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THE COUNTY COURTS
Mrs. Sims’ Will Probated—Gus Cam
pisi’s Trial Continued Because;
Defendant Is Still in Hos
pital—Suits Filed
Almost every automobile agency in the
city was represented yesterday at a meet
ing of the board of revenue who had ad
vertised for Hi da on a 5-ton motor truck
to be used on the country roads for haul
ing chert and other roa*! making material.
There were nine bidders and each pre
sented his case in person being allowed
10 minutes ih which to give his “little
spell.”
They also furnished the board with a
number of voluminous documents setting
forth the advantages of each individual
truck. The board went in executive ses
sion, hot had not completed the examina
u tion of all the documentary matter sub
mitted to them when adjournment came
so the matter was passed until today.
One of the members stated that he
thought the hoard would possibly want to
see the machines in action and that pos
sibly the bids would not be awarded un
til next week.
Criminal Dockets Completed
Judge Samuel E. Greene completed the
docket set for the week in the second
division of the criminal court yesterday
afternoon. Of Friday’s docket two cases
went off on demurrer, 12 forfeitures were
taken, ami eight cases were nolle prossed,
the others being passed for cause.
The «*ase of Thomas Payne, set in the
first division, was transferred to Judge
. Greene, but he was unable to reach it
on account of the heavy docket set in his
division. Payne is charged with being
implicated In the killing of Will Kllard
at Lewisburg some time ago. Owing to
the fact that Judge Fort acted as at
torney for Payne at the first hearing
of tlie case he was ineligible to sit at
tills trial and the case was transferred
to Judge Greene. It has been specially
set for next Monday and will be the
first case tried byi Judge Greene* after
he has organized the juries for the week.
Will Probated
The will of the late Mrs. Anne V. Sims
was probated by Judge J. P. Stiles in the
probate court Friday morning. The estate
1k valued at $14,000. A special bequest of
$1000 was made to Mrs. Annie Tillman,
wife of John P. Tillman, and only daugh
ter of the deceased. The estate is. to he
divided between Frank Sims, a son, and
Mrs/ Tillman.
Trial Continued
Owing to the continued Illness of Gus
Campisi, who is charged with the mur
der of his wife, the ease was continued
for 10 days by Judge T. H. Benners of
the court of common pleas. When the
case was called yesterday the state an
nounced not ready as the defendant was
not able to leave the hospital. Campisi
shot and killed his wife, Teresa Campisi,
a few days ago on the streets at Ensley
arid then turned the revolver on himself,
and inflicted a serious wound in the head,
lie will recover, so the doctors state,
and will be brought to trial as soon as
he fs able to leave the hospital.
Greek Cases Dismissed
Rallle Howard was bound over to the
grand jury on a charge of assault with a
weapon by Judge H. B. Abernethy of the
court of common pleas. Tile cases against
George Franklin and Pete Puelos. in
which they accused each other of stealing
dishes from each other's restaurant, were,
dismissed as the charges were not proven.
Each claimed the other had received
dishes from persons who had had their
meals sent, to them.
Suits Filed
The following are among the damage
■uits filed yesterday in the city and cir
cuit courts:
Jacob Goldberg vs. Birmingham Rail
way. Eight and Power company; $3000
damages claimed for alleged i>ersonal in
juries.
A. M. Goldberg vs. Birmingham Rail
way. Eight and Power company;, $1000
damages claimed for alleged injuries to
h1s son.
Crawford Jackson vs. St. Eouis and San
Francisco-Railroad company; $1000 dam
ages claimed for alleged personal iri
Juries.
W. H. Harris vs. Reliance Taxicab com
pany; $10,000 damages claimed for alleged
personal injuries.
FELIX DIAZ READY TO
RETURN TO MEXICO
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and residents in the vicinity of the jail
were likewise examined.
Dissension among the rebel leaders in
the state of Sonora are growing. These
' are seeking to obtain sole command of
the forces, according to a* report sent
here by Adolfo Olivares, paymaster gen
eral of the federal troops.
Olivares was captured by adherents of
Carranza, the constitutionalist leader at
the battle of Santa Rosa, but escaped
recently from llermosillo.
Olivares says conditions in Hermo
sillo are very bad. The rebel troops
there, he declares, have not been paid
for some time and many have deserted.
Gen. Alvaro Obregou is the only rebel
chief who controls his men in the state
of Sonora, Olivares said.
Investigation a “Farce”
Washington, September 19.—Senor
Perez Romero, brother-in-law of the
late President Madero and confidential
representative here of the Mexican
constitutionalists, characterized the re
port of the investigating committee “as
a farce” today.
“From independent channels and
from all evidence that we have gar
nered,” he said, “we have learifed that
. MajoV Francisco Cardenas frequently
has boasted in many public places that
he had killed Madero himself, yet he
was never even taken Into custody.
“I personally made an Investigation
after Madero was killed. All our evi
dence shows that both President Ma
dero and Vice President Suarez were
assassinated in the national palace be
fore being taken to the penitentiary.”
‘ Will Not Return Refugees
Washington, September 19.—Stale de
partment officials said today that lack
of funds that could be applied legally
to such a purpose made it imperative
that the department decline to defray
the expense of returning to Yautii Val
iley. Sonora, the American refugees who
. recently arrived at Los Angeles with
complaints that they had been scared
away from their homes especially by
President Wilson's warning to Ameri
cans to leave Mexico.
It was pointed out that the money
recently appropriated by Congress was
for the expense of bringing refugees
out, of Mexico and oould not be diverted
to send malcontents back. Further
more, the opinion was expressed that
the petition asking that the tel'ugees
be returned represented only a minor
ity of .the jmrty. , Already more than
refugees have .sought their
a hrmer bonnes in the United States,
a '^a others la indigent circumstances
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MEET H IN 1314
Robert E. Gann Chosen Sec
ond Vice President at
Nashville Meeting
Nashville, Tenn., September 19.—The
second annual convention of the South
ern Labor Congress closed here today,
President Jerome Jones of Atlanta, and
Secretary Treasurer W. P. Puckett, of
Atlanta, were re-elected. Albert H. John
son of Memphis, was elected first vice
president, and Robert E. Gann of Annis
ton, second vice president. Birmingham
was chosen as the next meeting place.
The following state vice presidents were
elected:
Alabama. Robert K. Gann, Anniston;
Arkansas, J. A. Martin. Little Rock;
Florida. M. C. Sutton. Vidalia; Kentucky,
\V. A. Fisher. Louisville: Louisiana, J. F.
Bowen, New Orleans; Mississippi. E. F>.
McClain, Meridian; North Carolina,
Jpmes R. Lawson, Liberty; Oklahoma,
not represented: South Carolina. C. M.
Rhodes, Batesville; Tennessee, Albert E.
Johnson, Memphis; Texas, J. R. Davis,
Palestine; Sergeant-at-Arms, B^. J. Smith,
Nashville.
During this morning’s session the con
vention was addressed by United States
Senator Luke Lea.
The congress today voted to allow ne
gro laboring organizations to affiliate
with the Southern Labor Congress. Only
two delegates cast negative votes.
STUDENT KILLED IN
INTER-CLASS RUSH
Choked to Death by Goitre
on Neck—To Aban
don Fight
Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 19.—F. W. Oben-!
chain, aged 20 years, of South Whitley,1
Ind., died during the annual “tank scrap"
between the freshmen and sophomore
classes at Purdue university here tonight.
Obtnchain, a sophomore and his class
mates wore leather collars, re-inforceu
with metal to protect their necks. The
dead student had a goitre of the neck
and during the exertion attending the
fight his neck swelled until he was
choked to death.
Shortly before the fight ended it was
discovered he was dead.
Vnlversity authorities issued a state
ment in which it was said Obencnain's
death was not due to any Injury re
ceived in the fight and it was announced
that the historic “tank scrap" would
never be held again.
The annual freshman-sophomore fight,
got the name of tank scrap because of
its being bold near a water tank. The
freshmen were victors In tonight’s fight.
Falls Off Scaffolding
Hugh Council fell off a scaffolding on
the building under construction at the
corner of Park avenue and Twentieth
street at 2:60 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Hiid suffered severe bruises on the head
and it is thought internal injuries, *’he
injured*man w«u* removed to the Hillman
hospital in Shaw & Son's ambulance.
Arthur Thomas Arrested
Arthur Thomas, a negro, was arrested ,
last night by Detectives Garner and Daly |
and placed in the city jail charged with j
robbery, burglary and grand larceny and
carrying concealed weapons. The negro
will be transferred to the county jail
this morning on a warrant.
are accepting relief from tho Red
Cross agent at San Diego.
The consul at Juarez reported to the
department today that John Brook
shire, an American who was imprisoned
there, had been released on parole.
Federals Repulsed
Eagle Pass. Tex., {September 19.—Two
of a band of about 75 men. dressed a3
civilians, but believed to be the ad
vance guard of a federal army march
ing on Piedras Negras, provisional cap
ital of the constitutionalists, were
killed and others were wounded today
in a skirmish with a constitutionalist
outpost 20 miles north of Piedras Ne
gras. The supposed federals were put
to flight. Several of the rebels also
were wounded.
Liberals Defeat Catholics
Mexico City. September 19.—A peti
tion by Eduardo Tamarlz, one of tho
most prominent- of the younger leaders
of the Catholic party, for permission to
quit his seat in the chamber depu
ties in order to accept the portfolio
of minister of public instruction ten
dered him by President Huerta today
brought about the first, trial of strength
in the chamber between the liberals
and Catholics. The liberals triumphed.
Senor Tamarlz, being a member of
the chamber of deputies, required the
•sanction of the chamber in order to
vacate the seat. After an extended de
bate on the request which at times
was heated, permission was denied
Tamariz by a vote of 108 to 20. Tam
ariz already had taken the oath as
minister of public instruction.
Foreign Minister Gamboa appeared
In the chamber of deputies and en
deavored to explain that the naming of
Tamariz established no precedent, since
Pedro Lascurain, a prominent Catholic,
had held the portfolio of foreign rela
tions under President Madero. The
deputies, however, by approximately
the^pame vote as on the first proposi
tion, denied Senor Gamboa permission
to proceed with his explanation.
Senor Tamariz will not assume the
office of minister of public instruction
pending an adjustment of the situa
tion.
Fearing to respond to a call from
President Huerta to come to the na
tional palace last night. Deputy Ro
dolfo Reves, former minister of justice
passed half the night in the American
embassy. 'Senor Reyes was one of the
several deputies heading the opposi
tion in the chamber of deputies to the
appointment of Eduardo Tamariz as
minister of public Instruction. After
adjournment of the chamber. President
Huerto summoned Senor Reyes and
Deputy, TJrreta to a conference in the
palace. Instead of complying, however,
Reyes took refuge in the embassy un
til he had ascertained the nature of the
summons.
Lind Watches Events Closely
VerA Cruz, September 19.—Tt is as
sumed here that while the Washington
administration is willing to give Presi
dent Huerta the benefit of the doubt
regarding his intention to hold a presi
dential election next month, John Lind.
President Wilson’s personal represeri
tative. will not be withdrawn from
Mexico until after the election and pos
sibly not until he has witnessed the
character of the reception given the
nbwly elected executive. It is believed
that there will be no radical change In
the situation for some weeks, but nev
ertheless Mr. Lind Is closely watching
events.
Mr. Lind was the guest of honor at a
dinner party given on board the battle
ship Louisiana tonight by Rear Admiral
FletchcT.
Among the Ameriefan refugees her^
awaiting transportation to the United
States ar# 10 from Durango.
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BY PLAUSIBLE PAIR
Two Men Caught Last Night
Charged With Getting
Money From Number of
Birmingham People
| A very Important police capture was
made last night when J. P. Smith and
W. M. Cleveland were arrested ami placed
in the city jail on the charge of forgery
by Detectives Burge, Goldstein. Darnell
and Tyler. According to the detectives
and Chief Bodeker, Smith and Cleveland
have been working the Birmingham pub
lic for the last several days as fake sub
scription agents for the Dadiea' Home
.Journal and the Saturday Evening Post,
besides doing a lot of surreptlous passing
of forged checks as a side line. Smith
and Cleveland, according to the detectives,
have admitted their guilt.
The capture of Smith and Cleveland
was effected last night about 9 o’clock. J.
P. Smith was captured in front of the
Hillman hotel, but Cleveland, his partner,
was only captured after a hard chase at
Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street. The
detectives had attempted to arrest Smith
and Cleveland yesterday afternoon, but
the men had outrun the detectives. They
lived at a boarding house at 2412 Fifth
avenue.
In the possession of Smith and Cleve- :
kind, when they were searched, were 1
found three forged checks of $50 and sev
eral subscription coupons of the weekly
•periodicals they pretended to be agents
for. Chief BmiekeY stated that undoubt
edly a large number of families had been
victimized by these two slick young men.
Tt is said that their game was to come
to a house and present an alluring offer of
a lot of china to secure a subscription
and on receiving a $,‘1 advance payment
wculd sign a receipt and they would no
more be seen.
The detectives also stated that Smith
and Cleveland are wanted in Charlotte,
N. C., on the same charges. All the
checks In the possession of Smitfc and
Cleveland were drawn on Charlotte banks.
There were also several letters written
for thife evident purpose of aiding the
person to whom the checks were sent to
pass them. “They are a slick pair,” said
Chief Bodeker, "and the boys certainly
made a good haul when they brought
them in.”
THE CONFEREES
WILL NOT REPORT
UNTIL NEXT WEEK
(Contlnnert from Page One)
night with Senator Heed, one of the
committee democrats, who has criti
cised many provisions of the hill ad
versely, is expected tp be followed by
individual conferences with other dem
ocrats who have shown opposition to
the bill.
With the aid of Secretary McAdoo the
President will endeavor to overcome
some of their arguments and bring the
Senate committee to Hie bill’s support.
Should Senator Hitchcock continue
opposition to immediate currency leg
islation his aid would enable the re
publicans to prevent by a tie vote any
affirmative action or reporting the
measure at once to the Senate.
Public hearings were resumed with
Andrew J. Frame, a banker of Wau
kesha, Wis. Samuel Unterineyer, who
conducted the Pujo money trust In
quiry, and country bankers will be
heard Monday next.
Frame told the committee that of 430
country banks in Wisconsin, he. had can
vassed on the currency bill, 309 did not
care to join the new system; nine said
they would join, but expected the plan
to be modified; two small banks said
they would join even though tlie admin
istration bill was passed without change, j
and 130 did not answer his query.
It is expecteci the hearings will close
by Wednesday next.
Mulhall's Charges Denied
Washington, September 19.—The House
lobby committee abandoned work on its j
report today long enough to hear from
Representative Charles E. Littleton of ,
Maine, whom Martin M. Mulhall, former j
lobbyist for the National Association of
Manufacturers, testified was one of the i
chief allies of that organization in the
.House.
Littleton testified that beginning with
his entrance to Congress in 1899, until he
resigned In 1908, he found an active, unerv
getic and powerful labor lobby, hearted
by Samuel Gompers.
He said he did not intend to criticise
members of the House for siding with
labor on labor bills, but he would retract
his former position that when Gompers
and the labor people became active the
• tall timber was thickly populated and |
there was plenty of Insidious action.”
He told the committee that his views on
labor legislation coincided with those of
the manufacturers, and that early in his
congressional career he gladly accepted
the aid of the association of manufactur-,
ers through Marshall Cushing, then its1
Washington representative. He said
Mulhall went to lus district In 1906 to help
out.
Mr. Littlefield denied Mulhall's testl
mony that the National Association of
Manufacturers spent $69,000 in his district
in the campaign of 190G. He produced
an affidavit from the cashier of a Rock
land, Me., bank, where Fred Wight, tho
treasurer of the,district republican com
mittee, banked at the time,®bowing de
posits of $20,660. He added that part of
this money came from individuals who
were members of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers, but denied that
it as an association ever contributed, and
the money went to support the state and
county ticket as well as to help him.
Defends Jenkins’ Character
Before he left the stand Mr. Littlefield
asked permission to make a statement
about the late Representative Jenkins of
Wisconsin, who was chairman of the
House judiciary committee when Mr. Lit
tlefield was one nf its consplcous mem
bers.
Mr. Littlefield said he had Known Mr.
Jenkins for years and that he thought
It only proper since he was dead and
could not speak for himself, that some
one defend Ills character. He declared
that he believed Mr. Jenkins to have
been a man of the highest Integrity and
honor. He referred to the testimony of
Mulhall that the National Association
of Manufacturers had him appointed a
judge after bis retirement from Con
gress.
"I know when he was appointed judge,"
he said: “I know the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers had nothing to do
with It. I saw him when he came bark
to this country." Then he added, as Ills
voice broke, and he fumbled for his hand
kerchief, "and I . know that he. died a
poor man."
Former Representative John J. Gardi
ner. in all probability the last witness
to be heard by the House committee, de
nied many of Mulhall's statements re
garding the things he did and did not
do at Mulhall's dictation when he was
chairman of the House labor committee,
early In the century. He denied with
emphasis the testimony of Mulhall that
he named a subcommittee of his com
mittee at the dictation of James A. Em
ery. Washington representative of the
National Association of Manufacturers.
"No man,” said he. "either the speaker
or a representative of the National Aaso
riatlon of Manufacturers, or of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, aver- suggested j
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Stetsons a
$3.50 to $6
Birmingalas
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HONEST MERCHANDISE, HONEST ADVERTISING AND
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i New Neckwear
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Double Breast or Norfolks
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_ MANY OF THESE SUITS HAVE 2 PAIRS OF TROUSERS
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In splendid fabrics, dainty combina
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any men for subcommittees of the labor i
committee while T was chairman.” !
Mr Gardiner denied also that he put!
away with a subcommittee an eight hour j
bill that Mulhall said he bulled to avoid
the anger of the National Association of
Manufacturers. He said he did not know
of any aid given him in Ids campaign in
1910 by*the National Association of Man
ufacturers. although he did see Mulhal.
in his district several times at that pe
riod.
Did Not Wish to Talk
Washington, September 19.—Representa
tive Edward Everts Browne of Wisconsin,
serving his first term in Congress, has
a place on the powerful house labor com*
mittee.
Republican Leader Mann appeared be
fore that committee today in support of
his bill to create a federal labor safety
bureau. When ho had flni.thed a long
argument. Chairman Lewi* noticed an el
derly man who had taken no part in the
proceedings seated alone at the end of
the table.
i “Would you like to make a statementt
before the committee on the bill?" asked
the chairman. *
The elderly one looked about In a sur*
prised, embarrasses! way.
"Why, no," he returned. "I am Mr.
Browne of Wisconsin, a member of the
committee."
Whereupon the new found committee
man was introduced to his colleagues.
ARMY MANEUVERS
ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Alpine Section of Swiss Army At
tacks Imaginary Foe Entrenched
on High Mountain
Geneva, Switzerland, September 19,
A wonderful programme of military
maneuvers above the clotuls was
brought to an euil today by 600 moun
taineers, forming part of thj Alpine
section of the Swiss army, who have
een engaged for tsornc days to a aeries
of movements among the highest peaks
of the Alps.
A final movement was the uttaok on
an Imaginary enemy in occupation of
the iSggialiorn, a mountain lu.DOO feet
high. The battalion of 600 hardy Al
pinists. descended this forenoon from
the Jungfrau Joeli, 11,140 feet high,
where they had bivouacked In the snow
throughout the night.
They executed a forced march across
the perilous Aletsch glacier during n
driving snowstorm without th ■ loss o'
a man from fatigue. They completed
the splendid feat by storming the Kg
gishorn peaks.
MOBILE MAY GET
FARMERS’ CONGRESS
Montgomery, September 19— (Special.)
C. Homer Billingsley, clerk fit the pyre
food and drug bureau of the department
of agriculture arid industries, has writ
ten a letter to John H. Kimble, secre
tary of the Farmers' National congress,
which win meet at Plano, 111., this year,
urging him to use Ids Influence to get
’ ci.rgn 111 imc.I it -. , i , ! i.
next year at Mobile.
Mr. Hillingsley is a members of the
Farmers' National congress, and he be
lieves that that organisation would do
wfell to hold Its 1914 session in Mobile.
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