The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-27
General News

| This morning about II 30 o'clock the No. l fire department made quick
 run to the home of Angelo Jones, which is located on Seventh avenue, between Nineteenth and twentieth streets, where a few sparks were discovered
 on the roof of the house. These were
 duickly extlnguished, no damage be- ing done
 This morning the case of the state of Alabama versus Mike Flint, ne- gro, who Is charged with assault and battery. was heard before Justice of the Peace E. II. Lopez A plea of gull ty was entered and the court assessed fine of s5 against him. As the man
 was unable to pay his fine he was placed in the city jail to work out the fine.
 A docket of 37 cases was disposed Of by Mayor l. A. Lewis this morning. | C. w. Albright. a man who resides near Morgan. and who was charged with
 insulting a Miss Johnson, who lives
 on the Southern railway few miles from Bessemer, in the store of M. Barr
 on Third avenue and Nineteenth street
 on Saturday afternoon. was fined s2o and costs by Judge Lewis. All of the other defendants were charged with
 the usual Saturday night and Sunday OnenSeS. AL the cOnclus1on or the court l s75 cash had been netted from the s167 | assessed.
 This morning the preliminary hear | ing in the case of the state versus
 John Asberry came up before Justice l E. H. Lopez. Tho defendant who was
 charged with grand larceny. was dis
 missed as the person making Inc
 charge was unable to produce the evi- dence to substantiate the charge.
 uni fpiura1
 at Woodward some time ago by having
 car run over his leg near the ankle i had his left limb amputated. Blood 1 poison had set in.
 While returning from the Wall fu-
 neral yesterday afternoon Misses Ma
 bel and Gladys Baird and J. A. Baird
 all of Feeders, were injured by the 1 falling of dead tree across the bug gy in which they were seated. All were
 hurried to the Reeders hospital, where | their wounds which were not consid- cred serious were dressed. The acci-
 dent occurred on the main road near Feeders and the occupants of the bug
 gy were considered very fortunate ir
 esca ping serious injuries.
 | About S:45 o'clock tonight the fire department made a quick run to Sec
 ond avenue and Nineteenth street. On
 reaching the place no fire could be disco vered and 1t was thought to be
 someone smoking out mosquitoes" It was reported this morning by lJ D Martin who owns and cuItivates d large farm at Greenwood, that an army of caterpillars is advancing on l his cotton. He states that it Is the regu- ! lar cotton caterpillar and until this
 morning he had not noticed them.
 Maise De Leon, prominent busi-
 ness man of Atlanta, who left his home
 on q business trip to New York on Au- | gust o. and has not been heard from
 since. is a cousin of Mrs. l.. H. Lopez
 of this city. As MT. Noise De Leon had 1 d large amount of money on his per
 son when he left it Is feared that he
 has been murdered and robbed. On Thursday the cases of George
 Parker and George Turner, charged
 with stealing cattle. will be heard be-
 fore Justice of the Peace S. J. Till
 man Turner is a prominent citizen in l the section in which he lives, and it is expected that the cases will attract
 the attention of the people residing in 1 that section.
 1 Last week at the annual meeting of
 the grand lodge of the colored Ancien,
 Free and Accepted Masons at Tuskegee ! the matter of the location of the es- | tablishmcnt of home for the in
 dieent Masons and an industrial school
 at Bessemer was decided and 1t Is ex- | pected the work on the buildings will begin here soon. year ago the com mittee purchased 40 acres of land about l two miles from, Bessemer on the Fourth avenue road and since the purchase
 many negroes have bought land fol homes to be near the school. The price paid for the 40 acres was $100 an acre