The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-28
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THE Adtutant Generals Office has been busy this week in packing and getting In shape for shipment the rifles and pieces taken from the 2nd Regiment. and the old Springfield rife will soon be only a memory in Alabama. Quite a number of boxes of Springfield rifles were ship ped yesterday to the Government arsenal at Augusta, Ga. and those used by the | Sd Regiment are yet to go. The Krag- Jorgensen rifles has been in the hands of the Alabama National Guardsmen but a ! few days, but they are very favorably | impressed with it's true shooting and its stability.
 JOE WILSON, a young negro, was ar-
 rested and confined in the city prison yesterday by Detective Paul Rapport, un- der charges of larceny. Wilson, it seems, after the fire at the Conecuh Pine Lum- Der Company plant several days ago. went through the ruins and took brass from the machinery. He was caught with twenty-eight pounds of the goods by De-
 tective Rapport.
 PETITION in voluntary bankruptcy was filed in the United States Court by
 David H. Brazil of Montgomery.
 APPOINTMENTS were announced yes- terday by the State Executive Depart
 
 Kate E. Walker, Birmingham; John Greer, Emory, Choctaw County; Robert Jemison, IT,, Birmingham; M. H. Van diver, Birmingham. Justices of the Peace-C. N. Wear, Huffman, Beat. 14. Jefferson ounty; W. T. Loftin, Fail, Beat 10 Choctaw County. Notaries Public and Justice of the Peace-Redmond Jones,
 Mulberry. Beat 1, Autauga County; T. J.
 Nealy, Lusk. Beat 8, Choctaw County; J. R. Montgomery, Beat 1O Jefferson County. Constamle-O. M. Racket,
 Jonesboro, Beat 2, Jefferson County.
 A SMALL blaze in the kitchen of Mack Hill, a negro. g Decatur Street, called out the Fire Department yesterday The fire
 was quickly. controlled. The damage was nominal
 IN preparation for the reconvening of
 the Legislature, the Department of Ar chives and History has removed from
 the State Senate Chamber and will be located temporarily in one of the rooms heretofore occupied by the Agricultural
 Department on the third fiofior of the Capitol.
 OWING to typographical error 1t was made to appear in The Advertiser that
 MT. John O'Gwynn was dead. Mir. James OGwynn. popular employe of the Onlon hallWay station, dled Monday. He
 was brother of MT. John OGwynn, who
 Is in excellent health.
 J. A. TAYLOR, a Travelling Passenger ; Agent of the Atlantic Coast Line, has written letter to Captain Robinson of
 the Capital City Guards, the Montgomery negro military company in which he says of the recent trip of the negro sol diers to Savannah: q desire to express
 to you and to the Capital City Guards my appreciation of the orderly and soI-
 dierly manner in which you conducted yourselves while on our trains going to and returning from Savannah. Your men
 were orderly and we'll behaved in every
 respect, and 1t affords me pleasure to extend my congratulations"
 ALDERMAN Paul Roeder, whom The
 Advertiser quoted yesterday concerning the attitude of members of the select
 committee on gravel pitt desires the state
 ment made that he did not say: Alder man Kohn favored another pit" Alder man Roeder is correct and The Adverti- ser did not so qoute him. The statement
 Alderman Kohn favored another pit"
 than the Carter pit was made by The Advertiser of it's own knowledge, and was independent of what Alderman Roe der said.
 GOVERNOR Jelks has declined to call meeting of the State Board of Com promise to consider a nronosition from