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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
Miscreant Causes Trouble.

A person in possession of key to the fire alarm boxes is causing much trouble by signalling the fire department from many boxes and at many hours.
 Last night at 12 o'clock an alarm was sent in from box No. 46 and the com panies responded at once. The authorized possessor of the key, however. had not turned in the alarm and it could not be learned who had sent in the alarm.
 The person owning the key also has a release" key which makes possible the withdrawal of the box key.
 Chief of Police Walters is investigating the matter but has no working clue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
coLEMAN-M'aRHEE.
Pretty Home Wedding is Celebrated
 in Tuscaloosa.

Tuscaloosa, Jan. 3.-(speeiaL l. )-James l.. Coleman of Mobile and Miss Estelle McGehee were united in matrimony yes terday afternoon at 4;30 o'clock at the residence of the brides brother, A. NJ. McGehee. The wedding was a very quiet one. being witnessed by only the imme- diate relatives The bride Is one of Tus- caloosa's most charming and attractive young women and though she has been Q resident of this city a comparatively short while. she has hosts of friends who yield her up with regret. The groom is O promising young Mobplan and we'll worthy of his good fortune.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
COL. W. B. JONES
States His Position as to the Muni-
 cipal Union,

clpal On1on-
 Editor The Advertiser:
 l am inclined to think after reflection. that my signature to the card with others in yesterdays Advertiser. calling upon MT. Thomas II. Carr to announce himself as a candidate for Mayor of Montgomery. might be construed by some as little inconsistent with my connection with the Third Ward Union.
 I write this tD say, that in signing the call. 1t was done simply to express my individual preference. and not in any way as a member of. or president of the Union in the Third Ward.
 I will cheerfully support and vote for any enc the several wards may nominate or name for Mayor, in convention or otherwise. and in calling upon Mir. Carr to become a candidate, only emphasized the main object in Oganizing the Third Ward Union. i. e.. that the office should seek the man. Respectfully.
 Wm B. Jones,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
AT moDoNALD's THEATRE.
"old si. Stebbins" and Dan Darleigh
 Last Might.

''old Si Stebbins' grows feeble with age. He tottered last night at Mc- Donald's Theatre.
 A fair sized audience saw the performs ance.
 Dan Darleigh was in the title role and pleased the audience with some topical songs and funny dance. He worked hard to make the performance please. The supporting company was not good
 A good orchestra Is with the company. Its music was decidedly the best feature of the entertainment
 The play will be repeated at matinee today and tonight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
1DE OBTAINS LAVE.
Philippine Commissioner Will Take
 Long Rest.

Washington. Jan. 23.-secretary Root today received a cabiegram from Gov ernor Taft at Manila, requesting six months leave of absence for Commis- sioner Ide, dating from February 15 on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
Campaign Opening.

The setting of the day for the Demo- cratic primary for election of municipal officers has started the campaign and while only two candidates have formally announced there Is much talky-taik and many smiles to be observed on the street corners.
 The coming primary promises to be tame as so many of the candidates will have no rivals. The primary will not be held until March g. however. and it is quite possible that there will be other Richmonds in the field. c. c. Grayson, who was importuned and expected to become a candidate for the office of May or has announced in an open letter that he will not make the race.
 There are no campaign issues of rad- ical kind and even with the announce ment of many candidates 1t Is not prob- able the race would be exciting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24

While walking on a trestle between Locks 1 and ? yesterday afternoon. Miss Allene McGehee missed her footing and fell partly between the crossties. Medi- cal aid was immediately summoned and she was brought to her home in the city. Her injuries were very painful, though not serious.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
5000 for Mrs. Helen Sullivan.

Mrs. Helen Sullivan has won a suit against the Florida, Gulf and Pensicola Railroad for $6.0O0 for damages on account of the death of her son, Tom Sullivan, which the complainant alleges was at tributable to the negligence of the de- fendant company.
 Tom Sullivan was a member of the United States army and was on his way to the scene of the Spanish American war when he was killed.
 The case has been appealed and will be tried before the United States Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
 Another Candidate Out.
 R. D. Walker has announced that he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
Motorman and Conductor Acuuitted

Motorman w. T. Meek and Conductor W. H. Robinson who were in charge of the car which ran over and killed Motor man w. A. Kinard yesterday, were &C., quilted of blame when tried before May or Mcleod this morning. Witnesses tes- tifed that the accident occurred as stated by The Advertiser this morning and the court held the death was not the result of negligence on the part of Messrs. Meek and Robinson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
The Newc of Selma.

will be candidate to succeed himself as appraiser of values or tax assessor. Mir Walker has held the office for several terms and is quite familiar with his du- ties which he has hitherto performed in highly satisfactory manner, No one has so far announced himself as an opponent to MT. Walker.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
MIR. GATES'S SIDE
HE PRESENTS TESTIMONY OF J. P.
 MORGAN IN L. 6 N. INQUIRY.
Discredits Lofty Motive-says Mag. nate's Purchase of the Property Was Pure Business
 Deal for Profit.

A New York Special to The Chicago
 Record-Herald says:
 John W. Gates has appealed to the h. terstate Commerce Commission for all opportunity to answer the testimony given by Piefpont Morgan during the investigation of the Louisville and Nash vile transfer here the other day. MT. Morgan represented that he had bought the road from patriotic motives tbecause John W. Gates was a dangerous man to handle a valuable property; that it was unsafe to trust him with the great in- terests involved in the Louisville and Nashville system, and because he was anxious to promote the prosperity and the welfare of the South. Tho associates of MT. Gates are very indignant at this assumption of superior morality on the part of Mir. Morgan, and declare that the latter was actuated by purely selfish mo- tives, which he is now trying to con- ceal. They say that 1t was nothing mora than an ordinary stock tobbing operation which MT. Morgan went into uo make money for himself, to secure the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad for the At lanuc Coast Line System and to prevent Gates from selling it to the Seaboard Air Line Company, with which the latter was in negotiation. Mir. Morgan repre- scented in his testimony that he had nothing whatever to do with the original negotiations which were initiated by some of the boys" in his office, and that he knew nothing of them until they were very nearly concluded, when he learned the situation over In England and took the matter up himself. The facts of the case as stated by some of the Chicago associates of MT. Gates are entirely different from those related to the Interstate Commerce Commission in MT. Morgan's testimony, and Mir. Gates who is spending a few weeks down on the gulf coast, near Galveston, has tele- graphed that he will come North and de- mand q hearing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24

| E609eAA2(t | lanta and West Point and Western Rail- l way of Alabama, with headquarters m | Atlanta. Mir. Wickersham takes the ! place of George w. Allen. who has re- | signed. M. Wickersham will be succeed | ed as City Passenger and Ticket Ascent | in Atlanta by s. c. Griswold. MT. Wick | ersham is a son of President and General
 Manager C. A. Wickersham of the sys- | tenn mentioned.
 A special from Memphis to The New York Commercial says: c. H. Ackert. General Manager of the Southern, while in this city recently. gave some interest ing information regarding the Improve
 ments to be made during the year. The
 cost is placed at several millions.
 On the Memphis division the principal features will be the building of 6 $3o,00o
 freight depot in this city. the rearranging and enlargement of the track facilities or the yards. at this point, and replacing with 80-pound rails all the sS and 6o-poun0 rails on the Memphis division at all points where the change has not been made heretofore.
 Mir. Acker denies that the Southern will extend the Memphis division from Steven. son Ala, to Chattanooga, explaining that the road has long-term contract with the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis for the use of its tracks.
 At Birmingham i2 miles of trackage will be built on property bought short time ago for terminals. This work Is to be begun as soon as inc material is avail able.
 It is reported in Chattanooga that in the near future a number of 200-ton l0co% motives will be introduced on the Knox vile and, Ohio branch of the Knoxville division of the Southern to haul the heavy coal trains. The Knoxville. Cumberland Gap and Louisville Road and the Knox vile and Ohio are to be greatly improved. Contracts have already been let for the construction of % steel bridges on the line of the Knoxville and Ohio between Knoxville and JelIico. The erection of these bridges Is necessary if the 2Oo-ton locomotives are to he used for the traffic on the Knoxville and Ohio branch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24

Saphedde-She's as pretty as a picture, Miss Caustique7Yes; she is rather well painted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
A JUDGE IS INDICTED.
Remarkable State of Affairs in
 Meridian, Miss.

Meridian. Miss. Jan. 2s.-Today the grand jury returned 14O indictments. most of them being against professional and business men who have violated the priv ilege license laws. The Lithia Springs Company, of which the Presiding Judge of the Court. Hon. G. e. Hall, Is the head, was indicted for the same offense. Tho grand jury will adjourn tomorrow at noon. The body during it's sitting. has returned something over 25O indictments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24

H. J. Ackert of the Mobile and Ohio and w. A. Vaughan. Jr.. of the Southern Railway engineering corps are at the Hotel Albert.
 Mrs. R. H. McFadden and Miss Louise McFadden of Gallon. are visiting their many friends in Selma
 Dr. Catesby ape. Jones of New York, is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Catesby apR. Jones.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
Local and Personal.

Miss Rebecca Haiman Of Nashville, who has been the guest of MT. and Mrs. Si- mon Eagle has returned home During her visit to Selma Miss Haiman was the recipient of many social attentions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24

He is a wise man who knows when he has had enough.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24


 The result of the negotiations was that Mr. Morgan bought tho entire block of 2U4.O .OOO shares of stock from Mir. Gates at Sl5O share. This gave him q total Of 306, ,OO0 shares which cost him an average of $l43 share He then transferred his entire holdings to the Atlantic Coast Line for Sij0 a share, thus making a profit of S7 share. or something over s2. OO00OO. and l. is believed hs was given and still holds large block of the stock The profits to the Gates party were even larger. They commenced to buy at s1O5 share. and are supposed to have divided some thing like s5,00O.0OO as their profits from the speculation. Mr. Gates does not pretend to have gone into the scheme with any high moral motives. such as Mir. Morgan claims to have had. His friends say that it was not a phllan- thropic movement. but purely a business transaction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
MT. Grow Misses HIS Medicine.

physically different but practically the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24

Tn the early spring of 1901 MT. Gates associated with Isaac l.. Ellwood, John Lambert, Charles A. Dupee of Chicago and several other friends. commenced to buy Louisville and Nashville stock. which was then quoted at 105 on the market. Six hundred thousand shares were out standing. and of these Harris, Gates & O., the Chicago brokers, obtained by pur- chase 2O4.OOO shares. Edwin Hawley of the Southern Pacific System had 10e 900 shares. By combining their interests the Gates party and Hawley controlled a majority of the stock and entered Into negotiations with John SSelton Williams and w. A. Reed of the banking house of Vermilye & Co to sell the road to the Seaboard Air Line upon a guarantee of per cent annual dividends for a definite term of years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
RAILROAD NOTES.

c. L. wlchcrsham has been appointed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24

The negotiations were discovered by George w. Perkins of Morgan & O., who, knowing that MT. Morgan wanted the Louisville and Nashville Road for consolidation with the Southern system, and was very much opposed to the in- terests of it's competitors. the Seaboard Air Line, cabled that gentleman the facts at his London address and request ed Mir. Gates not to close with Williams. and Reed until he he'd received a reply. Mir. Morgan cabled Perkins authority to buy. and the latter paid SlS0 a share cash for Hawleys 02,0G0 shares and secured from Harris. Gates 6; Co.,, an option upon their 2O4,00O shares at $15O share. The contract covering this option was drawn by Mir. Stetson. who Is MT. MOrgan's attorney. and it provided that Mir. Morgan should have aa opportunity to formulate q pan for the reorganiza- ton of the Louisville and Nashville Road. If he succeeded in doing so to his satisfaction he was to buy the Gates stock If he did not succeed he agreed to sell Gates the 102,000 shares he had already bought from Iawley at S130 a share the price he gave for it. This con tract was made in the name of MT. Mor- gan. and the Gates party say that he was advised by cable of every step of the negotiations and that on several oc- casions they were compelled to postpone matters until he could be communicat ted with in LCndon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

~ a .,, to ,.o~,,,aSt.s ~ Ahe ensuing to pay the salaries of the Judges of the City Court of Montgomery. sat-4t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
FIMANc1A1.


 MONEY TO LBND-S3o, 900 on improved Mcntgomery real estate; legal rate; easy terms: nc commissions. J. N. w. Crawford, at of. fice of Fred s. Ball, First National Building
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
FOR SALE.

FOR, ,SALE--IIandsome bay Hamiltonian-Ea mare, years old: also good all purpose black mare. W. E. Hinson, Agent, Hougnton Farm, Ru- ral Route l. 2t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
TYPEwRITERs AND SUPPLIES.
LOST.

STRAYED-on Christmas day from Walter Karr plantation. near LeGrand, one dark roan mare mule. medium size; informat. on leading to her recovery will be rewarded Please inform Walter Brothers, Winter Loeb & O., or Lem Stokes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-24
wANTED-BoARD OR ROOM.

FOR RENT-Three uufurnished rooms first or second floor. private bath, conveniently lo- cated; phone 3Io
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
MITCHELL-BUDD.
Meriden Young Lady Weeds California
 Lawyer.

Meriden Young Lady Weeds California
 Lawyer.
 Meriden, May 21.-The announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Louise E., daughter of MT. and Mrs. Montgom- cry R. Budd of Sg3 Broad street, to Attorney Willis s. Mitchell of San Francisco. Cal, on Friday, May 8, in Grace Episcopal church of San Fran cisco. The bride had been spending the winter in California with her sis ter Mrs. E. A. Babbitt, and met the promising young lawyer at his fathers hotel in Pasadena, Cal, some four months ago.
 Mrs. Mitchell was a member of the Meriden high school class of 1905, and is widely known among the young peo- pie of this city. On leaving for the Pacific coast the young lady expected to remain until summer time. She has been in communication with her inti- mate friends here since last winter.
 Attorney Mitchell, the groom, is prac- ticing law with offices at 685-607 Par ret building, San Francisco. He is a graduate of the University of Califor- mia, The bride is a sister of Cadet Arthur Dryhurst Budd of West Point and Forest F. Budd, who is studying medicine at Yale.
 Mr and Mrs. Mitchell will of course reside in San Francisco, where they have handsomely furnished apartments at Hotel Mitchell, it is understood.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
YALE DRAMATICS.

Excellent Lighting Effects for Next
 Mondays Performance.
 The lighting effects at the perform ance of Comedy of Errors on Mon- day evening at the Lawn club by Ben Greet's compony will be among the most interesting and artistic features of the occasion. The natural stage will be illumined by lime lights and these are shifted and changed in such way as. to produce striking effects. The amphitheatre will be illumined by torches and Japanese lanterns. As soon as the comedy is to begin the torches will be extinguished and the soft light from the Japanese lanterns will combine with the lime lights on the stage to produce g, picture of fairy land.
 The officers of the Yale Dramatic as- sociation, under whose auspices the plays will be given, express themselves as highly gratified at the way in which the sale of seats went yesterday. The fact that the s1.50, $1 and 50 cent scale of prices is used has helped to make the plays drawing cards.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
TVALLTNGFORD.

Yesterdays recorded real estate transfer was. Nancy Hall, as guardian for S. D. Hall, to Catherine T. Hayden, 51x151 feet with house on Meadow St. ? The team chosen by the country club for it's game with Waterbury here Sat- urday will be as follows: w. H. Hap good, G. D. Munson, Dr. W. s. Russell, II. L. Davis, J. N. Platt, w. E. Atkin- son.
 Professor Casey's dancing class will give it's annual bicycle hop and enter tainment at Memorial hall, North Ha- ven, Friday evening, May 29.
 "Way Down East,' will be the attrac- tion. this evening at the opera house. The company comes here from Wester- ly, R. I.
 Chicken thieves have recently visited Mrs. Ellen Coffey's place on North Col ony street stole six of her hens.
 The rainfall here Wednesday evening was 05 of an inch. The fall for the last six weeks has been .19 of an inch. ; E. D. Stevens and family leave next week for Indian Neck for the season < MT. and Mrs. Orias P. Merriman left yesterday for Spring Valley, N. Y.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
CARDIFF GIANT STORED IN 4

How are the nightly falen! This applies exactly and accurately to the very prosaic Cardiff Giant, a monstrosi- ty os once debatable origin, which had career of excitement. interest and doubt that fooled all of of the Ameri- can public for short time, and which had it's unique career cut short, hut not till a. great deal of money had been made out of the fraud.
 After years of triumphal progress about the country, being exhibited to thousand of wondering people, after causing a division in the. scientific world as to the authenticity of the claims as to the monsters antecedents, the cause of all this trouble is now calmly repasing in a very unromantic packing case, protected from the. chill ing frosts of the winter by a loose garb of coarse sawdust, in the barn of we'll known citizen of Ftchburg. Indeed, he has been here for the greater part of the last twenty-five years or more, or soon after ''The Boston Herald" put an end to his "meteoric career" by an edi- torial (which pronounced him a fake.
 But here at Fitchburg his giantship is, and few people have known anything about it. In addition to his suit of saw dust there is some. quasi irrigation about him that prevents his public participancy in the events of the early years of the new century. when a gene ration to the fore which will some day want to see him out of curiosity if not for the qualification of scientific re- search. which was in his early days a ruling motive about him
 When the business of exhibiting the giant failed, s. s. Lawrence, local con- tracter, was engaged to build shed or addition to the hotel, in which the giant could be stored. He did SO. Soon atfer- ward Mr. Lawrence took the giant to his barn and stored 1t there, and it has been there ever since. There was an agreement as to payment for this stor- age, but nothing has been done about it so MT. Lawrence holds on to his stone charge which he has had nearly twenty seven years.--Boston Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
DISTRICT STEWARDS.

The annual convention of the stew ards and laymen of the New Haven district, New York East conference, will be held in the Methodist church in Derby, Wednesday, May P. The ad- dresses during the morning with topics and speakers will be: ''The Best Equipment for District Work" What is it? B. B. Savage, New Haven; Why have it? the Rev A. B. Sanford, D. D. Brooklyn, and the Rev. A. H, Good enough D. D., Bristol; How to get it? A. T. Bierkan, New Haven.
 Howard A. Camp, of Hartford, will preside at the afternoon session and the devotional services will be conduct ed by c. A. Baldwin of New Haven, The subjects and addresses will be: What Methodists May Learn From Their English Cousins" the Rev, Her bert Welch, D. D., Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Mems Work in the Church." In the Class Meeting, l.. T. Wooster, Sey- mour; In the Sunday School, H. M. Tower, New Haven; In the Prayer Meeting. D. W. Blakeslee, New Haven; In the Official Board, John A. Coe, Shell ton. "The Relation of the Men of the Church to Evangelistic Success Will liam Phillips Hall, Greenwich, presi- dent New York East conference evan gelistic commission.
 Teh Hon. Franklin Barton of Anso- mia, will preside at the evening session The address will be: "It I Were a Minister" Andrew T. Bierkan, New Haven; If I Were a Layman.'' the Rev. F. R. Stockdale, Waterbury.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
SUES FOR $15.000.

Papers were filed in Newark, N. J., Wednesday by Matthew J. Ready in behalf of Miss Katherine Bowers of Kearny. N. J., in an action for $15,00O damages for alleged breach of promise of marriage against Frederick w, Voigt, a well known manager of sporting events and former manager of the Vails- burg bicycle track.
 A capias for his arrest was issued and he is held in bonds of $2,000 to defend Miss Bowers suit.
 voight was connected with the Coli scum here and last came before the New Haven public by his very quiet marriage to Mrs. Grace Embler Thonp- son December last.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
ORDER OF PROTECTION.

Beacon lodge held celebration in their lodge room last night. There was music and ice cream and the enthu- siasm was unbounded.
 The programme follows: Piano selection-Miss Lillian Aubrey. Vocal selection-Miss Mabel Aubrey. Vocal selcetion-Miss Rebecca Harris. Quartette Imperian selections--Messrs
 Henderson, Handy, Preelow and
 Godett.
 The Amorous Tooth Pick.
 The Wedding of the Dodo and
 the Soup.
 The Carnival of June ... Rogers Piano-Tillitian Dreams Walter Co.,
 dett.
 Address-Right Grand Warden of the
 state of Connecticut Wooster. Recitation-Mr. Wells.
 The Flirtatious Razor Harold Solo--Mr. Hume. ......-..