The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-16
BASEBALL PARK IS
BEING IMPROVED
Poisoned Family is Not Yet Out
of Danger
DEALERS ARE AGlTATED
Committee of Mobile Business Men to
Go to Montgomery to Confer In the
Matter of Prohibition Re-
strictions In State.

Mobile, February 5.-(Special.) -There
is no doubt that Mobiles baseball park
will this season far surpass anything that
she has ever mad before. The diamond
has had three feet of loan put ON, max
ing it a turtle-back, so that no water
will stand on it.
The catcher's box has been moved
within twenty-five feet of the grand
stand. The grandstand has had sixty
foot addition on the west end, boxes ar
ranged under 1t for the accommodation
of the press and the scorer, and sixteen
boxes have been built under the grand
stand on level with the players, four to
be reserved for the use of the team man
ayers and the other twelve to be rented
for the season to spectators. Most of
these boxes have been taken.
Montgomery will play the initial try
out game.
A bleecher stand has been built for the
accommodation of the colored patrons of
the game that will hold about 4OO and
the present bleachers have been moved
back to the fence.
Reports from the homes of the Lewis
family, who were poisoned early Wednes-
day morning by eating biscuits which
contained arsenic, which was found in
the flour, were to the effect that the two
sons and two women boarders We're much
improved and while the attending physi-
clans say they will all recover. w. c.
Lewis and wife are tonight worse than
on yesterday.
James Mifhin, husband of Annie Moi
fin. one of the victims, went to the police
station today and offered to surrender,
saying that he heard he had been ac-
cused of the crime. AS there was no
such evidence obtained by the detectives,
he was told that he was not wanted
The wholesale liquor dealers and brew
ers of this city are much agitated over
the bill which has just passed the house
of the state legislature which prohibits
any county In the state where liquor Is
sold from sending into a prohibition
county liquor in any quantity. The bill,
1t is said, will effect all liquor dealers
and brewers in the state and is consid-
cred unjust.
A committee composed of President
John Craft OF the Mobile Commercial
club, Ralph c. Richaros and Reuben
Baerman, left this morning at an early
hour for Montgomery, where they today
pielNCd DcAoio lu6 COnlkllSSlOn the us
eliminating features of the bill Governor
Conner, while here attending the carnival
last Tuesday, was spoken to relative to
the BILL and the conditions threatening
| the entire liquor and brewing interests of
| the state, to the advantage of dealers In
| Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia, who
could ship liquor into prohibition sections
of Mississippi unmolested and under the
| protection of the interstate commerce act.
| On the other hand, Alabama dealers will
| be forced to respect discriminating act
or discontinue business. The governor
would not talk on the subject.
The McGill institute, one OF the large
| Catholic institutions in the city, met
| Thursday night and considered plans for
the construction of a five-story building
| on their property at the southwest corner
of st. Louis and Water streets, the same
| to be occupied by the Young Hardware
company, one of the largest firms of the
kind in the south. The building will cost
approximately seventy-fve thousand dol
| lars.
| The steamer Mary q. Staples left to-
night for points along the Warrior river
with one of the largest freights that has
been shipped to that section in many
months and which compares favorably
with some that have been shipped to
| Bigbee river points.
| The steamer Blanche will leave tomor-
row for trial trip to Flat Creek in the
| interest of the Flat Creek Lumber COM
pany. The vessel will tow barge loaded
| with a big general cargo. The officers
feel a keen interest in the result and
| express some anxiety as to the sufficient
| power to be obtained from the forty
horsepower engine with which the
steamer is equipped. With the strong
current in the river, the boat with the
barge heavily loaded will be put to a
severe test. Should the engines not prove
of sufficient power the company will in
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