The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-02
AGAINST IHEB., ,S.&N.O.
supREmE CoUKr DECISION
 CAUSES ooMs6ENTIN SELMA.
Yesterday the Little Road Passed Into the Hands of the Louisville and Nashville-Conjsct
 zas to Future.
Advertiser Bureau, s0alsx,a I,,1x, i

Selma, July 1. The decision of the Supreme Court as publisiefi in last Sundays Adver- tiser. which was against the B. s. and N. O. in the matter or the celebrated Smiths crossing, has caused a great deal of comment here. The B. s. and E N 0. today passed into the hands of
 the Louisville and Nashville, and the question is being asked on all sides now. whether the Southern will att tempt to pull up the crossing, since the httle road has fallen into the hands of the powerful IL. s& N?
 1t Is a well known fact here that the Southern allowed the Louisville and ! Nashville the privilege of crossing it's track near the old Franklin warehouse for the sum of $500. That is near the | point where the now IL. & N. bridge | is being built across the Alabama river, over which the Pensacola Division will enter the city. 1t Is the concensus of opinion that the Southern will go l mighty slow about taking up the eross- l ing at Smiths Station, since its pow erful rival, the l.. & IN. has secured | possession of the short line out of Sel- ma, for that road has the sinews of | war to fight the matter in the courts, which the B. s. ,& N. o. did not have under its original ownership. Then, again, 1t is srumored that the l.. X N. and the Southern are not as bitter en- ! emies as they once were, and that the officials of the two roads are holding a conference today and the matter of | the crossing at Smiths Station may he settled amicahly before night. At lany rate. 1t can be stated with almost absolute certainty that the Southern does not intend to pull up the crossing as 1t has done several times. and that the local traffic between here and the terminus of the road will not be inter
 rupted. for the present at least The ground of the decision against the B. S. X N O. was. that a jury had Lot
 assea.ei the damages occurring to the Southern bv the crossing. If the cross
 ing is pulled up by the Southern 1t can
 be put back again as soon as the jury
 assesses the damages and the Southern | would only achieve a temporary vic- | tory by pursuing it's old tactics of talk ling out the crossing. and as the B. s. l& N. O. has given bond for damages the l.. & N. could sue the Southsrn | for the damages done 1t by taking out | the crossing and the expense of tbe flaw suit would be added to the other lexpenses.
 Then again, thsre are a whole lot | of rumors afioat about the L. and N. | coming into town and building pas
 senger and freight depot on tine present site of Melvin & Erhart's warehouse. Some time ego the street car people
 stopped work on Jones Street. It is
 said that the B. S. and N. 0. will lurn
 down Valley Creek just this side of that stream. circle round Magnolia
 rCemetery and come down Jones Street
 between the old Court House and MT.
 sC. C. Grayscn's residence. thence on | fn WRxklsgfT1 uY1f1 1T.harfs nf4aA.
 house.
 | The Western Railroad and the Pen
 ssacola Division of the l.. and N. will
 come right up Water Street to the rite
 sof the supposed depot SD 1t is said. l There are still other rumors that the
 .shops for the l.. and N, the round
 house and the cottages for the machin- | lists for the B. B. and N. O. Division,
 the Pensacola Division and the West ern Alabama Division will all be lo- cated on the lands purchased by Col. | Abbott from the Featherstone estate, ard which lie between tue Alabama River and Magnolia Cemetery. and popularly known .As .Rivewiew. These arc mere rumoas, however. and are given for what they are wSrth | but there IS Sumet thing in the air, and | 1t will crop out in the next sixty CT | ninety days. In the meantime Selma ins are just holding their breath and | waiting to see what is going to happen. On Saturday night about 12 o'clock, as a southbound Southern train was pulling out for Meridian, it ran over and killed an old negro named Sam Boston near the Estclle Cotton Mills. He was in the city on Saturday after noon late and was drinking some. It | is rumored that he had a fuss with a negro while in the city, and this leads | to a suspecion of foul play. He may have been murdered and placed on the track. in order to cover up the crime. The negro's head was crushed and
 he was dragged along the track for distance of nsnety-five yards before he | fell loose from the wheels. Brains and pieces of flesh were sticking to the rail for the whole distance that he was dragged. A part of his skull was found on one side of the track, while one of | his hands was found on the other side of the track. in the ditch. being thrown a distance of several feet from the rail.
 The body was mt discovered until next morning. and 1t cannot be told whether there was foul play or whether | the old negro was overcome by heat and liquor and sat down on the side pf the track to rest. An undertaken I was sent out and the scattered parts of | the body were gotten together for in- | terment.
 Justice Lloyd was notified to go out
 and hold an inquest, but the body had
 been placed in a coffin and was on the
 way to the city, and he did not hold the l inuuest on that account The railroad paid the expenses of gathering up the l body of the old negro and giving 1t a decent burial.
 l The following facts about the Sum- I merfieiA Methodist Orphans Home will 1 be read with interest:
 l The first child was admitted to the l Home on Sept. 5th, 1890 There have l bean admitted to date 2S7 children. The
 
 
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