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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
SEVEN INJURED IN
 VIRGINIA WRECK
BUT FOR WATCHFULNES OF THE
 ENGINEER THE ACCIDENT ON
 NORFOLK AND WESTERN MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DISASTROUS.

Norkof, Va, April 4.-Seven persons
 were injured in wreck which occurred
 on the Norfolk and Western railroad be-
 tween Suffolk and Norfolk today at a place called Jumper siding.
 But for the vigilance of Mark Noble, engineer of the train, who was watching for such a thing as an open switch, which caused the wreck. probably many of the
 fifty or sixty passengers aboard would have been killed. The train was running at the rate of seventyfve or eighty miles an hour when Engineer Noble spied the open switch, thirty yards away. Imme-
 diately he threw on his emergency brakes,
 reducing his speed to about thirty miles
 by the time the engine struck the
 swlth. The train jumped the track. then
 jumped an adjoining ditch and ran head
 long into the neighboring woods before
 it stopped. The engineer was picked up twenty feet ahead of the engine. The train careened but did not turn over, and was not burned as at first reported. No one was killed,
 The injured
 Engineer Mark Noble of Petersburg. Va, leg broken. Mrs l.. E. Lear of Fulton, Ind, head cut and bruised. Florence Lear aged 13, of Fulton, Ind, forhead bruised. Frank E. Wood of Norfolk, express
 messenger, injured internally William Davis, colored fireman, cut and badly bruised
 Conductor II. ]. Hawkes. of Richmond, Va, left eye badly hurt. | R. r. Bell of Ivor, Va, bruised about l the head arms and body. Expressman Wood and Engineer Noble | are the most seriously injured. The switch | which caused the wreck was wide open.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
TALKS ELOQUENTLY OF CUBA'S WEALTH
c. A. sPlkER GIVES A GLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE RICH RE- SOURCES OF THE lsLAND-RE- VARIABLE LONGEVITY.

c. A. spker manager of the Cubitas Valley company of Puerto Principe, Cuba, is stopping at the Birmingham. Mir. spiker gives a roseate description of con ditions in Cuba. There is no place on the globe" he said. where nature has done so much and man so little.
 '''The soil of the island is as rich as the Valley of the Nile. and yet we Amer jeans are just beginning to find it out. The climate is a vertable Fountain of Youth. On our property, for instance, there lives a man 127 years old, and with him are all of his family which includes four generations. The incredible part of 1t is. the whole family has gotten it's life and snstenance from only three acres of land. They grow their own to- bacco, the casava root, which is the bread-food of the country; they gather three or four crops of bananas a year, and raise hogs enough to supply them in meat by feeding them solely on the nut of the royal palm.
 "I have ridden over thousads of acres of land. now selling for $25 an acre" con tnued Mir Spiker; Hand as rich as that which is owned by the sebalyos com pany, worth s60O an acre, on which there was scarcely a vestige of an orange tree left. Every now and then I would come across brick and the bones of a ruin. as it were. where some beautiful home had been. The forty years war under the Spanish regime left the country denuded of it's external wealth. The hand of death seems to have destroyed all that man had done. But the richness of the soil is left and the American colonies will develop its great possibilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Painting of Davis predecessor.

Jackson. Miss, April 4.--(Special )-The Historical society has received from Mrs. Baxter Mcfarland and Mrs. Martha Elk ins of Aberdeen, a handsome oil portrait of their father. Senator Jesse Speight, and the same will be given a prominent place in the Hall of Fame. Mir. Speight rep- resented Mississippi in the United States Senate in 1S4i to '4I. when he died, and was succeeded by Jefferson Davis. He was born in Green county, North Caro- line, in 17s5, served his native state in the legislature. the state senate and in Congress. He came to Mississippi set ting in Lowndes county In 1887, was elected to the legislature Tn 1859, was presi- dent of the state senate in 1s4l-44. and the same year elected tt the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
ENGLAND HAS SOME
 HAVING OF HER OWN
Young Man Is Given an oil Bath and Has Jam Poured In
 His Hair.

Aldershot. Eng, April 4,-Four lieuten- ants, Hamilton, Dalrymple Hamilton Joliffe and Harford were placed on trial today before a court of inquiry which is making an investigation into the haz- ing of Second Lieutenant Clark Kennedy who was severely maltreated by his fellow officers last month.
 They alleged he was too poor to meet all the regmental subscriptions. The court is composed of four generals and two colonels, Lient. Gen. Sir Gerald Nor ton presiding. Lieutenant Kennedy tes- tified that after mess, March 1S just after he had returned from sick leave, he was tried by a mock courtmartial on the charge that medical officers had found him in filthy condition, and that he had told his colonel a lie. Kennedy was thereupon sentenced to be stripped and to take a bath. The sentence was car ried ont with force and d mixture of oil and other ingredients was poured over him and jam was spread over his hair.
 Subsequently Kennedy escaped naked from the hazing room. His prosecutors, however. proceeded to break the door open, whereupon Kennedy jumped out of window and took refuge In a hotel.
 Kennedy, who comes of a family of well known soldiers and the other lieu tenants belong to the first battalion of the Scots guards. He had previously served in the fourth battalion of the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire regiment, Colonel Cuthbert, commanding the Scots Guards, testified that it had been report ed to him by medical officers that Ken nedy was suffering from a skin disease as the result of neglect. The colonel thought it disgraceful that such a thing should exist among young men of their station in life and expressed the hope that his brother officers would deal with Kennedy.
 Colonel Cuthbert added that he only in tended to suggest pressure and did not foresee that it might result in physical force. The trial was adjourned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Messages and Papers of the
 Confederacy"

There is no man better known to the Tennessee public than James D. Rich ardson. former congressman from the Fifth Tennessee district. and his position as democratic leader on the floor of the National House of Representatives made him a familiar figure throughout the country. Some years ago Mr. Richard son compiled the semi-ofiicial work known as Messages and Documents of the President" which. because of the data it contained and the excellent man ner of the compilation. was valuable addition to the United States history. He has now produced another book of similar character. which. though less vOluminous, will be of equal value with his former work and in some respects of mora pointed interest, as it covers an acute period in the history of the nation con- cerning which historical accuracy is very essential
 MT. Richardson's latest production Is Messages and Papers of the Confeder. acy." The title suggests the scope of the work. It is the compilation in printed form of all the official papers of the Con federate government which fell into tho hands of the Federal authorities after the southern armies had evacuated Richmond. Comment is unnecessary to suggest the historical value of such a work and it's great usefulness to those who have not the means. leisure or inclination to search through files of musty papers in the archives at Washington.
 The work includes the constitution of the Confederate states and the recorded proceedings of the provisional Congress at Montgomery as well as the messages of the President and other official papers throughout the life of the Confederate government.
 A very important feature is the dplo- matte correspondence, which shows. among other things. the efforts made by the Confederate government to obtain re- eognition from the European nations
 The book is complete in two volumes of convenient library size and handsome ly bound in red cloth, with gilt lettering. Each volume is embellished with four Illustrations. The first presents the Con federate capitol at Montgomery as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Can the Buffalo Be Preserved?

Ernest Harold Baynes, in Harper s Weekly.
 Authorities on the buffalo have agreed that if the animal is to be preserved 1t must be taken out of the hands of private owners, who, no matter how good their intentions may be, can scarcely ever resist the temptation to sell the animals for their heads and hides when opportunity offers. The recent sale at public auction of the en- tire herd owned by Messrs. Burgess and Hanson at Luana, la, and the fact that the animals in almost all the other herds. including that of the Cor bins. proves conclusively that as long as the few remaining buffaloes are in the possession of private individuals there is no guarantee that they will not be sold to the first customer who appears with the money. Moreover, since the greater number of buffaloes now living are in a few comparatively large herds. there is constant danger that contagious diseases may destroy a considerable percentage of them at one blow
 At the present time there seems to be just one way in which these dan gers can be avoided, and that is by the government ownership of several herds, maintained in different parts of the country. To this end, then, the American Bison society is now work ing. and in it's work 1t feels that it has right to ask for the support of every woman, child and man in the United States-and in Canada, as well, it hopes. for Canadians should surely be interested in a plan to save from ey- tinction their largest and finest native animal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Our Trade In Shoes.

From Harper's weekly.
 Exports of leather and leather manufac- lures from the United States during the calendar year 1905 were the largest on record. being valued at $Ss.946, 422. against s35, SPA, ,4s2 in 1904, s25169.614 in 1900, and $12. .275, 470 in 1890. The growth in this feat ure of the foreign commerce has oc- cured chiefly during the past decade es- pecially the last half of that period. As far back as 1885. the exports under this head had reached a total of practically 10 million dollars and they ranged between that amount and 19 millions up to about 1897, since which date they have more than doubled.
 The exportations of leather and leather manufactures, as classified by reports is- sued by the Department of Commerce and Labor, through its bureau of statis- tics. fall under three principal heads: Sole-leather. upper-eather. and boots and shoes. About one-half of the total is in the form of ''upper-leather." for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes and sole-leather. respectively Harness and saddles show a total of a little over a half-million dollars, and other leather manufactures 11-3 million dollars. Ex- ports of boots and shoes have increased about million dollars since 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05

frontispieee and has portraits Of Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens and Rob ert E. Lee. The second has the capitol at Richmcnd with portraits of Robert Toombs, Robert M. T. Hunter and Judah P. Benjamin. Short biographical sketches accompany each of the portraits.
 In the regular analytical index which appears in the compilation, numerous en. eyclopedic articles bearing upon the text and explanatory of politieo-historical facts are inserted. There are also in. cluded in this feature of the compilation accurate accounts of all the leading bat ties of the war in which the armies Of the north and south were engaged.
 Washington, D. C., Feb. g. 1906. The Age-IIerald. Birmingham Ala.
 Gentlemen-We have decided to accept the proposition made us last month to dispose of the Messages and Papers of the Conferedacy" to a coterie Of the most prominent southern newspapers-you-s: among the number. Nothing but the inn mense number of sets involved induced us to accept the offer. The first cost Of the book was very large. Extreme care was used in its production even after it was compiled-as an instanee-it was prooc read nine times to insure excluding the most minute errors.
 Not set has been sold except in ca ses of small discount for cash for less than $7 in cloth or $11 in half leather binding since the work was issued last year.
 This work stand unique among books in as much as it has had no predecessor has no competitor and cannot possibly have a successor. Yet it covers most vital and interesting points in southern history It is the only book ever pub lished as a private enterprise under reso- luton of Congress
 The public in your section should cer- tainly appreciate your public spirit and eagerly grasp the temporary opportunity you offer them to obtain this work. We can absolutely guarantee that they will never have a similar chance. Yours very truly.
 BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERA-
 TURF AND ART.
 E. NJ HUNT, Assistant Treasurer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
FOUND MURDERED.
Unknown Man Is Found Dead Near
 Letohatchie Depot.

Letohatch April 4.-(Special)-An un- known white man about go years old was found dead about a quarter of a mile south of the Louisville and Nashville railroad depot by section foreman to- day. From all indications he had only been dead a short while. His shoes and hat were missing and evidently he had been robbed and murdered Three large gashes were found on the head. his skull was crushed and one leg was broken. On his person was found a note on which was written F. NJ. Reese Savannah, Ga.
 The county executive committee of Lowndes county met in Haynevlle today ind named August 27 as the day for ltate and county primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Ransom TinsIey Is Dead.

Gadsden. April 4.-(Special)- )-Mr Ran som Tinsley, an aged and highly respected citizen died at the residence of his daug.l- ter, Mrs. George Irwin last night. He had been in declining health for several years. MT. Tinsley was 75 years of age and had been a resident of this city most of his life. He was Mason of high de- gree and his remains were laid to rest this afternoon in Forest cemetery with Masonic honors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Acres of Barees at Louisville.

Louisville, Ky, April 4.-Acres of barges filled with coal, the first to ar rive in this port for months. are hug ging the banks of the Ohio in the vicinity of Louisville. The advance .ows arrived before daylight, and oth- srs are on their way. By 6 o'clock to- morrow morning it is estimated that ,,5O0,000 bushels of coal will be in the local harbor. Of this amount only about 500.00O bushels will go to Louis. yille dealers. The remainder will be owed south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Chaffee Going to New York.

Los Angeles, Cal, April IA letter from General Adna Chaffee. who witf Mrs Chaffee is now in Mexico, to friends ir this city, states that they will not come to Los Angeles as intended but will. pro ceed to New Orleans. from which plac, they will leave for New York Apf'n ! The letter states that General Chaffee has been offered an important public office 1T New York, and that 1t is likely he, vii acaAnt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Flat Top Convicts.

President J. c. Maben of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company said yesterday that he was not in the least disturbed by report said to have been made by Dr. w. E. Ward of Mobile about the treatment of Mobile county con victs at the Flat Top mines.
 'The county convicts.' said MT. Mane. are under rigid state inspection. The health of all the convicts at Flat Top that the company supplies is not only more than abundant but 1t is of excellent quality"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
The Biggest Fool.
From the New York Press.

! r T
 A melancholy friend told me the other day that he made himself deaf at the age of 90 by puncturing his ear drums with a alarming needle. T am now, at 50, will ing to make confession." he said. T re- garded myself as failure. Things didn't go right. l saw a blind man coining money because his sense of touch was so acute. l saw a woman deaf dumb and blind. who had more brains than all other women. A man who could not smell was a marvel in a bone factory. I studied the compensatipg laws of nature. The idea got into my nut that If ]. a poor. unsuccessful. average man, could, by destroying one sense. improve another I would be a genius in the world. And here I am, miserable wreck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Famous sroncho Buster Killed.

Cheyenne. Wyoming. April 4.-Duncan Clark, famous broncho buster. for years holder of the titleeof champion steer roper of the world. was accidently killed today while hunting with two friends. The three were crawling along the ground to- ward a herd of antelope when a gun car ried by one of the party. immediately be- hind Clark. was discharged. The charge entered Clark's body causing instant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
]. H. BARR RESIGNS
 FROM SEABOARD
PRESIDENT OF THE LINE WILL BE SUCCEEDED APRIL 30 BY AL FRED WALTER, FORMERLY WITH THE LEHIGH VALLEY.

New York, April 4--At meeting of the directors of the Seaboard Air Line rail- way held today, J. M Barr resigned as president and general manager of the rail- way company, to take effect on April S0
 Alfred Walter of Baltimore, Md, was elected president. to take effect April 9O MT. Walter had been connected at times with the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, Erie and Lehigh Valley railroads, having been president of the latter from 1897 to 1902 It was announced that MT. Barrs resignation is in conformity with determination reached by him in Decem- Der last, to engage fin work that will give him more leisure. Mir. Barr will continue as a director of the company.
 MT. Walter, who Is to become president of the Seaboard accompanied President Barr and Chairman James A. Blair to Blr- mingham about ten days ago. Some time ago he was president of the Lehigh Val ley road He is 54 years or age and has had wide railroad experience. MT. Walter is at present chairman of the Southern and Western road operating in the coal fields of Virginia and Tennessee. The road is said to be owned by the Ryan-Blair syndicate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Craig Called to GreenviIle.

Jackson. Miss. April 4.-(special.) .)-R. E. Lee Craig, assistant to Bishop Bratton of the Episcopal church of the state Of Mississippi, has been called to succeed to the pastorate at Greenville He has not as yet signified what he will do In the premises
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Domestic Finance.

From Special Spring Fashion Number of Harper's Bazar.
 Mrs. kicker-"Can you get money from your husband?
 Mrs. Bocker-'.No. By the time I've paid the cook for good dinner before a-i- Ls--- r'v~ ti,at Aven-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Texas Woman Elected in Texas.

Whitewright, Tex, April Airs. Mamie R. Wilcox was elected city secretary at yesterdays election. She is the first woman elected to mu- nicipal or state office in Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05
Hancock Jury still Out.

Brewton. April 4.-tSpecial)-Up to a ate hour tonight the jury in the Hancock murder case Is still out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05

The best half-tone cuts are made by the Gawk Engraving company. Age Herald Ruildinu.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-05

Try the Gawk for haIf-tone and line illustrations Ane-Herald Buildinn.
The Jewish outlook., 1906-09-07

phone systems in single city either di-
vide the usage, or compel the business
man to install telephone Of both sys-
tens; in order to reach all his patrons
and correspondents he must have a tele
phone of each system in use, and even
if the competition proposes to reduce
rates, it does not lessen his expense, but
rather, doubles it.
1t does not seem possible to advance
any argument to deny this statement,
because the experience of the telephone
users in other cities where competition
in telephone service has been encouraged
shows that from one-half to three-quar-
ters of the business men who subscribed
for the competitive service still retained
their old company instruments, and that
their annual expense is nearly double.
Every telephone user, every business
man; every voter should consider that in
signing petition for, or encouraging
in any way a second system Of telephone
service he is acting absolutely against
his own pocketbook. TO sign petition
for second system, or to urge the
granting Of franchise to a second COM
pany is to hurry the day when the bust
ness man must pay more for his service
than at present.
The Jewish outlook., 1906-09-07
ZIONIST MEETING.

The Buds of Zion and B mai Zion
Shearith Israel Societies are going to
hold joint celebration at the Beth
Hamedrosh Hagodol Temple, oath and
Curtis streets, next Sunday evening,
September 9th Rabbi G. H. Kauvar and
Jacob Tannenbaum, Judge Ben B.
Lindsey, A. L. Fribourg, Harry Silver
stein and Phil Hornbein will address the
meeting. An interesting feature of the
celebration will be an excellent orchestra
under the leadership Of Prof. David D.
Alramovitz. Admission is free-all are
welcome.
The Jewish outlook., 1906-09-07

hold. That the scheme is purely a fur
therance of their own ends, and without
resultant benefits to the people Of Den
yer, is readily shown by an analysis of
the franchise they propose to ask Of the
City Council, and for which they are
circulating petition for an election.
The proposed franchise specifies the
rates which may be charged by the new
company, which are substantially: $6.25
a month for business, and $2.75 month
for residence, with the right to increase
these rates fifty cents per month for each
one thousand telephones added to the ex-
change upward Of ten thousand. AS
The Colorado Telephone Company, now
occupying the field has some 10000 tele
phones, it can readily be seen that at
this ratio of increase these rates would
amount to considerable sum before this
new company could really be considered
a competitor of The Colorado Telephone
Company. However, they propose to es-
tablish these rates, with maximum Of
$500 per month for business, and $4.OO
per month for residence.
This offers no relief, from rate stand
point, to some five thousand of the pres
MT telephone users who pay $500
month, or less, for their residence tele-
phones; and to some four thousand others
who pay less than $500 month for their
business telephones. There is more than
this to be considered however, when dis
cussing prospective telephone competi-
ton:
Telephone competition is hardly to be
considered in the same light as competi-
ton in other lines Of business; the great
est value in telephone service, regardless
of rates charged, is that given when the
greatest number Of subscribers are con-
nected to single system( whereby each
user can be connected with every other
user Of the telephone service; and it has
been decisively proven that two tele-