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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
OIL TALK IN SELMA
MANY THINK THERE IS OIL
 BENEATH CENTRAL CITY.
Dr. Gary, B. H. Craig and Others Confident That Petroleum is Beneath Site of the Town.
 Selma News.
Advertiser Bureau,

Selma, May 10.
 It has ben known for many years that gold exists in Beech Creek. It has been washed out of the gravel :n the bottom of the creek not over two miles from the city. but it has been known only to a few that Selma is located over lake of petroleum.
 The talk about oil in Choctaw and Washington Counties and the great gushers at Beaumont, Texas, has re- Viyed the talk about there being petro. leum under Selma. and it would, per haps, never have been thought of again. if the oil excitement had not brought the subject back to the minds of those who remember about it.
 MT. B. H. Craig today said: Years ago, before We had waterworks, I used water out of a surface well, like every body else did. The well was walled up from bottom to top with brick, and suddenly it became so strongly i'm pregnated with petroleum that we could not use the water. I accused the servants of spilling oil into the well, but they all declared that they had not done so. I then thought that an old empty kerosene can had been dropped into the we'll and sent a man down and had the we'll cleansed thoroughly. Still the taste of the oil
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

in solving mathematical problems. His instruction / in mathematical subjects has been extremely limited, and what he knows he has studied out for him self. He astonished the experts at Yale and other universities by the ease with which he solved in his head com plicated problems. Thus he is able in thirty-nine seconds to raise any num- Der from one to 1000 to the fifth power process which in working with a pencil and paper requires 360 opera tions. He is now 21 years old, stands 5 feet 8 inches in height. and weighs ls0 pounds. His hair Is jet black, and his eyes are black and snapping. He has invented eight different methods of his own for addition, ten for division and sixty-four for multiplication. He is able to add mentally three columns at a time, and thinks nothing of ex- tracting the square root of any number in from one to thirty seconds. He declares that the hardest problem he ever attempted was to stand and see a freight train of thirty cars pass by and remember the number of each car and the road to which 1t belonged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
HAPPENINGS IN * .* ; THE CENTRAL CITY,

get married, even though they did look like snow drops in a dark setting.
 Arter these little girls came the brides maid, another faithful maid, Florence Peel. Then the bride came in on the arm of the groom. A colored minister, Rev. John Scott, performed the ceremony, after which the fifty or more guests repaired to the yard, where a wedding collation. was spread.
 MT. B. H. Craig. the head of the house where the wedding took place, is one of the delegates from Dallas to the Constitutional Convention. He Is going to Montgomery to vote for the disfran- chisement of the negro. but he believes in treating them humanely. and fairly, and the fact fhis permitting this mar riage to take place in his parlors illus trates more forcibly than words can express the true feeling of the people of Alabama toward the negro, when they know and keep their places and perform the duties that are required of them in a faithful, conscientious manner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

if money is needed to keep alive Ina semblace of a fusion that no longsl. fuses. Mark Hanna win without douhs gladly contribute it. The oblouuy and distrust cast upon the Dem0cratio name by its alliance with all the wilds eyed clements of ignorant discontent and political quackery have been of such help to the Republican msnagera that they will have little need Of any other campaign fund if they can only continue this alliance.
 As to the practical results of fusion the victories" of which Mr. Bryan speaks-it is only necessary to recall that these States carried by q hard-times fusion in 1sas were hopelessly lost to Mr. Bryar last year: Kansas. Nebraska. South Dakota. Utah. WaehiugtoI and Wyoming. And yet the man whf has twice led his party to overwhelsn. ing defeat bobs up serenely and un. taught to say that fusion will be | powerful factor in future Presidential elections"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
PIANO RECITAL.
Miss Bessie 0roves's Pupils Gave
 One Last Night.

Miss Bessie Groves's Pupils Gave
 One Last Night.
 Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, May i0 Tonight at the residence of Mrs. Ed ward Byrne. on Union Street. Miss Bessie Groves's pupils gave piano re- cital. which was highly enjoyed by all present. 1t was Ludwig von Beethoven night. and the following was the pro- gram:
 l. Reading-Sketch of Beethoven's Life, Miss Rosebud Land. 2. Sonata Pathetique, op. IS, Miss Gonzella Byrne.
 8. a. Andante, op. i9, No. 1. b. Men netto, op. 49, No. 2. Miss Alma Rhodes. 4. Waltz in A Flat, Miss Eloise Pick ems.
 5. Fur Elise. Miss Carrie Wilkins. 6. Rondo. op. 51, No. 1. Miss Edith Rice.
 2. Sonata. op. 14. No. ?. Miss Jennie Harrell.
 8. "Marcie Funebre" from Sonata, op. 26. Miss Ruth Cleveland. 9. Song of Penitence. Miss c. Byrne.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

to West Dallas, to be the guest of Mrs J. B. Ellis at her elegant home in Orr vile. A crowd of young people will go out next week and there will be a house party given in Miss Connally's honor.
 T. c. Traylor of Benton, is in the city. He is complaining about the bad stands of cotton. and says much of 1t will have to be planted over.
 Little Miss Frances Pruitt of Benton is in the city on a visit to her grand parents, MT. and Mrs. W. L. Thomp- son.
 Captain W. l.. Pitts of Uniontown, is with his Selma friends today.
 H. s. Doster of Prattville, is a visi- tor to Selma today.
 N. B. La Point of Portland was in Selma today.
 S. P. Stiokney of Greensboro, is in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
BODY IN BOILING BEER.
Much Mystery About the Death of
 Millionaire Brewer.

Troy. N. Y., May 10.-Samuel Bolton. Jr., millionaire brewer. and one of the most prominent and influential business men in this city. was found dead in vat of boiling beer in his brewery. His body was literally cooked, and death must have been in- stantaneous.
 Much mystery surrounds the circum- stances which the authorities are try ing to unravel. One singular instance of the case Is that MT. Bottoms watch, chain and hat were found on the floor near the vat. Despite this. friends of the dead millionaire are of the opin- ion that his shocking death was due to an accident.
 At the time of his death MT. Bolton was President of the BeaconfieId Elec- tric Company. Director of the Manu- lecturers Bank and the Peoples Ma tional Bank. 8 member of the River side Club. Preside. at of the Star Knit ting Company, and also was connected with the Empire State Power Com pany and other corporations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

stay in this city he has exchanged calls with Gen. Powell Clayton, as they have great many mutual friends in the South. General Nelson is in this coun- try on a business trip, but he declined to state fast evening what the nature of his errand was and what part of the interior he intended visiting.
 He has an adopted daughter living in this city, who is married to prom inent physician in the French colony. When a young lady, she spent three years in Paris in school, where she learned, to speak French with native fluency. When she returned to the United States she wished to study Spanish and came so this city for that purpose where she was later married" "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
SWELL CoLoRED WEDDING.
Mrs. B. H. Craig's Elegant Parlors
 Were Used.
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau.
 Selma, May 10.
 Last evening in the parlOrs of Mrs. B. H. Craig's residence occurred a unique wedding. that of Charles Payne, a cnlored minister, and Ella Harrell, MT. and Mrs. B. H. Craig's faithful house maid. The bride had been in the family for years. and had won the love of all hy her devotion to the family and attention to duty. Tn appreciation of this the parlor was decorated in palms and roses and to the sweet strains of the violin and piano the bridal party entered consisting of six dainty little white flower girls of the neighborhOUd. from six to ten years of age, dressed in pure white. All of the little children in the neighborhood have been looked after by the bride. and these little girls considered 1t an honor to help Ella"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
MAYORS MATINEE.
A Good Crowd of Offenders Before
 Bar of Justice.

6aE OI JuSt1cS. Advertiser Bureau, Selma, May 10.
 There were several offenders up be- fore Mayor Mcleod this morning. Frank Barlow, charged with assault and battery, had his case continued. Luke Hayne had no visible means of support and was told that he could pay SIC into the exchequer or work twenty days for the city. Steve Loftus and Arthur Stanfield were charged with an affray. These were two white men and after listening at all of the evil dence the Mayor discharged Stanfield and required Loftus to pay fine of SIG.
 A little picaninny by the name of Dick Jones, stole pistol from MT. Jim Dunklin. The Mayor concluded that the little fellow was too small to be made to pay a fine, and he informed his mother that if she would take Dick down in the jail yard and administer a sound thrashing, he would let him go. Turnkey Ahern produced the strap that he keeps for such offenders and the thrashing was administered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
Ex-sELMIAN SUPPLEMENTED.
A City of Mexico Paper Says Nice
 Things of Him.

Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, May 10. The following article from the Mexi- can Herald. published in the City of Mexico, will be read by the many friends of Gen. R. M. Nelson with a great deal of interest. The part of the article giving an accc ant of his mili- tarv career in the Confederate army is incorrect:
 Gen. R. M. Nelson of Alabama, is in the city on business. He expected to have left last evening on a trip into the interior, but was deserred OF business matters. General Nelson was an officer in the Southern army during the late civil war in the United States. He was at one time a student in the West Point Military Academy, but left the school and joined the army in the South. From a private he was rapidly advanced until he became a General, which post he occupied at the close of the war. During the past few days during his
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
FOR FUSION THAT
 DOES NOT FUSE.
MT. Bryan's Pursuit of 6 Rainous
 Policy.

New York World.
 Mir. Bryan's voice is still for fusion He predicts further victories for the combined forces opposed to Republi- cans'-such victories" we presume, as the glorious triumph of 1896 and the brilliant success of 1900!
 To illustrate still further his wonder full sagacity Mir. Bryan declared: Our enemies would be but too glad to see fusion abandoned, both as a State and a national question:" On the contrary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
LxNoHINc NEAR vALDosrA. q.
Negro Had Shot at White Han, ss
 Did Not Rit Hisu.

Yaldosta, Ga, May l0.--Henry J0hil sen, negro, was lynehed nwar hk last night Johnson nrsd St z yobI hit him.
 Johnson confessed and said hsf ! tended to kill F'oraker.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
MANCHEsTERIs DEBTS.
MT. Zimmerman's Son-in-law Owes
 E37,704.

London. May 10.-The Duke of Man chester's affairs were again aired in the bankruptcy court today when the accounts were lodged, and disclosed a total indebtedness of 37,7S4 pounds and assets of 7.545 pounds.
 The liabilities include 5.e00 pounds in connection with theatrical specula- tions and 5000 pounds for the promo ton of a company.
 The proceedings were again adjourn ed. counsel announcing that a scheme would be proposed in a few days as- suring the creditors better terms.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
STILL THEY COME.

New, swell rnd correct styles in Fettleton's Low Gut Shoes for Gem tlemen. Price, $500 pair.
 BULLOCK & FLEMING.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

Rev. W. T. Swain of Dalton, Ga., has been called to the pastorate of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church or this city. He is young man or great promise. having been graduated three wears ago from Cumberland Univer- sity, and since then has been the pas tor of the church at Dalton. He Will receive a most cordial welcome.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
STILL HEY CosEF.

New, swell and correct styles if Eettieton's low Cut Shoes for nnnl tlemsn. Price, $500 pair.
 EULLoCK C ELEAETN0.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY.
A Young Man from Indiana startles
 the East

Arthur F. Griffith. the young math- ematical phenomenon of Indiana. has just returned to his home at Warsaw after confounding the professors of the East with a display of his skill. Since he was a child Griffith has delighted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

Harry Broadway had one of his arms crushed last night while lacking up a car in the Southern's yards in East Selma.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
CHILDREN AND MISSES

Can select style, beauty and service out of our big stock of Sandals, Southern Buttons and Oxford Ties. Price, 75c. to $500.
 BULLOCK 6 FLEMING.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

Ben Rennick, who has been winter ing his string of horses at the Selma track. will leave with them tomorrow afternoon for Hartford, Conn. MT. Rennick is one of the most popular horse men who ever came to Selma.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

At a meeting last night at the First Presbyterian Church, MesSrs. w. T. Atkins, P. H. Pitts and E. II. Hobbs were elected elders, and l.. A. Moore ard Houston Armstrong, deacons. The three former have been deacons for many years and have now been pro- noted to elders for faithful services rendered the church.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
BRIEF SELMA ITEMS.
Advertiser Bureau,

= xkUNC II0NE ID ~1tl
 Selma, May 10. The street car company will build handsome two"story pavilion on the banks of the Alabama. just above the mouth of Valley Creek. Upstairs will be the dancing pavilion. and at the end of it will be stage. where summer theatricals can be put on. Work Will commence at once so that the com nany can reap some of the benefits this summer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

Hon. T. F. Knight of Greensboro passed through the city yesterday on his way home from Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11

Miss Mary Connally of Atlanta passed through the city yesterday on her way
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-10
CHANGE OF
Montana Herds and FIocks Moving
Into North Dakota.

A number of Montana men with
small punches of stock and a few
sheepmen are preparing to, move to a
new grass country in North Dakota
which has just begun to attract at
tention, says the Great Falls Leader.
It includes Alfred, Wallace and Mac
Kenzie counties and lies south of the
Missouri river west of the Fort Bert
hold reservation, and is said to con-
tain much grass, water, shelter and
timber, the topography being slightly
favorable for arnge stock than
Dawson county, in this state, which
adjoiEs it. These counties were laid
out some years ago, but as nobody
lives in them, they are not organized
and there are mo taxes to pay, ex-
cept the regular state levy, which is
small. The chief disadvantage is that
every settler will have to be his own
sheriff for some time to, come. Horse
thieves would find it an ideal field for
their operations.
The area of the three countiNs men
toned is 2,S35 square miles anN the
population by the last census is x.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-10
Cured of Chronic D%iarrhoea 4
Thirty Years Of Suffering.

II suffered for thirty years with
diarrhoea and thought l was past be-
ing cured" says John S. Holloway, of
French Camp, Miss. 81 had spent so
much time and money and suffered so
much that l had given up all hopes of
recovery. I was SO feeble from the
effects of the dlarrhoea that I could
do no kind Of labor, could not even
travel, but by accident I was permit
ted to find a bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
and after taking several bottles I am
entirely cured of that trouble. I am
SO pleased with the result that / am
anxious that it be in reach of all who
suffer as I have" For sale by Chapple
Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-10
FOR ONLY.
Former Senator Washburn Would
Take Down the High Tariff.

Former United States Senator
Minneapolis Journal: "The only
tariff this country needs is
a tariff for revenue" said former
United States Senator W. D. Wash
burn, who returned this morning from
a three months trip to Europe. The.
thing that impressed the senator
most during his visit abroad was the
anxiety, evident everywhere, over
Americas fast increasing commercial
dominance.
However, a man doesn't have to
leave home to see that" remarked
General Washburn. Last year the
balance of trade between this country
and England was about $685., 900, 900
in our favor. It is the beginning Of
the end, and must make trouble ulti-.
mately. An annual draft of $685., 00O.-
900 in gold will eventually bankrupt
v e a country with such
as Great Britain, and her statesmen
realize the danger, and are seeking
4L
anxiously for the remedy. The growth
Of American trade is affecting Great
Britain and Germany especially, and
more especially Great Britain. The
balance in our favor as against the
British islands is the least part of
their difficulty. We are underselling
Englishmen in markets which have
heretofore been exclusively British;
in her colonies, in Japan, and, in fact,
over the entire world.
I'm iron and steel, for instance, we
are successful competitors even in the
English markets themselves. We can
make structural steel or structural
iron cheaper than it can be made any
where else in the world, and British
manufacturers have been compelled
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-10
PROGRAMME FOR PRESIDENTS
DAY CHANGED.
AND THANKSGIVING
For the Improved Condition OF
Nations Chief Will Be
Order of Day.

Cleveland, Sept. 9-The city tonight
was a blaze Of glory, a capitalization
of all the living memories of the stir
ring days of 1875, memories with
which but a mere fraction Of the pres
ent population is personally familiar.
Aged feet that once trod the bloody
fields of Shiloh, Of Gettysburg and
of a hundred other hard fought bat
ties surged around Monumental
square, located in the business part
OF the city, with slow but steady
tread. The center of the scene was
the soldiers and sailors monument
which stands in the center of the
park.
Every radiating street was congest-
ed with the stream Of humanity and
far out Euclid avenue to the sparkling
fountain in Wade park the crowds
coursed ~incessently to and fro. Away
beyond on Euclid heights, Garfield
monument stood, to which thousands
of veterans today paid their respects.
There is nov no longer any doubt
a to the effect the attempt
ed assassination of the presi-
dent upon the present gathering.
1t has stirred the patriotism
of the people to the Utmost recesses
of their hearts emotion and the vet
Grams and their friends are coming
to rejoice or to sorrow as Providence
may dictate. At the conclusion of
the meeting of citizens, and the Grand
Army committee on presidents day
held this afternoon the following
typewriter statement was issued:
While our beloved president is en-
during with sublime fortitude the suf-
fering caused by the unspeakable'
crime of Friday last, it is appropriate
that all functions connected with the
reunion of the Grand Army in which
he was to have participated shall be
either omitted or modified.
CAS- a substitute for the public re-
ception which was to have been ex-
tended to the president on Thursday
morning, a mass meeting of citizens
and visitors will be held in Central
armory on Thursday, September 70,
at 3 o'clock p. M.
In view of the improvement in the
presidents condition for which we
are all SO devoutely grateful, the
meeting will be one of praise and
thanksgiving. It is expected that cit
liens Of national prominence will at
tend. The programme of exercises
to consist of prayer, music and brief
addresses will be announced later
The Seventh corps Of the Woman's
Relief Corps of Cleveland gave a re-
ception tonight in the Rose building
in honor of national officers and del
egates to the convention of that or
der.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-10

TO admit the fact. / crossed on the
steamer Minneapolis, a freight boat,
but with Accommodations for about It's
first-class passengers. The Minneap-
oils carried 500 head Of cattle, 24O
horses, 10000 bushels of wheat, cot
ton, butter, cheese. dressed meat,
pork, hams; in fact, almost every con
ceivable food product. l asked the
captain what he took back, and he re-
piled that the steamer returned in
water ballast. That really means that
he brought back gold for the products
shipped over.
IF that sort Of thing continues !
don't see why it won't ultimately
make serious trouble. English states
men are very much disconnected.
Already the effects of American COM
mercial encroachments are noticeable
and they can find no way out of their
difficulty. Great Britain is a free
trade nation, and she dare not attempt
to pass a tariff law for fear Of a repe-
SAlAOA VI NAO I1OuO4O 0ApOIlGuC0u WHEN
the corn laws went into effect.
I'm Germany they have just propos-
ed a new tariff law, and it is creating
a great connection. It wal drafted
by the agrarians, the German agricul-
turalists, and levies a heavily in
creased tariff on the importation of
food stuffs. This makes the cost Of
living high, and is resented by the
great industrial classes. Moreover,
although aimed particularly at the
United States, it affects also the farm
ers of Austria and Hungary, who have
been shipping part of their product
into the kaiser's country, and natur-
ally they will fight it to the utmost
of their ability.
AS long as we a produce every
thing that man requires cheaper than
it can be produced anywhere else, I
don't e what they can do. It's a
serious problem for those people, and
SO far they have been able to discoy-
ed no method of solution.
Formerly European industries had
a great advantage over American in
asmuch as both capital and labor were
cheaper abroad than here. Today,
however, money is as cheap in the
United States as it is anywhere in the
world; and our increased use Of labor
saving machines has reduced the inn
portance of labor until now it cuts
but little figure in the total cost of
The American tariff laws
accomplished that; and now that it
is done America needs no tariff ex-
cept a tariff for l have long
been drifting toward that opinion;
and today | feel confident of it."
do you think, senator" was asked,
that a revision of the present tariff
laws would be attended by the CONNER
cial unrest and financial difficulties
that have usually prevailed in the
past, whenever such an attempt was
made?"
I do not" replied General Wash
burn, emphatically. "A wise and prop
er revision of the tariff would cause
no difficulties whatever. OF course,
there are a few industries that still
need protection but they are very
few"