Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 114, 18 March 1912 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 114. RICHMOND, IXD., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 18. 1912. SINGLE COPY S CENTS. RECALL PLAN IS ATTACKED It -Still Has to Labor Despite Its Old Age

REGISTRATION LAW TO BE VERY HEAVY EXPEriSETO COUNTY Estimated that New Election Statute Will Cost Wayne Taxpayers in the Neighborhood of $12,000.

MANY STRIKE BREAKERS ARE KILLED IN EXPLOSION TODAY

BY MR. TAFT

President Tells the Massachusetts Legislature that Roosevelt's Proposal Is Not a Good Move. BOSTON GAVE TAFT A HEARTY WELCOME The Chief Executive Wears a Green Carnation and Attends Two Breakfasts Greets His Son Robert. (National Nws Association) BOSTON, March 18. Following clone upon the trail of Theodore Roosevelt, President Taft invaded New England today. He arrived in Boston at 7:25 a. m. A score of conferences will be held today. He will go to New Hampshire tomorrow and there deliver a number of speeches. The president was greeted by fully 8.000 people upon his arrival at the South station. The train was 25 minutes late but the big crowd did not wm to mind the delay. The crowd consisted 'principally of workingmen nd commuters who came in the early morning trains. In the big train shed a workman shouted: "Threo cheers for our next prealdent." - This brought n broad smile to the president's face and there were three cheers given with a will. The president was met at the station by the reception committee of Evacuation Day and at once entered an auto under the escort of police and the committee. A Good Irish Cheer. "That's a good Irish cheer" smilingly remarked the president as a big hout went up as his auto sped away from the South station towards the i J tiuu wiwre uw un uiw up fore beginning his strenuous day's tasks. The president, wearing a green necktie In honor of St. Patrick, had another breakfast at the hotel Sommerset with 200 city officials and cltiiens. At the city club breakfast a stalwart looking young man stepped up to the president nd gently tapped him on the shoulder. The president looked around, jumped tip and exclaimed, "why, hello Bob." "Hello Dad." replied the young man. Then the president kissed the fine looking youngster. He was the president s son, Robert, who is studying law at Harvard. The incident made a big hit with the crowd. Mayor Fitzgerald leaped to his feet and cried, "now lets give three cheers for President Taft's son." All the diners got up and cheered. At both banquets the president' in his response said he had two prepared speeches to deliver and merely thanked the people for their cordial greeting. . Kicks T. R. Recall Hat. President Taft kicked Theodore Roosevelt's pet judicial recall hat all round the ring in a speech today before the legislature of Massachusetts. He characterises recent attacks on the Judiciary as an attempt to destroy its Independence and to "take away from the arch of government tta keystone." He declared he was "not unmindful of the necessity for judicial reforms but that depends "not upon changing the chief judges, but upon a change of procedure." He congratulated Massachusetts on Ita corporation laws, which he, said, have been made necessary because the "rapid material expansion of the country has made the people less cautious than they should have been in granting statutory provisions and to the loose provision for the legislature of corporate franchises." The president declared that congress may legislate for all Interstate intereat reforms, but that much work incurring the progress of Interests of only statewide character must rest with the states themselves. Effective Primary Laws. Ml am glad that you have done this," aid Mr. Taft in speaking of the new primary law of Massachusetts." but I think everyone will admit that in order that primary laws may be effective they should be safeguarded by effective provision as to the eligibility of the. voters who participate in them nd by the penal provisions securing conformity to rules of such eligibility nd the honest casting and counting of the ballots." The president declared that informal or soap box primaries are worse than pone at all and continued: "It is eminently appropriate that In any election nd In the discussion of all Issues that affect the republic we should hear asuch of the popular will and the right of the people. "A government is based on popular control. We believe that as the government Is so Instituted, its popular character Is essential to Ita endurance and Its service ot the highest Interests of the people; but It Is Impossible for all the people to take direct part In all governmental functions. "The government Is not founded on the proposition that the people. In one i expression or by one vote, cannot make mistakes. On the contrary there is evidence in the constitution and in its checks and balances that the peoi l of that day aa well aa the neonto i. .i..t. i t. . i i j. i JOontmned om Page Six)

GANG IS FORTIFIED; TO RESIST ARREST Expected that Many Members of Allen Gang Will Be Killed. (National News Association) HILLSVILLE, Va., March 18. Strongly fortified at Devils Den, a high mountain gulch which commands the neighboring - slopes of the Blue Mountains, the murdemous Allen gang which shot up the Carroll county court last week, killing the judge, commonwealth attorney and sheriff, today defied the state authorities and turned back a messenger from a pursuing posse with a negative answer to his summonB -that they surrender unconditionally. It is now believed that state troops and machine guns will have to be sent into the mountains before the desperadoes can be dislodged. One suggestion is made that the mountain height upon which the Allans are entrenched, be blown up with dynamite but the work of planting the explosive would be fatal because the gangsters could pick off the posse in the vale beneath with their deadly Winchesters. MAY 8END MILITIA. RICHMOND. Va.. March 18. Judge W. R. Staples who succeeded Judge Massie in Carroll county returned to Richmond today and reported to Governor Mann that a condition of anarchy will prevail in that section of Virginia unless a regiment of state troops is ordered out to capture the Allen gang. With Detective Baldwin be conferred with the governor, and Adjutant Sale of the state militia was subsequently summoned to the state house, indicating that Governor Mann will grant the request for troops. The conference at the Governor's office ended at 12:15 p. m. Judge Staples said: "The plans for the capture of the remaining members of the Allen gang will be continued as at present. It will require a persistent diligent search for the men. I expect to see every one of the gang killed or badly crippled before we finish our task." TO REACHJECISIOII As to Consolidation of Two Local Clubs. The committees appointed by the Young Men's . Business Club and the Commercial Club to consider the proposed consolidation of the two organisations will hold separate meetings late this afternoon at their respective headquarters, and then, if possible, a Joint meeting will be held when the matter will be discussed at length and a decision made as to whether the committees should report favorable or otherwise on the proposition. . The idea of consolidating the. organisations was "suggested by the T. M . B. C. some time ago. inasmuch as the club members decided that both organisations were engaged in the same kind of work, which could be done better if a consolidation was affected. At the banquet tendered the officers and directors of the Commercial club by the directors of the Y. M. B. C. last week the plan was discussed. $1,000 BOND GIVEN TO LOCAL Y. M. C. A. A local married couple, whose names are withheld, today presented the local Young Men's Christian Association with a $1,000 bond of the Citisena' Street Railway company of Indianapolis, upon the condition that the Income from the bond be given them until their deaths when the income shall revert to the Y. M. C. A. to be added to the $25,000 endowment fund given to the institution by Daniel G. Retd a short time tjvv .

CONVICTS DIE AFTER BUTTLE

BULLETIN. (National News Association) LINCOLN, Neb., March 18. Surrounded by posses of heavily armed men, three convict murderers. Gray, Dowd and Morley, who escaped from the state prison here Sunday, after killing the warden and three other officials, met death today iu a farm house near Gretna, Neb., after a desperate battle. Gray and Morley were killed by the officers and Dowd committed suicide. After a long flight, in which they were hotly pursued by the posses; the three convicts dashed Into the home of Mrs. Brlcker, near Gretna this afternoon while she was telephoning the authorities of their approach. They wrenched the phone from her hands, made her a prisoner and then barricaded the house. The officers then opened a withering fire on the house and in a short time its three defenders met death. SOUTH BEND, Neb., March 18. The three convict murderers who escaped from the state prison at Lincoln, and who subsequently broke into a hardware store at Murdoc, stealing guns and ammunition, were seen near here on a stolen handcar at dawn, and officers have started in pursuit. Murdock is twenty miles east of Lincoln on the Rock Island railroad. The posses sent out as soon as clues to the whereabouts of the men were found, are confident, of effecting a capture. They are ready for a fight and are heavily armed. A Back found near the railroad station at Murdock contained overalls, shirts and a pair of prison shoes. The overalls correspond with those taken from the Dickman home, two miles from the prison where the murderers held up the family, and remained in hiding until late Thursday night. It is believed that the men are trying to make their way to South Omaha on the handcar. At 11 o'clock today the three convicts captured a boy driving a wagon, climbed in and are nearing the town of Springfield. A posse is pursuing them and is only ten minutes behind them. The convicts are lying flat on the bottom of the wagon. POLICE THINK THAT FORD WAS DRUGGED With all indications pointing to him being drugged, Harry Ford was arrested this morning in an alley back of 313 North Fifth street where he had been laying for some time, unconscious. Officer Lawler who made the arrest this morning about 9:30, had to secure help to place the man in the patrol. Iaid out on the floor of the jail, he still remained unconscious for some time. There was very little smell of liquor on his breath and a doctor stated the appearance of bis eyes gave stFength to the theory that the man had been drugged or was a drug fiend. He was slated with public Intoxication. RELIC FOR LOCAL COLLEGE MUSEUM Word has been received by Prof. Hole, curator of the Joseph Moore Museum, that the famous model of the Israelteh Tabernacle made for Dr. Amos Sanders, of Brooklyn, X. Y., is being sent here and will be installed at the Earlham museum. Mr. Sanders was a pastor of one of the Friends' churches in Brooklyn, N. Y. and the model' represents the tabernacle used by the children of Israel on their road from Egypt to Palestine and for a time after they reached that place. It is not.' owned by his son, a practicing physician in Brooklyn. It will be of much interest locally, both on account of Its religious significance snd as a. memoir of Mr. Sanders who was wn known among the Friends.

POSSESSIOfi TAKER BY U, S MARINES Take Charge of Customs House Because of Fighting at Swatow.

(National News Association) SVVATOW, China, March 18 Street fighting between Haaka tribesmen and troops from Canton here today resultled in the landing of a detachment of marines from the U. S. Monitor Monteray, who took possession of the customs house. The firing was heavy and several bullets struck the hull of the Monteray, but no Americans were hit. A shot from one of the combatants on the harbor front killed a sailor aboard a Japanese warship in the harbor. Dis- ' turbances throughout the city are gen eral. Natives and mutinous soldiers plundered many buildings and set others afire. Inoffensive civilians were shot down in their homes by looters. It is believed the death list will grow to 100. Chinese troops near here have also mutined and fighting is going on at Wai Chow. CHILDREN'S BONES UNCOVERED TODAY Were Dug Up by Supt. Hollarn and His Men in Old Burial Section. Pedestrians strolling through Glen Miller park yesterday afternoon noticed a corner of a box, which protruded out of the ground on the west side of the freight car tracks near Twentythird and Main streets and- believing that the matter should be reported to the authorities notified Park Supt. Hollarn. This morning Supt. Hollarn visited the place and found that the box was a small coffin, containing the bones of a child. About six feet from this coffin he noticed another box protruding above the ground and opening it he found bones of another child. The boxes, it is believed, were uncovered by Italian laborers who are assisting in tearing up the car tracks which run through the park. The bodies were buried about four feet deep and about 20 feet from Main street on the west side of the tracks. It is not known how long the bodies have been in the old cemetery part of the park. Supt. Hollarn reported the matter to the board of public works this morning and he was instructed to obtain permission from the Earlham cemetery association to bury the bones in the Earlham cemetery. This .was granted. Two small boxes -were made in which the bones were placed and the burial was this afternoon. On one of the coffins, both of which were rotted to pieces was a name plate on which was inscribed "Charlie," but no inscription could be found on the other coffin. SEIPLE ARRESTED ON YORK WARRANT Charles Seiple. who has lived in this city for about six months, was taken from his work In factory at Fourteenth and North F streets Saturday afternoon at 3:15, on warrant for his arrest from York, Pa where he is charged with wife and child desertion. Information directed to the local police headquarters, giving a description of the man was responsible for his arrest- He will be taken hack to York to face the charge as soon as an officer Is sent from York. The circumstances surrounding his leaving his w ife and family and locating here where he passed for a single man are unknown by the local usrtheritien.

IS ONLY OF VALUE IN A FEW COUNTIES

Republican County Chairman Robbins Says It Is Absurd to Apply Such a Law tp Wayne County. That the registration law passed by the 1911 legislature is practically of no value to Wayne county and that it will be a big item in election expenses is the opinion of Will J. Robbins, Republican county chairman, and Lewis Bowman, county auditor and member of the central committee. Albeit they admit the value of the law to counties along the river and also in the northern part of the state, they declare that it was almost folly to pass an act which will force every county to an additional expense as this law will do. They say the law will do little if any good toward securing le6s corrupt elections in Wayne and many other counties. County Chairman Robbins declared that he can see but little value of the law as it applies to Wayne county. He says that for the past six years the elections in this county have been free from corruption and that the law places an unnecessary burden upon the taxpayers. What Law Requires. In estimating the cost of such a registration. Chairman Robbins declared that it will reach at least $8,000 and might run up to 112,000. The law requires that three officers be stationed at each precinct polling place in the county and that these polls may keep open for nine days. These men shall draw a salary at a rate of $4 per day. As there are sixty-four precincts in the county this item of expense will amount to several thousands in addition to cost of supplies, rent, etc. "The law is all right, I believe, in cities and towns along the river in the southern part of the state and in towns in the northern -part of the state which are near Chicago," said Mr. Bowman this morning. "But as far as Wayne county is concerned the law is of little value. Other prominent members of both parties declare that the law is absurd when ij is applied to towns like Centerville, Cambridge City, etc., these politicians declaring that in the smaller towns there is no need to compel every voter to make the following written application for registration: "My name is John Doe. Reside in Precinct No. 3, Center township, Wayne county, Indiana, on the land of Richard Doe. I was 50 years of age xn the 10th day of January, 1912. I was born in Ohio. " It is believed that the 1911 Assembly should have placed the law in force only in such counties and such parts of the state where such a law is needed where the influx of foreigners is greater than in this county. The May session of the registration board in this county will be held May 9. Two other sessions will be held during the year, on September 6 and October 7. Following is an estimate prepared by a member of the Republican County Central committee on the cost of registration in this county: An Estimated CosL May Session for One Precinct (One Day Basis) Supplies $ 5.00 Inspector 4.00 I Clerk 4.00 I Clerk 4.00 Rent 5.00 Meals 1.80 t Total of Precinct ...$23.80 May Session (Second Day) Inspector ,1 4.00 Clerk 4.00 Clerk 4.00 Rent 5.00 Meals 1.80 Total for Precinct $18.80 Total Third Day $18.80 Recapitulation May Session First Day Session $ 23.80 Second Day 18.80 Third Day 18.80 Total for May $ 61.40 Total for Sept . 61.40 Total for Oct 61.40 Grand Total for one Precinct $184.20 Grand total for 64 Precincts $11,788.80. THE WEATHER STATE ANO LOCAL Fair tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Forecast for Richmond and vicinity, fair tonight and Tuesday; SlighUy cooler Tuesday. Maximum temperature in last 24 hours. 57 at 3 p. m. Sunday. Minimum temperature in last 24 hours, 32 at C a. m. Monday. Temperature at 12:30 p. an, today. 41. Barometer. 30.25. stationary. Direction and velocity of wind, southwest, I

MAYOR VERY ANGRY BV REMOIISTBMICtS Objects to Protests on Most of Improvements the Board Orders.

"Everything we bring up the people at first seem to want it. and then remonstrate against it. There has not been a single thing I can recall we have started to do in the matter of public Improvements in the last year that the people have not remonstrated against," lamented Mayor immerman this morning after it was announced the number of remonstrances against paving South Eighth street from A to E streets presented an overwhelming majority. The matter will be referred to council as a court of last resort. The mayor attempt to have an alley between Sheridan and Butler street, from Grant to School, cemented, was defeated, and so the alley will not be made. "They got to have cement," quoth his honor, "or nothing at all." Next the cement sidewalks proposed for South Sixth street, from A to E street were turned down by the property owners, thirty out of fiftythree property owners signing the remonstrance. This matter was also re ferred to council in the hope it will be ordered against the wishes of the property owners, who, as the mayor said, "are against public improvements because they want to be at a standstill while the rest of the world moves on and is improved." The mayor fairly chortled with glee when no one appeared to protest against cementing the alley from Main to Sailor streets, between Eighth and Ninth streets, and this order was put through. To Extend Water Main. The board ordered the water works company to make an extension of Its water mains - from South F to South J streets, the city promising to install a water, plus on the extension, to fcej placed where city fire chief Miller thinks best. . A letter from the Sullivan Stone and Concrete company, of French Lick, Indiana, threatening legal action If the city did not at once pay $100 held back on the payment for some cement work on the West Side, was read. The work is said to be unsatisfactory, and city attorney Oardner and Fred Charles, city engineer, will make a personal investigation of the work before the matter is taken up for action. Engineer, Charles was instructed to prepare p'laas and specifications for a six-foot cement sidewalk on the west side of North Twenty-second street from Main to E street, and ce ment curbs and gutters on both sides, a resolution for this improvement being adopted by the board. Action on cement sidewalks for South Sixteenth street, from Main to A streets, was delayed until next Monday morning. Cement sidewalks, curbs, and "gutters for Laurel "street, from Sheridan to West First street was decided by the board. The north side of South E street from Thirteenth to Sixteenth street will also have cement sidewalks the board decreed. HUNDREDS FILLED THE GLEN SUNDAY Four hundred people crowded the Glen yesterday, the spring weather, and warm sunlight inviting many to the open, and the greenhouse was filled all afternoon. The park was full of autoa and rigs, for the last time for about a month. Appearing before the board of works this morning, Supt. Hollarn started to ask the board to ask the board to close the Glen to autos until the roads were in better condition, but he was cut short in his explanation, and the board ordered the glen closed to all kinds of vehicles, "Until Supt. Hollarn decides it is time to remove the ban. The roads are in a very bad condition as a result of the gullies cut in them by heavy rigs and autos driving through the soft roads recently. 4fe DAY OBSERVED HERE Many Shamrocks Were Seen , on the Streets. - Tribute was paid to the memory of the patron saint of the Emerald Isle in this city yesterday when hundreds of persons thronged the streets adorned with shamrocks. Aside from the services at the St. - Mary's Catholic church, there was no special celebration of St. Patrick's day. - Owing to the fact that St. Patrick's day fell on Sunday .this year the Ancient Order, of Hibernians held no celebration, as has been their custom in former years.. However, this evening the St. Mary's parish wni celebrate the event with aa entertainment at the

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POLICE SUSPECT II PLOT OF STRIKERS CAUSEjnRAGEffl A Locomotive Standing in : Roundhouse, Blown into Thousand Atoms, Spread-'

ing Death Over Yards. NUMBER QF VICTIMS IS NOT KNOWNiWBfli Parts of Bodies Picked-tip Long Distance from Scene of Explosion A Number. Are Injured. (Xational Xews Asaeeiatlssry SAN ANTONIO, Ten., March 18. In an explosion which shook the whek city and the surrounding country a number of men, variously estimated by the police at from six to twenty-five were killed to day in the local Southern Pacific yards. A locomotive holler blew up. spreading death and destruction in the vicinity. Many of the dead are strike breakers. The , locomotive waa standing in a round house at the time and the building was demolished by the terrific detonation. Twenty other" men were injured, some of them probably fatally, by the explosion. At noon the police declared that the disaster was a rival of the Los Angeles Times dynamite explosion, which waa laid to the Structural Iron workers union, and said that It might even exceed it in horrors. At the same time detectives began an investigation . among labor circles and It was evident that the authorities hoped to find the per petrators of the wholesale laughter among the leaders of .the shopmena strike. No. Warning Given. ' . ... The explosion came without Wareinc and at a time when there were a ants ber of machinists' round' hmnt irmfun and track tenders working nearby. An artillery discharge of grape and canulster could not have scattered deadly, missies more effectively among the i nearby toilers than the explosion of the engine. .The huge steel locomotive was torn asunder like a firecracker and its fragments scattered like bullets. The roar of the explosion' could be heard for a mile, and hundreds of citizens ran to the railroad yards won-, dering what ...had happened. Before' the echoes of the detonation had died away there-was a rain of debris, mingled with' fesh and bones, from the ky. Parts of bodies were picked up from three hundred': to five hundred feet sway and windows half a mile away were shattered. Deputlesfrom the coroner's office collected the human flesh in baskets and carrld it to the morgue. Every ambulance in the city and all the doctors that could be found, together with the hospital corps from Ft Sam Houston, and a number of T. M. C. A. Instructors were called to the scene to care for the injured. ' May Be Dynamite Plot. ' Tbe police as well aa the Southern Pacific officials were unable to make any correct estimate as to the number of Victims, owing to the destruction ot the bodies. ; Immediately after the explosion police began investigating a report that , the explosion had been caused by dynamite placed in the boiler of the engine. Tbe Southern Pacific machinists considerable trouble for the road at this point. Most of the dead and injured are strike breakers who took the places of the striking shopmen several months ago. So badly mangled are some of -the dead that identification has to be made vj biyuiiu. lira wMMm www , pil torn to atoms. The shop men's strike on the South" era Pacific, tbe Union Pacific and the Illinois Central was inaugurated September 30 last, effecting nearly 40,000 men. The shopmen employed t here were among the first to answer a call cal men struck. Since then there have been numerous clashes between strikers and strike breakers and a number t ot men have been killed. ,r At 1 o'clock this afternoon IS bodies iud " been recovered while - workmen ' were digging away the walls of adjacent buildings in the belief that the) ' remains of workmen crushed to death would be found beneath.- '- .r The fire spread from the renndhonss debris to the cooper shop, destroying that structure. , SAVINGS BANK COLD O'attoMl New Association) ' 1 "INDIANAPOLIS, March 18. The Aetna Trust and Savings company, organized about three weeks ago, parens sed and' took over' today the entire busineM of the H. P. Wesson pnnye savings hank, which was Ihrhed over ten years ago. ' The company aeeuired about 9,690 30 ae counts; total savings neons ts tsrti-' ing -1 350,009 and cbeckics

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