Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 28, 1912, Page 1

HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM | Published in voLME I SON REVIEWS £ TODM AUNTON -(75NDS GATHEBED 10 PAY ;1R RESPECTS TO PRESI- JENT ELECT'S BIRTHDAY. By \ssociated Press.) 3 Hu';., Dec. 25.—President- : l\U“ opened his eyes here " oug in the same house in " .. was born fifty-six years Governor Wilson insert- ¢ oxtra numbers in the pro- v when he decided to cal ;..' women who danced him sir knees as @ baby. 14 the cheers of thousands who | red for the reunion from all of the country, President-elect Wikou today reviewed the parade of pis fellow townsmen. It was their (ribute to the son of Staunton who cme 1o celebrate his ffty-sixth pirthday in his native home. Be- .« parade Wilson received the . icials and various commit- fore LW tees Oficers of the Fitteenth United s cavalry, commanding four were sent by the war depart- as a complimentary act to the |vrn-~'?«l"rn—-“|e(‘l. KICK BECAUSE WHISKEY BARRED FROM MAILS \shington, Decembebr 27—FPost- master General Hitchcock’s regula- qon barring intoxicating liquors fom the new parcels post, a pro- won which went almost unnoticed . the complete regulations were public last week, DOW promises L BE IS WALKING 3,000 MILES ; T0 HIS WEDDING. sandusky, 0., Dec. 28—IH. B. Love- Jace, walking from San Francisco to Bangor, Me., 3,000 miles, merely be- cause he likes to walk, passed through Sandusky recently. Lovelace left Frisco August 27, and expects to see tbe Maine city before New Year's duy. When he arrives in Boston, Lovelace will marry Miss Gertie How- ard, who for nineteen years has been Lis sweetheart, although he has seen her but three times since he left the \:asgachusetts metropolis in spring of 1893 on his firsg hike. In the spring Lovelace expects to walk back to San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. laveloce. For a number of years Lovelaee represented various eastern newspapers. He toured foreign countries afoot. BOWYER'S SUB-ONISION PLAGED ON NARKET Messrs. F. C. and E. J. Bowyer, of Tampa Will Help in Work of Building Greater Lakeland. In today's issue appears a full puge advertisement of Bowyer's sub- division, which recently has been tlatted and is mow placed on the market by Messrs. F. C. and E. J. Bowyer, of Tampa. -This subdivision consists of some splendid property—high and well located, and in all respects presents 2 most desirable location for the home builder. The building restric- tione, etc., are such as will insure & zood class of neighbors to the buy- ec in this subdivision, and there is no douby but that a strong demand will develop for lots in this latest uddition to the development of a Greater Lakeland. the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, :SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1912. LABOR UNION C IDERS FOUND GUILTY (N DYNAMITE GAGES ONE OF THE MOST NOTED TRIAL CAME TO CLOSE TODAY, WITH EIGHT MEN, CHARGED WITH DYNAMITE CONSPIRACY. ludianapolis, Ind., Dec. 28.— airty-eight officials of labor unions were found guilty of complicity in tue McNamara dynamite plots, in- luding the wrecking of the Los An- . cies Times building, and were con- victed on all counts in the indict- wments. President Frank Ryan, of the International Union of Iron \Workers, is among those convicted. Court adjourned until 10 o'clock Monday, when the men will be sen- tenced. The defendants have been placed in jail. The convictions of Tveitmoe and (1ancy, of San Francisco, and J. E. Munsey, of Salt Lake City, sustained the government's charges that they assisted in plotting the Los Angeles ¢xplosion, in which twenty-one were killed, and assisted in the escape of James McNamara in his flight trom the scene. The verdict also sus- tained the charges that the MecNa- naras were assisted in nation-wide 1lots by almost all the executive of- ficials of the iron workers' union, whose head, Frank Ryan, once sat in the councils of the American Fed- «ration of Labor. The two men es- caping conviction were ierman G. Seiffert, of Milwaukeée, and Dahfel Buckley, of Davenport, lowa. A scene almost tragic was enacted ! in the coury room a few minutes aft- er the conclusion of the trial. The wives of a score of the men were in 1 rvear room, and leaning over the rafling calling for their husbands. ¢ IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY CONVICTION OF THIRTY- | woted the dynamiting business; it was lockin who was accused o “Lholding out” on the pay of the dy | Jamiters; it was he who was said 0 | have caused a quarrel in the rank: ! of the McNamaras and McManigal, . aud iy was he who finally wasi charged with “betraying for his owu gain” those with whom he once associated, and with whom he was . filated in the iron workers' union. (;tav-haired and old beyond his years sag Frank M. Ryan, president of the iron workers' umion, by vir- tue of which office he was a leader 11 national labor circles, with a seat l in the councils of the American Fed | eration of Labor. l‘ McManigal, the self-confessed dy- pumiter, for weeks occupied the wit- ness stand, relating, calmly, decis- ively and without any apparent con- corn for himself a narrative of vio- lene, seldom equalled. And what were the antecedents of this trial? Buck in the summer of 1905 dy- namite was found at New Haven, Conn,, on & job on which non-union workmen were employed. Later the iton workers' union called a strike coeveral contractors, and the «rike became general. ‘That was tie beginning, according to the gov- ynment, and it spread until Me- Namara organized a “dynamiting Altogether 100 explosiong oveurred, those at Los Angeles being o1 oug the number. {orew.” GIFT OF SIGHT WAS HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Of all the 2,500,000 people in Chicago, Olson annarro, a boy of 199 years, prob- ably is the recipient of the most high- ly prized Christmas present. His gift cn Christmas day was the recovery of his sight. He has been blind since he was 2 years old. “1 looked upon my mother’s fea- tures for the first time that day,” he suid, “and, oh, such beauty. I asked nyself if it was true. 1 realized that I could sce—no one knows such joy. You who know how to read and write can realize my position. 1 know noth- ing of that, but I will immediately stary to learn. “Of all the people in the world | am the one to whom Santa Claus has given his most prized gift. OEN WUTE FOUA 4e AT H HOME Lived Near Cedar Springs, 8. C,, and Is Thought to Have Been Murdered. (Ry Associated Press.) Union, 8. C., Dec. 28.—Ed Smoak, an aged deaf mute farmer living scar Cedar Springs, was found dead at his home yesterday, according to news received today. His watch and money on his person were ub- touched but it is the belief that he was murdered. Authorities are in- vestigating. FIRST WIRELESS OPERATOR KILLED AT HIS POST- New York, Dec, 28 Wireless op- erators say that the death of an op- erator in the great German wireless station at Norddeich, near the North XPLOSION 1N BOILER ROOM KILLS SEVERAL CATASTROPHEE OCCURRED IN 8. A. L. SHOPS AT HAMLET, NORTH CAROLINA. (By Associated Press.) Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 28.—Three white men and five negroes were killed and several negroes are miss- ing as the result of an explosion at the bofler shops of the Seaboard Alr Line at Hamlet, N. C., this morning. The explosion was caused by turn- ing water into the hot boiler. The walls of the engine room were de- molished and the roof of the ma- chine shop was blown off. REVIVAL STARTS TOMORROW AT METHODIST CHURCH. Rev. J. M. Bass, of Georgia, the noted evangelist, and his singer, Professor Suber, will reach Lake- land tonight and will be at the Methodist church tomorrow, begin- ning a series of meetings. Mr. Bass {s a young man, and has not had many years in this work, but al- ready stands among the first of his profession in the country. He comes from the State that produced Sam Jones, Culpepper, Simon Poter Rich- ardson and Uncle Jim Amthony, be- sides many other unique and power- ful divines. He I8 commonly spoken of in the class with these. Tom Watson, Georgia’s noted critic and satirist, who regards neither man mnor devil, and there is doubt about what else he regards, i The possible punishments vary from’ ‘Two striking coincidences attend- | Sca, on Sunday, probably is the first Las paid his disrespects to thousands any minimum to a wmaximum of ¢ \ug frial. case on record of a wireless operator Lug his respects have been pald to thirty-nine and one-half years, at! Oune was that on Oct. 1, 1911, ex- | heing killed at his post. The Ber- the mevest few, among them Thomas tle court’s discretion. | ctly one year after the Los Angeles | 1in dispatch indicated thap the op- Jefterson, Napoleon Donaparte and Appeal W1 Be Taken. | 7imes building was blown up with alerator, a man named Mueller, must | Evanselist Bass. Mr. Watson ranks k up a row in Congress. The Jutor wanufacturers and daalers, es- pocially the mail-order houses Which pove their suppory to the measure, wiro dumbfounded when the regula- The Bowyer brothers, knowing Lakeland’s past splendid history, have the utmost confidence in her future, and are demonstrating that wons were published to find that sroducts were barred from the of the parcels post by the ar- dictum of the Postmastel Already the prohibition {cwperance papers are acclaim- ‘vheock's action as a victory « dry cause, while the liquor ure preparing to frame the i of protest against the , declared by the postoffice. . 1he postoffice as yet has re- , formal objection, it was today that the liquor people Ay taking steps to protect {crests. It is probable that 1 action will be taken until . of the Kenyon bill is known 1+ Kenyon measure ghould be i then a strong effort will e | <\ through Congress to compel the {on of liquor properly packed serations of the pareels post. {eat of the Kenyon bill would that Congress refuses to pro ii. shipment of intoxicants in it commerce, it is contended. | be argued therefore, that it is w-titutional for one branch of Government to prohibit what an- r sanctions. When the Sheppard bill, which is liouse duplicate of the Kenyon re, was being considered by the + Committee last session, OD- “outs of the measure used this argument with a reverse Eng- That is, 1t was assumed that parcels post regulations would almit of the shipment of liquor, and rofore the committee was urged o report a bill which would pro- something sanctioned by an- othor measure. This attitade shows how sure the juor people were that they would ive the bemefits of the parcels 105t. The ruling of Postmaster Gen- «a] Hitchcock is a heavy blow to ex- twasive interests, and they are ex- <'ted to begin an immediate cam- ruign to induce either Hitchcock or Yis sucessor, after March 4, to cancel tha ruling. Bruce Ismay, director in the White Star Steamship Co., has re- sitned because of failing health and broken spirits, as a result of the Ti- tanic disaster. Ismay was the sub- iy of bitter criticism because he faved his own life while there were 1%y many women aboard the sinking vessel and his motives will ever b questioned, whether justly or not.— Orlando Sentinel. | were found unacceptable. confidence by planting their money here. Among other things, they have arranged to improve and reno- vate the Bowyer building on the corner of Pine street and Kentucky avenue, and place an addition there- to, the whole representing an expen- diture of over $10,000. The addi- tion to be placed on the north end of the building will front 55 feet on Kentucky avenue and will make this building one of the largest and landsomest in the city. URKEY'S TERMS ON'T SUIT BALKANS (By Associnted Press.) London, Dec. 28.- The peace en- Vvoys met again today. After little more than an hour's discussion they vdjourned until 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. The Turks presented counter proposals, replying to those offered by the Balkan allics. These After this decision the Turkish representatives ’suid they musg again communicate with their government. That Turkish terms “do not form even the basis for negotiations” was the unanimous outery of the Balkan delegates. ——————— YOUNG ASTOR RAISES PAY OF ALL EMPLOYES. New York, Dec. 28.—Vincent As- tor has raised the pay of all em- ployes of the Astor estate. Also, he plans to pension them when they retire. The hundreds of workmen «mployed at Ferncliffe, Astor’s coun- try estate, will on Jan. 1 recelve an increase that will make their earn- ings one-third greater than at pres- ent. Similar increases in wages lave been granted to employes of the Astor estate in this city. For the last two months experts in the employ of Astor have been working to ascertain the cost of a pension system to care for all employes un- der Astor's control. They will re- port to Astor in the near future. —————— After a struggle lasting two hours foun men in a motorboat at Miami recently landed and killed 2 man- eating shark weighing 300 pounds. The man-eater, it is understood put uy a very hard fight. Washington, Dec. 28.—Senator Kern, of counsel for the defendants when told of the verdict, declara! (he cages would be appealed. e declined to comment further. Story of the Celebrated Case. , Itwas a scene blended with tragedy ..ab confronted those who week alt- , weck sat through the hiztoric ‘uynamite conspiracy’ trials. Now it.was a baby crying 1 | the rear of the court room, where t{le wives and children of the de- cendants sat; now it was the hony oice of a man seated in the witnes nair and defending himself @ LK (he charges of a nation-wid -\ niracy, in which officialg of " 1abor were deeply concerned NCEses from necar and far cane @0 but those whose fate ! with the jury remained ther tening to the accusations and \ft-repeated story of the killing of twenty-one people in the los An- cles Times explosion. The court room itself recuicd @t fiiting setting for that sombr surrounded by greap marble D with the daylight shut out by curtaing, and the judge instal fore an allegorical painting of Jus- tice, that court room day after ‘l”yl «choed the stories of violence, o7 the discovery of burnt fuses and bursted infernal machines, of midniztt vis: its by mysterious men in allers, in empty houses, in lonely countr¥ roads, or on the tops of buildinzs The vision of a dark spectre with a bomb under his arm became 2 fa- miliar image in the minds of those who listened. Back of the railings, amid the spectators, sat the rela- tives of the defendants. Three rows deep across the room were the de- fendants. Among the score of at- torneys say perhaps the most pictur stque defendant, massive in build, florid in complexion, always studi- onsly occupied, mow copiously fin- ing his notebook when the testl- mony was exciting; now, when the trial lagged, burying his spectacled rose in a Latin version of Omar Khayyam. He was Olaf A. Tveit- moe, of San Francisco. Another man toward whom the eves of the spectators often strayed wag Herbert S. Hockin. He sat apart Letween bailiffs, during much of the trial, for he had been branded by the coury as “a man who cou'd not be trusted by any one.” It was Hock- in who was named as baving pro- went, to the IS, heavy 1 be- loss of twenty-one lives, the federal | have carelessly come in contact with cidered the poseibility of prosecu- tions for illegal interstate shipment of dypamite and nitroglycerin on passenger trains. Ortie McManigal's confession, obtained after he and the MeNamara brothers had been arrest- | o1, implicated others as having ae- tually carried explosives in suitcases on trains, or as having entered into a conspiracy. This indicated, ini \ | Digtrict Attorney Charles W. Miller's B““Y uF P“L‘GEMAN apinion, the necessity for a grand jary investigation Indianapolis was the headquarters of John J. McNa- ronra, secvetary of the iron workers ! union, and the point at which, it | was charged, the conspiracy was en- | tered into and from which the ex- plosives were carried i Another coincidence was that the trial began on Oct. 1, 19172, the sec- ond anniversary of the Times ex plosion. The federal grand jury, sfter geveral months' investigation roturned indictments agninst fitty- four union labor officials. Before| ter had becn reduced to forty-one | on account of various eliminations | As a motive for the erimes charzed | the government referred to the| strike against employers of non- vnion labor, consisting of bridge, viaduet and building contractors who maintained an “open shop” pol- icy, employing workmen regardless ¢t whether they belonged to the vnion or not. This strike never has been called off. It was alleged that a warfare waged by the union gpread all over the country until violence was resorted to, or, as was stated, “picketing spread to slug- ging, slugging to dynamite, and dy- namite to nitroglycerin.” McNamara, at the headquarters of the union in Indianapolis, although lated named by witnesses as the ac- | tive perpetrator of the explosions, | was then unsuspected by the con- tractors. But the advent of McMan- izal and James B. McNamara, bmth-‘ er of the union secretary, as rezu- larly hired dynamiters, working un- der John J.s direction, and, as Mc- Manigal charges, with Hockin's leadership, the explosions became soO bold as to arouse suspicion that they were the work of an organized band. Detectives already had been work- ing on the case when the killing of twenty-one people in Los Ancgeles by a bomb sey off at 1 o'clock in the (Continued on Page 4.) o i B ARy etendy movement of celery from San- ford. ‘mnhnrl(h-s at Indlanapolis first con-| the wires employed for the creation of electric waves, which are charged with death touching them. guch powerful voltage that comes instantly to any one n a fow weeks there will be a FOUND NEAR ASHBURN (By Assoclated Press.) Ashburn, Ga., Dec. 28, -After be- jug missing since Friday afternoon, ‘he body of Chief of Police J. D Loore was found carly today near a swamp on the outskirts of the town. His pictol was cluetched in one hand ene chamber being exploded, indi- cating that he had committed sui- cide. tory. | the defense began its case this num- { 100L WOMAN GETSHE‘;E YEARS IN PENITENTIARY Kansas City, Mo, Dec 271t Joesn't always pay to take a dare Mre. Mabel Benson, of White Water, Kan., was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary today because she tcrged a $45 check on 2 dare offerel by her sister-in-law “l pever refused to taKe a dare, she told the judge “1 dare you to serie five years in the penllentinry." sald the Court “I' m giving you the limit.” Mrs. Benson’s husband, Joseph, is a civil engineer. She has two small children. SPORANE PROHIBITS SALE OF GREEN ORANGES. Spokane, Wash., Dec. 28. scries of tests of oranges offered for sale in Spokane, Health Officer J. B. Anderson today prohibited the sale After a | Mr. Rass very highly in a recent ar- ticle in the Jeffersonian, making him guperior in some respects to Sam Joneg, and calling him the present day Jones. Mr. Bass will preach and Profes- gor Suber will sing at the Methodist church tomorrow, morning and pight. The meeting will continue daily next weck, announcements be- ing made later. THIEF MADE BIG HAUL LAST NIGHT. Last night some one entered the room of Mr. M. F. Johnson, pro- nrietor of the Central hotel, which i loeated over the postoffice, and gtole his gold watch and about $50 in money Mr. Johnson had not locked his door, und the thief found it an easy ratter to make his entrance and exit without disturbing Mr. John- gon, who did not learn of his loss ‘untfl this morning. Officers are at vork on the case, and think they are on the track of the thieves. TWO0 MEN DROWNED IN RIVER. | | (By Assoclated Press.) Tampa, Dec. 28.—News was re- : ceived today of the dro /ning of Carl Hilliard, of Kissim o, and Ray- mond Harris, of St. nd, in the Kissimmee river. The uudy of Hil- { liard was found yesterday at South Port. The other body has not been recovered. The men had started on a yachting trip into the Everglades and were seen last on Saturday. The funeral of Mr. Hilliard occurred yes- terday, and searching parties are out now looking for the body of young Harris. | AT THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH. ‘ The revival services, preparatory ‘to the Holiness convention, are very hopeful. The convention proper be- of all oranges in which the ratio of|untfl Jan. 12. sugar to citrus acid is not seven to one or greater., This ruling is directed against the Prof. A. L. Whitcomb, former president of our college at Green- ville, M., but now of University fruit shipped green from the orchards | Park, Towa, will be with us all next and allowed to ripen en route, or week. Also Rev. W. B. Godbey, of ripened by artificial means, such as|Kentucky will be present to read “sweating.” It will bar from the|and translate from the original Spokane markets most of the orange Greek. There will be three or four shipments received in November or |services daily, beginning with sun- earlier, and some - of the shipments. December | rise prayer meeting at 6 a. m. All are !nvited. E. E. SHELHAMER. e ———