Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 59, 13 January 1912 — Page 1

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BEEF PACKERS DID HOT LET A DOLLAR EVER ESCAPE THEM A Dollar, Once Captured, Died a Captive, Because the Guard Line Established Was Too Strong. JURY ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND BOOKS But the Ledgers of Morris & Company Were as Enigmatical as Hieroglyphics on Egypt Tombs. (National Nwa Association) CHICAGO, Jan. 13 Complexities of the bookkeeping system of Morris and company again occupied the attention of the Jury which is trying the ten millionaire beef packers in the U. 8. District Court. Ledgers and Journals containing entries are as enigmaleal as tbe hieroglyphics on the tombs of the first kings of Egypt, were read and explanations that did not explain anything that sounded intelligible, were made by Henry A. Tlmmons, an expert. He led his listeners through phases of divisions and subtractions and mul tiplications by which ultimate cost and final profits were reached. The books by which the govern ment contend it could have shown the facts, which were disclosed before the grand jury, have been destroyed, and It was compelled to offer the proof by roundabout methods of book keeping. The Jury, apparently tried hard to follow the witness and fathom bis explanations. About the only pat eat pact disclosed was that when a dollar once got into the Morris vault, It had little chance of escape. If the dollar got away in the dressed beef department, It was captured in the hide department, and if there was any leakage among the hides, the guards in the fat rendering department organized posses, and called in recruits, from the watch dogs of the curled hair, condensed oil and mincemeat reserves, and said dollar was certain of being recaptured. RECORD FOR STATE MADE Ilicjniond was the coldest spot in tbe. sfcte today. Th4 official government thermomcfine water wonts registered zt ' tdegres below zero about 7 o'clock ' this nornlng, which registration was - one degree lower than at Wabash, the afoxtrcoldest point in the state. ftcords for the winter were sent topy turvey by tbe Saturday morning registration, but if the interpretations of weather conditions to come are correctly taken' by the weather progaosticators Jack Frost and his 'troupe, straight from the North Pole, will depart for a short time, when warmer weather will be on tap. But the next cold wave Is not many hours distant. When Richmond crawled from the covers on Saturday morning and looked at the thermometers with the mercury almost hidden In the glass tube in the bottom, it could hardly believe its eyes. Ordinary thermometers showed rash records, in the opinion of the observers, but the greater was their surprise when later tt was learned the water works instrument had touched 26 below. STEAMER IS ASHORE. ROCK. LAND, Maine, Jan. 13. The Steamer Carolyn with $300,000 cargo went to pieces today off Metyn Island shortly after life savers had rescued the crew of thirty. AT RICHMOND, VA. RICHMOND. Va., Jan. 13. -The government thermometer registered IT below this morning. BOATS IN ICE JAM. CHICAGO, Jan. 13. The steamers, Kansas and Indiana, with hundreds of j passengers, plying between Milwaukee and Chicago, are imprisoned between ice Jams thirty feet high at the mouth of the Chicago harbor. TRAMPS FROZEN Vo DEATH. ATLANTA. Oa.. Jan. 13. Three tramps were found frozen to death in n empty Jocked box car which arrived this morning from Chicago. One was a boy of fourteen. An old man was found frozen to death in a tenement building thismornlng. his death being the first on record. The snow Is three Inches deep. Skating Is safe on the lakes. 18 BELOW AT CAPITAL. . INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 13. Although the Weather forecast insists six below ras the minimum temperature, many private thermometers registered ten to eighteen below early today. RETURNS HOME Amos Bell has returned from In dianapolis where he attended the funeral of his sister, Mrs.-AImlna Craig ale Tussdsx azutrnooa.

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(BRYAN AND UNWELCOME INMATE OF JAIL HAS LEFT Door to His Cell Left Open and He Was Ordered to Sweep Alley. John Jones, the cripple who made persistent attempts to break in the county jail and who was arrested only when he intruded at police headquarters, has gone. Jones was desirous of being arrested and sent to the county Jail for the winter, but he was foiled by the police superintendent. After keeping him in the city jail for several days, giving him but a light diet, the police chief ordered Jones put to work and instructed the tbe turnkey to leave all doors of the jail open and to see that the other avenues of escape were not obstructed. Jones worked diligently but although he was alone and was given many opportunities to get away he did not take advantage of them. In desperation Supt. Oormon ordered the turnkey to Instruct Jones to sweep the alley leading from Firth to Sixth street. Jones believed this was "too much" and seeing a good chance, he made bis get-away. The police had already ma'de other arrangements to give Jones the "bounce" in case the latter plan failed, but fortunately for Jones they were not forced to resort to drastic measures. LA PENNA IS GIVEN HIS GUN AND KNIFE Mike La Penna's "five shooter" 32 calibre revolver, with which he killed his cousin, Antonio La Penna at the fence factory, November 7, and the long, dagger-like, single-bladed knife which he carried when arrested, were returned to his Saturday. Having been found not guilty by the jury for first degree murder, the state was powerless to confiscate the weapons. La Penna made request for them through his attorney. Gossip of the murder trial demanded more attention of attorneys . and the court than legal business Saturday. All seemed agreed that the jury judged rightly in finding La Penna not guilty instead of finding him guilty of manslaughter, as it is understood some jurors held out for a short time. The attorneys said that considering the evidence from any angle a case of manslaughter could not have been made out. against La Penna. but that the killing was either straight out murder or self defense, the latter being the jury's opinion. Chief of police I. A. Gormon, was sorely displeased with the verdict He said 'that several Italians called him up after the verdict became known and expressed themselves as displeased with the verdict. WIFE HEARS FATAL SHOT OVER PHONE (National News Association) GRAND RAPIDS. Jan. 13. "Listen and youll hear something.' With these words addressed .to his wife over the telephone, Thomas Harris, 35, committed suicide with a revolver while standing before the transmitter in his apartment.

HARMON. PROMISE TO BOILD A TRACTIOTI SPUR Connecting of Milton and Connersville Favored by Traction Men. The presentation of petitions, resolutions and maps describing the territory, by a delegation of Richmond, Connersville and Cambridge City busi-' riess men, made such an impression on officials of toef. H.l. & E. Traction company in Indianapolis yesterday af- ! ternaon, that steps will be taken at the end of the winter, to construct a car line between Milton and Connersville. After explaining the advantages both to the traction concern and to the community-,- the delegation displayed petitions signed by over 700 residents of Wayne and Fayette counties. They also presented resolutions passed by tbe eity councils of Richmond and Connersville. Their best argument was finally brought into play when they showed a set of maps prepared by the engineers of the two counties, designed to prove that the proposed line would be but ten miles in length and would entail but small expenditure. The situation was discussed informally by all the men, and finally the traction officials promised to make a personal inspection of the territory when warm weather comes, and to start construction as soon as feasible. REAR EIIDCOLLISIOII Two Die in Big Four Wreck at Crawfordsville. '.National News Association) CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 13. Conductor Tobias of Urbana, was killed and fireman O'Brien seriously injured when one east bound Big Four freight ran into another eastbound extra freight early today, near Sugar Creek. Fifteen cars tumbled down the embankment. The caboose in which Conductor Tobias was riding, and the engine in which O'Brien was riding, were derailed and went down the embankment. The trains were . running a short distance apart when the second train, going at a faster, rate of speed crashed into the first oris.' Traffic on the road was delayed several hours. NAME COMMISSION FOR PENAL FARMS A communication has been received by Charles Jordan, . secretary of the Commercial club, to the effect that Governor Marshall has appointed a commission consisting of State Senators Netterville, of Anderson, and Hibberd, of South Bend, and Repre sentatives Corr, of Bloomington, and Carter, of Plainfield, to investigate and report at the 1913 session of the legislature on the advisability of establishing in the state one or more penal farms where convicts may help defray the cost of their imprisonment. Jordan is now corresponding with the comission. and hopes that an act will be passed by the legislature favoring these institutions. The state penal farm proposition was originated and developed by the Richmond Commercial club.

POLITICAL .REFORM

ADVOCATE CHARGED OF BEING GRAFTER Country-wide Search for W. H. Kennard, Crandon, Wis. Sunday School Superintendent Begun Today. ALLEGED HE DEALT IN BAD MORTGAGES He Also Was Responsible for Graft Investigation Which Convicted Twenty County Officials. (National News Association) CRANDON, Wis., Jan. 13. A coun try-wide search began today for William H. Kennard, secretary of the County Abstract Board, who disappeared two weeks ago. It is alleged he floated $50,000 of forged mortgages. Kennard was a political reformer and a prominent church man. Crandon has been the center of a graft investigation for several months. In this investigation no one was more conspicuous than Mr. Kennard, a su perintendent of a Sunday school, and a very prominent citizen. When revelations of irregular practices in this county first became Known Mr. Kennard, who is a personal friend of Governor McGovern, secured the removal of the county attorney, J. C. Mars, and had a Milwaukee man appointed special count' attorney. Under this special county attorney about twenty convictions of grafting officials were' secured: Then Mr. Kennard disappeared. One resident of this city claimed to have found himself with a worthless mortgage on his hands for which he paid out $20,000. The total amount of the alleged discrepencies of Kennard is placed at $50,000. TWO MORE CONCERTS BY LOCAL ORCHESTRA The Richmond Symphony orchestra will present two more public concerts, one in February and one at the May Festival, before they disband for the summer. The big amateur musical body, according to, a report from, the secretary, has increased in size during the last month, and now has 64 members. The members have become quite enthusiastic over their work since the applause which the public showered on their initial effort at the concert last fall. The members meet regularly on Sunday afternoons, and are working hard to arrange some good music for the future. PRES. HALL WILL ADDRESS S. S. MEETING Special Sunday school services will be held on Sunday morning at St. Paul's Luteran church, outh Seventh street, in honor of W. C. Hall, state president of the Indiana Sunday School association, who will address the meeting on some phase of the work. Mr. Hall is regarded as one' of the best versed authorities on Sunday school work in the nation. In connection with the meeting, installation of officers of the school for the ensuing year will be held, and annual reports for 1911 made by the secretary and treasurer. A cordial invitation is extended to all. C. E. RALLY AT SOUTH 8TH STREET FRIENDS The- C. E. societies of Whitewater Quarterly Meeting of Friends will have a rally at the South Eighth Street Friends' church next Saturday evening at 7:30 p. m. Members will be present from Greensfork, Centerville, New Westville, O., and the four Friends churches in the city. Mr. Charles Howie of Australia, traveling in America and England in the interest of Friends Young People's work will be present and address the meeting. Addresses will also be given by Mrs. Mary D. Hole on Quaker Literature. Lillian E. Hayes, Friends Young People's Assembly at Winona, and Missions, T. C. Kenworthy. A cordial invitation is extended to members and friends of the Young People's societies of the city to attend the meeting. HAS TWENTY WAGONS HAULING THE SNOW Street Commissioner, D. C. Genn, as twenty wagons and forty worken engaged in removing snow from the streets of the city. Every availle man in the street department is mployed in this work and Commis sioner Geen says that every man who is searching for work can find it if he applys to him. A SMALL BLAZE Hose companies No. 1 and 2 and the hook and ladder track were called to the home of James Medlin. 29 North Second street about 9 o'clock this morning to extinguish a fire in the rar of the house. The blaze started, it is believed from - a defective flue. Chemicals were used in patting the flames oat. The damace was slight. ;

FIVE "JOY RIDERS"

ARE KILLED TODAY WHEN CAR SKIDDED Only the Driver of the Car, F. M. Foster, Princeton, N. J., Escaped When the Car Plunged into a Canal. RUNS A MILE WITH CLOTHES SOLID ICE Three of the Victims Were Young Women All the Young Men Members of Prominent Families. (National News Association) TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 13. Five "joyriders" two men and three women, met violent deaths near Brookville to day when a big Lozier touring car skidded on the icy highway, plunging into a water power canal, breaking through the ice. The dead are: Donald, Reed, son of a former supreme court justice; Chester Variilalff, automobile salesman, Trenton; Miss Margaret Tindall, Miss Annie Hazel, Miss Helen Mulvey. Frederick Foster, the sixth occupant, escaped from the icy water and ran a mile through zero atmosphere for assistance. Foster, who was driving tbe car, had a miraculous escape from death. He with the others, was hurled into the icy waters of the canal but managed to make his way to shore. Foster is a member of a wealthy and socially prominent family of this city. The automobile was going at a high rate of speed when the wheels skidded on the ice and those in the machine had no time to jump. As soon as Foster got to shore he was compelled to run more than a mile through the zero weather with his clothing frozen stiff upon his body before he found help. A rescue party was quickly formed and the bodies of all the dead were taken from the canal at daylight. Foster and his two male companions started on their joy ride late last night. The accident occurred on a sharp curve. Foster made a desperate effort to prevent the disaster, but his hands were so numb from the cold that he was powerless, and the machine plunged ' downward into the canal. The nearest building from the scene of the accident was the Will Bortha Inn. a mile distant. When Foster reached this place his hands, ears and feet were frozen. After telling of the accident he became unconscious and is in a critical condition. FIREMEN WORK FAST And Put Out Bad Blaze Three Minutes. in Three minutes after cries of 'fire" were heard by the firemen stationed at the city building, theblaze on the third floor of the Knopf building. Fifth and Main streets was extinguished. Members of the No. 2 Hose company and the hook and ladder company rushed to the building, after turning in an alarm of fire for the No. 1 and No. 4 companies, and hoisting a forty-foot ladder to the windows on the third floor, from which dense black smoke was -pouring, climbed it and had the blazes out before the other companies arrived. A gas pipe on the third floor was leaking and it was being repaired when a workman stepped on a match on the floor. This ignited the gas and for a few minutes it seemed as if a disastrous blaze would result. Many persons commented upon the quick manner in which the firemen handled the situation. There was practically no loss from the blaze. WANTS BIG DOGES For Having Leg Ground Off Under Train. Damages in the sum of 116,000 are asked by teorge McKinley, a well known resident, in complaint filed in the circuit court Saturday against the Pennsylvania Railroad company for which corporation he was emDloved on November 25, 1910, when his leg was ground off at the Pennsylvania depot. The sum demanded is the largest asked for a personal injury In a complaint filed in the circuit court j in five years. McKinley was employed in the capacity of a laborer at the depot and early in tbe, morning on the date of the accident he was running along the platform to perform his duties, when it is alleged he tripped over a mail sack, alleged to have been carelessly left on the platform. The train was moving and ground off his leg, just below the knee. He suffered great pain, the injury healing slowly and two amputations being necessary. Negligence on the part of the Pennsylvania Railroad company is alleged to be the cause for the accident,'

COUNTY COMMITTEE IS TO BE DOUBLED FOR EliSUIIIG YEAR

Every Precinct in the County, Instead of Only Wards and Townships, Is to Have One Member. CALL ISSUED TODAY TO G. O. P. VOTERS lanuary 26 Date for First Precinct Meetings Peltz Announces He Is Candidate for Chairman. Secretary John E. Peltz, of the Wayne County Republican Central committee, today issued a call to the Republican voters of the county to hold precinct meetings on January 26, to elect delegates to the district convention and precinct committeemen. Mr. Peltz also announced today that he is a candidate for county chairman. Will Robbins, county recorder, is also a candidate for this office. In the re-organization of the central committee this month a new precedent will be established. Every pre cinct in the county will be represented on the committee, instead of only wards and townships. This will in crease the membership of the com mittee from twenty-three to sixty-four. Call to Republicans. Pursuant to a, call issued by the State Chairman, the Republicans of Wayne County will meet in their respective townships and wards for the following purposes: First. The election of delegates and alternate delegates to the district convention to be held at Cambridge City, Indiana, January 31, 1912, at one o'clock p. m., for the election of a district chairman for the Sixth congressional district and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before such convention. Second. The election of precinct committeemen in each - precinct, as now constituted, which precinct committeeman shall be . members of and constitute the Wayne County Republican Central Committee. The meetings In the several wards of the City pf Richmond shall be held on Friday evening,' January 36th. 1912 at 7:30 o'clock, and the several township meetings Bhall be held in the several townships on Saturday afternoon, January 27th, 1912, at 2:30 o'clock. The present members of the Wayne County Republican Central committee shall provide suitable places in their respective wards and townships in which these meetings can be held and shall give due and full notice thereof at least one week in advance of such meetings; and where two townships are joined for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate delegates to the district convention, the present chairmen of those townships Bhall determine where such meeting shall be held. Under the rules of the state com mittee, Wayne County is entitled to twenty-six delegates and the same number of alternate delegates to the district convention, and these are dls tributed as follows: Abington and Boston townships, one delegateand one alternate; Center township, one delegate, and one alternate; Clay township, one delegate and one alternate; Dalton and Perry town ships, one delegate and one alternate; Franklin township, one delegate and one alternate; Green township, one delegate and one alternate; Harrison and Jefferson townships, one delegate and one alternate; Jackson township, two delegates and two alternates; New Garden and Webster townships, one delegate and one alternate; Washington township, one delegate and one alternate; Wayne township, outside of Richmond, onedelegate and one alterate; First ward, Richmond, one dele gate and one alternate; Second ward. Richmond, one delegate and one alter nate; Third ward, Richmond, two del egates and two alternates; Fourth ward, Richmond, two delegates and wwo alternates; Fifth ward, three delegates and three alternates; Sixth ward, Richmond, two delegates and two alternates; Seventh ward. Richmond, two delegates and two alternates; Eighth ward, Richmond, one delegate and one alternate. The precinct committeemen thus elected will meet at the court house, Richmond, Indiana, at ten o'clock in the forenoon on Monday, January 29th, 1912, for the purpose of organization, by the election of a chairman, a vicechairman, a secretary, and a treasurer, , and tor purpose of transacting all 1 other proper business of the committee. Every Republican voter of Wayne County, and aM those who desire to cooperate with them are invited and requested to attend these various ward and township meetings and , to assist in perfecting the organization. Francis E. McMinn, Chairman. John E. Peltz, Secretary. INJURED HIS KNEE Henry Westenberg, day patrolman, who has been' confined to his home for the past two weeks, suffering from an injured knee which he sustained when he fell on a slippery sidewalk, is able to be oat. He expects to be on duty again within a few days.

SIXTY - NINE DIVORCED IN

LOCAL COURT Record for Past Year Exceed ed That of the Previous Year 110 People Applied for Divorce. CUPID QUITE BUSY DURING PAST YEAR Nearly Four Hundred Marriages Were Performed There Were 352 Civil Actions Filed in 1911. Sixty-nine divorces were granted by Judge H. C. Fox of the Wayne circuit court during the past year, according to the annual report of County clerk, George Matthews, which has just been compiled for State Statlatican Brolley. The number of roarital knots severed is greater than in 1910, according to the clerk. During 1911 there were 110 divorce actions and marriage annulment petitions tiled in the court. s For their husbands' failure to sup

port fourteen wives were given divorce. There wasn't a case during . the year in which the husband charged his wife with failure . to provide. Fourteen, women and eight men obtained separation decrees on the ground of abandonment. Immoral relations by two women and (oar men were responsible for six divorce de

crees. Cruel and inhuman treatment - has worked overtime, there being twenty wives and three husbands who averred ' they were so badly abused by their mates that life with them was a pos-r tive burden. They secured - relief in , the divorce mill. . Cupid Still Busy. ' ' However, by the report Itself, it is?

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hundred nd etgfctjr-two marrWHWt r- - pormed during the year, the ratio of divorces to marriages being one to five and a half. - The ratio of divorces granted" to the disposition of the total number of civil cases of all kinds was one to 4.7. The report of the clerk in respect to felonies and misdemeanors shows there were five punished by being sent to Jeffersonville reformatory. 4 to Michigan City prison and four fined on conviction for felonies, and four fined and imprisoned in jail on conviction in the circuit court for misdemeanors. Forty white males, one white woman and seven colored males were charged with felonies during 1911. RECORD OF FELON I It. The statistics on felonies follow: Assault snd battery with intent to ,. commit murder four white and . two , colored males, one sent to i Michigan City and two to reformatory; burglary two white and one colored males, one sent to Michigan City and one to Jeffersonville; embezzlement two white and one colored males; forgery Ave white males, all sent to reformatory; grand larceny six white and one colored males, one fined; petit larceny six white and two colored males, and one white woman, one fined and jailed and two sent to reformatory; manslaughter three white males; one murderer and nine other felonies. There was but one foreigner charged with a crime. . In respect to the misdemeanor cases In the circuit court the statistics are: Assault and battery, eight white males, two fined; cruelty one white male, fined and jailed: drank three white males, fined and imprisoned; viola tions liquor law two white males. There were eighteen other arrests for misdemeanors. , A large number of those charged with either a misdemeanor or felony have not been brought to trial. . Civil Action Record. Tbe number, of civil actions filed -was 352 as compared to 325 disposed of. "Seven were venued from the court and fire sent here from other counties.' Thirty eight juvenile cases are report-; ed. Letters of administration were Issued in seventy-eight estates, while in thirty-eight other states letters of ex- -ecatorship were issued. Forty eight , guardianship matters were I heard. Fourteen foreclosure sales were report ed while the sheriff sold thirteen pie ces of proprty under order of the court, Twenty six people, were 'declared insane. Three Anstrians, one German . and two Italians declared Intent to become citiiens ' of Uncle Sam. While two Italians and two Germans were given naturalization papers. THE WEATHER 8T ATE Fair in south. Snowin north and central portion; warmer tonight and in south portion Simday. . LOCAL Increasing cloudiness, probable - snow - tonight er - Swtdax. Warmer.