The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-19
Advertiser Bureau,


 The storm and cold wave, predicted for Mobile Saturday evening and yesterday. failed to materialize. Yesterday in this city was most ideal day, the sun shin- ing brightly and not cloud, after the sunrise hour marking the sky. Saturday afternoon at Vinegar Bend, the weather god was not so kind. At 40 D. m. the heaviest fall of hail ever known in that vicinity came down and in twenty min- utes the ground was covered with Jumps of ice. Winter vegetation was complete ly annihilated.
 There is much activity in marine cir cles The German steamship Heinfeid arrived up yesterday from Rotterdam. via Cardiff. Wales. in ballast, for cargo. The Danish steamship Harld, from Car diff. Wales arrives up last evening for a cargo.
 The Norwegian steamship Mercator. with 200 crates of pineapples, arrived up last night from Havana.
 The Italian bark Acostino, from Genoa, this morning for a cargo
 The Norwegian steamship Spero arrived in port this morning from Belize with 14.OOO punches bananas and 5000 cocoa nuts >i
 The Alabama River packet Kettle Quill arrived down last night from Selma with 139 bales cotton, 44N slaves, 1888 sacks
  senger list. She leaves tomorrow night on her regular trip for the Central City.
 The Mobile Carnival Association is greatly elated over the reports of the Executive and Finance Committees. The subscription list has now passed the $7,OOO mark and it is predicted that, ere the Mardi Gras festivities occur the $100O mark will have been reached.
 The parades vii be stupendous and the illuminations on grand scale. Already the river packets are receiving orders for berths from up-country patrons for them selves and famihes. and every steamboat plying the Alabama and Bigbee Rivers will be put in service for the occasion. The railroads have announced the usual rates and, despite the fact that Shrove Tuesday Is yet some distance off, many visitors from North are already here. The entire program will be prepared, possibly, this week and duly announced.
 A fishirg party. comprising Thomas St. John, J. J. Monahan, C. H. Owen of Mo- bile, James P. Monahan of Chicago and Joseph Stone of New Orleans, went to Bayou Sara. few miles north of Mo- bile, Saturday in Mir St. Johns launch, Estejoy. They had guns, expecting to kill squirrels. They returned this morn ing, bringing eight squirrels about eighty pounds of fresh water fish and two deer. The latter were killed by the Chcagoan and Mir Owen of Mobile. The latter is accused of having had Buck Ague" and to have lost his gun overheard in fifteen feet of water after killing his deer. He charges that the entire party had the disease and tippied the boat, thereby caus- ing the loss of the gun.
 John Lewis. white boy. looking to be about 10 years of age was picked up late Saturday night at the depot by police men and sent to headquarters Here he stated that he was from Montgomery, his mother being Mrs. Hattie Lewis of No, 420 Martha Street. Mrs. Lewis was noti- fled yesterday and Chief Case received a telegram asking that he hold the boy for her.
 Seen by your representative this morn ing the lad stated that he and Walter Boyd, another small boy of Montgomery. living on Heron Street, entered an empty refrigerator car in the Louisville and Nashville yards in Montgomery Friday night and came to Mobile He and Boyd separated and he could not say where his companion had gone. The little fellow expressed anxiety as to his fate and stated that he was anxious to get hack home.
 7 News was received here tonight of t1e death in Cincinnati of Mrs. Lena Low head, daughter of Mrs. Louise Gratz of this city She was native of Mobile but removed to Cincinnati after her mar riage Besides her mother she leaves sev eral brothers and sisters and other rela- tives here. The remains will be brought to Mobile for interment.
 News was received here this morning from J. O, Thompson, one of the Repub. 1cian referees for Alabama, in a telegram