Charlton County herald. (Folkston, Ga.) 1898-current, September 10, 1908, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextLABOR DAY OBSERVED Througlﬁmt- the Country With Big Parades and Spezches. W. J. BRYAN AT CHIiCAGO John Mitchell Spoke at Marion, lilinois. Birmingham, Savannah and Atlanta Had Big Celebration. Birmingham, Ala.—Labor day in Bir mingham was unusually strenuous this year. In addition to the great picnic at Germania Park the crowds in the city were increased enormous ly by the reception tendered the first train over the new Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic raillroad; the open ing of the national convention of the postoffice clerks, which is attended by over 500 delegates, and the congres sional district teachers’ institute,which opened with teachers attending from four counties. While the crowds were the largest seen since the confederate reunion no disorders of moment were reported, Marion, Ill.—John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Work ers of America, addressed two thou sand people at the Labor day celsbra tion here. Mr. Mitchell spoke of the rapid advance of laboring classes and denounced the idea that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer. He said that recently he had had political ambition, but had abandoned all aspirations in tnat direction. He spoke highly of the judiciary, but crit icised .its course in some injunction cases, Atlanta, Ga.—This city was wholly in the hands and in keeping of work ing men of this section of the state on Monday. From every county in the congressional district working men came to take part in the day’s exercises, and along with the _me chanic came the farmey, the agricul turist being as much enthused over the prospects of the day as his fellow producer, who has long been looking with pleasant anticipation from one Labor day to another, Never before has Atlanta seen a larger or more thoroughly organized body move through the streets. It would reguire a well-trained military body to surpass the work of the un ions. There is not a working force in Atlanta that was not represented in that line of march. Chicago, Ill.——Organized labor Mon day paid tribute to William J. Bryan. Although it was labor day, it soon be came manifest that the workers had surrendered their privilege and made it Bryan day. Within an hour after his arrival in the city the democratic candidate for president, standing on the balcony of the Auditorium hotel, received the plaudits of thousands of toilers as they marched by in the mon ster labor parade. The air was rent with cheers, and the enthusiasm was unbounded. iSavannah, Ga.—Thirty floats, two scores of labor unions, detachments of police and fire department, with many carriages made up the most elaborate parade as part of a La fbor day celebration Savannah has seen in many years, filing for many miles through the city streets. The city enjoyed its general holi day, the parade being followed by a series of athletic events at Tybee, -where some creditable records were made by local athletes. The games all had a long List of entries. The stores all closed at 1 o’clock in the after noon, and the banks, city and other public buildings, were closed all day. BLACK HAND SYSTEM. Studied in Italy by New York Officials. New York City.—After making a study, with the aid of the Italian gov ernment, of the black band system ‘in that country. District Attorney Clarke, of Kings county, and Francis L. Carrao, his assistant, have arrived home. Their itinerary through Italy was kept secret on advice of Brook lyn Italians, because of the possibil ities from Italian criminals. Carrao learned on his arrival that a mass meeting of Italians would be held in Brooklyn to denounce him and demand his resignation. He was told that his fellow country men in Brooklyn were indignant over his written criticism concerning cor rupt practices in the Italian judiciary. WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND. Says He Was Mean to Her and Abused Her. Jonesboro, Ark.—Mrs. Arch Pickett shot and killed her husband, a well known resident of Jonesboro, because, she alleges, he was “mean to her and abused her.” Mrs. Pickett escaped with her step father, a prominent farmer, but both were arrested later, Mrs. Pickett confessed. FATAL FREIGHT WRECK. Engine Rolled Down an Embankment Scalding Fireman, Macon, Ga.—Tom ' Turner, an extra fireman, was scalded to death, and Engineer T. C, Benett and Conductor J. J. Rhodes were severely injured when the -engine of an extra freight on the Southern railway jumped the track on a siding at Scotland and turned down a steep embankment., A rail turned on the siding while some cars were being moved. When the en gine left the tracks all the men on board jumped except the fireman, who was scalded to death under the heavy wreckage. Conductor Rhodes was brought to the Macon hospital, PRI A ———— FOUR MEN SUFFOCATED. Fire in Fore Peak of British Bark Puritan. Botson, Mass.—Succumbing to the deadly fumes of burning pitch and oakum, deep down in the fore peak of the British bark Puritan, four sea men were suffocated and a fifth was partly overcome. The dead are Har ry E. Oslen, Carl Morsen, Peterson Beck, George Sunblade, The fire, which caused ongy slight damage, is supposed to ha’e been caused by spontaneous combustion, OF POLITICAL INTEREST, Before a large audience in Brown auditorium of the Ohio Northern Uni versity at Ada, Ohio, Professor Aaron S. Watkins was officially notified of his nomination as the candidate for vice president by the national pro hibition party. In his speech of ac ceptance Professor Watkins declared that the saloon is doomed in the Unit ed S&tes, " ~ Collar makers employed by a man ‘ufacturer at Galesburg, 111., sent Wil jliam Jennings Bryan a colar for Mr. Bryan's mascot mule. Every man in }he shop tecok part in making the col ar, The Bryan democrats of Baltimore are organizing a company to start a morning paper. The bolt of the Sun leaves Mr, Bryan out of the morning newspapers in Baltimore and the Bal timore papers cover Maryland. , A’socialist speaker in New York got 80 eloquent recently in telling about the awful condition of the work ingsman that one of them who was listening to him tried to commit sui cide on the spot, Generai Jacob S." Coxey, who led the army of unemployed men from' his home in QOhio to Washington fourteen years ago, has anounced that he in tends to work for the populist party and for the election of Thomas E. Watson during the presidential cam paign, Jay W. Forrest of New York, chair man of the national committee of the people’s party, has established south western headquarters for the populist organization at St. Louis. According to Chairman Forrest the populists will poll one million votes in November. E. W. Chafin, prohibition candidate for the presidency, in aspeech de livered at Spokane, Wash., said that one of the first things he would do after inauguration, should he be elect -ed, would be to clean up the District of Columbia. He said Washington was one of the vilest cities in the world, The political situatjon in New York state has been jolted %y the announce ment that Governor Hughes was kiss ed “by a striking blonde,” after his’ speech at a county fair. Just where the brunette influence will be thrown is an open question, Exhausted by ten speeches, Eugene V. Debs, candidate for president on the socialist ticket, arrived at Kan sas City on his red special from Des- Moines. Mr, Debs was greeted by a crowd of a hundred or more social ists. Outside of a few reporters Mr. Debs refused to see anyone. To the newspapermen, Mr. Debs said that he was contemplating ‘taking his red special from Omaha, Neb., to Birming ‘ham ,Ala,, to campaign for the strik ing coal miners there. It was decided and announced that Judge Taft with his family would ac cept the hospitality of his brother, Charles P, Taft, when he goes to Cin cinnati at least for the first few weeks of the campaign, . ~ Scores of republican spellbinders received a shock when Frank H. Hitchcock, the national chairman, an nounced that in the present campaign no salaries will be paid to speakers. Expenses will be allowed, but the fat salaries which were paid in the cam paigns of 1900 and 1904 will be kept in the treasury for other and more urgent needs. 2 Mr. Bryan visited St. Paul, Minn., and delivered several speeches in. which he expressed himself as being satisfled that Governor John A. John son of Minnesota, his leading rival for téae nomination before the Den-: ver Convention, will loyally support him in the coming campaign. After long debate, the Central Fed erated Union, which is the central or ganization of the labor unions of New York City, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, adopt ed a resolution pledging support to the democratic ticket. The independence league appeared for the first time at the recent elec tion in Vermont, and polled about 1,- 000 votes, while the prohibition and socialist vote remained about the same, In an open letter to friends in Tex as William Jennings Bryan makes an appeal to the Catholic vote. He pre faces his statement by references to reports alleged to have been circulat” ed in the present campaign to the ef fect that he was not and never had been disposed in a manner towarg Catholics, This Mr. Bryan denies, and while declaring he is_a member of the Presbyterian church he says he includes many Catholics among his dearest friends. ‘ “My gracious! It used to be that when I said a thing was to be done, that settled it. But it does not seem to be that way now. In these words, addressed-to a recent visitor to Sag amore Hill, President Roosevelt show ed that he chafed under the defiant attitude of the leaders of the republi can state organization on the ques tion of renominating Governor Hughes for governor of New York. Henry Waterson, editor of the Lou isville Courier-Journal, has given out a letter from Bishop Walters calling on negroes to vote the democratic ticket to secure fair treatment. W. J. Bryan will write each week until election a letter to be sent to every precinct democratic club in the country, giving advice and suggestion as to the campaign. The democratic national committee on college clubs organization includes the following southern members: F. H. Weston, South Carolina; H. H. Wallace, Athens, Ga.; M. T. Ormand, Alabama; A. A. Murphree, Florida; Luke Lea, Tennessee; C. Irving Carey, virginia; R, E. L. Saner, Texas; Josh ua W. Herring, Maryland, and J. W, Swartz, Oklahoma, | The organization of the eastern de partment of the democratic national committee has been completed and National Chairman Norman E. Mack has officially annouzced that National Committeeman Robert 8. Hudspeth, of New Jersey, had been chosen vice oBpuBWI 0} 991)WWIOD 9Y} JO ÜBULIIBYD the democratic campaign in the east. The democratic national commit tee has decided to establish an anti trust bureau in New York. William H. Black has been made head of the bureau of statistics and William Hoge the chairman of the commercial tra?v elers’ bureau. Loss From Flames at Rawhide, Nevada, Over $1,000,000. OVER 3,000 ARE HOMELBSS Volunteer Fire Department, Assisted By 500 Miners, Worked Heroically to Save the Place. Tl l Rawhide, Nev.—Three theusand people homeless, a scere or more in jured, and a property loss of over $1,000,000, is the result of a disas trous fire which started in Dr. Gard ner’'s office, located in the Rawhide Drug Company’s building. Fanned by a gale the fire swept rapidly south and east to Balloon avenue and up Rawhide avenue to within fifty yards of the People’s hospital. Over a ton and a half of dynamite was used in the demolition of build ings, which in a measure stayed the flames’ progress. The volunteer fire department and 500 miners worked heroically, but on account of the in flammable construction of the build f}ngs they were swept away like tin er. In a short time the business por tidon of Rawhide was a smoldering ruin, the flames being finally checked south cf Balloon avenue, Among the first buildings to go was Collins’ hardware store, which con tained two tons of dynamite that ex ploded with -a terrific rip, hurling burning planks and boards a great dis tance, setting fire to numerous build ings simultaneously, The scenes were similar to those at the fire at Goldfield in July, 1906, and at Cripple Creek in April, 1896. Many people were injured by flying debris, A famine was feared, as all the sup ply houses and grocery stores were wiped out. A subscription list was started, and in a few minutes over $5,000 was raised and a relief train started from Reno, carrying food and bedding. All the mining towns of the state came quickly to the assistance of Raw hide sufferers with cash contributions, San Francisco Mining Exchange at once sent "a contribution of SSOO. A partial list of the heaviest losers follows: First Bank of Rawhide, Bank of Rawhide, Press-Times building, Miz pah Mercantile Company, Nevada Meat Market, the Northern Texas, Richards, Marks & Co., Nevada Club, Downer Hotel, Kelly’s dance hall. The fire destroyed thé hoisting works of the Bluff Mining Coompany, Grutt Hill properties and the Grutt business office, the loss on these amounting to SIO,OOO, which is the extent of damage done the mining properties. 2 ° Plans were well under way for a reconstruction of the town before the ashes were cool. . PLAN TO TEACH WOMEN To Alight From Street Car Facing Front, Instead of Rear, ? Chicago, Ill.—A device for the pur pose of making women get off a street car without facini backward is being tried by the Chicago Qity Railway company, ; 5 The scheme was discovered in con nection with the pay-as-you enter type type of cars, which haye a handle on the “front door. Observing inspectors found that women in alighting seized the handle and, clinging to it, swung around to the outside door, alighting with their faces toward thé.rear, The remedy consists of the removal of the handle. Under th#® mew plan the door is openedby a mechanical device operated bﬁgxe motorman, The passenger has ndthing to grasp except a handle at the forward end of the step, and seemingly cannot help facing forward when leaving tt» car. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WARNED. In Regard to Participation in Polit e ical Campaigns, _~Washington, D. C.—A note of warn ing against federal employees resign ing to participate in political cam paigns with the expectation of possi bly re-entering the service is sound ed in a statement given out by the civil service commission defining its attitude, Inasmuch as the issuance of a cer tificate is discretionary with the com mission,” says the -letter, which is signed by President John R. Black, “no certificate will be issued in any case where the party seeking rein statement resigned with a view to running for office or indulging in a degree of political activity which would be prohibited if he had remain ed in the service, afterwards having failed in his candidacy, or having in dulged in the contemplated political activity, seeks reinstatement.” Big Railroad Strike Feared. Nottingham, England.—The opening of the trades union congress, repre senting 1,750,000 workmen has fore casted the greatest railroad strike in the history of England. A change in working conditions, which will be stoutly ressited by railroad compan ies, is to be demanded in the near future, and the congress will arrange for an exhausting contest, - Killed In Melbourne. ‘Washington, D. C.—Admiral Sperry, commander of the Atlantic battleship fleet, has cabled to the navy depart ment that Arthur J. Decker, a fireman attached to the battleship New Jersey, was killed in Melbourne, Australia. in a street car accident, Lives With Bullet in Head. Chicago, Ill.—George Blair is spend ing much of his time at the National Emergency hospital reading the news papers with a twenty-two calibre bul let in his head. He seems to suffer no inconvenience from the ball of lead. Blair, who is twenty-five years of age, was shot in the forehead with a rifle that he and Lawrence O’Brien, a friend, were playing with, The wounded man, then walked to the hospital a mile distant, AT 1 ! . FIRE SWEEPS BIG TREES. Ct&qihru Grove, One of Wonder: of ~ World, Is in Peril. ~ Sonora, Cal. — The Calaveras group ﬁof‘»f;v@ trees, one of the natural won ders of the world, is in serious dan- } &qg»\ot destruction by fire. Starting rem sparks thrown off by an engine used to haul logs, the fire quickly spread to the heavy timber a mile west of the north grove of big trees. All the forest rangers in the district were quickly gathered and they, 'to gether .with the settlers, many visit ors living in camps around and in the grove and the employces of the Big Tree hotel, have fought the flames ever since. The dead giants, however, will prob ably be destroyed. Alveady, “The Mother of the Forest,” a great dead hulk; at the edge of the grove, is aflame, and like a great glowing torch is threatening its living neigh bors, “The Mother” lies 327 feet long, ‘Wwith a trunk 78 feet in’éfrcumference, and it will take perhaps weeks for the flames to consume it, . The destruction of the big grove would be little short of a calamity. The only living specimens of the Se- | quioas gigantea, or big trees, are‘ those found in California, and there are but four groups of these, contain ing many notable trees, | The Calaveras grove is probably the most remarkable. - TRADE BOOMING IN MANY LINES. ‘Many Industries Showed an Increased | Activity in July, ~ Washington, D. C.—Notably increas ‘ed activities in a number of lines of industry in the United States are shown in the July report of the bu ‘reau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor, which has just . been dssued. There is a con siderably heavier live sto%(‘ movement reported for the seven onths end ing with July than for the correspon ding period of either of the two im mediately preceding two years. Grain receipts for July increased over the preceding month and also over July of last year. Lumber and coal move ments, as well as the production of iron, continue to show marked ad vances over the preceding months of the year, although the total is still below the heavy figures of July, 1907. More than 70 per cent of the report ing car associations show gains over the preceding months of the current year. Live stock reparts at seven inte rior primary markets aggregated 2, 784,193 head. With returns from forty-five leading cities the building operations for July showed improvement, a small gain over the remarkably large business of July of last yvear being reported. Packing house products, receipts of southern pine_at New York, pig iron and other productions showed gains over the preceding month, Coal and coke traffic over seven eastern coal carrying roads during July, 1908, aggregating 9,961,996 tons, was far in excess of the preceding months’ totals, though still nearly 3,- 000,000 tons below the like shipments for July, 1907. The increase over the Jt_fneggures is largely due to the 1,- g&: ,000-ton . increase in shipments of bit ROMBOBLi 4it o i SAVED_FROM INSTANT DEATH. A. L. Baitks ‘Lassoed as.He Was Go -93' ‘“‘E“ m’-q%’f‘ er Precipice, - " /San Bernardino, Cal.—Archie L. Banks, a prominent resident of Phil adelphia, was saved from instant death by Willlam Rogers of New York, in a most remarkable manner in the mountains near here. A party of four—James Archer of London, William Rogers and Robert Shea of New York and Mr. Banks— were riding on one of the slopes on the San Bernardino, Banks’ horse slipped and he rolled down an embankment toward a prec ipice. At the very brink he grapsed a small bush, which was about to give way under the strain, when there was the swish of a lasso and the imperiled man found himself encircled by a rope, thrown with unerring aim by Rogers. 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