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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
EVENTS OPIHE WEEK
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A Condensed Record of Happenings
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of the World.
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Southern.
For ’tlie first time in, the history
of Florida, a white woman, "Sis” Hop
kins of Calhoun county, has been fpuml
guilty of murder In the first degree
and sentenced to, hang. Governor
Trammell will set the date for the
execution.
Hull and wind storms accompanied
by a sharp drop In temperature did
many thousand dollars’ damage to
vegetable and citrus fruit crops In
central Florida. Orange groves and'
melons and tomato fields suffered se
verely. Southern Florida, however,
where the bulk of the peninsula's cit
rus fruits are produced, experienced
onl ya cool rain. Frost In the state
was confined to the northwestern sec
tion, where crops were not sufficiently
matured to suffer.
After D. McDaniel plunged headlong
from the fourth-story of a scaffolding
in Roanoke, Va„ and the scaffolding on
which he had been working dashed
down upon him, he got up, brushod
his clothes and walked quietly away.
Congressman Oscar W. Underwood,
Democratic house leader and nominee
for senator from Alabama, Is in Orlan
do., Fla., at the bedside of his father-
in-law, J. W. Woodward, who for two
weeks has been at the point dt death.
The Democratic leader said the length
of Ills stay depended upon the condi
tion of his father-in-law.
Newspaper advertising is not^ solicit
ing and therefore the Mississippi news
papers are not prohibited from printing
liquor advertisements by the May-Lott-
l>ewls anti-liquor law which went into
.effect according to an opinion rendored
{from the office of Ross Collins, attor
ney general of Mississippi. The May-
[Lott-Lewis law stipulates that " no per
son, firm or corporation, by letter, cir-
Icular or otherwise, shall solicit or take
orders for any intoxicating liquors.”
;The law applies to the entire state.
| Oscar W. Underwood triumphed over
Richmond P. Hobson in the contest be
fore the Democratic" primaries in the
state of‘Alabama for the nomination
to the United States senate. Owing to
the complexity and length of the bal
lots complete returns were slow ifi
coming In. The protracted struggle
for the nomination between the two
distinguished candidates terminated
, with a record-breaking vote by Ala
bama Democrats. Interest in the con
test for the short term in the Untied
States, senate, the nomination of ten-
congressmen, a governor and other
mtate and county brought out many.
General.'
Cotton closed at an advance lasE
Week. 'This was chiefly due to unsea
sonably cold weather In the cotton
region which, it was feared, damaged
young cotton In the earliest sections,
and caused further delay to planting
in. other sections. Much liquidation of
long cotton was in evidence, being in
duced by the Easter holidays, and of
ferings from this source held the mar
ket down, and prevented weather news
fro mhavlng its full Influence,
i Rebel forces that have occupied the
Citadel at Santiago, San Domingo,
have surrendered to the government.
Another rebel force under Gen. Maurt-
clo Jimlnez, military chief of the in
surrection,- which- occupied a fortified
position at Las Vegas, also has sur
rendered to federals under Tancredo
Savinon, who has been appointed gov
ernor there. President Bordas, heading
. 1,600 men, is on his way to Santiago,
havtn gtaken the field against the in-
surrectlqpists a week ago. The gov
ernment is virtually in control of the
republic and peace prevails, except
in the northeast portion.
The special committee of the cham
ber of commerce of the United States,
assigned to prepare a nation-wide ref
erendum on proposed anti-trust legis
lation, announced that it had complet
ed its report on the interstate trade
commission bill and would begin the
referendum. The committee proposes
, to submit its report to commercial or
ganization in forty-seven states. The
committee's report is confined to a
discussion of the interstate trade com
mission.
Supreme Court justice Goff signed
an order making It mandatory for
District Attorney Whitman to show
cause why the four gunmen now in
Sing Sing awaiting death for the part
they played in the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler, should not be
granted a new trial. The order is
returnable before Justice Goff in New
York City, who presided at.the trial
of the gunmen, and was obtained on
tlie ground of newly discovered evi
dence.
Every effort will be exerted by the
federal reserve bank organization com
mittee to have -all banks expedite the
formal steps necessary to put the new
currency system in operation. Mem
bers of the committee, apparently,
have no expectation that, there will be
any financial crisis to face - requiring
.tire assistance to banks which the re
nerve system will provide, but they
are particularly anxious to have the
twelve reserve banks in the field when
,the crop moving time comes around
next fall. It is hoped the committee
may be able to show how easily the
reserve system can handle affairs.
Information received in Amorlcus,
On., was that the New York delegation
of veterans and prominent citizens
coming to Andorsonvllle national cem
etery April 30 for dedicatory coremo
nles of the New York, state monument
will come directly to Amorlcus, going
later to Andorsonvllle. Flvo hundred
New Yorkers will constitute the par
ty, and they will be entertained while
In Amorlcus with a program arranged
while In Americus with a program ar
ranged by the Amorlcus chnmber of
commerce.
Mrs. William Howard Taft has be
come a momber of the Now Haven
Anti-Woman Suffrage Association, ac
cording to an announcement by the
local organiznztion.
W. H; Boggs of Baltimore was found
dead in Arlington national cemotery
at Washington with a pistol in his
hand and a bullet hole in his head.
Miss Philippine Panger, who was a
lady in watlng to ex-Empress Eugenie
when Napoleon III was ruler of
France, Is dead at the homo of Gus'
tavus Ward at Tampa, Fla. She was
89 years old and had been in the Ward
family more than forty years.
Colorado olectlons were contested
on locnl Issues. In the six coal min
ing camps where union labor was an
issue tlie labor candidates were suc
cessful in five.
Returns from the municipal elec
tions of New Mexico show that the
Republicans led over the Democratic
and Fusion candidates in pearly all
cities.
Conservative estimates based on ac
tual reports from townships show that
more than one thousand saloons were
voted out of existence in the state
of Illinois outside of Chicago.
Cly Warman, poet and short story
writor, died after a Ipng jllness. War-
man was stricken with paralysis in a
Chicago hotel last winter. The out
look was unfavorable from the first.
He was removed to a hospital a few
weeks ago, where he continued to sink
until tlie end. Cy Warman was known
as the "Poet of the Rockies" and was
a pioneer in Che school of railroad lit
erature. I-Iis stories about railroad
men wore based on personal experi
ences at Salida, Colo.
Washington.
Plans are being perfected in Wash
ington for beginning work on the im
mense reclamation project in China
fostered by the American National Red
Cross to relief suffering from flood
and famine in the Huai and Yellow
river districts of China. Chen Chin
Tao, China’s financial adviser, in its
dealings with foreign nations, will
reacli Washington from London in
about two weeks to confer with Kat-
Fu Shah, the new minister to the
United States, about arrangements for
the large loan necessary to carry out
the project. President Wilson has been
asked to detail an army engineer.
Secretary Bryan in a statement
lengthily reviews tlie Panama tolls
questions, and in the course of the
statement declares that the repeal of
the tolls exemption in the Panama ca
nal act “cannot be construed to be a
construction of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty," but is “simpl ya refusal on
the part of the United States to raise
that question in that way.” Mr. Bryan
discusses various features of the sub
ject—the limiting of debate in the
house of representatives, the Balti
more platform and, the effect of repeal
on the treaty. He charged an "appeal
to prejudice rather than reason.”
Replying for the first time to the
criticism vented upon them by the dis
appointed cities of New Orleans,
Washlngttfn and Baltimore, the federal
reserve bank organization committee
gave out a formal statement. Quoting
from the official records in the comp
troller’s office the committee showed
that the Atlanta pmmber banks-, which
were mainly national banks, had more
capital and surplus, more loans and
discounts and more individual deposi
tors than either Dallas or New Orleans.
Disappointed,competitors must seek a
remedy through the ordinary process
of law, if at all.
Free use of the Panama canal by
Colombian warships, troop ships, and
navy supply vessels is proposed in the
new treaty between the United States
and Colombia signed at Bogota to seal
the breach between the two countries
over the separation of Panama. Sec
retary Bryan announced with the ex-,
planation that the clause in the con
vention was identical with one in the
Colombian treaty negotiated by Sec
retary Root in 1909, with the approval
of Great Britain and ratified by the
United States senate though never
accepted by Colombia.
Figures are made public in a treas
ury department statement showing
that customs revenue during the fis
cal year which ends on June 30, 1914,
almost certainly will meet and proba
bly will exceed the estimates made
when congress passed the new tariff
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The treaty between the- United
States and Colombia settling the Pan
ama controversy, was signed at the
state department of Colombia by the
American minister, Thaiddeus A.
Thomson, and representatives of the
Colombian government.
A launch from the United States
gunboat Dolphin, carrying the paymas
ter and a smal ldetachment of marines,
put in at Iturbide bridge at Tampico.
The Americans were after a supply
of gasoline. They were In uniform,
but unarmed. The launch flew the
American flag. Colonel Hinojosa, com
manding a detachment of Mexican fed
erals, placed the paymaster and his
men under arrest. They were parad
ed through the streets and held for a
time under detention. President Huer
ta in an official statement to {he Amre-
ican charge apologized.’
IS BE8TJN YEARS
ANNUAL REPORT OF STATE
TREASURER SPEER SHOWS
STATE'S FINANCES GOOD.
STATE BONDS SELL ABOVE
Safeguards and Protection Are Thrown
Around State's Public Debt by .
Sinking Fund.
—Atlanta.
Georgia's flno credit is especially
dealt with by State Treasurer W. J.
Speer in his annual report now in the
course of preparation.
Colonel Speer calls attention to the
fact that the temporary loan of last
year, amounting to $476,000, and which
for the first time in the state’s his
tory was in excess of $200,000, waB se
cured from tho local national banks at,
3 per cent. This was done at a time
when interest rates were high, but the
Atlanta banks charged only 3 per cent.
It is an interesting fact that two of
these banks aro not slate depositories,
hence their act was one evidently of
pure patriotism—helping out in a time
of temporary stress. The banks were
at that time themselves paying 4 1-2
to 6 per cent, for money.
Treasurer Speer calls attention to
the fact that Georgia's credit is on a
plane as high as that of any state In
the Union. Her bonds, whonevor of
fered, are taken as safe and profitable
investments free from all taxes
"It is a fact greatly to Georgia’s
credit,” says the treasurer, “that'It has
never in all its history had to sell its
bonds fpr less than par or face value,
which is due to unusual safeguards and
protection thrown around the public
debt by the sinking fund provision in
the state constitution.”
This remarkable credit which the
state possesses is greatly strengthened,
he states, by the fact that under the
state constitution all of the public
property of Georgia, which includes the
Western and Atlantic railroad, esti
mated to be worth at leust $20,000,000,
is held in security for the bonds which
boar Georgia’s name.
The entire amount borrowed last
summer, $476,000, wont to pay Geor
gia's faithful and hardworking teach
ers.
Candler Not in Governor's Race.
Notwithstanding the general impres
sion that he could win handily, C. Mur-
phey Candlor of Decatur, chairman of
the state railroad commission, is not
likely to get into the gubernatorial con
test.
Mr. Candlor is intensely interested
in much important work which the
railroad commission has under way,
especially the proposed revision of the
commission tariff classifications. He
also feels that having served blit half
of his six-year term on. the commis
sion it might be improper for him to re
sign.
Mr. Candler has replied to dozens
of letters urging him to enter the race
for governor. These lotters came from
citizens of twenty-one counties and in
answering them Mr. Candler indicated
that at the present time it wa!s not his
intention to enter the race for gover
nor. He thanked the writers for their
proffered suppor tand kind references.
Mr. Candler has made the same kind
of reply to several delegations of citi
zens who have called upon him and
urged him to enter the lists; all-, of
which is taken to mean that he is not
likely to run.
Slaton Signs Pension Warrants.
Governor Slaton signed a wrrrant
for the payment of the last of the
Confederate pensions for 1914, the
amount being $282.25. The law re
quires the payment of the pensions
"not later than May 1,” and this final
settlement was unusually well in ad
vance of the 'final date.
Traveling Men Win.
After seven years of strendous fight
ing between the traveling men of the
state and, the railroads, an agreement
was reached before tho railroad com
mission which will permit the sale of
“stop-over” tickets on all railway lines.
The “stop-over” ticket ends the long
dispute. Traveling men are .elated
over tho victory. Under tho agree
ment, the railroads will restore within'
the next ten days all former inter
changeable mileage which was remov
ed from sale after the commission’s
order some time ago to the effect that
mileage be pulled ontlio trains, which
order wae uphold by the supreme
court.
The new stop-over tickets will be
put on sale by June 1 at all regular
railway ticket offices, and will be sub
ject to the usual rules and regulation
portaining to the checking and trans
portation of baggage and effects.
Tho “stop-over" ticket means that
its purchaser, if he, for an illustration,
be en route to Savannah, can stop over
at any of the intermediate points fai;
a period of five days, without being
forced to buy another ticket. .
No Suffragette Parade In Atlanta. ;
Tho women of the three suffragist
associations of Atlanta will not have
the street parade planned for May 2,
but they will have interesting exer
cises, devoted to the cause, Ip com
pliance with the request from the na
tional headquarters of tho association
that May 2 be observed. As Woman’s
Suffrage day.
State Fruit Crop Not Hurt,
The fruit crop, of Georgia passed
safely through tho recent cold weather
and the danger now is a thing of the
past.
LAUNCHING OF DREADNAUGHT OKLAHOMA
Uncle Sam’s latest giant fighting amp was launched at the yard of tlie
New York Shipbuilding company at Camden, N. .!., March 23. Miss Lorcna J.
Grace, daughter of the governor of Oklahoma, is shown In tho picture Just
before she sent the dreadnought down tho ways' by smashing a bottle of
champagne across the bow.
PKiimiiiE
RECALLS CAREER OF CASSIUS M. CLAY
Strange Marriage of Aristocratic, Fire Eating Southern Abolition
ist at Age of Ninety and Dora Richardson, the Thirteen-
Year-Old Child of a Poor White Family, a Union
That Caused a Siege at Clay Mansion
Louisville, Ky.—It is more than ten
years now since the name of Gen.
Cassius M. Clay figured in the day’s
dispatches from Kentucky. We used
to read of him In 1903 as an old man
with a bushy white mane in a state of
siege at his family mansion near
Richmond, Ky., with faithful retain
ers, armed with guns, defending the
Gen. Cassius M. Clay.
besieged house against attacks by
process servers and the curious pub
lic.
The name is only recalled to mind
now by the dispatch the other day
announcing the death of Dora Richard
son, the erstwhile child wife of the
aged warrior and statesman.
It was one of the strangest ro
mances in history, that strange' affin
ity between the old man, the aristo
crat, scholar, diplomat and soldier,
the scion of one of the proudest fines
in America and the little, untutored,
unkempt girl of a poor white family.
He was ninety, she was thirteen. He
was old enough to be her great-grand
father, yet he married her.
It was the old man’s dream to take
the untaught child, accustom her to
the ways of culture, educate her,
make her a fitting heir for his name
and estate. He carried out his part
of the plan, but the popr child could
never accustom herself to her un
usual surroundings. After she tired
of tho dolls and the other toys he
bought her she pined for her own
folks and, when he saw It was inevit
able, Gen. Clay yielded gracefully,
dowering her with some' of the pre
cious heirlooms of the Clay fnmily
and giving her a house. The girl, in
turn, having married Riley Brock, a
youth of her own station and age,
named her first born Clay Brock.
And now her little .day of fame is
ended. Death has closed the most
unusual romance of the old Blue
Grass state. Finis is written. Gen.
Clay was all hut forgotten prior to
1903 when his marriage to the slip
of a girl hrought once more' into
prominence the hero of a departed
age. Now he will recede into history.
The events growing out of that mar
riage, the beleaguered state of his
house, the opposition of his chAdren,
the sensations that developed were
but recrudescences of the old time
bellicose nature of the man who-
fought with pen 'or bowie knife or
tongue with equal facility. It was,
because he was a fighting man that
the marriage with the child wife and
the reluctance to be-interviewed on.
the subject attracted attention.
Those were the days when faithful
servitor® of the old aristocrat guarded
every approach to White Hall, the
manor house of his estate 1 at Rich
mond!. Kyi, with loaded guns; when
the house Itself was- in a state of
siege, guns bristling from. Its win
dows and sentries keeping Incessant
watch.
That impertinent curiosity of the
public regarding his private affairs
irritated the old fighter. The bitter
ness that arose between the doughty
old general and his kinsfolk follow
ing his strange marriage aroused his.
animosity. He did not hesitate to, fire
on a couple of deputies who ap
proached to- serve a writ demanding
furniture which belonged to his
daughter® His Spartan spirit did not
hesitate even to threaten to fire at
his own son, when the latter would
have made peace. He, was of an Im
placable nature.
He was a fighting man born and
bred and he died a fighting, man, de
nying entrance to a physician, with
his trusty taowle knife near his pil
low and hts guns within reach. The
body of the old man might decay; Ids
spirit ndthlng -ould quench.
A flood of memories comes- with the
mention 'of the' death of the child
wife of this fighting Kentuckian,
memories that are now beginning to
member, for of the descendants of tho
general there Iiob been none yet to
break into print with bellicose threat-
entngs.
To the old general it raado llttla
difference whether the fight were with
drawn pons, with revolvers, broad
swords, fists or guns. But perhaps
lie liked beBt the bowie knife. That
was a Kentucky defense. Old Colonel
Bowie had devised it The long, koon
blade, a certain weapon in the hands
of a Btrong man, it was the common
tiling among those who resorted to
brute strength, No story of hunter
or outlaw wak complete in the old
Nick Carter days without tho bowio
knife. .It% obsolete now; but it was
the weapon General Clay knew; when
ills fingers grlpppd its hilt his own
valor did the rest. He once stood off
a dozen men in a hand-to-hand con
flict, ripping them to ribbons with his
bowie knife and n bowie knife it wna
that he kept near him as long ns
breath remained in his body, in that
last warm fight with death.
A fight wns natural for General Clay.
He got his title for leading troops in
the Mexican war. He used to say
that no man could get political pre
ferment In Kentucky without a mili
tary title and that he went to war
with that purpose In view. His Mexi
can campaigning days ho endured
with distinction.
His main fights, however, were in
connection with slavery. He was one
of the few southern abolitionists. To
what fortuitous circumstance we Awe
it that he went to Yale college to
complete the studies he had begun in
Transylvania college does not appear.
But he went. And when In New Eng
land he was deeply moved by tho
speeches of that prophet of abolition,
William Lloyd Garrison. Champion
Dora Richardson, at Thirteen, When
She Became Wife of General Clay.
harden into formal history with the
passing from the stage of the men
who recall the day when the naine
Clay was a name to conjure with. In
the halls of congress,'in the secret
chambers of diplomacy, on'the bat
tlefields of the country a Clay has
ever made his Influence felt. Ever
since the country has been a coun
try there has been a Clay to figure
In its history. If there were no con
troversy to take part in a Clay would
start one. And .now the last of the
family is gone—the last flgtvtjng
General Clay’s Mansion. <
of an unpopular cause, Garrison be
came a hero to young Clay. It may
have been because the great aboli
tionist was with bravery putting up
a- losing fight that the Kentuckian
admired! him.
At all events when he went back
among his Kentucky slave holding
friend's lie went back an ardent abo
litionist. Fearless espousal of that
cause losY -him- the re-election to the
state- legislature in 1841. In '44 he
stumped the North with all the im
petuosity of his fiery nature for the
election of his father’s cousin, Henry
Clay, to the presidency,
In a barricaded building, more re
sembling an arsenal than a printing
office, in the city of Lexington on
Kentucky’s slave soil he issued In 1845
The True American, openly advocat
ing anti-slavery.
And all but forgotten was he, had
it not been for his strange marriage
and: his child Wife, whose passing the
other day revived memories.
DECLARES DOGS SEE SPIRITS
Miss Lind Also Believes That All Ani
mals Have Souls—Comes to Fight
Vivisection.
New York.—"You’ve got to stop
kicking my dog around.”
The lady is here to mako you stop.
Miss Louise Lind of Hageby; cham
pion of the antl-vivisectionists, of
world-wide fame, arrived on the Lu
sitania from Liverpool. Miss Lind says
that she Is far from being opposed to
science, but she is violently opposed
to cutting up live dogs and other ani
mals for the benefit of science. She
says that it is not-necessary. Gome
years ago she had erected in Lon
don a monument to “The Little Brown
Dog; the Victim of Vivisection.”
College students tore down the mon
ument and a few riots followed. But
the champion of the little brown dog
says that the monument served its
purpose in directing attention to tho
sacrifice of live animals to science.
Miss Lind says that it was a visit
to the Pasteur institute in Paris which
originated the crusade in aid of the 1
dog and other animals subjected to
torture for science. She is on her way
to Washington to attend tho interna,
tional Anti-vlviseotion and Animal
Protection Congress.
Tho friend of the canine Is interest
ed in a number of. women's move
ments. She is a suffragette, but does
not believe In militancy, she says. Mii-
.itancy, she believes, is as bad as vivi
section. in its way.
Miss Lind is also a student of psy
chic research. She was a friend of,
the late William T. Stead, who went
down on tho Titanic. She believes
that dogs and other animals have im
mortal souls as well as human be
ings.
“It is just as reasonable,” said tho
lady, “to admit-that animals have im
mortal souls as that we have. I be
lieve that dogs may see spirits. We
often see exhibits of a high order of
intelligence in animals. How often-
have you observed a dog lying at your
side suddenly rise, with his hair bris
tling and a strange look in his eyes?
He sees something which you tannnt
see." '