The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-21
NEGRO CLAIMS He
"SMELLED DEATH"
Told Mother He Could Cure
Child for $3.50
NOW ON THE CHAIN GANG
Old Elliot Car Shops Will Go Into
Operation Today Under the Aus
plces of the Alabama
Great Southern.
NOW ON THE CHAIN GANG

Gadsden, August 2O.-(Special) DIR. o.
V. Mite, a co1ored divine healer of all
the ills of the fesh is a member of the
convict gang and is doing hard labor
for imposing upon the ignorance of his
race. Mite Is a negro and claims that
he is from the West Indies and is en-
dowed with power from on high to cure
sickness He has been practising his art
among the ignorant negroes until he was
arrested yesterday on the complaint OF
an old negro woman so years old for
securing money on the promise to cure
her, which he failed to do.
Considerable evidence was brought out
to prove his practice of his profession.
He went to the home of a negro woman
and saw her child sick, whereupon he told
the negro that he "smelled death in her
house, but that he could drive 1t away
for $3.50. The woman paid him the money
and he caught hold of the child's feet
and said: "Go way DEATH after which
he washed his hands in water and bless
ed it and told the woman to wash the
child in the water and it would get well.
This she did but the child did not re-
cover as Mite said it would. He was
fined $40 for his offense
Gadsden Schools to Open.
Gadsden public schools will open up on
the 4th of September, after their vaca-
ton of several months. The principal OF
the schools, Prof. w. e. Striplin, has re-
Gently made a canvas of the school
children of the city and he finds that the
| number is largely Increased over that
of two years ago. A fine corps of teach
ers has been secured for the coming term.
Wheels VIII Start Today.
After an idleness of two years or more
the old Elliot car shops, recently pur-
chased by the Alabama Great Southern
Railroad company, will go into active
operation Monday with crew of seven
tv-dve skilled workmen, which Will be
| increased as rapidly as possible up 10
| 225 men, large force of men has been
al work at the shops for the past month
cleaning up the yards, adjusting the ma
| chinery and installing new machines tnat
were needed. In the meanwhile the tracks
In the yards and all the switch tracks
| have been filling up with damaged cars
| from the Alabama Great Southern and
the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific roads, which are to be repaired
] here in the future. The plant Will give
! eunoyment to 300 men when in fuli OPP
| GRAFTON. increasing the monthly pay ron
of Gadsden by some $4,000 every montn.
The plant presents busy scene no"
where all was quiet and gloom rev
| months ago.
New Train to Start.
| r W. Whips. president of the Gadsden
| Commercial club, Is in receipt OF a let
Ter from T. E. Brooks, superintendent
of the Birmingham Mineral division OF
the Louisville and Nashville, In which ne
states that the Altoona accommodation
Iii no extended. TO Admission via Gads-
don on Sunday, the 9th of August. This
will give Gadsden a morning train to
! birmingham and an evening train from
Birmingham.
Rural Carriers to Meet.
The Rural Carriers association OF Eto-
wah county will meet at the court house
IN Gadsden on the I'd day of September
to transact important business me
association is called together by order
of President HUFF.
cadsden rural free delivery route No.
A will be established on the 1st OF sep
tember with Will w. Smith as carrier.
This gives GadSden TOUR rural fouleo' ~
last one opening up an unusually ricn
section of Etowah county, and serving
a incubation of 100 people. A new route
No. s. has been ordered established on
the 9Th of October out OF Fort Payne,
to serve 800 people. Several other ne"
routes in this territory will be estapllsh-
ed soon. Azell B. Britten, who has peen
in charge Of the rural routes in this the
Seventh congressional district, has Deeh
transferred to Florida. While mere MT
Britten went over every route IN the
Seventh district, some seventy-nVe, anu
also examined about fifty proposed routes
of which he recommended quite num-
ber
Getting Roadbed in Shape.
Superintendent John Lane has had a
large crew of men at work on the road
he'd of the Nashville Chattanooga and
ST Louis for the past week and they are
still Mt work repairing the road between
Gadsden and Guntersville, getting 1t in
condition for the heavy winter trade. This
road is said to have the best roadbed in
the state and accidents are very rare.
Singing Association Meets.
The Etowah County Sacred Harp Sing
ing association was in session for three
days the past week-Friday, Saturday and
today-and large crowds have been pres
ent every day and enjoyed the old fash
Toned way of singing. Quite a number OF
noted singers were present each day ana
the crowds were large and the Mt Car
mel Baptist church In West Gedsden,
where the singing was held, was too small
| to hold the crowds.