Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 267, 3 August 1910 — Page 1

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COMING MESSAGE WILL TAKE UP BIG ISSUES Conservation to Be Made Principal Item on Legislative Program Ship Subsidy Also Considered. Beverly. Mass., Aug. ,3. President Taft baa begun work on the plan for neater efficiency In the different departments of the government, and thus effecting' wide economies. He eat to Washington four experts, who re to make a preliminary atudy of the situation and submit a program for carrying forward the work. Some one of these plans, or perhaps parts of all of them, may be accepted. Tb plana to be submitted, however,, are to be In the nature of competitive bids. The president has been given an appropriation of $100,000 for the purpose of reorganising departmental methods. . . Plana Economy Board. It la proposed that some executive officer In each department and Independent bureau at Washington will be designated to serve on a commission which wyi cooperate with the experts In bringing about the big reform. The undertaking la voluminous and the president wants to get It under way a the earliest possible moment The inquiry will not be devoted so much In cutting off a clerk here and there, but to formulate an entirely new structure of methods wherever present practice . seems to demand such treatment. This is the first time that a president of the United States has had an appropriation to make Inquiries of the kind now contemplated. In connection with the beginning of the work the following statement was given out at the executive offices:. v Progress' Being Made. While a comprehensive study of this matter will be delayed until the return of the president to Washington, some progress Is now being made. A largo number of organisation experts have been recommended for this work, and suggestions In writing are being free ly Invited by the president. Amon; others who have been aaked to submit a written program are Arthur Youarf tt Co., the accountants who have been at work for a year In the treasury department; Major Charlea Hlne. the organisation expert of the Harrlman lines; Ounn, Richards & Co.. .who have done similar., work for the in tertor department in the past and Har wick, Mitchell ft Co, who have devi ed a cost accounting system for the navy. The president already has taken up the subject of the department estimates for the next fiscal year, and has served notice upon the different department chiefs that their figures must be held down to tho lowest note a consistent with good service. Tsft Message In Outline. : President Taft's message to the com Ing sesaion of congress will cover fourteen principal subjects. How each or these will be treated haa not been settled In detail, but in a general way the president haa made up his mind on most of them. The subjects are: 1.' Conservation. Recommendations will be constructive and progressive, put within the law. 2. Economy In government This subject has progressed no farther at present than pruning In the depart meats. A commission Is investigating and the administration Is trying to find some way of larger saving without touching the army and navy appro priations. 3. It Is hoped the railroad stocks and bond commission, though not yet appointed will report In time to get into the message. 4. As Mr. Aldrlch has snnounced his Intention of retiring March 3 next. It Is expected that he will submit the report of the monetary commission to the coming session and that the presl dent will base recommendations on It. 3. Reform In federal, civil and crim inal court practices Is a subject on which the president feels .earnestly, He was unable to get any action at the last session snd will lay the subgect again before congress. To Urge Ship Subsidy. wi.I1 rrrlnr ateamera will ha rreA mmmmm - . - v - again. T. An act fixing employers' liability nd aunervislnc employes' comoensaiob will be urced. This subject too. is under commission Investigation. 1 i antrMMd bureau of ttratth Xjejepiia mu pppvuiiwu iu um unci- . . l.f .L . 1 W - OpM to Ui piavu, id proiaeni oeuevea

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Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard, who made the dramatic trip across the Atlantic aboard the steamer Laurentic in pursuit of H. H. Crlppen, and his typist, Miss Ethel Le Neve, which resulted in the arrest of the pair aboard the steamer Montrose, as It was nearing port in Canada. CRIPPEH TO MAKE DESPERATE EIGHT He Has Accepted Offer of Legal Assistance Cabled from London. HE IS CLOSELY GUARDED GUARDS ARE KEPT ABOUT HI8 CELL ALL THE TIME AND HE IS NOT PERMITTED TO SPEAK TO ANY ONE. .. . . . (Amartean-Kewa Sarvlca) : t Quebec, Aug. 3. A desperate legal battle was assured today when Dr. H. H. Crlppen accepted the offer of legal aid sent by cable from London and announced that he would waive axtradition. Up to the time that this proffer arrived Crlppen had been planning to fight his return to London to be tried for the murder of his wife. Belle Elmore. Though this struggle was not ex pected to be successf ul, nevertheless Inspector Dew is rejoicing in the one point gained today when Crlppen said he would not fight his return. The authorities in charge of Crippen have redoubled their vigilance, however. The guard about the man's cell has been increased and he is permitted to apeak to no one save to trustworthy persons who may be depended upon to report his every word. For the first time since his arrest at Father Point, Crippen appeared Jubilant when he announced his determination to accept the offer of legal aid sent by Arthur Newton, the famous London solicitor engaged by the accused man's friends. He so far violated Newton's command for silence as to say: "I will make no complete statement here, but when I am taken back to England I shall tell my story from the beginning, and then you will understand that I am not guilty of murder, and that I told the truth when I stated that I was not a fugitive from Justice." MUCH MAIL HANDLED A count of weight of the mails at the local postoffice during the weeks beginning July 26, showed 'that 75.856 pieces and 7,009 pounds were delivered In the city during that period. During the previous week 7.841 pounds of mail were delivered in the city, an average of '87 pounds to the man a day. . INVENTORY OF ESTATE. An inventory of the personal estate of the late Captain William H. Lough, was filed In the circuit court this morning by the executors. The total value is placed at $17,843.70. WHY THEY DON'T FIT When a good looking woman from the country climbs Into a buggy the stockings she shows do nojt fit as trim as those shown In the muddy weather by the town woman. The reason Is that the country woman has rolls of bills stuck In her hose that she has got from produce. You don't see any such wads under the town woman's hose. They fit close and trim, for she has a few dimes, coppers, a lot of samples, a powder rag. all !n a thing the else of a man's suit case, that -she carries under her arm for a bluff. Rochester (Ind) Sentinel ; J

Homer Staley Tries to Pass a Check for $6.50 and Being Apprehended Tries to Jump From a Window.

FRANK TAYLOR SEIZES AND HOLDS CRIMINAL Lad Was Then Locked Up in Directors' Room of First National Bank Until Arrival of a Policeman. A daring dash for liberty was made from the First National bank this morning by Homer 'Staley. Staley tried to cash a check at the bank and officials suspected that it had been forged and young ' Staley was being held pending an investigation, but he tried to break away. He was caught as he attempted to leap from a window. Staley presented the check- about eight o'clock, just before banking hours. It bore the signature of William H. Knoll, a liveryman of .North Fifth street, made payable to William Miller. Assistant Cashier Alton Hale saw the signature was not Knoll's. The front door of the bank was immediately locked and Frank M. Taylor, cashier of the bank told Staley to step into the rear office, while an investigation of the check was made. Just as he sat down near Mr. Taylor Staley leaped to his feet and gained the sill of an east window with one bound. His Escape Prevented. Mr. Taylor succeeded in reaching him. however, and he was dragged in to the directors room and held there until the police arrived. - ' The young man claimed at first his name was Miller and said he lived at North Fifteenth and I streets. He de nied that .the check had 'been" forged by him. He seemed confused whe i asked why he attempted to escape. After the arrival of Patrolman V05elsong, who immediately recognized the man as Homer Staley, who had been mixed up in police scrapes before, the lad broke down and admitted forging the check, but gave no reason, other than that he needed the money. By the police he is considered as a bad character. The check was for ,$6.50. At first Staley claimed this money was wages due him. Knoll was notified of the check and said he did not sign it He stated he had never considered Staley a trustworthy man, although he had employed him about a week. He was dismissed from the livery barn yesterday morning. Staley is now confined in the city jail. FRAUD IS ALLEGED Old Negro .Mammy Says that Allen Jackson Worked Her for $100. HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED Charging that he obtained $100 on false pretenses, Allen' Jackson, colored, has been arrested and released on $500 bond. He obtained the money from Lizzie Mays, a colored mammy who can neither read nor write, according to the allegations of the affidavit : - A suit is pending In the circuit court in which the Mays woman is plaintiff and Jackson defendant. In this she avers that she was cheated out of property on South Sixth street and demands that Its title be reinvest ed In her name. ' There was a mortgage on this property which Jackson assumed and several weks ago it Is said that he secured $100 from the Mays woman, explaining that he intended to apply It to the mortgage and leading her to believe tbat the property's title was still in her name. TO PREVENT SMOKE Smoke consumers have been Installed by the Commons Dairy Company and the Richmond Baking Company located on South Fifth street Other factories will be asked to eliminate the smoke nuisance by installation of consumers. THE WEATHER, TATE Showers tonight and Tfnirs . day; cooler In north portion. , LOCAL Showers and thunderstorms tonight or Thursday; cooler Thursday.

Kansas Progressives at the Polls Yesterday Renominated Governor Stubbs, Murdock and Madison.

CANN0NISM WAS THE ISSUE FOUGHT OVER esssssaaaaat-ss. Stubbs, Former Wayne County Man, an Easy Victor, Despite Attacks on Him by Railway and Interests. ' (American Newa Service.) Topeka, Kan., Aug. 3. The first real test of insurgency versus standpattisni resulted in an almost overwhelming victory for insurgency in Kansas yesterday when, at the republican primaries, Victor Murdock, Edmund Madison and Governor Stubbs, all progressives of the progressive, were renominated. The battle centered in the fight on Cannonism and the house rules in fact, it centered on anything that looked like a relic of the old guard in republican politics. An interesting feature of the election was the fact that Murdock and Madison were the only candidates who did not have a hard fight for re-election. Governor William Rofecoe Stubbs was renominated after a bitter fight waged against him mainiy by the railroads and corporation interests, whose candidate was Thos. Wagstaff. J. M. Dolley, chairman of the republican state committee, claimed Stubbs victory by 15,000. The total vote of the republicans Is estimated at 170.000. Of National Interest. The struggle became of national interest when Speaker Caunon made a whirlwind speaking campaign here in behalf of the present tariff, stand-pat-tepa in- general and especially . In aid of' the six . "conservative congressmen. Senator Cummins spoke to the Kan sas voters and Victor Murdock. the red-headed insurgent of Wichita, took a part in the oratory. William Allen White of Emporia seconded Cummins and' Murdock in-the fight. The : congressional nominations were: First District Tom McXeal, Insur gent. Second A. C. Mitchel?, insurgent Third P. J. Campbell, regular. , Fourth Fred Jackson, insurgent Fifth R. R. Rees, insurgent Stxibr-In doubt . . DmeaAIl Madison. .Eighth Murdock. . The state ticket Is : For governor, W. R. Stubbs; lieutenant governor, R. J. Hopkins;; secretary of , state, Charles Sessions and attorney1 general, J. H. Dawson. A REIGN OF TERROR (American News Service) Bonnay, Fla., Aug. 3. A reign of terror exists in the northwestern section of Holmes county owing to the determination or the whites, by a wholesale lynching of negroes, to av enge the murder of Bessie Morrison, a 14 year on white girl. The girl was attacked 4n . her way tp school last

ad taen thl Woods .anHof this county's male insane be sent

killed. Two nesroes who admitted their guilt vere lynched, on Saturday. It was thought this would end the trouble but it proved to be only the beginning, as four, negroes have been lynched since and the vengeance of the whites is not yet satisfied. A DECREE RENDERED. Judge Fox has rendered a decree in favor of Anderson Toms and others who had brought suit against Albert L. Johnson and others $ partition and quiet title on real estate In Webster township. 4 " G. SMITH RECOVERS. George Smith, deputy sheriff during a part of the term of his father, Richard Smith, is rapidly recovering from the burns which he sustained In Texas recently. He was a lineman for a light plant and . was severely shocked. WELL, WAS SHE KISSED? Gossip Is pernio lis and to be abhorred, but they, do say that on a recent moonlight night Rushville young man threatened to run the automobile In which he and a local young woman were riding, over a steep embankment If she would not kiss him threatened to run It right over and ler everything- r go to smash. No, no, there have been no terrible automobile accidents in these parts of late. Rushville Republican. -

mrnm MAY SEND PATIENT TO SISTERS' HOME County Insane Ward Vtflf Probably Be Treated at Jef- i -fepsonvllle'lnd. f A COUNTY OFFICIALS HOME SISTERS OF MERCY INSTITUTION PLEASED COMMISSIONERS BEESON AND LINDERMAN AND. SUPT. H. MEEK, At least one of the insane patients whom the county is caring for now may be sent to the Sisters of Mercy home at Jef fersonville as a result of the inspection of the institution by county commissioners Beeson and Linderman and county infirmary superintendent Marry Meek yesterday. ' The woman is . Mattic Code, now confined at; the county infirmary who is hopelessly but not dangerously insane. She is hard to care for but more because she is annoying to the other patients it Is the intention of the officials to send her to the Jef fersonville private institution. With the hospital in general tie visiting officials were pleased. However, they were not permitted in the men's ward- They were told that the inmates were - bathing and visitors could not be admitted lor this reason. Not until the officials are allowed to inspect the men's apartments will any there. , ' Only in cases where guardians of insane persons agree to , the , county sending them to the piivate institution can the Insane be removed from the jurisdiction of the Wayne circuit court. "Even' in case the guardian should agree the final determination in the matter lies with Judge Fox, who has expressed opposition to the plan. GAYNOR PLAYS SAFE (American News 'Service) New York, Aug. Z. By way of compensation for his curt refusal to interfere, with ' the . exhibition of the Johnson-Jeffries ' fight pictures, whicn the clergymen of the city asked bim to prohibit,' Mayor Gaynor's summary cancellation of the all night liquor licenses held by the 'lobster ' palaces' alonjr the Gay White Way and In the streets continguous thereto, seems to have omliOed the anger of the religious bodies. Despite the importunities of politicians the licenses are likely ; to ' remain cancelled. . Most of the establishments were "Joints' in which the - city's most " undesirable element of both . sexes congregated nightly afterd the more respectable places had closed. They produced ecormoos revenues for their owners, the privilege of selling - liquor during . the : regular prohibited hours of 1 a. m. to 5 a. m. casting them .but $10 a night. As many of them took in this much almost per minute the edict of the mayor means a tremendous loss to them.

SIX MEN .KILLED

III TORPEDO BOAT Terrible Accident Occurs on Russian. Craft by. a i) ; Boiler Explosion. ; - ALL DETAILS NOT KNOWN FOURTEEN MEN ARE REPORTED WOUNDED, SEVERAL OF THEM FATALLY INVESTIGATION IS NOW BEING MADE. (American , News Service 1 st. retersDurg, Aug. s. six men were killed and fourteen injured, sev eral of them fatally yesterday , In one of the worst torpedo boat disasters on record, according to navy reports ' received here today. The accident : oc curred at Kronstadt. , While' the ; first advices lacked, detail, it was said that a defective boiler tube had caused the accident. Later It was reported semi-offlcially. that a torpedo had exploded. The Russian boat was lying in the harbor at the time. The explosion caused the greatest disorder. The victims were taken to the naval hospital by sailors who dared their lives " to save their comrades. An official investigation was begun today. , 1 ' . This is one of the worst . accidents occurring In the Russian navy since the war with Japan. ' On June 29, 1904, twenty-one men were killed when -the submarine Delfln sank in her dock in the Neva. With a capacity of ten. the boat had been crowded - with thitry men and the wash from a tug submerged the man hole. 1 On August 15 last, seventeen Russians and Joseph Meade, of Baltimore an American engineer, were injured by an explosion on the submarine Dragon which had not been accepted by the government. ' Pdkilca's Ddly Avcrce Circclcllcn For Week Ending July 30, 1910. (Except Saturday) This Includes all our Regular Com' plimentary Lists AVERAGE CITY CIRCULATION VSMSMMSSSBtS l" " "- " '.-. - - ... i'- ;' '-fr"r' " " TO) AL DAILY AVERAG2 "For the Same Week, Including Rural . Routes, Small Towns, City Circtdation. Etc., Six Days THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE SAJSTLS COPIES

Negro Took the Stand Today

and Denied Having Had Any IntirrctxXlclations .with tin A SENSATION SPRUNG IN TRIAL YESTERDAY Youthful Prosecuting Witness Stated on Witness Stand that She Was a Kothcr The Proceedings. The state closed Its case sgsJas Robert Steins, colored, this ' morning : after Mildred Muey recounted her ad ventures at the Steins home. The girl is about eleven years old and a stater of Mabel Muey, prosecuting witness.' . She made a good . witness and wsa' confused but little by the puaatag cross examination of Henry U, John-, son" ' ' " i The frequent visits which aha and her sister made to Stein' home were given in a clear manner. Child2ce suspicion over the fact - that she aBd'v her sister were . separated, Mabel re maining in company with the nefro, led her to tell her parents, she aajj. She did not know what the relatloM KatwaaN . ... ale4jin ; sktMI sWa . MAMaSk' uvivicvu - uci siasis.Tja suiu liiw aieuiu were. She would tell them what she knew about their visits each time upon her return home, she said. : Declaring that the defense intended to prove the charge against ' Steins . raise and alleging tnat ever tne Muey girl ' had Ulegal relations with; a negro, it was with Sam Hlcksl now ' in parts unknown, the defense opened Its case this morning. Attorney Jes sup who addressed the Jury did not -refer to the alleced failure to btack-. mall the negro m a direct matr.( -Only through intimation that Ct f the attorney iaft.rJ the charge against his client. Negre en the Stand. After a short intermission, the de fense opened Its case on direct examination - by placing the accused : WKZtQi . ' on the stand. 4 His examination wasproceeded with by Attorney. Jeseun who had to stand at his side and talk loudly and directly in bis rlctt ear. ' About thirty acres of land fa corn, sugar cane, hay and garden truck, two horses and a colt, severe farming ha : plements and household possseciaos v , aessw v Mvs v "waes , .sswes yavurff; y .f.' erty holdings. y U : .' He said that he was forty seven years old and ' then outlined his ' sjb qualntanceship with the Mueys, stet -Inz hm had known th famflv, far . years. They visited one aaeOwr and--un at. inn.iwo dcpmhm un uwn have spent the night at his hosae. ' Its.' October of 1908 the two older dauO ters and a girl by the name of Jae" Perry stayed at . his home. At saotLsr ume ana a laier uaie wuusas isey stayed for a week with Steins. Denial after denial was entered ky Steins when questioned about his si . leged lecherous relations with X2akcS : Muey. No admission rurther tin that she had sat on his lap la her mother's presence and at the llacy home was obtained on direct a3 finished the cross examination. .The " negro's attorneys tn a - ccnfsrc3kse' shortly before nutting bin ot Qs stand decided to get into thsl tsZiui 1tai1a nf thm J1mtm1 hi n tit mpIw Inal intimacy.' , It was thought by the dsJaa.tS attorneys that their evidence wexlt introduced before evening. TTsey krs) : about fifty witnesses, the lars nrjority of whom are character wt nesses. . The witnesses -are wtt ' r-' mitted to hear wjasx trajuplres tt tt w-e v twiu, vuv svswgsns ; rT" Hi. Tt the court library and corridors on C3 third floor. S A SENSATION gsr.y3. Uttle Muey Girl L Admits That CT"J Wmm Wtnmm 1 . 1 : Springing the sensation In the cats . t - m . . . 1-H,. . ... - Robert Stems with Ifahel ISsty , fourteen year old white girl, i:rry, U. Johnson, counsel for Steins, acr ed yesterday afternoon In court ttst tt t had been averred s child was horn ts: the Muev child at Cincinnati some time last June. Stating further that while there was , no evidence of a child being born to " the young girl, he alleged it ' was sv fact Sam Hicks, a colored boy, wLa , has fled the country, to alleged to 'be the father of the child. Mr.1 Johnson , alleged the charge against CteSas was , after - William Muey, her zarezL i alleged to have fcSsl to etrrt tzt" BssvhxasitWttl, &a -tevitj,' usi-imm w fetadast to cress exsrae Ir:l ITzrj on this pofntr saads ky- Xr. I, was fude sfUr an-sCl'.-tti C2 V: t birth of a eSCJi had rtr :Zr Ba'wSssJJMpia . . - SSwWJsTsse(Ji' SPSMlSsV trt.-. .SV"-:B'"". Li.v

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