The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-12
BURGLARS BOTHER
 PULLMAN PEOPLE
Little of Value Is Taken But
 Prowlers Are Active
STATION MAY BE MOVED
Planning to Lay Double Track Which VIII Cause Changes
 in Stations

Cullman, September 11.-(Special.)- Burglars have been paying respects to the people of Cullman lately. About 10:30 o'clock Saturday night an attempt was made to enter the home of John A. Shan non. Mir. Shannon was awakened by noise at his back door. Hastily dressing himself he rushed to the back door and found that man was making an effort to enter the kitchen through the back door, and had used an ice pick and a hammer belonging to MT. Shannon which had been left on the back porch. As soon as the intruder heard MT. Shan non coming he ran, without even telling his business or his name. It was after wards discovered that he had succeeded in cutting the whole of the bottom part of the netting in the screen door. and would have made an entrance within few minutes had he not been molested.
 The same night the home of Col J. B. Brown was entered through back win dow and several things were missing. Only recently a burglar was chased away from the home of MT and Mrs. J. H. Kinney in South Cullman. No one has the least idea who these nightly visitors are, but in this case 1t certainly cannot be attributed to negroes, because there
 is not a negro resident in Cullman. and it is not likely that one would have the nerve to stop over on his way through here and molest the citizens of the town. especially Is this so had he ever passed through the state and had been made ac- quainted with the feeling existing in this town toward the negro. It Is believed that this mischief is being done by some one who lives in the town.
 It is being rumored in Cullman that the Louisville and Nashville railroad, which is making new and complete survey from Decatur to Birmingham for the pur- pose of building a double track between these two points, contemplates moving the right-of-way from where 1t now passes through Cullman to a very remote part of the town. This rumor is causing some anxiety on the part of some of the citizens of the town. This probably originated among some of the engineers who are working on the survey and the fact that they have made several surveys Of different parts of the town for the purpose of establishing a permanent sur vey. has probably given rise to this dis turbance on the part of the citizens. There is probability that the track will be moved a short distance from where 1t now Is. This will have to be done in order to build the other track but to
 move the railroad and passenger station away from town, especially one the size of Cullman which the road has been run ming into for the past 40 years. would be indeed poor idea for corporation like the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company.
 T. J. Williams, who is an independent candidate for the office of circut court clerk of Cullman county. has just re- turned from tour of the county where he made a thorough canvass. MT. Will Hams Is very jubiant over his prospects for success in the coming election, and says that he will poll more votes than both the nominees of the democratic and republican parties. He Is a very popular man and has lived in the county for several years, where he has been en- gagged in the fertilizer business but 1t Is hardly probable that he will poll that many votes. He has a strong following