Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 291, 27 August 1911 — Page 1

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VOL. SSSVL SO. 291. niCiraOXD, INTX, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1911. SINGLE COPT 3 CK.CTS.

DAVID BUCK DYING FROM J AUTO WRECK

(Former Richmond Man Is Fatally Hurt When His Pope-Hartford Car Blows a Tire in Elgin Race. LEN ZENGEL FIRST IN CLASSIC EVENT tin His National Car He Finishes Seven Minutes Ahead of Harry Grant, Who Was Driving "Alco Car. - (National Nsws Association) ELGIN, 111., Aug. 26. Len Zengel, ; driving National ,car won the Elgin iroad race in four hours, 39 minutes (and 35 seconds. Just before the finilsh the Pope Hartford car, driven by Dave Buck blew a tire and was wreckled, instantly killing Mechanician Sam 'Jacobs and perhaps fatally injuring I Buck. Both men wer pinioned underIneath the overturned car. Buck's I right thigh was broken, and he also suffered Internal injuries. Jacobs was 1 crushed to death. : The winner's average time was 66.42 i mites an hour. Harry Grant finished I second, seven minutes after the wintiter and five minutes ahead of Hugh i Hughes in a Mercer car. Mulford's Lozler machine broke down in the ninth lap and he was forced to withdraw from the race. He was leading when he stopped. , Aitken In a National, blew out his cylinders In the third lap and De Palma's Simplex broke a fly wheel, leaving htm out of It . It was officially announced late today that all those injured by the collapse of a grandstand section were doing well. , Mrs. Roy Graham, Senator Lorimer's daughter, was still unconscious, but her Injuries are not of a critical nature. . , . Dave Buck was connected with the automobile department of the defunct Richmond, Indiana Manufacturing Co., for over year In the capacity of expert. , He became well known here and was very popular. He married a Richmond woman, Mrs. Button. He left Richmond ' about two years ago and went to Chicago, where he entered the auto racing game and made a reputation for himself as a daring driver, ,," V DISTR1DUTUI RELIEF C2U,000 Raised for Dead v ? Heroes' v Families. (National News Association) CHICAGO. Aug. 26. Judge Wm.' P. Cooper today ordered an ' immediate distribution of the $211,000 relief -fund that was raised in Chicago for the benefit of the widows and children of the firemen who perished with, Chief James Horan in the big stock yards fire at the Morris plant. c However, the widows who petitioned the court that the relief fund be distributed at once did not gain a total victory as they were defeated in one of their main contentions. 1 They fought hard to have the fund divided in such a way that each widow, whatever the rank of her husband, would receive the same apportionment of the fond. The court ruled that the committee had the right to use Its discretion as to how the money should he divided. JOBBERS RIDDLED VICTIMS WITH SHOT (National Nswa Aaaoclatlon) HUNTINGTON. W. Va.. Aug. 26. saddled with bullets and their clothjlng rifled, the bodies of M. F. Pratt, ;ot Catlettsburg. Ky, and M. V. Jart ret. of Glenmays. W. Va.. two' well-to-do lumbermen, were found on the C. . O. railroad tracks near the Cabell I county line by the crew of a freight (train today. Two hundred, dollars which the men 'had with them when , they left one of their camps near Williamson. W. Va was missing. 1 Jarret's body contained 'six bullets and Pratt's five. A posse with bloodhounds has set oat to trail the murderers. SOUTH BEND NEWS ABSORBS THE TIMES . (National Nwa Association) - elkhakt, ind.. Attg. 26. Reliable report here today says veteran editor John E. 8toll has sold the South Bend Times to the South Bend News comtpany and that today, is the last issue 1 of the Times with Stoll at the head.' I. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL -Generally fair

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PARIS, Aug. 26. The refusal of George C.,' Kendall, of New York, to fight a duel with rapiers on the challenge of another. New Yorker, Algernon Boyesen, son of the late Professor Boyesen, of Columbia University, playwright and boulcvardier. has aroused considerable of a controversy nmong the American Colonists. The cause of the challenge was an alleged reflection on Mrs. Boyesen. The two men have met twice and started to punch each other., when ..they were separated by friends. Then Boyesen sent the challenge by his V seconds. Kendall-refuses to fight the "duel on the ground that as an American he Was not accustomed to that manner of : disputes. Kendall's attitude is much criticised, French people condemning it, while the majority of American visitors supporting what they call Kendall's strict adherence to the principles of American citizens. Ill FILES REPORT Oil WRECK ' ' ; . Utilities Board Directs Rail ! Expert to .Visit Scene of Manchester Disaster. (National News Association) ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 26. The public utilities commission : has . received the following . report from its representatives at Manchester regarding the Lehigh Valley wreck: " , : Running the Manchester yards at about 25 miles per hour at a point about 600 feet east of Manchester station, It struck a broken rail, which was broken Into seventeen pieces. The rail was 'piped, (a defect in rolling) and there were a number of growing defects on the ball of the rail. The nine last cars of the train were derailed. The train ran so that the last car" stopped about three rail lengths from the broken rati. The two engines and five cars passed over the Canadiagua outlet trestle. ; Coaches 273 and 297 dropped 45 feet into Canandaigua outlet The dining, car turned over on its side and rolled twenty feet down the embankment;. The rest of the derailed cars were not seriously damaged. Up to thfe morning 25 deaths were recorded arnd 68 persons Injured, 37 of whom are in the hospital. Of the seriously injured it is expected-six or seven will die. The tracks"were opened up Jor travel at midnight. A thorough search has been made of the cars which are in the stream for additional bodies ; , none were found. .',.'.. . No defects were discovered in the equipment of. thre train. Most of the people who were killed were in car 273 which was practically torn to pieces; This was, n modern .car, 'with full vestibules an1 steel platforms, and was lighted with gas and electricity. It folded up jlike a jack-knife.' The broken rail is laeld in control . by the inspectors of.- the commission. The 'rail expert of yie commission has been directed to go at once to Manchester and the errices of one of the1 best rail expets in the country have been secured. fThey will take up a thorough examination of the rail which caused

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BL00D-ST1ED CAR Beattie Calmly Looks on as Talesmen Examine EvDetail. ery (National News Association) CHESTERFIELD COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., Aug. 26. The most dra matlc tableau ever staged in a Virginia murder trial vas presented here today when the jury trying Henry Clay Beattie, Jr. for the murder of his young -wife inspected the blood stained automobile in .which the defendant carried his dead wife to her uncle's home on the "nigftt the trigedyT, The car with; Its blood clotted cushions and red stained wood was drawn up under a spreading oak to one side of the' courthouse. While deputies held back the struggling crowd of curious spectators and while Judge Watson, counsel, and Beattie himself , looked on, "the jurors -climbed Into the car inspecting everything in detail. Beattie with a cigarette between his lips looked on unmoed but his aged father, sickened by the sight turned away and wept. Special prosecutor Wendenburg pointed out to the jurors that there was no blood on the under side of the flooring, contending that no blood bad soaked through the cracks. The prosecutor made this point to support the contention of the state that Mrs. Beattie had been killed upon the turnpike and not in the car. The prosecution claims that if ; she had been killed in the car sufficient blood would have flown from the wound to have soaked through to the under side of the floor. The scene was a most striking one, the sun filtering through the leaves of the big oak down on judge Watson, clad . in an immaculate . white linen suit, standing just in front of the hood of the car, the counsel on-both sides of him, closely watching the jurors. The prisoner, himself, stood at the left side of the car within a foot of that part of . the running board in which, according to his version of the tragedy his wife's blood must have run out to. form the Immense pool which was found in the -. Midlothian turnpike. He was the .most unmoved person present, apparently. Carrying under his arm the minutes of coroner's inquest in the case, he gazed with sphynx-llke face at the work of the jurors and scarcely moved a muscle throughout the investigation." Behind him "Rtood three, hundred spectators, amor g them bis father and brother.;. ; , ', ; ". 1:, FATAL FALL OF 100 FEET FROM FREIGHT r' . . . 1 . (National News Association) f NORTH VERNON, Ind., Aug. 26. Lester Stearns, 17, son of Joe Stearns, merchant at Browersville, boarded a freight train south of town last night intending to ride to his home. , There is a high bridge 100 feet high over the river, near Browersville and as -the train went over It, Stearns fell to the bed below and was killed instantly. CROWDED MOTOR BUS CRASHED INTO TREE (National News Association) " . CONSETT. England. Aug. 26. Ten persons were killed outright and many , others seriously Injured, some of them fatally, when a crowded motor bus got beyond control of its driver and crashed into a tree Aear here toda-. :

IS TO BE BIG DAY FOR THE LOCAUHAUTAUOUA Judge Blair, of Adams Coun ty Vote Buying Scandal Fame and Father Daly, the Principal Speakers. A LARGE AUDIENCE, OUT LAST EVENING Byron King Entertained the ; Crowd with an Amusing . Address- Jubilee Singers Made a Decided Hit. , BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. One of the largest first Saturday night audiences in the history of the local Chautauqua greeted the speakers and musicians of last evening and the managers regard this as an indication of the interest that wil be manifested when crowds are expected to hear the several distinguished speakers of today who include Father John Daly, an eminent Catholic clergyman and philanthropic worker and Judge A. Blair recently risen into national prominence on account of his identification with the famous Adams County, Ohio, bribe cases.; : -'. Byron W. King entertained another large audience in his characteristic manner, last evening, after a program of orchestra music by Bland's band and a song by Miss Nell Bunnell which met with an enthusiastic reception. King Big Attraction. Mr. King is as clever a comedian as treads the lyceum, or indeed, the theatrical boards. Whether or not he is amusing himself 'most and the audience more is a question. Certainly the fluency born of natural gifts, united to "an experience of foiy-one years as admitted by himself, is nothing less than amazing , and his ability to appeal to the risibilities of his hearers a fortunate consequence. "What Fools These Mortals Be," was Mr. King's subject, and if he did not stick to his text it was no particular matter. The only two classes of fools he referred to were the "idle" and the "serious" fools, and he paid his re spects to these in no uncertain man ner, ! 3fteiilM motors, rbjlSTnot announced on the program, proved to be the necessity' of love for your work if you expect to lead a successful and happy life. The man who has mistaken his calling, the slaves of labor who work as "dumb, driven brutes," he who hates his occupation, the laggard, the dawdler and the shirker, were anathe matized ' and commiserated by Mr. King. If the social order was in part to blame for these mal-adjustments, it was as often true that the individual was at fault. ,, "Fall in love with your work," said Dr. King. King Droll Comedian. Mr. King is droll, amusing, inconsequent, whimsical. He knows how to play upon his audience as a musician upon his instrument. He holds the attention of a diverse aggregation of humanity, as that of last evening, by his sudden shifts from poetry to grotesquerie. He startles by paradox. He amuses by anachronisms. He showed himself to be last evening, as in the af ternoon, a typical Chautauqua "entertainer," one who understands his hearers,' knows their point of view, their temper of the moment, and plays to it. Incidentally Mr. King recited several of Riley's poems effectively and with an appreciation of their poetic, as well as their homely sentiment. The Jubilee singers gave a short program of - negro and Southern melodies after Dr. King's lecture, and were heartily received, their solo and ensemble singing being effective, united as it is so Inimitably in their race, with a certain conscious, but unembarrassed histrionism. They appear in a sacred concert at four o'clock this afternoon. NOTES. Miss Anna K. Neale, who has charge of the children's exercises, was introduced to the audience last evening and spoke for a few moments on the object of her work and the necessity 'of having as many children join her1 drills and classes as possible in order that the success of the operetta to be given the latter part of this week would be assured. Miss Nell Bunnell came to Richmond from a successful season of Chautauqua, work through the South, having been ' In i Mountain Lake park , before her ; arrival here. Daring the winter she travels with her own company in concert. . ; Rev. L. H. Banyan will have charge of the Sunday school this morning In the place of Mr. Edward P. Hasemeier, as originally arranged. , ' Mr. Leon' Vincent, who begins a series of lectures before the Chautauqua and the Teachers Institute tomorrow morning, is one of the most elegant and accomplished lecturers on purely literary subjects before the public today. Dr. Vincent is author of a XGsBttoaed oft Pace Three).

SUNDAY

CONGRESSMAN GRAY SAYS HE IS STILL FOR PROGRESSIVES

Returns to Connersville Saying He Won't Vote for a Democratic President Unless He Is Progressive. SAYS INDIANA WILL RALLY TO MARSHALL Expresses Admiration for Speaker Clark and Gives Opinions on Doings of the Special Session. (Staff Correspondent.) , CONNERSVILLE, InL, Aug. 26.Congressman Finley Gray of the Sixth Indiana district is In his native city again after serving his constituents since last March in the special session of congress. Mr. Gray is still an enthusiastic insurgent, notwithstanding the fact he serves under the banner of democracy and that the progressive movement is supposed to be confined to the ranks of the Republican party. Just to prove that he is still insurgent Representative Gray informed the Palladium by way, of " introduction to a detailed statement on congressional affairs, that unless the Democrats nominated for president a man who was progressive in every sense of the word he would not vote his party's presidential ticket, but would vote for the man who measured up to the required standard. Mr. Gray said that in his opinion Governor Marshall would receive the support of Indiana Democracy for the presidential nomination, but that he did not know who the Indiana Democrats would favor for vice president Sentiment For Clark. Mr. Gray said that in .Washington there was a strong sentiment for Champ Clark to head the, Democratic ticket,, especially among the Democratic members of the House. , Mr. Gray did , not commit himself as to whom he favored for .the . nomination, but said he thought . well of Speaker Clark because he was an advocate of the open' caucus. He said that last Monday night both ' he , and Speaker Clark had spoken in favor of the open on uus,, question,,, , . 1 Mr., -Gray said that every thing poin-; ted to President Taft being again nominated to head the. Republican ticket. ? Other matters of interest were dis cussed by Mr. Gray in the Interview; He gave his opinion on the legislation enacted at the special session. He em phatically denied that he had changed his opinion on the wool tariff. He said he favors a tariff commission appointed by and under the control of Congress, ; and declared that the next big issues ; which will be 4 considered ; by the coming Congress will be LaFollette's bill for government ownership of the Alaskan railroads and public utilities. As To Reciprocity. What is your opinion of the legislation enacted -during the extra session, particularly as to the wool bill and the reciprocity treaty? "The objection of the insurgent republicans to the Canadian Treaty was that it discriminated against the farmers and ultimate consumers in that it admitted , free of duty rough lumber and grain, live stock and other farm products in the form in which they are sold by the farmer, but. imposed a tariff tax on dressed lumber and flour, meat and other food articles in the state in which they are consumed by the people. They expressed a willingness to support i- the Reciprocity Treaty if the farmers and ultimate consumers were given a corresponding advantage with the manufacturers, and proposed that this be done by a free list amendment to the treaty bllL The President demanded, however, that the treaty should pass without amendment And while the Democrats shared the same views with the . insurgent Republicans that the treaty alone did not favor the farmers and consumer equally with the manufacturer, they , chose to pass the treaty as demanded by the President and rely upon him to approve a separate free list bill to correct the inequalities of the treaty schedules discriminating against the fanner and consumer, and put it in force with the treaty. "But the President, accepting the support of the Democrats on the treaty, vetoed the free list bill embodying the amendments asked by the insurgent Republicans to equalize the tariff rates of the treaty in favor of the farmer and ' consumer, as the Insurgent Republicans had warned the Democrats he would do. In this the insurgents claim, and they may have, a strong case of credulity against the Democrats in relying upon the President to protect the farmer and consumer. But, if so, they have a much stronger case against the President for deliberately , discriminating against the farmers and consumers in approving and putting in force the treaty and vetoing the separate free list bill to protect the farmer and consumer. I do not believe the President win be sustained in bis vetoe of the free list bill and withholding the beneflts iConUnued on Page Twaj.

LOCALGROCERYf.il. AIID MARKETMEtl Oil COMMODITIES' COST

C. B. Hunt Says One Reason Is Very Best Has to Be Served, Even to People of Moderate Means. DRY, WARM SUMMER, MARKETMAN STATES Commission Man Says that He Buys from Indianapolis Dealers, So Prices Here re Naturally Higher. The poor people will have nothing but the choicest The masses purchase the select of foodstuffs and everybody demands quicker delivery. People are careless in ordering and grocers are forced to make many more deliveries daily because of this fact Consequently the cost of living is higher than it would be otherwise." In this manner Clayton Hunt, a prominent grocer of this city expressed his opinion on the reasons for the higher prices now charged by local grocers for foodstuffs. He declared that the choice of everything was demanded by the poor as well as the rich and that it is impossible to get a profit out of certain articles of food for this reason, which the grocer carried practically at a loss. He said that very few orders were received for the less select pieces of meat groceries. etc. ' Housewife Blamed, v He also declared that grocers were obliged to deliver, small articles of gro ceries on which little profit is made This must be made from the sales of other things. Carelessness Is another thing which causes the high prices. Mr. Hunt says. He asserted that housewives lack judgment In ordering groceries and additional trips must be made each day because the housewife has forgotten to order some small ar ticle. ' ' ' ' M,1 " r- : Other grocers concurred with Mr. Hunt's remark. Some! declare that prices are not exhorbitant and lay the .blame for the present prices on the hot and dry summer which has been experienced in this section of the connMarketmen declare , that the high prices on some produce Is because of the hot and dry summer, but add that most of the local produce is sold as cheaply as it was last summer. )Celery, beats, lima beans, pickles and lettuce is sold at exactly the same price, they gay." - ' . - ' ' Potatoes are scarce and the market' men, as well as commission merchants assert that Indiana is practically bare of potatoes. Commission1 merchants aay that potatoes are being shipped by jobbing houses here and la the larger cities In the state to the country towns which usually have potatoes to ship to the larger towns and cities. ' A "Rank Injustice.' - One commission merchant declared yesterday that the Palladium did the commission merchants in this city a "rank Injustice," by publishing an article Thursday evening comparing the prices which the local commission house men are asking and the prices obtained by commission men 7 in Indianapolis, showing the local prices to average higher. 7 He said that local commission merchants purchase a large part of their produce from Indianapolis commission houses, and that it Is a physical impossibility to ship produce to this city and sell it at the same price maintained by Indianapolis merchants. , 'I Oranges, lemons, sweet potatoes and onions are purchased from Indianapolis or Cincinnati houses . while other produce is purchased from the South and the country districts in this vicinity. He asserted that it was necessary to ask a high price on all perishable goods in order to get the money out of the goods before it became unfit for sale. J. P. Lancaster, one of the oldest marketmen selling at the South Sixth street market says that it has been an unprecedented summer for the local market men, because of the dry weather. When asked If there was any combine among the farmers and truck men who have stalls at the market square in regard to fixing prices, he exclaim, ed that the marketmen :i were too "slow" to do anything of that nature. He says that as a rule the principal gardeners set the prices but that there was no agreement either oral or written by which standard prices were maintained. BRYAN OPPOSES HARMON FOR PRESIDENT (National Kews Association) AURORA, nL,Aug. 26. Wm. J. Bryan does not mince matters' in his opposition to Judson Harmon, Governor of Ohio as a candidate , for the presidency. ' In fact via an Interview here he declared he : did not regard Harmon available. ' Among 'the men Bryan believes would make strong presidential candidates are Champ Clark, Gov. Wood row Wilson of New Jersey, ex-Governor Folk of Missouri, and Gov. Marshall of Tndianas , H

CONFESSES HE SLEW FAIL? Following Severe Third De gree, the Young Boonville Murderer. Admits to Triple Crime in Writing, SAYS FEAR CAUSED TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Following the Confession the Young Man Was Taken from Evansville to Jeffer sonville Prison. (National News Association) EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 2S WU liam Lee confessed to the murder at his father, mother and brother thu afternoon at 4 o'clock. He was takes to the Indiana Reformatory at Jetfes sonville by Sheriff Scales and Detee ttve John Hougle. , WILLIAM UE2, : ,

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Sheriff Davis extracted tM,oonfa -slon from Lee after several hours cf :! Uitertjr&tlr desresjeethede krti.

the written confession was made with . out any indication of pressure. 'This " followed a verbal admission. On leaving the jail here, Lee spoke to news ' ' paper men with only a slight, Quaver . : in his voice. , The confession in full . follows: - : J Lee's Confession. "l make this statement as I . am '

alone. . The others are not facta, and t others are not as It happened. I was out of my head and did not know hardly what I was doing. ' I recall of striking three licks. I heard my , father t ' say he was going to kill me, and 1 did .' not knowwhat I . was doing at the Ume. ( The first lick must; hare been , my mother, and the next my brother, and then I saw father coming towards . me and grab at ; my , throat I struck , him then. I struck a match and' threw it down and a flash charge earn rand blinded me. It then went out -1 raised the alarm and put on my troue- f

ers as i went to tne netgnoors noose for help. 3 All of this time I was out

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was doing at alL The axe was att . ting by the door and I picked it up and , struck that way. It most have been, my mother I struck. ;? Then t reached y over a lltUe. more and that struck my j brother. I did not know I struck elth-. . er, of them. I was, scared so badly 4 and frightened .that I ; did ' not7 know , , what I was doing. If more licks wera t struck I do-not know It I thought I f , was hitUng my father.; I thought jl t heard struggling all the. time before, I , got to the door.; But 1 was frightened and scared, until I did not know what t I was doing. And my being scared .bad t .. made me do this. - :" . "What scared me was my Ufa bciS- . threatened and what my father tail to me. I would not have done -it for . anything if I had my sense at alL . "(Signed) William. Lee. ; t Lee's verbal ' confession . to" eherlff , . Davis was more lucid Lee told eher- ' : iff Davis that he demanded , money of t . his parents so that he could get mar- T ried. A quarrel followed. Then he . went to his room. After his parents

father with one terifflc blow with an , . axe. then UUed his mother. . His brother Clarence awakened and eraspled with him. ' He finally heat hint , down and then set Are to the bed. on which his. parents were slain and ra 'f. from the house and gave the alarm. ,

BOMB EXPLOSION WRECICS TENEMENT - (National News Association) v -NEW YORK. Aug. 26. The Uvea of 32 families were Imperiled today by the explosion of a bomb on the side' walk . between 1 211 and 213 Christie street, which had been hurled from a roof from the 'opposite side- of tie street. - - - t This wss the ninth bomb explosion since the first of August in that aefcS bornood.'' The police believe the aeries' of bomb outrages Is caused '.- Tty. trade rivalry 7 ' f; ' ";X : '

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