Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 11, 1914, Page 1

/ PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE BOOST—REMEMBER THAT SATAN STAYED IN HEAVEN UNTIL HE BEGAN T0 KNOCK HIS HOME TOWN l | | rs. Wilson .Aid To Rest At Rome, Ga. VICES AT FIRST PRESBYTER- IAN CHURCH 3 gl “(Jol Children Lined the Streets Bearing Laurel Branches as % Funeral Cortege Passed (By Associated Press.) me, Ga., Aug. 11.—Simplicity mark the funeral of Mrs. \Wood- (.\V-lllon here. The casket will ken direct to the First Presby- n chureh, where her father, Dr ard Saxon, was seventeen years i, on arrival of the <special from Washington at 2°30 this noon and there two old hymns, sirlhood favorites, will be sung. rty-five minute service will be icted by Rev. Sylvester Beach rinceton, and Dr. G. Sny- ~)f Rome, and thence the cortege pass between lines ef school bearing laurel branches to le Hill cemetery, where services e grave will be short. At the ient’s request both services will ‘ivate with only relatives and is present. The president and will leave at six tonignt for qd.lngton. | . ZRAL TRAIN GREETED BY THOUSANDS IN ATLANTA (By Associated Press ) lantn, Aug. 11.-—Thousands 1€ ired here at noon to meet the ¥ bearing Mrs. \Voodrow Wil- body from \Washington to ==. The crowds stood silent and mo eaded during the twenty min- B istop of the special. Few per- have geen the president since it Washington. He has bheen ling in the darkened funeral itting beside the casket contin- ASSENGER TRAVEL 'HROUGH NEW ORLEANS IS PERFECTLY SAFE 'al Passenger Agent R D 1sey, of Louisville and Nash- ville Railroad Company, Quiets Alarm is perfectly safe for passengers vel through New Orleans writes e ’r al Passenger Azent R. D. , of Louisville and Nashville ad, Louisville, Ky., to the ' Vs in this eity and State. .+ Pusey says there have been {al cases of bubonic placue, as body knows, but reports of con- s have been cx rated in »apers and all the cas have —= confined to a small district, remote from the depot of the ) “ N. in the C(rescent City, he . Il 4outhern Pacific and p: 1g through New Or —=ome in contact wit e. detained in rere is no ity from ou 1ere have been scveral cases lo- but they are cor district which from our depot and ined to a very is quite a dis- that of ssenzers | 9 1gers being ‘ansfer across th -0 to the Southern Pacific an P. and Frisco, nor are ‘n arrival by health authorit \ietalned for medic: All such reports witl ) “Jrounds amnd it is perfectly safe *#sgengers to travel through New ns. — i HOLDINGS ABROAD FEW York, Aug. 11—Loc y that American iropean securitic imal would not hurt 's. Large insur Inve nts stm S in- S0 forei gn that a zeneral American in- nies { mission Bond Ordinance Revoked; Another To Be Drawn Ellis Elected Chief of Police: Thomas and Woods on Police Force Lakeland. Fla., Aug. 10, 1914. Adourned session of the city com- with Jaton, Toph. Mendenhall, and Flanagan prosent. On motion, all bids for claying W, Lemon street were rejected. Applications for positions on the police force were read, and on mo- tion ballots were taken for the elec- tion of policemen for t'?)e balance of the year, beginning Sept. 1. R. C. Ellis was declared elected as chief of police, and S. C. M. Thomas and J. A. Wood were de- clared elected as policemen for the balance of this year. Ordinance No. 172 entitled, An Ordinance I’rm‘idin-.:' for the Calling, Holding and the Manner of Holding an Election in and for the City of Lakeland, Florida, for the purpose of voting on the question of the City of Lakeland‘issuing bonds for muni- cipal purposes, and for the election of three trustees to serve as a board of public works, should the said vote be in favor of the issuance of bonds, and repealing ordinance No. 169, ete., was introduced and ¢iven itg first reading. On motion the rules were suspended, and said entitled as xhove, ard final Messrs. its second ordinance No. was put upon readings and was duly passed, all members present, Messrs. Eaton, Toph, Mendenhall and Flanagan vot- ing yes. Complaint G relative to strect line to a special committee Bussard and Flanagan to have line established around his tot. Solon G. Wilson, attorney for the Peninsular Telephone Co., a proposed ordinance extending |hv| franchise and allowing inerease in rentals of phones by said tele- and asked its pas- On motion J was MeClelland referred Messrs said of of nregented an phone company, sage by the commission the chairman and Mr. Mendenhall with the city attorney were anthor- ized to confer with the representa- tive of the said company, draft an ordinance covering the sit- uation and submit it to the commis- sion at its next session. and to Ordinance No. 171 entitled an ordinance amending section f of or- dinance No. 162 relative to side-| walks, ete., was put upon its sec- ond and final readines, and was duly passed, all members nresent, | Messrs. Eaton, Toph, \lv:wl.nlmlll and Flanagan voting yes. Ordinonce | No. 173 was put upon its first read. ing, taking the regular course On motion the commission ad-| ourned 0. M. EATON. | Chairran Attest: H. L. SWATTS, Clerk SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE RULE BEFORE | Gaine \u I ard of count comn m the regular on here adopted rest | Tt which pr {"" mber o 8 carry hua county henceforth T d ur yre th t s oard will have e major of citizens, ag the proceedings of the commissioners show that a n er 4--is country, suc - Life, have inv J. securities, but it | they would d -~y have a wor Jdy 1912, the A l‘ sold $25,000,0 sountry, but half up the first « ‘e the balance ican investors abroad. Years & large amount of aost of these sccurities are J to hv' been sold back to for- TS bonds of pistol bonds ar ed th Heretofore to secure a per ry a gun has been a mer |the filing with the clerk of |executed bond. The clerk present the petition to the commi | sioner, and as a rule the ermit be granted the practice wi xt to se to the United ucceed th late de- will be confirmed, Luron, clare that there would be but little opposition to the appointment. tice | veas not Rainbow. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, AUG. 11, 1914, Netherlands Desperate To Enforce | Attack On Its Neutrality| Ft. Seraing - DECLARES STATE OF WAR IN|800 GERMANS KILLED IN ONE- HALF MILE SQUARE SEVERAL PROVINCES Little News Is Allowed to Filter Through: Only One Wire to Eu- rope; Liege Still Stands The Germans Are Already in Por- tions™o. the Province of Limburg (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press.) The Hague, Aug. 11.—A royal de- Brussels, Aug. —The Germans [: 3 wpoerate ¢ d' or cree today proclaims a state of war |made desperate attack on Fort in the Dutch provinces of Limburg, : SCtuins, south of Liege, Sunday night, but were repulsed with a ‘North Brabent, Zeland and portions of Gokderland. The Netherlands is determined o enforce its neuirality. The Germang are olready in portions of Limburg. heavy loss. It ig estimated that S00 Germans were killed in less than a square of a half mile. A bridge which the Germansg were crossing was shattered by the fire of the fort which had an exact range The Germans attempted the assault with great courage. Some of their dead were found directly in front of the barb wire fences that surround the forts. It is reported that Prince William of Lippe and his son, who were killed, were charging at the head of 100 German soldiers. Their bodies were buried near the fort. One of the spies arrested by the WRECKAGE OF BRITISH WAR SHIP CAST UP (By Associated Press.) San Francisco, Aug. 11.-—More wreckage from a British vessel which today was established to have been a warship, was cast up by flood tide in the neighborhood of the South Shore life-saving, station. Two white cabin doors were found with bright brass plates, one labeled lmprovement ln Navigation In Past 200 Years Evolution of the Time System Has Also Been Exceedingly Marvelous ~ No News Of Hurricanes Obtainable (By Associated Press.) New -York, Aug. 11.—Two hun- NO WARNINGS CAN THEREFORE dred and thirty-nine years ago _\I'.\'" Bk §EN~T<0UT terday the foundations were laid for | Vessels C X iti S Ciaatibisl baciaiaty essels Can Not Report Conditions Which for Fear Hostile Cruisers Learn ¢ 1¢ \mm its standard time. of Their Whereabouts A year later it was completed and approved by King Charles II. Its (By ,\ssm Press.) erection marked a new epoch in the world’s navigation. Before its estab- lishment a navigator's voyage was a phazard and exceedingly danger- ous undertaking. The astronomical which the ured his position in mid-occan were 50 erratic at that time that a ship the Virginia Colony in world was just as liable to land on the coast of New England. There was no-ffniversally aceepted 1,000 AMERI(‘ANS ARRIVED FROM EUROPE TODAY York, failure of New Aug. the British vessels to revort 11.~—Through and German weather conditions at sea because af fear that their lo- cations will be wirelessed to hostile cruisers, the weather bureau is un- able to give notice of & West Indian hurricane which tables by navigator fiz- is probably now headed for forming the new first meridian of longitude by which the navigator could sail his course accurately until the early explorers adopted their own. The Tatin navi- gators used the peak of Teneriffe in {The Red Star liner Kroonland flying the Canary islands, until Richelien [the Belgian flag and bearing 170 called a scientific congress in Paris | 'St cabin passengers, mostly Amer- in 1630 which decided upon the is<ii"""“ from Europe, came into port land of Ferro as the first meridian, | 044y almost simultancously with (By Associated Press,) INGW Yo TRy NP A e “navigation officer,” and the other n"“‘j“'"s i ()f‘l"‘.“l l.“"l in his ".“'“' “sunner,” gession plans indicating the nalting g i points of the German army on the According to these Aug. march to Paris. Brussels was to be reached and Lille, France, Aug. Military authorities here assert that the German cavalry division were told to make a raid on Brussels with the object, oither of levying war contributions or seiz- 1t is argued they not meeting WRECKAGE NOT THE CRUISER RAINBOW (By Associated Press.) Ottawa, Canada, Aug. 11.—The naval office today declared that the wreckaze found near San Francisco from the Canadian cruiser It is thought that it might be from the Shearwater or Al- small British gunhoats. 0 B it is bhelieved, the treasury. evidently koned Belgian resistance. As evidence that the to traverse Belgian known to well informed here it is pointed out that a bated chauteau in Belzium, Lelong- ing to a German prince, was emptied works ing gerian on German plans territory were Germans BRITAIN TO MINE THE NORTH SEA (By Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 1[4 1S Britain has issued a warning tral powers that she intends contact mines in the North the Germang have done. The warn- ing ig given in order to protect mer- chant vessels proposing to enter waters. Great cele- to neu- placing ) six weeks ago, all the silver, articles being sent of are and other to Germany . those U. S. HAS NO DIRECT Thig island remained the euiding t‘h" White Star liner Cedrie (Eng- mark for the Latin races for many llsll\' from IHalifax. Both steamed gorations. The English-speaking | CAUtiously with with only running races established Greenwieh time h““,‘f‘ burning. The Cedrie put into and mortdlan. One of the fiat acts [F1AHIAX .I"“’" week, interrupting her of the first royval astronomer was to voyage from England to New York compile all the known statistics 1<u|f‘"' fear “"“‘II‘“II" by German war Inting to astronomy and to work ont I‘T??“]"" “'_" !"““_“I'”“‘ left Ant- a reliable table for mariners. Then {Ve'P 00 Aug. 1 before general hos- it hegan to set the elocks of England m”“ls had been declared. About 140 Ao Tnited Stotes, (Iv)l\ l|t|]~|'l]H|[s:\'vn£<.-1"s were booked to sail Today all the elocks of the impor- B '.‘ "\.‘""“ = I‘Y”.]“f""“‘ ‘-““l La- tant countries of the world are tick- rovenee. On learning that these ing in accordance to their distance .'T‘m“”_“m \\'en]d sail these tour- from the All ists immediately started for Ant- ; X Rt werp. Those who took the after the world's navieators are sailing or ; 2 shearhoon not Greenwich observatory, [train from Paris suceeeded in reach- steaming over the gseven seas on i AL arD it Dele s courses laid by Greenwich observa- wl'lvil«- s 4 y _”"*'“" tory. The people of the United s SRRy took the evening States are rising from their ]!4'114‘.“.;““ were forced to leave their be- i longings behind., opening the day's business and eat- ing their meals according to regula- tions laid down by the British astro- nomers of King Charles’ reien. The world i8 marked off into zones, cach FORMER TRILBY POST- MASTER LANDS IN PEN ONLY FRENCH NEWSPAPER COMMUNICATION WITH one of which occupies fifteen degrees Jacksonville, Aug 1 (ot DA MEN ALLOWED IN FIELD AUSTRIA OR GERMANY of longitude and is numbercd ac- | Rennolds, deputy United States mar- A cording to its position in velatien to|shal at Tampa, is spending the day (By Aassociated rress.) sy Associated Press.) Greenwich. In the United States in Jacksonville en route home from Paris, Aug. 11.—The French war| New York, Aug. 11.—Advices to |four of these zones exist, the conn- [Atlanta, where he went to convey minister today issued detailed in-|t{he Associated Press from London ytry having a breadth of fifty-five de- . H. Pitts, who was recently con- structions concerning newspaper |state that an increasingly rigid cen-|grees All the clocks in a zone rea ;\ivlml of embezzling funds belonging correspondents accompanying any [sorship is being imposed on all mat 'ia‘!l‘r the same hour according to a [to the postoflice at Trilby. Pitts was [ Franch armics in the field Only !ter from Brussels. The French Ca-{pregulation adopted in 1882 This tried and convicted of mis-appropri- representatives of the French press|ble Company is the only dircet line trogyulation was promulgated to over Jating the sum of $2,250 while post- who are French in nationality and|to Eurbpe. All news comes throuzh!come the seventy-one different sets master at Trilby. Pitts claims that not subect to military duty, and cor- | London. Paris dispatches leaving | of time prevailing in the country When his books are competently and- respondents of allied conntrie u_.ulwzn city early yesterday are arriv-|peretofore. Today another mighty !ited at Washington the results will Ihe alloved to follow the 1y in :H‘! fifteen hours late. There is no | avolution in n: tion and the uni- be in hig favor Deputy Marshal ithe field. |direct communication with Austria { yopgap time system is in process. It Rennold tat that upon learning ‘»md Giermany is proposed to use the wireless tele that Pitts was an expert in the SI RVIAN CHIEF OF ST/\PT | e ST graph to verify time, It ig suogest [ dairy busine the warden of the ARRESTED BY AUSTRIA |LIEGE IS STILL CENTER od that the United States Naval Oh- federal penitentiary declared he OF GREAT CONFLICT [servatory flash its signals of the jWould make Pitts a trusty and place .: (By Associated Press.) ‘,,,,‘,,-“,e),”, at sea so that the navi- [ him in char:e of the dairy main- i London, Aug. 11 A dispateh 10 vatop can aceurately determine hig tined av the penitentiary It. 18 the Times from The Hague, dated on| gistance from land by setting i fH ly th Pitts will be paroled at Wnday, and another to the Tele-| chronometer. Another seientist suge ’w"w on ol a i oon account jeraph from Maastricht, agree that | gagtg that the government radio sta- | ©! h revious good record L citi- o stru for the Liege fort |tion at Arlington flash its sizhals to | %00 till going on amid terrible scenes L giffe] tower in Par that Knrope —_— { bloodshed and heroism. The Ger-|and America can set their elocks a NOTHING ALARMING IN Sk eorte toailanee learntaly ; THE ROCK SITUATION | forts nearest t} cit d the | s Shon ute Uidia DUC RYRREYL - TAND JOR SRTILENENY - | sSshe | wgainst constant bhombardment fattitue | ! f the tide 1 _— San Frane ,_,‘1‘@ A 11-—To- | 0L events h r tpparent in 1500 BALES AMERICAN COTTON | gav ther bo opened to entry | e Phosphiate mines in Polk county | SOLD'AT LIVERPOOL TODAY‘,”},,‘, RN s e T e R VS 3 | { Yy Rsoneak ”‘III REE | acres of government land in ,\'mnh—‘h‘ for the vard who ha [ 1 Liverpool \\ i - ' jern California, formerly included in | nished ! isits to th ':‘ | ;‘“ :1 ! e ® ‘v‘”"“" N “""'“u;u Santa Barbara National forest pla n that region Al 1‘ old here ”“"'»"" a basis ol 6.50 1¢oit1oment may he madi up to and [mines are running with th xeep- [pence for middling Receipts were | ;o ding Sept. 6, 1914, and there-|tion of those at Coronet and Pem }"‘“”” bales, including 5,000 Amer-| .0 00 he Jand be open to dis-|broke, the latter controlled by the jruns ition at the n Francisco and |company at Coronet ; Anzeles land offices under the As shutting down of these {CONCERN FELT ABOUT BODY laws applicable to them. Most of the | mines, controlled by a French | OF COMPTROLLER CHAMBERS land in scattered tracts and i poration, entails a decrease e ol reDOT be chiefly low-grade 7 % | concern is felt here because nothing o AR R RN GRS ? further he heard ¢ Vis : :r-nk»“'wuviw'\ to any marked Austri I lative to r ;v‘.lr' Dozier says tr ition ustrated in ing th ody of her fa nnual ecru 1l reser | company not fe Jid fither, Com 1 Char T fleet of t) O l.a | \ ur ir s | The cablegram anno I leat Of great to ti I a1 " W irned came from Lond t ma " tt |awa v reulat- 1 capital. Some fear is felt that Deceml POSS Iy, Dosler & § death occurred in the \\'.1r-mrn‘ ) and ship for t nothing and sawing wood.”—Tampa s he f the s 1ed rela- wvmimm and that the stricken|peet’s trip through the is ane tions of the two countries he ~n';!.:hr daughter is meeting with trouble in [nal. On this annual ¢ g PR — to return to take charge of the army | getting away from Europe with the 'days will be spent in thev iciaity “l‘l The ful] strength of Germany's ar- of his native land remaing of her father. Mackinaw island my is 4,000,000 men