The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-07
BIGGEST ELECTION
 TICKET IN YEARS
Davidson Faction In Mobile
 County Still In Field
PETITIONS FOR PARDONS
Aged Women Appear Before the Far. don Board Seeking Clemency for Convicted Men-BulIetins
 By Insurance Dept.

| Montgomery October 6.-(Special.)- With seven tickets to be recorded the ballot for the election of 1908 is being
 sent out now to probate judges by Cyrus i B. Brown, chief clerk to Secretary of
 State Frank s. Julian. There will be
 nine columns, one for each of the seven
 parties and two for proposed amendments
 to the constitution. A second ballot will
 be voted for the new county amend
 ment.
 At the last moment it was found that
 F.. C. Bromberg and W. T. Henderson,
 nominees of the Davidson faction for supreme court and elector had not come down and as a result the entire ticket will be sent out under the arm and hammer emblem. The main republican l ticket will go under the Vulcan em- blem Al of the others have emblems save the prohibitionists. However, this will not prevent the ticket being legally voted
 All the literature for the election, in- cludng instruction and return blanks, with lists of nominees, are being printed the copy having been turned over early Tuesday by Chief Clerk Brown, who is looking after the details. He will get out full information so that inspectors and managers will have no trouble to get at what is right and proper in the ballot casting It will be the largest ticket in many years, having in all something i 4a- tl,. 4f,aaf Pathetic Scene. Three women, two of them very old and the other claiming that her brother committed the murder for which her hus- band is now serving a life sentence, were the pathetic features of the Tuesday meeting of the pardon board. Mrs. Phil pot, 70 years of age, begged for the ho- erty of her son, Charles M. Philpot, who killed a man in Randolph county. Mrs. John White and the mother of John White pleaded for the liberty of John White, who has a life term for the kill ing of a policeman at Attalla.
 In an affidavit before the board Mrs. White swore that her brother said just about the time of the shooting of the ! and had to leave and did leave. She in sisted that her brother killed the man for whom her husband is held. The mother of John White, one of the most emaciated persons ever seen in the city, supported her daughter-in-law. | Mrs. Philpot came from Randolph coun- l ty by contributions of her neighbors 1 She missed her train and had to be helped 1 to spend the night. She is TO years old and her husband 80. They have no one to work for them, save the boy who is in the pen. The mother of White is 64.
 In'urance News. Deputy Insurance Commissioner A. c. Sexton, with the advice and approval Of Commissioner Frank N. Julian, has be- gun a movement that is taking rapidly with the people of the insurng business. It is a monthly bulletin containing re- port of the work of the department for the time covered. In his September re- port he shows number of matters that will be valuable to agents and others in- terested in insurance.
 It is shown that the following new com- panies were admitted: Security Insurance company, New Haven, insurance in force
 
 pany, ,Aix-La-Chappelle, Germany. insur- ance in force in United States S1S6,074655; l Union Insurance company, Philadelphia, insurance in force $S0, ,497,043 It is noted that Kalford Kreth of the Home of New York, is now in San Fran l cisco with address at 32 Sansome street; also that examinations by other states 1 have been reported on the North State i Fire the Ohio German Fire Insurance 1 company and the Missouri State Life; also | that the Great Western Life company of | Kansas City is on its feet and able to l pay it's claims.
 Noted Landscape Artist. | Frederick Law Olmsted, professor of l landscape architecture at Harvard, is in | the city to lay out the grounds of the | new Methodist Woman's college. He is 1 said to be the most eminent authority 1 of his art in the country. His father, with the same name, but now dead, gave i advice on the capitol grounds in 1888. The elder man made a trip through the south 1 before the war and wrote a trio of books on slavery that have recently been re- ] printed because of their historic value. l They are "Seaboard Slave States" | Through the Back Country" and Sad dle Bag Trip Through Texas" Forester Foster Here. J. n. roSter ol tue Aoie9tiy SerNlce dt | Washington, who has been assigned to | Alabama by Forester Pinchot, in response l to request by the Alabama forestry com | mission. He has been in consultation with l Game and Fish Commissioner John H, l Wallace, Jr., and will soon be able to | begin work of organizing the state ser i vice to the care of the trees and the I preservation of the undergrowth.
 Ordnance Report. ! Mai w. A. Thurston of the National
 Guard department, is busy making up
 report of the ordnance in the custody of
 the state. This report requires a great | deal of time and work.