Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 30, 9 December 1911 — Page 1

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GUAR, SCOTT & CO. CHOSEN YESTERDAY rank Land Elected President in Place of Howard Campbell, Who Has Retired from the Concern. 1340,000 IN STOCK HAS BEEN RETIRED Company Is Maintained on Independent Basis to Protect Its Charter S. S. Strattan to Leave. r fceosh the corporation of Our, cott s Company had been absorbed ! with the Advance company of Battle 'Creek, Mich., by the M. Rumely com Ipany of LaPorte, Ind., the local comIpany will still maintain an independent organization for the purpose of (maintaining Its charter issued by the ffitate of Indiana. At a meeting of the stockholders yesterday $340,000 of the capital stock 'of the corporation was retired, leaving only $10,000 worth of stock in existence, and officers were elected as follows: President Frank Land. Vice President Will Campbell. Secty.-Treas. Charles T. Holton. The board of directors consists of the three executive officers named Ubove and S. S. Strattan, Jr., and John OB. Winn, of La Porte. Mr. Land succeeds Howard Campfeell as president of the corporation Kd Mr. Strattan retires as secretary, d Mr. Holton, who has been treasurer, continues In that capacity and asmumes the duties of secretary. It la understood that Mr. Campbell flaill no longer be identified with the jsreater Rumely company in any acUlra capacity, and will continue to reBride la Richmond. It la admitted by company officials tfcai gr. Strattan will Jeave this city.

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Jaith the Rumely company. It is understood that Mr. Strattan will be trans- ' tarred to La Porte, but this is not confirmed. Mr. Strattan represented the Oaar, Scott & Company in its negotiations with the M. Rumely company, rhich resulted in the absorption of the local company by the Rumely company. By the transfer of Mr. Strattan Richmond loses one of Its most able business men. He played a most active part in making Oaar, Scott & Company one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the state, and building up Its foreign trade, which now etxends to every wheat and rice country on the globe. It is announced that Harry Gilbert, ho has been cennected with the Gaar, Bcott ft Company for several years, will be transferred to the La Porte oP flee. It is not known what the other changes in the personnel of the office force of the local concern will be. OLD SOUTH CHURCH OP READING BURNS (National News Association) READING, Mass., Dec. 9. The Old Couth Methodist church, the town's landmark, was destroyed by incendiary fire this morning at a loss of $5,000. An investigation is being made by the state police. Four weeks ago a mysterious fire was discovered in the church which was built In 1769. More Shopping Days Before Xmas. Shop Early and In the Morning. Palladium circulation for the week ending Dec 8, 7,318

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Mrs. Robert F. Scott, and her little son, Peter, whose photograph she is sending as a Christmas gift to her husband, Capt. Robert F. Scott, in charge of the British Antarctic expedition, at a cost of $5,000. The messenger will have to travel over 15,000 miles to give the explorer a portrait of the sturdy boy he left kicking in the cradle a year and a half ago.

JOHN DOWIE'S SOU LEAVES THE CHURCH Gladstone, "The Unkissed," Studies for the Episcopal Ministry. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Dec. 9. Gladstone Dowie has forsaken the faith of his father, founder of Zion City and now is a student in Western theological seminary, preparing to take orders in the Episcopal church, and to enter the orthodox ministry. Dowie has been enrolled as a student in the seminary for three weeks, and efforts were made to keep the fact secret. The young man is a graduate from the University of Chicago, and for two years was a student in Harvard university. For the last two or three years he has been practicing law in Michigan. During the life of John Alexander Dowie, the son, with his father, was a great traveler. It was during his journeying in different parts of the world

that he gained experience as a speak-! will announce which men are to reer, as he was frequently called on to'eeive the support of the temperance

preach to his father's followers in the foreign lands he visited. ONE CASE RULING AFFECTS ANOTHER The decision of the circuit court whereby Mrs. Maud Hawkins lost her suit -for $2,000 damages for personal injuries, may have the result that the Adam H. Bart el company, which firm suffered a $20,000 loss in the flood last gumer, as a result of the alleged inadequacy of the sewer system, can not institute suit to recover from the city. The two case are different in some phases, and attorneys have advised Mr. Bart el differently in interpreting the courts decision in the Haw kin case. Mr. Bartel advised with one attorney who told him he had two years in which to bring the action, while another stated that' in his judgement he had no cause for action, inasmuch as he had failed to file with the city clerk a statement setting forth his losses within sixty days after the flood. The basement of the Bartel wholesale house on North E street was flooded and all the dry goods stored in it either spoiled or their value reduced greatly. CHICAGO FAVORED FOR CONVENTION WASHINGTON. Dec. 9 Two-thirds of the membership of the National Republican committee favor Chicago as the scene of their convention, it is said today. Fred W. Upham. of Chicago, has been active in pushing Chicago's claims and holds the pledges. The convention will be held between June 7 and 21. the exact date to be determined when the national committee meets Dec. 12. Baltimore is the most likely municipal candidate for the Democratic convention

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BIG TEMPERANCE IETIIIG PLANNED Anti-saloon Advocates in the County Will Organize in r a Few Days. To organize th county temperance forces for the campaign of 1912 a general meeting of citizens of Wayne county will bo held somo time within the next ten days, according to a report given out today by th? Hm. .1 D. Radcliffo. chairman of the "good citizenship" committee of the Richmond Ministerial association. At this gathering the Vocal prohibition leaders hope to ef fect a definite organization which j can work toward the abolition of the ; linuor tiaffic. As planned by the' ministerial association, the new bdy will he non-partisan and I mem- j bership in it will be open to anyone , in the county who favors prohibi- f fion. The officials selected at the meeting will study the records of 11 local candidates for office, and then organization, the candidate not pledging to temperance will be endorsed. This county meeting conies as the first direct conseiuenee of the state convention held Tuesday in indiannpolis. At this meeting representafives of every county voted to work for temperance in the 1912 political campaign. In their own counties. Arrangements for the meeting will be made at the ministerial associa- f tion meeting next Monaay morning. and a date set for the county convention. CALLS DIPHTHERIA UNNECESSARY ILL That every person who dies from diphtheria dies an unnatural death is the unusual theory propounded by county health commissioner, J. E. King, in issuing a warning against allowing a spread of the disease. Dr. King says that injection of antitoxin within twenty-four hours after the appearance of symptoms, is ' a positive cure for diphtheria, wherefore all deaths from this disease are unnecessary and unnatural. "Poverty Is no excuse for allowing the disease to get a grip on one," asserted the county health officer today, "for antitoxin can be secured free from the county health department, and. in extreme cases each township health officer is required to furnish free medical aid. The county is free from diphtheria at present, but the health department Is making an effort to prevent any outbreak of contagion during the winter months." THE WEATHER STATE Rain tonight and Sunday. LOCAL Rain tonight and Sunday. Not much changa in temperature,

WITH POISON WOMAN SEEMS DETERMINED TO THWART JUDGE

Mrs. Vermilya, Suspected of Nine Murders, Makes a Third Attempt to SuicideFate May Favor Her. DRUG SMUGGLED IN THE JAIL HOSPITAL Paralysis Affects Speech and Right Side, and Physicians. Fear Fatal Stroke She Summons Relatives. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Dec. 9 Mrs. Louise) Vermilya, charged with the murder of probationary policeman Arthur Bis-! sonnette and suspected of causing j eight other deaths, is believed to be j dying in the county jail hospital to- j day. She was stricken with paralysis i of the mouth and part of the right side j It was suspected that in some mysterious manner poison had been smug gled in to the jail hospital and that j she had taken it. She has made two! previous attempts to commit suicide .' while under police surveillance. j Examination proved that the tongue, j tonsils and part of Mrs. Vermilya's i right cheek were paralyzed. Large J lumps of contracted muscles were di3- J covered all over the body. The illness ; puzzled the examining physicians. It j was feared the partial paralysis was j the forerunner of a fatal stroke. ! Mrs. Vermilya seems to take her j serious condition stoically. Retaining the use of her right hand she wrote on j a piece of paper the names of relatives ; and friends she wished summoned to her bedside. Stoical Demeanor. The woman's stoicism tenders to suspicion that poison has been swallowed. ; At 7 o'clock this rnonjing when the matron .asked her how she ..felt, she, aaiedijd right. I haven't any complaint to make." An hour later she arose in bed, threw out her arms, and with a strange rattling noise in her throat fell back. The matron rushed to her bedside. It was at first thought that Mrs. Vermilya was dead. Physicians were hurriedly summoned and it was discovered that Mrs. Vermilya had been stricken Humb. Since that mo- ; ment she has uttered no word. Her eyes seem to smile, and there is no i physical indication of pain. WANT S. L. STREET THE BRIDGE LOCATION g fa g.j Delegation Waits 55 Upon the County Commissioners Today. . Because members of the South Side Improvement association are of the unanimous opinion that South L, street is the best location for the proposed South End bridge over the Whitewater river, which will be built next year. i a delegation from the organization, Including President Adolph Blickwedel, i Hans Knoll. Charles Smelscr, Conrad ! Zwissler, Anton Stolle and Prof. Jos. ; Itichter urged this location upon the ; board of county commissioners dayObjection is found to the South E and the South H street locations by the South Side Improvement association. South E street, which is favored by the West Side Improvement association, is not being opposed by the south end people because it is too near Main street, and also because at the point of its east approach are the C. & O. railroad tracks. The South H street proposed location is objected to because of the cost; the necessity to purchase river bottom land, and the Holzapfel cold storage plant, and because the bridge would run in a northwesterly direction. Sentiment among the majority of property owners in the south end, aci cording to the delegation, is in favor of South L street. The cost of constructing a bridge at this point would be between $30,000 and $40,000 less than the construction of a bridge at South E street, according to estimates which have been supplied them. A petition is being circulated in the South Side favoring South H street. Henry Rothert, a grocer on South H, and James Fry, a property holder, are circulating the petition, the delegation said. The board was told the petition was only meeting the approval of those possessing property on Sooth H street or the immediate vicinity. The delegation inform ed'the board the South H Street supporters were prompted by selfish motives. No decision was made by the county authorities. The board wishes to hear all sides before making a selection.

SECRETARY OF THE IRON WORKERS MAY CREATE SENSATION Herbert S. Hockins, It Was Reported Today, . Is Now Anxious to Make Clean Breast of All He Knows.

DIST. ATTY. MILLER MAY SECURE FACTS Reported on Good Authority that Hockins Has Some Highly Interesting Papers of J. J. McNamara. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9 That Herbert S. Hockins, who succeeded J. J. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Struetu-al l.-on Workers Union, is anxious to makj a clean breast of all he knows to U. S. District Attorney Miller was the statement of four men officially so situated that they know what c ha )pep.ing. No deal has yet been made between the Iron Workers official and Attorney Miller, although one is known to be brewing. Mr. Miller is said to be debating the advisability of making an agreement as outlined with Hockins who in return for whatever information he may know about the dynamiting plot is said to be demanding a "square deal." It is known that the National Erectors Association, Detective Burns and federal authorities at Indianapolis and Los Angeles have information implicating Hockins in dynamiting outrages. It is stated on apparently authentic information that Hockins has in his possession a quantity of J. J. McNamara's papers which were not confiscated at the time of McNamara's arrest. These papers Hockins is said to have promised to deliver to the authorities. Whether or not the information against Hockins, or that held by Hockins, is specified or sufficient enough to warrant his indictment cannot be said, but it is known that Hockins' name is frequently discussed In conferences of officials and investigators in charge of the cases. Keeping Mouth Scaled. Hockins in public is keeping his woyift denied ahaolotetrany knowledge to the McNamara cases and in reply to persistent questioning stated merely, "I have nothing to say." Hockins manner when he is approached is exceedingly nervous. He snaps his fingers, paces up and down and moves away as though to close the conversation, then comes back, watches his questioner closely and is very careful in his replies. That something wa3 "doing" was evident unmistakable by protracted secret conferences at the federal building. A reporter who attempted to enter District Attorney Miler's office was hastily ejected by a guard just inside the door. Federal officers, guards, investigators and others interested in the case hurried up and down the corridors, wearing unusually important scowls. Musty ledgers and suitcases were lugged back and forth upstairs and down. "Have you heard anything of a proposal from Herbert Hockins to Charles W. Miller to make a statement, setting forth his knowledge of the dynamiting case?" was asked of J. A. G. Badorf of the National Erectors' association, who has been one of the leaders in the investigation since the McNamaras' arrest. "You will have to ask Mr. Miller about it. J know nothing about it and naturally if I did I would eay nothing about it," he replied. MET AT JJNION CITY Traction Conference Held Yesterday. A settlement of all the serious obstacles in the way of constructing the proposed Richmond and Eastern Indiana traction line through Union City, was the result achieved at a conference held yesterday afternoon between Union City officials, engineers, and representatives of the traction company. Charles Jordan, secretary of the R, & E. I., and A. H. Moore, of the firm of Jeup and Moore, who are now surveying the new line, left Richmond yesterday noon and were met at Union City by Mayor William Harris, and a delegation of local business men who are looking after the traction interests in that city. The party then got into automobiles and were driven around town, so as to see the contBtions confronting the road-builders. Following this short jaunt, the men held a conference. The Union City business men reported that there would be no trouble in securing the right of way, and that the route through the city, with the exit on the north were practically determined. The engineers have finished the survey as far as Union City, and today expect to go two or three miles north before furnishing work for the week. They will spend Sunday in Union City and then hope to complete the northern end of the Une and reach Portland next week.

DYNAMITE DEALER THROWS LIGHT OH LABOR CONSPIRACY

Evidence Given Federal Grand Jury by J. W. Kizer, Muncie, Said to Involve 32 Union Leaders. UNCLE SAM MAY ACT ON HIS TESTIMONY Ex-Mayor McCarthy of San Francisco May Inform Authorities Relative to Men Under Suspicion. (National News Association) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9. J. W. Kizer, of Muncie, Ind., explosive manufacturer who unknowingly supplied some of the national dynamite conspirators with high explosives, in his testimony before the federal grand jury here, is understood to have given illuminating testimony concerning the identity of other men to whom he had sold dynamite at various times, and laid the basis on which conspiracy indictments will probably be issued next week, involving, it is said, thirty-two prominent labor men of the United States. It is admitted that Kizer is one of the most important witnesses questioned by the inquisitors. Several weeks ago he identified the two McNamara brothers and O. E. McManigal as men to whom he had sold explosives at various times during the last j seven years. Thirty additional federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued here. The most important witness to be heard before the grand jury next Tuesday will be E. A. Clancy of San Francisco, first vice president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers. Clancy was served in San Francisco with a federal subpoena and will be brought here Monday. For several weeks he has said that he has been suffering from heart failure, but despite his supposed illness, the federal investigators will bring him here, and if necessary, will have physicians to attend him enroute. Condemned Not Called. ' J,.;rhe.twQ McNajgAra. brothers will not tesnry Derore thc reoerar grana jtrry at this time. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Lawler and Sheriff Hammel had a dramatic meeting with the two sentenced prisoners. The result of it all was that the two McNamaras announced that they were clinging to the faith that a "squealer has an uneasy conscience." J. B. McNamara received them with snarls and oaths. He was implacable to all the urging commended by Mr. j Lawler. I J. J. McNamara told his visitors that J he had thought the case all over and had considered the suggestions made j to him and had decided to tell nothing j to the federal grand jury. I "I do not have to follow the advice S that is given to me," J. J. McNamara ! is reported to have said, and if my ! friend3 jump out the window, that is no reason why I should take the same action. I will tell nothing and that is final." District Attorney Fredericks and ! Special Prosecutor Lawler believe that E. A. Clancy, of San Francisco, will be an interesting witness. It was reported that Clancy had made a startling confession in San Francisco. This was promptly denied by the federal authorities and Clancy said that he had nothing to confess concerning the i plot. Among the witnesses for whom subpoenas have been issued are the following: Anton Johansen, of Costa Madre, and his wife, Margaret Johansen; Eric Morton and Jack I,ofthouse, of San Francisco; J. E. Timmons of Los Angeles; George A. Siseons, a barber at the Argonaut hotel and San Francisco; Tillie McCarthy of San Francisco; Mrs. Belle Laven of San Francisco and a number of men employed at the Giant powder works at Giant, Cal. It has been hinted that former mayor McCarthy of San Francisco, would i probably be called as a witness before ' the grand jury probe is concluded. Mcj Carthy is a prominent labor leader j and it is believed he could give inforination concerning some of the men under suspicion. TO CEASE EFFORTS TO RECOVER BOND After conferring with the eastern company which he is representing here, E. M. Campfield has decided not to make any further appeals to the board of works or the city council for the release of his bond filed with his bid for the water works franchise. He , says that he can do nothing unless the city desires to release the bond. NINTH DEATH FROM FALL OF BUILDING (National News Association INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9. The ninth death as the result of the collapse of the Prest-O-Lite building occurred this morning, John Tucker being the victim. In the belief that other bodies are in the ruins. Mayor Shank ordered thirty city employes with four wagons to dig into the debria.

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GREAT BLAST Fate of Two Hundred Workers in an Iron Mine at Bryceville, Tenn., Nat Known to Rescue Corps. EXPLOSION CAUSED EARTH TO TREMBLE Fire Believed to Have Followed the Explosion as Smoke Pours from Mouth of the Big Mine. (National News Association) BRYCEVILLE. Tenn.. Dec. Two hundred miners were entombed two miles from the entrance of the Knoxville Iron company's mines as a result of a dust explosion this morning. The rescue crews are working. Heavy loss of life is almost inevitable. Fire is believed to have followed the explosion, judging from the volume of smoke, which at times rolls from the mouth of the mine. Experienced miners express fear that none of the miners have escaped. So violent was the detonation that the earth trembled aa thouSh agitated by an earthquake. Nearly all the entombed men were at work in the shaft in which the explosion occurred, or In the adjacent chamber. The day force had just gone to work before the explosion occurred. The rumble of the explosion brought great crowds of town people to the mine's opening, and the mine officials made immediate preparations to organize rescue crews, but up to 9 o'clock the mine bad not been entered. WIFE IS ARRESTED W. Abshire Returns to Hs. Home and Finds Mate with Another Man. The story of his wife's alleged Infidelity, as imparted to him by letters from a friend, was verified by William Absbire last night, when he returned to Greensfork, from Macon, Mies., where he had been working. As a result Mrs. Abshire is now confined at the woman's jail at the Home for Friendless Women, but her companion, said to be a man named Lamb, and living in this city, has not been apprehended. Mr. Abshire with Deputy Sheriff Rice Miller, of Greensfork, was in the city this morning conferring with authorities but as yet be has not decided just what charge be will file against his wife. Abshire who has been working st Greensfork as a carpenter went to Macon some time ago and bad been sup porting his wife, during the time be worked at Macon, it Is said. A short time ago a friend at Greensfork wrote hira about the alleged wrongful actions of his wife. At first he branded all of the stories as false, believing his friend was laboring under a mis apprehension. Finally he decided to in vestigate and left Macon Wednesday, arriving in Greensfork about 9:30 o'clock last evening. He went immediately to his home and slipping up to a window heard a conversation between his wife and another man. He secured the deputy sheriff, who with two other men returned to the house. The three men were stationed at the various doors of the bouse and Miller knocked for admittance. It was some time before the door was opened by Mrs. Abshire and as she unlocked it. Miller shoved it open and entered. She demanded his business and he informed her that he was there to arrest the other person in the bouse. Quick as a flash she pulled a revolver but by this time Abshire had entered the house and he wrested the weapon from her. Miller then took the gun from Abshire. It had two cartridges in it, both of them having mall dents in them, proving that the trigger had been pulled. Miller demanded to know where "the man" was and she pointed to a closed door, saying that he was in the room but that he had a revolver and would shoot if any one entered. As Miller opened the door the biding man jumped out of a window and made good his escape. Mrs. Abshire was brought to this city about 1:30 o'clock this morning and placed in jaiL

ISLANDERS, UNDER PORTUGUESE, REVOLT (National News Association) MADRID, i Dec.;' 9 Aifl uprising against Portuguese rule la reported from the Madeira Islands. Reports from Lisbon state that Portugal has sent a warship to pat dewm tke xnL; . nyX - '