Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 78, 5 February 1912 — Page 1

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VOI XXXVII. NO. 78. ItlCHMOND, IND-, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1912. SIXOL.E COPY 8 CENTS.

T.11 UIIO DECLIIIEQ TO WORK IS GIVEII A L011G JAIL TERM

A Champion Loafer, Roy Combs, Fined $100 and Sentenced to County Jail for Three Months. WIFE AND KIDDIES NEGLECTED BY HIM Combs Pleaded for Another Chance, Asking the Mayor to Find Him a "Good and Steady Position." Declaring that whipping posts and workhouses would soon put a stop to youthful husbands deserting- and refusing to support their wives and families, Mayor Zimmerman after hearing the testimony in the case of the state vs. Roy Combs for child desertion, this morning, fixed the sentence of the young man at $100 and costs and 3 months in the county jail. The man is now under suspended sentence on the same charge, being released last July. Evidence showing the most flagrant violation! of law and honor by Combs was presented. Witnesses testified that he had contributed but thirty-five cents to his wife's and family's support since he was paroled last summer, and that, through hia dilatory tactics and unconquerable version to work,-he had lost about a dosen positions. Hla Wife a Witness. . . Ills wife testified that she had not been fed enough, and that all she and the two children had to eat was what ahe secured from her earnings by taking in washings, and the help received from her father . and mother. The father of the woman, John Stewart, was In court, and emotionally described hla efforts to help out his daughter and son-in-law in their efforts to support themselves and two little . babies, but said that the boy was utterly laiy, and would not work, losing most of hla positions from, not getting .-to work in time. He estlfied that last Saturday when lie went to the home of hla son-in-law to remonstrate against his behavior, bis son-in-law waned JUmofL.-the premises, and threatened to kill htm if . be came back to the place again. He also testified that his son-in-law had bad further conversation with another woman, who was the direct cause of the first separation, last July. Mayor Zimmerman finally ahut off 11 testlnmony stating that the evidence offered was aufflclent, and asked the prisoner If the evidence was . true. The latter finally admitted that tt was, and His Honor then gave the sentence. The prisoner pleaded for another chance, asking that the court find htm "good steady position where be could work all the time," but the mayor stated that one chance had bean enough, and that as Combs had ; shown hia worthlessness, he must take the punishment. ; Mrs. Combs appeared In court with a pair of low cut summer shoes and her father testified that he had given her stockings and overshoes to protect her feet last week. One loaf of bread, some coffee, some dried beans and canned fruit, donated, were all the eatables In the house Saturday, it was testified. Mrs. Combs also stated that one day ahe prepared breakfast for, her husband,' and that one of the two small children had eaten the remainder, and that ahe had gone without any. The father will take her back Into his borne until provision for the care of herself and children can bo oiade. VICTIMS OF A GALE Several Lives Lost in - ; Chesapeake Bay. the (National News Association) BALTIMORE. Md.. Feb. 5. In a biting gale which, a wept over . Dogwood harbor at the Tllghmans Island and Vicinity with the fury of a West Indian hurricane last night and today, four vessels are reported to have sunk in the waters of the Choptank river and only four men out of total of 19, who .wAved. The gasoline launch Klmlra and the Nellie c, are lost In loo floes with wfclch they battled in aero weather. - The gasoline launch Helen and the ' Eatteau Sidney T. Marshall, which wore In the fleet of nine boats that lay la the toe Jammed offing at Tilghajuaa Island waiting for the thaw which would allow them to return to the dredging grounds are missing. It l feared that they have been carried down the river by the Ice and crushed. 'The Annapolis was hastily seat to the scene, and ahe Is scheduled to arrive at. Tllghmans some time today. The government steamer "Gov. Thorn- ; s" was also sent to give any assistksN possible.

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For the first time in Germany's history the Liberal or Socialistic parties will wild the balance of power when the Reichstag convenes next Wednesday. By a combination of the 110 Socialists, 46 National Liberals and 49 Radicals, they will have a majority of thirteen over the combination of Clericals. Conservatives and allied parties. The personnel of the New Reichstag will b as follows: Socialists, 110; National Liberals, 46; Radical People's Party, 49; Clericals and allied, 122, and Conservatives and allied, 69. Key to photograph: Reading from left to Tight are Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, Emperor William, and August Bebel, leader of the Socialists. The scene below shows the interior of the Reichstag and how the var loua parties will bo aligned. -

SUFFERS COLLAPSE : FOLLOW SPEECH Senator La Follette Is in Exclusion at His Home in Washington Now. V (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Senator La Follette is in exclusion at his ' home since his complete physical collapse "at the dinner of the Periodical Publishers Association dinner, Friday night Progressive leaders In Washington are discussing the immediate effect on the progressive campaign for president. They admit the situation is embarrassing. Senator La Follette will probably continue a candidate, hut he cannot resume his personal activities. The progressive committee has relied upon the senator's personal counsel in the past. He visited the head quarters frequently and participated in the conferences, and was always in personal contact with the headquar ters. But he is now absolutely out of communication wih the outside, world He divides his time bettfeen his home and providence hospital, where his thirteen year old daughter is recover ing from the effects, of an operation performed Saturday. His condition is already Improved over what it was Saturday and Sunday. The next ten days or two weeks will determine the course of the progressive movement. Somebody must now lead it All eyes are turned in the direction of Roosevelt Important conferences will take place at Oyster Bay this week. Additional organization will be formed at once, as soon as Roosevelt Intimated detnitely how far he is prepared to go. -i CHICAGO FACING A GREAT CAR STRIKE (National Xewa Association) CHICAGO. Feb. 5. A mass meeting of car worgers will be held some time within the next few days to discuss a probable strike on the North and West Side lines. The meeUng has been called by the officers of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employes. A meeting of the conductors and motormen of the North Side lines has been held and grievances discussed Officers today sky the temper of the men is for a strike and that they are holding them from declaring a walkout only with greatest difficulty. Officers, however, are hopeful that the strike may be averted. "While I decline to say what the specific grievances are and what demand would be made on the companies in -case a - walkout , is called.' said. C. WV Mills, secretary of a North Side local. "I believe the trouble may be settled without a strike- We are trying to keep the men from walking ont- .

' ' 'In G m- n a. . -vw: - - -n YOOTHJEIIIG HELD FOR BOOMOUTRAGE C. M. Dickinson Suspected of Sending Infernal Machine to Affinity. (National News Association) NEW YORK, Feb. 5. The police affidavit on which Charles M. Dickinson was arraigned today charged him with delivering, or causing to be delivered a bomb which caused the death of Mrs. Taylor. Dickinson was apparently unmoved by the reading of the aflldavit. Miss Edna Lamarre who lived with Mrs. Taylor, and is held as a material witness, was also arraigned and is said 1 to have made a complete statement to the police telling all she knew of the tragedy and of Dickinson's infatuation for the bomb victim. , Dickinsbn. who .was in the aptrement witlft Mrs. TaylorVwhen she was killed by the bomb told tie authorities that he "had an impression" that a messenger boy delivered the, fatal package. '. . The murdered woman was known to have once been the wife of Howard Taylor, a private in the United States army, but be as supposed to have died about a year ago in PJattsburg, N. Y. Acting Capt. Gtoster, of the Central office, who was, in charge of the detective force working on the case thought that the most logical line of search lay in the location of the messenger boy who delivered the bomb into the hands of Mrs. Taylor. If the boy were located the person who sent the bomb could be easily found, Gloster believed. Dickinson was near collapse in jail today, and nervously paced up and down his cell smoking cigarettes, lie had asked his father, Thomas M. Dickinson, postmaster at Champlain, N. Y,' to hurry to this city. " t Dickinson's father arrived this' morning and hurried to the police station where his son is being held. The police however, refused to allow father and son to meet. "1 knew my boy was acquainted with this Mrs. Taylor, or Walsh, aa she was known several years ago," said the elder Dickinson. "Last spring she telegraphed to me that my boy was sick." I came on and found her nursing him. She seemed to be a nice woman and I had confidence in her and I returned to Champlain. I believe my boy doesn't know a thing about this tragedy." ELECTROCUTE NEGRO (National News Association) . OSSINING, N. .Y., Feb. , 5. Chas. Swinton. colored, was put to death In the electric chair at Sing Sing at 5:45 this morning for the murder cf Isaac Lee. whom he murdered in a saloon quarrel in New York City on Novem ber J, mo.

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COUIliyOARD WAS 111 -SESSION TODAY Received a Petition for Opening of New Road Plans for Bridges. A petition was presented at the meet ing of the board of county commissioners today for the opening of a road in Randolph and Wayne counties. The proposed roadway will be two miles in length running in Green township in Randolph county and Wayne townBhlp, in Wayne county. It will run west of the Williamsburg pike.: The board of commissioners has fixed February 24 as theday when the Randolph county commissioners will meet vith the Wayne county board. John W. Mueller, bridge engineer of New Castle, appeared before the board nd presented plans-end specifications for five bridges which the board will order constructed during the year. The plans were examined. The bridges are the Werking bridge in Jefferson township, for which 14,000 is appropriated; the O. G. Davis bridge in- Green town ship, for which $4400 is appropriated; the DoddridgeTj) ridge in Washington and Abington township, for which 2,400 is appropriated ;v the McDonaldFord bridg Tf bster township, for which $4;4is appropriated, and the Martin Cranor bridge at Williamabur, for which $2,125 is appropriated. With the exception of the Doddridge bridge the appropriations include the estimat ed cost of ; the fillings and approaches for the brldales William E; Caleld was granted a liquor license. Upon petition the liquor license, held by Joseph llifT was transferred . to Arlington Hotel company. Six other petitions for liquor licenses will be acted upon tomorrow at a special meeting of the board. Several claims were allowed by the board. THE WEATI1EH STATE Generally fair 1st south. Snow .- flurries in north. Not much change in temperature. , LOCAL Snow flurries tonight, and , Tuesday. Not much change In .temperature. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity : Cloudy with slowly rising tempera ture tonight and Tuesday. Maximum" temperature . hours, 9 at noon Monday. Minimum temperature In last 14 24 in' hours, & below at noon Temperature at 12;3: Barometer 302 statist Direction and vetodtT l miles an hour.

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HELD PROBABLE IF anTinn in nrrnrn AL I IUH 10 HttUtU A Force of Five Thousand Men Will Be Held in Readiness to Cross Border to Restore Order. ADVANCE GUARD IS ORDERED TO FRONT Regiment of Infantry - and Battalion of Field Artillery to Reinforce the CavalryBorder Guard. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 The war department today was busy preparing the troops of the various departments of the army for an expedition to Mexioc. At least 5,000 men will be held in readiness to proceed to the border. Another 5,000 troop will be held in reserve. This second torce may not be ordered to take the field for some time, even though an invasion becomes necessary. But they will be equipped and held for a second expedi tion, it was said today, if such an army movement be found imperative. The war department has ordered a regiment of infantry and a battalion of field artillery to Elpaso for the reinforcement of the cavalry now patroling the Mexican border. General orders to the Mobile army to be prepared for any call which the war department may make upon it should another mobilization in Texas be necessary. LEAVENWORTH READY. LEAVENWORTH. Kan., Feb: 5. Orders to hold the troops here in readiness to go at a moment's notice to the Mexican border are held today by Col. Daniel Comman, acting commander at the army post at Ft. Leavenworth. The orders require that the seventh infantry, which Col Command commands, and the 2nd squadron of the fifteenth cavalry under command of Major William T. Littlebrandt, be ready to entrain as soon aa orders to advance are given. Preparations for a sudden departure were made today. Vv - A MISSING JUNTAS EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 5. With peace reigning once more in looted Jaurez, the revolutionary junta which proclaimed Emilio Vasques Gomes provisional president, disappeared today. Attention has been diverted to Chi huahua whither General Pascual Orozco, who subdued the Juarez mutineers, is speeding in response to a hurried summons from that city ' where the situation is reported grave. He is taking with him a number of the insurrecto leaders from Juarebz. Traffic between El Paso and Juares has been resumed racing will begin. tomor row. . IS HOT JUpiHIPT Clifford Proves He Did Not Violate Injunction. - Upon an affidavit of an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad company, charging that Fred Clifford had violated Judge Fox's injunction order, Clifford was ordered to appear In circuit court this morning and explain if the charge was true. Clifford declared that he had not violated the order by attempting to restrain employes of the company from removing a dam which Clifford had constructed on his . farm and which, it is alleged, prevented the natural flow of water from following Its course through Clifford's farm. Clifford lives east of Dublin. John L. Rupe, attorney for the company, stated that he had received other information and upon Clifford's statement Judge Fox accepted the 'explanation. The P. C. C. V 8t. L.' railway ; has filed suit against Clifford because it alleges the concrete wall which the constructed on bis farm forces the water to stand on the tracks and that It 4a dangerous. la the complaint the company aueged that Clifford shot' at employes of the company when they attempted to remove the dam. A WATCH SOFTENER FOD C1TTS PLANT An appropriation of l&ZOO will be

asked by the city council tonight, fol- Sarab Comby. anorganizerof the .texlowing the action of the , board . of j tile workers. The new move is of two works this morning in ordering an or-j fold Ittture. First It has to do with the Alliance nrenared. askins: for this an-' immediate relief -of - the,, noor at Ilw

j propria tion, to cover the cost of the ln - staJIauon of the Ferta water softener; at the city light plant. The cost of the plant win be nearly two thousand dolmra, but attendant expense In installing tt win raise the price to" the amount to be asked. The grease, dirt, mud.and other things in the water now at disposal of the plant win all be removed by the water softener, and ft is the opinion of the board, after seeing the plant in operation at Easthaven, that it is a practical and cheap method of preserving; the engine and other machinery at the light stent.

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.Ground in Milling of Ice Cakes warmer at Chicago. (National News Association) BUFFALO, N. Y.. Feb. 5. Watchers along the lower rapids and at points of vantage on the shores of the Niagara whirlpool failed to' see this morning any trace of the bodies of Burrel H. Heacock of Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs. Eldrldge Staunton, of Toronto, the three persons who were swept into the whirlpool and drowned yesterday, through the breaking of the ice bridge over Niagara' river below the falls. Old river men say that the bodies will never be found. The whirlpool Is a ma 88 of floating, grinding ice cakes and the bodies in all probability will be ground to pieces in the milling of the ice cakes. COLO WAVE BROKEN. CHICAGO, Feb. 5. With warmer weather today and the thecmometer several degrees above zero, the cold wave that struck Chicago and the Middle West Saturday was broken. The lowest temperature Sunday night was 5 above and at daylight the mercury was rising. The threatened, coal and egg famine was temporarily averted by the rise in temperature and fear of an accute need of these staples vanished. Large shipments of coal are expected within the next two days. CANT MARKET WHEAT. I WINNIPEG, Can., Feb. 5. Thous ends of wheat growers in the Canadian northwest, including a vast num ber of settlers from the United States are facing a heavy loss from inability to market their wheat. In the hopes of partially alleviating their suffering the minister of agriculture of the province of Saskatchewan today wired the dominion government that there are two hundred million bushels of unthreshed wheat and twelve million bushels wet and tough, which must be shipped at once or be a total loss. SEVENTEEN BELOW. WABASH, Ind., Feb. 5. It was sev enteen below zero here this morning. A blizzard is raging. - STRIKE WILL EIID wmm ueek .0 Is Prediction 15,000 Opera tives Have Been Idle ' Four Weeks. (National News Association) LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 5. Napoleon Page, a day watchman at the Atlantic Mills, was. attacked by three men on his way to work just before daylight today and was stabbed over the heart. His wound, owing to the thickness of his clothing, was not serious. The police believe strike sympathizers attacked Page. The strike committee today called upon Mayor Scanlan and he ity council of Lawrence with a formal request for permission to hold a. peaceful mass meeting on the Commons for discus sion of the strike situaUon and the ad option of resolutions. At the mills today more accessions were reported. Mill owners freely pre dicted that another ' week would the collapse of the strike. William Yates, a leader of the strlk; ers, stated today in commenting on the accessions in the mills: "We expected this. It is no surprise to use. Driven by hunger and starvation as they are, what else could one expect. It is one 01 the tricks of the millionaire rani owners to make its ppear that the strike is collapsing." , Twenty five Italians and . Syrians took trains but of Lawrence today, on their way to Boston. They are planning to return , to their homes in Europe, worn out byRtbe struggle for .existence in Lawrence,' The most promising' move In connection with, the textile strike, which is Jn its fourth week, wttb more than 15.000 operatives idle, was made today whestho whole fightj was brought to the .attention of the Amcrir aa. Federatlon of Labor by proclamation and p peal. This appeal, signed by John Golden, president of , the United Textile Workers of America, and other oftV cials .of the organisation, aCttated with the, Amerfcf Federstiosi of Ls bar was printed : and eent out from here today, under the direction of Mrs. lrence, .who are suffering as a result of the strike, and secondly ft contemplates the organisation as branches of the American Federation of Labor of all the textile workers of the mills into skilled and usskCled bodies. The oflelaJs of the iAwranes labor union hare ahrCsdy begun the work of organisthff the mm westers. The first work at the Joint relief committee wns the division of Use city into districts. Every . family dependent upon strikers will be looked, after and it will be seen that they are supplied with food, fuel and clothing.

LL VOTE BEING CAST Excessive Cold Today Caused Many Voters to Shun the' Polls, Especially in Rural Districts EVERY RACE TO BE A VERY CLOSE ONE Notwithstanding the Number of Candidates the Campaign Just Closed Has Been a Quiet One. . The Wayne County primary election! is being held today, and it is anticipated a small vote will be cast, espectally in the rural districts, owing to' the excessive cold. Although the farmers have nothing to do at present It is believed the majority of them will balk on making the long drives to their poll- - ing places, prefering their comfortable chairs in front of the big wood fires: The vote In the city of Richmond. will not be normal, it is believed, both' on account of the weather conditions and because the time honored custom of .having a fleet of rigs and automo biles to haul the candidates to the polls has been dispensed with by an agreement entered into by the candi dates. Other persuasive methods formerly emptoyed to entice a certain class of voters to the ballot boxes are1 also conspicuous by their absence under the agreement referred to. The campaign which was brought to a climax today baa been one' of the dullest, from the voter's point of view, in many years, : notwithstanding thefact that large fields were entered in ; ' nearly every race for Instance,' Uto'" candidates for prosecutor, six ; for , treasurer, four for recorder, two fori representative and three for commlsv -sioner from the western district. Lively For Candidates. : However, from the candidates point of view, the campaign has boss an xV ceedingty strenuous onol rBacb' con-, testant realised that bis. opsoatata were capable nntt popular men and that he "would have to so some' .to. win. To add to the candidates troubles the weather, since the campaign opened, January 1, has been excessively, cold. Long, drives In livery rigs were necessary and there Is hardly a candi date who cannot show a frosted ear or nose. t , ' t , I J, ' - f ; , The average voter, especially In the rural districts still Insists In resarding any candidate who makes a can-' yass in an automobile 'a bloated, and, bonded aristocrat, notwithstanding th , fact a candidate could reduce his cam- ' palgn expenses one half by hiring sn auto, owing to the fact that he could, make his canvass in one-half the' tins required in cavorting over the conntry In a rig. Owing to the prejudice against auto-, mobiles the livery barns still continue to reap a golden harvest during political campaigns. "" v , ' Three contests, for prosecutor, treasurer Nand recorder, are exceedingly close and only a few political prophets are attempting today to pick win- , ners in these races, and the contestants are nervously awaiting to see In whose stocking the Political 1 Santa. Claus leaves the three coveted nominations. For the first time in many years the . saloons can be opened after the polls close at 6 o'clock. This Is possible un der the Proctor law It is said that av few saloons will not open.' Of $3,000 for the Purchase of Auto Fire Truck. . Council tonight will be asked to 1 upon the merits of the autossobflo truck, favored by the board of works, when an ordinance will be presented proviaing an appropriation or s,ow. The board of works discussed this step pt the meeting: thls; morning: and; de cided that further preparations forsaking up bids were useless unless council would give the necessary encoswsgement to the project. ' The ordinance will also proTido for the transfer of IL009 from tbe feed fund of the .tt depsTtmexL which Is not needs the transfer also of tbe"t2.oe printed for a fire wagon. This suss, wis nv far the machine the heard favor. ' , A new style of cushion wheels will also probably be included In the specl- - Ib4rii email MWMnul , ?. . It was thought advisable by the board that the representative of. the water works company be asked to attend the next meeting of the board; to discuss the niacins of water malss o SOUtawesT ronnn street, wsicn is u bo iaxproved ttta sprinx and also Os 1 Jereetom. -JtJ : P. J. rrswmsa. ntzornoy farlO; heirs to the Dssswlnuiu .estates' -lum.x Sooth Twenty-Arst street, q be fled of the advisabiaty of jrsrUO the Carolina poplars In frouL of Cut-

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