The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
GADSDEN

Gadsden, Juuly 20.-(Special )--This city power from 10 o'clock Saturday night until Sunday evening, owing to one of
 the most severe electrical rainstorms that
 has visited Gadsden this summer The
 new building on the First National bank on Broad street was flooded, and several offices ruined. o. R. Hood, attorney lost several hundred dollars worth of law
 books, the power at the ice plant was shut down, and, in addition to its other inconveniences due to the storm, Gadsden
 did not have any ice until Monday morning.
 Insurance rates are to be raised in Gadsden, although the basic rate will be lower it was announced today. The mer- cantile section is hardest hit, as 1t wifi mean raise of from 10 to 20 per cent in rates. Ada Beasley, the first woman to be arrested in this section charged with
 moonshining in long time, was tried
 before Commissioner Pckard in the fed
 eral court building today and discharged With her husband she was charged with violation of the prohibition law, the spe-
 cific charge against her being that sha smashed a jug of whisky when the off cers approached the house, thus destroy ing the evidence. Both she and her hus- band were freed.
 Frank Kennedy, a laborer employed in the construction of the new First Ma tional Bank building, was arrested yes terday on an old warrant which charged him with violation of the obsolete Wehb- Kenyon law. In addition to the an- tiquity of the offense, the commissioner found that the principal witness for the government, Chief of Police Bryant of Alabama City, had died within the past few months The warrant was sworn out in January, 1918, and Kennedy is re- ported to have been seen in this vicinity most of the time since then. The first service was made yesterday ana in half an hour the commissioner had freed him for lack of evidence.
 The committee which has in charge the investigation of the Tri-City gas plant is reported to favor the plants purchase as
 municipal plant, providing the distri-
 button system is improved. The matter is attracting considerable attention here.
 as Manager Higgins has intimated that
 he will either sell out to the. city or close
 up the plant altogether for he is not
 satisfied with the present status of af-
 fairs and wants to get back to his Wis consn home.
 At a meeting of group of citizens to- night it was decided that the Etowah
 county Red Cross would not be allowed
 to close it's doors. All of its officers
 have resigned but the citizens are
 aroused over the report that they were
 going to drive the Red Cross from the city. and every assurance was given that
 the s120O0 budget would be raised.
 James Coats and David Sudders, ne
 groes, were drowned Sunday evening when the automobile in which they were riding was driven off the end of ferry
 boat at Cedar Bluffs on the Coosa river Coats had his neck broken and his head
 was protruding through the roof of the car when his body was recovered. The body of Sudders is still in the water three other negroes escaped by jumping
 Marlin Sherlsly IS years of age, resi- wounds last night. He attemptd to knock
 some apples from tree with his shot gun and the gun was discharged into
 his body.
 T. ". Taylor farmer and a resident
 of Double Ridge. near Albertville, was
 shot and killed by Tom Kirk his
 hrother-in-law. The shooting followed a
 family quarrel. according to officers Kiri surrendered to the sheriff.