The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-27
DANGEROUS FIRE
 HELD IN CHECK
Firemen's Good Work Saves
 Many Buildings
PROHIBITION PETITION IN
Second Effort of Committee Succeeds In Getting New Petition, But 1t Is Not Filed and Counter Peti-
 ton Is Circulated

TallaGega. August 26.-t Specially Saturday morning at 9.30 very dan gerous fire originated in lrby's livery stable on the south side of Battle street Large quantities of hay and other inflammable material were stored in the building. which is built or brlek and wood and the fire seems to nave started in the hay. Leos restaurant joins the stable on the east and next to this is Chambers opera house, the lower story of which is occupied by the Mckenzie Brothers as a saloon, In very short time the whole block was enveloped in bright blaze, and it look ed as if it would be total loss. by remarkably fine work the fire depart ment checked the flames and conquered il with but slight loss The carpets wall paper and wooden partitions or the opera house were burned, glass on the pictures on the walls cracked but oth- erwise nothing else was destroyed. The horses were immediately turned out of the stable. running loose on the sutiare. and the large double doors or the stable fastened to prevent the anl- mals from going back into the build ing. After forty minutes fast work the department had the fire under coon trol. Irby's loss is estimated at about five hundred dollars. Damage to Leo s restaurant was mostly from water which one hundred dollars will cover The opera house was probably dam aged but two hundred and fifty dollars Much praise is given the fire company for the work. and subscription was circulated among admiring citizens To make up purse for the company.
 The petition number two, circulated by the prohibition executive committee was brought in and turned over 10 the committee taste Saturday afternoon by the persons who had been obtaining names The number signed to this petition asking for an election on pro- hibition was nine hundred and twenty five. more than one-fourth of the voters or the county For reasons which are not given the executive committee did not present the petition to the pro- bate judge Saturday afternoon. but 1t is said they will file it with him Mon day morning. A counter petition is being circulated, and signed. ask pg the committee to defer the election un- til after January l. 1908, on account of the fact that the city has ten thousand dollars of bonds failing due early in 1908.
 Rev. L. C. Branscomb preached to the combined congregations of the city at the Methodist church at noon on the last para graph of the Lords prayer, Thine is the Kingdom" The other ministers of the city are spending their vacation away from home.
 Jack Ritche o'ored. took too much booze on Saturday and went home at night feeling that he was much of a man. Something that his wife sad or did failed 10 please Jack, and brought on quarrel. During the altercation pistol was produced. and after"a while the woman got hold of the pistol and emptied it's contents into Jack. and he will die as the result of his wounds,
 A welcome rain on yesterday broke a drouth of one months duration. The gardens had practically parched and the cotton in portions of the country, especially on the uplands had suffered no little, producing blooms but failing to fruit. There is a foG this morning. and the mercury is al 70 for the first time since June.