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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
SPECTACULAR FIRE
 IN PITTSBURG
SIX-STORY BUILDING DESTROYED. WILD SCRAMBLE AMONG THE
 GUESTS OF HoTEL-NUMBE9 OF
 PERSONS HURT-LoSS, $350,ooo.

Pittsburg. February 25-one of the most spectacular, troublesome and costly fires which the Pittsburg down town district has experienced in several years occurred today. The siX-story structure at Sl9 Lio- erty avenue, occupied by the Derby Desk company, and the building at No. SlI Liberty avenue occupied by the Baker office Furniture company, wore com pIetely destroyed. In addition the blaze wrecked the three upper floors or the building at No. S1S Liberty avenue, occu- pied by the Grier Busch company, whole- sale notion and toys, and threatened the Second National bank building. when the fire was believed to be under control flames were seen issuing from top noor or the Seventh Avenue hotel There was wild scramble of the guests but all got out safely. The building was saved put the furnishings were ruined by water
 A number of persons were slightly lh- iured during the fire and blaze ana was replete with narrowing escapes and thrlli- ing incidents. The origin of the nre ls believed to have been crossed eieetIle cree os wires Total loss is estimated at $ooo'ooo'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
CORONER THINKS
 MAN WAS WILSON
FEATURES OF UNKNOWN PERSON WHO WAS KILLED ABOUT TEN
 DAYS AGO SAID TO RESEMBLE
 GEORGE WILSON OF ATLANTA.

Hundreds of persons are still passing through the Gaudin company's under ta,-ing parlors to look at the features of the unknown man who recently met his death at the hands of robbers. All seem to see something familiar in the features, but no one has been able to identify the deceased.
 Coroner Paris, however, has another clue which makes it seem probable that the deceased may turn out to be George Wilson. native of Greenville, $. C.. who worked with the Piedmont factory there Two men. Allen and Baker, when they saw the body believed it to be Will son, although they were not sure.
 The coroner began to work out the trail, but has been unable to locate Will son. When last heard of he was an en- gineer of the Seaboard Air Line rail- road, and lived In Atlanta, where he would be well known. When missed he had only been in the city a few days, and was known to have carried roll of bills with which he was very free.
 Allen and Baker stated they had seen another man knock the deceased over the heau with skantling, and carry nm off in a buggy, and they believe the fea- lures are similar. The coroner has heard so many rumors that he intends to trace this thoroughly before coming to an-r conclusions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
FIRE IN DRUG STORE.
Slight Damage Caused By Flames In
 Rear of Gum Drug Company.

Last night at about o'clock ire started in the rear end of the store occu- pied by the Gum Drug company and the Jaffe Jewelry company and caused dam- age amounting to about $500. Just before the alarm was given man passing in the alley saw two wires short circuited, and big flames shooting up from the point of contact.
 The fire seemed to have reached the building, and before long the second story was burning. The fire department answered quickly. and with the use of several lines of hose soon extinguished the flames The great loss was in glass bottles, and few electric fixtures. It was entirely covered by insurance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Mississippi Court Decisions.

The supreme court handed down the foi- lowing decisions this afternoon;
 Y Mayes-Ben Dugln vs. state Attalla country; affirmed.
 Ed Harris vs. state, Panola county; affirmed. ernest Dodds vs. state, Attalla county; affirmed,
 Joseph Mikell vs. P. E. Mathern, Law renee county: affirmed.
 Fannie Hoff ct al. Vs. state Wlihinsoh county. affirmed
 Ulstiu Courtney ct al. vs Mary A. Courtney. Harrison county; reversed and bill dismissed.
 R-J calhoon-Clara Estetter ct al. vs. Norman Stow ct al., Harrison county remanded for oral argument Red Daniels vs. state, Perry county negro murderer; affirmed and tuesday A Til P. fixed as date of execution. . H. Oden vs. II. Il. foWeh el ai'' Jones county; affirmed
 R. D Murphy vs Greenwood irahs- portation company, Tallahatche county affirmed,
 F,d. D. Pierce vs R. E. Hasen. Jones county. reversed and remanded' Sin Davis vs. state, Lafayette county eversed.
 F'oria Bell vs. state. Panoia county NrsedI and remanded.
 V Whitefeld-Florian O'lSeal vs, R M wis l, Co.,, Lamar county; motion sus- ned. ,
 tty of Laurel vs. John Odonnell, Jones
 nty; affirmed
 lams Lumber company vs J. D. Stew
 n, Amite county; affirmed.
 l. Stewart vs. R. H. Foreman, JeHer-
 county: reversed, demurrer overruled
 remanded with leave to answer.
 Wnwo6d oil mill vs. Alabama and
 burg Railroad company ct al, war
 )unty: affirmed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
IN BUZZARD BOOST
Policemen Are Driving Out Vagrants
 and Drunkards.

The buzzards have been flying and Hopping during the last few days around the historic "roost." The black birds are supposed to keep ever on the wing ana when they alight, unless they give a good account of their actions, it is either ny away to other parts or take ride in the jail-bird wagon.
 Policemen Larue and Gates, who are assigned to the Twenty-fourth street beat. commonly known as buzzard roost. are making the feathers fly Al though their section of the town is the one most crowded with negroes, and loaf CTS. the policemen are breaking up the vagrant habit. They secured the convie- tion of four before Judge Feagin yester- day. all of whom were fined sl0.
 Trespassers, vagrants, loiterers and drunkards are finding it hard matter to rest their bones toward the east, or in fact. in any part of the city. General activity in detecting the small crimes IS in the veins of the police department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
AGREEMENT REACHED ON
 GREATER BIRMINGHAM
Three Bills Providing for Extension of Cities With and Without Tax Exemptions Will Be Reported FavorabIy By Senate Committee Birmingham Delegation Confers With
 Committee Passed By the House,

off the police commission fight and gone out after Greater Birmingham" Every member of the delegation expressed confi- dence of the success of the Greater Bir- mingham bill, and the prospect of the city to be able to widen out greatly is good.
 The house tonight passed the bill to alter the boundary line between Calhoun and Etowah counties, the hcanges being slight and causing no fight.
 Other bills passed as follows: Relieving the Central Alabama fair at Selma from state and county taxes and establishing a State Normal school at Daphne
 The ways and means committee reported favorably the bill to provide tax com mission recommitted today. The bill is changed to provide for sessions to be held in each county to consider questions relating to county property and hear all matters of foreign corporations at the capitol The bill is now thought to be In such shape as to meet objections to 1t. The house passed the bill for dispensary at Clanton over the protest of the mem- Der from Chiffon county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26

Montgomery, February 25.-(special)- Greater Birmingham is assured. The sen ate committee tonight practically agreed to report favorably the three bills now before it providing for extension of cities with and without taxing exemptions and merger of towns and cities lying con- tiguous to each other
 Two bills are pending, one the Smyer Dill. providing tax exemptions for ten to twenty-five years, and the other by Sen ator Miller practically the same as the Smyer measure with no exemptions. The merger bill is accepted without question by all.
 A Birmingham delegation held confer ence with the members of the municipal corporations and Senator Miller tonight. Those present were Mayor Ward, Presi- dent Robert Jemison, Jr., and Secretary Babb of the Commercial club; Alderman J ohm W. O'Neil and Hill Ferguson.
 Mayor Ward said Tell them have left
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Musinas of the Great Cynic.

From the New York Times.
 The average man doesn't know what he wants till he can't get it.
 We always see the worst of people when we fail to get the best of them.
 Our credit is indeed bad when we feel that we can't trust ourselves.
 The man with wooden leg naturally has a numbering gait.
 A man is either taken aback by crit cisr or else he takes affront.
 A girl can either make fool of a fel- low or make him make one of himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Busse for Mayor of Chicaoo.

Chicago. February 25.-As result of the republican primaries held here today Fred Busse, postmaster of Chi cago will be the unanimous choice of the party for mayor at the spring cleo tion. The nominating convention will be held just as soon as MT. Busse, who was injured in railroad wreck in Pennsylvania, returns to Chicago. The mayors term has been extended to four years, and a spirited fight is ex- pected between Mayor Dunne, the dem- ocratic nominee, and MT. Busse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
TRAMPS ALL SHUN PAUPERLESS TOWN Not One Needy Person in Mount
 Hope, N. Y. THE P0ORMASTER RESIGNS Honest Man, So He Gave Up His Job. To Him Was Due All the
 Credit for Townships
 Record.
THE POORMASTER RESIGNS
rom the New York World.

From the New York World.
 "Over the hills to the poorhouse' has no place in the ballads of Mount Hope, a peaceful, prosperous community of Orange county, up at the base of the Shawnangunk mountains. There is neither great wealth nor great poverty there. and among all the 400 men, women and children of the township there is not one pauper. Mount Hope citizens believe this remarkable record of no paul perism makes their township worthy of it's name. It is the town poormaster who has reduced pauperism to nothing and given Mount Hope q record that it can boast to all the country.
 Well-to-do dairy farmers are the back bone of Mount Hopes population. The township Is picturesquely hilly-in places even mountainous-but thus far no New York millionares have chosen to buy it for a country seat. Otisville, a pretty vil- lage of 400 inhabitants, nestled among the hills is the metropolis. At this point the Erie railroad is boring through the mountain for a mile to eliminate the worst grade on the system.
 David Holley. for years the village wagon maker, was elected poormaSter Of the town of Mount Hope twelve years ago and year after year both parties have renominated him. When he first assumed office the taxpayers were having to sup port several indlgent persons at the coun- ty farm and aid paupers temporarily.
 An OId-Fashioned Little Man.
 But David Holley soon discovered that the taxpayers money was being spent in most cases for no apparent purpose except to make fees for the poormaster. MT. Holley is quiet, old-fashioned lit tie man-one of the fast disappearing type of country mechanics who can make a wagon from the tires up. He'd not give Simanthy Jones an order for 50 cents worth of groceries, on the towns account, simply to make the record that he, as poormaster. had done an "officiaP' days work, entitlng him to draw S2 fee. If he did not believe, after pains- taking investigation, that the said S'man- thy deserved public charity he gave her nothing; consequently his fees were few and pauperism soon became unpopular
 One of the chief reasons why pauper- ism has died out in the town" said the little wagon maker to a World reporter, lis because aid has been given only in deserving cases" The fee system, he said, did more than anything else to per- petuatc penury; dishonest poormasters give aid when 1t is not deserved and spend the taxpayers money uselessly in order to get their share of the graft.
 Poormaster Holley, by his honesty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
SCHOONER HlLDA MAY BE LOST.
Crew of Eight Men Believed to Have
 Perished.

Savannah. February 25.-It is be- lieyed the schooner Hilda. which left Philadelphia February 3 for this port, coalladen. has been lost The Hilda was owned by the Savannah Lighter age and Transfer company. Since she sailed on February she has not been seen or heard of. It is believed here that her crew of eight men, including Capt. Tobias Dalling, has been lost The Hilda was built at Camden, N. J., in 1877, and was 577 tons burden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
LONG DISPUTE SETTLED.
Leaal and Political Battles over Lana
 Grants to Ceaese.

Washington. February 25-The stubborn ly contested case of the state of Kansas against the United States WHICH "o' brought as an original action in the SUI prelne court of the United States was ue- cided by that court today in dismissing the states petition to be adjudged cne owner, as trustee for the Missouri, Kan sas ans Texas Railroad company, or vast and valuable tracts of coal ana lariiiihS lands in the Indian Territory.
 The courts opinion was handed oowh hx, Chief Justice Fuller. The question in volved in the Indian Territory land fraud case was the validity of the railroad coih- pany's grant of land in the Indian Ter Ter ritory over which many legal and poliu- cal battles have been fought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Denies Any Threats.

Wallace Idaho. February 25.-The state toeay closed its case against Steve Adams, on trial for the murder of Fred Taylor, saving for the last hours the weighty testimony of Bullxley Wells, for mer adjutalt general of Colorado who told of the confessions made to him while en route from Boise to Colorado in custody. General Wells denied that any threat was made or inducement offered to secure the confession. and stated that he was the only man who heard it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
1. C. WILL SPEND MILLIONS
 FOR BIG IMPROVEMENTS

by November next and the engines by October
 President Harrahan announced also that the Illinois Central will double track that part of it's system known as the Yazoo and Mississippi valley railroad, between here and Baton Rouge.
 He said that beginning next April the Illinois Central would have an immigrant steamship running to New Orleans, but said that he is not at liberty now to give the name of the steamship line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Pope's Communication.

Paris February 25.-A dispatch to the Eclare from Rome, published today, af- firms apparently on the authority of the Vatican that it is the intention of the Pope to send a communication to The Hague conference regarding the expul. sion from. France of Monsignor Montag- ninin, the secretary of the papal nuncia- ture at Paris. and the rupture of the concordat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Enioined From Ousting McCarren.

New York, February 25.--The state dem- ocratic committee was permanently en- joined today from busting State Senator Patrick McCarren of Brooklyn from mem- bership in that committee by decision given by Supreme Court Justice Kelly in Brooklyn. s
 The expulsion was proposed because of the alleged failure of Senator Me- Carren to giving local support to MT. Hearst, the democratic nominee for gov ernor at the last state election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Charged With Selling Lottery Tickets.

Savannah, February 25.-A. w. Mas terson, prominent local tobacconist, was arrested here today upon a charge of conspiracy, with others, to advertise the Honduras lottery and sell tickets. Masterson gave bond for his appear ance tomorrow for hearing before the United States commissioner, when he will announce whether he will fight removal to the jurisdiction of the fed eral court at Mobile, whither it is pro posed to transfer his case for indict- ment and trial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Steam Yacht In Distress.

Atlantic City, N. J., February 25.-The steam yacht Nada bound from Atlantic City for Key West, was reported in dis tress tonight about three miles east of the Avalon life saving station with a broken shaft. Captain Townsend of the Nada was brought ashore by the life saving crew to get 6 tug to tow the injured yacht into the inlet for repairs The crew and two passengers are still on board the yacht It was reported early in the evening that a large steamer was in distress, but 1t was later learned that it was the Nada.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Bandits Get $7000.

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 Fl Paso, Tex, February 25.-Bandits raided the hacienda of Jesus Uranga Salenza in the state of Durango, Mexico, Sunday night. After making prisoners of Salenza and his servants, the bandits robbed his safe of $7OO0 in gold and gath cred up many thousand dollars worth of je-elry and plate and stripping all they could not carry away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26

New Orleans, February 25-Announce- ment of many million dollars worth Of contemplated Improvements by the Illinois Central railroad was made here today by President J. T. Harrahan. He said that the road will immediately purchase 350o freight cars at a cost of $4,20O,OOO and in addition fifty locomotives.
 He did not say what the locomotives will cost. The cars are to be finished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
5000 Driven Into Snow.

New York, February 25.-Five thousand persons were driven into the snow cov- cred streets today by a fire which de- stroyed the New Irving mus hall in Broome street and spread to several big tenement houses at the rear, and either sid,. No lives were lost, however, and so far as can be learned no one was injured The loss on the music hall, and the dam age to the tenement houses is estimated at $l50,0O0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26

New York, February 25.-A formal re- quest that the coroner's jury bring in verdict that the New York Central railroad and it's vice president William J. Wilgus, were criminally negligent in connection with the wreck on the Harlem division of that road on February l6 in W hich more than score of lives were lost, was made today by Assistant Dis trict Attorney Smith. His request was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Bond Breaker Caught.

Lem Conway, white man. was caught here yesterday by deputies on papers of a bondmaker, who alleged that Conway had skipped out from Mobile, leaving him to pay the bond to the county. The prisoner will be carried back to Mobile today to face a serious charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Present and Future.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
 What shall we do with our ex-Pres- idents?'
 Huh" snorted an Ohio senator who had chanced to overhear. "1t keeps some of us busy to know what to do with them earlier in the game
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26

made his job less remnueratfVe year after year. The most it ever paid him was ST for twelve months, and last year it dwindled to nothing. Minda Brown the last indigent in the town, died year ago, and since her time not one new applicant for aid has appeared.
 Induced to Remain.
 The town did have one pauper. Mrs. Patrick Lister, who. though past eighty, chung to life at the county house year after year, and maintained the dignity of the poormaster's office Mrs. Lister passed away a few weeks ago, and with her death disappeared all trace of pauper- ism in Mount Hope. There was no longer any excuse for remaining in office. lack ing both authority and remuneration, so David Holley resigned last week. The town board voted him a salary of $20 a year, and MT. Holley consented to with draw his resignation.
 People who suffer most don't apply for aid; they're too proud" said the poor master "The little pauperism we have experienced has been among shiftless farmhands, and with a few soldiers widows"
 The knowledge that the poormaster was not ian easy mark" spread quickly and had its effect upon the hobo world. Formerly the passing tramp would lay up in Dtisville with a lame leg and get relief from the town authorities. Tramps now avoid the town, while a few miles down the railroad. outside Middletown, is Station No. SH2" a rendezvous of tramps, where any hobo Is welcome to occupy the kennel-like shelters impro- vised by passing members of the fra ternity and cook his coffee at the com mon camp fire. But on every hobo map there's a black mark around Mount Hope township and the box car traveller takes a through ticket past Otisville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
NEW YORK CENTRAL HELD
 CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT

made after Prof. Karl B. Lowell of Co., lumba university had testified that he made computations which convinced him that the accident was due to the great weight and too great speed of the wrecked train.
 He declared that the construction of the track was such that it was decidedly unsafe to send a train of the weight of the one wrecked, over it on such sehed- ule"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Colonel Montgomery Dies.

Jackson, Miss, February 25.-(Special.) Telephone from Madison announces the death of Col. L. F. Montgomery, aged a. and one of the wealthiest planters in this section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Their W. ay.

From the New York Sun.
 Stella-Men are inconsistent.
 Bella,-Yes, the same fellow who won't believe Central when she says the wire is busy expects his wife to believe he worked down at the office all night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Anti-rlppinq Bill Defeated.

Washington, February 25.-The anti tipping bill, applicable to the District of Columbia, was defeated in the House today without division.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Frank Hearne Dies.

Denver. February 25.-Frank J. Hearne, president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, died at 7:45 o'clock tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
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