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ilnteresting Yarn Told by the Cincinnati Enquirer Regarding the Indiana Political Case.

SWATSON AMBITIOUS FOR POWER AGAIN R. G. Leeds Issues Statement Denying a. Reported Deal Between Himself and James E. Watson. Mr. Leeds, who returned this morning from Chicago, denied having made the statement attributed to him in the Enquirer that some of the Indiana Taft delegates are going to vote for Roosevelt. He also declared as absurd the Enquirer's story that he or his associates were offering Mr. Watson any inducements to abandon President Taft's cause. "I believe," said Mr. Leeds, "this -story about Mr. Watson is due to the suspicions of associates who are waging a losing fight in an unjust cause. The men who will stand for the tactics that have characterized the seating of contested delegates at Chicago, will not hesitate to suspect even their closest friends. "While In Chicago, I heard that Mr. Watson, who was to have been counsel for President Taft in the Tennessee or Texas contests, had been 'called home to Rushville on account of the serious Illness of his little boy. Because he hurried to the bedside of his sick child and did not appear in the contests, some of his associates choose to regard his action as defection from the cause of President Taft." Convention gossip is rife with rumors and counter rumors. The CincinnatiEnquirer this morning publishes a Chicago dispatch of Interest in the Sixth. District: " "" Whether all of Indiana's 20 Taft votes will be cast for the President was a matter of controversy tonight, although It was stated by James A. !Hemenway, Joseph B. Kealing and others that there won't be a break in 'the Taft lines from their state. Undoubtedly extreme pressiure is being brought to bear on the unlnstructed Taft delegates from Indiana to divide their districts in the interest of harmony. The Second, Fourth and 'Thirteenth Indiana are uninstructed, but the delegates are stanch Taft men. The Taft delegates are being told that ' unless those districts are split that the Republican candidates for congress will be defeated. All of the districts named are represented in congress by Democrats. Gifford Pinchot spent Sunday afternoon at the home of one of the Taft delegates at large from Indiana, trying to convince him that he ought to vote for Roosevelt so that the Republican party may be preserved and Indiana carried by it. Pinchot Told of Feeling, i Pinchot was told that neither Taft bor Roosevelt can carry Indiana, and that the Taft delegates, who had been played up as men who ought to be In the penitentiary, are not going to vote for Roosevelt under those circumstances. An effort was made to arrange for George W. Perkins to- talk with one of the Indiana Big Four, but it failed. No Taft delegate to the convention lias been under such fire from the Roosevelt men as James E. Watson, a delegate at Jarge from Indiana. Watson was defeated for Governor four years ego. He is ambitious for office. He would like to run for congress in his district, and to get into the game for the United States Senate two years fcence. But in his district he has been blocked by the radical progressives under , the leadership of William Dudley Foulke and Rudolph Leeds, publishers of newspapers at Richmond. Watson might carry the district if Jie could unite his forces with those of Foulke and Leeds, who are demanding Roosevelt's nomination. Leeds arrived here last night and he says that pome of the Indiana Taft delegates Bre going to vote for Roosevelt. Deal Being Considered. One of the men associated with Leeds stated today that a deal is being considered by which all opposition of the radical progressives in the Watson district would be withdrawn from him (Continued on Page Six) MR. FAMILY MAN ; .How - much does it mean to you V to provide your wife and children ' with a home in a quiet, pleasant ' neighborhood, where there is free- . dom and plenty of room to live? - Had you thought of seeking that kind of a home In the Want Ads? Many are offering unusual chances every day ' for men with families, like yourself, and if you study the Want Columns you will, like as not. local th h&t nrooertlea.

Senator Moses E. Clapp, at the left and Senator Elihu Root. Senator Clapp, is known as the "Black Eagle of the West," and is one of the most energetic leaders of the Roosevelt forces in Chicago. Senator Root, has been elected temporary chairman of the National Convention, and will be placed in the chair permanently if tbe Taft supporters are in control.

WOMAN MEMBER OF BOAROJSJAVORED Alumni Association of High School Take This Action at Meeting. The Richmond high school Alumni association, at its annual meeting, last night, went on record by a unanimous vote as favoring a woman on the school board. The action taken by the association was an indorsement of the candidacy of Miss Sarah Hill, but the resolution adopted was a broad one, covering future contingencies which may arise. The association voted it-; self as being favorable to competent desirable women on the school board when such could be-secured The matter of helping students in the high school to find employment while attending school, and of assisting students without means to secure a college education was taken up. The new executive committee of the association is to have the matter in hand, and it is likely that committees will be appointed to give this subject attention. The commercial department at the high school gives attention to securing employment for students, and it is believed that co-operation on the part of the alumni association with this department wil serve to secure positions for many deserving students. The plan of giving financial aid to students who want a higher education and have not the means with which to secure it, involves a free loan feature. It is hoped to raise a sum of money which will be used for the benefit of such students. A student would be loaned money, without interest, conditioned that he would repay the sum after finishing his college course and when his earning capacity began. New officers elected by the association include: Walker. Land President. Margaret Mooney Vice President. Mrs. George Healey Secretary. E. B. Knollenberg Treasyrer. Alice Hill Historian. To the end that a larger membership may be secured for the association a committee on membership was appointed consisting of the following: Edna Johnson, Dorothy Rush, Percy Smith, Fred Girty, Frances O'Brien, Edmund Dickinson and Jean Lupton. The association adopted a new constitution which had been drafted by a committee appointed for that purpose. Following the business meeting a social session was held in which the class of 1912 was welcomed as members into the association. WIFE BEATER GETS FINE FROM MAYOR Refusing to take the testimony of several witnesses against the statement of Mrs. Grace Treep, aged 17, the girl wife of Leonard Treep, aged 38, who beat her May 5, Mayor Zimmerman this morning found the defendant guilty of the assault and battery charge placed against him and fined him $1 and costs, which amounted to $13, several witnesses claiming fees. Evidence introduced showed that Treep struck his wife in the face and back, and that she left at once to go home to her mother, living on South West Second street. The husband, by stealing her baby, aged about" six weeks, and carrying it away in a buggy, secured the consent of his girl wife to live with him again. The witnesses for the defense refused to answer the prosecutor's quesUons. and were rebuked by the mayor. One of them, Mrs. Halley Hall, admitted she had received money for coming to court and testifying for Leonard Treep. Treep has served time in the

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BIG POISON PLOT AVERJHE POLICE Arrest of Mrs. Louise Lindloff Expected to Result in Big Sensation.

(National News Association) CHICAGO, June 15 Police officials declared today that a poison plot rivalling in sensational features the case of Mrs. Louise Vermilya will be unearthed as a result of the arrest of Mrs. Louisa G. Lindloff, a former spiritualist and medium. Mrs. Lindloff is suspected of having poisoned her two husbands and three grown children, all of whom carried insurance amounting in the aggregate to $1Q,275 Of this. jBjhir .collected $6,900. Taken into custody on mere suspicion, the case against the woman grew stronger with each new feature unearthed today by the coroner and the police. One of the most important witnesses against the woman probably will be Dr. A. S. Warner who attended three of the supposed victims of the woman, and who declared that all showed unmistakable symptoms of poisoning at their deaths. A search of the house disclosed a number of bottles of pills and medicine labeled poison. These were given to chemists for analysis. The Alleged Victims. The members of the family who have died in the past seven years were: Julius Gaunke, the prisoner's first husband, who died Aug. 12, 1905. Freda Gaunke, daughter by her first husband, died June 11, 1908. William Lindloff to whom the former Mrs. Gaunke was married Nov. 7, 1906,, and who died August 3, 1910. Alma Gaunke, daughter by first husband, born Dec. 18, 1894; died Aug. 4, 1911. Arthur A. Gaunke, born May 9, 1897, ( died in the University hospital, June' 13, 1912. It was as a result of the last named that Mrs. Lindloff was arrested. Henry Kuba, a boarder at Mrs. Lindloff 's home, and who is said to have been infatuated with her, is also being held by the police in the belief that he - possesses knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the deaths that have occurred in the Lindloff household in the last three years. While it is not believed that he was involved in the poisoning, still it is thought he may be able to aid the police in their investigation. LINDEMUTH BUYS A MAlSfSTREET BLOCK A. C. Lindemuth has purchased-the property at Sixth and Main street, known as the Bliss property, and formerly . called' the Gilbert and Bridglain property. The consideration was between $23,000 and $25,000. The transfer was filed this morning. The building was sold by Lidia G. Bliss. It is three stories in height, has a fifty-three foot frontage on Main street )and is 124 feet deep. There are three store rooms fronting on Main street and four store rooms on North Sixth street. The second floor is occupied by offices and flats and the third floor is used by the Knights of the Golden Eagles. ARE TO DEDICATE REMODELED CHURCH Sunday afternoon at 2:30 impressive ceremonies will be held In dedicating the remodeled Indiana Yearly meeting house. The Rev. Ellyson Purdie, of Wilmington. O., will preside . This famcus church, the meeting place of the Orthodox Society of Friends of this it, has been remodeled Inside and out during the spring. .

Roosevelt Leaders in Ultimatum to National Committee Make a Demand for a Square Deal.

SPEAK IN BEHALF OF PARTY VOTERS And Command that the Work of Wrecking the Republican Party Cease without Further Delay. (National News Association) CHICAGO, June 15 After a conference of Illinois leaders this afternoon it was announced that 56 of Illinois' 58 delegates would support Roosevelt; that Governor Deneen would head the convention delegation, and that Roy O. West would succeed F. O. Louden as national committeeman. This was a compromise eliminating Chauncey Dewey, the Roosevelt leader who sought Louden's place. Chairman Harry New of the Republican committee on arrangements charged today that forged tickets to the convention were being distributed in Indiana. Police of this city and Indianapolis were asked by him to trail the forgers. The National Roosevelt committe today sent to the national committee -a remarkable letter, accusing the committeemen of prostituting their positions by violating every tenent of decency and of assassinating the Republican party. The letter follows: How Edict Reads. "To the National Republican Committee: Gentlemen Representing as we do the Republicans of our respective states or the delegations duly elected to the Republican national convention we thus adviseyou in order that hereafter the matter may be one of record; that you are prostituting your positions, violating every tenent of fair LdeaJintr and decency and a tne KepuDiican party, ion are. perpe trating gross frauds and disenfranchising Republicans of the different states. "You are now engaged in a delibarate attempt to thwart the will of the rank and file of the Republican party and thus to convert the party of progress in to one of reaction. You know this, we know it, the nation knows it. "We in our individual capacity and the Republicans whom we represent will not tolerate or submit to your Illegal, outrageous and larcenous acts. We demand that you reconsider your unlawful actions thus far taken, that you cease your assaults on the integrity of the Republican party, and that you perform your functions in the Republican fashion with fairness and with honesty. "Unless you rescind your fraudulent decisions upon you shall rest the responsibility for the attempt to assassinate the Republican party, and for all time to come you will have the contempt and execration of all liberty loving, square thinking and reputable citizens." TWO DIVORCES ARE GRAIITEDJY JUDGE Failure to Provide and Inhuman Treatment Are the Charges Averred. Two divorces were granted by Judge Fox in the Wayne circuit court this morning. One decree was granted upon the grounds of failure to provide and the other upon the charge of cruel and inhuman treatment. That she became angry at him because he spoke to another girl at the skating rink, and in her anger cursed bim and his parents and threatened to take his life was the charge of Homer L. Miller in his petition for a divorce from Ines I. Miller. The plaintiff declared that when he went home on the evening of the skating rink episode Lis wife "raised a rumpus, cursed him and his mother and father and went to the kitchen where she procured a 1-eeling knife. She returned to their bed room and attempted to cut bim, the plaintiff averred. Following this she sat up the remainder of the night, refusing to go to sleep or allow other members of tbe family to sleep. Tbe next morning she left for Newark, her former heme. The plaintiff stated that he was married in September of last year and separated from his wife in March of this year. The divorce was granted. Myrtle L. Harper was given a divorce from William L. Harper upon the grounds of failure to provide. THE WEATHER LOCAL Unsettled with shower tonight and Sunday. Temperature unchanged. - -

CHICAGO TODAY IS BEDLAM OF UPROAR FIGHTS AND NOISE

Windy City Began Early to Prepare a Welcome for the Colonel That Will Shake the Town. MANY FIST FIGHTS AND ROWS OCCUR Clashes Between Rival Partisans Take Place in Hotel Lobbies and Excitement at Fever Heat. (National News Association) CHICAGO, June 15. Col. Theodore Roosevelt today takes personal command of his fight for the Republican nomination for president. At 4 o'clock this afternoon he will arrive in Chicago. A noisy reception by the hosts already gathered to take part in the demonstration and another smashed precedent will greet him as he steps form the train. For the first time in the history of the Republican party an avowed candidate for the office of President, himself an ex-president, will appear personally on the scene of a convention before which he seeks the office. The noise that is expected to greet the colonel started early today. Cheering delegates and cheering persons who are not delegates have been marching through the hotel lobbies chouting, singing, arguing and making speeches. Their demonstration has accentuated the bitterness , and excite ment that pervade the presidential Personal,-, encounters, Quickly , suppressed Dy men wno separated tne warring partisans broke out half a dozen times in the hotel lobbies where the demonstration started. Songs and Cheering. Roosevelt songs were interrupted by cheers for Taft. Incipient Roosevelt rpeeches have been interrupted by Taft supporters and have been changed into a riot of meaningless cries and (bouts as Taft and Roosevelt partisans rushed up to take part In the fray. Personal arguments between men of either side have grown into altercations between quickly gathered hosts. Every cne about the hotels where the politicians have gathered is in a stage bordering on hysteria. And the dem onstration started hours before the colonel was booked to arrive. For once Chicago is put in the same category with her country cousins. From Indications this morning every j.erson in the city interested in polltics will try to "go down to see the train come in." The coming of the train Is to them the one important fea ture in the day's events. Whether the arrival of the Rough Rider means a "stampede" is the one question that is agitating the leaders of both camps. Taft men confidently asserted today it meant nothing of the sort. Cut the men who make this statement, most of them, were present four 3 ears ago when the galleries of the Republican national convention broke into the long Roosevelt demonstration that could not be quieted. One Taft man asserted that the actual coming of the Colonel would be an anti-climax. The threat of his coming, he said, had more effect than the actual arrival. He asserted it would help the Taft cause to have the colonel on the ground. T. R. Men Jubilant. The Roosevelt men are jubilant at the colonel's coming. From the moment he arrives until the convenUon is over they believe the colonel will be the center of the fight and they rely on his own statement that he is a "better fighter than a prophet." The, real fireworks will begin with the arrival of the Lake Shore limited. Thousands it is expected, will crowd tbe station. The demonstration was expected to continue as the colonel goes to the hotel while he remains in public new and even while be is in his own apartments. It is to grow into a great climax Monday night at a meeting at the Auditorium theater where Roosevelt is to be the great central figure. There is to be one figure and one speech. During the hours the meeting continues and it is planned to make it a continuous affair,, opening early in the evening and lasting until late. Roosevelt, according to present plans, will address the crowd. When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No. 2566.

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VIM IS TEDDY "They'll Get Some Fight," Remarked the Strenuous One as His Train Entered Cleveland, O. RECEIVED OVATION AT SYRACUSE, N. Y. Enthusiasts There Tried to Get Him Out of Bed at 2 A. M. Refuses to Talk Until Arrival. (National News Association) CLEVELAND. O., June 15. Theodore Roosevelt was brimful of enthusiasm when he reached this city today on the Lake Shore limited, enroute to Chicago, where he will assume personal charge of his forces in the contest against President Taft's supporters. "I feel bully," said the Colonel, when he went to breakfast. "Fit for the fight?" was asked. "Just wait and see," returned the Colonel aggressively. "They'll get some fight." The Ex-President on arising found his secretary waiting for him with a cluster of telegrams that had come to the train from his Chicago managers during tbe night. One from Senator Dixon, Informed the ex-president that he was making the Chicago trip at the righttlmeto stop theutter stealing" of the nomination. Roosevelt bad no comment to make on the Chicago situation. "Wait until I get there and see how things stand," he observed. "Then I can be in position to talk." Train Struck Bouldsr. The Lake Shori limited, owing t the accident of yesterday afternoon near Tarrytown, N. Y., when It struck a boulder, was one hour late in reaching here this morning. Col. Roosevelt laughed when a fellow passenger suggested that the "Taft brigands" might have put the rock on the track to prevent his coming to Chicago. "Well, nothing could stop me." rejoined the Colonel. "Not even a wreck." The ex-president was in excellent humor. He showed that he Intends rtanhlncr into the fh I cm trn battle with a Kim that is likely to stir up trouble. Col. Roosevelt was awakened from his sleep at Syracuse by a wildly yelling crowd at 2 a. m. when about 200 eager men insisted on his getting but of bed. The crowd climbed under and all around the Colonel's private car in a rain effort to see him. Roosevelt decided to get up and talk to his nocturnal disturbers. "This la no time for callers," quoth he to his secretary. The Roosevelt party, including Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel. Kermit, Theodore, Jr., and the latter's wife, were all in rare good spirits today. In the Roosevelt circle there is a distinct impression that the Colonel is going to win the nomination, so everybody is happy. MILTON BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT Charles Milton, the farmer accused of chicken thieving and arrested Thurs day. was arraigned on this charge this morning. He waived examination in police court and his bond for appearance at circuit court was fixed at $500. Three affidavits were filed in circuit court against Milton later, charging him with stealing three chickens from Sam Smith, six from George RothermeL and 19 from Mort McMahan. all living near Whitewater. He la charged with petk larceny. Milton is alleged to have stolen the chickens on the night of Juno 12. NEW TEACHER FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL At a special meeting of the school board last evening preceding the alumni banquet. Miss Alice Lanning. of this city, a recent graduate from Indiana university, waa made an assistant in the English department of the

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high schooL The session was short, i only routine matters being considered aside from this appointment, and that of Mr. Jenkins to take the position in (the Garfield school made vacant by Mr. Steely, appointed to the Baxter jbuHdiBg.

TEXAS DELEGATES DONATED TO TAFT BY HIS HEIICHMEtl

Delegation at Large and Two District Delegations Taken From Roosevelt by the Committee. CALIFORNIANS AND NEW YORKERS LAND Former Solid for Roosevelt, and Delegation From Empire State Is Claimed by Both Factions. BULLETIN CHICAGO. June 13. Taft delegates were seated in the fifth and seventh Texas districts this afternoon, making the president's grand total of con tested delegates 183, and eighteen for the day. TAFT TAKES TEXAS. CHICAGO. June 15. Delegates-at-large from Texas were awarded to President Taft today by the national committee. The Roosevelt men. headed by Col. Cecil Lyon, national committeeman from that state, fought desperately, but from the beginning of the session it was apparent that the steam roller was well oiled and working smoothly. Disorder followed the decision of the committee. Francis J. Heney. the fiery Californian. shouted "treason, but he was howled down. Gag rule was inforced by the Taft men over the protests of Heney. but it took nearly two hours to conclude the hearing that resulted in seating the following Taft delegates: H. F. McGregor. J. E. Elgin, W. C. Averllle, W. H. Love, C. K. McDowell, W. M. McDonald, J. E. Lutx and J. J. Burrows. Each have a half vote In the convention. When the Taft contests for the dele-gates-at-Iarge from Texas were called at the opening of the morning session of the committee. Col. Lyon tried to stop the hearing of the case on the grounds that the Taft delegation had not complied with the rules of the committee in filing their contests. "I must Insist, Mr. Chairman, that there Is no contest in the state of Texas." said Lyon. Chairman Rosewater was the first to recover from the shock and replied : " "The secretary advises me that there are two sets of credentials filed from the stat eat-large from Texas." "Under the rules of this committee there is no contest because they filed no brief against my delegation. answered Lyon. Ha Rules a Contest. "There is a contest according to the records here." ruled tbe chairman. "The records of this committee are wrong, cried Lyon. "No brief was on file until yesterday. In tbe Alaska case you threw out six Alaska delegates at large yesterday because no brief had been filed. Now why discriminate against Texas?" Penrose offered a motion to pass the Texas cases over until the Virginla cases could be decided. Despite the protests of Lyon and Heney this motion was carried by a vlve voce vote. It developed, however, that neither the Virginia nor Washington cases were ready for presentation and the committee had to return to Texas. Col. Lyon's contention that the Taft delegation had not complied with the rules of the committee was overruled. F. C. Bryan of New York and William McDonald (colored), presented the Taft side, and Col. Lyon spoke for the Roosevelt men. Taft delegates from the first and second Texas districts were seated, but the third district was awarded to Roosevelt. In tbe latter district the evidence showed that the Taft contestants were elected at an illegal convention and had no grounds for a contest. NEW YORK THE KEY. CHICAGO. Jane 15. Second only in importance to the arrival of Col. Roosevelt today was the coming of the New York delegation. It was important because the New York delegation contains ninety of the 162 uninstructed votes of the convention and can, therefore, control the situation on the face of the figures made either by the Taft or Roosevelt adherents. A brass band led the New York hosts and marched with it to tbe New York headquarters at tbe Auditorium boteL Three estimates of the standing of the delegation were made today. William Barnes, Jr., the New York leader, said that tbe tolly stood. Taft 7S, Roosevelt, ; doubtful, 6. Secretary Gleason of the New York Republican (Continued on Page Six