Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 177, 5 May 1911 — Page 1

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EFFORTS BY GRAY TO PROCORE GUI1S FOR CITY FAILED Obsolete Cannons Belong to the Government, the Congressman Finds, Are Very r Hard to Obtain.

Figure in the Dynamiting Case A FARMER'S HOME DESTROYED TODAY BY FIERCE BLAZE

MAYOR TAKES THE BOARD Oil A TRIP TO SEE THE CITY If. i

TRACTION MOGULS ARE III THE CITY Oil TRACKMATTER Hold Consultation with Commissioners Regarding Order for Track Removal on National Road.

POOR PEACE DOVE MAY FLY BACK TO ANDREW CARNEGIE Ambassador Wilson Reports that Peace Negotiations in Mexico Willin All Probability Fail.

OHIO VETERANS TO COME TO RICHMOND

Many Will Accept Invitations of the Sol Meredith Post to Attend the Encampment Held Here. Grand Army, posts located In Ohio cities within a comparative short distance .of the city will receive next week Invitations to attend the state encampment of the O. A. R. held here May 17-19. The visiting Ohio delegations will be the guests of honor of 8ol Meredith post, which organization at Its Thursday evening meeting, determined on this action. There will be a number of Ohio's famous veterans on the program for the state encampment. ' N Captain Chauncey Riffle of the Eighty-fourth Ohio volunteers was mustered Into membership of the local post. He has been a resident of the city for several years. Invitations of the Methodist Brotherhood, Chapter 56, of the First M. E. church to hold the annual campfires of the post, the Women's Relief corps and the Sons of Veterans at the church on May 25 was accepted. . Gray After Cannons. Congressman Flnly 11. Gray doubts, but Is still continuing his efforts, if any mounted but obsolete cannons can be obtained from the war department for the court house grounds, according to a letter received by John A. Markley, adjutant of the local post. Denver Brown Camp, Spanish-American War Veterans, also has been after cannons for the court house lawn, but the only available obsolete guns that the department has are' guns to be mounted on low masonry pillars. Representative Gray's letter Is as follows: r Mr. John A. Markley, Adjutant Sol Meredith Post, No. 65: Dear Sir I have your letter of the 21st Inst., requesting that I aid your post In securing one or two cannons, or flejd pieces preferred, to place In the court house yard. I have been alck for several days and for this reason have not been able to answer you before this time. I will communicate with the adjutant general of the war department your request and will advise you as soon as I have reply of the cannons and Held pieces available to your post at this time. Some time ago I took up with the war department at the request of Denver Brown Camp,. United Spanish War Veterans of your city, the .matter of securing obsolete guns to be used for ornamental purposes on the court house campus In your city, and was advised at that time that It would be Impossible to secure mounted . guns, but was advised that obsolete bronze guns to be mounted on low masonry pillars were available. I have since been trying to secure for Denver Brown Camp guns which more strictly comply with their requirements, but' up to this time have been unable to do so. . Of late yean, It appears that there baa been a very heavy demand for obsolete guns for ornamental purposes and this demand has largely exhausted the supply. . . I will advise you of the reply 1 receive from the war department and if It becomes necessary I will ask a personal Interview with the authorities In respect to this matter. Tours most respectfully. Flnly H. Gray. T. P. A. SESSION (Amtrlcan News Srvlc) -Greenwood. 8. C. May 8. The annual convention of the 8outh Carolina division of the Travelers' Protective Association met here today for a two days' session. State President E. M. Wells occupied the chafr and responded to the welcoming addresses delivered by Mayor Raker and others. The regular business of the convention was taken up this afternoon. THE WEATHER TATE Fair tonight and Saturday, Braa tnnlnh LOCAL Fair and continued cwol tonight and Saturday. Frost to night. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Highest temperature Thursday, 57 degrees at 5 p. m. Lowest temperature Friday. 36 degrees at 5:20 a. m. Temperature at 11:30 a. m. on Friday. Si degrees and rising. Barometer Is high and rising. The blgh pressure area over the central states has moved very little within the last three days and Is Increasing In intensity, causing a continuance of fair weather and cool conditions. High barometric pressure Indicates fair weather but cooler: low barometric pressure Indicates warm weather but rain.

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4r--X io . ROOSEVELT WRITES Oil THEJOMR CASE Scores Labor Leaders Who Talk of Conspiracy in Recent Arrests. (American News Service) New York, May 5. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt will have a signed article entitled "Murder Is Murder" In the Outlook this week, dealing with the dynamiting or the Los Angeles Times, and the arrests recently made by Detective Burns. Mr. Roosevelt says: . . "There Is one feature of the developments as regards the"arrest of certain alleged labor men In -connection with the dynamite outrage .perpetrated against the Los Angeles Times to which special attention should be called. . , "If the explosion was not an accident, but : the deliberate act - of any man or men, It was an outrage of dastardly Iniquity, for It was one of these crimes In which the murderer, in order to gratify his spite against an individual, not merely wrecked that individual's property, but with callous Indifference took the lives of scores of Innocent people as an incident to the achievement of his sinister and criminal purpose. The men responsible for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building are responsible not only for the wreck of , the newspaper offices but for the loss of many lives. "The arrest was made In consequence of ' testimony secured by Mr. Hums, who has been Mr. Henry's right hand man in bringing to justice graft ers who violated the law of the United States in Oregon and grafters who violated the laws of California In San Francisco. , Praise Work of Burns. "He has proceeded with impartial severity against the most influential politicians and ' the richest business men. It happens, that the men whom he has now arrested are members of a labor organization; just as men whom he formerly arrested were members of the Republican or Democratic parties, or of great wealthy corporations. . "It would have been a wicked thing in the former cases with which Mr. Hums had to do for leading Republi cans or Democrats to combine to break him nlown and support the accused, merely because the accused belonged to their political parties,' and it would have been a wicked thing for big capitalists and ' big .business men to make common cause with the capitalists; against whom he proceeded merely because they were capitalists. . . "In exactly the same spirit. I state the convictions .of the Outlook In ex pressing Its hea"rty reprobation of the conduct of .those labor leaders .who. without waiting to know anything of the .facts . of the case, have at once flown publicly to the defense of the alleged dynamiters whom Mr. Burns has now arrested, and who' talk about the arrest as being part of a consplra cy against labor unions. , Calls It Grossly Improper. "No worse service can be rendered by labor union leaders to the cause of unionism than that which they render when they seek' to Identify the cause of unionism with the cause of any man guilty of a murderous attack of this nature. It Is grossly improper to try to create a public opinion in favor of the arrested men simply because the crime of which they are accused Is committed' against a capitalist or a corporation, and because the men who are charged with committing it are members of a labor union. "Any man who seeks to have them convicted If they are innocent is guilty of a crime against the state and any man who seeks to have them acquitted if guilty is also guilty of a crime against the state."

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Ortie E. McManigal, whose confes sion of his part in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building, im plicating the . McNamara brothers. leaders in the International Associa tion of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, has caused all three to be taken to Ixis Angeles for trial; and Mrs. Ingersoll. of Los Angeles, who will be one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution. Mrs. Ingersoll identified J. B. McNamara as the man who roomed at her house last fall under the name of "J. ' B. Brice." ' "'. "" ' " A MOVING PICTURE MAN IS ARRESTED Theatrical Trust ' Lands the Man Who Showed Out-1 lawed Film Here. Charles C. White, a moving picture promoter of Chicago, who was discovered showing a "Ben:Hnr" film at the Arcade theater in this: city April .15, by a Klaw and Erlanger representative, was apprehended . at, St. Marys, Ohio, today' by Pinkerton detectives and was taken to Toledo to " face a charge of violation of "the . copyright law and an injunction issued three years ago by the United States court of appeals. ... The copyright covering the play of "Ben-Hur" " is leased from Harper Brothers . by., the Klaw .'and Erlanger, (theatrical trust.) giving tliem control over the play and moving pictures as well. Several years ago the Kalem Film company '' attempted ' to show moving pictures of the play .and suit was Instituted by. the trust with the ... result that an " injunction was issued prohibiting exhibition of the pictures and ordering the ' destruction of the films then owned by the Kalem company. Several films escaped destruction, and it-is alleged that it is one of these fugitive films Jthat White has been showing. Edward Cooke, manager of the "BenHur" company, stated today that inasmuch as White had been told in this city that the exhibition of the film was a violation :and had then - continued to show It, the Klaw and Erlanger attorneys " would push the case as hard as possible in an effort to get a "limit" sentence passed on White. No prosecution of the 'Arcade management will be made. -

WOMAN STRANGLED TO DEATH IN BED (American News Service) . New Haven.' Conn., May" 5. A general alarm was sent out by the local police today for Giovanni Ilettierl, suspected of the murder of Mrs. Anna Pacino. who was found dead in her bed at her rooms on Hamilton street last night. 'The woman had been choked to death by a noose of twine while she slept and the twine wrapped tightly about her 'neck many times. There was no indication of a struggle, and it Is certain she was asleep when murdered as she was a robust, muscular woman who could have put np a hard fight had she been in possession of her senses. She had eloped with LetUeri after leaving her husband. ' ft

Local Fire Company, Which

Went to Joseph Dixon's House, Has Exciting Runaway After Arrival. EXCITED MR. DIXON J HURLED MONEY BOX From Second Story Window, Then Fire Horses Bolted and Collide with Terrified Blind Dobbin. The two-story residence of Joseph Dixon, a farmer, a mile south of Rich mond on the Abfngton pike, was damaged nearly $2,000 by fire, tlje No. 5 hose truck team ran away when it became frightened while standing near the house and considerable excitement was caused when Mr. Dixon threw a tin box full of silver and paper money from one of the upstairs windows of the burning structure. The Are oc curred this morning about 9 o'clock. The hose wagon team was tied near the burning hotise. Some unusual noise frightened the horses and they dashed madly from the yard dragging the heavy hose cart. One fence was crushed to the ground. The horses ran straight for the edge of the high bluff of the river, but stopped when they collided with a blind horse which was crouching, terrified, in one corner ! of the fence. The runaways were caDtured soon after. Working in the Field. Dixon was "working in the field near the house, when he noticed smoke and fire bursting from one of the rear upper windows of his brick home. He ran for the house to find the entire upper part in a blaze. Believing that his wife was in the fire, he rushed in frantically and was almost, suffocated Jn the dense smoke. He afterwards found that his wife had been at the home of a neighbor. Most of the household goods on the lower floor was -removed, and by dangerous work, the "bucket brigade," consisting of men and women neighbors, managed to get some of the bed room furniture to a place 'of safety. The No. 5 company came to the blaze but" were unable to be of great ser vice because the fire was located far from any fire plug. The. Dixon home is fully a mile from the corporation limit. The chemicals were used, but the fire had too great a headway. A great deal of excitement was caus ed In the crowd that surrounded the nouse, wnen a dox or money was thrown from an upstairs window. Mr. Dixon . was working to remove furniture, and becoming excited threw the money out also. Several trunks and a bed followed. - LAWN MOWERS HAD A VERYJUSY DAY Hundreds of Lawns Over the City Were Carefully Manicured Today. Weeds fell before the vicious onslaught; paper, twigs, and all rubbish in the yards were targets for . the attack; the grass was trimmed and flowers were planted for today was "yard cleaning day" and Richmond's citizens, genarally responded to. the call, either doing. the work or having it done, so their p-ards would be in a spick-and-span condition. From early morn workers were seen about the yards of the city, doing their share of the general cleaning up, and from the extent of the beginning it seemed that at the close Richmond terraces .would be in a condition hard to be improved on. The many coupons brought in -by the school children containing pledges of citizens that their yards would be cleaned today was further evidence that the campaign waged by the Aftermath and Commercial clubs of the city was due to meet with success. , Officials of the two clubs held' a meeting at the Commercial club rooms this afternoon for the purpose of canvassing the coupons and awarding the prizes offered to the children who secured the largest number., A prize of t5 will be given by the Commercial club to the ward showing the greatest effects of the cleaning. - ' THE SEISMOGRAPH RECORDS A QUAKE (American News Service) . Washington. May S. Records on the seismograph of Georgetown university today showed that severe earthquake occurred last night. - The tremors began at S: 41 o'clock and lasted until 7:22. with the maximum of vibration at 6:57. The vibrations were so violent that the "observers could not estimate the distance from Washington of the shocka,

AN INSPECTION OF THE ROAD IS MADE

Attorneys for the Commissioners Tell Traction Men to Act Quick or Litigation Will Follow. After a two hour conference on Friday morning without either side becoming satisfied with the proposition of the other, the county commissioners with their attorneys and officials of the Terre Hante, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company, including general manager Todd, vice president John Appel, general superintendent G. K. Jeffries and general counsel Ferdinand Winters, went on. an inspection tour of the National Road improvement west of the city, in the afternoon. Before the conference with the officials the commissioners and their attorneys, including H. - U. Johnson, T. J. Study and J. F. Robbins held a conference in which the commissioners determined to stand by their original declaration, which was not to modify the specifications for the Improvement so as to effect the contract or the work in any way, which was a refusal of the company's request to be allow ed to use the center, of the highway as far west as Easthaven avenue and to locate their tracks on the remain der of the improvement on the south side of the forty-six foot highway. Ordered Off the Road. . . The company several months ago was ordered, to get' off the section of the highway to be improved at the expense of $35,000 to the township taxpayers, but has neglected to comply and now the commissioners are seek ing to compel the company to' do so. On Thursday attorneys of the county conferred with the traction officials at Indianapolis and there again informed the company that the commissioners would institute mandamus proceedings -to compel compliance with the or der, unless the company removed the tracks willingly. The result of this conference was arrangements for the meeting held today. The company was instructed to send officials who could take definite action. This was the reason why all the high moguls of the company were here today. Unless an agreement is reached soon the attorneys for the commis sioners undoubtedly will file the mandamus proceedings which are ready for filing in the circuit court. Attorney Winters for the road holds that inasmuch as the company's tracks have been located on the road for several years the commissioners have no authority to change this location, and if the' case. istaken into the courts, this will probably be the company's defense. MOST STAYJ HAVY Resignation of Indiana Midshipman Is Refused. (American News Service) . Washington, May 5. President Taft today decided to refuse to permit State Auditor O'Brien's son to resign from the Naval Academy. His resignation had already been tendered to take effect the day after Midshipman O'Brien graduates, which will be the first week In June. The circumstances under which the resignation is refused are altogether complimentary to . the Indiana midshipman. "If he were of no account, the president is reported to have said, "we would not hesitate to accept his resignation, but he. is a good officer, and the service needs good officers." Young O'Brien is in his fourth year and will graduate in June. His father desired that he return" to Lawrenceburg and take charge of his private business. The navy department refused his request. State Auditor O'Brien who is here, appealed from the secretary of the navy to the president. He was backed by Senators Shiveley and Kern. . PLAN COMPROMISE IN WOOL SCHEDULE t American News Service) . Washington, - May S. Democratic leaders now believe they . see their way clear to bringing about a compromise on the proposed bill providing for a revision of the wool schedule of the - tariff law, especially, relating to free raw wooL Speaker Clark. Representative Underwood and the , other leaders will spend the next week or so smoothing out rough places in the wool attvaUoiL '

JAUREZ ZONE ONLY PLACID PLACE NOW

Foreign Residents in Mexico City Are Arming Themselves for Defense if the City Is Stormed. PRESIDENT MAY CALL VOLUTEERS. - (Bulletin.) Washington, May 5. The cabinet considered the Mexican situation two hours today. Afterwards there was issued the formal statement: "Ambassador Wilson telegraphs anxiety and alarm among Ameicans and foreigners is increasing. Ap prehension is due In a measure to the failure of the peace negotiations and the consequent prevalence of anarchy. It was reliably stated that the first overt act against Americans will be the signal for the president's message to congress asking for intervention and a call for two hundred thousand volunteers. (American Kws Service) , Washington, May 5. The state de partment this afternoon received dispatch from Ambassador Wilson in dicating that peace negotiations in Mexico are likely to fail. It was in timated that as soon as the result of the negotiations became known, if un favorable, the insurrectos will demand the surrender of the Mexican capital Reports from seven points in Mexico today show that the revolutionists are pressing the federals at every point except Juarez. - Practically the whole country is in. a state of siege. The report ' from Neuvo Tarro says the revolutionists captured a train with 500 rifles and 40,000 cartridges. FOREIGNERS ALARMED. Mexico City, May 5. Foreign residents of Mexico City who are unable to leave at the present time are arming themselves in anticipation of an attack upon the city by Insurrectos. General Miranda, commanding 300 rebels at Adjusco, has served notice that after the arrival vof 3..000 reinforcements, whom he Is expecting daily, he will open a campaign against the city. President Diaz is. taking stern measures to prevent an uprising in the city and troops with machine guns are being massed on an eminence commanding the city. The streets are being patrolled nightly and the slender garrison of defenders is being worked to the utmost. The plans of defense' are being worked out. Captain W. C. Perry, a former member of the Louisiana legislature, and Major O. S. Douglass are forming a foreign legion for the defense of foreign lives and property in the event the capital Is attacked. The first open , defiance of General Madero by the insurrectos concentrating about the city contained in a statement from Gen Miranda who declared that he would open a campaign about the national capital Irrespective of the result of the peace negotiations between General Madero and the Diaz commissioners near Juarez. "We have nothing to do with Madero and we 'will not cease ' fighting even if Madero does sign a treaty of peace.. We are here awaiting thousands of reinforcements who have been operating about Cuernavaca and when they arrive we shall open a new campaign. "Americans in the Mexican cities need have no fear. We do not intend to harm non-combatants. In fact, we shall 'afford protection to women and children who are unprotected. "Col. Merino is coming from Tres Marias with a large force. Our men are all well armed and equipped with plentiful provisions." SITUATION IS CRAVE. Washington. May 5. Major General, Wood., chief of the army staff, today telegraphed Major General Carter at San Antonio, asking on what - notice troops could .be moved from the mobilization point. "The ' Mexican situation is grave. said .Secretary of War Dickinson. . "I cannot tell just what will take place," Pdlclizn's Tctel Dcily (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary lists, far Week Ending April 29. mi,. showing net paid, news stands regular complimentary listnot incloda sample copies. ,

Puts Officials Aboard His

Automobile and the Little Junket Saves the City a Neat Amount. FIND BRIDGES NOT BAD AS DESCRIBED And Most of Money Appro priated for Their Repair Will Be Used for Paving West Main Street. On a tour of Inspection of the city2; bridges, parks and sewers, went the board of works this morning in Mayor Zimmerman's automobile. The bridge inspection will probably result in the saving of enough of the bridge appro priation , to pave West Main street from the bridge to West Fifth street, for which a petition has been present ed to council. The paving will be an expensive job, but the board found that the bridges are in not nearly so bad a condition as reported by councilmen. The Doran bridge will not be refloored this year as was first anticipated by the officials. The examination this morning showed that only half a dosen boards in the floor of the big span are in bad condiUon. Can Save About tSCO. For lumber required in this improvement, there is $1,200 appropriated and for labor $600. The lumber will be delivered this year and must be paid for, according to City Engineer Charles, but if possible the board will countermand the appropriation for the labor of reflooring the bridge. The floor may be treated with tarvia. . - , Two old : wooden structures on Bridge - Avenue were fcund la remark able condition considering the time through which they have done service. The North Twelfth street wooden bridge can be made safe for another year with $150, and probably the coat of, repairing all three -will not be over $250. . . . j i a r .. . ' a fuiiuwiug iuc untile iiroptrcuun ioe board went to the West Side park,; which is located on West Seventh street. The city will place a few benches in this beautiful wooded grove ' and drain one end which la found to be damp during wet weather. See Filtering Plant. After the - officials had considered certain improvements to be made in the park, the South West Sewer sys tem was Inspected to ascertain the ' justice of Earl ham college's complaint regarding overflow sewage from the line on South West E street At the corner of College avenue and E street, " a two and a half foot sewer empties into an elghteen-lnch pipe. The manhead at this point is so arranged that when the small' pipe cannot carry off the sewage, it may flow, over ground In a "dry sewer." The board of true ' tees of . the college complained that the overflow sewage damaged their land, and polluted Clear Creek. ' ; Members of the board made no state-. ments as to their views on this mat-. ter, but there Is little probability that tbey will enlarge the small sewer, as Earlham requests. The small pipe carries the sewage to the South West Sewage disposal plant, constructed at a heavy cost, by the city about four years ago. After running through this filtering plant, the sewage is as pure as the city drinking water. To enlarge the sewer to the plant,' would mean an expenditure of $10,000, at least, according to City Engineer Char.es. The disposal plant of which there are only half a dozen In the state would also have to be enlarged. J0HI1 DE1TZ MAKES GOOD flHnOBHEY "Defender of Cameron Dam" Is Conducting His Defense Without Aid. (American News Service) Hay ward, Wis., : May, 5. -John F. Deite, who 'with- bis wife and his son Leslie,. is. on .trial here" for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Oscar Harp,' during the siege of Cameron Dam, is "making good" as his own lawyer. When the trial was resumed' today he said he was satisfied with the progress he had made 'and ' believed he had done better than any lawyer he could : have hired., m ,', V - DeiU, on- several occasions has trapped witnesses. One witness. John Hollen. testified that he Identified Delta as the man who shot Harp because he was talSsr than his son LesII TmH maA hfa father ataaA aldtf hr Ma and the hov mmm t AsSer. '-' . now mucn faiier asm ij .fjzx as ed with a grinV M" , - . " i