The People's Ledger from Enterprise, Alabama • 2

vr. tf 'wi eeoeoo3ooocoeooctoe NEW DEPOT FOR BREWTON STARTS President Taft Spends Twenty Hours in Birmingham in Ms Trip Around the United States Alabama Items. i on the other by men of the Grand Army of the Republic. As he passed down the avenue formed by the grizzled old soldiers, Mr. Taft stopped to shake hands alternately with each one.

As 'he shook hands with one of the Confederates, the old fellow said: "Mr. President, you haye captured the secessionists, the Kit Klux and the cranky democrats all of them." "Well, that's a whole lot," smilingly replied the president. The president declared that he always thought of Birmingham as one of the group of cities like Atlanta, Pittsburg, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle and Los Angeles, "that do things." Birmingham, Ala. President Taft brought his twenty-hours' stay in nii-mmgham to a close Wednesday afternoon, and at 4:10 p. m.

left for Macon, Ga. He stopped for a short while at Opelika, and Columbus. Ga. In his principal Birmingham address, delivered at Capitol Park to an immense and unusually demonstrative crowd, the president expressed again his good will toward the South. While doing so an old, gray-bearded man in the crowd called out: "God bless you; we all love you!" A broad grin came over the president's face, as he turned and replied: "That reminds me of the old quotation.

'It may be all right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me "But I have no fault to find on that score," added the president. "The fact that you had so little to do with putting me where I am makes me appreciate the warmth and sincerity of your reception all the more." The president had an exceptionally pleasant day. He motored to the Country Club for breakfast, participated in and reviewed a military and civic parade, had luncheon at the Southern Club and made the address in Capitol Park. One of the prettiest incidents of the day occurred as the president was leaving the luncheon. The way from the club house door to the waiting automobile was lined on one side by veterans of the Confederate army and The Republicans and Democrats Split Even Tom Johnson was Beat and so Was Heney BARGE LINE ON ALABAMA RIVER Montgomery merchants and manufacturers will operate and finance an independent boat and barge line on the Alabama river between Montgomery and Mobile.

This was decided at a short session of the Chamber of Commerce held Thursday evening in the Vandivcr buildi.ig. Although the meeting was short, a large number of local business men interested in the river navigation problem were present and all were enthusiastic over the boat line project. Pleads Guilty to Perjury. In the United States court at Huntsville John M. Winters, charged with two offenses, of perjury, pleaded guilty when the cases were consolidated and was sentenced to threu months' imprisonment and fined $200.

Other cases disposed of were as follows: Percy Pullen, retailing, jury and verdict guilty; John Morgan, retailing, jury and verdict not guilty; M. M. Humphreys, illicit distilling, on trial; Joe Lawman, illicit distilling, jury and verdict guilty; Sam Henderson, passing counterfeit money, pleaded guilty and sentenced to thirteen months in the penitentiary. Sentence was suspended on good behavior of defendant. A new trial of the suit of James Stewart vs.

the Southern railway was denied by Judge Grubb and the defendant was allowed 60 days in which to file a bill of exceptions. Officers Are Chosen. 1 The Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations of the Jacksonville State Normal IcIiooT, have elected officers as follows: Y. M. C.

A. Martin Johnson, president; C. H. Seibert, vice president; V. A.

Parker, secretary; J. B. Langley, treasurer; J. E. Burch, N.

B. Burch and J. B. Langley, program committee; C. H.

Seibert, O. E. Tebow and T. J. Leslie, program committee.

Y. W. C. A. Ada Milligan, president; Nell McFarlin, vice president; Jessie Armstrong, secretary; Nellie Barker, treasurer.

Cattle Tick Law Election. A special cattle tick law election has been called for November 29 by the Madison county court of commissioners. The question will be whether or not there shall be a general stock law in the county to put the county in under the cattle tick laws. Madison county lost the effect of the tick law when it was amended so as to apply only to counties where a majority of their area was under stock laws and through the commissioners have a right to put the law in effect if they see fit, they have an election and find how the people regard the question. Weekly Paper to Be Launched.

A weekly for Cuba, to be known as the Advertiser, is to be launched some time soon, edited by Thomas Keith, lately of Decatur, who, having had considerable experience, expects to get out the best weekly in. the county. An entirely new outfit has been ordered from Atlanta and will be installed within the next few weeks. It is understood that Dr. A.

L. Vaughn has agreed to erect a building for the use of the paper at once. Advertising contracts have been tentatively agreed on that assures the paper of expenses for the first year. Use Hoe to Kill Enemy. Word has been received here of a difficulty near Bascomb.

in which John Daniels is alleged to have struck John Preston with a hoe, killing him instantly. The trouble it is said, dates back.to the murder last year of John Robinson, a prominent fanner. The direct cause of this it is claimed, was a dispute over a hoe, but old family troubles arc believed to be responsible. Fire Follows Freight Wreck. A rear-end collision between two freight trains on the Frisco occurred in the yards at Winfield.

No one was injured. The dense fog prevailing blurred the end lights of the caboose and an engine went into the train. The collision caused a fire that burned the caboose and destroyed" two freight cars. Traffic was not delayed according to a statement Trainmaster J. F.

Listen. a Sir Henry Cotton, K. C. S. M.

contributes to the North Ac.cricaa Review a highly iiitercstlns? articlo on 'The Unre3t la India." Sir Henry knp'ws his Trila well, r.ud ho glvsa a comprehensive account of ths political conditiona there. Ho concludes: "Hero wo have the case staled In nutshell. While a policy or vigorous coercion Is being pursued, the people of India are In no mood to listen to any schemes of this character. Every, hour the party of discontent grows in strength, and the power and influence of the moderate section of Indian opinion perceptibly diminishes, It was Lord Randolph Churchill who" once told us that remedial measure which we planted under the shadow, of coercion must be, from their nature, poor nad sickly plants of foreign, origin, almost foredoomed to perish-before they begin to grow. Truer words were never uttered; and it is a gloomy reflection and the bitter irony of fate that, with a Liberal Government in Ensland in and with Mr.

Morley, the champion' of philosophic Liberalism, as Secretary of State, thero should be, not only no improvement in the position cr prospect of Indian affairs, but a. positive aggravation of unrest and anxiety and no feature of encouragement in the outlook." i The First Sleeping Car. The first real sleeping car built in 1SC4. It was called the and the builder further designated it1 by tho letter not dreaming that' he would scon exhaust the letters of the alphabet. The Pioneer was built) in a Chicago and Alton shop and cost the almost fabulous sum of That wr.s reckless extravagance in a' yc-a? "when the best of railroad coachea cculd t3 built at a ccat not exceeding C4500.

4 But the Pioneer was blazing a new. path in Iusury. Without it was radiant in paint and varnish, in gay, stripes and lettering; it was a giant; compared with its fellows, for it was1 a foot wider and two feet and a half, higher than any car ever built before. It had the hinged berths that are' the' distinctive feature of the American1 sleeping car to-day, and the porter and the passengers no longer had to drag the bedding from closets at the fcr cud cf the car. .1 The Piercer was not only, wider, r.nd higher than other passenger cars, but it was also wider and higher thani the elearaness of station pltt-iforiM and overhead bridges.

But when the-news came cf the death of President! Lincoln, the fame of Pullman's Pio-' jneer was already widespread, and it? suggested that the new car! should ba the funeral coach of the! martyred President. This Involved cutting wider clearances ail the way)' from Washington by way of Phila-'j delphia, New York and Albany to) Springfield, and gati-p of mem worked night and day to make tho; needed changes. Edward Hunger-fcrd, fa Outing. A Human "Alma Mr.tcr." At Cambridge Professor WUitmora tells it this way: it "Wilkins and I were waii.ir.g for a train at Cnosquahami, when' we joined a group of men at the window of the telegraph office, where the' operator was writing bulletins of baseball game between Harvard andj Yale. A lumberman who evidently! had bet on Yale was grumbling over( his loss.

He swore a great deal and; said the New Haven players were a' sandless lot of quitters. He was going to say a great deal more when a' tall, husky young fellow pushed! through crowd, took him by the shoulder and swung him around. i 'Pardon he said, politely, enough, though his eyes were blazing 'pardon me, but I can't stand any more of that abuse. I won't Eiand I'm an alma mater of Yale myself." Harper's Weekly. Sho Never Let Go.

i It was a wizened little man whos appeared bf.rore the judge and) charged jis wife with cruel and! abusive treatment. Hi3 better halt was a big, square-jawed woman with a determined eye. i "In the first place, where did you meet this woman who, according to your has treated you so dread-' fully?" asked the judge. "Well," replied the little man, making a brave attempt to glare deSantly; at his wife, "I never did She just kind of overtook iae." Jv'ew York Journal. To His Wife.

Perhaps the wife whose remains lia beneath the following epitaph would, be pleased at the sentiment, could she read it once; could she read it sho would probably look for the broomstick and her husband: "Tiicu hast pene before me To thy last, long sleep; 'J'rars cannot restore thca Therefore I weep. iij her husband." Lippiceotfs. Heleasedt on His Gocd Record. "Your Honor," declared R. of Boston, to Judge Grover, of the Dedham Court to-day, "I have traveled 10.SC3 miles by automobile since May 10 without being held urj or arrested for overspeeding." The defendant was given the benefit of the doubt on the charge of ove.

-speeding and was declared cot1 guilty. Eoston Evening Kcariy oae-third cf all the children bora in New York City dls bsfcre they; beeoiE': throe year3 old. Superintendent McKinney of the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad announced that work will begin on a new depot at Brcwton at once. Negotiations between the city authorities of Brewton and the Louisville and Nashville officials have been going on for some time, the final result being Tatisfactory to both the city and railroad. Farmers Are Storing Cotton.

Madison county farmers have almost entirely gone out of the cotton market since the price fell below 15 cents, and several hundred bales have been stored here during the last of the week. With gins closing down in many localities because their season is ended, the farmers feel that their cotton ought to bring 15 cents, and they will bold it for a time, anyway, in order to see if it will not. First Victim of Athens Malady. First Victi mof Athens Malady. of the young ladies taken sick at the Athens Female College some ten days ago, and who was then brought home, died with phoid fever.

Miss Word died at the home of her guardian, Mr. F. at Coalton. The deceased was only 16 years of age. Tax Valuations to be Maintained.

Tax assessors of the st.itf an. urged in a circular letter just sent out by the state tax commission to keen the tax valuations nn tn fin mr cent of the market values, and to raise all who are not now up to that point. In no case must there hp nl- lowed any falling off. Burglar Captured Red-Handed. Ed Goodloe of Florence, a neero.

was caught bv Chief of Police Her bert KeJrigk almost in the act of roDomg snntn 6: bummerhill store. Three pairs of trousers were the booty and the negro had just crossed the street and dropped the'rh over a fence when the chief, who was looking for another negro, nabbed him. Young Farmer Commits Suicide. Ed Hastings, a voumr farmer nf the New Market neighborhood, sui cided by taking carbolic, acid. He was lound dead in Ins barn several hous later.

Hastings leaves a win dow and, three children. Trouble over a woman caused the suicide. Crushed to Death. While hauling logs about three miles west of Clanton Flint Pierce was killed by a piece of timber fall ing on him. He was unloading his wagon and a large log slipped and I across his body crushing the lile out of him.

Congressmen Return Home. The visiting congressmen and governors inspected Forts Morgan and Gaines and were addressed by Congressman G. Taylor, of Alabama at Mobile. The party broke up, the various members going home. Child Breaks Arm.

Lula Belle Jones, the 13-ycar-oId daughter of H. E. Jones, depot agent for the Central of Georgia at Dadeville, suffered a very painful accident when she fell from a horse and broke her arm. The arm was broken below the elbow, both bones being fractured. New Home For Bank.

The Tennessee Valley bank of which S. S. Broadus is the president, is building a new heme at Decatur on Bank street. The building will be of brick and will be two stories high. It will cost about $6,000.

$2,000,000 Building Condemned. New York All legal business in the $2,000,000 criminal court building ceased because it was unsafe, and subsequently a board of survey, composed of public and private engineers, discovered a fissuc in one of the supporting walls of the Tombs prison. The building scands temporarily condemned. French Lottery. Paris.

The first drawing in the last French state lotteiy was held week. The $1,000,000 franc prize was won by ticket 13.401 of series 41. After the date for the eight drawing of the lottery has been settled at the end of 1910 the lotteries will be ab olished. New 51CO.00OO0D Bank. New York.

New York is to have another "hundred million dollar bank" to be known as the "Mechanics and Metals National." This new banking institution is a consolidation of the Mechanics National bank and the National Copper bank. The merger, already approved by the two dirtc-orates will represent combined assets of about $100,000,000. People waste a lot of valuable time in foolish arguments. Carrie Nation Arrested. New York.

Aftei entering the cafe of the Hotel Knickerbocker and shouting that the men drinking were going straight to hell, Carrie A. Nation, the redoubtable Kansas saloon saiashcr, was followed down Broadway by a booting crowd until arrested and taken to the Tenderloin police station, charged with disoH-r-ly conduct A two-faced woman i more d'-tv -rc-Ui than a bare faced be. i ALABAMA SYNOD I METS AT MONTGOMERY Rev. I. D.

Steele will leave Bir mingham Tuesday for Montgomery to attend the Alabama Synod of the Presbyterian church in the United States, which meets in Montgomery on that lay. In addition to Dr. Steele's several other members of his church will probably attend the sy nod. Many men of importance will be on hand at Montgomery and every phase of the church work be rep resented Officers Are Elected. The state order of the Eastern Star elected these officers at Montgomery: Grand Matron, Mrs.

Mattie Hand, Bay Minette; grand patron, Mr. George Ash, Birmingham; associated grand matron, Mrs. Mary Hutchinson, Mobile; associate grand patron, Mr. George F. Petrie, Mayline; grand secretary, Mrs.

Elizabeth Salter, Birmingham; grand treasurer, Mrs. Edith Edwards. Wvlam: prand conductress, Mrs. Mary Echols, Ens- ley; assistant grand conductress, Mrs. Callie French, Columbia.

Wife Tries to End Life. The fact has been known that Mrs. Glover Henderson, wife of Glover Henderson, who was recently arrest ed on charges of abducting Miss Wilson at Merrimack, made an at tempt to commit suicide at her home in Merrimack last Sundav nieht. Do mestic troubles rrowin-r out of the charges against Henderson are supposed to have caused the young woman to attempt jjlf-struction. Store is Dynamited.

The little general merchandise store of James Crumley, at Cruniley Chapel, in the western part of Jefferson county in the mining regions, was blown up with dynamite and the proprietor of the store seriously injured. Bloodhounds were gotten out and two negroes trailed and locked up at Adamsville. There is much excitement in that vicinity over the out rage. Man Prepared His Own Funeral. Last Monday night Claude Jones, an old man, died at the Wade hotel in Clanton.

He made arrangements for his death, paying his board a week in advance and bought his coffin and shroud and employed a brickmason to prepare his tomb. He left nothing from which his relatives or his history might be ascertained. He was. a veteran of the war between the states and received several wounds. 15 Cents for Cotton.

Cotton hit the 15 cenis mark and everybody is happy, especially the Farmers' union people in and around Cuba, who have been shouting 15 cents for several weeks. Cotton seed are out of all reason, selling above 51 cents, all of which appear to be taken by the one independent buyer left in the game, W. G. McDaniel. Strawberry Plants by the Thousand.

Fifty thousand strawberry plants were received at Cuba and are being set out by Holman and others. A firm in Illinois is making efforts to find a suitable location to put out over 50 acres, which wii! be the largest deal ever put through if it materializes. Taft Will, Soon Visit Fanama. President Taft will soon visit the Panama canal on a tour of inspection. This became known when Colonel E.

L. Russell, who was with the president at Columbus, during his visit there, announced that the president will come to Mobile to embark for his trip to the canal zone. Negro Chews Bonds in Two. Arthur Warren, the negro who held and shot'W. C.

Willis at Alberta last Wednesday and brought to Mobile for safe keeping, chewed the cords that bound his hands and jumped from a. Southern train Friday night and made his escape. A posse was quickly formed and the negro re-captured. Nov? Railroad. A party of surveyors have been in the southern end of Hale county looking out a line for a proposed extension of the Sumter and Choctaw railway, which is operatedby the Allison Lumber company.

Dies in Hospital. Brooks Noger. who, it is alleged, took part in the killing of M. W. Dog-gett.

at Silas, on Tuesday night, died in the Mobile hospital without making a statement. It is alleged that lie was one of the robbers that took part in the robbery of the home of John Graham, in which Ed Evans was killed and Brooks Kogcr was wounded. Koger is a resident of Indianapolis, where he is said to have a wife. New Bank at Cullman. The application of G.

S. Letth, T. J. Callahan. D.

D. Parker, O. M. Fisher C. W.

SanJIin to organize the Leeth National of Cull-mar, with has been approved by the comptroller of the currency. Completing High School. The new brick Cleburne county high school building which, is being Wilt nea- the IlcSin, will Dadeville Hears President Speak. Dadeville, Ala. The Taft special stopped at Dadeville and the president made a three-rhinute talk from the rear coach.

He was greeted by several hundred admiring faces. The president stated that he jvas glad the people of Dadeville were down to- see him, and that while crops were short, he trusted the increased price had brought prosperity to the homes of the people. At Alexander City. Alexander City, Ala. President Taft and party stopped in Alexander City.

The tcn-mimite speech made by the president was received with rousing enthusiasm by 5,000 citizens. A magnificent bouquet was presented by Mrs. Vara Walker and Miss Annie Mac and Miss Mary Cotton. r.egro as a political lactor. 1 he re-i turns in this state came in slowly, and the result is still uncertain.

The indications are, however, that the amendment has been defeated. In Indiana the republicans scored several important ictories, particularly in Indianapolis, where Samuel Lewis Shank, republican, was elected mayor and the entire republican ticket returned. The republicans carried Massachusetts by the narrowest margin in the history of the Bay State for nearly a quarter of a century. The entire party ticket was re-elected, but Governor Draper's plurality was cut down from 50,000 last year to 8,000. It is apparent that Governor Aran J.

Potiiier, republican, has been reelected over Ohicy Arnold, democrat, in Rhode Island by several thousand majority, and that the complexion of the next legislature will remain republican. The democratic victory in Virginia brings Judge Mann to the office of governor. His majority apparently will' be the usual one for this state. Tammany elected another mayor of Greater New York in the person of Judge Gaynor, democrat, but the organization lost its grip on the city finances. The republican-fusion forces will control absolutely the board of estimate and appointment.

In addition the republican-fusionists elected Charles S. Whitman district attorney of New York county, and practically all their other candidates on the city and county tickets. In Pennsylvania chief interest centered in the battle waged in Philadelphia, where the reformers endeavored in vain to break the power of the lo- cal republican organization. Samuel P. Rotan was re-elected district at-j torncy on the republican ticket by a surprisingly large majority.

In the state ucKer me republicans elected the state treasurer, the auditor general and a judge of the supreme court. In Cleveland Tom L. Johnson, democrat, for four terms mayor of I the city, was defeated for the fifth term by Herman C. Bachr. In conceding his defeat.

Mr. Johnson, who advocated a settlement of equal tax-j ation, announced that he would be a candidate for mayor two years hence. New Jersey elected eight members of the state senate and a full house of sixty members of the assembly. The republicans will again control both houses. New York state elected an assem bly that will show a republican majority of about 38.

cause and added to the gravity of the situation, but it not be permitted to influence the result. "If an organization of citizens, however large," the court held, "may dis.bcy the mandates of the court, the same reasoning would render them subject to individual defiance. Both are subject to the law, rnd neither is above it. If a citizen, although he may honestly believe that his' right may have been invaded, may elect to what ext-nt he will obey the mandates of the court and the requirements of the law as interpreted by the court, instead of pursuing the orderly course of appeal, rot only the courts, but government itself, would beceme and society would Le reduced to a state MAYORS ELECTED NOV. 2.

New York. Greater New York William J. Gay nor, democrat; plurality upwards of 70,000. Albany James B. McEwan, republican; plurality, 5,000.

Buffalo Louis P. Fuhrmann, democrat; plurality, 1,246. Rochester Hiram H. Edgcrton, re-elected; majority, 6,451. Elmira Daniel Shechan, democrat; re-elected.

Schenectady Dr. Charles C. Dur-yee, democrat. Auburn Thomas II. O'Neill, republican.

Watertown Francis M. Hugo, republican. Ohio. Cleveland Herman Bachr, republican; plurality. 4,000.

Cincinnati Drt Louis Schwab, re-pi blican. Toledo Brand Whitlock, democrat; plurality, 2,500. Republican tickets elected in Columbus aud Hamilton. Kentucky. Louisville W.

O. Head, democrat; majority, about 2,000. Indiana. Indianapolis Samuel Lewis Shank, republican; majority, 1,500. Evansville Charles F.

Heilman, republican. Gary Thomas E. Knotts, democrat; majority. 150. In Other States.

San Francisco McCarthy, union labor, by small majority. Salt Lake Bansfor, American (anti-church). The elections held on November 2 throughout the country show that Massachusetts and Rhode Island have re-elected republican governors, while Virginia has returned a democrat to this office. New York city has elected the democratic candidate. Judge William J.

Gaynor. to the office rif mayor, while in Philadelphia the efforts of the reformers' to break the republican organization fcave failed. In New Jersey the republicans held their own everywhere. Tom L. Johnson, democrat, has "jefeated as mayor of Cleveland.

The returns from San Francisco indicate that Francis J. Heney, democrat, has been defeated for district attorney. In Maryland the paramount issue was the so-called disfranchising amendment, designed to eliminate the Gompers Carries ths Case to the Supreme Court It is th3 Last Resort He Has Calf Not Ma j. H. A.

King of Mora-ornery, has been relieved of a mental strain in finding that a sick c.U which bit him some days ago W2s not mad as he at first thought -tight have been the case. He was tryin-g to feed the animal when it pipped his hand in its mouth and feeerated two or three fingers. Th.e head of the animal was examined, at the Pasteur department of the state health office and found tc be free of rabies. Child Eurned to Death. A tenant house on the of George W.

Thornas, miles south of Marion was burned to the ground. A small child of Abe Tutt, a negro on the place, was burned to death. Sixty dollars in money was also let Washington. The district court of appeals affirmed the decree of the supreme court of the District of Columbia adjudging President Samuel Gompers. Secretary Frank and Vice-President John Mitchell, of the American Federation of Labor, guilty of lontenipt of ci.urt in the Buck Stove and Rang" Company case.

Judge Shcphanl dissented from the opinion of the court on constitutional grounds. The court held that the fundamental issue was whi ther the constitutional agencies of the gocrrmnt 5houM be obeyed Or delied. The mcfe fact that the defendants were the officers cf organized labor in America said tlie to the Advertiser's Cashier Dead. George II. Mi.Com'-;, crihkr of the Montgomery Arivertifcr.

sired 5i. died nf'iT an iUr.f vn Vr -i.