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 Advertiser Bureau.
 Mobile, May 2.
 From the records of the Customs Coliec- tors Ofice the following exports and im- ports were noted for the week ending at noon today:
 Exports-
 American steamship Colorado. for New York; 1000 bales cotton, 5000 crosttes. S30 pieces iogwood, 60.0O0 feet lumber. 300 packages merchandise.
 9.2e6 cubic feet sawn pine timber, A.6S7 superficial feet pine deals.
 American brig John H. Brandon. for Matanzas; S2S.s67 superficial feet pine lum- Der.
 American schooner Clara A. Phinney, for Hayana; s56.160 superficial feet lum- Der.
 Norwegian steamship Iberia, for La Ceiba; 30 bushels corn. 26 barrels -four.
 Norwegian steamship Fort Gaines. for Bocas del Toro; 12.oo0 feet pine lumber. merchandise.
 Norwegian steamship Banan for Belize; 5,os4 pounds corn, 6.160 pounds oats, 28S barrels flour, 2,15o pounds bran, 1000 feet pine lumber.
 Norwegian steamship Espana, for Puer- to Cortez, 275 sacks flour. 25 barrels -four, merchandise.
 Russian bark Feodor, for Youghal; 4,27s cubic feet hewn pine timber. S10,908 sur perficial feet sawn pine timber, s,0S0 su- perficial feet pine deals.
 Imports
 American steamship Colorado from New York; 91 packages merchandise.
 Italian steamship Guisippe Corvaja, from Havana; S.4A packages pineappIes. zls packages vegetables. z bales sponges.
 Norwegian steamship Iberia, from La Ceiba; 12.000 punches bananas.
 Norwegian steamship Banan from Be- lize; 5000 punches bananas, 11,000 cocoa nuts, 145 bags coffee.
 Norwegian steamship from BlueAelds; 1S.000 punches bananas.
 Norwegian steamship Espana, from Pu- erto Cortez; Il 300 punches bananas.
 Norwegian steamship Fort Gaines, from Bocas del Toro; 15,000 punches bananas.
 Norwegian steamship Mount Vernon from Bocas del Toro; ls,oOO punches ba- naDas.
 Marriage license for the week ending at noon today were Issued out of the Pro- bate Court to the following white cou- ples:
 Walter Stringfellow and Vina S. Crab tree; Fenwick Ewing and Mary G. Walsh; Isaac Lane and Mabel Keith; Charles Peter Smith and Florence A. Judge; Arr thur Bailey and Bessie May Haas; Louis M. Mckinney. Jr., and Elizabeth Salva; William Wren and Eugenia Altman; Martin Luther E. Zeigher and Annie F. Hudson; Charles l. Simpson and Lillian F. Carson (widow); Ben E. Ward and Helen s. Toulmin; Alexander Kahhaiy and Sadie Kanifus.
 J. 1T. Worthy and daughter of Mont gomery are registered at the Battle
 George A. Williams of Birmingham is in the city.
 George H. Heakes. Secretary and Treas urer or the Yellow Pine Company a large lumber manufacturing cunCern of Yel- low Pine. Ala, is in Mobile today.
 Mrs. c. W. Steiner, while in charge of her husbands store on Dauphin Street. mead 9f Pine. last night, had an expe- rience with shrewd negro which cost her $20. The negro, who was well dress ed. entered the store and asked sfor change for a slo bill: Mrs. Steiner ac- been placed on the counter the negro asked that she please make 1t twenty. Again wishing to be accommodating she handed out the other ten. whereupon the negro snatched the entire amount and ran. The matter was reported to the police station and a description of the negro given. During the night a negro having on similar apparel, was appre- nended. but this morning Mrs. Steiner, on seeing him, said it was the wrong man. The detectives went to work on the case immediately thereafter.
 Mobile has long since become an im- portant factor in the lumber and timber Dusiness. Plne, oak and cypress lumber and timber is being daily shipped in i'm mense quantities by sea and rail to all parts Of the world. In the swamp lands throughout the entire State, there are thousands of trees known as the ''Tupelo Gum. The only use to which this tree was put was for the making Of bread trays and bowls. Recently a Speculative genius experimented with logs, saving them into lumber. The tenacious quality proved almost equal to that of oak and a few days ago CIarance Boyle, President or the Boyle Lumber Company of Chi cago, H., having gotten hold of a sample ol the lumber, came here to make further nVestlgauon. So much pleased was he that at once he made c direct purchase of 100 carloads of ''Tupelo Gum'' lumber.
 A number of young ladies of the city, on charity bent, will Wednesday night give a lawn party at the northeast corn CT of Spring Hill Avenue and Wilkinson Street. The proceeds will be presented to a poor and deserving white woman, al- most centennarian. A band has yolun- teered Tor the occasion and, as there will be no admission fee, a large crowd is ex- pected to give their mite In the worthy cause.
 Arthur Labuzan. aged 45, and an old resident of Mobile County, died Friday afternoon at his hGSne on Cottage Hili, after a lingering illness. He was well known in Mobile where he had many rel ativeS and friends.
 Captain R. L. Houston, former Special Deputy Collector of Customs, who re- signed Thursday. will remain in Mobile and engage In business.
 Annie and Opeta Packer, mother and daughter, colored. were arrested tonight for shop-lifting. They had when arrest ed, baskets in which were unwrapped goods, some of which have been recog- nized by retail firms here.
 G. L. and H. T. Smith, this afternoon sprung another surprise in the riparian suits by filing one against the Louisville and Nashville to recover nearly 5000 fee. Of frontage along that railroad, north of one mile creek.
 Following is a list of building permits issued during the week ending May lst, from the Engineers office:
 Thomas Hobbs, owner days work, one story frame Elmira and Scott, $250
 Robert Hunter, owner. days work ad- dition, Morgan and Claiborne, $50.
 Anderson Young owner, days work one-story frame Congress E. Ann, S250
 Marques Harris, owner days work