The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-29
NEW CRACKER FACTORY.
Capitalists in Columbus Willing to Pu
 Tn Money.

Cnpita1ists in Columbus Willing to Put
 Up Money.
 Columbus. Ga, Sept. S.-(SpecialO Tt is reported that Columbus IS soon to have a $100000 candy and cracker factory. A we'll known business man who has considerable capital Is willing to put his money in the enterprise and 1t Is said that he Is interesting others to invest with him. The opening for factory of this character is regarded as 2 good one.
 Giddens Acquitted.
 At Scale. Ala. yesterday .'Pute" Cid dens of Girard, was found not guilty of murder in the second degree, the jury bringing in this verdict after be-
 ing out less than an hour Giddens.
 while acting as a special officer of the Girard street fair last year. shot and
 killed Dudley Pittman. a well known young man of that town. He claimed that the young man was making m assault upon him at that time and that
 his life was in danger. The friends of
 Pittman claimed that the shooting was
 unjustifiable.
 Educational Rally. A big educational rally is to be held In Columbus at an early date, the oh ject being to stimulate enthusiasm on the subject of local school taxation. A special effort will be made to have g.
 large attendance of the patrons of the County schools of Muscogee County.
 Many of the people in the County fa- vor supplementing the regular schoo, tax by local taxation. Senator E. II .
 McMichael of Marion County will proh, ably be one of the speakers. Boy Uses Knife. Seeing that young boy was being | imposed upon by Leila Jackson. a col | ored girl 14 years old, Herbert welch. | a little white boy 12 years old, drew out his knife and cut the girl in threo | places. The blade made two slight wounds in the arm and also inflicted a l painful injury in the shoulder, the | knife cutting through to the bone. In | the difficulty which occurred in Girard l at the end of the upper river bridge | the girl who had previously struck the l smaller boy several times with an um- | brella, wielded the same weapon in Q
 vigorous manner, striking young | Welch repeatedly.
 Arm Was Broken. Miss Fannie Illges. the young daugh- ter of Mir. and Mrs. A. Illges, was | thrown from a buggy at the corner of l Broad and Dillingham; Streets las, night with the result that her left arn, | was broken and dislocated at the cl- bow. She and Mir. Marshall Morton
 were out driving. In making a sharp | turn the buggy wheel struck a piece of steel rail sunk Into the earth to ore | vent the vehicles from crossing the | sidewalk, with the result that the pug KY was nearly overturned and both
 were thrown out. MT. Morton was uninjured.
 Good Cotton Receipts. Columbus's cotton receipts today | passed the 15,000 bale mark for the | new season. The local warehouse
 stock Is between five and six thousand bales.
 4 Girard Wedding. Mir. I. K. Roberts and Mrs. Emma
 McCutcheon, both we'll known people
 of Girard. Ala, were married last night at the parsonage of the First Baptist Church of this city. Rev. F. s. Railey off1ciating. The ceremony was rather : unexpected and produced a ripple in | social circles in that city. T. E. Golden, Chairman of the Go. | lumbus Water Commission, which was appointed by the City Council to con struct a system of municipal water
 works, has resigned from the board His successor will be elected at the next meeting of the Council. Mir. Col den does not discuss for publication his resignation. Recently the board bas been criticised considerably in certain | quarters because of its disinclination to let the contract for building the new
 water works until the master appoint ed by the Federal Court had submitted his report in the Columbus water works case.