The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-03
HUNTSVILLE GAS
 PROPERTY IS SOLD
PASSES INTO HANDS OF INDIANA SYNDICATE-NORMAL AGRICuL- TURAL COLLEGE CELEBRATES
 THIRTY-SEcoND ANNIVERSARY.

Huntsville, May 2.-(Special.)-Th prop erty and valuable franchises of the Hunts vile Gas company have been purchased by a syndicate of Indiana capitalists headed by D. F. Lane, and the new own CTS are already in possession. The prop erty of the company includes plant capable of supplying a city much larger than Huntsville with gas, and an exten- sive system of pipes extending through out the city, the property being worth about $100,000. The company has been in business here more than fifty years.
 It Is authoritatively stated that the purchasers of the property made the deal for the purpose of supplying natural gas to the people of Huntsville, and further than this no one in position to know will say anything. The presumption is that the new syndicate is allied with the New York-A1abama Oil company and that the product of the West Huntsville gas wells will be turned over to them for retailing to the consumers in the city Such deal this would release the oil company of the necessity of laying pipes throughout the city, an undertaking which was begun several weeks ago.
 The Memphis division of the Southern has made a freight relay station of Huntsville and the division has been divided into four relays. Engines and crews will be changed in this city in the future and two additional freight trains will be put on between Huntsville and Stevenson. It is understood that a large roundhouse will be erected here.
 Dispenser Overton of the Madison coun- ty dispensary reports that the sales from February 16, the day the institution opened, to the close of business on April April were nearly $11,000. A gradual in- crease is shown and 1t is believed that the sales of the first fiscal year will amount to $200, ,000.
 The trustees, faculty and students of the Agricultural college for Negroes at Normal celebrated the thirty-second anni- versary of the founding of the institution Tuesday The programme continued through the day and part of the night, and addresses were made by several gentlemen, including s. J. Mayhew, chair man of the board of trustees, and Hon. Ben P. Hunt, editor of the Mercury. The students of the college rendered a musical programme President William H. Coun- ell, the founder of the college, was un- able to take part in the exercises, being confined to his home by protracted ill- ness.
 The funeral of the late Charles P. Lane, editor of the Evening Tribune will be conducted tomorrow morning from the Church of the Nativity, Episcopal, by the Rev. Willoughby Claybrooke of Anniston. The pallbearers have been selected from among the newspaper and printing fra ternity of the city. Mrs Lane, widow of the dead editor, arrived this evening from Tuskegee, where she has been visiting her sick daughter. The Evening Tribune has been suspended until after the funeral.
 It is said Guy Yam, a clerk employed at Walkers soft drink establishment, has skipped out after robbing the cash drawer of the place of about $30. Walker states that Vann was left in charge of the es- tablishment last night At the time of opening the keys were found under the door and an investigation showed that everything of value had been taken out of the cash register and carried away.
 The Huntsville District Methodist con- ference met today at Bridgeport for a session that will continue until Saturday. The Rev. J. F. Sturdivant, presiding elder, is presiding at the conference. A large delegation of Methodsts went up from this city.