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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.