The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-17
ANNISTON GETS
 NEW INDUSTRY Interstate Roofing Company
 Opens Establishment SUNDAY DRUNKS FINED .IIIdnA Grean nocIarac He MiII
Judge Green Declares He Will Increase Charges $1 Each Sunday Until
 the $1oo Mark Is Reached.
 Negro Confesses Theft.

Anniston, August 6.-(SpeciaI. )-As the result of an industrial deal which was consummated yesterday, Anniston will have another plant in operatio to help swell the tide of prosperity here. The deal was the purchase by the In terstate Roofing company of this city of the White Monroe Boiler and Foun- dry plant, which the roofing company will gradually enlarge for the manu- facture of specialties in its own line.
 The building activity which has been so noticeable on South Noble street for the past month was given addi- tion impetus this morning when dirt was broken for the three-s story Kap- Ian business house, which will fill all the vacant space now to be seen on that block between Eighth and Ninth street. The building will be of red brick and when completed will pre- sent an imposing appearance.
 Sunday drunk assessments took an- other shot upward this morning in Judge Greens court. when Frank Beal was fined $23 50 for a fall off the water wagon. The drunk fines have been increased $1 for every Sunday offense since the present recorder went on the bench and he says they will con tinue to be increased until the maxi mum fine of $1o0 is reached or the Sunday drinking stopped.
 An amusing feature of the session of court today was the testimony of a negro that he had bought two bottles of liquor from Chattanooga last week. despite the fact that that city is supposed to be dry. J. M. Taylor, a white man. and Charlie Miller, a negro, were each fined s25 and costs for wife beating The latter created no little excite ment Sunday afternoon by giving Chief of Police Joe Dill lively Marath on ex- hibition down Leighton avenue, the chief residential section of the city.
 Having confessed to the theft of a valuable gold watch, a fob and a beau tiful brooch from the room of Miss Viola Welchel, who resides on South was sent to the county jail by Re- corder Green this morning in default of a $500 bond. The girl was admitted to Miss Welch els home under pre- tense of wanting to buy some old clothes, and she stole the valuables when her guardian left the room to answer a telephone call. The watch and fob were recovered and the negress arrested by Officer Hawkins, but the brooch is still missing.
 Following the arrest of Robert Wal ker and Jake Reid, two Jacksonville negroes, Sunday morning. Sheriff w. c. LeGrand took occasion this morning to state that he will in the future avail himself of all the powers conferred on him by the recent Legislation in the enforcement of the prohibition law in Calhoun county. The two negroes were charged with running a blind tiger at Jacksonville. Reid was locked up here in the county jail, but Walker made $200 bond.
 The parents of young James Cooper who was drowned in Blue pond. near Golden Springs, while bathing yester- day afternoon, came to the city from Talladega last night and removed the remains of the deceased to Rome for interment today. Young Cooper lived in this city, whence his parents re- gently removed, and he had many friends. His death was caused, 1t was learned today, by an attack of cramps. His muscles were perfectly rigid when the body was removed from the water.
 Representative W. H. Cooper. who fathered the bill which destroyed the auton omy of Hobson City, the exclu- sively negro town near here, has re- turned to the city and is receiving the congratulations of his constituents on the passage of the measure. It is un- derstood that the negroes have not given up their fight for self-government as yet. however. and they will employ counsel to fight the measure annexing Hobson City to Oxford.
 CONVENTION ADJCURNS.