The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-29
General News

The Saloon Opposition league held a well attended meeting at Meeks, in precinct 4, and after an address by
 Rev. A. ]. Dickinson of Birmingham
 an organization was effected. D. G. Knights was elected chairman and N. M. Riley. secretary.
 By boring a hole measuring a trifle
 over a foot square, a burglar entered the general merchandise store of Davis | Brothers at Jonesboro last night and carried about $150 worth of groceries, dry goods and shoes. No clue to the thief has been found and the rob- bery was discovered this morning when MT. Davis arrived at the store and found the front door open. The build- ing is occupied by the Odd Fellows
 hall obey and as 1t happened the lodge was in session until midnight last night. so the theft was committed after that time, as the noise of persons nov ing around downstairs could have been heard upstairs. The firm has been in
 business there since March 1 of this year, and no positive itemized estirna to could be made of the loss
 This morning at o'clock Deputies Edmondson and Parker after driving from this city, found Tom Porter. negro wanted for killing his wife at Powderly on Monday, July IT, saving timber at Piney Woods and as he re- sisted arrest, shot him dead. Edmond son fired one shot that went astray and the two fired by Parker took of- feet, the negro dying five minutes later There was one other eyewitness to the shooting, a negro working beside Powell. The coroner held an inquest this morning and his verdict was ,usti- fable homicide.
 While playing with .22-calibre rife this afternoon about o'clock the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mitcham who reside at
 ct dentally discharged the gun and the bull
 let lodged in the head of his 1S-months-
 old sister, playing nearby. The rifle in some manner was struck against a chair and the shot entered the little girls head
 just above her right eye and stopped below the right ear. Medical aid was summoned immediately, the wound dressed, but the bullet was not removed and will remain unless complication set in.
 A party composed of MT. and Mrs Hogan and Mrs. Hardy, who reside on Sixth avenue and Eighteenth street, were | poisoned at noon today by eating toad
 stools instead of mushrooms that they
 had gathered this morning in the woods. | Thinking to have a special delicacy for | lunch, they selected what they supposed
 were edible mushrooms but proved to be | a species of poisonous fungi After treat
 nent the patients are rapidly recovering l anu were Olly ltlllpOIdllIy lucOnNen- | fenced.
 | One of the saddest deaths of some time | in this city was that of Leslie, the 10- i, '-s a--old son Of Chief and Mrs. T. B.
 W Wallace. Being a bright child with a happy disposition, he has made many | DC rsona friends, who mourn his sudden death He became ill last Tuesday and l after a night of suffering passed away this morning at o'clock at the family residence. The remains will be shipped tc Cuba, Ala, tomorrow morning and the tii eral will be held there. The in- terment will he beside his brother. who died about four years ago, in. the Cub-
 cemetery.
 ng thcse accompanying the body
 from this city will be Miss Elizabeth Phelps, John Phelps, Mrs. Hays and Duff Lewis.
 The fire department answered a call at 3 o'clock this afternoon and soon put out l'la~o on the roof of neyro house | or sixth avenue between Twenty-fourth
 and wenty-ffth -strets. The damage amounted to BIO.