Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 78, 26 January 1911 — Page 1

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Executive Committee for the State Meeting of Veterans and Kindred Organizations Names Aids.

A COMPLETE STAFF OF WORKERS CHOSEN Work in Connection with the Big Local Event Will Be Divided Among Sixteen Sub-committees. Affairs of the 'O. A. ' IV. Sons of Veteran, and allied women's organiza tions encampments to be held here In May wero given a decided Impetus at meeting of the eiecutlve committco having the event In charge, yesterday when sixteen subcommittees were or ganised, one member being named on each committee by each of the four organlsatlona represented In the execu tive committee, the Commercial club, the Young Men's Business club, the 0. A. R., and the Sons of Veterans. There was an extensive discussion re gardlns; the details of the work and the general olan of the encampment Alt the committeemen expressed themselves as determined to make the af'fair one of the most pretentious and auspicious of Us kind ever held iu the state. One of the moBt Important actions of the meeting was the appointment of Denial 8. fcoe as a committee of one to prepare a souvenir program for the event, containing a brief historical sketch of Wayne county; biographical ketches of prominent men, dead and living, who took part In the civil war; inscriptions of various institutions of the city, and a large number of views of interesting sites. No advertising of any nature will be placed In the program, and it Is planned to make it as artistic and attractive as pos sible. To Boost Richmond. The purpose of Its publication-Is to boost Richmond. ' It will be printed on a fine quality of paper and of poc ket else. The expense will be defray ed from the encampment funds and from the receipts of the program. amall charge to be made - for each copy. Plans for the press and advertising committee to pursue in placing the en campment before the eyes of the peo ple over tho entire state were talked of. It was suggested that a number of souvenir post cards bearing the slogan "On to Richmond," be printed and extensively distributed. The slogan was the one used In the civil, war with reference to Richmond, Va., and It is belcved it will prove catching es pectaily to the ears of the old soldiers and tend greatly to arouse their en thuslasm and Interest. The slogan was used in connection with the state encampment held here fourteen years ago and at that time proved a great success. Advertising Methods. The advertising committee will be expected to establish a press bureau and to prepare and distribute news ' stories about tho encampment to newspapers over the state; also to have the event advertised in other ways. Next Tuesday afternoon the members of the executive committee and the chairmen of the sub-committees will meet In the Commercial club rooms with Commander Asbury of tho Indiana Department of the O. A. R.. and the state heads of the Sons of Veterans. Women's Relief Corps, Ladles of the O. A. R., and Ladles Auxiliary of the Sons of Veterans. A further general outline of the encampment will be made at that time. The sixteen sub-committees are as follows: Finance Committee Ed II. Harris, William Seeker, If. J. Manes, Everett Lemon, Frank Taylor and John Marklcy. Press and Advertising Ramsey Pouadstone, Roy Compton. Raymond Wehrley and Michael Griffin. Program and Camp Fires E. M. Haas, W. II. Ilansche, Judge Henry C Fox and F. I Torrence. Public Order Alex Gormon, Albert llandley, John C. Darnell and Frederick Battel. Information Bureaus Charles W. Jordan, W. J. Bobbins. Albert Morel and Allen Graves. Music Frank I. Braffett. Lee B. Nusbaum. Harry Stllllnger and Joseph It. Smith. Illumination Nlmrod Johnson, F. E. Schornsteln, Charles Davis and Charles Marlatt (Continued on Page Eight) THE WEATHER TATI ftaln tonight, Friday rain In South portion, rain or snow In North portion, colder Friday. LOCAL Rain tonight and Friday; rain or snow; colder Friday after . noon or night.

Lady Violet Manners, whose wedding to Hugo Charteris will take place at Westminster on February 1. Lady Violet is the second of the three attractive daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, who succeeded to the Impoverished duchy in 1906. Charteris is also poor, but he is considered one of the most desirable of the young husbands in England as his father is the aged Earl of Wemyes, a title which he will soon inherit, and his eldest sister married Premier Asquith's son; - Herbert,' which gives him great political possibilities. "

TELLS OF GAS CASE DELAYS Awaits Action of Legislature on Public Utilities Commission Act. The case of the city of Richmond versus the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company, filed last November in Wayne circuit court to enjoin the company from making connections between its mains and those of the old Richmond Natural. Gas company, and enjoining the company from using the natural gas pipes for distributing artificial gas, is. being delayed, pending the action to be taken by the state legislature on a bill providing for a public utilities commission for Indiana; at least. that is what city attorney A. M. Gardner says. Some attorneys say the case will never be brought to trial. No date has yet been set by the court for a hearing of the case. The complaint against the company was filed last November, but up to this time not even the issues In the case have been made up. Attorney Gardner says these will be prepared within the next few months. Provisions of the Bill. Attorney Gardner is of the opinion It will be best for the city to wait until the legislature has taken some action regarding the creation of a public utilities commission. Gardner says this would take the matter out of the hands of the city entirely, complete power to regulate public service corporations being vested in the utilities commission. The commission also would have the power to regulate the issuance of bonds, dictate the capital stock and could' approve or disapprove franchises granted by any municipality. Notwithstanding Attorney Gardner's views other officials and corporation authorities in Richmond take an en tirely different stand regarding com missioners of any kind in regulating city governments. Some of the city officials are not in favor of the proposed commission, although they admit it may have its good features. The gas question has caused a great deal of comment in Richmond. Mayor Zimmerman, leading a squad of policemen, arrested employes of the gas company last fall when they attempted to connect the mains of the Light, Heat and Power company with those of the old Richmond Natural Gas company. The employes were lodged in Jail for a few hours, but released after a conference of city and company representatives. - The case was then filed in circuit court and the ' company immediately made connections. Since that time the L. H. & P has been furnishing gas in. Richmond through the old natural gas mains.

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MAKES HOUSE SENSATION Wants to Know Cause of Delay on the BallingerPinchot Report. ( American News Service) Washington, Jan. 26. Excitement prevailed In the house today when Representative Hitchcock of Nebras ka presented a resolution, which passed, directing the committee on rules to investigate and report within one week where the responsibility rests for the delay in action on the joint committee's report on the BallingerPinchot Investigation. The resolution declares that on December 7, last the house received from the joint committee three re ports; that there was unexplained de lay, mystery and confusion in refer ring the reports to the committee on agriculture, which reference was not made until December 18, and the reports were not received until January 25. The reports during that time were not on the speaker's desk or in the hands of the committee on agriculture. The resolution stated that there were irregular proceedings and that the dignity of the house demanded that the matter be explained. Speaker Cannon replied warmly, resenting the implied criUcism that he was responsible for the delay. lie told of the crowded condition of the speaker's desk, and the impossibility for him to follow all reports. He said he thought it singular that Hitchcock had delayed his resolution so long. Ollie James of Kentucky replied to the speaker and attacked the dilatory methods that some times occur In presenting matters to the committee. He said that the matter was one of public interest and should have been- attended to long ago. YARUNG FISH BILL BEATEN IN SENATE (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan,. 26. Senator Tarling's bill to permit the seining and spearing of fish between June 15 and November 1 was voted down In the senate Wednesday afternoon, but the senator from Shelbyville is net discouraged and he will again seek to have his idea enacted into law by starting it through the house in a slighUy different form. Rep. Billman, also of Shelbyville, will introduce the bill in the house. So strong is the sentiment in favor of such a law among their cocsUtuents that Senator Yarling and Rep. Billman are afraid to return home without exhausting every effort to have the bill passed. Under a suspension of the , rules, asked for by Senator Fleming of Ft. Wayne the senate passed the bill providing for appropriating $100,000 to pay off the state fair ground stock pavilion bonds. Senator Fleming asked to have the bill rushed through in order that the payment might be made by Feb. L v

HITCHCOCK

Reported at 9 O'cldck This

Morning They Could Not Agree and the Court Sent Them Back. COURT HOUSE USED AS SLEEPING PLACE Many Spectators Slept on Floors, Rolled in Blankets Gamblers Make Bets on the Verdict. (American News Service , . ' Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 26. The Schenk jury is in a deadlock over the question of the guilt or innocence of Mrs. Laura Farnswortli Schenk, ac cused of trying to poison her million aire husband, John O. Schenk. The jury reported to Judge Jordan this morning that they had failed to arrive at a verdict and were sent back "for further deliberation. At noon no decision had been reached. Thjere was a great deal of excitement among those in the courtroom and those gathered about the court house when the police patrol wagon. containing the jurors, dashed up to the court house entrance at a few minutes before 9 o'clock from tlie Stamm House, where they had Bpent the night. It was learned that the jurors bad wrangled all night and some cf them showed traces of having had little sleep. . Juror Aeks Question. Wlien the foreman reported that the twelve men had not reached a verdict. Juror Heymann arose and told the court that he was. In doubt and would like to ask a question. "Put it in writing," said Judge Jordan.' K y-iw-,,,.tf It wras reported. . about, the court house that the jury stood 11 "to 1 for acquittal and that Juror Heyrnann wa3 the man who was holding out against Mrs. Schenk. Heymann wrote something on a piece of paper , and it was passed up to the court. Mrs. Schenk arrived in court haggard and pale. After the jury had reported that It was unabie to agree the defendant was asked what, she intended to do. it she was freed. "I have no plans made as yet," she replied. "I must wait for the verdict. I do not know what I shall do or where I shall go." v Mrs. Schenk . showed the effect of a sleepless night In her cell. She had tossed restlessly upon her bed and called the names of her children in a delirium. She wept hysterically at times and the jail physician had to attend her. until .long after midnight. The corridor of the - Ohio . county qpurt house was jammed long before daybreak by an army of men and women who surged about the doors of the criminal court room, fighting with each other to get vantage positions near the. doors so that they might enter .as soon as they were unlocked. Some of. the men had spent the night in . the court house, having brought blankets and quilts with them last night. At dawn the halls were Ailed with the cocoon like figures of human beings rolled up in blankets and sleeping upon the tiled floors of the hallways. .... Paid for Their Places. Some of these sleepers had been paid by others to keep places for them. One man wedged near the" door said he was going to get five dollars for his seat "when he got into the room. v A detachment of police and deputy sheriffs nabbed the man and cleared the corridors, but the would-be spectators put up a sturdy fight against ejectment; "Hand-book men went among the crowds laying odds on the verdict. By the time court opened a mob outside the jail and court room has increased in size until the police and deputies had a hard struggle In defending the entrances - of the court house. "PARIS" THE TITLE OF HILL'S LECTURE E. G. Hill, the well known florist, will lecture on the subject of "Paris" Friday evening at the Earlham Heights Presbyterian church. He will illustrate it with stereopticon views. BOMB IS EXPLODED; PANIC IN TENEMENT (American Xews Service) New York, Jan. 26. Scores of persons in the tenement house at 544 East -Third street were thrown into a panic today when a bomb, believed to have been left by blackmailers, exploded In the basement. After the detonation, occupants of

the house began stampeding to the city last evening talking over Chaustreet and several of them were cut I tauqua affairs with those interested in and bruised !a the rash. jthe project here, i

Indiana Supreme Court Af

firms Verdict of Wayne Court on Very Important Medical Case. MORE PROSECUTION APPEARS POSSIBLE Defendant Gave .Treatments at Local Sanitarium by. the Process of Laying on of the Hands. I . Affirmation was pronounced by the Indiana supreme court to the verdict of the Wayne circuit court in the case of the state against Li da W. Hazlitt, which Mrs. Hazlitt appealed after being found guilty and fined $25 and costs for practicing medicine without a license. The judgment of the su preme court will be of general interest in the county and state inasmuch as the medical profession not only here but elsewhere in the state was severe in, its denunciation of the alleged practice of Mrs. Hazlitt and took a prominent part in her prosecution. The case arose as the result of the death of a girl by the name of Mays, of New Castle, who suffered from tuberculosis and was treated at tho Metaphysical Institute, which the defendant conducted on North West Fifth street, and is said to be operating yet. R. K. Shiveley, deputy prosecuting attorney, stated on Thursday upon learning of the supreme court's ruling that other charges of a similar nature undoubtedly would be preferred against Mrs. Hazlitt, if the state could obtain tne required, informa tion. - No Medicine Was Used. Whether the practice of treating patients as Mrs. Hazlitt averred she pursued,- was contrary to the state medical laws was a question in which much interest was taken. She stated on the witness stand that her method of procedure was by invoking the div ine aid of God and the laying on and taking off of hands. She did not resort to medicine. That her treatment had been beneficial or, at least, has attracted attention in evinced by the number of patients whom she has had. It is understood that her sanitarium on West Fifth street has been well , """ but also since. Inklings of the alleged violations of the state law by Mrs. Hazlitt came to the attention of the medical profession here, but they were handicapped in securing evidence for some time it is said. When the Mays girl was sent to the institution from New Castle by her parents she was suffering from tuber culosis. After her death, her parents. who held considerable animosity towards the proprietor of the institution gave the p.uthorities, including exCoroner Bramkamp, information on which the state based its prosecution. Assisting prosecuting attorney Chas. Ladd were R. K. Shiveley, his deputy, and James Gavin, of the Arm of Gavin & Gavin of Indianapolis, the latter representatives of the state board of medical registration. Mrs. Hazlitt retained Robbins & Robbins and W. A. Bond of this city. After two days trial the jury received the case and returned a verdict of guilty, assessing a fine of $25 and costs. Soon afterwards Mrs. Hazlitt appealed to the supreme court of the state. The Wayne circuit court's verdict was returned on November 17, 1909. ANNUAL ELECTION AND BANQUET HELD At the annual banquet of the brotherhood of the First M. E. church on Wednesday evening officers were elected for the ensuing year, including W. P. O'Neal, president. Rev. Henry Luring, chaplain, W. O. Wilson, treasurer, and A. P. Hunt, secretary. The program rendered during the evening consisted of several toasts of an informal nature, among those responding being President R. L. Kelly of Earlham college, Herbert Weed, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., the Rev. Thomas Guild, presiding elder of the Richmond district of the Northern Indiana M. E. conference, and others. The retiring president of the brotherhood, S. H. Jones, acted as toastmaster. WILL PLAN PROGRAM FOR CHAUTAUQUA The program committee of the Chautauqua association will meet in the Commercial Club rooms this evening for the purpose of discussing. proposed talent and accepting that upon which an option has already been secured. It is hoped to make the program this year the strongest of any Chautauqua so far held, and as cosmopolitan as possible so that all tastes . may be pleased. James H. Shaw, former manager of the Richmond Chautauqna, was in the

The .three. last presidents of the United States Steel Corporation. From top to bottom are: Frank A, Farrell the newly appointed President: Wil liam E. Corey, who preceded . Farrell in that, position, .and .Charles A M, Schwab, who was the first .president of the . trust. . Schwab was,', chosen jof 39;. William E. Corey succeeded him as president in 1903 at 37; James A. Farrell who was chosen as the new executive is 48 Mr. Farrell was born in New Haven in 1863 and served his novlate .in the steel business there. When twentyfive years of age he went to Pittsburg as assistant superintendent of the Oliver Iron and Steel Company. In 1903 he was asked to come to New York and organize the United States Steel iProducts Company of which he was preRident and which position he has held UD to nia nrfiSftnt nnnfntmnf j Charles M. Schwab, the first president of the trust, started a o o.m.n n a country store at $5 a week. JUST LIKE A CAT Hord Claim Comes Back to Senate. ' (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan. 26. Into the parsimonious Indiana legislature has come a cry. for moneV. clear from 28 Liberty street, New "York." The old "Hord claim", has come back to haunt the senate. William B.'Hord, attorney, New .York,, says Indiana owes hini $63,585 for services ? rendered the State, in the successful prosecution and collection of its war loan refund claim against the . United : States in the sum of $635,859.20. .' Hord worked on a 10 . per cent commission oasis. The "Hord committee' of the senate, appointed 'in the last session, consists of Senators Fleming, Higgins. Proctor and Durre, -who , met .Wednesday afternoon. They reviewed a few court decisions but came to no conclusions. The supreme court decided the attorney general made, a contract with Hord which ran beyond the attorney general's term, and that this was Illegal, and hence Hord got not his hoard. A special act of the-legislature would be required to pay it. M. E. CONFERENCE HELD NEXT APRIL The Northern Indiana M. E. confer ence will be held at Kokomo on April 5 and will be presided over by Bishop Hughes, former president of De Pauw university. The Rev. Thomas M. Guild presiding elder of the Richmond district, stated on Thursday he did not know of any important matters, effecting the Richmond or Wayne county Methodists which would be consid ered at the conference. Indications t are that the pastors of the Methodist churches in this city will not be assigned to other pastorates in the district.

Mayor, Chief of Police, Board

of Works and. Council . Each Plead Not Guilty of the New Act. - - - FARMERS ARE TO BE GIVEN, PROTECTION Chief Orders that Farmers Shall Be Given Ample .Warning Talk of Amendments Being Heard. Who is responsible for the right and " left traffic ordinance? Is it the Major, Chief Gormon. the Board of Works, or the City Council? Is the father of this very troublesome ordinance ashamed to claim it? : 1 These questions are being asked to-1 day. Mayor Zimmerman says, "Why it isn't my fault. Council passed the ordinance and I had only to enforce it. I didn't ask them to pass it." President Hammond of the board,. said, "Oh yes, it is a fine thing, but oh. heavens no, it didn't originate in the board of works. We did not advises its passage." Fine thing," said Superintendent Gormon of the police department. but I didn't ask council to pass It. It wasn't done on my advice; It's ' just an addition to the work of our department." Councilman Bartel Talks, Council was represented at the city hall by W. II. Bartel, who declared that council could not be held responsi ble for the ordinance. He supposed, the board and Chief Gormon knew what they were doing when they recommended it, as he alleges they did. Reporters scratched their heads and ' tried to "uncover", the "father of the ordinance" but It was a fruitless task. Everyone plead not guilty. Not only private citizens are kicking on the new ordinance but city em-,. ployes claim it is "hitting" them also. D. C, Genn, street commissioner, claims that he may have put on two cr three new wagons on account of the ordinance. Formerly traBh ' wa gons could seesaw back and forth over the streets; now they have to turn frequently around a dozen times In a : square. Wagons and Equipment cost about $5 per day. Superintendent Nlmrod Johnson of the municipal light plant, Bays it will . cause his men, who are renewing carbons in electric lights, a gread deal of trouble and loss of time. Clerk Baits t Bescher believes the ordinance foolish for a town of Richmond's size. - Mayor Zimmerman told Councilman Bartel this morning, that if coun- . cil passed an ordinance refunding money to those fined, he would not fine another person for violating the traffic ordinance. As the money received from fines all goes in the city general fund, it may be legal to refund the. fines, according to the councllmen. . Amendment Favored. City Attorney Gardner, while not expressing a definite opinion on tho new ordinance says he thinks it would be advisable to amend the bill to make it effective only on - the principal business streets. So far no one has been fined for violations i on any, streets except those in the principal districts and it is probable, from a statement of the superintendent of po lice, that no arrests wil be made except on these thoroughfares. Regarding the farmers, , Chief Gormon has issued an order that none of them shall be arrested except after having been repeatedly warned. Therefore officials believe that there can be no complaint from this source. , Eliza Ribkee, 19, was fined 11 and costs by the Mayor this morning for. violating the new ordinance on Fort Wayne avenue. He entered a plea of guilty. REGARD FAVORABLY STOTSENBERG BILL (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan. 26. With amendment of the term from five to two years, the senate committee on education Wednesday passed favorably upon the Stotsenberg bill, which provides for the election of five school . trustees in cities and towns, at least two to be women. The passage of the bill would mean a radical departure from custom In school matters. It would be possible to elect a school board composed entirely of women. - Palladium's Total Daily Average Circulation Except 8aturday) Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending Jan. 21, 191L CHy Circalzlioa showing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does sot Include sample copies. S,6GO