The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-20

this city today closed contracts with both companies to furnish their ves- | sels with Alabama coal. The two con- | tracts call for an aggregate of 75,O0o | tons of coal and Alabama coal mines will furnish the fuel.
 | Harry Sossaman returned today from | New Orleans, having closed the con | tract with the United Fruit Company which has vessels entering there as well as at this port and, soon after ar. irving he closed the deal with the Ed has vessels entering at this port. New Orleans and Galveston.
 The. Gulf City Realty Company was | organized in this city yesterday. the | Thomas F Costello. John A. Stikes ". A. Shriner and B. T. Dulaney and K. ID. Byrne, agent. The company purposes doing a general realty busi. ness in this city with a capital of $100,. o0O. of which $29,650 Is paid in. The ofhcers are Robert DeVane. President Thomas F. Costello, Vice. President "; A. Shriner, Secretary and John A Stikes. Treasurer.
 As an evidence of the fact that Mo- piles efforts to regain her former pres- ss,,roa slge as oS,o a cotton port. the following cotton exchange. speak out:
 Receipts today to noon, 2,s47 bales: s1nce sns taa september saS, l. l2s.ts7. against
 o'I'o ldSt year exports since Septem- oer heT l to last night, 74,S45. against 6I.- a90 last year; on hand last night, 52,- SiZ. against 39.470 last year. The Mo olie; Jackson and Kansas City Rail Tn Alabama and Mississippi, comes for ward to date for the season since Ssp- SSeemper l., with 3,2S7 bales as against on pales last year. Members of the shown upon the board.
 Following is the announced commit tees to serve on the occasion of the Joy in aTrelperssry Tnmeessryya of the knights of evening, November 24, at S:sO o'cloek' ' ., Reception (white badges)-Joseph T' Moian MMciAleer, General Chairman; James II. Siegert, Phillip l.. Muscat, John c. Gnodman.
 Society Cred badges)-Louis Kor- nlcker, General Chairman; James Pat Hahn. William H. HeImer.
 Floor (gold ges)-Members in
 The following notice has been is- sued relative to the ball: Guests not m m evening attire will be admitted to the galleries only"
 Colonel W. D. stratton, Chairman of the Executive Committed President Byrd Robinson and General Manaxer Dewey of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad, are expected to trip of inspection of the roadway. Ru- nor mas It that there will be a change or management of the road in the very near near future but this coul5 not be yer ihed tonight.
 Marriage licenses were issued out of the Probate Court to white couples dur ing the past week as follows:
 solomon Snyder to Ollie Todd. Ed NJ Ennis tO Rprnu6atta l. Hopper to Ella Sherman Inglass, jim Chestnut to Annie Ard. Jacob K. Hoffman to Carrie H. Discher, Henry smith to Margaret E. Boykin, Alfred O. Smith to Annie C. D. Going
 Last night at Plateau. Lazarus and Henry Steiner, brothers, got into an al- tercation with Robert Taylor. The lat ter had, so the brothers allege. drawn a knlle and was attempting to cut them. One of the brothers drew a pis- tol and shot Taylor In the thigh. The two brothers were arrested and placed in the county jail.
 This afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. H. Clarke Regent, the Daughters or the American Revolution. met for the purpose of electing delegates to the State Convention. Miss Metta thompson was elected delegate and Mrs. Greenwood Ligon, alternate. The Daughters of Alabama will meet here DGSSulpeE l.
 At St. Stephens yesterday, Ira Car ter. the negro who this summer killed Conductor Askew of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad on an excursion train at Yellow Pine, Ala, w2S convicted and gwen the death penalty. Henry Car ter. his brother. was given ten years for complicity.
 In the City Court today, Hon. o. J. Semmes, presiding Tom Smith and Son Leafy, two negroes. indicted for mur- der. pleaded guilty to murder and ac- cepted fifteen and ten years respec- lively in the State penitentiary.
 Mrs. Marjorie Reed of Idol, Ill, died last night at Citronelle. She was 25 years old, the wife of J. R. Reed and had come South in search of health. The remains were taken to Idol to. night for interment.
 Gus Griffin, who the past week fell from a scaffolding on a building be-