Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 44, 23 December 1910 — Page 1

EICHMOND FAIXAJDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. BICIIHO.ND. I'D.. FRIDAT EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1910. SINGLE COPY" 2 CENTS. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 44. BIG BLAZE AGAIN BROKE INTO FURY WHEN ABOUT DEAD A Leader of Washington SocietyW& LYNCH RICHMOND PEOPLE PLEASED BY THE CITY'S SHOWING ENAL FARMS FOR I DETERMINED IS JAIL INMATES IS EFFORT TO HAVE IN THE TO BE SUGGESTED WALSH PARDONED i A REPORT SHOWS Since 1S94 There Has Only , Been One Year, 1907 When There Were Less Lynchings Than in 1910. Sturdy Increase in Population Shown by Census Department Report, Increase Being 22.5 Pet. Commercial Club Committee Every Influence Obtainable And the Weary Fight of the Gallant Chicago Firemen Had to Be Resumed to Save the District. Meets with State Charities by His Friends Being ExScrptarv Hurler. Who Ad- erred to Secure His Re vneatps Plan. lease from Prison.

ST Xc" t

COUNTRY

MADE GOOD SHOWING WITH RIVAL CITIES

Comparison with Y. M. B. C. Census, Taken in 1909, Shows City Made an Increase of 411 in One Year. Since 1900 Richmond has increased lta Lobulation 4.098. an increase of nearly 23 per cent. In 1900 the official United States census gave Richmond a population of 13.226. The official United States census for 1910 gave Richmond a pop ulation of 22.324. The enumeration of Richmond's population was completed about the first of Majr. this year. In April. 1909, the Young Men's Business club took a census of the city, which showed a population of 21.913. This cen sus was taken In a most careful man ner and. was probably as accurate as the government census taken this year. Comparing the unofficial census taken In 1909 and the official census taken this year It shows the city In creased its population 411 in one year's time. a most substantial growth. A Census of Wards. Topulation of the various wards of the city under the 1910 census have not yet been announced, but the fol lowing Is the population by wards shown by the Young Men's Business club census: First Ward ....3,004 Second Ward , 2..139 Third Ward 2.461 Fourth Ward ..3.580 Fifth Ward :.. 4.547 Sixth Ward ,...2.399 Seventh Ward .. 2.448 Klghth Ward 1.435 It Is probnble that if Spring Grove, Itenton Heights, Earlham llelghts'and other suburbs of the city were incorporated into the city, Richmond would have a population of between 24.000 and 23.000. This cannot be definitely stated, however, as the population of these suburbs, which have grown rapidly In the past few years, have not been announced. Richmond people are pleased by the splendid growth of the Panic Proof City, noting with pride that Richmond has outstripped Marion; has come within 153 of equaling the population of Anderson, although that city - led Richmond by 2.403 ten years ago; has gone past New Albany, which only showed a gain of one; has outstripped Lafayette by over 2.000, and is close on the heels of Muncle. In a half century Richmond has more than tripled its population. On the eve of the civil war Richmond had a population of 6,603. This was great ly decreased by the call to arms. CLEVER FORGERY GAME IS WORKED Man Distinguished as Work man Has No Trouble in Passing Bad Check. The latest "bogus" check game in this city was worked to perfection yes terday afternoon, at the People' store at the corner of Ninth and Main streets. About the time for the shops to close for the day, a large man. at tired In a brown working suit, a black cap. with a bandanna tied around his neck, walked Into the store and asked for some socks. The goods were produced and the "workman" tendered a check for $15.80. lie received about $15 In change from the bookkeeper at the store. He left the store. A few minutes later It was discovered by a local bank that the check was a forger It was written payable to the order of James Dunn, on a blank of the First National bank, of Richmond, signed by C. A. Birmingham, secretary of the National Crushed Stone company of Columbus, O. When the check was presented at the People's store, the nam John Dunn was Indorsed on the back. Th 'workingman's graft", In this case, was played for the first time in Richmond yesterday. The police say it Is one of the best of the many ones that have been perpetrated here. THE WEATHER STATE Pair tonight and Wednesday. Clear in East portion tonight. Colder tonight. Saturday fair and colder. LOCAL Snow and colder tonight. Saturday fair and cold.

COMMERCIAL CLUBS

TO RE INTERESTED And a State Meeting to Take Action on Proposed Law Will Probably Be Held in Richmond Soon. District penal farms will be recom mended to the legislature by various Commercial clubs and other business organizations of the state, led by the Richmond Commercial club. The farms will be suggested for the employment of county prisoners only It will be suggested that the state be divided into about six districts. and a penal farm located in each dis trict. The Richmond Commercial club committee conferred with Amos But ler, at Indianapolis, yesterday and discovered that the plans of the club and thoBe of Mr. Butler are very similar. The Irat thine to be done, according to Charles Jordan, secretary of the Commercial club, is to purchase tracts of from 1,000 to 2.000 acres of land in each district. Then all the prisoners from the county jails will be put to work at farming, carpentering and other tasks. One large building should be constructed, it is believed for housing the Drisoners at night. it. n.. r.. ...-.. . I ine penai xarm pian is iavorea ror several reasons. The club has no de-1 sire to make the prisoners compete

with legitimate labor and it is not con- President again. The attorney-gener-sidered practical to put a man at work al said today that the case could not

la a factory when he is only in cus-J tody for from 10 to 100 days, the average jail sentence. Mr. Butler is heartily in favor of the district penal farms, believing that they will meet a condition that is troubling all the states In the union In no state, it is claimed, is there sattmttvm I. I - 1.1 it. county prisoners and this is because the persons sent to such institutions go for only a short time. Massachu setts Is using a penal farm system with success, in a few districts Secretary Jordan will communicate at once with different commercial oraanizations as advised bv Mr. Rntler

and it is probable delegates of clubs Wal1 street brokera& houses distribuInterested in the movement will meet tlons are exceedingly slim, indicating

iu Richmond. In this way, it is thought, the penal farm matter can be given some headway and have an exceilent start before the onenine of the legislature in January. The congressional districtlne of the state would not be satisfactory for the farm districts, according to Commerrial cluh men. Th nrta too small, and there would not be enough prisoners to make the farms self supporting. TURRET OF MAINE IS TOWED ASHORE (American News Service) Havana, Dec. 23. The top of the forward turret of the battleship Maine which had been blown off in the dis-1 aster which brought on the Spanish was towed ashore today and the work of scraping off the barnacles for an ex amination of the eleven ton wreck was I started. Experts believe that llaht will be shed upon the explosion by the examination of the turret top. A gunsight is also among the remnants of the battleship which have been found at the bottom of the harbor by the workmen who are raising the sunken battleship. TAMFC 1T lIITCTrfcTM GIVEN NEW TRIAL (American News Service) "Washington, pec. 23. Justice Wright in the criminal court today granted a new trial to James N. Huston of Connemille, formerly treas urer oi me innea states. He was recently convicted of usine the maila to defraud. The evidence wa declared to be insufficient to warrant the infllction of the sentence. A BISCUIT PLANT BURNED TODAY (American News Set rice) Toledo, Dec. 23. The Toledo Bis cuit company plant burned this morn ing. The loss is two hundred thousand dollars. BIG OPERA HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE (American News Service) New Orleans, Dec 23. Shubert's magnificent opera house was damaged a quarter of a million dollars by Are early today. Three negroes were fa tally burned.

SAY HIS CONDITION

IS VERY ALARMING But Government Officials Deny This Rep. Cullop of In'diana Has Joined with Walsh's Friends. (American Newt Service) Washington, Dec. 23. There is a remarkable Influence at work to bring about the pardon of John R. Walsh, the convicted Chicago banker who, before his failure and conviction was so prominent in the development of the industries of Southern Indiana. Walsh's attorney, Buckingham, of Chicago, has been here urging that the case be hastened. Former Senator Hopkins of Illinois, who always ap peared in the senate as defender of Walsh is also here, having come on specially to work for Walsh's freedom. The reiteration of Walsh's friends that he is at the point of death and should be freed at once to save his life finds no confirmation here. The Depart ment of .TnsticA Tirs recently ranspd another lnve8tlgatIOQ to be made of Walsh's condition and the report is that he is not only not in bad health but is improving in prison because of rest and freedom from business cares. Yet Walsh's friends insist that he is dying. Mayor Busse, of Chicago is reported today In press dispatches as having repeated this assertion after a vlst to waisn in prison. Representative Cullop, of Indiana. hag agaln taken up tho fight for Walsh and has been to see the attorney - general and expects" to call on the possibly be considered before January 1st. DESPITE JIM HILL Poor Corporations Don't Ap pear Anxious. (American News Service) New York, Dec, 23. Christmas gen erosity this week Is indicative of buslne8s prosperity and prospects, but the cauuon anK8 gave sugutiy modified bonuses. The steel corporation gave bonuses aggregating $2,700,000. which 18 seven hundred thousand more than last year but tne 8teel trust's generosllr wu D accounted Dy tne laying " irom uuu lo men witnm tne next fortnight The International Harvester company distributes a half miuion. Tne Standard Oil company increases the salaries of its employes ono dollar per month up to those receiving one hundred per month. The latter are In the brains department. J. P. Morgan and Co.. cave a year's salary to every employe for a Christ mas gift. General conditions through out the country are good so far as In dustrlal and labor problems are con cerned. MORE VICTIMS OF A BIG EXPLOSION (American News Service) New York, Dec. 23. Two more, vicUms were added to the death list from tae supposed explosion of Pintsch Gas i rards of tbe N- Y- Central R. R. wnen a man and "woman died in Bellevue hospital today. They were Mrs 1 neresa tM" ana coins kaiser, both of whom were walking in Lexing ton avenue, near Fiftieth street, the scene of the disaster, when the explos fractured. AN ENGLISH "PUG" DIES AFTER FIGHT (American News Service) Liverpool. Eng., Dec 23. James Holland, an English pugilist, died in a hospital here today, the result of a terrIflc bIow he received last night in a rignt witn dick nock, or London .-ock was arresiea ana today was bound for court without bail. Palladium's Total Dally Average Circulation (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending Dec 17. 1910. 6,56 City Clrcclitioa showing net paid, sews stands and regular complimentary list does not include sample copies. 3,615

24 ON DEATH. LIST;

ALL WERE FIREMEN $50,000 Has Been Raised for Families of the Victims and This. Amount Will Soon Be Trebled. (American News Service) Chicago, Dec. 23. Fire in the plant of the Nelson-Morris Company broke out afresh at noon today after it had apparently been under control for two hours. But one wing of the entire block, bounded by 43rd, 44th, Loom i 3 and Bishop streets remains unburned, and It now appears doomed. Assistant Marshal Donohue, who reliev ed Acting Chief Seyferlich in com mand, placed the number of dead at twenty-four, based on authentic reports. Five firemen, heretofore classed as missing and included in some death lists were today discovered to be alive. Forty-four are In hospitals with serious injuries. The loss will exceed a million dollars. Bodies recovered and identified today were those of Peter Powers, Michael Mclnerny, and Patrick Walsh, firemen. ' A relief fund for families of the victims had reached $51,000 by noon today and may ultimately be trebled. The firemen continued to work today in an almost exhausted condition. Many were forced to give up and were taken away in ambulances. All Night Vigils. The all-night vigils of the wives and mothers and sisters of the dead firemen was the unnerving influence of the Iremen. Women and children, mutely weeping for those whom they loved, who had perished in the fall of the wall, huddled around the fire lines watching the titanic struggle. With their own sorrows . they could be heard- praying tor the men who still were risking their lives. Priests and ministers, barred from the danger zone by police barriers, knelt on the frozen ground and con6ecrated the dead. Every flag in the city today is at half-mast. Children in the public schools said prayers for the heroes of the disaster and men in all stations of life, paid tribute to the men who gave up their lives. Coroner Hoffman today declared the investigation would be rigid and would place the blame for the catas trophe on the shoulders of the man or men responsible for the failure of the high pressure water system, which he claimed was due to criminal negligence. Tbe coroner scored the building commissioner's office for the Are trap conditions of the Morris buildings. The fire started from crossed wires and the coroner declares the wires had been dangerous and had not been reported. That the fire will cause a change in the fire-fighting apparatus in the stockyards was freely predicted today. The packers will be compelled to install an efficient high pressure system, if not for protection of the pack ers, for the protection of the firemen. In nearly every fire in Packingtown firemen are killed or injured and their lives endangered because of the combustible nature of the stocks in storage there. One of the pathetic features of the fire was the loyalty to duty of seven telephone girls, who stuck to their posts while brothers, sweethearts and fathers were killed. These girls remained at their switchboards and answered call after call, replying to questions and telling each questioner the names of the firemen who were dead. E TROOPS SENT Desperate Efforts to the Revolt. Stop. (American News Service) El Paso, Tex., Dec 23. One thous and additional Mexican regulars ar rived in Chihuahua from the south today for the supreme effort which the Mexican government Is making to crush out revolution in the north. Orders were given to rush the soldiers towards Pedernales at top speed as the remnant of tho original Navarro force is starving to death, being reduced to killing and eating their horses. This information was received here from the city of Chihuahua today and coincident came the report from Mex ico City that the war ministry, anger ed at the success of the rebels, has ordered Gen. Samuel Garcia Cuellar, aide de camp on tbe staff of President Diaz, Into Chihuahua to take complete charge of all the regular forces in the state. Orders have been given to Gen. Cuellar to use the most drastic measures possible to quell the uprising and a decisive battle is expected by Christmas.

MOR

t fir7

Miss Clara Swift, the beautiful daughter of Major and Mrs. Eben Swift, who is one of the most popular debutante members of the "Army Set" at Washington. The Swift home is a rendezvous of army folk, and during the sessions many delightful entertainments are given by the major and his charming wife. This year they had the pleasure of presenting their debutante daughter, Miss Clara, to society at a ten late in November. Miss Swift soon assumed a lewmiiS dehntantes and was cordially received by the most exclusive circles. She is a fearless horsewoman and has taken many long rides with her father. She is accomplished musically and takes part in all the charitable amateur theatricals which-amuse the younger set every spring.

LAST MINUTE CLOB PREPARESJO SHOP Members of the Organization Will Begin to Storm the Stores This Evening. Tired clerks, floor walkers and de partment managers proprietors can also be included in the various local stores, are waiting with dread today the stampede of the "Last Minute Club," whichV Is ' scheduled to begin this evening. Membership in this club is restricted, as a rule, to men. They dread "shopping" as much as their wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts enjoy it. Members of the club delay their Santa Claus stunt un til the eleventh hour, then, driven forth by the women of their families, they make a gigantic onslaught on the stores and, when the tidal wave of male shoppers is stemmed, late Christmas eve, then recedes into the streets again, said clerks, floor walkers, department managers and proprie tors place the stock remnants on the shelves, turn out the lights and limp wearily homeward, some to spend the glad Christmas day in their beds to answer tho urgent demands of their wearied, aching, exhausted bodies. ' Local merchants say that they have enjoyed an excellent Christmas season and that the shopping began sooner than ever before, no doubt the result of concerted efforts of the press urg ing early shopping. The stock displayed, at h& various stores has been most attractive and bargains equal to those offered in the larger neighboring cities has had tbe effect of reducing the number of shoppers who go out of the city to do their Christmas buying. The market of the local business houses has been increased this year and . for two weeks trains and traction cars have been filled with people coming from neighboring towns to do their shopping In Richmond stores. As a final hint to the members of tho "Last Minute Club" onlr two more evenings and one day remain for you to do your Christmas shopping. HIGHWAYMAN HELD UP TICKET AGENT American News Service) Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Dec. 23. A highwayman held up Harry Darby, night ticket agent for the West Shore R. R. aV Highland, near here, at 4 o'clock this morning and looted the office, getting $115. The man had been sleeping on a bench in the waitingroom and he attacked Darby, beating him severely about the bead with tbe Ibutt of a revcher.

BLOCK DROPPED Oil

HISHEAD--DAZED His Heavy Crop of Hair Was All That Saved Ira May From Being Killed. To his heavy head of hair Ira May of Indianapolis, a foreman employed at the new , Second National ' bank building, probably owes his life. While walking underneath the elevator shaft on Friday morning a large wooden block fell from the top story, a distance of at least fifty feet, and struck him on the crown of the head, knocking him flat. First aid to the injured treatment was administered and, he was quickly brought back to consciousness. He was then taken to the office of a nearby physician and ten stitches were taken to close a wound six" inches in length. Although badly dazed as a result . of the accident, the man did not suffer any serious injury, so far as the physician could ascertain, and it is believed the long scalp wound, which is not in the least dangerous, is the only injury which he sustained, The men in the department in which he is employed Were cleaning up preparatory to leaving the city on Friday morning. May was called to the lower floor and as he started to pass the elevator shaft the block of wood felL It is understood that it was no fault of any of the men employed on the floor above. Under ordinary circumstances, the accident would probably have proven fatal as the dis tance which the block fell, combined with its weight, gave it great force. As it was May's hair, which is un usually . thick and heavy, broke the force of the falling block. Mark Thomas, a well known resident of South Tenth street suffered painful bruises on Thursday evening when he stumbled over a stone at the edge of the pavement at South Eighth and C streets. " Mr. Thomas' injuries are not such as to confine him to his home more than a few days. INDIANA SCHOOLS OPPOSE FOOTBALL f American News ServiceV Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 23. The question of abolishing football in the high schools of Indiana was discussed here today at the annual meeting of the Indiana High, School Athletic Association. Many of the school, superintendents are in favor of abolish ing the game, because of the large number of serious accidents that oc curred on scholastic gridirons in this State the past season. If football is abolished an effort will be made to substitute soccer and rugby.

ALL BUT FIVE OF VICTIMS NEGROES

Nearly All the Lynchings Occurred in Southern States, Florida and Georgia Having Ten Each. LYNCHINGS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1910. Year Number lS9t .. . . .. 190 1S93 ,. .. Ill 131 1S97 .. .. ,. 166 1S5S .. .. .. .. 127 1S99 107 1900 116 1901 . ... 135 1902 9f 1903 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10ti 1904 90 1905 .. .. 66 190G .. 68 1907 .. 51 190S ., .... .... .. .... 65 1909 ....... .. .. .. .. ,. .. 70 1910 &7 (American Nv Service) Chicago, III., Dec. 23. Only 57 lynchings were recorded in the United States in 1910. a much smaller number than In almost any previous year in the last sixteen. In 1909 the total was seventy and In 1908 It was sixty-five. AH but five of the 67 cases of lynching in 1910 were of negroeB, and ten of these cases were those In which the charge against the victim was assault on white women or girls. In eleven of the r em ai n i uanum.ber tha charge was attempted criminal assault. In the' five cases of whito men, four were for murder and the other for aiding and abetting in a jail delivery. Several of the cases in which negroes were lynched were based upon the murder ' or alleged murder, of white women in which the Question of assault is implied. As in previous years, nearly all the lynchings were in Southern States, Florida and Georgia having ten each, Alabama and Arkansas eight each, and Texas six. The only lynching in the North occurred In Ohio, the victim being Carl Etherington, an agent of tbe Ohio Anti-Saloon, League who met death at the hands of a mob in Newark following his imprisonment in jail on a charge of having murdered a saloonkeeper while making a raid on an alleged blind tiger. A Record by 8tatea Following the record for 1910 by States: Alabama, eight negroes; Ar kansas, eight negroes; Florida, eight negroes and two whites; Georgia, ten negroes; North Carolina, one negro; Louisiana one white man; Mississippi, five negroes; Missouri, three negroes; Ohio, one white man; Oklahoma, one negro; South Carolina, ' one ' negro; Tennessee, two negroes; Texas, four negroes and two whites. Of the five whites lynched, two were Italians, who were lynched in Florida. They were charged with murder and with inciting tbe riots during the strike of cigar makers in Tampa. Another of the white victims was a Mexican, who was shot and burned at tbe stake near the Texas border, following his confession that be had murdered a white woman. Of the flffy-two negro victims, two were wo men. The record of the crimes for which the victims were put to death follows: Murder, seventeen; criminal assault. ten; attempted criminal assault, elev en; robbery, four; attempted murder, seven; aiding and abetting jail delivery, three; assault with intent; to do bodily injury, one; Insulting women, two; threatening to commit murder, two. Two Lynched by Negroes. In many of the cases the lynchings followed the arrest or conviction of the victims on the charges made against them. In other cases tbe victims met death while endeavoring to escape from pursuing posses. In two cases the negro victims were lynched by mobs composed of ; members of their own race. In almost every case the victim was summarily hanged or shot without burning at the stake, such as accompanied these acts of summary vengeance In former years. In the foregoing record the word "lynching" has been held to apply only to the summary punishment Inflicted by a mob or by any number of citizens on a person alleged to have committed a crime for which that person should have been tried according to law. This limitation excludes a number of caes reported during the year, such as the race war which ocenrred near Slocum, Texas, last August, in which eight on ten negroes were killed, " '