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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16

the accident Captan H. McCrae, com
 mander of the Georgia, notified Rear Ad- miral C. M. Thomas, commander of the squadron, of what had occurred. Rear Admiral Thomas ordered an Investigating
 board to examine into the causes of the accident Until this board makes its re- port the real cause of the accident will be in doubt and 1t Is uncertain even that
 the board will be able to determine defi-
 nitely what ignited the powder.
 Two Theories of Cause. l Two theories are entertained. One belief | is that a spark from the discharge of the guns hoated back Into the turret through gun port and settled on the powder cases. Another theory is that the spark that caused the trouble came from the smokestacks of the ship and noated through the gun ports.
 As soon as he received the news of the disaster, Rear Admiral Albert Snow, com-
 mandant of the Charlestown navy yard, made complete arrangements for the re-
 ception of the injured vessel. The naval hospital at Chelsea was prepared for the sufferers and ambuances were furnished by the naval hospital, the soldiers home and the cities of Boston and Chelsea. | Not until a half hour before the Georgia came up to her dock at the navy yard was it known that there had | been any fatalities.
 On the way across Massachusetts Bay Midshipman Goldthwaite succumbed to his tortures, and a little later death
 ended the sufferings of Turret Captain | Thatcher; and Seamen Burke and Thomas Miller, Seaman Hamilton died while the ship was approaching the
 navy yard pier.
 When the Georgia arrived at the navy yard dock about 4:45 o'clock, a great crowd was awaiting her. As soon as the ship was made fast to the dock, five ambulances drove up to re- ceive the injured men. The sufferers were borne down the gangplank on the stretchers and placed in the m- balances which carried them to the naval hospital, but a short distance away.
 Men Terribly Burned. Two wards were set aside on the SC C. ond floor of the hospital for the in jured and Lieutenant Goodrich w;as cared for in separate ward. The rels. tives of the dead have been notified ths t the bodies are at the hospital and asIl ing what disposition shall be made of hem. If any are not taken away, th,sy
 will be buried in the graveyard ne. 1T
 the shipyard.
 Both the living and dead were foun l
 to be terribly burned. Three of tn,
 men were burned beyond recognition z,
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16
MISS CRUMP ADDS A NEW AFFIDAVIT Makes Serious Charge Against
 Asylum Nurses SHE IS A FORMER NURSE Says Patients Are choked Into h. sensibility, Severely Beaten and
 Allowed Poor Dlet-king
 May Head Committee.
SHE IS A FORMER NURSE

Montgomery, July 15.-(Special.) )-Miss Bertie Crump, former nurse at the insane hospital, has added an affidavit to those already filed, alleging crueltles at the hospital and wrong doing on the part of the nurses She says that she for merly resided at Crissville. but now lives in Birmingham, and that she was eni- ployed at the asylum as a nurse from January to May ', this year. She says, among other things, that patients were tied in pillow slips to keep them quiet. and she had seen as many as five nurses sit on one woman to hold her down. The affidavit follows;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16
Governor May Reduce Rate.

The finance and taxation committee Of the senate and the ways and means com mittee of the house have agreed to re- port favorably bil.s by which the tax rate car be reduced by proclamation of the governor when he thinks the finan- cial condition of the state will justify sucn action. Thus the question will be put up to the executive in the end and to hin. will be left the responsibility of reduction when he thinks 1t will be best.
 The senate committee on finance and taXatiCr has agreed to report with favor the bill to establish a tubercular sani- tarium with appropriation of $4O0O0. This bll has had the support of the doctors or the state in very large measure. They have bad a committee here for some time working on it.
 The liquor men wll not take their med icine easily, 1t seems. 1t Is reported lat CT today that they are going to try to get the closing hour placed at II o'clock when the closing bill gets to the house, as they hope for better luck on that side O. the house.
 The immigration law is doomed It wlh be reported for repeal and the sen tlment seems to favor 1t. Money loan CTS only will have to pay the tax for that business. and not farmers and mer- chants who let out cash to customers, while the manufacture of lime nitrogen will bs exempted from taxes for ten years if the house committee report Is taken up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16
Municipal Code.

Chairman Gaston Gunter is very much encouraged with the prospect of the mu- niclpal code bill going through without strenuous opposition While there are features of it that are not liked by some. still. as Mayor Ward of Birmingham. puts it, the position is generally taken that the good to the rest of the state will justify the cities in giving up something that they believe they want. It Is inter estrg to Birmingham that. according to Chairman Gunter, the bill will bring in many thousands of dollars to Birmingham soon by the revision of the taxing fea- ture.
 Legislatures have fallen down on this question. which is command of the or ganic law of the state There were two bills last time and they both failed. The members are very anxious to get bill through this session in order that for z time at least there may be a trial of tie question of municipal control by general enactment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16
Garment Workers Strike.

New York. July 15.-About 5000 union garment workers employed on the east side went on strike today in accordance with decision of their local unions reached last night. The strikers say that 10000 workmen in New York. Brooklyn and nearby cities in New Jersey will strike tomorrow The men want increased pay and shorter hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16
ANTI.cIGARETTE BILL.

Montgomery. July 15.-(Spe- cial. .)-The house temperance committee has favorably re- ported bill to prohibit the sale of cigarettes in the state. The same bill was recently ad- vised in the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16
The Investigation.

There is to be no Whitewa shing about the investigation Representative Jere King, who introduced the resolution, will likely be the chairman of the committee. and the whole matter will be gone over to the fullest extent. Every allegation made in the affidavts nill be investigated and the fullest opportunity given to both sides to make clea2 the situation Speaker Carmichael will Aprcint MT King and the other two house members Tuesday, short ly after the opening e the session. The King Greater BirinlnS ham bill will go to the house with favorable report and get on the calendar fer early 6iscus- sion. MT. King will have his hands full with local and general lee.sl aticn.
 The antitrust bill presented by Senator Overton and the bill to prevent pay trains running on Sunday have received favor , able vote in the senate judiciary com- mittee, and the house roads committee has , some members who are favorable to the bill to keep automobiles from the public highways of the state
 A bill will be reported faYorably by the common carriers committee of the senate to place steamship, express and sleeping cars more extensively under the control of the railroad commission. Local bills have , been approved for road working in Frank lin, Cleburne, Bullock, Lowndes, Law renee and several other counties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17

Lace Curtain Challenge
 All these BrusseIette Curtai ns are exact copies of high grade real. Brus- sells Curtains. They're In white, ivory and ecru. with pretty tiorders. Strong, durable Curtains, worth s5, for Challenge, pair ...., -I.9S
 The Bedding Challenge
 White Angora Wool Blankets. The 11-4 size with pink and blue borders. All nicely finished on both sides. Big sellers at si75.. Reduced for Challenge to s3.os
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
Italians swarmins To America.

From Leslie's Weekly.
 Italy is losing population by emigra- ton at the rate of nearly & million-or ! per cent of the total number of her in- habitants-a year. All the provinces in the kingdom are represented in this ex- odus but 1t is chiefly from the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily. The United States receives most of the enil- grants-New York Ci y alone has an 1tal- ian population of 450.000, larger than that of any Italian city except Naples. Rome and Mlan-though many go to ArGeE- tina, 10 per cent of whose population Is of Italian origin. Northern Italy, thanks to it's recent industrial development, is prosperous. but the difficulty of earning n livelihood in other parts of the country has resulted in the virtual depopulat'on of whole districts, many villages having been drained of their ablebodied inhabi- tants. and large tracts of land conse- ouently passing out of cultivation. Emi- eration," as one observer puts 1t, 'has become a kind of (epidsm Another result. which is causing alarm to the government is the decreasing number of men available for military service. The nresent organization of the army calls annually for 100000 new recruits for the standing army and 25000 for the reserves. Last year the number of conscriptions fell to 75.OO0 It is suggested that some of the causes exempting men from mili- tarv service be disallowed. but such a proceeding would probably only increase the volume of emigration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17

Broadgauge stock, and no more were to be had. The signs were withdrawn and the rush was done.
 Healey grinned. He knew now that vic- tory was in sight-a, costly victory, 1t is true, but a triumph. And he laid his plans for the final coup. To all the pa pers he telephoned:
 Give me wan page" he said. Put in it, right in tn middle: Git it fer less 1! 'The Enigma here only. s1. Come arly in the mornin; only few left!
 Then he ordered similar signs placed on all the delivery wagons, and in all the windows. He hired sandwich men, dec orated the sandwich placards of the same import and sent them to parade Broad way, especially in the vicinity of the Broadgauge. And finally he ordered a huge electric signs, that the very dark ness might be emblazoned with his words His clerks were kept busy for hours wrapping each copy of 'The Enigma against the morning. And Healey went home to sleep the sleep of the just
 Popkin also slept, but not till he did two things. One was to duplicate all the Healey advertising arrangements, but with the mere announcement: "Regd Page 13 This queer statement was .n papers, on wagons, on men and on signs, before closing time, and even Healey had wondered at IL. lie UeVoureu page 10 9l every evening paper. but not word did he see that enlightened him. He finally resolved that it was a hoax on Popkins part and let it go at that.
 Popkins was summoned by Mir. Mays when business opened the next day. Well, young man." asked the head of the establishment, how are we coming out?'
 Very fairly, I think. sir" was Pop kin's modest reply. "Will you see the figures?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
UNEASY INDIA.
The specter of Revolt in the "Pivot of
 the British Empire"

Saint Nihal Sing of Rawalpind, Punjab,
 India, in Harper's Weekly.
 India Is in the throes of revolution. The press dispatches that have found their way into American newspapers fail to give a comprehensive idea of the real situation in Hindustan. Lord Curzon on the eve of his assumption of the vice royalty declared India to be "the pivot of the British empire. If this empire" he emphatically declared, Host any other parts of it's dominions we could survive, but If we lost India the sun of the en- tire empire would set.' Today this pivot of the British empire" is wabbling. Brit ain is apprehensive lest this sun of the empire' is losing it's potency.
 Already bloody demonstrations have taken place in different parts of India. The Punjab, at one end of the country, is rent with riots. The two Bengals, at the other extremity, are ploclaimed hot beds of sedition. The presidencies of Bombay and Madras are dsaffected.
 The unrest in Calcutta, the uprisings in Rawalpindi, the riots in Lahore and the agitation in Bombay and Madras, separated from one another by hundreds of miles, indicate that community of in- terest is binding the races, nationalities and castes of Hindustan together, fnspir- ing them to act In concert. A subtle chord of sympathy appears to run through the length and breadth of the land.
 This is a new development for India The country notorious for its antagon- isms of caste, creed, color, custom, cli- mate and language, now seems to pull sate at its vital centers with the same heart throbs
 The native press and leaders in India are pulling together and presenting a bold front .Hindoos, Mohammedans, Sikhs, Brahmins or Pariahs, they have the regeneration of India at heart-au- tonomy for India is their aim, their en- deavor-and they are resolutely working singly and jointly in the face of prose cution, persecution and conviction
 India's awakening has not been sudden nor spasmodic. Gradually English educa- ton has been installing into the minds of the people love of liberty. Impercepti- bly English education has been fusing together the different castes and races of India, making them more tolerant to- u,o rd ono another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
Yes. let us have them. :"

Yes let us. have them.'
 Well sir, you know we had originally 2o00 copies of The Enigma which cost us 77 cents each; publishers sale price Sl25."
 Yes 2Ooo copies at 1T cents"
 Making them cost us S1540."
 Certainly"
 We had sold about zoo copies up to Monday. These, sir, at s1.25, or sS75. have reason to believe that the bulk of these-in fact. about all-were taken by Bamberger's agents
 "Umph, Well''
 They opened their sale with, say, 700 copies--I am dealing in round numbers bought at s1.25. sold at sl1S. loss on every one of cents. I had our clerks and their friends at the sale and they soon bought up his supply. whereupon Healey began to send here for more. We sold him the balance of our stock, some 1900, at SIPS or $1625. These they soon re- sold us at Sl.18, or net loss of : cents to them. This we repeated above seven times during the day, making over 14,000 copies sold at s1.25, but bought at si.1s, thus making our profit on them only cents, the same as Bamberger's loss or. s980 Our sales so far figure, therefore. $34s0, as against a cost of sl54o.
 Very well done"
 AL the clobe Wo ldu fVV CopleS WHlCn had cost us T cents. or saos, and these we sold the next day at loss of cents"
 Small matter-small matter You have cleared nearly s20O0 for us"
 'If you please. sir, didn't do it. l was only the agent. I would like very much to have you hear from Mame-I mean Miss Bailey, sir-as to how 1t was planned
 "Cio and get-Mamet'' said Mir Mays, as his eyes twinkled. 'So that's the way of it?' he murmured to himself. "and If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17

I want him, she'll have to go along. Well. she's pretty smart if this is her doings. And he's square to give her the credit for 1t. too. Ah"-as they re-entered
 now, tell us all about it'
 And they did.
 Meanwhile. there was excitement down at Bambergers The calls for "The En- igma" at $1 were so strenuous that 1t seemed as if not a copy had been sold before. Healey was overwhelmed and he and his clerks were congratulatnS themselves heartily that they had with keen foresight wrapped the volumes the night before. Healey, truly. was still puzzled over that Bainberger announce ment, and his search of page 13 in every newspaper was renewed with each edi- tion, but never word did he find in one of them.
 |" Iris beyant me-" he declared as he watched the sandwich men pass and re- pass. But divil bit I care; tis makin' tn books sell like doughnuts av a frosty marnin'. But wait till I git that Popkin
 tn dirthy dog! Whin me an Name is married ye won't see no Popkin at tn widdin' fast"
 There was a hurried call for Healey at the front counter. An irate woman wanted her money back. She held .Ths Enigma" open before the little Irishman's face and gesticulated wildly.
 Read that. you oheatr' she shouted
 Back of her customers were ripping open their copies, and one after another, with the celerity of rapid-fire guns. vera showing them at Healey and declaring that he was a fraud, that Bambersers was cheap joint" and that they had no faith in it. And svery second the throng grew more and moro like mob.
 Healey gave one glance at the book -~---~----->------------ ---------~>~------~--~---~
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
Gloves, Handkerchiefs and
 Hosiery.

16-button long silk gloves, double fin- ger tipped; black only; special, pr .si.Oo dogskin in tan, brown and black, special pair ..t|.#,.,'''''.. %i'W S-button kid gloves, in tan and black; special pair .......,........... 'Sl'oo Women's and children's initial handker- chiefs, full assortment, each ..5c Pure linen handkerchiefs, hemstitched; :; special $1.00 dozen, or each 1Oc Boys heavy ribbed hose, the Poe kind; special, for all sizes ..............1 13c Misses fine ribbed hose. pairs, 25c; or, each ...........5,..''' 'ioc Kayser pure silk gloves, double finger tipped, all colors, pair ............ 5Oc Womens pure silk hose in black only; special, pair -................. Sl.0O Tourist ruching, 6 yards to a box; spe
 cial, box ................. .23c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee

is cleaned. roasted and paekased by machinery without the touch of hand. A machine, constructedi in our own shops, packs the coffee, weighs it, wraps it, and seals the wrapPer' automatically. It reaches the cup the cleanest,, most wholesome and cheapest good coffee in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
Dress Goods Jome Ipecial Offerings For
 Iomorrow

54-inch broadcloth in all colors and black, s125 and $1.5O quality, at .Osc 46inch silk finish henrietta, s1.25 and $1.5o quality, at ....... .sf.O0 46-ineh Panama cloth in all colors
 58-inch Melton skirting in all colors and black, 75c quality, at .... .50c
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Value Received in Furs

Can more certainly be said of those purchased now than at any time during the fur season. Now the goods ar eabsolutely fresh, the styles determined, and the stock the largest and most varied. By value we do not mean price; we mean style, quality, workmanship, fit and general satisfaction.
 Furs to possess actual value must possess all these qualities. Custom CTS with an eye to real economy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
for Doll Dazaars. etc. Mote Zhese Chailenqe Bargains

Knit Underwear Challenge
 Women's Union Suits - Made of finest combed Egyptian yarn, cream color, in regular and extra sizes. I6c suits for Challenge Monday at. toe Men s Underwear Challenge
 Mems Shirts and Drawers-The silver gray wool ribbed kind. Worth $1, for Challenge. each .89c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
Notion Dept. Offerings.

The best six cord machine thread, 200
 yard spool, dozen ........... .4sc Basting cotton, 300 yard spools. .4c Alpaca skirt braid, 5 yards .... .10c DeLong hook and eye, dozen on
 card ................' '"o Hump hooks and eyes, dozen on
 card ..... .e ....'. SC Shell hair pins, box .............2 22c Wire hair pins, box ................4c .4c Roberts gold eye needles .......... 6c Needlepolnt pins. 36o count. paper. .$c Eheet pins, IA count, paper ...... Dc Sheet pins. SO count, paper ......... .4c Best Dragon hat pins for ...... Dc Bixby's royal shoe polish .9c Pearl handle nail file ............. .75c Embroidery scissors ............... DOC Roberts best steel manicure scissors
 DUG ana ..-...... ''oc Kid curlers, 1 dozen ...............9c .9c Childrens Buster Brown belts =. 50c J. P. Coats darning cotton, ball for 10c Stork pants ...-...-'.. 'oVc Stork absorbent diapers, "a dozen DOC
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
The Wash Goods Challenge

Outing CIoth--Pretty stripes and checks suitable for night robes and children's wear Light and medium colors. Every piece 2s inches wide. Our usual 10c value for Challenge, Monday .......... ....,.-...7 .7 3-4c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17

rather than cl~- .-,ss, real worth rather than price, buy the Caheen kind and their judgment tells them to buy now.
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The Mena weekly star., 1907-01-17
SOME MORE BANK BURGLARS
Unsuccessful Attempt Made to Rob the Bank al dans, |. T. last Night.

A report was received in Mena today that a gang of men made an unsuccessful attempt to rob the bank at Cans, I. T.. last night. Three shots were fifed m an attempt to open the safe and while the building was wrecked the contents of the vault were not secured by the robbers.
 The citizens were aroused by the report from the shots and soon had the bandits in flight. The men escaped on a hsnd-car and at last reports had not been oyertaken.
 Cans is a small town on the Kansas City Southern north ol Spiro aud Sl miles from Mena.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-01-17
Examinations for Inspeotors.

Washington, Jan. -Examina. tions will be held throughout the country on February 5 next for po- sitions in the agriculture department under the pure food and drugs act. The examinations will be for one chief Good and drug inspection chem ist at S3,000 year; several food and drug inspection chemists at s2.00O a year; and large number of food and drug inspectors at s2.000 year. Tn all. about 75 appointments are to be made. The list of eligibles will be certified to the department as soon as the papers of the applicants can be examined after the eSamlntions.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-01-17
. .TH[ PONCE HEARD FROA
Porto Rican Steamer II Days Over due Sighted Off Hamilton,
 Bermuda.
DISABLED AND IN TOW OF GERMAN SHIP
Sailed From Porto Rico for New York on the Day After Christmas Great Apprehension Had Been Felt for Her Safety-Searcned for by Revenue Cutters.

New York, Jan. 12.-The missing steamer Ponce, II days overdue from Ponce, Porto Rico, to New York, was sighted Friday off Hamilton, Bermuda in tow of another steamer. accord ing to two cablegrams received by the New York & Porto Rico Steamship company, of this city, the owners Or the Ponce The cablegrams were dated at Hamilton, Bermuda and read as follows:
 "Steamer Ponce in tow off Bermu da of tramp steamer, disabled. John $. Darrel"
 Ponce in tow of German steamer off Bermuda Myers"
 The Ponce sailed from Ponce, Por to Rico. for New York, December 26. The greatest apprehension has been felt here for the safety of iae ship and when the Trinidad steamer Mara cas arrived Friday with no news of the missing steamer hope that she ever would report had been practical ly abandoned until news Of tho Ponce's safety was flashed over the cable
 The feeling of uneasiness for the Ponce, increased when on Thursday. a dispatch was received from Gov. Wlthrop of Porto Rico stating that the steamer Caracas, arriving at San Juan, reported having sighted dan gerous derelict 40 miles north of
 '--s --"aov was iast spoken by the shenandoah December zS. Fol, nearly a week seFersu rvs,-ea,.a eut. ters had been searcing for the miss. ing steamer.
 A dispatch from Bermuda reports that the Ponce has a broken shaft. All on board are well. The steam ship is being lowed to dock by tugs.
 A cable message to Porto Rican steamship company states that the Ponce has anchored at the entrance to St. Georges harbor.
 St. George is at the northeatern end of the Bermuda islands and it's en- trance also marks the entrance to the long ship channel inside the coral reefs to Hamilton harbor.