The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
BEN GLAZE KILLED
 IN DRUNKEN ROW Bill Amos and Will Hagan Charged With Murder ALL ARE WHITE MEN Failure of Cincinnati Brokers Again temporarily Delays Sale of eads-
 den Sewer, Street and
 Water Bonds.
ALL ARE WHITE MEN

tails of a murder committed at midnight Saturday at Brewton's bridge, about ten miles from this city, reached here to- day. Ben Glaze, a young white man was shot and almost instantly killed at his fathers home by one of a party of five drunken men.
 About 10:3O o'clock five men called at the home of Gill Glaze, the murdered mans father, and asked for a drink of water, which was given them. They en- tered the house and sat down and began to curse and abuse each other. MT. Glaze asked them to stop cursng and to leave the house, this they declined to do. About this time Ben Glaze and Jeff Glaze ar rived home from this city. The entire party sat down to supper and commence ed to curse and quarrel again. Ben Glaze remonstrated with them, but this only made matters worse and he got up from the table and made an effort to get a shot gun which was nearby, one of the men knocked him down and took the gun away from him. About this time a pistol was pointed at Ben Glaze by one of the men, Bertie Wright, a member of the household, grabbed the pistol and di- verted it. the man then wrenehed it from her hand and fired the second time, kill ing Glaze. The ball entered his left side and death was almost instantaneous.
 The names of the men who were in the party are said to be- Will Hagan, Joe Wallace Sutton. No arrests have been made.
 The coroner empanel a jury today and investigated the killing Following is the verdict of the jury:
 We, the jury, find that Ben Glaze came to his death by the gun or pistol fired by the hand of Bill Amos or Will Hagan both men have made good their escape"
 Coroner ordered the arrest of Bertle Wright. Joe Lee, Nelia Whit and Wall lace Suttles to be held as witnesses. They all were placed in jail
 Bond Sale Delayed
 Owing to the sensational failure of A. l.. Rich & Co.,, of Cincinnati, to whom the city's s15O.Oo0 bond issue for sewer. street and water works Improvements were sold, the sale of the bonds is again temporarily delayed. Fifteen thousand dol lars worth of the bonds had been delivered and paid for. Mayor Smith arrived last night with the remainder and will pro- ceed to re-advertise and sell them. It was probably due to the excellent bus- ness management of Mayor Smith that the city did not lose in the transaction as he has been on the ground looking after the city's interests for nearly two weeks.
 e Gdarp1 of the strongest and most reliable firms of southern bond buyers. several large issues having recently been negotiated with them The city took every pre- caution to enquire into their respons- bility, which was found to be of the most favorable nature at the time the sale was made. Mayor Smith has already en- tered into correspondence with other bond buyers and expects to have the bonds sold again within a short time.
 The failure of A. l.. Rich Go. came as a great surprise here and the de- tails were read with much interest It is regretted on all sides that the city Is again delayed in it's purpose of pub lie improvements, but all have the utmost confidence in the Mayor and the excellent Board of Aldermen.
 Linemen at Work.
 A crew of ten linemen arrived here this morning and went to work for the Southern Bell Telephone company. This is the first attempt to break the strike of the linemen which commenced two weeks ago. Fifty men walked out here and the work under construction here has been tied up ever since. Most of the strikers have left the city. The men who went to work this morning were brought from Birmingham and no attempt has been made to molest them.
 Build sidetracks.
 l. R. Hardin and w. H. Weller rep resenting the Weller rolling mill and w. W Kent, general manager of the Chat tanooga Southern railroad, held con- ference today and arranged all the de- tails for the construction of side tracks to that company's property in this city.
 The deal for the Weller rolling mills removal to this city from Anniston was closed some time ago, but satisfactory understanding could not be arrived at with the Chattanooga Southern railroad in reference to the switches
 The removal and construction of the plant will now proceed without further delay.
 Repairing Blast Furnaces.
 The Consolidated Coal and Iron com many Will luTnlS0 tHt t7hNti company iron to be used in making steel until the latters blast furnace can be refined. Nearly all the output of the Con solidated Coal and Iron company will be used. Owing to the fact that the Southern Steel company must keep It's mills at Ensley running full time to take care of the many orders 1t has 1t was found necessary to make this arrange ment The Southern Steel company has but one. blast furnace at present. but 1t is making all necessary preparations to build another at once.
 The molten metal will be transferred from the Consolidated furnace distance of three miles over the Southern rail- way. The hot pots and engines of the steel plant will be used in making the transfer. The experiment will be watched with much interest as 1t Is something entirely new in the south.
 The Southern Steel company has award ed a large contract to a local foundry for 100 tons of castings to be used in the repair and buildings of gas pro ducers. This work has been done in other cities before on account of the immense size of the work required and the local roundries have not been equipped to han dle the contracts until recently.
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