The Valdosta times. (Valdosta, Ga.) 1874-194?, May 23, 1911, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTwice-a-Week THE VALDOSTA TIMES, VALDOSTA, GA„ TUK8DAT, MAY 33, 1011. THE PREACHER WAS LYNCHED Negro who Shot Deputy Sher iff at Summit was Prompt ly Hanged to Limb. f Swainsboro, Ga., May 22—Ben Smith, the old negro preacher who fthot and fatally wounded Neal Can- aday, deputy marshal of Summit, last night, was hanged] to a limb aud his body riddled with bullets by an infuriated mob. Canady wa g attempting to arrest Smith, for whom he had a warrant for shooting his wife. Before Cana dy could arrest him, however, Smith pulled out a pistol, shooting the mar shal through the bowels, inflicting a probably fatal wound. As Canady fell he fired a shot at the fleeing negro, which struck him, but did not totally disable him. Caught in a Swamp. The sheriff fwias immediately summoned and he, with blood hounds, was soon on the scene, the meantime, however, Smith had been discovered hiding in a swamp nearby. A posse collected, and he was quickly strung up to a limb and his body filled with bullets, after which the mob dispersed. Smith, although a preacher, wa9 a notoriously bad negro, he was an old man, with hoary beard, and toothless. He was somewhat of a leader among the negroes, being a little above the average negro in In telligence. . " ' Neal Canady, the wounded man, a son of Welcome Canady, a prominent citizen of this county. Mr. Canady^ father la now In Hot -' Springs, where he went In search ; of relief from rheumatism only a V ‘ few days ago. J'p_' Second Lynching in a Week. iV- This Is the second lynching that has occurred in Emanuel county V the past ten days, the other being John McLeod, the negro who killed Benton Woods, deputy sheriff of the city court of Swainsboro. while he was under arrest last night a week ago. Considerable excitement prevails among the negroes over these two lynching, and there Is much talk of them leaving the county in large numbers. * }' Tn addition to this, the negro Odd Fellows’ hall at Aidfrian was dyna- 7* mltefl last night, considerable dam- r age being done to the building. This wa«» thought to have been done bv negroes who were Jealous of the Odd Fellows. FEAR SON WAS DROWNED. Atlanta Parents Threatened j Youth and He Ran pff from Home Atlanta, Ga., May 2#-— 1 The fam ily of ten-year-old Frank Hardy, son of Southern Railway Engineer C. C. Hardy, fear that the lad has been drowned, possibly by his own Intention. Frightened at the pros pect of a whipping which his par ents had talked of administering because he had been caught playing trpant from school, the boy ran away from home last Wednesday. He crawled out of a bed-room win dow before dawn, and, hasn’t been seen ilnce. Saturday afternoon his Jacket was found on the bank of People’s c.reek, near a deep swim ming pool. The family fear the worst,, and the creek bottom will be dragged today. They think the lad may have trone fn swimming and been drowned bv accident, or that pos sibly. Jn a fit of boyish despondency be thi^ew himself In. FATAL START OF AERO RACE Member of French Cabinet Killed and Another Hurt by Falling Aeroplane. Paris, May 22.—The physicians today believe that Premier Monts who was severely Injured at lssy when a monoplane crashed Into a group of cabinet ministers killing M. Burtreaux, will recover. Son Antoine Is also better. # Despite the fatal beginning of Paris to Mladrled Aeroplane race for $22,000, It Is proceeding today, by the expressed wish of Premier Monls. ATTACK MADE ON PRESIDENT Minnesota Senator Accuses Pres. Taft of Playing False With the Senate. ■Washington, May 22.—At the de- ibate today Senator Nelson, of Min nesota, vigorously attacked the po sition of President Taft In refusing fo permit an amendment with the Canadian reciprocity bill. He charges the President with "evading the Constitution,", trifling with the senate^- and attempting to thwart the effort to. protect the treaty." , He asserted that the president was not treating the senate fairly. THE MONUMEN IS DEDICATED The Splendid Memorial of Wisconsin at the Vicksburg National Cemetery; Vicksburg, Miss., May 22.—The imposing monument erected by the state of Wisconsin in the Vicksburg National Military Park was dedicat ed with impressive ceremonies to day, this being the forty-eight an niversary of Gen. Grant’e famous assault at Vicksburg in which the Wisconsin troops haidi a prominent part. Gov. F. E. McGovern of Wiscon sin, accompanied by his staff and a large party of civil war veterans, arrived on a special train to parties pate in the exercises. Captain G. W» Bird, of the monument commission, made the presentation address, and Gov. McGovern in behalf of the peo* pie of Wisconsin accepted the mon ument, which he turned over to M!aJ..Gen. r/ederlck D - Grant, who received It for the Federal govern ment. The literary oration of the day was delivered by. Dr. Jenkln Lloyd Jones of Chicago, who was & member of a Wisconsin batteiry In the selge of Vicksburg. Other par ticipants in the exercises Included officiate representatives of the state of Mississippi and a considerable number of Confederate veterans who were on their way home from the recent encampment. The Wisconsin monument Is de clared to be one of the most elabor- of battlefield memorials. Tlje THE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION The Eighty-six Anniversary of the Association is Cele brated This Week. NEW $8,000,000 LIBRARY. The Program for the Dedication Has Bern Completed In Detail. New York, May 22.—The program for the dedication of New York'a $8,- 000,000 public library, at Fifth Ave nue and Forty-eecond street, haa been completed in all Its details. The ex ercises will be held tomorrow after noon. The speakers are to be Preaf dent Taft, Governor Dlx, Mayor Gay- nor, Dr. Jobn L. Hillings, director of the public library system of New York, and the venerable John Bige low. Boston, Mass., May 22.—Morning prayer in King's Chapel opened the regular meeting of the eighty-eixth anniversary week of the American Unitarian Association today. Later in the afternoon Rev. A. M. Rihbany addressed the annual meeting of the Ministerial Union in Channing Hall. Hie subject was "The Oriental Christ in the Western World." The National Alliance met this af ternoon and lietened to addresses by Rev. A. F. We'l, of Bellingham, Wash.; Rev. F. R. Griffin, of Mon treal; Rev. Elizabeth Padgett, of Rutherford, N. J., and several others. The regular business of the Amor- can Unitarian Association will ue tak en up tomorrow. Dally sessions will be held during the week nnd tl.e an niversary is expected to bo one #f the most memorable ever held by .lie a- sociatlon. Some of tbo foremost min isters of the demonstration In the United States, Canada and England Will be among the speakers. AUTOS HIT HEAVY TRUCK. One Dead, One Fatally Hnrt and 8ix Seriously Injured. Chicago, May 22.—Two autoe, filled with joy riders, thla morning ran Into a heavy a- to truck at Wash ington Boulevard and Kinsey street. Mlcheal H. Albert, a merchant, of Now York, wan killed. One was fatally hurt and aix were seriously hurt. The autos were racing and wer- running about sixty miles per hour. left 11.1 Descendants Warsaw, May 22.—M. Ptnchus Oonaarovsky, a prominent Jewish cit izen pf Warsaw, has died at the re puted age of 120 year*, children, grandchildren gTand children. tument Was erected with a proprldtlon of *1100,000. "^The material la Wlnnsboro granite from South Carolina. The design em bodies a twelve-piece fluted column, eight feet in diameter and sixty feet high, set on a broad platform which Is approached by a long and wide flight of steps. At either side Is a magnificent bronze group, one representing the Infantry and the other the cavalry arm of the ser vice. The shaft Is etirmounted by a great bronze efllgy of "Old Alhe,'-" the famous Wisconsin bald eagle which went through the war with tho Eighth Wisconsin' regiment. State Department .Replies to Criticisms in That. Country of Unde Sinn. May 22.—hha ttste •t today replied,.to a .hrjth Germap-Press on! the' ar- treaty between {h'e Urtlted * 'tain and Franqq, mny had herself to Included. ■•/-. V' It la *taUd'U^t‘%ermany’ wlil .be Inclnded ln a ptfit If the basis for ne gotiations ns proposed by the United Statea appeals favorably to the Ger man people.’ : ^tflKji|jimmita r itpia and' Alabama; Lead ailiof tHe Southern- States ’ in Rural Service. ■ AtVotA. - Ga., -'Bfcy' aa.-^he con- flnued prbgreaa oi tbo' fzirm^rs,’of Georgia and ’ Alabama . along; econo mic and comtnarai^^UM^'w-c catetl by UM' wljPWsYlbi era Bell Telepbolio company; for tno’ month.b| April,, i ’• ; t. a* During than ^one - mpntfln’ e?6 farmers—293tin'aeprgl*.’ anj-37$ In whbfima—Installed telephones B> their ' honiee .ond#>nhoited ' their lines with- pie' Bm system, J January lBt, 2,183 tarmif*ip 1 ' V and'Alabama haWe’taken,.-,- one service. ' .of these, 1036. art argla. god .1148 '& fraplispeedofthetolwhon* In tub, rural district#, .in'- iuio '.Pfc gariedas'.siU lflfljcatlan\of,.'proipir- runinr - .. 1^-gnrnng the''fa»m*fA.beca.y1ld , In fuail.ofOapt. Bailey, tostop the ) tho'farmer pwn the teh* train at Mesltia, a flaj^ station. four . A * Ltd * - * -‘ il.Alu Wiling 4Vil,< rh^' ah mar- « Augdata, ,Ga-, May 2j^WCapt. / C.'D. Balloy, conductor oqi -pasaeu- gW brain .No. 27 on , the - Georgia Rallrbad, which leaves .Augusta ’at S»20 p. m., eMtern^lpe.'.raanlag ' between Augusta ’ and Atlanta, was shot on. ljla train halt >;m(le this aide of Meslna and In’turn.shot his; assailant, A. J. Thompson,' a kninvu. white farmer of WpWh . county. , ■ ’ • ■ J '■^ r " v Oapt. -BailCywos. painfully though i hot '-'eerlouaiy -wounde* ' the bullet Trig h<# l«g bbtwoeij h1s hip and j anif.ir la Believed that>A,Cj.. Thdfcpson, hi#. assailant,.,’was fatally wbumjefl., ^..-;•. ' •■." - •The shootingjitroso over .the-J-e- ’. Young Man Kills his Brother and two Others, SF Another and Escapes. ^ach ease ling; arid owfi their -tastrft- KitCtagU«, Pa., ’May J22.—Fol- i lowing a quarrel over cards, Rich ard Hendricks, eighteen yearn of age, shot and. killed his brother, Charles Andrews and Leopold Bral- tt.s thla .. ■Ar«MBftfgP> ! fe!--:tftra>'. met young fiSdRcka fatally wounded Walter Splllah. Hendricks escaped, but a po»Be Is .pursuing. KANSAS GIRLS BURN TO DEATH Their Mother Had Lighted „ Lamp That was Filled with Gasoline -Utica, Kan. May 22—Five daugh ters of Mr. and Mrs. Mary Harvey Roach, of this place, ranging In age from 7 to 16 years, were burned to death late last night In a Are which started In % the Roach Restaurant The parents wore bady burned. The mother of the young girls filled a lamp with gasolloo by mis take, breparatory to ascending stairway leading to the second floor room where her daughters were asleep. She applied a match to the lamp and un explosion followed sending a hurst of flame up the nar row stairway. The woman’s dreBS caught Are, but the flames were extinguished by her husband. He rushed up the burning sjalrg and caught his young est daughter, 6 years old. In his arms. Calling to the other girls to follow him, he ran to s rear window and Jumped to the arms. For some reason the others failed to follow him, and In a few minutes the bedroom In which tho girls were sleeping was a seething mass of .flames. Later their bodies were recover ed. ARMED BLACKS CAUSING FEAR MARKET REPORTS TODAY. Stocks are Strong on Rush Buying Orders, Cotton Sternly. New York, May 22.—Stocks are strong on rush buying orders at good gains. Cotton is steady at four higher three lower, later advancing. July 16.95, October 13.10. Chicago Provision Market. Chicago, May 22.—Wheat was a cent higher for May July and Sept- Ho had 145 I ember a quarter lower. Provisions and great-1 irregular and dull. Hoga ten lower 'and cattle ten lower. Vicious Negroes Around At lanta are Renewing Condi tions That Caused Riot. Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—Heavily armed and vicious negroes are causing more serious uneasiness' 1** Atlanta than has been felt since the big riot. It Is not safe for a white man to venture far aloag Decatur street on Saturday nights unless he is willing to frankly accept the fact that the negro has tho right-of- way, and step aside when the blacks come lurching along the sidewalk. Night before last J. B. Jones, of Lakewood Heights, failed to get out of the way of two negroes quickly enough. He even told them thoy ought to be more careful about run ning Into people. One of tho ne groes knocked him down, and the other flri-d a revolver at his pros trated form, fortunately missing, after which both' fled. Late Saturday night Conductor B. F. Taylor, on the Buckhead car line, tried to collect a faro from negro on the back platform. Tho negro declared he had previously paid. The conductor Insisted. The negaro drew a 45 calibre Army Colt and emptied It at close range, the conductor only saving hl« life by grabbing the smoking muzzle and shoving It to one side. This negro, Will Samuels by name, has been arrested by the county police. least Saturday night, not less than five white men had to defend them selves against nogro attacks on De catur street. Nearly every negro man who Is arrested on susplelon. or vagraney, for Rome pretty misdemeanor, Is found to have a loaded weapon on hlR person when taken to the bar rack, and searched. That Is only tho result of watchful providence and poor marksmanship. phone ments.• ./fnrougl^a co-operative Plan thjoy build their' lfheo'. ainD connect tliqm&wlth the ■ Bell; system,’ 'each farj^Br’often’receiving service, 'a# -jo' fifty centamper, teoid than; hhjf of tboso Are irivVeorgliV and Alabama!;''" • .*-' <! ■ - ’■ • - DROPPED DEAD FROM BEAT. While "Watchlng i-*)lrcus Parado at -—l-j"' Y A jNlfflt Dl'fl • Troy, N. ‘ Y„ M«y^2.-l-Whllo watching a circus'parade, an un known man dropped dead from heat This Is the hotteet May ever experienced. Crops are burning up. AUTO BUNS OVEIl STEEP BANK. One Man Is Killed and Another Hurt at Selma. Selma, Ala., Muy 22.—David Up church w-oa Instantly killed and his companion, Dick Hall, probably fat ally Injured lust night when tholr automobiles ran over tho embank ment of the Alabama River at the foot of Church street. In thlB elty. Both young men belong to prflminent families at Unlontown, Ala. Up church was so bady crushed as to be unrecognizable. BLOODY DUEL ON THE TRAIN Georgia Railroad Conductor is Wounded fay Farmer who Wanted to Get Off. . miles!ASls'sId*'of Ct$mk; and'an s,t».: gtimeht realised. ; Whetf asked, to - atob Cap.t. 'Bailey stat*il he could 1 not mik.e;.a.#tbp ’without orders sad Thonlpeon drew ia gun, aaylpg: , —You will, stop thla train at tho muz^Jb of my revolver." f Capt aBBey knocked Thompson-a taW-dOwni. .throwing the muzzle of the gun front..his-hrecHf. as" Thomp son fired, tho bujlpt entering CapE*- Bailey’s leg. Thompson {hen turn ed lo run and Capt, Bailey, who had 'drawn hls pistol In the sciifllle, fired and shot Thompson betwen, his ^'iildrrs.; tho bullet penetrating his Thompson was turned over to tho county 'authorities at Camak and Capt. Dailey wias taken to the hotel. WHEN CART HIT BUGGY. Ohio Father, Mother and Two Lit tle girls Killed. Newark, Ohio, May 27.—Tho en tire family of D. W, DoklRon was wiped out to-day when an lntorur- ban car on the Newark division of the Ohio Electric Railway struck their buggy and killed Dodson, aged 30, Mrs. Dodson, of the same age, and their two little girls, aged 7 and 4. bn mother was killed Instantly. The younger child died almost Im mediately, Dodson died! while bo- Ing taken to a physician and the other child died this afternoon. The bodies were mangled. Field: Peas Lowest prices for sound seed, fol lowing varieties. Speckled, Unknown, WhippVwill Clays, Mixed Cow Peas. Ingram Drug Co. Valdosta, - - Georgia

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The Valdosta times. (Valdosta, Ga.) 1874-194?, May 23, 1911, Image 1