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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
NEWS OF WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1913
GOOD ROADS IS KEYNOTE
OF PLEA OF NEW COUNTY
The proposed County of Candler
Is to petition the incoming Legisla
ture for creation along new lines,
and with an argument not only novel,
but perhaps winning.
Candler County is to ask for ex
istence as a powerful argument in
favor of good roads.
It will seek to prove its right to
creation as an absolute good roads
necessity—that, of course, along with
other reasons likely to appeal to in
telligent legislative consideration.
It is a fact that there are several
parts of Georgia in which are to l-e
found highly prosperous towns, from
a business point of view, that yet
are hampered mightily by reason of
their remoteness from their County
seats and the consequent improba
bility of very active good roads work
in their vicinities.
In some of these places, it Is
claimed, road taxes in remote neigh
borhoods are applied exclusively to
good roads work near the county
seat, and that brings about not onhr
much dissatisfaction, but positive
discontent.
Metter, a prosperous and hustling
town of South Georgia, is an exam
ple of this, and it is about Metter
that the proposed new county of
Candler is to be framed.
If Candler County is created, it is
contended that, with Metter as the
County seat, good roads construction
will radiate from Metter throughout
the neighboring territory, and that
there will not be a farm in the new
county not soon connected with the
County seat by ample and sufficient
Toads.
There is great enthusiasm among
the people about Metter in favor of
the new county, and very little oppo
sition from the people of the coun
ties from which it is to be taken.
Candler generally is regarded as a
good new county proposition, too, and
it should surprise no one, therefore,
to see the new Legislature put the
seal of its approval upon it.
It would be located in one of the
richest and most promising sections
of the entire State.
REGISTER MAKES 'EM ONE.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA., May 28.—
Senator Himes’ common marriage
bill, providing that any man and
woman who register at a hotel ns
man and wife are duly married,
passed the Senate by an overwhelm
ing majority.
The measure is expected to pass
the House without opposition.
92 NEW ARMY OFFICERS.
WEST POINT, N. Y., May 28.—
Ninety-two new officers will be ad
ded to Uncle Sam’s army on June
12 by the graduation of the first
class of the corps of cadets at the
United States Military Academy.
Two Georgians are in the class:
David B. Falk and Allan G. Thur-
W ILLIAM STEVENS, husband and father of the woman
and girl whose charred bodies were found in the fire
ruins of their home on the McDonough Road, near Atlanta, and
whose deaths are laid to a slayer.
man.
BURGLARS DRINK GRAPE JUICE.
COLUMBUS, GA., May 28—Fol
lowing the example set by Secretary
of State William J. Bryan, burglars
who entered Armour & Company’s
place, in this city, only drank grape
juice while lunching on bolog
na sausage and other edibles they
found in the place.
Only one case of the grape juice was
molested.
NEED THIRTEEN VOTES.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., May 28.—The
bill giving women in Illinois the ballot
to-day needed only thirteen votes in
the House in order to pass.
Suffrage advocates are busy trying
to line up this number of votes.
ASK FOR SEGREGATION.
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Robert
A. Prather, of Little Rock, Ark., has
presented to Postmaster General Bur
leson a petition signed by more than
8,000 white railway mail clerks asking
an order segregating white and negro
clerks in the railway mail service.
The Postmaster Genera! said he
would take the petition under consid
eration.
KILLED HERSELF IN LAKE.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 28.—The body
of the woman supposed to have been
Mrs George F. Gebbart, of Chicago,
who committed suicide by leaping
from a rowboat in Lake Como yes
terday, was taken from the lake to
day.
Raymond Burnham, a salesman,
whose address was scribbled on a
note by the woman before she rowed
out into the lake, has left the An
drews Hotel, Minneapolis, where he
had been living.
ORDERED REMOBILIZED.
VIENNA, May 28.—Remobilization
of the Austrian reservists, recently
dismissed when peace in the Balkans
seemed near, was ordered to-day by
t he Government.
A telegram from Athens states that
another fight between the Bulgarians
and Greeks north of Salonika is im
minent. The Bulgars are massing
vast quantities of heavy artillery at
Elevthera, about 100 miles east of
Salonika.
A Sofia dispatch to The Reichspost
to-day states that the Bulgarian Gov
ernment has decided to submit the
future status of Salonika to the pow
ers. Tension between Bulgaria and
Servia, however, is tightening.
BALK AT CALLING SYSTEM.
WASHINGTON, May 28.—The Cab
inet women have gone on strike
against the old system of calling
prevalent in Washington. They will
return calls only in Senatorial, diplo
matic and Supreme Court circles.
Mrs. Daniels, wife of the Secretary
of the Navy, one of the women in
rebellion, faced the necessity of mak
ing 900 calls in acknowledgment of
the visits of Washington wuauuj.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
SLAIN; HOME BURNED
That the mother and girl whose
charred remains were found in the
ruins of their home seven miles
southeast of Atlanta early Wednesday
morning were murdered and the house
set afire by the murderer in an effort
to obliterate all evidence of the deed
was the astounding declaration made
by Sheriff J. A. McCurdy after an in
vestigation of the tragedy.
Positive identifications of the two
women as Mrs. S. C. Stevens, 40
years old, wife of William Stevens,
a 70-year-old Confederate veteran
now in Chattanooga at the reunion,
and their adopted daughter, Nellie
Stevens, 13 years old, were made by
neighbors
Conditions leading up to the theory
that the deaths were the result of
murder are these:
The charred bodies of the wom
en were found lying in the center
of a bed room in the rear of the
cottage. Near at hand were the
remains of a shotgun,
Mrs. Stevens’ skull had been
crushed in. A hoe found in what
had been the hallway leading
from the room is believed to have
been the instrument used to strike
the woman as she arose from her
bed, with the shotgun, to meet
the intruder.
That the door of the room was
open at the time of the encounter
is believed to add another link to
prove the affair a murder.
The method in which the daughter
met her death could not be ascer
tained, owing to the charred condition
of her body.
The house was burned during the
night. Its ruins w'ere first discovered
at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning by
J. A. Nelms, who was passing the
scene in a milk wagon. Nelms, after
viewing the smoking embers of the
building, summoned J. L. Cowan, a
neighbor, and notified the county po
lice.
When Sheriff McCurdy arrived on
the scene the remains of the two
women already had been found by
Nelms and Cowan. Mrs. Stevens was
identified by her false teeth.
When the bodies had been taken
out of the ruins they were exam
ined. Mrs. Stevens’ skull was seen to
have been crushed in.
It was this fact that first led the
authorities to suspect foul play. Care
ful examination of the surrounding
embers in the place where the bodies
w ere found brough to light a shotgun
barrel, the stock and woodwork of
w hich had been burned off.
The weapon was seen to have been
close to the positions w here the bodies
w&re discov^CAd.
NO CHANGE IN COTTON
AND SUGAR SCHEDULES
WASHINGTON, May 28.—The Un
derwood tariff bill as reported to the
Democratic caucus after the revision
of its various schedules by the sub
committee of the Senate Finance Com
mittee is forecast as follow’s:
There will be no change in the cot
ton, sugar and wool schedules as
written into the measure by the House
with the exception of a slight increase
in duty on wool manufactures.
The only change in the income tax
amendment will be the aleration of
sub-section D, so that a man of fam
ily will not be compelled to pay as
great a tax as a single man with the
same income.
In the cotton and wool schedules a
period of from 60 to 90 days of grace
will be extended to manufacturers be
fore the provisions of the new bill
go into effect. The rest of the bill
takes effect the day after its passage
The amendments to the Underwood
bill permitting the arbitrary valuation
of imports by the Secretary of the
Treasury will be adopted. In the
metal schedule duties on structural
steel will be revised downward, while
ferro-maganese and pig iron will be
free listed.
Wheat, cattle and other staples
whose manufactures are all on the
free list also will be free listed.
Duties on pottery will be raised.
President Wilson, it was stated, has
been notified of the proposed changes
in the bill and has consented to the
revisions.
CAN ASK M’ADOO.
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Perry
Belmont has called the attention of
the leaders of the Senate to an act of
1789 which he says gives Congress the
right to summon Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo before it and ask
for a statement as to his opinion of
the effect of the tariff law on the
revenues of the country.
Mr. Belmont will urge the Senate
leaders to call Mr. McAdoo and ask
for the benefit of his opinion.
SAYS HE HAS A CURE.
TRENTON, N. J., May 28.—Believ
ing all diseases are traceable to blood
impurities. Dr. Eugene B. Wiltce, one
of this city’s foremost surgeons and
medical practitioners, announced to
day that he had discovered a solution
which, he says, will cure nearly every
known ailment.
He has offered to hold public clinics
in the City Hall Dispensary under
the supervision of other physicians.
CORNELL CLASS' BIG GIFT.
ITHACA, May 28.—Members of the
class of 1913 of Cornell University
have pledged themselves to give $126,-
670, payable in twenty years at the
rate of 5 per cent annually, to the
general alumni fund.
GEORGIA LOSES $6,000,000
EACH YEAR FROM THE TICKS
The State of Georgia is losing
$6,000,000 annually from tick Infesta
tion.
The looses from the ravages of hog
cholera reached $1,000,000 in 1912.
Tuberculosis In cattle Is spreading
through the State with alarming ra
pidity and threatens to infect every
herd.
Slaughter house conditions are in a
deplorable state in most parts of
Georgia.
These are the startling facts re
vealed in the annual report of State
Veterinarian Peter F. Bahnsen, issued
Wednesday.
For the amelioration of these con
ditions Dr. Bahnsen recommends an
appropriation of $30,000. He cites the
conservation of human health as the
absolute and pressing necessity for
the expenditure of this amount.
‘‘Our losses from tick infestation,"
reads the report, “are under present
conditions in excess of $6,000,000 an
nually. All of this enormous wasie
could be stopped in a few years with
a sufficient fund to employ cattle in
spectors, and by appealing to the
counties and the Federal Government
for increased aid.
“Hog cholera cost the State not
less than $1,000,000 in 1912, or ap^_
proximately 20 per cent of the total
value of the hogs owned in this
State.
“Tuberculosis is prevalent to a con
siderable extent among the dairy cat
tle of the State. The milk of tuber
culous cattle is dangerous to man and
the health of our people is in the bal
ance. We have taken this matter in
hand with the limited means avail
able and the public is anxious that
our services along this line be ex
tended into a State-wide movement.
Our greatest need in this matter is
more funds for extending the work.
“Slaughter house conditions are
extremely bad in most sections of
the State and the public is frequent
ly fed on meat not fit for human con
sumption. Animals with communi
cable diseases are often slaughtered
and sold without restriction and the
sanitary conditions of fully 70 per cent
of our slaughter houses is a crying
shame. It demands rigid State su
pervision.
“We should have an appropriation
of not less than $30,000 for this work.
It is essential in conserving the health
of the people that their food products
be obtained from healthy animals
and handled and distributed under
conditions that will prevent subse
quent contamination or putrefaction.’’
TO FIGHT FOR SALONIKA.
SALONIKA, May 28.—Premier
Vinezilos, of Greece, arrived here to
day en route to Sofia, where he will
try to patch up the^diffenences be
tween the Greek and Bulgarian Gov
ernments.
The Greeks maintain that Salonika
must remain a Hellenic possession.
King Constantine is reported to
have given the impression to his staff
that Greece will fight Bulgaria be
fore she will consent to give up Sa
lonika.
RESCUED PEOPLE ON BOARD.
PLYMOUTH, ENG., May 28.—The
British liner Garth Castle arrived here
to-day bearing the 50 passengers of
the Taltus, which was in collision
with the steamship Inca off the Span
ish coast Monday.
FLYER FALLS 1,000 FEET.
BERLIN, May 28.—Herr Horn, a
German aviator, was killed to-day
while flying near Burgwedel. He
dropped more than 1,000 feet. Avia
tor Horn was the two hundred and
seventy-second victim of aviation.
GULF OF SMYRNA REOPENED.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 28.—The
Gulf of Smyrna, in which two steam
ships were sunk in the last fortnight
by striking floating mines, was re
opened for steamship traffic to-day,
after being closed since Sunday. A
new lane through the mine fields was
opened.
WILL CARE FOR ORPHANS.
LONG BEACH, CAL., May 28.—If
any children were made orphans by
the Empire Day catastrophe, the peo
ple of Long Beach will provide them
with new homes and new parents.
This assertion was made to-day by
R. L. Bisby, secretary and chairman
of the Chamber of Commerce.
COTTON ASSOCIATION FORMED.
LITTLE ROCK, May 28.—Leading
cotton men, representing buyers and
sellers from all sections of the State,
have formed the Arkansas Cotton As
sociation, modeled after the Oklahoma
organization.
The purpose is to promote the cot
ton industry and protect both buyers
and sellers; to arbitrate differences and
establish rules governing the cotton
trade. It will meet annually in Lit
tle Rock, but the main operations are
to be controlled by a board of nine
directors. It adopted rules as to stand
ard-sized bales and wrapper weight.
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