The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-27
GADSDEN WANTS
NEW CITY HALL
Election for an Issue of Bonds
to be Held
lightning KILLS FARMER
John F. Mcdaniel Struck by Bolt
While PIowine-Attala TO Get
Railroad shops-0ther
News of Gadsden.

Gadsden, June 26.-(Specia1.) 1.-The board
OF mayor and aldermen have called an
election to be held at the court house
on Friday, the 18th day of July. for the
purpose of allowing the citizens to vote
on the question of whether or not they
will allow the city authorities to issue
bonds to the sum of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of purchasing lot and erecting a
city hall thereon.
The bonds are to be sold at par and at
the rate of per cent and to run for
thirty years. 1t is very likely that bonds
will carry and Gadsden will get her city
hall. which is very much needed.
Forgery Charged.
Jim Ash, negro dryman of the city
is in iail on several serious charges He
forged the name of Armstrong & Norris
to a waive note In oroer 10 borrow $40.
He purchased a horse and wagon for $l5o
and gave the owner a mortgage on it and
last week sold the horse to a man below
the city.
Ash has also mortgaged the horse to
another merchant here and also to
money lender and there is no telling how
many more times. He is noted as slick
coon, but he is out of the way now for
a year or so.
Struck by Lightning.
John F. Mcdaniel, a white man living
near Alfalfa at the foot Of Sand noun
tain, was killed yesterday by bolt of
lightning. Mr.. Mcdaniel was blowing on
the fam of Z. r. Carnes and during the
afternoon there had been a shower, but
not EeaVy enough to make him quit work.
He was blowing along and without any
warning there was bolt OF lightning
and he and his mule dropped dead, the
pillow stock being shattered into splin-
tiers. lie leaves a wife and four little
crio,en No one else in the field were
hurt.
Alfalfa May Get Shops.
The round house and work shops of the
Louisville and Nashville now located at
Admission will be moved just as soon as
the Altoona extension of the Louisville
and Nashville road is completed, which
will ct be long. 1t is said that the shops
will be moved to Alfalfa, as that is a
better place for the shops. 1t has not
yet been definitely settled and Gadsden
will make a bid for the shops, as some
forty men are employed at good wages.
New steel Plant.
The steel plant is running very smoothly
and the second heat was taken off Satur-
day, over fifty tons being cast this time.
They were afterwards reheated and rolled
into billits AKA inches by feet long, load
ed into cars and shipped to Ensley, where
they will >be made into nails. Mr.. Shuler
expresses himself as delighted at the sue
cessful starting of this mammoth enter
prise and the people of Gadsden are
happy, as it means a great future for
the city.
Other News.
Morris d. Pierce of the Southeastern
Tariff association has been in the city
several days re-rating the town for the
insurance companies. He tested the water
power, the fire company was inspected
and while here they answered an alarm
of fire. He expressed himself as well
pleased at our efforts at protection, and
it is thought the city will get much
better rating, for as it Is, the town has
the hot end of the rope.
Mrs. Mamie Morgan, young lady or
only 26 summers, died al the poorhouse
Friday night from consumption She had
lost her parents early IN life and also
her husband. She had severe attack Of
erysipelas, which caused her hip to be
out of place. and later contracted con-
sumption, and she was forced to go to
the poorhouse, where she was kindly
cared for, and where death relieved her
sufferings.
The deputy sheriffs of Etowah county
seem to be in considerable trouble these
days. W. M. Sullivan, deputy sheriff at
Altoona, was arrested on two charges,
one of assault and one of carrying a
concealed pistol. John Helms, deputy at
Alabama City. is on bond for living in
adultery with woman of the town, and
another one is under bond in two cases
for defamation of characters.