The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
Advertiser Bureau, NEAsr A.

iciing Of single event beyond the ordf- nary worthy of notice. The fall season has set in and business people are en- gagged in doing a great deal in the way of filling orders. The present indications are for a land office business. so far as the mercantile interests are concerned, while real estate dealers predict this will be the banner year for Mobile. Im- provements and new buildings seems to be the watchword and skilled artisans in the building line are in great demand.
 A number of representative Mobilians met tonight and after going over the matter of a proper man for the office of codifer of the laws enacted by the general assembly. decided to ask the Mo bile county delegation to present the name of Peter Joe Hamilton. to that body. Mir. Hamilton is one of the leading civil attorneys of Mobile county, grad uate of Princeton, and University, of Ala bama, and has established a reputation as compiler and writer. He compiled the third volume of BricKers digest. the city Code of Mobile now in service. and aided in compiling the code of s6. He was city attorney three years. He also wrote the work Colonial Mobile" and did oth- CT able work in gathering data relative to the Spanish land grant. It is under stood that the Mobile delegation will give l1dIullIOn tuclT cuppOTI.
 Solomon Pridgins, a most dangerous negro. was arrested this morning at Creola, this county. by Deputy Sheriff Tom Powers, on a warrant, charging him with shooting across a public road At the sheriff's office 1t was hinted that the negro would have other charges to an- swer before the October Grand Jury. He Is accredited with being the leader of a <~fr tnIr an1 in North Mobile county, which recently took a prisoner away from Calvin Childs. the negro deputy sheriff. Pridgin told Childs at that time if he ever got the opportunity he would fill his carcass so full of lead that, If thrown into a river, 1t couldn't be pulled out with grappling irons.
 Rumor has it that a new railway line from a point on the Mobile and Ohio. north of Vinegar Point, to Leakesville. Miss, on the west, and to New Orleans from that point, is in prospective. An en- gineering party has been in the field for several days and more than one line has been gone over from the Mobile and Ohio, at the poist named, to Leakesville. Inquiry in railroad circles here failed to elicit anything as to the survey. It was mooted that the Southern Railway had the party in the field, but this state ment Is as yet unverified. People along the lines of survey are at sea as to the promoters.
 Judge Price Williams. Jr., of the pro- bate court, returned this morning from an extended trip to Mt. Clemmons, Mich, where he went some time since in search of health Judge williams reports that his trip did him a world of good. and he enjoyed his stay in far-away Michigan very much. Mrs. Williams stopped at Nashville, Tenn. on the way home. to visit her son, who is entered in a college near that city.
 Hon. o. J. Semmes. judge of the City Court, returned this morning from Bal timore. where he went as a member of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel lows. representing the Alabama lodges. Judge Semmes was honored with the chairmanship of the judiciary commit tee. one of the most important of the | Sovereign Grand Lodge.
 Report reached the sheriff's office this | morning that an early hour yesterday | morning a party of young men, while | standing in front Of the cornmissNry at the Barket cotton mills, was fired upon | from ambush. Several in the party were | hit with small shot though none were | seriously hurt. Chase was given sus- poets, but to no avail.
 San Bryant, a negro, crippled in the left leg and hand from paralysis, was se- | verely stabbed in the left side and oth- | erwise cut by a young white man, Lind say Mccoy. tonight on Lawrence, near | Savannah street. It was alleged by members of McCoy's family that Bryant had insulted some of the females. News was received here to-day of a mutiny on board the American schooner M. L. Cottingham. at Havana. The ves- l sel sailed under charter from this port. | The mutiners were ironed and sent to jail | in Havana It is not known whether they
 will be tried there or bibught here and arraigned for mutinY.
 News was received here this morning
 of the death of Mrs. Lucretia Connolly,
 a former Mobilian, at Elba. Ala. Deceas-
 ed was the mother of Mrs. Solomon Jones | of this city. and her remains will be
 brought here for interment.
 The biggest single train excursion tc
 come to Mobile. arrived over the South. ern tonight from Greensboro. There were sixteen coaches, all which were
 taxed to their capacity.
 Three river steamers in twenty-foui
 hours from Selma brought total of 216
 bales cotton, as follows: Nettie Quill
 S99, City of Mobile. 931 Ouachita, 33S.
 Reuben Monk, a small dealer of thil
 city, died yesterday after brief Illness
 Mobile Society News.
 Saturday night brought out the frs
 real audience of the season at the Mobil, Theatre ''The Soldiers of Fortune" helt the boards, and was well received. Fo the first time in months one saw a gath ! ering of representative society people ant , though the ranks were not large, the. were a fair sample of the goods to b shown later on. Numbers of the societ! girls are away at present, but those lief at home were out in full force
 new curtain is the only sign Of tn theatres new winter wardrobe. It Is al l improvement on the old one, and her = praise must stop. Why. oh, why, mus y our curtain always be used as an adver \ Using medium! Can't the Society for tn TPrevention of Cruelty to Audiences ste f in and interfere? Why should the entir
 painted landscape be spoiled by bill
 board in the corner announcing that Men
 nen's Talcum Powder is good for infants and somebody's bakig powder good flo
 | adults? Why should the thirst for a feN ~ extra shekels be thrust into the very teet
 | of the public? Can't art as represente I by a drop curtain and business as repre- | sented by hackneyed ads be Kept separat | ed? As for us we will have 10 take \ course of Mennens and baking powde ' the remainder of the season.