Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1916 — Page 26
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HE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916.
ONE TO SI f TRIM
SENATOR WALSH CENSORING OF
DISCUSSES MAILS.
SECRET INSTRUCTIONS READ
WASHINGTON. January 28-"If ti.fi allies decline to yield to reason, we muitt cease trading with them, ’ declared .Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Montana, to the senate today, assailing < ireat j bri.ain'S'interterence with nentiai com-' merce of the United States. In advocating te.tidauon ne ulo not favor an *.»- " > on war muhittons. but he int-Uted Great Hrttain and her auks were ruuming to make ev ? a more intoKi.il .*■ trie invasion ot American rights to trade lr*e)y. • ’ It" a fixed determination to goad thi* , nation into retaliatory measures or to j cry coercion were entertained by the allied powers,- it would find qdtre fitting expreasion In the course of conduct ui which our government has so respectfully but no forcefully and justly complained. ’Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad.’ ’’
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Instructions to Censors.
Senator Walsh discussed particularly the seizure and censoring of United States mails, nnd in that connection read of a confidential circular of instrin - issued to Writufh censors. The pusa-
» he read are as follows:
titulars are lo be extracted from roprlate correspondence and submit-
REVERSES SUPERIOR COURT.
Appellate Court Decides Against De-
murrer of Traction Company.
~ The appellate court today reversed the Marion superior court, for sustaining a demurrr to the complaint of Clifford o. Walling against the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company for injuries suffered by a fall when a hanger for the trolley wire broke w hile he was
attempting to straighten Uie hanger. The injury occurred- on May 1, and
the complaint shows that Walling was working as lineman for the traction company. The court reviews the laws re- ; garding the rights of linemen against their employers and holds that at tne J time of the accident the law in most re-spe-Jts was against the right of Walling to recover for his injury, but holds that It is sufficient to withstand a demurrer because it, war, alleged the bent hanger was in a weakened and defective condition, which defect was unknown to Wan-
ing.
EPHRAIM HODGES DEAD.
K£PPl£RffiS AS RESULT OF FALL FROM STREET CAR
WOULD RETRENCH BY SPECIAL POLICE GO.
Was the First White Child Born in the
Vicinity cf Gosport.
[Special to The Indianapolis News] PARAGON, Iiid.. January 28.—Ephraim Hodges, who w'ouid have been ninety-six years old July lit, next, died of pneumonia ! this afternoon at his home, one mile west I of this place. There are eight children
COMES TO DEFENSE OF SECRETART DANIELS
and all were present when he died. His
the first in his immediate family
MEETING DAY IS CHANGED
death is
in the last sixty-eight years. One child
died sixty-eight years ago.
Mr. Hodges was born at Gosport and was the first wdiite child born in that part of the state; He is survived by his iwife, who is at this time critically ill.
I They were married seventy-one years ago.
! The funeral will be held here Sunday
,, j afternoon. The surviving children are Mayor'Bell’s board of park commis- John. of Martinsville; Joseph and sloners today began to make changes in I Charles, of this place; Sheridan, of Penthe routine nf ih* i n ldleton; .vlrs. J. I. Rhea and Mrs. Newton the loutlne of the park department .n , Bourne w i, 0 ij ve j n Nebraska. Mrs. S.
P. Coble, of Paragon, and Mrs. Perry
Lankford, of Martinsville.
SENATOR TILLMAN ASSAILS MEYER, FORMER NAVY HEAD.
SHOWS CHANGE IN FORCE
INQUIRY INTO THE ACCIDENT BEGUN BY CORONER.
REPORTS OF OTHERS HURT
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Max Keppler, age forty-seven, 2(52 Gim-
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d on index cards of all direct shipments i hospital as a lesult of injuries lie received to Europe, i. e., shipment!, from neutral j last night when he fell from a street to neutral, including shlpmenta on car near Illinois and South streets. .Ho througn billa of lading, whether actual' was bruised severely about the face and or pending, of the following commodities, head and physicians said his skull was vix.: Cocoa, cotton, cotton yarn, waste ; fractured. It is asid Keppler was knocked and thread, fuel oils and lubricating oils, i fro n a south-bound car as it started %. skins and leather, maize, metals \ utraer the union station viaduct. Stones ©rea of ail kinds; nitrates; oil cakes, j piotruding from the side of the tunnel i udlng poonac; packer*' products; make this a dangerous place, and several at, bacon, lard, jufe, oleo or any edible j accidents have occurred there. The coroanimal fats); reain, tanning extracts, ner' t office had conflicting statements (onwool md such other articles as may be cerning the accident. Keppler \v;.s maradded from time to time." ! fieri and had been employed at Piel Bros. “Duties of Lb A. C.'a-(a) The D. A. starch works. < •omum- Poole was notified
C. Bliould sje that the letters supribd j ajid began an inquiry, to his table are divided before censuring. r
for the purpose both <,f removing tar Eden* Condition Critical, correspondence of persons on the priv- George F. Eden, 2a 11 Webb street, who W.r. onAV'.h"''.,” SanM '-” hunt Wedn^.y also as far as practicable of eliminating night when a bakery wagon on which he cal correspondence between reputa- J was riding was struck by a freight train
period). We con
keeping with the policies of the Beil ad- j ministration. The meeting followed an , “executive'’ session behind closed doors i during the early hours of the morning and , v as: continued until long after the noon i hour, w'hen the members of the board ; were discussing their pet schemes for J
j park development
| The question of salaries w-as discussed : | at length, the meeting today being the jtime when salaries for the current year' jare fixed. Acting on a recommendation i made by City Engineer Jeup. Dan C. Mayne, first a s slant city engineer, was appointed as engineer for the board at a salary of Jl.OOJ. This means a raise in Hayne's salary from $2,400 to $3,400. almost as much as the city engineer has received during other administrations The board put up the appearance of re taining James H. Lowry, executive officer of the department, but decided for some reason that he no longer will be j known as the executive officer, but as the superintendent of parks. His salary was fixed at $223 a month, the same that he
received last year.
H. Houston Tall, the board's horticultural expert, will receive an increase of $6 a month in salary this year, his former salarv having been $135 a month, and George Fox’s salary as chief florist, was raised from $80 to $85 a month. All the other florists employed by the board received an increase of salary from $80
to $C5 a mon*h.
Wish “Regular” Policemen.
Acting on the suggestion of Samuel E. Rauh the board decided to seek a< conference with the board of public safety to see why the latter department should not provide patrolmen to w'ork in the city parks under the direction of the park board. .It has been the custom of the board In the past to employ its own special policemen, because it was believed the public would receive better protection in the parks by this means. Mr. Rauh proposes that the policing of the parks shall be placed under the direction
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WORKS BOARD ALSO DECIDES ON RESURFACING.
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to contain nothing that requires censor-1 Relt railroad, was not improved today, Jng. S ;eh eliminated correspondence , according to a report from the city hosshould not be opened until the remain- lltal. The physicians believe his back is
in* portion of tne mad lias been disposed broken.
of." • The condition of Robert Thomas, age
Neutral Commerce Injured.
In th*l connection Senator Walsh said: “It Is not difficult to understand that the letters of any American house doing business with a Scandinavian firm which falls under the suspicion of the English authorities are not likely to reach their destination and neither are the letters started In the other direction between
the negotiators.
“The result Is that commerce between otir shores and those of the neutral countries of Europe will be conducted with just such persons on the continent as the British authorities may gracious!v per-
mit to engage in it.
“Such a system would be intolerable to a liberty loving people, even though there were no likelihood - that the exercise of such despotic power would not he abused,
nor the information thus surreplitiouslj elicited Placed at the disposal or English rivals of Anurkan commercial houses.*' INTERTROOP CONTEST HELD BY BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Troop No. 9 Win* Fir*t Place; Troop No. 19, Second Place, and Troop No. 30, Third. More than GOO scouts and visitors attended ttie Intertroop contest of the Boy Scouts of America, held last night at the Communal building. George W. Thorntown. chairman: Thomas B. Fulmer Chanek ghotweil and Fred D. Stilt* were the Judges. The Judges of the content last night and Dwight S. Ritter are member*, of a permanent contest committee for 191C, appointed by T. C. Howe, president of too local council. Troop No. 9 won first place, with eleven points; troop No. 19 was second with six points, and troop No. 30, third with live points. Willis Overly troop No. 9 won first place In the first event, an essay on “A Scout Is Loyal.” Richard Johnson, of Troop No. 19, was scconif, and Fred Macdonald, of troop oN. 17, third. The second event consisted of semaphore signaling. The messages w'eni sent by Lieutenant Lane. Troop No. 3) won first place with a grade of 97 rcr cent.; Troop No. 23, second with a grade * 96 2-3 per cent., and Troop N. 9 third th n tirade of 91 per cent. \ "To liilid t'-m Was “Are building tvlthmntchca.’ First place wan won by Troop No 9, time one minute 28V4 seconds; second place was won by Troop No. 19; time. 9 minutes. Hpeeial features of the intertroop contest was an archery drill by troop N. 45; first aid. bicycle ambulance, troop No. 19; signaling. Troop No. 17; athletics, Troop. No. 9; flint and steel, troop No. 37; aeroplane demontration, aero club and bugle corps drill. A "Scout Statuette” will be awarded to the troop winning first place for the year. Takes Acid In Wife’s Presence. [Special to The Indianapolis News) •PEFFERSONVILLK. Ind.. January 28, —Michael Langford, age forty-seven, an employe of the Howard ship yards, committed suicide today by taking carbolic arid at bis home, 214 Virginia avenue. Ohio Falls, in the presence of his wife. His mother also lived with them. He leaves no children. The cause for his action has not been learned. .
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seventy, 17 South Summit street, who was hurt seriously Tuesday night when a street car struck a wagon on which he was riding, is improved, according to the attending physician Thomas, who whs thrown against another street car, suffered a fracture of the left hip anl severe injuries to his head. It was feared that because of his age the injuries might re-
sult fatally
Gunsolus Is Improving. Fred Gunsolus, humane inspector, who suffered a severe blow on the back of his head last week when ne^slipped and fell on the icy pavement near the police station. i« improving rapidly, according to his relatives. It was at first thought that Gunsolus's skull was fractured. JUDGMENT OF»
APPELLATE COURT SAYS CAR COMPANY IS RESPONSIBLE.
FAMILY OFF AT WRONG STOP
The appellate court today affirmed the Hendricks circuit court In giving John W. Hunter a judgment for $2,000 against the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company for the loss of his twelve-year-old son, w'ho was killed by a
car.
Boy Knocked Off Bridge.
Mr. Hunter testified that ids wife and Harry were a short distance ahead of himself am^ the younger boy; that when the car came around the curve he took
the younger boy to the edge of the bridge! taining wall along the stream. This work ■ got far enough away Horn t.. t ,TRS not becn <lone ' the
Mr. Rauh read from the law under which the board of park commissioners is' supposed to operate and by which authority is given the board to demand police protection for park property from the board of public safety. After discussing this provision of the law for several minutes, the park commissioners came to the conclusion that it would not be wise to demand anything of the board of safety and for this reason it was de-
cided to “request a conference.”
This action would mean that the park board desires to drop from* the pay roll many of the men who have been employed in the department for years. Mr. Lowry told the board in answer to requests for information on the subject that some of the park policemen have been very efficient and that they are con-
sidered valuable employes. Business Would Interfere.
Fred C. Gardner and Mr. Rauh both objected to holding the regular weekly meetings of the board on Friday morning. They said that it is almost impossible for them to get away from their work at that hour, and suggested that in the future the meetings of the board be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. This motion was carried, Charles E. Coffin, chairman of the board, voting in the-neg-
ative.
Acting on a report of Carl H. Lieber. who accompanied members of the board to New York to see the model of the Depew memorial fountain that is to be placed in University park, the board decided to accept the plans, and voted to appropriate about $7,000 to the sculptor®, which was due when the model was completed The fountain will not be completed for more than two years, it was
said.
Delay Is Reported.
Henry Sey fried registered several "kicks” at the meeting against the delay in completing the work that has been planned for the Garfield gardens. Mr. Seyfried said that George E. Kessler, landscape architect for the board, should have had the plans for dhe garden completed several w r eeks ago and that the plans had not been started. He said if work on the gardens is not started soon it can not be completed this year. Mr. Lowry will go to St. Louis within the next few’ days to see if the plans can not be
rushed to completion.
A delegation of property owners living along the south bank of Fall erbek, between Sutherland avenue and Thirtieth street, requested the board to fulfill its promise to grade behind the new’ re-
RUCK WISHES WORK DONE
The board of public w orks today confirmed a resolution providing for the resurfacing and widening of Meriidan street, from Sixteenth street to Fall creek. Little opposition was expressed on the proposed improvement, aa the property owners agreed last year, after tiie Bell administration had forced the improvement on them by having an ordinance passed authorizing the improvement, despite a majority remonstrance, that they would not oppose the city's plans if the improvement wrould be postponed for a year. Year's Delay Was Compromised. The work 'was not ordered d°ue last year, it was said, for the reason members of the board said, that influential citizens of the north side were angry because they were being forced to pay for an improvement against their wall and the delay was ordered as a compromise. Joseph A. Rink, president of the board, championed the improvement, saying that he is willing to pay for a new pavement in front of his home, which has a frontage of 200 feet in Meridian street. The city has been keeping the pavement in Meridian street in repair for wealthy property owners long enough, Mr. Kink said. Resident property owners will have ten days to file a remonstrance against the action of the board. Lawns to Be Narrowed. The board contemplates the widening of Meridian street from Sixteenth street to the Fall creek bridge. Three feet of the lawn apace on each side of the street will be removed, the increased width of the pavement which had been planned be-
ing six feet.
The following resolutions providing for the paving of streets were confirmed: Thirty-second street, from Senate avenue to Northwestern avenue; Broadway, from Forty-second stteet to Forty-sixth street, and Broadway, from Fall Creek park-
way to Twenty-ninth street.
W ASHINGTON, January 2>\--Secret L Daniels was praised as “one of the greatest secretaries the navy ever had,’' and former Secretary Meyer was assailed today by Chairman Tillman, of the senate naval committee, in a speech on "the truth about the navy.” Senator Tillman took Mr. Meyer to task for ids recent declaration before the National Security League that ”the fundamental defect of the navy department is that it has no bruin and no competent militan organization.” Re-enlistments Increased. “Mr. Meyer forgets,” said Senator Tillman, “if lie ever knew, that when he left the navy it was nearly 6,009 men short; that 46 per cent, of the men discharged in good standing were leaving tiie navy, w-hile 85 per cent, are now reenlisting, and that during hL incumbency there were 10,360 desertions Vet he has the cheek to hold his successor responsible for conditions which arc due wholly <o hi® own shortcoming®. As against 10 360 desertions, while Mr. Meyer was secretary, so far—about two and r half years—there have been only 4,375 since bis successor entered office. “The head of the navy himself is not a pampered and petted darling of inherited wealth, hut a red-blooded, upstanding, forward-looking American, who is a graduate in the hard school of experience and a practical man with wholesome ideas.” Senator Tillman praised other officers of the navy, who, he said, were not known “at all of the drawing rooms in Washington or Newport." Too Little Money Allowed. “While Germany had already won second place, as shown in Von Meyer's first report," Senator Tillman continued, “he never could persuade his party—he tried only half-heartedly—to grant money enough to recover the lost ground. It is true the program he recommended in 1909 was quite respectable in size, but his party associates who are now clamoring for the Democrats to make good Republican deficiencies in a naval program did not give him the money. So that it is proved beyond possibility of dispute that the Republican party is solely responsible for our present status—lack of officers, lack of personnel, and lack of ships. “It makes a great difference whether one is on the inside looking out or w hether he is on the outside looking in.” WOULD GIVE JAPAN NOTICE.
Sherman Urges''Expression of U. S. Position Regarding China. WASHINGTON, January 28.-Resolu-tions to express the sense of the senate that renewed demands by Japan on China would be regarded as a restrictive act on the commercial rights of the people of the United States and requesting the President so to inform Japan were introduced today by Senator Sherman, Republican. Reports that Japan was about to renew her demands already have been denied in Tokio, in Peking and in official dispatches from Peking to the state department. The story originated in lamdon. WOULD COST $188,000,000.
Universal Training Expense Estimat-
ed By Aleshire.
COUNCILMAN MILLER MAKES INQUIRY OF HEALTH OFFICER.
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track to permit the ear to pass, but that Harry was knocked to the stream below
ami died that evening.
It i* shown in the case that Mr. and Mrs. Hunter and their two sons boarded the car at Grcencasile to go to Stop 32, west of Greencaatle. Mr. Hunter testified that the ear did not stop at Stop 32. but that the car did afterward stop, and the conductor called Stop 32, and the faniilv got off the car, which went on. Then they discovered that they were at Stop 31. The family- then started to walk back to Stop 32. While crossing a bridge another car coming from the west struck
and killed the older son. Harry.
The court. In holding that the company
was liable, said:
“It is the judgment of this court that appellant (traction company) owed appellees decedent the duty of using a reasonable degree of care to deliver him safely at the point of his destination, that is to say, appellant owed this duty as a passenger, until he arrived safelv at Stop 32. When the relation of carrier and passenger is once established. It continues until terminated by the voluntary act of the passenger, or by the act of the carrier under circumstances justifying its termination, and extends to the arrival of ,the passenger at his destina-
tion.
Still Really Passengers.
"It can not be said that the act of the decedent in this case voluntarily terminated the relation, because he was put off at a wrong stop without his knowledge or consent, where he was unacquainted with the surroundings. At the end of the journey the relation of passenger and oarrier cotitinues until he has Jiad a reasonable opportunity to depart from the train or
car and !--tation in safety."
INHERITANCE TAX UNLIKELY | Dixon Believes Measure Is Not Needed
to Provide Revenue.
* [Special to The tnrijanapotts New a) - WASHINGTON, January 28.—According to Representative lancoln Dixon, of Indiana, a member of the ways and means committee, there is little possibility that jan inheritance tax bill will be passed at
J this session of the congress,
i “While there 1ms been some discussion ] of the national inheritance tax as a means of providing revenue,'* said Mr. Dixon, “it would be my opinion that this lax will not be necessary. I find that forty-six out of the forty-eight states now bare inheritance tax laws and Jt is possible that If we passed a national li
Edward R. Miller, councilman, today called on Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, to protest against the use of broken dishes in restaurants. The councilman said he had wasted a perfectly good nickel for a cup of coffee that he
WASHINGTON. January 28.~The maximum cost of putting into operation the Chamberlain bill proposing universal military training would be 3188.0GO,fl£K) a yeatx according to figures submitted the senate military committee today by Quar-termaster-General Ale hire. They were based cn the assumption that ll.OOO.OOD men between the ages of twelve and twenty-three years would be trained. The average cost of a continental army proposed in the war department measure was estimated at $31,00),000.
ALLEGES USE OF BAD MONEY
Woman Conductina Lunch Stand Causes Arrest of Two Colored Men. As a result of a complaint made by a
lunch stand in l
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could not drink and that his appetite w-as f’nJji^a * a venue^A^bert destroyed for an entire day as a result *' ’ |—■*
of a crack in a coffee cup.
“Went into the beanery," Miller said. "and ordered a sandwich and a cup of coffee. Took the coffee and sandwich over
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property owners. The complaint was re- | d ow „ Fye lit o . a fe A Dtte^ was read 3 to the'iward, suggest- 1 <Ta ^ i» coffee cup Gee', it was a black ing that more nut-bearing trees be c ' ra< k. and I began to think of germs, disa planted in the narks for the benefit ofi' vater an ? "bat tf I would happen to get the squirrels. No action wa 3 taken on ™ y mouth on that place. Lost my appe-
tite. and almost imagined I could see tne germs in the, crack. Suppose if I had sat there long enough 1 would have seen a germ as big as a bear. I didn’t drink the
coffee.”
the letter.
ONE OF WERNEKE’S DEPUTIES ORDERED OUT OF COURTROOM
A. Z. Thomas Not Permitted to Put Improper Question to Witness in a Manslaughter Case. [Special to The Indianapolis News] TERRE HAUTE, Ind., January 28.Arthur Z. Thomas, deputy prosecutlug attorney and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney against hhs chief, Richard A. Werneke, \va^ ejected from a criminal case in the city court today by Judge Newton, w’ho objected to hla examination of a witness in the case of Hugh Thomasson, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Frank Osborne, a railroad fireman, w’ho wuis killed in an automobile wreck Sunday morning, January 16. Thomassort was chauffeur for a party returning from a roadhouse that ran into an express wagon early In the morning. One of the persons in the wreck was on the stand when Thomas asked him if he had not been a gambler. Judge Newton ruled the question was improper Thomas resented the ruling and the court threatened to send Thomas to jail for contempt of court He ordered Thomas out of the courtroom and sent for Frank J. Foley, another deputy prosecutor, who conducted the examination. Thomas took his coat and hat and left the courtroom. Thomasson was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of manslaughter with bond fixed at $500.
ARE CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
Y. W X. A, Workers at Muncie Expect
to Raise Required Sum. [Sprcial to The Indianapolis News]
MUNCIE. Ind., January 28 -More than j Warden of
$28,090 has been subscribed in the cam- | paign to raise $100,0(W to supplement a I similar sum given by Ball Brothers to I establish a Young Women's Christian As- j
Offers to Introduce Ordinance.
The councilman called to ask Dr. Morgan if an ordinance should not be introduced in the city council to provide a penalty for using cracked or broken dishes. ‘TH introduce an ordinance,” Miller said, “that will make it lawful for a fellow to slam a broken dish on the floor if he is given one to eat out of in a restaurant. That's the way this thing should be stopped. I know that no man likes to have his mouth come in contact with a crack in a coffeecup while he is
eating or any other time."
Dr. Morgan said that such an ordinance as Miller proposed is not .necessary as sanitary inspectors have the power to break broken dishes found in restaurants. The city board of health will investigate
the complaint.
BABY POiSONED IN STREET.
Child Dies After Unidentified Man
Forced Acid Down Its Throat.
NEW YORK. January 28.-Julius Clemens, four weeks old. died today from the effects of a quantity of acid forced down his throat by an unidentified man while the child was sitting in a gocart outside
a candy shop in the Bronx yesterday
Mrs. Charles Clemens, the baby’s niother, had stepped Into the shop, leaving her daughter Leonia, age four, to watch Julius. When the mother rushed to the street in rsponse to the girl's screams she found the.babj's mouth, chin and
neck burned by a strong acid.
“A man did It,” said Leonla. “He gave
baby something.''
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Drake street, and William Board, 712 West Eleventh street, iiotli colored, were' arrested last night on charges of passing counterfeit money. The woman al-! tested that the men gave her a counterfeit half-dollar in piyment tor sotre sandwiches. The police say the men ad-,
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DIES FOLLOWING EXECUTIONS
North Carolina Prison Succumbs to Apoplexy.
RALEIGH, N. C.. January 28.—Warden
isolation here. The largest additional gifts i Sale, of the North Carolina penitentiary to be reported are those of John W. j here, died of apoplexy todav after he Smith, a retired manufacturer, who gave ... . e
$750, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. War- } ner. of Toledo._former Muncie residents.
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MAN CAUGHTJN LINE SHAFT Arm Partly Torn Off and Clothing
Stripped from Body.
(Special to Th» IrJlenapolls \\»s] MADISON. Ind.. January 28.—Clarence Humphrey, age twenty-five, was caught today tn the line shaft of a sawmill, owned by his father, John Humphrey, and his left arm was partly torn from the shoulder. He w«j^bruised and out on the body. Hi® clothing was torn from him. His recovery is expected unless he was in-
jured internally.
who gave STaJO. Those in charge of the ten aw i days' campaign say they have assurance
of other large gifts and are confident that the $100,000 can be obtained. FIGHTS HER* ASSAILANT. . Elkhart Girl Gives Fight When Attacked ,and Man Runs. [Special to The Indianapolis News] ELKHART. Ind., January 28.-Miss Effie Hum moll, employed in a printing shop, was attacked by a man when on her wa« home im t night, but she fought him and screamed and he fled. Her face was scratched anl bruised. The police found her i at and watch and the man’s cap where they had fallen. Miss Hummell is a muscular young woman. Men’s Bible Class to Entertain. An entertainment will be given by the men’s Bible class at Maple Road M. E. church tonight. A social hour will follow the program. No admission will be
charged.
Brief Notes of the Day.
A paper on “The. Law of Rebirth” will be read before the open meeting of the Theosophical Society this evening at 8 o’clock at the Chamber of Commerce building.
Emmet Club Reception.
The Emmet Club last night gave a reception . and Dutch lunch in honor of a number of j members, pf kindred organizations who are in the city attending the mine workers' conven- i tion. P. J. Hannon was chairman of the so- j rial session. Among the visitors who spoke : were; P. F. Sweeney, Shamokln, Pa.; State | Senator McOiath. of Pennsylvania; Martin F. I Nash. Shenandoah, and Michael Bonner, West Virginia. The Indianapolis speakers were: P. J. Kellcher. W K. Tuil<). J. P. O'Mahwj and P. J. Kilroy. Irish songs were sung by John P. Dwyer, D. J. O’Connor. Emmet Moran and others. The attendance was large.
Fight on a Street Car.
DenjamiiT McMullen; 2m Noith Oxford street, was fired J! and costs In city bourt today and Edvard Dftin. a street car nv’tormnn. -17 East Morris street, was fined $."* and costa on assault ami battery charges as a result of a fight which occunre 1 on an East Washington street car several days avo The fight followed an argument over the payment of McMullen’s fare. McMullen said that a friend had pall
his fare and the conductor this. Kitbin Hensley. 521 conductor, also charred battery, was vHeohai-eed.
For Stealing Iron Column. Dan Lingo, a rag nan, 902 Chadwick street, today was fined SD and costs and sentenced to the workhouse for forty days tty Judge Decry, Of city court, on a charge of stealing an iron column from George W. Killinger. Lingo was arveetco after the police found the column at a junk yard. He sail that he bought the column for. 5fl cents from some mar. he did not know. He said he got 11.75 for H at the junk yard. Lingo had hm In
court before.
To Have Spelling Match.
The civic and literary societies at the McKinley school recreation center will conduct a spelling match tonight as ono of the features of the weekly entertainment. The match will be conducted by C. M. Whitney and Joseph Bari ham. A discussion of tne Keaton child labor law w’ill be held during the evenI ing. The discussion will l<e ted by Mrs, J. M. Harmon. A musical program will be given.
Verdict for Ira Douglass.
A jury In the superior court. Room 5, last night returned a verdict of $430 for Ira Douglass in hla suit against Angelo Gentile and the city of Indianapolis. Douglass is fourteen veara old. He »Hpi>«d on ice In front of Gentile’s home. 533 Lord street. December 14. 19i4. and was Injured. The ice was caused by a defective hydrant from which water flowed over
the walk and froze. It was alleged. Mrs. Hosman Gets Divorce,
THE WM. H. BLOCK CO. Women’s Blouses, the Newest Modes for Spring, Specialized at $5, $5.95 and $7.50 They show the correct style trend They possess originality in design—refinement in line—they are charming to a high degree—and not the least of their charm is their moderate price Sheerest Georgette crepes, chiffons, radium silks, combinations of Georgette crepe and Lucile satin—will-’o-wisp blouses, dainty marquisettes and soft crepe de chines. Quite unique are the tailored net blouses—some of them are tucked, frilled or simply button trimmed. Hand smocking at shoulders, dainty frilling, embroidered effects, hemstitching and buttons are used chiefly as trimming—flesh colored blouses, embroidered in daipty silver floral effects are quite nfcw and charming. Hosts of models—flesh white, pink, cream color, salmon, rose, mint green, coral and biscuit. Moderately priced at $5.00, $5.95 and $7.50. 3 —Second Floor.
Strikingly beautiful—this array of Spring Millinery at $5, $7.50 and $10 Georgette crepe—lisere braid and satin combinations are used quite extensively—oft-times the crown and brim is of satin, with facing and band of braid. Unique trimming ideas is evidenced in the bright hued lacquered-flow-ers, many times placed flat on the top of crown, holding in place a long curled quill—or ribbon quill—others have upstanding floral trimming. Soft pearl grays of Georgette crepe, with wings of same shade—myrtle green and purple combinations—rose and old blue—Copenhagen and rose are irresistible in their appeal. » Close fitting turbans, tricornes, rolling brim and ChinChin sailors are the preferable shapes. Moderately priced at $5.00, $7.50 and $10.00 —Second Floor.
Just Two Days More!
All furniture at a generous saving 1 -the least you can save is one-fifth—there is
Several
Thousand Dollars’ Worth
of Furniture at
HALF PRICE
It doesn’t seem advisable to list what the half price group containsfew exceptions there is but one article of a kind.
-for with a
The selling is so swift that the particular article mentioned may be gone before you could visit the sale. ‘ You’ve read perhaps that manufactors have been compelled to raise prices—two advances have just been made—and the end is not in sight. Yet in face of this you can save 1-5 to 1-2—on our own regular prices. Whether you desire a spring, a mattress, a staple chair or a fine dining room or bedroom suite—whether it is a room that needs furnishing or a whole house— whether it be for a mansion or just a home—this sale is splendidly ready to supply all needs—AT A SAVING.
The thing to keep in mind is this— That if you have furniture to buy within the next few yearspaid in attending this sale.
-you’ll be richly re-
You'll save money—no matter what you select—for we have no regular prices on furniture. It may be that the article you select bears 1-5 off—it may be reduced 1-4 or 1-3—IT MAY BE IN THE HALF PRICE GROUP.
Just 2 days more—Saturday and Monday-
-the sale will be history on Tuesday. —Fourth Floor.
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FORMER CITY EMPLOYE WAIVES
EXAMINATION.
KNOWN AS MACHINE WORKER
peared agitated as lie unsD’apped the bodies of the negroes from the eiectriv chair and shortly afterward became unconscious. He was dead when physicians
reached him.
Walked Into River When Asleep. [Special to The Indianapolis News]
EVANSVILLE, Ind.. January 28.—Christian Steinhauer. living with his family in a shanty boat oh the Ohio river below here walked in his sleep last night and fell from the boat into the river. The shock of falling into the cold water partly awakened him. He was able to swim to shore, but the exposure made him sick.
Pulled Trigger With His Toe. [Special to The Indianapolt* News]
COVINGTON, Ind.. January 28.-Graham
Farmer, age fifty-five, committed suicide _ I W
at his home three miles east of here. Hefvbanted cruel and Inhuman treatment The
wife aske-l CS.OGO as alimony, byt a settlement
was
used a shotgun and pulled the trigger with his toe. sending a load of shot into his heart. He was suffering with the grip and was worried over financial affairs. A
widow and two children survive.
Mrs. Nellie Hosman today got r divorce from her husband. Dr. Fred l. Hosman. Mrrthvlale avenue. l*efore Judee John Rock-
ford, of the su;>erior court.
Hosman defense
was made our cf court. Dr. . graueat at the trial, but offered
In a cross-complaint he accused his wife of attending picture shows with another man and flirting with this man, but this was dlsnusaei.
The case of John Shaughnessy, charged with forging the name of George McCray, a contractor, to a check for $119 issued by J. P. Dunn, city controller, was sent to _
the grand jury today, when Shaughnessy ^^^caT^lTKIcha,
waived examination in city court. The forgery is alleged to have been committed
last June, but the charge was not filed , nfn _. 0 against Shaughnessy until several weeks jn the city.
Shaughnessy was employed as a bookkeeper in Dunn's office. After the charge was filed against him it was announced that Shaughnessy had been “let out” the middle of December, about three weeks
before his arrest.
Accountants at Work. State accountants were going over his books at the time of his arrest. Dunn denied that he knew anything about the McCray check until after Shaughnessy had been “let out.” It was said that Shaughnessy’s conduct outside office hours was the cause of his dismissal. Shaughnessy was known as a wmrker for the city hall machine and he was one of those indicted in the election con-
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spiracy cases. These cases were all dismissed before the forgery charge was filed against Shaughnessy. At Liberty Under Bond. Shaughnessy is at liberty under $599 bond. At the time of his arrest. Dunn said it was not exactly known how much Shaughnessy*s total shortage would reach, but Dunn said he was certain It would
not exceed $2.0»jo.
Since then It is said that the shortage will reach only several hundred doliais. although nothing has been made public as to what the accountants found in Shaugh-
nessy's books.
NO BASISJTET DETERMINED. Election Commissioners Still Deadlocked on Convention Apportionment. No selection V of a basis for determining the number of delegates from Marion county to the state political conventions has been made by the Marion county
oners. Samuel Ashby,
Republican, and Richard Coleman, Democrat, members of the board, are unable to agree on the basis, and Theodore Stein, clerk of the Marion circuit court,
meber of the board, is It is likely that nd other
meeting to consider the apportionment will be had till Mr. Stein returns to the
city.
The report of the Governor a committee that interpreted the Jones primary Jaw holds the Democratic and Progiessive votes for senator shall be the basis for deciding the apportionment, and .hat the Republican vote for secretary of state shall be used in determining the number of Republican delegates. If this plan is followed in Marion county, the Demociat* and Progressives will receive five more delegates than they would If the vote on secretary of state is used by all parlies.
Run Down by Train and Killed. [Special to The Indianapolis NewsJ
WASHINGTON, Ind., January 28.-Burr
c.
McPherson, of Montgomery, was struck by a B. & O. S.-W. local freight last night and killed almost Instantly. He was forty-eight years old, married and leaves three children.
$1*000-000 TO AID JEWS.
Mass Meeting Enthusiastically Receives Reports of Committees. NEW YORK, January 28.—Pledge* ag-, gregattng nearly $1,000,000 for the relief of Jews In the war-swept countries of Europe, were announced amid scenes of wild enthualasm at a mass meeting last night. when the returns from the various committees which had been c.nvasaing different classes of business men and trades hail iteen tabulated the plgdge; in amounts of more than $5.‘W aggregated $796,500 Many additional pledges were taken during the meeting and It was expected that the total would rea’ h $1,000,000. South Bend Raises $1,800. [gperia] |» The Indianapolis New*) SOUTH BEND. Ind., January 28 -Approximately $1,800 was obtained In South Bend for the relief of Jewish war sufferers. The work of raising subscriptions Thursday was done under the direction of a federation of Jewish societies which has been sending more than $1,000 a month for relief durir« the last fl\ 3 months. This federation will continue the work of raising and forwarding money from Jewish citizens, many of whom have subscribed certain amounts to be paid regularly. $3,500 at Evansville. [Kperial to The IndlanafiSlTa News] EVANSVILLE. Ind., January 2S.-The contributions of Evansville citizens to the Jewish relief fund yesterday totaled more than $3,500, and it Is expected'that the amount raised today will be as large If not larger.
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