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WITH MURDERING A WOMAN HE SPURNED Rev. Clarence Richeson of a Boston Baptist Church Is the Alleged Slayer of Miss Avis Linnell. SENSATION CAUSED BY POLICE ACTION They Allege Pastor Jilted Miss Linnell to Marry Violet Edmonds, Then Poisoned Ex-sweetheart. (National New Association) BOSTON, Oct. 20 The Rev. Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson, pastor of the Immanual Baptist church, of Cambridge, Mass., a handsome, dashing young Virginian, was arrested early today at the home of Grant EdTnands, father of his fiance, charged with the murder of Miss Avis Linnell, a pretty Hyannis, Massachusetts girl, whom he jilted for Violet Edmonds, the Rich Brooklyn, Massachusetts, girl. The police declare Richerson bought cyannide-postassium Tuesday of last week of William H. llahn, a druggist, saying he wished to kill a dog. This is the poison said to have caused MIbs Linnell's death at the Y. W. C. A. rooms Saturday last. The police allege the deadly drug was given her with the advice to use it for relief from a slight ailment. The Rev. Richerson emphatically protests his innocence. Richerson was held for murder in the first degree without bail. Richersoln was attentive to Miss Linnell who attended his church for several months and It was even reported that they were engaged. A short time ago he suddenly ceased his attentions to the young woman and began courting Miss .Edmonds. Miss Linnell was heart broken. When her body was found it was reported she had committed suicide. O'CONNELL FINED Oft, the charge, of provoke, P. J. Q,; Connell was arrested yesterday by Patrolman Lawler and this morning he was fined $1 and costs In police court by Judge Abbott, Mayor Zimmerman being unable to hear the case. The charge was preferred by John Kelley, it being alleged that O'Connell cursed Kelly. O'Connell pleaded guilty to the charge, but afterward said that Kelley started the argument. MAY CHANGE HOURS Df Studies for the Garfield , Students. Will the hours for recitations at the Grfleld school be changed within the next few months? This Is the question that Is being discussed in school circles at present, and answers, both affirmative and negative, are being given. Although the matter has not yet been brought to the attention of the Bctaool board, the faculty of the Garfield school has thought the subject over, and the parents of students in the institution are much interested in the question. The matter involves the question of whether it Is healthy and practicable to have the pupils do hard work just after eating a heavy meal, and two substitute schedules have been proposed. The two new plans suggested are to have school convene at half-past seven in the morning, and dismiss for the day shortly after noon, or to have the same morning session as at present, but allow only three-quarters of an bour at noon. Many people favor this idea, as it will eliminate the heavy noon dinner. It is a well known physiological fact that pupils can not digest a big meal and study at the same time, and the advocates of the new system propose to postpone the big dinner until evening, and give all the attention to study. Superintendent T. A. Mott, however, believes in a long noon hour, and feels that in having the longest period at noon of any school system in the country is one of Richmond's big assets. He thinks the pupils need a rest at noon, and if they over-eat. it is their own fault. He says the Garfield school faculty has not yet referred the matter to him, but he does not approve or changing the hours during the present school year. THE WEATHER STATE Generally fair Saturday; eoolef. tonight and HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Highest temperature last 24 hours. 67 at 1 p. m., Thursday. Lowest temperature last 24 hours. 46 at 6 a. m., Jriday. Temperature at 1 1 : 30 o'clock, 64. Barometer, high and stationary, partly cloudy, colder tonight and Sat- ', nrday- Frost probable.

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Catcher Lapp of the Athletics being cut off between third base and the plate in the eighth inning when the Athletics threatened to score in the third game of the World's Championship Series held at the Polo Grounds in New York City. Lapp was on second and Coombs on first, with one man out, when Lord hit to Doyle. A double play was in Bight, but Fletcher dropped Doyle's toss. Doyle picked up the ball and threw to Meyers at the plate. Meyers tossed to Herzog, who ran Lapp down.

HEALTH OFFICERS IN AJARD FIGHT Gradually Getting Control of the Cambridge Diphtheria Situation. Quite a little uneasiness is being felt by the health officers of the' county, over, the diphtheria situation in Cambridge City. Five pupils have been sent home in the last two days, and two of these are now unmistakably ill with the disease. The daily examination of all the students in the schools is being continued under the direction of Dr. Boyd, the Cambridge health officer, and County Officer J. E. King is making frequent trips to the town. Dr. King personally investigated the condition of several pupils this morning, when he went to Cambridge City to see the progress that the doctors were making. He sent two girls home on suspicion, and ordered the state laboratory to investigate the symptoms to see whether his suspicions were true. One teacher in the school was taken ill with diphtheria yesterday, and today was in a serious condition. The physicians believe that they are gradually getting the situation under control, and they do not fear an epidemic now. Not a single person who has been suspected of having the disease has been allowed in the schools since last Tuesday. The doctors will make their regular examination next Monday morning, and if no new crises arise then, they will consider the crisis past. The suppression of the disease in the schools at Cambridge City will be a great benefit to the health of the entire county, for, with diphtheria spreading all over the middle west, there was a chance that the disease germs at Cambridge City might find their way to Richmond and the rest of Wayne county. INTENDS TO FIGHT SUIT FOR DIVORCE Charles F. Mason, of Kansas City, who was made defendant in a divorce action by his wife, Mary G., in which she also asked the custody of their child will fight the case, according to his action on Friday in filing through local counsel an answer in general denial . to the complaint. - He claims they never have been separated. They were married on, June 14, 1904. OFFICER AND BRIDE ON LONG HONEYMOON (National News Association) TANNERSVILLE, N. Y., Oct. 20. A wedding of interest in military circles took place here today, the being Miss Elizabeth Morse Colgate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Colgate of New York city, and the bridegroom Lieut. Stanley M. Rumbaugh. of the fifteenth Cavalry, U. S. A. The marriage was performed at the country home of the bride's parents. After a wedding trip to Europe Lieut.' Rumbaugh and his bride will reside at Fort Myer,

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.v.:: .-K ENGINEERS VISIT SOUTHERN ROUTE Survey of New Traction Line Can Be Started After This Evening. The southern half of the inspection trip over the proposed route for the new Richmond and Eastern Indiana Traction company was completed today, when representatives of the company, together with two engineers, journeyed from this city to Harrison, Ohio, the southern terminus of the car line. The engineers expected that before night they would have the entire road mapped out, ready to start surveying. The work before the experts today was making maps showing the larger obstructions to be encountered, and taking notes on the principal cuts and fills to be made. The engineers expected to be able to give the officers of the company their advice on the construction of the road immediately after the tour of examination. Chas. W. Jordan, secretary of the traction concern, went with Engineers Yipe and Moore, of Indianapolis. Dr. Burcham, who is well acquainted with the land south of the city, accompanied the party to indicate the route. It is not known yet what course the line will follow through Richmond, as the matter of a franchise has not been taken up with the municipal authorities. There is some probability that the Eighth street tracks of the T. H., I. & E. company will be used in crossing the city, but the company will first consider the chance of getting a separate line through Richmond. The tracks are sure to pass through Beallview. From Beallview, they will go through the following towns: Abington, Liberty, Roseburg, Dunlapsville, Brookville, Fairfield, New Trenton, and Harrison. At the last named point, the line will connect with a road into Cincinnati. HUNTING JIDIIAPPERS Business at Marietta Closed Posses Formed. (National News Association) HARRISBURG. Pa., Oct. 20. State police and posses are scouring the countryside about Marietta for a band of gypsies, believed to have kidnapped the 26 months old son of Hiram Ely, a wealthy saw mill owner on Monday. Two hundred men searched all night in the rain without getting a trace of the missing child. Today their places were taken by fresh searchers, reinforced by a detachment of the state constabulary. Gypsies were in the neighborhood Wednesday and Mrs. Ely declared today that only eight minutes elapsed from the time she last kissed the child and its disappearance. She went into the cellar and when she returned little Arthur was gone. The mills of Marietta have closed down and the entire community has

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FRIDAY EVEXIXir. OCTOBER 20, 1911.

1? MINERS KILLED WHEN A BIG SHAFT FLOODED IN NIGHT Forty-eight Other Workers in Ore Mine at Hibernia, N. J., Had Narrow Escapes from Wall of Water. MINE CENTURY OLD, A MAZE OF SHAFTS Mine Had Been Declared Safe by Mining Experts and Also by the New Jersey Mining Inspectors. (National News Association) HIBERNIA, N. J Oct. 20. The bod ies of twelve miners lie In the flooded iron ore mine of the Walton steel company near here while a force of workmen are working frenziedly today to pump out the thousands of gallons of water with which the shaft was flooded at 10:25 last nighj, when a partition separating the mine from an abandoned shaft gave way allowing the deluge to enter. There were sixty miners employed in the shaft when the disaster occurred. Of these forty eight escaped with their lives. The dead are all foreigners. Three hundred feet of the mine was flooded. Although workmen toiled all night, the water which flooded the shaft was apparently undiminished this morning. All efforts to get at the bodies of the dead were fruitless. Assigns No Reason. Officials of the mine at Dover, N. J., a few miles distant could give no reason for the accident. They declared that the mine was regularly inspected and was apparently safe. The foreign families living about the mine, many of whose relatives were among the dead, were almost crazed by grief and many had to be forcibly restrained from throwing themselves into the flooded shaft. It was at first reported that fifteen men had been trapped in the shaft by the wail of water and it was not until early today when the nigbt shift was checked- up that the exact list of dead was available. Coroner Cotton of Denver, is in charge of the work of recovering the bodies. The mines are situated at upper Hibernia and have been operated for nearly a century, to the extent that the entire mountain is practically hon eycombed with abandoned mine shafts. The mine in which the fatality occurred has been considered as entirely safe by mining experts and the New Jersey mise inspectors. ALLEGED FIEND IS HOT APPREHENDED Infuriated Farmers in Kansas Seek to Lynch a Wholesale Murderer. (National News Association) ELLSWORTH, Kan., Oct. 20. Suspecting Charles Marzyek, an ex-convict of the murders of three whole families, at Monmouth, Illinois; Genesee, Illinois, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, sheriffs posses and infuriated farmers are searching for him the sheriff to place Marzyek in jail and the farmers to lynch him. It is believed that if overtaken Marzyek will fight until he dies. Farmers about Genesee are bent on lynching Marzyek. Sheriff Bradshaw has scores of deputies scattered about in the hope of either capturing the hunted man or rescuing him from the infuriated farmers, should they come upon him first. So grave has become the danger of lynching in case of arrest that prosecutor Bartlett notified county officials that under no circumstances should a prisoner in the case be imprisoned in this county. Arrangements have been made with the sheriffs of three surrounding counties for keeping the prisoner should ah arrest be made. One of the largest posses was led by three brothers of William Showman, head of the murdered family. Early today the sheriff started out in answer to a call but he refused to give his destination. A deputy went with the sheriff. They went heavily armed, sharing the general opinion of officers here that Marzyek will surrender only after a desperate fight if he is found. At the home of James Vopat, the man who was chiefly responsible --r Marzyek being sent to prison five years ago for forgery and who later married the prisoner's wife, there was little sleep last night. ATTENDED REUNION John F. Markley, court bailiff, was named as a member of the resolutions committee at the reunion of the Eighth Indiana Infantry ' at New Castle on Thursday. One of the resolutions adopted by the veterans was favoring the payments of $1 per day pensions

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ITALIAN ARMY NOW ON MOVE TO OFFER FIGHT TO TURKISH

Turk Army in Interior of Tripoli Must Either Give Battle or Retreat into the Great Desert. TURK CROWN PRINCE BEATS UP A PASHA After Hot Words Over the Policy of the Government in the War Benghazi Being Shelled Today. (National News Association) TRIPOLI, Oct. 20 An Italian force moved against the Turkish army today to give battle or to force the Turks into the interior. Night attacks by Turkish soldiers have cost the Italian outposts heavily. The Italians have formally taken possession of Derna, after a heavy bombardment, which completely destroyed all the Turkish defense. Although the forts were defended by ! only 100 Turkish soldiers they offered a stout defense. Part of the city was destroyed by the Italian fleet, which is composed of the warships Natoli, Pist, Analfl, San Marce and Coatit, three destroyers and one manned transport, which carried the landing force. Derna will be used by the Italians as a base of operations. PRINCE SLAPS PASHA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 20. A sensational report that the Turkish crown prince and Hakki Pasha, formerly grand vizer of the empire, had come to blows during a furious altercation over the government's policy in the war with Italy, was current here today. According to .this story hot words led to blows and the Crown prince struck the pasha in the face. Others interceded and the combatants were separated. BOMBARD BENGHAZI. MALTA, Oct. 20. Italian warships today bombarded Benghazi, according to reports received here. The Italian fleet opened Are on the city yesterday the Turkish garrison replying with all their guns. The Italians attempted to land a force of marines, but with such stout resistence that the sailors were compelled to return to their shops. The Italians returned to the attack today and are reducing the Turkish forts to ruins. NORTHWEST TODAY HAS A SNOW FALL Heavy Storm in Minnesota and North Dakota Local Frost Probable. (National News Association) MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 20. A heavy snow storm struck northern Minnesota and North Dakota at 7 a. m. today and at noon the snow was still coming down. EXPECT LOCAL FROST. A heavy frost is one of the possibilities included in the weather forecast for this evening made out by Prof. Benjamin W. Kelley, head of the High School weather bureau. The present fall has been unusually late, and the conditions are such that frost may very easily set in tonight The barometer at the school observatory is high, auu 10 oiuni; KiBiii& uui its wuiyva I tive steadiness indicates that there will ! be no marked change in temperature j during the rest of this week. I In commenting on the chances of a frost tonight. Prof. Kelley said that if the weather was clear this evening, with no clouds in the sky, frost would be a certainty. As the weather forecast, however, predicts clouds, there may be no frost. The weather outlook for the coming week is far from promising. Just at present, there is a high pressure area recorded on the barometer. This means that for the next two or three days the air will grow colder, but will do so only by degrees, as no sudden fall in the mercury is expected. A correspondingly low pressure looked for by the high school bureau next week, and therefore it is stated that unless something new developes, there will be heavy rain or snow before the end of next week. The tardiness of cold weather in ar riving this autumn is the subject of considerable discussion in the county now. Although not infrequently frost is reported as early as the middle of September, no heavy frost has been noted in a single part of the county yet. There is no indication that cold weather will start soon, and local authorities are hoping for a comparatively light winter. ROBINSON DEPARTS FROM DUBUQUE, IA. (National New Association) DUBUQUE. Oct 20. Aviator ; Robinson left here at 14:20 o'clock on his Minneapolis to New Orleans flight.

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DEFEATED IN SUIT Russell Griswold, familiarly known as "Ruzzielamb," who sued Helen Woodruff Smith the middle-aged heiress of Stamford, Conn., in the Supreme Court in the city of New York, for 50,000 breach of promise! Griswold told on the witness stand how for nine years he had been madly in love with the fair heiress, and he showed to the Judge and jury voluminous correspondence to try to Drove that the defendant was in love with him. Griswold is at present a chorus man in a Broadway musical production. The jury decided aeainst him Thursday. FIGHT ON JURORS STILUONTIIIUES Twelfth Seat in Box for McNamara Trial Is Still Vacant One. (National News Association) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. When court opened today, talesman T. W. Adams was challenged by the state for actual and implied bias, because Adams was against capital punishment, also because he held a strong opinion, that. the Times building- waa destroyed by gas. James B. McNamara took' a renewed interest in the case when the state interposed its first challenge for bias. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 20. Only eleven men waited in the room above Judge Bord well's court room today for the bailiffs to lead them into the jury box when the morning session of the trial of James B. McNamara opened. The twelfth seat will be vacant until the state completes its examination of seven talesmen passed by the defense for cause ; until the defense completes questioning the eighth man, H. Y. Quackenbush whose examination was left incomplete, and until the ruling of Judge Bordwell on opinionated jurors brought before him in three challenges, is handed down. With this state of affairs, a near approach of the selection of a jury to try the alleged murderer of Charles J. Haggerty, killed in the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building is pushed back further into the future. The state which has begun the work of examining talesmen made rapid progress when they succeeded in barring from the jury John W. Roberts, excused because he could not vote guilty he said, should the verdict entail the death penalty. Neither the state nor the defense was much pleased, however, that Roberts was forced to leave the box. The attorneys for the defense were openly regretful whn he stepped down, and it was evident from the careful questions of the state that district Attorney Fredericks would have accepted Roberts if be could have done so. Today the state was ready to continue the examination of Talesman T. W. Adams. Adams, a socialist, was passed by the defense. When Horton, for the state began his questioning, Adams answered very cautiously. It was just before the close last night when an admission was wrung from him that he did not believe in circumstantial evidence that the state succeeded in laying any foundation for a challenge for cause. Horton today was ready to push this advantage and begin questioning Adams further on this point Another cause that may lengthen the time required to secure a jury is the announced intention of Captain Fredericks to demand tnat two extra jurors be selected. Under the California statutes two men may be chosen to act as subsUtutes, sitting with the regular jurors being guarded and treated-as they are and finally being discharged when the case goes to the jury- These men can be called on to act as regular jurors in case illness or some other cause makes it impossible for members of the regular panel to serve. TAFFS VISIT IS OCCASION FOR HOLIDAY (National News Association) SHERIDAN. Wyo., Oct 20. President Taft and party were entertained here today, the citizens making it a holiday in his honor. : The President was met at the train by Governor Carez " -. -

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PENAL FARM PLAN WAS INDORSED BY STATE FEDERATION Indiana Commercial Club Convention at Fort Wayne Approves of Project, Originating Here. A NEW GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES Commission System in Management of City Affairs Approved by Federation Officers Elected. "Be it resolved by the Federation ot Commercial clubs of Indiana in regular annual session assembled "That we recognise the great and necessary burden which the tax payers of this state are bearing in maintaining in demoralizing idleness the short term prisoners serving time in County jails for petty offenses, while at the same time their families are objects of public charity. "That we recommend to all civie and charity organisations, and public offipials that they work in harmonious conjunction to secure such legislation at the 1913 session of our state legislature as will provide and secure the establishment of such correctional and penal institution as will compel these violators of our common law, that are now committed to county jails, to perform such labor as. will compensate the state for their maintenance, and at the same time assist in providing for their families, and In order that we may co-operate in this - movement we suggest that efforts be pursued to secure the enactment of a bill into law similar to the bill which was before the 1911 legislature for consideration." The foregoing resolution furnished one of the principal topics for discussion at the annual meeting of the Indiana Federation of Commercial clubs, which adjourned at Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. The resolution met with the unanimous approval of the delegates ta the convention, and at the conclusion' of the discussion, on the matter, it was determined to have the legislative committee or the federation present .the resolution ; to the next session 'of the state legislature. . ' - "i ' ' Jordan a Delegate. Charles W. Jordan, of this city, chairman of the committee on resolutions, presented the matter to the meeting. The plan for such penal institutions originated in this city about a year ago. Mr. Jordan, the official representative of the Richmond club, had been instructed to offer the hesolution to the convention George 8eidel was the man who first drew up the resolution. At the September meeting of the local club Mr. Seidel gave his views on the matter, and the club thought the proposition worthy of adoption by the state body. One of the interesting resolutions adopted by the federation was in favor of a "business form of city government." The desirability of this form of municipal government, it was said, was because it eliminated politics. The plan, as presented,, provides a council of fifteen to have charge of the government Anyone who wishes to be a candidate for councilman, is eligible without nomination, and a list of all candidates would .be printed with the names in alphabetical order. An election would then be held to reduce the number of candidates to thirty, then another election would be held to elect fifteen of the 30 nominees. When chosen, the councilors will convene and appoint a mayor, and four associates; each of the four to be in charge of some department, such as health, police, etc. The mayor and his associates would be subject to recall by the councilmen and the councilmen by the people. In commenting on this resolution, Mr. Jordan, the local representative, said that although politics would probably enter to a small degree Into the new plan, it was very sensible, and would do away with many forms of corruption in public life. Mr. Jordan was elected vice president of the organization, to represent the sixth congressional district The officers are: President S. M. Foster, Ft Wayne; vice president First District, J. C. Kelley, Evansville; Second District Job Freeman, Linton; Third District, Marcus S. Sulzer, Madison; Fourth District, W. N. Aebeabach, Columbus; Fifth District W. H. Duncan, Terre Haute; Sixth District, Charles W. Jordan, Richmond; Seventh District Clarence D. Boyd. Indianapolis; Eighth District, A- W. Brady, Anderson; Ninth District, B. B, RusselL Crawfordsville; Tenth District E. F. Johnson. Hammond; Eleventh ' District C. H. Stuart Logansport; Twelfth District T- F- Thleme, Fort Wayne; Thirteenth District, William Happ, South Bend. : The secretary-treasurer win be elected by the vice presidents at some future date and will probably be H. C. Rutledg of Indiana Harbor. Indiana Harbor waa selected as the meeting place for the next conven- -tkm of the federation. A resolution favoring a uniform good roads law