The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-12
NEGRO USED PISTOL
uLACK swITCHGAN TIRED ON

WaEIn MANs Had PrsvfeNsly 1ngagsa n Dnesantss
 With I've Enp1syss n ths
 Gull CeaDress sad Was
 seskang ReveAga
 Advertiser Bursau,
 Selma, Jan. 1l.
 4 fight h which . pistoi shot wns tired carly this morning at the 0ulf Comuress on Alabama street, caused
 This pIstcl was discharged by nc ITO. EltjA Sims. and he was shooting q ". '. stoddafd. one of the men ems
 Fcrtupatsiy vpSsii' the bali from the, p,sts, went wide Of It's mark and Gtodderd was not Injured. ImmsdiateIy aftsv the shooting the police department be- dark had not succeeded h strestins him. s-s
 Eii,s sims is employed by tho south ern Railway as . switchman. Early passed Aiabarna street by the Gulf Conl- press. the negro rot off the engine and took from the street movssbls bridge. the propsrty of the comprsss; Tns Ralph Jones by one of the truck hands at the compress. MT. Jonos went to where the switch engine had stopped. . block further down the track near the 1. wcrds passed pasted and md the ' siask ii; attack cd the. white man. The negro was much larger and stronger than the white man and soon had htm on tho Two white msn on the switch sngine and another white man in the employ of the compress. looked. vn wh,ie tho negro held MT. Jones down.
 press yard abous that time end seeing 1' and knoessaa Ga ssa i sin M sS. The s ssyrs E ,SnSsd ,Snsw i, up P sns n 9sns snss ssn SP s ssin x the head He then ran home whers it is supposed, he secured the pistoL
 Sometime latsr Sims returned tO the vicinity Of the compress and stocd on been there but short while when Mr. stoddard came out. Just about the time young man who is q member of Si sss %s S's s m!t hs s oss 5s ss: big army pistols that is furnished the members of the company
 The pistol was unloadsd and as the gsaTE gSunE man pss.sd she somprssss n,s,.s Hr a: took the weapon in his hands and about that time the negro pulled out hie pistol and fired. After shooting st 1.es M sssSars a mad: ss si s sss.1. Ss.p the
 shewing south's Advantage.
 The City Ticket ofics of the South ern Railway here has received civ- ident of that system which shows the great growth of the South and the rail roads share in the scuth's prospsri- Ths circular says that one of the most interesting stories of today is that of American industrtal. commer- cial and agrtcuitural exranston. That the decade chasing with 1906 was the most remarkable in American history. In this developnnent the South wss most efn States during this remarkable per iod gave the country It's balance of trade with foreign lands. Cotton wez the largest single article in the list of :.siss ana Sy the Southern.
 That the main territory traversed by the Southern south Of the Potomac and Ohio ard east of the Mississippi. com
 sDSss ass of uSon nis CT ni more of the fruits of agriculture to the world use than any other equal ares on the face of the earth. Of the eight Important American expcrts fonr wers and theses four--cottcn, tobacco, oil cake and meal and vegetable oil--con. tributed 2b per cent of the entire farm surplus of the American republic. of the Land ana Industrial Departmsni of the Company show that i,1p8 nex industries wer. located in it's territory ports as all the rest of ths country thirty yearl ago there were 900 newg- paperB in this territory, but today this number had grown to z60O, that fifteen years ago there was 1.ioo banks in the South but now there was s,7oos
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