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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-06-05
ASSfTS ARE $I5I.OOO
ABOVE LIABILITIES.
Report OF AuditOrSon City S
Status.

The auditors who recently comblet-
ed the work of auditing the ac-
counts of the city in their summary
as to the city's financial condition,
liabilities by $15l,305.95. This was the
result of their careful analysis of
the assets of the city, including its
realty and other property. The sum
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CITY TAX RETURNS.

Make your city tax returns before
the books close Books close July 1st.
T. N, HAWKES.,
Clerk and Treasurer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-06-05

J. E. Cannon makes and delivers any
thing You want made of wood. Quick
See him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-06-05
AMERICAN LEAGUE RESULTS.

s
Detroit 10 Philadelphia z.
Cleveland 2, Washington 8.
Chicago 2, New York 8.
st. Louis Q, Boston 6.
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE RESULTS.

Chattanooga 4, Birmingham 7.
Atlanta 10, Montgomery 2.
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Bring your prescription to Dodson's s
lit will be in good hands.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
Especial from United Press.o

Ann Arbor, Mich, Jan. 12.-"Why don't some of these Christians who go down into their pockets to Christianize the heather, dig down for the young boys released from state institutions? ?''
 Most of us go to the reform school intending to turn over a new leaf"
 "Most of us were born on the wrong side of the street"
 These are a few of the statements of Robert Mccormick, graduate of the state reform school at Lansing and boy bandit, on the eve of his depar- ture for states prison to serve life sentence for killing Harry E.. Minor at Tpsilanti.
 Maybe" continued the 20 year old murderer, "our souls aren't as valu- able as the soul of Chinaman. But we are kids when sent to reform schools when we know the difference between right and wrong. still maybe 1t doesn't appeal to us as it does to the boy whose parents have been able to give him the care that's the right of every child born into this world We saw the under side of life and sin was not to be feared by us as by other kinds Most of the kids get into the reform school over some little of-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
TRIED SUICIDE WITH E
 GRAINS OF QUININE WHEN
 MOTHER FROWNED ON LOVER
Parent Read Cards Looking for Tall, Dark Man But Couldn't See Him There So When She Told Her Daughter to Get Young Blonde, the Girl Decided to End Her Life Temporarily Bereft of Her Eye sight She Is Recovering.

Grace Knapp, aged IS, daughter of 1Mrs Katherine Knapp, card reader tf z5 Harrison street. is recovering today from a dose of 75 grains of quinine taken her mother says, with suicidal intent. while she, says she took it because she didn't known any other way to use it except in quan- fity-
 Mrs. Knapp says her daughter is love sick. and angry becaus she disap- proves of her daughters suitor. She declares there was no mistake about her daughters intention to commit suicide. But the daughter insists she knows her own business best, and can 1kIl just when sine is trying to kill her self as. we'll as when she is merely taking medicine. She was not trying 10 kill herself when she took the quinine-
 The girl suffered the loss of her eyesight for seven hours when the quinine got in its deadly work but to- day she is able to see almost as well as ever. Her mother is determined that the recovery of her eyesight will not carry with it the ability ito see her sweetheart, and she has gone so far as to ask the police to prevent her daughter keeping company with her ad1nirer.
 The girls attempt to end her lifet is more a matter of habit than desire to end her life, according to her
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12

mother. Several weeks ago. when she had uuarrel.ed with her mother, she swallowed something designed to des.- troy human life. Then she lay back on couch and gasped for breath. pr; Krause of the emergency hospital rushed over to the scene, but couldn [ diagnose the case to his satisfaction. He applied several tests for conscious ness, and when he reached that of pressure under the eye brow, which brings pain to conscious persons, the supposedly dying girl sat bolt upright and showered the surgeon with tor rent of abuse.
 Dr. Donahue, summoned from the emergency hospital on the occasion of her last attempt to end her life, gave the victim a vigorous application of the stomach pump and that left her in a nauseated condition. She was was we'll enough today to tell her mother she expected Cecil Smith, a lunch cart magnate, to call on her this evening and she wanted no ln- terference.
 Cecil is tall dark man. Mrs. Knapp on reaching the cards and look ing at her daughters hand, decided tall dark man would bring sorrow to her daughters bright young life. So she tried to put the kibcsh on the purveyor of food stuffs, and urged Grace to cast about for light young man. Grace couldn't see the wisdom of her mothers card reading and in- sisted that Cecil was good enough for her
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12

On the eve of the day he had con- tracted to furnish enough strike breakers to end the labor troubles of the ladies tailoring firm of Stein & Blein, W. Seth St., New York city, Louis Gross, we'll known ladies' tailor at 259 State street, was lured to the dark shadows of Tulip and Water streets at 10 o'clock last night and set upon and dangerously beaten by, several men. Gross is in St. Vim cents hospital, and two allege6 as- sailants are held at police head quarters, charged with attempted highway robbery.
 Gross has broken left knee cap, and bruises and scratches pretty well distributed all over his body. It is feared he may be crippled perman- ently for the fracture of the knee cap is exceptionally severe. He has iden- tIfied the two prisoners as the men who waylaid him. The police are the conflicting stories of the various people implicated, and they are not satisfied that Gross is telling an al- together straightforward version of the events of last night
 Gross, according to his own adnis- sion. had contracted with the New York tailorS to furnish enough men to break their strike. He was to have left Bridgeport early this morning with his men. Last evening he was entertaining a friend from Hartford whose name he does not disclose, and the latter anxious to see all parts of the city, accompanied Gross through Tulip street towards Water street. Here they were waylaid by two men. Walter Birmingham, a nephew of Superintendent Birming- ham of the police department ran
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
CONVICTED OF MURDER
 REFORM SCHOOL 'GRAD" ].
 TALKS OF ENVIRONMENT
Boy Bandit About to Serve Life Sentence Would Like to Know Why Christians Who Pay to Christianze the Heather Do Not Dig Down to Help Boys Re- leased from State Institutions

fense.
 Now a boys got to be farther down than most boys that strike the reform school if he doesn't want to learn. But it doesn't take us long to realize that somebody's made a mis- take. Before we have been there 24 hours we realize that we are considered criminals though the worst charge against us may be that we are tru- ants.
 Did you ever hang around a pub- lie school where there were some kids that were backward in their studies, or some whose clothes were poorer than the rest or maybe where there was some disgrace in their family, that the other kids knew about? Talk about your cruelty. You don't know what cruelty is till then Some of us become truants because of such taunts.
 Every bit of the kindness in our nature is killed by the beating al reform school and we grow crafty.
 ''The result is that many of us find that murder and hatred against the teachers over us has crowded out, in less than a week, all the good in- tentiens. Place some really Christian people at the gates to rescue us from the intentions we take out of that re- form school"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
PUBLIC EYE IS WATCHING HEALTH BOARD, WARNING
 BY MAYOR BUCKINGHAM
Thorough Insight into Pending Garbage Problem is Recommended-Special COmm.tt.e Has Matter in Charge==Organzation of Health Board.

At it's first meeting last night the Board of Health voted to refer the matter of purchasing the plant of the Bridgeport By-Products .Co., to a special committee composed of Mayor Buckingham, City Attorney Cullinan and President Ober of the Health poard With instructions to report back.
 The board was organized by Mayor Buckingham. In calling the meeting to order he said it was a pleasure for hlm to preside as he had served it as clerk for a number of years. He believed the board would make a rec ord for itself and carry on it's business as its members would their own bus mess He closed saying, 'The city of Bridgeport is entitled to the best ef- forts and services that you can give to it.''
 pr. G. w. Osborne nominated Dr. G. F. .Ober to succeed himself as presi- dent. Commissioner Andrew Lawson, one of the Republican members of the board said it was a pleasure for him to second the nomination as Dr. Ober had always worked for the best in- terest of the city and politics had never been an element in the board since he had served as member. Clerk David Lynch was ordered. to cast one ballot for pr. Ober.
 Mayor Buckingham said: .The re- duction of garbage is big problem that all of our American cities have to contend with. We have a problem to cope with in this city and it is in the hand of this board. Two of the mem bers have practical knowledge of the conditions. The other two members undoubtedly are somewhat familiar with the conditions through what they have read in the newspapers. Only a comparatively short time is allowed to consider the matter before the final meeting of the board of gApportion- ment. But l would advise all of the delay possible to consider the matter at length-such delay that would give the members time for thought.
 stThe methods of garbage disposal seems to be different in almost every city. Some burn it, some reduce it much the same as is being done here now, others feed it to swine, and other cities are burying it.
 "I feel that the people of the city are watching this board as close, if not closer. than any other local de- partment because Of this garbage matter. I hope that you will go into every detail thoroughly so that you will be able to substantiate every de- tail of any action you may decide to
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take"
 The matter was then referred to the special committee for investiga- ticn.
 A letter was read from Alfred Abt Of l61 Lewis street in complaint that the garbage was not collected at his hou~e. The clerk reported 19 similar complaints during the month of De- cember. Commissioner Bogart said that he had four complaints before he had taken the oath of office. He supposed that the winter weather had something to do with the matter and he moved that the president be in- structed to confer with Contractor John T. King,
 Commissioner Bogart noticed that the report of Inspector Knapp had little to say about bakeries this month. He asked Dr. Knapp how 1t V as and the latter replied that if had been hard going during the last month. Commissioner Bogart said he thought that bakery inspection was very important and he hoped to see that they were well looked after in the future. The doctor said there were only g few local bakeries not LID to snuff when he was around in Novem- Der.
 President Ober said he hoped that pr. Knapp understood that the board expected him to keep a close water, On the bakeries and other inspection work. -
 Dr. Ober noticed that one sample of milk had been found to have been skinned. He wanted to know if the case had been followed up and if the dealer had discontinued the practice. The inspector said that the case was brought to the attention of the de- partment by dairyman and the milk came from one of the producers who supplied the dairy. He said the dairy man was looking out for more of the stuff. Dr. Ober said it seemed to him that the board ought to go after such cases and follow them up. Dr. Knapp said he would look into the matter further.
 The board expects to have another meeting in short time when it will confer with the mayor and city atfor ney upon the subject of purchasir11 the garbage plant and as to what will be done to dispose of garbage in ease the city does not buy the plant and the company forfeits it's $10,000 bond to thescity. [, President Ober appointed the fol- lowing sub-committees: On health Drs. Ober and Osborne; on garbaae, Lawson and Ober; on supplies. Bo-l gart and Osborne; on slaughter house. Bogart and Lawson.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
AT CONFERENCE
 TOMORROW
GENERAL AGENT LEARY OF CONN. co. IS TO DISCUSS
 LOCAL SITUATION.
A FEW POLITE DENIALS BY RESI- DENT SUPT. OF LOCAL
 TROLLEY LINES.

Supt c. H. Chapman of the Connec- ticut Co. was surprised to read in a local newspaper last night that he had informed the special Aldermanic com mittee on trolley service that the pro- posed extension of the trolley lines to Stratford through Barnum avenue was postponed indefinitely. MT. Chapman stated today that he never made any such statement to the committee on Monday afternoon.
 Asked what the situation was in
 Stratford he replied that the select
 men of that town had not held any
 hearing on the matter as they were waiting until such time as State
 Highway Commissioner Macdonald
 could attend He expected that the
 project would go through after the
 hearing was held as public sentiment in the town favored the extension. Another thing accredited to MT.
 Chapman which he denied today was that he stated that the company was
 losing money in Bridgeport. He said that he told the Mayor and Aldermen that the company had been putting
 back into the plant more money than it was taking out, which was evidence that it was endeavoring to improve the service and the plant
 The man the company intends to send to this city tomorrow to confer
 with the city committee is M. J. Lea-y
 general passenger agent of the Con- necticut Co. The members of the committee have asked that General Manager Calvert Townley also visit them. Mr. Townley was in Water l bury today and it could not be learned whether he would come here or not 1 tomorrow. If he cannot the commit lee will probably ask that MT. Townley arrar ge to come before the end of the week as they have some propositions they desire to put up to him person ally.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
FITZGERALD
 OVERCAME
 BIG ODDS Defeated Candidate In Bos- tons Mayoralty Contest Talks Some of Recount
Consensus of Opinion Is that If He Gets Recount Plu- rality for Fitzgerald Will Loom Higher.
Especial from United Press, ],

Especial from United PreSS.)
 Boston, Jan. 12-The possibility that John F. Fitzgerald, declared elected mayor of Boston by 1,415 majority by unofficial count, may not rule the des- tinies of the Hub for the next four years came today when Judge Stor- row, the apparently defeated candi- date for the good government asso- citation, annouced that recount would be demanded. According to the Stor- row figures. Fitzgeralds lead is really less than 200 and he believes it is pos sible that he may be counted in.
 According to the generally accepted figures, 95,35s votes were cast as fol- lows:
 John F. Fitzgerel6 4,172 James +. Storrow 45,757 George Hibbard 1S16 Nathaniel Taylor 61a
 The Storrow managers today start ed bright and early on their plan for a recount. In Boston it is necessary to have the signatures of 50 voters in each of 9 wards of the city before the was barely up today before the ,aeces- sary documents were, being circulat- ed.
 General opinion however, is that there is little chance of the Fitzgerald lead being overthrown. It is general ly admitted that more Fitzgerald votes than Storrow votes were challenged and it is believed probable that a recount is more than likely to increase the Fitzgerald majority.
 The new council, a. single board Of nine members, which is to replace the former board of aldermen and the com mon council will be comprised of the following members-elect.
 For three years-W. l.. Collins, Mat thew Hale, John J. Attridge. For two yea.-s-Thonas J. Kenny Walter Ballantine, James M. Curley For one year-Fred J. Brand. Danie J. Macdonald, Timothy J. Buckley.
 Five of these members. Collins, Hale |.Attridge Kenny and Ballantine, re- |cefved both the endorsement of the Citizens Municipal League and the Good Government Association; Brano and Macdonald were endorsed by the Municipal League. while the other two successful candidates, Curley and Bue k. ley, were members of the Curley-Tim ilty, so-called, combinat on.
 It is considered probable that Wal ter Raliantine, now senior member o1 the Board of Aldermen, who will pre- side at the organization of the new board, will be elected chairman and that if the Citizens League members acting in conjunction with the Good Government representatives, they vii undoubtedly control the new body.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
BOSS STRIKE BREAKER IN HOSPITAL; MAY BE
 A CRIPPLE FOR LIFE
LURED INTO DARK SECTION OF CITY AND SET
 UPON BY UNION TAILORS
Louis Gross Had Planned to Furnish Enough Men to New York Firm to End Their Labor Troubles and He Was to Have Gone to the City This Morning with Non Union Help.

down from Main street as he heard the cries. and he seized one of the combatants, Gross lay helpless.
 The patrol wagon and ambulance carried away the prisoner and victim respectively. The prisoner said he was Samuel Pismanow, 7e2 E. 155th St., blacksmith. Search of him at police headquarters brought forth needles, thimbles and kindred sup plies that are not ordinarily used in blacksmith shops, and the police fin- ally made him admit he was a tailor. A key to the mystery surrounding the affair was found in a list of contribu- tions found on the prisoner, the funds being represented as for the benefit Of striking tailOrS.
 Patrolmen Coughlin and Deitz aft CT midnight arrested Morris Slaehter of 193 Hamilton street as another suspect. Today Pismanow told the police he came to Bridgeport last evening in the interests of the strik- ing tailors, and met a friend named Levine, accompanied by friend of the latter whom he did not know, named kaplan. He dined at Levine s home, he says, and then aplan left them.
 He went into Tulip street from Main street, accompanied by Levine, just in time to see two men run down the street. One of these he says was Gross, and the other he doesn't know. Before he became implicated in the fight, he was seized, he says, by Birm- ingharn.
 The police are working on the theory that Kaplan after leaving Pis- nanow and Levine, enticed Gross in- 70 the vicinity of the assault by pre- arrangement. The police are not ready to prove that Slaehter is iden- tical with either Levine or Kaplan, and Slaehter claims to have a dozen witnesses to testify that he didn't leave his home all last evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12

John Cal1aghan of Brookline, Mass, for 25 years associated with the lead ing clubs and hostelries of New York and Boston, has arranged for the pur- chase from c. H. Hollingsworth of the Atlantic Hotel. and will probably as- sume charge on Monday morning. De- tails of the sale were not made pulp lie today. but it was generally assumed about the hotel this afternoon that the sale had been completed.
 Mr. HoIlingsworth admitted that ne- gotiations were under way. but said he could not make public anything of the contemplated sale until Monday. MT. Callaghan who has been at the hotel
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
'BROOKLINE BONIFACE
 BUYS ATLANTIC HOTEL JOHN CALL.AGHAN, NEW PROPRIETOR. WILL
 TAKE CHARGE NEXT MONDAY Details of Sale Not Made Public for the Present MT Calaghan, the Organizer of the Metropolitan Club and for g Years Associated with Leading New York and Boston Clubs

for several days, was equally reticent although he would not deny that he had made the purchase.
 MT. Callaghan organized the Metro politan club in New York and left thai organization to take charge of the Knickerbocker club. Of late years he has been in the Union club, Boston He comes to this city with a quarter of a century of valuable experience as a boniface. It is understood that MT Callaghan contemplates number of extensive improvements, one of which now under way, will be the enlarge ment of the cafe.
 The purchase of the hotel includes the lease and furnishings. The struc- ture is owned by the Hanford Lyon estate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
Deaths and Funerals.

The funeral of B. Earl Murray lief fernan, only son of Martin and Rose Murray Heffernan, was held from the home of his parents. 426 Arctic street, this morning at Il o'clock. There was a very beautiful display of floral of ferings Many friends of the family followed the funeral cortege to St Mi chaers cemetery where the burial took pI-1e.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12

lence, habit of thought and discretion, and always looked before they leaped, it would be we'll for all of us,'' declar- ed the Mayor as Robinson was sworn in. N
 For twenty years Robinson has been delegate to the Central Federation Union and has had charge of the New York offices of the A. F. of l.. for IA voarS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12

ever,s should not be made hastily, upon the request of an individual, but only after a full understanding of the sit uation brought about by a conference with the assessors, an actual viewing of the property, and comparison with other. similar contiguous pieces wter- ever possible
 ''The best results in any town can be obtained only where the board of relief works in harmony with the as- sessors, with the distinct understand ing that it will do anything in it's power to correct inequalities that are found to exist after proper investiga- tion. Permit me to hope that the work of your board will be done intel ligently, without favoritism, in a ju- dicial manner, and Literally in accord ance with the statutory requirements. 7
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
SHORE COTTAGES AND
 STORE BURNED TODAY
Especial from United P es

o.J
 New London, Jan. 12.-Fire start ing in the basement of cottage own ed by Mrs. Harriet Phyall at Pine Grove, seven miles from New London early today, destroyed the cottage and an adjacent store, also owned by Mrs. Phyall, causing loss of $3,0OO. The cottage and store were abandon ed at the end of the summer season and nothing of value was contained in either building.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
GAYNOR RECOGNIZES
 ORGANIZED LABOR
Mayor Appoints A. F. of l.. Organizer Commissioner of Licenses.
fspeclal from united Press. !,

New York, Jan. 12--Mayor Gaynor today made recognition of organized labor when he appointed Herman Rob- fn1on. for many years one of the gen. eral organizers of the American Fed eration of Labor. Commissioner of Li- cel1ees, to succeed John N Bogart.
 'U n labor leaders had your si-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12
HEALY AGAIN HEADS
 CONN. STATE GRANGE

M tSDecIaI rom United PreSs.)
 Hartford, Jan. 12.-The entire morning session of the 25th annual meeting of the Connecticut State Grange being held in Footguard Hall today developed the election of of- ficers to serve during the ensuing year. l.. H. Healy, on the first bal lot, and by practically unanimous consent of the attendants at the meeting, was reelected state master. B. A. Peck was also reelected over seer but declined to serve since he had held that office for the past six years.
 On another ballot Gilbert A. Vim cent, of Kent. was elected in his stead. VIII. Baron of Danielson, was elected lecturer.
 This afternoon was devoted to special reports by committees.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-12

THE MILWAUKEE CLUB WHIST will be held ct Mrs. John Branni-
 gan's, 590 Central Ave, Thursday,
 Jan. B. 1910, 2:30 p. m. asp