The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04
Advertiser Bureau,


 Mobile. Nov. 3.
 The Leinkauf School, named in honor or the late William H. Leinkauf, for thirty years. to the time of his demise member of the Board of School Com mfssioners of Mobile county, and long president of the board, was accepted by the board and formally opened for pu- pills yesterday morning. The building is an exact counterpart of the Conception street school. and is a handsome struc- ture, with ample facilities for the chill dren unprovided for in that section of the city. The school Is in charge of Miss ora Cowan. as principal. and Miss Flor ence Weiner as assistant. The enroll ment for the first day was about fifty.
 In the City Court this morning Judge Semmes passed sentence on prisoners convicted at the present term of the court, as follows: Will Davis. burglary; twenty years in the penitentiary.
 Willie Sherman. burglary; twenty years in the penitentiary.
 H. N. Johnson, abusive language; for ty days hard labor.
 John Mitchell concealed weapons; three months hard labor.
 Will Davis, grand larceny, three cases; total. of five years in the penitentiary
 Henry Thomas. petit larceny; three months hard labor. '-s,
 Virginia May, assault to murder; two years In the penitentiary.
 John Maxwell and Charles MaxweH' burglary: each year hard labor.
 Will Burden, white. assault with pis- tol; l year hard labor.
 George Kene. assault to murder; two years hard labor.
 John Bell, grand larceny: one year hard labor.
 Willie Sherman and Will Davis. the two negroes who were given twenty years each in the penitentiary, are known as ''slappers," they having entered resi- dences of white persons and attempted to do bodily harm to white women. Judge Semmes in sentencing them. said he gave them the, full limit because they .deserv- ed such sentences.
 We have no need for the striking longshoremen," was the reply of steve dores tonight when asked as to the general situation on the water front. To- night the negro strikers are hopelessly in the lurch, with no possible chance of winning even a hearing from their for mer employers.
 The delegation from the Central Trades Council, which waited on Mayor Mclean received no encouragement when they showed him the reply of the stevedores to their request to meet the Councils committee and that of strikers. The Mayor says there is no need for him to act now, under existing conditions. un- less something unforeseen comes up.
 A tip was given tonight that last and desperate move would be made by the strike leaders. It is their purpose to try to get all of the negroes working in the wholesale and the milling dis tricts to quit. and also the negroes at many saw mills. If they can succeed in this plan they claim they will hold the winning card. Collections have been taken up in one or two. and possibly more, of the negro churches. and tN money, a goodly sum. was distributed to-day.
 Robert G. Bell. white man, formerly in the employ of the Southern Express Company in this city, has filed two suits against that company in the sum of $10,000 each. Bell sets forth in the first suit that the defendant company mali ciously and without probable cause, had him arrested and imprisoned in the county jail for twenty-five days on the charge of embezzlement and petit lar ceny. from both of which charges he was dismissed by the court The second suit iS virtually the same as the first. save that the charges preferred against him on incarceration was grand larceny and embezZlement, from which charges he was also dismissed.
 Aleck Thomas, a white man, came to the office of the chief of police on Sun day and said he was wanted in Georgia for assault to murder He said he wanted to surrender. The man was locked up. This morning Chief Case received a tele- gram from the sheriff at Cedartown, Ga., asking if he had such a man as Aleck Thomas. and. if so to hold him and notify the Cedartown sheriH. The noti- faction was sent.
 A child of MT. Cherry, living at thee southwest corner of St. Francis and Warren streets. was severely bitten by a dog yesterday afternoon: Patroiman Barret was notified and shot the dog. It is not known if the dog showed signs of rabies. but as a preventive. the wounds of the child were cauterized.
 Last night after the performance of the Faversham Company at the theater Ed. Brophy. a young white man, employ ed on the stage. while engaged in re- moving some of the stage furnishings, stepped off gallery in the alley. a dis tance of about seven feet, sustaining very serious injuries. He was sent to his home and given surgical attention. Al though he was picked up unconscious. the young man sustained no broken bones.