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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
DLACKMON THINKS
HE WILL WIN EASILY
Says Republican Candidate
Will Be dead Easy"
SHAM BATTLE Is FOUGHT
Problems of Outpost Duty and Mock
Warfare Are Features of Cavalry
Encampment At Oxford Lake,
Near Admission

Admission, August S.-(Special.)-"H $
dead easy was the remark of State
Senator Fred L. Blackmon, democratic
nominee for Congress from the Fourth
district, this afternoon when informed
that the Fourth district convention of
the republicans at Calera had nominated
]. o. Middleton as his opponent in the
general election this fall.
The republicans could not have pleased
me better" he continued, "and you may
quote me as saying that I anticipate no
trouble whatever in carrying my district
for the democratic party in the coming
conflict lie was beat world without end
by Craig, and l think I can duplicate
that record
Mr.. Middleton is prominent attorney
of Clanton and has served in the Ala
bama lower house, and contrary to the
optimism of Senator Blackmon, the re-
pubiicans believe that he will make a
good race. Fred D. Noble, who acted
as secretary of the convention at Calera
this morning, returned to the city this
afternoon and he is almost as optimistic
as is Senator Blackmon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Dr. Roller Defeated

London, August 8.-A catch as -catch-
can wrestling match for $1,000 a side
was contested at a London music hall
today between the American wrestler
DR.. R. B. Roller and Cana, the cham
pion of India Game won the first fall
in one minute and 40 seconds. The In
dian champion took the second fall
also in nine minutes and nine seconds.
winning the match.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
FOLK INJURED In
AUTO ACCIDENT

Muscatine. Iowa. August s.-Former
Governor Joseph w. Folk of Missouri
was injured in an automobile SMASH UP
near Muscatine yesterday.
Mr. Folk and three companions were
hurled out of the machine and the for
mer governor suffered bruises Oh the
right arm and left leg. His right wrist
was sprained.
ed to turn over. The driver swung tie
automobile into ditch and 1t then ran
into a telegraph pole. The machine was
wrecked. Although suffering pain. Gov
ernor Folk addressed chautauqua as
sembly shortly after the mishap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09

Bluefields, w. Va, August S.-Two hun
bred miners and motornen are reported
on strike at the mines of the Clinchfleld
Coal corporation at Dante. Va. A new
scale is demanded. The company employs
about 1000 men, Strike agitators from
pennsylvania and Ohio are reported to-
be In the field.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
sailor Jumps To His Death

Saulte Ste Marie. Mich, August s.-Ri-
ley johnson, demented sailor, committed
suicide late last night by jumping from
375-foot tower of a wireless telephone
company while hundreds of spectators
we're powerless to prevent the tragedy.
Tho sailor threatened to jump on any po-
liceinan who attempted to follow him and
defied the officers to shoot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Ropd I..ue for Expo,itiou

New Orleans, August S.-Governor San
ders tonight issued a proclamation con-
voking the Louisiana general assembly
in extra session August Is to vote upon
the submission of an increased bond Is
sue to popular suffrage in support Of the
worlds Panama exposition, proposed to
be held at New Orleans in 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Congress- OF Deaf Mutes

Colorado Springs. Col. August S.-Five
hundred representatives OF the deaf mutes
Of Canada, Austria, Germany, China.
France, England and America gathered
here today for the first session Of the
National Association of the Deaf and the
third worlds Congress Of the Deaf.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
December and May Welded

Chicago, August S.-A romance of youth
and old age was disclosed yesterday with
the formal announcement that Rev Her.
rick Johnson, Is years DID, prof emeritus
of Mccormick Theological seminary of
Chicago and a former president of that
institution, is to wed Miss Margaret
Duncan, % years old, society woman of
Louisville. DR.. Johnson and Miss Duncan
met a year ago at Atlantic City.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Murder and Suicide

! Kansas City. August 8.-William Davis,
% years old, a wealthy farmer of Bray
uer, shot and killed his brother-in-law's
widow, Mrs. Matte Odell, In a rooming
house here today and then killed HIM
self. Davis shot Mrs Odell five times.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
BY BOILER EXPLOSION

Houston, Tex, August S.-A tele-
phone message from Conroe, Tex, says
that five persons were killed and two
fatally injured by the explosion of
boiler in a single mill at that place
this afternoon. The dead.
- Durham, owner of the mill.
Voss Rayburn.
Three negroes, names unknown.
A negro man and a negro woman
were fatally injured
The boiler was blown through the
house occupied by the negroes resi-
dence in the death and inquiry of all
within.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
JAS. H. FINDER

Fills occulists' prescriptions for eye
glasses right He puts finish on
his eyeglasses that many opticians
md II difncult to eQuaEthe touch Of
the artist sos n Ninstssnth street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Woman Dies From burns

Columbus, O., August S.-Mrs. Lydia
Nothnagle 81, widow Of ]. H. Moth
nagie, for years head of the music de-
partment of the Ohio School for the
Blind, died tonight at Grant hospital,
from burns received eeday in a fire
which destroyed a part of the home of
her son-in-law, p. w. Huntington, pres
ident of the Huntington National bank.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Reds and Browns Fight

Problems in output duty and a sham
battle on the camp grounds were the fea-
lures of the seventh day of Camp Nc
Kleroy, First squadron of the cavalry
division of the Alabama National Guard,
encamped at Oxford lake, near this city.
Capt. G. H. Mandy of Troop D, Biz
mingham, was in command of the Red
army, which consisted of one troop, his
object being to delay the passage of the
Brown army, under command of Capt.
W. F. Lee Troop A, Montgomery, who
had three troops, the Red army acting
as a rear guard to an imaginary regl-
ment that was building a bridge at
Boiling Springs.
Assisted by Lieutenants Bowling, quar-
termaster; Hamilton and Parrish. adju-
tants, Captain Mandy took his position
at the crossing of the Southern railway
in a secluded spot and began to fire
when the Browns came in sight. The
fire was returned and it was estimated
that the Reds lost 10 per cent of their
men, but they were successful In de-
laying the Browns for three hours, and
after accomplishing their purpose, they
fled to their regiment.
Following these maneuvers a sham bat
tie was held for the benefit of visitors
in camp. The Red army was stationed
on hill near the home of R. L. Rand.
president of the Park company, while
Troops A. and c were given command
to dismount and skirmish in their ad-
vance. 1t was pronounced that the de-
Tense was successful, Major Noble and
Captain jackson of Montgomery acting
as judges.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Woman Made strange Threat

UNLESS you put my little girl in jail
with me I'll cut my throat from ear to
ear were the words embodying an
unique threat made by Mrs. Ella Brown,
a white woman, wanted in connection
with a horse-theft In Georgia, when she
was locked up in the county jail by
Sheriff w c. LeGrand on a charge of
adultery this morning.
The woman could hardly have made
good her threat as there are no instru-
ments in the cells with which she could
cut her throat, but her exemplification
of mother-love touched the sheriff and
recognizing that it would be unlawful
for him to comply with her request, he
began to exert all legal meanE at his
command to aid her in her efforts to
make bond, which were finally success
full
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
CROWN Prince Honored

Koenigsburg, Prussia, August s.-Crown
Prince Frederick William was again to-
day chosen rector magnificentissima of
the University of Koenigsburg.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
Report of Haw'9y and Post
In Missing America II.
fUNTER SAW A BALLOON.
Word Comes From Canadian Wilds
That Cheers Anxious Friends Of
New York Aeronauts In Inter
national Race.

Ottawa, Ont, Oct. 25.-The search
for the missing balloon America H.,
which sailed from St Louis a week
ago last Monday and of which little
trace has been heard since, has become
international. Instructions have been
sent to all engineers and chiefs Of
staff on the Transcontinental railway
to be on the lookout for the missing
aeronauts.
late Cobalt special says that a
hunter named Charles Treadway, who,
while tracking a moose, at dawn on
Wednesday morning saw balloon
pass over him at the mouth of the
Kippewa river near Lake Temiskang,
In northern Quebec.
AS this point is thirty miles distant
from the point where the Helvetia
landed, 1t is considered probable that
Ii is the lost balloon. America II.
"I was on the trail of moose Just
before dawn on Wednesday," said
Treadway, land the moon was still
bright and clear had come out on
tbare, rocky river to get my line to fol-
low the moose when | saw a balloon
above me. If l had not wanted to
avoid soaring the moose, which knew
was near, l would have shouted to it,
1t hung above me white as satin. l
saw the basket quite plainly and shad-
ows hanging out of it as if trying to
locate their position, and it would have
been easy to hail them.
/ 81 should say the balloon was trav-
cling somewhere about forty miles an
hour. Making the direction ii did. the
/ balloon would go into the unsettled
country in northern Quebec and, know
ing the bush as l do, l would not like
those fellows chances of getting out"
| A special from Quebec city says that
a report has reached there that the
America II. had landed in the wilds of
! Quebec and that Alan Hawley and
| Augustus Post, the aeronauts, are on
their way to that city by boat.
| The balloon America H. passed over
| Thompsonvilie, Mich, Tuesday. Oct.
| IS, according to a message received by
| the Aero club of st. Louis.
| The message was signed by Alan r.
Hawley and Augustus Post, pilot and
| aid. 1t read:
/ "ThOmpsonville, Mich.-America II.
! passed over this place Tuesday. Course
| due north"
The delayed message was dropped TO
a farmer eight miles from Thompson
vile and was forwarded by E. B.
! NOrthrop Of Thompsonville.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
Number Two.
RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, so as to
eliminate the requirement of pay
ment of taxes as qualification OF
the right to vote.
Resolved (if the House of Repre-
sentatives concur), That the follow
ing amendment to the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
mia be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eigh-
teenth article thereof:
That section one of article eight be
amended, by striking out the fourth
numbered paragraph thereof, so that
the said section shall read as fol-
lows:
Section 1. Every male citizen
twenty-one years OF age, possessing
the following qualifications, shall be
entitled to vote at all elections, sub
ject however to such laws requiring
and regulating the registration oil
electors as the General Assembly may
enact.
First. He shall have been citizen
of the United States at least one
month!
Second. He shall have resided in
the State one year Cor if, having pre-
viously been a qualified elector Oh
native-born citizen of the State, he
shall have removed therefrom and
returned, then six months), immedi.
ately preceding the election.
Third. He shall have resided in the
election district where he shall offer
to vote at least two months immedi.
ately preceding the election.
A true copy of Resolution No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
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nveymen Of the city Of
Guild
ue As the lord
guidha
with fanfare Of rumpes
chapains following
adjoining church
Divine blessing their proceedings
uda where the shef high officers took their
chair
with the recorder
Thomas
walked the aermns court where the
left hand of
with cordial
formally himself the
shrievalty.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
A JOINT RESOLUTION


Proposing an amendment to section
eight, article nine, of the Consti-
tuition of Pennsylvania.
Section /. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
mia in General Assembly met, That
the following is proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof
Amendment to Article Nine. Sec
tion Eight.
Section 2. Amend section eight
article nine, of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol-
lows:-
Section s. The debt of any coun-
ty, city, borough, township, school
district, or other municipality or in
corporated district, except as herein
provided, shall never exceed seven
per centum upon the assessed value
of the taxable property therein, nor
shall any such municipality or dis
trict incur any new debt, or increase
it's Indebtedness to an amount ex-
ceeding two per centum upon such
assessed valuation of property, with
out the assent of the electors thereof
at a public election in such manner
as shall be provided by law; but any
city, the debt of which now exceeds
seven per centum of such assessed
valuation, may be authorized by law
to increase the same three per CEN
tum. in the aggregate, at any one
time, upon such valuation" so as to
read as follows:-
Section 8. The debt of any county,
city, borough, township, school dis
trict, or other municipality or incor-
porated district, except as herein
provided, shall never exceed seven
per centum upon the assessed value
of the taxable property therein, nor
shall any such municipality or dis
trict incur any new debt, or increase
it's Indebtedness to an amount ex-
ceeding two per centum upon such
assessed valuation of property, with
out the assent of the electors thereof
at a public election in such manner
as shall be provided by law; but any
city, the debt of which now exceeds
seven per centum of such assessed
valuation, may be authorized by law
to increase the same three per CEN
tum, in the aggregate, at any one
time, upon such valuation, except
that any debt or debts hereinafter
incurred by the city and county of
Philadelphia for the construction
and development of subways for tran
sit purposes, or for the construction
of wharv and docks, or the re-
clamation of land to be used in the
construction of a system of wharves
and docks, as public improvements,
owned or to be owned by said city
and county of Philadelphia, and
which shall yield to the city and
county of Philadelphia current net
revenue in excess of the interest on
said debt or debts and of the annual
installments necessary for the cam
| collation. of said debt or debts, may
be excluded in asdertaining the pow
er of the city and county of Philadel-
phia to become otherwise indebted:
Provided. That a sinking fund for
their cancellation shall be established
and maintained.
true copy of Joint Resolution
| No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28

signed, shall have exclusive Juris-
diction thereof, subject to change of
venue, as shall be provided by law.
In the county of Allegheny all the
Jurisdiction and powers now vested
in the several numbered courts of
common pleas shall be vested in one
court of common pleas, composed of
all the judges in commission in said
courts. Such jurisdiction and pow
ers shall extend to all proceedings at
law and in equity which shall have
been instituted in the several num-
bered courts, and shall be subject to
such changes as may be made by law,
and subject to change of venue as
provided by law. The president
judge of said court shall be selected
as provided by law. The number of
judges in said court may be by law
increased from time to time. This
amendment shall take effect on the
first day of January succeeding its
adoption.
A true copy of Resolution No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28

DPOPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
i THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR
APPROVAL OR REJECTION, BY
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE OMMONWEALTH OF PENN
SYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY
ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF
THE CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section
twenty-six of article five of the
Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Resolved, (if the Senate concur) ,
That the following amendment to
section twenty-six of article five of
the Constitution of Pennsylvania be,
and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with the eighteenth arti-
Gle thereof
That section 26 of Article ", which
reads as follows: Section 26. All
laws relating to courts shall be gen.
eral and of uniform operation, and
the organization, Jurisdiction, and
powers of all courts of the same
class or grade, so far as regulated
by law, and the force and effect of
the process and judgments of such
courts, shall be uniform; and the
General Assembly is hereby prohibit
ed from creating other courts to eX-
ercise the powers vested by this Con-
stitution in the judges of the Courts
of Common Pleas and Orphans
Courts" be amended so that the same
shall read as follows:-
Section 20. All laws relating to
courts shall be general and of uni
form operation, and the organization,
jurisdiction, and powers of all courts
of the same class or grade, so far as
regulated by law, and the force and
effect of the process and judgments
of such courts, shall be uniform /;
but, Notwithstanding any provisions
of this Constitution, the General AS
sembly shall have full power to es-
tablish new courts, from time to time,
as the same may be needed in any
city or county, and to prescribe the
powers and jurisdiction thereof, and
to increase the number of judges in
any courts now existing or hereafter
created, or to reorganize the same,
or to vest in other courts the juris-
diction heretofore exercised by
courts not of record, and to abolish
the same wherever it may be deemed
necessary for the orderly and efficient
administration of justice.
A true copy of Resolution No. l.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
Number Three.
A JOINT RESOLUTION

A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, so as to consolidate
the courts of common pleas of AL
legheny County.
Section /. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
MIA in General Assembly met, That
the following amendment to the Con-
stitution of Pennsylvania be, and the
same is hereby, proposed, in accord
ance with the eighteenth article
thereof
That section six of article five be
amended, by striking out the said
section, and inserting in place there
of the following:
Section 6. In the county of Phila-
delphia all the jurisdiction and pow
ers now vested in the district courts
and courts of common pleas, subject
to such changes as may be made by
this Constitution or by law, shall be
in Philadelphia vested In five dis
tinct and separate courts of equal
and coordinate jurisdiction, COM
posed of three judges each. The
said courts in Philadelphia shall be
designated respectively as the court
of common pleas number one, num-
ber two, number three, number four,
and number FIVE, but the number of
said courts may be by law increased,
from time to time, and shall be in
like manner designated by successive
numbers. The number of judges in
any of said courts, or in any county
where the establishment of an addi-
tional court may be authorized by
law, may be increased, from time to
time, and whenever such increase
shall amount in the whole to three.
such three judges shall compose a
distinct and separate court as afore-
said, which shall be numbered as
aforesaid. In Philadelphia all suits
] shall be instituted in the said courts
of common pleas without designating
the number OF the said court, and the
several courts shall distribute and
/ apportion the business among them
in such manner as shall be provided
! by rules of court, and each court,
! to which any suit shall be thus as
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
CRUEL WIRELESS HOAX.
Steamer Oklahoma Supposed In Dis
tress Reports "All Safe"

Newport, r. l., Oct. 25.-Develop-
ments prove that the wireless message
of distress, purporting to come from
the big tank steamer Oklahoma with
forty-six men aboard, was a wireless
hoax.
The revenue cutter Acushnet, which
had picked up the mysterious rs. o,
S. Oklahoma" was in communication
early today with that steamer, well
down on the southern coast on her way
to Port Arthur, Tex, and she reported
everything all right.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
CHILD SETS SEIF hTT7T.
Mother Absent, She Plays With Matches
and Dies Of Burns.

New York, Oct. 25.-Three-year-old
Ida Luca, left alone by her mother
while she went out to work. played
with matches and was burned to
death at her home, 12f Mott street
The father. De Luca, Is in jail at
Portchester on a charge of grand lar
ceny. This has compelled the wife to
earn livelihood for herself and fam.
lily.
Ida wandered into the Kitchen and.
finding a box of matches, thought 1t
great fun to light them one by one.
The head of one broke Off, and her
clothing burst into flames. The
screams of the child brought neigh
bors, who climbed in the De Luca
apartment by way of the fire escape
window, but too late to save the little
girl
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
ERIE TRAINS.
Guaranteed articles only sold"

Trains leave Union depot at S.25
a. m. and 2.4S p. m, week days.
Trains arrive Union depot at LEO
and sos p. m. week days.
Saturday only, Erie and Wyoming
arrives at 3.45 p. m. and leaves at
$50 p. m.
Sunday trains leave 2.4S and ar
rive at 7.02.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
The GIowWornn,

Despite the fact science has been
puzzling over the problem for many
years-eXperimenting and analyzinG
and dissecting-the glowworrl's secret
is still unsolved. We know very little
more about its mysterious lamp-phys-
iologic light the experts call it-than
did our forefathers. Even its purpose
Is still hidden.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
Admiral Jehn ]. Read Dead.

Mount Holly, n, j., Oct. 25.-Rear
Admiral John j. Read, U. S. n, re-
tired, died at his home here after an
illness Of about two weeks. Heart
disease was the cause. He served
with the gulf squadron in the attack
on Fort Fisher during the civil war
and was afterward in command of the
Olympia, being succeeded by Admiral
Dewey.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
DROUGHT IN NEW ENGLAND
Many Towns Short of Water-Farmers
Face Problem

dCe rToplcHs
Boston, Oct. notwithstanding the
comparatively heavy rains of Satur-
day, the first to moisten many places
for weeks, most of the New England
countryside remains dry. Many towns
are forced still to rely on meager aux
iliary sources for their drinking water
and in several places the lack of water
has Jeopardized the safety of towns
from fire. Farmers still are obliged to
haul water for their stock over un-
usually long distances.
More than a dozen sawmills and
several larger plants have been forced
to shut down. This has brought tenn
porary idleness to several thousand per-
sons
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28

TWELVE muslin trespass notices
for S1.0O; six for seventy-five cents.
Name of owner, township and law
regarding trespassing printed there
on. CITIZEN Office.