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WEB VALDOSTA TIMES, V,
GA. lAIHIDAL JUNE 10, 1011,
W. G. WHI
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VERDICT TOR
THE MOTHER
Jury in Federal Court Gave
Mrs. Hare $3,000 for the
Death of her Son.
In the United States court yes
terday afternoon, the jury in the
case of Mrs. Agnes Hare, who was
isueing the Atlantic Coast Line foi
the death of her son, Clyde Hare,
while watching a crossing at Thqm-
asville, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff for $3,000
It was claimed by the plaintiff
that young Hare was the Bupport of
hie mother and that his deaht wai
due to negligence of the crew, of ai
engine on a aide track while on
way to the round house after having
brought the moving passenger train
from Montgomery. The engines
were changed at Thomasville, the
loose engine being turned over to a
hostler to be carried to the round
house, while the new engine was at
tached to the passenger train
pull it to Waycross.
Young Hare was watching the
crossing and while erveUped in
^volume of vapcr which was emitted
from the steam cKst, when the train
for Waycross pulled out, the loose
engine knocked him down and ran
■over him, injuring him so that he
died later.
The plaintiff claimed that there
■were no lights on the engine, though
the engine crew claimed that there
were. *
The plaintiff wanted damages
Phased upon life statistics and an
nuity, as recognized by the Georgia
law, which would have been $30.00
a month for forty five years. The
jury rendered a verdict giving her
$3,000. It is not known whether
the case will be carried up by the
railroad or not.
The plaintiff was very ably repre
sented in the ease by Col. Theo.
Titus, of Thomasville, while Bennett
and Branch and Alexander Akerman
represented the defendants.
About the first thing that was
done this morning was to pass sen
tence upon Jeff R. Allen, a young
white man, who pleaded guilty to
having embezzled letters and forged
money orders while working in the
postoffice at Blackshear The amount
-of his shortage according to the
postal authorities, was about $2,000.
In passing sentence upon him Judge
Sheppard commented upon the young
man’s intelligent appearance and
«I?o upon the fact that he was well
raised. The court thought there was
a chance for him to make a man of
himself after serving a sentence In
prison. He was sentenced to two
years In the federal prison In At
lanta and to pay a fine of $2,000.
, In case he Is unaible to pay the
fine he will have to serve a month
longer and then take the pauper’s
oaih.
Conrad Harrell, a white man.
pleaded guilty last evening of
moonshinlng, but h!s sentence has
not been Imposed upon him yet.
, J. J. Keller pleaded guilty to
using the mails to defraud. It seems
that he sent a check off to Jackson
ville to buy some whiskey, which
was shipped to him, though he had
no money in the bank upon which
the draft was drawn.
The case against Walter Cribbs,
MR.
W. LANGDALE DEAD.
A Prominent Citizen of Jasper, Fin.,
Died Yesterday.
Mr. J. W. Langdale, a prominent
citizen of Jasper, Fla., and one who
Is largely Interested in the naval
stores and cattle business at Council,
In Clinch count, died yesterday at
his home at Jasper, Fla., after an ill
ness of about six weeks with ty
phoid fever. J
HIb condition had been very crit
ical for more than a week and little
hope for his recovery had been felt
since Friday.
Mr. Langdale was a native of
Clinch county and was one of the
most prominent men in that county.
He had large Interests in the north
ern portion of Clinch county, and
leaves an estate valued at something
like $150,000.
It is said that he had $35,000 or
$40,000 in cash in the bank,
was only 51 years of age and was In
the* prime of life. It is sald_that he
was not only a gocd^dtlzen, but
iip’endld neighbor, and many people
who were less fortnate than he was
In accumulating money shared
bountifully in what he made.
He is survived by a wife and
six children. Three of his sons and
one daughter are grown, the son
being associated with him In busi
ness. He has two daughters who
are yet in sohool.
Ills remains passed through the
city last night on their way to Coun-
for Interment.
Mr. Fender Thank* his Friends.
Mr. W. S. Fender Is deeply grate
ful for the splendid work his neigh
bors and the fire department did
yesterday during the flr e at his
home. But for the promptness with
which they acted, the loss would
have been much heavier than It
was. While the department was busy
getting a stream on the flre, friends
did valuable work in removing the
furnishings, etc., from that section
the residence which seemed In
great danger.
It is not known how the flre start-
. The workmen whom It was sup
posed had left a blow-pipe or furn-
'ace on the roof, Btate that they left
the home before half-past eight In
the morning, and that the flre could
not have been started by them.
The loss was considerably more
than first report* Indicated.
BAD STORM
HITS BERLIN
Three Stores Demolished by
Cyclone on Wednesday-
Two Persons Hurt.
A terrific cyclone demolis^d soft
eral stores and did much damage at
Berlin shortly before 1 o’clock Wed
nesday afternotgr. •
The large store of Hlera & Paul,
near the railroad depot, was blown
to piece® and their stock ruf-
The new brick store of
Alderman waa
stock terribly
firm's warehous
house built
pletely d«
Mr. De
who was In
Paul, was • hit on me
shoulders and slightly hurt.
Mr. Tom Paul, one of the part
ners In the business, was placed
down under the falling timbers and
more seriously hurt about the feet
and ankles. So far as known nti
other persons wore hart.
Mr. Roberts, who returned on the
train at 3:30 that afternoon, stated
that apparently three storms met
over the business part of the town
forming a sort of twister. He heard
the tlmfbers snap and realizing that
the building was coming down, dived
under a heavy pine table, which kept
the roof from falling on him and
probably saved his life. He heard
Mr. Paul calling for help and extri
cated him from the wreckage.
A very heavy rain, lasting three-
quarters of an hour, accompanied
the storm.
white man who Is charged w'* v
burning the depot and postofflco e-
Waresboro, was called this mornlne
and the case Is on trial this a't»-
noon. There are a dozen or more
witnesses In the case and the evi
dence against Crtbb Is very dam
aging.
His wife and small son are li
court with him.
This afternoon at 3:15 o’clock the
jury brought In a verdict of guilty
after having ibeen out since 1:15
o’clock. Crlbb burled his face In bis
bands and wept. His wife and child
were not In the court room when
he verdict was read, but his broth
ers were.
The next case taken up was that
of Emma Moore vs. the Atlantic
Coast Line, a suit for damages for
killing her husband at Cutting, On.,
lie being deaf and dumb and no
seeing the train.
Judge Sheppard Is not allowing
any cases to be postponed except for
Providential causes and th- lawyers
and others have found out that he
Intends to clear the docket If pos
sible. There are several cases on the
docket for next week.
Terrible Train of Troubles-
Lake Charles, La.— Mrs. E. Four
nier. 518 Kirby street, says: "The
month before I took Cardul. l
could hardly walk. I had backache,
headache, pain In my legs, chills,
fainting spells, elck stomach, drag
ging feelings, and no patience or
courage. Since taking Cardul. 1
have no more pain, and feel good
nil the time.” Take Cardul and get
the benefit of the peculiar herb In
gredients, which have been found
eo efficient for womanly ills. Other
people have done the testing. You
profit by their expedience. Try It.
To Close Tliomanvlllo Branch.
J. J. Deady, Superlndendent of
the Armour Packing Company, and
Cold Storage Plant, was In Valdosta
yesterday looking after the branch
house at this place. He stated
while here that the Thomasville
branch will be closed next Saturday
and that hereafter all business will
be transacted from the Valdosta
house for this section of the state.
Mr. Armour, the head of the Ar
mour Packing House, Is out of this
country at the present time and
nothing will be done toward build
ing In Valdosta until he returns.
Death of Mrs. Daisy E. Groqjr.
Mrs. Daisy E. Rregg, 21 years of
age. a resident of Jacksonville, Fla.,
died at Kingman, Arizona, last night
at 11 o'clock after a lingering Ill
ness.
Mrs. Gregg was a niece of Mrs. R.
Starke and visited ValdoBta for
several weeks last summer, where
she made many friends who knew
lw-r as Miss Daisy Waas. The fu
neral will take place In Jacksonville-
KnndSy or Monday.
TWO CONVICTS ESCAPED.
Iterrien Conntv Prisoners Mnile Es-
enpo, Bnt Were Arrested Here.
Two, convicts who were at work
on the public roads of Berrien comi
ty made their escape yestordny and
came at once to Valdosta. One of
them was named John McRee. who
was sentenced to eight years last
November for shooting anothor ne
gro. The other fugitive was a fe'ony
convict whose name Is not know-
Sheriff Avera and Commissioner
Lovett came to Valdosta In an auto
mobile last night and accompanied
by Deputy Parish, started out to try
to catch the fugitives. They wont to
Crawl Howell’s house, bnt nobody
was at homo excopt Crawl’s wife,
who threatened to fill the officers
with lead In they did not go away,
rollce Officers Jacobs and O’Kecf
were summoned to the scene, but the
woman refused to open the door for
them and sworo she would shoot the
man that entered the "house.
pfflcerR certain .that
(Were there, so they'de-
to spend the night there and
for Sheriff Gornto. Sheriff
> went to the scene and tried
get the woman to open the door,
; sho refused,whereupon the sheriff
ike open the door and went In. He
found nobody In the room except
the little negro woman, and she had
nothing to shoot with. Sho was ar
rested, however, for resisting the of
ficer and a bond was required for
her appearance boforo Judge Crnn-
ford. The officers then went to
house on Dasher street where Mc-
Kbe’s wife lives. When they knocked
at the door and told the woman who
they were she replied that sho
would open the door Immediately,
hut It took her n long time to got It
open and In the meantime the offi
cers heard scuffling Inside that seem
ed like hears were climbing up tho
side of the house
As soo’h as the door was open the
officers were convinced that the fu
gitives were up In the loft, so they
sot about to get them down. Sheriff
Avera climbed up there and found
both of them wedged behind a roof
window, occupying about as much
room as two fat hogs might have ta
ken up. The negroes were brought
down and were enrried back to Ber
rien county to finish serving the sen
tences which they wore working out
when they escaped.
HONE AT
CLYATTVILLE
NEW TRAIN ON G. & F.
Handsome Passenger Train Mado It*
Pint Trip Tills Week.
One of the handsomest train® that
ha, been seen In Valdosta In a long
time was that which came over the
Georgia & Florida road from Augus
ta Tuesday night.
The train consisted of six coaches,
one-new baggage car and one new
sleeping car, all recently purchased
hy the Georgia & Florida road, and
headed by a new aeventy-five ton lo
comotive.
The train brought In over four
hundred people, many of them being
taken out on south bound trains to
Jacksonville, Tampa, St. Augustine
and other points. Officials of t'
road were on the train, and conduct
ed It personally.
The sleeping car was the first
cr run over the road for regular
8* nice, but sleeper, will be run
regularly to Augusta In future.
Roof Blown off of Ginnery,
Barn Demolished, Many
Trees and Crops Hurt.
Roports from tho Clynttevllle dls-
trict and from other section* of
Lowndes and adjoining counties in
dicate that a good deal of wind ac
companied the rain yesterday after
noon and the Btorm at Clynttevllle
was very much like a cyclone. It is
arid that the big gin at Clyatteville
had Its roof Mown off and that a
barn was also blown down. Trees
were smashed off like pipe stems and
a field of corn, through which tho cy
clone passed, was twisted and torn
almoet like It hnd gone through a
shredding machine. \
Up near McVllle, this ride of Cly-
rttovillo, a big tree was blown down
on u negro shanty, wrecking the roof,
hut thd shanty was not occupied at
the time.
Tt In said that a good deal of hail
accompanied tho storm and that the
rain came down in torrents. .The
dnmngo to crops was confined to a
limited area, hut the damage Wag
great where the storm struefc
Much Damage Done at Berlin.
Reports Beem to Indicate that tr*“
town of Berlin wna the storm cent
yesterday and that It suffered m(
than any other place visited •by.
small tornado. ,
Mr. J. J. Harlrs and Mr. !Di
Roberts, of this city, were both?
Berlin and Mr. Roberts was in Hi!
# Paul's store when It collapse^
Mr. Roberts dropped down behind
one of the counters and was t not
hurt. The roof and wall formed a
sort of canopy over Mr. Hlers and
left him standing In the front un
harmed. Nobody was seriously hurt
hy the storm.
A warehouse In which C. E. Davis
hnd a largo stock of goods, was
Mown down and much damage wns
done to tho stock. Tho roof was
also blown off h!s store and consid
erable damage was done by water to
the stock In the store. Mr. Davis
sent hero this morning to get a tin
ner to make repairs for him.
ITEMS FROM MT. PLEASANT.
Til© Sing Last Sunday and Other
News From There.
Mt, Pleasant, Ga., June 8.—The
sing here last Sunday was fine and
a very good crowd attended. Among
the outeide visitors were Merars
Thomas Prine from Wright’s Chapel,
Russell and Austin Moore from
Howell, Ga., Jim Murry from Steph-
onton, Ga., and Ed Wteenbaker from
Valdosta, Ga,
Mr. Carl Blanton returned home
last week from Douglas, Ga., where
he has been in school since Christ
mas.
Mrs. Jaaper McLeod will come
homo next Saturday after spending
a couple of weeks In Effingham
county with Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Dasher.
Mr. Burton Howell will leave In a
fow days for Alabama, afte** spend
ing a couple of weeks with home
folks, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Howell.
Mr. Homer Wisenbakcr was a vis
itor to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel George on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Thomas Prine. spent last Sat
urday night with his sister, Mrs.
ZIpperf, near Dasher, Ga.
Mr. Crawford Corbett was among
the visitors to Valdosta Saturday.
Mr. Arthur McLeod spent Satur
day night (with his cousin, Mr. Ben
Howell.
Mrs. J. L. Fletchei and children
spent laat Sathrday afternoon at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ftetch-
br.' ; V f ' v :
'Uti j?. * 1 : m. McLeod will im*
for Tampa, vhcro ho
yTlt,,pona,h week or «o.
~r—
A Strange Story.
Argyln, Mich.—Mrs. Wm. H. Car-
son, la's letter from Argyle, lays:
"1 waa,almost Wild with pain In my
head,, And other aovere palna from
womanjy troubles. After using
Cadul, I obtained great relief.
Further use of Cardul raised me
from my bed of agony. Cardul aaved
my life, when nothing elie would
help me.” Whothor eerloualy alck,
or limply ailing, take Cardul, tho
woman’s tonic. It relieves pain,
regulates Irregularities, builds weak
nervous women back to health. Aak
your druggist about It
House Debates Wool Bill.
Washington, Juno 8.—The house
Is debating the Underwood wool hl’l
today. Minority Leader Mann deliv
ered a long apeecb In opposition to
the bill.
To Whom It May Concern:
D. H. Harrell’s Interests. In the
Barrett supply Company at Barrett
Ga., has been purchased by L. W.
Carter, ho assuming all tho debts of
said Company and all notes and ac
counts payable to L. W. Carter,
This 6th.June 1911.
D. H. HARRELL
L. W. CARTER.
6-6-w 4t.
Engine Went Through a Bridge.
Tuesday was an unlucky day with
tho Atlantic Coast Line. . Besides
tho wreck at Ouslcy. In which twen
ty cars were torn up and one near
Chattahooche river In which
fourteen car, were wrecked, the At
lantic Coast Line had an engine to
go through a draw bridge near
Jacksonville, but luckily nobody waa
seriously hurt.
This engine waa pulling a train
which was conveying the Sunday
school of, Folkaton, Hilliard and Cal
lahan to Green Core 8pr(,4gJr Fla.
The draw bridge over McGirts Creek
was open and the emergency brakes
Tailed to stop the train when they
were applied.
Mr. C. E. Carpenter and wif. of
Columbu,, Ga., were among the vial-
torn to Valdosta yesterday.
A Very Fine Whiskey.
Bodlngfleld & Co., of Jacksonville
Florida, aro doing an extensive bus
iness In this county. Their
“WILLOW BROOK’’ Ilyo It very
popular because It Is conceded to he
tho flneet blended Rye Whiskey sold
In the state at prices so low aa this
brand. The best Judges of Whlakey
atato that "WILLOW BROOK" Rye
Whiskey has an aroma and bouquet
equal to any 16 year whlakey pro
duced in the great Whiskey state of
Kentucky. Doctora generall recog-
nlzo that “WILLOW BROOK" Itye
Whiskey Is the safest to use In sick
ness because of It, purity and fins
rye flavor. wdt
NOTICE.
All parties are warned not to
trade for a certain promlasory note,
payable to C. A. Wright and signed
by J. P. Taylor, principal of $100.00
due June 30, 1911, Said note !■
void a, ehown by writing which I
have in my possession. The holder,
1. Wright, promised to return
same to me and has given me show
ing to the effect that said note is
null and void. Also one certain
promissory note signed by David
Lassetcr, principal and Mrs. H. J.
Lasseter, surety, and payable to J.
P. Taylor. Principal $45.00 due/
Oct. 15, 1911. The latter not waa
held as collateral by C. A. Wright
secure the above note which 1*
named, aa null and void.
J..P. TAYLOR.