Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 July 1914 — Page 1
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STATE POLITICS
All Three of Leading Parties Devoting Considerable Effort Toward Close Organization.
PROGRESSIVES IN BETTER SHAPE THAN TWO YEARS AGO
iReport That Eighty-Eight Counties Already Have Tickets in Field, and That Others Will
Follow.
By Special Correspondent. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 25.— Statements made by the leaders of various parties show that the political situation in Indiana is different from ever
^their fight in this campaign is against the democratic party. On the other hand the progressive headers state they are making the light on both the old parties. The democratic party seems to be the only one that is making a fight for itself alone.
The leaders of the republican organization have concluded that nothing is to be gained by fighting the progressives because they do not regard the latter as having a chance to carry the state. The republicans look upon the democrats as their ancient enemies and it is natural that they should make ready to fight them.
However, they are not overlooking any opportunity to induce the progressives to return to the republican ranks. On the progressive side men like Albert J. Beveridge, candidate for the United States senate, have coneluded that the republicans are not. in a position to make a winning fight. Beveridge is confident he will not have any trouble in running ahead of Hugh Th. Miller, his opponent for the senate.
He figured that Miller will run third and that the big fight he has is with Senator B. F. Shively which is, of course, a matter of fact, as everyone familiar with the political situation will admit. In spite of the claims of the republicans and the progressives It is apparent that both of them are Interested in doing whatever they can against the democratic party.
Lately Beveridge has made a number of speeches in which he attacked the democratic national administration vigorously. He has attempted to place the leadership of the democratic party in the same class with Cannon, Aldrlch, Heminway and Watson. At the same time he has been appealing to the democrats for their support. He ^{ia also been criticizing the policies of resident Wilson and of other memof the democratic national adrnin'ation. He accuses the democrats „nJfi being standpatters on the tariff the republicans. He opposes the ®j:Tiocratic policies relative to Mexico. is also opposed to the proposed ki-eaty with Columbia.
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Beveridge Attitude.
In fact, he is opposed to practically everything in the democratic platform and all the legislation that has been suggested by President Wilson and his followers. Yet, notwithstanding this position Beveridge seems to take it for granted that thousands of democrats ought to vote for him at the coming general election.
Lately, it has seemed that Beveridge was even more vigorously opposed to the democratic principles than to those of the republican party. This, however, is not regarded as singular because of the fact that Beveridge is yet regarded as being a republican at heart. It is recalled that while he was a member of the republican party he was as much a stand-patter as Watson. Heminway or Fairbanks.
In fact, about the only difference between Beveridge and the so-called
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Is that he was an early advocate of the tariff commission idea of handling the tariff question. In the speeches he has been making recently he er!ti"ices both the republican and democratic fibers of congress because of their
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Members of Executive Committee Begin to Plan for Permanent Organization
Enthusiastic over the success of the biennial encampment of the Uniform Ranks, Knights of Pythias, which Saturday closed a week's camp In Terre Haute, members of the executive committee In charge of the affair began last night to plan a permanent organization to further boost the city's worth and retain the bonds of friendship which have been formed by the association In the work of the committee. Hardly had the last Pythian left his tent at the now deserted Camp Arthur .J. Stobbart when the members of the executive committee began to wonder how they could get accustomed to keeping from talking of plans for the encampment. The plan was then suggested that the executive ^njpiit-,
amendment that Major General Stobbart of the uniform rank be made a member.
It is the general opinion of the members of the executive committee that Terre Haute never has been given so much favorable publicity as during the encampment. From the highest ranking officer to the private in the ranks, words of praise for the hospitality of the city has been sounded.
Boost For City.
"The encampment was undoubtedly the greatest advertisement that the city has ever had," Bald M. T. Hidden last night. "It was the best decorated city in which the encampment ever has been held. The men Btate that they received the best hospitality of any city. We had as many men in camp as San Francisco and New Orleans and the camp was the most sanitary and the easiest to reach of any I ever have seen. Major General Stobbart said that it was remarkable that not a man was reported on the sick list because of the sanitation of the camp. The car service between the camp and„the city was excellent."
H. A. Pritchett, general chairman of the committee, stated that the camp was considered one of Terre Haute's successful events. The perfect sanitation of the camp was the general comment among the visitors, he said.
Col. Penn Talks.
"The encampment was undoubtedly the best and biggest affair Terre Haute ever has handled," said Col. William Penn last night. "The grand ball given on Ohio street was one of the biggest things ever attempted and there is no doubt but that the mer-
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Sixty-One-Year Old Confessed Burglar Tells Police Startling Story of Life.
THIEF FOR THIRTY YEARS SURRENDERS TO SAVE PAL
Man Taken By Local Police Lists Numerous Roberles, and Tells of Years Spent in
Prison.
Allowing himself, 61 years old, to be caught that a "pal.'* 26 years old, might escape and begin & straight life, Patrick confession
tending over a' period of more than thirty years, which startled. the police department.
The arrest followed excited calls Frl, day night slJortly before midnight from a woman at 453 North Center street. The woman told the police a man had entered her home. Wheij the police arrived .the woman, who had kept watch, said she thought the man went Into 443 South Center street.
The burglar call took Assistant Chief Nugent, Bicyclemen Kendall, Smith, Voelker, Walker and Wagonman Scott to the scene and the house was sur rounded. Only one window was over looked and it was through this that the younger man escaped. He Is still at large.
Kendall was stationed at the front door and played his flashlight through the screen, while the family was being aroused. The home is occupied by a Mrs. W. H. Moyer. When occupants of the house descended the front stairs, McCarthy stepped from behind the stairs and said: "If it Is me you are looking for, here I am."
Not aware of an accomplice, the police took McCarthy to headquarters, where it was learned that the younger man was along. No amount of questioning could persuade McCarthy to tell who his companion was other than he was the son of a prominent saloonkeeper of Chicago, who he was teaching the "game."
Long Career in Crime.
The record of McCarthy, who carries with him a string of aliases, reads like a chapter from the Arabian Nights. The first time he was arrested was thirty years ago and he was
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Maurice Hugh believes In holding his J. W. Ingleman, of Vlcksburg, Ind. His own. He's got it in his hand. Maurice "pop" is sure that he is as pretty as is the one year old son of Mr. and Mrs. I any baby Terre Haute has produced.
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VOL. XXXIX.—NO. 56. TERRE HATJTE, IND., SUNDAY, JULY 26,1914. THREE SECTIONS—28 PA6ES. I
COUNCIL APPROPRIATES PUBLIC NARKETTONDS
Grants $16,000 for Carrying Out Idea of Mayor, Which Will Be Done At 0~fitte.$
A boost was given the public market by the city council last night at a special meeting when (16,000 was appropriated for Its development and use. The resolution calling for the appropriation was passed without a dissenting vote. Part of the money will be nsed to move the flagpole from Camp Stobbart to In £ront of the city hall, however.
The publlo market Is an idea of Mayor Roberts and Is backed by practically all the track farmers in Vigo county. The sidewalks and street space on the south and wecrt side of the court house have been set aside for the market.
The spac^lS Into 58 •pa^^^d'l^tt^'wlll vfaz&sjlhx for these #p®ees. Each/occupant' is required to keep hiB own space clean and an awning will be erected to cover all buyers and sellers. The work has been delayed for some time on account of telephone poles standing In the way, but these have been removed and now all is in readiness for the construction of the market, which will begin Immediately, according to the mayor.
The market is expected to fill a long JTelt need in Terre Haute and is anew Idea. The hours will be from .4 to 8 o'clock in the morning.
RUNS WILD IN TRAIN WITH REVOLVER AND WOUNDS FOUR
Brooklyn Man Fires Right and Left, Woman and Three Men Being His Victims.
NEW YORK. July 25. Running amuck on the New Haven-Boston express, due here about 9 o'clock tonight, Charles Burnell, thought to live in Brooklyn, shot three men and a woman. The wounded are Mrs. Bessie Thoreson Austin Dyer, Nathan S. Hae and an unidentified man.
Shortly before the train, comprised of ten cars, ran into Williams Bridge station, Burnell tied a bandana handkerchief about his face, pulled a revolver from his pocket and ordered Trainman John Stanley to throw up his hands. Stanley fled. Burnell followed, shooting right and left. The passengers, terror stricken, dropped to the floor and between the seats.
When men passengers rushed to capture the man, he pulled the emergency cord and leaped through a car window. He was later captured In a lumber yard, where the train stopped. The wounded were brought to a local hospital. Dyer, with a bullet In his abdomen, was reported dying at the hospital late tonight.
LONG FLIGHT POSTPONED.
Curtis. Says Airship Must Be Overhauled Before Starting. HAMMONISPORT, N. Y„ July 25. —Planned for August 15, the start of the trans-Atlantic flight of the AiriBoat America has been put off until October 1. Glenn Curtis, in charge of the construction of the Rodman Wanamaker craft, made this announcement changes in the construction of the late this afternoon. Trial tests and craft have so weakened Lt in Curtis' opinion, that it must be thoroughly overhauled before the long flight is attemr d.
UCAPES DEATH BY BOLT.
Divorced Wife of Millionaire Phipps Hurt During Storm. DENVER, Colo., July 25.—Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps, divorced wife of Lawrence Phipps, Denver multi-millionaire, narrowly escaped death late today when she was rendered unconscious by a lightning bolt. She was sitting in her home talking to a visitor during a thunder storm when the bolt came down the chimney and entered the room through an open fire place. Mrs. Phipps was revived, and her condition tonight was said not to be serious.
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Actions Against Water Works Co. Expected to Follow Devastation of Jasonville.
MANY HESITATE TO REBUILD UNLESS ASSURED PROTECTION
Others Plan Reconstruction, and Week May See New Buildings Going Up—Debris Being
Cleared Away.
By Staff Correspondent.
JASONVTLLiE, Ind., July 25.—Whether Jasonville will be able to recover from the loss sustained by* the fire which, Friday afternoon* dfev&stated eight blocks of business houses
the loss totaling close to 1500,000, as additional losses are reported, many of the merchants who were burned out by
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Blame for the great loss of property was placed today upon the laok of water. Indignant citizens declared that some means would be takers at once to force the water works company to supply the city with an adequate supply or forfeit the franchise lt now holds. Mayor S. D. Dempsey gave out the following official statement concerning the plan of the Jasonville citizens to establish protection against fire:
Mayor Up In Arms,
"On Monday we expect to see the holdings of the Reliance Engineering company transfered to the stockholders of a new water works concern. We will give this new concern just ten days to furnish us with water and, if after that time no water is furnished, the city will appear before the public utilities commission and demand that thcr company show why it should not forfeit its franchise. We intend to have water supply in Jasonville. If the water supply had been what lt should the loss of the fire would not have totalled $600. We have investigated and concluded that the flre started from the burning of rubbish in the rear of the Family theater. The strong wind carried the flames to the theater and the entire square was on flre before an effort could be made to stop the flames. I have a definite understanding that the Knights of Pythias, Dr. C. B- Collins, Irwin and Stark, Flem Van Meter, the Robinson block, the Electric Light company and the Southeastern depot will be rebuilt. We have hop«s that better buildings will be erected on the site of the burned district but the outcome depends mostly upon the water situation."
At the present the Burkhardt block, which was one of the large structures consumed in the flames, will not be rebuilt, Dr. T. A. Burkhardt said today.
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U. S. WEATHER REPORT.
TEMPERATURE RECORD, JUXY 28. 6 a. 78 3 p. 80 9 a. vr. 87 6 p. 78
Noon 94 7 p. 78
LOCAL, CONDITIONS AT 7 P. M., JULY 25. 1014. Temperature, 73 highest temperature Saturday, 96 precipitation. .18 direction of wind, southwest velocity of wind, ten miles per hour state of weather, cloudy relative humidity, 75 percent.
FORECAST.
TERRE HAUTE—Unsettled Sunday probably showers. INDIANA—Generally fair Sunday and Monday.
ILLINOIS—Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday not much change in temperature.
T. R. Wants Hinman for N. Y. Governor
HARVEY D. HUfSKAIV. ...
NEW YORK. July 25.—The attitude of Theodore Roosevelt and progressive leaders generally toward the candidacy of ex-State Senator Harvey D, Hinman for the New York governorship hae given' antl-^Barnes republicans confidence that the Albany leader will he driven from power in the republican organization at the fall election.
BAFFLED IN EFFORTS
Strike on Ninety-Eight Western Lines May Be Declared By Men's Committee Today.
CHICAGO, July 25.—Employes and general managers of 98 western railroads were deadlocked tonight after a week of futile effort by federal medi ators to bring peace. A conference of the employes' committee at 9:80 to morrow morning may result in th© is suance of a strike ultimatum, union officials declared tonight. Th® general manager's committee held a brief, session that adjourned at 8 o'clock tonight.
The committee considered the suggestion of federal mediators that they concede a slight increase in wages with the understanding that the men ihen agree to accept arbitration on the remaining points in dispute.
The railroad heads, according to Chairman A. W. Trenholm, decided to stand pat on their original proposition that all points in the dispute be arbitrated. They agreed to wait for the employes' committee to make the decisive move tomorrow.
The employes tonight reiterated that under no circumstances will they submit all their demands to a federal board of arbitration. At a stormy session of the union representatives that lasted until after six o'clock, several leaders among the employes demanded that the question of Issuing a strike ultimatum be put to an immediate vote.
It is understood that this action was blocked by W. S. Carter, president of the firemen's and englnemen's organization, who urged delay until the general managers had time to act on the mediators suggestion.
AUTO-CAR CRASH FATAL.
Two Persons Killed When Machine Collides. SPRINGFIELD, O., July 25.—Two persons were killed here tonight when an automobile crashed head-on into a traction car south of here. The dead: Mrs. Alta B. Graves, of Jeffersonville, O., Miss Sadie Williams, South Charleston, O. Seriously injured: Mrs. Georgia Blessing', Jeffersonville, O., Samuel Harris, chauffeur, escaped uninjured. He was detained by the police, who charged that he was in such condition that he failed to notice the headlight of th* annrntbr.hing street car.
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BELIEVED NEAR
Servia F&flg to Meet Austrian Demands, and Groat Powers Keep Eyes on Russia.
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King Leave* Belgrade With 8tatei Papers and Fund* for Interior *iy' —Czar Hold* Key to
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BUL/JRAIXHt J*ly 26.—Mobilization of the Serv1*m forces began this afternoon before receipt 6t the announcement that Austria had rejected the
^unsatisfactory. In xilities, Servia will to hold Belgrade. 1
event of actaal hoswill make no attempt
'grade. The king left for the
south this afternoon. The gairison, also withdrew. All state papers and funds were hurriedly gathered together and taken to the Interior. King •Peter, having taken a leave of absence recently because of ill health, the full weight of the crisis fell upon the crown prince. He was In constant conference with the cabinet today in framing the reply to the Austrian note.
The cabinet was given entire support in its stand that Servia could not tuscede to the demands of Austria without reservation, if the nation was r, avoid humbling Itself before the perior power of the dual monarch:
LONIXN, July 26.—The peace of all Europe is threatened tonight. Every preparation for war Is being made bv, Servia and Austria, while Russia, Germany, France, England and Italy are waiting only for some overt act on the part of one nation to rally to the sup-1 port of an ally. Servia today replied to the ultimatum delivered at Belgrade by Austria demanding the punishment! of all accomplices In the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the suppression of societies responsible for. the anti-Austrian sentiment in Bohemia. The Austria-Hungary note demanded a flat compliance or refusal of, the demands. The Servian reply was declared unsatisfactory, the Austrian minister was recalled from Belgrade,! and the formal opening1 of the war is expected hourly.
Believe Crisis Near.
Every European capital is stirreci with grave fears tonight. There is apprehension that the crisis which was studiously avoided during the course of the two recent Balkan wars has now been reached.
All eyes of Europe are upon Russia. It was generally believed that Servia would seek the support of the czar before framing a reply to the Austrian ultimatum. The Russian charge de affairs Is said to have called at the foreign office in Vienna today to arrange for an extension of the time limit in which Servia might reply. This request was refused.
Early reports were that Servia, failing to obtain more time, would likely make an evasive reply. This proved to be the case, and Austria refused to accept the Servian note.
London and all continental stock exchanges were demoralized today as a result of the threatened conflict. Extraordinary conferences of cabinet ministers were held in every capital. Members of the British cabinet were forced to forego their usual weekly visits and remained in London because of the critical situation.
Rumors were heard here that King Peter, of Servia, had abdicated, but they remained unconfirmed.
AUSTRIA STANDS PAT.
Prepares to Back Up Demands on Servia With War. VIENNA, July 25.—With all re*servists ordered to the colors, regular troops on the move and the fleet concentrating, Austria-Hungary was tonight prepared to back yp its ultimatum to Servia with war. Servia's reply
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