Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 8, 1913, Page 1

D U HONORED 0, FELE } WILL NOW BE TRANS' T0 THE FEDERAL COURTS 'fltj of Habeal Corpus Is Pendmg; . im Federal Court in Thaw’s | s Behalf ) -~tion from the State of New York for' »Harry K. Thaw, fugitive from Mat tewan Insame hospital The case is aow transferred automatically to the! . federal eourts where a writ of habeas | ~eorpus on behalf of Thaw is pend- tm-lns The governor based his decision | s, on' the ‘indlctment returned against —Yhaw in’' New York county charging| T0peonspiracy in escaping from the asy- ng lwm,' Thaw made a sensational cpfiight Aug. 17 and a few days later the B0 Was q_fruted near Coaticook, Can- (By Associated Press.) Concord, N. H., Nov. 8.—Gover- nor Felker today honored a requisi-| ting extradition the gov- the indictment was suf- ‘ —srnor mt o ‘warrant the arrest and| ‘l.llfl the fugitive, but it was not to investigate the mental | 2ligalis hE Wl”, of Thaw or investigate his| r‘lflm 1Lu mity or guilt. Thaw was not ! tppesent when the decision was an- 1sounced . He will remain in the cus- ! 170dy' Of ghe sheriff and United States BENEVOLENCE DAY ce Day will be observed 8t Methodist church to- DOrTOW morning and evening. Thosa —#ho- attend will be asked to con- ' ttribute ta the help of the helpless. | A)Che ‘offerings will be for education, ' help duild churches for poor neo ’lfi—” hnlp furnish preachers to our roor, to support old preachers, wid-| ‘'ws and orphans, and one or two' ther minor causes. Those who have! —uplex envelopes are urged to put a| IY arge comtribution in the red end. " "hose who have not the duplex will "' \ave envelopes furnished them for‘ ! ‘hefr offering. There will be a plate! fl“ ollection, and no one will be urged! nd embarrassed, but all, every one| ANl tho comes, is asked to give some- “li“bing out of a free heart. —— The offering can be made either nulta the' morning or evening. Even| hosq who are not members but ac- —stomed to attend will be appreciat- extd i€ they will contribute. There i3 d Wip Himit to the funds these righteous auses need. -~ Speelal sermons at both services. sev Cordially, I1SAAC (. JENKINS. © .. H.8. DEFEATED i FACULTY TEAM - Ym afternoon the L. H. S. asketball team defeated the faculty " jam by & score of 29-14. The fac- "Ity tea ,flfienslkts of Profs. Farrow, billips and Groom, assisted by B. ''eharg and Nowiln of the second am, and, thouzh defeated, gave the 378 thelr second red-hot game of the s The linenps were as follows: CHB Faculty — .~ Mebarg ... . .C........ Phillips 80¢ L iven .. N el s Farrow i/ felton ... . .L. F.....B. Meharg 4 [et! bn ) ' S L« .Groom oolay @ . Nowlin 5 s Flanagan 2, Owen 1,| b 4B Meharg 2. & S. Meharg 7, Owen 3, Managan 1, Hetherington | ! k Phillips 2. d ps¥s je teams will meet again fay afternoon and an in- ne is assured to all lov- 1 MEETING OF BOARD | ADE TUESDAY NIGHT flar monthly meeting of | r | Trade was held last small attendance,owing Ly he absence of the sport- ere ¥ ; of the Board attending " match down stairs, 1 subjects for discussion ‘Roads Day and the pro- fation of the thirtieth an- he founding of Lake- adjourned meeting wau' _for Tuesday, the 1lth' attendance is looked for,. pements will be perfected‘ essful carying out of g CRUNDAHL Auim PROVEN WINNER The wrestling match held at the Auditorium theater here last night between Tom Dodge, light' heavy- weight champion of Boston, Mass., and George Grundahl, middle-weight champion of Florida, was the best ever seen here. cap match, Dodge being the heavier man, agreeing to throw Grundall twice in one hour. The men wres- tled hard for one hour without a fall, which gave the match to Grundahl, It was a fine exhibition throughout and the large crowd showed that they enjoyed it by their almost con- stant applause during the hour that the match lasted. Both are good imen and put up a fast bout, Grun- dahl doing the cleaner work of the two. Grundahl is well known to the people of Lakeland and he was loud- ly cheered time after time for his clean fast work and for breaking from several dangerous holds. Both men are masters of the wrestling game and the man that throws either of them at his weight will have to be one of the best in the country. challenged Grundahl to a finish match, saying Grundahl was the best man he ever saw in his class. tirun- dahl accepted and was loudly cheered when he did so. The men met this morning and drew up a contract, calling for a match here at the Auditorium the- ater on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 18. This is to be a finish mateh, best two falls in three. Winner to {take all receipts, and loser to pay all expenses. Strangle hold barred, and the first man committing a foul forfeits the match to the other man.,; This will be a great match and no doubt will be well attended. The preliminary match betweon Carter and Hearst was won by Car- ter. He secured the first fall in nine minutes. In the second, Hearst sprained his ankle and was forced to quit, thus throwing the match to | carter. The preliminary match was was called at nine o'clock. Dodge rand Grundahl were introduced to the audience at 9:50 and after a few preliminary remarks were callad to the mat. They got busy at once and the large crowd present were kept worked up with interest, in the hour Taken | of wrestling that followed. |all in all it was a great match, and the finish match between the two men which will be held here on the| 18th, will no doubt draw the largest crowd that has ever attended a match here. LONDON'S NEW LORD MAYOR fLondon, Nov. ed mayor of the city of London last September, position tomorrow, although his dn~I Z\lon-; Special services will be held ties will not commence until day. in all the churches of Londo tomor- row in memory of the late King Ed- ward, whose birthday anniyersary is Nov. 9. Sir Thomas Vansittart Bo- water is the first Lancastrian to at- tain the high position of lord mayor of London. Sir Thomas Bowater i8 a Manchester man. He was born in 1862, and came to London as a young man to enter business. He is now at the head of a large firm of paper makers, azents and merchants. [is rise to the lord mayoralty has been rapid. In 1889 he became a repre- sentative on the court of common | council, and in 1895 was elected sheriff and later alderman. the new lord mayor the order was reversed. He was sheriff first and alderman afterwards. NOVEMBER 8 IN HISTORY 1674—John Milton, the famous English poet, died. Born Dec. 9, 1608. exchanges, born in Paris. Died there April 7, 1864. 1830—General Oliver O. Howard, noted civil war commander, born in Leeds, Me., died in Burlington, Vt., Oct. 26, 1909. , 1864—Abraham Lincoln re-elected president of the United States. 1880—Sarah Bernhardt made her American debut at Booth’s theater, New York. 1885—John E. McCullough, the famous actor, died in Philadelphis. | Born in Treland, Nov. 14, 1832. After the match Dodge! { 8.—Sir Thomas | Vansittart Bowater, who was elect-| will come into his new| Every | lord mayor musthave served as alder- | man and sheriff, but in the case of | | tioned . } 1796—Alexander Vattomare, who; founded the system of international| | haste. VENIN \ LAKEI.AND FLORXDA CAR SERVGE |, AGAIN RESUMED INDIANAPOLI3 SA I LATE YESTERDAY WHICH ENDED STRIKE The Trouble, Which Lasted One Week, Cost Four Lives and 100 Injured (By Associated Press.) Indinnapolis, Nov. 8.—For tie first time in seven days the people of Indianapolis rode to work this morning on the street cars, and the service which was interrupted by the strike has been resumed. of the cars were the motormen and conductors who a week’ ago quit receive a committee appointed to present their grievances. Arbitra- tion was agreed on late yeatordnv | AMERICAN RAILWAY ASSOCIATION MEETING Chicago, Nov. way Association takes place here to-! I morrow at the Blackstche hotel. The association holds two meetings each year, one in New York and one in Chicago, to go over matters of im-' portance relating to railway prob-| lems and suggest reforms in methods of tmnsport'\tlan ATL‘\NTA‘S AUTO SHOW Atlanta, Ga., Nov. nual show of the Atlanta Automo- bile Association opened here today rand will continue for one week. It is one of the earliest of the season's mxhlhitions and the most successful ithat has vet been held in Atlanta. The auditorium is elaborately decor- NOTHING WRONG WITH {space to the following communica- Judge F. A. Whitney,! which sets at rest the rumor that he had decided the charter of this city to be worthless. We were rather of the opinion that he had not been ac curately quoted, and are glad to have from him this confirmation of our judoement. The report was made direct to the Telegram by a | prominent attorney of Bartow, and was cenerally circulated, so we were forced to take cornizance of it, and our publication in regard to it had, tion from at least, the effect of clearing the matter up. Judge Whitney's letter follows: Editor Telegram: [ have never congidered it becoming in me to at- tempt before to correct the erroneous reports of decision had made ana would not do so now except that mv attention was called to a report sup- posed t) have appeared in your col- umns that would, 1 imagine, have a/| very disturbing public effect. I re-| fer to a egnposed decision in an ap- plication for a writ of prohibition azainst the town council seeking to prohibit them from putting in force an ordinance they had passed. The/ decicion was simply that T had no power to interfere with the legisla-| tive functions of your council when | {lawfully employed and I refused the writ. There was no such question‘ ius your charter existence past or| ! present involved in that case, nor l\\'as such a question mentioned or even thought of because no one has ever questioned your past charter | government nor could it be ques-| I have a question now before me involving a complication arising from your recent effort to change your charier government for a com- mission government. That is an en- tirely different case involving the fu- ture and not the past. When I ehall have entered a decree in it I will ve| glad to furnish you accurate ln.'1r~f mation as to it as well a5 my reasons if T can get time to do so in writing, | In charge’ i work when the company refused to! .——-Tho scml-nnA‘; nual meeting of the American Rail-| §.-—The an-' ated in blue and white for the event. | LAKELAND'S CHARTER! The Telegram is pleased to gl\'e;v ‘vm-k, and opened fire on the women | rangement of their names. TURDAY NOV 8, 1913 .15 5T WAITAGFOR HUERTA REPLY BROUGHT TO BEAR ON OFFICIALS sidering the American i Demands (By Associated Press.) Washington, Nov. 8.—Official! circles are silent today as to the | progress in the negotiations in Mex- lico City by John Lind. Charge ,O’Shaughnessy, though, has been in- timating that Huerta took the Amer- :ican demands under consideration. | The United States is awaiting a defi- absolute reply. Diplomatic | pressure is being brought to bear | with a hope for success of the mego- :uatlons nite, ST LOUIS AS SECOND 0 CLASS LINER i i { Southampton, Nov. 8.—The Amer {ican line steamship St. Louis, follow- jing the cxample of the New York, sailed for New York today, with her first class cabin given over to second ulass passengers. This is in keep- ing with the company's decision to devote its ships to the accommoda- tion of spcond clags travelers ex lelusively . { Asgoclated Press.) ! Munich, Bavaria, Nov. 8. -dud wig, the Third, the new king who (displaced the mad King Otto, today took the oath of office. All the princes of the house of Wittelshach, to which the king belones, the Ba varian ministers and deputations i By It Is Intinated That Huerta Is Con:|ing, curbing i and South (from parliament witnessed the cere | mony. | | i WIFE MURDERER 15 NOW IN JAIL (By Associated Press.) | Albany, Ga., Nov. 8.—Miles Cribb, who yesterday killed his mother-in-law, wife and wounded his . wife's sister, is in jail here for safe- keeping. He broke into the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. G. Han- who were at the supper table. His wife died this morning. “ircle of Ladies’ Aid Socicty Had Pleasant Meeting The Southwestern division of the| Ladies’ Aid Society of the First Bap- | tist church met with Mrs. R. K Seipper, chairman of this circle, on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 6, for thel purpose of reorganizing and taklnt:l up the vearly work suspended through summer season. There meet- (ings will be held twice a month at the homes of the different members, according to the alphabetical ar- All the ladies belonging to the] Baptist church and any others inter-| ested In the aid work, living south of the railroad and from the west side of Florida avenue are cordially in- vited to attend these meetings. There being a dozen ladles present the afternoon was very pleasantly and profitably spent in discuseing ways and means, both spiritually and financially, to carry on this great work guccessfully. After delightful refreshments the ladies adjourned to meet Wednesday, Nov. 19, with Mrs. E. C. Angell, 409 South Missouri avenue. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS Lawrence Y. Sherman, the cholce of the Republican party in Illinois to succeed Shelby M. Cullom in the United States Senate, wag born In Mijami county, Ohio, Nov. 8, 1858.‘ Less than a year later he was taken | by his parents to Illinofs, which| State has been his home ever since. | At the aze of 16 he went to work on his father’s farm, and for sev- eral years all the schooling he had was acquired through his own effort and as to any other matter if yoir reporter wishes facts he can readily get them either from the records af- ter I have acted or from me, In F. A. WHITNEY. from books. With money earned by helping his neighbors through the threshing season he was enabled to Htroduced radopted: DFFIGIAL MINUTES OF GITY GOUNGIL Lakeland, Fla., Nov. 5, 1913, Regular session of the City Coun- cil with all members present. On motlon the minutes of Oct. e read and approved. 15 On motlnn the error of frontage property on Lemon strect was or- dered corrected before. certificate was issued for liens thereon for pav- and improving said street. The following resolution unanimously adopted: Be 1t Resolved, That the action of the Council in assessing and order- ing liens placed on property abutting Walnut street be, and the same fis, hereby reconsidered and recinded. Be it further resolved that same be referred to the board of bond trus- tees for correction. The city attorney gave his opinion was Irelative to the assessments made on North Massachusetts and Tennessee avenues on different widths being as- sessed in the same amount per front foot, saying there was no law to pre- vent same, and that there was no ]Inw to p revent sections of the same street from being assessed separate- ly. On motion, Kentucky avenue Tennecssee avenue were referred to the board of bond trus- tees for corrections, as to frontazes and amount assessed per foot. Rep- resenting the Governors of the Board of Trade, Mr. Holworthy asked for disposition of the White Way propo- sition formerly presented by him to| the Council. The light and water committee reported that it could take care of the top lights in the proposed posts, and the finance committee re ported that it would be able in some way to handle the city’s part of fi- nancing it. On motion these committees were instructed to co-operate with the Board of Trade in establishing the White Way. The purchasing agent was author-| ized to purchase a check writer as recommended b ythe light and wa- ter committee. Petition of W. T. Overstreet lot “C” in block 17 of Munn's sur- vey, was granted. The mayor was requested to have the Lakeland Manufacturing Com- pany's smoke stack properly screened against flying cinders, ete., and the| pipe in the laundry of the old Tre- mont House made safe; both having This was a handi-| \RBITRATION WAS DECIDED ON |DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE BEING fof the Witthorne estate and Riggins to! erect a steel garage on the rear of | been declared a nuisance and a fire! menace., The following resolution unanimously adopted: Be it resolved by the City Council | of dakeland that the city engineer he, and Is hereby declared and made inspector of buildings within the fire limits. was Petition of Cardwell & Felgley was | on motion eranted. The following resolution was in- and was unanimously Whereas, notice was given the City Council while in session Nov. 5, 1913, of the death of Mr J. D. O'Hern; and, Whereas, Mr. O’Ifern was candi- date for mayor of Lakeland, and his name withdrawn on account of his seriong {llness; now, therefore BE IT RESOLVED BY THE (ITY COUNCIL. OF THE CITY OF LAKELAND: That the City Council of the eity of Lakeland do deplore his untimely death, and do extend to his wife and family assurance of deepest sympa- thy and condolence. PUBLISHED IN THE EEST 10WN IN Tnehz'-..fés'{fi' RT OF THE BEST STATE TN FOR | | TELEGRAM T \OW CENTE TENTON TWO PROMINENT BARTOW MEN BEING TRIED FOR KILL ING NEGRO The Verdict Will Probably Not Be Reached Much Before Monday Bartow, Fla., Nov. 8.—Practic- ally all of yesterday in the circuit court was taken up with the intvo- duction of testimony in the Davis murder trial, a jury having been se- cured on Thursday night. It is like- ly that the presentation of testimony will be finished today and the case argued and given to the jury, in which case there will in all probadil- ity be a verdict tonight or tomorcow. In this case the following named men are serving as jurors: M. H. Collins, W. R. King, B. P. Cason, A. E. Parker, E. C. Flannagin, Wm. B. Anderson, Kline 0. Varn, E. H. Garland, C. F. Merritt, W, A. Harris, N. Lawler, Jr. The defendants, James R. Davis and son llarold, are being tried for murder, the charge being that omn Jan. 20, 1913, they killed Tom Law, a negro, in West Bartow. Mr. Da- vis lives one miles north of Bartow He is one of the best known farm- H. Booth and W. S. oers of the county, and is a man in good circunmstances. His son is a boy about twenty. vears old or younger. The evidence given by the State’s principal witness, Yorick Law, a brother of the deceased, was about as follows: That on the nizht of Jan. 20, about 7 o'clock, James R Davis and son Ilarold, drove up to Tom Law's gate in Mr. Davis' auto mobile and called Tom out; tnat a quarrel took place at the =ate be- cause the nesro had not worked fer Mr. Davis for the past twe weeks, wag in debt to Mr. Davie and re fused to pay "Yim; that in the quar- rel Mr. Davis struck Law over the head with his nistol, making a bad bruise and causing his head to bleed; that thereupon the Davises followed Law into his yard and just before he reached the door of his house both fired upon him with pis- tols and killed him, the deceased be ing pierced hy five bullets. This witness’ testimony siderably shaken by showing tnat his testimony given on the trial was dif was con ‘In-run[ in mater‘al points from that aiven at the coroner’s' inquest, and in addition several white citizens swore that they would not believe old Yorick on his oath At the adjournment of court y«8 terday afternoon, Mr. Davis was be ing eross examined upon his dirac’ testimony Iis examination will be concluded this morning. Mr. Davis testified in substance as follows: That Tom Law had been employed by him for eizht years, and that he and his family thoucht a areat deal of the old negro and had favored him in many ways; that he went to Law’s houge purely for the pnrpose of finding ont what was the matter with the old man and had not the leagt intention of having any trouble with the man; that being in the habit of bringinz money back from town at nizcht to pay off hands he frequently carries his pistol with him; that after he had called the That these resolutions he entered [negro out to the gata and had fin- on the minutes of the City Council, and a copy be sent to the family. Petition of J. G. referred to the street committee. ished talking with him the negro be- gan to talk insolently to him and McClelland was!abuse him; that he cursed the negro and that thereupon Law drew his Salaries of the city employes were | knife to cut him, and to protect him- ordered paid. Petitlon of August Blewer was re- ferred to the light and water com- mittee with power to act. of F. B. eranter hoar Recommendation m: al v nied. Proposition of D. P. 3 filed for reference. V. Fiske Johnson was or- vered with the assurance th: would be ordered cor- rected. Building permit was granted to Mrs. Lena Smith for house on lot “A” block 8 of Munn's survey. quest of the Ladles Memorial Asso- self he hit him over the head with his pistol; and that then Law went a short distance and got his axe and Petition | was advancing upon him to strike Terrell was, on motion, | him when he and Harold opened fire of thejon the { health was filed for infor-|fizht before the jury will come upon Petition of Guy Sherrod et|this plea of self defense and upom negro and killed him. The the effort of the defense to entirely Com- | break down the State's witnesses. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. B. L. Jennings to Jesse H. Ham- {lton. P. D. Copeland to M. A. Waldo. A. B. Brown to Mrs. Alice T Re- | Smith. L. N. Milam to Charles H. Macon. clation was referred to the cemetery | field. committee with power to act. Bulld- attend McKendree college, where he|ing permit was granted to Bowyer :graduated in law in 1882. (Continued on Page 6.) Geo. E. Southard to W. B. Adsit. Trustees of M. E. church to A. P, Branch, g 3%