Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 18, 4 March 1908 — Page 1

THI RICHMOND PAIXADIXJM AIVJD SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIII. NO. 18. KICII3IOXD, IM)., WEI)Xi:SUAV EVENING, 3IA1JCII I, ltH)S. SINGLE COPY, ? CENTS. A HUNDRED CHILDREN REFUSES TO PAY FORME CARE Technicality Bars Action $f Commissioners. IS IMMINENT THOUSANDS WERE KILLED IN GERMAN Strausss, Alarmed at the Activity of Reds Will Try Deporting Them BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND UNITED STATES WERE KILLED IN FIRE EAST

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LITTLE ONES MET A HORRIBLE DEATH IN A PANIC WHICH FOLLOWED THE DISCOVERY OF FLAMES IN THE NORTH COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL AT CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUST BEFORE NOON,

UTILE BODIES BLOCKED EGRESS L Mangledlemains of the Children Obstructed the Doors Leading Frorn the Rooms Above the First Floor. TERRIBLE SCENE WAS DISCLOSED LATER. Many of the Children Burned Beyond All Chance of Recognition Found After the Fire. PARENTS FOUGHT MADLY. fOLICE WERE FORCED TO RESTRAIN THE FRENZIED MOTHERS AND FATHERS FROM ENTERING DANGEROUS BUILDING. MANY ESCAPED- DEATH. Those on the First Floor Had No Trouble in Reaching .- Points of Safety, But Others Were Trapped Like Mice. (BULLETIN.) Cleveland, O., March 4. Principal Whitney estimates the dead at one hundred and fifty, mostly children between the ages of nine and twelve. One hundred and nine bodies have been recovered. Cleveland, O., Mar. 4 Fire breaking out in the North Collingwood school before noon today trapped three hundred and fifty children. A terrible panic followed and it is now believed that at least 100 children were trampled to death. A door in the upper part of the building opened causing the .flames to enter the rooms. Children wildly rushed for the doors and the teachers were unable to control them. When the firemen arrived the door ways were choked with bodies of pret ty chMdren, which were badly mangl-, ed. The work of rescue is slow. The Interior of the rooms presented a terrible scene when the fire was gotten under control. Many of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. Those children on the lower floors escaped. The parents of the children who fought madly to get to their loved ones were restrained by police from entering the building. Miss Catherine Wiler, a teacher also lost her life. REFUSE TO CONFIDE IN PUBLIC PRESS Officers of Civic Righteousness Club Will Not Talk. There was a large attendance at the meeting of the Civic Righteousness club, held last evening at the South Eighth Street Friends' church. What action was taken by the club is not known as the officers of the organ

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ization refuse to disclose to the press nor Herrick. Arthur Vorys and Charles the proceedings of the meeting, u Tatt for delegates at large to the rewas stated that In a short time the-i Publican national convention, and tfcey

plans of the club would le mad pub - 'lie. NO CIRCUIT COURT. Xo session of the circuit court was held today owing to the fact that .ludge Fox was absent from the city. Next week will be a busy one in Ihe circuit court,

BILL BOARD EVIL

City Attorney Study May Ascertain Whether They Can Be Removed. Councilman Matt. Von Fein has asked City Attorney Study what his decision in regards to the bill boards nuisance is. He wants to know whether t ie city can have all of them removed or whether the city can only he able to pads an ordinance regulatings them. Mr. Suidy says that, he does not. know this point has been submitted to him alone for investigation but that, if it was the desire of the city council he can immediately make an investigation. MANY CONVERSIONS " to"! ES Interest Is Increasing Day by Day. More than forty persons have bowed at the allar at the revival in progress at First M. E. church since Sunday and it was announced last night that there had been 135 persons who had been converted or reclaimed since the meeting began. The meeting seems to be increasing: In Interest and iower each lay. Besides, at the altar, and in various parts of the church, conversions have been reported at midnight, at five o'clock in the morning at the noon hour, and at missionary prayer meetings. Monday night. was Jubilee night and a veritable jubilee it was while last night was a continuance of the saute spirit and power. Xo such revival has occurred in Richmond Methodism for many years, is the testimony of many. Last night, Evangelist Hobson preached on "The Short lied and the Narrow Covering." Services are announced each night at 7:30 and each afternoon at 2:30, except Saturday. RENOMINATED BY ACCLAMATION TODAY Ohio State Republican Convention Endorses Roosevelt Policies and Endorsed Taft for President. FAVORS R E-EIM ACTM EI!T OF LIABILITY LAW. Tariff Revision Was Also Sanctioned and Local Option Came in For Favor at i Hands of Delegates. Columbus, 0., March 4. Governor Andrew L. Harris was renominated by acclamation today at the republican state convention. The platform adopted endorses the Roosevelt and Harris administrations, endorses Taft ivji nciucm, luuf-iuiuuu uiv people of Ohio that the representation in the senate and house of representatives maintain.- the state's high rank in the national legislature, recommends re-enactment of the employers liability law. tariff revision, local option for the people, and approval of the initiative and referendum where the rights of the public are involved. The convention was called to order by James Ii. Garfield. Wade Elli. permanent chairman, spoke brief' . Reports of ai! committees wei- received and Congressman Burton read il.e resolutions, which wert adopted. Nicholas Longworth nominated i "big four." Governor Harris. ex-Gover- ; were chosen by general consent. Stulwell withdrew and Edward M Fullington was nominated by aocia- ! mat ion for auditor of state. Lieutenant Francis C. Treadway, of Cuyahoga, was nominated for lieutenant governor on the third ballot. The i vote stood. Treadway 4:iH:.: Eagleson, J -: Wirt. 37: West. It!: Bright. 3. i Carmi Thompson was nominated for secretary of state by acclamation.

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The county commissioners today refused to allow a claim presented by the management of the Home fur Friendless Women, tor expenses incurred by having a nurse care for Martha Code,, insane, of Webster. The commissioners ruled that the women's prison was not a county institution and tor that reason the claim could not be paid out of the appropriation lor guarding insane people. Some county officers argue that the women's prison is as much a county institution as the county jail for men.

GOOD FRIDAY TO Special Services in Many of The Churches. The Ministerial association has appointed a committee to arrange tor services to be held in the various churches of the city on Good Friday. Nearly all the churches in the city will observe this day. Last year the schools closed on the afternoon of Good Friday to permit the children to attend the services. An effort will be made to have the schools closed a half day ou Good Friday this year. LITTLE TOT WAVED PRAT APnnvnnhTtf uum nuuuuu nmoi AND SAVED TRAIN Flying C, C. & L. Passenger Escaped Bad Wreck by the Presence of Mind of Thirteen-Year-Old Boy. IT WAS A BROKEN RAIL THAT THREATENED TRAIN Boys Were Going to Sunday School When They Discovered the Danger and Then Acted in Heroic Manner. A story of how a train load of passengers on the C, C. & L., a number of them Richmond people, were saved from death or serious injury Sunday by the cool-headed work of two small Chicago boys, Robert Gustafson, aged thirteen years, and Rudolph Gustafosou, aged nine years, has just been told. Frank Fox, formerly of this city and now connected with the C, C. & L. ,with headquarters at Chicago, ! brought the story to the city yesterday. Sunday last, he states, traiu "1 on th C, C. fc L., pulled out of Chicago, southbound, with a large number of passengers abroad. In the engine cab sat Chauncey Ripple, the biggest engineer on the road and known to all railroad men as "Babe." As the train was speeding along at a y,apid rate and Hearing Louisville Junction, on the outskirts of the city. Ripple suddenly had a vision of a small figure standing on the snow covered track frantically waving something at him. Instantly Ripple closed the throttle and applied the airbrakes. ith puffs1 and groans the big steel monster and its consort of passenger coaches cameshivering to a sudden stop. Out of the cab jumped Ripple and his fireman and they ran to where two small boys stood, wonderingly watching the train. "What's the matter with you boys? Why aid you signal me to stop?" gruffly asked "Babe" of the youthfuls who confronted him. Krne ire. h." ivpiieil Robert tiustafoson. "but the reason I waved at you was because while me and my uroiner was naming aiuiig me iracK 10 bunuay scnooi, i iouna a uroKen ran. Then quickly piped in young Rudolph. "Yes sir, we found a broken rail, mis is it." and the lad touched the damaged steel with his foot. With beads of perspiration standing out on his fureluad Kipple kicked the broken rail and saw it roll over on the road bed. "Boys, if you hadn't a found that." and Ripple pointed grimly to the useless steel, "I wouldn't have been standing: here talking to you now. No power this ide of heaven would have prevented That broken rail from ditching the train ami probably killing every one on it." There was a catch in the voice of the big engineer as he spoke. Enginesr Afftcted. W;er. 1 t;w the train comiTtyr. 1 wa. nwfully srared." said Robert. "I tried to get my red handKerchief out of my pocket, but it got stiie. I then pulled off my coat and juft kept a wav ing it till you stopped that you would stop." I just prayed Ripple hugged each of the hoys, learned their names, then reported the accident to the Chicauo ot flees. Mr. Fox went to the ( Continued on rage Seven.,)

President Castro of the Little Republic, Has Refused to Listen to Unqualified Demands.

DISPLAY OF FORCE . MUST NOT BE MADE. Army and Navy Officers Now Expect to Get Orders Any Day to Make Movement Against That Republic. CASTRO IS VERY IMPUDENT. HAS CONVEYED TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT THAT HE WILL NOT DEAL DIPLOMATICALLY WITH "YANKEE PIGS." DANGEROUS POSSIBILITIES. Senator Lodge Is at the Helm in the Attempt to Bring About an Amicable Adjustment History of the Case. "Washington, March 1. The state department has sent President Castro, of Venezuela, an unqualified demand that he submit all matters in dispute between this country and Venezuela to arbitration. President Castro has refused uncon ditionally to accept the demand. The administration is now in a position where it must make a display of force or recede from its attitude and resubmit the causes of the quarrel back to the state department. The administration has taken practically, the stand liajtthe asphalt rus is in the right in its controversy with Castro and has substantially made its case the government's. It was learned last night that the president is preparing for a display of force. Evants in connection with this disagreement are moving with great rapidity and developments of interest are looked for any day. Army and navy officers expect any day now to get. orders for a movement against the miniature South American republic. There are six prominent cases at issue, and the most important of these is the fine of $8,K0.0x imposed upon the Asphalt trust by President Castro. The first decisive step was taken last week, when Secretary of State Root instructed United States Minister Russell in Caracas to make a demand upon Castro en bloc for the arbitration of all questions in dispute. In case Castro had answered that the proceedings were irregular Russell was to make a definite stand upon each individual case. This was done and Castro refused point blank both the enbloc and the individual offers. Congress Expected to Act. The state department has gone as far as it. can while congress is in session. It would be useless to expect the president to take any step of war or any act similar to war while congress is in session, that body having the right to declare war. It is a fast crvstalizing opinion, however, that if . Castro and the United States are not bluffing, develop. serious trouble is bound to The honor of each nation is involved. The fact that the United States government has demanded arbitration, snows that it believes that there is merit in the Asphalt trust case, the Juarett case, the Orinioco company case and the others which have from time to time been published. The senate has asked for the correspondence iu all of these cases, and this request was made, it is understood, at tjie reqUegt of the president him (1f ll& rmti where it belongs thf responsibility for any physical action against the republic of Venezuela. Four years ago Castro assumed the same attitude he maintains now. At that time it was no secret that the United States had sent army officers to Colombia and Venezuela to make reconnoissances with reference to a possible conflict with the recalcitrant republic. Castro has been very impudent. One of his dispatches to the state department is said to have conveyed the statement that he would not deal diplomatically with "Yankee Pis." The real question now is whether congress will take the ("astro business iu its own hands and suggest that an ultimatum be sent to enezuela. If that be done it will precipitate a crisis. The situation at the present moment i.s one full of dangerous possibilities. It is being handled in the senate by Senator lxidee. He has not yet brought before the senate all the correspondence in the various cases, but he was informed that Castro had flatly refused yesterday to submit any of the (Continued on Fage Seven.)

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OSCAR A. STRAUSS, Secretary Department of Commerce and Labor. Strauss has just issued orders to immigration inspectors to co-operate with municipal authorities and drive from the United States all foes to organized society.

GOVERNMENT WILL CO-OPERATE TO RID COUNTRY OF REDS Secretary Oscar Strauss Orders the Dragnet Cast All Over the United States for ; Anarchists. INSPECTORS TO AID MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES ... , , ,. . . OiJCUIllly mail UOUUIIS HI C UIVen as to the Proper Mode of Procedure in the Deporting Foes of Society. Washington. March 4. A federal drag net is to be spread the length and breadth of the land to catch Anarchists and other enemies of organized society, and it will bo operated in connection with the dragnet already extended over the city of Chicago. where the chief of police was the vici tim of an attempt at assassination, j Secretary Oscar Strauss, of the de- ' part ment of commerce and labor, of ; which the immigration bureau is a i constituent part, has evolved a plan of 1 co-operation between the general govI eminent and municipalities for the re pression of the "Reds" and their deportation, so far a possible. He has issued an order to all commissioners of immigration and immigrant inspectors to confer with the police .tut horities in their respective jurisdictions with a view to bringing about concerted action in ridding the country of alien Anarchists and criminals coming within the purview of the law relating to deportat ion. This is the first practical attempt at co-operation between the authorities of the United States and local communities in this direction, vmi since the law now allows the Federal government considerable latitude material results should follow. The Secretary's Order. The order of Secretary Strauss follows: To all Commissioners of Immigration and Immigration Inspectors in ! Charge: It is hereby directed that I with a view of promptly obtaining defi inite information with regard to alien ; Anarchists enc criminals located in the 'United States, you shall confer fuily i with the chief of police or the chief of I the secret service of th city in which you are located, furnishing such official with detailed information with re - card to the meaning or" the term 'ani archist." as used in tne immigration act of February 20. 1.7, and with regard to the inhibition of that statute against aliens of the criminal classes, explaining the powers and limitations imposed by said statute on the immigration officiais with regard to such : persons. "You should ca'.l to th. attei.tinri of the Chief of no! ice or chief of the &&. cirt. strvk-e the definition of 'auaicb - isf contained in Sections and of the act of February 'JO.-10o7, and the provisions of Section 2. placing within the excluded classes persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, pointing out. that if any such person is found within the United Statu within three years after landing or entry therein, he is amenable to deportation under the provision of Section of the act. "Th? to-epcration of taid officials

should be requested, making it clear that in order that any particular An-

. arehist or criminal may tie deported i ! evidence must be furnished show ing: First, that the person in question is an alien subject to the immigration acts; second, that he is an anarchist or criminal as defined by 1 ho statute; third, the date of his arrival in the United States, which must bo withiu j three years of the date of his arrest ; fourth, the name of the vessel or of the ; transportation line by which he came, if possible, and fifth, the name of the country whence he came, the details with respect to the last three items being kept at the various ports of entry lr "h manner as to be available, if information is furnished with regard j to the anarchist's name, the date of i tils arrival and the port of entry. ' It is desired that the above indicated steps shall be taken at once, and that no proper effort shall be spared to secure and retain tho co-operation of ihe local police and detective forces in ; an effort to rid the country of alien anarchists and criminals falling within the provisions of the statute relating to deportation." TRUANT OPEICER BISHOP WILL GET NO PAY POR WORK Not Until the County Council Meets Next September, Will He Be Reimbursed for Services Rendered. NO APPROPRIATION MADE IN RECENT YEARS. County Auditor Coe Disclosed The Fact That Legally Bish op Could Not Be Paid and Court Stands by Him. When the quarterly payment of county officers and employes took place the first of this month, the only official who did not receive his pay was George Bishop, truant officer. Mr. Dis.iop will not receive any salary from the county until Uie coanty council meets next September in regular session and makes an appropriation to recompense him for his services. . For some time Mr. Bishop has been receiving his salary illegally there being no appropriation to lik-et thi.i i expense. This discovery was made reJ cently by Comity Auditor Donias Coe, 1 so when the truant officer called Ue i first of the month to secure a warrant for his pay Mr. Coe '-'.as forced to "turn him down." The Dempsey Case. Several years ago when Dr. W. S. Dempsey was truant officer the eonny coeneit refused to appropriate- mon ey " pay Iif! salary The 1 ,- provid--d that t.:--re shoaM b- a irant offi - ee,-, b it m,, eounetinicn couid rot, cove- tr.at the law expresHy pro', !k-d i ; thtit he should be paid for his services.; ) Dr. Dempsey bad a writ of mandate'' served on County Auditor Alex ReM to secure recompense for his services and Judge Fox issued an order to ih ' elfect mat Dr. Demppv saould paia a regular mommy salary 111 1 III that ihe law provided that a truant officer should be paid for hi servieea. No Later Appropriation. Since the days of Dr. Dempsey the county council has never made an appropriation for the truant officer's sal(Continued on Pago Seven.)

Awful Disclosures Were Made

Today in the German Reichstag Which Shock the Entire Nation. NATIVES STARVED BY MILITARY AUTHORITIES. Colonial Secretary Dernbcrg Made the Statement to the Reichstag and Explained Reasons for So Doing. PERSECUTED THE NATIVES. FOR MANY YEARS ALMOST HELPLESS RESIDENTS OF AFRICA HAVE BEEN PREYED UPON BY THE COAST TRADERS. AN AWFUL VENGEANCE. Swept Down on the German Settlers And Killed Hundreds The Coun-' try's Policy Was to Oppress the Helpless Ones. Berlin. March -1.--All Germany was I startled today by the awful rcvcla j turns in the Reichstag, that during th i recciu campaign iu vieiiiiiiii luasi aiii ca, 75.kn natives were starved to death by the military authorities. Colonial Secretary Dernberg made the statement to the Reichstag. He explained that the troops were compelled to seize food supplies either to feeil the soldiers or weaken the enemy. For many years, depredations have been committed upon inoffensive natives by coast traders. When the natives were finally aroused they swept down on the German settlers and reajK-d a terrible vengeance, killing hundreds. Germany's policy was to flood tho country with troops who cowed the natives into submission. NEGRO ASSAULTER SURROUNDED IN BARN Has Shot Two Men Guarding Building. Clarksburg. W. Va., March 4. Frank Johnson, a negro. who Phot and. woundd a Miss Moglu-ny, is surrounded in a barn. Johnson shot and wounded John Ramsey and Harry ! ("ark, who were guarding the barn. ! The sheriff has caib-d for Na-mal guards. The soldiers are ou their way to the tceno. nnnnrn ... ; n i ii i nnnnrn in MU nUDOtU I SMALL OHIO TOWN The Perpetrators Escaped on Horses. Mt. Orab, O., March 4. Cracktmra entered a bank here this inorniiiij and secured $'. in currency ami silver. The robbers e-cajied on. horsta. Bloodhounds are ou thii trail. INSPECTORS WARNED TO KEEP OUT REDS ; i Ellis Island Authorities to Use Caution. New York, March 4. Commifisloner Watchorn today issued instructions to ' i I t -- i i j i 1 1 i n c r-r-i - 11t? T iu I in -. u---- r j land to exercise special j kf p 0;n anarchists. j ; " vigilane to THE WEATHER PROPHET. I INDIANA &. OHld War-ner tonisht; i Triuriday showsrs.