The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-14
T|SSIER HARDWARE STORE IS ROBBED Pistols and Smaller Articles Taken During Night SELMA WANTS UTILITIES City is Desperately in Earnest About Wanting to Acquire Water Works
 and Electric Light
 Plant
SELMA WANTS UTILITIES

Selina' June 13-(Special. )--The Tissier Hardware company was again the victim of the midnight marauder last night. This morning when Mir Tissier opened his place of business he found unmistak- able evidences of the presence during the night of some unwelcome intruder. From their places in the central show cases some five or six pistols were missing while other smaller articles had evidently been taken since the closing of the store the evening before. Not many weeks ago the store was entered by a negro
 climbing an electric light pole near the eastern extremity of the second porch
 on Water street. A glass was broken
 out of the elevator shaft and an easy
 ingress to the store gained. The negro
 was captured by the police department and practically all of the stolen goods recovered. The pole was used again
 last night but front window was en- tered and the store pillaged.
 A somewhat peculiar circumstance was i the finding of a number of brass news paper leads at the foot of the electric , light pole. The Selma Journal is the only printing office in the city using brass leads and the amount purchased by them has steadily decreased It appears that the Journal office has also been made the victim of the robbers greed The police as yet have not hit upon a clue.
 Municipal Ownership.
 Selma is desperately in earnest over the proposition of municlpaq ownership of the water and electric light plant Mayor Atkins has been working for some time upon the proposition and Councilman Grayson the new member from the First
 ward, seems to have made 1t his hobby for the ensuing term. At the first meet ing of the new council Mayor Atkins outlined plan for the purchase of both | plants. Councilman Grayson also pre- scented a resolution declaring 1t the sense | of the council that the city own both | plants, Last night at the meeting of | the council MT Grayson made a report | recommending an immediate election on
 the question. The mayor and council | did not think the time ripe for an elec- | tion, taking it as a mater of course that | the people wanted municipal ownership | and the only election necessary being | for the issue of bonds with which to
 purchase the plants.
 Local and Personal.
 MT Josiah Smith, one of the most | prominent citizen of Selma, is critically | i'll at his home. The reports from his | beside this evening give little if any hope | for his recovery.
 | Mrs, F. F. Patterson who was operated | upon yesterday for appendicitis at the | Selma Infirmary, is dangerously Ill to-
 day. Her many friends are grieved that her chances of recovery are considered
 slight.
 1 Mir. ]. s. Perkins has gone to Trenton | ky in the hopes of recuperating his | strength after his recent illness. | Mrs. J. Howard Davidson of Union- | town, who has been visiting relatives
 here returned to her home this morning.
 She was accompanied by Mrs. l.. A. | Privett and Miss F. R. Phillips.
 MT. Mac Featherstone of Greenville. | we'll known travelling man, passed ] through Selma today en route to De- | mopols. MT Featherstone is an enthu- | siastic Red Man and took an important | part fin the deliberations of the Great l Council of the state at the meeting in Birmingham last month.
 l MT. c. c. Ferral, the well-known cot l ton buyer, passed through the city today | en route to Meridian, from visit to l Montgomery.
 | Capt. II. Clay Reynolds of Montevallo | came down this morning and spent the | day with friends in Selma.
 l Mir John w. Coleman a former Sel- | milan. but now of Macon, Ga., is visit | ing his brother MT. Robert Coleman or | this city.
 Edgar Newman and J. K. Lutz, repre- | senting steamship lines out of Savannah | were visitors to Selma today on business | for their respective concerns.
 | MT. E, C. Jones has returned from | nIaaeant visit to Birmingham.