Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 18, 1914, Page 1

R0 LYNCHED AR BARTOW T NOON TODAY A4S TAKEN FROM SHERIFF BY INFURIATED MOB ] d Entered Room o' foung Lady he Commercial Hotel in Bartow Last Night James from a mo), noon today taken county by c v hefere nidway between DBartow 1 and i was taken i1 The reports of guns a few | LAKELAND EVENING TELEG Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State e — U. 8. CONSUL GRIFFITH’S DEATH IS MOURNED —_— (By Assoclateq Press,) London, May 1 8. The American colony is mourning the United States 0 disease , the country, e speaker ang one United States offi land, BRGADIER G 0 TR CORPs hotes later indicateq that the ne met with a deserved fate vl odsen was a porter at the Com- | ha D rial Hotel, in Bartow, and about 84 i o'clock this morning entered b room of a young white lady in I. She zave the alarm and ned on the light and the negro hed from a window and fled, hout harming the young woman. sted at Chubb this fore § beinz taken back to prow, when, about three latter city a mob took him o sheriff and dispatched him. m was a had negro and had trouble on account of saulting two land. He was trieq at was into ten nearo pninally a pnen of Lake ‘ast term of the Circuit Court, fi. while there was little doubt his guilt, it was not proven. The ry therefore permitted him to go e on condition that he e the country. He remained ut Bartow, however, with the re- as stated. ¢ voung lady recognized him en she flashed on the lights, and id that he admitted his at- pted crime, also confessing to the pult of the two colored women at anq a similar offence at annah, for which he had served rm in the Georgia penitentiary. was undoubtedly an utterly de ‘ed negro, and though lynching Iwvays to be deplored, his taking is undoubtedly a good riddance. eland, 0 LIQUOR FOR “DRY" SPOTS iton Rouge, La., May 18.—The ¢ Assembly conveneq today, and of the bills soon to be introduced pilicred by Superintendent A. W : f Louisiana Anti-Saloon vho, by its passage, seeks to legally penalize King it juries to such HARDWARE MEN MEET plianapolis, Ind., May 18. convention of the National lardware Association began ree-day meeting in this city this inz. Delegates from all points e country are present, and in- 'ng business gessions are raised 8T PUBLIC HEARINGS BY WOMEN'S COMMITTEE. puth Bend, Ind., May 18.—The n n to investigate conditions 2 women in this State Was createq by the Legisla- winter, wil] hold a public 0 this city today. Meetings ly after this one will be 0 other cities. The govern- "eau of statistics and this have been working to- €T With a view to ascertaining “al conditions as to wages, san- U safety and otker conditions nd women who work in tories anq other, places of smployment. The commis- T0Doses to enlarge the scope of anqg it will ask all per- Ve suggestions or recom- s to offer on the st working conditions 0 mit them to the I hearings ICIAN, HEROIN SELLER Conn., May 18 br miles | would | t shipping of liquor into dry | 1 possible | | joct of | wWe W as cials eve > death ed Consul General John Griffith, who suceumbe a brilliant of the most popular NERAL INTERNATIONAL PEACE Hazue Pe; ( (By DAY IN SCHOOL | "t Oklahoma City, Methodist reconsider the confeen ent and voted to recot a committee ed the committe lof the majority re tary legislation w day. The con for the success of the Mexi COmpose e ire nn wols — of itod aay, tl ng ot the nee, whic ocnilzed ood fellow 10 BECONSIOER THE VMOERBLT CSE " According to a letter receivea Associated Press.) May 1§ today Vi it t ¢ repor to tfollow the s 8] al rt Suppler stubmitted red pra mediatio ittienlt BIG APPROPRIATION FOR RIVER AND HARBORS BILL millions, and been agreed upon that was was ers and FUOFS Hous¢ ADIAN GOOD CAN. RO Washington, May IN committe nocommerce f lera v ) I 1 | since the M the bill to Senators desirit to i I ed, t merce will the re ied I rojects Now ntin i it I ght a o dou . b ceed the Hous (Special) | reported to he pressing the campaign |- committee” hunted up J. . Lan- the Senate |against Saltillo ang San Luis Potosi. fiap the peprege ntative of the White which has | They are also trying to cut Huerta's gy fine, ang he sold them tickets to the last railroad to the east coast {from New York to Monrovia via ion "Vi.‘r African steamsnip line from Liv it (By Associated Press.) crpool to Monrovia. The cost of the "an0 San Francisco, May I8 =Ninety groorage tickets from New Yerk to nitt [refugees arrived here yesterday H'nll!f\izmrn\m for the party was some- ¢ the Mexican west coast. They came [thiyo ooy F2,000, and they paid for| ard on | the' British steamer Cetriana and [1he mout of the leather satchel the told of their escape from Mansaolld | jeader carried and watehed so ¢lose pes |1 aid but for the arrival of the ;l all the time, and thig added to the m com- [Cruiser Raleigh at Believedic the frape from Live ‘Onk to New York, | f the | ica would have destroyed Ce-\ypade the tota) transportation some It | in_order to have wreaked lihing in the neighborhod of $3,000 ; ngeance on the Americans | In addition to paving for their car " e | transportation, the party carried ral | JUDGE UNDER CHARGES [ with them nearly $23,000 in cash vill | |or exchange, the price received for ntract” | Savannah, Ga., May I8.—Federal i their lands in Suwannee county, 1p "Hj;, (irubb, of the northern dis vhich they sold at from $10 to $15 1t as early |trict of Alabama, sat in the United per acre, including growing crops | (‘ourt here today in place of and all improvements ] Speer, under charges. Judge George (', Gailes, the negro man ¢r of the southern district of in charge of the party, and the one | Georgia, was to have conducted this | who gecure d them for the African ; irt, but recently announced that project, accompanied them to Mon- » Ihe woulg hear no cases, pending final | yovya, saying that he had pledged to action by a sub-committee of the 'tpon tha¢ they could get there all ifi,pyu» judiciary committee who in- right, so far as man could arrange, with a d to heart He is mourneq throug Eng- LAKELAND, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1914. = 0 10 RESIGN IF hout —— GATES TO ACT of Their Journey to Niagara Falls (By Assoclateq Progs ) | Washinaton, May I Huer dioe 18 authorized his delegates to su of | Mt hig resignation if that nec( ry. This was ' in dispatehes d-irom @ competent diplomatic servi or| Mexico City to one of the foreign This confir here g epresentatives 1d | e | 1Mtimations by the delegate's friends. | : (By Associateq Press.) May 18 The (fulness of Huerta's peace dele | Washington, the long trip would not be reflected \dministration |cussed the i mediation | i""" ings on valn o was here by circles today possible extent of proceedings and the final settlement thie HAS AUTHORIZED HIS DELE- [Peace Delegates Now on Last Lap ns hone n many . dis- the their | ol trouble between Huerta and the g | United States. Minister Naon, or Ar Wit entina, is reported to have arrived o {in Buffalo this morning and taken hip | g ; |y auto to Niagara Falls. Ambassa- j<1w\' Pagama, of Drazil, is expected to :Jmlu' New York today. Minister | Sumners, of Chile, leaves here today he United States delegates expect arrive at Niagara Falls Tuesday Wednesday morning about ‘Hln time the Huerta mission reaches there The Hin New York, Huerta's represent ul u-jlw chosen, and it is saiq they ha pacification of Mexico Carranazi attitude to the It is improbable that IHue pirit nen mediators is to- | watched yers [ti's representatives will agree to the n to felevation of Carranza or Villa. The jlrv‘rn-], have declared that they will not compromise angd mean to take Mexico City. It ig doubtful if the United States would acknowlec such a government. The rebels are stigateq his official acts, |view to impeachment riv- | Among the cas at this se Naval with be that of Compan sion Is Stores ican | charged ng straint of trade The cas voted to [tives are reported to feel that it is bilt case | necessary that a suecessor to Huerta of fitteen and instruct- [admitted the real problems of the being proceedings s scheduled to come the Yy, an organization is at- a great deal of attention be » of the prominence of the par- | ties involved 1l | SPECIAL MEETING il FOR PACIFIC GAS is be- [ L0RD CURZON RE- HUERTA WILLING YEGGS MAKE RIGH HAUL NEGESSARY) ON BROADWAY SECURED $10,000 FROM MOVING PICTURE HOUSE Silenced Four Men, Blew the Safe and Made a Swift Get-Away ‘our men fentered a Broadway theater oned motion They watehman and thr picture this rning impris the vwork men ang blew the safe. They seeured | $10.000 and escaped NEGROES LEAVE FOR | AFRICAN SETTLEMENT Jacksonville, Fla., May 18, —Six- ty-cight ngreoes from Suwannee county sailed yesterday from Now York on the liner Baltic, for Mon- rovia, Africa, on the second stage of their The was from Ouk 1o Jacksonville, long journey . first stage Live The previous Sunday was spent by the negroes of the entire in bidding farewell to the Those who have seen a ne- almost connty crown, aro farewel] in the South know what [it was The third stag | York | st {rovia * Wil be from New to Liverpool, and the fourth will be from Liverpool to Mon- The first will misfortune that them happens the old 1y down upon the Suwannee and long to be there, and come, S0t thinking of Fhome 'y Ribber," can't because thousands — of intervene, Letters [Will be written to the “‘white folks' tin Florida, God-pitying letters miles of water for {help to get back home to die; and [many of those *‘white folks™ will 1sengd the money for the returnp of | the home sick prodigals. There were fify-five tickets sold for the crowd, and there were thir- teen children so young that they | jtravel free After they bought theip tickets from Jacksonville to New York, the and he was going with them because he felt that his personal word was at stake, He will come back in a short while and take another party over, and saiq that next to take his family The party is going over to engage planting, on arrival they time he expects coffee and will and they said that cotton 120 acres of land eack their he given which to on begin openat The land lies on t St. Paul river in the republic of Liberia, of which | Monrovia in the capital city SIGNS PRESIDENCY | LOUISIANA SENATOR DECLARES. PRESIDENT MADE NO OFFER (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 18.—Senator Ransdell, of Louisiana, denied today on the floor of the Senate that the president soreht to coerce him or his colleague, Senator Thornton, by means of federal patronage to vote for free sugar. NTLANA ORGANZES HER RESERIE BANK (By Associateq Press.) Representa five ks district wet here today to reserve bank will for Ihey ward their ¢ Washing ton TIGIER COURT MAY GET CA Austin, Texas trict court is trying today of the State of Texas tional and Great Northern mine the question as to whether reconsigneq freight at and interstate or May 18 The dis the case Interna- Railroad V8. Company, to dete Galveston other Texas ports is intrastate commerce. Tt de- cision will be reached and the case will eventually the United States for final de- is believed that no satisfactory 20 0 Supreme court cision HARRIS WANTS TO B GOV, OF GEORG (By Associated Press.) Washington, May IS, NV Harrei director of the census of Georgia, tendered his resignation to rison in governor on the day to Secrctary G order to enter the race for Democratic ticket . BAPTISTS PROTEST AGAINST VATICAN REPRESENTATION (By Associateq Press.) Nashville, May 15 =t tne South ern Baptists' closing session today they adopted resolutions protesting against a representative of the Vati- can beimg at the seat of the govern- ment AMERICAN DANGERS IN PARIS Paris, May 18.-— A group of young men and women from the United States will tonight begin their de monstration at the tlote] Majestic, in this city, of the dances which have become prime favorites with Americans in the <ast year, The tango, the one-step angd the hesita tion Waltz, not the dances peculiar to the stage, but those of the ball oom, will be introduced to Kuro peans. In the group are: Mrs. New ton Adams, of Newport and New York; Mrs. and Miss D'Evelyn, Miss Francis Downing, and Messrs. Pot ter, Foster, Vibbert and Lounsherry It is the intention of this party to remain abroad all summer, anq after the seasons in Paris and lLondon have ended they will probably go to the more fashionable watering places on the coast of France FARMER KILLED BY LIGHTNING NEAR KISSIMMEE JAn farm Fla Simmons, a well May 18 known Kissimmee, miles south- east of Kissimmee, on the St. Cloud, was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning which struck him during a storm of severity late Saturday afternoon er, living about four road to unusual The unfortunate man was work ing on his farm when the storm broke, and so severe was it that be- fore he reacheq a safe place he struck Mr is well thi section and his wife and family heartfelt mity was Simmons known in children have the of six mpath the entire con WHITE RATS OPEN FAIR 1 A( tors’ Fa 1 organization of r nder aindard i Rats’ 1 h 1 . " 1 or t HILL SCORES SLEUTHS ON FRANK CASE DECLARES THEY'RE AFTER MONEY AND NOTORIETY Asks Grand Jury to Probe Into the Charges of Bribery Growing Out of the Case (By Associated Atlamta, May 18 ) \ caustic erit- r'res; vism was contait Ben H Hill's charge to the jury to- day recarvdin actions of certain ‘famous sleuths™ in connection with the case of Leo M. Frauk. Judge Hill said that these detectives are not after the truth -but moncy ang no- | toriety. He said the public is justly incensed at their conduct, He direet- ed the wd jury to rigidly investi- sate the charges of bribery ang per Jury growing out of the case. He expected the grand jury to begin to | take testimony the middle of the ‘week TJOURNALISM WEEK OF MISSOURI Columbia, Mo., May 18.,—The week commencing today is Journal- ism Week at the University of Mis- souri. Many speakers, leaders in the various fields of journalism, adver- and publishing, will address the students, among whom are Mr, Medill - McCormack, . . Cutter, of the Associated Press, Mrs. Yo ML Gilmer (Dorthy Dix) and Joe Chapple, editor of the National i The Missouri Press As clation will hold its regular spring meeting here Journalism preparations will be made for the printing and allieq arts exposition to be held under the au- spices of this asociation in St. Louis next fall. tising Joseph during week, when MUST FARES GO UP? Boston, Mass May 18.-—The public service commission will this afternoon begin hearings on the proposition of the street railw Mas: be raiseq if they are to take care of the appreciation of stock ang proper- ly provide for the public | — —————— “ i INDUSTRIAL HEARINGS | 5 ! New May 18- The federal Industrial York yCommission on Relations will begin hearin in this city to | day . CANDIDATES FOR STATE OF- FICES FILE EXPENSE ACCOUNTS Tallahassce, May 18 In ance with the accord the requires the filing of the expense accountg of the ndidates for State and national the candidates for United States Senate, Congress, sec- retary of agriculture, justice of the supreme court, state's attorney and other offices, have filed {temized statements showing their respective expenditures in their contest for the office to which they aspire. The cam- paign expenditure statements as filed with Secretary of State (‘raw- ford show the senatorial candidates to have spent the most money. The congressional candidates in the third next in order. In the race for state offices, T. J. Apple- Tallahassee, candidate for commissioner of agriculture, leads all other candidates in the amount of money expended provisions of new Bryan primary law, which various eg offices, distriet are yard, of The sworn statement of the came paign expenses of some of the candi- dates follow United States Senator Dunecan U. Fletcher, Jack sonville 32 17 [John N. . Sto Jack 89 inpaigd Ils 87.30 Contribu 25 Representative in Congress, First District M. Sparkman No. 164