Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 158, 8 May 1912 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 158. RICII3IOXD, IXD., WEDXESDAI EVENING, MAY 8, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. ? POOL PIPERS First Witness in U. S. Suit Against Steel Trust THE NATURE BIG PERCENT OF THE VOTE TO REGISTER Tomorrow is registering day for Indiana voters. Better take advantage of this first opportunity. You might not be able to register in September or October and thereby lose your vote at the November elections. EB OF CHARGES IS TESTIFIED its J

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Former Employe of Steel Trust Subsidiary Tells How He Obeyed Orders of Company Official.

VERY SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY GIVEN Same Witness, H. A. Whitney, Alleges Attempt Was Made to Influence His Evidence in Case. (National News Association) NEW YORK, May 8. The destruction of papers relating to a pooling agreement by one of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel corporation to prevent them being seized by the federal government and produced in the suit to dissolve the alleged trust, were told when the hearing before Henry T. Brown as examiner was resumed in the customs house today. The witness was Harry A. Whitney, formerly corresponding salesman in the wire-rope department of the American Steel & Wire company. He had all of his firm's papers relating to its participation in the wire-rope pool, he declared, and destroyed them by direction of Vice President Frank Baackes of the American Steel & Wire company. ' .. Put Papers In Trunk. " placed . all the papers relating to the pool in a trunk," he said "and took them to the office of George Cragin, assistant sales agent at the company's works at Worcester, Mass. This was either in October or November, 1911. Vice President "Baackes then directed sit to destroy the contents of the trunk. He said to me, 'Harry, I want you to see that all these papers are destroyed. I had the trunk - carried down, to the boiler room of the plant and personally saw to it that every one of the papers was thrown Into the furnace." Whitney created a sensation by testifying on direct examination that "Cragen had tried to influence his testimony before the federal grand jury, which investigated the American Steel & Wire company. "He told me that he had testified that it was he and not Mr. Baackes who gave instructions to destroy the papers. He said he hoped I would snake my testimony conform with what he had already said." On cross examination Whitney testified that Mr. Baackes had met him outside the grand jury room and told 'him that he (Baackes) hoped that 'Whitney would not insist that it was Baackes who had instructed him to destroy the American Steel & Wire let(ters. SCUFFLE OVER STUD lAbout Midnight Arouses the Entire Neighborhood. "Help! Thieves! Murder! . Police! find other emphatic exclamations disturbed the householders in the neighborhood of orth Tenth and C streets .at 11:30 last night. One man ran from his home with a shotgun, another with p. hatchet and a third with a club to ,llnd a colored woman and a well dressed white man arguing about a diamond ehirt stud which the white man said had been stolen from him. Officer Menke arrived on the scene in a short time and arrested the woman, who gave the name of Mattie Edwards of Dayton Ohio. The man gave the name of Charles Barton of Indianapolis. The story told by Barton before returning to Indianapolis, his home, was that the woman with a colored companion, stopped him at the alley between Tenth and Ninth streets as he was going to the depot and she started to embrace him. meantime disengaging his diamond shirt stud. He called for help when he felt the tug at his shirt, and the woman's companion left in a hurry. The crowd arrived In a short time, and a search of the ground nearby resulted in the finding of the shirt Btud, - valued at $400. The woman is alleged to have thrown the stud to the ground when she saw the theft had been discovered. The man seemed anxious to. let the matter drop and refused to prosecute the woman after he found his diamond. The woman was examined at police station, but said she had been attacked by the man and that she did not touch the shirt stud. As the stolen goods were not found on her person, and no witnesses except the missing escort of the woman saw the affair, she was released. STATE CLOSES CASE (National News Association' WYTHESVTLLE, Va., May 8. The state closed its case against Floyd Allen at noon. Allen's lawyers will consume about two days in examining the ithirty-five witnesses to be introduced Jhy the defense, "

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Wallace Buell, formerly assistant to the general manager of the American Steel and Wire Company, is here shown testifying before Special Examiner Brown at the first hearing of the Government's suit to dissolve the Steel Trust, which is now going on in New York. ,

WEST POINT BOYS DEFY COMMANDANT Military Academy in an Uproar Over the Actions of the Cadet Corps. (TTatlonal News Association) NEWBURGH, N. Y., May 8. Not in years has West Point been worked up to the condition in which it has been during the last week. One exciting incident in which cadets were involved followed another in quick succession, until on ' Saturday came the climax, when the entire corps "got in bad

with Major-Gen. Thomas Barry," thdMndianapoIis, and Frank Cantwell ot

superintendent of the United States Military Academy. The episode which aroused tte indignation of Major-Gen. Barry occurred while the 560 cadets were assembling in the cadet mess hall on Saturday for their midday meal. A cadet who was seated near a window espied the General passing the building and immedaitely shouted "Four for the Supe," which is said to be a golf term meaning "clear the field," "be on your guard." It frequently is heard at West Point on a pleasant afternoon when Gen. Barry and other army of ficers are playing on the golf links. As soon as the remark reached the superintendent's ears he wheeled and dashed into the mess hall, and. calling the cadets to attention, demanded to know who had made the remark he had overheard and which had angered him. It is said that for a few minutes one could have heard a pin drop in the dining room, but no one volunteered any explanation. Each of the tables in the mess is in charge of a first class man? and Cadet Crawford, who has charge of one near a window, was then asked by the General if he colud inform him who had made the remark, and the cadet is said to have replied: "General, I believe in justice, which you always call for, but I cannot conscientiously inform you who shouted from the window." The general then held the entire corps of cadets in the mess for an extra half hour in a vain attempt to find the culprit and then dismissed them. It is said the first classman probably will be "skinned" for his failure to give the desired information. "Skinning", in the varnacular of the cadet corps is equivalent to punishment, which in this case may take the form of demerits or compelling the cadet to walk under arms in the area of the barracks during the hours off duty, or it may go so far as to deprive him of all-privileges until graduation in June. Not since the time when the' sunset gun was taken from the plains, hoisted on the roof of the barracks and discharged at midnight has there been such an incident . At that time the cadet corps, which was then only about half as large as it is now, was routed out of bed in the middle of a cold night in January, placed under arms in the barracks yard and the men kept there all night to secure the names of the offending cadets, but the cadets never gave the names, and it was only years after at a class reunion that the true story of the firing of the sunset gun from the roof of the barracks was brought out. The guilty men were members of the first class. TOWNSHIP SCHOOL PUPILS INCREASE A gain of twenty-three in the school enumeration of Wayne township outside of the city of Richmond was made this year over the previous enumeration. Last year the enumeration of children in the township of school age was 916 and this year it was 939. - "

ALLEGED DIPS ARE ARRESTEDTUESDAY Three Men Captured at the Show Grounds All Protest Innocence.

Three alleged pickpockets were arrested yesterday afternoon at 4:45 at Nineteenth and North F strets after the police had been notified by witnesses that they saw the men picking the pockets of two visitors to the circus. , , The men give their names as John Willis of Aurora, 111., Henry Wyles of Indianapolis. Cantwell claims to be the manager of Jack Dillon, the Indianapolis boxer, and, when arrested, to have been on his way to the showgrounds to see Chief of Police Gormon about securing privilege for boxing contests here. He says Wyles is an Indianapolis bartender but that he does not know Willis. Reuben D. Rich, 34 Richmond avenue, lost about $25 and Shuyler Snider 844 South Fifth street, lost a small sum by the operations of pickpockets. They allege the men' arrested did the work. The arresting of the men created 1 much excitement at the show grounds Snider with his wife and his small baby, is said to have started to get on to a street car when one of the trio of alleged "dips" slipped a hand Into his side pocket, securing his purse. Supt. Alexander Gordon of the local street car system with one of his men was present and saw the theft. Gordon grabbed the pickpocket and banged him enthusiastically and heavily on the head, then handed the man over to Officer Longman, who rushed to the scene. Gordon then made the other men alight from the street car they had entered. Then the entire outfit was arrested by Officers Longman, Wierhake and Little. No charges were placed against the men in police court. Prosecutor Ladd says he will enter petit larceny charges against them in circuit court. The men were all searched. No stolen wallets were found on them. Willis will not discuss his affairs nor reply to any questions except on topics not related to the case against him. He had over $57 on him when arrested, tyles and Cantwell protest their innocence. Cantwell is a large, heavily built man, and says he couldn't get his hand into a flour barrel." Wyles had but $10.50 in his pockets when arrested and Cantwell had $2.50. TROOPS KILL MINER And Two Others and a Woman Were Wounded. (National News Association) POTTSVILLE, Pa., May 8. An idle anthracite miner was shot to death and two others and a woman were critically wounded by state troopers while quelling mob violence near Minersville today. AH the vicUms are foreigners. The outbreak occurred when a mob stopped several pumpmen who were on their way to work in the Pine .Hill colliery. Under the rules of the union they were permitted to remain at their posts, but the foreign miners evidenUy did not understand this. " " Five hundred, men and women, the majority of them foreigners, turned the pumpmen back.- Then- they hegan fighting among themselves. Stones were thrown and clubs wielded. A detachment of state troopers hastened, up and ordered the rioters to disperse. They were arrested with a chorus of curses and a volley of stones. Some one in the mob drew a pistol and'flred at the troopers. The troopers . drew their weapons and returned the fire bringing down three members of the imob. The others fled. - - - - -

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A LAB0RCQNFL1CT Riot Causes High Feeling Against Industrial Workers of the World. (National News Association) SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 8. Bitter feeling against the Industrial Workera of the World which has been smouldering here for weeks threatened tp break out into violence today following an attack upon two policemen here and the sounding of a riot call afterwards that brought every fighting person, poncemenTT'mllIlJTnTen"and citizeneTto" tne streets foF"duly' Ffre. thousand men and some women, most of them armed thronged the streets indignant at the attack. Today eightyfour members .of the Industrials routed out by the beligerent citizens are marching northward. The attack on the two policemen, officers R. C. Stevens and R. M. Hadden occurred at Thirteenth and K. streets. The policemen were waylaid. A dozen shots were fired, the officers darwing their own weapons and returning the fire. Both officers were wounded, Stevens being shot through the upper arm. Hedden, in addition to flesh wounds from the bullets was struck a glancing blow over the .right eye with an axe carried by one of his assailants. The attackers fled. The two wounded officers unable to say how many men had attacked them, notified police headquarters and the riot call was sent out. A searching party was sent through the quarter of the city where the Industrial workers usually congregate. In a boarding house in this section of the city an unknown member of the Workers was found lying on a bed. Bullets had pierced his right hip, left thigh and his head. He was said by physicians to be dying. 4 Officer Hadden, in spite of the blow from the ax which had stunned him, was taken to the rooming house. He identified the man as one of his assailants. The wounded man could not be identified. -He was in a serai-stupor and could not talk. The person who had responded to the -riot calL assured that the Industrial Workers were behind the disturbance went to an old school house in the old section of. the city, where a party of the industrials were camped. They routed them out, 84 in number, and marched them to the North edge of the city. There they told the Industrials to march Northward and admonished them it would be unwise for them ever to returp. The 'party of workers, cursing and protesting started away from the city. . Police later searched a house at Thirteenth and K streets believed to be the headquarters of the workers here. In it a quantity of revolvers and a number of sticks of dynamite was found. Later hidden in a secret place in the cellar a large amount of nitroglycerine was discovered. The authorities today are planning a stringent campaign against the workers" J TWO POSTAL CLERKS MAKE UNIQUE TRADE f Joseph Triever, city mail carrier No. 8 who has been in the service since 1907, and carrier since 1908, will leave this city for Somerset, Pennsylvania, the first of June to take a position in Somerset, Pennsylvania,- the first of June to take a position in the post office at that city as clerk. He will trade places with . clerk Charles R. Stoddard, who will colke here as car rier of Route No. .J Trievers feet have become, injured by the long trips his route takes him over every" day, and the post office department after receiving his application for a change to inside work, secured the transfer between Trievers and Stoddard. - -

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ent Coal Dealer, Outlines the Allegations Against Judge Archibald. CERTAIN DEALS TO BE INQUIRED INTO Some Busiaess Transactions of the Commerce Court Justice Are Alleged to Be Questionable. (National N(ws Association) SCRANTON. Pa., May 8. For the first time since charges that Judge R. W. Archibald of the U. S. Commerce Court had engaged in a questionable deal with the Erie railroad were laid before the Interstate Commerce Commission, W. P. Boland, an independent coal operators of this city, representative of interests allied with the prosecution, today gave out several alleged specific instances on which the charges were based. The result of the investigation of the department of justice into the Archibald case, which is now before the house judiciary committee, covers a period of several years, it is said, and deals for the purchase and sale of culm dumps, the offering of notes for discount and the trial of a suit against Roland's coal company in the United States district court feature. Chief among the allegations, these men say, is the recent deal whereby, it is claimed, Judge Archibald and E. J. Williams, a former mining 1 man, were to buy ,the, Katydid, culn dump. at Moosic from the Erie railroad com pany and ah outside Interest fof-S,-000 and sell It to the Lakawana and Wyoming Valley railroad, an electric line, for $35,000. Another Allegation. Next in importance. It is said, is the allegation that Judge Archibald bad, through Williams, suggested that the Marian county coal company by selling its property to a client he had in mind could escape the trouble and expense involved in a prosecution being carried by that company against the D. L. & W. railroad company before the Interstate Commerce Commission, and a suit against the company by John W. Peal, a coal sales agent of New York. A note for J500 indorsed by Judge Archibald and offered by E. J. Williams to Boland for discount will also be featured in the case, it is said. Boland in placing his charges before the Interstate Commerce Commission Is said to have made the statement to that body that unless they took Immediate action in his case he believed he was to be wiped out of existence' by the coal companies. The charges were so serious that the commission laid them before President Taft and secret service agents were sent here to investigate them. The name of the D. L. & W. railroad came into the case for the Srst time and it wa3 said here that E. E. Loomis president of the D. L. & W. Coal company, is expected to be subpoenaed before the congressional committee as a witness. Was Urged to Sell. Last fall, it is said, Williams, a life long friend of Judge Archibald, anh a business friend of Boland, went to Boland's office with a suggestion that a sale of the Marian coal company would help Boland's litigation and restore to him the money he had put into the property. Williams told Boland, it is said, that Judge Archibald had a client who would buy the proyerty, but did not give the name of that client He is alleged to have asked that Boland sell for $100,000 "and secure options on the stock in the company, and to have said that Judge Archibald would put the deal through. Boland, it is said agreed and secured the options and then reported to Williams and Attorney G. M. Watson, county slllcitor, that he was ready for the sale. When the sale lagged Boland investigated, it is claimed, and found that the D. L. & E. railroad company was the client to buy him out. At that time Boland was pressing his case against that railroad before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Deal Fell Through. The deal fell through and Boland is said to have continued an investigation, the result of which is said to have been that when It came to baying the Marian coal company the railroad company had been told that $150,000 and not the $100,000 that Boland was to get was the bottom price for the company's interests. Several years ago. it Is said. Williams went to Boland's office asking that he be given $500 for a note indorsed by Judge Archibald. At that time Boland was a defendant in a suit In the -court over which Judge Archibald was presiding. Boland refused to discount the note and Williams is reported to have stated that he made a mistake in not doing so. This transaction supported by affidavits, it is said, will be offered In evidence at the hearing.

LOUISIANA TROOPS FIGHT THE FLOODS National Guardsmen in Boats Guard Levees and Rescue the. Victims.

(National News Association) NEW ORLEANS, May 8. Entirely surrounded by the flooding waters of the Mississippi river, destruction threatened the village of Lettsworth. 55 miles north of Baton Rouge today. Boats manned by National guardsmen were sent in an attempt to rescue the 500 residents of the village. A crevasse in the levee just north of the vil lage caused it to be surrounded by water and the torrent was still rising rapidly at latest accounts. Twenty thousand persons have been rescued up to date and are in need of succor. All are Buffering privations as a result of lack of food and cloth ing. In many instances homes of ref ugees were washed away by the torrent. In addition to sufferers in the Mississippi valley. 12,000 are homeless in the valley of 'the Red river. The state has been asked to give them assistance. State troops are rounding up all the idle negroes in this and other cities up the lower Mississippi valley, putting them to work strengthening the levees at points where they are threatened. The professors of the Baton Rouge university have formed an employment bureau to hire workmen to work upon the levees. A committee has? been appointed to raise funds to reimburse the laborers. Practically all the students of the university are working upon the dikes. Free rations are being given to all who go to work. .TAT serious "boil", developed opposite Bayou '8a"ra near "New Roads early today. The levee at that point was strengthened and later reports said the fears had been quelled. The navy department has instructed the battleship Nebraska to give any aid possible to the flood refugees. The commander of the battleship placed the vessels launches at the disposal of the rescue workers and pilots from New Roads who know the rivers currents were put upon the boats as pilots. While reports from the North were a little more encouraging today, the situation will remain critical for days and the general situation as far aa it embraces the suffering of the .flood refugees Is vlrually at the climax of Its acuteness. It is estimated that 111,000 persons living between the mouth of the Arkansas river and the gulf are receiving government relief. MRS, BODKINS WAS F0UI1DJ0T GUILTY Woman Was Almost Prostrated With Joy Case Was Bitterly Contested. A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury today in the case of the state versus Mrs. Reba Bodkins, who was charged with receiving stolen goods from Herbert Eschenfelder. The case was tried in the Wayne circuit court. With a sigh of relief and a smile on her tear-stained countenance, Mrs. Bodkins shook the hands of each juror and expressed her thanks to them. The jury received the case shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. but did not reach an agreement until 9 o'clock last night. Nine ballots were taken, the jurors being divided in their opinions as to the guilt or innocence of the woman, from the first to the eighth ballot. On the first ballot seven members of the jury stood for acquittal and five for conviction. The strain under which the woman has been placed for the past week and the suspense of awaiting the verdict of the jury almost prostrated her. While the case will not be set down as one of the most important in the criminal annals of Wayne county, yet it attracted a great deal of attention and one of the largest galleries which has attended a trial in the circuit court for some time was present throughout the hearing of the case. Mrs. Bodkins was charged with having secreted articles taken into her home by Eschenfelder. She disclaimed all knowledge of any articles hidden in h?r house. CHARGES RENEWED fNa.tiona.1 News Association! WASHINGTON. Msy 8. Representative Nelson of Wisconsin, today renewed charges before the house committee on expenditures that the meat law of 1906. is not being in forced and thata an alliance exists between meat packers and responsible government officials. - - -

Republican, Democratic and Socialistic Party Leaders Urged Citizens to Register Tomorrow.

ALL OF OFFICIALS ARE WELL SCHOOLED. Those in Charge of the Registration Are Trained Men Complete List of Places to Register. Leaders and workers in the Republican, Democratic and Socialist . parties in Wayne county are busy today urging members to register tomorrow, in order that a full vote may be polled at the November election. Tomorrow is the first day the boards of registration will be in session. It is not obligatory for a voter to register tomorrow, as there will be two other periods for registering, but the voters are being urged to register immediately so that in the event they cannot register at the other times of registration, they will not lose their vote ia November. Albeit there has been considerable misunderstanding In regard to certain features of the new registration law. It is believed that there will be no difficulty tomorrow Insofar as Wayne county is concerned, as schools of Instructions have been held and all of the inspectors in the various precincts have been Informed what to do and how to do It. County Auditor Bowman has also sent out letters and postcards to every Inspector explaining different sections of the law, and opinions sent ont by Attorney General Honan. Clerks are Qualified. The inspector In each precinct has secured a room in which voters may register-and. has 'received all supplies treceseary for the registration board. Up to this 'afternoon, according to reports, most of the clerks of the registration boards had been qualified. "It Is necessary that all voters be registered in order to vote at the fall election and the best time to register Is at the first time.' said Will J. Robbins, county chairman of the Republican county central committee. Mr. Robbins says that he believes there will be little difficulty experienced by the inspectors or clerks tomorrow. ' In case five voters petition the registration board in their precinct for a continuance of the session the board will hold a two day session any In the event that another petition Is received signed by five voters the board will be in session for three days. The other periods for registering will be in September and October. The registration boards will be In session from 5 o'clok in the morning until C in the evening. Places to Refltstsr. Appended is the list of places for registering: Boston township. Porterfleld's shop. Boston. Ablngton township. K. P. temple, Abington. - Center township, precinct 1,. residence of A. O. Deering, third house north of the railroad, east side In Centervllle. Center township, precinct 2, Medearis harness room. Main street, Centervllle. . Center tonship, precinct 3, Council chamber, town ha.Il, Centervllle. Clay township, precinct 1, L. 8s Hatfield, Greensfork. Clay township, precinct 2. Mrs. Maraba Bennett's east room. East Pearl street. Greensfork. Dalton township. Ottis Baldwin's room, Dalton. Fnfnklin township, precinct No. 1, Century Hall. Main street Bethel. Franklin township, precinct No. 2, Masonic hall. Whitewater. Green township, precinct No. 1, Perry Cain property, William fbnrg. Green township, precinct No. 2. Kelly Hotel office, Williamsburg. Harrison township. Thompson house Main street. Jacksonburg. Jackson township, precinct No. 1. residence of James Allen, National pike. Mount Auburn. Jackson township, precinct No. 2. Jackson township, precinct No. 3, Caldwell hotel. Main street, Cambridge City. Jackson township, precinct No. 4, Vm. 8. Kiser's business room. Main street. Cambridge City. Jackson township, precinct No. C (Continued on Page Ten.) THE WEATHER STATE fair tonight and Thursday. LOCAL Fair tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thursday. Maximum temperature. 80 at 5 p. m. Tuesday. Minimum Temperature. 57 at 5 a. m-. Wednesday. Barometer, 29-8. Total rainfall. 12.5? inches. Rainfall aince yesterday. .11 inch. Direction and velocity of wind. Northwest, X miles an hour. - '

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