The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-25
The News of Mobile

4 deputy sherifr was sent for and the boy taken to jail. Here he gave the name of Alphonse Ryan as the man was afterwards apprehended and is also iu tail.
 s. C. Fuller of Bifminshasn Is in the city.
 Hon. !. ]. King of Marengo County Is in Mobile on business trip. F. M. Loveiace of Brewton is regis tered at the windsor. Fl Y. Cooper and P. L. Paige of Bay Minette are fin Mobile today. New Passenger Steamship. Yellow fever in New Orleans and the States of Louisiana and Mississippi have no detrimental effect on the progress of the city of Mobile so far as her mar itime interests are concerned. An ssoo.oee passenger and freight steam ship is to be built to be added to the already large trade with Cuba. The n. and Q. and Southern Railways, fin conjunction with tho Munson Steamship Line have ordered the steamship to be built and 1t will be installed as soon aS pOsSioto lu tHe AlOuite-1hVaQa tfaQe This new steamship is to be built at an Eastern shipyard within the year In the meantime the Munson Line is under guarantee to increase It's passenger facilities by the replacing of the Mo- bila with the Prince Arthur, steam ship with . capacity of 800 passen- gers.
 Capt. Joseph Lawrence. a we'll known ! member of the single tax colony at Fairhope. Baldwin County, met with a serious accident this porning. He was at work on a scaffoid and the ropes
 broke, he fell to the ground, breaking two ribs.
 The Western Union, through Mana ger vandevender, today subscribed $l00 to the local cieanfng-up fund. ~~-
 Five new buildings, including a new theatre. are among the promised inn provements for Mobile ia the near flu. ture. Two hotels are included in the list.
 Ghost Didn't walk. Much concern was manifested today when 1t became current on the streets that the German American Publishing Company had enjoyed the sensation of a walx-out of the employees because of failure of the ghost to walk. ." This company gets out the following peri odicals; Staatts Zeitung, a German weekly; The Recorder, a Republican
 weekly; The Sentinel. a weekly with !. D. Mastin as manager: The Florida StaAts Zweitung. and Seaside Whistler, issued from Coden. The employees in
 the office quit work today because the management. had failed to ''come across"
 with the funds for the pnst weeks pay roll az noon stated to The Advertiser that the pay roll had been met and the com pany would resume operations tomor- row morning as usual.
 John Cowley, a. well-known resident received news this afternoon of the very serious illness of his elder daugh- orleans, with yellow fever. Mrs. Will Hams Is the wife of a prominent man in New Orleans. but she was in Man deville, La, when stricken with the dreaded disease. The latest report was to the effect that he was not expected to survive. t1sfss .. s.., 9s
 B.. R. Slaughter is badly wanted at Bay Springs. Miss. for embezzfeineft of funds from section. hands of the Mo bile. Jackson and Kansas Railroad, and merchants at that place to the amount of $l,0O0. reward Of $200 has been offered for his apprehension.
 News was received here this after noon of the sudden death last evening at Theodore, in this county, of A. A Clarke. a well known resident. With his wife he went to his field, he opened a gate, passed through and fell to the ground. dying immediately. He leaves a large family.
 Miss Katie Laveretta. aged 10, daugh- ter of Columbus Laveretta, died today at the family home on North wilkin- son Street after a brief illness.
 William H. Roberts. recently appoint ed by Chancellor Smith as Superintend- ent of the City Wharves, filed his bond this afternoon, took the oath and was formally installed into office by the Chancellor.
 Commission Merchants Meet.
 The seventh annual meeting of the Mobile branch National League of Com mission Merchants of the United States was held tonight in the Criterion Cafe. Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: Godfrey Mertz, Pres ident; Philip Muscat Secretary; A. Mus cat, Treasurer. A sumptuous supper followed, during which, with Captain