Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 20, 1913, Page 1

PUBLISHED IN THE ggsy ER DOES COGNIZE THI §TATEMENT DENYING EE HAD EVER LOOKED GLYNN AS GOVERNOR will Not Go Near Capitol 2 Unless Proven Guiltless i Impeachinent Charges py Associated Press.) oy, Sept. 20.—With im- ent court over Sulzer ad- over today, there is little about the capitol. Most of ncipals in the trial are out sulzer has apparently ped his claim on the govern- and no further trouble on ore is expected. In a letter gy e i executive, which statement pe situation. Sulzer has not the capitol for two days, and id he will not return there the court acquits him. pzer Denies Statement (By \ssociated Press.) by Sept. 20, -—Sulzer today iis action of yesterday which recognized Glynn as said he did not. JI bl M NEWS AND GOSSIP Yori. Sept. 20.—New York its other interests today in The death of May- Gaynor on the steam- ltn while on his way to Eu- s a shock from which the city recover soon, and this shock nlivened ions for his funeral. Of he public spirited man thinks political effect of the death ¢ Gaynor on the mayoralty u, for he was nominated on dent ticket just a day or so e sailed. The general be- at as a result of the mayor’s e anti-Tammany forces will e city election in November. avenment pal interest is manifested in ¥'s new mayor, Col. Adolph e, chiefly because of the fact is a Republican. In a half New York has had only four 41 mayors: Mayor Héave- Who was elected after the exposure Mayor Strong, fter the Lexow committee’s i Mayor Seth Low, elected fe Mazet committee's and Potter's individual exposures rtnership between the police tized vice and crime in lavor Kline is the fourth Re- 10 fill the office. He is fif- frs old, a native of New Ud the son of a soldier of dcestry. He has qualities fake those who know him or him a splendid record e short term he will serve 8 chief executive. tFUNERAL | GINOR ToY 'v. Assoclate Press. ) ‘,Srk' Sept. 20.—Close ' late Mayor Gaynor as- " the Gaynor home today | . M'¢ funeral of New :a "‘;l'nti\'e. The body - Ve A‘late today to the fre it will lie in state | Y Morning, Services to- ,h‘:"’ "d by Rev. Frank L for rlose T PARDONS MEETS TUESDAY | r; \‘“'!v 20.—On next b, D€, Sept, 28, the|! "“Vd will begin its T pardons coming | recognized Glynn as| today in the final' for the consideration | INVEN’IORY OF ALL U S POST- oo TS PLANG (20 PASSENGERS of tdkmg a0 inventory of the entire mail equipment of the United States bostoflice department will be under- taken—anq accomplished—at poop Saturday, Sept. 20, according to ip- structions issued h) the fourth as- sistant Dostmaster general, ceived here, The chiet clerk of the Jacksonville division said the order means exactly what it says; i that the inventory is to be .1kon4(m every mail car, terminal office, lofice and warehouse of the Uniteq | States governme nt at exactly 12 o'clock on the day specified. There is little idea in the minds of the ge n- | eral public of the vast quantity of equipment required to handle the | mails of this country, and that it can be handled and accounted for | and a record made of it in the short | while allowed by the official order seems surprising to all, The organ- ! ization of the postoffice department is little short of marvelous, and that the work will be accomplished at the time specified, and accurately, the officials have no doubt The work of listing every artiele of equipment in the mail service will be accomplished without any delay to the ordinary handling of ¢ mails en route or in and re- | the postoffices BAVAMS AEtAN S ONTRGE Lt (By Assoclate Press.) Washington, 20 The tar | 1T conference committee today voted { to leave bananas on the free list The Senate amendment had imposed Sept | a rate of a tenth of a cent per pound. Senate conferees the duty on lemons and limes. On | similar fruits it was decided to leave the rates ag fixed by the House, It decided to drop the also gave way on was definitely proposition to levy duty on wock pulp. a countervailing (By Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 20.—The con- ference committee today continued the analysis of the tariff bill to de- termine whether the duties had been cut too low to meet the needs for the government revenue. Chairmap Simmons, of the Senate conferees, held that the income tax is still adequate, but several representatives on the committee felt that the Sen- ate amendments had cut it beyond the point of safety. BISHOP GRAY'S VISITATION ! The Right Rev. William Crane (iray, bishop of the Missionary jur- isdiction of Southern Florida, will hold service in All Saints church this (Saturday) eveninz at T:30 i After this service there will be a meeting of the congregation rels tive to the calling of the new rec- | tor, who is expected to arrive next Wednesday . i Owing to the death of the Rev. W. W. DeHart, rector of St. An- drew's, of Tampa, the morning ser- vice on Sunday will not be at 10:50 as previously announced, but at some earlier hour to be announced by the bishop at the Saturday eve. Bishop Gray will leave on ain on Sunday for Tam- will conduct the fu- the late rector of service. the noon tr, pa, where he neral services of St. Andrew’s. The schools savings bank sys.em | is to be establishcd in the schoo Miami and it impresses us as o n | ildr | a zood thing to teach the children | ! to save their dimes, nickels and pen- nies. | | e e | TAKE CHARLTON TO COMO Milau, —Porter Charl- | ton, the charzed | with the mur ‘ Como in 1910, and v sent back to the Unitec | stand trial for the cri to ( % | just ret is und i lk:»' lw » will tell the ha Liha his trial and .. "¢ sccretary of the | the jury 2t ',I‘ SesTERT :”"’1» <tere is an un- | A0 "””"M}“‘ : > Lmb" of applicants, | Stances are “ad" the board possibly | i it 75 to hear and con- ¢ et George W. Jones, one 0 5 oug jewfish v “mpkln vine growing in | a few days ago. b - T. Walker in Or- r:"’ 125 pumpkins In | t has been planted. | funt 7 feet 3 inches. caught an enorn Beach, He had to call in The fish weighed d it. help to lan aod measured nearly 500 pounds 0 IEFEASE CONPLETED post- | EVERYTHING NOW READY FOR THAW'S HEARING BEFORE | GOV. FELKER TUESDAY | ARSI 1 Latter Says He Will Enter the Case With Hands Free; Denies Reports Made I (By Associate Press.) Concord, N. H., Sept. 20. —Plans | for the defense of Harry K. Thaw at the extradition proceedings were | completed this morning, and only await the approval of his mother, who is expected to arrive later to- day. Thaw is anxious to explain to liis family the reasons for placing the matter entirely in the hands of the New Hampshire counsel. Gov- | vrnor Falker issued a statement de- ! nying the report that he is inclined to set Thaw free so that the matter ! would be up to the federal courts. | ¢ siadd he would approach the hear- | 12 With a perfectly free hand GEORGIANS CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM FLORIDA ! Wi b Rang col Quitman, Gal, recently visited South Florida and in writing of his trip he says: “Never having seen these Florida ora s my curiosity was on Keen ¢ all the time and it cer- tainly impresses one as the train rolls throush the numerous pros- perous towns with their paved streetg, cemented sidewalks, white- ways and surronnded with orange sroves, some of the trees so heavily weighted that they had to be |\|'u||»‘ ped up with sticks The effect is fuscinating and makes a Middle (eorgia man almost blush to think | that these Florida towns should be so far ahead of them in civic im- | provements that they would do well | to take the next excursion and |r':u'n: something. | | WARFAEIN DOMINGD 5 N0 OVER (By Associated Press.) | New York, Sept. 20. —-An agree- | ment to suspend warfare in Domin-' izo has been reaclied by the revolu- leaders, according tionists’ to dispa from Puerto Plata The agreement is the result of pro- posals by James M. Sullivan, the American consul. L & N. HAS WITH- DRAWN PETITION st Pensacola, Sept. 20 The Loui ville and Nashville railroad which, petition in the for an on Monday filed a United States court asking injunction directed to all state's at- torneys in West Florida and the at- torney general of the State, restrain- ng lilf'!ll from enforcing the new w requiring that all locomotives equipped with headlizhts of not 000 candlepower bril- i ¢ than 15 liancy, withdrew the petition and tified the State officials of this ac- tior EIGHT VOPE GA\TE w ARDEIVS APPOINTED additional appointments of I wardens besides those have heen State game these recent s follows Levy coun- Madison fourteen State ¢, tax collector of 1enly strick- F. Waltor s sud Daval county en i1l a few days ago, at Green (‘m'e Springs. A physiclan Wwas called Jacksonville and Mr Rast from was taken to his home in that city. ; e states that he will pick at least | anges LAKELAND, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1913. HURT [N BIG WRECK TODAY COACH, nm:n WITH PASSEN- GERS, TURNED OVER THREE TIMES DOWN EMBANKMENT | One Passenger Probably Fatally In- jured; Wreck Due to a | Defective Rail (By Associated Press.) Manhattan, Kan., Sept. 20. Twenty passengers were injured, one probably fatally, in a wreck on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific road near here early today. The eastbound passenger was derailed, one coach rolling down a twenty- toot embankment. 1Tt was a com- bhined baggage and smoking car and | the smoking compartment was filled with passengers. 1t turned over three times. A defective rail is said to have been’ the cause. GRAPEFRUIT READY TO EAT Kissimmee, Sept. 20. - The grape- fruit crop in this section seems to this several hun- colored have matured earlier season than usual, a salready dred boxes have sufliciently to let it pass inspection, and ship- pers state that it is suftliciently ripe | to eat. Yesterday \. W. Law,| manager of the Erskine Heights farm, shipped fifty boxes, and Il.l It. Overstreet, who purchased tllr\_‘ Katz and the grapefruoit from the grove of J. M. Lee, began picking Wednesday and expeets to hip two carloads this afternoon. ’ Mr. Overstreet has rented the Neim- Roberts Luilding in the western part of the city alongside the Midland railway and converteil it into a first class packing house. crove of M. ver and 1,100 boxes of grapefruit from the Lee grove and 2,500 from the Katz grove, besides 1,000 boxes of ore WOULDZHILL ALL SIGK!AND GRIPPLED (By Assoclated Press.) York, Sept. 20 All death filed since the first of today to New cortificates the year were examined Schmidt the ascertain whether Ians harl murder of other persons besides Anna had prepared certificates for ac- forged papers to conceal \umuller. Schmidt confessed that he counting for the death of persong he purposed to kill for their own good. Ile said he believed he would paln- | lessly end the lives of crippled and ck persons. AGED 100, WEST FLORIDA WOMAN DIES Mrs. M. Beal, aged 100 years, died early vesterday at her home near Ferry Pess, and the remains | were interred yesterday afternoon | it the Whitmire cemetery, in 'hr-: perry Pass section. Four or five cons survive her, the oldest of whom | passed his 55th birthday anni- versary. The cause of Mrs. Beal's th wae ziven as senility, and her ¢ at the even century mark, on burial certifieate which was on at Pon’ tahles yesterday. *ith one excoption this was one of oldest white persons known to lived in West Florida. Fardly ynth passes but what some ne- ro centenarian’s death is reported, nd one is now sgaid to be alive in ity wio c'zims to have been | vears old thr years 2go The ly other te person known to assed century mark quite tly died wweral years o in R down ir he 3 heing a man le at the Work is almost finlshed installing electric light wires in Inverness | and in a few days more the current | will be turned on the town from the .mp Power company's big plant on | the Withlachoochee river open soll championship over larry Vardon, and Edward Ray, English Cprofessionals The score was: Ouimet, 72; Vardon, 77; Ray, 79 Cwas a warm and spirvited legal bat- Cin Cireuit {wet and dry contest in Dade county, {and when the firing ceased and the | tain and at the Mammoth Cave, re- TOWN lN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE No. 269. GRANDMOTHFR OF WRONGED GIRL WRITES LETTER Jacksonville, Sept. 20.-—-Word was received yesterday by Chief of Police Roach from Chief J. A. Beav- ers, of Atlanta, in a telegram, ex- pressing the sincere feeling of an elderly lady in Atlanta in regard to her granddaughter, who is beins held in this city awaiting a hearing in the charge of white slavery, held against Fred Sims, a well known young man of Atlanta, arrested on Tuesday with the girl, whom he is| alleged to have induced to come to Jacksonville. The telegram states that the fecble old lady is without any means to prosecute the case of white slavery charge acainst the young man who is said to have in- fluenced the young girl, but hopes that he may be given the fullest extent of the law on the charge agzainst him. The appeal on the part of the grandmother of the girl is pa- thetic throughout and has taken great weight with the authorities who have the case in hand. The case against Sims will be given a preliminary airing next Tuesday be- fore the federal authorities, and the girl, whose name is withheld, will appear as the prin('lnul witness. B[ISTDN PLATER WS OVER ENGLISH (By Associated Press.) Brookline, Mass., Sept. 20. IPracicis Ouinmet, of Boston, won the | THAT DADE COUNTY WET OR DRY ELECTION WILL BE HELD Jucksonville, Sept 20, There tle fonght out to a finish yesterday Court chambers by at- torneys before Judge Simmons in a smoke cleared the banner of the drys waved in triumph over the van- quished. It was the motion of Na- than A. Cole vs. the board of coun- ty commissioners of Dade county to dissolve the injunction granted last Saturday by Judge Simmons to re- strain the respondents from ordering an election be held to decide wheth- er or not liquor shall be sold in the The injunction was dis- solved at 12:20 p. m. The grounds for the petition to dissolve were that twenty-five per cent of the qualified olectors of Dade county had not signed the petition for an election, a5 is required by law; that the coun- ty commissioners refused to consid- o the affidavits the forged names on the petitions, and that the commissioners had refused to con- sider the petitions of persons who hael gigned and desired to have their names erased therefrom. The at- torneys for the commissoners con- tended that there was not sufficient proof that twentyfive per cent of the qualified voters were not on the pe- tition. The other statements of the petitioner were denied, and consid-: erable authorities were quoted and a stack of affidavits were read. county. as to Bevis has returned to ! Dr. W. M. his duties in the office of superin- tendent of public instruction. Hej and Mrs. Bevig spent their vacation | in Nashville, Tenn., Lookout Moun- turning to Lakeland, their former home, for a visit. Mrs. Bevis is spending a while longer in Lakeland “Tallahasse Note in with friends Times-T'njon. 20Y SCOUTS OF AMERICA LOCAL COUNCIL ORGANIZED The following eitizens of Lake- and have been named and will con- | stitnte the local council of Boy Scouts at Lakeland, Fla B W Deen, Jobn F. Cox, G. B. Murrell, LR fayes, D. B. Dickson, H. I 7. Eaton, M. F. Hether- » first part of October n will be held under of this council for couts of all the pres- Troope No. 1 of ent 1eaucrfoot of Lakeland About the same time an examina- tion will be held of worthy boys of above the age of twelve lakeland rs who may apply to become tenderfeet. | KELSEY BLANTON, | Scout Master | examination of PRESIDENT GIVES 0B 10 WIFE OLD FRIEND WAIVES ALL CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS AND PUTS HER IN GOV'T SERVICE Says She Needs the Money; Lots of Folks Suffering With Her Complaint (By Assoclate Press.) Washington, Sept. 20.-—Mrs. Annie S. Rennick, daughter-in-law of President Wilson's former Atlanta law partner, has been appointed by the president to a $1,000 position in the State department. The president vaived the civil service regulations in order to make the appointment. Mrs. Rennick needed the place and Wilson said her necessity was suf- ficient . PENSACOLA DOCTORS VOLUNTEER TO INSPECT SCHOOL CHILDREN THERE Sept. 20 A medical examination of all public school pu- pils of Pensacola i8 to be made when the schools of the city open this month. ‘The offer of members of the Escambia County Medical As- sociation to make these examina- tion free was accepeed at a meeting of the school board last night, llen- ry Borst, Dr. Mallory Kennedy and Dr. [Fellows appearing the members of the hoard Pensacola, hefore board The will co-operate heartily with the physicians and there is no doubt that great good will he accom- plished. The plan is to assign a physielan to a school and let him make a thor- ough examination of all the chil- dren in that school, keeping a card index system showing the defects. This is being done in all of the large cities of the country, and when it is taken into consideration the number of minor defects that are brought to light, defects though ap- parently trivial, that retard the child in its studies, the people of Pensacola and the physicians of the medical soclety are to be congratu- lated upon this advanced step for te betterment of public health, There is nothing compulsory about the examination, but in no city is it on record where a child has re- fused to be examined. The casual numerous defects, tonsils, adenoids, heart, lungs, ete., which ghow up in other cities and which were foupd in the examination of just one grade examined in Pensacola during the past show the need for such an examination. such as bad teeth, eyes, session, TO HONCR JOHNSON'S MEMORY St. Peter, Minn., Sept. 20.—Cere- monies of dedication, in connection with the unveiling of the monument of John A. Johnson, will take place in thig city tomorrow, the fourth an- niversary of Gov. Johngon's death. ILLIONAIRE RAIL- ROAD MAN DEAD (By Assoclate Presa Montreal, Sept. 20, —(olonel James Ross, a millionaire railroad builder, aged 65, died today of heart digense. 11e had been {11 two weeks. He was prominent in building the Canadian Pacific ITe constructed most of the road throuzh the wil- ss west of Winnipeg and then that rezion derne attempted to settle SZCHENYI IS CO"ING Connt and Countess Laizlo Szchenyi the latter the former Miss (iladys Vanderbilt, sailed for New York today to visit the countess’ mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Their friends declare they are taking the trip to counter- act the rumors recently circulated that the countess is to sue for a di- vorce. The count has lost a million dollars in an unfortunate business enterprise during the past few years, it 18 sald. London, Sept 20 A new heating plant is being im- stalled at the schoo! building in Clearwater