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L PROTESTS ON PANAMA BILL Britain's Plea for Senate's Delay on Canal Measure Until Protest Arrives, Was Turned Down. (STATE DEPARTMENT TAKES FIRM STAND !But Assures England that ' Debating on the Bill Will Not Be Concluded Until a Protest Is Filed. (National News Association) - WASHINGTON, July. 11. Secretary Vof State Knox today informed Great Britain through Alfred Innes, counselor of the British embassy, that the United States must decline to defer action on the Panama canal bill now pending in the senate until the receipt kf the formal British protest against the passage of the bill, i The . secretary of state added that there are a number of other measures vhich will precede the Panama bill in the senate and the time consumed lin debate probably will be sufficient jto permit of the filing of the British jprotest. Great Britain in her objection of the measure 'claims that the preferential treatment given to American coastwise ships over foreign vessels is a violation of the Hay-Paunee-forfe treaty, insuring the free and equal use of the canal to the vessels f commerce of all the world. Knox Won't Discuss It. The state department will decline to discuss the protest either formally 'or informally until the senate acts Ion the bill. ; Senator Brandagee, chairman of the lienate committee on interocean canals, today made public the text of the notification of the pending protest by Great Britain. The notice was received under date of July 5 from acting secretary of state Huntington Wilson and read as follows: ! "I have the honor to quote for your information the text of a telegram this day received from the charge d' affairs of Great Britian as follows: ! " 'I shall shortly be in a position to ftnake a communication to you regarding the bill now in the senate on the iBubject of Panama canal dues. I trust fthat it may be possible in the mean;while to postpone the -further consideration of that bill by congress." j Senator Brandagee denied knowl,edge of the basis that the British government may take for its complaint and declined to discuss the effect of free tolls for American ships on the treaty rights of Great Britain. He pointed out the provision of the Panama canal bill and stated that not ,one member of his committee favored every provision of the bill so it is not ,possible to make even a majority re'port. SMALL END OF County Emerges in School Tax Disbursement.. ( The final report from the Treasurer lof Indiana was received today by 'County Treasurer Albertson. This concludes the final apportionment of school funds for this period of the year. The report for Wayne county shows that more money was paid to the state by the county than was returned, while Brown, Crawford and Martin, all received more than paid Jn. The amount per capita is $2.17. The report for Wayne county is as follows: Number of school children, 10,273; Amount derived from the state school tax, $26,194.64; Interest since the last apportionment, $6,360.03; Total amount paid into the state treasury, 132,554.67; Amount returned to be apportioned out. $22,292.41. Brown county paid in $2,567.57 and received from the state $5,676.72. Crawford paid in 3,641.73 and received $7,983.43. Benton county was perhaps the heaviest loser having paid in $17,- ! 231.62, and received back, $7,371.49. WANAMAKER'S 75TH (National News Association) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July n. jbhn Wanamaker, America's foremost living merchant and former Postmaster-General of the United States, entered upon his seventyfifth year today. Mr. Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, and has been a life-long resident of this city, with the exception of a brief period of his youth when he was a clerk in a store in Indiana. When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No. 2566.

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MUZZLED CANINES FIND HHAW1PI0N Unknown Man Gets Board's Consent to Erect Water Fountains for Dogs. The order compelling the placing of muzzles on dogs during hot weather has aroused the humane instincts of some lover and protector of the canine. At the meeting of the board of public works this morning an offer was made in writing to the board, with the i request that the name of the writer be suppressed, that if the board would grant its consent, the writer would I erect water troughs for dogs at every I water fountain in the city. The con- j sent of the board was given. I Report was submitted that the ornamental arch at the Main street entrance of Glen Miller park had been completed according to plans and specifications. Street Commissioner Genn was instructed to inform all of the men on the street department to report to him every case where a public service corporation dug trenches in the city streets, and to order the trenches filled immediately after the work was completed. The Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company presented a petition to the board for a fire alarm box at the street car barns. The board instructed the city clerk to notify the company that it would consent to a box being placed at the barns if the company would pay the cost of installation. Other minor matters were considered by the board. HAMILTON CLUB IS OPPOSED TO TAFT (National News Association) CHICAGO, puly 11. For the first time in its history the Hamilton club, of Chicago, has failed to ratify the aci tion of a Republican national convention. The political action committee called for the purpose of indorsing the action of the convention failed to make a report. Roosevelt men are said to form a majority of the committee. At the demand of the club for definite action the committee has been called for a second time and an effort will be made to frame a resolution that will be received favorably by all factions. AUTO FIRE TRUCK SHIPPED SATURDAY Fire Chief Miller has received notice .from the Robinson Company, of St. Louis, that the auto fire truck, which was sent back to the factory after the accident at North Ninth and E street a short time ago, in which Isaac Parry was killed, will be shipped from St. Louis next Saturday. Chief Miller expects to receive the truck about Monday or Tuesday. THREE DRAW FINES Three men were fined $1 and costs each in police court this morning on the charges of public intoxication. They were Fred Holtcamp, arrested last night by Patrolmen Hirschfield and Remmert, Bert Parker, arrested by Patrolman Vogelsong on South E street, and Thomas McDonald, arrested at Fourth and Main streets by Sheriff Steen. --

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SENATOR LORIMER SPEAKSFOR SELF Tells Senate He Has Been the Victim of a Newspaper Conspiracy. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, July 11. Senator Lorimer of Illinois took the floor in his own defense at 12:30 in the senate today. As he took his position in the rear of the main aisle and began to speak senators began to come into the chamber and accorded him close attention. It was the first time since the discussion of the case began that there had been anything like a quorum present. The Illinois senator spoke with great fervor and earnest ness. He said it was in the power of the senate, subject to no review, to deny him a seat upon the most trivial pretense, but he would show by the evidence that not one single vote cast for him in the Illinois legislature was improperly obtained. To deny him a seat, h declared, under the circumstances would be a travesty on jurisprudence and a mockery of justice; it would show that the senate had decided to follow the red flag of anarchy and adopt the recall advocated by Theodore Roosevelt, the arch champion of the destruction of the American constitution. Senator Lorimer charged that a newspaper conspiracy existed in Chicago to drive him out of political life, and said that if there was a prosecuting attorney in Cook county who would do his duty the newspaper trust consiprators would now be in the penitentiary. These conspirators he charged to be Victor F. Lawson of the Record Herald and the owners of the Chicago Tribune. He then proceeded to show how these newspapers and Mr. Lawson were looting the public treasury of the county out of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually and that because he had opposed them they had ,., TT . . , . j prove that the Tribune, if the present assessment on its property stands for the ninety years term of its lease, would rob the city of Chicago of $6, - 500,000. He presented similar figures regarding the Daily News property lo - cated on school board land. Assessed on valuation at $1 a foot the property across the street, he said, was valued at $3.20 a foot. He said that Victor Lawson's wealth was estimated at $20,000,000 but he paid taxes on $120,000. The Daily News, worth $15,000,000, he said, paid taxes on $860,000 only, and thus robbed the treasury of $160,000 a year. ELKS HAVE BARRED ANY "GOAT RIDING" (National News Association) PORTLAND, Ore., July 11. Hereafter all "goat riding" will be eliminated from Elk initiations. Such was the action taken by the Grand lodge in session here. The ritual committee left the question to the Grand lodge. or consideration and after two hours debate the vote to abolish "rough house work" carried. A fight is expected on the location of the new National Elks Home, which the home commission proposed building in Bedford City, Va. The opposition prefers a site near tht center of ; Elkdom's population. Upon this point jthe Grand lodge is divided. Robert Brown, managing editor of the Louisville Times, has been appoint - ed to succeed himself as a member of Jthe Grand Fprum. -

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VERDICT IS GIVEN BEATRICEJ, PIERCE Jury Finds She Acted in Self Defense in Drawing Gun on Mrs. Bookhart. A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury In the case of Miss Beatrice Virginia Pierce, cbfrged with having drawn a deadly weapon upon Mrs. Harry Bookhart, yesterday afternoon in police court. The jury did not receive the case until late in the afternoon ,and was out but a short time. In the final argument to the jury Attorney Reller, for the defense declared that Miss Pierce had the right to draw the revolver upon Mrs. Bookhart, who had gone to the Pierce home, southwest of the city to ascertain if her husband were with Miss Pierce. The attorney for the defense asserted that the evidence had shown that Miss Pierce had ordered Mrs. Bookhart from the premises, that the latter had refused to go; and that Mrs. Bookhart had a buggy whip in her hand. He also pointed out that Mrs. Bookhart went to the Pierce home armed with a bottle of vitrol, and cited evidence showing that Miss Pierce had not drawn a gun until Mrs. Bookhart grabbed her byline throat. PROHI CONVENTION LIVELY IE TODAY Row Over Naming of National Chairman. Platform Progressive One. (National News Association) ATLANTIC CITY, July 11. A progressive vs. standpat factional con troversy was precipitated at the Proihibition natonal convention when Delegate Patton of Illinois offered an amendment to the report of the rules j committee calling for the election of a national committee chairman by a ,' , . , . jvote of tne invention at large. The i technical wrangle and general confusion during the debate on this amendment consumed ! the entire forenoon session. The Indiana delegation march ed around the hall with a banner suggesting F. W. Lough of Washington as compromise candidate for chairman of the national committee. Amid great confusion adjournment was taken until this afternoon In the hope of ef fecting a settlement of the matter. The important planks In the platform as reported by the resolutions committee were: Direct election of U. S. senators, ' presidential term of six years and one term only; uniform marriage and divorce laws; suppression of the white slave traffic; women's suffrage; court review of post office decisions; initiative and referendum with out the recall; complete separation of church and state; opposition to appropriation of public funds for sectarian purposes; graduated income and inheritance taxes. THE WEATHER STATE Fair toninht and Friday. Somewhat warmer Friday. 1 LOCAL Pair tonight Warmer Friday, and Friday.

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G. 0: P. HANDED TAFT SEVERE JOLT President and the Chicago Convention Are Rebuked by Big Vote at the Hawkeye Convention. CHEER ROOSEVELT WITH ENTHUSIASM Republicans of Iowa Left Free to Vote for Taft or Roosevelt as Their Conscience Rules. (Palladium Special) DES MOINES. Iowa, July 11. Col. Theodore Roosevelt won a decisive victory in the Republican state convention Wednesday and the Taft administration and the managers of the recent national convention at Chicago were as decisively rebuked. Republicans of Iowa were left free to vote for either President Taft or Col. Roosevelt next November by the action of the delegates. The matter was left to the "individual conscience of the voter," and the platform, containing a direct attack upon the le gality of the Chicago convention, was adopted by an overwhelming vote. The progressives dominated the convention from the beginning to the end. Despite a hard struggle, led by Gov. B. F. Carroll, a Taft adherent, to secure the indorsement of the national platform, the amendment offered by the Iowa executive containing this indorsement was laid on the table by a vote of 773 to 342. New State Convention July 24. Following the convention the Roosevelt delegates met with Judge J. L. Stevens. A provisional central committee was named and a call issued for a state convention on July 24. Delegates to the state convention will be nominated at county mass conventions on July 20. A majority of the delegates to the state convention were Roosevelt men, and many of them attended this conference. For twenty minutes the delegates gave Col. Roosevelt one of the great est demonstrations ever accorded a man at a state convention. It eclipsed by far any other proceeding of the convention. The outburst was brought about while Gov. Carroll was seeking to have Taft and the national platform indorsed. Incidentally the governor mentioned the name of Roosevelt. Bandannas Start T. R. Outburst. Two or three hundred bandannas were waved in the air, and then the convention floor became a bedlam Delegates jumped onto tbir chairs, waving their bandannas and cheering for Roosevelt, while the standpat gov ernor sought in vain to quiet the convention. Chairman Brookhart pounded vigor ously with his gavel to secure order so that the speaker might proceed, but no heed was paid to this. Senator Joe Allen, a progressive, rushed to th platform and attempted to stem the pro-Roosevelt tide Into order, but just when it looked as if the delegates would again resume their seats, the cheering broke forth again. It was fully twenty minutes be fore order was restored. "Not Tainted," Carroll Say. Gov. Carroll had presented the minority resolutions report, which, in ad dition to the national platform matter. asked for the elimination from the iffajority platform of the plank con demning the Chicago convention as fraudulently made up. The governor declared that the national platform "was not tainted," but had been adopted at Chicago by a large majority, not including the contested delegates, and that this was done with the help of "such progressives as Borah, Hadley and Cummins delegates." Gov. Carroll declared that the Chicago platform was adopted regardless of whether the delegates were align ed with Taft or Roosevelt. When he said "Roosevelt," the delegates broke into cheering. Strong Progressive in Chair. The convention was organized with Smith W. Bookhart of Washington county in the chair. He is a strong progressive. From there on the progressives did as they pleased despite the frantic efforts of the standpatters. The efforts of the standpatters were greeted with hoots and jeers. Despite the attempt of the chairman to secure a hearing for the speakers delegates persistently and continually Interrupted them. Angry threats of "You will lose Kenyon," failed to make the progresi sives indorse Taft and the national ' platform. Resolutions to that effect were voted down with great gusto. "You are leading Senator Kenyon (Continued on Page Six) APARTMENTS TO LET! A Want Ad that gives location, price, advantages of your hotel or boarding-house is read by thousands. INSERT A WANT AD TODAY!

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Veteran Soldier and Diplomat Says Nominee's Southern Birth Will Bar Him From White House. BULL MOOSE PARTY IN N. Y. LAUNCHED Roosevelt Is Wildly Cheered When Mentioned by Aged Warrior. Plans of Campaign Were Made. (National News Association) NEW YORK, July 11. Sixty representatives of the provisional New York state committee of the Progressive party met here today, W. H. Hotchkiss presiding, and wildly cheered Col. Roosevelt as they made plans for the campaign in New York. Gen eral Daniel Sickles, the chief speaker attacked Governor Wilson, and the remarks of the aged soldier statesman and diplomat created a sensation. General Sickles after being Intro duced said? "The old parties are not satisfactory in many . respects. It Is the first time since the war that a southern man has been nominated for president. Mr. Wilson is a nice man. he is an honest and an affable man. However, Mr. Wilson was born and reared in rebellion surroundings. He was born and reared on the wrong side. We northerners are never dis posed to put a man who has been reared in the confederacy, so to speak whose people fought on the confeder ate side, in the white house. "We wish no repetition of the se cession movement. This nation Is one and inseperable, now and forever. That is the determination of the Pro gressive party." General la Cheered. There came wild cheers of appror al as the general, who lost one of his legs in the Civil war, made the fore going reference to Gov. Wilson. Sickles added that he had voted for Lin coln because he did not believe in the copper- head democracy" of that time although he had previously been a Democrat and had voted for Buchanan. For forty years, he went on, he had been a Republican. "I am now happy to be a supporter of my estoemed friend, Theodore Roosevelt," he said and the crowd cheered for five minutes. A man got a red bandanna and wav ed it and the cheering was renewed with still greater volume. The general paid a high tribute to the Colonel after the noise had subsided and Chairman Hotchkiss addressed the committeemen as "Brethren of the Bull Moose." The roll call of counties showed six ty New Yorkers and one enthusiast from Hoboken were present. After the roll call the committee proceeded to make plans for the opening of the campaign. MAYOR ASKS THE PUBLIC TO If the citizens want the city to pay for its street lighting the taxes will have to be raised, stated Mayor Zimmerman at the meeting of the board of public works this morning. The mayor declared that very few improvements are to be made next year, as the city has about $24,000 to pay off then. "I say, let the taxes remain where they are," said the mayor. "They are high enough now, but I am going to put this question before the city councilmen at the next meeting and let them decide it. I want to invite all business men, professional men and laboring men to the next council meeting and then let them ight it out." Mayor Zimmerman expressed the

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opinion that the loss of the patronage of one large manufacturing concern last week, by the city light plant would not affect it in the least. He declared that in his opinion the withdrawal of the company's support from the municipal plant was nothing but a political move. "But don't you believe that the city should pay for the street lighting and that the sooner it does this the quicker the improvements at the plant will be made and the sooner the plant will be paid for?" the mayor was asked. "Well If council wants to raise the taxes we will pay for the street lighting, waa the answer. s-Z . " J

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til AND 3 T Fireman Fodrea May Be Fa tally Scalded, Engineer Gibson Has Broken Leg, C. Barchier, Cuts. ACCIDENT OCCURS LATE LAST NIGHT It Is Not Known How the Two Engines Happened to Be on Same Track. Two Men Are at Hospital. Omer Fodrea, fireman. 400 North" Ninth street; James Gibson, engineer, 828 North G street and C. W. Barchier. fireman, of Indianapolis, were painfully injured, when two engines collided near the Twelfth street crossing about 11:50 last night. Fireman Fodrea, of the passenger engine. Is now in the Reld Memorial hospital' In a critical condition. His body is horribly scalded. Engineer Gibson, of the passenger engine. Is also confined to the hospital, suffering from a broken leg and bruises, and Fireman Barchier, of the freight. It at his home in Indianapolis, suffering from scalp wounds. The latter two will recover, but as yet little hope is -entertained for Fodrea'a recovery. Supt Mary Sollers, of the Reld Hospital stated this morning that Fodrea'a condition is considered extremely critical and that It Is impossible, at this time, to state whether or not-he will recover. Just how the accident happened is not known. Engine -8082, which had been cut off an eastbound freight train at the Sixth street crossing to go after a supply of water at Twelfth street, was backing up to couple onto the train. Engine 8174, which had been cut off passenger train No. 1, known as the Chicago train, arriving here at 11:40, was enroute to the engine house. By some unknown reason both engines were on the same track and collided, before the engineers could stop or throw on the reverse. Both locomotives were considerably damaged. Engineer Gibson was thrown in such a manner aa to break his right leg. The steam pipes of the passenger engine bursted, scalding Fodrea. Fireman Barchier, of the freight engine was thrown to the ground alighting on his head. - Fodrea's worst burns are about-th upper part of his body. His arms and back are a mass of charred flesh. Fodrea . also received a few burns about the lower part of his body. The city ambulance was called Immediately after the aocldent and Fodrea was taken to the hospital first. Another private ambulance was then calked and Gibson was removed to thehos-f pital. Barchier waa sent to his home. Blame for the accident has 'not been i fixed, as yet, by the offlcialatof the local division. Extension of the Palladium Serviced It is the usual tendency of mankind to kick. Knowing this the managers of public srvlompnlea, from Ice companies to'trectloii companies and gas compeniee even the city I lent plantland the city department do not always take th kick seriously. Uufortunatty thr I no court of justic where th things can b tried and settled. Court costs ar too high, lawyers fees ar too great for the settlement of th Irritations which com with a complex IK such as ours. .The Palladium thrfor announ es the institution of a Public Service department. All legitimate complaint against any public service company, th city llht plant, th ic companies, coal dealers, matters for th city inspector of weights and measures, th traction companies, telephon companies, street department, will b received at this offic and Investigated. , For th protection of this paper, communications must be ' signed with the nam and street number as a guarantee of good faith. In dealing with the various manager of these companiea and city departments the public often suffers because its complaints do not get to headquarters. In presenting these complaints the Palladium will take the position that It represents a duty which it owes as a newspaper to over 7 .COO subscribers. To receive attention address all complaints in writing to PUBLIC SERVICE DEPT. RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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