The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-17

MaJ. K. F. steiner, senior member of the
 law firm of Steiner, Crum & Well, of this city, and one of the best known railroad and corporation attorneys in the south.
 Last Monday he was elected one of the
 directors of the Central of Georgia and
 on Tuesday his name was placed on the
 directorate of the Western of Alabama and Atlanta and West Point.
 The acquittal of Percy Fonville, son of J. c. Fonvile of Luverne. and brother of c. A. Fonville, manager for the Vest
 ern Union at this place. is received with
 pleasure by the many friends of the fam
 fly in Alabama. He was tried at Greens
 boro, s. C.. on a charge of abetting the
 wrecking of a bank at Charlotte, N. C., where he ran a wire exchange some time
 since. Cashier Jones of the bank has
 been sent to the penitentiary and the
 accounts of Fonville, 1t is said, are among those padded MT. Fonville and his father will reach Montgomery tomorrow. The determination of Rev. A. c. Harte
 of Mobile, to go to Jerusalem for mis-
 sionary work for the Young Mems Chris tian association, takes away a man well | liked in Montgomery. He has often ad- dressed the local Young Mems Christian association. As chaplain of the First reg
 iment he has become well known all over | the state.
 | Big State Fair.
 All arrangements for the big state fair
 which will open at Vandiver park next Thursday, have been made and Secre-
 tary Tait expects it to be the best yet l by all means. The racing programme Is a strong one. the agricultural exhibits will be fine and the general displays are expected to be the most elaborate ever presented in the state.
 D. s. Dryfus, merchant of the city 1 went out to pond early today to fish l,,. to I{ tn
 he ran to his pole. The bank was slip pery and he tumbled into the water which is very deep and very cold. A heavy overcoat held him down and just as he was about to sink he was reached | by his companion, E. W. Jackson, and hauled in.
 l The state pharmacy board is in session at the New Exchange hotel. A number of young men are taking the examina- lions.
 Governor Conner has pardoned Jake | Collier of Limestone county, sent up in October 1906 for two years for aiding 1 in the escape of a prisoner. large pe- | tition came up from the white citizens Of I the county for the negro, who has always been known as a white mans negro. Culture of Tobacco. 1 The movement for development of to- l bacco culture in Baldwin county is of | much interest to the rest of the state 1 and Commissioner of Agriculture Will
 kinson will render every aid possible
 Perry county has already shown that it
 can bring forth a wrapper almost as good
 as that of Cuba and 1t is safe to presume that other sections can do as well. 1 Report has been made to both state and federal officers of a case of white 1 capping in Etowah county, that may
 bring about many complications. Robert
 Atwood was whipped by his neighbors, 1 1t seems, because he would not, accord
 ing to report. keep in such shape as to 1 take care of his family. On being locked
 up on a charge of vagrancy he made com l plaint that he had been whitecapped and
 bauy hurt, and was going to have the 1 law take q shot at the follows who had ] punished him.
 l Horace Hood the new sheriff of Mont ] gomery county, has taken charge of the office without disturbing a man. He will 1 rock along with the present organization | for few days at least.
 Fire in the plant of the National Cot ton oil company Tuesday night did dam age of at least $150O0. It caught in the seed room. The factory Is located some
 distance out and was hard to get at with the firemen.
 Three Conoressmen. Three congressman met in the lobby of the New Exchange Tuesday, and held a minor session. of the lower house. They were Champ Clark of Missouri. and Clay ton and Richardson of Alabama. Fore gathering with them was John Corrigan, Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, and the talk ran to the past
 and the future of national legislation Corrigan asked Clayton and Richardson If their districts would go for prohbi-
 ton. Mr. Clayton found that he did not
 now have an open saloon in his district
 the third: Richardson reported on those
 in the two Decaturs. and them the
 way to oblivion, according to report
 MT. Clayton and MT. Richardson had
 met Mir. Clark here. and they talked
 much of the day. MT. Clayton is much
 interested in the bill to prevent shipping
 liquors into a state which has prohibition and Judge Richardson in the building of
 the big dams over the Tennessee river at
 Florence, to secure deep water. MT. Clark thought the nominees of the two parties
 next time will be Roosevelt and Bryan:
 that after that Mir. Bryan would he out
 of the running a southern man should
 be named for the presidency. Not far
 away one saw former Governor Jelks, and
 later in the day Governor Conner came in