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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05
PROPHET IN TEXAS.

Dowie May Take an Island Near
San Antonio for His City.
San Antonio. Tex. Jan. 5.-JOhn
Alexander Dowie. the founder of III
on City, has arrived here to investi-
gate MatagOrda island on the Texas
coast as a site for his eternal city"
Dowie's plan is to enter upon exten-
sive stock farming and factory
work and bring his entire following
to the new settlement.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05
COTTON REPORT.

Issued by the Census Bureau To-
Day.-Shows Decrease.
Washington, Jan. 5.-The census
bureau today issued it's report show
ing that there has been ginned to
and including Saturday, December
cotton, compared with 9.311, 1876 up
to and including December 18th of
last year The census bureau found
that 29.971 ginneries have been oD-
Grated this year as against 30,194
last year.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05

OF the road with headquarters in
Omaha. The road will in future be
operated by a method similar to
that in vogue on the Southern Pa
cific railroad. Harrimans incumben-
cy, IL is said. will be for one year.
at the end of which his permanent
successor will be named.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05
WooLLY WEATHER.

Has Been Favorable to the Trade
in Boston.
Boston, Mass. Jan. 5.-The cold
weather has been favorable this
week for larger sales of heavy
weight clothing. The market for
wool is firm The manufacturers have
not large stock on hand and it is
believed that even larger purchases
will be made. There is firm tone
to the market for fleece woods with
the available supplies moderate.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05
STEEL CORPORATION.

The Directors Met This Afternoon
in New York.
New York. Jan. 5.-The directors
of the u. S. Steel corporation met
this afternoon. J. Pierpoint Morgan
and John ID. Rockefeller. Jr.. being
among those present. The directors
passed a dividend on common stock
but declared the regular quarterly
dividend of l 3-4 per cent on pre-
ferred stock.
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MONTREAL CLUB BURNED.

One Fireman and Secretary Killed.
Two Others Badly Injured
Montreal, Canada. Jan. Fire
today gl-tted the Montreal Club
building owned by the most exclu-
sive club of Montreal One of the
firemen and the secretary of the
club Col. Lairdett We're killed. An
other fireman and the stenogra pher
to the secretary were seriously in
i"red. The property loss is one hun
dred thousand dollars.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05

Paris, Jan 5.-A dispatch to Ha
Preparations for the embarkatiOn
of two divisions of Japanese troops
are continuing actively. 1t is believ-
ed they are to be dispatched to the
ports in south Corea to restore or
der
This is more than double the
strength of the expedition first con-
templated, the total under the pres
ent plan numbering $4,000 men and
to raise doubts as to whether Rus
sia will acquiesce. 1t said in the
dispatch that this large army may
develop, into the first outward act
of the impending conflict.
Rumors are in circulation at Mar
seiles that French naval division
has received orders to sail for the
far east. Reports, however. cannot
be confirmed in Paris.
ST. Peters burg, Jan. 5.-In her re-
ply to Japan Russia has made great
concessions and hopes that her pro-
posals will prove acceptable to ia
pan The foreign office informed the
Associated Press today that instruc-
tions had been sent to viceroy Alex
Jeff, on which the reply is based.
The latter was drawn up in the most
conciliatory spirit. Some of the Jap
anese proposals are accepted, while
others were made the subject of ex-
tended observations and were met
by counter proposals. There are
strong hopes in many circles that
on Thursday next, the Russian hol1
day corresponding to Christmas, the
peace is assured.
Toxic, G:05 p. NO. Jan. 5.-The
Russian reply to Japan has not been
received. 1t is reported from Vladi-
vostock that the Russian squadron
there is preparing for action. Accor-
ding to another report a Russian
cruiser has left Port Arthur with a
small military force on board. Their
destination is unknown, but is is
probably Chemulpho, Corea.
Toxic, (3:O5 D. m.)-An extra edi-
tiOn of the official Gazette has been
issued containing army and navy or
ders prohibiting the publishing of
any reports of the movements of
government troops or war vessels
from this time on. Otherwise the ia
panese authorities are not interfar-
ing with press messages.
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JAPAN is PREPARING TO EN-
BARK $4,000 MEN.
REPLY NOT RECEIVED

Russia Hopes for Peace, but All In
dications Point to Wharf.-The Gar
it is Said Hopes on Next Thurs
day. to Announce that Peace is
Assured.-Cutcome is Doubtful
Officials in Toxic Active.
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New York JAN 5-When the gov.
ernment thermometers registered 4
below zero at O'Clock this morning
ali local January cold records since
1875. when six below was registered
were beaten. The thermometers in
various outlying districts went sew,
eral degrees lower and in the sub
urbs from to IL below zero was
reached. The intense cod interfered
somewhat with al. outdoor occupa-
tions and delayed all regular and
suburban trains.
Traffic on sea and land was in Sc
rious trouble. The transatlantic
steamers arrived looking like spec
tre ships. Both east and north rivers
were barely navigable while Har-
lem river for the first time in eight
years was impossible above Nc
Combs bridge at 155th street. The
boats were swept out of their courses
NV drifting ice The mails from the
east and west were six to ten hours
late
Fishkill Landing. N. T.. Jan. s.
a. r,.,,,,;u 81 O'Clock this morn
49,. .haromo+er reoistered 36
.,o,n Nouh,rob hav
- us.o r;va- = reo;s+er-
- .r,o,s,v from % to 3s degrees
Philadelphia, JAM 5.-Oficial fig
ures show this to be the coolest Jam
uary day this city mas experienced
since 1875. The thermometer varied
low. the latter in the suburbs The
Delaware river below this city is
frozen from shore to shore for the
first time in years. interfering Sc
riously with shipping. In the noun
tain districts the thermometer rang
ed from 6 20 rs degrees below zero.
Youngstown, O.. Jan. 5-The mer-
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05
THIRTY-SlX BELOW

All Through New YORK Pennsylva'
MIA and the New England States
the Coolest Weather in % Years
is Exoerienced.-All the East is
Shivering To-Day and Traffic is
Seriously Impaired.
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EVIDENCE IN THE IROQUOIS
THEATRE INVESTIGATION
is DAMAGING
TIE FATAL CURTAIN

Two Weeks Before There Was a
Fire in the Theatre and the Asbes-
tos Curtain Failed to Work, but
No Attention Was Paid to the
Warning of the Curtain Manager.
14O Witnesses Have been Summon
ed for Thursday.
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TO-DAY IN THE EAST COOLEST
IN QUARTER CENTURY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
AGED WOMAN INJURED.
Was Standing in Crowd Watching the
 Fire Engine at Work.

While watching the fire department at work yesterday afternoon at the oil house of the L. and N. railroad. Mrs. M. M. Lloyd, an aged white woman, was knocked down and seriously injured. Her injuries consist of broken wrist and sprained ankle, the result of her fall.
 The accident occurred at Seventeenth street and First avenue, where the engine from headquarters was throwing a streams. It seems that when the fire first started the lady was standing in crowd which was packed around the engine.
 The fremen who had the nozzle at the end of long line of hose running from the engine, shut off the stream of water for a minute, and this released an es- cape valve on the engine. This valve allows the water, which is under great pressure to escape at the engine in order that the hose may not burst.
 When the valve was opened the water came out with great force The crowd naturally ran backwards and to either side to escape being wet, and in the rush Mrs. Lloyd was knocked down. Water from the escape wet her considerably. Policemen Walker and Thomson carried her to her residence, 1913 Third avenue, where physicians attended her. She Is over 70 years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
MEETS WEDNESDAY, NIGHT.
Subcommittee Will Select the Elec-
 ton Officers.


 The subcommittee of the city demo- cratic executive committee will meet Wednesday night in its quarters on the third floor of the city hall. It is believed that at this meeting the subcommittee will elect clerks, managers and returning officers for the municipal primary which will be held on November 2t.
 It is probable that only the five candl- dates for mayor will have representatives at the polling places. At first it was the intention of the subcommittee to ask the candidates for mayor. for chief of police and for judge of the police court of Birmingham to furnish lists in order that their representatives at the polls might be selected. Inasmuch, however, as there Is no opposition for the last two offices. only candidates for mayor will probably be asked for these lists.
 Everything Is extremely quiet now in municipal politics The five candidates for mayor have all selected managers. and their forces have been organized for the campaign. Up to the present time very little, if any, mudslinglng has been engaged in and the best of feeling seems to prevail among all of the candidates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
BIBB COUNTY HAS
 A HOUSING RALLY
PETTUs, UNDERWOOD AND HoB- SON SPEAK TO BIG CROWD AT cENTREVILLE AND A BARRE CUE IS SERVED.

Centreville, October SO.-(Special.) .)-Yes- terday was a red letter day for the de- mocracy in Bibb county. Several weeks ago the leaders of the party in Bibb county decided to have grand rally and arranged to have a barbecue yesterday. Early in the morning a perfect stream of people from all parts of this county and the adjoining counties began to pour into the town At 10 o'clock the speaking commenced.
 Senator E. w. Pettus was the first speaker and spoke for about one and a half hours His speech was logical and forceful and was well received. Congress- man Underwood then spoke for about fifty minutes showing the many incon- sistencies of the republican party. He held the attention of the crowd and re- eeived much applause. The last speaker
 was Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson,
 who spoke an hour and forty minutes. Those present who expected to hear a
 great orator were not disappointed, as Captain Hobsons speech was masterly effort, and the great crowd which filled to overhowing the court room listened
 with rapt attention to his logic and elo- quence When he concluded he was ac- corded an ovation and several hundred | people rushed to the stand to thank him | for his speech A magnificent barbecue was then served. and although the crowd numbered more than two thousand peo- | pie all had plenty to eat and there was enough left to have fed another crowd | as large.
 Captain Hobson left on the late after | noon train for Indiana, and Senator Pet
 tus and Congressman Underwood went 1 to Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
ARRESTED AT FLORENCE.
Man With "a Horse Arouses Suspicion
 of Officers.

Florence, October 30.-(Special. )-Sheriff o. B. Hill believes he made an important capture last night in the person of a white man giving his name as Glenn Car roll.
 The man arrived in Florence yesterday afternoon riding horse which showed signs of hard usage. He took the animal to a livery stable and traded it for an- other, which he immediately tried to sell, offering 1t for any price he could get. This was reported to the officers and Sheriff Hill and policeman started in search of Carroll He was overtaken on his way to the Southern bridge and ar rested by the officers. The story he told in answer to repeated inquiries further confirmed their suspicious and they are of the opinion that he is one of the ten who broke jail at Memphis recently or that he is a fugitive from justice at some other point.
 Carroll said he bought the horse in Bytheville. Ark, where he stayed only a few days, but-could not tell from whom. Twenty-Five dollars and a pistol were found in the mans clothes and he will be held on a charge of carrying a con- cealed weapon until the sheriff can in- vestigate his case
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
UNITED STATES COURT.
Fall Term Begins Tomorrow-Mine
 Workers to Appear Thursday.

The fall term of the United States court will convene in Birmingham tomorrow morning. Judge Thomas c. Jones presid- ing Both the civil and criminal dockets are crowded, and the court will be in session here for several weeks. The criminal docket will possibly be taken up first.
 The contempt of court proceedings against certain officers and members of district No. 20 United Mine Workers of America, are set for hearing before Judge Jones on Thursday morning. The defend- ants are charged with violating the term of an injunction obtained in thls court by oertein operators of the district re- straining them from trespassng upon mining properties. It Is expected that a hundred or more mine workers will come to Birmingham from different points in the district to attend the hearing.
 On Thursday Judge Sones will also hear the cause brought by the operators ask ing that the injunction against the mine workers be made pefmanent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
ALL SAINTS DAY
 TO BE OBSERVED
CATHOLICS REQUIRED TO HEAR MASS TOMoRROW-SER AT ST. PAUL'S YESTERDAY. BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.

Large congregations attended the three masses at St. Paul's church yesterday. At night the Rev. Father Goevert was the celebrant and the Rev. Father Stahl occupied the pulpit The preachers theme was the certainty of death and the prep aration that every one should make for leaving this world. The discourse was re- garded as exceptionally able and impress i've.
 The choir sang Weber's mass In c. Miss Bertha Van Merkestyn, the leading solos as only an artist could. Especially beautiful and sympathetic was her solo In the "Et Inearnatus Est"
 At the offertory MT. Challfoux played Raff's Cavatina on the violin in his usual musiclanly style.
 On the feast of All Saints, which oc- CUTS tomorrow, there will be three masses at St. Paufs, as follows o'clock, 73O o'clock and o'clock. The last will be R4ssa Solemnis. Catholics are required toShear mass on All Saints. Today, be- ing the vigil of this great feast, Is @ fast day.
 There will be three masses on that day --6 o'clock, 7:30 o'clock and 9 o'clock. The last will be a solemn high mass of re- quiem.
 At the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows the masses tomorrow will be at o'clock and 10 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
DUNcAN'S PETITION.
Policemen Say the Signatures Are Few
 In Number.

Members of the police department claim that if the petitions seeking to have Frank Duncan's death sentence commu- ted to life Imprisonment are not signed by more people in the next few days than signed Saturday and yesterday they will will have practically no weight.
 The number of signatures was by no means as large as had been expected by Dqncans friends. Some of the mer- chants in whose stores petitions have been placed are said to have received pro- tests from citizens against the movement to obtain signatures.
 The policemen have been watching the petitions very closely, and one of them stated last night he had received reports that the number of signatures was small, and that the signers in most cases were people who were almost unknown in the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
OIL HOUSE AGAIN
 DAMAGED BY FIRE
FLAMES CAUSE LOSS OF $1ooo TO LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE OIL HoUsE-BURNED ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO.

For the third time in a year, and the second time in less than two months, the oil house of the Louisville and Nashville railroad was practically destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock
 The damage was something like 5000 number of barrels of lubricating oil and also number of barrels of headlight oil were burned, and the oil which did not go up in flames flowed out on the ground and was lost.
 The fire was announced by the blowing of whistles of the locomotives and shops Into the fire department headquarters The entire oil house was on fire when the department arrived and immense volumes of black smoke were pouring heavenward
 The fire had gathered more headway than on any previous occasion, and the oil house was damaged more than 1t has been before. The immense water tank which Is near the oil house also caught on fire and was burning rapidly. The lower hoop which binds 1t was so badly warped that 1t fell off and near the top the tank was burned through. It may | be necessary to build a new tank. Many barrels of oil, only recently re- ceived, were in the house. The last fire in the oil house caught from a torch which fell from the cab of an engine which was standing on a tank by the l hnusa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
MIR FOREMAN FINDS
 HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER
She Was In Custody of Salvation Army People in Chattanooga
 Captain saysre Statement

W. R. Foreman. foreman for s. spiro' has located his 13-year-old dauehteI' Sarah, after a search of two months. fie found the child Saturday afternoon in charge of captain and Mrs. J. D. sayers' who superlntend the Salvation Army work in Chattanooga.
 The girl had been given to the salva- tion Army people by her mother who is divorced from the father. The courts had given the father control of the chil- dren, and he has leen trying to ind this little girl. The child has been taken by her father to her grandmother's at Shell byville, Tenn, where her older sister Is living.
 The child was given Captain and Mrs. sayers while they were in Birmingham attending a meeting in August, and Mrs. Foreman promised to provide for her. MT. Foreman employed detectives here to look up the case finally succeeded in locating the child. Captain Savers gave the following count or the manner In which the child came to them:
 "Myt wife and myself have had the child about two months. At the time we received her we were in charge of the New Orleans branch O. the army, and were in attendance upon a series of meet ings in Birmingham. about the latter part of last August. All the salyationists in attendance upon the meetings were stop ping at the same hotel where Mrs Fore man and her daughter. Sarah Foreman were residing.
 Before my wife and myself left Bir- mingham Mrs. Foreman requested us to keep the child with us for few weeks saying that she was being cruelty treated by her father. She promised that she would pay the girls board bill, but never did so. We were not satisfied thai we were doing right in taking the child but knew that we could help her. More over, we wanted the girl for a companion for our daughters.
 Before we left New Orleans we noti fled Mrs Foreman by letter that W would soon leave for Chattanooga ant asked her what she wanted done with he daughter. She requested us to bring tn girl to Chattanooga with us and said tha she would make further arrangements but has never done so. I found MT. Fore man a nice gentleman"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
SPECIAL TERM ORDERED.
Circuit Court VIII Dispose of Many
 Cases at Huntsville.

Huntsville, October SO-(speeial)-A special term of the circuit court has been ordered to convene here December by Judge D. w. Speake of the Eighth judi cial circuit.
 The term will be held to dispose of many cases that are crowding the dockets sev eral of them requiring another trial be- cause of the illegality of the Sixteenth circuit court. One of these cases Is that of Dennis Smith, the negro murderer who was sentenced by Judge Paul Speake to hang on October H. Another is that of Minerva Walker, who murdered Constable Russell at Madison and who Is now serv- ing a life sentence in the penitentiary.
 Judge Speake has also issued an order for an extra grand jury and 1t is believed that another investigation will be made of the Naples lynching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
THE SONS APPOINT DELEGATES.
Camp Clayton Will Send Good Crowd
 to the Reunion.

pointed it's delegates to the state reunion which will be held in Mobile In Novem- Der at the same time that the veterans are meeting. The delegates are II. M McNutt, 8. A. Wood. R. Lee zell, M. V. Joseph, E. w. Bullock. Ben F. Barbour and Louis Dunlap.
 The camp will hold conference with the members of Pelham chaptel, U. D. C., to decide about the disposition of the base for the monument which the Sons own in Capitol park, and which the Daughters desire use for the purpose of erecting a monument to the Confed- crate dead. The sons desire that the fol- lowing inscription shall be carved on the monument: Erected by the Sons and Daughters of the Confederate Veterans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
MELONS TRIAL.
Was Set for Today But VIII be Reset.
 Judge Weaver.

The trial of Frank B. Wellons Is set for hearing this morning in the first division of the criminal court of lief ferson county, but it will not be held inasmuch as there will be no docket in either division today. The Wellons cases, which charged grand larceny. embezzlement and obtaining money under false pretense, will be reset.
 Judge Samuel L. Weaver, associate judge of the criminal court, will take the oath of office tomorrow morning, and the two divisions will then pro ceed with the regular dockets for the week. Judge Weaver will preside the balance of the week In the scond di- vision and Judge Dan A. Greene in the first
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
Mobile, Jackson ahd Kansas City Rail. .oad Company-"The Nevv v.vy

The undeveloped resources along th. Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City raiio saad are perhaps superior to those of s,her railroad In the south; the timbas ~ ,,ra ct,cally inexhaustible consistinS os ,hs highest grades of long yellow lsat M nine. rb short leaf pine and a variety a at ppnrSwoods. The line also traverses ot nf inc finest farming and agricultural saa ne ,,ona to be found in the south. Co,res pondence is solicited from those contem- .1ating the location of any kind of a n,aa ip,sant,,ring enterprise or who na,a n'ah n h- urospecting for superior field for inc purpose of tining the soil, In addition 'to to M tte merits of this section for the product . of the soil which are staple. we wonI5 call especial attention to the peculiar ad- vantages which obtain in favor of fruit and vegetable raising. splendid transpor- tation facilities to the best markets at reasonable cost. Information cheerfully given on request to L. B. sullivan, Gen eral Freight and Passenger Agent Mo- bile, Ala