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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
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A Condensed Record of Happenings
cf Interest From All Parts .
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Mr
Paul 0. Bonnoll. 22 years old, was
killed at Hawltlnsvllle, Cla., us lie lay
In bed sleeping. An ax, apparently,
was used In the murder. Harry Lee,
nephew of the dead man nnd who
roomed with him, Is being held by the
police pending an Investigation, Leo
Is 18 years old. The youth denies any
connection with the killing and claims
tt was done by a negro. He claims
he was awakened by the noise mndo
by the negro in time to see him es
caping from the room. Bonnoll Is sur
vived by a wife ill Florida. Leo ran
out of the store at one o'clock in the
morning nnd gave the alarm.
Theodore Ford, the four-ycar-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Ford, was kick
ed to death near their home on Flat
Shoals road, Atlanta, Ga., where Mr.
Cord conducts a farm and dairy. The
child had gone Into the field with its
another and approached them ule, when
the mother’s attention was directed to
other things. The animal turned sud
denly and kicked the child several
times, which resulted in crushing his
skull. He was rushed to the Grady
hospital, but died.
■ Fleas carried in sacks of sugar and
not rats are responsible for the re
cently reported cases of bubinic plague
at Havana, Cuba. Surgeon Gulteras
Btates that hej conducted more than
twenty-five hundred laboratory experi
ments with rats, for the purpose of de
termining the manner in which bu
bonic plague germs were found to be
Infected with the germs. He then
reached the conclusion that fleas had
spread the disease.
Atlantic Coast Line stockholders in
•called meeting at Richmond authoriz
ed a bond issue of $200,000,000 at 4 1-2
per cent., to retire the outstanding
;$30,000,000 issue of 1900.
i J. H. Woodward of Briraingham, Ala.,
•rated as one of the wealthiest men of
the South, is seriously ill at his winter
borne in Orlando, Fla. His daughter,
Mrs. Oscar W. Underwood, wife of
the House Democratic leader, and oth-
or members of the family are in Or
lando at his bedside.
Investigation'into the affairs of the
First Natchez (Miss.) bank, which
■ closed its doors on October 30, 1913,
•resulted in the indictment by the Ad
ams county grand jury of A. G. Camp-
• bell, president; S. H. Lowenberg, first
vice president, and R. Lee Wood, sec
ond vice president of the defunct in
stitution on the charge of accepting
deposits after the'bank was insolvent.
Safe crackers in Randleman, N. C„
secured a thousand dollars in stamps
and money fro|n the postoffice.
. j . General.
, Tien. Francisco Vila ordered that the
/ 600 Spaniards of Torreon, Mexico be
‘deported. He issued instructions that
trains be provided immediately and
•.that the exodus to El Paso, Texas,
should begin at once. Their property
•will be temporarily confiscated. It is
the tragedy of Chihuahua over again,
and is said to express the deep-rooted
muspicion and even hatred with which
jttie native Mexican and particularly
jthe peon looks on the Spaniard.
1 Apprehension grew in St. Johns, N.
F„ that the sealing steamer Southern
Cross wont dawn with all on board
■during the blizzard off Cape Race. She
•carried a crew of 170 men and was
■heavily loaded with 17,000 seal skins,
trophies of the hunt in the Gulf of
;St. Lawrence.
The principle of the Monroe doc-
itrine is just as alive now as it. ever
was and President Monroe's declara
tion is not an “obsolete shibboleth,'
according, to statement at the annual
meeting of the American Academy of
■Political and Social Science. Speakers
•with few exceptions were in agree
ment upon®-the general principle of
the doctrine. Rear Admiral Chester
urged a concert of action among Amer
ican republics in a policy of "America
for the Americans.”
The Rockefeller Institute for Medi
cal Research announced that John D,
Rockefeller had added $1,000,000 to
the general endowment fund of the
Institution to be devoted to the study
of animal diseases, and that James J.
Hill had pledged $50,000 for the inves
tigation of hog cholera. “The Rocke
feller Institute,” the announcement
reads, “heretofore confined its inves
tigations to the field of human dis
eases. Animal diseases are as import
ant because of their close relationship
to human diseases.,
Elijah Huggins, farmer, Was arrest
ed at his home near Shirley, Ark.
charged with having, murdered and
beheaded his wife.'and baby. Hug-
Bins, it is said, wab recently released
Krbm the state insane asylum. Accord.-
Ing to officers whp brought the man
,tp jail, Huggins nine-yean-old son
'charged that his father first rifted the
/baby from its cradle and dashed it
against the wall of the room and then
attacked his wife with a butcher knife,
tpierclng her body eleven times. Car-
frying the bodies to a reach- porch he is
alleged to have severed, the heads of
both. The boy esc
Unless Governor Glynh of Now York
City chunges his mind, a reprieve for
the four New York gunmen, under
sentence^ to die in Sing Sing during
the week beginning April 13, will be
granted.
The new federal reserve banking
systogi will start business with a total
authorized' capltnt of about ono hun
dred million dollars for all reserve
banks. Thl^ fact became apparent
when figures wero made public from
all national banks responding to the
last call of the comptroller of the cur
rency, mado March 4.
Figures received from the primary
election ip Arkansas show that Senator
James P. Clarke has won in the sena
torial race over Judge William F. Kir
by.
Mario Scott, a negro woman who
killed Lemuel Peace, a young white
man, by driving a knife Into his heart,
was taken out of the Wagoner county
Jail at Muskogee, Okla., and hanged
to a telephone polo. The mob, which
was masked, overpowered the jailer,
a one-armed man, threw a rope over
the woman's head und dragged her out
of the jail. The county attorney of
Wagoner county has sfurted an Inves
tigation to determine, if possible, the
identity of the membors of the mob.
The mob pulled the screaming woman
from her cell, tied a ropo about her
neck and dragged her to a telephone.
‘Peto Crafts" will continue to enjoy
luxuries uncommon among Boston,
Mass., dogs. The probate court ap
proved the will of his late master,
John Chancellor Crafts, which pro
vides a fund of $1,200 a year for the
upkeep of Pete. Relatives who had
been cut off without a cent contested
the will, alleging "undue influence.”
At the hearing witnesses told how
Pete had presided at the head of the
table at “birthday parties” given in
his honor und that his master consid
ered the dog a greater friend than
any- human being.
SET FOR AUG. 19
Washington.
Absolute prohibition will prevail in
the United States navy after July 1
next. Secretary Daniels made public a
sweeping order, which will not only
abolish the traditional "wine moss" of
the officers, but wilt bar all alcoholic
liquors from every ship and short sta
tion of the navy. The order, consti
tuting one of the most notable victories
ever won by prohibition forces, was is
sued on the recommendation of Sur
geon General Baister. It is brief and
to the point.
The cities selected for regional
banks are Boston, New Y’ork, Phila
delphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta,
Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kan
sas Sity, Dallas, Tex., and San Fran
cisco.
There has been every indication thgt
the announcement of the reserve dis
tricts and cities by the reserve bank
organization committee "had given the
signal for a determined struggle upon
the part of several cities which wero
disappointed to overturn the commit
tee on the decision and bring about a
redistricting of the country, or at least
a change in the reserve cities named.
Under the law the decision of the. or
ganization committee is not subject
to review except by the federal re
serve board. The committee’s plan
has been criticized in congress, and
there are reports of disappointment.
Rear Admiral Fletcher makes the
prediction that the gulf port of Tam
pico, Mexico,- probably will be aban
doned by the Mexican federals with
out a fight. Torreon has fallen into
the hands of the Constitutionalists,
after a six-day battle. The Huerta
forces have retreated, leaving many
dead and wounded, ammunition and
supplies. Both armies, were severely
crippled in the fight, and it is the con
census of opinion that neither is in
condition for anything like another en
gagement soon. However, the result
gives the Constitutionalists control
over the northern tier of the Mexican
states.
Robert Lansing, the new. counselor
of the state department, successor to
John Bassett Moore,' was sworn in
and assumed the duties of his office.
He will rank next to Secretary Bryan
and be acting secretary of the depart:
ment when the secretary is absent
from Washington.
The administration bill to repeal
IoIIb exemption for all American coast
wise ships in the Panama canal, which
passed the house amid spectacular
scenes reached the senate and was
referred promptly to the committee on
inter-oceanic canals without dobate.
Senator O'Gorman says that public
hearings are unnecessary and would
prolong this controversy, which is a
clean-cut issue and thoroughly under
stood by every senator. The senators
desire to get away from congress ear
ly this time, and will do so if there
is no unnecessary delay in commit
tee.
After masquerading as a man for
sixty years and serving as a soldier
In Grant’s army during the Civil war,
“Albert” Cashier, whose sex was dis
covered at the soldiers’ home at Quin
cy, 111., was committed to an insane
asylum.
Maj, Gen. William \Y. Wotherspoon,
now assistant chief of staff of the
army, has been selected to succeed
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as chief of
staff at the end of General Wood’s
term, -pril 22. Brig. Gen. Hugh L.
Scott, commanding the troops at Fort
Bliss, Texas, will be .assistant chief of
staff. General Wood will assume corn-'
mand of the Eastern department, with
headquarters at Gbvernor’s Island,
New York. No selection has yet been
mado of a successor to General Scott
as commander of the Second cavalry
brigade at ill Paso. General Scott set
tled the recent Navajo uprising.
ENDORSEMENT LETTER FROM
BROWN TAKEN TO MEAN HE
WILL SEEK PLUM IN RACE.
ON THE COUNTY UNIT BASIS
Motions to Endorse Federal Adminis
tration on Tolls Precipitates
Hot Fight.
— Atlanta.
The Georgia Democratic executivo
committee called a slate-wide primary
for August 19, with the state con
vention at Mucon September 2.
The primary was ordered strictly on
a county unit basis, but a provision
was jnado giving the convention the
deciding power in cusos whero no
candidate has a county unit majori
ty, the candidate receiving a plural
ity of the popular vote.
The county unit plan was not adopt
ed, however, without a prolonged and
bitter fight, led, on the one Hand, by
Joe Hill Hall of Bibb and G. It. Hutch
ens of Floyd on the other.
Mr. Hall opposed the county unit
plan and Mr| .Hutchens favored it.
Mr. Hall contended- that the county
unit rule as applied to the senator-
ships was in direct violation of the
federal amendment providing for the.
popular election of senators.
Mr. Brannon of Bulloch suggested
a plan providing fo ra second primary
where none of the candidates involved
should receivo a majority- vote on the
first primury, and that the second pri
mary should be restricted to the two
candidates recenving the highest pop
ular vote.
Thfs suggestion, althqugh argued at
length by several members, was lost.
A resolution offered by Clark How-*
ell was adopted by the committee,
congratulating President Wilson for
the splendid record he has made in
the white house, and particularly with
reference to the tariff and the cur
rency legislation. ,
Mr. Hall of Bibb moved to amend
Mr. Howcll.’s resolution by adding
congratulations to the president for
his Panama canal .Jolla position, and
this’ was resisted by Mr. Hutchens,
who held that this amendment was
unfair and might be construed as "a
slap at Democrats yrho differ with the
president in this matter,”'and that it
was a repudiation of the Baltimore
platform.
Mr. Hutchens managed Oscar Un
derwood’s presidential campaign in
Georgia, and as Underwood opposed
the president on the canal tolls ques-’
tion, Hutchens evidently considered
the Hall amendment a jab at Under
wood.
Mr, Howell’s original motion was
carried unanimously, but the Hall
amendment on carntl tolls was adopt
ed by a divided vote of 24 to 7.
After the adoption of the canal tolls
amendment many members of the
state committee declared that they
thoughts its adoption a tactical mis
take, and they expressed the doubt
ful liopo that the matter might not
be used against Underwood in liis
Alabama fight.
Once the mischief had been accom
plished, however, there apparently
was no activo disposition to reopen
the matter, for fear this might serve,
even if the Hall resolution was with
drawn, to make bad matters worse.
Despite the ovident desire of Chair
man Harris to expedite matters, the
work by the conjmittee was retarded
continuously by long-winged debates
on non-essential matters.
In addition to this, the committee
was over half an hour late in getting
started.
It was the apparent desire by the
leaders of the committee to order a
county unit primary, and to adhdro
as closely as possible to the recom
mendations and the work of the state
convention in Macon, which nomi
nated Governor Slaton.
In the main, this was done, too, and
the primary call as finally adopted,
may be taken to ’represent the atti
tude of the present state adminis
tration with reference to all matters
to be covered in the forthcoming cam
paign.
It has been many days since a state
Democratic committee was called upon
to arrange for the distribution of so
many fat plums as this one|
Two United States senatorships, a
governorship, a full outfit of state-
houso officers, as well as three ap
peals court judgeships and three su
preme court,judgeships, are the prizes
to bo contended for.
This extraordinary conditions ac
counted for the full attendance of’
the committee and the large num
ber of well-known and influential
Georgians on hand to watch the pro
ceedings.
The meeting of the committee un
doubtedly marks the opening of one
of the most interesting and import
ant campaigns Georgia has known
since reconstruction. ’ Not since then
have so many offices been, involved
’A letter was read, amid" great ap
plause, from former Governor Brown,
strongly commending to the commit
tee, the county unit plan of primary
elections.
This letter wps taken by many to
mean that the former governor is.
probably®getting ready.to tako a sig
nificant part in the corthcomlng cam-;
RULERS OF NEW KINGDOM OF ALBANIA
Demise of Vanderbilt and Others
Breaks the Record.
Astor Estate Paid Largest Inherit
ance Tax 8lnce Enactment of Law
With the Sum of $3,150,000—
Many Rich Men Ole.
Now York.—With the death rocently
of George W, Vanderbilt, George West-
Inghouse and John L. Cndwalader, of
ficials in the state comptroller’s of
fice In thiB city bogatt a tabulation qf
the wealth left by the large number
of prominent New York men who
have died since January 1, 1913. It
is estimated that the total amount of
wealth’passed on to the next genera
tion by the death of these men Is
more than ono billion dollars. ,
The stato comptroller At Albany re
ports that for thb year ending last
September the total amount of rev
enue collected by the State from the
inheritance tax was $12,724,236.86.
The sum to ho collected from iOBtatos
not yet appraisod is believed to be
much larger.
Never before In the history of this
country, it Is said,'have so inatfy men
of wealth and power died In such a
short period. Included In the list are
such nameB as J. Pierpont Morgan,
Anthony N. Brady, Benjamin Altman,
Charles E. Appleby, George A. Hearn,
Henry M. Flagler and Isaac V.
llrokaw.
The tax on the Brady estate, paid
recently In advance on appraisal to
get a discount on the regular per
centage, was $2,584,000, which was on
an estimated valuation of $75,000,000.
The Morgan oslate has paid an ad
vance tax of $2,500,000 on an estimated
total vnluatlon of $65,000,000, exclu
sive of works of art, which have been
valued at more than $50,000,000.
George W. Vanderbilt is supposed to
have loft $50,000,000. Attorneys for
the estate are working on an estimate
of the fortune to be made to the state
comptroller.
The largest inheritance tax paid
since the enactment of the law was
that of $3,150,o6o on the $87,000,000
estate of the late Col. John Jacob As
tor. Previous to that the estate of
John S. Kennedy, valued at $67,000,-
000, held the record.
Benjamin Altman, Gedrge A. Hearn,
Isaac V. Brokaw and Isldor Strans,
great merchants, are some of the men
whose estates are being adjusted by
the state comptroller. Mr. Altman
left his art works, valued at $10,000,-
000, to the Metropolitan museum. His
total estate is supposed to be worth
$30,000,000.
Mr. Hearn, another noted art col
lector, left an estate of $10,000,000;
besides a notable art collection. The
estate of Isaac V. Brokaw is-estimated
at $5,000,000, and a valuation of $4,-
427,608 was placed on the estate of
Isidor Straus. Henry Flagler left an
estate of $6,000,000.
Other largo estates settled In 1913
are those of D. O. Mills, who left
about $10,000,000; Edwin Hawley, val
ued at $9,740,000, less debts of about
$4,000,000, and James R. Keene, esti
mated at $20,000,000.
Prince William of Wied, the new king of Albania, and his consort received;
a wnrm welcome when they arrived qt Durrazzo to assume their duties at tho
head of the new government. Tho king is shown iq his official uniform as head
of the army of Albania.
STILL FIND WITCHES
Woman Freed for Sorbery Re
cently in Pennsylvania.
“Hex" Doctor Shoots Wax Image to
Relieve Pains Caused by Powers
of the Evil Eye—Salt in a
Lawyer’s Bed.
BARRYMORE IN BEST ROLE
Mrs. Colt Delights to Play the Part of
Mother With Her Children
About Her.
New York.—Mrs. Ethel Barrymore
Colt, known to theatergoers as Ethel
Barrymore, one of the popular ac
tresses of the American stage, delights
to play the greatest role of her career
in the seclusion of her home, whOro
she is surrounded by hen three chil-
Ethel Barrymore's Best Role.
paten.
dren. Samuel Colt, the oldest, is seat
ed by his mother. Baby Jack is seat
ed on the floor, and the youngest mem
ber of the Cojt family is nestling in
■the arms of its mother.
Now York.—A woman tried for
witchcraft! We hold up bur hands
and wonder at the bigotry of those
narrow-minded Puritans in Salem,
Mass. Such a situation seems so re
mote from anything that would be
possible today! So we «ro In the
habit of saying, -but it is not an im
possibility.
Only a short time ago a woman was
tried for witchcraft in a court of law
in south Pennsylvania. That was not
the name used in the charge that was
brought against her, but that was tho
accusation that was -lodged in the
minds of every one who was interest
ed in the case, which was tried in a
region so thoroughly saturated with
traditional superstition that not even
the present prosperity and general ed
ucation can destroy them. Technically
the woman was convicted of obtaining
money under, false pretenses, but ac
tually she was convicted of being a
witch—a “hex” doctor who "pow
wowed.”
In the homo 'ot a prominent lawyer
in Camden-county there Is a hole in
the post- of a mahogany bedstead filled
with salt which witnesses to his belief
in witchcraft. At ono time he prose
cuted a case against an.old woman
who, when convicted ana fined, left
the court muttering incantations nnd
vowing; vengeance;
That night the lawyer was suddenly
attacked with violent pains in -the
head. The curse had come upon him
and he feared the wretched old wom
an, whom he believed to be respom
sible for it. Only witchcraft can
drive out witchcraft. No doctor of
medicine would do in such a case.
A day laborer who was born with
a caul over his face was brought in
through the back door and taken to
the bedroom of the suffering lawyer.
The electric lights had been extin
guished and a candle flickered at each
side of the bed. Looking at the pa
rent through the veil, which he avers
is the Identical one that he was horn
with, the “hex” doctor muttered his
peculiar ritual, tied a rattlesnake
around the sufferer’s neek and bored
the hole In tho northeast leg of the
bed, filling it with salt, over which
be had chanted incantations. This
done, he announced that the evil pow
ers had notified the witch, who lived
in a hut at some distance,- that she
could no longer hold dominion over
the body of her enemy, the lawyer.
The patient believed that hiB pains
ceased from that hour.
A prosperous merchant in Carlisle;
permitted the body of his infant child
to be covered with a coating of green
paint In obedience to the orders of a
“hex” doctor who had been called in
to ward off the evil spirits.
A Btranger in Carlisle pretended
that he had suffered from pain in the
stomach, which he believed to be due
to the evil eye of an old woman' of
the town who was generally believed
to have the ability to exercise thin
baleful power. A “hex" doctor visited
him, and when he thought ho had dis
covered a faith In their mysteries tho
stranger withdrew and lator sum
moned him to hts house, where he was
informed that he had discovered that
an old witch had made a wax image
of the stranger and stuck pins in cer
tain, parts of it Hence the pains.
Could he be cured? asked the pa
tient. ,The "hex” doctor assured him.
that his powers were superior to those
of tho witch and he undertook to
prove it. Getting a wax Image, ho
placed it in front of the fireplace,
shoved a brass bullet into an old
muzzle-loading pistol and extinguished
all the lights but that made by the ’
fire.
The doctor knelt on the floor and
tho patient was told to hold his hands
upon the seat of his pains. * Tho bullet
was then fired into tho abdomen of
the wax figure, while' incantations
wero said, and the man was assured
that he was cured. With all truthful- •
ness he could say that he had no more
pain and for himself had proved the
existence of witchcraft In Pennsylva
nia in the twentieth century.
DUKE SEEKS LADY MANNERS
Abruzzi’s Affections Now Said to Have
Turned to the Young English
Noblewoman.
London.—Has Lady Diana Manners
succeeded Mrs. “Billy” Hitt in the 'af
fections of the duke of the Abruzzi?
That is the report which comes from
Lcfcidon. So the duke may not have
been so.very hard hit by the refusal
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Duke of the Abruzzi.
of the fair Miss ElklnB to become hio
morganatic wife. Lady Diana is tho
third daughter of the duke of Rutland
and is twenty-two years old. She is
accounted a beauty in England. Her
sister is the marchioness of Anglesey.
Man Was "Still" Drunk.
. - Chicago. William Roberts was bo-
tolan, charged with dts-
fore Judge Do); .
orderly conduct. The judge "remem
bered him. “Drunk again?” asked the
court. “No. yet,’'' answered Roberts,
"Ten dollars and costs," said tho
judge. “Thanks,’’said Roberts.