The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-26
SMITH
 MAKES 4 REPORT Referee Approves Sale of Bes- Semer Bank Property WALKER LANDS. EXCEPTED This Property Will Have to Be Sold Again at a Later Date-No News
 Received From Captain
 cornwelI.
WALKER LANDS EXCEPTED

Bessemer Savings bank, made his report to the referee in bankruptcy at Birming- ham this morning and the sale of all the banks property was approved with the exception of certain lands in Walker county. These will have to be sold again at some time in the future. A dividend will be declared Tuesday, @aroh :. It Is not known exactly how muoh the divi- dend will be- but it is thought that it
 will amount to something ike :C percent. | The affairs of the wrecked institution
 are now in very good shape as n result
 Of the efforts of the receiver anl credl-
 tors are looking forward to the first pay
 mcnt with some satlsfaction.
 No News From cornwelI. No further news has been re1eived in
 Bessemer from Captain Cornwell. The friends of the former bank president con- hdently believe that he missed his ship l from Truxedo, Honduras, as was reported
 and are expecting him next Tuesday, as that will be the earliest date on which he can arrive.
 With the Lodges.
 Myrtle lodge. No. B, Knights of Pythias, held a very interesting meeting in the hall in the Steiner building tonight and elected H. D. Keith to membership. Linton lodge also had ! meeting and l initiated W. c. Wood to membership.
 Both lodges are in thriving condition
 and are getting many new members.
 Services in Jewish Temple. Rabbi L. Yasgour will conduct services Friday night in the Hebrew temple here and will deliver an address on Pictures From the Book of Esther" On Monday fast will be observed by all the Jews and on Tuesday the feast of Purim will be celebrated Services will be conducted in the temple on that day by Rabbi Yas- gour.
 Killed by Explosion. Tom Bryson white man employed by the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railway company at Feeders, near here. was hurt
 in a dynamite explosion early this morn- ing and died about seven hours later It seems that Bryson was bending over n hole preparing a charge when the ex- plosion occurred. His face and neck were
 fearfully mutilated. The mans jugular vein was severed, but his companions im- provised a clamp by which the flow or
 blood was partially stopped and the suf-
 ferer's life prolonged for a few hours.
 Powderly Line Opened Today. Beginning tomorrow the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company an- nounces that cars will be operated over the Powderly line from Bessemer to Bir- mingham, thus giving the two towns double service second to none in the south There will be no transfer and wait at Powderly as heretofore, and n quicker schedule will be the result. Bes- semer people are congratulating them. selves on their improved traffic facilities to Birmingham. The towns are now con- nected with two well equipped lines, so that passengers can take either line and go direct to Birmingham.
 Decree Against the Cows. In the Bessemer city court this morn ing Judge B. Clay Jones rendered his de- cision on the mandamus proceedings to compel the city council to pass an ord1- nance requiring people with COWS to pre- vent their animals from running at large. number of citizens filed a petition, bas- ing their claim on an act of the leg1sla- ture requiring all cities in Alabama to mass an ordinance of this kind. The de- fendants claim that the act in unconsti- tutional and the case will be carried to the supreme court. The case is attract ing much attention, as there are many Bessemer people who have cows, and they say that much hardship will result if the ordinance is passed
 Will Soon Be Completed. J. F. Ross, secretary of the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power company, states that work on the new yiaduct which will be built by the company over the tracks at the intersection of Twenty fourth and Nineteenth streets, will be started as soon as all necessary arrange ments can be made and machinery placed on the ground.
 Postoffice Building Is Delayed.
 It Is now feared that the new postoffice building, for which a site has already been purchased, will not be erected as soons as was at first expected. United States Postal Inspector Bonner visited Bessemer recently and it Is reported that he asked the terms for new five year lease on the room in the room In the Steiner building now used as a postoffice and also on the room adjoining. A-k>. ,HA n~~e1r.lc