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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11

The Alabama Mineral. Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad will ouen a new section of Coosa and Tal- ladega Counties with an: extension of its Bumberton branch. The extension will begin in Talladega County and cross the line into Coosa. It will be fourteen miles in length, running through a section which is at present without railroad facili- ties It is understood that work will be- gin on 1t very soon. iks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11

Manuel Kyzer of Coalfng, who was in the city visiting his grand-daughter, Mrs. E. E. Lathem. died yesterday at noon after an illness of three weeks He was s4 years of age and was one of the coun- tvs most highly esteemed citizens He is survived by eight children, four sons and four daughters, all of whom were with him at the time of his death, ex- cept two. Two grand-daughters, Mrs. w. c. Kyle and Mrs. E. E. Lathem re- side In Tuscaloosa. The remains were carried to his home this morning on the 10 o'clock train.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11
This Store Holds the Key
 to the Cut Price Situation.

This store originated prices in Montgomery and is wholly responsible for drugs and medicines being sold at reasonable prices here Should for any business there question but what the druggists would combine again and advance prices the figure that they sold before the opening of this announced
 Here the prices and the goods We do not hold up few items prices and take advantage of you ces that you posted The entire stock is priced according the worth of the goods and according the printed prices the packages.
 We buy all goods in very large quantities. We do not depend on the local jobbe but buy supplies from the manufacturers, the they do and save the toner this profit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11
HAD NARROW ESCAPES.
Mrs. Houghton and Children Carried
 from Burning Building.

Anniston. Nov. 9.-(Special. 1.-The house of Mrs. A. s. Borders on the edge of Blue Mountain, occupied by Sam and Will Houston. was destroyed by fire early Saturday night. Mrs. Will Houston and two children came near to lcsing their lives. No one was in the house at the time. except the wives of the Messrs Houston The fire was not noticed until the ceiling was falling In. Mrs. Sam Houston got out of bed and walked to the house of Colonel k. Locke, but Mrs. Will Houston and her baby and the baby of Mrs. Sam Houston came very near being burned. owing to the fright of Mrs. Houston. When assistance reached the house, Mrs. Houston was standing in the floor with two babies on her arm and a feather bed on the other the burning cell ing was falling all around her and she was making no attempt to get out, she and the children having to be carried out of the burning building.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11

Fleetwood Rice has announced himself as a candidate for the office of County solicitor Mir. Rice is a promising young attorney and would fill the office with credit to his many friends should he be elected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11

before his arrival Death was due to heart failure. The funeral services took place this morning at 10 o'clock. with the interment in the Evergreen cemetery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11

The harvest has been abundant with the farmers In this county. All crops have been fine, and while the cotton yield is decidedly short of what the prospects in- dicated early in the season, the crop is very good. The sweet potato crop Is re- ported to be exceptionally fine, and they are bringing good prices in this city. Su- gar cane Is well matured, and some as fine turnips as are grown in any place have been brought into town. Every body made plenty of corn and thousands of tons of fine hay have been saved in this county. The season has been an ideal one-not too much rain-and the roads in the county have been in very good state during the marketing season, which has facilitated matters wonderfully.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-11
BIG ORDER FOR CEMENT.
Contractors on Demopolis Locks Buy
 5O,OOO Barrels,

Demopolis, Nov. lO.-(Speeial. .)-Contrac- tors M. T. Lewman & Co.,, have placed an order with cement company of New York for 5000 barrels of cement to be used in the construction of Lock No. on the Tombigbee and locks Nos. 2 and on the Warrior. This is said to be the larg- est quantity of cement ever sold on one order in the South, with the possible ex- ception of that used on the sea wall at Galveston. About 333 cars will be re- quired to transport this cement. and the cost is estimated to be something like $1OO,O 900.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
Hardin County Farmers Heavy
Losers-Question of Mar
keting Affected Hogs
is THE CONSUMER IN DANeER7
The Farmer Can Not Afford to Lose
All His Hogs by Keeping Them After
They Commence to Die and Sees No
Harm in Selling Those That Appear
Well.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican
Eldora, Dec. 14.-Hog cholera of 4
virulent kind is getting in its work in
the southern part of this county. Jo-
seph Bovender, s. S. Hadley. ]. H. Car
ter, ]. l.. Hockett, Ed Mothersell, Hale
Hadley, John Prim, Miles Rees Ralph
Clampett and others have been heavy
loosers. 1t is not unusual for farmers
to Immediately market their hogs rs
soon as sick ones are discovered among
them. OF course the sick ones are not
sold but are burned as soon as dead
This brings up question that Is often
asked: Are not many affected hogs
converted into meat? The farmer feels
that he can not afford to lose all his
hogs by keeping them after they COM
mence to die, and SO long as the others
appear we'll he sees no harm In selling
them.
1t would seem that where few hogs
die from a contagious disease out of
q bunch which are fed. watered ana
housed together, all would be some
what affected, and still the germs might
be so obscure as to defy detection by
the serious attention and consider
alton OF every man engaged in raising,
buying, selling and slaughtering Of
hogs as it may mean disastrous con-
sequences to the consumers.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
cAlLD's LEGS CUT OFF.
Twelve Year Old Girl Run Over by
Cars at Ottumwa.

Special to Times Republican.
Ottumwa. Dec 14.-"Don't take me to
the hospital. the expense will be too
much for mama to bear
This was the appeal that touched
the hearts of the curious crowd which
stood, watching the authorities tender
ly carrying the mangled form of little
12-year-old Blanche Hourihan to the
ambulance last evening just after she
had had both legs amputated by the
cars. The little girls first thought.
even in her pitiful condition, was for
her mother. With injuries which
would have rendered unconscious many
strong man, she forgot about her
self in her efforts to spare her parent
trouble.
The little girl. 1t is stated, was on
top OF coal car filled with coal, which
was standing in the Rock Island yards
Rock Island switch engine No. 239 un-
der the supervision of Engineer Joseph
Greeves, had been switching In the
yards, and when coupling onto the
string OF cars. Of which the coal car
was ono. - go OF tee collision
threw the child under the car and
four wheels passed over her legs.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
CAUSE OF THE WRECK.
Give Operator Charged With Failure
to Deliver Order.

Give Operator Charged With Failure
to Deliver Order.
Des Moines, Dec 14.-The two trains
were extra freights, one being bound
from Spencer to Des Moines with stock
and empty cars and the other being
special coal train en- route from Des
Moines to Spencer.
The west bound extra was a double
header and was In charge Of Conductor
]. S. Flynn, Brakemen II. Hill and H.
NJ. Bellman, Engineer George Cham
bers and Fireman Homer Oxley on en-
gine 4S. and Engineer Frank Finnicum
and Fireman Morse on engine No. 109,
the latter engine being ahead. The
train was also accompanied by Con-
ductor r. W. Price. who was 20 pilot
engine 700 back from Caldwell to Des
Moiaes The train consisted of eigh-
teen car loads of coal. The east bound
train which was made up at Spencer.
was IN charge of Conductor Richey,
Brakemen william Fields and W. Il.
Cranaer, and Engineer Walter Ward
end Fireman Oscar Dyer on engine No.
Isl.
Conductor Flynn and his crew were
'cGtIGu To ltdNc 1ISS 4NlOihCS 81 " eiOSA
bu, were unable TO get away from here
on lime because the engines were not
ready. When they left. 1t was the in
tention they should pass the east bound
extra at Adel.
shortly after the train pulled out,
Dispatcher Litten sent a new meeting
80 e"~A i,c,,-f eS+ra @','-sr~
better time than he anticipated. The
nsl5 70 pass At " .tuKee. 1ls
seat the east bound train an order to
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14

Redfield to approach Waukee under
control as the other train would be
side tracked there for them to pass.
AT the same time, he sent an order to
Give ordering the west bound extra 10
side track at Waukee and wait for the
east bound train.
Conductor Richey received his new
meeting order at Redtield, signing for
it at 23l. Conductor Flynn stopped
at Give for his orders but Operator ~.
w. Sleater. the officials say, gave hitl
clearance card. only, and the train
pulled out at once.
A few minutes later. Dispatcher Lit
ten and Operator Sleater discovered the
mistake and Immediately took steps %
prevent the collision. The operator Ut
Waukee was reached by telephone just
a few seconds after the west bound
freight had passed thru and the oper-
ator at Adel was raised forty seconds
too late to stop the east bound train,
Then there was nothing to do but to
spend awful moments waiting for the
news of how bad the inevitable col
lision had been.
Waiting for the News.
AS soon as Dispatcher Lttten knew
the wreck could not be averted, he no.
titled superintendent Frank Horton,
who Immediately made arrangements
for hospital train. A number of ply
sicians We're secured and also wraps
and Mercy hospital was notified to be
ready to receive the injured. The train
left Des Moines about o'clock.
AS soon as the injured were given
attention, the relief train was turned
around and sent TO Des Moines with
them, bringing all the injured. After
their arrival the families of the in
jured and dead We're notified of the
wreck. which was about II o'clock.
The bodies of Engineer Finnicum
and Fireman Dyer We're taken to Adel
during the forenoon when 1t was seen
that Engineer Wards body could not
be recovered for several hours.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14

Goals from the stoves. instantly setting
fire to the entire wreck. Within ten
minutes the wrecked train was mass
of flames, threatening new danger to
the people who We're scrambling thru
the coach windows.
Mrs. Mitchen was instantly killel.
Her body was consumed afterward by
the flames. She was the wife of a pho
tographer in Ottumwa. just before til
wreck occurred little Ward Ferguson
left his parents in the front of the
chair car and toddled back to the
seats occupied by Mrs. Mitchen AMI
her baby. The youngster stopped to
look at the baby and they We're strik-
ing up an acquaintance when the
crash came.
When the side of this coach was rip
ped off by the bridge, it SO splinterei
the floor OF the car that both children
dropped thru.
Baby's Awful Fate.
A beam crushed Mrs Mitchen's skull.
but her babe was uninjured. In falling
thru the bottom of the car, however,
Its clothing caught on a bolt or spin
ter, or on a g!rtier Of the bridge, and
there it hung. calling piteously for It's
mamma. While the fire which had
started In the end of the car near the
stove and all along the side, crept
nearer and nearer to i: Til It's cries
We're hushed in the sitting flames.
The Ferguson child went thru the
bottom of the car and thru between
the ties of the bridge. The bridge ls
about seven or eight feet high only,
and the little fellow fell into the
creek. His right leg was badly hurt
and his body lacerated. His parents
brought him to this city, where he Is
now in the hospital in a precarious
condition.
1t is thought that c. f. Blair of La
moni. IS also seriously Injured and may
not recover.
The three men who we're killed were
employees Of the 20" railroad and were
going west to work on the line. They
We're single men.
Cause Of Wreck.
The cause Of the wreck is unknown.
The train was No. 3, west-bound, from
Chicago to Omaha. 1t left Ottumwa
twenty-five minutes late yesterday
morning The engine jumped the track
just before reaching the culvert a
quarter of a mile east of tower No. $40.
which is about three mics west OF Al
bia. Official railroad reports OF the
wreck state that no cause for the en-
CINE jumping the track has been dis
covered. Nothing Is said about speed.
The engineer was William Wallace
and the conductor was r. w. Robin
son. They live in Burlington.
About 500 feet OF track was torn up.
The bridge would have been uninJured.
practically. had fire not added Its hor-
rors to the wreck. The railing along
the side saved the coaches from being
ditched with much greater loss Of life.
The bridge was about ninety feet long.
The locomotive and coaches burned
as they stood on the track and with
them the bodies of the killed. The
three laborers were in the smoking
car and were burned to crisp There
were eight of these men together go
ing to work out in western Iowa The
other five were uninjured.
A wrecking train was sent out OF
Abba Immediately after the notice was
received here and physicians were
summoned to the scene from Abba,
Ottumwa burlington and Charlton.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
RICH MEN ARE NOT ALL HAPPY.
croesus, King of Lydia, Had Troubles
Of His Own, and There Are Others.

VI THO SWUp ats0 su0iS SNiS SSuSs -
Crpsus, the John d. Rockefeller of
the kingdom Of Lydia, was very we'll
to-dp in worldly goods and chatteis.
..As rich as Cresus'' is saying about
$500 years old. He had his troubles,
however, and some of them were fui.
grown. He was taken captive once by
Cyrus and only saved himself from
Et.ing burned alive by quoting say
Ing of Solon, the sage. He finally had
te, flee from his kingdom for parts un-
known.
Many of the rich mans troubles to-
dsty come from high living and could
bt. avoided. They are brought on BY
citing adj kinds of rich, heavy foods
al. Irregular times, lack of proper ex-
e,-cise, undue mental strain. unnatural
stimulants, etc, and ere commonly
known as Indigestion. dyspepsia and
weak stomach They are serious trou-
l. es all right, but rot only can they
h. avoided but can also be cured, ana
flat without loss or time or proper
food and nourishme Mt.
Stuart's Dyspepsia TABLETS are the
certain relief of dyspentics, rich and
poor alike. There is no such thing as
stopping their onward progress now.
A great nation has placed its stamp of
a pprovai upon their noble work The
thousands and thousands of cures they
have effected and the happiness result
ing therefroIn have made their name a
household word thruout The land.
The story of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tah-
lets can be told in a word. They actu-
ally, do the work that the Weak ana
wasted stomach is unable to do and al
low 1t to reeuperate and regain Its
strength They contain all the essen
t.al properties that the gastric juice
and other digestive fluids do, and they
digest the food just as sound ana
well stomach would. They relieve the
stomach Just as one rested and re-
f.eshed workman relieves the cne or
duty that. is tired and wcrn ana Ma
ture does her own work of restoration.
r:sis d simple, ma tnral process that
child can understand. You can eat al
YOU want without fear of results.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for sale
by all druggists at 30 cents box.
Druggists all know better than TO Try
TO get along without them. as the de-
Yfand for them is great and universal.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
Flames Add to Horror and
Consume Bodies of the
Killed
BABY MEETS AN AWFUL FATE
Clothes Caught in Girder of the Bridge
and It's Piteous Cries for Its Dead
Mother Were Only stilled in the
Sitting Fiames-Five Killed and
Nine Injured.

Abba. Dec. 14.-Five persons were
killed and nine injured in passenger
train wreck on the main line of the
Burlington railroad three miles west
of here at o'clock sunday morn
Ing.
The dead:
Mrs W. f. Mitchem. Abba.
Mildred E. Mitchem, age 8 years.
Thomas Beatty. ottumwa-
Franklin. residence unknown.
Unknown laborer.
The injured:
c. E. Blair, Lamont; in serious con-
dition.
Ward Ferguson. Mitchell, Neb.; In
serious condition.
W. B. Martin. Chicago
Caleb Allen, negro waiter on diner
Chicago.
William Branch, cook on diner. Chi
cago.
r. Price, cook on diner. Chicago.
S. I. Williams porter Chicago
i. I. Scott, Osceola.
L. I. Browning, Yates Center, Kan
The infant child of Mrs Mitchen was
burned to death, and its cries, as the
flames approached and consumed It,
We're heard by the Mortified passengers
who had got out of the wreck, but
were powerless to aid the child. 1t hal
dropped thru the splintered floor of
the coach and was burned with the
bridge from which 1t dangled. it's
clothing having caught In stringer.
Ward Ferguson, years old. dropped
thru the floor OF the same coach and
fell into the creek beneath the bridge,
escaping the flames. but suffering in
juries from which he probably VIII
die.
Wreck Burns.
The flames consumed five cars, the
locomotive and bridge near which the
wreck happened. The locomotive
jumped the track just as 1t reached the
bridge and the train passed over the
structure before the engineer. who had
stuck to mis- post, could stop It All
seven coaches left the track and five
ran over the bridge. The three-foot
iron railing along the side of the
bridge ripped off the sides of the five
coaches and in doing so scattered the
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
NEW PHONE EXCHANGE.
Citizens Of Spencer to Have Another
Telephone System.

Special to Times-Repub!can.
Spencer. Dec. 1.-THE Citizens Tells
phone Company, which last spring OBJ
tained franchise from the city at a
special election, March 80, after a hard
fought campaign, have recently held
a meeting and work on the new ex-
change will be commenced at once.
Several car loads of poles have just
arrived and will be placed as soon as
possible. There was much opposition
to the granting of the franchise hs
friends of DIR. Greaves. president and
manager Of the Spencer Telephone Co.
and several rural lines The new COM
pany has large capital and will put
in furnishings of the best and promises
to give satisfactory service.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
FIRE AT WHITING
Loss Of $4,000 in the Business Portion
of Town.

Special to Times-Republican.
Whiting. Dec. 14.--Fire started here
at o'clock last evening destroyed near
ly all the business portion of Whiting.
The loss was about $4,000, well COW
cred by insurance.
The fire started in the basement Of
Casady & Writings general store. The
fire engine failed to work and the flames
spread rapidly to adjoining buildings,
The two story business block of Casady
& Whiting, which contained their store.
the Whiting bank. a lodge hall, and an
opera house. was completely destroyed.
as was also the clothing store of Cas-
ady & Whiting, Baxter's barber shop
and Rust's drug store.
One OF the heaviest losers Is Repre-
sentative w. C. Whiting
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
ACCIDENT AT FARNHAMvILLE
Horse Falls OF a Bridge and 10 Fa.
taltv Injured

Special to Times Republican.
Farnhamville, Dec. 14.-While driv-
ing onto the dump at Carson's elevator
here, William Schroeders horses be-
came frightened and backed off the
dump and then off the bridge leading
to the dump at heighth of about
six feet In the fall one of the horses
sustained an injury to the spine which
rendered it useless and made it ne:-
essary to kill the animal.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
TRUSTEES BRING SUIT.
Two Important Cases Growing Out Of
Failure at Creston.

Special 10 meS-RepuDHcan.
Creston, Dec. 1.-two more i'm
portant suits growing out OF the recent
failure OF NJ. c. Sanders, the wealthy
stockman who was forced into bank
ruptcy, have been filed in the United
States court here. They are filed by
the trustee against H. f. Crittenden, of
Lenox, and the Union County Bank. of
Kent, asking that $4,57121 paid the
former, and $4,000 paid the latter, be
turned over to the trustee for the bene-
fit OF the other creditors. 1t is claimed
that all the money was paid when San
ders was bankrupt and was In the
nature of preferred creditors. and that
he knew he was bankrupt at the time
payments we're made. This is the
third case filed since Sanders took the
bankruptcy clause to settle $4,000 In
debtedness
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
Mt;" e,,- D-,vo-e'
Fairfield. Dec. Thames Messiclz.

tor of the estate OF Paul Robertson. de-
CEASED, a minor heir, preparatory TO
starting a suit against the railroad
company. Paul Robertson was the lad
who was Instantly killed by No. 6 on
the C., B. & Q. tracks last Wednesday
afternoon.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
FRANK ELLIS APPOINTED.
Made District Grand Master for the
!. o. o. e. Lodae.

Special to mes-RepuSlican.
Armstrong. Dec. 14.-Frank Ellis, of
this place has been appointed grand
master OF the I. o. o. F. for the soth
district of Iowa. The lodges in this
district are located in the towns of
Estherville, Emmetsburg, Ruthven,
Ayrshire, Cylinder. West Bend ami
Armstrong. in Emmet. and Palo Alto
counties.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-14
Death of panviIle Pioneerd Settler.

Danvllle. Iowa, Dec. 14.-W. H. Mas
ters. one of Danville townships Oldest
settlers, died Friday night at his home
near panville Funeral services at the
Long Greek church Sunday morning al
II o'clock
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-29
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
Col. Merriam Writes Graphic About
ccdentalIy Shooting Himself.

fle Graphic has received the fol
leyssi.a.g letter from Col. ]. NJ. Merriam.
explaining how he accidentally shot
himself at Worthwhile, Pa:
'sNorthville, Pa, H HeaTts Ea@ on
the Lake.-Editor Daily Graph i, Pine
Bluff. Ark: On the evening of June
%, at o'clock, | accidentally shot
myself through the left hip. The bali
entered near the lower abodmen rang
ng upwards, then downwards, tearing
fearful hole. | am hors de combat
il the battle of life The bullet passed
near an artery, which if it had hit
would have soon died. DR. F. Hurd
says it is a dangerous wound, but not
fatal unless blood poison sets in.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-29
Pine Bluff Girl to Tour Europe.

Miss Mildred Bradford leaves to-day
for St. Louis. where she will join a
narty which will sail for Europe Miss
Minnie Chestnut, of Little Rock, will
be chaperon of the party. The party
will be in St. Louis one day, one day
at Stanton, Va, one day in Nashlng-
ton. D. c., and July 4, will sail for
Liverpool, England. At Liverpool Miss
Bradford will meet her father, with
whom she will tour Europe. The
Umbria will arrive in Liverpool On
July - Miss Bradford's mailing list
reads as follows: London, August 10;
Cologne, Germany, after August 10;
Nuremberg, September l; Lelpslc'
September u: Berlin, Germany, after
September u.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-29
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Police Court.

Police Court.
Ello ado Williams, violating moral
ity law, s..
Malley Bell, violating morality law,
IS.
John Thomas, alias Hunter, drunk,
s..
John Williams, trespassing, S..
Jiles Park, violating morality law,
$5
Emma Sharp, violating morality law,
So
Orena Barnes, violating morality
law, S..
Il. A. Miller, violating morality law,
$5.
Wash Mitchell, violating morality
law, s..
Lula Teison, violating morality law
$5.
Zaek Smith, trespassing. s..
Chas. Tibbit, trespassing, s..
Bill Byles, drunk, So.
Percy Morgan, vagrancy So.
Eta Baker, house OF i'll repute, s..
Frank Antoine. aiding an assault,
! SIC.
jim Wilson, aiding an assault. SO.
Sam Hull, disorderiy conduct, 50.
Pink Gardner, violating morality
| law, S..
sissie McNally, violating morality
law, S..
Homer Ennis. violating stock laV
-.
Jack SINNER, trespassing. s..
Henderson Evans, disturbing the
peace, s..
| Luck Moo c. disturbing the peace
s..
Catherine Miller, violating morality
law, IS.
C. A. Star, violating stock law, S..