The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-22
.DR, ABERCROMBIE IS ID SPEAK IN SELMA Youthful Burglars Are Given
 Limit of the Law RATE WAR ON THE RIVER Cotton Seed to Be Taken to Mobile for s1.5o Per Ton and Cotton
 at 50 Gents Per
 Bale.
RATE WAR ON THE RIVER

Selma, September 21.-(Special) )-Sel-
 mians have a reputation of being rather phlegmatic when it comes to public speaking or lectures of any kiml but i there is being evinced no little interest
 over the announcement made today that | Dr. John w. Abercrombie president of ] the State university, will address the
 pupils of the Presbyterian High school
 and the public generally at the court | house on Wednesday morning next at 1 o'clock. Dr. Abercrombie is coming to | Selma on the occasion of the opening of l the Presbyterian High school, and his | topic will be the same as that taken for
 his address before the Cincinnati schools a short while ago, College Education a Condition of Success" Judge B. NJ Mil
 Ter of the circuit court, recognizing the
 great good to result from such an ad-
 dress, has consented to postpone the op- ening of the court on Wednesday until | after the address.
 Burglars Given Limit.
 The two youthful burglars who broke
 Into Sam Rosenburg's store on Washing | ton street on Monday night, and another negro, who received the stolen watches and disposed of them, were given the | full limit of the law in the mayors | court this morning The two burglars. | Ernest Williams and Robert Chillis. were both assessed a fine of $45 and bound over | to await the action of the grand jury,
 while Monroe Adolphus, better known as Long Boy" was given the same fine | but not bound over. A search 6d the | house of Robert Chillis last night by the | officers revealed the hiding place between | the mattresses on 6 bed of three suitS of | clothes and four pairs of pants, which had | been taken from the store. All of the watches but one and all of the fobs but l one have been recovered. Long Boy" | disposed of the watches for the negroes.
 Jury Decides Against the Justice. The jury in the case of the state ex. | rel. Hagar Harris vs. Walter Emmerson. | justice of the peace, brought in verdict | last night against the decision of the l justice of the peace in refusing to grant | an appeal to the woman. The matter came | up on a writ of mandamus against the | justice to show cause why the appeal | should not be rendered and after the evil dence was heard the jury decided that | the woman was entitled to a bond. l The matter is not entirely ended yet,
 as the woman sold a COW to the consta- ! ble of the court, who advanced the money | to pay the cost and fine for the offense l committed, and then it is alleged that the
 husband of the woman drove the bovine
 back home the next night. The grand
 jury will likely look into this phase of l the case. The whole matter seemed to | hinge upon whether the woman paid the | fine willingly or under duress and then | afterwards came in and asked to file an | appeal
 Rate War on River. | The Alabama river steamboat Ouachita
 reached the wharf at noon today, bring | Ing cotton and cotton seed for the first | time under the new rate inaugurated
 during the present week, when war was | declared among the four boats plying | between Selma and Mobile. The rate
 formerly was g per ton for seed and 70
 cents per bale for cotton. It is claimed that some of the boats, while charging
 the regular rate, were relating shippers | 50 cents per ton on seed and 25 cents per
 bale on cotton. This led to the announce
 ment of an open rate at sl5O per ton for | seed and 50 cents per bale for cotton. The cotton and cotton seed traffic on the river is to be the largest in years, ac- cording to predictions.
 Local and Personal. | Judge of Probate Pitts this morning | married at the court house Miss Maude Bell Beardin and MT J. w. Clemens
 After the wedding the young couple left
 over the Louisville and Nashville for
 their home in the southern part of the | county.
 l The circuit court has adjourned for the
 rest of the week, the jurors having been
 discharged at the conclusion of the la | bors last night.
 | Many wagons of coal may be seen be- ing hauled to the country these days. It is stated that labor is so scarce in
 the country that 1t Is impossible to get wood out hence the necessity of buying coal and huling 1t out in the country. 1 Mir Robert Young and sisters. who | have been spending the summer at Mont
 eagle. Tenn, have returned to their home
 in this city
 1 MT. and Mrs. L. K. Mcvoy and children ! have returned from spending the past | ten days in Tilden.
 Considerable excitement was occasion ed this morning by the screams of a woman from the stairs leading from Jus tice Lloyd's court They emanated from
 Mary J. Hill negro woman, who was | suing her son-in-law for s42 board bill | The son-in-law's attorney drew such an- swers from his former wife, who was on | the stand, that the latters mother went
 into mysteries and had to be led from court.
 | Rev. and Mrs. l.. c. Flames of Demon