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- ALBANY, GA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 16, 1966. JUDGE SPENCE IS OUT OF THE RACE | TRAINS COLLIDE IN BLINDING SNOW Forty Persons Killed and Many Injured on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad—Fire Follows Wreck. Stated Yesterday Afternoon Before Leaving Albany for His Home at Camilla. Will be Issued on Sunday, April 15-Will be Great Advertisement for Albany and the Chautauqua. Many Changes in Govern ment Engineer’s Place Since Uncovering of Capt. Carter’s Shady Deals .ludg/ 11V 4 . N. Spence will not make the race for Congress In the approaching primary. ■ To a Herald representative Judge Spence made this positive state ment yesterday afternoon as he was preparing to leave, the city for his home at Camilla. He said: • "The action of the District Democratic Executive Committee today renders it impossible for me to make the race for the nomination. The primary has been called for the 16th of May. It will be necessary for me to hold my spring courts before beginning an active canvass, and %b 1 Will be thus engaged until about the middle of June, It only remains for me to abandon whatever Idea I may have had of making .the race.” In the announcement which appeared In state papers on last Sunday to the effect that Judge Spence would be a candidate for the nomina tion, k was stated that he would not begin canvassing the district until •after completing the round of his spring courts. In his conversation with The Herald’s representative Judge Spence rather intimated that he had never fully determined to make the race against Representative Griggs. He had authorised the announcement which appeared last Sunday, but rather intended It as preliminary to a positive announcement which he might see lit to make later, hut had not positively determined Upon. Judge Spence appears to accept the action .of the district executive committee In the best possible spirit. While he would have preferred a later primary, he had no word of criticism or protest to offer’yesterday afternoon. He left at 4 o’clock for Camilla. This announcement from Judge Spence means that the congressional prirpary will be a quiet affair. Representative Griggs will be the only candidate, and will represent the district In the Sixtieth Congress. The lack of contest In his own district will enable him to devote a great deal more attention than would otherwise have been possible to the Interest of the party In other states, where his services as chairman ot the Con gressional Campaign Committee will be badly needed. PUEBLO, Colo., March 16. -The worst railroad wreck in Colorado since the Edln disaster, when 100 persons were killed, occurred at 2 o’clock this morning near Adobe, thirty miles west of Pueblo, on the Den ver & Rio Grande railroad. Train No. 16, east bound, crashed into train No. 3, west bound, telescoping the forward cars of each train. The coaches immediately took fire, and the flames completed the horror. The dead are estimated at upward of fifty;'the injured at least twenty-five. / The cause of the wreck Is believed to be a failure to deliver orders to No. 16 so that No. 3 could pass. At the office of the ggneral superintendent at Denver it Is said It is believed thkt the engineers, firemen and express messengers of each train were killed. All of the cars and coaches, excepting the sleepers, were burned. No. 3 carried passengers from all parts of the country; No. 16 carried mainly passengers from lodal points. Relief trains were sent out immediately, but the work of rescue is slow on account'of the burning wreckage and a heavy show storm which is raging. It will be some time before an accurate dead and injured list can be prepared. The management of The Herald de cided this morning to Issue a Chautau qua Edition of The Herald this year, as usual, and selected Sunday morn ing, April 15, at the date upon which the special edition will be Issued. It has been problematical since the fire wjilch wrought such destruction In The Herald office on February 18 whether The Herald would be in posi tion to Issue a Chautauqua edition this year. There have been some delays In the shipments of our new equip ment, and we did not know definitely until today that we would be in a posi tion to Issue such a paper as would be a credit to The Herald and to the city. Of course, we would not undertake the issuance of a special edition unless ^ur equipment was In such shape as to enable us to present a paper that would be entirely creditable. The pol icy of the management, as is well known to ill, has been to make these special editions' just as attractive as possible, and neither time nor expense has been spared to make our special editions in the past just what the peo ple would have them. Ap for the ChautauquawEdition for the Eighteenth Annual Assembly, we can say that we will be in position to issue more of a metfopolitcn paper this'j’ear than, ever before. Our al ready Well-equipped plant has fleen largely increased, and we do not hesi tate to say that our type equipment Is the most modern and comprehensive in South Georgia. From a typographi cal standpoint, we are sure that the Special to The Herald. Savannah, Ga., March J.6.—Lieut- Col. Dan C. Kingman, Corps of Engin eers, U. S. A., who has been sent to Savannah to succeed Major C: E. Gil lette, has reached the city and as sumed hlB duties. Jast how long he will remain Is not known. Since the uncovering of the scandals in conncc-' tion with ex-Captaln Carter’s shady, deals in the Savannah office there have been many changes, and no man has remained here long. Major-Gillette, who started the In vestigation that landed Carter in the penitentiary and pvt Greene ahd Gay- nor on trial, has left the service. Hu was at first succeeded by Col. J. B. Quinn, who, after a service of a cou ple of years, became an advocate ot Cartor’s plans for the improvement of the harbor, and has been ordered to some place In the far northwest The Department of Justice exerted its in fluence to have Colonel Quinn moved. Just how long Colonel Kingman Is go ing to stay is a question. ,Tho Savan nah station seems to be somewhat hoodooed. ■ ' .-i ESTIMATES OF THE DEAD AND INJURED. PUEBLO, Colo., March 16.—Word has been received from Dr. Mo- Mason, who has been at the wreck since early morning, placing the num ber of dead at forty. • DENVER, Colo., March 16.—The central officers of the Denver fi, Rio Grande railroad at 10 o’clock this morning stated officially that not more than fifteen were killed in the wreck, and only twenty Injured. MARION STANDIFER GIVES CASH BOND. FATAL HOTEL FIRE AT TUSTIN, MICH, Will Not Return to His Wife, But to His Father. Most of the Occupants Escaped In Night Clothes, But Four Perished. THE PLAGUE REAPPEARS AT SIDNEY, N. S. W Grand Rapids, Mich., March 16.— The business portion of the village of Tustln, Osceloa county, was' destroyed For the Punishment of Mis* erable Persons Who At* tempt to Commit Suicide and Fail. People’s League Rally Last Night—The Anti*Admin* ‘ istration Forces Getting Very Busy. -t)y/n~flre early'.loday. -Whloh-itiwed-ln, ttye basement of the Hotel Compton from a defective furnace. Most of the occupants of the hotel escaped in their night clothing, while four were burned-to death. W :NCW t South Wales, ‘ M 16.—The plague has reappeared 1 Two cases were reported yestei and three more were discovered t In the same blockhouse. Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga., March 16. — Recorder Broyles wants a law passed which will provide for the punishment of all per sons who attempt suicide but fail. He thinks that if a few of those who make unsuccessful passes at death were sent to the chain gang there would be less of that sort of thing to contend with. Of course, those who succeed in their attempts at self-destruction are sup posed to get all that is coming to them in the Hereafter. The recorder ex pressed his mind on the subject yes terday when Troy Bowden, a young machinist who drank some laudanum, was haled before court. The young man could give no reason for wishing to- die. He, admitted that he had at- tempted to kill himself, but denied that he was drunk. The case against him was dismissed, the recorder being powerless, under the law’, to punish for attempted suicide. jujjeu uej sjbuji, AJiaa , Special to The Herald, naut, because of the Infatuation which ( Savannah , Gf ,, March lc ._ Tbe Pea . Standifer had for his slster-In-law, was p , e8 , Lea ^ e ' rally at the oid Y . M . c . released from custody, pending his ar- A ha)] ]ast n)ght was one of tbe warm . raignment In the state courts on a ^ wbat ls provlng t0 be a very charge of immoral conduct. The warm c , mpa)gn , Tbe 3peaUers agalnBt money was furnished by the young the adm inistratlon' talked with their man’s father, who came here to aid ^ off T he favorite orators were him. it ls said that Standifer will not there RJ1<{ lhey - band(j< j out ' some hot join his wife here, but will go to his father’s home at Jacksonville, Ala. | n ’ u proba „ e tbat tbere will be a meeting of the adminlstratlonlsts soon, SECRETARY TAFT j and some hard things s*ld last night AND THE PRESIDENT wi!1 be rep,!ed ta * | One of the features of last night’s Had Long Conference Today-More meeting ™as the singing of ,a song, Time to Consider Appointment of Mr - Osborne,’’ to the tune of "Oh, Justice Brown’s Successor. Mr - Dooley." It set the crowd laugh- 1,, | iug heartily. The song dwelt upon Washington, March 16. — Secretary Mr. Osborne’s^ Influence In the cam- Taft was In consultation with the paign and his work In connection with President for some time this morning, this campaign. Following the conference the Presl- The Impression Is rapidly gaining Brinson & Co„ , Wood and Coal, Phono 367. Prompt service. Patron- ... SENATOR DSPEW TAHIKG A REST. Physicians Will Not Let him Return to Washington at Present. New York, March 16.—It ls reported on the best of authority that Senator Depew is gaining great benefit from his temporary rest from his official dutleB. He ls better than for months, and If permitted to have his own way would return to Washington Immedi ately, He Is ordered by his physicians to recuperate thoroughly before re suming work. HARPER’S SAD CASE. Died In Asylum as Result of Injuries by Railroad Car. Albany confidently expects to have a street railway system in the not dis tant future. The city will need one before she gets much larger. In fact, she needs it now, and tho§e who have been investigating the .matter express the conviction that an electric line would he a paying enterprise. ing the successorship to Justice ment of the present political campaign Brown on the Supreme Court bench at the spring primary. It becomes ap- that as Justice Brown will not retire parent that the ins, who control the until June 3, when the court takeB a Executive Committee of the County, vacation until October, and as no In- will not be able to make terms that convenience arises from the vacancy will he acceptable to the outs, and during the vacation, tile President will there will be a free-for-all fight, with take further time to decide the ques- the negro in the saddle. There has tion of a successor. Several names; not been such a campaign in ^van- including that of Secretary Taft, are „ , . . J nah in ten y« arB - Special to The Herald. Savannah, Ga., March 16.—Yester day afternoon occurred the funeral of Robert E. Harper. This was the> final chapter in the life and career of a young man whofee future a few years ago was bright with promise. It ls one of the saddest stories that Save developed In South Georgia In some t|me. Harper was employed as a clerk for a railroad at Savannah when be was struck by a freight car and badly In jured. He sued for, the injuries in flected upon him and was given a very large verdict. Tbs' Supreme, Court sustained the verdict, but the week A did so Harper became mentally unbal anced because of his Injuries, and had to be sent to the asylum, where he died. The money was paid to his fam ily, but Harper did not receive any of the benefits from It We sell them. Fresh shipments of these deli cious confections are re ceived weekly, 1, 2, 3 and 5 pound 1)0X63 and paper upon which active work is now begun will be much more attractive than any that has ever been printed in thls-office. Since the last special edition of The Herald, Albany has made wonderful progress. There Is a wealth of ma terial for such an edition, and certain ly no one can question that It Is possi ble to make this paper thg most inter esting and important ever published in this city. 8o many have taken occasion to ex press their regret at the possibility of there being, no Chautauqua Edition of The Herald this year, that we feel sure the announcement of the determina tion of The' Herald management to Is sue the biggest and best paper of Its kind ever attempted here will be re ceived with pleasure by all who are Interested In Albany and In the Geor gia Chautauqua. STEAMER ASHORE _ NEAR ATLANTIC CITY. Dr. J. Herman Ferst Charged With j Murdering Mrs. Rosa Mangrum. Believed to be the “Cereanese," of the . Booth Line, | Nashville, Tenn., March 16.—Dr. Jr .Herman Ferst was arrested here this Atlantic City, N. J., March 16.—The morning charged with having mur- Barnegat life-saving station reports dered Mrs. Rosa Mangrum, whose that a steamer ls ashore near Island dead body was found floating In the Beach, and is believed to be the “Cer- Ohio ’river, near Cairo, HI., about six eanese,” of the Booth Line. Help to weeks ago. Dr. Ferst is a prominent float her has been sent from Philadel- Physician, and bis arrest has caused phla. The vessel is lying easy and a profound sensation. Mrs. Mangrum As with [candy, so \ everything. {We sell c the best. Jlf fyou v the best your ,’ori should come to sman' Vanilla Drops, Trilby, St Nicholas, Pralines, Maple, Coffee, Pineapple, Yum Yum, And Violet Top Chocolates at 20c lb. Peaoh Stones, Burnt Al monds, Dates, Cocoanut, Mint, Fudge, Marshmallows, at 10c lb. W. E. Fields. Ig&gtiigg INDSTINCT PRINT