Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 116, 20 March 1912 — Page 1

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mi BOSTOll YARDS ARE OPENED TODAY . BY C.&0. RAILWAY 'Yards Are Modern in Every .' Respect, Can Accommodate 360 Cars and Built at a Cost of $80,000.

NEW BOSTON HOTEL ALSO OPENS TODAY Hostelry Erected to Accommodate Railroad Employes Large Tract in Reserve to Extend Yards. Today marked the opening of the big yards and midway station of the C. & O. Railroad of Indiana at Boston, Indiana. After months of work, expenditure of something like 180,000. O. C. Derbyshire is the station agent and under him are three train dispatchers, a number of yardmen, round house workers, station employes and laborers. Six long storage and switching tracks have been placed with a capacity for 360 freight cars. A round house equipped with apparatus and appliances for light cleaning and repairing of engines and cars, a big coal shute, water tanks, weighing apparatus, and many other railroad necessities for handling freight have also been installed. A big hotel, managed by a corporation not connected with the railroad company, which will accommodate 200 guests also began active operation today. The completion of the yards marks the climax of the railroad's efforts to aecure a suitable site between Peru and Cincinnati for the central yards, which the railroad found was absolutely necessary for properly conducting its business. Sites in Richmond, which the railroad company tried to secure for the location of the yards could not be obtained, and the yards In the South End were not desirable because streets were opened through them. The north yards' on Newman's Illll, were so small that they were unavailable, and additional ground could : not be secured, so Boston was finally aelected. Enough ground was purchased at Boston so that new yards as large as the present one can be laid out it necessary. It Is thought the new yards opened , today will be large enqugh to accommodate the business for some time yet. The C. & O. railroad company hat Instituted many new Improvements In the service and accommodations since the purchase of the old C, C. & L. railroad line, and the heavy' business which resulted after the extension from Peru to Chicago was accomplished, made It necessary that a midway station be established. No ceremonials marked the opening of the yards, several of the more prominent officials being present to see that everything moved forward In good order. Preparations for accommodating the business had been made far In advance, and the opening of the yards, and the consequent disuse of part of the yards at Richmond caused very little confusion. BODIES OF MAINE VICTIMSARRIVED Will Lie on Ship Until Orders Are Given for Their Disposition. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, March 20. With forty-seven caskets lashed on her after-deck the cruiser Birmingham dropped anchor at the Washington navy yard today. For the present the bodies of the untdcntlled victims of the Maine will lie upon the deck, covered with flags and flowers. The navy department is expected to issue orders as to the disposition of the remains pending the funeral services to be held Saturday. Crowds gathered at the nay yards wharf to witness the arrival of the cruiser. Commander Hughes aald that until he received definite or dera no one ' would be permitted to iew the remains. LOGANSPORT FLOOD DOES BIG DAMAGE (National News Association) LOOANSPORT, Ind, March 20. Property damage estimated today at $250,000 has been done by floods here and at nearby places along the Eel and Wabash rivers. Further damage is feared if ice gorges break up suddenly above here. The water has overflowed the lower parts of Logansport Newspapers have been driven out of their ofices, street and lnterurban car service suspended and $100,000 worth of merchandise la rained in store basement a The Broadway theater which opened for the first time Monday has been closed. Firemen and police have rescued scores of drowning. Many peo ple have been forced to leave their because of the rising water,

Scenes and Principals in the Allen Gang Raid

llf hh'vi i a ; 1 III f' II ' ' nlii' I Tbe ower photograph shows the liz 'S'S- V"-' Vlr m J Hillesville, Va., courthouse, where the 4 k'' 1P yj notorious "Allen gang" shot and killed I ;frV t,' 'j 'l,''V lA the presiding judge, the district attorI r ff rJs& I I . I ney. the sheriff and a juror, and I ', , l S'-f wounded several others. Judge Mas- ' - 1 ff l Vy I sie, who was killed, is shown in the I ' 'f " ' I f . I upper left hand photograph. The othI '. y I I n I er picture is of Dexter 'Goad, the court N i Clerk' Wh WaS fatal!y mounded.

Ill JAIL FAMILHOMELESS Probable Governor Will Be Asked to Issue Pardon for Roy Coombs. A direct appeal to the Governor of the state may be made to secure the release of Roy Coombs, now confined at the county jail on the charge of wife and child desertion, having been sentenced there about six weeks ago. The wife. Dora Coombs, with her two small children, aged nine months and three years, respectively, at the time of the sentencing of the husband and father to jail, were promised a home with Mrs. Coombs' father, but in an appeal to the mayor yesterday Mrs. Coombs charges her father is not taking care of her, and has told her to leave the home. Mrs. Coombs after going to her father's home secured employment at a home as a domestic at $4 per week. Every cent of this weekly sum she says, she turned over to her father for keeping herself and children, but she avers he has refused her permission to stay at home any longer. Coombs has promised to work, if released, to live with his wife and family and to support them. . He was arrested In July, 1911, on the charge of child desertion, and given a sentence of $100 and costs and ninety days in jail, but was released on promising to do better. He failed, and was hauled into police court on the same charge and the suspended sentence was ordered enforced. He went to Jail. The father of the woman. John Stem-art. at the time of the trial, was placed on the stand and testified againsx his son-in-law and when the boy was sentenced, he promised the mayor he would take . care of his daughter and her children. His daughter. In tears, yesterday asked the mayor to release her husband that he might make a living for bis-wife and family again. This cannot be done. The fine may be suspended, but the jail sentence, once began, cannot be suspended, in an offense such as child desertion, unless the governor issues a pardon. Coombs' sentence exclusive of the fine of $100 and costs, will not be up for about six weeks. BIG BALANCE WAS LEFT FOR COUNTY During the past year a total of $1,182,821.40 was received from county revenue, according to the annual report of the county auditor, copies 04 which have just been printed. The disbursements for the year amounted to $328,040.70. leaving a balance of

J$S54,7S0.70. January. 1, 1912. i

LOCAL COAL USERS ARE HOT AFFECTED i By Prospective Strikes Ex- . cept Plants Which Use Steam Coal. . In the opinion of dealers the coal strikes which are expected to be called on or about April 1 in this country will not affect the prices on domestic coal in this city very much, although the strikes will materially afreet the prices on steam coal.. One dealer stated this morning that with the approach of warmer weather there will be but a small demand for domestic coal and that the dealers have enough coal now in their yards to supply all demands, even though it will be impossible for them to secure further consignments. Steam coal will cost $1 more per ton after the strikes are called, according to local dealers. They say that the contracts which local manufacturing concerns have will, expire April 1, at the same time the strikes are scheduled to open. Iarge concerns are. now trying to secure supplies of coal by bidding against each other in order to have enough to carry them through the strike period. It is likely that after the bituminous strike is called the price will advance much higher on steam coal. However, the prices on anthracite coal will not be reduced as is usual, April 1. The prices- will remain the same until the strikes have been declared off. The anthracite strike is expected to take place April 1. and the bituminous strike a short time later. $60,000 IS TAKEN BY TRAIN ROBBERS (National News Association) CORINTH. Miss.. March 20. Led by bloodhounds, a sheriff's posse started today to invade the swamp lands of the Tuscumbia River searching for four train robbers who held up a train on the Mobile & Ohio railroad and obtained about $60,000 in money. The holdup occurred late yesterday when the train was about seven miles north of Corinth. Engineer Wilder and Fireman Kufman were forced to stop the train. They were directed to proceed up the railroad track a short distance, where they and express messenger Snoddy were forced to remain until the bandits had blown open the express, car safe, an act requiring less than 20 minutes. So Quietly was the robbery effected that the passengers were not aware of the bandits' work. Sheriff McPeters believes they are in the wilds of Tuscumbia river bottoms. ... -

HOUSE IS WORKING AT A RAPID PACE Rushing Through Business So That the Adjournment Will Be Early. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, March 20. Members of the house are now hoping for adjournment before the national conventions are held. The fact that three important bills have been passed by the house within a week's time has set a new record for the session and indicates that the hurry up fever has struck that body. After passing the excise tax bill by an overwhelming vote tie rivers and harbors bill was called up and passed. There was little disposition to either amend or debate the bill. This measure was the third important revenue bill to go through the house in less than a week's time. The postoffice appropriation bill is next on the calendar. The legislative, executive and judicial bill is ready to come from the appropriations committee and the ways and means committee will soon bring out the wool schedule, whicbJ may be the last of the tariff revision measures of the session. Unless the senate soon evinces a disposition to take action on the Democratic tarifT bills it is the belief of the house leaders that an adjournment by June is assured. The house takes the position that it is needless to pass the tariff bills which the senators propose to kill as fast as they receive them. Many of the rank and file of the house have stiff fights at home and do not ! relish the talk of a July or August adjournment. DYNAMITE GOES UP; FIVE BADLY HURT (National News Association) VISAL1A, CaL, March 20. A. N. Thompson, his wife and three children were probably fatally injured when 140 pounds of dynamite stored in the Thompson barn near Lindsay, exploded, wrecking the barn and demolishing the dwelling. 150 feet distant. Thompson, with his family had just driven up in an automobile. He discovered the place was on fire. Before he could back the machine away the explosion occurred- 4 . The machine was wrecked and the occupants hurled to the ground. Two horses in the barn were thrown fifty feet and killed. Windows were broken half a mile distant. The dynamite was used by Thompson in blasting holes for trees. The cause of the fire is un

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RAILWAY MEll OUT

TO AID ROOSEVELT Announcement Made They Will Attend Ward Meetings Friday Night. The railway men in Richmond are taking a hand in the progressive light. It was announced today by men of standing and influence that the railroad men will be at the ward meetings Friday night in full force for the progressive candidates. The backbone of this fight commenced years ago when the railroad men began their efforts to remove James E. Watson from his position, of power in Washington. The 16 hour law for which the Roosevelt administration's power was used against the Cannon machine when it was fighting it has not been altogether forgotten. The part that James E. Watson and Cannon played in not allowing this and other legislation of the same sort to go into effect has rankled long and it will never be forgotten. Right here in the Sixth district is one of the storm centers of the effective fight that the railroad men have made against the reactionary control of politics. That W. B. McKinley as the head of both the Taft campaign and the Can non congressmen's organization is not going to do the president any particular good among the everyday citizens when Mr. Taft has christened the mob" is no less to the railroad men. For years they have maintained tne most successful bureau for keeping track of the trend of national government that has been maintained by any body of citizens. Now that the light has centered again in the Sixth district between the progressives and the reactionaries for an out and out decision as to which shall control the party machinery the railroad and other industrial employes are going to the ward meetings to de mand that the delegates to the conventions shall be real progressives willing to pledge themselves to the progressive cause. They do not care to pave the way for Watson machinery here in the Sixth. At the same time this action has brought forth the request from, these men and their friends that the men who are standing for election to the conventions shall announce themselves so that the meetings on Friday shall be out in the open and that men shall know exactly for whom they are voting. . Quite a number of men who were at first unwilling to put themselves forward as candidates have come to see that this is the only way in which a real fight out in the open can be ac complished. Everyone concedes that if the fight is out in the open -that the progressives will win. It is therefore probable that the Roosevelt progressives may force the fight out in the lime light and appeal- to every man who believes in the progressive work to come out and attend the ward meet ings and vote for the men who are willing to tell where they stand and what they stand for. In this way there is not likely to be so much chance for so called "prominent" citisens to "put one over on the unsuspecting" by simply declaring that "they will do what is right" for the railroad men have long since ceased voting for pigs in a poke. NINE WERE KILLED BY GAS EXPLOSION Natlonal News Association) SCRANTON, Pa., March 20. Nine persons were killed, several of them children, and several injured, by an explosion caused by a gas leak in a house in Dunmore, near here today. All the victims are foreigners. Two buildings were wrecked by the explosion and the dead were buried beneath the wreckage. Fire followed the explosion and the wreckage was partly consumed before the blaze was extinguished. DIVORCE JILL BUSY Resumes Operations After a Few Days of Rest. The divorce mill is busy again after a few days of rest. Three more suits for divorce were filed in the Wayne circuit court yesterday afternoon and today, in addition to the suit filed yesterday morning. After a second attempt to live with her husband had failed to result happily, Blanche Elliott filed suit for divorce against Raymond Elliott charging cruel and inhuman treatment. She also alleges in her complaint that the defendant cursed her and accused her falsely of uncharte conduct. The plaintiff also asks custody of their two children. They were married in June, 1908 and Separated December. 19, 1908. Believing they could live peacefully again they returned to each other for one week, from November 12, to November 20, 19T0. Upon the allegation that his wife has been unfaithful in her marriage vows, Sherman W. Traylor, a waiter employed at the City Restaurant, is suing for a divorce from Fannie Traytor. The Traylors were married in September, 1906, and separated two months later. The complaint declares that the plaintiff has always faithful and loving husband. Because, he allege his wife guilty of cruel and tnhnmao treatment. Samuel M. Horch is seeking a divorce from Edna Horch. The complaint was filed In the Wayne circuit court yesterday afternoon. No specific Instanc-

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CIRCULATED A report is in circulation that negotiations are in progress for the ab sorption of the American Seeding Ma chine company by the J. I. Case company, of Racine. Wis., one of the largest thresher machine companies in this country. Although the reports could not be confirmed today, it is understood there is an excellent opportunity for the deal being consummated. A reporter called on James A. Carr, general manager of the local branch of the American Seeding Machine company this morning and asked him to confirm the report of the merger of the two companies, but he declined. "1 have nothing to say," was Mr. Carr's reply to all queries. The J. I. Case company is one of the largest agricultural implement manufacturing concerns in the United States, and in the event that it effects a merger with the American Seeding Machine company it will be among the largest, if not the largest manufactur ing concerns of its kind in the world. The Richmond branch of the American Seeding Machine company employs a force of about 600 men. It is understood that if a merger is' put through the same number of employes will be retained and that the plant may be enlarged. STEPHEN FULGHUM KILLEDJIU FALL A Former Richmond Man Drops From Scaffold at Houston, Texas. Relatives and friends in this city have received word of the death of Stephen Fulghum, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Fulghum, 301 South Sixth street, which occurred last Friday morning at Houston, Texas. Fulghum fell a dist ance of seventy five feet from a scaffold, death being instantaneous. Fulghum. who was twentyeven years old, was working on a viaduct in Houston when a timber above him fell, striking his hands, and loosening his grip on the scaffold. Almost every bone in his body was broken by the fall. He was a brother of Mrs. Harry Smith, Mrs. Henry Farwig and Miss Gertrude Fulghum, all of this city, and of Claude Fulghum of Quincy, III. He was married. REFUSES TO TALK Oil II JJRIMARY Roosevelt Says that He Made No Campaign in North Dakota. (National Kewi Association) OYSTER BAY, L. I., March 20. CoL Roosevelt showed disappointment today over the result of the presidential primaries in North Dakota, and while he declared he bad not expected to win there, he was brusque when asked by the newspaper men at Sagamore Hill how be liked the "results. "I said two weeks ago that we did not expect to win in North Dakota. We made no campaign in the state at all," replied the Colonel. The former president refused to comment on the showing of Senator La Follette who led both Roosevelt and Taft. After a horseback ride the Colonel got down to work on the speeches he will deliver on his middle western tour next week. He will deliver four or five set speeches and will go the limit on preferential presidential primary question. Col. Roosevelt will open his personal campaign in New York tonight at Carnegie Hall, with bis speech on the right of the people to rule. IS I Coffyn in Auto Accident May Die. (National New Association) NEW YORK, March 20. Frank Coffyn, the aviator whose flight in a hydroplane have thrilled thousands of persons, was thrown from an automobile in Central park and waa taken to the Presbyterian hospital with a fractured skull and internal injuries this forenoon. It is believed he cannot recover. t , Coffyn was driving through the park with Henry F. Thompson when the accident occurred. The car was approaching the park bridge at f7th street and West drive when ft skidded and struck the corner of the bridge with considerable force. Coffyn was hurled out Into the ..bruise path. He

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ELECTROCUTION IS WHAT FLOYD ALLEll IS HOW EXPECTING Leader of the Hillsville, Va. Gang States that He Shot , in Self Defense, but He Will Be Killed.

ROUNDUP OF GANG MAY RESULT TODAY However, Another Report Says Delay in Hunting the Bandits May Give Them a Chance to Escape. (National News Association) ROANOKE, Va., March 20. Former' Judge Hairs ton who has been retained to defend Floyd Allen, central figure in the Hillsville shooting affair, and his son Victor, both of whom are prisoners in jail here, began today to prepare the defense. Floyd Allen's plea will be self defense. Victor will plead that he was not engaged in the shoot ing and both will deny there waa a conspiracy to shoot up the court and kill Judge Massey and the other officials. In a statement issued from hia cell, ', Floyd Allen said today, "both myself and my son expect to be electrocuted' Our murder is as certain as the .sun- : rise, but we want a fair deal. Before tiod I didn't start the firing, but when the shooting began I naturally shot In ? self defense. Victor did not shoot at all. The charge that there was a conspiracy is a damnable He, We . an fighting men and we can show them" that we can go to our deaths bravely." EXPECT A ROUNDUP. RICHMOND. Va., March 20.A ions distance telephone message from Pulaski. Va., at 11 o'clock today says that a general roundup of the Allen gang is expected near Floyd Allen's . home : before the close of the day, and a desperate battle Is looked for. Reinforcements carrying guns, ammunition and -provisions for the posse went out from various points early this morning. 'At the same time reported from ML Airy. N. C, say detectives were searching in the mountains all night but no re port has been received as to what they , have accomplished. " s--ARM VOLUNTEERS. HILLSSVILLE, Va.. March 20. Extra rifles sent here by order of Govern nor Mann to arm the posses trailing the Allen gang in their mountain fastnesses arrived today and were distributed to volunteers who have enlisted under detectives Baldwin and Feltz. The pursuers are now well equipped for the man hunt, but the belief is growing that the delay caused by weather conditions and lack of arms has permitted the fugitives to scatter so the ultimate roundup will bea mat ter of months. Varying reports as to their whereabouts have been received, but the state authorities are not overhopeful of making an immediate capture. A LOOP DISTRICT FIRE THREATENING (National News Association) CHICAGO, March 20. An early . morning blase which threatened an entiro block in the "Loop district" did $100,000 worth of damage today, Two five-story buildings on Lake street, near State, were partly destroyed and , a brisk wind - off the lake carried sparks and flaming brands to adjoin-, ing structures. One of the buildings was occupied by the Myer paint manufacturing company and an explosion of gasoline drove the firemen back.' They fought the blase for a time from the roof of adjoining structures. ' DAMAGE BY CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS HEAVY (National News Association) GREENVILLE, 111., March 20.---roorf persons were injured and - property damage totaling at least 175,000, it is estimated today was done when a cy- ; clone struck five Illinois towns. The towns affected are Greenville, county seat of Bond county. Mulberry Grove, Smithboro, Old Ripley and New Douglass. " ' - Telephone and telegraph wires were prostrated, a hundred houses -were damaged, trees blown down and roads ' blocked with debris. No one was fatal: v ly hurt. ' THE WEATHER STATE Snow or rain in the south; heavy snow in north portion to night. Colder tonight. " LOCAL fair tonight and Thursday; 'Colder. " v'". HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATC2Y. - Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Snow tonight and Thursday; 2ar- ' Maximum: temperature In last' 24 hours, 64 at noon Tuesday. . Minimum temperature ' fa mat 24 hours, 29 at C a. m. Wednesday. ; . Temperature at 12:20 p. m. today, 32. - V ' . . . ; Barometer, 30.2. Direction and velocity of wind, N. EL S miles per hour. . ' j

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