The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-02
Selma Gets It's Own Again. boUt ton Naars a po Selma was rob

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 About ten years ago Selma was robbed of the headquarters of a division freight agency on the Southern railway. Today the announcement comes from Washing ton of the re-establishment of such a de- pertinent in Selma for the Mobile traffic division.
 The circular. which is sent out under date of November 29, is signed by l.. Green, freight traffic manager. and ap- proved by D. M. Culp, third vice presi- dent It announces the appointment of H. l.. Miller. division freight agent, to be assistant general freight agent in charge of the Knoxville division with office al Knoxville
 Mir. J. w. Hunter, commercial agent to be division freight agent in charge of Mo- bile traffic division. with office at Selma
 Mir. J. l.. Cox, commercial agent, to be division freight agent, in charge of the Birmingham traffic division in Mississippi, with office at Columbus, Miss.
 The promotion from commercial agent to division freight agent is one richly de- served by MT. Hunter, and his friends rejoice with him while felicitating Selma upon coming into her own again.
 Had Penchant for Horses.
 John Robinson, the young white man who rode off on Harry M Smiths horse Tuesday and who was caught at Gordons- Nlllt DJ olDCeTS f5lHnIOn ana CafnDDell, seems to have a penchant for taking prop erty that did not belong to him in order 1 to get over the country.
 Yesterday afternoon S. E. Pfeifer and two other gentlemen from Tuscaloosa reached Selma. having seen in the papers an account of the arrest of the young man. They soon discovered that 1t was he who had taken a horse and buggy at Tuscaloosa that belonged to MT Pfeifer Robinson admitted to the visitors that he
 took the horse and buggy and drove to- wards Selma as far as Hamburg, where he traded the buggy for a saddle and gun and then came on to Selma. turning the | horse loose near the Estele cotton mill | What he did with the saddle and gun he 1 would not disclose The owners of the property taken from Tuscaloosa succeeded ] in finding both the horse and the buggy. 1 In mayors court this morning Robinson 1 entered a plea of guilty to the theft of i Mir. Smiths horse and he was bound over ! by the mayor in the sum of $500 to await ! the action of the grand jury. Being unable
 to make the bond he sent to jail i When Dallas county gets through with l him he will probably be sent to Tusca-
 loosa to answer to the charge of stealing l the horse and buggy.
 1 The fire department had two calls last i night within the same hour About | o'clock an alarm came in from box 5 ] corner of Florence and Mechanic streets 1 The department responded and found that
 the flames had been extinguished. A lamr | in house near by had been turned over ! and the floor ignited Neighbors and the i residents of the house smothered out the 1 flames.
 The uptown company had scarcely
 reached their truck rooms and were rub ping down the horses when telephone 1 alarm called them to the house of MT. and l Mrs. Jack Leipo1d corner of Union ant 1 Dallas streets. The roof of the kitcher was found in flames, the fire having ] caught from a defective fue. The cool 1 was in the kitchen and did not know about the fire until some one ran in ant 1 told her. The department reached tht