Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 18, 30 November 1912 — Page 1

RICHMONB FA lAIdhjm Only 2tV Mere Shoeping Days Till XmaaJ Dont Wait Until t Last Minute. and Worry for Your-j self and th Clerks, AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVUI. NO. 18. RICHMOND, IND.. SATURDAY KVEXIKO, NOVEMBER 30, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. A DEFENDANT IN A MURDER CASE DYING Astor to Receive a Warning CONFERENCE BEING HELD OVER PLUMS ASKS BETTER SERVICE DF BE ASSISTED BY A CONCEBT IS D THE JURY

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Anti-Tuberculosis Society Hopes to Raise Funds for Hospital Through This Venture.

CONDITIONS HERE WERE DISCUSSED Committees Appointed to Further Work. Red Cross Stamp Sale Will Be Held as Usual. The meeting of the Wayne County Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which was held in the audience room of the Commercial club last evening, was attended by a number of the"" leading physicians and laymen or the city, and definite plane of propaganda . for the work of the organizationdiscussed. The public, said the secretarytreasurer, Dr. S. E. Bond, was more or less familiar with the objects of the association and the latter expected to go actively after the establishment of a hospital for the care of advanced cases of tuberculosis in this county. Dr. T..Henrjr Davis, city health officer, .was made temporary chairman, and the report of the nominating committee; which met after the October meeting, was read, discussed and accepted. The office of the president Is left open until the next meeting at which time the nominating committee will have a pame for presentation. )r. Bond was re-elected to the office of secretary-treasurer and vice-presidents appointed in each ward in the city, and one for each township, with tha4ollowing standing committees: Finance Rev. Conrad Huber, John HMchnson, Dr. N. S. Cox, Dr. J. E. King, Dr. Busche, Mrs. Frank Land, ' Mrs. Robert Randall, Rev. Thomas J. Graham, Harry Gennett and Mrs. Miriam McDivitt. Press and 1 Publicity Miss Esther . Griffin White, Edward F. Warfel, C. O. Williams. T. A. Mott. B. F. Wissler, of Cambridge City, and Claude Keever, Fountain CityConsulting Medical Dr. A. L. Bramkamp, Dr. D. W. Stevenson, Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, Dr. T. Henry Davis, Dr. J. C. Blossom, Dr. S. E. Bond and Dr. W. G. Huffman. ) ' ' Stamps Are -Here. It was announced ' that 50,000 Red , Cross Stamps would be received today 'for eale through the medium of the association. Dr. Bond will receive them in his official position as secretary, and they will be distributed for sale through the usual medium. The necessity of giving immediate attention to the segregation of hopeless tuberculosis cases was taken up and the seriousness of this phase of civic life pointed out. Dr. W. G. Huffman stated that there were many houses rented for living purposes In this city which were unfit for human habitation but were occupied by a class of persons who could not, on the one -hand, -afford to pay more rentand therefore scrambled round to pay up on rent day, or, on the other hand by respectable people who would be glad to live in better quarters but were unable to obtain them. Among the latter he Included members of his race who labored under a severe, handicap in this particular. Dr. Huffman's suggestions were pertinent and significant and his arraign- , Went of property owners who, since the returns on their real estate investments were adequate, cared little whether the property was in a sanitary condition or who lived in it, was applauded. TiVe must raise the standard of living," said Dr.- Huffman, "and eradication of certain diseases will follow." Affects the Children. George Bishop, township truant officer, related the difficulties encountered in the performance of his official duties, which includes visits to those homes where children have been returned froMf'the public schools too dirty for attendance, stating that their condition was attendant largely upon the unsanitary state of their homes. That a concerted effort had been made In a certain neighborhood north of the .railroad to get property owners, who rented houses In that vicinity, to rem;edy conditions,. but that this had failed because the owners received adequate returns in the way of rent and wouldn't spend any money in making their property sanitary. Dr. Davis stated that the public had been aroused, however, through the work of the association in the past few years, and that he was daily in receipt of information as to whether or not buildings into which persons intended moving were sanitary. "They will call me up and say that they have rented such and such a house and want to know if the health officers know anything about its condition, who lived in it and If they were afflicted with an Infectious disease." said Dr. Davis. "Before the associa tion began its agitation a few years jago such requests were never made. iContinuexl cn Fax filtht)

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BEDEEMEDJT ONCE City Will Pay Them as Soon as Money Is Received and Not Wait Until Due. A change of policy will be instituted by City Controller McMahan and City Attorney Gardner in the settlement of rVid Hinla Icanirl hv tliA ltw -frkf nn. lie improvements. Hereafter they will j be paid as soon as the money is re ceived from taxpayers for improvements. The city will not wait until the bonds are due. It was estimated , that the amount of the-r city's., indebtedness in the specj iat street improvement fund is $28,000, j which is approximately $4,000 more than "the city actually owes, as the ! debt was figured to the date of matu rity of the last bond which is not due for nine years. By not paying the money until this time the city would have lost $4,000 in interest. The total amount of the bonds recorded by City i Controller McMahan and City Attoriey Gardner is $19,919.48. Hereafter when pre-payments are made on improvements the bonds will b4 paid at once to avoid payment of unnecessary interest. Heretofore for the money has been used to pay back debts. The state law requiring the pay ment of improvement bonds as soon as the money collected . had not been complied with here for some time. NATURAL GAS WHAT THIS CITY NEEDS Says Kennepohl Regards the Artificial Gas Rates Here as Unfair. No further report has been made to the city officials concerning the proposition to bring natural gas to the city. Local capital is backing the enterprise it was announced today by President Kennepohl of the board of works. According to the president of the board the Light, Heat and Power company is holding up the consumers for artificial gas and if the natural gas can be brought here the price of artificial gas will have to come down or the plant will have to close. Mr. Kennepohl announced that he had intert viewed some people who are interested j In the matter and they told him the loI cal company is treating the people uni fairly when they charge $1.10 per thou sand feet. Forty cents would be a fair price, Kennepohl said, and the company could make money at that rate. "If they would be willing to furnish the gas at $.50 or even $.60 per thousand, the city officials would not be so anxious to ' have the natural gas brought here as it will necessitate the tearing up of the streets to lay mains" said Kennepohl. "The natural gas which we are planning to have brought here is of excellent quality and the company will be a strong competitor to the Light, Heat and . Power company." FORECLOSURE ACTION Suit to foreolose mortgage was filed in the Wayne circuit court today by the Dickinson Trust company as trustee, versus Isaac R. Myers, Lizzie Myers, Zipp , Manufacturing company. The Sturges Burn Manufacturing com pany. The Malt Diatoase company am the Liquid Carbonic company. The de m arts! in -.- tv rvl nint i o 1 A A (iUMtV AAA IUC VVUliMUb id f LUVV.

William Waldorf Astor and the building he owns at 209 West Fortyfifth street, New York, which has been closed as a gambling house. Four policemen are continually stationed inside and outside the building to prevent further law-breaking in this respect. Police Inspector Dwyer, who is in charge of the anti-gamblmg crusade declares he will notify the multimillionaire expatriate that his property is rented by persons who use it for housing an illegal business. HICKEf TELLS HIS OREADRjyiSTOBY Slays a Man and Two Boys and Tried to . Murder a Number of Others. (National News Association) BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 30. J. Frank Hickey, self confessed murder er of one man and two boys today told the story of his life, dating from the time he was seventeen years old up to the time of his arrest for the murder of Joseph Josephs, 17 years old, who was strangled to death October 17, 1911 at Lackawanna. He said his criminal career began with the killing of a man named Edward Morey in Lowell, Mass., when he was a clerk in a drug store. Hickey placed laudanum in a drink of whiskey for the man. Five years later In Boston he tried to kill two boys and himself by tearing out gas fixtures allowing gas to fill the room. The police rescued the three and Hickey was arrested but not prosecuted. Another attempt was made in Lawrence, Mass., to kill a boy by strangling him beside a railway train in full view of several employes. In 1902 Hickey strangled to death a little newsboy named Michael Kruck in New York City. During the interim he attempted to strangle at least a dozen other boyB whose names he does not know. He said today these boys were saved only by the grace of God. LUCILE IS Jack Johnson Doesn't Know a Thing. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Nov. SO. Despite efforts to keep it secret the fact leaked out today that Lucile Cameron, the white companion of Jack Johnson, the negro champion, has mysteriously disappeared. The girl was released Monday by Federal Judge Carpenter on a reduced bond of $1,000. She had been detained' for weeks as a witness against Johnson in charges against him for violation of the - white slave act. . It developed today that after making a vain search for the girl her mother has returned broken hearted to her home in Minneapolis. Johnson today admitted that .he had received two letters from Miss ; Cameron and also he had received a telephone message, but denied any knowledge of hep whereabouts. THE WEATHER 1TATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight; slightly warmer in north and cen-1 tral portion; Sunday fair.

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plicants for Postmasterships Hold a Meeting in Richmond, ,Today. BECK IS FAVORITE FOR LOCAL OFFICE Has Dinner with .Gray at Noon to Talk Things Over A Meeting Held in the Jefferson Club. APPLICANTS FOR POST OFFICES Richmond Frank P. Wilson, chief mailing clerk In post office; Charles D. Beck, traveling salesnan; Webster Parry, bookkeeper; Richard O. Allen, machinist; Cbas. K. Marlatt, foreman. Cambridge City W. J. Hull, farmer; J. W. Harper, traveling salesman; Charles Doney, business man; Willard Pedro; Mrimon Straughn, agent for Adams Express company; Benton Wilson, president Standard Manufacturing company. Hagerstown Ed Mason, insurance agent; Elvln Benson, with Light Inspection Car company; Frank Geisler, retired; re-mm Copeland, psperhanger; Thed McCown, shoemaker; E- M. Wir(fcer; JDaniel Clark, business man ; Knode D. Porter. Centervllle Frank Lashley, clerk in general store. There were two conferences held here today in regard to the disposition of Wayne county postmasterships, including the Richmond appointment, the choicest plum in the district. One conference was scheduled. It was to be held this afternoon at the Jefferson club rooms between Congressman Finly Gray and all the appli cants for poUtiftl, wmqxAirjr Theefona - conference, . which was..,, not! scheduled, was held at noon at a rear table in a Main street restaurant and only two took part in it, Mr. Gray and Charles Beck, Democratic district chairman and the most prominent candidate for the Richmond postmastership. This conference was interrupted a few minutes by the advent of a newspaper man. Following the exchange of greetings Mr. Gray casually remarked tftat some people might attach some significance to his quiet little dinner party with Mr. Beck, but. he assured the reporter, it had none, adding, with a smile, "several places where I have been lately I have taken dinner with men I had almost decided to offer postmasterships to, hut this seemed to bring them bad luck for I later heard stories about them that made it impossible for me (Continued on Page Eight) USED AS WITNESS Mrs. Alta Hawkins Testifies Against G. W. Beasy, an Alleged Dynamiter. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 30. Prone on a white sheeted cot attended by a white-capped snowy-gowned nurse, suffering from bullet wounds in both her legs, Mrs. Alta Hawkins was carried before the jury in the dynamite conspiracy trial this morning. She came in to testify against her former sweetheart, Ernest G. W. Beasy, indicted iron workers' official, of Indianapolis. She said Beasy threatened to kill her if she told what she knew about him. Mrs. Hawkins said Beasy came to her three days before the von Streckelsen explosions here in 1909 and told her something was going to happen, and for her to watch for it. ' She said he would not tell her what it was, but that she would know when she heard it. Mrs. Hawkins said she heard the explosion on the night Beasy said something would happen and read of it the next morning. "He was talking to me after the explosion," said Mrs. Hawkins, "and he said he would tell me all about it. I told him he had better not for if he did I would tell Captain of Detectives Holt. He said if I told Holtz anything about him he would kill me." Mrs. Hawkins accidentally shot herself while at target practice. She dropped her rifle and it exploded, the ball passing through the calves of both legs. The Tan Sprecklesen explosion caused a $15,000 damage and put the contractor out of business. , The sixteen defendants whose bonds i have been declared invalid because inj demnified are arranging new bonds, Tnless they are able to get new bonds AtkJ Yill be arrested. 1

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Mrs. Mae Moore, Negress, on Trial for Her Life, Collapsed During Argument of Prosecutor.

DEATH MAY RESULT . BEFORE DAY ENDS Was in Poor Physical Condition and Was Greatly Worried Over the Outcome of the Trial. BULLETIN. After about four hours deliberation the jury returned a verdict of not guilty In the Wayne circuit court this afternoon. The jury received the case at 12 o'clock and returned the verdict at 3:45 o'clock. "Thank God," were the two words uttered by the negress, who is lying prone on her bed at the Home for Friendless women, when told of her acquittal. A sudden, collapse of all physical powers as the result of nervous dis turbance brought on by years of 111-1 ness, and coupled with worry over the probable fate to be meted out to her by the jury, was experienced by Mrs. Mae Fee Moore, the twenty-nine-year-old negress on trial m the Wayne circuit court, on the charge of murdering William Thompson. Physicians state the woman may not survive the day. i Mrs. Moore suffered the collapse shortly after court opened at 8 o'clock this morning. Prosecutor-sleet Reller. who Is assisting the state's attorney tn the case was making his opening argument for the state when the defendant, frail and weakened by her confinement in the Home for Friendless Women fell to the floor of the court room. Falls During Argument. The city ambulance was called and Mrs. Moore was placed upon a stretcher and carried into the elevator and lowered to the first floor of the court house. She was then placed in the ambjijarnce and removed ,to the Home, where thft..:mat ohVaiciaa ..workwi over her fore some time' before consciousness was restored. "She may live through the day and she may not," the physician asserted. "The trial has been very hard on her. Her heart has been considerably af- ( Continued on Pace Two) ANOTHER WRECK Oil THE C, UlD, ROAD Two Trainmen Killed and Three Injured in Smash at Brownsville. A PROBE IS IMMINENT Misreading of Orders by Engineer of Extra Freight Held Responsible. (Palladium Special) BROWNSVILLE, Ind., Nor. 30. Two men were killed and one was injured, probably fatally, and two others were badly hurt when freight trains on the C, H. & D. railway, going at full speed, crashed head-on near this place yesterday afternoon. All the victims are members of the train crews. The dead are Percy Shephard, engineer, Hamilton, O; Sylvester Adams, fireman, Indianapolis. The injured are Dale Dallas, engineer, Indianapolis: Mr. Ballenger, fireman, Hamilton; Albert Young, brakeman, Hamilton. It is said that the engineer of the eastbound extra failed to obey orders to meet regular freight No. 90 westbound at Brownsville. r The trains came together near a bridge a mile and one-half east of this place. There is a sharp grade and a curve here, which prevented the engineers from seeing each other until the trains were nearly together. Four cars on each train were crushed. Much live stock in one of the cars escaped injury. The engines were both turned sideways to the track, the regular being turned on its side and banging down one side of the embankment, and the other is a mass of wreckage. Heavy Property Less. Wrecking crews from Dayton and Moorefield worked all night to clear the debris.". Traffic was not resumed until this morning. ' The dead engineer was caught as he was about to jump and the fireman had no chance as he was attending to the Are when the crash came. The property damage will be great. Many rods of track were torn up. The telegraph lines were put out of commission. The track at this point is said to be the worst piece of road for

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Three Charges of Bootlegging Are Made Against the Well Known Greensfork Physician.

TO BE ARRAIGNED EARLY IN JANUARY Efforts to Stop the Practice of Illegal Selling of Intoxicants Made for Several Months. Three indictments have been returned by the Wayne County October term grand jury against Dr. James D. Kerr, of Greensfork on the charge of illegal sale of intoxicating liquors. To each indictment Dr. Kerr has given a bond of $50 for his appearance on the first Monday in January, when he will be obliged to plead to the charge of "bootlegging" in ttie "dry" little Wayne county town. Other arrests may follow. The returning of the three bills against the physician is the result of persistent work on the part of a numher of prominent citizen of Greensfork. For some time it has been bus peeled that bootlegging had been go ing on in Greensfork but sufficient evidence could not be obtained against any one until a short time previous to the grand jury session. Probably fifty witnesses were sub poenaed before the grand Jury to testify hi Ibe case. Several of these witnesses were recalled from two to three times. Barrels of "Empties." Barrels filled, with empty whisky bottles and empty beer kegs bearing the inscription "Dr. J. D. Kerr" have been shipped out of Greensfork time and time again, it is alleged. Since the nrst shipment the prominent physician has been under surveillance. Persons under the influence of intox icating liquor have staggered back and forth along the streets of the village for the past several months. Disturb ances have beencreated and the eounty authorities wefe. at, a loss, to ascertain where the liquor was procured. Sheriff Steen and his deputies have made more than one trip to Greensfork to place intoxicated persons under arrest. Dr. Kerr has been practicing medicine in Greensfork for several years. He received his early education in the public schools of Henry county and afterwards at tlie New Castle high school, where he graduated with the class of 1880. He then engaged in the drug business two years in Iowa and was in the same business at Greensfork for ten years. In 1895 he commenced the study of medicine attending one term at the Louisville Medical college, and graduated at the Indiana Medical college In Indianapolis, with the claBS of 1898. He then began the practice of his profession at Greensfork, where he has since been engaged. Of Prominent Family. Dr. Kerr comes of a family of physicians; several members of which have attained distinction tn the pro feesion. His father, bavins died at the early age of twenty-five. Dr. Kerr was reared by his grandfather. Dr. William Kerr, one of the prominent physicians of Henry county, who actively engaged in the practice In the pioneer days and eontlnned orer forty years. The -grand Jmy will meet again Monday morning to continue tnveattgaUon of the Greensfork fire. The grand jury session was postponed this week on account of the trial of Harry Kelly, indicted on, the charge of criminal assault and that of Mrs. Mae FteQ Moore, indicted on the charge of murder in the first degree. In addition to the two Greensfork cases it is understood that investigation of minor cases is being msde. The indictments against Kelly and Mrs. Moore were returned by this grand jury. A WELFARE EXHIBIT Moving Pictures to Show Conditions of Children. The child welfare exhibit films which will be on display at the Murrette theater on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 3 and' 4. under the patronage cf the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution, will be one of the most interesting moving picture events ever arranged in this city. The pictores will be a series of reproductions of the . child welfare exhibition given in Chicago in 1911 and will be of an absorbing character. Mr. Murray has made a special arrangement in conjunction with the D. A. R. for the attendance of the faculty and pupils of the Garfield school on Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock, and the pictures will be again seen at three, four, five, seven and eight o'clock on both Tuesday and Wednesday. This series is of great educational and civic value and win no doubt draw

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Railroad Committee of Commercial Club Wants Schedules Improved to Favor the Shoppers.

HIGHER OFFICIALS ARE PETITIONED! Boston Shopper Has to Spend Two Nights Here Under the Present Schedn ule on the C. & O. Road. The railroad committee of the Commercial club has appealed to the officials of the Pennsylvania and C.-& O. railroads to make changes in their passenger schedules to benefit merchants of the city and patrons living routh and northeast of Richmond. ' The committee has taken up the) question of the desired changes with! the higher onfcials of the two roads,' and believes that it will be able to secure ine aesirea improvement. Merchants of the city are thorough-! ly aroused over the C. & O. servlcei which practically excludes persons liv-i ing south of Richmond from shopping, here. It Is pointed out that If a per-i son living at Boston wanted to dot some Christmas shopping here hei would have to come up in the evening, and remain here two nights before hecould get home. Under the present schedule the only; train from the south arrives here at' 7:20 p. m. The only southbound train leaves here in the morning at 8:56? o'clock. This Is so early that a person who came up on the evening train the-, day before could do no shopping, and. would be compelled to lay over until the following morning. .The schedule has practically shut off the southern trade from the city.. Many merchants and business men are recalling the days when the county voted the line a handsome subsidy and are wondering why the line is glving such poor service. Members of the railroad committee of the" Commercial club say they believe . the road will put on another train so that shoppers will be able to leave the city the same dsy on which they arrive. Want Train To Stop. "' The committee also took up the matter of giving the residents and farmers of Weaver Station, a little place northwest of here, opportunity to shop in Richmond. The committee will aslc the Pennsylvania railroad to have No.' 8 eastbound. which leaves Richmond; at 7:25 p. m., stop at the station when' flagged. Shoppers from . that place arrive! here at 9:42 in the morning. The only, eastbound train after that hour which stops at Weaver Station leaves berej thirty-three minutes later, making It impossible for shoppers to do any buy ing here without staying In the city" over night. It is believed that the Pennsylvania railroad will grant the request of the Commercial club committee. Attended Meeting. Secretary C. W. Jordan of the Con merdal club yesterday attended aj meeting in Indianapolis of a commttj tee which Is planning an educational campaign in favor of the business sys-t tern of the city government. The plan was first broached by the Fort Wayne) Commercial club and has for Its purpose tbe passage of legislation that) will giro cities opportunity to sdopti a form of government suited to t heirneeds. ' A week from next Monday tbe commission appointed Governor Marshall to investigate the feasibility of the state penal farm project, first advocated by the Richmond Commercial chib, and a committee appointed by the state board of charities will meet la Indianapolia The Indianapolis Commercial club yesterday voted in favor of the measure. Tbe committee win take steps to see that tbe. project Is favorably acted on by tbe state legislature. Club Notes. The board of directors of the Commercial club will hold its regular meeting next Monday in 'the club rooms Wayne County Good Roads Association is now a reality and every friend of good roads In Wayne County is urged to become a member and endeavor to "make It count. Death has claimed another valued member of the Commercial Club. Michael O'Brien. Mr. O'Brien was one of our most public-spirited men, always ready and prompt to answer any call for the general good. 4 Indiana Harbor a city much smaller han Richmond - is ' installing - cluster lights, the city pays the whole expense of Installing . and furnishing the current, while In Richmond the merchants on Main street offered to pay tbe expense of installing the system. STILL THET'COME Gain Freeman,- the Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney in the recent election spent $32.65 according to his statement of expenses incurred, filed in the office of the county clerk. Ben DrischeL the ' Democratic candidate for sJeriff, spent 135.50.' ' -