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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1909)
THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 119. DEPOSED SULTAN II BE COURT BLED CONSTANTINOPLE—The first ev; dence of reform in Turkey came Tues day in the announcement from the new Sultan that he intends to reor ganize the Turkish court. It will be re modeled in the western European style and without the extravangant luxury which heretofore marked tho Oriental government. Score of attaches of the Yildiz Kiosk are already removed and it is said the dismisals of various govern ment departments aggregate several thousand. It is understood that Ab dul Hamid the deposed Sultan may be court martial, be court martialed. ABDUL HAMID AND PARTY AT SALONIKI SALONIKI. —The deposed sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, arrived here Wednesday night from Constantinople accompanied by two of his sons and a suite of seventeen persons, includ ing eleven women of his hareni. OESiiraoF UNA COMPLETE CONSTANTINOPLE—The destruc tion of Adana is now complete. More than thirty thousand men, women an t children have perished. Two regi ments of Turkish troops completed the destruction of the town with fire and sword. At Hadji several Ameri can women are still besieged by irreg ular Moslem troops. Their fate is unknown. The Young Turks are ex pected to take action toward the pro tection of citizens. MANY DEAD ARMENIAN BODIES ON STREETS. ADANA, Asiatic Turkey—Conditions in the country surrounding Adana are terrible. Dead bodies are lying out on fields. Numberless Armenian farm houses are burned. Conditions are most unsanitary. « TURKS SEND HI TO PROTECT WOMEN MERSINA, Asiatic Turkey.—Two battalions of Turkish troops arrived here today. It is understood a strong detachment will at once be sent up the country to Hadjin to effect the relief of the American women mission aries there who for nearly a fortnight have been besieged in their mission house by a horde of fanatical Moham medan tribesman from the surround ing country. FORTY INJURED AS TRAIN DEFT TRACK PALMER, Mass. —An eastbound New England special on the Boston and Albany was derailed by a broken rail near here at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. The dining car and six Pullmans were ditched. Thirty to forty passengers are injured. The wounded were taken to hospitals here and Springfield. j COTTON ACREAGE IS REDUCED 3 PER CENT NEW YORK. —Returns to Miss Giles indicate a reduction of the pres ent acreage of cotton at approximately three per cent. THE WEATHER Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Friday. For Georgia and 9outh Carolina: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; Warmer tonight in Interior. The weather continues fair in Au gusta with the temperature close around 80 degrees, and the prediction is that it will be fair tonight and Friday. The maximum and minimum temperature Wednesday was 80 and 59 degrees. It was a few degrees cooler here than in most other towns in this section of the country. The depression yesterday overlying the middle Rocky Mountain country has developed Into a storm of consid erable energy and is now central over the lower Missouri valley. It is followed by snow in Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Dakota and Minnesota and preceded by rain over the western lower lakes, and snow' in New York, while little or no rain occurred in the cotton belt, since yest UJay morning. It is much warmer in the interior of the country and colder in the Mid dle Atlantic states and New England. A moderate cold wave covers a wide range of the Rocky Mountain districts, accompanying the area of high pres sure moving in from the Pacific north west. HASKELL U BE VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED WASHINGTON.—After a careful consideration of the reasons given by the court for its action in quashing indictments against Gov. Haskell and others in Oklahoma, involving alleged land irregularities, the attorney gene ral telegraphed instructions to the United States district attorney at Tul sa to proceed with a vigorous prose cution of those cases. The district attorney is instructed to apply to the court for a new grand jury, draw'n in conformity with Judge Marshall's de cision, and to present cases to that grand jury. ASKS PROTECTION OF MISSIONARIES Americans To Be Tried in Congo Free States For Slandering Government. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Dr. S. H. Chester, secretary of the foreign mis sion board of the Southern Presbyte rian church, has gone to Washington to ask the government to intercede in behalf of the two Southern Pres byterian missionaries in the Congo Free State, Central Africa, shortly to be tried by the Uelgian government at Leopoldville, on the charge of slan dering the government. One of the missionaries is Dr. Morrison of Vir ginia and the other a negro mission ary, Dr. Sheppard. FINE SERVICES AT ST. JAMES Services Are Growing in Interest. Several Have Been Taken Into the Church. The revival services at St. James are growing in interest day after day. The church is filled at each morning and evening services. The services will continue throughout this week and next week. Rev. B. F. Fraser, the presiding elder, is con ducting the services. The services Wednesday night was the best of the series. There was u splendid altar service, and the congre gation was greatly stirred. Mr. Fras er spoke on "Excuses, or Without the Wedding Garment.’’ Several persons have been taken into the church, since the meeting started, and there are several who have applied for membership. They will be taken into the church in the next few days. The song service at the church is splendid. The Stewart Hymnal is be ing used. This book has boen es pecially prepared for revival meet ings and it contains all the old famil iar Methodist hymns. Not only the members of all tho church in the city are invited, but those who do not belong to any church are invited to attend the services. AUGUSTA ATTORNEYS TO WARM SPRINGS Will Attend Meeting of State Bar Association in June. Several Augusta attorneys are pre paring to attend the meeting of the State Bar association at Warm Springs, Ga., on June 2nd and 3rd T’here will be a large number of at torneys over the state who will at tend the meeting. Hon. Wm. H. Flem ing, of Augusta, will read a paper that will be of great inte-est. to the lawyers of the state. The title of the paper that will bo read by Mr, Fleming is: “The Treaty Power of the President and the Sen ate: How Affected by Powers Dele gated to Congress; and by Powers Re served to the States.” The paper is one "that Is of great in terest to all lawyers, especially to consitiutlonal lawyers. Mr. Fleming will use as a practical application the question as to whether California can pass a law on the Japanese question that will be against the recent treaty made between the United States and Japan. The question is of absorbing interest, and there have been many Californians, who asked themselves the same question during '.ho recent Japanese agitation. The paper pre pared by Mr. Fleming jas taken a great deal of time to get up, and th« complicated and manv sided question is thoroughly threshed out GRAND JURY IS HAVING BARBECUE The grand jury continued their in vestigations Thursday morning of the affairs of the county. Thursday afternoon they were given a barbecue dinner at the county home. The jury went out in automobiles They will return to the city late Thursday af ternoon. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 29. 1909. -r— ~ ~ -Pwpfc. ■ -*•-.**,,<■«;* „ • , ” . -■ ' gfi ! . j i- ' \ r . j *» i ~t V TC> This is a scene at Constantinople which recent ly fell into the hands of the army of young Turks after some hard fighting. The arrow indicates the White Mosque, where some of the hard fighting took place. DIIIIS' PORTRAIT RUSES STORM IN WISE Presentation of Silver Service To Battleship Mississippi Calls Forth Resolutions From Ohio Congressman. WASHINGTON. Representative Hollingsworth, of Ohio, has prepared a resolution calling upon the secre tary of the navy for information re lative to the state of Mississippi pre paring to present to the battleship Mississippi an elaborate silver ser vice, the centerpiece of \yhich is to be decorated with an engraved por trait of Jefferson Davis, which it had been intended to present in public today, but which the presenter was dissuaded from doing. The resolu tion is preceded by a long preamble in which it is declared that "The dignity and character of the United States government and its creditable standing at home and abroad require that its battleships should be in com mand of officers imbued with high American ideals, healthy loyalty, and just pride in the history and institu tions of the government they serve.” In the resolution propep, the secre tary is requested to inform congress "By whom and on what authority such a gift is to be accepted and what lesson of loyalty or patriotism such a portrait engraving iB intended to teach and with what ideals of gov ernment it is expected thereby to in spire officers and men now or here after to be in control of such battle ship; and especially to ascertain and Inform congress whether or not the proposed gift of silver service thus decorated be agreeable to or desired by the officers now in command of the Mississippi.” BATTLESHIPS ONLY SLIGHTLY REPAIRED Secretary Meyer Denied Report That Ships Suf fered Severely from Voy age Around the World. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary Meyer has not taken formal notice of the sensational story published in a New York morning paper to the ef fect that the sixteen battleships when they circled the globe have been prac tically remodeled, the vessels hav ing suffered severely the result of the voyage. The vessels were only un dergoing ordinary repairs in addition to the substitution of new military masts for the old style mast.*. He denied positively any extraor dinary repairs that, were necessary to put the ships in the best of condi tion. Secretary Meyer later issued an of ficial statement wherein he denounc ed the story as ridiculous. He said ! all repairs could have been made by one repair shop. Friday's Herald Friday's Herald See Friday’s Herald for the Sat urday Store News and Bargain An nouncements. Saturday will be a big trade day in Augusta and you’ll find store news and bargains in Friday's Herald that will help you in Sat urday shopping. The Herald is given by the Audit Co. of New York a 43.3 per cent larger paid city circulation than any other Augusta Daily Newspaper. Scene in City of Constantinople FRAUDULENT SUGAR WEIGHING DEAL SETTLED WASHINGTON.—The attorney gen eral Thursday afternoon approved tho settlement between the American Sugar Refining company and the gov ernment of the claims which the gov ernment had against It. arising out of the fraudulent weighing of sugar at refineries at Jersey City and Brook lyn. The sugar company pays $ 134,- 411 awarded by a jury and in addition paid into the United States treasury $2,000,000 more representing the du ties which have been unpaid for the last twelve years. This settlement does not affect the criminal prosecution of those who are responsible for the frauds. The government will ijress these cases to a finish. METHODISTS BEGIN SOUTHERN MEETING MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The hoard of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, composed of representatives from all the confer ence hoards of the church, began here Thursday a three-day session. JILTEDToKR SHOT GIRL AND HIMSELF NORTHAMPTON, Mass.— Enraged because she had broken her engage ment with him and refused to renew it, Porter Smith, who was graduated from Dartmouth College last, year, shot, and probably fatally wounded, Miss Helen Ayer Marden, a senior at Smith College, and then turning tho revolver on himself committed suicide. Physicians stated that there was no hope for Miss Marden’s recovery. OPERATORS AND MINERS AGREE PHILADELPHIA.—The operators and miners this afternoon signed the three-year agreement. TAFT WILL HELP PARTY IN VIRGINIA WASHINGTON. President Taft told Representative Hlemp, of Vir ginia, he would ask one of his cabinet Officers to attend and speak at. the Virginia state republican convention to be held July 28. The president said any assistance from a national standpoint of the administration could give the republican of Virginia In their forthcoming campaign wouid be gladly rendered. MANY DENTISTS TO STAND EXAMINATION ATLANTA, Ga.—Five applicants for state licenses as dentists are be ing examined by the state board of dentistry at the capitol. Sixty-eight of the applicants are white, and seven are negroes from a college outside the state. The examinations will last through Saturday, All the members of the state examines bioard are present. * Illy wmmmmmmmmmmmmr «——— m TERRIFIC STORM STRUCK CHICAGO Skyscrapers Seemed To Shake; Lightning Struck Several Buildings. Worse Weather Expected. CHICAGO.—A terrific thunderstorm struck this city shortly after midnight and raged for several hours. It was accompanied by detonations which seemed to shake the skyscrapers in the downtown district, and two build ings were struck by lightning, but no damage was done. The stoTTn Is said to ho a forerun ner of one which is raging in the middle west and which has proslrat ed wires in Kansas City and lowa. Worse weather Is expected within twenty-four hours. Storm Struck Pottsville. POTTSVILLE Pa.—A snow storm is In progress here, with thermometer below freezing. Reading Suffers. READING, Pa.—A snow squall struck here Thursday morning. HEAVY SNOW STORM STRUCK NEW YORK NEW YORK. —A heavy snow storm struck New York Thursday. It con tinued several hours. THUNDERSTORMS AND SNOWFALL. PITTSBURG. —The heaviest snow fall of tile winter in northwestern Pennsylvania began shortly before midnight and Thursday at Bradford the snow was ten Inches deep and still falling. In Pittsburg the weather is mild and thunderstorms early today were suggestive of summer. SNOW CAUSED TROLLEY WRECK. NEW YORK. —Nine persons were Injured in a collision of trolley cars in Jersey City Thursday. The acci dent was due to a snowstorm and slippery rails. COL. KINGMAN WAS IN CITY WEDNESDAY Will Make a Report To War Department Look ing to the Survey Told of In The Herald. Gol. Dan C. Kingman, of Savannah was In the city Wednesday, for the purpose of investigating the river bank affected by flood, In order to report to the War Department whetli er or not a survey should be held. Ho slated that he would recommend. The War Department has been asked to rip-rap the river banks. The preliminary survey which Gol King man will recommend will be the iiret step In compliance with that request. An appropriation has already been set aside for the survey, but It was first necessary that Col. Kingman should recommend It. He left Wednesday night, for Sa vannah. GOOD WILL FOR TURKS NOT EXPRESSED BY HOUSE WASHINGTON. —An effort was made In the house to obtain the adop tion of a resolution expressing the good will of the American people for the people of Turkey and the hope that every effort will be made by the new government of that, country to suppress massacres of Christians and non-Moslems. Mr. Wagner, of Pennsylvania, of fered the resolution, but. Mr. Macon, of Arkansas, objected to Its consider ation, "This is too sudden,” he said. "I object,” No action was taken by the house. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. MEMBER OF ABDUL HAMID’S CABINET HANGED IN STREET MAYOR, J. R. TOMPKINS Mayor of Edgefield, S. C. A T s|v J| Col. J. R. Tompkins for some time has keen serv ing as mayor pro tern of Edgefield, S. C. He lias re cently keen elected ky the people as mayor of the town, and promises to make one of the kest. and most progressive mayors Edgefield lias ever had. COTTON MILL MEN READ MANY PAPERS BOSTON, Mass.—With tlie excep tion of tho election of now members unci the election el' officers the elos lug sessions of tin* annual convention of thee National Association of Cot ton Manufacturers were given over wholly to the reading of technical pa pers. "The Cotton Fibre Substance and its Properties,” was tine subject, of a treatise by Arthur D. Little of Bos ton, read at the forenoon meeting. Following the submission of the sec ond report of the committee on stan dard specifications for staple gray goods, Klwln Hobrook Rooney yf Whltlngville, Mass., read a paper on “Semi Combing,” and T. IC. Chappell of Now York spoke on the cure of commutators. »,. - . ONE MAN KILLED IN ELEVATOR FIRE CHICAGO. —One fireman was killed another missing and eight were seri ously Injured In a fire which destroy ed Elevator B, of the Illinois Central early Thursday. The conflagration, which was discovered in the height of a violent electric storm, complete ly consumed the elevator and its con tents, The loss Is estimated at, sl,- 000,000. The fire, it Is believed was caused by lightning. For hours the electri; storm which burst over the city short ly past midnight created havoc. Fre quent alarms of fire kept the depart ment busy in several sections of the city and It was In the midst of the bombardment of lightning that the elevator was discovered on fire. Fire Chief Horan responded on the first alarm and Immediately sounded the general alarm. CANDLER ELIGIBLE. ATLANTA, Ga. —Attorney General Hart has furnished an official opin ion to Governor Hmith on the ellgl blllty of C. Murphy Candler, recently appointed to the railroad commission after he had been re-elected to the legislature from DcKalb. The attor ney general says Mr. Candler's ellgl 1 blllty cannot be authoritatively ques tioned. 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Nadir Pasha, the Man of Great Power Under Old Regime Executed at Day break Thursday. CONSTANTINOPLE—Nadir Pasha the second eunuch of the palace un der the regime of Abdul Hamid, was hanged at dawn Thursday on the Bal ms bridge, the great thoroughfaro ihat connects the Stamboul with quarters of the Galata, and Pnra. Th* body was allowed to swing until eight o’clock in tlie morning, and thousands ol people stopped to look at the great Nubian, whose name was a terror un der Abdul Hamid. In life lie had been fully stx feet six inches tall. Nadir was executed after a trial by court martial on the charge that he instigated the mutiny ol troops April 13. He was reputed to lie Intensely ambitious, subtle-mind ed ami insensible to the sufferings of otlicrs. lie was one of trio that form ed Abdul Hamid’s private cabinet un der the old regime. FOUR HER KIEFER 111 BIGJXPLOSIOH TAMAQUA, Pa.—Four men were killed by an explosion In the glycerino packing house of the Potts Powder company at Reynolds, Pa., near here. TO START CAROLINA ' HEIGHTS BOULEVARD All Necessary Money Is In Hand and Work Will Begin Shortly. All tho money necessary to build tlie proposed Carolina Heights Boule vard, about $5,000, is now In band, »nd bids are being recalved for Us construction, it wlli probably be com pleted about tlie middle of July. The Carolina Heights Boulevard will be a highway extending from tlie Center street bridge across Schultz’s 1111 l to Hummer I [lll, H. C., where it will intersect with tho proposed Au gusta Aiken Boulevard, It will open ii ]> a very fertile farming section, and will form one of the connecting links in a great automobile bolt line when tlie Angusta-Aiken Boulevard is fin ished. The movement to build the Caro tins. Heights Boulovard was started by public spirited citizens of Schultz’s Hill, who organized an association, started a subscription list, and In a short while had raised all the neces sary funds. Those who subscribed are requested to send their donations to Treasurer W. T. Hite as early aa possible. i SAVANNAH IN MIDST OF ELECTRIC CO. WAR President of One Company Asks Relief An Competi tion in Hurting His Live lihood. Special to The Hernld. ATLANTA, C,a Relief that he ap parently cannot get Is sought by J. O. Tyson, president, of the Savannah Elect He Repairing Co., who present, a petition to tlie railroad commission saying in effect that he nnd his fel lows In the electric wiring business In Havannnh nro caught in the cross fir* between the two electric lighting com panies of tHat. city, who, he says, are at, war with each other and cut ting rates so that each Is installing electric wiring free of charge, there by cutting off the living that, the men who make a business of wiring be lieve they are entitled to. Chairman. McLendon tells Mr. Tyson that he be lieves the railroad commission can hardly net. in tho case, unless some discriminative practices are shown up against one or both of the companies at war. The commission encourages competition, says tlie chairman. Prsal dent Tyson’s prayo- for relief will go before the full commission lator this week when it meets In formal ses sion.
