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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX, No. 15.
SECOND VICTIM OF NORRIS’
SON DIES AT THE HOSPITAL
After Lingering For Several
Hours. William Dennis, 17
Years Old, Passed Away This
Morning—Had Made a State
ment to Coroner’s Physician
NORRIS WAS NEVER IN
STATE INSANE ASYLUM
Murderer’s Mind Still Abnor
mal From Intoxication—ls
Not Permitted to See Anyone
After lingering for several hours at
the City hospital, William Dennis, the
17-year-old white boy, and the second
victim of the gun of Sain J. Norris, the
West End saloon-keeper, who shot his
wife to death and then fired on Den
nis in the former’s home yesterday
afternoon, died at 6 a. m. today.
Before his death Dennis had made a
complete statement of the shooting to
the coroner's physician, Dr. C. J.
Montgomery, but was not physically
able to sign it. It is, however, veri
fied bjr witnesses.
Tragic Case.
The case is one of the most tragic in
the history of the state. NArris, it is
understood, has not long been out of
a private Insane asylum and several
weeks ago began drinking heavily.
Yesterday, according to physicians, his
mind had become inflamed from ex
cessive drink and he was nothing less
than insane, for the time being at
least.
Dr. W. D. Jennings, Jr., family phy
sician for Norris and who disarmed
him a few seconds after he had killed
one and wounded another, stated this
morning that Norris was in no condi
tion to make a statement for publica
tion. It is learned that he has em
ployed counsel.
Unconcerned.
It Is told at the Jail where Norris
is confhfed to a cell that the prisoner,
whose mind is stil abnormal fromi in
toxication;- is apparently unconcerned
over what he has done. He is very ill
today because of the effects of liquor
dying out.
Norris has for sometime operated a
saloon at the corner of Broad and
Frank streets, in West End, and is
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May Increase Parcel
Post Weight to 100 Lbs.
This Limit Has No Terrors For
Us, Declares Postmaster
General Burleson.
Washington,—Recent experiments
conducted! Iby the postofice depart
ment with the aim of increasing the
weight limit of the parcels post have
proved so successful that parcels
weighing 100 pounds soon may be ship,
ped by mail. The present weight
limit of parcels is BO pounds.
“The 100 pound weight limit has
no terrors for me,” the postmaster
general declared today. He express
ed belief that 60,000,000 -parcels would
be transported through the mails dur
ing the year beginning July Ist next,
with a revenue of approximately 10
cents each.
Checks For $1,000,000
to 400 Altman Employes
Legacies Under Will of Late N.
Y. Dry Goods Man Being
Distributed.
New York.—About 400 employes of
B. Altman & Co., who were entitled
to legacies under the will of Benjamin
Altman, have received checks aggre
gating more than $1,000,000. In the
near future the trustees of the Alt
man Foundation expect to announce
details of a profit-sharing plan for
emploveifand of gifts to charitable
and educational Institutions as sug
gested in the will. Mr. Altman be
queathed $5,000 apiece to eleven em
ployes whom he named and SI,OOO
apiece to three employes. To em
ployes of 20 years service not other
wise remembered he left $2,500 each;
to all employes less than 20 and
more than 18 years $1,500 each and
to those employed 15 years SI,OOO
earh. These are the legacies the exe.
cutors have Just finished paying.
OVER HALF CONNECTICUT
PEOPLE HAVE DEPOSITS
Hartford, Conn.—More than half the
people who live in Connecticut bad
deposits in the savings banks, ac
cording to the annual report of the
state bank commislsoner today. The
622.000 depositors have $307,500,000
to "their credit, an increase of 16 000
debtor* and $9,000,000 over 1912.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF
WILLIAM DENNIS MADE IN
PRESENCE OF WITNESSES AT
CITY HOSPITAL JUST PRIOR
TO SURGICAL TREATMENT.
The following statement was
made by Will Dennis to Doctors
Montgomery and Jennings and to
Internes Newsome and Wilson at
the City Hospital Just prior to
surgical operation. The statement
is not signed as Dennis was not
physically able to do so.
Dennis stated that Mr. Norris
asked Mrs. Norris to go over and
get a young lady to come and play
the piano.
Mrs. Norris dressed to go down
town and then went over to Mrs.
Clark's, telling Dennis to come by
for her. A few minutes afterward
when Dennis cranked the machine
Mr. Norris ran to the door with
his pistol telling him, “by God, to
stop that machine, that it couldn’t
go off without him.” Dennis stop
ped the machine, went back in
the house with Mr. Norris, sat
down and agreed with everything
Mr. Norris said.
Mrs. Norris came in the house
and asked Mr. Norris, "what was
the trouble; didn't he want her to
so.”
Norris replied with some crazy
answer and Mrs. Norris laughed
and immediately Mr. Norris shot
Mrs. Norris and then shot Dennis
and shot Mrs. Norris again.
Dennis was asked by Mr. Eddie
Williamson did Mr. Norris sus
pect anything wrong between him
and Mrs. Norris. He replied, "No,
he had threatened to kill her be
fore. He was crazy, but he was
responsible for this.”
Liner With White House
Honeymooners Puts
Back Today
MRS. JESSIE WILSON SAYRE
Cherbourg, France. —The steamer
Majestic which left hero for New York
last evening, with Frances Bowes
Sayre and his wife, formerly Miss
Jqssle Woodrow Wilson, among her
passengers, returned to port this
morning. \slolent seas had broken
a number of starboard port holes and
she was taking water through them.
Repairs will he made here by the
ship's own workmen. It Is expected
that the liner will be delayed only a
few hours.
Strike Leaders
in South Africa
Have Capitulated
Jonnesburg.—Secretary Bain of the
South African Federation of Trades,
and his band of 300 comrades, who
had barricaded themselves In the
Trades Hall here since Tuesday, sur
rendered unconditionally today. Bain
and ten other leaders were lodged in
Jail.
A seven-pounder field gun trained
on the Trades Hall proved an Irre
sistible argument to Bain and hi*
companions. The government author
ities gave them a quarter of an hour
in which to yield, Informing them
that If they did not do so they would
be buried beneath the ruins of their
fortress. They surrendered.
Some of the strikers in this city
who seem to be In an ugly mood are
restrained by the presence of police
and the Citizens' Defense force, over
100,000 of whom answered the call
to arms when martial law was pro
claimed.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 15. 1914.
96 RESCUED IN
BOILING SEAS
FROM LINER
Only the Captain and 11 Sea
men Remained This Morning
on 111-Fated Cabeguid, Im
paled on the Rocks of Bay of
Fundv
Waves Were Breaking Over
Vessel When Transfer Made
in Fierce Gale. Required Two
Hours. All Huddled in Only
Dry Spot on Wrecked Craft.
St. John, N. B. —Captain Hawson
and the eleven men who remained on
the wrecked Royal Mall Liner Cobe
quid last night were taken on board
the steamer Aberdeen early today
and are on their way here.
A wireless message stated that
the third officer, R. F. Powell, was in
jured during the night and was in
need of medical attention.
Harrowing Experience.
Yarmouth, N. S. —The 2- 1 passen
gers and 72 members of the crew of
the wrecked Royal Mail steamer
Cobequid rescued yesterday were
comfortably housqd here tills morn
ing and recovering from their har
rowing experience. Captain Hawson
andd 11 seamen remained on board
the wrecked vessel early today.
The Cobequid, impaled on Trinity
Rock, six miles off Port Maitland,
was badly smashed and coated with
Ice, but tlTe captain's cabin remained
Intact. The government steamer
Lansdowne stood by throughout the
night, prepared to take off the twelve
men.
Seas Breaking Over.
Captain McKinnon, of the Westport,
the little coastal steamer which res
cued 72 persons, said today that when
he went alongside the Cobequid he
found all the passengers and crew
In the captain’s cabin, the only dry
spot on the steamer. The seas were
breaking over the main deck. The
Cobequid was lying headed to the
westward with the bow down and the
stern well out of the water.
Without Accident.
All of those taken on board the
Westport left the Cobequid In three
boats launched by the crew of the
wrecked vessel. Notwithstandir' the
gale and the boiling sea, the tiirvfer
was accomplished In two hours with
out accident. The nine women and
children among the passengers were
the first to be taken from the Cobe
quid.
Sprinkler Pipes Burst
At Tiffany’s; Firemen Go
New York. —The fire department
rushed to Tiffany’s immense Fifth
Avenue store today to combat not
flames but water. An automatic
sprinkler pipe had burst on the second
floor, flooding stock and show cases.
All entrances and exits were closed
while the firemen spread tarpaulins
and hailed out the water with buckets
and mops. The firm declined to give
any estimate of the damage.
Fresh Chapter is Opened
in Strange Double Life
Woman Saya She’s Jardine’s
Daughter. Died in Bowery
Lodging House. Had
$200,000.
New York. —A woman who said she
was Dudley Jardine’s daughter came
forward today and opened a fresh
chapter in the strange double life that
Jardlne led up to the moment of his
death about a year ago. Jardlne died
in a cheap Bowery lodging house as
"William Smith” and the merest
chance revealed that he was the son
of a wealthy organ builder and the
owner of stocks and bonds worth
$200,000.
Although his will did not hint that
he had a family. Mrs. Anna McCarthy,
wife of a New York Janitor, declared
today that under the name "William
Smith” he had married her mother
soon after the civil war. His mother,
she said, died three years ago without
knowing Jardine’s real name and for
tune. ,
FINDS $1,500 IN NOTES
WHILE CLEANING STORE
Baltimore.—While turning over
rubbish in the cellar of a grocery store
l here where tie bad been employed for
ten years, Walter Mettle today found
more than $1,500 in notes. The ap
pearance of the money indicated it
i has been in the cellar a long time.
They Fear Release Of Thazv
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LEFT TO RIGHT: EVELYN NESBIT THAW rtND WILLIAM TRAV
VERS JEROME.
The beautiful wife of Tnaw and Jerome, the man who has been his
nemesis iu every chapter of the famous tragedy, continue to persist In
their declarations that should the murderer of Stanford White, bo ad
mitted to ball in New Hampshire that stato will bo deliberately free
ing a dangerous lunatic, a man who may become momentarily dan
gerous.
TEAMS WENT AFTER ANOTHER
SI,OOO IN THE A. M. CANVASS
M. & M. Association Workers Much Gratified at Results in
Effort For Augusta’s Commercial Organization. New Faces
Seen in Team Lists.
It Is something new in Augusta!
It is true that many other canvas
ses have been made here, but noth
ing like this one for the Merchants
& Manufacturers' Association has
ever been witnessed here.
In its system, in its determination,
in the enthusiasm-that-eounts, it is in
a class by itself. And best of all It
brings results.
Yesterday It looked like $5,000
would be reported as the result of
that day’s work added to subscrip
tions by the members themselves, but
actual returns showed something over
$4,000.
Fine Spirit Prevails.
Mr. McKoand was greatly surprised
this morning when everyone of the
workers of yesterday were either
present or satisfactorily accounted for
and some new faces were seen In the
team lists. Usually It is the experi
ence that the workers have to be per
suaded the second day. The experi
ences of the first have made them
chary of further work ofthe kind. That
this Is not the case here Is one Indi
cation of the really fine spirit pre
vailing here.
Augustans ran rest assured that
they are witnessing an era of real live
liness that betokens a great activity
In their future commercial organiza
tion. Tho past is not to he repeated.
Augusta has broken the lee and is
coming forward through Its Merchants
& Manufacturers' Association.
The “Big Fellows."
Today the teams intend to seeuro
another thousand dollars. During the
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CONVINCING FACTS SHOWING
/ AUGUSTA’S GROWTH
Population 1910 —41,040.
Population 1914 over 50,000.
470 new buildings erected in 1913, 13 l»i i<-k
residences; 253 frame residences.
Total building permits, 1913, $1,879,450.
Increase over 1912, $713,705.
Increase over 1911, $1,232,420.
Two new skyscrapers being erected at a cost
of nearly SBOO,OOO.
University Hospitals, costing SIOO,OOO, being’
constructed.
The $3,000,000 Georgia-Carolina Power Dam,
which will generate 32,000 horse power, nearing
completion.
Levee to protect city from flood waters being
built and will cost over $1,500,000.
Barge line from Augusta to the seaeoast to
start operations during coming summer.
Bank clearings in excess of $2,000,000 per week.
Largest cotton receipts of any interior city east
of the Mis-issippi with one exception.
SPEER INQUIRY
NOT 5 TRUE
Judge and His Counsel Permit
ted to Ask Questions —100
Witnesses on Hand. Will Re
quire Three Weeks.
Washington.—lnquiry into charges
of official Irregularities agains-t Fed
eral Judge Speer of the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia, will not bo a trial
and Judge Speer and his counsel will
be permitted to aHk questions of wit
nesses as a matter of courtesy, ac
cording to Chairman Webb, of the
house Judiciary committee. The in
quiry will be aimed to ascertain If
there Is a prima facie case establish
ed such as would warrant the judic
iary committee In recommending an
Impeachment trial. No elaborate
cross examination will be permitted.
Mr. Webb will leave tomorrow for
North Carolina and will meet the re
mainder of the eomrnltteo at. Macon,
next Monday, when tho Inquiry Is be
gun. Approximately 100 witnesses
will be hesrd, the expectation being
that tho Investigation will occupy
about three weeks. Judge Speer may
be one of the early witnesses.
DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
ONE OR TWO YEARS
FOR ‘BIG BUSINESS’
WADE THROUGH
VOLCANO ASHES
OOEASL RICH
Rescuers Find Only Destruction
and Ruin. Cannot Risk Land
ing on Island From Terrific
Heat and Noxious Gases
Many Rescued From Wastes
of Steaming Lava at Foot of
Sakura—Jima. Volcanic Ac
tivity Abating. No Estimate
of Life Loss Yet.
Washington.—On receiving further
details of ilie disaster in Southern
Japan, President Wilson today "sent
a second cablegram of sympathy to
the emperor of Japan and usked of
there was any way in which the
American people could help.
Scene of Desolation.
Kagoshima, Japan—Many people of
Kagoshima returned here toduy t«
find their homes battered Into heaps
of debris by the aeries of earthquakes
that spread destruction and deatli in
southern Japan. The refugees en
camped in open spaces, were suppli
ed with food from Japan warships.
Exploration of the debris in Kagos
hma linß not progressed far enough to
permit of an estimate of the life loss.
No Living Being.
Thirty-three refugees were rescued
from a waste of steaming lave, at the
foot of the volcano of Kakura-Jlma
today. Now no living being remains
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Son to Study Father's
Brain; W't 1,400 Grams
Dr. Spitzka’s Orga:; Was Re
moved Yesterday For Pre
servation.
New York—Tho brain of tho late
Dr. l&hvard Charion Hpltzka, alienist
ami neuroloKlut, which whh removed
ytaterday for preHorvutton in the coi
leetion of the American Anth'ropomet
ric Hoclety, welKhod 1,400 gram**. The
average weight of the human brain 1h
1,300 Kraniß.
“Dr. Hpltzka founded the anthropo
metric society” said hl« son Dr. Kd
ward A. Hpltzka, today, “with the pur
pose of making It possible to study
the brainn of men who had excelled
In one department or another of hu
man activity and to discover whether
the structure of the brains of such
men revealed the source of their
special skill or ability."
Dr. Hpltzka will make a study of
hl« father's brain.
Go to President on the
Memphis Postmastership
Waghington.—Senators Shield and
]*KH, of Tennessee, re-opened with the
president today the controversy over
the appointment of a postmaster at
Memphis. They were opposed to con
firmation of the nomination of C. W.
Metcalf and wanted Ills name with
drawn In favor of T. C. looney.
Metcalf was nominated at the re
quest of Representative McKellar.
The president promised considers,
(lon of the Memphis situation.
FURNITURE MAKERS FORM
NAT’L PROTECTIVE ASS’N
Chicago.—Announcement of the for
mation of the National Furniture As
sociation for the purpose of protect
ing furniture manufacturers from "un
Just demands of organized labor and
other Influences,” was made today by
Robert W. Irwin, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., In an address before the Na
tional Commercial Fixture Manufac
turers’ Association.
“Funds will be supplied for advanc
ing our principles for an open shop
and against unjust labor demands,”
said Irwin.
WILLIAMS' NOMINATION.
Washington. Investigation of the
nomination of John Skelton Williams
for comptroller of the currency and
member of the federal reserve board
was continued today In the senate
banking committee Administration
supporters were confident It would
be reported fuvorably.
President Points Out to
Framers of Anti-Trust Re
form Legislation the Neces
sity of Allowing Time to Con
form With New Laws
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MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
ON THE SUBJECT NEXT
MONDAY OR TUESDAY
Proposed Inter-State Trade
Commission Under No Cir
cumstances to Fix Prices or
Exercise Powers of Regula
tion.
Washington, D. C.~Now legislation
prohibiting interlocking directorates
will provide ample opportunity and
tlmo for readjustment of business, of
ficials In the confidence of President
W ilson said today, forecasting the ad
ministration program on anti-trust re
form. From high administration quart
ers came the word that the President
had pointed out to the congressional
committees the necessity for allowing
oither one or two years for big busi
ness to conform to the new laws.
Not to Fix Prices.
Another essential in the trust pro
gram emphasized today is the deter
tm«ination of tin* President and bis ad
visers to make the proposed Inter
state trade commission an auxiliary
not only to the courts in carrying out
decrees but an actual assistant to big
business itself. Under no circum
stances would the commission fix
prices or exercise any lowers of regu
lation but beside acting as a bureau
of information for business might be
given the function of mediation in en
couraging re-organizations in con
formity with new law
At White House.
Officials close to the White House
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15 FOOf 11l
Of WATER IS
RUSHING DOWN
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Big Dam Breaks, Inhabitants
of Valley Fleeing For Lives.
Three Towns Threatened
With Destruction.
Cumberland, Md.—Tho Ktony river
dam of the West Virginia I’ulp anil
l’uper Company, near Dobbin, W. Va,
lias given way, according to Informa
tion received at noon.
Piedmont, W. Va.—A wall of water
twenty feet high la sweeping down the
north brunch of the Potomac river. It
was released by the bursting of the
dam of the West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Company at Dobbin, W. Va.
Hhortly before noon, according to re
ports received here, Inhabitants of the
valley are fleeing to the bills. Anxiety
Is felt for the safety of the entire dis
trict.
The dam Is 1,075 feet wide at the
breast, backing the water up for threo
anil a lialf miles and holding three hil
ltop gallons of wuter. The dam- is DO
feet high on the outside, 05 on the In
side and built on a concrete founda
tion B 0 feet deep.
A watchman noticed the dam was
cracked last night and this morning a
large pot.lon of the structure gave
way. At 11:20 this forenoon a sec
ond and larger break occurred which
made big gaps on both sides of tha
dam. Piedmont, Western Port and
Luke, Md., aro threatened with de
struction.
The high water Is expected to reach
here late this afternoon. Every prepa
ration has mer n made to guard against
loss of life.
On Eve Marriage,
So. R’y Vice Pres’t
Commits Suicide
New York—Richard D. Lankford, a
vbar president and secretary of the
Southern Railway, committed suicide
by Inhaling gas In his apartments In
Brooklyn. lie was soon to have been
married to a Brooklyn society girl.
Mr. Link ford was 46 years old. On
Saturday lie was to have married Mis-.
Nellie Patterson. Ho far as is known
he left no note explaining his act. A
porter employed in tho bachelor ap
apartments where he resided smelled
gas and forced his way Into Mr. Lank
ford's rooms. In the brithroom lay
l Lankford's body, unclothed.