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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
EnsIey Man Is Married.

Opelika, March 2O.--(Special)--At Che
wacla. little suburb of this city, occurred
a pretty wedding at a. m. this morning,
when Miss Bell and Mr.. Wilson Wat
ley of Ensey Joined hands and hearts.
In the presence of a few select friends
the wedding nuptials were solemnzed at
the home of the brides parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Bell, and Immediately after
the wedding breakfast that followed the
ceremony, Mr.. and Mrs. Watley took the
train for their future home in Ensley.
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Mrs. Morltz Raden.

Funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. Mortz Raden were conducted yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock from s..
Paurs church, the Rev. Father Coyle Of
lciating Interment was at Elmwood
cemetery. There was a large attendance
of sorrowing friends anc the floral offer
,ings We're numerous.
Mrs. Raden was born in Germany in
1912. moving to this country with her pa
rents during her girlhood days. A hus-
aand and three daughters, Mrs. l. Will
liams Mrs. Bruce Kelley and Mrs. f..
Carney and a son. Charles Raden, and
two sisters. Mrs B. Mintz and Mrs. X.
Hitchcock of Mobile, survive.
The deceased was highly esteemed and
her memory will be cherished.
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NOTICE TO ELks.

Members of Birmingham Lodge No, 49,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
are ordered to attend the funeral of our
late Brother Thomas Rensford, from the
family residence No. sol South Fifteenth
street at 2:30 this "wednesday after
noon, March q. 1906.
ELI p. SMITH, Exalted Ruler.
II. e. SHROPSHIRE, JR.. Secretary.
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At the Bijou.

The matinee crowd at the performance
of Running for Office" at the Bijou yes
terday afternoon was unusually large and
a well filled house was in attendance
last night Running for Office is In
many respects the best work of George
NJ. Cohan and holds it's popularity re-
markably we'll As laughmaker it is still
as effective as many of the newer musical
offerings of the year. The usual per-
Torrance will be given tonight.
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Financial Crisis Feared.

Teheran, Persia March 90-The high
price of silver has produced speculation
in the purchase of I<hrans "a Persian sill
yer coin. worth less than 20 eents) for
export to India. where they are recoined
into rupees The Persian mint has been
closed. owing to lack of bullion. Fears of
a financial crisis are expected here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Mrs. ]. w. Reed.

Mrs. Lena Reed, 80 years of age. wife Of
]. w. Reed of the Sloss-Sheffeld COM
pany, died at the Hillman hospital last
night
The funeral will be from the residence,
1910 Fourteenth avenue, South. this after
noon The interment will be in Elmwood
cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
SPIKED SHOES GIVE
WAY TO ICE SKATES
Cold Weather Called Off Base
ball Game Yesterday
NEW WORKERS SEE SNOW
If the Weather Permits the Game Will
Probably Be Arranged Between
Hahlanders and Coal
Barons Tomorrow.

lee skates were substituted for spiked
shoes and heavy ragland and furs for
uniforms down at the baseball lot yes
terday afternoon. There was no chance
IN the world for the game scheduled to
be played between the Highlanders and
the Coal Barons to be pulled off, and at
the noon hour, which was the warmest
time during the day, the official keeper
of The big baseball did not have nerve
enough 10 run the sphere across Second
avenue to advertise the game
Certain members Of the New York ag-
gregation are now declaring that this
sunny south is only a myth. They ex-
pected. according to their gossip around
the hotels, to be wearing straw hats and
outing suits down in Birmingham at this
season of the year The continued cold
rain of Sunday was bad enough, but the
limit came when they peeped out of their
windows early yesterday morning and be-
held tiny flakes of snow falling.
Manager Harry Vaughan and the other
Barons spent part of the day trying to
eonvice the visitors that such weather is
extraordinary in Birmingham, but many
of the Iighlanders were non-believers
Manager Clark Griffith huddled his bunch
around big stove in the afternoon and
told them to be content that warm wealth.
er is coming even if they do have to wait
until July or August.
It was entirely too cold for out of door
work, but the visitors and some of the
Barons put in a good part of the day
playing handball, basketball and doing
other work in the gym. Managers
Vaughan and Griffith had not mustered
up courage enough last night to announce
another day for game.
1t may be tomorrow if the weather mod
crates
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ADJUSTMENTS
AT THE JEFFERSON.

Thursday night-Grace George In
1.-The Marriage of William Ashe."
Friday and Saturday nights
Nine. Mantelli and company in
grand opera.
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AT THE elJou.

Remainder of the week, with
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
"rhe Marriage of William Ashe."

In the opinion of many critics, 'The
Marriage of William Ashe,' in which
Grace George comes to the Jefferson thea
tire tomorrow night, is by far the best
thing she has ever done. The play is,
of course, a characterization Of Mrs.
Humphrey Wards famous novel, made
Mayo.
The mise en- scene of the play is one
that Mrs. Ward has made very familiar
in her noveIs-shifting on occasion from
country house to palazzo' but always
within call of the House of Commons.
William Ashe is another of Mrs. Wards
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
"The Yankee Consult

1.-THE Yankee Consul presented at the
Jefferson theatre last night, seemed to
be in the borderland. 1t was better than
visited Birmingham this season and not
so good as others that could be named.
There were some excellent features, but
as whole the performance was char
acterized by a certain languor, a torpid
ness, as it were, which may or may not
have originated in the tropical atmos-
phere, of San Domingo, where the plot of
the piece is laid. In a few words, the
action dragged, although the lines arc
witty and the music is as a whole quite
pleasing.
Harry Short. as Abijah Booze was good
in a quiet sort of way, a fact which was
largely due to the clever lines entrusted
to his care by Henry Blossom. author of
"The Yankee Consul" He sang well and
was at times droll and amusing. Vera
Michelena, as Bonita, was as good as the
average musical comedy prima donna and
Alice Hosmer. as the widow, wooed by
the consul, was pleasing. principally on
account of her girth. which was immense.
Mae Botti, as Papina, was the bright
est and most magnetic figure in the COM
pany. Miss Botti is petite and a clever
little entertainer. She seemed to have
more enthusiasm than the others, with the
result that her performance was pleasing,
especially her song numbers. The singing
as a whole was poor.
The staging of 1.-THE Yankee Consul"
was attractive, especially in the second
act. The costumes were not bad and
the chorus as whole good looking. Some
OF the musical numbers were unusually
tuneful, especially MY San Domingo
Maid" and 'In the Days of Old both
of which won deserved encores. Span
ish dance in act by Mile. Olga Kalneng
was gracefully done.
The chief criticism that could be made
of the performance is that it lacked snap
and sparkle necessary to the success of
a musical piece, while the minor prin-
cipals were not up to the standard set
by such musical comedies as ''The Roll
licking Girl" and 1.-THE Ham Tree" With
Raymond Hitchcock and the original
company presenting "The Yankee Consul"
the story would have been different.
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Everyone wants to see the
briae and groom at the Audi
torium tonight
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e. T. Shaw g sons, undertakers.

Green Undertaking Company.
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Captain Petty OF the ST. Louis BfoWns
has switched Niles back from the outfield
to the keystone sack again, and he will
likely remain in that position during the
season. In a recent game with Galveston
Niles played an errorless game at second,
secured couple of hits, and purloined
as many bags Discouragngl
Mobile promises to be an important fac
tor in the Cotton States league pennant
race this season. The Gulf City manage
ment has collected a swift lot of young
sters it appears Pitcher Bob White, the
old Shreveport player has Joined the Mo-
bile team.
Mobile is Alabama's only representative
in the Cotton States league, and mas
much as the game draws well down in
that burg, the association will no doubt
come out long on the financial end. which
will mean no doubt q fight for place in
the Southern league of 1907
The Shreveport and the Little Rock
players are gathering this week on their
respective home fighting grounds. Bir-
mingham, Montgomery, New orleans and
Atlanta has the advantage on other teams
in the league when it comes to early
training The fans in Little Rock are Just
as happy as If they were in the right
minds because Outfelder Hartman, who
jumped the Travellers at the opening of
last season has written to Chief thinner
that he has repented of his baseball sins,
and wants to again join the team.
The New York Giants are to forsake
Memphis as a training ground and will
go to Little Rock within the next few
days, according to the Arkansas Traveller.
The Giants have been in Memphis for
three weeks or more but their contract
with the Memphis association expires next
Saturday and arrangements have beer
made with Chief thinner by which the
.McGrawltes will go to Little Rock to
remain week or more.
Eastern clubs should never go as far
south as New Orleans for practice games
and [ see that New York has cut the
Crescent City from the spring schedule,
writes l. II. Murnane from Macon to
the Cincinnati Enquirer. Boston should
follow suit. The distance is too great and
the players are firing of their long ride.
In fact. Manager Collins is not in favor
of going one inch farther south than
Macon Here is an ideal training spot and
not too far from the north. Jimmie Col
Inns says that two weeks is plenty to get
the boys in shape, and would be willing
to make a combination with the other
clubs of the American league to make
it a rule not to go south before the last
week in March, saving the clubs money,
as there is no profit in taking an army
of ball players to the southland for five
or six weeks workout Many players are
not fast enough for second class minor
league clubs, and yet they are taken
south at the clubs expense, simply TO
have a good time. It's absurd and is
clear case of poor management and
waste of good money.
No player should be taken south with
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21

Captain Petty of the st. Louis Browns
has switched Niles back from the outfield
to the keystone sack again, and he will
likely remain in that position during the
season In a recent game with Galveston
Niles played an errorless game at second,
secured a couple of hits, and purloined
as many bags Discouragng,
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
The Book OF Books.

The nineteenth annual report or
the American Bible Society, being for
the past year, shows that the issues
of the society during ninety years
amount to 7S,50H 529, and that the
total issue at home and in other lands
for the year amounts to 2,236,755.
The Bible has been translated into
seventy-two languages and dialects.
What other. books have had or ever
will have the chance to be read in
Eskimo, Gaelic, Grebo, Littish, Pam
panga, Ponape, Samogit, Sheetzwa,
Tonga, Zulu and a score more of
strange tongues? The Chicago Bible
Society is almost as old as the city
Itself. In the report of it's sixty-sixth
year a distribution of over $4,000
Folumes is announced, and the report
also says: Not r dialect is found
among the fifty or more spoken in
Chicago but the Bible Society can
match it in S5Iiptures. Chicago
Tribune.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
THE STUDENTS LEAVE
Centenary College Forced To
Close It's Doors.

New Orleans, La, (SpeciaD Cen
tenary College, at Jackson, La, has
closed its doors permanently in con-
sequence of the feuds in the faculty,
the resignation of it's president, who
is still lying in a critical condition
from wounds inflicted by a professor
of physics in a fight. and the with
drawal of all its students.
The college was the oldest in
Louisiana, having been founded in
1925 as the Louisiana State College.
1t failed, and soon afterward passed
into the hands of the Methodists
who named it Centenary College, in
honor of the centennial of Method
ism.
The college was prosperous in its
earlier days and among its distin-
guished graduates were Jefferson
Davis, president of the Southern Con-
tederacy; Judah p. Benjamin, Sec
rotary of State of the Confederacy.
and most of the prominent Methodist
clergymen of the Southwest. Bis
hop Keener was for many years its
president.
The building will probably be used
rs an annex for the overflow of the
State insane asylum, which is also
situated at Jackson, near the college.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
DUEL TO DEATH
WITH A BURGLAR
Wealthy Pittsburger Killed in His
Own House.
THE MANY CRIMES ALARM CITY
Henry Firth Smith Shot to Death by
Burglar He Surprised in the Act OF
Robbing His Fathers HOuse-Evi,
dence of a Desperate Battle Before
the Burglar Got Away.

Pittsburg, Pa. (SpeciaD Henry
Firth Smith, % years old, son of
Jos. Smith, a prominent and wealthy
business man of this city, was
shot twice and almost instantly killed
at o'clock Sunday morning by
burglar whom he surprised in the
dining-rOOm of his fathers residence,
in the east end section of the city.
The crime, following a little more
than a week after the murder of
James A. McMillen, another wealthy
business man of this section, has
aroused the city, and, with a num-
Der of holdups by highwaymen dur
ing the past fortnight, city officials
have been importuned for $50 more
policemen to suppress the wave of
crime.
That desperate battle took place
between young Smith and the burg
lar is evident from the disordered
condition of the dining-room and
Kitchen of the Smith home. In ad-
dition to the two bullets which were
found to have entered Smiths body,
hve other balls were found lodged
In the floors and walls of the two
rooms. Three cartridges of Smiths
revolver had been discharged.
Neighbors adjacent to the Smith
home heard the shots and ran to
their windows, but say they saw no
one running from the house. Hun
dreds of dollars worth of silver
plate had been gathered together by
the burglar, who apparently had been
IN the house sometime before being
heard by young Smith.
The young mans father and
mother were awakened by the sounds
OF the shots, and rushed down stairs.
TO find their son on the kitchen floor.
with t'yo bullet holes in his body.
The entire police and detective
forces are working on the case, but
so far no clue has been discovered.
Every policeman in the East End
district reported in civilian clothes.
superintendent of Police McQuaide
issued an order that any person act
ing in the least suspicious manner
was to be sent to the police station
for examination.
Another holdup was reported to
the police Sunday. Miss Isabelle
Livingston, sister of the chief ord
nance officer of this city, was held
up by negro near her home, which
IS a short distance from the Smith
residence. The negro held a revol-
yer at her head until he took her
purse and then diSaDpeared
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MURDERED AND HOME ROBBED.
Woman Found With Her Thoat Gut
And Head Battered.

Stafford Springs. Ct, (SpeciaD -
Mrs. Henry Williams, about SO years
old. was found murdered in her
home, near here. Robbery, appar-
emily. was the motive, and the mur-
derer is believed TO be a tramp The
body Of Mrs. Williams was found
lying near n stove on the floor of the
kitchen Of her house, VIII the throat
cut. head battered and = towel twist
ed around the neck Near the body
lay knife and a club.
The woman died after hard
struggle with her assailant, who, il
is thought. struck her down with a
club and then cut her throat, after
which the towel was wound about
her neck.
Following. the murder the man
made systematic search for money,
for the house was thoroughly ran
sacked and a trunk in an upstairs
room was broken open and about
500 in money taken from it. Part
of the money. later. was found on
the lawn In front of the house
The husband of the murdered
woman, who had been away from
homo, discovered the body
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15

Experiments are being activaIv
pursued on both sides of the AtIantic
10 see whether it is not possible to
discover some light which would have
the same effect on vegetation as has
the sun. Scierse is familiar with the
composition of the solar rays to a
large extent, and it is not regarded
as unreasonable to seek for an arti-
nclal substitute. AS a matter of fact.
.ne rays from an acetylene lamp have
Deen found to approximate very
closeiy TO sunlight. So much is this
30 tnat fairly well-developed plants
uave Deen produced which have never
known the Daylight, the whole course
"a .nelf exi7ence having been spent
unoer ne IN fuenee OF acetylene light.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
The Currency Problem.

Washington (SpeciaD The cur
rency committee of the American
Bankers Association, appointed in
pursuance to resolution adopted at
the ST. Louis meeting. will assemble
here this week to discuss a plan for
n mora elastic banking currency. The
committee will consider various
propositions. 1t is expected that
Secretary Shaw and Comptroller OF
the Currency Ridgely will address
he meeting before the final adjourn.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
Foreign.

NJ. BRAND. French minister of
public worship, announced in the
Chamber of Deputies that the gov
ernment would give the clericals
another year for reflection, and that
the churches would not be closed
next month.
Prince Albert. of Flanders, nephew
OF King Leopold, has been declared
successor of the King as sovereign
of the Congo Independent State.
Karl Hau, of Washington. d. c..
is still held in London on charge of
numbering his wife's mother, Frau
Molitor, at BadenBaden.
Count Castcllane's creditors are
trying their utmost to prevent the
granting of a divorce until their case
is settled.
James NJ. James, OF New York
who is studying trades unionism in
Russia, was arrested in St. Peters
burg.
i<iug Edward OF England celebrat-
od the siXty-fifth anniversary of his
birth.
Agitation in Italy against the ac-
tion of the government in placing an
order for armour plate for a warship,
NdlucU 1T ,UUU,VVN, Wlin lne MlO-
vale Steel Company of Pennsylvania
has assumed a serOius phase.
The Russian government is nego-
tiating with other governments with
the view of concluding supplement
tary treaties covering fugitives ac-
cused of the preparation of explosives
for bombs.
At meeting Of the leading mem
bers of the Liberal party in CHba it
was decided to appoint a committee
to express to the Governor the party's
dissatisfaction with recent appoint
mentS.
Prince Joachim of Prussia has
been ordered to German Southw est
Africa for daring to oppose the En-
peror's wishes in threatening TO
marry Marie SulZer, the concent hall
singer.
A newspaper in Lubbock, Germany,
states that a German steamer, Jan
Minlos, with a cargo of explosives
for the Russian government, was fired
upon by a Russian cruiser.
For instigating a revolt of the gar
risOn of Odessa the two revolution
asy leaders have been eylied to ST
l@Sria. and eight others tQ hard labor
/ for fOur wears
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
SIOcum Tablet Found.

Few York (SpeciaD The bronze
tablet which was stolen from the Slo-
cum memorial monument in the Old
Lutheran Cemetery, in Middle Vii
lage, has been found. 1t is lying in
a Brooklyn junk shop, smashed to
fragments by the thieves, who sold
it to the junk dealer for $14. The
tablet was valued at S450 and pur-
chased by subscription and placed ON
the monument. which was erected to
conf2emorate the SIbcum disaster,
VIII hcost nearly a thousand livosP
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
Highwayman Holds I'D Train.

Kansas City (SpeciaD "A lone
robber. heavily masked. boarded the
rear sleeper of the eastbound combi-
nation Chicago and Alton-Rock Is
land Canifornia Limited train known
as No. A, between Slater and Glas-
gov. Mo, shortly after midnight
rcbbed several passengers and escap.
I'd i'll the darkness.
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She Found The Leak.

Buffalo, n. Y. (SpeciaD Miss
Catherine Keener, aged 81 years,
was awakened by the odor of gas.
She lighted a match to investigate.
The explosion which followed blew
away one side of the house, and
Miss Keener received burns from
which she died
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
lanes A. Blair. New York

James A. Blair, New York
e. Ryan, Virginia; II. r. Dug
York; T. Jefferson Coolidge
on; S. Davies Warfiel5,
3. F. Yoakum, George
Durham, n. c.; Y. Vanden -
James II. Dooley, Richmd
c. s. Shepherd, New HAN
Alfred Walter, Norfolk. Va. }
Thalman, New York; II. N
and Norman B-Reams,
Dennis and James NJ. Ba4
and were succeeded by II.
and Y. Vanderberg.
The residence of Mr.. c. "A
burn, in Stafford County. n
risOnville, was burned. moth
saved. No one was in -
the time but Mrs. Blac
small child, and the
such rapid progress that
able to save even the
ing apparel. The loss
and there was no insur
Rev. A. T. Lynn has
pastor of Ramoth Baptist +
Stafford County. after
extending through a peru
years. DUNG which the q
greatly grown and prO~H.(
billiard Payne, the 13- +,
of w. r. Payne. of
County, while passing q
a fence shot himself in
sulting in his xZ
Mr.. P. R. Je1fkinsy1S +
County, has lost with
month two sons by ty
and four other members :
lily are now i'll with the
At Staunton in the c IS
Paris, administrator of "a
vesus Chesapeake and Ohid
the jury gave the plant
damages. Paris was killev
December %, 1905.
Judge Portlock, Of Il
County Circuit Court, be-
better TO get jobs for va
keep them in jail at the
pense. Twelve negroes,
for vagrancy, were releaS
county prison upon, 4
had signed an agr1 n
for one year on the It'd
way.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-15
HE KNEW.

"Oo-oo!" cried the first little boy
at the Zoo, pointing at a swan, "aint
that funny bird? What is it?"
20 l know" replied the other lit
tie boy, who lived in a boarding
house. 'It must be a chicken; look
at the neck it's got.
Press.