Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 27, 6 December 1910 — Page 1

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AND SUX-TEIiEG RAM. KICU3IO.ND. 1ND.. TUESDAY, EVENING, DECE3IHEK , 110. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 27. ONE SWEET DREAM IS EXISTENCE AT THE COUNTY JAIL STATUE OF STEUBEN MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT VERY VOLUMINOUS QUE EVAIISVILLE HAS GREAT BLAZE III TRADE DISTRICT Young Girl Alleged Murderess IS UNVEILED TODAY RULES OVER THE ENTIRE COUHTRY

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Several Buildings Were Gutted and Only the Heavy Snow Prevented Burning of Entire Section.

FORMER LOCAL MAN WAS HERO OF FIRE Harold Van Orman Warns Guests Who Were Sleeping in His Hotel Four Explosions in Building. (American Ncw Mervke) Evansvllle. Ind.. Dec. 6. Fire here today destroyed the Fendrlch cigar factory and warehouse, entailing a Iohs of a half million dollars, and throwing twelve hundred girls out c employment. Other concerns burned out were the Postal Telegraph Company, the Southern Kxpre3S. the American Express and the llarnlsh, Fecer Bhoo company. But for the heavy now fall half the business section of the city would probably have been destroyed. The wind at first was blowing from the river and Imperiled the Courier building In Main street. The change . of the wind toward First street threat cned the St. George hotel. Manager Harold Van Orman, formerly of Rich mond. Ind., awakened all tho guests and tbey turned out In their night clothes. He sent, porters to arouse tho people in the building fronting First atreet between Main and Locust streets. Had Narrow Escape. These structures were then on fire, tarry LeJune, the baseball player and hla wife and baby wero rescued with difficulty from their quarters over hla place of business In Locust atreet, Hardly had the fire department reach

ed the scene when the Immense walla .9f the Fendrlch building began to top-

to and fall. Several times the re in were In grave danger, but no one M Injured. rhe east walls of the factory fell on the Mark N. Gross tailoring company ' building and crushed the top story as it it were an egg shell. A porter at the whiskey house of W. T. and C. D. Ounter, across the street from Fendrlch's, was sweeping the sidewalk three minutes before an explosion waa heard and the night employes of the whiskey house ran out to see the lower floor of the building ablaze. Three explosions occurred according to Ounter. This cannot be explained by the Fendrlch company as they say ' there was nothing that could explode and cause such a report. Four men were in the basement of the Fendrlch building when they discovered the Are. They were the engineer, two mechanics and the fireman. The men aay they were first attracted by what sounded like an explosion. Two more reports followed before they realised the building waa ablaze. The Louisville and Nashville railroad building at First and Main streets, used aa a city passenger office, waa aaved after a hard effort. ' SPECTACULAR BLAZE At Auburn, N. Y., Causes a Heavy Loss. (American News Service) . Auburn, N. Y., Dec. 6. Ten firemen were overcome in the cellar, three pertons wero rescued by rear exits and 150,000 damage was caused by a spectacular fire which broke out In the business heart of the city late last night. The fire originated in the basement of a store occupied by the East ern Estate Tea company. The floors above were divided Into apartments for six families, the occupants of which were thrown Into a panic and rescued with difficulty. The Intense heat In which the firemen were compelled to work and a leakage In a gas pipe during the early part of the fire, waa nearly disastrous to a score. Ten of the firemen were In the cellar when the leakage occurred and the deadly gas fumes nti 1 smoke rendered several unconscious. All were rescued by comrades and will Recover. The cause of the fire Is unknown. Fulty covered by Insurance. ORCHARD DISPLAY VERY ATTRACTIVE (American News Service) Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 6. The possibilities of fruit growing in this h section of the country are. strikingly Illustrated in a great display of orVhard and aarden products, which oi

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Iiuu niui uin ivniivuiiu luiuuni lliiTwJng of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. Included in the display are many choice exhibits, of - fruits grown In Minnesota, northern Iowa, western Wisconsin. North and South pakota and Manitoba.

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; Miss Hattle Le Blanc, the seventeen year old girl, who is on trial charged with the murder of Clarence Glover. The picture , was snapped - ahe was going to court, i, The trialwhich ia going. on , atJCaiubridge,. Mass., is proving one of the most eenaatlonal that that section of the country has witnessed in many years. Mrs. Lillian Le Blanc Glover, widow of the murdered man, was referred to during the trial by Mr. Johnson, attorney for the defense as a "vampire" and practically accused her or the crime. Miss Le Blanc is charged with luring Glover to the laundry and shooting him.

OHIO DEMOCRACY STARTS A FIGHT Meeting Held at Columbus Today to Discuss Candidates for Senator. (American News Service) Columbus, O., Dec. 6. Ostensibly to map out a legislative program, but in reality, it is believed, to discuss the situation In regard to the United States senatorship, many of the Democratic members of the next legislature and other of the party leaders throughout the State rounded up in Columbus today. The conference is called for tomorrow.. When the deliberations of the party leaders are concluded it is expected that It will be possible to form a more definite idea than at present as to the relative strength of the several Democrats who aspire to succeed Charles Dick in the United States senate next March. The names of Lieutenant-Governor-elect AUee Pomerene, of Canton, and Edward W. Hanley, of Dayton, continue to be most recently mentioned in connection with the senatorship. But the presence in Columbus recently of an emissary . from Washington, is taken as an indication that John R. McLean, the Cincinnati editor, has not relinquished his long-nourished ambition to wear the toga and that he will be in the fight' in earnest when the legisla ture meets next month If he thinks there is a possible chance for him to win. SUIT TO RECOVER SWINDLED MONEY (American Xw Service) Chicago. Dec. 6. Mrs. Jeanne Ed - gar, wife of Maxwell Edgar, an attor ney, has filed the declaraUon in the $10,000,000 suit against the Illinois Central railroad to recover from the directors amounts alleged to have been lost in the car repair swindle. This is the suit in which the directors were served with summons at the time of their annual meeUng. The defendants are James T. Harahan, Cornelius Vanderbilt. R. W. de Forrest, It. S. Ixvett. John Jacob Astor, J. Ogden Armour. Charles A. Peabody, John C. Shedd. A. H. Hackstaff, Walter Luttgen. John W.Muchincloss and Robert W. GoeleL THE WEATHER ! STATE AND LOCAL Cloudy toright; Wednesday fair, continued cold.

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r MARY BAKER EDDY T But the Place of Burial Has Not Been Determined A Conference Held. (American News Service) Boston, Dec. 6. Even in death Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy will shape the destinies of the Church of Christ Scientist and after her body is laid to rest on Thursday, the affairs of the

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greatest of the newest schools of j ana and resolutions have been adoptthouKht and religion, will so on askd for the passage of such a bill. It

though guarded by tho living hand of the founder. Through the written commandments of Mrs. Eddy, the board of directors of the mother church will continue the work. Great crowds gathered about the Eddy mansion on Chestnut Hill this morning, but the grounds were patroled by detectives and no one was allowed to enter except on showing authority. Two reports were current this morning as to the place of burial. One

was that all the remains would be j board. They were surprised and deinterred in a mausoleum in a cede- lighted with its superb laboratories, tery near Chestnut Hill; the other was manual training departments, class that the remains would be placed in rooms and the big auditorium. AnA . XL . 1 1 . - M X 1 '

a crypt beneath the altar of the moth er church. A conference of members of the Eddy household will be held and her near relatives was called for today. It was declared that plans for the mausoleum would be discussed then. Ascording to this report the structure will be a splendid piece of architecture costly yet small. The funeral on Thursday morning at 11 o'clock will be held with the utmost simplicity and the attendance w ill be small, numbering the members of th hoard of dirff nra of tho moth. .er church, Henry M. Baker, Mrs. Ed dy's second cousin, George W. Glover of Lead, S. D., her son. Miss Mary M. Glover; Alfred Farlow, chairman of the Christian Science publication company, Frederick Dixon, chairman of the publication committee of Great Britain and Ireland, and others interested in the church or intimately connected with Mrs. Eddy. THREE BUILDINGS ARE BURNED DOWN American News Service) Chicago. Dec. 6. One man was fatally burned, two policemen seriously Injured by live wires and a score t4 families made homeless by a tkf which e destroyed three buildings iL West Thirteenth street early todU The dving man ia John Smith. TlLji

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olutions Urging Building District Work Houses. MEETS APPROVAL OF THE CITY FATHERS To Be Presented at the Next Session of the Legislature New High School Is Inspected by Officials. Square meals three times a day, a cozy, warm place to eieep, pernaps a little social game of poker or cribbage in the afternoon, a sun bath on warm days, and no work to do such is life at the Wayne county jail, as seen by Cour-cilman Will 11. B-rtel. Jr. : Livst night at council meeting after president of council to substitute for Mayor Zimmerman, he presented res olutions to the city fathers, asking for district workhouse. These resolu tions are to be sent to Senator Walter Commons and Representatives E. E. Oldaker and Reynolds, with the request that the matter be placed be fore the state legislature. After some discussion, it was de cided to lay the resolution over until the next meeting, pending an investi gation by the councllmen. The resolutions reflected the sentiment of the council, but they are not strong enough, some members believed. They will be considered at the next meeting. Jail Life Is a "Cinch." "Why, that jail life is a cinch," de clared Bartel, and there was a general murmur of assent from his audience. I've gone down there and have found the jail is simply a paradise for all the drunks and bums in the Sixth dis trict. They just roll in and many have expressed TiremtelVfts as quite willing to spend the winter there." The councilman said, all that is now required to make the county prison a first class American plan hotel is a bar, some silverware for the buffet, a few fancy Turkish rugs and some lin en for the tables. He etated that it is as sanitary there as any home in the city and everything is clean and polished. The purport of the resolutions are that district workhouses should be established and the state should be dis tricted for this purpose. The resolu tion states that the prisoners don't work enough and that "many persons avail themselves of the opportunity to go down, just for bed and room, which are excellent." The Wayne county representatives are asked to make a de termined effort for the passage of a bill establishing workhouses over the state. Several times. Councilman Von Pein said, this important matter has been before the municipal league of Indiwas said that many "undesirable citizens" come here from Ohio and Indiana, having heard of the fine conditions existing in the Wayne county Jail. It is too big a task for the county to keep all the hoboes in this part of the west, the Richmond city council believes. - Inspect High School. Following the Jast night's session of city council, the entire corps of city officials, and other municipal attaches made an inspection of the high school i building on an invitation of the school other department at which the officials looked with longing eyes was the gymnasium. The cooking and sewing departments also made "a hit" with the city fathers, and to a man they heartily approved of the high school building. Superintendent Mott explained many of the departments, stating that there was a cooking class for working girls on Wednesday evenings. This was believed by the council to be an excellent idea, which should be productive of much good. "Why. it's a wonderful building," said one official this morning. "It looks like a factory, especially in the forging department. I'd like to work in such a factory." Palladium's Total Dally Average Circulation (Except Saturday), Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending Dec 3rd, 1910. 6,429 City ClreclatioB .showing net paid, news stands and -lar complimentary list does tnciuae sampie copies. . 3,525

Coldest Weather of the Winter Has Been Experienced in Past Twenty-four Hours Reports Show.

KENTUCKY IS UNDER A BLANKET OF SNOW And Baltimore Reports a Ten Inch Fall There Mercury Here Dropped to Twenty at Early Hour. (American News Service) New York, Doc. 6. The first real ; blizzard of the winter struck New York ' toda'- A h fal1 of snow was acjcompamed by cutting winds and cansd n urie,s to moro than three scores j Df persons and drove hundreds to shelter in charitable Institutions and lodgiS I'.ouses. The storm increased in I intorxsitv sc this lav n.ivai'CM TEN INCHES OF SNOW. Baltimore, Dec 6. Ten inches of the snow fell here today, which coldest day of the winter. is RECORD FOR WINTER. Indianapolis, Dec. 6. The thermometer dropped to 19 degrees above today, which is the record for the win ter. i MINIATURE BLIZZARD. Washington, Dec. 6. A miniature blizzard struck Washington this morn ing. Trains were from one to six hours late in arriving. COLDEST OF WINTER. Pittsburg, Dec. 6. A blizzard is rag ins here today. The weather is the coldest of the winter. KENTUCKY SHIVERS. Lexington, Ky., Dec. 6. Practically the entire State of Kentucky is under a blanket of snow today. Traffic is tied up in the blue grass region. The storm is the heaviest in years and in some sections stock ts perishing. The weather is unusually cold. MERCURY DROPPED. In This County to 20 Degrees Early Today. Wayne county is experiencing the cold wave which is general all over the country. Early this morning the thermometers at the local U. S. weather observatory, at the water works pumping station, reached the minimum of 20 degrees, however, this was not the record for the winter. On one or two other days the mercury has dropped to 17 degrees. At noon today the mercury was at the 24 degrees mark. RESTORED BY SHOCK Paralysis Causes Woman to Become Sane. (Palladium Special) Eaton, O., Dec. 6. After existing in a state of childishness for four years, during which time she failed to recognize her children and other relatives, Mrs. Sarah Protzman, of near Lewisburg, has once again been restored to a normal mental condition by a severe stroke of paralysis. After the stroke Mrs. Protzman was amazed by the presence of her children and wondered where they had been 60 long, seemingly unaware of the fact that they had tenderly cared for her during her illness. Tho ctrnbo hntievor has rondrd her condition serious, as She is years old, and it Is feared she may not long survive. Mrs. Protzman is the first representative of a family of four generations. Mrs. Ed Gray and daughter, Miss Margaret of this city, represent the third and fourth respectively. Mrs. Ellen Keltner. a daughter, is of the second generation. SURPRISE PREPARED By Attorneys for the Indicted Packers. (American News Service) Chicago, Dec. 6. Counsel for the indicted Chicago packers are prepared today to spring a surprise in the United States district court in the form of a petition which .Is reputed to be a claim for immunity. What the new move Is, however, they refuse to say. A crisis in the case is fast approaching. If the packers are made to stand trial on the indictments now pending the hearing likely will begin within the next six weeks. W. S. Kenyonv first assistant to Attorney-General WIckersham, is in the city to take charge of the legal tangles. - He will be assisted by U. S. District Attorney and -Sims." and -spe-

jciaJ attorneys WUkerson and GodmanAbe taken, to Chicago. Saturday.:

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This German officer served with the American forces in the Revolutionary war and was one of General Washing ton's ablest lieutenants. The statue is at Washington. ALBERT DADISMAI1 TO REFORMATORY Incorrigible Youth Finally Exhausts the Patience of Juvenile Court.. Albert Dadisman, the eleven year old kleptomaniac, was sent to Plainfield reformatory on Tuesday morning by Judge Fox of the Juvenile court. The boy has been up before the court on several occasions for theft and during the latter part of November, he, in company with others, entered the Pogue. Miller Hardware company, on Fort Wayne avenue, stealing wares to the value of a dollar. Having been excused on probation before and on each occasion failing to appreciate the clemency shown him, the court today refused to permit him to remain at large aay longer. The mother appeared to be unable to con trol the child, who, like his thirteen year old brother, has been very in corrigible. This elder brother is now in the Ohio reformatory for an offense which he committed at Eaton, from where he was sentenced. Even though the child will be conI fined where he will probably be bene fited, the separation between him and his mother was touching. She was nearly heartbroken. Her only child now living with her Is a daughter. There were other boys implicated with the Dadisman child in the raid on the hardware store. They were not arraigned on Tuesday morning, al though it is probable they will be before the week is past. None of these other boys have been as conspicious in the Juvenile court as young Dadisman. An affidavit was filed against Willie Sherrow a youth under 16 years of age, who, it is alleged, stole some fruits and vegetables from the Homer McLeland company on Ft. Wayne avenue. The boy entered the place on November 27. This is the first time he has been in trouble so far as the Juvenile court is concerned. - HOLD CONFERENCE ON FOREST FIRES (American News Service i Paul, Minn., Dec. 6. Forestry ofSt. l"-'ai9 ui iuiuueouia, rvvistuuoiu iuu I Bl .1.1. in u.j 1 i j Michigan, together with representafives of the railroads, lumber com panies and other industries of the three States, assembled for a three days' conference in this city today to form ulate plans for the prevention of fu ture destruction of life and property by forest fires. GOOD ROADS TALK HEARD AT CAPITAL (American News Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 6. Delegates from Canada as well as all parts of the United States, were present today at the opening of the annual ses sion of the American Good Roads Con gress in this city. More than 100 speakers, many of them of wide reputation, are to be heard during the three days session. ENGINEERS VOTE FAVORS A STRIKE f American News Service) Bloomington, III., Dec. 6. Balloting among the Chicago Sc Alton engineers which has been In progress for three weeks has resulted in a rote of 95 per cent in favor of a strike to compel the road to accede to the demands union for increased wages and better working conditions. The ballots will

Big Document Was Brought Into Congress Today and at Noon the Task of Reading It Was Begun.

WALL ST. CALLS IT . CONSERVATIVE ONE And Predicts There Will Be Brisk Trading, Wednesday Summary of Suggestions Made by Taft. The President's message in full may . be found elsewhere in this issue. IS CONSERVATIVE. (American News Service) New York, Dec. 6. The President's message had very little effect on Wall street. It is predicted that the effect on trading will probably be more pro nounced tomorrow after the publlo has had time to read and digest it. Insiders viewed it as a conservative document. DISCUSS MESSAGE. k Washington. Dec. 6. Discussion of the President's message and the anticipation of its reading engaged the attention of the members of both houses of congress today. Each member was furnished with a copy aa the task of reading the long document began. SUMMARY OF DOCUMENT. Washington, Dec. 6. Demanding the restoration of ' the American flag to its ancient plape upon the seas, Preil- ' dent William H. Taft, In his annual message delivered to congress today urged strongly that legislation be en-" acted to establish a ship subsidy or otherwise guarantee the establish ment of a rapid development of merchant marine in this country. ' Aside from eager appeals for the en largement of the regular army; re- -construction of American court - pro cedure and the prohibition of traffic through - the . Panama Canal ofshlps owned by Interstate railroads the message might be summed up in the following trinity: National economy, the enlargementof opportunities for foreign trade and the strengthening of confidence of capital and domestic investment. The entire message is k "safe and sane" document, strong in its conservatism. For Merchant Marine, The President's most urgent recpmmendation is in favor, of legislation' for the institution of a mercantile marine service and possibilities for its expansion before the Panama canal Is finished and one paragraph of the speech in this connection reads: "I alluded to this most Important subject in my last annual message . . . . . Unless prompt action be tak en the completion of the Panama canal - will find this the only great commercial nation unable to avail in International marine business of this contribution to the means of the .world's commercial intercourse? Where could we find in case of war the transports and subsidary vessels, without which a naval fleet is arms without a body? For many reasons I cannot urge too strongly upon-this cc s the passage of a measure by mail subsidy or other Intervention to develop tha American marine. Next in the rank of Importance and

urged only a little less strongly than the plea for a merchant marine is the demand that the trained fighting force -of the United States be increased by

laws augmenting the number of com- : missioned officers and through closer cooperation between the National Gaurds of the various States and the

Regular standing army. Fortify Panama Canal. ' The President urges the fortification of the Panama canal declaring

that America is building it and that ' it is fitting that America should protect It. Mr. Taft Is anxious that tha canal become a paying enterprise, : suggesting that the toll of one dollar :t per net ton be charged ships passing through. , v ' 4t However, be adds that this is the on- -C ly tentative. He says that' a rata should be established which would f- i', turn a fair profit upon the Investment v of 1400.000.000. - " , President Taft takes a strong stand in the matter , of disposing of. public k lands bearing - coal, urging that the government not sell these valuable- v -mineral tracts but lease portions of the public domain containing 1.000,- ' 000.000,000 tons of coaL Mr. Taft de-J clares In favor of making 2,500 acres ' the maximum. He frankly admits that -Secretary Ballinger of the Interior op- ; poses this plan: having "set orth bis objections in his annua report. The President believes that Congress ought to prohibit interstate conimerce railroads from owning or con--', trolling ships doing a business through -, the canal, such a course bet as urged to save the people . of the United States the benefit of legitimate eouv petition. This enactment must cone sooner or later, the President point ,

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