The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
THE NEWSOF MOBILE
MRS. LENA ALLENBACH RECEIVES
 HAD SCARE.
Many New Buiidings Going up and old Buildings Being s,e1nodeied
 the Cause of Extraordinary Scarcity of Labor.
Advertiser Bureau.
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Mobile Sept IA
 Mrs Lena Allenbach. proprietress of a boarding house on Government street, two doors from the county court house. wss badly frightened this morning it is5 her custom every morn ing to arise about four o'clock and go to the Southern market, just around the corner from her home. This morn. ing she left the house and as she was passing the court house a man stepped from behind the stone coping and attempted to catch hold of her Frightened too much to scream, Mrs Ailenbach ran as fast as she could to the market The man, she said called to her several times to stop. but she paid no heed to him. Several men in the market went at once to the court house in search of the man. but he had disappeared Mrs. Allenbach was too frightened to take good look at her would-be assailant.
 Improvements Continue.
 Never before in my experience. have I seen skilled and unskilled la borers so scarce.' said a we'll known contractor this morning. Asked to what he ascribed the dearth of arti- sans in the building trades. he replied that the amount of Improvements and new. work in progress have employed all the available help and none can be obtained from other cities.
 It looks as though every property owner in the city was attacked with the improvement fever at the same time With this condition existing in the business district and similar condi- tions in the several residential dis tricts the demand for labor Is readily explained. Some of the many large buildings in course of construction and which are in need of additional help are the new county jail and depot Pollock block, Jackson and Frazer sanitorium, Mobile Electric Company's second power house. Mo- Donneli block, H. M. Price block and waring estate. On almost every block, forces are engaged either in remodeling fronts or interiors of buildings and vacant lots in residence districts are being changed in appear ance. not less than 100 residences be- ing in course of erection. Another improvement begun this morning was an immense two-story brick stable on the premises northeast corner of Jack son and St. Louis streets 50x113. by Dixon and Mckay. Work is progress ing very slowly on the foundations for the ten story building at the south west corner of Dauphin and Royal streets. owned by G. Van Antwerp.
 The MOntrose Mystery.
 In The Advertiser of September 5 appeared an account of the burning of the home of J. Jansen, on the back road at Montrose, Baldwin county. on the Eastern Shore of Mobile bay. In the ruins were found fragments of the laged owner of the place. It was then intimated that MT. Jansen had been murdered and crenated in his own home. Jansen was known to have money and valuabies in his home. Be- ing a recluse since the death of his wife. several months ago, 1t was sus- pected the man had met with foul play. This was and is yet the opinion of the jury impanelled by Coroner Mo- Kenzie and many residents of Montrose express the same opinion. There is marked activity on the pare of the Coroner and Sheriff as well as citizens to discover clue to the yet uncleared mystery.