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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-18

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-18

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-18

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-18

WHY IS DIR. MANSF'TELD'S painlessJ treatment of corns so successf11I q Try him and see why. POI Meigs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
FOR TEN CENTS.
Negro Woman Is Put In jail on East
Birmingham Complaint.

To be Jailed for the sake of 10 cents
was the fate of a negro woman named
Ethel Carruthers yesterday. The woman
is confined in the county jail on a. charge
of false pretenses and had not been able
to make bond last night.
Ethel, it seems, has been doing the
washing of a lady residing near East
Birmingham and about a week ago. hav-
ing taken the clothes of the white woman
to her house, Ethel went to a nearby
store where the white woman traded
and purchased on credit cents worth
of soap and cents worth of washing
powders with which to wash the clothes
It seems that the white woman was
sent bill for the 10 cents worth of soap
and washing powders, which she declined
to pay. The storekeeper, white wom-
an, upon informing the other white wom-
an that her washwoman had had the
soap charged was, in turn, informed that
the negro woman was not authorized to
have anything charged to her and Ethel S
troubles began Immediately.
Justice of the Peace w. s. Russell was
resorted to for relief and Ethers ar
rest followed, the negro woman being
committed to the county jail on nit
timus, charging false pretenses, sworn
out before Justice Russell.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
HINSoN CASE AGAIN.
Joe Ferrari Seeks Damages for Death
of Convict at Mines.

Joe Ferrari, administrator of the es-
tate of Joe Hinson, filed suit for $4,000
damages in the city court yesterday
against the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company, claiming damages for
the death of Hinson, a convict, who was
recently killed in the mines at Pratt
City.
The complainant AYERS In his petition
that the death of Hinson was caused by
the negligence of the defendant company
in leaving exposed a live wire with which,
it is averred, the deceased came in con-
tact, resulting in his death from electro
cution.
Hinsons death, 1t will be recalled, was
the source of the development of some
what interesting charges a short time ago.
1t was charged that the coal company
removed Hinson's body from the mines
and buried the remains without notify
ing the coroner of the death. An investi-
CATION of the convict's death was started
but was dropped. Hinson was sent up
for Is years for the murder of Charles
Bassford, his roommate, at East Lake
last summer.
other suits were filed yesterday as fol-
lows:
Claude D. Ritter VS.. Birmingham Rail-
way, Light and Power company, $4,000
for alleged injuries; Carl McLendon VS..
Southern Railway company, $4,000 for
alleged wrongful arrest and Imprisonment
of the plaintiff oR the charge of burglary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
Antieipating Fall Operations

Railroad earnings in July were only
8 per cent behind earnings in the cor
responding period of 1907, when gen.
eral trade was booming. Idle cars are
decreasing steadily, and as the wheat
harvest progresses and the corn crop
becomes more and more promising the
railroads are placing orders for equip
ment, rails and structural material.
Every indication points to active oper-
Ations to follow the present mid
summer dullness.
There is not a discordant note in
the reports from the crops in the grain
belt, or from the iron and steel mar
kets Advances in prices prevail in
the latter. The wheat harvest is turn
ing out better than was expected, and
the outlook for corn and oats Is ex-
cellent. Tariff uncertainties, too, will
soon be eliminated.
The course of prices in the stock
exchanges Is upward, so much so that
At is thought to foreshadow a period
of prosperity equal to that which pre-
ceeded the panic. The gross earn
tngs of railroads are increasing, and
THE tonnage output of the Steel cor
poration next year promises to con
stttute a new record.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
Greater BIRMINGHAM

Greater Birmingham is not local
matter. 1t is a matter of state pride
and state prosperity. The industrial
world knows there is a Birmingham
district in which iron and steel and
coal and coke are largely produced,
and if they were to read in the GEN.
sus tables that the central city of a
district so richly endowed by nature
contained less than 100000 people
they would be surprised, and they
would naturally begin to think that the
mineral resources of Alabama had
been exaggerated. The man In the
distance knows nothing about the 10
Municipalities clustered about Bir-
mingham. He has heard of the Biz
mingham district and its resources.
It rests with the legislature to say
whether or not this district shall have
a central city of representative popu-
lation and the Greater Birmingham bill
with Ensley and Thomas omitted Is
now scheduled to pass. So much for
the district side of the case.
There is, however, a state side of
it. Nashville and Memphis have been
enlarged until it Is known that the
former will have over 100000 popu-
lation and the latter over $4,000 in
the census tables. Atlanta has even
crossed a county line to get territory
to make a city that will exceed next
year 100000. These three cities
Nashville, Memphis and Atlanta-lie
close to Alabama, and all are seek
ing trade in this state. AS a state
Alabama cannot well afford to do with
out city of like size, city exceed
ing 100000. The one opportunity to
secure such city is before the legis-
lature. Mobile and Montgomery will
grow into the 100000 class, but they
will not do so until after 1910.
The one chance that Alabama has
consists in the creation of a Greater
Birmingham, and state pride and dis
trict pride both combine to call for
the passage of the bill now pending
before the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
Ratifying the Income Amendment

Alabama Is the first state in a roll
call in Congress, and it is wholly
proper that she should lead off in the
ratification of the Sixteenth amend
ment, and this is what she will do.
This is fit and wholly democratic ac-
cording to the latest national plat
form of the dominant party.
Two other legislatures are in ses-
sion, and both are hesitating. Geor-
gia has a great deal of crank politics
to the acre, and she is said to be
hesitating because she wants to lay
an income tax of her own. But when
the question is laid before the voters
of our sister state they will almost
to a man refuse to join the capital
istic boss-ruled states in an effort to
defeat a democratic measure. Con-
necticut's legislature hesitates because
it is both boss and magnate-ruled. That
legislature thoroughly exposes repub-
lican insincerity in this matter. The
republicans in Congress passed the
resolution to avoid the enactment Of
an income tax on the spot.
Senator Brown of Nebraska says the
parties are going to fall over each
other in their haste to ratify the prop
osition Others think ratification will
be delayed even If it be accomplished
In the long run, so that the laying
of an income tax is a matter far in
the future. At any rate Alabama has
done her part She leads the way
and she can fall back with a sense of
duty done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
A Senatorial bareback

The range senators found a joker
In the conference report accepted by
the House, and their anger was I'M
bounded New England had attempt
ed to get free hides without making
any valuable concession In the prices
tpf shoes or harness. AS it read the
duty on shoes was to be reduced to
40 per cent provided those shoes were
made from free hide leather. and the
duty on harness was reduced to 20
her cent when harness was made on
. similar basis. This sort of Juggling
created a bareback among the insur-
gents and the aid of a White House
luncheon was needed in order to pac-
lfy the range senators.
Il is agreed that vote on the con-
ference report is to be taken today
in the Senate at 2 o'clock, and i'm
mediately after it's acceptance con-
current resolution is to be pushed
through authorizing the engrossfng and
enrolling clerks to correct the hide
and leather paragraphs so that all i'm
ported shoes will be taxed 10 per cent
and all imported harness 20 per cent
New England wanted more margin
than this in exploiting the consumer
hut It looks now as IL it will have
to accept the rates named. We I'M
port about $4,000, 900 worth of hides
IN a year, and turn out about $705,
100000 of leather and it's finished
products.
The entire matter was a piece OF
Oolitical tugglery. swaxsd this way and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
Real Estate Transfers.

Deeds of conveyance In the following
transactions In real estate in which
amounts of $1,000 or more were involved
were filed yesterday in the office of the
probate court:
s75OO-Sarah c. Dangerfield and husband
to Mile P. Lurie, the south 80 feet of lot
5, in block S4S, Elyton Land company s
survey of Birmingham.
s20OO-John Mclean and wife to Edwin
Shaw, part of the northwest quarter of
section %, township IT. range west be-
ing lots and in Kings Avondale
extension.
$24O0-John Mclean and wife to j. u.
Cox. part Of the southwest quarter of the
northwest quarter of the northeast quar-
ter of section 20. township II, range z
west.
$3O00-John Mclean and wife to Mrs.
Jessie M. Braune, lots 10 to 10, inclusive,
in block 3, McCary & Vann's addition to
Avondale.
$3O00-Willam A Brown to Title Guar
anty Loan and Trust company, lot 5, in
block 62, survey of North Smithfield.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
PEOPLE INDIGNANT
OYER FAKE STORY

Ethel Miss, August 4-Much indigna-
ton exists here today as result of the
dispatch from Cincinnati relating the
story of Rev. Frank B. English, who
claims that he was threatened with mob
violence and driven out of Ethel without
anything to eat. The leading citizens of
Ethel admit that Mr.. English was told to
leave town, but say that this was not
done until he was seen placing his arm
around negroes and committing other acts
which they believed were calculated to ex-
cite the blacks and stir up race strife.
They say that no mob was formed and
that II the minister had not left when
told, all they would have done would have
been to place him on the first train which
arrived and sent him away. They say
no one was threatened. but that Mr..
English became very frightened when ap-
preached by several of them and told that
it would be best for him to leave.
Another dispatch from Holly Springs
states that Mr.. English told the faculty
at Rust university that he would not ac-
cept the presidency of the institution be-
cause the Freedmen's Aid society, which
acts as its supervisor, would not fur
nish experienced teachers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Over 100000 Population.

while l regret that Ensley and Thomas
are to be left out of Greater Birming-
ham, never counted on Ensley being
included" said member of the Chamber
of Commerce. quite a number of my
friends In Ensley were in favor of the
city becoming a part of the metropoli-
tan city, but since a majority seemed OPP
posed to being annexed to u.s. it was well
enough not to press the question. A cam
paign of education will be sure TO result
In a majority of the citizens of Ensley
advocating annexation. Before 1890 Ems
ley will be knocking at our door; and by
that year Bessemer will probably be a
part of Birmingham.
THE amended King Bill that now seems
scheduled to pass is, l understand, the
same bill that did pass the last time
the legislature was in session. but became
null because of clerical carelessness in
the senate; that is to stay the same bill
with the exception of East Birmingham
and Avondale, each of which voted itself
in after the act was found to be void.
Avondale is now the Tenth ward of Biz
mingham and East Birmingham now
palities that will be annexed by the bill
as it stands amended are: East Lake,
Woodlawn, North Birmingham, North
Haven, Graymont. Elyton West End,
Fairview and Pratt City. When the school
census of Birmingham was last taken it
embraced Avondale and East Birmingham
and indicated population of 72.00o Call
ing it 10000 to be conservative, let us add
the estimated population of our neighbors
about TO be merged and We will be justi-
fed in believing that the census will give
Birmingham between 10000 and 10000.
When Mr.. King drew his originalAbill
1t provided for referendum. His pres
ent bill has nothing of the sort and with
its passage and the governors sigma
ture 1t will be practically an accom-
plished fact"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
Anti-CannOnlteS To Be Disciplined

Either today or tomorrow Speaker
Cannon will proceed to administer
punishment to all whom he dislikes
either personally or for party rea-
sons, for he proposes to announce the
House committees before the special
session is ended. Let no one think
that the insurgents will not be duly
punished. The man who refused to
name as conferees members of the
ways and means committee In accord
ance with custom In order to give
Fordney and Calderhead, advanced
standpatters, places will not hesitate
at anything. He has acquired a dis
like for Mr.. Fowler, who has a finance
bill of his own, and 1t is said he is
to be deprived of the Craftsmanship of
the banking and currency committee
And so on to the end of the list.
Uncle Joe" will, no doubt, get
even" with his opponents. He knows
full well that this Is his last oppor-
tunity. His increasing age and the
probability that the House of the
Sixty-second Congress will be demo-
cratic warn him that this will be his
last opportunity to hand out desirable
places to friends and to deprive his
enemies of them. He stands, too, the
bold representative of several special
promise of czar-like rule in the forth.
coming committees that has never
been exceeded In body governed by
despotic rules.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
VIRGINIA STIRRED
BY WARM POLITICS

Richmond. August 4.-W1th an address
in his homo city of Lexington by Harry
st. George Tucker. and with Judge Will
liam Hodges Mann speaking to the voters
of Hampton, the campaign for the demo-
cratic nomination for governor of Vir-
ginia was brought to close tonight
On the eve OF the primary both Mann
and Tucker leaders making confident
claims, each protesting to have the state
won by from $4,000 to $1,000, but there Is
a strong current of doubt and uncertainty
as to what the result of the voting
will be.
Following bitter charges by each can
didate interest has been brought to a
high pitch, and tonight the state Is in
more or less Of political turmoil
Candidates for commissioner Of agricul-
ture, lieutenant governor and attorney
general are to be nominated tomorrow,
but these minor contests are overshad-
owed by the fight for the governorship,
which has developed into one of the Bit
terest in the history Of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
LITTLE GIRL RUN
DOWN BY MACHINE

A. Ambra and Paul Stevenson, both
young men, were placed under arrest
yesterday afternoon for running down a
little girl and for running an automobile
without license.
The accident happened at Avenue G and
Twentieth street shortly before o'clock
In the car at the time with the young
men were two young ladies. The little
girl apparently was not hurt very much,
being able to arise and walk off after the
accident.
The young men stated that the car be-
longed to Mr.. Echols. They will be given
a hearing before Judge Feagin today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05

that way by the meat trust, the tan
ming trust and shoe machinery mon
opoly. There was small considera-
ton of the consumer at any stage, and
1t was simply the anger of the range
senators when they saw a new joker
that promises to give the consumer
any relief. He will, perhaps, get
cheaper shoes, but he will have to
pay more for clothing when the Al
drich-Cannon bill becomes law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
FARMERS UNION
AFTER GAMBLERS

Galveston, Tex, August AS
climax to a sensational debate during
today's session of the Farmers union
of Texas, meeting in annual convention,
during which cotton exchanges and
spectators were scored in vigorous
terms, President Neill announced to-
night that he would seek the arrest
of every cotton speculator in Texas to-
morrow. Further, Mr. Neill declared,
next winter he would head an organ
ICED lobby at Washington. where his
sole object would be to cause the en-
actment of legislation which would
cause the suspension of operations by
the New Orleans and New York cotton
exchanges.
"I am tomorrow" Mr.. Nefll an
nounced, going to offer a reward OF
5000 for the arrest and conviction of
every person found gambling in cotton
in the state of Texas" The campaign
against the cotton SPECTATOR, he de-
clared. would be followed up both by
him and the members of the union.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
BLUE LAWS ARE
FINALLY KILLED

Hartford, Conn. August 4.-Both
houses of the Legislature today passed
a bill repeating the so-called Blue
Laws" relating to Sunday observance
which forbade almost every form OF
recreation and secular activity. The
laws which have been seldom enforced.
are relics of enactments by the law
giving body of 1922.
The new Sunday bill is sh ort. 1t de-
fines Sunday and prohibits all sports
and secular activities except such as
are demanded by necessity and mercy,
and such as are for the general welfare
of the community"
The penalization provides for fines
and imprisonment for violation. Under
the words general welfare OF the
community Sunday baseball is prob
ably permitted and the advocates of the
bill admit that the courts must in
torpret the wording in several places.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05

tending the shoot and other were here
on business. Among those prominent
were; B. W. Williams of Bay, ". II.
Farley and ]. L. Dorsey of Guntersville,
who are interested in case before Judge
Grubb today; II. w. Sessions of Ozark, ].
D. Ragland and Paul Speake of Hunts
vile. who will also appear before Judge
Grubb; ". J. BoylSin of Gadsden, o. NJ.
Reynolds OF Admission, A. K. Brindley OF
Gadsden, J. L. Caldwell of Boaz, James
K. Powers of Florence, F. B. Bowie, DIR.
s. H. Welsh, J. T.. Edwards and G. F.
Coylin of Talladega, ]. w. Brown of syla-
cauga, z. f. Whitman and D. A. Morton
of Boaz.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
HIahtower Under Fire.

Jackson, Miss, August 4.-Lne
Prairie Local No. 1910 of the Farmers
union, located near Pelahatchie, Ran
kin county, Miss, has promulgated
charges against President Hightower
and demanding his resignation and ex-
pulsion from the order. The charges
allege that President Hightower accept
ed pay from the state as senator and
from the Farmers union as president
at the same time; that he used funds
Of the union in furthering the inter-
ests of the Farmers Union Cotton
company of Memphis, and other SIM
liar charges.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
UNDER WOOD WILL
DINE WITH TAFT

Washington, August 4-(special)-Rep-
representative Underwood of Alabama
has been invited by the President to dine
at the White House tomorrow night
with several other members who have
taken a prominent part In the framing of
the tariff BILL
Mr.. Underwood expects to leave for
home the following day. He has had the
hardest ten months of his congressional
career, beginning last December with
the hearings before the ways and means
committee, and deserves a good rest He
expects to spend the summer in Birming
ham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
PRIEST MUST FACE
CHARGE IN COURT

New Orleans, August AFTER remaining
several hours in a cell of the parish pris-
on here Rev. John J. Holtgreve, pastor
of the Catholic church at Plaquemine,
La, was taken back by officers tonight
to that town. There the grand jury OF
Ibervile parish today returned rs indct-
ments against the priest, charging him
with improper relations with small boys,
and four indictments alleging criminal
libel.
Upon the arrival of Deputy Sheriff w.
L. Erwin from Palquemine late today.
Father Holtgreve announced that he
would return with the officer without
protest. Two local detectives also ac-
companied the prisoner.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
Arkansas Railroad Scheme.

Little Rock, Ark, August 4-To con-
meet the zinc belt and coal fields of Ar
kansas is the purpose of a railroad
scheme, articles of interpretations for
which were filed here today. The road
is to be known as the st. Louis, Fort
Smith and Chicago and is capitalized at
$500, 900. Work of construction from Null
berry to Bergman, distance of 100 miles,
is to commence within the near future, it is
declared. An extension from Mulberry to
Fort Smith. a distance of 30 miles, and
later an extension north from Bergman
is proposed. Harold H. Tillman of st.
Louis, L. S. Powers, John A. Bunch,
Charles NJ. Greene and Leonidas Kirby
Harrison are named as directors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
His First Visit.

Paul Cowles, recently installed superin-
tendent of the southern division of the
Associated Press, with headquarters at
Atlanta, paid his first visit to Birming-
ham yesterday, but he will be frequent
visitor in the future. He is one of the
brightest and most highly esteemed news
paper men in the country, and while the
south is new to him he has the faculty
of adapting himself readily to new condi-
lions, and taking new points of view, and
will therefore soon be to all intent and
purposes a southerner.
Mr.. Cowles was born in Chicago, but
lived for many years in San Francisco.
why do you people call 1t the Frisco
road?" asked Mr.. Cowles last night
when reference was made to the we'll
known line running from here to the
west He feigned ignorance. and the Biz
mingham man with whom he was in con-
versation proceeded In very matter
of-fact way to enlighten him.
1.-The legal title of the road is ST. Louis
and San Francisco, and Frisco is simply
an abbreviation of Francisco" said the
local gentleman.
ST had heard the corruption in San
Francisco" remarked Mr.. Cowles, but
out there only hobos and bum actors
use It; but as it is used by good So
ciety in this part of the world I will not
be slow in adopting it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-05
OIL CITY Trottinq Races.

Oil City, August with more than
$4,000 In the pools Frank Green, who
took the first heat in the 2:1s pace
Tuesday and unfinished that day, de-
feated the favorite in the fifth and sixth
heats of that event today. Summarizes:
The 2:1S pace, unfinished from Tues
day-Frank Green won first, fifth and
sixth heats and race: Charmwood, sec
ond; Maggie C, third. Best time 2:131a.
The 2:21 trot, purse s4o0-Moline won
third fourth and fifth heats and race;
Wilful Parole, second; Joe Moore, third.
Best time, 2:16A.
The 2:22 trot, purse $400-Darena Dale
won in straight hearts; Sir Thomas Lip
ton, second; Peter Dorsey, third. Best
time, 2:40A (all heats.
The 2:14 pace, purse $400-Merry Widow
won in straight heats; veslen, second;
willie w, third. Best time. 2:12A.