Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 150, 29 April 1912 — Page 2

THE RICHMOND PAIIADItrM AND SUN-TEIEGBA3I. MONDAY, APRIL, 29, 1912. TORPEDO BOATS TO CONVOY TRANSPORT Two U. S. Destroyers Leave San Diego Harbor Un- . der Sealed Orders. JAPANESE BANQUET DR. CHAS. ELLIOTT Sim ARE KILLED IN OKLAHOMA GALE Reports Coming in Today of Havoc Created by the Tornado Saturday. SUICIDE EVIL WAS TOPICJOR DEUTER Salvation Army Leader Tells Pastors How to Check Its Growth. VIOLINIST MURDERSJS WIFE Albert De Brahms Then Commits Suicide When Police Are Called.

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(National News Association) SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 29 The torpedo boat destroyers Perry and Preble are at sea today sailing southward under sealed orders. It is believed that they have gone to join the army transport Buford and are headed for Mexican waters. It had been planned that the Buford was to put in here before beginning her trip along the Mexican coast to pick up .American refugees. While it has not been announced that the plans were changed it was believed today that the two smaller vessels would convoy the transport and that the Buford might not touch at 'tbla port If the Buford has received new orders, and will not stop here, it ls intimated in navy circles that there tmust be some urgent needs for haste.

Lost Saturday night between Country Club and 19th street, a small platinum chain with diamond pendant. jFlnder please return to The Starr 'Piano Company, 10th &. Main, and receive reward. CLARK IS LEADING IN SILVER STATE (National News Association) . COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April .29. That Champ . Clark will receive the entire Colorado delegation of twelve, was the prediction todays by iparty leaders just before the Demoicratio state convention was called to 'order. The Clark forces claimed 409 Instructed delegates while Wilson was !slz. The remaining 533 delegates are 'not instructed, but the Clark men say jthey will receive the support of a majority of these. The 'convention will 'name eight delegates-at-large. Two district conventions will be- held after- ; wards and" it Is expected they will follow the state conventions lead as to instructions. The Clark men will demand iron-bound Instructions for the Misourian. A STILL HUNT ON FOR TAX DODGERS Assessors in Wayne county are djow busy in their attempts to find persons who have been, dodging them for the past sixty days. The assessing period closes May 15, and the assessors are anxious to list every piece of property in their respective districts. Township Assessor Potter stated today that the assessors have almost covered their districts but that there are still a number of persons whom the assessors have been unable to "find at home," although they have made repeated calls. Assessor Potter declares that inere are some , persons who have 'avoided paying tax on property and also their poll tax for years and every effort is being made to assess them this year. ATTENDED FUNERAL OF COMRADE JACKSON :Mr. James S. Bolander, Mr. Allen OoggeshalL Mr. Lewis K. Harris, Mr. Allen W. Grave, Mr. Joseph P. Iliff, Mr. George L. Irwin, Mr. J. Frank iMaoke, and Mr Rufua A. Newman attended the fnneral of Comrade Lemuel Jackson, late of company F, Sixtyninth Indiana Infantry, on Sunday. The servtoes were held at the New Garden ohurch. one mile south of Fountain jOlty. " Rev. Zerbe of Williamsburg, officiated. KANSAS IS SAFELY FOR THE COLONEL :i J (National rlewa Association) TOPBKA. Kas., April 29. Theodore rRooserett will control the Kansas Rejpublicaxt state convention at Independence, My S. This was assured today when tetania from fourteen additional iceuntlea showed that the delegates to the state convention had been rnstructied for him. The colonel now has more than two-thirds of the delegates. He also oarrled the Sixth district and is i assured of sixteen of the state's twenty delegates in Chicago. City Statistics Death and Funerals. BLEMKE Catherine Blemke, aged (thirty-five years, died Sunday morning at her home one mile east of New Paris,, Ohio. She is survived by her husband, ' Frederick Blemke and four children. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at nine o'clock ;from the Catholic church at New Paris. Burial in St, Andrew's cemetery near this city. Father Highland, of Eaton, Ohio, will have charge of the services. Friends may call any time. McPHERSON Adrian A! McPherson, aged seventy years, died Sunday evening at seven-thirty o'clock at his home, 311 North Eighteenth street. Death was caused by paralysis. He is survived by a widow, one daughter and three sons. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon from the home. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Rev. S. R. Lyons of the Reld Memorial Presbyterian church will have charge of the services. Friends may call any time. Mr. McPherson was a member of the Sol Meredith Postj G. A. R. The post will hold services at the home this evening. The deceased was a member of the Reid Memorial church. Marriage Licenses. Byron L. Holton. 30, printer, Springfield. O.. and Minnie Biteman. 22. seamstress, city. Lawrence WhsJen, 19, painter, city, an Ethel Cash, IS, city.

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PEKTN, China, April 29. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University, and William J. Calhoun, U. S. Minister to China, with a number of leading Japanese and American residents were the guests at a dinner given in the Japanese legation here. In making an address Dr. Eliot expressed deep gratitude for the hearty welcome extended by his hosts and outlined the work of the Carnegie Foundation in endeavoring to thwart the malevolent influences which were contributing to ill feeling between tho nations. ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO THE RAILROADS Head of Locomotive. Engineers Demands Some Action within 24 Hours (National News Association) NEW YORK, April 29. Warren F. Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, issued an ultimatum to the fifty eastern railroads today that unless their managers came to an agreement with the engineers in regard to the wage question within 24 hours drastic action would be taken. Realizing the gravity of the situation the presidents of the roads involved prepared to take the matter out of the hands of the general conference committee to deal directly with the Brotherhood officials. Labor Commissioner Neil said this afternoon he would continue his work as he had been officially apprised that an ultimatum had been issued. ESCHENFELDER HAS A NEW CONFESSION Another partial confession was made by Herbert Eschenfelder to the mayor this morning in a letter addressed to the mayor. The letter, which is not given out for publication, refers to some more of Eschenfelder's thieving expeditions. The man is still confined at the county jail until the expiration of his present sentence. He was sent down for Stealing brass, and since then has confessed to about ten robberies. TWO HORSES FOUND A big team of horses found running loose on the streets yesterday by two colored lads and taken to the city building and placed In a livery barn near by, were claimed by the owner yesterday afternoon. The horses out out of the pasture northeast of the city. Water Necessary For Crops. A grass plant will In the course of a hot day exhale its own weight of water, and a young leaf of wheat or rye exposed to the sun may even exhale its own weight in an .hour. Experiments summarized by Storer indicate that "more than 300 pounds of water pass through a plant and are transpired from its leaves for every pound of dry matter fixed or assimilated by the plant." In Wisconsin, King found the mean amount of water used bf barley, oats, corn, clover, peas and potatoes in producing a ton of dry matter ranged from 270 tons for corn to 676 tons for clover, "the average for the six crops being nearly 450 tons, or four acre Inches for each ton of dry matter." Agricultural Department Year Rook. Wheat, Barley and Oats. A bushel of wheat weighs on an average 60 pounds, barley 47 pounds and oats SS to 40 pounds.

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(National News Association) OKLAHOMA. April 29. Sixty Der-

sons were killed and more than a hun- . , , . , . urea injurea vj me lornaao mat swept parts of Oklahoma and Texas Satur-1 day, according to reports that have come in today from the stricken districts. Fifty-four bodies have been recovered and others who are missing and unaccounted for are expeoted to bring the total up to sixty or more. Telegraph and telephone communication with all the points affected has not been re-established and details of

the disaster are not yet in. No definite. elr own ,lTe8 and of th,8

information has as yet been received from El Dorado, where it was reported late Saturday a number of persons had been killed. A heavy death list was received from the towns of Foss. Butler, Sentinel, Hinton, Hobart, Lugert and Calumet. All central Oklahoma was demoralized by the storm. Wires were swept down and railroad traffic delayed. Heavy rains followed the disturbance and in many places rivers are out of their banks. Te floods have prevented parties from visiting many sec tions that were swept by the storm. CITY FINDS THAT TEAMS ARE SCARCE Street Commissioner Genn reported today that he would have to release some of the men on his street cleaning gang if he could not secure more teams. He has one on the "chuck hole repair gang," five hauling crushed stone and five more following the street cleaning gang and hauling away the debris. He was told to hire teams If he has to go into the country to get them, and not to delay the work. He reported more chuck holes found by the street cleaners. The petition calling for a sanitary sewer from C to D street between South Third and Fourth street was adopted. Five foot cement sidewalks on North D street fjom Fifteenth to Sixteenth street were ordered. Four foot sidewalks on John street from Sheridan to Boyer street were ordered. "Nothing new" was reported in the matter of taking the street car track out of the Glen. The board is now considering the purchase of an auts truck for the city light plant. This would save the worry of hiring horses, and save money for the city It is believed. A motorcycle for the "tree butchering" brigade would also .be purchased if thjs pl&n was adopted. A Willful Misunderstanding. Pitt was induced by Sir John Sinclair to constitute a board of agriculture toward the end of the eighteenth century and make him the president Having enjoyed his office for a few years, Sinclair began to desire promotion in the social scale. "Dear Mr. Pitt," n-9 wrote to the prime minister, "don't you think the president of the board of agriculture should be a peer?" "Dear Sir John Sinclair," replied Pitt, "I entirely agree with you. I have therefore appointed Lord Somerville to succeed you as president of the board of agriculture." Sir John Sinclair went about wringing his hands and exclaiming: "Dear me, desr me! It was such a willful mlf understanding'!" 8tartled the Quakers. Of Diggle. Mr. Barham used to tell many absurd stories. The most amusing, however much to be condemned, of his practical Jokes was one in which his friend Barham also bad a share. The two boys in course of one of their walks discovered a Quakers' meeting house and forthwith procured a penny tart of a neighboring pastry cook. Furnished with this, Diggle marched boldly into the building and, holding up the delicacy In the midst of the grave assembly, said with perfect solemnity, "Whoever speaks first shall hare this pie." "Friend, go thy way, commenced a drab colored gentleman rising; "go thy way." "The pie is yours, sir!" exclaimed Master Diggle, politely, and placing It before the astonished speaker, hastily effected his escape. English College Mr. Maine Counties. The three original counties of Maine had good old English county names, York, Cumberland and Lincoln. Only two, Oxford and Somerset, have been similarly named since, all the rest having good American appellations, for the names of Androscoggin, Aroostook, Kennebec Penobscot. Piscataquis and Sagadahoc find their origin among the aborigines, while Franklin, Hancock. Knox and Washington bear the names of distinguished Americans of the whits race. QUALITY

Speaking before the members of the Richmond Ministerial association at

he "ular mf etln of that organismtlon -this morning, Captain Herman H, j Deuter. head of the local branch of the Salvation Army, deplored the Increase in the number of suicides in this city and In the country in general. Captain Deuter declared that the number of suicides is increasing with astonishing rapidity. He stated that every organization of every character should assist in checking the spread of this evil. Captain Deuter gave statistics on the number of suicides in the world last vear Khrva-inc that inn ftrtrt nor. number from 12,000 to 15,000 persons committed suicide in the United States. There were eight suicides in Richmond during the year of 1911 and three suicides outside of the city, making a total of eleven In Wayne county. "It is due to the nervous pressure, the ruBh, care and hurry of our work," said Mr. Deuter. "The anti-suicide bureau of the Salvation Army is doing everything it possibly can do to lessen this evil. Last year the bureau saved 875 would-be-suicides from killing themselves." Captain Deuter asserted that he and his co-workers in Richmond saved seven persons from ending their lives, one being a woman. The captain explained the methods used by the Army in saving people from suicide. He said that in mixing with the poorer classes, among whom the suicide rate is large, they would discover persons upon whom the duties of life were wearing and would get them to unburden their troubles. Interest would be shown in their cases and help extended them and they would be encouraged to take a more optimistlo view of life. BIBLE CONFERENCE HERE IS POSTPONED Because there were so few responses from college and university professors the May Bible Study conference which was to have been held in this city May 2 and 3, has been indefinitely postponed. Many of the most prominent professors throughout the country who were expected to attend the conference have written John R. Mott, who was to have presided at the sessions, that on account of preparations for graduation it would be a physical Impossibility for them to attend. Just when the Conference is 'o be held, is'not known. PART OF BEALLVIEW PARK TO BE SOLD 'Vlhe ground lying between South M and N streets" and Eighth and Ninth streets, formerly included in the Beallvlew park, owned by the South Side Improvement association, is being sold Into building lots. The remainder of the park will be enclosed by a board fence, to be used as a private park.J As far as is knowkn there will be no carnivals held at the Beallvlew park this year, although this matter along with others will be discussed at the meeting of the association one week from tomorrow night. (.The pavilion at the park has been moved to the east so that the west lots could be sold.jThe association is organizing a baseball team to be known as the South Stders. Gilded Eggs. In Persia It is the custom to make presents of eggs richly gilded and painted. The Persians give presents of eggs on the first day of the new year, "because the egg- marks the beginning of things." ' s- fc

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FOR COMMENCEMENT v Thirty-two Graduates This Year From the Wayne Township Schools. The twenty-sixth annual commencement of the Wayne township schools will be held next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the high school auditorium. There will be thirty-two graduates from the fifteen district schools. The Rev. Arthur S. Cates. pastor of the Grace M. E. church, will deliver the class address. The program follows: Light Cavalry Suppe High School Orchestra Will Earhart, Director Invocation , Spring Gladness Kern Children's Chorus "A Day in Venice" . . Ethelbert Nevln Dawn; 2, Gondoliers; S. Venetian; 4, Good Night Orchestra Address Rev. Arthur S. Cates Queen of May Mlessner Children's Chorus Presentation of Diplomas . . Charles O. Williams, County Supt. Patriotic Medley Children's Chorus and Orchestra. Benediction ....Rev. Arthur S. Cates The list of graduates is as follows: District No. 1. Emma Marie Barton, Viola E. Rupe, Carl Cook, Ines Townsend, and Mary McEldowney; No. Z. Earl Cook, Edward Klrkman and Enlce Worley; No. 4. Wayne Miller; No. 6. Zetta Markley, Ralph MarUey. David Hoover, Pearl James and Elma Sparks; No. 7. Luclle White; No. 9. Katberlne Kenworthy, Donald II.' Bell, Mary L. Parks; No. 10. Ruth Heigher, Roscoe Meyer and John Spencer; No. 11. Russell Neff. Irene H. Allsobrook and Irene M. Price; No. 12. Malinda Rodenberg and Hannah Rodenber; No. 13. Alfred Stlnson, Harvey Stanley and Everett J. Smith; No. 14. Lee Beach; No. 15. Esra Turner and Harold Norris. James H. Howartb, trustee of Wayne township, asserts that the past school year has been one of the best from every standpoint in the history of the township schools. The members of the advisory board are Richard A. Davenport, president; Jesse A. Bailey, secretary; and Michael Kendall. The teachers are No. 1, J. C. Starr and Edna L. Skinner; No.. 3, Clara Porter and Francis Simmons, No. 4, Elmina Stldham and No. 5. Cora Nolder, No. 6. Ora M. White and Lora Eldrldge; No. 7. Elenita Simmons; No. 9, Kate Stanton and Maude Norris; No. 10. Nellie Morrow and Martha P. Jackson; No. 11. Ross N. Lammott and Marguerite Wilson; No. 12, John O. Edgerton; No. 13, Ruby Schneider; No. 14. Mary K. Fisher and No. 15. Mary McClellan. Grace B. Gormon is supervisor of music. ABINGTON SCHOOLS. Following Is the program for the graduation exercises of the Abington township schools, which Is to be held at the K. of P. hall, next Thursday at 8 o'clock. Music Invocation F. W. Chamberlain Music Address Charles W. Jordan Music Presentation of Diplomas Benediction Music Eight students will graduate from the eighth grade. They are William Cook, Russell Hunt, Inez Meek, Robert Merkamp, Florence Miller, Helen McCashland, Roy McMath, and Mary Parshall.

DIED AT NOBLESVILLE, SATURDAY The many friends of Miss Ella Hurlock will regret to learn of her death at Noblesville, Indiana, Saturday, April the 27th. Miss Hurlock was head maker for Mrs. C. A. Brehm, the milliner, for about three years.

(National Naws Association) NEW YORK. April 29. After remaining for more than thirty-six hours In his apartments at 229 Weet S5th street with the body of his beautiful young wife whom he had killed Albert De Brahma, a violinist well known in New York and Paris, shot and killed himself while the police were breaking into the apartment today. A mysterious feature of the tragedy is the fact that an elderly woman who was a visitor at the DeBrahms apartment Just before noon and left showing no signs of excitement despite, the police state, she must have known something was wrong, for an Investigation has revealed scattered and broken furniture, evidently disarranged while the murdered woman was fighting for her life. The murdered and the suicide were discovered when the elevator boy found two notes beneath the door of the DeBrahms apartment. The boy found one of the letters was addressed to himself. The other was addressed to Mrs. C. E. DeBrahms of Union Hill. N. J., mother of the dead musician. Upon reading his note the boy called in a policeman. Mrs. DeBrahm's body was found in the bathtub terribly disfigured, apparently from acids.

DeBrahm's body was found in a chair. It was still warm and he evidently shot himself when he learned a policeman was called. The police think DeBrahms was Insanely jealous of his wife and killed her In a fit of jealousy. The dead man had purchased a big trunk and it was filled with clothes and the police think DeBrahms had intended to flee. PROOF OF GENTILITY. Bleevee That Hid the Hands 8 he wad the Wsara ra Didn't Work. The practice observed among Spanish hidalgos of allowing the finger nails to grow into claws was to demonstrate that they had never done any manual work. The same custom exists among the Chinese for the same reason. Among the Romans the wearing of long sleeves, which came down over the hand, was the fashion In aristocratic circles. This advertised to the world that the wearer did not engage in any labor and freedom from employment was the condition of respectability. English boots and shoes have been designed more or less for the same purpose as that of the Chinese, who bind their women's feet In proof of their geutlllty. As early as the time of William Rufus -peaked toed boots and shoes" had their points made like a scorpion's tail, and a courtier named Robert stuffed his out with tow. and caused them to curl round in the form of a ram's horn, a fashion which took mightily among the nobles. It is plain that the purpose of this fashion was to show that the privileged wearer was not dependent on any kind of labor or fleetnesa of foot for bis daily bread. The practice of wearing tight fitting boots and shoes Is an old one. for Chaucer, writing of them In his day, cays that it Is Merveyle aith that thay sttta ao pi em. How they coma on or oS asaln. Later, in 1765. Horace Walpole said. "T am now twenty years on the right side of red heels.' Harper's Weekly. HUMAN LIFE. Greatness and littleness are terms not of the quantity but of the quality of human life. If a man has a great conception of life and is putting all the little things he is doing into that conception he is a great man. Phillip Brooks. ii i

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TWO iflRGE BANKS AT CAPITAL UNITF Indiana National and Capitd National Formed Combination Today. (National Nawa Association) INDIANAPOLIS, April 29. Acting upon the recommendation Volney Lamott, president of the Indiana national bank, and Frank Stalmaker. president of the Capital national bank, the boards of directors of the two lnstitu-. tions at a meeting today agreed upon the consolidation of the two banks. The new bank will open for business on July 1 as the Indiana national bank. It will have a capital of $2,000,000 and a surplus of $1,000,000. The total deposits of the two banks will aggregate about $15,000,000 and will make the new Institution the largest bask in the city. Mr. Lamott will act as chairman of the board of directors and Mr. Stalmaker will be president.

Y. M. C. A. NOTES . The first rehearsal of "The Urper Trail- which is to be given the first week in June by the members of the boys' department of the association, will be held Tuesday evening at the association building at 7 o'clock. The play portrays the camp life. About thirty boys will take part In the play The proceeds from the affair will be used in defraying expense! of the boys', summer camp. STOP PAYING RENT! Choice strictly modern home, West Side, at right price. Buyer can pay $600 cash, balance like ran. I25.C0 each month. Phone 1730; 121 South 13th. Turner W. Hadlay. MURRAY'S WEEK APRIL 29TH Sully & Larsen Comedy Tilt Board Acrobats OTHER FEATURES GENNETT THEATRE THURSDAY, MAY 2 The Show You Know AL. G. FIELD Greater Minstrels Oldest Best There are others, but none so good. There's a Reason" 26th-Annual Tour-26th Time Tried and Tested All new and better than ever before. You remember how good they were last season they are better this. - - s. The Best of the Good , Ones: - Bert 8wor, Johnny Healy.'HSrry Shunk, Gov. Bowen, Nick Glynn, Frank Miller, Frank Brown, Bonl Mack, Paul LaLonde, Jack Richards, Alton Robertson, Walter Sherwood, Herbert Wlllison, R. B. Merville, Harry F. Sievere,' W. H. Starr, Earl Woods and a competent company of 50. THE ONLY BIG 1 MINSTREL SHOW All New and Bettsthan Ever Before. Prices 25c $1.00. it Just Received! 100 Gallons New Fancy MAPLE SYRUP Cooper's Grocery The Greek CANDY STORE roR Fine Candles and Ice Cream The BEST COMPANY : is that which does the J best for POLICY- : HOLDERS The Northwestern H. F. PARDIECK, District Manager Rooms 6 and 7 Ksllylock, Phone 165