The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
COUNCIL ID MEET
 TUESDAY NIGHT VIII Hear Report from Water
 Committee ACTION MAY BE TAKEN Dowie Dinkins Is Charged With the Murder of R. c. Cooper at Bull
 lard Shoals Last Sun
 day Night.
ACTION MAY BE TAKEN

Bessemer, April 4.-(Speclal.)-lne Clty Council of Bessemer will meet in regular session at the city hall next Tuesday night and it is expected that this will be one of the most important and inter- esting ever held by the council.
 Several matters of importance are scheduled for the meeting, among which is a report to be submitted by the special committee appointed at the last meeting to take up the matter of complaints of water consumers against the Bessemer Water Works company.
 It is expected that the report will show very bad state of affairs and it is un- derstood that the council will take some i decisive steps to remedy the alleged dis criminatons.
 The matter of electing a city engineer to succeed Major w. J. Parkes, resigned, will also come up again and in view of the fact that the members of the council are evenly divided on a choice and both sides have evinced determination to stand firm it is expected the question will bring about another deadlock and a bolting of part of the members to pre- vent a quorum on the vote.
 The ordinance providing for q bond issue for street paving will also come up and will be freely discussed and possibly passed. The ordinance was introduced at the last meeting and put on it's first read ing.
 Several other matters of importance to the city are to be considered.
 Murder Charged. s1 lat gation into the killing of R. A. Cooper, who was shat at Bullard shoals near this city last Sunday night and who died from the gunshot wounds at Readers hospital next day.
 The coroners jury charges murder and duplicates Dowie Dinlins, who was with i Cooper at the time he was shot. | Dinkins has left the country and his whereabouts are not known. warrant has been sworn out for his arrest | cooner with two or three others, went | from Bessemer to the Blue Creek terri | tory last Sunday afternoon and on the way back Sunday night it is said that some of the company became engaged i in a quarrel near Bullard shoals. Shots 1 were fired and Cooper was mortality wounded. Cooper was carried to the hospital at Readers about II o'clock Sunday night by the other boys in the party and was | left there for treatment After his death 1 Monday the matter was reported to Cor l oner Paris. who at once instituted an in- vestigation The negro boy who drove l for the party of young men stated Mon day and during the investigation that l Cooper was shot by Dinkins. All par ties connected with the affair are white 1 D..I.. c.. D.c;aace
 special meeting of the Town Coun- cil of Jonesboro was held last night at 1 the residence of Mayor John D. Martin and everything was put in shape for the starting of the municipal machinery Mon | day morning.
 Marshal Vines will take his club and begin the administration of the town laws and ordinances and the city clerk | will prepare for the connection or taxes | while Mayor Martin will take q nrm ho'd on the executive reins.
 Another meeting of the Town Council will be held Monday night when several ] matters of importance to the municipal | ity will be taken up and considered. It IS nossible that the council will meet quite freauently until all the machinery or the town is in good running order Jonesboro is an important residence sec tion lying one mile from this city and has about one thousand population, in cluding many of the leading business and professional men of Bessemer who 1 have their homes in this suburb.
 The new electric car line which IS now being constructed from this city to l Jonesboro will be of great advantage to l, the place and will make it more popular | as a residence section
 Notes and Personals.
 Special Easter services will be held at all the local churches tomorrow and at several of them special musical pro- grammes will be rendered.
 Cole Brothers circus was in town today and large crowds attended both perform | ances.
 The Baptist Young Peoples union or Brighton will give trolley excursion to East Lake next Tuesday night. The pub lie has been invited to go. Tickets can be purchased on the night of the trip at the car,