Athens Daily Messenger, The (Newspaper) - January 20, 1912, Athens, Ohio Xot many houses will be rented in this city this week except through want tising li you want to rent one advertise it here THE HOME PAPER OF ATHENS AND ATHENS COUNTY OHIO VOL 46 ATHENS OHIO SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 20 1912 WEATHER weather Snow flurries m north Sunday not quite so cold PRICE TWO CENTS TOLD TO Yuan's Waiting Game Wearies Chinese Republicans REPUBLIC IS WANTED AT ONCE Followers of Sun Yat Sen Issue matum Demanding Immediate Evacuation of the Throne and De- claring That No Vanchu Shall Ever Participate In Provisional Action Is Delayed Fighting Will Be Resumed Jan 28 Nanking Jan action taken by the republican ment to bring about a quick ment of fie question of tbe future of recognition by the powers of the provisional republic tactics of the imperialists in the matter of the abdication of tte throne is not at all satisfactory to the leaders and an ultimatum was sent to Premier Yuan Shih Kai ing a number of specific demands The ultimatum which was the di- rect result of Yuan's demand that Sun resign the presidency of the republic and allow Yuan exercise sovereign powers until the proposed national convention has met and adopted a form of ment for China begins by ing the abdication of the throne and the surrender of No to be to participate in the of China and can not be established at Make Good The last announcement is Pre- mier Yuan Shih Kai can not the provisional government of China until the republic has been by tbe foreign powers and the country has been restored to peace and harmony pi in was to have the court retire for a time and transfer the sovereign ers to him If this were done and Sun Yat Sen resigned the presidency Yuan be a practical dictator and could rail the Manchus back at any time Tbe court itself Is averse to leaving Peking until tlie national convention has met and reached a conclusion The republicans do not propose to be caught In any scheme of this kind and the telegram to Peking they say is their last word in the y of an If Yuan re- accept the demands of the leaders it is more than the rebels will resume when the armistice on Jan the mach on Peking will begin TURNED KNOX State Department Refuses to nize Republic Washington Jan appeal from the division of the Chinese government to the powers for recognition was received at the state department The text of the appeal is as The Manchu government having entered into negotiations with the republic of China for the purpose of abdicating its entire sovereign rights powers and privileges we fervently pray for recognition in order to avoid a disastrous interregnum The peal was signed by Wang Chung Wei foreign minister Recognition of the republican of China is not even con- at the state department at this for reasons that have ready been explained No answer to Minister Wang's telegram will be STEEPLEJACKS KILLED Two to Death While Working on Church Philadelphia Jan steeple jades fell 120 leer to deuth one them attempted to save his com had slipped fiom a Lid der on tlie top of ike North Broad Street c a who had terrible fall their lie found the hand of uie on the body of August Joanson whose life he had attempted to save CENTRAL DELIVERY SYSTEM IS CHANGED Late Trip on Saturday ing Will be Abolished Feburary the undersigned ot tbe Merchants Delivery of Athens the merits and justness of the request the Humane Society and the citizens of Athens do hereby agree to dispense with the o'clock delivery on ings that the employees engaged in the work and the horses used on may be relieved of the e labor and burden incident E H COTTON C O MOORE MARQUIS FLOWERS H M ROACH CO ELDER HO WAN B D JUNOD TOM COTTON M A RUSSELL H D THE MILLING CO J B BETHEL BROS JR F C RILEY C W GROSS CO ROACH HOWARD G E FROST L T ROSSETTER CO The Humane Society has been working for some time tc bring about the condition stated above and it has now been decided that the late ery on Saturday will be ished February 1 For many months delivery ment and the patrons of the central system have been of the that the late Saturday evening could be abolished very easily if cery and meat would make up their minds as to Sunday wants and procure them early in the day or late in the afternoon When the new schedule is adopted the buyer will soon be able to adjust himself to the new conditions Steed Produced Some Fine Apples -J A Athens R D No 9 was in and brot acme ap pies to The fruit was fine indeed and Mr Steed stated that its quality resulted from the careful trimming and spraying of his orchard last year secured about bushels of fine apples from his orchard Henney Instead of Abdella Abdella the fruit dealer was not the party who was robbed of eral days ago John Henney tbe Syrian of West Union sneet was the unlucky man and the police have ob- no trace of the missing ey The reporter was in the mayor's office yesterday when tbe less was reported to the police and mistook Henney for Abdella and likewise was not able to tell from the language Greek or Syrian was being spoken BIG CHANGES HADE AT SHALE BANKS Everything Now Being ten Into Shape for mer Operation r v Our Ice Cream Jan than gallons of ice cream were fii in the States year for consumers paid nearly pre- to the National Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers now ia ia to city Tbe plant of the Athens Brick com pany is now closed down for repairs and be closed for seme days yet Repairs to a boiler and the lino are made as weil as changes at bank At tbe shale bank the chute on the south side of the workings is torn down preparatory to its remov al to the east side Operations next begin largely from the east sid of the Mil which has been worked in the main on thc first level The management was confronted with a big problem in the removal o the heavy strata of sand rook lays on top of the blue shale Thi rock at the point of the hill overlook ing the city was very thick and over hnng Tons of it havi been blasted down and a large force of men has been employed in i this work WAS KILLED IN COAL MINE Widely Known Miner Met Tragic Death at ville Today Thomas Francis about lia ailed a fall cf slate in a EL iate mis morning Details the accident are lacking and news his death reached his children here it noon Mr Francis was one the best coal miners in tins part ol the state and nat an on coal Trilling lie was born in Wales and iu Ciiit- States a mere youth For a ime he lived at Pomeroy Later he many at and Vew For about he lived at Luang he vas fire bobs in the For about six years to a year ago The iy made its home in Athens luee years ago Mrs Francis died since then Mr Francis had been mug with his children At the time of his death he made Us home his and laughter Mr and Mrs John of Mr Riley interested n the Monday Creek Coal company had taken over an old mine at and was operating it Mr vancis was assisting in the ment of tlie name Mr was one of the best ead men in this part of the state on he subject of mining He was fluent this subject and of his articles were printed He lad a very wide out both valleys and was one of the coal miners of the state lie was qualified to hold a responsible sition in the department of mine in- through having passed an examination tinder ex-State Mine In- spector Andrew Roy The arrangements for funeral vill be announced later Mr and Mrs Ed Fame and Mr and Mrs C Gross will go to Nelsonville this evening Mr Francis left five dren Mrs Gross Mis Faine Mrs Joseph of Cleveland and John of Seek Brutal Chauffeur New York Jan police for a chauffeur who ran and killed Patrick Far and escaped According to ike boys playmates his body was the air and landed on the hood the automobile and in order to it off the chauffeur zigzagged his until the dead body roiled into the street SEEK TO SIDETRACK COLONEL ROOSEVELT Taft Say Outbursts lire Too Numerous Washington Tan 20 President Taft's friends have at last become aroused to the importance of he Roosevelt movement Two developments apparently im- the president's supporters as significant These were the tion of William E cock of West Virginia in which he that is the choice of the West Virginia cans and the statement in dispatches from St that the rity can committee bad met and declared for by a vote of 15 to 10 As to Governor inter- view resorted to by the president's supporters In- West Virginia ghen out which indicate that in his did not speak for all of tho leading West ginia Republicans Sunday Will Be Fair The for day was carried out exactly fair temperature being On Sunday fair er is and it is de- clared that it will be wanner light mds Tho mercury dropped last night it was that it would but this morning dawned bright and lair and a suffering people took hope of hotter things rf Cause Many Former Citizens to Write of Athens Great Loss TRY TO PREVENT TREASURY RAID Democratic Leaders Fear for Economy Program OLD PORK BARREL IS ON TAP Public Buildings Valued at 000 Are Provided For In Measure Adopted Unanimously by House Committee and For Rivers and Harbors Is in Process of Majority to Keep Pledge I People in Circleville and neighboring cities aie in Athens have been ing friends here expressing their sympathy and condolence over the loss by fire of Athens M E church which was reported in papers of those cities tbe first of tae week ai having been burned to rhp ground Lancaster especially had an awful on tie story They not only told ot the but told how Logan Lancaster and lumbus fire departments had been summoned how the special train ing departments was rushed to the scene of the conflagration how tbo foremen stood around like inverted icicles etc and a terrible thing it was Tho Wessenger on Monday a true story of the affair which will bo remembered as only an ent blaze which was soon put out and but little if any damage was done OLD ORCHARD Belonging to J V Stocklein of ter Responded to Scientific Treatment An illustration of bow a Jan 20 Fear that lutle agricultural knowledge rightly their program will be shot applied will give results has juat been brought to the notice of the College of Ohio Slate T Y of Athens county owns a apple orchard pieces is causing Democratic ers no little worry and it is rumored that a will be held in the near for the years old from which he had ting on tne brakes and fixing tbe limit of the expenditures for the sion Leading Democrats have been The churches of the have de- to start a concerted tic campaign which will continue un- til March 3 Revival services are ed no return until last year The chard is situated on hill ground Land of like quality in Athens and ing- counties can be bought tor from ing of doing this for some time but 310 to an acre Mr at- tended a lecture on a special horticultural train that ran through county and heard about the er fruit trees He ed to pnt into practice home of the This limit the committee things he heard will give each member of Ho Sprayed and mulched his trees and in the fall of 1931 ho harvested bushels of Rome Beauty Ben Davis and die necessity for action was impressed -on them when the house committee on public buildings and grounds voted to report a public building ures house one slice of more no less Harbors Committee Industrious The next blow to the economy Baldwin He handled his crop in gram is expected when tbe house bushel crates and the addition of rn ers and harbors committee a storage plant of his own he as it is certain to do if present plans od in a position to realize are carried out for a IN THE HOUSE Foreign affairs committee de- ferred action on international protection of seals because of differences of opinion War department expenditures committee favorably reported Cox calling for a report on the cost of Philippine occupation Investigating committee erates Dr Wiley in the pure food controversy Public buildings committee de- to report a S omnibus next week against Leader Underwood's advice top notch prices for his crop Child's Eyes Burned Out O Jan tht daughter of Joseph Deavitt wu fatally burned hero Her Ignited from an opes Hgr eyes ware burned out ICE GORGE BREAKS BOATS SWEPT AWAY ers and harbors Chairman Fur gerald and other members of the party in the lower branch who j insist that the must stick to its pledges of reducing expenditures or break with the people of tbe Situation on Ohio and taries is Serious O Jan 20 great ice gorse at Sliding Hill bend in the country now realize that unless some decisive action Is taken at once the appropriations at this sion of congress will not only equal the total amount authorized by the Ohio river and is sweeping southward doing great damage 1 Thirty bargee in tbe Pomeroy bend and the steamer Tom were torn from their moorings and last in tho closing swept away in the ice The steamer bat may Sixty-first congress it WETS HAVE MADE BIG GAINS THROUGH STATE Ohio Report Show 16 of 24 Counties Voted For Saloons finally was piloted to a place of ty by the heroic efforts of its crow Great damage by a disastrous flood was delayed bore by the of weather as it held up the huge gorge in the Big Kanawha which was already beginning to At lock No 7 the Lumber company lost a wharf boat and ber valued at when the ice began to Ail affluents of the Big arc running bank full and filled with ice and the fleet of steamers at tbe mouth peril of the river here is in great AT PEACE WITH HOGAN Former Fire Marshal Davit Settles Old Expense Bills Columbus O Jan 20 State Fire Ily Davis of Cleveland paid the state which Attorney Kogan had ruled was drawn illegally Davis while in office tor hotel railroad fare Columbus and Cleveland und expenses to political tions will dismiss the in Franklin common pleas court ogainst Davis for the covery of The money REVIVAL SERVICES ts Bible School Rally and Noted Specialist are Tomorrow's Features Revival services have been in gress for the past week nt tbe tin church conducted by forces Rev E D the pastor doing the preaching In spite of the ency of the weather large audience and ECUADOR IS DUE FOR GALL DOWN Intervention Talk is Heard at State Department REBELS LOSE IN BATTLE Affairs In South American Republic Are In Bad and American at Guayaquil to Tike Action If sary to Protect American Gunboat Yorktown In Harbor Ready For Immediate Washington Jan tht United States will be forced to vene in Ecuador to protect American tbe have boon in attendance and a the state interest has characterized each giving of the defeat of the At a m Sunday a special fort will be made to have each rolled member of the Bible en- school present At the morning church vlee tho pastor will preach on the subject Salvation J K Shellenberger of Wooster will address a mass meeting for of the defeat of tne and their retreat to Guayaquil rebel leaders are reported to haris expressed a foreign consuls at Guayaquil tator charge of the situation for tha of restoring peace and order tary attache at Ucnum at Diet tick United at p m in the main auditorium of j of tho church Mr situation at that city far government is concerned ji town Sir the harbor at Guayaquil It been engaged for several years In a distinctively men's work As field secretary of the Brotherhood of the I Quito capital Disciples of Christ he has been and successful and has travelled all over the United States an his efforts to reach He is a man's man and will not All men of ens are to this service Mr message is a live one The Railroad will be subject of the evening sermon is o popular sermon and treats on she trend of modern society Throughout next week all services will open at 7 p each day A bright enthusiastic song service and sermons of power will characterize i all services Tho sermon subjects are as Monday January tive Story or Found Oct Tuesday January New Birth January Muat I Do To Be Thursday January ity vs Infidelity Illustrated Friday January Change of Heart Saturday January Shall I Spend Eternity Illustrated Catchy of the vices in the form cf blotters have been given out bearing an Invitation to the services the sermon subjects and the principles upheld by the church The sermon subject tonight is Salvation and is to be illustrated by one tbo pastor's charts Everybody is cordially In- to leave there Mr naa friv to H to to of any intervention In Yorktown In J 14 The United FRIDAY APRIL 5TH NAMED AS ARBOR DAY Governor tion Counseling land Conservation Columbus Ohio Jan conservation of the timberland of ot in whatever toward Intervention Thlt ment been for the IB during the to Out breakdown of the gunboat at- Mexico request bar to Thlt will serve to of the American at Guayaquil V LOSE Ecuadoran Back f Jan The rebel army has been badly defeated In a severe battle the ment troops under General Julio An- The government the attack at of this city at the close of battle it was found that more than men had been killed and wounded Tbe rebel army fell back at the close of the engagement REPLIES FOR WILSON W F Truth to Marvay tant developments occurred in Democratic presidential situation The Woodrow Wilson their first authoritative comment oa j the action of Governor Wilson ia i telling Colonel George la 1 feet that he was a millstone about T 1 i tile neck of the Wilson boom statement was issued by William McCombe Governor Wilson's ical manager Mr McCombe not diny any detail of the of the famous Interview as told fcf Colonel Harvey and Colonel Henry Watterson The question which ernor Wilson's manager governor's political enemies to an- Ohio and urging that greater swer one be taken in the State Department ofj conversation witU of Forestry Governor Harmon today J should in answer to a plain ta Columbus Ohio ig the dry victory in Much Damage at Parkersburg W Va Jan breaking of an ice gorge in the tie river here April as Arbor no in progress at she Christian tnc liquor interests 000 worth of Taft into Obio wij issued a statement including docks of and similar services designated Friday In his proclamation the governor said in part The forest in and domestic as woil as its commercial to flattery or he should state plain as he saw it Obviously ernor Wilson stated the plain truth The other development of tance m the Democratic situation was the by Speaker begun Pt tne First morrow M R results of the first round of battles Dock the has ied to a widespread inter- champ clark he would kai Third Week of Revival This is third week of the vival services at Clark's Chapel terest of real depth is being shown under the expiration of the boats j three-year period since the Rose law into effect j Their report shows that out o elections 16 counties voted wet and In eight dry point out however that an e and a great deal of good is being of thc majorities show that Rev Cherrington has charge of i Continued on Two Maggie May and Iron being taken manifested by the of Ohio in the preservation of Gorge Moves Railroad state's trees and their attending Lebanon O Jan birds The restoration the forest oa a Cincinnati Valley i is now one of tbe greatest projects train had a narrow escape from of the day In this work the youth chances for the presidential i tion on the action of the approaching convention of Missouri Democrats at i Joplin If that convention W Folk the speaker will for- further use of death when a big ice sorge moved the state will bear a large part and J connection the the bridge at Todds Fork near two-hour lesson demanded by tho row out of position just as the last statutes on Arbor Day should do j Mr E C Logan is in of the train passed over much to awaken interest I business
