The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-24
BADLY HURT BY
 FALL FROM TREE Joe Gergor Was Decorating at
 Gates BATTY WILL PROBABLY DIE Was Recently Injured In Quarrel at Linden-other News of Selma
 and Dallas
 County.
FATTY WILL PROBABLY DIE

Selma, September 23.-(special. )-Joe Gergor. Slav working in the vicinity of Gates, on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, in Marengo county, was brought to an infirmary in this city today suffer- ing with many brusies sustained in a fall from tree yesterday afternoon.
 It seems that on Sunday the Slavs in that vicinity are to appropriately cele- brate some feast recognized in their home country and it was resired to make am- pie preparations for the occasion by put ting up decorations. MT. Gergor was up in tall pine tree arranging a wire on which flags were to be suspended when a limb gave way precipitating him to the ground He fell on his shoulders and neck and suffered great pain until brought to the infirmary here. It is not thought any bones are broken, but there is a fear that he is internally injured
 Stabbed and Will Die.
 Information from Linden today is to the effect that MT. C. E. Batty who was stabbed by Nat Burdin several nights ago, is in a precarious condition and the end is expected any moment. Batty and Jim Norwood were shooting craps in the rear of Burdin's drug store in Linden and a disagreement occurred between the two men, Norwood drawing his pistol. The pistol was discharged and Burdn ran into the room. Batty claims Burdin stabbed him with dirk, the knife enter ing between seventh and eighth ribs and penetrating the lung. Warrants were sworn out for both Norwood and Burdin nd Ia txxto ua in, of $150
 Two days after the cutting MT. Batty began to grow worse and but for an operation, performed by a Selma surgeon sent for, death would have resulted, but the removal of the blood from the lungs gave hope for recovery. Upon the wound taking a most serious turn an effort was made to rearrest the two men, but they have not been found. The affair is great ly regretted in the section in which it occurred MT. Batty has wife and sev- eral children; the other two were young men much his junior.
 Local and Personal.
 Tillie Clements, young negro boy, was fined s5 in mayors court this morning for jumping on and off the electric car. He was nabbed by Officer Smith on the corner of Washington and Selma streets last night, being pulled off the car by the officer. He set up such howl when caught that the car was stopped and the passengers rushed off expecting to find that some one had been run over. A section of the two-story warehouse of | the International Cotton Seed Oil com pany gave way this morning, the severa | tons of cotton seed hulls causing the floor to sink Not a great deal of dam ] age was done and no one was hurt. 1 Mrs. E. A Garrett is spending few days with Mrs. John I. Hawke before leaving for her future home in Oklaho l ma.
 | The Nettie Quill reached the wharf this | morning, bringing 1500 sacks of cottor seed and 150 bales of cotton.
 Cotton is rolling into Selma these days at the rate of about 1200 bales per day The crops are conceded to be short ir this section
 A horse belonging to Mir J. B. Ellis ran away this morning, breaking the buggy to pieces. The animal, which Is g very fine one. Mir. Ellis having refused $500 for him, after running several blocks ran into the shafts of buggy and in jured himself severely, though it Is moi thought fatally.