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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Young, a negro. was fined s25 on charge Of disorderly conduct.
 Several others were given fines of va rious denominations on various charges.
 In announcing the sentences of the per- sons charged with gambling, the Mayor put the men on notice that the second offense would be rewarded with the full limit of the law, s10O.
 School Exercises.
 The public school classes are making extensive preparations for the commence ment exercises to be given this week. The programme and the fact that Mrs Annie Glenn Grove is in charge of this feature Is a guarantee that it will be attractive.
 One of the principal features of the programme is address by Dr. J. II. Phillips of Birmingham. which will be delivered Thursday night.
 The public schools of Bessemer have had a very successful year.
 Notes and Personals.
 The Eagles and Beavers will play a DeNSCpeNAi tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
 P. l.. Huey is at Marion, where he at tended the funeral of his father this morning. His father, B. NJ Huey, died last Saturday evening, after long ill., ness.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. w Sweet have gone to Sheffield, where they will spend a week or ten days. Mr. Sweet has branch furniture business at that place. Bessemer city court will reconvene next Monday morning. when important cases will be tried before juries.
 Engineers, said to be in the employ of the Atlantic. Birmingham and Atlanta Railroad company, are still at work in this vicinity, and it is understood to be a. certainty that that road will be built through Bessemer. Much interest is be- ing taken in the operations in this vicinity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
NEVILLE HARRIS
 DROWNS IN RIVER
SON OF PROMINENT JACKSON, MISS, MAN LOSES LIFE WHILE SWIMMING-BoDY HAS NOT YET BEEN RECOVERED.

Jackson Miss, May 8.-(special 1.-The people of Jackson have come to the con clusion that it never rains but it pours. One more tragedy is to be credited to the Capitol City Melville Harris, son of J. B. Harris, one of the most promn- nent lawyers in the state, having been drowned in Pearl river this afternoon.
 Young Harris was about B years of age and in company with another lad of about his own age had gone 70 the swim ming pool During the progress of the baseball game between Jackson and Meridian, the boy who was with Harris came painting with the nrst information of the accident, and more than half the audience was soon securing across the old fair grounds to the river a mile dis tant At D. m. the body had not been recovered though scores of men and boys are diving in the cold water by lantern light
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29


 mingham delivered an address before the religious societies connected with the in- stituton
 The feature of the commencement today was an industrial parade participated in by 400 negro boys and girls. headed by the college band. In the parade almost every industry followed by negroes in this ooun> try was represented, with students and their instructors. Exercises were then held In the college pavilion.
 Essays and orations by the students fol- lowed the parade. and certificate were awarded as follows: Cooking g. dress making D. nurse training 9. sewing 15 mill linery 15, machinery l. printing A. shoe making 4. carpentry 10. laundering 1. ag- rlculture g.
 In awarding the certificates. President Councll delivered d short address in which he told the young men and women to strive to make friends. that whatever was worth doing at all was worth doing well. and they were admonished to so work and act in life as to make theni- selves indispensable. He referred 10 his own work. and held mp many negroes who had made success in the south. He did not deem it necessary to go northrs to succeed. but 1t could be obtained right iD the south Il believe that the futurelpf my people Is in the south" he said. md let us prepare to make it." s. Tonight the graduating exercises of 1ile normal department was held. and -1he Rev. k. c. Ransom. D D.. of Boston de- EYered the address
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Neoro Woman Shot By Cripple.

Gadsden. May 2S.-(Special.)- )-Robert Baker, a cripple living in Attalla, was arrested and placed in jail today charged with shooting negro woman at his home in that place Saturday. The woman had made herself very objectionable to Ba- ker's family and he had warned her to keep away. Saturday she returned and Baker opened fire on her. shooting five shots at her, only one of which took eff feet. and 1t is thought this will prove fat ata1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
srewton May Get New Postoffce

Brewton, May 2S.-tSpecial.) )-The pros poets for Brewton getting a new postoffice building seems to be more favorable now than at any time since the citizens be- gan agltating the question several weeks ago. Homer M. Kintz, assistant super intendent of the division of salaries and allowances in the postoffice department at Washington, was here comforting with citizens and Investigating the proposition that had been made relative to the erec- tion of new and permanent home for the postoffce in Brewton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Freight Reductions.

w. F. Vandiver, president of the Mont gomery freight bureau, is back from what proved to be the most successful trip he has made since he, with his associates, began work to secure freight rate re- ductions in the Montgomery territory. He induced the railroads to make concessions on freight charges on goods used in this market that will amount to a saving to the business men of something like $150. 600 a year. And that is only a begin ming we feel confident" said MT. Van diver when talking of the results of his trip.
 The meeting at which these concessions were made was that of the Southeastern Freight association and the South Mis- sissippi Valley association, in joint ses- sion at Hot Springs, Va. MT. Vandiver was there several days and went over the ground carefully with all the traffic men present. He was able to make them see that this point ds entitled to what he was asking for a number of reasons and it was given with good grace. Added to other reductions of few weeks ago the showing Is very good one indeed for the work of the freight bureau not yet year old.
 MT Vandfver has given a great deal of his time to the work of the bureau since its organization and is greatly pleased with the liberal response the traffic lines has made to requests. He says that they have been quick to hear and anxious to do everything they can to meet the situa- tion The prospect Is bright for many more reductions on goods largely handled at this point.
 Will Carmichael Run?
 It is reported here that A. H. Car michael, recently nominated for the leg islature in Colbert counTy. will be an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
chanaes In Oil Companies.

Huntsville, May 2S.-(Special.)- )-The Butler Kyser oil company of Huntsville has purchased the plant of the Fayette oil company of Fayette. Miss, and will operate 1t under the management of J. M. T<yser The Fayette plant cost about $4o,O0o and is q sixty-ton mill. The But ler-Kyser company will also operate the large oil mill at Albertville. Ala. which it purchased recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Lawyer Attempts Suicide.

Decatur, May 2S.-(Special. )-Yesterday well known lawyer of Florence. Ala, Sam Frieson, made an unsuccessful at tempt to commit suicide in the back room of Owens restaurant on Lafayette street. by cutting his throat with a butcher knife. As it was he gashed his throat terribly. making 1t necessary to take twenty-two stitches to sew up the gash. The timely arrival of physicians saved his life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
HEAVY DOCKET IN
 BESSEMER COURT. Gamblers Warned of Full Limit
 of Punishment HIGH SCHOOL EXERCISES pr. J. H. Phillips of Birmingham Will Address the Graduating Class Next & Thursday Night-Notes
 and Personals.
HIGH SCHOOL EXERCISES

Bessemer. May 2S-(Special)-Mayor Sullivan had quite a heavy docket in po- lice court this morning, there being a number of cases of more or less import ance.
 A number of young men charged with gambling were assessed various fines. ranging in amounts from $7.5O to S25. Nine of these men were arrested in one haul Sunday morning by Night Captain Christ Heb.
 Eugene McAllister. white man who recently escaped from the street force, was given an additional fine of $27.5O Cy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Woodworkinq Plant for Selma.

F.. II. Holder, president of the Calera Townsite company, spent yesterday at Ca1era, Ala. where he met with the representative of the Alabama Cooper age company. and closed contract for es- tablishing at Calera one of the largest woodworking plants in the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Congressman Bowie was in Talladega last Friday. that MT. Whitson is d popu- lar and able lawyer. who has been a member of the stale committee for some time, and that Calhoun, Cleburne and Shelby will not likely have candidates of their own. Calhoun has a plethora of candidates now, with John B. Knox for alternate senator. Gunnells for superin- tendent of education, Crook for commits sioner of agriculture, T. N. Coleman for associate justice of the supreme court. and Fred Blackmon for president of the senate. Cleburne has nearly always allied itself with Calhoun when it came to q shown down. and Shelby has done the same to Talladega, or course Talladega has another candidate in Alex Garber. who is unopposed for attorney general, but not q great deal of figure will be cut thereby.
 Dallas and Chiffon will. therefore, find themselves compelled to become allies, but will naturally be impotent against the four others if the alliance as framed up" above is carried out.
 This end of the district will therefore,. look for an opening, and no doubt will find the way to put in q wedge which will upset the calculations presumed in the foregoing. Altogether 1t looks as If old times will come again in the Fourth district and the pot will be kept boiling in and out of season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Policies issued by "old line" companies on Tontine, accumulative and deferred distribution plan purchased at higher prices than com panies pay. Bring policies. save time. Cash paid. P. w. Hall, National Bank Build. ing. Phones 608.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
California Medicated Healing Soap.

CaIIfornIa MedIcated Healing Soap.
 This wonderful Healing Soap is now on sale, and besides itswonderful Heal. ing properties, we guarantee that mos qultoes will not bite where it is used according to directions. Call on or address MRS. c. V. WILSON, Care Reads Furniture Co.,, 1915 Sec
 ond Ave, Bessemer, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
FINANCES MAKE
 GREAT SHOWING Receipts for First Six Months Inspire Confidence POLITICS AT THE CAPITOL Bowie's Announcement Has Set Many Tongues Going In Speculation
 as to His Probable
 Successor.
POLITICS AT THE CAPITOL

Montgomery May 2S.-(special)-Th outlook is now quite good for much better financial showing at the end Of the present fiscal year of the state than at the closing of the last although that of 1905 was regarded as especially fine. For the year ending September 30, l9Oo the total cash receipts of the state were 8, ,S53 537. .S9, for the first six months of the present fiscal year they have been s2.911 ,0s215, only S442 i55.74 less than for the entire year of 1905.
 For the same time. however there have been quite heavy expenses. For the first six months of 1905 the total disburse- ments were s2,001.O .O72; for the same time this year they have been s2,195717, the difference being s194645. The receipts up to May 24, of this year nave been SS2SS- S15, compared to s2sS3,167 for the same time last year, the difference in favor of this year being $S55, ,14S. If the difference in expenses be taken from the excess re- ceipts it will be found that there has been a net excess so far this year of nearly BOO 001
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

aspirant for the office or speaker. This
 is not authentic but 1t has come pretty
 straight that he has the busy bee buzzins
 in his hat and will be ready to let him
 out to the political breezes in few days Carmichael is q son of Judge J. M Carmichael, state auditor, and is one of the best known of the younger men
 of the state
 The candidacy of MT. Carmichael would complicate matters to some extent. John Wallace of Madison, not yet nominated. Is going to try for the honors, as will Tyler Goodwin of Montgomery and Joseph J. Arnold of Calhoun. There is also a possibility of Lyons of Mobile coming dn, and the Jefferson county crowd is not committin itself until it finds out
 whether it wants the place or not Besides MT. Carmichaels friends in North Alabama he is well heeled in the Wiregrass. where his father, long an astute politician. knows the people and the way. and a brother has a long arm
 of influence. His entry into the race would make things very much more than
 a tame fight
 Dimmck Postmaster. The appointment of Joseph Dimmiel today as postmaster of Montgomery made | sensation in political circles that has not had an equal in many days. II was thought by many that Henry Irwin, as- | sistant postmaster would land for the post if Judge c. w. Buckley, the present | incumbent, did not secure the place again. l Failing in both these it was anticipated l that Capt. T. C. Pollard or any one of two or three other applicants might have
 d chance. But MT. DimmiclS-why no one l knew that he was d candidate.
 l MT. Dimmick is a son of United States l Court Clerk DimmclS at this place. He l is a graduate of Harvard, and while well
 known and generally a favorite. is one Of those modest sort of fellows who do l little blowing on their own account He has been chief deputy to his father for
 number of years, and has been good republican from his swaddlng clothes. There seems no doubt of his efficiency. and 1t Is thought that he will make an acceptable man to all interests. The failure of MT. Irwin to get the place will be a great disappointment to his many friends 1t also seems to indi- date that the referees of the President, Charles Scott and J. O. Thompson, are
 not worth much if one wants an office.
 They, with the balance of the party or ganization in the state. urged the appoint ment of MT. Irwin from the first.
 The news of the appointment of Mir. Dimmick came about o'clock by press
 wire, and 1t was soon known pretty well over the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Bowie's Successor.

The announcement by Congressman Sid ney J, Bowie of the Fourth district that he will not stand for reelection came as a surprise to his friends in this part of the state. It seems that he has reached the conclusion that it is time he resume the practice of law. seeing little In a polit- ical career calculated to advance his fnan- cial interests He will go with E. H. Ca banss of Birmingham taking the place of S. D. Weakley, who resigned to ac- cept the appointment of chief justice of the supreme court.
 Mr. Bowies retirement has. of course set the tongues to wagging. Several men are talked of for the vacancy-C. C. Whit son of Talladega, member of the state democratic committee; Cecil Browne of Talladega. H. r. Reese and w. w. Quarles of Selma. and R. P. Thomason of Oxford, who made the race at one time. All these are men Of large ac- ouaintance in the state, and there seems no reason from their careers to think either would not be credit to the faomus sEoe-string district. once represented by the immortal Forney, loved as few men in Alabama public life have been. It is un- derstood that many of Mir. Bowie's friends will be in line with MT. Thomson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
WOMAN ID ARGUE
 HER CASE IN COURT
Mrs, Prickett has Brought Suit
 for AIimony
MANY ARE IN TUSCALOOSA
State Officials Have Gone to Attend ebration-Surprise Was Caused By the Appointment of Dim
 mick as Postmaster.

Montgomery, May .-(Special.)-M Balzorah Priekett will argue her own case before the supreme court tomorrow. in the which she has brought suit for alimony against her husband, Luther $. Priclxett, who, she alleges, has abandoned and refused to support her.
 The original suit was filed in the chan cery court of Clay county Mrs. Prieket. conducting her own case and losing to the extent of having the court decide that it had no jurisdiction, this ground being that us the plaintiff is a resident of Tal- ladega county the suit should have been brought there.
 Mrs. Priekett sued in Clay county be- cause lands which they bought as husband and wife were located there. She alleges that just after their marriage in 1892 they moved to Clay county and bought farm. That she gave not only of her labor but her money for 1t; that her husband left there and went to Jefferson county, where, in the early part of 1902, he abandoned her. She says she was forced to work in a cotton mill which has greatly injured her health. She thinks that the husband should take care of her from the property they jointly bought.
 'I do not know about the law said Mrs Prickett, but I will do the best can to make the court understand my position and my needs"
 Mrs. Prlckett is rather small but very determined young woman who seems able to take care of her own interests.
 Alabama News Notes.
 Many of the capitol officials are at Tus- caloosa to attend the commencement ex- l ercises of the State university, among them being Governor Jeks and his record ing secretary. William J. Conniff. Super intendent of Education l. w. Hill and 1 others. The governor will hardly return before Wednesday night.
 Among the visitors to the capital today are Fred Blackmon and Hugh Merrill of Anniston, who have important litigation in the supreme court. MT. Merrill repre- sents Heflin in the controversy now on between that town and Edwardsville with regard to the removal of the court house from the latter to the former named place.
 Notice of the incorporation of the Stand ard Copper Pyrtes company of Delaware has been filed with the secretary of state. R. R. Zell of Birmingham Is the Alabama agent.
 The Stone Loan company has been in- corporated at North Birmingham, with a capital of s4000. George and A. Stone and W. B. Cole, Sr, are the incorpoators
 These have been appointed notaries by the governor: Mrs. Nellie Wiley, Mont gomery; J. H. McLendon Birmingham; J,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Summe CT tourist rates are now in effect to mountain, ake and seashore resorts via. Queen & Crescent route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

The address of B. B. Conner, in which he asserts that Dr R. M. Cunningham, his opponent for the office of governor, would not agree to meet him in joint de- bate at certain times and places to be agreed upon, has not been effective in stirring up any interest in the guberna- torial race at the capital, in spite of the fact that 1t was a very salty document. The fact that Dr. Cunningham has agreed to meet Mir Conner at Selma is regarded as the doctors answer to the accusation of fear to engage in wordy war on questions that they seem pretty well agreed upon.
 There is somewhat of note taken among the politicians of the series of speeches which Dr. Cunningham will make in the wire grass section of the state this week, opening at Ozark Thursday morning. He will get in talks at Ozark, Newton, Pick ard and Midland City in one day after which he will hurry over to Dothan and later on make a short run through Henry county It is claimed that Cunningham has large following in that section, though MT. Corners friends contend that il will go for him on election day.
 MT. Conner will be busy with the railroad commission inspections all the week, and will have a meeting of the commission at the capitol next week, so he will not be able to make a great many speeches with in the next fortnight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Poll Tax Is Remarkable.

Though this increase runs to every line of the states resources that of the poll tax is perhaps the most remarkable. It is shown that the receipts from this source for 1906 all in and being the polls of 1905, are $117,6SS.95, compared to the previous year s90,6S5.11, the increase being $27, ,003s4 The total general tax last year was $740SS1.eS, for six months of this year. s6S0 0S9. 36; soldier tax, last year. $3O9 2S5; six months of this year, s2S4747; schools, last year, 1928 O0e, SIX months of this year sS52,5O1.
 The total income from the convict de- partmemt last year was s561, ,24l, with a net income of $293, 29l. The gross this year, with somewhat of a heavier ex- pense for the first six months is $345, ,433 The outlook is the total net will exceed that of 1905 by about $35 0O0. For the first half of the present year the returns from the insurance department have been S104.- 346; for last year $97,396. So far this year there have been received for mortgage taxes S43, i16 and from corporations $10,0 Licenses have provided revenue to the amount of $S26.325 and the department of agriculture $S0,909
 There are many items of receipts yet to come in and it is well established that the record for the year is going to be one to make every citizen of the state feel proud of himself.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-06
All Chemically Pure

The mistaken idea of a few years
ago, about Alum in Baking Powders
being injurious, no longer prevails, or
scarcely exists. 1t is a well estab.
lished fact by chemical analysis that
Cream of Tartar being less volatile
than Alum, when exposed to heat, is
not entirely vaporized as is the case
with Alum, but leaves a residue in the
bread, which is injurious. Alum, on
the contrary, is entirely evaporated
while performing it's function during
process of baking, leaving no atom of
injurious residuous substance. The
words Chemically Pure" enormously
used to designate Cream of Tartar
from Alum baking powder is a mis-
homer. Baking Powder made of pure
Alum is as chemically pure as made
from pure cream of tartar. These
words mean nothing more nor less
than pure chemicals, and in no way
can they imply that one baking pow
der is Alum and another Cream of
Tartar. Alum has been declared to be
wholesome; an established fact. Ev
cry large water system in the cities
along the Missouri river use Alum in
large quantities to purify the water
before pumping it into their water
mains for consumption. Cream of Tar
tar baking powder is perhaps good
enough for any one; Alum baking
powder is better, and very much
cheaper.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-06

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