The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-19
EXCITEMENT CAUSED.
 BY AUTO ACCIDENT.
Improvements at Bessemer Rolling Mill Are About
 Completed
WAREHOUSE ROBBED
Board of Education to Make Repairs on School Buildings Preparatory
 to Opening of Schools

Bessemer, August S-(Special. .)-Much excitement was caused this afternoon on First avenue and Nineteenth street when an automobile driven by Edgar Litteman struck a horse and buggy completely demolshing the latter. From what could be learned it appears that the horse and buggy was hitched to post and the au- tomobile coming up First avenue and turning down Nineteenth street either skidded or the driver getting excited, lost control of same running into the buggy and up on the sidewalk. No one was hurt.
 Herman Kohn, a. white man, was ar rested by Detectives Maddox, c. Ross, Houston and Chief Childress and Deputy ", c. Steele, on a warrant charging bur glary and grand larceny. It appears that an attempt was made to enter the home of J. M. Shipp on Fifth avenue early Thursday morning, and MT. Shipp hear ing a noise, fired at the would-be bur glar. The following morning letter was found by the fence written by MT kohn. who claims that he doesn't know how the letter could have gotten there. His bond was set at $500 and he was taken to Bir-
 
 placed in the county jail. MT. Kohn has lived in Bessemer for several months and was well known here. He lived with his family on Sixth avenue.
 Splendid progress is being made on the improvements under way at the Besse- mer rolling mill and with no further de- lays everything will soon be in readiness for the resuming of work of the bar mill, A great improvement will be the installation of large electric motors for power over the old engines used so long, while the continuous table for automat1- cally handling the large steel plates will be an advantage that will add much to the daily capacity of the plant By Sep tember 1 1t is expected that all three mills, plate, bar and guide mills will be in full operation.
 The following marriage licenses have been issued today by Clerk Herbert Eth ridge of the Judge of the Probate J. F. Stiles Gordy Dabbs of Hueytown and Miss Leona Stanley; E. D. Oliver of Jonesboro and Miss Mamie Nordman.
 The Bessemer baseball team will go to Ensley Saturday afternoon. where they will cross bats with the Ensley Tigers A special train will leave the rolling mill office at 2:30 o'cock and will carry the team and fans to EnSley.
 The warehouse of the Alabama Great Southern railroad was entered last night and several hundred pounds of sugar was stolen. Entrance was gained through B back transom.
 Raymond Parker and S. E. Roberts, both of Ensley, were injured last night when the motorcycle on which they were riding struck a COW on Nineteenth street and Eighteenth avenue MT. Roberts sus- tained a severe injury to his left fore arm and both men were badly cut and bruised. They were brought to Bessemer in an automobile and their injuries dressed by Dr. J. S. Winters. The ami nal was killed and the motorcycle was partially wrecked. The same COW that was hit by the motorcycle was later struck by an automobile, which added to the excitement.
 The board of education is looking after the repairs to be done on the school build ings preparatory to the opening of the fall term of school. Architect w. E. Benns will have charge of the work and the school attendance this year promises to be greatly increased over that of last year.