Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 333, 7 October 1911 — Page 1

THE MICHMONB PAIXADI

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AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 333. RICIOIOXD, IXDM SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1911. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.'

STREAMS SWOLLEN BY A HEAVY RAIN FALL LAST RIGHT

JDver Two Inches of Rain Was Registered Early this :m Morning, but Disastrous Flood Is Averted. RIDGE AT ECONOMY WAS CARRIED AWAY Is ome Farms Along the Riv er and Small Streams Were Slightly Damaged, but Total Loss Is Small. ' The rainstorms which broke over Richmond and surrounding country I last night resulted in some damage, although it is not to he compared with the rain and wind storm in August which caused a great deal of loss to local merchants. The rainfall as measured by the co-oeratlve meteorological observer at the local weather bureau was two and twenty-eight onehundredths inches. The measure was taken at 7 o'clock this morning. Those at the weather bureau state that this amount of rainfall is very unusual and Js considered heavy. The Whitewater river is several feet higher than usual, the small tributaries emptying into it having swollen above their banks. The lowlands touching the Nolansfork and Greensfork streams were flooded and staiked corn was washed away. In some places the rail fences were destroyed, so great was the force of the swollen streams. Unlike previous storms, last night's deluge did little damage to properties in Happy Hollow. Here-to-fore during heavy storms residents there have been forced to Heave tbeir homes and

seek shelter In houses on the sur-jln

rounding hills. Telephone service was damaged to a certain extent by the storm and Mne - men have been working on the various lines since early morning in an attempt to place the service in good con rdition. j, : ""v . x , '.-v. ' The lightning did little damage as ' far as- la known. 8T0RM AT ECONOMY. ECONOMY, Ind., Oct. 7. The storm of last night and early this morning did considerable damage near this : place. The old bridge over West river three miles west of Economy, was washed away. The river rose to the height of the bridge and removed it i from Its foundation. The bridge was forty feet long. Telephone service was put out of commission, several poles being blown down and the wires breaking. The creek here is high and it is almost an impossibility to cross it. MOTHER JO ATTEND ftThe Trial of the McNamara Brothers. (National News Association) LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Oct. 7. John J. and James B. McNamara, waiting the beginning, of their trial here for alleged murder in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building, have received ' assurances from their mother in Cincinnati that she will come to Los Angeles to attend the sessions. Mrs. McNamara will not arrive until the jury has been selected. Attorneys for the defense and the prosecution are making final plans for the case. It is understood that attorneys for the defense will ask a two week's continuance. The prosecution asserts that if the delay is asked they will insist on an immediate trial. WATER SUPPLY FOR INFIRMARY WAS UP Attention was paid to the subject of better water supply for the county infirmary on Saturday .morning by the county commissioners. Plans to either tap springs near Jackson's hill or Install a hydraulic ram, which will supply water in adequate quantities for drinking., wash and flushing purposes, are under consideration. The expense in either instance will be bout $1,200 the board has been told by Engineer Jack Mueller. The water will be piped from the hill to the reservoir on the farm, which holds an enormous quantity of water. While the force of the water hardly would be sufficient in case of lire, without the installation of some other machinery, it would be sufficient for the more ordinary purposes. But I so far as fire is concerned the commissioners declare the buildings are so constructed as make them practically firs proof. THE WEATHER STATE Cloudy tonight; cooler in south portion. Sunday, fair. LOCAL Cloudy and cooler tonight. Sunday fair

Some Attorney sin the M'Namara

DEPUTIES PROTECT AN ITALIAN BRUTE To Save His Life Assailant of wr T - 1 WOmau 1S laKeU IrOm White Plains N. Y. (National News Association) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Oct. 7.

Guarded by armed deputies who feared iRcading f,.om left to right are Exan attack by a mob Antonio Rosa wasJudge 0 x Hillton of Denver a mem-

laiten rrom jaw nere to uoiuen Hidge an automobile today for arraignment. on the charge of attacking Nora 1 Good. Miss Good identified Rosa as the man who dragged her from her bicy-jj. cle in a lonely spot, known as Rock Cut. Rosa was arrested by deputy Sheriffs and hurried to White Plains to motor, car IqjpregtjM gry iarmers. wno ft aearcUJng for him. Miss Good was-touhd' unconsci ous near the road. She is in a serious condition but will probably recover. AFFIDAVIT "LOST"; MYSTERY DEEP ONE From the files in the office of county clerk George Matthews on Friday afternoon was removed an affidavit, charging William F. Brown, a well known colored second hand dealer with embezzling a small sum, but who removed it the county officials do not know, and up to two o'clock this afternoon the affidavit was still missing. The sheriff did not have it in his office. Prosecuting Attorney -Charles Ladd was certain he had not taken it and County clerk, George Matthews did not know who had it. The prosecuting attorney and other county officials could not remember on what information, or by whom furnished, the affidavit was based. Ordinary state papers are supposed to be a profound secret until an ar rest is made. It was. stated in the clerk's office that some attorney had taken the lost affidavit, but the attorney can not be located. Whoever skipped with the information was not compelled to leave a receipt as Is the ordinary custom in removing court papers. Brown was arrested upon a warrant by the sheriff and his deputy as he stepped from a Fairview car last night about 7:15 o'clock. So fan he has not furnished bond. Brown was j in trouble in civil procedure some j weeks ago, when sued by Mrs. Pearl Carpenter and husband to recover "a. judgment on furniture which the complainants had stored with Brown. BALLOONJfAS LOST Pilot Suffered from Cold and Hunger in Storm. (National News Association) DES MOINES, la., Oct. 7.- After a thrilling flight in changeable currents which carried them across Lake Michigan and up North as far r St. Paul, the French balloon fonder, which started from Kansas City on Thursday afternoon, landed in a field near here early today. Pilot Dubonnet and his aide Pierre Dupout told a story of ! suffering from the cold and hunger while lost in the storm. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 7 The balloon Berlin II, the only unaccounted balloon starting in the international race on Thursday, had not been definitely heard from up to noon. It is the probable winned. PROMINENT CONFEDERATE LEADER DEAD (National Nows Association) CHICAGO, Oct. 7. Col. J. C. Roberts, commander of the Thirteenth Georgia Infantry in the Civil War and prominent bimetaUst, is dead.

r.rmu. nf nrnminpnt. lawvers who wil1 be in the limeli?ht for tne Prosebrothers, the alleged Ixs Angeles Times dvnamiters. who will come up for trial on or about October 13th. ber of the McNamara legal staff. JoKnh R Soott of the McNamara legal batterv. and District Atorney Freder j lcks wno wjll COntest the case for th.9 BeJow on tne rjght is Clarence Darrow, the head of the McNamara j legal array On the left is I. McNutt, j ft: the hottcm i l Rappaport sjicher McNamara lawyer. ; DYING MAN MAKES ' A GRIM STATEMENT Shields Assailant Saying if Lives He Will Get His Revenge. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Oct. 7. George Bryant, dying at the county hospital today, . is believed by the police to hold the se crets of the "Taxi bandits" who have been charged with a score of robberies in the last four months and who are suspected of slaying Fred Wennerstrom, a chauffeur whose body was found in the Fox river near Carey, 111. Bryant was shot as he stepped from a taxicab in the downtown district. A male ocmpanion in the machine fired the shot and then, with the chauffeur made his escape. The wounded man was declared by the police to have a record as a pickpocket. They suspected that his as sailant was "Dayton Red" Creighton who is recorded at the detective bu

reau as a burglar and pickpocket, but j selves and entered the bank. The robBryant refused to give them any in-j bers fled from the building, firing as formation. The Taxi bandits have they ran, and jumping, into & waiting

caused a reign of terror among chaf feurs and the proprietors of saloons and roadhouses. After Wennerstrom's death it was suspected that he had been thedriver of the bandits "pirate car" and was slain to seal his lips. "If I live I'll get him; if I die he can go" 6aid Bryant today when the police asked him to name his assailant. WIFE SAVED HUSBAND BY KILLING ENEMY (National News Association) POPLAR VILLE, Mass., Oct. 7. Every member of the Thigpen family including two babies, are under arrest today following the killing of Warren Alsobrooks. 25, by Mis Lydia Thigpen, 20. The girl declares that she was compelled to kill Alsobrooks to save the life of her husband. The slain man's body was riddled with a charge from a shotgun. BIG I. O. O. F. CLASS A large class will be initiated next Friday evening by the Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows. The event is the formal opening of activities for the fall and winter, and will be marked, in addition to the initiation, by a banquet and social gathering. Seventeen candidates have been put through their preliminary work and will be received into membership prior to the banquet.

Brothers' Trial

OUTLINE CAMPAIGN FOR LIFTING DEBT Y. M. C. A. Directors Held an Important Meeting Last Evening. Authorizing a committee to prepare plans for a debt-raising campaign, the board of trustees and board of directors of the Young Men's Christian association met last evening in joint session and decided to accept the proposal of D. G. Reid to donate $25,000 upon the condition made by him that the association should raise a like amount. The officials of the institution are highly pleased over the gift and the soon? as $UcnWtt!e .liaSP make Its report tjthe trustees and,, directors. Another meeting will be .held next Wednesday night at which time the committee probably will submit ts report. ' i!V . An attempt was instituted laBt spring to enter upon a campaign of this nature but owing to the fact that other institutions were endeavoring to raise funds to sweep away their debts, the Y. M. C. A. campaign was deferred. The gift of Mr. Reid has added an impetus to the proposed campaign. It is presumed that teams will be formed of members of the association and others to raise the money. . HAD RUNNING FIGHT Posse Battle with Bandits, Who Escaped. (National News Association) BENSONVILLE, 111., Oct. 7. Four cracksmen detected in the act of blowing the safe of Franzen Brothers state bank here early today fought a run ning battle with a posse and escaped. They were traced to Melrose park, a suburb of Chicago. . The posse was headed by George, Irving and Gilbert Franzen, sons of the banker. A watchman discovered the cracksmen at work and notified the Franzen boys who armed them' followed and fired many shots after the fugitives, and it wa believed that one of them was wounded. There was $500 in currency in the bank vault. v - . . BEAT AND ROB HIM. CHICAGO. Q$t. Jl. Two masked bandits held up F B. Houston near his home early today and after robbing him of $700 beat him into unconsciousness. The robbers threw him over a, fence and fled. POWER WIRES FELL STARTING A BLAZE Electric light wires falling' and coming in contact with tne iron work on the garage of James A. Gwyn, 911 South A street started a fire? at the garage early this morning. As the garage was constructed mostly of iron the fire did little damage. Companies 1, 2 and 4 and the hook and ladder truck responded and the wires were cut. With the use of chemicals the blaze was soon extinguished. NO FREIGHT MOVED IS BULLETIN TODAY (National News Association) CLINTON, HI, Oct. 7. A bulletin issued today by strikers says the Illinois Central is practically moving no freight trains. Many strike breakers.

lit is reported are deserting. ,

STATE HAS CLOSED

CASE! DEFENSE OF DUBOIS STOUT ONE After Damaging Story Told by Emma Gunsaulia, Witnesses for Defense Blackened Her Character. DUBOIS TELLS WHY HE FLED THE TOWN Says that He Went to Detroit Because He Thought Milton Woman Was Going to File Charge on Him. The state concluded its caso as;.-'inst Earl Dubois, of Milton, charged with burglary, Friday afternoon when. Emma Gunsaulia testified. Slis is a sister of Guy Gunsaulia, v.!n confeSc3,l to the robbery of the F. M. Jones rumpanay general store at Milton, an.l iirplicated the iefendan?. By character witnesses the defense at once attempt -ed lo destroy the effect of the damag ing evidence of Emma Gunsaulia. The state witness declared she has overheard a conversation between her brother Guy, and Earl Duboi:?. in which Earl Dubois had in a bragging way told Gunsaulia not to get "cold feet," as he (Eai Dubois) had hljed kill old man l.ucy. The Saturday session lasted until noon, at which time the court adjourned until Monday. The forenoon whs taken up by the defense in establishing a sort of an alibi for the defendant and in explanation of why he had left the county. The defendant himself was on the stand, also his fat.ier. Jas Dubois, his sister Mae, and his brother Herbert. The defendant declared that he left Wayne county in order i.t escape arrest, as he understood he was to be charged by a girl named Decker. living in Milton, with being the fataer of an unborn child. Emma Relates Story. Emma Gunsaulia in her testimony to the jury on Friday afternoon declared that after the robbery of the Jones store her brother and Earl Dubois were in a room of the houtc inspect mwufjuv iivia uniuuuuu a. un - w mtcp said she was in an adjoining room and could overhear the conversation which took place between the two men. From her story it was gathered that her brother was getting apprehensive and was protesting against having the tools about the house. She told the jury that Dubois informed her brother there was no danger, calling Gunsaulla's attention to the fact that he (Dubois) once had been charged and the authorities were unable to "make it stick." She said that Dubois declared in a boasting manner that he had helped kill old man Lucy. (Lucy was a recluse living near Milton who was murdered several years ago on his farm, and Dubois was one of the suspects arrested, but shortly afterwards released. The perpetrators of the crime have so far escaped justice.) State Rests Case. At this point the state rested and the defense at once put several witnesses from Connersville and Milton on the stand to testify as to the character of the Gunsaulia woman. With possibly a few exceptions all declared it was bad. but the state got each witness to admit that so far as the witnesses knew, the reputation of the Gunsaulia woman for truth and veracity was good. Dubois went on the stand late In the afternoon, declaring that he was 24 years old and married, and that he was arrested in Detroit, Mich., in Aug ust by Detroit detectives on a telegram from Marshal Dan Drisehel of Cambridge City. On Saturday morn ing he again went upon the stand and was directly examined by his attorney .ind cross examined by the state. In direct examination he explained, as his motive in leaving this county several months ago, that he was afraid he would be arrested on a paternity charge, which he understood a woman by the rame of Decker of Milton was to prefer. He said he did not believe it was his duty to marry this woman and so skipped out. and was married at Detroit to his present wife, formerly a Miss Gordon, of Connersville, after an unsuccessful attempt to secure a license at Dayton. "Keep Mum" Letter. The "keep mum" letter which the state introduced yesterday to prove that Gunsaulia bad been advised by Dubois not to "peach", has an entirely different meaning, according to the defendant, than the interpretation put on the contents of the epistle by the state. Dubois explained he invited Gunsaulia to come to Detroit and pdded the postscript so that Gunsaulia would not thoughtlessly give away his (Dubois") residence and thus give the Milton woman an opportunity to have him arrested. Dubois denied all material allegations of the state, and seemed cool and collected. Once or twice he was rather sharp in his replies to the state's counsel. Dubois said that on the night of December 10, 1910, when the robbery was committed he went to Cambridge City with Gunsaulia, hut that he returned and went to bed (Contiaued Pae JOsht

A TURKISH TRAIN WRECKED AND THE ITALIANS TO BLAME

II Discharged Italian Workmen Accused of Being Responsible for a Tragedy Near Constantinople. A TURKISH APPEAL IS SENT BROADCAST Ottoman Empire Exerting Every Effort to End the War Italian Troops Being Put on Transports. (National News Association CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. T Many persons were killed and injured today in a collision of two passenger trains near this city. The authorities charge that Italian train wreckers are respon sible. Thev declare that the Italians, formerly employed on the railroad, J but who had been discharged on the outbreak of the war, removed the rails causing the accident. TO DEFEND COAST. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. ".Turkey has begun active preparation for the defense of the Aegean coast of European Turkey against an Italian attack. Plans now being made by war Minister Mahmoud Chefkt Pasha and Naval Minister Porchid Pasha show unmistagably that Turkey fully expects Italy to carry the war into the Balkans despite the warnings of the other powers and Italy's protestations of her intent to localize hostilities in Africa. A large army of Turkish soldiers was today ordered into the province of Adrianaple. They will be distributed along the Aegean coast to strengthen the chain of fortresses. Artillery is also being concentrated at unprotected points along the coast to repel expected attacks by land and sea. lAdrianople is a Turkish province lying on the Aegean and Black Seas. l1!?-cPi2ll th? Arianop a population of If.OOoTooo- Ihcluding -all the .tribes and races of the East and a large European colony. APPEALS SENT OUT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 7. All Turkey is anxiously waiting the reply from the latest appeal which has been made by the Ottoman empire to the outside powers for intervention. Direct appeal has been made to King George in England, based upon the effect which a long drawn out and bloody war might have upon England's subjects in Egypt. The menace to marine traffic in Eastern waters is also pointed out as well as the continual possibility of uprisings In the Balkan states which would embroil Europe. In the event of an adverse answer it was intimated in official circles here that nothing would remain for Turkey but to fight to the bitter end. In fear, based upon former international rebuffs, Turkey is continuing her war preparations. The first division of the Turkish army has now been mobilized and equipped for actual service in the field. The government has commandered all the ship possible for the transportation of the troops. All Turkish forts along the Dardanelles have been strengthened. An answer is expected to the late Turkish appeal within 72 hours. SCOURING THE SEAS. ROME. Oct. 7. Italian warships are scouring the seas between Italy and Tripoli for Turkish torpedo boat destroyers which are lying in wait to intercept and sink Italian transports, according to dispatches received here. The Turkish vessels are reported to be cruising with striking audacity aland African coasts. It is believed they originally sailed with orders to prey on the Italian merchant marine service, bat that their aim now is to attack and sink transports containing the Tripolitan expeditionary force. Admiral Aubrey, in command of the Italian fleet off Tripoli, reported by wireless today that he is organizing the swiftest of his. flotilla of destroyers into squadrons whose task will be to sweep the Meditterranean of the Turkish craft. TURK FLEET SAFE. SALONIKA, Oct. 7. The Turkish fleet is reported to have arrived safely in the Golden Horn, having been equipped for service in the Adriatic against Italian warships. One thousand Italians have departed from Constantinople and Salonika within the past 24 hours. ; , : ARMY IS EMBARKED. NAPLES, Oct. 7. An armada" of Italian transports lay in the harbor today filled with Italian soldiers, bound for Tripoli and awaiting orders from Rome to. start for Northern Africa. Among the transports were " several which came from Genoa and other northern ports, putting in here en route for Tripoli. - ; The ' soldiers and their officers' Imbued with the was spirit sweeping: all Italy like wildfire, are tre eager to get to Ithe front ,

WISCONSIN

CITY DOOMED REPORT SAYS Town of Black River Falls Will Be Swept Away by a Great Flood, People Camping on Hills Predict. AN APPEAL TO AID IS REPEATED TODAY Conditions Today in Floods V ed District Are Worse than Yesterday, When Great Dam Was Broken. (National News Association)

LA CROSSE, Wis., Oct. 7. That the S'j city of Black River Falls would virtually be destroyed was the belief of

those, who. driven from their-home's and camped on the hills above town. watched the swirling waters, daylight came today. Black

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City today repeated the call for afii sistance, sent out last night. Condi-, tions there today were worse than vrf'f, they were yesterday when the daj.v gave away today and let the water J r ' v-'J Arbutus Iake sweep down the Vailejr, 'v'Y The La Crosse city council met today to discuss measures for the re-.-JfV lief of the Bister city. ".f'-V .. . t' MANY TOWNS RUINED. VV. LA CROSSE, Wis., Oct. 7. Thllf teen towns were partially tn ruia.jjo- -i (tday as the result of the breaking pf 'j? three dams across the Black rlW.'-K-'Ai Greater damage was threatened when it was reported that a break- infc ;,' fourth dam. a 12,000,000 structure at' $ Hatfield, Wis., was expected. '

Scores of persons were reported as" -,;. tj

missing today from the flooded tqwnaf-.

and from farms in the Black River.

Valley and early telephone reports . ln u dicated . many deaths , had occurred. - Because ' of the interruptJeeuisRti -V W

no accurate estimate of the ; nnarter of dead could MMtiftt'r' .4fr&?'

The remarkable story of the rata

of seventy-five women at Black Btnt':r '1 Falls was told here. The women, were i' c :j. inmates of an almshouse and twenty, vr

of them were

bedridden. When 1 the t-'i

upper dam above Hatfield broke.' car i -w rying out dams at Chippewa Falls and hf Bloomer, and flooding the valley tkftV&f-; aged women who were able to--let t r '''0 about rushed to the rescue of theirdls-i-abled companions and carried fnemfc,Ji to safety just before the buildinc cc4- V ,

lapsea. Property loss from the huge- wa that swept down the valley amounts to millions of dollars

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section of Black River

Falls. was lfv:

swept away and many buildingf at; t4

Melrose, North Bend. Stevenson, Qls-.. "j, gow. Decorah, Prairie. Lytles. Ona 4.?. plaska and North La Crosse collapsed. ' -5 L NORTH BEND WASHED AWAY.w,-,..viJ LA CROSSE, Wis.. Oct 7. Three r persons were killed when the floods '

from the bursting dam swept awy.7-;l

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the wire was swept away by the flood. i(. Other indefinite reports of loss of lit e y ' resulting from the flood in the Black '4 River valley could not be confirmed, 't-. because of demoralization of wire com

munication, but that the property

will aefireeate at least S5.000.000 is not" v ,

doubted here. Thousands of people without either food or shelter sws-1.,'

i camping on the hills today and Mayo;-' j McGill issued an appeal for assistance. fcJj The town of Hatfield is partly Submer.yf iged. The river falls were virtually dee- 'l e 1 troyed. Conditions today were hourly ''A growing worse, and until the waters

cannot be ascertained. RIVER AT FLOOD STAGE. - WAUSAU. Wis., Oct. 7. The wis. -

consin river today stands at almost flood stage and is causing great ap-: : V prehension here. The great volume f water from the recent rains has forc-..?-ed open one of the gates at the guard.' Vlockq and has released a floor ; of ' 1 f'f

THREE DAMS WASHED OUT.

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Chippewa River has risen eight' feeVf.j in ten hours. Three dams luvetoe washed out and the entire country la'-v

flooded. Incessant rains have ' casSgt s i

tne nver to overiiow, ana uw ipmmmj $.. have caused heavy damage. . 1 '-

;;v ,rfll -." " (National News AsMciatleir t BOSTON, Oct. 7.Snow 'leU 'oyr-; the northwestern part of MassstekV setts early. :pta9JUO0tV' a Tall of S-w between ;2$'ny 6:30 a. m. The temperatote above sero. ;p.i&S&S&' Gardiner, six milee-irQin JT , :,ivf

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