The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-26
BESSEMER TAG
 DAY bIG SUCCESS 4 Tidy Amount of Money Is
 Realized LAW CLASS STARTED
Plan to Establish Bessemer Branch of Indiana Law School-First Shipment of Agricul-
 tural Books

l Bessemer, April -(Special)-Tag day for the United Daughters of Confederacy was decided success and very agreeably so, as about $50 was taken just from the city of Bessemer. Returns from Jones' boro, Dolomte, Woodward and Brighton had not been made tonight and a good sum Is expected from each of these places.
 The weather was especially suited for the worthy cause, a monument for tn, veterans, to be erected in the City park and scholarship fund In the morning several little girls assisted the daughters | in tagging. In the afternoon the corps were increased by several girls from the younger set and an automobile party of l enthusiasts made the round of nearby points and profited to the extent of s30 thereby. The tag was tiny Confed- crate flag pin In two designs and were very pretty. At Pleasant Hill tomorrow the tagging will be continued in honor of memorial day.
 l | The case of Dennis Keefe vs. Republic Iron and Steel company for s2o,OOO dam ages was settled by consent judgment in the Bessemer city court at noon Tues day. Attorneys Drennen and Burr agreed to fix the amount at s25oo, and at this time only the witnesses for the plaintiff had been examined.
 :. curing during August, 1909, in mine be- longing to the defendant and suffered a fractured leg and arm and powder burns about the face as a result.
 The case was set for last fall but was continued as the i'll health of MT. Keefe necessitated his absence from the city during the past winter.
 Branch Law School l Rev. ". B. Woodall of Sunnyside is making an effort to start and agtate the establishing of a branch class of the Iincoln-J Jefferson College of Law of Ham, mond, Ind, in this city He has been successful in starting large class in Bir- mingham and has enrolled Jim Houston, Lacey Edmondson and Alex Oron here as a nucleus of the class. Judge J. c. B. Gwin of the city court has consented to be tutor, as an organized class has the this instance exceptionally so to have so ahle judge to direct.
 | The course includes a daily application of 30 minutes for 25 days of the month l for three years. It can be completed in a shorter period if the student cares to spend more time on the daily work. A library of 13 volumes furnishes the text books. besides numerous booklets describ- irg special cases. Questions for exan- nations are sent from the college on re- quest, corrected and returned, and after a successful final examination a diploma is warded. This entities the holder to stand any state bar examination.
 This is similar to a correspondence course but has an established university to be responsible for all instruction and a local Instructor. The dean of the Illinois College of Law. James Putney, is special instructor for this department as he is connected as professor with the Lincoln Jefferson college
 The class will begin work within the next few weeks and Rev. Woodall hopes to secure 20. members.
 Agricultural Books Arrive
 The first shipment consisting of ten handsomely bound volumes, of the agri- cultural library to be placed in the Board | of Trade room, arrived Monday. l Congressman Oscar W. Underwood is having all the literature published by this department sent here upon request | from the Truck Growers association. | The books here are the year books for the past ten years and are beautifully illustrated in colors and halftones. Sta | tistics of cattle, truck and staple prod ucts raised in the United States, results of soil and climate investigations and l full information of every new venture | in agriculture made during each year are given. Tests for elimination of | blights and insects are described and new processes of grating and pruning are treated in full. A bookcase will be purchased to contain all literature per 1 taining to the work of the association and will be ready at all times for use as reference for the farmers.
 Chase After Highwayman Albert Durr, a negro highwayman of | Tuscaloosa county, led Detectives Me- | Cabe and Ross strenuous and exciting chase Tuesday afternoon. Durr held up and robbed three white men near Kel- mar Sunday night and made away with | S90 Information reached the police office | Tuesday noon that the man was at Reed CTS, threatening to kill a negro woman, and was resisting all attempts at cap- ture.
 The negro saw the officers approach | ing, however, and ran down the public road from flinders store, with the de- tectives driving after him in a buggy. | for 200 yards. But as he turned from i the road and took to the woods McCabe and Ross alighted and ran afoot for 10U yards until Detective sRoss could see him plainly enough to shoot him twice and | inf1ict a flesh wound, which caused him to drop and be taken prisoner The ne- gro's pistol was found later in the woods and $31 of the stolen money recovered. ] He will be sent to Kelmar for trial. Local Items
 1 Robert Bell and John Glenn, the two white boys who were returned from the East Lake reform school last Friday. were sentenced by Judge Gwin to three | years in the same institution Tuesday afternoon in the city court.
 The police are still raiding the soft