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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIV., No. 199.
LEGISLATORS
HERE TO SEE
KEWSTOCKADE
Members of Penitentiary
Committees of Both
Branches of Legislature
Guests Richmond County
PRISON COMMISSION
MEMBERS ALSO HERE
Were Given Barbecue and
Shown Over the Stock
ade. Convicts Also Had
Barbecue.
The new county stockade was for
mally opened Saturday at noon. Gen.
Clement A. Evans and the peniten
tiary committees from both branches
of the legislature were present. Five
senators and seven representatives
are in the city. They were carried
out to the stockade about noon in
carriages and automobiles. After the
buildings had been inspected, a bar
becue dinner was served. A dinner
was also served to the 200 convicts
at the stockade.
The buildings were thoroughly in
spected. and the committees expressed
their pleasure at them. There was
a large crowd present when the guests
adjourned to the dining halls. A
very elaborate barbecue dinner was
served to about 400 people, including
the convicts.
Those who are here from Atlanta
are: Senator W. S. Morris of Augusta,
Senator L. R. Akin of Brunswick,
Senator R. D. Callaway, of Washing
ton. Senator I. C. McWilliams of
Stockridge, Senator F. E. Couley of
Blairsville and Senator ,1. L. McLean
of Glennville; Representatives Wal
lace Pierce of Richmond, Dr. Geo.
Brown of Atlanta, R. Simmons of
Statesboro, Dr. J. F. Johnson of Hi
wassee, J. R. Hubbard of Hubbard
ville, Jas. McCarthy of Savannah and
C. E. Cannon of Clayton.
LITTLE HOPE OF
SAVING FRANK
' ROYAL’S LIFE
The condition of Frank Royal, -who
■was accidentally shot by his cousin
at Egypt Thursday and who was
brought to Augusta Thursday after
noon, is critical. It is estimated that
the bullet made twenty perforations
of the intestines, and the gravest
doubts are held by the surgeons, of
the boy’s recovery.
Young Royal was resting easy Sat
urday morning and during the early
afternoon, but complications which
may cause a fatal termination of the
wound are feared.
QUIET REIGNS IN
STRIKE DISTRICT
PITTSBURG. —When the sun rose
and light came into the dreary streets
of McKees Rocks Saturday the ex
pected trouble predicted freely for
the past twenty-four hours between
the striking employees of the Scheen
ville plant of the Pressed Steel Car
Co. failed to materialize.
Early in the morning the constabu
lary were up and about, patrolling
back alleys and company’s village.
Quiet reigned.
After the early morning a review of
the situation Lieut. Smith of the state
constabulary said:
"We anticipate little or no trouble
during the next day or so. My men
report that while the strikers arfe
gathered in their homes there will
be small chance of mob rule and that
orders for the men to keep close to
their homes came from strike lead
ers Friday night.”
SAILED FOR CHARLESTON.
SAVANNAH.—The Italian cruiser
Etruria which has been in port for
the pakt week set sail at an early
hour Saturday morning for Charles
ton, where it will remain a day or so
before proceeding to New York where
it is to take part in the Henrick Hud
son celebration.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity:
Showers tonight or Sunday
•jj_y>r Georgia and South Carolina:
Vocal showers tonight or Sunday
Showers again prevailed over the
cotton belt and the middle Atlantic
states Friday. At several Alabama
points the rainfall was heavy to ex
cessive. Considerable cloudiness pre
vails Saturday in the central Gulf
states.
Augusta weather is extremely warm,
temperature being even higher than
Friday’s maximum, which was 91 de
grees. The hottest town in the coun
try yesterday was Phoenix, with a
maximum of 106 degrees.
The prediction for Saturday and
Sunday locally is showers.
“DOC NORVELL
SHOOTS LEWIS
BRUSHER TODAY
Men Quarreled Over Twen
ty-Five Cents Gambling
Debt and Norvell Pulled
Gun and Fired.
BRUSHER CARRIED
TO CITY HOSPITAL
Norvell Ran, But Later
Gave Himself Up To the
Police At the Barracks.
His Condition Uncertain
As the result of a quarrel over the
payment of a gambling debt of 25
cents, Lewis Brusher, formerly an
Augusta policeman, was shot in the
lower abdomen with a 32 calibre au
tomatic Colts pistol by Paul. a:ins
“Dole,” Norvell. He is at the city
hospital in a serious condition. Nor
vell gave himself up, and is now con
fined in a cell at police headquarters.
About noo n the two met in Charlie
Holtzclaw’s near-beer saloon, at 1858
BUmd street, and quarreled. Norvell
went out, was gone a short time, and
then came back to renew the quarrel.
Witnesses to the affair say that he ac
costed Brusher, reviling him because
he hadn’t paid the 25 cents, and ac
cusing him that it was a “d —d dirty
trick.”
Whereupon Brusher is said to have
attacked Norvell, cuffing him several
times, and Norvell then opened fire.
At the first shot Brusher fell, but Nor
vell kept firing. None of the bullets
took effect, however, except the first.
As the crowd quickly gathered, Nor
vell made a hurried exit through the
back door, leaving his pistol. Half
an hour later he surrendered to the
officers at the barracks.
The ambulance was quickly sum
moned, and Brusher was taken to the
city hospital. Meanwhile police offi
cers had arrived, and entered at once
an investigation of the case .endeavor
ing also to locate Norvell.
Brusher is a middle-aged man, pow
erfully built, and said to be a fear
less fighter. He was discharged from
the police force for alleged cruel
treatment in arresting a woman.
Norvel is a slim, quiet youth, not
given to fighting, but said to be de
termined and dangerous when arous
ed. That he had shot and possibly
inflicted a serious wound upon Brush
er seemed not to disturb him in the
least. Seated on the edge of a bunk
in one of the barracks cells, he calmly
smoked a short cob pipe, and discuss
ed the case in a matter-of-fact man
ner.
He wouldn’t go into details, how
ever, simply stating that he and
Brusher had become involved in a
“litle quarrel about a gambling debt.”
he said he didn’t mean to shoot Brush
er more tha n twice, explaining that
the pistol .after the manner of the l
magazine type, kept firing as
he held his finger on the trigger.
CHANGED HER MIND
AT LAST MINUTE
Young Woman Jumped
Into Well and Then
Screamed For Help.
HARTFORD, Ky.—Leaving a note,
to the .effect that she was lonely and
tired of life, Ollie Daniel, eighteen
years old att- -pted to commit suicide
by jumping into a well at the home
of J. J. Alvey here. The girl made
full preparations for her death, but
evidently changed her mind at the
last minute, for as soon as she had
jumped into the well she began to
scream. Mr. Alvey was awakened
and rushed to her assistance. With
the aid of the well bucket, to which
Miss Daniel clung, he rescued her
from her perilous position and carried
her into the house. She was none
the worse for the experience.
She is an orphan and is very pret
ty. She is employed by Dr. Plrtle,
the local dentist, as a helper in his
office.
FATHER MANGLES
BABE WITH REAPER
Was Hidden in Tall Grain
and Cut By Unsuspecting
Father.
READING, Pa. —Caught fn the
knives of his father’s reaper, the 3-
year-old son of Charles Hafer of
Klapperthal, ’this county, was terri
bly mangled. The baby left the
house unnoticed, wandered Into the
harvest field and was hidden from
view by the height of the grain until
caught in the reaper. His right arm
was nearly severed, and he was seri
ously cut in the legs and left arm.
The screams of the child attracted
the father, who was in charge of the
reaper, and he extricated the child
from the machine.
CIGA lIETTE ITENDS
HOLD BIG SMOKE FEST
WALLA, WALLA, Wash.—The cig
arette smokers of Washington pre
vented by law from smoking "coffin
nails” in this state, held a “snn.ke
fest” across the border in Oregon. A
special train with no passengeis but
“cigarette fiends” left Walla Walla
and crossed the Oregon line ten miles
away, where they smoked w their
heart’s contend.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 17, 1909.
TAFT TO STAND
BY PEOPLE IN
TARIFF ISSUE
Emphatically Declared
that He Thinks the Whole
People Are Demanding
“Revision Downward.”
CONCEALED THREAT
IN HIS DECLARATION
Many Think That Presi
dent Will Veto Bill if
Contrary To Sentiment of
the People.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Taft’s emphatic declaration Friday
that he regarded the republican plat
form as meaning, and the sentiment
of the whole people as demanding, a
"Revision downward,” eclipsed in in
terest all minor and specific details
of the tariff struggle in all circles
here Saturday.
The statement, issued late in the
day after a delegation of congress
men had appealed to the president
for the protection upon raw tfiaterials,
purported to be the outline report of
the discussion which 'cook place dur
ing the visit of the delegation, and
espeically of what the president said
to the visitors; but the very fact that
such a statement was issued a't all,
and in the particular emphatic con
clusion of the remarks of the presi
dent thus reiterated, made it clear to
all who studied the pronouncement
that 'the president intended it virtual
ly as an altimatum. ,
Many read into the statement a
barely concealed threat on the part
of the president that if the bill reach
ed him in a form which he regarded
as unfaithful 'to the promises of his
party and disobedient to the senti
ment of the mass of people, he would
veto it.
The general feeling was that th-5
president’s pronouncement would in
evitably have a profound effect.
SENATOR SAYS
OUTLOOK
DISCOURAGING.
WASHINGTON.—“Do you happen
to know.’ ’asked one of the senatorial
representatives on the tariff confer
ence on his way to the meeting Sat
urday, “whether the representation as
to the president’s attitued on tariff is
correctly represented by the papers
this mot;nj£g?”
The question was addressed to a
newspaper man, who assured the sen
ator that there could be no doubt that
the president had been properly rep
resented.
The senator replied: “Then the out
look is discouraging indeed. While it
is not stated in so many words that
the president will demand free raw
material, such is the tendency, and
if such should be his demand, it
Jooks to me as if it would be impos
sible to got it. Difficulty would be
in getting the bill with free raw ma
terial through the senate. For In
stance, I do not believe the senate
could be induced to pass the bill put
ting hides on the free list.”
ONE DEAD, ANOTHER
DYING FROM DRUG
Woman Found Dead in
Dirty Room With Half
Brother, Who is Very
Weak From Use of Mor
phine.
ATLANTA, Ga.—ln a dingy, dirty
corner at her room in Jones avenue,
Miriam Poindexter was ton mil dead
late Thursday night, while her halt
brother, A. H. Poindexter, was crouch
ed in another corner halt dead from
the morphine habit. At the inquest
held Friday morning the coroner's
jury returned a verdict of death from
intestinal infection in the case of Mi
riam Poindexter, there being no evi
dence to show that she nad commu
ted suicide or been murdered
A. H. Poindexter Is now in the po
lice barracks almost dead from the
effects of the deadly drug. It Is not
expected that he will live tv/enty-four
hours.
NEGRO BETTER THAN
WHITES, SAYS WOMAN
But For Interference of
Macon Police She Would
Have Been Mobhed.
MACON, Ga. —An affair far too
shocking to be presented to the gaze
of the public culminated In a trial
In police court, and now a rather
handsome woman languishes in a pris
on ceil.
Jennie O’Neal, she gave her name
to the police. She says she came here
from New York city. She was claim
ing a negro as her friend, and so ex
cited a mob of white men at Fourth
and Oak streets that it was necessary
for the police to interfere. When some
one among her female associates de
rided her for associating with the
negro, she turned, and with an oath,
declared that her negro companion
was as much a gentleman as any
Southern white man. The woman was
sent to serve ten days in the police
barracks, and was committed to the
state court, with no one to make a
bond of SI,OOO. The negro was also
committed to the state court, and will
serve 90 days on the public works.
Crown Princess of Ron mania
England is making great preparations to wel
come Crown Princess Marie, of Ronmania, who is
shortly to visit her uncle, the King. The picture is
from a photograph showing the Crown Princess at
the observance of an Easter ceremonial in Buch
arest.
THE 111 ESTATE
HAS BEEN SETTLED
Mr. Janies R. Gray, Trus
tee For the Minor Child
ren, Has in Charge the
Broad Street Building
and Forty-Five Thousand
Dollars.
ATLANTA, Ga. —By the consent of
all concerned an order of the court
was Issued Friday morning giving the
heirs of the late Walker P. Inman
their share of the estate. To James
R. Gray, trustee for the minor chil
dren of the late John Walter Ternan,
the Inman building, fronting 72 feet
on Broad street, was conveyed. And
$45,000 was also transferred to James
R. Gray for the minor children of the
late John Walter Inman, as called for
in the will. The Inman building was
valued at $105,000.
In the order of Mrs. Nanllne Holt
Dike was given $50,000 and the guard
ing of Walter P. Inman, Jr., $75,0-10.
The order issued Friday settles the
claims of all special legacies provided
for in the will with the exception of
$15,000 left lo certain public schools.
WIFE DROPPED DEAD
NURSING HUSBAND
Strain Kills Woman and
Shock of Wife’s Death
Hastened End To Man.
ORANGEBURG, S. C.—While seat
ed at the bedside of her husband, who
had been critically ill for nearly a
month with typhoid fever, and engag
ed in fanning and mopping hi-, fever
ed brow, Mrs. Julius Thomas fell dead
at her home in the Providence section
of ihis countv. Without a word of
waiting the loving wife fell across
the bed upon which lay the form of
her beloved husband and expir-fj .vi'h
out a murmur. The death was a
very sad one and was a great shock
to the ill man.
Mr. Thomas had been ill for about
four weeks and his wife nad ever been
untiring in her efforts to administer
to him. He was ill with typhoid fever
and his condition was such that he
never recovered from the shock of
his wife’s death. He lingered for a
few days longer, and he too followed
his wife to the grave. Mrs. Thomas
in her nursing of her sick husband
had been under a great strain, and on
account of her delicate health was
unable to withstand the high tension
under which she had labored.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas had been mar
ried about 15 years and they leave
two children. Mr. Thomas was for
sometime past the efficient, guard
over the county chain gang, and was
held in high esteem by all who knew
.hint-
FOREIGN STRIKERS
FIGHT AMERICANS
Native Workmen Oppose
Strike. Sheriff Asks For
Police At Standard Steel
Car Works.
BUTLER, Pa. —Violence occurred
Saturday morning a’t the plant of the
Standard Steel Car Co. at Lyndora,
Pa. Several foreigners were injured,
one seriously. Sheriff Caldwell has
sent a urgent message to Harrisburg,
for state constabulary. It is feared
that rioting will take place during
the day. The foreign workmen at
the plants struck for higher wages
Friday necessitating a general sus
pension of the large works and af
fecting several thousand American
workmen opposed to the strike.
When the mill gates were thrown
open Saturday American workmen be
gan entering the plant as though
there was no ’trouble. Several hun
dred foreigners endeavored lo stop
them and a fight followed.
The foreigners are ugly and obsti
nate. All saloons at Lyndora are
closed.
SHRINERS TO MEET
AT TYBEE MONDAY
SAVANNAH, Ga. —Tybee island is
preparing for the entertainment on
Monday of the biggest crowd of
Simmers ever assembled in one spot
in Georgia. It is proposed to make
the mid-summer ceremonial of Alco
Temple the biggest ever. There will
be visitors from Albany, Valdosta,
Macon, Fitzgerald, Waycross and In
fact, from all sections of middle and
south Georgia. The Temple is now
in a very thriving condition and it is
said 'the delegates to the recent na
tional convention in California brought
home some paraphernfa that will sur
prise the oldest Sbriner.
CURTISS MADE RECORD
AMERICAN FLIGHT
In Flight of Twenty-Four
anil Seven-Tenthn Miles
in Fifty-Three Minutes
and Forty-Six Seconds.
MINEOLA, N. Y.—A flight of 24.7
miles in G.'i minutes and 45 seconds
was made Haturday by Glenn H. Cur
tiss In his aeroplane, over Hempstead
plains course for a cup offered by The
Scientific American.
In »his flight Curtiss excelled all
hfs previous records and all Amer
ican aeroplane records for the year.
SAVED BY A SWAN.
LOUISVICUE. —A little boy who
fell into a lake at Budapest managed
to seize a swan, which brought him to
shallow wat.u.-
DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
MOLTEN LAVA
FLOODS TOWN
OF UPOUSISTI
Six Persons Killed and
Many Injured ky Further
Shocks in Province of
Elis Saturday.
INHABITANTS ARE
WITHOUT SHELTER
Practically All Houses in
Sti'icken District Have
Collapsed and People are
in Panic.
• ATHENS. There were further
earth shocks in ’the Province of EUs
Saturday. Six people were killed
and fifty others injured, at the village
ol’ Upousisti, where molten lava is
flowing from a fissure in the ground.
Practically all the houses in this vil
luge have collapsed. At Datnlza four
persons were killed and 21 injured.
The population of the striken villages
are living in the open without shelter.
DAILY CHAMPAGNE
BATH LANDS RICH
MAN IN THE ASYLUM
NEW YORK.—A daily bath hi
champagne and the use of tills expen
sive beverage as a hair tonic has
caused the confinement of Louis Voel
ker, a well-to-do merchant of 1(10
West Thirty-fifth street, In Blooming
dale Asylum. Voelkei was deprived
of his liberty by an order of Justice
Guy, after he had started out on a
spectaular career of what his wife
and daughter call “spendthrift dis
sipation.” in a single “session” at
Atlantic City early in the summer he
is said by them to have squandered
over $3,000 on champagne.
His wife Josephine, declared that
Voelker kept champagne on the table
constantly at home, and insisted on
putting It in soup and upon other
food. She declares he was also In
the habit of pinching members of tits
family with a pair of eight-inch pliers
which he always carried.
Mrs. Voelker said her husband re
cently became possessed of the Idea
that he owned $3,000,000. It was then
that he began a series of excesses
which came to a climax at Atlantic
City. She states that he quenheed
his thirst each day with six pints of
champagne, one quart of cognac and
Yen milk punches.
Another delusion was that he was
a judge and ho would deliver long ju
dicial opinions. At one time he was
possessed of the idea I hat ho owns at
least 388,000 acres of land in Arkan
sas which ho planned to cultivate.
SYLVANIA HALTS IN WORK,
TRIBUTE TO AUTO VICTIMS
Special to The Herald.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Dr. W. C. Rake
straw, a Savannah physician, who
was called to Sylvanla to attend some
of ’those who were Injured by lire
when an automobile burned on Tues
day has returned home. He says
Sylvanla presents the most pathetic
appearance of any town he has ever
seen. Practically the whole town Is
In mourning for the four people who
died from their burns were connected
with almost every family in the ci’ty
either as blood or marriage rela
tions. "The scene reminded me of
what I Imagine must he tile case in
a small mining town when an explo
sion takes place under ground and
they are waiting for the dead to be
brought to the surface. Business in
’the town is at a standstill. Mr.
George H. Hill, who has lost his wife
Ono of the solicitors of Tho
Augusta Herald called on a mer
chant the other day who, before
the interview took place, was not
a strenuous believer in advertis
ing.
He said to our young man that
he did not believe tie could make
advertising pay.
The young man said:
I know that advertising will
pay you or anbody.
How many advertised articles
have you on your person?
Where did you buy your suit?
Where did you get that hat?
What collar is that you are
.wearing?
What make of shirt have you
got on?
Where did you buy that fine
necktie?
What jeweler sold you that
scarfpin?
Where did you buy your shoes?
What make of underwear have
you got on?
Where do you buy you hose?
The merchant thought long and
hard after the above questions
were asked of him In rapid suc
cession.
He acknowledged that nearly
all of the articles he wore were
advertised articles.
The solicitor told him that
“One paper in the home is worth
a thousand on the highway
CONFERENCE
TAX FIGHT IS
ON IN HOUSE
Sheppard, of Sumter, Gav«
Notice of Motion to Re
consider Action of House
in Adopting Resolution.
HOUSE ADJOURNED
AT EARLY HOUR
A Number of Local Meas
ures Were Passed By
House in Saturday’s Ses
sion.
Special to The Herald.
ATLANTA, Ga. That the house has
not yet finished with its internal fight,
on the lax conference resolution adopt
ed Friday was Indicated Saturday
morning when Sheppard of Sumter
gave notice of a motion to reconsider
the action of Ihe house in adopting
that resolution. The house passed a
number of local measures and ad
journed at 10 u. in.
possEsliit
HIE MURDERER
STEEL, Mo. Bosses are following
bloodhounds through the woods in the
'ieinily of Steel in search of Archie
Williams, a white man who Friday
allot and killed a well-known farmer.
The shooting was a sequel to a
previous shooting affray, following a
trivial quarrel as to the rental of
some land.
Lynching 1h feared.
COTTON CLOTHES
TARIFF REDUCED
Conferees Agree To Re
duction in Women’s and
Children’s Dress Goods.
WASHINGTON—The tariff con
ferees agreed to a reduction of five
per cent in the Dingley rates on wo
men’s and children’s dress goods,
made of cotton warp.
BIG FISH IN HOLLOW LOG.
BEDFORD, lnd. —When fishing on
White river, at the mouth of Salt
Greek, I*. H. Perkins of tills city, with
others, discovered two large catfish
in a hollow log in shallow water.
They cut open the. log and secured
the fish by reaching In and running a
rope through their gills. The fish
tipped the scales at 14<> pounds.
and one child through the disaster is
the proprietor of one of the largest
stores In Sylvanla und Mr. L. H. Hil
ton, whose boy was badly burned Is
the proprietor of another. The other
storekeepers through sympathy and
because of ’the keen sorrow felt by
everyone over the terrible affair have
closed their stores also. I do not
believe there lias been fifty dollars
worth of business done In Sylvanla
since Tuesday. The town is fairly
stunned.”
The funeral of Mrs. George N.
White took place Friday afternoon.
The whole town attended It.
I)r. Rake Straw returned to Sylvanla
Friday afternoon. He gives the phy
sicians of the town the very highest
praise for their work. “They treated
the cases in the most scientific man
ner,” he said.
everything he wore was also an
advertised article.
Then the merchant and solici
’tor compared notes as to tho num
ber of advertised articles that
each had in his home.
it was discovered that the fur
niture had been bought from dif
ferent. advertisers that tho
clocks had been bought from a
well advertised jewelry house—
that the silverware had been
bought from several advertised
specialty houses in this line —that
the books had been bought from
several publication houses —that
the piano, china, dishes, kitchen
utensils, vases, screens, rugs,
couches, pictures, jewels, cur
tains, bric-a-brac, lamps, soap,
tooth powder, tooth brushes, lin
en, and all the rest had been pur
chased from advertisers.
The merchant became convinc
ed that perhaps it might be a
good tiling to advertise.
He is thinking It over.
He will advertise ail right, and
soon, because when he thinks
what an Influence advertising has
on him he will say:
“Why can’t I influence people
to buy from me?”
He can and he will.
Why should not everybody ad
vertise?
it is the only way to make a
business a big success.