The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-03
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 BEING SENT OUT Innocent Negro Probably Serves Term In Penitentiary FINDS LONG LOST BOND Troy Merchant Had Forgotten That He Had Bought Government Bond-lt
 Is Now Worth $467o-News
 of Montgomery.
FINDS LONG LOST BOND

Montgomery, April 2.-(speeial. )-The in- crease in the sales of fertilizer tags dur ing the month of March indicates that there is renewed activity among the far mers of the state toward getting in the new crop. In February the department of agriculture sent out tags to the value of SS5, ,172, in March 36,3OS.5O For March of last year the sales were $36, 5S, a slight topping of the record of 1909. The total for the six months ending with the [ last of March this year was S95,3O8; for the year before, sSS 2O6.sS.
 For the six months beginning with Oc- tober last, the figures were: October, $43915; November, s99: December sS7O; January, s139269s; February, S2,969.27; March, $36,5025s.
 For the same six months of last year: October, $SSS; November, $499.50; December, s2s4O; January, sls5S1; February, $S5,172; March, $36 s0S.50.
 The deposit of the department of agri- culture for the month of March Just closed was s36, 279. .6S; for the same time last year. $36, ,64254
 Innocent Man Serves.
 The outlook Is that Ollie Ray, negro, who was sent up in 1904, for murder in Madison county, and has since been at service for the state, is innocent A man has died at Huntsville who says that the negro never committed the offense for which he was sent up. With the lights before him, Gov. B. B. Conner has par doned the negro.
 ne C,,,., xxvl,a S1 two of a twenty-year sentence for sec ond-degree murder, and who had made a good showing of self defense, was re- leased also. Others paroled were Tim Walker, Marengo county, payment of costs; H. H. Dubose, Covington county, served two years of three-year sentence for attempted murder; Howard Jay and Sloan Bedsole, Escambia county, served two of three years for grand larceny; A. J. House of Pickens, and George Co., ker of Autauga, civil rights restored. Railroad Commission. The railroad commission will have up the following cases next Monday: Peti- tion of the Atlantic Coast line to close | agency at Tennille; petition for better
 
 bama; decision on petition for better ser vice on the Tuskegee railroad; adjustment of lumber rates on the Mobile and Bay Shore; petition for depot at Jones, on Southern railway; petition of Southern to cut out agencies at Sunflower and Rural
 Finds Long-Lost Bond.
 As result of the persistence of his l Henderson. a Troy, has found an old government bond that is worth $4670 to him. He had forgot ten that he bought it, but his sister in sisted and found the cancelled check with which the purchase was made. Desks l were turned up but nothing came of it. i Finally down in one corner of an old ! chest an oil cloth covered package was found and inside 1t the bond, with other bonds aggregating with the interest $4670.
 Girls Are Found. i Misses Mamie Knight and Bertie Cone, | the two girls who left the city Wednes- day night, have been caught and will be 1 brought back home. They were found in 1 New Orleans and were arranging to join a chorus of a rehearsing company. L. c. Campbell, stepfather of Miss Knight, went to New Orleans and with the police there
 Forgery on Old Negro. | Judge w. H. Thomas of the city court has held checks to the value of $500 drawn on the account of Sam Eubanks to be | forgeries. The negro Is blind. He put money in the Fourth National bank. Later checks, signed by mark, witnessed and | indorsed by a leading firm, came to the | Fourth National through another bank. | They were paid Now the negro says | they were forged and the witness says | his name was forged The bank will hold | the indorsers.
 Scorching Alderman. | J. M Kennedy, alderman, and Dr. Cas- l ton Griel, city physician, have had to 1 face two charges of fast auto driving. | They have been before the recorder. The mayor has let it be known that the fast 1 driving must stop.
 Minor State Items. | John Ogletree, the u-yearold boy who | left home several days ago, was seen in Birmingham, but he kept going. 1 Julian Rice. young merchant, Is suing | the Atlantic Coast Line for dog that was allowed to escape from a crate en route.
 l B. w. Lynn of Richmond, a member of l the Virginia senate, was at the capitol with Col. c. R. Bricken Friday. CHILD FATALLY INJURED.