Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 31, 1912, Page 1

—— HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best Sme. (oL} fil GUIT GOURT i 5 RAPIDLY LEADING ORLANDO LAWYER FOUND DEAD IN BED. Orlando, Oct. 31.—Hon. W, L. Palmer, one of the State’s leading at- terneys and one of the most honored professional men of Orlando, died of licart disease some time during Tues- day night, having been found dead in bed yesterday morning by his; wife, who went to call him when he failed to arise at the usual time. Mr. Palmer has not been in rugged health for some tinie, but was at his all day Tuesday and retired only slizhtly indisposed. His part- ser, C. B, Robinson, was lately mar- ricd and is now in Canada on his wedding trip. Mr. Palmer was 59 vears old, a native of Georgia and Liad been a citizen of Orlando from iS85, 1o had filled many positions o! honor and trust, including mem- tership in the Legislature, and his death is deeply regretted. office .. oct. 31.—Court is work- \o these days. Judge Whit- o court convened at 7:39 . wornivg, and told the | : jals, lawyers and witnesses pieant 7:30 or $10. It is , suy that court convened winute. With a short inter- \L for moon, court was in cou- 15 gession all day, and a night «sion was held. ' A the day was taken up in the sl of the case of ‘Ada Maxwell vs. poinsula Telepkone Co., and the we was not given to the jury until ¢ supper. The jury was out oa e case all night, and this morning yving reported a disagreement, they eore discharged and a mistrial de- 4ured. The jury stood three for the gaiutin and three for the defend- ant less L AUDITORIUM BALGONY STANDS RIGID- TEST Assurance Made Doubly Sure by Sub- jecting It to Great Weight Strain This Affernoon. Work on the Auditiorium is being feverishly rushed, a large force of nicchanics straining every emergy to get the building completed. It is 1t v8, Gibson Carter was taken | rapidly assuming a finished aspect | part of the jury secured. Ti’nnd by next Wednesday, when the IRAD ILII‘ORLANT DECISIONS (¥RED AND WHEELS OF « will be concluded today. Cnrter i ae harforre nre G b Rivan, 0 charged with grand larceny, J.211CE MOVING SPEEDILY. cpecific charge being that ke ¢ supper last night the case ii is expected that very few touches| LAKELAND, FLORIDA, COI\TR!BUTIONS AND EXPENDL TURES OF NATIONAL CCMMIT- TEES DURING PAST WEEK. jated Pross Washington, Oct. 31 Contribuy ticns amounting to !rne‘ been received by the Republican nag tional headquarters according to :1 supplementary report to ihyg clerk of the House Treasuret ](hm‘;:p Sheldon, the cemmittee, The roport is in rompIET ance with the statute requiring re ports weekly after the first rcporl filed. Andrew Carnegic added $5,004 to his original gift of $35,000. | During the last six days the Dead m-mm national committee has re< (By Ass made by of ceived $136,688, and horrowed $40,- 000, according ty the report made today by the national committee. The tetal expenditures during this riod amounted to $265,445. TEDDY IS STILL “BULLY." Oyster Bay, Oct. 31.--Apparently none the worse for his exertions last night, in delivering a speech at Mad- ison Square Garden, Xew York, (o!- oirel Roosevelt was up and @t work ne- will he lacking. This — 4 boat and fish scine in No- afternoon the ba . 1910, on some lake north ot ony wa nd Bjecteg 1o severe test, in orde belore sesterday Judge Whit- o Buard e PO il »‘,:i:‘]]‘,i:.” |:u‘<'u:~ll ‘(|.l, ::T;:‘l(‘r'l:‘_:” dent, due to defective mat rial er lock of architectural strensth, Ba s s 1 habeas corpus case, the ine ox rel, Patrick Bannon ol sand geeregating thivty thousand pounds in weisht were piled o State of Florida, and it aros» i Several days ago the ttorney filed en infor-: st Bannon for catchin: I with & seine iv Luke Marian in of the lake to which the de- t had a deed Lo the bed of the lannon, through his attorney, | [by this great weight was only ve: | Tomas Palmer, sued out o Writ O | Guvooning of an inch. Each of the tebeus corpug, and in his petition ,cqq gupporting the balcony have an | dezed that he was catehing fish on, anaeag capacity of 60,000 poundu' & 0wy property, that he owned the! and there are fourteen of them. It re he owned the bed of the vill thus be seen that by no possi- ud asked to be discharzed. The bility could cnough people be packed argued hefore Judge Whit in the balcony to subject it to eveay Arcadia a few days ago, seetion of the balcony, being at lear! | dcuble the weight of any nvmber o' ] quxmns that might ever occupy the Accurate measurements me space, ishowed that the depression cause! | wh slight strain. Pilmer representing Il:mn.uu The test was witnessed by 0 W Jelllien AP Judie kI Younes, Jr, T L Woods, | ¥yodn l'”“-‘““”'"» ll""‘ SPEC \i R fetherington, E. € Anzell and mnty fish law, wiick prohic- Wiy other citizens. catchine of fish except wiih ‘ ne i v frest e Ll i the B . LIVED MORL THAN CENTURY | ool :,oEaie H he s Shp A o WITHOUT A DOCTOR. ip of the bed of the lake does i | o the richt to fish with a 310 Woll Jacobs, New York, Oct ontrary to law where the lake 102 years old, remarked to his (i wtirely so owned and where iv | ife last «ioning in their home, No outlet, or in effect that the| 158 East One Hundred and Seven- U the lake, despite the private oG that he had a queer | ip of Is bed, are not subject | fecline and wus in pain. The queer & owRUAAID, feeling continned and Mrs, Jacobs | Whitney yesterday L3 calleg Dr. Somerville from |l:wr!:-'n‘ Tw»in a biz fore ivs\}l"" Ol | yospital ¢ Euft, the suit belng that of ) “Never had a doctor before in my richlow, complainant, and the lite the old man told Dr. Somer- Trust Co., eros onplain-“m‘ “Nevor was sick a day, ot .I"'LA_ Alfred Lumber Co, flm '«-n w an hour. You don’t think I'm Woodbham. J. M. Crich sick now?" the owner of the first mort “Not very.” replied thé physician .4“’ seankiln Toisy Cv. the “I'll give you some medicine and "r“':.l;ll(“t.l:’lh:llu:ll::-d:'!.. mb.’l‘f:.q: yeu'll be all right in a day or go . “Medicine! Medicine!” exclaimed | + of sf,'; '.;‘c',":, (:]'dm'o“ nll?-’”"" centenarian. T lw\l-r. had a| Yin Trus-l '(‘ohi;’ l‘hl- & ! { dese of any drug and 1 QQn t want| ¥ z ) sum of |, now, but I'll take it if you in- angd orders the sale of th--'m!... ! 1 rlgag‘;d to satisfy the in-! . 4 i then told how he al- g he sale will take place | ways lived as other men. He smoked, - fale day in December, R. B. |look a drink if he desired it, ate’ "er, the special macter, being| hungrr and denied Tirted to cond | wken be was it 6,00 [on Sy s QLS. | himself no pleasures. He came to 2 m.r B CL T GURLY America from Germany thirty-five involvel in this decree, the! 1 . % yeors ago and made 3 skl townships 37 to retire after twenty year 25 and townships enougi ot a ze 'ALL INTER-STATE DRINK- IN JT.I\\INGS WHOOP- G C7PS ABOLISHED ‘EIl UP ON THE STUMP. iateq Press.) i t. 3L.—Wm. 1. swoop tod morning from a ored put _r throngh the eastern road c2 o Oklahoma, and left im-|nnces overated in inter-state trafe 4o [Cl¥ for a three days’ tour|fic and from depots and waitinz ““ough Nebraska, ' rooms of common carriers. | in his library carly this morning. Iowas well past midnight when o froached home e oenid e had | nizht's rest and was well abd to veturn to A fson Square Gord ownirow nitht for o Prouressiv -+ ARRESTED FOR MURDER - OF A BALTINORE GIAL Charles Conway and Wife Appre- hendeqd in Conmection With Death of Miss Singer. (By Associated ress.) Lima, Ohio, Oct. 31. - Charles Con v oand his wite were arrested he today in conneetion with the murds i Chicago of Miss Sophia Singe. o BLaltimore girl. Both deny iy con witnil murder they were nection with the v did not know il they read it in papers th A SHERIMAN'S DEATH CREATES GRAVE SITUATION. New York, Oct. 81, The ! national, R S TEURSDAY, 0CT. 31, 1912. [T TAKES SONE GREKT ARMY OF MONEY 70 RUN PARTY CAMPAGN BY BULGARIANS ‘URKISH ARMY OF 200,000 IS PUT i TURKS ROUTED T0 AN IGNOMINOUS FLIGHT. Ll |\.nY< n, Oct uml]ll ely a deferted .n'nxu[ at 200,090 wishl force ¢ o 1t Lulp Bar terrific fighti ‘co days a The arkish luuph, whko are lrn‘ailn' tovards Tohatalja. Adrinneple s ympletely hemmed in by the Bui- trian treops. CHILD SWALLOWS GASOLINE; SERIOUS CONDITION RESULTS. | A distressing accident occurred this morning when the little year- old daughter of J. Baxter Streater ‘.m-ml a cup containing some gaso- "line, and swallowed a portion of the l ontents before she could be pre- vented. i Physicians were hastily sum- woned and by dint of their exertions ‘he little one was brought out from lie very serious state to which the wtion reduced her. At last reports e was thought to be better, but it | not yot known what the ultimate csult will be, as there is some f the effect of the Hauid on the s cartestly hoped that no CONECYIeNees sind mistake TROOPS CALLED OUT AT JAGKSONVILLE Armed Guards Preserving Order, but | No Attempt Being Made to ‘ Run Street Cars. innocent’s (By Asroiated Press.) I Jdackseovitie, Oct, 31, -Troops are | ud this mworning to preserve , but no attempt was male carly umg stecet car traflie, fol- | toning of cars yosterdny sympathize in which rike br ors - were r. vere taken the roterned to the (T owing th ytor strike iy ‘, h o irom whicn Vere baras, SOME FACTS ABOUT WHO CAN'T VOTE NEXT TUESDAY. ton, Oct. 31 sathered by the Acrording ol Washin e, figur brrean much speculation as o the effecr o tisticy, upwards of 15,000,060 cit Ceath of Viee President Shovman izens of the United States wils record will have upon the approaching | their votes for pregident in the elec- clections. The national Republicon [ tion next Tussday. A total of about committee cannot be ealled tovothed 400,000 we n, in the Siutes of ir time to appoint & candida: 'I"‘“:ulifurm-, Colorado, Idahe, Wash vice president, and the electi bircton, Utah and Wyoming, are clig | procecd without one. wld the Republienn til those voteq for by the «! lege, but the House us at preseit corstituted would be Democratic in the majority. The decision therefore go to the Senate. The Senate is limited in its choic2 15 thuse two candidates who receive the highest number of votes for vi president in the ¢lectoral colleze. resnlts on Tuesday that the d cigion rests with Congress, the (e tion of ¢ nrcsidont the pr t te an i i for vice 1 e ‘ to th \ has been d to the Wbility of Gr nd Deneen; Senat $ tor LaFollette, form:- Viee Presi- dent Fairbamks, Senocor Roof, ators Burton and T« Governor Goldsboro and others. would | ! pauperism, Icny by takingz Ithe o By no meang all the v vote of twen- Pecive a majority of electo ots ty-one in the country the importance of selectin vie voters, for the nz lawg of the presidential candidate is t bt Siates not only bar conviets in the i next Tuesday vo president roccives | prisons in most cases, but place othor o majority of electoral votes thon restrictions on suffrage thet become the congtitution the eleetion will be jereevdingly important in aresiden- {thrown into he House of Ilepresen- tial years. tatives and the candidat:: to be \'-'-| As nearly cvery State bLars con 4 for in the House will be limited to “viets from voting and there an toral coi- [about 150,000 convicts in the pris- a4 there is {ong of the country eclection Jay will | mean nothing to a whole :rmy o { taem. Nearly all of the States penaliz: | idicey, insanity and fel-' ege. In addition, States hur de right of United Siat u number of the 5 from i'ors and 1 qualified to vote in Feta, Florida and Wi e “tuelli i deny U are nlaced oz the voting privilezes of Indiaas. 2] restrition will attend the | They ! away the voting privi- | No. 311. VICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN HAS PASSED AWAY IROMANCE OF FLORIDA CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. | | Registered at the Tampa Bay ho- !u-; are W. C. Hodge, Bull Moose can- | didate for governor of Florida; Mrs. Wi i.orimer, of Chicago, and I\‘l' ater, Miss A},ms Loruuu‘ Mis. Lorvimer s the wife of former United Stites Senator \\'xlll:'m S mer of [linois, and Miss Agnes is | their danghter and the fiance of Mr « Hodee, who is o 'l!sl:‘()lxli ent I]:\\'.l)."«xl END CAME AT 9.42 LAST NIGHT. al e, © wople are to be marvied this fall i FOLLOWING ILLNESS OF ; SEVERAL DAYS. ~Utica with the today 15 the Jeath of President S hooleraft [ They met after the meeting and v!sherman, His death ocenred last "conrt-hip ensued, Miss Lorimer i-tfui-,,m at 9:42 o'clock at the family 41..11-.m\ interested in the campaiga | ¢ ziden caused by Bright's dis- There is quite & romance in con- {nection with the mecting of M| fllud; » ang Miss Lorimer. She first | Isaw him when he was addressing the on T Bell Moese convention at Chicago. yice Utiica, O-t. men James 'her flance is making for the gov-|cas<e, complicated vith a malkdy ob | esnorship of this State.-Tampa |l heari ang bardening of the ar- Times. In:rivs. follewing & periol of more than twenty-four hounrs of almest to- ta! uncosnsciou-ness. Exalted public functionary though he was, he was known to the people of Utica as “Jim” Shermare. Indeed, h- most cases the surname was rcpped ,und the common exchange ol salutation among the older resi- dents today was “poor Jim is gone.’ All arrangemo:ts being made for fite funcral are simple ratber than pretentious. The l.uthcrun Synod continues i} Alming to obtain a larger auditor- session, with a creditable nttendance | iy, the first decision to have the of delegates. Yesterday afternoon | funcral services of the vice presi- the consideration of the revision ot | (deit in the Dutch Reformed church the constitution occapled the entire| wus abandoned today, and the First time. | Presbyterian church will bo used. Last evening Rev. W. €. Schaeffer | The serviges will be at 2 o'clock Sat- 'd‘-li\nr.-d a very excellent sermon on | graay, n'(l,'uluch-'] jointly by Dr. Hol- LUTHER BYHIJIIS SEGSIONS GCONTINUE Laying of Church Corner Stone Thin Afternoon Interesting Event . of the Gathering. s {Cheistian Edueation, !dcn, pastor of the Dutch Reformed the Synod's it ephuech, and President M, W, Strik Cva takea up with addresses onomis- o of Hamilton college. The bod. icra by o onumber of speakers. U ywill lie in state at the Oneid: coun [ Wi interestin n, the gy courthouse Fri Wfternoon. The fordy resret beivg that there wert D hygprial will be in Forest Hili cema- {n.n more to hear it, ltery. This afternoon the corner stonc i ||v 'lmnh will b lml with appro- — The twenty-reventh viee presidens ervie br. R, i II_ promhml the sermon. ! o Potterson, fof the. United States and thy only | rerominated, christened This cvening at 7:30 Rev. E. .0 james S hooleraft Sherman. But, in l( rink, sccretary of the Laymen's ] nearly a quarter of a century of pub- ‘rn ssionary movement, will Im\v-lm lite, “Jim"” Sherman he was to charge of the services. There will | his intimates, and probably half the be music by McHenry's orchestri. i pation rferred to him as “Sunny The public is cordially invited to at-}jim" a sobriquet he earned as onc '(' nd the services. 2t imagine by a ncever-fail- weli mi: | NEW YORK LAW SHOP FOR {ine, all- car-rowad - xunny disposi- i TAFT IF DEFEATED. { tion | | Sherm Republic mism foatlad esular,” | one vy s n helonged to thy school of nowadays popularly and he fought his 1 Washington, Oct. “The Times (printed the following yesterday: “It {8 apparent that President | potitical battles shoulder to s'!‘ould"r. Taft on leaving the White Hous | with mo of his faith without com- next Mareh, would be an assct to any | promise or flinchimg, Like cevery os the big law firms of the countrey. pobiic nong e had erities, e bit Ore report which has been qujetly tors bui he aleo bad frierds who Ceirculated for some days, is that he were o mateh for his enemies, The will join the tirm of Strong and Cad- cvents be helped to shape are so com wallader, of New York, of which his | prretive!y reeent that history can Lrother, Henry W. Taft, is a mem- et assign hime to his propes place ber, and to which Attorney-General juntil it also records the work of his Wickersham belonged while in pri-| cortemporaries. vate practice. | To the House of Repres ntotives “President Taft, according 1o an-|[«¢ the Fifticth Congress he come in ctier story, will rgturn to Cincin- | the winter of 18 just passed his twenty-s wventh birthday, the o | enerey foud optitiism of col- leze bred from the halls of Hamilton, which has civen to peblic 1i%e many state and public fizures, ncns without some mark of d tion. e had heen o TUtien two aenrs before. nati and practice law there. Wheth er he goes back to Cinciunati practices in New York, there is noi el doubt he would bhecome o con- legal w e and, former youty, other spicuons figure inoa smen the law, would fees. 1y prefers nsoa president, mand big cted 1 undoubtedly com- man, ! “It is well remembercd that Ben- ofhers who came to lead in the na min [arrison, who wuas an emi- | g , he brought with pent lawyer, when he retired feom Pim an education in Jaw. e was cflice and took . up law general demand. “Some talk is heard thar Governor Wilson be elected pregiden: ! again was in | woll born and well bred. His father, | Richard U. Sherman, was an editor { 2nd publie fizure in New York State Two sessions of Congress found varancy on the 5||,"1~:Il:'rm:m defeated and out of office. preme Court bench that belongs te | It not for lonz. Henry W. Bentloy, { the Republicans he will make Mr {of Vadison county, beat him by less | Taft u Justice of the Supreme Cour-. than a thcusand vetes in the race ;Thla talk is l1ooked upon here as|for the Fifty-second Congress. In the fanciful.” ln.u-rnm. Sherman went back to Uti- S A EVEEINE & ca, built up his law practice, and re- nmmngon:mgo%ugsfinxs[lnrm-d to the Fifty-third Congress with a signal victory. He remained New York, Oc tobor 31.- Shomn' the House without defert to the yated enthusiasm to go back to' ieth Coneress, when be wos nom- native lands and fight acains<: ! and elected viee pretident on should i Sint he Turks natives of the Dulkan ! t with Mr. Taft S ntinue to pour into this eitv /' His first years in the Honse by » hundreds preparatory 1o ob- | brousht him into close assaciation teining presaze on board ste hips | with leaders. Josenh W. Bailey, lator inq for Europe. a nator Pre rilee, Bryan, One thorsand men who had made Bourke Cockran, Crisp, Dalzell, new homes for themselves in the | Dincley, Dolliver, Henderson, Payne, Western States ard Canada arrived ' Paynter, Rovnor, Reed, Walsworti, 'i® the city ‘honzand “Fichting Joe™ Wheeler and a score Sefvians are exnect:; 15 arrive heie | of othors whose names became hovse- e rly temorrow morning from San ! kcld words In discussion of the tarift Francisco, coming by a special trair. (Continued on Page §.) ne 7