Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 211, 10 July 1912 — Page 1

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rrn AND SUN-TELEGRAM i VOL. XXXVII. NO. 211. t RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING. JULY 10, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. I CHICAGO WAS RELIEVED BY Mrs. Keppel Edward's Critic JURY HEARS TALE Of AN ANGRY WIFE TO RISK HIS LIFE DRY LORiER CASE SPICED BY SENATORS! News Nuggets TO IMPRISON WIFE (National News Association) AUSTIN, Texas, July 10 After dashing 50 miles on horseback, carrying his little daughter, who was bitten by a mad skunk, J. A. Slaughter made a record run to this city of 1.200 miles to get the child to the state pasteur institute.

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, grees After Firry-two- Peo ple "Had Been Killed -by. the Sun'sfRays. Atlantic spates stilusufferinq Fifteen People )Die"din New tYork Today. 96 Degrees f Was Reportedat -Syracuse, NewiYork. (Hational -News 'Association) CHICAGO, July 10 During the foremoon today under . the pressure of freshening ."breezes rfrom '.the northwest the temperature suddenly- declined. At 10 o'clock 77 degrees was .registered and the weather bureau issued a statement that the hot wave 'was 'broken and by tonight . the temperature would be 60 or below. Six additional deaths from heat were recorded early this mornings making the total deaths from' excessive heat 42 during the presenthot wave. ! NEW YORK VICTIMS. NEW YORK, July 10. Fifteen deaths, all incidents of the oppressive heat wave, , and many prestractions were recorded today., The temperature at" 9 o'clock, was 82 degrees and still .'climbing. HITS) A HIGH MARK. SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 10. Ninetysix degrees in the,shadewas;iegister-J ed at 10 o'clock 'this .morning. This Is the, tenth consecutive day fin the (longest heat wave inithe -memory of the oldest Inhabitants. A DEATH A DAY. ROCHESTER, N. Y., July . 10. An average of one death a day, attributed j to the oppressive heat, -has been recor ded oerc uuriug duo wii iitc uj. a ho temperature has-ranged' from 87 to 93 degrees. STATESMAN VICTIM. I NEW YORK, July 10. Former state seantor wnnam "Aiacicay, on, Lancaster, N, Y.,,died at la hotel here today as a result, of heatlprostratien. Reports fppm all Atlantic states show that the hotVwave is 'unabated and the Buffiering Is Intense. HE ALLEGES PERJURY, eAged Man Says Policemen Lie hv-hen Charging Him. Alleging that-" members . of .thev local police ' force have committed perjury every time he has been arraigned m police court, 'Julius Youngblood, an aged man imoourt this morning denied being, guilty of the charge of public Intoxication. Youngblood has been arrested previously ' on thif 'charge. but steadfastly f holds fthat he is not Kullty. i LYounsbloods staged; "because! : was a member of a police ' f oree . one time., J never sworenhatt man 'was guilty. (of a crime, unless litanew It." The arresting patrolman Vdeclaved that Youngblood was lying on the sidewalk near main, street, on. North Ninth, yesterdays afternoon, "dead to the werld. He was ftned H - and ftcests. Mil WAS HELD UP feat -the Bandits Failed to Get AnyBooty. (National News Association) KANSAS CITY, Jnly 10. .Four bandits held up passenger train No. 9 on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railbroad near Cof feyville, Kan., early to(day Nine charges of powder explod ed underneath the express car failed ko break It open. The train had been (held for two hours and the robbers. levidenUy frightened by the time con sumed, escaped without getting any booty. No attempt was made to moest the passengers or the mail car. SUIT FOR DIVORCE Suit for divorce and custody of child Was Hied this morning by Mary E. IMaupin Vs. her husband George C. Maupin. The plaintiff alleges tnat tne defendant is an habitual drunsard. 'and also that he has failed to support khe plaintiff or the child. When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No. 3566."

LONDON, July 10. The publication of Sir Sidney Lee's brutally candid monograph on King Edward VII. has given the British monarchy a holt from which it will not soon recover. The revelation of Edward's weaknesses and limitations, and the betrayal of the secret that he was opposed to Lloyd George's Budget are reckoned to have done enormous , political harm, and to have shaken the blind faith in the millions of English people. Inmates of the Court are endeavoring to fix the responsibility for the revelations on Mrs. George Keppel. She was one of the few . persons who had Edward's entire confidence, and she had probably a V shrewder estimate of his character than anyone alive.

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SQUARE DEAL ONLY His Attorney Asks Suspension of Judgment Until' He Has Been Tried, (National News Association) WASHINGTON, July 10. Counsel for Judge Robert W. Archbald, of the Commerce Court, against whom articles of Impeachment have been report ed in the House, issued a statement asking that public opinion in the Archbald case be suspended until the accused jurist has had an opportunity to present his defense to the Senate, which, sitting as a Court, will try the charges against him. Consideration of the Archbald im peachment resolution in the House will be resumed Thursday. ' The statement made public by his counsel, the first public reply from the Judge, and indicating the tenor of the defense in the expected trial, in part fallows: "Judge Archbeld's counsel state that he emphatioally denies tHat in any of the transactions referred to in the report of th Judiciary Committee, or which are embraced In the arttoles of Impeachment which the committee has submitted to the House, he used or attempted to use his influence as a Judge improperly. "ConBoious of his own Integrity, It never occurred, to Mm in any of the transactions referred to that others might suspect that he was acting otherwise than uprightly. "When the original charges against him were presented to the President and the Attorney-general he was given no notice and had no hearing. "In the proceedings before the House Judiciary Committee he was permitted ' to cross-examine witnesses, but it was explicitly stated by the Chairman that the proceedings was a hearing and not a trial. "In the hearings before the committee the principal charges which had led the President and the AttorneyGeneral to take action' were shown to be utterly unfounded. When the evidence was closed, what charges the committee might make could not be known to Judge Archbald or his counsel until they were presented to the House. "Judge Archbald, therefore, will have no opportunity to present his defense until he is summoned before the senate, and until he has had a hearing there he asks that public opinion in his case may be suspended.". BORRISS TO SING IN GRAND OPERA Aurele Borriss, a well known operatic singer who for a season or two was the vocal instructor in Earlham Col lege, but who has recently been In his home in Germany, will return to this country this autumn to join the Chicago Opera Company. T I Mr. Borriss recently met Miss Alice ! Knollenberg In Berlin, where Miss Knollenberg Is studying, and stated Ithat he had accepted a position with tbe Chicago Opera Company This is a i compliment to Mr. Borriss's art and ! his personality since the Company has only singers of the most dlEtinguisheg. character In its repertoires. '

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THIRD EXPLOSION IN ENGLISH MINE Occurred Today and Several of .Rescuers Overcome - Death List at 74. (National News Association) NEWCASTLE, Eng., July 10. An explosion occurred today In the shaft of the Gadehy colliery at Conisborough Yorkshire, where 74 persons were killed yesterday in a series of gas blasts. To-day's accident came at a time when a party of rescuers were working in the pit and many of them were overcome by fumes and were carried to the surface. King George, who is visiting at the estate of the Earl of Fitzwilliom and who visited Cadeby mme on Monday, today inquired solicitously after those wounded in the series of explosions. While he is visting in the North coal mining country the King is anxious to inquire into conditions surrounding miners in their work and home life. CATHOLIC RED MEN A Unique Religious Meeting in South Dakota. (National Kewi Association) CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., July 10. What is probably the most unique religious gathering of the summer waB opened today at the new town of White River, near the Rosebud reservation, where several thousand Indians professing the Catholic religion assembled for a camp-meeting. The Indians have gathered from several States, the reservations represented including the Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Rosebud, Lower Brule, Pine Ridge, Yankton and Sisseton. The meeting will last several days and will be addressed by numerous Catholic priests as well as some of the noted leaders of the red race. A FRAT JONVENTII Kappa Sigma Members Have Captured Louisville. (National News Association) LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 10. An army of 2,000 Greek letter men recruited from colleges and universities throughout the country took possession of Louisville today, the occasion being the twentieth biennial grand conclave of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. The sessions of the gathering will last three days and will be liberally interspersed with features of entertainment. The Kappa Sigma fraternity in America was founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. It derives its origin from an ancient European secret order which was founded at the university of Bologna about 1395. and spread later to the universities of Paris, Florence and Orleans. Since its Introduction into America the growth ot the fraternity has been very rapid and it Is now represented at the leading colleges of the country -by 78 chap ters. ' ""'

Chase of Mrs. Bookhart Aft

er Her Husband and His. Affinity Related in City Court Today. BEATRICE V. PIERCE IS THE DEFENDANT She Is Charged with Pointing a Gun on Mrs. Bookhart When the Latter Called to Get Husband. Racy, 6picy and sensational was the testimony presented in police court today during the hearing of the case of the state versus Miss Beatrice Virginia Pierce, charged with pointing a deadly weapon at Mrs. Harry Bookhart. A jury is hearing the caBe, which opened shortly after 9 o'clock and was not concluded until late this afternoon. The prosecution alleged that Harry Bookhart, husband of the prosecuting witness had had intimate relations with the defendant and that when Mrs. Bookhart went to the Pierce home Saturday afternoon, June 22, to ascertain if her husband were there, Miss Pierce drew a revolver upon her. Miss Pierce, twenty-two years old, resides with her parents southwest of the city. Mrs. J. Haner, Witness. Mrs. John Haner, 2216 North D street, was the first witness called by the prosecution. Mrs. Haner testified that she accompanied Mrs. Bookhart to the Pierce home. They drove to the place, arriving there about 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Haner stated that she remained in the buggy, while Mrs. Bookhart, with a buggy whip in her hand, went up to the house. She said that Mrs. Bookhart knocked on all of the doors, but received no response. Mrs. Haner said that they waited there about forty-five minutes before the door was opened. -. According to the witness, Miss Pierce opened the door, saying that she had been sleeping and had just awakened. She was asked if Harry Bookhart was in the house and Miss Pierce answered that he was not and that she did not know Bookhart, the witness said. Mrs. Bookhart then asked if she could go through the house and ascertain for herself, if her husband was in the houee. Permission to do so was accorded her but when she attempted to mount the stairs to the upper floor Miss Pierce objected and ordered Mrs. Bookhart from her home. With the statement that she would wait outside until her husband left the place Mrs. Bookhart went to the lawn. Just then, according to Mrs. Haner, Bookhart was seen in the rear yard, presumably having left the house by another door. Caught With "Goods On." "So you were here," Mrs. Bookhart said to her husband, "I am through now. Just wanted to. make sure that you were with this woman." When Mrs. Bookhart was placed on the witness stand she repeated what is related above and said she started to leave the premises, walking towards the buggy, when Bookhart ran up to her, grabbed her by the arm and said, "Grace, come back and apologize to this woman. I was not with her and can prove it by her." Mrs. Bookhart alleged that at this point Miss Pierce ran into the house and reappeared with a revolver which she brandished about her head, cursing Mrs. Bookhart and declaring that she would "blow her brains out" if she did not move from the place. "Don't shoot yet," Bookhart is alleged to have said and taking Mrs. Bookhart back to the house he attempted to "explain matters." Mrs. Bookhart testified that Miss Pierce again pointed the revolver at her and hurling other epithets at her declared Bhe would kill her. Dared Her To Shoot. "Go ahead and shoot me," Mrs. Bookhart, testified she said. The witness stated that during the time the gun was pointed at her, that her husband was hiding behind her. The defendant was then placed on the stand and testified that Mrs. Bookhart cursed her and that she attempted to throw acid of some nature at her.A bottle upon which was the label "Oil of Vitrol" was produced by the counsel for the defense. This bottle, it was alleged, was found in the yard of the Pierce residence. Vitrol Bottle Shown. Mrs. Bookhart testified that she ordered the acid from & drug store upon the request of her husband and that she took it from his pocket while they were standing in front of the Pierce house, saying "if I hav to face that gun again I will protect myself with this." It was testified that when Mrs. Bookhart was taken back to the house by her husband a general scuffle ensued, as Mrs. Bookhart leaped at Miss Pierce grabbing her by the throat and throwing her to the ground floor. Bookhart separated the women and Mrs. Book-, hart returned to the buggy, driving to Yn,tlnued on Page Six)

WASHINGTON, July 10 Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey Adee has just returned trom his annual bicycle tour through Europe. He covered a distance of 1.800 miles. He will be 70 years old in November.

CHICAGO, July 10 Oeorge W. Rodgers held up thirty-seven men and two bartenders in the Boston saloon last night. Two thirsty policemen entered during the pro ceedings and arrested Rodgers after beating him into unconsciousness. LONDON, July 10 A new hybrid tea rose called the "Mrs. Andrew Carnegie," and exhibited by Richard Croker at Aberdeen, has won a gold medal at the exhibition of the National Rose Society. PLYMOUTH. England, July 10 Two English women, Mrs. Barry Till and Miss Davies, will embark from Panama in a few days on a treasure hunting expedition for Coco Island, where it is said $1,000,000 is hidden. WINSTED, Conn., July 10 Because so many mail carriers have been attacked by vicious dogs, the postal department has renewed its orders that no mall will be delivered to owners of viciouB dogs. NEW YORK. July 10 Hereafter it will cost $5 instead of $4 to ride to a wedding in a carriage on Staten Island, according to an announcement made by the liverymen of the island. JOE JONES FRANK "Oh I am guilty all right." was the answer made by Joe Jones in police court this morning when arraigned on the charge of drunk. "I'm always guil ty of that charge." Jones looked pleased when the mayor did not fine him the limit. Jones was given $25 and costs and thirty days. IOWA REPUBLICANS REACH COMPROMISE Convention Won't Demand Taft's Withdrawal, but Will Support T. R. (National News Association) DES MOINES, Iowa, July 10 Progressive Republicans in Iowa who desire to support Theodore Roosevelt may do so without losing their party rights. This is the plan of the progressives today, who far outnumber the conservative delegates to the state convention. An old resolution, known as the "bad man" resolution, will be made a part of the state Republican platform. It will absolve all Repub licans who refuse to support Taft. A plank supporting Rooseevlt will also be a part of the document, according to plans of the leaders before the convention went into session. The "bad man" plank is a compromise. Radicals at first planned a resolution denouncing the Chicago convention and asking that President Taft withdraw from the race. The conservatives secured the compromise. Some of them want to carry the fight to the convention floor. If they do the progressives will retaliate with the resolution demanding that the president get out of the race. KELLOGG ON FENCE. CHICAGO, July 10 Whether he will clamber aboard the third party band wagon, or whether he will remain "regular." was information which Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, a leader of the Roosevelt fight in the Republican national convention here, refused to give today. Kellogg was in Chicago on private business. "I'm not committed to either Taft or Roosevelt," he said. "I have not said yet what course I might pursue regarding any third party movement." STATE B AR MEETING Was Begun Today at South Bend. Many Present. (National News Association) SOUTH BEND. Ind July 10. Many lawyers and jurrists of note from Indiana and the neighboring states were present here today at the opening of the sixth annual meeting of the Indiana State Bar association. The large attendance and the prominence of the speakers combine to give promise of a notable meeting. Stephen S. Gregory, of Chicago, president of the American Bar association, is to deliver the annual address. By special invitation of the association. Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict of Milwaukee will address the meeting on "The Political Recognition of Women, the Next Step in the Development of Democracy.'

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ATLANTA. Ga., July 10. Eugene Grace, who lies helpless in the home of his mother, paralyzed by a bullet, which he declares his wife, Daisy Grace, fired into his spine while he lay asleep in their home, has declared that if it costs him his life he will go on the stand when his wife is brought to trial. July 22. In an effort to prove her guilt, and to put her behind the bars for a long prison sentence. "After that." declares Grace, "I will di vorce her so that she may never again call herself by the name of Grace. These things I will do, or die trying." DEALERS IN PROTEST Grain Men Claim Wheat Rates Are Unfair. (National News Association) CHICAGO. - July 10 Prominent grain dealers and millers throughout the west attended the hearing conducted here today by Examiner Boyle of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion relative to the alleged unjust rates on wheat from Minneapolis to Chicago. The proceeding is regarded as exceptionally important to the flour interests. As a result ot a million-in-transit arrangement at . Minneapolis, it is alleged millers in the latter city are enabled to bring wheat there, turn it Into flour and ship it to Chicago at the rate of 7M cents a hundred pounds. Chicago millers, on the other hand, are compelled to pay 10 cents a hundred pounds on wheat shipped here from Minneapolis. This arrangement, It Is contended, enables Minneapolis millers to deliver flour in Chicago at an advantage of 2 cents a hundred pounds, so far as freight charges are concerned, over the local millers. HOT CAMPAIGN ENDS Canadian Contest Will Decide Fate of Liberals. (National News Association Tt REGINA, Saak.. July 10. The fate of the Liberal Government, which, un der Premier Scott, has been In power continuously since the formation of the Province of Saskatchewan nearly seven years ago, will be determined in the general election tomorrow. The campaign closed rather quietly today, many of the meetings and demonstrations planned as a wind-up of the contest having been abandoned as a result of the catastrophe which befell this city a week ago. Both parties express themselves confident of winning the election, but as a matter of fact the Province is so large, the constituencies so new, and the voters list so vastly changed from the last fight that the results of the election cannot be forecasted with any large degree of certainty. In his fight for a renewal of power Premier Scott cites the record of his administration with regard to the elevator question, the creaUon of a Provincial system of telephones, the establishment of a Provincial university and agricultural college and the handling of other Important problems. The Government also relies on the reciprocity argument to attract the heavy American vote. The Conservatives for the irst time are completely organized with working candidates in every constituency. The party has brought in several prominent Manitoba orators to assist In their campaign. The Conservatives declare that reciprocity Is absolutely dead, and that the Liberals have revived the issue only to prevent a discussion of their administrative record. - -

Smith of Michigan Drags In the Henning-Funk Alienation of Affection Suit1 at the Hearing.

JONES AND SMITH HAD LIVELY TILT Smith Says the Henninsr; Case Was Blackmail and! an Attempt to Impair thej Testimony of Funk. ? , i . (National News Association) ' WASHINGTON. July 10 Senator: Smith, of Michigan, injected the Henning alienation case into the Lorimer case today. He asserted that the charge brought by H. C. Henning against Clarence Funk, of the International Harvester company, in his action for the alienation of his wife's affections, was an attempt at blackmail and an effort to impair the testimony ot Mr. Funk given at the Lorimer hearing. Mrs. Henning recently confessed that she did not know Mr.' Funk, and she had reluctantly entered the conspiracy against him. "Do you think.' asked SenatorJones, of Washington, "that the Henning case, which was brought long after Funk testified and after the hearing was closed, had any effect on' this committee V Senator Jones wasa member of the Lo rimer investigating committee. "Yes, tlT." replied Senator Smith. Then." retorted Senator Jones. 1 can only say the senator from Michigan has a different opinion of this committee than he has heretofore expressed." Senator Smith renewed his assertion that the Henning case wis brought to impeach Mr. Funk's character and impair his testimony. ALLEGES CONSPIRACY. CHICAGO. July -10 Details of an alleged conspiracy to ruin the reputation of Clarence Funk, general manager of the International aHrvester company, and defendant recenUy in the $25,000 alienation suit of John C. Henning, were given yesterday by Mrs. Josephine O'Reilly Henning, wife of the plaintiff in the Funk suit, when she appeared before the grand Jury at the criminal court building. Mrs. Henning asserted that the agreement into which she entered with her husband and others was not only a conspiracy, but that she has seen Mr. Funk so far as she knows. She said further that she has not at any time visited hotels with Mr. Funk, as was charged ' by Henning In his suit to obtain damages for the loss of his wife's affections. Miss Aileen Heppner, now under in dictment for perjury while a witness In the alienation suit, and Daniel Donah oe, attorney for Henning, are the two persons named by Mrs. Henning as those being responsible for inducing her to enter into the plot. Desire for Money Lured Hsr. She declares a desire for expensive .clothing and money to spend at fash ionable hotels and in traveling over came her unwillingness to become a party to the conspiracy and caused her to decide to permit her name to be used as having registered at hotels with Funk as her companion. She asserted that since October, 1911, she has received from J 2 00 to (300 a month from Donahoe, which she has used in traveling to different parts of the country and stopping at highpriced hotels at winter and watering resorts. Mrs. Henning reached Chicago yesI terday morning, having hurried hero from New i ork, wnere she made a signed statement Monday afternoon before Assistant State's Attorney Thomas Marshall of Cook county. Frank Scott, attorney for Funk, and two detectives employed by State's Attorney Wayman. Shortly after her arrival here the woman went to the office of Mr. Wayman, where she underwent a searching examination in the presence of a stenographer. Without leaving the building she went before the grand jury at 3 o'clock and remained on the witness stand for one hour and five minutes. Her testimony before that body was practically the same as given In her signed statement in New York. Having related the story three times before, she showed great composure while testifying before the grand Jury. She was dressed In a fashionably cut white summer suit, with a picture hat and shoes to match. At 6 o'clock she left the Criminal court building, and entering the automobile of Charles O. RundalL attorney for Funk, was driven away In company with a woman companion and a detective. Her destinaUon not made public THE WEATHER STATE Thundsr showers this afternoon; eenerally fair tonight and Thursday. LOCAL Thunder showers this aftsr ' noon followed 1 by fair. . . Slightly cooler tonight and Thuradax.