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The Americus Times-Recorder
(THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
FIFTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS ASHED
FROMJAILROADS
HM DEATH OF D. S. DIXON
Ease Non Med id City
Ceurl Americas
An interesting case called in the
city court of Americus yesterday was
that of Mrs. Carrie May Dixon, of Ma
con, against the Central of Georgia
Railway Co., the plaintiff seeking to
recover damages in the sum of fifty
thousand dollars for the death of her
husband, D. S. Dixon, who was killed
in a disastrous wreck near Americus
two years ago.
After the introduction of testimony
for the plaintiff, Judge William M.
Harper granted the application for
non-suit upon the part of defendant's
counsel, and the case thus came to an
abrupt end here, although it is un
derstood that further proceedings will
be instituted by the plaintiff at a later
data.
Mrs. Dixon was represented by
Messrs. W. W. Dykes, of Americus,
and H. A. Wilkinson, of Dawson, while
Messrs. E. A. Hawkins and J. B. Hud
son represented the defendant compa
ny, the Central of Georgia railway.
It was brought out in the evidence
adduced that the deceased, Mr. D. 8.
Dixon, was a fireman in the employ of
the Central of Georgia railway, but not
on duty at the time of the catastrophe
in which he was killed. Upon the other
hand, he was a passenger upon the ill
fated train, riding as such from Macon
to some point beyond Americus.
When the train arrived here, it was
said, Mr. Dixon left his place in the
train and got upon the engine with
his friend, Engineer Edward Adams.
Five minutes later both were instantly
killed when the engine turned over
two miles west of Americus station in
a disastrous wreck at that' point.
It was contended by defendants
counsel that the deceased assumed a
hazardous risk when he left his seat
in the train, where he was riding as a
passenger, and got upon the locomo
tive; hence the non-suit granted.
SOCIETY SOLDIERS
TIRE OF MILITARY
LIFE AND DISBAND
Atlanta, Sept. 17.—Company F., of
the National Guard of Georgia, and
known as the “Fulton Blues,’’ made up
entirely of young society men, and, as
a local reporter describes them, “as
brave and fearless an aggregation ot
soldiers as ever wore dancing pumps or
wielded a tennis racket,” have decided
unanimously! to disband when their
present term of enlistment is out.
The young men say they wouldn’t
dnmd going to war and actually fight
lnS. but that their elegant souls abhor
the sordid dullness of-week-night drills
and that they were very much incom
moded by the lack of daily shower
baths at the ■■ecent militia encampment
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STEAMER WITH BAYNOR’S
■ BODY DDE ON FRIDAY
New York, Sept. 17.—The steam
skip Lusitania, with the body ot
Mayor Gaynor aboard, was in com
munication with the wireless station
at Cape Race, Norfolk, at 6 a. m.
She was then 1,027 miles east of
Sandy Hook. She will reach New
'°rk about il o’clock next Thursday
uight and dock about 8 o'clock Fri
day morning. N
THIRTEEN CENTS
THE PRICE IN
AMERICUS NOW
COTTON AT A HIGH LEVEE
Highest Price of the Season
Reached
Thirteen cents for cotton wa3 tht
lop level price paid for the fine:’
grades in Americus yesterday, anl
there was no “hoodoo” about the fig
ure, either. Tin* market advanced
sr.a’ply during tbj morning upon r;
aorts of bad weather in the cotton beh,
and prices went ballooning r-.ghtaway.
Tms figure is the Highest price for cot
ton in several years and makes a 500-
pound bale worth $65, to which ma>
be added $lO as the value of the seed
from a bale, or $75 net, per bale to the
farmer who raises it. This surely
spells p-r-o-s-p-e-r-i-t-y for Sumter
county. Already nearly' 9,000 bales
of cotton have been marketed here, o*
about one-fourth the usual annual re
ceipts. Os course, only the finest
grades brought 13 cents yesterday, tne
ruling figure being 12 3-4 to 12 7-Bc,
much of the cotton now marketed be
ing stained tp some extent by recent
rains. Altogether more than a had
million dollars has been circulated in
Americus recently in the sale of cotton
ar.d the effect has b;en to illumine the
countenances of farmers and mer
chants alike.
EMORY COLLEGE
BEGINS NEW YEAR
Opening is Auspicious; New
Dormitory Draws Boys
Oxford, Ga„ Sept. 17.—(Special! -
This morning Emory college opens for
the seventy-seventh session. Unusual
interest attaches to the occasion be
cause of the happy departure of having
special opening exercises.
At ten o'clock in Allen Memorial
ehapel, the trustees meet in a body.
They will be joined by the faculty, the
students and the citizens of Oxford
and Covington. Bishop Candler will
preside and deliver an address. Judge
Hiram Warner Hill, Asa G. Candler
and others, will also deliver addresses.
Appropriate music will be furnishel
by the talent of the town of Oxford.
Emory college is to be congratulated
on the completion of one of the most
commodious and up-to-date dormitor
ies in the south. It is provided with
every known comfort and convenience,
with the single exception of a dining
hall, which will be sure to have to fol
low in a short time. In fact, the plans
for such a dining hall have already
geen drawn by Architect Hal Hentz.
Students are arriving on every train,
in fact their happy songs have enliv
ened the moonlit streets of the classic
village for more than a week, but it is
too early to stute definitely what the
enrollmen is to be this term. A safe
prediction is that the college will hold
her own.
ARRESTED ONLY FODR
TIMES IN ONE WEEK
Atlanta, Sept. 17.—Arrested Run
times the same week is the experieuc
of B. F. Mitchell, a salesman at Kirk
wood. All the arrepts are connected
with his alleged schemes to obtain a
carload of lumbr under false prs
tensese.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 18, 1913.
AMERICUS MAN
MAKES GOOD IN
RAILWAY FIELD
W. C. EVERETT IS PROMOTED
Made Auditor of Virginia
Railway Co.
The many Americus friends of Mr.
William C. Everett, who for several
years has been successfully engage!
in railway work at Norfolk, will be
greatly gratified to learn of his rapid
advancement there in positions of trust
and responsibility, having recently
been made auditor for the Virginia
Railway company at a salary of $3,600
annually.
Mr. Everett began his career la
Americus with the Seaboard, holding
a clerical position in the offices theu
established in this city. He was after
wards transferred to Savannah, and
later to Portsmouth
Close and diligent attention to busi
ness has won for this excellent young
man the more recent promotion to the
responsible position of auditor for his
company—a promotion which came to
him in the nature of an agreeable sur
prise, as he had not anticipated any
such good fortune.
Mr. Everett is a younger brother of
Messrs. Edward B. and Henry P. Ev
erett, of Americus, and has a host of
friends here who are gratified at his
merited success in the railway field.
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STUDENTS HONOR
GEORGIA BOYS
Herman Ellis Riddell, son of G. h
Riddell, of Atlanta, has been chosen
by the Harvard Law School as one of
the editorial staff of the Harvard Law
Review, the monthly periodical issued
by the law department of Harvard.
Boykin Wright, Jr., of Augusta, who
was a member of the staff last year,
has also been chosen for another y a-,
so that these two bright young Geor
gians will be on the staff this year.
Mr. Riddell is a graduate of the
Boys’ High school, of Atlanta, class of
’O7, after which he went through the
Pniversify of Georgia, graduating as
A. 8., in the class of ’ll. While there
he was first lieutenant of Company B
cadet corps. This is his third year at
Harvard, and lie will graduate from
there in law in the class of 1914. He
is an exceptionally bright young man,
23 years of age, and the honor just
won by him in being selected as a
member of the editorial staff of The
Law Review is considered as one of
the highest awarded to students of the
law department.
“SPOONING” PARLORS
FOR THE CHDRCHES
Toledo, 0., Sept. 17. —Opening \cf
church parlors in crowded portions of
large cities where young women can
entertain young men callers, was urg
ed in a resolution presented by Dr.
G. H. Gorberding, of Chicago, and
adopted by the convention of the gen
eral counsel of the Evangelical Luth
eran church at the closing session to
day. It was recommended that
churches try this plan to check the
immorality declared to be an out
growth of poor homes.
THE WEATHER:— Continued Local Rains Today.
PROF. TAFT IS EIGHTY POUNDS
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Brookline, Mass., Sept. 17.—Wm. H. Taft has lost eieghty pounds in
weight since laying down the cares which go with the office of president.
There is nothing in this, however, ‘o,r it was brought about by deliberate
design, and Mr. Taft still tips the siales at 240 pounds. The reduction,
though, is very noticeable. All this was observed yesterday when Mr.
Taft appeared at the contest for the open golf championship. Persona
who had not seen him since his residence in Washington were amazed
at the change.
The former president had dropped the weight by cultivating a big ap
petite throughoutdoor exercise and then refraining from gratifying the ap
petite.
BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
MECCA FOR MANY
Acting President Expects
Lorge Attendance
Macon, Ga., Sept. 17. (Special)-
Mercer opened this morning with a
good number of students on hand.
One of the most promising features
of the success of another year at M r
cer is shown in the unusual numbe:-
of new men who have arrived. A
number of old men have returned, but
nothing like as many as usually do a
few days gefore the opening.
With the arrival of Prof. G. L. Car
ver, who was on a leave of absence
last year, all the members of the fac
ulty have returned. Prof. Carver is
the head of the biological department
at Mercer, and spent last year at Co
lumbia university in special prepara
tion for his work. '
Urof. E. B. Murray, head of the mod
ern languages department, made h.s
eighth trip to Europe the past sum
mer. Dr. E. J. Forrester was at Green
ville, S. C., and Blue Ridge, Ga., for
the most of the summer. Dr. J. G.
Harrison has been in Macon and nt
Harrison. Prof. W r . E. Godfrey, secre
tary of the faculty, was in Blue Ridge
N. C. PrOf. R. W. Edenfield spent tin
summer at Cave Spring. Prof. Lou
than was in Dueane, Va. Prof. J. S.
Murray spent his vacation in Ander
son, S. C-, and at several points in the
DIGGS AND CAMINETTI
ARE GIVEN PEN TERMS
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 17. —Mau-
ry I. Diggs, former state architect of
California, was sentenced today by
Judge Van Fleet in the United States
district court to serve two years in
the state penieniary a San Quentin,
and to pay a fine of $2,000 for violating
the Mann white slave act. F. Drew
Caminetti was sentenced to serve 18
months at San Quentin and to pay a
fine of $1,500 for a similar offense.
REGISTRATION BEGINS
AT SHORTER COLLEGE
Rome, Ga., Sept. 17.—(Special.)—
New students at Shorter college spent
today in taking the entrance exami
nations. Old students will register,
and the formal opening exercises will
take place Thursday. A new feature
this year is a department of health
and home economics in charge of Dr.
Carolyn Geisel.
mountains of North Carolina.
Prof. J. F. Sellers, acting president
of the college, has been in Macon, with
the exception of a few days recently
that he spent at Tallulah Falls. Prof.
R. L. Pulliam and Dr. C. A. Struby re
mained in Macon. Prof. C. W. Steed
went to Dalilonega.
Miss Sallie Boone and Mrs. J. F
Sellers, were at Point Clear, and Mo
bile, Ala.
NEGRO WHO TRIED
TO SLAY FAMILY
GIVENBO YEARS
WAS SENTENCED IN MACON
He Attacked Whole Family
Near Cairo
Macon, Ga., Sept. 17.—(Special.)
Ed LeConte, a negro, who attack
ed Mr. and Mrs. Geofge Bodiford and
their four children in their home
six miles from Cairo, in Grady county,
on the night of August 1, Inflicting
such wounds that the parents are sti'l
in a precarious condition, was today
arraigned for sentence before Judge
Frank Park, in the Bibb superior
court and sentenced to serve eighty
years in the penitentiary. He pleaded
guilty to six felony indictments.
He was brought to Macon soon
after his arrest, as the feeling is so
strong against him In the southern
part of the state that a lynching was
feared. For the same reason Judge
Park granted a change of venue,
after hearing twenty-seven men tes
tify that the negro would be lynch
ed if ever brought back to Grady
county for trial.
LeConte pleaded guilty to assault
with intent to murder on the persons
of Mary, Rhoda and Georgia Bodir
(ford, three girls, and Charlie Bodt
ford, a boy. In'each of these cases
he was given ten years. He also
pleaded guilty to assault with intent
to rape in two cases, and was given
twenty years in each case. The in
dictments for assault with intent to
murder Mr. and Mrs. Bodiford were
held in reserve, pending the outcome
of their injuries.
Judge Park stated that if either of
the parents dßd from their injuries
the negro mould be brought back
from the penitentiary and tried for
murder. The judge stated that the
death penalty would undoubtedly be
inflicted as it deserved. He declared
that he regretted that in the present
instance he could not impose it, as
the negro’s crime was sufficiently hein
ous to deserve it, but that the law was
insufficient in such cases.
Ed LeConte crawled through a win
dow in the Bodiford home on the night
of August 1 and attacked the elder
people as they lay asleep in bed, al
most braining them with an axe. The
three girls and the boy heard the
noise and entered the room and
grappled with the negro. He then
attacked them and severely injured
them. One little girl had her nose
cut off and her teeth knocked out.
It is felt that if the negro is ever
taken back to Grady county, or to
that section of the state, he will he
lynched.
He will be assigned to a peniten
tiary camp in the northern part of
the state, distant from the scene of
his crime.
CONDITION OF CHILD 1$
SAID TO DE CRITICAL
Little Daughter of D. Pearl
man Very 111
The continued serious illness of lit
tle Belle Pearhnan, the six-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Pearl
man, is a source of deepest concern i :>
the family and their many friends The
child has been very ill during several
days and her condition yesterday was
regarded as extremely grave, with
faint hope of recovery. Dr. Dorsey, of
Atlanta, was called in consultation
with local physicians yesterday morn
ing.
TRIAL OF GOV.
SUIZER IS BEGUN
State Senate Will Act ns
Court in Proceedings
Albany, N. Y„ Sept. 17—Tho
right of certain senators, who aa
members of the Frawley investigat
ing committee uncovered the evidence
upon which the impeachment charges
against Governor Sulzer were based,
to sit as members of the court of
impeachment will be one of the first
questions to be .raised by counsel for .
the accused executive, when the trial
bgins tomorrow. These senators ar»
James J. Frawley, of New York;
Samuel J. Ramsperger, of Buffalo; Fe
liz J. Sanner, of Brooklyn, democrats,
and Elon R. Brown, of Watertown, re
publican.
Counsel for Governor Sulzer will
question the propriety of any member
of the senate sitting as a member of
the high court who may be called
upon to testify before it. Thesa
questions and others including the
expected attack on Governor Sulzer's
counsel upon the validity of the im
peachment proceedings will be de
termined by the court of impeachment
itself. Until these preliminaries are
decided on no evidence will be taken.
Scores of witnesses will be calls ’
for both sides during the trial, esti
mates as to the length of which vary
from one to two months. Although
the impeached executive’s legal ad
visers have not disclosed any of their
plans it is generally understood that
Governor Sulzer will not attend thj
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sessions of the court while the pre
liminary arguments are under way.
His friends assert that his pres
ence on the opening day of the trial
would at least be a tacit admissio j
that the proceedings are constitu
tional, a point which his counsel are
prepared to contest vigorously.
Should the validity of the proceed
ings be upheld by the court it is ex
pected that the presence of the ac
cused in the couitroom daily will hi
one of the features of the sessions.
Mrs. Sulzer will be one of the most
important witness for the defense,
according to the governor’s friends.-
She has been going over evidence iu
the case with her husband at the
executive mansion since her recovery
from the nervous breakdown follow
ing her alleged admission that she
was responsible for some of the Wall
street transactions attributed to her
husband.
Public interest in the trial is «o
keen that great throngs are expected
to crowd the eapitol corridors in. an
effort to gain»admission to the court
room. No one will be allowed on th*
floor except members of the court,
witnesses, counsel, the assembly
board of managers, and newspaper
men. So many applications for news
writers’ chairs have been made that
it was found impossible to accommo
ciae all on the floor of the trans
formed senate chamber and the first
two rows in one of the galleries has,
been reserved for press reporters.
The public will be admitted to the
galleries until all seats are filled,
when the doors will be barred against
further admissions.
CHAUFFEUR FDR THAW
FREED BT CANADA
Sherbrooke, Que., Sept. 17. —“Gea-*-
tleman Roger” Thompson, the chaut-%
feur, who drove Hairy K. Thaw awa £
from Matteawan in a big black tour-*
irg car, was today set at liberty. Tba> o
crown authorities said they had
[evidence to offer against him.
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