The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-21
GOVERNOR CANNOT COME THIS YEAR Cunningham May Take Up State Debt Matter. BAD NEGRO IS CAPTURED Is Believed to Be the Assailant of Mrs. Hydrick at BoyIes eap-other
 Montgomery
 News.
BAD NEGRO IS CAPTURED

| ernor William D. Jelks will not be able
 to get back to Alabama unti after the | first of next year, possibly not before | the first of February or March. He has been in New Mexico since last April seeking restoration to health, and while he is doing fully as well as could
 be expected It is quite certain that he will not be in condition to resume his
 duties at the capitol for quite a while. All -of which no doubt means that Lieutenant | Governor Cunningham, who has been
 acting since the governor left the state,
 will have to begin work on one or two | propositions that have been awaiting the personal attention of Governor Jelks. | Important, possibly the most important, | is the matter of refunding the state debt,
 much of which natures in 1906. The last | legislature gave the governor authority to make such arrangements as he thought
 best for the states bonded obligations,
 but SO far nothing has been done in
 definite way. In his report to the last ses- | sion of the legislature, Governor Jelks | outlined what had been offered and told
 of his own actions in the premises "Un-
 der this act,' said the governor, q have l been negotiating the sale of new bonds | to take up the first three classes. They are in great demand but I have not had
 an offer that seemed fair to the state. Proposals Made.
 Several proposals have been made for | a contract with the state looking to the | issuance for 3h per cent bond, the buy
 CT paying the difference in interest until | 1906, the time of maturity, between the | 31R per cent rate and the and per cent rates, the bonds now in demand. The diff l ference amounts to about $116000 a year. The bidders agree to take the whole of the | A, B and c bonds amounting to $S,433, 600. | at 312 per cent. pay this $116.000 a year | difference in interest and such additional | premium as would reduce he bonds to | basis of something less than 3A per cent | In the meantime, and before maturity, | the purchasers were to have the priv
 ilege of buying up the old bonds and hay | ing the new ones issued to them on the
 new rate as the old ones were delivered. | The exchange of the remainder of the old
 bonds not so purchased to take place at maturity, January and July, 1906. I did not believe the 3A basis low enough. l thought the state should float It's obliga-
 tions at lower rate, and 1 have declined
 the several propositions"
 The full amount of the bonds which
 
 as follows: Five per cent consuls, issued January, 1876; per cent Class B, issued same date; 4 per cent Class C. issued January, 1876. The total amount of in- terest on this is s410,520. The total issue of the state is $9,357600, with annual in- terest of $44S, ,6S0. There are $1S5,400 in
 bonds debarred for one cause or an-
 other.
 Badly Wanted Negro. Jim Jones, alias Eight Rock has been returned to Montgomery from Gentry,
 Fla, and positively identified as the ne-
 gro who assaulted four negro women
 here three weeks ago, and entered the
 home of Mrs. William Ledlow on the Shell road and handled her roughly. The negro women each said he was the man, this morning, and this afternoon Mrs.
 Ledlow came to the county jail and iden-
 tified him without hesitation.
 It is also believed that he Is the negro
 who assaulted Mrs. F. M. Hydrick near
 Boyle Gap, in Jefferson county, several weeks ago. The negro seems to be about 25 years of age though he says he Is only 1T. When questioned at the jail he said that he had lived at Boyles Gap
 and that he knew F. M. Hydrick hus- band of the woman who was assaulted.
 He denies that he made an attack on Mrs Hydrick however. The negro en-
 
 seemed to be trying to get at a pistol.
 She tried to hold him away and he grab bed her roughly She screamed loudly and her husband ran to her rescue from the field nearby, and the negro jumped from the window and got away. Pictures of the prisoner were sent to Birmingham today with the idea that he Is the assail-
 ant of Mrs. Hydrick. He was reared near Prattville.
 Court Finishes Work. The United States circuit court of ap-
 peals, which has been In session here since Monday, finished its duties this
 evening and the judges have returned
 home. Clerk Lednum will be here until Saturday. The famous Pace peonage case. well known all over the state, was presented yesterday. Today the cases of | Kyle vs T. G. Bush, from Birmingham, | and the Columbia Avenue Trust compa- | nv, also from Birmingham, were submit 1 ted
 It may be that the Pace case will sim | ply be certified to the higher court, as | there is another from Florida very simi- | lar. and it is expected that both will go | up and be decided there. It Is generally | understood that if the conviction of Pace | is sustained he will be pardoned because | of Ill health
 Rain Didn't Come. The local weather bureau, through Sec ton Director F. P. Chaffee, promised rain for yesterday, and when 1t did not | come there was general regret. When | the matter was called to his attention | this morning MT. Chaffee said that there
 was every indication at the time the | forecast was made, and that the Wash ington office saw the matter as he did. | The fact of the business Is, the long
 dry spell had brought about such condi- | tions that it was impossible for the rain | conditions to overcome them. Moving | eastward yesterday was a cold belt that l was condensing the air and causing rain | in it's wake. It extended from the lower | part of Texas to the lakes. When It reached the territory bounded by the present long dry spell 1t was stopped and broken up, though 1t Is cooler here today. The same conditions when the weather had been ordinarily wet would have re- suited in almost a deluge.
 There was, however, trace or rain at Eufaula and Ozark yesterday, which gives some hope, though there is today no indication of moisture anywhere near this section. There has not been any rain in Montgomery and the southern section or the state since September 6. and creeks and wells are dry. Cattle and domestic
 animals generally are suffering. Minor