Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 10, 1912, Page 1

FFER, mmand EY, Adjutanl tly. taxpa of pre $15,000 5 BREAK W PARIY REATENED NORTHERN DELEGATES PRO- EST FOR RECOGNITION OF BLACKS; TEDDY OBDURATE .mted Press.) ) Aug. 10i—Because orn delegates of the Pro- onvention are anxious to \ern negroes gain represen- yation, & serious breach in the new party is inreatened, according to a « Roosevelt today. A northern= . Colonel that the aetion and he would not abide the southern story 1 er told the to keep immediately aqalyz;d &s in the Republican conven= told the protestants that ted to create such condi- . the Progressive party they |- do so without him. This is his atum, he wxp]ainedf 15 EVROPEAN COUNTRIES 0 PARIICIPA’I‘IE IN EXPOSITION. 5.—Fifteen Eu- have promised to he military and na- int of the Panama-Pacific on in 1915, according to an- ent made by Reuben B. i Francisco, who returned rope after heading a jon which toured Europe to participation of foreign s in celebrating the open- Panama Canal. capitals of 15 European coun- re visited, and the Americans ived in practically every in- nally by the rulers and of the different governments. Hale said that the party was d by all the rulers of their deep rest in the completion of the Pan- anal, and “all spoke of the anefit that the people of the per s were conferring on the | 1d by their achievetent in about the completion of that | I Autnknng > said that every one of the visited had promisde to | ssels and military. de- s to the exposition. VERDICT NOT RENDERED ] IN DROWNING CASE. Aug. 10~W.\ H. the Ocean View ho- lo Beach, was given his before ' Mayor 5, of the town. Adams with having violated the nance, which provides for ing of safety appliances shing of safety appli- e, vier of terday dant contended that he life linesin the water, set I had life rafts, and in 1e ]v\f‘r,\thlng in his power e bathing at this place : verdiet of the court will ¢ later. has probably - come drowning of Miss Proc- bathing grounds last suit for $50,000 has been ircuit' Court here against ms by Louise McKinney, trix of the estate. ; wling, the Clreuit Court nographer, went to Pablo take the evidence jn the t Adams, el AT THE Mzrnoms'r CHURCH. D Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. GEI J. A, COX WILL CEI.E- BRATE 75TH BIRTHDAY MONDAY ‘Next ‘Monday; the 12th inst, Gen. J A. Cox will be 75 years old. The last fifty-three and one-half years of |, that time he has been a Master Ma- son and has “traveled, worked and recéived mester's wages” in fourteen States of the Union, also in Mexico. His host of friends will rejoice with him in having attained this ripe age, and having retained in such a msrked measure his youthful vigor and luperlor mental faculties. Gen. Cox is one of the South's most prom- inent Confederate veterans, being. at !the head of the Florida Division, and {numbers his friends by the hundreds who join the Telegram in extending hearty congratulations in advance, on the rounding out of seventy-flve e ng and useful years. \$10,000 [GE PLANT NOW UNDER WAY Work Has Commenced on Fine New Plant for Lakeland Ice and Refrigerating Co, . Two car loads of machinery for the new 100-ton ice plant of Lake- land Ice Refrigerating Co. were un- lozded today. Work on the brick building is progressing rapidly. The combination of white pressed brick and buff mortar makes a nretty building and will do credit to Lake- land, The plant when complete will { !;epresent investment of $100,000: News reached Kissimmee this week | that the Union Cypress Co., which is extending a railroad into the Hop- kins vypress lands west of Mel- bourne, has bridged the St. Johns river south of Lake Washington and is now operating trains that far. It will not be long before the road will be finished to the point originally marked by those who projected it.— Kissimmee Valley Gazette. SEVENTEEN MEN Wedt NJURED [N -GS EXPLOSION (By Associated Press.) Birmingham, Aug. ' 10.—While changing & big gas main at the Ten- nesgee Coal and Iron Co.’s coke ovens at Corey today, gas ignited and an | explosion followed . resulting in se- rious injury to’ seventeen men, among them being Dr. K. R. Dekoll, eesistant - superintendent, William Wilson, G. Fernfler, Louis Deare- mand and S.- Andergon, foreman. CELEBRATING GOLDEN WEDDING AL & LAKELAND, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1912, R ITTED VR SITUATION GOVERNOR CALLS ON SECRE- TARY OF WAR FOR PROTEC- 'TECTION OF AMERICANS. (By Associated Press.) Austin, Tex., Aug. 10.—Goyernor Coluquit had not received a reply early today to his message regarding | the situation on the Mexican border | in Elpaso county which he sent to | Seeretary of War Stimson yesterday. \“’“*U“‘WY case, according to a mem- | be He sat up until midnight awaiting an answer, Four troops of State eav: BECKER HAD blls DEPOAITS NN Y. BANKG $21,000 DEPOSITED REPRESENT? PROCEEDS OF GAMBLING AND BLACKMAIL. (By Associated Press.) New York, Aug, 10.—Large sums have been deposited in widely sepa- rated banks by Police Lieutenant alry are held awaiting the governot's | orders. Sheriff Edwards wired the | visiting the different banks and that governor last night that there wen" several bands of Mexican rebels in | 2ud blackmail. Texas and declared he would have to | ‘redited to Becker amount to about have mounted men to cope with the ‘$ 1,000 while his salary was only §2 situation. TROOPS GO TO FRONT TO PROTECT AMERICAN XNTERESTS TWENTY-EIGHT STORY (By Associated Press.) San Antonio, Aug. “L,” Third *United States calvary, was sent from Fort Sam IIouston to Sierra Blanca and a squadron of cay- alry was ordered from Fort Clatk to Del Rio to protect Amerirah in- terests there. A recent report of the comptroller of the eurrency shows that Florida has forty-six national banks, with aggregate resources of $56,002,128, capital of §7,080,000 and individual deposits of $32,422,851, GHAFIN HAD HIS IWRING TODAY Was Notified of Nomination on Pro- hibition Ticket by Dr. C. H. Mead. Waukesha, Wis.,, Aug. 10.—The speech of Dr. C. H. Mead, of New York, notifying Eugene Chafin of his nomination for president on the Pro- hibition ticket and the latter’s speech of acceptance were delivered here to- day. PREPARING TO ENTER iy SUIT AGAINST A, C. L. Administrator Will Ask $50,000 Damages for Death of Sweet at Lakeland, Attorney E. R. Dickenson, jdtrator of the estate of Jol Sweet, is preparing the papers admi To \day is a momentous occasion in the household of Mr. and Mrs, Jesse Keen, who today are celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home southwest of the city, surrounded by a large. number of friends and their entire family con- nection. The event is one that at- tracts more than passing notice, as Mr. Keen is one of Polk county's pio- neer citizens, and has reared a large numbér of gons and daughters who have in turn reared families, all of whom are among the county’s most representative citizenship. A full and ‘complete account of the celebration will appear in Monday's issue. INCREASED FREIGHT RECEIPTS. Inbound freight receipts of the A. C. L. at Plant City show the gratify- ing increase .of more than 20 per cent in July over the same month l4st year. ‘ WILSON WILL TALK ON INMIGRATION Punk of Southern Col- ! fill the pulpit at the First tomorrow morning ' and N account of the ubnnco of ; & ‘and evenin 4 11‘;1‘(1 Methodist churchnnn:l. .It W t;1 ... by the pastor, Rev. B 1.3 imeyer. Sunday school Thurgg Service mflmin ay evgnh‘ at - (By Associated Press.) Sea Girt, Aug. 10.—Governor Wil- son is looking forward today to a visit from the Hungarian National Democratic club wWhose members are fo call upon him during the after- noon. It is' expected that the gov- guit against the Atlantic Coast il Railway Co. for damages of $50 for the death of Sweet. The dece was a fireman and was Kkilled Lakeland June 12, 1912, thr the alleged negligence of the pany or its employes. Sweet leaves a widow and child dependent on him for »——Tzuppa Tribune. ! su] Sweet, it will be remembere run over near the express office under the engine which had disconnected from the noon p: ger train bound for Tampa. Th belonging to the train wer switched backward and forwar the crew, not knowing that f ored fireman was under the nected engine, bumped into before the wheels could be the negro’s left leg was t his body otherwise horribly ny cauging his death in Dr fice three hours later. HISTORIC CHURCH BURNED. New York, Aug. The West Farms Presbyterian church, the old= est Presbyterian church building in New ¥ork City, was burncd to: the ground late night » old wooden steeple sent up a pillar of flames visible for niiles around 10. last ernor will explain to them his atti- mll remiu in Sea Girt over Sunday. The chureh was built in 1815 on & D. ™. Prayer meeting on|tude on immigration. The governor |hill top which was then surrounded b! farms and woodland. 10.—Troop | { been summoned. i i | | | | Becker, who is held in the Rosenthal or of the prosecutor’s staff today. It is believed that he concealed his iv'ontity under assumed names when the deposits are proceeds of gambling Total accounts ac- 50 per year. Bank omciala have BLDG. FOR W. U. T. CO! 10.— filed for building Telegraph Co. New York, plans have Aug. Preliminary been a new twenty-eight-story for the Western Union The building is to be erected on the site or its present structure at 195 Broad- [ way. The plans show that there will be | the $4,- iwenty-one elevators, and that cost of the building will be 000,000. 8 GHIMINAL PROSECUTON MAY BE INSTITUTED Chio Senator Hot on the Trail of Standard 0il and Tobacco Company. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 10.—Imme- diate action on his resolution to in- gtruct Attorney General Wickersham to bring criminal pmserutions( agaiust officers of the Standard Oil American Tobacco Co, was| asked the Senate today by Senator Pomerene, of Ohio. He presented a motion to have the judiciary com- mittee discharged from further oon- gideration of the resoiution pending, ! which has been in the Senate for more than a year, but withdrew it aiter it was arranged that he should have a hearing before the committee Monday. BACHELOR QUAB.TERS and ':\'ew York, Aug. 10.—John D. Rockefeller and his son, who have for years opposed the entrance of buginess into the Fifty-fourth street blocks, where their homes are locat- ed, will themselves make the first change affecting the blocks's resi- dential character. The house at 129 West Fifty-fourth-street which John | D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought several months ago for ,000, is to be al- tered into an apartment building to be rented to bachelors, physielans and dentists | | | i TRIANGLE SKYSCRAPER. 10.—The most | At- Atlanta, Ga., Aug peculiarly shaped skyscraper in / lanta is about e built, It will be | a perfect triangle and the maln en- trance wil] through what the geometry calls the “apex.”” It wfll be seventeen stories high and cost $700,000. The location H on Edgewood avenue and Exchange| place. Joel Hurt, builder of Atlan-| ta's first skyscraper, the Fquitahlet building, is the president of the com- | pany that will put up the latest. | CANNING FACNRY FOB. LARGO. A new canning company is to be formed in Largo under the name of the Pure Fruit Juices and By-Prod- ucts Co,, wlth a capital stock of $100, VERY ENCOURAGING ARE MULBERRY’S POSTAL RECEIPTS. Mulberry, Aug. 10—The following figures for the months of June and July will be sufficient evidence to show that Mulberry is developing very rapidly. From stamped envelope% box rents, ete., for June, amounted to $363.89; money orders issued and sold, $3,- 087. Postal savings ‘bank showed a | Yalsnce of $799 for June. * For July the sale of sizmps, stamped envelopes and box rent was in the sum of $542.24; money orders issued, $3,259.39; cashed $624.99; $2,634.40 were sent from town in excess of the amount that was cashed. The most notable increase that shows a decided improvement over the previous month was in the posta] savings bank, which received deposits in the sum of $872, an in- crease in deposits of $27 for July. TAFT WILL SloN PANAMA BILL Waterway Will Be Used by American Vessels Free of Tolls. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 10.—President Taft told callers today that he ex- pected to sign the Senate’s Panama canal bill prescribing the use of the waterway to railroad-owned ships and providing free tolls to American vessels, BIG LUMBER SHIPMENT A ful] cargo of heart pine lumber the British steamer Clan MclIntyre and timber left Pensacola Monday on for Delagod Day and Cupe Town! Thy' cargo had a valuation of §67,190. This is about the third shipment of heart pine to go from a gulf port in the past quarter of a century, accord- ing to some of the shippers. Such a cargo is very hard to secure and is very costly., The shipment was for one of the big corporations doing business in Africa. FLORIDA SENATORS HOLD UP CHENEY'S APPOINTMENT Washington, Aug. 10.-—Because President Taft attempted to rush through the ‘flmmin[mrlnl. of John M. of Orlando, ¥la., to fill the vacancy on the bench of the Federal Cheney, Soéuthern District of Florida, after he had promised the Florida Senators he viould give full consideration to the the both Senators Fletcher and claims of other :candidates for position, iryan are blocking the -passage of thé confirmation in the Senate. There is a remote possibility of the nomination not being confirmed, and | if the appointment is held up until the expected election of Gov. row Wilson to the presidency, a Dem- ocrat may be given the position. John M. Cheney is himself on the ground taking a hand in the matter, and hopes to have the confirmation, as it is said they have nothing against him except the man- | ner in which his nomination is ought to be run through. John's ssee gave night in The occa~ The Ladies’ Guild of the IIpiscopal church in Tallah a reception last honor of - Bishop Saturday Weed. sion proved to be a most enjoyable one . WLL TAKE OFFICUL COUNT IN KANGAS (By Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 10, l' ‘urtis returned today l it would take the official Senator with a predic- tion that count to determine whether he or ‘(.ovornor Stubbs caried the' Repub- lican senatorial primary of Kansas. The official count will ocelir Aug. 15, ) e sale of smmps and | Lurst, Atlanta, Wood- | Florida Sen- | ators withdraw their objection to his | No. 41, TOWER FOUND 10BE OPERATED BY GERMANS INVES‘HGATIONS SHOW THAT IN CASE OF WAR THIS TOWER MIGHT PROVE DISASTROUS. | I (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, Aug. 10.—An inspec- tor detailed to investigate the Tele- fupken wireless tower at Sayville, Long Island, declared today that this tower was backed by German capital, apparatus is of German manufacture |and it is intended to work with the | station at Nauen, 3,400 miles away, according to a report to the depart- ment of commerce. Officials of the - State and’ navy department are un- cemmunieative. O0CALA MAY BUY WATERWORKS. J. N. Hazlehurst, Lakeland’s Engi- neer, Is One of the Board Who : Will Examine Plant. Ocdla, Fla., Aug. 10.—As noted in these colunmins some months ago, the city veted an issuc of $100,000 of bonds 'to ' construct a waterworks plant et purchase the present plant, whicli 8 ‘owned and operated by a private company. , As it is thought pxr\foruw to purchase the existing plant, fi\r ¢ hydraulic engineers, Ar- thur Pew, Atlanta, Ga., Nisbet Wing- fleld, Augusta, Ga., and J. N, Hazle- (Ga., have been ap- pointed a board of arbitration to ex- amine the plant and report om its value. Should their report be satis- factory to both parties the plant will Forobably ~he -purchased. by .ibe .city and remodeled. PLAN TO BRING GERMAN SET- TLERS TO FLORIDA FARMS Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 10.—Fred Roege, manager of the Germania Land Company, of Tallahassee, Fla., is in Jacksonville on business con- nected with certain foreign steam- ship lines that will bring hundreds of relialle German farmers to Flori- dp direct from Germany and Holland. Many, of the leading business men and well to do farmers throughout the entire State are interested in the movement and it is understood that the late Postmaster General Von L, Meyer, now Secretary of the Navy,‘ who is a warm personal Triend of ex- Postoffice Indbector, Fred Roege, will rendér valuable assistance in bring- ing about the desired colonization in Florida which he believes has a very bright future before it. Mr. Roege is well known ir many and being a zealous'worker in any cause he undertakes, will un- doubtedly make a success of this new celonization project. It 18 expected that many desirable armer | stand up-to-date farmiz direct Jacl and: Holland After reaching Jacksonville they will be assigned to Duval and Leon covntiés and other sections of the State where they are most needed. Ger- hips will bfing who under- 1 Ape from | | to raising | Ge FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. “An Old-'l‘lme Hell" Pastor Nowlin will preach at both hours Sunday. The Sunday evening subject will be “An Old Time Hell.” The preacher will pay hls respects to Rusgellism and the Tampa Morn- ing Tribune. Everybody invited. , Men invited to' come without their coats. Sunday sschool at 9:45 a. m. B Y. P, U at 6:45 p All have a cordial invitation to these services. m WAUCHULA scabon OPENS, The Wauchula school opened for the fall term Monday. This school iz perhaps the earliest to open of any in the State Month after ‘month shipments of phosphate from this city show a steady increase of the corresponding months of last year,—Plant City Courier.