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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
KING IN BARCELONA
RECEIVES A WARM WELCOME ON
 HIS ARRIVAL.
No Attempt on Ills Life Was Made, As Had Been Predicted-NO UntOWaRd Incident Marked The
 Day.

Barcelona. March 10-King Alfonso, who left Madrid last night, arrived in this city this morning. He has taken up his residence at the home of General Linares, Captain General of Catalonia. where he will stay during his visit here. He was given a warm welcome by the people of the city. No disturb ance of any kind marked the arrival of his majesty.
 The royal train drew into the station at o'clock and its arrival was an- nounced by the firing of salutos from the Austrian and Spanish war ships in the harbor. The big square of the railroad station was lined with troops and the civil guard, who had dificulty in keeping back the surginR crowds. As the King emerged from the station. accompanied by General I.in- ares and the members of his per- sonal suite, in brilliant uniforms, he was warmly greeted. Smiling his &C., Acknowledgements to the plaudits of the people, the King entered the royal car riage in waiting and escorted by a squadron of cavalry. he was driven rapidly to the Church of La Morced. where te deum was~ celebrated. Af- ter the service the King repaired to the residence of the Captain General which adjoins the church. This after noon he held a reception at the homo
 
 cers of the Austrian squadron now in the harbor were present.
 Barcelona was gaily decorated in honor of the royal visitors. The tiers of balconies along the route traversed bv his majesty were hung with bunting and flags and thronged with women wearing the black mantillas for which the beauties of Spain are famous There were flowers in profusIon and the scene was festive and beautiful. The King bowed to the right and left in response to the greetings of his people and some of his black eyed spanish women were with dificulty restrained from disobeying the strict iniunctions of the police against show ering the young monarch with flowers
 An imposing array of civil guards and police lined the streets through which his majesty was conducted.
 The young King had glorious day of brilliant sunshine for hls visit. The decorations were more profuse than at any time since the international expo sition. The only discordant note in the general brilliancy of the decorations were the flags of mourning flying from the Carlists Clubs in memory of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
FOUR ARE LYNCHED
MOB TAKES NEGROES FROM DEP.
 UTY SHERIFF
All of Them Were Charged With Araon and Highway Robbery and Had Confessed to Their
 CFlmea

Mobile. March 1O-Dava Poe, Tom Ranston and two Jenkins brothers. all negroes. were lynched at Vancleave Miss, twenty miles north of Biloxi. Miss. by a mob of thirty men at s o'clock last night.
 The men were :n the custody of Deputy Sheriff Evans of Jackson County. en route to Jail. when the mob overlook them.
 A series of incendiary fires of ware houses, causing losses in charcoal. feedstuffs and other supplies. incensed the people of the vicinity. The four negroes confessed their guilt when the mob took them from the deputy and all four was>hanged to limbs of trees by the side of the road, where their bodies were found this morning. The immediate cause of the Iynching was the burning of the wareh ouse of Sam Byrd last Friday night. when the incendiaries attempted to waylay and rob Byrd, who conducts a store near Van Cleave. Among the other ware- houses burned in the vicinity are those of W. H. Westfall. about month ago, and the Dantzler Lumber Company re- gently. The lynching was conducted in an orderly manner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
SHUTS DOWN
 SELMA SHOPS Seventy-five Men Out of
 Work. /s OTHERS ARE SUSPF }lD Southern Railway is Re sing Its
 Expenses. Burden Nurtured by Political Reform CTS Falls Heavily Upon Many
 Working Men of the
 Central City.

Selma, March 10.-(Special.) )--The shops of the Southern Railway here were shut down for an indefinite pe- riod this afternoon. The order clos ing the shops was received shortly ai- posted. The men were asked to quit work.
 Every department in the shops is af- fected by the order except the car re- pairing department and nearly seven Not a man in the car repairing depart ment was let out but the majority of those that are in the department were laid off temporarily.
 In each department of the shops few of the men were retained. the number comotives now in use in repairs go that they can go out on the road.
 The force that will be retained at the shops will be even smaller than has usually been kept at work on Sun days and holidays. 1t Is stated that no work will be done at the shops ex- cept what is actually necessary to keep the present machinery running.
 The order closing down the shops for an idnef1nite period was a great the system as the machinery of the division is said to be in such bad shape that the present force Is hardly able to keep the locomotives in condition.
 The closing down of the Selma shops is said to be in keeping with the poll cy of the system to cut expenses and other reductions in expenses here and looked for every day. Orders to cut expenses have been received at the division headquarters here.
 After the posting of the order at the the employees visited Master Mechanic Michael but that offlcial could not give the men any satisfaction
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
MISSIONARY
 CONVENTION Z carly Four Thousand Z Persons Participating FROM ALL PARTS OF WORLD Largest Gathering of Its Kind Ever
 Held. Over Three Miles of Moving Pictures nlustratins the Missionary Fields
 Of ths whole World Are
ROM AL PARTS OF WORLD

Ptttsburg. Pa. March lo.-with $500 persons actively participating. half of that number being delegates from all parts of the world. the first interna- tionaf convention of the Young Peo- ple's Missionary Movement convened here today in the Music Hall of the Pittsburg Exposition.
 The convention represents 14.0o0 900 persons and is one of the largest gatherings of the kind ever held. Judging from the sessions today 1t will also be one of the most suc- cessful
 At session held tonight in Exposi- tion Hall, three miles of moving pie lures Illustrating the missionary fields of the world were shown for the first time. At Old City Hall and several churches throughout the city. overflow meetings were held The meetings to- day were very enthusiastic. The de- votional exercises were in charge of Rev. John Willis Barr. president of Occidental College. Los Angeles, Cal, who will also preside.
 One of the interesting discussions to- day was the plan for holding the sixth worlds Sunday School convention In Washington June ( and 5, 1910. Ad- dresses were made by c. c. McCheener, of New York. general secretary of the Young Peoples Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada; Rev :. James l.. Vance. Newark. N. J.. on "The Resurrection Gift" and on the foreign missionary movement by Ken meth MacLennan, Great Britain; Rev. J. L.. Gerdine, Korea and Rev. Ar thur Ewing. of India.
 The program for tomorrow includes five twenty-five minute addresses on North America. South America. Africa, Southern Asia and Eastern India. Tn the afternoon native Christians from Korea, Japan, India and China will speak.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
RAZORS AND BRICKS
 IN NEGRO COLLEGE

Augusta. Ga, March 10-At Walker Baptist Institute, negro college named for Rev c. T. Walker, a negro minis ter who frequently breaches to John n Rockefeller, more than a dozen stu- dents and visitors were more or less injured in the free fight which followed a moving picture entertainment today.
 As the audience was leaving the hall an argument arose between two ne- Rroes, and in an instant a light was started, being made lively by razora bricks and revolvers. seventy-nve shots were Ared and knives were freely used. The school authorities have expelled several stu dents and are Investigating further.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
ANARCHIST IN BANK
HE DEmANDEn A LARGE SUM OF
 MONET.
Threatened to Blow Up Institution if it Was Not Given Him-Bank OGaeer Works Clever
 Raae.

Omaha, March 10s<-An unknown an archist entered the Merchants National Bank of this city today, and demanded a large sum of money. at the same time displaying a bottle believed to contain nitro -glycerine, and threaten ing to blow up the bank # his request was not complied with. The man asked to see Vice-President Luther Drake in his private office.
 Drake seated himself opposite the man, who began talking in a rambling manner about having had S5.000 in the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City when that bank failed.
 And since all you fellows are in together, you had just better hand me over my money or I'll blow you and this bank and all of us to he'll" sud- denly said the fellow, producing a -three-ounce bottle containing a thick yellow liquid.
 Don't you move. This is filled with nitro -glycerinel If you move. you are a dead man."
 You don't want to die yourself. do you?" cookly asked Drake.
 "Oh, yes; I came here ready to die" replied the stranger, but when I die, I'll take everybody in this building
 well, I'll go and get you the money" said Drake, rising from his chair.
 "Sit down. said the anarchist. "If you get up again without permission. I'll just drop this bottle. You know what will happen"
 President Hamilton of the bank en-, tered the next room during the con- versation and heard enough of 1t to enable him to know what was going on. As Drake and the stranger left the room together, Hamilton phoned the police station for plain clothes men, and they followed the two men to a nearby restaurant. Drake and the man were on opposite sides of the table when three detectives. accompanied by Hamilton. entered the room. Slip ping up behind the stranger. the de- tectives pinioned his arms and relieved him of his bottle before he knew what was up. He was then taken to the po- lice station. There he refused to talk. The bottle was sent to chemist for analysis.
 At the police station later the man gave his name at L. L. Fee. and said that he came from Rockford, H., last October,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
THEY GET BIG FEES
PLUM FROM THE SOUTHERN STEEL
 COMPANY.
Judge HundIey Allows Sterling Wood S7y500 and Lawyers e1S,O00--J. O. Thompson Gets Part Of
 R32.OOO.

Birmingham, March 10.-(Special.)- A fee of S32.000 was allowed the re- ceivers of the Southern Steel Com pany, the large industrial corporation thrown into involuntary bankruptcy late last year, by Sterling A. Wood, special receiver.
 This sum will be divided among the four men who held the receivership. Colonel T. G. Bush, J O. Thompson. E. c. Chandler and Edgar Allen. In addition, a fee of S1S,O00 was allowed the attorneys representing the receiv- CTS and others interested.
 The fees were ordered paid out of the funds turned over by the receivers at the time they were superseded and the remaining cash on hand approxi- mately nearly S9O,OOO, was placed in bank to the credit of the trustees.
 By order of Judge Oscar R. Hundley, a fee of S7 500 was allowed Sterling A. Wood as special master. This fee includes clerk hire and stenographers'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
DISCUSS LEGISLATION.
President Roosevelt and Mr. Tawney
 Hold Conference.

President Roosevelt and Mr. Tawney
 Hold q Conference.
 Washington, March 1O.--At the White House today, Mir Tawney, chairman of the House Committee. on Appropria- tions, who had called on the President at the .latter's request to discuss legis- Iation, expressed the opinion that the appropriations of Congress at this ses- sion would be kept within $500, 1000, ,000. exclusive of appropriations for battle ships.
 If there are two new battleships, he said, the total would be about $92O. .000.- 900, and if there are four battleships. the total would reach $940. 100000. The total appropriations in the last Con- Eress, he pointed out. were about $780, GOO 900. and 1t was hoped to reduce the appropriations th:s year about $2O.o00,- 900.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
CONTESTS ELECTION.

Defeated Candidate Says Fraudulent
 Votes Were Cast tn LOulsiana.
 New Orleans. March lo.-charges that about 5000 fraudulent votes were cast in the recent Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor. were tonight filed with the Democratic State com- mittee by J. J. Bailey. the defeated candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
 The Committee will consider the charges at a meeting here tomorrow. Mir. Bailey was defeated by Paul Lam : bremont by a margin of less than 1000 votes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
GIUSEPPE ALIAS TRIAL.
AIienIsts Testify That the Anarcht
 Wm VNhAIVv Gaua

Denver. Colo. March 10-The trial of Giuseppe Alia. charged with the murder of Father Leo Heinreichs, was resumed today before Judge Whitford in the criminal division of the district court.
 The jury Is composed of plain busi- ness men. all non-catholic. who have declared under examination that they are not opposed to hanging and would not be influenced by the fact that the murdered man was a priest.
 Many witnesses went on the stand.
 The days session closed with the ex- animation of expert witnesses. Four physicians whose speciality Is brain and nervous diseases. testified that they had examined Alia and found him wholly sane. The prosecution stilI has three experts to put on the stand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
JUDGE PARKER SPEAKS
Former Candidate fer Presidency Ad
 dpesses Law Academy.

 dpesses Law Academy.
 Philadelphia, March 1o-Former Judge Alton B. Parker addressed the law Academy her tonight on the Law yer's Duty in the Preservation of Civil and Religious Liberty"
 The meeting of the Academy was pre- ceded by a banquet at which members of the Judiciary and prominent mem bers of the bar, were guests. In be- ginning his address, Judge Parker re- ferred to William Fitz osbert. a law yer, who was termed seditious,. meddle- some and trouble making. beeause he tried to protect the peepfg asaAnst the outrages of the civic authorttfes. Thfs man, he salds wass but . type of many la Iawyers--4fearIess men of epeech--who have upheld the rights of the people against special rights and privileges and the assumption Of undue authority.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
Will Hear Booker Wash
 ington Speak.
CABINET ARE ALSO INVITED
Snorting Negro Parson Sent South
 For Foraker.
Hobson Is Hopeful of GettfnK Four Bis Battieships But Tawney Gays He Has
 No Chance
By ALFRED J. sToFEn.

Washington. March 10-(Special)~-~ There is considerable gossip in poIi- tical circles over the announcement that Secretary Taft has accepted an in- vftation to hear Booker T. Washington speak in the big negro Methodist Church in this city on March 18th.
 IL seems that invitations were ex- tended to President Roosevelt and aIt the members of the cabinet a num- Der of foreign ambassadors and min- isters and other public men.
 So far 1t is said that Taft is the only member of the Cabinet who has signified his intention of being pre- sent. And of course the taIkafive ones are saying that he Is trying to be on hand for political effect. On ao- count of the BrownNville affair most of the leading negroes and espectalIy the preachers of Washington, profeea to be violently opposed to Taft far President
 A snorting negro parson of this town by the name of Corrothers has besn sent South by . Republican combina- ton to try to secure delegates iB that section for Senator ForaKer. He and others are believed to be backed by ex-Senators Chandler and Kellogg who are opposing Taft.
 Negroes all over the country are saia to have brought pressure fo bear on Booker Washington to declare himselE regarding the candidates for President But so far as known here he has n0k taken a stand His inclinationm axa said to be towards Taft but that doaa not please the negroes of the Capitol city They want him to come out either for Foraksr. Cannon or Fals-
 HObson Works for ships.
 Representative Hobson claims that sixty Democratic members of the Houea will favor his amendment to appro~ priate for four instead of two mann moth battleshipS. Congressman Taw- ney insists that not over ten democrats will stand by the Alabamian.
 The thing will be settled before icnx. Meanwhile Representative Hobson fa working very hard to convince his leg isiative associates on both sides of the House that Congress ought to stand ny the President in ordering four naw shine
 Today Representatives Butler af Pennsylvania and Mudd of Maryland. veteran Republican members of the House Naval Affairs committee. re marked that Captain Hobson has fre- Quently informed his colleagues on the committee that in his speaixing tours he had addressed about two million people on his plan of national defense and that only twenty-two per- sons are known to be opposed to 1t.
 T expect" said Mir. Butler to Mr Mudd. The must include eleven or twelve members of our Committee in the twenty-two. for that number are certainly opposed to the four ships"
 favorable report was made today from the House Claims Committe on Representative TayIoF's bill for the re- lief of the assignees of the Deposit Savings Association of Mobile. The claim amounts to aLout SiB,OOO.
 Col. and Mrs. E. L. Russell and Miss Russell. Rev. R. V. Taylor, c. A Gaines and W. B. Salters of Mobile and John Dixon of Talledega are among Alabama arrivals today
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
KILLS A POLICEMAN
MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY ON STREETS OF BIRMINGHAM. omcer Smith Losses His Life and Ofncer Byars is shot Through Leg
 Unknown Murderer
 Escapes.

Birmingham. March 10.-Policeman W. A. Smith was shot and instantly killed and Policeman J. Byars was shot through the leg by an unknown white man, near Avenue E and Eff teenth Street late tonight.
 Byars states that the man walked up to them and without warming opened fire. They did not know him and were so taken by surprise that the man had little difficulty in escaping. Byars fired at him i've times, but thinks he did not hit him. Tho shooting will arouse especial indignation in view of the numerous threatening letters which nave recently been received by mem- bers of the police department.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
AInbannn T,oatmantern.

washington. March lo.--lspeeiail-- Postmssters appointed: Charity, Lowndes County, John 0. Lee: Hurris cane, Baldwin County. James M. Brown; summarisld. Dallas County. Richard B. Cater.
 The Third National Bank of St. Louis has been appointed as receiver and agent for the Henderson National bank, Huntsville. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
DUEL IN LOUISIANA
STATE SENATOR KILLED BY c. F.
 HYDE.
The Men QuarreIed Over the Recent State Primary Election and De- cided to Fight a
 D=eI.

Amite. La. March 10-Democratic State Senator elect D. s. Kemp was to- night shot and killed by c. F. Hyde. a politician and business leader in this community.
 The men quarreled today over the re- cent Democratic State primary election. Hyde charging Kemp with untruthful- ness. Later Kemp, revolver in hand, met Hyde and slapped his face. The men then agreed to a duel. which took place almost immediately. Hyde was not injured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
TAFT IS ENDORSED.
Home City of War Secretary Pays Him
 Tribute.

Cincinnati, March 10.--"Taft first last, and all the time." was the form of endorsement adopted by the Republi- can Congressional Convention of the First and Second Districts in Secre- tary Taft's home city today.
 In the First District George B. Cox and Julius FIeischmann were named as delegates and in the Second, Wade Fills and John Dofnette. IT,, August Herman, the weli-known baseball man, is one of the aIternates in the First District. Norman c. Kenan was chosen for elector fin the First and pr. Brooks S. Beebe for elector in the Second Dis- trict
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
POSTMASTER AT PENSACOLA.
Rix M. Robinson Is To Succeed CaR
 tain NorthuD.

Washington, March 10-The Senate today received from the President the nomination of Rix M Robinson to be postmaster at Pensacola. Fla. Robin son Is named to succeed Postmaster Northup, who was rejected by the Sem ate a year ago.
 In spite of the rejection. Northup has continued in office. which fact recently provoked an inquiry by the Senate. The Department responded that it was un- acquainted with the facts and that the continuance of Northup In offlce was an oversight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
CIaaa nnsEn nf AfIanfn.

Atlanta, Gaa March to, --The Eouth- ern Railway shops st this plaee were closed down tonight for an inde1nite pe- rfod. The order closing the shops etat- The exact number thrown out Of work could not be learned. but 1t is said to exceed 100.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
Two ChinaInen Hanwed

Philadelphia, March 10--Two Chinese Jung low and Mock Kung, were hang. ed at Moyamensing prison today fu, the murder of two fellow countrymeD during an outbreak in the Chinese quarter on the night of July (, 1906. They died in the Baptist faith.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
TALKED IN GERMAN.
Roosevelt Receives the Jewish Leader
 of Austria.

Washington, March 1O.-President Roosevelt talked for ten minutes in German today with pr. Nathan Biron- bam of Vienna. leader of the Jewish National Party in Austria, who was &C., companied to the White House by Mir. GoIdfogle of New York.
 pr. Bironbam told the President that he was in the United States studying political conditions. The President re- marked there was no occasion for poe iitical division in this country along racial or other lines.
 we are all Americans" he said to h;s visitor. He stated that in his Rough Rider regiment there were number of Hebrews. He said that the onlv question was as to whether they were Americans and brave men and he found that they were both.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
Cloae ehops Id saIiaburr.

Salisburg. N. C.. March 10.--The em- ployes of the Southern Railway shops at Spencer, except the roundhouse and the car department were laid of this afternoon indefinitely. Two hundred men are affected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
preanIer Nnt Lynehed.

Bristol. Va, March 10.-The story sent from Bristol yesterday to the ef- feet that Jackson Pressler. a white man. had been taken from his home in Russell County. Virginia, and lynched by a mob. was untrue. Reports from that county. which are authentic are to the effect that 1t is without foundation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
Rrrnn .InIna Frnt.

Lincoln. x b., March 10.--wm. J.Bryan today became college Mason when he was initiated as a member of Daieth Chapter of Acacia at the University ag Nebraska Chapter housa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
COIumbia shops Aaected.

Columbia. g. C.. March l0.-The South. ern Railway today posted notices in it's shops in this city that about fifty of its shopmen would be laid off indef- initely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
Lar oF n4 Iknoxxilin.

Knoxville, Tenn, March 10.--The Southern Railway laid of 200 men at it's Coster plant tonight leaving at work about 300 men in a plant that normal ly employees between 1000 and i.200.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
WEATHER FORECAST

Washington. March IO--FOr AIabamaI Cloudy, probably ruin Wednesday, Thursday fair and warmerD light to fresh east winds
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
Ynmnr nfnn lkilIed.

Nashville, Tenn. March io.--A dis patch to The Banner from Ciarksville' Tenn. says:
 Near Woodford. about fifteen miles from this city, this morning, Brown Bennett, a young man, the son of an Association Tobacco Prizer. was found in the public road in dying condition, with a bullet hole through his head. Near Bennett were two dead horses and three empty shot guns. It is be- lieyed the young man had been at tackled by night riders.
 There is great mystery surrounoing the affair and an investigation Is being made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
Nofe of Warnlng.

Henderson. Ky. March 1O.--w. Brad shaw, a farmer living on the edge of this city, this morning found a note at his door warning him against employ ing negroes. It was signed The Thirty Five" The note was accompanied by a bundle of switches, e match and some cartridges.