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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

From the Washington Post.
 It is little short of remarkable how cheerfully the southern people continue to face the future. with Senator Tilman's predictions of trouble ringing in their ears and the dust of dry cities settling in their throats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Extravaqant Lanquaqe,

Tt is amusing to note the extravagant statements made in a prohibition cam paign," said former resident of Fair field. III. For instance, I read this aft ernoon an interview by a man who cited conditions h my old town as A reason
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Thomas F. Ryan's son is engaged in organizing a typewriter trust. This is to be a monopoly that will hit the young women hard, and it is open de- fiance of Theodore Roosevelt and his Attorney General
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The people of Buffalo have erected a monument to the memory of President Mckinley and incidentally, to that of his assassination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The Washington Star is flippant enough to call the honored member from the Sixth Alabama district Hull labaloo Hobson."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

blacksmith in Indiana has been kicked three times by the same mule. Said mule is probably first cousin of Maud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Niagara falls is now illuminated for the benefit of honeymooners, and the brides awestruck exclamation will probably be more intense than ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The Providence Journal editorializes on the good news from Panama. Good news from Panama is somewhat more plentiful now than 1t used to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Gen. Fred Grant says the troubles in the army spring from drinks and drugs" He need not have limited his remarks to the army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The marking of the forty-ninth par allel to the summit of the Rocky noun tains has just been completed by the government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Item: American Delegate Choate to The Hague is confident of car rying the American peace plan through. If he does there is a niche for him in the Hall of Fame.
 Florence Times Increased taxation and forced reduction of passenger and freight rates is what is staring the railroads in the face. It Is not to be wondered at that they nave to go into the courts.
 Montgomery Advertiser There has been an earthquake somewhere and the state ment Is out that the weather bureau has been unable to locate it. Have they fol- lowed the movements of Taft? Perhaps he fell down somewhere.
 Mobile Register: We don't know how this Colonel Goethals. who Is bossing the Panama job. pronounces his name, but it is suggestive of "get there. ."-Milwau kee Sentinel. Rather does it suggest that he has got half there" already.
 Tri-County Weekly: Tom Lawson, the Boston speculator, advertises to buy stock Henry Clews, the Wall street banker, advises great caution AS long as the frenzied flnanciers cannot agree, it may be wise to let them fight it out without your assistance.
 Sheffield Standard: A Birmingham preacher is credited with the declaration that he would favor the establishment of prohibition if it brought financial ruin to the city. The business men of Birming- ham who are paying him fat salary to live in ease and luxury should cut off his fodder with all possible dispatch. Just stop the parsons salary for a month and see what change will be wrought in his views on public questions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Yeungstown Telegram: London has Silence club, probably the result of the enactment of the law which permits mar riage to the deceased wifes sister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The people would like to have MT. Cortelyou extend his plan of financial relief beyond the banks, which are rich enough, anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The socialists had an uphill task in making excuses for Maxim Gorky, and now they nave Ferdinand Pinney Earle on their hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Walter Wellman has made quite a reputation as a postponer. In view of the fact that he is probably postponing his death, he can hardly be censured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

A mild presidential boom is arising in favor of Judge Bandis, and no one san say what it will grow to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Chinese soldiers caught smoking opium are beheaded. The cure is ef- fectual in every case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

A Wall street panic has become a strictly local disturbance. It does not affect even Hoboken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The kind of bears that Teddy will hunt in the Louisiana canbrakes will not be Teddy bears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The White House has been given new coat of paint. The Roosevelt whitewash brush was not used how ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

And Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the idiot, considers himself both a hero and a martyr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The prices that are coming over are each looking for girl with a pluto cratic papa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

There are thirty-seven solid pages of Smiths" in the new edition of the New York city directory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Pittsburg is in the market for Efini ties in exchange for good wives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Chicago begins to think it will have to get along with one baseball pennant next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Delaware has used the whipping post more than one hundred years, and she cannot snake off the habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

When the chanteuse began to sing King Edward showed embarrassment. It was a royal flush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
PRESS POINTS

Newark Star: Will somebody who has the ear of all the candidates kindly an nounce the fact that vice president is also to be elected next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Skyscrapers 150 stories high would be admirable for suicide purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Lhassa now has newspaper and the chances are that it will be trifle yellow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
GREAT EXHIBITION,

Judge Landis declines to consider old Bonaparte his boss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

New York Herald: There sits Wellman. waiting for breeze-iust a gentle breeze, wiring, all at cas- 'I can't get away to the north pole today; the clements won't let mel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Kansas City block has twenty-four one for each hour of the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Austin Statesman: Statistics show that there are over SO,000 persons in the scv- eral prisons throughout the United States, and still doubtless most of those who ought to be in prison are not accounted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The motor car is the only internal machine that we need fear in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

his unfeeling despoilers seized the booze. he might have drowned the memory of that other loss The automobile is the boss acrobat of the road.
 Secretary Taft plans to come back witl Santa Claus.
 MERCENARY. Maudie has the sweetest manner, Maudie is a perfect dear. Yet somehow, I dote on Amer, Amer holds her title clear To dandy bunch of money, Moneys what I need, you know. Possibly-now, aint 1t funny?- That is why I love her so!
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Now, money is not all we need To make the world look bright We want a helper yes, indeed, To make our burdens light. Mary is a sweet young miss, Handsome, rich and merry; So please be kind and answer this: Why not marry merry Mary?
 Ohio Sun.
 
 And Maudie's winning ways The kind that lovers worship so And poets like to praise: And if she'd promise not to make Me mind and fetch and carry, Tho matrimony were a fake, I'd merry Mary marry! An evangelist at Decatur washed his hands before his congregation and told the backsliders to go to hell No doubt they will eventually land there, but not because he told them to go.
 ARTIST EARLE. Artist Earle has set pace To make reformers quail And people in his native place Would ride him on rail. But Artist Earle nor fumes nor frets- The fact is not surprising, When you consider what he gets Each day in advertising c. Bernard Shaw is reported lost in thd Welsh mountains. It is to be hoped that he will stay lost. The only time when loss of memory Is an advantage is in case of trouble. Then forgetting helps.
 AUTUMNS HERE. Let's put away the buzz fan now, Also the baseball bat, And with a heartfelt sigh prepare To shoot the old straw hat. Love came first then the mother-in- law and immediately the mother-in-law joke.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Walter Wellman is better post nonar than evar MT. Taft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Rome Tribune: The Birmingham Ago Herald says automobiles are never wrecked while on the way to church on Sunday. We don't expect that many of them go to church on Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Savannah Press: The Washington Post is pleased to observe that the Georgia moonshiner is no nature fakir.' That may be true, but when we have held close communion with the moonshiner and his eoods nat,1re faking loses it's interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

No one has stepped up to claim the mantle of Richard Mansfield.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
SAID IN REPLY

Atlanta Journal; The Birmingham Age Herald asks: why not sell the Philip pines?" Because the last purchaser got a mighty poor bargain in them
 Jackson Clarion Ledger: This Is har- vest time in the grain fields of the west. and many shocking scenes are reported. Borrowed that idea from the Birmingham Age-Herald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Cleveland Plain Dealer An Illinois man drew $500 from the bank on his wedding day and put it in his hat for safekeeping. Then he forgot where 1t was and sup posed that he had lost it. Later on he took off his hat and the money tumbled out All of which shows he had alto gether too much on his mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

Secretary Taft plans to come back witl Santa Claus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

taken from him Sunday night. Had not his unfeeling despoilers seized the boozs. he might have drowned the memory Of that other loss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

The automobile is the boss acrobat of the road.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
HARTMAN AND HILL
CONCLUDE PEACE PACT
Dispute Over Terminal Facilities at
Portland and seattle AMIGA
bly, Adjusted.

Portland. Ore. Jan. e.-The ore
CONAN says. Negotiations are on be-
tween Hin and Hartman and their
differences in the northwest have
practically been settled. w ". Cot
ton. general counsel OF the oregon
Railroad and Navigation company.
last night admitted shat representa-
tives Of the companies have been ne
gotiating but he had not heard
whether any final conclusion had
been reached. From the progress OF
the negotiations. however, the re-
ports from Seattle, which would in
dictate that the local end Of the agree
ment at that place had been conclud-
ed there seems 10 be little doubt that
the Hartman and Hin interests viii
end their animesity in the north
west.
If any agreement has been reached
il means that Hill is 10 have unoh-
structed entrance into Portland and
an opportunity 10 acquire adequate
terminal facilities. that Hartman viii
receive similar treatment i'm Seattle
from the hands OF Hill and probably
that the railroad war along the
north bank of the Columbia river VIII
cease.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
RA|SUL| HIKES
HURRIEDLY
FOR HILLS
MOORISH BANDIT MAKES
POOR SHOWING IN BATTLE
Short and Almost BIoodIeSS
Fight Checks Remarkable
Career of Troublesome En-
envy of Sultan

~ HNAOlA ERNNARt ANtHta Nt
Tangier. Jan. 6.-Seinat, Raisulis
stronghold. was virtually destroyed by
fire and fell into the hands % the
troops of the Sultan at noon today af-
ter "A short and almost bioodless fight.
Raisuli and his 500 followers sue
ceeded in escaping to the mountains
despite the elaborate plans Of War
Minister Gabbass for his capture.
No firing took place last night. but
at 10 o'clock this morning the artillery
opened on the town The Moorish gun
ner showed utter incapacity in hand
ling their guns and the infantry fired
h%aphazard. Two shells dropped inside
the fortress without reply and there
upon a body Of the Sultan's troops
charged. shouting. and reached the
walls amid desultory shots from the
surrounding brush.
The town gates were open. but there
were no occupants of the place except
fifteen prisoners included among
whom were foul Portuguese
A detachment of The government
troops continued firing in D. direction
Of The mountains where Raisuii and
his How were observed fleeing.
Meanwhile the other government
troops pillaged the stronghold
No fatalities in the lighting today
we're reported. IL o. thought probably
that RalsuiTs men carried OF their
dead. Minister Gabhaas, who has not
left Tangier during the operations is
expected next 90 move against the pre-
tender 10 the throne MulN Mohafn-
med. a brother of che sultan, from
follower here have been many
defecfions recently.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
HEAD OF STEEL TRUST
TO MARRY ACTRESS
Reported That President Corey and
Miss Gilman VIII We'd Before
Returning 10 Emitted States.

Paris. Jan. 6.-Whether ". Il.
Corey, president of the United States
Steel corporation. will marry Mabelle
Gilman. the American singer, before
he returns to the United states can
not be ~ascertalned definitely. When
Mr.. Corey arrived here a week ago.
il was understood that the wedding
would not take place during his pres
ent trip and as late as last Wednes-
day Miss Gilman told intimate friends
that the date of the ceremony "a not
been fixed. If these plans have been
changed, the wedding viii probably
take place in England in order TO OBJ
viate the veNatious Formally OF the
French law.
Mr.. Corey has taken no special
pains to hide his movements or on
ceal the fact of his engagement to
Miss Gilman. She and Mr.. Corey, ac-
companied by Miss Gilman's mother,
take daily automobile trips in the Boi-
de Bologne. and MI. Corey frequently
dimes with mother and daughter at
some fashionable restaurant.
After the return TO the United
States of MI. and Mrs. Riggs. the lat
ter being Miss Gilman's sister. who
chaperoned her during her tour of the
continent. Miss Gilman n her
mother llNtu III 4 VIVA AT ~. 0iesus
often motoring into Paris. Miss Gil
mans sister, COrdelia. several months
married Albert Thomas. son Of a
clerk in a Paris cal estate office,
MI. Corey has given Mr.. Thomas
employment with the United States
Steel corporation at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg Hasn't Heard of Wedding.
P%ittsburg. Jan. 6.-Nothing definite
Is known here regarding the alleged
matrimonial intentions of W. F.
Corey and Mabel Gilman. While
many reports are current they all lack
cotffif nation and the Corey family
here is reticcnt.
IL was learned here tonight that
Albert Thomas, who married Mabel
Gilman's sister. and was given en-
pIoyment by President Corey. is living
at McKeesport. and is employed in the
tube plant of the United States steel
corporation
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
PARIS PAPER PRAISES
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND
Liberal Minded Prclatcs Badly Needed
i'm France says Temps.

Paris. Jan. 6-The Temps. %reproduc-
ing The fun text II Archbishop Ire
lands recent ermon concerning
French Catholic. considers that the
American prelate placed his finger
upon the national weakness when.
.'sparing neither repubiican. reaction
AIRY nor -anti-clerical Catholics he re-
proaches an alike with fheir tradi-
tionaI inability to comprehend the
meaning Of true liberty because the
idea of omniDotence Of rhe state has
always beer dominant iu France, iead-
ing go the Inevitable spirit ~ iutoier-
ance toward the Tancuished.
Liberty VIII not be established I'm
France continued the Temps until
the state and every citizen recognize
thai the question af going or not going
10 mass concerns the conscience Of the
Individual and NOT the government
This is What the French people. iu-
ciHding nrF ~ am Catholic. must
learn soon and would learn if We bad
many preiafes a- liberal as Archbishop
Ireland.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
GREEK LABORER DIES IN
SAN FRANCISCO RIOT
Angcrcd at Discharge of Interpreter
Railway MoFkmcn seek Ven
gcancc on Foreman.

san Francisco. Jan. 6.-In a riot OF
400 Greek laborers employed on the
United Railroads today Mar Rouha-
tos. a Greek. was struck on the head
by a brick and killed The men We're
working on the street car tracks at
Sixteenth and Valencia streets under
Maurice Buckley. "a foreman.
shortly before noon Buckley dis
charged William Christ. the %iutcrpre-
ter. and Rouhatos. a labprer. This.
IL is said, angered the Greeks who
sent "a shower o. tones bricks and
other missiles at the foreman. one
them accidentally struck Rouhatos.
killing him instantly. Buckley took
refuge in a saloon, which was almost
by the Greeks in their eff
forts 60 get the foreman VINO de-
Tended himself with q sledge hamme-
until rescued by the police.
Buckley Christ aud Nikolas Petra
have been arrested pending an III
vestlgation. The Greeks refused TO
return 20 work.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
STRIKE ENDED
ON SUNSET
LINES
FlREMENlS BROTHERHOOD
RECEDES FROM POSITION
Rival E%nginemen's 0rganiza-
tons Get Together and Adj
just Differences in Chicago
Work Resumed Today at ~
tBy Morning Journal Special seas.a wir..I


Houston. Tex, Jan. e.-The strike
Of II nremen on the southern Pacific
IS az an end. The men 20 back to
work az noon. The basis az settle
ment was reached tonight during "a
conference between Vice Grand Mas
ter Shea. FOR the m and Vice
Grand Master Wills for the engineers
The railway officials had no nart in
the final conclusion Of the trouble
The principal contention of the fire.
men when the strike was declared
covered n right of jurisdiction over
the switch engines. IN other words,
the fremen's organization demanded
that a iremen's seniority as engineer
date from the time ne became
a fireman. The engineers date
their seniority from the time the en-
gfneer becomes an engineer. In It's
contract with the brotherhood Of Lu-
conceive Engineers the company
gives Jurisdiction ever engineers %
that brotherhood and the company
could make no move in the matter,
The engineers brotherhood faced the
proposition of protecting those n
giueers who had taken the places af
the strikers. To al purposes. these
engineers who had gone out on u
strike had lost their seniority 10 the
engineers who took their places,
The officials of the hremen's broth
erhood. having receded from the de-
they made when the strike was
declared. or the demands an which I
the strike was called felt that
NJ there WAS a settlement they
should protect those engineers of
their organization who left their E
places and secure for them their +
standing on the seniority lists at the
time OF the strike. II was "a very deli
cate problem to he solved and IL is
not fully solved as Yet, but has been
left 10 the general committee of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer
To decide. IL WAS learned tonight that
the agreement covering the basis or
settlement had been signed hy the of
hcials Of the two hrotherhoods II
that the hremen viii return 10 work
tonlo FsU az moon pending the deci- f
sion on their seniority bv the commits
tee of locomotive engineers
Mr.. Shea. OF the fremen's drgani-
stated that no settlement had
reached and denied that any doe
IA been signed He said:
Present indications avo an ami
settlement for the engineers,
firemen aud the comoany. 1 hope
nothing will be injected intn the pro-
ceedings "a q settlement ef
these terms"
Notwithstanding the statement ol
Shea. it can be stated That a basis
IF settlement has been reached and
he has ecede from his position
the strike was declared. as -
.hc control of the engineers members
IT his organization and has gone even
by leaving it To- "a committee
lf the brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers lust what the atu of the
engineers VIII De on the sen
GRITTY list.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
STEAMER WEEK
OVERDUE At
NEW YORK
FOR SAFETY OF
PORTO RICO LINER PONCE
Three Revenue Cutters Or
dered in Search of Missing
Vessel Last Seen December
% Two Days From Port,
IBy Morning journal Special Leased wlre.l

11 k4GAA1 ANatEa ~
New York. Jan. 6.-The missing
steamer Ponce, Of the New York and
Porto Rico Steamship company.
which is about a week overdue al
New York, en- u from Ponce. P.
r.. VAS safe and proceeding toward
New York two days after leaving
Ponce. This information was brought
INTO port today by Captain Chapman
of the big sailing ship Shenandoah.
which arrived from Port Blakely.
Captain Chapman reported that on
December % he sighted the Ponce
IN clear weather and proceeding at
her usual speed toward New York.
Believing that the steamer would be-
in his port several days before the
Shenandoah would arrive. he ~signalled
TO the steamer 10 report the Shenan-
doah on arriving. When sighted.
the Ponce was in north latitude 2f.4S
and west longitude 69.9S. she had not
covered half the distance from Ponce
to New York. but was about $50 miles
north OF Porto Rico and 250 miles
northeast Of the Bahama islands.
which were the nearest land.
Captain Chapman of the Shenan-
doah said today that the Ponce had
probably been disabled by an accident
to her machinery and had drifted oul
of the path OF the regular liners from
the West Indies but viii be reported
or towed into port by some steamer
bound from Europe Ia "A southern
port.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-07
FATAL FIRE IN
IAN
SLEEPER
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
BURNED TO DEATH
Persons Hurt in Peculiar
Accident on Chicago and
Northwestern Train Near
Omaha, Nebraska.
IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wire.l

lBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire !
Council Bluffs. Jan. 6-One passeu-
ger was killed and three injured This
morning ON Los Angeles limited train
No. s when a Pullman sleeper caught
FIRE while the train was running from
Council Bluffs 10 Missouri Valley. en-
route TO Chicago.
The Dead.
LOUIS DE LARIO. Washington. H..
g.. clerk of The house committee on
irrigation.
The Injured.
q. II. Johnson. salt Lake CITY,
slight burns.
Henry G. A.. Brow, salt Lake cIu
right wrist cut by glass.
Mrs. 3 Higgins Carbondale Pa.
suffered from exposure.
The Northwestern train was within
"a mile pr LDveland. near Missouri Nai-
le1. when passengers ia the pullman
car Redneld were aroused hy smoke
The origin of the fire could not Doe dee
termined. but o. had undoubtedly
been smoiderins for some time before
being discovered. as % car WAS hlled
with dense smoke. which sun0Cated
the passengers. Louis DE Lsrio. aged
-. whose home d. in Laramie, WNo--
but who has for SOME time held the
position Of clerk 81 The house com
mitiee On irrigation was dead when
found
The IRE had started in OF near his
berth and the flames had reached DIS
body almost d~enudiuE lf and causing
some d~ishuurtfiuu.
The passengers from ODE burned car
iusf practically 49, the personal effects
fheF had Wild inem most ~ Them t-
narinR Iu fhelr rleeplne clothes
Thr cause 1f 200 nrf f. NOT known.
If n salI nf me conductor aud Fle
senerff s hnf n~fiRluHtrd Inside th.
af HHI HNIfreuND M uUF uf tH
farI. fnr ff4enrs f f.aI H aafind
sarfN a. HHIsf De- HuWan fIfH
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