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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
FRANCE INTERESTED.
Believes Conference WIII Have satis-
 factory Ending.

factory Ending.
 Paris, Aug S.-Diplomatists and gov ernmental officials are manifesting the great interest relative to the outcome of the peace conference. The recent pessimism has almost entirely disap- peared and a feeling of confidence reigns that the negotiations and the wisdom of the governments concerned will overcome all dificultins and that the conference will eventuate in a sat- isfsetory arrangement. The buoyant tendency of the Bourse where Russian securities are very firm. shows that this view is also prevalent In commercial circleG. -
 The newspapers point out as hap py augury that France and Great Brit ain the allies of the respective bellig- erents. are celebrating the attainment of a better relationship in a town of the same name as that in which the peace conference will take place. 1t Is hoped that tf4o cordiality displayed du- ring the visit of the French fleet to Portsmouth will result in strong influ- ences being brought to bear on the Russian and Japanese governments in favor of moderation. Thus tbe proba- bility will be increased that President Roosevelt's initiative will result in the declaration of T dignified peace without hurting the self-respect of either bel ligerent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09

Alexis Michaelovitch, the second of the Romanoffs, summoned the last zemsky zabor in the 17th century will be pro- claimed on Saturday next
 The final session of the special com mission which has been considering the project as drafted hy Minister of the Interior Bouligan and elaborated by the council of ministers was held at Peter hof today. Its verdict upon the project as a whole was favorable and at the conclusion of tho session Emperor Nich- olas set the seal of his approval thereto
 The sitting today continued from 2;3o in the afternoon until 6 o'clock tonight. when the commission finished the la- hors upon which 1t had been engaged almost constantly for the last week Though the project has undergone 8 number of changes during the various sessions at Peterhof. 1t is understood that its main outlines are in line with the project as it emerged from the council of ministers.
 In principle the national assembly will be a deliberative and consultative body for discussion of measures lad before it by the emperor or his ministers It will elve the power to force the withdrawal of ministerial propositions by a two thirds vote which gives 1t at least q negative control over legislation It will be a large body. probably of over 500 members, chosen by system of in- direct elections and the first session. 1t Is said will be held in November.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
Mrr. Peckhnm subponaed.

New York, Aug. S.--At instance of United States District Attorney Beach of Washington, Mrs. Sarah H. Peckham was subponaed last night to appear be- fore the Federal grand jury in Wash ington, August Is. The Federal grand jury Is Investigating the scandal aris- ing from a leak in the cotton crop re- port in the Agricultural Department.
 It was reported that District Attor- ney Beach desired to question Mrs. Peckham about the contents of safe deposit box leased by her which figured in bankruptcy proceedings against her last summer. Strong efforts were made then on the part of her creditors to open the box but her counsel prevent ed 1t by paying all claims against her.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
R,n on Denver Rank.

Denver, Colo, Aug. S.--A run was started today on the Denver Savings Bank which owes depositors about $2.- COG. 900. At noon the doors were closed and thereafter depositors were allowed to enter one at time and draw 10 per cent of their deposit.
 Fearing their funds were in jeopardy depositors started run on the bank this morning. For two hours depos- itors were paid 10 per cent of their de- posits. Then the doors were closed
 The run followed persistent rumors regarding the banks stability, which have been current for a week or more The report is said to be due to bad loans
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
Louisville Men, 1t is Said, Violated
 Commerce Law,

Louisville Men, 1t is Said, Violated
 Commerce Law.
 Louisville. Ky, Aug. S.-Hollis H. Price and Charles Wells. respectively member and employe of the Barton- Price Company of this city, are under going an examination before United States Commissioner Cassin on g. charge of violating the interstate commerce law by making false weights of cars of hay.
 J. D. Christian. a hay dealer of Mount Airy. N. C.. formerly an agent of the company, today testified that he found the certificates of weight erroneous and named specific in- stances. He also said that he re- weighed the cars and would remit only for the actual weight of hay. to which the company never protested.
 Miss Edna Mclaughlin. stenographer and assistant book-keeper for the Barton-Price Company. testified that she refused to sign the alleged certifi- cates of weight and attach them to bills because she did not think 1t proper to do so. She stated that MT. Price signed the name of "M. Hardin" to the certificates. 1t Is on this that the government bases its charge of fraud against Price.
 A railroad oficial testified that he demanded extra freight charges when he discovered an excess in the weight certificates after the original figures had been entered by the Barton-Price Company but which were never paid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
MOBILE MEETING.
A Moderation of the Quarantine May be
 Recommended.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Mobile. Aug S

Advertiser Bureau,
 Mobile, Aug. 8.
 At 1 o'clock this afternoon the Com mittee of Health met and was in ses- sion for a considerable period. On mo- ton and after n great deal of discus sion it was the sense of the committee that the State Health Officer be re- quested to make thorough investiga- ton of the Mississippi coast towns and, If conditions are satisfactory, recom- mend modification of quarantine re- strictions. The Auxiliary Sanitary As sociation of Mobile was endorsed and Drs Goode and Acker. City and County Health Officers. instructed to meet with tine two committees. In pursuance to the last recommendation DTS. Goode and Acker and Secretary Charles A. Mohr of the State Board of Health tonight met the two committees of the Aux Hilary Association in the Commercial Club. Chairman Hamburger presided. The purposes of the organization were gone over and the health officers com mended the Association. It was an nounced that aside from the money sub scribed last night nearly $l,000 had been added today The situation was gone over and plans mapped out for immediate cleaning of the city. Dr. H. Fonde and E. J. Buck were added to the general committee. Another meeting of the auxiliary will be held tomorrow.
 It was reliably learned tonight that the United Fruit Company steamship Harold, which unloaded a cargo from Mobile at Colon and then went to a fruit port and loaded. had come to the quarantine station forty miles below Mobile. When she arrived 1t was learn ed several of the crew were sick. This news was communicated to the health office -s here. and the vessel was or dered to dump her cargo in the gulf and report at once at Ship Island guar antine station, which she did. Dr.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
rexns Oil Field Eire.

Houston. Tex, Aug. Sire started this afternoon at Humble and did dam age estimated at between $300.000 and $40O.000. Lightning struck two tanks belonging to the Guffey Company and both of them were set on fire. The oil in these tanks amounted to about 100000 barrels and all of this was lost. Ih addition number of small settling tanks were burned, entialing a further loss of 10000 barrels.
 The burning oil spread to the field where a number of wells were envel- oped by the fire. About a dozen der ricks with machinery were burned. number of air plants used in rais- ing the oil and & lot of machinery was destroyed. So far as can be learned there was no insurance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
A Texas Lynchinx.

Waco, Texas. August s.-At 2 o'clock this morning mounted citizens number ing about 500 surrounded the court house and jail and after making prison CTS of Sheriff Tilley. the Jailer and all the deputy sheriffs, broke open the jail. took Sank Majors out and after his con- fesslon hanged him from the new bridge. He is still hanging there and the mob Is still in the city
 Majors was recently convicted Of criminal assault and given the death penalty, but had been granted new trial by Judge Surratt. In order that there might be no opportunity for the court of criminal appeals to reverse the sentence on a technicality. the mob took action.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
Church Wrecked by Fire.

New York, Aug S.-St. Thomas Epis- copaI Church, at Fifth Avenue and Eff ty-third Street. one of the most richly furnished religious edit1ces In America. was wrecked by fire today.
 Within a block of the ruined church are the homes of half score of the country's richest men. On Fifty-fourth Street directly in the rear is the city residence of John D. Rockefeller and near by are the residences of William Rockefeller. H. Mckay Twombley. Col. ]. J. McCook and the home of the late Daniel S. Lamont. The Hotel St. Regis is scarcely one block away and scores of the finest city homes in America are In the section of which St. Thomas Church was practically the center. The fire was confined to the church.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
A Renorted Mnssacre.

Colonge. Aug 8.-The Cologne Ga zette prints a dispatch that 5000 Cuayanhamas (tribesmen) recently made an attempt on several Portu- guese villages located to the north ward of German Southwest Africa, Por- tuguese territory. ~a.
 Most of the villages. according to reports were massacred and all their houses burned. Three French mission aries were carried away by the tribes men but succeeded in making their escape.
 The massacre occurred in the same region where a body of Portuguese troops suffered a serious defeat last year
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
The Telexrauher.. Strike.

St. Paul. Aug. S.--There Is no change in the claims made by the contending sides in the strike of the order of Railway Photographers against the Great Northern and Northern Pacific roads.
 "Everything is coming our way" is about the gist of statements made by the railroad officials and by President Perham of the telegraphers. Independ- ent Investigations show that while con- ditions on the roads are far from being normal, traffic Is being moved in better shape today than at any time since the strike order went into effect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
A1l.rea As.n.nln Captured.

Roanoke, Va. Aug. S.--John Rieh- ards. the alleged assassin of Maurice Francis, young Roanoker, who was shot and killed week ago while drtv- ing along a Floyd County road to visit his fance, was captured in his fathers home near the scene of the tragedy to- day and taken to Christianburg jail for safe keeping.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
Situation Serious.

st Petersburg, Aug. 9.-Reports re- ceivcd here show that the situation at GomeI and in the neighborhood Is se- rfous. A bomb factory has been dis covered at Gomel by the police and 1t ia asserted here that the Jews there are trying to stir up disorders among the peasantry Gomel was the scene of A Jewish massacre last year. Work has been resumed at Reval, where a strike has been on for some time past.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
Order Changes Name.

Belfast. Ireland. Aug. s.-The Inter- national Supreme Lodge of Good Tenn plars. which Is in session here. today accepted an invitation to meet in Washington, D. C., in 1908. It was also decided to change the name of the organization to the International order of Good Templars,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
Steamer Stranded.

Miami, Fla, Aug. S.-The Ward Line steamer City of Washington is stranded on the reefs five miles south of Fowie Light rock. Wreckers have gone to her assistance. It is said that the boat is lying in a very dangerous position. and unless boats of larger size come to her assistance there Is little hope of getting her off. It Is said the boat has . large and valuable freight cargo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
(,osta Rica,s ouarnntine.

San Jose, Costa Rica. Aug. S.-The quarantine against New Orleans Is very strict. The government was re- auested to permit the ships to make five days trips between New Orleans and Port Limon, but this. request was refused. The health officer in charge at Port Limon reports that there has been no case of yellow fever. at this place in several months
 Traffic between Port Limon and New Orleans has been entirely suspended
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
LULU IN INQUIRY.
Not Much Doing as to the Cotton Leak Inveatigation.

Washington, Aug. s.-(Special. )-The cotton scandal investigation appears waiting for August 15. when the grand jury will resume business.
 The return of former Statistician John Hyde from England now looks indefinite. He cabled Secretary Will son he would return to Washington as soon as possible and wired also that he would write, but no letter has been received from him. His friends say he has a second carbuncle on his neck, which will delay his return indefinitely, as his strength Is greatly depleted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09

Canea, Crete, Aug. 8.-The Russian eunboat Khrabry has bombarded anl destroyed Castelli. on the north coast of the Island of Crete. about eighteen miles east of Retimo. because the in- surEents there opposed the landing of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
nrher Reaclndeh
o4-Ilra nreaLa nmt

St. Petersburg, Aug s.-Tho order calling out the reserves for the au- tunn manoeuvres has been cancelled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
A yIIIare Bombarded.

Berdicheff. Rus5ian Poland, Aug. S. general strike has broken out here and the residents are leaving town.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
rhe National AnnembIy.

St. Petersburg. August s.-The Rus sian national assembly. the first gath ering together of the representatives of the Muscovite people since Emperor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09

a Russian force to take over the cus- tom house. A boat party sent ashore from the Khrabry was repulsed, where upon the Russian commander, after warning the insurgents to remove the women and children, opened Ire.
 The insurz ants returned tie fire with small guns. wornding two Russians. The bombardment continued until the village hoisted the white flag.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09
Rioters Pondering.

Bendery. Bessarabia. Aug. S.-Serious disorders have broken out among the reservists and the rioters are plunder- ing the disorderly houses.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-09

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23
CHIEF ENGINEER STEVENS
Will Make . Strong Report to COmmi
 alnla A Ancalnaf Sea IAz-nl Dian

Will Make . Strong Report to Commits sion Against Sea Level Plan. Chicago Special to New York Herald.
 ! Johr. F. Stevens, chief engineer of | the Panama Canal, will make a report to the Governing Board within the next
 two weeks in which he will strongly recommend the construction of a lock canal as against sea level waterway. M. Stevens was in Chicago today,
 drew $5O,OoO out of the Walsh banks and went to New York this evening. consult with the Caral Commission and
 make his report and recommendations. Mir. Stevens was asked if there were any physical difficulties in the way of onstructing either kind of canal, and replied: None whatever. All the stories which have been printed re- gardinE such difficulties are groundless.
 q believe thae a lock canal could be
 built within six or seven years, but l
 do not care to guess how long it would take to construct q water level canal,
 It would certainly take very much
 T cannot understand how the isth-
 mus got such a bad reputation Tor cli-
 mate. It is one of the finest places
 ever resided in, and had rather live
 there in summer than in St. Paul, and
 that is saying a good deal.
 constructing the canal is labor. l have
 my owr ideas regarding the solution
 of that, and I shall present them to
 the commission. The canal simply
 cannot be built with West Indian negro
 labor and the labor will have to be imported It is possible to get Italians, Greeks Japanese or Chinese"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23
Drinking and Society.

Chicago Journal ,, in polite society.
 At some houses nowadays no wine taken it's place, because the doctors say 1t is the least injurious of all tip pIes, but very little of that is con sumed. The butterflies of fashion have at last learned the lesson that drunk en millionaire Is as bestial as a drunk en tramp and that society woman who overindulges in drink Is as dis QustinR as though she were an habltut of Harrison Street Police Station. Thel have learned, too, that there is no fur in the world like the fun of always be ing sober. The women. especially, have also learned that drink rapidly and in- vitably dstroys thir: physical a: we'll as their mental charms.
 The result is that~today drinking IS decidedly bad form among rich and any rate. The occasional man whc is soon ostracised. The woman who is observed only once under the influence of liquor is tabooed thereafter.
 Those philosophers who heretofore have never been able to see that what is called society" Is of much use in the world will have to admit that now it is of some use. in the good examr if is setting For 1t is useless to d. Z that too often the tone of morality -l inc mass is given to it by those per sons who are conspicuous because of wealth and fashion. Now that they have made temperance fashionable they will benefit the community as a whole in a very important respect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23

Do we want real quarantine?
 The way of the South to present pro- road of lost opportunities The dead trunks of giant might have been groWths gleam sapless and reproachful all along it. Are we going. at this live and practical day and date, to trans | plant one of them on our new roadside If not, 1t is high time to water the sapling of possibility-set out two | months ago by practicality and action until it spreads into the great tree of l sound common sense. It will do this l or. it will die bornin', and stand a ] greater reproach to its planter than any of the bleached mile-marks along our upward way.
 The late Chattanooga convention performed marvel The pessimistic cause of its two headed origin. Op- timists feared that Gas it actually could l only talk, not act) it would talk itself and it's greater and more immediate ob- Unheard of spectacle, The two heads talked as one; the seeming greater ob- ject was backgrounded to bring the re- ally immediate one to the front. Great wonder of all; the real object was not talked to death; self-illustration went way back and set down hard; and clear. direct action took the place of expected
 It is not Aggression. but just history, to note that this happy result was due largely to Hon. John Sharp Williams. He oiled the troubling waters with di- rect suggestions; and on them launched a gallon of fact, freighted with strong and logical statement and prayer. He recognized, out of his tact and experi- ence. that-however little the Southern Hercules might be in the mire just now it was pretty essential for the team ster at Washington to hitch on for a long pull and a pull all together, for cavilled at the resolutions: save one cautious and conscientious statesman.
 To me, the great trouble is. that the resolutions stand. They ought to move They should be marching through the brains of thinking men all over the South. and all over the North and West as well: In the former, they propose to save life and prosperity; in all sections they propose to save the latter; and he was a keen tradesman who cried (and in that ease, too for a little lacking
 "Thou tak'st away my life. when thou dost take the means whereby I live!"
 Those resoiutions, in letter and in spirit. should be marching; even through the halls Of every board of trade, cham Der of commerce, cotton exchange and other public conservator in all the south: They should be marching to Washington today. They should be en- dorsed, strongly and at once-pending peace bearing siesta of State Legisla- tures-by all the chambers and boards, in all the great south; and they should go marching to the capitol, singing as national anthem:
 we are coming Father, Father Treas ury, some sixty millions strongi"
 Briefly. and believe fndutiab bly. these resolutions have met no dissentient voice. They swept away-through their necessity ana timeliness-the last in- veteracy or misapplied States rights. They raise no rivalries, nor frighted any tin1orous brother They are model of unanimtty. no less than of di- rectnessl
 But tkey were only words, after all. They vii remain that. until signed and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23
EX-GOVERNOR JOHNSTON.
Disclaims Any lea of Re-entering
 Politics.

POItt1cSs
 Memphis Commercial-Appeal. "The railroad rate issue is the su- preme factor in Alabama politics just ston, of that State. yesterday at the Gayoso. "B. B. Conner. president of the incumbent Railroad Commission, and Dr. R. NJ. Cunningham, are the oppo- nents in the gubernatorial race, and it saems the plaH' ls fo fall to the one who proves most extreme on the issue. Governor Johnston arrived in Mem! phis yesterday, accompanied by Colonel ": B. Leedy. The latter formerly re-
 or's first visit to Memphis and he was very much surprised at it's develop ment. Birmingham is growing rapid ly," said Governor Johnston. but 1t has not reached the skyscraper point. as Memphis has. Your city has the most metropolitan air of any I have visited in the South. I understand your
 a sound basis. Today. in company with
 Colonel Leedy, I have visited your downtown business center. and I am astonished at its development"
 Governor Johnston disclaims any idea
 of re-entering politics in Alabama.
 While two Senators are to be elected by
 the next Legislature in that State, he
 is not a candidate for either of the of
 fees, and is inclined to the opinion that
 Senators Morgan and Pettus will have
 no opposition.
 "Coionel Leedy and myself are duck
 hunters" said Governor Johnston. We
 are to be the guests of Captain w B.
 Mallory at the Wapanoca Club tomor-
 row, and shooting ducks in good ter
 ritory and with congenial friends,
 beats the political game in every re-
 spect"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23

sealed by the legal spokesman of every Falling the Legislatures. let those other bodies speak formal endorsement resolutions from the Chattanooga min- utes and endorse them. Let the press of the South endorse them, and send abroad the fact of this double endorse ment.
 The people spoke through their rep resentatives at Chattanooga: let the press speak for them, now. Tomorrow sweep pc the fSo memory of recent and loss from the memory of the Wash i. 3u.t s ;ns rs ss ffn. .n. tspE ts as S s d if : cry editor waits for another to act, the late convention sit like the adssed T dare notv into the back alley. they will stultify themselves. and do those who sent them to Chattanooga griev- ous wrong. If they do their duty to Senators and Representatives-ret ing after the recess full of mince pie and the very cream of human kindness corporate bodies, responsible to speak. that the law-dethroned boquets never will be missed. And MT. Williams lead Ing a majority of Mississippi turkey, vate John Aliens self f-cured hams. will see his Chattanooga resolutions passed so quickly that not the most reca1cit- rant will have time to draw back for the harmless necessary kick.
 If ever the clock of progress had up- on its dial the hour for action, the es- sence of Macbeth's recipe for cooking a beefsteak points to it today: "It were
 T. C. De Leon.
 Mobile. Ala, Dec. 20, 1905.
 P. S-I am not asking any editor to print any nonsense he may think have written; only to pick out any hardpan sense he may find in it. and serve 1t up hot, even with dissentient sauce,