Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 28, 1915, Page 1

JEAT BATTLE NOW BEING | USSIAN LINES, CAPTURED §EVERAL TRENCHES; LATER JRIVEN BACK BY BAYOHET? (HARGES; 500 GERMANS QILLED IN THIRTY MINUTES |bureau manager, C. S. Teder and | Arthur Thurman, charged with sub - (By Assoclated Press.) london, Jan. 28.—A great bat. , which has developed in Galacia g a hundred mile front skirt.) g the Carpathians, may mark the |quently repudiated, relating to aring point of the eastern cam- wign. Both Russians and Teutons | ach the highest importance to thei| gtcome. Thus far there are no dications concerning the result, hich is probably still in a prelim- hary stage., Fighting is progress. hg in Bukowina, which is another hase of the Austro-German move- pent to drive the Russiang back to heir territory. The Germans have renewed their gsaults upon Soissons, where they JAGED IN GALACIA: GERMANS EIEH ASSALTS N SOSSiS 3uANS BROKE THROUGH THE EVIDENCE IN TRIAL OF ATLANTA DETECTIVES INTRODUCED (By Associated Press.) l Atlanta, Jan. 28.—The introduc- tion of evidence was begun today in the trial of Dan Lehon, detectlve; ornation of perjury in with the Frank case. The indict- ments charge that they procured false affidavits which were subse- the alleged confession of James Conley, negro, that he killed a girl in the factory where Mary Phagan’s body was found. connection NEELEY TO BE NEW U. S. ATTORNEY Washington, Jan. 28.—John L.I Neeley, of Tallahassee, will be the next district attorney for the north- ern district of Florida. He was in'. dorsed for that office today by Sen— : LAKELAND, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1915 HOW THE FRENCH TRENCHES LOOK . LIVE STOCK IN U. §. { BOOST-REMEMBER THAT SKTAN STAYED IN HEAVEN UNTIL HE BESAN TO KNOCK HIS HOME TOWN REVENUE CUTTER AND LIFE SAVING SERVICES COMBINED (By Association Press.) Washington, Jan. 28.—President Wilson today signed the coast guard bill, which combines the revenue cutter service with the life saving service. {ITALIAN STEAMER % | REACHES N. Y. SAFE (By Assoclation Press.) New York, Jan. 28.—The Ital. ian steamer Angelo Parcdi, lost from {view of the revenue cutter Itasca jn 1,500,000 HEAD MORE |ALGONQUIN TOWED INTO NEW YORK IN cently won a decisive victory. now. prevents gevere fighting in Al- jace . ators Fletcher and Bryan, of Flor- ida. E. C. Love, the present dis- trict attorney, has resigned to ac- cept the appointment as judge of the 'ERMANS BROKE ,aecond state circuit court. THROUGH RUSSIAN sentative Frank Clark has gone to LINES |Chester, S. C., to attend the wed- (By Association Press.) ding tonight of his son, Frank Petrograd, Jan. 28.—qThe Ger-|[Clark, Jr., and Miss Kittie Alston ns broke through the Russian|James. jines and took the trenches on the wra river, near Sochaczew, Tues- , and later were driven there- om by bayonet changes. At Atlan.| Philadelphia, Jan. 28.—Miss , tvo miles north,‘the Germans |Lucy Dahlgren, member of the noted 500 killed in a thirty minute |family and granddaughter of Ad-. ttle. miral Dahlgren today entered the SOCIETY GIRL FOR CONVENT. partment of agriculture THAN A YEAR AGO| DISABLED CONDITION Repre - THEBE. IS THEREFORE LITTLE RESCUED BY SISTER SHIP CHER. OKEE; SURVIVORS OF TWO DANGER OF PRICES ON MEAT AND LEATHER GOING HIGHER, ACCORDING TO REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL- TURE SHIPWRECKED VESSELS, THE FRERERICK ROESSNER AND ANITA ALSO BROUGHT INTO PORT (By Associated Press.) (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, Jan, 28.—The de- New York, Jan, 28.—The Clyde issued a |liner Algonquin, disabled and in tow a'fog yesterday and believed to be sunk, arrived here today in tow of the Greek steamer Crios. The Pa. rodi was found by the YTtasca with- out coal or food for a crew of 27. PITTSBURGH OIL MAN KILLS WIFE AND THEN SUICIDED (By Associated Press.) Houston, Texas, Jan, 28.—Ward H. Snyder, said to be a Pittsburgh oil man, today killed his wife who {was a patient in a sanitarium and | then swallowed poison. Snyder ar- ‘rived here only a short time before visiting the sanitarium. 1 | | HINMAN TO ADDRESS EDITOR Indianapolis, Jan. 28.—George Wheeler Hinman, former publisher of the Chicago Inter Ocean and now jpresldent of Marietta College at Ma- rietta, Ohio, addressed the repre. sentativeg of the Indian State Edi. torial Association in this city to- day. THE UNWRITTED LAW STILL IN WORKING ORDER New Albany, Miss., Jan. 28.— Two women who set up as their de- fenge the “‘unwritten law” were ac- quitted here yesterday of charges of first degree murder. Mrs. Ruth Berthay, aged 27, was found not EVERAL BELGIAN EDITORS SENT TO JAIL (By Ascoclated Press.) Amsterdam, Jan. 28.—Several lglan newspaper = editors have n sent to jail for one to two onths by & German military court. harges unstated. Y WHEAT GOES 10 $1.50 BUSHEL (‘s891g PoIVIOSSY Ad) Chicago, an. 28.—May wheat hed one dollar and fifty cents it bushe]l today. —_—_— 70 OFFICERS MEET DEATH IN AUTO ACCIDENT §t. Augustine, Jan. 28.—Pinned neath their car which had turned le the bodies of Deputy Sheriff Gerkins of Duval county, and puty Marshal Roberts, of Pablo, o discovered on the new brick lhway near Magnolia Grove Tues- y afternoon about 3:30 o’clock by arty consisting of Frank J. er, A. E. Dunn, Frank ogero dF. A. Rolleston. Life was ex- in both of the unfortunate m when they were discovered, and I8 presumed that they lived but a time after the accident, possi. Iy their lives being crushed out al . instantly. The car is a light 4, which has eeen much hard ge. 1t had turned turtle as was own by the scarred surface of the shell and sand mixture at the of the brick pavement. Deputy ins and his companion were led with the car as it plunged U. S. TO ENFORGE convent of the Sisterg of the Blessed Sacrament. The order was found- ed by Mother Katherine Drexel, a relative. The act has caused a dis- tinct shocflk to society, second only to the advent of Evangelist Sunday in the realm of the social set. Philadelphia has 62 women en-. gravers. RIGID ECONOMY (By Association Press.) Washington, Jan. 28.—After a White House cabinet conference to- day on economy in the government’s expenditures, it was anounced that it had only been decided to exercise rigid economy wherever possible. ) statement today discrediting reports of her sister ship Cherokee, ing higher, and stated that there were 7,500,000 head more of live stock in the United States on Jan. 1 than on the same day & year ago. sels she had rescued before veloping propellor trouble ' o was that meat and leather prices are go.|brought to New York today with the survivors of two shipwrecked ves. enroute from Santo Domingo. The survivors (were the captain and crew of the ! American schooner Frederick Roess- REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS (Furniched by the Security Abstract and Title Co., Bartow, Fla.) Jan. 26, 1916 W. E. Morris and wife to John- ston & Brown. J. W. Sample and wife to Flora Venner. Malloy & Miller to Florida Lake Region Land Co. Chas. Hoffman and wife to Jo. seph Copham. Annie Mearg to B, F. Mears. Webber T. Palmer and wife to S. S. Wright. ‘W. M. Hampton and wife to Mrs, M. E. Twigg. EMBEZZLING POST- MASTERS GET THEIRS Jacksonville, Tan. 28.—United States Marshal J. C. Brown, ac- companied by Balif D. P. Meyer- son, left yesterday for Atlanta, tak- ing with them two prisoners who are due for long terms in Atlanta’s palatial penitentiarp. The con- victed men were formerly postmas=~ ters in Florida. One of them, George 0. Barnes, was found gullty of embezzling more than $1,000 of postal funds and received a sen. tence of 18 months. Benjamin F. Fussel, also convicted of the same crime, stole to the amount of $864, and received a sentence of two years, FLORIDA GERMAN PROTEST Philadelphia, Jan. 28.—The Ger- man population of Montzomery county, and others from different E. C. DeVane to J. E. Fortner. Florida Development Co. to Louis C. Panzer. Herbert E. Fairchild et al to Gil- bert L. Bryon. Herbert E. Fairchild et al to '.}ll7 bert L. Bryon. Herbert E. Fairchild et al to JQ-. B. Gould. {Herbert E. Fairchild et al to Ellw C. Gould. W. J. Howey to J. D. Summa. Ames A. Barlow and wife to Richard Pears. M. E. Gillett et al to Citizens Bank & Trust Co. Dixon McLendon to R. E. Tyler. Sarah Hill Wire to M. E. and D. C. Gillett. R. E. Tyler and wife to Dixon McLendon. Robert Wi. Hill and wife to M. E. and D. C. Gillett. Inland Realty Co. to Swen M. ner, and the purser of the Norweg- fan steamer Anita, wrecked off North Caitos reef. {NEW STUNT FOR GEORGIA WOMEN’S CLUBS Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 28, —Begin- ning at Thomasville on Feb. 10 a | series of agricultural rallies, under !the auspices of the Georgia Federa. tion of Women’s Clubs, will be held in various sections of the State, This was agreed upon at a conference between representatives of the agri - cultural interests of the State and representativvs of the Federation of Women's Clubs, held yesterday morning in the offices of the state department of agriculture at the capital. The object of these rallies will be to put the Federaiotn of Women'’s Clubs, through their dis- trict clubs, in a position to assiet in bringing about better home condi- tions in the counery. Programs have been prepared for these rallies, guilty of murder in killing R. A. McWhorter, aged 60, when he is al- leged to have attempted to attack her in her home near here in March, 1913. Mrs. George Stone, 35, the other woman acquitted, was charged with the murder of W. 8. King, a ]reul estate -agent, at her home in “August, 1913. According to the testimony, King entered her room. She ordered him out and demanded an apology. She testified King ap. plied an epithet to her and advanced in a threatening manner and she "shot him, I WW_ B oo 1$0fficial Weather Report . BB BB DD DO Tampa, Jan. 28,—Tampa and vi= cinity: Fair and colder tonight, probably frost. Minimum tempera. ture about 40 degrees. Friday fair. For Florida: Generally fair to- night and Friday; colder tonight south and central portions. Heavy frost in nérth portion and light to heavy frost centra] portion. | i SWEARINGEN AND BOWDEN IN SECOND PRIMARY Jacksonville, Jan. 28.—The tab. PRESIDENT VETOED THE IMMIGRATION BILL TODAY, ~ UNTIL JiLY IT IS BELIEVED, BY SUPPORT- ERS OF THE BILL, THAT IT WILL BE PASSED OVER THM PRESIDENT'S VETO; PRESI- DENT DISAPPROVED OF BILL [ ON ACCOUNT OF LITERACY TEST (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 28.—Presi- dent Wilson vetoed the immigration bill today and sent Congress a spe- cial message saying he disapproved the measure because of the literacy test and other restrictive tests in the bill, proposed as conditions of admission of immigrants to the United States. Supporters of the bill claim that tie overwhelming vote in the House and Senate, by which the literacy test remained, makes it certain that the measure can be passed over the veto. INCREASED RAILROAD RATES ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—The pro- posed increase in freight rates on lumber from points south of Ohio river to transfer points beyond be- came effective today. GUADALAJARA REPORTED RETAKEN BY CARRANZA IN THE TAKING OF THIS, MEX~ 1C0'S SECOND LARGEST CITY, IT IS REPORTED THAT VILLA'S ARMY WAS DEFEATED WITH | HEAVY LOSSES (By Associated Press.) El Paso, Jan. 28.—It was re- ported to the Carranza agency here today that Guadalajara, the second largest Mexican city, had been re taken by Carranza’s forces. Villa's troops lost heavily. It is announced that there is telegraphic communi- cation south of Aguag Calientes, Vil- la’s base. CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE (Board of Health Bulletin.) “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.” (Every American possesses the in- alienable right (or he thinks it s his) to cast his ballot as he chooses, to spend his Sundays as the mood strikes him, and to criticize his neighbors. The average American citizen—and that means you and me —has a ready opinion on every sub. which will be confined to an explan ulated returng for the eleven com- ject and no fear of lese majeste pen= ation of what the varioug agencles plete wards in this city show that|alties deters him from expressing it. now working in the State stand for, Mayor Van C. Swearingen and J.|He feels himself fully qualified at a how they can assist a community, E. T. Bowden will run in the sec-|moment's warning, and without pre=- how their services can be procured ond primary for mayor. The vote vious preparation, knowledge or and to what extent their services|™® ®* follows: 8wearingen, 1,641; | consideration, to tear to pleces the can be rendered. ICE RACE MEET fce horse race on the Ottawa river will begin today. The purses ag- Bowden, 1,360; Grunthal, 255. Johneon, 1,123; RAILROAD NOTES Railroads in Illinois want the rates. minister's sermon or his theology, the prsident’s Mexican policy or the way the woman next door is bring- ing up her children. He finds fault with the weather bureau man be. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 28.—The big|State legislature to legalize higher [cause the predicted “local showers” fall to arrive and a bright sun shines out instead. He complains to the parts of the State meet here tonight n i st side together with the American Neu; - g t: : ¢ ::e car trality League at the Araden{:?' ":d o SR sils o Music to protest acainst the Un ; Robetty 1ay, the dody of the car I States selling certain goods to the t and were pinned underneath gregate $20,000. There are twelve stakes of $1,000 each. The big fea- ture will be a $5,000 2:10 trot. Werner. Irma D. Waite et al to Martha W. Deming. Geo. S. Smith and wife to Eppes In several western States the rail.|postmas because the mail train was roads have Inaugurated movements|two hours late, and he kicks the dog to obtain remunerative rates of com.,because he himself has eaten more pensation for passenger transporta-|dinner than was good for him. tion. Ing on his chest. On the oppo-| ‘® tide Deputy Gerkins was found, | head beneath the side of the 'Y machine. Both bodies were igled in the wreckage of the » and a stream of gasoline was European countries now at war. Governor Brumbaugh has been in- vited to speak. It is argued that it the United States stopped the sup- ply of food stuffs to the allies the war would be stopped . ng from the tank over the body | Mr. Gerkins. His face was "ed towards the gasoline and it Possible that he was asphyxiated the fumes. DY OF SUICIDE IDENTIFIED §. petersburg, Jan. 28.—The I dressed body found in this city turday wag jdentified as that of R, | Kavanaugh, of Chicago. He derable momey on his person Was found dead with a bullet in brain and a pistol in his hand. ¢ coroner pronounced the case tide, Ot about 1,400,000 pounds of ca- "¢ obtained each year by the As- an figheries, approximately 75 eat is exported. TAX CONFERENCE . o Detroit, Jan. 28.—The tax as- sessors of the State met here today to plan concerted action and ways and means for uniform manner of action and work. The disparity of collection in districts whlch{ comparatively uniform | ted by concerted ac-| 1 | the should be .'i" be correc i tion. RIS w2 For the first time in its history the supreme conrt of the (’nltu:: States is to consider the validity ;) ! a minimum wage law for women. In | 1908 the same court rendered a fav- orable decision in its firet case con.; cerning the validity of a womnn" ten hour law. Both cases ha come from the State of Oregon. Tucker, Sr. Malloy & Miller to William Dem- ing. Jan. 26, 1915 M. G. Riche to Joseph Campas. L. C. Bowers et al. to Joseph Camper. C. E. Roberts to Joseph Camper. Rubie Stafford et al to W. F. Bevis. H. A. Brown et al. Thompson . A Futch & Rogers to W. L. Bas. sett. Geo. Wi M. Poole. C. C. Carlton and wife to A. B. Carlton. Patterson & Thomas Franklin and wife. to Frank C. Smith and wife to Fred to F. L. —_— The Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia has complained to the Interstate Commerce ommission against the diversifi Sg per car iposed by raliroads in trunk line territory or carload bay, grain, feed and other commodities. NEW YORK LUMBERMEN Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 28.—The present. resumption spring. | /Tallahassee, Jan. 28.—Mr. C. L, |Chester, of New ork, representing 1Thomn A. Edison, Inc., Moving | Picture Co., hag been in the city for |Western rallroads just now. Officlals | peir critic. ‘the past few days conferring with [2T® confident that the coming year|,; him who indulges in it. ,Hon. T. R. Hodges, state shellfish icommissioner, relative to producing {moving pictures of the shellfish in- dustry of the State and also other 'industries carried on in the territory covered by the commissioner. Mr. Chester is accompanied by Messrs. IB. B. Heit and H. D. Blauvelt, ex~ prt camera men, who have been with Commissioner Hodges for the past week aking pictures of the oy- cation charge of ster industry under his direction \ and these gentlemen report that a splendid picture was staged and som, there will be no official func. his right to it by doing something known. tions at the White House this win~ worth while, something to make tieis asking only what Ig its due; ttaken . —_— J. Pierpont Morgan has proposed retail lumber dealers of the State |to sell or lease to the United States accomplishment. met here today with 450 delegates |EOvernment the Copper River and|ing fs the other word for it—is a Reportg indicate an early | NOrth Western raflroad, a line 196 | habit rather common among us and of business in the |miles long, connecting Cordova with |jt’s a habit that is demoralizing both Kennicott, for use as a part of the mew Alaskan railroad. A particularly heavy movement is noticeable in coal and grain on will witnesg a revival which, while |moderate, will serve materially to whose motives, strengthen the position of the car- rie: Nova Scotia coal mines are rapid- ly being equipped with electrical machinery . During 1914 Hongkong exported $200,000 worth of peanuts to the United States. And yet this same average Amer~ ican rightly expects and demands all due respect for his own worth-while Criticism—%nock- to the possessor and to him whom it hits. Criticism here is limited to the habit of finding fault with per. sons and things that you don’t know enough about to qualify yourself as It’s a habit that grows It leads him to question the man whom and he trusts. It fos- ters a tearing down without ade- quate, or any, reason, worthy and beneficial accomplisiiment. It at- tacks without cause the man and his | work that are above and beyoud the carping of such invompetent critics, but {t hurts and discourages. Big men rise above it, but It embitters them. l [Every man who is worth the No. 73 PANAMA CANAL OPENING TO BE POSTPONED (CHANGE FROM MARCH WAS MADE OWING TO THE FACT THAT CANAL IS NOT YET READY FOR THE PASSAGE OF BATTLESHIPS; PRESIDENT TO ATTEND OPENING (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, Jan. 28.—The for. mal opening ceremonies of the Pan - ama canal probably will be post- poned from March to July. Presi- dent Wilson will go to San Fran. cisco by rail, and to Panama later, when the naval review will take place. Colonel Goethal’'s report that he could not guarantee the passage of warships through the canal at the time specified is understood to have caused the change in the president’s plans. RURAL SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION [Ny Madison, Wis., Jan. 28—The an- nual convention of the county school superintendents al their meeting today took up the proposi= tion of consolidating the country and city schools, following the same tendency throughout the county. ARKANSAS WANTS IMMIGRANTS Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 28.—The Arkansas As:ociation of Real Estate Men met here today to form a unite ed plan to encourage immigration. CHICAGO'S FIRST SIX DAY RACE Chicago, Jan. 28.-—Plans for the first six-day bicycle race culminated today in the opening of a six.day grind at the International Amphi« theater at the stockyards. NEW BISHOP FOR NEW JERSEY Trenton, N. J., Jan. 28.—An elaborate plan has been arranged for a dinner tonight for Bishop Dean Paul Matthewg of this diocese, in this city this evening. The leading clergy of the State will be present. HARDWOOD OPERATORS Cincinnatl, Jan, 28.—The Hard. wood Manufacturers’ Assoclation met in annual session here in the Hotel Sinton today. Over 700 dele- gateg are present. The war In Eu= rope will be discussed from the point of view of its more or less perma- nent effect upon industry. world better. He Is an expert or a speclalist in some direction, who wins his right to credit by some real ‘accomplishment. He is a Casrar to whom hig fellows owe some tribute of pralse. The man or the organization that has written a record of things done is entitled to public confidence. Tt has the right to expect that its acts *hall be accepted as proper without announcing in advance the reasons for them. The record is the guare antee on which is based the right to public confidence. It 1s on its record covering the last quarter of a century or more, that the State Board of Health bases fts right to the confidence of the people of Florida. It has accom= plished tangible results that the whole world knows and praises. It ‘has made Florida a better place to live in. It has bullt up barriers against disease from other lands. It has waged successful war agalnst the ills that start nearer home. It has won the confidence of Florida's people, even of those who unreason- ingly criticise 1t. It Is waging & campalgn to edu- cate these same people how to ward off preventable diseases, how to low. er the ratios of sickness and of death, how to use the means within the reach of all to make Florida the most healthful State in the Uniom. In this campalgn nothing is done In the dark, there ig & reason for every move and this reason is not hidden. It may be known to all who will take the trouble to ask, even o read the newspapers of the State. And in view of its record the Board asks and seeks the coopera~ tion of every loyal Floridian, and It asks that criticism shall be with- Because of the death of Mrs. Wil-space he occuples in the world, earns held until the reason—the why—is And it feels that in this It