Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 4

1 AIR DIVORCE SUITS 1012 IIRST AVKNU LOCAL BREVITIES THIS WEEK PERSONAL New Plush Wraps ia is Cloth to inspect our stock BALTIMORE LOVEMAN SERIOUS CHARGES DRY GOODS EMPORIUM 1912 irst Avenue 1915 SECOND AVENUE Immense Stock of HANGING AND STAND LAMPS Dinner Tea I Chamber Se CAUGHT ON THE LY i INDICATIONS 1918 Second Avenue City IB i BRWELY DONE THE DIRECTORS ELECTED New OVERCOATS X' CENTS IlfflB HOODS A THe A 8 A Will Suforse the State STAR CLOTHING HOUS 4 A trust at 4 In new styles and at greatly reduced prices Call early and make your selection A Wife Wants Release from a Cruet Bus An Engineer Sues the Ala bama Great Southern President Wilson says the Southern League will be a financial success next season and the South will have first class base ball He says he is going to appoint the best umpires to be found in the country Captain Hugh Kirkman says he is not in the race for sheriff anil does not ex pect to be 4 The Very Latest Wraps Marvelously Low Prices Come and See Them Cloth Raglans Cloth Newmarkets HE ANNUAL HOLIDAY SEASON PROBATE OICE Garrett and Cornelia Dye white and Alexander Wilsou and Mary Wood colored precured marriage license yes terday iff are ON THE INCREASE IN THE I COURTS which demanded the severing of his ofr ficial connection with the directory and this bank and that we hereby tender him our kindest wishes for success in whatever undertaking he may embark Resolved That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes as part of the proceedings of the session Mr A Tnompson was unanimously elected president ot the bank until the annual meeting of the stockholders in January next POSTMASTER THROCKMORTON id An enormous stock of and Garn from 4 up to 1G years Bring your children wc can fit all Not alone the lowest prices but the largest assort MERCHANT TAILORS HATTERS 1 AND DIVORCES A SPECIALTY A HANSON LAW OICE £1X1 24AvMwe ISJUt axd SSd Jim from Coalburg was sent to jail to await the action of the grand jury Williams was sent to the mines from thia county about three years ago for larceny Tom Simon ad LauraSt evens ser vants at the Lakeview Hotel were con victed cf fighting and fieed and costa each A few unimportant civil suite were dis posed of It New Long Plush Sacques New Plush Jackets Cf the ool and the Empty atal Result Another man know it was loaded Yesterday afternoon about at a negro cabin at the foot of the South Highlands Geo Hite colored snot and instant killed a negro boy 7 years old named Thomas Black Hite claims that the shooting was ac cidental He came into a room where the little boy and a sister were at play and picking up a double acting revolver lying on a table pointed it at the little fallow The pistol went off and the boy fell back dead The ball a large one entered the breast and passed entirely through the body coming out at the small of the back The sister was stand ing just behind I he boy and the ball struck her in the calf of the leg taking off a piece of the flesh and then buried itself in the floor When the boy dropped Hite seemed scared out cf hiif wits and after screams iug out that it wai an accident he sprang but of the house and' ran off The offi cers were not informed of the shooting until some time after it occurred They immediately started in pursuit of the murderer but he got a good start and have not yet been able to come up with him Ills statement that the kill ing was an accideiit is generally believed as he could hardly have hud a motive strong enough to have actuated him in taking the little life The parents sent for Drs Col bourn and Davis when the fatal accident occurred but the unfortunate fellow was dead long before they arrived Neckwear Umbrellas Hats and Gloves specially seledl from the best houses in America Our reputation fbr the Leading Outfitters is too well established to not sitate anything further being said carry a lot of to accommodate all purses Remember the Meeting of the Stockholders of the Savings Bank The stockholders of the new comoanv and savings bank met yesterday afternoon in Dr Cald well's office The only stockholders from outside the ciry were Mr Josiah Morris and Col 8 Troy of Mont gomery The following gentlemen were elected directors of the company: James Woodward William Hail Jr Billing Caldwell 8 Murphy Earle John Boddie Lyons and Underwood The directors will meet to day and elect officers for the bank and decide on a place of business and other Justice AHen says: Age calls me but the girls'all call me Miss Annie Brewer of Anniston visitiog Mrs Ellen Watts Miss Ada Coleman of Tennes'ee visiting her sister Mrs Higdon Dr Eisenburg rabbi of the Jewish Temple will deliver a lecture at Phanix Club Sunday evening at 7 :30 Miss Olivia Ledyard 'a charming voting lady from Montgomery is visiting Mrs Nixon at 2103 Sixth avenue Miss father was formerly a resident of Birmingham and she has many friends here HOTEL ARRIVALS Opera House Hotel: Lock wood Kansas City Innerarity New Orleans Miss ranklin Atlanta Alex Isamingar Albert Ross Cdumbus 0 Boyden New York Cac trel Jr Philadelphia razier Louisvilie Chamberlain and wife Jasper Ala A Genisb Letonia0 Garvin Memphis A Siegel New York Robt A Blaine Cincinnati McGhee New York Can ington Jasper Ala Bony John son London: Wm Cook Atlanta Lewis Louisville 8 Stewart Atal la A Garnable Jasper BTCameron Meridian Miss Geo Thomas Decatur Moody Louisville Ky Brooks Geo Kendall Atlanta Harris jr Phiia Engelsman Sil verston Hughes Chattanoo ga Thirkreld Atlanta Thom as Phiia Lee Chamberlain Columbus olsom Phiia Connell Evansville Ind 8 Troy Josiah Morris Montgomery Movar Decatur lorence House: Alex Jacobs New York Geo McMamore Luisviile Hill Ala Mrs Coleman and child A Binford Anniston Goodman Nashville Downing Boston Musgrove Jasper Ed Maykin New York Tom Woods Mobile Ala A Haymen Chicago CPeacher Decatur Wilson Nash ville Greene St Louis Voss Cincinnati McKinney DecaturB ranklin Nashville LeCrow Chattanooga Merrill A Gysan Lowndesboro Ala A Jelks Hawkinsvile Georgia A McLaughlin Jonesboro McDowell Chambersburg Pennsylvania Mrs Chas Handy Atlanta Wm Hamilton Union Park lorida Johnston Joe Roberts Chattanooga Tennessee Baxley St Luis Missouri Thcs Lindsay Auroia Indiana: A Dawson Calera Hassinger Barker New Orleans Leith Dotson Alabama IP Willoughby Blount Springs: 8 itzhugh Bessemer A Henderson Mug Jasper Thos 3 McPherson Long Alabama Burgess Tampa la Wyatt Nashville A Carter Atlanta Ga Cooly Knoxville Tenn Thomas Phila delphia Geo Beggs Gadsden Mason Athens Geo A Searcy Tusca loosa Cochran Tuscaloosa: Willie Mitchell Shenandoah Va Dobson Baltimore Md Hous ton Pratt Mines Cbas Walton Haas Chicago Chas Atherman Christian Segel Amelia A Hecht A a David Clegg Koxoma Ind Wedded bliss it seeffis is not all that it is made to appear rom the number of divorce suits filed in the courts one would suppose that the idea of happiness in marriage was a mockery Hardly a day passes but that some one comes out with a long bill of complaint against what was intended to be a better half but by some freax of nature has developed into the worst possible half one could have chosen The City Court yesterday got one of these suiis It was filed by Martha Thornly against Jesse Thornly She says that site was married to her hus band in December 1872 rom' that union five children all living now with their mother were born She and her husband lived together in peace and harmony and good will until December when he began a svstem of brutal and inhuman treatment toward her and has kept it up until the present time frequently beating choking and cursing her and on several occasions during that time threatened to kill her such acts of cruelty making her life a burden and causing her to live in daily appre hension of bodily harm On the 10th of December she says he grossly mistreated her beating am choking her and pulling her hair aid finally threw a stick of cord wood at her knocking her against the wall ust a few days since says the bill he threat ened to kill her and burn her and the house together To carry out this tin cat he poured a large amount cf kerosenst oil on the floor and would have burned the house up had he not been prevented She goes further and says th at since their marriage he has become an habitual drunkard neglecting his family and fail ing to support them On several occa si7ns he left his home and cohabited with other women and confessed it to hia wife when he returned The prayer of the bill sets forth that as he is a shiftless and dissolute chars setor lie is not a fit person to have con trol of the little children and the wife asks that thev be given to her charge and that she be allowed to resume her maiden name and if she should desire be permitted to marry again Joseph Lewis an engineer filed a rather novel damage suit against the Alabama Great Southern Lewis was employed by the road to run an engine attached to a construction train One day the train struck an ox on the track and the pilot or cow catcher was crushed and broken and the engine thrown from the track Honestly believing bis life to be in danger he sprang off the engine an: the fall broke bis leg at the ankle Lewis wantsS20C00 as damages for thw injury claiming that the accident wa: due to the negligence of the road in not keeping the engine in repair the pilot having three ribs out and four other? and one of the back braces broken thm rendering it so weak that when the ox was struck it gave way and wrecked the train Lighter and Lighter filed a suit against Hawkins Tipton fee 8U04(80 damages for a breach of ar ngr ement entered into by them Tb farmer parties made a contract with Hawkins Tipton to lay the brick in the Xorth sewer at the rate of $275 per thousand The contract was mart August 17 They claim that on the 23! of September when they had laid about 700000 brick and about 3300000 wen yet to be laid according to the plam and specifications made by the city en gineer that Hawkins Tipton oidered them to stop work and when they pro tested persisted in the ordei and compelled them to qub in the faceof the concract Besides the above suits several assumpsits were filed CIRCUIT COURT The Circuit Court finally disposed cf the suit of Beard against Horton giving the plaintiffs verdict fcr Smithfield stock continued to sell yes terday The passenger trains were nearly all late yesterday The volunteer firemen are working hard for the success cf their ball Architect fine residence on the South Highlands will soon be com pleted Clerk Mingea found a hunch of keys at the North Side Market House yester day morning The colored people on the South Highlands are building a union church which will be used by all denomina tions DeLeon advance agent of Ira isk Co is in the city arranging for an exhibition by Ned Hathaway the aeronaut The Birmingham Union Street Rail way Company will soon begin the erec tion of its large sheds aud stables at West End Thirty negro convicts passed through the city yesterday on their way to the Pratt Mines They were in charge cf Guard Musgrove A Watchman Saves the JLives of Tv Young Ladies Jno McCrary one of the flagmen em ployed by the Louisville A Nashvil Railroad Company to guard the Twen tieth street crossing met with what wil probably prove a fatal accident while heroically discharging his duties yester day afternoon An unruly horse at tached to a single buggy which was oc cupied by two young ladies became uns manageable while going over the cross ing and ran upon one of the tracks just in advance of a fast approaching train The young ladies became frightened and dropped the lines and began screaming The screams attracted! he attention of McCrary and he sprang to the bead and backed him off the track just in time to avert a hor rible accident He was not quick enough in getting oil himself how ever and the train consisting cf a Louisville A Nashvillejswitcb engine and a number of empty box ears struck him with full force The train was stopped as quickly as possible and the injured man was picked up insensible placed in a cab and sent home A physician was summoned and visited the wounded man at his residence ou the South Highlands After a careful examination of his injuries which were internal the doctor expressed little hope of tire recovery He is a married nivti 60 years old and has a wife aud two chil dren The names of the young ladies could not be ascertained THE DIRMIMOHAM NATION All Better Street Railroad acilities Two Negroes Slightly Wounded The Highland Avenue Belt Line has laved a number of switches at this place and largely increased the switching fa cilities at thia terminus of the road A voung negro boy named Anderson Young was bit on the head and serious ly wounded while in a fight wilh anoth er boy named Davis on Emory avenue yesterday The Ensley dummy line has estab lished a station at this place The Birmingham Union Street Rail way Company has had a new turntable put down at this terminus of the road In a drunken row at a negro church in this place Thursday night a ysueg negro named Will Lewis was cut and dangerously wounded by an unknown negro By direction cf the Board of Managers Secretary rlatshek of the Alabama So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has ordered his men to prose cute hereafter all cases of cruelty to aai male under the State law only This order took' effect yesterday noon and will be rigidly enforced The following is the State law: person who overrides over drives overloads drive when over loaded tmrtuies tormnidSi7' or deprives cf necreeary sustenance cruelly boats mutilatee or cruelly kills or or procures be oyorridden orerdrivtn 511 1 Ig now upon us and as usual thousands arc pondering upon what to buy and where best to make their purchases driven when overloaded tortured tormented deprived of jieces aary sustenance mutilated or cruelly beaten mutilated or cruelly killed any domestic animal and whoever having the charge or custody of any such ani1 mal either as owner or otherwise in flicts unnecessary cruelty upon the same or fails to provide the same with proper food drink or protection from the weather or cruellv drives the same un fit for labor must on conviction be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred Heavy Overcoats Heavy Overcoats Heavy Overcoats fluty the inest and Best 'if ROGAN i 110 TWENTIETH STREET A Great Show Savannah Ga Dec Spewalj fcangeliire opened here to night to atckedjhouse Largest reeeipts of the season A great show Outfitters WEDDING OUTITS A SPECIALTY Heavy Overcoats The Great American Cold Wave and the Great Ameri can Heavy Overcoat go hand CT' in hand Prepare for the Chilling Swoop IMPORTING SUITS Extra fine Silk and Wool Mixed Suits in Black Tricots and English Worsteds Prince Albert Suits our Button Cutaways Straight Cut Sacks Round Cutaway Sacks BUSINESS SUITS Of Scotch Cloth and West of England Goods The latest styles of texture President Head Resisns and is Succeeded by A Thompson At an adjourned meeting of the board of directors of the Birmingham National Bank helcVyeeterday afternoon the fol lowing preRmbie aud resolutions were adopted It has been deemed proper bv Mr Jno Read to resign his posi 1 i Al uon 01 presiaeni suu airecior vi 1 hv hnonmat 1 Tvler meets at the rooms ci nenrso it ciauva a Resolved That we the directors'of the twenty two asd is a most interMnag Birmingham NatUnal Bank in instructive oca arji lWtt mg his resignation regSt the necessity 1 both these th? euugs STAR Made Against a irm of Well Known Bailroad Contractors Last September Allen Norwood contractors on the Birmingham Mineral Railroad fonnd themselves short of hands Mr Norwood came to the city and finding the prison full of negroes decided upon a novel method of recruit ing his camp He paid the flues of some forty of the prisoners who were serving sentences for larious violations of the citv laws The prisoners longed for the pure air of the country where they could feast their eyes on the beauties of nature and listen to the carol of the birds They readily agreed to the change and vowed they would woik faithfully until the amount er their fines were paid They were to be allowed one dollar per day and Messrs Allen Norwood agreed to give them regular work at that price if they wished to avoid the temptations of the city after serving out their terms A few of them had no regard for their obligations and succeeded in making their escape soon after reaching the camp Yesterday twelve of the ex prisoners arrived in the city and immediately went in search of a lawyer They had a story to tell and they told it in language more forcible than elegant They claim that they worked out the amount of their fines as agreed but when they attempted re leave the camp they were stopped by armed guards Thev say they were forced to wrk nearly three months and that Messrs alien Norwood refused to pay them anvthiug for this labor They were in dignant and wanted some law to soothe their outraged feelings They employed attorneys and yesterday twelve suits for S100 each were filed in couit The negroes claim that Allen A Norwood owe them that amount fur work after deducting the amount ot their fines SMITHIEDD fe THE BALTIMORE nothing Company Capt TV cf Marion Ala an old association worker and a mem ber of the international eommittee from Alabama will be in the city to day and will be present Sunday afiernown at the gospel service Capt Lovelace hts always been interested in the Young Menra Christian Association of Bir minghaai and in addition is an able and Interesting speaker All are invited to and hear him at 4 to morrow The usual will be held at the A kaU to night at 7 45 At 8 o'clock Sunday morning Mse Bible Uaijribg class taught by Rev This clae has a nembersnio ci WEIL BRO Ave Beiweea Eighteenth and Nineteenth fl It is not known who will be Supei ins tendent successor but there is a rumor that a prominent official of a Texas road will be tendered the positionMr Miner will remain in Birmingham for the present The re election of the city officers without opposition is a great complis ment to their efficiency and a deserved cne The police were delighted with the increase of their salaries The Republicans in the city are jubi lant over free trade message They say Blaine will be nominated next year and will sweep the country Some i them even claim that he will carry Alabama Detective Sullivan hss returned from Winston county and tel's a good story on the natives of that backwoods count try He says he saw a little boy one day with a small pig tied to the end of along pole The boy was holding the pig up among the branches of1 a persimmon tree where it could eat the ripe per simmons are you holding that pig up Sullivan asked one uv answered the boy H'OB HUMANITY SAKE Washington Dec 9 or Alabama: Cioler fair weather light to fresh wind? becoming generally northerly AD VERTISSIMENTS Axentx wanted The Brunswtcl White girl wanted Meat market for sale Stock of giods for sale See lectl Ojod alzcd olllce wanted Young German wants work Unfurnished rooms for rent Bee Iace local See Smith A nd Lecture by Dr ifcnburg Sunday Warned man to put up lime kilns One hundred and fifty dollars reward CLOTHING HOUSE Offer a fine stock of ine Sack Cutaway or Prince Al duiis rme vnincnnia Aieiton and all stylos of Bays Something About His lan of Straightening Out His Office The Age yesterday received a copy Gf the Vicksburg Democrat containing a marked article which consisted of stric tures against one of the of the Birmingham pcstoffice Mr John Day representing him as having been an offensive Republican partisan whose retention in office here was unfair to class cf Democrats in the South who struggled so manfully for the suc cess of the Democracy and who now demand the placing jn retirement that clas of Republicans who rendered them selves obnoxious by their oppression and unfair manipulation of The article makes various charges of offensively partisan acts and said the matter wonld be placed before Southern Democrats in An Age reporter called on Postmaster Throckmorton yesterday and learned that he also bad received a copy of the marked paper Yes me postmaster said there was a John Day iu the office He was pointed out He stood at a half circular rack with numerous boxes assorting old pa pers which had been accumulating in the office for months Mr Throckmorton said when took hold of the postoffice I determined to start right and the only way I could see to co that was to employ the most experienced postoffice men whose services could be procured Tais was only a temporary expedient and if the persons suited and there was nothing politically objectionable they might be retained or not as I saw hi Among the new men Eelected was Mr Day who came highly recommended and against whom I have yet heard nothingexcept that he had been a par tisan I have notified Mr pay that his services will not be required after this week You understand niy position I have been employing the beat means available to disentangle the aflairs of the office Mr Day has been of great service and lias so far performed what I employed him to do with entire As the reporter left the office he could not help notice the appearance of method and neatness about everything notwith standing one end of the spacious room was littered with the shavings of wood orked upon by carpenters making ad ditional improvements Everybody in the office seemed to know his place and was busily but silently performing his part THE BIRMINGHAM AGE SATURDAY MORNING DEC EMB Continued Success in Spite of the eath Day' The fair continues to draw in spite of the bad weather The crowd last night was large enthusiastic and liberal and the receipts were very grati fying The german at the Wilson House cut down the attendance slightly but the crowd as almost as large as en Thursday night Justice election was one of the most attractive' features and several hundred votes wsre polled for the differ ent candidates for sheriff The election will be continued every night during the fair and its result will show who is the most popular candidate for sheriff The cost of voting for the most popular captain was reduced to 10 cents and hundreds of votes were cast during the evening Mrs Samuel Ullman and her assist ants at the summer booth who are among the hardest workers introduced a new election scheme last night which at once became popular a diamond pin will he voted to the mist popular lady at the fair A great many votes were cast last night The reslauraut was well patronized last night and the receipts were unusual ly large About 9:30 ihe Kinghts of Pythias in full uniform marched in and took supper at the restaurant The bill of fare last night was an excellent one Several valuable donations came in last night Justice Allen won a fine meer schaum pipe and was correspondingly happy He says a man who can beat the Smithfield races can come out ahead at Any fair The wild Indians proved a great at traction last night and an effort will be made to have them ol exhibition again to nigbt Members of the Rifles took turns in guarding the savages day To day will be day and the fair will be open from 10 a until 3 During the forenoon the large assortment of pickles and fancy gro ceries on hand will be sold at very low prices Every lady in the city is invited to attend The restaurant will be open during lunch hours and the best of everything will be served Do not fail to attend to day and again to night THE' OLD STORY oonvict Captured Sherlin the warden at Coal burg yesterday caught one of the nine convicts who escaped from Gafloru brickyard three days ago He was cap tured near Coalburg by the dogs kept there for the purpose The other eight have not yet been heard from Valuable Loys at Auction Xiven lota 20x125 1 lot 42AX125 west foarth street between Avenue A and Powell avenue It C1 Retook Thursday Deeembei 15th one third cash balance in 1 and years Tv with interest Wh) Martin Leedy Budeiivered Telegrams The following is a list of undelivered tolegmms remaining at the Western Union telouraph office for wan of proper adilres To insure promot delivery k'l'l hava your street and number sens on each mesaage: Lipscomb 8 terr Mars Lonsdale Oscar WearA Hilliker Win A Wright A SA 4 Brooks Mr Broadus aitpin DjeohsTged PC rliiah Gilpin the ysung larrssr from Hagoods Roads who was recently arrested on a charge of seduction was iTto before Allen for trial yesterday1 The talker woman in the oese was preawat and annsunced that he had to withdraw the prosecution Gilpin wcordiugly discharged i I HRISTMAS AND NEW PRESENTS 1 Court Williams an escaped convitt Williams i nX 's a A a.