Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 93, 22 February 1912 — Page 1

B FA LABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM RICH3IOND, IXD., THURSDAY, EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1912. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 93. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

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COL, ROOSEVELT HAS REACHED UEVi YORK HAPPY BUT SILENT

Ex-president Gratified Over Reception Extended Him in Ohio, but Will Not Talk About Politics. HOSTILE PRESS IN GOTHAM ASSAIL HIM He Has Invited Revolution and Anarchy, Says the N. Y. World Roosevelt a Victor in Missouri. NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Commenting on Roosevelt's Columbus speech The World winds up an editorial today declaring: "It is Roosevelt's formal invitation io revolution and anarchy." The Times says it "removes Roosevelt from the Republican party and makes Impossible his nomination at Chicago." (National News Association) NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Col. Theo- . dore Roosevelt arrived here on a train today that was three hours late after bit Invasion of President Taft's home Mate, where he laid down the most progressive program in the history of United States politics, and was apparently very much pleased with the reception accorded him by party leaders at well as the rank and fie. While the former president refused to make any comment upon his state ment to W. F. Elrick in Cleveland that "Ms hat Is in the ring," nevertheless this utterance was Interpreted by politicians in New York to mean that the colonel Is out In the open in his light for President Taft's scat. It Is now ex peeled that Col. Roosevelt's answer to the request of eight governors to know where he stands upon the question of accepting the presidential nomination, ' which Is to be made Monday, will be a formal declaration of his candidacy. Cot Roosevelt's speech Is accepted as the platform upon which he will make hi? fight for the presidential nomination, and his contest for election. If nominated. It contains his new policies, drafted according to the colonel's own version, to meet contemporary needs. They are In marked contrast to the policies of President Taft. It is understood from sources close to Col. Roosevelt that .if Le formally announces his candidacy he will ex(lain his attitude upon the "two presidential terms only" tradition by the declaration that his principles and propoganda are the only ones before the public today that fit the needs of the people and satisfies the demands of tho voters. FIRST BLOOD TO T. R. CHICAGO, Feb. 22. Theodore Roosevelt has drawn first blood in Missouri, according to a report received here today at the headquarters of the National Roosevelt committee . Two Roosevelt delegates were elected from the Third Missouri district. Roosevelt sentiment Is declared to be strong tlroughout Missouri and a large part of the state is expected to send dele gates who will fight for the nomination of the Colonel in the National Republican convention. Delegates of the 9th Alabama district have also been captured by tho Roosevelt men. They caused a split In tho fifth Alabama and will bring a contesting delegation to Chicago. s The break in the Alabama delegation brought much pleasure to the Roosevelt men, as Alabama Is the first mate to answer the roll-call In the convention, and votes for Roosevelt from Alabama are expected to have much psychological value. Ten candidates for delegates to the .National convention, all pledged for 'Koosevelt, were placed on the primary ballot at Grand Forks, N. D.. today. Chester P. Rowel!, president of the X Follette league of California, today wired that he had cast his lot with Roosevelt and he believed practically !i the La Follette followers in the '.Golden Gate state will soon be In the Roosevelt camp. TROUPE ENTERTAINS . ON STALLED TRAIN (National Now Association HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 22. Forced to spent the night on a "stalled" trin near here forty members of the "Flower of the Ranch" company entertained other passengers by giving a theatrical performance. THE WEATHER TATS AND LOCAL Fair tonight nd Friday; rising temperature.

HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Not mack change in temperature tonight and Friday. Maximum temperatare in last 24 hours, 30 at 2 p. m. Wednesday. Minimum temperature in S last 24 hours, 12 at 10 a. m. Thursday. Temperature at 12:30 p. m. to1 day, 17. Barometer. 30. Direction rand velocity of wind, southwest. 20 ' Milt nor hour.

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PATRONAGE TO BE STREHGTHJF TAFT This Club Will Be Used Effectually by the President fn the South. (Palladium Special.) WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. 22. That tho strength of the Taft campaign for re-nomination will be Federal patronage, especially in the South, has been made plain, according to rumors current at the capitol today. The resignation of Representative McKlnley as chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee and the appointment in his stead of Representative Burke of South Dakota has not lessened the menance of the 'steam roller" in the eyes of many members of congress. It was stated today that pressure already had been brought to bear iu several Southern states to hold up appointments in congressional districts, where there seems a likelihood of progressive sentiment being felt to any marked degree. Representative Burke is known-to be a strong Taft man and it was openly stated by one or two Progressive congressmen that the change in the chairmanship of the congressional committee would in no degree lessen the part the committee will play in the nomination campaign. The congressional committee has the option of furnishing funds and speakers in congressional districts' where the heat of the campaign demands them. The withdrawal of suqh supports would in many cases mean a great deal to members of cougress working for re-election. With Penrose, Smoot and Crane, stand-pat leaders preliminent, actively engaged in furthering the campaign of President Taft, and with "Uncle Joe" Cannon and his protege William B. McKinley. chiefly famous for his reactionary affiliations, openly directing the campaign from the Taft headquarters, several congressmen have expressed fear of the "steam roller." Mr. Taft has already announced to the people that they are not fit to govern themselves and at the same time express a decided willingness, with the assistance of his Wall Street friends, to relieve them of this burden. His chief supporters in carrying the burden of government will be bankers like Mr. Frogan, heading the Taft club in Chicago. The campaign slogan will be "Taft is growing daily; the people will forget; the opposition is rapidly dying out," ' METER ACQUITTED HUNTINGTON, Ind, Feb. 22.J. E. Meyer, a chiropractor, was acquitted in circuit court today of the charge of practicing medicine without license. The first vote of the Jury stood eleven for acquittal.

INVESTIGATION OF DEATH OF WOMAN Relative of Assemblyman Dies in Latter's Room From Bullet Wound.

(National News Association) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22. Mrs! Elsie Vahl Rohe, sister-in-law of State Assemblyman Nathan Coghlan, met death in the living room of the Coghlan apartments in Green street early today under circumstances that were made the subject of an investigation by the police. A bullet wound on the right side of lVr head evidently resulting from a bullet discharged from Coghlan's 28-calibre revolver, which was found upon the mantle, with one cartridge exploded, caused her death. In addition to this wound, however, there were other marks of violence. Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, as far as it is known, were the only two other persons in the house at the time of the tragedy. Both claimed that Mrs. Rohe shot herself accidently. Mrs. Rohe was 32 years old, a widow, and had been living with the Coghlans since the death of her husband several years ago. ROOSEVELT CLUB HEREJUGGESTED Informal . Meeting of Local Admirers of Colonel Was Held Last Night. The Roosevelt Club wave just now sweeping over the country and which is finding ready response in many parts of Indiana, may,' within the next week or so, result in a Richmond or Wayne county organisation being forr:ed. Last night there was a conference of an informal nature held by a number of Republicans at which the matter of a Roosevelt organisation locally was discussed. There was a feeling expressed that the Roosevelt sentiment in Richmond and Wayne county is unmistakable and that while there ia no disposition to make the Organization anti-administration In any way, it is tho belief that even the most ardent admirers of Taft or any other candidate recognise the Roosevelt strength and therefore consider that his candidacy would mean Republican success without doubt. It Is understood that there will bo farther consideration of tho Roosevelt Club project with In tho next few days and soon thereafter there may be steps taken to perfect the organisation. In other parts of the state where Roosevelt clubs have been organised one of the chief purroses is to stick to the slogan "uninstructed delegates to the National Republican convention.'- .

CABINET MEDIATES IN LABOR TROUBLE British Government Trying to Prevent Threatened Strike. fNattonal News Association) LONDON, Feb. 22. For the first time in its history the British cabinet has intervened in a threatened labor var. Upon invitation of Premier Asquith, representatives of the federation of ru'ners unions and of the mine-owners met the cabinet in consultation. Hitherto government mediation has been conducted through Sir George Asq- : uith of the board of trade or through uune other individual member of the government. . The seriousness of the coal strike situation was fully attested by the activity of the government in trying to prevent the strike from going into effect in the coal fields of the United Kingdom on March L A new note'of, turning has been rounded by Capt.Tupper, the South Vales seamen's leader who declares that the proposed strike will be more than an industrial war involving 1 -000,000 men or so; It-will be-a revolution fraught with' menace to the stability of the government itself, he avers. The opening conference was held in the foreign office. The members of the cabinet were Premier Asquith, chancellor of the exchequer, David Iloyd Goorge, foreign minister Gray and Siduey Buxton, president of the Board of Trade. The miners were represented by delegstes Edwards, Smillie, Abraham and Ashton. The mine owners were not represented until the aftercoon session of the parley. The committee of the international miners federation which has been discussing the advisability of ordering a great continental strike in sympathy with the English struggle, has temporarily discontinued its sessions pending the outcome of the cabinet's conference with representatives of both sides. ALMOST FROZEN, A FUGITIVE IS FOUND Lola Wiljkins. who escaped from the Home for' the Friendless Tuesday night, after she had been sent there to do six month's time for public intoxication, was found this morning half frozen, hiding in the barn of Edward Sticns, south of the city about two miles. The woman, who sad suffered severely from the exposure, was taken to the home of the farmer sad fed. and then taken to Mormon's switch east of this city- where she v was placed on an internrban with fare paid to Eaton,

MANY INDICTMENTS

RETURNED AGAINST CASH REGISTER CO, Federal Grand Jury Finds Big Dayton Corporation Is Operated in Violation of Sherman Law. THIRTY TRUE BILLS RETURNED BY JURY President Patterson Among Those Indicted Criminal Violation of the Law Is the Charge Made. (National News Association) CINCINNATI. Feb. 22. The federal grand jury today returned thirty indictments against officials and employes of the National Cash Register Company, of Dayton. Criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust law is ( barged. President Patterson is amon? those indicted. It is alleged that the Cash Register company is a trust, having a monopoly in the cash register business. It is charged that the defendant entered into a conspiracy in 1902, to restrain competition. The charges are practically the same as those in a civil suit brought against the Cash Register company in Cincinnati through Attorney General Wickersham. That suit asked Federal Judge Hollister to restrain the corporation from becoming a monopoly. A maximum fine of $5,000 and a prison sentence of one year, or both are provided under the indictments. " INDICT ADAMS EXPRESS. CINCINNATI, Feb. 22 The grand jury indicted the Adams Express Company on eleven counts charging collection rates higher than schedules.' CITIZENS' LEAGUE COIIVENTIOII OPENS Plans for improved Monetary System Will Be the (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb 22. Definite plans for the improvement of the national monetary system are expected to be formulated as a result of the first annual convention of the Nation al Citizens' League which opened here this afternoon. The object of the convention, which i being attended by six hundred representative business men and bankers from all parts of the United States, is to inaugurate a movement that is to bo rapidly enlarged In scope and importance and will ultimately result in the enactment of federal legislation looking to the elimination of. the num erous defects in the present system of finance. Addresses and suggestions will be made during the course of the meeting as to the best possible ways and means of bringing about the following conditions: 1 Co-operation, not dominant central ization, of all banks by an evolution of our clearing house experience. 2. Protection of the credit system of the country from the domination of any group of political or Inancial in terests. 3. Independence of the individual banks, national or state, and uniform treatment in discounts and rates to all banks, large or small. 4. Provision for making liquid the sound commercial paper of all the banks, either in the form of credits or bank notes redeemable In gold or law ful money. 5. Elasticity of currency and credit in times of seasonal demands and stringencies, with full protection against overexpansion. 6 Legislation of acceptances of lime bills of exchange, in order to cre ate a discount market at home and abroad. 7. The organization of better banking facilities with other countries, to aid in the extension of our (oreign trade. BACK TO THE ARMY THORNBURG WILL GO "My, how Richmond has grown!" exclaimed Corporal Charles Thornburg, of Greensfork, as he reported at the local recruiting station this morn ing after receiving his honorable discharge for the second time from the United States cavalry. He says that after visiting his mother a short time in Greensfork. he intends to enlist for another three year period. "About the only thing that hasn't changed since I joined the army are the street cars," said Corporal Thornburg. Thornburg has spent the pest year on the Mexican border, and was engaged in brushes with the rebel troops, while protecting property on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. He hopes to remain in Wayne county now for several weeks to meet his former friends, and then will re-enlist tn the Fourth Cavalry. ' The local recruiting station was closed this afternoon in observance of Washington's Birthday. '

WANTS A BEAU (Palladium Special.) INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 22. Supt of Police Hyland received a letter from a Richmond girl whose young heart pants for its mate. She writes: "I do not live with my father and have a stepmother. I am 18 years of age, dress quite stylish, am fond of society and have a small fortune, but can receive no company. I go to college. I would very much like to go away from Richmond. I am tall but not too tall, weight 120 pouuds, have medium brown hair, in fact I am considered right good looking. I would like to meet a young man between 18 and 26, and a college graduate is not essential. Address South 21st street, in care of Laddie Dgs."

GENII AND WORKERS HAVE AJIG TASK Work of Clearing Snow Has Started. Adventures of Rural Mail Men. Twenty-four teams and nineteen additional men are now busy at work on tbe streets of the city removing tho accumulation of snow of the last two days. The snow removing promises to he an expensive process to the city as it has to be taken to the creek bottom near the city light plant and tumped, requiring considerable time and delaying the work. Most of the snow from the streets in the business) district of the city has been removed and all intersections cleaned. Stories of titanic snow drifts and icy wind-swept roads, were poured out at the. post office last night, as the rural mail carriers reported to Superintendent L. A. Handley, that, though many hours behind schedule, they had cov ered practically the entire district and had been forced to leave only a few homes without mail. Some of the rural carriers did not report until long after' dark. "Bill" Morgan, who carries mall over route 3, east of the city, fared the worst of the rural men. Morgan struck one drift eight feet in height, and after trying to shovel a path through the big pile of snow, finally had to make a detour around it. Morgan also met a washed out ford which was utterly impassable. He says- the snow drifts were the deepeajtjie; has encountered any tlmToWnr hit tt' sice. A peculiar fact discovered by the ru ral men was that more snow fell north of the city than in the south. Most of the roads north of Richmond were banked and piles of snow, with a crust on top so hard that the horses legs were cut in ploughing through. Residents through the county were quick to assist the mail carriers yesterday. Many farmers, in fear that their mail delivery would be cut off bpent a big part of the day shoveling snow off the roads. Test cars, from lo cal automobile works, also did valua ble service as snow ploughs. Trains still continue late, and consequently mall is stacking up at the I ost office. After today's half holiday, tho men will have an unusually heavy !ot of mail to distribute tomorrow, but hone to find, the weather such ' that they can "clean out" the office. TWO ALARM BOXES PER YEAR POLICY Was Established by Board Today Other Matters Up for Consideration. Two fire alarm boxes a year will be installed by the city. This was decided by the board of works this morning. It is hoped this policy will soon provide the city with ample fire protection. Two boxes were ordered this morning as the first year's work under the new system, one to be placed at Fourth and Chestnut streets, to protect the Elliot Reid fence factory, and other adjacent buildings, and the second to be placed at Sixth and South E streets,, where the need of a box is also urgent. No more outside stairways built into the sidewalk was the ultimatum delivered by the board tbis morning to George Ball. It was decided that the week of March 7 would be a suitable date for members of the board of works and Fire Chief Miller to go to Chicago to see the Robinson auto fire trucks in operation, at the expense of the Robinson company. The board places Itself under no obligation by inspecting the machine. The cross walks at South Fifth and I and at South Fifth and E streets being in bad condition, the board decided to inspect them before ordering any action taken in this matter. A bill was presented at the meeting of the board this morning calling for $50 for, the services of the stenographer used in taking the reports of the hospital Investigating committee, but was not paid, as the board does -not have an account from which to draw this sum. -It will wait for council to appropriate

BLIZZARD CARRIES DEATH, INJURY AND LOSS OF PROPERTY

Traffic of All Kinds Suffers Tremendous Delays in the Central West States from the Storm. FIVE DEATHS FROM RAILROAD WRECKS Trains Stalled in Snow Driftsand Passengers Suffer i Police and Farmers Search for Lost Girh (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 22.With slowly rising temperature today threatening to vanish heavy snow ; drifts resulting from the blizzard. trafJ fic of all kinds continued to suffer tre- ' raendous delays. Street cars in Indiana ' cities which are running at all, are on ' haphazard schedules, interurbans on many lines are unable to make runs and steam roads are badly delayed. Howling blizzards raged today from Cleveland eastward to the Atlantic Coast. Three trains ; were stalled in snowdrifts seventeen 'feet deep at Vee-i dersburg. Indiana, and two more at! Farmer City, 111. Reports from Dan-i vllle, Illinois, say that no Big Four trains have been out of there within; the past 24 hours. Two Wabash trains! including the New York express were , tied up at Tolena. Illinois. At least a dozen deaths have resulted from the blizzard in the Central West states. . SEARCH FOR GIRL. SOUTH. BEND. Ind., Feb. 22 Police and farmers are searching for Miss Lena Kizer, hair dresser, who started home from St. Mary's college yesterday afternoon and has not been heard from since. Snowdrifts are ten feet high. It is feared she has perished.EFFECTS OF STORM. CHICAGO, Feb. 22. The Central West today is digging itself out of the worst blizzard it has experienced in eighteen years. The storm, which swept out of the Rocky Mountain and across many states, carried death, injury' and severe property loss throughOS neutral bett 4h Bsi States from the Mexican Itae nort jto Canada. ' l ' According to reports so far received here, at least five deaths were caused by the blizzard. They are: James Ellison, Peoria, I1K Alexander Barge; 8every, Kaa. ' , R. G. Wallace, Hahns Park. Colo. ' Harold Swift, Saginaw, Mich. John Harmon, Chicago. ' In addition to the dead, more than a dozen people were injured through." storm causes in Chicago, and probably one hundred suffered injuries In the other states, which the blizzard visited. -V. Railroad traffic in the Central West was practically at a standstill. Five railroad wrecks were due directly to the storm. The wrecks: C, B, Q. passenger train ran Into a coal train near Lowder, Illinois; one killed, eight injured. Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad passenger train hit by a freight' in snowdrift between Mendon and Vlcksburg, Mich! one killed, several injured, one perhaps fatally ' Indiana traction ear jumped track at Hartford City, several injured. Illinois Central, passenger train ran into freight train near Mattoon, 111. -v , I .11 ed in snowbanks in many parts of IIIlinols and adjoining states. There Is suffering: from lack of food and fuel on some of these trains and snow fighting crews fought throughout the night to rescue the trains. More than sixteen Inches of snow fell in several states. The snow was accompanied by I high winds, which ' blew it about in drifts, piling into the railroad cuts and . blocking streets. Drifts nearly six feet high piled up in spots in Chicago. Thousands of unemployed weregiven work clearing the streets of .the snow. , v The snow was followed by a drop la temperature, which was felt as far south as the Rio Grande Valley, some of the fruit which had begun to blossom has been damaged ia Southwest Texas, according to reports from El PaSO. : ' -r: !;:,:.: -Much additional damage to fruit is feared in parts of Missouri and KanCattle suffered greatly because of the storm in the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma. Many head or live stock were frozen to death. To the grain raisers of the Southwest states, who used dry farming methods . the snow to a blessing- It means sufficient additional moisture to make their wheat crops this year n success. HOLIDAY OBSERVED V; BY LOCAISCTOOjLS Exercises apropos to the celebra- -Uon of Washington's birthday aanieetv sary were held in all of the townstip schools in Wayne ' county today, as wen as most of the city schools. aCsa holiday this afternoon. nlthocO those attending, tne county ?sesi were obliged to attend durlnsrtia r tmrasar. 'if f "y

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