Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 29, 1913, Page 1

// SHEEPING DUTHWARL m:u’_im!fl()l FELT IN EVANS- g Weter Becedts Evidence of Prop- Being Becovered: oy ssociated Press.) Judisnapolis, March 29.—While e tlovd condition in the interior of s improving, the crest of se tiood s sweeping down toward the Obio river, spreading wide de- struction in the southern valleys alovg the wWabash, causing terror in Evansviile, Vincennes, and other towns which are yet in the path of the floed. If loss of life occurs, will ot be for lack of warnings. Relief woin at Peru, i Judiaua b polnts o the flood’s attack, gressin< peen re. v oied at Brooksville, twenty sre known to be dead at Peru. No bodies liave been found at West In- gienapoiis. Refugees in Indiana are .civing ample provisions, — es Is Appalling. ssociated l'ress.) 0., March 29.—As wa- lence of property de- is a1 nalling but the death < Propc..; . rceovered rapidly. —— 3 dics Recovered at Columbus. 1y Associated Press.) duibus, March 29.- 5 Lave been recovered in the | scetion of this city. Relief ttees are feeding and clothing victims, A looter was shot and llud by a soldier this morning. Muny shots have been fired at loot- 18, — Xiltiia Ordered Out to Protect Property. By Associated Press.) Jofferson City, Mo., March 29.— Three companies of militia have been ordered to Mississippi county to pro- tct property which is threatened by the floods. BEST OF FLOOD | ,, rapidly. Sixten bodies have Shukri Pasha, a brave and A1 not exceed a huu-! fhe flood victims are | Sinty-six |’ THC_LAKELA l GHAZI SHUKRI PASHA The gallant defense of Adrianople, ome of the tew bright spots of the . . Indiaa- | pyyes war so far a8 the o 4 apolis and Brooksville, the worst | concerned, Turks is pro- |the commaader of the garrison is placed te the credit of , Ghasi skilful - ROCHESTER, N, 1. 1521 THREATENED BY FLODD Greatest Volume of Water Since the Flood of '65 Is Pouring Into City. (By Associated ' Rochester, N Y, (enn S, Mareh 29 i see river rushing into t! | | | ! t volume of wa ¢ ool th W ¥ with the tor sinee 1865, est flood in its b are moving goods to hi Damage of property is heavy d the renunts wround FLORIDA FISHING SMACK AND MEN LOST. Pensacola, March 29 —The owners of the fishing smack, Althea Frank- lin, which leit Pensacola forty-three days ago for the fishing banks, have given the vessel up as being lost in the gulf and relatives and friends nave abandoned all hope for the safe- ty of the crew When the Frank- Pubiishiud i the Best Town in ite Bes ND EVEN LAKELAND. FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 729, 1913. SITY BLOCKS NOW UNDER WAFER AT CINCINNATI ON FIRST STREET THE WATER HS REACHED THE SECOND FLOOBS OF MANY BUSINESS HOUSLS; ALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. \ Part of the Best Sfaie. | | | |‘ | lin left port she carried provisions ‘or only thirty davs and was in com- mand of Captain Mat Foley and waz manned by a crew of five. Among the crew were Archie Sees, Ed. Old- n.ixon and Mike Higgins. The | | FOW TO RUN PAPER, AS NEW EDITOR SEES IT. — Chief of Wewoka, Okla., “Democrat Gives Publicity to His Unique Platform. Wewoka, Okla.,, March 29,—Luth- ilarrison, recently manager of the wife Iemocratic press bureau operated bv the State central committee, has pur- claged the Democrat here, and in an- nouncing the fact he printed & unizue editorial in which he frankly lis subscribers what he pro- Toses to do. For ‘nstance, he assures his read- “rs thut his “paper is mot going to te the best in Oklahoma,” but he will try to avoid getting out the vorst.” “The chief pleasure in running a newgpaper,” he says, 'nning it as you blooming plrase, and we will enjoy this pleas- T2 tn the uttermost. The Democrat will not be very t under our management. \We tells continue the use of the regu-; phrases in our local depart- ANl brides will be ‘beautiful.’ uies ‘bouncing, all subseribers 1 fellows,” all speeches and ser- ns ‘most excellent,” all deaths ‘ir- ‘arable losses,’ all harvest ‘unex- “ipled’ and all blizzards the ‘cold- t cver known." We hope that di- merey will not be bankrupted n:rdoning such lies, but the pub- " s accustomed to them and will itisfied with nothing else, The Democrat will be exactly ilways what its name signifies, ‘"_"‘A n effort to preserve charity in 21! things, “All opinions will be respected and “r7 few followed. Wo shall respect our political op- otents with a profound pity for all thelr delinquencies. We shall, in short, so conduet _f puder that every reader will be : _ntluullly wondering what the Sam lil we are going to do mext. But 3 21l times we are after the coln.” “ijs derived, nanies of the other two members of the ccew were not leurncd last night. Captain Foley was married and bis resides on West Government siroet. There is no doubt but that the Franklin has been lost, as none of the large number of smacks which have arrived from the Campeachy banks during the past several days have sighted the long-overdue vessel. She was owned by the Warren Fish Company. OTEL COLLAPSED IT ZAESILLE TODN (Ry Associated Press.) Zanesville, March 29— Four bodies have been recovered up to 6 o'clock The flood of the Muskingum river re- ceded to Second street. The Roggie [ iotel collapsed this morning and the :ir-hnhz theater is in danzer of fall- i ling in i FALLS DEAD AT BANQUET. St. Petersburg, Fla. March 29.— Just as the banquet by the St. Pet- ershurg Club was ending Thursday pizht, and the banqueters were leav- ing the dining room, in the Hunt- ington hotel, J. M. McFarlam, one of the speakers at the banquet, dropped dead. He was talking to some friends Jauching and telling a story when he grew pale, dropped into a chalr and was dead in 2 moment. He was |a well known visitor here, and one of the organizers of the St. Peters- burg Shriners’ Assoclation, Moslem Temple, in Detroit has been notified of his death. e — The vat for dipping cattle which is being bullt at Meclntosh, is npearly completed. - LOUISYILLE A@ABES A CRIGHS Flood Situation Beached Dangerous " Efforts Are Being Bent to the Endan Siage There This Morning and All Remove the Residents from gered Zone, — (By Assoclated Press.) Cincinnati, March 29.—With the Ohio river covering the entire lower section of this city and with refugees from the stricken up-state towms coming in by the hundreds, Cinein- nati faces a serious situation. More than sixty blocks of the city are ua- der water and the river is rising ai juch and a half bourly. Moving vans and automobile trucks have been pressed into serv- ice in moving families from the flood area. Trafic between Cineinnati and Kentucky towns across the river is suspended. Water reached the sec- ond floors of many business houses on irst street and half way up the st floors of houses on Second street for several blocks. Sixty blocks in Newport and Coy under water, A5 meten, Ky, are st all manmfaeturing plants are COMMENDS SPLENDID WORK OF LAKELAND CITRUS ASSOCIATION Lakeiand, Fla., Mareh 26, 1913, Mr. J. K. Grifiing, President Lakel Cltrus Growers’ land, Pla: Thig letter is addee president of the association, with the part that sha!l gsed 1o you as fdesire on my you make its contents known 1o Mr. K. 11, Kinney, general manager, and Mr. George K (oogle, cashier, and that they sh formation to the men who are work- ing under them. It occurs to me that 1 would like (o write this letter at this time, be- cause of the fact that 1 am preparing to leave Lakeland to take my place ir. the State Senate, where | will be engaged in public business until about the Sth of June. When | re- {nrn the season of 1912-13 will have yagsed into history. The Lakeland Citrus Growers Ag- cociation has attracted the attention of almost the entire United States, and certainly it has attracted the attention of every market into which i's products have gone It has elicit- ¢d the favorable comment of the de- partment of agriculture of the l'nll-l od States, and official records have heen made in commendation of ou¥ methods from the fleld to the mar- ket, even to the extent that govern< ment officials have paid personal vis- its to our groves and packing house. All this comes about solely through the intelligent effort which has been made by you, gentlemen, and, while I have only had a subordinate part in it, and can, therefore, take but little credit, 1 wish to, in this for- mal way, thank you all for the re- gnlts you have accomplished The Florida Citrus Exchange, through its general manager. Mr. Tomple, and the Hillshorouzh Sub- Fxchange, through its secretary, hove made frequent complimentary comments upon our methods, and it {wo have accomplished nothing else, ~e have at least set an examnle for sther orange growers to follow, As T think over these matters in this serious way, T remember with the most profound regret that our oood old friend, Captain Bonacker, who gave so much of his time andl t+alent in the early days of our strug- gle, has passed away, and is not with us to see the culmination of the ef- forts which he then, with you and 1, made. Thanking you again, and with kind personal regard to you all, Iam, dear sir. Yours sincerely, H. J. DRANE, Secretary-treasurer Lakeland Citrus Growers’ Association. Officers of the State bank of Orlan- dc polnt with pride to the fact that they have passed the million dollar mark. vesoecintion, Lake- all convey the samc In-l 'lucuted there in the lowlaunds, thou- sands are out of employment as the plants have shut down. (By Associated Press.) louisville, March 29.—The flood situation reached dangerous propor- tions at Louisville this morning. While no loss of life is feared ‘as people in the endangered zone are 'readily heeding the warnings to move, property damage along the Obio will run into the millions, The river continues to rise more than an inch an hour. Four feet more will flood the power plants and put out of commission the street and inter- urban railways. Rescue work has started along the Mississippi and hundreds of tents hive been sent to Hickman, Ky. steamer has been dispatched to Cape Giradeau, Missouri, to rescue the pec ple. > { TARDWARE DEALERS GET ’ | | BACK TO CINCINNATI., REAR ADMIRAL BUC K. . Buckud.i wrnerly an Amer Sean naval.ofiicer. has been appointed rear admiral in the Turkish navy, and whatever success the Turks have had on sea during the Balkan war 18 said to have been due to him. SINDIGHTE READY TO ! Can Furnish Any Sum from Ten to Hundred Million I.n.‘ incinnath Enguiver of Thors- Dollars. vooives an aceount of the return g PSS o Wothe Hardware Deaders and of the | e ’ g 4 _ | by Aviockated Press.y condition of those injured in the! ! automobile accident here. Taking Washington, March 20 President i the rate of speed ut which the ‘-;”~l'x‘.‘|tm|| has been advised that the pwas declarad to aave been :-.nin:;‘ merican syndicite is ready to far- Pwhen the aceident ocourred, they athyjgh China with s sioit term loan least can't accuse us of being slow down this way. The Enquirer's ae- count follows : “The Naticnal Retail Hardware !usuncimiun. which left Chicago ov March 1. agement of Henry A. Squibbs, as- sistant manager of the fence depart- ment of the American Steel and Wire E(‘n.. (‘hicago, arrived over the Queen! {and Crescent at noon yesterday. They of ten millicn dollars and later would negotiate up to one hundred miltion dollars. The United States gevernment will not participate in under the personal man-|the negotiations. TO HELP THE POOR AMBASSADORS. ‘ Washington, March 29— President were seheduled to leave over the BIg| v jiuon's expressed wish for legisla- " THATY KILLED e AT { Foue for Chicago, but, owing to the tion to provide residences tor Amer- ihiL’h water, they were detoured via ican diplomats abroad meets with ap- 1. and N to Lonisville, from Lonis- pioval at the capital. The United :\illv to Kvansville to Mt. Carmel, States owns property today only in i1, and then to Chicago. | langkok, Peking, Tokio and Con- “They arrived in Cincinnati finai-1., . jnople. In every other capital ‘cially embarrassed, and Royal Mat | tice, manager of the Cincinnati »f- I fee of the American Steel and Wire 1 Co.. came to the resene with $1.400 :In cash and was kind enough to cash i {he checks of any member of the par- ‘l) wiio decired money. ! “There were 300 in the party and all were well and happy, although keenly disappointed at the several detours and attendant delay. Every one of the party tried to send tele- grams home, but was unable to do s0 owing to the heavy delays re- quested by the telegraph companies. “Mr. Mattice called in Dr. Carlton G. Crissler to dress the broken arm { of one of the party, the accident oc- curring in Florida. Another of the party was taken care of by Dr. Cris- slep and both were greatly improved when the train pulled out. “A very sad feature in connection with the trip was the injury to four of the party, who had to be left in Jacksonville, Fla. An automobile driven by the owner had four pas- gonggrs sight-seeing, and in his en- thusiasm to show them the town quickly, struck a tree while =aing gixty miles an hour, with the rognit that every one of them was badly injured and all are now in the hos- pital ” LOWER TO SOON OVERFLOW. Memphis, Tenn., March 29—"With such a volume of water coming into the Mississippi from above, people along the Mississippi river had just as well prepare for a great flood,” sald Colonel S. C. Emery, of the local United States weather bureau today. “? ean’t say just what the stage Is going to he” pe continued. “It will be a biz river, and T believe the flood stage will be reached at Memphis "l“ very soon” the diplomatic representative pays for his residence out of his own i burse, Senator Martin, chairman of lthu committee on appropriations, said: “The next Congress will keep care- ful watch on expenditures, but in this matter something must be done. We shall make a start, at least, 0 that men of ability but of moderate fifancial means may be able to ac- cept these posts and serve their coun- try.” Chairman Flood, of the House com- mittee, is on record as favoring the plan. BULGARAIS WEETH WTH GREAT VIO (By Associated Press.) London, March 29.-—Bulgarian troops pierced the Tchalaja lines in the neighborhood of Fake Derkos and are rushing forward victoriously on t» Constantinople, according to dis- patches from Sofia. STATE G. A. R. ENCAMP- MENT NEXT TUESDAY. St. Petersburz, Fla, March 29— Veterans of the G. A. R. of Florida will gather in St. Petersburg mes: Tuesday for the annual reunion of the State organization and Kit Car- scn Post, of St. Petersburg, with the assistanee of the Board of Tradg and the Council, is making preparations for the old soldiers and will enter- tain them elaborately while they are here. A meeting of the committee from the post, the Board of Trade and the Council was held this morn- ing and plans laid to entertain the nld soldiers. WHEN BULDING FLL T DAVTON WORK OF DIGGING CORPSES FROM MUD IS PROGRESSING. City Water Works Service Was Re- stored at Noon and Conditicns Greatly Relieved. (By Associated Press.) Dayton, March. 29.—The city wa- terworks was restored at noon, re- lleving one of the most serious phases of the situation. The water has drained off the flooded area leav- ing thick lgyers of mud. Ninety bodies have been recovercd and the work of digging corpses from the mud and debris is progressing. At least thirty were killed when the Leonard building collapsed, ac- cording to Detective Kincaid. When the wall began to tremble people let out terrible shrieks and calls for help, and two leaped to their death, while others went with the ruins a watery srave. The identified dead Alexander Ford, Mrs. Bowe, [ Mason, Mis. Hawkins, Miss Hawke, Mrs. James Wallace, 3. 8. Cupp, Christ Polk, Virginia Snyder, low- tieo, § Mergentheler, John Blatz, Mr, Quin- 4 lan, Mre. Young, BB 1. Huarkrader, b Frakie Scott, John Srow MeCounell, A SPECIALIST WHO PRACTICED HERE ARRESTED AT I'T. I.EADE. The following from the Mort My- ors Press will Le of interest here, as pr. Andre practiced in lokeland p about two years ago: “L. Shaw Andre, who spent several divs in the city about ten days ago practicing as a specialist in discases of ihe car, eye and throat, was ar- rested last Wednesday by Sherift F B. "iipping in Fort Meade, a warrant hi irg been issued for the man's ar- rest charging him with practicing in Lee county without recording his li- cense. “Sherift Tippins brought his pris- oner to the city Wednesday night, and a preliminary hearing was ac- corded him before County Judge Long, at which hearing Andre stat- ed that although in all probability he might be found guilty of the charge he would request that the court grant him until this morning for final hearing, which would allow him to communicate with friends and consult an attorney The request be- ing granted, the prisoner was re- manded to the custody of the sheriff and this morning at 10 o’clock was again brought before Judge Long, at which hearing he entered a plea of guilty and sentence was passed upon him of a fine of $100 or three months in the county jail. The sup- posltlc_m s that Andre will pay the fine.” PEOPLE OF FLORIDA CALLED ON TO AID FLOOD SUFFERERS Tallahassee, March 29.--Governor Park Trammell, as chairman of the Florida State board of the American Red Cross, has received from the chairman of the national relief board of that great charitable orzan- fzation, a request that he issuc an appeal for funds for the relief of the sufferers from storms and floods in Ohio, Indiana and cther central States. Mr. G. R. DeSaussure, vice presi- dent of the, Parnctt National Bank, ot Jacksomville, is treasurer of the Florida' State board, Any contribu- tions which citizens of Florida micht f8el able to make for the Yeliet of the thousands who have been made homeless hy the fury of the elements in the stricken regions. may be sent either to Mr. DeSaussure or to the National Red Cross, Washinston, D C ! . MISS LATHROP WILL STAY. Washington, March 29-—President Wilson practically has determined to keep Miss Lathrop in office as chiet of the Federal Children's bu- reau. A fight for the place has beem made by friends on behalf of Mrs. Robert Wycklifte, wife of the late Represeatative from Louisiana.