The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-26
HAD CONCEALED RIFLE
JOHN DENNIS sECRETED WIN
 CHESTER IN HIS CLOTHING.

uhU IUNIEAkLU MILE JOHN DENNIS sECRETED WIN
 CHESTER IN HIS CLOTHING. Colonel Fred Cox of MobiIe Slips on
 Steps and suffers Fracture of
 Thish-John Nelson is
 Acquitted.
 Advertiser Bureau.
 Mobile. Jan. 25.
 John Dennis is now in prison to an- swer to the charge of carrying con cealed weapons. Dennis was on the Southern Railway passen- ger train which left Mobile at o'clock last night. At Mt. Vernon. thirty miles north of this city, Calvin Childs. the oolored deputy, had reasons to believe Dennis was subject to ar rest. Sheriff Albritton of Wilcox County was on the train and Childs called on him to assist in arresting Dennis. When arrested Dennis was found to have a Winchester rifle down his trousers leg and under his vest. He also had a large sized Smith 6 Wesson revolver on his person.
 Nose Hudson Tapia, son of Joseph Tapia, who was run down last satur- day evening by an automobile and badly injured, Is reported today as out of danger. His broken arm, how ever. Is causing much pain.
 Colonel Fred s. Cox. for many years editor and proprietor of The Daily News of Mobile. now defunct, is con- fined to his home. northwest corner of St. Joseph and St. Louis Streets with a fractured thigh. Colonel Cox, in, com ing down the steps at his homo last evening. slipped and fell and when ex- amined by a surgeon was found to be badly injured. Only recently he sus- tained serious Injury from slipping on a pavement and he was barely re- covered when the accident occurred yesterday evening.
 The sudden drop of temperature to- day caused much uneasiness among the truck gardeners. When the news was posted that the mercury would drop to IA tonight there was q hurry to protect growing vegetation. It Is feared the cold spell of tonight will create much destruction.
 At today's meeting of the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners for special business Commissioner John T. Bauer offered the following: "Inasmuch as there is now building Ia bridge over Dog River and us we are contemplating the building of Cedar Point Road down to this bridge through the marsh. and as we have no contract for the hire of county con- victs for a term less than thirty days, be it
 Resolved, first, That this board make suitable arrangements for the work of all prisoners sentenced to the county jail for a term less than thirty days on this road.
 Second, That all prisoners sem fenced to the county jail of Mobile County be put at the county's work on this contemplated road and that suit able and proper guards be provided to prevent the escape of said prisoners.
 Third, That a committee from this board be appointed to make the neces- sary arrangements and provisions sought for by this resolution to be put into effect, provided however, that the prisoners shall not be taken from their imprisonment in the jail during the night time and that they shall be taken from the jail during the morn ing hour and returned thereto at night for safe keeping"
 The resolution was unanimously adoption.
 In the United States Court this af- ternoon. w.. c. Fitts, attorney for Charles Nelson, Indicted fer violating the navigation laws. asked for a gem eral charge for Nelson. he having dis covered and produced law which tended to quash the indictment. Judge Toulmin examined the law and gave the general charge instructed the fury and a verdict of not guilty was brought In.
 Nelson was convicted in one case, but 1t is thought in view of Judge TouImin's charge this afternoon tho other four charges against him will be withdrawn. .5
 The National Board of Underwriters is represented here today by six members from New York. They are quietly Investigating the fire protec- tion of Mobile. a
 President John B. Cefalu of the Gen. tral American Steamship Company re- turned today from Puerto Cortez. He states that every indication points to revolution in Spanish Honduras. The Government, he said. is taking strenu- ous measures to keep down the move- ment, but the natives are in condition Tor an uDTiBlnK. AZ dh .CNAuchGc Ok thV action of the Government, Secretary of War Baraona has issued an edict re- quiring all persons leaving the coun- try to get a permit. MT. Cefalu. not withstanding his having large inter- ests there and being a citizen of the United States, had to get a permit to leave the country.
 Tn the Chancery Court this afternoon Judge Smith granted an injunction against the City of Mobile and Board of Public Works, on application of Mrs. Mary A. Zeigler. restraining defend- ants from obstructing sidewalks in front of her property on South Royal Streets. Improvements making in Theatre Street at Royal necessitated moving the electric railway track on to the sidewalk and Mrs. Zeigler, al- leglng damage to her property, asked the court for a restraining order. which was granted.
 
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