The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-06

wage for the month of December there
 fore will be 47Ik cents per ton, the mimi
 mum wage under the contract existing
 between the miners and the coal opera
 tors in this district. The mining wage
 throughout the entire district, except
 Walker county. is based on the wage paid
 by the Tennessee and Slose- -Shefheld
 Companies and the news given out this
 afternoon was not so well received by
 the mine workers. Something like four
 teen thousand men. are affected by the
 reduction. The rate paid during the
 month of November was s21A cents per
 ton for mining, which makes a five cents per ton reduction for the present month, It is now announced that iron being sold this month win hardly be under
 ss. .e5 per ton. No. 2 foundry being sold firmly at s.5o per ton and in smaller lots at $s.75 This will insure an advance in the mining wage next month surely of two and a half cents per ton and perhaps five cents on the ton. The iron shipments from the district are exceedingly heavy right now, though the low priced iron Is going out. The first announcement of a mining reduction was made at o'clock by the miners of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. It was fol- lowed an hour later by miners from the sloss-Shefaeld company.
 Announcement was made to-day of the resignation of H. l.. Latimer. travelling passenger agent of the Southern Rail-
 way. at this point, for the purpose of go- ing into the insurance business in A. lanta. Mr. Latimer has been in the em- ploy of the passenger department of the Southern Railway several years, being city passenger agent in Chattanooga be- l fore coming to Birmingham. His resigna- | ton is effective on the 18th instant.
 County Tax Collector J. B. Francis this | morning made the announcement that he positively will not collect poll taxes from | anybody except the individual in person who owes the same. as the constitution expressly provides that every man who shall be allowed to vote will have to go | in person to the tax collector and pay his poll tax. T would be liable for in- dictment If were to allow a single man | to come up and pay me poll taxes for any l one else." said Captain Francis. Nor would be the only one to be indicted
 for thus violating the constitution, for the
 party who pays poll tax for another is | amenable to the law as well, and would
 be punished. I have had several oners from people to pay the poll taxes of
 other men, and while they were all inno- | cent, hope every man Nho values his suffrage rsght will learn that unless he pays his poll tax on or before Feb. 1, 1904, by coming to me in person, he can | not vote in the coming elections for the same year. Ever since Oct. l the poll
 taxes have been pouring into Mir. Fran cis' office showing that the people want
 to vote in the coming election.
 Dr. R. J. Buckner, pastor of the St raul. A. M. E. Church, Is in receipt of letter from Dr. M. c. B. Mason, cor | responding secretary of the Freedman's
 Aid and Southern Educational Society al Cincinnati, O., stating that the proposi- | ton made through the local committed
 of this society had been accepted and
 that the college under the auspices of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Education
 al Society will be located in Birmingham
 Several cities in the State, among them Montgomery, Anniston, Decatur and Flor ! ence, made efforts to get this school ana made liberal offers. The proposition as | accepted by the society consists in the l straightout donation of forty acres ot
 land. The property is located three miles from the city, but within easy reach of
 the city. The society wI,l spend at first 1 S6O,OOO in buildings and will increase the 1 amount to $200.0O0 in a short time after the college has been started.
 The small son of MT. and Mrs, Frank
 Tiplar, who reside at 1913 Avenue D