The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-19
Advertiser Bureau.


 William wimberly. a well known young resident of Oakdale, suburb of Mobile, had an exceedingly marrow eseape this morning ut the Cresceh' Lumber Company's mill.
 MT. Wimberly is a lumber inspec- tor and this morning early, Wniie walking on the log deck at the mn, rnnning saws He fell over wet log and became damned between other logs, When picked up he was founa to have broken his right wrist anu sustained injuries to his left knee. He was brought to the city, given surgi- cal attention and sent to his nome.
 After an immediate illness of eight weeks, Matthew Laws, one of the old est citizens of Mobile County, died at his home in Toulminville at lo;So o'clock last night.
 MT. Laws was ninety years old, a native of Philadelphia and had resid- ed in this county for fifty years. He was Joined in marriage in Mobile Tor ty-ntne years ago to Miss Amelia Haas, who survives him. Besides his wire he leaves four daughters, Mrs. M. L. Corners of Philadelphia, Mrs. James McAndrew and Miss Frances Laws or Toulminville, and Mrs. J. D. BerriJon of Mobile. and two sons, Matthew LAWS. Jr., or WulSllcT anu q. AA' ~~-~ of Toulminville; also fourteen grand children and three great grand chii- dren. He was a Confederate soldier and after the war engaged in the cat tle business here. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning.
 News was received here this morn ing from Fairford of very disas- trous wreck on the Tombigee VaiIey Railroad.
 log train, which was being pushed bv A heavy engine, left Fairford about |7 o'clock last night. The train was m charge of Ernest Johnson, a popular young man. When about one-haii mlIe ml from Fairford twelve of the heaVy loaded cars left the rails and were piled up in a general mass.
 MT. Johnson was killed and two ne- eroes employed on the train were reported missing and are thought 10 be under the piles of logs.
 MT. McRea, who brought the news here, says the remains or youns ow were found on the track ana It IS thought she was struck by the truck of inc first car and 1t left the track causing the wrecking Of a dozen cars.
 MT Johnson was a most exemplary vouns man and the sole support or ah aged mother.
 
 warm up as the time for the primary draws near. While the slate makers have been getting busy nothing: as vet has been given publicty. Whie there are eight councilmen ana seHen aldermen to be chosen the latter ist has not been filled by candidates. pae there is a superfluity Of counclinlanio timber offered for favoritism's sake
 Cane on the inside intimated today that the scramble for offices which are dinpensed by the General Councii "iii he great, with a number or novlces .n the list The three cornered mayorai'S race will be interesting.
 Al A regular meeting of the Board If Revenue and Road Commissioners held this afternoon. on motion os Commissioner Andrews 1t was decloeo to hold a special meeting Weohesoas, At this meeting plans VIII pc accepteu for enlarging and improving the county courthouse and erecting new Jall, Bonds to the amount of SzoO'ooo lot this work were authorized by vote or inc people last fall. Architect benz' elected by the board, accompanied committee to many cities ana has drawn elaborate plans.
 Iudpe Price Williams. clerk of the hoard suggested the advisability or new county asylum and thls VII oe discussed at the special meeting
 Tn the limited States District Court this afternoon John l.. Dantzler nled Ijbel against the Munson Steamship Company for $13,500. The libel was the result of the running down anu destroying of the schooner Villa Her mane in the Gulf of Mexico. about sixty miles off Fort Morgan, by the Munsoh Havana liner Mobila recently
 hnI served the libel on the local agent of the com pany, and. bond being given, the Mo- bila was released.
 Dr Joseph GoIdberger of the United States Marine Hospital and Publlc Health Service, after making test ot Tumigating a refrigerator car laden with bananas, today decided the test failure. He found, as predicted by the fruit people here, the fruit would be ruined by the process of fumigation.
 The remains of Miss Josephine Mo Eyerv who died In Birmingham yes terdav. will reach here tomorrow morn ing for interment. The funeral Will take place from the residence of her brother-in-law. Joseph Lahan. 156 Pal nostto Street. She is survived here by her father, four sisters and one DIOIhNA'
 General Chairman Hamburger of the Auxiliary Sanitary Association. after an extended ride of inspection over the city with Chairman A. s. Lyons Of the ossocIation' Executive Committee, de- ciared Mobile absolutely clean. Dr. Rhett Goode this afternoon declared. Mobile will not be among the plague ridden cities of 1905"
 The remains of Mrs. Mary Todd were inferred in Magnolia Cemetery this af- ternoon, followed to the grave by a concourse of friends of the family. Mrs. Todd. who was the mother of Mrs. John Tillinghast, who died the past week, was on her way to the cemetery yesterday evening and died before she could be taken from the car. She was a lovable woman. the wife of Captain Daniel Todd, and native of Mobile.