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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
Freed Of Murder Charge.

Lynchburg, Va July 6.-Reports from
q country roadside duel Sunday after
noon in Nelson county, 30 miles from
Lynchburg, In which John McCallum
shot and Instantly killed L. A. Astrop, a
merchant of that county, reached here
this afternoon. McCallum is a farmer.
The men quarreled two weeks ago. and
Sunday, when Astrop saw McCallum in
the road he opened fire on him. Nc
Callum responded and killed Astrop. To-
day a jury trial resulted in McCalum' S
discharge upon the ground of self-de-
Tense.
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kidnaplna Case Settled.

Montgomery, July 6.-The cases grow
ing out of the alleged KIDNAPPING of the
Arnett child here last Saturday were
settled out of court today and P. w.
Arnett the christian drummer" and
his wife were dismissed from custody.
w. A. Muse and ]. N Pigg of Columbia,
Tenn, relatives of Mrs. Arnett, were
also discharged. Mrs. Arnett, by the
agreement, will keep the child, but there
will not be a reconciliation between the
coupl0.
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Iudoment In Damage Case,

San Francisco. July 6.-Final Judgment
for s10s0O damages against the San Fran
cisco Gas company for the wrecking Of
the fiat in which Fred Bradley lived, and
which Harry Orchard, self-confessed as
sassin, declared was blown up by a dyna-
mite bomb placed by him. was awarded
today to w. H. Linforth, owenr of the
building. by the supreme court.
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Honors' for Dead Actress.

Los Angeles, July 6.-According to let
tiers received here from Count Bozenta,
husband of the late Nine Modjeska, who
Is now on the way to Poland with the
body of his wife for interment In her
native country, public officials of Poland
desire to make the Modjeska funeral
state affair and to lay the body at rest
in some national building. The funeral
will be held in Cracow about July II.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
Marriage Licenses Issued.

The following marriage licenses were
issued yesterday from the Office of the
probate court:
Lewis Collier Watkins of Birmingham
to Miss Mile May Maxwell.
Charles Linn of Watson to Miss Martha
McCormock
Walter Shelton of Vanderbilt to Miss
Lettie Tidewell
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Trial Is Postponed.

ST. Louis, July 6-The trial of Thomas
Kane, charged with the murder of Fred
Noble. in tn corridor Of the criminal
court building here, was postponed today
until September 7.
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Mira. D. w. Nash,

Mrs. d. w. Nash. age SO. died IN Dem
yer, Col, Monday at $50 a. m. The body
vii reach Birmingham this week and
nterment will be held here. Mrs. Nash
caves Ave sisters residing in Birming-
ham: Mrs M. E. Hogan, Mrs. A. A.
Hogan, Mrs. T. M. Atkins, Mrs. r. d.
Holtam and Mrs. w. L. Sibley. A Pc
culiarly sad feature Of the death of Mrs.
Nash was that her husband died less than
ak weeks since.
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Mrs. W. w. johnson, aged 66 years. died
carly yesterday morning at the residence
of her son, F. D. Johnson, 1916 Thir-
tenth avenue, north. Funeral services
will be held this morning at 10 o'clock
with interment in the Woodlawn Come
terry. Mrs. Johnson is survived by three
sons, M. F.. T. D. and A. N. johnson.
The funeral services will be conducted
by the Rev. Ralmundo De OWES.
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NEGRO SHOOTS
AT MOTORMAN

Motorman " G. Clayton on Boyles car
No. 21S was shot at by a negro last night
and had a narrow escape from death.
The shooting happened at Eighth avenue
and Twenty fourth street, the car being
due in Birmingham at 1926 o'clock.
The negro was a passenger on the car
and wanted to get off at this corner.
Failing to catch the conductors eye at the
moment he reached up and pulled the
bellcord and going to the rear platform
proceeded to abuse the conductor, c. c.
Robinson. The negro compartment was
in the rear.
Conductor Robinson ran to the front of
the car. which had come to standstill.
and seizing the switch stick Jumped off
the front end OF the car and started to-
ward the rear end. He was about half
way the length of the car when Motor
man Clayton moved down on the step of
the car. Just as he did SO the negro, who
was standing by the rear step, fired and
darted around the car. The bullet pene-
trated the end of Claytons tie and then
passed through the coat just under the
left shoulder Had 1t passed half an inch
closer it would have touched his heart,
but luckily he escaped bodily injury.
After the negro shot Clayton dashed
to the other side of the car to~-take a
shot at ,the negro. who was just disap-
pearing around the Fain grocery store at
the corner. search failed to reveal him.
Clayton continued his run through the
night and didn't bother about reporting
the mater to the authorities.
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CITY ITEMS.

st. Mary's Laymen. The regular
semi monthly meeting of the st. Mary's
Laymens association will be held In
the Sunday school room of st. Mary's-
on TIL Highlands tonight. Members
are earnestly requested to be present
and to bring friend"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-07
THE WEATHER.

Washington, July 6-Forecast for We'd
nesday and Thursday for Alabama ana
Mississippi: Generally fair Wednesday
and Thursday; light southwest winds.
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Black Hand Leader Held.

Pittsburg. Pa. July 6-Orazio Runfola,
alleged Black Hand leader, was held by
the United States commissioner here to-
day in $1,000 bail. Runfola was arrested
with Pappino Galbo on June 10, charged
with conspiring with Salvatore Lima OF
Marion, Ohio, to commit an offense
against the United States by placing
threatening letter In the malls addressed
to Gull Amicon Of Columbus. Ohio.
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Local office United States weather bu-
reau, Birmingham, Ala. Weather report
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May buy Brewing PIant.-1t is un

May buy Brewing Plaintiff is un-
derstood that N. ]. Greil Of Montgom-
cry is about to acquire the plant of the
Schillinger Brewing company in Biz
mingham. Mr.. Greil holds an option on
the plant which 1t is said may be exer-
cised in the near future. The price In
volved is understood to be about 5000,
600
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Green Under taking Company.
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Sta gs ReIensed.-Will L. Stages, ar
rested some time ago on charge Of
numbering Sam Sparrows white man,
at Bessie mines, was released yester-
day on a hearing before Justice of the
Peace r. II. Matthews at Bessie De-
tails of the trial could not be obtained.
Stages, however, will have to stand
trial in the criminal court of Jefferson
county, having been bound over from
the inferior court. He Is now out on
bond in the sum of $500.
Collins Accepts New PositiOn.-Ed-
ward r. Collins, a well known and
popular young man formerly connected
with the office of the clerk Of the GRIM
fnal court, has accepted a position with
j. S. Reeves & Co. of Nashville. Mr..
Collins will serve in the capacity of
travelling salesman with a portion OF
Alabama as his territory. While en-
ployed at the courtho use Mr.. Collins
made host of friends who extend to
him their best wishes as he takes up
his new field of work.
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Assignment of Judges.-The follow
ing assignment of judges to the various
divisions of the city court Is an
nounced: Judge C. C. Nesmith, first
division; Judge Charles A. Sem, sec
ond division Judge Charles w. Fergu-
son, third division; Judge H. A. Sharpe,
equity division. Bailiffs have been ap-
pointed by the judges as follows: E. F.
Riddle, D. w. Houston, j. H. Hargrove.
J. F. Davis, S. F. Cunningham and J..
D. Payne.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

1t is of the utmost importance that a
bureau of mines be established In ac-
cordance with the pending bin to re-
duce the loss of life in mines and the
waste of mineral resources and to in
yestigate the methods ard substitutes
for prolonging the duration of our min
eral supplies. Both the need and the
public demand for such a bureau are
rapidly becoming more urgent. 1t
should cooperate with the states in
supplying data to serve as a basis for
state mine regulations. The establish
ment of this bureau will mean merely
the transfer from ether bureaus of
work which it is agreed should be
transferred and slightly enlarged and
reorganized for these purposes.
Conclusions.
The joint conference already men
toned adopted two resolutions to
which I call your special attention.
The first was intended to promote CO.
operation between the states and the
nation upon all of the great questions
here discussed 1t is as follows:
Resolved That joint committee be
appointed by the chairman. to consist Of
six members of state conservation COM
missions and three members of the ma
tional conservation commission. whose
duty 1t shall be to prepare and present to
the state and national commissions and
through them to the governors and the
president plan for united action by all
organizations concerned with the con-
servation of natural resources. ION mo-
ton of Governor Noel of Mississippi the
chairman and secretary of the conference
were added to and constituted a part of
this committee)
The second resolution of the joint
conference to which | refer calls upon
the congress to provide the means for
such cooperation. The principle of the
community of interest among all our
people in the great natural resources
runs through the report of the national
conservation commission and the pro-
ceedings of the joint conference. These
resources. which form the common ba-
sis of our welfare, can be wisely devel-
oped, rightly used and prudently con-
served only by the common action of
all the people. acting through their rep
| resentatives in state and nation: hence
the fundamental necessity for co-opera-
| ton. Without it we shall accomplish
but little. and that little badly. The
| resolution follows:
We also especially urge on the congress
| of the United States the high desirability
| of maintaining national commission or
| the conservation of the resources of the
| country. empowered to cooperate with
| state commissions to the end that every
! sovereign commonwealth and every sec
| ton of the country may attain the high
| degree of prosperity and the sureness OF
| perpetuity naturally arising in the abun
dant resources and the yigor. intelligence,
and patriotism of our people.
In this recommendation l most heart
lily concur, and l urge. that an appro
| priation of at least $4,000 be made te
cover the expenses of the national con
servation commission for necessary
rent. assistance and travelling expenses
This is very small sum. l know OF
no other way in which the appropria
! ton of so small a sum would result
in so large Il benefit to the whole ma
ton THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
| The White House. Jan. %. 1909.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
An Inventory of Coun-
try's Resources Given
by the Commission

In forwarding to the president the
report of the national conservation
commission Clifford Pinchot. chairman
Of the commission, says the entry of
the conservation movement into the
field of definite constructive work is
accomplished by the authorization of
joint committee on cooperation, to be
composed of six members of the state
conservation commissions. and three
members of the national conservation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
The Newest Hans and Nix

The Newest "Hans and Nix."- Those
funny fellows, Dixon and Bernard, III
their latest edition of the musical gay
ETY., Hans and Nix with its Indian
girls, plantation. dancers, Partisan
girls, golf girls, Dutch girls, bathers,
etc, is the attraction at the Illinois
tomorrow matinee and evening The
classification of this sldt has caused
the newspaper-critics throughout the
country much thought and, worry, in
asmuch as it borders. on light opera
tingles with farce comedy, and cley-
erly admits of many novel specialties.
In offering this production, the man
agement evidently intended to main
tain the. standard Of former perform
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
a Cure for Misery,

. 81 have found cure for the misery
malaria poison produces" says R. NJ.
James, of Louellen, S. c. It's called
Electric Bitters, and comes in so cent
bottles. It breaks up case of chills
or a bilious attack in almost no time !;
and it put yellow jaundice clear out of
commission. This great tonic med
icine and blood purifier gives quick re.
lief in all stomach. liver and kidney
complaints and the misery of lame
back. Sold under guarantee at all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

der" are featuring the bill being pre-
scented at the Family theater the lat
ter part of this week Clarence A.
Lutz, who uses his feet as well as his
hands, we'll deserves to be known as
an eighth wonder Among the feats
he performs are that of driving nails
in a board. saving, and chopping with
a Ratchet, playing trombone solo, and
making a number of difficult shots with
a rifle In addition to this great feat
ure, there are three other strong acts
on the bill. RO'Rourke and Marie, a
singing and dancing team, are present
ing unique act Center and Gilmore
are with us again with their high class
musical act. This team, as some of
the theatergoers will probably remem-
Der, appeared at the old Crystal thea
ter about three years ago. Rollie Peal,
Moline's blind violinist, also appears
on the bill this half of the week. He
was heartily applauded in every, mum.
Der last evening, and on some of them
he responded to encores. Mrs. Mae
Casey is singing Give Me an Ameri-
can Girl for the illustrated song this
half. The motion pictures are very
good. The titles are Dangerous Pets
from Bostock's Menagerie."
At the EIite.-The Elite Stock COM
pany is playing the celebrated play
THE Devil the latter half of the
week in a way that would make many
of the companies ON the road envious
The staging and selecting of charac-
tiers for 1.-The Devil is no mean task
and at first glances it would seem
an impossibility for stock company.
but the reception given The two per
formances yesterday was fiattering
The part of the devil was portrayed SO
well that his appearance was nearly
always greeted with applause and mis-
impish laugh after the completion OF
his underhand work brought down the
house. The rest of the characters are
well taken and the stage settings. es
pecially in the first and third acts
where the studio of the artist l.
shown, are beautiful Next week Tho
company will produce His Othe.
Wife" which will be a sequel to the
play which attracted so much atten
ton the beginning of this week, "Hel
Other Husband"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
this cause and from typhoid and other

this cause and from typhoid and other
prevalent and preventable diseases
would Increase our average length of
life over fifteen years.
IF we count the value of each life
lost at only $l.T00 and reckon the aver
age earning lost by illness as 500 per
year for grown men. we find that the
economic gain from mitigation of pre-
ventable disease in the United States
would exceed 10000, 600 a year. In
addition. we would decrease suffering
and increase happiness and content
ment among the people"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
plumbers Name Officers.

Peoria, H.. Jan. 22-The Illinois
Master Plumbers association closed a
two days session in this city yester-
day afternoon with the election of Off
GERS for the ensuing year The fol-
lowing were chosen: President. W. J.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
Waterloo Veteran 1909 Years old.

Quincy, H.. Jan. 22-Yesterday was
the 109th birthday, of Leonard Roeder,
a survivor of the battle of Waterloo.
The occasion was not celebrated be-
cause of illness in the family. Mr..
Roeder appears to be in as good health
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
"rhe Merry widow."-Next sund.

"fhe Merry WidoW.'-Next Sunday
night the wonder of the age, The
Merry Widow" will be heard at the
Illinois theater The fame of ""Tha
Merry Widow" at present the musical
sensation of the world. has preceded it
to this city. When Henry w Sayage's
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

Lang, Chicago; second vice president
George p. Poehner, Joliet; treasurer
w. ]. Schlegel, Bellevue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

everywhere talked about production of /
this Viennese operetta comes heres i'll
will receive peculiarly warm well
come, as there will be many in the
audience who have seen the piece both
in New York and Chicago and have
been singing its praises continually.
Never in the history of the American
stage has musical piece been pre-
coded by such enthusiastic approval
as that which has marked the advent
of 'eThe Merry Widow" In London,
Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg,
Munich, Dresden, 'Leipsig; indeed ev-
erywhere it has been produced, the
piece swept all else before it and the
wonderful waltz which takes its
name from the title of the piece has
set all the world to dancing. whist
ling and singing. Franz Lehar, who
composed the score, is probably the
most popular living musician III
Europe, and Victor Leon and Lee
Stein, who wrote the splendid book,
have made q place for themselves as
llibrettists which may not be dis
puted. The scenic investiture which
Mr.. Savage has provided is of won
drous beauty Three acts show the
brilliant Marsovian embassy in Paris:
| the glorious fete, in Sonia's garden;
and the gayety and riot at Maxim's
restaurant, the atmosphere of which is
| produced with clever fidelity without
shocking the most puritanical sensi-
bilities.
Death Defyns Auto Act.-Next Mon
| day night, the BLACK. Crook. Jr.," will
| appear at the Illinois theater present
| ing one of the liveliest entertain
ments of it's kind on the road. OF the
half dozen specialties, the feature act
| is that of Zenda in his death-defying
automobile act, quite the most daring
| thing ever attempted on any stage
"Paid in FUil."-"Paid in FULL
new play of contemporary American
life. by Eugene Walter. will be played
at the Illinois theater this evening by
la company of exceptional merit With
the sixth commandment as it's moral
theme, the play is said to get very
close to life. 1t is written in the every
day speech of the average American
and Is said to be both daring and
deeply impressive.
At the Famly.-The Lutz> brothers,
tone of which is Familiarity known in
Theatrical circles as the "arimless won.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
AMUSEM ENTS
The Illinois.

The Illinois.
(sixteenth Street and Second Avenue
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Jan. 22-"Pnid In FulI.'
Jan. 23-"Hans and Nix,' matlnee.
Jan. 24-'"The Merry Widow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

ancss, and from all accounts they have
succeeded in their endeavors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
The Elite.

(H1ghteenth Street. North Of Second
Avenue.)
Cooper Stock company, In two per-
fOrmnnces daily, matinee mt 2,3O and
evening Mt S:15.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

as he was a year ago. and, although
blind, requires but little attention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

Jan. 25-Black Crook, Jr., burIesque.
Jan. 31-"Miss Petticoats,' matinee
and night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
PR0CLAlMS NEED OF
CONSERVING RESOURCES

CONTINUED from Page seven.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
The Family.

(1econA Avenue. East OF Nineteenth
Street)
Vaudeville at 8, 8, and 9:15 p. m. Ono
matinee Sundays and holidays.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

At the Famiiy.-The Lutz- brothers,
one, of which is Familiarity known in
Theatrical circles as the "armless won
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
HYHAWKER .JOTS

w. E. Blackburn of the Anthony
| Republican favors the plan of adopt
| ing ''code of ethics for the State
| Editorial association The code Mr.
Blackburn suggests contains only five
| words: Keep Faith With the Sub
! Scribers.'
| The newspaper busineS must be in
pretty bad shape in Mitchell and Cloud
| counties, if, as Robert Good Of the
Cawker Ledger says. his little son,
Robert, is making more profit selling
popcorn on the streets than his father
is running two newspapers.-Osborn
| Farmer.
The current issue of the Technical
World Magazine devotes many pages
| of ornate write-up of the sugar beet
| industry in Finney county. The OF
tawa Herald thinks that Finney coun-
ty will trade the whole article even for
two lines of positive assurance that the
tariff on sugar will stand pat.
The Emporia Gazette was beaten in
its telephone fight by vote of to l..
"This is one Of the penalties says the
Kansas City Star keeping in mind,
probably, a few of its own experiences,
less newspaper. The better the pa
per the more certain such things are
to happen to it.
"a newspaper man was with us the
other day." says the Liberal News ed
itor. HE recently sold out his plant
ing to teach him that running a paper
was a snap and he concluded to turn
the snap over to some other fellow.
He had most of the ginger taken from
him trying to make the snap keep up
appearances"
"FYour guess would probably be that
the greatest effort is directed to-
ward making money. If it is you are
MT a good guesser," says the Manhat-
tan Mercury. 1.-THE greatest effort is
directed toward having a Good Time.
How else will you account for the fact
that a man will fight good roads as a
and wheat to market through mud
foot deep and then turn around and
argue that from any sensible point of
view good roads are an Absolute Ne
cessity after he becomes the owner of
a motor carr"
Roy Ishmael noticed a large bird
perched upon limb, and he proceed
ed to take a shot at Mr.. Bird. Here's
where the fun started. His aim was
a little wild, and just crippled the bird
slightly. Said birds temper arose very
suddenly and showed fight. Roy be-
ing too proud and too much of a gen.
tleman to do the coward1y act of tax
ing advantage of his opponent by
again shooting, dropped his gun, and
after a few words they decided to
fight It out barehanded. Round and
round they went with feathers. blows
and big words filling the air, and af-
ter the smoke of battle had cleared
away and the bird had said huff
Roy brought the bird to town, and
now has in captivity a nice young bald
eagle which measures six feet and six
inches from tip to tip.-Kiowa Jour
nal.