The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-10-01

candidates for senator in Dallas coun-
ty. His friends in Selma and Dallas
are going to work up a large crowd
to hear him on Friday night, October
8, and the cause of good roads will
be given quite an impetus.
Local and Personal.
Miss Ruth Haynes has gone to Bir-
mingham to make her home with her
sister Mrs. Enos R. Stewart.
C. K. Aver of Atlanta, spent yester-
day in Selma.
Miss Bessie Morrisette is the guest
of Miss Pauline WEIGH.
The city council at a short meeting
last night let the contract to Crock EFT
& Company of Birmingham, for the
erection of the North Selma sewer. The
bid of the successful company for The
work was 5000. Work will begin in
a short while. The sewer is to run in
the vicinity of the new Selma military
institute building and will prove great
ly beneficial to that part of the city.
Officer Has Fight.
Police Officer Todd counts himself
exceedingly fortunate today, in that he
is alive, and bodily unframed. For
last night, or early this morning he
encountered an experience, unpleasant
In its grewsome mystery, and which
came near to being fatal for him, when
a pistol shot fired, apparently, direct
ly at him by man not 20 feet away,
passed within a foot of his body and
buried itself deep in brick wall to
the other side.
AT about 8 o'clock this morning. the
vigilant officer, while patrolling his
beat, walk ed into the alley which runs
from Franklin street, just behind the
store of V. B. Atkins Sc Company. He
had barely stepped into the alley, when
from behind a freight car which lay
on the track in the alley, pistol
flashed, and bullet whizzed by.
Mr.. Todd turned to the spot from
which the flash shone. AS he did, he
was blinded for the instant by the
searchlight on the river steamboat,
but, recovering his sight, rushed to the
spot, to find his assailant disappear
ed.
Mr. Todd turned in the alarm immed-
lately, and. receiving reinforcements,
busted himself on an extended search
of the premises, to find no sign nor
trail of an intruder. The freight car,
from behind which the shot was fired,
was unbroken and to all appearances,
untouched.
That the shot was fired from a short
distance is shown by the depth to
the Atkins warehouse.
Mr.. Todd is somewhat puzzled over
the identity of the assailant, announc-
ing that he is aware of no conceivable
motive which might have prompted
such attack.
Pension Warrants Received.
Mr.. John G. Chisholm, chief clerk
of the probate officer, has received
from Auditor Brandon the quarterly
pension warrants which will be deliy-
cred to the old soldiers or their de-
pendants, as they are due. All to
whom warrants are due are asked to
call for their portion Immediately
Negroes Fined In Circuit Court
Two negro women, by the names of
Ella and Ostrich Burns, moth er and
daughter, were fined $40 and costs each
in the circuit court this morning, for
an assault on Mr.. Andrew stone, a
well known planter near Sardis.
Licenses Issued.
During the month of September there
has been issued from the office of pro-
bate Judge Fits, state and county IL
censes. for the conducting of various
businesses to the number of 49, Most
of these licenses were issued to cor
porations, or to amusement companies.
The amount derived from the licenses
was $154S, $516 of which goes to the
county and $1132 to the state.