About The Valdosta times. (Valdosta, Ga.) 1874-194? | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1911)
HAfORDAY, ,• MAY 0, 1911. •> x- RE IS MR. IDDEFIELD? Miner,Cashier of the jfe M. Transportation mpany tf Missing. MORT LANGDON WAS WITNESS Former Secretary to Gover nor Herrick to Testify in the Boodle Probe. Columbus, Ohio., May 4.—Mort Langdon, the forfr^>r Secretary to Governor Herrick, and a lobbyist for the banking Interests, was the first witness examined by the grand Jury In the legislative boodle probe to day. Several newspaper men were also on the stand. Senators Hoffman, Ceton and An derson and Representatives Nye and Lowery, and Sergeant at Arms Dlo- gte will be arraigned before Judge Kinkhead tomorrow morning. All will plead not guilty. More in dictments are extended soon. AMERICANS LEAVE MEXICO Chicago's Blo< curred 25 Years Ago Today. Chicago, 111., May 4.—The Chica go pol'ce department paused in ltft jrdinary routine of business today to recall the famous Haymaker# riot vhlch occurred just twenty-five years igo tonight. On the fateful day a force of blue- loats marched out of the Desplaines itreet station under order of Ideu- enant Bonfleld to suppress a riot ous mass meeting of militant Anar- :hists in the Haymarket square a ihort distance away. The arrival of he police at the scene of the meet- ng was met with a deadly bomb lurled Into their ranks from the froup of Anarchists. Six police officers were killed by he dealy missile and threescore ithers suffered severe wounds. Four »f the Anarchists died on the gal- ows ,a fifth committed suicide In aH and several others were sent to >rison for their part In the massacre. minister.- Ihnro-'ffiade^ii demand l upon Diaz for immediate protection of investments and‘'property of their subjects. * The rebels are active and within twenty-five miles of th© city. Americans in large numbers are dispersing their interest and leaving the country, fearing an uprising and a massacre by the populist who are infuriated by report? of interven tion by th© United States. Association of Manufacturers Files Petition with Raliroad Commission. Asking a general reduction on The resolutions in th© capitol are ■ rate* of ice shipments, the South fomenting this feeling among Isbor- 0eorgl , and North Flo ing classes. The Ambassador said that the gelation representing over a dozen Insurrectoa are active In practically ice manufacturing companies every Mexican State. EXPLOSION OX STEAMER. Cleveland, O., May 4.—Ten men were injured, several of them fatal ly. when the main steam pipe on the steamer, State of Ohio, exploded to day. • Makes the most nutri tious food and the most dainty and delicious. BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No fussing or fretting over the biscuit-making. Royal is the aid to many a cook’s success. Royal Cook Book-800 Receipt*—Fret. Send Name end Address. ROYAL 1AKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK. of Georgia and Florida, #ent to the Georgia and Florida commission to night a petition giving in detail why th© ice companies want lower rate*). The petitioners charge that the commodity rate now in effect is ex cessive, inasmuch as the express campanies have the ice shipment not only delivered to iff? offices, but also taken from its office, thereby re lieving it of expense in handling Mfne. ,Th© petition further asks that the e%ress company be cited to show cause, if any, why the rates now in effect should not be reduced. /The petition was sent to the com* mission because of the failure of the express company to consider re peated letter? from the association, according to an allegation. Rates nr*w in force on ice shipments have buen In force since 1906 and are fix ed on a scale, distance and weights figuring in the rate. I Ti e petitioner# are only interest- led in a reduction within a fifty- nvile radius of their plants, stating that their operation are mostly con fined to this territory. Savamt lb Thinks Railroad Com nission will be Called into \ he Dispute. MARKET REPORT TODAY. tttorlcH are Irregular and Lower, Cot ton Is Changeable. New York, May 4.—Stock? are ir regular and generally a fraction to a full point lower. Cotton was irregular at four high er to three lower. v Chicago Provision Market. Chicago, May 4.—-Wheat waa steady and a shade higher. Provis ions were quiet and a shade lower. Hogs were steady at five lower and cattle ^ere steady. Turpentine Market Today. Savannah, May 4.—Turpentine is dull at 70 cants. Rosins $7.10,to »7.60. i ■ ;* Savannah, Ga„ May 4.—It la ex pected bore that in a short time the Railroa.1 Commission of Georgia will be called upon for the purpose of regulating street car fares and service ta Savannah and between Savannah and her suburban resorts. At a ijneetlng held yesterday of those wlih protests to make against the servlco, Mr. W. E. Saula was made general chairman of those who have filed protests and each di vision of complaints was organized with a division chairman. The opinion was freely expressed at the meeting that the final reme dy must come through the Railroad Commission of the state. This Is especially true of the suburban lines. Mr. George J. Baldwin, president the Street Railway Company wrote a letter to the mayor Buying all protests would he given careful consideration but that the passen gers must learn to do their chars toward making the railroad service better by obeying certain traffic rules and lending their 'aid toward getting the cars on schedule. DANISH SINGERS COMING. Fifty Vocalists From the Roynl Cnl- verslty to Tour America. Copenhagen, May 4.—Fifty stu dent singers of the Royal tlnlversltv of Copenhagen denarted for Ameri ca today to begin a three weeks' slght-neeinr tour. Incidentally the students will try to earn their wav by giving concerts In a number of cities. After several dsvs In New York thev will go to Washington, and Sin* in the White House, where the r. (indent has arranged a recep tion for them.. AMt Temple to Colnmbna. Savatnah, Oa., Mav 4 —Tonight the members of Alee Temple Nobles, of the Mystic Shrine, will leave for Colombo,,. where they are going to put on Em big Jeeremontal session!. They «af-»xpectlng to have a great deal o^p- with the Initiates over in - Feeling im Becoming Bitter Towards Them alid, They Fear Being Matiacrt®'. ’ Mexico City, May 4>—Couriers who arlved today from Tres Marl?, stated that the rebela served t^e thst they will attacji that city d» wlgm*? Aid 1 |i 4 wked |>Jy be aparSS' Yron ■ twenty W MYSTERY IN THE TRAGEDY Athens, Ga., it Still Stirred by Murder Which was Fol lowed by Suicide. Athene. Ga., May 4—More mys tery developed last night In the case of R. W. McKiuney, who shot hla wife to death and killed hlmeelf Im mediately afterwardo here Monday n'ght. Austin McKinney of Ches ter, near Spartanburg, S. C., tele phoned Mayor Rowe last night that R. W McKinney' ran away from Spartanbi rg county six years ago with the woman he killed this Week and that she we, not and hue never been his lawful wife, that his wife and six children, alleged to have been deserted by him In 1905 are living now. An hour later a Mre. McKinney called the Mayor of Athens and aek- ed if the McKinney couple had been burled here and upon being Inform, ed that the burial had occurred, sho refused to give her own first nnmo and stated' that 3he would write piore fully later. 'Still fitter a telegram from Leon ard McKinney aE'Co'wpons, 8. C., 4n- klruotod that the_ little girl, only eyewitness to the tragedy, he sent to v hlm at once. There Is doubt as X Tres MV'lx numbers three thousand. An auny of Oautemalan soldiers are massed on the south boundary, ostensibly to preserve the neutrality laws and 1 conflicts are feared. The German and Spanish govern ment have made perempory demands for protection of their subjects both life nnd property. It Is the general belief here that President DIa* must soon take his choice- between asking Taft to send troops to Mexico or turn over tho government to the rebels. to the child’s being a, daughter of the dead mfin pt all. |There Is Insurance on the lives of both the victim* ot Monday’s shoot- king; amounting to JJfltiO. A hro'W nwoAp bore far the huR- Tl to Km for] Interm and/compromised on b hero And arrled t lhack to Laurona. ariTlnr^RRjkppoV iyd by the Ordi nary who named the'Rev. 8. E. Eua- i Innd., pastor of one of the churches here to care for the girl and her property, and the sister and brother agreed for both bodies to be burled | In Athens. 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