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BOOZE OUSTED
IN, BIRMINGHAM
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Prohis Won in Election Held in
Jefferson County, Alabama.
ANTIS WON IN THE CITY
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County, However, Wu Carried by the
Dry*—Women and Children Took
• Prominent Part in Contest.
Jefferson county, Alabama, after one
■I the hottest campaigns In Its history,
went “dry’: In Monday's prohibition
•lection by a majority that will be
•lose to 2,000.
When the news reached Birmingham
ttiat Ensley, the suburb where tho
steel mills and furnaces are located,
•nd probably the greatest Industrial
•ity In tho south, had gone dry by 34
Majority, the remainder of the county
was at once conceded to prohibition.
The city of Birmingham gave a ma
jority of 320 against prohibition.
At 9 o’clock Monday night the anti
prohibition campaign committee issued
Mils statement:
“Prohibition has carried.
“We abide the consequence*.
“We hope morals will be improved.
‘“File laborer and manufacturers are
.Wounded first; the merchant next; then
fte .property owners.
“We hope the city may escape bank
ruptcy.
“We hope the schools will not. feel
Hie burden of the changes that must
•allow.
“This committee will continue to
■(and for law and order and good gov
ernment.”
Mayor George B. Ward of Birming
ham has issued the following state
pent:
“The election has been fairly won by
Me prohibitionists. It is now the duty
pf every citizen to accept tin* situation
Wnd to give the plan an honest and
fcir trial. The mayor's office will do
Its part. So will Judge Feagin’s court
•nd our police department.
“Now that it is all over prohibition
ists can afford to admit that the city
government will be seriously hamper
ed in Its municipal functions. Others
have admitted it all along. Therefore,
tt is up to every citizen to do two
Miings:
•■First, bear with the municipality
while adjusting itself to straightened
<fomlltlons and assist actively in a
tangible way toward keeping demor
alization from going too far.
“Second, to waive all of the partisan
toellng that has been engendered dur
ing the campaign and get together in
* big, strong, enthusiastic pull for i
the prosperity, greatness and future of j
•nr beloved city.”
For the first time in the history of I
Birmingham, if not in the state of Ala
bama. thousands of women and chil
m> surged the streets throughout
the day, carrying aloft placards, shout
ing their desire for prohibition, sing- ;
tog sacred hymns and praying in the J
•treet.
“Jefferson Going Dry,” to the tune of
“Bringing in the Sheaves,” was sung,
•loud throughout the day and even latej
•t night the familiar tune was ring-
tog in every ear. •;
“Bread or Booze?” was the
•and Query, and “Borne or Hell.’ Wife ,
•r Whiskey?” were the warnings from
Uto white rlbboners.
H was the noisiest day in the his- j
lory of noisy Birmingham. A great con
fusion reigned the entire day about the ,
polling place?. So thick were the places
beset with women and children that
m* voters at times had great difficulty j
to reaching the polls.
“Nearer, My God, to Thee, was hum- j
■ted throughout the day. The pupils j
•f Birmingham colleges marched
throughout the streets continually, un* |
ier the directions of their professors, j
Occasional halts were ordered in that
the boys might shout for prohibition s
•nd the recognized leaders of the pro-
Mjbltjon movement.
BARTHQUAKE TAKES MANY LIVES-
Frightful Havoc Wrought in Italian Prov
ince of Calabria.
Details received in Rome, Italy, on
Thursday regarding the earthquake at
Calabria, in every way tend to show
that the damage done was much more j
extensive than at first estimated, but ;
that the loss of life has not been great, j
The lowest estimate places the number I
•1 killed at about twenty aud the high
•st at about 120. Nothing definite will j
be known on the subject until the ruins j
tre cleared away.
CONFIDENCE RESTORED
big Financier*, With th* Help of Unci*
Bam Avert Cataatrophe is
Wall Street.
There was a sharp turn In financial
affairs in New York late Wednesday,
renewed confidence in local banking
institutions taking the place of the
•panicky feeling that has threatened
solvent houses and demoralized the
stock exchange for the past few days.
After prolonged conferences at J. P.
Morgan’s office an organization of the
presidents of New York trust compa
nies was affected. It was In the na
ture of a protective combination. All
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of the leading and admittedly conserv
ative trust Companies participated. A
resolution unanimouslyadopted pro
vided for an examination of the vari
ous trust* companies and a report of
their fund3 and recommendation to
the association.
At the same time, and even more im
portant, the secretary of the treasury,
having satisfied himself as to the con
dition of the New York banks, author
ized an announcement that he had di
rected that government deposits be
placed in the banks to the extant of
twenty-five millions. These two meas
ures are admittedly adequate for all
the needs of the banking and trust
corporations of New York in the pres
ent emergency.
Secretary Cortelyou’s official state
ment is as follows:
“I have said to a number of gentle
men who called on me today that any
statement to the public regarding con
ditions here should be made with the
utmost frankness that depositors and
others Interested in the banks might
realize that entire reliance might be
placed in It. Those familiar with the
facts have known that the situation
was made serious largely because of
the circulation of unfounded rumors
and uureasoning anxiety of many who
thought only for the moment.
"To pass safely, through such a day
as this one, one of the most unnecessa
ry excitement as it has been, is the
best evidence of strength and support
on the part of those who have under
taken the difficult task of re-establish
ing public confidence. Wherever there
is weakness, and it has been in but
a comparatively few instances, strong
and able men are rendering aid, and
in behalf of the treasury department
I may say that I believe it my duty
to do what I can do and I shall do
in the largest possible way whatever
may be necessary to afford relief.
“As evidence of the treasury’s posi
tion. I have directed deposits in this
city to be made to the extent of $23,-
j 000,000.”
After the close of the stock market
|'.Mann, Bill and Ware, the principal
! brokers in call money, made the fol
i lowing statement:
“Throughout the exciting scenes on
! the stock exchange today largo sums
i of money on call were loaned by the
I First National Bank, the National City
; Bank and the Hanover National Bank.
| These banks sent in sums ranging
: from 11,000,000 to $5,000,000 at times
j when the tension was greatest in an
effort to relieve the situation. At 2
j o’clock the first named bank sent in
| one block of $5,000,000, which was
j distributed among the eager borrow
i ers.”
WESTINGHOUSE IN TROUBLE.
Four Big Concerns in Pittsburg Placed in
Hands of Receivers.
A flurry in Pittsburg, Pa., financial
circles Wednesday caused by tbe em
barrassment of four concerns of the
Westinghouse interesst was quickly
ended by the prompt action of the
clearing house association and the
stock exchanges.
Asa result the Westinghouse Elec
tric and Manufacturing company, the
Westinghouse Machine company and
the Security Investment company, a
holding company for the Westinghouse
interests are in the hands of receiv
ers appointed by Judge Ewing of the
United States circuit court.
BLOODY COMBAT WITH BURGLAR.
Trusty Rifle Pitted Against Hatchet, But
Robber Was Killed.
K. J. Scott, a well known Nashville,
Tenn., druggist, and Charles Sbott, his
brother, had a desperate encounter in
the early morning with a negro bur
glar armed with a hatchet. The bur
glar was killed and both of the broth
ers injured.
E. J. Shott was struck several times
with the hatchet, but managed to se
cure a rifle and fired three bullets
Into the robber. Charles Shott was
struck on the head twice with the
hatchet nd seriously injured.
MORGAN SAVES
WALLSTREET
Napoleon of Finance Gets Friends
Together and Quells Tempest.
MILLIONS FURNISHED
Mighty Stream of Coin of the Realm Pour
ed Into Cvffejs-cf Bank* Routs Im
pending Panic and Ruin.
A New York special says:. Asa re
sult of Thursday’s developments in
the financial • world" there is every in
dication that the crisis in the banking
and trust company situation has been
safely passed. The Trust Company
of America all through the day’s bank
ing hours, paid out money to depositors
os rapidly as possible and closed with
all demands having been met.
Avery favorable feature of the situa
tion respecting this company was mat
it was able to make its payments with
very little assistance and another was
that company received over its coun
ters in the morning hours in ordinary
deposits more than $1,000,000.
Mr. Oakleigh Thorne, president of
the company, said that there was abun
dant cash in the vaults to meet the
situation and that he had no apprehen
sions whatever regarding the institu
tion for the future.
As the Trust Company of America
had been the center of interest in
the financial storm, It wa3 accepted
that the ability it had thus shown to
weather the storm was clear indication
that the financial sky had cleared and
tha a period of fair weather was now
well in sight.
The day was marked by three note
worthy episodes; first, and earliest in
the day came the announcement of
trouble in three minor state banks in
Harlem the Hamilton Bank, the
Twelfth Ward Bank and the Empire
City Savings Bank.- These banks trans
acted only a neighborhood business,
and their suspension of. payment was
absolutely without significance as bear
ing on the general situation. State
Bank Examiner Judson stated that all
three were solvent and that their de
depositors would lose nothing. The sec
ond episode was a run inaugurated
against the Lincoln Trust company.
The run against this company wa*
6teady throughout the day, but the
sums withdrawn were not large. It
is an up-towu institution with a great
many women depositors and carried,
mainly, personal household accounts.
The run. however, was without im
portance to the city's banking interests
as a whole.
At the close of the day, the com
pany’s officials announced that they
were fully able to meet all obligations.
By far the most notable, even dra :
matic, episode of the day was the emp
tying of millions of money into the
stock exchange through a pool headed
by J. P. Morgan and other financiers,
In order to avert a ruthless selling of
stocks held by brokers.
At the time that excitement was at
its height the announcement was made
that a pool had been formed, with J.
ierpont Morgan, at its head, to come
to the rescue of the brokers, for it was
necessary to provide funds at once in
order that they might carry the stock
they were holding for their customers.
The effect of the relief measure was
Instantaneous aud the rate on call
money declined from l‘)0 per cent to
10 per cent. Stock advanced more rap
idly than they declined. Seldom, if
over, had the veterans of finance seen
a great situation saved so quickly and
so effectively by such a Napoleonic
stroke.
When the stock exchange closed,
every one was getting all the money
he wanted. The close was marked by
a memorable scene, in which the brok
ers gathered around the principal tra
ding posts and gave cheers for J. P.
Morgan and the members of the pool
which had saved the day.
The aggregate amount of money
which had been contributed in to
weather the storm and restore confi
dence assumed truly colossal propor
tions. Roughly estimated $25,000,000
which Secretary Cortelyou deposited
in the New York banks, $25,000,000
which the Morgan pool brought to the
floor, $10,000,000 which John D. Rocke
feller deposited with the Union Trust
company as a means of stemming the
tide of the Trust Bank of America, and
finally another $50,000,000 which, it
Is understood, Mr. Rockefeller stood
ready to advance to meet any further
stress of conditions —in all considera
bly in excess of $100,000,000..
MAYOR WAS MISQUOTED
Judge Maddox Did Not Lambast Repre
aantative Wright in Language At
tributed in News Article.
A recent news item from Rome, Ga„
wherein it was stated that Mayor Mad
dox had, in a speech before a mass
meeting, referred to Representative
Seabern Weight in the following lan
guage- —“a dangerous man who would
wreck the prosperity of any commu
nity In which he lived, for any
end he might have in view’’ —is denied
by both Representative Wright and
.Judge Maddox.
There is no question as to Judge
Maddox’s attitude toward Representa
tive Wright. The political antagonism
which has long existed between the
two men was evident in every comment
he had to make. Their political enmi
ty was emphasized in the last mayor
alty election in Rome. In that contest
Judge Maddox was unwillingly forced
into the race. He encountered the vig
orous opposition of Mr. Wright, who
was supporting his nephew, John M.
Graham.
Mayor Maddox in his deniel said:
r *‘i did not use the words referring to
Mr. Wright in my speech, to wit: ‘A
dangerous man who would wreck the
prosperity of any community in which
he lived for any selfish end that he
might have in view.’ I think, however,
such a conclusion might have been
drawn from what I did say of his con
duct, and that of Mr. Dean, in refer
ence to the passage of the charter for
the ctiy of Rome. I have said on the
streets, and elsewhere, that I believed
he was a constant menace to every pub
lic enterprise in the community.
The special correspondent in Roms
of the Atlanta Constitution is alleged
to have sent out the report, and Mr.
Wright, in a communication appearing
in the Atlanta Journal, accuses Editor
Howell, of the Constitution, of faking,
saying, among other things:
“I respectfully submit to the people
of Georgia, whose good opinion I value
above all things, that Mr. Howell’s
method of punishing men who have op
posed him, is hardly in keeping with
the standards that gentleman observe
even in political contests.
“It is very certain that Mr. Howell
lost out a year ago in his race for
governor by failing to understand that
the people of Georgia will not tolerate
in the editor of a great paper, things
that savor of the methods of an assas
sin.”
PLAN BANQUET FOR BRYAN.
Leading Democrats in Washington Arrang
ing for a Big Spread.
Democrats in Washington have ar
ranged for a banquet in honor of Wil
liam Jetnnings Bryan, which will be
given the latter part of November. It
is generally believed that the Nebras
kan will take advantage of the occa
sion to make an important announce
ment regarding his future probably
express a willingness to accept the
democratic nomination for the presi
dency.
YOUNG MAN MURDERS FATHER.
Claimed Self-Defense But Coroner’s Jury
Held Him to Trial.
Harry Lassiter, a nineteen-year-old
youth, is languishing in Spalding coun
ty jail at Griffin, Ga„ charged with
the murder of his father, W illiam Las
siter, who was shot to death in his
home Saturday night.
Young Lassiter admits the killing,
but claims his father was advancing
on him with a butcher knife, and
Ihe fired in self-defence. The coroner’s
jury beld him for murder.
HEW ORLEANS REGISTERS KICK.
Claims Louisville and Nashville Railway is
Guilty of Discrimination.
Discrimination against the shippers
of New Orleans is alleged in a com
plaint filed Saturday with the interstate
commerce commission at W ashington
by the New Orleans board of trade
against the Louisville and Nashville
railroad company.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA NOT SOLD
According to Perry and Thorne, Who Make
Denial of Report.
At Providence, R. 1., Friday, Marsden
J. Perry denied the report that the
Norfolk and Southern railroad had pur
chased the Central of Georgia rail
i road.
j* President Hanson of the Central of
Georgia received a reiterated and more
explicit wire from Oakleigh Thorne,
of New York, Friday night, say
i ing: “There has been no transfer or
change in the Central of Georgia rail
i road situation.”
BACK GAVE OUT.
A Typical Case of Kidney Trouble and
a Typical Cure.
Mrs. Chloe Page, of 510 3. Pitt
street, -Afexandrl?, Va.. says: “My
tback hurt me terri
bly, I had sharp,
shooting pains,
changing to a dull,
dragging ache. I
could not stand for
any length of time
and my hack hurt
_____ _ me when I sat down.
My feet and angles
were badly swollen
Wrm' every evening and
my stomach was Out
of order. Iran’s Kidney Pills cured
me of these troubles in 1902, and
five years I have had no return.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bo*.
Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y.
.fry
Overlooking Something.
According to a magazine writer,
girls do not eat enough. Apparently
this writer has never observed the
girls when they go back to the table
efter the company is gone.—Kansas
City Journal.
Itch cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
Textbook Moral*.
Several States require by statute
the teaching of morals in the public
schools, and in New York a bill has
been introduced into the Legislature
which requires that at least forty
lessons a year on morals be given
from a textbook. This Is all wrong.
Boys do not learn honesty and girls
modesty by getting lessons in a text
book on morals.
“Have you got your lesson in mor
als?”
“No; I just hate ifiorais—worse than
algebra."
Such conversation will not be un
common when textbook morals ar©
planted in the schools. Any teacher
can "hear a lesson” in morals, but if
he he not himself a living encyclo
pedia of practical morality the moral
natures of the children will be ruined
rather than benefited by book morals.
An investigation made in the sev
enth, eighth and high school grades of
the Boston schools showed that, be
cause of knowledge gained at home,
at school, or at church, a majority of
the pupils had a good knowledge of
moral obligation, while the conduct
of the same pupils revealed a deplor
able state as to moral character. Mor
al instruction from fathers who are
grafters, mothers who are white liars
and teachers who are frivolous and
conscienceless will never improve the
moral condition of the young. The
first step in the teaching of morality
was indicated by a great Teacher some
hundreds of years ago, when he said:
“First cast out the beam which is in
thine own eye and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote which
is in thy brother’s eye.”—School Edu-
I cation.
TO TELL YOUR FORTUNE.
The following directions, if careful
ly observed, will tell the fortune of
your friends, young or old. Be sure
to try this:
First write the year of birth. Add
age. Add 4. Multiply by 1,000. Sub
tract G 93423. Substitute the letters
of the alphabet for the numbers and
read your fortune. —Washington Star.
New York City has 3,927 firemen
besides the members of 12 volunteer
companies in Richmond Borough.
TAKE THEM OUT
Or Feed Them Food They Can Study
On.
When a student begins to break
down from lack of the right kind of
food, there are only two things to do;
either take him out of school or feed
him properly on food that will rebuild j
the brain and nerve cells. That food j
is Grape-Nuts.
A boy writes from Janiestown.N. Y., '
saying: “A short time ago I got into
a bad condition from overstudy, but
Mother having heard about Grape-
Nuts food began to feed me on it. It
satisfied my hunger better than any
other food, and the results were mar
velous. I got fleshy like a good fel
low. My usual morning headaches
disappeared, and I found I could
study for a long period without feel
ing the effects of it.
“My face was pale and thin, but is
now round and ha3 considerable
color. After I had been using Grape-
Nuts for about two months I felt like
anew boy altogether. 1 have gained
greatly in strength as well as flesb,
and it is a pleasure to study now that
I am not bothered with my head, i
passed all of my examinations with a
reasonably good percentage, extia
good in some of them,, and it 1S
Grape-Nuts that has saved me from a
year's delay in entering college.
“Father and mother have both
been improved by the use of Grape
Nuts. Mother was troubled with
Sleepless nights, and got very thm,
and looked care worn. She has
gained her normal strength an t
looks, and sleeps well nights.
“There's a Reason.” Read "The Road
to Wellville,” in pkgs.