Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 117, 21 March 1912 — Page 1

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MARKED THE Democratic State Meeting Today Nominates Samuel Ralston for Governor by Unanimous Vote. MARSHALL PLEDGED SUPPORT FOR BOOM Senators Kern and Shively Wildly Cheered by Delegates Governor. Makes a Diplomatic Address. (National Ktwi Association) INDIANAPOLIS. March 21. With harmony, enthusiasm and optimism of tho highest degree combined with a manner which Indicated their belief that nominations today was practically equivalent to election in November the Democrats opened their convention In Tomllnson hall this morning when State Chairman Korbley called the delegates to order. Samuel Ralston was nominated for governor by acclamation, Hall, of Rushvllle, withdrawing. Rev. Carmicheal, of the I-ebanon Baptist church, of which Ralston Is a member, offered a prayer. In box No. IS were Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall's party of women friends. Over the stage hung the American flag and a big banner reading. "Our Choice for President, Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana." Also the governor's picture: V Ralston 'was widely cheered whon lie entered the hall at 9:40. Temporary chairman. Governor Marshall, was tendered a tremendous ovation when in Produced by Chairman Korbley as the wise, forceful, conservative leader whom Indiana will commend to the national convention for president. Flags were waved and the cheering continued several minutes. As Governor Marshall rose to speak a large picture of Ralston concealed behind the Marshall banner was lowered to view. fcTbls renewed the demonstration. Was Favorably Received. Vhe governor's speech was favorably received. The mention of Senator Chlvely evoked applause and the mention of Senator Kern brought the dele- . gates to their fact, loudly cheering for nearly two minute. A report of the resolution committee did not Indorse Marshall's constitution, atatlng that the party would wait the decision of the supreme court The report declares In favor of a vigorous. Impartial enforcement of the Proctor law and against the repeal or modification of the remonstrance law. This was a defeat for the brew ery element, which wanted a reduction In the, unit of population which determines the number of saloons permlSsable In a community. Governor Marshall was commended a the type of man needed for the presidency and the delegates to the national convention were Instructed to present his name as the first and only choice of Indiana Democracy. The last legislature was indorsed for Its progressive legislation. The Psyne-Aldrlch bill was condemned in .vigorous terms. The Sherwood pen ion bill passed by the house of rep resentatives was Indorsed. Amend ments to the present state primary law were advocated, as was also the establishment of a mine rescue station Address of Governor. The creation of a public utilities commission, the establishment of a state penal colony to displace the county jails except for the detention , of prisoners pending trial, the substl tutlon of a state orphans' home for the county orphanages, the restriction of suffrage to cltiiens of the United States and the adoption, of a state wide primary law for electing delegates to party conventions were championed by the governor in his address. Only once did Governor Marshall actually touch upon national questions. The protective tariff was condemned as the mother of special privilege. Tariff reform, he said, means "kicking the tariff trough over and letting nil men do what you and I do root hog or die." Gov. Marshall's reference to his colleagues in the Democratic party was characterised by a unanimous approval. 'His commendation of Senator Shively was Implied in his reference to the senior, senator from Indiana as "that great champion of the people's rights." Senator Kern was spoken of as "Indiana's well-beloved son." The Indiana Democratic members of the lower house of congress were not forgotten In Gov. Marshall's eulogy. He recalled the victories of 1908 and the election of Senator Shively In 1909 and of Senator Kern in 1911. "With our two senators,", said .the governor, "there went to the national congress at Washington. Messrs. Collop. Boehne, Cox. Dixon, Moss, Gray. Korblr. Adair. Morrison. Raucb.' dine ud Barnhart fourteen men in all who have, amid the temptations and In spite of the opportunities for betrayal, worn upon their bosoms, 'the white lilies of the- people's cause and by voice and vote have striven to lift from the toiling shoulders of America's millIons, soma of the burdens with which (Continued on Page Sight)

CONVENTION

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The above photograph, Just received from Italy, shows that Charles W. Morse is rapidly recovering from the illness he contracted while serving a terra in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. The picture was taken while the former financial wizard was enjoying a short voyage on the Mediterranean.

LACK OF CLOTHES DELAYED A TRIAL Mother of Young Witness Had All of the Youngster's Outfit. Lack of clothes was one cause for delaying the assault and battery case in police court this morning. . Harvey Plan was arrested on an affidavit sworn out by his wife, charging him with attacking her yesterday. The husband asked for a continuance of tho case until tomorrow, saying his principal witness, his oldest boy, and the other children, also witnesses. were not present, the youngest, . be cause it has no clothes. He promised to bring them tomorrow. Piatt. and his wife separated yesterday, she taking the youngest child to her home with her parents. The fath er took the older children. Yesterday the father while . driving saw his smallest child on the street and placing it with him on the dray took the baby home. He fears to leave the child with neighbors because he does not want his wife to get the youngster. His wife has all the clothes belonging to the smallest child, and he has not bad time to get baby a new supply. By tomorrow the baby will have new clothes and can appear in court, and the trial may proceed. The wife charges her husband struck er, and would have beaten her severely bad not a man stepped in and stopped the affair. The husband entered a plea of not guilty. The case will be taken up tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. Several witnesses will be present. Piatt's sister, and a sister's daughter will be present for the defense besides the children. RABID HOUND FOUND AT OWNER'S HOME . The large black hound which yesterday ran amuck and bit a large number of dogs, was 'located this morning at the home of its owner, John Boyce, 617 North Eighth street. - The - dog was killed by officer Lawler, and the head sent to Indianapolis for chemical anal-, ysls, to determine ' if nigri bodies, showing hydrophobia, exist If the dog was afflicted with rabies, all -the animals which .it bit .in its rampage yesterday will be ordered killed by the health department.' No other 'dogs, except those mentioned yesterday have been reported bitten by. the dog. No action will be taken against Boyce, as the dog was muzzled with a loose leather muzzle before it ran amuck. It finally succeeded ' in tearing off the muzzle after biting several dogs. - ' '

Genn Is At Work! "You boys be up at the'engine house Friday night!'" .-We'll fix it up with you all right if you go down the line for Taftt" "Doc" Genn, who last .week resented the imputation .that he had been -in. conference with agents of James E- .Watson to stir up trouble-for the Progressive cause; has been gumshoeing, in. the north end of town. ; . It didn't take very much investigation to learn that '"Doc" called a meeting on the corner of 14th and North . F. streets, Tuesday evening at 7:00 o'clock. A. number, of drivers from Mather Bros., coal yard . were present and. at. least one member of Genn's street force is known to have been drafted to the. cause of .Taft-Watson-Kealingand Jhe machine of : the reactionaries in general. z.; ; "Now keep this quiet." said "Doc", to the .assembled throng. "We want to pat one over on the'boys in the Fifth- i j Conflicting rumors have it .that Lanus. Meredith .has broken the neutrality which he promised as district chairman and has gotten into the fight on personal, grounds. -Meredith has pleasant personal relations with Watson as welt as with nearly everybody In f the : Sixth, and It was thought that Chairman Meredith would not allow personalities to get the

better of his promised word. The ward meetings will show whether Mere- -

dlth has merely taken a personal filer or whether he Is going down the lino against the Progressive forces."Some-of the ' distorter chairman's friends say that this is not the case. That "Linns is too good a politician to make enemies that he has no need to-make They assert that after the ward meetings there will be a showing as to. the Progressive strength and that every bit of this strength will be needed to carry' the congresstonal nominee over the rocks that Finly Gray has put in his chahneL

VOLUNTEER

CANDIDATES

ANNOUNCED

Inquiries in the shape of postal cards, letters and telephone calls have come into the Palladium office in the last week asking for authentic information as to who could be trusted to, support Roosevelt if elected at the ward .meetings. :"""-";-'" : ' The Roosevelt organization .has made a thorough canvass of the city and announces that the following list is composed of men who have consent ed to allow their names to be used with the understanding that if they are elected they will be for Roosevelt. District. State. First Ward v' E. F. Warfel .Al. Weishaupt Second Ward Wm. R. Bloom Chas. Woodhurst Third WardEdgar Norris Clifford Price Fourth Ward C. B. Hunt Dr. R. A. Chattin Carl Bernhardt. . ... . . .Joseph Edwards Fifth Ward J John Woodhurst. C. E. Newman Filmore Riggs George Parry Robert Benton Frank Ho wells Sixth Ward Wm. A. Bond .Alonzo Marshall R. L. More Lafe Larsh Seventh WardRoy Fry Frank Roberts Ben Duke ..John Smelser Eighth WardBen Mattis...'. Roy Reynolds VOTING PLACES. The following is a list of the meeting places: First ward, court house; Second ward, city building;' Third ward, -Arlington hptel; ; Fourth ward. Pythian Temple; Fifth ward. East End hose -house ;--Sixth ward, shop at Main and Thirteenth streets; Seventh ward, West Side' hose house; Eighth ward, West Side Republican club. HAD SMALL BLAZE A fire at the power plant of the traction company laBt evening at 7:40 caused a suspension cf alt street car u. u., ,.r,UuiOT - (ii some lead connections had bee paired. The damage was slight. All! cars had trouble last night because of the heavy "slrot. ' -

BIG POISON PLOT THE CHARGE MADE Famous Sparling Case Will Be Tried at Bad Axe, Mich., Monday. (Xational News Association) BAD AXE, Mich., March 21. The socalled Sparling poisoning case is to come up at the circuit court -session starting here next Monday, and it is

scarcely an exaggeration to say that every person in Huron county, and many beyond the county borders and even across the Canadian line, Is awaiting the developments of the trial with eager interest. The case is regarded as one of the most complex that has ever come' before the criminal courts in Michigan. The defendants in the case are Mrs. Carrie Bodie Sparling, the wife and mother of the alleged victims, of a wholesale poisoning plot, and Dr. Robert Macgregor, the Sparling family physician. Dr. Macgregor formerly lived in "London, Out., but .for several years has resided in the village of Ubly, a short distance south if this city, and the home of the Sparlin family. John Wesley Sparling, head of the family, was the first one to die. He was stricken in July, 1908. Two years later the eldest son;' Peter Sparling, was similarly stricken. Albert Sparling was the next to die, and the last was Cyril Sparling, 20 years old, who died last August. In two of the cases a verdict of arsenic poisoning was returned by the coroner's jury. Each of the victims was attended by Dr. Macgregor and later removed for treatment to a hospital in Londop, Ont., where the deaths occurred.. In this hospital Miss Marguerite Gibbs, said to be a friend of Dr. Macgregor, was employed as a nurse.. Following the coroner's jury verdict in the case of Albert Sparling, Miss Gibbs was arrested and bound over on a charge of accessory after the fact. In the cases of Mrs. Sparling and" DrT Macgregor,' indictments charging first degree murder -were returned. 'It is understood that Mrs. Sparling andOr. Macgregor are to be tried .first" fpithe alleged . murder of Cyril Sparling, the fourth and last of, the family to die under mysterious cir cumstances. Little has been made public concerninf? the evidence upon Which; the indictments were , based. the probable' motive1 that may hate resulted in the alleged slaying of the father and three sons can only be guessed- at -by- outsiders,- though there is a general disposition to connect it with the" fact that 'the victims carried life insurance and the policies were written by the father of Dr. Macgregor, a retired life insurance agent living in London, Ont. . Prosecuting Attorney , Boomhower has secured the services of a- prominent criminal lawyer to assist him in unraveling the mystery. He declares be has unearthed additional facts in the case which, when presented at the trial, will greatly strengthen the prosecution. Nearly one hundred witnesses already have been subpoenaed to testify at the trial. - - WAS OPERATED ON Harmon Swain, aged about , fifteen, of Eaton. Ohio, was brought! to this city last night about midnight, taken to the hospital in the dty ambulance and operated on there for appendicitis? The young man withstood the ordeal well, and although his condition is serious, it is thought that, unless complications develop, he will be out of danger In a short tlmsw-

FOURTEEN ARE

FOUND ALIVE IN SAN ROIS

(National News Association) McCURTAIN, Okla.. March 21. Fourteen of the entombed miners in the San Bois coal mine, imprisoned since the explosion and fire yester day, were taken out alive at noon today. They were, dug out from behinda barrier of tons of rock and earth on the ninth level. It was a freak of the explosion that proved a live saver for them. They suffered only from gas. Up to noon today, twenty-five badly scared and blrickened bodies had been removed. The probable total deaths at that time were 89. The explosion occurred shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Those on the surface heard a faint rumble and an earth tremor. When those nearest to the mouth of the mine reached the opening a cloud of smoke belched forth. Then came tense moments of waiting for those in the mine to emerge. Frank Fields, a miner, was the first to stagger out. He was walking in an entry and heard the explosion, he said. He jumped into a side room and the explosion passed, and he made his way to the mine opening. Eight of the men who escaped alive yesterday were at work in the mule stables, and made their way to the surface through the passage used for the cars.v The first party of volunteers to enter the mine found five men badfy injured in a wrecked entry. Three of these probably will die. Mayor Bourland, of Ft. Smith, has is sued an appeal for aid for the families of the victims. Men on duty in the shaft house ran from that structure when the noise of the explosion came to their ears as a muffled roar, soon followed by puffs of smoke from the mouth of the shaft. Wild Confusion Reigned. The alarm spread quickly and for a time wild confusion reigned. Volunteers were called for to enter the shaft. Dozens stepped forward. A party was selected and had been lowered but a short distance into the shaft when the thickening smoke warned them that a fierce fire was in progress below and they were forced to return to the surface because of the deadly fumes. . An order was issued forbidding -any one Sappro8B! UW minWIvviiett news of this order spread the crowds in the vicinity of the mine, already griefstricken, succumbed to wild manifestations of grief. Here and there were to be seen groups of aged mothers, kneeling in the street, and praying with tremulous voices for husbands or sons. Young wives wept aloud, clung to each other in despair, some finally to sink thoroughly exhausted to the street moaning or frantically gasping out the names of entombed loved ones: Forty-three of the entombed . men are Americans and three are members of a surveying party. A OUERYJTO COST Of Producing Electricity' Is To Be Made. An investigation of the cost of production of electricity at the city light plant, by which the board of work may make an estimate of the cost of lighting Main street with cluster lights, will be undertaken shortly. On this report will depend in a large measure, the answer to (he committee from the Y. M. '- C. in its petition for cluster lights on Main street. The cost to the city of furnishing the "juice" for the lights will be one of the main points considered, and the board of works gave this subject considerable atention at the meeting-this morning. The report will be made in a few days, and the committee given the verdict of the board of works In about a week. , Plans were ordered prepared for a cement sidewalk on North west Second-street from Richmond avenue to Lincoln street. Milton Atkinson, owner of a lot on Richmond avenue, assessed over $208 when the street was improved, was given a reduction of twenty per cent., making a reduction of 941.08, which he accepted, obviating a lawsuit. Plans for a cement sidewalk on the east side of South Tenth street from E to F streets were ordered prepared. Plans were ordered for cement sidewalks, curbs and gutters for both sides of North Eleventh street from C to G streets. . A right of way from Rhoda Temple to the North Sixth street sewer, for a sanitary sewer was secured by - the board, the property owners desiring this improvement. TAFT IS LOSING BY COUNTOF VOTES .. (National Sews Association) FARGO, N. I, March Z. President Taft's vote in the presidential preferential primary in this state is rapidly diminishing as the results continue to come' in.- Returns are coming is very slowly. With only half of them complete today, La FoHettes indicated total vote Is 26.500 against . ltOO for Roosevelt and only 2,500 for President

A TERRIFIC STORM USHERS 111

THE OPENING INDIANA OUTLOOK PLEAM TO LEE Sixth District Conceded to Roosevelt Other Dis- , tricts Lining Up. (Palladium Spwial) INDIANAPOLIS, March 21. The campaign for delejtates to the Na tional Republican Convention practi cally closes in Indiana this week with the primaries to elect delegates to the district conventions. The Roosevelt managers are satisfied with the sit uation for they declare that they have perfected organizations in every district and will obtain the delegates from at least nine of these. The Sixth District has been conceded to the Roosevelt men and the Taft men confidentially admit that they are beaten in at least one other district. The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh District conventions will be held next Monday while the Second, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth will be on Thursday of next week. The Twelfth and Thirteenth District Conventions hold over until April. The state con vention for the selection of four dele-j gates at large to the National Convention will be held in Indianapolis next Tuesday. Edwin M. Lee, state manager of the Roosevelt campaign, is well satisfied with the district organizations and says that there is no doubt of the favorable outcome of next week's conventions. He says that it has been demonstrated to the Roosevelt Republicans that there is a definite organization behind ttyem and that if every Roosevelt man votes at the primaries, there will be a safe margin of Roosevelt delegates. . Spread False Reports. "It is a case of every Roosevelt Republican voting," said Mr. Lee, "and there will be no longer any question of the strong sentiment in favor of Col. Roosevelt among Indiana Republicans. The Taft managers have caused to be circulated over the country dis honest reports about the lack of Roosevelt sentiment in Indiana,, based on the, fact that the Taft men ; obtained delegates in the First and Sev enth Districts through fraud. But it will ia the other districts, it will be apparent that there is a general demand for the nomination of Col. Roosevelt." The announcement by the Taft managers that the name of Charles W. Fairbanks will be presented as a Candidate for the position of delegate at large to the National Republican convention has renewed the charge that Joe Kealing and other Fairbanks henchmen are seeking control of the state delegation to the National con vention with the hope, of being able to "start something" for the former vice president. In the early stages of the contest, the Kealing crowd was opposed to an instructed delegation, but the report that this attitude was In the hope of transferring the state strength to Fairbanks, caused so much opposition that Kealing had to consent to accept delegations instructed for Taft. But with Fairbanks as a member of the delegaUon the hope is now that a cry of 'state pride" may be raised among the delegates in case of a close race between Taft and Roosevelt, and that the delegates, under the . leader ship of Mayor Lew Shank of Indianap olis may bolt their instructions and vote for Fairbanks. HE WAS MEMBER OF A FAMOUS FAMILY f (National News Association) LONDON, March 21. The death of Arthur Sassoon, which occurred here a few days ago, has again brought to public attention the remarkable family of which he was one of the most prominent members. The story of the rise of the Sassoon family is as romantic as a chapter from the "Arabian Nights." Abdallab Sassoon, the father of Arthur Sassoon, was a Bagdad Jew. For ages the family had- been settled in Bagdad. They, had the Semitic talent for making money and keeping it, and transmitted the gift to their posterity. As merchants, bankers and financiers they waxed rich, generation after generation. Finally Abdallah Bassoon's great wealth aroused the envy of his neighbors and he found it advisable to quit Bagdad and locate in Bombay. In .Bombay old Abdallah continued to accumulate wealth. He extended his connections and became as powerful in Asia and northern Africa as the great Rothschild family was in Europe. Several of his sons, including the one who has just passed away, were sent to England to be educated , and remained here. - London society did not welcome the wealthy Oriental Jews at first. So the Sassoons waited patiently. And they hadn't long to wait either. Just how they managed K nobody knows, but it was not long before the late King Edward, then Prince of Wales had dined with each one of the brothers in torn. Society gasped, but sniffed no more From that time on the Sassoons were welcomed everywhere. To the time of his death King Edward remained firm in his friendship and freqneatly bestowed honors and other marks of his - favor igpon the three brothers.,, r - ---- - ; - v

DAY OF SPRING

WIRES AND LIMBS OF' TREES BROKEN UNDER ICE BURDEN Street Lights Go Out During 'the Worst Part of Storm, Making the Streets Very Dangerous. TRACTION SERVICE GREATLY CRIPPLED Loss From the Storm Will Total Several Thousands of Dollars, but No Injuries Are Reported. Despite the astronomical calcula- . tions to she affect that Wednesday was the first day of spring, a terrific rain, sleet and wind storm swept this city yesterday afternoon and evening with the fesult that the havoc wrought will amount to thousands-of dollars. , Street car service and Interurban traf - f ic were demoralized ; telephone and telegraph lines crippled ; the Game well system of the fire department considerably damaged; street lighting damaged and some of the city's finest shade trees ruined, . The lives of pedestrians were endangered by falling electric wires and limbs of trees. Low temperature caus ed the rain to freeze on the trees and the limbs, laden , with their heavy glittering burden dropped under - tho weight. About 9:30 the street lights and lights in many homes went out. .. Traffic 'la Ttetf Up. ' Between 5 and 6 o'clock the local officials of the T. H., L and E. Traotion company andhthe city system foresaw-just what would result, and lmme- ' diately every available man tn the construction repair department at the local barns ws - pressed into service. o'clock. -nme after time efforts were made by the company to operate caramon the different lines, but It proved s physical impossibility. Flashes of electricity flared brightly when the cars would attempt to move. AIL of the interurban crs running into this city-both from the east and west were delayed because of frequent stops to replace the ' trolley poles which refused to follow the ice-coated trolley wires. This morning no later- ' urbans were coming; in or going otat of 1 the city from the west, although most of the scheduled cars on the Ohio Electric line were operating. ' A high tension wire was down west of Cam-, bridge City and cars could not pass that point either going or coming. Scores of telephone calls were re- -ceived bys the police department reporting broken electric wires As far. as is known no one was injured, al-; though this fact is considered somewhat miraculous. ' . , Telephones Are Cripptad. ' f Manager William Bailey, of the Richmond Home Telephone companystated this morning that, the damage to his company wrought by the storm probably would amount to $1,000. A -number of circuits were down, several . poles throughout the city broken and wires of the company tangled with ' other electric wires. . .. "We are doing our . best to adjust matters as quickly as possible, said Mr. Bailey today. "All but two of our toll lines are out of commission. We have our regular force of sixteen men at work on the various lines throughout the city, and I have sent for ex- -tra linemen at Eaton and other towns. The men worked ail night and I believe that we will have things running smoothly again within a short time." Three of the four circuits of the Gamewe! fire alarm system Were burned out and Chief Miller and a number of men , were busy today remedying conditions. .The telegraph companies were great-" Iy hampered by the ice on the wires and a few wires were broken. Manager J. P. Freeman, of the local branch of the Western Union, stated today that, connections had been resumed on -most of the lines. The telegraph system along- the In-. dianapolis division of the Pennsylvania . railroad west of this city was (Continued on Page Six) THE WEATHER STATE Heavy snow in the north. Snow or rain and colder in the ' south.' Friday probably fair. LOCAL Snow and colder.

HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY.- ' Forecast for Richmond and Vicinity? Maximum temperature . in lad; :$4hours, 32 at 5 a. m. Thursday. 2M-: mum temperature -in last, 24 Irmrs, , 25 at noon Thursday. Temperitore afcl 12: JO p. m. today- 25. Barotaeter, 30. " Directum and velocity of wind. N. . 20 - miles per' hour. - PrecipitsUoa iT last 2 hours .t

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