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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
HEAVY SELLING OF RAILS IS FEATURE Contracts Are Closed for 150,-
 900 Tons CARS ARE IN BIG DEMAND Heavy Movement of Coal and Immense Quantity Stored On Siding Have
 Brought About This
 Condition.
CARS ARE IN BIG DEMAND

Cleveland, O., March S.-(Special9-The Iron Trade Review tomorrow will say;
 ''The exceedingly heavy selling of rails was decidedly the feature of the market during the past week. Contracts were closed for about 10000 tons with con siderable larger tonnage still to be placed if mills can guarantee delivery. These orders went almost entirely to eastern mills and are for this years delivery.
 '.The Santa Fe contracted for 40o0O tons from the Pennsylvania Steel company and 10000 tons from the Cambria Steel company.
 ''rhe Northern Pacific and the Great Northern ordered 30,0OO and 10000 tons respectively from the Lakawanna Steel company, and the Cambria Steel company booked 10000 tons each for the Georgia Central and the Chesapeake and Ohio. Traction roads are buying heavily.
 .aThe coke market has felt the coal strike influence strongly and prices have stiffened to from s2 40 to S2. 60 for furnace coke, and $s.1O to s3.l5 for foundry coke at the ovens.
 'sWhile the volume of current business in pig iron continues comparatively light increasing sales and inQuiries are re- ported especially in the west. and tur- mace men predict that the long expected buying wave is soon to start.
 'In finished materials, d somewhat lighter current business is noted, owing it is believed, to the known inability of mills to make prompt delivery.
 Specifications of structural materials continues at an enormous rate. The re- cent advance of $1. 50 placed by a lead ing interest on sheet bars, is being firmly adhered to.
 eThe opening of spring has brought about the strongest demand for wire products in years. Bar iron is slightly firmer with specifications insistent The heavy movement of coal during the past few days and the fact that an immense quantity is at present stored in cars on sidings, have brought about conditions approaching car famine on certain lines"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
LYNcHED IN LOUISIANA.
Young Woman Had Found Negro In
 Her Room.

Memphis, March 2S.-A special to the Commercial-Appeal from Flora, La, says A negro known as Cotton" was lynched last night near Oak Grove station in West Carroll parish, within an hour after he is alleged to have attempted to crim- inally assault a young white woman.
 Miss Blair, daughter of contractor. at a railroad camp, where Cotton was employed, discovered the negro in her room. screamed and struggled with him until members of the family were aroused. A posse was formed and was quickly in pursuit of Cotton" who had fled when members of the family to Miss Blair s rescue. When captured, within an hour, he was hanged to tree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
GIVE AND TAKE.
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Gets an
 Extension of Time.

Philadelphia March 8-Mayor Weaver today signed the ordnance granting the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company an extension of three years for the compile tion of its Market street subway
 In consideration for this extension, the company flied with the secretary of the commonwealth at Harrisburg and with the city solicitor of Philadelphia. full surrender of all other franchises of cor poration acquired several years ago with the exception of those for the Broad street subway and for the elevated rail- road to the northeastern section of the city. The company also agrees to pay to the city s4o0,oo0 to be applied to the csot of removing railroad grade cross
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
CENTRAL V. M. c. A. WINS.
Athletic Meet in Chicago Was De-
 cided Financial Success.

Chicago March 2S.-First honors in the meet went to the athletes from the Central Y M. C. A, of Chicago, who scored a total of 32 points. The University of Wisconsin was second with 2i points. University of Chicago. third, with l2 fourth placed captured by F. c. Irons unattached of Chicago. who scored 10 points. Beloit college came newt with a total of 8 points, The remaining points were won by different institutions and several unattached athletes.
 The meet which was held in the interest of charity. was a decided success from a financial standpoint, and the Chicago Union hospital will receive over s10.O0O as a result
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
GOMPERS FINDS WAY
 TO WORRY MEMBERS

Washington, March 2s.-( (speolal) )-sam- uel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. may not be able to get any legislation out of Congress, but he has hit upon scheme to put con gressmen to no little trouble,
 Mfr, Gompers has issued circular to the various bodies of which he is the head. Its title is How to get a library for nothing but the asking"
 The circular contains the names of sev-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
BANK AT VENEZUELA.
France Proposes to Stop Importation
 of Coffee.

Paris, March 2s-It is extraordinarily stated that a decree is being prepared establishing q maximum tariff against Venezuela. The Franco Venezuelan com mercial convention of 1902 gives France the same trade treatment as other na- tions, but President Castro's refusal to permit the landing of French merchandise in Venezuela Is construed as being a violation of that convention. Therefore the law of 1892 which provides for a maximum tariff against Venezuela will go into effect and will result in the practical exclusion fr m France of Ven ezuela's chief expor- coffee.
 The imporo of Venezuelan coffee into France In 1905 totalled about $1,300,o00
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Claims Commission Expensive.

Washington. March 2s.-The awards so far made by the Spanish treaty claims commission aggregating s75.740 and the cost of the commission has been S55,3o0 according to a statement by Representa- tive Sullivan of Massachusetts, before the House committee on judiciary today. The committee had under consideration the Sullivan resolution of inquiry as to the number of claims adjudicated. The committee authorized a favorable report on the resolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
General Bell Ordered to Report.

Washington, March 2s.-An order issued at the war department today directs Birg
 Gen. Franklin Nell in charge of the staff college at Fort Leavenworth. Kas., to repair to this city not later than April and report to Lieutenant General Bates. chief of staff. for assignment to duty. April 14 is the date fixed for the retire ment of Lieutenant General Bates, the promotion of Major General Corbn to the rank of lieutenant general, and the in- stallation of Brgadier General Bell as chief of staff by presidential designa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
WOULD PROTECT EMPLoYEs.
Senator Daniel Introduces Amendment
 to Railroad Bill.

Washington. March 2S.-Senator Daniel today introduced an amendment to the house railroad rate bill making railroads liable for damages to employees resulting from negligence or mismanagement or in- sufficient railroad equipment on the part of a railroad.
 It provides that contributory negli- gence on the part of the employe shall not be a bar to the recovery of damages when such negligence Is slight compared with that of the employer. It provides that no contract for insurance, or relief indemnity of any kind that may have been entered into between employe and employer, shall be a bar to any action on the part of the former or his heirs to recover damages for personal injuries or death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Aanes Stone Is Dead.

Fairmont. w. Va. March 2S.-Agnes Stone, sister-in-law of Wm. Mcdonald. of the Bostonians, whose death was an nounced last night, dropped dead today upon reading of the news of his death. Agnes Stone was sister of Marie Stone, who for years was the soprano soloist of the original Bostonian Ideals, and was the wife of Mcdonald. Agnes Stone was also an operatic singer and was with a "Robinhood' company when she died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
FOUNTAIN PEN WILL BE
 REPLACED BY THE PUNCH

Washington, March 2s.-l Special. )--rhe fountain pen will go out of business for the next census in 1910 and its place will be taken by the punch. Heretofore the ten thousand enumerators with fountain pens wrote in the answers to questions This material was shipped Into the Gen. sus Bureau where a force of one thou sand clerks was employed to pupch this information Into cards so that electrical tabulating machines might do the rest.
 The machines almost human hnsers' nassed over the cards and wherever a hole had been punched an electrical con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
IMMIGRANTS MAY
 PAY S5 HEAD TAX
Southern Members Hope for Provision Allowing Headquarters for Rep
 resentative of States.

Washington, March 2S.-(Special.)-The House immigration subcommittee has about completed the bill restricting lm- ration into the United States. It pro- vides head tax of $5 An important feature is the establishment at the New York station of headquarters for the states where state commissioners can acouaint emigrants with the advantages of their sections of the country.
 Southern members have been especially insistent upon this provision and it's adoption would insure an increased inn migration to the south The supporters of the bill hope that it will be favorably acted upon at the present session. The question of educational test is still un- der consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
New Jersey Meets Requirements.

Rockland. Me, March 2s.-The stand ardization trial trip over the Owls Head mile course today of the new battleship New Jersey was considered very success full. The contract requirement of 19 knots an hour was exceeded, maximum speed at the rate of 19.4s k k1ots per hour being attained. The mean of the Eve runs at top speed was 19.02 knots. I he trial board determined that the mean revolutions of the screws corresponding to the contract speed was lz4.5 per minute. The battleship will be placed in commits sion during May under the command of Cptain KimbalL a native of Maina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29

tact resulted which added one to the count of the particular qualification or characteristic which the punch denoted. Under the new scheme Director North says that instead of waiting six months the country will know the result of the census within three months. Each emu merator will be supplied with punch with which after asking question he will porforate the card and 1t Will not De recesssrv to do that branch of the work here. Incidentally the government will be saved thousands of dollars In clerk hire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29

erai hundred books which Mir Gompers informs his constituents can be obtained by writing your congressman"
 As a result of the wide publication of this list members are being flooded with demands for everything from the Con- gresslonal Record to reports on the in- troduction of reindeer In Alaska" A sem ator received letter this morning ask ing for 2S5 volumns which had been checked off on the Gompers list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Rin Sale of Shot Cotton.

Huntsville. March &.-(Speoial.) )-Per- haps the largest sale of spot cotton of the year in this section has been made by James E. Butler merchant of New Hope. Ala, who has sold 1900 bales to the Decatur representative of a Montgomery commission house. MT. Butler got II cents for his cotton. the lot bringing him about s7l 800 Several bids were made for Mir Buffers cotton. He offered 1t to the market a few weeks ago at 10.35 and there were no takers MT. Butler has 400 bales left of the last crop which hs will hold for prices around 15 ceuta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Democrats About Ready.

Washington. March 8.-At a meeting tonight of the democratic congressional committee the personnel of the various snI.-committees were completed Repre- sentative Bowers of Mississippi was ap- pointed chairman of the campaign sub committee and Representative Gaines of Tennessee was appointed chairman of the sub committee on literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Miners and Operators Use Plain
 Words at Indianapolis
ONE MOTION IS ADOPTED
Provides for Restoration of 1903 Scale for Two Years, But This Must Be Ratified By the
 Miners.

Indianapolis, March 2S.-Answer- { ing tho arguments made during the ? day against an advance, MT. 1 Mitchell closed the debate for the { afternoon with the following state <
 ment:
 'The miners, so Tar as we are 1
 concerned, in case of a strike will {
 have no riots and no bloodshed. {
 We may, if a prolonged strike takes {
 place, have hunger, and we may 1 wear poor clothes. We may endure 1
 greater hardships, but the miners 1 are just as law-abiding and just as < patriotic as are the gentlemen on { your side."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Duluth Officers Ignorant.

Duluth. March 2s.--The chief of police disclaims any knowledge of the arrival here of the party of Bulgarians believed to be concerned in the tragedy at Minne- apolis Officers are on the lookout for the men. however
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Murdered for Money.

The police are inclined to believe that the men found dead in the cellar were murdered for their money, and that free-for-all fight followed over division of the spells resulting in the four other deaths. This is indicated by the wounds on the bodies found in the upper room. Their faces were slashed almost beyond recognition and there were wounds all over their bodies, all, however having deep. slashes in the throat. One man had fallen against a hot stove and the right side of his face was burned past all iden- tification Beside this man lay the bloody hatchet.
 The fight for money theory is borne out by the finding near the bodies of one or more money belts in which was S56 in United States currency and gold. On one of the bodies was found watch which was still going. Some of the bodies had been stripped, evidently for robbery
 At the morgue this afternoon J. Mick lenberg. the drayman, identified one of the dead men as the one who had met him at the house on the afternoon he had call ed to haul away baggage.
 Inquiry at the baggage room shows the party checked most of their luggage to Duluth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Tender Their designations.

Robert A. Granniss and w. R. Gillette, vice presidents and trustees, and Eldridge T. Gerry, as trustee of Mutual Life In surance company, today rendered their resignations at a meeting of the board of trustees of that company. They were ac- cepted. A report of the Truesdale investi- gating committee was received, and ord cred printed, but no other action was taken upon it.
 District Attorney Jerome tonight made public correspondence between himself and MT. Perkins, which showed that upon the district attorneys request for infor- nation and without promise of any inn munity whatsoever, MT. Perkins had sup piled Mir Jerome with all the facts con nected with the 1904 campaign contribu- tions.
 In concluding his letter on the subject MT. Perkins wrote:
 When I made the advances mentioned, and when I was reimbursed therefore, it never occurred to me that there could be any question as to the propriety of such expenditures, which I believed to be for the benefit of the company"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Arrested for Giving S48,7O25O
 to Campaign Fund
MUTUAL OFFICERS RESIGN
Perkins Writes to Jerome That It Never Occurred to Him That the ProprIety of the Contribution
 Would Be Questioned.

New York. March 2S.-On a charge that bis connection with the contribution of s4s, TOP. 50 from the funds of the New Hork Life Insurance company to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican national campaign committee in the campaign of 1904, constituted grand larceny in the hrst degree, George w Perkins member Of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.,, and un- til recently first vice president of the New York Life Insurance company was ar rested today on a warrant Issued by City Magistrate Moss.
 When a detective went to serve the warrant upon Mir Perkins he found that A writ of habeas corpus had already been obtained from Justice Greenbaum of the state supreme court and the matter was immediately taken out of the magistrate hands. Mir Perkins appeared before Jus tice Greenbaum and at the request or ms counsel the hearing in the case was ad- iourned until Friday. MT. Perkins was paroled in the custody of his personal attorney Lewis A. Delafield.
 The warrant for MT. Perkins arrest was applied for yesterday by District Attorney Jerome. Magistrate Moss would not act, however, until affidavits were filed in the case. These were presented to him today They were signed by Dar- win P. Kingsley. vice president of the New York Life; Edmund D. Randolph treasurer of the company, and by Thom- as A. Buckner. also vice president.
 Admits Advancing the Sum.
 MT. Perkins counsel admitted to Jus tIee Greenbaum that MT. Perkins had advanced the sum named to MT. Bhss upon the request of the late John A Mccall. president of the New York Life. He was afterwards reimbursed through the action of the companys finance com mittee. It was eontended that MT. Mccall had executive authority to order the pay ment, and that if any crime was com mitted 1t was participated in by every member of the finance committee present when the matter was acted upon. Despite the action of MT. Jerome in ap- plying for a warrant for MT. Perkins, and thus taking the matter to the higher courts of the state, Justice o'Sullivan in the court of special sessions today again addressed the grand jury which is con sidering life insurance matters, and in structed them that 1t was their duty to continue the investigation to the end. He told the grand jurors 1t was their rlght to demand that the district attorney sub- poena witnesses to be examined before them in any matter they may have under consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Paid Rent in Advance.

Magnuson told the police that about four months ago a well dressed Italian rented the upper floor of the house and paid four months rent in advance. The Italian told him he was foreman of a railroad construction gang, and that some of the hotels would not keep the men. The next day twelve men moved their few belongings to the house. They went to work each day and returned In the evening. They never drank and made lit tie noise and those about the place paid little attention to them. Magnuson never inquired their names. and merely entered them on the books as tenants for whom four months rent had been paid in ad- vance The men lived, slept and ate their meals in these little rooms on the second floor. The foreman" was never seen again and the police have absolutely no line on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
Bodies of Six BugarianS Are
 Horribly MutHated
MYSTERY SURROUNDS CASE
The Police Believe a Crowd of Men Had Fight Over Money-Bas- gage Had Been Checked /
 to Duluth.

Minneapolis, March 2S-At 10 o'clock this morning the mutiated bodies of six Bulgarians, evidently workmen. were found lying in deep pools of ooagilated blood in little tumble down house. No. 2l5 Tenth avenue south.
 Four of the bodies were found in a sleeping room on the second floor, cut and slashed in a most horrible manner, while in the cellar were two others with their threats cut from ear to ear. Near the bodies were found five large bowie knives. and a bloodstaned hatehet.
 The dead:
 Nicolo Dimltri.
 I(rle DlmitrL
 Agne Karohl
 Kerstan Yovko.
 Unka Naudaba.
 Baaker Kappanni
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21

winter. and IL the Essex Park people
desire to give n meeting they must ne
cessarily conflict with n rival track
Essex Park Is considered an American
Turf association track.
Freeze-Out the Game.
Thus Will the war be transferred from
New Orleans where both sides have set
tied down TO game of freeZe-out to the
Napor city which lacks the crowds ne
cessary to the successful conduct of two
simultaneous race meetings. At Hot
Springs 1t Will be case of putting up
real money If fight comes, and there
VIII be small chance OF getting 1t back,
The Essex Park stockholders realize
fully that conflicting meetings mean
financial suicide and are willing TO
compromise. but can get no satisfaction
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21

cornell followers OF the game think. is
good Ten men OF last years varsity
squad are back. and an unusual
IN the freshman class The three men
from last years team lost throuph
graduation are Reitze. cover point; Eve
who played inside attack. H AtUntor
1906. has consented 10 net as coach. which
Is considered an additional ADVANTAGE
Games Are Arranged.
Although the schedule OF meets bos NOT
been completed, 1t is known that the srot
out-of-toWn trip taken by the Cornsli
team VIII include games with IebJpb 81
South bethlehem. on April 20; with fnhne "
Hopkins, the following day at BaItlmora
and with Swarthmore. Other coiieges,
&hch cornell Will play at later dates sro
Institute. u stevens
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21

came over were treated Hospitality by me
as defender of the heavy title and nll got
a square show and n clouting that raised
America in their respect
The best men that England can produce
In any class can be overmatched In this
country. This Is straight goods We grow
bigger, were quicker and better lighters
over here. The main thing Palmer has
TO exhibit to prove he's better than any
man In England Is his Yankee style OF
lighting. That's TO the good, but 1t isn't
all he has, He packs a stin wallop, he IL
big and strong, and he can go quite Il
distance.
Now. / want TO urge the Americans
who are claiming the heavy weight title
10 think enough OF the honor OF their
country not to let Palmer go back with
out n Tight Instead of giving him the
go-by when he gets here, every Ameri-
can claiming a looh~ln at the heavy title
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21

an this point from Dan A. stewart u
John Condor who control oakla"a cen
In the meantime horsomen ma a. thew are
osei tneine t"T no chances of mourning expense
S Without - guarantee that there re TIll horsos os
an opportunity to recoup' NO 10 i'yr there
are stabbed at either track. nor Is ~
IiteiV nt. to be until the muddie is staisnt. nj.
ened ] out by an agreement 10 divide the
dates.
Trying for Peace
Tho Essex Park club is desirous %
ending the war between the eoEe'n,S ,. ,r,nS
bodies In order that both tracks uo laag
have a successful season lhey 10
anneaIed to Sheriff williams of Garlano
county, whose word is law IN ~
Snrjngs, TO use his influence Tor peuce,
sheriff Williams last winter absoiuteiS
refused to mix up In any race track
war. Dan Stewart is expected 70 NEE !, is
the Essex Park stockholderS' anu 49,
hnlievcd the Sheriff Will advocate mar
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21

They're going To float over here an Eng
lishman named Jack Palmer to clutch for
the heavyweight title. I'm glad they arc
pushing somebody forward from the other
side, There hasn't been a Briton TO ap-
pear In the first class since the applicants
/ stored away. They used me right In
England and IL Palmer means business
he ought to get q show He Nos over
here when he was lighter. but he couldn't
do anything, all the native talent going
plumb scared of him.
This refusing to fight visiting Eng
llshman Is a disgrace 10 our country
Palmer is reported TO be a fighter and lf
he isn't treated right when he comes
looking for battle. II Will be a shame In
my time. all the English fighters that