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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR
BUILDERS ME
RAPID PROGRESS
- ERECTING BRIDGE
OVER IIUIUI NEAR CITE
Foundation Work is Nearly
Completed
The work of erecting two substantial
etreel and concrete bridges over Mucit
alee and its tributary, Town creek,
within the suburbs of Americus, is
well under way and both will be com
pleted in early summer. The founda
tion work is very substantial, as will
be the completed structures, costing
something over $9,000. While the build
ing of the bridges is under way a tem
porary wooden structure built along
side will be used by vehicles. The new
bridges are on the important highway
leading from Americus to Plains, Pres
ton, Smithville and Albany, a section
of the And.srsonville-Thomasville tour
ist route to Florida. The bridges will
have a width of thirty feet, this being
the good roads standard in Sumter
county.
JUROR IN FRANK CASE
REPLIES TU MINISTERS
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Atlanta, Ga., March 18. —The ver
dict of guilty in the trial of Leo M.
Frank, superintendent of the Na
tional JPencil company, convicted as
the cruel murder of Mary Phagan, 1 i
years old, was defended in a statement
issued today by J. T. Osborne, one <>.'
the jurors.
Pleas by three Atlanta ministers'
last Sunday for a new trial for
Frank( now sentenced to be hange.l
on April 17, called forth the juror’s
statement. The ministers asked a
new' hearing for the convicted man
or. the ground that, according to the’r
statements, public opinion was in
amed against Frank at the time and
the evidence was subject to doubt.
The statement of the juror, follows,
in part:
’’Three men, , speaking from as
many pulpits in Atlanta last Sun
day, are quoted as charging that the
trial of Leo M. Frank was unfair, and
demanding that the verdict be set
aside.
“The jury heard all the testimonv
and claim to have sufficient intelli
gence and honesty to have weighed
the evidence without prejudice, not
withstanding the opinion of the
holier-than-thou gentlemen to the
contrary.
“We were not trying ‘yellow dogs.'
‘sheep-killing dogs’ nor dogs of any
other character, but a white man
charged with a heinous crime and
speaking for myself, and, as I be
lieve, for every member of the jury,
realized the solemnity of the respon
sibility resting upen us.
“The testimony was strongly cor
roborated by sworn witnesses, as well
as by circumstantial evidence In every
point which influenced the mind of
the jury.”
NEGRO GETS TEN MONTHS
ON GHARGE OF TIGERING
Tommy Davenport, an unbleached
denizen of the woods about Plains, is
going to study good roads improvement
for ten months. Tommy was cnvicted
yesterday of twisting the tail of a tiger
—blind tiger at that —and Judge Har
per put under him the skids pointing
to the gang.
AKERMAN WILL
UNGER BENEATH
THAT PLUM TREE
WILL HOLD JOB SOME TIME
Adams May Get Ihe Plum
at Later Date
Washington, D. C., March 18.
Aftr-r a conference with Attorney Gen
eral Mcßeynolds this morning, Sena
tor West concluded that the appoint
ment of a United States attorney for
the southern district of Georgia may be
delayed for some monhs.
The attorney general is in no hurry
to relieve District Attorney Akerman,
in view of the fact that the govern
ments’ case against the alleged naval
stores trust must be re-heard. He
doesn’t want to swap horses in the
middle of the stream.
Senator West called at the depart
ment of justice to recommend the ap
pointment of Pratt Adams, of Savan
nah. He urged the attorney general
to waive the requirement that Mr.
Adams retire from the law firm of
Adams & Adams and in course of the
conference gathered the impression
that final disposition of the matter
may be deferred until the naval
| stores case has been disposed of fin
ally.
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PRESBYTERIAN REVIVAL
WILE CLOSE TONIERT
DI?. A. A. LITTLE WHO HAS BEEN
CONDUCTING SERVICES, WILL
PREACH LAST SERMON TONIGHT
The revival services that have beau
i going on at the Presbyterian church
recently will end today. Dr. A. A.
Little, of Atlanta, who has been con
ducting the services, will preach at 4
this afternoon and at 7:30 tonight. The
series of meetings that have been held
have brought great good to Americus
and Dr. Little will always be remem
bered by the many friends he has made
while here. At the afternoon service
Dr. Little will preach on “Walking To
day With God.” His text at the night
service will be “Why Men Do Not
Come to Jesus.”
SUMTER HAMS SELLING AT
PRICE OF RAHE PEARLS
Fine Specimens Are Exhibit
ed in Americus
Three hams brought to Americus
yesterday by a thrifty Sumter county
farmer were worth fifteen dollars to
him, the three whoppers tipping the
scales at the 75-pound notch, while
eager and hungry buyers took thetn
readily at 20 cents per pound. The
three hams did not constitute the farm
er's entire suppLy, hut just a few toss
ed in his automobile upon leaving home
l’or the city. Sumter coonty farmers
have plenty of fine home-raised meat
and the unfed here in town are al
ways glad to connect with any portion
of it.
SMALL FIRE WAS STARTED
BY SPARK ON SHINGLES
The auto fire truck was called yes
terday to the residence of Mr. W. T.
Lane, out Lee street, where a small
blaze had started upon the root, prob
ably resulting from a spark. The
blaze was extinguished before any
material damage resulted.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 19. 1914"
MEAGRE REPORTS POINT TO
COMPLETE ROUT OF VILLA
Reported On Run |
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GENERAL VILLA
Mergre reports from Mexico point to defeat of Rebel Chief
ALBANY BABIES NEXT
VICTIMS TOR SCOUTS
Trip Will be Made In Albany in Automobiles Furnished
by Fans Who Will Accompany “Adopted Muckalees”
Sheckard Will Send Brenton And Hall Against The
Sally Boys. Gardner Will be Back in The Game
at Second.
The next number on the program
will be furnished by Jimmy Shackard’::
Cleveland Scouts and Phil Wells’ Al
bany Babies. This afternoon they tan
gle Up on the Alabny diamond and to
morrow they play the second game
ot their series at Muckalee park.
Sheckard s boys are ready to meet tk:
k
Philadelphia Athletics today if neces
sary and reports from Albany indicate
that Wells has his Babies in good shape
for the game.
The trip to Albany will be more in
the nature of a pleasure jaunt for the
boys, as the (fans of Americus have no
tified Manager Jimmy that they are go
ing to take the whole Cleveland gang
to the sister city in automobiles. The
Central of Georgia has a schedule that
would make the boys leave Americus
almost before daybreak in order to
get there for the game. It wouldat
do for the “Adopted Muckalees” to be
inconvenienced this much, so the fans
are going to take them over in style.
The trip there and back will be the
main feature of the day and the game
will be a secondary affair.
The Scouts will pin their hopes ’f
victory on Hall, a pitcher from the
Appalachian league, and Brenton, who
was on Charlie Frank’s payroll last
season. The line-up will he the ime
as used in the Boston games with the
exception of second base, where Garc
k THE WEATHER. *
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For Americus and Vicinity.— ♦
Fair; Cooler. ♦
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; cer will he played in place of rfudnall.
: Earl has fully recovered from his
slight attack of la grippe and says that
he is ready for any game that comes
along.
s The start for Albany will be made
. at 12:30 from the Windsor hotel. This
will allow the team to get to Almany
ir plenty of time for the game which
■ is to be called at 3 o’clock. The team
i will be brought back to Americus as
soon as the game is over by the fans.
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RURSLAfiS BLOW SAFE
AND EFT HO ID
Toledo, Ohio, March Burglars
early today dynamited a safe in a
, business house In Summit street, the
t main business thoroughfare of Toledo
and escaped' with $20,000 in bonds is-'
, sued by a New York amusement com
pany and 380 in jewelry and cash.
Quantities of clothing placed around
, the safe deadened the sound of the ex
, plosion.
CAN ATTACH A LETTER
TO PARCEL POST PACKAGE
Washington, D. C., March 17. —Ain-
: ing to further add to the popularity of
the parcel post, Postmaster General
Burleson today signed an order to per
mit the attaching of a letter to a pack
age when both bear their respective
, rates of postage and are addressed to
. the same Individual. The sending of a
communication . with a parcel post
package heretofore has not been per
missible.
NO DEFITE NEWS
IS RECEIVED 111 EL
PASO FROM FRONT
FEDERAL!* CLAIM THAT HUERTA’S
TROOPS WERE VICTORIOUS IN
BATTLE AT TORRE ON AND THAT
VILLA IS ON RUN
VILLA WAS SURPRISED
BY FEDERAL TROOPS
In Spite of Reports Constitutionalists
Are Claiming Victory For Rebels in
Mix-Up at Torreon
El Paso, Tex., March 18. Thou
sands of persons in this section
o’’ the country whose fortunes are
involved in military and political de
velopments in Mexico today awaitel
authentio information of the re
ported battle north of Torreon. In
the last 24 hours 15 words of a press
dispatch seeped through the censor
and over the single telegraph line
. connecting Juarez with the war
zone. It was so restricted as to be
scarcely more than an index of what
If is assumed the censor removed.
Meanwhile the federal agents here
asserted that General Villa, moving
confidently in the direction of Tor
reon, had suddenly come upon the
enemy a hundred miles north of
where he had expected them and was
defeated at Bscalon on the mein line
of the railway and at Rosario.
If the federals claims are correcf,
General Villa had to battle for his
life, and is still in a precarious po
sition, with) an enemy in front and
another threatening by a flank move
ment to occupy his rear. Federals
I
I assert and there were rumors to the
same effect in the rebel camp at
Juarez that the first federal detach
ment moved out of Torreon west of
a range of mountains beyond which
lies Escalon and the railroad. This
' column, proceeding in the direction of
Paral, was said to have come upon
the rebel general Urbina at Rosario
and the latter was forced to retreat
pending the arrival otf reinforce
ments. Rosario is 110 miles west of
Jiminez, and the latter city is directlv
in the rear of Escalon.
The federal attack at Escalon ap
parently was delayed until the west
ern column on the other side of the
mountains had engaged Urbina. Ex
act information as to the fortunes of
this general were eagerly, though not
confidently, awaited today.
I Federals here claim that not only
was the rebel western column de
feated at Rosario, but that it was
unable to prevent the entry of the
Huerta troops into Jiminez. If his
proves true much of Villa’B army has
been cut off from retreat with an
enemy in front and behind and the
mountains and desert on either side.
This feature of the story receive!
little credence here. Readier belief
w'as found for the report that the fed
eral forces were defeatd at Escalon,
but it was asserted the constitutional
ists by retreating a few miles to Bel
lano could occupy rifle pits and deep
trenches constructed in the course of
previous revolutions and there make
a fresh stand.
The number of men engaged in the
alleged battles can only be guessed at
and even rumor omits to mention
dead and w unded, except in the case
of General Benavides, reported by
Hiiertistas here to have been killed at
AMERICUS WILL
SEND SHRINERS
TO HAINBRIDGE
GREAT TIME IS ANTICIPATES
Alee Temple Will Hold An
nual Meet
Americus Shriners, the knights
of the red fez and spitostail, are getting
ready for the annual hike to Bain
bridge, an oasis of much joy and foun
tain of felicity to be uncorked April
22nd. This is one of the largest oom
ivanderies in the state and annually
furnishes many candidates to the
shrine, a pilgrimage having been held
there for the last five years uninter
ruptedly.
On this occasion which concerns
practically every city and town in
southwest Georgia that has a Masonic
lodge in it, candidates will be had
from Camilla, Pelham, Meigs, Thomas
ville, Boston, Cairo, Whigham, Col
quitt, Blakely and other neighboring
towns. Fully seventy-five candidates
I are expected, ow r ing to the approach
ling meeting of the Imperial Council
|in Atlanta in May.
This is one of the last initiations hi
; the state before the great event in
Shrinedom.
The famous Allee patrol will do the
work and be on the job all day, arriv
ing at 11:16 o’clock, and after a dinner
at the Hotel Callahan, at 1 o’clock, will
take a ride over Decatur's famed roads
at 4 p. m. The parade will atari
promptly at 7 o’clock, and will be fol
lowed by a business and ceremonial
session, and conclude with a banquet
in time for the early morning train
to Americus.
Indications point to a memorable oc
casion in the Shrinedom of Georgia.
a TIKES POSSESSION
OF men BOTH
FINDING OFFICE OF RICHLAND
INN EMPTY ASSUMES DUTIES OF
CLERK AND COLLECTS FROM ALL
GUESTS
According to the Richland News M \
Williams, proprietor of the Richland
Inn, ahs been victimized by a daring
hobo.
It is Mr. Williams’ custom to leave
a written bulletin on the register
book with the numbers of the va
cant rooms for the night, so that all
incoming transients who arrive on
the night trains may select their
rooms, mark them off and retire
without the assistance of a clerk.
A stragling bum who happened
to drop in the office one night recent
ly to warm for a few minutes saw the
bulletin and r alized the situation im
mediately; he kept himself out of
sight of the night policeman until
the trains arrived, then he again
went in and took charge of the office.
As the travelers came in he demanded
cash in advance for the night’s lodg
ing and made each one pay.
Some of the transients were old
customers at the Inn, and the next
morning they proceeded to ask Mr.
Williams regarding the new- rules of
the hotel. As he did not understand,
the travelers made known the man
ner in which the night clerk demand
ed advance payment for lodging and
soon learned that they had been bun
coed of a few shekels of silver by
some bum who had moved on to other
quarters and left the explanation on
•v.dv
the shoulders of Mr. Williams.
Escalon, where his column, the Zara
goza brigade of 1,300 men, was said
to have borne,the brunt of the fed
eral attack.
SHERMAN LOWE, |
NEGRO FUGITIVE 1
ELUDESMERIFIf
WANTED FOR KILLING POWELifi
Officers Expect to Effect
Capture I
Up to this date Sheriff Fuller andffi
the officers of neighboring countioa|
have fail?d to effect the capture off
■
Sherman Lowe, suspected as being thjl
negro who shot, to death Mr. Benjamiag
Powell, near Americus, last Saturday!
and who has since hiked to parts un-1
known. Sheriff Fuller and Deputy!
Harvey struck the trail next day, butn
Lowe had several hours’ the start andlp
kept the distance. It was not believcdß
that the negro will leave this sectionj
as his wife is still here, and the otfl-f
cers yet hope to get a line upon the
fugitive. The gun with which the!
shooting was done, a small singla-l
barrel weapon, was found at the horn®
of Lowe’s wife a few hours following
the shooting.
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ORDERED TO LEAVE CITY
Oil REPOSE IN BARRACKS
\
White Woman is Given This
Alternative
A woman of rather prepossessing ap-l
pearanc, well dressed and “fat, fair :
and forty,’’ was arrested '• '"It!
! the Instance of Mayor Lowrey upon!
complaint of a lady here whose hus-!
band, it is alleged, was rather too at
tentive to the “bird of passage,” so
much so that they r mained two days
and nights together. When brought to
the barracks, the woman was inclined
to resent Mayor Lowrey’s advice to
shake the dust of Americus from her
sandals and catch the first outgoing
train, hut when the police were in
structed to show her to the “bridal
chamber,” she readily promised to
stand not upon the order of going. If
the 10.40 train to Atlanta would suf
j lice. It did, and she doubtless went.
WONDERFUL; AMAZING
STUPENDOUS; GRAND
Burns Grunts a flint and At
; lanta Thrills
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Atlanta, Ga., March 18.—The incß
cation that Detective William J. Barns
believes Leo M. Frank is innocent of
the murder of Mary Phagan, was made
plain by the interpretation of remarks
he made this morning to newßpapsf
men.
"Every criminal leaves some sort of
track,” was one of his assertions. And
the paid press agency reporters stood
aghast at his electrifying words.
Later he said “the trail is very
plain.” More amazement and the
papers started to issue extras.
Then he said: “Notwithstanding the I
various charges that have been made, g
I think Solicitor Hugh Dorsey has been (
absolutely honest in this case, and
that he never would have prosecuted a
man he did not thoroughly believe to
be guilty.
“But, however keen or smart a man
may be, his vision is liable to be di3- |
torted. I cannot be deceived when I J
investigate a case.” Atlanta thinks 1
Solomon of old a piker, compared with
the amazing wisdom of Billie Burns
in the Frank case. He is investigating
the affair largely for the free advertis
ing he gets out of It, and probably
for other reasons as well.
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