Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 314, 9 December 1906 — Page 4

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The Richmond Palladium. Sunday, December 9, 1906

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

En.eredat Richmond Postofflce as Second Class Matter

CUNDAY MORNING, RICHMOND, IND.

Do Your Christmas Shopping This Week.

The leading merchants of Richmond have co-operated with the Palladium in an endeavor to get the people of this city to do the bulk of their Christmas shopping this week, and not put it off until the last moment. Today's issue contains a number of advertisements setting forth tho various articles displayed by the merchants for the holidays chopper. They ae placed before you for the purpose of facilitating your choice of what you want. Instead of going to these stores unenlightened as to the goods they,, are carrying for this special season of the year, and going from counter to counter asking numberless questions of patient and willing but none the less rushed and tired clerks; read over the advertisements today, and let them help you solve the problem of what to buy for Christmas. Advertisements are placed In a newspaper to help you. Our modern merchants try as carefully as possible to anticipate your every want and supply it. In supplying it they recognize the value of an advertisement, and through this means they tell you what they have. In doing this the: save you much time which would otherwise be spent in a tiresome counter to counter search, and also save their employes a like amount of fruitless labor. The latter consideration Is especially Important at such a rush season of the year as Christmas time. At such a time practically everyone is shopping and the clerks In all the stores are on a tiresome go all day long and many times part of the night waiting on a stream of customers. They have no time to sit down and take a rest but must be on their feet all the time, patient and agreeable no matter how tired they may feel. Tut yourself in their place and Imagine the strain you wrouId labor under waiting upon a crush of late Christmas shoppers. How would you like to show dozens of different articles to dozens of different customers, and have the majority not buy and say that they were simply looking around to see what they wanted? It would , be pretty wearing wouldn't it? Just remember this fact and read over the advertisements today. Take , advantage of their suggestions and go prepared to make your purchases as quickly as possible. Have a little Christmas feeling for the hard-working clerk. Don't contribute your share toward the crush of late shoppers. Start In tomorrow and when the end of the week comes be able to say, "Well, it's a relief to know that my Christmas shopping is finished!" And it will bo a relief to you to know that you are through with your shopping a week ahead of time. Do your share toward giving the clerks a merrier Christmas by lightening their burden. Shop early begin tomor: row!

When Caruso (Comes West The only cure for tho Caruso complaint is a brawny fUt or a spiked boot, planted where it belongs, remarks the Minneapolis Star. The man is a sexual pervert with the voice of an angel. Nature delights in these paradoxes. The law can not break over his defense of artistic license. Public opinion can not rea:h him in his rampart of fashionablo tolerance. Only his greasy body is vulnerable. He has been "vindicated" by the goldplated society of the Metropolitan boxes. The case against hm is to be appealed from the police court of the people to a bench within leach of social Influences. Public opinion in New York is gagged. Most of the newspapers there delight to pander to the monkey houses of mirth. They print the salt news, but tney havo ncthing to say about It. The life insurance graft was protected for years by sucha conspiracy of silence. But one of these days Caruso will chase the dollar from the metropo lis to what they call "the provinces. What will happen to him then, strip ped of his artistic and social defenses and up against brawny American Puritanism in the raw? We apprehend that it will be something unpleasant. There is no fear that the box office will suffer. He will get the whole benefit of his precious advertising. His troubles will begin when he rehearses operatic amours with strange women in the street. Western men are less delicate in these matters, if it be not more deli cate to plead guilty and pay a fine for mauling a blackguard than to risk hauling a woman Into couri to give evidence against him. Pub'lc opinion is saner here and the law reflects it. The voice of those who think a worn an "honored by the contact" of a world artist, as Tillman says of the Southern negresses and their white lovers, is less potent. Caruso has been West before, tiailing clouds of Infamy liiio tho exhaust of an automobile. More than ono city holds its nose in remembrance of him. But he took the West by turprise before. It was dazed by his audacity and let him get away befcre it caught Its breath. Now it is prepared for him. Ho can have tho time of his life with it, if he wants to. The Northern Indianian.

Sixth District

While there might be some meiit in the contention that Governor Han ly should not have mixed in the selection of a speaker, what the Rich raond Item has to say concerning it amounts to nothing, as it is well known that the editor of that paper could see nothing good in anything Hanly might do. A paper that shews prejudice at all times, like the Item, has but little force cannot convince or convict. Drookville American.

The President's mesrage delivered to Congress Tuesday s -a most comprehensive document and disevsses in the Roosevelt strle cviery question to be given attention by the Congress. It is one of the long est messages yet presented by our great Chief Magistrate and is most forceful in every paragraph. It is in tho President's best style frank plain and direct in statement and logic and breathes throughout a spir it of deep concern and patriotic solicitude for our country and its citizens Every American should read the message. Liberty Herald. We are living in a busy world and in a busy time and in Via busiest part of the world. It seems that dollars are put above brains ana culture No. not so it only se?m? so. Brains and culture may be riding on the back seat just now but it Is because they choose to do so. They can ride where they please. Th3 foremost men and women of the world know this and they aro just at present deeply concerned In impressing this fact upon our young men. Last week there wis a conference held in Boston to discuss the problem of developing young men who will be capable and fit for the complex social life in which we find ourselves at present. The greatest thinkers of this country woi-p there. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that the country is sioi t of young men. Yes, very short. The colleges and universities are full and running over yet the quality is poor, very poor. So poor In fact that Dr. Jordan of Leland Stanford , University, de dared that more than ono llilrd of the young men are almost totally in capacitated for successful careers. Why? Because they succu,nb to the low ideals of a fast lif a They consume their energy by cig irettes. liquor dancing, gambling and other vices:and give little heed to the s erious business of developing mind id character. You did not have to go far fron. Shelby villo to verify Dr. Jot dan's in dictment against young ien. If ytu will take the time to talk to twentj of the best business men in our cily or in any other city you will find that they all complain of tho 'quality" cf young men whom they rre compelled to employ. They find it very difficult to find honesty and capability com blned. Shelbyville Republican.

Saloon men in Evansville and elsewhere, while organizing to prevent further restrictive leeWi-Ucn, this winter, are declaring that tmiess they are permitted to violate a law that has been on the statutes for long years and sell liquor on Sunday, their business does not pay. This is not a good way to gain public confidence, for now that it most cities nnd towns of the State there Is a disposition tc enforcs the laws, the people wll tolorate no backward step and if legislators show signs of leaning toward more lax measures, thev will be apt to "hear It thunder" as the did in 1S95, when a great majority declared that the Nicholson law would not pass Yet it did pass, though not until the people at home spoke, and spoke loudly through letters and telegrams and word of mouth whe nth 3 law makers could be seen. -And the more the liquo men oiganized, the more solid becomes the

DECEMBER 9, 1906

NUMBER 30 1. Editorials.

opposition. That's American and human, and Anglo-Saxon. But It Is not strange thui liquor men who believe in living and con ducting their business In .tccordar.ee with law (and there are a goodly number who do) never think of organizing to oppose their rea.ily worst enemies, those who are planting the brewe.y saloon, the bribery club house and "hotel" in this and other Indiana cities. These are tne people who are bringing the liquor business more and more into disrepute every year. Besides, the liquor business is subject to the law of supply and demand as Is other business. Whentho "lid" was shut down rvcettly and the penny slot machines ordered out of saloons the complaint was made that some of the saloons were not paying expenses. And, r.o wonder, with twenty-eight or thirty licensed drinking places where ten could supply the demand of the trade. But the brewing companies want as many agencies to exhaust their product as ios3ible, hence the legitimate local dealer must suffer. How long, we wonder, would the Merchants Association siand it if fore'gn firms like Sears, Roebuck & Co. would plant brancu str-res about the city and evade local taxation? Yet this 'is just what the Brewery trust is doing. There 13 just one way to thin them out and have sufficient trade for the honest home dealer and that Is to put licenses at the thousand dollar figure. Connersville News.

PRESIDENT PROMISES TO URGE CONGRESS TO DEVELOP GREAT WATERWAY SYSTEM De'egates to the Rivers and Harbors Convent on in Washington Call at the White House to Present Their Plans for an Annual Approcr.ation of $500,000,000 for Internal Improvements.

Washington, D. C, Dec. S. President Roosevelt told the delegates to the national rivers and harbors convention who called on him at the White house today that he would consult with the leaders In congress and expressed the hope that something definite and effective could be done in the way of increased appropriations for the improvement of the nation's waterways. . Albert Hettinger, of Ciccinatl, the spokesman for the convention, a,d vanced that proposition that the nat ural waterways made efficient by the aid of the government, not only would supply the deficiency of transportation facilities, present and prospective, but would regulate freight char ges. He told the President that the con vention suggested regular annual ap propriations of not less than $500,000,000 to replace the "hitherto desultory and inadequate appropriations" foi the improvement of the waterways. The President replied as follows: "I have come to feel a growing sense of the importance, cf establish ing a far reaching coherent plan for the general improvement of the waterways of the country. I was lad first to consideration of that plan by consid ering another plan for tho use of wat j er, not in connection with waterways, but in connection with preparing the land at the head of the river to produce the harvests that later in part should be carried on the rivers lower down that is, in connection with the irrigation policy, in which I so strongly believe, as a vital to the welfare of the Rocky mountains and adjacent states. Thinks Government Should Act. "Just as I feel that the national government should concern itself with utilization of the water of rivers in their source where the country is dry, so I feel the national government j should concern itself with the proper PROFESSOR STANDS PAT WELCOMES TAINTED MONEY Says Gift from John D. Rockefeller Will Not in the Least Compromise Lawrence University Issues a FeVmal Statement. Publishers' Press.J Appleton, v, is., Dec. 8. Samuel Plantz, president of Lawrence university, made a statement ii which he corrects statements recently appear ing in public print, with reference to the gift of $56,000 to Lawrence university from the general education board fund, founded by John D. Rockefeller. Plantz says Rockefeller has no connection whatever with the general educsti.n board, that he toes a t attw 1 ts meetings, does net cou.;: with it, and has nothing whatever to say about the distribution of its funds. "That accepting; a contribution from the general board of education would compromise freedom of speech in an institution of learning Is gratituous affirmation," said Plantz. "Rockefeller has given Tale and Harvard 11,000.001 each, but whose professors have spoken more freely on economic questions? President Hadley, of Yale, before Rockefeller1 gift and since, has Veen one of the most outspoken of our economists nr. rallrad reeite. Professors in Chicago university have been enjoying freedom in speaking on economic questions and on monopolies. Certainly to accept a gift from a board of education Rockefeller has endowed in no way compromises an institution of learning." Insanity Ended In Death. Lexington, Ky., Dec. 8. Mrs. Etta Griffith .the young wife of Nolan Griffith, under indictment for the murder of her baby girl several weeks aro, died at the asylum, having been ad judged insane last week. She became a raving maniac the day Thomas Stout was hanged, caused by hearing workmen building the scaffold, during her Incarceration. ABOUT POLITICS IN CIVIL SERVICE The annual report of the United States Civil Service Commission, Is sued at Washington Wednesday states that there is still too treat a- disposition on the. part of persons in classified service to participate actively in politics in spite of executive orders. The sentiment in favor of the merit system is steadily growing, not only! in congress, but among ine states, four of which have adoptei civil service laws, while the charters of a con siderable number of municipalities now contain provisions for appointment through competitive examina tion. The report states that In the federal service there has teen an in creasing spirit of co-operation on the part of the heads of executive departments and officials.

control and utilization of the water lower down in the river, where they are fitted to be the great arteries of communication. "I have had it brought strikingly to my attention but recently how much we suffer at present because of the inadequate transportation facilites of the railways for moving The great

, grain crops and cattle crop of this country. We need, and must have ! further facilties for transportation, and, as has been well pointed out, one of the effective methods of affecting railway rates to provide for a proper system of water transportation." David R. Francis of Missouri, presented to the President a large gold medal of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company, similar to those given to the heads of the different goverments of Europe which participated in the exposition. Railroads Are Overworked. J. N. Teal, of Portland, Ore., chairman of the committee on resolutions, brought in the platform report, which was adopted by a rising vote. The report in part follows: "Present conditions demonstrate that the transportation facilties are totally inadequate for the prompt and economical transportation of the products of the country. Within the last ten years the tonnage moved by rail roads has increased 47 per cent, while during the same period railway mileage has increased only 20 per cent "Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost annually to our farmers and other producers by the failure of the national government to provide the assistance which properly improved natural waterways will give in increased facilities for transporting freight. "The time has now arrived when the United States, with greater natural advantages, must also recognize tho function of the water- v system . in the economic development of this country." SUBPOENAS ARE SERVED OIL MEN MUST ANSWER The Standard Company's Officials in a Bad Way in Western Pennsylvania Must Appear In Court on the 7th of January Next. Publishers' PrcssJ Plttsbur,, o. oc-'xs ct 14 constituent companies of the Standard Oil company in western Pennsylvania were subpoenaed to appear in United States circuit court at St. Louis, January 7, in the anti-trust proceedings instituted by the government against the Standard, John D. Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers and 73 constituent companies. The persons named in western Pennsylvania are H. McSweeney, of the Commercial Natural Gas company, Bradford; S. C. Lewis, of the Eclipse Refining company. Franklin; J. W. Grant, of the Franklin Pipe Line company; Frank H. Johnson, of the Galena. Riena.1 Oil enmnsnv. Franklin: H. McSweeney, of the Lawrence Natural Gas company. Oil City: J. B. Craw ford, of the Oil City Fuel Supply com pany; W. H. Filler, of the Pennsyl vania Gas company and the Pennsyl vania Oil company, Warren; Thomas Nicol, Jr., of the People's Natural Ga3 company and the Pittsburg Gas com pany; B. W. Cummins, of the South Penn Oil company, the Taylorstown Natural Gas company and the Washington Oil company and Chester H. Lay, of the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Lines company. Oil City. WITTE AND CZAR Have a Long Talk About Troubles of Russian Empire. St. Petersburg, Dec. 8. The audi ence between Count Witte and the emperor was far from " perfunctory. From a trustworthy source it is learned that it lasted fully three hours. Occurring at a time when the ex-premier'f disfavor at court was regarded as a settled fact, this audience must be considered as a personal victory, indicr Ing some change in the attitude of high administrative circles. Certain Liberals are even Inclined to regard it as tte starting point of a new course, leading eventually to calm with Witte at the helm. It is understood the summons received by Count Witte set forth two topics on which the monarch desired his services: First, certain mooted points in the interpretation of clauses of the Portsmouth treaty which block current negotiations between Russia and Japan, embracing uestions vital to Russian interests; second, the present state of Russian credit abroad. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea purifies the blood, strengthens the nerves, regulates the bowels, aids the kidneys, cures stomach troubles, builds up the nervous force and repairs the ill effects of . over eating. Tea or Tablets. S3 cents. A. G. Luken, & Co. - -

VARIED EMOTIONS OVER INCOME TAX

If Measure Passes Congressmen Will Get but $4,900 Each Year for Work. MONEY KINGS HARD HIT. GREAT GATHERING HELD AT WASHINGTON DURING PAST WEEK TO CONSIDER WATERWAYS' IMPROVEMENTS. Washington, Dec. S.- With mixed emotions Congress on its opening day listened to the reading of the income tax bill introduced by Representative Sheppard of Texas. The wealthier the member the more mixed the feeling, and those whose salary is their only income looked as though some one had kicked them in the pits of their financial stomachs. For, be it known, if the Sheppard bill passes, these purse-poor Solons will be directing the destiny of the nation at an annul 1 stipend of $4,900 per, instead of $3,000. The income tax on their yearly salary will slice just exactly $100 off each and every pay check. According to the measure, incomes under $4,000 are to remain unscathed of the tax-gatherer, but all above that sum will be assessed on a rising percentage scale, until such money kings as Carnegie and Rockefeller are paying upwards of $1,000,1)0 for the privilege of clipping their coupons. The bill, too, puts a premium on United States bonds, for they are the only class of revenueproducing property that is exempt. It is a difficult matter to phophecy the fate of the measure. If the report of the chief of the I Bureau of Loans and Currency is not twisted, there is a probability that a large number of United States citizens will be hit by the Sheppard bill. , should it become law. According to that official's report the amount of money in circulation on December 1 was $32,S69,074,253 which is a gain of $2,000,000 in the last month and of about $7,000,000 in the last year. This hoists the per capita circulation up to $33.66, a point never before reached in the history of the United States. No wonder Uncle Sam wishes to garner a little of the increased shekels for himself through the medium of an income bill. Never before in America has such a gathering been held to consider the Improvement of the waterways of the country as was held here this past week. In numbers and enthusiasm it is a remarkable assemblage, and practically every -state In the Union is represented. A number of governors have headed delegations, among these being Governor Chamberlain, of Oregon, and Governor Blanchard of Louisiana, and prominent men in all walks of life have put. aside private and public affairs to lend their voice and influence toward launching a national campaign for better waterways as a means of insuring increased transportation for a growing commerce, and a consequent maintenance of prosperity. The convention has a notably large number of delegates from communities not situated on navigable waterways, but who realize that the movement is not one in which benefits accrue only to to those cities and towns and states so located. The realization that developed waterways will prove a mighty factor in lowering all freight rates, has opened the eyes of every section to the Importance of the crusade. It is regarded now as practically certain that Congress will pass a rivers and harbors appropriation bill of at least $50,000,000, and there even is a reasonable expectation that the bill will carry more than this sum. Wanted on Murder Charge. Springfield, 111., Dec. 8. Charged with the murder of William and Isaac Herrell in Mitchell county, North Carolina, in December, 1900, David Gar land, former deputy sheriff of Mitchell county, vainly fought against extradition. The governor ordered the warant to issue and Garland to be returned to North Carolina for trial. Garland is under arrest in Pontiac. He claims he was acting as deputy sheriff when he killed the Herrells and that he shot them in an endeavor to keep the peace. He also denied that he is a fugitive, saying he lived in Illinois six years and that there had been no previous effort to arrest him, although he visited Mitchell county meanwhile. G. A. R. Encampment. Zanesville. O., Dec. 8. A meeting of the executive committee, Grand Army of the Republic, called by the commander-in-chief. General R. B. Brown, will be held here Jan. 7 to give definite consideration of the location of the national encampment next year. The national encampment of 1906 voted to meet next year at Saratoga, N. Y., but it is understood certain conditions necessary to the encampmen have not been met by that city, although an extension of time was granted, and the location of the encampment at another city is possible. Attorney Suspended. Winchester, Ky., Dec. 8. W. O. Harri3, of Louisville, appointed by the governor to act as judge in the hearing against Judge W. M. Beckner, on a charge of unprofessional conduct in a litigation between J. G. Stewart and Archer Harmon, suspended Eeckner j two years from practicing law. Drowned In a Cistern. Columbus, O-, Dec 8. Mrs. John Bumpton, 65, wife of a fanner near New .Albany, went to a cistern to draw water, slipped In and drowned. She was found three hours later by her husband and son.-'

BANK ROBBER TF.AFPED

DARING GAME ATTEMPTED Bank Robber Chased to Cover and Surrounded Near Great Bend, Kas. -Man Under Arrest is Believed to Have Gone There from Chicago. Publishers' Press.) Great H-. , l . o. Atter a daring attempt to rob the J. V. Brinkman company bank, single handed, a man who gave his name as George A Lewis of Kansas City, was surrounded and surrendered. Bud Westfall, a driver for the Wells Fargo Exprcrr company, vis killed by a shot fire J by one of the pursuers. Lewis walked into the bank a few minutes after It opened and pointing a revolver at A. E. Taylor, the cash'er, ordered the latter to throw up his hands. In an instant a clerk dodged into the vault and set off the burglar alarm. Lewis fled and darted up an alley. A crowd of men and boys gav chase and seeing himself hemmed in, the robber darted up the stairs in the Wells Fargo building, two blocks frou the bank. On the second floor ht locked himself in a room and for an hour defied arrest. Several shots were fired Into th' room in an attempt to dislodge tb robber. One bullet struck and kllle1 Westfall who was In the office on thf street floor. Finally , Lewis surren dered and was taken to the countj Jail. Officers believe that the name of Lewis is fictitious. He said he came here from Chicago to do the job. Wreck at Danville. Danville, Va., Dec. 8. A wreck In the yards of the Southern railway in this city, resulted in the death of George A. Kinney, of. Thoasvllle, N. C, and an unknown man, probably a tramp. Several were injured. A mixed passenger and Pullman train crashed into a freight train standing on the track. Fire followed the wreckage, but it was brought under control after four freight cars were burned. George Ford, a negro fireman, probably will die. STORER WRATHY AT PRESIDENT Sends Letter to the Executive , and Senate Regarding His Dismissal. THE CASE IS UNUSUAL EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES DEVELOP IN THE CASE WHICH ATTRACTED ATTENTION SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. Publishers' rrosa.J Washington, Dec. 8. An extraordinary letter was addressed by Bellamy Storer to President Roosevelt and members of the caoinet in regard to his dismissal from the post of ambassador of the United States to Austria-Hungary. It was assumed at the time that Storer was dismissed because of his wife's supposed interference in affairs of the Roman Catholic church and her alleged misuse of letters from the president. It was also charged that Mrs. Storer meddledwith French poli tics Dy lasmg pair m anu uepuoucan intrigue to promote the marriage of Victor Bonaparte with a member of the Orleans family. Both of these charges Storer denies and on the other hand declares that the presl dent's Interest in the selection of Archbishop Ireland as a cardinal was not due to Storer or to Storer's wife, but to the president alone. The text of Storers letter was printed and also transmitted to mem bers of the foreign relations' committee of the senate. Storer says his removal in such a manner suddenly dis missed him from an office which he had been given reason to believe he had filled to the satisfaction, both of his own government and of that to which he was accredited, and being accompanied by no public explanations exposed him to suspicions and Injurious conjectures, such as must naturally arise when a man in public office is abruptly dismissed by his government with what is obviously intended to be discredit. The correspondence shows the familiar relations of the president and the Storers from the time Roosevelt was governor of New York. Some of Roosevelt's letters to Storer were addressed "My Dear Bellamy," and to his wife, "My Dear Maria," and Storer addressed the president as "Dear Theodore." Storer asserts that Roosevelt himself, while governor of New York, urged the Storers to use their influ: ence with the Vatican for Ireland's promotion, believing the prelate's patriotism would aid in solving the problems connected with the Catholic church in the Philippines. The later letters from Roosevelt as president are published, evidently to show the president's allegea Inconsistency. Washington, Dec. 8. No direct statement bearing on the issues raised in the correspondence between the president and former Ambassador and Mrs. Storer was obtainable at the White House and it Is not certain that the president will discuss the matter at any time in the nar future. After a heavy meal, take a couple of Dean's Regulets, and give your stomach, liver and bowels the help they will neI. Regulets bring easy, I regular passages of the bowels.

JIM VVATS0I1 SAW THE PBESIDEIIT

The Sixth District Congress man Conferred with the Executive Yesterday. OUTLINING LEGISLATION I WATSON WANTS THE EIGHT HOUR LAW TO BE TAKEN UP CONGRESSMAN CROMER MAKES A DENIAL. Washington, Dec. S. (Spl.) Representative Watson, who, as the whip of the House, Is representing Speaker Cannon in an effort to formulate n legislative program, saw the President today and sought advice on the advisability of the House taking up three measures Immediately after the holidays, the anti-injunction bill, the eight-hour bill and an amended ship subsidy bill. It seems to be the decision of the leaders to attempt to pass the Gilbert anti Injunction bill after it has been slightly amended. As the bill stands now it provides that injunctions shall not issue until no tice has been given. . It is proposed to so amend it so as to permit the issuance of an Injunction without notice In case tho emergency seems to de maud it. Many of the Republican representatives are insisting that the e'.ght-hour bill shall be considered. "My sug gestlon is that we face these two laor measures at this time," said Mr. Watson. "We have got to dispose of them sooner or later and the sooner we get rid of them the better." Representative George W. Cromer of the Eighth Indiana district says the report that went out about him probably getting a consular appointment after his term as Congressman expires, was started by his enemies. Mr. Cromer says he is not asking or seeking anything from the Government after ho goes out of office. He, like Fred Landis, is planning to remain at home ,as there may be something doing in the Eigth congressional district in the years to come. Mr. Cromer says -that the antl-Cro-mer men are now busy talking harmony after having voted the Democratic ticket. Mr. Cromer is emphatic In announciing that the Republicans to win in the district the next time must nominate a man who was loyal to the ticket the last time. "We don't propose to put a premium on disloyalty." said Mr. Cromer. A NEW MURDER MYSTERY PALMIST IS IN TROUBLE The Arrest of Herman Belek in Connection with Deaths in the Vzral Family His Case Will Be Heard on December 17. t Publishers' Press. Chicago, e. ncrman Belek, who was arrested In connection with deaths in the Vzral fimlly, was arraigned in court and his case continued to December 17. Mrs. Belek, his wife, was also brought into court, and hearing in her case was set for December 14. Police investigation Into the death t of six members of the Vzral family de veloped that a proposition to secure money by poisoning was entertained between Mrs. Rose Viral, who is supposed to have committed suicide, December 4, and Herman Belek, the palmist, suspected of having administered poison to Martin Vzral and the latter's four children. Evidence that such a proposition was considered was In the form of a letter from Mrs. Vzral to Belek asking him that he secure for her In return for that which she had given him, by poisoning his own mother, who lives In Cleveland. O. When questioned Belek admitted that the request was made, not only that he should poison his mother, but that he should take his wife's life by th same means. Belek's statement was confirmed by Mrs. Belek, wso said she was in constant fear of her life because of the jealousy Mrs. Vzral and daughter entertained against her. On Ve strength of the letter a warrant "Was issued embodying a direct charge ef murder against Belek and his wife. PAPERS PRODUCED Much Excitement In Texas Over the Bai'ey Disclosures. Waco, Tex., Dee. I. Political circles in Texas are excited over the disclosures regarding the case of Senator Bailey and the Waters Pierce Oil company. A call was Issued for amass meeting in this county with a rlw to instructing members of the legislature in connection with Bailey's candidacy for re-election. It is understood that mass meetings will be called in other counties cf the state. Austin, Tex., Dec. 8. In answer to a statement by United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey. In which Senator Bailey demanded of Attorney General Davidson all documentary evldtaceln his possession which tended to prove that he (Bailey) was paid by the Standard or Waters-Pierce oil companies or by H. Clay Pierce of the Waters-Pierce Oil company tor services rendered, Attorney General Davidson made public a statient which contains an voucherssfotes. letter and drafts in his possession, and upon which he based ht charges against Senator Ballsy. Mrs. Austi famous Pancake flour Is in townand delicious aa ever

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