The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-17
TO INVITE PRESIDENT
DELEGATION TO GO TO WASHING
 TON FROM MOBILE.
Mayor Lyons Authorized to Purchase and Have Installed . Modern Police Cali Systen--GuIf
 City News. a-.
Advertiser Bureau,

Clarke. the men named to go as a dele gation to Washington to invite Presi- dent Roosevelt to Mobile, mt with the committed. of which Col. Frank E. Merrill Is chairman at noon today in the Chamber of Commerce. The fol- lowing were present and signified willingness to make the trip, John l.. Rapier, Alfred A. Moses. Fred G. Bromberg. T. c. Bush. William H. Monk. A. p. Bush o. F. Cawtilon. Max Hamburger. Jr. John S. Waterman, c. M. Luce, Pat J. Lyons, John Craft. James S. Taylor, Frank B. Merrill, c. Lawrence Lavretta. Ed. E. Bernheimer, c. s. Shawhan, Walter r. Walsh and James K. Glennon.
 Chairman Merrill of the committee announced the delegation would leave here Saturday night by way of the Southern Railroad, arriving in Wash ington Monday at ten a. m. The dele gation will travel in a special car.
 At the regular monthly meeting of the general council tonight Mayor Lyons was authorized to purchase a thoroughly modern police call system and have 1t properly installed. An or dinance looking to the protection of pedestrians from automobiles and oth-
 
 referred.
 The United States court of appeals sitting at new Orleans has confirmed the sentence of ex-Postmaster Charles A. Hircher of Choctaw, Bluff, Ala. At the last term of the United States district court sitting at Mobile, Hirch- CT was convicted of forgery in connec- tion with some contracts for carrying the United States mails, and was sen fenced by Judge Toulmin to three years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta. In several similar cases wherein 3 negro was the chief wit ness. he was acquitted. In this case he was convicted on the testimony of NJ. G. Candee. prominent merchant of Choctaw Bluff, who was shortly after wards assassinated, an investigation clearing Hircnersof any connection with the crime He was on bail at the time. He will be taken to Atlanta to- morrow to begin serving his term.
 Ike l.. Robertson, of Abbott, Ala today pleaded guilty to using the mails to defraud and was remandeo for sen tence. His intended victims were the Putnam Manufacturing Company, oi Baxter, Tenn, and the Wortheimer- Schwartze Company of New Orleans, tc whom he sent orders for goods to be shipped to his pretended place of bus mess at Abbott, Ala, where he claimed to be dealer in dry goods groceries hardware and medicines.
 At o'clock this morning the tenn. perature was 21 above zero. the low est in quite awhile in this city. The wind began blowing steadily from the north yesterday and continued through the night. driving the mercury down to 2l. The weather man, Albert Ash enberger gave the following figures as to weather conditions in Mobile du. ring the past thirty-four years. IT that period the mercury had been tc or below 21 seventeen times. The low. est record was February 13, 1899, wher the mercury went to l degree geloN zero. The next lowest temperature was in January 1SS6. when 1t reached | II above zero.
 John Jackson. white man, who hai l been serving time in the United State penitentiary at Atlanta. for violating | the navigation laws of the United | States. has been brought here ant placed in jail to be tried for similar oftense. Jackson, with Charles Nelson
 
 the trial is set down for January 21 in the United States Court.
 Mr. and Mrs. w. K. Powers O | Montgomery are in the city.
 W. 1T. Beard of Selma is visiting il | the city.
 J. C. Hicks of Jackson. Ala, il among his friends here today. Hon. n. s. IIapham of Charleston S C.. who Is interested in many busi ness ventures here. Is In the city to l day.
 Louis w. "ostigln. a well know resident of Mobile. died suddenly yes terday at Adolph Dannes summe | home near Point Clear. The body wa brought here this morning for inter ment He is surived by one sister Mrs. Lawrence McCue.
 D. c. Stapleton, q well known resi- dent of Baldwin County. residing nea Daphne, was thrown from d buggy an, severely injured.