The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
TERM OF
 CIRCUIT COURT ON
Civil Business Will be Transact
 ed at Meridian
RELIEF FUND NOW S4O,OOO
Sufficient Money is on Hand to Com plete Work of committee-New Paper Will Appear About
 Middle of May.

Meridian. Miss April 1.-(Special)-rh srring term of the circuit court convenes in this city tomorrow morning, the term to be devoted almost exclusively to the transaction of civil business. There are a number of continued criminal cases, however. and several of these may be called for a hearing if both sides an nounce themselves as ready.
 There will be no grand Jury impan- eled for this term. the grand jury eom- ing with the regular term of the court that convenes in June. Among the cases set for trial this term are number of heavy damage suits for alleged personal injuries, as well as litigation among busi- ness firms.
 Judge Cochran expressed the opinion that the term would prove prolific or work as indications pointed to desire on the part of the people interested in A vast number of the cases for speedy disposition of the matters under hear ing
 The general relief committee IS eN-
 pected to meet on next Thursday atter-
 noon and complete the matters entrusted
 to it by the mass meeting Of citzens
 held at the city hall on the morning
 of Saturday, March B. the day following
 the tornado that laid waste wide ter
 ritory in the business section of the city,
 destroying nearly one million dollars In
 property and claiming twenty-one ives'
 as well as injuring half a hundred per
 sons.
 Relief Committee Busy
 The relief fund now reaches approxi- mately s4O,oO0, and the opinion prevails among the members of the committee
 thai sufficient funds are on hand to
 complete the work of relief that they had
 intended The finance committee was or nciallv notified of this opinion on the
 part of the general relief committee, and reouested to issue such notification 10 the world.
 The emergency relief work has long
 since been completed, and the members of the committee are now endeavorlng
 to permanently relieve the situation with
 the widows and orphans made so by the tornado or who were In that unfortunate condition before, but suffered materially
 through the visitation.
 Plans for New Paper.
 
 man who promoted the new morning
 paper The Meridian Dispatch, left last l night for his home to complete the ar
 arrangements for moving his family to Meri- dian. and to make the necessary purchases 1 for the plant that will be installed as l soon as the governor approves the char ] ter. VI
 The committee appointed to draw up
 the charter completed it's labors on Sat | fta
 the demands of the law, will be printed 1 in a local paper once each week for | the next three weeks. By the end or that period 1t is believed that the gov ernor will have approved the charter and the plant will be promptly installed. A temporary organization will be per fectcd until the charter is approved, how ever.
 The plant will be equipped with per fecting press. stereotyping outfit, three | type-setting machines and a full assort- ment of advertising and head-letter type. MT Beard was authorized to proceed with the work of placing his orders so the entire layout can be delverd promptly. l According to present plans, the first is- sue of the paper will appear on or about
 May 15. next.
 Washouts Reported. I Reports reaching the city today are to the effect that the rains in the middle 1 and northern sections are now being evil | denced in the small streams and rivers ], in the southern part of the state. All of I these streams are reported as having | left their banks and the lowlands are | badly overfowed.
 1 No lives have been reported as having 1 been lost, but the property damage is | very great. The farmers will plant only l the same acreage as that of last year | and the rains have retarded their work | materially as well as washed away tons 1 upon tons of fertilizer that had been dis l tributed. The railroads, too are very | heavy losers, several bad wash-outs being I experienced on the Mobile Jackson and I Kansas City and the Alabama and Vicks- burg lines. The former road was almost put out of business by the washouts and it will be fully a month before the I damage can be fully repaired.