Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, October 25, 1913, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Americus Times-Recorder THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. CIRCUS Dir DRAWS CROWD TO THE FAIR SUMTER EXHIBIT ATTRACTS NOTICE LARGEST CROWD IN HISTORY OF FAIR SEE BARM 31 & BAILEY’S ELEPHANTS DO MARVELOUS STUNTS. SATURDAY COLLEGE AND SINGERS DAY The Fair Gets Better Every Day—Ex hibits Are AII F'irst Class and At tractions 0. K. Fair Grounds, Macon, Ga., Oct. 24. (Special.)—The circus was the all ab sorbing topic at the state fair grounds today. It was the extra attraction that brought thousands and thousands to Central City park. The drift of multitudes to the 'grounds was apparent early this morning, and became all the more manifest when the sun peeped out from behind the clouds. The several special trains arriving here before noon added their eno - mous quota to the already immense number of visitors in the city and the regular trains, too, brought all they could carry. The weather was ideal. It is conservatively estimated that the attendance at the fair today wi’l almost equal the record set on “Talt Day” several years ago. In fact, President Otto declared at 11 o’clock after observing the enormous crowd then surging in the grounds, that he would not be surprised if today’s at tendance surpassed all previous rec ords. The circus people are looking for fully 25,000 admissions at each per formance. One of the most interesting exhib ts in the live stock display is from Sumter county, and comprises an ex cellent showing of horses and col's. Horsemen have found much to inter est them in this exhibit. The alfalfa clubs of which Loring Brown, of Smyrna, is president, will also hold their first annual meeting tomorrow morning, and farmers from all sections of the state who are in terested in alfalfa culture and in the home raising of feed stuffs, will be in attendance. This convention Is in tended to stimulate interest in alfalfa growing and to demonstrate to the farmers how easily they may secure a stand of alfalfa. College Day, Saturday will of course be the occasion of the presence of the charming young ladoies of Wesleyan college, and the students of Mercer University. The public school pupils will also be in the concourse of young folks. Then another efature. son e what new to the present generation of Macon people, will be the all-day singing by the Georgia gospel sing ers, who arec oming from more than three score of towns. This singing of well known gospel hymns will last all day. SECRETARY DANIELS TO DELIVER ADDRESS Washington D. C., Oct. 24.—Secre tary Daniels at President Wilson's re quest today accepted an invitation tc speak in Kansas City, November 19, at a celebration of the 118th anniversary of the conclusion of the Jay treaty. Register Before Noon TODAY or You Will Lose Your Vow ■ J RODGERS PLACE ON IEE STREET BRINGS A PRICE BOUGHT BY DB. 0. B. MAYES Among the Handsome Homes of the City Dr. Douglas Bi Mayes purchased yesterday of Messrs. T. B. Hooks and D. R. Andrews the former J. A. Rod gers residence, out Lee street, and one of the handsome homes on the south side. The residence, a modern and at tractive one with a frontage of 11,i feet on Lee, with ample depth on Glessner street, brought the round price of $8,500. Dr. Mayes purchased the property for a home and will re move there from his present Jackson avenue residence within sixty days. He is to be congratulated upon the ac quirement of such an attractive and desirable suburban residence. NOTHING DOING, SAY LEADERS OF THE GIANTS Ottumwa, la., Oct. 24.—Manager Mc- Graw, of the Giants, Scout Kinsel’a and President Hempstead of the Giants, deny the rumor that First Baseman Konetchy, of St. Louis, would become a member of the Giants in an exchange for a New York player. MRS. GERXRD SAILS AWAY TO JOIN NEW AMERICAN AMDASSADOR IN BERLIN - ... ' ’* ■ " ' it U - - -MV f?. V mJr ■ Mrs. James W. Gerard, who was the daughter of Marcus Daly the Mon tana copper king, who left the Amconda mine, worth something like SSO - 000,000 when he died, has sailed a - >ay to join her husband, Ambassador Gerard, in Berlin. Mr. Gerard was one of the few Tammany organiza tion men chosen by President Wilson for official position. Mrs. Gera.'d niay make one of the most remarkable social campaigns ever undertaken by an American on the continent —if she wishes. With the Daly millions behind her she has an income gre ter than many reigning sovereigns of Europe. But neither she nor her husband have evinced a desire in their social relations to shine in this way, and it is likely that the Gerard menage in Berlin will be marked by simplicity. *MFRICUS. GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNINC. OCTOBER 25, 1913. CATASTROPHE IN MINE EXPLOSION KILLS HUNDREDS FIRE ADDED TO THE HORROR Relieved the Death List Will Exceed 230 Dawson, N. M., Oct 24. —Two hun dred and forty-seven miners are be lieved to be dead beneatn tons of fall en earth, timber, coal and rock in th3 cuts and rooms of Mine No. 2 of the Stag Canon Fuel company here. Hun dreds of miners, working in shifts of fifteen each, are slowly forcing their way through the rooms and entries, fighting against dangers of gas and a fire which started in an adjoining mine and which threatens to reach the spac.i in which the entombed men v r ere trap ped. Only twenty-three men have been taken from the mine alive. Early to night the first miner to be rescued alive within twelve hours, was taken from the main entry. He was found unconscious not far from the place where a mule earlier in the evening had been found alive. Fourteen bodies and twenty-three rescued make the total of the day’s work of recovery. The finding of the live mule in the mine late today en couraged officials in charge of the res cue work to hope that some live min ers, perhaps, are still entombed in a room located more than 4,000 feet from an entrance. Henry P. McShane, a son of Mrs. E. P. McShane, of New York city, wid ow of a former heavy stockholder of the mine, is among the known dead. McShane, 19 years old, had come to the mine, in which his father’s estate COUNTERFEITERS OUTFIT FOUND 111 THE WOADS Alexandria, La., Oct. 24.—What Unit ed States secret service men say is a first class counterfeiter’s outfit, was found in the woods near Tioga, La., late last night. The “plant” was dis covered near the home of James Cooks, an aged man, and his son, Selser, why was arrested here and held under an other charge, pending an investigation Photographic negatives of five and ten dollar bills were found, the officers say, buried in a potato patch. The se cret service men say they also disco ■- ered a quantity of finished counterfeit money, and that it was cleverly mads. TEDDY GUEST DF PRESIDENT DF BRAZIL Rio Janerio, Oct. 24.—Theodore Roosevelt devoted this morning to a visit to the supreme court and a break fast at the Cattete palace given in his honor by President Marshal Hermes Fonseca. Col. Roosevelt sat at the right of the president, and the Ameri can ambassador, Edwin V. Morgan, at his left. The breakfast was attended by the cabinet ministers, the presi dents of the senate and the chamber of deputies, the judges of the su preme court, the mayor of Rio Janerio and members of the municipal coun cil and various other public officials. AFTER CHICKEN DINNER HE EOESJD GALLOWS Somerset, Pa., Oct. 24. —The execu tion of John W. Maus, condemned to die here this morning for the murdf of Marrison Brown, a mail carrie - , was delayed until 1 o’clock in ord’r that Maus might enjoy a chicken din ner. When he had finished his break fast, Maus asked Sheriff Hochard for a good dinner. The request was grant ed but the meal could not be prepared without delaying the hanging. Maus was taken to the scaffold a few' min utes before 1 o’clock and hanged at 1:01 o’clock. still holds an interest, to learn mining from practical experience. J. C. Roberts, chief of the United mine rescue bureau in this district, is in charge of the rescue work. Mr. Roberts said it was impossible to tell what caused the explosion, but that ii was of such violence as to cause him to lose hope for the rescue alive of any more of the men. In the mine at the time of the explos ion were 284 miners, and that the death list will reach so great a figure is attributed to the fact that the great fans which kept the air circu lating within the mine were rendered] useless by the force of the explosion. Not until four hours after the explo sion were the fans repaired. Some of the rescue parties tonight declared their belief that a party of the entombed miners had reached a room and bad sealed it in time to keep the gas from overcoming them. UD HART GOES TO HELP PRINCETON SQUAD Seattle, Wash., Oct. 24. —Eddie Har*, former Princeton football star, will start for the east in a day or two to help coach the Princeton eleven. Hart has just returned from Alaska. He will help coach the team for the Har vard and Yale games. THAW SURPRISED WITH INDICTMENT TOR CONSPIRACY HE ISSDES A STATEMENT As pears Not Disturbed at Situation New York, Oct. 24.—A blanket in dictment charging Harry K. Thaw and four others with conspiracy in connec tion wdth his escape from the Mattea wan state hospital for the criminal in ane in August was returned by the grand jury here. It will be used as a weapon by William Travers Jerome in his efforts to extradite Thaw from New Hampshire. The others indicted were fcimer As semblyman Richard Butler, Michael O’Keefe, “Gentleman Roger" Thomp son and Eugene Duffy, who ate alleged to have been Thaw's companions in the automobile in which he escaped. These are the same men for whom, warrants were issued in Dutchess eeunty after Thaw’s/flight. Bench warrants on today’s indict ment were issued by the court and turned over to detectives es the dis rict attorney's office. Mr Jerome an nounced that he would at once ask Gov. Glynn for extradition papers, based on the new charge, to be sent * > the Governor of New Hampshire. Moses H. Grossman, counsel for Thaw, was in the building when the indictment was returned. He denoun s ed it as a subterfuge. “ Aperson who has been committed to an ansylunx as insane cannot be adjudged guilty of conspiracy,” he said. “I do not believe the indictment will stand and I seriously doubt if it will in any way affect the status of he case in New Hampshire.” Thaw Is Surprised. Concord, N. H., Oct 23. —When in formed that an indictment charging [conspiracy had been returned against | him in New York today, Harry K. jThaw seemed surprised at the quick ness with which it had been accom | pUshed, rather than at the fact of its being done. After some consideration he issued A signed statement, which said: “Does it not appear plain that no in dictment can be legal from the fa d that Judge Seabury of the supreme i court of New York within six montns instructed the New York county jury of the April 1913 term that I was to be considered by the grand jury as under commitment in New York as an irre sponsible? What answer can be made?” Thaw gave no outward indication that he was disturbed over the latest turn In the case. None of his counsel is here now. MISS CLARK JOINS WAR ON TANGO SPEAKER'S GIRL COTS ’EM OUT OLD-LINEJIANCES GOOD ENOUGH WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 24.—T. ere’s one girl at least in the Capitol who’s not “just perfectly crazy, about the new dances.” I She is none other than Miss Genevieve Clark, the pretty daughter r.f Champ Clark speaker of the house of representatives. She has openly declared againsr the “turkey trot,” “tango,” and other ultra modern dances. “The waltz, two-step ana the pretty round dances of our grandmothers are quite good enough for me,” st>e said today. “I do not wish to criti cise those who dance the so-called ‘modern dances,’ but I am not going to dance them, because—well, jußt because.” And she smiled a real-old-fashioned smile. CHAMBER COMMERCE HAVE NEW QUARTERS U. S. WON’T STAND FOR EUROPEANS TOJNTERFERE Washington, D G.' Oct. 24. —Devel- opments of a few hours today in the relations between the United States and Mexico emphasized gravity of affairs more omnious than at any time since President Wilson's ad ministration began. Absolute silenie was the order in official quarters. The release of the Ward liner, Moro Castle, after peremptory di mands by the United States termi nated a delicate situation. Orders were in preparation to the command ers of the American war ships lying off Vera Cruz to insist on her re lease. A statement was in preparation to day by Secretary Bryan and Counsel lor John Bassett Moore, which Sec retary Bryan brought to the white jiouse for the president's approval. No Intimation as to its contents was revealed, but there was every reason to believe that before many hours had passed a notice by the Unite! States that it will not brook Euro pean interference in Mexico by the warships dispatched to Mexican wa ters by the various foreign govern ments, would be proclaimed. It understood also that tho United States by the same statement, will reiterate the American policy that only governments founded on consti tutional law and order will be recog nized on the western hemisphere. The situation had assumed such as pects that-it was considered possible that President Wilson might cancel at the last moment his trip to Mobile, Ala. He had planned to leave early tomorrow and be gone until Tuesday night. There was doqbt in the presi dent’s mind as to whether he could af ford to leave Washington at this tinm, ILLESS OF JUDGE LITTLEJOHN DELAYED COURT SESSION 4 Business Dill Be Resumed On Mon day .Horning. Judge Z. A. Littlejohn has been con fined to his home 'here for the pas! day or two by slight illness which ren dered imperative the taking of a re cess at Stewart superior court, wher" he has been presiding this week. Judge Littlejohn will return to Lumpkin Mon day morning and complete the session there during the forthcoming week. WHITE WAY WILL BE IN FRONT I ESS GARDNER WILL BE GIVEN AN UP-TO-DATE OFFICE IN WHICH TO TRANSACT BUSINESS OF BOOSTER ASSOCIATION. OFFICES IN OLD T.-R. BUILDING Every Man in Americas Should Jut* And Get Busy Boosting ‘Americas The City With High Ideas and The Cash to Back ’Em Up.” The Americus chamber of commerca has secured new quarters and will move into them on the first of next:: month. No longer will the booster dub be housed in upstairs offices, but the Americus body is to have as classy j headquarters as any commercial or- j ganization in Georgia. Quarters in the old Time3-Record r-i building on Forsyth street have been ’ 1 leased and are being put in first class J shape. They will be fixed up in tip-top *| style and furnished to suit a queen*, i I taste. Heretofore the organization has f been hampered for lack of permanent | headquarters. True, a small office in the city hall was used by Secretaiy - Gardner, but there Vas no y, lace that 1 could be designated as the headqua-- | ters of the Americus chamber of com- 1 merce. From now on things will bn 1 different. The new location will not opty h» f beautified on the interior, but Judging I from the specifications that have been J prepared by a local architect, the out- | side is going to have some “dass” 1t- f self. A “white way” will be installed I on the sidewalk and the entire front 1 will be decorated with lights and “nif- 1 signs. The city council has agreed J to furnish electricity for the offlßO’l free. .. ’|B The chamber of commerce has takedi §i on new life. With an increased mem- $ bership, new up-to-date headquarters,! new ideas, an increased working fund,* and Fess Gardner at its head, It is go-1| ing to do great things for Americus fj and Sumter county. Any citizen of Http town that does not join the organiza- fj tion at this time will miss a goodn chance to help Americus. Every man t i in Americus should put his namedowafl on an application blank and join thwl| chamber of commerce. With the ne-vl organization hard at work, Americusjg “the city with high ideals and thaffl cash to back ’em up,” will have “20,00-MM by 1920”, or even more. WOMAN’S LITERARY CHIB | ft EETS THIS AFfEKNOON The postponed meeting of the Wo-JI man’s Literary club, to have been he!4§| Thursday, will be held this afternoonjfl instead at the residence of Mrs. Laura*,3 J. Bagley, on Taylor street, heginniuggH at 3:30 o’clock. The usual very entei--||| taining program will be rendered. ♦ THE WEATHER. -1 ♦ For Americuß and Vicinity.— ♦ | 4- Cooler. 4 j<| ♦ ♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦•*♦ 4f| NU3IBER 255

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, October 25, 1913, Image 1