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Twice- a-Week Twice-a-Week Ordinary’* Offloe VBDI VALDOSTA TIMES, VALDOSTA. GJL, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 87, nU, OF EDUCATORS St Louis is Thronged With the Teachers LARGE HOTELS THERE ARE CROWDED WITH DUCATOIIS WHO HAVE GATHERED IN AN NUAL CONVENTION. CYCLONE SWEEPS ARKANSAS Twenty People Killed arid Many Others Were Injured by Terrible Tornado St, Louis, Mo., Feb. 16.—The Planters' Hotel and several other large hostelrlee In the down-town . district ol this city are crowded with educators who rave garnered here to attend the various educa tional conventions scheduled to meet here this week. The most Important of these conventions, tb* annual meeting of the Department of Sup erintendence of the National Educa tional association, as well as a few other Important conventions will not opened their sessions until tomor. row or Wednesday, but two of the educational bodies, the National Council of Education and the Na tional Society for the Study of Edu cation, held their opening session today. Notwithstanding the refusal of the railroads to grant the expect ed rate'reduction the attendonce was quite satisfactory and practically all sections of the country were repre sented. interesting) program* have been arranged for the meeting* of the various educational bodies and many vltql questions pertaining Stuttgart, Ark., Feb. 26.—Twenty are known to be dead and one hun dred Injured in the cyclone In southwest Arkansas late Sunday night Farm houses and forests were lev eled and hundreds of heads of stock were killed. { The Sweden and Swan Lake dis tricts were tb e hardest hit. Eleven ! dead are reported there. Two are dead at Tarry and fifteen Injured. Lincoln county also suffered se verely. Wires er e down In every direction. Full reports may greatly Increase the number of fatalities. Physicians and nurses hare been rushed to the stricken district to various branches of education will be thoroughly and ably discussed by home of the best authorities upon CHARITY WORKERS TO CET CLOSER T06ETHER A meeting is Held Today in Savannah to Concentrate the Charity V^oik Savannah Bib. 26.—For the pm^ poae.ot promoting a cloeer relation ship between the sevyral charltablo organisations In Savannah, a Join conference will he held this evening at the Lawton Memorial under the the aubject. Among the dletlgulsh- fnaplcea of the Associated Chairlitw. bd educational leaders attending the I The meeting will he attended by Various meetings Is Mr. Philander | delegations from all of the organlw- F. Claxton, U. S. Commlsiloner of i tlona and the public hae been Invited. Education, who will take part In)For several months there has been several Important discussions and some friction among these organiia- Vrlll ba the gueat of honor at a ban- Iquet arranged by the National Com mittee on Agricultural Education, at which the food, so fsr as possi ble, will be prepared and aorved by students of agriculture and home eeonomlca In agricultural, domestic science, technical, normal and blgh Schools of tb« United States. A DOUBLE T DID MUCH DAMAGE Fire Broke Out in Many Homes That Had Been * Wrecked’by the Cyclone Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 26.—De tails of a double tornado which Sun day devastated parts of three Arkan sas counties place the death list at ten and tba Injured at twenty-five. The property loss Is great. Hand some homes, plantation equipments and rice barns were reduced to wreckage and were scattered for miles in the path of the storm. Fire broke out In several homes attar tha wind, only the torrental downpour of rain saving the people, who were esught In the houses, from burning to death. HE SOLD BRIDE'S CLOTHES. Liberty-Loving Citizen of Alabama Is Now In Sore Straits. Atlanta Fob. 26.—8. Busbeo, a Birmingham salesman, cams to At lanta recently with a bride. They ttons and h la with a view t» eradi cating this that the meeting will be held. The work of tho Associated Charities for the past two years will b? renewed. There will be Short ad dresses by the directors of tbe as sociation. The Associated Charltlm has also invited the other organtsn- ■ona to request reports upon any par ticular casa that has been bandied. As the work of the association Is so broad that it would be Impossible to report upon every case. It la ex pected that the meeting will result In the establishment of a cloeer rela tionship among the reorganisations and eecure better co-operation for the Associated Charities. IVERE MARRIED 70 YEARS. The Husband, However, Admits That They Have Quarrelled. New York, Feb. 26.—Mathis. Shslek end bis wife ultbratod to day the seventy-ninth anniversary of their wedding. This also Is Mr. Bhsiek's 86th birthday. His wife Is 96 yean old and -both are enjoying good health. The couple say they expect to live past the hundred year msrk. •'We have had our little tilts and squabbles, but I don’t think we would hkve been a bit happier If we had not had them,’’ said Mr. Shslek. nrnxs leaves Atlanta. Famous Detective Gets Plenty of Ad vertising and Quits. Atlanta, Feb. 26.—After getting more free advertising than any man who has visited Atlanta In recent years—not even excepting Taft and Roosevelt—William J. Burns, the quarreled and she left him. To get | runout detective, has gone back to even, sod also because he needed the money, he sold all bar pretty bridge’s- clothes, alt her golng-eway-gowns. frills and tacea. she got mad as a hornet, and bad him arrested. BuSbee Is sots. “If s man can’t ssll his own wife’s clothes when be te bard up, I*d Ilk# to know what an this and of liberty talk, means anyhow,” is declared by the police sergeant NEWS OF A DAY AMONG FOLKS OF Strict Observance of Sun day I.aw in That City MINISTERS WON THEIR FIGHT WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE LID A VENT ON TIGHT YES TERDAY. Savannah, Feb. 26.—For the first time In many yearn there was a strict observance of tha law requiring tin-, suspension of all business, Sunday except In the sale of necessities, In Savannah yesterday. The ministers wen their fight with city council for strict enforcement of tho law, with the result that Savannah bord ered cloeer on - the "blue" law than at any time In recent years. There have been no changes wrought In the ordinances; hut a decision waa made to enforce the present laws. The fruit dealer who cater to tho retail trade were mom affected by the law than any other clans of business. Heretofore they have been permitted to -remain open all day on Sunday, Yesterday, for the first time they were closed tight. The instruction given by Mayor Tledeman to the po lice, departmenttq .eyiforcu the aw fo the letter was carried out.' There were no effort unmade by the propri etor. of these places to violets the aw. Kemoddellng Duffy Strett Church. The work of ramoddeting the Duffy Street Baptist Church, which has been under consideration for a long time waa started today. Tho church building will be practically rebull at a large cost. The work la being one under tbe supervision of J. P. Cooper. It will require about three months to complete the work. Tho church will be rebuilt of brick, rein forced with concrete. With the re building of the church, the name will alto Ibe changed. Sereral names have been under consideration, but It has been practically decided that It will be known as the Second Baptist Chnrch. This will be finally decided Wednesday evening. Methodist Start Census Campaign. The Methodists of Savannah today started their census campaign of cen sns taking of the residents of Sevan nah of that denomination. The efty had been divided Into a number of districts, each of -which has been as signed to a commlf.ee. These com mittees will visit each home to as certain the names of the Methodist! Several weeks will be required to complete the work. This Is being done to ascertain those who are regular nltendants at chnrch with a vfcw fo Inducing those who are not to nffll lafe with one of the Methodist churches and attend regularly. A large percentage of the population In Savannah Is MMhodlsta. THREE TO BE TRIED FORMURDER Woman, Her Brother and Paramour to Be Tried for Killing Her Husband Oklahoma. City, Okla., Feb. 26.— Tha present week baa been set aBide In the district court for beginning the trlsl In the Gentry murder case. The three defendant* are Mrs. Bess Oentry, her brother Maurice Weight- man, and her alleged paramour, Jesse K. Mackey. The crime with which the three are charged Is the taurder of the woman’s husband, Thomas J. Gentry, who was shot and killed In h|s home on the night of January 7. According to the alleged confes sion of Mackey, the love affair be tween Mrs. Gentry and him furnlah- od the principal motive for a con spiracy to kill the husband, a desire to collect a 93,000 Ilfs insurance policy carried by Gentfyralzo la be- leriT ■' ' lleved to have Influefii accused persons, the three GRAVE ROBBERS ROB THE DEAD OF JEWELS COL ROOSEVELT TRIES TO DRAW THE LIGHTNING He Opens Headquarters in New York Today THE COLONEL WILL TRY AND HELP'HIS FRIENDS PUSH THE NOMINATION ON HIM.—HE IS IN BOSTON NOW. Graves of the Long.Buried Dsad Near New .Orl Aroi Opewed and^^fcbed p New Orleans, La., Feb. 22—Grave robbers plundering graves contain ing bodies burled more than seventy years ago, securing jewels valued at several hundreds of dollars, was the story brought to this city from Point a-la-Hache, Placquemlne parish. The water soaked casketa, with glase smashed, containing wasted bodies, were found above the ground Monday by persons living near the cemeterv. They had bean recently removed from tho private burial ground of a wealthy ante-bellum family' to the present cemetery by the parish of ficials. There is no clue as to tha Identi ty of the robbere. New York, Feb. 26.—Immediate ly upon the announcement of Col. Roosevelt that he will accept the nomination if it Is offered him, Roosevelt's headquarters opened to day In the Metropolitan Hotel and preparations were begun tor an ac tive campaign. Oliver Carpenter, a lawyer, is nominally In charge of the campaign, although the vital force behind the activities Is the Colonel himself. Friends and foes alike are con vinced today that Roosevelt ought to make the fight of his life. It Is an nounced that hundreds of latere from every state have been received urging Col. Roosevelt to make the race. , . Meeting Friends in Boston. Boston, Mass., Feb.,26.—-Col. The odore Roosevelt dropped literature for politics during the first part of hjs visit here. , r He met fiends today up'Usf nfght's announcement that he was In the presidential race with will BATTLE IS RAGING IN JUAREZ CITY TODAY Many of the Non-Combatants Have Crossed Border Into the United States ATLANTA WANTS ROOM. hlngtog and Hew York. That Mr. Burns has every manly quality admired among Americans, except the quality of modesty. Is the 'mpneskm people have fonned of Mm here. That he Is honeet, able, frerlesa. la the usual verdict right nit the bat of every man who looks Into Me face. That he fully appro-1 pensive suburban beauty. Druid Hills Proposition There Now Is to Take h More Territory. Atlanta, Feb. 26.—Atlanta’s city council now has under serious con sideration a measure to extend the corporate limits of the municipality so as to take In shout eight nunur* mllee of new territory, and divide the city Into eleven wards Instead j or the present ten. It Is contemplated that the clt> nil take In an additional part of n beautiful Druid Hllla section, consisting of two land-lota which amount to something over 600 seres. Another large area of Druid Hills a!- -edy Hea wflhln the city limits, and ’h* whole of Druid Hills Is already equipped wtth water, sewerage, street car facilities, and all the fa cilities which the heart of the etty tors. Though preserving all Its eg. Washington, Feb. 26.—Additional j advices received by the war depart ment today stated that a battle |e raging t n the street! of Janrea. Sev eral have been killed and many wounded. Moet of the non-combatants of the population of the town have moved to El Paso. It was also reported that there had been fighting at El Paso, Texas, but a telegram from that city says that the report la erroneous and that there has been uo Wilting there. TELEGRAPH CO'S RIGHTS. For Presidential Primary. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 26.—In sponse to the call Issued by Gover nor Osborn two weeks ago the Mich igan legtstnture convened In special session today to consider and set elates and admires these qualities ln|‘- really a part of the efty of Atlan- upon a measure providing for a pres- hlmaelf la almost eonallv ennaren*. T1 Idantia! primary. Court Holds That Western Union can Condemn It. It. IUgh-of-Way Loulivtlte, Ky„ Feb. 26.—The Western Union Telegraph Compsny has the right to conddron property along tlie right-of-way of tho rail road for the erection of Its own poll* for wires, according to a decision of the county court here today. /> several conferences with political leaders. He added nothing to his formal announcement, which Is In the na ture of a reply to some governors Who asked his position on the pres idential situation. WAS BORN ON THE 20TH. Savannah Girl Who Has a Birthday Only Every Four Years. Savannah, Fdb. 26.—There I* only one Savannahlan Who will celebrate their birthday on February 29. Thla In Miss Edith Mansfield, of No. 322 Montgomery street. Mm. Sophie H. Harden, of Abbeville, mother of Mr. Willliam Harden, assistant county treasurer will ceMbrato her 92nd an nivertaiy on that day. Mre. Harden waa horn In Belfast, Gs., Feb. 29tb, 1826. GIRLS WERE IN A PANIC. E Several Were not Accounted for After Big Fire Today. Newark, N. J., Feb. 26.—The Con solidated Metal Company's plant nurued today. Tli e loss Is 3126,000. BANQUET BOARDFOR COTTON MEN Savannah’s Cotton Buy ers Are to Celebrate the Biggest Season in That City Savannah, Feb. 24.—Members of the Savannah Cotton Exchange, coun ty and city offlclala, and business men of Savannah will tonight gather about the banquet board at the Sa vannah Cotton Bxohange 1 celebrat ing 1n a moat elaborate manner Sa vunnah's record In receiving for the lira*, time In her history 2,00,000 hales of cotton In one season. The occasion of the celebration Is moet unique, ae there has heretofore been no opportunity for such nn (went. The exchange building will he brilliantly decorated with varl-cotor- ed ifleo’.rlo lights. The Interior will alio be handsomely decorated with lights land colors. Workmen have bran buay since yesterday completing tha decorations. Business was sus pended at the,exchange this after noon at 1 o’olock to allow'the work to be completed. Fully five hundred Invitations have teen sent out and It la expected ’.bat nearly as many guests will assemble it the banquet. A meat elaborate n er>u has been prepared. No o.Tdrt or expense has 'been spared by tbe members of the cotton exchange tn make the celebration the most elab orate Girt ban over been roinli "ral prominent speakers will, n toasts during the event; 160 PEASANTS FROZE IN GREAT BLIZZARDS Great Suffering Reported from Intense Cold Weather in Asiatic, Russia St. Petersburg, Feb. 24.—One hun. dred and alxty peasants were froseu to death In Oalatlc Russia In the vi cinity of Omsk and Retropavlosk In a terrible bllssard. Report* Indicate that the wlntes has been a terrible one and the suf fering has boon greater than In many year*. nE OPPOSES SHIP SUBSIDIES . Congressman Sulxer Says that They Create Ocean Monopolies. Washington, Feb. 24.—Congress man Suiter made s speech today In opposition to ship subsidy because Three hundred girls, who wore I he said they create ocean monop- worklng In the factory were tn a ollee. He urged preferential duties panic and all of them are not yet| In favor of American built ships to accounted for. build up the merchants marine. E OF RAILROAD WORKERS TODAY Engineers and Conduc tors Meet AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM HAS BEEN ARRANGED FOR THE EN TERTAINMENT OF THE MANY DELEGATES, Springfield, ill,, Feb. 26.—Sever- hi thousand, delegates representing the four big ^brotherhood* of rail way Trainmen, th« Locomotive En gineer* and tbe Railway Conductors, met here today In a fraternal and co-operative conference for tbe pur pose of discussing matters of co operating and legislation and for de liberating on way* and means for obtaining the ca-operntlon of the management* of tbs railroads In matters of mutual Interest, The forenoon wo* devoted to the recep tion of delegates and In the after noon a closed session was held which will be followed this evening by a reception at th e Governor's mansion. The local railway man and the eit- tsena In general have arranged nn at tractive program . of entertainment for the three days of tho conforcn Tomorrow afternoon the - dele, will b 0 taken o n slgbt-eeeli and In the ovonlng ' publlujneetlng at the a 1 n long l!*t of kRWkert. of the public meeting Is to u» 'public nn opportunity to learn what the employes of the railroad really Want In the way of legislation tlmt will enable them to work more tor the good of the public and of heir employers. The conference will close on Thursday evening with a Mg reception and ball at tn* Lsland Hotel. RONDS FOR GA. AND FLA. To bo Authorised at Stockholder* Meeting In Merab. Baltimore, Feb. 16.—It waa learn ed In financial circles here today that a special meeting of the stockhold ers of the Georgia and Florida rail- toad ha* been called for March 19 to authorise a n Issue of 92,000,000 6 per cent general mortgage bonds. Tho underwriters agree to sell or take the bonds at 62. The proceeds will be usd to retire the company’s floating debt, to pay off equipment oblgatlons and to provide working capital. Sunk In nndsnn River. New York. Feb. 24.—The steam liner Border City, with 200 bar rels of sugar aboard, was rammed up an Ice flo* off ’Ms city and sank In tho Hudson river. The crew of tho host was saved. DUKES’ MIXTURE ■“THE feed that keeps stock up and feed bill down; composed * of ground Com, Oats, Barley and Alfalfa Hay. The best feed money can buy, for horses and mules. Also one of the best milk producing feeds known when fed in equal parts with C. S. Meal ...SPECIAL... GENUINE NORTH CAROLINA SEED PEANUTS A. H. DUKES, The Grain Merchant