The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
WILL FLEMING GOES
 ID PEN|TENT|ARY
Charged With the Murder of
 Jules Tyre
THE NEW WILMER TO OPEN
Anniston HoteP Will Again Resume Business Monday at Noon-A Man Found Lying on the Rail-
 road Crossing.

Anniston, May 3.-(Special. )-The jury in the case of Will Fleming, colored, charged with the murder of Jules Tyre. another negro, reported last night about 9:l5, and recommended imprisonment in the state penitentiary for five years. Fleming killed Tyre at party in Cobb town about two years ago. He was con- victed in the city court and sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary, but his case was appealed and reversed on a minor technicality by the supreme court. The jury which convicted him yesterday was out less than six hours.
 The county court of Cleburne county passed out of existence yesterday. The passing of the court was by an act of the legislature and all cases untried will revert to the circuit court
 In the passing of the court Judge John ston of Heflin loses his official head. and Hehin loses the terms of court that were formerly held there
 The citizens of the neighboring county are now interested in securing additional legislation in which a new circuit will be formed with Cleburne, Clay and Coosa counties as the circuit. This circuit is to be known as the Seventeenth, and 1t is understood that the bill has already been drawn to be presented at the next session of the legislature
 MT Smith, an attorney of Rockford, Coosa county, is being mentioned as the appointee for judge of the new circuit if # is created. There will be only one solicitor for the circuit and there is lia- ble to be a scramble for the position. Ex- County Solicitor Walter Merrill of Gle burne county will not be an applicant for the position
 The new Wlmer hotel will in all prob ability be open for patronage next Mon day at noon. The propietors, Messrs. Humpreys and Sterns, are in the city. They came here with the expectation of the hotel being opened yesterday, but on account of the delay in the arrival of material the opening was delayed. and if there is no other delay the new hostelry will be opened next Monday, as stated.
 The hotel, when opened. will be con ducted on the European plan under the management of Joel Goodlett, an exper- enced hotel man from Spantanburg, s. c.
 w. H. Sterns Is the owner and proprie- tor of a large tourist hotel at Trenton, N C., which he will continue to conduct during the winter season. He will spend about seven months of the year here. The new steward Mir Joseph of Birmingham, is here, and has arranged the kitchen and pantry ready for business.
 They began serving meals to the help at the hotel yesterday. The new hostelry has been fitted out and remodeled with the handsomest and most up-to-date fit tings known in the hotel world. every thing being arranged for convenience and attractiveness. No expense has been spared in remodeling the building and making the building attractive in every way. Annistonians will look forward with pleasure to the opening.
 Officers McNamara and Jirels, Street Overseer W. E. Parker and Assistant John Smith probably saved the life of H. F. Miller, when they brought him to the station yesterday evening Drunk unto unconsciousness, Miller was found lying on the railway track at the junction of the Southern and the Louisville and Nash vile near the Central Foundry company.
 His head was on the rails of one road and his feet on the rails of the other. Passenger trains were due shortly after he was found on both roads, and the passage of a train over either road would have meant instant death to the drunken man. He was fined s5 in police court this morning.
 The report sent in by l. s. Ingram. in charge of the government agricultural demonstration in this district was very good, considering the fact that the local office has been established but a short time. In this report 1t was shown that there are fifty-six demonstrators in the district, including some of the best farm CTS in the section.
 It is the idea of the government to en- courage scientific agriculture and to this end these officers are established in the states. The offices furnish the seed and the farmers cultivate according to the methods recognized as the best by the government.
 It is the idea to have these men show the farmers adjoining them the results of this scientific farming and get them to take it Up. The headquarters here is for the district composed of Calhoun, Talla- dega, Clay and St. Clair counties 2 The William H. Forney chapter. Daugh- ters of Confederacy of this city, was the only Alabama chapter having a rep resentatve at the peace conference in New York The local chapter was ably represented by Mrs John B. Knox. Mrs Knox will also represent the chapter at the state convention which convenes in the city of Florence May 6.
 News has been received by C. W. Wren shall of the death of John B. Rees in. Dallas. Tex. Tuesday. Mir. Rees was a brother7n-law of Mir, Wrenshall and was a former citizen of Anniston. He had many friends here who will learn with sincere sorrow of his death
 
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