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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX. No. 9.
PRES'T ANSWERS
MANY LETTERS
FROM CHILDREN
Has Taken Advantage of His
Vacation to Respond to Odd
lv Written Missives. Impos
sible at White House Owing
to Pressure of Big Things
Interest in Boys and Girls at
Pass Christian Manifested in
Other Ways. Know Exact
Time of Passing of Auto.
Pass Christian, Miss. —Though deep
ly absorbed for the most part in af
fairs of state. President Wilson has
availed himself of leisure moments
during his vacation here to answer
scores of oddly written letters from
children in this vicinity'. It is one of
the many things which the president
would like to do at Washington, for
he enjoys reading the letters of chil
dren but he finds it impossible at the
White House because of pressure of
Important business.
IMone Made Public.
None of the letters Is made public
for the president always defers the re
cipient. But as the receipt of a letter
from the president of the United
Etates is not an every day occurrence
in the hamlets and towns along the
Gulf coast information about them has
leaked out in various way's. Master
Cecil Brown, of Mississippi City, has
two letters from the president, more
than any of the other youngsters. Mas
ter Brown a few days ago stood in the
road waving an American flag and
halted the big automobile.
"I want to give you some candy” he
told the president, “and I want you to
eat it because I made it my'self.”
Wrote His Thanks.
The president took the box of home
made candy with him, while Master
Crown, attired in a boy scout uniform,
saluted proudly afc the Automobile pro
seeded. When Mr. Wilson got through
with his important letters he wrote
the boy thanking him for the gift,
i Whet the president rode to golf
•esterday, Master Brown was again
signalling in the road with his flag
hut this time he was in civilian clothes.
Me had a box of flowers Tor the pres
ident and a little note. When the pres
ident got home .he read the note.
Wanted Another.
“I liked your letter so much.” the
hoy had written, “that 1 brought you
»ne flowers. I hope you will write me
another letter, too, and i\hen you get
So Washington I want you to write
regular to me.”
The president wrote Master Brown
that he appreciated the flowers very
much and was deeply grateful.
The president’s interest in children,
however, has been manifest in other
Ways than by correspondence. Hun
dreds of little boys and girls have lined
the road on which he motors to and
from the golf links each day cheering
or waiving flags. The president’s
chauffeur knows the whims of the
chief executive and slows down as he
approaches the little groups. The
president has often stopped to talk
With the children.
Want Reception.
School teachers have learned the
exact hour when the White House
motor is due at various points along
the road and practically the entire
youth of the Mississipp 1 coast now has
seen the president of the United States.
Their parents have not been so for
tunate, though arrangements are being
tmade for a popular reception to be
held before the president leaves.
R. R. SERVICE SUFFERS
FROM EMPLOYEES’
STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Capetown, Union of South Africa.—
Railroad service in the Transvaaland
the Orange Free State provinces was
badly disorganized today by the strike
of railway employes. Traffic was sus
pended this morning as far south as
Klerksdorp, about 120 miles out of
Johannesburg. Police were on guard
at all stations and detachments of
troops have been ordered to- the af
fected area as a precautionary mea
sure. It Is feared by the authorities
that the men may be aroused to acts
of violence by the revolutionary
speeches of their leaders.
EX-SLAVE DEAD AT 105.
Altoona, Pa.—Mrs. Chaney Tillman,
105 years old, died here yesterday. She
was born a slave near Culpepper Court
House. Va. Her last master was Col.
Ottoway Carter, who freed her and
all his slaves In 1858.
PEERAGE FOR ISAACS.
London.— Sir Rufus Isaacs, lord
chief justice, who was raised to the
peerage on New Year's day has chosen
the title of I/ord Reading, the name
of the town which he represented In
the house of commons from 1804 to
1811.
PREMIER GOES TO JOIN WIFE.
London —The visit to be paid to
France by Premier Asquith next week
will have no connection with Interna
tional politics according to a commu
nication Issued at the premier's of
ficial residence today The liberal
leader is going to the Riviera to Join
wife there.
Pres’t Says Lind Spoke
Well of O’Shaughnessy
Pass Christian, Miss.—President
Wilson today took occasion to say that
Mr. Lind had spoken In the most cor
dial terms of Charge O’Shaughnessy
at the recent conference aboard the
cruiser Chester.
The president said there was abso
lutely no foundation for the published
report that Mr. O’Shaughnessy and
Mr. Lind were not working in har
mony and that the removal of the for
mer from Mexico City was under "con
sideration.
Going to Coin 200,000
25 Cent Pieces a Week
Mexico City.—The Mexican govern
ment today announced its intention to
coin and distribute half pesos, equiva
lent to 25 cents in United States in
money to the number of 200,000 weekly,
a measure which it calculates will re
lieve the difficulties resulting from the
scarcity of small change.
The mines in Mexico now sell their
silver output through a government
commission at a rate fixed by the gov
ernment. A portion of this Is to be
turned Into coinage which will revert
partly to the miners In the form of
payment in coins.
New Orleans Suffers
From a $750,000 Fire
New Orleans, —Plants of the Inter
national Distilling Company and the
United States Industrial Alcohol Com
pany, at Leake avenue and Pine street,
were practically' destroyed by fire to
day. The Kiss Is estimated at more
than $750,000 but officials of the com
panies refuse to make any statement
ether than the plants were 80 per cent
Insured.
Russian Flagship One of
Biggest Warvessels Here
Newport News, Va.—The Russian
cruiser Rossia arrived here today and
proceeded to the plant of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company for repairs. The Rossia is
the flagship of the Russian fleet In
Wost Indian wSters and one of the
largest scout cruisers In the world, be
ing nearly 600 feet In length.
Recognize Bandit Lopez
on Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, Cal.—Ralph Lopez, the
Mexican outlaw, who killed six men
and escaped from several sheriffs
posses in the Utah-Apex Mine at Bing
ham, Utah, was in I,os Angeles yester
day, according to information received
at the sheriff’s office. He is said to
have been recognized on the streets by
a fellow countryman who once worked
in a mine with the desperado.
WILL TRY BRUNSWICK MAN
ON WIFE MURDER CHARGE
Brunswick, Ga. —V. H. Davis, who
has been in the Glynn county jail for
more than a month, charged with the
murder of his wife, has been indicted
by the Glynn county grand jury and
will be tried during the present ses
sion of the superior court.
Mrs. Davis' body was found Nov.
14, having been missing from her home
near Nichols, this county, since Oct
22. The coroner’s Investigation re
sulted in a warrant being sworn out
for Davis and his brother, the former
being at once arrested.
No trace of the brother has been
found, although a thorough search has
been made.
The Davises separated some time
ago apd at the time of the woman’s
death a suit for alimony was pending.
SIXTEEN SECURED.
Washington.—Sixteen of the crew of
the fishing schooner Elva Spurling of
Princetontown. Mass., were rescued
early today by the Race Point Life
Having Station, according to a mes
sage received at the treasury. The
report did not state the nature of the
disaster.
RED CROSS DIRECTOR.
Washington.—f'has. Jenklnson, late
ly in the Latln-Amerlcan division of
the state department has been made
director of the Atlantic division of the
American Red Cross.
VISITS THE CHANCELLOR.
Berlin.—The Nord Deutsche Zeltung
announces prominently today that the
crown prince of Germany yesterday
paid a long visit to Imperial Chancel
lor von Bethmann-Hollwog presum
ably In connection with his telegrams
to. Lieut. General Delmllng and Col.
von Reuter, commending their atti
tude in the Zabern affair, which arous
ed so much indignation in Germany.
HOPPE VS. SUTTON.
Chicago.—Willie Hoppe and George
Hutton will play 1.500 points 18. J bil
liards here February 23-25, under the
auspices of the Chicago Athletic As
sociation for a stake of 12.000. Hut
ton announced today that Hoppe had
ccepted his challenge for the match.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1914.
3 REID, 27 HURT
AT CORDELE;
C.SIF.IECK
President of Road Has Very
Narrow Escape From Death
When Private Car Turns Com
pletely Over. Cars Fall
Through Trestle
Engine and Baggage Car Pass
Safely Over, But Rest of
Coaches Go Into Creek. In
jured at Cordele Hospital.
Cordele, Ga.—Three persons were
killed and 27 injured today when a
Georgia Southern and Florida passen
egr train, from Macon to Palatka, was
w'recked on a trestle one mile from this
place. A broken rail is said to have
caused the accident:
The dead:
Carson Ingratm aged 12, son of B. F.
Ingram, Buckhead, Ga.
Two unidentified negroes.
Four sleeping coaches and two day
coaches were thrown from the trestle
to a small creek several feet below.
The engine and baggage car passed
safely over the trestle. The two day
coaches were so badly damaged that
rescue crews had difficulty in remov
inir the bodies of the dead and injured.
All of the seriously wounded were
brought to this place for medical at
tention.
President Escapes.
Macong Ga.—John B. Munson, presi
dent and general manager of the Geor
gia Southern and Florida Railroad,
had a narrow escape from death early
this morning in a wreck near Cordele,
Ga., in which three persons were killed
outright and 27 were injured.
Mr. Munson’s official car was on
the train and turned completely over,
throwing the president out of his bed,
and badly bruising him.
AUTO COLLIDES
STREET CAB
Four Boneville, Ga., Citizens
Thrown Out and Injured
Slightly This Afternoon at
Gwinnett and 15th Streets.
An automoTiile and a Monte Sana
street car haxl a collision at Fifteenth
and Gwinnett streets at 3 o’clock this
afternoon. The automobile, In which
there were four Boneville, Ga., citi
zens, was badly torn up and the occu
pants bruised but none hurt serious
ly. The street car, driven by Motor
man Corbett, was not damaged very
much.
Those in the car were Messrs. A. J.
McGahee and Fred Huff and J. R.
and W. F. McCorkle. They were car
ried to the office of the railway com
pany’s surgeon and underwent treat
ment. All are expected to be able to
return home tonight.
TO PUT GREENLAND INTO
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
Copenhagen—Plans to put Green
land Into wireless communication
with the rest of the world are being
rapidly completed. Engineers who
have returned from Greenland report
that the Klgsigut Islands on the west
coast are well adapted for the loca
tion of a wireless station from which
communication can be established
with stations in Denmark and Can
ada. It is little more than 2,000 miles
from Denmark to the Islands, while
the distance to Canada from the Kig
slguts Is about 1.000 miles.
TO PAY ALL CREDITORS.
Athens, Ga.—Griffith A Welsh, cot
ton dealers, who, on January Ist, filed
a voluntary request for bankruptcy,
have arranged to pay all creditors in
full am] will withdraw their bankrupt
cy petition, according to announce
ment last night by the firm.
SIO,OOO DAILY PAYROLL.
San Francisco.—A statement Iw*ued
Thursday by the management of the
Panama-Pacific Exposition shows 2,-
000 men are employed on construction
work and that the daily payroll Is
810.000. All the exhibit palaces ara
under wav.
MEN'B CLOTHING STYLES.
Baltimore.—Changes In the styles of
men’s clothing will be decided upon
today and tomorrow at the semi-an
nual meeting here of the National As
sociation of Designers.
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DR. AND MRS. ALEX CARREL PHOTOGRAPHED ON TIIEIR ARRI
VAL ON THE FRANCE.
New York.—Society and prominent men in medical circles are plan
ning a round of functions in honor of the bride of Dr. Alex Carrell, win
ner of the 1912 Nobel medicine prize und the foremost surgeon of the
Rockefeller Institute. Dr. and Mrs. Carrel arrived on tho Fiance. They
were married In Paris on Christmas Day. Mrs. Carrel was Marquise
de la Marie and is a student of medicine. The couple met in a Paris
laboratory.
SIMON BOLIVAR
BUCKNER DEAD
Last Surviving Lieut. General
of Confederate Array Passes
Away. Ran For Vice Pres’t.
M unford villa, Ky.—The body of Gen
eral Simon Bolivar Buckner, who diet
at his iunna "Glen Lily,” near here,
last night, will be .conveyed by special
train tomorrow to Frankfort for burial.
The widow, relatives and about twen
ty close friends of the family will ac
company the remains of the last sur
viving lieutenant general of the Con
federate army from this city to the
state capital. Complete details of the
funeral arrangements have not yet
been announced but It Is expected
that burial will take place Sunday or
Monday.
General Buckner’* death was due to
Infirmities of age. Mrs. Buckner an 1
the general’s oniy surviving child,
Lieut. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., U.
S. A., who is stationed at Fort Thomas,
were at his bedside when the end
came-
In 91st Year.
The general was In his 91st year.
He was a graduate of West Point, had
been a member of the United States
army for ten years, was a veteran of
the Mexican war, for four years was
governor of Kentucky and in 1896 waj*
a candidate for vice president of the
United States on the gold democratic
ticket headed by Palmer.
General Buckner died In the same
house In which he was born, April 1,
1823. The old structure had been re
modeled from time to time and Is on 9
of the famous residences In Kentucky.
General Buckner was a close per
sonal friend of Gen. U. S. Grant and
was one of the pallbearers at the lat
ter’s funeral.
NEBRASKA BARRED.
Lincoln, Neb. By an opinion by At
torney General Grant Martin, of Ne
braska, given today on a Nebraska
banking law, state banks In this state
will be prohibited from entering the
federal reserve system.
THE LOURDE§ CUREB.
Munich, Bavaria. —A resolution re
questing the Bavarian government to
"Investigate the propaganda of the
Lourdes pilgrimages and the exagger
ated and misleading reports of alleg
ed cures there.” was adopted today by
the upper Bavarian Medical Society.
BCHL EIMANN' NOT APPOINTED.
Athena, Graeco. The report pub
lished in Vienna of the appointment
of Agamemnon Hchletmann, son of
Heinrich Hchlelmann, the great natu
ralist, as minister of Greece at Wash
ington, was declared here to be un
true.
OLDEST MAIL CARRIER IN
U. 8. RETIREB AT AGE OF 74.
Binghamton, N. Y.—George K.
Crandall, the oldest mall carrier in
the United Htates, retired today at
the age of 74. He has carried mail
continuously since 1856. His trips
as driver of a stage wagon reached
an aggregate of 350,000 miles and
his income from the postoffice de
partment during the entire period
totaled $35,000.
ITER IS AS
YET UNDECIDED
Pres’t of Miners Considering
Whether to Remain to Direct
Strike or Go to Washington.
Houghton, Mich.—Chas. H. Moyer,
president of the Western Federation of
Miners, today considered whether he
would remain here personally to di
rect the strike of the federation in the
.copper region or go to Washington to
petition tlie executive committee of the
American Federation of Labor to call
a general Btrlke of .miners in Mlehi
gan.
Moyer and Chas. H. Tanner, auditor
of the federation, have not been releas
ed by special grand Jury before which
they testified yesterday.
After their arrival here from Cliiea
go yesterday, Moyer and Tanner spent
two hours in the grand Jury room.
Deputies today continued to guard
every movement of tho strike leaders.
‘Gov. W. N. Ferris yesterday complet
ed his public inquiry of tjie strike af
ter hearing the mine owners and ope
rators give their side of the labor
trouble.
PRESIDENT LYNCH OF THE
PRINTERS UNION QUITS
Indisnapolit, Ind.—James M. Lynch,
state labor commissioner of New York,
yesterday formally retired as presi
dent of the International Typographi
cal Union, and was succeeded bv
James M. Duncan, of New York city,
first vice president. Mr. Lynch has
been head of tho typographical union
since 1900. Ho was guest of honor
at a farewell banquet last night, ten
dered by international officer* and
members of the Indianapolis Typo
graphical Union.
TEXAS HOOKWORM.
Austin, Texas. -The unnual state
hookworm report today showed that
46.3 per rent of about 11,000 Texas
children examined microscopically dur
inl 1913 had hookworm.
Bryan Timid As a Speaker
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SECRETARY BRYAN.
Washington.—Secretary of State
Bryan has confessed to a friend that
he Is a chronic victim of stage, fright.
"Whenever I am about to go before
a large audience to lecture,” the Com
moner Is quoted, "I am overcome with
a sickening and empty feeling deep
down In my rtomaoh, and It is usual
ly necessary for me to try to sleep
to comhaJ this feeling.”
DAILY AND SUNDAY. $6.00 PER YEAR.
FIVE DROWN FROM
FLAGSHIP WYOMING
INDIGNANT AT
ACT DF RICH
WHITE SEAIIER
“Mr. and Mrs. Foster” Had
Gained the Entree of Mobile
Society. Mother and Father
Will Forget on Their Return
Home.
Manager of One of World’s
Largest Poultry Farms Ar
rested in Company With 17
Year Old Girl. Taken From
New Jersey Home.
Mobile, Ala.—The preliminary hear
ing of Joel M. Foster, the wealthy
resident of Browns Mills, N. J., who
tvns arrested here Wednesday charged
with violation of the Mann white
slave law, has been set for Jan. 14.
Foster has employed lawyers here to
defend him and It Is understood thev
will invoke In his ca.se the recent de
cision of a federal judge in Toxas, who
held that the Intent of the Mann act
was merely to prevent commercialized
vice.
Foster this forenoon remained In
his room at a fashionable hotel and
refused to see Interviewers. His
former stenographer, Miss Delilah
Bradley, whom ho is charged with
having brought here from New Jer
sey In violation of the white slave
law, today left the hotel where the
two were arrested and sought <*edu
slon In a private boarding house.
Luring their stay at the hotel the
couple were known ns Mr. and Mrs.
Foster and obtained entrance into so
ciety circles of this city.
Creates Excltemant.
Pemberton, N. J.—News of the ar
rest at Mobile, Ala., yesterday of Joel
M. Foster, charged with violation of
the Mann white slave law, created ex
citement here. Summary vengeance ts
threatened against Foster by residents
of this place. Foster Is general man
ager of one of the largest poultry
farms In tho world, located at Browns
Mills, N. J.
On Dee. 15 he disappeared from his
homo and at the same time Ills ste
nographer, who was arrested In Mo
bile with Foster, also disappeared.
Tho girl, Delilah F. Bradley, 17 years
old, Is a (laughter of Harry C. Brad
ley, a railroad baggage master. She
was only a year out of school, was
an active member of the I’embcrton
Methodist church and a teacher In its
Sunday school.
Foster, who is 40, Is the son of T.
J. Fester, head of a correspondence
nchool at Scranton, Pa. The wife and
16-year-old daughter of Foster are
now at. the homo of his father, in
Scranton.
The father of Miss Bradley is heart
broken over his daughter** escapade
but says he will receive her if she re
turns home.
“We Will Forget.”
Pemberton, —The mother of the
Bradley girl said todav that her daugh
ter could come home and live as she
did before she went away.
"We will forget her absence and help
her to forget it,” the mother said. Hhe
Is an Innocent, trusting girl. Her life
has been spent among persons upon
whom she relied for protection "
DIES FROM NEGRO’S BHOT.
Beaufort, 8. C.—lsaac Donen, a mer
chant at Tnmotley, H. C„ died at mid
night last night as the result of hav
ing been shot, by an unknown negn
Tuesday afternoon. The authorities
have bee unable to rapture Donen's
assailant hut clues discovered Thurs
day are expected to lead to his ar
rest.
Small sleuths that silently seek—
and find-—the things you want.
Augusta Herald “Want Ads.”
Leave With Your Druggist
or Tell It to Phones 296 and 297
Cutter Swamped While Return
ing From Shore Throwing
16 Sailors in Water.. 11 Pick
ed Up. Others Exhausted.
ONE BODY PICKED UP
3 MILES FROM WARSHIP
The Boat Was Carrying Heavy
Load of Steel Wheelbarrows
and Foundered in the Heavy
Seas.
Old Point Comfort, Va.—Five sailors
of til*, crew of the flagship Wyoming
of tlie Atlantic fleet are reported tu
have been drowned this morning when
a big freight sailing cutter of the
flagship was swamped while return
ing to tlie flagship from Old Point
Comfort with provisions and stores,
with sixteen sailors aboard. Three of
the bodies have been recovered, It Is
said. The other eleven men were pick
ed up by a passing tug which quickly
went to their rescue.
Anchored Far Out.
Owing to the fact that tho Wyoming
Is anchored far in the roads and the
rough seas In tho roadstead make It
almost impossible for small boats to
navigate, reports concerning the acci
dent are meagre.
When the craft got two miles off
Old Point and a half mile from the
Wyoming she struck unusually heavy
seas and begun to take In water. She
was carrying a heavy load, Including
steel wheelb&rrow.s and soon found
ered after getting into a trough of the
sea and becoming unmanageable.
Battled Against Waves.
All sixteen of the men were thrown
Into the water and they swam around
but tho battle against the waves was
a fierce one. Some of the be
came exhausted with the result that
when tho tug reached them but eleven
were alive, It Is reported. The bodies
of three of tho five who aro reported
drowned subsequently were recovered
by boats from th flagship Wyoming,
one of tho bodies being found nearly
three miles away, bailors say.
The other two bodies have not yet
been recovered.
600 APPLICATIONS FOR
PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS
Pittsburg, Pa. —Hlx hundred applica
tions for mothers’ pensions under the
new Pennsylvania law were ready for
action by the trustees of Allegheny
County when they took up their work
bore today. Every possible effort Is
being made by the trustees to show
the women they are not objects of
charity. The operation of the law. its
first trial in the state, Is being closely
watched.
SON OF ASSASSINATED
VICE PRES’T ARRIVES N. Y.
New York.-—Albert Pino, son of Jose
Marhr Pino Haurez, vice-president of
Mexico, who was killed with President
Madero by General Huerta's soldiers
during an alleged attempt to escape
arrived hero today on the steamer
Mexico from Mexican ports and Ha
vana. The young man is 16 years old,
and will visit members of tho Madero
family now In exile in Orange, N. J,
WITH BIG BLACK CIGAR,
UNCLE JOE’S OUT AGAIN
Danville, lll.—With a long black
cigar in his mouth, Jos. G, Cannon,
former speaker of the national house
of representatives, appeared on the
streets this afternoon for the first time
sinee ho was lason ill with a cold. He
said staying in the house was the
worst punishment he had received.
$5,000,000 IRISH FUND.
Belfast, Ireland,—A fund amounting
to $5,000,000 to indemnify the relatives
of tho killed and wounded among the
Ulster unionist volunteers has been
raised according to an announcement
made today by Captain James Craig.
Unionist member for East Down, Ul
ster, at a gathering of unionists here.
He said the sum required har been ex
ceeded.