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months: ileo-coihs Lula Ellis, colored:
maNriHI fever
Died in ST. Marys innrmary 1.
Case Transferred to Houston.
Galveston, Texas, February 21.The case
OF the First National Bank Of Houston VS..
Wells, Fargo & Co. Inns been transferred,
upon motion OF the plaintiffs from the Gal
weston 70 the Houston division Of the Fed
erbl court This suit was originally hled
IN the Bifty-sixth district court aud on Sep
TENDER 20, 1901, was transferred to the
United states court Tic suit Is for $1,000,
growing out OF an alleged shortage Of this
amount from packages containing $4,000
shipped on Januury ~, 1901, by the plaintiff
to the First National bank Of Chicago The
claim Is that when the package arrived NJ
itB destination $50 go bills were missing
from one OF the packages, This amount
plaintiff seeks 10 recover,
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TUE ArpnoPnlArIoN mn.

University Gets Much Lcss Than II Asked
For
AHstln Texas, Fcbrrary 2l-The hous
AhaAce eommittee has almost du!shed Its
g aelI appropriation bill, and among other
th5!i1gs ihs .stute university stts S2oo.vJu,
NWVl Is Sd0,VuV less thun 1t asked for.
~ gli Is industrial pchuol all II asked
VOL cared for
dgy "e b''"'S' 'NN"N9
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Tha License Tax.

Galveston Texas, February 1.-THE hear
ing OF the Injunction Of Brown and others
against the city Of Galveston, TO restrain
the collecting ~ the vehicle license tat;
" set down for hearing In the Tenth civil
sistrict court AZ 10 O'clock Monday morn
Ing. In the application Tor the injunction
rho validity OF the appointment 81 the city
commission Is attacked.
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civ Council Meeting.

Beaumont, Texas, February zl.-The CITY
council met this afternoon IN special ses'
sion and acted on the international fran
ehise ordinance Their action, however,
was rather peculiar The ordinance com,
rnlttse al has been reported, had agreed
mon FRANKLIN aud Wan streets aud had
brought In report. AFTER getting together
nbis afternoon they decided 10 Withdraw as
10 Wall mud leave only Franklin, Wnlcn -
undesirable so lar as the railway Is CON
cerned They then wlthdrey any report
AZ an and asked uHta next thursday 70 re-
port There were many citizens prsBent ai
the meeting and the opposition 70 ths Wan
street franchise WBs pronounced II iOOhs
Ike the road Will either De gwen Bowie
street or viii refuse 20 come IN at AL
Walter j. Crawford, Is. r. NOrNeA, bai
W Greer, L. b PiDkin T.. szalr, o. y, Is
Millard, j E. Broussnrd ana Martin Miess
presented q petition asking q irhhehlse TOT
an electric light ami power plant.
Mr. Crawford IN presenting the psuton
stated that all he wanted was TOT me eoun'
iii 10 pass the ordinance THIS evening ihe
6rst time and let Il come up at the next
meeting for regular discussion
The ordinance granting Hal W. Greer
ana others the light and power franchise
S,ss then rend thu first time Alderman
Go,ssett moved that It be referred 70 the
orainance committee 10 report back az the
next regular meeting Carried
tltv Attorney sonneld then called me
rounell's Intention 10 the dangerous EIDE,
v.aIks OF the city lie thought u would
NM the city tn employ a man 20 look Over
tAe city aud repair such ndeWalkS as hee3
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BIG FIRE AT BEAUMONT
Started In a Siorehou Sc fer ktrCsen
and Other Oil.
THE DEPARTMENT WAS nFlPlHSS
Less ls Placed at Twenty Thousand Dol
lars, With Small lnsursnee-One
Man Had His leg Broken.

beaumont. Texas, February 81. Tonight
at 8 o'clock n spectacular fro started and
was witnessed 10y perhaps 5000 people, yet
there was no way to check the danes or
prevent thelr spreading
The southwestern on company owned
three large oil tanks. IN which were stored
perhaps 5000 barrels OF on; 70 one side wac
small oil house. In which were stored coal
OIL benztne, gHeoline aud kcrosene. The
fire oricinatcd IN this house from some un.
known cause, mud instantly the whole build
Ing was IN flames The arc whistle sounded
and called the department and again the
muddy streets and lack ot water faciities
prevented the department from dulnE what
It otherwise could to put out the flames.
When the oil house hre was well under
way an explosion srut the DANES high Into
the air aud rolling smoke apparently GOV.
cred everything for a quarter Of n milo
around. Few minutes later and another
explosion cnmc. Tho third und last tank
did not explode until Il hnlc hour Inter, aud
1 ~ that timr people were All around and
about the place. A terrific thudilhc noise.
leap cf Dame aud the shaking Of the
earth aud buildings for two or three blocks
around scared every man. woman and child
IN the audience. Men and women fell In
Nditchcs or begged Ia the mud.
One piece Of the tank was blown 1SN yards
ac'uss 10 Price u lohnsuns wood shed,
| where Il lay rclho, aud was about ~ set
WHtor was turned on IL.
The oil spread rapiuly and NY q o'clock
The Jackson ~ rltai Manufacturing com
| panys sash. door and blind lumber sheds
md office caught, and with the Ore dc
/ pmrtmcnt stll helpless, burned To tho
ground, though the factory was saved
4 ln ~
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Fifth Court Of Appeals.

Dallas, Texas, February II Proceedings
had IN court Of civil appeals, Fifth district,
AZ Dallas. February 81, 1909
Affirmed; Maryland Casualty Company
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g. Some onc, he thought should tear MP
the bad walks and hll in where only
plnuli is necessary.
Thc council then adjourned, to meet next
1hursday
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catarrh Sixteen Years.

Miss orelle Gulmond. GulmonA. y n,
writce.
~ had catarrh OF the head for sixteen
wears aud could not get rid az t. After
using one bottle OK Peruna I was COM
pletely cured, and 7 ndvise all who are AZ
rL--.L MlLh tMLa Alanaaa 90 INV this ROM
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CITY ENGINEER
OF Louisville, Ky, Years caarh
SAVED BY PE=RU=NA.

Chirles c, Roe, Assistant CITY En-
ulneer. Louisville, Ny, writes:
"Peruna 6aS u large number
Of admirers in tbfS part Of
Rsrfucks. bur none more 6ons
eSf tbon myself for ebd: 10 6GS
done for me.
al noS fronbfed fer some
gears Uifb cGforrb Of re BEAD
and t6redf mhieb 6u5 often
serious onnoponee 10 me and
must race beUn 70 mig friendS.
Nine bottles 81 Perbna cured
me and builf me tp. II seemed
10 strengthen f6c nerSenS sps.
tenn. resuIdfe digestion and
driDe a6oy TIE headache. be-
SIDES curing tbs cutorrb.
81 6dSe Meier kno2n Of uhp
Medicine uSich seemed
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Ne ResuIt Yet.

Topehn, kan, February 21---ccnfereneea
hcl syesn the santa We ana thu c9nduetpFs
and fraIntneu on tho wage question were
held al d , with no result
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~ omen
Praise
PgsTusnd.

hCnU and thr0At nufU ] trIe0 FPrunn Aft0r
taking eight bottles Perlna cured me II
llso octH az n special preventive Of throat
difficulties. II bpcpg me In fine health,
Md ] v0luc its One qualities very much.
We all usp Poruna in the family and there
hrc seven of us. ! recommend It 10 my
nalghbors ana they all take it."--Mathtlde
Koch
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Protest Against Oil Tax Bill,

Beaumont Texas, february There
was meeting Of representative c.lllenA
held here this mornlng to protest against
the passing by the Legislature OF either
OF the taxation bills on oil. The meeting
was attended BY many prominent citizeus,
both tfose interested IN oil and these WHO
were Interested in Beaumont's growth only.
They II structed Messrs. John y. Gilbert, 4,
(. icod and Charlie Wallis % appoint
committee OF uve to go H. AUSTIN wncu-
ever the bill couies mp before the legislature
and also to write 90 Austin aud ask the
committee 20 set a day for the spcclul pur-
pose OF tuEug up thcse bills. There Is
tIanin Gus opposition 10 the bill here
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sonafor ReatY in ToMn.

beaumont, Texas February 2L-Senntor
n. Beatty was ia the city today en- route
To his home In Jasper lie stntcd TINT the
thing ne was most Interested IN WAS the
early Adjournment OF the legislature lie
is against tho oil taxation bin and says he
thinks IT win be defeated If the people
here show the legislature the fullaCy Of y
ana OF which he Is we'll posted. re Will
night IL Il 10 ever reaches the senate He
said that he did not think the Place cor,
poratluu bill would be 81 Injurious as had
been thought but that a rigid construction
Of II would bring on trouble.
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cdy J Thank Or, Hartman
FOR my cure. "-Orelie Gut
nond
MathNaa Koch, Grange.
Nd. writes: II can not
sneak too highly OF p
runo MS q medicine, I was
suhirct 10 catarrh OF tho
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! r.yArIOS OF CORPORATIONS
NJ, 70 UNCOy.R TRUST ALLlA>C
n..iltnrlnl cerreepondeneel

rsxas. February al.-Tno sea
sA.T sraiion bill, the text uf which
~ 'si.bed In The Post OF February 10,
ss,d many inquiries to come w 10
,,nl. and it goes Without saying That
~ mn and sea! ching scope pfoqos ii
.,yp nlll be m1,t unweiou.As ole
/ n rsporauon Interests
.n.m oi MIR. JOury'a high stlul-
me- aclsc, and especially ~ view o,
gb,,to conservative attitude toward
\ .,.,ept., there has been considerable
,l.. tuut he should propose a BIZ 90
i ..,ebl..s, not to suS im.Vrtiucnt, IA It's
| ,t,A.. aud tue sGtp.I5e 10 Increased
.,,l, .i.coycry that hc il loiuud III tnc
.,5,eloa OF tue bill by Mr.. J. Q. NlcAoi-
a. La.cnu. another m,lnDsr ct al sA
4 ,dB. and Conservative record Mlth
.rs influential mcE 5rhind the bin
/ l,pa 10 lie considered hs e4a rasl cGo.t
s.,D,ricngcd tedgangs, but as a ser.0a,
Kan 10 ye seriously rlchoned with.
~ 10 be assumed, also, that Messrs
lsry and Nicholson nre not insensible
! So responsibility attaching to the intro
,.an Of d measure which, In effect, viii
ssostply uncover the private affairs Of
4 i eofpor4t. ols-their earnings, expenses,
iIBg.. orJis, stockholders and creditors.
npreseumtige OF 1he Post has inter.
,sysd Mr. senDury, who cheerfully ok
ssel tie purposes Of the bill. 1t VIII
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Santa Fe Officials.

beaumont, reNus, February 2l.--A party
Of the SANTA Fe hallway company's officials
visited Beaumont and the spindle Top oil
field yesterday, IN the party were w. b.
Blddle, freight and traffic manager FOR the
SYSTEM J. y, Goradn, general freight
agent, rnd Il. Il. Mautcr, general agent.
1ne parity came In over the Kansas City
southern ana is travelling on sir. Biddle .
private car, santa Ne 222." President
sam PARK Of the Beaumont chamber OF
commerce, and Major G.. l.. Wallis, man
agcr Of The Higgins Oil and Fuel com
pary, met the gentlemen aud accompanied
them 30 spindle Top. the "Trip being made
in MI Bddle's piIyute car, President
rark stated last night that the presence
81 the party 10 Beaumont, whose headquar-
ters are in Chicago. had no special signih'
canoe.
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l~iid frs,eals' 'rNr rWrye years |
"a VA pllg with Rheumatism. NJ
S,d 49, ~ Affected that was neatly
~ loves Ser my head ana shoulders
s,N Dlseavsaan my hips. Thanks to The
sssh yesrs now walk erect, and
tttn,,ss have elapsed, I have never
,slE JFp, OF Rheuma tisin."
i sert9 DISCOVERY for Rhsuma-
ms D ne hest banks IN tbe state Of
ssrf o0cA for the reliability ~ our
n IA FREE TRIAL TREAT
% en- ION frful remedy sent post
y M, 'tse : NEEDY co. LTD,
street. Battle Creek, Mich.
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10 devise some systemic informal rem.
cdv which world reach camrh at It's
source. Roo eradicate h permanently from
the systcm- this has been the deslre VI the
modi,al profession for long time Forty
prohlcm H. believed then that he had
solved A. lie still believes that he has
solved !t. He cures thousands OF people
unnrHIlr, During nh these YEARS rerun0
Inns been tho remedy upon wlach he Inns
relied.
II was NJ hrst n private prescription art
erwRrds manufactured eSprroSlr for him
n large quantities rus remedy, Peruna.
IS nov 10 hp found IN every drug store
mud nearly every homo in the land II is
The only reliable informal remedy ever dc.
vlspd 10 cure any case OF cHtHrrb. however
long the cuse may have heen standing
Air Camlus Sennc, 81 West t20th
" rect. New York writes:
81 have fully recovered from my ca.
lnrrhnl Lronhlns. annerod for thren
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The objects OF Tie bill" said Mr.. SEA
hJ, arc luraefold. In the nrst place,
tu IL ueye.op Just basis OF taxation OK
ta,c.a1vus. TIE state now deals ia vs.
u. ~ give sou IA Illustration; Last
IA4. ,otyu ~ biz .ryylus lax
l@ lia Insurance. companies ol i peg
~. ', tn,i. glOss earnings - 80
i.-st rslucAAt.y, because 1 mad 4u r4l.a-
u Va! Vi Glvulus whether tAey coIiI
I'D ,Ae "a N4taout AicIeaSIns pteln.u4ns,
/. ~, "vllO W Only another way u ....>-
1. r..e! 1VI.e.s. 4ug compul ies are pSs-
y sc L. N,.,-J-t iuc.e,4sids p.cmluiIs
Lsl Tel assu.eu tu~. the TAX Nds no.
4asn.O.-e Dlt II might have been.
F'ls. % AGV" Use uc,4ai RESOURCES unu
t.4-eA u eoIolauOus before proceed-
t-.'4ef mo4s Ih4s line, and / th-HA
= .-'0.-.at.on 'o Dc gathered under tuIs
~ va ,n"vls lne 'sslslaeuge 10 t,l4 t4e-I
t'' 'AseltI!,
~ s4e s>eoA- p.uce, the information Will
'sa-.le 70 lue Investment pluhc,
AsA AIN DOAds are put GA the I-1lA-u
Lapsi.tvd Vy SPECTATORS IN sucu way
Ia lu.cnasrls are Often deceived. 1
ssIu have the actual status Of corpora
s'l' !" valued that purchaser o. au
Ne-4As purchaser may RuOW precisely
:" ne is buying.
u Tue Thru pace, hope to uncover
~ Aus' aihances, or at least to SNOW
49, 'O1niul'ty OF interests may Ie'
NE opJect OF section 1t requiring
~ --.as Oh the owner OF more than one
s4 y, u @e capital stock and the names
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Id SEABURY BILL

lp~
|, Stsus Proposal 10 Be Reekoned
VtA and Not a Freak Idea.
ID NATION OF CORPORATIONS
|.n tOrable BASIS S ne Of the d.
he's Of the roFosed Law
.--------------
,sx 70 UScCy.R TRUST ALLlANC S
--.--~~
Give Needed information TO the
F' ,'s;e Which Invests Its money
in the Enterprises.
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years With c8tarrh " the
bead. nose and tnroat. /
tried nll kinds OF lncdi.
olu,s without relief, hut At
last ] have been cured hy
Z D 20 wonderful remedy
called Pgrunn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-13
HUNTSVILLE
Change In Management of Western
 Union-Other News.

Huntsville, November 12-(Special.)- Manager Goldman of the local Western Union telegraph office has been removed to Greenwood, Miss, his former home, and Walter Cross, formerly of the Mem phis office, has been placed in charge here Mir. Cross Is a native of Hunts vile and has been in the employ of the Western Union twenty years.
 Rev. J. B. Mitchell of Mckenzie, Tenn, arrived in Huntsville today to become pastor of the First Cumberland Presby- terian church. He accepted the call sev- eral weeks ago.
 The Daughters of the Confederacy will present Guy Darrell" a melo-drama written by Miss Watkins of this city, next Saturday night at the opera house. Parts will be taken by several of the most talented young people of the city.
 Will Ward, a negro, who was shot at the opening of the street carnival week before last, appeared in court yesterday afternoon against General Roberts, the negro who did the shooting. Roberts was charged with attempted murder and was bound over to await the action of the grand jury. The shooting created great excitement at the carnival and at first Ward was believed to have been fatally wounded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-13
The Lung Block"

Mir Ernest Poole of the University Set tlement contributes to the November
 Worlds Work the following graphic de- scription of New York's famous Lung Block: "In nine years it has reported 265 cases of consumption. This block, bounded by Cherry, Catherine, Hamilton and Market streets, has 47S inhabitants per acre. Between 1890 and 1900, its pop ulation increased 65 per cent, and this one block houses more than 5000 per- sons. One the east side of it alone there are eight saloons and several houses of a worse sort. One of the tenements is the
 Ink Pot In the front and rear tene- ments l found 40 Irish and Italians, including twenty-three babies. I give something of the history of single room in the Ink Pot In 1894, blind Scotch man slept there and took consumption. His wife and his fifteen-year-o son both drank. The man died in the hospi- tai. A few months later his little daugh- ter took the same disease At last, she, too, died. The mother and son moved away. In this vile, dark room the germs lived on They might all have been kill ed in week by sunlight but they can live two years in darkness. One year later, in October Jew rented the same room and slept in the same dark closet. He, too, was infected and died in the summer. The room was rented again in the autumn by a German and his wife. She already had the disease and died later in the hospital. Then an Irish fam fly came in. The father was sober and hard working. Six months later he took If record of only one room for seven years
 In this rear tenement alone I found twenty such closet, 'windowless bedrooms. There are 361,O 900 dark rooms in the city,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-13
YOUNG ENGINEER
 INJURED IN MINE
W. c. VAIL IS CAUGHT BETWEEN
 THE ROOF OF SHAFT NO. 1 AND 4 TRAM CAR AT PRATT CITY

Pratt City, November 13.-(Special.)- ". c. Vail prominent young engineer, who Is a member of one of the engineer ing corps of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company, was seriously injured this afternoon at No. 1 shaft while rid ing in one of the cars coming out of the mines.
 Mir. Vail had been down in the mines doing some work and was coming out, having finished his labors for the day. He was riding in one of the hauling cars and was rolling up a tape line. He was so intent on his work that he did not bend over as the car was nearing a low place in the roof of the shaft. The wheels of the car hit something on track and the young man was caught between the car and the roof and his spinal cord sprained. He was brought to Dr. Browns office in this city and was afterwards carried by ambulance to his home in Birmingham. The extent of his injuries Is not exactly known, but it is thought he will recover.
 MT. Vail is very popular young man and a brother of James R. Vail, assist ant treasurer of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company
 W. H. Barnard will formally open his stables on Fourth street next Saturday. The handsome new two-story brick structure. in which he will run his sta ble, has just been completed. MT. Bar nard has conducted a successful livery business in Pratt City for several years. He will give to the public only first class service.
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MINING MACHINES
 FOR T. C. & I. co.
ADDITION TO THE ENsLEY STEEL PLANT WILL PROBABLY DOUBLE THE CAPACITY WITHOUT IN- CREASE OF FORCE.

Ensley, November 12.-(Special)-Th Tennessee Iron, Coal and Railway Com pany are having mixing machine placed in their plant with which, it is estimated, the company will be enabled to double the capacity of the steel plant with the same force that is now employed.
 The machine is being installed by the Pennsylvania Engineering Company of New Castle, Pa. The iron work is about completed and the brick work is being pushed rapidly. Raw pig iron will be car ried from the furnaces into this machine, which has a capacity of nine or ten tons, where the iron is thoroughly mixed. From the machine it is carried to the open hearth furnaces, where it is made into steel In addition to the labor and time that will be saved by this machine, It is said that the amount of scrap iron used in manufacturing steel will be great ly diminished.
 With this machine and the eighteen blow engines that the company is having installed, the Ensley steel plant will be one of the most modern in the country. and Ensley will soon become as famous as Homestead
 Ihree negro women were arraigned be- fore the police court this morning on the charge of vagrancy. Mayor Scott bound them over to the Birmingham court.
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TUSCALOOSA.
The Belt Line and Bryce Hospital Fail
 to Agree.

Tuscaloosa, November R.-(Special.) J. General Ober, president and owner of the Tuscaloosa Belt railway, is in the city ne- gotiating with the Alabama Bryce Hos pital regarding right of way through the asylum grounds to Holton. It seems that a satisfactory agreement cannot be made.
 The hospital trustees agreed to give the belt line right of way over the grounds but the option ran out In the summer be- cause of lack of funds to begin tho work. General Ober Is now in a position to put the work through, but the hos pital authorities will not agree to grant the right of way unless the belt line makes them a freight rate like that given the merchants of Tuscaloosa. The belt line claims that the distance is so great that they would lose on every load, and therefore find 1t impossible to come to any agreement The extension will mean a great deal to the merchants of Tusca- loosa, giving those residing at Holton, the furnace town five miles north of the city, a quick schedule here, where they would naturally come to do their trading
 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Alabama will meet in annual session in Tuscaloosa, December 4 to G.. in the First Methodist church. A national speaker will be in attendance to add to the interest of the convention.
 The following invitation is of much in- terest to Tuscaloosians: MT. and Mrs. William Franklin Allen request the honor of your presence atAthe marriage of their daughter, Alice Reta, to MT. Emmette Perry Tatum, on the morning of Tues- day, the Ath of November. at 10 o'clock, at the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Macon Mississippi. At Home Tuscaloosa. Alabama" The prospective groom Is in the dispatcher's office of the Mobile and Ohio railway and since his residence in Tuscaloosa has made for himself a host of friends who will welcome his charm ing bride in their midst.
 The many friends of Edgar M Finch a popular member of the junior class at the University of Alabama, who was call ed to his home at Montgomery recently On account of the recent illness of his father, will regret to learn that he will not return to his duties at the university though his father is improving.
 The Varsity football team will meet Cumberland University on the campus Saturday afternoon. This is the last game to be played on the campus this season.
 Miss Pearl Atkinson has gone to Rir- mingham to take course in the Mas sey Business college.
 Mrs. D. McCannon of Michigan baa . rived and Is with her niece, Miss Lizzie Mclean. Mrs. McCannon was called here by the death of John Mclean. her brother -in-Iaw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-13
OPELIKA
Town Getting Ready for Street Fair.
 Esteemed Negro Dead.

Opelika, November 12 = Especially - Opelka is getting ready for another mammoth street fair. The J. s. Berger Carnival company has secured the neces- sary space and will run the fair from November 23 to 30. There will be many free attractions. such as high divers. acrobatic performances and magnifi- cent display of fire works every night. The railroads have reduced the rates and the excellent schedules guarantee good crowds.
 A few days ago Bob Bennett, a colored drayman of the city, the most highly es- teemed negro in this county, died at his home here of pneumonia Since the civil war he voted the democratic ticket uni formly and was trusted in all things. Many of the leading citizens of the city attended his funeral The floral offerings sent by white ladies were beautiful. A lady of this city got up the money by voluntary offering to pay his funeral ex- penses.