Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 247, 14 July 1911 — Page 1

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Editorial department PHONE 1121 BUSINESS OFFICE PHONE 2566 AND SUN-TEIjEGR AM - VOL. XXXVI. NO. 27. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDA'i EVENING. JULY 14, 1911. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS REEVESTOII PLACE IS PURCHASED BY Two Sons of King of Spain HEEDED D0WNP00R CHECKS THE FIRE IN PINE COUNTRY MOTHERLOVE LOSES IN A BATTLE WITH LOVE FOR HUSBAND QUICK ACTION TO BE TAKEN IN THE DR, WILEY AFFAIR GOVERNOR DEHEEI1 SUBJECTED TODAY TO REAL I1DIAIIAP0LIS CO

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beautiful Estate of Late Mrs. Caroline Reeves Will Be Made an Addition to City of Richmond.

ITS BEAUTY IS TO BE WELL PRESERVED Estate Will Not Be Split Up Into Small Lots but in Large Properties Is Noted for Its Trees. The home place of the late Mrs. Caroline M. Reeves, who died last spring, one of the most beautiful estates In Indiana, has been Bold to Indianapolis parties according to announcement Friday by A. D. Gayle of the First National bank, who represented the interests of the heirs. As Mrs. Reeves desired the estate will not be split up into small city lots, but will be divided into properties of an acre or more, it Is understood. The estate will become one of the most fashionable residence districts In the city and in offering its advantages to the general public, the plan will be to proceed along lines similar to the arrangement of Woodruff Place In Indianapolis, only the natural advantages of Reeveston are much better than Woodruff Place. Purchasers Not Known. Just at present the names of the purchasers are withheld. Likewise the consideration. It has been reported the purchase price was between $75,000 and $80,000. The estate consists of eighty-five acres. It fronts on South Sixteenth street from B to E streets and extends east to South Twenty-third street. The purchasers have dedicated the place "Reeveston Place." During the lifetime of Mrs. Reeves, It was popularly known as "Reeveston". and "The Reeveston Homestead." The engineering work In platting the estate Into building sites with very generous frontage, in order that none? of the shrubbery or mammoth forest trees will be destroyed, will be commenced at once and it is desired to have the estate ready for public inspection within two weeks, if possible. The sites no doubt will meet with a ready sale as nature has combined with scientific landscape gardening to make the estate one of the most beautiful places for homes In the state. Local capital attempted to secure the property but the deal could not be consummated, largely. It Is understood because the local capitalists could not complete their organization. The only anxiety manifested by the purchasers is the attitude the city administration will assume. It Is hoped by all concerned that the property will not be cut up by streets, other than the Irregular boulevards which will be constructed by the purchasers. Rivals Any in State. The estate rivals any In Indiana in landscapo beauty and variety of its trees and shrubbery. It represents many years of careful thought and planning and of untojd care. There are many different kinds of trees, and perhaps no estate includes such a collection. Trees and shrubs from nearly every country In the world are growing there. From the front a very pleasing view of the greensward, dotted with cluster of shrubbery, magnolia, chestnut, fir and an endless variety of other kinds of trees Is had. From the middle of the estate, with its splendid elevation there. is a grand vista of the city and country. The eastern section Is covered with virgin forest. Had the purchasers wished to destroy the beauty of the estate and the general scheme of arrangement, it is most doubtful It the property would bave been sold. In plotting th ground the sites for homes will be irregularly located. There will be no cement walks and the boulevards which will intersect will be Irregular and winding. AMATEUR AVIATOR KILLED BY A FALL (National News Association) Chicago, July 14 Dan A. Creamer, to local amateur aviator, died in St. Anthony's hospital here early today as a result of a 75-foot plunge to earth made by his Curtis biplane while he was trying to cut figures "8" over the flying eld of the Aero club of Illinois last night. He was taken out of the wreckage of the machine unconscious and hurried to the hospital. He lost control of the machine on a turn and It plunged to earth when one of the planes tipped. LJAVE the Palladium go wim you on your vacation. Ten cents per week. Telephone your order betore starting. Phone 2566.

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NO INCREASES FOR EMPLOYESOF C, k 0 Company, in Statement Today, Says that It Is Too Poor Right Now. Richmond, Va., July 14. At the general offices of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway company today the following statement was given out: '.'The C. & O. Railwaycompany granted an increase of eight per cent, to all employes engaged in the shops of the company during the year 1910 and Is unprepared to make a further increase at this time, owing to the large decrease in net earnings due to the falling off in business and the large increases made last year in the wages of nearly every class of employes. "The C. & O. Railway company now has practically the same rates as the N. & W. Railway company and there has been a proposition made to the committee that it will simultaneously, with an advance in wages of shopmen employed by the X. & W. Railway company, grant the same rate of wages to all employes of the C. & O. Railway company engaged In similar occupations. As the X. & W. Railway company has earned at the rate of about ten per cent on its stock during the fiscal year, ended June 30th, 1911, and the C. & O. Railway company but five per cent, the management of the latter company trusts that the fairness of its proposition will appeal to the great body of its employes with whom relations have heretofore been most harmonious. A JOYRIDER FINED IN POLICE COURT John Hirshburg Used Principal Thoroughfare for a Speedway, Thursday. Main street became a joy ride speedway for joyriders last night, when John Hirschburg took a little "run" out the city's main thoroughfare. When he passed Eleventh and Main streets, running at about 40 miles per hour, according to the witnesses, Patrolman Hirschfield jelled at the driver to stop. "Ta. ta, boy," tauntingly called back Hirshburg. it is said, and then Patrolman Hirschfield stopped another car and gave chase. After an exciting run the photographer was captured. After an examination by Superintendent Gormon, of the police department he was released. Hirshburg was fined for violating the motor speed law this morning. Superintendent Gormon said last night that the reason for such speeding is that the patrolmen cannot prove that the autoists are violating the speed law. "If the department was equipped with a motorcycle on which the offi cer could catch the speeders and take their time en the motorcycle speedometer conviction would be easy," declared Gormon. John Hazelwood was fined 51 and costs for choking his wife. The family lives on Liberty avenue. Other fines were: Milt Kendal. $1 and costs for drunk; Ed Ruhl, $1 and costs for profanity; James Williams. $1 and costs for provoking John Carol: lAge Brokamp, $1 and costs for assault and battery on Ed Mlllisan,

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REPORT OF BATTLE F00GHTINJVOIC0 Following Attempt to Dynamite Train on Which Madero Was Passenger. (National News Association) Mexico City, July 14. Official dispatches received today gave the detalla.of the fighting at. Puebla. Jietween the Federalist Zaragoza battalion, six hundred strong, and a force of 1,500 Maderists, in which the latter were defeated. An attempt to dynamite the train in which Francisco I. Madero was proceeding to Puebla was only partly successful. Two of the cars were blown from the tracks but Madero's private coach escaped and he was able to continue to the city where he arrived after fighting had Etopped temporarily. A federal plot to assassinate Madero has been discovered and extra precautions to guard him against death are being taken today. Today's report of the Puebla battle state that 77 soldiers were killed and 1 123 wounded in the engagement while 20 federal troops were killed when the Maderists dynamited their barracks. The barracks were blown up by the order of the Maderist commander, Benito Zentono. The battle raged for twelve hours and was a decisive victory for the federalists who throughout used as their batt leery "Viva Porfirio Diaz." After the Maderists were routed the federal regiment was reinformed by 900 men of the 29th regiment and they took command of the city, placing Col. Blanquet in supreme authority. The situation in Puebla today Is reported as . highly critical. It is hoped that Madero's presence will have a pacific influence, but the slightest spark is likely to fan the bitter hatred of the two factions into open warfare at a minute's notice. In a political riot at Guandalajara last night two were killed and 16 wounded. Nine Maderists were killed in a fight at Madera, Yucatan. AN ELECTION HELD In Township Today, but No Interest Taken. Farmers of Wayne township who rej side outside of the city made no great ' rush to leave the hayfield and the 'thrashing outfits to "dry" up this por tion of the township by a local option election, the first of the kind held in this county under the Proctor law. The vote was exceptionally light and had the "wets" been any more interested in the result than the "drys" apparently were, the former could have carried the day easily. In one of the precincts Sheriff J Steen was notified that not even all the members of the election board reported today. The judge and sheriff were on hand and had to draft the first comers to fill up the vacancies on the board. A question arose as ta whether the saloons of Richmond could operate while a local option election was being held in the township, though these saloons in the city would not be affected in any way by the result. Some held the saloons had to close, but the authorities said nothing and they remained open

Conservative Estimates Today Place the Total Loss of Life at 500 and $3,000,000 Property Loss.

MANY MINERS WERE VICTIMS OF BLAZE Loss of Life in Porcupine Lake District of Ontario Is 100 Many of Them Prominent People. (National News Association) Cobalt, Ont., July 14. One bundred known dead, over 200 missing and $3,000,000 less to property sumarizes the results of the forest fires in the Porcupine Lake mining district. Adding to the losses in the other territory devastated conservative estimates place the loss of life at fully 500, although the exact number probably will never be known. Rains throughout the ef fected regions have checked the flames and further sources of damage are unlikely. Among the list of sixty deaths or more prominent persons, prepared here, many women and a dozen from the United States are included. These sixty were all connected with the mining industry in the capacity of owners, engineers, superintendents, etc., and their families. PERIL IS ABATING. Detroit, Mich., July 14 The forest fire peril in the Michigan district is subsiding. While flames still rage in isolated and widely separated districts, no towns or villages are threatened at present and indications are that the fires will burn themselves out. Without being permitted to spread further unless a heavy wind should rise and fan.ttwm, into vity,. Alphena and Cheboygan report smouldering fires in their district, but are apprehensive. The town of Waters, which seemed doomed early yesterday was saved after a hard battle with the flames by the Bay City and Gaylord fire departments. It is declared by the municipal authorities of towns in the burned district that many reports of looting and pillage are pure fabrications, set afloat in many instances by frightened inhabitants to influence the sending of troops. They hoped the soldiers would aid in extinguishing the flames. Estimates of the death list run from 50 to 200 and an estimate of property losses puts the total near the $3,000,000 mark. COURT'S PATIENCE FINALLY WORN OUT Sentences a Real "Peck's Bad Boy," Howard Hunt, to the Reform School. Howard Hunt, who abused his aged grandmother and was disrespectful to his other relatives repented on Friday morning in the juvenile court when sentenced to the Indiana Reform schoolfor boys. Though unusually large for his sixteen years the boy hid his head in his arms and cried, but he soon checked his sobs for he found no one sympathized with him. Young Hunt, since a small boy has made his home with his grandmother, Mrs. Anna Behrman, 332 South Twelfth street, and until recently had been of little trouble. In May his first offense was committed when he robbed the home deposit bank of a hundred dollars. For this he was excused by the court. It being his first offense. But last Tuesday when he overturned a washtub full of clothes and locked his grandmother out of his room after ejecting her from it, the limit of the court's patience was reached. The court heard the damaging evidence. He then asked the boy what excuse he had to offer. As though grasping at a straw the boy began to repudiate confessions he had made and testimony adduced by others until the court interrupted him in the midst of his untrue explanation and pronounced sentence. It is more than probable the boy will remain in the reform school until he is twenty-one. Judge Fox said afterwards that he might have been disposed to give the boy another chance if he had not lied. Hunt kept up a rather brave front until the court passed sentence. He then almost had hysteria and wailed and moaned his innocence and demanded opportunity to prove to the court he had repented. At the hearing, testimony was brought out that j he had stolen a watch from an uncle, had refused to either get a job or cut Iout cigarets as ordered by Judge Fox when before him in May, '

Mrs. Theresa Stamm Sacrifices Two Boys by First Husband for her Second Husband and Her Babe.

PITIFUL SCENE IN COURT ROOM TODAY Stamm Could Not Keep Two Oldest Children and HeartBroken Mother Gave Them Up to the State. Whether she loved most her two little boys by her first husband or her present husband and their wee small child, sacrificing either her two oldest children or her husband and her baby was a question, the solution of which for weeks caused most intense mental agony for Mrs. Theresa Stamm of near Xew Castle, formerly of Hagerstown. The love for her second husband and for the babe in arms finally conquered over her love for her eleven and eight years old boys, who are re markably beautiful children. However the flame of maternal love for her first born kept growing stronger and stronger after her decision, which was necessary for her to make as she had promised her second husband he would not have to support the oldest children. Fearing the battle which had been waged and settled would yet result in a change of sentiment she appeal- j ed to the Wayne circuit court and Friday she gave the children to the Wayne County Board of Children's Guardians and will hear by Saturday j mail, in all probability that they were j placed in White's Institute from which place, they will be transferred to; good private homes. Are Very Bright Lads. The boys are Jesse and Glenn Coon. They are exceptionally bright and healthy looking "children and ' even Judge Fox, of the Juvenile court was most deeply touched when he approved of the decision of the mother as communicated to him by probation officer, Mrs. Elizabeth Candler. It was difficult for the judge to conceal his emotion and afterwards he declared that while the circumstances justified, his action he regretted the necessity of taking it as the boys were perhaps the most interesting and brightest ever in the juvenile court. .When the boys' father died the mother was left in poor circumstances. After what society considers a respectful time of widowhood, she was married to her present husband, William Stamm. She agreed upon their marriage not to enforce upon him the support of the two boys, she told Mrs. Candler, and temporary homes were found for them near Hagerstown. The Stamms' moved from Hagerstown to near Xew Castle and the people who had been keeping the boys found it impossible to continue to do so. through no fault of the youths. Mrs. Candler told the court that when she investigated the case, the mother told her that she could not give up her husband and their small child and their circumstances were such they could not provide a home for the two boys. She said it meant if she gave up her husband that she would have to wash for a living to provide for the boys. The mother was not in the court as she had bid the children goodbye and felt she could not be present when they were legally given to the board of children's guardians and then transferred to a state orphanage. POST MORTEM HELD To Determine Cause of the Death of S. Roby. On post mortem examination of the body of the late Samuel Roby who died suddenly on Thursday morning at 307 North D street, to determine the cause of the death. Coroner R. J. Pierce and the assisting physician found the man's heart to be twice its normal size and in addition found a most aggravated condition as a result of gall stones. Seven specimens were removed, some of which were as large as hickory nuts. The condition responsible for the abnormal growth of the man's heart. and which was responsible for death was not discovered. He had not been a drinking man and in fact he had no habits which might have brought about this condition, so far as could be learned. Roby at one time was well to do, owning considerable land in Abington township. He was taken suddenly ill Wednesday and died Thursday morning. The attending physician could not account for his death so a post mortem was held. He was 65 years old. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in the cemetery of the same

House Committee Today Began Investigation of the

Charge That There Is Plot. Against Food Expert. FLOOD OF PROTESTS NOW STREAMING IN Case Gives Indication of Being Repetition of the Bal-linger-Pinchot Controversy Wilson Silent. (National News Association) Washington, July 14. The House committee on expenditure in the agricultural department today began an investigation of the charges against Dr. Wiley, chief of the government chemistry department. Quick action was taken as a result of the charges that a plot exists to "get" Wiley. The committee wants to ascertain who is after Wiley and why. While an attempt is being made to oust Wiley from his post as chief of the bureau of chemistry the Taft ad ministration is confronted by a situa tion that may develope much bitter as the Ballinger-Plnchot controversy. While the attempt to remove Dr. Wiley is based upon an alleged conspiracy to evade an appropriation statute it is apparent that there is a general desire on the part of the department of agriculture officials to be relieved of Wiley's presence. It is Up to Taft. Wickersham has decided against him. If he remains it means that Taft has overruled his own cabinet advisers. General complaint against Wiley is practically the same as made against PInchot, that he is running his bureau in the department of agricul tue in a high-handed manner over the heads of his superiors. Already a flood of proiesrs-against the effortsto remove-Wiley have-reached President Taft. A big row will be kicked up in congress. Members of the committee on expen ditures in the department of justice are now making direct charges the law had been violated by Wickersham himself. It was charged that lump pay ments had been made by the attorney general to specially retained lawyers for the expenses, whereas the law spe cifically requires that all such ac counts be itemized and payments made of vouchers. The Taft adminis tration may be seriously embarrassed by the Wiley affair. President Taft's friends realize that the campaign wag ed by the insurgents and Democrats on the Wiley issue would be more ef fective even than that carried on in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, be cause it would involve a question which effects the national stomach. They point out the charge against Wiley involves no graft, but merely an evasion of law for the supposed good of the service. Secretary Wilson said today that as soon as he received the answers of officials involved he would file with the president a recommendation in the case. A GERMAN PROTEST Made to the Government of Cuba Today. (National News Association) Havana, July 14. Germany, through her minister here, has officially protested to the Cuban state department against "the growing insecurity of the government and its failure to protect foreign lives and property." The German note cites the case of Karl Meyer, a wealthy German planter who was recently held up, robbed and left for dead on his estate in Santa Clara province by the bandit. Solis Alvarez. A MAN WAS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT (National News Association) New York, July 14. One man Is dead and another injured as the result of an automobile crashing into a subway pillar at Broadway and 23Sth street early today. Arthur H. Daley, the chauffeur, was killed and Arthur Weisbecker, his passenger, was badly shaken up and briused. The chauffeur swerved the machine into the pillar to avoid collision with a trolley car. JOHN GATES STILL A VERY SICK MAN (National News Association) Paris, July 14. John W. Gates passed a good night according to a bulletin issued by his physician today. His condition was unchanged today, but the patient is barely holding his own. At noon Mr. Gates was a trifle weaker, the heart action failing to respond to the physicians treatment. A consultation of the four doctors was called.

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Senate Investigating Committee Asks Pert Questions of Executive. GOVERNOR S RECORD SUBJECT OF ATTACK Deneen Bitterly Resents Im plication He Had Received More Fees and Salary Than He Was Entitled To. (National News Association Washington, July 14. Gov. Deenen of Illinois, was again on the witness stand before the senate committee. Investigating Senator Lorimer 's election today. The cross examination was be gun by Geo. Hanes, Attorney for Lorimer. Hanecy started out by going back many years and asking th wit ness questions regarding Chicago polltics. He went into Deneen's personal record and questioned him at length in regard to his conduct in the office of Btate's attorney of Cook county. He attempted to show that Deneen had taken more in fees and salary than he was allowed by law. To this Implied charge, Deneen said that there had been such accusation made in his campaign for reelection and that there was an investigation which proved it was a fact he had not gotten within $10,000 of the amount which he was entitled under the law. H said in his first campaign, Lorimer had strongly supported him. When he came up for reelection Lorimer said he was for him, but that many of Lorimer's friends were opposed to him. In the end however, Lorimer 'pledged to renominate and to reelect him as state's attorney. For two hours Hanecy, questioned Deneen and the investigation appeared to have more to do with petty politicians than with the election of Lorimer. It was not until just before the racees of the committee that Judge Hanecy, directed his Inquiries toward ' the organization' of the legislature which elected Lorimer. ABSOLUTE LIFE 1S1 GIVEIIJUIIOCKOUT Evelyn Arthur See Was Today Placed Under Big Bond by the Court. , (National News Association) Chicago, July 14. Evelyn Arthur See, revealer of the "absolute life convicted yesterday on abduction charges, was today released-on a $5,000 bond until a week from tomorrow when arguments for a new trial will be heard. Mrs. Bridges, mother ot the abducted girl, expressed hope that the conviction of See might bring about a reconciliation between herself and husband. Bridges today refused to entertain such an idea. See met with a rapid fire conviction Thursday. The jury reported '45 minutes after the case had been given to it. When the verdict was read it was not accepted by the court because it found See guilty of two offenses, abduction which carries with It from one to ten years In states prison, and contributing to the delinquency of Mildred Bridges, a misdeameanor, punishable by a county jail sentence of from one to eleven months. The court ordered that a single verdict be returned and the jury was sent back. They returned shortly , after with a verdict of guilty of abduction. See received the verdict quieUy. For a moment his calm poise was broken, but he soon braced and smiled at the jury. None of his women diciples were in court when the verdict was returnedHUSBAND LEFT HER; SHE ASKS DIVORCE Alleging intimate relations between her husband, Herman Krull and Emma Roberts Mulholland, Mrs. Elizabeth Krull has filed suit in the Wayne circuit court for divorce and custody of their seven year old daughter. She alleges her husband left with the Mulholland woman and went somewhere in Ohio on June 6. 1909. The Krull s were married on July 10, 1&01. She ihas not heard from him since he left i her and the child. Failure to provide is also alleged. TO FORT WAYNE Blanche Kirtland, a feeble minded girl who has been at the Home for Friendless for over a year was on Thursday taken to Ft. Wayne by probation officer, Mrs. Elizabeth Candler. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCALand Saturday; not in teivperature. . -Fair tonight much chaiMM