Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 167, 18 May 1912 — Page 1

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nn BIO AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 167. RlClOIOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

EXPECT ROW AS TO MEAT

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Some Councilmen Are at . Present Opposed to Appropriating Salary for the Proposed Official. -f AN INVESTIGATION WILL BE DEMANDED To Ascertain Real Reason Why Government Withdrew Its Inspectors from Municipal Plant. Meat inspection may be withdrawn from the city slaughtering house. Several members of council have stated they will not vote for an ordinance appropriating money to pay the salary of a city meat inspector until an invest!- . gation of some charges made in connection with, the government withdrawal of Inspectors at this slaughtering house is made. '; The charges made are that the city administration interf erred with the work of the government inspectors, Messrs. Waggoner and Putman in several matters regarding .inspection at the city plant. It is said that soon following a visit of a high official of the department of agriculture to the city slaughtering house, where a close examination of conditions was made, the local inspectors received notice of their withdrawal from service at the city, or the Holzapfel plant. The government inspectors were al lowed to work at the city plant by special permit" from the department o agriculture. ? Appropriation Needed. . Council will be asked Monday night to appropriate $900, thejproposed annual salary, for the meat . inspector Dr. George erling, now inspector, y the mayor's appointment, at the city slaughtering Jiause,.Dr, :.Ferling's son, Clarence, is acting as assistant inspector, although he is really in active charge of the work at the slaughtering house. . At the time of the government's vithdrawal of the inspectors stationed at' the Holzapfel, or city slaughtering house, reports were current that the official l reason assigned for this action, "that the " amount of interstate business did not obligate the government to continue its inspection" was not the entire cause for the withdrawal of the U. S. inspectors. Several councilmen believe the inspection is not necessary, but inasmuch as the majority of people seem to desire inspected meat, experienced inspectors, not necessarily veterinarians, could be secured for a smaller salary than $75 per month. '? . The question promises to be thoroughly threshed out at council Monday night. PLAN FOR BANQUET 'ThTe committee of the Commercial club, to be held May 28th at the Y. M. C. A. building, will meet this afternoon with tho lAdie3 Auxiliary of the Y. M. CV Q. to make preliminary arrangements for the event. News Nuggets (National Newi Association) GLOUCESTER, N. J., May 18. A sea freak with horns like a cow, teeth like a dog and a tail like an alligator, has been caught here by Daniel Miller and Harry Taylor, two shad fishermen. . ,. NEW YORK, May 18. While the Mauretania was being docked here Lady Mann, wife of Sir Donald Mann, of Canada, stood outside the customs lines weeping, in Impatience to reach her husband who was returning after a long illness. Lady Mann had forgotten her pass. . NEW YORK, May 18. John Sweeney of Corona, has been arrested on the complaint of his wife who alleges that he has been circulating the report that sh was dead and soliciting money to bury her. NEW YORK, May 18. Mrs. Mary Mover of Brooklyn, has been arrested on the charge of shop lifting and using her Infant for that pur pose. The baby was wrapped in a coat, two shirtwaists, two belts, three dresses, two pairs of stockings and forty yards of toweling. OMAHA, Neb., May 18. Eleven prisoners In the county jail here, entered into a suicide pact this morning and tried to kill themselves by turning on the gas in their room. , NEW YORK. May 18. Twenty men cashiers in the auditor's oiflce of the New York Telephone company, hav been put on outside work and their places given to women. The company says women are more reliable . than men in handling large sums of money.

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Snapshot photograph of Frank T. Coffyn in his hydro-aeroplane flying over the Hudson River, New York. The intrepid aviator was watched by thousands of New Yorkers in his daring maneuvers on water and in the air. .

SOCIALISTS AGAIN E EUGENE DEBS Nominated for President with Emil Seidel as His Running Mate. (Palladium Special).. . INDIANAPOLIS, May 18. Eugene V. Debs of Terre Haute and ex-Mayor Emil Seidel of Milwaukee ere nominated for president andjVice president respectively late Friday by. the social1st national convention. Their nomina- - V tions followed th adoption of the socialist constitution in which a bitter debate raged, for several hours regard ing the use "of violence in carrying forward the propaganda of socialism. Debs was nominated on the first ballot against Charles Edward Russell antKMayor Seidel. Debs received 165 votesHtuaseli 54, and Seidel 56. Seidel was nominate! for vice president against John Vfc Slayton, of McKeesport,;Pa, and Dan Hogan iof Huntington, Ark. The nominee received 159 votes, Slayton 24 and Hogan 73. Miss Marion Reynolds of Terre Haute, daughter of Stephen Reynolds, socialist nominee for governor of Indiana, sent the first congratulatory telegram to Eugene V. Debs, nominee for president, who is in Girard.'Kas. The telegram read. "Dear Comrade: You are unanimously nominated on the firstN ballot. Lovingly.' Marion." Miss Reynolds returned to the convention out of breath. She had made the greatest possible haste to be the first to wire Debs. TRIED STANDARD BEARER. Debs has been the standard bearer of the socialist party three times and his nomination Friday will make the fourth' race. He is at present engaged in the defense of Fred A. "Warren, editor of the Appeal to Reason, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails. Seidel, served one term as mayor of Milwaukee and retired about three weeks ago. He was defeated for re-election by the "fusion" candidate. The socialist parade Friday night was held without Incident. The delegates marched through .the principal streets of Indianapolis carrying red flags and flaming torches. Thsi were led by a brass band in citizens' clothes. The delegates were orderly.-. The principal work of the convention is finished and the session Saturday will consist in the disposition of miscellaneous business. The socialists went on record 'definitely Friday when they adopted into tneir constitution a clause providing for the expulsion of any member of the party who should resort to violence or "other than political action." - The clause is aimed at what is called "direct acUon" in carrying ' forward the propaganda of socialism. The r clause was aimed at William. D. Haywood, leader of the v Industrial Workers of the World although Haywood declared that he was heartily in favor of it. DISMISS THE JURY (National Nws Association) CHICAGO, May 18. The special federal grand jury empanelled during the trial of the heads of the beef trust for alleged criminal violation of the Sherman law has been dismissed without returning indictments againBt witnesses in the case. When it was empanelled it was asserted that it would investigate certain evidence presented by some of the beef case witnesses and that perjury indictments would likely result. The indictments reported were from minor offenses.

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ii : dan: v -y'v5 rr' SUFFRAGE WORKERS TO HOLDJEETING Delegates of Sixteen States Will Gather at Chicago Next Week. (National News Association) CHICAGO, May. 18. Women delegates from sixteen states began to arrive in Chicago today for the purpose of ' attending the suffrage- onTentio,. Which Is to be held tn this tlty-on May 21-22 next week. The meeting will convene at the Hotel La Salle under the auspices of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. . ' : The feature of the convention will be the conference, in which plans for coming political campaigns will be formulated. It is believed that the women will decide to center all efforts in the suffrage campaign of Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, and Illinois, and that corps of experts will be selected at the convention and sent directly into these fields. "We expect to make this convention a practical school of education to our leaders' said Mrs. Mary Plummer, secretary of the Illinois organization. "Reports from Ohio,- Oregon, Nevada and Michigan will be read and we will go over the entire situation and see what can be done to win these rates for suffrage. We will have th biggest people in the movement here to address us. Among them will be, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton", of Warren, Ohio, who has charge of the campaign in that state. She will be the Srst speaker on the program. Catherine Waugh McCullough, considered by many the foremost suffra gette in the United States, promises many surprises as a result of the convention. "We shall discuss entirely sew methods of campaigning" she said. "We shall institute system, es tablish a school of methods and have a corps of experts to teach them. I dontwean that there will be militant demonstration , but the method of campaigning will be changed consider ably. Billboard advertising precinct, ward and district organization, and the organization" of clubs will receive es pecial attention." v WEEK TO CONSIDER Whether He Is Too Old Kiss His Wife. to ? (National News Association) .-CHICAGO, May 18. A week from today Frank Gore will appear in the court of domestic relations to report whether he still believes he is too old to kiss his wife. The question was giv en Frank to think about when Mrs. Gire, peeved that her husband bad ceased his caresses on the grounds of advanced age and had him arrested for disorderly conduct. "Frank refused to kiss me any more. He didn't seem to love me. I reproached him and there was a row," Mrs. Gore explained to Judge Goodnow. The judge looked inquiringly at Gore. "Well your honor," said the husband. "I thought we were getting too old for that sort of thing." v ."N ever too old," said the judge. Then he gave them a .week to "make up." CASE POSTPONED The case of James W. Brumfield versus Philip Franzman, in an action for money was adjourned yesterday afternoon until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. It is believed that all of the evidence in the case will have been submitted by Monday afternoon

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LETTER CAUSE TOR SUICIDE Miss Laura Moss, a Young School Teacher in Liberty Schools, Kills Herself at Kitchell Today. BLOWS OUT BRAINS WITH A REVOLVER Her Extreme Nervousness, Increased by Receipt of a Letter that Criticized Her School Teaching. (Palladium Special.) LIBERTY. Ind., May 18. Miss Laura Moss, aged 35, a popular teacher in the primary department of the Liberty grade school, committed suicide this morning at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Moss at Kitchell's Station, near Richmond, by blowing her brains out with a revolver. The young woman, it is stated by her friends, was in an extremely nervous condition from her hard work at school during the season which closed yesterday, but more particularly due, it is believed by them, from the receipt of an anonymous letter which criticised her ability as a teacher. This letter, it is stated, has constantly preyed on her mind since its receipt and further affected her severe nerv ous ailment. This morning about five-thirty, hold ing a revolver, Miss Moss stepped to the front door of her parents home and after a moment's hesitation placed the muzzle of the weapon in her, mouth and pulled the trigger. With the report she fell lifeless to the floor. Her ThjrthW! Jt0dTffttH9l--mre -prostrated over the tragedy., ' : . It was stated here today that the Liberty school board will immediately begin an investigation to determine who was the author of the anonymous letter Miss Moss received. It is hint ed that prosecution will follow if the result of the investigation reveals the identity of the unknown writer. DRAFT PLANS FOR L EVENTS Fitting Tribute Will Be Paid to the Soldier Dead of Richmond. The program for the observance of Decoration day in this city, as arranged by the Son's of Veterans, and kin dred allied patriotic societies, is near ing completion, but details cannot be obtained at present. Frank Tilley of Terre Haute will be the principal speaker fo rthe occasion. In the morning, the Son's of Veter ans will decorate the graves of the veterans of Wayne township and Richmond, and fire salutes over the graves. In the afternoon a parade of the Son's of Veterans, Ladies of the G. A. R. the members of the G. A. R. able to march, and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Son's of Veterans will form at the court house at 2 o'clock, march east on Main street to Tenth street, then back to the Coliseum where the principal exercises of the day will be held. The prograpjSfall consist of readings, spngsJiJr-fousic by the Richmond "city-band, besides the speech by Mr. Tilley. Several er speakers may be secured." ' 2" All committees in charge of arrangements for the boservance of this holiday will meet again May 27. ' The complete program will be announced after this meeting. AT MIDDLEBORO. Middleboro is arranging for an appropriate ' celebration of Decoration day. The main services will be held at the M. E. church, May 26, where Benjamin Duke will read a paper on prison life, followed by a reading by Horetta Edsall and several other interesting numbers. After the profram at the church. 'the assembly. win proceed to the - Goshen cemetery, where the graves of deceased soldiers will be appropriately decorated. WILBUR WRIGHT IN SERIOUS CONDITION (National News Association) DAYTON, O, May 18. Wilbur Wright, aeroplane Inventor and aviator, is seriously 111 with typhoid fever at his home here. His condition today was grave. While his physicians say he "will probably recover they admit there are chances for serious complications. "Mr. Wright has been suffering for two weeks from typhoid fever.", said Dr. D. B. Conklin. who Is attending him. "He is very ill. Just what may develop I cannot say." . - - -

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MAN KILLED; ONE INJURED

WHEN A FIRE TRUCK SKIDS y ..Isaac Parry, North Ninth street, was instantly killed this afternoon about 3:30 o'clock when the new auto mobile combination ladder, chtmical I and hose truck, just purchased at a cost of $5,500, skidded on North E street and ran him down as he was standing in front of the John W. Grubbs wholesale grocery store; John Forbes was severely Injured; a telephone pole was cut in twain; a rig which Forbes was driving was nearly demolished and the big fire fighting machine was considerably damaged, if the fire truck had skidded a foot further to the south it would have dashed into the office of the Grubbs company and killed or injured every one in that part of the building. About 3:25 an alarm of fire was turned In from North Thirteenth and H streets and the new auto truck responded. As It turned the corner of Eighth and North E streets It skidded on the paving, which had just been sprinkled and careened wildly toward the sidewalk on the south side of the street, going at a speed estimated at 40 miles an-hour. It first sideswiped the rig driven by Forbes, an employe of Mather Bros. Company. The rig was hurled some distance by the terrific impact, and almost completely demolished. Next the truck flashed upon the sidewalk striking Isaac Par ry, a man over sixty years or age, practically tearing his head off. Parry's brains and blood ware scattered over the sidewalk a distance of several feet. After striking Parry the truck dash ed squarely into the telephone pole at the southwest corner of E and Ninth streets, breaking It in twain and scattering the wires all over the street. Strange as it may seem the big auto truck was not badly damag ed by its collision with the pole and none of the firemen met with injuries except Chief Miller, who was thrown off and had his left shoulder badly crushed. He was taken to his home. TbertCkAfJ-JUh, ssrlss'flf mis haps continued on Its way to the fire. The damage to the truck consisted of a wrecked top, badly smashed fend ers and the. breaking of several lad ders. The seriousness of Forbes' condition has not yet been determined. CHURCH CONSIDERS HIGH LIVING COST 1 (National News Association) LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 18. The high cost of living has made necessary an increase in the salaries of missionaries according to the report of the beard of home missions to the Presbyterian general assembly. A year ago a minimum salary of $ 800 was secured but the report says that this . is already inadequate for a family and proposes $900 as the minimum salary. That the ministry is not as favored a calling as it was in olden times, was shown by the report of the committee on ministerial supply that where the church had one candidate for the ministry to every 24.000 of population in 1830, it now has only one to every 78.000. Farmers' sons furnish twenty per cent of the candidates for tlfe ministry, and ministers' sons are next with ten per cent. SEARCH FDR HUSBAHD Of Murdered Woman Found at Los Angeles, Calf. (National News Association) CHICAGO, May 18. With the Los Angeles bungalow murder victim identified as Mrs. Catherine Dillon, of Chicago, police here are making every effort today to find the husband of the dead woman. Information was given the police that the man wanted was formerly a railroad man running between Chicago and an outlying Illinois town. They refused to divulge the foundation for this belief but have asked the police in a number of other towns to look for the man. A post card found in the Los Angelas bungalow and addressed to J. J. Donelon is regarded as furnishing an Important clue: It is believed here that the man may have gone under a different name in Los Angeles and Chicago. Thomas Dillon of Chicago, whose wife has been on the coast, left recently for San Diego and the police investigated the matter. The manager of the company by whom Dillon was employed here said the police had made a mistake, "Dillon has gone to San Diego to take a position. His wife has been there for some months, having gone because of the III health of. their 3y ear-old child," the manager said. PULLED FROM SHOAL (National Kwt Association) ATLANTIC CITY, May 18 The United States submarine "255 which went ashore in Great Egg harbor Tuesday, was f loated at noon today. She was pulled from the shoal by a government collier and a revenue cut-ter.- - - ' " :

Rabies Again

The epidemic of mad dogs has not been stamped out. After four months quarantine the disease has reappeared. The quarantine was thought sufficient by the health authorities and doubtless would have been effective except for some accident or a possible new source of infection from outside the county. The majority of do owners and dog lovers took every pre-autlon they knew of to guard the public from denger and their own dogs from infection. But the probabilities are that some muzzle slipped and some dog became infected entirely without the knowledge of the dog's owner. No owner of a dog, whatever may be his affection for the confiding collie, the courageous watchdog, the intelligent setter, or the faithful St. Bernard, would place in jeopardy one child's life. The law has taken its course and through some accident it has failed. Can not the dog owners put their iogs into a voluntary quarantine which will be more stringent, more efficacious, more careful than the law itself? We appeal to city owners to redouble their caution, to care for their dog's comfort and health, and bove all things to safeguard their Children and their children's playmates until such time as will mike it absolutely certain that their dogs have not the rabies AND ARE NOT EXPOSED TO THE DISEASE FROM DOGS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED. If for no other reason than selfishness such an action will be the only one which will ward off an Immediate extermination of ALL DOGS. We also appeal to country owners of dogs that they do not construe the loose legal phraseology of tha law to mean that the dog shall be confined to the broad fields and the homestead but rather to an enclosed place. We suggest that those people who can do so put their dogs in a pen. We suggest that as muzzles can at the best only keep your dog from biting some one that the dog be kept on a leash In public to prevent him from accidental infection in scuffling and playing. We suggest that every dog owner feed his dog on a simple diet and see that he is watered during -the muzzling. A man who does not do this ought not to have a dog. ' 'Finally we urge that the health authorities do their duty even if It is necessary to appoint deputies from among the citizens one in every block. FOR NO ONE CARES TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A DEAD CHILD OR A WOMAN DYING IN AGONY. MUCH TRIED CASE IS FINALLY ENDED Suit of Doney vs. Laughlin Is Decided in Favor of the Plaintiff Today. After having been litigated before three judges of circuits courts, a judge of the appellate court and returned to a circuit court, the case of George A. Doney, versus A . W. Laughlin. suit to collect commission due, was Anally decided in favor of plaintiff today. The case is an unusual one.' and, it is believed, the ruling made In it has established a precedent whereby all real estate men can collect . commission, where sale has been made, on a contract to pay. However, after the litigation in the case, which covered a long period, the defendant cannot be found, it being understood that he has moved from the county, and his attorney refuses to disclose his whereabouts. The case was first heard by Judge Fox. Judge Fox held that the plaintiff who resides In Cambridge City, could recover the amount of the commission, 250. 'A change of venue was then asked and the case was taken before Judge La Follette, of he Jay circuit court, who decided that the plaintiff could not collect the commission, the attorneys for the plaintiff then asked a change of judge In the Wayne circuit court and John L. Rupe was appointed special judge, he upholding Jndge La Follette's decision. The case was then appealed. The appellate court decided that the plain tiff could collect his commission. The defendant then appealed , to the supreme court but the supreme court refused to go over the evidence, saying that the ruling of the appellate court was correct. Th case was then return ed to the Wayne circuit court and this morning special judge Rupe decided the case in favor of the plaintiff. on default of defendant. The case settles an Important ques tion on the rights of real estate men to collect commission on notes, or con tracts to pay, after the sale has been made," ' TO SHORTEN CCyjRSE (Xatlonal News Association) HICKMAN, Ky., May 18. That the Mississippi river will before long shor ten its course forty-miles, is predicted by river men here. It will cut across the neck at Slough Landing, below here, they say. The change will make New Madrid. Mo, an Inland instead of river town..

OHIO BUTTLE FOR BALLOTS HEARS ' CLOSE

Both Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft Put in an Active Day Campaign in Buckeye State. DIXON TELLS T. R. HE IS VICTORIOUS "They Can't Beat You, and the Other Side Is Scared," the Montana Senator Informs His Chief. (National News Association) WAUSEEX. O May 18. President Taft made his irst speech of the day here this morning in his whirlwind tour of Ohio against Col. Roosevelt. Thirteen stops were on the , day's schedule for Mr. Taft. Including en-' gagements at Napoleon, Defiance. Cecil. Paulding and Van Wert, before, noon, ine climax or the day s work will be reached at Springfield, where . the president will address a mass ' meeting- tonight. The Taft special is scheduled to leave Springfield at 10 p. m. for Cincinnati, where Mr. Taft will rest over Sunday preparatory to his final day of campaigning on Mon- ' day. The president will return to his home city Tuesday, casting his ballot in the presidential preference nrimarv there and leaving immediately after wards for Washington. ' DIXON CONFIDENT. DELAWARE, O , May 18. Flanked by a galaxy of leaders CoL Roosevelt plunged into the fifth day of his Ohio fight here today. Senator Dixon, the ex-president's national campaign manager, came on from Washington to tell him that his fight for the Republican presidential nomination is won. Dixon assured the colonel that the estimate' of BOO delegates for him ts right "They can't beat you." he declaredenthusiastically.Tne -other side Is scared. They will try to put through something queer before the national committeebut they won't cheat you out of the nomination is sure." . Governor Stubbs of Kansas who has been stumping the state for the Colonel also boarded the special. He said. "Roosevelt is going to carry Ohio. I have been all over the state and I' know what I am talking about. He will be nominated on the first ballot at Chicago." ' ' To two thousand hearers at Delaware the Colonel confided, "there is but one feature in the entire Ohio sit- . uation which makes me have any doubt at all and that Is the fact of the blind ballot. My name wont appear on the ballot. You will not Ind it there because. the Taft" manaxera would not put It there because they did not want yon to have a chance to -vote for it. We are going ahead la the ; fight. We are not coinc to let on. We want Ohio to be with us In this line-. up." , HUNT COMMITTEEMEN. CHICAGO. May 18. Members of the Republican national committee now In Chicago are making strenuous endeavors to secure the attendance of all of the fifty-three members of the committee at the preconvention meetings beginning June C. Because of the importance of the delegate coatesta that will be filed those who are ehre believe it is imperative that the full committee be here and act on the contests. Secretary Hayward has bees sending out scores of telegrams to the various members urging their presence in Chicago. ; t ..;,. The secretary received a cablegram from Henry B. McCoy, national committeeman of the Philippines, who Is now in London and who says he will be here for the session. -Efforts nave been made to reach Lewis B." Shackleford, committeeman, from Alaska, now reported to be on his way South. The subcommittee . of the ssiiona? convention in charge' of arrangement! was scheduled to hold an Important meeting today. At this meeting a temporary chairman for the conventios may be named. Charles W. Fairbanki of Indiana is the man most prominently mentioned. . . POSTOFFICE CHANGES The mall distributing room of tb post office is being reorganized. Th carrier's desks are being changed an new lighting systeni'is being Installec w hich will much, better illuminate th big mailing room, and render the wort of the clerkj and carriers easier. Sev eral new mailing desks are being installed. THE WEATHER LOCAL Fair tonight and un6yl not much change in temperature. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday. Maximum temperature. 70 . at . noon Saturday. Minimum temperature, 47 at 5 a. m. Saturday. Barometer, 30.2. Temperature at 11:30. 70. Direction and velocity of wind, southwest. It miles aa hour. , '..'. rrr. . .

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