The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-13
BeSSemer Board of Education
 Drops the Subject
BAD NEGROES GET LOOSE
One Trys To Do Up an Officer and Another Devotes His Atten- ton to Carving Up
 His Wife.

lar monthly meeting this evening in the council chamber of the city hall. Those present were pr. T. F. Robinson, Mayor Rush, l. A. Lewis. pr. R. P. McTyere, Gardner Goodwin, Dr. Me- Nell and Dr. Downing.
 several matters of importance came up Tor consideration, among them be- Ing the election of teacher to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Julia Miller. Miss Francis Grif- Ten was selected to fill the position.
 It was decided that the Thanksgiv- Ing exercises should be held on the morning of the 2Sth, and the schools would then be closed until the follow Ing Monday. The Christmas holidays Will start from Friday, the goth of De- cember, and will continue until Mon day, the S0th. These holidays will no doubt be greatly appreciated by the many scholars, as from reports sub mitted by Superintendent Dill, most of the children have worked exceptionally hard this year and they deserve the va cation.
 On Monday, the S0th, each child will start to school with renewed energy and it is thought that this will prove to be one of the most prosperous years the schools have ever enjoyed.
 The matter of raising the salary of some teachers came hp for considera- tion, but 1t is useless to say that it died just wh ere it started. When any tal lIx toip Iar i, ba city of Bessemer just now, it is con- sidered next to a capital offense.
 Narrow Escape.
 Officer Newt Clements had a close race with death this morning, but it took him some time to realize it.
 He went over to the Frisco yards to arrest a negro, or at least he was over there, when he got sight of negro that he had been looking for for some time. The negro saw Clements about the same time Clements saw him. and he crawled behind box car. Frank Childers happened to be passing at the time, and Clements called on him to wait a few minutes. Frank waited to see what the matter was, and pretty soon he saw Clements and the negro come from behind the car. And here is where Newt acted just like a cracker. He has been looking for the negro for some time and he knew he was sup posed to be bad character. Instead of putting handcuffs on him, he caught him by the sleeve and marched off. Childers was looking at them and old Newt was so glad of the capture that he could not hit the ground with his hat He kept his head in the air, and the negro kept his eye on Newt.
 Pretty soon Chlders saw the negro run his hand into his pocket and draw out a big razor. It scared him so he afraid if he did the negro would cut Clements before he could get to him. However, old Frank got down on his knees and said little prayer. He begged his old worn out feet to do the work that they had done 30 years ago, and he also stated that if they did not lail him this time he would guarantee that in future he would get shoes large enough even if he had to send to Chicago for them. The things that he calls feet re- sponded nobly to the call, and the re- suit was that Frank reached the scene before the negro had made up his mind as to just where he wanted to carve Newt.
 The gun was thrown on him and the razor was thrown into the ditch.
 Mighty Bad.
 Joe Williams, colored, demonstrated the fact this evening that he is eligible to the bad class. He carved his wife up and had it not been for Dr. Thomas Herrin he would no doubt have been working on her yet The doctor did not hut ho 1nf like the idea of mince meat, as he stated after the affair was all over that he had always been great sufferer from heart and this sort of an affair al- ways caused him more or less trouble It was not Dr. Herrn's fault that he became mixed up in the difficulty. He happened to be walking along the street when he heard the woman call for help. From the evidence it seems that Joe and his wife walked into a colored restau- rant. and Joe ordered supper for two.
 His wife did not like this method Of doing business, and she made the re- mark that she guessed she would do as she "choosed.' This was just a little too much for Joe and he asked her what she would choose, She told him it was none of his business whereupon he got up and made an effort to loop the loop around her heart.
 He cut all around her. and the only thing that kept him from cutting her heart out was the fact that the knife got dull and refused to do any more calico stunts. Dr, Herrin walked in about this time and ordered Joe to cease cutting, and at that command Joe start ed after the doctor The doctor ran next door and grabbed a gun. When he got back Joe was waiting for him. but he got the drop on him and held him until an officer arrived.
 His case will come up tomorrow morn ing and as it is we'll known fact that the city needs the money, he Will no doubt get his
 Bessemer Not In 1t.
 The Birmingham Athletic basketball team came to town this evening and played a few rings around the local squad The final score was l1 to 10 The game Was well played throughout, and while the Birmingham team is by far the better of the two. still the Bessemer boys showed up in very nice style.
 They lacked energy and push, and they seemed to be afraid of getting run over. All they need to make good is to get