Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 36, 16 December 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PAL LADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1911.

AUSTRALIANS TAKE LEAD JNJBIKE RACE Hold Advantage Although Other Six Day Teams Always Press Them.

(National Newi Aasoci&tlon) NEW YORK. Dec. 16. By dint of desperate sprinting the Australian team of Fogler and Clarke in the sixday bicycle race at Madison Square garden gained a lap on their nine competitors early today and managed to maintain it despite herculean efforts of the other riders to overtake them. One of the pluckiest rides ever made in a six-day bicycle race is that of Karl Saldow. the German champion and a member of the Lorenz-Saldow combination who had sustained a fractured rib and several torn ligaments in a bad spill. Baldow refused to retire from the race despite his painful injuries. Iorenz rode beyond his allotted time to give his partner a chance to rest and in one of his prolonged dashes be too was caught in a smashup in which his left leg was badly cut At 8 o'clock the 128th hour of the race, the leaders were 9 miles and 2 laps behind the record. The score at that hour: Fogler and Clarke, 2460 miles, 7 laps; Kramer and Moran, Halstead and Drobach, Pye and Collins, Cameron and Magln, Demara and Lawrence and Lorenz and Saldow. 2460 miles 8 laps; Qeorget and Brocco, 2460 mile; Lapize and Vanhouwaert, 2459 miles 9 laps; Hill and Bodell, 2460 miles 5 laps. The record is 2469 miles and 9 laps made by Demara and Hill in 1908. Beginning with today the men entered the final stag of the gruelling contest, for the race comes to a close at midnight and every rider steeled himself for the last hours dash which was In store. The fast work of Jackie Clark, the Australian champion and his teammate made them the fovorites. Wagering, however, was very light. The work of Clark in maintaining a lead was the feature of the race up to date. The Australian champion, with head down and legs working like piston rods, pedalled at terrifio speed forging ahead foot by foot until his lead of a lap was secure. Then he fell back into the regular grind. . A great ovation was given Clark as be completed his lap shortly before 2 a. m. Despite the earllness of the hour and sleepiness of the crowd, the spectators were aroused to great enthusiasm by the work of the Australian. . Jimmy Moran of the Kramer-Moran team, sustained a bad fall during a furious sprint, while the pedalers were all attempting to overtake Clark. The handle barB of his machine bent and he was hurled' to the track, striking on his head. He was unconscious for several minutes. The score for the 129th hour, 9 o'clock: Kramer and Moran 2477 miles, 1 laps; Fogler and Clark, 2477 miles 8 laps; Halstead and Drobach, Pye and Collins, Cameron and Magin. Demara and Lawrence and Lorenz and Saldow, 2477 miles 7 laps; Oeorget and Brocco, 2477 miles, 1 lap; Lapize and Vanhouwaert, 2477 mileB; Hill and J. Bedell, 2477 miles, 6 laps. . The record is 2489 miles and six laps made by Hill and Demara in 1908.

PLAN AGGRESSIVE -BRIDGEJAMPAIGIi West Side Improvement Association Demands the South E Street Site.

POST OFFICE READY FOR A FINAL RUSH ! To deliver all mall on hand the Richmond post office will be open for a short time Sunday, December twenty-fourth, according to announcement made today by Postmaster Edgar M. Haas. Extra men will be employed for the holiday rush, and every effort will be made to bring. the Christmas packages to their destinations on the festive day. Mall will be received at the windows for some hours on the morning before Christmas, so that persons may send out packages at the last moment. Incoming mail will also be distributed from the general delivery window at this time. The money order department will probably not 'be opened, 'but all other sections of the office will be at the regular task of handling mail. Two substitute carriers will be engaged to relieve the congestion all of next week. An additional clerk has already been at work for some time handling the holiday rush. For the convenience of local people, the railway mail service has arranged to have Pennsylvania trains 32 and 33 carry mall on the twentyfourth. The trains eave here at about 10:15 a. m. bound for Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis, respectively.

PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 50c.

MASONIC CALENDAR TUESDAY. Dec. 11. Richmond Lodge, No. 196. F. and A. M., called meeting. Work in Fellow Craft degree. WEDNESDAY. Dec. 20. Webb Lodge. No. 24. F. and A. M.. stated meeting. Annual election of officers. FRIDAY. Dec. 22. King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Called convocation. Work in Royal Arch degree. Refreshments.

COLISEUM Notice to skaters a Flashlight Picture of all skaters will be taken at the Rink Ssturdar Evening

An aggressive campaign has been planned by the West Side Improvement association for the location of the proposed South end bridge at South E street. At the meeting on Friday evening at the Baxter school building, it was determined that the best method of notifying the county commissioners, who will eventually decide on the location of the bridge, as

Uo the desires of the West Richmond

people waB by the presentation of a petition. The West Side association demands that South E street be selected for the bridge site. The South Side Improvement association endorses South L. street, as the most logical point, while there is a faction on both sides of the river which wants South H street. The West Side Improvement association will circulate petitions all over the city. The members say that it is a matter of importance to every citizen in the county, since all the citizens of the county have to contribute, by taxes, in the raising the fund to meet the cost of the bridge. The petitions will be in charge of the bridge committee, including C. H. Moore, Dr. E. B. Grosvenor and L. C. Peacock, assisted by attorneys A. M. Gardner and Ralph HuBson. Five arguments, in favor of the South E street location are presented by the West Side Improvement association, as follows: 1. The people of the West Side want a direct road to the city, and as practically all of them reside north of South E street, if the bridge was built south of that location they would have to go south and then east again to get to the city, making the distance longer. This also applies to citizens living east of the river, for they would be under the same difficulty. 2. The new No. 4 hose house is on E street, and the building of the bridge on E Btreet would provide a direct route to and from the city for the fire wagons. 3. The river banks at E street are in better and more solid condition for foundations for a bridge than either H or Li streets, the other proposed locations for the bridge. The gorge is narrower here, making the cost of the bridge less by a large sum. 4. South E street is the southern corporation line of this suburb of the City, and to build a bridge any farther south would make it a country bridge and it could not be given the care and attention of the city employes enjoyed by other bridges. , 5. It would open up a direct route to Earlham college and Earlham cemetery, making it a shorter route for city students of the college and obviating the necessity of funeral corteges going through the crowded section of the city to get to the cemetery from east of the river.

City Statistics

Deaths and Funerals. MOELK Henry J. Moelk died at his home, 900 South Tenth street, at 3:00 a. m. today following a stroke of paralysis. Moelk had a stroke Tuesday and failed rapidly. Last night he had a second stroke, not as violent as the first, bu he withstood the double attack only a few hours and died today. Moelk, who was 43 years Old, was a prominent member of St. Paul's Lutherna church. He is survived by his wife and five children, (Walter, Frederick, Marie, Clara, and Hilda). Services will be held at the home, 1.30 p. m. Tuesday, and at two o'clock In St. Paul's Lutheran church, with the Rev. Huber officiating. Interment will be in the Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at the home any time tomorrow afternoon or evening, or Monday.

A GREAT BUZZARD NOW ENROUTE HERE

(National News Association) CHICAGO, Dec. 16. Blizzards and

snowstorms raged through the central west today. Central Illinois reported two feet of snow. Traffic is demoralized.

A Word of Wrath. The word "rabbits" on board a Cornish fishing smack arouses the Ire of the crew. Should the hated word be uttered as the boat is leaving the harbor on a pilchard expedition the speaker would stand a fair chance of being hurled overboard. The mere mention of "rabbits" destroys all chances of a "catch." London Chronicle.

POETRY OF THE RAIL

The oft-quoted Flnnegan, whose train was 'off ag'in, on ag'in," now has a rival in Pat Donohue, B. & O. S.-W. freight conductor, whose train suffered a breakdown near Hamden the other day. Donohue sent the following message to Train Dispatcher Straight, at Chillicothe: "Two-twentv-two has a busted flue. What will I do? DONOHUE." This wakened the slumbering muse in the telegraph office, and the reply ran: "Wait. Two-twenty-eight will take your freight. "I. M. STRAIGHT." And still there are people who think life on the steel rails Is all Tiard prose and contains no poetry. Southwestern Book.

EMPEROR OF INDIA IS Oil TIGER HUNT

With Closing of Durbar, English Rulers Start on Pleasure Trips. (National News Association) Delhi, India, Dec. 16. Bringing to a close the most magnificent Durbar that has ever proclaimed the vassalage of India to Great Britain, King George and Queen Mary, new emperor and empress of India, took their state departure from the new Indiana capital today. The Indiana authorities who have had charge of the safeguarding of the royal party during their stay here, breached a sigh of relief as the new emperor and empress departed for a tremendous task had been lifted from their shoulders. King George left for Nepal where he will do some tiger hunting before taking his leave of India; Queen Mary went to Agra. Each will be closely guarded during their stay at these points. Before leaving King George expressed his warm appreciation of the loyal sentiment of the Delhi authorities. Simultaneously with the departure of the king and queen, the thousands of visitors who had come here to witness the scene of the investiture also began leaving. Work of tearing down the magnificent pavilions making up the Durbar camp will begin at once. The royal hunt, which will be undertaken at the invitation of the Indiana princes, will outrival anything of like nature in the past. For weeks preparations have been made for it.

AUDITOR REPORTS TAX COLLECTIONS

To Make Settlement With the State Within a Few Davs.

STRANGER AIDS IN CONSPIRACY PROBE (National News Association) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16. Through the medium of a mystery witness, not previously identified with the dynamite conspiracy cases, the Federal investigation here may turn in an entirely new direction and develop sufficient evidence for the district attorney to proceed in making arrests under "John Doe" warrants charging murder in connection with the destruction of the Times plant here on Oct. 1, 1910. The important testimony was given to the federal probers by a witness who gave the name of "B. J. Crosby," to newspaper reporters, but this name was admittedly fictitious by men close to the investigation. District Attorney John D. Fredericks, when questioned as to the identity of the man, said: "I could not give out the name of this man. Neither the state nor the government can afford to have his identity known at this time. He has been in Los Angeles for two months and is a very important witness. To divulge his name at this time would mean that he would be left open to personal injury at the hands of men to whose interest it is that he not testify. Further than this I cannot say."

France had 114,283 silkworm grow ers last year.

The total tax collections, between May 1 and November 6. of the current' year, made by Albert R. Albertson. treasurer of Wayne county, reached $o21,735.46. These figures are set forth in the semi-annual settlement sheet, prepared in the office of County Auditor D. S. Coe. The settlement sheet has been filed with the state auditor and approved, and during the holidays County Treasurer Albertson will go to Indianapolis to turn over to the State treasurer the State's part of the taxes collected. For State tax (general fund) Wayne county collected $14,226.29: for State benevolent institutions, $7,421.81; for the State's debt fund, $2,218.48; for State schools. $21,2"3.79; for the State's educational institutions, 34,092.06. In addition to these tax items the county treasurer

twill turn over to the State $4,007.56,

i representing Wayne county's collec

tion on State school funds loaned out; $136 representing docket fees collected by the county clerk during the last six months and $316.78, representing interest the county has collected on the State's permanent endowment loan funds. All told, Indiana will receive $53,;72.77 from Wayne county, less any sums advanced during the last bix months. For County Purposes. For county purposes (general fund) the collections aggregated $52,695.65. which added to the balance that will be on hand the last day of the current month, will give the county more than $60,000 when the new year begins. For other purposes the tax collections were as follows: Township tax, $8,113.6S; tuition tax, $44,399.78; special school tax, $13,067.68; county bond sinking fund, $10,297.70; for turnpike repairs, $4,453.2S; for corporation purposes (all towns and city of Richmond), $74,258.17. As usual the greatest amount of taxes collected for a single purpose goes to the school system, the tuition special and school bond levies bringing in a total of $100,000.57. In this connection County Auditor Coe has compiled a table showing the second installment of the readjustment of local tuition funds which has been made to correct the apportionment of last year, which, as a result of apportioning the funds on a percapita 'basis,

Instead of basing the allotments on

distribution by townships and school towns, as had been accurately made, there was an inequality. Some of the townships and school towns received less than their just share, while others received more. At the July settlement deductions were made from some of these school divisions and corresponding increases made to others. At this December settlement deductions were made as follows: Dalton township, $100; Franklin, $250; Jackson, $100; Jefferson, $60; New Garden, $292; Perry, $64; Washington, $58; Centerville, $130; Hagerstown, $100; Spring Grove, $10. The increases were made to the following: Boston, $150; Center, $68; Dublin, $200; Richmond, $746.25. Richmond Gets Most. The Richmond schools receive more than half of all taxes raised in the county for school purposes, the

settlement sheet showing that the distribution to Richmond will be as follows: Tuition tax. $26,630.62; special school tax. $16,232.74 and school house bond tax, $10,34o.S6. The civil city of Richmond will receive $67,703.11, less the sums that have been advanced to the city treasurer during the last six months. The city also will receive $3,202.76 as bond tax, less any sums advanced. The smallest amount that any subdivision of the county will receive is $26.40, which will go to Whiewater corporation as its semi-annual stipend to run its government for the next six months.

GARY POLICE FEAR A DYNAMITE PLOT

iNattonal News Association) GARY, Ind., Dec. 16 The entire police force guarded the city hall today following the receipt, by the chief of police, of information of a conspiracy to blow up the building with dynamite. The information came from the chief of police at Kansas City.

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STOKESORERDICT Acquittal of Two Actresses Came as Surprise to Both Sides.

German Peasant Farmers. It is estimated that 88 per cent of the lind tilled by German peasant farmers is owned by them.

(National News Association) NEW" YORK. Dec. 16. The fact that Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad were acquitted of shooting W. K. D. Stokes was kept secret from their victirne today and Dr. Joseph P. Thornley, his doctor, said he would not permit Mr. Stokes to know the result of the trial until he is out of danger. "Mr. Stokes is getting along nicely," said Dr. Thornley. We have kept the developments in the trial from him for over a week. To be told the result might jeopardize his chances of recovery." Miss Graham and Miss Conrad will rest up for a few days before making definite plans. Mrs. Stella Singleton, sister of Miss Graham, who was to ill to testify on Thursday, was out yesterday and intimated she might sail to

day for Europe. . She said if the district attorney wanted to do anything toward investigatir Al Adams death at the Ausonia he would have to hurry. Mrs. Singleton is loud in her denunciation of everybody who was opposed to the girls in the case and declares the newspapers have ruined her famil reputation from coast to coast. The verdict of the jury, returned late yesterday afternoon after it had been out for fifty seven minutes, was a surprise for both sides. The prosecution expected a conviction at least on the lesser charge and the defense looked for nothing better than a disagree-

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MINISTER SUICIDES WHILE IN BATHTUB NEW YORK, Dec. 16 The Rev. C. J. Olsen a Brooklyn clergyman, was found dead in a bathtub in his home at 5S1 Fiftieth street, Brooklyn today. His letf wrist had been slashed and a bloody razor lay in the tub beside the dead man. The police declare that the clergyman committed suicide.

A tiny storage battery driven electric fan has been perfected to be placed inside a top hat to keep its wearer's head cool.

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