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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1906)
HEARST SAYS NAY Avers He is Not Candidate for the Presidency. DECLARATION EMPHATIC Comments on Remarks Made by Bry an and Says Any Candidate Would be Welcome to Him Except Joe Bailey of Texas. Congressman William R. Hearst, who is at present in San Francisco, has given out the following: “I would like to state very posi¬ tively that I am not a candidate for the democratic presidential nomina¬ tion in 1908. ’’Mr. Bryan said the other day in London that there were others be¬ sides himself who had claims on the nomination through services rendered tho democratic party, and mentioned pleasantly Mr. Folk, Mr. Bailey and myself. “While appreciating Mr. Bryan's compliment I must decline to be con¬ sidered a candidate. Let the list stand if Mr. Bryan pleases, Bryan or Ftolk or Bailey. FV>r my part I would sub¬ stitute -Stevenson for Bailey. “Mr. Bryan’s services to the democ¬ racy are too well diagnosed to be re¬ hearsed. He has led the party con¬ spicuously in two presidential cam¬ paigns and one senatorial campaign. In the national house of congress he has made the issues himself and ex¬ pounded them with a brilliancy un¬ equaled and unapprcached. “Mr. Folk's services to the democ¬ racy are notable and real. In fact, his services have been rendered to ail citizens irrespective of party for his career as an honest and efficient pub¬ lic servant is an example to republi¬ cans and democrats alike. As for Mr. Bailey, well, Bailey’s services have been rendered to that corporation end of the democracy that I do not consider democracy and whose control of the machinery of the democratic as well as of the repub ’ iican party has led me to seek my ideals of the democracy of Jefferson and the republican that of Lincoln in the independent league. “Bailey’s nomination for first place, even by the machine that nominated Parker, would be impossible, but Bai¬ ley’s nomination for second place is conceivable. It would have the mate¬ rial advantage of insuring Texas to the democracy and of eliciting a sub¬ stantial campaign contribution from John D. Rockefeller. But its advan¬ tages are obvious. Folk and Bailey, for instance, would be an oil and wa¬ ter ticket that would not mix—a ticket of good, pure water and Standard Oil. "Bryan and Bailey would be illiter ative and tickling to the ear, but would sound too much like Barnum and Bailey to suit the discriminating taste of the convention. “Why not Bryan or Folk or Ste¬ vens in 1908 on the democratic side, and why not Roosevelt and LaFol lette on the republican side? “I repeat definitely and positively I am not a candidate.” MAYOR HELD IN CONTEMPT. Rose Must Vacate Municipal Office and Pay Fine of $1,000. The Kansas state supreme court Friday handed down a decision hold¬ ing Mayor Rose of Kansas City, Kans... in contempt for having assumed the office of mayor after the court had ousted him for the nou-enforcement of the prohibition law and the law against gambling. In the order Mayor Rose is ordered to relinquish office and is fined $1,000 for contempt. The court further orders, if Mayor Rose fails to pay the fine within twenty days, he shall be committed to jail until such time as it is paid. Mayor Rose’s attorneys immediate¬ ly filed a writ of error. MANY BILLS WERE PASSED. Summary of Work of National House of Representatives. A detailed statement of the work of the house of representatives during the first session of the fifty-ninth con¬ gress just closed, was given out on Thursday by Winthrop C. Jones, tally clerk, and shows that there were 4,501 bills passed by the house and 362 left undisposed of. The words “bills” is in¬ clusive of bills, simple, joint and con¬ current resolutions. The total number of laws enacted by this congress is given officially as 3,989. HAILSTONES BIG AS ORANGES. Great Damage Done in Spain by a Downpour of Icy Pellets. In Valencia, Spain, and vicinity, Fri¬ day, a hailstorm killed a child and injured fifty persons. Hailstones as big as oranges smashed the roofs of houses and drove the inhabitants to the cellars. The crops in many dis¬ tricts were destroyed and great dis¬ tress prevails. PICKED UP AT SEA. Balloonist Was Borne Far from Land and Miraculously Rescued—Voy¬ age Breaks Record. After one of the most remarkable experiences in the history of aerial navigation, James K. Allen, the aer¬ onaut, who made a balloon ascension at Providence, R. I., on the 4th of July, was brought to port in Boston Friday night on the fishing senooner Francis V. Sylvia. Allen was picked up at sea 12 miles off Chatham at 7:30 Thursday morning, eighteen and a half hours after his departure from Providence. Allen had a narrow escape from death by drowning, the winds that prevailed Wednesday having blown his balloon a long distance from shore. Until new3 ol his arrival in Boston became known it had been thought he had met his death, as it was known that the last time he was sighted on -Wednesday evening he was traveling out to sea. That Allen is alive is due wholly to a fortunate shift of the wind. When he made his ascension at Providence on Wednesday the wind was blowing a brisk breeze from the southwesL The aeronaut was carried in his bal¬ loon in a northeasterly direction, and passed over the town of Attleboro. He had his balloon under perfect con¬ trol at that time, and while in the vi¬ cinity of Attleboro he descended twice. From Attleboro the airship traveled in the direction of Brockton, and the last seen of the aeronaut by observers on shore was when he passed over Scituato early in the evening. At that time the balloon was head¬ ed straight 'out to sea. When Thurs¬ day dawned without any news being received from Allen and it became known that the last time he was seen was when he was headed but to sea, it was then believed he would never return. After Allen passed over Massachu¬ setts bay his plight was more peril¬ ous. Wednesday night he was over Provinctown. At this point of the voy¬ age the wind shifted from southwest to northeast, and from Provincetown the balloon sailed down the outer Cape Cod coast. tA 7:30 o’clock the aeronaut was rescued 12 miles off Chatham by the fishermen of the Syl¬ via. The balloon was saved in good condition, and was brought to Boston on the schooner. During his flight Allen covered a total distance of about 200 miles, near¬ ly halt of which was over the water. The point where he was picked up is about 77 miles from Providence in a direct line. WAS ONLY A CASE OF TYPHOID. Louisiana Board of Health Denies Re¬ port of Yellow Fever. Information that a report was pub¬ lished in Mobile, Ala., Friday, saying that yellow fever had appeared in New Orleans was received by the Lou¬ isiana state board of health. Dr. Irion, president of the Louisia¬ na board, authorized the statement that the Mobile report was probably based on the fact that a case of fever, which was officially diagnosed as ty¬ phoid, previously reported to the state board as suspicious. Dr. Irion said that so far as the state board of health can learn, there is now no yellow fever anywhere in New Orleans. MORE REBATERS CONVICTED. Government Secures Verdict Against Railroad and Its Officials. The Chicago and Alton railroad and John N. Faithorn and Fred A. Wann, formerly officials of the road, were convicted in the United States dis¬ trict court at Chicago Friday of ille¬ gally granting rebates to the Schwarz schild & Sulzberger Packing compa¬ ny. Sentence was suspended pending arguments tor a new trial. It was claimed that the defendants had allowed the employees of the packing company to travel free of expense by refunding to them all money expended for transportation. LINEMEN HAVE BATTLE. Union and Non-UAion Men Engage in Serious Affray in Savannah. Union telegraph linemen and non¬ union men employed by the South¬ ern Bell Telephone company in place of the strUws had a serious affray in Savannah Saturday night, Several were injuresd in the melee, which assumed the preportions of a riot. A number of arrests were made. The superintendent of the Beil company arranged for the release of the non-union men on bond. TROUBLE FOR THOMAS TAGGERT Move to Revoke Charter of His Hotel at French Lick. Attorney General Charles Miller of Indiana, acting under instructions from (lovernor Hanley, has filed an action to revoke the charter of the French Lick Springs Hotel company at French Lick. The company is a corporation of which Thomas Taggert, chairman ot the democratic national committee, is president. It is charged that gam¬ bling is allowed on the property own¬ ed by the hotel company. 'FOURTH’S VICTIMS Deadly Explosives and Toy Pistols Get in Their Work. DYNAMITE TAKES FIVE Little Mining Town Shows Largest Score—Summary of Fatalities in Various Citiei ■Lockjaw Vic¬ tims Yet to Come. At Wanamie, a mining town five miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa_, five hoys were killed and nine others injured by celebrating the 4th of July. They had placed powder in a pipe, and it failed to go off. They then forc¬ ed a stick of dynamite into the pipe, and began pounding it. A terrific ex¬ plosion followed. Four of the hoys were badly mangled, and the fifth died on the way to the hospital. Some of the injured are so badly hurt that they may die. Legislators injured. At Baton Rouge giant fire cracker* injured two members of the Louisia¬ na state legislature during a fourth of July parade of the house of rep¬ resentatives. The legislators lighted and discharged the crackers as they marched. One exploded before the face of Charles B. Stroudback of New Or¬ leans, tearing his hat and gashing his forehead. Another tor© two fingers of Representative J. M. Hart of Re¬ serve. Previous to the parade, a bar¬ rel was placed in the house cham¬ bers, where the members had been in session, and giant crackers were exploded in it, some of them big enough to jar almost the entire state house. Boy Kills Companion. Murray Kitts was accidentally shot and killed at Fulton, N. Y., Tuesday night by Frederick Parker, a com¬ panion about the same age. The boys were planning for the 4th of July. Par¬ ker discharged' what he supposed was a blank cartridge from a revolver, and Kitts fell with a bullet in his head and died almost instantly. Four Fatalities in Indiana. Reports received from throughout Indiana show four fatalities and a large number of persons injured as the result of the celebration of the 4th. Oniy One Killed in New York. While the list of minor accidents as the result of the celebration of the 4th in New York reached far up into the hundreds, there were fewer serious casualties than for many years, only cne death was reported by tile police, that of Morris Shapiro, a Seltzer water manufacturer, who was shot in the head by a stray bul¬ let as he was driving in Harlem. He died soon afterwards. The police were unable to learn where the bullet came from. Deadly Toy Cannon. Edward Guthrie, a 17-year-old youth, was killed at Memphis, Tenn., by the explosion of a toy cannon which he was firing. The cannon, which was made of galvanized piping, broke into fragments, one of the fragments pierc¬ ing his heart. Both Eyes Destroyed. Dealey Tllghman, six-year-oid, son of R. L. Tighman, a prominent busi¬ ness man of Lonoke, Ark., lost both eyes from a firecracker explosion on Wednesday afternoon. He was holding a lighted firecracker before his face, when it exploded with the above re¬ sult. BAILEY BOOSTS BRYAN. Senator Arouses Texans to a High Pitch of Enthusiasm. Speaking to an audience of about 5,000 people at Abilene, Texas, Wed¬ nesday afternoon, United States Sen¬ ator Joseph W. Bailey declared in the most emphatic way his desire and be liet that W. J. Bryan will be nomi¬ nated for and elected to the presiden¬ cy of the United States in 1908. This declaration met with wild applause, amounting almost to a demonstration. STATE TICKET NOT NAMED. Georgia Populists Met and Adjourned Until August 28th. The Georgia populist state conven¬ tion met in Atlanta Wednesday a few minutes after noon in the house of rep¬ resentatives, but failed to slate a state ticket. After about 15 minutes’ session, on motion of C. T. Parker of Fulton coun¬ ty, it was decided to adjourn until August 28, and at that time name a candidate for governor and every state house officer. SEVEN HOLOCAUST VICTIMS. Mother and Six Children Meet Death in Burning Home. Mrs. Solomon Gobbau and her six children were burned to death Fri¬ day night in a fire that destroyed their home at Lafayette, Ind. Solomon Gobbau, the husband and father was badly burned, but will recover. The entire family was asleep when the fire started. CZAR'S TROUBLES GROW. The Revolt Among Troops of Hapless Russian Ruler Spreads—Empire in Dangerous Ferment. Dispatches received in St. Peters¬ burg Thursday from Samara state that two regiments, garrisoning that important provincial capital, have mu¬ tinied and presented a series of po¬ litical and service demands. The of¬ ficers promised to satisfy the service demands if the mutineers would re¬ turn to duty, but the men replied that they would he satisfied only with com¬ pliance with all of their demands. The mutineer command the situ¬ ation, and are indulging In excesses. The situation is complicated by the fact that in -Samara the revolutionists are pushing a movement to proclaim a republic in case a general strike is declared, and may seize the pres¬ ent opportunity to further their alms. 't he ferment among the soldiers and sailors at Odessa and Sebastopol con¬ tinues. No inkling of the reported rioting and pillaging at Vladivostok has reach¬ ed the Russian public, but the milita¬ ry authorities, who control fhe tele¬ graph, would be Itable to withhold for days any news of such conditions. Reported Mutiny in Vladivostok. The correspondents at Tokio of the Dally Telegraph (London) reports that the Asiatic Steamship company’s steamer Colonia, which left Vladivos¬ tok on account of the disturbances there, and which has arrived at Nagas¬ aki, reports that all shops and houses in Vladivostok were closed by police order, and that on June 30 thirty ring leaders of the rioters were arrested, and eight big cases of dynamite seized by Cossacks. The same correspondent states that the Russian volunteer steamer Kitai, laden with military stores, struck a mine in Possiet Bay and sank. The executions in Harbin in con¬ nection with the revolutionary move¬ ment, the correspondent further says, number six hundred. Girl’s Slayer Sent to Siberia. Maria Spiridonovo, who killed Chief of Police Luzhenoffsky, of Tamboy, was sent to Siberia from Moscow on Thursday with other prisoners. Spec¬ tators at the railway station bade her keep up a stout heart to which she replied: “We shall soon be back.’’ MORE CASUALTY FIGURES. Chicago Tribune Publishes Its Annual List of Celebration Victims. The Chicago Tribune Thursday pub¬ lished its ninth annual summary of deaths and injuries caused throughout the United States by Wednesday’s celebration. Figures up to an early hour werd as follows: Dead.......... 88 By fireworks .. . W By cannon .... H By firearms .. .. h By explosives .. . kj By toy pistols .. rfk By runaway .. ... H By drowning ..... Oi Injured ........ 2,789 By fireworks .. ., 1,099 By cannon .. .. 261 By firearms .. .. 393 By explosives .. 697 By toy pistols .. 804 By runaways 35 Fire loss .. .. 166,450 In Chicago—'Dead 2; injured 157. Last year 42 persons were killed out¬ right, but when lockjaw and other diseases induced by injuries had com¬ pleted their work over 400 lives had been sacrificed. The number of injured—2,789—is in excess of last year's figures by 358. BIG DEAL IN GOAL LAND. Central Railroad Officials Acquire 17, 000 Acres in Alabama. The Gulf Coal and Coke Company of Mobile, Ala., Thursday sold to J. P. Hansen, president of the Georgia Central railroad, and his associates, 17,000 acres of coal lands located in Walker and Jefferson counties, Ala¬ bama. The consideration is said to be 31,250,000. Hanson’s associates are said to be the Pratt Coal and Coke company of Birmingham, Ala. DEAD MAN COMMISSIONED To Be Postmaster at Dallas, Texas, by the President. The postoffice department has dis¬ covered that an error was made at Oyster Bay Thursday in making out a recess appointment of the postmas¬ ter at Dallas, Texas, B. A. Riobinson has been appointed to succeed Wil¬ liam A. O’Leary, who died about a year ago. The commission was erro¬ neously, issued in the name of O’Lea¬ ry. Robinson has held the office since the death of O’Leary, but had not been confirmed because of opposition from Senator Culberson. SOUTHERN TO MAKE CHANGES, Big Shake-Up in Transportation De¬ partment Said to Be Planned. It is stated that a big shake-up will be made in the next week or two in the transportation department of the Southern railway. The system will be divided into four districts, in¬ stead of two as at present, and an assistant general superintendent will he in charge of each. Panama Canal Hospital. V : * BI*S, 1 10 J I . 4 \ is m i mi ,. ’ If ***** MG?** jb-.* i R ONE OF THE COMPANY’S BIG BOARDING HOUSES ALONG THE CANAL, USED IN THE PAST AS A HOSPITAL. MEHRY-GO-ROUND. Judging by the alacrity with which new amusement features are taken up and the dearth of ideas that the amuse¬ ment managers declare to exist, the new style of merry-go-round should r t 1 . •i Merry-Go-Round and Razzle-Dazzle. prove popular. It is a combination of the ordinary merry-go-round and the razzle-dazzle. The carriages carrying the riders are alternately swung up and down, and at the same time given a rotary motion. In the centre is a tower, the carriages being suspended on cables, the whole resembling a spider. As the spider and its arms rotate in a circle and as the arms ap¬ proach and reach the higher part o* the plane they will lift the carriages and give the passengers a pleasing sen¬ sation of being carried upward as well as in the rotary motion. To enhance the attraction electric lights can be at¬ tached to the cables and mounted on the frame and give to the merry-go round a pleasing effect in the night time. CARRIER FOR ORANGES. In the present commercial usages of orange growers and shippers, each or¬ ange is wrapped in paper, and any number or quality packed in boxes for shipment. The result is that even when refrigeration is used during there is much waste Panama Canal Scenes. i. •••••;&*: * h - * eg ■■ mu ------ W THE CULEBRA CUT-A SEC¬ TION OF THE NEARLY COM¬ PLETE EXCAVATIONS. and loss in fruit, and the fruit ing in marketable condition is or less deleteriously affected. In plan of shipment the fruit exudes or less moisture, sothatat the ing places of the paper it becomes urated with decay, which is cated to the balance of the fruit results in much loss. The purpose the carrier shown here is to m '•utSj I, h f" /*: 1:1 Holds the Oranges. a packing box so ventilated that the fruit can be separated from each oth¬ er in a natural and dry state. In transportation there would thus be a minimum of damage, The box is made of pasteboard and divided into compartments, each box bolding a doz en oranges, the partitions preventing one orange from touching another, Superstition Smashed In Kansas. The two happiest people in the coun¬ try are the parents of thirteen daugh¬ ters, all bright, smart and good look¬ ing.—Eldorado Republican. I ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE A Roller That Can Be Shifted at Will to Any Desired Position. The supports In which the roller of an ordinary window shade rests are usually fixed to the woodwork. Hence the upper limit of the shade must re¬ main unchanged. Only the lower edge can be shifted. Something would be gained, though, if the roller could be moved downward occasionally. Ven¬ tilation above it could then be easily effected by pulling down the upper sash. Again, in many bedrooms it is com¬ mon to have muslin curtains that cover only the lower half of the window opening. They are more transparent than the shade, yet afford privacy _ V «■) % Cond 8 rS: tA 3 I Mh. Si-ee/ * 9 -tt % i r Entering Air- i w while a person is dressing. Light for tile operation is usually secured by running the shade rp as far as it will go. Now, it Will he seen that if the shade roller can be moved up and down the curtains would not be needed, for, by lowering the roller, plenty of light would be admitted above it, while the V I A CANAL ENGINEER GAUGING A, STREAM. shade would serve as a screen in front of the lower sash. A man named Stone has invented means for adjusting a roller instanta¬ neously at any elevation. His mechan¬ ism is designed to go on the roller, and the latter acts exactly as it would un¬ der ordinary circumstances except for its change of position, The device ought to improve the methods of regu¬ lating the light and air in a room, and should be serviceable In schools and business offices, as well as in private homes.—New York Tribune Farmer. Flock of Pelicans in Kansas. The other day a large flock of peli¬ cans flew over the town of Hepler. One of the birds was shot and it fell into the large railroad pond. After it had been shot the flock hovered over the pond for three or four hours, cir¬ cling higher and higher until they were out of gunshot reach. It was after uight before the flock abandoned the wounded bird and con¬ tinued their journey northward. The bird that was shot was not killed, but was disabled in one of its wings. It is a fine large bird, standing about four feet high and measuring eight feet from tip to tip of its wings. It as white as snow, with the excep¬ tion that it has one or two black feathers in the top of the wiDgs. Its beak is about one foot In length, with a pouch underneath arge enough to hold about one gallon of water. The flock bad probably been disturbed and driven cut of their course to the north¬ ern lakes.—Pittsburg Headlight. Misled the Point. At a recent political meeting in Eng¬ land, the speaker made a jest, and, finding that his audience had missed the point of it, said playfully: “I had hoped, gentlemen, that you would laugh at that.” A plaintive voice came through the silence. “I laughed mis¬ ter.” Then everybody did.
