Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1915 — Page 1

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WILSON SOON TO WED AGAIN, HEANNOUNCES

Washington Society Surprised By Formal Announcement of Engagement to Mrs. Norman Gait.

INTERNATIONAL QUESTIONS PUSHED INTO BACKGROUND

News Generally Received With Pleasure By President's Friends— Bridc-to-Be Widow of Well

Known Lawyer.

WASHINGTON*. Oct. 7.—President Wiison and Mrc. Norman Gait, whose r:\:& re:r.ent was announced last .light at the white House, will be married robably the last week in D'ec-ember. The ceremony will be private, only (i few close friends being invited, and will t.irte place at the home of the bride on New Hampshire avenue near Dupi-.it circle.

I'or the third time in American history a president of the United States v.iil take a bride. In choosing, to 'nave fni' ceremony performed, not in l1i3 •white house but at the home of the bride. Mr. Wilson follows a precedent Bet by President Tyler who was married in New York in the Church of i-he Ascension. President Cleveland, the only other chief executive to be married while in office, was married in the white house.

Details Not Arranged.

President Wilson is a Presbyterian and Mrs. Gait an Episcopalian and no decision has been reachod yet as to which .service will be used at the wedding. Mrs. Gait is a member of St. Thomas. Episcopal church here.

The president has given Mrs. Gait no engagement ring arid one may be purchased on the trip to New York tomorrow.

It was said no detailed 'arrangement had..been made yet for the wedding. Tomorrow's party, given -by Col. "Housfc, .will be only the first of a series of tvhich ftr6 being planhed for the presidential party btJfore the time of the' wedding. Other cioae friends are planning prenuptial affairs and

AVashington is again beginning to take on its old aspect of social activity. The president had not chosen his best man, although Col. House would probably be hi3 choice.

The fact that the president of the United States, on whom the eyes of the world have frequently focussed in the last few months of the European, war, had decided to marry again gave the national capital a topic of absorbing interest, which for the moment overshadowed all questions of international or domestic politics.

The news came as a surprise to al'. but a few intimate friends, who knew that the friendship of the president for Mrs. Gait had developed into an intimacy that forcasted marriage. Close friends today admit their pleasure at its culmination, not only because of the personal happiness of the president but because it meant a change from a life of lonliness and unvaried occupation to an atmosphere of helpful companionship. His incessant labor alone in the white house during the period of mourning had affected his spirits. When he I egan to take a renewed interest in personal affairs his friends noted immediately a change for the better in his heaith and the energy with which he attacked tremendous problems before him.

Mrs. Gait is about 38 years old. youthful in appearance and simple in her tastes. She is the widow of a well

who died eight years ago. She was! niarried in 1S96. Before that she was Miss Edith Boiling of Wythe.ville, Va. Her father was William II. Boiling, aj lawyer of distinction.

Mrs. ijait was besieged today by I photographers and interviewers but nhe declined to add anything, to the •simple announcement made at the uh'te hoL-se !ast-night that she and the president of the United States were engaged to be married soon.

MARTIN AGAIN BEFORE COURT.

Charged With Failing to Contribute to Family's Support. Ralph Martin, who was before Judge Newton in City* Cour some time ago on a charge of failing to provide for his children, again faced the judge Thurs-i' day morning, having been arrested Wednesday by Patrolman McMillen for violating the court, order. It, Is said the man, who Was ordered to keep away from a woman on Spruce street, tailed to do so. The man said he had changed his boarding house from one place to another and had had nothing more to do with the woman. He was released on condition that he move the north part of the city and contribute to the support of his children

E E S I O W

If you cannot make up your mind what movie theatre to attend tonight look on page twelve of today's Tribune and look through the movie theatre directory.

VOL. XLI.—NO. 129. TEBRE HAUTE, IND.,<p></p>Forces

Birthday Anniversary of the Hoosier Poet Fittingly Observed Throughout the Ciey.

"Jim" Riley, the Hoosier poet whose verses send the little childreh upstairs to bed looking for goblins and out to the country seeking "Aunt Mary," would .have heard his sonnets sung by an army of 16,000 school children if he could have' been in Terre Haute Thursday. It was Jim's, birthday anniversary and the little children dropped their studies iong enough to hear the familiar njessages they love so well. Throughout the city appropriate' exercises were observed by the public schools in honor of the day.

The booklets prepared by the state department of education were used in .the schools. The booklets contained

Known business man of Washington ,, short sketches of Mr. -Riley and some of his poems. The childreh'listened intently while their teachers told of their loved tine's life. Then they joined in reciting his verses and singing his poems.

Library Decorated

At the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial library, the children's room was especially decorated for the day. Pictures illustrating some of Mr. Riley's poems were placed on the walls and his bot.s

The President on Riley

INDIANAPOLrlS, Oct. 7—President Woodrow Wilson, replying to an invitation to attend the Riley day banquet here tonight, expressed Ills regrets to Charles Warren Fairbanks, who will be toastmaster, as follows: "I am sorry to say 'that it will not. be possible for me to be present at the banquet which the citizens of Indianapolis are planning to give jn honor of James Whitcomb Riley, but I want t6 ask you if you will not be generous enough to convey to Mr. Riley on that occasion a message of cordial regard and admiration from me. "I wish that I might be present to render my tribute of affectionate appreciation to him for the many pleasures he has given me along with the rest of the great body of readers of English. I think he has every reason to feel on his birthday that he has won the hearts of his countrymen."

Heres Your Invitation

The Tribune invitee the •of Terre Haute to see the world series .games' played the Tr.iburife scQ?e board beginning Friday at !1 O'clofck. The Tribune will have the Associated

RIIEV PAID TRIBUTE BY SCHOOL CHILDREN

WEI IN FOR WINTER Tl

Mr. Cade Says Temperature Will Make Sharp Drop During Night —Frost Coming, Too.

The lowest temperature of the fall season is being noted in the central and northern western states, according to W. R. Cade, weather man, and is moving eastward, probably fast enough to reach this locality by Friday morning, when the thermometer may come within a few degrees of freezing. The weather Thursday morning was a little colder than normal,, according to Mr. Cade, but it will be more so Friday..

There is likely to be a heavy frost Thursday night also, and the weatherman has advised that all. delicate plants should be protected from the weather. The frost, Mr. Cade says, likely will be heavier than any this fall.

SAYS BOOTLECGER IS BUSY AT PENAL FARM

George Brewster, a carpenter, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced for

wore placed on conspicuous shelves po twenty days on the penal farm by that the little ones could again recall I Judge Newton Thursday. The judge said: "I am sending you baclc there

Continued on Page 10, Column 2. to help you." Brewsteir said: "You can't help anyone there. They have a bootlegger on the job."

Judge Newton asked him if it was a penal farm employe. Brewster refused to state, merely saying: "I can bring you back a bottle of whisky if you want one." W

SEEBURGER IS APPRAISER.

Named to Value Estates of Dr. Schell and Moses Pierson. Louis P. Seeburger, county assessor, was appointed the appraiser of the estate of Dr. Walker Schell and Moses Pierson, by the probate commissioner, Thursday morning. Dr. Schell died on September 13, leaving as his onlv beneficiary his wife, Mrs. Schell. Mr. Pierson leaves four heirs, the widow, Mrs. Laura T. Pierson, Mrs. Mary L. Williams, a daughter, and two sons, Charles E. and Frank M. Pierson.

Seeburger will appraise the estates and submit his report to the probate commissioner who will levy inheri-tance-tax on all the beneficiaries.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915.<p></p>Begin

Austro-German Serb Invasion

STATE RESTS MAYOR QENIES PLOTCHARGES

D3fense In Case of Joseph Bell Calls Accused Man to Stand As First Witness.

DID NOT NAME INSPECTORS OR ENTER INTO CONSPIRACY

Capital Executive Says If There Was Any Arrangement Made About Primary He Did Not

Know of It.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 7.—The state closed its case in chief in the trial of Mayor Joseph B. Bell, charged with election conspiracy, today. The defense was prepared to start introduc mg testimony immediately.

The prosecution used"approximately 675 witnesses during four weeks it was presenting evidence.

The trial" was begun a month ago today—Sept. 7. The first eight days were consumed in obtaining a jury and in tlie making of opening statements by the prosecution and the defense.

Attorneys for the defense have stated they will probably be able to introduce all of their evidence in chief within a week or ten days,

Only three witnesses were examined by the state today. Merrill Moores, republican representative in congress from this district, was one of them. Moores told of seeing automobiles at a polling place and of seeing occupants of the cars conferring with James H. (Bud) Gibson. j.

Joseph B. Koesters. deputy city clerk, was c'tUled arid asked what was done. with umber of men arrested charged with false registration or il legal voting. With one exception, the charges were dismissed,'he said.

William Jackson, a colored republican worker* who testified yesterday, v&s .• reaajkfd" he saw P&trolpaan £0}eri'dan.,bring W1I-

service with special wire .right ij ward. Oct. l$i4, aridthit'Ptettlt gifttb the Boston---and Philadelphia l.jstered.

parks arid the pilays will be* flashed -4n--istanlmieously. This is your invitation, fans. This show »'starts Friday at .1 o'clock. .*

'Pettit testified A-evlously that' hS •'was in the :^orkhpu«5 sit the time itn(S that William iplauer, city employe And a co-defendant, arranged for him to leave the workhouse and register.

M'yor Bell was the first Witness for the defense. Mayor Bell was questioned by M. A. Ryan.

The mayor\ said he was born on a soaring sky high and then, figuring farm in Union county, Indiana. 'that she ha I enough, "cashed in. said he taught School in winter and worked on the farm in summer until he was 22, then attended the law school at Ann Arbor, Mich. He came to InF^apolis In August, 1880, and began the practice of law. He was assistant city attorney during the three terms of Thomas Ta^gart, as mayor, and later was a law partner of John W. Kern, before he was elected United States senator. He said he was elected mayor in 1913. Ryan then began to ask about the preliminaries of the 1913 campaign on which the charge of conspiracy is based.

Chairmanship Matter.

1/layor Bell said he favored Fred Barrett for democratic chairman and said Adolph Seidensticker did not become a candidate for the position until after he had given his promise to support Barrett who was elected. Barrett was indicted with Mayor Bell.

Mayor Bell said he favored certain candidates for places on tne democratic ticket and named Edward Lyons for treasurer

Richard Coleman,

fori

clerk Joseph Turk, for recorder Roy Sahm, for auditor Theodore Portteus, for sheriff: Joseph T. Markey, for judge of the criminal court Reginald Sullivan, for prosecutor, and othws. In answer to questions from Ryan, the mayor said the candidates he supported were personal friends and principally were either seeking re-election or had been clerks in the office which they sought. He said he told Clyde Baker, who opposed Sahm for the

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S. WEATHER REPORT.

TEMPERATURE RECORD. OCT. 7. 6 a. m.

45 N

9 a. 9 3 p. 55 Relative humidity at 2 p. m., 37 per cent.

IOCAl A. M„

CONDITIONS AT OCTOBER 7. 1015. Temperature, 4G highest temperature yesterday, 61 lowest temperature last night, 45 precipitation. 0 direction of wind, west velocity of wind, three miles per hour state of the weather, clear relative humidity, SO

per cent.

FORECAST.

"Avoid Wall Street" Says Fair Singer Who Won Fortune There in Five Days

MME. PRAJICES ALDA.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—If you have her stock and retained the other half, any money and you aim to beat the As the'result of her five days' dabble game as it is played in Wall street, in Wall street, she has added quite a take the advice cf Mne. Frances Alda, snug sum to her .bank account. the noted prima donn who wort a fortune there in fr-'e days, and keep out of it. .Starling with the proverbial "shoestring," fllie'saw: her investment go

To play perfectly safe she sold halt where are you?"

FOUR DIE IN BLAST SEVEN OTHERS HURT

Blast At Explosive Plant Making Supplies for Allies Believed to Be Accidental.

"EMPORIUM, Pa., Oct.

7.—Four

men

were instantly killed, another probably fatally hurt and sjx seriously injured,' it was stated today, as the result of an explosion last night at the plant of the Aetna Explosive company. A large

quantity of smokeless powder, pre-

pared for shipment today to the allies, exploded from'some let undetermined cause, blew the two story drying house to atorris and shook the surrounding country for miles around.

Inasmuch la's the mills had been closely guarded day and night officials expressed the opinion today that the explosion was accidental. The investigation is being continued.

The dead men are": J. JENSEN. 48. H. JENSEN, 24 (son of J. Jensen.) J. MARSHALL, 26.

KNAPP.

A man named Ellison, of Port Allegheny, was so seriously injured that he is not expected to survive.

The plant, which was recently erected at a cost of $5,000,000, consisted of a large number of small buildings of which the wrecked one was one of the largest. Officials fix the property loss at $315,000.

When a touring car driven by Charles Adams, of Mt. Mcfriah, Mo., containing Mr. and Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Ernest Wanamaker, sister of Mrs. Adams, went over an embankment near Greencastlt, Ind., late Wednesday, Mrs. Wanamaker was thrown out and against a barbed wire ]fence, suffering

TERRE HAUTE—Fair tonight and Friday colder, with frost tonight. INDIANA—Fair and colder with Injuries which necessitated her oeing frost, probably heavy north portion brought to St. Anthony's hospital. She Friday fair and colder.

OTHER I,OCAL REPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer: 7 a. m., 54 2 p. m., 60.

River Stage—3.7 feet falling.

was cut a

bout the face and he^d, and

one ear was almost torn off. She was able, however, to leave the hospital about noon Thursday, and left for Chicago.

However, Mme. Alda says: "For

:women

to invest in Wall .street is a

'mistake and it shouldn't be done. With rpe of odurs.e it i's different. The friend who gave rrie the tip is so-much on the /know-' that I could not haVe gone far

.... Wrong in *tny Speculation. The: times

A very good friend had tipped her off ppne wins stand out bright and rosy. But to r. "sure thing," but not with the the first thing one knows the money usual results in "sure thing" betting1,

i'one

has invested goes 'pouf!' and then

WIDOW SEEKS TO AID II

Mrs. Ella P. Smith Petitions Court to Be Allowed to Hire Counsel .. to Assist State.

Mrs 'Ella P. Smith, guardian of the minor heirs of B. Elroy Smith, former manager of the Orpheum theatre, who was killed by Mrs. Myrtle Gibbons, Thursday filed a petition in the Probate Court asking permission to contribute $200 to the state for the'prosecution of Mrs. Gibbons, who is "to be tried in the Clay county circuit court during the September term.' Mrs. Smith says it is to the best interests of the estate that the iu:cus6d be convicted and for this r'easbri asks'permission to employ counsel for the pro'sedution. With Mrs. Smith's petition w^ais filed another by the administrators of the estate, Ralph E. Smith and John L. Crawford, who say that the verdict' in the case will have a material effect on the settlehierit of the estate, since there Is an insurance policy to Mrs. Gibbons, by the deceased, naming the estate as the beneficiary. For this reason they petition the court to allow the $200 appropriation to be made.

Mrs. Gibbons was some time ago indicted by the grand jury and charged with murder of Mr. Smith. The case was venued to Clay county by Mrs. Gibbons' attorney, Carson Hanfill. It is pending during the adjourned session of the court awaiting the Vigo county council's appropriation of funds for the defense of murder prisoners. The appropriation was made by the council at the last session and Mr. Hamill says that the case will be brought to trial as speedily as possible.

At the same time administrators filed another petition asking the court to be allowed to advance to the Crescent theatre, which is owned by the estate, the sum of $450. The petition says the theatre is not returning any profits. The petition charges that during the past month the theatre has not been realizing enough money to meet the expenses and that it is in need of the money. It says that the rent of the building occupied by the theatre amounts to $250 a month.

WEATHER

PAID.

FOUR O'CLOCK—ONE CENT

BULGARSSOON TO ENTER WAR WTTHTEUTONS

News of Active Partioipa&on of Balkan State In Conflict Hourly 4 Expected In London.

GREECE FACING A COALITION t. CABINET FOLLOWING CRISIS

Allies Convinced, However, That Shfet Will Give No Active Assistance--/ ., to Neighbor—Battles -^U rider Way.

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BULLETIN.

BERLIN, Oct. 7.—Large Gemuui and Austrian forces have invaded Serbia. The Teutonic troops have crossed the Drina, Save and Danube, rivers at many places, the war office announced today.

It is stated that the invading troops have established firm foothojds' on the other banks of .the river*.

BULLETIN.

LONDON, Oct. 7.—An officialdis-,, patch reached London today stating' that the Austro-German armies con-, centrated against Serbia comprise total of 400,000 men.

BULLETIN.

LONDON, Oct. 7.—The Bulgarian^ minister to Italy was handed his pass% ports today by the Italian foreign! minister, according to a Stefani B* News agency dispatch from Rome- -.1

BULLETIN.

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GENEVA,? Qct. 7. Informa«i«n* reached Geneva- by Way «f Munch tor'^ day frVrtt gotiTtfa which in ,r*gardtfH as reliable, that Rumania will issue 4^ decree for 'g«neral^-mobtiueatfon the next twelve hour*. frV''*fV

BULLETIN.

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BERLIN, Oct. 7.—Announcement* was made at the war office today that the German troops which have been' attempting to capture the important^/ Russian city of Dvinsk have bene-1 trated Russian positions before the city. over a width of about three miles. -'.J

BULLETIN.

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PARIS, Qct. 7.—A special to Petit Journal from Athens says rupture between King Conatantine. &rMI M. Venizeloa followed a visit of the German minister to the Ifing immedi ately after the session of the chamber at which Venizelos outlined the poHcy he expected Greece to follow.^wV": 'kf

BULLETIN.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 7.—Field Marshal Liman Von Sanders,.who has been the German commander of the Turkish forfbs .in Europe, has arrived Philipopolis^-* Bulgaria, midway between Adrianpole and Sofiaf, where he was met by King Ferdinand, according to a telegram tii the Vaze D'"Z News Agency.

BULLETIN.

LONDON, Oct. 7.—Alexander Zal» mis has accepted King Constaotine'a invitation to form a new cabinert, cording to a Reuter dispatch from* Athens. He has assured leaders of' the opposition that they will be al-,i lowed representation.

The list of new ministers probably' will be presented for the king's aoproval within a few hours. M. ZaH mis will combine the dutiei Of fofreign minister with those of premier and it is expected his associates will include former Premier Gounarie, RhaJ*/ lis, Dragoumis aitJ Theotokis. ».• -v

LONDON, Oct. 7.—The allies having broken off diplomatic relations vkl'. Bulgaria, news ds momentarily pec ted of that nation's active par** ticipation in the war. oh the side of th% central powers.

Her king and late -leader. Of her gor«ernment being at odds, Greece 'is" fkc--ing a coalition cabinet, pending" th#| ,, construction of which hfer policy "will be obscure. There are no mis&iviiigsJ in England, however, that she. Will, co*operate in any way with Bulgaria Thecabinet crisis has in no manner impeded the landing of allied troops at Saloniki, and the fact that these forces are on Greek soil is considered the best^ guarantees that Greece ultimately must align herself with the entente'powers.v

Champagne, in the west, arid Dvinsk.' in the east, are now the scenes, of the struggles most likely to bring decisive results. The Germans are still en-' gaged in concentrating against DVirislc, evidently bent on a supreme ettort: to take the city. The Russians, however, are delivering hard blows all along the" line, and the British and French })resS profess to see a general Russian fre«j covery" for which the activities of the* allies in the west are given credit.

Capture by the French of the vJll&fcife? and hill of Tahure Is a success of siderable importance.

On most of the remainder* "of tflffr French front there is still pending violent cannonading which proceeds? infantry attacks. ,7^*