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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
High Glass Dramatic Act,
 Majestic Theatre.
 "Ace of Trumps." lOn't fail to attend this weel
CAR COMPANY IN COURT.

Receiver Asked for Cleveland Street
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 Cleveland. O.. Oct. 2s.-The Central Trust Company of New York. trustee of the bondhoiders of the Cleveland Railway Company, today filed suit In Federal Court praying that a re- ceiver be appointed Ior the Municipal Traction Company. now operating the lines of the former exploration in this city. 'e
 Judge Taylor of the Federal Court issued temporary order tieing up all the funds held by the Municipal Com pany except such as may be necessary for the payment of wages.
 Today's action was new suit and Is expected to take precedence over all other suits. It asked that the court take charge of all of the local street railway property. Both the Municipal Traction Company. the Operating Com. pany and the Cleveland Railway Con- pany. the owning company, were made parties to the suit.
 A temporary restraining order was also issued by Judge Taylor enjoin- ing the companies from paying out any money or contracting any new ob- legations other than paying for labor and the actual maintenance of the property.
 The trust company has a mortgage for $8.276.000 upon the property which was given as security for the bonds. The action is the result of the recent referendum vote which practically left the car companies without fran chise.
 It Is stated that the receiver was asked for so as to throw the whole situation in the hands of the court; that the creditors. bondholders and all others may have their interests fully protected during the reconstruction days now to follow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Ends in a Jubilee

Denver, Colo, Oct. 2S-The thirty fifth annual convention of the Ma tional woman's Christian Temperance Union came 10 an end tonight with Q general ju lee in which all the States represented took part by reporting the great gains in membership made du- ring the year. It was announced that gain of 10000 in membership, had been made
 Several resolutions were adopted du- ring the sessions today. the most im- portant one expressing opposition to the reelection of Speaker Joseph c. Cannon to the National House of Rep- resentativcs Another resolution adopted favored education of the peo- pie In regard to "the dangers of fer mented wines" This was introduced by Mrs. Dora J. Spencer. Cf California.
 Another resolution adopted pledges the ". c. T. U. Ito cooperate more actively with education in the intro duetion of school savings bank sys- tenn"
 This being the last day of the con- vention, the program was adhered to very closely, and most of the day was spent in receiving reports.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
CLOSES woMEN's GALLERY

suffraEetten Drive House of Commons
 to Extreme Measures.
 London, Oct. 2S-Suffragette distur- hances have driven the government to the unusual course of temporarily clos ing the strangers and ladies galleries In the House of Commons.
 This was announced by the speaker in response to a question from Premier Asquith, and MT. BaIfour, the leader of the opposition, as parliament was adiourninE tonight.
 During the evening. while the house was discussing the licensing bill, sensation was caused by the display of a placard and sudden shrill cries from the ladies gallery, demanding votes for women, while simultaneously a bundle of hand bills fluttered down from the strangers gallery at the opposite end of the chamber. and a mar shouted protests against, Injustice to Women"
 Attendants hurried to the galleries and the male offender was uncera- moniously elected but from the ladies gallery sounds were heard of a desper- ate struggle. Two suffragettes had firmly chained themselves to the grille and resisted for time all efforts at
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
BRIDEGROOM FIRES
 SHOT INTO HIS BRAIN

Paris, Ky. Oct. 2s.-J. W. Hutchison. of Harrison county, a widower with two children, was married here yester- day to Mrs. Mamie c. swinford. of Cynthiana, and this afternoon killed himself in a livery stable here.
 Hutchison and Mrs. Swinford arrived here yesterday and were married by Rev. Nj. T.. Chanler. of the Methodist Church. They returned to Cynthtana and today Hutchison came back to Paris and made an attempt to have the marriage set aside. Finding he was unable to do this he went to the livery stable and fired a bullet through his brain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
THE vANDERBILT FORTUNE.
Something of the Vast Estate of Ol
 Commodore.

Something of the Vaat Estate of Old
 Commodore.
 The Vanderbilt fortune. once the greatest financial power in the United States probably amounts, at the pres- ent moment. to not far from $500, ,0O0.- 900. says Burton J. Hendrick in the McClure's Magazine. Of this, Will liam Kissam Vanderbilt, who controls the majority of the family properties, holds in the neighborhood of xl0O.- O00 900, while twelve or fteen descend ants of the commodore share among themselves the remaining $2O0,O00.000
 Perhaps the most remarkable fact in the whole remarkable career of Comodore Cornelius Vanderbilt Is that he did really important work and heaped up his enormous fortune after he was 70 years old He was born in I794, and almost all his energies, until thR outbreak of the civil war, had been absorbed in the management Of his nu- merous steamboat and steamship lines.
 Cornelius Vanderbilt when running his steamboaAs up and down the Hud- son River. had felt keenly the conpe- tItion of the railroad along the east ern shore. Later developments led hlm clearly to perceive, what most of his contemporaries saw only faintly, that transportation in this country would follow the line, not of the canal and !
 soon as he mad caught this glimpse or tbe future, Vanderbilt characteristic" all vacted upon it. Fifty years before, | foreseeing the possibilities of steam | travel by water he had sold hiS whole sailing fleet and purchased steam boats: acting just as promptly now | he sold all hls water craft and began purchasing railroads
 The Vanderbilt family as power in railroads and finance has become eX- tinct MT. Handrick says:
 "'rhe change wrought in twenty-five wars was practically illustrated when after the death of the third Cornelius hJs successor. AS director In all the Vanderbilt lines. was not one of ms thrae sons, but William Rockefeller. In 1oO2 New York Central director who vas then and is now regarded as the nersonaI representative of the Wander bjlts in the Central properties. D. w. " RossIter, resigned and was suc- ceaded by James Stillman. for many wears identified with the Standard oil interests. Meanwhile Alfred Wander hut limits his activities in transport alton to driving fashionable coaches and automobiles. His brother Cornell ius though an involuntary exile from the family properties, has large busi- ness interests in other directions. Ills marriage. for which he sacrificed so much. has proved a most happy and ad- vantageous one; the wife of his broth CT Alfred, on the other hand. has re- gently obtained divorce on the ground of of his adultery. Reginald, anothe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
GOING HOME TO VOTE.
General Exodus Begins From Nations
 Capital.

GEMGA&A
 Capital.
 Washington, .J. C.. Oct. e8-The gen eral exodus of voters from the District of Columbia has begun.
 The reduced railway rates offered this year are the best ever given oy the railways Heretofore it was possi- ble to get rates to points only in the middle States, and a few of the Eastern States. This year the voter may buy ticket from Canada to Mexico, and as far West as Denver. The reduced rate this year makes 1t possible for the resident of the OIstrict of Colum- bia to go home to vote al cost or only one and a half cents a mile, when In 1904 the rate was three cents mile.
 The outgoing trains during the re- naInder of the week will carry several thousand voters in addition to those who have already left the city. Many clerks use their annual leave of ab- sence for this purpose, and 1t Is dltl- cult to estimate the exact number of voters who will have gone home by
 Henry M. Camp. who has been in- trusted by the Republican Campaign Committee with the task of getting out the Republican residents, estimates that there are 10000 Republican voters m Washington and that each of these in- t,uences two or three votes h his home State.
 The government printers and the em- nloyes of the Post Office Department usually exercise their privilege of go- ing home to vote to q greater extent than the workers in the other branches of inc government service. It Is estlm- ated that fully sixty per cent Of the employees in these two departments this year will go home to vote. AL ready several hundred of them have left the city and 1t Is said that twice as many more will go within the next three days. The Interior Department. Department of Agriculture. and other departmcnts also are represented in the general exodus wh. h began today Those living in the nearby States will not leave until Sunday or Monday. The situation as 1t Is sized up by the cam DaIqn managers is evidenced by the fsct that both parties are eXerting eV- a-v effort to induce the employees who bau from Ohio. Indiana. New York. Connecticut and Nebraska. to go home
 only 'corporal's guard" will be left at inc Capitol building. where the aronloyes, who are strictly political ap Dointees outside of Civil Service rules are all energetic campaign workers iB their home State. All of the employees and clerks at the White House who de sired to go home to vote were paid of today
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
TRIAL OF WHITM0RE
JURY MAKE A TRIr TO LAMP
 BLACK SWAMP.
Damaging Evidence Against New York Man Accused of Killing His
 Wife Night After
 Ehri~fruam

New York, Oct. 2S-when' the trial of Theodore Whitmore, of Brooklyn, for the murder of his wife, was resumed at Jersey City today. the jury had adopted a personal inspection of the Lampblack swamp in Harrison, where Mrs. Whitmore's body was found the morning of December 26. 1907.
 The visit to Harrison was made as result of an order issued yesterday by Justice Swayze. sf
 Gustavo F.. Roeder. New York re- porter, took the witness stand when the trial was resumed. He testified that shortly after midnight on January 9, he viewed the body of the dead woman In the morgue in Harrison, in com pany with another reporter and Whit more. He said Whitmore declared 1t was not his wife, for his wife had a scar on one of ner hands andsthere was none on either hand of the woman whose body was In the morgue
 After le.tsing, however. the witness testified. WhitmoEe said he was not sure after all that the body was not that Of his wife, but he refused to go back to make another investigation. and the three then went to Jew York :.
 Mrs. Schmitter. sister of Mrs. Whit more, identified a letter to her which was signed Theodore and Lena" It was dated December 29. 1907. and ex- pressed regret that her sister and brother-in Jaw mad not sent any Christnas presents. but said that they expected to visit Mrs. Schmitter in two or three weel-s.
 The witness said that the letter was in the handwriting of Whitmore.
 Lottie Carol. the new witness whose testimony was expected to prove im- portant, was then called to the stand.
 She said she was 1e years old and now lived in Brooklyn. She was mar ried, she said, and had lived in the same house with the W.dtmores last fall and winter.
 "On Christmas afternoon" said Mrs Carroll, Mrs. Whitmore came to my room about 4 o'clock. She appeared to be all right. l was in my room at half past seven that evening. Whitmore called me and said will you take care of my Dog. Daisy? We are going out and I don't know what time we will be back"
 The witness promised to keep the dog until another roomer in the Whit more house came in and then she and her husband went to the theatre.
 We got back about 11:i5 o'clock, the witness continued. Gas was burn iI.S in the basement and on the first and second floors. There was nothing unusual about that. My husband and went to bed. I don't remember just whal time got up, but Issaw Whit more and he spoke to me-"
 Under cross examination, Mrs. Car roll admitted that she had been once indicted for larceny but sentence had been suspended.
 Mrs. Carrolls' testimony contradicts the claim Whitmore always has made that he did not leave the house until midnight CL the night his wife dis appeared and he did not spend the eve ming with her.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Man and Woman Found Dying fin
 GreenAeId, Mass,


 Greenfield, Mass. Oct. 2s,-A double tragedy surrounded by mysterious cir- cumstances. occurred here tonight. Benjamin F. Gaines. 39 years old. and Miss Harriet Mabel Wing. ten years younger, were found dying from bullet wounds. at Miss Wings board- ing house.
 Both died without making a state- ment The police expressed the opin. ion that Gaines shot the young wo- man and then killed himself. but no reason for the shooting Is known.
 Miss Jennie Reed, while passing the house. heard groans, and upon inyes- tigating found the bodies of Gaines and Miss Wing. The latter was lying on the ground near the piazza where she had probably fallen when shot. and that of Gaines was hanging over the piazza railing. A revolver was also found on the piazza. Miss Wing had three bullet wounds in her right breast Gaines was suffering from a bullet wound fin the right temple.
 Gaines and Miss Wing had been seen frequently in each others company. Their acquaintances knew of no quar- rel.
 Gaines was an inspector of work at a machine shop. Miss Wing was a sales girl in a local department store.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
COMmENDs CHURCHES.
w. c. T. U. Pleased At Efforts To De
 feat Speaker Cannon.


 feat Speaker Cannon.
 Denver. Colo, Oct. 28-The Nation al Woman's Christian Temperance Un- ion convention today adopted with practical unanimity. a resolution com mendIng the efforts of churches to de- feat the reelection of Joseph c. Can non as a Member of Congress.
 The resolution which was introduced bv Airs. Mary E. KUhl pI esident of the illinois Woman's Christian Temperance Union. follows:
 ''Resolved. that we. the women of the W. c. T. U., in convention assembled, do hereby expre; most hearty com mendatIon of the action taken by the Methodist Episcopal Church and the several churches, in the brave efforts to defeat the reelection of Speaker Cannon to our National Congress be- cause of his persistent opposition 10 the many reform measures which have been propo-:1 by intelligent bodies"
 The convention also adopted a reso- ,ution pledging efforts to suppress ev- ery form of cruelty and "to work for ie9tslation prescribing Humane educa- tion in the public schools in the States where 1t does not already exist "
 Awards of banners for membership were made tonight. Pennsylvania re- eeived the banner for the State. re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Souvenirs for the Ladies,
 Majestic Theatre.
 That latest song hit, "My Little Typewriter Girl"
SEARCHING FOR LOOT. Articles of Great Value Taken FroT Cathedral of EImoUAa


 New York. Oct, 2S--The police of New York are quietly searching for some trace of the valuable loot taken from the Cathedral of Limoges, France last May.
 The French authorities have re- ceived secret information which leads them to believe that the articles stolen were shipped to the United States and are now probably hidden in New York. A list of the stolen ar ticles was sent to Washington and this list had been communicated to the local police. The list. it is said has also been sent to the police of the other large cities in the country
 The French government has request ed that a look out be kept to prevent the sale or pawning of any of the articles, all of which are of great value. not only intrisicaIly. but be- cause of their great antiquity, most of the articles being hundreds of years old.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Medals For Panama Service,

Washington, Oct, 28-A ton of cop per pipe collected from old French excavators and locomotives, some bronze bearings taken from cars. loco motives and excavators, and 2bO pounds of tin found in one of the old French warehouses on the Isthmus of Panama, have been collected and will be sent to the Philadelphia mint to be used in casting bronze medals which are to be presented by the President to employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission who have served two years or more on the Isthmus. II is expected the medals will be ready for distributions early In 1909
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
e,,,. uohr Jncoh A.tor

Trenton, N. J., Oct., 28-CharIes M. Myers and Edward M. Collie. receivers for the telephone. telegraph and cable company of America, today filed in the state supreme court the declara- tion in their suit against John Jacob Astor to recover S110.O00 claimed to be due for an assessment on stock of the company alleged to have been sub scribed for him. The declaration is merely formal and recites in detail the ievving of the assessments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
It VIII Be Sent to William For Com
 firmmtfou.

h VIII Be Sent to William For Con-
 firmmtfon.
 Berlin. Oct. 2S-The foreign office said today that the interview given to a distinguished Englishman by Elm peror William and published today In The Londan Daily Telegraph, has been sent to His Majesty, who Is hunting. Tn this conversation the Emperor told of proofs of his good will to Great Britain. Untih reply from Ills Majesty is received. the foreign office cannot affirm that all the details of the conversation are correctly given, but the interview is regarded as sub stantially accurate.
 Tt is an historical fact" an official of the foreign office said, that the French and Russian governments made suggestions to the German gov ernment. which, if accepted would have led to joint intervention in the Boer War"
 The mention of this historical incl dent was not intended. 1t was ex- plained. to affect the relations since established between Great Britain and France. and Great Britain and Rus sia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Mnx Bux Trnct of Land.

San Francisco. Oct. 2s.-It is said that Colonel Robert Stevens. chief quartermaster of the Department of California. will recommend to the War Department at Washington the pur- chase of the immense tract of land at Ascadero hitherto used as a military training grounds. Colonel tSevens Is said to entertain the belief that the Government few years hence will not be able to buy the land at any thing like the present price.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
TO SUPPRESS DISEASES.
Health Authorities of Chicago Take
 A1REnw

Health Authorities of Chicago Take
 Action.
 Chicago. Oct, 2S-Ten thousand far mers residing in five states and sev- eral hundred families in Chicago have been taken firmly in hand by the city department of health by way of sup pressing sporadic outbreaks of scarlet fever. typhoid and diphtheria.
 The supervision Is the most sys- tematic in Chicago. and the opinion of the Health Commissioner W. A. Evans, not only will avert the likelihood of an epidemic, but will go far toward ridding the city of all three diseases.
 The supervision over farmers who ship milk to the city will be no less strict. Beginning today. thousands of little yellow tags were sent out to them. on which they are expected to report twice a week all cases of con- tagious disease which appear in their families or the families of their milk CTS. If there is no such disease the farmer muat send in his report certi- flying to that effect. and If he neglects to so, his milk will be sent back
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
SQUELCHEs EMMA GOLDMAN.
Woman Anarchist Not Allowed to Speak
 am IndianapOlla.

Woman Anarchist Not Allowed to SPe0k
 In IndlanapOlls.
 Chicago, Oct. 2S.-A dispatch to The Record-Herald from Indianapolis, Ind. says.
 Emma Goldman was led from the PrOpyleum. here last night when she was about to address large audience that had assembled at the fashionable club house to hear her.
 Twenty policemen were on hand when she arrived, and as she stepped into the hall she was told that she would not be permitted to speak in this city. She demurred at first, but the officers gathered around and she was informed that she would have to go to the police station if she persisted. She did not make any further resistance.
 Ben L. Reitman, who was with her, attempted to speak on a corner near the PropyIeum, but the police forced him to desist, under threats of locking him up
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
USES OF OPIUM. Dr. Wright Goes to Attend Conference In Shanghai.


 San Francisco. Call, Oct, 2s-Dr Hamilton Wright of Washington, has sailed to attend the International Opium Conference at Shanghai or January l which has for It's purpose the assistance of China in the avowed desire of that empire to abolish opium smoking among the Chinese people.
 pr. Wright after explaining that this country can use at most but 100000 pounds of opium for medicinal pur- poses, called attention to the fact that the. customs records show imports of half a million pounds of medicinal opium and an additional 150, 900 pounds of smoking opium He said From fifty to eighty per cent of the opium In this country is put to illicit uses, Among the Chinese of this country about twenty per cent are confirmed opium smokers, thirty per cent oc. casional smokers. twenty-five per cent use opium on holidays and upon other infreduent occasions and twenty-five per cent are total abstainers.
 Among white people opium smok- ing is confined almost entirely to the criminal classes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Women An Undertakern.

San Francisco. Cali Oct, 28-Ar- ticles of Incorporation were submitted today by five well known women of Oakland who will constitute the board of directors of the California Womens Undertaking Company. The only man who figures In the organization is an attorney whose services will not be needed after organization. The busi- ness will be under the direction of a woman
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29

porting the largest increase in mem brship for the. year. the Eighth District of Missouri received the honor of the largest district Increase; Allegheny County. Pa. was awarded the banner given for the largest county increase, and Memphis. Tenn, having reported the largest gain iD its locality, was awarded the banner carrying that dis tinction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29

son, has made no mark; his one con- spicuous appearance before the public was when he was sumnone das a wifi ness by District Attorney Jerome to tell what he knew of the inner work ings of the gambling house kept by Richard Garfield. One of Cornelius's daughters. Gladys. recently married Count LazIo Szechenyi, and now lives in Hungary"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
MAY SUE GUGGEEHEIM.
Government Claims s12,SOO Duty Ol
 A Fine RAnrla


 Fine Pearls.
 New York. Oct. 2S-The customs au- thorities here are trying to collect d high rate of duty on an importation from Morris Guggenheim. of fifty-nine matched and pierced pearls.
 The pearls were entered at low rate of duty as pearl be Is, while the government holds that they should be listed as a necklace and therefore du- tiable at the rate of sixty per cent ad valorem.
 The case is similar to that against the late William B. Leeds, which is famous in custom annals and in which the United States Circuit Court up- held the governments claim, This case is now before the Circuit Court of Ap- peals, having been carried up on an appeal.
 The hearing of the Guggenheinn case has been set for November 1. The claim involves &12,50O.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Accident to Mnurrt.D,.

Liverpool, Oct. 2S.-The cunard steamship Mauretania met with an- other accident this afternoon while attempting 10 dock for a complete overhauling. Her stem was damaged and the docking postponed. The of hcials of the company said that the damage was not serious
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
FURNITURE BARGAINS

If yOu are looking for genuine furniture bargains, get Morris WOITs prices before buying elsewhere. At his big sale one dollar does the work of four. Stock in hands of the Buff falO Factory and MilI SyudIeate