Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 271, 7 August 1911 — Page 1

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TB AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 27 J. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 7, 1911. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS. COUNTY HIGHWAYS WILL BE REBUILT THE BOARD RULES MILTON BURGLARY SUSPECT IS HELD AT DETROIT MICH. PRESIDENT KELLY CENSURES CHURCH FOR INDIFFERENCE Territories9 Fate to be Decided in Senate this Week BORAH DELIVERED A POWERFUL PLEA FOR TERRITORIES ARIZONA

lJiave Deteriorated in Past Ten Years and Tax Levy on Free Gravel Roads Is to Be Doubled Now.

NEW BRIDGES WILL ALSO BE PROVIDED 'Advent of the Automobile Has Increased the Wear and Tear on Roads and They Are in Bad Shape. Roads In Wayne county, which In the paat ten years, since the automobile has come Into general usage, have been allowed to deteriorate und consequently are not in very good condition now, but they will be rebuilt beginning next BpMng. In order to do this the board of county commissioners have practically decided to increase the tax levy on free gravel roads from 3 to 6 cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation. In round figures this increase will mean that a hundred dollars will be spent per mile on the turnpikes where fifty dollars has been the amount here tofore spent. The increased expend!' ture will give the county opportunity to gravel, grade and drain the roads, whereas an appropriation of approxi mately fifty dollars a mile was hardly more than enough to pay for the labor in scraping the roads. Autos Injure Roads. Wayne county at one time took much pride in its roads and still does for that matter. Before the appear ance of the gasoline propelled' vehl cles the roads were among the best in the state. The automobile has in creased the wear and tear greatly, but the present poor condition of the roads can not be placed at the door of the autoist entirely, since it is ad roltted not. enough money was spent to keep the highways in good repair.' The Increase in the road levy does not necessarily mean that the taxes In bulk will be raised, for the com' mlssloners hope to in some matter trim other tax levies. For instance the county will only have a small debt after a (25,000 issue .of court house bonds is paid In 1912, and the revenue derived from a tax on bonds may be reduced, thus cutting down the levy on thia expenditure. In the commissioners trip about the county last week they found there were many bridges as well as the roads which were in poor shape. The commissioners will recommend an appropriation of about $25,000 for new i bridges and bridge repairs. This 'amount has been spent each year in 'the last several years, but the need i of new bridges and the repairs on the (old will not permit a reduction on ) bridge expenses. The commissioners tare not yet certain what new bridges !it be built. There are about twenty which might be built in various .parts of the county. Much pressure has been brought on ' the board for both improvements to 'bridges and roads by residents in the different parts of the county. The other appropriations which the board will make at the September sestsion of the county council are not as yet known. It seems more than prob able that the tax rate as a whole will not be Increased though some special levies will be, but the increases in these instancese will be equalized by reductions in other levies. GENE OEBSJO COME (Great Socialist to Speak Here Next Month. Eugene V. Debs, the famous social list, who was selected at the last na Itlonal convention to head his party as candidate for President, will appear In this city in about a month to help the cause of his party with a political speech in the Coliseum. September 14, Is the date arranged for his appear ance here. The coming of this great party lead r was brought about by the Social ists of Richmond. The committee in charge of the affair is confident that Mr. Debs can not fall to "stir things up" here and they hope to have a large, enthusiastic crowd out for the speech. The subject of Mr. Debs ad dress, not yet determined, will be an flounced in the near future. PRESIDENT TO BE CHAUTAUQUA STAR (National News Association) WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. President Taft accompanied by Major Archibald W. Butt, his aide, and two secret seK vice men. left here over the B. & O. railroad for Mountain Lake park. M.. where the President will address a Chautauqua meeting this afternoon. , He Is expected to return here at 10

Earl Dubois, Alleged Accomplice of G. Gunsaulia, Was Seized After Crossing from Canada to Meet Woman.

IS CREDITED WITH NUMBER OF CRIMES Believed to Have Knowledge of Three Milton Robberies, and Centerville and Cambridge Crimes. Earl Dubois who left Milton follow ing the robberies at the F. M. Jones and Co., and the Lantz stores, last De cember, was captured at Detroit Sat urday night, Just after he had crossed from Canada, where he had been in hiding, to meet a Connersville woman, who is known as his wife. He will be returned Tuesday to Wayne county in custody of Marshal Dan Drischel of Cambridge City, who located the man. and will be placed in the county jail to answer the charge of burglary. Ml3 accomplice, Guy Gunsaulia, is now serving a ten to twenty year sentence in Michigan City penitentiary, and the officials expect to send Dubois to prison for a similar term, as a confession implicating Dubois was wrung from Gunsaulia and the latter's sister May, who in fact was responsible for the first direct evidence the authorities had as to who had committed the robberies at Milton last winter. Skipped to Canada. When Dubois left this community he went to Lansing, Mich., and was known to have been working there until two or three months ago. Before the authorities could secure him there, he evidently got word that he was wanted, and skipped to Canada. Although he was known to be in that country, international complications regarding requisition papers were such that he was practically safe from arrest so long as he remained across the line. ' Late last week Drischel got word that the woman, who is known as Mrs. Dubois, was preparing to go to Detroit. He telegraphed the police there. gave them a good description of both the woman and Dubois and told them to arrest Dubois in case he came across the line. A small reward was offered for his arrest and as soon as the woman landed in Detroit she was spotted by one of the police and shad owed. She boarded a car directly for the wharf and, was about to board the boat crossing the river, when she was accosted by Dubois, so the police in formed Drischel. While the two were clasped in each others arms, two- Detroit officers placed the two under ar rest, it is understood, but later the wo man was released. It is said Dubois admitted identity but expressed sur prise at his arrest. No doubt he will fight being extradited from Michigan. In case he does his return here will be delayed perhaps several days. Milton Is Relieved. Dubois is a suspect in the Center ville post office robbery of last winter and the authorities would not be surprised if he knew something about the bank robbery at Milton and the burglary of the Johnson drug store at Cambridge City and the firing of the building to destroy evidence. Milton residents sighed in deep re lief when they learned Dubois was under arrest. They were afraid to per sonally swear out affidavits . against him, fearing open threats to the effect that in case they did Inform the authorities their homes would be burn ed. Dubois knows the jail like a book having been incarcerated before on equally serious charges which were never proven. OPIUM-CHLOROFORM GIVEN TO A BABY Severe intestinal trouble which developed as a sequence to dietetic errors, Coroner R. J. Pierce declares was the cause of the somewhat mysterious death of the Ave months old child of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Mesker, 733 South Fifth street, on Friday morning. The verdict of the coroner was filed on Monday with the county clerk. The child had been ill for some time and in prescribing for it, the attending physician had recommended a solution of opium and choloforra and a mixture of chalk. Within twenty four hours before the child's death. It had been given four drops of the opiumchloroform medicine and four one-half dram doses of the chalk mixture. The coroner however, does not believe that poisons Were In any way contributory to the child's sudden death. LfA VE the Palladium go ri with you on your vacation. Ten cents per week. Telephone your order beiore starting. Phone 2566.

Earlham College Executive Says Church Has Played No Part in the World's Peace Movement.

LEAVES THIS WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE Strong Sermon Delivered by the Well Known Educator at Reid Memorial Church, Sunday Morning. Criticizing the church very severe ly for not laboring in behalf of peace, Robert L. Kelly, president of Earlham college, delivered an unusually interesting sermon at the Reid Memor ial church yesterday morning. He declared that the church has never become aroused on the subject of peace and that the bitterest wars of all history have been church wars. President Kelly reviewed the events of the past week the signing of arbitration treaties by the United States with England and France, the organization of the world peace bur eau at Berne, Switzerland, founded by Andrew Carnegie. He stated that the church was extremely slow in recog nizing mat the gospel of Christ is a gospel of peace. Aside from the Hague court, which has become permenantly established, the frequent peace conferences at Washington, the annual conference at Lake Mohonk, the interparlimentary union, the peace congress at Boston and Chicago. President Kelly said that the secret, labor and civic organizations were doing much to promote peace throughout the world. He named the chambers of commerce, commercial clubs, labor organizations, bar associations, secret orders, boards of trade, educational institutions, Rhodes', scholarship at Oxford, Inter changing of university professors, es pecially between the United States and Germany, and many other things which' aid in international peace. "A minister asked me where litera ture on the peace question could be obtained," said President Kelly, "and I told him to look up the laws on justice and reason, but the most convincing literature on the peace question is to be found between the leaves of the Holy Scripture. However, the church has not been conspicuous in advocating peace. "Hundreds of controversies have been settled in the past few years by arbitration. Scores of nations have participated in them. But not unjil last Thursday was an agreement made to submit all questions which may arise between three great nations to peaceable means of settlement. "Only occasionally does a Chautauqua lecturer, a yellow newspaper or a promotor of some get-rich-quick scheme, make an effort to arouse the people's passions." He also spoke on reciprocity and of the good results which will be obtained from it. He spoke of the events which occurred in 1898 the SpanishAmerican war, the death of Prince Bismark, who was said to be the champion of war, and of the issuance of the rescript by the Czar which brought about the Hague conference. HAD NARROW ESCAPE Brakes Didn't Work and Autoists Have a Scare. Yesterday afternoon an automobile belonging to G. W. Newbern met with an accident a short distance from town. The mishap took place about one mile this side of Whitewater as the mahcine was ascending a hill The auto bad just come down a steep icline and crossed a bridge, when. as it started to climb the next hill, the brakes became uncontrollable, and the machine slid off the road and turned over. The auto suffered quite a little damage from the fall, as an examination showed that one of the front wheels was badly broken, and the top was also smashed. Further injury to the automobile itself was the demolishing of the wind shield. The members of the party in the auto were lucky in escaping with only slight hurts. Daniel Kiser, North Tenth ttreet, however, pushed his arm through the wind-shield as the machine was going over, and received several cuts on his hand and forearm The others G. W. Newbern, his wife and daughter, and Mrs. Kiser, came off without any injuries. LIQUOR LICENSES Liquor licenses were granted to Wlllim Green, Hugh Taylor and Henry Iennard, all of this city on Monday by the board of county commissioners. The three were questioned particularly In regard to violations of the liquor law but convinced the board members they were conducting very orderly lacea of bosiseM. ;

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Maps and statistics of Arizona and New Mexico, the sister territories week whether they will become states.

FOGBOUND CRAFTS ARRIVE IN BOSTON Three Thousand, Lost During Night, Frightened by Their Experiences (National News Association) BOSTON, Aug. 7. More than 3,000 men, women and children, lost during the night in the worst fog of the season, reached Boston today, sleepless and hungry while anxious friends and relatives awaited news of the safety of scores of others who had not been ablie to reach the steamboat piers or yacht club floats from which they set sail, in some cases, 24 hours previously. Boston harbor was full of fogbound craft of all descriptions. It was long after dawn when the dense vapors lifted. - Relatives and friends of 1,400 passengers on Dorothy Bradford, in from Provincetown, and 1,000 passengers aboard the Betty Alden from Plymouth, were reassured by wlreleses messages that both were safe though fogbound in Boston harbor. Scores of yachts and sailboat parties, how ever, were still at anchor off shore waiting for the sun to pierce the cloud of mist. The Eastern steamship company's boats Bay State, with 600 passen gers from Portland, Me., and City of Rockland, with 450 from Bangor, Me., docked several hours late. The passengers got little sleep be cause of the frequent blowing of the foghorns. OFF Oil A JOURNEY Airman Atwood Leaves Milwaukee for New York. (National News Association) NEW YORK, Aug. 7. Harry N. Atwood, the young Boston aviator, who will attempt to break all standing cross country records in a 1,062 mile flight from Milwaukee to New York, for a $10,000 prize, will leave for Chicago this afternoon on the 20th century limited, enroute for Milwaukee. "Everything is ready at this end," said Mr. Atwood at the Manhattan hotel today. "I shall arrive in Chicago tomorrow id in Milwaukee on Wednesday when I shall complete the preparations there. My machine was shipped yesterday and I hope to complete the trip without a change of aer oplanes. If the weather is favorable I shall leave Milwaukee on Saturday. The $10,000 prize was offered by Victor J. Evans a Washington patent attorney, who is also an aeroplane enthusiast- . The route is over the fol lowing cities and towns: Racine, Chicago, Elkhart, Ind., Bryan, Ohio; Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Pa.; Buffalo, ' Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, Vpnkers, with the terminus at Coney Island. SUICIDE VERDICT MADE BY CORONER Coroner R. J. Pierce, in his verdict as to the case of the death of R. M. Mc Bay less, aged 81. a former county infirmary Inmate, who threw himself under a train at Dublin on July 29, declares death was due to sulside. He learned the man had threatened several times to kill himself. THE WEATHER STATE Showers late this afternoon and tonight. Not much change in temperature. LOCAL Showers this afternoon and tonight. Probably fair Tuesday; not much change in temperature,

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6 I rrucroK i ; -T;ss BRANDS UNHOLY THE WEDDINGJF ASTOR Episcopal Clergymen Denounce Society Event as a Divorce Breeder. (National News Association) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 7. Episcopal clergymen today expressed surprise at the bitter attack made upon Col. John Jacob Astor and New York society by Rev. George Chalmers Richmond, pastor of St. John's Episcopal church In this city. . Rev. Richmond's sermon was. entitled "The Coming Astor wedding and what the Episcopal - church thinks about it. He declared that John Jacob Astor would find one Episcopal clergyman in America or England who would perform his wedding ceremony "The Episcopal church is opposed to divorce," said the pastor. "We scorn unholy alliances, both among the poor of our slums and the rich society dwellers of New port, Bar Harbor or other sinners' summer retreats. "We abhor this Astor alliance. It Is unholy in its origin and its end will be a defiance of God's laws and of our holy religion. We need a national divorce law which will put an end to this ever-riding of court decrees by such as John Jacob Astor and the social set with whom he associates. "So today I denounce from my pulpit this coming Astor wedding. It is an outrage on common decency. It arous es all our moral anger. The Episcopal church is opposed to this alliance. It is contrary to our canons and Mr. Astor will be socially ostracised by the best people the moment he contracts the bargain already made. "It is a marriage of convenience. Astor wants another beauty. The poor, weak girl of eighteen or twenty wants a rich society fellow, whose automobiles, pachts and opera boxes will afford her a chance for social exploitation. Our girls and women are moneymad. Lucre rules among the avenues of the smart set. "'New York's "4 00" today means "Sodom." To rule the "Smart Set," means to manage gambling parties, to run dances and to figure in . divorce court proceedings every year or two. Money Doesn't Rule Church. "Thank God, money no longer rules our church. It did once. We are following Christ, not Wall 6treet. We are giving our honors to men and women who toil to establish a kingdom of justice, not to those who rule in mis conduct and seek the praise of Sodom. I' "Jane Addams and Dr. Grenfell we honor. Astor and his gang we des pise. io cnancei is open to nim, no choir will sing for him, no sexton stands ready to open a door for him." Miss Force and John Jacob Astor are not the only ones of the 'social elite who have come under the scythe of Rev. Richmond. At the time of the Gould-Drexel marriage, the minister predicted that it would' end in a divorce court. Likewise have many others been attacked by Rev: Richmond. While he was pastor of St. John's Episcopal church in Stamford, Conn-, he regularly attacked the rich members of the parish. He predicted that James Hazen Hyde, one time president of the Equitable Life insurance society, would roast for eternity in Hades. On another occasion he attacked CoL Roosevelt and said that he quit the Episcopal church for lack of proper training. TRUSTEE'S REPORT Township trustees and treasurers of school corporations in the county, filed financial report as to school expenditures and revenue, with county superintendent C. O. Williams and the counjtjr conuttiseloaer on, Monday,

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that will learn from the senate this EXPECT VETO Oil THE FREELIST BILL Wool Conferees Deadlocked, So Free List Emissaries Will Proceed. (National Nws Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. With the conference on the wool bill deadlocked it was predicted , on all sides today that efforts to leach an agreement would fall and that the -conference would proceed with the free ,11st bill, agree on that and sent it to the President, then , when the veto message la read they will press for an adjourn ment. Should this program go through, however, it would require several more days to fix up the differences between the opposing factions. Representative Underwood for the house and Senator La Follette for the Senate, are in charge of both measures. La Follette represents that faction of the senate which by standing out for higher duties forced the Democrats of that body to accept the compromise much higher than the bill passed by the house. Mr. Underwood in the house prevented wool from going on the free list. Since then it has been openly declared that a conference report going above 20 per cent fixed in the original bouse will on raw wool would never be accepted. HAD A CLOSE CALL Miss Sedgwick Picks Up Wire which Kills Horse. Fifteen minutes before a horse, owned by the J. M. Eggemeyer Grocery Co., stepped on a live wire, in the yard of Richard Sedgwick on West Fifth street on Saturday afternoon and was instantly electrocuted. Miss Margaret Sedgwick picked up the telephone wire and threw it a few feet to one side She was uninjured and did not realize her danger until a few minutes afterwards when the horse was instantly killed. The wire was blown down during the storm of Saturday noon. It is thought that when she picked it up the contact with a live wire of one of the local power companies had not been formed, and that this contact was formed when she threw it to one side. Telephone linemen who were working near by saw Miss Sedgwick pick up the wire and yelled warning to her. They were made faint by her close call as they knew the danger which she was exposed to. Officials of the wire companies declare that people should be most care ful in either picking up or stepping on wires which are blown down. Even the telephone wire, which ordinarily does not carry enough current to be felt, can become the conductor of an enormous voltage when a contact with a high powered tension wire is formed. The officials advise that all wires whifh are down be treated with the utmost respect, and immediately noti fy the trouble men of the wire com panies. CORRECT ERRORS IN APPROPRIATION BILL (National News Association) WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. The sen ate today passed the Joint house reso lution No. 1 to correct the error of an endowment to the appropriation bills which were rushed through during the closing hours of the last session. The senate amendment allowing the navy department to make a partial payment on naval construction was stricken out...-""

Idaho Senator, Champion of New Mexico and Arizona, Tells Senate Why They; Should Become States.

VOTE TO BE TAKEN TUESDAY OR LATER Arizona Constitution, Providing Recall of Judges, Not Acceptable and Willi Cause Lively Debate. (National News Association) Washington, Aug. 7. Senator Bor ah of Idaho, one of the foremost champions of the bill giving statehood to Arizona and New Mexico, delivered a powerful plea in the senate this afternoon that the two territories be ad-: mitted to the sisterhood of states. Statehood for the two territories will be voted upon within a day or two In the senate, and by that vote the imraediate chances of Arizona for state hood will be determined. The matter turns largely upon the recall of judges provided in the Arizona constitution. likewise there is much party politics. So sure are the backers of the meas ure that success awaits them in the Senate that large delegations from New Mexico and Arizona are ' today preparing to celebrate the history-making legislation on an extensive scale.' Conference with their respective dele gates, Ralph Menry Cameron of Arizona, and William H. Andrews, of New Mexico, pre In order; and everywhere about the hotel lobbies groups of enthusiastic westerners are discussing the optimistic outlook of tomorrow. Cause of the Delay. The cause of the long delay in admitting New Mexico and Arizona to statehood lies in the ultra-progressive constitution of the latter. Exception was taken by the legislators in Washington to the Arisonian provision for ' the recall r .. of .the Judiciary, . and In many quarters the initiative, referen-. . dum and recall features in general were also viewed askance. The antagonism that these progressive features called forth, coupled with a refusal of certain members of Congress to permit the admission of either territory separately, for a, long time defeated their efforts' to gain admission to statehood. , The Arizona constitution is modeled largely after the Oregon constitution, and is admitted to be, by those who have examined it, the most modern of all the present day popular governments. It provides for the initiative, referendum and the recall which is extended to include the juliciary of the territory. It was this last feature that President Taft opposed, and while he has been committed all along to staehood for' the two territories, he Insisted he could not snd would not spprove thin extreme constitutional provision, and it is to be cut out to secure presidential sanction. To Other Extremes. New Mexico goes almost as far to the other extreme in her constitution. It is a staid, practically, unamendable. fundamental law, containing a variety of the best. features from the constitutions, of other states, with the ex ception of the method of dealing with corporations, in which it stands alone among the states. The New Mexico constitution provides for a corporation commission of three elected by the people and having direct supervision over all corporations doing business in the new state. The peculiar feature consists in an automatic transfer of matters before the commission to the supreme court of the territory in cases where a corporation fails to carry out the Instruction of the , commission within a time specified. This, It is claimed by the drafters of the constitution, will do away with the inter minable delay which can be brought about' in other states; by Injunctions sued out by corporations. " Nominally. New Mexico is Republican by about 5,000 , majority, while Arizona is about equally divided between the two parties, with the Democrats having a slight advantage. Arizona, however, has a large number of progressives in both parties, and contains greater proportion of American born citizens than does New Mexico where probably 50 per cent ' of the people are of Spanish descent, although natives of the territory, descendants of the early Spanish settlers. There is a spirit of concession among all elements in Congress, and whereas a few weeks ago. It was practically decided that the question of statehood ' could wait until the next session, just as well as not, the territories jointly have waged such a campaign for immediate statehood, that it probably will be given them at this session. '- , As a' consequence of the unsettled condition of the statehood question, hundreds of telegrams and letters, not only from the territories, but from er-. eryone they could influence in the ; states, have poured into Washington ' begging for action this session. It was pointed out that all business was ... at a standstill, outside capital was not

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