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VOLUME XIV., No. 348. REBELLION BREAKS OUT IN NICARAGUAN CAPITAL PRES.ZELftYA WILL PUBLISH RESIGNATION The Streets Are Filled With Unrestrained Dem onstrators Who Cry, “Long Live Liberty, the United States and Es trada.” MANAGUA, Nicaragua.—Rebellion has broken out at the capital. The streets are filled with unrestrained demonstrators. Shouts of ‘Txmg live liberty,” “the United States” and “Es trada” fill {he air. It Is said Zel aya has promised to publish Tuesday an announcement of his resignation from the presidency. INSURGENTS TAKE THREE TOWNS. BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua—An official telegram received at the headquarters announces General Morales at the head of a band of insurgents capture! Tor tuga, Arisi and Supea, small towns on the Costa Rican frontier. Morales proclaimed Estrada president of Nicaragua and continued the march to attack the important towns of Rivas. General Estrada and his followers have taken courage at the prespect of assist ance from the United States In their efforts to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. The United States cruisers Des Moines and Tacoma, and Collier Leonidas with their crews on board, are still laying out side the harbor. General Estrada now has 2,400 men and looks forward to an early engage ment that will result in a decisive vic tory for the ‘insurgents. Estrada announces that his first step is preliminary to joining Morales and other of his leaders in combated attack noon Managua will be the surrounding V Vasquez and whi'h movement he thinks is partially accomplished now. OTHER BOATS REACH NICARAGUA. WASHINGTON.—The cruiser Al bany and the gunboat Yorktown have joined the gunboat Vicksburg, at Cor into, on the Pacific coast of Nicara gua. They arrived last night PRAIRIE WILE SAIL SHORTLY. WASHINGTON.—AII the marines to sail on the Prairie for Panama or Nicaragua have received orders to be aboard by 4 o'clock Tuesday after noon. The Prairie will sail probably shortly after that hour. WARREN MFG. CO. DIRECTORS MEET Semi-Annual Dividend of Three and One-Half Per Cent Declared on Com mon and Preferred Stock A meeting of the board of directors of the Warren Manufacturing com pany was held Tuesday morning. The affairs of the company were shown to be in very good condition and plans were outlined for the operation of the company for the next year. A semi annual dividend of 3% per cent was declared on the common and preferred stock, an increase of 1 per cent over the dividend last year. MISS BATTLE SOLD VERY MANY TICKETS Won First Prize Awarded By Choral Society. Miss Hains Was Second. The members of the Choral Society tvorked hard to make the concert of tonight a financial success and those who sold the largest number of tickets were awarded cash prizes as a mark of appreciation by the officers of the work done. Miss Margaret Battle took first prize, having sold more than J 250 worth. Miss Louise Hains was sec ond. Miss Carrie Brown third and Mrs. T. E. Or j fourth. The prize was a comfuev ‘surprise to Mrs. Oer tel who was working simply to help out the society and not with any idea of winning any reward < Conditions favor fair weather in this section tonight with freezing tempeature and fair Wednesday. GOVERNMENT MAY PUffiL FIREWORKS ORDERS issued mm The following is a letter written by Mayor W. M. Dunbar to Chief of Po lice W. J. Norris Tuesday morning, which is self-explanatory: Mr. M. .7. Norris, Chief of Police, C. A. Dear Sir: This will be your author ity for permitting parties to display samples of fire works in the city of Augusta on the outer edge of the side walks, from this date until December 26th, 1909. This law, however, must be strictly complied with, which provides that only one sample of each kind of fire work can be displayed on the stand* and the stock kept in a fireproof building, whence all orders shall be delivered. Issue positive instructions to your men to see that the law is carried out. Your attention will oblige, Yours'very truly*, W. M. DUNBAR, Mayor, C. A. P. S. No license will be charged for keeping the fireworks stands. W. M. D. MRS. BROKAW AGAIN ON WITNESS STAND Woman Was, As Usual, Self-P ossessed and Fashionably Gowned As She Entered Court. NEW YORK.—The prospects of further rapid-fire questioning by the i counsel for her husband did not ap pear to worry Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw when she appeared in court at Mine ola Tuesday for her fifth successive I day on the witness stand in the trial lof her hunt for a separation from her I millionaire husband, W. Gould Bro kaw, Mrs. Brokaw wore her custom ary self-possession air, and was as fashionably gowned. She entered the I court room and consulted with her lawyer. Indications were Tuesday morning that Mrs. Brokaw would not have to spend another entire day in the wit ness chair, as John F. Mclntyre, Mr. Brokaw’s attorney, said that two hours and a halt more of questioning probably would conclude his cross examination of the plaintiff. It was expected that Mclntyre would interrogate Mrs. Brokaw as to whether she had not spent large sums of her husband’s money upon her friends, and that he would, as well, go into the details of the occurrences immedi ately preceding the separation of the couple. THOUGHT HE SAW HARDWICK IN CITY Sheriff J. W. Clark Saw Man Wlio Resembled Congressman Hardwick and the Report Was Cir culated That He Was in the City. “Hello, there goes Hardwick,” said Col. J. W. Clark, Richmond county’s popular sheriff, and from that the re port spread that the able represen tative of the tenth Georgia congres sional District was i n Augusta. The reporter got on the job and from Col. Clark he learned that the “Hardwick” was a gentleman who re sembled the congressman to such an extent that even the sheriff was mis led. “Immediately after I made the re mark,” said Col. Clark, “I realized that it was not Hardwick, but the report had started and soon spread. Hardwick is not in Augusta, but is in Washington attending to his du ties.” H. M. BRUNSON HIT BY STREET CAR Crossed Track in Front of Aiken Car and Was Knocked Down, Sustain ing Bruises, But Not Seriously Injured. H. M. Brunson, white, was struck by the car on the Aiken division of the Augusta and Aiken railway which left the monument at 6 p. m. Monday afternoon, on the 900 block of Broad street and was badly bruised. The injured man was carried to the city hospital where after an examin ation by Dr. Doughty the street rail way's surgeon, it was found that he was only bruised and not seriously hurt. The cause of the accident can not be explained, it being the opinion of the railway officials that the man started across the track regardless of the car’s approach and the motorman was unable, on account of his prox imity, to bring his car to a stop until Brunson had been struck. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14, 1909. Flans Made To Have Winter Tests of Machines in the South, and the Chamber of Commerce Has Asked Consideration of Augusta As Ideal Spot For Tests. Simultaneously with the suggestion of the editorial in Monday’s Herald that the war department conduct its aeronautical experiments in this city, the announcement having been made that the government desired to make a change from the present testing grounds, Fort Myer, Virginia, to some point in the soqth. the Chamber of Commerce by Its secretary, Mr. E. S. Johnson, has sent a letter to Secre tary of War Dickinson setting forth the many advantages of Augusta for such purpose. In Mr. Johnson’s let ter special stress is laid on the fact that the Arsenal, located in this city, is well equipped with machinery which would _ be of great value in making all repairs on the aeroplanes and our report from the weather of fice which shows that this city has an incomparable climate. The matter of urging the war department to name Augusta as the place for the aero plane experiments will be taken up at the meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday after noon and it is probable that a com mittee will be appointed to start ac tive work in this direction. The let ter of the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce reads as follows: Augusta, Ga, Dec. 14, 1909. Hon. Jacob M. Dickinson, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Through the press, it is stated, that the War Department will continue in the South, experi ments with aeroplanes. Augusta, Ga., through its Chamber of Commerce, extend a most cordial invi'jition to (the officers conducting the experi ments to visit our city, and see the many advantages Augusta offers. Cli mate in winter is unexcelled for out door work, at times cool, but rarely the temperature goes below 45 de grees. According to the Weather Bu reau, located here,the average winter temperature during the months of December, January, February and March is 54 degrees at 8 o’clock in the morning. Freedom from winds during the winter months are added arguments for location. Summerville, a suburb, located 350 feet above the city is now, one of the renowned winter resorts of the South, and its attractiveness is well known to many men of prominece in Wash ington. Bordering on the south of the village is a large plateau, which Is known here as Camp Young. After the Spanish-American war, about seven thousand men encamped here, and from Augusta were mustered out. Gen. S. M. B. Young, whilst here stated that it was an ideal place for a camp and brigade movements. Within ten minutes walk of this plateau is the United States Arsenal, with Its splen didly equipped machine shops, avail able for repairs and any temporary construction. Electric cars pass this land every six minutes, affording easy and quick access to the city, one mile and a half away. Under other cover we send you our year book, and books of hotels, which will give you Borne idea of our city and surroundings. Trusting that Augusta, Ga. will bo favorably considered, we are, Yours truly, E. S. JOHNSON, Sec’y. C. of C. Augusta. SI. MATTHEWS MAN SHOT IN CHARLOTTE Special to The Herald. COLUMBIA, S. C.—William Felder, a merchant at Saint Matthews, wa# shot through the body at 3 o’clock in the Charlotte Union station Tuesday morning by Express Messenger Jones. Felder was taken to the hospital and is probably mortally wounded. He is said to have been shot without cause. The shooting in the express car, where Felder had gone to keep warm. SUMTER MILITIA” HELD ANNUAL SUPPER SUMTER, S. C.—The Sumter Light Infantry gave their annual supper at the Armory, there was a full attend ance of members and the following guests: The Rev. J. P. Marion, Mayor C. B. Yeadon, Lieut. P. J. Gallagher, Capt. H. T. Thompson, Dr. George W. Dick and Messrs. T. B. Fraser, C. ID. Stubbs, arid H. C. and R. F. Ilay nsw&rth. Dr. Dick was quite a suc cess as tosatmaster, the responses were happy and informal. The supper was a delight and thor oughly enjoyed by all pres***. King Leopold 4—‘ f ; King of Belgium Was Operated on Tuesday and Surgeons Found no Trace of Tumor. The King is Now Resting Quietly. KING LEOPOLD OPERATED UPON Surgeons Found No Trace of Tumor in Belgium's King As Was Feared. BRUSSELS.—King Leopold was op erated upon successfully Tuesday. The surgeons found no trace of turaox which had been feared. The king is resting quietly. GEORGIA POULTRY SHOW. ATLANTA, Ga.—The second annual exhibition of the Georgia Poultry as sociation will he held at the Audito rium-Armory January 18 to 23. Let ters are being received daily from the breeders in every section of the coun try signifying their Intention of com ing here. “Please Be Good to Me This Xmas, Santa, For I Reckon I Won’t Be Living When Next You Come” —LEE ROY RENEW Child Hero Suffering From Pellagra, Near Death's Door, Writes Most Pathetic Letter to Santa Claus—Bears Sufferings Like a Martyr In the “Santa Claus Letters” tnai come into The Herald office, many phases of the lights and shadows of life are graphically depicted. One 1# a letter from a child, whose parents are patient ly basking In wealth. In the same m; 11 will come letters from children whose parents are in moderate circumstances, and from children who are orphans, or whose parents can ill afford the stamp with which the letter Is mailed. Here Is a letter from a son of the rich, his requesto generally for thing* that are expensive. He asks for an automobile, an aeroplane and enougn small toys for eight or ten average children. Some times his requests are moderate and something is asked for one of his friends, or some member of his family He»e again is a letter from a child whose parents are “well-to-do”, but not wealthy. Sometimes the requests of this child, like the wealthy, are expensive, but the ma jority of the letters from children whose family Is not so wealthy ask for thing* in reason, and toys that their parents are well able to give them. It Is from the children of the poor and great unemployed that tho really pathetic letters come. Tiny tots who do not realize the condition of their family, In their letters they ask Banta Claus to bring them toys, that many of the sons of the rich do not dream of. Borne who are beginning to realize the condition of their family are more moderate in their requests. Oth ers who know than oven the niflo they ask may be denied them, write In the hopes of getting some small remem brance of the day. Borne lltt’o toy, a drum, or horn Is asked for and some candy. There is generally a tone of aj> peal In the letter and alw/v'i an un selfishness, something always being ask ed for someone Hs<\ a little brother or a sister or a little friend. A LITTLE HERO’S LETTER. The following is a letter received In The Herald office that explains Itself: Dear Santa Claus: I am the tame lit tle afflicted boy who wrote you last year and whom you kindly remembered I am now fifteen years old, and have nev. er enjoyed a well day. Never have been able to go to school or play as other chil. dren do, therefore, all my pleasure has been In doors. I have to get tome one I to write for me, as I have neve*' learn ed to read and write, but my whole aim SEVEN PERSONS LOST LIILS IS TENEMENT FIRE Seven Others Injured and Fifty Had Narrow Es cape in Big Cincinnati Conflagration. CINCINNATI. —Seven persons lost their lives and seven others were in jured, two probably fatally and about fifty others had narrow escapes in a fire which destroyed an old wooden tenement and lodging house at third and Sycamore streets here early Tues day. MR. W. D. UTSEY, OF BRANCHVILLE, DEAD Special to The Herald. BRANCHVIIJ-E. S. C.—Mr. W. D. Utsey, died Sunday afternoon at about l o'clock. Mr. Utsey had been sick for several months but a few weeks ago tie got better and it was thought that he would get well agnin. He went hack tc work and made one or two trips on his run from here as flagman for the South ern railway company, where he had been employed for tlie past three years. Mr. Utsey was raised near Roevesville and move here sometime ago, where ho has lived every since he came here. He was about 28 years old and leaves a wife and four children the oldest of which Is about five years old, also, one brother to mourn his loss. Mr. Utsey was a young man of good character and habits, lie belong ed to the W. O. W. and the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen. The corpse was taken in charge by the W. O. W and the B. R. T. and was taken to Reeves vllle and from there it will bo carried to the family burying ground at Appleby* church, near Reevesville to he filtered Mr. Utsey, left a host of friends who sympathize with his family in their sal bereavement. in life so far, has been to take medicine and get well. And It seems to me that aim has been all In vain. This year has been the worst year of my life. This summer gone I had a tremendous struggle Everybody thought I would die, even the doctor, and I myself wanted to die, so as to get some relief to my fevered bDdy The doctors tell mamma they can’t do anymore for me, and they never oome to see me any more. They say I have pellagra. So Santa, you see I have been mighty 111, and I am now not but little better than I have been. Don't reckon I'll be living another Christmas, so anything you might bring me I'll appreciate. I like toys of any kind and am very fond of fruit and candies. Remember my two brothers and give my love to Mrs. Santa Claus With love to you and a merry Christmas to all I am Your little afflicted friend LEE ROY RENEW. 1436 Glover St. HASN’T WALKED IN EIGHT YEARS. A reporter was sent lo the address to establish the authenticity of th/» letter and found conditions even a little worse than the little fellow had painted them. He hangs on to life by a mere thread in a little house, from which the paint lias long ago worn off and the roof la leaky, Lee Hoy occupies the middle room of the three room cottage. He Is a mere skele ton of a boy, fifteen years of ag? and weighing only thirty-five pounds. He was born an Invalid and for the last elg!. years has been unable to walk. Borne, time ago from some cause that could not be discovered he contracted pellagra and each day grows weaker. His little face Is pinched arid deep lines on it tell the story of his long suffering. The little room In which he lives Is his world, and it is many a day since he has wand ered from It. All day he sits in a chair wrapped In blankets. Ills only amuse ment Is to talk to anyone or have a hook read to him, for he Is too delicate to play. His eyes have a distant look, bu! he bears bis pain like a soldier and never complains. He Is a little hero. Jlc knows ihat ere another Christmas conns, his pains and long suffering will have end ed and he will never want for anything He anticipates the end with a faith that is beautiful and looks forward to It as his only relief. He Is of a sunnv dlsposl t lon and seems to be little trouble to his pa rent a. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. HOICK TO SEEK £500,000 FROM GOVERNMENT TO FROTEGT AUGUSTA TOO! 11l ITER Jim WON’T GET SNEAD CASE ITT NEW YORK. —The mysterious ease ot Mrs. Ocoy \V. M. Snead, the young woman who was found dead in a bath tub of the house at East Orange, N. J., where she had lived with her aunt, Miss Virginia O. Wardlaw, now held charged with her murder, probably will not, as had been expected, bo presented to the grand jury of Es sex county, New Jersey Tuesday, ac cording to tiie statement of Prosecu tor Mott. Prosecutor Molt said he was anxi ous to obtain further evidence pend ing the presentation of the peoples case to the present grand Jury. The slgnl lire of Ocoy Snead at tached-to an affidavit, and which of ficials are satisfied is authentic and therefore valuable for the purposes of comparlsiou, was unearthed Tues day. This new example of the bath tub victim’s handwriting, it is be lieved, will aid materially in clearing up authenticity of the disputed sui cide* note. A handwriting expert, Kinsley, had testified that examples of Mrs. Snead’s writing which lie had were insuffici ent for him to Judge whether or not the note found near Mrs. Snead’s clothing beside the tub wns genuine. This note is now generally considered the crux of the case. MANY PLACES WANT BIG FARMERS’ SCHOOL Plans Not Yet Complete or Site Selected For Farmers’ Union Univer sity. ATLANTA, Ga. —Plans for the na tional farmers’ university have been discussed by trustees, who have been for several days from many states. Chas. S. Barrett, president of the Farmers* Union, conferred with tho trustees. Among those who were hero were H. H. Mobley, of Arkansas; T. J. Brooks, of Tenessee; J. C. Camp bell, of Washington, D. C.; W. A. Morris, of Alabama, John Lee, of Georgia; O. P. Ford, of Alabama, and John Grady, of Kentucky; all mem bers of the board of trustees. Dr. C. F. Adams, dean of the Arkansas ag ricultural experiment station, was also In the conferences. It was stated that the trustees were not yet ready to reveal their plans but they were as sur'd of success from all sides. Some very flattering offers of sites are said to have been made. Another meet ing of the trustees will be held about the first of the year when all members of the board and others Interested will tie present. This meeting will probably be held here or at Union City, which Is President Barrett’s home town. Mr. Barrett has gone to Texarkana, Tex., on business connect ed with the Farmers’ Union. He will return next week. A Suggestion from New York The Herald Is The Only Augusta Paper That Can Do It. (From the New York Evening Mail.) Does Mg space pay? The New York World was the first paper to print two pages as one ad vertisement that Is, two pages Join ed together without showing any white margin between them. The first New York advertiser to use an advertisement of this kind was the firm of Hbgel Gooper Co. In a little while it became a fad to print two page advertisements bet ter known as “double-deckers." The largest ordc r ever given for a series of "double-deckers” was given to the writer by Alfred E. Rose, when he was advertising director of Mie J. O. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. There were fifteen of them all told and they appeared in the New York Sunday American. They paid hand somely. Time was when only department stores and big patent medicine con cerns used pages, hut nowadays rail roads, specialty houses of all kinds, tobacco concerns, etc., use pages fre quently, and sometimes two pages. The writer believes there Is a psychological moment when an advertiser should do a big thing In a. big, Impressive way -not only In the paper he represents, but in all other good newspapers. A recent example was a three-page story that appeared *n The Evening Mall about the Hudson Terminal building, its tenants and about the tun nel. This came out the Saturday before the formal opening of the tunnel ser Will Have Special Hear* ing Before Rivers and Harbors Committee on Two Bills He is to In troduce. Special to The Herald. (By RALPH SMITH.) WASH 1 NtiTON.—Congressman T. W Tardwlck has arranged for a spe cial hearing before the rivers and harbors committee on his bills mak ing appropriations to improve the up per Savannah river and to protect the city of Augusta from future Hoods. His bills provide $360,000 for deep ening the channel of the river below Augusta and approximately $160,000 for the protection of the river banks at Augusta. Th e exact date of hearing has not been fixed, but it will be held in Jan uary at a time convenient to the Au gusta Hood commission and others in terested in the projects. Mr. Hardwick will consult the wish er of F. B. Pope, chairman of the Hood commission; Judge Jos. R. I.a mar, its attorney, and City Engineer Nisbet Wingfield. SHIPPING TIED UP BY VERY HEAVY SEA NEWPORT, R. I.—Tim heaviest sea In years was reported by the life saving crew of tlie Prices Neck Sta tion early Tuesday. Out ot tile East an 80-miio gale Is blowing accompa nied by heavy rain, tying up ship ping all along the coast. MR. E. S. JOHNSON SAW VISITORS TO TRAIN Among those who went to tho Union station Saturday morning to bid fnro well to the last of the Georgia and Florida visitors, was Secretary E. S’ Johnson of the ('haniber of Commerce, and in conversation wltii a reporter for The Herald, Monday that gentle man said It made him feel happy to hear tho many good things tho visi tors said concerning Augusta. "They wore a much pleased crowd,” said Mr. Johnson, “and everyone of them said that ho was coming back to Augusta Just as soon ns ho had tho oppor tunity. Tho entertainment they de clared was tho finest that they had ever attended and tho people of Au gusta won o great name as hosts. Taking all In nil It Is clearly evident that the celebration of the opening of the Georgia and Florida railway was one of the great events In the history of Augusta." SALUDA PAPER PROSPERS. MANNING, H. C.—Mr. F. Earle Bradham formerly the able editor of the now suspended "Manning Senti nel” and who lins been located In Saluda for some years hack as editor of the county paper and Instructor of the 7th grade of the Graded school lias been forced to relinquish the lat ter position as his paper has so grown as to require Ills undivided time. vice under the Hudson and con necting New Jersey with downtown N< w York. Last Saturday the Erie railroad had three pages In this newspaper an nouncing the progress the road has made and what the opening of the tunnel meant to the company and to the development of New Jersey. Does anybody doubt that it is a good thing to do these big things in a big way once in a while? Of course, they must be very well clone to be effective. Evening Mall readers are willing to concede that these two special an nouncements made a great impres sion on their minds. Mr. L. H. Townsend, who wrote both stories, and wrote them well, has the- knack of compelling readers to read all that he writes. Many of our own readers really did not know of the Erie’s great pro gress until they read the story last Saturday. Yes, big, attractive, convincing ad vert Is* merits pay! When the writer first suggested to Patrick Francis Murphy, of the Mark Gross Go., specialists In leather goods, that he use a full page In several newspapers twice a year—at Easter and Christmas time —he thought I was crazy. But ho used the pages! That was eight or nine years ago. He has used them every Easter and every Christmas since-
