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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1908)
DEFECTS OF WARSHIPS Newport Conference Substanti ated Capt. Charges. SECRETS ARE MADE PUBLIC Conference Decided That Ver/ Few Defects Could Be Remedied In the North Dakota and Deleware. \ Washington. D. C. —In view of the order of the secretary of war revoking the prohibition he recently placed against officers who attended the New port conference from discussing its action, an officer who was prominently identified with the entire proceedings of the conference, has stated that it had substantiated the charges of de fects pointed out in Commander Keye’s letter on that subject with a few minor exceptions. This office has been foremost in his denunciation of naval defects. The conference decided, he stated, that very few of these defects could ■be remedied in the North Dakota and Dlaware, which are now 40 per cent completed, but suggested that if prac ticable, additional case armor of about 100 tons be placed around the smoke pipe and up-takes to protect them against splinters. The armor now be ing five inches, the additional armor would increase the protection to eight inches. They recommended that if practicable, an additional fire control mast be placed forward of the smoke stacks so that in case the vision from the rear mast is obscured by smoke, a clear view could be secured from the other position. The conference also hesitated about making extensive changes in the plans of the Florida and Utah, as the plans of those vessels required five or six months for their preparation and an»y change that would involve a change of weight to any considerable extent would require reconstruction of the plans. As now designed the two aft tur rets on the Florida and Utah type are on the same level, and it was proposed if practicable to raise the second tur ret from aft, so as to allow it to fire over the aft turret. This is proposed because in the event of the aft turret as now designed being disabled in cer tain positions, the firing from the sec ond turret would be limited. The w T eight so added to the second turret from aft could be counterbalanced by lowering the middle turret. On the important subject of what ought to be the type of the next battleships to be designed, the kind of battery they should carry and their aimor, the conference has not yet made a decision. CORSETS 'COMMENDED BY DOCTOR. Women Are Told That Their Torso Muscles Need Support. Los Angeles, Cal. —Dr. L. E. Land one, whose plan to improve the hu man race by applying Luther Bur bank’s theories in the training of chil dren by selection, has brought consid erable attention from the scientific world, commends the modern corset. Addressing the members of the Hun dred Year Club, the leading woman's organization of Los Angeles, he said: "Corsets, the sort worn today, are good for the reason that the torso muscles have been weakened for gen erations until now the average fe male form will not stand without them. “In the time of Queen Elizabeth,” continued Landone. “they wore steel corsets tightly buckled in back and front. They were instruments of tor ture. From them are evolved the comfortable corsets of today. I doubt if the torso muscles of women could be supported in their weakened condi tion after a generation of corset-wear ing except for some artificial prop.” CHECK TREASURY BOOKS. Millions in Vaults To Ee Counted By Experts. New York City.—Following the res ignation of Hamilton Fish as assis tant treasurer of the United States, in charge of the sub-treasury here, a corps of bookkeepers under the direc tion of United States Treasurer Treat have begun checking over the books of the office. The counting of the cash in the vaults will be taken up as soon as the checking of the boAs has been completed. There is in the vaults approximately $173,000,- 000 in gold coin, $17,000,0-00 in cur rency and $80,000,000 in silver coin, and 'all of this must be counted and verified piece by piece. The work will probably require at least a month. The counting is only done when an assis tant treasurer leaves the office. Mr. Fish resigned as assistant treasurer in order to accept a nomination for congress. USE SAND AS FERTILIZER. Rancher Says It Increases the Fer tility of the Soil. Spokane. Wash.—Frank Rose, a rancher in Columbia county, south of Spokane, is experimenting with sand as a fertilizer of clay soil, and the result is being watched with interest by his neighbors as well as the heada of state agricultural colleges in the northwest. The purpose of the sand, which is being spread over the land where there is clay, is to increase the fertility of the soil. }lr. Rose tried-this in a small way last fall ai.u he says the results in larger and bet ter crops were such as to warrant him in extending the sand mixture ovm his entire holdings. LALi N m MiTEi Mrs. Lillian M. X. Stevens of Port land, Maine, was unanimously re elected president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union at the annual convention o* that organization neid in Denver, Col. Other officers elected were as fol lows: Vice president-at-large, Miss Anna A. Gordon, Illinois, re-electeu; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Francis P. Paiks, West Virginia; recoiling secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Preston, Anderson, North Dagota, re-elected; treasurer, Mrs. E. P. Hutchinson, Kan sas; general biancti secretary, -ui&a Khena E. G. Mosher, New bcork, re elected; Loyal 'temperance League branch, Miss Maigaiet \\ iutringer, Il linois, re-elected. President Roosevelt celebrated his fUtieth birthday on October 27, in lue midst of a political campaign winch he is directing with all the force of his strenuous nature. He was born a 28 Last Twentieth street, New lork City, on October 27, lasß. The oiu house still stands, and is usually the scene of some kind of celebration on | his anniversary. The president i crosses the half century maik as | vigorously as a man of tnirty. In an endear or to establish his con- j temion that all persons connected witn the night rideis’ association are . responsible tor ravages maue oy any member of the organization, Henry j Bennett of Louisville, Ky., lias filed a suit for SIOO,OOO damages in the Unit ed States circuit court. The plain tiff, on February 4, was set upon aiid terribly beaten with clubs and thorn ed switches by a band of night rideis. At the same time his stemmery and tobacco factory and other large and valuable buildings were destroyed by the night liders. Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Emperor William, made an ascension in the reconstructed airship of Count Zeppelin. A great crowd witnessed the start of the flight. Deprived of his honeymoon clothing and rigged out in the uniform of a musician of the United States navy, in which he first met and fell in love with Miss Ada Gorman, daughter of the late Senator Arthur Pue Gorman, Charles J. Magness, dubbed by his companions as "Millionaire Musician,’ is chafing in the brig of the receiving ship Lancaster at the Philadelphia nacy yard charged with desertion. While plowing, Jasper Welch, a farmer of Sergent, Ky., unearthed SBOO in silver coins, some of which are rare specimens. The place was once occupied by a miser. Nearly a hundred cottages of Salis bury, Mass., a seaside resort were de stroyed by fire. The loss,, is sloo,ooo^ Union county, South Cartlliba. £gain voted for prohibition by a*three hun dred' majority out of one thousand five hundred votes cast. During the pats three years of prohibition the ar rests for drunkenness have decreased fifty per cent and property valuation in the county is said to have increas ed $2,000,000. The result of the recent election in Canada shows that the Lauriier (Lib eral) government has been sustained \yith a majority of fifty, with seven elections yet to be held. All the min isteres were re-elected, while sevn of the opposition’s chief lieutenants were beaten. Charged with conducting the most extensive matrimonial agency swindle ever unearthed in Pittsburg, James L. Leclair and Miss Lena Miller are pris oners at Pittsburg, Pa. More than two thousand letters from men and wom en were confiscated, and the police say close to five thousand, from every state in the union, paid a dollar after being promised to be introduced and wedded to an affinity. The Statue of Liberty, which illu minates New York harbor and wel comes the immigrants who seek the lands of the free, was twenty years old October 28. The gigantic young woman —for Liberty iis always young —is as youthful and beau ufitlsagkq ■—is as youthful and beautiful as she has been always. # The work of Bar tholdi, the celebrated French sculptor, Miss Liberty was unveiled October 28. 1887. President Cleveland and his cabinet, the governors of many states, Americans noted in every walk of life, and many distinguished French men and other foreigners attended the bronze young woman’s debut. Washington. The Spanish debt of $599,850 award ed to certain citizens of this country under a treaty of February 17, 1834, with Spain, has been finally liquidat ed, according to the annual report of the registrar of the treasury. Spain has been paying annual interest on the amount since the treaty, and this year the Spanish government trans mitted $570,000 in liquidation of the debt. The principal has been paid over three times in interest. The civil service commission has decided that there was no foundation for the charges that custom inspec ; tors of New York are compelled to see a Mr. Plummer in the office of I Treasurer Sheldon, of the republican ! national committee, at No. 2 Wall I street and there contribute $25 each. It was charged that the four hundred and fifty inspectors were assessed that amount to help the republican 1 campaign that many had already con tributed. Commissioner Greene went i o xew York to investigate, examined forty or fifty employes and reported that he had no traces of coercion or assessmen', or even of a very general ! systematic voluntary payment of con •ributions to the campaign fund. ALL GERMANY AMAZED 1 At Autocratic Manner in Which the Kaiser Acts VON BUELOW’S RESIGNATION Rifussd—Chancellor Raspomiblefor Al lowing aa Interview Which In turi&ted Five Nations. Berlin, Germany.—Chancellor von Buelow’s position appears to be al- j most untenable. Far and wide through out the empire the newspapers of all parties discuss with varying degrees ui mockery, amazement and regret the ; government’s explanation of how what! purported lo be enormously important utterances of the emperor, affecting : three great powers, passed through I the hands of the chancellor and a long line of foreign officers without j seemingly' having been considered by j any of them or read by most of those j lcsponsible for the delicate foreign relations. In addition to the semi-official ac counts already published, it is learn ed that the emperor handed the manu- '■ script of the interview, which appear- j I ed in the London Daily Telegraph, and the authorship of which is still undis closed, to Baron von Jenisch. The chancellor described the note from von Jenisch, which accompanied the manuscript, as referring to the enclosure as an article, not as an in terview, so that the chancellor did not consider it necessary to give it his i personal attention. The manuscript j consisted of a number of small, flimsy like sheets, the handwriting being dif ficult to decipher, and the chancellor referred it to Herr von Mueller, the minister at The Hague, who was act ing as the chancellor’s private secre- tary. The latter, in his turn, and without examining the document, sent it to the foreign offices, where, in the ab sence of Herr von Schoen, the escre tary for foreign affairs, it was read by subordinate officials who did not attach importance to its contents, and returned through the proper channels without further examination until transmitted by one of the imperial secretaries of England, where, as the Tagliche Rundschau, one of the news papers that is read in court, aristocrat ic and military circles, describes it “emerged gaily into tjlle world, infu riating the French, Russians, Dutch and Japanese, chilliqg the British, ex citing bitterness and-nervous irrita tion on the part of our own people and undermining our neighbors’ be lief in our reliability. ' London. —The expiring flame of sen sation started by the Dally Tele graph’s published intetvifiw .with Em peror William has been tanned to fiercer heat than ever by 'the an nouncement of Chancellor von low’s resignation and the emperor’s refusal to accept it. With even the pro-German radical papers emphasiing the impossibility of a British entente with a “personal au tocracy” imbued with Bismarckian tradition,” it is plain that Anglo-Ger man friction will be renewed more fiercely than ever in consequence of the latest developments in Berlin. LITTLE COTTON IN FILLDS. Picayune Report Says All Will Be Ginned by November 15. New Orleans, La.—The Picayune says- Very little cotton remains in the field, and it is said that all will have been picked and ginned by No vember 15. The damage from the boll weevil in some sections is reflect ed in the short yield, many of the Red river lands producing only a bale to six acres. Those planters who have decided to cultivate cotton anonther years are adopting heroic measures in an effort to allay the ravages of the pest. These precautions include the early burning of all stalks in the field in order to destroy places for hi bernation, as well as a thorough turn ing over of the soil and preparations to plant an early maturing variety of the staple. BURNED GOVERNOR IN EFFIGY. The People of Larkinsville, Ala., Are Indignant at Gov. Comer. Scottsboro, Ala. —The people of Lar kinsville, a small village near this place, had a meeting there and burn ed Governor Comer in effigy. Their indignation was aroused over the re fusal of the governor to appoint Mr. Walker McCutcheon, son of the late Judge W. W. McCutcheon, to the pro bate judgeship, made vacant by the death of Judge McCutcheon. Probably two hundred people, work ed up to 'a high pitch of excitement, participated. Larkinsville had been almost unanimously for the appoint ment of McCutcheon. hut Governor Comer named J. J. Williams of Sec tion as his appointee. Naval Memorial Park. Washington, D. C Secreetaries Wright and Metcalf have approved a site and design for a naval memorial in Vicksburg national military park, and congress, which authorized the se lection last May, will be asked at next session to appropriate $200,000 for the project, that being the maximum con templated by congress. The memorial design is for a granite obelisk, two hundred and two feet hhh, with bronze statutes of heroic size at the base and four descriptive tablets on granite w'ing pedestals. The statues will represent the famous naval squadron commanders, Farragut, Por ter, Foote and Davis. CONDEMNS NIiHT RIDING. Statement Made by President Barrett of the Farmers Union. New Orleans, La.—Night riders and their depredations will be taken up at the meeting of the National Farm ers’ Union in New Orleans, Novem ber 11 and 12. The price of cotton must go up," says President C. S. Barrett of tho union, in a statement given the As sociated Press, "but the union repudi ates the insinuation that it in any manner countenances the deeds of night riders which may seek to shield themselves under our name. "The National Farmers’ Union ut terly condemns such scoundrelism as the so-called night riding,’’ says Mr. Barrett further. “The union has an economic fight, to wage, but it must be done in the open and within the law. Should any of our members be dis covered as night riders, we would be the first to turn them over to tho law. We will deal with this at our forthcoming meeting at New Orleans, which, however, is primarily for the purpose or devising ways and means for getting a better price for our cotton. "The Progressive Union and com mercial interests of New Orleans have assured us they would rally to the support of the growers of the staple, and New Orleans has been chosen for the place of meeting on this account and because of its im portance as a cotton market. We ex pect a large attendance of delegates, representing over 2,000,000 members in every state in the cotton belt.’ CHINAMAN HAH TWO WIVES. Was Forced to Send One Wife Back to China. San B'rancisco, Cal. —When Robert Hutong Bosnian, the Hong Kong mil lionaire, arrived from China on the steamship Korea he defied the laws of the United States which distinctly provide that this country is no place for any person who believes in poly gamy. Bosman not only publicly proclaim ed himself to be a polygamist, but emphasized the fact .by bringing two wives with him. The local board de nied him a landing and he threatened to appeal to Secretary Taft, whom he claimed as a personal friend and who had partaken of Bosnian’s hospitality in Hong Kong. Wires were pulled and Commissioner North allowed him to land, accompanied by his two wives, Margaret and Clare, and their two children. Later word came to Commissioner North to allow Bosman and a portion of his family to remain for six months longer. He was to give a bond of ssoq | that they would return at friat time. The dispatch also instructed that one j of the wives must return to the Ori ! ent immediately. Bosman selected the younger one and Margaret* wife { No. 1, goes back to Hong Kong. Wife No. 2 is to remain. It is true that she, according to the law's of the United States, is not a wife, but she is permitted to remain and pose as such. Under the laws of California she is liable to arrest. SOCIETY (JF EQUITY FORMED. Representatives From a Number of States Were Present. Indianapolis, Ind—The Farmers’ Society of Equity was organized here at a* convention of representatives of a number of states. The constitution of the society embodies practically all of the basic principles of the Ameri can Society of Equity, the only chang es being some few of minor import ance that will remedy defects, the principal change being that all dele gates to the society must be produc ing farmers. The following officers were elected: J. A. Averitt of Indianapolis, pres ident; W. E. Greilick of Travic City, Michigan, vice president; J. C. Rous of Indianapolis, treasurer, ine direc tors are: N. M. Ashby of Sebree, Ky.; J. A. Myers of Ramsey, N. J.; I. S Herd of Keosauka, Kas.; L. H. John son of Attica, Ind.; and F. W. Morris of Rochester, Minn. STUDENTS BRANDED COMRADES. Initiatory Ceremonies of Los Angeles High School Fraternity. Los Angeles, Cal.—Six students of the Polytechhnic high school have been suspended and three others are in danger of sharing the same fate because they had branded the fore heads of two students of the Los An geles high school with nitrate of sil ver during the initiation ceremonies of the Kappa Delta fraternity, a for bidden high school secret society. The boys who were branded and whose condition for a time alarmed their parents, are Frank Rouse and Edgar Lusk. On Lusk’s forehead the letters "K. D.” were branded. On Rouse’s forehead were the figures “ ’09.” Ugly red scars were made, butlt is not believed they will be per manently disfigured. VIRGINIA COLONIAL DAMES. The Restoration of Old Washington Graveyard Reported. Richmond, Va—At a meeting of tie Society of Colonial Dames in the state of Virginia held here the complete restoration of the old Washington graveyard at Wakefield, in Westmore land county, where are interred the father and grandfather of George Washington, was reported. Relic hunters had committed many depredations which have been cor rected, as far as possible, and the yard is now inclosed by a concrete wall with iron gates and is ia charge of a caretaker, the society i i Virgin ia bearing the expense. Statements of Leaders. The first comment by Judge Taft for publication on the result of tho election was given to the Associated Press at 8:45 p. m. Tuesday. With a broad smile Judge Taft remarked: "Just say that everything looks fa vorable.’’ The candidate indicated that he might have more to say lated. Judge Taft at 9:fio sent the follow ing telegram to Frank Hitchcock; "I am delighted to hear the favor able returns from all parts of the country, especially New York, and 1 wish to express my gratitude to you for the work which you have done and felicitate you on the accuracy with which you foretold the result, in dicating a clear grasp and wondeiful political knowledge of the situation. "WILLIAM H. TAFT.” James S. Sherman, the republican vice presidential candidate, received the election returns at his home, sur rounded by a company of relatives and friends. Mr. Sherman said: “Tho result of the national election does not surprise me. For the last month I have been as sure of republican suc cess as I am tonight. The republican party, platform and candidate stood for stability, order, confidence, a con tinuance of prosperity based upon a continuance of protection and the gold standard; stood for the equality of all men and all interests before the law. Mr. Bryan and Bryanism attempted to array class against class, to stir up hate, to confuse the voter, by a mul tiplicity of minor alleged issues and to draw attention from the tariff plank of their platform! Mr. Taft's cam paign was dignified, straightforward, manly. He met every issue squarely, justified by clear argument h*s past acts and his expected administrative policies. The result justifies the con fidence in the ultimate wisdom of the people’s decision.’’ Chairman Hitchcock of the republi can national committee, met the news paper reporters in his rooms at. na tional headquarters in New York city late Tuesday night, and made the fol lowing statemnet; "The returns speak for themselves. There seems to he no longer any doubtful states. The electoral vote will show that my esti mate was correct. It looks now, I think, as if I must have underestimat ed it. The returns have exceeded my expectations. The plurality in Indi ana will be less than I expected. That in Illinois is far more than anticipat ed, and so it goes, where one state has not quite come up to the figures I had expected, some other state has gone far beyond. The latest returns from 'Maryland indicate that we have carried that state by about 7,000 to 10,000, and that is more than I believ ed it would give. I predicted early that Governor Hughes would be elect ed. To Mr. Hughes we owe much. As a campaigner he has helped won derfully in the national contest. All of us here at headquarters were great ly interested in the fight. He has earned his victory, and we are glad for him and grateful to him for tho help he has given* u?.” When Mr. Hitchcock was asked what he at tributed the victory of the national ticket to, he replied: "The people have explained it. It is not for me to say anything more except to thank the people. Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota. ’ Charles K. Murphy, leader of Tam many Hall, in a statement, made on Tuesday night, said; "I confess very great, disappointment on the result of the election, with regard to both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Chanler. Every indi cation before the election convinced me that Bryan would prove a much more popular candidate than he seems to have been when judged by the vote at the polls. Governor Hughes can find but little comfort and no endorse ment of his policies in the result. There can be no question that with the same elements in opposition in any other year than that of the presi dential campaign, and with political conditions normal, he would have been buried under an adverse vote of at least 100,000.” Clark Howell, national democratic committeeman from Georgia, conced ed the election of Taft early Tuesday night. Mr. Howell gave the Associat ed Press the following statement: "It is a landslide for Taft. Mr. Bryan has made a wonderful campaign, but he could not overcome the previling idea that business conditions would be ad versely affected by republican defeat. It is now up to the republicans to make good their pledge to restore prosperity for to that pledge they must attribute their success more than to anything else. Mr. Taft is a big. broad, patriotic American and he will be fair and just to the south. As to Georgia, it is safely {or Bryan by about 20,000 majority.’’
