The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-27
Opening Game, Montgomery Vs. Nashville. Ball Park Friday.
NEW FURNACE.
Another Enterprise for Gadsden in the Near
 Future.

Another Enterprise for Gadsden in the Near
 Future,
 Gadsden, April 26.-(Special. )-The Ala bama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company is now letting the contracts for the new 3OO-ton furnace, which was announced some time ago to be erected in this city. The furnace is to be a duplicate of the present one. which was completed some two years ago. The boiler contracts have not yet been let, and neither has the contract for the brick work. but they will be given out In a few days. When the work is com menced it will be rushed with all the speed possible.
 Beckie Purdue. a negress who has been living in Attalla for some time, last week went to the home of Mrs. Miller and de manded admittance, which was refused. She broke down the door and rushing in. grabbed Mrs Miller by the throat pulled long and dangerous-looking butcher knife from the folds of her dress and was in the act of cutting her throat when lady vis- itor screamed and Mir. Miller ran in to see what was the trouble. As soon as Beckie saw Mir. Miller she released her hold upon Mrs Miller and attacked the husband, who was forced to knock her down with a brick in order to save his life. Beckie was later arrested and brought to Gadsden. and Is now in the county jail here awaiting trial
 Wild Bill Scott, who has been the cause of much trouble around the section of the little mountain village of Mountainboro by disturbing every public worship he could get to and who attempted to kill officers last week who went to arrest him, has been released upon the execution of $1,0o0 bond for his appearance to answer three charges in Etowah County and a like number in De Kalb County. His brother. who fainted when arrested. also made bond and both have returned home.
 An ordinance was passed by tho Board of Aldermen and Mayor at their meeting last night calling for election on the 9th day of June 1905. to decide whether or not $1O0 900 worth of bonds shall be issued for the purpose of paving the streets and ex- tending the sewerage The ordinance calls for $6o.O0O 5 per cent gold bonds running thirty years for the purpose of constructing sewers, which shall be known as Sewer Bonds" Also $40,OO0 per cent gold bonds running for a period of thirty year. for the purpose of paving, one or all, the streets of safd city. which shall be known as "street Improvement Bonds"
 Robert whisenant. colored. is now doing time on the streets of Gadsden for the at- tempted shooting of a colored damsel Mon day night, Robert "tanked up' on mean whiskey and met the excursion boat on its return from the locks, and tried to shoot a negro girl with whom he is greatly in fatuated and who had gone on the ex- cursion with another negro. Robert got his gun in shape to do business when officers arrived upon the scene and took him in out of the rain. He pleaded guilty before the Mayor today and was given thirty days on the streets.
 William Hayne\ and S. V. Wilson fell from the second stkry of the new Merchants and Farmers Bank yesterday afternoon and were very badly hN-t, but not seriously. While handling some heavy timbers the scaffolding fell and t\s men were pre- cipitated to the ground. Haynes has his left wrist knocked out of place, while Will son was badly bruised the chest, Both men were badly shaken up and will be laid up several days from the effects of tho accident.