The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
.COL, WILEY ID BE
 ONLY CANDIDATE  Hall Fails to Qualify in the Sec
 ond District OWENS HOME IS BURNED Valuable Historical Library Is Com pIet9 Loss--6rmingham Man Is
 Married In Montgomery.
 Other Capital News.
OWENS HOME IS BURNED

l Marrleu In montgomery.
 Other Capital News.
 Montgomery, March 6.-(Special)-A A. Wiley congressman from the Second dis trict, is the only candidate for Congress ] to qualify for the primary to be held by the democratic party of the Second district on March 19. The fifteen days time in which qualification could be made expired last night, and al the meeting of the democratic committee of the dis i triet held today no one else had made ap- plication for place on the ticket
 Thomas J. Hall of this city. who. was ] well known to he q candidate for the honor, made a vigorous protest against i the committee holding to the rule. say ing that he hoped Ii would put off the i time of the primary so he would have 1 time to come in When asked why he ! did not qualify by yesterday he said he forgot 1t, being so busy he overlooked it.. i He urged the committee to put the time i off so he could come inside the law. This 1 the committee refused to do i Phil Stern. an attorney. speaking for ! MT. Halh said that the action of the l cc mmittee was entirely correct and that l MT. Hall should have known the date, i but thought it would be well in the in- i terest of harmony and good feeling to i delay the time of the primary if possible. l He said that the impression had gone 1 out that the committee had been nasty and while he did not say that was at all so. he did not see how a delay of a | few days would hurt
 Chairman Henderson of the committee l said that MT. Hall had been notified of the meeting of the committee on February b. as he had gone in his buggy and told MT. ! Hall of the time and the place. MT. Hall was at the meeting. of the committee on l that date. Mir. Hall was familiar with the law regulating such matters and putting 1 the time limit at fifteen days. and the plan to this effect was printed in the pa pers. He said that MT. Hall had every chance in the world to qualify. The com mittee had acted as it felt for the best and no one had been badly treated
 There was no disposition at all to ! the election was assessed to Col A. A. Wiley. the only candidate. It was un- derstood that if Mr. Hall had qualified the amount assessed to each candidate was to have been $l0o0 Mir Hall had that much he said, in his pocket ready to put it up if allowed to come in.
 Owen Loses Home.
 The handsome home of Dr. Thomas NJ. Owen. located at Cloverdale, was de- stroyed by fire at 10 o'clock this morning The loss is almost complete and will amount to many thousands of dollars. His valuable library, one of the best in the south, was burned. with pretty much all the furniture. Mr. Owen and the other members of the family were absent from the city and did not get back until the flames had done taeir worst. The house was handsome one and had been built by Dr. Owen since coming to the capitol as director of the state department of archives and history. It was valued at about 5000.
 l Dr. Owens library was one of the best i in the south. It represented years of toll ! and collection, and cannot be replaced as 1 it contained many things of value that are out of the question to get together 1 again. Besides this there was destroyed many valuable papers and manuscripts Of literary work begun by Dr. Owen, and a great deal of expensive furniture that was valuable because of association
 Dr Owen carried only $20oO insurance, so his loss falls heavy.
 MT. Reynolds Weeds.
 A marriage of much prominence throughout the state and q very quiet ] and impressive one. was that of Miss Pattie Barnett to MT. Martin c. Key holds of Birmingham this afternoon at 5:3O o'clock at the home of the brides parents, Mir and Mrs. G. W. Barnett on 1 Suoth Hull street. pr. Neal L. Anderson performing the ceremony.
 Only the immediate family of the bride and groom were present.
 The decorations of the handsome home i were striking and appropriate. The bridal i colors. white and green. were arranged ] in a charming devise with most pictur- i esque effect.
 i The brides wedding gown was a hand 1 some tailored suit of gray cloth. with hat and gloves to match. and her shower | bouauet was of brides roses immediately | after the ceremony the bride and groom left for their future home in Birming i ham,
 l The bride is q popular and talented l daughter of Mir. and Mrs. c. N. Barnett. one of the best known families in the l south
 ] Mr Reynolds is very. prominent both 1 in business and social circles in Birming- ] ham.
 Among the out of town guests to att 1 tend the wedding were: Capt. and Mrs. IT. C. Reynolds of Monteyallo brother of the groom; Mir. and Mrs. Lucian Brown. the latter the daughter of the groom of Birmingham; MT. and Mrs. R. $. Allen l of Birmngham; Mir. w. H. Moore of 1 Birmingham; Miss Mary E. Reese of Au- 1 burn.
 Suits for Policemen. l Ii is very probable that the City Council 1 will furnish it's police force with two , uniforms and helmets and one overce :,
 sninal year; and that the 1-
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