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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1913
Page
2
A scattered column from The Butler Herald sketches a string of light satire and social asides. It touches on baseball slang, fashion mishaps, taxes, health fads, marriage, and urban life with playful irony, naming bruised public figures and everyday quirks in a breezy, tongue-in-cheek tone.
A severe western storm spawned a tornado that devastated Seward Nebraska and neighboring towns. Twenty-two homes destroyed and many more damaged while business districts largely escaped. ten killed and about thirty injured, with extensive crop losses reported in surrounding counties.
A Seaboard wreck at Rice's station near Powder Springs killed Flagman J. T. Allen who was crushed to death and Engineer R. B. Brooks who died of scalding before reaching Atlanta. A tramp, R. G. Burns, who arrived first to aid, was badly burned but survived.
A massive forest fire sweeps forests near Warren Pennsylvania reaching Hallton. The blaze threatens timber land and oil wells as residents flee and Hallton residents, including women and children, are evacuated by special train amid efforts to prevent further destruction. A second item reports a businesslike bomb delivered to police magistrate Henry Stutiq Bennett at Bow police court in London.
President Wilson said US Japan talks on alien land legislation remain frank and friendly, asserting Webb bill would not violate the treaty and noting no naturalization debate yet among emissaries. He said there is no basis to claim discrimination against Japanese, despite concerns over citizenship rights and perceived bias. He emphasized forthright diplomacy between the two governments.
President Wilson hailed New Jersey’s jury reform bill passage in the lower house. Party leaders told the president the measure now heads to the senate for final approval, aiming to curb long draws by commissioners chosen in conference.
The 1913-14 Georgia House, meeting in June in Atlanta, will be largely new with only 39 of 183 members returning. Expect a nonpartisan tone and fresh leaders as many young legislators reshape the body.
Senate Republicans launched a sustained filibuster to delay the confirmation of W. J. Harris as director of the census, keeping the nomination from debate and aiming to hold votes into July. The session saw repeated roll calls, procedure fights, and a Reed rule bid to count nonvoting members, limiting progress on the nomination.
Detectives and federal agents have been called by the Navy Department to probe a leak in which several ship plans and minor documents have vanished over the past four months. Navy officials downplay the losses while seeking to stop further leaks and locate the source.
Kansas City reports 27000 rail shopmen will gain wage increases after ratified agreements by the Federation of Shop Crafts with Southern railway allied companies and the Wabash system. The Southern allied lines include Mobile and Ohio Queen and Crescent New Orleans and Northeast Virginia Southwestern Gia and Florida Southern. Typhoon Sweeps Manila overseas casualties rise with at least fifty eight known dead and many missing as storm wrecks crews and small craft.
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