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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-05-17
nine PEOPLE Drained
land BODIES CREMATED
Appalling Crime Is Committed
Near Pensacola, Florida.
BROKEN SKULLS WERE FOUND
Aekerman Was an Itinerant Preacher
and Was Not Known tosHaVe an En-.
4 emy-Motive Of Crime lie a Mystery.
!, Rewards offered by state.

Rewards offered by state.
Pensacola, Fla, May l6.-One OF the
most horrible crimes In the history OF
the state, IL not In the history OF the
eouth, was committed In Santa Rosa
county, 10 miles north OF Milton, Sun
dag night, when man by the name of
Ackerman. an itinerant preacher, his
wife and seven children, the Oldest be
tween Is and II years OF age, were
murdered and their bodies cremated in
the home which was fired by the as
sassins
A fund OF over $1,000 has been
Taised by the citizens OF Milton, w--ct
will be offered as reward for the ap,
prehension OF the murderers, and the
governor has been appealed TO to Of.
fer a reward on behalf Of the state.
The crime was discovered Monday
morning by parties with whom AckOr.
man had an appointment, who found
che house a mass OF ruins, and the
charred bodies of Alderman, his wife
and seven small children among the
kreckage.
Examination OF the bodies by Dr. II,
o. Etheridae. disclosed the fact that
Ackerman and his wife had been Hit
on the head with some blunt instru.
ment, their skulls being crushed In,
The bodies were scattered about In
different parts OF the ruins,
Details indicate that the father.
mother and each OF the seven children
were murdered before the building was
fred. as the skull OF each was crushed
The body Of Alderman was found near
the location OF the door leading from
the bedroom In which he slept, and
by his side was a revolver, The body
OF Mrs Alderman. who gave birth 10
8 child on Friday last, was found with
that OF her infant child outside OF the
ell al the front OF the house. The
eldest child was found near the door
leading OUT TO the front porch. All
OF the bodies were badly burned, prac-
tically only the trunks remaining The
bodies OF three boys were found prac.
tically where the bed upon which they
slept stood previous TO the conhagrA
ton
" hen a party from Milton reached
the scene about IL O'Clock. the stills OF
The building were s,ill burning. which
seemed 20 indicate that the IRE had
been started several hours after mid
night The country near BY IL sparSe
~ settled. the nearest neighbor lIvins
about one quarter Of . mile away This
neighbor says he knew nothing Of the
Are until early Monday morning. when
ne saw that the building had been do
struyed and notified other neisbbori
before trying 10 ascertain the damage
The feeling Throughout; Santa Rosa
county IL high over the dSstaTdly decd
and every effort IL being made 70 ap
preheba the guilty parties
Alderman moved 10 the settlement
which Wss knoNn a. Allentown. frum
Opp. Ala about three ycats aEn. aus
las aiwavs zen considered = good Ani
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regular charge. n vas h.s custom =
preach o~ras.1rs''y throughput tha'
section N, Santa Rosa c1gny "" ~as
not knoEn 90 Rave ha4 any encml~t
and the motive 90 'hs CyiH.s u rsyt
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-05-17
Is MEN ENTOMDED
BY GAS EXPLOSION
Black Damp Prevents Prompt
Rescue.
FIRE noss is TERRIBLY BURNED
Two Men Are Dead at Bottom Of Slope
Mine 10 Surrounded by Hundreds Of
Men, Women and chlldren--Latsr
Reports Say so Men Are imprisoned,

Shenandoah, Pa, May l6--An explo
sion occurred At the Shenandoah col
licry OF the Philadelphia and Reading
Coat and Iron company, Tuesday
sixteen mvu were In the mine az tho
time Of the explosion, II IL not known
II any Of them were killed,
Fllr lnss Samuel Powell was tho
Nrsl person To be- taken out ~ tho
mluc llr IL 80 terribly burned that
he viii probably die,
Several NmhulHncCS are at tho
mouth of the shat, waiting for tho
miners To be- brought to tho surface,
Thc minr Ia surrounded by several
hundred mnkslnd women aud children,
Il lN d that between 10 aud
~ men ATE Imprisoned In the nrat
me- IN Shenandoah city Colllory
inc black damp following tho eXplo.
sion prevents prompt rescue.
Two men ave drad ~ tho bottom Ut
the slope Anporlnlundonts boys aud
1askrr and Mine inspector Lamb ara
dt,r,tluR th9 work uf rracue,
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-05-17

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
NASHVILLE CLUBS
 GOOD PROSPECTS
FANS FEEL BETTER AFTER HEAR ING THAT FINN IS BUSY-MANY EXHIBITION GAMES HAVE BEEN ARRANGED.

Nashville, Tenn, February 17.-(Special0 Baseball affairs hereabouts in both the professional and amateur ranks, have taken on new life in the past few days. At Manager Finns headquarters every thing is hustle, while in the college camps the students are pulling down their togs from the storage rooms, preparing for the call of their coaches.
 The league club is taking on a brighter aspect now that Finn mas secured Bob Stafford and is on the verge of signing three men now the property of the big leagues. There are but three or four positions to fill and if the men wanted can be brought into the fold the Nash villes will be much stronger than in any previous year.
 With Karger, Gilpatrick Geyer, Her man, Duggan, Ely and one or two others the pitching department looks good. The other places will be equally as strong and there is no reason why the locals should not make much better race than has been the case heretofore.
 Manager Finn has arranged one of the strongest exhibition schedules In the cir cult. Opening on March 17, the club will play nineteen games many of which will be with the Majors. Both the National and American league champions are in- cluded in the list. which is as follows:
 March 17-University of Vanderbilt on Dudley Field.
 March 19 and Northumberland university at Lebanon.
 March 21-Vanderbilt In Athletic Park.
 March P, g and 24--New York Nationals in Nashville
 March 2e and 27-Philadelphia Americans in Nashville.
 March 2S-Cornell university in Nash ville
 March 30 and 31-University of Nashville on Peabody field.
 April ?, and 5-Chicago Americans in Nashville.
 April 3--Cleveland in Nashville.
 April and 7-Pittsburg in Nashville.
 April 9-Washington In Nashville.
 April II Nashville opens Southern league season in Birmingham.
 A number of needed Improvements are being made at Athletic park. The grand stand is undergoing many repairs, includ- ing new roof and new seats. The dia- mond has been leveled considerably and when the new loam settles the infield will be one of the best in the league.
 Punch Knoll, purchased by New Or leans from Washington, has not yet sign ed up with Charley Frank. There appears to be a hitch in the salary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
Pointing Out Distinction.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 The following anecdote recently brought to Richmond by a Georgia woman is a true story.
 A Boston couple were recreating near Augusta and met an old negro woman to whom they took a fancy. They in- vited her to pay them a visit and the black woman accepted, especially as hel expenses were paid. In due time she ar rived in Boston. and was installed in the house of the white folks. She occupied one of the best rooms, and at at the same table with her host and hostess. At one Of the meals the hostess said:
 Mrs. Jones, you were a slave, weren't your"
 ''Yes, marm," replied Mrs. Jones. "I blonged to Mars Robert Howell"
 ''I suppose he never invited you to eat at his table" remarked the Boston wo- man.
 NO, honey, dat he amt" replied Mrs. Jones. My master was gentleman. He ain't never let no nigger set at de table long CT him."
 And in making this speech she meant no disrespect to her hostess. She meant merely to point out natural distinc- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
Roses That Eat Meat.

From the New York Press
 T have yet to see a rose equal to those
 grown in Rome." said the amateur horti- culturist. They bloom in the greatest Abundance all through the winter, and
 they are as large and rich and velvety as bur American Beauties, living out of doors, clambering like ivy or honeysuckle over the crumbling marble walls or ruined temples. gleaming in crimson and green
 masses upon ancient columns, giving to the grimmest and saddest of medieval ipalazzos an air of gayety and youth.
 One day on the Via Sistina- as passed the garden that had once been the garden |of Lucullus, saw an old man tending the |superb roses that grow there. He was pouring on their roots a dark, rich-look- ling fluid.
 "s'Why are the Roman roses so beauti- |ful and abundant?' I said to the old man. Because they eat meat he answered. "'Eat meat? Nonsense,' said I. Well, they drink meat-meat extract, which is the some thing said the old man. I've Roman gardeners have for centuries watered our roses thrice a week with a |strong decoction of fresh beef-a rich |grade of beef tea. They are meat eaters. That is why the roses of Rome are as hardy and prolific as weeds, and at the same time as richly, delicately beautiful land as sweetly perfumed as flowers grown under glass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful 1t Is lr
 Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal ia the safest and most efficient disinfect- ant and purifier in nature, but few realize its value when taken Into the human system for the same cleansing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of 1t the better; 1t Is not drug at all but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system.
 Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking drinking or after eating onions and other odorous vegetables.
 Charcoal effectually clears and improves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic.
 If absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; 1t disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
 All druggists sell charcoal in one form ar another, but probably the best char coal and the most for the money, is in stuart's Charcoal Lozenges: they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other rarmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather In the form of large. pleasant tastLig lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey.
 The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health, better complexion. sweeter breath and purer blood. and the beauty of 1t is. that no possible harm can result from their continued use, but on the contrary. great benefit.
 A Buffalo physician in speaking of the benefits of charcoal says: "I advise Stu arts Charcoal Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bowels and 10 clear the complexion, and purify inc breath. mouth and throat; I also be- Iieve the liver is greatly benefited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-fve cents a box at drug stores. and although in some sense patent preparation. yet l believe get more and better charcoal in Stuarts Charcoal Log enges than in any of the ordinary char coal tablets"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
TENNESSEE WILL
 HAVE RAGE MEET
ANTl-RACE TRACK MEASURE IS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. MEMPHIS AND NASHVILLE BOTH PREPARING TO OPEN SEASON.

Nashville, February 1.-The supreme court of Tennessee this morning decided that the Rice-Ligon anti-raee track bill, which prohibits betting on rate tracks in this state and which waS passed at the last session of the state legislature, is unconstitutional. The case came before the supreme court in the form of the state vs. Hayes. Hayes was indicted on the charge of violating the bill mention ed. The indictment against Hayes was quashed upon motion before Judge Hart, he holding the act to be un- constitutional, and the state appealed to the supreme court in order to test the eonstitutionality of the act. The grounds upon which the contentious of the de- fense in this case were based was in sub stance that the title of the act did not embrace the different offense specified in the body of the act. Affirmed. The same disposition was made of the case against William Gerst.
 The decision of the supreme court in- sures a race meeting here at Cumber- land park next spring
 Memphis, February H.-Local racing de- voices were greatly elated over the de- cision of the supreme court declaring the ant-racing act unconstitutional Sec retary MacFarlane of the Memphis Jock Jockey club announced that the usual spring meeting will be held here. The Secretary has been at work on the stakes and stated that the Tennessee derby, the Cakes. Montgomery handicap and Pea body handicap have all been liberally sub scribed to by horsemen
 Many prominent stables are wfnterine here and will take part in the spring meeting. Secretary MacFarlane said he would probably be able to give out the stake entries tonight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
Roosevelt Luck.

From the New York Sun.
 The reports of MT. Tillman's philippio of yesterday which are at hand at the present writing represent that statesman as attribut.ng President Roosevelt's pop ularity to the "roseate articles sent out to the country from the press galleries of Congress.
 We shall await the official version of the Senator's remarks before assuming that he has lost his common sense along with his temper, his tact, hs understand ing of the proprieties and ordinary decen- cies of public life-all of these being qualities which MT. Tillman has been cul- tivating with more or less success since the old Pitchfork days.
 Meanwhile, we congratulate the Presi- dent. Roosevelt luck does not seem to have exhausted itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
Safe.

F rom fidIpeT WetKIy.
 An official in the land office at Washing ton relates how Dr. Whipple, for a long time bishop of Minnesota, once undertook Ito hold religious services near an Indian village in one of the western states.
 It appears that the bishops effects were scattered about the Hodge" and when about to go out. he asked the chief if 1t were safe to leave them there while he went to the village for the services.
 Plenty safe," grunted the Indian; "no white man in a hundred miles from here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
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From the Lewiston Journal.
 T don't know" said Bangor man the other day, what their methods of teach Ing are in the schools these days, but [ was surprised not long ago when talking to youngster to find that he couldn't tell how many counties there were in the state of Maine nor could he name them all without looking up the informa tion in his geography He was a bright boy.i too, and I wondered. When I went tol school we learned the names of the six teen counties to the tune of Yankees Doodle, and to this day have never for gotten how the class sounded singing tho useful little jingle. It went this way:
 Sixteen counties in the state
 Cumberland and Franklin,
 Piscataquis and Somerset,
 Aroostook, Androscoggin,
 Sagadahoc and Kennebec,
 Lincoln. Knox and Hancock,
 Waldo, Washington and York,
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Gossip of the Game.

Pitcher Swann of Shreveport will not remain with the St. Louis Cardinals, but is said to be slated to go to Louisville.
 Grantland Rice, formerly sporting edi- tor of the Atlanta Journal and now do- ing the same work in Cleveland, Is about to become benedict. The wedding will be celebrated April Il and the young lady is Miss Katie Hollis, beauty and belle of Americus, Ga
 Fred Abbott, main backstop for the Pelicans some years back and later with the Philadelphia Nationals, has signed to play with Grillos Toledo club this season.
 Norman Elberfeld is at Hot Springs and will come to Birmingham in about ten days to meet the rest of the High landers.
 Catcher Millerick, formerly of Mont gomery, is considering a number of offers at his home in East Lynn, Mass, and in- cidentally is drawing better than players wages from the Western Electric com pany.
 Arlie Latham will again manage the Jacksonville team in the South Atlantic league and will play first cushion instead of third as has always been his custom in the past.
 Ted Sullivan, him of the "high grass and '14-62-S7" sign fame, has applied for the franchise at Bay City or at Lansing, in the new Interstate Independent league in Michigan.
 Leonard Stanley, brother to Handsome Joe. the old Pelican outieder, has broken into professional ranks and has been signed to pitch for the, Portsmouth club
 in the Virginia state league. He is said to have the goods. Al Handboe is another Washington boy who has signed to pitch for Portsmouth. He is a brother of John Handiboe, for merly captain of the Memphis club and who was killed some years ago in that city by walking out of the window of his room in a hotel while asleep. He was somnambunst but had kept the matter a secret from all but very few intimate friends.
 Joe Burke has signed contract to um- pire games in the Cotton State league this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18

Bresnahan catching for the Giants, and while the young fellow made great fuss, he was no more to be compared to Buck Ewing than a. glass is to diamonds, and yet 1 look on the New York catcher as a very fine player, simply because he can hit and run a base.
 "'Buck' Ewing, like Adrian Anson, was a national character in baseball, and should never have turned down the game at time whereby taking chance they could have made fortunes as Charley Comskey and other old heady players did later on. Ewing, however, was care- fu of his baseball earnings l am told, and wants for nothing but good health once more"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
vanderbIIt,s strona sauad.

vanderbilt Will De represented by very strong team In all the track meets. Of the old men there will be on hand Captain Hamilton, ex-Captains Anderson and Blake, Bob Blake, Haygood Lockhart, E. Jones and Stone Hamilton will do the broad jumps and low hurdles, and may be used in some of the dasEes as he can negotiate fast hundred or two-twenty. Anderson will be entered in the high jump and hurdles. He Is a good man in both, and Is probably the surest point winner on the team. He has done the high hurdles in better than record time, but the record was not allowed, because he knocked down a hurdle Dan Blake will run the dashes and Is steady, con- sistent performer.
 Bob Blake will work on the high jump, weights and pole vault He was a valu- able man on the team of '04 and will add considerable strength to the squad. Jimmy Haygood will do the pole vault and probably the quarter mile. He got the record in the former last year. and will likely raise 1t this season. Lockhart, Stone and Jones will be used in the dis tances and hurdles. They have all won points in previous meets, and should show much development. Jones ran the half last season Tn almost record time and as he is young runner he has nice chance of getting 1t this year.
 Besides this array there is a consider able bunch of material among the new men. Among the most promising are Proctor of Branham & Hughes, In the vault, Mairs in the high jump and Noel and Sherrill in the weights. These men have all had some training in preparatory schools and are expected to show good form when the time comes for try-out. The squad will again be in the hands of Professor Long, gymnasium instructor.
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men special indoor work and when the season opens they should show the good effects
 Arranging Football Schedule.
 Manager Thompson of the 1se6 football squad Is busily engaged preparing the next schedule. Although but a few con- tracts have been signed up. the Commo- dores have arranged for about all the games they want. Georgia Tech, Auburn and Sewanee are already booked, while 1t is almost certain Vanderbilt will take on Michigan, Princeton, Tennessee and one or two of the teams of the Big Nine, probably Indiana and Northwestern The schedule will undoubtedly be the hardest "Vandy, has ever arranged, and for the boys to continue their good record they will have to turn out an even better team than that of 1905.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-18
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