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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
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NEW ORLEANS. Oct s.-sugar-Dull; open kettle centrifugal. Shd3h: centrifugal whites S-lo; yellows. 3 i3-l694 S-i6; seconds 2a3%.
 New cane syrup. 33.
 MolasSes-pull: csntringEaL S8IA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
Naval Stores.

WILMINGTON. Oct. s.-Turpentine-Firm at 57I1; receipts, 69 casks
 Rosin-Firm at sl 800 .s5: receipts I73. Tar-Firm at SI. 30; receipts, 20.
 Crude turpentine-Firm at S2 25G3 30; re- ceipts 63
 SAVANNAH Oct e-Turpentine-Firm at 6e5
 Rosin-Firm; receipts. 2,os4; sales. I.42s: exports; 4es3: A B. c. sI.eo; D, se os; I. S3.5o; K. S4 10; NJ S4 25: N, s4 30; win. dow glass S4 10; water white S4 70.
 CHARLESTON, Oct. s.-Turpentine-Nom nal.
 Rosin-steady: A. B, c. sI.es: D. s2: E. S2 i5 F. S2 2S; c. sass: + S2 es. I S3 30; K, S3. 50; NJ. s3 90. N. s3 90; window glass. S4; water white. S4.I5.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
Treasury Statarsnt

Total sales for the day, sO3, 300 shares.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
New York Cotton Futures.

NEW YORK. Oct. 9.-The ruling prices in the Cotton Exchange today were as follows:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
u.w Orleans Cotton Futures.

NEW OIIcuub OOStOH~ NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 9.-Cotton futures
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We are prepared to pay at all times highest market rrices for cotton F. O. interior points, No commission and no charges to be paid by sellers.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

The following is an extract
from a letter just received
from Mr.. Williams regarding
the building of large roller
mill at this place: You can
say to the people of Anderson
county that the mill which we
will erect, and for which we
now have plans drawn, will
have a capacity of 200 barrels
a day, and will be the most
modern mill in Central Ken
lucky. We believe that Law
renceburg, centrally located
as it is, is the place best suited
for us to locate a mill to ham
die the growth of Central
Kentucky's grain. The COM
pany is we'll backed by capital
and experience, and work will
be begun just as soon as the
weather will permit" While
we are unable to learn as to
the exact location of the new
mill, rumor has it that it will
be erected on the railroad not
far from the depot.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19
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How long must the white
children of this district wait
for as good a school-house as
the Negroes have?
In what year was the great
epidemic that carried off all
the live, progressive citizens
of the city and county?
What good does it do the
farmer and business man for
the county to be out of debt, if
it is out of turnpikes and out
of a decent courthouse, too?
How long will it be before
we have some decent streets
and sidewalks in Lawrence
burg at the present rate of
progress?
What good does it do to
vote for water-works and
electric lights, if we take no
further steps to get either of
them?
How old will the youngest
child in our city be when the
Commercial Club is organized
and goes to work in earnest!
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

Mr.. Marion L. Chowning,
our popular Superintendent of
Public Schools, has purchased
a half interest in the Ander-
son News, and will devote
what time he can spare from
his public duties to the gath
ering up of news for the
News. Mr.. Chowning is well
known in the county; and,
while he has had no expe-
rience in the newspaper field,
the News readers can rest
assured that he will take to it
like ducks to water, and give
them a good readable paper.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

Bro. Harry McCarty, of the
Jessamine Journal, has been
declared the Democratic nomi-
nee for Representative in the
Legislature from that county.
Harry is a thoroughly good
fellow and an up-to-date news
paper man, and we are glad to
see the people of his county
pushing him to the front.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19
MORE BUSINESS.

To-day we present to our
readers twelve pages of town
and county news. We are
conceited enough to think it
the best paper ever published
in Anderson county, and for
home news second to no
county paper published in
Kentucky. Should you doubt
this statement, get out your
rule and measure your inches
of reading matter, after which
measure any other paper you
wish, and let us know if we
are wrong in our Judgment.
Remember, that the rule must
go on no plate matter, no
patent print, no copy from
any other paper, but on only
that which is new, true and
original, as is IT'S matter.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

Mr.. w. B. Morgan was
called to Nelson county Mon
day by the serious illness of
his father. Mr.. Morgan re-
turned Tuesday, and states
that his father was much i'm
proved when he left, and the
doctor said that he was on the
road to recovery.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19
Organs! Pianos!

BE il ever so humble. there's no place
like home" Make your home happy by
purchasing a PIANO OR ORGAN. have on
hand a nice line of new and secondhand in
struments. with terms and prices to suit the
people. Office open for inspection from :.
a. M, till 9. p. M. T. A. WATSON.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

We notice that Capt. Peary
is arranging to make another
trip in search of the North
pole. 1t would be a good idea
for him to come down here in
Kentucky and get acclimated
before starting. Had he been
here Tuesday morning, he
would have been ready for the
trip Wednesday, dressed in a
seersucker coat, linen buster,
buckeye hat and low cut shoes.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

Mr.. H. S. Carl, who has
been quite sick for the past
two weeks, is reported much
better. 80
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

Born, in Lexington, to the
wife of Hon. L. H. Carter,
boy-Roland Harris.
Both mother and child are
doing we'll, and the Governor
is reported to be out of danger.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

Miss Nora Hammond, of
Shelby County, who has re-
Gently returned to Kentucky
from Oregon, has been visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. w. p.
Marsh.
It. [volume] (Lawrenceburg, Ky.) 190?-19??, 1903-02-19

NO "Old Papers for Sale
at This Office"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
KNEW OF NO CORRUPTION.
Senator Alger Says His Hands are
 G1oan .

Detroit. Mich, July 15.-United States Senator R. A. Alger gave out the follow ing interview tonight in regard to an edi- torial published in the current issue of Harper's Weekly, charging practically that during the time Senator Alger was Secretary of War, the Government was defrauded out of millions of dollars on army contracts:
 If there was any corruption in the War Department during the time when I was Secretary, or if there was any reason for thinking that there might be such corrup- tion, knew nothing of it, and 1 do not believe there was any such corruption.
 The assertion made here is a very broad one, and the men who make the charges and the paper that publishes them vii be held to the strictest accountabil- ity.
 T hope that the matter will be inves- tigated to the very bottom in order that the facts may be fully demonstrated.
 T did not even know that any glove con- tract had been made. Matters of detail of that kind were left to subordinate of ficials, and I suppose that minor con tracts were made without being submitted to the head of the department during the time when the army was being mobilized and when there was great mass of busi- ness to be attended to.
 However. I believe that the men who purchased the supplies during my admin istration were as honest, conscientious and efficient as any set of officials who ever served in the War Department
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mer landscape. Not so this one, the force and "elght or which carried it right across th1 valley, so that it partly mounted the opposttS hlside-a thing almost unprecedented in thS history of avalachnes in the Alps or antrl where else.
 This same impetus and weight, acting uif snow already packing under the heat of q week or Spring sun, compressed the movina masses into consistency little short of th1 familiar asphalt. Moreover, the masses nats urally split up, and 1t was the side pressura or the latter parts which threw up the extraa ordinary bowels or holdings of snow. At tha same time five successive falls occurred frond the same mountain on its other side in thd Zuge gorge. which is on the coach road from Davos to the Upper Engadine. The noise ot these joined forces with that of the DischS mathal and the combined result was very GUS rious. First, there a loud, dull roar which soon changed into a deafening thunder of ever-increasng volume, which again rose iu a weird sort of chromatic scale, mingling al last with a wild signing, almost a moan, aa of a thousand storm wraiths wailing for somd dread disaster. This curious phenomenon was doubtless due to the great displacement of atS mosphere caused in two valleys, the air from which rushed upward only to meet a simila1 wall of elected air. As the great avalancha rushed down the valley 1t flung up walls ot ramparts each side to a height of owed thirty feet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
AVALANCHE WENT UP HILL.
One of the Most Extraordinary Phe-
 nomena Ever Witnessed.
Wide World.

Wide World.
 The tremendous force and strange vagaries or the Alpine avalanches illustrated in an article by John Swaffham. The avalanche to which particular reference Is made by Swan- ham was seen by him in the valley of the Dischmathal in the Engadine a year ago The Dischmathal Is fairly broad valley, with well-wooded and not very steep sides It lies however, between mountains, on many of which there are large glaciers, and 1t was from one of these that the immense mass of snow, which caused such ruin originally fell. Gath ering impetus as it went, the avalanche pro- pine wods, through which it cut a road as clean though every tree had been felled flush with the ground by the of a miracu- lous woodman.
 nous one called the Scaetta. but 1t was from a smaller field on the Jatzhorn that the trou- ble came. It had been showing for about a week and the depth of new snow in the val ley was about ten or twelve feet, much more on the high peaks. Next came a warm spell of true April weather. The new snow set tied; i. e., grew compressed by Its own weight and the soft influence of the sun You are to remember that this new snow did not lie upon the earth. nor yet upon a bare rocky he'd IT av as it had fallen, a separate mass super- imposed upon the hard frozen crust of the last Winters fall. As 1t contracted from above fl naturally began to expand slightly on its un- stable base. The movement begun continued anu Nit NlipiS mass commenced to shift Ei- nally it came clean away. leaving a gasb of over mile long on the side of the Jatzhorn where it had parted from the main mass This gash was upward of fifteen feet deep and was plainly visible miles away from the bottom of the valley
 The fall was on such a scale that it swept everything before it down the valley sides Acres of pines of unknown age went down as easily as skittles and the giant moved down the valley with roar heard for miles away. and under a cloud of snowdust so thick as to become a vertahle fog through which nothing could be seen for many minutes. For weeks after every tree and rock within a large radius was shrOuded with a dirty covering of wet snow mingled with all manner of dust taken up by the fierce draught of the fall. Now an ordinary, well-behaved avalanche Is content to roll its troubled masses down. into the bed of valley, there to stay until the sun had effaced its last relics from the Sum-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
WILL KILL FATTED CALF.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and His Wife
 to Be Made Much of.

New York, July l6.-It is said on excellent authority, according to . World dispatch from Newport. R. l., that when Cornelius Wander bilt and his wife return from Europe they will come to Newport as the guests of his mother at The Breakers, and . series of mag niacent entertainments will be given to mark the conciliation of the differences which are said to have. existed in the family since young Cornelius married against his fathers wishes seven years ago.
 The younger brother, Alfred Gwynne, who was made head of the house by his fathers win. Is credited with bringing about the re- suit and 1t is said he has labored unceasingly to that end for years.
 That which paved the way more than any thing else the dangerous illness of Cor nelius last January, when he was near to deaths door for weeks from typhoid fever. For . long time there was little chance that the young man would survive. and this more than anything else brought mother and son to- gether.
 with the expectation that he would inherit the the rule among the Vanderbilts to make the eldest son the head of the family by giving him the most of the riches. Cornelius fell in love with Miss Grace Wilson His Rther was bitterly opposed to the match, and the most earnest pleadings of the young man could not move him.
 After the elder Vanderbilt's death it was found that he had cut of Cornelius with SSoo.- 900 in cash and trust fund of Sl .ooo. 900; while to Alfred Gwynne. the second son, was given nearly $50. GOO. 900. Cornelius forced Q settlement which gave him 60. 900, 900 in addition to the amount named in the will.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
NEW YORK TO PARIS.
Plan for . Railroad to Connect the
 Two Towns.

San Francisco. July I5.-M. Locqui Lobet, member of the Geographical Society, Is here He conceived the idea of building a trans Alaska-si railroad. and thereby affording an all-ran route from New York to Paris shift ing the commercial axis from the SueE canal to Behring Strait
 In i8o9 Lobet visited Alaska on scientific mission. and it was there he first thought of the great scheme that has since interested many wealthy men of Europe and resulted in the formation of a big company, which. he says. has pledged him ample funds to carry 1t out.
 He is now making tour of the world in the interest of this railroad scheme, and 1t is this motive that has brought him to San Francisco. In his proposed route over the American con- tinent much time is eliminated. The plan Is for a road across the United States from New York to San Francisco, thence northward through California, Oregon and Washington along the coast to Juneau, thence to Fort Cudahy, and thence to the most westerly point of Alaska; projecting into Behring Sea. Here a tunnel will connect the two matnands, and thence through Siberia to St. Petersburg. and then finally through Europe to Berlin and Paris.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

not only systematically robbed many of them who are now living, whose names are on the pension rolls, of the money do- mated from the State. but in many ln- stances he has actually stolen from the State the pension warrants sent out by the Auditor for persons supposed to be still living, but who had in fact been dead for months, and in many cases for years before some of the warrants were issued; Judge Whatley having purposely failed to report to the Auditor the death of any pensioner occurring in his County, in order that these pension warrants might continue to come into his hands and be by him fraudulently endorsed and proceeds thereof converted to his own use. Such intentional wrongful conver- sion, such fragrant violation of the laws of the State, such systematic robbery cannot be too strongly condemned.
 l append hereto a statement showing names of pensioners who have failed to receive their warrants, the numbers and amounts of same, and the years for which such warrants were issued, which, in the aggregate amount to $2O39.5S. This state ment is marked Exhibit A, and Is re- quested to be considered part of this re- port To make this investigation much time and labor have been required, which, I trust has not been in vain.
 The Sheriff, MT. W. D. Mayo, was prompt in summoning witnesses, and the witnesses fairly prompt in attendance. Some of the witnesses did not appear at all, but am assured 1t was because they lived in remote parts of the county, and had no way of getting to the county seat; besides in a number of cases they were physically unable to attend, even If they had conveyance, therefore, have no complaint to make of them.
 To Mir. R. w. Mellon, Clerk of the Cir cult Court, I am indebted for valuable assistance rendered me in writing out in full the testimony of witnesses examined, which written testimony signed in my presence by the several witnesses is also herewith submitted and asked to be con- sidered a part of this report.
 All of which is respectfully submitted.
 G. F. Sedberry, Assistant Examiner of Public Accounts Sworn to and subscribed before me on this, the 18th day of July, 1908.
 J. T. Cook,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
GAVE JURY oRAcuLAR PROOF.
Western Lawyer Cleared His Client
 hxx Giz,naln Ioxao.A.aAi...


 by a Simple Demons+-etion.
 Champ Clark, the Missouri Congressman and nterateur, relates an instance of re- sourcefulness on the part of a lawyer which acquitted. client of a serious charge. "I saw my old law partner, ex- Lieutenant Governor David A. Ball." said MT. Clark, gain a islander case once under difficult circumstances-as it were, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by a happy exercise of that wondrous common sense with which he is so law ishly endowed and without which in any man all other gifts are only vanity and vexation of spirit.
 Ball had for a client a wizen-faced, shambling. wild-eyed old tie chopper named Sam Barnes, slim as a racer and short of stature. A fat, stocky, 2O0-pound- CT named Zach Boothe had accused Barnes of stealing his bacon and had forced Barnes in his own cabin in the presence of his wife and children to hold out his foot for measurement to see If 1t would fit certain suspicious tracks.
 Barnes was poor as Jobs turkey, but Ball is a sort of heaven-appointed attor- ney general for the poor. They are al- ways with him, both at the court and at the polls. Consequently Barnes went to Ball with his bleeding heart and shat tered reputation straight as a bird could fly. Suit was promptly instituted against Boothe. The case came up for trial and poor Barnes began to bowl up as usual Ball unceremoniously jailed him in his back office for three days, leading him to court by the ear as policeman would a prisoner-but he kept him sober until vic tory perched upon their banner.
 "On the witness stand Boothe swore that the reason he knew that Barnes stole the meat was that the thief entered the smoke-house through a window 10 by 16 inches, where two by 10 panes had been broken out, and that Barnes was the only man in the neighborhood small enough to get through that hole.
 "The jury scowled on Barnes and smiled on Boothe, and Boothe beamed oleaginously on everybody. He metaphor icaliy patted himself on the back as a sure winner. But.a change came over the spirit of his dream very suddenly. Ball had heard that he was going to swear that way, was loaded for him and was laying for him.
 While Boothe was in the midst of his self-congratulatory grinning Ball yanked a window sash 10 by 16 from under the table and before Boothe, the court or any body else knew what he was up to he had slipped that sash over Boothe's head, and 1t dropped over his broad shoulders and rotund abdomen with fat capon lined to the floor.
 Then he asked juryman, who was 6 feet inches high, to Stand up, and he passed him through that sash. TThe de- monstration was complete and his triumph assured. He had furnished the jury what Othello demanded of Iago-'the ocular proof The jury caught on and trans ferred the smiles to Barnes and their scowls to Boothe. All the sheriffs ever commissioned couldn't have kept that crowd from cheering and Barnes was awarded substantial damages"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
MEN ARE ExrRAvAaANr, TOO.
Relation of the Vice Presidency to
 the Price of Women's Hats,
New York Times.


 New York Times.
 II doesn't pay to argue with a woman. :. he other night when I arrived at home I found that my wife had bought a new hat which may have fitted her head all right, but which was several sizes too large for my pocketbook My previous experiences should have taught me wisdom, taught me better than to discuss the matter, but the trials of that days busi- ness had made me irritable and felt like com blaming about something and so l naturally complained of my wifes extravagance She answered the charge by saying: You men are always charging us women with ex- travagance, but you never seem to think of your own failings in that line"
 T don't know what you mean" I replied. Well, I'll tell you. You men run this great and glorious country and you always have, and you are therefore, responsible for all it's weaknesses. Now what salary do you men pay the Vice President of the United States?' He receives Ss, 900 a year"
 Who Is the Vice-President now?'
 Well, there isn't any,
 Very good. There hasn't been any since President Mckinley was killed. has there?'' Well mo- I admitted reluctantly, because l could see that my better half had been read-- ing political science for purpose and that purpose was to get the better of me.
 There hasn't been any Vice-President for a year or two then?'
 I was forced to admit that such was the fact. And the country seems to get along all right without one?''
 But the President might die"
 ITO be sure. but the law places others in line of succession, SO that there would't be
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
ATTEMPT SELF REGENERATION.
Woman's Religious Zeal Prompts Her
 to Kill Herself.

St. Petersburg. July i5.-A local newspaper relates that young woman was found lying on the beach of the Gulf of Finland behind the Sergievo Monastery, twelve miles from this city. with terribly burned feet and legs. The unfortunate woman had on a monks cossack
 She said she had been reading religious books and had concluded that self-incineration was the only sure means of salvation. She attend ed religious services at the monastery, then calmly prepared her funeral pile. She was un- able to bear the pain of the flames. and at tempted to return home. but fell helpless and remained forty-eight hours where she had fallen before being found. Her life may be saved.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
NAVAL STATIONS AND TREATY.
Cuban Congress May Act Before its
 Adjournment.

Washington, July I5.-rhree days yet re- main in which the pending coalng stations and Isle of Pines treaties may yet be acted upon by the Cuban Congress This body was to have adjourned today, but MT. Squiers, the Ameri- can minister at Havana, cabled Secretary Hay that the House amended the resolution SO as to provide for adjournment next Saturday
 The minister is still hopeful of the ratihca- tion. But even if these treaties are not acted upon during the present session. in view of the fact that the Cuban Congress will reas- semble in the early Fall, there will still re- main an opportunity for ratification in Cuba before the American Congress reassembles and is ready to take up the treaties
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
A1abamians in Chicago.

Chicago, July 15.-Members and guesta of the Alabama Press Association to the number of 13O arrived here today and after few hours stop started for Toron- to. which is to be the next important stou in the excursion. The special train bear- ing the editors and their friends was three hours behnd their schedule. A tour of the downtown shopping district occupied the short period of time spent in the city. The party will visit Toronto Montreal and Quebec.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

on the question of the construction of the Hankow and Canton Railroad:4 Sheng has requested the Chinese Minister at Washington to defer his signature of the first mortgage bonds and the result is a deadlock. Sheng explains that his action is the outcome of personal objections to Mir. Gray, but well informed Chinese do not hesitate to express the belief that Sheng desires to substitute Belgian for American control of the construction of the railway.