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The log cabin Democrat., 1906-11-29
WOOSTER.

Hurrah for Wooster, everybody in good spirits, the town is steadily growing and filling up with staunch citizens. Wooster is a nice little town, situated in the northwest part of Faulkner county and consists of three dry good stores, one drug store and post office, one doctors office, one blacksmith shop and one cotton gin and mill and 22 residences, all being occupied. The soil in this part of the county is very fertile, being little over an average for the county, and we solicit good citizens into our midst to help build up our schools and society and also to share portion of the profits of our community. Dr. A. I. Hutto has left our town not to return to pursue his profession. He will move his family as soon as he can get possession of his house at Damascus, Ark. Our town will be left without doctor at present. The I. o. o. F. at this place conferred the third degree on seven members of this order on Saturday night. After the work was over a.sumptuous supper of canned goods was served and all went home feeling very much refreshed. .... Eddie !. M. McGee of Damascus preached to the people of Bethle- hem Saturday and Sunday...... Health is very good at this writing. Mrs. Marion Alsup was on the sick list a day or two last week, but is reported up at this writing. =. Mrs. Herb Wofford, who has been sick for some time, is report ed a greatly improved. =. Andy Wofford moved into this settlement last Saturday and unloaded his baggage at Mrs. Nettie Woford' S, his mother, to await the vacation of house. -. Owing to the in- clemency of the weather last week people got very badly behind with the scrap cotton picking. We hope for nice time next week to finish up our cotton.
 Nov. %.
The log cabin Democrat., 1906-11-29
REPUBLICAN,.

Our school opened Monday with a very good attendance under the management of Professors Evans and Moore. =. Thos. Lyons made a business trip to Damascus last Monday. - w. K. Hare and son, William, went to Conway last week with cotton. ...P. R. Palmer made a business trip to Greenbrier last week. John Lyons went to Da- mascus Monday. .... Fayette Lee and family visited relatives and
The log cabin Democrat., 1906-11-29
SPRINGFIELD.

Dr. A. H. Stephens has rented the Cantrell store building and will move his stock of medicine therein about January L.. Our farmers are about through picking cotton and the recent advance in the market has caused a great many to sell that which they have been holding for better prices. -. Constable Joe Bickle spent Sunday with friends in Damascus. Miss Vera Harrison spent the past week with relatives and friends here. County Clerk Ben Spires and family spent a couple of days here the past week with old time friends and relatives. Miss Effie Harris began her school work here the past Monday Mrs. w. A. Camp. after spending a week with her mother at Conway, re turned home Sunday. =. James Shell and MT. Eunis and wife at tended tie annual conference a, Paris the past week. y. M. Der " and daughters, Della and Alice did shopping in Plumerville Sat urday. .... Dood Morgan spent Sunday with his parents here. =. Fayette Williams, prosperous young farmer who lived about : miles south of here, is dead. He was buried here Sunday.
 November 26.
The log cabin Democrat., 1906-11-29
HAMLET.

The weather is fine and ought to be appreciated by those who still have cotton to pick. We extend our congratulations to MT. Metzgar and Mrs. Askew who were married on Saturday. We look for cold weather now. A. B. Gibbons is building a new chimney....A lot of young folks of our commun- ity made flying trip to Conway Sunday and report an enjoyable time. .. Miss Clyda Shaw has re- turned to Searcy. Louis Mum of Little Rock is visiting Mrs. Mol lie Hazels family this week.
 Nov. P.
The log cabin Democrat., 1906-11-29
MAYFLOWER.

Dr. Copeland is very low at this writing with slow fever. ...C. s. Dickens has sick child. Wiley Mosely went to Little Rock last Monday on business. ...Joe Green
 of Conway passed through here Monday evening with his pack of hounds enroute to Marche deer hunting. ... Prof. C. C. Dickens and wife of Esau were visiting friends and relatives here Saturday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
SUITS ARE STARTED.
Committee on Expenditures of Mutual
 Life Are Defendants.

New York, May 14.-Sut has been started by the Mutual Life Insurance company against Robert Oliphant' Charles E. Miller and James c, Holden. trustees and members of the Mutuafs comnitlee on expenditure, and against the estate of the late J. Hobart Herrick former member of the committee to recover such sums of money as may have been wasted through the alleged negligence of the de- fendants.
 These actions are result of revelations of mlsmanagement in the Mutuafs sup ply department, the vouchers from Which had to be passed by the expenditures committee of the board. They will in- clude also the quarterly payments or 5000 each for the purpose of a 'conh- dential political fund" which MT. oh- phant sanctioned, according to vouchers introduced as evidence before the Arm strong committed They constitute the first move by the company to trace the responsibility of any of the mismanase- ment of the Mccurdy administrator pach to tho committee of the board, which had the matter in charge
 How much will be involved In the he" suits cannot be told yet, as the ilue9 dale Investigating committee has not yet anprised the board of the amount t pc leves was lost to the company throush Andrew c. Fields.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
WILL FILE PETITION.
To Enjoin Consolidated Presbyterians
 From Forming Union.

Evansville, Ind. May 14-Attorneys Mai G. Y. Menzies and Judge William Reister left tonight for Decatur Tl., to file a petition for au injunction 10 prevent the general assembly of the Cumberland Pres hyterian church which meets in Decatur Wednesday, from voting 10 form union with the Presbyterian church.
 The attorneys will claim that the constf- tuition of the Cumberland Presbyterian church confers no rights or powers upon the general assembly to form an amaIge- nation with any other body. They will file their petition tomorrow al,ernoon and remain in Decatur to await the hearing
 The general assembly of the church will on Thursday. 1t is expected, hear a report of the church union committee appointed 1t Fresno, Cal, last year to report this year The report of this committee. it is authoritatiyely given out wilb be II to l in favor of the proposed amalgama ton With the Presbyterian church. The iniune- ton If granted will have the effect to re- strain the assembly from voting to adopt the report of this committee. The defense will be represented by Judge Gaut of Nashville and an attorney from St. Louis
 The opposition to the union comes from the churches in Indiana, Kentucky, Mis- sissippf Oklahoma and Missouri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
ALL OVERTURES
 ARE CALLED OFF
Overseer Voliva and Associates Will Fight for Control In the
 Courts.

Chicago May 14.-All overtures for a peaceful compromise of the controversy over the control of Zion City were called off today, and General Overseer volita and his associates have decided to fight for supremacy in the courts. Application will be made in court tomorrow for the dissolution of the temporary injunction recently granted to Dowie This will bring the crisis that will determine whether Dowie shall own and rule Zion or whether the present administration shall. continue in power.
 For several days Voliva and his lieu tenants have waited for Dowie and his leaders to accept the proposition made by the court to place the Zion estate in control of three trustees, one named by each of the contestants and the third by the court. The failure of Dowie to act threatened another crisis for Zion, and the decision to call the peace negotiations of vas the result. This was prompted largely by threats of Zion investors heretofore held in leash by Volva to begin bank ruptcy proceedings against Dowie to have receiver appointed for Zion City industries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
MUCH DISTRESS
 IN REFUGEE CAMPS
Nnety-nine-Year Lease Law Will Be Recommended to California
 Legislature.

San Francisco, May 1.-The cold, dis agreeable rain which fell all this fore noon created much distress among the refugee camps, and even caused annoy ance to householders who were cooking in the street. Happily, the rain was of short duration, and the afternoon was ushered in by bright sunshine.
 At a meeting of the committe on spe- cial session of the legislature today, it was unanimously decided that the present fifty-year lease law should be so amend ed that ninety -nne-year leases will here after be permitted in the state. This is looked upon by the real estate men as q most important step, as they maintain that under the new conditions building will progress rapidly. The committee also decided to recommend an increase of the inheritance tax, and of corporation li- cenSeS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
FATAL RESULT
 FROM EXPLOSION
THE BLOWING OUT OF FURNACE NO. 4 AT NORTH BIRMINGHAM KILLS ONE MAN AND INJURIES FOUR OTHERS.

Yesterday morning a 4:2O o'clock fur mace No of the sloss-Sheffeld Steel and Iron company at North Birmingham blew out, causing an explosion that resulted in the death of one man and the more or less serious injury of four others.
 The accident. it seems, was caused by the motion iron breaking through the hearth of the furnace and coming in con- tact with the water. Charles Johnson, a negro who was killed, was sleeping on the floor near the hearth when the ex- plosion occurred and he was almost burn cd to a crisp by the hot metal.
 Jim Brown and Weyman Kidz, two oth- CT negroes. who were working around the stack. were seriously burned and it is not thought that the first named can live. Archie Drake, another negro, was also burned but not so seriously as the others,
 Charlie Haynes, a white man employed al the furnace, was painfully burned.
 The explosion damaged the furnace probably to the extent of four or i've thousand dollars, and it may be out of commission for week or more while the repairs are being made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
LID HAD A VENT
 IN QUIET BESSEMER
SEVEN MEN FINED FOR VIoLAT. ING SUNDAY LAW-THE TOWN IS MUCH INTERESTED IN BASE BALL.

bessemer, May 14-(special) )-That there's never a lid fastened down so tight but has some little escape vent, is illus tfaled by the fact that seven men were fined S7. and costs each for violating the Sunday law by Mayor Sullivan this morn-
 Ing. The men were arrested yesterday morning by Captain Christleib and Off, feers Patton, Chllders and 0zmer. They were discovered in a room over the Crawford Bros saloon Considerable gambling paraphernalia was found in the room at the time of the arrest.
 The town is remarkably quiet just at this season. The regular Saturday pay day. however, always brings in a large crowd of shoppers, and the merchants re- port that the volume of business being done is steadily increasing from month to month.
 What furnishes the principal stock in trade of the "sages" who hebnob on the street corners is the dust that blows warm from the diamonds over the southern cir cult and the well-known one in Fourth Avenue para The Coal Barons have many ioyal supporters in Bessemer, and many eagerly watch for the result of the games each day Besides this there are number of amateur teams in the city that put up a good article of ball, and almost every Saturday afternoon there is something doing at Fourth Avenue park
 Lawrence Barnett returned Saturday from Mobile, where he went to stand an examination before the board to practice dentistry. He stood a successful examina- ton and received his diploma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
NEGRO LYNCHED.
Woman Who Was Assaulted Shoots
 Her AssaiIant.

Eastman, Ga, May 14.-Mrs. Pope. a widow who lives alone about six miles north of Eastman was assaulted by a negro named VIII Wommock last Friday night. Wonmocl went to the home of Mrs. Pope and told her neighbor was sick and had sent him for her Under threats Of death he assaulted her He told her if she made the assault known he would kill her. When the negro returned Saturday night Mrs. Pope began firing. one bullet striking Wommock In the stomach and passing through his body The negro ran and Mrs. Pope continued to shoot at him until she had emptied her pistol.
 Neighbors attracted by the shooting came and heard the facts. They went to Wommocl<'s house and found him in bed wounded. At first he denied his guilt but later confessed He was then taken out and, strung up. and his body riddled with bullets, after which the mob quietly dis Dcrsed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
PLEADS NOT GUILTY.
Wilhelm Meyer Is Willing to Return
 to Germany for Trial.

New York, May 14.-Wilhelm Meyer, who is accused of the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Vogel, whose body was found in a trunk at an express office at Frankfort on- Main, Germany, today pleaded not gully to the charge, and said he was will ing to return to Germany to stand trial. Preparations were made to return both Meyer and his woman companion. Sophie Christiani. The pair were arrested last Saturday at. the request of the Frankfort police when they stepped off the steamer Graf Waldersee. The police, after Meyer sailed for this country, claimed to have found Mrs. Vogel's body in a.trunk which the accused deposited with the express company. The murdered woman, accord ing to the Frankfort police, went to Ger many from San Francisco two years ago. being accompanied by Meyer and making her home at Wildungen, where he lived Sophie Christiani is also d resident of Wildungen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Heavy Gun Firina.

that Bambaata the insurgent Zulu chief has crossed Into Natal. Heavy gun firing was heard May 1S. from Nkandhla, which recommended this morning.
 of corporations to secure profits which neither they nor the corporations have justly earned have given rise to the de- mand for government control of corpora ticns but government control of corpor- atons, when 1t means arbitrary limita- tions of profits legtimatey earned sim ply spells socialism, and as 0 remedy for existing evils should be execrated even more than the evils themselves. The gov ernment has no more right to interfere with the property rights inherent in in- dividual liberty than has a union or cor roration Itsssphere of duty Is that of pro- tecting public rights and not that of ag- gressing upon them. It is not government management of capital that Is needed but government prevention of indus trial I.ic- caneerng of all kinds. Laws with that end in view, taken together with the growth of higher ideals of social honesty will solve all the industrial evils now the subject of complsint. It is the business Of the government to maintain and pro- tect indivduaism. not to overthrow it.
 The fight against eight-hour and anti injunction legislation seems never ending but there must be no cessation of our ef- forts not only because such legislation would itself be cxcremely injurious to the industrial welfare but also because a test of strength between indiyidualism and so- cialism is being made on the proposed leg islation. Vital principles of government on which tlere can be no compromise are involved and the association must con- tinue to stand as a rock against any and all legislation of this charar'er
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
MACEDONIAN BABARITY.
Revoltine Story of Cruelty By Greeks
 and Turks.

London. May 15.-A revolting story of Macedonian barbarity is related by the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Tele- graph. In a recent conflict between Turk ish troops and a band of Greeks in the Villayet of Monistir, fourteen Greeks were killed. After the fight the Turkish commander refused to allow the Greeks to bury their dead, and when the Turks had withdrawn a Bulgarian band ap- peared with a number of dogs which de- voured the bodies.
 The Greeks in revenge ambushed the Bulgarians as they retired and captured sixty of them, who they massacred, i'm cluding some women and children, after first subjecting them to cruel tortures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
African Labor Conditions.

Liverpool. May l4-Adoressihs 'i'o Chamber Of Commerce this afternoon DIT Alfred Jones, president of the chamber said that the British cotton growing as sociation would import this year irohi West Africa cotton valued al between s50o oO0 and s600 O00 He argued that West Africa would produce shorty iliote eo'
 ton than Lancashire required. lie aaoeo that African labor conditions were iiio,e economical than those in Anei'cai W.'io land could be had virtually for nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
River Convention.

St. Louis, May Congressman Wll- liam Iorimer of Illinois, Joseph II. Rans- dell of Louisiana. and James H. DaVid- .o, oe Wisconsin. of the rivers and har- bors committee of the national House or Representatives, arrived today to confer with the Business Mems League, Mer- chants Exchange and kindred organlza- tions regarding arrangements Tor the great river convention to be held here November 15 and 16. reception was rendered them on the floor of the Mer- chants Exchange.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
ANNUAL DINNER.
Two Hundred Alumni of Union Theo
 logical Seminary Attend.

New York, May 1.-The annual dinner of the Union Theological seminary was held tonight at the Hotel St. Dennis, about 200 of the alumni attending. The Rev. Anson P. Atterbury of the Park Presby- terian church presided. and the subject discussed was the College and the Semi nary
 "The majority of theological semina- ries," said Dr. Hyde, "are still so welded to indefensible traditions no intelligent graduate of college of truth can enter them, aVd remain a long time. On their portals are the inscriptions Let none en- ter here but the hypocrite who is ready to believe in the absence of sufficient evil dence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
New Bank Authorized.

Washington, May i,-(Special)-The Camden National Bank of Camden has been authorized to begin business with $30, GOO capital. F. N. Berry is president, J. R, I,iddell, vice president and John Miller, cashier.
 Rural carriers appointed: Victoria, route No. 1, Jarrett r. Patterson, carrier, John P. Baker, substitute. Vincent, route 2. James T. Lackey carrier, Robert W. Dent, substitute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Will Investigate Lynchlne.

Chattanooga, May 14.-(Special)-in ms charge to the grand jury yesterday Judge S. D. McReynolds urged the jury to make +boroueh investigation of the operations of two mobs, one of which attachea the county jail last March and the other entered the jail and took Ed Johnson the condemned rapist, to the county bridge and lynched him. The Ed Johnson lynch ing was the occasion of a thorough in- vestigation by secret service men, who reported their findings to the department of justice at Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Umpire Is Assaulted.

Punxsutawaney, Pa, May 1f-J. M shuster of Chicago, while umpiring a ball game between Punxsutawaney and oil City of the Interstate league here today. was struck to the ground with a hall bat and kicked into insensibility by Left Fielder Clark of the home team shuster is in a hospital in critical con dition and Clark has been locked up by the police.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
President harpsr,s Successor.

New York. May 14.-The American to- morrow will say: John D. Rockefeller < uastor. the Rev pr Rufus F. Johnston. whose resignation from the pastorate of inc Fifth Avenue Baptist church has cnused much comnent, will upon his return from his contemplated European trip become president of the University of Chicago. which position became Va cant by the death of pr, Harper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
MAY DAY QUIET IN
 THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Some Rioting Reported at Vo'oeod' Where Workmen Were
 Stoned.

St. Petersburg May 14.--Telegrams re- oeived from many towns in the provinces state that the workmen today mostly ceased work. but that there were few dis t,rbances except at Vologda. where se- rious rioting occurred. Peasants s'oi.s' workmen who forced shops and factorles to close. and shots were fired An eXeltea crowd rushed to the town hall which was set on fire.
 M Loginski. the governor, affiNlhs a. the scene in the midst of the heiee' Was wounded. together with many other per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Reform Bill Rejected.

Stockholm, May 1.-The first chamber of the Swedish parliament today rejected the governments reform election bill by vote of 126 to IS, and adopted by a vote of Ills to 26 a scheme of universal suffrage. with proportionate representation in both chambers and reducing the electoral pe- rod of the first chamber from nine to six years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
No Quorum In House.

Washington, May 14.-The House had under consideration today the bill relat- ing to the government of the District of Columbia. It completed the bill re- organizing the Washington public school system.
 The House adjourned owing to the ab- eence of quorum, postponing action on the bill under consideration. These bills will be taken up tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Bonds Are Declined.

Mexico City, May 1.-The government has delivered to representative og the Pan-Ameriean railway now building down to Guatamala $1.2O0,0O0 in per cent bonds, as part of the subsidy due the line The government has now paid subvention to the amount of s3.6Oo,ooO and when the line is completed the government will owe the s3,400.000 subVenton which amounts to $12,o0O per kilometer con- structed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
RED CROSS RECEIPTS.
Funds for San Francisco Sufferers
 Amount to $2,125,000.

Washington. May 14.-The Red Cross receipts up to date for the relief of Cali fornia earthquake sufferers aggregate s2,- 125,JOO. Money is still reaching tine treas ury of the organization at the rate of sev- eral thousand dollars a day
 Dr. Devine, the Red Cross agent. ad- vised the Red Cross headquarters that the secretary of the Chinese legation has add ed $30,O00 to his original contribution of s100O0 from the individuals in China for San Francisco sufferers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Morrison Makes Address.

Dayton, Ohio. May 1t-Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, reached Dayton today and will address the international convention of paper makers. His purpose is to re- unite the two factions and get those who seeded some time ago back into the fold. The first business session of im- nortance was held today with brief address by President Carey of Water town, N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Dates for Convention Fixed.

Louisville, Ky, May 1.-The local ex- ecutive committee having in charge the arrangements for the twelfth nterna- tional Sunday school convention tonight fixed the dates for holding the convention In this city at June 1923. 1908. Present at the committee and concurring in the decision were General Secretary Marion Lawrence of Toledo, Ohio. and w. N. Hartshorn of Boston, chairman of the international executive committed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Mine Wages Determined.

Tamaqua, Pa, May 4.-Conmissione Neil. who was appointed by the anthra- cite strike commission to compute the rate of wages for anthracite miners. has notified the coal operators that the miners will be paid per cent on the s4.50 basis for the month of May. the average price of coal at tdewater last month being $4. .s3 per ton. This is the bjghest rate at which the miners have Gen paid since the commission made it's award. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-15
Fiqht Is Expected.

Vinita. I. T., May 14-An Indian run ner arrived late tonight with news from full blood posse that the Wiekllffes, Indian outlaws, have been located in the brush five miles from Spavinaw. Mar shal Darrough is sending bloodhounds to- night, and will go himself with posse early in the morning, A fight is ex- nacted