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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
A JURY IS HUNG UP
CANNOT AGREE ON CASE OF WILL
TOLLIVER.
He is a Negro hoy Accused of Highway
RObbery--John Candy to Serve
Twenty-Five Years for
Murder.

At IL o'clock last night the Jury in
the City Court of Montgomery which
heard the evidence and the argument
in the case of viii Tolliver, a negro
boy indicted for highway robbery. were
disagreed and the Jurors had gone to
sleep.
ToIliver and Shad Dean, another
negro boy were indicted for holding up
J. J. Boyd white man on Bell Street
in January and robbing him of $50. Mr.
Boyd was rendered unconscious by a
blow on the head. When he recovered
he was in a stable and the boys were
rifing his pockets They took his
money and ran off. Subsequently they
were arrested and were identified by
Mr.. Boyd.
A severance was granted in the two
cases and Dean was tried yesterday
morning. 1t did not take the jury
long to find verdict of guilty against
Dean and his punishment was fixed at
fifteen years in the penitentiary.
The trial of Deans companion Toll
liver. dragged along throughout the
afternoon and four speeches were made
to the jury by the lawyers. 1t was
nearly o'clock when Judge Thomas
charged the jury and they filed into
the jury room.
Late last night the bailiff said no
verdict had been reached. The jurors
slept soundly at the court house and
Tclliver slept just as soundly across
the street at the county Jail.
John Candy demented negro yes-
terday morning entered a plea of guilty
to murder in the second degree and
the jury fixed his punishment at
twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
Candy. In a fit of dementia Slip
ped up behind Davis Williams an aged
negro. afflicted with paralysis, as he
sat on the banks of CatOma Creek about
two months ago and struck him with
a heavy piece of timber. williams
died soon after the blow was struck.
In accepting the plea of guilty Soil
citor Dent said he had satisfied him
self that Candy was not responsible
for his actions.
Tho trial of Patsy Mitchell, a ueeress
charged with arson and Tim Simmons
accused of murder are set for TO-DAY
Simmons shot and killed Titus
Washington a negro in "a Southwest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
Court mt CuIIman.

Cullman. Aug. 3.--(Special. Judge
D. w. Speake. the newly appointed
Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit,
has been holding the August term of
the Cullman Circuit Court here this
week. His charge TO the grand Jury
last Monday morning was a very able
one and was highly commended by the
members of the bar and all who heard
1t. An unusually heavy docket has
been cleared up in three days with
the exception of one case. which will
be tried tomorrow morning
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
MONTGOMERY saloon about four months


An attachment was levied yesterday
by Sheriff Waller on $4,000 feet OF
lumber owned by the Alabama Rift
Flooring Company in behalf Of Car
michael and Gissendaner. who filed suit
in the Civil Division of the city Court
to recover $534.46 from the Flooring
Company.
Judge ]. N. Carmichael, President
Of the State Convict Board is men,
Der of the firm.
J. w. McNeill also filed suit against
the Rift Flooring Company for 5000.
naming the Aetna Fire Insurance Com
pany as garnishee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
TALKED OF THROWING BOMB.


Pittsfield. Mass, Aug. 3.--Lenox has
been much alarmed over the appear
ance of deranged man at the country
residence of the British ambassador.
Sir Mortimer Durand. The stranger
asked for money, He made a harangue
when refused and said he admired the
assassin of Minister Won Plehve and
that some day he would throw a bomb
himself He was dissuaded from en-
teFing the embassy and after time
went away to reappear later at the
residence of Miss Adele Kneeland. of
New York, where he again demanded
money,
Efforts were made to detain him, but
he got away. The police were notified
and searched the town for the man,
but he made his escape. The incident
stirred up the diplomatic circles In
LenOX.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
Farmers Fear Floods.

Tuscaloosa, Aug 3.-(Special. >
The rains which have been almost con-
tinuous for the past few weeks, nave
brought fear to the river farmers below
Tuscaloosa. Reports Were received
here today that the rains above here
were unusually heavy Monday and
Tuesday If this be true. 1t is prob
able that the river cotton. which is i'll
very fourishing condition, will be
materially cut off.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04

Huntsville, Aug. 3.-CSpecial. }
News came from Fayetteville. Tenn,
last night Of the death of Porter II j..
webb, well known young white pho
tographer Of Huntsville. Mr.. Webb
haI been i'll several months with con-
sumption and had been with relatives
in Fayetteville several weeks. He
was a member of Elk Lodge No. 698.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
Hope to strike OIL.

Huntsville, Aug. 3.-(Special. THE
third well of the New York Ala bh ma
Oil Company at Halle Green. is now
at depth of 1000 feet and the indi-
cations of oil are growing stronger.
The officers of the company and their
experts have high hopes of striking oil
In this well and will carry it a great
depth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
Furnace Closes Down.

Gadsden. Aug. S.-(Special. 1.-The
furnace of the Alabama Consolidated
Company here has been closed down
on account of two of the large blowing
engines being injured. The engines
will be repaired as quickly as possible
and the furnace again put in commits
sion, The strike of the miners In the
birmingham district is affecting thin
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04

Huntsville. Aug. Especial -The
body of Luther Mason, the young man
who was drowned in the Tennessee
River Sunday while in bathing. was
found yesterday afternoon by fisher
men eight miles below the scene of
the drowning. The river had been
dragged two days without result
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
Farmers, Institute at Gaaaaeu,

Gadsden. Aug. S.-(Special "A far
mers' Institute will be held in. Gads-
den August IL. under the direction of
Prof. A. C. Cary of the A. and III d.
College at Auburn. The session will
be held at the Court House and sew
eral of the professors will be on hand
to talk on various subjects. Speeches
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04

will be made on rotation and cnltiva-
ton of crops. forage and soil improv-
ing crops. stock raising. diseases of
fruits and vegetables. All the farm
ers are invited to participate in the
meeting
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
Postmaster for For. Pawn.

Washington, August 2.-President
Roosevelt and Postmaster General
Payne today decided upon the appoint
ment of the following postmasters:
North Carolina-Chappel Hill, W. A
Lylod. Alabama-Fort Payne, r. w.
Frazier, Georgia-Tennille. /. A. Smith.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04


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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-04
Sound Money.

THE enemies OF sound money were
powerful enough to suppress mention
of the gold standard in the platform
lately adopted by the Democratic
Democracy in two great national cam
paigns has declared since the adjourn
ment of the convention that as soon as
the election is over. he will undertake
to organize the forces within the
Democratic party for the next national
contest. for the purpose of advancing
the radical policies for which his ele-
ment of the party stands He frankly
says that the money question is for the
present in allegiance. In view of these
palpable facts, it is not the part Of
wisdom 10 abandon our vigilance in
safeguarding the Integrity of our
monetary system. We must have not
only a President who is unalterably
committed to the gold standard. but
both houses of Congress in entire ac-
cord with him upon the subject
In Congress and not with the Presi-
dent rests the supreme power TO deter
mine the standard of our money
Though the Chief Executive should
oppose. the Congress, acting within its
independent constitutional authority
could at any time overthrow or change
the monetary standard
The wisdom of our protective policy
finds complete justification in the in
dustrial development OF the country
This policy has become a most Vital
part of our Industrial system, and
must be maintained unimpaired when
altered conditions make changes in
schedules desirable their modification
can be safely entrusted to the Repub-
lican party. II they are TO be changed
by the enemies of the system along
free trade lines, uncertainty would take
the place of certainty and "A reaction
would surely follow to the injury OF
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
HHO IS THE NAAe

That is an .uncommonly sad thing which has come to light in New York. Two women who seemed to be schemers were arraigned in g. police court. One of the women pleaded guilty and the other is held under bonds for trial. The scheme was to set up bogus accidents against the street railroad companies and then collect damages. One of these women appears to have been connected with a gang of similar swindlers in Philadelphia, one of whom was sent to jail for two years recently, although that connection has not been proved in court. Her speciality seems to have been a sDrained back as the result of riding in cars. Last November she mo- tiGed the Interborough company that she would file claim for damages for an injury to her back while riding on a Third avenue elevated train. A claim agent visited the woman in a hotel and settled with her for S125, with $i0 extra eor feminine witness who said she had lost a fur boa at the same time. Afterward the witness confessed that she had seen no accident and lost no boa, but was merely hired by the other claimant for the occasion. The same woman is accused of making a similar claim little later against a trolley company in New Jersey and settling it for S165. In that case, however, she left her bed too soon and when one of the company's doctors came to make an examination another woman was in duced to personate the claimant and imposed upon the doctor by vigorous use of turpertiiie and groans. That confederate has also made confession.
 These who don't believe that the an- gels are all female and that all women are sure to become angels will perhaps jump to the conclusion that there is something in this case to support their infidelity. But they will do well to wait before jumping. It will doubtless be Sound that if these women have done anything which seems wrong it has been because oe the influence of some wicked man and that therefore they are not to blame. It is, we believe, fully es- tablished that when man does wrong for a woman he is both weak and wick ed. But when woman does wrong for a man she is only weak, or else her love is so strong that she can't help it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
NOT ALL sKNrIMExr

French interest in Russia's success in the queer war which is. or may be. now going on isn't all sentimental. The French hold si,15s. 100000 of Russian government bonds. the value of which would be greatly impaired by defeat in the Tar East. The recent panic at Paris gave holders of Russian securi- ties a foretaste of the disaster that would follow Russia's exhaustion. Be- sides government bonds the French have siss.OcOOoO invested in industrial banking. mercantile and other enter prises in Russia. all of which would be injured by national misfortune, the to- tai of French interests in Russia amounting to 1.S44.SOO.OOO. For years Russia has been paying interest on her borrowings out of the sums borrowed. This cannot be kept up if defeat causes Russia's prestige to be seriously i'm paired. Germany has also large in- terest in Russia's solvency. the hold ings of Russian bonds in the Father land being very considerable, though by no means equal to those of France.
 3 War is not only hell. but it is many kinds of hell.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
OIL KANsAs.

Kansas has long flowed with milk, honey. corn-juice and crankiness, and now, it appears, she is flowing with oil Little has been said about oil in Kansas until lately. but. according to the Kan sas City Journal, oil was first discover ed near Neodesha in 1892. where it had been oozing out of the ground and seep- ing into wells. to the annoyance of farmers. for many years. They did not appreciate the enormous value of the bonanza which lay under them. and so their chance to make big fortunes pass ed out of their hands. Only one farmer developed his own land. He is now worth s2OO,OOO at the lowest rating, The rest sold oil rights on their farms for a pittance or on small royalties. The proved fields have fallen largely under the control of outsiders and old pros pectors from Ohio. Indiana, Pennsyl- vania and other oil regions. This situ- ation resulted from the secrecy with which operations were carried on dur ing the early stages of the exploitation. Wells were plugged up as soon as oil was struck. Diseouraging reports were issued with the purpose of keeping down the price of leases and thus ena- bling those on the inside of the deals to gobble up the land. They succeeded in this scheme remarkably we'll at the start, but the field finally proved too big for them. When the Standard Oil company put in refinery at Neodesha, with capacity of 2,5OO barrels day, the public woke up and the boom was on. Now all the eastern surface of Kansas within the area of possibilities is being punctured with the prospectors drill. The holes are sunk from 800 to 1,SOO feet, and very few clusters have been found. Apparently inexhaustible quantities of gas can be found simply for the drilling.
 There is doubtless much in Kansas and Kansas people that has not yet been discovered There is no more in- teresting, enterprising and surprising State in the Union.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
wh.n : e... !. T......-a,a.

The hurFying months are passing, Another birthday near, And some one is lamenting In secret, so l hear. The idle g0ssiDs whisper That it is much too late To hone for any miracle to save an ol1
 maids fate. What base insinuafi0n. What falseh0od, line on line. For lots of nice things happen when girl
 is twenty-nine. Young things" may still he pretty, No dOuDt Yet critics state They're really quite old fashioned And somewhat out of date. Our dramas, poems and novels, As any one can see, Have reiegated sweet sixteens' to tales
 of ancestry. 1T hefoines are older, It's certainly a sign That lots of things may happen when a
 girls sweet twenty-nine." So do not grow too wistful Der long forgotten teens, With sighs of retrOspectioh For whispered might-haye-beens. But If you smile as sweetly As then, and are as coy, And never show that you prefer a gray
 beard to a boy; In short, if you're your own true self, You'll never have to plnel For everything can happen, when girl is
 tNenty-nlne. Life.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

where we were to enter the forest, and here We knelt to put on our snow shoes. My guide. with a skill born of long practice. twisted the long. elk hide thongs about his feet ankles. and was ready before I had one shoe fairly adjusted. He was a rather remarkable looking man, short of statue. but with a weli-knit frame. broad-shouldered and muscular. His face was dark as an Indians and from beneath pair of black. shaggy eyebrows. two small keen eyes looked out past a nose which some how suggested the bill of a hawk He wore suit which matched the color Of the bare woods and the white oak leaves which still hung shivering on the trees. Like the wild things which he had spent so many years in hunting, he blended with his surroundings perfectly.
 As he walked along in silence, he was as interesting to me as any other in- habitant of the forest. Nothing per- tainins to the animal life about us did he seem to miss. His eyes were every where. on the sky, in the trees and on the grounds, and he not only saw things but he knew what they meant. His ears, too were wonderfully acute. and not only sorted out the different sounds which came to us but told the distance and direction of each.
 We had been walking perhaps ten minutes, when he said Hist" and. fol- lowing the direction of his eyes, I saw on hillside above us a deer quitely browsing at a patch of brown grass which the sun had cleared of snow It
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
A DAY IN THE FORETs.

One night last week I found myself a. q neat New Hampshire farmhouse, which stands on the border of forest which I expected to explore on the fol- lowing day. The country was new to me and I had arranged for a guide to take nj where 1 wished to go. I arose at daylight, to hear robins, bluebrds and red-winged black-bi calling across the brown fields, and by the time the sun was up had breakfast and was ready for the start There was still plenty of snow in the woods, and on the hills. so we slung our snow-shoes on our backs. and set out. The air was just frosty enough to be bracing; it was the kind Of morning the New England farmer chooses for the first tapping of the sugar naples. And sure enough, as we passed the farm houses set far apart along the road, we saw that the sugar. ing had begun. Into the trunks of the big leafiess naples, a row of which grew in front of nearly every house, one or more sugar-holes had been bored and into each hole wooden tap had been driven, and below each tap there hung from metal hook a shining tin bucket, into which the sap, clear as dis titled water, fell with d 'ting-ting- ting" for as yet there was but little in the buckets.
 But presently we came to the point
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
DIGESTfABLE.


 'Predigested insect powderl" sniffed the cockroaeh of the old school, with fine scorn.-Puck.
 Patience-I hear she has been engag- ed eleven times. Patrice-I hate to see a girl in a rut like that!-Yonkers Statesman.
 Life is full of trials" said the mel ancholy citizen.
 ''Yes," answered Grafton Brab, "and the worst of it is that a whole lot of the trials are resulting in convictions. ''- Washington Star. Mir. Roxley-Ridiculous sir Before you think of marrying my daughter you should be making at least $5,0OO 9 year.
 MT. Nervey-Well, if you can make q position for me in your office at that salary I'll take it.-Philadelphia Press.
 Don't you occasionally regret not having given more attention to the classics?" asked the student.
 No" answered Senator Sorghum. 'Poetical quotations don't carry much weight nowadays. What people are in- terested in is market quotations. - Washington Star.
 Charley, dear" said young Mrs. Torkins, T have found cut something about horse-racing.
 What is that?"
 'The idea of the game is not so much to pick a winner as to be able to ex- plain why most of your selections hap pened to be beaten. Washington Star.
 There had been a change of curates in the parish, and Larry Doolin was asked how he liked the new man.
 "Middlin'," replied Larry; but he can't come up to Father James. Twas he could tell you all about hell. Shure,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
4 FAMOUS SEMICoEoN.

Massachusetts has famous semico- lon, and apparently she isn't willing to allow it to so into innocuous desuetude. This semicolon enormously got into the flaw regulating the sale of liquor in Massachusetts, and fixed things so that hotels couldn't sell after Il p. m. Stren-
 uous efforts have been made to get 1t |out of the law, but it sticks, and sticks, and sticks. Day before yesterday, by a vote of considerably over two to one, the House of Representatives rejected
 the bill to permit hotels to sell liquor to guests until midnight. The question came on passing the bill reported by a
 majority of the joint committee on liquor laws to a third reading. On a |yea and nay vote the bill was beaten, Ionly fifty-six votes being recorded in it's favor and 1S3 in opposition, with fourteen pairs. The majority of the
 Boston members voted for the measure, while the greater part of the nay votes came from members outside the city.
 So there is sadness in some spots in
 Massachusetts and rejoicing in other Ispots. The Boston Herald is thus |pained: Such sweeping defeat natu-
 rally ends all chance of the passage of this needed legislation during the pres- ent session, and the law will continue Ito treat the many first class hotels in
 this city exactly as if they were merely saloons. A city that is the amusement and hotel center of population in ex- cess of million, city that has almost a score of theatres and scores of hotels
 is to be conducted under laws better fitted for the control of country yil-
 lages where all lights are out by 10 o'clock. About one-half of the votes
 thrown against the bill came from
 members who live in the small towns of the State and therefore possibly do not fully realize the real needs and de-
 sires of the people of our city. Thus
 will slip in punctuation and a strain
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

10 hear him describin' it, you'd think he was bred. born and reared there. v Sporting Times.
 He-Ha! Absurd things those Bat Itledore Ballads Eh! What?
 She-Tm sorry you think sony sis ter wrote them.
 He-Er-of course I don't mean the words-they're rippin'. I mean the mu- |sic-poor stuff-spoils the words-com- poser ought to be kicked-who wrote it?
 She-I did!-Punch.
 First sweet young thing-oh. I had
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each IT. sertlon. Five Gents q Word for fuli week.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

ed interpretation of the courts continue to prevent our hotels from treating their guests as guests would be treated in any other city of the country with anything like the population of Boston
 Where else but in Massachusetts would an accidental semicolOn be treat ed with such respect?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

a most trying time, dear. when he pro posed.
 Second sweet young thing-How wa that?
 First sweet young thing-Why, o course I said No" at first. and h thought I was in earnest, and was go ing away, and I had such trouble t, make him understand that I didn' really mean it.-Ally Sloper's Half Hol iday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

powder. charge must be held too near the breech and the breech opened too soon for safety after the charge in the gun has been exploded.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

Letters received at the navy depart ment tell of a remarkable record in gun loading made by Lieutenant Thomas D. Wilson of the battleship Alabama dur ing the target practice at Pensacola. Lieutenant Wilson has charge of one of the thirteen-inch gun turrets. Under his tuition, his crew has become so pro- fcient that in actual target practice, thirteen-inch rifle is loaded and fired in thirty eight seconds, and at drill, be- tween fires, in thirty seconds. It is re- garded as good work to get thirteen inch gun loaded and ready for firing in sixty seconds. The navy department is pleased with what Lieutenant Wilson has accomplished, but in the opinion of some officers, the danger point in gun firing has been reached in the time record established by Lieutenant Will son. They think that the reloading
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

The Paris courts have decided that the term Apache is a punishable form of abuse. It is the equivalent of hood lum'' in California, "hooligan' in Lon- don, .larrikin' in Australia, rough" in New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09

The London Daily Telegraph takes the view that Japan has won Corea without fight and that within eight weeks from the opening of the war Rus sia has lost, and in our conviction, ir- retrievably lost, the very object for which she made war"