Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 107, 9 March 1912 — Page 1

EMONB P AIX ABIUM KIN ANO SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 107. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

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A KNOCKOUT GIVEN SLOT MACHINES BY

IE tl The Executive in Police Court Fines B. F. Albright $70 for Having Two Machines in Store. MACHINES CALLED GAMBLING DEVICES Albright Says He Will Hold Machines Until the Companies Reimburse Him the Amount of Fines. Slot machines, once driven out, but later returning, double in numbers, were siren a death blow in police court this morning when Benjamin F. Albright, a confectoner at fourth and North D street t, was found guilty on two affidavits charging blm with keeping gambling devices, and fned 925 nd costs in each case. Albright stated the agent for one of the machines when negotiating to place it in Albright's store, told him that It "was O. K. with headquarters." Asked who "headquarters" referred to Albright said the agent replied he meant the authorities. Neither the Snayor, the chief of police, nor the prosecutor had ever been approached, they stated this morning. One of the machines Is a nickel slot chewing gam 'vender. Five cents deposited in a slot will perhaps reward the player with checks good for five cents each in trade. A lever at the bottom of the machine pulled after the nickel Is played gives out a small package of gum. The Penny Machine. The other machine is owned by the diver King Novelty company. One penny played may give the player checks good for five cents in trade. The player takes the chance of getting the checks or nothing. ' A local man had a string of about twenty nickel , machines in different tores of the dtfc' Wlfw&'Tr'gtvett or fjtese machines, but a straight chance t Checks being presented for "five cents a throw." Recently he has turned several of his machines to the wall, evidently uneasy because of an investigation which has been conducted. Several of the machines in the outly ing parts of the city are still In opera tion, but the heavy fines given Ai bright will discourage their future op eration, Prosecutor Ladd believes. Complaints Received. Complaints have been received at the Palladium office of small children playing the machines and losing all Their small earnings or allowances. Prosecutor Ladd stated this morning that the machines would hrve to go r the owners of the stores in which they were njaced would have to pay Junes. Albright stated this morning that because of the alleged mlsrepresenta tions of the agents who placed the machines In his place of business, he would attempt to hold the companies responsible for the sum he lost in Hoes, $70 in all. If they remain obdurate, the confectioner says he will hold the machine and make them take the case to court.' where he wlil fight to last ditch. He stated that he was ,rry he had to be the "goat" In the est case. The machines are vaiuea bout $75 each. .1URDERER WILL DIE SNegro Brute to Be Executed at Sing Sing. ' National News Association) i NEW YORK. March 9. Condemned to die for one of the moat fiendish murders committed Jn this city In recent years, Joseph Roberts, a West Indian negro, will pay the extreme penalty of the law in the electric chair t 8ing Bing Prison next Monday. Roberts was-convicted of the murder of Isaac S. Vogel, an aged and wealthy dealer in diamonds and jewelry, whose body waa discovered in a loft building la Canal street early last December. " Robert! was the elevator .conductor Vita the building. . . The ' negro is supposed to have committed the murder for 'the. purpose of .robbery, as Mr.1 Voael carried much jewelry .about his ptfaon. After beating the aged, man rt death the. negro made an ineftectial attempt to burn, the body of bis v victim in the furnace.. The crime ws 'fixed upon Roberta when the police - discovered the negro's bloody finger ' prints upon a silver clgaret case which ' 1 belonged to the murdered man. PROTEST IS MADE BY REBEL GENERAL (National News Association) SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. March 9. A protest has reached the federal authorities here from Gen. Falaxar; Who fs Ha command of. the rebel forces in Northern Mexico, la which he declares that brother "of President Madero Is securing recruits for the federal army. The) protest waa seat to Washington, ;

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The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, daughter of the Czar, who is being mentioned as eligible to be the bride of the Prince of Wales, of England. The Grand Duchess is one of the most attractive and beautiful young women in European royal families and 6be is accomplished in many ways. It is declared by members of both the British and Russian Court that her disposition exactly balances that of the young Prince and that they would make a most happy match.

MARCH OH MEXICO'S . CAPITAL IS BEGUN i Vanguard of Rebel Forces Moves Toward Mexico City Today. (National News Association) CHIHUAHUA. Mex., March 9. The march of the rebel army under Gen. Pasquale Orozco, on Mexico City has begun. The vanguard of the rebel forces loaded on two troop trains is today moving towards the capital and tomorrow the entire army will start The vanguard was armed with supplies and tools for track repair and will proceed slowly putting the railroad in condition for movement of the other troops. A number of bridges have to be repaired and, in some places the rails nad been torn up. There were about eight hundred men in the first detachment. Three thousand are to follow. It Is thought the trip will take two days and that the rebel forces will be in the vicinity of Mexico City Monday or Tuesday. SITUATION CRITICAL. MEXICO CITY, March 9. With new revolutions springing' up at the very gates of Mexico City and disaffection spreading through President Madero's official family the situation today' not only in the capital, but In every quarter of the Republic is beyond the condition of seriousness to which it was thought possible to go without intervention by the United States. General Orozco with nearly . 1,000 men is advancing southward with the prospect of recruiting his army to 4,000 before reaching the city. The warcry of bis .army is "Madero must follow Diaz." Some of the radical leaders are insisting that Madero must be expelled from the country. Another rebel army is south of the city under command of General Zapata but its march has been halted. A third, led by. General f Miranda, is west of the capital. The insurrectos, many of whom are no better than outlaws, are looting, destroying property and Inflicting bar bartous torture .on prisoners, 4 The manager of a ranch in this state! while trying to persuade a rebel detachment not ,to loot the place was seized, stripped and tied to stakes in the ground. A fire was built , and his feet were burned off at the ankle. Then his eyes were gouged out and his tongue pulled out. Death finally ended his sufferings. Fifty Spaniards are reported to have been killed at Torreon. At Jerez, near, Zacatecas. sixty rebels were, killed la a" fight with .federals and civic volunteers. A rebel band under Thomas Valenxuela ran into an ambuscade at Union hidalgo and S3 of them were slaughtered. t Vera Crus is under siegev- , .

TOOK CHURCH FUNDS AND ANOTHER'S WIFE

Oscar Sache, "Model Young Man," Decamps with Mrs. W. H. Adams. (National News Association) COLUMBUS, O., March 9. The "model young man" theory was exploded here today. Walter H. Adams, a machinist, waits in despair, for news of his wife, Mrs. Louise Adams, who has not been heard from since noon yesterday. A 3-year-old baby girl sits at his side and cries for its mother. The model young man in the way was Oscar Sache, age 20, treasurer of a Sunday school here. He decamped with $55 oC the Sunday school funds, drawing them from the bank before leaving. He bad been on intimate terms with Mrs. Adams, who had been a customer at a grocery where Sache -was employed as clerk, for some time. It was believed that the pair had gone to New York and efforts are beiug made today to locate them there. STRIKE HEARING END Conditions at Lawrence Are Much Improved. (National News Association) LAWRENCE, Mass., Mareh 9 The textile strike which has crippled the

Lawrence mills for weejes today apthermometer rag from fs to 9 de-

pcureu iu ue Hearing au vuu. a couference at the statebouse in Boston this afternoon will start a direct line of negotiations as a result of which settlement is expected. . The pay of the operatives after) the strike is ended, it is indisated, will he from four to jnf teen per cent higher than before this' strike, and for two hours lesswork. The, different, increases will depend onthe character lof individual operatives wbrfC the most poorly paid receiving the greatest advance Condit ions 'were - much . mproved today, general order being maintained during the early hours SUFFRAGE ADDRESS JTO BE GIVEN HERE v Grace Julian Clark, of Indianapolis, one of the leading public women of the country, and an .'Officer of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana will address the members of the the members t Wayn)B .County, Women Teachers Club on Saturday-March 16th, on "SuffrageJLThison the occasion of the annual : luncheon of the organization which -win 'he given at the Westcott HoteL

A DESCRIPTION OF SOUTH POLE GIVEN BY CAPT. AMUNDSEN

The Norseman, Who Claims He Discovered It, Says the Pole Is Located on a Great Plateau. GROUND IS HOLLOW AROUND THE POLE News from the Japanese Expedition to the South Pole Is Expected Soon, It Is Reported. POLE DISCOVERED BY DISCOVERER. The Pole is on a huge plateau. 10,000 feet above Bea level which is on the Antartlc continent. Temperature at the pole 9.4 degrees below zero. Antartlc continent apparently uninhabitable as Amundsen makes no mention of meeting natives. Lowest temperature on expedition 96 degrees below. New mountain ranges and vast territory discoverer named. The ground near the pole is described as feeling hollow. (National News Association) LONDON, March 9. Friends of Lieut. Shiara, commander of the Japanese antartic expedition, announced today that they expected news within a week that he had reached the south pole. WAITING ON SCOTT. LONDON, March 9 Members of the British royal geographical society accept without qualification the claim of Roald Amundsen that he reached the south pole, but announcement was made today that they would not admit that the Norwegian discovered the pole until Capt. Scott's British expedition is heard from. STORY OF AMUNDSEN. LONDON, March 9. Standing out in the picturesquely simple narrative of Captain Roald Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole, which was published here today, that ,frt ofjkbe ac; count which" is of pre-eminent interest to scientists and geographers shows the ease with which the dash was made and the location of territory and mountains hitherto unknown. While Norway gains high prestige through the successful quest of her citizens she gains in a material way, too, foT the Norwegian flag floats over hundreds of square miles of newly discovered ground within the antarctic circle. - There is still further distinction for the plateau upon which the very pole itself stands has been named King Hasken's plateau and the newest mountains known to geographers have ben designated Queen Maude's range. Captain Amundsen's story is so con vincing that all doubt in England has been swept away and, as he made no mention of finding indications of any other expedition at the pole it is now admitted that he is the discoverer. It is also intimated that the Japanese party may be second to the pole for Amundsen said that the Japanese under Lieut. Shirase had arrived at the barrier, near -- the Amundsen party's winter quarters on Jan. 16 and were rapidly making their way south. Scott Not Mentioned. No mention is made at all of Capt, Scott and the British party. After a journey over the icefields and snow hummocks and round-about excursions to avoid yawning crevices, Amundsen and his party of four men and 18 dogs stood at the South pole at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of December 14, 1911. So perfect had been the reckoning of the explorer that while he was miles away he had calculated that he would be on 'the goal on December 14. It took just 45 days to negotiate the distance from the winter Quarters to the pole, the distance being about 700 miles. With a single exception on the final dash the weather was favorable, the grees below zerojfit fact says Amundsen, it was JSrelike a pleasure trip than a TOyige of, privation. 1 After a false start, which was caus ed by a hurricane the party finally got away from ttfe winter quarters, on October 29, 191X Simultaneously another party of five men left for a southern tour of exploration and scientific , experimenting. Many Dogs Killed. In the party led by Amundsen were four men and 52 dogs. Later, however, it became necessary to kill 34 of the faithful animals. It is interesting to compare the hardships which Peary and his men endured with the ease with which Amundsen and his party traveled. Peary had to cross broken ice ridges and encountered storm after storm. The weather at the North Pole is also much colder than that at the South Pole, judging from a comparison of the two narratives. In the beginning the Norwegian started to make his way southward on February 10. 1911. By April 11 three depots were cached, ' provisions had been established respectively at 80, 81 and 82 degrees of latitude. The ice plain upon which these depots were Continued on Pag Ten-X

SEVEN ARE KILLED III CHICAGO HOTEL FIRE EARLY TODAY Six Men Given Chance to Escape, Turn Back and Were Cremated, and One Man Jumps to Death.

THIRTY OF GUESTS RECEIVE INJURIES Among the Rescued Were Mother and One-hour Old Baby. Crowd Sees a Man Fall Four Stories. (National News Association) CHICAGO, March 9. Seven bodieB six burned and blackened and one bro ken and mangled, have been recovered from a fire that destroyed the Barnett Hotel in South Clark street, near Harrison, early today. One man died after leaping from a fourth story window. The search of the ruins was continued this afternoon as it is believed that other bodies may be found. More than 25 of the 125 guests in the hotel have not been accounted for. Thirty of the guests were injured. Some of those burned to death had been practically rescued by ladders placed across an alley to a printing plant, but became terror stricken, turned back, re-entered the burning building and perished. The known dead are: Thomas McMath, painter, jumped to death; Edward Marshall, Charles Wesmaa, four unidentified men. Eight of those injured were taken to the hospital. The fire started on the second floor, where scores of lodgers were still in their beds. The flames burst out near the center of the building. There were no fire escapes on the front of the building and those in the front rooms were trapped. The lodgers fled pell-mell . to the street when the flames were discovered. Many of those In the rear rooms ran to the fire escapes and scrambled down. In Loop District. The Barnett hotel is a four story structure in the loop district and was patronized principally by middle class ppjmMCJOiaJeJdjgB, although sevj eral women, were included among the guests. Mrs. Annie Ancell and her one hour old baby were rescued by the firemen but are in a serious condition from the suffocating smoke. The baby will probably die. There were scores of thrilling rescues. Thomas McMath, who was in a room on the fourth floor, appeared at a window. He clung to the windowsill, his body suspended in the air. The crowd on the street shouted, "hang on, old scout, hold tight. The firemen are com- - ,j ju i ' ncmitiu eviueuuy uiu uui utai meir i Arla Kiit mmH at 4 hd flamAS anil a second later lost his hold, fell to the street, turning over twice in the air as he fell. T V McTVin1fl nrnnrlMnr of the ! printing establishment from which the ladders were mit out to have the men.

stood in a window and begged the men I of the Predictions has been achieved, not to turn back after they got on to ! Sun sPts now in ful1 view on the the ladders. Evidently they were too I sun were predicted early in January, terror stricken to reason. "They acted j according to Father Ricard. Their apwith the blind, unreasoning instinct of pearance was coincident with the

horses in a fire." said McDonald, "and rushed back into the flames. Instead of the ladders becoming a means of safety, they became a road to death."

CHICAGO WELCOMES PRESIDENT TODAY: T, R, TO ANSWER TAFT TOLEDO SPEECH

(Nation! News Association) CHICAGO, March 9. When William Howard Taft, the nation's biggest landed in Chicago this ! . ;.-H Vmt a four minutes. UIUI Ulll ti4un " to convince him that he still bad many friends among the uativesof the big city, judging by the cordiality and enthusiasm displayed. Before he left his berth he was 1 compelled to part the curtains to bow and wave greetings to many aanurers who had gathered at Englewood station, a suburb. At La Salle street station, down town, it was necessary to clear the train sheds for the presidential party. The route to the Congress hotel, where breakfast was had, also was thronged with enthusiastic voters, who paid tribute to the city's guest by cheering. The Congress hotel is headquarters for the Roosevelt presidential boom, and when President Taft caught sight of the big sign, "Illinois ' Roosevelt committee, he smiled broadly but made no comment. After breakfast important political conferences consumed the forenoon. Governor Deneen being the first to be favored' with an audience. Among those at this conference were Roy O. West. Republican state chairman; CoL Frank Dwight. of Dwight, Illinois, In charge of the "politics" of Taft's renomination campaign in this state, and Davis Forgan. president of the Taft club, formed as a booster's organization. Several hundred persons gathered In Grant Part: across from the hotel. Beginning with as address at thej

AGREEMENT REACHED REGARDING CANAL House Committee Places All Ships Using Canal on a Uniform Basis.

National News Association) WASHINGTON. March. 9. Final agreement on the Panama Canal bill whs reached by the house interstate and foreign commerce committee. The principal provisions are as follows: AH ships using the cannl will be put upon a: uniform basis, nd preferential tolls will not be given lo vessels owned by American capital. The levying of the loll rate is left to the president, who may change the rate at will. It is provided, however, that the minimum rate shall be $1.25 Ier net tonnage. The president is given authority to assess rates against war vessels on a displacement tonnage basis' The canal will be administered by a governor, who shall be appointed by the president, and shall receive a salary of $10,000 a year. The president is authorized to appoint all other officers necessary to the canal zone. Ships owned or controlled by railroads will be permitted to use the canal on the express condition that there is no combination or rate agreement which has the intent or the effect of stifling competition. This section of the bill was the one over which the committee wrangled ten days. The bill provides' for the abolition of the Isphian Canal Commission when the canal is completed. The bill also established a district court to be presided over by one district jndge, and appeals from this court may be taken to the court of appeals in New Orleans. Jury trials are provided on demand in all criminal cases. PASZ0WSK1 COMING Famous German to Lecture in United States. (National News Association) BERLIN, March 9. Professor Wilhelm Paszowski, director of the German Institute for Foreigners conducted in connection with the University of Berlin, departed today for the United States to deliver a series of lectures on German culture, on the invitation of the Germanistic society of America. He will be heard at , Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Wisconsin. Virginia, ,, Minnesota, California

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in some of the large rcitles. Professor Paszowski's course will deal generally with German culture and civilization, especially in their international and scientific aspects, such as subsists between Germany and America. DISCOVERY MADE SAN JOSE, Cal., March 9. -What is said to be the most notable discovery made in 200 years of observation of sun spots has been announced from j "V1 Clara ? olIee The announce ment was made under the signature of Father J. S. Ricard. college meteoroI 'WKki ""server, nc lue yreuic i tion of tne t,mo when sun Pots would ! f orm and PPear and the verification i present storm in California and the j discovery is declared to bear out his j c ontentions that sun spots influence the earth's conditions. Armour Institute at 11 o'clock, the President's stay in Chicago embraced a veritable whirlwind round of speechmaking, his audiences including the most diversified classes of people, ending tonight with a speech at the banquet of Swedish-American Republican club. COLONEL TO ANSWER. OYSTER BAY, L. I., March 9.Cot Roosevelt announced today that he would make direct answer to the speech which President Taft delivered at Toledo last night. The Colonel, pacing back and forth in his library at Sagamore Hill, talked of President Taft's denunciation of the recall of judicial decisions. "I have read what Mr. Taft said in bis Toledo speech. I will not make any comment at this time," he said. .The Ex-President added, however, that the president's speech required some answer from him and that he would make a reply in no uncertain language in the rery near future. SENT LETTER TO TAFT. NEW YORK, March 9. Chairman Duell of the Roosevelt City committee made public today a letter written by Col. Roosevelt from Concord. N. H., to President Taft, in which the former president urged the cause of direct primaries from the viewpoint that the direct vote of the people In selecting a candidate on the Republican ticket would go far in healing the differences now existing in the party. The letter, Duell stated, was written sev eral days ago, but no reply has yet J been received-

A FOURTH ATTEMPT MADE BY BUSH TO EWO LIFE - FOILED

Former Superintendent of Washington County Public Schools Now Being Guarded Day and Night. BROTHER EXPECTED TO TAKE HIM AWAY' Late Yesterday Afternoon Bush Made Noose From a Bedtick, but It Was Found by Sheriff Steen. " A fourth attempt to end his life was made yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock by Joseph C. Bush, the Washington county man who has been confined at the county jail for the past four days. This attempt as well as the others were foiled in the nick of time . by Sheriff Steen and care-taker Rice Miller. The authorities are obliged to watch the lunatic constantly in order to prevent him from the successful -culmination of his efforts at suicide. -At night, two of the prisoners at the jail keep watch over him so that the sheriff or turnkey may be noUfied instantly in case Bush attempts to injure himself. Bush, yesterday afternoon, tore the cloth on the bedtick into strips and tying one end of the cloth to a bar he adjusted a noose and was preparing to hang himself when the sheriff and caretaker approached his cell. Found by Sheriff. The place in which he attempted to hang himself is called the "dog-house." a small cell adjacent to the cell In , which, he is confined, and opening into it. When the insane man heard footsteps be ran into the larger cell and quickly closed the door. Suspecting that Bush was again attempting to end his life the sheriff opened the cell door and asked him what be was do ing in the "dog house," Bush answered that he was doing nothing, but when Steen pushed him aside and' started to go in the cell Bush, pleaded with him not to do so. Steen found the noose . and removed .it from the Later in the day. Bush was found

rubbing his wrists against , the edge of a bolt in his cell in an attempt to cut the arteries. The skin on his " wrists was cut when apprehended. Everything has been removed from his cell that can possibly be moved and a watch is kept over him constantly. Edward A. Bush, of the firm of Payne, Bush and company of Indianapolis, is expected in this city some time this afternoon or evening to make arrangements to have his brother placed In an insane hospital. Edward Rush has not seen his brother for several years and believed him to be dend, " County authorities also expect other - -relatives of the unfortunate man toar- -rive either today or tomorrow, U ' , . " 8trangers Annoy Him. - At times Bush Is quiet, but at other times, especially upon the appearance of a stranger, he becomes raving ma4 i and yells and screams at the tonL" his voice. When told that his brother probably would be here some' time today he grew quiet again and seemed

to be happy over the thought of meet- , Ing his relative. He has not been told of the report that his wife has secured a divorce. . V- , Bush was identified yesterday by Mrs. Fred Meyers, of Asylum, avenue, who knew him several years ago at Salem. Ind., bis former home. It Is ? said that be was formerly county superintendent cf schools In Washington -county and at one time was a minis

ter. According to the story. Bush dissipated a fortune of from $10,000 to 115,000 left to his wife, and then left his wife and four children. Last, Tuesday night while going from Cincinnati to Eaton be jumped from the train when he learned it had passed Eaton, He was not badly injured. He' was brought to this city, a raving maniac, and placed in the county jail. Since that time he has made repeated attempts to end his life. - ONE MILLION ASKED j To Relieve Thousands Starving Chinese. of

CKatlonal News Asseetattoaf , NEW YORK, March 9. In order to raise the necessary $1,000,000 relief fund for the starving population of China within the next four months," . the China Famine Relief Committee, which is cooperating with the Red ; Cross, has requested - ministers of" country to make an appeal to their congregations tomorrow, which Is to be known to them as "Famine Day. The plan was originated by George!: Mooser of the China Famine ReSef , Committee, with headquarters in. this 7 city, who recently returned from the famine-swept sections of China. "' - rt

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