The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-07
WAS BENl ON SUICIDE
THOMAS FooTE USES POISON
 BLADE AND GUN.
Had Been Sick With Fever and His Ill Health Caused Despondency. The News of the
 Gulf City
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau, Mobile, Oct. 6.
 Yesterday afternoon near Muliet Point,
 Baldwin County. Thomas Foote, a white man, about 45 years of age. and only a
 resident of that section for three years, ended his life by the use. first of medi- cine then a knife or razor and finally gun.
 Foote, it seems. had been ill a long time with fever. with no assurance of an early recovery. Becoming Respondent to a marked degree. he yesterday afternoon took an, overdose of medicine. supposed
 to be deadly in nature. and finding this acted too slow. he severed his juguiar
 vein with a sharp instrument. Then. as a last resort he secured a rife in the
 room and. placing the muzzle to his head. pulled the trigger. blowing out his brains. The dead man came to Baldwin County about three years ago from Michigan. bought valuable piece of property and began cultivating the same. He leaves a
 wife and several children. At meeting of the Board of Public Works. held this afternoon at the request of the representatives of the Southern Paving and Construction Company, con- tractors for the paving in district No. 2 Mayor Charles E. Mclean out-voted in
 his stand of Saturday wherein he refused | to vote for the Lavretta motion to concur in the action of the engineer of the board as regarding the concrete work on Royal Street, between Church and Government. Mayor McLean. at that time. declined to vote for the motion because he said he had investigated the work. in company with the engineer. and found some of 1t not at all satisfactory Commissioner Brooks also refused to vote for the mo- ton.
 rrlt was sustained. the nay vote being cast by Commissioner Mclean. Three letters, bearing on the work at issue, two from Engineer Hazehurst to the company and one from the company were read. the en- gineer in one of them adhering to his former order to tear up part of the work on Royal Street, between the streets named. Cofmssione Mclean declined to vote for the motion this afternoon again. but Mir. Brooks voted with President Law retta and the engineer was sustained.
 The work of covering the contested con- crete and binder course with asphalt was begun after o'clock this afternoon, when the concrete and binder course had been allowed to stand for more than a week after the superintendent had been noti- fled of the protest from J. Howard Will son. The asphalt in this block, on the east side of the street. was finished be- fore nightfall.
 In the United States Court this morn ing. Judge Toulmin presiding, the Admir- alty docket was sounded and three cases set down for trial as follows: October 26-John H. Thompson. admin
 istrator of the estate of Jefferson Davis, vs steamship Alacia.
 October 2I-W. H. Reyer vs British steamship Twickenham.
 November 2-Sophia I. Aarol vs. W. | H. H. Greenwood & Go.
 In the petition for appeal of the Sullivan 1 Timber Company vs City of Mobile, the I petitioners were granted appeal to the | United States Circuit Court of Appeals | for the Fifth District, bond for same | being fixed at $500 for costs etc. This
 Is one of the riparian cases of the city
 against occupants of the property on the | river front
 City Tax Collector Petrinovitch has pre-
 sented his report to Mayor Mclean for
 the period from March 15 to October l.
 which shows a marked increase in col
 lections for that period over the same
 time the year before. The report Is as i follows:
 | 1902. 1903.
 Current taxes. .. ..... .$S0 SSO. .4s $s6, ,O4O 94
 Back taxes. .. .......... 6157.61 3744.51
 Licenses. .$as.. ........ 63.352.1S I04SG 60
 Cemetery lots9 .. .. .... 1,594.0O 113O.OO
 Increase. ...... .. .. ............s946 461 .66
 The report Is very creditable to the CO., | lector. who has occupied this position for l many years and who is considered the
 best official in this position the city has
 had for the period since the war. The recorders docket in the court this
 morning contained sixty-one city cases l and six State cases. The cases were d. vided as follows: Disorderly conduct 26; l drunk, 16; dangerous and suspicious, 12; l violating license ordinance. ?: resisting of l ficer, ?: violating paving ordinance, hitch | ing ordinance, and escaping after sent | ence. one each; assault with a pistol. 1; receiving stolen property. l; petit larceny, | 2; embezzlement, 1; assault with a fork l. | Chief of Police Case has, by instruction | of Mayor Mclean, appointed Leon Del | homme. former regular on the police | roll. as day driver of the patrol wagon Oliver Pistole of the supernumerary list, | was placed on the regular list to fill the vacancy Arthur McMann, a regular, re-
 signed last night. his resignation to take l effect at once.
 Andrew Thomas. a negro. from Savan- nah Ga. was found tonight on Com merce Street, near Beauregard. with his skull crushed. He was brought to the
  city physician, was sent to a hospital His wound is serious. He could not give the name of his assailant.
 The double daily schedule of the Mobile
 and Bay Shore Railroad. owing to the
 decrease in travel. has been discontinued.
 During the week days the afternoon train
 will leave here at 3:3O instead of 4 o'clock,
 as in the past.
 Mrs. Julia Elma Ayres. aged 75, a na- tive of Ohio and mother of Prof Robert L. Ayres of this city. died this morning at the family home in this city. The re- mains were sent to Dayton. O.. for inter- ment.
 John Jefferson. aged Is. a cripple, and
 James Lynch, aged Il years. have es- caped from the Boys Industrial School
 on Lafayette Street Their departure was
 reported to police headquarters
 Lee Lewman of the firm of Lewman &
 Co. contractors for the building of the lock on the Black Warrior River, north of DemopOliS, is in the city today huvinS