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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1909)
ft NORMAN BUGGIES. V m °**° *° r ears tas been—not how cheap but how good our ■ ot>lC 0 t> lC eS Hr< * or man who believes the best is the cheapest, in e lorn, run experience teaches that cheap buggies are the most EXPENSIVE' If you agree with us on this point ask your ea er to show you a NORMAN. We believe today we build the best nggy in Georgia, and want you to know it. Built on correct propor lons of best material, beautifully designed and finely finished. Top nggies, Runabouts and Stanhopes. If your local dealer cannot sup- Piy you, write direct to NORMAN BUGGY CO., Inc., Crffln, Ca- In Chicago one man was killed, and there were scores of injuries ana small fires. Washington, D. C. —With the young American subdued and quiet as on a Sunday, Washingtonians experienced their fiist ‘'safe and sane” Fourth ot July celebration. Not even a tiny Are cracker had spoken in a bacic yard. The fact that it has not been pos sible to buy a penny’s worth of fire works in the city made i* a compara tively easy task for the police to en force the regulations against the in dividual use of explosives. Arrest threatened anyone who dared disre gaid the order of the district com missioners. Wilkesbarre, Pa. —A cannon which had been overcharged exploded in North Wilkesbarre, and four boys were so badly injured that two of them may die. Exploding firecrackers set fire to the dress of 10-year-old Rosa Lituske, and she was fatally burned. Louisville, Ky.—The unenvied dis tinction of having made the most no table sacrifice to patriotism by the fireworks this year will probably fall to Louisville, through the death at Seymour, Ind., of Arthur Granville Langham, former president of the Provident Life Assurance Society. Mr. Langham never recovered from the ■effects of having had his right hand shattered by the explosion of a can non cracker. Memphis, Tenn. —In some unexplain ed manner a spark ignited a large bunch of firecrackers carried in the shirtbosom of little Charles Bedonts, a crippled newsboy, and in a moment the lad was writhing on the ground while the large crackers were ex ploding about his breast. He was frightfully burned and will probably ■die. Baltimore, Md. lndependence Dav here was the quietest in the his tory of the city. There were uo serious accidents reported and but few arrests for violations of the po lice regulations against, the use of dangerous fireworks had been record ed. Camden, X. J—After suffering ter rible agony, Ruth T. Knowles, the six-year-old daughter of Henry Henry Knowles, who was burned about the back and neck when her dress caught fire from fireworks, died at the Cooper Hospital. Philadelphia, Pa. The first death in this city from fireworks was that of Mary Gluvks, two and one-half years old, who died from burns. Her clothing had been ignited by a fire cracker. Toledo. Ohio.— Toledo began its fifth celebration of a "sane” Fourth. Since the discharge of dangerous fireworks was prohibited by city ordinance five years ago, there has not been a se rious accident here due to the cus tomary’ causes. The quiet of Sunday reigned, broken only by the voice of the occasional small firecracker. Chicago, 111.—The promise of a sane celebration was carried out, onL thirty-five accidents and one death having been recorded. The record of last year was twelve dead and 114 injured in Chicago alone. Danville, Va— As the result of a mysterious fire which totally destroy ed" the home of S. 7. Hamlett at South Boston, five of their children and H. A. Strange, aged 74. were burned to death, and another child aged four vears seriously injured. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlett escaped without in jury. VICTIMS OF THE FOURTH List of Fata’ities Is Smaller Than In Any Preceding Year. 19 KILLED; 427 INJURED In Scms Cities the Fourth Was Cele brated in a “Sane” Manner and No Deaths Were Reported. Chicago, 111.—Statistics compiled re garding Fourth ot' July casualties throughout the country indicate a much smaller list oi tatalities and in juries than in any preceding year. The figures procured after the first dt% ot celebration are: Dead 19. By fireworks and resulting fires, 3. By cannon. 1. By firearms, 3. By gunpowder, 2. By toy lu. Injured 423. D i* 1 C (} AJJ ai ou ot no, aou. By cannon, 51. By iireaims, 51. By gunpowder, 59 By torpedoes, 8. By toy pistols, 58. By bomb cannon, 9. By runaways, 14. Fire loss, s6l),2iiU. SEISMIC SI OIKS WASTt MESSINA. Once More the Italian City I» Almost Devastated. Messina. Italy.—Messina experienc ed two terrific earthquakes, which were accompanied by roaring sounds, and are said to have had a stronger and more undulatory movement than the earthquake of last December, which destroyed Messina. Reggio and other cities, laid waste many villages in Calabra and killed 200,000 people. Althougn the shocks had no such terrible consequences, the 25,000 res idents of the city were thrown into a state of terror. They ran into the streets, panic-stricaen, and nearly the entire population encamped in the open. The broken walls of the old ruins were thrown to the ground and Mes sina was for a few minutes smother ed in a cloud of dust. The casualties were few, and it is believed, after a hasty search of the new ruins, that no one was killed. The first shock was followed quick ly by a second, and the people fled pell-mell to’ the Ameiican quarter, which they seemed to teel was their safest place of refuge. So great was the rush to the American huts that the authorities wore unable to check the invasion, and as a consequence, these structures, which were designed for tne most needy cf the populace, wore taken possession of by the first comers. The soldiers, howevtr, soon drew a cotdon around this quarter, and a guard was mounted at the bridge leading to it. Many of the panic-stricken people were driven off, and orders were issued that no one be permitted to occupy the American quarter pending further instructions. Reggio suffered almost as severe a shock as Messina. AWAITINti SULTAN KOUSEVELT. Uganda Ruler Had Heard of American “Benefactors of Blacks.” Mengo, Uganda, Protectorate, Brit ish Atrica.—ln an interview with Daudi Chwa Kampala, the boy king of Uganda, who is the nomtnal ruler of the country over which the British government has established a protec torate, the young ruler greeted the correspondent traveling ahead of the Roosevelt expedition effusively, say ing: "I have been looking forward with the greatest glee to meeting Sultan Roosevelt and will see that he is re ceived with befitting honors when he reaches my country. I have heard of the great good he has done to the blacks in America, and 1 shall receive this man, who was a benefactor to my raoe, in a strange land, in a most royal manner. “Sultan Roosevelt will find splen did hunting in Uganda, and I shall see that his hunt here is successful." Mengo is near the mouth of the Kivira river on Victoria Xyanza (lake) and about four thousand feet above sea level, six hundred miles from Mombasa as the crow flies. The head waters of the Nile are in Ugan da. BAILKOAO DISASTER BECOKD. 663 Killed and 15,122 Injured in Last Quarter Year. Washington, D. C. —The number of persons killed and injured in the United States during the months of January, February and March, 1908, as shown in the reports made by the railroad companies to the interstate commerce commission in a bulletin, which was issued, is 15,785 (663 kill ed and 15,122 injured). While this shows an increase of 344 in the total number of casualties, there is a decrease of 65 in the total number killed as compared with the number reported for the same period The total collisions and derail ments in the quarter now under re view was 2,284 (1,042 collisions and 1,242 derailments), of which 168 colli sions and 145 derailments affected pas senger trains. The damage to cars, engines and roadway by these acci dents amounted to $1,847,202. PRISONERS GUARDED BY ELECTRICITY But Convicts Made Their Way Through the Deadly Barricade. Xew York City.—That a heavily charged criSs-cross of electric wires form the prison wall restraining the many military prisoners at Fort Han cock, on Sandy Hook, has come to light in the escape of two soldiers. The convicts weer recently taken to Fort Hancock from thg federal pris on at Leavenworth, Kan., to finish their terms. They escaped from their new prison and in some manner, which will cause an investigation, they successfully made their way through the network of copper wires surround ing the prison and which carry about 4,000 volts. Had either of the men touched one of the wires with his bare skin he would have been in stantly killed. Scouting parties sent out for the fugitives found them hid ing in a sand pit at a distance from the prison, and they were captured. I/N THE WORLD OF SPORTS The directors of the South Atlantic league met in Augusta and decided to end the present season and to start a new season. The Charleston fran chise, which was turned over to the league several days ago. was trans ferred to Knoxville, and all other games scheduled to be played with Charleston will be played in Knox ville. The newspaper men were de barred from the meeting, and wore very indignant over the treatment accorded them by the league direc tors. President Jones of the league announced after the meeting that he thought the changes that had been made would result in the league fin ishing the season without any trou ble. Certain changes have been or dered to the Chattanooga park and everyone seems satisfied with what has been done. The clubs represent ed at the meeting were Jacksonville, Augusta, Savnanah, Macon. Columbia and Columbus. The others wefe rep resented by proxies. James .1. Jack son was elected vice president of the league. He owns a controlling inter est in the Augusta club. He succeeds H. H. Starr of the Macon club, who has withdrawn from the league. The Spartanburg, South Carolina, association, will be organized. Twen ty men have subscribed SIOO each and all indebtedness of the club will bo paid off, and the club will start of new, with money in the treasury. No difficulty was experienced in rais ing the two thousand dollars , only two days being required. It Is expect ed that many changes will be made in the personnel of the club. At the present rate of growth it is estimated that before ten years have passed ten to fifteen per cent of the American farmers will own automo biles. Big Bill Raftls, t-hird baseman of the Birmingham club, was seated in a cafe in Slagtown recently when two gentlemen seated at the next table began a tirade of abuse on the big third-sacker. Bill, instead of becom ing angry, as is the usual custom with players when roasted, joined in the word scald and abused himself from every standpoint. Bill said he was glad to get in on the game. Ty Cobb is now batting .324 and has stolen more bases and scored more runs than any other player in the American league. Pittsburg is certainly having a run away race in the National league. Wouldn’t Cobb and Wagner look good arrayed against each other- in the world’s series. Bob Spade, the former Atlanta pitcher, who has been holding out so long, has signed his Cincinnati con tract and has joined the Red team. The Macon, South Atlantic League, Baseball club is now in the hands of a committee composed of N. J. Ethridge, chairman; George Dole Wadley, Jesse B. Hart, W. A. McClellan and Clar ence Morgan, the final plans having been made by the Starr brothers, principal owners, and the new com mittee. The new owners consist of an organization of citizens who will seek a charter in the superior court at once. The sal© required the pay ment of $1,300 in salaries, and some small amounts reaching in all about 51,700. The team goes to the new owners with the good wishes of the Starr Brothers, Vaughn and Lafitte, whose sales were reported, will prob ably remain with the club, efforts having been made to have the nego tiations for these two fine players called off. . The following are leaders in bat ting for their respective teams in the Eastern Carolina league, playing in over fifteen games; Goldsboro club, Dcak, .328; Wilson, Bird, 324- Fay etteville, Siemens, .307; Wilmington, Smith, .291; Raleigh, Hoffman, .279; Rocky Mount, Krebs, .265. The departure of Wilson Matthews frbm Charleston is regretted by the fans of that city. Matthews did the best he could under the circum stances. He Is a splendid baseball manager and had other conditions existed in the South Carolina league than now do, he would have been around the top of the column with his team. Members of the Augusta, Ga„ Automobile club are enthusiastic over a proposition to hold an interstate race. Daddy McLaughlin, the veteran um pire, officiates in the Eastern Caro lina league, and every team wants him to judge their performance—he’s so fair. The Automobile club and Lakeside Boat club of Augusta, Ga., are plan ning to amalgamate. Members of the boat club will have the use of the motor clubhouse, and vice versa. In a grand exhibition of rowing by a crew remarkable for its physical power and endurance, Harvard, de feated Yale in their annual 'varsity boat race on the Thames. The Crim son's crew led from start to finish and won by six lengths. Harvard’s time was 21:50; Yale’s 22:10. By this victory Harvard won her second con secutive boat race from Yale in twen ty-eight years. Since 1885 Harvard has won five ’varsity races from Yale, including today’s, namely, in 1891 ’ 1899, 1906 and 1908. The greatest crowd that has ever assembled here on the Thames, poured into Xew Lon don to witness the race. It was es timated that at least forty thousand people witnessed the race. Although Harvard won by a handsome margin and administered a crushing defeat to Yale, the race was nevertheless a contest right up to the last half mile. All the way up the river the two eights rowed with almost equal pre cision and a slip of any kind in eith er shell would have turned the victory into defeat within a few seconds. "Wanted —A first class grocery salesman, capable of driving wagon and taking orders, work in store night’s and manage business when owner is away, and take care of the stable. Must also be good pitcher and first baseman, able to hit .300, so he can manage local ball team, which I own. Will pay SSO a mouth for a good man. No others need apply. Ad dress, etc.”—Exchange. Baseball is played differently in the National and American leagues. In the latter organization woth the bas es filled and three balls and two strikes on the batter, if the man on third starts for home as tue pitcher delivers the ball, and the twirier throws the ball wide of the plate, the baseman does not walk if the pitcher steps off the rubber before throwing. In the National league he does. Capitalists of Rome, Ca., are plan ning to establish an automobile line between that city and Adairsville, a distance of eighteen miles. "Davy” Crcckett, a well-known base ball player, and first baseman of the Goldsboro Eastern Carolina league, team, is now manager of said team and is running the team smoothly and to the entire satisfaction of the local management. Jack Johnson, the negro heavy weight champion of the world, out boxed Tony Ross of Newcastle, Pa., in a six-round bout given under the auspices of the National Athletic club at Pittsburg. While the bout was declared a draw on account of state laws prohibiting the rendering of a decision in boxing tournaments, public opinion willingly conceded that Johnson had the better of the go from start to finish. It was a fast fight., both men up and coming during the entire six rounds. Johnson, while not in the best of condition, showed form in the in-fighting and landed ef fectively. Referee Jimmy Dime said after the fight that Ross 'did remark ably Well iii the face of the fact that Johnson had it over him in weight and height. Johnson refused to talk after the mill, while Ross anxiously begged for another opportunity to meet the negro fighter. It. was rumored in sporting circles that arrangements had practically been completed for a finish fight for the pugilistic championship of the world to be held at Goldfield, Nev., on Labor day between Jack Johnson and Al Kaufman. It is said that the negro has received a $25,000 offer from the Goldfield promoters, but that he is holding out for $30,000. It is believed that the Nevada club will agree to Johnson's demand of an ad ditional $5,000. That every member of the Chicago National league who was certified on September 1, last year as being elig ible to participate in the world's cham pionship series should be allowed to >hare in the SIO,OOO given by Presi dent Murphy to members of the team, is a recommendation announced by the national baseball commission. The matter came before the comnjis sion through a complaint filed by Player Carl Lungdren, against Presi dent Murphy and the Chicago Nation al League club, asking that a ruling be made adjudging him to be entitled to a part of the money. Theodore Breltenstein, the veteran pitcher, is having a bad time vith his throwing arm this season and threatens to quit the gamo. lie has been in the Southern league for sev eral years and up to now has been regarded as the “Cy” Young of that orgarfization. Just why the double steal with men on first and second is not attempted more is hard to understand. In a ma jority of games nowadays but few runs are scored, and even Bhould one of the baserunners be retired in at tempting the play, the other will still be in a position to score on a base hit. Furthermore, only one man can be played for on the double steal, and as a rule, this is the man who at tempts to pilfer third; but he can get so big a lead off of second that the play is usually close .even when the throw is perfect, and the slightest wobble on the part of the opposing team assures success. Yet, the play but seldom Is attempted.—Exchange. The most mysterious ball pitched in the great national game in St Louis is the “false rise.” Indeed, so incred- Itable and difficult of explanation seems its behavior that many persona declare it can not be thrown at all. Thfnk of controlling a projectile that it travels in a straight slant down ward for fifty-five feet, and then, de fying gravity and its initial impulse, suddenly breaks into a horizontal course for eight feet more! Yet this is what the V a l se rise” baJl does, when i*ropelled by such a pitcher as the gigantic Addle Joss of the Cleve land Americans. And. as if that were not marvel enough, this freak ball is not governed by any elaborate “spins” by which all other curves and “jump” balls are controlled. It leave the pitch er's hand as a plain, straight ball, without any "English” upon it (to use a rooter’s term for the swift revolu- | tions of a ball on its axis), by which , curves are produced. Nevertheless, ! it “breaks” as abruptly in its course I as if It were a “spit” ball, with its I delicate balance of conflicting forces. Forbes field, the new million dol lar home of the Pittsburg Xational League Baseball club, and the largest and finest amusmert stadium in the world, was dedicated with appropri ate ceremonies. A total of 30,338 paid admissions passed through the turnstiles to witness the gaihe be tween Chicago and the home team. This is a world’s record for paid ad missions for a ball game. Special trains were run from points over the state. It is believed that ten thous and out of town fans were present. LATE NEWS NOTES. Wathingtoa. President Taft has signed the bill providing funds for taking the census of 1910. Following a policy of retrenchment there are to be no further increases in salaries in the custom service for feme time to come. A number of sal aries were to have been raised on July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year, but Secretary MaeVeagh has de cided that these increases will not be made until the treasury department is able to make a better financial showing. The secretary Is said to believe that his department should make the first response to the de mand for economy which is constant ly coming to President Taft. Other wise, the secretary is put In the atti tude of declining to raise the salar ies of employes in other departments, but allowing his own officials to re ceive promotions. Secretary Nagel's determination to remove clerks in the department of commerce and labor ought not to af fect those from southern states. A table prepared shows all of these states have far below their quotos, Alabama under a fair apportionment would be allowed one hundred and eighty-three. The state has but one hundred and thirty-six. Arkansas’ quota is one hundred and thirtv-one. It has ninety-eight. Kentucky has ono hundred and ninety-five out of the two hundred and flfteeu to which it is entitled. Texas two hundred and eighty-four out of three hundred and five; Mississippi one hundred and twenty-three out of one hundred and fifty-five; Tennessee has its exact Quota, two hundred and two. General. The Rev. G. R. Robbins, pastor of tho wealthy Lincoln Park Baptist church in Cincinnati, received an in fernal machine, accompanied by a note decorated with skull and cross bones, and saying he would suffer if he did not atop his talk against the Black Hand. Official orders have been issued pro hibiting any United States circus from parading on the streets of Win nipeg, Manitoba, unless it fließ a British Instead of an American flag. Two trains met accidents in Col orado as a result, apparently, of the intense heat, which is believed to have twisted the rails. Eight persons were hurt. The Turin, litaly, Gazette publishes under a New York date, (he state ment that the Duke of Abruzzi’s mairiage to Miss Katherine Elkins has not been abandoned, but will oc cur after the duke’s return from his Himalayan expedition. \\ hen a street car conductor was convicted of pilfering from the com pany in Brooklyn, it was shown by his own diary that, his profits had ranged from $2.80 to sll a day. He was started for Sing Sing prison, where he must serve two and a half years at least. R. S. Ellis, a prominent capitalist and ranchman of San Antonio, Tex., who has been lying at the point of death, was operated on for an abcess of the throat. A parlor match was removed, which had lodged immedi ately above the vocal chords. Mr. El lis, duiing a hearty laugh, had swal lowed the match two months ago. aged thirteen, sons of Contractor Val Walter Wellman and the other members of the expedition that is planning to reach the north pole this summer, by airship, left Tromsoe, Norway, on the steamer Artie, with a large quantity of material for the re building o t (he bajloon shed at Spitz bergen. The .balloon shed was de stroyed last winter by a storm. Joseph Junet, who farms a ranch near Alton, 111., has trained his flock of ducks In a novel manner. Just now Junet is enjoying an income of sls a day from fifteen ducks. He put them in a pen and fed them on pota to bugs exclusively until they were accustomed to the diet. Then ho turn ed them loose in his potato patch and they went through it like a neighbor hood scandal, entirely clearing it of the bugs. The ducks are in great demand on the farms in Junet's neigh borhood. “Before the war” prices were re ceived on the floor of the Houston, Texas, cotton exchange when the first bale of this season cotton sold at auc tion at $125. The hale came from Mercedes, Hidalgo county, and weigh ed two hundred and sixty-eight pounds. r I he first newspaper ever printed in a balloon was received in Butler county, Ohio, when a balloon from Dayton passed over the western part of that, county. The balloon was equipped with a corps of newspaper men and a printing press by a Day ton, Ohio, paper ar.d as it soared over the towns, miniature copies, of the paper, printed in the balloon basket, were thrown to the ground. When the balloon reached Woods Station, eight miles east of Hamilton, copies were sent down telling of an exciting ex perience at Darrtown, four miles from Woods, when farmers fired at the bal loon with rifles. The second human being known to have been attacked by the disease of charbon, an epidemic of which has recently killed many cattle near Lake Charles, La., was J. Breaux, a young farm hand, residing within severs*! miles of Lake Charles. Breaux be came inoculated after skinning a cow that had died from the disease. The first victim was Theoprile Burgene, whose death occurred a few days ago. He contracted the disease in the same manner as Breaux. State Senator Israel W. Durham, oone of the republican leaders ofi Philadelphia, Penn., and prominent in Pennsylvania state politics, died sud denly at his summer residence at At lantic City. He had been ailing for several years.
