The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-12
]. j.. SULLIVAN IS
 ELECTED MAYOR Majority Was 316 Over J, E. Riser, Socialist Candidate MISS AMY JONES IS HURT  Was Struck By Louisville and Nash. Vllle Passenger Train and lt ls
 Feared That Her Injuries
 VIII Prove Fatal.
MISS AMY JONES IS HURT

l Sullivan's vote was s3S and lSisers l9 The total vote polled was 357. There was no opposition to the democratic nominees for aldermen,
 The aldermen elected are as follows; First ward, I. A. Lewis and W. s. Eidse; Second ward, T. J. Bissett and J, D. o'Gara; Third ward, J. M Crook and A. A. Ross; Fourth ward, G. L. Van Trump and Rudolph Wegelln.
 The election was quiet all day and the total number of votes cast Is very small compared with the total number of regis tered voters in the city.
 The old city council will meet tomor- row night to canvass and declare the vote. The new officers will be sworn in and will take charge of the offices at once.
 A city clerk and chief of police are to be elected by the council. T. c, Cooke was nominated in the democratic primary for city clerk and George w Jones for chief of police. These nominees will be elected by the new council to the posi- tions for which they were nominated.
 Several minor offices to be filled will be supplied by election in the council. It | tests are already developing for some Of these positions.
 Miss Jones Suffers Accident.
 Miss Amy Jones, aged 65 years, was struck by a passenger train on the LOUIS vile and Nashville railroad this arter- noon at 2:42 O clock and is lying at St. | Vincents hospital In critical conol- l tion fro mthe effect of the shock | broken arm and other bruises. l Miss Jones was at the depot at the time intending to leave the city for visit. Just as the train, due at 2:R O'CLOCK, steamed up to the depot it is claimed that she started down the track to point where the coaches usually stop. She passed so close to the engine that It struck her on the side of the head and body throwing her some distance to the ground. Her arm was broken and the side of her face frightfully bruised
 She was taken up at once and carried to St. Vincents hospital where her ln- juries were dressed. She is an aunt of George w. Jones' who was nominated chief of police in the | late democratic primary and who Will be elected to that position at the first | regular meeting of the council elected to- day.
 and vicinity.
 The train carrying Miss Jones to Birm- ingham was met by Shaw & Sons ann bulance which carried her to St. Vim cents-
 Residence BurgIarized.
 The residence of c. c. Dickens on l Twenty-frst street between Arlington and Berkley avenue, was burglar1zed tonight | about o'clock and several articles or value taken. Among other things the burglars got a shotgun, several pieces of | live rd mi articles ing.
 The burglar or burglars entered the | building by breaking down the front door while Mrs. Dickens was at her husbands store on Carolina avenue.
 About nightfall Mrs. Dickens goes = the store and remains with her husband til he closes the store and goes home. Tonight when they reached their resi- dence they found the front door open | and the goods missing.
 Officers were notified of the burglary | at once and are making an investiga- 1 ton.
 Twenty-one Baptised. | Twenty-one converts of the revival meeting, that has been going on at the Baptist church at Jonesporo TOT the past 1 week, were baptised at Moore's Springs yesterday afternoon by the pastor. lne Rev. A. D. Glass. l It Is estimated that fully two thous- and people witnessed the baptismal cere- mony.
 The series of meeting closed last night. Next Wednesday night the members Of the church will hold the annual business meeting of the church and will call pastor for the ensuing year and also elect | d board of deacons.
 Notes and Personals. | The Jonesboro school opend this morn- | sx,1- ftt, ance The first three weeks will be paid term. The public term will begin at | the close of the three weeks. Prof J. E. Harrison is principal and he will be as- sisted in the school by Miss Bessie May Brown and Miss Stratlen | The Daughters of the Confectionery will | give a trolley excursion to East Lake to- morrow night. The cars will leave Besse- I mer promptly at 8 o'clock. The public | Is invited to attend. The excursion is given for the benefit of the organiza- l ton.
 Arvis Henderson, for several years con- nected with the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company, has rendered his resignation to take effect October 1, and will go with the Charlotte Supply Co. of Birmingham. Charles M. Ray, store | keeper at Henry Ellen, has accepted the place made vacant by the resignation | of Mir Henderson and will make Besse- l mer his home in the future. | A. R. Harris who for several years has held the position of head machinst for | the Bessemer Soil Pipe company, has re- signed and will go with the Woodward l Machine shop.
 | Henry Palmer is out after several days 1 illness.
 The Bessemer Soil Pipe company has | just completed the installation of a new | sixty horse-power engine. This concern l is making numerous Improvements in it's plant at this place. 1 Mayor Sullivan and the new aldermen 1 elected today held a meeting at the | city hall tonight. and mapped out their course for the future Capt J. M. Cook | who was elected alderman from the Third ward is still confined to his home, but is reported to be im- proving Alderman T. J. Bassett. eIcted | from the Second ward, Is in Louisville | on business but is expected to return home tomorrow in time to be sworn in at the first meeting of the council tomor- row night.
 1 Mrs. J. D. Johnson of Selma is vis- | iting her sister, Mrs. J. T. Crawford on Berkley avenue.
 | A meeting of citizens was held at Jones' boro tonight for the purpose of putting a new ticket in the field for city officers. | The result of the meeting has not been | learned.