Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 6, 16 November 1912 — Page 1

EICHM0NB PA AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 6. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. NOVE3IBER 16, 1912. 8 INGLE COPY 2 CENTS. PRINCE MIRKO IS A BRAVE OFFICER SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE IN THE HEARING Latest War Photos Taken at the Front T RETURNED BY GRAND JURY FOR TURKISH E T

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McNamaras Planned to BlowUp Miss Dye, Secretary for J. J. CKHOFF ASKED TO COMMIT THECRIME tWftness Also Testified that T R Thought of Killing V i O . 13 Himself After the- Times Tragedy. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Nor. 16. Startling pew developments enlivened the dynamite conspiracy trial today when Frank Eckhoff of Cincinnati, boyhood chum of the McNamaras, testified that J. "J. and J. B. McNamara, wanted him to place a package containing explosives under a seat on a train in which Miss Mary Dye, former secretary to McNamara, traveled on her way home to spend Christmas, 1910. The reasons given by McNamara was that Miss Dye knew too much, Eckhoff testified. Miss Dye was the reputed former sweetheart and confidant of J. J. McNamara, as well as his private secretary. She afterwards jilted and quit his employ in anger. I The proposition to blow up Miss Dye (was made to Eckhoff by James B. Mc pJamara, who said that J. J. was great By worried about knowledge possess ed. J. B. promised Eckhoff that he would arrange the clockwork n the bomb so that it would explode the (charge in the package after Eckhoff (had had plenty of time to get off the train. Eckhoff testified that later he jmet J. J. in Indianapolis and that the batter said he was sorry that he did inot do what Jim had proposed to him regarding Miss Dye. ; Eckhoff also testified that he had (shadowed Miss Dye on a trip to Pitts burg, and reported her movements to McNamara. Thought of Suicide. I The second sensation which Eck"aoff's testimony brought out was the (fact that James B. McNamara was on the point of committing suicide after le learned that the Los Angeles Times explosion had killed so many persons (Eckhoff said that it was with much difficulty that he dissuaded Jim from Bolng away with himself. John Longabaugh of Montpelier, Snd., testified that Herbert Hockins tried to buy nitroglycerine from him In 1910, but he refused to sell it to him when Hockins declared his inten pons of carrying it away in suitcases pn a train. Longabaugh said he called Hockins' attention to the heavy pen alty for carrying dynamite on trains and that Hockins declared he didn't Klve a damn for the penalty as long as pe could secure the "soup." At the time James McNamara wantid to commit Bulclde he was living at boarding house at Ballagh, Nebrasa. iUcKnoir was sent out to Nebraska tell Jim to get out of there and go o Sioux City. This message was sent y J. J. McNamara. Eckhoff said that pT. B. was very despondent over the great loss of life in Los Angeles and had decided to kill himself and he asked Eckhoff to go hunting with him and arrange it so he could shoot himself When Eckhoff was not looking. Eckhoff prevailed on J. B. not to take this course by telling him his aged mother n Cincinnati was greatly worried febout him and wanted him to return home. FRIENDS TO URGE TEMPERANCE CAUSE W. J. Hiatt, this city, member of th general temperance committee selectled at the last Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, attended the meeting of the committee yesterday at Muncie. The reports of special committees (were read. Temperance meetings in the differjpnd Friends' churches over the jurisdiction of the Yearly Meeting will be the principal mode of work during the coming year. Special work will be done in the Sunday schools by the help of rally days which are to be instigated fit stated periods. IS Appointed Delegate to Conference at Portland. The Rev. Thomas C. McNary, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, has been appointed delegate to the second world's Christian Citizenship conference tole held at Portland, Ore., June 29,-July 6, 1913. The Rev. Mr. McNary is the secretary of the Indiana branch of the conference, having been elected to this position at Winona Lake last summer. Fourteen states have definite organisations. More than 100 of the world's greatzest orators will attend the national conference at Portland "

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Turkish prisoners captured during the siege of Tarabosch at the Montenegrin headquarters in Muritzan, above. Below is shown a company of Servian artillery about to advance on the retreating line of Turks. (Copyrighted by International News Service.)

EMPTY BOTTLES ARE BEING SHIPPED OUT Greensfork Residents Are Returning "Empties" to Liquor Agents. (Palladium Special) GREENSFORK, Ind., Nov. 16. The grand jury probe of alleged Illicit sales of liquor in Greensfork has caused a pronounced flurry in this vi llage. Not for many years has there been such bated expectation of things to come as now holds the popular mind. There has been a general housecleaning of many homes to get rid of bottles that have accumulated for many weeks. The freight room is crowded with barrels and cases filled with empty beer and whiskey bottles. Eighteen cases and three barrels of bottles were in the freight room yesterday awaiting shipment to brewery and liquor agents in Richmond and other wet towns. Residents say that shipments of liquor into GreenBfork were to private parties. The rumor of illicit sales in certain quarters are not denied, however, and it is believed here that the grand jury is attempting to secure incriminating evidence on this feature. A SITE IS Improvement Association Accepts Committee report. The West Richmond Improvement association accepted the report of the committee that advocated the purchase of the northeast corner of the Abington pike and South E street as the site for the proposed new school building. The school board has promised to take steps to acquire the property at once. The trustees of the Bliss estate have' been informed that unless they sell, the city school board will institute condemnation proceedings to ac quire title to the property. IS L00KINGJ0R SON Failed to Identify Insane Man at County Jail. In search of his son Orva, John Freels, of South Whiteley, Ind., came to Richmond yesterday fearing that the insane man found Sunday night on the Arba pike was his lost son. Fteel reported that his son mysteriously disappeared Sunday and that he believed his son mentally unbalanced. Freel could not identify the man at the jail. His son is a married man and has been supporting his wife and four children until last week, He left no message for his relatives when he disappeared. The following description of young Freel was given: Weight 130; heighth five feet seven inches; light brown hair; smooth face; brown cap; brown or gray overcoat, wearing overalls. SMALL BLAZE Fire caused by a defective flue ignited the roof of John Folk's property 114 North Fifth street yesterday morning. The fire department was called out to extinguish the blaze. The damage did not exceed $30. ' "

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WATER MAINE BROKE PORING BIG BLAZE Van Camp Packing House Burns Loss Will Amount to About $300,000. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 16. Efficient work by the Indianapolis fire depart ment saved the . Van Camp Packing Company's plant, Kentucky avenue and White river, from complete destruction by fire this morning, and confined the fire to the manufacturing building, where the loss was estimated at $300,000 to $350,000. The fire broke out in the boiler room of the plant shortly after 4 o'clock, and was discovered by night watchmen, who turned in an alarm. Hardly had the firemen started to work on the flames than a twenty-inch water main burst in Pennsylvania street, in front of the Denison hotel, and thus shut off the water pressure at the fire. For an hour the firemen had no water with which to fight the flames, and although up to that time they had been making progress in subduing the fire, this gave their efforts a serious check. The flames gained new headway, but when the water pressure was resumed the firemen succeeded in getting the fire under control, and confined it to the factory building. Van Camp Makes Statement. Frank Van Camp, president of the Van Camp Packing company, at the fire early, said the building destroyed was the one in which all of the products were canned and made ready for shipment. He said the output of the plant was about 250,000 cans of all kinds of goods a day, and that at the time of the fire there were probably two million to three million filled cans in the building. The canned goods consisted of beans, corn, peas, tomatoes, milk, beets and many other kinds of vegetables and other products and when fire was raging throughout the building cans began to explode. For more than an hour there was a constant rattle of explosions. The cans flew high in the anr and some of them fell near spectators. Had a Good Start. No one seems to know the origin of the fire. It was said that it started near the boiler room, but that in the particular part of the building there had been no fire, and that the plant was heated by steam. When the nightwatchman discovered it the fire bad a good start, and it was not long until the flames broke through the rooL The factory building was a , fourstory brick. It was at the west end of the group of buildings which constitute the packing plant. The factory building was separated from the stor age and shipping plant on the east by a doubzle fire wall, and it was to keep the fire from penetrating these walls and attacking the east building that the firemen devoted most of their energies. The fire walls prevented the total destruction of the plant, with a loss of probably $800,000. MANY PUPILS ATTEND THE NIGHT SCHOOL The first regular session of the free night school was held at the high school last night and the students are now enrolled in their classes and ready for the term's work. 450 and 500 students have enrolled for the work and many attended the session last night who were not enrolled. The cooking and sewing classes were so large that only one session a .week, wilt be held.;

TO REVIVE POLO IN INDIANA CITIES Heber Harrold Is Attempting to Organize a League in Eastern Indiana, I Clem Gaar, secretary of the board at management of the Coliseum, said today that Richmond would have a

team in, the proposed Western Polo league, ft it is formed. ; 'Heber -Harrold, member of one. of the Eastern polo teams, is attempting to organize a Western Polo league which would include the cities of Richmond, Muncie, Marion, Anderson, Elwood and Indianapolis.) Harrold says that the Eastern teams are made up of professional players whose homes are in Indiana and Illinois. The players are beginning to tire of spending their winters in the East and are anxious to see a league in Indiana. fit has been seven years since polo thrived in Richmond nd it is believed that renewed interest in the game could be awakened if good talent could be secured for the various teams. It is understood that Eastern capital is backing the movement. GREEN 1SGIVEH FINE Assessed $5 and Costs for Beating Pohlmeyer. As a result of the fistic encounter Thursday between Herbert Green, a local liveryman, and Henry Pohlmeyer, of the undertaking firm of Wilson, Pohlmeyer and Downing, Green was fined $5 and costs in police court this morning for assault and battery. Green has been a sworn enemy to what he terms the "undertaking trust" in Richmond. The evidence against Green was solely on the part of the state, the defendant's attorney cross-examined the witness, but he did not introduce witnesses for the defense. Pohlmeyer went to tne office of County Health Officer King Thursday morning for the purpose of obtaining a burial permit When he was returning he passed Green's office and was accosted by Green, who accused him of telling residents of West Richmond that the liveryman's coaches had a disagreeable odor. A fight followed. Mayor Zimmerman at first refused to act as judge because he had been an intimate friend of Green. He wished to appoint a special attorney to try the case, but the attorneys for the state and defendant said that he could give a fair decision, compelling him to act. YOUNG WOMAN IS SLIGHTLY INJURED While running for a car last night. Miss Goldie Combes, 90S South Ninth street, stumbled and fell heavily into the street at Seventh and Main, striking her head and injuring her side. Bystanders gave prompt assistance and carried the young woman into a nearby drug store where a physician was called and she was restored to consciousness. Miss Combes, with a companion had been in a moving picture show, and had just left the place when the accident occurred. Her injuries are not serious. The accident occurred shortly after 10 o'clock. , " "

Harry Kelly Indicted on a Charge of Criminal Assault on Mrs. Emma Ross in This City.

GREENSFORK PROBE IS CONTINUED Mrs. Mae Fee Moore Must Answer for the Death of William Thompson, Whom She Shot. The two indictments returned by the grand jury yesterday morning are against Harry Kelly, charged with criminal assault, and Mrs. Mae Fee Moore, charged with the murder of William Thompson. Both are under arrest, the former being confined at the county jail and the latter at the Home for Friendless Wo men. Kelly was arrested last Saturday night, the charge of criminal assault being preferred by Mrs. Emma Ross, 309 South Fifth street, who had been acting as nurse to Mrs. Katherine Huckmeyer, 301 South Fifth streef, Kelly's grandmother. Mrs. Ross alleged that she was attending Mrs. Huckmeyer, November 4, and at 10 o'clock at night Kelly ask ed her to remain with his grandmoth er until he returned. Mrs. Ross as quiesced and Kelly returned two hours later in a drunken condition, it was alleged. He asked Mrs. Ross to have a drink. She refused and he then attempted to force her to drink, it is said. She fought him off, but before 6he could leave the room he locked the door and attempted to assault her, according to allegations. Postpone Session. The grand jury adjourned last evening not to meet until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Oreensfork cases have not been reported on as yet. Thomas Study, special assistant prosecuting attorney, who has been employed by Prosecutor Allen to assist in the grand jury investigation, will take charge of the grand jury Monday morning. Allen will be obliged to prosecute the case against Samuel Whalen, charged with murder, which opens in circuit court Monday morning. Whalen is charged with having stabbed Arthur Saunders, a negro, on the night of September 7, while following an argument in the rear of the Oakland Wine company's rooms, 511-513 Main street. Whalen was arrested near Falmouth, Ky., where he fled shortly after the deed was committed. He is now confined at the county jail. "I would rather be hanged than run from anyone," Whalen Is said to have stated. "I feel sure that when the jury hears the evidence I will be acquitted." The murderer feels confident that he will be acquitted. He has already confessed to the police. MINNIE IS SORRY OVER THE VERDICT She rlates to See Man Who Helped Tar Her Sent to a Prison Cell. (National News Association) NORWALK, O., Nov. 16. Following his conviction on a charge of assault and battery in connection with the tarring of Miss Minnie Le Valley, Earnest Welsh was liberated today under $500 bond until Tuesday when he will be sentenced. Six more men are to be tried for the tarring. The next case will be that of Bill Smith, who is indicted for perjury. He was present at the station when Harry Fennimore, Minnie's sweetheart was threatened with a worse fate than that which befell the girl, according to Fennimore. Smith denied to the grand jury that he was at the station. After Smith, Harlow Welsh, a brother of Earnest, will be tried for the tarring. Minnie Le Valley, the girl vlcUm of the tarring, was not in court when the verdict was returned but when told of it today she said, "he didn't get as much as he deserved." The next moment, however, she burst into tears. "Oh, I am sorry he must go to jail," she cried. Then it developed that Minnie and Earnest were old time lovers. Four years ago they were sweethearts but recently their ardor cooled, although Minnie admitted today that she likes him let. The thing that hurts worse is the way the boys attacked my character, she said. The neighbors here are shunning me and I am anxious to get away from the town. THE WEATHER STATE Fair tonight and Sunday. LOCAL Fair and continued cool . toBight and Sunday,

4 ? j; The favorite nephew of King Nicholas of Montenegrin has displayed himself as one of the bravest officers of the allied Balkan armies in the present war against Turkey. Prince Mirko by his valiant example has instilled a reckless bravery into the hearts of the men under him that they now strenuously object to a cessation of fighting at night fall, but insist upon continuing a battle until it is either won or lost. FOX INSISTS THAT LEWIS BE TRIED Will Bring to Trial as Soon as Murder Cases Are Cleared Off Docket. "Jack" Lewis, the popular matinee idol, who appeared here during the past summer with the repertoire company of the Lewis-Oliver players, will be tried on the affidavit charging htm with criminal assault upon eleven-year-old Edith Moon. The case will be set for trial immediately after the adjournment of the grand jury and the hearing of two murder cases now on the docket. This statement was made by Judge Fox this morning when asked when Lewis was to be brought to trail. The judge declared that he intended to bring the repertoire actor to trial himself, if the prosecutor did not do so. Prosecutor Allen said this morning that the affidavit which was filed prior to the investigation of the April grand jury, is still valid.. Lewis' cash bond of $1,000, is sUll held by Clerk Maththews. Lewis was arrested on a charge preferred by the mother of little Edith Moon. It was alleged that he took the girl in bis buggy to the Starr Piano yards.-When he returned the girl to her home she was crying and informed her mother and later the police that Lewis had assaulted her. Lewis, strange to say, appeared before the grand jury and related his story in defense. It was said, at that time, that there had been but one case in the county in which a defendant Bad appeared before a grand jury. CHARMAN DAMAGE SUIT IS COMPROJHSED Judge James Moran. of Portland, was in this city yesterday, and rendered judgment in the case of Myrtle Charman, administratrix in the estate of Arthur C. Charman, deceased, versus Fred Schlientz. William E. Schlientz. Albert Schlientz and Robert J. Deardorf. Moran was appointed special judge in this case and was notified that the attorneys for both sides had agreed on a compromise sum. The suit was for damages, the demand . being $10,000. , A compromise of $1,000 was decided upon. Arthur Charman died from results of Injuries sustained in an accident while working in a mill owned by the defendants. Charman resided at Cen-terrille-IS REPORTED DYING fXational New Association) ATLANTA. Ga.. Nov. 16. Former Governor and U. S. Senator Joseph M. Terrell was reported to be slowly n earing death at his home today. His brother. Dr. Terrell said that death

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Bulgarians Demand Brief Armistice and Acceptance of Peace Proposals With in 24 Hours.

CHOLERA RAGES IN BOTH ARMIES NOWAnd" Dread Smallpox Has Put in an Appearance, but the Battle About the Capital Continues. (National New Association) SOFIA. Nov. 16. The Bulgarian cabinet today notified Turkey that Bulgaria would consent to an armistice only if peace negotiations were entered Into at once. The armistice must be of brief duration, however, and the peace terras must be accepted within twenty-four hours after they are presented, or hostilities will be resumed immediately. DEATH LIST LARGE. VIENNA. Nov. 16. Fifty thousand Turks and Bulgarians hare been killed or wounded in the fighting along the Chaflja lines outside of Constantinople, according to adrices received here today and the battle is still raging. On. Savoffs Bulgarians are said to be within 12 miles of the city proper.. The Turks have fallen back to the first line leaving redoubts, trenches and forts tiled with dead and wounded. Both cholera and smallpox have broken out In the Bulgarian camp, It Is reported. A Bulgarian column under Gen. Kovatcheff which took Kavala on the Aegean Sea. seizing rich Turkish war stores there is mo vine eastward to join In the attack on the western Tur-' kish wing. Fill Up The Ranks. In suite of the heavy losses from bullets and disease about 400.000 men' are engaged in the fighting along the Chatalja lines. Both sides have been moving fresh reinforcements to the front as rapidly as possible to fill up the gaps caused by deadly artillery fire. j Telegrams from Balkan centers indicated that the allies do not trust' the Turkish government In the negotiations for an armistice. It Is charged that the Turks consented to recognize claims of the Balkan league made be-a fore the war began but that they" tried to evade the demands formulated since. It is known that the present demands of the allies embrace the following: i Turkey shall bring no enforcements from Asia while the armistice is in force; that the Bulgara shall be allowed to occupy Janlna, the Servian monastir and the Montenegrins Scutari. CHOLERA IS RAGING. CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 16. There are at least 10.000 cases of cholera in and around Constantinople today. The pestilence is scourging tho , army and the refugees who continue to flock Into the city from the warravaged section north of the city. Althougn fears or an anti-Christian outbreak have died out considerably since the Mohammedans failed to respond to the exhortations of the fanatic priests, the government has taken steps to protect foreigners by allotting machine guns for use around the embassies and consulates. The Mosques, including historic St. Sophia, have been turned Into hospitals and hotels for the rerugees. Small spaces are reserved for religious cer emonies. In the northern suburbs the sound of booming cannon can be heard all day and night, telling of the fierce battle which is going on at the city's threshold. BURGLARY BUGABOO EXPLODEDBY CHIEF Has Made a Personal Investigation and Found No Traces of Burglars. Chief Gormon emphatically declared this afternoon that there has been no burglaries in Richmond. After a personal and painstaking investigation of all alleged reports of burglaries In this city this week, the chief of the police department states that it is his confirmed opinion that a "Jack-tbe-Peeper has been going the rounds. Chief Gormon states that nothing has been taken from any of the houses where it had been represented that a window had been found unlocked or. partly raised. "Richmond Is free from burglaries.' Chief Gormon says. There Is nothing In any of the rumored burglaries that has stood the test of an Investigatkm. It's Just a ease of 'Jack-tae-Peepar, . that's alLT '