Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 173, 25 May 1912 — Page 1

B F AJLLAJDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM 'OI XXXVII. NO. 173. RICHMOND, IXD., SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 25, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. ID SLEUTH Is Weakening Under the Strain of the Camoa gn TILL TEDDY FINDS JERSEY VERY LIVELY PLACE HAS NOTHING CUBA HAS TO STOP REVOLT HICKS SCORE BIG TRIUMPH

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toce President Sherman, Wearing Gum Shoes, Goes to Chicago and Then Vanishes Mysteriously.

POLITICIANS VERY MUCH WROUGHT UP Has He Gone Hunting a "Compromise" Candidate or to Attach a Washboiler to the Hon. Lorimer. (National News -Association) WASHINGTON, May 25. JuBt what is the mission of Vice President Sherman in Chicago is the subject of much wonderment in political quarters in Washington today. At 3:40 yesterday afternoon the vice president quietly caught a fast train for Chicago and his secretary announced it was on private business. That the vice president has hurried to the windy city for the purpose of koldfhg an important political conference, bearing on the battle of the Old Guard to beat Roosevelt at any cost, Is the belief here today. One report was that he had gone to see Robert Todd Lincoln, and that a movement was on to take up with him as the "compromise" candidate and to sidetrack Taft. ReportB that the vice president is taking a big part in the move for a third man are given full credence. Mr. Sherman will be back Sunday. WEARING GUM SH0E3. CHICAGO, May 25. Arriving on a Pennsylvania train and leaving it at a suburban station, where he entered a waiting automobile and was whisked away Vice President Sherman reached 'Chicago today on a mission, rumored to be an effort to secure the resignation of William Lorimer, At the senator's home a telephone Inquiry brought the response that the senator had no 'engagement with Sherman and knew jnothing of his coming. The person who answered the telephone refused to (identify himself, but denied emphatically that Lorimer was ill, or had been jfor several weeks, although efforts have been made in Washington for (several weeks to delay a vote on his ; election v on the grounds that he was isick. ." - "According to the reports current today Sherman's visit Is made on behalf iof the"administration. It was said that Sherman was intrusted with the delineate task of pointing out to Lorimer ithat a vote on his election could not be delayed much longer, and pointing 'out to him that the best way for him to save himself embarrassment and avoid a further break in the party origanization would be to step down while he had the indorsement of the (majority report of the committee on elections and privileges in the senate. No reservation has been made for (the vice president in any of the leading hotels, and party leaders here pro test that they do not know why he :came to unicago, wnere ne was or now how 'long he will remain. IS HURT III LONDON i jiJohn Evans, Local Manufac- ' turer, Breaks a Leg. (National News Association) LONDON, May 25. John Evans of ullchmond, Ind., one of the American exhibitors at the Royal Horticultural Show is In the hospital at Windsor with a broken leg resulting from an accident. With 200 other exhibitors at the show. Mr. Evans went to visit the king's gardens at Windsor, "and while alighting from the brake, missed his' footing and, fell heavily. John Evans Is president of the Quaker City Machine company, North 14th street and the Pennsylvania tracks, and resides at 1225 Main street. Mr. Evans inventions of greenhouse ventilating systems has brought him into prominence among florists throughout the world, and he has made several trips to Europe to attend conventions of flower growers. He left Richmond several weeks ago and expected to be absent about six weeks or two months. The accident which befell him may delay his return ffor some time. I. O. O. F. MEETING - The encampment degree members of the Odd Fellows of this city will go to Dubliu tonight to give the three defTees of the. order to twenty-five candidates. The work will start at seven o'clock", and will be attended by about seventy members from this city. AH patriarchs' are invited to be present. The encampment degree members lare all Odd Fellows. The occasion is (the district meeting of the Encamp(dent Order of Odd Fellows, and alii members of this city are urged to be (present The work will start promptly ijkt erea o'clock,

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as'mittsr JMor& 4jLejlS PURSE COLLECTED TO BURY SUICIDE Peter Gills to Be Given Proper Burial .by Fellow, Workers' Kindness. A collection, amounting to about $50, was taken up at the Hoosier Drill works yesterday, for the purpose of defraying the funeral expenses of Peter L. Gill, who was employed at the plant and - who committed suicide Sunday afternoon in Glen Miller park. "The collection was taken up following the receipt of a letter from the mother and brother of the man, liv-j ing in Richmond, Va., saying that -they could not afford to have ' the body shipped to that city, and in addition that they had no interest in the matter. Employes of the foundry, and in other departments imediately decided to take up a collection in order that Gills could have a proper burial. A committee composed of William Beckman, John Taggart, J. N. Mayhew, Fred Bruster, and F. D. Courtermanche was appointed to take charge of the matter. The body will be buried in Earlham cemetery at 4 o'clock this afternoon. When the letter from the mother and brother of the unfortunate man were received it was 'first believed that the best thing to do would be to send the body to Indianapolis to . a medical college, but his fellow-workers refused to permit this. THIEF MAKES WIFE STEAL FROM HUBBY (National News Association) CHICAGO, May 25. "There are two of the baby's banks on the first floor, if you wish, I will go and show them to you," said Mrs. John C. Kuhn's wife of the purchasing agents of the Illinois Central railroad to a burglar who had just abstracted $10 from her husband's trousers. Mrs. Kuhn was awakened by someone walking in the room. She thought it vac one of her children. "Who is there?" she shrieked. "Keep still or I'll shoot," replied a man. Mrs. Kuhn remembered the Kaufman tragedy in which a woman was shot when she interfered with a holdup. She decided to help the burglar. Switching on the electric lights she showed him the jewelry. He didn't take it. "I want money," he said. Mrs. Kuhn tiptoed into the next room and returned with her husband's trousers. The burglar , found . $10. When . he demanded more money, Mrs. Kuhn took her baby in her arms and went down stairs and got the baby's banks. They contained about $8. Then the burglar departed. The police are seeking him today. NEGRO WAS BURNED AT STAKE TODAY (National News Association) DALLAS, Texas, May 25. A negro chapged with insulting a white woman was taken from the jail at Tyler, Smith county, early today and burned at the stake. The door of the jail was battered down, the jailer overpowered and his keys taken from him. The negro finally confessed after torture that he had attacked Miss Carrie Johnson a few days ago. He gave the name of Daniel Davis when arrested. Fully two thousand people took part in the burning, but it is expected no jreats .wllLbemadje. . '

PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT FIFTY RIOTERS IN BUOA PESTH SEIZED Situation Appears to Be Improved, but More Trouble Is Probable. (National News Association) BUDA PESTH, May 25. Scores of ringleaders who led rioting strikers in street fighting with police and solty arrests were made by soldiers today, bringing the total number of prisoners up 1 to 260. : They are charged with rioting and malicious destruction of property and the government has announced that it will prosecute them with the utmost vigor. ' One hundred of the 175 wounded in the numerous battles are in a serious condition and a number of them are not expected to live. Troops are still on duty in the streetB today and a proclamation was i issued by Premier Lukas warning strikers against indulging in further violence. Despite this warning, however, mobs were in the streets early in the moaning and some fighting ensued. . Heavy damage has been done. In addition to the damage to buildings by missies, bombs, fire and bullets, 300 street cars were demolished in order to make rude barricades. The damage will exceed $500,000. A military guard has been provided trtf Pniint TiQ7a RnnUdr nt thp lnwpr house of parliament and a bitter foe to the universal suffrage bill. Members of the Social Democrat political party, who planned a strike of employes of the public service corporations in protest against postponement of the introduction of this measure are alleged to have send death threats to Count Tisza. Emperor Francis Joseph has become alarmed at the temper of the people and called a conference with, its state advisers for today to consider measures to relieve the situation. It is feared that tomorrow may see bloody clashes between the authorities and the strikers and their sympathizers because of the demonstrations planned. OTIS SAYS DARROW WILL SOON CONFESS (National Xews Association) CHICAGO, May 25. "I personally know that overtures looking to a confession by Clarence S. Darrow have been made and that they will be refused unless he tells all he' knows," said Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Who was in Chicago on his way to the coast. It was the destruction of the -.Times building by dynamite that brought about the arrest of the McXamara brothers, and their trial in Los Angeles during which Attorney Darrow is said to have attempted to bribe jurors. "They have convincing evidence.' Otis continued. "When the overtures for a confession were made, the district attorney sent word to Darrow that he would accept only a complete confession, naming the big labor leaders implicated in the affair and telling the part they took. I believe Darrow will confess. He is sure to be convicted anyway." Reports that Darrow had made overtures to the district attorney in Los Angeles previously circulated were vigorously denied by Darrow, who said he had no idea of confessing as he had nothing to confess. He - expected a speedy acquittal, he said. District Attorney Fredericks also denied that any confession was expected or had been talked of between himself and the defendant in th- briberr c&js.

RICHMOND IS VERY LUCKY IH TRAGEDY Accident to Auto Truck Will Cost This City Only a Very Small Sum.

Richmond will only have to pay the freight to have the damaged auto truck repaired. It will be placed in a box car tomorrow, and sent back to the factory of the Robinson Fire Ap- j paratus Manufacturing company at St. Louis, where it will undergo repairs at the expense of the company. The company disclaims all legal responsibility tpv the, dajnageg .to . the truck, but says , that thergood will of the city of Richmond is deslfed, so the truck will be repaired free of charge. This adjustment of the repair question is very satisfactory to the city officials. The truck will be ready for active service by the last of June. August Fielder, the driver, has not received instructions as to what he shall do, but it is probable he will go back 'to St. Louis with the machine, and bring it back to this city, where he will stay with the machine for some time to teach the firemen the mechanism of the big fire fighter. City officers believe the city has escaped from this accident very luckily. No damage suits are to be brought, the truck is to be repaired without cost and all the injured men are recovering nicely. Forbes is steadily regaining health and strength at his home, fireman Brusher is able to be about his work, and Chief Miller, although slightly stiff and sore from his numerous bruises, is again' on active ; dutyARREST TWO LOVERS Mrs. May Lawson and Frank Cooney Draw Fines. Mrs. May Lawson was fined $10 and costs and given a jail sentence of ten days in police court this morning on the charge of associating. She is charged with associating with Frank Cooney. Cooney plead not guilty to the same charge and will secure an attorney. He was fined $5 and costs and given five days in jail for public intoxication. His trial on the second charge is set for June 14. Complaints from residents of the west side caused Chief of Police Gormon'and patrol driver Wenger to go to Peacock's hill last evening at 8:45, where the couple were arrested. Both entered pleas of not guilty to associating. The man said he "might have been " drunk," and the woman, who works for him in the capacity of helper when he papers and paints houses, denied the charges emphatically. Cooney is married and has a family. The Lawson woman has been married but secured a divorce. The couple have been in court before. On one oc casion Mrs. Cooney pleaded with the court to make the woman stay away j from her husband The almost conj stant companionship of the two has ' kept up for months. They were seen together many times in each other's company according to witnesses. The man, it is charged, drinks excessively, and neglected his family for the Lawson woman. Cooney has secured an attorney and will fight the charge of association which Js still hanging over him. . EX-GOVERNOR DEAD (National News Association) BALTIMORE, May 25. Former Gov. Austin Lade Crothers died early today at the home of his nephew, Omar D. Crothers, Elktoa. Md of jBrjfhCg dis, - ' .

U. S. Government Will Not Take Drastic Action Until Gomez Has Had Time to Fulfill Promises. .

U.S. TROOPS READY TO OCCUPY ISLAND Powerful Fleet to Mobilize at Key West and Army Transports Are Being Prepared for Use. (National News Association! WASHINGTON, May 25. Serious apprehension is felt at the state department today for the safety of Americans and their property at Banes and Nipe Bay, Cuba, where the Cuban governmental forces are reported to be entirely too inadequate to repulse the negro rebels from marching against these places. It waa announced today that if on the arrival of the Prairie at Guatanamo on Monday the revolt has not been halted the American marines will be sent into the surrounding country to protect American property from the negroes. While both the war and navy department admitted that orders have been issued to have soldiers and marines ready to move to Cuba instantly officials of both departments declared no such steps will be taken until Gomez has had a chance to make good on his promise that the revolt would be crushed within a week, but it is freely predicted that if the uprising be not quelled by Monday night that stringent measures, will be taken by this government, which has the right to intervene in Cuban internal affairs under the - Piatt amendment, passed after the first military occupation of the island. "It the Cuban government cannot or will not protect American property, we will have to do it ourselves," is the sentiment at military headquarters. TO MOBILIZE FLEET. WASHINGTON, May 25. At the request of Secretary of State Knox the navy department ordered the battleship Nebraska, now at New Orleans, to Key West within the next few days. From this point they can reach Cuban waters in a few hours. Orders were issued at the war department to prepare for service all army transports on the Atlantic seaboard. FOREIGNERS ALARMED. HAVANA, May 25. Foreigners all over the island are panic stricken and all who can do so are seeking refuge in the cities. Big country residences on sugar plantations are being turned into blockhouses and loyal plantation hands are being armed. There are many rumors current of Americans and Englishmen being kHIed fn the ouying sections, but the censorship is so severe and the wires so badly interrupted that it was impossible to confirm these today. Large numbers of Haytien and Dominican negroes are reported to have joined the Cuban blacks during the last 36 hours. Large quantities of arms have been shipped from Hayti. The rebels are leaving . scenes of devastation in their wake as they pass back and forth in their raids.' They pillage, burn and kill. All the uncut sugar cane in Santa Clara and Oriente has been burned. The labor situation increased the government's troubles. Stevedores in Oriente province are on strike and refuse to yield. President Gomez was defied when he ordered the firemen's union to call off, its strike in this city. PROPOSAL IS READY To Be Submitted to Board Next Week. the At a meeting of the board of works next week, either Monday or Thursday morning, the water works proposal contract, which the city attorneys have been working on for some months, will be presented for the consideration of the board. The details of the proposal are not given out, but it is certain that the board will demand that the contract or franchise shall net be for more than twenty-five years duration; that .a double water main from the pumping station to this city must be included, and that free rental of the water meters be provided. 1 Both E. M. Campfield and the Richmond City Water Works are bidders for the franchise and contract. Both parties have said that if the conditions under which the city expects to award a franchise were not too severe and exacting, their bids would be entered within a short time. This will mean another water. works nfiuaffhlfy

At Lakewood Today He In

forms the Crowd that the "Skeeter State" Is a Very Strenuous One. . OIL WORKERS HEAR PRES. TAFT TODAY Gets Warmest Greeting at Standard Oil Works at Bayonne of Any Place He Has Spoken In. (National News Association) LAKEWOOD. N. J., May 25. -"I have come to the conclusion that New Jersey is the real place for the strenuous life," declared Col. Roosevelt jocularly to a crowd of fifteen hundred that greeted him in the public square today. The colonel was immensely pleased over the rousing reception given him. He hammered the bosses, saying they would cheat the people out of their rights. "Mr. Taft says I preach class hatred," he said. "The only class I hate is the crooked class, boss and all." Mr. Roosevelt smiled when informed that President Taft had stated in his speech in New Brunswick last night that he (the president) had won the convention Ight. "We shall see about it," declared Col. Roosevelt here today. TAFT AT BAYONNE. NEWARK, N. J., May 25. President Taft swept by auto through the factory district of northern New Jersey today, pleading with the tillers to support him with their ballots at the polls in the primary election Tuesday. At Bayonne Mr. Taft addressed five thousand employes of the Standard Oil works. It was the most enthusiastic meeting at which the president has spoken since he entered the state. In his speech President Taft charged Roosevelt with causing the failure of the arbitration-treaties because of his opposition to them. Mr. Taft defended his administration, calling particular attenUon to the workmen's compensation act, and the white phosphorus act. CLARK PLAYS SAFE. WASHINGTON. May 25. Speaker Champ Clark, Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination, will file his petition for the Democratic congressional nomination in the ninth Missouri district before June 6. The Democratic members of the Missouri delegation advised the speaker to take this action. They went to him and urged him to file his papers in order that he might return to congress should he not be nominated for president. The speaker said he would make t known his answer Monday but is said to have told them privately he would take their advice." GOLDEN EAGLES TO MEETJOICHMOIID This City Selected for Convention Over Three Other Indiana Cities. The regular annual session of the grand Jodge of the Knights of the Golden Eagles will be held in this city, September 10 and 11, bringing about four hundred delegates to this city. At a special session called at Muncie last evening. .the local representative. J. B. Beckwith. presented the claims of Richmond for the convention in such an able manner that Richmond was chosen. The other competitors for this honor were Muncie. Anderson and Indianapolis. The local lodge will soon appoint committees to make arrangements for the entertainment of the many visitors to this city which the convention will bring. In addition to the meeting of the Knighte of the Golden 'Eagle, the convention of the auxiliary order, the Grand Temple, composed of women members of. the lodge, will be held here at the same time. Two halls will be used for the occasion,' one for each order. One convenUon will be held at Sixth and Main streets at the K. G. E. halL The other has not been secured. - INVENTOR WRIGHT GREATLY IMPROVED (National Xews Association) DAYTON. O, May 25. The condiUon of Wilbur Wright, aviator and' inventor, who has been seriously 01 with typhoid fever, waa greatly Improved today. His fever has abated considerably- and his strength - and complete consciousness are returning. THE WEATHER STATE ANO LOCAL Fair tonight. 8uadajg-far and warmer. ..

Talented Singer and Local Violinist at Closing May Festival Concert Are Giv

en Ovations. TWO LOCAL WOMEN PLEASE BIG CROWD Singing of Mesdames Kmeger and Igelman and Work of Orchestra and Chorus Was Splendid. BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. , A brilliant finale to the May Festival was last evening's concert which included the great Beethoven Concerto for the violin, played by Mr. Frederick K. Hicks, the Verdi aria by Mr. Carl Morris and Mendelssohn's cantata, "Hymn of Praise." notwithstanding the indisposition of both Mr. Morris and Mr. Hicks making it. for a time, problematic whether the Utter would be able to appear. . Great audiences have characterized the concerts of the May Festival, floor, balconies and galleries being crowded even the extreme ends of the balconies, which are not usually considered available In orchestral or choral per formances, being entirely filled in the afternoon and partially at night.

The testimonials of appreciation In recalls and the presentation of flowers last evening was one of the gratifying manifestations of the attitude of the public toward the organization and its local exponents, Mr. Hicks being accorded a veritable ovation. Mr. Morris, with an admittedly bad cold, sang In stellar form and will be enthusiastically . welcomed upon any return he may make, either individually or with a future Mar Festival. No soloist from abroad has eer aroused a more long continued, insistent and genuinely-hearted expression of admiration than did Mr. Morris at the close of his solo appearance" In one of the great Italian composer's most superlative manifestations of genius. Has Wonderful Voioe, In this aria Mr. Morris displayed the capabilities of his really splendid voice. Its declamatory nature called out that peculiar and powerful vibrancy which makes the baritone of this young singer . entirely distinctive and removing it from the considerations that govern that of the. usual . voice of thia quality. Verdi's "The Masked Ball." of which this aria is a part, while one of the ' least known to the general public is one of his most Important operatic expressions, and that portion illustrated through Mr. Morris's aria the accusation, threat and later despairing admission of unfounded, suspicion of one of the principals against his wife la, as just said, regarded as the emotional and musical climax not only of the book and score but, also, of Verdi's genius. Mr. Moir.s'a youth, personality, brilliant vocal and dramatic talents lend themselves to the exposition of thia operatic excerpt with superb effect and it is to be doubted if the aria, could be presented with more eclat by a more seasoned vocalist. The fact that this singer's voice has all the technical perfection that the latter might possess and still with the Inestimable vocal asset of freshness would score heavily In favor of the appearance of last evening. - Mr. Morris has a powerful vocal organ of great distinction, beautiful quality and individuality and. In addition, possesses that Indefinable attribute of magnetism without which the most perfect technique is nullified. This singer's enunciation, also, la clear, distinct and crisp and his performance of last evening, was. altogether, extraordinary, and neither surpassed nor equalled by any other of & similar nature previously beard here. 8ang Negro Melody. In final response to a series of recalls, Mr. Morris sang one of Sidney Homer's negro melodies to his own accompaniment, this composer being a favorite with concert vocalists. Homer's compositions being given added interest from the celebrity of his wife. Madame Homer, the celebrated member of the Metropolitan Opera' Company, Morris singing this out of compliment to these gifted musicians who are his friends and have been most hospitable to him sine his residence in New York. - . ' It has been said that the art of music reached Its highest point through Beethoven. There are still those who maintain that musical expression since has been feeble and chaotic. That tb very apogee of music, its moat superlative manifestation, was reached through the medium of the German composer and that all that has beea done since has been mors or less inept. This Is, of coarse, the view of the-hero-worshipper. But, In certain aspects of bis genius, Beethoven stands alone and has translated the musical art into forms of majestic beauty never surpassed. Hicks Scores Triumph. The concerto played last evening by Mr. .Hicks, with orchestral accompaniment, is regarded as the greatest ever written for this Instrument and .(.Continued en Pas fixfct) .