Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 3, 1913, Page 1

% PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOu\Y"N IN THE 55 MEN 1 POL INTERIST IN NEW YORX’S ELECTION New York, Nov. 3.—From the ar-; {rangements made by newspapers and! political organizations throug hout| the country to secure early returns! of the mayoralty election in this ci'.yI tomorrow, it is certain that unusual interest centers in conditions in the IERAPOLIS \ {ERS II-I" IMIDATE STRIXE EREAXERS AND ALL CARS ARE TESERTED i I £ Men Will Guard Streets To- | ight While Police Protect | Street Car Property (By Associated Press.) jndianapolis, Nov. 3.—No street ars moved up to noon here today. | fMhe cars are standing on the street orners deserted, as the police can't | e with the strikers. Strike brcnlv' remained in the barns intimidat- | by a crowd of strikers outside. hundred business and profes- | nen were sworn in as deputies | guard the streets tonight while police prevent the destruction of t car property. A colleze presi-. et is one of the deputies. I's BIG MILITARY TOURNEY New York, Nov, -All the meth- {Kis of modern w .\rmro will be shown p the public by regular soldiers, sail- | and militia at the military tour- ament which opened here today at dison Square (iarden, to continue: or a week, under the auspices of the | Bilitary “thletic Lea~ue. There will e twelve distinet military features fekine in the infantry, calvary and elid artillery of the United States the naval militia, the national | the Roy Scouts of America, to- W with drills and exhibitions by lice and departments as y auxiliaries President \Vil- ; been invited formally to open ich will have for jecretary of War | and Secretary of the Navy Many of the hizhest officers nd navy will be pres- Tn connection with the tourna- ot there will he a huge camp in v detachment of resular sol- fers will live as in war time with itehens and tents open ta visitors Y desire to know how an army is pd and Xkept in a sanitary campaion, | fire Te army ing the actnal use of field ar-! gung and hich ilitery rifles. There will be advances and re- antrenchments will be thrown | nd trerches du~ in an :\rtif‘vinli e veo of the searchlizht in 1 be fully demonstrated. The reed to detail | y aviators with their ma-| ] 't the tournament. A land- o stace has heen built on the roof and the army airmen fi!! corrry meseaves between the ment, Governor’s Ieland, Fort proilton, and other fortified | fa cs around New York. They will auiek firine charges, the arden, e the | metropolis. 'and others agzainst the A. C. L. jerecting a freight statfon on the site | tions at practically the same fizures: {offered by the road have now been oltained and are in the hands of the|® (officials, While it is generally le- lieved that Judge MecCall will go down to defeat, because of his 2850~ | ciation with Tammany Hall, being 'the nominee of Charles . Murphy's organization, among the last-Min-| ute reports being circulated today is one that Tammany has a coup in re-| serve that will change the tide of sentiment. Collector of the Port! John Purroy Mitchell, Fusion uoml-! nee opposing Judge MecCall, is PV-i r\ectinz to carry New York city by| 10“,000 majority. Old politicians say ! that they do not remember an elec-i‘ tion in many years when there was so little Tammany money as in this year's betting. Whatever may he' Ithe fate of Willlam Sulzer, the im-| | peached governor, his revelations in‘ his fisht for election to the l\secm-‘ bly, have been damaging to Tam-| many. NIUNGTION AGAST A G. L AND CITY Another lnjumion has been filed T. B. Hendrix, W. D. \hll.mi Rail- | road to prevent the company from | by proposed. land is also made a party to the s ‘ It is understood that a hearing will} Le had bLefore Judge Whitney prob- ably on Wednesday. Work was to have been resumed on! 1 ations for the erection of Hu‘* freioht station this morning, but was helil up by this injunction. The City Council of Lake- N Meantime throneh the oflices of the |© Poard of Trade and others interested, ‘ have been sccured on prop- with al options crty west of Florida avenue, !view to inducinz the railroad to lo- cate the LHlmu there, thus eliminat | ing the ne y of severaladdition 1 tracks acrosg Florida avenue. TI was the site orizinally preferred h\' the company, but the owners of prop- erty there held it at such a price that | the proposiion was passed up. Op-! and it may be this vexed | question may bhe settled by this| method. C00D RCATS ASSOCIATION TO MEET NOVEMBER 13 The Lakeland Partow and Mulber- ry Good Ronds Aesociotion will hold their recular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 2 p. m. at the residence of Mr. Georze W. Peterkin, at Lake- land Dighlands., We hope that our members and neizhbors from every section and IAhLLAND FLOHIDA OIS HURDER GASE UP FOR TRIL ROV, § 7. R. DAVIS AND SON SON, OF BARTOW, T0 FACE TRIAL IN CIRCUIT COURT Are Charged With Murder in First Degree for Death of Aged Ne gro Several Ilonths Ago Bartow, Fla., Nov. 3.—Circnit ond week of the fall term, tnd the al docliet will be 1t wag thouzliv on the first day of the cri taken up. term that the docket, both civil and criminal, would le in two weeks, but now it appears that the better part of three weeks will be consumed in clearing the docket. On Fiillay and a part of Saturday the cage of State vs. James \\'oodsou oceupied the time of the court, J:unr‘s Woodson Leing a nearo indieted for rape upon one of his own race. The «l'in'n occurred in Lakeland. The \(r«h.t was not gnilty, but there is nother indictment for a like crime inst the defendant upon which he will likely have to stand trial at this Iterm. On § | State Brantly was tnvd the in® negro women chare larceny . 1liza Sallie was convicteid, At the becinning of the term the attorneys for J. R. Davis, who w {indicated at the last term of the cir- it court for murder in the second tozether with old, filed a plea in abatement stating that the indictment 2s to J. R. Davis {hiid the name wrongz, and the tate attorney, J. B. Singletar, teil the matter acain to t iury and on Saturday a new nt was returned charzing with murder in afternoon the case of John and Sallie defendants he- red with arand acquitted, but .mn.lu\ VS, wo dearee, his son I!lar- €0 indict- 1 Leth de- { fondants the first degree., trial for Wednesday of this weelr, arid it bids fair to be a very hard fourht e, L G, Jolinson: and J, W, ady represent the defendants, The crand jury will finish its la- i 405 OF [y Lakeland, H'\ Adionrned seesion of Hn‘ City cil with Messrs, Munn, Pill Haynes and Rigeins present. The report of the sanitary com- mittee relative to bids on the street | bors today. PROCEED I LU 3. 0ct. 8 Corn- Pope, on scouting expeditions and will jcit}‘ alike, will yield us their moral |gweener, sprinkler and dump box was onstrate the nse of the new wire- iport at the ahove meeting, and accepted and they were anuthorized constructed for use on aeroplanes { help us devise ways and means of [to purchase same from the Studebak- P fliont . Junt:; I b- revealed to the publie. The | gails will be officially announced | Jn a few days. The object of | tonrnament is to give to the pub- detailed knowledee of the orza-| tin for war and the technique | & mclern campaion., | chunp|p i g PSSOV TRST A {By ited Press.y Nov. 3.—The government’s International here today in | United States court, final argu- its in the case beinz filed more n a year azo were heard, Attor- Ceneral McReynolds and his as-| nts representing the government. | p Harvester company has on hand | ormidable array of counsel, Al ef filed by the government allezes | t the company controls 80 perfi t of the agricultural machinery inecs in the United States. The orney general is determined that re shall be no such outcome as in A Esne ter C ! n i | Standard Oil dissolution, but he |been taken by the referee in New ghes actual dissolution and lskl t no two parts of the company under control of the common ckholders. The brief declares that e Harvester Co. was not a normal elopment, but was formed to de-|Cormick, George W. Perkins and mow busily engaged in competition. the military side of aviation |y lai ‘numir duy. ihen | men! | i s. GEORGE HAMMERSTROEM, Secretary. THAW MAKING ARD FIGHT FOR LIBERTY (Ny Associate Press.) Convord, N. H,, Nov. 3.—A final| rief in Tiarry Thaw’s fizht azainst »utradition was filed with Governor I'olker todlay. The brief states that the !.:\\~ of New York were violated in obtaining the indictment ag Thaw and that requisition w made in good faith. The acti | William Traverse Jerome was at- | d and the brief declares it in- ited a personal purpose not con- nt with the simple discharge of 1 HAPVLSTER HEARING St eir ‘linn., Nov. 3.—Judge| anhorn, of the U. 8. rlans to give the final iments in the govern- diesolution of the In- vester Company, to- Voluminous testimony has ternati day. York, Chicago, Kansas City and St. Pau‘ The suit Is directed against| twenty-four subsidiary companies| and indlviduals as defendants, ln-[ cluding Charles Deering, Cyrus Me-| Norman B. Ream. ! Florida to Maseachusetts avenne, | tueky {the east end of Walnut street. For the first time in this|golving the problems which confront |er firm. Buflding permit was granted to D, B. Dickson to erect a brick honse on lot “B", block 19 of Munn’s survey; and W. A. Cox was granted a per- mit to raze the old buildinz, Assessments on Massachusetts, l\muurlw and Tennessee Avenues were referred to the city attorney for his opinion, as to different widths at eame aseessment, Asseesments on ! Temon street from Florida to Masea- Ok from and Walnut street from Florida to Ten- ave chusetts avenne, street pesgoe nne were made, for the amonnts acenseed azainst the . abutting property were ordercd exe- On motion the board of hond trus- {ters were ordered notified of the pro- "test of the City Conncil arainst the o, ete., on the south end of Ken- and Tennessee avenues and on The recistration books were re- | vised according to provisions of ordi- nance. Petitlon of J. M. Critten- iden was granted provided he keep the wazon on the same spot. Petition for lowering license on circus was on motfon denfed. Clerk was instructed to draft reso- !lution inviting the State Federation of Women’s Clubs to convene here in 1914, On motion Council edjourned. H. L. SWATTS, City Clerk. L ourt met this worning for the sec- | This cage has been set for S and liens , I e 10X DAY NOV. 3, 1913 fORiLIY | HEW GONES 10 EAD JALL AND "IT(.}' WILL TRY CONCLUSIONS IN ELEC TION 1'01 T0RROW Publis} ~c\1 Letters Slow Up Bad for McCall; Sulzer Speaks Tonight (By Associated Press. York, Nov. .-—The bitter ty campaign in New York city to u close with the cle ingz speeches tonight. The voters to- morrow will decide whether lidward | 1. MeCall, Tammany candidate, or| John Purroy Mitehell, Fusion naml- nee, will be mayor. William .‘»n]/vr the deposed governor, today licled letters purporting to show tlmt McCall offered to have Murphy nlol thie impeachment trial if Sulzer ald support his mayoralty ?Sfl i i\ ¢ i e LL . | Which ma; draws the campein for the assembly nicht. ile has declared that life has been threatened if he speaks. to- BLT TE STILWELL SWURL PARDON T0 IN Tr Y *~Sr ] (By Associated Press Albany, Nov. —E. C. the Salzer impeachment committee, will be heard in the investigation of the ctfort of Former State Stilwell to obtain a pavdon, Sulzer ! may be called as witness. John len ne the er graft m\«wllx.llm the char that Stilwell of- to expose Tammouny methods if pardon Stilwell who term graft L) o 3. Sonator Su o 1 il wonld serving a on a GHT 'S DA ER IS 18 St. Pot Grand Duehess urg, Nov, 3.-—The Olea, ellest danchter Czar Nicholas and the ('zarina of Voesia, is eighteen years old today. i are being held 1 churches in honor of the md many festivities have been planned at the Winter Palace. It is expected that ement Lo Crown Prince Charles f Rumanis will be announced in conneetion with the day's zaieties. THD 17D Whe bieh W it (By Aflst,vl.lled Press.) Tartfordl, Conn., Nov, 3 re killed, three another seriously injured early to- when the cide of a four-story storchonge collapsed, crashing of celebrations event anen 0 .—Two we dey bri through an adjoining recidence. The! swuer of the storehouse declared that the Luilding was dynamited, but the lire department said it was of faulty construction. were sleeping in the residence. OCALA MOURNS TRAGIC DEATH O0F TWO0 YOUNG MEN Ocala, thorough der the Nov, Despite the most investization possible un- cirenmstances the exact of the terrible automobile ac-| ident whieh resulted in the death r:l’ David S. Williams, Jr., and Al- fred P. Smith, Saturday nicht, not heen determined. Their machine ntly turned over on them le they nine at rapid speecid t drick road about three iles from town. The Yyounz men caizht by the runninz board their necks broken. their death for they ninent and popular. e Ke mi and monry both pr were ITYSTERIOUS LOSS OT $4.000 BY STATION AGENT o Pensacola, Nov. ‘\‘mn railway at Gonzalez, near here, reported yesterday that he had been irobbed of or lost $4,000 of the com- pany’s money, as a result of which Pinkerton detectives have been sent {for. Wilder states that he does not {from his pocket while he was going lhome or whether he was robbed dur- ing the night. He had collected the Today | pub-! fight. | will make his final speech in | his| Poe, of | announcement of her)| L HELL fatally hurt and The dead and injured | has All Ocala |t 3.—R. P. Wild-! er, agent for the Louisville and Nash-! {know whether the money was lost | BEST PA \T ()F 'iH ey No. 2, 5 g TEVTIG i . iIST OF DELEGATES FROM THE VARIOUS CHURCHES; MANY OTHLRS ! CE COURT RLVERSES POLK COUNTY casz f}{| il 4l Nov. 3.—Foll vaea the Supreme |Ceurt of Florida has handed down a i bateh of decisions and amonz them | the ving important case from Tallaha the su mmer tion, ] f | Polk county: Standard ration, ¥ . i Phosphate 1 Pho Company sphate g intills iul A dant in | in error-—Polk Trial u)mt }I'-‘\-'r:(‘(l. county. — 1 e seman Scott Ferris, of thu;:‘-s“rfdfly Was a Exg Day; Large ma district, was born on | Neosho, Newton | ated from the county hich school, 18¢ 17,‘ jand from the Kansas City School of | |Law, 1901; has practiced law con- "tinuously since, 1901; is married 'm(l has served in the vl.v,“l.nuuw of Ok- | lahon Was elected to the Sixtieth unn. 1d hag been re-elected to leach succeeding session. Crowds Fresent at .\ ov i Sessions connty, Sunday was a big day at the Ad- | ventist camp in Patterson’s park. At 11 o'clock i21d. Montgomery preached a stirring sermon on “I'he Return of Jesus.” At 2:30 in the afternoon a large audience gathered to hear the |interesting temperance program, Sevs eral excellent speeches were made, Anl Mont mm-ry spoke on ‘‘Bible Bt BWEN IEG WJ VN l,(m acre spoke i 1 Another | Newton on "l‘ln- l~ vils of the dLiquor Traffic.” At the close of his address the fol- {lowinz resolution was unanimously lA)“lll\f., { uml rehearsal 'adonted by the large audience: was held by the minstrel club of tlle‘3 Whereas, the liquor traflic is a J.llu. nd Lodse of Klks at the club. curse to soiiety, a nursery of crime, 41“ s Thursilay night, in prepara- | a menace to h uman lilerties and can ‘nun for the first annual Elks’ min- unly bring sorrow, gisgrace, debauch- L5t show, to Dbe given at the ery, immorality, and ruin to the in- ‘uditorium on bee. 2. 'This is the!nocent posterity of the devotees at id:m: which has decided ummjllm altar of Bacchus, therefore for the first appearance of the Resolved, that we pled:e ourselves f\‘.‘m‘hl‘.&. Greatest All-Star Great and to co-operate with cvery purely tem- HON Ve S s-Continental 121 Min- | perance movement to eradicate the W'ln‘! Acgresation, and every Elk in manufocture and gale of liquor for e lodae bending every effort to-| promiseucus v and that we will : the first show a “hum- to do this by ovr pens, voices, whenever we have an op- i ! | rel been o strive and v meeting of portuni At b Followiny the regular e lodge, thi t! L those members whose ex- 7 histrionie, voealizine and ence n obility entitled them in the forth-com- “Ig t! fore2athered under! Near 'ully five handred and baton of ent at this ser sor Charles I1. Barr and M 8 T(,(]y er of record 6 o'clock this morning of Newark, N, J At 0 est andi- meeting thus far L. Lot B }0 Dy m, the larg durine P to hear lecture on the subjeet: the sont terysicl Wit to prominent place ine " the stern tlierr Proles vent to it. that more welkins during performance vere pres- eve magic Q. \t Smith, votional Eld. , led the de- I)ld Long- Pducation- con- It is a ma were made Lo ring this rehearsal than have ever rung in Lakeland before. The an address on have struck their stride and in both al Work.” The Conference choius and solo wc are rapidly i vened at 11 o'clock. ttine into the professional class, i Meoti io Among the several features decid- At 7:5’.1;}?3};?)}? ;rfi]l“ol]‘it ed upon in conncetion with the min-! will + k on “The Siing Times ervice, boys acre pave % k T. Nash of the strel show, Wuring the business meet- in: of the lodze, were a souvenir | proorem, which will be one fo the | beet piceces of typozranhical work ned out in dakeland and, in laddition to carryinz the complete record of the performance will also Mitehell, have a large number of advertise- | ma-—C. L. ments. Mabel G, Stych, J. | The of theater accommo- Fort Ocden—Mrs. idations, ticket sales, etc., will be in Mrs. Ora Walker, M the hands of a special committee, tin, Mrs. Austelle, This mingtrel thow will be the first linesworth public appearance of the Lakeland Gainesville--R, |Lodee of [N1ks and the members pro- | Mary E. Iarold, poge to make it one of the bhigeest ris. hits ever recorded by a local amatenr, Jacksonville—Mrs, Mildred Pa- prodiction. Only members of the hor, James Tannchill, Mrs, N. K. | Lakeland Lodge, or resident Flks,!Tullinger, C. A. Straun, W. B. | will participate, but it will be “some Straun, E. A. Parker, Mrs. E. A. show."” |I’||hvr Samuel Fenters, Miss Mary l‘!laden, Mrs. J. L. Shuler, Mrs. Sar- {ah Dichardson. CURRENCY BILL FRST il oAYS PRES. WILSON iami (By Hl lnl Partridge. Warl dent tof Delecates from the Churches Brooker--\ .. Litehfield. Lakeland- 4 Pishop, fever tu J John iim Mitehel arvey, Miss D. lleacock. C. V. Smith, W. I. Mar- Miss Klsie Hol- matter D A Mrs, Har- . Highsmith, Mrs. N. R. I". Jones, Miss Ro- 0. Hickok, Mrs. C. O. s Lillian Hickok, Clyde Orlando—B., W. Snire, Mrs. Mary (Continued on Page 8.) PROMIUENT MENT PICKER DIED Assoclate Pres ton, Nov. ~—The id that he wo mend any anti-trust le intil the c bill is pa aim he said is to keep the bill the t. lain thoug ha presi- ly ¢ d not cor irreney I“MY center ulvx:w‘w"» “'Un h that h ited Press.) ~-dward Mor- of the most prominent meat in the world, died here to- after.a long illness. His fcr- ne is estimated at from thirty to He was o son of Nel« son Jlorris, a ploneer nacker nite | : close (By Ass LAY Chicago, Nov, 3. to the lieat s opnosed to the n for banks in the measure, instead of twelve 1ally planned, e feels the chan<e would alter the fundamentals| of the bill. He will continue to| stand firm for the Glass bill. CUSTOMS COLLECTORS MEET 9 is, one r resional reserve 2 fifty millions orici (By Asso I.nm» Montzomery 0O'Neal is considerin |ed States senat of Henry New York, Nov. 3.—Secretary of D. Clayton, cong: vho relin- the Treasury McAdoo is here today quished the appointment, He wants for the purpose of holding a confer- the United States Senate to decids ence with collectors of customs from | finally how a successor to the late all parts of the country over lm-|8enalor Johnson should be made. proved methods In customs adminis-| tration. 1t is expected that the con- $6.) —Jovernor ng a Unit- Miami i3 making great plans for The settlers at Crystal Springs are large sum during the day in private|ference will recommend varicus re-| the resatta to be held there Jan. 8 | T A PRI S ST AL preparing accounts, and placed it in a largelforms In the interests of economy and 10, and in connection Wwith the ! their newly-cleared lans dfor chops. purse for safe-keeping. mid-winter festival, :md efficlency .