Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 24, 7 December 1912 — Page 1

RICHMOWB FA UM 'A AND SUN-TELEGRAM SINGLE COPT S CENTS. VOIi- XXXVIII. NO. 34. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1913. DRASTIC BILL PARLE! FOR PEACE WILL OPEN FRIDAY Entrance of King of Greece into Saloniki IS EXPECTED IN CONGRESS 1 STILL KEEP .'V B! SEN. CLAPP 1

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Recent Aooointments of i President Taft. ! DEMOCRATS WILL SAFEGUARD PARTY 'Will Not Let Taft Pay litical Debts by Appoint-; irig Friends to Vacant Political Offices. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 Efforts are being made to effect a compromise between the Republicans and Democrats -whereby the latter will agree to the confirmation of the major portion of the president's recent appointments. At the outset of the present session some of the radical Democrats were In favor of. holding up all of the president's appointments or most of them , In order that there might be more pie for their partisans when Woodrow Wilson enters the white house. More moderate counsel has prevailed, however, and It is likely that most of the nominations will be allowed to go through. Those which the Democrats will seek to hold up and which they will doubtless be able to hold up if they try will be such appointments as they believe have been made as a return for political service, and such others as have been deferred for months or a year and which the president may now seek to make before the expiration of his term. The opposition to the latter class is that where a man's commission expired eight or nine months ago and the matter was allowed to drift along without a new appointment, a nomination for four years would simply extend the term of some Republican into the period when the office should be filled by a Democratic appointee. Moreover the Democrats" do not propose that the president shall pay his political debts with political offices. Diplomatic nominations and the filling of such other offices as are necessary to the proper conduct of governmental business will not be subject to Democratic objections. As soon as the Democrats can come to some understanding with the Republicans as to what places should and what ones should not be filled by the president, the matter of confirmations will be speedily adjusted. During the last three months of President Cleveland's term he made some 400 appointments all of which the Republicans confirmed with the exception of about ninety. The answer of the Democrats to this statement, however, is that when McKinley came In he displaced most of these Democrats with Republicans. Still the Democrats feel generally if they were to hold up all of Taft's nominations there might some day come a reaction and they would be paid back in their own coin. EYES ARE TESTED Examiners Approve Lighting System of Garfield. ""The medclal examiners, Dr. J. E. King and Dr. A. L. Bramkamp, report that the number of pupils in Garfield school with defective eyes is unusually small. This condition is attributed to the excellent design of the building to admit light. All rooms are supplied with windows which will admit plenty of light at all times of the day, and the electric lights are placed so as to furnish light during the late hours of the afternoon. In other schools the lighting is far from satisfactory and many of the teachers are being warned byjhe examiners against keeping children too long after school to do overtime work. Some of the rooms have no artificial means of lighting and the children are kept after hours to complete back work or do tasks for misbehavior. This "will be remedied by the examiners. It is More dive Than

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Purpose of Bill Is to Limit the Use of Campaign

Funds in Presidential Elections. fSOME EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE

Po-;Bill Would Prevent Sending of Money to Any Person

Wanting to Become a Representative. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Senator Clapp, of Minnesota, chairman of the committee which has in hand the investigation of campaign expenses, today introduced a drastic bill to limit the use of campaign funds in presidential and congressional elections. The measure makes it unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association or committee, or any officer thereof to send any money or thing of value from one state or territory to any person, association or committee in any other state or territory to be used or expended in behalf of the nomination or election of any candidate for president, vice president or member of the house of representatives of the senate. The bill makes the following exceptions : For the payment by national committees for the expenses of campaign speakers, including their transportation and hotel bills; of the expenses for the dissemination of literature and for the expenses of advertising when properly made for such. For these purposes money may be raised and transmitted from one state to another and expended. The bill makes the violation a misdemeanor and fixes the punishment as a term from six months to one year. At Senator Clapp's request the bill as referred to his committee which is Investigating campaign, expenses. Senator Clapp said the purpose of the measure is to meet the vice of gathering funds in large centers and sending them to different states to "affect elections. A tVIOUNTAIN TRAGEDY Two Trains in CollisionTwo Are Dead. (National News Association) BLUE MOUNTAIN, Md., Dec. 7. Two are known to be dead, two more are believed to have been crushed to death in wreckage, and one man is dying as a result of a wreck on the Western Maryland railroad today, in which a passenger train, running at a high rate of speed, crashed into a freight train, head on, on the top of the mountain. The dead are: Henry Herbing, engineer, Hagerstown, Md. Frank Letter, Highfleld, baggagemaster. Fatally injured: John Clayton, fireman, Baltimore, i dying in the Waynesboro hospital. A number of others are still in the wreckage and several are believed to be seriously if not fatally injured, i The wreck is believed to have been due to a misunderstanding of orders ; by the train crews. IMPROVEMENTS (Palladium Special) MILTON, Ind., Dec. 7. T. J. Connell has been improving his grain elevator at Beeson's station by putting in a new corn sheller. He began yesterday to shell new corn. PELT HUNTERS (Palladium Special) HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Dec. 7. Frank Retz and son Ralph as a result of one night .spent in search, of fur bearing animals secured pelts that netted them $3.50. They bagged a coon and an opossum. The pelt of a large house cat brought them twentyfive cents. Blessed to to Receive"

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cerned Will Assemble St. James Palace. in BALKAN LEAGUE TO MAKE ITS DEMANDS All the States Will Stand Together Until Peace Is Declared, Then Will Divide the Spoils. (National News Association) LONDON, Dec. 7. Announcement was made at the foreign office today that the Turk-Balkan peace negotiations which open in this city next Friday will be held in St. James Palace. King George has placed the palace at the disposal of the envoys. Representatives of the governments which will participate are hastening preparations for the staging of the conference. The four parleys are expected to take all of the 25 days allotted and indications are that Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign minister, will be frequently consulted by both sides. The negotiations will follow the lines of the Portsmouth, N. H., conference between-Russia and Japan, some changes being necessary for the fact that in that instance but two parties were engaged where in this case in terests of four belligerent states will be . represented on one side against Turkey. Dr. S. Daneff, chief plenipotentiary of Bulgaria and Osman NIzmi Pacha, leading envoy of Turkey, are expectejl in this city on Wednesday. Current opinion is that the allies will wait until later before taking up the parcelling of Turkey territory, so as not to impede the program of the negotiations. As regards . the Deace (plans the general proposition embrac ing-an tne terms will be divided up into clauses which will save time because it will allow each proposal to be designated by number instead of by a long and complicated title. Opening of Parley. The parley will be opened by the allies presenting their terms. Each clause will then he taken up for discussion. At the first sign of a deadlock it is expected that the Turkish envoys will put forward counter proposals. French being the diplomatic language of Europe, it will be employed by the peace envoys. Expert secretaries will record the discussions which are expected to be tedious because of numerous discussions among the plenipotentiaries among themselves. The initial conditions of the allies are believed to include the following subject: Cession of all Turkish territory north and west of a line drawn from the point where the Erkene river riows into the sea of Marmora through Adrianople to Midia on the Black Sea; autonomous government for Albania under supervision of the Balkan states for war indemnity; cession of Crete and Chi cos to Greece; internationalization of Salonika and Odrianople and the reduction of Turkish rule in Janina and Scutari; religious freedom in European territory to be retained by the sultan; withdrawal of Turkish military forces from Albania; complete economic freedom of all parties to the covenant throughout present and past European Turkey and neutrality of present and future railway lines. It is a foregone conclusion that some of the clauses will be dropped or greatly modified. It is not believed that Turkey will pay any indemnity. In deference to the wishes of the big powers it is believed that Servia will lay claim to an Adrianople seaport in the original conditions, leaving for settlement later. After terms are agreed upon a treaty will be drawn up within a fortnight by the best international experts obtainable and will be ratified by the powers. TO END SUSPENSE Believed Gray Will Make Appointments Soon. Information from Connersville is to the effect that Congressman. Finly Gray will make announcement of the postmasters in the Sixth district before he leaves for Washington on December 15. It is believed that he will complete his investigation of the qualifications of the applicants for the jobs by that time, and will end the suspense with the publication of all appointments. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair weather except snow flurries in extreme north portion tonight or Sunday. - Sunday colder,

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King George, of Greece (at left) breaking points with the allies, both NOT HAVE DRINKS Temperance Workers-Believe It Is Not Beneficial for Their Welfare. "The members of the Wayne County Temperance union deplore that in this advanced stage of civilization mankind should give to dumb brutes incapable of thinking for themselves, what they know to be harmful to any living creature." This statement was made by one of the members of the temperance society upon hearing that whiskey was given to the monkeys at the Glen Miller zoo during the cold weather to keep them warm. According to the belief of one member of the society the temperature of the monkey's quarters should be kept high enough to prevent the necessity of giving them stimulants. "'""What "1b harmful to matt Is - also harmful to monkeys," was the opinion of Mrs. S. W, Traum, president of the county society, who further stated that she would take up the matter with the city authorities and with the park management. Some of the members of the society claim that while the whiskey acts as a stimulant and warms the body temporarily, its action has the oposite effect after the whiskey has passed through the body. NEW OFFICIALS TO KEEP OLDDEPUTIES Mote Retained as Deputy Sheriff Chamness Has Not Named Deputies. Sheriff-elect Jacob Bayer, announced today that he will retain Clarence Mote as deputy sheriff and Rice Miller as caretaker for the insane. Mr. Mote is the present deputy under Sheriff Steen. Mr. Bayer will take up the duties of the office the first of the year. Miss Erma McMath, who has been deputy county recorder under Recorder Will Robbins will be retained by Benjamin Parsons, the recorder-elect. Up to the present Albert Chamness treasurer-elect has made no appointment of a deputy, it is understood. It js likely that the board of county commissioners, when it is reorganized in January, will re-appoint John Robbins as county attorney. Mr. Robbins term expires the first of the year. Albert Anderson is the new member of the board. THROWN FROM RIG A horse hitched to a rig in which Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Charles, living on the Arba pike, became frightened at a passing Pennsylvania engine at the North Eighth street crossing this morning. The horse turned suddenly. throwing the occupants out of the rig, and scattering butter and eggs on the street. Charles was bruised by the fall, but his wife escaped uninjured. AN INMATE ESCAPES Believed to Be Heading for Old Home in Portland. Thomas E. Martin, of Portland, an inmate of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, escaped Wednesday night, and had not been apprehended at a late hour today. It is believer that he is heading for his home and the authorities of Jay county have been advised to be on the outlook for him. Martin was committed to the institution on November 29, 1911. He was violently insane. - For five years prior to his confinement, he was regarded matallr deficient. "

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and his staff entering Saloniki. The occupation of this city forms the the Greeks and the Bulgarians claiming the glory of the conquest.

BONER RETURNS FUNDS TO COUNTY Makes Good His Defalcation of $1,938 as Sheriff of Preble County, Ohio. (Palladium Special) EATON, O., Dec. 7. Returning to the county the sum of $1,938, which represented alleged irregularities, Sheriff William S. Boner has escaped prosecution on a charge of embezzlement, he having been indicted several weeks ago when his shortage was detected. His bondsmen, fourteen in number, brought forth S500 of the amount and Boner the remainder. A brother-in-law, Frank . P. Saylor, a Hamilton produce dealer, is said to have furnished the bulk of the total shortage. When the announcement of the shortage was made; it came as a distinct surprise. The mysterious disap pearance of the defaulting official followed, but after an absence of a couple of days, he returned, notwithstanding that letters mailed to his wife from Richmond, Ind., Btated that he was "gone for good." In closing the case, Judge A. C. Risinger, of the common pleas court, ruled that Boner be allowed -to continue in his official capacity, but not permitted to handle any of the funds coming into his office. Deputy Sheriff John W. Hoffman has been instructed to render this duty. Judge Risinger further declared that, excluding the un fortunate instance of Boner, all other affairs had been conducted in a manner highly satisfactory. Boner is a "good fellow" and his free-hearted qualities were attributed to his financial trouble. PLENTY OF FRESH AIR FOR PUPILS Whitewater Principal Keeps Windows Open and Girls Like the Theory. Acting on suggestions made in the writings of Dr. Woods Hutchinson, an eminent medical authority, regarding ventilation in the public schools, Principal D. D. Ramsey, of the Whitewater school, has instituted a ventilation system which has increased the students' capacity for doing class work, which is superior to the system used in many of the local public schools according to the school medical examiners. Ramsey has demanded that the pupils dress warm enough to stand a temperature of 65 degrees, which, according to Dr. Hutchinson's report, is said to be high enough.' The country school girls have all willingly complied with the regulation and the entire student body Of the school has been benefited by .the rule to such an extent that they now apply to the teachers to raise .the windows If the room reaches a temperature of above 66 degrees. The main difficulty of enforcing such a rule in a city, is because the girls wear peak-a-boo waists and. other thin dresses which do nc keep them warm enough. The temperature of the schools could be lessened considerably the examiners believe. BRIDGE IS FAULTY (Palladium Special) FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind, Dec. 7. The new cement bridge, known as the Deal bridge, east of Pleasant Plain, recently constructed by the county at a cost of $500 is not satisfactory. The wings to the structure are crumbling. It is believed that the cement was frosted when it was placed in the forms. The attention of the county commissioners has been called to the condition of the bridge. ' "

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SCHOOL SITE IN WEST SIDE BOUGHT One Block Purchased from Bliss Estate for a Consideration of $4,800. The Richmond city school board today concluded the purchase of the block between South West First and Second and South D and E streets on the Abington pike in West Richmond from the Bliss estate for $4,800. O. B. Fulghum acted as agent. The plat Includes thirty-two lots, sixteen facing on South West First and sixteen on Second. The consideration is regarded as an eminenUy reasonable one by the school board. It was believed at first that condemnation proceedings would be necessary to secure the site. The West Richmond Improvement association, which urged the purchase of a new school site. Is pleased with the selection of the board. The board has taken no steps to determine the kind of building that will be erected, but it will consider plans at an early date. The sidewalks on Second street have been made, and a sewer runs through the property. . John F. Thompson, professor of botany in the high school, and city forester, has been asked by the board to survey the plat and indicate where trees should be planted. The board wants a specimen of each species of trees native to this section planted on the site, partly to assist the teachers in teaching nature study branches, and also to provide shade for the play ground. The plat is large enough to provide adequate playgrounds for the West Side children. The purchase of the site will give the board , opportunity to extend the playground work of the school system of the city. POSTPONE CASE The case of Minor Coleman, colored, charged with assault on Dave Rickman, colored, was postponed until next Wednesday. The case was postponed because of the absence of Rickman, the prosecuting "witness. The defendant had pleaded not guilty. Coleman said the row started as a result of an argument, but because of the absence of his accuser would not make a statement. RIckman may be fined for contempt of court. COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT OH ROADS Will Ask Crawford to Advocate Remedial Legislation for County Roads. " The committee ' appointed; at the meeting of the Wayne County Good Road's association last' .Saturday, met today at the county superintendent's office in the court house' and' formulated a report which will be presented at the' good road's meeting called by Representative-elect Crawford at Cambridge. City next Saturday. ' The committee will recommend that everything possible be done towards securing a state highway commission, state aid to counties in road building, a patrol syEtem for the upkeep of roads, that county commissioners be authorized to purchase road rollers, and that the state do away with the distinction between county and township roads and turnpikes. In the report the committee says that it believes that the state should lend financial aid to the counties in the construction and maintenance of public roads and that It should provide expert road men to see that the roads are maintained in the proper way. The committee Is composed of Charles Jordan, Mandus Mason, Bar ney Linderman, Richard Sedgwick

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James Kidwell Is Arrested and Confesses that He? Stole Casings and Innetf Tubes Yesterday.

ROBBER SEEN IN BENNETT'S GROCER Patrolman Cully, ; However, Was Unable to Capture the Burglar Who Made a Clean Getaway. One robber arrested by the police and the escape of another before Pa4 trolman John Cully could capture himJ is the record of burglaries in RichJ mond in the last twenty-four hours.James Kidwell. aed 66, an xonvict, confessed. to. stealing eight cas ings and innertnbes from the McKee Taxi -service. ..The police have been unable to locate the bold robber who broke into John II. Bennett's grocery store. Third and National avenue, last1 evening and eluded Patrolman Cully who saw him in the store. Quick work on the part of the po-j lice department resulted in the ar rest of James, Kidwell. j for stealingi eight casings and . seven inner tubes1 from the McKee Taxi service. Kidwell has confessed. ; "..'; The robbery was reported , to the po-J lice yesterday afternoon shortly after three o'clock and Kidwell was caught) at 6 o'clock this morning. The casings' were mostly all old ones, but some ofj them were in good condition and were worth approximately. $50.i Sells the Tlrss. : Working on the theory that the thief would try to dispose of the tires at a local junk shop. Patrolman Vogelsong and Chief Gormon Went to the establishment of Sam Jaffe.' Jaffa told the, police that a map had come there yesterday morning and sold an outer casing. There was nothing suspicions about the case, "and Jaffe purchased the casing. In the afternoon Kidwell went to th same' shop and 'sold another casing." This time he was suspected and his name was asked.' He gave the name of John Cewell. Jaffe bought the tire. The police - then went to the junk shop of Morris Fivel on North Fourth street and found that he had disposed of another casing and an inner tube. The police suspected Kidwell. He was arrested by Patrolman Vogelsong atShurley's livery barn this morning. Denies Other Jobs. Kidwell when questioned by the po-j uce did not deny any of the accusa-l tions made against him, but would not) tell where he had concealed the rest of the loot. He denied having any connection with the other burglaries! committed about the city. He cut that casings and slashed the inner tabew with a knife so that be could make tber junk dealers believe that they vera second hand. One of the casings was new and had been slashed so badly that it cannot be repaired. Mrs. Fivel. wife of the junk dealer, said that she knew that Kidwell was! the man who sold the tires to her husband, as he had formerly been employed by Fivel at the Junk shop. "Whileworking for us he stole two bags of rags and then tried to sell them back to us,' said Mrs. Fivel. Is an Ex-Convict. m.. i s ii .v .i . iuc iwiu uvui nuiui uis uici wrrvr taken is in the rear of 1021 Main! street. According to an employe of the company who discovered the theft, it might have been committed any night last week, but was not discovered until yesterday morning. It is believed; that Kidwell took the casings at dif ferent Umes during the week. . Kidwell Is an ' ex-convict, having been sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty-six months in 1900 for stealing' horse blankets in this city. He left the city and has been living at Dayton since he left the penitentiary. He re turned to this city last August. Thwarts Patrolman. A bold burglar thwarted the efforts ! of Patrolman John Cully to arrest himtj early this morning as he was attempt-; ing to rifle the grocery store of John' H. Bennett, -Third and National are-i nue. ..... Patrolman Cully went to the groeery store at 2:20 o'clock on his regu-( lar round. He approached the front window of the store and was about totry the front door when he say a man ; make a jump behind a counter to conceal himself. The patrolman ran to the j back door after finding the front door; locked and found that this door was : also locked. He blew his whistle and' called for help from the neighbors to watch the front door while be entered from the rear. No one responded to his call and be . fired his revolt er. Cully then went to the Third street entrance of the store, but could not gain entrance. After patroling al! entrances as well as he could, hoping that the thief would make a break for liberty, be went to the side window of the store where he discovered that the thief had entered. Burglar Escapes. 11 ' Cully thought the man was still In i the store when .John Bennett, proprietor of the store arrived. Mr. Bennett watched the rear and side entrance. (Continued on Page Eight)