Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 30, 1912, Page 1

— L1 TSI JLAOAD GO JINISTRATOR OF GEORGE C. 115 SECURES VERDICT OF 500 FOR HIS DEATH. Oct. 30.—After a hard o . most of yesterday, the _T. Swatts, administrator te of George C. Swatts vs. L i. R. Co., went to the jury, . dortly before six o’clock in the .« « verdict for the plaintiff e o sum of $7,500 was returned. . widence showed that the de- «d, George C. Swatts, just be- b the train struck him and killed 7, was standing behind a box car isting the coupling pins, and tha: b train backed up against him itoit warning and knocked him woand ran over him, and the jury according to the verdict, railroad company was re- » for his death, 1 new trial will be made, and it that the case will be takeu supreme court on writ of er- if the motion is denied. The court is engaged today in the il of the case of Ada Maxwell vs. ula Telcphone Co. The suit is prsonal injuries. The plaintift kges that on Nov. 2, 1910, she, i1 epany .with others, while driving urriage from Mulberry to Bartow, s permanently injured by reason ber horse becoming entangled in ugeing telephone wire and becom- it inmanageable and kicking her. nages in the sum of ‘15000 kzd 1. W. Brady represcnts the kintiff, while Wilson & Boswell 4J. 1. Lunsford represent-the de- nt. This morning the jury was e to view the situation of the dent. 10 THE VOTERS OF FLORIDA. 0u Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the general ion for county, State and na- il officials, you will be called to ' on two amendments to the con- tion. of Florida. One, adding ion 17 to article 12 of the con- n. gives authority to the tizlature to provide for the - of bonds by special tax il districts whenever the frec- | s of any such district shall, by p vote, anthorize the igsuance wh distriet. ritic eno of local sell gov- Tote wonle ir u grea overrment than fore. ter meas- thoy sity for the educational | it is State wide. Without ssible for special tax | icts to provide buildings * children by pcrmlmngI ‘iaper to bear his just share ise, and it is thereforc | rida to meet her' en of all the peo- ¢ to offer cduca- to ail who may conm r:. The Lezislatur: Ty nccessary safe- il the issuance of school ul tux distriets. ‘eur ke will, under the! » be called upon to pay I fop r Lor nity. A vote for the t Wil help relieve an in- ¥ Bood citizen vote for it .r.\ for it T. F. WEST, J. W, WATSON, il H. RICITARDSON, S5 TEIIIG B33 ’.‘C..._D A WZEK. meeting, beld next Wednes- “oti{ooned wntil a date, Wednecday, AN VERDICT A motion | | Written is explained by Dib Hart, The prin- | this amendment is | in favor of it which | JOHN D, JR,, TELLS WHAT PRAYER DID FOR HIM, New York, Oct. 30.—John D. Rcckefeller, Jr., is addressing the Young Men's Biblg class of the Fifth- Avenue Baptist church, expressed the hepe that his son would enter the Ckristian ministry. Mr. Rockefeller s text was Paul's cry, “Lord, \What Wilt Thou Have Me Do?” In the course of his ad- dress Mr. Rockofu!lor said: “l got down on my knees night and merning for four years, praying thet God might impart to me what He wished me to do, and one morn- ing T awoke and I was convinced thet the answer to my prayer had come, and the course of my life has been shaped by that answer ever | since.” GREAT SEA FGHTER " LANGHED ToowY Super-Dreadnaught New York Chris- | tened in the Presence of an Immense Throng. (By Associateq Press.) New York, Oct. 30.—The super- 'dm.u]nnught New York, the greatest lof the world's sca fighters, was ! launched today at the New York navy yard, Brooklyn. Forty thou- sand people, including President Taft and the secrctary of the navy, witnessed the ceremony. Miss Elsic Calder, daughter of Congressman \Wm. M. Calder, of Brooklyn, chris- tened the ship. HOW THE IMMORTAL S0UTH- ERN som ORIGINATED. Spokane, Wauh.. Ocl. 30.-~How the famous song “‘Dixie” came to be 76 years old clown, who ic visiting in Spokane. “Daniel Decatur Em- mett ang | quit Stickney's circus in the South in 1859 and went back to New York, dead broke,” says Hart. *“We looked around awhile, but there was no engagement in sight. The weather was beginning to get nippy, in sharp contrast to the Southern nights we had been experiencing, and Emmett's clothes were thread- bere. ‘By George,’ said Dan one "night, ‘no engzgement, no overcoat. I wish 1 was in Dixie.'” The phrase lingered in his mind and that night h went to his room and wrote th: words of the now famous ‘Dixie.’” A little later he got a barnstorming company together and went through the south, ginging the song to banjo ccompaniment. tirc. When he got to New Orleans be had the first printed copy of the truck off.”" Hart says he has t first copy with him, headed «rude wood dark complexion * (N cut vnER SOLE THOUGHT WAS { T0 SAVE HER CHILD. As a result of her clothing ignit- liag from a tire which she wes using to boil clothes in the yard of Lomax | Dell, near St. John's cemetery, about | I 10 o'clock yesterday morning, Mrs ! ica Nork, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joiin Stearns, wvgod her death shortly oclock yesterday afternoon. { After her clothing ignited & after No, into the house, falling to the flOOT Loy ong geclare they are Socialist | from the effects of her burns and| | experienced much trouble in keep- “ is not necessary for the irg her little child from coming tcuI Monopoly Baer's divine right to coal, s own children and his | near her, the little one having foi-| [ Teddy's battling for the MM Soclal= | i | lowed her into the house. Her sol® thought while her clothing was in! condition in many countics, | flames, seemed to be to protect he “F | ,ppeal very convincingly to us. —St '(hild fearing it should come neat gher and be burned. i Mrs. Nork’s screams were heard | | by Landscape Gardner Kimball, who | | was at work in the Maxent baseball Ipark Ho ran to the womzm's 2as- ! gistance and rendered all possib’e | pid. but he did not reach ber in tim ‘ t her from r £ hn !'to preven o inc hier sufferin<, The Ther life nroved fot!? ~ta died after =nfforing much her Prdy beinz literally bnrned to 3 ‘crlsp —Pensacola Journal. ¥, LAKELAND, FIORIDA, WEDNFSDAY, OCT. 30, 1912. VICEPRESIDENTISISTERS BIVE SHERMAN'S ENDITHER LIVES T0 CONDITION REGARDED AS DES-| HLRJIC WOMEN MEET DEATH IN PERATE AND HIS DEATH EX- FLAMES THAT THEIR LITTLE * PECTED ANY MOXENT, CHARGES MAY LIVE. (By Associateq Press.) Utica, N. Y., Oct, 30, —This aftoer- noon’s bulletin on Vice President Sherman's condition states there are no favorable symptoms whatever. | The attending physicians hold out ne hope and say it is impossible to | determine when the end will come. (By Associated P'ress.) san Antonio Oct. 20.—-Five sisters ing Another sister is not expected i'" live through the day. Ouly three sisters of those in the building es- (By Associated Press.) | TO SELL AT ONCE ON HOUGHT NEAR'SNE CHILDREN Publlé!_:ed in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. EASY TERMS. Nice new 5-room house, in Baker addition, city water, fruit trees, fine garden, corner lot 97x145 feet, 7 blocks from passenger depot. 1 will make an attractive price on this property for the next five days. 10-30-tf J. B. SMITII, OWNER. 600D WORK AND BIG W HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM e No. 310. LUTHERANS WILL LAY THE CORNER SIONEOF CHURGH FOR REVIVALIST smnu. | SYNOD NOW IN SESSION, AND IN- East Liverpool, 0., Oct. 3 here 1,143 cluded his six-weeks revival yosterday. During the day —Thon- l sands heard Billy Sunday as he con-! TERESTING MEETINGS ARE BEING HELD. The Georgia Synod of the Luth- were converted, making a grand to-!opan cherch opened last evening with tai of 6,234 during his stay. AHI]IHEH CLASH Utica, N. Y., Oct. 30.—**Vice Presi- dent Sherman's death is a question oi only a few hours,” said Dr. Peck caped (By Associated Press.) San Antonio, Oct, 30.—Sister Mary AT LITILE FALLS It took like wili-| reccived burns whici | a3l |if it be she raa | eforte of a physician to save soon after leaving the Sherman resi- e O ; dence a few minutes before noon WaNEq TA00 W0 RIS T ¢ vindo today. He was delirions when he N !" oW Inteying GtosJimpiiht :\ % PR life net, and was crushed, died this awoke for a few minutes, then re- A lapsing into a heavy slecp. The pa- | LortinE bringing the death list of i o ¢ P2 ine sisters to six. While one child tient is mot expected to survive the | next twenty-four hours. is known to have perished, another 6o is dead. (By Associated Press.) Right Rev. Bishop J. W. Shaw, Fa- Utica, N. Y, Oct. 30.—The vice | president's mndmon continues to be desperate this morning. He is sleep- ing quietly, anq slept all night. His pulse is 100, respiration 25, temper- ature practically normal. Duffy, flames. were unable to help thcmuclw~ o | FARMER FOUND DYING (By Associated Press.) | NEAR mnus. GA. I Utica, Oct. 30. - Under the Iuflu-i {once of opiates Vice President Shur-l Cummings, Ga., Oct. 30.-D. W. |iv missing, and it is feared that it Hailey, A Special Policeman and a Detective Stabbed by Strikers in a Labor Riot. (By Associateq Press.) Little Falls, Oct. 30.-—Michacl a special policeman, was killed and John Kennedy, u detec- ther Hume, chancellor, and Father | tive, was stabbed iu a clash between chaplain, saved many babies | strikers and police. anq older children from death in the | clared a woman was Many were 80 young they pickets. Kennedy de- leading the | the The riot started when the | church in this city. police tried to break up a group of | strikers massed in front of the' Phoenix mill. the police. My slept through the night and ap- | Elliott, a wealthy Forsyth county | DAYS OF ron'mm. ru- parently is comfortable this morn- | farmer, was found in a dying con- ing. Dr. Peck, who remained with }dftion besidg the public road near him through the night, failed, how- ever to note any real betterment. “The vice president's condition is not improved and it is therefore very grave,” said Peck. The uramic con- dition, which caused the apprehen- sien, has not been relieved. BEGKER SENTENGED 10 DEATH TODAY Lieutenant Convicted of Murder of 7 Rosenthal Hears Date Set for | His Execution. whose identity and motive ure un- known. Elliott has never regained ccnsciousness. Coming closely aftei recent race troubles in the county, the attack resulted in considerable excitement. RODGEVELT 10 HAVE Al Retain Counuel and Private De tectives to Insure Clean Elec- tion in New York. By Asvociateq Press.) Oyster Bay, Oct. 30, -Roosevelt mounced today that he would re- mocounsel and a private detective ney to look out tor frauds at the placein New York State o tion day e said he wanted and of uwny kind stopped and if tlere was any on his side the guilty persons shoulyg be prosceuted as vig- orously as any. The Colonel departs liter today for New York, and will cpeak at Madison Squarg Garden to- night. He said he felt ‘“‘perfectly vell” Associnted Pross) York, Oct Charles former police licutenant, the murder of wamblop, w alec , during th Goff pro iy 0o I New Pecker, convieted of procuying Ierman Rogenthul the teday sentenced to die in the ling at Sing Sine 1rie chair, week of Dee vonneed the s tice entence ITS ACCURACY AND TASTE { BOTH QUESTIONED This writer is not particularly per- nickety, but we do question both t | aceuracy and taste oi the frequen: (Jaim that the Suvior was thefounder and first teacher of Socialism. Ev accurate, in view of certain {lnds of people who too frequent!y cet them=elves and doings befor: the TAFT PERSONALLY URGING PROSECUTION OF JACK JOHNSON Lt} Chicago, Oct. 30.- i+ believed to have taken a personal irterest in the prosecution of Jack Johns negro pugilist, for abnor- m:.l infatuation of whom Lucile ! 1t is still poor taste to couple 'h'fl { with the name and work of Jesus lr,- jall, and whose private life is now tuader investigation by the federal srand jury. Recent demands of club women .tur a national denunciation of the '1 sm’s direct inheritance irom the ! , Savior, and things like m it do mot | ] Petersburg Times. '\\'ashlnglon for local department of ; dustice heads to “go the limit” in v'w prosecuticn were supplemented teday by another report that twelve addiional operatives of the depart- BEWARE OF THE DzATLY COCK- ROACH AND FATAL BEDBUG. Wachington, Oct. 30 Cockroaehes d bed buzs are brand ,r. Tent had been iransferreq to the ricrs of typhoid fever = gu ' CUS ) ~con R. E. Rizzs, Unit N These facts were given as bas's ents on tha « for the belief, and it is freely ad- e anced by many interested in the nici of bues in general, ard « A"lfm. that Prosident Talt has . » two clusses in partion’ It ven it his pereonal ntion. tclls of 2n outbreak of tyrh ! at a oficroiod c21 pest on am isolate! icland | A critic by any other name would +hcre he was in charze of the food be 8 knocker just the same. d water supply. Careful study re- vealed that cockroaches and bed ibuu were the distributors. ar l backward. ~President Taft Hix, wmeron, a young white girl, went ., president and general man- pugllist, coupled with orders from! .y ). 1 the South and has been a POLLS WITGHED | i national FRYER ARE NUMBERED. —— here, his head crushed by assailants| About $10,000,000 Spent by Both Parties in Five Presidential Washington, & 0- ~With the recess of the Clapp committee, which has been investigating campaigu contributions, although there are many facts yet undisclosed, one thing stands out clearly. This is that the golden days of lho political fat frier are over. The fact stands revealed that vast and apparently unnecessary sums have b en spent in political campaigns. By means of the records left be- hind by the late Cornelius N. Bliss, who was treasurer of the Republican committee in the cam- I peizns of 1896, 1900 and 1904, the hqpnnlll(.urvfi by the committee in tLose years became definitely known, ang they aggregated $10,388,000. In 1908 the Republicans spent $1,655,- 000, bringing the grand total in five snpuigns to $12,043,000. Ydd to this the Democratic fig- ures for the same campaigns as dis- closed by the committee investiga- tion, and the grand total for the twop perties will reach about $20,000,000. This does not include money spent in the pre-convention contests of those years. GENERAL MANAGER OF SEA- EOARD MB. LINE RESIGXS. Jacksonville, Oct. 30, - Charles 1. first vice president and gencrai wanager of the Seaboard Air I,mn reilway, has handeq his resignatiou to the board of directors to take ef- fect Oct. 21. Mr. Hix has beea ager of the Norfolk and Southern railway, and will enter upon the ' discharge of his new duties on Nov. rand exten: | mileage. Money has wings that can’t iy Seaboard by the resis: 1, with headqurrters at Norfolk. Mr. Hix is one of the best known offi- tewer of strensth to the Seaboard, He Wi { t10 preaching of the opening ser- gave their lives to save more than | yiven a collection of $12,554.84. 12| pion by Rev. M. J. Epting, D. D., of » hundred orphans when St. John's begins today a week's campaign in {orpianage was burned this morn-| West V"‘K"“fl- Savannah, Ga. After the sermon holy communion vas administered. The president then opened the Synod with the regular order of busi- ness. Delegates were enrolled and the president read his annual report. The regular standing committees were appointed, and the hours for the regular sessions of the Synod were fixed at from 9 to 12 a. m. and from 2 to 4:30 p. m. The president was called back to ' Savannah to conduct a funeral, and Rev. V. C. Schaeffer, of Atlanta, was appointed president pro tempore. This morning the Synod has been occupied with the revision of its constitution and by-laws, but took time to set tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, at 3:30, for the laying of corner stone of the Lutheran The address on this occasion will be delivered by Rev. R. L. Patterson, D. D, of Char- lctte, N. C., and the service will be The strikers blame ! oonqucted by the president of the Synod. The people of the city ar: espeeially invited to be present a! this service. Tonight there, will, ‘b an address . on “Christian. Education” by Rev. W. C. Schaeffer, of Atlanta. Tomorrow will be Mission day and soveral addresses will be made by prominert speakors. The public ix invited to attend these sessions. At the service tomorrow night the McHenry orchestra very kindly vol- unteered to furnish the musje. WHAT INMATES OF STATE REFORM ’0!001’. ARE TAUGHT. in a lengthy write-u write-up of the Jack- !son county falr, which has just been ' | | | l t | l l keld, thre Marianna Times-Courier has the tollowing reference to an ex- hibit nade by the State Reformn school, which is of interest as show- ing souiething of the work being done by those unfortunate young pecple wiom it has been found nec- essury th wend there from various ports of the State: “Th, State Reform school exhibit is one in which the entire State is wore or less interested and the booth arsigned this institution ig of more than passing intercst as their display is all the result of the lahors of those sent there from various scctions of tle State, and shows that while giv- ing them not only an education, but is training them up to realize the lImpnrt:uxcu of farming as a means ‘ol g I years, livelihood in porsibilitics of gi a mere existence ning a and the inz more than intelligent ap muscle in "5 line of work. The exhibit (r : place is varied and makrs an interesting study. “A list of their entrics shows the garden products to be varied, okra, ruta bagas, turnips, mustard, col- lards, cabbage, pepper and Irish po- tatoes. In field products they have two varieties of corn, cane, peas, pea- nuts, oats, fodder, baled shucks, hay, sweet potatoes, cotton, velvet beaus and two varieties of hickory nuts. “In the kitchen work they have by plication of brain and with which he has been connected | Mo beautiful light bread and rolls, for about fourtecn years. been vice president and general man- ager of the company since its re- organizaticn in 1909, The Norfolk ong Southern, which be is to direct, i; coe of the most prosperous of the smaller roads in the South developing at a rapid rate, t°m now comprises e ions ar tin Corolinas, Tennessce ar bema, which will nea It is not kn fil: the vacancy to be « £90 Iy donbie t! atina of Mr, ' Hiz. | ile hns|ne' bottled syrup, butter and six- teen varieties of canned gocds, pre# serves and pickles. “Home made clothing for the in- I mates and splendid specimens of red lrnk are also on display.” DL 'II”ITATI'J"S LAWTUL 0N 8 e planned throu-! : Ale-of raifroids limiting the use of ex- ‘cursion tickets sold at reduced rates ~vhe Wil! to tha dates shown upon their 1 on th:ywere held by the interstate RAILWAY EXCURSION TICXETS. Washineton, Oct. 30.—Resgulation * ~n Coin- merce commiseion to be just and ' ressonable.