Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 102, 4 March 1912 — Page 1

D F ABHJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVI I. NO. 102. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, 31 ARCH 4, 1912. SINGLE COPY S CENTS.

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ROOSEVELT LISTED TO SERVE 0(1 JORY AND ACCEPTS DUTY

Colonel Was Not Compelled to Serve Because of His Military Service, but He Scorns Excuse. COLONEL IS ANGRY AT CORRESPONDENT Gives His Opinion of a Man Who Receives a Personal Letter and Then Has It Published. (National News Association) MTKEOLA, L. I., March 4. Col. Roosevelt cam hero tbla morning from Oyster Bay In response to a summons for Jury duty service. He had been assuered in advance by Judge Scbulxe that he would be exempted from duty because of his military service, but had to make a personal appearance. Col. Roosevelt sprung a surprise on the crowd that was lined up at the court house to greet him when he calmly accepted the summons to Jury service without any attempt to evade It. He qualified as a member of a panel as petit Juror and only accepted a reprieve from service until Wednesday, which was proffered him by Justice Putnam. In reply to the questions of newspaper reporters. Col. Roosevelt said: "1 am on the Jury. I conceive it a man's doty to serve when he is called. I shall be at the Outlook office tomorrow to keep an important appointment. After that I shall make this Jury my chief consideration and readjust all my other arrangements to accord to It." There are about fifty cases on the calander, which will be presented to the Jury, most of which are civil actions against the Long Island railroad. Col. Roosevelt consented to talk of the fragment of a letter given out in 'Washington yesterday, in which he is quoted as having positively declared that he would not be a candidate for the presidency In 1912. . "Before I reply to this letter in detail I shall Insist that the letter be made publio tn detail, the name of the person to whom it Is addressed be giv n out. Meantime I have hut to say that any man who la dishonest enough to publish a private letter, especial ly without giving his name HI dishonorable enough to publish a portion of lt apart from its context. Everybody -with whom I have been In communteattlon knows that I have always been r consistent in my course: that I have never talked nomination, but that I have never placed myself in a position where I could not accept the nomination If the party wanted me." A WHITE SLAVE WAR Backed by Unlimited Capital Will Be Started. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, March 4 Organised with the greatest secrecy and backed toy unlimited capital, the biggest campaign against white slavery, is about to be launched by the business interests of the United States, working in co-operation with the department of Justice. Within the past few weeks a number of prominent men have held meetings in New York and Chicago and completed a plan of co-operation of all the principal organizations fighting this evil. WAS SHOUT TWICE Leopold Rothschild Escapes Assassin's Bullets. (National News Association) LONDON, England., March 4. Leopold Rothschild, one of the best known financiers of Kngland. was shot nt twice on the streets here this afternoon. Both shots missed him. but a detective standing nearby was badly Mounded. The would-be assassin was arrested. DESPERADO ON TRIAL (National News Association) Chehalis, Wash.. March 4. Addbert Clark, the young desperado. 'who hot and killed Lawrence C. liar, a Lanker orcentralta. In a daylight attempt to rob the bank last December, was arraigned in the Lewis county circuit court here today to stand trial on a charge of first degree murder. TURNER WILL TAKE PASTEUR TREATMENT John Turner, who was bitten by a Snad dog last week as he was crossing North C street on Ninth, was sent to Indianapolis today by Township Trustee James Howarth. Turner will take the Pasteur treatment at Indianapolis, as It Is feared he may contract hydrophobia. Turner was bitten on the right leg.. , . , v ' '

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ST. PETERSBURG. March 4. The young Czarevitch of Russia has demanded that his eldest sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, sixteen years- of age, be punished for administering to him a sound, good old fashioned spanking. To appease the wrath of ; his heir to the throne, the Czar has promised this self willed youngster of : seven that the Grand Duchess Olga I shall be imprisoned within the castle j walls for a period of one month. The ; youthful Czarevitch, who haB been j brought up to demand respect from ev- j eryone, has been in the habit of chas- j tlsing his eldest sisters. On the last i occasion, the Duchess Olga resented i her young brother's whipping and ; chastised .him severely. Hence .the royal edict of her father of one month's Imprisonment. On the left Is the Czarevitch, and on the right the Grand Duchess Olga. ENGLISH AMAZONS REIIEWJHEIR WAR Window Smashing Phalanx Marches Through City of London Today. (National News Association) LONDON, March 4. Militant suffragettes resumed their "war" against the British government today, a window smashing phalanx marching through Knights Bridge and Kensington, doing heavy damage to property. Scores of plategiass windows were smashed despite the 6,000 policemen detailed to prevent disorder on the part of the women. The raid todav was made while Lizzie McKenzie, one of the leaders of the militant wing of the suffragettes and other women rioters were being tried in Bow street police court. Miss McKenzie received a sentence of two months while most of the other women arraigned were held for trial at the London sessions. Within an hour after the rioting today broke out, thirty women had been arrested charged with disorder and the wilful destruction of property. Some of them resisted and fought furiously against being locked up. A mob of shouting, stone throwing women marched near St. James Palaces on their way to Knights Bridge and it was feared for a time they contemplated a raid on St. James' palace where King George was holding hi? first official levee of the year. Extra police were rushed to Hyde Park to reinforce the officers already on guard. Flanks of lifeguards were also thrown out beyond their usual stations. In the dry goods district many proprietors stationed their clerks upon the street to save their property. Others had their plate glass windows boarded up when news was received that the suffragettes were on another rampage. The workmen threw stones. Iron bolts and other whistles which they concealed in their muffs. Some of them rode In taxicaba while others marched ptrninr hannera nnninr atroet m ! under extra guard, threats having been made that efforts would be made to storm the residence of Premier Asqulth and government buildings which escaped damage in the raid last Friday.

ANOTHER VICTIM (National News Association) AUBURN. N. Y., March 4. The week beginning today has been fixed as the time for the electrocution in Auburn prison of Edward Burnett, convicted of murder at Dunkirk two years ago. Burnett's victim was John Dougherty, whom he shot and killed in a quarrel. . Governor Dlx has denied clemency in the case. ,;

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OVER ONE MILLION IDLE III E Many Industrial Plants Went on Half-time as a Result of Strike. (National News Association) LONDON, March 4. One pillion five hundred thousand persons, are idle as a result of the national coal strike. Hundreds of industrial plants went on half-time today and a condition of partial paralysis prevailed in the manufacturing sections. Half a million men, women and children have been rendered idle by the strike of one million miners Seventy-five coastwise steamers are tied up at their docks as a result of Inability to secure coal. Keen suffering is being experienced, especinlly among the poor. The price of fuel and foodstuffs is steadily rising, the increase over the prices prevailing this .time Ja 8lLyLbelPg from 15 to 20 percent, h0pnairadtiyTnHB5S5Sal53rTienV significance which the strike has assumed, the government today redoubled its efforts to obtain a settlement. With socialists boldly preaching unrest, the situation took on the . most menancing attitude it has ye assumed. The statement promised by Premier Asquith in parliament was awaited with anxiety as, it was believed to contain a proclamation of real action which the government adopted without delay. Representatives of the government and the executive committee of the federated miners union would resume their conferences late today. However, any plan which may be agreed upon must be ratified by the miners union before it is effective. The railroads began to curtail their schedules today, the "no surrender" slogan adopted by the miners and the similar policy of the recalcitrant operators has caused a most pessimistic feeling to prevail in industrial circle? and notices are being sent throughout England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland that manufacturing plants will close down on Wednesday. The strike may have a far reaching effect on naval affairs for the Admiralty is considering a suggestion to substitute oil for fuel wherever practicable. TYPEWRITERMERGER The Remington Company Absorbs Two Big Rivals. (National News Association) SYRACUSE, N. Y.. March 4. John W. Earle. president of the Union Typewriter Co., announced today that the Remington company began March 1, acting as the selling agency for its own products and that of the Smith Premier and Monarch companies. The Union Typewriter company is a $20,000,000 holding company. It is expected the Smith Premier and Monarch offices all over the country will be amalgamated with the Remington offices. TO HEAR NOTED MEN (National Nwa Association) WASHINGTON, D. C, March 4. The twelfth annual meeting of the National Civic Federation, which is to meet In this city tomorrow for a three days' session, has selected industrial peace and progress as the general subject for consideration. Many men nationally and internationally prominent in public life and in the industrial world will participate. Cardinal Gibbons will preside over the first day's deliberations, and President Taft will make the opening address.- Among the noted men scheduled as speakers, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel. Senator George Sutherland of Utah. President ' Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, Judge Martin A. Knapp of the-Commerce Court, Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, Representative Ltbjrd of Missouri and Dr. Charles P. Nela, United States commissioner of hUmr.

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TENEMENT BLAZES CLA1ME0JICTIMS Two Deaths in New York and Two Dead and Two Are Dying in Boston.

(National N'ews Association NEW YORK, March 4 Two persons were killed and six others injured in a fire which swept the three-story brick building at 202 West 53d street early today. The dead are: Mrs. Anna Evans. Charles Parry. The injured: Mrs. Elizabeth Parry, Walter Muir, Policeman Jas P. Lawton, policemen Charles A. McDonald, firemen James P. Martin and Edward Gondoffl. There were a number of narrow escapes and thrilling rescues. The fire started in the Elite laundry, which was in the basement of the building, and spread rapidly. Within a few minutes, the stairway was burning and the exit of a score or more tenants was cut off. City Detective McCormick. while riding uptown on an elevated railway by the building, first discovered the flam3 and turned in an alarm. The victims were trapped in their apartments and burned to death. Robert Evans, husband of one of the victims, managed to make his way to the roof in a dazed condition and there fell unconscious. He was carried to the street by firemen. FATAL B ASTON BLAZE. (National News Association) BOSTON, March 4. Two persons are dead, two others are dying and a fifth is badly burned as a result of a fire which swept from the basement to the roof of the four-story wooden tenement house at 467 Hatover street, North End, early today, and drove more than fifty persons to the street ; in a panic. j The flames blocked the rear stair ways and the front stairs were found , barricaded with trunks and boxes as policemen from the Hanover station attempted to force their way to the upper stories to rescue the terrorstricken occupants. The dead: Mrs. Guiseppe Allegro, 45 years old. Guiseppe Crisafuli, 30 years old. The dying: Antonio Francisco, 27. Unidentified man. A REFERENDUM LAW IT BEINGUniversity of Oregon Charges Abuse of Popular Rule Through Measure. (National News Association) ENGENE, Ore., March 4 Alleged abuses of popular rule through the referendum will be pointed out this week when the suit of the University of Oregon against the Secretary of State is argued in the State supreme court at Salem. The 1911 session of the legislature appropriated $500,000 for the University of Oregon, which is located here, but before the law became operative, a referendum petition filed by one H. J. Parkinson was presented the Secretary of State and accepted, tying up the appropriation until 1912, when the people would be given an opportunity to vote on the question. Cursory examination of the petitions showed evidences of fraud, so suit was brought by a regent of the university to prevent the Secretary of State putting the referendum question on the ballot. Attack was made on the petition on the ground that large numbers of the names were forged, and that various technicalities of the law had not been complied with. As the trial progressed, Parkinson was forced to admit that he knew some of the work of his agents was fraudulent, but counsel for the Secretary of State contended that, eliminating the fraudulent names there would yet be enough to make good the calling of the referendum. .The State objected that the plaintiff In the case had no right to bring such suit, and that he had not followed the prescribed forms. Attorneys for the State university, on the other hand, maintained the right of any legal voter to bring such a suit, and furthermore they make the main contention 'that fraud in part of the petition invalidates the whole, especially where the fraud il so extensive and is so well known before the filing of the petitions. The case has aronsed much interest in Oregon, which state was the first to adopt the initiative and referendum, and various means of safeguarding the principles are being discussed by friends of the law, for they fear that if frauds are allowed to get by. worse frauds win be perpetrated and the whole system brought into disrepute. . GRAFTER IS GUILTY Ohio County Official Admits His Crime Today. LANCASTER, O., March 4. Wit liam M. McClenaghan. county delinquent tax collector, today pleaded guilty to the misappropriation of $55 of the county's money. He was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. After pleading guilty he returned $27 of the money, "

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E L PLANT This Policy Was Adopted by the Board of Public Works This Morning. All insurance except the small j amount carried on the boilers of the ( municipal light plant were removed at the meeting of the board of works '. this morning. Supt. Johnson and en eineer Howard Olnvu were nreaent at

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the meeting and after giving their ap- board of accounts, the city board of proval to the plans of the board forj'workB and finance committee of

niacins: fire fiarhtine devices at the , nlant onri th'a oitv iQrrvinr Ua nun in. surance, the board adopted the following plans to protect the plant from ' fi a iv. K v, i i j n a.vv iuvu iivdc n tit as? (itavcu iu ; the boiler room, connected with a city firo hviirant" A reel of' two-inch hose will bo ,. , - , " ... . .... . w itn the pumps at the light plant .... wnicn iorce an enormous pressure on the water supply there. Mv 1 o toot irtitlAl rirn ovrfninitariara x -ZT win De piacea at amerem points uouui : the danger zone of the plant, which is 1....' 1 .... 1. " awTC . w"cl . ine -men empioyea at ine piant work in shifts, all hours of the day and night, and are always about the danger zone. They will be trained In the use of the extinguishers, and in the opinion of the city officers this force of men. with the apparatus they will have at hand should make any puBBiuie lire ey io eiumuisu. The city instead of paying insurance will start a special fund for use in case a fire ever damages the plant. Uiuys ana jonnson were given orders by the board to make the purchases of the apparatus at once, that the plant may be protected, as all In-; surance carried was made null and ) void this morning at the expiration of the meeting. HE RESIGNS AFTER SENSATIONAL SUIT (Palladium Special) EATON, O., March 4. Following the sensational suit filed against him by Leon A. Holaday, who asks judgment j for $10,000 for the alienated affections

of his wife. Professor Charles H. Mos-1 conditions possible for the streets of es has tendered his resignation as su-jtbe city, the board of works this morn perintendent of the Gratis schools. ing refused Sam Jaffe permission to The resignation was immediately ac- "place a pair of heavy junk scales in cepted, and the work in the high j front of his junk shop at the corner of school has been suspended pending j Third and Main. He wished the scales the appointment of a successor. Ac- to be placed on North Third street, cording to President H. H. Miller the i After listening to an explanation of matter will be taken up shortly and a a member of the Robinson machine new head named. company this morning; the board upon As a successor to Moses as a mem- motion of the mayor adopted and slgnber of the County Board of Teachers' d the contract calling for castings

Examiners. Probate Judge A. D. Da - vis has appointed V. J. Shilt, of Verona, who is a Democrat. Moses resigned from this work since the suit. AIIDREWSJII TRIAL Ohio Solon Alleged to Have Accepted a Bribe. ? (National News Association) COLUMBUS, O, March 4. the trial of Senator L. R. Andrews of I ronton, O., charged with accepting a bribe of 900 in connection with the passage of the Wbittemore insurance bill, was begun here today. Sen. Andrews is one ofta group of senators who was tracked by the Burns 'detective;' agency, charged with soliciting money in connection With the passage' of the insurance bill at' the last general assembly.' SHOE RETAILERS ; (National Sws Association) . : ATfcANTAr Ga..-Mareh; A. The annual. conventionofvthe Southern Shoe Retailers Association began , i ..this cify today with an attendance .representing a dozen States. The members will spend three days in the discussion of numerous matters relating to the retail shoe-trade. -----

IMPROVEMENT FUND

IS BADLYJANGLED Council to Be Asked to Em ploy Expert to Unravel the Affairs. Badly tangled accounts as to street improvement funds, for several years back, will cause a loss to the tax payr of the city of a large sum before the final accounting is made. At the meeting OI two examiners Ot ine State ine council, tnis morning, roe street department fund aCCOUntS Wr diSCUBSed. and th expert accountants Btated that- although no shortages were found, the accounts were in such a muddled condition that several ; months of hard work would be necessary to straighten them out.. The accont8' Jecau"e of the expense to the City, and their desire to examine the ; books of other cities, waived the right ' , . . M itn revtaw thaa sxeaauntBL and amkeA to review these accounts, and asked the board of works to pass a .resolution providing for the hiring of local accountant to examine the books. The i Doara tooa tnis action. The cause of the trouble was the 'placing in 4he general fund of the .r . imnrnvmMt A street improvement department, all moneys collected for any and all debts to the department, instead of keeping ! tno n.nmiTlta nf atrt iTnnrnV4V ! eQt 8eparate they ghould have geveral remedie8 have en 8Ugge8ted for keepmg the books !( thig department after the change f. m-de n(1 thA -ff-i-, -traihI tened out, but this will be tkeu up laitr Councll wm De a8ked thlg evening to appropriate a sufficient sum to cover the cost of hiring competent help to untangle the affairs of the department. NO STREET SCALES j Can Be Placed, the Board Ruled This Morning. j j It being the policy of the board of i works to refuee anyone permission to obstruct or interfere with the best ! rom tne Komnson company tnis year. The price being raised steadily year by year called forth comment by the board, but the agent explained that the cost of sending out small consignments of castings to isolated portions of the city was the cause of the heavy cost, the price being 44 cents per pound. The average yearly bSW is about 50. Now we are to have another wait. The Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company notified the board of works this morning that the contract calling for the removal of the tracks from the Glen' had been sent to the Dayton offices of the Ohio Electric company for consideration. City attorjney Gardner waa instructed to write the Ohio Electric company, and ask it to make a prompt decision. A special session' of the board of works will be held Wednesday morning when the matter of the final approval of the assessment roll tor the improving of Richmond avenue Is taken up. The case will be long drawn out, it is expected, three owners of property : having -secured attorneys to represent them.""- V' - - . ' THE WEATHER . STATE CIC tli snow flurries to- - ' night - amlAessJay.- Not -much change in temperature. LOCAL Unsettled weather. Snew " - flurries tonight and Tuesday

LAWREOCE TROUBLE

IS RELATED TODAY BY HOUSE MEMBERS One of the Strikers Tells the - Rules Committee, Police and Soldiers Are Worse Than Cossacks. BERGER IS FORCED OUT OF LIMELIGHT, Socialist Congressman Nof Permitted to Conduct the Questioning Lipson Was Placed on Stand. f National Nw AtroclaHea) LAWRENCE, March 4. Chairman' Henry of the committee on rules warn ed a large audience of men and women that gathered at the hearing of the Lawrence strikers today, against making any outbreak, such as that which characterited Saturday's hearing. Representative Wilson of Pennsylvania submitted a letter from Dudley Holman. secretary to Gov. Fobs of Massachusetts, stating that conditions at Lawrence had been greatly exaggerated, and defending the police in pre venting the strikers from sending their children out of the strike tone. The letter states that the police did not use their clubs on women or children, but simply pushed them aside. Berger la Silenced. Rep. Berger was not permitted to conduct the questioning of the striker , as he did Saturday. He strenuously objected to this arrangement, but he was overruled and be calmly took his seat. Samuel Plpaon. the weaver, continued his testimony, and it was developed that he was not a cittsen of the ' United States. In reply to a question be said. "I took out my first papers, but It required $4 to get the others :k and I heeded that money to buy food and clothing for,my children. Rep. Hard wig of Georgia asked Pipson whether the children ' were sent away for their own good or to arouse outside sympathy. 1 ' "It waa to care for them and to keep them from the danger of the strike. The Russian Cossacks 1 have keen ItAll people. They are the wildest people in th world, but they never tried to club a seven year old boy or girl as the police did." he said in describing the conditions in Lawrence. Lipson said there was a strong sentiment among the foreigners to appeal to the embassies and legations of their own nations for protection. "Women and girls' were beaten , on their backs and stomachs," he said. "I saw one soldier with his kneeson a boy's body. An Assyrian boy was stabbed in the back by a soldier" "I want to know whether we can in any way substantiate your statements that any man, militant or policeman, who wears an American uniform, did these things," said Rep. Hardwlg. - Give us. an. investigation and we will prove it," replied Lipson. -"The soldiers who stabbed the Assyrian boy in the back was justified by Col. 8weetser when we complained to him." Lipson said he did not see the boy killed, but he saw the boy's body with the bayonet thrust into the back. Lipson under question , by Rep. Campbell of Kansas, said , the state ments made by President Goldman of the Textile . Workers that the strike was a revolt -on the spur of the moment was not true. "Many meetings were held before the strike," he test!-, fled, "and a committee of strikers re-' quested more wages from the mill owners. A CARETAKER HID To Look After Insane at the County Jail. At the session of the county commissioners this morning Rice Miller, tor ; merly deputy sheriff of Greensfork, was appointed caretaker of the Insane . at the county - jaiL The appointment , was made on the recommendation of Sheriff Steea. The salary of. the office was fixed at $50 per month. . The matter of appointing n caretaker for the insane, from- time to time eonfined at the county jail, while awaiting the holding of inquests of their admissions to the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, has been discussed for some time. The duties of a caretaker have devolved' upon the sheriff and the turnkey- and with their other, work it has been almost impossible to give insane persons the proper kind of care. Sheriff 8teen has not decided whether he will appoint another deputy at Greensfork or not. At the time of the appointment of Miller the sheriff experienced considerable . trouble with a certain class of residents in that town but since Miller was appointed deputy sheriff order has bees restored and the sheriff believes that the town does not need a deputy now. MEETS TONIGHT The Men's dub of First Presbyt ian church saeets tosrit i 7:46. Dr. C. 8. Bond's subject wI3 W f lessons from the Human Do? - Ttttea'! the city are cowMgt-rrtJr xl tend.