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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 71. AUGUSTA NOT IN DANGER OF A FLOOD; RAINS UP THE COUNTRY NOT ABNORMAL Observer Says Conditions Indicate Height of Thirty Feet With Maximum Not Above Thirty-two. STATE OF RIVER. 6 a. m., 23 feet. 10 a. m., 23 feet 6 inches. 11 a. m., 23 feet 8 inches. 12 m., 23 feet 10 inches. 1 p. m., 24 feet. 2 p. m., 24 feet 4 inches. 3 p. m., 24 feet, 8 inches. The river is rising slowly. Ob server Fisher says that it may rise 30 or 32 feet, but will go no higher and there is no cause for alarm. The river rises to the last named figures, some few scattered localities, such as upper Reynolds street and the low lands southeast of the city may get some of the water, but nothing else is to be feared. Friday morn ing the river was 24 feet deep. Rains up the country have not been heavy at any point except Washington where a depth of 1.60 inches is reported to have fallen Thursday afternoon and night. The river went down rapidly Thursday night, but about 8 o’clock struck a standstill, and almost imme diately began to rise again very slowly. Observer Fisher’s statement of riv er conditions is as follows: "The river at 8 a. m. Friday was 23 feet, showing a fall of 3.8 feet from the highest point reached Thurs day afternoon. The situation with regard to the river, as viewed from today’s weather map, is by no means alarming, and while a moderate rise is expected to occur during the night, it is not believed that the 32-foot mark, which is the flood stage, will be reached by Saturday morning. Spe cial reports of rainfall in the up-river country have been called for at 5 o’clock p. m., and will be at the dis posal of the public at 5:30 o'clock.” Mr. Fisher says that indications point to rainfall Saturday, and for that reason he is not in a position to make a definite foreoast as to what stage the river will reach. But he repeats that there is no cause for alarm. >■ It is evident that widespread appre hension is felt throughout the com munity, as the telephone at the weather bureau was busy nearly all morning and Observer Fisher and his assistants were continually interrupt ed in their work. To everybody the same answer was given—there is no cause for alarm. Observer Fisher’s minor prophets up the river have orders to report by telegraph every rainfall exceeding an inch in depth. Only one report—the one from Washington—was received Friday morning, and it is, therefore, certain- that rains in the tributary re gions of the upper Savannah valley have not been heavy. GRAFTING SKIN ON A LITTLE GIRL’S LEG Daughter of Mrs. Martin Berger, of Charleston, in Baltimore Undergoing Operations. Special to The Herald. CHARLESTON, S. C.—Mrs. Martin Berger has returned to Charleston with her 14-year-old daughter, from Baltimore, leaving behind a younger daughter upon whom skin grafting ex periments are still being tried. The alder girl is under treatment herself, having parted with a good deal of her skin in several operations, to no suc cess but still the surgeons are hopeful of success and are securing skin from other sources in their endeavor to ac complish the healing of the leg of the little girl, who was run over by a trolley car some months ago. ATLANTA COUNCIL WILL HELP CUTHBERT At Special Meeting the City Council Voted Five Hundred Dollars As Re lief Fund. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga. —At a special call ed meeting of the council Friday morning was voted for the re lief of Cuthbert. RECEIVERS WANT PAY. MACON, Ga. —Messrs. R. J. Tav lor, p . O’Neal and C. T. King, the ™ee receivers of the Exchange bank, have asked the superior court of this city to pass an order giving' them some payment for the work they have one as receivers. They were appoi in August 1907 and set forth in their petition that they have received no pay for their work. Th° receivers have paid 70 per cent of the unsecured claims against the bank and have disbursed the sum of foOO.OOO. ARE YOU A PHOTOGRAPHER ? WHETHER YOU ARE OR NOT YOU SHOULD SEE BUSTER TAKE PHOTOS IN THE SUNDAY HERALD. President Taft as he a, p c are d on the outside bal cony of the Capitol in order to salute the great crowd which had gathered, and which had been dis appointed by reason of the fact that the oath of of fice was administered in the Senate Chamber be cause of the blizzard which was raging. PINSON GUILT! UF MANSLAUGHTER Jury Recommended Mercy For Young Man Who Killed His Friend. Will Make Motion For New Trial. LAURENS, S. C.—Guilty of man slaughter with recommendation to mercy was the verdict returned by the jury in the case of Wade Cochran Pinson, charged with killing Thorn well Boyce.. The jury had been out all night, Its deliberation occupying sixteen and one-half hours. The coun sel for the defense gave notice of a motion for a new trial. - Pinson seemed unmoved by the verdict. Plnsonn shot Boyce on November 6 last. Boyce had taken supper with Miss Evelyn Brown, with whom Fin son was infatuated. Pinson's Invita tion to take supper with him had been refused by the girl, and later when all three were driving in a bug gy, with Boyce sitting on Pinson’s lap, the shooting occurred. The prose cution claimed the tragedy was caus ed by jealousy, inflamed by liquor, and the defense claimed the shooting was accidental. MRS. CARRIE NATION LEAVES ENGLAND Says That Country is Far Behind United States in Fighting Drink. LONDON.—Mrs. Carrie Nation, the famouse saloon smasher, left here Friday for the United States, declar ing that In the fight against drink, England was far behind the United States. When asked if her early departure was not an acknowledgement of de feat her defiant answer was: “Cer tainly not! I am confident that I have not. been working in vain, even in England. At least if I have been de feated, It has been by the devil and by his servants, the clergy of your country. "They have not opened their pulpits to me. But why? Because they are in league with the drink traffic. They support the government, which gets its revenue from the person which ‘s ruining the nation, they get paid out of the proceeds. They own brewery shares, and so they do not dare be come leaders of the movement against drink. EDUCATOR IN ATLANTA. MACON, Ga. —President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard college, the most noted educator America ever produced, will reach Atlanta Friday evening for a stav of two days. A number of Harvard graduates will ar rive from various parts of the statß to be present at a dinner they are going to give him. He will speak before the students of the Georgia School of Technology Saturday morn ing. TO MAKE WIDE GOODS. ANDERSON, S. C Rapid progress is being made in changing the ma chinery of the Anderson Cotton mills in order to mske 39-inch cotton cloth instead of 3G-inch. The former finds a more ready sale. TAFT SALUTING THE CROWD AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, 1009. WATSON SAYS TIE "REGULARS” ARE WINNERS WASHINGTON, D. C.—-The presi dent had a conference with Speaker Cannon, Senators Burton and Nelson and former Representative Watson. “We have got them licked. This Is a statement of the fact and not pre diction," said Watson, having refer ence to the position of the “regulars” in the house of representatives In their skirmish with the “insurgents.' 1 NEGRO FATALLY SHOT THURSDAY Thornton Brooks, a negro train* hand, was shot and dangerously wounded late Thursday afternoon in the Georgia railroad yards, about a mile above the city, by Clifton Thompkins, another negro. Brodks was carried to the Lamar hospital, where an operation was performed. The wound Is believed to be fatal. Thompkins is still at large. The two men had been quarreling for several days. Thursday, after quarreling for some time, they start ed fighting. They were separated by other men, w - ho thought the affair was ended. Brooks turned to leave, and as he went around a car, Thompkins drew hts pistol, shooting him In the left hip. The bullet went into the abdomen and lodged in the bladder. He was operated on Thursday night and the ball was extracted. The phy sicians at the hospital state that Brooks has a doubtful chance of re covery. The county officers are after Thompkins. NEGROES STOLfe A CASK OF BEER The storehouse of Mr. Ed Sheehan on upper Broad street, was broken open Thursday night and two casks of near-beer were taken out. Officer Rroggerman saw a negro and a white man rolling the casks down Jones street. He caught the negro, but the white man escaped. Sam Williams, the negro, was carried to the bar racks, and a short time later O H. Slade, a white man, was placed un der arrest. Later on searching the neighborhood the officer found Chas. Robertson and Lula Bu.gg in a house drinklrg the near-beer, with the cask in the hack yard. The negroes and B!ade were boertd over to the superior court under a bond for S2OO for burg lary .by Recorder Picquet Friday morning. CLERKS ASSOCIATION HELD ANNUAL MEETING The Clerks' Early Closing associa tion held its annual meeting Thurs day night. There was a large num ber present, and many plans for the good of the members were formulat ed. Almost every clerk in the city Is a member of the order. The clerks’ order has had a gerat deal to do In the past with the dosing of the stores at an early hour. Offi cers were elected for the coming year as follows: President, W. T. Shea; secretary, Randolph Goodrich. JUDGE HURT TO HIE JURY MONDAY General Washington Con tinues Argument For De fense in Cooper-Sharp Trial. NASHVILLE, Tenn —General Wash ington, for the defense, having con sumed part of Wednesday and all of Thursday with his argument on the Cooper-Sharp case, resumed his ad dress Friday morning. The jurors were visibly bored by the long drawn out arguments of the attorneys. At the conclusion of General Washing ton's argument, Judge Anderson, the leading counsel for the detense, will close their case, being followed by General McCarn, In closing for the defense. It is not expected now that Judge Hart will charge the “jury be fore Monday. BRADFORD WAS FOR PEACE. “I shall not delay you very long,” General Washington promised as he stepped out before the jury. “I want lo direct your attention to James (,'. Bradford. He enters the case the morning of the tragedy at the Max well House, when the governor tele phones him, and at once his good of fices are apparent In an effort to avert a tragedy. Yet these hungry, starving lawyers for the prosecution— hungry and starving for facts—would have you belieVe that this splendid lawyer, this Christian gentleman, this scion of an aristocratic old family, suddenly became a raging he-dovll, thirsting for blood and plotting mur der.” General Washington then read part of the testimony of John J. Vertrees, concerning his conversation with Judge Bradford about the note Cooper had written to Carmack. He argued that every line of Vertrees’ testimony proved that Bradford’s one object was to prevent any kind of trouble. Then he passed on to Adjutant Gen eral Brown. BROWN A HERO, NOT A LIAR. “If you were to look back years ago, you would hear the roar of ar tillery; see serried lines. The am munition is exhausted;, tho fate of the day- is at stake. A beardless boy, mounted on a roum-flecked horse, rides madly down the line, hts hav ersack loaded with ammunition, and saves the day for the men in gray. I tell you. Brown is as much a hero as Hobson was. Yet they say he lied. "And Mlsb Lee. She was In the office entertaining company. You get two female stenographers on the same floor together, exchanging Idle gossip as they do, and I am not surprised that she didn’t hear the telephone ring. She and Mrs. Blake were talk ing about a kind of new hat that.—” "We object to that and wish to call Mr. Washington back Into rec ord,” said General McCarn. IMITATED WOMEN’S GOSSIP. Judge Hart admonished General Washington to keep within tho record, This Is To Be Augusta’s Best And Busiest Year. Sunday’s Herald Sunday’s Herald Sunday’s % Herald Be Sure To Read Sunday’s Herald. Try It In Your Shopping. AiERSOIIVILIE GETS WIRZ SIIIFT U. D. C. in Special Session Decide To Place the Monument At Anderson ville. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga.—Andersonvtlle was selected as the site of the famous Wirz monument by the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy of Georgia late Thursday afternoon at the close of a session called specially to con sider this question. The vote stood between Andersonville and Macon. Americas secured live complimentary votes. The race between Macon and Ander sonville wuis one of the most spirited in the history of the U. D. C. of Georgia. Five solid hours were spent by the ladies in speech-making. Tills decision closes a discussion that has been raging for four years. At the last state convention It was ordered that the monument go to Richmond. Va. The special session, has rescinded this action and placed it at Andersonville. and the latter continued his attack upon Miss Lee. 11l a falsetto voice he indulged in a mimicry of the two young women. The crowd that lined up behind the defendants, previously referred to by Attorney General Mc- Carn as the "defendants’ rooters,” laughed repeatedly at the antics of the attorney. Judge Hart rapped for order but the deputies made no effort to suppress the demonstration. These "rooters” climb on the stops to llie bench, face the jury, and apparently endeavor to convey their approval over the Judge’s shoulders to Ihe twelve men who are trying the case, Judge Hart has repeatedly cleared them off. When the laughter began again Friday morning he cleared the steps again, and ordered the deputies to keep them cleared. WASHINGTON RE-ENACTED TRAGEDY. General Washington once more reached the actual shooting and call ed n messenger hoy to help him to re-enact. Ihe tragedy. This was the third time the speaker has described the tragedy. "You are Carmack,” he exclaimed. Washington seized the nu-tajmutlc re volver and crouched down. The boy, frightened, began to back away as Washington advanced. The crowd laughed, and the judge did too. "A son who sees his father’s en emy, revftlver In hand, and does not kill that enemy as ho would a mad dog, is not fit. to be food for worms. FIRST BULLET KILLED CARMACK. “And Carmack full dead,” he said. "I do not care for all monstrosities In surgery that are reported—men who have lived with bullets In their brain and heart, and spinal cord. I do not care for such neophytes as Dr. Glasgow and others, I say Car mack was dead the momont that the first bullet, entered his heart. "Now, let’s see where Robin Cooper was.” "There is no dispute as to where Robin stood There Is no dispute that Carmack fired directly Into Rob in’s face. The deadly, blood-thirsty weapon Carmack thrust Into the boy’s fac6, the face of the boy who had supported and helped him. He fired (Continued on Page 3.) Day by day the signs show that Augusta Is growing and developing and getting along. There are more people In Augusta today than ever before. There’s more business being done in Augusta than ever be fore. This is going to be Augusta's best Real Estate and Building year. The demand for real estate is good and growing. There is need of new houses and more of them, and they are going to be built. The banks of Augusta are all going into new and modern and up-to-date buildings. One of these days Augusta will have its 10 or 15 and 20- story office building. In the meantime, it Is up to the people of Augusta to do today's work today, and do it better than ever before. And this is what they are doing. It Is building over again the good old efty of Augusta. And In this work (hat Is now going on In Augusta, The Herald Is trying to do its share. We are trying to give the people of Augusta just, the best paper six days in the week and on Sunday morning that we know how. And we want, yon trj help us with your suggestion as to how we may still further Improve The Herald. Write us about it. Read Sunday’s Herald carefully-—all its departments, read the Want Ads that, cover the want field of this city and territory. Read the Spring Announcements of the careful and enterprising merchants of the city. The store news Is important these days and Sunday’s Herald will be worth a year's subscription to the careful shopper of tills city and section. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. BURGLAR BROKE INTO FIVE STORES ON BROAD STREET Escaped When Po liceman Went To Alarm Proprietor of One of the Places LEFT HIS TOOLS ' Got Most of His Loot From Enterprise Pawn Shop. Foiled By Snfe in Miss Hughes* Place. Five stores on the nine hundred block of Broad street, were broken open Thursday night, or early Friday morning, by a daring burglar, lie broke Into Mentor A Rosenblooms, The Enterprise Pawn Shop, Mine El len Hughes, millinery store; Dr. Henry Godin’s Optical Parlors, and Hansberger’s Drug Store. From the pawn shop the man took about. SIOO worth of pistols and jew elry. From Mentor &. Rosenblooms he secured two pairs of pants and two pairs of shoes. In Mlhs Hughes’ place he made an unsuccessful effort to get in the snfe. While In Dr. God in's lie was seen by Officer A. J. Mat thews. II is thought, that the burglar first entered Hanaburger’s drug store. The back door was barred. The man used a crow bar, and bent the heavy bars. He found that he could not get through them, so he broke out the glass, and putting his hand through, unlatched the door. He then found that it was locked further down. The door was finally broken open, by bursting the lock. Tills let the man into a room where the syrups are kept. He made efforts to gel into Ihe front pari of the store, but Ihe lock on another door resisted his ef forts. MENTER & ROSENBLOOM’S. The burglar entered Mentor & Rosenblooms’ Ry prying a heavy wire screen off the window, and then breaking the glass. He stole two pairs of pants and two pairs of shoes, a pair of ox-blood low quarters, and a pair of high black shoes. Tne thief entered the pawn shop by breaking a panel In the door. He used a heavy post from the yard, and knocked a panel out. He then went to the front show case and secured the pistols and Jewelry. The follow ing Is a list of the goods taken from the‘pawn shop, as given by the po lice: One Colt's Automatic 32-callber pistol; 1 new police 32-callber pistol; 1 pocket pistol, 32-callber; I police pistol, 38 caliber; 1 Smith & Wesson 38-callbcr pistol; 1 Hnillh K Wesson 32-callber pistol; 0 small bracelets; 2 large bracelets; I lot of cheap plated rings; and a lot of pistol cart ridges, The burglar also secured 2 second ham! Smith * Wesson pistols. The guns had slx-lneh barrels, and were 32-caliber pistols in 38-caiiber frames. GOT HINGE OFF SAFE. Ho broke open the door of Miss Hughes' place and tried to open the safe, which Is In plain sight of the street. He took one of the hinges off, but did not seem to be able to get the other loose. He climbed over the partition Into Dr. Godin's store, but did not get anything. He left scratches On the wall where he climb ed over. Ife went to the safe, but did not try to get In. He then came to the front of the store and turned on the electric light. Officer Mat thews on the other side of the street saw the light, flash, and hurried over. GIPEAS WILL HOLD JOS ItKHQLHU WASHINGTON, D. C.—While It is believed that a number of changes will be made in the personnel of the high offtoir-i" .if he treasury depart ment, it is ~00(1 that Capt. Jno. 0. Papers, of South Carolina, will bo ( retained as commissioner of internal revenue. Southern congressmen uni ted a week ago requesting tho presi (lent to make no change in the office, saying that the commissioner is a rep. resentative southern Republican. MRS. HOLMES DIED FRIDAY AT BARTOW -i——« Mrs. Amelia Holmes, the wife of Mr A. J. Holmes passed away at her holin' In Bartow, Gn., at an early - hour Friday morning. Mrs. Holmes' had been 111 some lime, She Is survived by several children and grandchildren. Mr. John F. Holmes, of Augusta, is Iter son. lie will leave for Bartow Friday night. Mrs. Holmes will be hurled at Bar low Saturday at 12 o’clock. Tho fin neral services will be conducled by her uncle, Rev. Thomas Beck. Mrs. Holmes was 67 years old. She had been sick about two months. The death Is t'xtreniely sad on account of Hie fact, that she had just celebrated her golden wedding, the occasion be ing a family reunion. Mrs. Holmes had many friends In Augusta, who will b arn of her demise with deep regret. The light was out before he got there, so the policeman rang the door beil of Dr. Godins, who lives over the store. By the time Dr. Godin was aroused and came down, the man had escaped. He must have heard the officer when he rang the bell. Ha took n chair and placed If by the wall, so be could easily crawl back Into Miss Hughes' place nnd made his escape. The only clows • -ft for the police to work on, Is a pocket knife and monkey wrench left in the pawn shop. Mentor ii RofienbiomriH’ bnck dooi had just been painted white, and hie dirty Anger prints are very plain on the door. He grasped the door with both hnnds to pull It open. The prints show no scars, or lrrogtilar marks. The police are hard at work on the case and Chief Norris expects to se cure his man In a short time. As tho result of a startlingly good piece of detective work on the part of Sergt. Whittle, the police have In custody a negro who gave Ills name us Wostley Blake, and who Is un« doubtedly the burglar. A little be fore time for the 3:30 o’clock Goon gltf train to pass on Its way to Atlan> ta, Sergt. Whittle was standing neal SB edley’s crossing, when ho saw a negro waiting to catch tho train. Ha had a grip in his hand. Quick as a flash it caine over Whittle’s mind that the negro might he the man. Ha grabbed him and forced him to open the grip, and It disclosed most of tlia stolen articles from the Futorprlm Pawn Shop. Six pistols, about 29 cheat) rings, six or eight bracelets and two suits of clothes that have been Identified as part of the articles stol en from Mentor A Rosenbloom’s stora were Identified. The negro Is median) sired, very Mack In color, with a sea) on hts face. It Is thought he Is from Atlanta. Sunday’s Herald Sunday’s Hera^ Sunday’s Herald
