Waycross weekly herald. (Waycross, Ga.) 1908-19??, January 02, 1909, Image 1
aycross Weekly Herald OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WAYCROSS AND WARE COUNTY AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS VOLUME XXIII WAYCROSS GA SATURDAY JANUARY 2 1909 NUMBE.t 46 gSHIOlRSl : . BILL MAY GOME UP! KM OF PLANS Washington Dec. 31.—The question whether there will bo a river and har bor bill during the present session of Congress la becoming a matter of much concern to many members o$ both houses. In accordance with the usual cus tom of passing such a bill only once every two years no effort was made to get one through last session, but now the committees find themselves -confronted by a constantly growing deficit in_ the treasury, with the ac companying complaint that it Is going to be Impossible to find money enough to go around without trenching too deeply upon the reserves. But the Importunate ones are urg» In q the prospect of Improved bust- 'floss conditions and the probability that the proposed new tariff will af ford ah Increased income, even thougn there -bo n^ Improvement In general conditions,, and the clerks of the House Committee are proceeding with tho preparation of a bill In or der to hare it ready should this ar gument prevail. New and old projects would call for the Immediate appropriation of about $25,000,000, ..In addition to which plans would he laid for the ex- pendlturo In the future of probably twice as much money. YOUNa LADY HURLED IN THE AIR BY TRAIN AND KILLED. ! Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 30.—Miss Addol Haggard, a popular young lady of King's Mountain, Ky., was knock- fe\*d from a high trestle on the CIn- y cinnatl Southern Railway at that F today and instantly killed. f -"%3hi was walking across the trostly . Vicu she was overtaken by a fast express train. Her body was hurled ' high' into the air and fell Into Fishing P-'.CrSek, fifty feet below. A number of **•' peoplq saw tho accident. ANNA GOULD WIN8 *• # HER THREE CHILDREN. Paris, Dec. 31.—The petition of CountjBonl de Castellano that the cus tody of*bis three sons be given to his mother, the Marquise do Castellano, was denied today. The court ruled that the children re main in the custody of their mother, the Princess de Sagan, formerly Miss Anna Gould, of New York. The court ruled further that the children should not leave the confluent without its permission. Beginning October 19, 1909, they* are to be placed at a college situated within one hundred miles of PaTls. PANAMA FIGHTS LOCU8TS. HIM TO ME WORST DISASTER IN ANOTHER BIO BRIDGL! HISTORY OF Ml Washington, D. C., Dec. .31—There 13 nothing definite known In Washing ton concerning the reported plana of President-elect Tuft to divide the work of supervising corporations be tween the Interstate Commerce Com mission, the Bureau of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and a bureau to be created of the Department of Justice. Since the organization of 'the Department oi Commerce and Labor and its Bureau of Corporations there has been dis cussion of such a plan as that attrib uted to Mr. Taft. The Idea is not a new ouo to have the Interstate Com merce Commission relieved of the work of investigating railroads and other corporations engaged in Inter state commerce and have that work performed by the Bureau of Corpora tions. It has been felt for some time that there should not be placed upon the same body tho duties of Investigation as well as decision and also that there should be a special bureau of the De partment of Justice to prosecute cases referred to It from the Interstate Commerco Commission. Tho Taft plan, according to report hbre, follows the outline suggested in hig campaign speeches and will have for Its chief object tho quick enforcement of the laws already on the statute books- The general outline of the plan is described as follows: Tae Interstate Commerce Commission -is to be re lieved of Its duties as an investigat ing body. It Is to bo a commission ex ercising only quasi-judicial functions. The jurisdiction of the Bureau cf Corporations, on tho other hand, is to be extonded over all corporations doing an Interstate bus'.icoa. It will be charged with the detailed work of investigating and preparing cases. This bureau acting upon individual complaints or upon its own Initiative, will lay the result of Us Invest h.a- tlons before the Interstate Commer ce Commission for decision. It win originate all cases. Tho new bureau In the Department of Justice will work in cooperation with tho Bureau of Corparltons and the Interstate Com merce Commission when legal aid br necessary. The proposed plan does not contem plate tho licensing of corporations but that under it corporations will prob ably bo obliged to submit to closer scrutiny by the Bureau of Corpora tions. THE RAPID SPREAD OF Washington, Dec. 31.— reports re- Accordlng to the statements made by passengers on tho Panama Rail- - road Company's liner Advance, w'alch arrived from Colon Saturday, the gov. ‘ eminent of Panama hna been spend, Ing largo sums this year In fighting the locusts, which have become a sor lout menace to the. agricultural In- - tereata of the country. The committee appointed to devise means of the extermination of the peat lost June appropriated the sum of $475 per month, of which $200 was paid lo Boron F. von Teubor, an Au strian expert la such work.) After fighting the locust all the summer Baron von Teuber resigned and came to New York. No successor has yet ' beem found to tackle t'ae prolific and devastating insect. • -fte greatest Jttnago by the locust ' a Times reporter wae Informed, is In the district^,! Chepo, due cast of the /•'City of Panama, where great areas H^Jave beift denuded of foliage end the •crops almost totally destroyed. The method of oxter.-.'lasting the locusts most genera", adopted has been to dig a trench about fifty feet In length, two feet wide and one foot - deep, with perpendicular sides, Into which the locusts ore driven by men _ be»tin*'tb* grass and trees with switches. In this way million* are collected and are destroyed with a so lution of strong lye aoapsuds.—Naw| York Times. The average Waycmsslte seems to t- - in condition to swear off tomororw. -, no Jug is probably M T. GRAND MA8TER' BLALOCK COMING. A letter from Hon. J. T. Blalock, Grand Master of the Independent Or der of Odd Fellows of Georpln, states that ho will attend tho anniversary exercises and turkey supper of Way- cross Lodga No. 57 tomorrow night, This will bo’Mr. Blalock’s first visit here since he was elected Grand Master lest May. ■ According to Dr. Henry Smith Wil liams, who has an article In tho Christ mas McClure’s on "Alcohol and the Individual,” 46.95 per cant, of crimes In this country are traceable lo alcokol. Now Ys>rk, Dec. 31.—A new Brldg „„ „ , , . , , . , , f ■ Rome, Dec, 30.—The details of one. .— — ■ -- s conunpai on o * of the most aiipallu^$lsasters record- j fleeting accurately the present mage Quebec county Long Island. TiU 1*^ , n (n( , blBtor? worlJ al . Q be . of the prohibition movement In tho °n„“ strictures' crerTroposcd" 3 Willi! In * untoldoa ln th< ' «*patehe. com-! South "' J0W thut moro ,hon hal( tlie ROAD CONTENTION IS III SETTLED A contention existing for some tlmo between J. R. and T. Bunn and other* on one side and J. J. Murray and oth- on the other, was settled on you th© approaches It will be three miles long and "ill span Hurl Gate (Hell Gate)) ship channel with an cnor- mous arch 1,000 feet in the clear. Tho entire bridge except the piers for the arch will be steel, having an estimated weight of 8,000 tons. A noved fea ture is that tho train floor of tjj© bridge instead cf resting on the crown of the arch it Is hung from it. Tho crown of the bridge Is three hundred feet above the water, and tho floor 140 feet, enabling tho largest vessels to pass under It with case. It will have four tracks, two for tho passen ger trains and two for freight trains The lower portion of the towers will be granite and tho upper part con crete. ing In today from Calabria and Sicily. South’s territory is “dry” absolutely,) torday. A temporary Injunction It Is a story of indescribable horror J annd that In the remaining area listed been granted by Ju.lje Parker against •' nA >ni._u.. Tj;0 earthquake ofj ftS ‘wot” the sale of intoxicants f4 A BIG DECREASE IN Washington, Dec. 31.—That tho de crease of approximately 1300,000,000 In Imports and perhaps $160,000,000 in export in the commerce of the Unit ed States during the calendar year 190S is merely part of a general con dition, which has prevailed the world over, is ‘ibewn by tho monthly state ment of the Bureau of Statutes. Of the 25 principal countries of the world whose foreign commerce tho bureau records month by month, all but lour show a falling off in exports and nearly two-thirds show n falling off In imports. THE ROANOKE MINE HCROR GROW8. Roanoke, Va., Dec. 31.—The latest news received at tho Norfolk and Western Railway Company headquar ters here from the Lick Branch coal mine disaster is to the effect that twenty-two dead bodies have been re moved. Eighteen miners have crawled out unaided and five others havu boon brought out alive by rescue parlies. It Is now believed that from 35 to 60 miners remain in tho mine and there is no hope entertained that any of them are alive. PAULK KILLS NEGRO AT FITZGERALD. and calamity Monday morning wrought havoc and destruction that ounnot bo estimated. Italy is stunned by a visitation des cribed as the greatest disaster in the memory of living man. Yet cho fuii measure of tho cKljkstropho has not been taken. The calamity craws with tho receipt of every fresh djspatch from tho south. Calabria la dotted with small towns and villages, and now locali ties are reporting almost hourly, casu- ality lists that runjfrom tho hundreds into tho thousands. It Ib still impos sible to reach any accurate estimate of the dead, but the total number is placed anywhere between 100,000 and 160,000. In some quarters it Is de clared that the final numbers will be sb high ns 200,000.persons. One half of the population of Calabria and eas tern Sicily apparently has perished. Countless, thousands of wounded men, women and children aro dying today ln the ruins. It Is utterly im possible to succor them all. Number less wounded of the survivors who have made their way to other cities arp 8till without medical attention. Thefacllitltes for proper care oven ln the pities that did not suffer aro in adequate. The devnsted district Is still filled with half-demented survivors, starving and wandering ainil ssly In the rain. Tho ruins are still burning. King Victor Emanuel and Queen Helena arrived Jn Messina today, and both personally went to work to aid tho In jured. Their example has been a wonderful Inspiration to the wholo country. Every jnsiblc thing is being done to forward tho work of relief, but tho rall-oads into the afflicted lines have been put out of operation. Bagnam, a town of 10,000 people, north of Hog- gio, ia reported ns annihilated. Tho entire population is said to have per ished. Reggio, a city of 50,000 peo ple has been practically demolished. Tho detail stories from refur/eos only add horror upon horre: to tho calamities of the fateful day. Fresh earth shocks wero felt last night at Plzzo. (n Calabria, nnd Palermo, 8iclly. They were not so- vere. Half tho population of Calabria aud the eastern pnrt of Sicily are dead the other half Is weeping. And so the terrible story goes and grows worse. Rome, December 30.—South Italy and the Island of Sicily have been visited by an appalling calamity, the extent of which cannot yet be grasp ed. An earthquake has wrecked city after city and obliterated smaller towns and villages without number. Then a tidal wave swept along the Strait of Messina and added to the horror, drowning the people in their holplossncss and panic. Fire came to The art of money raising In the churches In England appears to be pro gressed even beyond the stage it has reached In this country. An adver tisement In the London Morning Post recently ran as follows: *‘To Bridge- Players: Ou the 1st of December next, the birthday of our Gracious Queen, will you give one-twcntietli of your bridge winnings that day, to assist In building an extra aisle In St. Paul's church, Winchester?" One would think that when gamblers are asked to build churches His 8atanlc Majesty might put in s claim to be a brick member.—Telegraph. Fitzgerald, Ga., Dec. SO.r-At 9:30 last night as Hon. John B. Paulk stepped on the porch of tho residen ce of Ellas Paulk, of this city, he was grabbed by a negro, who threw him to tbo ground. During the struggle Paulk man aged to draw his pistol, but it was caught by tho negro and went off without effect. Paulk then Jerked away and „ TJ . tr .T. T „ u „ . ..» his assailant through tbo head, kill- 1 complete the work of destruction. Ing him Instantly. ] Flames broke out In tho devastated A coroner’s jury gave a verdict of cities and countless numbers of wound- Justifiable homicide. | e d men, women and children were Mr. Paulk was formerly clerk of burned to death, court of Irwin county and is a prom-j Any adequate estimate of tho total lnent citizen. [casualitios is as yet quite Impossible. but reports places the number at be- upon a restricted sale. The cities are tho only remaining strongholds for saloons ,and It is unlikely that this condition will be modified, except through a radical change in political thought, through failure to enforce tho laws against tho liquor traffic, failure to solvo tho problem growing out of deficits in county, municipal and state treasuries from a loss of tho whiskey tax, or inability to cop© with tho illicit salos of whiskey, and, perhaps, othor obstacles which follow In tho wake of prohibition. Goorgia now holds tho center of the stngo anti for a year has boon experi menting in wht is strictly a “near prohibition law” In that it forbids tho sulo of liquors containing moro than four por cent, of alcohol. Stato-wldo prohlblton laws bocome effective on January 1 in North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, in each of which a majority of counties had heretofore prohibited tho salo of liquor. Prohibi tion advocates in Ixmtst&na have sus pended their fight to tost tho now Gny-Shattuck law for tho regulation of tho liquor traffic, which also bo- comes operative January 1. Tho anti- saloon people say they will bo content If thl. law Is enforcod rigidly. Tennessoo is the chief centor of In terest among tho othor States where Stato-wldo bill will pass tho Legisla ture which they expect to organize and control. With tho backing of the 8tato machinery, tho local option for ces aro equally confidant that such a bill will meet dofeat. Kentucky, tho second largest dis tilling State in tho Union, with 119 counties, has but four In which tho sale of liquor is not prohibited. , Virginia presents a string of vie torles for tho anti-saloon element, ns prohibition now exists In eighty of the 8tate's hundred counties. In Texas, where more than half tho countfos hav^' accopted prohibition tho voters soon will bo callod upon to vote upon* a constitutional amend mont foe-prohibition. In Arkansas two-thirds of Its area, or 76 counties aro " dry” and tho ques tion of Statc-wldo prohibition will bo presented to tho voters for decision. Florida is partially “dry” through local option, and, like some of the other States, tho sale of liquor prin cipally is confined to tho cities. Tho results of prohibition generally are gleaned from reports Indicating n great decrease in tho record of ar rests for drunkenness, an Increase In tho bank deposits of laborers, fewer cases of wifo abandondonmont, and a decrease la crlminnlity gonorally. Tho difficulty of enforcing tho prohibition laws, howover Is conceded to bo one of tho chief obstacles to Its absolute success In many states and this phaso of the question, together with a fall ing c-fT in revenues is to some extent baffling to the authorities. the County Commissioners at the in- blance of Mr. Murray, to prevent tho o.ytcnslpn of tho road loading from Coleman's bridge over the Satilla river across £ultwood’s creek, to in tersect with tho Worcsboro nnd Mill- wood road at tho Crawley farm In tho direction of Fairfax. Pending same t'n Messrs Bunn and others pe titioned tho Commissioners to es tablish said road ns a public road and Mr. Murray and others petitioned tho Commissioners for a public road lead ing from Hasty to Intersect with tho Coleman's bridge and Fullwood crook road. Another petition signed by a large number of citizens was also filed for tho establishment of a pub lic road running fcom Hasty to Man or. All the parties and their witnes- appeenrod on yestorday before tho Commissioners. Hon. L. A. Wilson, ro- presenting Messrs. Bunn and others and Judgo J. L. Sweat representing Mr. Murray anl others, when an agreement was reached to establish all tho roads asked for by tho differ ent prtlen nnd orders to that effect were accordingly passed. MAY'S MILL AND FEED 8TOR& too POUND* SritgsIgnpM' M :2T It has come to pass in Valdosta when yu can’t sell peanuts on Sunday Valdosta will soon be perfection per sonified. The girl *ho expected to get a seal skin sack Christmas and instead re ceived a pair of bed room slippers, U making np the difference in unhap py thoughts. Leap year to not yet over. She might try a new venture. We have our new mill ln operation and are prepared to make as fine a quality of meal, as any water mill could possibly make. We have large mill rocks that run very alow which prevents tho meal from heating. Our meal la much sweeter than the ship ped meal, as we do not bleach our com, which destroya ita natural sweetness. We will in a few days publish the names of theGrocery who sell our meal. If you have not yet tried our Horse and Cow Feed, try a sack. It to put up strictly to com ply with the Pure Food Law. Phone • g. Mur*’ Mill ft Feed Store tween 00,000 and 70,000. Tho horror and destructiveness of this visitation probably will exceed that of any earthquako since 1873, when 40,000 persons perished nt Me»- xlnn alone. Reports of heavy loss of life are coming in every hour from city and town, and nearly every village in too stricken zono, and tho story in Ita detail has only begun to bo tolJ. The horror grows as further reports come In. Messina has been tireswept. The dead there alone will ran into tho tens of thousands. Reggio to a se pulchre of the dead. Catania suffered severely. Mount Aetna, tho volcano on the Island of Sicily, Is active. The deton ations are reverberating over Catania and add to the terror. Volumes of smoke are pouring from the crater. The work of rescue to being pusbeJ forwarl with every possible energy. Tho Atlanta Constitution remarks that Editor Pendleton to kooplng his friends busy these days congratulating him. He is turning tricks rapidly these days and Is incidentally doing some lino editorial work. Pendleton is too peer of any writer in tho state or tho South oither for that matter. Troopa are being poured Into tlho zone, but tho efforts at succor are as yet utterly K Inadequate. France, Great Britain and Russia are hurry ing warship* to tho scone. King Victor Emanuel nnd Quen He lena have left Romo for the south. His majesty will superintend in per son tho work of relief. The queen, re fusing to let her husband go alone, in sisted upon sharing bis dangers. The pope baa male an $>ppeal to Ro man Catholics the world over for help. He baa headed toe relief fubscrlptlons list with a donation of $290,000. There Is consternation In Rome. The telegraph anj newspaper offices are besieged by weeping crowds, de manding news. Every fresh telegram tells the same story of death, destruc tion and desolation. ANOTHER WICKED FLEA. Tho world at large 1* greatly in terested In tho announcement that a noted scientist, who has been study ing tho causes of bubonic plaguo, has discovered a new species of tho wick ed flea. i only with Infinite patienco ar.d perseverance that scientists have been able to capture and class!- the various species which wero al ready knqwn. That marvelous muscular development which enables them to make a flying leap of sovcrul hun- cs their own length had modo thorn distinctly elusive. And yet fC hud been thought that there wore specimens of every existing specie* in captivity. This nows from tho Prclflc coast is therefore disturbing, for if tho na tural history of tho now specimen to not overdrawn In point of description, ho Is the most ferocious yet captured. He Is described as being blind. The •Id method of taming them by looking cm firmly and steadily In tho oyo will not work with this now species. Hypnotists passos over him and men- have no terrors for him. zn tho man-eating shark has only two rows of teeth, But this new mon ster from tho Orient Is said to bo armed with not less ihn i ilx rows, t would not bo accurate lo say that ho bites. Ho devours. With a spacious affection he Insin uates himself luto the very bosom of hig victim nnd when ho gotstowhero he can stick dosor than a brother ho provokes himself to a blind lrago which is very disconcerting, when tho azuallant has six rows of tooth. The common or garden flea, as we havo said, has a marvelous capacity for giving elaps, but the now specie* Is said to be a prizo wlnnor. Pre sumably he has leaped all tho way from the Caromadel coast to the Gol den Gate, or mayhap from tho mud banks of tho Hoangho. That is something of a leap, tor those degenerate dnyi. A close scrutiny clears up the mys- ry as to what, bos been causing t o bubonic i laguo. The Ilea Is the of fender. The ratg are vindicated. But, after nil, It can matter but iittlo whether this now- species of flea transmits the plague or not. He I* a plague within himself. A large sod growing colony of him, dispersed over a community would make any ordinary plague seems like a relief. The fact he Is yellow In color Is a trivial detail which might havo been spared us. The yellow peril ha* al- rady assumed forms enough. We havo just succeeded in effecting a treaty which will protect ds from one yellow Invasion and now comes an other. It Is like Insulting our dto- tress.—Constitution. Alegrette’a Candles just received. M g. j