The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-07
IA BOY BADLY WOUNDED
SELMA LAD Is SHOT BY HIS
EiGht-Year-old Child Did not Know That Weapon Was Loaded, and
 Perhaps Mortal Injury is
 the Result.
Advertiser Bureau.

| Advertiser Bureau, ] Selma, Sept 6. While playing with a loaded shot gun this afternoon. Sam ritz, an S. year-old boy shot his brother. Jos Fritz. aged 10. at close range, and tht boys right shoulder was torn entirely off. The child found the gun in the house and did not know 1t was loaded He pointed it directly at his brother and pulled the trigger. The children, parents live at the Esteile Cotton Mills. near Selma, and were not al home at the time the accident occurred A physician was called in and rend- | cred every assistance possible. The boy Is in a very critical condition and will hardly recover The brother who l did the shooting is prostrated with grief and is very i'll from the effects of the tragedy.
 A negro, Will Johnson. who was sentenced to hang for murdering a Creole woman in Selma in the latter eighties, and escaped from the Dallas County jail thirty-six hours before the hour set for execution, has been dis covered in Denver, Col. After escap- ing from the Dallas County jail here the negro worked down to Mobile on an old raft and caught fruit steamer there bound for Bluefelds. He took part in several revolutions in the va rious South and Central American re- publics. Johnson returned to this country last May and remained in Texas until a month ago when he went | to Denver and there called on for mer Selma woman and told her of his crime and his escape, declaring that he could not resist speaking to fa- miliar face even if 1t led to his arrest and return to Alabama. The woman did not betray him, but a newspaper in Denver got the story and the detec- tives are now keeping the negro under strict surveillance pending authentic information and legal papers from Sell ma on Governor Peabody of Colorado for the deliverey of the prisoner. The news reached Selma through a Denver special printed in an Atlanta paper.
 Farmers in adjoining counties that have visited Selma during the past few days bring the news that the boil worms are destroying the cotton by the acres every day and that the entire crop will be destroyed unless some way Is discovered to rid the plant of the destructive pests. Joseph B. Dudley of Lowndes County was a Selma visitor 
 in that county has almost been de- stroyed by the boil worms.
 J. A. Minter. County Commissioner has received a letter from W. l.. Spoon | of Burlington, N. C., the governments expert road supervisor, assigned to the Southern States. MT. Spoon notified Mir. Minter that he will shortly come to Dallas County to investigate the roads in this section.
 P J. Kelly circulating manager oi The Montgomery Advertiser, was . Selma visitor today. Mir. Kelly came over to arrange for new quarters fol | the news and circulation bureaus oi The Advertiser The new quarter! will be located on Water Street.
 Joseph Brannon, the Superintendent of Construction of the Bell Telephon, Company for this division, arrived il the city today with corps of linemer and will begin at once work to mak' extensive Improvements in the loca telephone exchange.
 F. T. Radford, superintendent of tn, Estelle Cotton Mills. has rendered hi resignation and will leave within fortnight for Stonewall, Miss, whert he will accept a similar position.
 Captain Lamb. of the local Salvation Army, has been transferred to New Or leans and his successor. Captain Rob son arrived in Selma today.
 | Rev. J. G. Praigg and Professor J E. Witherspoon, who will have charg of the new Presbyterian school fl Selma, arrived in the city today.
 Miss Mary Gait entertained a numbe of her friends at cards tonight in homo of her guest, Miss Louise Strudwicl of Demopolis.
 Mir. and Mrs John Seymore left to day for St. Louis to visit the exposition
 Miss Kathleen Brislin left today fo Winston Salem, N. C.. to enter schoo
 Mrs J. W. Hunter will leave withi few days to visit the fair.
 The city officials will move into tn new city building October l. ; Lloyd Harrison has gone to Louis
 vile, Ky, to visit friends.
 Miss Catherine Smith is visiting re latives in Greensboro.