Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 113, 16 March 1912 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 113. RICH3IOXD, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1912. 8INGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

L1AY0R CANDIDATE FOR PRESENT JOB; NOT AS DELEGATE

(However, Dr. Zimmerman Would Accept Offer of Delegate, Providing He Could Go as Free Lance. friE DENIES WORKING FOR TAFT IN CITY bays that He Prefers "Dark Horse" to Either Taft or Roosevelt Is Not a "Can0 didate for Congress. Mayor W. W. Zimmerman resents ithe charge that h la working to se cure the Taft delegation to the Connersville district convention, under or dera from Jim Watson. The doctor wanta It plainly understood' that he la working for no one but himself. "You can aay that whoever told the Palladium I was working for Taft la a d n liar. Put it just that way," he exclaimed heatedly. I "It waa reported, doctor, that you were a candidate for delegate to the Republican national convention. Ia (that true?" he waa aaked. Likes Present Job. No air, I am not a candidate for delegate to that convention. I am run ning for mayor. You know I am going ito be a candidate for mayor again. However, If I am chosen a a delegate 1 rwill not refuae the office. And listen, If I waa elected delegate I would not go. to the convention prejudiced tor either RTaft or Rooaevelt. Personally I think some other man should be nominated ty the Republicans for president. rThose two men are not the only onea Rn the Republican party quail fed' for the office. If both ahould die the counitry and the Republican party would (continue to go on the same as In the past. First and laat I am a Republican. U don't believe in thia factional fightting. I aay nominate some one that all (Republicans can get together on. If haft ia nominated then the Roosevelt men will light htm. If Rooaevelt is jaominated it will make the Taft men Jnore.- , -wnere can yon nna sucn a paran, doctor f luquiivd tla reporter. -" "There are lota of good men in the rty," lie replied, tndeflnately. "I gather from your remarks that '(while you are running for mayor you ould accept aomethlng else, for in ane, national delegate or congressanf The mayor amiled. "In a way you re right. Aa I have said I am not a candidate for national delegate, neithr am I a candidate for congressman, hat been reported. I'm running for yor," be aald. AUTOS RUIN DRIVES (Hollarn Protests on Use - of r Roads at Glen. J Automoblllsta taking advantage of me warm aaya, to anve tneir neavy machines through the Glen are fast ruining the roada. and Supt. Hollarn of the park will appear before the board of worka Monday morning and task tne board to prohibit the use of the roada in the Glen to automoblllsta (until the roada aettle. The roada are now in worae condition than they have .been In the laat fifteen years, accord ing to a atatement of an employe of the Glen, and he attributea thia condl tion to the automoblHata. Gaahea five and six inchea deep are Made by the autoa which are driven through the mud ft the Glen. One of vthem waa atuck in. the mud yesterday but managed to pull out. Hollarn states the roada cannot be repaired properly unless autoa keep off the ,oads until settled weather, for the .coat of restoring them would be alon oat prohibitive. The roada which last ieummer were smooth and level, now resemble country mud pikes. H3IG DOG TAX PAID BY WAYNE TOWNSHIP The dog tax collections in Wayne county for the year ending March 1, aa complied by County Auditor Bowman waa $3,574. The bulk of thia . amount was collected in Wayne township. The collections and the balance on hand In the various townships March 1. 1911. totala 14.679.24. although the sum of $100 which la retained by each trustee, leavea $2,141.07 In the county dog fund. Wayne township leads all of the other townships In cotlectiona. Trustee Howarth reported having a balance of $1492.70 to turn over to the county, day township turned over $1 to the county while other townsMps turned gtrer nothing, and Boston townahlp had ft deficit of $39.80. ' - The amount paid out for stock, which waa killed by dogs amounted to 0MU.87. THE WEATHER OTATI Fair tonight and warmer In ' north portion Sunday. Increasing cloudiness and warmer. OCAL Fair and warmtr tonight and Sunday.

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r VII. HAKVEY CAPITALISTS ARE SHOWING INTEREST In the Line to Be Built from Richmond to Union City and Portland. Charles W. Jordan, secretary of the Richmond & Eastern Indiana traction company, which proposes to build a line from Richmond to Union City and PortlandTTs Treceivinirmanynqu from capitalists and brokerage concerns considering financing the new company. This morning Mr. Jordan received a letter from a Philadelphia brokerage firm asking for information. Me also received a long distance telephone call from a Union City broker who stated that he might be able to advance the capital to build and equip the line. . "It will take between $800,000 and $1,000,000 to finance the project," "said Mr. Jordan this morning. "The loan will be secured from the company that gives the beat terms. We believe the project is an excellent one and that we will have no difficulty in convincing any capitalist that it . will net handsome profits." Directors of the company believe thaf within a few months the required capital will have been secured' and that by next year the work of constructing the line can be started. Work on the proposed southern section of the line, from Richmond ' to Liberty, will not be started until the northern division has been completed. It will be necessary to secure another loan to construct and equip the southern division. DIVORCE GRANTED TO BERTHA ROGERS On the grounds of cruel and Inhuman .treatment and failure, to provile Bertha Rogers waa granted a divorce from; Henry C. Rogers fn the Wayne circuit court' this morning by Judge Fox. The plaintiff related numerous instances when the defendant bad treated her cruelly. She' also declared that he refused to support her and (hat she was obliged to work for her own living. Prosecutor Ladd, against whom a rule to answer was taken, this bring required by . law when the defendant in a divorce case does not have counsel,, did not oppose the action saying that he was acquainted with the facts of the case and that the allegations as set forth by the complainant wero true. He also declared that the defendant had been arrested and fined in police court recently on the charge of assault and battery upon his wife. MAINE WILL SPEAK FIRST IN PRIMARY (National Nw Association) AUGUSTA, Me., March 16. Maine probably will be the first of the New England states to express its preference for the Democratic presidential nomination. The State convention will meet in this city next Tuesday to select the delegates to the Baltimore convention. There will probably be an effort to instruct the delegates for Woodrow Wilson. Senator Gardner, Congressman McGillicuddy and several of the other party leaders are out spoken in favor of the New- Jersey governor. Some of tne other leaders, however, believe that the delegates should be left tree to follow their own Judgment. ,

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ir; i Jits lit t & 1- ?A fit W. W1LBT. STATE ACCOUNTANT VISITS JHIS CITY William A. Dehority Inspects the Books of Local City Officers. For the purpose of making an examination of the various means of keeping the books in city offices with the view of creating a uniform system, William A. Dehority, and" airaasistant, "A. T. BrewnTbT fardianapolis spent part of the day here in consultation with the two examiners now at work on the books of the local city officers. Mr. Dehority left this noon for Indianapolis but will probably return to take up the work again. He is making out a new sytem of records by which a complete and exhaustive record of each day's receipts and expenditures may be kept by each officer,, much facilitating the work of balancing accounts when necessary, and making the work of book-keeping easier. Instead of the cumbersome volumes, one for each purpose, now in use, he will probably evolve a system of blank sheets, headed with the name of the department, and having a separate entry space for each sum received or given out each day. The special work Dehority and his assistants are now working on is the street improvement books. Some trouble was experienced in making out a complete record of the transactions in these funds for past years when the state accountants started at work here, and Dehority plans to avoid this in the future by a new system of records for these funds. ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE IN GOTHAM (National News Association) NEW YORK. March 16 The Irish societies of the metropolis anticipated St. Patrick's Day by holding the big parade, which is the spectacular feature of their annual celebration today, on account of tomorrow . being Sunday. One of the novelties in the line of march this year were the star performers of the Irish-American Athletic Club,- bearing the trophies and banners won by the famous athletic organization at home and abroad. The parade was reviewed by Cardinal Farley, Mayor Gaynor and other notables. WILL ELECTROCUTE KENTUCKY SLAYER (National News Association) FRANKFORT, Ky., March 1C Unless an act of executive clemency intervenes, the electric chair in the State prison at Eddyville will receive its first white victim next week. The man who is awaiting execution is Cal Miracle, the Breathitt county murderer. On August 26 last, Miracle shot and killed Matthew Jones at his home rear Pineville. The screams of the wife and children of the victim attracted Mrs. Delsie Gibson, a neighbor, to the scene. On her way she met Miracle, who shot and killed her. The double murderer fled to the mountains and for several months all efforts to capture him were -without avail. Several months later he was found in Birmingham, Ala, where he was arrested, and returned to Pineville for trial. - OVERRULED BY FOX Demurrer to the complaint of-George McKinley versus the P. C. C. & St. L. railroad company, salt on demagee, demand $15,000, was overruled by' Judge To iA circuit cqui$ todaj. ;

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WAS INDIANAPOLIS PRIMARY ELECTION Burned Ballots, Wholesale Repeating, Open Use of Money and False Returns Tell the Sfcry. TAFT MACHINE WAS IN CAPABLE HANDS Big Chief Kealing's Contest Committee Obeyed the Orders of the Boss to the Very Letter. (Palladium Special.) INDIANAPOLIS, March 16. Republican primaries Friday told the story of burned ballots, of wholesale repeating, of money paid openly for votes, false election returns, of intimidation by the police department, of riots, of wide-spread threats to bolt the party ticket at the fall election; and forecasted the complete defeat of the Republican ticket in Marion county. It is generally conceded to have been the most corrupt primary ever held in Indiana. The primary election Friday purported to determine the choice of the seventh district Republican voters for president. When the contest committee had made its report it was shown every Taft delegate to the district convention, with the exception of six, had been seated by the committee which was composed of Martin Hugg, law partner of Joseph B. Healing; J. H. Lott, a negro; Henry Stevenson, right hand man of Kealing; John Engelleke, city prosecutor, attached to the office of corporation counsel Kealing, and Ralph Bamberger, an attorney. As a result of what reported to be a primary Mayor Shank .and Captain W. K. English will be elected delegates to the national convention at Chicago at the district convention this afternoon. Contests covering seven wards were Hied by the Roosevelt county organization for the sake of a showing, which will -be -made the basis of a contest before tb Republican' national convention at-Chicago. Contests were filed in the first, third, fourth, ninth, tenth and fifteenth wards, and in Warren township. James F. Ryan, chief deputy county recorder, a Deincrat who happened to be keeDine an eve on the primary for !the benefit of his own party declared it was the most corrupt primary or election of any kind that he had ever seen or heard of in the county. "They are simply trampling out the Roosevelt forces," he said. "Why some men voted twenty times." , "Repeaters" rested between votes at nearby saloons. The gang is said to have thrown $500 about the polling places within two hours. FORGOT TO RETURN A HORSE AnD RIG And When James McGee Drove Into New Castle He Was Arrested. Suspecting that James McGee, of Benton Heights, had attempted to sell the horse and buggy which he hired from the Rich livery stables, on Ft. Wayne avenue, Thursday, Will Rich, the owner notified the sheriff's office Friday morning that his outfit had not been returned. Yesterday efternoon, after telephoning to towns around Richmond, Deputy Sheriff Mote succeeded in ascertaining that an unknown man had attempted to sell a horse and rig to persons in Centerville, Cambridge City and Dublin. Deputy Mote then telphoned to the authorities at New Castle, giving them a description of McGee and requesting them to place McGee under arrest In the event he went to that city. Forty-five minutes after McGee drove into New Castle he was placed under arrest and held pending the arrival of Deputy Mote. Mote went to New Castle this morning'and returned with McGee shortly before noon. He is now in the county jail, charged with grand larceny. Mote had no trouble in bringing McGee back to Richmond. This is not the first time that McGee has been under arrest. A few weeks ago he drove to the rear of the Menke coal yards on Ft. Wayne avenue at night and loaded a small spring wagon with choice brands of coaL As he was driving away from the coal yard a patrolman espied him and suspecting something wrong placed him under arrest. McGee confessed to the act and when arraigned before Mayor Zimmerman pleaded guilty, but asked for clemency, saying that Ids mother was in and that be was out of employment and waa forced to steal coaL He was given a small fine. ANOTHER PAYMENT Another payment on the light plant bonds was made this morning when City Controller McMahan paid SS80 as a semi-annual payment of interest on the bond issue of 144,000.

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Ocean Liner Is Rammed by German Bark Off Beachyhand in the English Channel Early Today. 22 VICTIMS WERE WOMEN PASSENGERS Cargo of Human Freight Swamps the Life Boat and All but One Woman in It Were. Drowned. (National News Association) EASTBOURNE, Eng., March 16. ! The Peninsular and Oriental ' liner ' Oceana was rammed by the four-masted German bark Pisagua off Beachyhead in the English Channel, early today and so badly damaged that she sank 5's hours later while attempting to reach port. . Twenty-four lives were lost, one of the small boats of the liner having capsized and all but one on it being drowned. Twenty-two of the victims were women. The German vessel, a much heavier ship than the Oceana, which carried 500 passengers, struck the Oceana amidships and the latter began to settle immediately. The panic stricken passengers of the Oceana, attired in their night clothes, for the disaster occurred' at 4 : 30 this morning, while most of them were asleep, rushed to the decks. The officers succeeded in calming the excited men and women, but the crew became so panic stricken that they were unable to lower lifeboats from the da vits. Most of them dropped to their knees on the decks, praying and waiting for the end to come. Passengers rushed to the aid of the officers and the small boats were soon launched. Twenty-five of the passengers piled into the first boat and it was soon under way. Several hours after the collision this boat was found floating keel upward off New Haven, ten mtles westward, with a woman clinging to the keel. She was almost- dead from fright and , exhaustion, but from the fragments of j her story it was gathered by coast guards that the boat had been swamped owing to its heavy cargo of human freight, and all the others had gone to the bottom. ' In addition to the 500 passengers which the Oceana carried, she also had 15,000,000 in specie on board. This is believed to have been saved as the Oceana was taken under tow by a channel mail boat which stood by after the collision. However, the vessel was not saved. She filled so rapidly that when 7 miles off Dover she sank to the bottom of the channel. The weafner was clear at the time of the accident and life guards along the promontory of Beachy-head could easily see the Oceana. As quickly as possible life boats put out from the New Haven station. They took off many of the passengers and the terrorized crew. The bark crushed into the Oceana on the port side, her sharp prow ramming a big hole that extended both above and below the water line. The Pisagua was under strong headway and the liner careened over nearly on her beam ends. So swiftly did the water rush in that the decks were soon covered and the passengers had to wade through two feet of water to get to the lifeboats. The officers of the ship gave orders that the women schould be saved first. Consequently all passengers in the boat which capsized were women except the men who were plying the oars. The liner was taken in tow at 6 o'clock and four hours later sank to the bottom of the channel. The German bark Pisagua is one of the biggest sailing ships plying the channel. Sbe is of 3,650 tons displacement. She hails from Hamburg. FAVORABLE REPORT BY ROAD VIEWERS Viewers by the board of county commissioners at its meeting last Saturday to view and report on the proposed improvement of liberty Pike have decided that the improvement will be of public utility. The petitions which were presented at the commissioners meeting were signed by 639 resident property owners, and asked that the roadway be macadamized from South L street to the Lutheran and Catholic cemeteries south. The viewers were L. D. Dougherty, Joseph Commons and Howard H. Horton. . PRINTERS DISCUSS TRADE QUESTIONS R. P. Nicholson, of this cRy represented the Six,th district Of the state Lat the first Printers Cost Congress neia yesteraay k ue laypoot noxei at Indianapolis. The printers heard the address of R. T. Porte, secretary of the Ben Franklin Club of Cincinnati. Mr. Porter talked on how to install a' cost system which will show the exact hourly cost of production. He asserted that money- is lost on almost every Job because many items entering into the cost ef the finished product are lost ' to sight, "by many printers, when they figure on a contract.

NEWS NUGGETS (National' News Association) ITHACA, N. Y.. March 18. Cornell students have adopted the "Dutch treat." Hereafter every student will buy his own drinks. Only visitors will be treated.

ST. LOUIS, March 16. Helen C. Bertram, aged 3 months, through her father, has filed suit against the United Railways company for 17,000 damages for being born minus fingers on her right hand, the result of prenatal influence iu a collision. NEW YORK, March 16. Wm J. Longmann has obtained a verdict for 1250 in the supreme court against a whiskey company who printed his picture and advertised that its whiskey made him fat. LONDON. March 16- Derrick Julius Wernher, son of Sir Julius Vernher, the South African magnate, 82 years old, has gone into bankruptcy with liabilities of $400,00, mostly gambling debts. JCALAMAZOO, Mich., March 16. One dollar was the reward received by a Burdick hotel chambermaid for finding 40,000 worth of jewels and restoring them to their owner, Albert Ginsberg, a N. Y. salesman. NEW YORK, March 16. The Pulitzer college of Journalism at Columbia has announced that the new institution will not be open to female students. The girls of Barnard college are vigorously protesting. TO CONSTRUCT DAM III A SHORT TIME Probable Water Will Be in Lake Basin at New Park by Summer. As soon as the frost is but of the ground, work will be started on the dam for the big artificial lake at Haw kins park. The site for the lake has practically been cleared and the directors of the company controlling the park expect to have the big basin filled with water by early summer. "As soon as the lake is completed, lots for cottages will be placed" "on eale. Already there is a big demand for them. ' I think Richmond within a year will be the summer resort of a big majority of Richmond people who spend their vacations elsewhere each summer," said Secretary Jordan of the park company today. There will be no other attraction except the lake provided at the park this year. As the park gains, in popularity and the cottage district begins to build up, other attractions will be added. Within a year the T. H., I. & E. traction company will build a car line from North E street to the park. WILL ISSUE ORDER TO 0UITJPRIL.1 Work in All Anthracite Collieries to Suspend on That Date. (National News Association) , Brookborough, Pa., March 16. Local labor leaders of the anthracite miners today declared that an official of the Mine Workers' Union will, within a few days issue . an order for Suspension of work at all the anthracite collieries, beginning April 1, on which date the existing agreement expires automatically. It is also said that this suspension will continue for some weeks, and that not until then, provided all efforts to gain concessions prove fruitless, will the union officials finally decide whether, or not there is to be a strike. The union leaders believe the suspension order will be so generally obeyed that every anthracite colliery will be shut down, and practically all the 180,000 mine workers will be'idle. - OEFEIISEJESTS CASE Rev. McFarland Will Know Fate Tonight. (National News Association) PITTSBURG, Pa.. March 16. Ber. W. D. McFarland, the former head of the. academic department of the Central high school, charged with having caused the death of Miss Elsie Coe, a former stenographer at the school, will know his fate tonight. The ' defense rested its case tliis morning. . Attorney- Castle for the accused, scored a big victory when he succeeded in having Judge Haymaker eliminate all but the one charge in the Indictment, that of having administered medical treatment January 6, 1912. Castle says his client will be acquitted. The commonwealth was expected to throw a bomb into the 'defense by the testimony of Dr. Donnelly, but his testimony fizzled out,

FAREWELL TO Hulk of the Ill-fated WarShip, Whose Destruction! Brought on a War, Buried' Off Cuban Coast. IT WAS CLIMAX TO DAY OF CEREjMONIES Bodies of Sailors Transferred to U. S. Warship to Be Taken to Washington A' Great Spectacle. (National News Assoc iation) HAVANA, Cuba, March 16. While great guns boomed a requiem salute for all that was left of the U. S. battleship Maine her shadowed, rusty decks, strewn with thousands of Amer ican Beauty roses, her sides draped with flags, and the stars and stripes flying from her mast head, sunk to her final resting place today in the Quit of Mexico, nine miles off the Cuban . coast. She lies-in sixty fathoma of water, a depth too great to menace navigation. The sea burial of the Maine came as a climax of a day devoUon to mourning throughout the entire city. The ceremonies began at dawn when thousanda gathered in the . streets. Business was nearly entirely suspended and Cuban and American flags flew at half mast. " At 11 o'clock the solemn requiem ' mass Was celebrated by the Rot. J. P. Chadwick, formerly chaplain of tb : Maine, in the city hall. Father Chadwick waa aboard the Maine when ahe -was blown up in Havana Harbor In 1898. ' , ' The bodies of the sailors Wa in? state all night In the municipal couacil chamber, where the guard of honor -was changed every Ave minutesi After the requiem maas the bodies In thirty four caskets were carried aboard the cruiser North Carolina, which with the . cruiser 7 Birmingham convoyed the Maine to her final resting place. The bones of the martyred seamen will be interred in Arlington national cemetery in Washington on March 23., Imposing Procession. . , The funeral cortege through the streets from the municipal building to the wharf, where the bodies were transferred to the North Carolina, was an imposing procession. The caskets were borne on gun carriers, drawn by Cuban sailors. Following the gun carriages came President Gomes of Cuba, his cabinet; U- S Minister Beaupre, -the diplomatic corps, judge of the Cuban supreme court, officers of state in the government and Spanish ,war veterans. . Just before the caskets were carried on board the North Carolina Father Chadwick delivered a funeral oration while all stood , with bared heads. While the funeral , service was being conducted naval tugs were getting the hulk of the Maine under headway. Aa Father Chadwick concluded his remarks :: the coffer dam in which the hulk rested was raised and the Maine was towed to sea. The naval cortege, in addition to the Maine and Its convoy of American war vessels, consisted of Cuban gunboats, revenue vessels and launches, with flags at Jtalf mast. The procession was three miles long. When the burial spot was reached the convoying ships - formed a hollow square, with the Maine in the center." Gen. Bixby and Major Ferguson board' ed the hulk and drew open the seacocks of her bulkheads. In order to make sinking certain they lighted fuses attached to two heavy . charges of dynamite. As the Maine slowly sunk from view the cannon on the surrounding warships boomed forth in a deafening salute, and "taps" was sounded. In less than half 'an hour nothing remained of the " ; Ill-starred warship, whose destruction had brought two nations to war, and the placid waters of the gulf rose and fell unruffled above the spot where she lay. The fleet of attending warships then parted, the American vessels steaming north and the Cuban ships south. ELECTRICAL SHOW FOR MINNEAPOUS (National News Association) . Minneapolis, MintL, March 16. What Is believed to be the most brilliantly electrical display ever held on ' the continent was Inaugurated today, when Thomas A. Edison pressed the connecting button In his laboratory at ' Orange. N. J. This ignited an electric started all the machinery to motion. I and tne third annual Northwestern Electrical Exposition, as is its title, was officially dedicated and started. Hundreds of attractive exhibits, represent' -It .t til I . .1 .1 .!,. ii .1- J.. it ii . '' iiift mu w& iuc mini m mw wBe.wwwm decorated . booths. .These booths, feavo -been -grouped into seven sectioaa over , which are blazoned In light, the naif . of the seven greatest- If vine electrical y Brush, Testa, Steinmetx and Westtj-H

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