The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, February 20, 1914, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE. THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE. VOLUME XVir. CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1914. NUMBER 7. IS PAID 10 8ACQN SENATE AND HOUSE AND OFFI CIAL WASHINGTON PAY HON OR TO DEAD SENATOR. LIES IN STATE IN ATLANTA Impressive Services, Marked by Sim plicity, at Funeral of Great Georgian. Washington.—Congress and the na tion piid final tribute to the late Senator A. O. Bacon of Georgia. Wliilp ills body lay in sLate in the senate chamber a rare honor—botli houses of congress recessed for the funeral services, which cabinet officers, mem bers of the diplomatic, corps and many prominent figures in national life at tended. President Wilson could not go to the funeral because of the risk of ex posure after his recent hard cold, hut Mrs. Wilson and some of the family occupied places in the gallery. A large AUGUSTUS 0. BACON wreath, hearing the cards of the pres ident and Mrs. Wilson, was placed on the casket, the only floral tribute in the chamber, besides one from the senate. The wreath was of orchids, hyacinths, mignonettes and daisies. Two guards of honor, one a union soldier and the other a Confederate veteran, stood beside the coftin as it lay in the marble room. The ceremonies were marked by simplicity. There were no eulogies— only prayer and funeral service by the senate chaplain and Bishop Harding of the Episcopal church. To the left of the coffin, immediate ly in front of the vice president's desk, sat members of the family of Senator Bacon, his daughter, Mrs. Willis B. Sparks; his grandson, Augustus O. Ba con Sparks, and Ills granddaughter, Miss Louise Curry. With them were Judge and Mrs. William B. i-amur. Admiral Dewey was not present, but was represented by Rear Admiral Vreeland. He and General Wood, chief of staff of the army, were in full uni form and furnished the only touch of color in the assembly. Members of the cabinet who attend ed were Secretaries Bryan, McRey- nolds, Garrison, Daniels, Lane, Red- field and Wilson. Two hours before the body was taken witli tender reverence into the senate chamber it lay in the adjoin ing marble room. The public was ex cluded. Later the body was taken into the senate chamber and placed upon the creped bier, directly in front of the vice president’s desk. Seats upon the floor were reserved for tlie president of the United States, members of his cabinet, the chief Jus tice and associate justices of the Su preme court, members of the diplo matic corps, members of the house of representatives, the admiral of the navy, the chief of staff of the army and the regents and secretary of the Smithsonian institution. Admission to the galleries was by card, extended only to tiie members of the house and the more intimate friends of the dead statesman. One gallery was reserved for the use of those invited by the president and the vice president. Hundreds of those who came to pay homage to the dead statesman's memory were turned away. When Vice President Marshall walk ed slowly to Iiis seat and called the senate to order, the short and simple services began. All Georgia Honors Dead Statesman. Atlanta.—Georgia paid last tribute of honor and respect to tiie memory of her dead senator when the body of the late Senator Augustus O. Bacpn lay in state at the capitol building from noon to 4:30 Wednesday after noon. As the body of the distinguished statesmen lay silent in tiie building, through whose marble halls and leg islative chambers his voice in years past lias rung out to help mold tiie des tiny of his state, Georgia mourned. With a military guard of honor standing at each corner of the shroud ed casket, the dead senator was the recipient of the silent tributes of es teem of tiie friends and comrades of his life, as they filed by tiie bier. These personal tributes were far more elo quent than tiie words of orators and more impressive than elaborate cere mony. An honorary guard of the Georgia National Guard, tiie Seventeenth in fantry, cadetsti Confederate Veterans and honorary escorts from oilier or ganizations, accompanied tiie body from tiie Terminal Station to the cap itol. At 11:40 o’clock the funeral party, composed of distinguished friends and co-workers of Senator HacoiABponi Washington, arrived over tlieTroulli- ern railway. The casket was taken upon the elevator from the train shed to tiie street floor ojMUe Terminal ■tiie street dooi|^Htlie buildiilg the cadets of the G^^giu Military Academy and the Marist College form ed a double line from the gates of the train yard elevator to tiie main entrance to the station. The funeral party marched through their ranks to the main entrance, where the cas ket was placed in the waiting hearse ami carried to its temporary resting place in the capitol. When the body arrived at tiie en trance the Confederate Veterans, many of whom were witli the senator through the stirring scenes of the Civ il war, assembled, and received tiie casket. The veterans then formed a hollow square about the hearse. A detail of the Seventeenth infantry carried tile casket from tiie train to tiie hearse. Tills detail then march ed In the rear of the hearse to the capitol. The escort from Washmtgon con sisted of tiie committee appointed by the two iiouses of congress, which is as follows: Sergeant-at-Arms Higgins, the sec retary of the senate. Senators Smith ol' Georgia, Tillman, Chilton, Eietcher, Pomerene, Thomas, O'Gorman, Varda nian, Gallinger, Root, Nelson, Braude- gree ami Page, Representatives Kerris, Willis, Mann, Payne, Gardner, Antho ny, Dyer and Prouty, and the Geor gia delegation, including Representa tives, Edwards, Park, Crisp, Adamson, Howard, Barlett, Lee, Tribble, Bell, Hardwick, Walker and Hughes. In addition to the special detach ments of the procession already men tioned, there were representative com mittees from many organizations.Tliere were also a host of individuals, life time friends anil admirers of Senator Bacon, who will march in the line of the procession. Development of Water Power. Washington.—First steps toward the formulation of tiie administration's policy to govern the development of water power projects on public lands and in navigable streams weire taken 1>y President Wilson and his cabinet. 'Virtually the entire time of the cab inet meeting was devoted to a dis cussion of tiie principles of conserva tion involved and Secretaries Garri son and Lane of the war and interior department respectively were unani mously supported in their plans for meeting the problem. State Troops to 8top Church Riot. South Bend, Ind.—Women and chil dren continued to riot in the neigh borhood of SL Casimir's Polish Roman Catholic church, where several per sons were hurt when the police at tempted to tnxtal ltlie Rev. Stanislaus Gruza as priest. A. L. Hubbard, at torney for Bishop Herman J.Alerd- ing of Fort Wayne, announced that he had requested Goveruor Ralston to call state, troops to South Bend to assist in placing the priest in charge of the church. Bishop Alerdlng has seut word that he wishes Gruza in stalled in the church at once. MOB STOPS TRAIN TO GET PRISONERS PASSENGERS AND MEMBERS OF TRAIN CREW HELD AT BAY WITH GUNS. HANG NEGRO FROM BRIDGE Mob Intended to Lynch Two Negroes, But One Saved by Confession of His Companion, Sherman Got Columbia 49 Years Ago. Columbia, S. C,—The forty-ninth an niversary of the entrance of the North ern soldiers into Columbia under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman.was mark ed by the unveiling of a granite boul der erected by the Wade Hampton chapter. United Daughters of the Con federacy, upon the spot where T. J. Goodwyo. the mayor of Columbia, un der a flag of truce, met General Sher man and surrendered to him the city. Tiie occasion was given a peculiar in terest by the only living witness to the eveut Norton W. Brooker. Hernando, Miss.—Stopping an Illi nois Central passenger train in the woods near Love Station, Miss., a mob of about fifty masked men held passengers and members of tiie train crew at bay under cover of revolvers while they forced Sheriff E. F'.Nichols of DeSoto county to turn over to them Johnson McGuirk and Bill .Phil lips, negroes, accused of wounding J. K. Ingram, a wealthy mill owner, near Bylialia, Miss., several weeks ago. Mc Guirk was hanged from a railroad tres tle and Phillips restored to the cus tody of the sheriff. When tiie sheriff and his two pris oners disembarked the mob permitted tiie train to proceed while the march ed tiie handcuffed negroes to the tres tle. Preparations were being made to lynch both, but the pleadings of Nich ols in behalf of Phillips against whom it is stated (lie evidence is alight, was effective and lie was returned to the sheriff. Witli little ceremony a ropo was placed around McGuirk’s neck and he was forced to leap from the bridge. The mob then dispersed and Nichols came to Hernando aboard a later train witli his prisoner. The two negroes were being brought to Hernando from Batesville, where they had been taken at tiie time of their arrest to escape mob violence, for preliminary hearing. At Love Sta tion tiie mob surrounded the train, and while four of tiie men took eluyge of tiie engine crew others marcf.i^: through tiie train, terrifying tiie pa.’- sengers by brandishing revolvers and shotguns. Ingram was shot from ambush three weeks ago. He was taken to a Mem phis hospital, where he is reported to be in a precarious condition. WILLIAM C. BRAISTED Dr. Braisted is the only appointed head of the medical corps of the Unit ed States navy, succeeding Surgeon General C. F. Stokes. He is now sur- geon of the Atlantic fleet. Dr. Braisted Is a native of Ohio and was appointed to the navy from Michigan. URGES CHECK ON JAPANESE COMMISSIONER GENERAL WANTS EARLY ACTION ON ASIATIC IMMIGRATION. YEGGMEN MAKE BIG HAUL Between $15,000 and $40,000 Taken From Blown Safe. Milledgeville, Ga.—Currency amount ing to between $15,000 and $40,000 was secured by yeggmen who wrecked the safe of C. H. Bonner, a business man here. One of the robbers bound and gagged the night watchman, and guarded him while two others explod ed three charges of nitroglycerin, completely demolishing the safe, and emptied it of what is said to have been the accumulation of a lifetime. Mr. Bonner would make uo ddfinite estimate of his loss. The yeggmen escaped without de tection, and apparently left no clue. Mr. Bonner is one of tiie wealthiest merchants of the city and was pecu liar in ills business habits inasmuch as lie deposited money only in his safe, never using a bank. He employed a private watchman. It was generally known that lie carried a large sum of money at all times in his safe. He was a collector of rare coins and other odd moneys and kept several sacks and boxes of such in his safe. The robbers got. eyerytliing in the shape of money. Mr. Bonner himself has not told the amount of Ills loss. Sheriff S. L. Terry was one of the first to tiie rescue of Mr. Dunn, and has begun quietly to investigate tiie robbery, with hopes of finding clues that will bring about arrests. N. Y. Treasurer Kills Self. Buffalo, N. Y.—John J. Kennedy, state treasurer, committed suicide at the Markeen hotel, where he lived with his family. He was found in a small lavatory with his throat cut and an open razor on the floor beside him. His jugular vein had been sev ered. Temporary insanity, induced by the worry over his impending appear ance before a New York grand jury where District Attorney Charles S. Whitman has been conducting a John Doe graft Inquiry, is s^d by his at torney, Michael F. Dirn^rger, Jr., to be the only reason that can he as signed for his act. Cli.ru Japanese, Chinese and Hindus Threaten the Entire Nation. Washington.—Despite a general un derstanding that, in deference to the administration, Asiatic exclusion leg islation would not be agitated in con gress pending diplomatic negotiations witli Japan, Commissioner General Caminetti of the immigration bureau addressed a house committee urging early action "to check tiie menace of Asiatic immigration.” “The Chinese and the Japanese," said Commissioner Caminetti, "had be come so acclimated to the United States that Asiatic immigration Is a serious menace to the entire coun try. The danger is greatest, of course, on the Pacific coast, but it is general as well. "Tiie Chinese have spread rapidly all over the country and now tiie Japan ese have become so acclimated that no part of the country is immune from the invasion. There can be no ques tion but that tiie Japanese are com ing in surreptitiously. The number of Japanese in tiie country has dou bled in the last five or six years. "New laws to prevent smuggling of immigrants are an urgent need. They should be passed at the present ses sion of congress. Japanese, Chinese and Hindus cross the border illegally. I should like to see legislative action at the earliest possible moment on tiie question to check tiie menace to the Pacific coast and the whole country. VICE ADMIRALS BILL PASSED Dug Hole in Wall and Escaped. Bay St. Louis, Miss.—Four white men, charged with burglary, one charged with carrying concealed weap ons and another charged with larceny, escaped from the Hancock jail here by digging a hole through a three-foot brick wall. One of seven negro pris oners who refused to leave said the escaped men were directed In their work by Alfred Oliver, aged 20, charg ed with burglary and breaking jail. He said one of the prisoners escaped through the hole, stole the Jail key from the sheriff’s office. Secretary of the Navy Daniels Pleased by the Action. Washington.—Six vice admirals for the American navy would be authoriz ed under a bill passed by the senate, after an extended debate, in which senators told of how the commander of the battleship fleet in Mexican wa ters might have to take orders from a ranking foreigner. Tiie navy has been appealing for years for a revival of a higher grade than rear admiral. Secretary Daniels was Highly pleased by the senate’s action and expressed confidence that the measure would cer tainly pass the house promptly and be signed by the president. "The ablest, best and most resource ful officers will be chosen for the new grade," he added, "not necessarily the present seniors in rank. LITTLE NEWS ITEMS THROUGHOUT STATE JAMES R. GARFIELD $2,250,000 Tax to Be Levied on John D. Cleveland, Ohio.—Harry Weiss, in ternal revenue collector for northern Ohio, mailed to John D. Rockefeller at Tarrytown, Ky., tax blanks for the list ing of the oil king’s income for fed eral taxation under the income tax law. Mr. Weiss said he would pro ceed to collect about $2,250,000 income tax from Mr. Rockefeller unless he pays the money to the revenue collec tor. "It hasn’t been decided whether Rockefeller’s legal home is Ohio or New York, so I’ve sent him blanks to be on the safe side." Hazlehurst.—The new democratic executive committee of Jeff Davis county met and elected Hon. A. J. Harrington chairman and fixed March 28 as the date for the county primary for judge of the circuit court. Valdosta.—The Atlantic Coast Line pleaded guilty to violation of the cat tle quarantine act and was fined the minimum, $100. The case was one in which a man shipped a cow and a calf from Argyle in a carload of household goods to some point in West Virginia, the agent of the road not being familiar with the law. Savannah.—While his wife slept in the next room, Phillip Bowen made careful preparation for death, sat down on his bed and blew off the top of his head with a shotgun, at. his home here. He died within half an hour. Worry over financial troubles is believed to have been the cause of the act. The dead man was 52 years old and a native of Germany. Taibotton.—Lee McLauglin, the 15- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lovick. A. McLauglin, of this place, lies at the point of death in the Sandersvillo sanitarium, and recovery is impossi ble from statements made by attend ing physicians. He was shot in the spinal column about seven weeks ago accidentally, with a parlor rifle by one of his playmates, George De- Loaclie of Savannah. Dalton.—When a neighbor went to ,the team of A. W. Tate, an aged and respected resident of the northern part of the county, to get the animals untangled from a wire fence, ho found Mr. Tate’s lifeless body in the wagon. Mr. Tate was driving the team to the mill, lie spoke to a man at the top of the hill, ami while the team was going down the hill he died. The animals, without a guid ing hand, ran into a fence Milledgeville.—After roaming about for 23 years, a marked Half dollar has found its way hack to VV. H. Hall of this city. Mr. Hall was working in the machine shops of the Western Alabama railroad at. Montgomery. Ilh and three other men engravod their n.. :s?s.. on the coins and fen) Wieui out. The other day the coin marked by Mr. Hal) "was taken In by a local merchant, \yfio notified him. Savannah!—A Savannah woman lias applied to the postal authorities to have her baby sent by parcel post to Baltimore. She had read in the news papers that a baby had been sent by parcel post in the west, and that it. had been handled well, so she de cided she would relieve herself of the bother of carrying her infant with her on a trip to Washington. Macon.—At the next session of the legislature, Representative Wallace Miller will introduce a hill to have that provision calling for the pay ment of a street tax by all male citi zens between the ages of 21 and 25 years, stricken from the charter of (he city. "If the street tax was equit ably enforced and reached all alike, there would be no complaint," said Mr. Miller. "However, it is not equit ably applied, and there Is some doubt as to its constitutionality. Mr. Miller has told City Marshal W. II. Gates that lie will refuse to pay the tax this year, and if he sticks to his promise he will probably be brought before the recorder. Statesboro.—With the county and state primaries coming on different dates, an election to put the cows off the streets of Statesboro and a peti tion now being circulated to call an election for the purpose of voting a tax for county-wide . education, it is certain that Statesboro and Bulloch county will have an abundance of polities this year. These are in addi tion to the general election. The first of these will be March 18, when the voters of Statesboro will pass on "sis cow.’’ The Civic league some time ago petitioned the mayor and council to stop the cow from running the streets, and that everyone might have a say so in the question, Mayor Crouch published a notice in the StateBboro News calling an election for the above date—the Civic ’eague has already hecome busy, and it would seem that “sis cow" is doomed. Americus.—The directors of the Americus National hank have been busy day and night for the last week goipg over the affairs of the unfortu nate hank and devising ways and means to redeem the situation. It is stated that a plan has been agreed upon that will pay off every depositor and creditor of the bank. However, it is impossizle to consummate the deal until the government completes its audit of the bank’s financial condi tion, and gives assent to the plan proposed. The execution of the plans proposed by the directors and stock holders of this bank would be a bles sing to this community. it is be lieved that Receiver Dunlap, who seems to he a most capable and thor ough gentleman, will carry forward the work of auditing the bank's af fairs with all reasonable dispatch, and that the bank officials will soon know the status of the assets and lia bilities. James R. Garfield, secretary of the interior under President Roosevelt, has announced his candidacy for the Pro gressive nomination for governor of Ohio. FRANK DENIED NEW TRIAL MAN CONVICTED OF SLAYING MARY PHAGAN LOSES APPEAL. His Lawyers Say They Will Not Give Up Fight for the Life of Their Client. Atlanta, Ga.—The Frank case is af firmed. Decision delivered by Justice Atkinson, Justices Evans, Lumpkin and Ilill assenting. Chief Justice Fish and Justice Beck dissent. Tiie distent is principally on tiie admis sion of the testimony of Jim Conley and Dalton. Attorney Reuben It. Arnold, asso ciate counsel witli Luther Z. llosser, for Frank, when informed of tile de cision, said lie had no comment to make. "Judgment affirmed," is the verdict of the supreme court ol' Georgia in the case of Leo M. Frank. "The court h».:«>v ‘Id not err (in refusing a new trial. No new trial should bo granted.” Witli these words, the High est court in tiie state placed its ap proval upon tiie verdict of guilty pro nounced last August in Kulton superior court against Leo M. Krank, charged with the murder of Mary Pliagan on April 26, 1913. The announcement of the supreme court's decision was a profound shock to the attorneys and friends of Krank, who have fought to establish his inno cence and with the utmost confidence up to the present time. It is antici pated that an extraordinary motion for a new trial will be filed by Krank s lawyers and that the case will be car rted on appeal to the United States Supreme court. The history of the Krank case is familiar to all. On the morning of Sunday, April 27, 1913, the body of Mary Pliagan, an employe of the Na tional Pencil factory, was found in the basement of that factory. A few days afterward, Leo M. Krank, the superintendent of tile factory, was ar rested on a charge of suspicion. He was later indicted by the grand jury, and he was tried last August. The trial was the longest in the criminal annals of the state, and aroused wide spread interest. Tiie jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Krank was sentenced to death. His attorneys, Luther Z. Rosser and Reuben R. Ar nold. filed a motion for a new trial, which was denied by tiie trial judge, L. S. Roan. An appeal was then taken to the state supreme court, which now affirms the lower court Prevention of Floods to Be Urged. Washington.—Appointment of a com mittee of business men from the coun try at large to provide means for pre venting floods will be urged upon President Wilson at a hearing Kebruj- ary 26. Immediate action to further the flood prevention movement hwa been urged by Ernest P. Blackneil, national director of the American Ri d Cross, in a letter to Edmund T. Pei kins, president of the National Orain- age congress, replying to notification that lack of finances liud halted tiie educational work of the drainage con gress. Mr. Blcknell worte: “I am sure tiie American Red Cross is entirely t nsympathy with the objects for which the National Drainage congress stands.” $5,000,000 Increase in Postal Measure. Wasliingtijn.—Nearly five million dollars has been added to file total of the postoffice appropriation bill as it passed the liouBe when the seriate committee completed its work on the measure. It carries $31,00,000, the largest amount ever appropriated for postal purposes. Maximum salaries for rural mail carriers would be increas ed under the bill to $1,200, the total increase for this purpose amounting to $4,350,000. An increase of $1,000,- 000 was added to meet the demands of the parcel post.

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The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, February 20, 1914, Image 1