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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
STEAMSHIP KENTUCKY
SINKINGIN MID-OCEAN
BY Associated Press.

st. Louis. Feb. 4.-When Thomas
Herbert leaves the city hospital he
will have a brand new face. Half a
dozen physicians and surgeons are
now making the visage for him and
they promise such an improvement
over the countenance that nature
gave that even his best girl will not
know him.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
Come Pensacola For Mard Ga Monday and Tuesday, Feb
CARNIVAL CROWDS IN LARGE
NUMBERS EXPECTED TODAY
Will Have a Brand New Face
When He Leaves Hospital

While driving a wagon Wednesday
he fell off and the hind wheel passed
over his face The hospital physician
found thirty-three fractures. in the
bones in his face. In fixing him up
it was necessary to remodel his fea-
lures along entirely new lines. The
surgeons are now wiring the bones
so the fractures will knit and are
readjusting the flesh so as to give
the face symmetry and character.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
GIRL SUICIDES.

New York, Feb. 4.-"Well, have
done it." was the exclamation OF Miss
Jessie Spiller, a daughter Of wealthy
retired Brooklyn manufacturer as she
returned to the parlor today after
moments absence and fell unconscious
at the feet of a caller In her fathers
home. Within an hour she was dead
from poisoning. Miss Siller was vic
tim of dependency over the death OF
the man she loved.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
Divorced On Saturday Couple
Weds Again Following Thursday

maiden name of Miss Jessie May
Pauer. For months she had not seen
her husband, who was in the West.
The day the decree was handed down,
Hatsell and Miss Bauer met again
and last night they undid all the la
borious work of the court and lawyers
by celebrating their second wedding.
They have two children.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
By Associated Press

Louisville, KY, Feb. 4.-Divorced
on Saturday and married to each 9TH
er again on Thursday, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Hatsell today are en- route for
Florida on their second honeymoon.
Last Saturday Mrs. Hatsel, by de-
cree of a divorce court, resumed her
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05

By Associated Press.


3 Savannah, Ga, Feb. 4.-The
D crew of the steamship Ken
D lucky, en- route from New
, York to Seattle, whicn report
. ed by wireless today as sink
. ing several hundred miles
, Off the South Carolina coast,
. was taken aboard the Alamo
= tonight. The Alamo was clos
. est to the doomed vessel when
. she received the distress sig
. nal and went to her rescue.
= She is now en- route to Key
. West with the crew.
, 1t is thought the Kentucky
. will sink before midnight. If
. not, she will be destroyed by
, the revenue cutters now en-
. route to the scene. The crew
; owe their lives to the heroism
, of Wireless Operator McGinnis,
, who, although the waters were
, rushing in the vessel, stayed
, at his key, sending out dis
3 tress signals until rescued.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05

Savannah, Ca, Feb. bingham
Bryan, the negro arrested last month
charged with the murder of Mrs
Amanda Gribble,. her daughter, Mrs
Ohlander, and Mrs. Maggie Hunter, on
December 10, made a confession today
to G. Reuben Butler, clerk of the coun.
ty commissioners, and Judge Albert
Wylie, member of the board of coun-
ty commissioners. Two of the women
were found dead and the other dying,
and one had been assaulted. The
crime created much excitement:
The confession follows:
II was working around the house,
cutting wood for something to eat and
wear. also helped to move old truck
and rubbish into the little house in
the yard. / was specializing whether
money was In the house and l asked
the woman for drink of water as a
bluff to get in the house. / went in
the house and they gave me the wa
ter. / went back in the yard and cut
some more wood. ] heard them walk
ing about and go to the front of the
house and thought they went on the
porch.
Il picked up a hammer in the little
house in the yard and hid it in the
bosom of my shirt.
DETECTED IN ACT.
Then / went in the back room and
went to work ON the trunk. | was
trying to prize the trunk open and it
made some noise. They must have
heard the noise.
The old lady grabbed me from be-
hind and shook me pretty hard. /
took the hammer and gave her lick on
~ he I;oJ-
did not knock her down and gave her
a second lick.
Then the second one came up, the
younger one, and grabbed me at the
door in the back of the hall and l gave
her a lick with my fist Then l hit
her a lick with the manner on the
side of the head, but it did not kill
her.
81 went out in the yard, looked up
at the bank building, but did not see
anyone, and I closed the blinds. |
went back in the house and found the
lady was not dead
THE THIRD KILLED.
81 heard noise at the front door
like some one wanting to come in. |
tried to keep her from coming in, but
she pushed the door open and came in.
She grabbed hold of me. took her
by the throat and choked her with one
hand. Then I give her lick with the
hammer, but did not kill her. She
was alive when | left.
Il then went to the back room, went
at the trunk again, but did not find
anything except what looked like wo-
mems clothes. | then went out in the
yard. went to the gate, peeped out to
see IL / could see anV one didn't sac
no one and went home. | went to $50
Huntington street. west, where | was
living and gave Matilda my blue pants
TO wash. | hid the hammer behind
the trunk among some old clothes.
Then l went up to Eden, a railway
station 80 miles from Savannah and
gave my two shirts, which had blood
on them, to an old lady named Phoebe
TO wash
Bryan will be presented to the grand
jury this afternoon.
1t is expected an indictment and a
speedy trial will follow
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
BOUT IN NEW ORLEANS.

New Orleans, Feb. 4.-Johnny Coul-
on, champion batam weight Of the
world, and Jem Kendrick, champion
bantam weight of England, have been
matched for fight here Feb. 10. The
bout will take place under the aus
pices of the Royal Athletic Club.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
CARLOAD OF BABIES TO
ARRIVE I'M NEW ORLEANS
BY Associated Press.

New ORLEANS, Feb. 4.-Bids on a
carload of babies. were begun here to
day. The tempe etftfon, Wh1cn Is keen,
will probably be concluded tomorrow
The offerings are not in monetary
values Proportionate guarantees OF
care and support are chiefly reckoned
among the terms of acceptance. The
babies will come to New Orleans
from New York orphan asylum with
in the next week.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
PRESIDENT NOMINATES TWO
COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS
ny Associated Press.

Washington, Feb. 4.-John Goffingen
of Virginia, was today nominated to
be collector of customs for the district
of Cherrystone, Va, and john ]. Deane
of San Francisco to be receiver Of
public moneys at Oakland, Cal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
Mystery Surrounding Crime
Which Created Excite
ment, is Solved.
BRYAN, ARRESTED

BINGHAM BRYAN, ARRESTED
TELLS OF THE TRIPLE MURDER
WHICH, HE DECLARES, WAS
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ROB.
BERY-WAS WORKING AT THE
GRIBBLE HOME WHEN HE CON.
cEIvED THE IDEA OF RoBBlNG
TWAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT
AND KILLED THE THREE Wo-
MEN.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
HELD POLICE At
BAY 18 HOURS
INSANE MAN RESISTED CAPTURE
AND WITH A SHOT GUN TER
RoRIzED NEIGHsoRs BY FIRING
GUN AT RANDOM.
By Associated Press

Detroit, Mich, Feb. AFTER hold
ing at bay the police and terrifying
keighbors for eighteen hours by dis.
charging his shot gun at random at
passing street cars and citizens, Fred
w. Bourke was dragged from his
hiding place this afternoon. He was
taken to a hospital later to be sent to
a retreat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
Sends Out Distress Call by
Wireless For Immediate
Assistance.

PURCHASED BY THE
ALASKA-PACIFIC STEAMSHIP
CO., SHE is ON VOYAGE AROUND
TO PACIFIC coAST-RAN INTO
SEVERE STORM OFF CAPE HAT
TERAS AND SEAMS OPENED
MANY VESSELS OFF TO RESCUE
HAS CREW OF SEVENTY-FVE
MEN.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05
CASTRO IN LAS PAL MAS

Madrid, Feb. 4.-Tht report that
former President Castro, Of Venezuela
has gone to Las Palmas is Confirmed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-05

Continued on Page Two.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
New Sources of State Revenue

There are states and states in this broad union and no two states agree in any, thing. certainly not in budgets. The stat 2 treasurer of Alabama receives from all sources about s5,OOOoOO and perhaps we would not go far astray if we put the states annual budget at that round sum Leaving out the convict department 1t would be less, but that department should not be left out of the reckoning.
 When the general government has an annual budget exceeding a thousand mil .1ions, surely sovereign state should be permitted one that runs to but s. .OOO 00a.
 All of the states do not, however, keep their respective budgets down to $5,OOO,- GOO. In rich and populous New York state the annual budget runs above s40 o00,0o0, and every cent of the great sum lis gotten together without levying a cent of direct tax on property valua- tions. A return to a direct state tax would be very unpopular, and New York is today engaged in widening and deep ening the Erie canal at a cost exceeding $]00.000, ,0o0. This great sum is, however, : matter of bonds rather than of cur rent expenses.
 z If New York can collect s4oOOo,OOo with cut direct tax may it not be possible tc collect s5,ooo,ooo more or less in Ale ! bema through a variety of inheritance taxes licenses. tag sales, fees and the like? The hunt for new and independent sources of state revenue is keenly con, drcted in states like New York and New Jersey. and Alabama might perhaps stud, ' their methods profitably
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
Canada Is the South'S Rival

: The New York World seconds Congress man Ransde when he voices the call of the south. 'To the call of the wheat. '' gays the World, responds the call of the cotton. the rice, the sugar plantations. the cornfields, the melon patches, the blue grass and limestone, the peach orchards, the tobacco, the apple, the orange. the { grapefruit, the fig, the great grazing grounds and the breeding places of horse hog and cattle"
 About 3O0 900 sturdy farmers are cross. ing annually the line in the northwest to take up lands beyond Manitoba. where winter reigns nine months in the year [ Tiiey carry away a deal of energy and good deal of money. The south needs those very men, for fully one-half of the south is uncultivated.
 The lure of the new south should prove stronger than the lure of far-away pro. vinees in Western Canada. The climate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
Finished Products In This District

The sooner this district ceases to sell iron in it's first and crudest form the sooner this district will begin to rise to its possibilities of growth and prosperity Pittsburg is a buyer of pig iron, not d seller. So is Chicago, so is Gary. Bir- pig iron sellers. The district has got to the point where it would seem unbusiness- like to send iron a thousand miles to be converted into merchantable products for home or at any rate southern consump- ton.
 This district can make 1,S0oooo tons of pig iron a year, and when it is able to turn that amount into finished products Johes valley will be full of people, and the city will then extend to Bessemer, and every dream of prosperity would become fact This IS, indeed, the great task in hand, namely, to create a home demand for every ton of pig iron that comes from the blast furnaces of the dis trict. The task is a large one but in the long run it will be accomplished. It must be accomplished if Birmingham is to become the shief city in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
Weather and Weather Reports 1

The normal annual rainfall of this neighborhood is just about 50 inches, and in the first half of the current year the moisture deficiency was about 4 inches. The year thus far has been dry rather than wet, and several heavy downfalls this section up to normal A dry March and a dry May created the deficiency. and the rains of June, although abundant, did not make good previous deficiencies.
 The year to date has, generally speak ing, been cool and dry. Many degrees of temperature and about 1 inches of rain are needed to bring this section up to its customary weather allowances.
 The weather bureau proposes to deprive the people of this locality of local weather reports. This is certainly uslkind when coupled with the deficiencies in moisture and sunshine. Let us all hope the big weather clerk at Washington wifi relent and that the local weather reports will be renewed and that the rain will fall on the just as well as the unjust and that the sun will shine for all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
DON'T RUB YOUR EYES
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Don't rub your eyes, Even if the wind does whip Jackson county soil into them, let 1t remain there until the irritation has caused the secretion of a sufficient amount of tears to wash the dirt away. That Is the advice of the oculists.
 If the tears will not remove the ob- struction per cent solution of boracic acid probably will do the work. It acts as an antiseptic wash which dissolves the dirt or even small cin- ders, and does not damage the eye. It can be bought at the drug stores. The acid is dropped into the eye with a med icine dropper or an ordinary fountain pen filler.
 Keep the fingers away from the eyes, because the rubbing produces added ir- ritation. Oftentimes an. obstruction in the eye may be removed by pulling the upper lid down over the lower lid. Some persons carry a horsehair with which to lasso the slices of pavement which lodge in the eye Cotton rolled on the end of a toothpick and applied with a small amount of pressure behind the obstruction sometimes will relieve the offending object.
 Anyway, don't rub the eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
Thus. Indian-lil<e. Religious in mine error, I adore.
 -AlI's Well That Ends Well.
Lack of Public Schools In This State

This state holds in round numbers 7O0,- of age and under 20 years. This fact is freely stated, and the number that at tend school should be as consistently kept before the people. The latter fact Is. however, conceded. and today no one knows outside of the office of the su- perintendento of education what proportion of the 7oo,ooo children in this state so t, school
 It is safe to say that one-half of the 100000 of the children of today are not sent to school and are therefore, grow ing up without a public school education. It is also safe to say that the school ac- conmodations of this state are not ample enough to care for one-haf of the state $ children. And yet @ counties have bal ances in the school house fund for build ing school houses that are not called for. Jefferson. county has s1SSs in thae fund that no district in the county seems to want.
 This condition is not confined to rural districts alone, for Birmingham needs twice the school space and seatings that 1t possesses today. The school system of the city is inadeqpfate. A table show ing by counties and if possible by cities also the number of school children in ono column and the number that attend school in a parallel column would be en- Tightening. Ii would go far toward ex- plaining the percentage of illiteracy in the state that the census bureau will soon make known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
The safe and sane is near at hand.
FESTIVE ~cAT coUNTr 4
How Fun Loving Nobiemnn Set Police
 Of Stockholm By the Ears

From the Chicago Tribune.
 All Europe is laughing at the latest escapade of Count Gasta Hamilton, known as-"Ie comte des cl1ats-the cat count" and a member of the English ducaa house of Hamilton. The story of his latest prank is told in European newspapers.
 Count Gasta and some of his cronies had henored "Rosenbad," a popular re- sort in Stockholm, with their patronage, and as a result some of the furniture had been broken. In particular the covering of fine sofa had been ripped and damaged, The manager of the re- sort demonstrated with the count and suggested the abvisability of the lat ter's paying for the damage This the count agreed to do, and virtually pur- chased the piece of furniture, receiv- ing a receipt from the manager.
 In short time a singular process sion was seen by night revelers in the park, vending its way from the maln resta urant to the public road. Four sturdy messengers carried a sofa, on which reclined the count And his com
 
 their canes. Amid cheers the process sion left the grounds. It had not pro- ceeded far before a night policeman halted the paraders and demanded explanation. The count said he was on his way home, and had bought the sofa, and that it was his property. The of ficer probably thought the question or prooriety too important for him to de- eide, and escorted the prisoners, in cluding the sofa, into the presence of the precinct captain. The count told his story and presented his receipt for the sofas purchase. The captain verified these statements py telephon- ing to the restaurant proprietor and advised his unwilling guests to go home
 In less than an hour the captain was astonished to have the sofa and It's retinue of attendants brought before him by another officer. The party was released a second time. The incident was repeated three times, and the cap tain was becoming a fit subject for the ma dhouse, when he had a brilliant idea. Four officers were ordered to march with the count. the sofa and the party and to escort them home.
 Slowly the procession moved toward the shore. When a landing place was reached the count and his friends made a jump for the bridge, where motor launch was in waiting. Amid the cheers of the crowd the launch sped away, leaving the officers to carry the sofa wearily back to the station.
 Count Gasta's nickname, the cat count" was acquired as the result of aii in cident in Paris some years ago, when as the result of a wager he promen aded the principal boulevards. leading four trained Persian cats harnessed to leather leash. and preceded by an or gan grinder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

smiths use for grinding thick plowshares.
 He grinds away at your very vitals While
 the emery wheel enSlts gritty whir like
 no other sound on earth but most nearly approached by the oise of forty big rasps sliding back and forth at right angles across a strip of hard steel. At last the
 dentist finishes the grinding and prepares to put in the tubing and cap the well.
 First he rams a bale Of cotton back into the corner of your cheek. Then he takes the blade of an old carpenters saw and jams one edge in between the damaged tooth and it's next-door neighbor. In his
 purring tones he begs you not to swallow or spit. well knowing that you could do
 either as easily as you could turn Hal ley's comet into a can of Boston baked beans. Having you thus handcuffed, tied
 and effectually gagged, he proceeds to mix up a mortar composed of seven sacks of
 Portland cement, half load of sand and
 two barrels of lime. Having deliberately
 and carefully prepared this mortar he begins shoveling it into the hole and tamping 1t down with railroad rafl. Here you lose consciousness, and when you come to an hour later you find your-
 self released from your bonds and lying
 on a couch. feeling as if you had been
 through a rock crusher and ground into ballast.-Bonner Springs (Kan.) Chieftaint
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
REVIVAL OF PUGILIsM

From Pearsons Magazine.
 Over $2,0OO000 was spent in this country last year for prize fights. The two fight clubs of Los Angeles alone took in nearly s25o 0OO. A year ago last Christmas Tom my Burns got $so,0oo for standing before Jack Johnson il minutes. Thee crowd paid s15O 900 to see him do it, thereby talk ing the record or gate receipts, for s62, 900 from the Coney. Island fight between Jeffries and Sharkey. 4r
 Papke and Ketchell in the past two years have thlee times split up purses of saO,00O each. Abe Attell has risked his featherweight title at the average rate of once a month for over four years, and he seldom gets less than s150o for fight Battling Nelson has a fortune of upward of $300,OOO made in the prize ring, and now Jeffries and Johnson are matched to fight on July for purse of $1o1,0OO.
 This revival Is chiefly in America, but 1t also extends to England, France and Australia Throughout the world the highly civilized Caucasian. as though weary of super refnements, is returning to the swift spectacle of the prize ring.
 The good old sport of pugilism-on a paying basis-is not dead. The law is against it. Public opinion frowns on 1t. Yet, thriving on punishment. the great est test of the prize fighter. this mod ern gladiator forces his victorious way to wealth and honors.
 And we cannot forget that some of the subtlest intelligence have devoted care- 4 I. ,,,1 Meredith's first novel contains an elec- tric description of the sport. Conan Doyies "Croxley Master is a ring classic. Jack London recently sentimen- talized over 1t in '"rhe Game.' and when George Bernard Shaw chose profes- sionsa round which to write his first novel |&he made Cashel Byron prize fighter. What boy can ever forget the bare knuckle fight in ''Ton Brown at Rugby ?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Rirmingham,s New Era

Birmingham is now entering on it's third era that of the finished product and 1t is necessarily the greatest era in the~ history. of the city's growth, said Paschal Shook of Shook & Fletcher. When the American Steel and Wire company commences producing finished products at Corey the city of Birming- ham may well have a celebration sec ond to none in her history, for 1t will be an event which I consider as proba- bly, the greatest in the history of the district; certainly the second greatest.
 Tn the past. and prior to the man ufacture of rails at Ensley, Birming- ham had been known as a raw material town. True, iron can be made here as cheaply or cheaper than anywhere else in the world, but that was the extent of our progress for long time. Then we tried the manufacture of steel in 1898, which was an experiment, and many doubted if steel could be made from southern irons. This doubt dis appeared long ago, and that event was the dawning of a new era.
 Now, however, we are to convert
  the ready for the consumer product. and that Is the greatest profit producer for a community. Instead of sending our crude materials away to be man. ufactured into useful articles. we will make these articles ourselves, and reap the full benefit. There are many ad- vantages to accrue. The class of labor used in a finished product plant is very much higher than the class used in producing the raw materials; the wages per man are considerably high CT; and the community benefits both from the manufacture of raw materials and finished products. The selling prices of finished products are neces- sarily higher and therefore much greater volume of business measured in value goes through the community which means greater volume of money.
 Few people appreciate the great benefits that Birmingham will derive from the construction of the American Steel and Wire company plant; the by product coke ovens of the Tennessee company and other plants that will be built later at Corey"