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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
Ra Stor e l05-7 DEXTER AVENUE TELEPHONE 246
 Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention
Tailor Made Garments

The wearing of really fashionable garment price within the reach of all of much comfort We have always sved to give high qualities low grade prices It has been and ambition That we have succeeded in reaching that mers testify Tomorrow go beyond previous records surprising news yet truthful The buyer will be the ganer and deem the hint sufficient.
 Every department included affords opportunity pre- pare for threatened winter money saving prices You'll make mistake by failing take advantage of hesame.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

Thomaston was very high and 1t was feared that he would be lynched.
 Several days afterwards after long chase Ed Glover was captured near the scene of the shooting and he was also brought to Selma for safe keeping. The two negroes were kept in the Dallas county Jaii for several weeks after the shooting before they were taken back to Marengo county
 It was stated here today that young Huckabee, boy in short trousers, who was implicated in the murder of the old farmer, Luke Bradford, near Lin- den several weeks ago. had pleaded guilty to the charge and had been giv- en q sentence of twenty years in the
 There is also implicated in the mur- der of old man Bradford four other white men who live near Linden ana
 vho if was. stated here today, they had plead guilty to the charge of mur- der.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
Social ana Personal.

Mir. Henry Phillips went to Birm- ingham today to attend the football game between Auburn and University of Alabama.
 MT. and Mrs. John Creagii have re- turned home from their wedding jour ney and after Sunday will be domiciled at the home of MT. and Mrs. A L. Mcleod on Union street.
 Mrs. W. A. Anderton has issued in- vitations to a large number of friends to card party on Wednesday after noon, November 90. at s:30 o'clock, complimentary to Mrs John Creagh.
 Mrs. Will Dabbius has returned to her home In Meridian after visiting relatives here for week or sc
 Misses Lillian and Sadie Meyer of Mobile, are spending few days here with their sister. Mrs Rudolph Richards. while en route to Little Rock Ark. where they will spend the win ter with relatives. s Z Major D. M. Scott Is here for few days with relatives.
 The members of the Married Ladies Euchre Club will be entertained on Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Herman Ullman at her home on Dallas street
 Miss Bertha schuster will leave Tn the next few days for Montgomery to visit friends.
 Miss sailie Strengthen. . charming and talented young woman of Canton Bend, is visiting the city.
 Col. s. w. Johns. of Birmingham, spent today in Selma.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
HEAVY LIABILITIES
LARGE rNDEBTEDNEss OF GARY-
 KENNEDY COMPANY. .
clover Negroes Are Convicted Ia Ma- rengo County for Murder of Fred Holrfs---Huckabee Boy
 Plenda Guilty.
Advertiser Bureau.

The amount of indebtedness of the Gary-Kennedy Grocery Company which was thrown into involuntary bankrupt cy here last Tuesday is stated to be far greater than 1t was expected at the closed.
 The assets of the firm are said to be decreasing and it was today stated that where 1t was expected that the assets would reach s100,000 they will hardly reach s7s.000. The liabilities of the concern, 1t was stated, would reach nearly sso0,0o0, and that possibly statement of the liabilities of the con- cern cannot be stated as authoritative 1t was learned from a reliable source.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
Court m Marenro.

The past week in the Circuit Court of Marengo county which has been held at Linden has been busy session according to reports which reached Sell ma today.
 During the week many criminal cases on the docket of the court were dis posed of and heavy sentences were im- posed by the court upon the prisoners.
 Two of the most important cases which were heard during the session of the court were the cases against Primus and Ed Glover, negroes. who were charged with murder. Primus clover was given life sentence and his son, Ed Glover, was given a sem tence of twenty-seven years in the pen- itehtiary.
 The crime for which the negroes were convicted was that of the mur- der of young Fred Hollis. which was committed near Thomaston. early last spring. zdr. Hollis had some trouble in collecting rent from the negro, Ed Glover, and the next morning with some companions went to the cotton field to see the negro.
 Several shots were exchanged be- tween Mir. Hollis and the father and son and during the battle Hollis re eeived a number of wounds from which he died shortly afterwards.
 The old negro. Primus Glover was cantured shortly after the shooting and was brought to this city for safe keep . ing, as the excitement in and around
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
: ID Represent Selma.

Mayor v. B. Atkins this morning appointed committee of two from the city government to represent Sei- ma at the waterways convention which will begin in Birmingham Tuesday.
 The committee representing the city government will be composed of Coun- cilmen M. ]. Meyer and John ". Mar shau. Both of these Councilmen will attend the convention.
 The committee from the city and the committee of five from the Commercial aad Industrial As socintion will work in conjunction and will do all they can in the convention concerning the Ala bama River& &The business men of Sel- ma believe that the convention will re- suit in considerable good to the rivers of the State, and especially to the Ala bama River.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
Perfect fit in the Selz Royal. Blue shoe

VXTE make business in this store of w fitting the feet you bring to us; the
 right size and width isn't always enough; the right style and shape are important too.
 We guarantee perfect fit if you come shere and ask for Selz Royal Blue shoe; $s.5o, $4 and $5. You'll never come nearer to getting your moneys worth than in this shoe.
 Ask to try on Royal Blue the Footform last. The maker guarantees every pair give satisfaction
 The Popular Price
 Dry Goods House
 J. HenIe Co, Proprietors, 12s Dexter Ave.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

Anna Mary DuBose. Louise wilkins, Gladys Gamble. Evelyn Craig. Carrie wilkins. Mabel Jones.
 McCown. Edgar Russell. A. J. Atkins. James Kenneriy. Joe Manly. Warren Hunter. Cecil Gilchrist. Townsend Kin cey. Clarence Boggs. Edmund Welch. Jim Stewart, Eugene Kendicks. James .voltz, Winfield scowan. Ed. Keeble. Graham Melvin. Henry fnillips. Frank Childers, Joseph Parrish. Frank Bar ker. and John Lapsley. Mir. and Mrs. Carter West. Mir. and Mrs Ciaugleton Johnson, Mir. and Mrs. Hugh stanfii and Mss Mary Parrish
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

banker of this city, formerly of Selma, Ala, against whom damages of $500 were given oy z jury in the City Court yesterday
 Charles H. Browning. profession af geneaologist. found the Kings after search of several years, he said. He did 1t because Mrs. Woolsey wanted to get into the order of the Grown, and it is necessary to have q king fh ones ancestry to become q member.
 Browning asserted that she happen- ed tc discover that the wife of Thomas Dudley. Governor of Massachusetts in l1647, was a Dorothy Yorlke. Miss Yorke was 2 sure enough descendant of AL fred the Great. and . few others of the same kind. Lo' and behold. Mrs. Woolsey was sure enough descendant from Dorothy Yorke.
 Then Browping sent in . supple mental report showing the Yorke iine- age. and assured Mrs. Woolsey that she had at least four kings in her fine- age. At the same time he sent bill for $500. Miss Farnsworth, founder of the Order of the Crown. however, claim ed that the kings had not been right fully obtained. and Mrs. Woolsey wasn't admitted to the order.
 Then Mrs. wooIsey refused to pay Browning's bill. The jury was out only a few minutes when it bought in . verdict for the full amount of the claim. Mrs. Woolsey's lawyer will ap- peal"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
l. on Trlsl Tor Murder.

Charlie Woods, negro, who was brought to the city several days ago srom the court of Justice of the Peace Ii. P. Melton of Liberty HILL precinct to await the results or . wound Wnlcn ha inflicted upon another negro. Tom smith. was taken back to Justice Mel tons court in Liberty Hill precinct this rorninr to have his preliminary hear inr on the charge of murder.
 Since the negro Charlie Woods was arrested last Monday Tom Smith. the negro he shot, died from the wounds which he had inflicted. At the time of the shooting Charlie Woods scoided and smith took the woman's part woods then went to his home and get ting A shot gun returned to the cotton field and shot Smith.
 Interesting to seImfnns.
 The New York papers of Thursday last containing an account of a suit which was lost in the court of that city by Mrs. Minthorne Woolsey. for- suit aroused considerable interest among Mrs. woolsey's many friends in this city where she lived for several years and was we'll known by nearly every resident of the city.
 MT. and Mrs. Woolsey moved from Selma to New York city few years ago where MT. woolsey engaged in the banking business. ",
 The New York American contains a picture of Mrs. woolsey with the fol- lowing story of the suit which has just been decided against her:
 That it IS expensive to search for kings in ones ancestry is the experf- ence of Mrs. Thomasene Rlgby Wool sey. wife of Minthorne Wooisey, a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
Fruit of the Loom Lonsdale Bleaching or fine quality CambFic full IF The The yard wide, for Monday " Yard Apron Ginghams or 10 yards lOo Light Colored Outing q. for T/I
 Only ten yards to a customer

LADIES BLACK BRoADCLoTH Coats--Handsomely embroidered, 50 inch length, lined throughout with
 satin, . garment fuiIy worth SIS, for Monday .sl0.9s
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
JUDGE vROOM'S DENIAL.
says he Never sought 10 Keep Scandal AZ
New Jersey Asylum From the Pubic.

TRENTON. July 30. Judge G. ID. W. Vroom
Of the New Jersey Court of Errors and APP
peals. who 10 president OF the Board OF
Mana gers OF the State Hospital for the In
sane. was a witness before the Assembly
investigating committee to-day. He con-
tradicted fatty the testimony OF DR.. John
W. Ward, the medical director, who was de-
posed yesterday. in sc far as it related TO
the death OF. Enoch Silvers. a patient at the
institution. DIR Ward had admitted that
Silvers was beaten TO death by two atten-
dants. and further said that Judge Vroom
was aware of the facts and had been a party
TO keeping the matter from becoming pub
lie.
Judge Vroom denied that he had ever
had any animation from DIR, Ward that Sill
vers was killed. On the contrary. he said.
DR.. Ward reported to the board that his
death was due 10 general psresis and so
testified AZ an investigation which was
conducted by the asylum managers. Az
that time Judge Vroom said he had insisted
that if any Of the rumors concerning the
death of Silvers we're true the AFFAIR should
be reported to the prosecutor.
In the face OF the medical testimony. TO
the contrary, Judge Vroom said that
neither he nor the other members OF the
board, who al that time trusted DIR. Ward
implicitly, believed the facts to be other
tina as stated by him.
Judge Vroom admitted that il was known
to the board that there were din
between the medical and business depart
ments of the hospital for many years, but
he did not believe them TO be serious.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
~ RGLAR HUNT ST CCESSFIL.
Cops Catch Man whom Mr. EyIand Saw IN
His Room Al His Pal.

Kenneth NJ. Eyland was sleeping in a
rear room on the first floor OF IS Strong
place. Brooklyn. al ? o'clock yesterday
morning when he heard some one strike
a match in the room. He saw a man astride
the window casing trying 10 get into the
room. Reaching for his revolver, which
was under his pillow. he fired one shot at
the man. II went wide Of the mark. but
the man dropped back into the yard.
The burglar and his pal. who had re-
manned in the yard. scaled the fence, but
Mr.. Eyland. when he reached the window,
fred several more shots after the men
The shooting aroused the neighbors and
in a few econds bullets were flying from
every direction, but all aimed az the two
burglars, who could he seen jumping the
fences.
The police OF the Butler street station
were called by telephone. but IL took a
long time to get the connection and when
the cops got TO the scene they started a
search and found the two men hiding in a
wooden extension Of the house al 81 Strong
place. They tried 10 fight. hut ere quickly
subdued.
They gave their names as John Frederick
son. 2s years old, and William Hansen. -
wears old. They refused TO tell where they
lived. They we're arrsigned in the Butler
street police court and committed to jail
in default OF $500 bail. Mr.. Eyland will
appear against them to-day. He charges
Them with attempted burglary.
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lef, his boarding house in The Bronx on the
Iav or the murder.
Girard IL still ut large. The police after
they had searched Girard's room said they
believed he knew something also about
the death Of Elizabeth Davis. whose body
was found in the Waikiki River. near
Walden. y. v. on March 70. 1905. The
body 81 Miss Davis also bore evidences OF
revolving maltreatment
me OTHER WOMAN IDENTIFIED.
the woman found on Monday afternoon
slrangled In bed at AIS West Twenty-second
street was Sophie Kehrer. the dissipated
wife Of Jacob Kehrer Of ~ Barry place,
RuhaIo Kehrer is a poor man and an
invalid Sophie's maiden name was Tray
nor. Her father now lives at iF7 LipcOtt
street. Toronto. Her brother, Charles Tray
nor. * n machinist at North Tonawanda.
SOPHIE left her husband after eight years Of
married life and went TO North Tonawanda.
She lived there a year and a hall. then came
q New York.
Richard Wilson told Capt. Robinson Of
The Jersey City detective bureau yester-
day afternoon that he had got acquainted
with the woman In a house in Niagara street
Buffalo, and brought her to Jersey City in
January last. They lived at $40 Commune
paw avenue. Six weeks ago she got drunk
and he turned her out to shift for herself,
The police have found that The supposed
murderer Davos or Dsir worked in the
saloon kept by Richard Gilman at ie Tenth
avenue. Frank Watts. a bartender in The
saloon. identified the body last night as
that of The woman who came to see Davos.
,.n,,s said hat Davos referred TO her as his
wife. Up TO two weeks ago Davos was
Employed by the firm Of Johnson a Jarvis.
flour millers. of 5li West Twentieth street.
He j, described az being under S feet, carly
lng his head a little to the left and walking
stoop s~houldered.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
ELECTION DECISION TO-DAY.
Justice rNt.s May Ham Dow a Ruling On
Senat OrIaI Contests.

ALBANY. July 3~0.-Supreme Court Justice
Fits may hand dow tomorrow a
decision az to whether there shall be held
this fall an election of State Senators. M
matter what the opinion returned by Justice
Fits may be, an appeal will be taken to
the Appellate Division of the Third Depart
ment. which it is understood will be called
together by Gov. Hughes in extraordinary
session TO expedite a settlement Of the
question, and then the controversy will 10
hurried TO the Court OF Appeals for final
adjudication.
There are two matters up before Justice
Fits for determination and upon which
he heard argument yesterday These are
whether the declaration by the Court Of
Appeals of the unoonstitutionality Of the
apportionment act of 1905 necessitates
another election Of Senators before the
expiration Of the two year term for which
the present Senators were placed in Office
and whether, should such an election he
adjudged illegal, it should be prevented
by serving on the Secretary OF State Of
peremptory mandamus compelling him
in sending to the county clerks the election
notices to exclude a call for an election Of
Senators or by a writ Of prohibition re.
straining him from doing 30.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
ROOSEVELT on THE FARMS.
President "a Ors C~onNe ntiOn To 4 onsider
Agricultural Inter ests.

SYRACUSE. y. Y. July D-The Chamber
If Commerce to-day decided to call a on
ventieH here in October of commercial
organizations. farmers and village bankers
TO consider means of rehabilitating agri-
cultural interests. President Roosevelt has
written a letter to John A. Stewart Of New
York, president Of the National League Of
Republican Clubs announcing his desire to
cooperate in the conference. Mr.. Stewart
who is here. said that there were 1900
abandoned farms in this State and that
The farming population had decreased
abouy1Gpercent. in the last thirty years.
Mr.. Stewards letter from President
Roosevelt was as follows:
"l-have been ksehly alive for many wears
10 this situation. The various Eastern
states owe y duty TO the country distric Il
which AZ present they are failing to perform
Everything that the Department OF Agrl-
culture can dp TO aid in the movement will
gss,iredly he done. ! will glsdly cooperate
witk. the Syracuse chamber Of Commerce
VIII ask, however. that you do not summon
the convention without giving me ample
warming. so that ! may be sure that the man
YOU, wish as representing the national Gov
ernpaeDt be present. Sincerely yours.
THEODORE RoosEv ELT."
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DIED..

O. Arm. On Monday. July ~. al Ridg Y. =
sarah Se> mour bentley CLARK. wife OF Cyrus =
Clark. aged ~ years.
Funeral In Oneida. ~. v. Thursday.
hAMlLL"- ~ schenectady. y. ". on July ~. 1901
samuel McCllntOck Hamlll.
ke'aures and friends are invited TO attend the
funeral from the Clinton 81. sta tion, Trenton.
Nj. on arrival OF train 10 o'clock on wednas
day morning July 81, 1907. Intcrment Law
r~encevllle Presby terrain Cemetery.
PARKER. At his residence In Newark. y. j.. NJ,
Monday. July %. 1877, Cortlandt Parker. In On.
mih year ar his age.
Funeral from Trinity Church, Newark. on Sa'pl
DAY morning, August g.. NJ II O'cIocA.
Stl'NFLI"- on Tursdav. July 30. John ScnnrH
beloved father OF John and Mary schnciI. IN
his Slst year.
nnrraI Thursday afternoon. = O'Clock. from NE.
lalc residence. IN East asth 81. Friends apt
members OF New York Council. as, Royal g..
"an'ln, are respectfully Invited TO attend
~ Ck.-At Madison. Ind. July 20. John Nnd'r,
Idck. chairman Finance Nation.
Nfder OF Red Men, Cashier National Rrau.1
hank. nephew Of Charlie, kIInc.
hnrral and intcrmcnt Madison. Ind NrN
MAVEN papers please con-.
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No CONCESSION TO army"
RrOoklyn District Attorney Won't Let
american SsIN~a tiOnists'' u

R~rO0klNu hbtstrtet AtIOruey WOut 80
American SaIN atiOnists' Resume
Stewart Scovil, the boy who gave dam
aging testimony against the officers OF the
American Salvation Army" was again
in the Adams street police court, Brooklyn,
yesterday and gave more testimony. The
case was adjourned until August 8, and in
the meantime il is hoped that staff Capt.
A. r. Hsndicott, for whom a warrant has
been issued. will be ap~prehended.
District Attorney Clarke says that he
will lay the whole matter Of the American
Salvation Army" before the Grand Jury
in September. As he was leaving the
court yesterday two OF the officers asked
him if they could resume their work in
the Fulton street place. District Attorney
Clarke turned on them and said that under
no circumstances could they do 30.
"Iour organization" ne said, will not
do business in Brooklyn while ! am District
Attorney. You are a band of takers and
moral degenerates. lhave no use for people
of your stamp. Your organization is
simply an aggregation Of junk dealers
who go around collecting thing under
the guise Of reli gion and then selling the
stun for your own profit. Your so-called
organization has aggravated this matter
by using a religious headquarters az a
disorderly house"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
KILLED HIS WIFE and HIMSELF
GOI NTERFEITER HtD ESCAPED
FROH GERHlN PRISON.

.Is~epl, BAnL. bach Ia nls BrookI,n Hone
Aner lbeporta tio,. whr,s . carving
Knife for Two Hours. Then staDs wife
EieNen Times Police FIND him Dead.
Joseph Link. who had done time in Ger
many for coimterfeiting and who was de-
ported from this country a year ago. MUIR
dered his wife Catherine and then com
mitted suicide in their apartments at i7
T~wenty-third street, Brooklyn. yesterday
afternoon.
Link was " years old and his wife was
~. They were married in Germany twenty
Ave years ago and had three children. Link
had lived with his wife at the Twenty-Five
street house for a year up TO the time he
was deported. At that time they had a
boarder. Anton Pessert. who continued TO
board with the wife after Link was sent
back to he old country. the Secret Service
agents having a~scertained that he was a
counterfeiter and was wanted in Germany
and Poland.
He remained in Germany only three days
and then escaped from prison. He took
passs &c in a freight steamer and landed al
Boston. From there he fed TO Canada,
where he had been for some time. He ar
EbNcd III DIoOhlJh yCbttl n poblOu'
He went Immediately to his wife's home
and got very angry when he learned that
Pessert was still living there. His wife
and daughter. Mrs. John Hasse Of 27i Ber-
gen street. were present and he accused the
daughters husband OF having tipped on
the Government officials about his past life
and causing his deportation.
Leaving the house he visited several
saloons and then returned and renewed
the quarrel with his wife. Mrs. Hasse
had gone TO her home. Pessert went to his
room and went to sleep about 10 o'clock.
Soon after that Link picked up a ten inch
double edged carving knife. He felt OF
the edges. then got a whetstone, sat down
at the kitchen table and began to sharpen
the knife. He continued at his for nearly
Two hours. Then he Logan quarrelling
with his wife again. Joseph, their twelve
year-old son. heard his father ask his mother
10 return and live with him. She refused
to do so On the ground that she did not
know when she married him that he had
about Pessert when Joseph left the room
and ran to the street TO play, he said.
Link stabbed his wife eleven times in
the breast. abdomen. arm and hand She
ran from the room and into the street,
falling on the sidewalk in front Of her son
Joseph. He and the other boys screamed
and ran for a policeman. Sergt. Matthews
Of the Fifth avenue station hurried TO the
house and summoned an ambulance sur
geon. Surgeon Green OF the Seney Hos
pital found the woman dead. Matthews
found Lin dead on the kitchen floor.
He had stabbed himself seven times in the
breast. Pessert was still sleeping in bed.
Matthews aroused him and after making him
dress placed him under arrest as a material
witness.