The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-27

the thieves calmly selected two suit cases from the show window in front, packed these with clothing of certain size, then made their getaway. The suit cases and contents were found under an old house near lumber pile to which the dogs, brought here from Tennessee this afternoon, had trailed.
 Mrs E. Hammond, in an endeavor to save her 3-year-old son from falling, tripped and rolled down the steps of her residence to the Bank street paving. She is resting well today and physicians predict her complete recovery In the fall Mrs Hammond broke both wrists and received severe injuries about the head
 The residence of Russell Moseley was completely gutted by flames which were discovered by neighbors, the occupants of the home being away at the time. The loss is estimated at s2000 with in- surance of $500. The house was oc- cupied by Lieutenant Caudil of the Unit ed States recruiting station, who had been recently ordered to report to Gads- den His furniture and household ef- fleets had been crated and stored in one room, and for this reason were not seri- ously damaged.
 Rev. J. J. Cornish, for eight years rector of St. Johns Episcopal church here, today left for Valdosta, Ga, where he has been called to the rector ship of Christ's Episcopal church. He prea ched his final sermon Sunday in the presence of a large congregation.
 Mucb interest has been aroused here in the paroling by Governor Henderson to the state insane asylum of William Russell a Morgan county man. recently sentenced to the state penitentiary for 10 years for the murder of his bride of six months, whom he shot and killed on Thanksgiving Day as she was preparing his dinner Both Russell and his wife were prominently connected. Although the jury found Russell guilty in the face of his plea of insanity, the general opin- ion here is that he was mentally deranged at the time that he fired the fatal shot. Previous to that papers committing him to the state asylum had been issued.
 A. Pplytinsky, builder and owner of the Hotel Hilda, at Decatur, which was named for his daughter, today took over the lease of Weidensee & Schaut the original operators of the hostelry. MT. Polytinsky will continue to operate the hotel having engaged Louis Schaut of the former firm of lessees as manager.
 The Albany bowling team today claims to be the ChamplOnS or nOrtn Alabama. The team is chesty over having defeated the Huntsville team in a contest here Saturday night at the alleys of the Rail- road Young Mems Christian association. The local tea. m made an average of IA while the Huntsville team only averaged 12o Captain Price of the Albanians made the best individual record.
 Miss Augusta Evans, who formerly was connected with Deca tur millinery estab- lishment, has opened a millinery shop at 419 Bank street
 After an area of unprecedented calm, with no overt acts" againsst the ma jesty of the law, the law violators in AL bany fell into the toils>in punches during the week end, and today Mayor Payne l held the first profitable session of his court since coming into office. Fifteen defendants appeared before the mayor
 this morning on charges of gaming. drunk and disorderly and their fines netted the city coffers some $90 in real cash.
 Mrs. T. H. Gum left for Huntsville this morning, where she was called by the death of her uncle, G. A. Morris, an ex- Confederate soldier and prominent citi- zen.
 J. w. Clopton, manager of the Decatur Ice Cream company, has returned from the convention of the Southern Ice Cream
 Manufacturers association, of which he was elected vice president.