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Organs, Buggies.
Vol. XIX.—I 6 Pages.
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DEATH AND RUIN
Shipload, 300 Toiis, Lets Go
At Baltimore
50 KILLED ANDJO WOUNDED
Terrible Detonation Rocked Buildings
or the Shore and Was Felt Many
Miles Along the Coast Inland —Loss
$1,000,000.
Three hundred tons of dynamite be
ing loaded in the British tramp steam
er Alum Chine, in the lower harbor
off Fort Howard, exploded at Balti
more instantly killing from forty to
fifty men, wounding and maiming
three score more, some of whom may
die, and dealing destruction to half a
million dollars’ worth of property.
The Alum Chine and a loadiog scow
alongside her were annihilated, the
tug Atlantic which twice went to the
rescue of the imperilled seamen was
set on fire and later sank; the United
States .collier Jason, just completed
and ready for trial, was raked to her
deck and her armor riddled, and build
ings in Baltimore and towns many
miles away were rocked by the force
of the terrific explosion.
The cause of the disaster is un
known but federal authorities have in
stituted a thorough investigation t
place the blame. Excited survivors
told conflicting stories, some insisting
that a negor stevedore caused the ex
plosion by jamming a pike into
case of dynamite. This is denied by
eye-witnesses who declare that smoke
was *een pouring from the Alum
Chine’s hold several minutes before
the explosion occurred.
Estimates of the dead included thir
ty stevedores and checkers of the Jo
seph R. Foard company, employed in
transferring dynamite from a barge
to the Aluin Chine, which was bound
for Panama, eight members of the
crew of the Alum Chine, six men on
•‘•he collier Jason and the captain and
members of the crew of the
tug Atlantic. Many bodies, it is be
lieved, never will be recovered from
ihe icy waters.
PLAN CITY OF THE BLEST.
California to Have Aesthetic and Hon
est Town.
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A marble city—white physically and
morally—is being planned for Central
The place is to be the cen
ter of all that is aesthtic and beauti
ful. No name has been chosen, al
though plans are said to be in archi
tect hands.
Jack London is one of the moving
spirits in this “Utopia,” “Never,
Never Land,” “Nueva Esperanza,” or
whatever the realm of nomenclature
may supply or fail to supply. There
'are to be no skyscrapers. Every
house is to have a front and back
yard; everything will be run for the
people.
13 AT TABLE; ALL HURT.
Gas Tank Explodes Tossing Diners
In the Air.
Thirteen persons at the dinner ta
ble in the home of O. P. Rustorr, at
Evansville, Ind., were injured when an
acetyline gas tank in the basement ex
pleded. The diners were thrown into
the air togther with sections of the
floor and furniture. Will Brandt
struck the ceiling. A chair was
hurled through the wall. The explo
sion moved the house off its founda
tions and wrecked the front porch en
tirely. Physicians hurriedly summon
ed found that none of the victims was
hurt seriously.
ROPER AID TO BURLESON.
jfeormer Congress Committee Helper
HfVirst Assistant to Postmaster
General.
Daniel C. Roper, of South Carolina,
will be the first assistant postmaster
general, it was announced at* the
White House.
Roper has been for the last two
years clerk of the house ways and
means committee and previous to that
time was employed as a tariff ex
pert with the same committe.
President Wilson also sent to the
senate the nomination of Charles P.
Neill vs bp commissioner of labor.
Kilgore & Kelly
WINDER, - - GEORGIA.
SPRING OPENING.
Friday and Saturday March 14th and 15th
Our spring stock in all departments is now ready for
your inspection. We have spared no time nor
means in buying and selecting these goods.
- - DRESS GOODS - -
All the new things in dress goods, white goods, Silk
and cotton dress goods. Ladies goods, Gents’ furn
ishings, shoes and clothing.
U. D. C. Meetrng.
The regular meeting of the
Daughters of the Confederacy will
be held at the residence of Mrs. It.
L. Rogers. Every member is urged
to be present next Wednesday, the
19th, as business of importance will
be transacted, and those who have
not paid their dues are requested to
bring them at that meeting
The following questions are sub
emitted for study, as touching upon
WE AUK BUILDING A-CITY HERE.
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KILGGKE & KELLY,
WINDER, - - - GEORGIA.
a March meeting, and in view of
the Inauguration this month;
i . How many presidents of the
Embed States have been inaugurat
ed?
■2. Give a comparative sketch of
the inaugurations of George Wash
ington and Woodrow Wilson.
3. Name as many as possible of
the great changes that have taken
place in modes of transportation,
communication, and life in general.
4. Where did Washington take
the oath of office?
5. During which administra
tions has the United States been
engaged in war?
f>. Which three presidents have
been assassinated, and by whom?
7. What president died on the
same date?
8. How many and who are the
ex-presidents still living?
9. What two special features
marked the inauguration of Wood
row Wilson?
10. Give a brief sketch of our
new president and his family.
SHINGLEMAN.
16 Pages.—No.49
WILSON TO WORK
ON LEGISLATION
He Will Take Hand In Framing
Laws
WORK WITH NEW CONGRESS
President Intends to Go Over the Big
Measures Even Before They Are In
troduced Discourage Individual
Bills.
President Wilson will take a hand
himself in framing legislation with
the new congress. With the co-opera
tion of party leaders in the house and
senate he proposes to work over tar
iff, currency and other important meas
ures even before they are introduced
and to lend the weight of the adminis
tration to the support of the bills.
This information and the fact that
the president will endeavor, in for
wardiny his policies, to use personal
persuasion not only with members of
his own party, but with progressive
Republicans who are inclined to be
friendly, came from those who have
talked with him since his inaugura
tion.
The president does not plan to draft
legislation, but expects, by suggestion
and conference, to come to an agree
ment upon specific measures with the
party leaders. It has not been deter
mined whether currency will be taken
up at the special session. It was
learned that when the president be
lieves the time ripe for such legisla
tion he will call into conference such
men as Representative Glass, of Vir
ginia, head of the subcommittee that
has been investigating currency ques
tions, to agree upon the outline of a
bill that would have administration
backing.
Such process, the president believes,
would discourage the flood of individ
ual bills usually offered when reform
legislation is undertaken and would
concentrate the efforts of party lead
ers toward some kind of agreement
in advance of public discussion This
method, it is also believed in some
quarters, would have the effect of
steadying the nervous system of the
business world when subjects so vital
as the tariff and currency are being
revised. , ..
BACON DEFEATED. I
Failure to Be Elected President of
Senate a Surprise.
The Democrats of the senate in
caucus, elected Senator Clarke, of Ar
kansas, as president pro tern of the
senate over Senator A. O. Bacon, of
Georgia, and Rev. J. S. Prettiman,
pastor of the Methodist church, Wash
ington, as chaplain of the senate. The
vote on president pro tern was 27
to 14.
The e!v,-.lon of Senator Clarke as
president pro tern is somewhat of a
surprise, as it was expected that this
position had been conferred upon
Senator Bacon, who has heretofore of
ficiated in that capacity. Senator Ba
con, however, will be made chair
man cf the committee on foreign re
lations.
Senator Bacon’s unexpected defeat
was due unquestionably to the hos
tility cf Senator Martin’s friends in
that Martin, through Bacon’s assist
ance, was put out of the senate lead
ership in favor of Kern.
Wilson Uses Chair of Roosevelt.
For a few days at least President
Wilson will sit behind the big mahog
any desk in his private office in a chair
which was used by former President
Roosevelt. The chair Mr. Taft occu
pied was shipped to New Haven. Be
fore he left the White House, he or
dered another for his sucessor, exactly
like the one he used, but it had not ar
rived. The Roosevelt chair is old and
battered, but still good for service.
Mother of 15 Century Old.
In possession of all her faculties,
Mrs. Margaretta Dorsey Newson,
mother of fiften children, recently cel
ebrated the one hundredth anniversary
of her birth at Westminster, Md. Mrs.
Newson was born in Georgia. Her
husband died twenty-nine years ago,
aged seventy-seven years. The couple
had fifteen children, ten grandchildren,
fifteen great-grandchildren, and five
great-great-grandchildren.