Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 292, 28 August 1911 — Page 1

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I' Bert' Miller, an American, Shot in Abdomen by One of a Gang of Italians in North End of City. SOLOMON MILLER IS PAINFULLY INJURED father of Young Man Was Stabbed in the BackSeven Men Under Arrest and One Man Missing. Although not as mysterious as many other cases, the local police are somewhat baffled as to the identity of the Italians wno snot down young wen Miller, and stabbed his father, Solomon Miller, early Sunday morning as the two were going to their home on North Sixteenth street. Young Miller Is reported dying at the Reid Memorial hospital, having been shot from behind, the bullet entering the abdomen. There Is little hope entertained for his recovery. His father is not in a serious condition but his injury is very painful. He was stabbed In the back, the blade ot the knife, or razor striking the shoulder blade. .Seven Italians are now In the city 4a 1 1 anil thin mAfnlnir urarA sthl I traA if jmi saisia tuio utci ws w wsb. w go through a severe examination before the authorities. They were taken to the hospital where Miller identifled one as the foreigner who shot him. However, Police Supt. Gormon believes that Miller is mistaken and that Nicholas Benakas, at whose house the Italians roomed and who is thought to have left the city sometime Sunday morning is the man who did the shooting and stabbing also. He thinka that .Miller's statement

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tseutb, atreet 'and were etuin1ng ftom ' the downtown district about midnight Saturday. Aa, they were passing the Wayne Works, shops, an Italian stopped . then) and accused them of klcktag bis dog. The elder Miller replied

that they bad not seen ms aog, ana the foreigner is alleged to have declared that he would shoot them. - Solomon Miller Bays that the Italian left them and as he and his son turned on Sixteenth street -at North P street they noticed a number of men running toward them. The ' men began mumbling In the Italian tongue and surrounded the Miller's. Young Miller attempted to run but as he glanced back he saw five foreigners pounce on his father. He quickly turned and started to Ills father's assistance when an Italian standing in - the , street fired three shots at him, . .... . " . 11 A 1 ...11.1 W

third entering young Miller's abdo- " men. As the limp body of the youth fell to the gravel pavement one of the men who had struck the elder Miller raised a shining knife or razor above his head and stabbed the old man. At this Juncture men residing near the place where the affair occurred ran In the direction of where the shots were 'fired and the Italians fled. Patrolman Bundy. who was between Fourteenth and Fifteenth street at the time, heard the shots and ran quickly to the spot. He gathered what little information he could and sent in a riot call. Supt Gormon with Patrolmen Menke, Ed wards, Wlerhake and Wenger responded. Taken to Hospital. In the meantime the injured boy ' iiad been carried to the home of Ar-; v thur Darby, 1710 North F street and hospital. Surgeons did not probe for . the; bullet Immediately on account ot 'bitxcjOdltloa, but It was removed aft- - lAfwerds. . . ' The police Immediately surrounded the boarding and rooming house . of Nicholas and Rosie Benakas. No trouble was experienced in gaining entrance to the house and eleven foreigners were placed under arrest , on ; suspicion of committing assault and battery with Intent to kill. Four of tbe men were released while Eeven are still held, pending further investigation. The four released were Mike Jacobs, Mike Kronlck, Lowrl Pop and Ooble R. Krium, and the seven confined at the city jail are Mike "Welsh. Jim Lereria, Richard Rosa, Frank Perry, Tony Mosemma, Jerry Corruso. and Ollie Lonchts. Most of the men bave been employed about local shops. When asked by a Palladium reporter

as to the whereabouts of her husband. Rosie Benakas, smiled and asserted tn her native tongue that he left the city Saturday night at 9 o'clock for New York to visit her sister whom, ' she said, was very ill. Her statement was made to an interpreter who translated Hip the reporter. Supt. Gormon

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GIRL WHOM WILLIAM

LEE WAS TO MARRY ) MINA TAYLOR Sweetheart of Boonville youth who killed his mother, father and brother. TWO CIVIC CLUBS EMTEREDPROTESTS Appear Before City Board in Interests of Factory Man and a Merchant. Civic organizations came prominently to the front today in the defense of business and manufacturing firms of this city. A committee of seven men, representing the Commercial club, ap peared before the board of public works this morning and requested the board to act favorably, if possible, up on the petition of George E. Kemper, manager of the Richmond Furniture Manufacturing company, - asking that the alley from West Fifth to Edna street be vacated and the alley moved fifteen feet north of its present location. A letter was received by the board from the Y. M. B. C, asking that Henry Goldfinger, who is to establish a large women's wearing apparel store, at 824 Main street,' be permitted to place the name of his store . on the sidewalk in front of the building. In regard to the, former matter the Commercial club, representatives, H. Rs Robinson, Howard Dill, James Carr, Dr. T. Henry Davis, S. E. Swayne, E. M. Haas and Charles Jordan, declared that the club believed it Do more than right and fair for it to extend its help to Mr. Kemper's company as the club tried to benefit the factories already in this city as well as trying to induce others to locate here. There are but six lots touching upon the alley and the owner of each, except Henry Bullerdlck, has signed the petition for its vacation. To Be Considered. ' Mr. Bullerdlck is said to oppose the petition because of alleged personal feeling between him and Mr. Kemper. Attorney Gardner expressed his opinion on the law In a case of this nature and said that the Supreme court had ruled that when there was one person opposed to a petition that nothing could be done. However, the board decided to take the matter under advisement and an attempt will be made to secure the vacation of the alley. Mr. Miller intends to place a lumber yard on its site instead of on a lot next to his factory. He decided upon this course because residents complained that they did not want a lumber yard next to their property. ' Relative to the letter from the Young Men's Business club the board of, works decided to refer the matter to the city council. There is a city or dinance which says that signs or letters ot any advertising nature cannot be placed on a sidewalk. This Mr. Goldflinger has done, but it is alleged that he had no knowledge of such an ordinance .prohibiting-it. The letter from Secretary Will Keller stated that although-the club believed. in the enforcement of city ordinances that it did not believe in a strict observance of all of them. It Is probable that an amendment will be made to the ordinance at the next session of council. The board adjourned to meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon. At this time the deeds and contract between tbe city, the Pennsylvania Railroad company and the Gaar-Scott company were" considered." The board requested that more details be placed In the contract as to when the railroad company would wreck the old furniture building at Washington avenue and North Eighth streets. .The ground is to be donated to the city for park purposes. By this agreement North P street will be closed. ... , , A petition was received by the board asking that the alley between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets from N. F to the railroad tracks be improved by grading, graveling and bouldering. INVESTIGATE SAFETY OF 5-CENT THEATERS - (National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 28. Investigation of Chicago's motion picture theaters was agitated today as a result of the fire and panic horror which caused the death ot 6 persons in a theater in Canonburg. Pa., Saturday night Many of the ' thousand nickle theaters here are said to have narrow passages and jexlta. This will be changed at once.

FOR SECOND TIME PROGRESSIVES ARE RULED OUT PARTY

President Taft in a Speech Makes Bitter Attack on Faction of the Party which Opposes Him. WILL CARRY FIGHT TO HOSTILE STATES Broadside of President Lets Down the Bars and Lafollette Will Make His Reply on Thursday. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. President Taft in his speech Saturday before the Essex County Republican Club, at Beverly, Mass., opened the Presidential campaign of 1912. Tart scored tne "Insurgent members of the Republican party in Congress and the Democrats who combined to revise several schedules of the present tariff at the special session of Congress just closed. He singled out Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, Speaker Clark and Chairman Underwood, of the House Ways and Means. Committee, as leaders of the attempted revision and gave them special mention. Several times he referred to Mr. La Follette and mentioned the other insurgent Senators merely as the latter's "associates." t The Woolen Bill. The President said in part: "No tariff bill within any one's recollection has ever been passed with so little care. They declined to wait ftO days to hear a report of a full investigation on Schedule K, which the previous Congress, by a united vote of the Democrats and Republicans including the insurgents, had directed to be made on the 1st of December. "It is true that this statutory direction, was specifically made to a Tariff Board, created under a bill which ul timately,-failed of passage, although supported by- all the gentlemen - who were prcmnent B th -pesme. of tWs woolen bill. Still that same Congress gave me money - enough to create a board to do the same work. "It is a board of exactly the same personnel as that, which the Tariff Commission would have had, for on it I have put three Republicans and two Democrats and made it non-partisan in the sense that the Tariff Commission bill required. "It is a board that In every respect is the same as the statutory Tariff Commission, except that it is not per manent and has not the power to summon witnesses, and this it finds unnecessary because it can secure all the information It needs without doing so. It is tbe same board which Messrs. Clark and Underwood and Senator LaFollette and his associates are demanding. ! Attacks Insurgents. "I submit that the congressional history of this legislation taken with the previous inconsistent position of Mr. Underwood and Mr. Clark. Mr. La Follette and his associates,' is enough to( show why the wool bill ought not to have been signed and is enough to convince the people of this commonwealth that the party in power in the Lower House and the combination which is temporarily in power in the Upper House, ought not to receive from them a vote of confidence. , Protection is Doomed. "I am here to speak the truth as nearly as I can. I recognize the general demand throughout the eountry for a reduction of duties as far as that can be made consistent with the mainte nance of a measure of protection that shall enable the industries of the country to live. "The time of the Chinese wall and duties exceeding the difference be tween the cost of production here and tbe cost of production abroad has passed and we of the Republican party are under an obligation as soon as opportunity comes to advocate and carry through a revision of the tariff which shall meet the present popular demand and to which we are really pledged. ... .' , , , , "Therefore, when the tariff board shall make its report in December on wool and cotton I expect to submit to Congress recommendations based on their report for a revision of both schedules.. "I have already expressed my opinion that the woolen schedule is too high, that it has prevailed for so many years that It ought to b revised, and is the subject of complaint, not only to consumer, but also by those who are engaged in the industries effected. : . v .;...,.. "So far as I can help it, however, no such revision will take place unless it is made with a full knowledge of the facts as found by an impartial investi gation. . . ',..:,..,. "The public will have ample time calmly !to consider and decide whether they desire to put into power gentlemen leading a party who, while pro fessing a wish for facts and information so as to make tariff legislation as just as possible, no sooner have the opportunity ' than they adopt measures (Continued on Page Eight

YANKEETOWN DAM A SCENE SUNDAY OF A DOUBLE TRAGEDY

Jchn H. Fort, 55, a Farmer, and Son-in-law, Howard Holler, Also Farmer, Were Drowned While Fishing. JUMP INTO STREAM FOLLOWING BANTER Claude Hunt Goes After John Fort and Almost Gets Body Ashore When Forced to Release Hold. (Palladium Special) ABINGTON, Ind., Aug. 28. Bantered to jump in the treacherous waters of the Yanketown Dam, just south of here, John H. Fort, 55, a laborer, bet-1 ter known in this community as "Tine Whiteinger" and his son-in-law Howard Hoiler, 32, a farmer, living south of this place, dived from the bank into about fifteen feet of water and were drowned between four and five o'clock yesterday afternoon. The two men had been fishing and accompanying them were Earl Fort, Claude Hunt, living south of Richmond on the Liberty pike, and a man by the name of Norton, who worked on Holler's farm. Hunt seeing the danger in which Fort and Holler were In jumped in and attempted to rescue Fort, after a hard struggle and just as he had reached the bank, he had to release his hold on Fort to save himself. Two Bodies Recovered. The two bodies were recovered from the dam about 8 o'clock. Attempts to resuscitate Fort and Holler were made but to no avail. The coroner of Union county was called and declared the deaths were due to accidental drowning. Both Holler and Fort were in Richmond n Saturday,, a,ndit la- alleged; were intoxicated.4 Thjsy went through Abington about midnight -and disturbed some"' of the populace, it Is said. Yesterday they went, fishing and, it is alleged resumed their debauch. Tiring of fishing, it is said, one man bantered the other to jump in with him with their clothes on. Sheriff. Steen . of Richmond heard that the two were seining but this story is denied here. The bodies -of the- two men were taken to the house of Obediah Holler, with whom Howard Holler lived and the funerals will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Burial will be in the cemetery near here. Holler is survived by his wife, the daughter of Fort, and two children and his par ents. Fort is survived by three chil dren and the widow, with whom, however, he had not lived for several years, it being alleged the two became estranged as a result of his excessive drinking. His widow lives in the west. s Both were well known in this com munity. Fort had been living by himself on a two acre place which he owns, in addition to attending to this he worked out. His son-in-law, Howard Holler, managed his father's farm and lived with the old people on it. He was known as an industrious and energetic farmer. His widow is almost prostrated. Stream is Dangerous. Both Fort and Holler lived in Union county, within a mile of this place. The Yankeetown Dam has been the 6cene of several drownings. Though It is frequented as a swimming hole, it is said that in some of the deeper places there is an under current. The water in some places is from fifteen to twenty feet deep.? About two years ago Holler had the Inside of his lefthand and one or two of the fingers allot off by his brother, William Holler, who is now confined in Estern Indiana hospital; William Holler had suspicioned that some one was stealing corn from the crib, and also chickens. One night the two brothers wg watching and Howard had gone arouwf the barn and on returning to- Where his brother was, crept along the criib.. William Holler mistaking him for a thief fired and the shot lodged in his left hand. . EARL DUBOIS NOW WORRIES SHERIFF T' : ' Sheriff Albert; Steen Is worried over the condition of 'Earl Dubois, who was brought to the jwranty jail from Detroit to answer the charge of the burglary of the F, M. Jones and the Lantz stores at Milton last December. The sheriff declares; Dubois has that pallid prison look and appears as though his health had broken under the confinement of the past week or so. "Dubois is. not," nor WM he be unless the court orders, allowed any freedom ot the jail yard." THE WEATHER LOCAL Showers tonieht and Tues day. Not much change in temper aturs - '

FATHER DALY WAS POPULAR SPEAKER AT THE ASSEMBLY

Famous Catholic Priest Is Eloquent, Possessed of a Delightful Humor and a Magnetic Voice. WELFARE OF CHILD TITLE OF ADDRESS Drink, Poverty and Indulgent Parents Three Main Causes of the Degeneracy of Child, He Says. BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Rv Tnhn TV.J 1 v iha wall bnnvn ! philanthropist, and Rector of the Boys' Home, of Milwaukee, addressed one of the largest Sunday night audiences in the history of the local Chautauqua last evening, and held his audience by his eloquence, direct statement, delightful humor and magnetic voice. Father Daly represents one of the highest types of American citizenship and his sane treatment of his subject, "The Homeless Child and the Juvenile Court," was as convincing as it was illuminative of certain phases of the present social order. Father Daly referred to the widespread interest, among Catholic and Protestant alike, in the welfare of the child, as the habits engendered by the training of'cbildren crystallized In the man. As the child so the man. The prevention was easier than the cure. "Remove the causes that make children become the criminals and plagues of society," said the speaker. What Causes Are. "There are three .main causes for the degeneracy of the child," said Father Daly. First, drink; second soul destroying poverty; third the spoiling of children by their parents." And that the last cause was not the least, was shown in the number of Jnmates of our state reformatory and correctional institutions from educated and refined families of the better socisl- classes,'- showing defective train ing through parental indulgence. ' On the other hand Father Daly depicted the misery of children born in extreme poverty,, especially those of the larger cities, victims of conditions which were the result of our present anomalous state of society in which individuals pile up millions upon the weary labor of those unable to rise above a certain industrial state. ; Father Daly paid his respects to Carnegie when he stated that no mat ter how many great libraries were built with the name of the alleged philanthropist on the lintel, no matter how many churches, colleges and hospitals were endowed, he, personally could not forget that men were shot down like dogs in the Carnegie mills at Homestead for the horrible crime of petitioning for twenty-five cents an hour advance in wages. The Tenement House. He asked his audience to remember when they were delighted to buy ready made clothes at what they regarded a bargains,' that little children, many only babies, were herded in tenements helping their parents make these gar ments for a miserable pittance, and often under unsanitary conditions, re lating many of his own personal in vestigations. Father Daly's irony was directed against the idle rich, the woman who lavishes affection on her poodle, the shirker of domestic and parental du ties and other human junk,' to the edification of his audience, and his adding of a fourth cause for many chil dren's miserable plight, namely, di vorce, met with the temper of his au-. dence, as indicated by the applause following. Insistence of self-control on the part of the parent was also dwelt on, and the evils of beating and slapping the child for small offenses, which only aroused the resentment and compatibility of the child, but. resulted in that very lack of discipline which it was in tended to InstilL Father Daly's address abounded with hard sense, gentle humour, convincing argument and happy incident, and was one of the most enjoyable of its char acter ever given in this city. Father Manning, of St. Mary's In troduced Father Daly to the audience in a graceful and felicitous manner. : Mr. Cotton, spoke this afternoon,.at half past one on "Complete Education of the Masses." The appearance of Dr. Leon H. Vin cent in tbe beginning of his lectures on American men of letters, was greeted .with enthusiasm,' Dr. Vincent having established himself in the good graces of this community by. bis series of , lectures given here several years ago. ? "Franklin,' was Dr. Vincent's sub ject for the morning. Dr. Vincent treating of the great .American early life, the influences that made their impress on , his later distinguished career, of his beginning in Boston, of his first journey to Philadelphia and that to London and of his return to Philadel phia; nis famous meeting with the future Mrs. Franklin while - walking down the street munching one of his (Continued on Pace Six-

PROMINENT LAWYER WHO WAS MURDERED

4 V tJX CHARLES T. TINDALL Shot to death last week by Ed wand C. Van Pelt. Civil War veteran and newspaper man. AT CHARLESTON GREAT South Atlantic Coast Swept by Hurricane Many Thought to Be Dead. ." ' (National News Association) - Savannah, Ga., Aug. 28. Communi cation was restored with Charleston, S. C, this morning after that city had been cut' off from the balance of the world for 15 hours, by a terrible hur ricane which swept that section of the Atlantic coast. By telephone it was learned that the storm accompanied by winds that blew nearly 40 miles an hour swept the city kicking up gigantic waves in the har bor that nearly submerged the inhab ited .islands of the city. Turning suddenly In its .path the storm mervtd southward at a rate of a mile a min ute. - . , . .. Heavy damage was done and great loss of life is feared in the isolated districts about Charleston that were lying in the path of the tornado. Fears are felt for the ships as numerous Sunday excursion - boats were ' at sea when the storm struck. The wind here blew 60 miles an hour, blowing down telegraph and telephone poles. Warned by the weather bureau bulletins, fish ing boats and other small craft remained in the harbor. SNUBBED AVIATOR TO SHOW UP WHITE Atwood, Holder of Distance Record, Meets GrahamWhite at Squatum. (National News Association) ATLANTIC, Mass., ; Aug. 28. A re markable contest between . Harry N. Atwood, who holds the record for long distance cross country flight, and Claude Graham-White, the English birdman, is expected to be a feature of the Harvard aerial meet at Squatum, all this week. Atwood claims to have been snubbed by Graham-White while working in a garage and is anxious to prove his superiority over the Englishman as a birdman. A rousing reception was planned for Atwood upon his arrival at the Squatum field today. He was escorted by the other six aviators who are here for the meet. It was at Squatum that Atwood started in to learn flying four months ago, then, an obscure youth, but today the welcome of a conqueror was in store for him. Earl Levington. another crack Boston aviator, -announced - that - he had gotten his monoplane in condition for flight today and that he would be in the air..' .; ., LITTLE INTEREST BY CONTOACTORS Little interest apparently is manifested by contractors in the contract for the erection of the detention hospital for insane .which the county -will build adjacent to the jail. The , bid must be in by 11:00 a. m., Wednesday, September 6, when the commissioners will let the contract to the bidder with the lowest and best bid. There hare been but two contractors to Inspect the plans and specifications on file at the county auditor's office. Tbe contract, which will be let, must provide for the plumbing and heating systems. The amount appropriated for the work was $6,000. It Is hoped by the board of commissioners that the work be started this fan so that the hospital will be available for use by January 1,

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L TO DEATH AT EATON, OHIO Andrew F. Avery, 38, a Pop-V ular Farmer, Victim of an! Assault by Charles Price,: Also a Farmer. ASSAILANT CRAZED WITH LOCAL BOOZEi Returns to Eaton After Spree in Richmond, Encounters Avery and Without Warning Assaulted Him. (Palladium Special) . . EATON, O., Aug. 28. Sustaining a fractured skull and concussion of the brain from a heavy blow across the-' right temple with an ax handle in thehands of his drink-crated assailant, Charles Price, 30, whom he had probably never seen before and against' whom he had no grievance, : Andrew Franklin Avery, 38, a well-known and popular truck farmer, living tn the " Mutton viile neighborhood, about seven x miles southwest of . Eaton, died1 early Sunday morning at the home ot A. H. Boomershtne, East Main street.1 Eaton, without ' regaining conscious-1 ness. 'irs;: v-.-rJ':,-As a result of the death of Avery Price, who lives with his wife, daughter and mother about eight - miles northeast of Eaton on - the Olmlet Road, is in the county jail facing a charge ot murder in the first degree. The assault - took place Saturday evening about 9 : 15 on the east side of the L. D. Bailey store. Main and Cherry streets, and was witnessed by ' Lester and William 8amuels, companions of Avery,- These young menr who live several miles southwest ot Eaton, ; declare that the attack was entirely, unprovoked. . They were sitting 1b a 1 rig at tbe curbing and ware entirely unable . to prevent what happened. . , Came to Richmond. Infomaoif;,jattire ' TrojtT many sources indicates that Price and his -hired man, Richard . Quick, had gone to Richmond. Ind., Saturday attersMMm where the former had drunk a good deal. VQuick returned to Eaton on the six o'clock car, but Price , did not . leave that city until two-hours later. During their stay there Price had purchased an ax and handle, giving thev former into the hands of bis employe ' and retaining the other part. Enroute home It is claimed that ' Price was very quarrelsome and abusive on the car, picking a quarrel with anybody who was willing for an argument, His spleen was vented toward George Holman, of Eaton, and Wallace FornshelL of Camden. Holman ' is a traveling representative for a concern manufacturing cream separators. Price accused Holman, it is said, of fleecing him out of a sum of money recently, when he bought one of the contrivances. Holman refused to quarrel with the man, even though he is said to have been subjected to , a torrent of profane abuse. Price Is alleged to have , threatened wto get" Holman, but as the car approached' -Eaton, the . infuriated -young farmer ; apologized. - However, I that was not before Price had been forced into his ; seat by the conductor on the car, un der threats of being soundly thrashed. The conductor is said to have threatened to smash his lantern over Price's head before his lust for a fight was ' quelled. , ' . : - Collides with Avery.' -. Holman went directly to his homo -immediately after the car arrived. What Price did in the following few minutes is not exactly known. ; ' At any rate he turned off Main street onto Cherry street, going south. Within a few steps he bumped into Avery, and with an oath told him to get out of the way. If Avery made a reply It was not heard by his companions in -the rig at the curbing, although they declare Price did considerable cursing and then landed the telling blow with the ax handle. Avery sank In a heap to the sidewalk, without uttering . a sound.' The Samuels ' boys, George Jones, ex-marshal, Moses Thompson and Daniel-Avery, an uncle of the vie-' tim, carried Avery to the office of Dr. CI W. Conlcy a half block away, and later took him to the home of A. H. Boomershtne, a - long-time friend and ! former neighbor. He died five hours later, without - regaining consciousness . and - without knowing -who his murderer was. . ' . ;'- ; Price, ran south: on Cherry street . and turned into an alley, a vengeful crowd in close pursuit. But he escaped by "running through yards and was found about 10 o'clock, at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Alice ; Harsbman. East Spring, street, where : his wife and little four-year-old daughter were waiting his return. He was 1 still ' under the influence of liquor when lodged in the county Jail by . Sheriff W. S. Boner and Marshal C A. Bunting. Was After Holman T Holman believes that the blow Avery received was Intended for him. and ' (Continued on Pago Two.)

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