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NEWS OF A DAY
AMONG PEOPLE
OF SAVANNAH
Board of Trade Reports
Were Very Creditable
I’RESIDENT CARSON MASK IN-
BASEBALL
GAMES TO
OPEN UP
The Southern League
Teams to Start Race
For the Pennant ip
a Few Days
Atlanta, April 4.—With but one
TERESTING ANNUAL REPORT week left the eight Southern League
AT THE MEETING OP THAT clubs are making up for the spell of
PROGRESSIVE BODY.
Savannah, April 4.—Reports that
y "%OP®flect mhch credit upon the corn-
bad weather which brought on the
latest start in the history of the
league.
The quick shift of rain and cold
iING RIVER
GROWS WORSE
EVERY HOUR.
Mississippi River is Tak
ing Terrible Toll.
TOWNS ARB INUNDATED, MANY
PEOPLE WERE DROIVNED AND
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH
OF PROPERTY IS LOST.
. ; mercial activity were uibmlttod to t» eun.bliio and warmth haa brought f
Memphis, April 4.—The Missis
sippi river is three feet higher to-
*.he mem here of the Savannah Board j out wonder ®» where two .weeks ago ! <j ny than it was ever known before,
of Trade at the twenty-ninth annuel ! no team in the league was eve n In ( i 8 predicted that it will go above
meeting of that organisation held j fair ehape.
yeetet-day. The lengthy report of j The Atlanta club has come for-
the president, Mr. J. A. O. Carson, wsrd rapldly Manager Hemphill at
who is also president of the Carson .
Naval Stores Company, was an in- j lpst has obta,ned enough line on his a planter, shot and killed three nc-
THREE GENERATIONS
A HOME
The Awful Fate Which Befell
the Dunn Family When
Their Home Burned
Columbus, Ga., April «.-T*ira.
Amanda Dunn, Afty year, old,jt«r
■on, Cleveland, tventjr-tht** y' Jrs
old, a grand,on, Clevel
year, old, were burned to di
lira. M. M. Dunn, the wife
treasurer ot Lee county Alabama,
was fatally burned last night, when
their home wa* destroyed by Arc.
DENTIST PJJLLED
[Atlanta Woi
Pulled Thi
Atlanta, April
TIDAL WAVE
Reports are Encouraging
From All Sections
STRAW BALLOTS SHOW THAT
THERE IS PRACTICALLY NO
OPPOSITION TO THE ABLE
ALABAMA CONGRESSMAN.
teresting resume of the work of the - a, * nt t0 beg,n P run,ng away hla &ur ’
past year. The revenues of tu* P lus talent ; Th * 8( » uad ,s now cut
Board of Trade during the.year ex-
‘down to almost fighting trim, and
cteded the expense by $191.99, wlfh-
tbe main point of interest left con-
groee because they would not go
into the flood and rescue cattle.
Charleston, Mo., is under water.
terns the future of Otto Jordan, star Smith, n white man, and llobt.
out considering $190 due from mem- tc,ns ine IU,l,re OI Joru “ n ’ Diar “I!
b»™ and ,433 from sundry *.,«*. i
The Board of Trade has assets of, tha ***■ Tha ro »■ » atrong Tumor
«. 430 98 with nn liabilities «n-1 a 0,,t that Jor dan will either be re- ln C l>«gan here and police In arms
membership^ of 196. The P^t year; >aa»d or sold to Billy Smith's Ctat.,«HMttt out In boat, to guard the
has been one of readjustment In the ‘""ooBa Club. Hemphill’s Idea le to
lumber busies, the report showed,' ""Prove his batting strength, and It
starting off with little demand and
The Cumberland river at Nash-
this shift Is made, Curry, of the v" 10 and the Tennessee river at Cliat-
Plenty of stock. Recently there has Yorit Highlanders, will be tan°°ga are doing censlderahle darn-
been a large local demand. Labor, at ,econd ln Jor,,an B P ,ace - aK ’ J Geo ge . S, " lth 2. .
, i Renorta reaching Atlanta Ind*coto v^ere drowned when a skill overturn-
troubles and other circums’ancos ueporw reucning Auama mu.cuie
have curtailed the product 35 perj ,1 ’« the Southern Laagua thla Roa -
ed near Clarksville.
cent: during "the'last "six moaths. I aa " "« a T the most Inter-, Thousands Watch River'
the danger stage by Saturday morn-' B dentist pulled
log. j'tocth over .her violent nrn’.n'
At Mariana, Ark., William Lynn. i"" h He she wag struggling In
to free herself,- Mrs. D. B. Ftug'r-
nld has filed One of the most remark
able suite for damages ever seen In
the local co’urta against Dr. H.‘ Jen-
sen. , ,
She says 'she vfhnt to him.
have some plate work done, and ho
advised her to have six teeth pulled.
She told him ahe didn’t want them
pulled, she avera, and her argu
ment made him so nngry, she
charges, that he went nhead, while
she was helpless In the chair, and
pulled them anyway,
Dr. Jensen’s answer to tho suit
has not yet been flled.
Work.
Two thousand people watched the
water creep nearer and nearer to
There wa* a decided falling off In ept,ng raCe ,n 3**™. The adv « n '
nnval stores during the past year. I Hempbi11 and a numl>Gr nRW . f .. . . . f
r;:« o, r
7*44 1-4 c‘enVand 1. Zlentl^ted to ha strong than lastyea,.
ing for half the price quoted a year
Knox Sails for Cuba.
Port Au Prince, Haiti, April 4.—
Secretary Knox and party sailed to
day tor Guantl Namo, Cuba,
Atlanta, Cta., April 4.—Aa an
if the unanimity with which
re supporting Oscar Un-
or president, Manager
gave out today at Head*
quartera^four incidents which ho de
clare* are algnjflcanV
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Worth County met the oth
er day to determine on pldns for the
presidential primary. A vote was
taken and it was* found that the
committte atood 29 for Underwood
and 1 for Wilson. This report woo
sent me from different sources.
During the primary held on the
27th In Pike county, those who
voted in the second district were
asked to write down their preference
for President and when tho vote
was counted it wpn found that It
waa Underwood 72, Wilson 4, Clarke :
1. This information comes from
the Justice of the Peace who presid
ed at the election.
In Waynesboro on Monday there
The year was one of Impor‘-
ttae brjgknlzatiqn, hnwtver.
Bid
revenue cutter Yam-
which has rendered invalua
ble service to the shipping Interest
the coast, has made the last win
ter cruise. The cutter will now un
dergo repairs, receive an overhaul
ing and lay up for the summer, ex
cept for an occasional trip a shoit
distance up the coast on regular pa
trol service.
New Club Becomes Activ©.
Th? new business and profession
al men’s club, which was tentatively
organized a short time ago, has be
come active now and it Is expected
that the announcement of the club
when the Barons had a very excel- l n K over the southern section of tho
lt*nr team. The Pelicans have ocen c ^y* Factories are closed and 4,000
playing great ball against the big people are Idle,
leaguer* as ^na^al, winning, more! The S' 88 Pl°nt Is shut down and a
than their shartof vlctorlg^as^- *t'AlLPart^f the cjtyls wltbouc'Tncl
recent history the and ChaitaVooge, In fact the'and $i e wter anilliij 1 n thjfcf.Wavd.
cnltre eight cluhe, look to he well! Hickman report* food supply-lpw.
matched, end the dope on the flam The entire buslnese section la Innn-
winner is even more or a problem doted.
than Is nsnally the ease. | Many Acres of Farm Lands Covered
For the first time In three years Three, hundred thousand acrei of
Interest hns been nwnkenefl In At- 'and In Kentucky, Missouri, Arkan-
Innta. and the Indications are that me, Tennessee and Mississippi are
The Georgia metropolis will again UTK 'er water and a million
take Its place as one of tho drawing acre a are threatened.
the levees, causing the army of suf
ferers to Increase hourly.
Property and crops that are loot
reaches millions of dollars. AP!
are made tolhe state
f the city le wltbouc^fue! military,.yj-v
not ho reached uni
Waters Rush ’flu
' Memphis, April 4.
nouth of Hickman werit out
morning and the river la now sweep
ing through a break 100 yards wide,
carrying farm house*., barn* and
more' live stock In Its swift current. Tip-
ton, Lake and Ohio counties are
SCHOOL
GIRLS AND
DRESSES
Atlanta School Teacher
Comments on the Ex
travagant Dresses
of the Girls
Atlanta, April 4.—"It is Just the
critlclum somebody in Atlanta ought
to be brave enough to make,*’ de
clared a leading teacher in the
Girls’ High School here today when
shown a dispatch from Dayton, O.,
quoting the principal there na say
ing that high school girls were very
1'iuch over-dressed.
"Not only do aome of our h!*h
school girls in Atlanta dress too elab
orately nnu in n style too old for
young girls, but I am aahamod to
say some of them, and thoso often
the prettiest, garb themselves 90 that
when seen o n the street you could
hardly tell them, from refined chorus
girls except for the books over their
shoulders.
"Of course this is not true of all,
or even half of Atlanta’s high school
girls,’’ the speaker continued, "but
if you don’t bolleve it is true of too
many of them, all you have to do is
stand o n Peachtree street any sun
shiny afternoon and watch them as
they pass. You will see high-heeled
shoes, tight-laced corsets, elaborate
ly arranged hair, and skirts *ome-
tlmea so tight thnt the wearers are
compelled to trip along like grown
was held b mass meeting of citizens ,wcmcn In a drawing room instead of
to select a new Democratic Execu- j walking iwith tho healthy stride of
tlv G Committee. After the now com- tho school girl out of doors."
mlttee arn» chosen, t,ho mass meet- I It *oeme \o be r.ather in Atlanta's
Ing endorsed Mr. Underwood with- J defense that practically the same
out a dissenting rule. j condition is said to exist In most of
Th© organizers of the Underwood : the other large clxlef.
Clulj at Weilston, in Houston coun- ‘
lore are JOB votqnS$ "Clfathaa county la for ^Underwood,
and that 103 hare H© will get a vubstantlal majority
algneT their. names in the Under- of the rotes cast there on May lat,
wood club. The rank and file of both factions
lsj- * “We haven't given up hope of or® supporting him. The Wilson
getting the other three," the coun- sentiment In Chatham is nothing
cities of the league.
MINERS TO BEGIN WORK.
New Madrid and Portageville are.now flooded,
j completely Isolated. Part of Chea- Hirer to Keep on Rising.
'ter. 111., Is swept away. There is a Washington, April 4.—-The weath-
’heavy loss of life there, but no com- j or bureau today predicted that the
Tlip Federation Will Order Them to munlcatlon Is possible and It cannot j Mississippi rlrer will continue to
Return Next Monday, ^ estimated how great the loss of rise at New Orleans until May 1.
London, April 4 —-Th e total vote life will be. I President Taft Favors Relief,
quarters will"be made in a few days! °< tIle n,ln '' rs pr, ’ at Ilrltn|n on 1 s,nrv " ,lo n s,arM at Them. | Washington, April 4.—Th* Pres-
Tlir bnlldlnir eommlttee met 1stl 11,0 aceeptanre of the minimum wage Now Orleans, April 4.—Starvation "lent today ordered the qumrte.-nms-
* ' bill was nnnounred this afternoon at threatens the flood refugees of the ter’* department to *hlp army ra
the bill and 244,011 Inundated Mississippi valley today. Hons to the flood sufferer* In the
ingnlnst the nrceptnnre, lacking the Reports from up the river stab' that Mississippi valley. Ho also Indies-
two-thirds In favor of continuing o.er 2,0000 people are homeless, ralod that he favored an spproprn.
ntaht to consider several locations,
201 011
af‘er inspecting several different, ;
places, but nothing deflnit® hna been
decided. The club will bo porma-
decided. The clun win bo porma- 1 — ... .. . d a «a
neptly orcnn.red Monday evening, [ l > la •‘r.ke, th. federation will notify while the steady encroachment of Hop of »2<0.000 by
. , .. „ the miners to resume work. th- flood threatens destruction of relief of the ©uffer©
a'hich time officers will be elected
and the quarters selected by the
committee decided upon. New mem
bers are constantly being added to
the rolls and the organization now
has the prospects of becoming a
ir.oat Important factor in the busi
ness life of Savannah.
*' A BOY FATALLY STABBED.
Tm-Year-Old Whit© Boy Stabs a
Negro Boy to Death
Savannah, April 4.—An official in
vestigation will be made by Dr. H.
Y. Rtghton, the coroner of Chatham
county, today Into the death of Thos
. Griffin, on 11-year-old colored boy,
•Who was stalibed and instantly lrlll-
, yesterday by San* S’mms a 10-
year-otd white boy. Th-? llt‘le Simms
boy la held » y the police, charged
with murder. The dlffirt "** botwetn
the two boys oedirr.-l o»e* a bull
dog. The negro ©truck the dog,
which was owne<j by the little Simms
boy.
The white boy resented the Insult
to his pet and when the negro ad
vanced upon him with a knife, took
It from the assailant’s hands nnd
•tabbed him twice in the breast.
Young Simms Is an orphan boy.
who came to this city recently from
Ellabelle, Ga , where he had been
living with his grandmother, Mrs. |
H. G. Simms. ;
VALDOST
SASH-DO
ty* chairman adds.
Hon. A. A. Lawrence, Representa
tive from Chatham county, is In
Atlanta for a few daya. Mr. Law
rence arrived yesterday from Athena,
where he baa been with th e legisla
tive committte on lta annual vUrlta
to the State University.
Mr. Lawrence says that while he
did not poll tho delegation, he U
confident that a largo majority of
them were for Underwood for Pres
ident. He talked with a largo num
ber of thorn and they so expressed
themselves. He also found the sen
timent In Athena overwhelmingly
for Underwood.
Asked about the outlook In Chat
ham, Mr. j^awroncp ©aid:
like aa atrong In Chatham as Is the
Underwood aontjment. I am confi
dent Chatham will give Underwood
a good big majority.
"The report* I hear from, the sur
rounding country are that Under
wood is making n runaway race of
it In the Flrat Congressional district.
The eentlment for him In natural and
will not, therefore, be overcomo. 1
look for him to sweop the stato
of Georgia.
Hon. J. Randolph Anderson, who
Is ©Iso a representative in the leg
islature from Chatham county, In
President of th« Chatham Countv
Underwood Club and, Mr. Lawrence
says, is making fine progress with
the organization.
NOIED FRENCH
MAN WILL COME
TO AMERICA
Gift From Sunny France
to the Americans
NOTED MEN ARK COMING TO
REAR A TOKEN OF FRIEND
SHIP FROM THEIR COUNTRY
, TO THE UNITED RTATES.
Washington, April 4. — Official
circles in tho national capital are
looking forward with great lnter-
etit to the impending visit to thla
country of a delegation of distin
guished Frenchmen who will both©
bearers of a national gift of friend
ship from tho French republic to
(be United States, consisting of Au
guste Rodin’s bust of "La France."
This magnificent bronze bust iwiil he
presented to the United States as a
token of France’s friendship and le
to be pinned at the base of the mon
ument which will be dedicated In
June to Samuel de Champlain, th©
French navigator and explorer, th©
tercentenary of whose discovery of
Lake Champlain was celebrated in
1909.
The delegation will be headed by
M. Gabriel Hanotaux, former for
eign minister of France and mem
ber of the French Academy, and will
visit New York, Washington, Phila
delphia, Boston, Lake Champlain,
Montreal, Quebec and Niagara Fnlls,
delivering addresses voicing the
gratitude of France for the numer
ous manifestations of friendship by
the United States. Th© delegation
will sail for New York on the n©w
steamship Franc© of the French line
which will iftart on It© maiden voy
age on April 10.
What makes thla official visit ot
especial Intereft is that th© delega
tion la headed by M. Hanotaux, who
l« considered one of th© mog bril
liant statesmen of France and be
lieved to he destined to become pres
ident of the republic at aome time
In th© near future. M. Hanutax
was born «t Roaurevolr, a village
near St. Quentin, France, on No
vember 19, 1853. His grandfather
was a peasant and his father was a
notary and small landowner. Afre'*
Gabriel had completed his studies
at the Lyceum of St. Quentin, ho
went to Paris to ©tui«y law nnd *n-
t*red the school of Charters. He
shewed Intense interest In the study
~,t history and won distinction l»y a
thesis he wrote dealing with the
time of Richelieu.
Henri Martin, the historian, who
(Continued o n Page Eight.)
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