The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-23
ACCIDENT TO TRAIN
PASSENGERS ON SOUTHERN RAIL-
 WAY DELAYED.
Little Son Of e. N. Ellis Of RiderviiIe Inipaied On q Fence And May
 Dies Of His Injuries,
Advertiser Bureau.


 Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, May 22. A slight accident to train No. 19 be- tween Selma and Birmingham delayed that train about four hours in reach ing Selma this morning. The train Is due in Selma at I1:20 o'clock but did not reach. here until 8 o'clock this afternoon. The accident caused considerable inconvenience to the passengers.
 morning on time and was running on sch edule time when just mile north of Wilton the axle to a pair of the front trucks on the engine broke. The damage was done and word was sent to Wilton and the information tele- graphed to the headquarters Of the divison here. sent to the scene as q quickly as pos sibe and pulled the damaged engine to Wilton and then brought the de- layed passenger train to Selma. for about four hours and in that time the majority of the passengers on the train walked to Wilton where they waited until the train was ready to come to this city
 Convicted of Forgery.
 On the charge of forgery there was tried in police court this morning John U, yesterday morning for raising a check and this morning was bound over to await the action of the next grand jury in the sum of $200. - employed around the freight depot of the Southern Railway received his pay oh eek which was for S1.9s. He put the figure three in front of the one making the check read $31.sS, and tried to get 1t cashed.
  wiu Preach Sunday. Dr. Paul V. Bomar, of Marion, will Church both morning and evening on Sunday. Dr. J. l.. Rosser, the regular pastor of the church. who has been attending the National Baptist Conven- tion at Hot Springs, will on Sunday | preach the commencement sermon at the closing exercises of the high schools in Demopolis. Nettie QuIn Arrives. The Alabama River packet Nettie morning at Ii o'clock from Mobile with a light load of freight and few pas sengers. The Kettle Quill left on the return trip to Mobile this afternoon l with a small load of miscellaneous | freight.
 Boy Impaled on Fence. l Information of the peculiar accident, | which occurred to the 7-year- son of c. N. Ellis. at Riderviile. about l twenty miles north of here and which | will doubtless result in the death or | the little fellow, was learned here this
 The boy was walking alongside a | picket fence when he lost his balance and fell with his full weight upon a sharp stump near the fence. The | sharp point of the stump entered the 1 stomach of the youth inflictinS an | ugly and dangerous wound. l Social and Personal. Mir. and Mrs. Ernest Lamar and 1 Mrs. Josiah Smith are spending few days in Louisville, Ky.
 Miss Louise Wilkins. of Mobile. is here visiting relatives.
 Archie Howard will leave tomorrow for a months stay in Texas with friends.
 | Miss Katie Voltz is spending a few | days with, friends near Untontown.
 W. A. Anderton spent yesterday in Birmingham on business. !! Walter Duncan returned home this morning after a two weeks stay in | New York on business. | Harry Hooper is expectel home to- l day from Winston Salem, where he | went to accompany his sister, Miss l Elsie Hooper, home. She has been at tending school there during the past session.
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