Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 20, 1914, Page 1

AR ML HINSELF EUBANKS CUT HIS WIFE'S D OFF AND STABBED HIS 0 CHILDREN TO DEATH purned His Hame, Told the bhbors What He Had Done and Shot Himself (By Associated Press.) Ga., March 20.—G. anks, a farmer aged 30, early illed his wife and two daugh- they slept, and then set fire nhome and several outbuild- d committed suicide. Tt is be- ¢ was temporarily insane. ubanks' head was almost sev- pm her body with an axe and ghters, aged two years, and onths. respectively, were to death. After killing them| ing the buildings, Eubanks p a neighbor, told him what done, and fired a bullet h his brain. The barn and small buildings were burned fire Bubanks started. JE DON'T BLAME HIM nond, Ind., Mathias Constante a labor- pived a letter telling him he herited $7,000,000 from a rel- h the old country, he quit his the steel mills and with five iong starteq on a trip around 1l AL MEETING OFFICERS C. H. & N. RAILWAY, Grande, Fla., March 20.— and directors of the Char- arbor Railway (Boca Grande holding annual meeting at rande today are: James M. Gifford New York, president anq director. Peter B. Bradley, Boston, vice president and director. L. M. Fouts, Boca Grande, econd vice president, general pr and director. J. H. Cottman, irector. Wm. Prescott, director. John F. Baltimore, New York, Kehoe, New York, pwing several days at Boca: , looking over the terminal, %, also general improve- involving a vast amount of this distinguished party will Pn- a4 special train on an in- I trip over the line, and will several days on their phos- properties at Pierce and Tiger ter returning direct to north- adquarters, 0TTON MARKET GOOD i hington, March 20.—The undertone in the cotton sit- 15 that of improved strength. reage has increased slightly, eneral weather conditions| 0 1ts being a very good year. W grade cotton probably will Ve 50 great a weight on the 4 has been believed, for I shippers will have use for| F Spinnable low grades they Pd. and those grades too low acter will not affect the mar-| all. Inquiries are steadily into New York from the ¢ to terms for taking up cot- contract, PYLVANIA 'PHONE RATES COMPLAINT isburg, Pa. March 20.—The fervice commission will to- Fime the hearings of the com- regarding telephone rates bout the State. An engineer | dccountant were recently ap- " Which practically completes Fanization of the commission, a5 the major positions are con- The business of the com- P has increased to a consider- 'ent and a comprehensive| for its disposition appears to ry. e ——— le answering a false alarm F Dight in West Palm Beach March 20.—As| Meade, The consideration was about SUFFRAGETTES OPPOSE I EUROPEAN METHODS New York, March 20, —pp, tte leader in the Anna H. Shaw, suffy United States, as most emphatic in her denunc iation of the “unspeak- able and utterly uscless crime” of the English militant who slashed the “Rokeby Venuys,” Mrs. Shaw says, “Not only this act, but all of of the similar previous ones greatly damaged their cause, and they have hampered s, Militancy or the threat of it is not good polities.” Mrs. Shaw also disapproves of the methods of Mrs, Pankhurst, saying “I can'y see how she figures that shc. is doing the cause any good by be- ing in jai] or suffering from the ef- fects of her imprisonment all the time " E 0, FLOOD NS S00000 I R 0F 7000 G Mr. E. 0. Flood, president of ithe State bank, has just closed one of the biggest deals in cattle that has becn made in Florida for a long time. whereby he becomes the owner of some 7000 head of cattle, pur- chased of (. M. Hart, of Fort $100,000, being in fact somewhag in excess of that sum Items like the above were not sof s of unusual in the earlier stag | Florida's development, when great herds of cattl were| then vast wild however, the cattle what Nowadays, roamed areas range has be come considerably cirenmseribed, and Mr transaction one of the last of the hig : 5 | cattle kings of the State | Flood becomes by this GOVERNOR COX HONORED Ra, March 20.— Members of the Ohio Society of| Pittsburgh will tonight welcome Governor James M. Cox of Ohio at a banquet. There will be no other speakers besides the governor. Col. H. P. Bope will be toastmaster.j The governor is looked upon as good | Pittsburgh, presidential timber. PROGRESSIVES START THEIR CAMPAIGN| Huntington, W. Va March :Hv; Senator Clapp will —address the “dollar dinner” convention of the | Progressives in this city tonight. | Plans for the active party campaign will be adopted tonight and ”Wi campaigny started immediately |'I'w-‘ among ssives of prominence Roosevelt, Senator Bevers whom are ; Senator Clapp. will make idge and whirlwind tours over the State in of P sjve congres: sional candidates ‘ the interests QUEER REMEDY FOR INSANITY | (‘hicago March 20 \ gland re moved from 4 lead body n rm»‘ before was ut n an operation T vilston on a ;‘ur" :wllr” totl State hospital en a ¢ whag has hith in an of hope ero been ( i less insanity : | from o= year-old" g1t mentia prec 0X At the =ame time the surgeon per-y fmjn' " » similar o1 ration on anoth-y suffering| implanting| er patient, of vears old g malady from the malady a gland th a living body : «From the patholo hours removed from| 2] stand- re complete- said Dr. Lydston ; succe: : g mental condi- “Whether or tion of the pati i nown vill not be know e g i h‘r weeks. I am hopeful that or eight ¥ t the s will be improved for at least six ssult.” complete cures will result TEXAS RANCHERS EASIER . El Paso, Texas. March 20.—The strained tension of bt o weeks is gradually giving way ‘ y ure feeling, owing to the more sec! e arrival of \ ordered| - ry which] he \ e 1 it ss and at e now extended | Laredo are nNO¥ Higisgres fer .nd there is les fear, ot Me rossinz an ymmit- of Mex s o | Men were injured in a col f ar %" automobile trucks. ting furthe FREEZING WEATHER [ would serve for five years the bill pass a new drafy amounting|system of this kind put in operation|greatly. Naturally he was a big at-] to about $1,000.000 a year would belin the State, and its snecessful in-|traction and his presence was ad -lmade on the State treasury; but|stallation and satisfactory \\'nrkimsl\<-rti.»u-¢l all over the country. qu-l ¢ the past twof> LAKELAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1914, LANGING AND GTTES REOPEN AT N THESENNTE NOT DISCOURAGED BY DEFEAT WHICH THEY ENCOUNTERED YESTERDAY PROGRESSIVES AGAINST REPEAL OF THE TOLLS EXEMPTION (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 20-——Progres- sives in Congress are practically a unit against President Wilson's pro- posal to repeal the Panama canal tolls exemption. This was an- nounced in a statement today b Victor Murdock, Progressive leader of the House. ‘If dollar diplomacy is to be succeeded by a policy of THE FORMER TO BE COUNSEL-|,cace at any price” he sald, “the LOR; THE LATTER SOLICITOR |{ime has come for a new declaration FOR STATE DEPT. of independence."” < Believing Democrats Are Their Foes, Start to Work to Cut Down Their Majority in the Senate Lansing Is Editor of American Jour COTTON GRADING BILL nal of Law; Johnson Leading POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY Lawyer of Texas IN THE SENATE (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 20.—Robert| Lansing of New York, and Cone Johnson, of Texas, will be nominated as counsellor and solicitor . respec- tively for the State department, it was announced from the White House today. Lansing is the associate editor of the American Journal of Interna- N[lBHB“H Iu ULHESI (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 20.—On ac- count of the rush of other business the cotton grading bill was put over until Monday in the Senate. (By Associated Press. ) Washington, March 20—Suffrage leaders, not discouraged by defeat yesterday of their constitutional amendment enfranchising woman, planned to open a new fight in the Senate and announced that they would support the Shafroth amend- ment providing that each State must| call a suffrage election on petition of 5 per cent of its voters. Although tional Law and author of several works on international relations. most suffragists are inclined not tofJohnson was characterized in a harbor resentment at yesterday's| White House statement as ‘‘one of ElK IN IJ 5 defeat, word: came from New York|the most brilliant lawyers in Texas.” S of a campaign to retaliate against|Secretary Bryan said he knew both iR e the Democrats. Mrs. Harriet| men personally and was well satis- Mr. W. L. Parker of Owosso, Stanton Blatch, president of thelfied with their qualifications. Lans-{yy.n . who came to Lakeland with Women's Political Union, said she|Ing succeeds John Bassett Moore,| .. wire a fow weeks ago for the would start a fight to cut down thefand Johnson succeeds Joseph W.lp oo 6e e nis health, which has been Democratic majority in the Senate|Folk. benehtted, . we are glad:to —_— e e ; greatly 1 and pointed out that the almost Py learn, is a prominent Elk in his solig allenment of Southern Demo- Last Saturday night a number of home town and takes pride in the sons of Confederate veterans of Des fact that the oldest Elk in the world Soto county met in Arcadia and or- ganizeq a camp. cratic senators against amendment was largely responsible for its de- feat. lived in his home town. His death, a few days ago, at the age of 109 RS vears, attracted wide attention. Of his life, the Owosso Press-Anierican says: Daniel O'Connell —aged 109 years, WHITE WAY OPERATED 0'Connell, in Burns township Satur- TONGHN F0 AL Tampa, March 20, (Special) The White Way has been inspect-|day morning. A slight cold con- cold wave covered the Gulf States|ed and accepted by the City of Lake- tracted a few weeks ago, gradually land and payment of the contracts became worse and with the infirmi- for same are being made to the First|ties of advanced age caused the National bank by the public-spirited death of the old man. A delegation citizens who rendereq it possible by[of Byron Elks have gone to the swconding the efforts of the Lakeland|O'Connell home to offer any assist- ance it can and to make arrange- this morning with freezing in cen- tral Alabama and northern Georgia. The cold wave is expected in north- ern Florida tonight with freezing, and in central Florida with tempera- ture from 36 to 40. Board of Trade. No improvement, of the many no-|ments for the funeral. table ones that have been made| The life of Mr. O'Connell has been within the past two or three years,|an interesting one. Born in County forms a more attractive or effective|Cork, Ireland, he grew up there, MEDICAL JUDGES FOR EACH COUNTY Buffalo, N. Y.. March 20.-|advertisement for [Lakeland than|marrieq and raised a family. In mid- Judicial and medical circles are/the White Way. It is commented|dle life he came to America, bring- greatly excited over the proposed|on by every visitor who comes tothe|ing his family with him. The trip city, and it is a source of pride and{was made in a sailing boat and re pleasure to our citizens. quired several weeks. Near NOw- In this connection it may be said|foundland the boat was becalmed that a very ingenious and effectivelanq the immigrants were forced to system for controlling the White|remain there several days. While v lights has installed by|there however, they replenished R. L. Raffo, superintendeny of the[their fast diminishing larder by light anq water plant. By this ar-|fishing. rangement a time device automatic- In 1911, the Owosso lodge of K1ks ally extinguishes all lights of thef*“discovered” Daniel and asked him ments made by medical witnesses' system except the top globe of eachlto join the lodge. At that time he and the weight to be given such tes-| cluster at 11 every night.|was 106 years old, and was the old- timony These medical judges! The top lights are also turned off|est man who ever took the degree would be appointed by the appellatef by the same automatic arrangement|work. He went to Detroit with the ¢ 1:30 and 5 o'clock in the|lodge to attend the national conven- This is probably the first|tion of Klks and enjoyed himself appointmeny of a medical judge for cach county in the State and three judges for each department of the supreme court and for the court of appeals At all trials where medi- cal evidence is to be given, the med- ical judge would be in attendance and advise the court and instruct the jury as to the sanity of the de- fendant ang the correctness of state- been o'clock divisions of the supreme court and|between Should|morning. the promoters of the measure say it} form a high testimonial to Mr. Raf-|alted Ruler M, J. Phillivs of thej the State larze sums of|fo's ability as an electrician. Owosso lodge accompanied the old vill save money now spent annually because " et “ man wherever he went. f ng-drawn- trials resulting Despite his greatly advanced age, = M"“Lhi :“ ] 1”“11\\.‘ |r.ld Tn 'n";n '-: PREPARING FOR THE Daniel was far from helpless. Until from INts e J Bt b t 'I-l”~ END OF THE WORLD he was taken ill, he thought nothing of walking to Byron a distance of Battle Creek, Mich., March 20.-—|seven miles, and return. He split! The local congregation of the Sev-|the wood for the cook stove at his March 20.—|enth Day Adventists have sold their|son’s home. The old gentleman used conven-| church buildings tos the Chamber of[to spend hours rowine on the small Since he bhe- “G00D ROADS" MEETING St Joseph. Mo., The Highways Engineers’ tion, which opened Its meeting hore'('umnwrc:-_ and will rebuild on ajlake near his home. last Wednesday will hold its last|smaller scale, because they expect|came a member of Owosso lodge the 'Rnad builders from|the end of the world at any time, old man frequently came to Owosso session today. lall over the State have been in at-land are making no plans for futurefto attend mectings and took a lively tendance, and discussed road build-|temporal affairs. The pastor of the[interest in them. He was slightly and making from all points of|church in a recent sermon predicted|deaf. l\l;:“‘ Engineers from Kansas City | that the millennium was close at| The deceased has a sister, 94 years and from the American Society of|hand, and the sale of the church|old in a Detroiy convent. Civil Engineers addressed the meet-|property is looked upon locally as a “ sort of sail reefing for the approach- s R e ings ing end. WANT SUFFRAGETTE e HOLIDAY IN FLORIDA Joston, Mass., March 20.—The DIDN'T STOP LONG — ”*:I‘ > 5 3 88 ¢ ies New ‘ashington March 20.-—Mrs, large express companies of New GET IT ALL ashin i : York city, the Adams, American and ENOUGH TO Medill .\_It-f'ormu:k. rbalrman of the National will make effective today - congressional committee, says that . which the March 20.—A robber|a letter has been written to the gov- House, one of{ernor of each of the 48 States, in- REDUCTION IN EXPRESS RATES the reduced rate basis Chicago, service commission of Massa-|entered the Briggs public o husetts has been negotiating for (Chicago's oldest downtown hotels [cluding GovernorT rammell of Flor- the past two months. This is the!shot an assistant manager, took $I.Wlida_ asking him to proclaim a suf- second substantial concesion made to! from a cash register and fled just as|frage holiday May 2 in order that this board and is more sweeping the night clerk had opened the safe|the working women as well as all than the first in that it extends toland was about to hand hi mthe 35,-|others may participate in the lowereq rate| 000 it contained. The bandit with|frage demonstration which is to be Boston |a companion, who stood guard out-|held in every part of the country on side, drove rapidly away 'that day g suf- State in granted to the whole basis that was 15t month | partment of No. 115 COTTON REPOAT SHOWS BUNPER CAOP FOR 193 IS SAID T0 BE ONE OF THE LARGEST CROPS EVER PRO- DUCED IN U, S. Amount Produced by the Principal Southern States Is Announced by Census Bureau Washington, March 20.—One of the largest cotton crops ever grown, amounting to 14 127,356 bales, equi- valent 500-pound bales of lint and 639,795 equivalent 500-pound bales of linters, was produced by the farm- ers of the United States during 1913, the census bureau announced today in its preliminary report of cottoy ginnegq as reported by ginners and delinters to Feb. 28. These figures compare with 13,- 703 421 equivalent 500-pound bales of lint and 609,594 bales of linters last year, and 15,692,701 bales of lint and 557575 bales of linters in 1911, The department of agriculture’s estimate, announceq Dec. 12, placed the 1913 crop at 13,677,000 equiva- lent 500-pound bales. With this report the bureau of census departed from its previous method of reporting the cotton crop by not including the quantity of linters in the total production. Di- rector William J. Harris announced this was done because with the in- stallation of modern machinery closer delinting of seed had largely increased the quantity of linters and at the same time lowered the aver- age quality of the fibre, so that now only a small part, if any, was used as a substitute for lint cotton. The number of running bales of lint cotton, counting round as half bales, was I:'»,!Ni‘l,lml_ and of linter cotton, 619.019 running lm.h'sY com- pared with 13,488,639 running bales of ilnt and 602,324 running bales of linters last year and 15,553,013 running bales of lint and 556,27¢ running bales of linters in 1911, Included in the production for 1913 are 29,267 bales which ginners estimated would be turned out after the time of the March canvass. Round bales included numbered 99,916, compar d with 81528 last year and 101,554 in 1911, Sea island bales includeq 77,»1:;0' compared with 73,777 last year and 119,293 in 1911, The average gross weight of a bale for the crop, counting round as half bales and excluding lint»rs, was 505.8 pounds, compared with 508 pounds lasg year and 504.5 in 1911, Production of States in equivalent 500-pound excmsive of lint- ers, with comparlsons and the de- partment of agriculture’s December estimate, which excludes linters fol- low: bales, Alabama ~The total production, 1,494,057 bales, compared with | ) 5 in 1912 and 1716,534 in 1911, Department of agriculture estimated 1,510,000 hales for 1913, Arkansas-——Total prmlm'liml‘ 1,- 071,369 bales, compared with 792048 in 1912 and 939,302 In 1911, Department of agriculture estimate, 900,000 bales for 1913, Plorida - Total production, 58,- 151 bales compared with 52,760 in 1912 and 83,388 in 1911. Depart- ment of agriculture estimated 68,000 bales for 1913, Gieorgia--Total production, 2,314 - 870 bales, compared with 1,776.546 in 1912 and 2, 27 1911, De- 27 in agriculture estimated 2,275,000 bales for 1913. l.ouisiana-The total production, 142,132 hul(-s‘ compared with 376,- 096 in 1912, and 384,497 in 1911. Department of agriculture estimated 100,000 bales for 1913. Mississippi—Total production 1 - 307,443 bales, compared with 1,- 046,118 in 1912 and 1203,545 in 1911. Department of agriculture estimated 1,105,000 bales for 1913. Missouri—The total production 67,123 bales, compared with 55,691 in 1912 and 96,808 in 1911. Depart- ment of agriculture estimated 66.- 000 bales for 1913. North Carolina—Total production 789,944 bales, compared with 865 - 1912 and 1,075.826 in 1911, Department of agriculture estimated 765000 bales for 1943 653 in HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM _PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE