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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-12

The Maine Pathological Society has
decided to hold its annual exhibit this
year in Portland. probably in the
City hall auditorium The date will
be arranged by committees from the
society and Portland's new Chamber
Of Commerce. The Pathological So
ciety has been invited by Mayor In
graham and the Chamber OF Com
merce to hold its meetings every 9TH
er year in that city.
A Pittston correspondent writes the
Kennebec Journal as follows:
After reading an account OF an old
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-12

Bueksfeld and vicinity are having a
great religious awakening under the
leadership of Lawrence Is. Greenwood.
the singing evangelist Of Boston. Not
only the citizens but the High school
pupils and several organizations are
taking an active part. Evangelis.
Greenwood has inspiring methods,
out of the ordinary and it is said that
Bucksfield and vicinity are due for an
unprecedented revival.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02
new ORLEANS S1oRM-SWEPT.
Ten KILLED AND MANY HURT
REPORTS STATE.
property Loss Will he Over Million
From Cyclone Which Reached Vc-
Iocity OF SO Miles an lIOur-Wircs
Down ut New Orleans and Few De-
tails Learned by Wireless from YES.
fsels.

Mobile, Sept. 30.-Wireless advices
from New Orleans at 100 o'clock
Thursday morning say that ten per-
sons were killed and $50 injured by
the hurricane in New Orleans. Prop
ertyf damage was estimated at above
$l'YO,OOO. The famous French mar
ket'section was partially wrecked.
New Orleans, Sept 29-(via Wire
less Steamships Excelsior and Creole
to Mobile) .-Five persons are known
to be dead, many people injured and
the property loss reaching into the
millions has been caused tonight by
the most severe Gulf storm in the his
tory of the city.
howling gale with a velocity Of
eighty-six miles an hour swept the
city at o'clock tonight, demolishing
scores of buildings, stripping the roofs
from hundreds Of other structures and
strewing the streets with broken glass
and debris.
AT 7.3O O'Clock a rising barometer
gave evidence that the storm was
supsiding. the centre passing 10 the
northwest Of New Orleans The bar
ometer at it's lowest registered 2S.11.
adm the wind velocity of Sc miles was
the highest ever recorded here.
Railroads and wire communication
with the outside world has been cut
of, and telephone, electric light and
trolley service discontinued in the CITY.
All railroads have annulled train
service from New Orleans.
Wireless communication from New
Orleans was interrupted by the failure
of the electric plant, but messages
were sent from the steamship Excel
sior at dock here and relayed from the
steamship Creole anchored below New
Orleans in the Mississippi river to
Mobile. a..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02

convicted Tt was Stevenson's testi.
mony largely which brought about the
conviction of the four, he claiming
that he Watched while the crime was
committed. Two other negroes had
been arrested. While further inves-
tigation was being made, a row at a
neighboring negro church caused the
arrest OF Stevenson, on whose person
was found the dead mans pistol.
Stevenson turned States evidence and
directed Sheriff Colvin and his depu-
ties to the place where stolen watch
was buried and also told where the
empty shells could be found. The
shells are now in the clerk Of courts
office in Chester county. Stevenson's
implication of the four was borne out
by incontrovertible proof that Tom
Grlilin's gun was used for the killing
and that screw driver belonging to
the sewing machine in Meek Grfin's
home was used to destroy the buried
watch. Robbery was supposed to have
been the motive.
Young Moore and Rogers were
killed in consequence Of a row while
huting on land cultivated by Malloy
on Thanksgiving day, 1911
j. II. Lewis, brother of the Ches-
ter victim, witnessed the execution
OF the four men yesterday, as did
Sheriff COlvin, who was instrumental
in bringing the guilty parties to JUS
tice.
N. Is. Rogers, county treasurer of
Marlboro county and father of Guy
Rogers; j. c. Rogers of Sumter. q
brother, and Early b. Moore of Marl-
boro, brother of Prentiss Moore, also
came to Columbia for the execution.
All available court machinery had
been invoked to stay the hand of the
law In the two cases. After being car
ried through the South Carolina
courts, the Marlboro county case was
taken to the United States supreme
court. For more than two years the
alleged pleas Of newly discovered evil
dence and other points delayed the
execution of the sentences.
The Chester case was affirmed by
the supreme court several months
ago.
Gov. Manning several days ago re-
fused to commute the sentences of the
live negroes to life Imprisonment.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02
Glover Seed Acreage and Condition

The acreage for clover seed i'm the
United states this year is estimated to
he about 11i.5 per cent of last wears
acreage, based upon reports to the
bureau of Crop Estimates of the de-
partmcnt. The condition of the CROP
on September is estimated at so. 3
per cent of normal, which Comparcs
with 17.3 per cent. Il year ago. and
'?.' average Of the past 10 years
on September /. These figures fore
cast moderately larger crop this year
than last year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02
MENDENHALL FOUND GUILTY
Florida Man Convicted of Murder of
Woman, Appeals for New Trial

Clearwater, Fla, Sept. 2S.-J. j.
Mendenhall. convicted this afternoon
on a charge Of the murder of Miss
Susie Eliot on the night Of july 2,
when the bodies of the young wo-
man and her mother were burned to
death on the old Green Springs road,
gave notice of motion for a new
trial and offered a formal motion for
a stay of sentence. The date for argu-
Ing these motions has not been set.
Mcndcnhall was covicted of muir
der with recommendation to mercy
which carries sentence of life i'm
prisonment.
Scenes in the court room follow
ing the reading of the verdict were
dramatic. The wife and daughter.
who have been by the side of the
defendant throughout the hearing.
broke into passionate weeping. The
defendant, who has exhibited marked
composure throughout the hearing,
consoled them and told them to be
brave.
Another indictment charging Men,
dcnhall with the murder of Mrs. Bes-
sic Eliot, mother of the dead girl,
Is pending against Mcndenhall.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02

vilel and Nashville railroad to New
Orleans We're annulled tonight, but it
was announced that a relief train
would be operated by the railroad out
OF Mobile tomorrow morning, as far
down the coast as track conditions will
allow.
reports that the Rigolets trestle of
the Louisville and Nashville between
New Orleans and Bay St. Louis had
pecn destroyed We're discounted by Off
Gals OF the road tonight. It was de-
clared that the trestle was strong
enough to withstand storms of vio:'
lence. ms.
No veriflcation of the report of high
water at Biloxi was furnished by the
railroad dispatcher there, who report='
ed that the tracks Of the railroad were
not inundated. A commercial wire re-
port had stated that water was six
Ieet deep in the business section OF
Biloxi. e-. :
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02

I heavy seas between Mobile bar and
New Orleans bar, but did not encoun-
ter the hurricane at it's worst.
| Vessels known to be in the Gulf
which may have encountered the from
lcal blow are two steamships of the
Ward Line, whose names were not OBJ
tainable, and fruit vessel of the Vac
caro- Brothers Company. of New Or
leans.
No messages had been received TO-
night by the coast guard cutter Talla-
pOoSa from the Southern Pacific Line
stea1 ship Proteus, which was reported
in, the centre of the hurricane off New
Orleans bar. The wireless apparatus
on the Proteus is believed to have been
disabled.
The sole means of communication
between New Orleans and the outer
world tonight was the wireless appa-
ratus of the steamships at dock in
New Orleans, while meagre reports
were received from the failing Wire
less apparatus of the Southern Pacific
liner Creole, bound up the Mississippi
river from Port E,ads for New Or
leans.
velocity of fifty-two miles an hour
was reached by the gale at Mobile to-
night, and the worst of the storm was
believed by weather bureau officials TO
nave passed. The barometer was sta
tionary at 1852 at S.p m.
Southbound trains over the Louis
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02

call on them.-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02

outbound trains over the Louis
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02

lieved with very firm belief in the
efficacy of democracy. Do you realize
that only so long ago as the time Of
the American Revolution democracy
was regarded as an experiment In the
world. and We were regarded as rash
eXperimenters? But we not only be-
lieved I'm il, we showed our belief was
well founded and that a nation as
powerful as any i'm the world could
he erected upon the will Of the peo-
pie; that, indeed, there was power
I'm such u nation that dwelt i'm no other
tion the spirit of tho people prevails.
1--WE now know and the world
knows that the thing that we then
undertook. rash as 1t seemed, has
been practicable and that we have set
up In the world "a government main
tanned and promoted by the general
conscience and the gcnral conviction
so | stand here not welcoming you
to the nations capital aS if | wcr,
your host. but merely To- welcome you
To your own capital. bccG . am
ana am proud To be. your servant.
nope | shall catch. as | hope we shal
all catch. from the spirit Of this 0C-
casiOn "a new conservation To the hlgl
duties of American citizenship"
The first death among veterans at
tending the encampmcnt occurred to-
| day when Bacon Smith, 20 years old
of IridGctown. \. j., died Of iniuric'
received yesterday when he was run
| over 10y carriage.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02
AT Mobile and Pensacola.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. 29-The Mis-
slssippi Gulf coast from Bay st. Louis
to Pascagoula was isolated tonight by
the tropical hurricane, which caused
an eighty-ei gale at New; Or
leans and swept inland to the north
east. Pensacola and Mobile escaped
material damage, though frty-miIc
winds prevailed at both ports during
tho'af!ernocn and night.
Reports Of excessive damage ana
hieA water at Biloxi and Gulfport.
Miss, were discounted tonight by Of
ficials of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, whose telephone cable down
the coast to Bay ST. Louis furnished
the sole means Of communication
There is no wireless station on the
coast between Mobile and New Or
leans.
This cable was operated successfully
only, at intervals and officials announce
ed that the dispatchers denied reports
Of the flooding of the strets in
Biloxi to a depth of six feet and of
the destruction OF the great trestle of
the Louisville and Nashville at the
Rigolets. Three small children, men,
bers of the Savage family at Pasca-
gOula, were reported to have been in
Jured when their home was demolish-
ed by the high winds, but there is no
other news from there.
All trains southwest of here have
been suspended, only one train arriv-
ing this afternoon from Ocean Springs.
Miss. "A local train bearing relief sup
plies will be sent from Mobile tomor-
row morning as far down southwest
as possible.
The Southern Pacific liner Proteus
was in the centre of the Gulf hurri-
cane at the mouth of the Mississippi
river today, according to officers of
the revenue cutter TallapoOsa, who
said they had been unable to establish
wireless communication with the ves-
sci since this morning. The Proteus
is passenger liner, but it is not
known here how many passengers she
carried. When last reported by wire
less the Proteus signallcd that she ex-
pected to reach the mouth of the Mis-
issippi at n. IN. tomorrow.
"A wind velocity of eighty eight miles
an hour was reported at Bay ST.
Louis, Miss, this afternoon by the dis
patcher's cable of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad Washouts have
oeatIrred on the road ut Bay st. Louis
iAv elsewhere, and train service has
pep ann"lled' There is no wire com
mIhication down the coast, except the
telephone cable of the Louisville and
Nashville.
| =, Wireless communication with New
| Orleans was broken off this morning.
when the acrials of the Marconi sta
'''' anu lHc tilitcu frult Slatlon tnef"
were apparently blown down. A third
wireless station with apparatus adc-
quatc to communicate with Mobile
also could not be spoken.
The Mallory liner sabine, with pas
scnG"rs for Tampa, K"y West and New
York, waited i'm the lower bay here to-
night for the storm to SubSdc before
steamer Dorothy, bound for Havana
from Galveston with cargo, put int,
| Mobile bay today. She reported
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02

Boys, how would you like to have an
up-to-date, first class bicycle present
ed to you for your Christmas. The
sumter Clothing Co., intends to give
one away on this day to some boy who
buys a knee pants suit from them, and
the bicycle is now on display in their
window. They will be glad to explain
the whole matter to you if you will
call on them-Advt ..t
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-10-02
ARRESTED ON BIGAMY CHARGE.
j. II. Smith Said to- Have Two Wives
When lie Married Ncwbcrry Girl.


last night arrested j. p. Smith, said
to he from Georgia, on the charge Of
hiEamy lie ran away On sunday
with thc young daughter OF a fa,ra-
er In the county and carried her 10
Columbia, where they were married
yesterday. Smith is in Jail. He ad-
mits that he has another wife living.
Some accuse him of having two wives
when he married the young girl, but
he denies that he had more than one.
The warrant against him was sworn
out before Magistrate Hair IL, Pros
perity yesterday The sheriff found the
couple at night in Newberry. The girl
has returned to her father. She is
about 20 years of age. Smith was Sc
Verely cut in fight with a negro wO-
man In town a few weeks ago.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
EMBARRASSMENT
OF X. |. 7. RICHES
Many Cities Are Seeking To En-.
ter The League This
Year.

Paducah. KY, March 22.-Because
there were so many cities seeking ad-
mission to the Kentucky Illinois Ten
nessee baseball league the directors,
at a meeting held in Cairo. III. yes
terday, employed M. j. Farnbaker, a
prominent baseball fan and newspa-
per man of Cairo, to visit the cities
that desire membership and recon-
mend four to make an e;ght-club
league with Greensboro. Henderson
and Paducah, KY. and Cairo, III.
The cities that have requested
franchises ere: Centralia, Marion,
Murphysboro, Herrin, and Harris.
burg. ILL.,, Vincennes and Princeton.
Ind, Cape Girardeau and Sikeston,
Mo. Another meeting will be held
as soon as Farnbaker is ready to re.
port,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
METCALFE
BUILDING
On The Corner of Ninth and
Virginia Streets Is Being
RemOdeIed.
NEW FRONT TO Be PUT IN.
Repairs will Take 60 Days and
Occupants Will Not Be
Disturbed.

The two.story brick building on
the corner of Ninth and Virginia
streets, built more than 80 years ago
and known as the Hord block, is I'M
dergoing thorough remodeling. 1t
is now owned by j. j. Metcalfe and
Mr.. Metcalfe has let the contract to
the Forbes Mfg. Co., and work was
begun last week.
There are three store-rooms with
frontage of about 70 fl. occupied by
Reach & Fears, Blades-Cary Co. and
l.. r. Kenner below and w. X
Bowles' photograph gallery above
All of the wooden fronts and old
style windows have been taken out,
even the rough brick walls having
been taken down. Temporary wood
en- walls have been put in and the
entire front will be new. The three
stores will have iron fronts, plate
glass windows and marble bases.
Prism glass will be used over the
front doors. New mullion and triple
windows will be put in above and
the front will be raised several feet
higher. The brick will be red press.
ed brick laid in white mortar. Mr.,
Metcalfe is on the lookout for suit.
able name for the building, which
will contain large stone tablet il
the front.
The work is under contract to b,
completed in 60 days, without dis
turbing the occupants of the build
ing.
Mr.. Metcalfe purposes to max,
the block one of the handsomes
little buildings in the city.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
HIGH SCHOOL
NEWS NOTES
Baseball Team Is Training For
A Lively Spring
Season.

Baseball practice began in earnest
last week and a large number of
candidates were out every afternoon
in the week working out. Every man
but one from last years nine is back
and the prospects point to the best
team in the history of the school. A
splendid schedule has been made out,
including three games with Clarks
vile, two with Princeton, two with
Bethel College, Rus 'ellville, and one
with V. T. S. of Elkton.
Arrangements are under way for
another High School play. to be
given at the close of school, The play
last year, "A Rival by Request" was
a great success and the students are
putting forth every effort to make
this years production the best dra-
matte presentation ever offered to
the public by the high school. Miss
Virginia Williamson is coaching the
play.
Friday Prof. Moore called for a
fire drill and the building was empti.
ed in an orderly manner and in a
very few minutes after the warning
bell was sounded. Certain ones
the boys have been selected as -
men and take their places at the -
extinguishers when the fire alarms
is given.
The work on the annual is well
under way this year and the first
bunch of copy is almost ready to be
handed in. Manager Weaks has got
ten the largest subscription list that
has ever been signed up and there is
much interest in the Orange and
Black"
The Ciceronian and Delph'c Liter,
airy Societies are making plans for an
open session to be held in a few
weeks. This will be the first debate
between the societies during ths
year.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
.BOTTLTNG
INDUSTRY
New Plant To Be Started Soon
By 7. E. 0verShiner and
Associates.
GAINESVILLE Is INTERESTED.
Works Will Be Located in Coop.
er.DaviS Building on Twelfth
Street.

Thos. E. 0vershiner has resigned
his position as refrigerating engi-
neer for the Ellis Ice Co., which he
has held for 10 years, and will start
bottling plant. Some GAINESVILLE
parties will be associated with him
and the business will be opened in
the Cooper Davis building on Twelfth
street, heretofore used for a garage.
The plant will represent an outlay of
$4,000.
While the plant will bottle all kinds
of soft drinks. its leaders will be
Gay-Oola and Bludwine, claimed to
De drinks of exceptional merit. They
will do general wholesale business,
dealing direct with retailers as well
as through the wholesale houses.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
Hartheld-Mayer.

David fairfield and Miss Barbara
Mayer. at Henderson. were married
March Ia. by Rabbi Theodore Levy.
of Greensboro. Among the out.of-
town guests were Mrs. Henry Frank
ell, Mr.. Sam Frankel. Mr.. Charles
Slaughter and Mr.. Joseph C. Slaugh-
ter. of this city. The groom is a son
of the late Manuel fairfield former
ly Of this city.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
Greatest On Record.

The greatest cotton crop ever pro-
duced in the United States was
grown in 1914. Census bureau sta
tistics issued giving final ginning fig
ures, officially place the 1914 crop as
a record with 6,1O2. 143 bales of 500
pounds each. That is 400. 442 more
than produced in the great crop of
1911.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
Recent Developments Strongly
Tend To Confirm This
Belief.
GUARANTEES ARE GIVEN.
Austria Is Strengthening Her
Frontier And Italy Is Max
ing Preparations.

London, March 22.-The relations
between Italy and Austria are believ-
ed to have reached an acute stage.
A Rome dispatch says Austrian and
German subjects have been advised
by their consuls to leave Italy in the
shortest possible time. Austria has
commenced strengthening her south
ern frontier, and according to dis
patch Italian officers of all arms be-
longing to the first line. who have
been on half pay, nave been called to
the colors. In military circles this
order is considered significant. No
Austrian news on the subject is
available in London, the censor of
that country having. it is said, pro-
hibited comments.
There also are reports that Greece
is preparing to adopt a more active
attitude. Following a series of pro-
longed cabinet meetings at Athens
the Greek minister of marine is quot
ed as having said that the Greek
government had received all guaran-
tees, and to have indicated that the.
country was about to engagein some
enterprise.
The allied fleet is preparing for a
renewal of the attack on the Darda-
nolles, delayed by unfavoraole
weather. At council of the admirals
aboard the French battleship Suffren,
it is reported that decision was
reached to make new general at
tack in which all the warships will
take part.
Reverting to their policy of last
fall, the Germans early Sunday at
tackled Paris with aircraft. Four
Zeppelins started for the city, but
only two reached it. These dropped
bombs injuring a number of persons
and setting fire to buildings. The
French airmen whose duty il is to
guard the city, pursued the Germans,
but, owing to the mist, they were
unable to overtake the airships.
As far as the land operations are
concerned, the eastern front holds
the most interest. The Russians,
according to Petrograd, are pressing
the Germans back to the East Prus-
sian frontier, their latest achieve
ment being to defeat three German
columns on the road from Ostrolenks
to Myszyniec. From the same source
comes a statement that Prezemysl is
at its last gasp and that the garrison
is getting rid of its ammunition pre-
paratory to surrender.
In the west the only news comes
from the German official report,
which claims minor successes in
Champagne, north of Beausejour and
in the Vosges. where they took
French prisoners.
General Botha, at the head of the
Union of South Africa forces, is re-
ported to have gained an important
success over the Germans in German
Southwest Africa, capturing an en-
trenched position and taking 200
prisoners and two guns near Swakop-
mund.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-23
Mrs. Latham And Tom.

Mrs. Elsie G. Latham was given
judgment for $4,000 against her
brother. Thos. G. Gaylord, in Louis
vile. She sued to recover on note
she had paid for him. His claim was
that the money she let him have was
for ris services in connection with
the estate of her late husband, Jno,
C. Latham.