The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-13
THE NEWS OF MOBILE
Avertiser Bureau,


 Avertiser Bureau,
 Noble, June F.
 In the Recorders Court this morning Conductor w. l. Burnett and Motor man Ben Burch were tried for man. slaughter and acquitted The case grew out of the killing of little Verda Chenoweth. daughter of Thomas Che noweth. on Spring Hill Avenue last Thursday afternoon on the Avenue near Pine Street
 The evidence showed that the mo- torman did everything possible to pre- vent the unfortunate tragedy and he and his conductor were discharged.
 Mobile negroes had an excursion to- day to Citronelle. One came back cut to pieces, and another went tc the un- known country. Harry Williams in an argument with Tom Woods, after the excursion reached Citronclle. was cut in the head, shoulder and body. He went to the train, secured A, returned and put five bullets in Woods. Williams was brought here on the evening train in a dying condition. Woods came in on the excursion, feet foremost. The Norwegian steamship Espana, which reached here from Puerto Cortez this afternoon. reports the fever great ly abated there. 
 L. E. Raheld, a Confederate Vete- ran. the youngest volunteer during the war. and member of Camp Raphael Semmes. No. Il. will be among the pilgrims to Louisville tomorrow. MT. Rafield went out as drummer boy from Mobile. with the Mobile Cadets. the first company to leave here. It left on June l, 1861. He was only 12 years of age.
 After one year at the front he was I sent home by his commander, Captain Sands. He then joined the homo guard, Captain Ridgely Case. and serv- | ed through the war. He will bc &C., companied by his son, Charles. 1S. years old. The two are members of Camp Raphael Semmes' field band. In the United States Court Hon. | Harry T. Toulmin presiding, this af- | ternoon Mary L. Grayson, a young white girl, not IS, was put on trial for perjury in pre-empting Government | lands. The lands are located on the Alabama and Mississippi Railroad about | seven miles from Vinegar Bend. The | evidence tended to duplicate the girls | father, who failed to show up. The | jury will get the case tomorrow morn l ing.
 | A few days ago announcement was | made that. during the summer months. | the Quill on the Alabama and the Blee | on the Bigbee River, would be the only packets to leave this port. It was announced this morning. however, that the Hard Cash, as an independent packet, would leave to- morrow night for Alabama River | points in competition with the Quill When this became known there was a busy move in steamboat circles on the | river front.
 At the home of her grandmother. Mrs. c. A. Upham. on Dauphin way, this morning, little Julia Irvine passed away after an illness Deceased was the 10-year-old daughter of L. c. Ir- vine of St. Louis. formerly of Mobile.
 She was brought here a short time
 since In the hope that she would recu-
 perate. but the inevitable came in spite
 of care and loving attention. l. The bereaved relatives have the
 sympathy of many friends hera
 The remains of Salvatore Pompinella
 founder of the ill-fated italian colony Palermo, on the Southern Railway , thirty miles north of Mobile. and wh,
 was assassinated there six months ago
 were disinterred and brought here to
 day and inferred in the Catholic Gene
 tery this afternoon
 l Madame Pompinella and her childrel
 came here from New York to be pres ent at the reinterment. 1 Colonel R. B. duMont said this after noon that the 1st infantry, A. N. G would go into camp this year in Mont gomery, July IT. He said the peopl there had made offers such as woul
 warrant the 1st infantry going there He has notified Adjutant General Bran { don of his determination as to the regi ment.
 ] Mrs. Mary Ann Clancey, a native ot , Ireland and a long time resident O { Mobile. died last night at her home { sos South Royal Street. She leave
 no near relatives here. The remains
 were inferred In the Catholic Cemetery : this afternoon.
 Alabamians in the city today are T. H. Wright, Birmingham: Judge J. B
 Rawls, St. Stephens; Hub Turner. Yin 5 egar Bend; J. c. B. White Lockhart J, w. Dewberry. w. c. Griggs. Bir. mingham; J. E. Kennedy, Selma; G. L Youngblood. Troy.
 John Ropeel, an employe of tn
 Bruce -Ollinger Docks Company, whil : at work on a vessel on the docks thi
 afternoon, fell from the dock a con { siderable distance and was seriousl! ] injured.
 s The Mobile Red Cross Aid Associa { ton has been organized with officer! ? as follows: Philan B. Dorlon, Presi dent; George T. Curry. Secretary anC ! Treasurer; Dr. J. Gray Thomas. Medi
 cal Director
 Work of laying additional conduiti for cables was begun by the Company this morning. When this Is complet ed lines will be run out of Mobile fol the long distance service to extend a: . far north as Utica. N. J.
 W. c. Polk of Toledo. Ohio. repre-
 senting the Central Telephone Con struction Company of Toledo, Is her' . engaged in rehabilitating the plant o the Home Telephone Company.
 The remains of Theresa. 2-year-ol(
 daughter of MT. and Mrs. Morris
 O'Brieu. whose death occurred las' evening. were inferred In Magnolia
 Cemetery this morning.
 Harry Haas has returned from Phil
 adelphia. where he recently gradual
 ed as dental surgeon He is receiV