Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 258, 25 July 1910 — Page 1

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TUESDAY WILL BE A MOMENFOUS ONE Necessity of Defeating Present Democratic Governor to Kill His Presidential Boom Realized. THE GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEE UNDECIDED Today There Are Apparently Only Three Really in the RaceThompson and Harding, and 0. Brown. (American News Service) Columbus, O., July 3. Representative republicans from all parts of Ohio lira gathering here today or the stau convention or the party, which will assomb!e tomorrow to nominate a state ticket and adopt a platform-for the fall campaign. The large number of early arrivals on the field indicates a record breaking attendance of visitors and reflects the extraordinary amount u public Interest attached to the convention this year. The Importance attached to the convention in Ohio Is due to two principal causes. The first Is that the president or the United States and the titular head of the party in power; comes t:om this state. Then, as a second reason, the republican leaders of the state recognize the necessity of defeating Judson Harmon for another term as governor In order that he may not become a formidable figure for the democratic presidential nomination In 1912. Governor Harmon baa already been renominated and If he should be reelected, he would undoubtedly be a strong figure at the next democratic presidential convention. If defeated oe would not be. ' The Ohio republican leaders would not like to see the presidential campaign with William H. Taft of Ohio and Judson Harmon of Ohio leading the two tickets, especially If Harmon should be made governor twice. So they are bent on accomplishing his political downfall this time. , ' For nearly a year the party leaders have been on a hunt for a man to defeat Harmon. During that time the names of a doien or more republicans have been mentioned In connection with the head of the ticket and count ed out Representative Nicholaa Longworth, ex-Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield. Judge Taylor of Cleveland, and others have been Included In the list. Only Three Entries. On the eve of the convention the race has narrowed down to three erftries Carml Thompson of Ironton, secretary of state; Warren O. Hard ing of Marion, former lieutenant governor, and Judge O. B. Brown, a Judge of the common pleaa court of Dayton. . Of the three, Harding possesses the most pronounced elements of personal strength. His popularity, generally speaking. Is unquestioned, and his oratory has spread his fame to every nook and corner of the state. But, on, the other hand, his open advocacy of prohibition Is not to the liking of all republicans, especially those in the large cities. The chief strength of Carml Thompc eon Is In his home district and In his manner of picking off unattached delegates to the convention. As secretary of state he has made a good record, r The chances of Jurge Brown, the third of the trio of leading candidates for the gubernatorial nomination, are today regarded brightest of them all. He la the choice of George B. Cox, the republican boea of Cincinnati, and with the combinations affected by Cox In the way of trading support for ether places on the state ticket It Is believed Brown will have a lead on the first ballot. It la thought each of the three candidates will go Into the convention with close to 300 delegatea of the ne(Continued on Page Five.) 5,969

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Latest photograph of Col. E. H. R. Green, son of Mrs. Hetty Green, who recently arrived In New York from Texas, where he has largo railroad and timber interests, to assume full charge of his mother's vast estates, His mother, it is paid, is still able to appear at her desk dally but she spends scarcely more than two or three hours on her business affairs. TRAGEDY IN ITALY Hurricane. Sweeps Northern Part of Country With Greatest Fury. ' ONE HUNDRED ARE KILLED (American News Service.) Rome, July 25. Fully" 100 persons are dead, 1,000 injured, as many more homeless, and property worth $5,000,000, has been destroyed as the result of the hurricanes which have swept Northern Italy, according to the latest dispatches. It U "believed that when, the full reports have been received from the country districts, with which communication is still crippled, the damage list and death roll will be found even larger. Troops and army supplies were distributed through the afflicted region, the soldiers being ordered to carry relief work to every quarter and investigate the situation in all towns and hamlets unheard from. Refugee camps have been established, together with special hospitals, at the most important of the towns struck by the storm, including Saranne, Selaro, Lonate and Revellasca. ' Special efforts are being made to overcome the damage done by the new memorial chapel at Monsea, the scene of the assassination of King Humbert, In time for the dedication on the tenth anniversary of that event on July 29th. REMIND THEM OF IT The bureau of municipal research is sending out about 75 notices to residents advising them that the tax books show them in default of 1908 taxes.. Should the information be wrong correction will be made before the publication of the list TO AVOID A "JINX That the first motion to be put before the thirteenth annual convention of the Grand Lodge of Colored Knights of Pythias this afternoon at 5 o'clock when the sessions convena, will be to describe this meeting as the "fourteenth" Instead of the canny, superstitious, and ill-boding "13," is generally conceded by Richmond members. This morning the officers and delegates arrived. At 8 o'clock tonight a public reception is to be held at the Bethel A. M. E. church. -

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Major-General McKee Will Command Indiana State Troops If It Is Necessary to Dispatch Them. QUIET REIGNS TODAY AFTER FIERCE RIOTS Grand Trunk Sent a Train Through the City Today With Armed Detectives Ready to Fight Rioters. (American News Service) Indianapolis, July 23. Major GeneralMcKee, commanding the state na tional guard, left this morning for South Bend to assume charge of the troops if the strike situation on the Grand Trunk becomes more 'serious. Companies of troops are under ann3 at Elkhart, Plymouth and Goshen and South Bend ia awaiting orders from the governor. LULL AFTER STORM. South Bend, July 23. Louis Freel, the strike breaker repairer, who was shot by a railroad detective yesterday when the latter mistook him for a striker, i3 dying as the surgeons can not extract the bullet. With armed Plnkertons sitting at open windows with drawn revolvers the Chicago and Detroit express, the first train to pass through South Bend in two days over the Grand Trunk, proceeded without interference at 3 o'clock this morning, two hours after the rioters had been dispersed. Offl cers stood guard while passengers alighted, but this protection was abso lutely unnecessary. The Grand Trunk officials, aided by Sheriff Kerr and . twenty armed deputies, and an extra force of detectives, declared today they were prepared to remove the" blockade at any cost to life or proper(y. Up to noon comparative quiet prevailed, but efforts to move trains were looked forward to as a possible sign for renewed rioting. READY FOR TROUBLE. South Bend, Ind., July 25. Grand Trunk strike sympathizers early today were in a mood for more serious trouble than that which resulted earl ier In one man being killed and freight train being burned when the word was passed around that soldiers were being held in readiness to lead an attack upon the strikers and their friends at the first act of violence. ; The men had not recovered from their rage over the death of one of their number who was shot by a rail road detective when the report came that troops had been ordered out. This put them in a more ugly mood and necessity for a good quick run by the soldiers was predicted. Pending the clearing of a clash of authorities the local company is hold' ing Itself in readiness for action at a moment's notice. . Captain Calvert re ceived such an order from Governor Marshall early today despite the as surance given the governor by Mayor Charles L. Goetz that there would be no further outbreaks. The trouble that culminated in the fatal shooting and death of L A. Freed, a car repairer started when a freight train passed through for Chicago. Stoned in the Yards. It was stoned in the yards and John Peck of Battle Creek, the railroad de tective fired into the crowd, hitting Freed. Freed was thought at first to be only slightly Injured. He was tak en to a hospital and the crowd made no effort to harm Peck who was arrested and locked up. Later when It was learned that Freed had died the crowd became frenzied and it was necessary to spirit Peck away to avoid a lynching. , All traffic through South Bend is regarded as totally tied up and offl cials here have notified Chicago and Battle Creek, the dirision points not to send any trains this way. Near Mishawaka about fourmlles east of South Bend, two passenger trains are held up, officials fearing to allow them to enter. C A. McNutt, passenger agent who is in charge of the Grand Trunk of fices In' South Bend Is said to have had a lone personal conversation with Governor Marshall over the long distance phone in an effort to have the chief executive call out troops to protect railroad property. He told the governor, it is said, that the rioting was continual and he feared even greater trouble than already exper ienced. 100 PEOPLE ATTEIID Over one hundred people attended the first anniversary of the Greensfbrk Knights of Pythias lodge at Greensfork last Friday. Triumph lodge drill team of Richmond put on third degree work. The lodge was Instituted last Juluy with a membership of twentyfour and it has now grown to - fiftythree. Visitors were from Hagorstowc,

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THINK BIG LINER CABBIES MAN WHO IS BADLY WANTED Montrose, Steaming Across the Ocean Under Forced Draught, Thought to Have ,Dr. Crippen on Board. LAURENTIC SPEEDING TO OVERTAKE MONTROSE Scotland Yards Official on the Former Vessel . Keeps in . Wireless Touch with Captain of Other Ship. (American News Service! v London, July 25. With engines straining under every, possible ounce of steam, the liner Laurentic today, is throbbing her way across the Atlantic at express speed in the most sensational race of years a race that has for its prize the capture of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel Clare Le Keve wanted her i in connection with the murder of Belle Elmore, Crippen's wife. According to the best information obtainable, there is little doubt but that they are on th steamer Montrose.' ; Inspector Dew of Scotland i Yard, who is In charge of the world wide search for the fugitives. Is In constant wireless communication with the London police, and It Is expected that within a short time he will be able to speak directly with CapL Moscrop of (Continued on Page Seven.) THE WEATHER. STATE Partly cloudy, possibly thanderatorma tonight or Tuesday in south portion. LOCAL Fair and continued warm tonight and Tuesday. Possibly local

HITCHCOCK WILL LEAVE CABINET?

Reported Postmaster-general Will Retire on Return From Europe. RUMORED AT WASHINGTON HOWEVER, FRIENDS OP THE SECRETARY ALLEGE THAT THE STORY IS ONLY ONE OF HOT WEATHER BRAND. . Washington, D. C, July 25. A report hat gained circulation.' in . Washington that Postmaster General Hitch cock; who is now in Europe on his vacation, and incidentally making some inquiries into the success of postal savings banks in continental coun tries, may retire from the Cabinet some time in the near future. No one can be found who will stand as auth ority for the statement, and the personal friends of the postmaster general f scout ' .the suggestion, but at the same time the rumor is abroad and finds many who have faith In it. In connection with this sort of gossip, it Is said that Mr. Hitchcock, who Is the most diligent worker among the members of ' the president's official family, is becoming weary of his task, and is really attempting to handle too much as -the political manager of the affairs of the administration and in the fulfillment of his duties in tooting after Uncle Sam's postal matters. Furthermore, the assertion Is made that his : Influence with ; the president ; isN waning, and that the man who has succeeded him as leading presidential adviser is Mr. Norton, the secretary to the president, for whom Mr. Taft has Indicated a great fondness, and who In the short time he has held his present position is said to have made good. : ' Ridiculed Suggestion. Some months ago there was' a story afloat to the effect that Mr. Hitchcock was contemplating retirement from Washington,; and would - take up his residence in Arizona in. the hope and expectation that upon the admittance

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ASK THAT A NEW CORONER'S JURY HEAR RAWlf CASE This Petition .Will ' Be Made When Inquest Over Dead Railroad President Is Held at Winnetka. NO TRACE OF A WILL LEFT BY RAWN FOUND Pinkerton Office Has Offered $5,000 Reward for Arrest and Conviction of Murder of Magnate. Chicago, July 25. Efforts to get a new coroner's Jury Impanelled to hear evidence in the Ira . G.. Rawn shoot ing mystery" will be made . when the Inquest Is resumed in the Winnetka town hall Wednesday evening, according to reports today. This move was said to be planned by - representatives of accident insur ance companies because they - had: heard certain jurors had . Intimated they favored a verdict of murder. All of the Jurors live near the Slain i Monon railway president's summer home and were his friend . , An anonymous letter sent by special delivery and stating that a negro fugitive from Justice was hiding at the home of 8. H, Baker, a Glencoe negro was received by Jury Foreman Hately. J. T. Harahan, president of the) Q1Inots Central again declined to discuss Rawn's death last night. It was learned ' that, the inquiry pending before Master-fn-Chaneery Taylor win continue in spite of the edath of one of the principal witnesses. President Harahan will be called early this week for examination as well as other offl-

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IS 17. L. KING 111 A RUIIAWAY TODAY Horse Dashes Into a Ditch Throwing King Out, and Colored Man Working in Ditch Barely Escapes. KING SUFFERS FROM A FRACTURED SKULL Man Was Removed to the Reid Memorial Hospital and Attending . Physicians Have But Little Hope. i One man was fatally Injured and another narrowly escaped death in an exciting runaway on Sixth street this afternoon. W. L. King. 21 South Eighth street, the injured man, is at . the Reid Memorial hospital with a ter ribly fractured skull, expected to die at any time. The injured man waa in an open - buggy on South Sixth street when the -horse took fright and dashed north. At South Sixth street and A, the horse hurdled a ditch where a sewer Is be ing constructed. King - was . thrown headlong from the buggy alighting on bis head on the street. ' Harry Burton, colored, who waa working in the ditch,' , escaped by ducking. ; He Bied Profusely. King was carried Ijito Shofer's livery barn in an unconscious condition , bleeding profusely from the .deep wound on the back of his head and : from the mouth, ears and nose. He was hurried to the hospital. Mr. King is the Richmond agent of the Kingan Packing company, of Indianapolis and waa visiting grocerlea of the city when the accident happened. King's home waa formerly in Kentucky, - 'After hurdling the ditch the horsa ran north on Sixth street to Tt TFKft avenue and then turned east at D street At No, l engine house it fell and was caught by firemen there. The horse and rig belonged to T. C. Taylor, the liveryman. The buggy was broken up considerably and the horse re ceived numerous scratches. ' AFTER SHIP CROOKS (American News Service) Berlin, July 25. The authorities . are hot on the trail of a gang that has ' made a specialty of robbing rich Americans on ocean liners, it was learned , today as the result of the daring robbery of Mrs. George Stratford of Jer- . sey City, who lost SoO.OUO in Jewels on the Hamburg-American liner Amerfka, For the first time a full list of the stolen jewels was obtained today,' They are a diamond pin, a pearl neck lace, a pearl and diamond pin, and five diamond rings, besides articles of less value. The theft, it has been ascertained, was committed between Cuxhaven and Cherbourg, the thieves evidently hoping to escape in the bustle of making port immediately after the robbery. On the Deutschland a few . days, previously it was learned today a wealthy American lost a pocket book containing a large sum. It is believed the r same band of criminals was responsible for that theft. Running Into a washout last night' about lO o'clock the motor car driven by Mayor Zimmerman was thrown into a ditch on Beelers hOL None of the occupants of the car were Injured. The machine was hauled Into the ctty by horses and Is not badly damaged. For Week Ending July 23. JJlll (Except Satorday) . This Includes all our Regular Coos-, pllmentary lists, AVERAGE CITY CIRCULATION 3,3DC TOTAL DAILY AVCRAC3 Foe the Same Weak, Ineroglyg Cgyal Routrs, enua Towns, Gz Circulation, Etc, Ox Days - this ec3 kct icirz ;

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