The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14
ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL ARE DONE Rev. w. P. Dickinson Will Con-
 duct the Service WILL BE NOON TOMORROW Local Military VIII Act as Escort. The Governor and the Supreme
 Court Will Attend In
 Body.
WILL BE NOON TOMORROW

l Selma, June 13-(Special)-A arrange ments for the funeral of Senator Mor' gan have about been completed A tele- gram to the local committee from Miss Mary Morgan this morning declared it. impractical for special reasons to change the hour of the funeral from noon Sat urday.
 The funeral will be from the Church Street Methodist church at noon Satur- day, and will be conducted with the sim pie burial ritual by the Rev. ". P. Dick inson, pastor of the church, the family requesting that no eulogies be delivered. The local military will act as escort. The supreme court will attend in body, as will Governor Conner and the state off, fcers.
 Arrangements to reserve seats in the church for distinguished visitors have been made. The city has deeded a lot to Senator Morgan's family just north of the tomb of William Rufus King, vice president of the United States.
 Will Get Tax Raise.
 Dallas county seems in a fair way to get the big raise asked for by the state tax commissioner if the rest of the pre- cincts of the county turn out as nave Plantersvile, which Is Precinct No. 1. Two prominent citizens from that precinct were in the city today sitting with the board at their request to give information on the value of property in their section. They were outspoken in favoring the raise of their own and their neighbors' lands to 60 per cent of their value. The board acter mainly as sigpifed by them. and when the precinct was completed 1t was found that $75O0O had been added to the tax valuations If this is kept up in the thirty country precincts there will be about $2,O0O.0OO raised before the city is reached.
 Narrow Escape.
 Yesterday afternoon in Live Oak ceme- tery an exciting runaway occurred, and only by miracle was the 10-year-old sis- ter of Mrs will Aicardi saved from se- rious and perhaps fatal injury. Mrs Aicardi had driven her spirited horse 10 the cemetery, her sister accompanying her Getting out of the buggy to put some flowers on a grave she left the llt- tie girl holding the reins. The child either dropped the lines on the spirited horse or the animal became frightened at something and started to l run. Mrs. Henry Smith, who was stand l ing near, grabbed the animal, but he dashed past her and the wheels of the buggy, striking the curbing, was turned over, the little girl falling beneath the vehicle. Miraculously, however, as the buggy turned bottom side up, it literally bounced oyer the little girl and she es- capped with only slight bruises. The buggy was dragged down the avenue in the cem- etery about a hundred yards, when the horse slipped and fell.
 Some men who happened to be passing the cemetery on the street car, and others who saw the accident, ran to the assist ance of Mrs. Aicardi and her sister. The horse was released from the buggy and sent to the stable. The buggy was badly damaged.
 Death of a Former Selma Lady.
 The sad information reached Selma to- day of the death in Athens this morning at 6:3O of Mrs. Lucille Fowlkes West 1 moreland, wife of Dr. H. D. Westmore- land, a prominent physician of Hunts vile.
 The shock of her death was very great in her home town, where she was born and raised As Miss Lucile Fowlkess Mrs. Westmoreland was one of the most popu- lar young ladies of the city. She was graduate of the Dallas academy of the class of 1892 and at school was an ex- | ceedingly bright student. She is survived | by her husband, her mother, Mrs. M. P. l Fowlkes; her sisters. Mrs R. A. Rush of | Mobile and Miss Madeline Fowlkes of this city; her brothers, Dr. B. C., s. A., J. Y. | and Allie, of this city. The remains will regHh Selma tomorrow, and it Is expected | to hold the funeral Friday afternon at o'clock.