The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-27
NEGROES WH|RL AND
COTTON IS UNMOVED
Greensboro Offers Novel Exam
Pile of Labor Conditions
LITTLE GIRL BADLY BURNED
Wesley Hearn Is Shot and Killed BY
Will Shaffer at Christmas Frolic
On Plantation North of
Greensboro.
LITTLE GIRL BADLY BURNED

Greensboro, December 2G--(SpeciaL)-
That the labor question is becoming more
and more serious was demonstrated anew
in Greensboro Monday. From time to time
the Southern has sent an extra freight
up and down its Akron branch in an eff
fCrt to relieve the congestion which the
car shortage has produced in cotton. Mon
day an extra freight rolled in but not
hand could be hired, although there were
plenty of idle negroes loafing around the
station.
The train had to go off with three
empty cars and leave behind cotton which
had been ready for shipment for months.
In the meantime a merry-go -round in
town is colning money. The negroes ride
all day and half the night. 1t might be
beneficial to enforce a vagrant law or
else the people of the black belt must
bostir themselves and land a shipload of
emigrants at Mobile The farmers in this
section who have tried the foreign labor
are the only ones who have not been
harnessed by the labor question this
year.
Annie, the little 7-year-old daughter of
Mrs w. n. Williams, was distressingly
burned Christmas morning by falling in
the fire. One arm is badly burned and
one side of her face. The accident oc-
CURED while the family were at break
fast, the childs screams being heard just
as they had seated themselves. Prompt
medical aid was rendered, but it is feared
that the little one will be disfigured for
life. Mrs Williams is almost stranger in
Greensboro, having moved here in Sep
tember from Florida for the purpose of
educating her sons at the Southern uni
versity, but the sympathy of the COM
munity is extended her in her trouble.
Christmas passed quietly and unevent-
closed, enabling the merchants and clerks
of the past week.
THE only casualty from fireworks
Fdrted was the slight burn DR.. Alex
SicGge received while sending off a sky
rocket IT exploded at the wrong end,
burning his face badly but not danger
ously.
Minera, an aged negress, who had
cooked for Mrs. Margaret Gulley for
years, died suddenly this morning. Aunt
Minera." as she was Familiarity called,
belonged to the fast disappearing class
of ''befo de war; servants, and had
served the Gulleys faithfully both as
slave and after she was free. Enough
money was found tied up in an old stock
ing in her trunk to cover all the expenses
of her burial.
The Rev. e. A. Dannelly and the Rev.
Henry Trawick, presiding elder of this
district and pastor of the Methodist
church, will arrive in Greensboro tomor-
row morning to assume charge of their
new work. The ladies of the church are
busy preparing to give them warm re-
ception.
The severcst cold weather of the winter
has been felt in Greensboro since last
Friday. though today has been warmer.
The farmers in and around Greensboro
have about marketed their cotton crop.
There are only a few struggling bales to
be brought in.
Wesley Hearn was shot and killed last
night by WIN Shaffer at a Christmas
frolic on Dan Rameys place, ten miles
north of Greensboro Shaffer was shooting
at John Brooks and accidentally hit
IIearn, who never spoke again. They were
ali negroes. The sheriff went out in pur-
suit of Shaffer today.