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motor being a powerful triple spring drive, absolutely silent and always positive and reliable. The tone arm leads the sound waves from the reproducer into the sound chamber, where it is am plified and poured out through the front. subject to reduction in volume by the partial or complete closing of the double doors. The start-and- stop lever is combined with a speed regulator lever, all in handy reach The turn table stands above the top of the cabinet when the lid is raised, admitting easy access to the record and needle.
 It is an instrument that any man, of any means. may be proud to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-26
THE RECORDS:

own and use for lifetime.
 The outfit of records we have se- 1eeted from the best selling and most popular of all classes, and in eludes the famous Sextette from Lucia" and the equally famous Quartette from "Rigoletto," which to any of your friends who own talking machines and have paid SIS for these two selections alone. You are at liberty to make your own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-26
PERRY JAIL FOUND
 IN GOOD CONDITION Grand Jury Reports-Crime Reduced to Minimum III CASES EXAMINED AlmshOuse and County Farm Found to Be in Satisfactory Shape.
 Recital at Judson-Crim-
 inal Court Convenes

Marion, March 25.- Special )-The grand jury has made it's report through Offa Woodfin of uniontown and adjourned.
 One hundred and eleven cases were eX- an.ned. and 59 true bills returned at q cost of S565 45
 The report shows the almshouse, jail and farm in good condtion and no blame is attached to present officials for the jail delivery last fall. The report shows that crime has been reduced to q minimum, and the smallest number of bills of this kind are sent in that the record has shown in many years. In fact it is doubtful if a single person is given penitentiary sentence at the pres- ent term of court
 Inc following exhibit of the county's financial condition on March 19 is shown by the treasurer:
 General fund ................,.........$3 35S2.S0 Road fund .....,..................... 25,52l .S9 Special road fund .................. 7175O0 Special bridge fund ...............r 122279 Land sale fund ...................-.s 65.o0 as1indihg fund.- ..,......<........... l16,O9
 Total cash .'......................s3 .s37, ,74L27
 It is also shown that $l1,0 ,00o of 1911 taxes are uncollected and the same is 9 due to the general and bridge funds.
 Miss Sallie Fancher of Montevallo, and Miss Sarah Bullock of Montgomery gave recitals for graduation in piano-forte at Judson College tonight.
 Dr. ]. NJ. Thomas is erecting a , room cottage on Lafayette street, opposite Car negie library at a cost of $500.
 The criminal docket was taken up in the circuit court this morning. and the same will doubtless be cleared before the close of the week
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REPORTS OF FIGHT
 AROUND JIMINEZ
 MUCH AT VARIANCE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE n

--~----~-~-~-~--~---~-~~- telegram, which has been corroborated by messages received by the National Railways today. The information of Fl lmparcial was interrupted by the govern ment censorship, but it's main substance reached the office of the paper. only the reported suicide of the commander in chief, General Gonzalez Salaz, ap- pears open to doubt.
 The rebel victory followed four days of almost continuous fighting in which the early advantage seemed to be with the government army, which pressed for ward through the outposts of the Orozco forces and compelled them to abandon the town of Escalon, where the first serious resistance was offered. On Saturday tho rebels fell back towards Corralitos. which vas selected as the field of the real bat tie. Here the fight was resumed Sunday and continued with considerable energy until the rebels executed the maneuver which turned the tide against the fed erals.
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bringing up endorsements In the mean while a locomotive loaded with dynamite was prepared in the rebel camp.
 A volunteer engineer piloted the en- zine out of town and at moment when the troop train of federals ap- preached the engine was speeded up with an open throttle. the engineer Jumping to safety. In the explosion which followed the collision of the locomotives so federal soldiers were killed. The move was complete sur prise and threw the federal army into panic. By this time Campa's party had closed In behind the main federal forces and the real attack of the revo- lutionaries began.
 Retreat at Night
 Under cover of the night the feder- als retreated and at day break the revolutionaries found their enemy had disappeared, according to the accounts given here.
 By special instructions of General Orozco the prisoners sent north were received with all the honors of war at Chihuahua, their wounds being given attention and the soldiers fed and treated with every respect. The number of privates captured is not given. Nicholas Martinez, chief of staff
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of General Salaz. is reported to ba

among those killed.
 Federals are said to be pouring into Torreon exhausted and panic stricken by their complete defeat. For days they had been advancing under the greatest discomforts of heat and short rations and are said to have been in the poorest condition for the battle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-26
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

Kansas, republican, urged before the House interstate and foreign commerce committee today his resolution to investi- gate all fire insurance companies.
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Campa Thanked Federals

Under General Campa, 500 revolutions aries were sent by circuitous route some miles south from Corraitos with instruc- tions to fall in behind the troop trains of the federal army, which were still
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-26

New Orleans.-Pittsburg police officials today identified a prisoner held in the parish prison here as Herman Hirsch al legged murderer of James McMillan, wealthy retired merchant. He was killed and then robbed by three men in Noyem- Der, 1906, in Birhfeld avenue, Pittsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-26
THE INSTRUMENT:

This beautiful Grafonoia Favor ite,' the first instrument of this latest improved type to be offered at anything like it's price, Is proba bly, the best that it's price will ever buy. 1t seems pretty clear that the limit has been reached. As a musi- cal instrument. it is all that any musical instrument can be, and all that those costing s20O can claim to be
 Tie cabinet is built of the choic- est mahogany Cor of beautiful quarter sawn oak) polished like the costllest piano.
 The "Favorite' plays any size of record-three at one winding, and can be rewound while running, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-26

Springfield. Ill.-The special session of the state legislature called to meet tomorrow, is expected to be brief. Friends of the preferential primary bill hope that the bill can be passed in three days. Many, however, say trouble may be expected from Speaker Adkins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-26

Vicksburg, Miss.-Judge Trogden, a prominent planter, was shot to death early today at his home near Greenville, Miss. according to a local dispatch, and Sumner Rhodes, manager of the Trogden planta- tion is being held. Rhodes claims that the shooting was accidental
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
DISCARD SMITH APPOINTEES
THE SENATE BY BIG MAJORITY
HAS DISMISSED THE ISSUE.
Smiths Strength Is Eight Senators
Less Than Mustered for Sheppard
Resolution Last Time.

ATLANTA.-For the third and
last time United States Senator Hoke
Smith has lost his fight before the
Georgia senate for confirmation of
his appointments made while gov
ernor.
The Sheppard resolution request
ing Governor Brown to return these
appointments to the senate for con-
sideration went down in defeat after
a bitter fight by vote of 20 to IL.
The vote came upon a motion of Sen
ator Dickerson to postpone it indef-
nitely.
The Smith strength, which amount
ed to 10 votes last year when the
senate failed time after time to con-
firm the Smith appointments, failed
to materialize. At least two sena-
tors counted as Smith partisans dur
ing the last session spoke against
the Sheppard resolution and six more
Topped when the vote was taken.
Senator Sheppard attempted to
keep his fight on legal basis and
the Brown forces led by Senator Rob
erts adopted this course, but faction
al politics injected into the debate
assumed proportions that would not
down.
Senator Sheppard practically wag-
ed his fight alone. He admitted that
his motion to return the appoint
ments to Smith on the last night of
last session gave him but little
fighting chance
There we're seventeen of the APP
pointments in question, and it is said
Governor Brown will send in the
names of his own appointees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
Says WOuld-Be Teacher in Answer to
Question as to How He'd Show
Harmful Effect of Alcohol.

Many amusing and often startling
answers are made in their examina-
ton papers by applicants for license
to teach in the public schools of the
state.
County School Commissioner Low
rey has recently finished the work of
grading the papers of nearly 100 ap-
plicants who took the examination
in Terrell, and more than once did
he, in the course of his work, find
emanating from the thought-dome
of some would-be educator choice
bit of English or an idea of rare orig
inality.
One of the most ludicrous was the
answer of a negro who aspires to be
a leader of enlightenment and intel
Iigence to the question:
"Give your plan for presenting to
pupils the harmful effects of alcohol
on the human system"
There was no hesitancy on the part
of this instructor of the youth. He
knew Just how he would do it, and
dashed off the following:
~ would secure some alcohol and
a body, possibly a dog. 1 would kill
the dog and use the alcohol"
How the commissioner graded this
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
A MONSTER ILLINOIS FISH
Weighed 131 Pounds, Was Six Feet
Long, and Nearly as Large as a
Man. Was of Catfish Species.

The Alton Gid Telegraph relates
thus very interesting fish story:
A mammoth blue fulton catfish
was brought to the Peter Joest mar
ket Monday morning. 1t weighed
131 pounds, and is the largest catfish
that has been caught in Mississippi
river waters for twenty-five years.
The fish was captured by William
Murphy, fisherman at Elsah. Its
measurements were not taken accu-
rately, but in the judgment of the
fishermen it was as large as an ordi-
nary man, nearly six feet in length
by about As inches in girth. It's head
would weigh about thirty pounds
and was at least eighteen inches
across.
It's capacious mouth looked as if
it could swallow good-siZed boy,
and in general appearance as it
lay on the deck of the dock it looked
as if it might weigh 500 pounds and
powerful enough to drown a man
who should by chance run afoul of it
in deep water.
According to the estimate of the
age of the fish given by old fisher
men it was over a century old. 1t
may have spawned when Washington
vas serving his last term as presi-
dent
The last biggest fish caught here
was in about 1895, when one weigh
ing 112 pounds was brought into the
Alton market. This is a fulton cat
fish, a species that grow to enormous
size and which grow crafty and are
not often captured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
MOVEMENT DIED ADJOINING
Insurgent Plan to Recall Taft Meets
Quick Death. Its Backers DOdged
When Asked About 1t.

WASHINGTON scheme of
republican progressives in the house
of representatives TO launch fresh
campaign against President Taft by
means of a petition asking him to
withdraw as the republican nominee
proved to be a flash in a pan" to-
day.
When pinned down to it the men,
Tbers who participated in the confer
ence which developed the idea hastily
joined the Don Observation-Disclosures
club. Those who started the move
ment abandoned their efforts to show
the participation of the regular re-
publicans in it and it was clearly ap-
parent that there was little support
forthcoming from that direction.
Only one of the participants in the
informal conferences, Representative
Rolin Rees of Kansas, publicly ad-
mitted his share In the proceedings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
IT WENT SAILING THROUGH
HOUSE WOULD ABOLISH NEAR
BEER AND LOCKER CLUBS.
Enthusiastic Scene in the Gallery
of House When Measure Is Adopt
ed by Vote of 129 to AZ.

ATLANTA, July 1o.-The Tippins
bill, substitute for the original
Tippins bill, passed the house at $3.50
o'clock this afternoon by a vote of
1923 to AZ, which, if d sign, would
indicate passage over the governors
veto in the event that happens.
The real test on the measure came
on the vote on the Adams amend
ment to submit the measure to the
voters in the primary August 21st,
and it lost by a vote of 80 to 81.
After that it was smooth sailing, and
the final result was declared with
tremendous cheers from the CALLER
les, which were crowded all day with
women and men interested in the
passage of the bill.
This measure puts near beer sa-
looms out Of business completely.
since it limits the percentage of alco-
hol in all beverages and proprietary
medicines, sold as beverages, to one
half of che per cent. 1t also ieals a
death blow to locker clubs.
Immediately after the result of
the vote was announced there was q
rush for the exit. Women in the
gallery continued cheering, even az
ter the speaker had raped for order
to announce the adjournment of the
the hall of the house, two men mixed
house. In the corridor, just outside
the hall of the house, two men mix
ed, but were separated before any
damage could be done to each other.
The final day was marked by wordy
wars between various members. The
speakers on both sides again injected
the bitter invective into the debates
when the bill was called at 1920
Wednesday morning, and when the
hour of adjournment was reached
the members were stirred to the
highest pitch of excitement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
CASE WAS CONTINUED THREE
TIMES AFTER TRIAL BEGUN

the trial had begun, for the purpose
of affording an opportunity for a
settlement of it. 1t is now to be
called again at o'clock next Tues
day morning. When the case was con-
tinued the second time Tuesday JUS
tice Peddy told the prisoner, who had
been in Jail since Monday night, that
he might go on his own recognizance.
Hogg admits that Lane has com
missions amounting to more than
$500 in notes that the latter had
turned over to him, but says that he
was not to be paid until the notes
matured and were collected, and that
he had told Lane he would not hon
or any more drafts drawn by him.
1t is thought the case will be set
tied when it is called next week.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
A NEW BANK AT PLAINS.
Second for This Growing South GeOr-
gia Town Is Organized.

Second for This Growing South GeOr-
gia Town Is Organized.
Plains now has it's second bank,
the new financial institution having
just been established under most
promising conditions. 1t will be
known as the Citizens Bank of
Plains.
The capital stock has been fixed
at SIS, 900, with the privilege of in
creasing this to SIS, 200 when desir-
ed. A site has been chosen for the
bank building, which will be con-
structed at once. 1t is expected that
the new bank will be ready for bust
ness September 1st.
The stockholders of the new bank
are Messrs. J. NJ. Cook, J. w. Tim
norman, Reese NJ. Andrews, Mrs.
Matte Caughman, j. B. Clark,
George Ifiller, Emery Stevens, Mrs.
Howell, Emmett Harper and Rev. A.
c. Wellons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
JOE HALL DEFENDS GOVERNOR
RESENTS VICIOUS ATTACK MADE
BY HOOPER ALEXANDER.
I.atter'S Severe Criticism of Courts
Also Called Forth a Rebuke. Hot
Times in the House.


ATLANTA.-Deba on the Tip
pins liquor bill consumed the entire
session of the house Tuesday and a
vote on the measure was postponed
until Wednesday. The plan was to
bring it to a vote at 1890 o'clock
Tuesday morning, but the matter
brought forth so many speeches that
it was thought best to delay mat
ters.
At times the debate waxed hot,
and the predicted stiff fight was real
lied. The debate was marked by an
attack on the anti-saloon league by
DR.. George Brown, who declared he
wanted no support from that organ
ization and asserted that they needed
better class of preachers rather than
more prohibitive measures.
The Tippins bill would forbid the
sale of drinks containing more than
one-half of one per cent of alcohol
and is designed to combat the sale
of near beer.
Hall Defends Governor.
In a discussion of the bill Mr.. Hall
of Bibb replied to a severe onslaught
on the governor by Mr.. Alexander of
DeKalb.
"The gentleman's attack" he de-
clared, has never had an equal on
the floor of the house. Are we in a
state of anarchy"
He insisted that no violators OF
law can be punished without due
process of law, and that Governor
Brown has been unjustly held up to
scorn because of violations of the
prohibition act.
The locker clubs have produced
this condition of so-called anarchy, :"
he declared; mot the governor or
the courts. The law authorizing
these clubs is the cause of the troub-
le."
He defended Governor Brown by
saying that the governor went into
office with the statement that he
would oppose any change in the pro-
hibition law that is not first submit
ted to the popular vote.
Put 1t to a Vote.
He insisted that if the Tippins bill
is passed to popular vote and is
adopted sentiment for the bill would
extend through the state and assure
it's enforcement.
"All good men are agreed that the
uni estricted sale of whiskey is a
great evil" he continued, 'but by
passing the Tippins bill we'll only
be making matters worse"
He returned to the statement read
by Mr.. Alexander and declared that
an arraignment of the judges was
really an arraignment of all the peo-
pie ''It is the juries who convict,
he said, mot the judges"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
HIS $4,000 GoBBLER DIES.

Feathered Monarch of Lehigh Farm
Stricken as He Struts.
At Allentown, Pa, Councilman
William ]. Morton mourns the death
of the Duke of Antwerp" the white
Holland gobbler, which at the Madi-
son Square Garden show Christmas
week. 1911, won the sweepstake
prize as the blue ribbon turkey of
America. At that time he refused an
offer of $4,000 for the bird. A
month ago the gobbler had pneu-
monia and had apparently recovered,
but Tuesday after a strut around the
barnyard fell over dead.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
HARRIS ELECTED CHAIRMAN
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
MET THURSDAY MORNING.
Nine Months Term for White and
Five for Negro Schools. May En-
large Pleasant Hill Building.

At a meeting of the county board
of education Thursday morning sew
eral matters of interest claimed the
attention of the members.
Mr.. c. M. Harris, the popular Her.
cd citizen, was elected chairman of
the board, succeeding in that posi-
ton Dr. o. G. Crawford CT Sasser,
who recently retired at the expiration
of his term. Mr.. j. H. Lewis of Sas-
ser, who was elected to succeed DR..
Crawford, was present and sat with
the board for the first time.
The board fixed Monday, Septem-
Der End, as the date for the white
schools to open after the summer va
cation, and Monday, October 2Sth,
as the opening date of the cOlored
schools. The white schools will be
in session nine months the ensuing
year, as heretofore, sixteen weeks of
which will be taught this year and
twenty weeks next year. The negro
schools will run for five months
eight weeks this year and twelve
weeks next year.
The question of charging the
school building at Pleasant Hill by
the addition of another room was
considered, but no action was taken.
A committee to look further into the
matter and report at the next meet
ing of the board was appointed. This
committee consists of ]. S. Jones and
g. F. Smith.
License for teachers recommended
by the commissioner, following the
recent examination, were approved.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
SLASHED HORSES WITH RAZOR
VANDAIIS ATTACK STABLE OF
FIFTY-TWO ANIMALS.
Shrieks and GrOans of Dying and
Wounded Victims Stampede 9th
ers. Fifteen DisembOWeled.

erSs fHUccH DIScIuUONOIcus
Fifteen horses were
disemboweled and fatally hurt in a
mysterious raid on the stables of a
transfer company on North Green
street the other morning. Fifty 9TH
er horses escaped the vandals by
breaking out of their stalls and stan-
peding about the stable. Two sus-
poets are being held by the police at
the West Chicago avenue police sta
ton, but officials refuse to give out
their names or disclose the evidence
against them. No reason for the at
tack on the horses can be found.
With skeleton keys the stables
were entered some time after mid
night The horses nearest to the
door were attacked first. A sharp
razor is thought to have been used,
for the wounds are not deep enough
to have been made with long knife,
but are so long that an extraordi-
narily sharp weapon must have been
used.
Frightened by the groans of the
dying horses their stable mates tore
loose from their fastenings and
stampeded about the stable, soaring
the vandals away.
Shrieks and groans of the wound
ed horses alarmed the night watch
man at 1 o'clock in the morning.
When he entered the stable the fifty
uninjured horses were running wild.
The intruders had escaped. Two
horses were dead and two were dy-
ing.
Police were notified and veteri-
nary surgeon was summoned. He
said that all the injured horses would
die. A few hours after the police were
notified of the raid Lieutenant Null
len arrested two men and locked
them up, Officials of the transfer
company profess to be mystified by
the cutting. They say they are and
have been on harmonious terms with
their employees, but police say several
teamsters were recently discharged
by the company.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
SENATE FAVORS COUNTY UNIT
BILL PASSED TAKING FROM COM
MITTEE RIGHT TO JUGGLE.
Measure Intended to Stop Playing of
Politics by State Executive Com
mittee. Assured of Passage.


ATLANTA, July 10.-Members
of the state executive committee,
who have used that committees pri-
mary prerogative to play partisan
politics when the occasion seemed
propitious, awoke today to find the
Georgia legislature proposing to
make the county unit system part of
the general primary law.
Senator Felker's bill providing
that the county unit system shall be
used in all state primaries was pass
ed by the senate after being amend
ed SO as to provide that where there
is tie under the county unit plan
the majority or plurality vote shall
govern. If this measure goes through
1t will make impossible in the future
any state primary except upon the
county unit plan.
The bill was introduced in the leg
islature on July IL, 1911, but failed
to reach passage before the summer
session adjourned. 1t attracted lit
tie attention because the county unit
system was firmly established. 1t
was the common belief that Hoke
Smiths unlucky experiment with the
popular plurality primary in 1908
had written fms to that plan in
Georgia.
While Felkers bill was reposing
as unfinished senate business the
state executive committee, in formu-
lating the plans for presidential
preference primary this year, hit up
on the popular plurality plan as the
most favorable to the candidate
the majority of the committee sup
Woodrow Wilson. Then this
same committee, last Saturday,
switched back to the county unit
plan for the statewide primary of
August 21st, the argument that it
was bound by tIe action of the state
convention of 1910.
The Felker bill was read in the
house for the first time today, and
is assured of passage.