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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
MEMO RIAL BY BRUNSWICK
CAMP WoODMEN OF THE WORLD

Brunswick Camp, 800, W. o. w,
met yesterday afternoon in the lodga
rooms for memorial exercises in mem
ory of their former sovereign com
mander, Joseph Collins Root.
The eulogy was impresiv ly deliver.
ed by Head Adviser DIR. j. w. Sim
mons, after which number of ap.
propriate hymns were sung by the
members assembled
'Woodcraft, in Life and Death" &
poem by Council Command er B. +
Murtaugh brought the exercises to ar
impressive close.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
INVESTIGATION BEGINS at MA
CON INTO ALLEGED OFFI-
CIAl MlSCONDDUCT,
IN NATURE OF GRAND JURY
Charges Were First Filed with the
judiciary Committee in the House of
Representatives IN AUGUST. 49,,
Judge Speer Is Allowed Counsel.

Macon, Jan. l9.-lnvestication .;
charges of official .nisconduc. againsl
Judge Emory Speer, of the Unit al
States court, south IN district of Geo:.
Gla, began here today. The investiga.
ton is being conducted by sub-com
mittee of the house committee on judi.
ciary.
representative Webb. of North Car
DINA, Is chairman of the committee.
Other members az, Representatives
Fltzhenry, of Illinois, and Volstead, D
Minnesota The charges against Judge
~pcAr were first lod sed with the Judi
ciary committee of the house of relr :.
sentatives Aug. 16. 1913, in a conll-
tential communication from the de-
partment of justice, and on Aug. q.
1913, the house ordered an iEvestiga-
tion.
After the resolution under which the
committee acts had been rec today,
chairman Webb stated that the pro.
ceeding was III the nature On grand
Jury hearing. He stated that Judg .
Speer, who was present, would be al
lowed counsel. AM at his request
Judge Speer designated his attorney :
Judge A. j. COBB, counsel tor Judg 3
Speer, addressed the committee briet-
y, promising cooperation in facii-
tating the investigation.
Gusts Nottingham, former city ie-
corder of Macon, was the frs. witness
called.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
HELD ON FRAUD CHAR iE.

Philadelphia, Jan. &c. j. iraen-
field, Saml. Brown end M. Rotmal,
charged with having used the mIiis
to defraud wholesale dealers M ran
ufacturers Of merchandise throughout
the country Of thousands ard thou
sands of dollars. appeared n court
here today for herring j. r Car'ol-
you, chief postal clerk inspector FOR
the Philadelphia district, Is the chief
witness against them.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
ANOTHER AGED ENGLISH
STATESMAN TO RETIRE

London, Jan. 19-Rt Hon. Jesse Col
Inns, who from the laborer's cottage of
his father in Devonshire rose to be q
member of the kings privy council
has decided to follow into retiremen,
his leader, Joseph Chamberlain, whc
few days ago announced that he was
about to give up political life
Mr. Collins, who is SO years Of age,
said today that he would not at tn
next election renew his candidacy for
the Bordesley division of Birmingham.
He has represented this constituency
in parliament since 1886.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
NEW DISASTER IN VOLCANO
WRECKED REGION-too BODIES
RECOVERED.
.ERUPT|0NS CAUSE TERROR
Region Devastated Sy Recent Vo.ca L
ic Eruptions and Attendan. Ear n.
cuakes Is Again Visited Dy Grim
Trasedy-So,Coo Need Relief

kagoshima, JapaI, Jan. l9-Three
hundred refugees from Sakara we:e
buried under a falling cliff i'll a neig..-
boring village today One hundred
bodies have been rec overed.
This new disaster is result of tie
volcanic eruptions and ca. .hquake
which for a week have devastated the
island af Hakura and wre. ked this
city. rh2 eruptions and ear hquake1
continue, but with activity much SUD
dued.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
KILLS HIS WIFE AND
COMMITS SUICIDE WHILE
TWO CHILDREN LOOK o.

Macon, Jan 19-joe McWhorter,
saloonkeeper, shot aud killei himse. f
and his wife this rlorning rollowli 2
a quarre al between them He had been
drinking heavily for several weeks.
The man shot his wlfe in the nresenc,
fof their two children, an ilyear-oll
girl and 4-year-o boy, AID then
turned he revolver Oh himself in spite
of the pleadlngs )f his eldact child.
The bed clothing ca.ght fire from the
pistol discharges, ahd for a time the
house was threatened. the fire deparC
ment being called out.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
FOR ONE MORE WEEK
Big Reduction Sale of A. Zelmenovitk,
in Answer to Request, Goes on.

Elsewhere in The News this morn
ing will be found an advertisement
from A. Zelmenoviiz, the well know.
Newcastle street dry goods merchant
In which he advises that his big r.,
another week be ginning yesterday
This sale has been a very successful
one and i. is due 70 many requests
that Mr. Ielmenovitz has extended the
date. The sale and the reductions
extend to every department Of the
store and real bargains await pue-
chasers in all of taem. The public
is invited to visit tie handsome store,
during the week and be convinced.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
wAsHlNGToN's AUTO SHOW.

Washington, Jan. 19.-The annual
Dealers association opened here tcda
The exhibition is more pretentious in
proportions, more claDorately designed
and more representative OF modern
standards than any show that has
been held here previously.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
SPECIAL POLICEMAN
IS PUT ON DUTY
MANY BLAZES RECENTLY, aLl BE-
LlEVED TO BE OF INCENDIARY
NATURE.
| SUNDAY, ANOTHER YESTERDAY
Chief Harrison Sure the Fires Have
Been Work of Fire Bugs-Serious
Conflasrations Were Narrowly Avert
ed on TWO Occasions.

Two fires in the same locality, on !
Sunday afternoon and the otner yes
terday afternoon, following half a dol
en- such blaZeS along the river from;
within the past week or two, all OF
winch have been Cf an inCendiary
origin it is believed, have resulted ir
steps being taken by the city authori
ties to apprehend the guilty person
or persons who have, on more than
one occasion, come very near causing
a serious contlagration.
When the department was called
to the Southern railway wharyes. foot
Of Mansfield street. sunday aft ftnrnoon,
to eXtinguish a blaze at one of the
slips of the wharm, Chief Harrison i'm.
mediately announced that there was
every indication that the fire was OF
an inceAdiary origin. The fire, how
ever, was eXtingulshed without serl-
GUS damage, only through the efficient
work of the department. The blaze
was at one Of the Sips near the ce"-
ter of the dock. Vi oSstieS are piled
high on it and, being under shelter.
are perfectly dry. Had the flames
gained any headway before the arriv-
al of the department. the five would
have resulted disaStrously.
Yesterday afternoon the DEPARTMENT
responded to another alarm, callin :
it to the same wharf. This time the
blaze was located midway the docl,
and the blaze was down between two
large piles of ties. Again it was the
quick work of the department tha
prevented a serious blaze. Chief Har-
rison stated that the second fire, like
the first was undoubtedly the work
of some person. lie said that there
was hardly any other way for the
fires to have originated, and it is the
opinion of the chaf, as we'll as 9th
ers, that efforts are being made tc
have a serious fire along t. rivet.
front
The fires of Sunday and yesterday.
however, are not the only ones of an
incendia-y nature aloLg the river front
recently. Sunday Light the depar..-
ment was called to eXtinguish a blaze
i'll the rear of Jas. Olsons saloon on
Bay street, where an old stable w2s
set afire. The blaze at the old off
ces of N. Emanuel & Co, right on the
river front, last week, was pronounced
at the time by Chief Harrison as hav-
ing been the work # fire bugs. The
fire on Christmas night, when the
plant of the Bay Iron works was com
pletely destroyed, was unquestionab Y
of incendiary origin, as there was no
other possible way IOf the fire to have
started
Realizing the danger in this work,
Mayor Hopkins yesterday put a spe-
cial officer on duty, who WILL for the
next few days patrol the river fron:
and keep a close watch for the fire
bugs It is the belief that e' cry one
of the fires during the past two or
three weeks, along the river front
have been started by some person,
whose motive in doing it, however, s
not known.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
POLICEMEN ACCUSED OF GRAFT

San Francisco, Jan. 10. Former Po
liceman j. II. Sullivan, j. l.. Drouettc
Z. j. Joseph and VIM. McHuf h, fou
officers alleged to taye worked in har
mony with the police-Italian buncu
ring were placed on trial before Supe
rior Judge Dunno today. It Is claimed
that they cleaned up about $500, ,O0G
graft by concealiny violators OF the
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
sTRATHcoNA NOT IMPROVED.

London, Jan. 19.-Physiciars in al
tendance on Lord Strathcona and
Mount Royal, high commits cner 70:
Canada, who has been seriously i'll 70
several days, declared his condition
unimproved" TODAY.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20

kagoshima, Japan, Jan. l9.--Fresn
eruptions of iSakura Jima, mnich re-
Gently caused such widespread dev4e-
tation, occurred here today. They we. e
accompanied by earthquakes and viz
lent subterranean aulses.
The governor of lIokkaido today es-
Inmates that about 10000 p, ople on
the island of Kiushi will need relief.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20
FIRE BUGS ARE BUSY
ALONG RIVER FRONT
5000 MEN Of D.&H.
STRIKE QUIETLY
OF COMRADES DISMISSED FOR
ALLEGED DIsoeEDIENcE.

Albany, JAN. 19.-ApproXimately s.
000 men employed ty the Delaware 4
Hudson Railroad Co walked out quiel
ly early today The strike order was
issued last night to every ur en- engi
neor, fireman, conductor, tralnman and
telegrapher at work along the line
from Rouse's Point, n. Y, to Wilkes
barre, Pa
Crews brought their trains to ter
minal points, took their engines to
roundhOuSes and went to their hom %
to await the result of a conference be,
tween union leaders and officials o.
the company. The conference contin-
ued in session at o'clock. Mediation
from both nation and state nad been
requested by the company. G. w. ".
Hanger, Of the federal board of medi-
alton and councliation, telegraphed to
M. c. Carey, in charge Of til: strike,
but Carey replied: The die is cast.
Only the concessions we ask VIII bring
about settlement"
The men demand the reihSi atement
of two men who were discharged fer
alleged disobedience.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-20

Scranton, Pa, Jan. 19.-Suspensi0n
of traffic on the Delaware & Hudson
railroad appeared complete today, :
cording to figures received by the sup
erintendent of the Pennsylvania dici.
sion. If any train service is restored
before the strike IS ended nothing
will be handled but mails. No attempt
will be made to carry passengers.
Thirty coal mines operated by the
Delaware e Hudson Co. probably will
be shut down. Counting other mines
that will be involved, abolt 10000
miners will be affected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
WANT CANNON BALLS
FOR PUBLIC SQUARE
Talladega d. A. II. Appeal to Black
mon to Secure Relics for the
Courthouse Park

Talladega, January 21.-tSpecial)-Re-
Gently application was made upon Con-
gressman Blackmon to procure from the
government two cannon and cannon balls
as an ornament to the courthouse park
in Talladega, and as commemorative Of
the battle of Talladega. Mr.. Blackmon
has introduced bill to this effect. MAX
ing the request in the name of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution. and he
assures the mayor that the bill will pass
The city commission audited and al
lowed the pay roll of the white teachers
of the city school for the month just
passed, the aggregate amount of the
pay roll being about $3.50 per month. The
negroes of the city have bought a lot
and presented it to the city upon condi-
tion that the latter bald and equip
modern public school for the colored peo-
pie upon the location
The present city administration is maxi
ing quite an effort to make Talladega a
spotless town, sanitary and clean. One
hundred dollars per week is expended in
sprinlSling and sweeping the public square.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
LUMBERMEN URGE
MODERN METHODS

Memphis, January 21-Lumbermen at
tending the annual meeting of the Hard
wood Manufacturers association in ses-
sion here, We're told today that they
must modernize their methods if the
lumber industry is to thrive.
Several speakers made this warming
the theme of their addresses. W. E.
Delaney of Cincinnati, president of the
association, urged that greater care
should be exercised in the manufacture
of timber to avoid wastes, declared pres
ent conditions not propitious for increas-
hng production which would tend to
lower selling prices and proposed an
educational campaign to combat the
substitution of other materials for the
legitimate use of lumber. He also de-
clared that the popular belief that the
supply of timber in the United States
Ia nearing exhaustion is erroneous
James Boyd, New Orleans, urged
standardization in the methods of log
ging as imperative. e. b. Norman. Holly
Ridge, La, declared the greater number
of failures in the industry was directly
due to failure to adopt modern means
in getting out the timber.
Committee reports will be read and
officers elected tomorrow. A resolution
proposing that the association indorse
the ll-Humphrees-Lee bill was
submitted to a committee
One hundred members of the fr.Fjana
Retail Lumberman's association en- route
to New Orleans to embark for the PAN
anna canal, will be guests of the Hard
wood Manufacturers association hcre to-
morrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
S|EGEL LENT
MONEY OF BANK
Copartner Testifies Before
Holt in Receivership
Proceedings

New York, January 21-Money de-
posted in the private bank of Henry
siegel & Company was used for max
ing loans to various department stores
identified with the Seigel stores cor
poration according to testimony given
by Frank E. Vogel today before George
e. Holt a special master appointed in
the receivership proceedings in which
certain Siegel interests are involved
Nogel was a copartner with Henry
segel. He testified that although his
investments in the Siegel dry goods
enterprises amounted to $1,400, 900, but
a few thousand dollars of this money
remains in his possession today. At
the time OF the recent failures of sew
eral concerns controlled by the Siegel
Stores corporation. he asserted, he was
making an effort to borrow between
100000 and 100000. Unable to get
this money, the crash came, said
Vogel
Nogel was asked about the stores
methods of borrowing from the private
bank. When any of the stores needed
money, he replied, the bank let them
have what it could spare. Checks
Mr.. Champion, testified the witness, had
Vogel then would indorse them to
whatever store needed the money. Sci
gels name, said Vogel, never was on
checks.
Questioned as to special deposits of
$4,000 placed in the Siegel bank in
December, Vogel said it was done at his
direction because credit was short
and he fearded trouble. 1T was at
this time that he was negotiating for
the outside loan of between 100000
ard 100000. II knew we had plenty
of assets he testified. IF could
have obtained that money we would
he going on today. | had this $4,000
specially deposited for the good of the
Siegel bank to keep these deposits in
safety should anything happen. / had
every intention that this money should
go to the deposltors of the Siegel
bank"
Vogel said he was ready to produce
his check books, stubs, vouchers and
other records; and Judge Holt ad-
journed the examination for two weeks,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
JURY REFUSES TO
INDICT MRS. CRAWFORD

Atlanta. January H.--Another chapter
today was written in the now famous
Crawford will case when the Fulton
county grand jury refused to indict Mrs
Mary Belle Crawford, widow OF the
late Joshua b. Crawford. for the mur-
der by poison of her husband. = ver-
dict of mo bilr was returned after the
grand jury had heard number oe wit
nesses.
Investigation of the circumstances sur
rounding the death of Joshua b. Craw-
ford in 1909 was precipitated by charges
against Mrs. Crawford, contained Ill
civil proceedings instituted by As heirs
at law, to the Crawford estate, valued
at approximately $250000. AT the instiga-
tion of three plaintiffs who sought a
redistribution of the estate, the body Sof
Mr.. Crawford was exhumed in july 1918.
and a chemical analysts of the dead
mans stomach made. 1t was alleged
that this analysis indicated that Mr.
Crawford had been poisoned Mrs. Craw-
ford surrendered when she learned that
a magistrates warrant had been issued
charging her with poisoning her hus-
band, but later was released on 5000
bond. The civil suits brought by the
heirs at law" still are pending.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
SP|CER CASE TAKEN
TO SUPREME COURT
Attorneys Will Today En-
deavor to Get New Trial
for Wife Slayer

Montgomery, January I.-(Speciai)-At-
torneYs for Sam Spicer. Covington
county farmer, will appear before the
supreme court tomorrow and ask that
the verdict of the Covington county court
imposing a life sentence for the murder
of his wife. be set aside and another
trial ordered Spicer's trial was one OF
the most sensational in the court MS
tory of Covington county, and he mas
been in the Montgomery county jail Tor
safe keeping since his conviction.
Spicer was charged with employing a
negro to kill his wife and then shooting
the negro to death so he would not con-
fess and tell the story of the crime.
The state alleged that he connived in
the killing of his wife in order that he
might collect life insurance on her life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
ATKINS SAYS SUGAR
COMPANY DID NOT
STIFLE COMPETITION

New York. January 21.-Presenta-
tion of evidence by the American Sugar
Refining company in its defense to the
equity suit brought by the government
to have the company declared an un-
lawful monopoly was continued today
with Edwin F. Atkins. chairman of the
board of directors, still on the stand.
Mr.. Atkins gave more testimony by
which the defense hopes to refute the
contentious of the government that the
company stifled competition and con-
trolled prices of raw material.
Mr.. Atkins said competition is and
has been severe. Competing refineries
he mentioned. We're Arbuckle Brothers,
the National, the Warner and the Fed
cral. two small refineries in New Or
leans, one in Texas and one in Bos-
ton and the American Hawaiian and
Pacific refineries on the Pacific coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
MINERS ATTACK
LABOR Federation
Is ReactiOnary, FOssilized
and WOrmeaten, Says
Duncan Mcdonald

Indianapolis, January 21.-Attacks on
the American Federation of Labor cropped
out in the conference of the United Mine
Workers of America during the debate
The charges against the federation were
stated by Duncan Mcdonald. Illinois labor
leader, during the discussion of a reso-
luton regarding industrial unionism.
A number of resolutions dealing with
industrial unionism, many of them de-
manding a convention for April l, 1914,
to consider the subject were submitted
to the committee. The committee op-
posed the calling of the convention and
drafted a substitute resolution instruct
ing the delegates to the American
Federation of Labor to work for the reso-
luton providing for industrial unionism
rather than crafts unionism.
IF anyone can get a Progressive reso-
luton through the American Federation
of Labor" declared Mcdonald, "he will
deserve a monument, for he will be as
great man as Washington. That body
is reactionary, fossllized, wormeaten and
dead Mcdonald said he, as a delegate
of the mine workers, had attended the
Seattle convention of the federation and
was almost thrown out bodily for sup
porting a resolution favoring Industrial
unionism.
''fhe conditions in the American Fed
Grafton of Labor are about as Delegate
Mcdonald has stated said President
John P. White of the miners so far it
has been impossible to get an industrial
unionism resolution passed by that body
The time is coming soon, however, when
the labor leaders will have to see that
in industrial unonism lies the only hope
of the labor movement in this country
Despite the attack on the federation
the committees substitute resolution was
adnntpd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
Weather Conditions

Birmingham, January 2l.-G p. .m)-The
pressure is high over the interior of the
country east of the Rocky mountains,
and low over the western states and the
north Atlantic slope. AS the result there
has been a general fall in temperatures
throughout the middle sections, ana
gather fair skies have prevailed. West of
the Rockies, there has been a slight mod
Grafton in the weather, due to the falling
pressures and southerly winds. while in
the northeast, where another area of low
barometer is central, but where the winds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
PRISONERS DRILLED
WITHOUT GUARDS

Leavenworth. Kan, January 21.-Ffve
hundred inmates of the United States
military prison here drilled at Fort
Leavenworth today without guards.
The parade resulted from an order from
the war department in furtherance of
recommendation of Secretary Garri-
son for more leniency for purely mil
itary offenders"
According to the commandant of the
fort it is the plan of the war depart
ment that lighter offenders against
military discipline be restored to duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22

are from the high pressure area foiioWlh 3
there has been general snow ana cold
weather.
Freezing temperatures prevailed at
p. m. over the northern half of the eoun-
try east of the Rockies. Zero readings
occurred in Manitoba and North Dakota.
In the southern states, marked fali mas
occurred, ranging from to y degrees.
In Alabama the change has been from IA
to q degrees, but because of the warm
weather that preceded the present cold
change, readings are now about normal.
Rain occurred over the Atlantic slope
as far north as Cape Hatteras, and snow
fell throughout the Alleghanies and the
north Atlantic states. Fair skies extended
from Alabama westward.
Summary of observations made at
United States weather bureau stations,
january q:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
OWNERS OF AUTOS
MUST PAY LICENSES
Motor Vehicle Department
Warns Motorists Under
Penalty of Arrest

Montgomery, January 21.-(Speeial.) }
The state motor vehicle department has
issued warning to all automobile own
ers throughout the state that they will
be arrested if they do not at once pay
their licenses. Officials of the depart
ment are determined to prefer charges
against all owners of automobiles who
have not complied with the law.
There are $500 automobile owners in the
state, and 1900 of this number have not
paid their licenses. The licenses were
due October l and delinquent January 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
FEAG|N PLANNING 4.
TRIP TO RICHMOND
Superintendent of Educa
ton to Attend Meeting to
Be Held in February

Montgomery, January 21.-(Special
Twenty four Alabama educators will a
tend the annual meeting of the depar
ment of superintendent of the Nations
Educational association at Richmo
va, February % to 2S. State Superb
tendent of Education William F. Feag
is arranging for the trip, and those g
ing from this state will have a speci
car.
Superntendents of schools in all Sc
tions of the United States will be pre-
ent, and the executive committee of Il
Southern Educational association vi
hold meeting during the convention at
select a date for the annual session
of the Southern Educational associi
ton
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
HANS SCHMIDT
JURY COMPLETE

New York. January 21.-when two
DAYS and a half spent in the examin-
alton of 200 talesmen had elapsed
jury was completed this afternoon for
the second trial of Hans Schmidt, the.
one-time priest who slew Anna Aumul-
ler dsmembered her body and threw
II in the Hudson river.
The first jury failed to agree.