The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-27
C. '. B0CACKI, Phone sao. s4 Commerce st
Phone a30.
THROUGH TRAINS.
The l.. and N. Expects to Use Their
 New Track Soon.
S4 Commerce St

The L. and N. Expects to Use Their
 New Track Soon.
 Gadsden, May 26.-The Louisville and Nashville Railroad expects to run through trains from Birmingham, Bessemer and Ensley to Gadsden just as soon as the Altoona branch of the Louisville and Nashville is completed, which will not be very long now, as there are several hundred laborers at work on this branch and 1t Is matter of how quick the tunnel can be conn pleted when the through trains are put on. The Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company and the Alabama Steel and Wire Company will ship great quantities of coal, coke and iron and the manufactured article, while the Alabama Steel and Wire Company will ship steel and pig iron
 from the Gadsden plants to the steel and rod mill at Ensley.
 The Board of County Commissioners
 have decided to consolidate their two good roads equipments and place them
 in the charge of one competent man
 and this will give them two scrapes, two blows and ten men and twenty mules. They expect to commence work on the first of June In the Fourth
 district and will work one month in that district and on such roads as the commissioner of that district desig- mates. After completing the roads of
 that district the equipment will then
 move to the Third district and work
 month and so on until the county is covered.
 The Gadsden Liquor Company as agents for the Christian Moerlein
 Company of Cincinnati. have com
 menced the erection of a large cold | storage plant on the Southern Rail- | road in this city.
 Jake Sharpton, a 16-year- -old boy of Alabama City, is in the county jail on
 the charge of shooting J. R. Nichols. who Is a brakeman on the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis road be- | tween Gadsden and GuntersviIle
 Sharpton had been In the habit of | swinging on the train as 1t passed | through Alabama City. and Nichols had
 told the boy to keep of, which did no good, and finally he was put off one
 day by the brakeman. Tuesday as the | train passed through Alabama City, | the boy, in company with several oth- CTS of his age, was standing near the track, and as the train passed Sharp
 ton took deliberate aim at Nichols and fired. the ball entering his left arm, breaking the bone and causing great
 loss of blood. The wound was dressed and the boy arrested.
 City Court has been in session this
 week and several convictions have
 been had and the convict force has been increased. Will Patterson for grand larceny, was given twelve
 months for the offense. and 172 days for cost. Will Griffin for grand lar ceny, was given twelve months for
 the offense and 1855 days for cost. Clay Womack died at his home in Hokes Bluff yesterday after a long ill., | ness. Mir. Womack has been a great sufferer from asthma all his life which finally ran into consumption and after | several months illness death resulted. The Junior Order of Mechanics of
 this city on last Sunday presented
 the Mount Carmel Baptist Church near
 the city with fine Bible. This church was recently destroyed by fire, and all the song books, Bible, etc, were destroyed.
 At the recent meeting of the Gads- den district conference of the Metho- dist Church in Springville, Rev. Nor l ton, who has charge of the superannu- ate home movement, was present and presented his cause. and a neat sum | was subscribed. Dr. Sam Tatum of Center, was present and very pener- ously donated a house and lot already
 TOT occupancy at Center, which was | accepted. This is one of the most lib- | eral donations yet made for the care | of the broken down ministers of the North Alabama conference The next district conference will meet at Center by invitation of Dr. Tatum, who Is | one of the best men in that countv Little Luther Marbut. a bright little girl of eighteen months, died at the home of her parents in Reaves Beat eight miles east of Gadsden, yesterday
 rom an attack of scarlet fever. It is said there were a few others exnosoJ
 to the child during sickness and a spread of the disease is feared.
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