Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 231, 2 August 1912 — Page 2

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WIEXICANJROUBLE W. Grubbs' Horse Seized, Dr. Commons Defends Camp with Searchlight. REBELS GIVE TROUBLE Commons to Protect Stables Charges the Padlocks with Electric "Dose." The El Paso (Tex.) Herald in Its Issue of July 25, tells of the trials and tribulations brought on the Americans employed by the Madera, Mexico, Lumber company, of which Harry Miller, formerly of this city and a prominent railroad man, is president. Two other Wayne county men are in the employe of the company, Warren Grubbs, formerly of Richmond, and Dr. Ernest Commons, formerly of Centerville. Mr. Grubbs recently had a fine saddle horse appropriated by General Rojas, a rebel commander. The following article from the El Paso Herald tells how he defended his camp with a rearchlight. MADERIO CHIH, Mex.. July 25. In the mill yard of the Madera Lumber company is a tower, probably 125! feet high, on the top of which is a "crow's nest" and above that a powerful search light, the rays of which can be directed at the will of the op-1 trator, who operates it from his perch in the "nest" from sunset to sunrise every day In the year. When the idea of the light was conceived it was hoped that petty pilfering of ma- . terial from the yards from which the company hjid suffered would be stopped cr minimized ajid that the smoke of smouldering fires which might be f!amed into disastrous conflagrations') might be discovered before the embers burst Into flames. There was no thought then that the brilliant beacon might be used to save not only the company's property but the whole town from pillage by armed bands of ! irresponsive marauders. j There is no question now in the ; minds of those whe were on the alert on Saturday night that were it not for the ability of the operator to keep j the raiders in sight as soon as he j was warned that they were holding up j and robbing pedestrians and breaking into houses, the loss by looting would j have been much heavier than it was. Prevents Theft of Stock. After the first raid the robbers moved toward Mexican town and it was hoped they would stay there. The raid was made so quickly and so boldly that there was no time to telephone the searchlight tower if it were even thought of. When the night riders . came back the second time, however, i Dr. Commons called from the hospital and directed the tower man where to throw the rays of the revealing lamp. The raiders were soon "picked up." They were evidently trying to opea a locked pasture gate in the Na- i huarachie (Hearst) ranch fence about j a mile away from the hospital. The ' light was "held" upon them and the J raiders evidently became-nervous, as after enduring it for two or three i minutes those who had dismounted to j manipulate the gate, climbed into their saddles and the whole party , rode toward the timber. The light J followed them, keeping them in plain i view and making them excellent targets had. there been any disposition to fire' at them. The light followed them into the timber some of the party always being in sight of the searchlight man and of those who were watching from the threatened houses. Finally seeing that they could not escape the vigilant tower man the wouldbe looters rode across the plain toward their camp and were kept in yiew until lost in the maze of the crooked streets of the Mexican quarter. Safeguarded Against Outbreaks. Since that night the light has been more skillfully or carefully used than ever before and undoubtedly has been ' more potent in preventive outbreaks of banditry than would have been 50 watchmen working in the dark. Whatever may have been the cost of the tower and lamp it has no doubt been saved to the citizens of Madera during the past 10 days. Removal of Women Is a Help. The sending out of the women and children last Sunday had a double effect for good in the opinion of those responsible for the issuance of the order for their removal. It was feared by some who opposed the move that the sending out of the women would be regarded by the lawless and Irresponsible element among the rebel commands in the camp as an evidence of weakness. The real effect produced was decidedly to the contrary, especially as few men went out with the women, as it was interpreted aq a resolve upon the part of the men who remained fit camp to be free to put up a determined and organized fight en masse which would hare been utterly Impossible with the women in camp, each requiring to be defended ; separately in widely scattered sections of the American quarter. The absence from the danger zone had the effect, too, to relieve the men of a strain born of apprehension of what might befall the women in caso of an uprising and made them freer to fight for the common cause should they be called . upon to suppress or ry to suppress an outbreak. Madera Club Closes Bar. i The raerabers of the Madera club at a goed example for the inhabitants of the Mszican quarter, as well as for tfco soldiers in camp, by closing the club bar when the rcbula under Cn. Rojas first cat&e Into the town and keeping It: closed during the entire period of rebel occupancy. They rec

News Nuggets (National News Association) PATERSON, N. J.. Aug. 2. Because he hugged Frieda Brickman against her wishes, Louis Bucceri was lined $50.

MONTICELLO, N. Y., Aug. 2. Because she refused to eat ice cream at his expense. Arbin Barber last night shot Mrs. Fred Miller. The bullet took away her left ear. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2 The question as to whether or not a lobster can feel pain will be settled here on August 8, when John Hardcuceau will be tried on the charge of cruelty to a lobster. PITTSBURG, Aug., 2 A ring that was lost 15 years ago by Joseph C. Baird of Washington, Pa., is teen found in a pigeon loft belonging to J. J. Davln. The latter accuses one of his pigeons. LONDON, Aug. 2 Dr. Forbes Winslow, prophecied at the eugenic congress that there would be more lunaticB than sane people in the world 300 years hence. NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Mr. Gaynor disclosed one of his habits by asking a laborer in front of the city hall for a chew of tobacco. ognized the danger of a thoughtless word uttered at an inopportune mament and resolved that If any thoughtless words were uttered they would bs spoken by men in full possession of their faculties and in nowise overexhilerated by anything usually purchasable at a club buffet. It is worthy of note in this connection that the closing of the bar was unanimously approved by the large membership of the club. Every man among them recognized the gravity of the situation and not a protest was filed. About the sorest man in Madera up to the time of his departure on the refugee train Sunday night was Dr. Commons, surgeon in chief of the general hospital. He had saved his horses once and then he spent much time and some money on an electrical device attached to the lock on the stable door through which any one tampering with the lock while the current was on would be electrocuted. However, during the raid of Saturday night the officers in command of the raiders compelled the doctor to have his mozo open the door and as he didn't want to see the mozo killed he had to turn off the heavy voltage. Within a few minutes his highly prized horses, three of them, were being led away by the raiders and all the doctor has to show for them is a "vale" signed by del Campo. That's why he is sore. Rojas Stops at Hotel. While Rojas was in Madera he made his headquarters at the Hotel Madera. His officers and men called on him by hundreds and stabled their horses day and night along the front and on two sides of the building, the result was that the premises smelled like the animal tent of a big circus on a hot day. When Rojas went west, a corps of men was put at work to clean up the miasmatic mess. Barrels of disinfectant were sprinkled over the ground and then the latter was covered an inch' deep in lime to bury the germs killed by the septicide. Forced to Feed Rebel Officers. In itemizing the cost to the citizens of Madera of the present rebel invasion the amount contributed to the "cause" by the Hotel Madera was overlooked. Up to Sunday night about 2000 meals had been served rebel officers and soldiers by proprietor Thomas Kilpatrick, which at hte usual charge of 50 cents per meal amounted to $1,000. This added to the figures already sent in would bring the total up to $233,000 (Mex.). This does not include the draft made Sunday and Monday upon the Madera company's store by Col. Bermudez's command, which will amount to $3,000 to $3,500 more. ! SECOND CLOUDBURST Strikes Little Nevada Towns Causing Desolation. (National News Association) RENO, Nev., Aug. 2. The little towns of Mazuma and Seven Troughs, just recovering from a cloudburst disaster that overwhelmed them recently, were again struck last night by a flood. Survivors of the recent district fled to the hillside in their night clothes to escape a second cloudburst which broke in Seven Troughs canyon, carrying a five-foot wall of water down the canyon and sweeping away temporary homes of the residents. At last reports Mazuma was under water. Advices received at Lovelock shortly before all telephone wires went down said that refugees were on the hillsides in a state of utmost hysteria. Relief parties which set out turned back through fear of being swept away by the flood. MILTON SENTENCED Stole a Gold Watch from Nellie Allen. Thomas Milton alias Thomas Perkins was sentenced to Michigan City penitentiary for one to eight years, disfranchised two years and fined $10 by Judge H. C. Fox when arraiened i before him thi3 morning on the charge of petit lasceny. He hto?e a gold watch j valued at $10 from Nf Me Allen several weeks eg,

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GUILTY Of CHARGE Judge Will Pass Sentence on Mithoff Tomorrow Morning. San Mithoff, a young Hungarian section hand was found guilty of the charge of assault and battery with intent to commit rape, by Judge Fox in the Wayne circuit this afternoon. He probably will be sentenced to from two to fourteen years. Young Mithoff was arrested about two weeks ago on the charge of assault and battery with the intent to commit rape on Elsie Pickett , age about 8 of Greensfork. The court room was well filled with indignant Greensfork citizens 6ome of whom had come to this city to testify In the case and others to hear the testimony. Little Miss Pickett testified that as she was leaving the home of James Martindale where she is employed during the summer months to assist in the house work, Sunday evening, July 14, Mithoff followed her as she walked on the railroad track and as she was passing a corn field he ran up to her and put his arms around her. She said he carried her to the field. Her screams frightened him away and brought others to her assistance. Mithoff, who is twenty years old has a wife and young child in the old country. HAD A STREET FIGHT Piatt and Vincent Arrested Again. The troubles of the Platts and Vincents, formerly neighbors at 403 and 405 South Eighteenth street will be rehearsed in police court again in the morning, following another street fight this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Eugene Vincent was standing at the corner of Sixth and Main streets this afternoon talking to Mrs. Pearl Piatt. Piatt came along and landed a clean one on Mr. Vincent's nose, it Is said, knocking Vincent over a brick pile. Vincent arose and seizing a brick hurled it into Piatt's countenance, breaking Piatt's nose and cutting his face badly. Both men were arrested, charged with assault and battery. Last night Mrs. Vincent and her husband had an altercation on North Eighth street, it is said, when Mrs. Vincent whipped her spouse. No charge has been filed against ncr. The Platts and Vincents have had domestic troubles before. Mrs. Piatt and Mrs. Vincent have had a fight, Mrs. Piatt and her husband nave had a fight, and Mr. Vincent and Mr. Piatt have had a fight. Mrs. Vincent has applied for divorce, charging her husband with adultery with Mrs. Piatt. Mrs. Piatt is out under suspended sentence lor beating Mrs. Piatt this week. EXECUTIVE SESSION On Japanese Fishing Company Question. (National News Association' WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Following an executive session today the senate passed a resolution of Senator Lodge, declaring against the acquisition of Magdalene Bay by a Japanese fishing company. Senator Lodge, in speaking for his measure, declared that the principle underlying it, antedates the Monroe doctrine. When the Senate took up the reso lution It was first discussed in open session, but because of the gravity of the question involved the session was made executive on motion of Senator .Root. WOMAN HAD NUMBER OF BAD PICTURES (National News Association) COXNERSVILLE, Aug. 2. Mrs. Thomas M. Holmes, aged 40 years, a widow, is under arrest here on a charge of having illegal photographs in her possession. The police searched Mrs. Holmes house and seized a number of photographs and plates. Her arrest followed the distribution of pictures of a pretty girl, named Lena Liford, who is employed in the home of Newton Martin, near the Holmes house and studio. The pictures were of the girl herself. The arrest of Mrs. Holmes has caused a sensation on the North Side. The prosecutor refuses to show the confiscated photographs. Immunity was promised the Liford girl for assisting in the prosecution. JOHN OWENS DEAD The funeral of John Owens will be held Saturday afternoon at three o'clock from the home, 101 South Twentyfirst street. Rev. Truman Kenworthy, of the East Main Street Friends' church will have charge. Burial in Earlham cemetery. ILtOose and Mounted DIAMONDS

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WIFEY HIDES TOGS TO GET CONFESSION Hubby Drops Note from Flat Window to Neighbor to Call Police.

(National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 2. "Please get the police right away. I am locked in my j flat. Send help. Walson, 4353 Kenmore avenue." This was the message, scrawled on a scrap of paper, whicn fluttered down fro ma window of the apartment of Albert W. Walson, real estate broker and yachtsman, yesterday morning. It dropped almost at the feet of a neighbor who was passing. He picked it up, read, and,, with visions of all sorts of trouble happening to Mr. Walton, dashed to the town hall police station. Sergeant Shearon glanced at the message and then summoned two husky policemen. "Hurry, men," he ordered. "He may be in danger. Break down the door, if you have to." The policemen hurried. Arrived at the apartment building they rang the bell of the Walson flat furiously and dashed up the stairs without waiting for an invitation to come up. The door swung open and a slender man clad In pale blue jajamas confronted them. It was Walson. "Come in," he said. "My wife has locked up all my clothes and won't give them to me. I need 'em." One of the policemen scratched his head. The other looked puzzled. "Mister, I don't believe we can compel your wife to give you your clothes" Bald one. "There's nothing-la the police rule book to cover this case. You'd better try the Court of Domestic Relations." Then Mrs. Walson appeared from the rear of the apartment. The sight of her husband talking to two big policemen surprised her. But she grasped the situation. "O, very well; take your old clothes," she ordered, and threw the key to a closet at her spouse. "Get Inside and dress in respectable style." Walson persuaded the policemen to wait until he was dressed and then he accompanied them from the building. His goodby to Mrs. Walton was something to the effect of suing for divorce. Later in the day Mrs. Walson discussed the episode of the clothes closet and the causes which led to it. "I accused my husband of duplicity, but he steadfastly denied it. Then Wednesday night when he came home he said I'd have to give him $5,000 or he's send me to Dunning. He wouldn't explain what he wanted the money for, but I knew he wanted it for another woman. "Then It was that I resolved to lock up his clothes while he slept. I thought In the morning, when he couldn't get away, we'd have some explanations and he'd confess." UNION NAT. BANK WEATHER SERVICE The Union National hank at the cor ner of Eighth and Main streets has installed a local weather barometer for the general public. The Instrument will give the absolute correct readings of the atmospheric conditions of our city, reduced to sea level reading. This will be a great public benefit. A gradual but slow fall indicates unsettled and wet weather. A rapid rise indicates sudden showers and high winds. A low barometer indicates a continuation of extreme conditions. If the blue hand moves to the right the barometer is rising. If to the left the barometer is falling. WALKED IN SLEEP; FELL FROM WINDOW AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 2. Miss Alice Hora of North Augusta, S. C, died this morning from injuries sustained when she fell from a second story window while walking In her sleep. REJECTS MNDMENT Repealing the Reciprocity Agreement. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. For the second time this week the House today rejected the Senate amendment repealing the Canadian reciprocity agreement. The House sent back to conference the bill revising the iron and steel schedules to which the reciprocity amendment was attached. Representative Underwood reported that the House conferes had refused to concur in the reciprocity rider. He moved a further conference and Representative Payne, Republican, moved that the conferees be instructed to accept the reciprocity amendment. Payne's motion was defeated by an overwhelming vote. ORDER YOUR Kindling Wood Now of The MILLER KEMPER CO. It's Mighty Scarce In Winter Time. Phone 3247 Wayne J Produce Co. Specials BACON, 13c LARD, 12c Cincinnati Sausage .Plenty of Chickens HAMS, 16c per lb.

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OF LONDON SEASON Felice Lyne, America's youngest prima donna, who was the one brilliant success of Hammerstein's London season, as Gilda in "Rigolotte." CATTLE BARONS ASK HELP OFJMRESS State that Livestock Growing Must Be Protected or Prices Will Go Higher. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 3. The decline. In the cattle Industry Is blamed by Chicago packers and members of the live stock exchange, and while other prices are soaring higher than they have ever been, members of the exchange have appealed for aid in fostering cattle growing. "Congress or the state legislature must enact laws soon for the protection of cattle raising in this country," said President Jones of the Livestock Exchange, "or the cattle market will become dangerously tight. The situation is serious. The west is raising little cattle, the market is short and beef cattle are short In weight. There Is no question in my mind but that the increase in population In this country is outgrowing the production of meat producing animals." Prime steers yesterday sold at $9.85 in the market here. BIRTHS MADE GAIN Births made a large gain over deaths for the month of July, as is shown by the report of City Health Officer Davis. There were 63 births, and but 17 deaths. There were twenty-one cases of disease reported during the month. Four were for typhoid fever, thirteen for scarlet fever, three for diphtheria and one for chicken pox. PICNIC SUNDAY The annual picnic of the South Side Improvement association will be held at Beallvlew park Sunday afternoon. It is expected that this will be the largest affair held by the association. For Hay Fever, Catarrh, Quick Consumption, Typhoid and contagious diseases, BRAZILIAN BALM never failed or lost a case, as it KILLS THE GERMS 25c, 50c and $1. BUY YOUR Cement and Plaster Of THE MILLER KEMPER CO, Phone 3247 .Dr. Wineinger. Dr. Wlsson. Indianapolis Dentists i EVERY THURSDAY. : Rooms 6 & 7, Ccmstock Building. ; Main Street Between 10th L 11th. 1

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CHICAGO CAR LINES MAY ALLBEJIED UP Elevated Men May Join Car Men if Strike Is Decided for at Election.

(National News Association) CHICAGO. Aug. 2. At 4 o'clock this morning a 24-hour strike election of the street railway men was begun. Leaders of the carmen's union say that f the sentiment of the men indicated j clearly that the result of the ballot will ! be a walkout. The election follows the refusal of the street car companies to grant a wage increase and the refusal of the men to accept a renewal of the old contracts. During the earlv hours the vote was heavy and the leaders of the unions predicted that practically the entire vote of the 10,000 men employed on the platforms of the ears would be cast. While this strike Is pending, representatives of the elevated railroad employes today met the officials of the companies with a demand for a wage increase. That the elevated men may be Involved In the strike and a complete tie-up of transportation In Chicago may result is the situation that faces the public. Under an agreement that has been in existence for years, but has never before been put into effect, when both street car men and eleTated men are seeking a wage adjustment at the.saxne time, neither shall settle nntil the other is ready to settle. If the car men go on strike, the elevated men will be bound to withhold settlement, under this agreement, until the strike Is orer. An elevated strike would affect about 2,700 men. CONDITION OF MRS. MEYERS IS SERIOUS The attending physician of Mrs. Jake Meyers of Richmond avenue, who is seriously ill at her home affering from injuries sustained In the street car wreck, stated this morning that Mrs. Meyers' condition was very ous. He stated that efforts were being made to avert an operation, but that it Beemed almost Impossible to use any other means to cure a large abcess which has formed on MTs. Mey ers left hip as a result of the accident, it is said. 1027 Main

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INVESTIGATE DEATH ; OF WEALTHY WOMAN Circumstances Lead Police to Believe Murder Was the Cause of Death.

(National News Association) WORCESTER. Mass.. Aug. 2. The police today began an Investigation of mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Max Biller, wife of a wealthy contractor. Her stomach was sent to the llaiward medical school to be examined by Dr. William F. Whitney for poison. Elizabeth, an eight-year-old daughter, declares hr uncle, Emll Biller, called at the house yesterday, talked with her mother a short time and then left. Her mother immediately went upstairs, she said. She heard the "window of a room upstairs thrown open. Then she heard a heavy fall. Going upstairs she found her mother lying on the. floor dead. It is said Emll Biller has been a frequent caller at the home of his brother and Mr. Biller Informed medical exominer E. L. Hunt that this was in defiance of his orders. Mrs. Biller left home on July 8 very quietly and only returned Iriuay, aay lng she had been In New York. Majority of Refugees Are Women and Children. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. CoL Steever, commanding the American forces at El Paso. Texas, wired the war department today that 1.600 Mormons, fleeing from .Mexico, already had crossed the border near Juarea and 600 had entered the United States, across the New Mexico line. Almost all these refugees are women and children. Oen. Orozxo is Deported to have left Jaures last night presumably to prepare his forces for-a Federal attack. WewM Hew M "John, the Janltar'a aoa vMpped Jimmy today;" "Well, thafa n4ffrat calamity. Sapoe Jlmsay had whipped the Janitor's pwu av ivmiu a) . uati Phono 2577 Bests Carrots Mangoss nana

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