The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, February 10, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE DAWSON NEWS. BY E. L. ¥s Dozi;; i oW ’ e Diliberately Mounted It In Smith ville and Opened the Throttle. DAING"ACT OF A DESPERADO Locomotive Was Pulling the South wound Freight Train, and Was 1 aiting Orders to Leave for Daw <. Fireman Was Beneath the Wwheels, But by Miracle Climbed Over the Rods to the Cab and .\:(:])p(‘d the I“light. y well nigh successful attempt at ene ne stealing was made on the Cen tral railroads yards at Smithville Fri day morning, and for a mile the spriv: had all the thrill of the famous chase after the ‘“General,” only there was no lynching in this instance. Vegro Crawls on Engine, Central Railway freight train No. 99, southbound from Macon, was waiting orders on a siding to resume the run to Dawson. The engineer wee away from the locomotive tem porarily, while the fireman was be neath the engine making some very slight repairs. it was a clear field for Mr. Nigger, the bold buccaneer. Seized with a spirit of deviltry he mounted the locomotive and pulled the throttle, utterly regardless of the presence ofg the fireman under neath the boiler head. As the engine began moving the fireman instinctively scrambled to oot out of the way, as he realized his perilous position. It was too late to crawl out in front of the driving wheels, as the space is limited and they were turning fast. | ’ kscape of the Fireman. Seizing upon one of the parallel rods connecting the ponderous driv ine wheels the thoroughly fright ened but nervy fireman pulled him self up from the ground and by al~! most superhuman effort reached the running board. ] From this place of safety he could see that the engineer was out of the cab and a strange black face there’ instead, a black hand holding the‘ throttle. By this time the engine had run | the distance of a half mile, and was picking up a lively sprint in the di-| rection of Dawson. The fireman was‘ alive to the emergency, and made a dash towards the cab, expecting to meet a maniac.g ‘ | For surely, he thought, only a crazy man would do such a thing. ‘ Negre Leaped From Engine. Realizing that his ride was about to end abruptly, and probably fear ing the fireman would kill him on the spot, the black engine stealer re leased the throttle and made a jump for the ground. He landed running at very brisk speed. Uy this time the town was aroused, and citizens eame running to the res cue, ¢ xpecting to find someone Kkilled. ['he crowd pursued the fleeing ne gro, and after a chase of a few hun dred vards the ‘“‘coon” was captured. I'he negro was terribly frightened, evidently expecting bodily harm, or a sound thrashing at the least. tle was carried to the town lockup, ina later transferred to the Lee county jail to await trial. Fngine Put Under Control. ‘s quickly as possible the fireman il the cab stopped the locomotive 'mts wild dash towards Dawson and ook it back to the Smithville depot. '«'_nznnrally the affair created a very lively sensation in that - busy little town., l ‘e fireman had the closest call all his railway experience, and his cool head saved him from being ground to death beneath the ocomotive, | CHURCH THOUSAND YEARS OLD. e Historical Church of St. John the Baptist Reopened. The ancient church of St. John the Paptist, at Milborne Port, which is U=t mentioned in Domesday Book, ' Just been reopened by the bishop Ol Bath and Wells, after being re stored at a cost of £1,280, without 41y damage to its historical interest ‘ud associations. The church was -ranted by William the Conquerer, “th 120 acres of land, to Reinbald, "ho had served Edward the Confess “" as chancellor or prime minister. - Was probably built under the latgr ~ixon kings, but the precise dat_e is ‘ncertain. The fine peal of eight 'ells, which had not been rung for "Ity years owing to wne dangerous “lite of the tower, were once more terrily pealed on the occasion of the '“Opening, the tower having been ‘“ndered quite secure.—London Standard, SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS WERE GIVEN EARTHQUAKE SUFFERERS Sixteen millions of dollars is the “m that the charity of the world 148, so far, poured out for the bene 't of the earthquake sufferers in Ca 4nia and Sicily. About one-fourth KNOT WAS TIED SUDDENLY. Couple Was Married Before They Knew What Was Going On. Peter Schulz and Lola Walters were married at Fairfield, 111., Sat urday before they knew it. The wedding was set for Sunday night at Noble. They came together into town and obtained the license. Justice MceNeil, who was standing by, took the license and told them to join hands. In less than a minute they were married. He asked them no questions. All he said was: *I pronounce you man and wife; $5, please.” ‘“‘Hey, stop!” yelled the bride groom. ‘‘We don't want to get mar ried right now. We are going to get married tomorrow night, and there’s going to be a supper and big doings. The whole country is invited.” ‘“Too late,” replied the magistrate. “Thought you wanted the knot tied. Five, please.” The bridegroom paid. “The wed ding supper goes, anyhow,” he said, “but I don’t know abcut the church business.”’ UNCLE JOE'S NEW STORY. How a Congressman Dismissed a Re flection on the House. Speaker Cannon has added to the literature of the wordy war between congress and the white house. Un cle Joe is credited with a story that has set all congress to laughing, says a Washington dispatch. It deals with a member of the house who went home after a late session at the club rather wabbly as to legs and somewhat thick as to speech. At 3 o’clock in the morning Mrs. Con gressman dug her snoring spouse in the ribs with her elbow. ‘““John,” she whispered excitedly, “John, wake up!” 4 “Ugh!” he grunted. “John, for mercy’s sake, wake up!” she whispered again, empha sizing her appeal with a second vig orous dig. Another grunt was all that greeted her. “For heaven’'s sake, John, wake up!” she whispered frantically, “There are robbers in the house!” “You'r misiitak'n, m’ dedr,” said the congressman, composing himself for sleep. ‘“‘Ain’t any robbers in the house. They're all in the shenate.” WAS IT WORTH THE COST? Battleship Fleet Soon to Be at Home After a Trip Costing $20,000,000. Now that the Atlantic bhattleship fleet is on its way home—will in fact be in Hampton Roads by the 22nd of this month if present plans don't fail—the question whether the bene fits the fleet has derived from the trip are worth the cost of it will be pret ty generally discussed. It is esti mated that the entire cost to the American people will be about $20,- 000,000 by the time the trip is fin ished. Of course all of this vast sum will not be spent in repairs. There have been enormous expenses at the various ports at which the fleet has stopped and the 16,000 men of the fleet have spent in foreign countries a great deal of money which they would have spent at nhome if the trip around the world hadn’t been made. CONVENTION IN A CHURCH It Was Held in the Interest of the Ship Subsidy Scheme. Mixing Politics With Religion. A New York dispatch says the first of five meetings to be devoted to the advancement of the interests of the American merchant marine was held Monday night in the Metropolitan temple of that city, of which the Rev. John Wesley Hill is pastor. The meetings are being held under the auspices of the National Merchant Marine League. Letters from President Roosevelt and President-elect Taft commend ing the purpose of the meetings, which is the stimulation of public in terest in the growth of the merchant marine, were read. Among the prom inent men taking part in the con ference are the Hon. James E. Mec- Cleary, representative from Minne sota; John Barrett, diréctor of the bureau of American republics; Hen ry Clews, Leslie M. Shaw, John J. McCook and Myron T. Herrick. One purpose of the conference is the ad vocacy of legislation compelling the carrying of American mail to Europe and elsewhere in American ships. The members of the league generally favor the ship subsidy plan. The pastor of the temple is in fa vor of the mixture of politics and economics with religion, with a view to the uplifting of the former. With that end in view he has invited the promoters of meetings of publi¢ in terest to hold them in the temple. The principal speaker Monday night was Congressman Humphreys of Washington. of this amount was raised in the United States. Great Britain, show ing her usual spirit, has contributed about $625,000. Heathen China has contributed more than some christian nations. DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1909. WOULD COLONIZE HUMANITY'S “CULLS” LAW OF HEREDITY IS FIKED. DEAN OF AG RICULTURAL COLLEGE ADVOCATES IT. CHlCAGO.—Extraordinary experi ments were related and radical meas ures advocated at one of the largest meetings of Chicago physicians in the history of the city for the discussion of the problems of heredity. Dr. Eugene Davenport, dean and director of the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois, created a great sensation among the several hundred doctors when he advocated the application of the fundamental principles of eugenics for improve ment of the human race. His treat ment of the subject was based not only on the paper read to the meet ing, but also on his own vast expe rience in meeting the practical 1 rob lems of live stock breeding. His chief proposal was that all the “culls” or ‘“‘scalawags’ of the human race should be taken before the courts, scientifically investigated, and, if found unworthy, colonized and allowed to die off. Experiments in Intermarriage. Scarcely less interesting was the recital of Dr. W. L. Tower, professor of zoology of the University of Chi cago, who told of experiments in in termarriage of Anglo-Americans, Ger man-Americans and Irish-Americans with the Indians of southern Mexico. He announced important scientific deductions arrived at as a result of comparing these with similar exper iments with different varieties of a certain small South American beetle. Other men who have devoted their lives to a study of heredity in pig eons, evening primroses, guinea pigs, turtle doves, rabbits and rats showed the results of their experiments in the form of stereopticon views and stuffed animals, and drew therefrom interesting conclusions. The meeting was a joint one of the Physicians’ Club of Chicago and the Chicago Medical Society for the purpose of instructing the profes sion in Chicago in the latest develop ments in the study of heredity with the hope that the knowledge might PHYSICIANS SAID THAT HE WAS DEAD, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE HE IS NOT. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Should : the most gkillful surgeons and physicians of the city who for thirty hours have been heroically fighting for the life of Joseph Modrzegeuka succeed science will have triumphed over ‘death, and there wiil be a proven case of a man dead being brought back to life again. Hour after hour ‘the unequal struggle continues, and the latest reports from St. Joseph's hospital indicate that the grip of death is being loosened and that the young man, electrocuted by a ter rific current, has a fighting chance. Modrzegeuka was a workman in the big Great Northern shops, 18 years of age and of powerful build. In feeding a heavy bar of iron into a motor driven machine in some un known way he completed a short circuit and the full power of 480 volts of alternating current was transmitted through his body to the ground. He was picked up appar ently dead, and Dr. Stern, who was immediately called, pronounced life extinct. Then began the wierdest sequence of which a human was ever victim. | The body was removed to the ('it_\" morgue, but a few hours later, at< the orders of the parents, was trans ferred to the rooms of an under taker for preparation for burial. The corpse was laid out upon a slab :mdl the undertaker was beginning his| gruesome work when Deputy Coroner Murphy arrived to make the usual examination and certify to death. Something in the appearance of the flesh of the corpse aroused his in terest. In a few minutes he gave rush orders to summon the mostl skillful physicians in the city, and at once made slight incisions in the flesh. Blood flowed, clotting upon the skin. Other tests were applied, and before the wondering physicians every known test to determine death was applied. Science declared that the body contained life. The undertaker was dismissed and the body hastily protected and taken instantly to the operating room of the big hospital, where oxygen tanks and electrical heating apparatus which lay an impelling grasp upon the heart and force the muscles of the lungs to action were brought into action. 'After many hours unmistak able action of the principal vital or gans was detected. The fight con tinues hour by hour, and at the bed side are the most skillful men of science who could be summoned. Should the battle succeed it will be a case of the dead raised again to life and action. Mr. Watson’s Jeffersonian says that Geo. Bell was tried by a packed jury and sent back to the asylum. be of practical benefit to them in their daily work. Would Improve Human Race. Not until Dean Davenport, who has taken a breed of cows vielding 150 pounds of butter a year and de veloped therefrom cows vielding 1,- 000 pounds of butter a year, spoke was the practical human end of the problem taken up without gloves. “We must first consider what the end ‘of our breeding is to be,” he said. “Whether it is to be produc tion of a few superior individuals or the general elevation of the race. If the first we must proceed as in the breeding of thoroughbred racehorses. If the second, as in the production of good average fat stock for the farm. ““As to the first it is not necessary to consider whether any further ad vance in this regard is practical or not, for the human race today is working it out of its own accord. In tha?l long run our system of preferen tial mating produces persons of ex ceptional talent. Like mates with like, and people of exceptional abil ity in any line, musical, artistic, com mercially, are naturally thrown to gether by their common tastes and unite thus, bringing forth phenome nal individuals in-all lines. Marriage Laws Easily Evaded. “Some péople advocate better mar riage laws. Marriage laws have nothing to do with it. The only so lution is the absolute prevention of reproduction among the culls, human as well as animal. One way is to colonize them. Some people express abhorrence at the idea, but do we not already colonize the insane, and, temporarily, the criminals? “Let Mr. Jones be taken into court and his ancestry record be investi gated. If we find his parents were dominantly bad it means that he is 50 per cent. bad. If his grandpar ents were also bad he is 25 per cent. more bad, and so on. When he gets to 90 per cent. bad it is certain he must be colonized. I feel sure that this is entirely practical, and hope it will be soon made a fact. There is a strict mathematical law that runs through it all.” lnuu KISS CAN BREAK spml STRANGE MAN'S FACE INDELI BLY PRINTED ON HER MEM- 1 ORY, SAYS MISS GERBER. i ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Still insist‘ng‘ that she is under the hypnotic in 'ﬂuence of a handsome stranger, ]whom she met on board a train while traveling from her home in Chicago !to this city, and that she cannot be released from her spell until she has again met and kissed the man, Miss Alice Gerber, whose case is puzzling the local doctors, was this afternoon ’removed from a private sanitarium iin this city, where she has been un ‘der the care of nurses since Friday night, to the home of her brother, ;Morris Gerber, in South Bethlehem. ~ There is little improvement in the | young woman’s condition, and while she is at times rational she soon re lapses into a state of hysteria, re sembling a trance. During these periods her body is rigid as if in death, and the administration of pow erful restoratives is necessary to re vive her. ‘“That man’s face is so in delibly imprinted upon my memory,”’ declared Miss Gerber today, ‘that. it is simply impossible to escape it. He accompanied me all the way from Chicago to Allentown, and when I left the train he told me that he would return on Mondav afternoon and remove the spell with a kiss.” Miss Gerber was on her way to Boston, where she was to be married next Wednesday to Charles Burnett, a wealthy broker, whom she met some months ago in Chicago. It is declared that the match was made by some of her close relatives, and that the young woman intended to become the bride of Burnett against her wishes, having a wooer in Chica go who had asked her to marry him and whom she prefers to the Boston man. Her relatives’ insistence that she should become the wife of the broker, the physicians who are at tending her declare, is partly respon sible for her condition. SWALLOWED KNIFE AND FORK. Demented Man’s Life Saved by an Immediate Operation. Some remarkable things that a de mented man swallowed were made known to the Richmond asylum board, Dublin. ~ In the minutes of the visiting com- | mittee was a report from Dr. Done-: lin that a male patient, transferred from another asylum on Oect. 10th, complained a day or two later of pain, and said he had swallowed a knife and fork. An X-ray examination at the Rich mond Hospital revealed the presence of a foreign substance in the man’s, Stomach. An operation was per formed and a knife, fork and | S e en muffler were removed. GAVE BLOOD TO SAVE NEGRESS. First Instance of This Kind on Rec ord in This Country. A New York dispatch says: What is believed to be the first case of blood transfusion from a white man to a negress was brought to a suc cessful issue here today at Bellevue hospital. The patient, Julia Her ring, a 25-year-old negress, was brought to the hospital suffering from internal hemorrhage. The sur geons in attendance decide that the only hope of saving her life lay in the transformation of new blood. The situation was explained to the orderlies of the hospital by Dr. Gel ser, the surgeon in charge of the case, and an appeal made by him that some one among them volun teer to save the woman’s life. Several offered their blood, and Gustav Labrink, 25 years old, em ployed at the hospital as a messen ger, was chosen for the operation. About a pint of the white maa's blood was transfused. The negress, the surgeons report, rallied almost Immediately after the operation, but before midnight the condition of the patient grew worse. The negress sank rapidly and died in a few min utes. TAX TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. The *“Nigh"” License in Cuthbert Is Increased $9,950. Cuthbert’s city council was greet ed Tuesday night at their regular monthly meeting by the Ministerial Union of the city, being composed of Revs. 8. W. Dußose, chairman; J. E. Seals, secretary; J. F. Eden and J. W. Malone, all of whom were present. The object of their visit was to protest against the near beer saloons in Cuthbert. All the minis ters spoke on the subject, and all were honest, earnest and sincere in their talks, believing that the foamy suds are hurtful and detrimental in its effects to the drinker, and menac ing to sobriety, and has an immoral influence upon the youth of our city. Learning that the city had already issued two licenses for the sale of the near beer for the present year, which cannot be revoked except in case the conditions under which they were granted be violated, the Union urged the council to pass an ordi nance fixing the sale of the stuff from $5O to $lO,OOO per annum in the future. The council complied with this re quest, and raised the tax to $lO,OOO, which virtually means that no more near beer saloons will be operated in Cuthbert. —Cuthbert Liberal Enter prise. , MILLIONS ARE HOARDED. Your Uncle Sammie Indulges in Some More Statistics, According to an estimate recently made by the federal government $500,000,000 is being hoarded in pri vate hands at this time. If this mon ey were deposited in the banks where it would draw on an &verage of 3 per cent. a year it would mean the addition of $15,000,000 yearly to the wealth of the United States—a very tidy sum and well worth saving. In other words, the hoarding habit costs the people of this country $15,- 000,000 annually. White Convict About to Be Whipped at Arlington Assaulted the Informer. A white convict by the name of Ezelle, now serving out a five-year sentence at the Stetson Lumber Com pany’s saw mill at Arlington, made an unsuccessful attempt to end the life of J. E. Poppel, the conductor on the log train of the lumber com pany. Ezelle had been reported to War den Woods on charges that demand ed a whipping, and when the warden went after him, telling him to come with him for the purpose of being whipped, he remarked that he would come, but would kill Poppel before he came, and before either of the men could act he had struck at Pop pel with a hand saw, aiming at the‘ conductor’s head. Poppel saw him just in time to dodge and throw up his arm to ward off the blow. As it was the saw hit his forearm, nearly cutting it off, the same lick cutting off the brim of his ‘wool hat and making a bad scratch on the side of his face. | Ezelle evidently intended to kill him, as he was barely prevented from splitting his head open. His motive is believed to be that he thought Poppel had reported him to the warden. Ezelle was sent up from Macon a year or so ago for Kiiling a machin ist under whom he was working in the city of Macon. Ezelle will be presented to the next grand jury of Calhoun county on a charge of as sault with intent to kill. HAVE YOU $35 IN YOUR JEANS ? UNCLE SAM SAYS SO, ANYWAY WASHINGTON.—The total esti mated amount of money in circuia tion in the United States on Febru ary Ist, ‘as given by the division of loans and carrency, was $3,091,312,- VOL. 27.---NO. 20. e Right Up to Now Will Be Daw ’ son’s New Telephone Plant. e lAnd Then Ring Some More and Wait and Say Things. Automatic Sig nals for the Hello Girls Will Be ~ Flashed on Switchboard Equipped ~ With Hundreds of Tiny Electric ~ Lamps When Their Attention and ~ Services Are Desired. / . The statement in the last Issue of The News that the Dawson Tele phone Co. had decided to install an ‘entirely new plant at a cost of sey ‘eral thousand dollars was read with interest by the general public, and especially so by the patrons of the company. - It is intended to give the same class of service that is given to peo ple who live in the large cities. ~_The company intends to do away with the old style local battery “‘coffee grinder’ telephones, and fur nish in their place neat, compact tel ephones which signal “Central” au tomatically when the receiver is re moved from the hook. ~ To accomplish this means many things besides changing the tele phone sets at the subscriber's sta tions. It means not only bran new telephone sets, but new transmitters, new hand telephones and a new com plete office installation, with a power plant to furnish the current to run the entire plant. The new switchboard will be equipped with hundreds of tiny elec tric lights instead of the old style drops, which have to be restored by hand every time a subscriber calls Central, or rung off when through with a conversation. With the new board when a subscriber wishes Central he will remove the receiver from the hook, which immediately lights a tiny lamp associated with the line.jack in the switchboard. The operator will plug in, automati cally extinguishing this lamp, se cure the number wanted, and plug in and ring on the required line. Until the party who is called an swers his telephone a small lamp as sociated with the cord used in mak ing the connection will burn, thus telling the operator that the party has not answered, making it unnec essary to cut in on the connection to inquire. As soon as the party who is called does answer this light will go out, but when the conversa tion is finished and both parties hang up their receivers a Jamp will glow on each cord used in the connection, automatically “‘ringing off.” These lamps will go out when the cords are removed from the calling and answering lines, thus completing a switch, If the subscriber is not answered promptly, or desires another con nection at the completion of the first one, he can easily attract the oper ator’'s attention by moving his switch hook up and down slowly, thus flash ing the lamp at his line terminal. As may be imagined, the minature lamps used in this board cannot be operated by the regular electric light current used in illuminating the city, as the voltage is too great, so that storage batteries will be pro vided with a capacity great enough to run the exchange a whole week. To provide against the possibility of a shut-down a gasoline engine and generator wiil be included in the outfit, so that the exchange will not in any way be dependent upon the local electric light plant. The contract with the company of whom the apparatus has been bought provides that the new system shall be installed and working by April 25, 1909. By that date all the tele phone sets in the town will have beema changed to the new type, the stations rewired, new protectors in stalled and the new board cut into service, when the subseribers to the exchange will receive service just as good as is furnished anywhere in the United States. ASKS $20,000 FOR LOST HAIR. Miss M. L. Bowman Used a Patent Dye and Now Wears a Wig. Miss M. L. Bowman of New York is the complainant in an unusual damage suit filed in Milwaukee. She sues for $20,000 for the loss of her hair through the use of a patent hair dye. The defendants are a drug company of Fond du Lac and a drug company of St. Louis. The New York woman, who is a traveling saleswoman, says she vis ited Fond du Lac drug store last March and purchased a bottle of the compound. She used it, and within six hours, she says, her hair had be gun to decay and shrivel up, and in a short time she was entirely bald and was forced to wear a wig. 546. The present per capita ecircu~ lation is estimated at $35, the high est ever reached in the history of the country. All wmwmm hold up -their hands. = .