The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
ENGINEER FIGHTS
WITH BURLY NEGRO
Finally Kicked Man from the
the CabooSe
TOOK HIS REVOLVER AWAY
PeII City and calcis Are Doomed Not
to Have Court Houses, Accord.
ing to Supreme Courts
Decision.
TOOK HIS REV0L YER AWAY

Montgomery, April 27-CSpecial)-In
desperate fight in the cab of loeomo-
tive on the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road this morning. Engineer Will Reynolds
overcame a negro tramp and finally threw
him from the train, killing him as a re-
suit of the fall. The negro ran into the
cab after driving Reynolds from the pilot
of the locomotive.
Just after leaving Tyson a small sta
ton just below Montgomery, Mr.. Reyn-
olds looked ahead and saw a negro on his
pilot. He turned the throttle over to the
fireman and went after him. The negro
presented big revolver and swore he
was going to ride to Montgomery ehas-
Ing the engineer back into the cab. where
| he followed Inside the cab there was a
desperate struggle between the engineer
and his fireman and the tramp who was
about getting the best of it. All the time
the engineer had to fight with one hand
and run his train with the other, going
forty miles an hour.
| Finally the fiagman and head brakeman,
seeing the fight, ran 10 the cab of the en-
| CINE and took hand. After a hard fight
in which the negro almost outdid his op-
ponents, the pistol was taken away from
him. As soon as he discovered that his
weapon was out of his grasp the negro
made dash to the cab door, whence he
was given kick to the ground by En-
gineer Reynolds.
Up to late tonight his body had not
been discovered
Cannot Have Two Court Houses.
| The hopes of the people of Pell City
to remain one of the capitals of St Clair
county, and the last lingering chance for
the Fifteenth circuit to be held good were
dashed finally to the earth this afternoon
when the supreme court of Alabama re-
fused in both cases to grant rehearings.
The Pell City case was decided several
weeks ago and the other a short time
prior to 1t.
The right of the constitutional conven-
ton to establish two court houses in St
Clair and Shelby counties We're involved In
the first case though the St Clair con-
troversy was the only one passed upon
The convention adopted an ordinance au-
thorlzing a court house to be built at
Pell City in addition to the one at Ash
vile. The supreme court held that 1t had
no right to thus leglslate, and declared it
| invalid
A new temple had been built at Pell
City and court had been held in it. This
had not been done at Calcis. Shelby coun-
ty. work being stopped by litigation be-
fore the structures were built.
| In the case of the Fifteenth circuit the
court held some time ago that it was in
valid in that 1t was not properly adver-
| tised at the passage of the bill creating 1t.
| In the first decision of the Pell City
cases the dissenting judges were DowdellA
and Tyson. On the rehearing application
they were Joined by benson. 1t is quite re-
markable that these three gentlemen dis
scented from their associates in the Fiji
tenth circuit case, and that of the Four
! teenth circuit which went the same way.
New Corporations Reported.
The following new corporations have
been reported to the secretary of state
| Sheffield Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry
company, Sheffield. capital $500 900. Incor-
| porators j. w Worthington, S. b. Nc
Tyer and S. McGaughey.
! Huntsville Bagging and Tie company.
| Huntsville; capital $4,000; incorporators
| Isaac Shieffman and others.
New Market Banking company, New
Market, capital 10000, incorporators II. L.
| Davis and associates.
| These have been named for minor po-
sitions:
Ruben Berry, beat II. Culman county,
| D. ]. Walker. Newbern, and c. j. Cot
| ton. Ozark. justices of the peace; Ben
| Hardy. Gadsden. and Luther A. Hooton,
| Roanoke constabes J. ID. Hobbs, Birn-
| ingham =. f. Pulen, Montgomery, r. e.
| Mallett. Magazine, Stella Black, Mobile