The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-11
The Newc of Mobile.

loaded with freight and with a large pas senger list.
 The Norwegian steamship Managua ar- r,ver today with a cargo of fruit, bringing as messengers W. l.. Adams, MT. and Mrs. Cramer and MT. Loving.
 The Italian steamship Corvaja arrived from Havana today with cargo or to- baeco and general merchandise.
 r,. Norwegian steamship Jamaica ar r,ved with a cargo of fruit from Cuba, which is her first since last March.
 Tho old docket at the police headquar- .n~s vvbich has been in use for the past ferrteen months, was replaced today py a new one The old docket went Into use
 August F, 1901. and contained 4VVV cases'
 rar.ss I. Collman, of Citronele, who
 was onerated on at Providence 1nfrmary
 for anuendicitis, returned home today.
 Mrs. S. D. West. who has been visit
 ing her mother at Marion, Aia'' mas re-
 turned home.
 Thomas Johnson, a negro nsnermah'
 swore out a warrant in the Inferior CFih
 inal Court today against Robert fair anu
 Mary Taylor, charging them witn appro- priating all his belongings. Jonnson claims that in the summer or 1851 ne was fishing in the bay when boat con tsininx three young ladies and two young men turned over near where ne was None of the party could swim anu the ladies clung to the overturned ooat. while the men, locked in each others arms. went down. He succeeded Tn saw ing the entire party. and after they got their boat righted and bailed out ne left them. They took his name anu ao, dress. but that was the last he heard of them. as he went to the hospital the next day, from the effects of his wet fling and remained there six months. He left his belongings in charge of the man and woman named and when he got out of the hospital they had appropriated all his property The parties were arrested and will be tried Saturday. The boycott of the street cars by the negroes continues. there being practically little riding by them Sunday, which is
 usually their great day. It is reported that the negro preachers have advised them to keep off the street cars and walk. as walking is healthy, and also to quit giving picnics. This advice Is said to
 have met with the approbation of the ma
 jority of the negroes.
 The Mems Dormitory addition to the Hannah Home was dedicated yesterday afternoon with appropriate services by
 Bishop Allen, assisted by Fathers Hart
 koff, Coyie, Shaw and Gardner. After
 the ceremonies at repast furnished by
 the Little Sisters of the Poor, Col. John
 l.. Rapier presented the deeds to the
 property to Bishop Allen. in the name of
 the donor, Major H. A. Hannah. re-
 tired merchant of this city.
 Sheriff Fountain of Monroe County,
 passed through Mobile last night. having
 in cnarge Jim stallworth, who is charged
 with assault to murder. he having shot
 a man named Holt. Sheriff Fountain
 says that during the past six months
 there have bee1 twenty-one homicides
 In Monroe County. a. aEA&& Al3 W. w. Griffee, the contractor who has charge of the Alabama Port oil well. is in the city and reports that the work
 Is progressing finely. Large crowds are still attracted to the oil wells of the Mobile oil Company on Fulton Road, about two miles from the city. The flow of gas from the first well continues and is being used still in furnishing the fuel for boring the second well. The projectors or this enterprise are very much encouraged, and it will be great | thing should a full supply of natural gas develop there.
 Charles W. Stanton. who Is spending the winter in Golden, is in the city. Chief Price of the Fire Department, spent Sunday with Thomas J. Powell and family at Bayou le Batre.
 Mrs. John Rolston is in the city from Coden.
 is not known.