Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 192, 17 June 1912 — Page 1

BICHMONB PAIXABITJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 192. RICHMOND, IXD., MOXPAI EVENING. JUNE 17, 1912. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS. SUNDAY WAS A BUSY DAY IN CHICAGO A NEW SQUAD These Men Claim to Represent Indiana at Chicago m-mcv . ' 4-'" .fMEETS DEATH DURING GALE OF TAFT ' FOR COLONEL

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fBOTH SIDES CLAIM ABOUT EVERYTHING Somebody Is Certain to Win, but Who that Somebody Will Be Nobody in Chicago Can Predict. BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE. f (Copyright: 1912: By Sam'l G. BIythe) CHICAGO, June 17. Inasmuch as j there is a very large supply of exJ tremely competent seethers and boil- ' ers in the city, Sunday was largely ! devoted to seething and boiling. ', Sedulous seethers were - constantly j stepping on one's feet in the hotel lobjbies and seething into one's face; and i buoyant boilers boiled up, boiled out, j and boiled over, here, there, and every where. It was the same upstairs in the room 8 that shelter the professional seethers. They were not seething in view of the spectators, but they were doing a lot more of it, for, as iB well known, they have a lot more of it to do. The net result of the day's ebullition was plenty of bubbles and steam, . but nothing more tangible. When the sergeants and corporals who are running this show, or are being run by it, which is closer to the fact closed down for the night they were in exactly the. same case as they were in the morning when they had their eggs. Not one of them knew what is going to happen, and not one of them did not claim to know exactly what is in prospect. Number one of the political aphorisms is: Claim everything. The men who are in charge of the various affairs of the various candidates are ably aphorlstical. They claim everything. Then, following out political precepts, they concede nothing. Thus the eager seeker after information learns that Taft is sure to win, that Roosevelt is sure to win, that Cummins and La Follette are sure to win, and that there is nothing to it but Hughes, or Borah, or some one else. And, casting a general average, the result obtained is that, while somebody is certain to win, nobody in Chicago knows who that somebody will be. Would Dam Niagara. It was hot in the morning, but in the (afternoon the breeze came skylarking in from the lake, and the wilted predictors and solvers, and compromisers, and the compromised, and prophets, and seers, and fanatics, and fantastics 'chirked up amazingly, and the mass of misinformation that was handed about in places where these persons gathered would dam Niagara. This was the way of it: A report came that a Taft Georgia delegate had switched to Roosevelt. A man heard this report. Presently he told it to another man. That man came along and told another man that half a dozen Georgia delegates, he has heard on the highest possible authority, have switched to Roosevelt. The third man made the number a dozen, and the fourth man galloped down Peacock alley in the Annex shouting: "The stampede has begun! The stampede has begun!" Still, there were one or two definite things. Tim Woodruff of Brooklyn, after fluttering about for weeks, . finally lighted in the Roosevelt cote and claimed he brought four other (Continued on Pag eight) Sam G. BIythe Noted political expert and author of "Who's Who And Why" and "The Senator's Secretary," weekly features of the Saturday Evening Post has been secured to report the Republican National Convention exclusively in this territory for The Palladium His first articles are published in today's issue of the Palladium. - This paper will also publish convention reports furnished by the National News Association and by Carl Mote, special corresi pondent. Bulletins of the convention will be posted Tuesday and Wednesday, and as long as the convention is in session, at the corner of Eighth and Main streets.

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JAMES E. ST, MARY GRADUATES RECEIVE DEGREES Annual Graduation Exercises Were Held at the Church Sunday Evening. St. Mary's church was filled to its utmost capacity last evening when Rev. Walter J. Cronin conferred honors graduate on Miss Mary Crump and Miss Nellie Gordon for having finished the academic course of St. Mary's Academy. Certificates were also given for successfully completing the grammar course to John Galvin, Robert Broderick, Albert Joseph Nolan and TJiomas Murphy; a gold medal awarded to John Galvjn for the highest averrge In the Eighth Grade, and certificates given for penmanship according to the Palmer system to John Galvin, Robert Broderick, Thomas Murphy, Cyril Fitzgibbons, Sylvester Hamilton, i nd Clarence Coyle. J The following was the program: March Ave Marie Quartette Klein Lecture Rev. W. J. Cronin Conferring of Diplomas Luudate Quartette Rosewig Benediction of Blessed Sacrament. "Holy God." The church was artistically decorat ed with palms, ferns and daisies, the last being" the class flower, by St. Mary's Alumnae acting through a committee composed of Misses Alice Harrington, Mamie Luken, Ethel Moorman, Anna Golden and Alice Heck. The organization of St. Mary's Alumnae was perfected last Monday evening at a meeting held in the parlors of the Sisters of Providence, when constitution and by-laws drafted by a committee Miss Alice Harrington, Mrs. Maud Foley Highley and Miss Clara Luken were unanimously adopted, and the following officers elected and committee appointed: Mrs. John S. Fitzgibbons, president; Miss Petror.ella Ringhoff, secretary-treasurer; executive committee, Misses Clara Cesnan, Mamie Luken and Katherine Reilly. Father Cronin gave a religious address showing that a religious education was the making of reasonable and it sponsible men to their God and their fellowmen. He paid a high tribute to St. Mary's Academy, its teachers and pupils stating that in his experience he had met v.ith no higher averages than those attained this year, showing excellent training and application. In addressing the graduates Father Cronin told them that it they would ever keep before their mind's eye the lessons and example taught by their noble. self-sacrificing teachers they would certainly make manly men and uoble women. Special mention is due St. Mary's choir for the excellent rendition of their part of the program. CITY MEMBERS OF HOSPITAL BOARD Council tonight will terminate all discussion of the hospital question, it Is believed. The committee recently appointed to suggest names for the city's two representatives on the board of trustees of the Reid Memorial hospital will submit a report, suggesting the names of Ed G. McMahan, of the administration department, and Matthew Von Peln, of the legislative department. It is believed this report will be unanimously accepted. The resignation of Henry II. Kngelbert. member of council and the city's sole representative on the board at present, will probably be presented in a short time. Mr. Engelberfs illness from which he has not yet recovered is such that he cannot devote the proper, time and work to his position.

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WATSON. PATROLMAN NEARLY SHOCKEDJO DEATH Officer Edwards Seizes Electric Light Chain and Fell Unconscious. LeRoy Edwards, patrolman, 77 Laurel street, narrowly escaped death Saturday evening when he seized a chain controlling an arc light at the corner of Seventh and Main streets at 8:30, and was shocked into unconsciousness. Fred Barton, a bystander, pulled the unconscious officer from the clutches of the live wire. Dr. Burcham, who has an office nearby, rushed to tie scene, and prying open the unconscious man's mouth, pulled his tongue from his throat, saving his life. When a person Is badly shocked the tongue invariably expands filling up the throat and strangling the victim. Edwards was to all appearances dead for three minutes, no heart beats or breathing being noticeable. As soon as his tongue was reduced to its normal size and his body warmed by rubbing, respiration started again, and a short time later he was conscious. He was rushed home in an automobile. Today he is able to be about. His right first finger is badly burned and his feet are still stinging from the shock sustained. While Edwards was standing at the corner Saturday night the arc light suddenly went out. He went to the pole on which the chain controlling the lamp is fastened, and grabbing the chain above the insulated handle, ttrated to jerk the light to start it to working. The chain, it is thought, came In contact with a 500 volt feed wire of the traction company and this voltage knocked the patrolman uncon-s-cious.He was unable to release his band fro mthe chain. Barton rushed up and seizing Edwards clothes pulled him down. An emergency call was sent to police headquarters and patrol driver Wenger in police chief Gormon's private auto rushed to the scene and took Edwards to his home, where he was soon able to talk of his accident. Edwards can truthfully state he was "dead", for about two minutes because lor that length of time, his heart stopped beating and his breathing ceased. DELEGATES TRAIN IS WRECKED TODAY (National News Association) CHICAGO, June 17. Nearly one hundred convention delegates and boomers from the south were badly shaken up and bruised when an incominr Pennsylvania train crashed into a siring of empty coaches near the union station this morning. Several persons were cut by flying glass but none were seriously enough hurt to be taken to hospitals. Among those on the train were Fay Johnson and Mrs. Annie Carnan of Logansport, W. W. Harr.ell. M. Crawford and L. Breeze of Kokomo and J. Boston of Anderson. HUBBY KICKED HER; IS GIVEN DIVORCE Cruel and inhuman treatment and failure to provide were the grounds upon which May S. Goodhart secured a divorce from Oscar Goodhart, in the Wayne circuit court this morning. The plaintiff averred that the defendant kicked her, struck her and cursed her and that he refused to make reasonable provision for her. The plaintiff was also given the custody of their two minor children, Edith Francis, aged 4 and Floyd, aged 3 years. DECREE BY DEFAULT Decree by default was made by Judge Fox this morning in the Wayne ! circuit court in the case of Martha A. j Robbins versus Olive Boyd et a!,. suit to a.uiet title.

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& JOSEPH B. DORAN BRIDGE TO BE REPAIRED NOW Board Orders New Beams Under Floor Other Actions of Board Today. The question of repairing of the Doran bridge was brought to the attention of the board of works this morning with the result that an order will soon be placed for a large number of beams, to be placed beneath the new bridge floor. This will entail considerable expense. Contractor L. M. Jones, who is to have charge of the work, reported the beams now holding up the floor to be In bad condition. The saving of the automatic stokers to the city is evidenced by the reduced amount of coal to be bought this summer for the various city needs. The light plant will advertise for bids for 7,000 tons, where last year over 10,000 tons were used. The bids for all the various departments orf the city will be advertised soon. Black or white road oil may be used on the streets of the city as the property owners desire. The board decided this this morn.ing. A letter from the Prime White Road Oil company, of i Cincinnati was read to the board. In ! this letter it was stated that Mr. Will ! Lancaster who has applied the white oil to the streets would be supplied

with more white oil for the second j the F. & N. Lawn Mower company at coating for the streets. The company Eighth street and Washington avenue will also stand the expense of giving j wjn be completed. The building is bethe streets already oiled a thorough j jng erected at a cost of from $10,000 to

cleaning. The company also states it believes certain citizens of this city have not treated. Lancaster fairly in refusing to pay for the oiling of their streets after the work was done. The board of works concurred in this. The mayor made a motion which was seconded, that all poplar trees now adorning the sidewalks and grass plots in the city be cut down. The property owners are to be notified that immediate action is necessary, and if

they do not at once comply with the j owners are remodeling their homes provisions of the city ordinance re- j ani a large number constructing or enquiring this, legal action will be tak-, larging the porches on their residen. On North Eleventh street the j ences. trees are still standing and are in the

way of the contractor making the cement sidewalks and curbs there. The clerk will notify property owners of the board's decision. . A check for $11 for the old Natural Gas company's share of repairing Richmond avenue and other streets was received by the board. A sanitary sewer from Boyer to Sheridan street on John street was decided upon by the board on recommendation of the city health officer, who stated water stands in the cellars of the residences on this street. The sewer will be placed in the allay between John and State street. The fly nuisance was noticed and

on recommendation of the city health gyivania railroad for 26 years. He Is officer, the board decided to order j 8urvived Dy his wife, his daughter, Snpet. of Parks Hollarn to screen the ' mis9 charlotte, his son. Karl, who is on toilet rooms at the Glen park. advertising staff of the Palladium, A petition for a water main exten-; two bl.otners Charles of Gary, Ind sion from Ridge and Maple streets on , and wilour of Logansport. and his Ridge to School streets, was refused j mother; Mrs Mary Ailiaonf Logansto the water works company. j The funerai arrangements will

ine ooara aecunea 10 piace a crosswalk at the corner of Grant and Ridge streets, there being no continuous improved walks on Grant street. The board decided that the City's em-barassing financial status would nrevent the erection of a shed at the market house to be Dlaced over the new scales recently placed and now In opratiou. THE WEATHER STATE Fair and warmer Tuesday. LOCAL Slightly cloudy tonight. Tues - day warmer.

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o2 KEALING. BUILDING BOOM IS ON INJJLL BUST Building Record for Present Year Promises to Equal 1911 Record. Contrary to indications during the first months of the year, Richmond is experiencing a real building boom. It was first believed that there would be very little building in this city during 1912, but from present indications it appears that the amount of building this year will almost equal that of 1911. The Louck and Hill company Is building eight flat buildings on South Eleventh street upon the ground formerly occupied by a lumber yard by the Cain Lumber company. The apartment house will cost $36,000. The" company expects to have the building completed by October 1. Elwood McGuire, who is building a three-story structure between Tenth and Eleventh streets on Main, expects to the see the building completed by the middle of October. This building will cost approximately $40,000. It will have three store rooms on Main street, each twenty-one 'and one-half feet wide. It will be three stories in height, the upper floors to be used as flats. The new Murrette theater will be finished within a short time. The theater is being constructed immediately east of the Murray theater, by O. G. Murray, owner of the vaudeville house. Within eight or ten weeks the new building which is being complete by $15,000. The company expected to have the building finished some time ago, but the contractors have been delayed by not receiving material for work on the interior of the building. A number of other buildings are being put up now. New residences are being finished daily. Especially is this noticeable in the eastern and western sections of the city. Statistics in the city controller's office show that a number of property VETERAN RAILROAD MAN CALLED TODAY O. E. Allison, aged 43, one of the best known employes of the Richmond division, Pennsylvania railroad, died this morning at his home on East Main street of Bright's disease, which he had been a sufferer from for many months. Mr. Allison was returning from Cincinnati this morning on the train of which he was conductor, when he suffered a severe attack of the malady. He w as hurried to Richmond and died on his arrival home. - Mr. Allison had been in the employ of the Penn lb ,nilotm.ed iater. M, Allison was a Mason and a member of the Order of .Railroad Conductors. WONT MAKE APPEAL D"- S. E. Smith, of Easthaven, fined 5 and costs in police court last week ! ror violation or ur. j. k. King s ana Sheriff Steen's muzzling order, paid his fine of $13 yesterday, and it is un derstood he will withdraw his appeal from circuit court. Attorneys on both sides of the case were anxious for an appeal to be threshed out in circuit 1 court as this law has never been con'tested yet. -

Mrs. Adam Howard, Near Greensfork, Struck by a Falling Tree Top During

Storm of Sunday. HOUSES AND BARNS UNROOFED BY BLOW Orchards Are Ruined, Livestock Killed and Fences Blown Down. Loss Will Run to Tousands. Mrs. Adam Howard, living northwest of Greensfork, was killed yesterda morning by a falling tree, blown down by a wind storm that nearly reached the proportions of a cyclone and which left in its wake in the northwestern section of the county fifty or more unroofed barns and houses, dead live stock, ruined orchards and hundreds of uprooted trees. Mrs. Howard, aged about sixty, was riding in a covered phaeton with her husband, her daughter. Miss Edith, and her baby grandson when she met l'er death. They had been attending the Sugar grove church and were driving to the home of her son, Herbert, Howard, near Greensfork. when the gale came up, accompanied by a terri fic downpour of rain and a terrible el ectrical display. Suddenly the top of a large pine tree was carried away by the wind and it dropped with a resounding crash through the top of the pbaeton. Mrs. Howard's skull was crushed in, killing her instantly, but the other occupants of the vehicle escaped without injuries. The escape of (he boy was remarkable as he was sitting on his grandmother's lap when the tragedy occurred. Loss Will Be Large. A dispatch from Hagerstown this corning states that the storm did thousands of dollars worth of damage in the vicinity of that place, although the damage in the town itself was slight, consisting principally of uproot ed trees.. In the country districts near Hagerstown many barns, and houses were unroofed and a number of silos blown down. The grain and vegetable crops were not badly damaged, not having reached sufficient growth to be affected, but the fruit crop was badly damaged. At the farm of M. C. Fox, near Hagerstown, the barn was unroofed and the house partly unroofed. Seven hogs v.ere killed. Levi Spickler while driving with his family near Greensfork met an unusual experience. The wind picked up the horse and rig and deposited them topsy-turvy in a ditch. No one was Injured. Sam Byrd and family, while returning from the Sugar Grove church, met with an identical experience. They also escaped unhurt. Damage Near Greensfork. A dispatch from Greensfork states that the tarn on the B. W. Harris farm was unroofed. At the Charles Crump farm the barn roof was carried away and half of the roof of the house was torn off. The wind was so terrific I that the windows were all blown in j.nd some strips of paper ripped off the walls. The barn on the John Chapman farm as unroofed. At the farm of Mrs. Sarah Stutson the barn roof was blown off, the house considerably damaged, ffty eugar trees uprooted and two large pine trees were town up and carried some distance before being hurled over a fence, which was not damaged and deposited in the road. It is estimated that over five hundred trees were blown down, many of them fruit trees. The fury of the storm was felt in this city but no houses or barns were unroofed, although many shade trees vcre either blown down or badly damaged. In the vicinity of Cambridge City end Milton it is reported that considerable damage was done by the storm. Mrs. Adam Howard, who was killed yesterday, will be buried Wednesday vi the German Baptist cemetery, west of Hagerstown. The funeral services will be' held Wednesday morning at the Radical U. B. church at Sugar Grove. CASE IS APPEALED TO CIRCUIT COURT After having been litigated through two justices courts the case of Charles I. Strrtelmeyer versus Richard Elvord and Maud Elvord, has been appealed jto the Wayne circuit court. The com- ; plaint is balance on account, the plain tiff alleging that the defendants owe him 1196.50. The case was first fixed in the court of Henry Beeson, justice of the Peace in Jefferson township. Justice Bee- , son rendered judgment by default. The attorney for the defendant then i filed a motion to set aside the default j and asked for a change of venue. to Perry township. This was granted ' at (Iia -ttajk mT a ha rst Kafrik TnAm. 1 the plaintiff $75. ordering the defendant to pay per cnt fntret- The j defendant today filed the appeal In the I, circuit court.

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and Four More from Georgia Desert from Ranks of the President. COLONEL HOST AT RECEPTION TODAY He Enthusiastically Informs His Delegates and Alternates that He Has Taft Men in Flight. VERY STRENUOUS DAY Has Been Put in by the Leaders of Both Factions in the Wild Scramble to Get Delegates. (National Kews Association) CHICAGO. June 17. Senator Dixon, Roosevelt manager, announced this afternoon that thirteen more Taft dele gates had flopped over to the ex-presl-dent. He stated that nine were from South Carolina and four from Georgia, making a total of nine that have gon over to the Colonel from the latter state. ROOSEVELT IS HAPPY. CHICAGO, June 17. "We will cut them in two," cried Theodore Roosevelt today when the reports of his lieutenants were presented to him at a reception in the Elizabethian room at the Congress hotel. Late in the morning delegates and alternates filed into the Elixabethlan room for a conference with the Colonel. Although It was postlvely stated that no one except delegates and alternates would be admitted some outciders were permitted to go Into th room. When the Colonel dashed Into the room It was packed to suffocation and he ordered that not another ff.aa be admitted. R. R. McCormick was one of the first iren in line. He presented the facta from Illinois, declaring she would give fifty votes to the Colonel on every I-roposition. "Fine, fine." exploded the Colon eL rhaklng McCormick's hand like a pi:mp handle. "Believe me. Mr. McCormick. we will bust them in two, he cried. "Fine, Fins," Says T. R. Between McCormick and Governor Dineen In line were several of the Illinois delegation. They shook hands v.ith the Colonel . and the latter repeatedly explaimed, "fine, fine In. tunes that could be heard all over the room. The West Virginia delegation waa next in line. "Knock them over the re pes. knock them out," shouted Roosevelt. "Its a great pleasure to seo ou gentlemen, and I want you to know that we have got them going." The North Carolina and Oklahoma; delegations came next, making considerable noise, and they were followed by the Texas delgation: all bringing asFurances that their respective states Mere strong for the Colonel. A DELICATE POINT. CHICAGO, June 17. National Committeeman Rosewater declared that (rguments this afternoon or tomorrow morning on the proposition of entertaining a motion of the Roosevelt forces for the adoption of a substitute toll, prepared by them, rather than the temporary roll prepared by the nafonal committee. He declared the lints Involved were very delicate. HANGS BY EYELASH. CHICAGO. June 17. As between i resident Taft and Col. Roosevelt the, I residential nomination hung by an eyelash today according to a system of addition and subtraction employed by expert political forecasters and basd nion all the probabilities and possibilKies presented by the most confusing convention sitnation in the history of the Republican party. Taft headquarters declared positively today that the president will go Into the convention with a majority of twenty votes after all possible desertions are deduced. Senator Borah, speaking for the R.-06evelt faction, after pointing out the opposition's reduced claims, waa equally positive that the Taft forces would not have sufficient votes to control the convention. Many conservative politicians calculated today that about ten votes (Continued on Page Eight) When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation addres to No. 2565.