Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 210, 7 June 1911 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXVI. NO. 210. STATE DEPARTMENT STILL IIISISTS Oil DOLLAROIPLOMACY There Has Been Big Split Between Department Officials and Opposing Element in the Senate.

RICH3IOXD, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 7, 1911. Beautiful Mexico City Shaken By Earthquake CIGARETS MUST BE "CUT OUT" THE COURT TELLS BOY MEXICO CITY ROCKED TODAY BY A TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE

BITTER OPPOSITION TO POLICY OF KNOX

Held that the United States Should Not Assist Wall Street Crowd to Play Part of Shylock. (National Newi Association) Washington. June 7. The state department is dead locked with the senate over the new policy of receiverships for South and Central American republics. State department officers assert the nenate must embrace "dollar diplomacy" as served to that body by Secretary Knox. In line with this demand the state department officers, undismayed by the hold-up of the Honduras treaty In the senate committee on foreign relations, have negotiated another treaty along the same lines with the republic of Nicaragua. This provides, is In the case of Honduras, that a Wall street contingent, headed by J. P. Morgan and Company hall take the bonds of the sister republic and refund the foreign debt and reimburse themselves from customs duties which are to be collected under the supervision of the Wall treet financiers. Are Sere at Shively. The state department has been saying harsh things of Senator Shively and others on the foreign relations "dollar diplomacy" policy be carried out. A remarkable feature of the Honduraa treaty la that the new loan leaves a million dollars, to be raised from the bond Issue, unaccounted for. It Is generally understood this sum goes to an officer of Honduras who negotiated the arrangement with Morgan and Company, but the state department refuses to' say. Senators who oppose the treaty object to sanctioning such an arrangement by which the financial interests of New York may subsidize officers of the small Latin-American republics and drive unconscionable deals with them for lending them money. These bonds are gilt edt under the terms proposed. The guns of the United States stand behind the Wall staeet crowd to enforce the payment of principal and Interest. The state department officers say that unless the senate consents to bave Wall street act as a money lender, then foreign countries will come in and the Rothschilds will perform the office of Shylock. This Is the only Justification thus far offered for the sanction of the money lending plan. The Wall street crowd will not take the bonds at par. They insist on a liberal discount. In the case of Mexico the house of Morgan would offer only 65 for its bonds. Mexican n dicers vent abroad and were then threatened with the suggestion that they needed the good favor of the United States. Senate Democrats and progressives on the foreign relations committee say the Honduras treaty shall not be ratified. Even, if it Is reported out of committee, it will be refused a Vote is the senate. FURrilSSISVANTED U. S. Minister to Hayti Asked to Remain There. . (National News Association) Washington, June 7 Dr. H. W. Furfeiss of Indianapolis, United States tnlnlster to Hayti, will be asked to withdraw his resignation for the present at least, due to the fact that conditions in Hayti are disorderly and it Is believed that Kumiss will be better able to cope with them than any new man. Americans In Hayti and foreign diplomats have petitioned the state department for his retenUon. A TIMELY TOPIC A general discussion on what kind f bait should be used In fishing for game fish in the streams of the county, will be held on Wednesday evening by the directors of the Wayne County Fish and Game association at the office of court reporter, J. F. Holaday. All directors are requested to be prevent THE WEATHER STATE Fair tonight and Thursday. OCAL Fair and continued warm tonight and Thursday. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Highest temperature Tuesday, 86 degrees at 4 p. m. Lowest temperature Wednesday, 66 degrees at 6 a. m. Temperature at 11:30 a. m.. Wednesday, 77 degrees and rising. Barometer la high and stationary. Cooler temperftture within a few days.

Upper pictures show Expresident Diaz, whose exile from the country was assigned by the frightened crowds as the cause of the earthquake; and the Mexico City Cathedral, where hundreds sought refuge. The lower pictures show the "Pasco de la Reforma." and U. S. Ambassador Wilson.

C, k 0, SUITS WERE DISMISSED TODAY Litigation Involving Several Million Has Been Finally Compromised. (National News Association) Cincinnati, June 7. Litigation Involving several millions of dollars of railroad stocks, which questioned the transfer of one-third of the stoakof the old Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad to the Chesapeake and Ohio of Indiana was settled today, when the three suits were d'smissed. The suits were brought by Rudolph and Leopold Kleybolte against Newton Erb, a retired New York attorney, while one of the actions made William A. Bradford, former president and director of the C, C. and L Railway company, and owner of nearly twothirds of Its stock, a party defendant, together with the C. & O. Railway company and the C. & O.. of Indiana. The first suit was for an accounting from Erb, as trustee for Rudolph Kleybolte and Co.; the second was against Erb to recover $1,100,000; and the third was 'against Erb, Bradford and the two railway companies, asking to Impress the trust and for the recovery of profits and advantages alleged to have been obtained by the defendant. Suits were filed on August 16, last, by Attorney Adam A. j Kramer, attorney of this city, repre senting Kleyboltes. Simultaneously similar suits were filed In New York courts and these are also now dismissed and disposed of finally. TO SERVEJII EDICT Of County Board on the Traction Company. Orders were placed on record Wednesday in the county commissioners' court, instructing the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction officials to conform to the terms of the franchise which this company now operates under and which was granted to Lonta and Freeman in 1900. Sheriff Steen has been Instructed by the commissioners to get personal service on officials of the company in serving this notice. The text of the order is similar to the statement published Monday. The company is informed that it must grade the road between Its tracks to conform with the highway grade as near as practicable, and that Its nearest track rail should not be closer than twelve feet to the center of the highway. By compelling the company to respect its franchise, it will be necessary for the company to practically tear up its entire line In the county in order to maintain the proper grade and get its tracks twelve feet from the center of the highway. POPE PIUS VICTIM OF THE HOT WAVE (National News Association) Rome, June 7. Pope Fins is again Indispowd. this time as a result of the heat. The Pope again refused to obey the mandates of his physicians and held audiences despite their orders to the contrary. Despite the official assurances of the doctors at the Vatican that a few days complete rest will completely restore the health of the Pope, there Is a feeling of uneasiness on account of the advanced age of the pontiff and bis continual refusal to obey his physicians.

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FOUR FREIGHTS' III TERRIBLE SMASHUP Six Trainmen Killed and Four Fatally Hurt in a Peculiar Wreck. (National News Association) Fairfield, Conn., June 7. Six trainmen were killed and four perhaps fatally injured in a wreck of. four freight trains on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad this morning. This road has four tracks. A spreading rail threw a westbound freight off track No. 1, side-swiping westbound fast freight on track 3, piling up wreckage which eastbound freights on tracks 2 and 4 crashed into., The dead are: Engineers William Laurie and Robert Beach; Fireman Gates and three unidentified trainmen. Seriously Injured: Conductor Huff, fireman Fox, Brakeman Hannon, and Trainman Walsh. PROBES WHEAT DEAL U. S. Attorney at Chicago Is Making Investigation. (National News Association) Chicago, June 7. The May wheat corner engineered by A. J. Lichtstern is under investigation by United States District Attorney Sims, according to brokers on the board of trade, and several indictments are likely to follow. This declaration was made today despite the refusal of Sims to discuss the wheat deal. Following hard on the heels of an announcement that Lichtstern had cornered the storage room for wheat In Chicago and that in this manner he was prepared to boost the price of cash wheat to $1.25 to wipe out losses he is said to bave sustained when he failed to boost prices on the board of trade, the report "that a Federal inquiry is on is regarded as certain. According to the report, William H. Lanyon of St. Louis, who defaulted on May wheat to the extent of 200,000 bushels, caused the probe to be started with the view of inding out how Lichtstern and the bull leaders were able to acquire as much as 15,000,000 bushels of wheat. So far the board of trade has taken no decisive action. NEW ORDINANCE IS OPPOSED BY SOME The new ordinance Introduced in council Monday night to force property and lot owners to make sewer, gas and water connections as far as the curb line before the street is permanently improved, is causing some comment, both favorable and adverse. Its opponents claim that many property owners in the poorer districts of the city do not use gas, nor have sewers. It is said if the ordinance was enforced some world have to sell their homes. The ordinance provides that if property owners fail to make the connections the city will do so and charge it against the taxes. , The object of the new ordinance is to keep the streets in repair. President Hammond of the board of works who favors the passage of the new ordinance, says that when a street Is put down it should not be torn up again for five years, excepting, of course, in case of gas, water or sewer leaks, which cannot be avoided. .

ODD DISTINCTION FOR HIGH SCHOOL Based on Total City School Enrollment, R. H. S. Is Largest in Country. Based on the standpoint of total en

rollment, in the city,- the number of students at the high school is the larg est of any high school in the United States, stated L. B. Nusbaum. mem ber of the school board on Wednesday morning in addressing the students at the chapel exercises. The enrollment at the high school during the year has averaged 610, the largest in the history of the school. Thirteen years ago only 372 pupils were enrolled, and this number then was considered somewhat extraordinary. The in creased enrollment of the high school is far out of proportion to the in crease in the entire school enrollment of the city. In 1898 ,the total school enrollment was 2,744 and this year there ahe 2,730, a decrease of 14. The high school's growth has largely been because the parents appreciate what value a high school education is to their children, Mr. Nusbaum stated. Formerly parents permitted their children to attend for two or three years but removed them before they could graduate. Now they are permitting their sons and daughters to graduate by the fact that the class this year includes 77, just one les3 than twice the number of graduates in 1898. In addressing the prospective 1911 graduates, Mr. Nusbaum said they were iolnine a class of 650 alumni of

the school. Of this number, he had jmissioners of Wayne county, against learned by investigation, none brought i the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and discredit to the school, and all hadEastern Traction company, in which gained success, as this world measures the complaint asks that the defendant

success. HIGH DIVER WENT THROUGH THE NET In his first attempt to be one of the world's daredevils, Chafes James, the high diver connected with the Cosmopolitan Carnival company at Gilbert's field this week, diveff fromla fifty-foot platform on Tuesday, evening into a net. The net gave way and the diver came In violent contact with the ground, shaking him up greatly, but still not seriously injuring him, according to the announcement of the physician examining him. He was unconscious for over an hour. The act, which'is one of the most sensational ever witnessed here, will be repeated without the accident feature this evening, the diver states. There was nothing wrong with the appartus last evening and the jump was O. K., but the net gave way. He joined the carnival company here. FOR RECIPROCITY , IN GOLD COINAGE (National News Association) Ottawa, Ont, June 7. Reciprocity with the United States in the matter of gold coinage is the latest outcome

of negotiations between Ottawa and j lumber prices throughout the United Washington. Five and ten dollar gold j States. pieces are to be coined at the Ottawa I Although the Inquiry is directed branch of the royal mint, of the same J primarily at retailers, strenuous efweight and fineness aa the Ave and forts are being made to connect the

ten dollar gold coins issued by the United States. At present American gold Is accepted here and it is understood arrangements are under way by which it will be accepted at par across the line.

Howard Hunt, Who Robbed His Grandmother of Large Sum, Receives Lecture on the Smoking Evil.

YOUTH PROMISES TO BE GOOD RELEASED Judge Fox Tells the Youngster that Cigaret Smoking Causes Young Boys to Get Into Trouble. Before releasing Howard Hunt on his promise of future good behavior, Judge Fox, presiding over the juvenile court ' Wednesday morning, lectured the youth, who will be seventeen in October, against the use of cigarets and gave the boy to understand that he had to "cut them out" or he was likely to get in more trouble, which will not be easy for him to get out of, because the court promised he did not intend to again be so lenient. The boy also was advised to get a job, to cease abusing his grandmother and, in' short, to conduct himself as his parents desired him to do. Hunt was arrested a few days ago following a report to the police by some boys who had seen him with a roll of no less than fifty dollars on his person. He Admitted Theft. The boy admitted going to his grandmother's home on South Thirteenth street and breaking open the strong box, containing no less than $500, and which had been the household treasury for eighteen years or more. He took between $90 and $100, and it was some of this money which the boys had 6een him carrying. The boy's mother lives in the west. Before leaving, she had instructed her mother that the money which she had deposited in the . strong box was to be fmfcTff" either by" herself or the son when the latter was in need of help. The boy had heard his mother tell his grandmother this and explained to the court he did not know he was doing wrong in breaking open the box and taking out a part of the deposit. Mrs. Anna Behrman, South Thirteenth street, the grandmother, stated to the court she wished her grandchild could have another chance. Other relatives made similar requests. Though the court was told the accused had also abused his grandmother, he relented to her earnest request for her grandson's release. Judgment was not passed, the court stating that he would let the charge rest pending Hunt's good behavior. A CHANGE OF VENUE Petitioned for by the Traction Company. On Thursday Judge Fox of the circuit court will rule on a petition for a change of venue in the case of the state of Indiana ex rel board of comDe compelled to remove its tracks from their present position on the National road, which is being improved. The petition was filed on Wednesday morning in the court by attorneys Ferdinand Winters of Indianapolis and Comstock of this city, counsel for the defendant corporation. It is set forth in the petition for a change of venue that the defendant could not get a fair and impartial trial in this county, because tne defendant alleges for one reason that the plaintiff has undue influence over the citizens of the county and for a second reason that the county commissioners are relators in the action. If the case is venued to another circuit court, it is more than likely it will be sent to either Randolph or Henry county. Alexander Gordon, the superintendent of the Richmond Street railway, is the representative of the corporation in asking the change of venue. ASK DOCUMENTS TO REVEAL BIG TRUST (National News Association) Chicago, June 7. Documents which it is believed will prove the existence of a combination of lumber companies today were demanded by the special federal grand jury from employes of the Weyerhauser Lumber company, wliieh with the Edward Hines Lumber company, is declared to control wholesalers with the alleged trust. A "red book" and a "blue book known to the trade are expected to supply the connection. More than 200 witnesses are yet to be heard by the grand jury.'

Over One Hundred Soldiers

Were Killed by the Falling Walls and It Is Believed that Many Bodies Will Be Found by Rescuers Under Ruins of Buildings.

CAPITAL IN GALA ATTIRE GREET

Conqueror of Diaz Was to Have Arrived Today and the City Was Filled With People Following the First Shock, Mobs Began Shouting Quake Was Vengeance of God for Deposing Diaz.

i (National News Association) Mexico City, June 7. A terrific earthquake shook this city early today, killing one hundred soldiers who were crushed to death by falling walls while they were asleep in their barracks. Many other buildings collapsed and scores of victims are believed to be buried beneath the ruins. The first and most severe shock occurred at 4:2S o'clock, less violent tremors continuing for two hours. The entire city rocked as if a vast subterranean upheaval were taking place. The city was in gala attire to welcome General Francisco Madero, whose special train was scheduled to arrive at ten o'clock, but was reported several hours behind time. Thousands of people had been pouring into the city to welcome Madero and many had slept In the streets. Awakened by the first shock these ran panic-stricken through the streets while thousands of persona from their homes joined them, adding their cries of terror. Hundreds sought refuge in churches praying for deliverance. Others ran through the streets screaming, "It is the vengeance of God for driving out Diaz. Beware! Beware!" While reports from outlying towns are meager, advices show that great damage has been done in many localities. The sky was illuminated with vivid flashes of lightning, adding terror to the already frenzied people. The barrack walls collapsed with a loud roar. Insurrecto Midlers encamped in the southern portion of the city and suburbs, threw their arms away and ran for the op3n country.

DAMAGE IS BIYOND ESTIMATE. New York, June 7. A private dispatch from Mexico City this afternoon says that many public buildings were wrecked by the earthquake. It is impossible to estimate the loss of life. Comparative quiet, has been restored.

DIFFER ON THE LOS8. Mexico City, June 7. The police and military officials differ Materially in their statements of the loss of life in the earthquake. The former stated this afternoon that between 50 and 75 persons are known to have been killed, while the colonel commanding the " barracks stated be -had no reason to believe his first estimate of 180 soldiers killed was ex-" aggerated. : ' ; a, 'v';V

MADERO ROYALLY WELCOMED. Mexico City, June 7. Though terror caused by the early earthquake drove thousands from the city, General Madero was welcomed , with all the honors of a conqueror when his special train arrived. Two ' hundred thousand persons cheered wildly. Showers of flowers greeted the revolutionary general as he passed down the main street with an escort of scores of automobiles with a heavy federal guard.

C. &. 0, ASKS PERMIT To Erect New Stand Pipe in South Richmond. There was a conference of C. & O. railway officials and the board of works this morning, following which the board Inspected some of the right-of-way of the company, north of the North End station. The officials requested the city permit it to place a stand pipe, near North D street. As 1 the company will place three new through trains, on the line, the pipe lis wanted so that north bound trains ' may take water while standing at the railroad station. There is a stand pipe at present south of the station, and north bound trains taking water must be delayed several minutes, i Though not having made a definite ! decision the board will likely grant , the request of the C. & O. officials. The company has promised to repair the light plant spur trestle, from 'which coal is unloaded into the municipal light plant bins, and has already made temporary improvements on the trestle on South A street, which ; street is now being repaired. Some other trestle improvements are being asked by the board, including the wooden span ever North A street, or the light plant road. FAMOUS JAPANESE ARRIVE IN LONDON (National News Association) London, June 7. A distinguished party of Japanese, consisting of the Prince and Princess Hyashi Fushimi, Admiral Togo and General Nogi, the captor of Port Arthur, in the RussoJapanese war, arrived here today to attend the coronation of King George as official representatives of the Mikado. They were met by the staff of the Japanese embasy and were enthusiastically greeted by the large crowds on the way to the embassy. MOTHER LEAVES HER SON JUST ONE ACRE By the will of the late Eliza Jane Burke, who died on May 13, her son. John F. Burke, receives but a small portion of the estate, namely one acre, located northeast of the city. Lewis Burke, the other son and the only other heir, receives the residue of the estate. He is named executor and acts in this capacity without necessity of j giving bond. The will of the decedent jwas made in September, 1307.

Sleeping in Their Barracks

MADERO

BOOK OIIJICHMOIID Has Been Prepared by Chas. W. Jordan. Secretary Charles W. Jordan, of the Commercial Club has completed his copy for a booklet on Richmond, its institutions, advantages, industries and men, and it will go to the printers within a few days. It Is expected the booklet will be issued from the press about the first of July. The booklet will contain Information concerning the natural advantages of the city, its public service corporations, its various institutions, schools, banks, churches, lodges, amusements, retail bouses, wholesale houses, manufactories, business and professional men, and general data and statistics. A feature of the booklet will be a list of the things in which Richmond excels and of the industries in which it leads the world. It will also contain a roster of the membership of the Club, giving the business connection and address of all the members. The booklet will be for general distribution and will be sent to anyone interested in Richmond. GREAT POISON PLOT HAS BEEN REVEALED (National News Association) Baltimore, June 7. Mrs. Ida Brooks Cohen was arrested today charged with the murdering of her husband, Morris Cohen, with poison. A few hours later Morris Cohen, senior, an uncle of the victim, was arrested, on the charge of murdering his wife. Both deaths occurred with the past month under mysterious circumstances, together with the death of a son of Mrs. Morris Cohen. Exhumation and subsequent chemical analysis revealed poison. . PRESIDENT TO SEE LACROSSE CONTEST (National News Association) New York, June 7. President Taft has promised to attend the Lacrosse game between the teams of the Crescent A. C. of New .York and the Montreal amateur , athletic- association at the Bay ridge grounds, tomorrow. : The president will be - attended by his military aid Major Butt, Congressman Calder and a number of tne mem bers of the Crescent club, for" whose team ne wui -root..