Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 297, 2 September 1911 — Page 1

MOM) PjUOLAJ) AND STJN-TET.EGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. ICO. 297. BICHHOND, IXD., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1911. i SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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8EES0II DECLARES MACHINES WORTH IS DEMOMSTRATED thairman of County Com- - missioners Says Investigation Made by Board Has Proven His Assertion.

liO REDUCTION III POLICE FORCE IS RULING OF BOARD PRESENT GERMANY SEVEN QF FISHING She Is Beulah Bin ford's Chum TODAY A BIG QriE FOR DEPEII011IIT 111 ; THE BEAM CASE GREAT STATUE OF GEN. VOd STEUBEN PARTY KILLED BY A LAKE FREIGHTER

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COUNCIL OF COUNTY. WILL MEET TUESDAY

lnd the Question as to the Merits of Voting Machines Will Be Thoroughly Argued Before Body, The voting machine Question was 'taken up again today by the county commissioners, the board being addressed on the subject In the after noon by Walter Cole, and in the mornIng heard the proposition of E. R. Kel'ley, representative of the International Voting Machine company, and granted him permission to exhibit a machine In the court house. The discussions today were but a prelude to those which will mark the meeting of the county council on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, as this body will pass on the recommendation of the county board that machines be purchased for Wayne county. Chairman Beeson of the board on Saturday declared that from the investigation he has made he was' now in favor of the purchase of machines. His attitude heretofore has been that if the machines were found to be of public Utility that they should be purchased and he believes that by the investiga tions made by the board the serviceability of the vote registered has been demonstrated beyond a question. Sant Twenty Inquiries. He addressed letters to about twenty county auditors in the state where ' either voting machines' had been passed. He has received replies from more than half of the county auditors whom ! be addressed. . In the - majority of in- ; -ttaaces . w - - ' ' : jtJ A' Jlia1 !ai.s a $;r Tne cnairman.oi lasKooara. ueciarea ?'J$CSit ho had not talked lth any memheir of the county council and could not forecast the council's action, relative to the recommendation by the board that $21,000 be -. appropriated from the county treasury for the purchase of twenty eight machines. The : board will be represented at the council meeting and will refer letters received from other .-- counties to the ' council's attention. V -,!, '. , " V",-;''.; .' ' International Machine. "The- representative of the Interna'tlonal voUng machine company made no explicit .proposition to the board . ' of commissioners.' He . merely talked , up his machine, "declaring that It was the only one on the market which tabulates . the result as . the vote is the 'cast and makes Impossible the casting of bad ballots. He said that the company would put up a bond to the effect that Us machines were absolutely accurate and could not be manipulated, other than in a legal manner. In voting, one stands as though at a tactile and operates the levers. He says the operation is all . very ; simple and ' -easily understood. The company is new in the business, but declares it has; put the machine to the" severest tests and is willing to permit the ''county board to have Its experts expe--.Timent,' He declared he could not j; state the price of any of the different style of machines inasmuch as his company had filets a competitive bid , wlth several other Inns for the St. Jo seph county contract. The contract has , ; not been let there yet. The irst order of the company was by the Clinton, . Iowa, officials. Twenty-five machines ; were' purchased at $600 each. In answer to a question as to wheth .M all other machines except the Em pire, the make of the Standard voting ' machine company, could be tampered v .wlth,: Mr. Kelley referred to the tests conducted at soutn Bend. His com - 1 .pany, he said, accepted the challenge -' : and quickly bad the Empire machine '. Voting irregularly, while the Empire ; people refused to test tne lnternation1 al machine, which was offered for ex pertinent. : Two additional letters were fUed by chairman Beeson. One was from John on county and the other from. Henry , county endorsing the machines. , WEHRLEY IS STILL IN PARTS UNKNOWN V Nothing has been heard from or of , gtV F. Wehrley, the traveling salesman

t "V; tfcto city, June, 1911. Officiate of the -company stated today they had not

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, ; hn asked it she had heard from. h4rusband. Mrs. Wehrley declared

that the had nothing to say. THE WEATHER sVTATt Fair tonight; cooler in north portion tonight; cooler Sunday.' VOCAL Fair tonight and Sunday;

But Police Commissioners Decide to Separate Each Officer from Pay Roll for Fourteen Days.

POLICE DEPARTMENT OVERDREW ACCOUNT And to Get Within Its Appropriation Again It Was Necessary to Do This or Discharge Officer. At the regular session of the board of metropolitan police commissioners last evening it was decided that no patrolman should be discharged from the force but that each patrolman should be given a two-weeks' lay off i without pay, this being done to curtail expenses. This will not effect the regular vacation which each member of the force is entitled to. Recently Mayor Zimmerman declared in a council' meeting that a man would be discharged from the force as the department had overdrawn its appropriation by $500 for the first six months of this year. In order that the department will not overdraw the appropriation for the last six months of the year the board decided on this course. Police Superintendent Gormon declared that this was no fault of the police department, but was due to the fact that the appropriation was . not made large enough when the budget for this year was made. He said that the next budget will be made large enough for the payment of all salar ies of the force. The board of commissioners argued that it would not work a big hardship on any patrolman if all were given a lay off, and that it would be preferable to discharging' one officer. Mr. Gormon asserted it was merely a business proposition which must be viewed from a financial standpoint. He declared" that two nuain 3il!st5& ,abff next Monday and from' that time on. two men would take the vacation. By this method it will be about four months before all of the patrolmen are re-em ployed and the amount overdrawn will have been made up. STRIKE MEDIATOR HOT TO INTERFERE U. S. Will Not Offer to Arbitrate Mechanics' Strike on Harrimafi Lines. , (National News Association) WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. Charles C. Neill, one of the government'mediators in government strike matters. stated today that the government would have no right to proffer arbitration to either the mechanical workers on the Harriman lines or to the railroads themselves. Under the Erdman act, Mr. Neill said arbitration is provided for only in case of dispute affecting the actual operators and the railroads, but not when the mechani cal workers are involved. Should the strike spread to the engineers, con ductors and other operatives, Mr. Neill stated it would then be a matter for Judge Knapp of the Commerce court and himself to consider. STRIKE ANTICIPATED. CHICAGO, Sept. 2. Announcement that a strike of mechanical workers on the Harriman railroads and two other systems, had been called, was expected in the near future as a result of the final refusal of Julius Kruttschnitt, vice president of the Union Pacific, to recognize the new Federation of Mechanical Trades in any way. , Kruttschnitt's stand was taken after a conference in San Francisco, with five international presidents of the unions.' Krutschnltt's statement was in accord with a statement made in Chicago before he went west, to the effect that the roads would not recognize the union. Officials of the Illinois Central and the fhicago & Northwestern also have refused to have anything to do with the new federaUon and negotiations have been temporarily broken off." V In event a strike is called, some 60,000 will be called out and every railroad -in the west will suffer. Shops will have to be closed and traffic Ued up completely. The strike it was estimated, would cost 13OTO0O.000J1. Meanwhile, nnionoffidals in Chicago declined ' to make any statement and tbe'strike, if there to be one, has "been delayed. ; It is possible that nothing will be done until the five un ion heads return to Chicago. They are J. W, Kline, International president of the Blacksmith's union; M. FRyan head of the. Brotherhood-of Railway (Mi-men ; J., A. Franklin, presided toe Boiler-makers union; J.; D. fclrHlew, vice presiaent or tne interpiua al Association of Machinists, and4J.ii. Crane of the Sheet Metal Workers' tr-

Congressman Bartholt, Representing President, Makes Presentation to the Kaiser and His Natidn.

BERLIN WAS SCENE OF CEREMONY TODAY Von Steuben Fought Gallantly in Revolutionary War for Americans Was an Aide to Washington. (National News Association) BERLIN, Sept. 2. Symbolizing the function as a pledge of peace and a guarantee of the sincerity of the hope of all American people that the two nations be drawn closer together in the bonds of peace, Congressman Richard Bartholt, as special envoy of the United States, today presented to Em peror William and the German people, the statue erected by America In Berlin to the memory of General Von Steuben, who fought with the American army in the war of the Revolution. The presentation was made in the presence of a brilliant as semblage of German court attaches and Americans. Address to Kaiser. Congressman Bartholt's address full follows; Your Majesty: in By direction of the President of the United States we have come across the ocean to fulfill the purport of a resolution unanimously adopted by the American congress providing for the presentation to His Majesty, the Ger man Emperor and the German people of a statue of General Von Steuben, a great German and erstwhile citizen and hero of two continents as a gift from the American people. If in the performance of this honorable mission I may be permitted to interpret the sentiments, of the people of the United dent Tarrr special - emoesey rnac tne; proffered donation is to be a pledge of peace and emity and a guarantee of the sincerity of the earnest hope, cherished by all . Americans, that the effect that this ceremony may be to draw more and more closely the bonds of traditional friendship and good will which, strengthened as they are . by the ties of blood, have always so hap-. pily united the Great German Empire with the great Republic of the West, the United States of America. The name of Steuben will ever awaken patriotic memories beyond the ocean. Its bearer was the embodi ment of German order and discipline and of the loyalty of which the poet says, if it were not as old as the world surely a German would have invented it. He was not only the order-creating genius of the Colonial army, but also the indefatigable though modest organizer of victories. A Just Appreciation. In just appreciation of this great achievements a grateful people, nobly disregarding national distinctions, honored his memory by the erection, in front of the White House in Washington, of a monument which is to commemorate his valuable service as well as those rendered by the Germans generally to the cause of Ameri can Independence. And today's cele bration? It is verily a beautiful act of international courtesy, but may we not also interpret the ready acceptance of this statue as a just and generous willingness, on the part of Steuben's old Fatherland and its exalted sovereign, to appreciate and honor those who by their conduct abroad have added lustre to the German name? Millions of hearts on the other side of the Atlantic which throb warmly on account of this dedication will rejoice exultantly at such inter pretation. s'.' " From the material to the political and ideal significance of today's act is but a step. The President extends to the Peace Kaiser . under whose reign the phrase, "The Empire is the peace," has been verified, the hand of friendship for hearty co-operation in the peaceful solution of the great problem of civilization. And are there two other nations which, resting upon the tradition of .undisturbed friendship and looking forward to still closer relations, could more justly feel called upon, to : make common cause in the great humanizing tasks of our time, In the promotion of art and science and in all tendencies looiptg to the ; Increased welfare of the people? We. live in a time, of international conciliation and have" comjie to realize Ohat peaceful deyjtpmenta of more transcecdant importance than all that is now dotting the nations and Germany's forly years of peace U an ample guarantee toAmericf that It requires but 'an' incentive 'tnj order to crystalizer mutual sympathy Into a political fa. May tbia beautifej ceremonjf hasten such a happy consummation!? 4'- ' S.--. -IH ;" Aa special envoys of the Prekdent or the United "States we have th 'distinguished honor of aBkin YoqV Majesty to accept this statue aa awoken of the sincere friendship of the American government and people forf. Your Majesty and the people of Gerssy ,

Gasoline Launch in Which

Were Seated Eight Toledo Employes Was Crushed by the Philip Minch. SOLE SURVIVOR IS RESCUED BY CREW Officials Enroute to Kelley's Island on Three Day Pleasure. Trip Lookout Didn't See Launch. (National News Association) TOLEDO, Sept. 2. Seven men were drowned when a gasoline launch carrying a fishing party to Kelley's Island was run down and sunk by the lake freighter, Philip Minch, in Maumee bay. The victims were Har ry T. Bach, city councilman, James M. Wister, superintendent of the water works, Fred Shane, secretary to service director Cowells, Thomas Purcell, engineer, A. Rynker, cigar dealer, William Carrol and William Latt. The latter two were employes of the water works department. Mi chael Mayer, the eighth occupant, was rescued by the crew of the freighter, There were eight men in the launch when she was caught under the bow of the freighter and crushed like an egg shell near the Red Can buoy. On ly one of the party was rescued. The party btarted for Kelley's Island on a fishing trip expecting to return here Monday. The first word of the accident to reach here came when the captain of the Minch telephoned the police. Lookout Didn't See Boat. After picking up the sole survivor of the disaster the Minch proceeded on her way to port. After passing the terminal branch the steamer dropped anchor in the river and the captain went ashore and gave the details of the accident. it23s : said the lookout,. on - the until tne Mincu was rigni on uip ul herV'jas Boon as the Minch was br&ht under control a small boat was lowered and search was made for occupants of the' launch, but only one man - was picked up. He was nearly exhausted. A police ' launch subsequently found the wrecked boat more than a mile beyond Bay View park. ; DOESIl'T IIITEIID TO OBEY HERHUSBAIID Suffragette and D. C. MacLean, New York, informally Wed. t (National News Association) NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Mrs. Freda Kellar McLean, ardent supporter of the wpman's suffrage movement, does not intend to be forced to obey her husband, Donald C MacLeau, and therefore objected to the clause in the marriage ceremony whereby she would have to pledge herself to obedience. So today the couple are man and wife, held together by a simple written contract in which they declare their intention of living together as man and wife. . . For a lone time the bride held strong Views on this subject and some time ago when MacLean asked her to become his wife she consented provided he find a way to be married without obtaining a maniage license, MacLean racked his brain and finally consulted a lawyer. As the result the couple signed a marriage contract in the presence of two witnesses as provided under the amended contract marriage law of 1907. The couple immediately left the city on their honeymoon without the formality of a marriage ceremony, for as required by law, the marriage contract was filed in the county clerk's office. TOKEN OF ESTEEM -As a token; of their- esteem ' for Thomas Fisher,-who died recently, the members of the Women's Relief, Corps will meet tomorrow evening a&seven o'clock at the residence of j Mjr. Ert( Pplneer, 109 South West , Second eet. From this point they wsfjl go to the funeral. - -XCIRCULATION , AUGUST 31st L 6342 EPTEMBER 1st,. ..... - .. ';. r, J The Palladium's Circulation records are always open for inspection. -

Henrietta Pittman, who figured in the Beattie case today, and who was with W. H. Sampson, Henry Beattie and Beulah Binford at Norfolk shortly before the murder. Sampson told of their Norfolk experiences today. . - ; - '

COMMITS SUICIDE BECAUSE OF HEALTH I D?E CijrisQav jr.? St. Lcojis, Shot Himself. (NatloAal News Association) . " NEW YORIf , Sept. 2. Daniel? E. Garrison, Jr., millionaire vice president of Corrugated Bar company; of St. Louis, committed suicide at ' the Hotel Waldorf Astoria some time during the , night. .. The report ; was $ not heard by his son and father who occupied adjoining rooms. Mr. Garrison, who is reputed to be a millionaire, was engaged to be .married in October to Miss Mary Williams of New York. His first wife died two years ago in St. Louis. Garrison " had apparently carefully planned his suicide, for he left a note on the table in his room before firing the revolver that ended his life un derneath a pillow so that the sound might be deadened. The note' said:. - 'Don't blame me for doing this. You know I have had kidney 'f trouble and asthma. What is more I am troubled with that terrible disease called hay fever." ' -'- " ' " .5 Webb Samuels, Jr., a brother of Gar rison's first wife, ; killed himself in Garrison's home ' , in St. - Louis while visiting him a year ago today.. The Garrisons are among St. Louis' most prominent citizens socially and commercially. ; . ., Propped up on his trunk, where he might have a last look at it before he shot himself, the picture of Mr. Garrison's fiancee, Miss ' Williams , was found. She is on her way here from Europe. In a letter that he left for Miss Williams he stated that he feared their marriage would.be unhappy because of his ill health. In ..his pocket was a letter from her advising him to be more cheerful and not worry over his. illness. ; , WHITE CITY EXCITED Over Finding Woman's Skirt in the Glen. When some , one rushed down the streets and avenues at the white city in the Glen last evening and in a stage whisper cautiously. ,. called , to hfa friends there had been another . suicide In the Glen Miller lake, aH ;wa excitement in " the camp in a minute. Clothes were hastily put on and 'the villagers joined in the rush to the bridge. .". - " ' The cause qf "the . excitement was the finding of a woman's skirt' near the bridge. . , I - The lake was peered Into : and the stream, which 'has one or two deep holes, was searched .'Troup the " lake to the springs bnno dwdjwaa jjmtui. Ed Hollarn, park superintendent,-who guided the' senrcherlT by the" fight of his lantern took, the skirt,"whicb was a light woolen, black and' white. stripped, and with a very neat Persian border, to his home where the owner may call for it, and describe the property without having , to answer any questions as to how the article happened to by lying folded in the road about 10 o'clock at nighU

MASHERS AIMED

AltUFFICIAL FLIRT Flirting Crusader k . -. . .' . f (National News 'Association) - : t CHICAGO, Sept.-H 2. Mlsa Phyre kanter 4147 Michigan avenue, caused the" arrest ofjtwo men who, she says, are "mashers" and attempted to flirt with her on State street. - Miss r Kanter was accompanied by two detectives who were- following a short distance- behind, when she is alleged to have been accosted. The police say she is employed as ."official flirt"' by a morning newspaper. : Emil Lesser and John Malone . are the names given by the prisoners., Both claim to be strangers in Chicago and 'the police believe the namee they gave- are fictitious. ' ' . . ; " " v In company, with the detectives the young woman left the Central police station soon after' S o'clock; 'She had not gone a block . when ; she was accosted by a young man. He was taken . to headquarters but he said he thought he . was acquainted , with the woman, and:. at her instigation he was allowed to go. Two' other . m en who simpljsmiledatMiss Kanter", were questioned byt the detectives, and al lowed to go. - Lesser and' M,a lone will be arraigned in the Clark street police court today." ' . - ,' t ' COUNTY DOES NOT OBSERVE HOLIDAY Although Labor j Day, next Monday is a legal holiday, this will not inter fere with the meeting of the county commissioners or the transaction of any public business, according to the opinion of county attorney ' John F. Robbins, who was called, in to again settle v this troublesome question. The commissioners 'thought "possibly some bill in the legislature had 'been pass ed r with which they v were unfamiliar, preventing them from taking up pub lic matters on Labor Day, . " 1 . The business before the board, next week will be rather heavy.. si On Monday several liquor license; renewals probably f wilt be .granted, while there will be several road matters and an unusually large number -of claims to t approved or 'disproved J The Wednesaay ana taturaay sessions,? ana pos sibly one "or two special -meetings, will be held to consider the regular" routine of business which monthly, comes up on these dates and also to consid et matters which m ill be . postponed from Monday. iS'othing of great im portance will be considered by the board, though it will be in attendance tat the' meeting of the county council and the members Willi probably be called upon to explain several features of the budget 'of county expenditures for .1912- ..- ! - ,.t ; - , - . SUIT FOR DIVORCER Alleging John Rohrer of r Hagerstown has been a habitual .drunkard since" 1906 and has failed to provide for her since December, 1907, Carolina Rohrer filed suit - in the Wayne circuit court , on i Friday 'for divorce. They were married on -November 4, and separated in 'July; 1908. ' '

Telling Points Scored for

Henry Clay Beattie; Accused of Wife Murder," by Several Witnesses" ONE BLUSHING MAN TOLD OF JOY RIDE On Night of Murder and It Is Believed He Was Mistaken for Beattie by Party of Young Autoists. (National News Association) CHESTERFIELD. Va Sept. 8 Two tremendous blows were dealt today to the prosecution's case In the trial of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., charged with wifo murder. . v First came the testimony of EUsa Mosely, colored a servant In the, employe of Judge Watson, who occupied the room In front of the Judges home which is near the scene of the crime. Eliza told the jury she had heard the fatal shot fired, shortly afterwards followed by the noise of an automobile starting and the tooting of its horn. ' Second and more powerful point was testimony by witness Charles Castle burg, whose telegram signifying his willingness to testify caused a sense -Hon yesterday. Castleburg swore he was In an automobile on the Mldloth ian pike on the night bf the mofdef with a woman. They became stalled on the road. He. waa putting water in kit machine and a woman was standing y on the running board when two ontomobiles passed them, one containing a, crowd jpfypung; joy. riders. . . rCMtlebuiif irbo is a wealthy butcher and married man. said he had ; not heretofore told the story soaase of fear of family : trouble.-The., woman with Um.wMXWIMIST whose name edld xf: vl embarrassment nn&H " " " JwlJ at the trial of Henry Beattie, Jr tiCay ' received a letter threatening his llfeV

if the son of the rich merchant waa sentenced , to death. Thes ' letter -waa written ih Roman letters so that thoAs .

handwriting of th man mCs tim r A threat might he well cowled.;(T-t''''i Judge van not liturbed hy t Jterej?- J and believe that no sue man wecU i

have written the letter.' The writer said he was an eye. wttneas of the

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Judge's Servant la Heard. ' ' " The first witness today was Elltt :

Mosley ,the colored wpman in the .est ploy of Judge Watson who liyee near . the scene of the crime! She was called a ,

to the stand by Judge Watson. In calling Eliza as a witness Judge Watson said that because of what she had told him he though jt his duty to brings her into court Sie gave testimony fa-.. 1 1 vorable to the defense. , Judge Watson examined the witness '

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"I was at home" that' night she said and was in the room next to the road.

I heard the report of the gun. My has- , t

band came In about 10:80 o'clock-Jt

was about d half hour afterwards that ' . . I heard the shot. The doors and win- . dows of the house were open, and we were talking when we beard, the gun , .red. I was sitting at a window. I

heard the horn of an automobile blow shortly after the sound of the shot." This was a direct substantiation of the defendant's original story that he blew his automobile horn for help immediately after the murder of his wKe, , - faI 'heard the automobile start first and then the horn blew. The noise of the. shot and the horn came right cloee together, concluded the witness. . ' ' Charles Castleburg, the next witness " discovered by. the defense yesterday . was next called. : His evidence was

sought in an effort to offset the testimony of the' young men who swore that they passed a car halted at the scene of the murder Just before it occurred,' and that a woman wearing' a coat similar, to the one worn 'hy Mrs. Beattie was standing on. the running board. . i k , i Waa Telling Troth. -That Castleburg . was . telling the troth was only too' plain. ' He waa in a state of agony and remorse as he told the story of his meeting the troman, and under cross examination was compelled to ' describe her build,' her bat and her clothes. 4 - i--.'-"Dld. anybody see yon when .yoa took "the strange lady in your caif asked Mr. Wendenburg of the butcher. - ' " - r - . :-t . ?I hope not," he replied.' V ;f W. H. Sampson, , Heniyl Beattte'n

chum, was called as the next witness. ,- . ; . "I knew of his relations -with Ben- ,C; lib,: said Sampson. Tand of him break-, ing off these relations before he, was 't2M married. In fact I ;. was told ;: In-Jiln.: I lawyer's ! office' when this was -$ammJ k

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