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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-26
BIRMINGHAM TODAY
BLACK sox TO MEET THE RALLY
 HOGS.
Each Team Has Won Four Games and Rivalry Between Them is Great-Streit and Keenan
 to Pitch.
League Standing.
Games Yesterdav.

At Shreveport-Memphis, 6; Shreveport, At Little Rock-New Orleans, 0; Little Rock, l.
 At Nashville-Atlanta, 4; Nashville, 1.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-26
Games Today

At Montgomery-Birming and Mont gomery.
 At Nashviie-At.anta and Nashville. At Little Rock-New Orleans and Little Rock.
 At hreveport-M emphis and Shreve- port.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-26
American Association.

Milwaukee. 3; Minneapolis. g. Kansas City, 4: St. Paul. 4. Louisville. 5; Toledo, 1.
 Indianapolis, 5; Columbia, 4.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-26
Philadelphia, 3-5; Pittsburg. Al.

Philadelphia. June 25.-Pittsburgs win ming streak was broken in the second men on bases, Titus made home run hit. which gave the locals enough to win. Ten innings were required to decide the first game. Attendance, 5,900.
 First game R.H.E. Philadelphia. ... .0O10010o01-S 2 Pi.sburg.. .. 10 000 900 % "A 10 8
 Batteries-Sparks and Roth; Doheny and Phelps.
 Second game RHE. Pittsburg . .. 0001OOO0I 5 2
 Batteries-Mitchell and Doin; Vail and Phelps.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-26
Anniston. 4: Rome, 8.

Anniston. June -tSpecial)-In close and exciting game here today. Anniston defeated Rome. The feature of the game
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-26
Cincinnati, 5-11; New York, o-2

New York, June 25.-New York got only four scattered hits eff Hahn in the first game. while Cincinnati found McGinnity for fourteen. In the second game Phil lips and Taylor were the opposing twirl- CTS, and the later was batted freely, while Phillips was hit safely only five times. Attendance, $500.
 First game R.H. D. New York. e. ......0 0 o 0 o 0 co 2 Cincinnati. .. ....0 0 o 2 O01-5 fl 2
 Batteries-McGinnity and Bowerman; Hahn and Bergen.
 New York. .. ....o1OOOOol0-2 4 Cincinnati. .... 70 o 1 4 3 o 1-11 IS 2
 Batteries-Taylor and Warner; Phillips and Peitz.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-26

was the work of Steel on third for Annis- ton. Tn score by innings was:
 R.H.E. Anniston .. ... ..2O00 000002" "-4 [ 2 Rome ... e. .........O o 0 0 0-3 ; Batteries-Matthews and Gamble; Gib- son and Hardman. Attendance, 400.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
BUCKSH0TUSEDBYBLACKS
J, B. Mitchell, Jr., and Will
 Davis the Victims.
Murderers Pursued and Surrounded and the Men of Both Rs ces in
 the Vicinity Are Very Much Aroused.

Letohatchie, Oct 23.-(Special.)-J. B.. Mitchell, Jr., and his clerk, Will Davis, were shot from their horses and mortally wounded today by Fortune Ellis, or one of his sons, negroes. who used gun loaded with buckshot.
 Young Mitchell was in the mercantile business at Corrie, Ala, with his father, J. B. Mitchell, ST., who Is one of Lowndes County's most prominent citizens and a member of the Board of Revenue. Young Mitchell and Davis went to see the negro about five bales of cotton that the negro is said to have stolen. AS they ap- preached the house the negro came to the door and fired full load of buckshot at close range into each of the young men.
 Persued the Murderers.
 Tonight every man from this section of the country led by the sheriff and blood hounds are in pursuit of the negro.
 The latest advices from Corrie by tele- phone to Letohatchie are that young Mitchell and Davis cannot live, being shot through the intestines with buck shot by Fortune Ellis and his two sons. The negroes have been pursued and are surrounded.
 The whites and negroes are very much excited and more trouble may follow. The negroes will be lynched if captured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
MIR. SHAW IS SPITEFUL
HE DOES NOT LIKE JUDGE
 sOMERvILLE.
Not Probable However, That the Chairman of the Board If Ap-
 praisexs will Be Disturbed at By President.

Washington, Oct. z.-(SpeciaL) )-The prime mover against Judge somerville of Alabama, the chairman of the Board of Appraisers in New York. has been Secretary Shaw. MT. Shaw has all along raised most absurd objections to Judge Somerviila. and when the latter's article appeared in The North American Review treating the race question from the ma. tural Southern gentlemans viewpoint, Mir. Shaw, with fiendish glee, rushed to the President, tFiumphantly circulating Read that" The President read it and graveIy considered it. The fact that the President did read 1t and was supposed to be considering it. was not looked upon as favorable to Judge Somerville. but an examination of the law which created the Board of Ap- praiserS makes It altogether unlikely that the Alabanaian sin be removed or die- turbst3 The ate provides certain grounds Of removal from cause. not one of which could apply in this case. There Is no term. tenure being as in life judicial posi- tfons.
 Shaw's conduct toward the Board of Ap- praisers has all along been as though 1t was a part of the machinery of the Treas ury Department, over which he Is master instead of a tribunal to protect the in- terests of citizens as well as the Govern ment. MT. Shaw is very angry at Judge Somerville for presuming to differ from the administrations race policy and pass upon questions fretting his department.
 R. H. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
TO FIGHT BOIL WEEVIL
SECRETARY WILSON TO QUIT
 THE STUMP.
Government Experts Engaged in Breeding Cotton Plant Which Will Resist Pest Which Has
 Proved So Destructive.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-(SpeciaI. .)-The anti-boll weevil convention at Dallas Is looked forward to with much interest in the scientific branch of the Aericultnral Department. Secretary Wilson will. in a few days, quit the political stump in the West and take to the cotton field in Tex as determined to do all that he can to push fsn effective seanaf aigss agafnss the shominable pest of the planters.
 With Secretary Wilson at Dallas on the 9th of November, will be present at the convention Chief Entomologist Howard, Professor Galloway of the vegetable in- dustry bureau; Herman Webber of the plant breeding bureau, and several others.
 Perhaps the greatest encouragement" !" today, said Albert F. Woods of the plant industry bureau. will be contained in the reports or the breeding of resistent variety of cotton. MT. Webber is now in the held Investigating the results of the seasons work. What he writes me Is very cheering. Several of the selected varieties have withstood the weevil and while fields of cotton beside these were utterly destroyed, the governments se- lected variety is yielding a normal crop. Some of the selections made to resist the root rot have proved to be resistent also to the weevil and worm.
 W cDDCI Has dlSO DCOH DFcculIIB u secure an early ripening variety, since that seems to escape the pest. Originally the experiments were for the purpose of introducing the Egyptian cotton and by hybridizing it with other selected varie- ties to secure a strain which, possessing the superior qualities of the Egyptian cotton. would grow in our climate and soil. We have every confidence that this object has been practically achieved Mir. Webber has been working for several years to get a strain which will reproduce from season to season the qualities of fibre. size. shape and color which are de- sired. This is only accomplished by pa tient selection from year to year of the plants which have the proper oharacteris- tics and growing them apart from others. But this work has proved even more suc- cessful than was anticipated and in few months the department Is likely to have sor1e valuable results to announce
 ''The work of breeding a resistant strain to the pests which have broken out in Texas came later. We were successful several years ago in breeding a strain which saved the sea island cotton from the root rot and 1t is natural that the growers should look to us again in an emergency like this. They want the gcv- ernment to step in and stamp out the pest as it did the foot and mouth disease among cattle"
 R. H. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
PICKLES MIR. ROOSEVELT.
Delighted by Effect of Judge Jones's
 Appointment.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-(special)-The Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern ju- risdiction. who, yesterday. called at the White House, headed by Hon. James D. Richardson of Tennessee, now the most exalted Mason in the world, are talking today of the incidents of their reception. When the leading Mason of Alabama, George F. Moore of Montgomery, was in- troduced. the President. greeting him, cordially asked if he knew Judge Thomas G. Jones of the Federal Court in Ala. bama. MT. Moore assured the President of his familiar acquaintance with the Judge, whereupon MT. Roosevelt asked many questions concerning the feeling in Alabama on this particular appointment which he had made.
 Mir. Moore's answers appeared to de- light the President. and he said so with characteristic fervor of emphasis.
 There is no doubt that MT. Roosevelt re- gards his appointment of Judge Jones as one of the happiest things he has done for the South, and he likes to hear that 1t has pleased the people interested
 R. H. Watkins
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
TRIAL OF STERN.
Sullivan Testifies for the
 Government,

Government.
 Washington, Oct. 23.-The preliminary hearing in the case of Leopold J. Stern. the Baltimore contractor. accused in col fusion with August w. Machen, the dis missed head of the free delivery postal service, of receiving pay for straps which he never furnished under the contract for supplying the government satchels for rural mail carriers, was resumed today in the policy court
 Stern was extradited from Canada where he was arrested on warrants charging false pretenses.
 Postofice Inspector Sullivan today testi- fled that although under the contract was to furnish his own strips with the satch- els, Stern told him last April that the Department furnished him free with the Lamb straps and was of the'opinion then that he was to use no other strap thar that furnished to him by the government. The witness said that last May Stern told him he had been relieved of the require- ment to supply the straps because of the increase in the price of leather due to the Spanish war The inspector said he had unsuccessfully searched the Departments 8 books for any letter waving this require ment.
 Inspector Sullivan testified that he and Inspector Simons were detailed last April to make what was known as strap investigation, which concerned not only Stern, but John Doyle and Company, and the Postal Device ad Lock Company. both of New York. He said Stern stated that he had not been paid for the lamb straps, but that they had been furnished him by the Postotfice Department. The witness said that on May 21, last, Stern told him he had been relieved from fur nishing straps by Perry Heath, then First Assistant Postmaster General.
 The Inspector also declared that whi e Stern's contract was not signed until June r. an order had gone out on June l6. for 5000 lamb straps to bs sent to his fac tory in Baltimore Adjourned until to- morrow,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
MUST EXECUTE ORDERS.
Brokers Are Held Responsible t
 Their Clients.

New York, Oct 2S.-A decision just rendered by Judge Woodward fin the ap- pellate division of the Supreme Court, has caused considerable agitation among stock exchange brokers. The complain ant in the case sought to recover a bal ance due on an account and claimed that after having notified the broker not to invest this balance, he bought stocks and used the money as margin. The plaintiff was a woman and acted as her sisters agent
 In ruling for the plaintiff, Judge Wood ward declared that brokers must obey instructions from their clients or stand responsible for money lost on margins.
 It is also held that discretionary or ders" Is legal despite the rules of the ex- change which forbids such transactions; that rules of the exchange are not bind ing on innocent third parties, and that brokers are responsible for the action of their clerks when instructions are mis- understood. and that the plea of mis- is not a good defense.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
FIGHT WITH ROBBERS.
Officers and Post ofilce Thieves Have
 Battle.

Battle.
 Ishpeming. Mich, Oct. 2s.-After a des- perate struggle with alleged robbers of licemen wounded and captured two of the trio. on a train which arrived here today. At midnight Marshal Fandrem was ad- vised by the Superior Chief of Police that three men suspected of the postoffice rob- bery were on the train and that the con- ductor would identify them. The mar shall and five officers went to West Ish- peming where the train was boarded. The suspects were on the alert, and two of them began firing at the officers at the rear end of the train as soon as they ent- cred.
 Meanwhile Policeman Collins, in charge of the squad, and his assistants, had entered the front of the car. All were driven back by two of the desperadoes who threatened to shoot if they advanc- ed. Collins and his men retreated. ~
 Finding the rear door of the car block ed. the robbers ran to the front. where they again met Collins. One of them the officer fired first, wounding his man in the hand. He threw up his hands and pleaded for his life.
 In the meantime shots were being ex- changed between Fandrem and the other alleged robber. A shot in his back caused the latter to surrender. The third sus- pect escaped. Officers are now searching the woods for him. The prisoners wounds are not serious. About $500 was found in the pockets of the two men. ..--. .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
TUsKEaEE GETS SHARE.
Will of Miss Ropes Leaves Money to
 Negro School.


 Salem, Nass.. Oct. 2S.-A sum approxi- mating H.oOOOOO ultimately is to reach a number of public and charitable institu- tions in various parts of the country un- der the terms of the will of Miss Mary P. Ropes of Salem who died here re- gently.
 The document was made public today and provides that the income from all her property, amounting to one million dol lars. shall go to her sister. Eliza O. Ropes during her life. After the sisters death the property is to be divided among public institutions and charities in Salem and other Massachusetts cities, in Ohio, Washington, D. C., and other places. Harvard University is given a block of railroad stock to found the Nathaniel Ropes chair of political economy in hon or of Miss Hopes father, also stocks and bonds to found the Nathaniel Ropes, Jr., scholarship.
 Tuskegee Institute. Carlisle Indian School, and Berea College, Berea, Ky, are to receive small amounts. The insti- tutions remembered in Ohio and at Wash ington. D. C., are mainly Swedenborgian
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
THE DEFENSE
 N, SCHWAB Indicy d by Lawyers
 E Questions. WHOLE SCHEME A FAILURE Could Not Succeed Under Sheld0n's Plan. Even Had the $2, ,oo0, 900 Been Rais- ed, It Will Be contended, the
 Shipbuilding Trust Was Impracticable.
SCHEME A FAILURE

New York, Oct 2.-The nature of the defence which Charles M. Schwab will make to the charges that have been made against him in connection with the finan- cial affairs of the wrecked United States Shipbuilding Company, was sharply out lined during the latter part of the hear ing before Commissioner Oliphant late today.
 Louis Nixon was still on the stand, and. under cross-examination by w. D. Gath- rie. counsel for Mir. Schwab. There was an effort to show that the corporation would not have succeeded even if the a. 0O0ooO promised under Sheldon's plan of reorganization had been made availabls and 1t could not have continued its ex- istence even if 1t had received the much sought for $900,000, which, 1t Is alleged, was wrongfully withheld by the Betnle- hem Company.
 M. Guthrie showed by Mir. Nixon that the $900,0o0 would have been absorbed without relieving the company of all the financial embarrassment which Is suffer- cd. and then asked if 1t would have been honest to the other creditors if the inter. est charges account of bonds had been paid on July l, the date of the crisis in the affairs of the concern.
 The witness was asked a number of NeSSlAchS oy 14E. GuIHE1o, SnOWl0& tle worth and general characteristics of the Bethlehem plant He said that it was one of the greatest properties of the kind in the country, and that 1t was of great value to the shipbuilding combine. With the Bethlehem plant. the shipbuilding company could build. arm and armor a battieship, distinction possessed by no other shipbuilding company in the world
 Over objections of Mir. Untermeyer, Mir Nixon testified that during the first year that Bethlehem was in the combination, 1t earned upwards of g. 900, ,o0o He be- heved It's earnings would increase, but said any estimate by him in figures of the expected increase would be surmise.
 At the request of MT. Guthrie, the witt ness told of the adverse conditions in the shiphaildlng basifszs thar in theF~iast year or two had led many of the ship yards to bankruptcy. He gave increased cost of labor and labor troubles and in- creased cost of materials, and general yard expenses as the chief causes of trouble.
 The examination of MT. Nixon was not concluded and will be resumed at the next hearing. which is set for a week from Monday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
Marcum May be Manager.

Mexico City. Oct. 2S.-It is understood that when the Mexican National and the Interoceanic Roads are merged. accord- ing to arrangements now actively under way, Walter Marcum, manager of the Mexican Southern Railway. who has made an excellent record will be assist ant general manager in direct represen- tation of the government as the heaviest shareholder in the consolidated lines. It is believed that President Roul of the Mexican National will be president of the consolidated companies and that Vice President and General Manager Brown of the Mexican National will be general manager of the new system
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
Mime. Reiane's Divorce Case.

Paris. Oct. 23.-Preliminary to the hear ings of the divorce suit brought by Ma dame Rejane against her husband, M. Po- rel, her manager and director of the Vaudeville theater, and counter suit, brought by M. Forel against Mime. Re- jane. the couple appeared before Judge Ditte. president of the tribunal of first instance, to-day for the usual Judicial eff fort to effect a reconciliation. Only a few minutes were necessary to show the judge that neither of the parties was inclined to- a reconciliation, and at the end Of half an hour they left.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
BALFoUR's BAD FAITH.
Accusation Against Premier by
 George Hamilton.

George Hamilton.
 London, Oct. 3.-In an address to his constituents at Ealing, Lord George Ham, ilton, late Secretary of State for India, has given for the first time his version of the recent Cabinet resignadons. He said that at the Cabinet meeting on the last day of the parliamentary session, Premier Balfour prodpced -rregrapl which included preferential tartffs and the taxation of food. The Cabinet ad- journed that day without reaching de- cision in the matter. It met again on September 14 and continued the same dis cussion. After this meeting Lord Bal four then Secretary for Scotland c. T. Ritchie, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. and he agreed to place their resignations in the hands of the Duke of Devonshire, then Lord President of the Council, who would present them with his own. It was not until September Is that Lord Hamil- ton learned of Colonial Secretary Cham berlain's resignation and that the Duke of Devonshire had retained his office.
 He declared that Premier Balfour had treated the members of the Cabinet other than the Duke of Devonshire unfairly in communicating to the Duke the news he withheld from the remainder of the mem hers, He said also that he would be will ling to resign at any time on the slightest suggestion from MT. Balfour. but he re- sented the method in which the free trade members had been busted from the Cab inet.
 With regard to the general fiscal policy Lord George Hamilton declared himself a free trader with limitations. He also said that he believed thoroughly in retaliation which would give the country better chance of negotiation for reciprocity treaties. He thought no member of the Cabinet would have resigned on such a proposition, but that had not been the question presented to them. The speaker also expressed the conviction that the present propaganda was protection pure and simple
 The fiscal campaign continues with un- abated vigor. Among the speakers last night were Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- man and Sir Edward Grey both of whom said that protection would result in an in crease in the prices and great hardship to the working classes.
 Sir Edward Grey urged the formation of an imperial council. with representatives from India. the crown and self-governing colonies, empowered to advise the Gov ernment on imperial affairs, and who would prevent the converting of imperial into party questions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
KRATz WILL RETURN.
Mexico Will Surrender Him as Act
 of Cornitv,

VI OOlu1LYs
 Washington, Oct. 23.--The State Depart ment has arranged for the return from Mexico to St. Louis for trial of the alleged boodler, Charles J. Kratz.
 The constitution of Mexico. making ft impossible to surrender fugitives from this country charged with bribery com mitted prior to the negotiation of the new extradition treaty, the State Department has called upon the Mexican Government to surrender Kratz as an act of comity, a very unusual preceding on the part of the United States Government. Mexico has a law allowing fugitives to be sur- rendered under such a call, even when their alleged crimes are not extraditable under treaty.
 The only requirement. Is that the nation seeking the surrender of such a fugitive shall engage to grant any similar request coming from Mexico. The State Depart ment is awaiting to hear further from Governor Dockery of Missouri, before is suing the final papers accrediting Mis- souTi agents with authority to take pos-' session of the person of Kratz, who is now in Guadalajara, Mexico
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
THE BANKERS ADJOURN
NEW OFFICERS ARE INDUCED
 INTO OFFICE.
W. H. Manley of Birmingham Elect ed as the Vice President For Alabama-Treasurer Ellis
 n. Roberts Speaks.

San Francisco, Got. 2.-The twenty ninth annual convention of the American Bankers Association ended today with the installation of the new officers and the presentation to the retiring presiden. +. Caldwell Hardy of. a beautiful silver punch bowl. The eeiection of 2 city Tor che convention Of 19Of will be made by the executive committee early next year. Invieations were received from Atlantic City and New York city.
 J. B. Finley, president of the Fifth National Bank of Pittsburg. read paper on tho "Education of Bank Clerks" in which he described the bureau of educa- tion and the American institution of bank clerks. Mr. Ffnlay urged closer af- filiation of the American Association and the institute and recommended the ap- pointment of i've trustees who will hold yearly examinations and issue bank clerks certificates. A report was pre- sented fro mthe executive council on the report made by the committee on Uniform Currency, read earlier in the session. The council presented his resolution:
 Resolved. That the report of the Cur rency Committee appointed under resolu- ton passed at the last annual conven- ton of American Bankers Association, held at New Orleans, be adopted and that the president of this association appoint 0 committee Of three for the purpose of urging legislation along these lines."
 Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of the United States delivered a speech on '~The effects of tho inflow of gold'' and he was heartily aplauded when he had concluded A vote of thanks was also passed, testifying to the appreciation of the convention.
 Vice-presidents were chosen for the several States, including the following:
 Alabama, W. H. Maniey. Birmingham: Florida. J. N. Dismukes, St. Augustine; Georgia, John M. Hogan. Savannah; Louisiana. W. IT. Rogers. New Orleans; Mississippi, B. W. Grifith, Vicksburg; North Carolina. J. Elwood Cox, High Point; South Carolina, F. J. Ficken, Charleston; Tennessee, c. B. Preston, Chattanooga; Texas. Edwin Chamberlain, San Antonio.