The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-20
DEED TO LIBRARY
LOT TO Be FILED
viii be Turned Over to BeSSemer
Council Tonight
C0RNWELL CASE UP AGAIN
Will Be Again Tried on Charge of EN-
bezzIement During First Week
In June-Notes and
Personals.
CORNWELL CASE UP AGAIN

Personals.
Bessemer. March 19.-(speeial)-rhe
city council will meet in regular session
tomorrow night and among other things
of Importance scheduled for the meeting
will be the formal reception by the coun-
ell of the deed to the lot recently do
mated for the Carnegie library by the
Bessemer Land and Improvement COM
pany
There has been some delay in the proper
preparation of these papers and the alb
stract and therefore no move has been
made on the part of the ladies interested
| in the library toward formal organization
and the drawing of plans for the build
ing
With the filing of the deed with the city
| council all necessary preliminaries viii
! have been completed and it is understood
! that a library committee will be appointed
at once which will take up the matter of
plans for the building.
The lot donated by the Bessemer Land
and Improvement company is located at
the corner of Fourth avenue and Eight
zenith street and is very conveniently sit
uated for the purpose. 1t is on the same
| block with the city hall and is conven-
| lent both to the business and resident
sections of the city
Cost of Building.
The library building will cost $4,000,
| which sum is furnished by Andrew Car
negie, and the furnishings and books will
! be supplied by popular subscription raised
by the library committee, which is yet
to be organized. The city council Of Bes-
semer has already appropriated $1,000 an
nually for the support and maintenance
of the institution.
The library committee will make per-
sonal inspection of library buildings al
ready opened in other cities and will
adopt the best plans feasible with the
money at hand. Great care will be taken
| in the selection of plans for the building
and also in the selection of books after
the building is ready for occupancy
viii Order Election.
| Another matter of Importance coming
before the city council tomorrow night
will be the adoption of a resolution pro-
viding for an election on school build
| ing bond issue. 1t is understood that an
issue of $4,000 will be asked for, which
/ is to be used in the erection OF a new
| public school building, which has become
/ necessary on account of the congested
condition of the present buildings.
/ A successor to w. j. Parkes, city en-
glneer, who recently resigned, will also
| be elected. There are several candidates
for the position and the contest promises
/ to be a very lively one.
Mr.. Parkes will leave April ! for Pine
Bluff. Ark, where he has been rendered
the position of city engineer
CornweII to Be Tried Again.
The case of the state against I. D.
| Cornwell charged with embezzlement or
/ funds from the defunct Bessemer saw
| ings bank, will be set for trial for the hfst
| week In June in the Bessemer city court
| It will be remembered that in the trial
| of this case in the early part of the pres
| emit term of the court that the jury made
! a mistrial in the decision Of the merits OF
a plea of former jeopardy that had been
| filed by the defense. This necessitated
| the re-setting of the case The docket
! being crowded, the case was not reset
| for hearing until later in the term.
again called for trial the former plea as
! filed at the previous trial will again be
| presented and Will have to be disposed
| of by the jury before the real case is
| taken up.
Claims Acqulttal
| Cornwell is charged with endorsement
| in fifteen indictments. and in the trlal OF
the first indictemnt 1t is claimed by the
| defense that all the evidence covering
! the entire transaction named In the M
teen indictments was allowed to go be-
| fore the Jury, Cornwell was acquitted in
the trial of this indictment, and when
put on trial under the second indictment
| last December the defendant pleaded that
he had already been acquitted or the
charge OF embezzlement after due con-
slderation of all the evidence upon which
all fifteen indictments had been brought.
The Bessemer city court is taking re-
cess this week. as the docket has been
cleared of all cases that could be tried
this week. Next week the court VIII
take up the non-jury criminal docket.
Notes and Personals.
work on the water main which is be-
ing laid from Twenty-fourth street in
this city to Brighton for the purpose OF
supplying that town with a water sys-
TEN is progressing as well the I'M
favorable weather will permit. Adler q
Co.. VINO are DullulnE the SYSTEM, Hope
to have the work completed early in the
summer.
The heaviest rain that has fallen for
years came last night and this morning.
While no serious damage has been re-
ported, it is understood lands and fences
have been badly washed in some sec
tons of the country. Valley creek was
higher than 1t has been for years.
The Music club of Bessemer will meet
at the Elks hall tomorrow night.
]. A Speed is very i'll with pneumonia
at his home in this city.
Miss Carrie T. Drane of Farmersville
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Crook
in East Bessemer.
The committee on soliciting funds for
the erection of a new building for the
First Presbyterian church of this city
will meet in the parlors of the Grand
hotel tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
when a report will be prepared to submit
to the congregation. 1t is understood that
the committee will be able to make a
very encoura ging report.
Snow Slide at Liberty Bell.