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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
LATE NEWS OP THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EA$T,i)RTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through*
out the Nation and'Particularly
the Great South.
Southern.
Of seven hundred revenue licenses
held In Memphis, Tenn., 575 were sur
rendered to County Attorney Qeneral
X. N, Estes when the “nuisance act,"
passed at the last session of the state
legislature, became operative, ending
the open saloon In Tennessee. A
number of the Baloons, transformed
Into "soft drink" establishments, re
opened to serve non-alcoholic and oth
er beverages coming in the require
ment of the stute prohibition laws ot
less than two per cent, alcohol.
Developing suddenly In southwestern
Georgia, a storm swept through south
Georgia in a northeasterly direction.
It continued Us course up the Atlantic
coast. The first news of the storm's
approach was received by the Savan
nah weather bureau In a telegram
from the central bureau in Washing
ton: "Hoist northeast storm warnings,
8 p. m,, Fort Monroe to Savannah.
Storm central in southwest Georgia,
moving northeastward and Increasing
In Intensity. Will give strong winds
along south Atlantic coast, shifting to
northwest."
Ranger Captain J. J. Sanders, re
porting to Gov. O. B. Colquitt of Tex
as, made the direct charge that Clem
ente Vergara, an American ranch,
man, , was shot to death while in the
custody of Mexican federal troops, os
tensibly en route from the jail at Hi
dalgo to federal headquarters at Pie-
dras Negras, Mexico. Governor Col
quitt telegraphed Secretary of State
Bryan asking what method should be
followed In an effort to apprehend
those responsible for the killing of
Vergara. Texans are wrought up over
the murder, and much bitterness Is
evinced against Mexicans.
The Georgia rate cafes, Involving in
junctions secured by the Atlantic
Coast Line, the Southern railway and
the Central of Georgia against freight
rate reduction ordered by the Geor
gia railroad commission, were set by
the United States court of appeals in
session at New Orleans for hearing in
April before court in session in At
lanta, Ga.
Governor Slaton of Georgia has ap
pointed William Stanley West of Val
dosta, one of the best known men
in the state, to fill the unexplred term
of the late Senator A. O. Bacon, whose
death occurred in Washington Febru
ary 14. Governor Slaton did not write
any formal announcement. He merely
walked out into the reception room,
saw that the newspapers were all rep
resented and spoke on word: "West!"
In an instant the news traveled
throughout the capitol and wash flash
ed to all parts of the city and state.
Senator West was born in Marion
county, Georgia.
Miss Maud McLure Kelly of Bir
mingham, Ala., was admitted to prac
tice before the Supreme court on mo
tion of Secretary of State Bryan, but
tOi do so she had to take off her
head dress. Miss Kelly was anxious
to wear her academic cap and gown
upon being admitted. The court mar
shal gently reminded her, however,
that members of the bar must remove
their hats in addressing the court and
that the rule applied alike to men and
women.
One of the worst storms in Phila
delphia in years raged in that city and
vicinity, paralysing wire communica
tion to eastern points and bringing
train service between that city and
New York to a standstill.
The Bunton Investigating commis
sion was prevented from proceeding to
Chihuahua to exqpilne the slain Bri
ton’s body by rebel orders. Col. Fidel
Avila, military commander at Juarez,
declined to permit them to board the
regular passenger train, which was
waiting. Persistent Inquiry here and
in El Paso foiled to establish anything
but the one fact that the commission
ers were refused passports on this side
and returned to. El Paso.
A northeast Btorm, swerving to the
northwest which first brought ruin,
then snow, raged over New York and
vicinity, cutting the city almost com
pletely off from telegraph and tele
phone communication. ReportB show
ed its effects to be widespread. Three
deaths due to the storm occurred there,
two together when a roof collapsed
under the weight of wet snow, crushing
a man and a boy. Another man, blind
ed by snow, was killed by a train. Sev
eral persons were overcome by ex
posure, and a number were injured
in street accidents. Trains on all lines
were late.
R. H. Martin and Joseph Borders,
Kansas City agents of the Florida
Fruit Lands company, pleaded guilty
In the federal court at Kansas City to
the charges of conspiracy and the con
ducting of a lottery in the sale of lands
in the Everglades in 'Florida. Judge
Van Valkenburgh reserved sentence.
Among those indicted waB R. J. Bolles
of Jacksonville, Fin., president of the
company. Martin and Borders are the
first to answer to the indictments.
Thousands of Chicago women had
their real experience with the ballot
box and took part In the actual nomi
nation of candidates for the city coun
cil. In wards in which women candi
dates were running in opposition to
men for places in the city council,
the women candidates toured tho
wards and hustled for votes in approv
ed political fashion. A snowstorm ear
ly in tlie day delayed many voters, and
a movement foBtered by many suffrage
leaders kept hundreds from voting at
the primaries.
General.
The recent heavy snowfall already
has cost New York City nearly one
million dollars, and were it not for
the probability that rain and warmer
weather will help out, the city’s bill
would reach approximately two and a
half million dollars, figuring on the
contract, price of removal. John T.
Fetherston, street cleaning commis
sioner, told the board of estimate that
the department was praying for rain.
“Keep on- praying,” replied the mayor.
Admiral von Diedericlis himself ad
mits he informed the British naval
commander in Manila bay at the time
of the Spanish-American war that he
would shoot any American officer who
attempted to board a German warship
“to make inquiry and establish her
identity” in carrying out the orders
of Admiral Dewey. The admission was
made in the course of a further narra
tive of events given to the press. The
controversy between Admiral Dewey
and the German admiral arose over tlie
visiting between the vessels of the
various powers, in which Admiral Died-
erichs was quite promiscuous.
The French chamber ot deputies
voted an appropriation of $400,000 to
provide for official French participa
tion in the Panama Pacific exposition
at San Francisco. The appropriation
hill has still to go to the senate,
whero there will be some opposition
Tho conviction of Former Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker of New
York City of the murder'of the gam
bler, Herman Rosenthal, was annulled
by the court of appeals at Albany, the
state capital. He is entitled to a new
trial, but it seems probable that he
will go free without facing a second
ordeal. It was made known that Dis
trict, Attorney, Charles S. Whitman be
lieves that under the prevailing opin
ion handed down by the court, convic
tion a second time will be impossible.
The others convicted with' 1 Becker
were not sustained in their appeal,
and must go to the electric chair.
Washington.
Preliminary figures made public by
director of the census, W. J. Harris,
shows the total indebtedness of the 48
states of the Union, less sinking fund
assets, on June 30, 1913, was $342,261,-
000, an increase of $107,342,000, or
nearly 50 per cent., over tlie total ten
years ago.
Foreign and domestic shipping of the
United States is so combined by agree
ments, pools and conference arrange*
ments that an attempt to dissolve tlie
combinations would cripple trade. This
is the conclusion reached by the house
merchant, marine and fisheries edm-
mittee in a final report of the so-called
shipping trust investigation, made pub
lic in Washington. The committee, af
ter two years of exhaustive inquiry,
recommends that both foreign and do
mestic shipping combinations be plac
ed under the strict control of the in
terstate commerce commission, and
that the commission be enlarged.
The senate committee on agriculture
and forestry has submitted a favorable
report on the bill introduced by Sen
ator Smith of South Carolina to regu
late the selling of cotton. The bill,
designed to reform the rules and reg-
ulation% of the New 'York and New
Orleans cotton exchanges, would re
quire any person or corporation in tho
making of an offer for future delivery
of cotton, to specify the grade or the
grades contracted for in each con
tract, such grades to be in accord
ance with United States government
standardization. The bill requires the
length of the staple shall be stipulated.
All attempts to limit the authority
of the postmaster general to change
the weight, rates or zones in the par
cel post service were defeated in the
senate during the consideration of the
postoffice appropriation bill. Ail amend
ment to the bill as it passed the house
proposed by the senate postoffice com
mittee to prevent the postmaster gen
eral from making these changes, was
defeated by a vote of 33 to 24.
Assurances have been received In
Washington that the Canadian Pacific
railroad has no Intention of attempt
ing to evade tlie provision of the Pan
ama canal act barring railroad-owned
ships from the canal. With this assur
ance came a further declaration that
the Canadian Pacific would not send
its fleets through the canal even if
there were no question about its right
to do so, because the company’s offi
cials could see no advantage in chang
ing present routes across the Atlantic
and Pacific.
Warning that unless the postmaster
general was checked "bales of hay
and bushels of potatoes" soon would
be going through the mails was given
the senate by Senator Bankhead, chair
man of the postoffice committee, who
declared the postoffice department
was running riot in the matter of par
cel post business, and that the gov
ernment Was operating the new serv
ice at a loss. The senator’s remarks
came in debate on the annual postof
fice appropriation bill.
Substitution of a year's course in
practical training at some agricul
tural college instead of annual trips
to Washington for the young prize
winners of the corn, canning, poultry,
’and other agricultural clubs, is the
recommendation of the department of
agriculture. In the event the young
champion’s academic training would
not enable him to enter the state agri
cultural college, the department sug
gests elementary courses in instruc
tions, teaching less advanced instruc
tion work. Officials, of the depart
ment express belief that such courses
would be valuable.
Ill STATE POLITICS
FELDER AND HARDWICK HAVE
ANNOUNCED AS SOUTH GEOR
GIA’S CANDIDATES: •
WEST HAS NOT DECIDE!)
Much Interest In Senator 8mlth’a
Position, Both-Being His
Supporters.
Washington.—The Georgia senato
rial situation waxes warm—at least
among the Georgia contirlfeent in and
around Washington. While nobody
here was surprised at the announce
ment of Congressman Hardwick that
he would be in the race as the late
Senator Bucyn's successor, general
surprise was created at the apparent
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Senator West, appointed by Governor
Slaton to fill the place made vacant
by the death of the late Senator A.
O. Bacon, until the next regular elec
tion.
conflict between him and Attorney
General T. S. Felder, tvho also an
nounces for the. place—both as south
Georgia candidates.
Attorney General Felfler has been
here for several days on business aud
it was from Washington that he
wired to friends in Macon announc
ing his candidacy for the senate to
succeed the late Senator Bacon.
By a strange coincident his an
nouncement and the Harwich an
nouncement that he would not be a
candidate again for the house of rep
resentatives were sent out on the
same date.
There is considerable gossip here
among the Georgia members, who are
commenting on the coincidence of
the two announcements going out the
same date. While, of course, nobody
knows, the general Impression here
is that each thought that the other
was to be a candidate and each
stated to see which could get to the
tank first. As it happens both an
nouncements got to Georgia at the
same time.
Heretofore the relations between
Hardwick and Felder have been ex
ceedingly close, both having been
zealous supporters of Senator Hoke
Smith in all of his contests. Senator
Smith has made no announcement as
to his posistion in this contest other
than to say he has not sought to
bring out any candidate and that any
announcement that may be made
must mome from the candidates them
selves and not as representing him or
his attitude as regards the political
situation in Georgia.
The fact that both Hardwick and
Felder are to announce for the south
Georgia place leads practically every
member of the Georgia delegation to
the belief that West .will be a candi
date to seucceed himself for Senator
Bacon’s unexplred term.
.. , Felder Would Enjoin Plant.
Attorney General T. S. Felder filed
in the supreme court at Washington
a motion to enter, a permanent in
junction against the Ducktown Sul
phur, Copper and Iron company, and
compel it to abate the nuisance
caused by the sulphorous fumes
This action has followed years of
negotiations between the state of
Georgia and the offending Ducktown
plant. The motion was made pun
suant to instructions from the gov
ernor and following action taken by
the general assembly.
The legislature.directed the govern
or to enter into a contract with the
Ducktown Copper company, one of
the defendants, whereby the compa
ny would deposit a certain amount
annually to meet the damage caused
by its plants. The state agreed to
make no further move against this
company for three years, allowing
this time for the company to devise
a plan for converting the- copper
fumes. The Ducktown company re
fused to enter into such an agree
ment, hence, the motion was made to
enjoin it
PROFIT III 1EGK
Sunken Ships Sometimes Yield
Very Rich Treasures.
DESIGNED TO FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Lucky Investment by Melbourne Firm
In Frenoh Bark‘Brought Concert)
$60,000 for $1,846—Treasures
on British Coast
London.—Another instance of lucky
speculation In wrecka has been pro
vided, a Melbourne firm having bought
a disabled ship for $1,840 and found
that it Was worth $00,000. The ship
was the Jean Bart, a French bark of
I, 981 tons net, and sbe was saved from
entire destruction and towed into har
bor after lying a battered wreck for
two months.
The bark was on a voyage from
Antwerp to Wallaroo, laden with 3,000
tons of pig iron and coke, when she
ran aground on Wuudang island, in
Spencer gulf, South Australia. Her
hold quickly filled, and it was soon
Impossible to float her. For two
months she was in this condition, the
whole after part of the ship being un
der water. Her captain cabled to his
owners in Franco for orders and re
ceived a reply to the effect that she
should be sold at auction.
A number of Australian' firms sent
representatives to inspect the wreck,
but none of them thought that it was
worth while to buy. It was confidently
stated that salvage was hopeleBS, but
J. Bell & Co., grain merchants of Mel
bourne, made a bid, and the wreck
was sold for $1,840. Some critics
laughed and remarked that they were
paying for a hold full of water which
could not be raised. Messrs. Bell said
nothing, but engaged a diver to in
spect the vessel, add then the news
became known that the damage to the
bark was only slight A hole a little
more than a foot In diameter had been
torn in the bows and the diver re
ported that this could easily be re
paired.
Work was begun at once, the water
was pumped out of the hold after the
hole had been plugged up, and after
the vessel was thus lightened she was
towed off and beached. After that
further repairs were carried out, so
that the ship could' be brought to Mel-
borne to be docked. The work was
successful. In spite of a strong gale
right ahead the vessel was towed by
a powerful tug to her destination and
now it is seen that the value of the
ship and cargo is over $60,000. It is
believed that before long the Jean
Bart will be sailing the sea again, for
she is very little damaged.
At LloydB a newspaper representa
tive was informed that though this is
regarded as one of the plums of the
business, there have been several sim
ilar ones. “Round the shores of Bri
tain every year," said a marine bro
ker, "there is a large number of
wrecks which would yield a large prof
it to any enterprising buyer provided
he had the necessary facilities to sell
or dispose of the property.
"Some time ago a steamer was
wrecked off Yorkshire, and the buyer
was a man who knew little about such
matters, but he bought the vessel tor
about $1,500. It was not a big ship,
but she had a valuable cargo on board,
and it was feared that the bottom had
been ripped out of the ship and the
cargo lost. In the cargo was a large
number of pictures. Few firms cared
to touch the business, and the under
writers let it go for the 6um stated.
But the ship was inspected and
raised, and then, to the surprise of
everybody, the cargo was discovered
to be little worse for its immersion.
The property sold for nearly $60,000.
“There was another jiase a year or
First sketch of the gigantic hydroplane being built to carry out Rodman
Wonamaker’s plan of crossing the ocean this summer. The hydro was de
signed by Glenn Curtiss and will have a boat hull 36 feet long, entirely in
closed. The 200-horBepower motor will be put right up in the bow.
so ago of a ship which ,was wrecked
with a valuable cargo on the coast of
Africa. Shg was given up as hope
less and sold for a song. The new
owner took a sporting chance—know
ing the valueof the cargo—of charter
ing a ship and sailing out to the
wreck. He succeeded in raising her
and towed her to Gibraltar. Here the
cable parted and she was lost for two
days, but ultimately was found again
and brought to the Thames. That
ship is still sailing the seas under an
other name, and the owner made his
fortune out of the deal.
“Few people havd any idea that we
have scores of wrecks lying around
our shores. In some cases they, are
entirely abandoned to anyone who-
cares to take the “pickings,” but in,
others they have been sold to local
firms for a small sum. Even the
amount of iron and wood in some hulls
would pay for the cost of salvage.-One.
easily remembers the fate Of the
Oceana, which went down off Folk-
stone; the Manratta, on the Good
wins, and tho Preussen. FroFn the
Lizard one can see quite a number of
wrecks on the coast line," and it has
often been suggested that if these
boats were Balved systematically - ft
profitable business could be built up-
In that way."
SEEK AN EDUCATION
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Immigrants Keenly Interested in
Children’s Schooling.
having very meager provisions .for
public education. According to the-
federal census of 1910, more than 25-
per cent, of the foreign-born popula
tion of three states was illiterate.
Foreigners Conspicuously Obedient to from 15 to 25 per cent, of five, states
School Attendance Laws Says U.
S. Commissioner of Education
Dr. P. P. Claxton.
Washington.—That immigrants are
keenly interested in schooling for their
children, or at least conspicuously obe
dient to school-attendance laws, is the
declaration of Dr. P. P. Claxton, Unit
ed States commissioner of education.
“The least illiterate of our population
are the native-born children of for
eign parents,” says Doctor Claxton, in
a bulletin on education for immigrants
just issued. “The illiteracy among the
children of native-born parents Is
three times as great as that among
native-born children of foreign pa
rents.”
Doctor Claxton reviews the whole
problem of education for immigrants,
in and out of school. "To the people
of no other country is the problenl of
so much Importance as to the people
of the United States. No other coun
try has so many men, women and chil
dren coming to its shores every year
from all parts of the world.
“Many of those who have come to
us in recent years are from countries
DR. AKED CALLED “HERETIC.”
Former Pastor of Rockefeller’s Church
Asked to Resign on Grounds
of Unbelief.
San Francisco.—As the result of a
letter received at a meeting of the
Church Federation of San Francisco,
signed by four Presbyterian ministers,
calling for Mb resignation because of
his declaration of unbelief in the doc
trine of the virgin birth, Dr. Charles
Dr. Charles F. Aked.
F. Aked, pastor of international' re
nown and president of the federation,
Is lijcely to resign.’ Rev. Mr. Aked
paid that if dissatisfaction of even one
per cent of the membership appeared
because of his incumbency he would
etep down.
STRONG ON SPELLING REFORM
Critics of Present System Again Urge
More Logical Method of Or
thography.
London.—Spelling reform is being
discussed again. William Archer, in
the course of a recent speech, de
clared there is not a single letter in
the English language to which only
one sound is attached, nor is there a
sound which is represented by only
one letter.
If one took the “e" sound in “bed,”
he said, one would find it spelled sev
en different ways in as many differ
ent wordB, for exactly the same vow
els sound occurred in "head,” "many”
"leopard,” “said,” “says,” and “pa
per.”
When a child asks why "proceed”
and "recede” are not spelled the same
way in the last syllable, nobody can
possibly give him a reasonable an
swer.
from 10 to 16 per cent.' of 11 states,
and from five, to ten p6r cent, of 21"
states.
“Most of the immigrants in recent;
years have little kinship with, the old
er stocks of our population, 'either in
blood, language, methods of thought*
traditions, manners or customs; they
know little of our political and civic
life, and are unused to our 'social
ideals; their environment here is.,
wholly different from that to which
they have been accustomed., Strang
ers to each other, frequently from
countries hostile to each other by tra
dition, of different speech and creeds,
they are thrown together, strangers
among strangers, in a strange country,
and are thought of by us only as ft
conglomerate mass of foreigners.
“Immigrant education is not alone-
the question of the school education
of children. The millions of adult
men and women, and of children oldpr
than the upper limit of the compulsory
school-attendance age, must be looked 1
after; they muBt be prepared for
American citizenship and for partici
pation in our democratic industrial, ;
social and religious lifea they must
be given sympathetic help in finding
themselves in their new environment
and in adjusting themselves to their
new opportunities and responsibilities.
The proper education of these people-
is a duty which the nation owes to-,
itself and to them. It can neglect this
duty only to their hurt and its own.
peril.”
MRS. LEEDS GET A FORTUNE
$40,000,000 Widow of "Tinplate King”
Falls Heir to Another Large
Sum of Money.
New York.—Mrs. William B. Leeds,
widow of the $40,000,000 "tinplate
king," is cebenefleiary with- her sister*
VIOLET RAYS WHITEN TEETH
New Dental Method Being Introduced
in Paris to Preserve
Molars.
Paris.—A new method of dentistry
is being introduced in Paris in the
form of treatment of the teeth by the
ultra-violet ray.
Such rays from a mercury lamp, it
is skid, have the power of whitening
discolored teeth and of sterilizing them
in such a way that they are lesB liable
to decay. '
Starving Deer Sent to Jail.
Somerville, Mass.—A deer, found
starving in the streets here, was
placed in an automobile, taken to jail
and put in a cell.
Mrs. William B.* Leeds.
Mrs. Margaret Green, under the will;
of their father, Willlata C. Stewart,
which has been filed here.
Mrs. Stewart, Becond wife o‘f the-
testator, is not mentioned in the will.
Sho was evicted from his home in 12JLI-
after a quarrel.