Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 110, 25 February 1910 — Page 1

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AND SUN-TEIiEGRAM. VOL. XXXV. NO. 110. RICHMOND, IXD., FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1910. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

HIS SWEETHEART SCORNED HIM, SO HE SOUGHT DEATH

Gail Crouse, Eaton Young Man Who Got in Trouble in Richmond for Forgery, Suicided Yesterday. MAKES FINAL APPEAL TO MISS COTTINGHAM But She, Scorning Him for the Crime He Had Committed, Refused to Answer and His Death Resulted. (Palladium Special) Eaton, O., Feb. 25. Despondent over being jilted by Miss Cva Cottingham, as a result of an unfortunate forgery affair in Richmond, last fall, Gail Crouse, aged 21. committed suicide last evening, at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary Crouse, East High street, by inhaling the contents of a four ounce bottle of chloroform, which he procured in the afternoon at West Alexandria. Hoping for a reconciliation, young Crouse informed his former sweetheart during the day of his intentions, but on receiving no word from her, he evidently saw no future pleasure in life for himself, and carried out his threat. His death Is unusually sad. There had been much interest manifested in him by influential citizens of this place, as the boy was the sole means of support of his mother, his father having deserted the family when young Crouse was a baby. Was Just Despondency. No explanation for his rash act is given by friends other than despondency over being jilted by his sweetheart, who believed him Innocent of the crime of forgery in Richmond, until he confessed. He bad been paying attention to the young woman, who is about 19 years old, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cottingham, both of whom are well known in this city, for several months. Last fall, either In the latter part of November or early in December, Crouse went to Richmond, put up at the Westcott hotel, and in payment for his lodging presented a check which was a clever forgery. The amount of the check was for $25 and after securing the money, he returned to Eaton, where he spent it on paying outstanding grocery and coal bills. He was apprehended and returned to Wayne county authorities for prosecution, but they sympathized with him, and on the earnest plea of Eaton friends, he was placed under the probation of Judge Davis, of the Preble county probate court. Desperately in Love. Until Crouse confessed, Miss Cottingham refused to believe him guilty, but her misplaced belief in the young man's Innocence resulted in her having nothing more to do with him. Crouse, desperately in love, was not strong enough to recover from the punishment meted out by his sweetheart. He lost Interest in his work and in his effort to support his mother. It was common gossip among those interested in his case, that he was suffering fro ma severe attack of despondency. His entire efforts seemed to be to regain the affections of Miss Cottingham. and on frequent occasions lurked in the vicinity, of her home, that he might obtain sight of her. These attentions resulted m a charge being placed against Crouse and Judge Davis ordered him to refrain from visiting the vicinity of the Cottingham residence, unless on business. The nature of tho note written to Miss Cottingham, yesterday, is J not known, but his friends presume that it was an appeal for forgiveness. There was no Intimation given to his friends that he contemplate 1 the rash act and upon his return from West Alexandria he seemed in as good, if not better, spirits, than had characterized his demeanor, previous to his visit. He retired at the usual hour and this morning was found dead in bed by his mother, the empty vial of chloroform nearby. The funeral arrangements have not been made, but it is probable the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon and the burial will be in the cemetery near here. HEIKE CASE RULING (American Xews Service) Washington, Feb. 25. Justice Lurton of the Supreme Court grauted a writ of error today in the case of Chas. R. Heike. who was recently denied immunity from trial In the federal court at New York, in connection with the American sugar refinery scandals. MRS. PARKS BETTER. Mrs. W. A. Parks, who was operated on at St. Mary's hospital, Rochester. Minn., recently, is reported as much improved and it is probable that be will return borne Sunday.

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Two new arrivals at the Bronx Zoo in New York and their keeper. George Palmer. The big Polar bear Is named North Star and has just been received from the farthest north arctic lands that the animal inhabits. The monkey is a genuine red monkey specimen and is called the "Red Devil." He is from Madagescar and he Is called a devil because of his monkey shines which know no limit.

RECEIVER WANTED EOH SHOE CONCERN Junior Partner of Cunningham & Lahrman Has Filed a Petition. LAHRMAN IS GIVEN BLAME CUNNINGHAM CHARGES FIRM IS IN DEBT THROUGH FAULT OF SENIOR MEMBER COURT SUSPENDS ACTION. J. Will Cunningham, junior partner in the shoe firm of Cunningham and Lahrman, filed suit in the circuit court this morning, against Fred C. Lahrman, the senior partner, in which he petitioned for the appointment of a receiver, alleging that through fault of the defendant the firm is badly in debt, the majority of the claims being due the plaintiff. The immediate appointment of a receiver was asked in the prayer of the plaintiff, he alleging that the stock on hand was of such a nature that, undoubtedly, much damage wouM result in delay of the appointment of a court representative. No Receiver Yet Named. However, the receiver was not named by Judge Fox, as he desired to consult with the defendant and his attorney before acting in the matter. The plaintiff avers that the total amount of the indebtedness is not known exactly by himself. However, he places the value of the stock in possession of the firm at $12,000 and also says that he knows of $6,500 of indebtedness. The partnership of this firm was formed in June, 1907 and the firm is located at 71S Main street, which was Mr. Lahrman's location before taking Mr. Cunningham into the business. Several days ago the partnership was dissolved In the regular way. The plaintiff also asked the court to have the store closed for ten days, in order that a thorough invoice might be taken. SHOT GUT IMPROVES The condition of Ralph Markley, the 12 year old boy who accidentally shot himself through the body, Wednesdayafternoon, at his home on the Middleboro pike, shows considerable improvement today it is said. The youngster's death was expected at almost any time yesterday but he showed such remarkable vitality that his chances for life are now good, it is said. The bullet passed entirely through the boy's body just above the heart. WOULD SHAKE CZAR Michael Jarra. a native of Russia, made application for citizenship papers yesterday afternoon of county clerk, Harry E. Penny. The petitioner represents that he arrived in this country in August, 1903. and is at present living at 601 South Sixth street. He is employed at a local chandelier factory.

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ft W T TORTURE VICTIM And Today the Assaulted Man Is Dying in a New York Hospital. TONGUE NEARLY CUT OUT POLICE STATE TODAY THEY THINK THE MAN IS TRYING TO SHIELD THOSE WHO MADE ATTACK ON HIM. New York, Feb. 25. Prey of a gang of taxicab assassins, who attacked him last night, and inflicted the most barbarous tortures ever suffered by a criminal's victim in New York, Jacob Greenthal, is dying at the French hospital today. At the same time the police declare, that Greenthal, whose tongue was split from end to end and almost cut out, is trying to shield his assailants who numbered five. A detective questioned him for more than hour this morning, but was unable to gain anything from the patient. The polios, however, declare, that the attack, one of the most brutal ever recorded, was the result of a political feud, and believe that the victim was reminded that he had talked too much by the use of a knife on his tongue. Robbery Not Motive. The discovery of $52 in his clothes, eliminates the possibility of robbery. Greenthal today refused to say howhe got the money or why he had it He is a chandelier maker, and when he works, gets $3 a day. He has been idle of late and living with his sister at 421 East Eighty-fourth street He has been an active worker in the district of Senator "The" McManus, and last election day was arrested at the polls. The police today closely questioned Thomas Bishberry, chauffeur of the taxicab in which the five assailants cruised for an hour in search of their victim. When the machine was rented, the five said it wa3 for Senator McManus. When the found Greenthal in a saloon, he drank with them. One went out and ordered the chauffeur to prepare to make a. flying start and the five fell on Greenthal, after which they scattered. FUNERAL WAS TODAY Funeral services over the, body of Mrs. Anna Starr were conducted this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of the deceased's son. Henry. C. Starr 208 North Tenth street. The Revs. Truman Kenworthy and Allen Jay officiated and paid many beautiful tributes to the memory of the deceased. The floral display was magnificent. The burial was in Earlham cemetery. The pall bearers were as follows: George M. Eggemeyer, E. O. Hill. Lee J. Woodard. II. J. Haynes, Everett Lemon and J. G. Hunt. THE WEATHER. STATE Unsettled, rain or snow in northern portion tonight and Saturday: rising temperature. LOCAL Increasing cloudiness; warmer tonight and Saturday.

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(I DEFAULTING BANK CLERK ARRESTED George W. Coleman Returns to Boston Today and Surrenders Himself. A VICTIM OF SWINDLERS FACING DISCOVERY OF SPECULATIONS, YOUNG MAN FELL VIC TIM TO SCHEME TO BREAK A FARO BANK. (American News Horvire) Boston, Mass., Feb. 25. George W Coleman, the 21 year old bookkeeper accused of robbing and wrecking the Cambridge National City bank, re turned to Hoston this morning and surrendered to the police. The losses of the bank according to the latest estimate will reach fully $200,000. Attorneys for Coleman deplare that he was fleeced of $40,000 of the money which he took by a gang of swindlers who induced him to try to break a big faro bank in New York. Coleman faced with impending discovery of his speculations, fell an easy victim. A Notorious Gang. The lawyers say that the swindlers are members of a siang which has op erated in Boston for three years and has scored a number of victims, in amounts ranging from !?1,0K to $6o.00. Walker, the cashier of the New Britain, Conn., bank and Dr. Muir, a New York physician, each of whom lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, were victims of the same swindle. Coleman was induced to go to New York. There he met one of the gang who represented himself as a dis charged employe of a big gambling house. Its proprietor, he told Cole man, had treated him unjustly and he was anxious for revenge. This he could secure by breaking dhe bank, as he knew the system upon which play ers at the faro bank were cheated. The rest of the story is unnecessary to re lateit is easy to perceive. WANT LARGER WAGE (American News Service) Springfield, Mass., Feb. 25. Nearly 5.000 employes of the trolley lines in the Connecticut Valley have joined in a demand for an advance of fifty cents a day. The demand probably will be made before the middle ot March. If the increase is not granted indications point to a general strike and tie-up of all the street railway lines through out the valley and at all Central and Western Massachusetts points except Holyoke and places north of that city. HOBSGN WILL SPEAK The Rev. Tillman Hobson will deliver an address Tuesday evening at the First M. E. church on the subject "The Race of Life," A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend. The Rev. Hobson has been conducting a revival service at Cambridge City this week. The meetings will close Sunday after a most successful week.

PARTY SOREHEADS

ARE CENSURED BY INDIANA SENATOR Beveridge in Saturday Even ing Post Condemns Revengeful Partisans and Lauds Independents. GIVES HIS OPINIONS IN FORCIBLE MANNER Senior Solon From the Hoosier State Delivers Stinging Rebuke to One Brand of the Politician. In this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, Senator A. J. Beveridge contributes in part, the following strong article: "Three years ago a mass meeting was held at a county seat .Many thousands of people were present. Among these were eight young men, all under 27 years of age. They were school teachers from an adjoining county who had come to this big meeting to hear the 'issues discussed as the billboards and newspapers say. "These eight young school teachers went to the hotel and dined at the same table. 'The speaker of the occasion' sat with them instead of eating with the committee he wanted to find out what these typical young men were thinking. It turned out that five of these pedagogues were Democrats and three were republicans. One of the former pleasantly remarked in the discussion of some question: 'I'm a Democrat, as Mr. Hill said, but What Does Name Mean? " 'Tell me, does that name mean Anything to you?' asked another at the Jable. " 'Not a thing.' answered the young democratic school teacher. " 'Don't be elated over that answer. spoke up another of these youthful teachers, 'for I'm a republican and that name does not mean anything to me. Both of us are In the same boat. you see. " 'You amaze me, said their questioner. 'If the names democrat and republican mean nothing to you, what does mean anything to youV 'Why' spoke up a third member of this astonishing group of independent thinking educators 'Why, said he, 'right and wrong those are the words that mean something to us. Is the proposed solution of any question wise or foolish, workable or impracticable, right or wrong V This is the only thing that interests us.' Calls It Clear Thinking. "Here was good, clear American thinking, and good, stout American courage of the Lexington-Concord kind. "This kind of talk Is not agreeable to the lifelong partisan I, myself, am thrilled by memory of Lincoln's leadership of my party, uplifted by the noble memories of those great men who wrought high ideals into practical facts and wove them into the warp and woof of my party's deeds and history. So it seems abhorrent to hear such words as I have quoted spoken almost a sacrilege to hear such irreverent opinions proclaimed. But there they are that's the point. "Such opinions do exist and are growing. Perhaps they are repellant to us party men because our Idea of party loyalty was handed down to us from those to whom party was synonymous with country and justly so. Perhaps these newer views are born of new conditions. But no matter men are talking just such sentiments every day. Abuse will not suppress them rather abuse will stimulate them. So let us hear more of this typical conversation. " 'That's so, emphatically broke in one of the republican teachers. 'We want something modern; we want to know whether a policy or a piece of legislation will be a good thing for the country, or the reverse: and we want to know why. To label a proposed l)olicy of law democratic or republican or even socialistic, neither condemns nor commends it to our eyes. Such labels cut no ice any more. We want facts, not epithets. We want reasons, not placards.' "This is an example of what you may hear anywhere throughout the whole republic, except, perhaps, in the South, which seems to remain curiously partisan. Flays Party Sorehead. "Don't confuse this Independent party voter with the party sorehead, as our stinging American way of speaking brands him. The former Is as different from the latter as Paul Revere was from Benedict Arnold. The man with a personal grievance votes against his party for revenge, for pique or for any other unworthy personal reason. Perhaps he has been an unsuccessful candidate for an office before his party convention his defeat makes him sore, as the saying is. "Perhaps he could not get an appointive office, either through unfitness which no man -himself ever admitsor because there were not enough offices to go around. Perhaps

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GIRL SLAYS YOUNG BABY Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 25. A joint warrant charging George J. Hurst. 26 years old, and Frances Eichorn. 20 years old. with the murder of John, alias Joseph Eichorn, an infant, has been sworn out by Assistant District Attorney Van Vechten. The girl is in Emergency Hospital while Hurst is in the county jail. The pair was arrested following the finding of the infant's body in a bureau drawer in a room at the Burgess Hotel. The grewsome find was mad.' Saturday afternoon by a chambermaid. A coroner's investigation revealed the fact that the baby evidently had been choked to death soon after it was born. A search was at once instituted for the pair who had occupied the room Friday night. They were found in a lodging house but a few doors from the Burgess Hotel. Miss Eichorn came to the city about a year ago from Richmond. Ind. where her family lives. It is thought that no further steps will be taken in the case until Miss Eichorn is able to leave the hospital. STATEMENT MADE BY GUGGEIIHEIMS USED BY GLAVIS Asks That Testimony of Cor poration Agents Be Intro duced as Evidence in Land Frauds Hearing. DESIRED WITNESSES WILL BE SUMMONED Special Agent Jones Takes the Stand Today and Sheds Some Light Regarding the Claims in Alaska. ( American News Service) Washington, Feb. 25. When the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation committee resumed its hearing today, Mr. Brandeis, attorney for L. R. Glavis. Ballinger's accuser, asked permission to place in evidence a statement made by Stephen Birch and Charles Steele, representing the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate, recently, before the Senate committee on territories. These statements related to their admission that the syndicate has an option on the Cunningham Coal claims in Alaska, and intends to take them over as soon as patented. It was not shown that the statements were made under oath and accordingly, it was decided to summon Mr. Birch and Mr. Steele before the court to testify. Their testimony will help Glavis. it is declared. Horace T. Jones, a special agent of the General Land office was the first witness today. He testified that he is an attorney and resides in Portland, Oreson. Jones Takes Stand. Jones related numerous conversations which he had with Commissioner Ballinger in August, 1907, regarding the Alaska coal lands and claims. Special Agent Love was with him at the time. He said Love was half hearted in the work because he was a candidate for United States marshal for Alaska. When Love was relieved of his work he expressed satisfaction because he did not wish to Investigate his friends. Ballinger admitted that Love was not the man to carry' on the Investigation. Jones, who had been assigned to the work on the coal claims, said that matters affecting the Cunningham group were discussed by him with Ballinger. Ballinger said he wanted all the information he could get bcause he wanted to appear before the congressional committee to ask remedial legislation. Jones said when he submitted his report. Love did not sign it for the reason that he was a candidate for marshal, although he assisted In the investigation. Previously, Love had made a report recommending a more thorough investigation of the Cunningham group. SLICK IS TRUSTEE Notice was filed with the county recorder this morning showing the election of George W. Slick at trustee of the United Brethren church, to succeed the Rev. M. Hobson. the former pastor, who resigned from euch trust.

STATE TROOPS III

L OF CITY OF PHILADELPHIA Today for the First Time in the Six Days of Strike. Street Cars Are Run Without Guards. A FEW SMALL RIOTS PROMPTLY PUT DOWN Although After One of These Fights Policeman Was Taken to Hospital Dying Is Strike Broken? (American New Son Ice) Philadelphia. Feb. 25. State troop have filially gained control over the street car strikers and their sympathize-!' a ful for the fiit titm in the six days of the strike, the Rapid Transit company cars were run without guards today. Several small sized riots occurred early in tlie day and one policeniau was taken to the hospital in a dying condition. The work of scattering the crowds had smothered the intense excitement. Th Transit company declared the union has been demoralized and defeated. PLAN GIGANTIC STRIKE. Philadelphia. Feb. 25. With the rioters of this city apparently completely cowed by the "Black hussars' the shoot to kill men of labor troubles in the state of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company today Ugan its campaign to crush absolutely without hope of recovery the street car employes' union. The Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes recognizes the aim of the corporation and is straining every effort for a fight to the finish. 4 " As a result, a general strike of unLion labor in Philadelphia has been called, and only the time for the walking out of 10i,ho or more men remains to be settled. Settled on Sunday. This will be settled Sunday afternion when, at the lalior lyceura the Central ltlxir Union will confer with representatives of the American Federation of Itbor, the allied building trades, the Hebrew allied trades, the bricklayers organization and the association of wood joiners and carpenters. Philadelphia Is face to face with a labor struggle which has no parallel in American history. For the first time j in the United States every organized j industry is on the verge of being tied up. and the city is on tho brink of a j bitter struggle, whose scoie and re i i sults no man can foretell. ' The company started today to run every car that it could man. declar ing that half the normal number would be sent out. There were few crowds on the streets early in the day; the thermometer wan 14 degrees above zero, and the cold kept many Indoors. However, disorder began later. QUARREL OVER FLAG Wets and Drys in Chicago Dispute Over the Stars , and Stripes. lsssssssssss MAY BE A LAW VIOLATION "ffi (American News Service) Chicago. Feb. 23. Whether the usa of the flag on the "Wets" campaign pins and buttons is a violation of an Illinois statute Is to be subject of an investigation by the Anti-Saloon league and others working to place Chicago in the list of prohibition cities. The Merchants and Manufacturers association, a "wet" organization has ordered 1,000,000 attractive stickpins on each of which is embarrassed a tiny United States flag. Each also bears the words "Our Country; Liberty. Independence." It is the purpose of the association to flood the city with these pins. "From descriptions of the way the Ifag is used. It is likely to prove a violation of the Illinois statute." said, W. F. Mulvlhlll, of the Anti-Saloon league, "and if It is, the distribution of the pins will be stopped. I haven't seen one yet. but the law 13 clear. ani if it is being violated the distribution can be stopred." AWARDED JUDGMENT. Mary Kreimeler, widow of Bernard Kreimeler. has been awarded judgment in the sum of $176.90 against thy estate of John G- Sudhoff. who ai killed on the PcnnfjlTaula, railroad, five years ago.

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