Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 4, 1912, Page 1

‘& THE LAKELAND EVENING lELEGRAM Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. VOLUME IL PROGRAM OF LORIDA BAPTIST CONVENTION NEARLY ONE THOUSAND VIS- ITORS WILL ATTEND BIG BELIGIOUS GATHERING. The Florida Baptist convention ud the State Missionary Union will convene in this city next week, begin- ning Monday evening and continuing (hrough Thursday. Probably about 1.090 visitors will be in attendance. For this large gathering the Audi- torium has been secured in which the sessions will be held, the first of which will be on Monday evening wien the ladies will hold a mass neeting. The following is the pro- sram as it will be carried out each day: Tuesday's Session. 2:00 a. m.—Call to order by the president, 9:00 to 9:30—Devotional. 9:30 to 10:30—Organization (In- (luding enrollment of messengers and election of officers). 10:30 to 11:00—Address of wel- come and response. 11:00 to 12:00—Introductory ser- mon, Rev, A. J. Holt, Kissimmee. 12:00 to 1:00—Intermission. 1:00 to 2:00 p. m.—Devotional. 2:00 to 2:30—DMinisters’ Assur- ance Association. 2:30 to 3:30—Education and the Seminary, Rev. M. J. Hoover, Plant City, 3:30 to 4:00—Miscellaneous busi- ness. Adjournment. 7:00 to 7:30 p. m.—Devotional. 7:30 to 7:45—Introduction of new pastors. 7:45 to Adjoyrnment—State Mis- sion Board report and general dis- cussion by Rev. R. E. Reed, chair- man of committee. Wednesday's Session. 9:01 to 9:30 u. m.—Devotional. 9:30 to 1l1:0v—Home missions, Rev. J. E. Skinner, Tampa. 11:00 to 12:00—Columbia college. 12:00 to 1:30 p. m. —Intermission. 1:30 to 2:00—Devotional. 2:00 to 2:45—Report of commit- tee on nominations, Braxton Small, chairman, 2:45 to 3:3v—Report on religious literature, A. J. Holt, Kissimmee, 3130 to 4:0u—Miscellaneous busi- Less. Adjournment. T:00 to 7:30—Devotional. 0 to Adjournment—Foreign ns, F. W. Cramer, Orlando. Thursday's Session. 9:00 to 9:30 a. m.— bevotional. ¥:30 to lu:dv—B. Y. P. U, and Sunday school report, J. J. Cloar, (Gainesville. 10:30 to 11:30—Orphans’ Trustees’ report and discussion. 11:30 to 12:00 i. Catts, DeFuniak Springs. 12:00 to 1:30—Intermission. 130 to 0 p. m.—Devotional. 2:09 to 0-—Report on deceased ministers, S. G. Mullins, St. Peters- Lurg. 2:30 to 3:00—Report on aged ministers, J. W. Wildman, Sanford. 3:00 to 3:30—Woman's work, M. | A. Wood, Lake City. 3:30 to 4:00—Miscellaneous busi- ness, etc. Adjournment. . 7:00,to 7:30 p. m.—Devotional. 7:30 to Adjournment—Evangelism, (. A, Owens, DeLand. BY COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM. Home. 2:0 2:30 JOHNSON MARRIED LUCILE CAMERON YESTERDAY. Chicago, Dec. 4.—Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, yesterday afternoon married Lucile Cameron, the 19- ¥car--old white girl, of Minneapolis, Who recently appeared as a witness azainst him before the federal grand Jury, which returned indictments charging him with violation of the Mann act. The ceremony was performed at the home of Johnson’s mother by a regro preacher in the presence of . dozen negroes and several newspaper Teporters. A curious crowd of near- I¥ a thousand men and women gath- ¢red outside the house and a squad ol police wag kept busy maintaining crder. | CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR RAILWAY MAIL CLERK. A civil service examination for the pcsition of mflv:sy mail clerk, for men only, will be held at the Lake- land postoffice on Jan. 11, 1913, The subjects will cmbrace spelling, arithmetic, penmanship, report writ- ing, copying and correcting manu- script, geography and civil service. By application to the postmaster at Lakeland informaiion as to how to secure the necessary blanks, etc., wili be furnished those contemplat- ing taking the examination. HOT SHOT FOR IMPUDENT TRAIN CREW. Tiffin, Ohio, Dec. 4.—Angered be- cause the train crew on a B. and O. fieight persisted in flirting with his wife, Gottlieb Meyers fired several shots into the engine cab as the train passed his home. He was arrested today. STILL SEARGHING FOR BLAGK BRUTE Suspects Arrested and Fiend Who As- saulted Haines City Lady May Be in Custody. Deputy Sheriff Frank Scott, accom- panied by the husband of the Haines City lady who was assuulted by a negro last Saturday, was in Lake- land today, the husband coming to ti:is place to see a negro suspect who had been lodged in jail here. The negro, however, proved () be not the man wanted. Another negro who fits the de- scription closely was arrested near Pauway and is now in jail at Bar- tow. The husband will go down to Bartow this afternoon to see if the right man has been caught. The following is the description of the miscreant, and a reward ot $50 is offered for information lead- ing to his arrest: About 25 years of age; welght, 155 1bs; height, 5 feet, 6 inches; color, dark ginger cake; bow-legged; high cheek bones; smal! raustache; wore when last seen faded hlue overalls, top button off jumper. black cigarette hat; No. 6 or 7 shoe. The crime was committed a8 the lady was returning from the store where she went to purchase some ar- ticles, being waylaid on the road and overpowered by the black fiend. FURTHER TESTINONY N HARVESTER GO'S GASE (By Associated Press.) St. Louis, Dec. $.—When the third 1duy's hearing of the goverument's suit to dissolve the International liarvester Co. was opened today, George Weyland, a dealer of Boon- ville, Mo., took the stand for cross- oxamination. Weyland testified yes- nrda) that the International tried to force him to buy a larger stock ! than his trade warranted and sought tc induce him to give up the agency for an independent company’s binder. COL. ARCHIE GRACIE, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DEAD. (By Associated Press.) New York, Dec. 4.—Colonel Archie Gracie, one of the Jast passengers to leave the ill-fated Titanic, died here today. SERVIA CALLS ON ALL HER SONS TO ENLIST. (By Associated Press.) London, Dec. 4.—Servia yesterday issued a decree calling for service all men capable of bearing arms, accord- ing to a news agency dispatch. ARGHBALD FAGES BEGINNING OF TRIAL (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 4.—When the Senate reconvened as a court of im- peachment today, Judge Archibald faced the real beginning of his trial. Witnesses sumymoned by the House managers conducting the prosecution are ready to begin their testimony. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4, 1912. NEGOTIATHONGISALARIES FOR FOR PEACE WILLIEX-PRESIDENTS BEGIN FRIDAY PLENIPOTENTIARIES WILL MEET IN LONDON IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARMISTICE ADOPTED. (By Associated Press.) Sofia, Dec. 4.—Peace plenipoten- tiaries representing Turkey, Bul- guria, Servia anc Montenegro will begin work in Lordon Friday of next week. The arndistice signed at 8 o'cleck last evening took the revised form drafted by Speaker Daneft, of the Bulgarian parliment, providing that belligerent armies remain in their present positions, that the be- sciged Turkish fortresees wil! not be revictualled, and that the revictuall- ing of the Bulgarian army in the field be carricd out via the Black sea and Adrianople, (ommencing ten days after the signaiure of the armis- tice. It is officially announced that the Greek delegates 'id not definitely re- jeet the terms of the armietice, but regerved their decision for twenty- four hours. INIATIVE AND RECALL AMENDMENTS PROPOSED (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 4.—The initia- tive and recall of judicial decisions as amendments to the federal con- stitution were proposed today by Senator Bristow in resolutions laid hefore the Senate. RIVERS AND HARBORS CONVENTION OPENED More Than a Thousand Delegates Welcotned by President Taft This Morning. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 4.—Senztor- elect Ransdell, formally opened the ninth annual convention of the Na- ticnal Rivers and Harbors Congress today, delegates present. welcomed the visitors. with more than a thousand The presidert The featur2 of the day's programme was an ad- drees by Mrs. A. Barton Miller, Charleston, S. C., president of the Women's National Rivers and lar- bors Congress. ol SIGHT OF BLIND PREACHER MARVELOUSLY RESTORED. Oklahoma City, Dec. 4.—Rev. (. G. KRupert, minister of Seventh Day Ad- vent-church, has just had his sizht restored after twenty-eight years of blindness. In 1884, when conduciing services at Birmingham, Ohio, Mr. Rupert was sitting in his pulpit with bis hands over his face, and, upon re- moving them, discovered he hud he- come blind. His church shortly aft- erward sent him to South America as a missionary, and upon his return oculists in Cincinnati and Clevelund, Ohio, pronounced his affliction incur- able. Mr. Rupert came to Oklahoma, where his wife died, leaving him with three small daughters, who have grown to womanhood, and Mr. Rupert himself married again, and until today never had seen his sec- ond wife. Today his little grandson playfully flipped a piece of tinfoil from a rub- ber band, striking Mr. Rupert on his eyeballs. Warm applications were applied to draw the pain, and when removed the afflicted man realized his sight had practically returned. When stricken with blindness Mr. Rupert wore a black beard, which now is gray. He is 65 years old and feeble. Dr. E. S. Ferguson, of this city, examined Mr. Rupert’s eyes, but is unable to account for the restoration of sight. Mr. Rupert has written two books the past ten years. He has lec- tured throughout Oklahoma on Bib- lical subjects. 4 REGOMMENDED TO BE MADE MEMBERS AT LARGE OF CONGRESS WITH SALARIES OF $17,500. (By Associateq Press.) Washington, Dec. 4—The first big supply bill of the present session. the legislative, executive, judicial and appropriation bill was reported to the House today. It carries $34.- 897,105, a decrease of $319,000 from the corresponding bill last session. The full committee struck out certain provisions, and inserted the sub-com- mittee’s report, making former pres- idents members of the House at large, with salaries of $17,500. MAN IN TEXAS CONFESSES T0 GEORGIA MURDER Buchanan, Ga., Dec, 4.—Dying in a hospital at Denton, Texas, Joseph Addison has confessed that he killed Thompson Rowell mnear here, in INT3. For thirty-nine years the kill- ing of Rowell has been a mystery. Addison disappeared soon after ‘Thompson was killed, and there was some suspicion that he was involved, but no evidence. Addison left a wife and two sons when he disappeared, and he was thought to be dead un- til the authorities at Denton wired here that he was dying and had con- fessed to killing Rowell. Addison says he killed Rowell in a dispute wbout a dog. BERGER, MAD, ABOUT 10 BIE HIMSELF Defeated Socialist Predictg Dire Ca- lamities, and Slings a Slander at the South. (By Associated Press.) \Washington, Dec. 4.-—Forecasting an industrial panic, which will break up the Solid South, and cause riots and disturbances, Victor L. Berger. Socialist member of the House, who failed of re-election, today issued his valedictory, He declared the South i+ thirty years behind the North in economic development; that an in- dustrial panic is due in a year, which will mean Democratic hard times and soup Kitchens. PREACHER DEFIED LAW AND GOT IN JAIL QUICK. Elizabeth, Ky., Dec. 4.—Sentenced to serve twenty-nine hours in jail for contempt of Court, Rev. Thomas J. I'uval, a Baptist minister well known in Kentucky and Missouri, today found for his congregation a number of prisoners in the city lockup. The usual collection, however, was dis- pensed with. A short time ago Mrs. L-uval, wife of the pastor, who lately has been lecturing upon the evils of divorce, was granted a divorce and alimony from her husband. Yester- day Rev. Duval was summoned to court to give a reason why he had 1ot paid the alimony. His persist- ency in talking in court brought forth a rebuke from Special Judge Sandidge, who ordered the pastor to take his seat and remain quiet. Dis- cbeying the court’s instructions, Rev. Duval was sentenced to twenty-four hours in jail. The sentence failed to feaze the pastor, however, and he continued to reply to the court. Judge Sandidge added five hours to the previous sentence and instructed the jailer to take the minister to jail, thus ending the proceedings. KEW RULING RELATIVE TO GERMAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS. (By Associated Press.) Berlin, Dec. 4.—Entry of Amer- ican-born wives into the German dip- lematic corps is forbidden from now on, under a ruling of Imperial Chan- cellor von Bethmann Holowg, who restored the regulation made by the late Prince Bismarck, prohibiting German diplomats from marrying foreigners. No. 28. AN OPEN LETTER 10° DEMOCRATIG RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF W. C. McCLELLAND. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His wise dispénsation to re- n:ove from our midst our brother, W. C. McClelland, and Whereas, He left a loving wife and child to mourn his loss, therefore be it Resolved, That this lodge has suf- rerod in his death an {rreparabie loss of a true and devoted husband, HON. KELSEY BLANTON DISAP- his child a loving and affectionate | PROVES OF ACTION IN REGARD father, his friends an ever faithfui friend, and the world at large a good man; be it further Resolved, That a copy of these res- olutions be inscribed upon the min- utes of this lodge, a copy be sent to the bereaved family and a copy fur- nished to the Lakeland Telegram for pablication. 0. M. EATON, J. M. LEE, F. H. HURSEY, Committee, Order Railway Conduc- tors, Division, 458. ROOSEVELT SAYS HE WILL NOT RUN AGAIN Is Quoted ag Saying He Will Not Again Be a Candidate for the Presidency. (By Assoclated Press.) Boston, Dec. 4.—Roosevelt is quot- ed as saying he would not again be a candidate for president, by Charles Bird, defeated Progressive candidate for governor, when addressing the Progressives last night. Bird con- gratulated Rooseveit in New York recently, TRAMMELL ARGUES CASE IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY. Tallahassee, Dec. 4.—Attorney General Trammell has gone to Wash- ington to represent the State in the case of the State of Florida vs, The The case was set fi hearing yesterday in the United States Supreme Court and Mr. Tram- Pullman Co. nmell will argue the State's side be- fore that tribunal. in which the Pullman Co. is resisting the payment of the license tux levied by the State of Florida on their Pullman cars operating in this State. ELEVEN DEAD, ONE FATALLY INJURED (By Associated Press.) Zanesville, Ohio, Dec. 4.—Eleven dead, one probably fatally injured, The case is one and four others seriously hurt, com- prise the toll of the rear-end col- lision last night between two pas- rear | uttermost any action of the old com- senger trains, in which the coach of a Cleveland, Akron & Co- lumbus train was telescoped. The of- ficial statement stated that the first ably Dec. or ' new committee, TO FEDERAL OFFICES. 2 Lakeland, Fla., Dec. 2, 1912, Messrs. G. T. Hill, Fort Meade; B. J. Mayo, Tiger Bay; J. E. Lancaster, Chicora, L. N. Pipkin, Mulberry; C. A. Boswell, Bartow; W. G. Jones, Auburndale; J. T. Miller, Haines City; A. T. Currie, Eloise; 0. J. Pope, Lakeland: Gentlemen—As a member, along with yourselves, of the recentlyelect- ed Democratic execntive committee this ictter as a protest against the actioun of the old committee at its special nmiceting at Bartow on the 18th, ult, of Polk county, | am writing According to the published report of this meeting appearing in the Lake- o9 lund News of Nov. 22, the old com- mittee is assuming to act in the mat- ter of making recommendations for appointments to the federal under offices the Wilson administration; and at the meeting above referred to “agreed that the memvers of the committee as individuals would not endorse any one applicant for an of- fice, but that at a later date, prob- 27, the committee would lold a fll meeting and officially en- dorse one persou for each federal of- fice in the county."” I desire to explain that 1 was present when the committee can- vussed the reports of the last pri- wary election at which our commit- tee was elected. There were few present and no one seemed to know what procedure was best and proper t5 follow for the organization of the It appeared to me that the few who were present should not underiake to organize, and not anticipating that the old committee would assume to act unnecessarily in any matter, | suggested that the members of the new commfittee go into Bartow in January, 1913, and organize at the same time the other county officials elected were to be itstalled. This suggestion seemed to meet with the approval of those pres- ent. Since that time Woodrow Wil- son has been elected president and this scramble for appointments to fcderal office has ensued. The new president will not be inaugurated un- til March 4, 1913. There is, there- fore, no sufficient reason for any of- ficial action of the Democratic com- mittee in this county betwen now and Jan. 1, if it be proper for it to act at all, LD ST 1 shall oppose, and resist to the mittee in this matter. I do not sup- pose there is any other county in the State in which the old committee is train stopped because of a defective | assuming to act in this manner; and air attachment, The flagman did not | My suggestion that the organization have time to go back far enough to [0’ the new committee be postponel warn the other train. Rattlesnakes are rated this year at $2 each. Wonder if the snake in the grass would pay BATTLESHIPS LEAVE NEW ORLEANS FOR VERA CRUZ. (By Associated Press.) New Orleans, Dec. 4.—After week'’s visit here the battleships Min- Michigan and South Carolina weighed anchor this morn- ing. The vessels will stop at Galves- tcn en route to Vera Cruz, Mexico. nesota, Kansas, GIOVANNITTI 10 ADDRESS STRIKERS (By Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Dec. 4.—Artuo Giovan- | mittee nitti, the Industrial Workers of the | convention. World leader, recently acquitted of | committee of this county vntil the first of January shall not, with my consent, be used to continue in active authority the members of the old committee beyond the period for which they were elected. It is true that the greater number of the members of the old committee were re-elected and are members of the new committee. Still, that is not true of myself and others of the new committee, and the principle is the same applied to all members of the new committee. Fixing the 27th of December as the day for the holding of this most extraordinary “full meeting,” is manifestly to secure ac- tion before the new committee or- ganizes. This is against the pro- gressive spirit of the day. The Re- publican party went to pieces in Chi- cago because an old committee or- ganized a new convention; and the Democratic convention at Baltimore formally endorsed the proposition that hereafter the newly elected com- shall organize its national The action of the old violates raurder in connection with the Law- | this principle; and I predict that the ence textile strike, has been invit- | endorsement by the old committee of ed to come here to address the strik- | any applicants for federal offices un- ers in the steel works, ten thousand |der the circumstances above stated of whom are on a strike. (Coatinued on Page 5.)