Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 229, 31 July 1912 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 229.

THE OPTION PUNK WILL BE OPPOSED fWayne County Delegation to State Progressive Convention Against Such a Plank in Platform. iBEVERIDGE MAY BE PARTY'S NOMINEE Much Interest Centers in the Nomination for the Governorship and the Party's Platform. . The Wayne County delegation to fthe State convention of the Progressive party which will be held tomorIrow at Indianapolis, will oppose, it is asserted, any effort on the part of certain delegates to inject into the platform either a temperance or an antiI temperance plank. It is said to be abisolutely certain that the .Wayne, county delegation is in full accord with the previously outlined position of Progressive leaders to relegate the liquor 'question and to keep it out of politics j in bo far as it shall apply to the party j itself. The Progressive leaders in the I State, it already has been said, believe that the people of the State ir respective of party affiliations should decide the liquor question and that the Initiative and referendum feature of the Progressive platform should provlde the means. According to a state ment made today by a Richmond man who is interested deeply in the success of the Progressive movement and who, lit may be said, is a temperance advo cate, stated it would be the height of political folly for the new party at the very start of its career to become entangled with a question that in his judgment has no real place in a party platform. "The Progressive plan for referring the liquor question directly to all the voters irrespective of party through the means of the initiative and referendum plank as proposed, is the only way to dispose of this question fairly, ..honestly and with the intention of realJy solving it" said the Richmond man. Most of the Wayne county delegates went to Indianapolis this afternoon in order that they may be present at the district conference to be held tonight. Wayne county will have a prominent part In the convention and will be represented on several of the more important committees. STAGE IS SET. INDIANAPOLIS, July 31. With the arrival of the vanguard of delegates to attend the district meetings tonight and the state convention tomorrow, this city has become host to the crowds that will attend the first state gathering of the Progressive party in Indiana. Delegates and spectators from j every city and hamlet of the state are arriving today and by night the entire quota of 1,141 delegates will have arrived. The activities of party leaders yesjterday disclosed two very significant I facts in regard to the convention. One Is that unless Albert J. Beveridge abj solutely refuses to permit his name to igo before the convention he will be jmade the convention's choice for Governor by a unanimous vote. May Declare for Option. j The other important fact is that the j party may declare in favor of county ! local option until the question can be i settled through the Initiative and referendum. The option plank will be Inj serted in the platform, unless the leaiders experience a decided change of ixnind. The name of Mr. Beveridge will be presented to the convention tomorrow by W. D. Headrick of Indianapolis, on I of the Seventh district delegates. It is probable that Mr. Beveridge will attend the convention late in the day. He is expected to return from the east some time tomorrow, although his secretaries have had no definite information as to the hour of his arrival. In case he appears at the convention Mr. Beveridge may be forced by the demand of the delegates to make a speech. Interest in Platform. With the exception of the insistent : and vigorous demand from all parts of :the state that Beveridge accept the party leadership Interest among Progressives yesterday centered in the meeting of the resolutions committee following the district meeting tonight. Tentative platform drafts have been prepared and are in the hands of few of the leaders. The local option question has not been decided definitely, but there was a decided current in Progressive circles yesterday demanding that it be inserted In the platform. There is some talk of adopting a plank providing county option for all counties except those in which the larger ; cities are located. In counties contain(Continued. on Page Eight) Automobiles Are sNo Londer Luxuries. Why not rent one for the summer outing? Our Want Ads Will " Give You Directions

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MISS BELLE BRITTAIN LOS ANGELES, July 31 Miss Belle Brittain, daughter of the late Col. N. J. Brittain, from whom she inherited a little over one million dollars, is preparing to start early the coming winter on a thorough tour of the orient. And all around athlete and lover of outdoor life, Miss Brittain intends to travel through the land of the Chinese in a caravan. She has . little thought for the danger which such a trip will probably entail, for sheill be accompanied by half a dozen of her girl friends, all experts with firearms. And of course several young men of Herculean proportions commanded by an austere chaperone will escort the charming invaders of the Orient. WRECK VICTIM IN SER10USC0ND!T10N May Be Necessary to Perform an Operation on Mrs. Meyers. Mrs. Jacob Meyers, 106 Richmond avenue, one of the victln of the street car accident, who was at first reported to have been but slightly injured, is dangerously ill at her home, suffering from injuries received in the wreck. Her left hip, which was believed but slightly bruised, is now in a dangerous condition and a large abcess has formed. It may be necessary to resort to an operation. Mrs. MeyersV back was seriously wrenched, and it is impossible for her to arise. The condition of John T. Alexander, who is still at the hospital is reported as being much improved this morning. His rapid recovery is a source of wonder to those who feared his advanced age would make his injuries fatal. Mrs. J. P. Evans, Linden avenue, is better, and is able to be about, but is unable to use her left arm, as yet. Miss Irene Pottenger is able to be about, but is still weak from the shock, Mrs. Tom Moorman, Hunt street, is also very weak from the effects of the shock. Ira Woodard was removed to his home in Dunkirk Saturday from the hospital where he had been confined since the wreck. The result of the investigation taken up by the traction company officials are not known as yet, but it is expected word from Indianapolis in the form of complete finding and placing of the responsibility of the wreck, will be forthcoming soon. QUARANTINE IS LIFTED About 500 Dogs Killed Four Months. in Today is the last day. of the . dog quarantine In both the city and the county. Hydrophobia is thought to have been entirely stamped out in this county, and should be if the records of the city crematory count for anything, for nearly 500 dags have been killed in the last lour months, - .

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DRAGNET OF THE POLICE THROWN OUT Hunt Assassins of Varella, Betrayer of Dago Frank Who Was Killed in His Cafe Yesterday. ROSE IS WRITING A FULL CONFESSION The Graft System, He Says, Netted the Police $2,400,00 a Year. May Give Becker Clemency. (National News Associat'on) NEW YORK, July 31 While "Jack" Rose, who claims to have been the collector of blackmail from New York's underworld for Lieut. Charles A. Becker, today was writing a full confession of the graft system which he charges has netted the police $2,400,000 a year, a dragnet as uot for the assassins who shot down James Varella, the betrayer of Dago Frank Cirocici, the only one of the men charged with the actual killing of Herman Rosenthal, now in custody. Varella, who ran the Cafe Dante at 163 West 34th street, a favorite haunt of gamblers and gunmen, was "Dago Frank's" intimate and confidante and to him the underworld charged the arrest of the accused slayer. Varella was killed In his cafe yesterday but it was not until early today that the police learned that his death was directly due to the arrest of Cioricici. Four men are said to have done the shooting. Two are under arrest. Frank Coliner, a noted gunman, and Albert Contino, a young Italian who was wounded and is now in Bellevue hospital. The police are looking up Coliners record and meantime are on the trial of two other men who they were in on the killing and both of whom are noted in the underworld gunfighters who can be had for that kind of a job. ... . Confession Important. The completion of Rosas confession containing as it will a complete tabulation of blackmail collected by Rose for Becker for distribution among the men higher up as Rose charges, is confidently looked to by district attorney Whitman to give him the last weapon he needs to force an exposure of police alliance with crime that will dwarf anything else of its kind ever known. Becker, according to the district attorney, stands in the shadow of the death chair as the case now stands and his only hope to escape the extreme penalty is to confess all that he knows. May Grant Clemency. . In order to get the men at the top of the graft system Whitman is willing to grant clemency to Becker and he believes that the latter will sooner or later break down and tell the full story. Becker's nerve has held fairly well so far, but so did the nerve of Rose, Louis Webber and Harry Vallon, until reflection in their cells for a few days brought to them a realization that the district attorney had them helplessly enmeshed in his net. Then they told all. Becker, the district attorney believes, will follow the same course. Becker's defense will be that Rose and Webber and Vallon are framing up a job on him to save themselves. His friends today declare that he is a man of iron nerve and will fight to the last and then go to the death chair if necessary, without uttering a word to implicate any of his assistants. A close friend of the lieutenant said today that Becker's counsel had the declaration of five witnesses to prove that the "whole thing is a frame-up." Rose, according to this man, was Becker's stool pigeon in getting information on which to raid gambling houses and when he, Webber and Vallon found themselves in a fix that promised either the chair or long prison terms, they hatched the scheme to get clear by throwing the burden c' the Rosenthal murder on Becker. "Becker never had anything to do with the killing of Rosenthal, directly or indirectly," this man declared. Becker is under constant guard in his cell in the federal wing of the Tombs. The removal of Webber, Vallon and Fo3e to the west side prison because of their fear of assassination has left as the Rosenthal murder prisoners in the Tombs. Becker, "Dago Frank" and Jacob A. Reich, or Jack Sullivan, as he is known, "King of the newsboys," and close friends of Becker. District Attorney Whitman today planned to send witness after witness before the grand jury with added details of the graft and murder case.

TOMORROW "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" OPENS TOMORROW AT THE BALL PARK UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE COMMERCIAL CLUB.

WEDNESDAY EVENING,

THE WIFE OF DR.HALDFMAN

IS ARRESTED Woman Who Left Babe on Mayor's Porch Wanted in Preble County on the Charge of Arson. CAME TO THIS CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON Mrs. Haldeman Returned to Eaton Where She Will Face Charge. Brought by Her Husband. Another sensation in the family of Dr. Haldeman of near New Paris, was sprung last evening, when Mrs. Haldeman, who recently gained notoriety by placing her daughter's illegitimate baby on the door steps of the mayor, was arrested in this city and taken to Preble county to answer the charge of arson. A true bill charging with setting fire to her husband's home, on the estate near Cedar Springs, was returned last October by the Preble county grand jury. With Mrs. Haldeman, was her eighteen-year-old daughter, Rachel, whose seduction by a negro, formerly employed by the Haldemans at New Paris, caused the mother and daughter to go to Cincinnati, it is said. When the child was born, it was brought to this city and placed on the mayor's door steps. The identity of the mother of the child was discovered by the Cincinnati police and Chief of Police Gormon of this city. The child has been adopted by people in this city. Came Here Sunday. Last Sunday Mrs. Haldeman came here from New Paris, where she had visited her husband, and registered at the Stillwell hotel on North Sixth street. Yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, Val Lee, Chief Assistant state fire marshal of Ohio, with District State Fire Inspector Ware, arrived in this city, and going to the Stillwell hotel, placed Mrs. Haldeman under arrest. She was with her daughter. - i Willing to Return. Asked if she would fight extradition, she answered that she would go back to face the charge of setting fire to her own home, the charges being preferred by her own husband, without the formality of securing the necessary extra dition papers from the governor. "Last September, Mrs. Haldeman filed an affidavit against her husband, who in addition to his practice of medicine, spent his spare moments in inventive work. Mrs. Haldeman charged her husband with having made threats to end her existence on divers occasions. She alleged that Haldeman had attempted to take her life but that his plans were foiled. Following this sensational proceeding in the Preble county courts the Haldeman residence, near Cedar Springs, known as the house of the "many gables" either caught afire or was set afire. The fire was extinguished before it did much damage. Dr. Haldeman charged his wife with having set fire to the residence and went before the Preble county grand jury, at its session last October, charging his wife with incendiarism. WILL CHANGE METHOD Of Collecting Bills.Was Fined. -Deam Banging a fellow on the ear to get him to pay you a sum of money he owes you, is a very expensive mode of collection. Charles Deam knows it. He alleges Anderson Petry owes him $3 for part of a moving bill. Last week he met Petry on the street, and after getting the man in an inclosure back of a Main street saloon, demanded his money. He did not get it, and knocked Petry down. He was arrested for assault and battery and paid a fine of 111 in police court this morning. Deam says he will adopt a different method of collection in the future. INSULTED A WOMAN; GIVEN HEAVY FINE John Bookott, a barber of Hagerstown. was fined $17.75 in 'Squire Abbott's court this morning for insulting a woman on a Pennsylvania passenger train. He was making himself very obnoxious to a woman on the train when the woman complained. He was arrested by Detective Bums and taken before Squire Abbott this morning.

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JAMES Q. P. STOKES. NEW YORK, July 31. Regarding a suggestion that if he really wishes to "emancipate" the people, he should sell his possessions and distribute them among the poor, James Graham Phelps Stokes, millionaire socialist candidate for mayor of Stamford, Conn., declared: "1 would gladly do that very thing If there was the remotest chance that such a course would result in more "emancipation" than the course I am pursuing. Almsgiving on a large scale has gone on for thousands of years, and doubtless with benefit to individual almsgivers and to some recipients, yet as large a proportion of the people are in as deep poverty as ever before. We Socialists find it very much more rational to use the means at our disposal to help break down the present unjust system and to help rear In its stead an industrial democracy in which every worker shall be assured of the enjoyment of as much wealth as he cares to produce."

WOMEN HAVE FIGHT ON WORTH E STRRET The Hats of Both Participants Are Destroyed. One Arrested. "She broke up my home," answered Mrs. Eugene Vincent in police court this morning, when asked if Mrs. Pearl Piatt had given her any cause to be angry. Mrs. Vincent was arrested on the charge of assault and battery preferred by Mrs. Piatt, after an argument and fight on North E street last evening. Mrs. Vincent pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery, but evidence was introduced. It was shown that the two women had an argument on North E street. Mrs. Piatt is alleged to have called Mrs. Vincent a vile nama, which resulted in a fight, Mrs. Piatt having her spectacles broken and receiving a blackened eve. Both women's hats were torn up. Mrs. Piatt is separated from her husband, following trouble which was made public property in police court several months ago. Mrs. Vincent has filed suit in circuit court for divorce. The two women have had troubles before. The mayor withheld his decision. MILLER FAMILY TO HOLD BIG REUNION The Miller family reunion, an annual affair and one of the largest of its kind held in this county, will be held next Sunday in the Gift woods, north of Chester, where the reunions have been held for the past five years. All members of the family are urged to be present. An all day outing will be held, and dinner and supper served on the grounds. It is expected that several hundred members of the Miller family will attend the reunion. FAIRVIEW SCHOOL TO HOLD REUNION A reunion of Fairview school number "two, will be held Sunday, August the eleventh, one mile east of Chester. All friends and patrons are invited to attend. Dinner and supper will be served picnic fashion. An excellent program has been prepared for the occasion. DEATH OF EDITH STANTON BROWN The sudden death of Miss Edith Stanton Brown, of Indianapolis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Brown, prominent in the life of the latter city, in Tower Hill. Wisconsin. on Monday, will shock many persons . in Richmond where Miss Brown's fam- ' ily is well known. Miss Brown suf- . fered an attack of tonsQitis and walked to the physician's office for an operation on her throat and only & short ;time thereafter expired. Miss Brown was a talented violinist having studied in both this country and abroad and having frequently apJDeaxedin amateur recital. t

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1 CONCLUDE SURVEY OF PROPOSED LINE Constructing Engineers Are Expected to Be Here Saturday. The constructing engineers of the proposed Richmond and Eastern traction line will reach Richmond some time Saturday, concluding the surveying of the right of way from Portland. At the present time the plans for the proposed route have been completed as far as Union City. This is the traction line to run from Portland through Richmond to Brookville, Ohio, but recently changed so that the southern terminal of the road will be at Hamilton, Ohio. The estimated cost of the road from Portland to Richmond will be $800,000. The Huntington, Portland and Richmond railroad company are acting as the constructing engineers and in all probability this company will build the road. The work in constructing the necessary grades will start the first of the year, providing the right-of-way can be secured through Richmond to Hamilton. This is one of the biggest traction building attempts that has ever been made in this state. The line passes through innumerable small towns surrounded by rich farming and stock raising lands. At Hamilton the line has an outlet to Cincinnati and towns along the Ohio river. At Richmond the line will have connections with all central parts of Indiana and Ohio, and at Portland, the line will be afforded direct communication to Chicago, Ft. Wayne and the great lake region. The Richmond and Eastern Traction company was organized last year by a number of Richmond business men. It. was Incorporated for $50,000. At this time a preliminary survey waa made and the estimated cost of the road from Portland through Richmond to Hamilton, was set at $1,600,000. The route includes Portland, Union City, Arbie. Spartansburg. Whitewater, and a number of other smaller towns on the north; Richmond, Liberty, Oxford and Hamilton on the south. The expenses of building the road will be met by a bond issue. TWO SMALL BLAZES Two small Urea within ten minutes, kept the fire department busy last evening. At 4:40 an alarm was turned in at the old Mill Works property on North Sixteenth street. A small fire was soon extinguished, and the departments started homeward when another alarm called them to S25 North Nineteenth street, where a gasoline stove bad been overturned. Small damage was done by the blaze. THE WEATHER STATE Generally fair Thursday. tonight and LOCAL Fair and continued cold tobibM and Thursday.

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WORKS BOARD

STANDS PAT At Meeting Today It Was Decided to Leave the Water Works Proposal as the City Had Intended. THE TWO COMPANIES MAY REFUSE BIDS i ' v i Representatives of Companies Want the Word "Assigns" Stricken from City's Proposal. The board of public works at its special meeting this morning to discuss the water works contract proposal decided to stand pat on the proposal, with a few minor changes, as prepared by City Attorney A. M. Gardner and his assistant. Henry l Johnson. Within a few days the board will rail the council members into a special conference and the matter will once more be considered, and the proposal will then be sent to council for Its acceptance or rejection. If the proposal is accepted, by council, bids will then be asked, and there is a probability that bids will not be forthcoming, as representatives of the Richmond City Water Works company, and E. M. Campfield agent for the eastern syndicate, the only two prospective bidders, strenuously objected at the meeting this morning to the section In the proposal which refers to the purchase of the plant. Here is the section which is objectionable to the prospective bidders: "That said company, successors or assigns expressly agree to sell said water works to said city or assigns any time after five years from the date this contract is approved by the common council at a fair valuation, without bonus or per cent added, and without considering the cost of service lines paid for by the consumer." A "Little" Word. The little word "assigns," made prominent In the above extract from the proposal, is what stirred up all the trouble. Attorney T. J. Study for the Water Works company, and Mr. Campfield both made the point that the valuation of a water plant would be decreased In the event the city could sell its right to purchase the plant because it would make the company operating the plant an undesirable risk to those who might desire to invest in Its stocks, bonds, etc. Mr. Johnson, representing the city, refuted this charge, citing the fact that the laws of the state gave the city the authority to dispose of Its option to purchase he plant. He stated that In this state and in Kentucky the superior courts had authorized the sale of an option right in a public service corporation even when the option right was not provided for In the contract. After the various mater works representatives had withdrawn from the meeting the board and its attorney went into executive session and decided to standpat on section of the proposal in question. "We have plenty of time to arrange a good contract proposal and If the companies represented here this morning don't want to bid on the proposal they don't have to." stated the mayor. The question whether the franchise of a water works company would terminate In the event the city sold Its option to purchase arose and It was the unanimous decision that such would be the case. It being pointed out by Mr. Gardner that this was expressly stipulated in the proposed contract. The water works contract bidders would be highly pleased If this provision was also stricken out, for In that event should the city decide to purchase the plant, or the parties to whom the city sold its purchase option would negotiate for the plant, the company could list its contract and franchise in its tangible property. By providing for the termination of the contract In the event of a purchase by the city or the parties purchasing the city's option right, the contract has no tangible value. I take the stand that the contract is given gratis by the city to the successful bidder In consideration for favors shown the city by the company, such as free water, low hydrant charges, etc., therefore when the plant is purchased from the company the latter's contract should not be listed as an asset snd should be terminated." stated Mr. Johnson. Ask No Delay. Both the Richmond City Water Works company- and the Campfield company asked the board not to delay preparation of the proposal any. longer than necessary. "Draw up your contract right away and let the com- ( Continued on Page Six) When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No.

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