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The Washington times., 1907-09-03
WRECK Of TRAIN
COSTS EIGHT LIVES

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Sept g.
Filled with Labor Day merrymakers re-
turning to their homes, a train on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad was
wrecked at Kanawha Falls. thirty-two
miles east OF here
Three cars were dragged from their
fastenings. and plunged down nigh
embankment, and nearly went into the
Kanawha river
The known dead:
William Campbell, Nananta, W. Va.
walter Sanders. Wheeling. ". Va.
Silas Vaughn. Nananta, w Va
allan Loving, Hinton, w Va.
". 4. Steele, Hinton, w. Va.
Three unidentified white men.
At least twenty were injured, some OF
them perhaps fatally.
That more lives were no .iost Is one of
The maTyels q t2ls>1oeide The train
was packeG
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
TWENTY ovAGs" Arrested.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Twenty arrests
were recorded at police headquarters
today under the new law which provides
for the arrest OF any persons. having
been convicted twice previously on fell
ony charges, found in a public building
and having no visible means Of sup
port
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
GUARD ITALY'S KING,
POLICE FIND PLOT

MILAN, Sept 2-The guard surround
ed King Victor Emmanuel while he is
attending the E-Ue-vers at Noyara, has
been redoubied. The police, It is ru-
nlored, have discovered a plot on the
part OF anarchists 70 assassinate the
King.
A dangerous and well-known anarchist
WHO was under surveillance here disap-
peared and dispitches from Rome
STATE that two anarchists disappeared
from that city at the same time
II is rumored the trio were delegated to
take advantage OF the exposed condition
Of the King during the maneuvers 10
Kill him.
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
BALLOON CATCHES FIRE;
GIRL IS SAVED BY TREE

MIDDLETOwN. y. Y, Sept. 3.-Myr-
tie Rysdike. seventeen years Of age, Of
this city, narrowly escaped death IN
making a balloon ascension at Midway
Park yesterday. The balloon caught ere
when 300 feet IN the air. The hot air
quickly escaped and the balloon and the
young woman fell rapidly toward the
earth The girl fen into a large tree
from which she was quickly rescued.
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
BUB0NlC AND RAT PLAQUES
MENACE FRISCO HEALTH

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept S.-The
health board reports an additional death
from bubon!c plague and two additional
cases under suspicion since Saturday.
The death was that Of woman and
occurred in Berkeley. across the bay
from San Francisco. The rat war here
is being prosecuted with energy, and
success under the system adopted last
week BY which The city is divided into
twelve districts, each IN charge OF
physician, inspectors. and assistants.
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
STOMACH is CUSHION
FOR MAN IN BAD FALL

WOOSTER, Ohio. Sept. 3.--John Swal-
len, fifty years old, who weighs about
20 pounds. probably owes his life TO
the fact that he is of large girth
While SWallen was making repairs on
an iron bridge over the Pennsylvania
tracks, a scaffold gave way, letting him
drop twenty-seven feet. He landed on
his abdomen which acted as a cushion
and he was only slightly injured.
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
MINIATURE RAILWAY
JUMPS IT'S TRACK
Mother and Babe Hurt
While at Pleasure
Resort.

ATLANTA. Ca. Sept. 3.-On the
miniature railway at White City yes
terday, while train was swinging at
high speed around one Of the curves.
its rear coach left the rails and was
hurled down an embankment. The in
FAINT child OF Mr.. and Mrs. Milton San
ders as a result lies with its collarbone
broken and the chiId's mother has a
fractured cheek bone.
Several others Of the Sanders family
and two unknown girls were slightly
injured
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
QUICKSAND HOLDS MEN;
THREE DROWN IN RIVER

PEORIA, H., sept 2--ouicksand in
the Illinois River caused the drowning
Of Charles NcEnlee. Keeling wilson, and
William Singer. OF LacOn, Ill.
The bodies were found upright in the
river today, al three held firmly BY the
of!cksand, which reached above their
knees
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
WOULD NOT SUPPORT
CARNEGIE LIBRARY

TAHLEQUAH. L T, Sept. AT a
special election here, a proposed tax to
maintain the Carnegie Library was de-
feated. The library building. cost $4,000.
II was finished more than a year ago,
but has been bookless to date.
With a population Of only 2,00l most
OF the citizens felt a library tar would
be TOO great. The controversy divided
the town into two factions.
The Washington times., 1907-09-03
OLDEST PREACHER DIES;
SIXTY YEARS IN PULPIT

ST. LOUIS. No, Sept. 3.-The Rev.
DR.. John Matthews, aged eighty-one
years, the oldest minister In period Of
service in the Methodist Episcopal
Church South is dead at the home Of
his son. ". J. Matthews.
DR.. Matthews, who has preached in
nearly every city and town in the United
States during his sixty years Of active
ministry retired from active work il
1So2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
The Rishon of London.

"Dr. Ingram. the lord bishop of Lon don, when fully vested, presents some what the appearance of Roman or Greek prelate." said a churchman. He wears jeweled mitre and jeweled cope and carries a massive crozier. And yet Dr. Ingram is not of the Anglo-Catholie party, but belongs rather to the so- called evangelical school. His rich vest ments are worn in accordance with the usage of St. Pauls cathedral.
 By the way. 1t Is a curious fact that although the bishop of London has his throne in St Paul's, he Is not one of the personages to whom the front portals Of the great minister are opened even on cer- emonial occasions. The doors of the main entrance are kept closed except when they swing on their hinges to admit one of three persons. the sovereign. the arch- bishop of Canterbury and the lord mayor of London.
 .'Dr. Ingram preached the opening Ser- mon at the Episcopal general convention in Richmond last Wednesday and made fine impression"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
Birminuham's Gala Week

This is State Fair week and Horse Show week and Birmingham will vel come thousands of visitors. Not only will the fair surpass in variety and ex- tent of exhibits all previous exhibi- tions. but the Horse Show, which will be held on Avenue c, in the central part of the city, gives every promise L being an exceptionally brilliant af- fair. The entries will embrace the best show horses of Kentucky, Tennes- see and Georgia and the most stylish steppers of Birmingham. The man. agement is at once practical, broad and enthusiastic, and as the time for the show approaches all the officers of the Horse Show association are con- fident that the public will be eminent ly pleased.
 The prize money is large, something like $3000. What this means may be understood when the prizes for the Atlanta horse show aggregated not quite s120O.
 Birmingham society will turn out to the Horse Show in full numbers and our country cousins will not miss 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
ward march.

count of his record in collecting cam paign funds in Wall street, but the pol iticians like him. He is In the race to a greater extent than Fairchllds, or Knox. or Cannon can be said to be.
 Tn short, all are trying to ascertain how the heavy vote of New York will he cast in the convention. The repub- lican politicians In that state do not feel that they stand on solid ground, and thev are not in the habit Of 1n- viting defeat If MT. Roosevelt Is out of tho race. the vote of the state will assuredly be cast for Governor uuphes. and 1t may be so cast even 1T there Is to be after fashion pro Roosevelt campaign. As candidate before the republican voters Of New York Hughes is probably the stronger of the two men, and this is why he Is looming larger every day in the race for the nomination. There is a feeling that Taft has passed the zenith and that if is after all choice on the re- nuhlican side of the house between Roosevelt and Hughes, both New York CTS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
New York 10 Decide

MT. Taft is. encountering the cus- tomary difficulties of the man who Is pitted against the field. Outside of his own particular following every man s hand in his party Is against him, and then, too, the attitude of the Big Stick towards him is not defined and 1t will probably stay in that condition to the day of the convention. The inner ring of officials are looking kind ly towards Cortelyou, who is a crea- ton of the President.
 The problem of the republican nom- ination next year really must be con- sidered tussle between MT. Taft, who has troubles of his own at home, and three New Yorkers-Roosevelt Hughes and Cortelyou. MT. Roosevelt has a great deal of strength. but no one knows what will be done with 1t in the convention. It Is as much against the unwritten law to let 8 President name his successor as it is Ito let him have a third term. There lis an undertow that runs towards Governor Hughes, and 1t is considered that he Is strong in his own state. Cor telyop may not be formidable on ao-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
F. ODAY's situation in Birmingham D is bordering on chaos. There
 must be a microbe or a collec-

9 is bordering on chaos There
 must be a microbe or a eollec- ton of boil weeyils, or a deluge of deYh- ishment in the atmosphere. Everybody is trying to do something and making much ado about doing it.
 The Birmingham business and eommer- cial interests are trying to build up-to build buildings manufacturing plants residences and all sorts of things to make this Birmingham the hub of the south to make 1t the manufacturing, commer- cia1 and business center of the south. In so doing they are putting Into the selfish; or to the man with the chip on his shoulder; or the man who Is fighting De- cause he thinks the other fellow is trying to take unfair advantage of him. There seems to be galaxy of gall permeatlns the makeup of a large plurality or the people: and every man seems to have d maui out for his neighbor.
 To start at the top, Bragg Conner anu Milton Smith-old enemies-are htterihs LID the columns of the newspapers In racetjous1y foiling with each other. Tney remind me of French duelists. They are making feints at each other-each threat ening to bring blood if the other falls to apologize.
 Conner is governor, with legislature with him. He and his Legislature told Smith and his Louisville and NashVille railroad what 1t must do-how 1t must red,ce rates and do all sorts of things that Conner has for years threatened Smith be would make him do some day If has been an old fight, with Smith In control in the past and Smith has won out each time. until Conner became gov ernor. by election, which election selected a Conner legislature That legislature made it warm for Smith. It passed laws Smith didn't like and Smith sat up upon the pedestal of his constltutiohai anu legal rights and defed the governor.
 The governor Conner sought tho news paper columns to tell the president smith that he must take his medicine or he would call his legislature together to give him another dose, and hold his tongue and force 1t down his corrugated throat.
 Then the president Smith seeks the newspaper columns to tell the governor Conner what he thinks of him; how m consistent he is what an anarchist he is-and not a good anarchist either, ac- cording to the teachings of the real an archist leader-and tapers off by recalling by inuendo that Conner has a @,oco-acre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
cApDiEs.

From the New York World.
 The action of members of the Oalad Golf club in raising purse of s2to send a favorite caddy south for his hth is a kindly deed of philanthropy bespS- ing the friendly interest taken byplf players fin the small suuires who adn- pany them over the links.
 The great growth of golf in this tn- try has resulted in the sudden devp- ment of a juvenile industry in rh thousands of boys now find a condal occupation. In the old home of the ne grown men serve as caddies. re, though adult Italians may be seen Gy- ing the players clubs, caddying arhls mainly to boys as a means for eahg spending money in the guise of playNo doubt the Sunday schools suffer. a lad making the three-nile round ohe links In the open air might be worsn- gagged, both as regards his moral anais physical welfare.
 Child labor legislation has not yet "a. dled with him, and Sabbath obserYce laws have so far passed him by. A ky lad from many points of view ihe caddy, much to be envied by his feEs in city tenements, if only he knows en to quit and begin the serious busss of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
Back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes.
 Measure for Measure.
Conservation of Resources

President Roosevelt has decided to call a convention to be held at Wash ington January g. to take steps to con serve the coal, water power, oil, salt, iron ore and other natural resources of the country. The scheme is very pretty one but just how the resources in private hands are to be tied up and conserved does not appear. The sub iect appears to be academic, and a moral campaign all that is feasible. It is a subject that affords plenty of room for fine speeches, but very little for action, even with a strenuous President enlisted in its favor.
 The sixteen governors gathered at Memphis on Friday last did not seem inclined to uphold the President in his determination 10 call a convention for the purpose named. They plainly consider the waterways proposition of more importance, and they do not de- sire to see the improvement of the in- land waterways sidetracked for any thing. There is room, however, for both. A rivers and harbors conven- ton is to be held in Washington in December, and a convention to con sider the conservation of our national resources could be held January 3 without in anywise conflicting with the\ December convention.
 The truth is the dredging and dig ging of waterways is an eminentiy practical matter There Is nothing abstract about 1t. It must come In concrete form, or not at all. The other proposition is different, and it always will be different, and there is therefore no reason why the proposed January convention should not be held until all who attend 1t have delivered their prettiest speeches. and are ready to go home with sense of duty per- formed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
Horseback Ridinq Test

Our colonels, lieutenant-colonels and raiors have become so fat there is danger the supply of buclSboards would give out If war should come upon us unawares. When our army went to Cuba not few of our fat field officers were compelled to resort to buck boards. and the obect of General Or der No. 19S Is to test and possibly to weed out our overfat officers. The eenerals will not be subjected to the new test, but all other field officers are to do a horseback riding stunt in order to show their efficiency for ac- tual service. They are to ride five miles at a walk, five miles at smart trot. and five miles at hard gallop, and the Taftian colonels and majors are full of dismay.
 The test was instituted, it is be- lieved. by President Roosevelt himself, who. fat as he Is, Is equal to It, put there are perhaps dozens of officers who could fly as readily as they could ride five miles on horseback at hard eallop. There is no help for it, for the War Department has said 1t. They must ride or be pronounced unfit for actual service, except on the retired list or in times of peace. Horsemap- ship is a reasonable qualification for military service, and besides 1t would not look well in story or in art to pre- sent our war heroes on buckboards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
ALABAMA PRESS

Florence Herald: And Oklahoma went dry and democratic at one and the same time.
 New Decatur Advertiser: Governor Conner will call the legislature to meet November T, in extra session. Watch It, if you want to see sights!
 Talladega Reporter The state convict farm No. 4, raised $2o,oOO bushels of corn this year. This shows what convicts may do, when properly directed.
 Anniston Star: The governor Is going to call that extra session, and he doesn't think he Is to blame for it. Of course that all depends upon the point of law.
 Mobile Register: If Governor Hughes cannot get the nomination except as q Roosevelt man, he will have to be made over; and we do not see any one capable of doing such a job.
 Roanoke Leader: The little town of Reform, in Pickens county Is trying to live up to its name. In the prohibition election last wek it gave 126 votes for prohibition and none against it.
 I1nlon Springs Herald: The mighty hunter of the White House will soon be snoring under horse blanket in the Louisiana canebrakes like any ordinary American citizen. Ted's sight.
 Montgomery Advertiser: That the Lord Bishop of London defeated the president of the United States in game of tennis may not be a matter of vast international importance, but it has served to inspire the paragraphers. It is even intimated that Roosevelt's defeat in such a game has placed him among the mollycoddles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
About Persons.

J. Asbury Thompson, whose recent re- tirement from the office of back tax com missioner has been announced. has en- +orad the real estate business. MT. Thompson was asked yesterday whether he could manage to stay out of politics, and he shook his head, doubtfully.
 Alexander Mcintyre. auditor of the Co., roma Coal and Iron company returned yes- terday from New York where he has spent two weeks on vacation. As Is re- membered. the friends of MT. Mcintyre, hearing that Andrew Mcintyre. who was stopping at the same hotel where Alex ander Mcintyre was registered, had dis appeared. were considerably worried. fearing that the well known Alabamian had met with foul play. The return of MT Mcintyre Is proof sufficient that the fears were not well founded.
 J. K. Dimmck of Birmingham and Phil adelphia. after spending the summer in the east, arrived here last week and will remain for some time. He Is not only one of this districts leading and most prosperous developers but he is so- cially popular and his coming Is always hailed with pleasure.
 Vice President l.. Sevier of the Sea board Air Line is In Birmingham and will remain here until tomorrow. He re- ports that traffic is brisk on his road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
SAID IN REPLY

Montgomery Advertiser: Have a care, girls" says the Youngstown Telegram. Say, Have a husband, girls" and watch them take notce-B Birmingham Age-Her- ald
 Washington Herald: 'Cheer up. Sup pose you were bear in Louisiana?" says the Birmingham Age-Herald But we couldn't suppose any such thing and cheer up at the same time.
 Jackson Clarion-Ledger. The Birming- ham Age-Herald says ''the way to win a pennant is to spend real money for real players" That's what Mobile is ac- cused of doing to the Cotton States League.
 Mobile Register: "The average man." says the Birmingham Age-Herald spends the first half of his life getting wise and the last half telling other people how to get wise" Oh, would this were true, Where is this wisdom?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
REFLECTIONS OF A AcHELC

By Bret Harte. Sauntering hither on listless wings, Careless vagabond of the sea, Little thou heedest the surf that sin The bar that thunders, the shale At
 rings
 Give me to keep thy company. Little thou hast, old friend, that's nd Storms and wrecks are old thin9e
 thee;
 Sick am I of these changes, too; Little to care for. little to rue I on the shore and thou on the sef All of thy wanderings. far and near Bring thee at last to shore and me All of my journeyings end them hert This our tether must be our cheer on the shore and thou on the seq Lazily rocking on the oceans breast Something in common old fri.
 have we:
 Thou on the shingle seek'st thy nest I to the waters look for rest on the shore, and thou on tho 6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BOIL WEEVIL5
 IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF ALL ALBANIA

To return, however, to thtiginal re- marks of the opinions hereW eWventured, somebody or everybody In Aingham's official makeup has a chip dips upon his shoulder. That mix-up ire Board of Mayor and Aldermen" ednesday night would have done credto Lead vile or some other dime novSown. It only differed in that the pistovere not fired and no blood was shed. anguage and words like Ties" were led and shed, however, in a style thawas as lurid as a pyrotechnic display a Blr- mingham state fair. Yet noty was hurt and the audience appearlto en- Joy it.
 Now, the question is, where dda tax payers and real people of Brigham, who are not given to going to spacular performances, stand7 Have va city government. a legal Board of Ar1men and Police Commission, or have not7 Let us have the matter settled once and proceed to do business in a hness way. making the city's credit gd its acts good. and It's regulations asuch should be.
 George Ward is Mayor-elected | tho people. He Is responsible. Let hiAcan out the police force, the sheriff anhis deputies and the state militia, if theov- ernor will so order, if need be, to prerve order in a Board of Aldermen meag. If he is chairman of the Board he shld preside. If not, he should not. he courts will decide. Acts are legal or e- gal. The courts in the case of a muai- pality the size of Birmingham will D. eide quickly. It is merely the constS- ton of an act of the legislature.
 In the meantime there are charges d counter charges of graft, coupled vh politics and political factions. Let thu be investigated to the limit EverybS
  wants 1t; but do 1t quickly. Birminghn is too big and busy to be retarded In B growth by either petty grafters or pey politicians. If there be either set thu aside quickly, put good mon in thr places and let the greater BirminBhh 20 ahead as 1t deserves to go.
 Scrape off the barnac1es; throw thu into the sea, and let us sail the good sb Birmingham across the line of yictg over all competitors Of whatever s- r ton.
 If he does take liberties with the mt serious, so thinks
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06

farm, and according to real anarchist teachings that is too much for any one man to hold. Smith pounds Conner for his acts and deeds and then stops. He don't dare him to call his legislature to- gether again, but he defends himself and the interests he represents and pays pie bald respects to Conner. He looks in lan- guage like he would love to 1engthen the fight.
 So, apparently with Corners back up, and Smith satisfied with himself and spelling for a scrap, the public will have to stand an extra session of the 1egsla- ture. expensive as it shall be-and maybe we shall have all sorts of laws passed good or bad. None of us can tell. When legislators, like ordinary men, get in bad humor, we cannot tell what they will uo.
 In the meantime investors are awaiting results, and only those who know that good sense and judgment will prevail are going ahead.
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 The prohibition campaign Is right with the Comer-railroad contest. It is linked up here in Jefferson county. The elec- ton has been called for the 2Sth of the month to decide whether or not there shall be prohibition in this county. The iron and steel companies, practically all the manufacturing concerns, nearly all the merchants, a large majority of the real estate and insurance men, nearly all the bankers, great proportion of prop erty owners and men who have worked and made something are against 1t. Not that these men believe in liquors and a largesse of saloons, so to speak. They do not They are merely opposed to ex- tremes. They abhor. as might the most enthusiastic prohibitionist, the license of the saloon in the past Birmingham. It has been, if might say it. damnable. It needs the best element to regulate it; and city government that will do so. But don't punish the growth of Birmmg- ham by going to the limit.
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 And right in this connection let us have a regu1 ated and trained police force in this city. AS 1t is now it Is a make shift-a political toy. The policemen. from the chief down. are so busy trying to find out who they are responsible to and whether they are to keep their jobs or not, that they know not of their du- ties. Burglaries, robberies and crimes are of daily and nightly occurrence. The residence sections of Birmingham have no protection. If anything in Birmingham