars were wrecked.
 George H. Amey. until recently general manager of the Eulaton Foundry com pany. has disappeared and the stockhold- CTS have shut down the plant until his affairs can be strengthened out
 An accident happened on miniature railroad at Monroe park in Mobile One of the little cars jumped the track and | toppled over, pulling two others with it. Several passengers, including a child. were cut and bruised.
 At the recent barbecue at Selma in honor of the opening of the new Louis- vile and Nashville bridge 1764 pounds of meat. 660 loaves of bread g bushels of to- matoes and bushels of onions were devoured by the crowd.
 The battle flag of the Magnolia Cadets. one of the companies in the gallant Fourth Alabama regiment. Confederate States Army, has been received by the department of archives and history at Montgomery The flag was presented to the state by Henry R. and L. P. Dawson, sons of Capt N. H. R. Dawson, who i commanded the company.
 
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