The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-23
FITS AT HUNTSVILLE.
Young Candidate for Alternate Senntor
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 Young Candidate for Alternate Senator Appears in Madison. Huntsville. May Especial )--Hon. William C. Fitts, ex-Attornney General of Alabama, now a candidate for al- 1 ternate Senator, came to Huntsville yes- terday and addressed a large gathering of voters in the county court house.
 Mir. Fitts made a favorable imprss- sion upon all who heard him.
 Hon. William M. Selden, clerk in the office of the Commissioner of Agricul- ture, candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture, and Hon. C. Brooks Smith chief clerk in the office of the State Auditor. candidate for State Auditor. spent yesterday in Huntsville looking , after their political interests. Judge Scruggs, agent for the Nash vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail- road at Mercury, dropped asleep while sitting in his chair on the depot plat form and fell to the ground, breaking his collar bone and injuring himself seriously. He was brought to the city hospital on the night train. Judge Scruggs is seventy-five years old and the accident may prove to be serious.
 Judge Daniel W. Speake has cons yened the May term of Circuit Court for the trial of civil eases with jury.
 George Gilbert, temporary manager, of the Huntsville office of the Western Union, has been succeeded in the man. agement here by H. E. Avis of Frank fort, Ky.
 At q special meeting of the city coun- cil last night, Alderman E. R. Mat thews of the Third ward offered his resignation as alderman and it was accepted. The council will appoint new member at a future meeting.
 building permit was granted Jack Smith for the erection of a brick and t1J bi In Tha new building Is half within the fire limits and 1t was to decide the char acter of material to be used that the special meeting of the councill was called. The new hotel will have up- wards of twenty-five rooms.
 The Nights of Columbus will have great flag raising. barbecue and cele- bration of the Fourth of July in this city on the great national holiday. The railroads will be asked to operate special trains into the city for that occasion and every effort will be made to have a celebration as great as that of last year when the out-of-town at tendance was more than ten thousand. Until the Knights of Columbus decid- there would be any general observance of the day in Huntsville.
 Mrs. Joseph Smith. an aged and re- spected lady of the Deposit precinct, died yesterday while sitting in her chair on the porch of her residence. Mrs. Smith was seventy-five years old, had been a member of the church sixty years and was married fifty years.
 Mary, the little daughter of MT. and Mrs. Robert Orgain. died Sunday after a brief Illness.
 The Eagles Club has been incorpo- rated under the laws of Alabama by M. A, Shields, w. L. Humphrey, Humes Laughlin, J. H. Crosthwaite and others, acting as commissioners of the Hunts vile Aerie of Eagles for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a detIb house or club rooms to provide enter tainment for the members of the or der M. A. Shields has been elected president of the club, J. H. Crosthwaite vice president; John l.. Hay, secretary and w. M Yarbrough treasurer