The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-17
LABORERS ' STRANDED IN CITY More Than a Score Without
 Work In Chattanooga SEVERAL DAMAGE SUITS Isaiah Newsom Has Filed Suit Against Southern Railway for Damages to
 His Ferry and Boys Death
 Causes Suit.
SEVERAL DAMAGE SUITS

Chattanooga, January 16-(Special l. Twenty-three Italian laborers, who had been induced to come to Chattanooga. they allege. by promises of good wages and plenty of work, were stranded in the city Saturday. Two of them were women. There is but one member of the party able to speak English They were brought from New York through the ef- forts of labor agent, working in the in terest of a coal company The leader declares thea were promised good wages, place of abode. When the mines were reached they were not as had been paint ed to them. The agent pictured to them @ mine with four-foot vein, which would allow them to earn good wages They found an 1S-inch vein, and none of the men could work in vein of this size It was impossible for them to dig coal from this mine, and even if they had tried the whole band could not earn 40 cents day, according to the scale un- der which they were expected to work. q
 Clay Haney. aged IS, of East Chat tanooga, has been arrested on the charge of being connected with the assault on Principal John Shelton at the Avon dale school on Tuesday. Haney had been expelled from the Avondale school some time ago, and it is charged that he met the Paddock boy at the noon hour Tues day and loaned him the knife with which the cutting was done. The two princi- pals of the assault, Arthur Haddock and Sam Kelly, have disappeared. It is said they have gone to the home of a rela- tive of the Haddock boy at Cohutta, Ga
 General Grosvenor of Ohio is not can dldate for the vacancy on the Chicka- mauga park commission, but has indorsed Col. w. J. Colburn. It is also learned that Congressman Moon and Senator Frazier have indorsed Major Colburn, and that the Loyal Legion, of which he is a member, is supporting nim for the of flee.
 Several weeks ago Isaiah Newsom brought suit in the circuit court against the Southern Railway to recover dam ages because his property near Kelly's ferry had, as he alleged, been damaged by certain grading operations carried on by the defendants. Newsom runs ferry across the river at Kelly's ferry, and he asserted that when the railroad or it's contractors did the grading for it's new road they failed to put in a culvert. In consequence, the water backed up on hts land and finally broke through the fill, depositing several tons of earth and rock in his ferry landing.
 M fa nf A. Kitchen, who was killed two weeks ago by l. W. Mclean, at East Chatta- nooga, has brought suit against Mclean for $10,000 damages for the unlawful, will full killing of his son. An injunction has been issued restraining Mclean from in any way transferring or mortgaging of his property, or in any way cucumber ing it. It Is reported that Mclean had already placed a 5000 mortgage on his property, and the judge, in his nat, requires Mclean to show what if any. consideration he received in exchange for such mortgage or deeds.
 It is stated in this city that Randolph M. Rose, who came to this city from Atlanta, and went out of the whisky bus mess on the adoption of tho statewide law, has decided to embark in ths puai- ness again. It is said MT. Rose will op- crate one house in this city Ind enother in Jacksonville, Fla, and perhaps one In Cincinnati.
 Armed with the invitation of the Ten- nessee Bar association, the Chattanooga Bar assiciation and the Chattanooga chamber of commerce, c. T. Alexander. manager of the Hotel Patten, 1as gone to Washington to secure, if possible, the next convention of the American Bar os- sociation for Chattanooga.