Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 65, 13 January 1911 — Page 1
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A CHARIVARI FOR MAYOR DODGED BY SHREWDJJFFICIAL Big Demonstration Planned for Blushing Groom Fails Bcause a Ringleader Was Kidnapped.
FORTIFY THE CANAL ADVICE OF FORAKER
LOCAL CHINAMEN WILL OBEY EDICT REMOVING QUEUES Long Chong, Dean of Local Chinese Colony, Reads Imperial Order and Says Two Are Affected.
MURDERED BOY IS IDENTIFIED TODAYj HUNT FOR MOTHER Working On an Immense Statue A FAST EXPRESS WRECKS SPECIAL i FOUR MET DEATH
ZIMMERMAN AND HIS - BRIDE MAKE ESCAPE
Entice One Plotter, Pres. Hammond of Board, Into House Where He Was Held Close Captive. riant for Mayor Zimmerman's wedding celebration, which if they had materialized would have rroven the most elaborate for any nuptials In Richmond, failed yesterday afternoon because one of the conspirators, President Hammond, went to the wedding. In a "meeting of a committee of the whole." yesterday morning. Superintendent Gormon of tho police department, President Hammond of the board of works, and Firo Chief Miller, arranged to call out the police and fire departments, the patrol wagon carrying city officials, newspaper men and others, and some of "Doc" Genn's street wagons, together with all the citizens that could be assembled on short notice, and march to the mayor's home. Seventh and North A street, where the ceremony was performed. With (he band that was to have accompanied the crowd, leading, a tremendous serenade was to have started at two o'clock. Tho policemen had planned to beat on the porch railing; the firemen to place ladders against the house and throw water, and the city officials and mere taxpayers to add to the noise with cheers. Hammond a Victim. However, about one-thirty o'clock, at President Hammond passed the mayor's house, he was captured and taken in to witness the ceremony. In the mad search conducted at the city hall for Hammond, so much valuable time was lost that the mayor had, In the meantime, been married. The ceremony took place on the fifty-seventh anniversary of the marriage of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Godwin. Mr. Godwin is over 87 years of age. He was formerly a Methodist minister and now has a brother in the Methodist ministry. The Fifth Street Methodist church the pastor of which, the Rev. L. M. HardIngham, performed the ceremony, stands on ground formerly owned by Mayor Zimmerman's father. The mayor and his bride left this morning for Lafayette, where the mayor's sister, Mrs. John Gosh. Is seriously ill. They will return tomorrow evening. MUNCHAUSEN THE SECOND IS DEAD "Champion Affidavit Maker" Expires from a "Twist of the Brain" (American News Service) New York, Jan. 13. Robert Caldwell, known for years as the "great American affidavit maker," who has figured conspicuously In sensations of international Interest, is dead of a mental ailment known as "a twist of the brain," and, thus death has removed another central figure in the famous case of George Pruce, the Knglish hop keeper who tried to wrest the title of Duke of Portland from its present holder. Caldwell died on Wards Island after an Illness of two years and today his body was taken charge of by a relative who said that the interment would be private. Caldwell, who will probably rank In history as a second Munchausen, leaped Into prominence about 33 years ago when he suddenly produced affidavits to prove that the body of A. T. Stewart. tho millionaire merchant of New York had been stolen from its grave by ghouts. Caldwell had been employed by Mr. Stewart in a menial capacity and whllo his affidavits were not credited they created a big stir. At various times Caldwell bobbed up with affidavits but he reached the climax four years when he swore to affidavits which he declared, would establish George Druce as the rightful heir to the title of Duke of Portland through a secret marriage of the ifth holder of the title. Caldwell went on the witness stand in London and told one of the most remarkable stories ever heard in a court (room. All of Caldwell's assertions Vere proven baseless, yet he apparently believed all of them himself. THE WEATHER STATE Rain or snow; colder tonight or Saturday. LOCAL Rain this afternoon; rain er anew tonight: coldsr tonight and Saturday.
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Former Senator Foraker, who during his term In office, was a champion of the right of the United States to fortify the Panama canal, and in a letter to President Taft, recently made public revealed tsome state craft on thn part of Great Britain by which, paradoxically, she objected to an implicit statement of the right to fortify, In order that such right might be obtained by the United States. Great Britain was not opposed really to that right, but asked that it should not be stated too prominently in the document itself. The Senator's letter refers to the treaty or Dec. 20, 1910, which was rejected by the senate, because it contained no provisions for fortification. When it was amended to cover this feature, Great Britain refused to accept It. A compromise was then effected, the fortification feature being covered by a paragraph? which provided the canal should never be fortified, nor any right of war bo exercised, nor any act of hostility committed within It. The United States, however, was to be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness. LOCAL SALOOHISTS ARE H0TW0RRYIIIG None of the Liquor Legislation Pending Will Have an Effect Locally. Local saloonists are not worrying over the proposed bill authorizing only one saloon to every thousand popular tion as it is understood the bill does not apply to cities and towns where saloons are already established. If this was not the case Richmond's fifty-three saloons, a ratio of one to every 421 inhabitants, would be reduced to twenty-two, as the last census shows Richmond to have a population of 22.324. More Interest Is taken by the local retailers in the regulation bills which have been proposed than the probable repeal of the county local fjption law. One bill provides for one saloon to every five hundred inhabitants, while the other provides one saloon to every thousand population. Both proposed bills provide that in cities and towns where there are now more saloons established than the ratio provided, that the bills, if passed, shall not apply to such towns and cities. Such a law however, would have the cfTcct of prohibiting tho opening of any more saloons in the city. In case the bill providing for one saloon to every five hundred residents is passed then not until the city has a population of 27,000 may the fiftyfourth saloon be opened. No active part will be taken by local dealers in the passage of any legislative measures. They are confident that their interests will be protected by different legislators who are giving the matter their sole attention. STARS IN "DRAMER To Give Benefit for Melodrama Writer. (American News Service) New York. Jan. 13. A remarkable aggregation of actors and actresses appeared in a revival of the blood-and-thunder melodrama, "The Queen of the Highbinders." on the stage of the Amsterdam theater this afternoon. The performance was one of the principal features of the monster testimonial arranged for the benefit of Marcus A. Mayer, the old time theatrical manager. Among the well known players who gave their services were Amelia Bingham, Bijou Fernandez, William Collier, Walter Jones, Tyrone Power and Charles Cherry. Marcus A. Mayer, the beneficiary of the performance, is now an old man, but In his prime he probably was the foremost manager In the profession. Certain it is that no other manager ever guided the destines of so many great star of the stage. Mr. Mayer began his career as manager for the celebrated Julia Dean Hayne and the younger Kean, after which he successfully directed the tours of the world renowned celebrities, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett. Edwin Adams, Adelaide Nef.son. Rose Eytinge, Jane Hading. Charlotte , Cushman. Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Henry Irving. M. Coquelin. Monet-Sully, Mary Anderson and Adellna PattL
FIVE LOCAL CHINKS ALREADY QUEUELESS
Long Chong Says He Has Long Expected the Order as Hair-dressing Style Is Quite Foolish. Only two Chinese queues in Richmond will be sacrificed, February 14, because of an imperial decree of Suen Hung, the present emperor of China. The Palladium was today In receipt of a copy of the decree, written in the Chinese script. This edict was shown to Long Chong, one of the! most prominent of the yellow race in Richmond. He had not heard of such an order but on reading the copy handed him by the reporter, who, when the city editor handed it to him, thought it was a laundry bill. Long Chong solemnly said the edict would be observed by two. Long Chong stated that there are seven Chinamen in Richmond now, but only two wear queues. Chong says that there is no use of wearing a queue, as they are nuisances, require much attention, such as washing and combing, and have no real value or use. Merely for Style. Queues have been worn just because It is the custom in China, Chong said, although many Americanized Chinese have long existed without their queues. Most of the local Chinamen on arriving in Richmond, immediately had their queues removed, it being the style here. Chong himself does not wear a queue but has his hair cut and combed in the conventional American style. Chong read the edict with considerable interest but showed little surprise, for he said that he always believed such a thing would happen. The matter of removing queues has been agitated for some time by leading Chinese, among them Wu-Ting-Fang, former minister to the United States. After wearing a queue for two centuries and a half, John Chinaman may feel rather odd in discarding his relic of a barbarous age, when it was either wear a long braid of hair or "get your head chopped off." Frank Moy, mayor of Chinatown in Chicago, approves very heartily of the edict, having had his queue removed some time ago. Origin of the Style. The queue fashion of wearing the hair was introduced by the Mantchoo dynasty about 250 years ago. The Mantchoorians, or Mongolians, as they are called had more hair than they knew what to do with. In some way they seized the reins of government and the first thing they did was to issue an imperial order that e,very Chinaman must wear a queue. Before that the Chinese wore their hair like the Japanese and Coreans. If a Chinaman refused to wear a queue his head was chopped off. He was compelled to adopt the Mantchoorian style of wearing the hair. It is a common belief among Americans that the reason a Chinaman doesn't cut off his queue is that he thinks he cannot enter heaven without it. That's only a story. Chinamen the world over, will welcome the decree to cut off their queues. In Chicago there is a Chinese population of about 2.000. of which one-fourth have no queues. The other three-fourths, with few exceptions, will climb in the barber chair on Feb 14,' and say "Give me a haircut." "A dealer in hair goods called on me the other day regarding the cutting off of queues. He wajted to know if he could purchase all the queues that will come off in Chicago. Some of my countrymen have long. glossy, black braids that ought to be worth $30. These braids will last a woman a lifetime," said the mayor of Chicago's Chinatown.
Jonah Day Casts Dreadful "Jinx" Palladium Special) New York, Jan. 13. Friday, the Thirteenth is a fearsome date, and Trof. James Henderson, who claims to be a really scientific astrologer, declares that it will live up to its reputation. Here are some of the dire things that Prof. Henderson declares would take, place today, positively, rain or shine: An European Monarch will be assassinated, by an anarchist. Exactly what ruler is to pass in his checks the stars have neglected to indicate. Can't be the Czar, because this is December 31, according to the Russian calendar. Earthquakes of a severe nature will occur In the Pacific and may make themselves felt in Hawaii and along the California coast from San -Francisco to Los Angeles. Disastrous fires will break out in several cities, with great loss of life and property. A blizzard of almost unprecedented severity will sweep over the Northwest, especially in the Dakotas. Minnesota, Manitoba, Iowa, Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and may extend East. Disastrous storms will sweep over the gulf this afternoon and tonight, and will do great damage along the Southern coast. Meanwhile, all the signs indicate that tomorriw win be a bully day for shopping and bargain hunting all over the United States and Canada for those who read the advertisements in today's papers.
Mystery of Body of Five Year Old Poison Victim Is Unraveled by Albany Police to Some Extent.
CANDY IS USED TO GIVE DEADLY ACID Carbolic Acid Label and Bag of Chocolates Were Found Near the Corpse by the Officials. (American News Service) Albany. N. Y., Jan. 13 The five year old boy slain with poison and left in a swamp on a turnpike road near here was today identified by his grandfather and uncle as George Melber of Schenectady. A state-wide search for the mother of the child was immediately instituted. The boy's father, George Melber, a machinist, died at Schenectady a short time after the child was born. The mother had been boarding the little fellow at the children's home in Schenectady. Shortly before Christmas she took him for a visit to his grandparents. After the holidays she took the boy away again, ostensibly to return him to the children's home. The lad was never seen alive again. Pictures in newspapers of the murdered boy at tracted the relatives' attention. They came here from Schenectady today and at once identified the corpse. Find Valuable Clue. A woman whose name is wilitheld, told the police today that last Friday while in Lewis' Pharmacy she saw another woman and a little boy enter. The woman purchased some chocolates and a drug, supposed to have been carbolic acid. A label from the pharmacy was found on a bottle of carbolic acid discovered near the boy's dead body in the swamp and also a bag of chocolates similar to the kind sold by the druggist was found. The woman visited, the morgue today in an attempt to' identify the dead boy as the one 6he had seen with the unknown woman. HER TRUNK FOUND. Rochester, Jan. 13. The trunk of Mrs. Edith Melber was found at the station here today. The police are waiting to apprehend the owner. WILL MEETMOIIDAY Legislature Holds a Short Session Today. (American News Service) Indinanapolis, Jan. 13. Apparently deeming Friday, the thirteenth, unlucky, both houses of the legislature adjourned today till Monday, after a short session. A few bills were introduced. Senator Powers bill for a popular election of county superintendents was unfavorably reported by a majority of the committee and ditched in the senate, 28 to 20 after a warm debate. SEVEN BODIES ARE WASHED TO SHORE (American News Service) Bremerhaven, Jan. 13. Seven of the bodies of the twelve sailors who were drowned yesterday when the German steamer Maria Russ was sunk, off Nordenay Lightship, were washed ashore today. READY FOR WAVES American News Service Camden N. J, Jan. 13 At the local shipyard of the New York Shipbuilding Company, everything is in readiness for the launching tomorrow of the 26.000-ton battleship Arkansas, one of the largest warships in the world. Officials or the Navy Department at Washington and naval officers from New York, Annapolis. Philadelphia and. other points will be here to witness the event.
RESCUING PLOWS SENT TO Tl Stalled in the Mountains by Snows Passengers and Crews May Starve. Spokane, Wash., Jan 13. Facing almost certain starvation and possible death by freezing unless aid reaches them soon, firty passengers from Chicago and other Eastern points are held prisoners in a Great Northern train that is hemmed in by giant snow drifts in one of the highest passes of the Rocky Mountains. Imprisoned with the passengers, but unable to do much to relieve their plight, are nearly twenty train hands and railway postal clerks, the latter being on a mail train which is stalled a short distance from the "Oregonian limited," as the passenger is known on the train schedules. Four rotary snow plows were today sent to the aid of the stalled trains, two from each of the station nearest Fielding, Mont., to the East and West. The trains are near Fielding. None of the rotaries have been able to make any impression on the huge drifts. In fact, one of the westbound rotaries succeeded In getting about thirty miles from Havre, Mont., on its relief mission. It could go no further, and when an attempt was made to return it was found that the track wa3 also blocked. This rotary is still stuck In the snow. The two trains have been held In the drifts since Monday and the last word from either was received on Tuesday, when one of the crew of the i limited succeeded in reaching a tele graph box and establishing a connection with Havre. He reported that their food supply was running out, and there was no dining car on the train and that there was only a small quantity of fuel. The mail train has not I been heard from since Monday and the men on board are believed to be in a more desperate plight than their fellow prisoners on the passenger train. ENTERS JFiRSJ BILL Sen. Commons Has a Cemetery Measure. (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan. 13. Senator Commons of Wayne county introduced a bill Friday providing for the incorporation of cemetery associations voluntarily organized when the land has been dedicated for cemetery purposes. Trustees of an old cemetery near Whitewater have died and the organization has lost its perpetuity. FIERCE FIGHTING IS AGAIN RENEWED (American News Service) Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. Jan. 13. Reinforcements reached revolutionary general Bonilla at Ceiba, Honduras, today and his attack on that city was renewed, according to advices rereceived here. Fierce fighting was reported to be going on. Truxillo has been captured by the revolutionists and is being used as a base of operations.
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Photograph showing men at ' work chiseling the head of the mammoth Victor Emmanuel statue in Rome, which is at last, near completion, and the sabre of the statue, which is four teen feet long. Some idea of the size of the whole equestrian figure may be gained by the relative, proportion of the workingmeu and head. One of the most important events of the cele brating of the fiftieth anniversary of Italy's independence, which wi'.l be gin next April, will be the . inaugura tion of the summit of the Capitoline Hill, Rome, of the monument to Vic tor Emmanuel 11, which will rank as one of the wonders of the world. The great mounment in general is white marble, but this is only the setting for the gigantic bronze statue of the King, The dimensions of this wonderful piece of work are past belief. The sword alone weighs 350 pounds and Is 14 feet higli; thirty-five peaple have sat at luncheon within the body of the horse; the head of the figure with its helmet is eight feet high and weighs over two tons. The whole memorial has been over twenty years in building and every person in Italy from the King down to the poorest peasant has contributed to the fund. DRY SPELUS HEAR Cambridge City to Be Saloonless Soon. Cambridge City will be "dry" at midnight on February 7, this being the time when the license issued to Simeon Crockett expires. Seven days before the place conducted by Robert Wharton will close its doors. Jackson township was voted "dry" by blanket remonstrance last June. From February 7 to April 7 the only saloon n the township will be that operated by Mr. Sowers at East Germantown. This w ill be the first taste of absolute "dryness" so far as the legalized saloon is concerned, for Jackson township in over fifty years. In its earlier history more than twenty saloons were in operation in Cambridge City. AID FOR FAMILIES OF SLAIN FIREMEN (American News Sertlce) Chicago, 111.. Jan. 13. One of the greatest theatrical benefits ever seen in Chicago was given at the Auditorium Theater this . afternoon in aid of the $250,000 fund that is r being raised to aid "the families of the city firemen who met death in the stockyards fire on Dec. 22. Virtually all of the players now appearing in the city volunteered their services for the performance. Every seat in the big theater was sold early in the week.
Twenty-six Were Also Badly
Injured Early Today on the New York Central Road, at Batavia, N. Y. INDIANAPOLIS MAN IS SERIOUSLY HURT Accident Occurs at the Bata via Station Where the Special Was Discharging Its Passengers. (American Xows Service) A Batavia, N. Y., Jan. 13. Four, may- v be more, persons were killed and twenty-six Injured in a rear-end col- 4 lision on the New York Central rail- -road here early this morning. The Boston and Buffalo Special was dia- 5
charging passengers when the Westera Express telescoped two sleepers : and a passenger coach. The engine of the express turned over and rolled -along the track a hundred feet.
splashing boiling water over the pas- ' sengers hurled from the telescoped cars, then the wreckage caught lire, '. adding to the horror, many sustaining .,..
severe burns. The seriously Injured . are Val Valkenberg of Fultonville; '- Pullman Conductor Stiles; H. H. ' Cole, a passenger, address unknown; ' Monte Fiscus, an Indianapolis law- - yer; R. McFarland, a passenger of Detroit, and Michael Curtin of Batavia.
Four Bodies Found. Four badly mangled bodies were re- .; covered about noon from the wreck- , age, two being beneath the locomo- y' tive. One victim was Identified as C. CPerrln, general manager of a detectIve agency of New York City, The ; others are unlacognlzable and were clothed only In pajamas. The West- ' era Express was attempting to recov- , er lost time when it plunged Into-the-, Special standing at the - Batavia station. Superintendent Everitt . of the " New York Central said a hasty pre-' -liminary investigation , indicated the . ' responsibility falls on Engineer Liddell of Buffalo, who apparently disobeyed orders. Llddell had a perfect forty-year record with the road. - A dense fog prevailed. The latest indications are that only four were killed outright.
BILL LORIMER IS TO LOSE HIS JOB Canvass of the Senate Shows 33 Members Opposed ' to Blonde One. (American News Service) ' ; Washington, Jan. 13. That Senator Lorimer of Illinois is certain to lose his seat in the senate is indicated by a canvass of the senate today. It disclosed the fact that Lorimer can count . on only 33 votes when the test comes ( to decide whether or not he was law- ., fully elected. This would be a sufficient number to save him from expulsion, as a ', two- . thirds vote Is required to expel. At the same time it would insure passage by those opposed to him of a resolutlon declaring that he had not been ' legally elected to the senate. Of the f thirty-three votes which the , canvas gives to Lorimer, twenty-eight are Re " publicans and five Democrats. . FEARS FOR SANITY OF CZARINA FELT (American News Service) St. Petersburg, Jan. 13. Fears forthe sanity of the Czarina are entertained as a consequence of her serious " illness and all court fetes have been postponed indefinitely. Physicians from Moscow were today In consultstion with the court physicians and it was admitted that the Czarina's condition is very grave although no official statement was issued. The Czarina suffers from the hallucination that assassins are attempting the life of the Czarewltch and she can Only be quieted by being allowed to hold the boy In her arms. ' It Is said that she is also , suffering from paralysis of the lower limbs and that an operation may be . necessary. Palladium's Tctd Drily .Average Orcclrilca (Except 8aturday) Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending Jan. 6, 1011. 6,577 City ClixsIsSsa showing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does not include sample copies. ' 5,6411