The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-28
Advertiser Bureau.

Mobile, Sept. zi. "rh. State of Alabama versus Jonn Beyersdorfer, assault. six months nalu r labor for the County. Tnese were n sue 7 ...erS. os fudge Jules E. Afford in the Yn,arior CrIminal Court this morning in the case of John Beyersdor1ef, Charged with beating and abusing his wife. Mrs. Beyersdorfer, a middie-aged white woman, with letters from lead ing citizens of Illinois, complained or the brutal treatment of her husoand, A warrant issued and the man was ar
 rested. Tn the Inferior Criminal Court this morning the woman told of the reneated abuses of her husband and | his assaults upon her. Chief of Police | Rondeau, on the stand said defendant | abused his wife in Chief Rondeaus
 presence with language he could not and would not use. Sergeant Schrein-
 CT verified what his chief had said. l Beyersdorfer, who is a fine appear ing man, denied saying anything against his wife in Chief Rondeau's office and claimed his wife. who Is much smaller than he, assaulted him. Judge Afford was prompt in rendering | his verdict in the case.
 After the decision Chief Rondeau said he regretted that modesty would not allow him to repeat what Beyers- QOrIeT ndQ Sdlu tO hlo "AAC WAile his office. Not a word of sympathy was expressed by the spectators in the court for the defendant
 President Max Hamburger, Jr., of the Commercial Club, had his attention called to an article in The Pensacola Journal, relative to the mortuary con-
 ditions in Mobile. The statement, af- ter investigation he found to be abso- 1utolv without ha shadow of Ia ton and, having learned the facts as to the death rate in Mobile, today pre- pared and forwarded to Mayor Bliss of Pensacola, author of the article the following telegram:
 Hon. Charles H. Bliss, Mayor, Pensa- cola, Fla:
 "Your article in Pensacola Journal of yesterday just received, Is grossly H. bellous to Mobile. In your comparison
 of the health of the two cities you as- 1 sert that in one week Mobile had thir- ty-eight deaths. The authority you quote has never published such a state ment. Average weekly mortality re- port, white and black, for past month, including a number of deaths at other i twenty-two. Mobile has the deepest sympathy for Pensacola, but wherein
 does 1t profit your town or console your people to assail a sister city? Max Hamburger, President Commercial Club" This morning the Home Telephone Company absorbed, by purchase, the plant and line of the Eastern Shore Telephone Company. which has been operating in conjunction with the Home Company out of this city to the resorts ' on the western shore of Baldwin Coun- l ty, across from Mobile.
 Manager Bryant Of the Home Conn pany stated that 1t was the purpose of his company to establish four other lines in connection with the one now | in operation to the Eastern Shore, | thereby ensuring to patrons a complete | and perfect service.
 Capt William Fans of the river | steamer New Haven had a fight on the | city wharf with A. s. Halltgan, a for | mer employe on the steamer. Halli- | gan had the captain arrested and in court the aggressor was fined $5, which was promptly paid
 l There has been a difference between
 the men for some time, growing out l of Halligan preferring charges against l Captain Fans in the United States
 admiralty court. "--~
 News was received here early this | morning of the death in Tuskegee of Louis Hammel, brother of Messrs. Leop
 and Julius Hammel. well-known mer-
 chants of this city. Mir. Hammel's
 death was a shock to friends here, who were ot aware of his serious ill.,
 ness. Julius Hammel was at the bed side when the dissolution occurred.
 The remains were brought here this
 afternoon and inferred In the Jewish | cemetery, the funeral taking place
 from the train. Rabbi Alfred G. Moses l officiated ..-.... ..-.--
 Captain John Quill, one of the oldest river steamboatmen in this city, is very indignant over the statement that there is a river rate war on the Alabama River, so far as he and his boat are concerned. He claims his boat is not
 and has not been In any combination.
 The only boats in a combination, he said, were those of Winston Jones, the Bethea; Norman Staples, the Blees, and | Amos Travers, the Liberty. They are the boats he said. which might be termed combination boats.
 County Commissioner Bauer, residing on Beauregard and Conception Streets, this city. reported to Sheriff Powers