Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 9, 1914, Page 1

LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE TEN PAGES .- LAKELAND, FLQRIDA, FRIDAY, JAN. 9, 1914 No. 55 FIVE SHILOR DRONNED TODY FREIGHT CUTTER SWAMPED AND SAILORS WENT DOWN TO WATERY GRAVES Eleven Sailors Were Rescued; De tails of Accident Received Are "Very Meager b (By Associated Press.) Old Point Comfort, Va., Jan. 9. — Five sallors of the flagship Wyom- ing, of the Atlantic fleet, are report- ed drowned as the result of the swamping of the tlagship freight cut- ter today. Eleven of sixteen men on board were rescued by a passing tug. Owing to rough seas only meager de- tafls of the accident are available. FOR DEFRAUDING .. THROUGH THE MAILS Cleveland, Ohio. Jan™ Y. —Postof- fice Imspector Birdscye and Deputy nuUnlted States Marshal Gauchat yes- terday raided the offices of the Cen- A tral Stock and Grain Company, 1212} Engineers building, seized books and papers of the company and arrested | ! MRS. JOHN, PURROY MITCHEL WAS LAST SURVIVING LIEUTEN- ANT GENERAL OF THE CON- FEDERATE ARMY Was Governor of Kentucky Four Years and Prominent in Na- tiona] Politics (By Assoctated Press ) Munfordville Ky., Jan. 9.—The body of General Simon Bolivar Buck- ner, the last surviving lieutenant general of the Confederate army, who died here last night, will be taken to Frankfort tomorrow for burial. Gen- eral Buckner served ten years in the United States army, was a veteran of the Mexican war, was governor of Kentucky four years and a candidate for vice president of the United States on the Gold Democratic ticket headed by Palmer. GOLFERS READY FOR ANNUAL ELECTION Gopyh bde 15\50&*4?{:& New York, Jan. 9.--The annual 601, BUCKNER OKLANARA T T0 8 BUBED GET $TS3000 M FRMKFORT HPROVENENTS 'mwling of the United States Golf As- [sociation takes place in t[\is city to- day . The nominating committee ~Robert Howard Parker, manager, on a charge using the mails to de- o fraud. Aecording to the postal au- l (thorltles, Parker did business all over the United States in what he termed in his newspaper ‘spread auction in grain, :-‘ obtaining : . Investors. L Pel.flr with defrauding W. C. Paint ar, Pearsburg, Va., Oct. 10, 1913. —iOvernment officials have ~'rom persons in many States claiming th,hey lost money with the concern. JHURCH IN CATTLE —— Ganden City, Kan., Jan. §.—The TY fothodists of this city are going nto the cattle business to pay off an ncumbrance of $7,000 on their new ikinzhurch. They are seeking donations 's b;'f calves and hope to have 100 by the irst_ of May, when they will be e. '\vefiied and ready for grass. Mem- udliers of the church and other ranch- pasaen have agreed to keep them on asture without charge until fall, 7hen they are to be transferred to —thers who will keep them through he winter. \When they have been I Ua the hands of the church for one ear they will be marketed and the 10ney applied to the fund. 1 D {ECLINES T0 CHANGE DATE OF U. C. V. REUNION ___ Jacksonville, Jan. 9.—Capt. Paul anguinettl, of Montgomery, Ala., as written to General Bennett H. (oung, commander in chief of the *“nited Confederate Veterans, protest- glg against the dates set for the re- “nion In Jacksonville, April 29, 30 2 [ad May 1, on the grounds that the ‘"1d of any month requires many men 2 6‘1 remain at their business. He de- ‘"ares that from the tenth to the 3§ remntieth of any month would insure larger attendance. In reply Gneral w~oung stated to him that the dates 4 l(uld not be changed. l. N 7”‘ GETS HE 2 ING ON BANKS 3 (iBoston, Jan. 9.—The federal re- rve organization committee will .},Qn publie hearings here today and \§,4 B Gommittee is expected to, ow r the business interests 7 o this éity de<ire a reserve bank lo- ted city or not. {0 - S, WA PROGPESSIVES 1.1 Des Moines. Towa, Jan. (essive leaders from all parts of the . e are herc today attending 9.—Pro-! advertisements | ums ranging from $20 to $80 from | Parker is charged speci-| letters | BUSINESS TO PAY DEBT ! Association was held yesterday at the tirough its secretary, John Reed, Jr., Y18 announced the following ticket for officers and executive committee: Robert (', \Watson, of New York, {president . Milton Dargan, Atlanta, vice presi- dent. ¥ ik Frank I.. Woodward, Denver, sec- tond vice president. John Reid, Jr., Mrs elect of Now Mitehel, ‘.¢ of the mayor- York, is. like her hus- band, a tireless worker and fond ot athletios and outdoor lite. She has been an enthu-iastic advocate of woman suffrage, A A AN AN IAPNAS S 6000 RADG ASS. New York, secre- - ELEGYS OFFICERS| ( 5 Percy R. Pyne Il,, Princeton, treas- urer. | ; These five officers altogether with The annual meeting of the Lake- Knowlton .. Ames, Chicago; Harry I.. Ayer, Boston; Howard W. Per- rin, Philadelphia, and Charles L. Al- len, of Chicago, would constitute the ¢xecutive committee, This is the same ticket as that elected last year. The executive committee will make its report on the selection of courses for each of the national champion- land-Bartow-Mulberry Good Roads school house near Seward lake. Quite a goodly number of peopie represent< ing the country embraced in this tri- angle were present and a good deal of enthusiasm was manifested. A MISS DORGTHY TROUT THIS IS THE RECOMMENDATION MADE TODAY BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT |$l2,000 Appropriation Also Recom- mended to Be Made Annually for Maintenance (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, Jan. 9. —The war department today recommended to Congress the federal improvement of Oklawaha river in Florida from its mouth to Lake Dora by a channel six feet deep and sixty feet wide with suitable locks. The estimated cost is §738,000 and $12,000 annually for of $175,000 was recommended, of the $75,000 was recommended, with subsequent anpropriations to cemplete the work in four years. FREE FOR ALL FIGHT WITH FATAL RESULTS Miami, Fla., Jan. 9.—Billy Wat- son is dying and several other men are seriously wounded as a result of a free-for-all fight growing out of a conflict of arrangements by the Woman's Industrial club and a land {development company in Detroit, 30 imiles south of Miami. Three of the leaders in the fight are under arrest and others will probably be arrested. The development company had ar- ranged to use the town hall of De troit for a meeting and the \Woman's | Industrial club had prepared for a reception to be held in the same place at the same time. After conslderable argument between the men of the gompany and the women, the club women called their husbands, A gen- eral fight then started, clubs, chairs, stones and fists being usgl by both sides. After several minutes, officers appeared on the scene and arrested {three of the fight leaders, which re- stored order. The women then mop- ped up the bhlood from the floor of the hall and held their reception. i their debut this winter. sented by her grandparents, General and Mrs, A, 8 Burt. 3 KILLED, 27 HURT (By Associated Press.) sons were killed, twenty-seven wer injured, several fatally, Georgia Southern and Florida pas was derailed early today. A broken rail is believed to be the cause. The private car of J. B. Munson vice president and general manage of the Georgia Southern, was alsc " vecked, but he escaped uninjured, l INEW ORLEANS Miss Dorothy Trout, daughter of the late Capt. Henry (. Trout, U. S. A, 18 one of the pretty girls of the army set in Washington who have made|great plant. She was pre- IN'G. 5. & F. whECK Cordele, Ga., Jan, 9.—Three per WS $T5000 FRE TODM TWO BIG DISTILLING AND ALCO- HOL PLANTS GO UP IN SMOKE This Will Make Temperance Advo* cates Rejoice, But Qwners Don’t See It That Way (By Associated Press.) New Orleans, Jan. 9. -—-The plints of the International Distilling Co. and United States Industrial Alcohol y. were practically destroyed by fire today. The loss estimated at $750,000, partis insured . is THOUSANDS STRUGGLE FOR, JOBS WITH FORD MOTOR COMPANY Mich., Jan. 9.-+Thou- of men struggled at the en- trance of the employment bureau of the Ford Motor (‘o. Tuesday morn- ing in an effort to win positions with the concern, which announced that $10,000,0060 in 1914 profits would be distributed to its employes and that it would hire 4,000 more men to in- stitute the eight-hour day in the Squads of polico were called out to preserve order among the great mass of struggling appli- . cants, which streamed down the side streets for a distapes of many IJlu(:kB._ IMive dollars Detroit, sands 1 v day is ta be the jow- [est wage pald any male empivye over twenty-two after Jan ., 12, {pstead of 44 a8 now. The profit-sharing plan is to be permanent, the amount to depend on the company’s carningg from year to year. A three-shift plan will be siyhgtituted for the pres- ent two shifts. This is to provide e when a|work for men now unemployed. Fif- teen thousand men at the Detroit senger train from Macon to Palatka[Dlant, 7,600 at branches and assem= bling plants in all parts of the world, and 4,000 new employes will receive ,|the benefits, About 300 women em-« r[ployed by the company will be pro» y| vided for upder an entirely separate piA¥, which I8 yet under considera- 1! plished by the association during the president, \V. J. past year was given by the retiring Mc(Clelland, one of the main features being the building of Chinese hens. Wggs from China were recently placed on the market |in competition with storage eggs and ;'thl'_\' are winning out with a dash. ['l‘ho imported eggs are slightly small- of the whole-hearted enthusiasm that was shown when the delegates were allowed to select courses by popular vote . magnificent dinner was served by the |ships in order that the choice of the WESTERN;I;Si:FATiNG B — Ilio"'l’l.‘h P ] ‘s Ly "r\_.,. fai {68 | 5 3 g assembled delegates may be restrict- v e commonest aborer who AeiniadicninsonG Ok the TOoImBIOL Lhe o3 to thrde coutaas. Whils: thin CHINESE EGGS WILL TRY TOWI}YERT RATE WAR sweeps the floor shall receive his $5 sch house, t hich all did ample 2 i y % e bl % AR e 4 . o mlol Lk ‘T Mo d amelef, thod which was recently adohtad.i Bhe Wkl Ton. b mesiaeet New York, Jan. 9. The interest|Per day,” said Henry Ford. “It is justice. It was indeed a royal eliminates much red tape, it isi“"l“‘“‘l('ll"mr4:.roltlti|'. ; :u:n;mI41.4‘(1?;IV|T of Atlantic shippine. oiroles 48 cans|OLE belief lhy:xl soclal justice begins spread . claimed by many of the (1(\1(»;.;:1(,05“'”“:"0!. ‘H:h hf ln(ln‘;x:hlL iv: ”II‘ frl’;lt tered in the conference of representa ut home. We want those Wholhavle An outline of the work accom-|that it does away with a great deal : tives of the various transatlantic helped us to produce this great inst tution and are helping to maintain it, to share our prosperity. We want them to have present profits and fu- ture prospects Thrift and good ser- vice and sobriety all will be encour- ilines wadeh opened in this city today. Many important matters will be brought before the conference, chief among them being the division of of a new road across a marsh, which steerage traflic between the rivs er than the standard ramnch eggs and : X L the county commissioners admitted has subscribed absolutely to subscribe $350. This work was done in order to straighten the road to Lakeland. Discussion and short talks on road work in general and the roads in the triangle in particular were made by the president, also Hon. H. J. Drane, A. J. Holworthy, secretary of the Lakeland Board ofTrade, and others. The following officers were elected: President—H. D. Mendenhall. Vice Presidents—T. J. McMullen, D. M. Pipkin and W. J. Whidden. Seecretary and Treasurer-—George Hammerstroem. Trustees—H. J. Drane, E. Schurman and A. J. Holworthy. A vote of thanks was given to the retiring president who has done a yeoman's work during the life of the | 5. The tectimony presented | association, having only missed one meeting in two years and that on ac- count of sickness. The next rheeting of the associa- {tion will be held with Mr. and Mrs. [ Paul Gardner, on Banana lake, on the second Thursday in February and it IN CONFERENCE |is pretty safe to say there will be al gzood attendance. The men of Lakeland will 1 181T |do well to lend their interest to the a;work in which these earnest pm;»l:-f we-wide conference to make plans|are o 1zaged, and who need roads to l:fih’ @paicn next fall. The Pro-{town in order to buy what they need =1 ] n to put full State an s well as sell what they produce. 3} 2 nto the field. { This business does not have to come o FAssociated Press.) Im, e’ € r Le® >ar 0V ke. Serious disorders d the burghers of several der arms. 'plun- today. ) lto Lakeland but may go, as some of |ing mill |it has zone, to other points because grasped a decoyv package placed there South Africa, Jan. 9.—of better roads. J,‘(‘ 1's entire active citizens’| " e was called out by proc- | profitably spent, there being quite a Bday on account of the|good bunch of Lakeland people out. The day was both pleasurably and Fifteen thousand dollars is being Greco, a wealthy Italian merchant. he Orange Free State will |expended upon the remodeling and|Many persons in Washington county amd the winners will be entered in|performed at Bellevue Hospital, in at Ocala. would have cost them a thousand dol- lars, but to which, so far, the county nothing, though they promised some time ago ELEVEN KILLED are poachable. T n this respect they are superior to storage eggs, IN BERLIN TODAY sisting of mother, father and five children, was found with throats cut and the gas turned on. Pecuniary difficulties are believed to have caused the parents to kill the chil- dren and themselves. At Hamburg city a policeman killed his three daughters and himself after a family quarrel . EVERY COUNTY SHOULD HAVE ONE Orlando, Jan. 3y order the| county Commissioners, Mr. James P. | Cawood has been created “License In- | whose business it is to ex amine all automobiles, visit all busi-| 9 spector,” ness houses in the county and see that 1‘ very individual who is #ubject to a license tax has paid the fee, any one is found rMinqn‘n-yH the de- relict taxpayer will be reported to the riff, who will take action to col lect the unpaid fee. CAUGHT HIM IN THE ACT |8 In case TENS CHLOREN (By Associated Press.) : HAVE THE HU“KIES Berlin, Jan. 9.—Two crimes in-| ' volving the death of eleven people . £ i e PRl \ (By Assoclated Press.) was perpetrated at Soldau and Ham- Austin, Texas, Jan. 9 et burg today. At Soldau a family, con-|nual state hookworm report today showed that more than 46 per cent of 11,000 children examined microscop- ically during 1913 had hookworm. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS Congressman C. F. Booher, of Mis souri, is 63, although he does not look it by several years. He is a native of New York and was raised on a farm; attended the common schools, then taught school and studied law. Moved to Missouri in 1870 and was admitted to the bar the next year He has been prosecuting attorney, presidential elector and mayor of Sa- vannah. He served in the Fiftieth Was elected to the Six- tieth, and re-elected to the Sixty-firs Sixty-second Congress. and Sixty-third Con resses German lines. It is understood that the Hamburg-American in the Boston Hamburg service route will call at Queengtov'n when the toria go into the service next season This would ! ring them into competi- tion with the Cunard and White Star lines. Everyone is trying to avert a wte war, for it is realized that the results would be dis astrous to every company concerned. SEMINOLE INDIANS NOW Orlando, Jan. 9.--The Seminole Indians are catching on quite rapidly i to civilizing influences. This conclu- sion is drawn from a statement made by Commissioner L.. A. Spencer, who has just returned from a trip to the liverglades and the Thousand Islands. “The Indians are working on a short line of railroad in that section,”” said the commission- |er Indians, as a rule, are not over- zealons when it comes to work, and the fact that they are now engazed in | N . ,|railroad construction shows a radi-| cal change in this little remnant of the nation’s wards, who have been hnnters from the time whence the MIDDLEWEST CHAMPIONSHIP GLOVE CONTEST ULu Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. § | from Chicago, Milwaukee, (‘olumbus | . and Minneapolis will participate in | Washington, Pa., Jan. 9.—As he the Amateur Athletic Union hoxing reached behind a mail box in a roll- tournament which takes place at the| here this morning and Cleveland Athletic club here tonight. Six classes will be contested at 108, by county officers, Dominic Lombardi, 115, 1235, 145 and ounds and | fa young TItalian workman, was ar- heavyweights, which include all those rested and hurried before a magis- trate who held him in $5,000 bail for sending Black Hand letters to James ing the past few years. above 158 pounds. Another similar contest will be held next week. ’I‘he‘nflys of Mrs. Viola Sullivan we tournament s for the purpose of de-'mm'r'rL drdined of poison and were ciding the middle west championships | replaced. ' Teams | «r memory of man runneth not to the contrary. 'The railroad that the red are helping to build is to carry efrnit from a two hundred acre o to the little town of Everglades I iven transportation to the northern markets. mer it can WOMAN'S KIDNEYS REMOVED Mo., Jan An un-| usual operation was performed at 'hf‘J St. Louis City Hospital when !h&k!d-i re- St. Louis 9 A similar operation was The strike|repairing of the famous Ocala House|have paid toll to the Black Hand dur-|the national tournament at Boston|New York, which was the first at-|soo next spring. tempt of the kind. steamships Amerika and Kaiserin Auguste Vjc- BUILDING RAILROADS under construction | 1 ; aged and recognized. Believing as we do that a division of our earnings be- tween capital and labor is unequal, we have sought a plan of relief suit- able for our business. We belleve In making 20,000 men prosperous and contented rather than follow the plan of making a few slave drivers in our establishment multimillionaires.” HOLLINGSWORTH ITEMS Mrs. Hall has arrived and will spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Price. Mr. Zimmer has been very sick but at last accounts was improving. Prof. J. C. Perry closed a siuging school last Saturday night at the school house. Mrs. S. J. Perry, who was injured by a fall some time ago, is slowly improving, she being able to sit at dinner on Sunday. Miss Ruby Pearce opened a pri- vate school on Monday and sh: has a number of scholars. ! Quite a number of the youne folks ‘;nmt at the home of Mr. and Mrs. | Barrett for a sing Sunday night. | We notice that Mr. Elder Las branched out in a new business, hav- ing bouzht out the Central Cafe, and under the new management it is sure to he a decided success, Mr. Fred Pope has a large acreage . cabbaze fine and T believe they should make a lot of saur kraut, yes! The J. € club will | meet at the house on the hill next lFrMny night to practice songs and [in other ways improve the time. | Dr. Gavin will preach at the school house next Sunday immediate- ly after Sunday school. Every one in which are looking Perry Glee A Carnegie library has opened in West Tampa through the efforts of the citizens of that municipality. e A religious census of Miami is n to be taken by the Sunday