The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
SAFE BROKEN IN
 HUNTSVILLE MILL Night Watchman W. C. Briggs
 is Arrested
MONEY AND GUN STOLEN
First Bale of Cotton Reached Hunts. vile and Is Is Sold at Auction for 2os4 Cents Per Pound.
 Rate Advantages.

Huntsville, August 3f-( (Specia1)- The safe in the office of the Lowe cot ton mill was cracked at an early hour this morning and s1S2 in money and a small Winchester rifle stolen. Investi- gation of the robbery has led to the arrest of ". c. Briggs, night watch man at the mills, and he is in jail Sheriff Mitchell believes that he has good case against the prisoner and that it is barely possible that the crime could have been committed without his connivance.
 The robbers broke Into the machine room of the mill and secured tools with which they did the work. The knob of the safe door was broken off and an explosive applied. The safe door was blown to fragments and some of them penetrated roller top desks in the office.
 The noise of the explosion awakened several people in the village and of flcers were notified at once. A blood hound was placed on the trail and he followed it to a corner of the mill yard where the knob of the safe door was found. The trail then turned back to the mill and went to various points about the premises. This led to the suspicion against the night watchman.
 Briggs had been in the employ of the mill company two weeks. He came to Huntsville from Decatur two weeks ago and Is said to have been an employe of the Louisville and Nashville machine shops, now being on strike with the other union workmen of that estab- lishment.
 None of the stolen money has been recovered.
 Huntsvilles first bale of cotton of the season of 1907-S reached the city this morning. It was grown by Jim Latham, on the Matth ews farm, south of the city. A bonus was made up among the merchants and the bale was aution ed of by J. ". P. Kelly, being knocked down to the Jones' Baugh Cotton com pany for 20% cents per pound. This first bale is only few days later than that of last season.
 The reduction of freight rates in
  tomorrow. will bo beneficial to tn e cot ton interests of Huntsville in one nota- ble instance. Cotton growers at Leigh ton recently made complaint that the best rate they could get on cotton shipped from that point to Huntsville was 27 cents, while shippers 156 miles beyond Leighton were shipping here for 20 cents.
 Complaint was made to the railroad T.f n body writes that relief will be obtained when the general reduction of rates goes into effect on September 1. There are many other towns in this section fin the same position with Leighton and the new rate will allow them to ship their cotton to Huntsville at profit and Huntsville's cotton territory will be considerably extended.
 The directors of the Huntsville Busi- ness club have accepted the proposition of the Southern Paper company for the location of paper manufacturing plant in this city, provided that the money can be raised. The corporation requires that about a third of the stock be placed in this city, and as good investment Is promised 1t Is believed that there will be no difficulty in se- curing subscriptions. The proposed plant will utilize cotton mill waste III the manufacture of paper.
 Judge David D. Shelby Of the united States court of appeals has Issued writ of injunction temporarily restrain ing the Florida Mining company from mining phosphate on the property or Tennille and others near Jacksonville, Fla. Petition for injunction was made by Tennille ct al. against Howden ct ai.' and the Florida Mining company. Judge Shelby has fixed on September 16 as the date for final hearing of the case, in which the defendant must snow cause why the injunction should not be made permanent, and the nearing will be before Judge Locke of the dls- trict court at Jacksonville Fla.