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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD READERS AND ADVERTISERS ALIKE GET BEST RESULTS OUT OF THE AFTERNOON PAPERS OF THE COUNTRY- THE HERALD IS A STRIKING EXAMPLE. 1 VOLUME XIV., No. 68. pirong Eager to Hear Cooper Trial Endanger Court House General Meek Begins Arguments For the De fense of Carmack’s Slay ers. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—So great was the throng which tried to crowd into the court room Tuesday morning to hear the' arguments in the Cooper- Sharp trial that the architect of the building appealed to the judge and declared that there was danger of a serious accident. Judge Hart hurriedly sent deputies into the corridors and soon cleared them. THE DEFENSE OPENS ARGUMENT General Meeks began the opening argument for the defense. As he warmed up he said: "The state has appealed to you to enforce the law. And the state's idea of enofrclng the law seems to be to convict some one, innocent or guilty. “I want to say to you gentlemen, that In all my life and in my law practice I never saw a witness so shamefully treated as was Colonel Cooper by Captain Fitzhugh. The prosecutor seemed careless as to whether he acquitted or convicted Colonel Cooper for the murder of Sen ator Carmack, but he did seem de termined to besmirch the witnesses' character. He accused him of not paying his debts. What has that to do with the killing of Carmack. They tried to make you believe that he embezzled funds as a clerk and mas ter of the chancery. What has that to do with the killing of Carmack? You saw the witness on the stand. You heard him swear that no one ever lost a dollar through him. “You heard him swear that his business methods always were unsuc cessful. The whole scheme of the state was not to convict Colonel Cooper of murder, but to disgrace him publicly on his record.” Gen. Meeks went on to trace the alleged "Insults" which the defense claims that Carmack heaped upon Colonel Cooper and said: "As a matter of fact, the state in troduced enly three editorials, one of which failed to mention Cooper’s name. Others were of a bantering type.” DENOUNCED STATE’S METHODS. He denounced the effort of the state to involve the liberty of the press, but declared that where the liberty of the press was abused by a man who used it to defame private citizens It degenerated into a license. “We have proven,” he went on, “that the meeting of the parties was purely accidental. We hold that the guilt or innocence of the defendants must rest on the state of mind they were in at the time of meeting." THE CHARLESTON LEGISLATORS SPLIT Disagree on Election of County Dispensary Board of Control. Special to The Herald. CHARLESTON, S. C.—The expect ed split in the Charleston county delegation in the legislature has come in the re-election of Arthur Lynah as a member of the county board of control. Representatives Cosgrove, Bryan, Roessler and Tobias signed a communication, asking the postpone ment of the election until March 22, that the charges of state dispensary auditor that the county board was spending too much money for its de livery and bottling plant, but the resolution was voted down, two prox ies of absent members being used and then Cosgrove, Roessler and Bryan quit the meeting. Tobias remained, but did not vote, when a ballot was taken, and Lynah was declared re elected. Before ad journment, however, the meeting adopted a reslution for a conference between the delegation, the county board and the state auditor looking towards a reduction in costs and an improvement of the methods of pur chase of liquors by the county board. Further developments are likely. KEEL OF BATTLESHIP FLORIDA WAS LAID NEW YORK. —The keel of the battleship Florida was laid at the Brooklyn navy yard today. THE WEATHER. For Augusta and vicinity: Rain colder tonight. Wednesday fair and colder. For South Carolina: Rain to night and Wednesday, colder Wednesday, high southerly fwMds. For Georgia: Rain and colder tonight, Wednesday fair and colder, high south shifting to northwest winds. THIRTY KILLED BY IRKANSAS CYCLONE LITTLE ROCK —Thirty persons are dead as a result of the Brinkley cy clone. Ten are whites and twenty negroes. The known dead are: Charles Stovall, Jr., J. L. Sterrett, Porter Foote, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Belle Darden, Charles Frenze, Mr. and Mrs. Hood, Miss Clara Rose, and Miss Burch. The property loss will reach a mil lion dollars. Every business house and dwelling in the town but six were destroyed. Everyone left uninjured is home less Tuesday. Fire fighting apparatus has been sent from Forest City and a relief train with nurses and phy sicians have been sent from the same place. The train passed tnrough Brinkley early Tuesday on its way to Little Rock. The trainmen say that the estimated loss of life previously set is much too low. MANY RESIDENTS LEAVE BRINKLEY WHEATLEY, Ark.—Residents of Brinkley, Ark., which was devastated by a tornado Monday night, are ar riving here. Brinkley is a town of over three thousand inhabitants and the refu gees say the entfre business section was demolished by the storm and probably eighty per cent of the resi dences were razed to the ground or rendered uninhabitable. Relief trains have arrived at the scene, but all wire communication is interrupted. TAFT SIDES WITH CANNON IN THE SQUABBLE Wants Organization and Party Harmony Among the Republicans. WASHINGTON, D. C—lt has been authoratively stated that Mr. Taft’s position in the present squabble among the republicans of the house is on the side of Speaker Cannon and organization. The president desires the party harmony, believing that there are many important measures dependent upon this for passage. ROOSEVELT FAMILY WILL VISIT ITALY To Spend Most of Time There While ex-President is on Trip to Africa. OYSTER BAY, N. Y.—According to the present plans of -ex-President Roosevelt his entire family with the exception of Mrs. Longworth and Theodore, Jr., will spend most of the time in Italy while Mr. Roosevelt is away. They will be the guests of Mrs. Roosevelt’ sister, Miss Carew at her villa near Rome. Mrs. Roosevelt, will remain at Sagamore Hill only about three months after her husband and son Kermit sail for Africa. Miss Ethel will remain with her mother at home. Quentin is now attending school at Alexandria, Va., and will finish his term there and the other son Archibald will complete his aca demic year at Groton 6chool early in June and then they will return here. By that time preparations will have been completed by Mrs. Roosevelt for her trans-Atlantic trip. MINHOUD FEELS EARTH SHOCKS LISBON. —A number of light earth shocks accompanied by subterranean rumblings are reported from the pro vince of Mlnhound. POPE IMPROVED. ROME.—The Pope was improved Tuesday morning. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 9, 1909. K£m§m! - i ' x wr - w » - , -, c c These three ladies will take a prominent part in the social side of life in Washington in the immediate future. From left to right they ares Mrs. Geo. Von L. Meyer, wife of the secretary of the navy; Mrs. P. C. Knox, wife of the secretary of state, and Mrs. J. M. Dickinson, wife of the secretary of war. UNION LEADER WAS ARRESTEBJABNBAY Henry S. Hudspeth Was Arrested on Charge of Fradulently Obtaining Money From Union. NEW ORLEANS, La—Honry S. Hudspeth, former president of the New Orleans Typographical Union, was arrested Monday night charged with fraudulently obtaining money from the union. He was a candidate for the presidency of the Interna tional Typographical Union against James M. Lynch at the last conven tion of the organization. HEARTBROKEN IN KILLED JfSELF WASHlNGTON.—Heartbroken be cause his dream of having an inter continental railroad open to com merce the valleys of Central and South America had never materallz ed, Hinton Rowan Helper, a former United State consul general at Bue nos AJ'res, committed sucide here. His wife and children are in Chicago. He was a native of North Carolina. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO MEET TUESDAY The board of directors of the Cham ber of Commerce will meet in regu lar monthly session Tuesday after noon at 5 o’clock. Several matters of importance and of general inter est will be taken up. Secretary Johnson is now prepar ing a written report of the committee that went to Washington to iay be fore officials of the war department a resolution adopted by the Chamber of Commerce, urging the approval of plans for a dam which the Twin City Power company proposes to build at Price’s Island, about 25 miles above the city. Mr. H. H. Stafford and Mr. Johnson comprised this committee. Tneir report will doubtless prove in teresting. It is possible that the question of a horse show will be taken up. The 1908 horse show was the result of a movement started by the Chamber of Commerce, and as nothing definite has yet been done, it is probabie that the directors will at the meeting Tuesday afternoon take some action. Routine business will be transacted and Secretary Johnson will read com muJYcations. % MACON U. D. C. WANT SHAFT IN GEORGIA Special to The Herald. MACON, Ga.—Ladies of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy of Macon in tend to make a determined move on March 11 th at Atlanta to secure the celebrated Wtrz monument for this city. The local I). A. R.’s have been working quietly along this line for some time and hope to be able to carry out their designs. The position of the Macon people who are interested is that by no means should the monument be at lowed to go out of the state of Georgia. WASHINGTON SOCIETY LEADERS 100 Men From One State Get Pneumonia At Inauguration WASHINGTON.—A letter received here states that of the 800 men which represented the Massachusetts coast artillery in the inaugural parade, 100 of them arc suffering from pneumonia, one has died from typhoid pneumonia and another Is dying from tho same disease. IN KILLED WHILE AT SUPPER TABLE MEMPHIS.—WhiIe seated at the supper table with his wife Monday night L. L. Channell, a wealthy farm er, was instantly killed by an assassin who stood in the yard and fired througli the window. Ernest Hill, a neighbor, was arrested on suspicion and denies his guilt. A recently discharged shot-gun was found In Hill's room. MR. WARD DENIES HE IS TO RESIGN The story published in Monday’s Herald to the effect that Mr. E. J. Craig, overseer of the spinning de partment of the Warrenvllle cotton mill, bad resigned and that Superin tendent J. J. Ward would resign in the near future, is denied by Mr. Ward. The story was sent to The Herald by its regular correspondent at War renville, who seems to have been in correctly informed, and this correc tion is accordingly made. It Is the Time of the Blooming of the WISTAREA Tho Spring is here—at least in the advertising columns of Tho Herald. Spring announcements, spring openings, the season of new hats and clothes and the thousand and one things that our people need and want and buy. The trading spirit Is aroused among the people of this city and section. Herald readers, and v/e figure that there are at least 40, 000 of them every afternoon and on Sunday morning, are scanning the store news these days as eagerly as any other department of The Herald. Don’t you find yourßelf doing this very same thing? There’s sat isfaction and comfort and knowl edge to be gained in reading busi ness news, store news, advertising news these days in The Herald. The appeal of the ads in The Herald these days Is direct, vari ous, insistent. Its Just how you look at It. There's the bargain appeal In dollars and cents, there's the artistic and novelty and ex clusive appeal, there’s the appeal of service and help and assistance. TRY READING HERALD ADS TRY ASKING FOR ADVERTIBED THINGS TRY IT IN YOUR SHOPPING The Massachusetts coast artillery was quartered in National Rifles' ar mory and like many of the other troops were not supplied with cots, but slept o n the floor with onlv a thin mattress to protect their bou?"*» from the drafts which swept in through tho doors and windows. TAFT’S CABINET FIRSTJEETING WASHINGTON.—President Taft’s first cabinet meeting convened at 11 o'clock. All members of tho now cab inet except Mr. Dickinson, who is to be secretary of war, Vere present. REQUIRE ROADS TO PUBLISH SCHEDULES State Railroad Commis sion is Now Busy Prepar ing an Order For Benefit of the Publie. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga. —The state railroad commission is now busily engaged preparing an order requiring tho railroads in Georgia to publish their train schedules for the benefit of the public in general and traveling men in particular. Several posts of tra veling men have already passed reso lutions calling for such action. The commission is now considering the most effective means of carrying out this order from the standpoint, of the roads involved. Within the next few days the order will be published. DEPUTY IN CHARGE CHARLESTON PORT Special to The Herald. CHARLESTON, S. C.—Deputy Col lector Alfred T. Jennings is in charge of the customs department aa collector, having received a telegram appointing him temporary collector, pending the appointment of an of ficial. As has been stated, Mr. Jennings has had eight years of service in the customs department and Is thorough ly qualified to adlmnlster the affairs. A number of his friends are urging him to stand for appointment as col lector, but Mr. Jennings has as yet authorized no statement of his posi tion In the matter. SERGT. GRABOWSKI MADE BATTALION QUARTERMASTER Sergeant F. A. Grabowski, battalion sergeant and major on Major Elliott’s staff, has been appointed to succeed Lieut. Frank K. Courtney, who tender ed his resignation a few days ago, as battalion quartermaster and com missary of the Third Battalion In fantry. Sergeant Grabowski has had sev eral years experience In the regular army and the National Guard, and there Is no doubt as to his compe tency to 111! the office with perfect satisfaction to his commanding of ficer. " " DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. MINISTERS TALKED BN SACRED com Introduced a Resolution j Condemning Them, But Decided Not To Pass It. . .. ... .....m A meeting of the Protestant Min isters' association was held Monday morning at, the Y. M. C. A. building and, among other things, the series of Sacred Concerts which began at the Grand opera house last Sunday was a subject of discussion. A suggestion was set forth by a member of the association that reso lutions be adopted condemning the concerts, but, when it was recalled that in liis address at the Grand on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Dr. Richard Wilkinson and other ministers had endorrs the concerts, the resolution was withdrawn. Dr. Wilkinson was not present at the meeting, and only learned Tues day morning that the ministers had discussed the concerts. He took the same stand when asked for a state ment. that ho took Sunday afternoon. “I stand right where 1 have always stood,” said he, "for I can see ab solutely no harm in these sacred con certs. I was present at. the one last. Sunday, and I unhesitatingly assert that it. was the best thing of its kind that. I ever heard. The man who can not see any good in that class of mu sic cannot, in my opinion, see good in anything. The first. performance of the series of concerts set a high standard, and unless the succeeding concerts fall far below that level ! have nothing but commendation for the concerts.” The ministers met behind closed doors, in accordance witli a regular custom. Several of those present, when approached for statements, de clined to discuss what took place. The question of the enforcement of the prohibition law In Augusta was also discussed at some length. Mr George E. Guille, president of the association, in discussing the pro ceedings. said that the association did not care to go on record as adopt ing a resolution condemning a sc ries of sacred concerts that two broth er members of tho association—Dr. Wilkinson and Dr. Cree had com mended in public. He said that rnr their opinion the members of the as sociotlon held tile highest respect,. Howover, he Implied that a majority of the ministers present at the meet ing Monday had expressed their dls approval of tho ocenertß. Ho maoo the point, that tho religious propriety of tho flaorod oonoorta had remiitea In a difference of opinion, as between Dr Wilkinson and Dr. Cree and a majority of the other members of the Protestant Ministers’ association. But the ministers present at tho associa tion meeting Mondny did not care to take their views to the point of adopt ing a resolution condemning the con certs. PITTSBURG CROOKS OPERITINC RtRE Two of These Gentry Re manded By Recorder Plcquet To the Superior Court. Buck Deas and Bill Jones, two men from Harrisburg, were before Judge Plcquet Tuesday morning charged with burglary. Mr. Tom Bwearlrig ton stated that he had 81 pennies, and sl9 in bills In his house, which was broken open and the money taken. A witness tetlfied to Jones exchanging the pennies for silver. The men had entered a plea of not guilty, but when Mr. Swearlngtonl said tits house was broken open, Jones interrupted and said the house was open ,and he walked in and got the money. He said Deas helped him spend it, and that. Deas knew It was stolen. He denied that Deas put. him througli a window, but Officer Hapulding, who made the arrest, said .Jones told him Monday that Deas held the window while In- crawled in. Recorder Plcquet said he would leave the matter for the grand jury to determine. Both were bound over to the superior court under a bond of S3OO. CATHOLICS MAY MEET WITH PROTESTANTS EDINBURGH. Committees from several nations Interested In the world conference on foreign missions, to be held here In June of next, year, met. Tuesday to complete plans for the great assemblage. It has been de term I nod that the congress shali be the moat representative ever held In the Christian world, and It Is quite possible that the Roman Catholic church will send representatives to sit with the Protestant rcpresenta- OFFICES RESCUED 1111 LOCKED IN DOUSE Gus Mertins, Charged with Beating Wife and Look ing Her Up, Fined By the Recorder. Locked in her house, unable to get. "at. and without anything to eat, Mrs. Gus Mertins of No. 128 Wash ington street was released from her home Monday night about 810 o'clock bv Officer M. O. Matthews. Mrs. Mortlns claims that her husband locked tier In, and beat hor. As a result Mertins was fined stf> or 80 days by Recorder Plcquet Tuesday morning. Officer HVnhews found Mr. Mertins on the street and carried him to the barracks. He was search ed and tits keys were taken from hta person. Mr. Mntthews went back to the house, with the keys, and releas ed Mrs. Mertins. Mr. Russell Velio was passing the Mertins house on Washington street Monday night with a young lady, when ho heard some one calling for help. Me asked what tho trouble was and Mrs. Mertins told her story. Mr. Vetio found Officer (Matthew*, who went to tho house. Ho prized the window open from the outside and talked to Mrs. Mertins. Inside the blinds of the window, thero was a henvy wire screen, wliloh Officer Mat thews said a person from the Insides could not get through. Mrs. Merlins told lmr story in po lice court Tuesday as follows: "My husband beats me about once a week. Monday morning my child asked him for a piece of bread. He ate the bread, and then beat her for asking for it. I remonstrated with him, and lie locked me up In the house, sending my child off to school without any breakfast. 1 did not have anything to eat, and I called to persons on the street to help me get out. He locked me up because he said he did not want me to as sociate with the people living In (he house." Mertins made his statement say ing it was a made up scheme to get him in trouble. He said he had been told that tho people around his wife were no good, so he locked her up. He said that she had a key to the door and could got out nny time she wanted to. He denied beating her or the child. Officer Matthews testified that the door was locked with a large pad lock on the outside and It was Impos sible to get to It from the Inside. Ho Hatd that was the only entrance to the room. Mr. William Boone, who lives In the house stated that he often heard licks being pnssed In Mertins’ houso, and heard Mrs. Mertins screaming. ■ Recorder Plcquet said the evi dence showed clearly that Mertins had beat his wife, whether he lock ed her in or not, and therefore ho would fine him S4B or 00 days. GEORGIA MUSICIANS TO MEET CARUSO Will Become Acquainted With the Great Tenor At Reception in Atlanta. ATLANTA, Ga.—The musicians of Oeorgia will be interested to learn that they will have an opportunity of meeting personally Enrico Caruso, the great Italian tenor, at a reception to be given him here when he comes to sing at the Southern Music festival next May. Plans are already being made by a music conservatory to en tertain the singer during one of the afternoons of his stay. The leading musicians of the state will be invited to the function. The occasion promises to be a uni que one for tho reason that Caruso has never but once appeared outside New York city and also because of his proverbial shyness at such af fairs. He wrote to a friend hero how ever that be wanted to meet the peo ple of the south, since he comes him self from a southern country. DR. LONNIE ROBSON IS BACK IN CHARLESTON Man Who Lost Hi* Eye At the Inauguration Re turns With the Troops. Special to Tho Herald. CHARLESTON, S. C.—Dr. Lonnie Robson, the Charleston dentist who was assaulted by a negro waiter In a Washington restaurant, has returned with the rest of the soldiers from the capital, but it will be some time be fore Dr. Robson will be able to u»e his right eye which fortunately has been saved. The left eye was so badly Injured by his glasses, which lh° negro’s list drove Into It that It had to be removed. It was feared that the right eye would also be per nmnently Injured but such will not be the case. lives and together consider the mis sionary problems which both great branches of the Christian * church have to meet.
