Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 4, 1915, Page 1

i Weather Fore- Unsettled jather. Prob- y showers. THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM Local Tempera- ture: 2 p. m., 68, Past 24 hours! 'Manm\m, 72 M.unmum 52 PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE 3 BOOST—REMEMBER THAT SATAN STAYED IN HEAVEN UNTIL I'IE BEGAN 1‘0 KNOCK HIS HOME T OWN. ¢ UME IV yndonStock xchange 30TH OF JULY tt Crisis in Exchange’s His ry Is Now Believed to Be Past ly Associated Press.) led restitions in trading. BND JURYPROBING THEFT —_-— ise, 1daho, Jy . took up thematter of the de ion in the jtate today. It 1 expected indicments W] be found be ion. The shortge is expect exceed $100,000.4 number o persons in office \re believed guilty . RAGISTS ACTIVE prson, N. , Jan, 4.—Dr. Howarq Shaw natlo!.ll presi of the Women’s |Suffrage ' ance of the loca league Over 2,000 will hes her. ps attendance. ded as door prizes. BMAN’S SHOW York, Jan. 4. portsman’s paradise, T will be oft told. The an e, together with ing to Re-Opened| Two Negroes. BEEN CLOSED SINCE THE t WILL AND ED SMITH STRUNG UP pnd¢, Jan. 4.—The stock ex-~ Montgomery, Jan. 4.—It is re ge Ire reopened for business|ported that Will and Ed Swmith, ne- has been closed since|groes, were lynched this morning 30. Severe restrictions are|near Wetumpka, fifteen miles from d on‘rading to prevent panic|here. The Smiths were held in unloang securities by hostile | connection with the killing last iries. The resumption of busi_| Thursday of R. A. Stilwell, a farm . is belited to indicate that the est cris. in the exchange's his- has beerpassed, Business must pre on a trictly cash basis and 4.—The grand treasurer's that {governor has ordered a speci: that of State keagurer 0. V. who confessed'o $70,000 de_ NEWJERSEY p. will speak here tinight in has been doing vely active vith a large exhibiion and Seting of be delivered in seaon will OPENS IN NEW YORK Madison Garden has been tramsformed ind for eight days tales of tle wood ortsman’s Show opencd this n, with a collection o birds, ing animals and trophies of hunting paraphernalia wkich is the sportsman’s comfort LAKELAND, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JAN. 4, 1915. No. 52. 'Wetumpka Posse Lynch EARLY THIS MORNING Smiths Were Held in Connection With the Murder Thursday of R. A. Stilwell, a Farmer (By Associated Press.) er, in Elmore county. The mob en tered the county jail, overpowered the sheriff and took the mnezroes the R away. The militia left here for the| o Russians as a protection agatnst b i wire entanglements and barricades. scene at 3 o'clock. No further de- - have been placed tails received. The bodies of the twG negroes were found hanging to tre¢s five miles from Wetumpka today. Three Alleged lynchers have been jailed 'but their names are kept secret. The ™|'Orders Pour Into sion of the grand jury to investigate |the lynching. guards wearing a white great coat. -| TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE i CONVENED TODAY (By Associatea Press.) Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 4.—The biennial session of Tennessee leg- islature began this morning. The ‘ezislature is overwhelmingly Dem- {ocratic. WomanJumps From Train At | — |Rocky Mount { BODIES OF NELMS SISTERS MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND WAS ENROUTE TO TAMPA WITH (By Associated Press ) HER DAUGHTERS Santiago, Texas, Jan. 4.—Bones found near Devine, Texas, Saturday, STATE POULTRY {HOW are thought to be those of Mrs. No;"l in Hospital at Eliose N denni i orence, S. C. te Poultry S o e | 4 oot : 3 . C y Show opdied here peared last June. The bones had Rocky Mount, N. C,, Jan. 4.—Mrs. N. Loperno, a well dressed Italian woman traveling with two daugh- ters from Washington to Tampa, jumped from a moving train yester diy and wag probably fatally in. jured. She was taken to a hospital at Florence, S. C. been buried five years, according to 2 physician’s statement. lPhysician Of Pickett’s Brigade Dies DR. CHARLES W. CHANCELLOR PASSES AWAY Was 83 Years of Age and One of the South's Grand 0ld Men SHORT AGR.ICULTURAL COURSE Storrs, Conn ., .l:uL 4. the Connecticut College which began here March 2. The win_ ter course at cultural today will continue until the farm may be so that industry in State fally advanced. Younz women as well as young men are elizible. espec ess. Aside from the zeneral ) P P s there will be a dozen fea troduced last year after an ontests, swimming Pr polo will take place in h tank at one end of the races, mpionships will be pf five years from this show. races, a n addition to the men's the women's in_ staged g (By Ascoclated Press.) OHIO LAW REFORMS d'h" L after | \voohington, Jan. 4.—Dr. Chas. e e evel g, S er- % L & & i E ¥ . Many Pning, (tho moat Inters iy “nnancelior, 1n/ charge ot ‘theil, . woiumbus; cOhlo) Jan ny which will be the water important questions will come hefore medical General Pickett's division in the Civil war, died here last night, aged eighty-three. forces of ! the Ohio legislature which met here ttoday. The Republicans expect to have the help of some Democrats in undoing some of the laws put through by ex Gov. Cox, which are " | PASS MEXICAN MONEY ON PENSACOLA GREEKS |said to be obnoxious The claim of the State workman's com pensation act will be raised to $3,- death Fla Pensacola, Jan. 4.—Mexican All along the road, on both sides of it, are huge stone: along the lines to give alarm when a raiding party is they take on the appearance of the wayside rocks. Supplies For Use In Europe Is Thought to Be Fatally Injured; Is ' Agri-| The course is to he a practical one | thig | _irifles, BARBED WIRE ALONG THE FRONTIER pyright d & Underwoo All along the Gernifin-Russian border barbed wire entanglements have been erected by both the Germans and raiding parties from either side. The photograph shuws one of these barbed nted white. Guards 1. These guard: are dressed so that Under the tree in the foreground ma; he ‘on one gf _m_'g o« |OKIO STATE POULTRY U. S For War e EXHIBITION Cleveland, Ohio. Jan. 4.—The oxhibition of the Ohio State Agri | cultural colleze was opened here to lday under the auspices of the Cleve~ land Poultry Breedeis' Association. {This exhibition has boen arranged {to help the average povltry raiser. Live birds showing desirable and Allies Place Tremendous Orders With | undesirable qualities are shown side American Concerng for Guns by side. Samples of ¢»-s from all | And Ammunition {the leading utility brecds can be — seen and compared. Samples of about all the desirable pou'try feeds (are displayed. amples of shipping (eegs by express and parcel post, as well as many kinds of pack al- | handling eggs for family tr: on exhibition. pes of eg THIS COUNTBY 18 ALREADY REAPING BENEFITS OF THE WAR In a statement laid before the Ger man ambassador, Count von Bern_ storff, some of the orders for war materialg placed in this country by ||h,- allies are specified as follow Two hundred thousand rifles, iber .303, from the Remington Arms boxes for can | Company. dlers are in operation. Many maps, ) ‘Two hundred million cartridges charts and photographic enlarze . {from the Union Metallic Cartridge ments are on display. Company . 4 Pl RETURN TO WORY rhlp,v,s from the Wiinchester Arms Company. Total ontput of artillery cartridee- lof the Union Metallic Cartridge jCompany. Four million pounds of powder from the duPont Powder Company. [pression. Fifteen hundred machine gung % the Colt Works. (Larger or iders pending.) COURSE IN EXPORTS | Fifty thousand revolvers from the Hartford, Conn., Jan. 4.—The Central New England shops whi‘h were put on part time recently have "recumed with all hands today. The curtailment was due to business de rom ; Colt Works. New York, Jan. 4. —Representa- Two hundred armored motor-cars [yives of the largest interests in this with machine guns, from the /\ulu-ipil.\' have heen engazed to give a car Company. Five hundred thousand rifles, eal iber .22, and ammanition for drill course of lectures on exporting by | ! [the Y. M. €. A. in this eity. 'ing purposes from the Winchester turing trade now curtailed by the | Arms Company . warring Furopean fractions. Nine hundred 6 inch howitzers, ey delivery within months, from the Bethlehem Steel Company. i Shell cases for the howitzers from the same company. Seven million pounds of powder ‘from the duPont Powder Company. One hundred thousand Remington caliber 7 mm., and 13,000,000 cartridges. eighteen RAISE FUND TO KEEP TOWN DRY Indianapolis, Mo., Jan. 4.—A fund of $3,000 has been raised by citizens of this city to he used to enforce the local option law which goes into effect here today. GOMPERS TO SPEAK rst time under the new A. |y ooy has mado its appearance in|750i provision made to appoint| About 3,000,000 cartridges per ules, which permit mixed | by cacola, much of it having been |fariers to public offices whose func - I"f"'f'k - 'lwmt: ij::‘npvd from thel | 4ianapolis, Tnd., Jan. 4.—At a prs., passeq for American currency on |tions relate to agriculture; limita- TnHed 1fls 2 s 5 meeting in Tomlinson hall tonight Greeks who recently came to the|tion of workday of employed wom. I";'"" fm fi,\hlnrt;n !I"l":. 5 "q‘""; Samuel Gomper: will be the princi. 54 ¢ an: liberal s siati ‘ealiber, from the Bethlehem Steel 2 ST COAL TAX LAW United States and who are not thor_[®n: liberal appropriations for pro Ferontdls pal speaker. e will discuss the oughly famillar with United States|moting agriculture, abolition of the ComPany. Clayton anti trust bill. This bill is e e ey \Vill Taslor has been tak.|State liquor license board and de-| Two thousand tons of powder for' . aorod very important as it af- urg, Pa., Jan. 4.—Argu 3 5 centralization of the license system 'artillery and infantry cartridges o s 11 trade unions. WISH GOVERNOR Idaho, Jan. Governor John M. Chillicothe, Mo., and en bnly Democrat elected or CLOSED BY J., Jan. Dols which were ia in this city were op- Nineteen hundred pu een idle. be had here today on the of the anthracite coal tax is claimed that the tax is he fundamental law of the IN UNITED STATES 4.—Moses became governor of this ¥. He is the first Jew to a governor in the United e defeated hig Republican Haines He was born in Germany, se, the only Jewish con-. in the State, and of Loder IB. B., of St. J 1, Mo ice mayor of Boise, and HERIA HAVE OPENED|tion 2t an epidemic of 60 cases en into charge of passing the money issued by the Bank of Coahuila. He denies having visited any of the Greek places which complain of hav- ing been duped and abolition of unnecessary State offices anq commissions and restric_ tions of the number and salaries of employes in the State departments. RATE HEARINGS IN STILL SEARCHING FOR NEW ORLEANS LOST GAINESVILLE MAN New Orleans, La., Jan. 4. aminer Gibson and others of the In. terstate Commerce Commis:ion met 4.—The fate of disap- Gainesville, Jan. Mr. Robert Wixson, who . . ‘o | Nere today to examine the cases of peared from his home in this ity ), B o Brog. Lumber Co., vs last Sunday evening, s Yt UR-l . cpoia000a & St. Louis rail. known, although the search Wasl .. pi.n Garcia, vs the Galveston, number of ; -k ns have continued F Harrisburg & San Antonio rail and the New Orleans Board of T volunteered to - | colored cit ade the clothing buciness in|assist in the prosecution of thel . ipo ytchison. Some important in 1891 He now has!search, and the territor. will be T¢-| acedents will probably be ests STE e t n k sure hat Poise and Blackfoot, Tdaho. ¢d in order to make er 'v ‘] lished e Coneregation Beth Isr-|heretofor Se s known Mr SO(‘IET"S “TEA DANSANTE York's ite tea dansant opened patronag of Miss Mrs. W. K. Vande beth Marbury ouch the publica-|Miss E De Wolfe There to his dli'.{mr’lranf‘o be a variety of entertainments intion of TRobert W luncheons at low prices for Not altogether gray:|noon tea and dances. The manage somé o roof of the Strz n owinz to under the should he be have to ion would 'rlii { be _establi with Age. 79 vears — rk brown aml curly “mzhE ment will be represented at every 5 c]o:::; m;‘:"’}‘“ "mmd; a ::I;E\h\ogf :;::d session by two of its members. No; iflfphl‘:'x%.«i“"n&" new but not half |wines will be served, but there will soled. Has dent in kull cau[;:c: 2:, be a wide variety of soft drinks. , saber cut during Civi] war s no alse teeth, but did no S n‘.’:,?v: {th him. Has beard but o1 not very long. Miss Morgan will be in charge of the tea room. -Ex-| will | |from the duPont Powder Company. | One hundred thousand carbines, | caliber 30-40, from the Winchester BILLY SUNDAY IN | Repeating Arms Company. PHILADELPHIA One hundred million i | for the above carbines. Aeroplanes from various firms. Four million aerial arrows. cartridges | Philadelphia, Jan. 4.—Billy | Sunday will open a mammoth revival here tomorrow in the Tabernacle at Artillery ammunition, estimated 19th and Vine streets. There will value $12,000,000, from the Crucible be 1,000 ushers from different Steel Company. churches in the city The capacity ‘ S8 of the building is 20,000 and it is Ihnpm to crowd it throughout the TO ABOLISH STATE ASSEMBLY |[campaign. There will bhe 400 ush ——— ers on duty all of the time. This San Francisco, Jan. 1.—It is re.|will be E ist Sunday's great - ported that an attempt will he made |est eastern campaign 1d his oper t this session of the lezislature [atinz in one of the st eities. Tt | which convened here todayv to ahol.'ig possible he may he shortly in New | ish the State consisting of ' York will he the | WASHINGTON CHARITY BALL lat pow of the Sta shall he Washir . Tar 1 The ar sted A lezislati ody to nnal char hall w be held t} of California.” The s of honor drafted provides that s of t ot the lezi<lature shall k » for alwar sufferers ir term of four ye te is to| EER & be redistricted if proposed| BOY MURDERER 70 DIE ‘amendment to the constitution be-| —_— | ,comes a law, so that there are 40 Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 4.—Harley | districts as there are now 40 sena-|peard, the nineteen year old mur. torial distriets. derer of the Massey family will be electrocuted here this week, unless J. F. Terrell was perhaps fatally lthe governor intervenes. The injured near Jacksonville by theBoard of Pardons has refused to rec—~ l limb of a tree falling on his head. ommend clemency. Beard was em= The | ultimate object is to lead up to cap- | Hand To Hand Encounters Mark Violent Fighting On Eastern Battlefront HEAVY EXPENSE OF NEW WAY OL ELECTING SENATORS there [French Have Whshington, .hm. 1. Nearly | half a million dollars was spent by C ptu d candidates of all parties last Novem_ a re ber in the first pom election of » . United States senators in the history Stelnbach of the government. To be exact,| $460,777.25 represents the total or LT, sworn statements of campaign ex. IN ATTEMPT TO REACH penditures filed with the sccrctary| POLISH CAPITAL, GERMANS of the Senate by the men who sought WERE REPULSED senatorial Bomors from thirty-one e States. Of this grand total After Days of Desperate Fighting was contribated from arious sources Germans Admit French Have to the candidates $188,847.99. 1In} Occupied Steinbach accordance with thewe figures, (hrr.- ! fore, the candldates themselves (By Associated Press.) turned jpto ¢lreulation for the priv London, Jan. 4—Violent fighting ilege of running for office $271 ~|!~ under way along the eastern bat= 926.26. Democrats led in the expen . (tle front, leading at points to des. diture, with $242,895.90, Republic 'wr.uv hand to hand encounters. A Aan candidates spent § Ihnsl-m official statement described 884 .2 Prograsgives, J158.94; Phohibi_ ||| as a movement which marked thé tionists, $4,442.23; Socialists, yrenewal of the German offensive to - $354.74, and independents, $1,.)warq the Polish capital. The ad- 040.06. The average per capita|vance is said to have been repulsed, expenditure was: Democrats, $3,-|with heavy losses. A remarkable 074.63; Republicans, $2,852.44, |night battle on the bank of the Ese- The largest expenditures occurred in the State of Georgia, where two sen- ators were elected, the amount sworn to by all candidates there to taling $41,492.62. North Carolina | candidates, where Senator Overman rura river is mentioned in the Rus. sian communication, which said the German forces were permitted to cross the river unmolested and were then attacked with bayonets without firing a shot. It is asserted wag re elected, brought up the rmr that sever ed Gel with a total expenditure of $702.65. | 160 <% l'l“h"""" SydRtmane were ed ang the William Henley, defeated progres- remainder surren- sive of Oregon, who reported that he dered. contributed to his campaign, $10,' No cssential changes are report~ 115.93, was the only candidate to (ed in the other campaigns. exceed tho $10,000 limit fixed hy Trans .C law. Several candidates reported R 10 o that they spent no money whatever, | uetlans cnguged In a flerow but the lowest expenditure on record (Strusgle. Petrograd and Constan- was cight cents, reported by E. L. |tinople reports regarding the result Hitchens, Socialist candidate in jare conflicting. The allies’ attacks Ohio. failed to develop another great bat- tle in France and Belgium, London lelmc-u that the attempt to expel I(:l'lal'lll)el‘s !the Germans from their conquered . Seeking A . New Trial territory may be deferred several months. |WAS CONVICTED OF USING MAILS | TO DEFRAUD Tearing of a Motion for New Trial | Opened in Kansas City Today In the aucasian region tlye Turks and . Steinbach Captured by French (By Associated Press.) Berlin, Jan. 4.—A German offi. cial statement today admits that the French after days of desperate fight= ing, had captureq the Alsatian town of Steinbach. The statement said the French took the helghts to the west of Sennheim, but the Germans in a counter.attack re=- gained the position. (By Associated Press.) el ~ Kansas City, Jan. 4.—The hear=| Artillery Fighting in Progress ling of a motion for a new trial for | = (By Assoclated Press.) E. . Chambers, who was recently Paris, Jan. 4.—A French official convicted of using the mails to de. 2 2 statement this afternoon shows ar fraud in connection with the sale of bayonet tillery fighting a -4 -3 the Florida Everglades land, hegun | '11°TY fighting along the front is ii the fhaBral coMst tolay, Tha d’__,prm-m-uhn:: intermittently, and at 4 some points with particular viol. fense attempted to show undue in- fluence brought to bear on the jury. ence. There seems to have been few infantry attacks recently. The French admit the failure of their ef= fort to occupy the German positions In the Meuse country, but claim fur= ther progress at Steinbach. X-RAYING COTTON BALES FOR EXPORT New York, Jan, 4.-—About two weeks ago an order was received for a cargo of 10,000 bales of cotton for Germany. This is now loading on the steamer City of Macon at pier 25 North river.. Cotton is not contra- g band, but the British authorities are Saturday near much afraid of the possibility that partly destroying a Zep- copper, to say nothing of military [Pellin shed under construction. Sev= (By Associated Press.) London, Jan. 4.—An Amsterdam dispatch says rench aviators dropped several bombs Brussels, stores, which would command almost | eral German soldiers were killed. lany price just now in Germany, might be hidden inside each 500- pound bale. Inspector Dean, who wag detailed by the consul for the City of Macon started with the idea that any copper hidden inside would be betrayed by weighing the bales. But after weighing about fifty, and finding that they varied in weight from 650 to 410 pounds, and after Resolution moin o 0 i e Hangs Fire wouldn’t do. Then he thought that |WAS UNABLE TO GET IT CON- contraband might betray itself by a SIDERED TODAY bulge on the outside o — [the hale, but this, too, proved a false |It Requested the President to Hand {alarm. Tospector Dean was about, Over All Naval Stores Corre t der th o A . T spondence with England Hardwick’s suspicious las a last resort, ng, at random, of one bale in every : | . " S (By Associated Proass.) ten, which wonld have necessitated < : i . Washinst Jan. 4.—Senator {delayine the ship while the open bales were restowed, when somebody | Hardwick today failed gested ng the X.ray on the ‘LIN consideration of ¥ on |eotton. The idea was prompt! re the sident to nd to i eized npon and was given a suceess - | {he Senate t1 nee with 1l trial Fn 1 zcrents over TRADE BUREAU OPENS IN MISSOURI res products 1 jo i (Ry Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 24.—The gov- nt ship purchase bill and un< St Louis, Mo., Jan. 4.—The branch bureau of the Department of | Commerce was opened here today George W. Doonan is in ¢ the bureau which it is expected will be of much assistance to the indus. tries located in this section |ernm go of | finished business of the Senate to_ {.Ln,\' was temporarily laid aside for the appropriation measures.