Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 225, 26 July 1912 — Page 1

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RATE OF 1913 BE INCREASED talis Is a Paramount Question Before Members of the City Government at the Present Time. fclTY HAS LARGE ( SUMS TO EXPEND lumerous Improvements Are Proposed for Next Year. Budget Meeting Is to Be Held in September. Will the 1913 tax rate be raised? This question is paramount to those connected with the local city governrment. The city faces a payment of about i $24,000 from the general fund to the street, improvement fund, for the back Idebt found In the untangling of these jtwo funds by the expert accountants. The mayor has stated that this sum (.must be paid if nothing else is done. The city has other debts and the .streets must be cared for. The amount appropriated and spent this year was approximately $28,000. Councilman still ask for improvements of streets In their wards. A substantial sum must be set aside for the city's share of street improvements, tor a large number of improvements which could not be made this year because' of the sudden finding of the bottom of the treasury of the city, must be made next year. i jj or wo years me noara nas put on buying an automatic street flusher. This will cost about $1,100. The money was once appropriated for this, bat was spent in another way. The various expenses of the city departments cannot be cut down. A cerJtain sum must be raised to carry on ,-the city government. Proposed Improvement. Tlk47ffiave a large sum "to spend on making North Tenth street next year. This will come under the three ! mile gravel road law, but as a large share of the street is in the city, and is to be bricked by the city with cement sidewalks, curbs and gutters probably added, the cost to the city will be large. In the construction of the proposed concrete bridge over the river at North Tenth street, the city will be compelled to pay its portion. ? Changes are planned . in the city building.' The enlargement of the firemen's sleeping quarters is proposed for next year. It is proposed to build a section over the jail. ) The Main street bridge is in need jof repair. This may have to be done taiext year. The concensus of opinion of city of ficials is that the city should pay to the City Light plant at least the cost .1 ;of current used by the city in the .lighting of streets, public parks and buildings. In the event that it is decided to do this, an appropriation of About $20,000 would be required. Last fall more money than . was raised, was desired, but council refused to raise the tax rate. At the budget meeting in September, council projbably will have to consent to the raise ln taxes, or to abandon most improvements planned for next year. In 1914, the city will pass from a (fourth class to a third class city, and the salaries of city officers will be raised by law. This will make it necessary for the city to spend several thousand dollars more in this manner. The present tax rate is $1.10. The ilimit Is $1.25. KNOPF DIES AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS Charles Knopf, one of the best (known German residents of the city, died last night at his home on Asylum avenue, at the age of 36 years, after a short illness. For several years he has conducted a floral business west of the city. He is survived by one brother, Louis Knopf, and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Grube and Mrs. Ed Crowell. The funeral will take place Sunday Afternoon at 230 o'clock from the florae. Burial will be at Earlham. CHAINS ON TRUCK Heavy chains have been placed on the tires of the ire auto truck to pre vent a repetition or tne nionn m street accident when the machine skidded and killed a man a short time ago. The streets of the city are in bad con dition in places where oil has been placed. PROGRESSIVE MASS CONVENTION The Wayne County Progressive Mass Convention will be neld at the Pythian Temple tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock to name the delegates to the State Convention. All progressives are invited to at tend.

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SERVANT TROUBLES JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. NEW YORK, July 26. John D Rockefeller has suspended John Riley, foreman on his Pocantico Hill estate, for being cruel to his family. He re cently kept his wife and seven chil dren, all under twelve, out of his house all night. The Oil King told Ri ley he will take him back when he proves himself a model husband. BROWN LECTURES TO LIBRARY SCHOOL State Librarian Gives Valuable Instruction to Earlham Library School. The Library school at Earlham was favored Thursday with two interesting lectures by Mr. Demarchus C. Brown, state librarian, of Indianapolis. Mr Brown in his morning lecture describ ed in detail the work that the State library is doing for the public at large, the schools and the public libraries of the state, explaining that the State library loans books to individuals and libraries, that it is ready to make bibliographical researches without charge and to supply through its reference de partment, and also through its ape cial legislative reference department information concerning matters of his tory and current problems in social reforms, legislation and other matters of interest. When the new education building, planned as a centennial memorial of the founding of the state, is an actual fact, the State library will be enabled to do even more than at present along these and other lines. Not the least interesting of its activities is the send ing to blind persons in the state books in raised letters and in point charac ters for their reading. This is an en tirely free service as the post office carries these books free of charge. Mr. Brown's afternoon lecture on the librarian's reading was as applicable to the average man and woman. Mr. Brown's first advice was to read cer tain great literary works often, suggesting a play of Shakespeare, a poem by Tennyson, Lowell's Commemoration Ode, Cranford or the Book of Job, and others. Mr. Brown said in part: "A librarian especially must not only love books but love to guide others to the same sources of pleasure and profit. Every book read gives one greater power over the reading of others. Many books and magazines must be skimmed and cannot be read thoroughly for lack of time, but a few should be read thoroughly. Read history and biography, which is history alive. It is a duty to keep informed on the great social issues of the day by reading such books as those by Jane Addams and Charles R. Henderson of Chicago. One of the features of the literary output of the present day os the quality of the drama being produced. The greatest and best of these should be read carefully and read often. This will give one a criterion for judging others. The great ideal for the librarian is to read so that the community shall become also readers of great books." WILSON WILL ATTEND Marshall's Notification Next Month. (National News Association) SEA GIRT, N. J., July 26. Governor Wilson will go to Indianapolis about the third week in August to attend the notification of Governor Thomas R. Marshall, as a candidate for vice president. The exact date has not been fixed, but it will be in a week or ten days later than the notification of Governor Wilson- Alton B. Parker, temporary chairman of the Baltimore convention, is the chairman of the vice-presiaentiai notification commit tee, and Is now arranging the details of the ceremony with Col. William F. McCombs, the campaign chairman. Ollie James, of Kentucky, chairman of the committee to notify the candii date for president, sent word today i tuat ne that he would come here early next

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Progressives and Democrats Have Forced the La Follette Bill Over the Regular Republicans. PLACES PRESIDENT IN A BAD CORNER Taft Had Planned to Make Feature in Tariff Issue of the Defeated Penrose Bill. (National News Association) WASHINGTON. July 26. Progressives and Democrats were jubilant today over their joint victory in the senate last night when they forced the passage of the Lafollette wool bill by a vote of 47 to 20 over the Republican regulars and thereby backed President Taft into another disagreeable tariff corner. A series of conferences will now follow and the result will be a final agreement on some form of compromise measure which will be put through and then will go to President Taft, who they predict, undoubtedly will feel compelled to veto it. The victory of the allies last night came after Senator Penrose had mollified the Democrats and secured the substitution of his own bill, which he rushed out of the committee room for the "purpose, by a vote of 34 to 32. The Penrose measure, although not known to all his colleagues until it appeared j before them last night, is said to have been approved by President Taft and the substitution of the Lafollette measure for it leaves the regular Republicans in a state of the greatest confusion. The President had planned to sign the Penrose bill as soon as it was put up to him and then have it made a leading feature in the tariff issue in the presidential campaign. The La Follette speech, however, had completely blasted this hope and destroyed all chances of the president appearing before the people this fall with his party lined up solidly behind him on a positive tariff measure as he had hoped from the passage of the Penrose bill. As matters now stand, the long, tiresome work of last summer will be repeated. Raged Several Hcurs. The tariff battle had been raging several hours before the Penrose measure made its appearance last night. The first real test of strength came in committee of the whole when Penrose moved to substitute his measure for the other bill. Every Democrat voted against it and every Republican but Clapp (Minn.), who said he didn't know what it was all about, voted for it. Penrose won by two votes. Then an amendment offered by Senator Cummins providing for the existing tariff board and which the senator said was identical with the provision passed in the last session, was tacked onto the Penrose measure. Another long drawn out battle in which all sorts of amendments were offered and acted upon, and various acrimonious remarks exchanged followed before La Follette sprung his bomb and was Enabled by Democratic support to explode It with crushing effect. The La Follette bill proposes a rate for raw wool of 40 per cent ad valorem, a reduction from 44.71 per cent on unwashed and from 68.94 per cent on washed wools in the existing tariff. On manufactured wools the bill makes a uniform rate of sixty per cent. The existing rate is from 60 to 156 and averages 96.74 per cent. In an analysis of his measure, Mr. La Follette estimated that it would bring in a total revenue on wooIof $19,605,000. . ANNUAL REUNION TO BE HELD HERE William Mathews, a "member of the 124th Indiana Volunteers is making preliminary arrangements for the annual reunion which will be held in Richmond September 19 and 20. It is hoped to make this one of the biggest events of the year, as the large majority of the old veterans report that they will be here. On the second day, arrangements have been completed by the Woman's Relief Corps to entertain the members of the regiment at dinner in the G. A. R. rooms at the court house. THUMB MASHED IN A PRINTING PRESS Clarence Veregge, an employe of the Nicholson Printing Company was painfully injured Wednesday afternoon when the thumb of his right hand was caught in one of the cogs of the big press. The end of the thumb was mashed and the bone split. THE WEATHER STATE Fair tonight and slightly warmer in central portion.

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(National News Association) NEW YORK, July 26 The 33rd street station of the Hudson River tubes Is filled with Jersey mosquqitoes who made the trip through the tunnel. NEW YORK, July 26. Sleepy Bill, a water moccasin at the Aquarium has broken his ten months fast by devouring twice his own length in killiefish. TOULON, France, July 26. The French battleship Mirabeau narrowly escaped destruction in the recent naval maneuvers when her magazine was set afire by short circuited wires, it became known today. The captain's promptness in having the magazines Hooded alone averted the destruction of the ship. FLORENCE, Italy. July 26. The villa of Enrico Caruso was ran.sacked by thieves early today and many of the tenor's most precious art works were stolen. This is the thrid time the villa has been broken into. SAN FRANCISCO. July 26 Miss Marion Crocker has established a new equestrian record for women by riding on horseback 102 miles in 14 hours. She rode one horse 54 miles and another 46 miles. BEVERIDGE TALKED OF FORJBOVEMOR Ex-Senator May Head the Progressive Ticket in Indiana. (National News Association) Indianapolis. July 26. Albert J. Beverldge.s announcement of his affiliation with the Progressive party proved a decided impetus to the movement yesterday and caused persons who previously had been passively favorable to the movement to indorse the party. The afternoon and night delivery of mail at the Progressive state headquarters brought a volume of letters from persons throughout the state, who declared their support of the party. Among the communication were many from persons who expressed the belief that Beveridge should be the party's nominee for governor. Whether he will be the party's leader will depend entirely on the wish of the delegates to the state convention, in the opinion of State Chairman Edwin M. Lee. "Mr. Beveridge has said nothing regarding a candidacy for governor," said Mr. Lee, "and whether he will be will depend on the convention entirely. It would be a sacrifice for Mr. Beveridge to make the race for governor of the state for he has long been a national figure. I can not speak for Mr. Beveridge in regard to the matter, but I am sure that the demand for his nomination would have to be insistent and determined before he would feel inclined to accept. If such should be the situation among the delegates, it is possible that he would feel duty bound to the movement to make the race." Whether his nomination is demanded by the convention, it is certain that his support of the movement has created a marked activity in many circles to get on the "band wagon." Although none of the other candidates has announced his intention to seek any nomination, several are being mentioned for the various offices. It was said yesterday that if Beveridge heads the ticket, Horace C. Stilwell of Anderson, Ind., probably will be made his running mate as candidate for lieutenant governor. Mr. Stilwell is looked on as one of the leaders in the progressive movement in Indiana, and he probably will find favor among the convention delegates. There is talk of making Frederick Landis, former representative, a candidate for the nomination for secretary of state, while H. H. Talbott of Crawfordsville and H. E. Cushman of Daviess county, are mentioned as candidates for the nomination for auditor of state. Mr. Cushman was a deputy under John C. Billheimer, former state auditor. Theodore Shockney, Judge Gould of Evansville, Ind., and Judge .Wilson of Bloomington, are among those mentioned as possible candidates for the nomination for attorney general. John R. Carr, former superintendent of the Marion county schools and a former candidate for the Republican nomination for state superintendent of public instruction, and Will K. Howe of Indiana university are among those who are believed to be likely aspirants for state superintendent of public instruction. Progressive leaders said yesterday that there will be an abundance of candidates by the time the convention opens next Thursday morning. Tickets for the convention were received at state headquarters yesterday and will be sent to the county chairmen ! WIS muriuus. au luc uv&tria kiu ue distributed .through the county headquarters. -, An order also was given for the badges for the delegates.. They will be ribbons from which a picture of Theodore Roosevelt will be suspended. Large paintings of Roosevelt and Bev..(Hra a ro home DrpnarM and will b - - A

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George W. Perkins, snapped while on the way to the Hotel Manhattan, in New York, where he is in control of the campaign headquarters of the new Progressive party. Mr. Perkins, who is the former partner of J. Plerpont Morgan and counted among the most able financiers in the country, is hard at work supporting Colonel Roosevelt in the latter's Sght agaiast President Taft, spending the biggest part of his time at the headquarters, sans coat collar and scarf, and with sleeves rolled up. directing every move in the launching of the new party.

DECLARE SOLDIERS ENGAGEDJN ORGY Military Experts Bringing Charges Against Men at Camp Douglass. (National News Association) CHICAGO, July 26. Military experts who went to Camp Douglass, Wisconsin, to observe the maneuvers there for which Congress appropriated more than a million dollars, returned to Chicago today and brought charges that the soldiers have engaged in a drunken orgy until they are unfit to carry on the war game. Women who were in Douglass, arriving in Chicago made a similar charge today and further asserted that the soldiers have Insulted women promiscuously and that an unaccompanied women on the streets of the little Wisconsin town was not safe at night. The United States Army headquarters here kept wires to the military camp today in an effort to substantiate these reports and it was intimated at the army headquarters that a thorough probe of conditions would be made. One story was told here of a young girl in a hysterical condition who was found in the railway station at Douglass and told women who found her there that she had Btarted to the station to take a train and that soldiers had attacked her while the officers made no attempt to protect her. Other reports stated that the soldiers took possession of the streets and saloons and hurled insults at women. Fights and brawls started and soldiers lay in a drunken stupor on the sidewalks or reeled and fell injto the gutter, it is said. W0RKIHG0R A BILL For Formation of Firemen's Association. City Attorney Gardner is at work on a bill for an ordinance making It legal for the city firemen to form an association, and to provide for the city paying into the treasury, a sum of money to add to the fund. Practically all the firemen on the roster at the present time are in favor of the establishment of the pension fund, and have signified their willingness to assist in the forming of the association. The law prescribes that in event an association of this nature is desired, a sum of money equivalent to from one to one and one half per cent of the yearly salaries of the firemen shall be paid to the city treasurer, to be. kept in a special fund. The city is then required to pay, in the third and fourth class cities, a sum from one twenUeth to not over four-tenths of a mill on each dollar of taxable property. This money is to be paid out of the general fund. The city officials have encouraged the formation of a pension system.' FISHERMEN RETURN Judge Henry C. Fox and John Markley who-have been spending the past several days at James Lake on a fishing trip have returned. How to Sell, Hnw tfi Rent How to Buy The Want Ads tell you how. when and where to sell, rent and buy. You - Furnish the Facts -The Want Ads Will

MARTIN L, CROCKER DIES ATAGE OF 89 He Was One of Richmond's Pioneer Furniture Dealers. Martin L. Crocker, one of Richmond's pioneer merchants, aged s3, died early this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ora Fisher, 218 North Eighteenth street. Mr. Crocker was one of the oldest residents of Richmond, having spent most of his life here. He retired from business a number of years ago. He had been engaged in the furniture business. He is a brother of the late Charles Crocker, a millionaire of the Pacific coast. He is survived by one son, Charles Crocker, and three daughters, Mrs. Ora Fisher, Mrs. Theodore McClelland and Mrs. Samuel VanZant. The funeral will take place Saturday at 2:30 o'clock at the home. The burial will be at Earlham. Friends may call any time this evening or tomor row. WAS LADENWITH COIN George May When Arrested, Had Large Sum. George May, heavy laden with liquor and with a sum of 1392.03 in his pockets, was found last evening near the court house yard by Officer Yingllng. and placed in tbe city jail. He plead guilty to the charge of drunk this morning and paid a fine of $11. May lives near Des Moines, Iowa, and says he sold some land there sime time ago, of which the money he now has Is a small amount. He says he Intends going to Lewlsville, Ind, and return to the west. COUNTY OFFICIALS TO HOLD MEETING The County Council will hold a very important meeting at the court house tomorrow in conjunction with the county commissioners. Appropriation will be made for the building of a new bridge In Dalton township which rei cenUy broke down,: making the road j Impassable. j Mr. and Mrs. John C. Keever were ! driving across the bridge at tbe time it fell, but they suffered no injuries besides tbe nervous shock. Both were thrown into the water. TO BE NO CHANGE IN PERSONAL TAX Word . was received this morning from the State board of tax examiners that there would be no change in the personal tax of this county and that he could proceed with the tax duplicates without further delay. This news was received as "glad tidings' as it was thought that the personal tax in all the counties of the state would be increased, notwithstanding the fact that Wayne county stood with the counties which has had an increase in the taxes. CONDITION OF COX IS IMPROVED TODAY . Harley Cox, who was injured Thursday evening by a falling telephone pole, is reported as being much Improved at his home. 314 South Eleventh street, today. His wounds, although serious are not believed to be necessarily fataL ' Mr. Cox was struck by a falling telephone pole, and two deep gashes cut in bis skull, fracturing the skull, but fortunately not causing a de-

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L NEAR ARREST Police Nets Drawn Tighter and Escape of the Guilty; Ones Appears to Be Out of Question Now. SUSPECTS LOCATED . IN HARLEM TODAY" "Kid, the Blood" and Two' of His Pals Are Known to Be Hiding Somewhere in That Part of City. BULLETIN. NEW YORK, July 26. A cordon of police was thrown around half a mile of territory in Harlem this afternoon when the police received a report that Harry Horowitz. alias "Kid. the Blood." Lefty Ixuis and "Whltey" Lewi, all wanted as accessories to the murder of Herman Rosenthal, were hiding in a flat in that section. Several squads of police then began combing the neighborhood. (National News Association) NEW YORK. July 26. With another of the alleged assassins of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler who gave Information concerning police grafters in custody and sufficient evidence secured to obtain indictment for murder against four men. District Attorney Whitman declared today that he had made a long stride toward getting at the bottom of the crime. The latest suspect captured is "Dago Frank." one of the men who rode In the "murder car" to the scene of the assassination. The fact that he was arrested In the city is given as proving the truth ot the charges that nearly all of the "hunted" men are still In New York. "Dago Frank." who has a record as a burgler and has used many aliases, said his name was Frank Ciroscl when he was locked up. He was arrested at 623 West 34th street. He Is declared by tbe police to be one of the actual assassins. The arrest was made by detecUves Upton. Cassie. McKenna and MeManus, who had been sent to look up Cirosicl. With them they arrested Rosie Harrie and also known as Regina Gordon, and Abraham Lewis, or "Fat Abie," as his intimates knew him. They were held as material witnesses, the former going to the Clinton street station, the latter being locked up at headquarters. Under the Dope. All three prisoners were under the influence of opium when arrested, according to Deputy Commissioner Dougherty, who questioned them until early this morning before giving out their names. Only the Harris woman was able. Dougherty said, to give a clear account of her movements on the night Rosenthal was murdered. She attempted to establish an alibi for "Dago Frank" by stating that she saw him about the time Rosenthal was murdered, but the accused man denied this and insisted that he was out of town. Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty and Inspector Hughes later gave out a statement in which they said: "Cirosicl is charged with complicity in the murder of Herman Rosenthal. The two others are held as material witnesses. - Ciroslcl will be confronted with Shapiro and other witnesses of the shooting of Rosenthal, that he may be identified as the man known as "Dago Frank," who Is wanted for the murder, along with him Harry Horowltx. "Lefty" Louis, alias Louis Rosenberg, and "Whitey Jack" Lewis, alias Frank Muller. . Cirosicl admits that he knows and Is an associate of Horowitz. He denies that he knows anything of the murder of Rosenthal, or where the other two' men are. Two satchels filled with clothes, as though Clrosici Intended, to leave town right away, were found In the flat and were brought to headquarters with the prisoners. "The woman gives her age as 24 years. She says that she was arrested the night Rosenthal was killed and the records show that at 1:5 a. m. Toesday July 16 abe was picked up om West 116th street charged with loitering. When taken to court she was sent, to tbe workhouse for five days. The, hour of her arrest is Identical with that of Rosenthal's death. Story of Woman. -Rosle" Harris says that "Dago Frank" could not have taken part lathe murder of Rosenthal. She says; that when she was locked up she sent; word to "Fat Able" who got -Dago Frank" to find somebody to ball her out and she met "Dago Frank" on the . street before 4 o'clock when he had. found a bondsman. We will fnvestl-' gate this story but it Is impossible to; (Continued on Page Six) When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation ad- ' dress to No. 256.

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