Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 175, 3 May 1911 — Page 1

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Olreulatiion Than All the Other Papers On Richmond Gomblnod EOTCIOAL m' MOOT). FittlLABIUM BUSIHESS amcE PCOHE 25G3 Z?AHTiiEiiT ?n:n 1121 AND SUN-TEIiEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 175. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING. 31 AY 3, 1911. SINGLE COPY CENTS.

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DAUQUET HELD BY . COMMERCIAL CLUB , A GREATJUCCESS An Excellent List of Speakr crs Responded to Toasts and the Menu Was an Appetizing One.

FAIRBANKS TALKED ABOUT THE ORIENT Former Vice President Declared Japanese War Talk Was Absurd Wit and Wisdom Both on Tap. Toasts of the variety that make a lasting Impression because of the force of their Ideas which also Intermingled with wit and humor, combined with splendid and well served menu, made the annual banquet of the Richmond Commercial club, held In the Y. M. C. A. last evening, a highly entertaining and enjoyable event that seemed to surpass all past efforts of the club of a like nature. Richmond business men of all classes to the approximate number of 200 sat down at the banquet tables,, ate heartily of the food that was spread before them so efficiently by the Ladies Auxiliary, laughed long at the good stories told, were benefited by the serious strain of the speakers' talks and left unreservedly pronouncing the affair the "best ever." It was probably the best array of speakers ever to grace a banquet ta ble at a public function In Richmond, and this fact together with the appetizing menu, was no doubt responsible for the praise of those who attended. All of the speakers were roundly applauded. Former Vice President Charles War ren Fairbanks, delivered the principal address of tho evening, although lie was closely 'pressed for honors by John L. ? Zimmerman, of Springfield, Ohio, at, one time Democratic candidate for governor of the Buckeye state. '. ' Japan Not an Enemy. "Japan Is not the enemy of the United 8tates, yellow Journalism -to the contrary, notwithstanding," exclaimed the former presiding officer of the United 8tates senate in discussing that country in his toast on the "Orient." "The . most subtle enemy of this country," continued Mr. Fairbanks, "is not Japan, but yellow Journalism Itself. Whoever makes the claim that war Is Imminent with Japan does it through Ignorance, or If not through Ignorance, through some other motive unworthy of a patriotic citizen, and whoever says that there is Immediate danger of war between" the 'United States and any nation is a traitor to America." Mr. Fairbanks said that his sojourn In the Orient on his trip around the world at the close of his term as vicepresident hr.d disclosed nothing more positive than that the most friendly relations exist between Japan and this country. All of bis speech on the Orient was based upon facts that presented themselves to him during his stay there. A Great Awakening. There Is a great awakening taking place In the Orient according to Mr. Fairbanks, and he pointed out the recent history of Japan In Illustration, lie referred to the wonderful progress that had been made along commercial and Industrial lines since the country was opened up by Commodore Perry In 1854, and pointed out the fact that forty-live millions of the little yellow men were able to conquer In war one hundred and fifty millions of Russians and four hundred millions of Chinese within period of ten years, saying that In Itself should make Japan worthy of some recognition. The speaker traced at length the his tory of China, laying particular stress upon the remarkable developments In the industrial life of that country In the last few years. He called attention to the establishment of steel mills, building of railroads and other similar enterprises. "The wakening of the Orient In the nal analysis," declared Mr. Fairbanks, "is coming through the work of the missionaries and through the In..fluence of Christian nations." Just "A Pew Knocks." "A Few Knocks" was the title or the toast responded to by 8. S. Strattan. Jr., but the toast master. John 1 Rupe, assured the banqueters that Mr. (Continued on Page Eight) THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight Thursday increasing cloudiness followed by showers. HIO HSCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Highest temperature Tuesday. 45 degrees at 6 p. ni. Ijuwrat temperature Wednesday, 33 degrees at 6 a. m. Temperature at lt:30 n ui. today. S3 and rising. Barometer Is high and falling. Weather . warmer and fair, gradually becoming cloudy. High barometric pressure Indicates fair weather but cooler; low barometric pressure Indicates warm weather but rain.

Five Notable

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COLLEGE TURNED IIITO HflEIIAGERIE Panic Stricken Dean and Girls Flee from Animals Flocking to Ark. Chicago, May 3. Bedlam that broke loose In the girl's dormitory at Wheaton college has put every boy in the village under suspicion. College au thorities are moving heaven and earth to discover the Identity of the troublemakers. Cats and dogs ran riot in the place at the spooky hour of midnight. At that time girls were thrown into a panic and several all but developed nervous prostration. Miss Florence B. Murray, dean of the dormitory, received the full force of. the invasion. She beard a window being raised and went.1 to investigate without the precaution of turning on a light. Just Aa sho reached the window a pair of black cats were hurled In from the outside. Two dogs, with tin cans attached, to their tails, came after. Several hens, pigeons, and ducks followed, and last of all a turkey was thrown through the window. The dean, by this time, was in full flight. As the cats fled, the dogs, forgetting the cans on their tails, pursued them, and the din created soon bad all the girls out In the halls or in semi-hysterics in their rooms. Miss Murray, quick to recover her presence of mind, went in pursuit of the fowls, and the first girls in the hall saw her overtake one of the hens which she dropped out of the window through which it had entered. All the fowls were soon captured and the dogs, which had been running through all the hallways, were cornered and driven out by Miss Olive Strawn and Miss Elizabeth Scherbience. All the cats were not found and driven out until Sunday. No clew to the identity of the boys guilty of the affair has been found. NO SALOON RATIO FOR HARRISON CO. (American News Service) Corydon, May 3. Harrison county commissioners have rescinded the saloon ratio of one to S00 Inhabitants fixed In March. No limit now prevails. This said to be a precedent under the Proctor law. TUBERCULOSIS WAR Cows and Hogs and Man. BY PRESIDENT TAFT. We have an agricultural department and we are spending $14,000.000 or $15,000,000 a year to tell the farmers by the results of our research how they ought to treat the soil and -how they ought to treat the hogs and how they ought to treat the cattle and the horses .with a view to having good hogs, and good cattle and good horses. There is nothing in the constitution especially about hogs or cattle or horses, and If out of the public treasury at Washington we can establish a department for that purpose it does not seem to be a long step or a stretch of logic to say that we have the power to spend the money In a bureau of research to tell how we can develop good men and good women. Some of our enthusiastic conservators of national, resources have calculated how much the life of each man and each woman in the community is worth to that community. I do not think It necessary to resort to that tnancial calculation in order td justify the saving of human life, such as can be accomplished by the results of research and advice that will proceed from a properly established bureau of health.

Men at the Peace Congress

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Five notable men who are attending the Third National Peace congress, which met in Baltimore, Md., today. At the top on the left is Dr. Albert Shaw, publicist, lecturer and editor of the Review of Reviews; and next to him the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott The large picture on the right, is of President William Howard . Taft; on his left is Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, and at the bottom is Andrew Carnegie. A TRUST BUSTING CAMPAO STARTS Resolutions to Probe Big Concerns Flood the Lower House Today. (American News Service) Washington, May 3. The house started today, on a trust busting .program that -will rival any ever attempted by the Department of Justice. Committee on Rules favorably reported the Stanley resolution providing for an investigation of the steel trust and its alleged affiliations with the railroads, coal companies and banks. Hardwick of Georgia, member of the Rules committee, at the same time introduced ' a resolution demanding an investigation of the sugar trust. Francis of Ohio, also Introduced resolution demanding an investigation of the American Wool company of Boston, which, he charges, controls the price of wool. Following the example set by the Stanley resolution it is expected the house will report out the Hardwick and Francis resolutions and that within ten days a probe of three of the largest trusts in the country will begin. Before proceeding withe the debate on the free list bill, the house passed a resolution reported by the naval affairs committee requesting Secretary Meyer to furnish information as to shoe contracts made by the navy department. The resolution is intended to clear up charges made on the floor by Difedieffor of Pennsylvania, to the effect that Hermann and Camp of Boston, have a monopoly of shoe contracts with the navy department. Representative Weeks of Massachusetts, had a dozen pair of shoes with him. which he used in illustrating. why shoes should not be placed on the free list. TO PROBEJLECTIOII Senate Committee Votes to Reopen Lorimer Case." (American News Service) . Washington, May 3. The . senate committee decided today to favorably report the La Follette resolution to investigate the election of 'Senator Lorimer. The vote was 3 to 2. Bristow. Williams and Clarke of Arkansas voted 'in favor2 of it, and Bri'ggs and Dillingham were against it Bristow is a Republican insurgent. Williams and Clarke are Democrats, and Briggs and Dillingham are Republicans.

TWO PARADES HAVE

CLASH HERE TODAY Small Boys Had Hard Time Picking Which One to Be Rear Guard For. Men and women are only boys and girls grown tall, a wise man said. Hun dreds of people waited most of this morning along the streets chosen for the Gentry circus parade. There were old timers standing on street corners this morning who have not missed a parade' since' 1853. There were youngsters who will not miss a circus parade until 1953 perhaps. There were old boys who took occasion to tell every one, by heck, when they were kids in the old village, the old-time one-ring circus was the best show they ever saw. : Yet at the same time they had .concealed about their persons dollars' worth of reserved seil for the Gentry Bros. Show which opens the local season. And a grand day it was for a circus parade, wasn t it? Don t hide your head behind the paper, father, because yon know you hung out of the office window for many long minutes wait ing for it to come into view. WThen you saw the first glittering vanguard of the tinseled cohorts and heard the blare and thump-thump of that dear, old circus band you forgot, that you had a living to make. Don't deny it You did. If 'you didn't then you have lost your youth forever. And, by the way, there was a clash of parading attractions both dear to the hearts of the American people today. First came the Grentry Bros circus pageant ponies, elephants, mysterious covered wagons, etc. Then there was a brief lull, then another crash of brass instruments and down the street came Al G. Fields' scarlet bedecked minstrel men. Gee, but the small boy was up against it. He didn't know which parade to follow He was rent by two conflicting emo tions, but the wisdom of boyhood came to his rescue and he solved the question. He followed the circus parade for a time, then deserted and joined ranks with the minstrels. The Gentry snow will give performances this afternoon and evening at the North Nineteenth street grounds. Field's Minstrels are at the Gennett this evening. All EXPLOSION AT GARY JLLEO TWO Blackhanders Place Charge Under Cars Where Gary Italians Slept.. Gary, Ind.. May 0. Dynamiters attempted to murder a big gang of Italian laborers employed by the American Bridge company early this morning by blowing up two box cars which served as sleeping quarters. Benedetto Aglio and Giasoma Impextato were instantly killed., being frightfully mangled. A score of others were badly injured and taken to the emergency hospital of the United States Steel corporation. Their names were withheld by the officials. A clue of dynamite had been placed between the ends of the two adjoining cars and exploded with tremendous report, wrecking both cars. Blackhanders are suspected. There was also a great rivalry between two Itarian employment agencies to furnish the cheapest laborers, w hich may have Inspired the dynamite tactics. - . - . - Lawn Cleaning Is As Important As House :Cleaning -Clean Your Lawns May 5, Every6ody Is Going To Do So. . ,

WEALTHY FARMER

CONFESSES THAT HE ISMURDERER John Poole, at Fowler, Says He Accidentally Killed His Hired Hand, Joe Kemper, After a Fight. DISMEMBERED BODY . BEFORE BURYING IT Two Other Farm Hands Who Disappeared from Poole Farm Are Now Thought to Be Murdered. American News Service) Fowler, Ind., May 3. John Poole, a wealthy farmer, who is guarded in jail here by fifty deputy sheriffs, today confessed that he accidentally killed Joseph Kemper, a farm hand, while shooting at a rabbit, and then cut his body to pieces and buried it with the refuse from a killing of hogs, accord ing to the police. Tho body was found buried on his farm near here by his son. who ac cused him of the murder and intimated that the elder Poole was guilty of murders which rival those committed on the famous "murder farm" of Belle Gunness, at Laporte, Ind. With his confession, Poole said he had killed Kemper December 12 when the family was away from home, after a fight. F.earing public opinion was against him because be shot a man several years ago, he said, he cut up the body and buried It. Two Other Victims? Two other farm hands who recently worked for Poole vanished in a similar manner and searchers are digging up the farm searching for the bodies. These men were Charles Clark and Charles Mack. The exposure of Kemper's murder was made by Poole's 18-year-old son Emory, who says his mother and sis ters have had cognizance of Poole's connection with, the disappearance of Kemper, but have been restrained by threats of death from making their knowledge public. ' The daughter, Grace, is a student in Chicago. Emory first made known his sus picions several weeks ago. He visit ed Indianapolis and interested a de tective agency in the mystery with the result that the elder Poole was" arrestred March 18, when a midnight search was conducted for the body. Poole was released when nothing was found. Son Leads Search. Young Poole himself conducted the search from then on with the result that the body was found in a cornfield yesterday. It had been dismembered and buried at a depth of several feet and had been covered with bones and other waste products of several hogs killed the day following Kemper's disappearance. Several pieces of bone bore evidence of a charge of buckshot. A carpet saturated in spots with blood, was found, but Poole explained that he had been dressing rabbits in the house. Poole was once tried on a charge of shooting a neighbor, but escaped on a plea of insanity. He was sent to an asylum, but was paroled a few years ago. While the search for other bodies is going on, neighbors have recalled several other mysterious disappearances from the Poole farm. CHARLES PIERSON BECOMES INSANE Charles Pierson, a well known Fountain City merchant who also did a delivery business in Richmond on Tuesday was placed in the county jail. His mind is unbalanced and he threatened members of the family. His mental trouble is thought to be due to stomach ailments with which he has long been affected. TAKE YOUR CHOICE! ."Once I was bappy joyful and gay, At last I am a cripple for life, you see; Nothing but sadness and sorrow for me. , . Live and let live." This cheerful quotation was carried by a Jewish miner, minus one arm. He was arrested while begging of the merchants on Main street. A more 'appropriate verse would have been like this: Main street was crowded and far too long; - 1 Gutters were " slippery and the booze too strong. The Jew 'who wore a low crowned, carved brim derby well over .his ears, caused some excitement on North Eighth street, by bang--ing at doors and demanding something to eat or money. When arrested he had 45 cents in pennies. ."What's the matter: with your arm?" asked one of the cops. "Fell out of an airship comin over,"-was the satirical reply.

STREET CLEAIIIIIG

JOB A DIFFICULT ONE GENII STATES Tells Board He Cannot Have All Alleys Spick and Span by Friday, Which Is Local Cleaning Day. WEST SIDE STREETS IN GOOD CONDITION Street Department's Work in That Section Completed and North End Will Now Get a Polishing. After Street Commissioner D. C. Genn had been ordered to clean up the alleys before Friday which is to be Richmond's cleaning house day, the commissioner went before the board of works to ask for more time for the work. Genn says the alleys of Rich mond, which total 40 miles, will re quire at least 20 days to clean. The expense will be more than $1,500 Genn says it would be impossible to clean the alleys before Friday unless he puts on 1,000 men, which are not to be had. Consequently the board has issued an order for the cleaning of alleys af ter Friday. On that day It is expected householders will place much trash in the alleys and the street commission er says that a cleaning before that day would be useless. The street department, with nearly a hundred men on its pay roll, and many teams, is now engaged in clean Ing the streets. Today all the streets and alleys north of the railroad will be cleaned. The department has just finished cleaning Fairview and West Richmond, which cost about $700 to $1,000. . . In Fair Condition. Most of the Fairview and West Richmond streets are in fair condition. Sheridan street is the only" bad street according to the street department head. The Light, Heat and Power company will put three miles of pipe line in Fairview soon, and Genn says it is "good-bye good streets." Council now has before it an ordinance which will require that corporations place the streets in the - same condition as before the roadways are torn up, but Street Commissioner Genn does not place much faith in this ordinance. "There are several ordinances to that effect, now," he said this morning. "And in the franchises of the company that very point is covered. It says the streets must be replaced in good condition; that if they are not, the city may replace them in condition at the expense of the company. Now what's the use" of another ordinance? Why not enforce the ordinance we have? There are dozens of city ordinances now that are not worth the paper they are written on when it comes to enforcement." So far , the street department has been at work 60 days cleaning the streets. Within a month Genn promises good streets once more. He will begin repairing South Seventh from E to H street, this week. Two squares will be remacadamed and the other rolled with the road roller. An accident to the street roller yesterday put it out of commission for a' few days. The safety plug blew out. The road roller is a new one, having been purchased at a cost of about $2,000 early in the spring. It has not had a real workout yet, but Genn says it is a good one. ABAIIDOinjCHOOLS Wayne Township Now Has Only, Twelve Schools. Because the average attendance at Smyrna district school. No. 7, and Fairview district school No. 2, both in Wayne township, was below twelve, the number required by law, township trustee James Howarth has announced that these two schools will be abandoned and the pupils attending the Smyrna school transferred to the Middleboro school while those "of "the "Fairview district will attend the Chester school. " '.- V. ' " ": ' ' The necessity in abandoning these two schools reduces the number in the township to twelve, although the trustee will continue the employment of nineteen teachers. Laura Eldridge, teacher of the Smyrna school will be transferred as will . also the teacher of the Fairview school. The state law is to the effect that if the average daily attendance' at a. district school is below twelve the township trustee must abandon the school until he is assured that there will be fifteen or more in average attendance. In orderthat the school-children of the abandoned district may attend school, the trustee has to provide hack service in all cases where the children" have to walk more than. a mile

MEXICAN AFFAIRS

AGAIN WORRY THE 0, S, GOVERNMENT Danger Threatened to Amer icans in Central Mexico Causes President to Hold Consultation. DIAZ FORCED INTO, DIPLOMATIC CORNER U. S. Asks Protection for Its Citizens, but the Mexico City Garrison Is Regarded Too Weak. (American News Service) Washington, May 3. Mexican . affairs are considered so grave that President Taft. Secretary of State, Knox and Secretary of War, Dickinson held an extensive conference this forenoon. A startling rumor followed, to the effect that the United States may be obliged to Intervene In Mexico very soon should the alarming reports concerning the danger to Americans continue. CRISIS IN MEXICO. Mexico City, May 3. -In expectation that the United States government would ask of the Mexican state department immediate advices in regard to its plan for the relief of the 100 American and German citizens whose lives are reported threatened by the rebel and bandit forces now besieging the city of Cuernavaca officials of the Diaz administration today found themselves forced into a diplomatic 'corner. The force of regular troops now In the capital is insufficient to adequately guarantee Mexico City itself against a rebel attack and to send aid to any outside point is a practical impossi bility. In the event of receipt of a note from the American state department a cabinet meeting probably will be called immediately to determine the reply. Threat' to Foreigner. - According to information sent the President by the foreign residents of Cuernavaca, which is the capital of the state of Morales, the spirit of rebellion Is strengthened by a strong an t!-foreign sentiment and threats have been made by the insurrectos to treat all foreigners as prisoners of war if Cuernavaca falls. There are at least five thousand Insurrectos in the mountains about Cuernavaca and their numbers are being increased constantly. - '. Mexico City has suddenly realized the seriousness of its position. The line of the rebels are drawing nearer every day and Americans here fcl that no movement of attack by the insurrectos would be unexpected. That the United States appreciated the very condition which has come to pass and the Mexican government itself hade a foreboding of the same is shown by a large number of passenger cars on the Mexican railroad stored in the yards in Vera Cruz ready for use at a minute's notice. In the event of extreme exigency American troops now stationed In Texas could be rushed to Mexico City over hastily repaired railroads. Mexico represents a vast powder mine and the spark to explode It ii an overt attack upon American citizens. It is believed President Diaz would coneent to American intervention. , NEW CAPITAL FOR A STOVE COMPANY The Scott Stove and Furnace company of Cambridge City has issued $30,000 of first mortgage bonds on the real estate, chattels, and patents held by the company In favor of the Tri State Loan and Trust company of Fort Wayne as trustee. The . bonds pay five per cent, annually and are grouped in series, the last coming due on January 2, 1926. The terms of the agreement between the stove and furnace company and the loan and trust company are incorporated in articles filed with county recorder Will Robbins which contain between eight and nine thousand words. By the terms of the agreement, the Cambridge City company must keep' its property insured for no less than $18,500 during the entire time the agreement is operative. The stove and furnace company Is said to be one of the most promising in the state and has established a reputation, which, with the new capital, will pat it in command of a great deal of business. Pdlciinn's Tcfcl Ddly Averse Circdrllca ' (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary List, for : . Week. Ending April 29. 191L ' showing net paid, -sew stands sad regular complimentary-list- docs not includa aampla copies.