The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-03
Negro,s Reckle.. shoottnr.

Vince Williams, negro bartender | appeared as the heavy man in a double | playlet in the Recorders Court this morning. being fined s25 by Judge | Clarke for discharging firearms with in the city, while he was. in another case. bound over to the City Court under $250 bonds, for shooting witf intent to kill. It seems very fortunate | that the shooting did not result 1T the death of some one. as the negro Ncarelessly fired several shots last evening, without having stopped t. see where he was shooting.
 One of the bullets. indeed. passed through the, sleeve of a white mans coat and shirt, as he stood in the door, way of a shoe store on Government street, near Royal, took the tip off a shoe which a negro boy was holding in his hand on the inside of the store, and finally lodged in an empty shoe box on the shelf This IS the only bullet whose course can be traced, al- though bystanders assert that the flashes indicated that the revolver in the negro's hands was held fin a hort Zontal position when 1t was fred
 Williams emptied the chamber of the weapon. and then, ejecting the spent shells. reloaded it with another round of cartridges, and was just on the point of snapping the barrel in place when he was arrested. He offered no resistance to the officer, merely say. ing, There ain't no harm ,p me-" He explained that he wAG merely eGlebra- ting the departure of 1906 and the ar rival Of 1907.
 Want Sunday Ball.
 There are prospects that Mobile base ball magnates will go before the Leg islature that convenes at Montgomery Tn nxyf At,ok be passed granting the privilege of Sunday games of baseball in Mobile. This simple request will be met with strenuous objections, however, on the part Of the ministers and the Sunday observing portion of the populace.
 Petitions have been put out by the managers of the great national game in Mobile. asking for relief from what they term the blue laws" that prohibit the tossing of the sphere and the swinging of the bat during the festive summer season on the first day of the week, and 1t Is intimated that the leg islature is expected, in the nature of compromise, to pass a law passing the whole thing up to the City Councils of the various cities of the State, in the nature of local option arrangement
 The petitions for Sunday ball are all ready being met with counter petitions, fostered by the ministers Of the city, protesting against the passage of any such law, as backward step by the State of Alabama on a great moral question. These protesting petitions are to be circulated, it is said, among the church members of the city, and 1t is hoped, and believed, that more names can be secured on them than on the Sunday baseball" petitions.
 Berney McCay, the Mobile manager meanwhile Is saying nothing but just saving wood. He is at present in Att lanta, and Is busy as a hen with a big brood of chickens in his efforts to gather together winning team for the Gulf City. He has so far, 1t is stated, reserved three of last years champion team, and signed four other crack play CTS. He promises the best team that Mobile has seen in many years.
 Ben Mellis, 1t is announced, has pur- chased a quarter interest in the asso- citation. his funds being added to the capital stock heretofore issued.