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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
A VALUABLE CARGO
OVER FIFTEEN THOUSAND BALEs | OF COTTON SHIPPED.
British Steamer Belmont Sails From PensacOIa For Bremen With Largest Cargo Yet Shipped
 From a Gulf Port.

Pensacola, Fla. Nov. s--6SpeciaD- The largest cargo of cotton to be ship ped from Pensacola in the past two years went out today. when the Brit ish Steamer August Belmont. sailed for Bremen with 15,500 bales.
 The valuation of this shipment as shown on the manifest of the vessel was $74S,S96. which marks it as the most valuable cargo of cotton to go from a gulf port this season. The steamer, which is owned by the Loiiis- vile and Nashville, and was formerly in the coal trade between Pensacola and Tampico has net tonnage of over 5000 and her carrying capacity aI- lowed the storing of an immense cargo of the fleecy staple.
 Of the cargo 12.300 were square bales and 3.250 round bales. Some idea of the cargo can be ascertained when 1t Is known that this cargo represents 27.S50 square bales of cot ton which is probably the largest to leave a gulf port this season.
 Officials of the Louisville and Nash vile state that the exports of cotton from this port this season will be heavier than ever before known. due to the fact that the road is extending its territory and cotton is now being brought her from various towns along the line of the Southern Alabama division.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
A DRAMATIC
 SITUATION Sanders Sends Reply to
 Caffery. WARM TIMES IN LOUISIANA Lieutenant Governor Will Not Ac- cept Duel Challenge. Hand Bills Distributed Throughout state By Caffery--Governor BIanchard Returns and May
 AnnuI ProcIamation.
WARM TIMES IN LOUISIANA

New Orleans ,Nov 3-The firm reply of Lieutenant Governor ]. Y. Sanders today to what has been universally &C., cepted as a challenge for a duel, Eas created a dramatic political situation in Louisiana tonight.
 Another matter entirely foreign 10 the personal combat helyn:ens the ten sion. The practically rival proclAua- tions bf the Lieutenant Governor aud Gof Governor N. c. Blancnard to the coming extra session of the Legisla.u .ure. were brought face to face by the Gov ernor's arrival here today from the East.
 Early this morning in close conform ity to the code of honor. Mr. Sanders issued a written reply to the statements on Donefson Cafferv, son of the late United States Senator of identical nrI.ls. This statement declared that tho Lieu tenant Governor holds himself pcrsnn- ally responsible for the political utter ances which caused the troubls. and addsf
 'I am prepared to meet that rsspou- sibility. and Mir Gallery knows where to find ma
 Preceding this statement. two rep Fesentatives of each man in the dispute. had held conferences and MT. Sanders's friends had declared firmly they would not accept challenge in accordance with the ducIiing code, because the Lieutenant Governor could not violate the State law making duelling crime.
 Next followed tho posting" of sever- al sections of the State by Mir. Cafeery with hand bilis stating that satisfact- ion had been refused him by Mir. 5and- CTS. These hand bills declared that the Lieutenant Governor had called sone of Mir Caffery's statements untrue.
 The discretion of both the Lieutenant Governor and Mir. Gallery 10 relied on to prevent personal encounter There are foars, however. that the friends of the disputants may be drawn into a SC rious quarrel.
 Goyernor Blanehapd, before. leaving the East. announced that he would probably annAli Mir. Sanders procialna- Sion which biAcsd corporatiea contr1l before the extra session of the Legtslt lure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
SECRET SERVICE AGENT
 KILLED IN COLORADO
Shot Down at Mouth of Mines While
 Gathering Evidence,


 Gathering Evidence.
 Denver. Colo, Nov, 3--Joseph Wal ker. a United States secret service man. was shot and killed today by an em- ploye of tho Hesperus Mine. located several miles west of Durango. Colo.
 The shooting occurred at the mouth of the air shaft of the mine and is said to have been done in self-defense. The mine is owned by the Porter Fuel the company, was notified of the kill ing tonight. According to his report of the affair government agents have been in the Durango country for several days gathering evidence to be used in prosecuting persons indicted for fraudulent entries on lands.
 This being Sunday, no work was in progress in the mine and several of the miners were strolling over the com pany's property. On approaching the air shaft, q man at the mouth of the> shaft ordered them to halt. The miners thought he was joking and did not obey, whereupon, according to Dor sey's story. the man fired. the bullet passing close to the head of one of the miners. The latter whipped out a revolver and returned the fire killing the man instantly. Investigation de- veloped thaS he was Joseph Walker.
 Furthe- inve estigatlon showed that A rope ladder had been let down Into the mine. Some time afterward. three men. all government agents, appeared at the mine entrance, being unable to make exit any other way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
PEACE CONFERENCE
NOTABLE DELEGATES FROM GEN.
 TRAIL AMERICAN COUNTRIES.
The Conference VIII Convene In Wash ington fin c Few Days-To End All Wars and Rev
 olutloms.

Washington, Nov. 3.--The Central American Peace Conference which will convene in washington probably on November II. win draw to this city as delegates the leading statesmen and professionak men of Costa Rica. Guat- emaia, Honduras. Nicaragua and Sal- vador, as we'll as the ministers accred- ited to the United States from those countries.
 These men will assemble here to represent the hope entertained In the varous republics, that the conference may effectually end wars between themselves and revolution within themselves. It is expected that the conference will continue at least two weeks and 1t is likely that 1t may run for a month or more.
 Tn addition to their regularly accred- ited ministers to the United States. Guatemala. Honduras and Salvador have sent two delegates each. while Costa Rica and Nicaragua sent put one. Probably the most picturesque figure who will be seen at the conference Is Senor Policarpo Bonilla. a former President of Honduras and now the recognized leader of the Liberal Party in that country. He Is said to be a lawyer of great learning and ability. He VIII nave as HIS COAAtdkASb oChoA Econstantino Fallos, c. E., now Secre- tary of Foreign Affairs and an au- thority on political science. He be- gan his political career as Secretary of the Honduran delegation to the first Pan-American conference. The chair man of the Costa Rican delegation, &c., nor Anderson, is one of the prominent lawyers of his country.
 Guatemala has sent as chairman or its delegation, pr. Antonio Batres-Jau- regui prominent lawyer. who is the dean of the Guatemalan diplomatic corps, and has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guatemala, meua- Der of the Council of State. n1ep4bef of Congress, chairman of the Guatemalan delegation to the third Pan-American conference and Is recognized as one of the best known writers of Latin-Amer- ica.
 The chairman of the Nicaraguan del- eRation will be pr. Jose Madris. He is an able lawyer and a public writer of renown.
 Salvador will have as chairman of it's delegation pr. Salvador Gallagher. He has had a long and brilliant polit- ical career, having been for many years for Foreign Affairs. He rep his country in the negotia- tions which eliminated in the Wash ington conference.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
FLYER IS WRECKED
ONE MAN KILLED AND TWO sERI-
 OUsLY INJURED.
Train Was Speeding Along Rapidly When Engine Suddenly Plunged Into Big Hole, Disappear
 ing from Sight.

Scranton, Pa. Nov. 3.-One man was killed and two others were seriously injured by the wrecking of the Quaker City Flyer on the Jersey Central Rail- road. half a mile north of Ptttston. to- night. The train was passing the But Ter Colliery, when it ran into mine cave-in which occurred just as the train was passing.
 The dead: Henry Carey. engineer, of Scranton; married.
 Injured: Thomas Cannon of Ashley, baggage master, leg crushed and thought to be injured internallys Charles Fine of Scranton, fireman badly scalded /,
 There were about twenty passengers on, the train, but none of them was injured. '
 The train had just passed through Pittston and was speeding along by the Butler colliery when the engine suddenly plunged into a bag hole. prac- ticaliy disappearing from sight. The baggage car crashed In after 1t and the smoker, whieh was the next car on the train, h&lf overturned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
FORECAST OF NEWS
MANY IMPORTANT EVENTS sCHED-
 ULED FOR WEEK.
Tuesday's Elections In Twelve States Takes Preeedene cover All Other
 Events-President Roosevelt

Tuesdays Elections In Twelve States
 Takes Preeedene cover All Other
 Events-President Roosevelt
 To Vote.
 Tuesdays elections in twelve States takes precedence over all other events of the week in point of importance President Roosevelt will leave Wash ington for Oyster Bay on Monday night in order to vote.
 The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fa Railway Company will be sentenced for relating at Los Angeles on Monday: the Metropolitan Street Railway in- vestigation will be resumed on wednes- day in New York: the National Civil Service Reform League will meet at Buffalo on Thursday and Friday the Society of the Army of Tennessee will hold It's thirty-seventh annual reunion at Vicksburg. Miss
 On the same days. Postmaster Gen. eral Meyer will address the Industrial Club in Chicago on Thursday. and on Saturday the anniversary of the birth day of King Edward of Great Britain, will be celebrated.
 Voters in twelve States will cast their ballots on Tuesday-in Massachu- setts, in Rhode Island. Maryland, Mis- sissippi, and Kentucky for a Governor and other State officers; in New Jersey for q Governor only; fin New York for two Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals; in Pennsylvania for a State Treasurer, and in Nebraska for a Rail- road Commissioner and two regents Of the State University. Municipal officers will be selected in Ohio. Utah, and Cali fornia, while in New York County a number of judges anc sheriR will be elected.
 The twenty seventh annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League will begin in Buffalo on Thurs- day.
 Daniel c. Gilman, the president. win deliver the principal address at the opening session. The meeting will con- clude on Friday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
TWO ARE DEAD; MANY INJURED. Disastrous Wreck on A. C. 5. Railway TRAINS COLLIDE HEAD-0N Cars and Locomotives Ignited and
 Destroyed. Engineer spencer of Passenger Train, one of oldest and Best Engine
 aaen in Railway Service,
 one of Dead.
TRAINS COLLIDE HEAD-oN

Birmingham. Nov. 3.--lSpecial.)-- Two men killed outright and dozen and more seriously or slightly Drulseo' three cars burned to ashes, two engines badly wrecked, is the result or a head-on collision between Fan {. American fast express passenger tram No. 8 and a northbound freight train. near Morganville, Ga, 129 miles north of Birmingham on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad this morning
 The dead:
 jC. B. Spencer. one of the oldest en- kineers on the road.
 Colored brakeman on the freight train.
 More or less seriously injured:
 Joe Young, negro fireman on pas senger train, will die: H. E. Elliott. Jr, engineer on freight train, leg broken and otherwise bruised; negro fireman on freight trains cut about head; mall clerks Harrison and John Streit. bruised: Express Messenger Jackson. bruised and several passen- gers.
 Immediately after the compact the wreckage took fire and the mall and baggage cars and frst-class coach were destroyed as were the wooden parts of the two engines.
 The compact was sharp one and the passengers on the southbound NT6lD were tuTOWA SiCAA SC6lS. Cries from those mho were hurt caused great excitement.
 In a few moments those who were not bruised or seriously hurt began crawling out of windows and doors and immediately gave attention to those who could not help themselves. The passengers with the train crew unhurt gave their attention to the flames but very little could be done as the blaze had gotten a good start and the cars next to the engine on the passenger train had been practically spltntered
 Engineer Spencer, one of the oldest men on the road. q man who had the reputation of being the most scientific engineer in the South, was caught un- der the debris When his body was recovered some hours afteFwards it waB evident that his death had been almost Instantaneous.
 Wrecking trains were sent out i'm mediately and the work of clearing the track started. With the exception of the sleeping car, every car in the passenger train was either totally de- stroyed or so badly damaged as to be useless in the future. --
 A train was made up in Birmingham and sent southward.
 The remains of the dead engineer and some of the injured were brought to Birmingham Sunday afternoon. John Street. the mail agent, lives in Bir- mingham.
 c. B. Spencer leaves & widow and two children. His widow is one of the best known women in Birmingham. For many years she has taken a prom inent part of charity affairs and for several years was the executive officer. Much sympathy is being expressed to her in the deep hour of bereavement. The remains of the dead engineer will be prepared for shipment and Monday evening will be sent to Buffalo, N. Y, for interment.
 An official investigation will be made by the officials of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad as to who is to blame in the accident. ~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
DELEGATES TO REUNION.
Veterans of Tuscumbia Hold an Im
 DOrtaut Meeting.

Camp W. A. Johnson, United Confed- crate Veterans, held an Important meeting at the court house in this city today, at which Major James R. Crowe, Major E. c. Downs and Capt w. R. Weston were selected to represent the camp at the State Convention to be held in Montgomery on November 13- 14.
 Resolutions were adopted on the death of Comrades w. $. White and J, B. Grisham. who have been removed from the fast-thinning Tine of grey" since the last meeting of the camp.
 Resolutions were also offered and adopted commenting the movement by the local chapter, Daughters of Con- federacy, for the erection of Confed- city, and pledging the heartiest sym pathy of the camp, collectively and in- dividually. and all the financial aid possible.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
SABBATH OBSERVED
KANSAS CITY MERCHANTS OBEYED
 SUNDAY CLOSINGS.
Sabbath Was More Strictly Observed by Business Interests Yesterday Than Ever Before in His-
 tory of City.

Kansas City, Nov. 3.-Never before in the history of Kansas City. was the Sabbath so strictly observed by bus mess interests as today. Merchants. who heretofore have deied the State law forbidding unnecessary labor on Sunday. obeyed the Sunday closing or der. The theatres, however, were open as usual, as they are protected by in- junction proceedings.
 The decision of the merchants to obey the law today was brought about by the wholesale arrests during the last twenty-four hours of nearly 100 persons who were indicted by the grand jury yesterday for refusing to comply with the law during the two previous Sundays.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
NEGRO MURDERER COMMITS
 A SPECTACULAR SUICIDE
Leaps From Bridge to Water One
 Hundred Feet Below

Hundred Feet Below.
 Knoxville, Tenn, Nov, 3-In view of 300 people. Jim Davis. a negro. who had shot two negro women early Sun day morning, leaped from the railing of the Tennessee river bridge to the water 100 feet below this afternoon rescued
 Pursued by two deputy sheriffs, Davis climbed to the top of the rail- ing and pulling a pistol from his pocket, fired five times in the air, scattering the crowd which was try ing to prevent him from suicide, and then counting "one, two. three" jump ed head foremost.
 In his last words before leaping, Davis claimed that he had killed twenty-eight people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
ALMOST LYNCHED
POLICE RESCUE OHIO MAN FROM
 ANGRY MOB.
John Sweeney, Father of Five Children iS in Jail, Charged With As- sauIting Fourteen Year
 old Girl.

Marietta. Ohio. Nov, s-John Sweeney. a married man, 35 years old. narrowly escaped lynching today, fol- lowing his attack on Anna Koon. 14 years old.
 Sweeney. who is the father of five children, was seen dragging Miss Koon in a building at the Fair grounds A crowd quickly gath cred, bound Sweeney with a rope and started for the Muskingum river. bent on throw ing him into the water.
 The police rescued Sweeney on the river bank and fought the crowd all the way to the police station. Lead ing citizens prevented the crowd from storming the lookup. The girl Is in a precarious condition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
TO MEET ON WATERS.
IOuthwe.tern TarIn Committee of Rail-

Southwestern TariH Committee of Rail-
 roads to Discuss Freight Charges.
 New Orleans. Nov. 2-Announcement was made tonight that members of ;he Southwestern Tariff Committee of Rail- roads, will hold their thirty seventh regular meeting on board steamship ip the Gulf of Mexico on November H.
 It Is claimed that this Is the first charges ever held on board a steamer Twenty freight officials will attend. While holding their meeting the men. bers will be en route to Mexico City, where they go into joint conference with trafic representatives of the rail- roads of Mexico November 16-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
OVATION TO BOOTH.
Head of Salvation Army Receives Cor
 dial Welcome I'm New York.

dial Welcome I'm New York.
 New York, Nov. 3.-General William Booth. the head of the Salvation Army. today conducted in this city what was considered to be the most important series of meetings of his present and probably his farewell American tour. The New Amsterdam Theatre was crowded to the doors with audiences that represented pieturesquely cosmo- politan New York.
 The appearance of the General was greeted with fervor characteristic of the organization. He was assisted by Commissioner Adams formerly of Chi cago, Commander Eva Booth, his daughter, who was In charge of the American work, and many other off cers of the army.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
gwo MEN lxILLED.
Two Freight Trains Collide on BaHti-
 more and Ohio,

more and Ohio.
 Cumbefland, Md, Nov. 1.-Two men were kilked. third is missing and one man wab injured as the result of . wreck e4rly today when an extra vest bound Height train on the Baltimore and ohi3 Railroad got beyond control and colMded with another fast freight on the Cranberry grade, near McMil- Ian, WE Va. about seventy miles west of her@ The dead: Jacob w. Geriach. aged %, brakeman. Cumberland. Md. W E. Tamil, aged 3S years, $ brake man, Eeyser, w. Va.
 Thsmissing man is Martin J. Fallon, aged DO, an engineer of Piedmond, w. Va, Supposed to be under the wreck age. kHe was last seen on the running board of hls engine about two miles fromgthe point of the collision.
 The injured: J. H. Cornwall, Graf ton w Va conductor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04

20 per cent. And our banking liabtli- ties remain practically the same.
 Can any one give a single reason why we should use check book for credits to order and not use a current credit of the game bank upon which we draw our checks? Is not the cash ier's check just as good as our check upon the same bank, indeed much bet ter when protected as it should be by a guarantee fund deposited with the United States government, many more times ample to insure it's redemption In gold coin.
 Urges AdoptfoE.
 If the banking institutions of the country could exchange $1.000.00O.000 of cashiers checks for $l.0o0 100000 of reserve now floating around in the mines. wheat corn nd cotton fields and this $1,00O. 100000 were added to the s1 ,0o0 ,eo0, ,000 in the banks on July 1. 1907, our bank liabilities would be in- creased only about per cent. While out reserve would be increased 100 per cent, 1t would be 20 per cent and this end alone is sufficient to justify the adoption of the principle of current credits in this country"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
DRAINAGE uoNaREss.
Garfield, PInchOt ana Newell are Ex-
 pected tO He Present.

Washington. Nov. 3.--Secretary of the Interior Garfield. Clifford Pinchot. Chief of the Forestry Service. and F, H Newell. Director of the Government Reclamation Service. are expected to attend the Congress of the National Drainage Association at Baltimore, No- vember 25-27. Senator Flint. of Cali- fornia. author of the general drainage bill will advocate the adoption of that measure by the Congress.
 Most of the Governors of tho South- ern. Western and Eastern States. as well as mayors of a number Of cities have been appointed delegates to) the Congress.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
GenrrIn Hotel Rnrnn.

HawkInsville. Ga, NOV, 3-Ihe Brown House. hotel of fifty-one rooms built and furnished at cost of $30.O00 three years ago, was entirely destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this morning Mrs. Cofield. a travelling woman, lost a trunk containing $L000 cash.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
JefYeraon Polk DeaM.

Des Moines. Iowa. Nov. 3.--Jefferson Polk, President of The Des Moines Pioneer Street Railways, and multi millionaire, died at his home today. He was born in Kentucky in 1881 and come to Desmoines in 1855. He served as scout in the Spirit Lake Indian massacre in 1857.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
EVANS IS PROMOTED.
Master Mechanic of Alabama Great
 southern Made Superintendent.

Birmingham, Ala, Nov, 3--It was announced that J. W. Evans, Master Mechanic of the Alabama Great Southern. has received the appointment as superintendent of the road to suc- ceed R. E. Boswell. Mir. Roswell goes with the Seaboard 1t Is understood, in the capacity of superintendent of transportation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
JURY YET our.
No Verdict In Trial Of Mrs. Martha
 COnnalIy.

Huntsville, Nov, S.-(Special )-The case of Mrs. Martha Connally, charged with the murder of her son-in-Iaw, Frank Albright, Is now in the hands of the jury. So far the jury has not agreed on a verdict and it will be Monday before a verdict will be arrived at.
 The trial of this case concludes the regular jury term of the law and equity court. The court has made a remarkable record for convictions. There were thirty-four convictions in thirty-seven trials.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
-CanaIdafen Fewted.

Trenton, N. l., Nov, s--y Y guber- material candidates rested -st their homes today. Party leadf have not changed their estimates sen out last night. The Republicans S aim that J. ty while the managers of Mayor Ket- zenbach's campaign say the latter will be elected by about 12,000 plurality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
MiIkndn,a nlrthhnr

Washington. Nov. S.-The ffty-ffth bithrday of the Emperer of Japan was tonight celebrated by a dinner at the Japanese Embassy, when the members of the embassy were guests of Ambas- sador and Countess Aoki.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
MIssIoN oF FRIENpsHIP.
Special Agent Butler of United States
 GsaveEuuaexf In Mexica.

San Antonio, Tex, Nov. 3.--A special to The Express from Mexico City says:
 A. B. Butler, special agent of the United States Government. is in this city on a mission of friendship. He Is to work in the interest of Government trade relations between the United States and Mexico.
 He will look over the trade condi- tions of the entire country, inquiring into those features which should in- terest the merchants of the United States and report In what way condi- tions can be improved.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
FAST TRAIN WRECKED.
The Engineer Killed and Fireman Was
 geriOuaIY Injured.

Scranton. Pa, Nov, s-The Jersey Central flyer which left Philadelphia wrecked at 10:30 o'clock near Pitts ton. The engine and four cars tum- bled over an enbankment killing en- Eineer Johnson and seriously iniurtng
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
runhoat nentroxed.

Kingston. N, r., Nov, 3--Fire today destroyed the tug boat. John II. Cordts. belonging to the Cornell Steamboat Company. the company's coal pockets. f,S00 tons of coal and five cars loaded with coal.
 Tho loss Is t1s0,000