The Valdosta times. (Valdosta, Ga.) 1874-194?, September 02, 1911, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTH1 TALD06TA TUN, VALDOSTA, CA., SATUIU>AT BRAVE SHIP ICANE Five Valdostans Among the Passengers on her PASSENGERS HAD ON LIFE PRE SERVERS WHILE THE WIND SWEPT THE DISABLED VES SEL TOWARD THE LAND. Charleston, S. C. Aug. 30.—Plung ing toward apparent destruction on the beach of Hunting Island In the midst of the hurricane that swept the Carolina coast on Sunday, night and Monday the Clyde liner Apa- ■I c'ne, with 125 passengers aboard, was opportunely saved by a sudden change in the wind and came Into Charleston harbor Tuesday morning hodly rocked by wind and sea, but not seriously damaged. For a tense five minutes the pas sengers of the Apache stood on the lower deck with life preservers around their bodies, waiting for the vessel to strike and determined to make a grim fight for their lives. Driven along by a wind the speed of which was estimated by Capt. William Staples of the liner at 100 miles an hour, the big steamer found herself helpless at 1:30 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Anchor Chains Snap. She wa« bound south from New Tork and nad been blown past the mouth of the harbor to a point off Island. The %ale swept shore and Its forcS proved lr- Full speed mead into th of tlje storm (bold hot liner forward, slid when hors were put overboard the snapped like cords. , llelplcss in the grasp oi the hur ricane the ship was being literally hurled toward the Hunting Island breakers and the passengers with life preservers on baa well nigh giv en up hope when suddenly the wind shifted and the vessel was saved.'* To GlVe Crew a Loving Cup, * Passengora of the Apache today drew up resolutions expressing their thanks to Capt. Staples, the officers and crew, and appointed a commit tee to pc sent to the captain, ofll- cors and crew a loving cup. A number of passengers on the vessel sustained severe bruises dur ing the storm. The damage to the Apache consists of the loss of her anchors and the soaking of every part of the ship, Including all her apartments in sea water. Reports that the stokers on tho Apache had declined to do their duty and were held to their work at pistol’s point by ofiJcers and pas sengers were postively denied to night by officers of the ship. The chief engineer stated that on the contrary the stokers had behaved splendidly throughout the ordeal Five Valdostans were among the passengers on the Apache. They landed at Charleston and took the train from there for home. gains BED-BUGS STOPPED ’PHONES Trouble Which Befell a Small North Georgia Community When Bugs Got on Atlanta, Aug. 31.—When the lo cal switchboard of a small rural telephone community went com pletely out of commission a few nights before—a thing never heard of before In Its career—friends In the city were naturally perturbed at not being able to reach their coun try cousins, and In the morping phoned again to inquire into the cause. The message came hack that the exchange had been put out of com mission by bed-bugs! The natural Inference here was that bed-bugs had eaten up the operator, and her friends ex claimed, "Alas.” But that wasn’t the way of It at all, though the supposition was not. unwarranted. Further information developed the fact that the pesky little vermin had got behind the switchboard at the central office, where they had fed, waxed fat and prospered, banqueting the while on the paraffin© that covered some of the electric wires. Like the reflec tion attributed to Daniel in the lion’s den, this was one dinner after which there weren’t any speechei leastwise not over those telephone wires. It was an amusing mishap, such as has probably never occurred In the whole realm of telephone his tory before and never will occur again. A gallon of bed-tong exter minator gnd a little work on the * ' r lineman soon put the tele- a _.r»-]ftt telephones laiiyiSjeafei® b® regarded as Just' a, much of a ne cessity In .rural dustrlctq aa In the cities, and the whole South Is how threaded with rural telephone con nections.. This Is the first recorded time that any rural office has gone out of business even for a night, except In time of terrible storm. #1 . WHERE IS COL. JOHNSON? His Friends at Romo Fear the Storm has Engulfed him. Savannah, Ga., Aug., 3.—Friends In Savannah of Mr. J. Lindsay John son, editor of the Rome Tribune. Herald have received long distance telephone message* from his home people asking If they know anything of b!s whereabouts Mr. Johnson was on the, I*le ef Palms, -near Charle«ton when the hurricane broke on Sunday and there has been much nneaalneas over the fact that he ha, not been heard from. His friends here do not think any thing hag happened to him. If It had they feel something would have been heard of It. They accept the theory that no news Is good news. Increase In Steel Business. Chicago, Aug. 30.—The United Slates Steel Corporation reports Its hnrlness as Increased over 7,000 tens dally from the samd time last SLOW TO KNOW STORM LOSSES Many Bodies of Dead may be Found in Debris THE PROPERTY LOSS ALONG CAROLINA COAST IS ESTDIAT- ED AT CLOSE AROUND FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. M. andM. Ship may be Wrecked by Waves TUGS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GET THE BOAT OFF THE SAND, WHERE IT IS OLINGING TIGHTLY. Savannah, Ga., Aug., 31.—Steam ship Lexington, of the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company which went shore on Hunting Is land on Sunday while endeavoring to go to Philadelphia Is still hard aground today and while the sea 1b comp&rtively still it is feared the ship Is so thoroughly on terra flrma that.lt will be impossible to get her Capt. Conally and the ! mem bers of the crew are standing by the ship and doing all they can to get her afloat. Two or three tuge are also nearby and at high tide today made unsuccessful efforts to float the stranded liner. The Lexington presents a very pathetic sight. Part of her railing is gone, many of the glass windows are broken, tho crock ery on the Inside of the ship Is smashed and cargo la generally in bad shape. Within a few hundred yards of where the Lexington lies can be seen the remains of the old steamship City of Savannah which jra* wrcckod^ero 18 years ago. ANOTHER STCmM is COMING rricane on£the Cubi st is Chasing A1 Toward the At- Washington ,D, C., Aug., 31.—A terrlflo etormj ls^reported by tho buraau a, moving along chad heading.' up the jrtt'antliSg^rjflard. A aqUadrhn 0 f revenue cuttera ban been sept along the Carolina coaat id vessels disabled and yet at sea and to loo|c out for ptorm * TESTIMONY Evidence Introduced to Rebut Paul Beattie’s WITNESS SWEARS THAT PAUL HAD FATAL GUN SUNDAY AF TER ‘THE TRAGEDY OF SAT URDAY. damage Worn rlcano. Captain Went New York, Aug! Liner, Mphawk, crew of th©' ft>ur Malcolm Searif, wa© rescued. off Th© schooner. % hurricane find wi Tho crew li the mast. Captain Henry Dodgs went Insane. One; of the sailors waa swept over jtyojiri. — ’ • Charleston, S. C., Aug. 30.—It will be ‘fully a month before the full extent of tho havoc wrought by the hurricane along the eastern coast Is completely known. The seashore Is strewn with wreckage and It Is possible that more bodies, not already counted, are beneatn the debris. The death list has now reached 25 Communication Is crippled to day. It Is estimated that the property damage will reach around $5,000, 000. Repairing at the Charleston navy yard has begun. Young Men Missing at Savannah. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 30.—The steamship City of Memphis, from Boston to Savannah, and crippled In the hurricane, Is aground near quarantine. Tugs have been sent to her. Three fishing parties of prominent young men are missing since Sun day and there Is much uneasiness about them. The revenue cutter Yamacraw Is searching for th© schooner Bessie Whiting, which Is believed to have been wrecked In th© hurricane. sea pirates do wrecked steamer rest long la abandoned. Charleston Qplts the League. The dropping out of the Sally base ball league of Charleston; which took place yesterday is looked upon as something of a calamity In Savan nah. It possibly may be a good thing add may make the league wind up the season with six clubs. The surrendering of the Charleston charter now makes it possible for the Sally League authorities to shelve tho Augusta club and con tinue the season without either. Charleston or Savannah. There Is much speculation In Savannah as to Just what effect this last withdrawal is going to have.* The Savannah team came home this morning but there Is not much Interest in tho game. The season la decidedly on the wane. # Hurled Teacup at Boarder. Mrs. Alice Ambrose, a Savannah landlady has been held for the city court for having hurled a teacup at the head of Mrs. L. L. Ballantyne, boarder on Sunday morning. She is tc be tried for assault. Tho ladies had some differences over the time Mrs. Ballantyne came home from Charleston. Vessel Looks for Wrecks. It Is not known Just exactly when the United States Revenue Cutter, Yamacraw, will return to Savan nah. The vessel la out on the At lantic Ocean lokfng for schooners and other vessels in distress. It Is expected to lend a Id to several schooners whose positions were not ed after tho big hurrlcano. GOVERNOR SMITH REFUSER TO RESCUE HIM FROM THE GAL LOWS AND HE WILL BE HANG ED NEXT FRIDAY. Atlanta, Ga., Aug, 30.—-William Rouse, convicted of tho murder of William Bailey, in Worth county, and alleged to bo the slayer twelve other human beings'will pay the penalty of tbe Bailey murder next Friday. Governor Smith yes terday refused to Interfere and to the scaffold Rouse will go. The hanging will take; place In tho Worth county Jail. Following the conviction Rouse for his crime, the case went to the supreme court. The court granted a new trial on legal technl calltles. He was tried a second time and again convicted of murder without recommendation to mercy. He appealed again to the higher court and his appeal was turned down. He appealed then to tho prison conyntssioiAor a commuta tion of sentence! and his case after- Oppofie Reflection of Rogers. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug., 30.—At the annual convention here next week of tho United National Asso ciation of Pogtoffice Clerks a stren uous effort will be made to defeat the re-election of President Frank T Rogers and others of the present na tlonal officers on the ground that they have been Inactive and Ineffi cient In promoting legislation da- tired by the membership. CASE GOES TO JURY. New York, Aug. 31.—The case of Faul Seidell, the 17-year-old boy, charged with the murder of WIHIim Jackson, a broker, In the Iroquois Hotel, will go to the Jury late tht* afternoon. The case has excited widespread Interest. ward went to the |6vernor. It has been changed that Rouse In the bloodiest and most dangerous desperado produced In Georgia du ring this generation. Rouse and Bailey, whom ho killed, not to men tion twelve or thirteen other persons by his own admission, were both Worth county farmers. On a cer tain night, according to the prosecu tion, the two men quarreled at Rouse’s home. Bailey, they con tended, was unarmed. Here Is what they charged against Rouse: That he shot Bailey fall of holes, some of the shots entering his back; tbat be then took a knife and ent the fallen man’s throat, levering the jugular vein; that he then got an other pistol and closed the still warm fingers of the dead man around Its butt—but thatche forgot to note tbat the dead man’s right arm had been shattered by a bul let; tbat be sat above the bloody corpse with a whisky bott!e ( and reared out Into tbe night a song part ly of his own composing, the refrain of which was "Bill Bailey won’t come home." Chesterfield, Vp., Aug., 31.—'When the Beattie trial was resumed to day, David Weinstein a pawbrocer, from whom Paul Beattie bjuglit the gun, was called to the sUu l He testified that he sold Paul tho gun shortly before ten o’clock lu the morning of Saturday, before the killing. He saJd that he did act take the gun In threo pieces when he sold it to Paul; that Paul bought the gun in tho morning and came at night for It stated that Paul said he wanted to us© it as a watchman of Mayo street bridge; that Psul want ed to buy a pistol, but he would not sell it to him, ag It was against the law. The state tried hard to tangle Welnsten, especially on the time at which the gun was purchased, but the witness stood firmly on his story, Jacob Weinstein followed brother on tbe witness stand., testified that Beattie boui tho gunri o’clock in the aft! « jng Ws brothers stsl ^ r wju^oorrobo! testified that 1 saw. PaulJBeattle of the Mayo brii wltn the "shotgun v Sunday, Paul testified that'he gave the gun to prisoner Saturday night. Several witnesses testified that the prisoner bore a good reputation. COTTON YEAR IN SAVANNAH The Receipts at that Port Were Nearly a Million and a Half Bales Last Year Savannah, Oa., Aug., 81.—The cotton year whioh comes to an. end today haa been a very good one for the port of Savannah. The receplta have been nearly 100,000 bales In excess of those of last season and tho price ha* been well maintained. The total receipts for the season have been almost ‘ 1,000,000 bales against 1,372,000 bales for last season. The prices pnld for the staple during the season ending today have been In advance of those pain for It during the year before and good middling wae quoted today on the floor of thq Savannah Cotton Exchange at more than eleven cents pound. The season goes out with the daily receipts very encouraging showing tbat the coming season Is to be an active one. The receipts today were something like 3,300 hales and they have been keeping up at this rate for the put several day*. They are greatly In excels of the receipts for about the samo time last year. Savannah cotton factor* and expor ters do not believe that the effort to have farmers hold their cotton for thirteen cents a pound will prove successful. There are so many Planters who have to aell their pro ducts early In the season In order meet their obligations that It ta lag to be hard to bring about a 1 vernal movement to hold the »ta- \ -Tho' big cotton shipment sea- BIG BLUNDER IN ATLANTA’S CHARTER BILL The Bill is About De stroyed by the Errors AND HOKE WENT ON SIGNING THE LUDICROUS BILLS JUST AS THOUGH HE HADN’T EYES TO SEE. Atlanta, Ga., Aug, fc 29.—Clerical errors seem to bo playing havoo Vfith the work of the recent Georgia legislature, and to cap the climax Is now appears that Atlanta’*.new charter may be invalidated by the same trouble. Tho error was la writing 1911 when 4 should bo 1910. It may yet be remedied), but the discovery is causing a world of talk. The Atlanta newspapers began to Jump on the system In vogue st tho eapltol several days ago when It was Recovered that some of the most Important WJla were made fool ish and probably'Qf no force by tbo . blunders of Inefficient clerks. The necessity, for civil service regulations that would insure capable work was clearly apparent. Most of, the clerks who are given these positions are favored entirely on* political grounds without any regard to their ability to do the work, in fae^ the clerks are often chan^ th© scRslon Is half over , that, other clerkmight OLAY MODEL WAS BROKEN. Italian Sculptor Loses Model of Bust of Charles D. Hill. Atlanta, Aug. 31.—There’s clay, and clay. A certain lump of It, weighing about twonty pounds, was worth several thousand dollars last night In Atlanta, and when its owner waked up this morning It v-nsn’t worth nearly ns much as a lump of common bread dough of the pome proportion. Tho mournor Is an Italian sculp tor, Signor Fldardl Ladl, a well- known qrtlst, commissioned to un dertake tho pronze bust of the late Charles D. Hill, solicitor general. He had completed tho clay model for m. Id. It wa« a perfect likeness of the distinguished Georgian. The Atlanta Bar Association, which was footing tho bill, gave tho work Its approval, and the bronze was to be cast as soon as Chief Justice BenJ. II. Hill had a look at the clay. Then, windstorm, It toppled off tho pedestal and was ruined. Tho sculptor, after tho manner of his race, wopt bitter tears. So fine was the work that the Bar Association has decided to wait sev- •al months until ho can make an other bust, rather than trust the work to anybody else. Flurry fcf Snow Today. Scranton, ifa., Aug. 31.—A flur ry of snow struck here shortly after midnight, hut It melted when It struck the ground. BEATTIE TRIAL GETTING NEAR FINAL SCENE State Finished its Testi mony This Afternoon RELEASED AND ARRESTED Now York Manipulator Got. Froc. dom Only to Iiose It A (tain, Atlanta, Oa., An*., 31.-—A* Oer- ald W. Evan*, of New York .topped ont ot the federal prison yeaterdajr, after bavin* served a two year term for stock msnlpulatlon, had scarcely taken one breath of free air when a hand laid on his shoulder* and he was reoarrested on another charge somewhat of the same nature. > He smiled a hitter smile and said, "Well I suppose It Is fate, and there’s no uso struggling against the Inevitable.” Atlanta School, to Open. Atlanta, Aug., 31.—The Atlanta pnblle achools will open September 11th with 23,000 children enrolled. l-AUIi BEATTIE WAS CABLED BACK TO THE STAND AND ONE OF HENRY'S INTIMATE FRIENDS TESTIFIES FOR 1IIM. Cheaterfleld, Va., Aug., 80.—The ttate concluded Its case against Henry Beattie, Jr., at tbe first ses sion ot court today, retiring tbe case shortly after noon. Tho atate preaented soveral wlt- sses this morning to rebutt the ter- tlmony of tho ltoberson boys con cerning other blood spots along the Midlothian plko except one where the state claims the woman was klip ad. Four adults flatly contradicted the hoy's story. The testimony sharp blow at the defense. The state’s strongest witness has been Paul Beattie, a cousin of the ac cused man. The defendant will take the stand to deny .this story absolutely and hie fate rests on whether the Jury accepts his story or that of his epileptic; cousin. The Indications nre that the case may reach the jury by the end of the week. Paul wag again .called to the stand this afternoon and said that be told the pawnbroker tbat he wanted n gun as » watchman. O. W. Booth was then called with Paul still on th* stand and tsstlflod Atlanta ... bub In’ ,getting tick n,world of work tl> bo N. O, by an Inoxcimiibfe error.! The question has been raised ex to whether the special election can be held this year. The error was made In section 154 of the bill and that section provides that only tb<Me eltlien* who have p\ld their slpte, county and city taxes for 1311 can vote. The state and county tax hooks are not open for payment until October 1, 1911. The election Is sot for September 27, several days' before citizen, are permitted to pay their taxes. Whether the error of the clerk can bo remedied before the next session of tbe legislature yet ' re mains. Phil Cook, secretary of state, said the question was. In his opin ion, identical with that raised last week, when Putnam county was transferred to the wrong congres sional district by an error of tbe enrolling clerk. The governor’s opinion on that was that the error eontdi not be rectified nntll tbe next session of the legislature. TRYING TO FIX THE m.sxra , Atlanta People are Mad About the BU| Hoke Signed, Atlanta, Ga., Aug., 31.—The ad vocates of the new Atlanta city charter nre out with a determina tion to get somebody's goat as the {result of tho clerical error that ruined the chances - ot having the charter voted on this September. They have demanded to know the name of the clerk that made the mistake. They are not disposed to make a fight on Hon. J. T. Bolfeuil- let. clerk of the house, but they In sist that the present system with ite incompetent copying clerks, ap pointed for political reasons, most be abolished. that he bad Men Paul but laid nothing to him about Henry or bis wife, Booth later testified that Paul told Mm -I don't think tbst Henry killed ble wife. He always spoke well of her to me.” On cross ex- amlnattqp tbe witness admitted that he wa* an intimate friend ot tbe de fendant - 'i ,J

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The Valdosta times. (Valdosta, Ga.) 1874-194?, September 02, 1911, Image 1