The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-01
NEWS IN BRIEF

,oIsu, SIMS negro youth, was hned .za and cost by Recorder Arlington yes- +erdav afternoon on a charge Of steai- ing a pair of opera glasses. it appea' that the owner had left her buggy TUT . moment and when she returneo .ns glasses, which had been lett on the seSS bad disaupeared. Sims afterwards soia tSs sia.ses to a young white man TOT oo oants When he learned that the glasses had been stolen, he reported the niat.e, to special Officer Rapport and descr,oeo !, the negro, whom he positively loeh.liieu as Boise Sims
 MALVINA JARRETT, an old negro woman. was arraigned in police court yes terday afternoon on d charge or steahns a nair of pants from store on Com ,,,.rce Street. Malvina and her daugh- fer according to the evidence of the pro nrietor. entered his store and the daugh- ter ask ed for some domestic. While sne vas examining the goods, Malvina took a nair of pants and hid them under her cane. As she attempted to leave the store. the proprietor stopped her ana took them from her. He then called an officer. She was fined s25 and cost.
 CAPT. FRANK s. AUSTIN and MT IT M. Freeman, as committee or the Industrial League of wetumpka, were In Montgomery yesterday in the interest Of the movement to secure Congressional appropriation for the Ccosa River, While here they secured numerous letters or endorsement from business men which will be sent to Chairman Burton and Con rressman Bankhead, the Alabama mem Der of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. -,t,
 DR. H. H. GEORGE of Pittsburg, Pa, formerly President of Geneva College, Pennsyivania, now field secretary of the National Reform Association, an organt- zation for the forwarding of the Chris tian citizenship movement will address the meeting for men at the Young Men Christian Association tomorrow tSun- day) afternoon at S:30 D. m. All men are cordially invited to hear Dr. George. There will be good music and the meet ing will begin and close promptly.
 THE REMAINS of Mrs. S. H. Dent were brought back to Montgomery Thursday night. The funeral party was unable to get to Eufaula on account or washout between here and Union Springs. They. therefore, returned to Montgomery and remained at the residence Of 5, Ii. Dent. Jr, at Cloverdaie~> The party Tn charge of the remains left yesterday af- tprnOOn aL 4s1U lOI oo u had been arranged for at the washout. The funeral will probably take place in Eufauia today. A number of relatives living at distance have gone to Eu- faula for the services.
 NJ c. PETERS. the motorman who was in charge of the Highland Park car that took the sensational flying journey over Court Square to the Exchange Hotel Thursday night, says that the accident was caused by the worn-out and worth less machinery of the car. In going down Dexter Avenue, the controller handle be- came damned and he could neither cut off nor reverse She current. The machin- cry was SO defective that he could not control the car in any way. The brake on the car was, moreover. worn out and could not be used. The ratchet near the handle of the brake was worn out and useless. and it damned at the time it was mt needed. He states that altogether the car was worn out and the machinery was dangerous.