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VOL. XIV. NO. 13
“DRY” MEASURE VETOED
Tennessee’s Governor Refused
, to Sign Prohibition Bill.
MANUfACTUREJF WHISKEY
Will Also De Made Unlawful—A Meas
ure to That Effect Having Passed
the Legislature.
Nashville, Tenn. —Governor Patter
son has filed with the clerk of the
senate a message vetoing the state
wide prohibition bill, which last week
was passed by both houses of the
legislature.
The governor’s action followed ad
journment of the senate, after it had
passed on third reading the bill-pro
hibiting the manufacture in Tennes
see of intoxicating liquors.
Opponents of the bill claim that
they can count on a change of three
senators to their side, and that the
fourth member, on whose vote the
fate of the measure depends, is wa
vering. Should there be a change of
four votes, the veto would be sus
tained, 17 to 16. The bill is made
effective July 1, 1909.
The bill prohibiting the manufac
ture of liquor was amended so as to
become effective January 1, 1910.
With the two laws on the statute
books, property worth many millions
would be made practically worthless,
"vast revenues to the state, certain
counties and cities would be cut off
and anti-prohibitionists claim that
taxes would necessarily become bur
densome. Nashville, Memphis and
Chattanooga are the only cities that
would be affected by the bill prohib
iting the sale of liquor, as local op
tion laws are already in effect prac
tically through the state.
In his veto message, Governor Pat
terson charges that such legislation
is against the democratic platform
and the doctrine of self-government;
that it sets aside the recorded will
of the people; that experience has
taught that no arbitrary prohibition
law was ever obeyed and its enact
ment brings no settlement of the
question; that it destroys property,
reduces state revenues, increases tax
ation, takes money from the people
to send it elsewhere, foments discord
impairs the dignity of the common
wealth; fosters hypocrisy and invites
evasion and deceit in the people.
donateboijies to science.
Fraternity Has as Object Dissection
of Members’ Bodies After Death.
Chicago, 11l. —The formation re
cently among Bohemian residents of
this city of a cremation society has
led indirectly to the revelation of a
medical sect of thirty-one years’
standing. A score of prominent phy
sicians and surgeons have admitted
they are members of the Ustion fra
ternity, a society having for its ob
ject the dissection of the bodies of
Its members after death and crema
tion of the remains.
This wierd fraternity is of national
scope. Secret chapters exist in New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland,
Detroit and other cities in the east.
Each chapter is known as a verte
brae. The Chicago chapter being the
first organized is called the “prima
vertebrae.” Its high officer is known
as the “Encephalon,” the greek word
for head. Its next highest officer is
the “Medulla.” Its other officers are
named after other parts of the human
body.
The members of the fraternity must
undergo a preparation or apprentice
ship of four years before they are ad
mitted to full knowledge of its weird
ritual.
WOMaEbOGLAR ALARMS.
Sight of Stranger Causes Woman to
Fire Five Shots.
Chicago, 111.—Should a stranger in
Lake Bluff, which has recently been
the scene of many robberies, incur
the suspicion of any woman resident
hereafter, here is what will happen.
The woman will rush to a second
story window and fire five :hots from
a revolver.
She will then begin to toot a tin
horn she has been instructed to blow.
Her ■women neighbors will open
windows and took their horns until
there is a mile and a half of tooting.
The citizens’ committee lately form
ed has issued an elaborate list of in
structions as to the method of quell
ing the maurauder and results are
awaited with interest.
OITTIMEINIEm
Upheld in the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Washington, D. C—The supreme
court of the United States affirmed
the decree of the state courts of
Texas imposing a fine of $1,623,000
on the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
of St. Loius, and ousting it from the
state on the charge of violating the
Texas anti-trust law.
Wholesale
and
Retail
DEALERS
Or 3nutnta Sulletm.
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22,1909.
HOUSES JOR ITALIANS
To Be Built By the U. S. Government.
Bodie* of Cheneys Found.
Washington, D. C. —An innovation
in international relief measures, so
far as Europe is concerned, is to be
undertaken by the American govern
ment, in expending the $500,000 in
money appropriated by congress for
the Italian earthquake sufferers. Pres
ident Roosevelt has decided to send
to Italy material for the construction
of 2,500 or 3,000 substantial, but nec
essarily very modest, frame houses,
supplementing this by supplying ci
vilian carpenters to supervise con
struction, if this can be arranged.
ver since the appropriation was
made by congress serious considera
tion has been given by the president
and the state department as to the
best uses that could be made of it
in the way of relief.
Verbal instructions have been giv
en by President Roosevelt to Secre
tary Newberry whereby the machin
ery of the navy department was en
listed in the prosecutions of the plan.
The following statement was made
public at the secretary’s office:
“The navy department has arrang
ed for the expenditure of approxi
mately $500,000 in the purchase of
building materials, including all ar
ticles necessary for the construction
of substantial frame houses for the
Italian sufferers, and the shipments
v^ll begin by the sailing of two
steamers, probably on Monday. This
lumber is being delivered in New
York, and the sailing of the vessels
will proceed as fast as they can be
loaded. Each ship will carry all the
materials for the construction of
about five hundred houses, and it will
require not less than six steamers
for the entire amount purchased.
“If possible the department. intends
to send with each vessel several ci
vilian house carpenters, with plans
to assist in the erection of these
houses.”
Total contributions received by the
American Red Cross for the Italian
victims up to date amount to $807,-
447.
Messina, Sicily—After lying buried
in the ruins of the consulate at Mes
sina for eighteen days, the bodies of
Arthur S. Cheney, the American con
sul, and his wife, were recovered by
a detachment of sailors from the bat
tleship Illinois.
The bodies were recovered in what
evidently had been the bed room of
the Cheneys. They were found lying
sid by side. There is reason to be
lieve that death overtook the unfor
tunate couple while they were asleep.
Reggio. Italy.—A child of five years
was taken from the ruins of a build
inug here entirely uninjured, having
lain beneath the 'debris for eighteen
days.
An officer in passing heard the low
moaning of the child and immediately
began a search, delving in the direc
tion from which the cries came. As
he worked a wall fell and he was se
riously injured, but even this did not
deter him in his heroic effort and he
continued his task until he had res
cued the imprisoned child.
NEW YORK’S HUGEMAIL
Commission to Consider Congestion
in Gotham Office.
New York City.—Postmaster Gen
eral Meyer’s visit to this city was
productive of the appointment of a
commission to consider the conges
tion in the New York postoffice and
to devise means for relieving it, and
of a statement from the postmaster
general of his purpose to make this
city’s facilities for handling mail un
surpassed in the world.
It was shown Mr. Meyer that the
mail matter handed at the New York
potsofflee for a given six months
weighed 101,351,766 pounds, of which
5,395,648 was local business. The New
York office, single-handed, took care
of nearly as much mail as Alabama,
Arizona, California, District of Colum
bia, Florida, Georgia, Indian Territo
ry, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Car
olina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vir
ginia and West Virginia put together.
REDUCTIoFirFOREI^NIOMMERCE.
Great Falling Off is Noted by the
Bureau of Commerce and Labor.
Washington, D. C.—Of the approxi
mately $500,060,000 reduction in our
foreign commerce in the calendar
year 1908, when compared with that
of the preceding year, nearly $400,-
000,444 was in the trade which was
accustomed to pass through Atlantic
ports. This is the statement made in
a report just issued by the bureau of
statistics of the department of com
merce and labor.
The falling off in the imports in
the case of the Mexican border ports,
according to the report, is about 10
per cent, and that of the gulf ports
about 14 per cent, while the falling
off in exports from Mexican border
ports is about 35 per cent.
Robinson Hardware
Company.
SECURED DY FRAUD
Lands Worth $110,000,000 Are
Taken From United States.
STOLEN INUST WO YEARS
Sscretary of the Interior Garfield Ask*
for $500,000 to Aid in Recover
ing the Lands.
Washington, D, C. —Information of
a startling character, of alleged
'wholesale and astounding frauds up
on the public lands, has come into
the possession of Secretary of the
Interior Garfield, through special
agents in the field. The serious alle
gation is made that approximately
$110,600,000 worth of lands, in states
principally west of the Mississippi
river, have been fraudulently acquir
ed within the past two years by cor
porations and individuals.
With a view of recovering these
lands, Secretary Garfield sent letters
to -Chairmen Hale and Tawney of
the senate and house appropriations
committee, respectively, asking for
an additional appropriation of $500,-
000, which, if granted, with that al
ready asked for, will give the depart
ment $1,000,000 for that purpose.
It is stated that there is reasona
ble prospect of recovering much of
this alleged fraudulently acquired
land, if the appropriation is promptly
made. It is also pointed out that,
while a million dollars may seem
large, it is not one per cent of the
commercial value of the land which
the government may hope to re
cover.
Secretary Garfield also submits a
statement of H. H. Schwartz, chief of
the field service, showing over 32,000
distinct cases of alleged land frauds,
and demanding further investigation.
Among such cases awaiting investiga
tion now pending are 1,960, divided
among Florida, Alabama/and Massls
sippl.
FIERCEIffICK ON ROOSEVELT.
Congressman’s Insane Speech Stop
ped—May Expel Him.
Washington, D. C. —Characterizing
President Roosevelt as a gargoyle,
and as “this pigmy descendant of
Dutch tradespeople,” and charging
him with having “established a court
in the white house, which would have
delighted the heart of his admired
Alexander Hamilton,” Mr. Willett of
New York, in the house of represen
tatives, made one of the most bitter
attacks on the chief executive ever
heard in that body.
Mr. Willett took for his theme
“The Passing of Roosevelt,” and in
a speech of great length dealt with
numerous of the president’s acts
since he came into office, and scath
ingly denounced them.
So severe was the attack of Mr.
Willett, that, after several efforts; re
publican members were able to force
him to take his seat on a call to or
der before he had finished his
speech.
HEARST’S AGENT ARRESTED.
Sensational Arrest at Instance of Ok
lahoma's Governor.
Guthrie, Okla. — On a warrant
sworn out by Governor Haskell,
charging conspiracy to defame the
governor, Scott Macßeynolds, attor
ney and special agent' for William
R. Hearst, was arrested. Armed with
a search warrant, also sworn to by
Governor Haskell, Macßeynolds’
rooms at the lone Hotel were search
ed by Sheriff John Mahoney and Or
ville T. Smith, private attorney to
the governor, and a large amount of
data and papers seized pertaining to
the $600,444 libel suit instituted by
Haskell against Mr. Hearst.
Macßeynolds had collected a vast
amount of data, all secured in confi
dence. In a statement made he de
clared that Governor Haskell’s pur
pose in obtaining his arrest and the
seizure of his papers was to obtain
possession of this information to as
certain its importance and to learn
from whom he had obtained it.
“DON’T_ANGER US”
Is Warning of Japanese Newspaper
To the United States.
Yokohoma, Japan. —Hochi newspa
per, in an editorial addressed to
Thomas J. O’Brien, American ambas
sador, and entitled “Don’t Anger Us,”
says:
“Japan is grateful to America for
opening the country and reveres her
as the land where virtue is honored,
but fears that sooner or later repeat
ed insults will compel Japan to re
sort to a determined policy of self
protection.
“The Hochi appeals to the presi
dent and the people of America. Al
though Japan still believes that the
magnamnimity that has prevailed in
the past will continue, the ceaseless
affronts are exhausting our patience.”
VENEZUELAN ROW ENDS.
Basis of Agreement Has Been Reached
With United States at Last.
Washington, D. C. —After years of
patient waiting on the part of the
United States, there is the prospect
for the settlement by a method sai
isfaAory to this country, of the dis
puted claims with Venezuela, the re
fusal of which government to arbi
trate them resulted last spring in the
breaking of friendly relations be
tween the two countries.
The state department has announc
ed that W. I. Buchanan, the special
commissioner who has been in Ven
ezuela for several weeks negotiating
regarding these cases, had reported
that he had reached the basis of an
agreement for their settlement, and
that a protocol to that effect was
now being drawn up for signature.
His work on the protocol is now
necessarily slow and tedious, and he
has been in communication with the
state department frequently regard
ing certain of its features.
The signing of the protocol -will re.
suit in the formal resumption of dip
lomatic relations with Venezuela, and
W. W. Russell, who was American
minister there when the relations
■were broken off, will, unless present
plans are changed, soon return to his
post.
With the completion of Mr. Buch
anan’s work the American war ves
sels in Venezuelan waters, sent there
for friendly purposes, will be with
drawn unless the Gomez government
desires one or more of them to re
main to suppress any disorders.
The claims over which the two
countries have been in dispute are
That of A. J. Jaurett, who was ex
pelled in 1964; the Orinoco corpora
tions, which claims large concessions,
covering iron mines, asphalt privi
leges and hardwood concessions; the
Orinoco Steamship Company, which
claims exclusive rights of navigation
on branches of the Orinoco river; the
New York and Bermudez Asphalt
Company, claims based on the right
of the company to take asphalt from
La Felicidad Lake, and the United
States and Venezuelan Company,
which declares it has been deprived
of the right to mine asphalt and build
a railroad.
LEE’S MEMURY HONORED.
Appropriate Exercises Held Through
out the South.
Atlanta, Ga, — The Atlanta chap
ters of the Daughters of the Confed
eracy and Atlanta 'Camp No. 159,
United Confederate Veterans, held
their annual celebration of the birth
day of Robert E. Lee in the hall of
the house of representatives at the
state capitol. Judge Beverly D.
Evans of the state supreme court was
the principal speaker of the occasion,
and Judge George Hillyer, who intro
duced Judge Evans, presided.
Raleigh, N. C. —The birthday of
General Robert E. Lee was celebrated
at the state university with an ad
dress by Dr. Woodrow Wilson, pres
ident of Princeton university, Govern
or W. W. Kitchin, his official family
and the members of the general as
sembly of North Carolina attended
the lecture in a body, having accept
ed an invitation of President Venable
of the university.
Savannah, Ga. —Savannah celebrat
ed Lee’s birthday with a monster
military . parade, in which eighteen
military commands, including infan
try, cavalry, light and heavy artillery,
naval battalion cadets and mounted
police participated.
New Orleans, La. —The one hundred
and second anniversary of the birth
of General Robert E. Lee was cele
brated with appropriate ceremonies
throughout the south. A feature that
marks the commemoration in practl-
I cally every town and city of the south
is the distribution of crosses of hon
•or to confederate veterans by the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Appro
priate exercises were held in this
' city.
Washington, D. C. —In a letter to
the Robert E. Lee Memorial associa
tion, President Roosevelt urges a per
■manent memorial to honor the con
federate general. He pays high trib
iute to General Lee.
Mobile, Ala—The birthday anniver
; sary of General Robert E. Lee was ob
served here by the confederate socie
। ties. All schools and banks were
closed. The United Daughters of the
■Confederacy with Raphael Semmes
camp and Jones M. Withers’ camp
of veterans held a celebration on a
large scale.
Montgomery, Ala. —In this, the* first
capital of the confederacy, the birth
day anniversary of General Robert
E. Lee was observed quietly.
Schools had a special Lee day pro
gram and the capital showed evi
dences of love and esteem felt for
him. The star that marks the place
where Jefferson Davis stood to take
the oath of office was covered with a
wreath of confederate colors.
LESEMAJESTE CHARGED
Several Newspapers Called be
fore Federal Grand Jury.
PANAMA CmT CHARGES
Made in these Publications Will have
To Be Proved—Joseph Pulitzer of
New York World Chief Offender.
Washington, D. C. —Six Washington
correspondents of out-of-town papers
and a local newsboy received subpoe
nas to appear before federal grand ju
ries and give testimony, presumably
in connection with statements ap
pearing in connection with statements
appearing in their publications bear
ing on the Panama canal purchase.
So far as it has been possible to as
certain, the^e were tne only ones
cited:
Otto Carmichael, Charles S. Albert
and E. Jesse Conway, all of the New
York World staff; James Hornady,
Indianapolis News; Jeremiah Mat
thews, New York Sun; Harris M.
Crist, Brooklyn Eagle, and William
Smith, a newsboy of Washington, en
gaged in selling New York papers.
With the exception of Mr. Crist,
who is commanded to go to New York
and present himself before the grand
jury of the circuit court for the
southern district, the persons are di
rected to appear before the federal
grand jury of the District of Colum
bia.
The World staff also were directed
to bring with them files of the paper
for September, October, November
and December, 1968, “in the case of
United States vs. The Press Publish
ing Company,” publishers of the New
York World.
There is no doubt here that the
subpoenas all have to do with a suit
for libel, which, it is believed, has
been brought by the government In
New York against The World. It
was the publisher of The New York
World in connection with the pub
lisher of the Indianapolis News,
Messrs. Laffan and Delavan Smitth,
whom the president, in a letter dated
December 1 last, to William Foulke,
in response to one from him, severe
ly denounced, and in his special mes
sage to congress of December 15, re
garding the charges of corruption by
or on behalf of the government in
the matter of the canal purchase, the
president announced that the attor
ney general had under consideration
the form in which proceedings for li
bel against Mr. Pulitzer should be
brought.
Nowhere in the annals of the gov
ernment has such action before been
taken as the United States govern
ment suing for criminal libel. The
president, in his message, was most
emphatic in saying that it should not
be left to a private citizen to enter
the suit, and he was particular to
state that he did not believe “we
should concern ourselves with the
particular individuals who wrote the
lying and libelous editorials, articles
from correspondents or articles in
the news columns. The real offender
is Joseph Pulitzer, editor and pro
prietor of The World.” It, therefore,
is inferred that the correspondents
were summoned as witnesses and not
with the ultimate idea of making
them co-defendants.
twenty Tilledln train wreck.
Passenger and Freight Trains Collide
on Denver and Rio Grande Road.
’ Glenwood Springs, Col. — Twenty
persons were killed and thirty injur
ed, many of them seriously, in a
head-on collision between a west
bound passenger train and an east
bound freight train on the Denver
and Rio Grande railroad, between Dot
sero and Spruce creek, twenty-two
miles from Glenwood Springs.
While nothing official has been giv
en out as to the cause of the wreck,
it is said to have been due to a mis
understanding of orders on the part
of Engineer Gustaf Olson of the pas
senger train.
Olson, however, claims he under
stood his instructions perfectly, but
that he misread his watch, thus . en
croaching on the time of the freight
train which was being drawn by two
locomotives, the first of which was in
charge of his brother, Sig Olson.
' 348 AUfOMOBILES BURNED.
Six Great Garages Are Destroyed in
Botson.
Boston, Mass. —A puff of flame shot
up from the rear of the most exten
sive automobile storage and repair
plant in the city, located near Park
Square, and half an hour later over
348 automobiles, valued at $756,060,
were a mass of tangled steel and iron.
The fire spread to the old trainshed
of the Park Square railroad station
and destroyed the bicycle track and
a large pavilion used for exhibition
purposes. The damage to the build
ing will bring the total loss to above
$806,060.
SI.OO a Year.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
The exact value of the estate of the
late Marshall Field was placed at
$83,459,032 when the appraisers’ re
port was filed in the county court at
Chicago. A score of appraisers have
been working on the report since Mr.
Field’s death.
Professor Alfred Batelli, represent
ing Italy; Adolph Schneider, repre
senting Germany, and Albert Wilckes
of America, three of the four men
who have undertaken to walk around
the world in five years, have reached
Chicago. The fourth man, Silvio Or
tonas, of Paris, is traveling by tha
southern route, and will join the par
ty in San Francisco. The object of
the pedestrian tour is to study polit
ical, social and industrial conditions
of the world. The men left New
York city October 17th. They are to
travel on foot at least 26,060 miles.
Imprisoned in a forty-foot well for
five hours, finally rescued through
the barking of her pet dog, was the
experience of Mary Smith of Pitts
burg, Pa. The girl arose to get the
breakfast and going out into the yard
she stepped on the rotten covering
of the old well. This was at 6 o’clock
and at 11 the dog discovering its mis
tress at the bottom of the well, set
up a furious barking. Investigation
revealed Miss Smith's plight and «he
was rescued.
The inauguration as governor of
North Carolina of W. W. Kitebin of
Roxboro for twelve years a democrat
ic member of congress from North
Carolina, took place at Raleigh in the
presence of thousands, rhe city being
crowded with visitors. A parade was
the feature of the day, sixteen mili
tary companies being in line with
many civic organizations. The en
tire student body of Wake Forest col
lege, of which Governor Kitchin is a
graduate, was present.
The chamber of commerce of Pen
sacola, Florida, has framed a resolu
tion protesting against the passage in
congress of the Taliaferro bill requir
ing a government inspection of naval
stores shipped as interstate or ex
port traffic. .
No more are the small boys of Chi
cago, 111., to be supplied with air guns,
toy pistols and other weapons with
which to kill pigeons, shoot cats and
jeopardize the lives of their play
mates. To complete the extinction of
any martial spirit that may have been
implanted in them they are to be de
prived of soldiers’ uniforms. The wom
en’s club of Chicago has decided the
slaughter of birds is in violation of
the conservation of natural resources
and the boys are to be dispossessed
of everything that tends to breed in
them the desire to kill.
Prompted by inquiries which eman
ated from the war department at
Washington, a search made for the
graves of those Americans who fell
at the battle of New Orleans, has re
vealed comparatively few. The rec
ords of the war department show that
in the fights of December 23 and 28,
1814, and January 1, and 8, 1816, fifty
five men were killed, one hundred and
eigthy-five wounded and ninety-three
missing, of the American forces. It
was believed that in the national cem
etery in Chalmette there were many
graves of unknown victims, but a
diligent search has failed to discover
any. Twelve of these soldiers are
buried on a plantation below New Or
leans and six others lie in St. Louis
cemeteries. Where the other victims
of the famous battle were buried it
seems impossible to establish.
Washington.
Seventeen nations already have ac
cepted the invitation extended by the
Netherlands to attend the internation
al conference with the object of for
mulating general’ laws on the subject
of bills of exchange, their validity, en
forcement, etc. The powers that thus
far have signified their intention of
being represented are the United
States, Mexico, Germany, France, It
aly, China, Panama, Costa Rica, Peru,
the’ dominican republic, Spain, Belgi
um, Switzerland, Norway, Bulgaria,
Montenegro and Siam, while accept
ances from the others are practically
assured.
The senate committee on judiciary
has decided to report favorably to the
committee on appropriations the
amendment increasing the salaries of
all federal judges, from the chief jus
tice to associate justices of the su
preme court to the district judges.
Under the proposed legislation, the
chief justice will receive $17,566; as
sociate justice, $17,660; circuit Judges,
$10,060; and, district judges, $7,500.
Surgeon - General "of the Army Rob
ert M. O'Reilly has been retired by
age limitation. He served as a surg
eon in the civil war and was the per
sonal phvsician of President Cleve
land in Washington. He will be suc
ceeded by Lieutenant Colonel George
H Torney whose nomination to be
surgeon general has been confirmed
by the senate.
DUBLIN,
GEORGIA.
