The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, July 16, 1909, Image 2
NORMAN BUGGIES. Our motto for 14 years has been—not how cheap but how good our Vehicles are built for the man who believes the best is the cheapest, in the long run experience teaches that cheap buggies are the most EXPENSIVE’ If you agree with us on this point ask your dealer to show you a NORMAN. We believe today we build the best buggy in Georgia, and want yon to know’ it. Built on correct propor tions of best material, beautifully designed and finely finished. Top Buggies, Runabouts and Stanhopes. If your local dealer cannot sup ply you, write direct to NORMAN BUCCY CO., Inc., Crain, Ca- NOW IIP 10 THE STATES Income Tax Question Submitted to the Differeat Legislatures. SOUTHERN STATES TO RATIFY Georgia, Alabama and Texas Desire Distinction of Being the First to Ratify Amendment. Washington, D. C. —It is now up to the legislatures of the several stales to say whether there shall be an in come tax amendment to the consti tution. By the decisive vote of 317 to 14, more than the necessary two thirds, the house passed the senate joint resolution providing for the sub mission of the question to the states. It is the belief of southern sena tors and congressmen that the states of the south will unanimously ratify the proposed amendment to the con stitution providing for the level of an income tax and that if the measure fails of endorsement by the necessary three-fourths of the states, it will be by reason of the non-action of legis lature in the north and west. Members of the Texas delegation! wired Governor Campbell of that state, urging him to call the legisla ture together for the purpose of rati fying immediately the proposed con stitutional amendment. Representative Hobson of Alabama has wired Governor Comer suggesting that when he issues the call for the forthcoming session of the general as sembly he I, specify that ratification of the income tax amendment be one of the objects of legislation. Both Texas and Alabama desire the distinction of being the first state to ratify the amendment. Georgia is likely to have the honor of first ratifying the amendment, for the reason that the legislature of that state is already in sessibn. SOUTH’S PRUSPtKIIY DISCUSSED. Diversity of Agriculture is the Cause, Says Railway President. New York City.—A greater diversi fication of agriculture is attributed to the prosperity which the south is en joying by President W. \V. Finley of the Southern Railway. After attend ing a directors’ meeting here and be fore starting for Washington, Mr. Fin ley said that the higher prices of wheat had led the southern farmer to grow crops other than that of cotton, and that this had been such a great success that, the continued prosperity of the southern states was assured. This fact and the large increase in cotton manufactures had brought much money into that section. Cot ton mills in the south had proved so successful, said Mr. Finley, that many others were now being built, and that there was bound to be a decrease of raw cotton shipped to the New Eng land mills, and possibly to the Liver pool market. “TENDEgfMT" HAS SEARED. Nine Texans Were Not Killed by the Mexican Outlaws. El Paso, Texas. —A "tenderfoot,” frightened by a fake attack upon the camp of a party of horsemen near Afton, N. M., was responsible for the spreading of a tale of the wholesale murder of the men by a band of In dians and Mexicans. Officers who hurried to the scene reported that the thing was a hoax. The men, driving horses overland, had spent Sunday in a camp relating blood-curdling stories to a stranger within their midst, and had followed this up at night by shooting and shouting. The new ar rival escaped, and gave out the re port of an attack and the murder of his companions. LAKE STEAMERS EOLLIDE. 14 Lives Are Lost When Ships Went to the Bottom. Salt Ste Marie, Mich. —Three min utes after the steel steamers, Isaac M. j Scott and John B. Cowle, had col-1 lided in Lake Superior, the Cowle had «one to the bottom in fifty fathoms of carrying with her fourteen i? eDlber of her crew. The Scott, al 'Enough badly damaged, put back to Yms port, where she arrived with part df the crew of the Cowle. MEAT INSPECTION LAWS DISREGARDED Another Meat Inspector Makes Charges Against Packers. v' East St. Louis, 111.—J ulisli Bishof, one of the government inspectors! wh£<V,as discharged after he had sus- the allegations of James F. oigjgn? against the meat inspection g>s\em\in the packing houses here, ■ sworn statement, giving his before the committee sent Secretary Wilson, to inves- Aiaa>e Harms* charges. Bishof's against the inspection sys tem are more serious than those made by Harms. TARIFF BILL IS PASSED. Measure Went Through the Senate Vote of 42 to 24. Washington, D. C. —The tariff bill passed the senate by a vote of 45 to 34. Republicans voting in the neg ative were Beveridge of Indiana, Bris tow of Arkansas, Brown of Nebraska, Burkett of Nebraska, Clapp of Minne sota, Crawford of South Dakota, Cum mins of lowa, Dolliver of lowa, La Foleltte of Wisconsin and Nelson Minnesota. McEnory of Louisiana was the only democrat recorded in the af firmative. Mr. Gore delivered a final denuncia tion of the entire system of protection as exemplified in the bill. The failure of the senate to keep HERE ARE A FEW NECESSITIES AND THEIR ALDRICH BILL PRICES. According to merchants direct ly eonoerned in the manufac ture or sale of the goods named here are a few' samples of the increases that can be looked tor when the new tariff goes into effect: Shoes, an advance of 20 to 25 per cent. In other words, a shoe now selling at $2 will cost $2.50. A $3.50 shoe will probably cost $4.25. A $5 shoe will cost sfj.so. A serge suit that can be bought for sls today will cost S2O next year. Carpets, rugs, matting and ho siery will be substantially ad vanced in price. the promise made to the people by the republican party respecting a re vision of the tariff downward, was the theme of Senator Beveridge, as the debate on the pending bill was drawing to a close. Mr. Beveridge was answered by Mr. Aldrich, who said he had often seen men interpret their own judgment as the judgment of their party. Mr. Aldrich declared that the pend ing bill was a fulfillment of the par ty’s pledge. If senators wished to vote against the bill, he said, they should not attempt to speak for their party. Mr. Crawford delivered a vigorous protest against any attempt upon the part of Chairman Aldrich to prevent republican senators from the exercise of the'.r Judgment. Senator Clapp also joined in the protest against any effort on the part of the present senator from Rhode Isl and to control his actions. The bill was then put on its pass age. It was passed 45 to 34. Much interest was aroused in the senate over the adoption of the amend ment of Senator Bradley removing the restrictions on the free sale of tobacco in the hand. The Bradley amendment authorizes anyone, the grower, any person to whom he may make transfer, or any one else, to sell tobacco in the hand without paying a tax, but requires that when the sale exceeds ten pounds, a record shall be kept for the benefit of the internal revenue service. The present law permits the grow er to dispose of his product, but does not allow’ his vendee to transfer it without paying a tax of six cents a pound. The prohibition has been the cause of much disturbance, culminat ing in the forays of the night riders in Kentucky and Tenessee. , LARGE TOBAGEU SHIPMENT. Four Solid Trainloads Arrive at Pensa cola, Florida. Pensacola, Fla.—What is claimed to be the largest single shipment of to bacco ever to arrive within a single day for export, reached here from the tobacco fields of Tennessee and Kentucky. It consists of four solid trainloads, or 115 carloads. Each car contains about 15 hogsheads of the tobacco, each weighing 1,000 pounds, and making a total of nearly I.SOO hossheads. The shipment is for Liv erpool. FARMERS LOSE $30,000,000 YEARLY. Says Cclonel Scott in Address to Farmers' Union. Conyers. Ga.—The speech delivered by Colonel Leonidas F. Scott, editor of the Conyers Free Press, before Oak Grove Local Farmers’ Union, has aroused a good deal of interest in this section. In his speech Colo nel Scott made the statement that the south loses $30,000,000 a year from the one source of carelessly packing a bale of cotton. Sixty-two Lepers In Louisiana. New Orleans, La.—According to a report submitted by the bcatd of con trol. there are now sixty-two patients in the Louisiana Lepers’ home, more than at any time since the colony was started. The board made an in spection of the home, and it was stat ed that improvements would be made in order to take care of the increas ing number of patients. COTTON NEEDS RAIN Improvement Is Shown in Some of the State*. BOLL WEEVILS NUMEROUS The Crop Promise I* Still Uncertain, Bui With Favorable Weather a Fair Yield Can Be Made. Memphis, Tenn. —The following is the Commercial-Appeal’s summary of the week’s cotton crop condition: Returns from the cotton crop this week are mixed. Improvement is noted in Georgia, Alabama, Missis sippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and northern and eastern Texas. No improvement or loss occurred in North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, and central, southern and western Texas. The plant in Arkansas, Oklahoma and northern Texas is large, fruiting well, thrifty and full of promise. East of the Mississippi river, although im provement has taken place as nott%, the plant Is small and not always healthy and apparently stands are bad. The crop promise is regarded as still uncertain, although with fa vorable weather for the remainder of the season, a fair yield can be made. Hea>'y rains in North and South Carolina. delayed cultivation and much grass is still complained of. Dry weather there is greatly desired. Much apprehension exists throughout cen tral and western Texas of a sum mer drought. It has not rained there for two weeks or more and tem peratures have been very high. The plant shows the effect. As yet no great damage has resulted, but it is believed that the crop has reached a point where it will soon deteriorate without moisture. 801 l weevils are nu merous in Louisiana, but elsewhere complaints are not frequent. New Orleans, La. The Times- Democrat, in its summary of cotton crop conditions, based on reports from correspondents in every section of the south, says “the concensus of opinion is to the following effect: ‘‘Taking the belt as a whole, there has been distinct improvement since the last report. “The crop is late, as a rule, but has been Industriously worked wherever the meteorological conditions were favorable. There has been some ad ditional reduction of acreage, through forced abandonment. There are com plaints of boll weevil from sections of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, but it is too soon as yet to forecast the ultimate damage. Despite the improvement during the month, the situation still presents grave pos sibilities, and the plant, being small and puny, is peculiarly subject to dam age from premature frost.” GIRLS WALK WHILE ASLEEP. Young Lady Fell Off Train—Fireman Saved Another. New York City.—lt required the ef forts of the fire department and a po lice detachment to save Miss Cather ine Soulier, a somnambulist, from death at her home in Y’onkers. Miss Soulier, who had been afflicted with somnambulism for several years, rose from her bed and, with her eyes closed, walked out of a window onto a narrow ledge three stories above a well-iighted street. Passersby saw her and called the polioe. An officer ran upstairs and climbed out of the window. Miss Soulier had reached the end of the ledge when the policeman grabbed her arm. She awakened sud denly and, when she looked down into the street, became so terrified that she fainted. In falling, her body went over the ledge. It required the fire department and an extension ladder to save the girl from falling. Ravenna, Neb. —While walking in her sleep. Miss Lois Campbell, the 16- year-old daughter of Vice President Campbell of the Frisco system, leap ed from the rear of her father’s pri vate car, attached to a Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy flyer, as the train was speeding over the prairies west of Ravenna. Rendered unconscious by the fall, the girl finally recovered and succeeded in flagging a freight, on which she rode to the next station, where she was found by a special, which had been sent out to search for her. She is practically uninjured. 1,000 PEOPLETmADE HOMELESS. Stream Breaks Its Banks at Sioux City, lowa. Sioux City, lowa. —One thousand people were driven from their homes and many thousands of dolalrs dam age done by a flood in Perry creek, a small stream which separates the east and west side. There were many narrow escapes, but no lives have been reported lest. A cloudburst north of Sioux City is be lieved to have been the cause. It was estimated that 500 homes in the densely populated district along the creek were surrounded by water. CASTRO PREDICTS RtVOLtITIUN. Ex-Dictator of Venezuela Says Gomez Government Will Fall. Santander, Spain.—General Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, issued a statement predicting the downfall of the Gomez government in Venezuela, Castro says: “The diplomatic arrangements made by the Venezuelan go\ernment with the United States, France and other nations are onerous and humil iating to Venezuelans. The sover eignty and independence of Venezuela is weakened by the treaty with the United States, which is now in a po sition to take possession of the Ven ezuelan republic in the name of the Monroe doctrine.” “ELEVATOR ALLOWANCE” BARRED Re-Shipping Prohibited Under Decision of Interstate Commerce Commission. Washington, D. C. —The so-called “elevator allowance” to dealers in hay, grain and grain products at Nashville, Tenn., was declared to be unlawful discrimination in a decision announced by the interstate com merce commission. The complaint was brought by com mercial houses in Atlanta and other Georgia cities, w r hich alleged that the carriers have granted to Nashville un due preference in the handling of grain, grain products and hay from Ohio and Mississippi -*ver crossings to southeastern destinations, thereby eliminating competition with iLr southeastern territory. The commission held that ‘the cir cumstances and conditions prevailing at Nashville are not so dissimilar from those prevailing at other points in the southeast as to warrant a con tinuance of this privilege at Nashville without undue discrimination, to the prejudice and disadvantage of points in that territory not having a simi lar privilege.” It was held further that “this priv ilege operates as a device by w T hich traffic may move at less than the law ful ttriff rate.” The defendants which include prac tically all of the lines operating in the southeastern territory, are order ed to cease paying by September 1, next, any allowance for elevation, un loading or handling grain, grain prod ucts or hay at Nashville, or for re billing or reshipping su.ch products at Nashville. They are Erected to file tariffs with the commission in con sonance with the order. THREE-SCORE-AND-TEN FOR ROCKEFELLER ClevMand, Ohio.—John D. Rocke feller has reached the three-score-and ten period of his life. Seventy years ago he was born on a small farm near Richford, Tioga county, New York. Beginning life as a penniless farmer’s boy, Mr. Rockefeller is now reputed to be the w’orld’s nearest can didate for a gillionaire. His health is good, and he is enjoying rugged old age. Mr. Rockefeller received sev eral congratulatory telegrams and a few callers, who extended their best wishes. His birthday w r as spent in his usual manner, attending to business affairs and playing golf. RECORD IS BROKEN FOR SIZE OF CHEESE Utica, N. Y.—The largest cheese ever manufactured in the Mohawk valley was shipped to a Chicago firm by the local cold storage company. The cheese w r as built in the usual shape, but it measured 32 inches high and 45 inches in diameter and weigh ed 1,950 pounds. It took about ten tons of milk to produce it and it was pressed into shape by a specially constructed press in a cheese factory, where it. was bought by a Chicago firm through a cold storage company. MUST FACE TRIAL FOR TRYING SUICIDE Memphis, Tenn.—So far as records show for the first time in the history of Memphis, the name of an alleged wouid-be suicide apears on the police docket formally charged with attempt ed self-destruction, and will be used as a test of the Tennessee statute which declares attempted suicide a felony and provides heavy punish ment. The arrest was at the instance of the superintendent of the city hos pital, where the young woman w r as taken for medical attention. OFFICERS MUST EAT FOOD SENT INMATES Topeko, Kans.—Governor W. R. Stubbs believes that the officers and employees of the various state insti tutions should eat the same food they set out for the inmates. “If the grub is not good enough for the officers and employes,” said the governor, “it is not good enough for growing children and invalids in the institutions. If the officers cannot live on food the state furnishes Its w'ards, they should buy their own pro visions.” WOMEN CONVICTS MAY BE TAKEN FROM ROADS Mansfield, La. —Because of protests by humanitarians, women convicts serving time on the roads of DeSoto parish will probably be relieved of hard labor and returned to the jail here to finish their sentences. The authorities of the parish have been deluged with petitions seeking the abandonment of the working of wom en convicts. Newsy Paragraphs. A sensational action against Pope Pius, in which a vast fortune is at stake, is pending. It i 3 declared that unless there is an amicable adjust ment suit will be entered by the three nieces of the late Bishop Ad ami. Justice Mills directed that Harry K. Thaw be transferred from the Mat t-eawan asylum to the White Plains jail. This is a distinct victory for Thaw. Justice Mills said he would recommit Thaw to Matteaw’an if Jus tice Gaynor granted a change of ve nue to the state attorney general. Total receipts for the Charleston, S. C., postoffice during the year just closed were $151,538.20, the’ largest in the history of that postoffice. The gain over last year’s business was nearly SB,OOO. Among the latest civil list pensions granted by the British government are $125 a year each to Mary, Dor othy and Bessie Dickens, grand daughters of the late Charles Dick ens, in recognition of the literary em inence of their grandfatehr. TAFT TO JISIT SOUTH President Will Come to Savan nah, Macon and Augusta. WILL MEET PRESIDENT DIAZ Announcement Is Made of the Plans of President Taft for His Tour West and South, Philadelphia, Pa.—President Taft, while here, announced some of the tentative plans for his trip west in the fall. He also wrote to President Diaz of Mexico that he would be glad to welcome him at El Paso, Tex as, probably on October 15. The pres ident expects to start west on his ftUy-seeond birthday, September 15. He will head direct from Beverly, Wash., stopping at Denver, Salt Lake and Spokane on the fray. From Se attle the president will go to Portland, Ore., thence to San Francisco: to Los Angeles, where he will visit his sis ter; to San Diego, to New Mexico and Arizona, to Texas, where he will spend several days on C. P. Taft’s ranch near Corpus Christi; to Hous ton, to New Orleans, stopping for a time in the Toche country of Louis iana; to Jackson, Miss.; to Birming ham, Montgomery, to Macon, Ga.; to Augusta, to Savannah, to Wilming ton, N. C.; to Richmond, Va., and. then home to Washington. $10,0011,(100 FOR EDUCATION. Rockefeller Gives to General Educa tion Board. New York City.—John D. Rockefel ler increased his donations to the general education board by a gift of $10,000,000 and also released the board from the obligation to hold in perpetuity the funds contributed by him. The gift, announced by Freder ick T. Gates, chairman, brills Mr. Rockefeller’s donation to the board to $52,000,000. The gift was .contributed, according to t-he statement made by Chairman Gates because the income of the present fund available for ap propriattion had been exhausted and a large income to meet educational needs of great importance had become necessary. Mr. Rockefeller’s action in empow ering the board and its successors to distribute the principal of funds con tributed by him upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members was said to have been taken in consider ation of the possibility, now remote, that at some future time, the object and purpose of the Rockefeller foun dation might become obsolete. Under original conditions imposed, the fund would have had to continue in perpetuity regardless of whether a public demand for its continuation evists or not. MAN HASTWENIY-FOUR WIVES. Bigamist Goes to Jail and Wives Are Waiting at Home. San Francisco, Cal. —John Madson, wanted for bigamy in nearly every large city in America, and in many of the smaller ones, is in the hands of the police here. The authorities have established his marriage to ten. women and his engagement to four teen others. Each of the 24 women duped by Madson is said by the police to have lost more or less money through him. Madsen is said to have deserted each of these women within a few hours after marriage. Among the women to whom he was either en gaged or married was one each in Jonesburg, Ark.; Gettysburg, Ohio, and New Orleans, La. The strange history of Madsofi, who is an aged man, extends over only a few months. Almost without ex ception his victims have been wid ows or divorced women cf middle age. Madson may be taken for trial to Stockton, where “one of his wives resides, but in the meantime the police here are trying to secure a somplete sonfession from him. ECBNUMV ON ISTHMUS. No More Carriages for Governmenl Officials. Washington, D. C—The wave ol economy first noticed at Washington some time after the advent of the Taft administration is reported as having arrived at the isthmian canal zone. Its first effect was to sweep away nearly all the government car riages used by the commissioners and other officials on the zone. Colonel Goethals, chairman of the canal com mission, has issued an order discon tinuing the use of these carriages and directing the chief quartermaster to sell all transportation equipment on hand, with the exception of a few sur reys to be used exclusively for the transaction of public business. None of these is for the use of any mem ber of the commission. In contrast with this policy is to be noticed the methods of the French during their attempt to construct the canaL mob. Bolivian Mob Stoned Argentine Legation. La Paz, Bolivia.—A furious mob at tacked the Argentine legation. Troops were called out, to guard the Argen tine minister. The trouble is the out come of the decision rendered by President Alcorta of Argentine in the boundary dispute between Peru and Bolivia. Great crowds which had been pa rading the streets finally turned in the direction of the Argentine legation, which they surrounded. There were shouts of rage, and stones and other missiles were hurled at the building, and the government found it neces sary to oider out troops.