The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
.SEABOARD CORPS
 AROUND GADSDEN
LINE IS BEING SURVEYED FROM ODENVlLLE TO GADSDEN VIA ATTALLA-oTHER NEWS OF GADsDEN.

Gadsden, October 29.-(Special)-- IA corps
 of engineers of the Seaboard Air Line are
 in the field surveying for the branch line
 of the Seaboard Air Line from Odenville
 to Gadsden via Ashville, and those who
 know state that it will now be only
 question of few months until active
 construction of the branch line will be
 commenced and pushed to an early com
 pletion, as the Seaboard people are anx-
 ious to get into this territory There
 have been rumors of the Seaboard com
 ing to Gadsden for some time, but until
 the present time nothing definite has
 ever been accomplished. The road will
 mean great deal to St. Clair county,
 as 1t will open up a section of territory
 that Is rich in all the minerals.
 Levi Upton, member of prominent
 farmers family on Sand mountain, has
 been arrested and placed in jail at Fort
 Payne on the charge of robbing Ben Gill
 bert of sSS. Gilbert asserts that he and
 Upton were in Collinsville and that he sold cotton which netted him $SS. That
 he and Upton left town for home in his
 wagon and during the trip home Upton ScCuiS thS ihOhtSs DUH hit SouuB intil
 and members of prominent families.
 w. N. Waldrop of Colinsville, DeKalb
 county, was in the city Saturday and
 says raising hogs beats raising cotton
 MT. Waldrop was in town with five B.
 months-old Poland China hogs, which he sold for cents per pound. netting him $76.80. MT. Waldrop is progressive young farmer and makes his living at l home and has something to sell the year round.
 | R. T. Todd, prominent citizen of Gads- den, died Friday morning at an infirmary | in Atlanta, Ga, where he had gone for an operation, which proved to be unsuc-
 cessful. For several months MT. Todd has suffered from liver complaint which would not yield to treatment and he resorted to the surgeons knife, when | death resulted He leaves a wife, four sons and two daughters. The remains were inferred in Forest cemetery in this | city Saturday. MT. Todd was in business here and had accumulated considerable
 money and property and was doing well. His death is greatly regretted
 | Two four-room cottages on Eleventh street, near the Gadsden car works. were | totally destroyed by fire late Saturday afternoon. The fire originated by the | turning over of a lamp which several children had lighted while playing. The | fire originated in the house occupied by MT. Archer and family, who lost all
 their possessions. The flames were com
 municated to the adjoining building oc- cupied by Martin McGlathery. who saved all his household goods. The houses were the property of Herbert Sitz, and were valued at $500 each, on which he carried $250 insurance each.
 The Adams Knitting mill Is now run
 ming on full time day and night and turn 1 ing out fine quality of ladies' under wear, for which MT. Adams, the owner. l finds ready sale. In fact he has sold l the entire output ahead for the coming year. Some thirty-five young ladies are given employment at good wages and 1t l Is one of the city's best enterprises
 | Harry Davidson. a peddler of this city, had very narrow escape from drowning a few days since. news of which reached Gadsden today Mir Davidson left Gads- den in a wagon one day last week, driv- l ing a mule. his load consisting of about s175 worth of dry goods. When he reach ed Adams ferry, some twelve miles above Gadsden, he drove onto the ferry boat to cross the river. When the boat