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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
She Set Her Husband Afire
New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Because her husband had been paying attentions to another woman, Mrs Marie Cuccini. who lives in Long Island City, poured alcohol over him as he lay asleep yesterday morning and then touched T match to his night clothes, according to the police, who say that Mrs. Cuccini confessed the crime
 Cuccini awoke with flames leaping up around him and ran from the house be- fore his wife could stop him. She gave her attention to extinguishing the fire in the bedclothes. and was burned about the arms.
 Neighbors who heard Cuccinis screams stopped him in the street and tore tho burning clothes from him. An ambu- lance was called. and he was taken to the Long Island City hospital. where it was said that his injuries. though pain full were not dangerous Mrs. Cuccini was arrested after the burns on her arms had been treated. She said, according to the police, that she had not meant to cause her husband serious injury. but only to cure him of his affection for the other woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25

children have been improved through ad-
 vanced conditions, it will not yet be dis
 puted by any who have had missionary
 work among convicts and their children
 that there are thousands who are prac-
 tically without the necessary guardian
 ship, home life and watchfulness as well
 as Christian influence which always
 means love and care.
 This home is place where the child
 is taken and with the change of envir-
 onment it will have the benefit of fresh air. kind treatment, good food and a chance to forget the stigma that rests upon it's name and with the future before it go out not in it's fathers footsteps, but to become a good mother or a good father and a citizen not to be ashamed Of. Let us no longer turn deaf ear to the cries that rise on every side from the hearts of these innocent victims of an- others wrongdoings
 PRISONERS RELIEF SOCIETY. Rev. J. ]. MCARTY.
 Birmingha September 23, 1914.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Jews Reported Fleeing

New York, September 24.-AleNander von Nuber, Austrian consul general at New York, today gave out the following communication addressed to the American Jewish committee of New York, which he said he had received by wireless from Vienna:
 "On account of the war great many Jews have fled from the Austrian terri tories temporarily occupied by the Rus sians In spite of the generous action or the government the means of support al our disposal are inadequate. as the charity institutions of our country are overpur- dened We appeal to the generosity or Americans for help and ask assistance for the Austrian Red Cross.
 We are sure of your sympathy at the present moment all the more. as Austria s war is also fight to obtain human rights for our severely oppressed Russian broth- CTS. The money collected should be sent to us through the Austro-H Hungarian em- bassy."
 The communication was signed by the Israelitische alliance, Vienna.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Conditions in Vienna

Venice. September 24.-tVia Paris. 1:e6 p. m.)-A graphic picture of con ditions in Vienna is revealed in an or ficial statement by the mayor of Vienna that his city is supporting the fam flies of S2.000 reservists at daily cost of s50,o0o and in addition is endeav- oring to provide for 100000 unempioyen and another 100000 fugitives from Galicia and the crown land of Bulk owina The city already has expended $1, coo, GOO for fugitives.
 According to the mayors statement 40, 0O0 unemployed have been put on the public works, but 6o,0oO are help less.
 The first official report of the Aus trian Red Cross shows that the total contributions to it's fund amounted to only ss40.O00. The report says that the rich industrial classes, for the most part, subscribed liberally but expresses disappointment at the small contribu- tions of many wealthy aristocratic land owners The middle and even the lower cla sses have shown themselves more generous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
IM'ADOO BROADENS
 SCOPE OF CAMPAIGN l AGAINST BOARDING
 OF FUNDS BY BANKS
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with banks whose funds are being loaned at reasonable rates to meet the legitimate demands of business and for moving the crops. This department would like very much to have your cooperation in it's efforts to remedy these unsatisfactory conditions, and respectfully asks if it would not be possible for you to secure from all state banks and trust companies in your state statements which will show their cash reserves as of a recent date, the rates of interest which they are charging on existing loans. and the rates which they are demanding for new &C., commodations, and give this department the benefit of the information disclosed by these reports. It is confidently be- lieved that if all banks can be persuaded to use their resources intelligently and considerately and at a reasonable rate of interest to meet the legitimate de- mands in their respective communities. the whole situation can be greatly re- lived and business restored to a satisfac- tory. if not an entirely normal, basis. Kindly answer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
HEAVY ARTILLERY CONTINUES TO PLAY IMPORTANT PART IN
 BATTLE OF THE AISNE
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ther westward, the French left wing hay 1 ing made some progress fin the direction of Noye northwest of Noyon. The lat | ter place a few days ago was the al- | lies extreme left A detachment has oc- cupied Perronne, still further north A report from German headquarters, dated September 23, says. however, that the efforts of the French to encircle the German right. have had no result. French Claim Advance \ The French also claim to have made an advance northwest of Berry-au-Bac, which is about the point where the Ger man line crosses the Aisne, continuing southeast to Brimont which has been the center of many vigorous attacks.
 Along the rest of the line, although there have been fierce engagements in which both sides claim victory, the sit uation Is unchanged except that, accord ing to German reports. the German troops have recaptur ed varennes. department of Mouse, which the French took few days ago.
 The French account of the battle com pares it with Mukden. In the latter case the tide of battle was turned by the ar- rival on the Russian right of Nogfs $ army from Port Arthur, and the Rus sian left also was almost enveloped when General Kuropatkin withdrew the great bulk of his army northward, leaving the rear guard to fall into the hands of the Japanese.
 The Austrian general staff denied re- ports of Russian victories and the de- feat of General DankPs army. The Austrian forces, the report says, "have been concentrated in new position for several days, but have waited in vain for any serious Russian attack.
 From other sources, however, 1t Is reported that the Russians have sur rounded Przemysl, and are between that fortress and Cracow.
 It may be some days before another big battle is fought here, as one Aus trian army Is behind the forts of Przemysl and the other Is making its way to the remaining fortress of Cra- cow while the Russians are taking the smaller towns in Galcia under their wing.
 Lacks Confirmation
 report, which lacks official con- firmation, says that General Rennen- kampf, who withdrew over the east Prussian frontier when German rein forcements arrived, has received more men and again has taken the offensive and compelled the Germans to with draw.
 It is considered probable that the fall of Jaroslaw and the isolation of Przemysl has compelled the Germans to look more closely to the protection of their line from Thorn to KaIicz, which guards Posen, as the Russians now 'Are able to release a large number of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
care for German Wounded

Bordeaux, September 2S-to;5o ?. m. President Poincare's recent admonition L inc hospitals to treat German wounded tho came AS French is being carried out according to a correspondent who today visited the Bordeaux high school, where s0 German wounded are being treated
 pr. Melville Wastermann of San Fran cisco and a Bordeaux doctor are in charge of the hospital. assisted by a well-lxnown Dresden surgeon.
 The Germans are being treated in the lofty class rooms of the high school which look out over the sunny garden The men seem to suffer more from home sickness than their wounds, which they bear with patient resignation.
 As rule the Germans in the hospitals here are more badly hurt than the French soldiers. In addition to the first dressing of the German wounds having been made quate, the wounds also are infected. The physician says that a large majority of the wounded will recover. however.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Reach Climax

Washington, D. C.. September 2l.-(Spe- cial)-As the climax to their campaign for the establishment of an agricultural system of banking" and for immediate relief to the cotton growers of the south. delegation from the Farmers Union of America called on President Wilson to- day and solicited his help. Several mem- bers of Congress accompanied the plant CTS and all advanced the same arguments that had been presented to the House banking and currency committee and, the federal reserve board.
 At first saying that ''the gravity of the situation is manifest" the President added that he would like to see the prob lem solved without committing the gov ernment in principle to any action which would plague it in the future.''
 Because the danger of the present sit uation.' said the President "is that un- der the pressure of what appears to be necessity, We should make some radical departure from sound economic practice which in the future years we should very much regret. We have got to make sac rifices, not to make Fundamental mis- takes.
 While he felt bound to guard against impulses when. impulses were so strong. the President said he wished his visitors to know how sincerely he appreciated the gravity of the situation and how entirely Willing he was to consider any suggestion of practicable nature
 Various members of Congress from the south will call on the President in the next few days to endeavor to perfect some plan of relief that will meet his views and obtain his expressed approval.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25

The list includes II wounded, among them Lieut. G. NJ. Naylor-Leland of the Royal Horse Guards, second son of Sir
 Herbert S. Naylor-Leland. whose wife was
 Miss Selah Chamberlain of Cleveland, o. Lieut. A. Grant-Duff was the third son
 of the late Right Hon. Sir Mountstuar' Grant-Duff. and served in India and Soutf Africa At one time he was assistan' secretary of the committee of imperial de- fense. Lieut.. Col Ian Graham Hosg served i'm South and West Africa. where ne rem
 dered distinguished services.
 Brig. Gen. Haking won tne Quee"
 medal in South Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
WHITE SPEAKS FOR
 PENSION MEASURE

Washington. September 24-(Spe- cial. )-Probably the most earnest speech on the bill to pay and pension all union officers of the Civil war was made today by Senator White, who spoke as 8 veteran of that strife
 While in favor of paying and pen- sioning all privates and officers who were actually in need of help, Senator White vigorously opposed either pay or pension for officers in afflueht or comfortable circumstances, and he voiced his objection emphatically Sen- ator Kenyon. in charge of the bill was unable to say how many officers were in need of such pension or how many were well off or wealthy c. E. s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
NO ARRESTS YET IN
 ALEXANDER CASE
Chief Eagan Denies That Son" Wall ker Is Held in Connection
 With Murder

Chief Martin Eagan denied last night that the negro, son Walker. at present q prisoner in the city jail was in any way connected with the murder of J. w. Alexander, at his store, DOS North Nineteenth street. Tuesday night about o'clock The chief further stated that there had been no arrests in the case
 As yet there have been no funeral arr engagements announced over the remains of J. w. Alexander. Relatives from Texas are awaited before any announcements are made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Says Money Not Hoarded


 Montgomery, September 24.-(spe- claL L)-Alex E. Walker, state super- intendent of banks, declares that Ala oama state banks are not hoarding money as claimed by Secretary of the treasury McAdoo in his sensational enarges that practically all the banks Tn this and other cotton states are re- fusing loans on the crop movement fund. Superintendent Walker made this statement today when he had read Secretary McAdoo's scathing criticism or the tendency of national banks in the south.
 According to MT. Walker. the only cases in which state banks are hoarding funds are where they are located in large cities. The majority of the state banks" he claimed, are maintaining reserves of only something like Is per cent of the demand deposits, as re- quired by the state laws
 By reference to figures on file in the office of the banking department, 1t is shown that at the present time there is approximately a total of s460, . 900 loaned directly ,Eoop cotton re- ceipts in the state, and that a total |of s14,000,0c0 of state bank funds is now tied up on planting and marketing loans made to the farmers during the spring months.
 Superintendent Walker expressed the opinion that all national banks hav- ing crop money on deposit should honor calls made upon them by solvent state banks. "In this manner the farmer liv- ing in a county where there is no na- tional bank could take his cotton to a state bank, secure loan, and the state institution could then indorse the note and send 1t on to the nearest national bank which should be required to let them have the money" said Superin- tendent Walker.
 The bank superintendent said that numerous complaints had come to him that the national banks throughout the state were refusing to advance crop fund money to the farmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Circuit Court in Session

Marion, September 4.-tSpeciai) )-The fall term of Perry county circuit court is now in session. R. L.. Adair of Union- town is foreman of the grand jury. The civil docket is very light, the only case attracting attention being that of Robert Allen and Mrs. Allen Hudson, vs F. D. Shivers for the recovery of 80 acres of land near town and occupied by MT. Shiv- CTS as 8 homestead for number of years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
MOBILE COMPANY
 TO BUY COTTON

Mobile. September 24.-Announcement was made by the local branch of a na- tional adding machine company that until further notice the company would pur- chase bale of cotton at 10 cents a pound for every machine sold. The com pany has set aside $50,000 for this pur- pose Two hundred bales bought in Ten nessee and Alabama will be stored here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Home for Convicts

To the Editor of The Birmingham Age Herald.
 Many questions are being asked in re- gard to the nature of our home and would like through the medium of your paper make statement of the same.
 Every day in the year some man is sen- fenced to prison leaving behind him boys and girls who are at the mercy of the people of the community for clothing and food. shelter and educa tion The judge who pronounces sentence on the erring husband and father cannot concern himself about the mother and children who are thus left to shift for themselves. Justice must grind out her grist: the father must take his medicine for his sinful ways It is the business and com mon duty of the judge to see that the offender is sent to prison for the crime committed. It is. in fact. no ones busi- ness in particular what becomes of the wife and children of the convict; what they do for a living while the father and husband is in prison.
 This home is for the purpose of trying in a way to solve the question, The law has the man. What of his family?'
 We believe that to improve the envir- onment of the convict's child that is in need. Restitution or peril, is like improv- ing the environment of the tender plant to insure it's proper growth. required strength and ultimate usefulness. De- spite the assertion that many convict's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Casualty List

London, September 24-Q0:30 D. m.) These names appear in the official casual ty list Issued tonight: Lieut. Col. A. Grant-Duff. of the BlaclSw watch. killed in action; Lieut.. Col. c. Dalton and Lieut.. Col I. G. Hogg. died in hospital of wounds; Brig Gen. Richard C. B. Haking, wounded Of nine officers killed, five died of wounds in hospitals and one was drowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Odd Fellows Neutral

Atlantic City. N. J., September 24. The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Eel lows at it's session here today declined to adopt a resolution declaring for res- toration of peace in Europe. Those op- posing the resolution held that foreign members of the order might misun- derstand the proposed action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
Communication Cut

Vera Cruz. September 24.-There ,g no railway or telegraphic communica- lions between Vera Cruz and the, car- ital. the lines having been cut north of Esperanza, about 100 miles west of Vera Cruz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
TOO LATE ID CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-One-chair barber shop com
 plete. 2z6 Magnolia ave. s-3-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-25
men for the invasion of that part of

men for the invasion of that part of Germany.
 | The Servan and Montenegrin armies are before Sarajevo. capital of Bos- mia, flushed with victory and prepar- | ing to take this latest acquisition of | the dual monarchy. the possession of which by Austria has been such a thorn in the side of the southern Slavs. In the operations here the invaders look forward to a hearty welcome from the greater part of the population, who belong to the same race as they do.
 This war, while in Bosnia and Galacia, l 1t is uniting races long separated by artificial boundaries, is also drawing together the races and sects Of all the countries engaged.
 In Germany the socialists are fight ing in line with their greatest ene- mics, the militarists. In Russia revo- lutionists are fighting or returning home to fight for the Emperor. Great Britain is receiving support from all sections of the empire and the Irish and the Welch have now decided to organize an army made up entirely Of their nationals irrespective of the men who have joined Kitchener's armies. French Elated
 Iondon, September 25.-(s:02 a. m.) The correspondent of the Daily Tele- graph in France says
 "There is considerable elation in the allies lines over the capture of five German areoplanes by a French cav airy patrol Twenty cavalrymen, pen etrating into a thickly wooded coun- try, entered a clearing where they found aviators and mechanics over haling five Taube aeroplanes. "The patrol made a dash to round up the lot but met with fierce resist ance and 12 cavalrymen were killed be- fore the airmen were beaten. Their aeroplanes never will fly again.
 Rake Landscape
 London, September z5.-(3:50 a. m )
 The Daily News correspondent in France telegraphs as follows:
 Nightly the Germans rake the land- scape with searchlights and shrapnel while the French and British, working in darkness and mystery, muffle even tho headlights of the staff officers motor cars.
 Recently wireless message from German endorsements coming through Belgium was intercepted by the Brit ish. It showed a new German army having become exhausted by long
 marches and little food. which feared 1t would be cut off by the French hur. ryins along from the west"
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-20

Dokies. Ladies' Night-That au-
stere and dignifed body of citizens,
the Dramatic Order of Knights of
Khorassan, will give ladies' night
at Masonic Temple this evening, when
each Dokie will be accompanied by
one CT more lady friends. ii is not
known just what the program will be
or whether the ladies will be initiated
into branch of the order, but it is
safe to say that, carrying out the
well-known traditions of the order,
there will be a quiet and orderly as
sembly.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-20
Purple for Mourning.
I,ondon Times

There is a strong movement on foot
to dispense with the orthodox form
of mourning in the event of casualties
occurring in the British navy and
army. A number of suggestions have
been put forward designed to effect
economies, although at the saem time
in no way minimizing the respect for
the gallant dead. Recently we pub
lisheI letter on the topic from Mrs.
Edward Lyttleton, which, in view OF
the interest it has aroused, we reprint
in full:
''If the country should decide to
dispose with such mourning, the econ
omic effect will be to save disturb
ance of cash expenditure. Mourning
will still be bought for those who die
natural deaths; but we should have
a large additional and artificial ex-
renditure, temporarily inflated by the
heavy death roll of the next few weeks
and the money so saaed will be avail
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-20

freezing. The Far Southwest also
sent reports of freezing weather. A
negro man was frozen to death at
Memphis, Tenn, where it was 16 de-
grees above.
Malone, N. Y, Nov. 20.-Forty-two o
inches of snow has fallen during the
last three days.
Washington, Nov. 20.-A cold wave
at present is overspreading nearly all
sections of the United States and it
has forced the temperatures at many
localities to the lowest recorded in
November for forty years. The wealth
er bureau today predicted that the
progress southwark of the cold wave
would continue tonight and that kill
ing frost and freezing temperature
would extend as far south at Palm
Beach, on the east coast of Florida
20 miles south of Jacksonville.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-20
BROWN IN "ROSE O.
TENNESSEE" TONIGHT

The Gilmor Brown Company will ap-
pear in a romantic melodrama of
southern life at the Opera House to-
right. "Rose O. Tennessee" is one Of
Mr.. Browns greatest successes and
the role he assumes in it is character
lied 10y great originality. He ranges
from comedy to intense drama with
equal grace and facility. The play
tells the story of poor young noun
taineer who falls in love with a rich
girl, The strange, weird history of
an/octoroon slave girls revenge fol-
lows the course of the play. The dra-
ma is intensely interesting and the
action never lags. 1t is considered a
fine example of the better class of
skillful melodrama.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-20

bales ginned last season prior to No
vember l, 1913, was $40.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-20

able for the support of ordinary trade.
This independent of the weightier rea-
sons Cor changing our usual custom.
"Wfat / am advocating is something
that would be an appeal to all hearts
for sympathy in bereavement, and it
would mean practically no eXpendi-
ture, for the simple narrow band of
purple cloth to be worn on the left
arm by every man, woman or child
who had lost a relation in the war
would cost practically nothing and the
tadge would be the same for all
classes"
In few days we shall be receiving
the news of great loss of life on the
continent and at sea. Ones first
thought is a strong conviction that
for lives lost in such noble cause the
wearing of conventional mourning
would be unsuitable. If the well-to-
do women of the empire would lead
the way in this matter they would
make things easier for their poorer
sisters, who surely must often stint
themselves of necessities in order to
get the "bit of black" SO dear to their
hearGs.
The saving of expense at such
time would be a clear gain to many
families who have lost the breadwin-
ner. Let the rich and poor alike wear
the purple armlet. The rich, if they so
desire, can give the cost of the mourn
ing 50 saved to one of the many war
funds.