The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-16

much commotion among the negroes Of
 the vicinity, but their apprehension of foul play were removed by the Coroner | who pronounced her death due to heart disease.
 Walter Ned. alias Spring Frog, noted negro sneak thief. was taken in this | morning for purloining large amount of valuable brass from the Alabama Iron ! Works The goods was found at junk store and recovered after Identification. | At lo:30 o'clock yesterday morning an | incipient blaze was discovered on the roof of the home of Frank Roswell, north east corner of Palmetto and Royal Streets. Neighbors extinguished the blaze
 before much damage was done. Gabriel Brown, colored, will be ar
 raigned and tried n the City Court to-
 morrow morning for the murder of his
 brother-in-law, Artie Gladden., A special | venire was summoned from which to se-
 cure the jury. Brown killed Gladden. on Davis Avenue on June g last. because the letter demonstrated with him for cursing
 and abusing his wife. who was Gladden's
 sister.
 Dr. Frank L. James of St. Louis. Mo. | Is visiting his sister. Mrs. s. T.Roche. on
 Lafayette Street. pr. James recently sus-
 tained serious injuries in St. Louis, hav- ing been run down by an electric car. He
 is fast regaining his former strength. l Capt F. McEwan of the Tlder- r-Dempster l steamship Newlands, from Bremen. for
 cargo, yesterday afternoon entertained | large number people aboard ship. There
 were many ladies among the callers. The Newlands is the largest steamship that | has visited Mobile in many years and naturally attracts much attention as she | lies at her mooring at the Mobile and | Ohio Cotton wharffl The captain and off,
 cers entertained their guests with substan-
 tials and were most courteous in showing
 them over the vessel. In the Probate Court this morning a | deed of transfer was filed by the Rose- | berry-Spencer Lumber Company to the | American Lumber Company of a large
 amount of lands located in Mobile, Bald
 win and Choctaw Counties. The amount | of purchase money was $146, ,50i.s7
 A marriage license was issued out of
 the Probate Court to George A. Bailey
 and Mrs. Martha J. Cowart
 Captain William Hays and daughter
 Mrs. P. Ferwald of Pensacola. are guests
 of Mir. and Mrs. J. c. Mangledorf for a
 few days.
 Tax Collector P. B. Dorlar and Tax As-
 sessor Ed. Harris left today for Mont
 gomery to confer with Governor Jelks,
 Auditor Sowell and Attorney General Brown as to the revenue for Alabama, the three State officials being a board pro- vided by the new Constitution to report
 to the General Assembly a law to pro-
 vide revenue for the State. The Norwegian steamship Hiso, from Santiago. Cuba, arrived yesterday with a cargo consigned to James Gibboney and | Company.
 The British steamship Rotherield from Boston, light. arrived to Barrett Bros. | for cargo. yesterday. The Norwegian fruit steamer Banan ar
 rived last night from Bluefields. Nicara- qua. to the American Fruit and Trans portation Company. with 15.0oo punches of | bananas.
 The Norwegian steamship Ulo arrived
 up this morning from Havana, Cuba, with
 cargo and ten passengers. Hunson steamship Coma arrived from New York with full cargo of merchan- | disc. She will leave tomorrow with 1000 | bales of cotton for New York. The river steamer Kettle Quill arrived from Selma with sixty-three bales. 1.143
 sacks of seed. and 15O passengers. The City of Mobile from Montgomery | brought 6S3 bales. 1900 sacks of seed and
 seventy-five passengers.
 The Hard Cash from Memphis, Ala.
 4e2 bales, good sundry list. Left at once
 with big cargo for Tomoigbee points. Colonel Harvey E. Jones. State Tax Commissioner, after a brief visit to his family here, returned to Montgomery this 1 afternoon.
 | Paul Jones was put on trial today in
 the City Court, indicted for robbery. Jones
 Is negro and has by no means pleas
 ant appearance. He was charged with
 having held up and robbed white man, | H. A. Parkis, painter. of cents. In this case the jury returned verdict
 of not guilty.
 James Lewis. colored. assault to mur- der. guilty assault and battery with pitcher, sentenced to six months nara | labor
 Mary Howard alias Keno. grand lar ceny, guilty and sentenced to one year at hard labor. ,..s semmes sentenced prisoners conVlcteo Tn his court this term. as follows;
 Lewis Wyatt. carnal knowledge; peni- tentiary ten years.
 Henry Anderson, assault to murder;
 penitentiary five years. Owen Brown assault to murder three
 cases); pententiary two years each.
 Aleck Williams. grand larceny, two