The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-07
THE NEWS OF MOBILE
COMMITTEE WANTS ADDITIONAL
 MONEY FOR DREDeE.
Judge TouImfn Passes Several Sea- tenees--Lumber Firm Thrown Into Bankruptcy--Petiticn for Dfsnolution of Another
 Company.

Mobile. March e.--tSpecial.}---An in- voluntary petition in bankruptcy Was filed in the United States Court today against the Pettihone-Taylor Lumber Exporting Company The petitioners asking that the company be declared insolvent were J. H. Vaughan, S, !. Daugherty and H. H. Chase.
 Judge Toulmin returned to his bench in the United States Court today af- ter an illness of month. and sentenced several prisoners who have been con victed and awaiting sentence. George R. Mayield. a negro clerk. got two years for embezzlewent; J. J. Tobin. a negro special delivery boy. was sen- tenced to fifteen months. and Northrup Taylor was given two months in the county jail for a violation of the inter nal revenue laws.
 The special committee. appointed by the last meeting of the Rivers and Harbors Committee to report on the advisabiiity of the purchase of a dredge for deepening the channel. reported at q special meeting today. and presented resolutions for use by Congressman
 Taylor The 'committee deem the pur- chase of the dredge advisable but in order to do so. asked Mr. Taylor to get another appropriation through for
 s1o0.ooo, as the s200.ooo was not enough.
 The committee pointed out the work of dredging the channel, and stated 1t
 would take year to construct the
 dredge and fin that time an appropria-
 tion for more money could be secured
 which wac necessary for properly
 dredging the channel. Much discussion
 was had on these resolutions with the final result that it was decided to use
 the $200.000 already appropriated ip
 making immediate dredges of the ehans nel. Mayor Lyons was elected a mem Der of the joint rivers and harbors com. mittee today.
 The following prisoners have been taken to the convict camp at Speig- ners in charge of Special Agent P. N
 Travis: H. |. Lee Russell. white. who was convicted of passing bogus cheeks on the Cawthon Hotel, one year and one day; c. F. Hughes. convicted Of forgery. four years: Fonsay Williams.
 burglary. four years. An agent of the Vinegar Bend Camp also took away | several negroes sentenced at this term Of the City Court for minor offences. Through statement given by L. Fl. Horn. commission broker, today the charge of murder against Charles 1 Weatherbee, held in New Orleans for breaking show windows, ia positively cleared. as Horn states the boy was working for him in Mobile on the day that the murder Of Rome fG0.l was committed in Norfolk Auth horitses Of the former place have wired the New Orleans people that he Is wanted there for murder. Horn states that at the time Weatherbee was in h.s employ. he was at sBrewton to which place his firm
 had directed him to go on business. News was received here today of the acquittal of William Johnson, . Mo- bile boy, who was tried at Gulfport for the murder of negro at Ten Mile,
 Miss, four years ago. The evidence
 introduced st the trial. so the message
 states, could not warrant even the
 holding of Johnson and the jury was out only eleven minutes.
 A suit was filed today in the law and equity court by Claude Taylor against the Mobile Light and Railroad Company for damages in the sum of S1 900. alleging that on Aug. IS. last.
 an electric car. collided with his vehicle, snjuring him severely.
 An order was issued in the law and equity court this afternoon asking the | dissolution of the Alabama Marble l Company, The firm was incorporated some time ago with a capital of sf0. 900. The application was made by J. H. Hob son, J. J. Smith and R. F, Huger, IT,, 1 tn latter a resident of ClaEke, County.
 on the grounds of haylpg ,,eu eusurped power. s,.s31o,