Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 September 1916 — Page 1

LEDUC STANDS BY WIFE, SHOT IN APARTMENT

Husband of Woman Wounded When J, C. Graveur was Slain Believes Her Faithful.

•RT.Anunr.s dead BUSINESS MAN 1 FOR INVOLVING HIS WIFE

Says He Is Convinced That She Met Him By Accident and Only Consented to Take Auto

Ride.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 28,— v Hurrying to the bedside of his wife, the one survivor in the triple shooting

In & hotel here yesterday, Joseph C. Le^Duc, of Chicago, today said he had •very confidence in her loyalty to him and that he would stick to her through all the trouble.

Mrs. lie DUc is in Jefferson hospital. She was improved today and physicians said she will recover unless complications Bet in. She was shot by Mrs. Hfarry Belser, of New York, who found fear and J. C- Graveur, also of New York, In a hotel room. Mrs. Belzer killed Graveur. who had discarded her after a friendship of two years, and also ehdjed her own life. There was an starting meeting when Le Due reached the TCdside of his wife, where he remained for some time. Later he was escorted to detective headquarters for *ji interview with the captain or detectives.

Trusts Wife Fully.

Before reaching the hospital, Le Due told of his happy married "life of fifteen years and his,implicit trust in his wife. He repeated many times his belief in her faithfulness to him. Le Due said he did not believe his wrte had visited Atlantic City with Graveur. He thought she probably met him accidentally in New York and consented to take an automobile ride to this city'.

The husband asked many questions about the shooting, saying he had only a fragmentary knowledge of the afiair fathered from newspapers. He -asked how Graveur and his wife had registered at the hotel and when told as man and Wife, his face grew grave. "That was the work of Graveur arid I "am sure Lillian did riot know" it," he* exclainged. "I always Regarded Joe as a square man and I canpot understand his actions."

Before her marriage 'Mrs. Le Due was Lillian Kappes, of Cincinnati, where her rpother now lives.

Statements Conflict.

At the hospital Le Due encouraged his wife ^o cheer up so that he could take her back to Chicago. Mrs. Le

Due.,said she came to Philadelphia by train and not by automobile as reported, to see her nephew and his baby, /recently born. She denied she had traveled to various, pities with Graveur and suggested that her identity had been confused with that of Mrs. Belzer. Mrs. Le Due said Graveur learned she vv-as in Philadelphia and then met her. The same evening, Mrs. Le Due said,\th£y went to a treatre, then supper and a dance on the roof garden of the hotel was suggested. Mrs. Le Due said she did not want to be encumbered with her handbag and at

Graveurfs sugestion she left it i,n his room on the floor below. Mrs. Le Due further said she intended returning to New York that night and after the dance she went with Graveur to his room for the sole purpose of getting the handbag. As they entered, Mrs. S.Le Due said, Mrs. Belzer, who Graveur thought he had induced to i^furn to

New York, jumped from a *cmset and began shooting. Miss Mac Andrew, sister of Mrs. Belzer, who came here today to clam the body of Mrs. Belzer, said Mrs. Le Due's statement that Mrs. Belzer had come here with Graveur was not true. She also denied that her sister had lived with Graveur.

CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 28.—Mrs. oseph C. LeDuc, befofe her marriage here 15 years ago, was Miss Lillian Kappes of this city. Her fatter Phillip Kappes, up to the time of his death, several years ago. was a prominent manufacturer here. Her mother who is now Mrs. Amelia Schaarzraben', making her home with relatives in Norwood, O., a suburb, but could not be located early today.

Mrs. LeDuc is remembered here as l-eing a leader in German society circles previous to her marriage.

PRES. WILSON'S TOUR.

He Will Speak in New York and "Go After" Charles E. Hughes. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 28.— President 'Wilson today accepted invitotions to deliver two speeches in New York state, one in New York City and other in Buffalo. He "will challenge Charles Evans Hughes to answer the questions which have been put to him, relative to whether or not he would repeal the eight-hour day law, whether pr not he would declare war on Germany as Roosevelt wants him to, and whether or not he would repeal any of the great constructive laws President "Wilson has been instrumental in pass ing.

BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.

LONDON, Sept. 28.—The 2,100-ton British teamship Stathe and the Swedish bark Bengula, 698 tons, have been -sunk. A Christiana dispatch to .Lloyds says the crews of the Swedish \8.teamsl|ips Knut Hilde and Dania have beeh'lfiiided.

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IGHES-FWANhS CONFLICT ON MEXICO

Public Utterances of Candidates Show They Are Not In Accord on Issue.

.NEW YORK, Sept., 28.—Chairman Vance McCormick, of the democratic national.. cpjmmittee,.. expressed the opinion that Mr. Hughes and his running mate,. Charles W. Fairbanks, do -not. agree. on the M^xicfan question, this, opinion, being based on one of Mr. Fairbanks' utterances, .. ."I. wond.e.r. if .Charles E._ Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks succeeded in composing their differences on the

Mexican question upon the occasion of their widely heralded meeting at Indianapolis Saturday," said Mr. McCormick. "Mf. Hughes attacks thex administration's Mexican policy, and his running mate approves the course of President Wilson in this language: 'It is not the horn- for either little politics or sensational journalism. The clamor of the jingoes should not be allowed to drown the voice of rational, deliberate statesmanship. It is a pretty safe rule, when we come to deal with grave international problems, to put Our faith in the president of the United States and follow where he may lead. He speaks for the country when we come to deal with international affairs. The president of the United States is a safer guide than sensationalists and soldiers of fortune who come ^o the surface whenever international controversies arise.'

Confident of Indiana.

"Indiana is all right," went on Mr. McCormick. "We will carry it. John W. Kern and Thomas Taggart will run right along with President Wilson. The people there are beginning to realize that if Mr. Hughes is elected Reed Smoot will be at the head of-the public lands coirimittee, Penrose the leader, Warren at the head of appropriations, Gallinger leader pro tem, Clark at, the head of the judiciary committee, Lodge of foreign affairs, Sutherland of public buildings^ and Smith of naval affairs. I don't think the people will appreciate the make-up. "Congressman Frank E. Doremus, of Michigan, talked with Chairman* McCormick concerning conditions' in the middle west and said later: "^Jr. Hughes is losing votes every day by his attack upon the administration for averting the, threatened railroad strike. I have visited communities that have been visited also by the republican candidate, and I know the people are not in sympathy. with his

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By ^Nora BalK Ragsdale.

Did you ever think what it would mean to be separated from -the other half of yourself? If you can imagine such a circumctance, then you perhaps can appreciate the feelings that twins have regarding separation ffom each other.

There are now- in the Rose orphan home two whole pairs of twins and another two whose other halves nave oeen taken away. Superintendent ISmest Alden is quite anxious to keep the two whole pairs together. First, he thinks it right that they should .be together and second, the youngsters are frank to tell anybody that they don't want to gosinto different homes..

Now, here's a pair of the most likely young Americans that I've seen lately! They are Alvin and Calvin Lavely,- fclghVyeiirfi old. So prCttd^are*- they

VOL. XLHI.—NO. 120. TERRE HAUTE, IND.„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916.

"BRING ON THE STEAK"

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ATLACTA

Internal Revenue Officers Discover Still in Basement With Complete Illicit Outfit.

ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 28.—Three negroes were arrested here today charged •with operating an illicit whiskey distillery in the heart of Atlanta's business district. They were takeq,, ln a rata- on the ternal revenue officers who said It. was in full operation when they arrived! Search is beirig made today for another negro in connection with the raid.

The '6\itfit, concealed in a basement beneath a blacksxnith shop, consisted of fifty gallon stills with complete attachments. According to federal officers, the distillery apparently had been in operation fbr several months and so cleverly was it concealed that it might have befen continued indefinitely had npt a negro reported it.

Only entrance' to the urban "moonshine" still, the officers said, was through a trap door leading from the rear of the blacksmith shop. The smoke from the boilers escaped through the chimney that served the bellows of the blacksmith shop and waste from the whisky making drained directly into the city sewerage system.

To neutralize th£ unavoidable alcohol odors, officers said,' a large ciuantity of a deodorant was kept in the basement.

BIS N. I STRIKE FAILS

NEW YORK, Sept. 28—Leaders of union labor appeared today to have met with some small success in their renewed efforts to bring about their promised general strike to aid the striking traction employes, which was called to begin yesterday. Despite the claims of the leaders that the number who have quit work totals more than 125,000, police officials said today that If a strike was in progress there was little evidence of it. Service on the elevated and subway lines continued normal today.

YOUTH KILLS FATHER.

VINCENNES, Ind., Sept.' 27.—James Cary, 65 years, who was shot by his son, Fremont Cary, Sunday afternoon, •ed today. The spinal cord had been severed by a bullet. Fremont Cary, who is held in jail, is said to have fired at his father after the elder Cary had attacked the son's wife.

Two Pairs of Twins That May Have To Be Split

of their Irish descent that they both wore green ties while being interviewed Thursday. They looked at the floor shy-like at first, holding each other by the hand. "Would you like to have a real nome and somebody to be real mother to you?" I asked one of the youngsters. 1 admit I couldn't tell which from t'other. "Yes, ma'am," eagerly spoke up the one less shy. "What kind of a home like?" he was next asked. "A good home—a home in the country," answered the same youngster without hesitation. "What can you do, any kind work?" "Yes. I can wash dishes," he said

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THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE

CROWDSGREET MOSS ON TOUR THROUGH VIGO

West Terre Haute Audience of Workingmen Hear History of EightHour Day Movement.

FARMERS APPLAUD PEACE POLICIES OF PEES. WILSON

Audiences Said to Be Largest That Have Been Seen in District for Years—Moss Expresses His

Gratitude.

Wednesday evening Congressman Ralph W. Moss read the appeal of Ira, C. Copley of the Eleventh congressional district of Illinois to the voters ol his district for their (support in the republican primaries setting forth that he deserved to be returned to congress because he supported every democratic constructive measure in his previous term, declaring it to be the most magnificent tribute ever paid to any political party by any other party. Mr. Moss read the appeal which was prepared by the Coplc-y campaign managers in full and asked his hearers to decide whether it i? in keeping with some of the criticisms bein^ hurled £^t the'Wilson administration, considering that it was compiled with the idea of interesting the republican voters of the Eleventh district of Illinois in the return of their republican congressman, because he voted to make law the democratic measures.

Mr. Moss addressed' a vety demonstrative audience in a room at Mcllroy street and Paris avenue in West Terre Haute and in spite of the adverse weather conditions there were about two hur dred Sugar Creett township democrats in attendance.

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Moss Warmly Greeted.

When the speaker was introduced he was met by a storm of applause and many times during his discourse he wsCp halted by the cheers of his listeners.

He opened his addresss by declaring that one must go back to before the time of the. civil war to $nd a period of four years w'hich have been spent under the democratic administration until the last term of which President Wilson has been president and "i artr

years of democratic rule anS' aeciare that 'I am a democrat after- seeing all of this prosperity and peace which you are enjoying. As a positive proof of your prosperity I bid you look at the industries of this county.- All of the plants are running full time and more men are Jelng employed at higher wages than ever before. Look at the work of enlarging the present factories. Look at the enormous plant being erected north of your city ht a cost of more than two million dollars. Only today I was told by the officers of one of the large industries of Terre Haute that- the company is beinsr delayed in its work on account of the shortage pt steel. The newspapers of the country are daily carrying stories of the unfilled orders of the great steel mills, some of which a A refusing to, accept contracts for delivery before next fall. Many of them will have work until that time if they do not accept another single contract. Look at the postal receipts. Look at the question of freight rates. Consider even the increased receipts of the five and ten cent stores of the country."

No Fool's Paradise.

"The net earnings of the railroads of this country for the last year have been more than a billion dollars. Only the other day as I came down from the north part of the' state I talked with one of the officials of the Monon railroad and he volunteered the information that his road had enjoyed an increase of 242 per cent during the past twelve months." I could go on almost indefinitely showing you improved financial conditions but I want to take up some of the measures which have made this Increase in prosperity possible." "Somebody may say, -Moss, it is due to the war.' Mr. Hughes calls it a 'fool's paradise.' No\y for that argument I want to show the expert records which show that only three per cent of our exports are for war purposes, and I believe that will answer this suggestion as effectively* as I could if I talked for an hour." "When Presideat Wilson took his chair he made the statement that a number of the laws needed amendments and as soon as they were reconstructed a great wave of prosperity would sweep over the entire county, and when he took the presidency he could not have known that this great

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UNCLE I0E fS GUEST OF JAKE EINKELSTEIN

Uncle Joe Cannon, patron of the stand-patters, dropped Into town Wednesday night and held an improptu reception at the Terre Haute house as the guest of Jake Finkelstein, local republican leader. He later went to the Finkelstein home where he was a guest until noon today. Mr. Cannon and Mr. Finkelstein made an automobile tour about the city before he left. Uncle Joe promised "Jake" that he would urge Mr. Hughes to give Terre Haute a speaking date. "Jake" said he would go ahead with, his plans to have Hughes hefre October 16th. 1.

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C. C. Connelly, state field examiner who, it was recently announced, had been appointed manager of the new Morris bank to be operted in this city soon, hasr declined the appointment,/it was announced Thursday by members of the board of directors 'of the bank. Manford Collins, abstractor, has been appointed to the place and will assume his duties on the opening of the bank!

Mr. Collins has been in the abstract business in Terre Haut^ for the past eighteen years. He was with the Hendrich Abstract company for eight years and ten years ago he and Will Hendrich and James Fitzpatrick organized the Terre Haute Abstract company and he is still a member of the firm. He is also a member of the Anchor Printing company, organized about a year ago. In speaking of his appointment Thursday morning he said he was not in a position to give any of the plans for the bank but that he would go to New York Sunday to meet with the managers of other banks of this plan next week.

SPRINGS A NEW ONE.

Prisoner ^tartles Judge and Is Hur-

ried Along.

If the revenue men hear about this they may impose a new tax on catsup. When Harry Lauthen, 31 years old, was arraigned in City Court for stealing a bottle of catsup, he sprang a new one on Judge Newton. He told the judge he had been in dry territory for a year and'that when he came to Terre Haute to see a brother he Just naturally fell. "But where does this catsup come in," inquired Judge Newton.' "Well, I always drink catsup to sober up, judge," said Lauthen. "Get back into dry territory," warned the judge, "if this secret gets out canning factories will be forced to build additions.

U. S. WEATHER REPORT.

TEJIPERATURE RECORD SEPT. 2S. 6 a. 62 Noon 63 9 a. .m 66 3 p. 5V

Relative humidity, noon. 95 per cent.

OCAI. CONDITIONS AT 7 A. M. SEPTEMBER 28,1916. Station pressure. 29.28 temperature, 61 highest temperature yesterday, 84 lowest temperature last night, 61 e ciiMtation. 5 2 i e i o n o wind, northwest velocity of wind, 8 i e s e o u state of weather, cloudy relative humidity, 93 per cent.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Generally fair tonighjt and Friday much cooler. INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight and colder Friday fair and colder.

ILLINOIS—Partly cloudy and cooler tonight probably frospsvorth and west portions Friday fatjpSM®- cooler, moderate to fresh nortf%^ffij^e winds.

OTHER LOCAL REPORTS. Temperature by Bunlin's thermometer, 7 a. m., G3 tl p. m., HJ.

River stage—0.0 feety

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Four People Killed When Auto Meets Train At Liggett Crossing

FORF.ST COXLEY. ORTiA LANG./

MKS. FORKST COWLEY. MRS. ORI-A LANG. "Mr., and Mrs. Lang, Mr. Conley and i Charleston. Mrs. Conley was seriously the latter's srqall child' were -killed! injured and was brought to St. AnSundav whpn a VfiTirtsLHsi trflin ^trurk hospitfll IVQFGf foltt llEtS 8lnC6 rh^rvL vanaaiia. tram Struck bepn able to be removed to her home. It the Conley automobile at Liggett cross- is said that they speeded right into the ing, six miles west the city, when they side of the swiftly moving train as it were returning to their home in cronsed the roacl

Abstract Man iTakes When-Field Examiner C. C. Connelly Declines.

Regist^ced MaiLjPoticlt^is Stolen By Men Who Halt Engine and Beat Fireman. v

DETROIT, M-icJi., -Sept. -28.—Search was being pressed vigorously today for a gang of men, believed to number Ave or six, who late last night held up the New York-Chicago express, east bound* on the Michigan Central near Dearborn, 10 miles west of here, and after beating Fireman John Doherty into unconsciousness, made off with one pouch of registered mail. How much they obtained will not be known until postal authorities in Chicago arid New York check up' the registered matter.

The coaches and Pullmans were no% entered. Wtyle only two men participated in the actual work of th6 holdup it is believed they had several accomplices waiting at a- point previously- decided upon for the deed. The two men boarded the train somewhere east of Ypsilanti, concealing themselves between two cars. iShortly before Dearborn was reached they climbed over the tender and covering the engine crew with revolvers ordered them to continue until told to stop. Before climbing over they had uncoupled the mail and baggage car from the rest of the train. The order to stop was given two miles beyond Dearborn, ana as the train slowed down, one of the men hit Firpman Doherty over the head with the Dutt end of a revolver, rendering fcim unconscious.

Escape In Auto.

Engineer Charles Palmer was then taken from the cab to the floor or the mail car. Showing him a bottle which the robbers said contained nitroglycerine, they told him to tell the mail clerk to open the door or they Would blow the car to pieces. The door was opened and the .two holdup -M^en entered the car with the engineer between them. One mall pouch was thrown out and picked up by a third member of the gang.

The mail clerk was then locked in his car, and the engineer returned to his cab, where he was kept covered while cne of the, men drew the lire from under the boiler.

The hold up men then disappeared. Engineer Palmer declares he heard the sound of an automobile shortly after he re-entered his cab, and believes the machine was waiting for the gang.

HURLS BOMB ROBS SALOON.

Bold Thief Escapes With $450 and Bartender's Watch. VALPARAISO, Ind., Sept. 28. A bomb was hurled against the wall* of the book store operated In connection with Valparaiso university-early today, smashing a window and shattering a part of the wall. Policeman Charles Cook, who was near®!^ building, was so badly stunned by the*"explosion that he was unable to determine who threw the missile.

Shortly after the explosion, Rudolph Will, bartender in the Hub saloon, was held up by an armed man who escaped with $450 from the safe in the saloon and Will's watch. T^ie police are working the theory thwt the -bojnb ex plosion was a ©art of t^*"* plan, s-

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FOUR O'CLOCK' -ONE CENT

GREECE READY TOSTARTWAR UPONBULGARS

King Constantine Decides Upon Immediate Declaration Opening Hostilities.

GERMANS RENEW ATTACKS AGAINST FOES AT VERDUB

Reported That Greek Battleship* Have Joined Entente FleetTeutons Lose Heavily In'

French Encounter.

BULLETIN.

ATHENS, Wednesday, Sspt. 27*— (Via London, Sept. 28, 10:30 a.- m.)— The Associated Press is in a position to state positively that King Constantine decided this morning in favor of an immediate declaration of war' on Bulgaria. v

BULLETIN.

LON.DON, Sept. 28.—British troop* last night advanced at various point* on the Somme front between Martin* puich and Guedeoourt, says the British official statement issued today.

BULLETIN.

BERLIN, Sept. 28.-—German *troopf* yesterday repulsed the "'Anglo- French forces on a great part of the bUttl* front between the A no re brook and the river Somme, says the official state* ment issued today by the German army headquarters.

BULETIN.

BERLIN, Sept. 28.—German aviator* yesterday again dropped a great number of bombs on Bucharest, according to today's German official statement, which adds that several points of the city "are still burning as the result of our previous attack."

LONDON, Sept. 28.—The council of Greek* ministers has decided in agreeipent with King Constantine upon military co-operation with the entente* powers, says a Reuter dispatch from Athens dated Wednesday.

The Greek battleship Hydra has joined the allied fleet, according to a, Reuter dispatch from Athens.

There is an unconfirmed report, the

ships Spetsai and Psara and fpu Greek destroyersjalko have if. combined Anglo-French n&Vkl Tbtdui under Vice Admiral I)ufournet" iri thfc'J Mediterranean.

PARIS, Sept. 28.—12:30 p. m.—A strong attack was made by the Germans last night, on the Verdun frotit between Thiaumont and Fleury. The war office announced today that thd assault has been repu&ed with heavy losses for the Germans.

MINER FALLS TO DEATH

George EggleSton, 48 years old, 219 South Eighth street, West Terre Haute, met instant death shortfy after' 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Wizard mine, where he is employed. According to the report of the accident, EggJeston had just left the mine cage* With several other miners when ha l6st* his balance and fell 65 feet to the bottom of the shaft. Coroner Garrigus found the man had suffered»a fractured skuil and both legs were broken.

Joseph Smith and -Glen Hlggenbotham were with the unfortunate man' when the accident happened and although they made frantic efforts tocatch him their attempts were futile.

Hfggleston Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Percilla Eggleston, one daughter, Miss Mildred, and six sons, Joseph, George, Charles M, Clarence A., Daniel O. and John W., one sister and* one brother Mrs. Sarah Mullin and Adolphus Eggleston, both of Charleston, W Va. Mr. Eggleston was a member of West Terre Haute lodge, K. of P. of which he was keeper or( records and seals, and was also secretary of the endowment rank of the order. He wa*' a member of New Hope lodge, I. o. O. F., the encampment, I. O. O. Ruth lodge of Bebekah, and West Terre Ilaute Temple Pythian gisters.

Funeral services will be held at the M. E. church Friday afternoon at 2 p. m. Rev. F. F. Hargraves will com* from Greencastle to preach the sermon and services will be cbnducted by the various orders.

SEC. WILSON CUMING

County Chairman George M. Moorhead for some time has been negotiating with the national democratic committee for one speech here by William B. Wilson, the noted secretary of labor in President Wilson's cabinet. Mr. Mjporhead got word Thursday that his request would be complied with and that Secretary Wilson will come directly here from his Chicago engage* ment, October 5.

COMMISSIONERS COMING HERE.

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 28.—Joseph G. Hayes, of Indianapolis, was Elected president of the Indiana County Commissioner's association' at the closing session of their convention here today J. C. F. Redinbo, of Lafayette, vice president, and Albert F. Searing, of Indianapolis, re-elected secretarytreasurer. The 1917 me^ng will beheld in? Terre Haut*