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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XV., No. 4. GOLD WEATHER AGAIN CLAIMING VICTIMS IN TIL EASTERN STATES Suffering is Intense. Zero Registered on Indicators in Many Cities. Thaw From Last Wave Check ed. NEW YORK. —A cold wave swooped down upon the east from the extreme northwest shortly after midnight. All along the Atlantic seaboard in the north the mercury dropped fast, in New York falling from 32 degrees at midnight to 12 at 9 a. m. Then it was still going down. Two deaths had been reported at that time. The weather bureau officials here Tuesday said they did not believe the cold snap would affect the south as did the last one. Suffering in New York was intense. Seventeen women and 32S men and a child, all homeless, took refuge in the municipal lodging house, where one man died on his arrival and another collapsed and is in a critical condi tion. Every other charitable dormi tory in the city was thronged, and early Tuesday relief work was taken up in all parts of the city. The situation was made worse by sharp winds blowing with the force of a gale. Monday’s rain turned most of the snow left over from the recent blizzard into slqsh, and then the cold and wind came along in time to turn the water into ice. Scores of miles of the city’s streets bore the signs of ice. There is no sign of immediate re lief. Suffering in Boston. BOSTON, Mass. —The cold wave ex tending north along the Atlantic coast from the Delaware capes, apparently centered on Boston Tuesday with a sharp wind blowing, the thermometer dropped eighteen degrees in six hours Tuesday morning, going to four de grees above zero. This was almost as cold as the weather at the time of the Christmas blizzard and Its af termath. Suffering was intense and hundreds of the homeless were driven t.y charity. Cold in Ohio. COLUMBUS, Ohio.—At 8 a. m. the official indicator at the local weather bureau registered 8 above zero, the minimum, and at 9 o’clock it showed 10 above. ITHACA, N. Y.—Zero weather and three inches of snow were Tompkins county’s share of the northwest bliz zard. The gale reached 42 miles an hour. Trains are delayed. The morn ing vta .he coldest of the winter here, by five degrees. In Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—This city and vicinity is experiencing a second cold wave. The temperature at 7 o'olock was 9 above zero, this being a drop of more than 20 degrees during the previous 24 hours. Zero at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N. Y.—At 7 a. m. the mercury was at zero. This was a drop of about 30 degrees in 24 hours. Thaw Checked. PHILADELPHIA —Philadelphia is again in the grip of a cold wave. At 8 o'clock the official temperature was 19 degrees, a drop of 27 degrees under Monday’s maximum of 46. In the suburbs temperatures as low as 14 were reported Tuesday. The thaw of Monday was suddenly checked, cover ing streets and pavements with Ice, and many accidents due to this con dition were recorded. Traffio Halted. OKLAHOMA CITY, homa city is covered with a sheet of ice Tuesday that has paralyzed street car traffic. A light rain froze and the streets of this city this morning were covered with a quarter of an inch of ice. The same condition is general throughout the state. 22 Degrees Below Zero. MALONE, N. Y. —The temperature here Tuesday fell 45 degrees, going as 22 degrees below zero. Elsewhere in the Adironkacks It was colder, be ing 35 below at Saranac Lake; 27 be- WALSH—NINE low at Loon Lake, and 38 below at Lake Placid. „ FOUR FIREMEN WERE KILLED AT WORK MILWAUKEE, Wis—While fighting fire Inside the plant of the American Bridge company eight firemen were caught by a falling wall Monday night. Four were killed. The dead: JOHN HENNESSEY, captain en gine company 4. DOMINICK O’DONNELL, lieuten ant engine company 4. WM. P. FOLEY, plpeman engine company 4. JOSEPH J. SULLIVAN, pipeman engine company 4. The plant, which covers about a block and a half of ground, was prac ty caliy destroyed. The loss is SIOO,- V v "" ■ THE WEATHER Conditions favor rain in this section tonight or Wednesday with cooler tonight. COMMISSION IF IDE COUNT! MET IDEM Letter From Commissioner Berckuians Condemning Three C< aissioners was Chief Discussion. At the regular meeting of the coun ty commissioners Tuesday, at which the commissioners with the exception of Mr. L. A. Berckmans were present, a letter from Mr. Berckmans con demning three of the commissioners, Messrs. E. F. Verdery, F. B. Pope and G. H. Nixo’’ for their action in hold ing a meeting without notifying him, and the statements of the three com missioners that no meeting was held, formed the chief feature of interest. Mr. Berckmans’ letter was to the effect that although he could have readily been present, he had no knowl edge of it until after the report was published in an Augusta paper. In answering this statement Chair man Verdery stev' jd there had never been a meeting, and that what Mr. Berckmans was referring to was mere ly a conference between the three members who decided upon making a motion at a subsequent meeting of the board, which motion was voted upon favorably by Mr. Berckmans. The chairman stated that under the law he was not permitted to hold a meeting unljins every member of the commission was notified and that all meetings had to be held at the court house. The conference by the three commissioners was in no way official and no discourtesy was intended to wards Mr. Berckmans. matter talked over was the resolution adopt ed by the entire board at the meeting on Dec. 23, which concerned the re ported illegality of the insolvent costs. The three commissioners stated that they would Jointly answer the letter of Mr. Berckmans and would explain their position and it was their belief that Mr. Berckmans would see that he had not been slighted, and that his letter was uncalled for. COMMITTEE NOT READY. Mr. Nixon reported that the com mittee on contested bills was not ready to report. On motion of Mr. Pope it was agreed that the ordinary should be allowed a separate line telephone, It having been recommended formerly that this office should be placed on a duplex line with the clerk of court. The ordinary had satisfactorily ex plained to the commission that, owing to much personal business with citi zens being transacted with his office, a duplex line would be unsatisfactory. The commission wanted a report on the matter of taxing theatres and shows. On motion the matter was placed In the hands of a committee composed of Messrs. Verdery and Nixon. From the floor Mr. Verdery stated that the commission’s legal adviser was not prepared to make a report on the matter of the Judge’s salaries and other matters which were under con sideration on account of their report ed Illegality, but would be to submit his opinion in the course of the next two days. It was agreed that an adjourned meeting of the commis sioners be held next Thursday at 10 a. m.. to receive the report. Mr. Nixon moved that the fiscal year of the county be changed to con form with the calendar year, that Is, the annual statement should be made on Jan. 1, as recommended by a re cent grand Jury. The chairman ex plained that the law required that the annual county statement be rendered to the grand Jury at the spring term, and thus If the year was closed on Jan. 1, there would probably be some confusion. As a substitute to Mr. Nixon’s motion, a motion was adopted that a committee be appointed to con fer with Judge Eve and ascertain the legality of the change to the fiscal year as recommended by he grand Jury. The chairman was instructed to make the sheriff push the matter of collecting back taxes. TWO CONVICTS ESCAPED. The commission Investigated the charge brought against Night Watchman Descombes, of the county stockade, for allowing two white fel ony convicts, Fulford and Howard, to escape, and after hearing the amtter thoroughly as presented by Superin tendent Stringer it was agreed that Descombes be reprimanded and rein stated. It appears that these two convicts who were expert mechanics and were of the few that were retained at the stockade after the large number of flony convicts had been sent away recently, were practically trusties and had borne good reputations about the stockade. Last week these men, who were employed in the boiler room, came to Night Watchman Descombes AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1910. DEEAGRANGE, THE AVIATOR, KILLER IN FALL Man Who Broke Several Records in Aeroplane Met Death in Accident Tues day BORDEAUX, France.—Leon Dela grange, the noted aviator was killed Tuesday by the fall of his aeroplane while making a flight here. Dela grange was going at a terrific speed — probably 65 miles an hour—when the accident occurred. The plane swerved, plunged forward, and a moment later the driver was on the ground, caught n the tangled debris of the ma ' ihine. Delagrange has been one of the foremost of the world’s aviators since tlie sport, first came to the front. In the beginning he piloted a Voisin aeroplane, but last spring he aban doned that type and bought a Wright machine. It was in this that Tues day’s tragedy occurred. From the time he first took up avia tion in Italy in the spring of 1908, till Tuesday’s tragedy, he established several records and proved himself one of the most daring of the whole flock of man-birds. He had no delusions over the risk of his sport. In September, 1908, after an accident he said: “I confess that I am nervous every time I iiy, when I think that my pro peller may break suddenly when in full aciton.” Last September, in the Malchamps Aerodome at Spa, ho narrowly es caped death when his plane turned a somersault before a vast crowd. Prin cess Clementine of Belgium was among the spectators. In swerving low, Delugrange’s plane scraped a wing in the ground and was wrecked. Other royalty than Princess Cle mentine witnessed his feats, King Vic- I tor Emmanuel and Queen Helena of Italy having seen several of his flights. Soon after he took up aeroplaning, he won the Aero Club of France’s ! prize for a 200-meter flight, and about j the same time lie heat all records then established by staying In the air fif teen minutes, flying 8 miles. This brought’ him in SB,OOO prize at Rome. TIFT'S MESSAGE ItMOEUIED It Is Thought That Inter views Given Out by Rail road Presidents Didn’t Suit Mr. Taft. WASHIGTON. —President Taft has again changed his mind regarding the special message on interstate com merce to he sent to congress. Mon day night he announced that it would be transmitted to congress on Friday; Tuesday it was said at the White House that the message will not be sent in before next Monday. No explanation was forthcoming for this change. It is possible that more radical changes in the president's rec ommendations will bo made. It has been stated that the visit to the pres ident of the six railroad presidents yesterday has not. influenced him in making the changes. It is rumored, however, that certain Interviews given out in New York last night by some of the visiting pres idents, in which they assumed to fore cast what the message would contain, has not been entirely pleasant to Pres ident Taft. EX-GOV. CANDLER ILL IN VALDOSTA ATLANTA, Ga.—Many Georgia friends will regret to learn of the illness of ex-Governor Allen D. Cand ler, who is now a patient at the Halcyon Sanitarium In Valdosta. The aged ex-governor has been in a de clining state of health for several weeks and finally decided to put him. self under the care of Dr. Holmes, his special friend. and stated that they had to go to fix the gas plant, which Is located out side of the stockade. As he believed them to be “trusties," the watchman let them go outside, where the gas plant 1b located, and made their es cape. Descombes notified the war den, Superintendent Stringer, immedi ately, and after investigating the mat ter Mr. Stringer decided to suspend Descombes pending the action of the board. As the watchman had done good and faithful work in the past and the men were thought to be “trusties/' the board decided to merely repri mand him. In the future, however, no convict, even if he is a “trustie," will be allowed to go out of the stockade at night without a guard attending him. Miss Anne Morgan Gave Big Sum To The Sinking Shirtwaist Makers sl&\l%tßsf& V : ,+£■,* '£,'• • ; .i-':jji? iSjfikj? V Miss Anne Morgan, daughter Jf Morgan, who has just donated a Chr ures to the helping of the striking Banker Morgan does not believe in her for the staunch stand she takes AGED INVALIDS BURNED IN HOME. NEW FLORENCE, Pa.—Two aged brothers, each suffering from illness and unable to help themselves or each other, were burned to death in their home Tuesday morning. The dead men are John and Daniel Utsler, aged 85 and 80 respectively, the for mer a farmer and his brother a veteran who had just completed arrangements to enter a home for soldiers. FROM mil PRISOHIIDI CITIZENS RETORN NEW YORK. —With the prison pallor from their confinement in a tirazilian jail still upon them, Samuel H. Parker and Hubert G. Kincaid re turned Tuesday on the steamer Verdi. They were members of the filibuster ing party of nine which, on Novem ber 4, 1907, left. New York to over throw the Brazilian government. George Vice, of Hackensack, N. J„ one of the party, is still in jail, but his release is expected shortly. Two of the band, Major Davies and George Gordon, were left In a Brazilian grave yard. Others of the party remained In Brazil. Under Magalli, the filibuster leader, the party went to Bahia, and tVnce to Alheoa, where they attacked a po lice station, killing one and wounding six. Major Davies was killed and George Gordon wounded and captured The party was rounded up three days later by 300 police. Through the in tervention of the United States, the Americans were given short prison terms. Parker and Kincaid will go to Moosejaw, in Northwestern Canada. COLD Wl TO BE HERE WEDNESDAY While the people of Augu&ta are en joying the npringlike weather that ha.a been in evidence for the pant several days after the trying cold wave lately experienced, it will he displeasing to them to learn that another cold wave will reach Augusta Wednesday evening. Reports from all over the country indi cate that all the sections with the ex ception of the South have already re ceived the cold wave and In Ithaca and Ruffalo the mercury is at zero. The cold wave appears to he spreading over the entire country although the tempera ture readings will not he as low as the ones had during the last cold wave. When asked by a reporter concerning the cold wave, Obserter Fisher said: "We will have a cold wave but the tem perature will not he near as low as the ones in the last cold spell that we had. I do not think that the mercury will make any great drop untl Wednesday afternoon, and Indications are that tlr coldest weather will be in about the low er twenties. It is hard to tell about the coming cold wave for the reason that there Is every prospect of rain. The forecast for Wednesday calls for rain." the millionaire banker J. Pierpont istmas check she received of five tig slilrt wa Ist makers In New York, his daughter's theories but admirers uroii IS FINANCE CHAIRMAN Hon. Tlionms Barrett, Jr., Announces His Finance Committee. Many Mat ters to be Considered Hon. Thomas Barrott, Jr., Mayor of Augusta, Monday announced his fi nance committee, as follows: J. J. O’Connor, chairman, Austin Branch. » H. IT. Stafford. Sandy Beaver. James 1.. Robertson. Tlie finance committee was appoint ed Monday on account of the imme diate necessity of taking action upon matters of importance. The other committees are now being considered by the mayor and lie will have them ready to present to council at Its next meeting. The appointment of Oapt. J. J. O'Gonnor to bead this, the pick of the committees of council, Is a high com pliment to the business ability o" ('apt. O’Connor. ('apt. O’Connor dur ing Ills previous administration in council .was familiarly known ns the "Watch dog of the treasury,” and was one of the most conservative men ever on the finance committee. He Is a business man of remarkable ability and Is fully capable of engineering the finaces of the city. The first meeting of the finance committee will he held in the mayor's office at 11 o’clock Wednesday morn ing. HoiJiiici El CENSUS OFFICE Asked Several Questions Regarding Takinj; Cen sus. Does Not Want Ne gro Enumerators. Whl In in tho city Monday the Hon. Thomas W. Harr]wick, (longrcimman from l the 10th Georgia District, paid a vigil! to the office of the Census Supervisor of the district, and was Informed as to all of the workings of the tnklng of the coming 13th Census. Mr. Ifardwlch ap peared to be much interested In the Cen- Hii:■ work, as he Is in all good work which Is located In his district. The Census at present, does not require any aid from Congress, but each repre sentitlvo In Washington of course id much interested in the work in his par ticular district. Tho great question In the Houth In regard to tho Census, is whether or nos negro enumerators will be appointed. There is a small number of negro applicants in the Houthern dis tricts and in the JOth Georgia the num ber Is only a small percentage of the total number of applicants. Congress man Hardwick holds the hope tliat there will be no negroes appointed in his dis trict. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. *919,178.53 Rank clearings in one day noarly $1,000,000, to give tin- exact fig ures they were $919,178.52 Tuesday, looks like a prosperous as well as a happy i.ow year ror Augusta. Business is good, and the city appears to he wrapped in prosperity, and tli outlook for a .successful year is par ticulariv bright. The announcement of Manager Rufus Brown of Augusta Clearing House that the hunk clearings for Monday were $919,178.52 against $451,847.66 of the same day last year will he pleasing news to every well wisher of Augusta, and the report will be read with interest throughout tin' country. Tuesday’s clearings mark another event, however, for be sides being an excellent bank showing, it is the largest day s clearing that has ever been made by the Augusta banks. The 12th of last Oeto b< r, there was a line reeord made, for it was then the best that has ever been made by the Augusta hanks, and the news was sent out that Au gusta’s high water mark in hank clearings had been reached, with a tine showing of $584,133.32 n presenting one day’s business. This record has been smashed and January 4th will now take first position with a largo increase some $35,000 over the past record. "Throughout the country Tuesday was a magnificent hanking day," said Manager Brown of the August i Clearing House, "due to a multi plicity of causes. A great amount of business came over from last week which was a dull period on account of the holidays. Then again with the advent of tin* new year conditions are better than ever before. There was a large amount of dividends placi d in circulation Tuesday and the cotton business with the attendant high prices continues good. On tin 1 first of January there are many payments made, and in fact taken as a whole the day should readily l»e a grout one In banking cir cles. It is a splendid record for Augusta to )>«■ able to show the coun try that with a Hood of prosperity she can not only take part in the rec ord rise of the country but is also able to smash any of her own records. Tuesday, January 4th, Is without doubt the greatest day in the banking business of Augusta." FAFF SCORED HY CONFERS IN AN EDITORIAL President is Criticized For Reference in Mes sage to the Issuance of Injunctions. WASHINGTON, D. C\—ln the Am erican for January, just published, appears an editorial by Samuel (lompers, president of the American Federation of Jliabqr head ed “The President on Injunctions,” In which lie criticises President Taft for his recommendation to congress in his message in which reference Is made to the Issuance of Injunctions. The editorial Is in part as follows: “For Instance, of what practical use would the enactment of a law lused upon the president’s recommen dation prove? What tangible reform or relief would be achieved? There has not been an injunction granted by any of the courts, federal or state, but that was based on the complain ant’s allegation to the court’s ‘satis faction’ that unless the Injunction was granted ‘lrreparable injury’ would follow. The injunctions against which we protest, are flagrantly and without warrant of law issued almost dally in some section of our country and are violative of the fundamental rights of man. When better under stood, they will shock the conscience of our people, the spirit and genius of our republic. We shall exercise our ( very right, and In tin* meantime con centrate our efforth to secure tho re lief and tiie redress to which wc are so justly entitled. “We regret that necessity has arisen for a restatement, of labor's position upon 11 1 ih great question of relief from tho abuse of the injunctive process; but congress has not seriously con cerned itself In remedying tho wrong and according Justice to the working people of our country. The presi dent’s recommendation Is the wrong way to restore right and equality be fore tho law. So long as these prin ciples are unrecognized in the law as well as the practice, labor will stand erect and demand right, justice and freedom, exactly upon an equality, neither more nor less, with every other citizen of our country.” CLINTII HOG ON KILLED 0! TRAIN Missed Hold When He At tempted to Board Train and was Crushed hy the Wheels. Conductor Clinton it. JTogon, of the Georgia Railroad passenger train No. 15, met his death at Harnett, Georgia, about 2 a. m. Tuesday morning by being crush ed under the wheels of his train. Cap tain JTogon was a young man 25 years of age who had been in the employ of the Georgia road for several years an.l was well thought of. The body was brought to Augusta Tuesday morning and prepared for burial, the funeral will be held In Washington, Ga., Wednesday. According to the statement received from the General Superintendents office of the Georgia road. Conductor JTogon was in charge of train No. 15 which left Augusta for Atlanta at 12:15 a. rn. Tuesday and when the train was leav ing Barnett he attempted to hoard it while it waa going at a low rate of speed. Augusta's Record-Breaking Bank Clearings tor lues day, January 4th, 1910 1 ZELAYA DO AWAY WITH TWO IDE YANKEES Two Americans Missing and Are Thoußht To Either Have Been Killed or Jailed By Zelayn. WASHINGTON, D. C Tho state department Tuesday h«H under con sideration the cases of two Americans mission In Nicaragua, believed to have been arrested at the order of Zelaya. According to the friends of these men, their cases duplicate in wanton horror those of Cannon and (iroce, the Americans with the Insur gents, who wore shot after a drum head court martial, and whose execu tion led to tho crisis in Central Amer ica. The missing men are Lon Draper, the son of I. H. Draper, of Greenville, Texas, and Francis Scott, his com panion. They are believed to have met either death or torture. For six years Draper lived in Nicaragua, lin ing connected with the Topaz Mining company. It was because he told the truth about Zelaya, it is said, that he dropped from sight. At the outbreak of the revolution he was the correspondent of a news agency. In his dispatches he did not palnl the Zelaya administration as the former president would have him. For seven weeks no word has come from tile two men. In his last let ler, Draper said tie was taking no part in I tie revolution. Three weeks ago word came from a friend that Draper and Hcott had been arrested at the behest of Zelaya. A systematic search of Nicaraguan prisons has revealed no trace of the whereabouts of the missing men. Their friends. In placing the matter In the hands of the United States government, declared their belief that Scott, mid Draper had been executed or placed In a dungeon and tortured. Fx President Zelaya is keeping his hand In the Nicaraguan situation, try ing to save such bits of ills power as |ic can. That Is the explanation put on the information sent to the state department hy Secretary Caldera, vice consul at Managua, that. Sonora Zelaya Is still In Managua. It, was thought sin* had gone to Antwerp, where her husband Is reputed to have $J0,tio0.0()0 banked. fn semiofficial circles Tuesday It was doubted that Mexico would be given an opportunity to share In the proposed Joint agreement, between the United Stales, Brazil and Great Brit ain for the control of tho Central American situation and the preserva tion of peace. Mexico's efforts for Zelaya and President Madriz arc re plied to have done much to sever the close ties that formerly bound her to the United States. WHITE HOUSE FETE. WASHINGTON, P. C.—-The first of the formal state receptions of tho winter wtll take place at the White house Tuesday night, when the spe (l*l guests of the President and Mrs. Tuft will tie the members of the di plomatic corps. This is regarded a* the ipost Important of all the official receptions given by the president. The conductor missed his hold, and fell beneath the wheels of the train and was horribly crushed. Prompt assistance was given tin Injured man but to no avail as death came about two hours ufter wards. There !h no local surgeon of tile Geor gia road at Harnett, but the surgeon who lives tit. Sharon a station on the Wash ington branch some four miles away was rushed to the scene.
