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2 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. :aut*t PALACE MFG. CO., Dept. 206, Chicago. RtSSOfSIS Conquered »t Lee*. Write for Proof of Ouree. Advice Pree. DR. CHASE S BLOOD AMD NERVE TABLETS Doel It. DR. 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