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PIANOS,
Organs, Buggies.
Vol. XIX.-16 Pages.
COTTON OIL INDUSTRY
UNDER FEDERAL FIRE
Alleged Violation Sherman AnJi-
Tmst Law,
MUCH EVIDENCE IS SECURED
Claimed That American Cofwon Send
Oil Campany Is a Trust and Thai
Prices Have Been Fix*l In ‘Re
straint of Trade.
Charges illegally ctfomimatftng
and controlling the cotton seed oil in
dustry of >tbe south in violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law, made against
the American Cotton Heed Oil loom
pany, will be laid befone the federal
grand jun? at Augusta, Ga., jn n few
idays, according to a statement by
Attorney A Zander Aker
tnan.
This alleged trust l held by the
government to own or control subsid- i
Sary corporations in ; practicali!y every |
state of the soufch, au£ that tbe prices;
on the products and by-products of;
cotton seed oi3 have been arbitrarily
•fixed Toy the trust in restraint of
trade. Mr. Alrermn says these will
ib.. the specific charges as ainst the
corporation.
The Buckeye Cots on Sec*l Oil com
pany, the Proctor & Gambell com
pany, and others :are the subsidiarf
corporations of >.the alleged trust,
while smaller eernoratiof.is, such as
the Georgia 'Cotton Oil o mipany, the
Florida Cottion Oil company, the Ala
bama Cottcm 'Oil conpany, are also
.held by the goveumment to be-controll
ed by this company.
An enormous liralk of evidence Ihr.s
-been secunsd by .the special agents of
the district attorney, who have been
investigating this corporation during
ithe past eighteen months.
RAILROAD CASUALTIES.
*4,460 Persons Killed and Hurt In
'Georgia In 1912.
There were killed and injured by
•steam an/S street railroads in Georgia
last year 4.5150 people, according to
reports received arid tabulated by = the
;state railroad rormroKsion.
Two hundred and nine persons "were
' killed, of wh&db number 191 were kill
ed by the .stetrm railroads and lb by
ithe street cars, In Atlanta the num
iber of persons killed by the cans of
the Georgia Kailway and Power -com
pany was 11, "arid- the number Injured
was 641. Eighteen w r as the taital
number killed in the state by electric
lines. 'The number sf persons hauled
by the street car lines in Atlanta hur
ling last year was'Sti,ooo,ooo, more than
double the number in any other icity
in the state.
The figures rihow that the casual
ties were greater *in 1912 than in
1911. The increase applies to ;lhe
street car lines well as to the
steam railroads.
■ Comparison with‘the previous yec-.r
show that the casualties, instead of
being lessened by modern safety d*-
•vices and regulations, are on the h—
•crease.
2 TEARS FOR BIGAMIST.
Owen Greiger Not Given Alternative
of Fine.
Owen Greiger, the Pooler, Ga., mer
chant who plead guilty before Judge
Frank Park several hays ago to a
charge of bigamy, pressed by wife
number two, whose home is in Al
bany, mu*t serve two years in the
penirtentiarv without The alternative
of paying -a fine.
The case was held under advisement
for several slays by Judge Park, who
carefully investigated the circum
stance*. Prominent Prxfler citizens
came to Albaey to intercede for Grei
ger, who married under the name of
O. J. Simpler, his second wife being a
Miss Lilia Hamtnersly. He stated to
the court that he was drunk when the
second marriage was performed and
that he remembered nothing of the
ceremony.
Minister to Switzerland.
Pleasant A. StoyaJJ, of Savan
nah, will be appointed minister
to Switzerland- The information
is unuestionably authentic. Mr.
Stovall s nomination will be sent
to the senate shortly after con
gress convenes.
CONGRESS TO PRISON.
Forme* Missouri Member Given Term
In Federal Prison.
Former Congressman Harry M.
Coudrey and Harry F. Gardner were
sentenced to imprisonment of four
and a half years in the federal peni
tentiary at Leavenworth, and each
w&.s fihed $a,500 in the federal dis
trict court a't St. Louis.
The sentence imposed was the max
imum allowed under the law, whifh
permits a penalty Of eighteen
months imprisonment and SSOO fine
to be imposed for each of three of
the seven counts on Which the men
were ocmvicted.
The two men werfe convicted of
using "fhe mails to defraud in the pro
i motiwn of what was known as the
| “Twin Insurance '.companies,” the
j Continental Life Insurance company
ami the International Fire Assurance
company.
HOUSE ELECTS CLARK.
Jtann Was Nominated by Republican*
and Murdock by Progressives.
The house off -representatives <bf
i*he sixty-thirfi 'congress re-eledted
Speaker Clark. He received 271
"•Votes; James F. Mann, of Illinois,
’Republican, received 111 votes and
’Victor Murdock, of Kansas, Progres
sive, received T 8 votes.
Four progressive Republican? woted
for Cooper, rtf Wisconsin. Mr. Coop
er voted for Tlepresentative Nelson,
of Minnesota
Dynamite Floating on FlueidL
Thirty quarts of nitroglycerin, be
lieved to have been buried by Ortie
R. McManigal, confessed dynamiter,
have been unearthed near Aluncie,
Ind., by the flood w-aters of the White
river. Tbea were found along the
Boyce road near the Lake Erie and
Western railroad bridge east of the
city. The i euns floated through the
yards of the Indiana Wire and Steel
company.
GENERAL NEWS NOTZS
Lawrence -Y. Sherman, of Illinois
and Judge Tiathan Goff, of West Vir
ginia, vnuic sworn in as United
States .senators.
T. A. Stack, licensee of the "Railway
hotel. PurLey, Eng., who haa twice
marrisid, har had his 291 b child born
to him. By his first wife .he .had ten
children.
It was .announced at Winnipeg.
Han., that the Canadian Parific rail
road will build the world's 'g reatest
tunnel through the Rorky mountains.
The road will electrify ite Rocky
mountain division.
John Sierra inski was sentenced to
life imprisonment at Jackson. Mich.,
for killing hit* 13-months-o.ld daugh
ter oia Marchi22. Sierminski admitted
killing the babe, but said that he did
it when be was “crazy drunk ”
The Siadt Antwerpen, the first cross
ChacueJ steamer fitted with anti-roll
ing tanks to prevent, sea sickness, has
been launched at Antwerp, it is a
21-knot turbine steamer, arul will
carry the maib on the Dover-Cstend
route.
Austria-Hangary is to lead rise way
in enrolling- women to go into the
fighting farce, hut they will replace
men in surb purely administrative
and auxiliary services as sanitation,
storekeeping, telegraphy and hospital
w-ork.
The chief topic .df conversation just
now among playgoers of Londo* is
the coming new play of Arnold Ren
nett. The play wi3 be called "The
Great Adventure,” -.and will be pro
duced by Granville Barker. Henry
Ainley, the beloved s£ matinee girls,
will play the leading part.
Johann Eicheiborg, once leadntg
vjolinist at the Metropolitan opera
house, died in poverty at New Or
leans. Manuscripts of -more than 50®
compositions were around him. Hi*
wife died two years ag® of insanity
and Eichelborg’s violin only kept her
quiet during her ravings.
Light armor plates are being fitted
to the crowns of the magazines in the
battleship Temeraire as a protection
against projectiles fired from Jong
distance ranges or dropped from air
craft. Other dreadnoughts are to be
similarly protected, says a London
dispatch.
Frances Leggett, the sixteen-year
old daughter of the late Francis R.
Leggett, millionaire grocer of New
York, was granted an allowance of
$20,000 a year by Supreme Court Jus
tice Gerard. William Rand, Jr., as
referee, had held that it was neces
sary for her education and mainte
nance.
WE ARE BUILDING A CITY HERE.
Windw, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, April 10th , 1913.
FANATIC KILLS SELF
AND HIS DAUGHTER
Tragic End To Proposed Nup
tials In Louisiana
FIANCE ALSO A SUICIDE
Father, Crazed by Religious Fanati
cism, Is Principal in Most Sensa
tional Tragedy Parties W ere
Prominent and Wealthy.
All fatherly love crushed by reli
gious fanaticism, George A. Brown,
a wealthy planter, killed his daugh
ter, Katharine, at Bachelor, La., as
■she lay asleep the day before her
wedding, because she was about to
marry a man of another faith.
Driving all the horror-stricken
servants from the old southern man
sion, he turned the same revolver
against his own temple and blew out
his brains.
Frank G. Ford, 'who was to have
been the bridegroom, ended his own
life when he heard the news.
Now the palatial residence is
draped in mourning instead of be
ing prepared for the wedding cele
bration. The flowers that were to
have formed the bridal decorations
are being used on the young girl’s
bier instead. Her wedding gown will
be her shroud, and the maids and
matrons of honor who came to rejoice
with the bride have stayed to mourn
for the dead.
Wedding ’Guests Turn Mourners.
Every train brought relatives and
friends who had been invited to at
tend the ceremony, and their laugh
ter was turned te> tears when they
heard of tlse tragic happenings of the
day.
All of the victims in the triple
tragedy aire members of rich and
prominent Louisiana families. Geo.
A. Brown was secreta.y of the West
ern Louisiana Planters’ association
and the owner ®f several fine planta
tions. His daughter was one of the
belles o fthe state. Her fiance, Frank
G. Ford, was one of the wealthiest
young men of Martin, Miss. He re
cently inherited $200,000 from his
father’s estate
The romance between the two
young people began recently, when
Miss Brown visited Martin. Ford
made several! trips into Louisiana,
and the girl’s father never voiced his
cb;ections until some time after the
engagement was announced. The
preparatieus were allowed to proceed,
and the bride-to-be had spent the
night before her death in examining
her trousseau.
Drives Serrants From House.
The servants were aroused by a
single shot. Within a few minutes
they were suonnoned to Mr. Brown’s
bedroom to find him pale and visibly
excited, a revolver dlutched tightly
in hi* hand. At the point cf the gun
he drove them from the house, and
it was not urtiH they gathered up
courage an hour 'ater to return that
they hound the iwo bodies.
Immediate wuid was sent dt Ford
at Martin, ar,d almost as quickly as
the wines could carry the words the
news came back 'f the young man’s
suicide.
“I cas’t live 'without her. Good
bye,” was the message which the
grief-stricken man left behind.
Rev. OtweTl Dead.
Rev. John C. fttwell died at
his home in Monroe Motoday iron
ing. Mr. Ottwell w.as about A2
years of age. He was the pa star
of several churches in Walton am,
adjoining counties, lie was tru
il a consecrated Christian gentle
man. The funeral oceurred from
the Baptist church in Monroe,
Tuesday and his remains were
carried to Gainesville, Ga., Ida for
rner home j<nd intered in the cem
etery there Wednesday.
Lord-Chastain.
Married, Sunday afternoon, at
Daeula, Ga.. Mr. N. B. Lord,
clerk of tho Superior court of
Jackson county, to Miss Chastain,
of GWinnett county. Mr. Lord
and His bride went immediately
to Jefferson, where they are re
ceiving the congratulations of
many friends.
MUST LIVE WITH WOMAN
He Wromged or Serve Ten
Years in Penitentiary.
i
The rather unusual alternative
of “living with his wife or spend
ing ten years in the penitentiary 1
was the proposition with which
Judge Brand faced Dallas Can
dell in Banks county superior
court this week. Candell took
twen‘y-f< ur hours to decide whicJ
he wou’d do, but lie decided to
live with his wife.
Candell, 24-year-old school
teacher, handsome and a member
of a prominent family, was cliarg
ed with wronging a 16 year-old
girl pupil in the school and a
member also of one of the leading
families of Banks. The father
swore out a warrant ;,*nd Candell
married the girl, anly to leave
her immediately.
The grand ury indicted hmi for
the wrong of months ago. He
was tried, convict* and and scnteii
eed in the presence of the pretty
yoitng wife.
2000 FIGHT FLOOD.
Memphis and Mississippi Valley Fac
ing Greatest Flood in History.
With the stage of the Mississippi
at 4*5 feet, the levees in the district
north and south of Memphis are fac
ing a crisis in the 1913 flood which
promises to be the greatest ever com
ing to the Mississippi valley.
Hundreds o.f men are patrolling the
Arkansas levee from the mouth of
the White river to the Missouri state
line. Over 2,000 laborers are work
ing to top the levee before the crest
arrives. Weakened places in the main
Jevee at Wynnoke, Ark., have devel
oped, but gangs were rusher there
;and .checked a threatened break.
About 20 blocks of city property,
inhabited mostly by negroes, in
north Memphis, is under water from
.2 to 10 feet deep. There is no suf
fering, but 500 refugees are at Camp
Crump, at the Tri-State fair grounds.
Boats are bringing in many others.
The government is complaining that
the laborers are scarce.
Veteran Gives State Memorial.
Ashiey Horne, a Confederate vet
eran of Raleigh, N. C., has presented
to North Carolina a bronze memorial
to the Confederate women of the war.
It will cost $30,000. The monument
will stand on the south side of the
Capitol square and will represent a
woman seated and with an open book
in her lap reading to her boy, who
Jkneels beside her and holds his fath
er's sword.
News Notes
The Georgia Railway and Power
company has applied to the city coun
cil of Covington for the right to es
tablish a supply station in Covington.
The Covington and Oxford Street Rail
way company is considering putting
in electric cars, and the city council
would be unable to furnish sufficient
power to operate them.
When the Medical association of
Georgia, comprising some 300 mem
bers, meets in Savannah April 16, 17
and 18, a good time will be in store
for the doctors, both from a social
and a scientific standpoint. The offi
cial program has just been issued by
the Georgia Medical society.
General John Glynn, 72, noted in
Confederate army services, was found
dying in a room at his home in New
Orleans, clasping a tattered Confed
erate flag to his breast. The flag has
adorned his bed ever since the war
ended. He died at a hospital an hour
later. Heart disease is said to have
caused his death. The flag will be
used to drape the body in the casket.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Kelly are
visiting relatives in Lumberton,
Miss., tH is week.
With Wilson the pen is might
than the big stick.
SHINGLEMAN.
16 Pages.—No. 52
HOUSE RECEIVES
THE TARIFF BILL
Leader Underwood Introduces
Measure.
I.IANY SWEEPING REDUCTIONS
Several Articles of Food and CTothing
Classed as Necessaries of Life Are
Placed on Free List or Greatly Re
duced.
Carrying sweeping reductions in
every schedule of the tariff law ex
cept the tobacco and spirit schedules,
the Democratic tariff revision bill was
introduced in the house by ( hairman
Underwood of the house ways and
means committee. It was automati
cally referred to the committee by,
which it will be reported to the house
within several days.
Many articles of food and clothing
classed as necessities of life are
placed on the free list or greatly re
duced in duties. Accompanying the
bill is an income tax on all incomes
of $4,000 a year or over.
The bill would take effect the day
after the president signs it.
The new rates are estimated to re
duce the customs revenue approxi
mately $80,000,000 a year. This is ex
pected to be made up by the income
tax.
Indorsed by President Wilson, the
measure represents the efforts of tua
president and the house tariff makei s
to carry into effect Democratic
pledges of downward revision and of
concessions to the American con
sumer.
20 “BANKERS’ BANKS”.
Nebraskan Wants Reserve Associa
tion in Clearing House Centers.
An organization of twenty national
reserve associations or bankers’
“banks” in the twenty leading clear
ing house centers in the country, was
proposed in a bill introduced by Sen
ator Hitchcock of Nebraska.
They are to have a minimum cap
ital of three billion dollars and may
issue securities to twice the amount
of the capital of the reserve associa
tion, based on bankable paper or any
other acceptable security, provided
this emergency currency issued by
them shall be similar to ordinary
bank notes and shall be redeemable
at the United States treasury. The
bill provides for five additional re
serve associations if they shall be
required.
BAR NAUGHTY POSES. \
Plan to Substitute Fancy Swings for
Wiggles and Risque Shuffles.
Dancing masters of Chicago and
other middle western cities planned a
national reform in dancing which
they will take up with the national
organization of their profession at
the next convention this summer at
Asbury Park, N. J. Folk dances will
be argued as the best national
pastime.
The new folk dances which the mas
ters have decreed were O. K. have
been named the “Sapho ’ and the
“Ace of Diamonds.” in these dances
the masters have eliminated the
naughty positions, the risque shuf
fling, syncopated steps and have in
jected some fancy swings which they
believe will become as much a craze
as the Tango, Bunny Hug and other
dances to which they and the police
object. ■*'
Custer’s Last Fight.
Mr. Anderson Sharpton, mana
ger of the Lyric theater, has heed
showing some excellent pieturt*
since he took charge of affairs
theatrical in this city. Tonight
he will present “Custer’s Last
Fight,” in three reels. This
is an interesting picture, arid a
large crowd is expected’. Meet
me at the Lyric..
Mrs. J. W. Carrington, who has
been quite ill for the past few
days is much improved.
Mrs. J. C. Flanigan, and child
ren of Lawrenceville, were the
guests this week, of .Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Eld r, of t’.is Ry.