The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-08
BOY WAS STRUCK
BY HACK DRIVER
Gadsden Amazed at Milton H
Smiths Announcement
HAD EXPECTED REDUCTION
Little Girl Falls In Telephone Post
Hole Head Foremost and is Al.
most Stranaled BY Mud
and Water.

Gadsden, May 7.-(Speeial Guy Craig
the young man who was so seriously hurt
In what was at first a most mysterious
manner is still alive and the chances are
now some better for his recovery. al
though he has only lighting, chance. 1t
developed today that a street hack of
r. c. Sandlin, who runs a livery stable
here, was driving up the street the night
Of the accident, and in the dark collided
with the boy who was riding q bicycle,
the pole of his hack striking him ON the
forehead, crushing the skull.
The negro was not aware. so he says,
that he had run into any one. No arrests
have been made as all the facts obtain
able go to prove that 1t was unfor-
tunate accident and could not have been
prevented. A trained nurse has been Sc
cured and is with the wounded lad
Came Like Thunderbolt.
The announcement of an increase In
rates by the Louisville and Nashville
road on coal to the cotton mills of Gads-
den, Alabama City and Admission from
like a bolt of lightning from a clear
sky as far as Gadsden was concerned,
for this place had been promised a coal
rate of 121a cents per ton just as soon as
the Altoona-Attalla division was complet-
ed. and the town was preparing to cele-
brate the completion of the road and the
decrease in rate. Some action will be
taken at once by the Commercial club
looking to a restoration of the old rate
or a cut to the 121s cent rate as prom
ised.
Falls Into Telephone Post Hole.
Claude Roebuck, the day clerk at the
Printup, has been called to his home at
Albertville by a peculiar and what came
near being serious accident to his lit
tie sister. The telephone company had
been digging post holes in the city, and
had dug one In front of the Roebuck
home, which had become partly filled
with water While the little girl and her
brother were playing near the hole the
little girl fell in on her head and stuck
up in the mud. Her brother made frantic
efforts to get her out and succeeded. but
not before she had become almost stran-
gled to death with water and. mud The
little birl is yet in a dangerous condi-
ton.
Unique Society Formed.
Gadsden is not to be outdone In the
manner of freaks, and so she comes to
the front with another society, which Is
of a most peculiar kind and its object
is not quite clear There was filed in the
probate office Saturday afternoon a decla-
ration of incorporation for what they
term as 1.-THE Coming Generations New
Enterprise Benevolent and Educational
Society" The incorporators are John p.
Wesson, r. f. Mcdaniel, o. H. Saxon, p.
G. Gilbreth, H. N. Wesson, S. w Broth
ers, Barney Meclendon, J. Fl. Wesson, A.
r. Whit and w. L. Saxon, all being
farmers of Cox beat. Etowah county. They
state that 1t is their desire to associate
themselves together not for pecuniary
profit in the sense of paying interest or
dividends on stock but for mutual bene-
fit through the application or co-opera-
ton single tax or other economic prin-
ciples. Tt is the purpose of the society
to gather its members together for the
consideration of all subjects relating to
arts and sciences.