The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-09
FEDERAL COURT is
OPEN At ADMISSION
Calhoun County Bar Associa-
ton Elects Officers
ROBBERY Is ATTEMPTED
No Word Has Been Received From G..
r. Cheney, Who Mysteriously Dis
appeared From Admission
Last Tuesday Night.

Admission, May ESPECIAL 1.-THE United
States district and circuit court was
by United States Deputy Marshal b. b.
Hill and the deputy clerk. in accordance
with the law which says it shall con-
vene on the first Monday in May and on
the first Monday in November This is at
once the first spring term of federal court
held in this city and the first term held
in the new federal building since a
tablshed in this city. Judge Toulmin of
Mobile and probably Assistant District
Attorney Standifer will come over Sun
day or early Monday morning for the
purpose of taking up the civil docket on
the 18th to be continued until the 21st
when the criminal docket will be called
The grand jury will be organized on
the former date.
The Calhoun County Bar association
met in the county court house this morn
ing and Judge Thomas w. Coleman was
elected vice president and Charles D.
Kline treasurer, the following committee
being elected: j. J. Willett, A. P. Agee,
Fred L. Blackmon. H. F. McCarty and
j. F.. Matthews. This committee will
at a barbecue of the State Bar associa-
ton on their meeting in this city in June,
also ascertain the cost of the Noble street
theatre for the address of ex-Attorney
General Harmon on June 6. The perma-
nent dues of the members of the asso-
citation were fixed at so cents per month";
payable quarterly, but the resolution to
privilege of inviting three laymen to the
association barbecue was tabled. The
meeting of the state lawyers here will
be a notable occasion and great prepare
ton are being made for their entertain
ment.
An attempt was made last night about
clock, near the corner of Thirteenth
and Noble streets, to hold up a negro
named John Smith, and the yell for the
police brought Chief OF Police Dill to
the scene in time to catch the would be
highway, who gave his name as Neil
jenkins. He is also a negro. The Smith
negro said the negro claimed he was
from New York, and under some pretext
got Smith into the dark. where he grabbed
him and drew a weapon as If to strike
Smith, who yelled Justify for the police
and help. Chief Dill was on Tewlfth
street and heard the cries. He hurried
through the alley in the rear of the Ala
bama hotel and came upon the two just
as Jenkins succeeded in breaking loose
from Smith. An open valise was all there
was to show that Jenkins had attempted
robbery. jenkins will have a hearing be-
fore Judge Greene tomorrow morning
Cheney Still Missing.
No tidings whatever from G. r. Cheney
have yet been received by his family or
friends. Gone since last Tuesday night
his whereabouts could not have been
more effectually concealed. had the earth
opened its mouth and swallowed him out
of sight The gloom OF despair has set
tied over the home and his friends are
hopeless in their anxiety, believing only
only that he has been fouly dealt with
by some one and can never be found
alive.
A large crowd attended the Parker
memorial yesterday morning when DR.
Joshua II. Foster preached the Admission
college commencement sermon. taking as
his subject for the discourse Keep your
heart diligently. for out of 1t comes the
issues of life" DR.. Foster WoVe the
subject into a lesson that was thought
provoking and beautiful. we'll worthy of
remembrance. He drew a deep line of
demarcation between the things of life
that are temporal and those that are
eternal concluding his discourse with
some wholesome advice to the sweet girl
graduate regarding their postgraduate
reading. The grand concert will be given
at the college this evening and tomorrow
evening DIR. McIlwain will deliver the
baccalaureate address.
william Cole. farmer of Clay county
was here last Wednesday and disposed
Of lot of produce. Before returning
home he placed his pocketbook contain
ing 3d. in his lunch box and when he got
to his home and unloaded his wagon he
discovered that his money was gone
There was a hole in the box and it is
supposed that the jolting of the wagon
caused the pocketbook to lose out
Yesterday morning a building permit
was issued to John Shelnutt for the cree
ton of building at the corner of Noble
and Thirteenth streets. The building will
be SO feet wide and 135 feet long, and
two stories high, finished In modern
style.
Mayor Thomas T.. Kilby has returned
from weeks stay at St. Louis. On his
return the mayor stopped off at Chat
tanooga and Rome, but. says the mayor
II IS enjoyable to get back to Admission
ord GOO ifa cuperiority in many rasnecte