The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-25
MOBILE PAPER SOLD
BANKRUPT HERALD BRINGS S7So AT AUCTION.
Degree Teams Knights of Columbus City of Mobile Eajolned6Other Nevvs of Tie
 Gulf City.

Mobile. March 24--(speciai.) )-Under bankruptcy proceedings Receiver W. K. P. Wilson. for The Herald Publish ing Company, sold the equipment of the publication today. The effects were purchased by State Senator Max Hamburger. IT,. who formerly owned the paper. and the price paid was said to be e750. The property purchased includes type. press and offics fixtures. The Mergenthaler machines were re- turned to the manufacturers some weeks ago
 K. o. c. To Havana.
 Destined for Havana. Cuba, where there Is to be organized the first coun- ell of the Knights of Columbus on that fans. numbering nienteen. left today for Knights Key. Fla. where Q steam CT will be taken for the Cuban metrop- oils. Sixteen members of the party from Mobile are members of Mobile Council No. ss6. Knights of Columbus. and there are several guests. At Montgomery they will be joined by other prominent members of the order from that city and from Birm-
 ingham. The party forms a degree class. which will confer degrees upon the members to be initiated. Tho first council will be organized there Sun day, and there is @ class of fifty. The party is headed by Matt Manor
 ner. IT,. special representative of the Supreme Council of the order. who will
 have the distinction of being the first order in the Pearl of the Antilles. En3sined From Collecting. Judge Toulmin. of the United States District Court. today granted tempor- ary injunction against the City of Mo
 bile in favor of the Western Union Telegraph Company. in the matter of collecting a license tax of $1,000. which nies by an ordinance of the General Council
 The action of the Western Union Is similar to that of the Postal Company. which was also granted an injunction. The telegraph companies asked for an injunction restraining the city from collecting the license tax. claiming that the amount assessed is for revenue only.
 In the controversy the city has oon- tended the right to levy licanse tax as a police measure or for revenue only or both. claiming that the right fs given the city by the new municipal code. News Of Noted Crook. The sheriff's department has receiv- ed letter from Chief of Police of Scranton, Mfss. conveying the fnfor- nation that the officers of that city To- cated Ed Celerstine, better known as Pensacola Ed" there few days ago. but added the discomforting news that the fugitive managed to get away be- fore he could be placed under arrest. Celerstine Is wanted here for the killing of a negro woman on the cor ner of Davis avenue and Wilkinson street. last February. who he brained with a wash bowl. He was recogniz- ed in Scranton by a negro woman nam- ed Clyde Hayley. who used to live in Mobile. The letter says the Hayley
 woman shot at him four times, and it is thought that one of the bullets found Judgement in the body of the fugitive Prominent Pythian HonOred. It was a genuine hospitable recep- tion that was accorded Major Gen.
 eral A. J. Stobbard, head of the Uni form Rank of the Knights of Pythias,
 of the United States. upon his arrival here after 1 o'clock this afternoon from New Orleans. where he has been the guest of the Pythians of that city since last Friday.
 General Stobbard was met at the de- pot by the membership of the uniform rank as committees After being en- tertained by the Pythians today. he was tonight the guest of local Pythians at their hall and later at a banquet al
 Klosky's.