Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 6, 1911, Page 1

yoL. ! ICALISTS LOSE INL0S ANGELES 08 HARRIMAN WAS DEFEATED YESTERDAY BY OVER 40,000 VOTES. :sociated Press.) (alif., Dec. 6.—Count- turns of yesterday's city nows that the Socialists vorality by fully 40,000 Alexander was re- ,or Job Harriman, Social- ¢ the attorneys for the Me- JCKERSHAM' S CONDITION REPORTED AS IMPROVED ton, D, C., Dec. 6. Attor- Wickersham, who was - i1l of indigestion yes- ii cabinet meeting, is im- E thi: morning. RCADIA MAN'S TROUBLES UNSETTLE HIS MIND aliu, Dee, 5,—It will be re- nat several months ago H. E. . merchant of Arcadia, shot st ber Ingram, the young man dy- z 4 few hours after the fatal shot s fired. Mr. Wild claimed that e action he took in shooting the ung man was in defense of the pror of his name, He was arrested the charge of murder and was ad- itted to bail, the case to be investi- ted by the grand jury at this term the cirenit court, A few days ago il went into bankruptey, and his s of business was closed out by e sheriff of the county. His trou- s s emed to prey heavily upon his nd Wild's friends noticed that thing was wrong for several rs His case was investigated by o erand jury, and that body after lboating returned a true bill rreme him with murder in the :rev. Before the result of jury's investigatins were idv Krown to Mr. Wild he became and was taken in| atee by the officers. His mind to have given away entirely, vis adjudged insane and will tiker o the sanitarium at Chat- = 1 ity insane ISSINMEE LETS CONTRACT FOR BRICK STREETS Ko, Fla., Dee. 4.—The city "as awarded a contract to ane Paving company of im, Ala., to pave one block ‘t. three blocks on Broad- block on Dakin avenue fed brick. The company men and tools on the ground +zin work Monday morn- oancil, at its last meeting, fesolution calling an elec- “ld on the 19th of Decem- “rmine whether the coun- + the power to borrow the purpose of grading, ! paving certain other "tacted for as above. In 1ol is authorized to bor- It is the intention to thiree miles of streets at | which will place Kissim- © class of cities where she ODYEN TO HAVE CARNIVAL AT TAMPA I 5 —Prominent mem- loral Woodmen of the “nt at a meeting of ! last night to back for the use of the rec- “ds of the Tampa Bay irnival to be held from | "o 170 1t was advanced | ’s that they had dis- 1es with Col. T. J. L. That he had practically of holding his cel-| ¥ as the Woodmen ir intention of hold- carlier if he wanted k. i February ... ''on was granted and the e ' the Woodmen were| ‘"prised when the Board lin Lakeland * would be no charge of the grounds. “imen declared that the “cds of one day at the Il be turned over to the 5 Home for use as the trus- 5 see fit, w REVIVAL BRINGS NEW MEMBERS INTO THE BAPTIST FOLD. The revival at the First Baptist church continues to draw large crowds and much interest is mani- lested in the meeting. Last night Dr. Nowlin preached a splendid ser- mon--many in the congregation de- claring it to be the best they had ever heard him deliver. This in itself is saying a great deal, as Dr. Nowlin presents the Truth forcibly and el- oquently on all occasions, There were two additions to the |, night and three this morning. At the service this morn- ing. Dr. Nowlin preached a fine ser- mon, which was heard by a large congrezation. This evening at there will be servi invitation is exten attend, ACTION AGAINST RUSSIA URGED MASS MEETING OVER COUNTRY TO PROTEST AGAINST DIS. CRIMINATIONS. church last ,and a co ed the publie to (By Associated Press.) New York, Dec, 6.—A great mass meeting will be held here tonight, which will be the first of a series in the large cities of the country during the next month, to protest against Russia's discrimination re- garding passports held by American citizens, on account of their religious beliefs. The movement was started by leading Jews, who demand that the United States revoke the treaty of 1832 with Russia. Representative Sulzer, of New York, has a resolu- tion covering such move hefore the House of Roprvsnntntlws. REVES MAY HAVE I.[rl I“[ COIJNIRV li:‘)::l ::[l “(‘:n account of the break-|ore Under Bond In United States, Charg- ed With Plotting Against Mex- ican Government. (By Associated Presso San Antonio, s, Dec 6o Re- ports are un.llhtmu as to whether General Bernardo Reyes, under bond as being accused of plotting in Uni- ted States to overthrow the Mexi- can government, has left the coun- try as reported last night. At his residence it was said he is ill. The| border is being watched to see it he tries to cross into Mexico IRELAND MAY GET HOME RULE BILL (By Associated Press. London, Dec. 6. - Premier Asquith announced in the House of Commons that he would use all means at his disposal to pass a home rale bill for Ireland during the present Parlia- ment Tamily Who Need Help. The attention of The Telegram has teen called to the needs of the fam- ity of Mr. Acree, who lives on the outskirts of town, and who are in destitute circumstances, Mr. Acree has been a sufferer from dropsy for the last year and unable to work, and his wife is confined to her bed by illness, The charitably inclined prople of the town can do no better work than to interest themselves at once in as- sisting these people. Mrs. Acree has been making the living but she has worked herself down and is now in| ! bed, and the family are in want. This is about the only poor family that The knows anything about, and it is hop- ed that a subscription will at once | be started with which to aid them.| ations This office will receive any dor for the family. ST. LOUIS AFTER REPUB. CONVENTION, (By Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., Dec. 6.—An organized effort of the business men of St. Louis, headed by Secretary of Commerce of Labor Nagle, to get next year's Republican National Convention, is being made. Telegram { Pubhshed in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. IAKELAND FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEHBER 6, 1911 NO. 30 GRAND JURY [DYNAMITED IN WILL PROBE PHILADELPHIA WILL STRIVE TO UNEARTH AL-|BLOWING UP OF STRUCTURAL LEGED NATION-WIDE DYNA- IRON WORKS IN THAT CITY MITING CONSPIRACY. CHARGED TO McNAMARAS wiated Press.) By Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 6 The MeNamara brothers are (By Angeles, Calif, Dec. 6. —-The! et for a Federal grand jury stigation of the alleged nation- | for the explosion in this city which dynamiting conspiracy. This|daniazed the Steactural lron Works vexed by the startling[according to Detective William MeNamara cases, and | Burns He further declares that the re affair, [ Peads ot the Structural lron Union s Kknew that the doover to responsible wide ity 18 sore cuding of the vould gladly let go the en but this is considered impossible, money which they John o MeNamara | dynamiting ont o many of those wanted as witnessges [ (i are here, Wis used tor TUgs UNCONFIRMED RUMOR OF | ‘ CARRIBBEAN DISASTER | WCRKIEN KILLED BY | COLLAPSE OF BUILDING (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, Ga., Dee. 6 Throughout the day, rumoe ster in the Carribbean Sea have reached thefal workmey were killed by the col- Associated Peocs e efforts to ran | lipse o them down lave proved futile CASES DISPOSED OF By Associated Press.) | Sever-| re of dis hodicnapolis, Ind., Dece, 6. A building in conrse of con- struction in this city today, {DEAD MAN FOUND ROCKEFELLER BEFORE IN COUNTY COURT| STEEL COMMITTEE Judge Preston Making the Path of [INVITED TO GIVE HIS SIDE OF The Peculator Thorny This THE MERRITT ORE PROPERTY Week. TRANSACTIONS. Evening Telegram Bureau, (By Associated Press.) Bartow, Fla,, Dec. i, 1911, Washington, D, ¢, Dec. 6. John County Court convened this morn-{ 1), Rockefeller and Rev. Fred D, ing at ten o'clock, Judge W. S, Pres-| Gates, manager of Rockefeller's char- ton presiding. Sheriff John Logan | ities, have been invited Ly Chairman with his deputies and Clerk A, B.|Staniey of the House Steel Investi- Ferguson, in the person of Deputy | gation Committee, to apprar before Jim Johnson, were at their posts of [ the Steel Committee Monday to rve- duty o 11" 00 they care to, to the charges The docket was first sounded and | made by Merritt Brothers, of Min- trial or otherwise dis-| nesota, concerning the £20,000,000 promoeties which the latter de- il of a case of small fclared Rockefeller vor trom them in g out in the pox, all jail cases were continued tofay, the February term. A number of criminal and civil cases were set for | { this week, it being the purpose of the Court to finish in one week if possi- ble. 1t will taks month {to ey every case on the docket, The| docket seems to be very tull for there are at present docketed and nndispos cd of TN eriminal cases and 69 civil uwnlan manner WHAT OTHERS SAY OF NOTED LECTURER sl A paper at Hantington, Pa., has the following to say of Miss Ellen Stone, the missionary who is to de- liver a lecture in Lakeland next Sun- day afterncon at the Methodist church: “Miss Stom cuse The following men were sworn as week W. 1. Bryant, | delights farge awdi Jurors for the {4 D, Fonton, 0 8. Onin, O, - K710 TG D sestistenah slivnell Wi s o8t s filled Thavksgiving night by inter Watts, WL Grifting W, F Prince : A : . : ested hearers of Migs Elley, M. Stone Chas. Klay, Lee Kemp, Ben Bradley, i\\' 0. Hays, L. A Taylo { The tollowing cases were disposed | i Fthe only sabject of the United States who has ever been held by Turkish [ brigands for a vansom Her talk of: T. K. Bar or, liquor dealer; ; e : wis intensely interesting throughout, nolle prossed. T, K. Graham, cruel-| : ¢ fas she told of the horrors of the six ty to animals, bond forfeited. Jules| Incking bt Tsilka, wife of Under the z } months' imprisonment, |vight days, with Mrs Elbert Tison, | Archie| Albanian preacher Arc threat ol Kersey, business withont license, doing nolle prossed seining, bond forfeited ottt repeated Baldwin, Jarceny bond estreated. | fuek Tok : gravated ault | deaths their minds nearly gave way Jack Johnson, aggravated assa A ransom of 25000 ponnds was de {bond estreated. Arthur Prevatt .|Ir'|‘ i : it Her Mizelle, larceny, nolle pro ul Pmanded, and this demand was per fen elle larceny, % than four months, isted in for mor Eugene We weapons, bond forfeited s, carrying cone w! . tut 14,5 Jog Wilson ) % was finally accepted, and the cap- prossed. F. A & s " tives freed. The United States I ylvester nolle y partment now a-ks an appropr J. B MeNeil, ng business without | I‘ ! h_ Hi0IaE. MEn " trom Congress for that the 00 Capproximately $65,000) | | se promises, nolle i | larceny, prossed iation | 266 000, a lice nolle prossed. Haywood | | 4 MeKin linuor d vond 14.nw ronment may reimburse the peo- | M ney, uo ¢ 0y % {4 'I .I‘ u g Willian arrying ']:I'- who gave, and saved the life of reated arry Hhams, £l ¥ his \m-nmn subject and her com- bond estreated l.nlntze-uml | pavions nolle prossed pistol, (‘hase, liquor dealer, The afternoon was taken up in the trial of G. L. Scott, colored, charge of carrying a pistol wi'hml" a license. Wilson & Boswell repre- |sent the defendant while the State |is being taken care of by Prosecut- _ ing Attorney L. C. Johnson | tions of Florida some time in Feb- The jury in the case of the Stat:jruary or the March |ve. G L. verdiet of | His coming is mainly to address the { masses of his race on questions of | BOOKER WASHINGTON COMING TO FLORIDA Washington, the not expects to visit Booker | negro educator carly days in Scott. returned a gnilty - industrial education and right liv-| 3" BRICK PLANT SOLD. ing. He has made similar trips; i - within the past yoar or two through ‘I Brooksville, Dec. 5 —The Brooks iumber of the southern States, and ville Brick Manufacturing company |large crowds of colored people nsnal- | plant on Monday was put up at pub- | and was knocked down to | the creditors for $12,000. For want| Bofism HEE'[[NG of a practical operator the affairs r.Yl AT FORT PIERCE the institution were allowed to lan- | | 1im ¥ come out to hear { lic sale horrible | | | damage Orlando, Dec. 5. A dead man was "Bus onamo CHINESE REGENT found lying on the road-bed of the SI[PS “0WN S. A, L. railroad about a mile and a Lalf from the city, on Saturday morn- FATHER OF LITTLE EMPEROR ing. The body was well dressed, with more than one suit of clothes. ABDICATES ON DEMAND OF REBELS. \ pocket book was under his hand with five it and a small memo-hook was in his pocket with the name J. H, Burlington, N. )L, inseribed on it The man's head had two small marks on it but no other cents in (By Associated Press.) Pekin, Dec, Prince Chunn, {regent of the Chivese empire, and tather of the child emperor, abdi ciated taday His place on throne twas taken by Shih Hsu, o Manchu prince and sy This action follow the demaids of fead- rovolution Coombs, indication of violence. | Fhere may have been foul play bt the Coroner's Jury could find no evi- dene Chih Chang. Sherifl Kirkwood wired Bur- lington, NO b, but a reply was re-! civid that the man answering o] 098 0F the body | un- \TA‘\'PA WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE that name was at home. The was buried in the field of the nnewn ’ Tanipa, Deeo 60 Pived of life be I)Av S DOINGS canse of Al health, Mrs RO, Cot- felt, who resided a quarter of a mile IN CoNfiR[SS south of the County Poor Farm, suicided yesterday morning by burn- inz herselt” to death in a horrible manner. During the absence of her NO SESSION OF SENATE. BUT HOUSE CONSIDERS SEV- husband, who left for the city at 7 ERAL MATTERS. aoom, Mrs. Coffelt poured Kerosen or gasoline over herself, lay pros- trate on the floor and applied a 6. The|match. When Mr. Coffelt returned for dinner at noon he found his wife (By Associated Press.) Washington, D, ¢, Dec, Senate is not in session today. The House met at noon. Diplomatic re-|burned to a crisp. calls were demanded by Roprosenta-[ Mrs. Coffelt, who was fifty-tive tive Berger, Socialist, on account of [ years old, is said to have been talking the Russian passport trouble, The |OF Killing herself for some time, hav- Lorimer investigation was resumed | 108 grown despondent because of the by the senate committer. The sen-|State of her health. When her hus- ate committee continued to probe|band left yesterday there was a the high sugar prices. The bemo-|large bottle of Kerosene standing in crats on the House Ways and Means|the house and after the tragedy it Committee discussed tariff plans|conld not be found. The oil from without taking definite move that bottle is believed to have boen the fuel with which the horrible deed B[file IODAV .r'(:(.kt:::r"‘filwrtfln ofice by Jailor R, ¢, Long Legal Battle Probable Betweea| TWO MEN CHARGED WITH DEFACING TAX BOOKS Government and Trust Law Daytona Beach, hee, 4 Alderman Stephen Smith, . Hibbard and John Thompzon, the Daytona Beach council, we arrvested last Thursday on a warrant sworn ot by Clark G, Smith on a charge of de facing and falsifying the town tax books. A preliminary hearing was held In Justice 1. G, Wilson at the Seabreeze town hall Saturday, Violators. (By Associated Press.) Clicago, Hs, Dee, 60 The erim ust the ten Chicago growing out of their anti-t s were called belfore Judge Car- in the United States District Court this morning. inal case meat packer, eed violatiog of the [ penter Counsel tor the defendants entered | Frank Pope representing the state pleas of not guilty The United [ 200 Stewart & Bly the defendants, States Supreme Court yesterday re- who were bound over to appear be fore the next eriminad court further postpone- The preliminaries several | OKEECHOBEE & GULF ROAD fused to allow «a ment of the trial are expected to o consume days TOUCHES LAKELAND who came in yesterday from Mul- ON HONDURAS COAST CBy Associated Press and that the Honduras, Dee 6 A storm | Pemoved yeote const for | Busking on the point the tated that the new roadway had b berry, ninety miles of nosurveyed Camp Wi ay from Mulberry to Little Manatee, From urvey runs to Arcadia rains | The new phosphate territory of Pulk county thoroughly, Lakeland and main line will be thenee to Port snurveyors' ' Ceiba, his been blowing on thi There has been much | this sto frait and heavy No loss of life has abated to several days rond covers the hiave fallen heey tonching ar Mulherry, Fort Meade. The Arcadia, reported. The storm s day pushed to Landerdale TAXABLE WEALTH OF THE CITY OF BARTOW STEAMSHIP SLOCUM A Increase During the Past Year of SANK YESTERDAY $90,000.00. Plitladelphia, D S0 The last vestige of the unfortunate steamship The City Councilf Guneral Sloenm on which about mOhIY Ly 400 4ives were lost in the waters of New York come year *ordered {4y, lartow, Dec. 6 of Bartow met in regular cssion last night The tax assess- ago, now lies at After the tent roll was acoepted ar turned over to the tax collector. The | Guamboar was burned to the water's tax books there was an ) qee the erted into in taxable values the past bottom of the sea show that hull was cont i e d barge and given the name of Mary- Fof $90.006. The books show ar land ssed valuation for real estate in Today a report was received here the city of § 95, for personal |y the barge could not stand the property of 610 total LI that biew off the New Jersev The rate of millage was fixed |0 terday and sank somewhere mills, and the total vaxes )5, b Gieinity of Sandy Hook. The {Le collected amount to $16,700 'x w of five men were taken off by a {tig The Maryland was valued at {820 000, and there was no insurance 4 KILLED IN WRECK NEAR PITTSBURG PALMETTO FACTORY | cuish until a settlement was effected Today is the date for the good ier'tuzh the courts. With an up-to-:mads rally when the boosting clans Idntn plant valued at 830,000, forty|of the East Coast wil r together Pierce This z2cres of sand and clay as one of the in council at Fort assets and an ideal location, the rom-!meflinx is expected to have a far- pany will be reorganized and plac-|reaching influence upon the rushing ed under the supervision of a compe-| forward of the work of building a tent manager and practical brick-|highway from Jacksonville and St Augustine to Miami. maker. Active preparations are being made in Tampa for the erection of the new Pittshurg, Pa., Dec. 6 Four men, | factory of the Tampa Brush and three still unidentified, were killed, | Specialty Company. This company and twenty hurt in the wreck of two|is organized for the manufacture of freight trains, and one express near|specialties from palmetto wood. here this morning specialties from palmettom wood {By Associated Press) Py O