Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 4, 1914, Page 1

LV MONTH T8 YEAR AGO TODAY DEMOC- ACY TOOK CHARGE OF THE - GOUNTRY'S AFFAIRS ‘th Has Been Acconplished In- " cluding Enactment of Tariff . and Currency Laws ‘(By Associated Press) « fashington, March 4—The Dem- administration celebrated its ay today by going forward , § the aggressive spirit which .qacterized the past year in the flative and executive depart- . t8. The president was busy wring his sixtn address before . Joint session of Congress to be —vered tomorrow in which he will ERy the repeal of the Panama canal \ exemption. High government fals in looking over the past ‘s performances today declared y, close co-operation between ex- 1dve and legislative branches of 1 government was largely due to ,ipresident’s appearance before “;uu and his frank discussion of . ling legislation with members of ; arties. They pointed to the en- aent of the tariff and currency » the ratificaticn of thé arbitra- . treaties and the carefu: hand- of the Japanese and Mexican lems' as among the greatest 'svements of the past twelve ths. THALS HONORED * WITH A MEDAL »w York, March 4.—Colonel ge W. Goethals is the first re- nt of a medal which the Civie m has founded as commenda- for public service well done. He presemted with the decoration 7. On the face of the medal is n €olumbia extending her hand winged Victory, holding a th.’ The reverse will carry the s of the person honored and the 8 “For distinguished public ser- " The medal will be known as Manship medal. __D MEN FORM ORGANIZATION ) nneapolis, March 4.—Land of Minnesota will hold a meet- 1ere_today for the discussion of ems before the State, and to an organization. The Civic and aerce Association, the North- ~.nd Minnesota Development As- X{}lon, the State Immigration 50 tment ang other agencies for k pment work have succeeded in g this meeting of State-wide t and hope that much more ve iork for the general good B3, State of Minnesota will be ac- E_fl‘llhed It is probable that the "'ll.uon will concern itself in ‘manner with legislation A8 to the support ang manage- Ed" the State Tmmigration de- ent and that it will originate " or state development and 3 before the legislators for S LLOYD APPEALS on, March 4.—The time e cash bail bond of Marie English vaudeville sing- P8 today, and an appeal will 0 the secretary of State to e actress to re-enter the Ates so as to fulfil her en- had trouble at Ellis Is refused entrance to the he ground of “moral tur- d was permitted to pass BPOR the giving of a $4,000 . A fine legal point arose when 0 the border into Canada, Wwhether that had automatical- d the bond, or whether it iy €Xxpires today. for ‘vage increases and for working conditions for engi- d firemen on railroads west of ‘80 @amd St. Louis are being dis- by the committee of One Hun- jand Fifty of the Brotherhood e Firemen. PU % LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM BLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE POSSIBILITY OF AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION Washington, March 4.-——Startling suggestions of the possibility of rev- olution in the Uniteq States are pointed out, and the adoption of a resolution for a constitutional amendment to fix the second Mon- day in January following a national election for the date of the inawgu- ration. Unider the present provision of the constitution in the event the House fails to choose a president be- fore this date, March 4, the' vice president then in office becomes president for four years. This affords a great temptation, by mere delay, to defeat the will of the people, and if it is exerciseq it will likely pro- duce a revolution. ILLINOIS GELEBRATION OCGURS TOMORROW Tomorrow is Illinois Day in Lake- land and the bright badges that mark their wearers as members of the Illinois Club will be much in evidence on our streets. The annual reunion of the club will be held from four to eight in the afternoon in Munn park. The indications are that the weather will be just right, but should it prove to be otherwise the gathering will adjourn to some warmer or more sheltereq place. Membership in the club is open to all who are now living in Lakeland who have previously lived in Illinois and to members of their immediate family. The membership is notice- ably larger this year than ever be- fore owing to Lakeland's increasing population . As usual, the celebration will take the form of a basket picnic with speeches and music.| Each family will bring a well-filled basket and the club will supply the tables anid coffee and tea. The occasion will be enlivened this year by the presence of Lake- land’s band, and the following speakers will give voice to some of their sentiments: Hon. 0..M. Eat- on, mayor of Lakeland; Dr. W, B. Moon, president of the Illinois Club; Senator Drane, an honorary mem- ber of the club; Mr. M. F. Hether- ington, editor of the Lakelang Even- ing Telegram; Dr. S. F. Smith, president Board of Trade; Dr. W. H. Conibear, president of the Farm- ers’ Club; and Mrs. C. . Wilson, representing the Woman'’s Club, and Gen. J. A. Cox, one of Lakeland's oldest and best loved citizens. 'The invocation will be delivered by the Rev. Bolton, the toast to Illinois i will be given by Mrs. Moon, and the toast to Florida by Dr. Grace B. Hanna. A place on the program is set aside for the impromptu toasts, when anyone may toast anything or anyone he chooses. The public in general is invited to come to the park and enjoy the music and speeches, LABOR NEWS “Uncle Joe" Cannon says he doesn't believe that prayers are answered, but he thinks a man feels better if he prays. The former speaker re- fused to state, however, whether his prayers just now are offered with a view to being returned to the lower branch of the national legislature. The Republican Club of Illinois, which is Willian® Lorimer's organi- zation, has obtaineq a loan of $10,- 000 from the Chicago Title and Trust Co. The club’s lease of the top floor of the City Hall Square build- ing, with its furniture, is the secur- ity for th‘p loan. Women in the District of Colum- bia work only eight hours a day. In England agricultural workers have been promised six: dollars. a week for a twelve-hour day. New Zealand’'s trade with Canada which was considerable in 1912, doubled in 1912, and is still develop- ing with great rapidity. As much butter was last year exported to Vancouver as to London, which had|calls for an outlay of £60,000,000. hitherto been lookeq on as New Zea- land’s best customer. TRIED FOR MURDER- ING HUSBAND New Orleans, La., March 4.— Mrs. Lizzie Leopard, chargeq with murdering her husband, N. B, Leopard, will be tried here today. 'foreign secretary. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1914. INTERVENTION |01 5. 15 NOW BY U 5. WOULD| HANDS OFF IN PROVE A MIGTAKE] BENTON CAGE S0 DECLARED BRITISH MINISTER |EXPEDITION TO EXAMINE BEN: SIR LIONEL CARDEN IN INTERVIEW TODAY TON'S BODY WILL PROBABLY BE ABANDONED He Sailed Today for England to Re-|Attention of This Country Is Now port the Mexican Situation in Person (By Associated Press) New York, March 4.—Sir Lionel Carden, British minister to Mexico, laft for England today, where he will report in person on the Mexi- can situation to Sir Edward Grey, He commended the American administration’s Mex- ican policy ang thought interven- ton would be an error. LUMBER DEALERS' DISCUSS TARIFF Buffalo, N. Y., March 4.—The convention of the National Whole- sale Lumber Dealers’ exchange op- ened in this city this morning, and will last over until tomorrow. Near- ly 5,000 dealers in lumber and many allied trades are present. The effect of the new tariff will be gone into. ALASKAN COAL BILL FAORABLY BEPORTED (By Associated Press) Wiashington, March 4.—The bill for the development of Alaska’s vast coal resources was favorably report- ed today by the House public lands committee and congressional leaders predicted early action. The bill pro- vides that coal lands in Alaska will be leased in blocks of forty to two thousand five hundred acres and rental will be collected by the gov- ernment, also a small royalty on all coal mines, this revenue to go to Alaska development. Washington, March 4. —Conside- ration of the Alaskan railroad bill will be concludeq by the House to- day. Representative Ferris, of Ok- ‘nhoma, has denoinced the govern- ment railroad plan as a ‘“‘grab” backed by the Guggenheim inter- ests., RAILROAD NOTES The Interstate Commerce commis sion hag begun an investigation of private car rates with railroads. The colleries ol the Reading, Sus- quehanna Coal Co. and the d.ehigh ('oal and Navigation Co. are not running full time because of the stagnation in the anthracite coal trade. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Co. has bern given permis- sion by the United Sl:jws Senate to build a bridge across the Mississippi river near Hannibal, Mo. J. A. Turner, who has been con- nected with the Southern Railway for twenty-four years, has been ap. pointed to the position made vacant by the promption of C. R. Craig to the purchasing agency of the South- ern. The Chicago and Alton has now a continuous telepkone dispatching system between Chicago and St. Louis, a distance of 280 miles. The telephone system of dispatching has proved a great success and will be extended to all branch lines of the Chicago and Alton as rapidly as fi- nances will permit. The* Pennsylvania’s expendjture for the new terminal at Chicago will be in the neighborhoog of $25,000,-' 000. While attorneys for the Union Station Co. decline to divulge the details of the agreement reached by the Associated Railroad companies, it is known that the entire project The plans to reorganize the Wa- bash-Pittsburg Terminal and the] Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads have been completed and the roads will shortly be consolidated under management formerly and operateq as one system, at the head of which will be L. F. Lorée, pos- sibly not as president, but as chair- man of the bhoard. one as Drawn to the Killing of Ver gara and Bauch Washington, March 4.—The pro- jected expedition of a special com- mission into Mexico to examine the body of William §S. Benton will probably be abandoned as two de- velopments yesterday seemed to clear away the necessity which prompted the appointment or the commission. These were the ietermination of General Carranza to undertake the investigation of the incident ang the announcement of Great Britain that she did not look to the United States to push the matter. This apparently puts this government in the attitude of patient waiting. Attention here therefore turned today to the report- ed murder of Cleriente Vergara and Gustav Bauch, Americans in Mexico. It is said that reports from Mexican authorities on these cases will be awaited before additional steps are taken here. WATIHAN T PROTES] | NPORTAT WIS (By Associated Press) New York, March 4.—District At- torney Whitman was told today that an effort was being made to Wrive from New York Louis Krese, the waiter who testified for the prose- cution at the trial of Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosen- thal. Krese called at Whitman's of- fice and demanded to be protected and said he had been offered money to get out of town before Becker's secong trial. He has been hiding of late, he sald. “I'm afraid to walk the streets,” he declared. He was as- sured that a body guard would be furnisheq him. TWO0 SENTENCED, ONE HANGED Hartford, March 4.—James Plew was hanged here this morning, though Mrs. Bessie Wakefield, sen- tenced to the same fate for the same crime, has had an appeal made for her, and sentenced Mrs. Wakefiely was the first woman sen tenced to be hung in the State of Connecticut since 1786, stayed. GETTINGV MONSTER LINER READY FOR SEA CHOIR SINGER'S | WHITE SLAVE ARREST! Louisville, Ky., March 4.—The Federal Court will today hear the case of W. G. Andrews, a locali choir singer, who is charged with( impersonating a white slave ofllcer.] Andrews was rearrested by l)oputy! United States Marshal Louis Ryans, just after being pardoned by Gov. McCreary from-a year’s sentence in jail, which was given to him on ac- count of his uttering forged checks. No. 101 NOORE STEFS D0 FROM W OFF Andrews has held a number of choir HAS RESIGNED AS COUNSEL OF positions in various churches. NETHODIT BEVNAL PROGRESSNG L The secod day of the revival meet- ing now in progress at the Meth- ‘department, odist church closed last night, audience which filled the main | building being present. After inter- esting idevotonal services the even- gelist announced as his subject “Yellow Streak Politicians,” finding' a scriptural basis for the address in Matt. 27:22, which involved Pilate's question, “What shall I do with Jesus which is called the Christ?"” Three things were present to help Pilate, a yellow streak politician, de- ciide in favor of Christ: First, he had his wife’s warning; second, he had Jesus’ own personality and Jesus' miracles. Opposed to a favor- able decision: First, the Jews had already sent a committee to Rome to secure Pilate’s recall. To release Jesus when they were clamorous for his life meant further to incur their tispleasure . Second, it would arouse the suspicions or Caesar him- self. Jesus claimed to be a king of the Jews. To release him would in- dicate that he too favored the claim. Pilate showed the “yellow” in his politics in his decision—*I find no fault in him worthy of death, but you may crucify him."” The woniderful opportunity to make a name for himself as imper- ishable as the ages, was lost in that awful decision—*"I find no fault, but you may slay."” With this general introduction the speaker launched into an earnest and eloquent portrayal of the yel- low trail in modern political church, business and social life. Always and everywhere the opportunity opens for men ang women to make a great name, and yet at the crucial moment how often the yellow shows. Pilate was a standpat, free lunch, pie coun- ter, tin horn; peanut, grafting, poli- tician, willing to shed innocent blood . The speaker closed by driving home Pilate’'s question as applicable personally to each one present. Two persons came forward and gave their hands for prayer, while a stoo; ] up. At 10 o'clock this morning aftir interesting itual_ there number an service, deeply Was organized spir a com- | THE STATE DEPT.; HIS RESIG- NATION ACCEPTED No Friction Caused the Change Ac- cording to a Statement Made by President Wilson (By Associated Press) Washington, March 4.—John Bassett Moore, counsel of the State has resigned and his an. regignation has been accepted by the "president . For the present Mr. Moore will continue to work hers in connection with the Carnegie In- stitute and later he will return to Columbia University. There are no indications of his possible successor. His impending resignation had been rumored for several weeks, but each time met unqualified denial. It has been |reportell but not confirmed that) his views did not harmonize with those of higher officials. Mr. Moore is authority on international law. The official explanation was that Moore resigned in accordance with an uniderstanding he had with the president when he took office last May. It was said that he consented to serve only during the first year of the administration. The Mexican question had nothing to do with the resignation, officials declare, It is un- iderstood that the president will is- sue a statement soon emphasizing the fact that Moore leaves without friction. LABOR BUREAU CELE- BRATES ANNIVERSARY Washington, March 4.—The De- partment of Labor, the ¢baby” among the government's branches of activity, will celebrate the first an- niversary of its birthday today. Sece retary Wilson and Assistant Secres tary Post will be the guests of hon- or at the dinner given in honor of the event, and practically all the employes of the department will at- tend. ;) There are 700,000 trade unionists in Italy, representing almost every trade from rag picker to electrician, S S SR pany of personal workers, who pledged themselves to do speeial work in winning souls. Tonight the subject will appeal more direetly to officials and heads of the various jepartments of church activity. The singing is inspira- tional. A cordial welcome to all. e———T At Clydebank, Scotland, the steamship Aquetania, largest of the Cunarders, is being prepared for sea, having been launched last April. She is a ship within a ship, having absolutely water-tight inner and outer shells. Her dimenslons show that she will be one of the largest ships afloat. She is 901 feet long, 97 feet wide, 92% feet deep to the boat deck. Her gross tonnage is 47,000 tons. She will have a speed of 28 knots an hour, and accommodations for 3,580 passengers and a crew of almost 1,000. e A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A AN AN AAEY