The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
TRIES ID AVENGE
 FATHERS INJURY o. c. Smith Fires On Fore man John Temple,
 Killing His Horse

Gadsden, June 7.-(Special.) "A tragedy at the steel plant early this
 morning was only averted by the poor
 craftsmanship by would-be assassin. To- c. Smith, a young man of 21, laid in ambush and fired upon John Temple with a pistol. Temple was riding and although three shots were fired at him
 at pretty close range, he escaped un- touched. The horse was killed under him, however, and he got away only by running. Temple is the foreman at the skull cracker" at the steel plant
 and the father of young Smith is em-
 ployed under him. Some trouble has existed between the two and the young
 man evidently sought to avenge some imaginary wrong to his parent by the foreman. The assailant made his es- cape and at a late hour this afternoon
 had not been apprehended.
 That the Southern railroad Is at last l in earnest about giving this city a better service for those who want to come here to trade from the territory served by this railway Is evidenced by | the fact that a new schedule has been announced and is said to go into effect next Sunday. Under the new time card l it will be possible for the people living
 along this line to come into the city at 10 o'clock in the morning and remain until o'clock in the afternoon, or to
 come in the evening and leave again
 early in the morning.. This will be quite an improvement over the old | schedule and if better equipment Is
 also used in this service all interested | in the change will no doubt be satisfied. | The annual conference of the Gads-
 den district of the Methodist Episcopal | church. south, Is in session here and
 some 75 delegates are in attendance | The Rev. R. T. Tyler, the presiding l elder of the district, is presiding over | the sessions and great interest IS man | ifested in the work of the meeting. J. B. Wadsworth, president or the rtowah
 Trust and Savings bank, delivered lec- 1 ture last night, and tonight J. D. oiinp | son of Birmingham will address the
 conference. The sessions Will adjourn l tomorrow.
 The local nest of the Order Of owls
 was instituted last night About oo members were present at the opera | house where the work Of per1ectihs
 the lodge was done. The organization
 was nerfected with the following of I ficers for the first year: Past presl- dent. E. S. Whisenant; president, D. h
 Beaird; vice president, Joseph Alexan- Ider: invocator, G. P. Shornancy; treas urer. Paul Stevenson; warden, Waiter Snyder; picket, George Scherer; trus-
 tees. D. l.. Halcombe, J. M Pierce, Lee
 Kennedy; physician. Dr. Hugh l.. Ap- pleton.
 At a meeting of the school beard last night the list of teachers to be en- l gagged for the coming year was com | pleted and number of other matters were considered. Among these was | the question of establishing a kinder rarten in connection with the new Col | lege street school and that of provid- ling lunches for the children at the I school houses at a nominal expense It I was practically decided to inaugurate the Kindergarten and 1t is quite likely I that the luncheon arrangements will l also be given a trial the coming season An effort Is on foot to have the gov ernor commute the death sentence of George Lige, the condemned negro whose sentence has just been affirmed by the supreme court, to one of life in the penitentiary. Petitions are being circulated for this purpose built is not known as yet whether many signers
 are being secured or not.