The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09

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 The attendance at Monday night drills has been very light,and unless an improvement is shown at once charges will be preferred against absentees and court martial proceedings instituted. This step would be very much regretted but is made necessary by the poor at- tendance at drills.
 Offcers and non-commissioned of- ficers' school will be held in the armory on Thursday nights. and all members of the company are requested to attend this school By order
 Captain Thomas F. Mckay,
 Commanding Co. B, 1st Infantry. A. ". B. Gilbert. First Sergeant.
 John Martin, white, about 36 years old, was arrested this afternoon by Special ohlcer Hoyle and Clerk Gibiin of the police department in the Mobile and ohio roundhouse, A warrant charging assault to murder at Opelika was in the hands of the arresting of- ficers. Martin is 6 locomotive en- gineer. His home is said to be in Selma, where he is alleged to have a wife and children. It is charged Martin severely cut a man named John F. Rutledge while in the latters yard in Opelika in December last.
 James Turner, a white man residing at St. Elmo, this county. was arrested this morning by Deputy Sheriff Broadus on warrant charging libel. The complainant is Rev. l.. N. Brock, a Baptist minister, who charges that Turner made statements derogatory to his character. Turner gave bond for his appearance in the inferior criminal court.
 The City Court, Hon. J. o. semmes presiding, will convene Monday morn- ing. The only case on the call Is M. F. Ray, indicted for assault to mur- der. Ray, while a depot watchman for the Louisville and Nashville last winter, shot and seriously iujured Clarence Blalack, a young man, at the passenger depot. Ray came from Montgomery.
 Hillary Taylor, alias Babe Taylor, the young white man who few months since cut the throat of an aged white man named Willis Cattret at Stockton, Baldwin County, killing him. was tried in the Baldwin Circuit Court this week, the indictment charging murder. Judge Sam B. Browne was on the bench. The case began Wednesday and the jury last night brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, with a penalty of fifteen years in the penitentiary. Taylor was defended by c. L. Bromberg of this city and Hon. Sam c. Jenkins of Bay Minette, appointed by the court, and for the prosecution appeared J. N. Ora made. solicitor; B. F. McMlllan of Mo- bile. Thomas Besworth of St. Stephens and Frank s. Stone of Bay Minette
 On muster night, Wednesday, the members of Company M. Mobile Rines' will discuss the question of having their trophy cup, the one captured in the competitive drill at Monroe Park on the occasion of the Red Mems pow wow, worked over This cup, 1t will be recalled was very badly damaged in the Battle House fire and was re- covered in a dilapldated condition.
 On Monday night the members of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Asso- citation will hold their annual celebra- bration. On this occasion they will meet in German Relief Hall and enjoy a smoker and talk of the good old days of the volunteer fremen. There are about 225 members on the roster.
 The business men of Mobile who have summer homes at Daphne, Montrose and Seacliff, have. with the Eastern shore Transportation Company. secur- ed A boat which will bring them from the places named to Mobile every morning at o'clock and leave for the other side at In the evening.
 Licenses to marry were issued to the following white couples this week: Ernest Edgar to Daisy F. Morse; George w. Gentry to Tishie Alexander; Dabid MalIett to Espy Mason; Fred Rlacksher to Lucy Wllbourne; George w Valentine to Mary Gabel J. B. Kelly to Maggie Bosarge; Edward S. Kelly to Mary E. Scott; Albert H. sturdivant to Lavonia Curr.
 Mobile Society News.
 crowd of young people are spend ing the weeks end at Daphne, gusts of Miss Agnes Belle Goldsby and chape- roned by Mrs. Joel Goldsby. In the party are Misses Clara Ross, Mary Paisley Godsby. Elizabeth Rhett, Laura Pilans. Ida McKinstry and Messrs 
 stewart. c. Smith, Irving Deshon and Paul Wilson.
 A coming event of unusual social prominence has been foreshadowed by the appearance today of certain in teresting invitations in which Majoi Sidney T. Prince announced the ap' preaching marriage of his daughter | May to MT. William N. Hunter. thu a Christ Church. This will be the frs of the Easter weddings, and thu prominence of the two families and thu popularity of the two younger people render it of more than ordinary in | terest. The bride-to-be is the younges of the three pretty Prince sisters, ont of whom is now Mrs. E. W. Bonduran