Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 306, 29 October 1912 — Page 1

HMONB PA ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 306. RICH3IOND, IND.. TUESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 29, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. TAFT STILL CANNOT SEE THE CAUSES ELECTION TO COST COUNTY ABOUT $3,000 Vice President is Very III WHALEN SAID TO THE FRONT FOR SERVICE FELL TO HIS DEATH TODAY HE FOB DEFE I i

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"Long Live Bulgaria! Loyalty to the Czar, but Swords for the Turk!" Cry the Reservists.

fSIX BULGARIANS LEFT RICHMOND Received Orders from Bulgarian Government Last Friday and Are Now Off for the Front. "All Hall Bulgaria! Oar loyalty for Czar Ferdinand, but our swords for the Turk!" This was tne farewell cry of six stalwart Bulgarians of Richmond to their friends last evening as they were whisked out of the Pennsylvania station on the first lap of a Journey that ;"will end only when they report for duty In the army corps now advancing on Adrianople. " t Ts a cry of exultation emanating ' yal breasts In which the fight- , uJorof Tartar ancestors carried through the centuries, gave vent to the martial spirit dwelling in the souls of their Christian descendants. The call to arms reached them Friday. They had served in the Bulgarian army, and although far from their native mountains, their names were still on the reserve lists, and despite the many changes of residence, they had faithfully reported to their divisions every three months in compliance witb army regulations. Received Orders Friday. Jim Christ, a Macedonian, who has taken out his naturalization papers," was the man to whom the Bulgarian government Friday sent a cablegram ordering him to inform the six Bulgarians that their country needed them. Three hours later Grozdo Kolaff, Angel Jemetrov, Neno Koleo, Todor Metev, Tanas Melan and Pete Mike were told to hold themselves ready to go to the front. Sunday came the order that sent them to New York. They left, last night, and with 800 reservists of Cincinnati, and 285 of Indianapolis, are part of the Balkan soldiers leaving New York for Bulgaria this week. The six Bulgarians are natives of Brastovsta. They have been in America several years, working on public Improvements and in shops. Recently they came to Richmond and were employed in local factories. Their families live, lnBulgarla. Five more Bulgarians are residents of this city and "'" 5t,iiti the summons that will t 4 "V the front. i "..Vant Revenge. ..Jf,' the Macedonian, said t-' he Is furthering the cause here as much as possible. He and other citizens of the Balkans are sending contributions to the little nations that are fighting the Turk. "The memories of territories stolen from us by the Turks, the scenes of villages pillaged and sacked, women outraged and children slain, urge us on In this. war," said Christ today. "We want revenge, and we intend to have it. The days of Ottoman supremacy are past, henceforth historians will write of the war in which the Balkan countries drove the Turk out of Europe and made it a Christian country for Christian peoples." Don 7 Be

No worklngman in the country, a railroad man told Judge Norton! at Trenton, Mo., would vote any other ticket than the Progressive if he only understood what the Progressive platform means to the average family. He was right. Republicans and Democrats are still fighting the battles of the past. The Progressive party is the only one that faces the real issues of today. Its platform deals with the home and the family, with wages aid insurance and unemployment. Look over the program: Prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases, overwoik. Fixing of minimum standards for safety and health in various lnduttries. rrohibltlon of child labor. Lving wages for workingwomen. On day's rest in seven for all wage workers. Abuition of convict contract labor system. Bubicity of wage scales, conditions of labor and industrial accidents Compensation for Injury or death from industrial accidents, to be paid Immediately without lawsuit. Insurant of workers under government direction against sickness, irregur employment and old age. Extensio, cf industrial education. What wo legislation along these lines mean to millions of families? Ju ask yourself the question. Ask it thoughtfully and honestly. Perp9 n might mean something to your own family. Why shoul't you have these advantages? When the German workman is sic. ne gets a weekly payment. Why shouldn't you? When he gets ne knows he won't be dependent. The governn ment wlllpay h a pension. Why shouldn't you have the same jrer the Qf platform pledges. Consider how they touch life. Bejfyi breams, the old party managers tell you? rr they They don't want you to get away from them. -Vat do they tell y, tjjat pretty much every demand made in the Progressive platform -ag gatiSfied in Germany years ago? Do they tell you that every h,t one ot pledges has been enacted into law in England under IWd-George In four years? It can be done in America. 5 On the dead, now,wouldn.t a man be a good deal of a 8ucker to throw away a chat, to do something big for his own family and for millions of oth famnies juat because his father happened to be born a Democrat,,,. Republican? Kansas City Star.

Executive Wonders Why the Progressives Oppose both

Free Trade and Excessive' Tariff Rates. HE WRITES LETTER TO A HOME FRIEND Explains to Him Why the Pottery Workers in Ohio Should Vote the Republican Ticket. (National News Association WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. "Some of the prominent speakers of the Progressive party have not hesitated o declare that the election of Gov. Wilson would mean financial disaster to the country and yet they are working for no other end. From absolutely dependable sources Information comes to me that none of the leaders of the Progressive party believe they have the slightest chance of success and that they realize that a vote for it means a vote for the Democrats. But they are so filled with hatred for the Republican party because it refused to accede to their demands they are content to bring disaster upon the whole country simply to gratify their revenge." Thus wrote President Taft to Fred A. Gier, president of the Prosperity League of Ohio today just before ho left for New York to confer with Chairman Hilles of the Republican national committee and to witness the launching of the battleship New York at the Brooklyn navy yard. The president's letter to Mr. G'rr came as the result of the latter's work for the chief executive in Ohio particularly among the steel workers of the Buckeye State. "I am gratified to learn," commenced the missive, "of the splendid work you are doing to arouse the business men of Ohio and the excellent prospects of victory of the party in my own state. 'k""Asyou " can appreciate no ' man would care to have his own state fail him, but apart from selfiBh reasons I want to see Ohio go Republican by a large majority. "The injury which Ohio would suffer from a Democratic victory exceeds that inflicted on any other state. This is clearly shown by the effort which Democratic friends have already made to rob Ohio industries of the protection which is so essential to their continuance to say nothing of their prosperity." The president then reviewed the scope of the steel industry in Ohio, showing that the state has 523,000 persons engaged in manufacturing steel and $1,300,000,000 invested in the plants. Condemnation, caustic and bitter, of the Democratic steel bill followed. The pottery industry was next discussed by the president. "You know," he said, "that the success of that industry is the welfare of thousands of families in Ohio. The men engaged in the work in the United States receive an average of 24.8 cents an hour. In England they receive only 11 cents, and in Japan only 3.25 cents an hour. What would become of this industry in Ohio were the Democrats to win?" a Sucker

Preliminary Arrangements for the Holding of the Election Are Almost Completed Here.

COUNTY AND STATE BALLOTS ARE READY The Board of Canvassers Has Been Selected and the Election Sheriffs Will Soon Be Known. Although it is impossible to secure an accurate estimate of the cost of the forthcoming election in Wayne county, it is believed that the election will cost between $3,000 and $3,500, in addition to the cost of the registration. With but one week before election day, county officials and party leaders are instructing members of the election boards, including two judges, two clerks, two sheriffs and one inspector. The board of canvassers consists of the county clerk, George Matthews, Ben Price and Everett Lemon. According to the state law, the county clerk shall act as member of the board and he shall appoint one member of his party, and one member of the party receiving the next largest vote at the preceding election. Work of Canvassers. The board of canvassers will assemble in the circuit court room of the court house at 6 o'clock on the evening of election day and will hold " a continuous session until all the ballots are counted and checked. The pay of the board is fixed by the board of county commissioners. Returns will be received at the court room and will be announced as received. The canvass board will check up the ballots from each precinct and the ballots will be saved. Each of the two political parties receiving the largest number of votes at the last election has the right to name one judge, one deck and one sheriff for each precinct. The inspector for each precinct will be a republican, according to the decision of the county commissioners at a recent meeting, except those township trustees of Democratic and Progressive faith, who will, serve as election inspectors by virtue of their office. In case the Republican and Democratic county organizations do not hand in the list of persons whom they desire to have appointed as sheriffs within five days before election, the county sheriff will then appoint the two sheriffs for each precinct. Each member of the election board, except the sheriffs, will receive $2 per day, eight hours constituting the day. The members of the board will serve more than eight hours and consequently will be given two days pay. The sheriffs will receive $1.50 per day, or $3 for their work. The inspector is allowed $2 per day, but will receive $4 for his work on the board. He is allowed one day for going to the auditor's office to receive his supplies, and one day for returning, really getting four days' pay. Each member of the board will receive two meals, the law allowing forty cents for each meal. The rent of the rooms in each of the sixty-four precincts in which the election Is to be held cannot be more than $5, according to the election laws. County Clerk Matthews has secured 18,000 county ballots and 20,442 state ballots will be sent to this county. The reason for the difference in the number of county and state ballots is because the state ordered its ballots before the registration. Following the registration in Wayne county, in which 12,608 voters registered, it was decided to order about 18,000 ballots as it was believed this number would be sufficient and would save the county a small sum of money on the printing. HELD FOB ER Chief Gormon Recognizes Former Richmond Man. When Chief Gormon went into the jail at Falmouth, Ky., he was surprised to hear some one call him by name soon recognized Lorenza Hall a former resident of this city, who is awaiting trial on a charge of murder in the first degree. Hall was convicted on that charge several months ago. but was given another triaL He is forty-five years old and was employed in this city in the livery stables of Mayor Zimmerman, Chalk Taylor and A. Anderson. He claims to" be Innocent of killing the victim whose body was not found until six months after the crime had been committed. THE WEATHER STATE Colder and generally fair tonight and Wednesday. LOCAL Fair and colder tonight and Wednesday.

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Bulgarian Birdman's Motor Stops While He Was Soaring Over Turkish Fort, Making His Map.

RUSSIAN ACTIONS CAUSE FOR ALARM Europe Fears the Czar May Side with the Balkan States. Adrianople Will Not Be Surrendered. (National News Association) STAR A Z AG OR A, Oct. 29. A Bulgarian aviator was killed today while trying to fly over Adrianople and make maps of the Turkish defense works. He was using a French monoplane. His motor stopped when he was over the Turkish camp at Fort Yildiz and the machine fell. SERVIANS PRESS ON. BELGRADE, Oct. 29. A Servian column today marched upon Monastir, an important Turkish city lying halfway between Scutari and Salonika. Turks and Mohammedan tribesmen fighting under the Crescent flag are rallying to Veles where a "battle Is raging. The Servians are commanded by Crown Prince Alexander, Gen. Stephanovitch and Gen. Jancovics. SCUTARI DESPERATE. VIENNA, Oct. 29 Conditions in the beleaguered Turkish city of Scutari are desperate and the fall of the citadel is expected within 72 hours, according to despatches received here today from Podgoritza, the base of Montenegrin military operations. TURKISH CRUELTIES. ATHENS, Oct. 29. Terrible cruelties are being inflicted by Turkish troops in southern Macedonia upon Christians. Telegrams from the victorious Greek army under King George and Crown Prince Constantine which, is pushing., eastward driving the Turks before them, relate" grewsome stories. In one action the Turks compelled twenty-five Christian captives to remain upon the firing line until all had fallen victims of Greek bullets. Corpses of scores of helpless women and children have been found where they fell at the hands of the Mohammedan soldiery. Greek Catholic priests have been tortured to death and monasteries robbed and burned. RUSSIA IS WATCHED. LONDON, Oct. 29. Russia's attitude toward the Balkan war is causing alarm throughout official circles. Mistrust of Muscovite neutrality is growing daily. This was heightened today when it became known that Czar Nicholas had sent a telegram of congratulation to King Peter of Servia. It had been known previously that Russia made a present of 52 mitralleuses to Montenegro for use against the Turks. There have been hints for some time that Russia is dealing secretly with Bulgaria. At a ministerial conference at the foreign office today it was urged that the powers go on record in regard tv a definite Balkan policy in the event of the overthrow of Turkey. SOFIA, Oct. 29. "Adrianople must be taken by force; we will not surrender.". This was the reply returned today by Gen. Nazim Pacha, commander-in-chief of the Turkish forces, to the demand of Czar Ferdinand that the Turks surrender unconditionally. It was sent to the Bulgarian camp at Eski-Baba after a council of war by Gen. Nazim Pacha, Gen. Abdullah Pacba and other high officers of the Otteman army in Adrianople and its environs. Although the Bulgarians now surround the Turkish forces at Adrianople. the Ottoman generals have decided to fight to the death in the ultimate hope that reinforcements from Constantinople may arrive in time to attack the rear of the Bulgarian army. The Bulgarians have commenced destroying thi Orient railway to prevent the transfer of soldiers from Constantinople on troop trains. The bridge over the Tchortu river has been dynamited. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 29. A Bulgarian privateer today destroyed the Turkish lighthouse off the seaport Iniada in the Black Sea by blowing it up with dynamite. It was located 75 miles from Adrianople. LAHISSA. Oct. 29. Greek forces in Macedonia won an important victory today when the army advancing on Zerria encountered a hostile force at Casti ni a, where a three hours engagement was fought. The Turks were driven back. PARIS, Oct. 29. A proposal of the European powers to Intervene in the Balkan war has been rejected by Bulgaria. It was learned today that representations were made to the Bulgarian government but the latter refused to discuss the terms or countenance a suspension of hostilities at the present time. Consequently the war will go on.

UTICA, N. Y Oct. 29. This morning at 8:40 it was stated by Dr. F. H. Peck, Vice President Sherman's physician, that Mr. Sherman had passed a fairly comfortable night and that his condition remained unchanged from yesterday. It was the most restful night Mr. Sherman has had since Friday night and the members of the vice president's family appeared to take hope that perhaps there is a chance for his surviving his present grave illness. However, as to this Dr. Peck ventured no statement.

PROMINENT WOMAN VICTIM OF ASSASSIN

Miss Singer of Baltimore Killed and Robbed in a Chicago Hotel. (Nation! News Association) CHICAGO, Oct. 29 Miss Sophia G. Singer, daughter of a wealthy Baltimore family, was found murdered in a room early today in a hotel in Indiana avenue. Her body was found lying on the floor . wrapped in a bed comforter. A towel was wrapped tightly about her face -to hold another towel " stuffed into her mouth. . Her legs, arms and body were twined about with cord. Several deep gashes were found on her. head. Robbery Is believed to have been the motive. Jewels worth $1,000 and 945 in bills cannot be found. The body was found in a room adjoining the one Miss Singer occupied. The police believe after the girl had been slain in her own room her body was placed in the adjoining one while the slayers searched for valuables. William R. Wart h an who is said to have come to Chicago from Baltimore with Miss Singer about two weeks ago found the body. He was taken to the Stanton avenue police station and questioned. Charles Conway and Beatrice Ryall, boarders, disappeared shortly after the discovery of the body. After hearing Mr. Warthan's story the police exonerated him from all suspicion and threw out a dragnet for Conway and Miss Ryall. Miss Singer and Mr. Warthan were to have teen married this week. Miss Singer was prominently connected in Baltimore and expected soon to inherit a 150,000 fortune. She was formerly the wife of a high official of the Baltimore post office, whom she had divorced and resumed her maiden name. Warthan also was well connected in Baltimore and the Ryall girl moved in good society in that city. Conway was known as a professional high diver. It was discovered that the towels with which Miss Singer was smothered had been satuated with chloroform. The body was found in Mr. Conway's room at the fashionable north side hotel where all the parties involved were living. It later developed that the Singer girl was killed by blows over the head with a doorknob tied in a handkerchief. At the hotel it was stated that she was known there as Mrs. Warthan and that the Ryall woman was known as Mrs. Conway. Conway recently became stranded in Muncie, Ind., and it was understood that Miss Singer loaned Miss Ryall money to pay his expenses to Chicago. In Miss Ryall's trunk a blood stained jacket that had been worn by Miss Singer was found. WAS WELL KNOWN. BALTIMORE, Oct. 29. Miss Sophia Singer, who was murdered in Chicago, was a member of a well known Baltimore family, her father being the late Frank O. Singer, a wealthy contractor and builder, who died several . years ago leaving his daughter considerable money. Her brother, F. O. Singer. Jr is a member of a construction company. Miss Singer, according to her brother left Baltimore three weeks ago to undergo treatment for stomach trouble In Chicago. Wharthan formerly was in the employ of the United Railways company here. SOCIALIST SPEAKS Joseph W. Sharts, of Dayton. editor cf the Miami Valley Socialist, will give an address on Socialism at the corner of Sixth and Main . streets, Wednesday evening.

OLDEN DAYS ARE RECALLEDBY THEM Mr. and Mrs. John H. Feldmann Celebrate Fifty-fifth Wedding Anniversary.

The fifty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Feldmann was quietly celebrated at their home, 301 South Seventh street, today. The children of the aged couple, friends and neighbors dropped In during the day to extend their wishes and congratulations. To talk with this aged couple, each 76 years old. Is to tear a page from the history of Richmond, in which will be recalled days when grass grew where now stands the imposing Second National bank building, when the site of the Geo. H. Knollenberg store was a pasture, a brickyard marked where i now is St. Paul's Lutheran church and business on Main street was confined to the narrow strip between Fourth and Fifth streets. J The couple was married in St. John's Lutheran church on South Fourth street in 1857. Mr. Feldmann was born In the province of Hanover in 1835, coming with his parents to Richmond in 1844, over Baltimore. The trip Inland was made by canal boat and stage. Mrs. Feldmann was born in the same province in 1836, and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt Sudhoff, pioneer German residents of this city. The parents of the church were charter members of St. John's Lutheran church. The couple has been members of St. John's church since their residence in Richmond. They have seen the growth of that congregation from the days when the founders were glad they had planks to lay across wooden blocks for seats to the present beautiful edifice of the congregation on South Seventh street. Mr. Feldmann has been honored by the congregation with election to all the offices which the organization can bestow on one of its members. When Mr. Feldmann first came to this city, grist mills and cooperage shops were the principal Industries. Flour was Bent to Cincinnati by stage. The southern stage came to Richmond via Boston and the tavern at the northwest corner of Main and Sixth street was the headquarters of the transportation system, south, east and west was located. The advent of the first railroad into Richmond from Cincinnati saw Mr. Feldmann engaged as one of the laborers on the right of, way near where Glen Miller park is now. This was in 1851. Two years later the railroad from Dayton, O., entered this city. (Fifty-one years ago Mr. Feldmann built the brick cottage on South Seventh street, which has been his home since. It was the only house on Seventh south of C street, and where Ninth street is now was an unbroken stretch of woods. In 1853 he opened a shoe repairing shop on the lot back of his home, conducting the business for forty-eight years. He and the Rev. Mr. Theiss, the first regular pastor, of SL John's, church were members of the bucket brigade that, helped extinguish a blaze where the court house stands now, and which for a time threatened the whole city. Shortly afterwards he helped operate the little hand pump with which a serious fire cn the southwest corner of Main and Fifth street was extinguished. The couple has four sons, Joan. Adam and Ed. of this city, and Fred of Springfield, and one daughter, Lena Feldmann, who makes her home with her parents. Mr. Feldmann Is enjoying comparatively good health, but Mrs. Feldmua has been blind for a number of years. .-..f

Kentuckian Arrives Here in) Custody and Says Hc Killed Saunders after Lat-i ter Attacked Him.

SHOWS NO REMORSE FOR CONFESSED ACll He Says No White Man in) Kentucky Would Be Tried) for Killing a Negro fori Self Defense. Chief I. A. Gormon returned from) Falmouth, Ky.. yesterday afternooaJ in company with Samuel Whalen.' ac-J cused of the murder of Arthur Saund-j era. colored. September 9. at the reari entrance of the Oakland Wine company. Whalen was captured at Uo Kinneyeburg and held in the county jail at Falmouth. Ky. When arrested he said he would not deny any of the, charges made against htm but that his motive for killing Saunders wasj self defense. As Saunders was about! to enter the rear door of the wine room he met Whalen in company wlthj three other white men. Saunders. It is! said, pushed one of the men which resulted In an argument and finally! ended In the negro being stabbed Inl the neck. lie was carried from the saloon to the police headquarters' where every attempt to stop the flowj of blood proved futile as his Juglarj vein was severed. He never regained! consciousness. Several witnesses wboi were In the saloon testified that Saun-' ders never spoke after he was stab-. he was brought to the police station.: Gives His Version. Whalen did not seem to regret his deed, nor did he appear much concerned." He said. "I have nothing to say aside from the fact that self defense was my only reason for killlnsr Saunders. The three men who were . with me were my own son. John, Lester Hut son and Ollie Maines. I do not know what Saunders had in his hand but it looked like a knlft or razor. It was a case of do or. get done and I had to do what I did In Kentucky there would never have been any trial for killing a negro in self defense. I don't deny anything; and will not give out my defense nor; side of the story until I have talked' with my attorney. I am 46 years of age and have lived In Kentucky nearly all my life." The Whalen family moved to this city In March.' 1911, from Pendleton County. Ky. There are six children, the oldest being twenty years and1 the youngest nine. When they first! moved to this city they occupied a residence at 124 North Second street," moving from there to 810 North O, street and from there to 300 NorthFifth street, where they lived up to the time of the murder. The murder occurred on Saturday night. September 7, and Whalen left for Kentucky. September 9. He lived there for two weeks and then wrote for his wife to join him. Mrs. Whalen went to Ken-' tucky accompanied by three children and found her husband living with his brothers. When he was arrested! she came directly to this city, leav-; , lng two children in Kentucky. She is a very nervous woman and is greatly worried over the predicament of her husband. When in this city Whalen was employed as babbltter by the M. Rumely company. His brother. Scott Whalen. served seven years in the state penitentiary, being convicted for the murder of a marshal in Kentucky. Before his term . had expired another man confessed to the crime and it was then learned by the authorities that they had convicted sn innocent man and Whalen was released. The man who committed the crime was only sentenced to two years in prison. Attorney Henry U. Johnson conferred with Whalen this morning. The morning after the murder a razor was found near the place where it occurred. This will probably be used by the defense to prove that Whalen acted in self-defense. He is a third degree Mson and also a member of the Knights of Pythias. Many of his friends , and fellow workmen from the M. Rumely company visited him at the city jail today. He was very popular with the men at the factory, and has many friends throughout the city. KEMPER RAN INTO STREET CLEANER Oscar Kemper was arraigned In police court this morning on a charge of assault and battery. Kemper drives a commission wagon and while proceeding south on North Seventh street at a rapid rate, the shaft of his wagon struck Warren Henson, who is a street cleaner for the city. Henson alleged that he was not warned. He said after the wagon passed. Kemper turned around and said something about his getting out of the road. Kemper - said he made no remark. Mayor Zimmerman refused to assess a fine until he learned "if it would be unlawful to prosecute Kemper on the charge . cf assault and battery. The ws we",V" until tomorrow."

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