Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 280, 28 September 1912 — Page 1

BIG ABITJM A AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. IO. 280. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 28, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

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(National News As a-Iatlon) '. . MONTGOMERY, Ala. j Sept. l28. : Great crowds greeted -T! aodore Roose ;velt when he arrived; today. They cheered the Colonel wt n he arrived at his hotel and crowde into the h -s-'telry while he was at b eakfast. JUo jam was so great onti ide that they threatened to push through the glass 1 doors Into the dining rom. The Colojnel was greatly pleased t the enthusl'asm shown. ! In a drizzling rain Ri osevelt spoke Jte a throng of 3,000, rei swing his appeal to the Democrats v the South' to Join tne Progressive paly. i The huge crowd filld the entire j street for half a block fa every direcition in front of the hftel, from- the I balcony of which the Colonel spoke. The Colonel spoke of his intense pleasure of coming to tls first capital to the Confederacy. H adverted to the support of the Progressive caaee by a number of . Confed rate soldiers. The men of the Nort and of fee South con join our part; because it-is founded on principles irhich all ctn support," declared the ex-presidett. "You here in. the Soutl can be more loyal to the memories f your graajdfathers if you bravely et yourselves ito face the -problem of the future as j they did rather than to look back. Jni . to the past and adhere o the old raEditions," ' - r x- ' : Take. Up Ta iff. ' H.

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'their purposed platform :he South till t suffer from paralysis of Its cotton jpid I sugar industries. To sstabllsb ftee (trade, the Colonel said, irould be rtia- ; Referring to the platfcrm pro: I of the two parties the Cblonel pointed :out that they were uwirtaln.",Tkey j sound, well enough," he Aid, "until you i find the weasel-phrase mat comes;ftjer the stout-hearted phrase and sucks the meat out of it." V , ! OSBORNE HAS pONE OVER TO COLONEL (National News Aeiociatlon) V,; LANSING, Mich., Sept 28. In a lat ter to C. C. DeCamp, clalrman or we national state Progressfve committee, Governor Osborne today 'flays the recent Republican convention In?. troit, which failed to Indorse his administration and makes jthe announcement that he will come put for Roosevelt and Johnson and Whitney Wfctkins. Progressive candidate for; gov ernor of Michigan. JENSEN'S T013R ; OF THE toUNX T Gierluf Jensen, progressive nc lnee for congress, will spend ,t I coming week in Wakne cous.'. speaking twenty-three times." E will make the trip over the county in an automobile and a quartet wl accompany him to siag camp&Iw songs. ' "',-- The itinerary as outlined is P, follows: l ' ' . .. Monday- pi ) Noon 12th and North E strelf 2:00 p.m. Whitewater. 3:30 p.m. Bethel. J f " : 30 p. m. Fountain City. Tuesday. f Noon Starr Piano Factory. 2 : 00 p. m. Boston. f i 3: SO p.m. Abington! 7 : 30 p. m. Centerville. Wednesday l: Noon Rumely Co, (Gaar-Sff factory) j 2:00 p. m. Greensfofk. 3 : 30 p. m. Webster. ' 7:30 p. m. Williamsburg ThursdayNoon 15th and North F strl (Wayne works). 2:00 p.m. Economy. 3:30 p.m. Dalton. 7 : So p. m Ilagerstown. Friday Noon American Seeding :hine Co. t:00 p. m.Jacksonburg. 3: 30 p. m. East uviHwMlVHU 7:30p.m.-Milton. f Saturday Noon Robinson & Co. 7 2:30 p.m. Dublin. f T:S0i. m.Cambridge City. I

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Art Exhibit of A merican Painters Will be Shown Here Next Week

C Under the auspices of the Richmond Art Association, the collection of the Indiana circuit exhibition of palnings of American artists will be on display at the art association rooms in the high school beginning next Tuesday. This collection 1b the most famous ever shown in this city. It is expected that the exhibit will swell the membership of the association to 500 active members and 100 sustaining members. It is the intention of the association to bring other collections to this city this year, among which are: November Indiana artists' exhibit and craft work. December Exhibit of Abbey's "Holy Grail" series in color prints. - January Exhibit of water colors by' Philadelphia Water Color club. February Paintings by Mr. and MrB. J. Ottls Adams, of Brookville. March Not announced. April and May Exhibit of art and manual training departments of the public schools. This is the sixteenth annual exhibition of American art here. The open ing reception will be next Tuesday evening for the members only. Tickets will be on sale at the door and per sons will be admitted to general membership for 50 cents a year. Refreshments will be served, and dnder the leadership of Prof. Sloane, the high school orchestra will play several selections. The hanging committee composed of Mrs. Elmer Eggemeyer, J. E. Bundy, DYNAMITE DEFENSE L Of Unknown Man to Turn Over Evidence Collected . by, the Government. ' (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 28. That a proposition was made to the defense to obtain and deliver evidence which is. stored in the federal building for use in the dynamite conspiracy cases was revealed for the trst time today by W. M. Harding, the leading lawyer for the defense. Harding declared that shortly after the indictments were re turned by the . federal grand Jury against 61 labor leaders last spring a stranger visited bis office and made the aHeged sensational proposition.' y Harding declares he ordered - the man out of his office with these words, Get out of here and-stay out. We don't do that kind of business here. You can't work any Burns detective game on me." Harding says he notified District Attorney Miller of the in cident immediately after it occurred and warned him that the defense would not be responsible for anything that might happen to the evidence. Inasmuch eb the evidence is constantly guarded by three shifts of watchmen Mr. Harding was satisfied that the offer waB merely an attempt to embarrass the attorney for the defense. Several of the defendants arrived in Indianapolis from other 'cities today and many others are reported to be enroute. Everything is apparently in readiness for rapid progress of the casesA, , District Attorney - Miller . stated this afternoon . that he had never before heard of the alleged proposition of a stranger to secure evidence from the federal building for the defense attornys in the dynamite conspiracy case. Mr. Miller said that he had no recollection of that subject having been mentioned to him by Attorney Harding. PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE MET 0(1 FRIDAY In Morrisson Library and Discusses Affairs of the Organization. The Richmond Women's Progressive League held its second meeting yesterday afternoon at four o'clock in the lecture-room of the Morrisson-Reeves library, with a large attendance of both charter and new members. , The president, Mrs. William Dudley Foulke, introducedtae subject of the sale of membership certificates for the National Women's Progressive League and it was decided to consummate this at the next meeting. ' There are, however, no dues attached to membership in the local woman's Progressive League, to which membership is absolutely free and with which there is no anancial obligation. The, next meeting to be held in the lecture-room of the library on Wednesday evening, October 2nd, at a quarter to eight o'clock, will have for its program the discussion of one of the principles of the Progressives, the minimum wage scale, which will be led by a member of the League and In which all those present will participate. : THE WEATHER STATE Unsettled; probably rain in north portion tonight and Sunday. LOCAL Unsettled tonight and Sun' ay; cooler Sunday..

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Miss Alice Hill, Mrs. Myron Malsby, and Miss Kathryn Rettig today placed the pictures. Other committees which

are assisting are appended: Educational Committee. Miss Alice G. Locke, chairman. Miss Carrie C. Lesh, Miss Martha Whitacre, Miss Emma Leeson, Miss Bertha Kelsey, Miss Hettie Elliott, Miss Eva Jhonston. Miss Ivy Kraft, Mrs. Clara Graves, Mrs. Agnes Stillinger. Miss Kate Morgan. Miss Ada Woodward, Miss Alice Unthank. Music Committee. Prof. Ralph Sloane, chairman, John Thompson, Miss Marjorie Beck. Decoration Committee. Prof. John Thompson, chairman, Miss Alice G. Locka, Miss Ivy Kraft. Refreshment Committee. Miss Klturah Parsons, chairman, Miss Emma Bond, Mr. R. A. Wishand. C Art Study Committee. 1 Mrs. James M. Judsen, Mrs. Benton Addington, Mrs. Demas Coe, Mrs. Paul Comstock, Mrs. David Dennis, Mrs. Howard A. Dill, Mrs. John B. Dougan, Miss Rose Dougan, Mrs. Wm. Dudley Foulke, Mrs. Henry Gennett, Mrs. Edgar Hiatt. Mrs. Allen D. Hole, Miss Sa rah Hill, Mrs. Harry Holmes, Mrs. H H. Huntlnxton. Mrs. Geo. H. Knollenberg, Mrs. Fred Lemon, Mrs. Lewis C King, Mrs. Wm O. Mendenhall, Mrs Lee B. Nusbaum, Mrs. Ray Robinson, Miss Mary A. Stubbs. Mrs. Jennie M. Yaryan, Mrs. J. E. Cathell, Mrs. Wm F. Starr, Mrs. Charles McGulre. 1 ATTORNEY REFUTES WHATJUEIIT SAIO In Effort to Reduce Alimony and the Court Has a Great Laugh. Never before in the history of the Wayne circuit court, it is believed, has the grinding of the divorce mill been so persistent as it has been the past few weeks. A number of divorce peti tions have been filed and a large num ber of other divorce cases, pending for some time, have been heard by Judge Fox. This morning two divorce decrees were granted. The first case heard was that of Elizabeth A. Benninger, versus William Benninger and the second 'that of Charles Johnson against Mollie Johnson; In the first petition the charge was drunkenness and cruel and inhuman treatment and in the aecond the allegation upon whioh the decree was granted was, drunken ness. A pitiful tale was unfolded by Mrs. Benninger. She declared that her husband had treated her in a most inhuman manner, saying that he was a habitual drunkard and would often return to their home, in Milton, in an intoxicated condition. She declared he would then abuse her, knocking her to the floor and mistreating her in other ways. . She finally left him, going to the home of her father, who is aged and infirm. She took her young boy, who is about six years old. with her. She has suffered, she declared, from rheumatism, and was obliged to wash and iron to support herself and child. At one time she was so ill that it was necessary for her to go to the county infirmary. Divorce Was Granted. The Judge granted the divorce and also granted the plaintiff the custody ol the boy. The court also ordered the defendant to pay $5 a month to the township trustee of Washington township which the trustee would turn over to Mrs. Benninger for the support of the boy. Benninger stated that he made about f 2 per day. "If the court please, that's too much money for the defendant to pay, because he's under a handicap," remonstrated Attorney Medsker. of Cambridge City, representing the defendant. . ' "How so?" asked the judge. "He Just Bald he made $2 per day." "That's an absolute untruth, even if he did say so," returned Medsker. He got no further, for the court room was in an uproar of laughter at the remark of the attorney about his client. Finds His Wife Drunk. That every day when he returns to his home on North Twelfth street, he would find his wife in a drunken stupor, was the testimony of Charles Johnson. Johnson said that his wife was arrested on one occasion for public intoxication. "You never really saw your wife intoxicated, did you Prosecutor Allen asked. "Didn't ir the witness exclaimed. "She would stagger from one side of the house to the other. She'd tell me she would quit and it wouldn't be 'till tomorrow night till she's be . soused again.. ,. The decree was granted. i In the divorce case of Pearl Nicholson versus George Nicholson, the defendant defaulted appearance, and a rule to answer against the prosecutor was taken. ARRESTED AGAIN Edward Shea, a well known police character, was arrested this morning for public intoxication. He was. just released from the county jail, September SI. wfeere he had served ten days for a similar charse - When fnanA hv the police he was lying in an ash box j behind a local boteL

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WILSON VERY HAPPy TODAY He Has Also Been Addressed as "Doc" and "Woody" and He Feels He Is Now a Real Politician. WILSON WAS TOLD CAR NEEDED BROOM When the Professor Escorts Party of Ladies Through His Traveling Home He Likes Outlook. - (National News Association) NEW YORK, Sept 28. "I feel that I have arrived 'in American polltics'." This was the humorous utterance today of Governor Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee for the presidency, during short talk he gave to re porters who awoke him at his hotel. After be hal talked to the reporters he went back to bed, tired out with his long New England campaign and expecting to be up late tonight at the dinner to be given to National cham bers of commerce. Discussing his New England invasion the governor said: "I feel immensely gratified and encouraged by my receptions in New England. I was especially impressed with the fact that everywhere that great crowds with whom I came in contact and the people whom I met personally seemed to take it for, granted that the Democratic ticket would be elected. That struck me as being remarkably significant. The size and enthusiasm of the crowds that wanted to hear me speak and see me also impressed me and It was gratifying to find it so in teresting. "There can be no doubt that they are thinking seriously; that they are anxious to find out what I had to say." ' Dodges One Question. "Of conrse yon. feel that the Demo cratic ticket will win?" it was suggested.: "I have not allowed myself to form any conclusion on the subject," was the prompt answer. "It. will be the same to me whether I win or lose I shall keep on fighting for a principle. However, I feel that I have arrived in American politics. When I was candidate for governor of New Jersey I thought I had arrived when a stranger in a 'campaign crowd slapped me on the back and exclaimed "How are you, Doc?' "I felt surer of it the other day, when a switchman in overalls called out to me when I stood on the rear platform of the private caj: 'You're all right Woody.' Now I know it, for somebody in the audience at Bridgeport cried out in the middle of my speech 'Say, you're all right, kid'." The governor and his party entertained several ladies on his private car Federal from Bridgeport to Stafford last night. There . ore Mrs. Homer S. Cummings, wife of the national committeeman of Connecticutt and two of her friends. The ladies were escorted through the car on a sightseeing expedition by the governor himself who remarked that "all the car needs is the tender feminine touch to make it perfect.". "Looks to me as if it needed the touch of a feminine broom," retorted Mrs. CummingB. , Local committees from all the towns in which the governor spoke had been overseeing the car, boarding it miles in advance of their own towns to assure their candidate that he would get a fitting reception and scattering cigar ashes and cigars butts and burned matches all over the plush carpet. The governor will rest in Seagirt tomorrow. He goes to Atlantic 'City on Monday to attend a convention and on Tuesday he will attend the New Jer sey Democratic committee at Trenton. Then he will leave In the morning and board his private car for Denver, Colo., on his second Western tour. T COMMITTED SUICIDE ll Friends Believe that Mrs. Miller Ended Her Life.. c Mrs. Jennie Nicholson Miller, who last made her home with a. daughter at Indianapolis, and formerly lived here and at Greensfork, was buried at Qreensfork yesterday. . Mrs. Miller, who was believed to have been slightly demented, wandered from the home of her daughter at Indianapolis and in a suicidal - mood threw herself in front of a limited Interurban at Plainfield. A previous attempt at self-destruction was thwarted by the motonnan of a local car, who stopped his car and urged her to ride to Plainfield. A letter on her person, bearing the name of Miss Snyder, Richmond, lead the Plainfield authorities to believe that Mrs. Miller had friends here. Her identity was not established , until almost a week after the accident.

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GIERLUF JENSEN, PROGRESSIVE TO BEG1MTUES0AY Y. M. C. A. Hopes to Swell Membership to 1,000 in Two Days. "One thousand ' members sure by next Wednesday evening," is the slogan which is urging on the captains and teams engaging in the membership at the Y. M. C. A. In an enthusiastic meeting held last evening the captains and members of the teams discussed the campaign and outlined plans of procedure. It is believed that - the twenty-five per cent reduction on annual dues offered next Tuesday - and Wednesday-will induce hundreds to join the local association and will lead many old members to take out cards for another year. The reduction in rates . obtains in all departments of the Y. M. C. A. To acquaint the public generally with the plant, all the advantages of the association house will be opened to men beginning with this evening and continuing until next Wednesday. The reading and lounging rooms, gymnasium equipment, bowling alley, and shower baths will be at the free use of any man or boy who wishes to use them. During the two days of the campaign, the Ladies' Auxiliary will serve a lunch at noon to the captains and members of the teams. Results of the campaign will be announced and bul letines. To interest the school boys in the institution, two boy teams of ten members each have been formed. Their captains will be announced soon. ISAAC SHARP HERE Will Lecture at the East Main Street Church. Isaac Sharp, a prominent Friend of London, who is in this country as delegate to the Five Years meeting, will speak on the subject "A Half Century of Quakerism in England,' at the East Main Street ' Friends church Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. Sharp attended the. Indiana Yearly meeting a few weeks ago and his remarks were received with much interest. He is the son of the late Isaac Sharp, who in former years made visits to this country and was well known in, Friends, circles. The public is cordially ' invited to attend, the . lecture Sunday evening... i . . , BISHOP RECEIVES THREAT OF DEATH (National News Association) -j, SOUTH BEND. Sept. 28. Death. to Archbishop Alerding of Ft. Wayne and to eight other persons, was the threat contained in a letter received by the committee In charge of St. Bova's church, whose . pastor, Rev. Charles Stuer, is in a nervous collapse as the result of th other threats received by the-church members in the past twenty months. The letter reads: "The death list for this .week is as follows : Bishop of Fort Wayne, Matilda Derue. Alfonse Derue, Alfanse Decrocker. Camiel Hanzeaul. Camiel Demuliaere, Mary Hanzeaul, . Camiel Nieuland, John Bultinck. Tour years are counted and just a few more and it will be done with you alL We intend to get you unexpectedly. We win disappear in Julius Bennett's automobile- There are five men picked out to do the murdering. The' letter is written in Flemish. All named in the missive except Archblsh op Alerding are Belgian residents of Michawaka, a town near here.

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CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS WOMAN ARRESTED Oil MURDER CHARGE Claim Mrs. Hanner Shot Husband and Got Rid of Two Former Mates. (Rational News Association) BUFFALO, N. Y., Sopt. 28. Mrs. Mary M. Hanner was arrested today by District Attorney Ackerson and will be taken to North Tanawanda and art raigned before the court that Issued a warrant containing a charge against her of assault in the first degree. . Mrs. Hanner ; stoutly denies the charge that she shot her husband fwhthrHr tv ing with "him- in an-tomo-bile. In some respects the case Is beginning to resemble the sensational incident uncovered following the discovery of the first body on Belle Gunnee s' farm in northern Indiana. It was learned today that Mrs. Hanner. now suspected by the police of having fired the . shot that - nearly killed her hus band and slightly wounded herself while returning to Niagara Falls In an automobile.' had , been married twice before her marriage to Hanner, Nineteen years ago she became the wife of a man named Weber and sev eral years later, after Weber is said to have suddenly dropped out of sight, she is said to have married a man named Green, who later also disap peared and has not been heard from. Some time ago Mrs. Hanner prevailed on her husband to have his life insur ed for $2,000, the policy being in her favor. District Attorney Askerson, who is investigating the case, de clares that letters have "been found in a trunk at the Hanner home in which Mrs. Hanner is alleged to have ex pressed her undying love for another man. HOLD RALLY DAY First Presbyterian Church Celebrates Tomorrow. The purpose of the rally day to be observed at the First Presbyterian church Sunday Is explained in the an nouncement as "a special day which calls every member and family to an enrollment in the school for Bible study, to, a regularity in the pew at worship and to a place in the church's life and work. " The vesper hour is resume and will be held at 4:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The other services tomorrow are at the appointed hour. The call to the members is signed by the session and the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Graham. HOWARD M'CORMICK VISITS RICHMOND Howard McCormlck, of New York, the well known illustrator formerly a resident of this city, was in Richmond yesterday and went on to New York this afternoon. Mr. McCormlck was en route home from Arizona where he has been for several months making studies of Indian life for the mural 'decorations he is to paint; for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This artist has recently completed a series of the same class.' paintings for the country home of George W. Perkins, the steel magnate. McCormlck was once a cartoonist on the Indianapolis News and more recently has been an illustrator for the leading .publications of the country Including Coiner's, the American and

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SETH LUCAS TODAY SEES WIFE BURNED

A Wayne County Farmer's: Home Destroyed While Hej Helplessly Sees Death of His Aged Mate. TRIED FOLLOW HIM; HER HEART FAILED Stricken by Disease, Mrs. Lu cas Pitched Forward into the Burning Mass.-Lived! Near Grecnsfork. BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT. GREENSFORK, Ind, Sept. 28 Fatesingles out men to endure intense and heroic suffering. Early this morning forced Seth Lucas, a farmer living three miles northeast of here to stand ! by helplessly while his wife was suf-' fering death in the burning dwelling, set afire by an exploding lamp. Her charred body, with face disflg-j ured by flames and smoke, her lower, limbs burned to an unrecognisable crisp, was found by neighbors in the' embers and wreckage of the house.' hours after the fire had started. Thei agony of the k. jg vigil had prostrated' the aged man and brought hi in on the , verge of mental instability.Unfaltering and unhesitatingly Mrs. - Lucas bad accompanied her husband i through many years of married life. but she was unable to follow him to

safety today. At 2 o'clock this mora-' . lng Lucas was aroused by fixe and'

smoke In their bed room. He 'called; his wife and they groped tbeirway to' the north door. Flames and . smoke forced them to seek the southern exltj When Lucas reached the yard be aalss-' ed his wife. ,v Flames. Balk. Rescue.'. Either overcome by the fume oft smoke or by an attack of heart troa-' ble, Mrs. Lucas fell before, she gained) the exit. In his excitement het-Iauv'r

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Lucas rushed back Into the burning dweUIng to rescue his wife, hut was driven back by. a sheet of flams andi clouds of smoke. ,He tried another door, only to be foiled by (the flames' which now had spread over the whole house. . , - - He shouted for .help 'in his. deanair but the nearest neighbor lives a auar-' ter of a mile away and Lucas was fore ed to endure . alone the fortune of. knowing that within lay the body of his beloved companion. When neighbors arrived on the scene they found the old man wringing, his hands, tears streaming from his eyes, and pacing around the burning7 dwelling In frantic despair. He was removed from the scene. .Last night at 10 o'clock, Lucas light ed the lamp to hand his wife a potion of medicine. He did not blow out the lamp. At z o'clock this morning the lamp exploded, scattering the burning liquid over the walls and carpets of, the bed room. The detonation did not' arouse Lucas, but the crackling of burning wood and heavy clouds of smoke finally brought the sleepers out' of their slumbers. "

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door. On the wc noticed by her I. Mrs. Lucas was,, survived by her k daughter. Miss Maud Lucas, Vm v. , visiting at the home of B. P. Harris.1 " In" Richmond, a brother of the victim. Funeral arrangements have not been, announced. Mr. Lacas is a farmer. A few years ago be moved to Richmond, living on School street, but be returned to the farm near here about a year ago. Dr. R. D. Morrow conducted an examinatlon today and will report death due to accidental incineration. WILL NAME MEI1 To Appraise the Value of the Purchasing Option. ; - Monday morning Judge Fox, of the, Wayne circuit court will appoint appraisers, to appraise the value of the option to purchase the Richmond City Water Works by the city of Richmond. The city's proposal, contains a clause which states that to the ef ect that aTer five years the city has the right purchase or to sell its option to f chase the water works plant, Acec ing to law appraisers must bo pointed to determine the value of option.' Some time ago the city pax a resolution asking the court to i point the appraisers. SUIT TO COLLECT Suit on promissory note was Qed fa the Wayne circuit court this afternoon by Silas W, Clark versus Elmer Uttl ;nd John Little. The demand la $" The note is alleged to have beer en September 1911 and due J' 1S12. ; , . -.;

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