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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
Letter From Beatty

The following Is a reproduction of the letter addressed to the commtte from the Roden estate, which has already given out the fact that million dollar hotel will be constructed on the Roden home place at Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street:
 'Birmingham January -24, 1912. "Mr. W. P. G. Harding. Chairman Cham
 Der of Commerce Hotel Committee City:
 Dear Sir-We take pleasure fin an- nouncing to your committee the perfeo- tion of the plans of the Roden Hotel com pany for the erection of 10 story, mod ern hotel on it's property at Fifth ave- nue and Eighteenth street.
 We congratulate you on your success ful effort to stimulate interest in Blr- mingham's greatest need-a modern fire proof hotel and take this opportunity of thanking you and your committe for its cordial support which has assisted us ma. terially in completing the details of this undertaking.
 "The hotel will call for an expenditure of approximately sl,000,00O, and will ne managed by company of recognized merit We will be glad to acquaint yoa with further details in a few days Yours truly, l. C. BEATTY.
 "Eor Roden Estate and Assoofattap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage license was issued by the probate judge yesterday:
 Robert A. Mackey of East Lake te Miss Dora May Gilbert.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
All Steel Cars

Why not take Seaboard s:3o a. m., arrive Atlanta 1905 D. m-, Washington 10:35 a. m.. New. York 4:40 p. m Phone Bell 2SS2 for reservations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26

eided upon this lot. We did all the work without the aid of q publicity bureau and very quietly, knowing that Birming- ham needed a hotel. and there seemed to be a sentiment for it on the Jordan hotel corner. A few days ago we secured through F. l.. Brown from Harvey G.. Woodward. an option on the site and since then satisfactory terms have been made for the financing of the proposition.
 We propose to erect the hotel ire spective of any other plans, as we be- lieve the site selected after careful in- auiry and impersonal examination, is the best one possible to secure.
 We propose to get architects to work on this hotel at once and to proceed with the erection as early as possible. We have canceled leases on the buildings occupying the site and there is nothing in the way of proceeding. We hope to have the hotel opened by Christmas, 1912, or not later than January 1. 1919.'
 At the hotel committee meeting yester- day Chairman w. P G. Harding an- nouneed the resignation from that com- mittee of George Gordon Crawford, John L. Kaul and Eugene l.. Brown. the three citizens being interested In a hotel propo- sition, thus disqualifying them to vote. As they are not publicly known to be interested In another prospective hotel the inference is drawn that the three gentlemen named are interested in the Fifth avenue hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26

In the face of swift gale above the Empire building yesterday morning and with perfect abandon, John Legg, em- ployed at the Empire building tempor- arily, climbed to the topmost pinnacle of flag pole 60 feet above the roof Of the building and flirt-r with the steel workers across the street on the steel skeleton of the American Trust sky scraper. The Empire is 219 feet high, while the pole is 60 feet, being total heighth of 279 feet
 The daring feat of Mir. Legg, who was repairing the flag ropes on the pole, at tracted wide attention on the street, and for while traffic was stopped by crowds gazing at the steeple jack dangling from the flag pole. He could be plainly seen as far out Twentieth street as Avenue c and even that far away knots of in- terested spectators could be seen looking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
ENDORSEMENT WILL NOT BE GIVEN ID ANY OF PROJECTS Chamber of Commerce Com mittee Now Feels Assured
 of New Hotel AND THAT WAS END
 TO BE ATTAINED Reports Are Heard From Representa- tives of Four Projects Which
 Have Been Seriously
 Undertaken

Tn view of. the fact that there are four new up to date hotels In sight for the city Of Birmingham, the special hotel committee of the Chamber of Commerce has decided to take no action toward indorsing any proposition in order that the members of the committee may be free to take part in any of the plans that they see fit."-W. P. G, Harding, chairman of the commit ] tee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26

Having accomplished the mission for which 1t was created, that of securing new, modern, fireproof hotel for Birming- ham. the special hotel committee of the Chamber of Commerce has ruled that 1t will not officially sponsor any of the pro- posals submitted.
 The multiplicity of propositions assures one or more of these hotels being built The action was unanimously taken by the commmittee at its final session held yes terday afternon in the directors room or the Chamber of Commerce upon motion presented by Frank Nelson, Jr, and sec- onded by A. II. Ford.
 That the committee has been the indl- rect instigator of the new hotel plans through it's stimulation of local and out side interest in the erection of adequate. hostelry accommodations for this city has been pronounced by each of the promoters of the several hotel plans and the full at tendance of the commtte at its ses- sions.
 W. P. G. Harding, chairman of the hotel committee, presided yesterday, his eNecu- tive associates including Prank Nelson, Jr., A, H. Ford, NJ. Y. Joseph, Eugene F. Ensen, sr., w. W. Crawford, R. E. Col lins, R. S. Munger, Frank B. B'owlkes, D. M Drennen, J. l.. Yancey and Richard w. Massey as ex officio member. The chair announced the resignation of John l.. Raul. Eugene l., Brown and George Cor don Crawford, and invited Gen. D. w. Fucker 10 act with the committee, which was augmented with General Fuckers ac- ceptanee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
MARCHING CLUB
 WILL MEET WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Oscar c. Turner, president of the Un- derwood Marching Club of Alabama, made the announcement yesterday that a meeting of the entire membership of the club will be held Wednesday night, in the armory of the city hall
 In addition to those who have signed applicant blanks, it is anticipated that several thousand more will attach their nafnes to the blanks which will be found today at Parkers, Brown Marx. Flor ence, Subway and other cigar stands.
 MT. Turner stated that all the stamps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
Expectations Exceeded

EApeCtdt1oHS EACeeueu
 After the reading of communications from the Roden estate and Robert Jemi- son, Jr., and hearing the verbal state ments of w. N. Malone and w. J. Dam Eaix to the effect that each was .sngineer- ing move to erect or have erected the hotel so long desired for Birmingham. the commmittee realized that its expectations had been exceeded and agreed to let each movement attain it's success without their chaperonage other than general ap- proval of the quartet. It is understood that several of the committeeman are connected with either of these proposl- tlons already made public, or others yet to be formulated, which would have re- suited in a division of opinion as to the best choice of a site 10 be stamped with the Chamber of Commerce edict, and not wishing to discriminate between any of those already under way as 1t se- lection, the commmittee pursued, in the judgment of those most intimately con cerned. the most public spirited and polite method available.
 The resolution framing the ruling of the committe is It is the sense of this meeting of the special hotel committee of the Chamber of Commerce that so many enterprises having developed to build n new hotel in Birmingham, assuring us that at least one or more of these will reach completion the committee will not undertake to pass on any proposed situ- alton but will report to the general body of the Chamber of Commerce that the object of the committee has been accom- plished and petition that the committee be discharged "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
SITE CONSIDERED
 MOST AVAILABLE

Brown I
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
Assaulted Wife; Murdered Husband

Sallisaw, Okla, Dec. 31.-Aftel
numbering George Casey, a white
farmer of Muldrow, with an axe, and
criminally assaulting the farmers
wife, last night, negro named Turn
er was lynched to-day by an infuri-
ated mob in the streets of Muldrow
The negro invaded the Casey
home about midnight after he had
stolen an engine from the round
house of the Iron Mountain railroad
at Vanburen, Ark, and driven it tc
Muldrow. At that place the engi11e
was derailed by the station agent but
the negro escaped and proceeded to
the Casey home.
On the pretense by the negro that
he was almost frozen Casey let him
into his home to warm. A few min
yates later the negro stepped out OF
the side door of the house and re-
turned with an axe with which he al
most decapitated Casey, killing him
instantly.
The negro then assaulted the un-
protected wife of the farmer, after
which he is said to have fallen into
a drunken stupor. Mrs. Casey es-
caped from the house in her night
dress and after running about two
miles told citizens of Muldrow of the
atrocious acts of Turner.
An infuriated mob proceeded
quickly to the Casey home.
The negro was swung up ITO tele-
phone wires by rope on the main
street of Muldrow.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
SIAAYS FAMILY, HANGS SELF.
Arkansas Farmer Murders Seven
Before Committing Suicide.

Il
Before Committing Suicide.
Benton, Ark, Dec. 27.-Despond-
ent, according to note found to-
day, James Grant, prosperous farmer
and merchant, dubbed his wife, five
children and stepson to death, at his
home near Benton last night, and
then hanged himself. Grants body
was found suspended to rafter in
barn and those of the woman and
children about the farm dwelling,
their skulls crushed
Hugh Grant, a sixteen-year-old
son, made the gruesome discovery
when he returned from a holiday
celebration on a neighboring farm.
The note explains that, lowing to
deep despair and that I see nothing
for me or my children, who I believe
would be better off in Heaven, COM
NIT this act" Instructions were Civ
en- where money could be found to
cover burial expenses and request
that Grants parents not be notified
until after the bodies had been
buried.
The body of the woman was found
in a sitting posture, partly disrobed.
Apparently she was preparing to re-
tire when she was killed. Those OF
the children, ranging in age from 5
to 13 years, were found in their beds.
A heavy oak club, covered with
blood, was found near the bodies of
the children.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
Four Hundred Break Jail.

San Luis Potasi, Mex, Dec. %
Four hundred prisoners in the peni-
tentiary here to-day escaped. They
overpowered the guards, seized few
guns and attacked l6 rurales quar-
tered in nearby barracks, killing the
sentinel and wounding a number of
the troopers. The escaped prisoners
sought refuge in the country, but be-
fore night soldiers detailed to run
them down had captured the larger
part. Gov. Ceneda says he believed
the Jail delivery was part of a Rey-
ista movement planned before the
surrender of Gen. Reyes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
Comparative Emotion.

Gratitude, although it may exist in
a very earnest form, is by no means
the strongest and most consuming of
the human emotions, as this story
from the Rock Island Union bears
witness. When Lawrence Barrett's
daughter was married Stuart Robson
sent a check for $1,000 to the bride
groom. The comedians daughter,
Felicia Robson, who attended the
wedding, conveyed the gift.
Felicia" said her father upon her
return, did you give him the
-check?"
Eyes, father" answered the daugh-
ter.
"What did he say?" asked Robson.
HE didn't say anything,' replied
Miss Felicia, "but he shed tears.
How long did he cry?'
"Why, father, l didn't time him.
1 should say however, that he wept
fully a minute
Fully in minute" muscd Robson.
why, daughter, l cried an hour af-
ter | signed it."-Youth's Compan-
ion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS
Bamberg People Should Know How
to Read and Heed Them.

Sick kidneys give may signals OF
distress.
The secretions are dark, contain
a sediment.
Passages are frequent, scanty
painful.
Backache is constant day and
Headaches and dizzy spells are
frequent.
The weakened kidneys need quick
help.
Don't delay! Use special kidney
remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sick
kidneys, backache and urinary dis
orders.
Bamberg evidence proves their
merit.
Mrs. R. A. Delk, E. Church St..
Bamberg, S. c., says: Il can say
that 7 have been greatly benefited by
Doan's Kidney Pills which | pro-
cured from the Peoples Drug Co.
took them for backache and kidney
complaint and found them to be just
as represented. They relieved me OF
backache and pains in my loins and
also removed trouble that had exist
ed with my kidneys"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
100000 WEAVERS LOCKED OUT.
Labor Trouble in English Mills May
Start Long Struggle.

Manchester, England, Dec. IT,
The refusal of one man and two wo-
men to join a trade union, coupled
with the decision of the master cot
ton spinners to close their mills three
days in the week, caused complete
stoppage of great portion of the
the cotton mills in Northeast Lam
cashire tonight. Efforts are already
afoot to bring about a settlement,
but as one woman, who left the
union after twenty years because
she believes the benefits are not COM
mensurate with the payments, per-
sists in her attitude and the master
spinners insist upon their right to
maintain open shops, long and Bit
ter struggle is feared. There is dan
ger, too, of the fight spreading to
other industries.
The lockout involves 100000
weavers, and nearly an equal num-
Der of spinners will be- reduced to
half pay. There are indications al
ready of probable complications
through the introduction of new
issue in the troublesome question of
wages. This move has been taken
by the weavers, who now declare that
as a lockout has been decided upon
they intend to make an advance of
5 per cent. in wages as a condition
of any settlement. 1t is estimated
that the weekly loss to weavers and
allied workers, spinners and card
room employees, will amount to ST.
100000. The weavers will receive,
roughly, $325,000 lockout pay from
the union.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
TO FILE CHARGES WITH LYON.
Col. Fielder Assures People That His
Book Will be Published.

Spartanburg, Dec. 27.-The Her
aid to-day says: The Herald has OBJ
tanned from COL Thomas B. Fielder,
the Atlanta attorney, statement
concerning his forthcoming book on
Gov. Cole l.. Blease.
Col. Fielder calls it "a biographi'
cal sketch of the private, official and
public career of your distinguished
CD governor, showing his connec-
ton with the late lamented dispen-
sary of the State of South Carolina
from the year 1900 down to the abo-
lition of this institution, and togeth-
er with his activities as senator to
thwart and stifle the investigation OF
his friends and associates, including
himself, as we'll as history of his
UNDUE and picturesque career as
governor of the State of South Caro-
lima"
Is About Completed.
Col. Fielder has been engaged in
the preparation of this sketch at odd
times. During the last 80 days he
has been absent in Chicago, Wash
ington, D. c., and Jacksonville, Fla.
He expects to complete the document
before January 1.
He says it will be filed with the
attorney general of South Carolina,
together with a companion piece
containing evidence in my hands
documentary and parole,) together
with list of witnesses by whom he
will be able to establish to the salts
faction of the most incredulous ev-
cry fact contained in the biographi-
cal sketch
Up to Attorney General.
Col. Fielder says he hopes to be
able to show to the satisfaction OF
the governors constituents that Mr.
Blease has violated many laws.
In view of the rumors which have
been current concerning Col. Felder's
book, The Herald addressed a letter
to him, asking him to vouchsafe in
formation in regard to the matter.
He replied in a personal letter, re-
markable for the ability he displayed
as master of invective. He did not
hesitate to use hard adjectives and
odious SMILES in expressing his opin-
ion of Gov. Blease, whom he said he
would expose as criminal of most
shocking character.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
HELD FOR BABY'S DEATH.
Cade Stokes, of Florence, will be
Tried for Criminal Carelessness.

Tried for Criminal Carelessness.
Florence, Dec. 29.-The story of
the little baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Craw-
ford Hutchinson, of Efhngham, does
not seem to have been told in the
fullness of it's terrible details.
At the inquest of the coroner it
was brought out that the man who
was so unfortunate as to be the
means of the death of the little one
was criminally careless.
The story as brought out at the in
quest was that Cade Stokes, young
man of that neighborhood, was a
visitor at the home of the Hutchin-
sons, and that to scare and amuse
the children he took the shot out of
number of shells for a shotgun,
and was shooting the blank shells at
the children and making them jump.
1t is well known by all who have
had any instruction in the use of
shells that a blank shell is danger
Gus, and possibly fatal, at a distance
of 20 feet. In this instance, Mr..
Stokes, who had no intention in the
world of doing even mischief, snap
ped the gun at one of the little girls,
who had the baby in her arms, while
almost in reach of her. The shot
did not injure the girl, but the Iwad
struck the infant and death result
ed. '.
The coroner's jury ordered that
Mr.. Stokes be held for criminal care
lessness, and he will be tried at the
next term of court.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04

Blank books and legal blanks at
The Herald Book Store.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
Ten Women Claim Him.

Owen Callan, in jail in Bath, N.
Y, on charge of obtaining $4,000
from Mrs. Aleda Jacobs, of Hornell,
n. Y, when he promised to marry
her, is said to have ten wives. All
are aiding the district attorney in
building up the case against the pris-
oner.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04
CLEMSON CADET WOUNDED.
Charles Jones Seriously Hurt While
Hunting Near Gaffney.

Gaffney, Dec. 30.-Charles Jones,
a Clemson college cadet and son of
r. A. Jones, of this city, accidentally
shot himself this morning while out
hunting on his brothers farm near
this city.
The young man drew the gun up
to shoot at game, it caught in his
clothing and was discharged, the shot
taking effect in his forehead. DR..
S. B. Sherard, of this city, was at
once summoned and the wound dress
ed. While serious, the wound is
probably not fatal.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-25
SUFFRAGIsT IS
NOT A SUFFRAGE TIE

Some well meaning friend met Mrs
j. NJ. Dowsett on the street yesterday
and laughingly remarked about her in.
terest in the suffrage movement in Ha.
wall and inadvertently called her a
suffragette."
~ am not a suffragette," replied
Mrs. Dowsett quickly. 81 am suffra-
gist and so all are the followers of the
suffrage movement in Hawaii. There
is quite difference between the mean
ing of the two words. Suffragette is
the name applied to the militant
women of England who have literally
fought for their cause, while suffragist
is the supporter of the Woman's Equal
Suffrage movement. So please do not
call us suffragettes, because we are not
going to smash any windows or throw
any bricks to win our rights; we will
get them by more gentler means"
Tuesday afternoon from two to three
thirty there will be a meeting of the
National Woman's Equal Suffrage AS
ISOLATION at the home of Mrs. j. M.
Dowsett on PunahOu street.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-25
READY NOW FOR
RUSHING THINGS
Republican National Committee
to Invade Pennsylvania
in Fine Style.
az Federal wireless Telegraph. J

NEW YORK, October 23.-(Special to
The Advertiser) = Preparations have
been completed for strenuous cam.
paign in Pennsylvania during the last
week by the Republican National Com.
mittee. Speakers will be sent into every
town and city, and meetings have been
arranged for every day of next week.
Among the men who will speak in
Pennsylvania next week will be John
Maynard Harlan and j. Adam Bede,
who tracked Colonel Roosevelt over the
country during the latter's big swing
through twenty-five States. Other
speakers of prominence are already be-
ing sent into Pennsylvania.
The reports from the local leaders
show that there is no question of Pres.
ident Taft carrying the State, but it
is the intention of the committee to
make his plurality as large as possible
A big meeting will be held in Phila.
delphia on Saturday night This will
be the starting point for the special
campaign.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-25
STATEMENT FILED
BY THE ADVERTISER
Shows Ownership, Management
and Circulation, as Re-
CURED by Law.

In accordance with the act Of August
20, 1919, relating TO the Postal Laws
and Regulations Of the United States,
which requires that a sworn statement
of the ownership, management, circula.
tion, etc. of daily newspapers, shall DO
fled with the postmaster general and
with tho postmaster OF the city in
which such newspapers are issued, and
that copy Of the statement shall be
printed in the second issue of such
newspapers printed next after the fling
of such statement, The Advertiser pub.
fishes, rs follows, the sworn statement
IL has made;
Statement of the ownership, manage.
ment, circulation, etc, of The Pacific
Commercial Advertiser The Sunday
Advertiser. published daily and Sunday
morning at Honolulu, 4. H., required by
the act of August "a, 1912.
Editor, Roderick o. Matheson; bust.
ness manager, Charles S. Crane; pub.
! Usher, The Hawaiian Gazette Company
Ltd.
Owners-L A. Thurston, C. S. Crane,
Mrs. A. w. Pearson, +. Dekum, w. NJ.
Pomroy. All addresses: Honolulu, Y. II.
Known bondholders, mortgages and
olhtI scVhIil. nOlutTSs uolulhR Oho ptl
cent or more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages or other securities. None.
Average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or distrib.
uted, through the mails or otherwise,
to paid subscribers during the six
months preceding the date of this
statement; Daily, 1910; Sunday, 4640
(Signed) G. s. CRANE,
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this ped day of October, 1912.
(SeaD HYLA B. CO0NLEY,
Notary Public.
My commission expires June 80 1913
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-25
tBv Federal wireless rolerranb, ,

BEVERLY, Massachusetts, October
23.-(Special to The Advertiser) Pres,
ident Taft's plan for cooperative banks
for the United States farmer has been
endorsed by many governors. Ten let
tiers from State executives, discussing
the plan, have been received here.
Governor Baldwin of Connecticut, a
Democrat, is the only governor to ex-
press disapproval. Two letters were re-
ceived from secretaries to governors.
The governors who approved the Presi-
dent s idea are:
Eberhardt of Minnesota, Pothier of
Rhode Island, Foss of Massachusetts,
Wesley of South Dakota, Blease of South
Carolina, Goldsborough of Maryland,
and Mann of Virginia.