Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 104, 6 March 1912 — Page 1

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AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 104. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, 31 ARCH 6, 1912. SINGLE COPY S CENTS.

il MISSIONARY WAS KILLED BY CHINESE, AIIOTHERATTACKED A Reign of Terror Is Inaugurated Today by Mutinous Soldiers at Ching Ho, Near Tien Tsin.

(BRITISH SOLDIERS GO TO THE RESCUE President Yuan Shi Kai Has Finally Restored Order in Pekin Mutineers Are Being Punished. (National News Association) TIEN TSIN, March . In an antlforeign uprising at Ching Ho today folio wins th mutiny of th garriaon the Rv. F. Day, a missionary of the 'Church of England, was shot to death Knd an attempt was made to assassiate Rev. P. 8. Hughes, another iniskalonary. A number of shots were ired at the tRev. Mr. Hughes, but all missed their taiark. British soldiers have been sent 'to rescue Hughes and others. The mutiny at Chlbg Ho was marked by atrocious deeds. Many Chinese were killed, property pillaged and a part of the town burned. At the height of the rioting an attack was made on the English mission. Realising the danger they were In the missionaries pleaded with the leaders but were unable to stop the pillaging, -murder and arson of the deserters. YUAN IN CONTROL. PEKIN, March 6. President Yuan Bhl Kal has Anally secured complete control of the situation in this city and today terrible punishment was meted out to mutineers and pillaging outlaws In wholesale executions. One batch of more than 150 persons were beheaded. The executioners worked in relays. The street where the executions took place resembles a shambles with a lake of human blood and the plied up headless corpses. Even haadened soldiers. Inured In campaigns to sights of Inhumanity nd atrocities were sickened by the hideous spectacle. Heads of some of the victims were tuck on 'bamboo poles and carried through the streets with written warnings appended. Others were placed on tripods in public squares. Such warnings as "this is the punishment for deserters and incendiaries," were attached to the heads. Drastic Action Needed. ' President Yuan Shi Kai explained that the situation could be saved only by exercising the moat drastic action. In his picturesque language, the black )epots had to be washed off with blood. A number of women have been arrested for looting and several of them were put to death today. They came from the lowest classes and fought tide by side with the men in the mobs which plundered the city. The streets re constantly under patrol of native and foreign soldiers. The scene about the legation quarter is a thrilling one. ,An international army, representing all the big powers of the world, arc gathered there. Several times a day the toldlera march through the streets, usually preceded by the V. S. marines. This action Is used to awe the outflaws. It Is now positive that Yuan will not "leave the city for some time owing to the danger which would attend his ab,aence. Dispt aches received from Pao Ting-Fu say that the main army of deserters has withdrawn into the hills, fbut another attack is feared. The mutiny Is spreading throughout (southern Manchuria and disturbances 'were reported from half a dozen towns Bo far as known no missionaries have been killed but the disorders are increasing In the west. There Is danger that the disaffection twill reach the troops stationed at Chec-Foo. ROSCOE KIRKMAN RECEIVES A FINE Roscoe Klrkman, former senator, rho was arrested yesterday for public Intoxication, was released last night, and left a sura sufficient to pay bis fine of $1 and costs which was given in police court this morning. Parker Burton, who asked for a bed down In the basement of the city building, and was arreated for drunk, received the same fine. DATE FOR MEETING The meeting of the city council, the bospital probing committee, and the board of trustees of the Reid Memorial hospital will be held March 13. instead of March 3, the date given in yesterday's issue of the Palladium, as a result of a typographical error. THE WEATHER TATK AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer Thursday. HIOH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Slowly rising temperature. Maximum temperature In laat 24 hours, 31 at noon Wednesday. Minimum temperature In laat 24 hours, 9 at 8 a. m. Wednesday. Temperature at 12:30 p. m. today, 31. Barometer (normal 30 Inches 1 30.25. Direction and velocity of wind. Southeast, 1 mile per hour.

ATLANTA SOCIETY HAS SHOCK- TODAY Prominent Man, E. B. Grace, Accuses His Wife of a Murderous Assault.

(National News Association) ATLANTA, Ga., March 6 - -Mrs. Dally L'lrich-Opie-Grace, wife of Eugene B. Grace, is locked in police station today charged with assault to commit murder, her husband accusing her of shooting him. She stoutly denies her guilt. Grace was found alone, unconscious, in his home on a fashionable street, yesterday, nearly doad from a bullet wound in his side. He said his wife shot him. Mrs. Grace went to Newman, Ga., fifty miles away, but returned immediately when notified of the shooting, and was arrested. Facing her at the hospital Grace repeated his accusation. Mrs. Grace formerly was a wealthy widow of Philadelphia, and is twelve years older than her husband. WA8 80CIETY LEADER. PHILADELPHIA, March 6. Fashionable Philadolphians were shocked today when they heard that Mrs. Grace had shot her husband. She was formerly Mrs. William Opie and was popularly known here as "Daisy of the Leopard Skin" on account of the elaborate leopard skins she wore. Mrs. Grace came from Lebanon, Pa., to Philadelphia several years ago. She la a striking brunette, with a splendid figure and wore clothes that were the envy of Philadelphia women. Opie, who was a traveling salesman for a paper company, was reputed to be worth J 100.000. Mr. Opie died in February, 1911, in the hospital. While trying to crank his automobile be injured his arm and blood poison which resulted caused his death. ELDER SNEED SHOT; RES0LU1F FEOD Second Killing in Feud The Outgrowth of Elopement. (National News Association) GEORGETOWN, Tex., March 6. John T. Sneed was killed here today by one of his tenants, R. O. Hilliard. The assassin then killed himself after stating that he shot for revenge. Sneed was the father of John Beal Sneed. The latter recently was tried for the killing of Captain A. G. Boyce. The first tragedy was the sequel to the elopement of Captain Boyce's son with John Sneed's wife. It is persumed that today's killing was a direct outi growth of the Boyce-Sneed feud. The Sneed trial resulted in a hung jury. Situation in Portugal Has Become Acute. (National News Association) LI EBON, March 6. Mutiny broke out in the state prison at Almanda today and fifteen political prisoners were wounded in fighting with troops. The soldiers finally quelled the uprising. The convicts had planned to overpower the guard and precipitate a general delivery, but their plans went awry. This was the second revolt at Almanda prison within two months. The situation throughout Portugal has again become acute. Government spies who have been making an investigation along the Spanish frontier reported today that the monarchists are preparing for an invasion. The uprising against the Republican government is well financed and great amounts of munitions of war are being bought and secretly transported into Northern Spain. Five thousand rifles and 20 rapid-fire guns have been bought in Germany and secreted in a monarchist stronghold. The revolutionaries plan to capture Braganza, then move on Oporto and ultimately attack the capital. They hope to raise an army of recruits in Braganza and Oporto. 3 COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED IN RAID (National News Association) WHEELING, W. Ya., March 6. In a raid near Thacker, West. Ya., federal officers today arrested three brothers on a charge of counterfeiting. The arrests are said to be the most important in the government's war on counterfeiters during tahe last decade. The prisoners are: James, John and William Stevens. During the last year the counterfeiters have flooded Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky with the most perfect counterfeit five-dollar gold pieces ever known in the history of the country. AIRSHIP OF GOOD USE TO ITALIANS (National News Association) TRIPOLI, March 6. The dirigible airship today proved its usefulness in war when a reConnoitering party of Italian army officers made a flight to ascertain the position of Turks and Arabs beyond the city. The flight was successful. The balloon proved more satisfactory than aeroplanes wbich require constant and delicate attention in operation.

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Roosevelt This Afternoon Issues a Statement Bitterly Assailing Supporter of the President. HIS OWN AMBITION NOT AN INCENTIVE His Candidacy for President Prompted Solely to Serve His Country, He Vigorously Explains. (National News Association) MINEOLA, L. I., March 6. Fighting mad at the aspersions cast upon his candidacy for the presidential nomination by Secretary Stimson in his Chicago speech, Col. Theodore Roosevelt issued a long statement hero this afternoon, bitterly assailing the supporters of President Taft, and Mr. Stimson particularly. Mr. Roosevelt put his candidacy up to the people, saying that he is not prompted by ambitions, but to serve his country. The former president attacked in particular the method in promoting the Taft campaign, saying that the will of the people was being circumvented through the patronage club. Not a Party Wrecker. Replying to those of his party who declare his campaign may wreck the Republican party, the Colonel warned his political enemies that they and not himself were bringing ruin to the organization. While Mr. Roosevelt did not mention President Taft by name, he made his remarks plainer than any other of his recent campaign declarations. The statement follows: "As regards Mr. Stimson's statements that against my original intention I am being forced by certain persons into the arena this year, I may merely say that the statement is correct only in the sense that it would be correct to make the same statement as to my advocacy of Mr. Stimson for governor in 1910. "In that contest in which I was exceedingly reluctant to be drawn and which I entered only on a sense of duty to the people as a whole, I was assailed with virtually the same argument by the great majority of those who are now assailing me. "If I had consulted only my personal interest and personal preferences I I should have kept out of the 1910 campaign and let the machine remain in control at Saratoga and have seen the state go Democratic by 300,000 majority, and under those circumstances it certainly would have gone. Responded to Duty Call. "I went in because I conscientiously thought it was my duty to take part in the fight for honest government, for genuine self-government by the people, without regard to the consequences to myself, and I am in this fight on ex actly the same basis, and for precisely the same reason. "Let me add, in view of the questions of certain friends, thit neither Mr. Stimson nor any other man who I have supported for public office owes me gratitude for doing so. I support a man not to get bis gratitude but because I believe he will render good service to the people, and I ask nothing from any man in return, except that he render such service to the people, and I judge him accordingly. "As for the question concerning who are forcing me into the arena the answer is easy. Which side is making the demand for the primaries and which side is stifling this demand whenever possible, refusing to concede to it save under compulsion, and trusting to the use of. patronage, and such methods as those tried in the recent Kansas City congressional convention, and to those very machine leaders who have turned a complete somersault as regarding the president during the past four years? "These leaders are managing the campaign against me and if they were deliberately trying to wreck the republican party they would follow precisely the same tactics as they have been following, tactics which made it seem that they would rather see the Republican party defeated than to see it restored to what it was under Lincoln, and see it become again the genuine party of the people, who stand for the real popular rule and for the highest ideals of social and industrial justice, to be achieved through popular rule. "We stand for direct presidential primaries everywhere, in Illinois, in Massachusetts, in New York (for in New York the present primary law, passed by the machine of the two parties, is especially designed to prevent either party from escaping the control of professional politicians and from falling under the control of the people.) "If our opponents wish the people to have their say let them support real primary bills. If in open primaries, without coercion or fraud, without pressure brought by patronage, or by the promise of, or by the withholding of patronage, the plain people of the Republican party declare they do not wish to be nominated, then most certainly I do not want the nomination. If they declare they do want me. not in my interests but in the interests of the people as a whole, then, as I have already said, I will accept and. strive to serve the people with all of what

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A Snapshot Taken of Juror Roosevelt at L. J.

Characteristic snapshot taken by a I photographer of the International News Service of Col. Theodore Roose- . ); v velt at Mineola, Long Island, where the former president is to do jury da- V Vf v5 N-v I ty in the Supreme Court at a daily TO" fC' stipend of $2.00 to prove as he de(- jjf Ir v df' clared "that he is not fighting the AP VtJ! sW S courts." Vi&tf$& W? ( D TY r r it

CAMPBELL HAS HAT Ai COATJIi RING Sixth Dist. Roosevelt Leader Is Confident the Colonel Will Be Victorious. (Palladium Special) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 6. Charles H. Campbell, of Shelbyville, one of the wheelhorses of the Republican party in Indiana, has literally taken off his coat in behalf of the candidacy of Mr. Roosevelt in this state, following a conference at the national Roosevelt headquarters in Chicago. He spent some time yesterday with Edwin M. Lee at the state headquarters and together they mapped out a plan of organization to be pressed in every district in the state. Mr. Campbell will spend his entire time until the last primary is held, in organisation work through the state. "There is absolute confidence at the Chicago headquarters, that Mr. Roosevelt will be nominated on tne first ballot," says Mr. Campbell. "The much heralded report that Taft has some sixty delegates already is giving our people no concern, for practically all those delegates were elected before Mr. Roosevelt became a candidate. And it is not at all certain that all those votes will be cast 'for Taft when the roll is really called." The Latest Poll. . A statement from the National Roosevelt headquarters received at the state headquarters says that nation-wide polls bear out the smaller polls previously taken and more clearly define the people's answer to Col. Roosevelt's statement that he, different from Judge Taft, was satisfied that the people are competent to govern themselves." In this last poll, 87,963 persons, whose names had been taken haphazard from city directories by seventy-five newspapers of every political faith and scattered in "'every state, indicated their choice for president. Of these 54.429 were Republicans and voted as follows: Roosevelt, 30,454; Taft 15,896; La Pollette 5, 895; scattering, 2,184. :s District Primaries. i State Chairman Fred Sims of the Republican committee in Indiana is Insisting that the men in charge of the district primaries to be held this month, make a special effort to avoid any charge of unfairness. He is explaining that plans should be taken ta see that no favoritism is shown the friends of either Taft or Roosevelt with the end in view that all Republicans will feel after the primaries have been held, that the choice as registered is representative of the people's will. Mr. Sims as state chairman is interested in the success of the party at the polls next November and he knows that he can best attain success with a satisfied rank and file in the party. He does not believe that good can. be accomplished by the selection of a candidate against the will of the people. STREET CARS FOR SHENK RECITAL The management of the Shenk recital to be given at Earlham tonight wish to announce that there will be ample street accommodation for all those going out from town. Cars will be waiting at the entrance to the grounds after the concert.

WORK FOR COLONEL PROGRESSING HERE Precinct Organization Is Being Effected by the Leaders Now.

The executive committee of the Wayne County Roosevelt club has five new members. They are: John Dietz of Richmond, E. S. Martindale of Greensfork, Orange Hall of Cambridge City, John Dynes of Centerville, and E. II. Harris, of Richmond. This action wastaken at a meeting of the officers of the Roosevelt movement, which was organized last Friday night at the Pythian temple. A. E. Smith, president of the Roosevelt club, today expressed himself as being more than pleased with the way jn which things are moving. So did Edward Warfel, the secretary. Within a few days the Roosevelt workers will have their precincts manned with volunteers of experience, but it is improbable that their names will be given out. It is understood that the petitions which were circulated have furnished the committee with an excellent list of names of volunteers for the colonel. Indignation was expressed today at the publication last night in the Indianapolis News of the report that Ex-Chairman Lee had been deposed from the control of the Roosevelt organization and that "Charley" Campbell had ben put in charge. Both Lee and Campbell, who is at the head of the movement in the 6th District, deny any friction. On the contrary it is a strengthening of the lines they say. They sent out the following statement today: "There is no foundation in fact for the statement that Charles H. Campbell is to displace -Edwin M. Lee at Roosevelt headquarters in Indiana. On the contrary, "Mr. Lee'and Mr. Campbell are. working jointly , for one purpose; and that is the furtherance of the Roosevelt cause in Indiana and the election of Roosevelt delegates to the Republican national convention -from this state. Mr. Campbell's - appointment as national Roosevelt committeeman from Indiana is a part of the plan of organization in the state, and is most heartily concurred in by Mr. Lee, and by the Roosevelt workers of Indiana generally. Reports obviously intended to confuse Roosevelt men and to damage the cause for which we are working will not be permitted to affect the great Roosevelt movement. The outlook for success for the "Roosevelt workers in Indiana grows brighter every day. The spirit of hearty co-operation and the subordination of personal ambitions to the great cause for which all are fighting is the prime essential to success. N EDWIN M. LEE.' "CHARLES H. CAMPBELL." The same story is also branded as a lie by the Roosevelt. headquarters at Washington and Chicago. Y. ML B. C. BANQUET POSTPONED AGAIN Owing to the fact that Dr. A. J. Rumely and S. S. Strattaa will be unable to be in this city tomorrow evening, the banquet of the Young Men's Business club has been postponed. As yat no date has been fixed for the banquet, bnt the committee on arrangements will meet within the next day or so and decide upon the date. The banquet was to have been held at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening at the Westcott hoteL The committee received word this afternoon of the inability of Messrs. Rumely and Strattan, of Portland, to attend.

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REPLY TO The Operators' Committee Is Meeting Today Outlook Is Serious. (National News Association) NEW YORK, March 6. The anthracite coal operators having openly announced their refusal to accede to the demands of the miners, the .skirmish fighting is on in what may turn out to be the biggest industrial battle in this country's history. Fully aware of the serious outlook the committee appointed by the operators at their meeting today to formulate the reply to the miners' representatives conferred today as to the wording of the reply. It will be ready on Tuesday next and the following day probably will be submitted to the delegates of the workers. . Whether or not further conferences will follow -is a matter of conjecture. At present there is no doubt as to the attitude of both sides. The operators say positively that they cannot grant the 20 per cent wage increase and the other demands. The miners say they must have an increase. An independent operator today said: "If it comes down to hard tacks the operators may agree to a 5 per cent wage increase. Twenty per cent is beyond all consideration. Both the operators and the miners are unwilling to talk strike. In the mining districts the possibility of a cessation or wprk is looked upon with deep forebodings as it means a great loss and a business depression there more than any place else. But as the situation stands it looks as if there would be a suspension at the .mines for a month or more, with the" probability of a strike always in view. The operators assert that only about 20,000 anthracite miners are members of the United i Mine Workers union, but it is history that, in even of a. strike all the non-union men gather into the union fold., The low - membership is ascribed to. the long period of peace, during . which timewthei miners the foreigners particularly are not eager to. pay their dues. ... LEGAL AID TO Without Charge, a Subject Being Discussed. In speaking of movements started in other cities by bar associations to furnish free legal aid to the poor, a prominent member of the Wayne county bar stated today that as a general rule this is not needed in this city as the-pauper 'attorney handles all- criminal cases of the poor who are unable to provide legal talent for themselves. He declared that In case a person did not care to secure a lawyer he could file the affidavit and also prosecute the case himself. - However, some lawyers in this city have spoken favorably of a movement to provide free legal aid to worthy and deserving poor. They say that the subject is one suitable for consideration by the local bar, bat that the only method to employ in such a movement would be to place tie matter entirely in the hands of the Associated Chari ties or other benevolent organ! rations and in this way 11 would become known whether the applicants were really deserving. - , ' The subject of free legal aid probably will be brought up at the next meeting of the council of charities In this city and will be discussed.

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OF TRAIN? BECOMES VIOLENTLY II1SAI1E Man Believed to Be C. L. Callihan at County Jail for Safekeeping, Where He Tried to Suicide. MAN WAS SUDDENLY AWAKENED ON TRAIN Jumped to His Feet and in the Presence of the Horrified Conductor Leaped Out of a .Window. His mind a blank as far as his nanwr and past actions are concerned, but whose effects show him to be C. L. Callihan, an agent of the Farm and Fireside Journal, jumped from a Pennsylvania passenger train last evening about 7:45 at Campbellstown, O., wan picked up, taken to this city snd placed In the city jail, to all appearances a raving maniac. Later he was removed to the county jail, and between eleven o'clock and 12 o'clock, cut bis throat with the handle of a tin cup, inflicting a gash an inch deep and two inches long on the left side of his neck. His physical condition is not serious. The conductor and- train crew of train No. 47, which the man boarded at Cincinnati, ticketed to Eaton, Ohio, state that the. man acted strangely. - The man was aaleep when Eaton was reached and did .not get off. As the train neared Campbellstown the conductor, remembering that the man. should have gotten off at Eaton, went, to him and touched him on the shoulder and told him he had passed his station. Was Not Injured.. Calllhan started to his feet and plunged through the window, while the train was going about 35 miles an hour. The train .crew, horrified, stopped the train, went back and picked up the man. His head showed three small cuts, and the hair had been cat from his head by the contact with the roadbed. Shouting and howling at the top of his voice, he was brought to this city where he was handed over to Officer. Menke. Menke brought him to the nopolice station where he was locked up., His correspondence was addressed to C. L. Calllhan, showing he had hat sent from Cincinnati to Eaton to assume charge of the affairs of the Farm and Fireside Journal . in that .town.--Hls credentials were signed-in Colunv. bus, O., and other records showed him . to be from Versailles, ,Ky. The police of these two cities know nothing about the man. Calliban .was placed in the south cell at the city jail and at once Jumped to the top of the small cells, preparing t to leap to the cement floor beneath, a distance of about eight feet. This plan was frustrated by an officer placing him in the small steel cell. His howl-., ing and raving,, and at times incoher ent mumblings, resulted in bis being placed in the padded cell at the county jail, about eleven o'clock, as It was feared he would attempt to kill himself. ' '.; . ;, As the padded cell at the county Jail is in bad condition, having been torn up by several of the recent inmates. Calllhan about midnight was placed in a small barred celL He asked-for a drink and was given a tin-cup of water. , He rattled the cup for some time, according to other inmates of the jail. but in a short time grew quiet. Finally one of the other inmates of the, Jail looked Into Callihan's cell, and he was lying on his back with blood flowing from a wound in his neck. He bad torn off the handle of the tin-cup and, with the ragged edge of the straightened out piece of tin, had inflicted a ragged wound in the side of his neck, about an inch deep, and two inches long. First aid to the injured treatment was given him, and a physician dressed the wound today. Dr. Marvel, the physician who treated the man when he was brought Into this city on the passenger train, stated . his injuries' were not serious, none of them necessitating even a bandage.. He stated that the man in a lucid in-; terval, told him he had had similar afc tacks before, and that his mind would' be a blank for some time, his memory; afterward returning. The man is about 30 years old. Is '', dressed neatly in a grey suit, and carries a small handbag with another suit of clothes. , - ASSESSMENT CASE NOT YET DECIDED

No decision was "reached at the . meeting of the city board of works and the attorneys for the property owners on Richmond avenue, -who object to the. approval of the final assessment roll for the improving of that street. The matter was continued, to be dls-; enssed Thursday morning, and will , not be finished for some time yet, in . the opinion of attorneys who have i studied the ease. - - Attorneys for the property owucis object to the assessment nstfjfc As-, lessment on one small kwr-j, 3early $200. The land hi qaestlstO swath, of Richmond avenue at the west end of the Doran bridge, wbich . the at-; torneys contend . is . not worth , half ; what the assessments amount, to, . ; ' It Is announced by City Attorney ! Gardner that another' assesssoeat rU ; will probably, be ordered .redacts? assessments of the ground is ' ;

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