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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12

A Brooklyn printer ran of 100000 ob- scene post cards in an attic at cost of s2Oo. He put them on sale at two for five cents and after dividing with the fakirs his profits were $500. Jail Is too good for the unprincipled rascals who ply such bargains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

10 the journey of the dead. The coffin oox received little more consideration than would have been accorded a trunk. The dilapdated dress suit case and it's contents expressed in a pathetic way the poverty of it's owner. The man probably died at one of the city hos pitals, away from home and friends. if ne were fortunate enough to possess either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. post office as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8 1872
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12

Al Adams now signs himself Alfred Adams and has promised to reform. 1nasmuch as he has amassed enough money by swindling and robbery to keep him in opuent circumstances all the rest of his life, he can well afford to be good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12

N MONG ahe southern novelists who have attained to popularity in
 recent years. Will N. Harbin of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12

The echo of Jimmy Hyde's little French dinner was crash that shook the insurance world to it's foundations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12

A New Jersey man lost s4 and killed himself. He never would have made plunger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-12

L. IT Russ and George D. Britain are the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of The Age-Herald In its cir culation department
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
SAID SHE LIKED HER RIVAL.
hut Thrashed Her Before Hotel Breslin
AT Least the Cop Says So.

This is the story the cop told. Why he
made no arrest does not appear.
A well dressed man, fat and forty, accom-
panied by a vision in a gray tailormade
gown vision about % and blonde came
out Of the Twenty ninth street entrance OF
the Martha Washington Hotel and turned
west early last evening. Between Madi-
son avenue and Fifth q cab drove along
side the curb and large woman, 40 but not
fat, alighted and confronted the vision.
-Isn't 1t about time this came to stopf'
asked the woman from the cab, entirely
ignoring the man, who seemed to shrink
until he too was no longer fat. 1l've enough
evidence to start divorce suit, continued
the older woman, but l won't because Of
my children.
Il like you, too she admitted to the
vision. -but you must get out and stop
breaking up my home.
The vision 4 reply was firm but not polite
II was no sooner uttered than the peace
conference came to an end. The large
lady drew small whip from the folds Of
her dress and got busy. By this tirne the
trio had reached Broadway and we're in
front of the Breslln. As the whip descended
on the vision the man. who all the while
had said nothing and looked like less. came
to life md darted through an entrance Of
the hotel The vision ran for cab and
also disappeared, leaving the large woman
In possession of the fold.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
GUARDIAN FOR YOUNG WALKER.
whom Chorus Girl WIFE Ii Suing for Divorce
-Boyish Prank, Says John Brisben.

Supreme Court Justice Giegerich yes
terday appointed Justin c. Walker guar
dian ad Item Of his brother, Wilfrid d.
Walker, the youngest son Of John Brisben
Walker. editor Of the Cosmopolitan. who
Is being sued for divorce by his wife. q
former Chinese Honeymoon" girl.
Wilfrid was 20 years old on May Is last.
He was married on June 2. 1904, and was
an infant In the eyes Of the law. He is at
present living with his father at Irvington-
On-the-Hudson.
Mrs. Wilfrid d. Walker was Beatrice j.
Francis Dillworth, a member Of the Chinese
Honeymoon" company. In April Of this
year she fled papers In q divorce suit
against her husband in Providence, r. l.,
alleging desertion and extreme cruelty.
The summons and complaint in the suit
were served ON Aug. Is.
John Brisben Walker, when asked Last
night concerning the divorce suit, said
THE marriage was the result Of a boyish
prank. The whole thing was a mistake,
the lad was under age at the time and we
are trying to have the marriage annulled,'
Mr.. Walker said that he had never seen
his sons wife and did not know her maiden
name or present whereabouts.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
CALLS APPOINTMENTS ILLEGAL
Decision In DR.. Hale's Suit Strengthens
Value OF Civil Service Rank.

Value OF Civil service Rank.
The, Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn yesterday handed down
a decision sustaining the judgment Of
Justice william J. Gaynor in the case Of
DR.. William II. Hale against John I. Worstell,
Comptroller Circuit and others. The de-
cision will have an important bearing in
reference to appointments under the civil
service laws.
Dr. Hale was third on an eligible list for
the place Of superintendent OF public baths
and comfort stations, but the 81 $50 year
place WAS given to John T. Worstell. al
though he was seventh on the list, while
Joseph Mcnamara, who was seventeenth,
was appointed assistant superintendent at
salary OF 81 800 year. The appointments
of Worsteu and Mcnamara were made by
the so-ca!led transfer plan.
The former was in the CITY service and
his appointment by transfer was, as al
legged, In the way OF promotion. Mcnamara
at the time Of taking the civil service ex-
animation was not In the employ Of the city,
but after the examination he was appointed
4 third grade clerk with salary OF 400
a year. A few months later he was -trans-
ferred' to the assistant superintendency Of
public baths and comfort stations.
Dr. Hale, who Is employed In the bureau
Of Buildings. brought suit to have the ap-
pointments Of Worstell and McNamara
annulled on the ground that such promo
tons were unconstitutional and contrary
to OWL service law. and Justice Gaynor
upheld him. Whether the Casa Will he taken
to the Court OF Appeals will prob ably not
be decided until he return Of Comptroller
Circuit from Europe.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
B1G BUILDING TRADE STRIKE.
=, 800 Sheet Metal workers Quit To-day
-Mork on 100 BuilAinRl Tied lip.

. 800 Sheet Metal workers Quit To-day
Work on 400 Buildings Tied Up.
The Amalsamated Sheet Metal Workers
Union held special meeting late last night
In Everett Hall. East Fourth street, near
Third avenue. and decided ON q general
strike, to 60 into effect to-day, for an in
crease In wages from n to $3.50 q day.
The strike will Affect $500 workmen en-
ployed In forty seven shops, and will tie
up work on about 100 buildings In course
Of erection.
Tho Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers'
Union was working under the arbitration
agreement Of the Building Trades En-
ployess' Association, but according TO the
oficsr Of the union the employers did not
keep faith with its members. Tho follow
Ing statement was made after tho meeting
by J. Knight, president Of the union:
1The employers promised rs an advance
from a to a so day In the beginning Of the
present year. but failed 10 keep their promise.
Their estimates were based on the $50 rate.
so that they were in position to pay 1t.
We waited until now. and then sent dele
CATION to the executive committee Of the
employers reminding them Of their promise
We got no satisfaction and Tonight the strike
was declared. It will not affect q number Of
independent employers who have agreed
20 our demand. but will affect all thu asso-
ciAtion employen."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
SAW ECLIPSE AT SEA.
Passengers on tho Main Had Fine View
Of the Observation.

Passenger on tho Main Had . Fine View
Of the Observation.
The mist veil that hid tho eclipse from
observers in this neighborbood did not
extend more than about 100 miles to sea,
and passengers aboard the North German
Lloyd steamship Main, In yesterday from
Bremen, had fine view Of the partial
obscuration on Wednesday morning, whom
the Main was about $40 miles east Of Sandy
Hook.
Chief Officer Gossling made drawings OF
the eclipse, and two young women school,
teachers who live in the West took snap
shots Of the sun when the shadow was
largest. Photographic plates were used
by observers in place OF smoked glass,
which was scarce. and some Of the passen-
gers with eyeglasses and spectacies smoked
one lens and thus saw the phenomen on
without endangerine their eyesight. The
sky was very clear and the SEA smooth,
and nearly every adult passenger IN cabin
and Storage was out on deck.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
UPPERCUT FOR THE SLEUTH.
Lively Scrap In Criterion HOtei-AIleged
Handbook Man Locked Up.

Lively Scrap In Criterion HOtei-Alleged
Handbook Man Locked Up.
Detective Charles Lehers of the Tender
loin station attempted to arrest Charles
Davis In the cafe OF the Criterion Hotel
yesterday afternoon and met with several
reverses before he succeeded. Lebers had
been watching Davis for several days, and
he says that yesterday he sent stool pigeon,
who placed bet with Davis on Snuff at
the Sheepshead track.
It was then that Lebers walked up and
placed his hand on Davis's shoulder in the
ancient form, but Davis, instead Of smiling
sadly, as the polished villain does in the play,
landed fine uppercut that sent Lebers to
the floor.
While the detective was striving to regain
his dignity Davis ran through the rear
door OF the cafe and started upstairs to
the hotel rooms. Lebers was hindered
In his efforts to follow bv several OF Davis's
friends. but he managed to throw them on
and catch Davis by the coat tail at the head
Of the stairs. Davis was putting up stiff
fight when the arrival Of two husky Broad
wav COPS from the traffic squad ended tho
battle.
Davis was locked up charged with opera
ting handbook.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
CYRUS TOWNSEND HH4DY SIZES.
Wants S4S 900 From Isss Ess Company for
Story That Has Been DramatiZed.

StOTy hhat kbVCu
The Rev. DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady
has begun an action against the Ess Ess
Publishing Company to recover SIS 900
damages and to enjoin that corporation
and Tim Murphy from paying out money
gained by the Use Of the drama "A Corner
in Coffee" Of which the plaintiff alleges
he is the author. DIR. Brady says he wrote
a serial story and sold it to the Ess Hss
company but reserved the right to drama
tie it.
He alleges that the story was drama
tiled by Owen Davis and is being presented
in various theaters in this and other States
He notified The company that they were
infringing on his rights and they re-
piled that they had purchased all the
rights when they paid him $500 for the
story. Yesterday through his counsel
he applied to Supreme Court Justice Burr
in Brooklyn for an order compelling the
Ess Ess company and Tim Murphy to
deposit all moneys which the defendants
receive as royalties in Il trust company
until the suit Is decided
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
TOOK INSANE MEN TO CHICAGO.
Manhattan State Hospital Attendants Ar
rested for Conspiracy.


CHICAGO, Aug. si.-Anthony Aub and
Joseph Coffey. representatives Of the Man
haitian state Hospital. New York. were ar
rested for conspiracy to-day. They ap-
peared at the Harrison street police station
with four other men and said they we're sent
to Chicago with instructions to deliver
the quartet to the chief Of police. Their
prisoners were John Barley, DR.. Martin
Molitor, Albert Kearn and Harry Harvey.
Chief Of Police Collins was communicated
with and after questioning the six men Capt.
Backus ordered them all locked up. Bark
ley told the police his mother, Mrs. Sarah
Barley, lives at 1907 Oakenwald avenue.
John Belmont, county agent, questioned
tho man and decided to obtain warrants
for the arrest of Aub and Coffey. charging
them with conspiracy. He ordered the four
other men taken to the detention hospital.
The warrants charge Aub and Coffey with
attempting to dispose Of demented men In
Illinois while they are not residents Of this
State.
Supt. Dent OF the Manhattan State Hos
pital said last night that the patients in
question had been examined by the State
Board Of Alienists, who decided that they did
not belong in New York but were reaidents
Of Illinois. Acting on the advice Of tho board.
Supt. Dent notified the authorities In Chicago
and sent Aub and Codey on With the pa
tisnts. -s 1872 s''.-- - A = ~
As soon a. the superintendent learned
OF the arrest OF his attendants he tele-
graphed to the secretary Of the Illinois
State Board OF Charities to investigate
the matter and look out for the comfort
OF the prisoners. DR.. Dent safd that the
arrest was great mistake and would
doubtless be corrected at once by the Chi
cago authorities.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
AMERICANS SNAPPED ECLIPSE.
TIVE Expeditions Report Perfect Results
British Observers Failed.
Special Gable Despatch to THE SUN.

Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN.
AssoUAN, Egypt, Aug. 31.-The American
astronomers under Prof H. j. .Hussey Of
the Lick Observatory successfully per-
formed their complete program for the
observation Of the eclipse. Eight plates
were exposed for the intermercurial planets
and composite battery Of four telescopes
was used. One plate was exposed for the
general coronal spectrum.
LONDON, Aug. 3l.-The Solar Physics
Observatory received to-day Sir Norman
Lockyer's report OF the eclipse. Sir Nor
man is at the head Of the party Of British
astronomers who were to have observed the
eclipse from a point In Algiers. But the
authorities Of the port Of Philippeville
refused to allow the cruiser Venus which
carried them, to anchor there. Conse-
quently they went to Palma. In the island
Of Majorca.
Sir Norman reports that the weather
there was very bad at the time Of the eclipse.
80 that the observations had Indifferent
results.
Prof Hugh Calendar OF the Royal Col
lege Of Science, who observed the eclipse
at Castellon de la Plana, Spain, reports
that clouds entirely obscured the totallty.
The first and last contacts were observed
in a clear sky. Good records we're made Of
the radiation and temperature.
WASHINGTON, Aug. si-The following
was issued at the Navy Department to-day:
Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, commanding
the special service squadron which was
formed In June to proceed to Spain and
the northern coast Of Africa for the purpose
Of observing a solar eclipse occurring ON
Aug. 80, reports as follows:
observations Of eclipse in Spain perfect
In every respect
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
HOLLAND HOUSE aELEss UNPAID
Ysung Man Who Says He's Rich @flisss1.
RAMS Son Locked Up In TenderfAig.

Ysung Man Who Says He's Rich .Siisssu.
RAMS Son Locked Up In Tenderfai9.
A young man who said that he was Horaee
a. Bruins, the son Of rich manufacturer
Of St. Charles Mo-, was arrested last night
by a private detective OF the Holland House
and locked up In the Tsnderloin police
station, charged with having beaten the
hotel out Of $29eos.
Bruins arrived at the hotel on Aug. 70
and registered as H, Algernon Brooks of
he looks much older, and impressed
the clerk that the absence OF zngsS 70 was
unnoticed. Soon after rams O. D.
packa ges began to arrive foJ go LB when
he was out and, rs IL the ,NI,tom. they
we're paid for by the hotel people and the
amount added to the guests hill.
The house detective. Williams, @Bsoame
suspicious at last. and when the bill reached
$3.50 90 last night he drew the young man
aside and asked him to pay. BROOKS said
that he had no money, and then. according
to the detective, confessed to having regis
tered under an assumed name. At the
station house he gave the name Of Bruins
and handed the sergeant a card which he
said was his fathers. 1t bore the inscrip-
ton Horace A. Bruins, president Of the
Bruins Machine Company, st. Charles. Mo-
The hotel people telegra phed to st.
Charles, but said that they meant to make
an example of Bruins and press the charge.
The police are inclined to believe the young
mans story but he will be taken to Head
quarters to-day to be looked over, In case
some one should recognize him as an old
offender
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
FOURTHTEVEsIN HER BATHROOM
Minnie seligman Figures IN . Capt-re
Cops Coultin't Make

Cops C0uldn't Make
Police Headquarters called up Sergt.
Stahl Of the West Forty seventh street
station about 1880 O'Clock last night, and
told him to hustle q bunch Of active cops
to q vacant house at 3i4 West Forty sixth
street.
Jacob Marmon; caretaker Of the house.
had notified headquarters that four men
had broken into tho place. Stahl sent De-
teotives Kruger. Fitzpatrick, Curry, Shea
and Quinn. When they got there Marmon
told them the four men had got on to the
roof and were going east by the skylight
route.
necks. The detectives went to the roof of
3i4. but tho four mon had disappeared.
The sleuths were on their way back to the
station house when the maid OF Minnie
Seligman, the actress, who lives at the
Lyric apartments, telephoned Police Head
quarters that abe had four burglars locked
up In Miss Seligman's bathroom and please
wouldn't the police hurry up.
The sergeant got into comm unication
with the five detectives and sent them
to Miss Seligmanis apartmenta. They
found in the bathroom James Decker Of Ssi
West Forty ninth street. Thomas Watson
Of 4s2 West Fity-sixth street, James Con-
ners Of the same address and John Fulton
Of 4o4 West Nfty-third street. They told
the polics they had run over the roofs
from 3i4 and got into the apartment house
through an open scuttle.
They were locked up in the West Forty
seventh street station charged with at
tempted burglary.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
THREAT TO KILL JEFF DAVIS,
Attorney.Gene Rogers Made II to the
GWernor's Face.

H1oa1NsoN, Ark, Aug. STA threat to
kill Gov. JEFF Davis OF Arkansas was made
to his face this morning by Attorney
General Bob Rogers.
Gov. Davis, who Is candidate for the
United States senate, reached here this
morning, intending to drive to Griffith
Vile, twent = miles. whore he was due to
deliver an address,
Rogers. who 10 a candidate for Congress,
appeared here about the same time, to the
surprise and alarm OF Gov. Davis and his
party. At the station Rogers stepped up
to Gov. Davis and exclaimed: II in your
speech to-day you attack my private
character in any way. as you have done
in tbs past, will kill you instantly"
Hot words followed, but friends pre-
vented trouble on the spot. Feeling has
existed between Rogers and Davis since
Rogers held up tho militia appropriation
bill,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
YALE MEN FIGHT FIRE. y
which Ilestrsys Mrs, AiehaFd Harding
Dsvts's md ether DsOs,


Dsvis's md other DsU,
While several members OF the Ysls Chb
were looking at the dogs in Johhson's Zen
nels, next door TO the club, last night .
lamp exploded, setting fire 10 the dogs
bedding. The burning oil was scattered
every where. and the men fed each carrying
q dog or two. The Yale men ran into the
club and turned in an alarm.
The kennels are at siX West Forty
fourth street and extend In an l. back Of
the Yale Club. The spread Of the flames
was very rapid. but the Yale men dragged
out the club hose and. attaching 1t to
stand pipe. got a stream on the fire long
before the arrival OF the hremen.
A half hours fight ended the FIRE, and 1t
was then found that several dogs were dead
or missing. AFrench bull belonging to Mrs.
Richard Harding Davis, TERROR belong
ing to George Bonifsce, and four French
bulls owned by Mr.. and Mrs. Putnam Brad
lee Strong are believed to have been burned.
Trixie, handsome bull bitch, and five
other dogs are among the missing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
CLOSER ALLIES THAN EVER.

Now Treaty Guarantees Engiand and
Japan Against Even Single Power.
Spseta, Cable Dssss,eh<o TIE Sun.
LONDON, Aug. M-An unoflicia! vereion
Of the new Anglo-Japaue~e treaty says
1t was signed ct the Foreign Once on Aug.i2
by the Marquis Of LAnsdowne, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and vkoount Hayashi.
the japanese Minister At London.
The statement adds that, while secrecy
Is maintained regarding tho exact terms.
1t Is document Of far reaching importance.
1t affords mutual guarantees for the pro-
lection Of British and japanese interests.
oven II tho two contracting Powers are
threatened by only . single Power. and
assures the maintenance Of the status quo
In the Far East.
The new treaty win be found = most
powerful factor In insuring the Speace
Of the world 20 far a. theAsr Fast Ia con-
Oerned,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
BLOWN TO BITS IN The SKY.
BALDWIN AND HIS AIRSHIP CAME
DOWN IN FRAGMENTS.
Horror Viewed by n 900 People At Fair
Six Sticks " Dynamite Exploded NJ
Once and No Ono win Ever Know Hsw
--AerOnaut's Wife Faints 1t sight.


Granville; Ohio, Aug. al.-Prof. A.
Baldwin, an sirship exhibitor, was blown
to bits by the explosion Of six sticks Of
dynamite in his balloon while 800 feet
In the air to-day. His wife and two chill
dren were In the crowd Of Is 900 persons
who saw the calamity.
Baldwin was giving daily exhibitions at
the county fair. He would ascend several
Thousand feet in the air and explode half
dozen sticks Of dynamite at different
times. To-day he had mounted 1 500 feet
In the air and his airship was soaring az
gracefully as a bird. While the thrilled
crowd was watching there appeared In
the sky where the airship had been q great
cloud OF smoke. Seconds later came
great boom from the clouds. Fragments
Of man and airship began to fall. Baldwin
had been blown to pieces by the explosion.
Parts OF his body were picked up from
space OF several acres and removed to
Q morgue.
Baldwin's wife screamed when she saw
tho smoke, long before the explosion was
heard. for her practised eye told her Of
the tragedy which had occurred In the
clouds. She fell In a dead faint before the
vast crowd had realized what was hap
pening.
No one -can tell how the accident occurred.
The six sticks Of dynamite exploded stimuli
taneously. as only one report was heard.
baldwin daily carried with him sufficisnt
dynamite to have blown himself and his
ship into atoms. Many women tainted
as the fra gments Of the ship and the I'M
lucky seronauts body fell.
Baldwin was from Losantville, Ind,
and was 80 years old. He had been en-
ICED for long while in giving balloon
and airship exhibitions At county fairs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
DIR. HUNT ARRESTED AT CONEY.
Bigamy Charge. Say NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Says Wife's Lawyer.

DR.. T. X. Hunt, said to be an ex-army
surgeon from the Philippines, and the man
who brought the Igorrotes to Coney Island,
was arrested in Dreamland last night on a
charge of bigamy. Fred c. Mclaughlin Of
80 Liberty street, who is attorney for Hunts
wife. said there was some mistake in the
charge.
Il have had man at Coney Island watch
ing for DR.. Hunts return, he said. Il wished
TO have him arrested on charge Of aban-
donment and non-support OF his wife and
three-year child. There is no charge Of
bigemy, 80 far "a / know.
sDr Hunt met his wife In the Philippines
four years ago. She was a trained nurse.
About a year ago while in New York he
abandoned her and has not contributed to
her support. she Ii now destitute. Al
though know nothing of the warrant on
which he was arrested, ! shall advise Mrs.
Hunt to appear against him when he Is
arraigned In court and ask that he be put
under bonds to support her,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01

Let's 90 TO Block Island.
Wen stay there q while and
Encourage our microphagcs-
Wen absorb iodine
From tho cir and the brin-
= vster about Manisscs. Ads.