The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-31
NEWROAD PROPOSED
TO CONNECT GADsDEN DISTRICT
 WITH TUSCALOOSA.
EngineeRs are Looking for Right cf Way for Electric Line to Haul
 Mineral to . Waterway.

Gadsden, May 3o.-(Special)-J. M. Dewberry. the promoter of the Tide water Developing Company, was Tn Gadsden Tuesday with an electrical engineer of the county for the purpose of making a survey of the city and district preliminary to beginning the actual survey for the two track elec- trical railway system from Gadsden to Tuscaloosa. When asked for an interview Dewberry said that ne did not care to give out an interview just now as he was simply in the city look ing over the manufacturing plants and the possibilities for his road ana that he was accompanied by no one but an engineer.
 Mir. Dewberry Is now going over the territory that Is adjacent to the pro- posed line and it is believed that the active development of the line Will begin at an early date. The proposed line of the Tfdewater Developing Com- pany will build an electrica railroad from Gadsden to point on the War rior river and from there barge line will carry the freight rom the Birmingham and Gadsden districts 10 the sea. The Coosa river at this place will be used from here to Rome Ga. also.
 The Southern Steel Company has awarded the contract for building a | large extension to its open thearth | building, to the American Steel Con- | struction Company at Pittsburg. Pa. | The contract calls for building that will house two open hearth steel fur naces and several gas producers. This | will increase the size of the main | building about one half. The grading l for the furnace foundation will be rushed to completion and the Pitts | burg company will begin work just | as soon as the necessary material can | be assembled and the men secured. Rev. Xavier Sutton. c. F. will de- l liver series of lectures at the Cath | ollie Church in this city. The lecture will begin Sunday night and the sub- | ject embraces explanations of part | of the Catholic faith with which prct- estants in general are not familiar. On Sunday Father Sutton.s subject will be "A Friendly Talk" and "Purgatory"
 on Monday night. and Tuesday night | the subject Is Marriage and Divorce" Wednesday night the subject will be. Can Man Forgive Sin on Thursday night, Quo vadis," Friday night, 'Ts There a He'll" and Saturday night. why am Catholic. Father Sutton is an interesting lecturer.
 Tuesday morning the sheriff was given a list of 100 talesmen to try three capital eases in the second week of the jury criminal term of the city court which begins Monday! The case against You1ander Degg. the woman who shot and killed Aubrey Womack in her resort on Locus Street on New Year night. 1905. will be tried on Thursday, June 4. Forty jurymen have been drawn for this case. Lee Law son, who shot and killed Arthur Mo- Cullom. at Mountainsboro, will be tried Wednesday, Frank Allen. who was G. rrfI t~ zxH woman in Attalla will be tried again on Monday. Sheriff Chandler and his | deputies are now summcning the jury | for the term.
 Edgar L. Magness, of Nashville, Is in Atta1la and it is understood that he is there for the purpose of organizing | a bank with the local business men as the principal stockholders. MT. Mag ness was president of the Bank of At taIla for a number of years and made | that city his home until he withdrew from the bank and located in Nashville. There has been a number of other | bankers to visit Attalla for the pur- | pose of organizing bank but nothing | has yet been done.
 R. M. Reed, who was in the buggy with Rev J R. Troter at the time the ] latter was killed Saturday. was severe ly Injured internally. At first 1t was thought that Reed had escaped injury in making the jump from the buggy, but Monday he began to complain of pains in his back and side. and on Tuesday 1t was necessary to summon physician. The physician stated that
 he was seriously hurt
 The Rural Carriers Association of
 Etowah county will meet in Attalla
 Saturday night. All of the carriers arc
 urged to be present as this will be
 most important meeting.
 Tf-f @H hA e
 No. i at the steel plant has been torn
 out, this part of the work having been
 completed last week and the new lin-
 ing is now being put in. It Is estimat-
 ed that forty-or forty-five days will
 he required to complete the repairs on the stack.
 some official inquiry will probably be
 made into the cause of sending United States Commissioner Watts from Bir- mineham to Attalla for the purpose of arraigning Dykes and Lawley last sum dav. The law directs that these men should have been carried Derore the
 rearest commissioner. who Is Edward Pickard of Gadsden. Just why NAT. Watts was assigned to the case does not appear clear to the interested par ties here. and the matt In all prop
 ahiIitv will be reported to Attorney ceneral Moody at Washington, Judge Jores at Montgomery and the dls'fic0 attorney at Birmingham.
 Dr. A. W. Rails and family ana Dr.
 J. M. Brown and family will leave Mon,
 day for Boston to attend the annual
 meeting of the Amerifan Medical socl-
 etv. They will go from Boston to New
 york to spend a month. pr. Rails will
 take a special course in surgery and
 Dr- Brown will take special course
 in the treatment of the head:
 T. D. Lancaster and Miss Alice odom
 were married at the Probate Omce this
 afternoon at o'clock. Clerk Forney
 Hughes officiating.
 prof. W. F. Stripllnl left Tuesday for
 Rrewton where he will deliver an ad-
 dress before the graduating class. Pro lessor striplin received the appoint
 ment as professor in the summer school of the University of Alabama.
 The school will begin June l3.