The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-24
SENTENCE OF FORTY
 YEARS IN THE PEN
A Negro Is Given Penalty for
 Killing White Man
FROST AT TALLADEGA
Freeze Is Not Sufficient to Damage Cot ton BoIls But Tender Vegetables md Flowers Are Nipped
 Very Badly

l Talladega, October 22.-(Special.) )-Forty | years in the penitentiary was the pun 1 ishment meted out to Eugene Edwards, negro, who killed a white man named Dee Fulmer about six months since in this county. The jury dellberated about l F hours on the case. The defendant re- ceived the verdict stoically.
 The horse attached to the delivery wagon of Thornton & Co. became fright ended yesterday afternoon on the public square and ran into the hack of Hamp Taylor, breaking the leg of a fine horse pulling the hack, so that Taylors horse had to be killed. The driver of the de- livery wagon, John Colley. was fatally injured.
 A light frost fell at Talladega Sun day morning, but the freeze was not sufficient to do damage to cotton bols. Tender vegetables and flowers were killed, the mercury standing at 40 de- grees Farmers say that the light frost will benefit cotton by making the upper leaves drop and give a chance for the lower bols on bottom lands to ripen. If a killing frost is delayed to middle of November 1t will be worth s5O,0OO to this county.
 Brignol street Is to have gas piped to the doors of its citizens so says the light and water commission. Five years since Brignoi street was an uncultivated old field in the northern suburbs of the city. For some time past Brignoli street has fought to get gas for cooking purposes with the result that the commission will begin Monday to pipe the entire length of the street with a four-inch main. The street already has water, electricity and cement pavements.
 The city board of education held its regular meeting Friday evening and transacted much routine work. Present: President s. c. Oliver, pr. s. w. Welch, Dr. w. F. Slaughter and John c. Will Hams. Superintendent McNeil recom- mended a resolution that no child be ad- mitted to the first grade after Novem- Der ?, and no one shall be admitted after two weeks of the next term have elapsed, the term beginning in January. The res olution was adopted. MT. JohnNC. Will Hams voted no. Dr. Will Northen ad- dressed the second grade of the North side school on the subject of the care OI cIluuren $ teeth.
 A "conjure doctor" or a ''voodoo man" will be tried for murder on Monday, Oc- tober 24 in the city court of Talladega. Willis Garrett was murdered 15 miles west of Talladega less than a year since. Free man Swain and Elijah Morriss, both ne- groes, pleaded guilty to killing Willis Garrett, but claimed that they were "conjured' to commit the murder by John Moore, the "cunjah man." The motive for the killing was the jealousy of John Moore, who claimed that Willis Garrett was intimate with Moores wife. The solicitor has the "conjure bag in his possession to be used on the trial. It Is small red flannel scrap rolled in the shape of ball and contains few dried herbs. frogs leg and a few hairs. This harmless looking object has already caused the death of one man, sent two others to the pen for life and is menac- ing the life of>another.
 The newly organized Taifadega police force is composed of John w. Thweatt, chief; Officers w. J. Austin, J. N. Nel- son, B. F. Bostick and John Norris; Phil lip Waters, street overseer. The men have new uniforms. The salaries are the same as last year, and the hours of duty remain the same. One of the first acts of the new chief was to suppress a hooche- cooche exhibition at the Hagenbeck-Wa lace show.