Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 137, 26 March 1911 — Page 1

Tho Palladium Hats 1, OOP TJloro Circulation Than All the Other Papers In Richmond Combined

EICHMOM) PAIXABIUM T AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. Itt7. RICII3IOND, IXD., SUNDAY 3IORMNG, 3IAIIC1I 26, 191 i. SINGLE COri 3 CENTS.

THIRD PARTY HOW BEING TALKED OF IN 191? CAMPAIGN

Pm ..Taff- Woo .Nnt,-.nA.wAl-oped Very Strong Claims to Put Before the People Next Year. LAFOLLETTE IS TO SEEK NOMINATION Even Harmon, a Democrat, Is Mentioned as a Possibility to Head the Ticket of Insurgents. BY RODERICK CLIFFORD Washington. March 25. What will tho next two you rs produce for the Republicans, Democrat or Progressives, who are to bo tho Presidential nominees, and whether there Is to bo ft third party or not, uro questions that leading polltlolaiiH are asking as well an tho supporters of President Taft, who confidently lookH forward to hid renoniir.ntlon. Although President Tuft's udmlnlstratlon Is pronounced '(). K." In some circles, tho fart 1 1 1 1 romulns that he )8h not developed very strong claims to put before tho people In the coming rampitlgn to got votes for the Kcpubli-i can party. On tho Democratic side, it is pointed out, the Republicans will have to go before the people with tho same Isues as were presented In . the last campaign the high cost 'of living-, promises of tariff reform, and promises of greater tconotny In administering the affairs of the government. This situation, necessarily, has given strong Impetus to tho movement for a jUilrtfc party tU' PioviVslvts eomlNed of the nullcul of both tho Democratic and Republican ranks. To B Third Party. On the Republican side, President Taft will be selected lor rcnonilnatlon. On the Democratic side, leading politicians ray that Governors Wilson. Harmon, or Dix will receive the solid vote for the nomination The Progressives, led by Senators luFollctte Mnd Cummin, and Representative Norrls and others In the house, naturally look forward to controlling tho oles of the Progressive movement. Lafollettc, who is perhaps better known to tho country at large than Senator Cummins or Representative Norrls. has a largo following and. In all probability, would show considerable strength In tho convention. Ills silence during the past session of congress, until his brief talk on the LorInter case, caused a great deal of comment and Induced speculation as to whether he was not saving hla ammunition for a presidential campaign. Evidently following his lead, the Progressives as a whole In toth the senate and ' In the house of representatives refrained from publicly criticising, with several exceptions, the administration of President Taft throughout the entire session. All overtures made by the straight Republicans 'to the Progressives were cooly received and rejected. The Progressives, manifested a spirit of aloofness, and as good as served notice on the administration that Judgment would lie reserved until the administration demonstrated -srtch policies as would meet the requirements of the Progressives. Here Is a New One. The situation caused the Progressives to look around for presidential timber, and as the foremost leaders of this new doctrine are not the most acceptable to tho majority of the rank and file, a compromise candidate. It Is expected, will In all probability be selected. From indications, the nominee might very likely be Governor Judsoit Harmon, of Ohio, even If he is a Democrat. The Progressive Republicans are disinclined to fall Into line behind the leadership of President Taft, principally because of the passage of the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill. This bill never satisfied the Progressives of the Republican party. Try as the administration illd. it was not possible to secure the support of the Ingressives in the session of congress just closed. Tho Canadian reciprocity bill did not appeal to them. It was not even "all right as far as It went." for it did not go In the right direction. In their opinion. This attempt nt tariff revision was looked upon as a compromise, and did not strike at the heart of the evil as viewed by the Progressives. What they wanted and fought for was a reduction in the tariff on clothing, manufactured poods, on wire,, steel aid (Continued on Paso Eight) THE WEATHER TATE AND, LOCAL Partly cloudy, and probably ihowars

Figuring Prominently in the Mexican Revolution

MADERO HEARS OF REBELSUCCESSES Insurgent Forces ..Are Capturing Cities with Great Regularity Now. (American News Service) New York, March 23. Francisco Madero, Sr., and Gustavo, hla son, left New York today for San Antonio, Texas, where they will be v nearer Francisco I. Madero, provisional president of the insurrccto party. They showed the following telegram from Alfonso Madero, whom they will join in San 'Antonio: "Chllapa, in the state of Guerrero, a town of 2,000 was in the hands of the Insurgents. Zhauaripa, in the state of Sonora, Culiacan, the capital of the state of Sinaloa and Masatlan, the main port in the Pacific, of the state of Sinaloa. are menaced by insurrectos. OJinaga, opposite Presidio, Texas, is besieged and short of provisions. We expect its surrender very soon. Good news from the rest of the republic." Francisco Madero was visibly elated over the resignation of the Diaz cabinet, but cautious. "Its a little early to tejl just what It means," he said, "but It certainly is along the lines I prophesied. I look on it as the beginning of the end. but if you ask me what the end will be I do not know. Limantour is now In power, or soon will be. We must wait to see what he will do. "According as he falls or succeeds, will' the scales disappear." Madero would not say in so many words why they have changed their L base from New York to the border but they let U be known that they felt that events are so shaping themselves that their presence near the actual hostilities was needed. When Francisco Madero Sr.. first admitted he had been negotiating with Limantour he was careful to emphasize that he had no powers, to make terms, but that all negotiations must pass through tbe hands of the men In the field before they became operative. MADE A RASH VOW; HAIR 2 FEET LONG (American New Serrlce) Macon, Mo., March 25, Tom Robertson. 50 years old. who vowed in 1896 that he would not shave or have his hair cut until William Jennings Bryan was elected president, is dead as the result of a fall down a long flight of stairs last night. He had kept his vow and was looking forward to a Democratic triumph in 1912. His hair was two feet Ions.

Tbe international bridge between El Paso, Texas, and Jaurez, Mexico; tbe capltol at Jaurez, President Taft and President Diaz. The first meeting between these two executives . was on the international bridge about a year ago. VERDICT TO POSTAL In Long Litigation on the Pacific Coast. (American News Service) San Francisco, March 23. The court of appeals in California has rendered a decision sustaining the light of the Postal Telegraph-Cable company to condemn a right of way on the Southern Pacific railroad, and has denied the application of the Western Union Telegraph company for a writ of prohibition against such condemnation. This probably will terminate the ligitatlon which has been strenuously contested and has been going on for two of three years last past. The decision is considered a very important precedent bearing on similar condemnations in other parts of the country. LAST OF BRIBERY TRIALS CONCLUDED (American News Service) Springfield. III. March 25. With the acquittal of John Broderick, state senator from Chicago, of a charge of bribing former State Senator D. W. ! Holt slaw to vote for William Lorimer for United States senator, the last of the bribery trials in Sangamon county has been staged. Broderick is the tweens to be acquitted. The first was Lee O'Neill Brown, whose two trials took place in Chicago. It was reported at the state house today. that no further efforts will be made to the Lorimer Bcandal. ROOF WAS ABLAZE; DAMAGE IS SMALL The fire department was called to the corner of North Thirteenth and G streets last evening about ten o'clock to extinguish a small roof blaze on a house belonging to Henry Schell and occupied by Italians. Practically no damage was done.

INDIANA POLITICS TO BEjISCOSSED President Taft Has Called White House Meeting for This Week. (Palladium Special) Washington, March 25. President Taft has called a number of Indiana Republicans to meet in conclave at the White House next week, date not yet agreed on to confer over the federal offices in the state. James P. Goodrich, former state chairman, Harry S. New, Merrill Moores and other Republicans are to come by invitation to discuss what is best for the future of the party in that state. Ex-Senator Beveridge will " probably be invited and it Is possible that Hemenway and Watson may also be asked to participate. Joe Healing was at the White House again today and told the president that he ought to appoint Fred Sims, now that Merrill Moores has refused positively to accept or reject the appointment as tax commissioner of Indiana, made Thursday last. He prefers to be marshal for he is anxious to participate in the "reorganization" work in Indiana and the members of the old machine want him to take part in it. If Sims could be assured of the marshalsbip appointment he would decline the job as tax commissioner. President Taft told one of his callers recently that he would have appointed Sims marshal but for fear that Hemenway and his faction would immediately hail it as a restoration of themselves to political power in the state. That impression, the president believes would be hurtful to the interests of the party harmony. The president was much impressed by Fred Sims. The president has been ready at any time the opportunity offered to name Merrill Moores as United States attorney for Indiana to succeed Charles W. Miller. Healing, who don't like Miller suggested this change. Healing realized that the president liked Moores, who was his classmate at Yale, and the big chief thought this was the best method of getting his work in on Miller, for whom he has no liking. But Miller's term does not expire until after President Taft's term ends, and the president is unwilling to remove him. Elam Neal's unexpected attitude of refusing to resign presents no problem of inconvenience in official circles. . Neal has no fixed term and the president can name Neal's successor at any time.

3 MODERN FLAT NORTH 15TH ST, New Structures to Be Fin ished i Next ew monilis Will I Solve Problem of Hoirivi in Richmond. C. HENLEY TO ERECT BIG FLAT While Jonas Gaar Will Tear Down Part of the Historic Barracks for His Second Swell Apartment. Ilefore tho fall of this year there will be three modern flat buildings on North Fifteenth street1 comprising thirty-four apartments which will go a long way toward solving the house problem; which will increase in importance with the approach of spring when new life will be felt in all activities of the city. While authoritative information was not obtainable, yesterday, owing to the absence of the men who will erect the buildings from the city, there is every reason to believe that work on two of the structures will begin within a very short time. The third structure is now nearly complete, being the building of Jonas Gaar, located on the southwest corner of North Fifteenth and A streets. Authentic Report. It was reported yesterday in circles j which w ould seem to place the stamp of truth on the announcement, that Jonas Gaar had completed arrangements for the north half of the old barracks, extending on the east side of &orth ftnth; street fronxltllje al-' ley north of Main street to A street, and that they would soon be torn down to give way to a six apartment flat building. The report that M. C. Henley upon his return to this city shortly would at once start preparations for the construction of a sixteen apartment flat on the property at the northwest corner of North Fifteenth street and D streets. These two buildings, with the one that will soon be completed, would open up to renters thirty-four apartments. Such residential additions, it is predicted, would do much to relieve the congested conditions. Henley Flats Cheaper. The Henley flat, according to the announcement will be the largest in the city and of a size to compare favorably with the apartment dwellings of the larger cities. It will be designed along the latest lines and have all modern features but, it is said, will be constructed to rent for lesser amounts than the Gaar flats" which are of the finest quality in all particulars. The old barracks which will be torn down for the second Gaar flat were erected in 1876 by Charles W. Price, father of Charles Price of the ,C. T. Price and Sons confectionary store, and were the first buildings constructed on the Price addition to the city of Richmond which extended from Fourteenth to Sixteenth street and from Main street to North D street. Writh their destruction there passes one of the old landmarks of the city. With thirty-four apartments within three squares, Richmond will has a condition that it is doubtful can be equalled by many other cities its size. A MANIAC MURDERS A DEPUTY SHERIFF (American News Service) Des Moines, la., March 25. Deputy Sheriff Clarence Wohman, of Council Bluffs, was murdered bv H. C. Kellv, . .t . a maniac, wnoni be wa3 taking to toe Knoxville. Ia., asylum, in the Kirkwood hotel today. After shooting down ! the deputy Kelly escaped from the hotel, and entered a saloon a few blocks away demanding a drink. When the bartender refused to serve him Kelly pulled a revolver and shot the barkeeper, dead. He evaded a mob of pursuers who were intent on lynching and was rescued by the authorities and lodged in jail. AUSTRIA ENTERS AN ORDER FOR CANNON (American News Service) Vienna. March 25. An order for 12 new 12-inch guns similar to those to be fitted in tbe Austrian Dreadnaugnt has been placed with tbe Skoda works at Pilsen. The new guns are intended for the battleships Erzherzog Karl, Erzherzog Friendrich and Erzherzog Ferdinand Max. The last of these 10,600 ton ships was completed in 1907." All three are now to be modernized and refitted with turrets with four large guns each at a total cost Of $3,290.000.,

BUILDINGS

Blaze in Factory Building in New York Lale Yesterday

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SCORES LEAP FROM WINDOWS

Fire Started on the Seventh Floor and the Women Em

ployes Became Blind with Frenzied Fear

(American News Service) New York, March 25. One hundred and twenty-five dead bodies have been already recovered from the factory building at Greene street and Washington Place, which was destroyed by fire late this afternoon. Th police and firemen expect the number of dead will reach well over one hundred and fifty. Practically all the killed were young women and girls. The firs started at 4:20 o'clock on the seventh floor of the building and within a few minutes scenes of tragedy were enacted that caused the awe-stricken throngs that gathered to watch 4he flames to turn away and flee. It was not a holocaust, but a tragedy of panic. Fifteen hundred people working in the building within two minutes after the fire started became a terror-blind and fear crazed throng that could not find what few means of escape there were. JUMP OUT OF THE WINDOW. , - Many victims were killed by jumping from the windows as high as -the tenth floor. Girls employed by the Triangle Shirt Waist company on the ninth and tenth floors jumped from window by fives and sixes.' Police and firemen stretched their life nets, but the, women fell into them in such numbers that their csmbined weight broke the net. - - In the midst of the panic was also heroism.. James Zi to, elevator " man, made three, trips .through the smoke and-.-ftme "-imdw was bruised and beaten by his terrified passengers. And there was a little office boy, known only as Solly, who from the human maelstrom on the top floor led twenty girls to safety over the roofs. The calamity was due, according to Chief Croker, to a lack of fir escapes. The fire spread with amazing rapidity, burning upwards from the seventh floor.. Zito discovered the flames and ran his car to the upper floors where he found a fighting crush of girls. When he got to the ground he told another employe to turn in an alarm. Three alarms were sent in promptly. Police reserves from all stations were drafted to take charge of the crowds. Ambulance calls brought almost every ve hide from five hospitals, but the injured were sadly few. NEVER-TO-BE-FORGOTTEN SCENES. The scene that presented itself with the arrival of the doctors from the various hospitals was one never-to-be-forgotten. Forty-two bodies were lying in the streets. Surgeons went from one to the other as rap idly as possible. If there was a spark of life left, the sufferer was glv en to the care of the ambulance driver with instructions to hurry to the nearest hospital. The destroyed building was used by several firms, shirtwaists and celluloid articles being the things manufactured. Up to 10:15 p. m., 125 bodies had been recovered. The number of the dead will probably reach 150. The police report 75 injured.-

JAP TR00PSM0VING Into Manchurjia, Ready for China-Russian War. (American News Service) Tokio, Marhc 25. The purchase of large amounts of war supplies by the Japanese government is explained by the fact that Japan is preparing to throw a great force of troops into Manchuria in anticipation of war between Russia and China. It was learned here today that the government has quietly been reconstructing its transport facilities. These troops will be sent ostensibly to police the southern Manchurian railroad that is controlled by Japan fcnd which enters southern Manchuria. Private cablegrams Teceived today I from Pekin state that the relations bej tween China and Russia have grown so ominous that the mobilization of j sold!eJs in Mongolia and Western I Manchuria is looked for at anv time. Final Ultimatum. Pekin, March 25. Russia's final ultimatum to China was presented the foreign board today by M. Korstovetz the Czar's minister to Pekin. It declares that China must comply with all the terms of the treaty of 1SS1 and subsequent commercial demands of Russia without further delay. HE CUT THROAT OF WIFE AND SUICIDES (American News Service) Littleton, Colo., March 23. The bodies of Mrs. Florence Herbel and her husband were" found with their throats cut from ear to ear in a local rooming house just before noon today. Mrs. Herbel had been in . Littleton some time, while her husband did not arrive until 10 o'clock this morning, coming from Portland, Oregon. He Induced his wife to go to a rooming house. It is believed he murdered her and then cut his own throat because she refused to become reconciled to him,, ,

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SHIPPIIGJS POOR Many Empty Cars Mute Evidence of This Fact. One hundred and fifty empty freight cars standing idle on a siding between Centerville and Pennvllle on the Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania are evideces of slack business. "The empty freight cars can mean only one thing, railroad men say poor business conditions, consequently little shipping. The spring should, according to railroad men, be one of the best shipping seasons of the year. ; Notwithstaning this fact Richmond factories are running with full forces and some of them overtime. The bad shipping conditions are not local, however, business and railroad men say.' Switches filled with empty cars are common over this section of the country, especially In some of the larger cities. There is no demand for cars. Shipping is at a standstill. JACOB GONLY HAS A LEG FRACTURED Jacob W. Gonly, about whom little can be learned, was taken to th Reld Memorial hospital this afternoon suffering from a broken leg. He was removed in the city ambulance from North Twenty-first and E streets. His condition is not serious. Palladium's Total Daily Average Circulation (Except Saturday) trct'tdlns Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending March 25, 1911. 6,850 City Grcolaltoa showing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does oot Inclti'- "ample copies. 5fSS8