Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 30, 14 December 1912 — Page 1

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AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL.. XXXVIII. NO. SO. RICHMOND. LD., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMIiER 14. 191-. SINGLE COrY 2 CENTS. JENKINS SPEAKS Oil THE MODERN WOMAN Uses Play of Ibsen to Illustrate the Principle of Equal Civic Rights. GRAY WILL MAKE APPOINTMENTS SOON Applicants for Postmastership Will Know Fate Earlv Next Week. U. S. A ttornev in Dynamite Case LIGHT RATES ARE SI TO BE TOO HIGH TRUST FACES A PROBE NOW FRONT TO BE SHOWN TURKS

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cuted by United States J Government. PRICES REGULATED ALLEGED IN SUIT Dissolution of Elgin Board of Trade and Creamery Butter Association Is the Demand Made. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Dec. 14 The government today filed a civil suit in the U. S. court here to dissolve the socalled butter and egg trust. The suit is directed against the Elgin Board of Trade-and the American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers. There are twenty-one individual defendants. The Elgin board of trade controls the Elgin butter board. The suit was filed on telegraphic instructions from District Attorney Wilkerson after a conference with Attorney General Wickersham in Washington. William A. Small, chief of the .district attorney's office here, filed the complaint in the district court today. The defendants are: The Elgin Board of Trade and its officers, and The American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers and its officers and directors. The bill alleges a combination in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman law, and asks the dissolution of the board and the association. The petition asks a permanent injunction preventing the defendants from fixing prices, quoting prices that do not represent actual- purchases and sales and from making "wash" sales for the purpose of misleading the public. According to the bill the conspiracy was formed five years ago to control! commerce . Ja,v butter and butter-fat. ; The rules and regulations of the Elgin ; board of trade are made a part of the 1 bill. According to the government's ' allegations these were adopted to prevent the price of butter being fixed : by free and open competition on the board to enable the conspirators to use the defendant association for the purpose of fixing the price of butter lower during the season of the manufacture of butler and higher during the winter months than the trade conditions and open competition would bring about or legitimately warrant; to require all members of the association to use the price thus established as a" basis for all contracts made by .them for the purchase or sale of but-, ter. The petition recites the history of the board and the association at considerable length. The chief offices of the board of trade are given as Elgin, 111., those of the association are in Chicago. Writs will be served on the ; defendants in the case at once. j DECREE IS GRANTED Florence M. Tomlin Legally Separated from Spouse. On the charge of cruel and inhuman treatment Florence M. Tomlin was granted an absolute divorce from Cassa Tomlin today by Judge Fox. The plaintiff was also given the custody of their minor child. Whether she will secure an order from the court for money to maintain the child is not known. The two own property, and the plaintiff asked that this be sold in order that she could secure money for the maintenance of the child, who is said to be under the care of a physician. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant had often attempted to choke her. He mistreated her in other ways she said. She also averred that the defendant was intimate with other women. The plaintiff is employed as a seamstress. The Yule Tide

In northern Europe the ancient celebration in honor of the god Thor was held at a time when the sun changed its course in its path. The word symbolizing this turning was the Gothic word "hiul" wheel. Gradually the word became Yule, and was fixed upon the festival itself. A part of this celebration was the burning of the Yule log. When the log was well alight, the head of the house would strike it and say. "For every spark that arises, shall we have cows, horses, and pigs." May we not suppose that present-day gift-giving is a variation of some such rite of this ancient celebration? Whatever its source, we now express our good will. love, and friendship by gifts. The shops are brimful of Christmas presents and the spirit of "Good Cheer" permeates the home, the street, the shops, the city, and the entire country. Everybody is buying and encouraging everybody else to buy to the end that no one may be forgotten on Christmas morn. See to it that no one whom you know is disappointed. Read the Christmas advertisements in The Palladium closely and constantly every day and just see what a few dollars can do toward making little hearts merry on December 25th.

UPHOLDS IBSEN'S VIEW

f . 1 TT IT 1 A 1: pPOKe "ere unur P i e v; r U : or women b r"tluw League or the City. W. E. Jenkins, librarian of the Indiana University, delivered an address in the high school hall last evening, under the auspices of the Women's Franchise league, of that city, Mr. Jenkins' subject being, "Ibsen, and the Emancipation of Women." Mr. Jenkins, who is one of the most scholarly and erudite residents of the state and one of the best known public men of Indiana who has given his indorsement to the enfranchisement of women, prefaced his lecture with a few general statements concerning the status of the propaganda here and otherwhere. The speakers stated that it was only a matter of a few years when the women of Indiana would be enjoying equal civic rights with men. And that it was the women themselves who would bring this about. That there was practically no opposition on the part of the men of either this state, or the country at large. Mr. Jenkins' address on the great Scandinavian poet and dramatist, while primarily concerned with Ibsen's exposition of the psychology of the feminine entity, was still interesting from another standpoint, that of the stage, and the great writer's attitude toward the latter, the revolution he worked in theatric presentation and through this in the demands and standards of the play-going public. Mr. Jenkins impressed his hearers with the revolutionary character of Ibsen's treatment of "the woman question," the great dramatist startling the world of his day with his overthrow of the traditions and conventions which shackled her individuality and made of her the puppet pulled by the masculine str.ings,. .. ...... , Uses a Play. The speakers took Ibsen's most familiar play, "The Doll's House," for his elaborate illustration, giving a synopsis of the play and then his commentary upon the character of "Nora," who was the first "new woman" among the" moderns, the first to assert the integrity of the feminine individually over the mere medium for the continuation of the race and the pleasure and entertainment of men. Following this up with other phases of the exploitation of the theory of the primacy of personality through Ibsen's heroines, if they could so be termed, quoting from the finale of "The Pillars of Society," to the effect that the real pillars were "truth and freedom." On this premise the speaker argued for the dominance of the woman as an individual, first, and her performance of the function assigned her by nature and society as secondary. The point of view toward which the ways are pointing. Mr. Jenkins was introduced by William Dudley Foulke, who supplemented the speaker's address with some commentary on women's enfranchisement and the changed attitude of the public within the past few decades. EXPLORERS LEAVE (National News Association) CHRISTCHURCH, N. Z., Dec. 14. The exploring ship Taranova on which the British Antarctic expedition under command of Robert F. Scott, sailed southward left here today for McMurdo sound to bring the Scott party back to civilization. TO FORM CLUB j The committee that is to push the ! Ocean to Ocean highway project has ' not been completed. Field Organizer Bovier of the National Old Trails Road association conferred with persons interested in the movement today. It is believed that a club will be j formed here early next week. and It's Origin

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Gray Has Made a Number of Appointments in Cities of the District. The announcement of the next postmaster for Richmond will be made by Congressman Finly Gray early next week. Mr. Gray said today that he had not made up his mind on the successful applicant and is still considering the data he gathered while on a visit to this city. Ed Smith has been notified of his appointment to the postmastership at Newcastle. J. P. Cummins, of Middletown, has received the appointment to the offite in that place. Ed Smith of Newcastle, is in the drug business there and has been prominent in Democratic politics for several years. Allen Green of Shelbyville, manager of the J. O. Parrish Lumber Company, was named for the postmasterof that place to succeed Elisha Green. He was one of the thirteen applicants. Geston r. Hunt, a hardware merchant of Rushville, will get the postoffice plum of that city. His selection came after a hard fight among Democratic applicants. Hunt is well known there and prominent in Masonic and Knights of Pythias ranks. Allen Sering, county chairman of the Democratic organization in the last two campaigns, will be recommended for the postmastership of Liberty. L SHOOTS FRENCHMAN Mrs. Marie Barnes May Be Arrested Following Sensational Affair. National News Association) PARIS, Dec. 14. The Paris authorities today asked the London police to prevent Mrs. 'Marie Barnes, a beautiful young American divorcee, from leaving that city for the United States. Mrs. Barnes is accused by the Paris police of shooting Walter De Mumm, the young millionaire sportsman and member of the celebrated champagne making family who was seriously wounded in Mrs. Barnes" apartments at 45 Rue Des Belles Feuilles, a fashionable district of Passay. De Mumm, who is lying in a private hospital at Neuillv. took a turn for the

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worse today and physicians are in con- j PaPer Frie Presse was responsistant attendance on him. Because of j ble for the statement that Austria had his serious condition the police were ' decided not to oppose the acquisition notified. One bullet entered his by Ser of a port on the Adriatic stomach and the other passed through j sea if used for commercial purposes, the right lung. Peritonitis is feared. Austria, it is said, would oppose to An investigation by the police of Mrs. j the bittr end the annexation of AlbaBarnes' past life revealed that she had I nian territory on the Adriatic or in the been twice divorced. Her first hus- j interior but would not object to Servia band was David Barnes, of Baltimore. ! usinS an unfortified port connected

and her second husband was George H. Creel, Jr., a wealthy Chilian. After her divcrce from Creel Mrs. Barnes resumed the name of Barnes. A Beautiful Blonde. Mrs. Barnes is a beautiful blonde, 2S veara old. anrl has livH consider- i

able time in New York. Sensational I Plenipotentiaries at their hotels to reports followed the news of the shoot- i make the Snal Plans for the nferinir todav. One was that the De Mumm ence- Although Greece has not yet

family had appealed to Police Prefect Lepine never to allow Mrs. Barnes to set foot in Paris again. Another report was that the wounded man had become so low that his life was despaired of and an extradition warrant for Mrs. Barnes charging murder had been sworn out. The police have established jealousy as a motive for the shooting. Letters were received in the woman's apartments showing she was madly infatuated with De Mumm and deeply resented his determination to break up their friendship. The shooting occurred during a quarrel when De Mumm made his final call upon Mrs. Barnes to tell her that they must not meet again. He told her that his family resented the gossip arising from their intimacy and that the friendship would have to be severad at once. A quarrel followed. The police declined to say whether tnere was a third person present dur-; ing the quarrel and they have not di- j vuiged tne statement which they secured from De Mumm in the Neuilly hospital. Mrs. Barnes has been living in Paris since she was divorced from her second husband. She is rich and has taken a leading part in social life of one branch of the American colony. Friends of Mrs. Barnes declared this afternoon that De Mumm had fired the first shot and that Mrs. Barnes had been wounded twice before De Mumm was shot. Mrs. Barnes went at once to a private hospital in Paris where she was treated. This informa-! tion added further complications to the sensational affair and friends of the woman said that probably other information would be forthcoming later which would put a different light on the matter. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Generally fair ! tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer tonight.

Greek Premier Says the Balkan Allies Are United on the Demands to Be Made to Ottomans.

AMERICA IS ASKED FOR ITS SYMPATHY QotimiStiC Dispatches Rer garding the Austrian-Serv-ian Situation England. Received in (National News Association) LONDON, Dec. 14. An unbroken front will be presented to the Turkish peace delegates by the envoys of the Balkan allies when the Turko-Balkan conference begins here Monday. Premier Venizelous of Greece, speaking for himself and the other peace delegates, today said there is no difference of opinion among the representatives of the allied governments. "United we stand, divided we fall is our motto," said the Greek premier. "We will unitedly demand at this conference the fruits of our victory. I ask the support of America, whose love of fair play is known to the world, to help ns. "Peace must be definite for our governments wish to begin immediately the economic development of our old and new country. We shall not discuss any of the problems among the allies raised by unforseen developments in the war. This will be left until later. Although the envoys refused to be quoted on the Balkan demands it was learned that they include restriction jof European Turkey to a limited area, a fair war indemnity and adjustment of Turkey's debt in Macedonia. Seek an Alliance. That Bulgaria has made overtures to the triple alliance to become a party to the covenant binding Austria, Germany- and Italy was "a report persistenly circulated in official circles here today upon the eve of the formal peace negotiations between Turkey and the Balkan allies which open in St. James palace Monday. This report was responsible for a recurrence of the belief in some quarters that the days of the Balkan league are numbered. Optimistic dispatches bearing upon the European situation came from Vienna. One of these said that the newswim .Beigraae Dy railroad, sir iawara Grey, British foreign minister, received a number of peace envoys in audience,4n the foreign office today. These visits were formal and for the purpose of expressing greetings. Another series of meetings were planned by the ' citrt-iArl Vi-v (TAnoml n i a I a rt n w A t continuing hostilities against the Turks in Epirus, Premier Venizelos, the head of the Greek cabinet, is taking an important part in the affairs of the peace delegates. The British foreign office has been offered ot the ambassadors for the conference which will be held coincident with the conference to discuss European issues arising from the Balkan situation. This conference probably will open in the London office Tuesday. NOMINATIONS MADE (National News Association) WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. President Taft today sent to the senate the following nominations: United States marshal, southern district, Alabama, Gilbert Deams; registrar of land office and receiver of pubuc monies. Billings, Mont., Charles L. Harris and William Enright, respectively. THEY ED HELP Aged Couple Is in Dire Want in the Old Toll House. The attention of charity workers has been called to the pitiable condition of Love Wisegarber and his sis ter, Mollie Wisegarber, both advanced in years, whose home was recently burned to the ground. They are living in the old toll house on the Liberty pike, about one mile and a half south of the city limits. A number of persons have sent clothing and food to the old people. They have no way of heating the house, and have been compelled to sleep on the floor because thev lacked monev ta

j buy beds and clothing. Both are so old I out at 10:37 this morning and was JJ e uiuble $S orfe . jL011? over tours. j

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CHAULKS WILSON ENROUTE TO UNITE!) STATES Left Bermuda with Family for the States This Morning. Looks Well. (National News Association) HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec. 14. The Bermudian on which Presidentelect Woodrow Wilson and family sailed for the United States left here at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The dock was crowded with persons who made a noisy demonstration. Governor Wilson stood at the rail as the ship drew out and waved his hat at the crowd. The weather was clear and the sea calm. "I will be glad to get home and buckle down to work," said Mr. Wilson.. The departure of the Wilson family for the United States was made the occasion for a holiday in Hamilton. Before going on board the steamer Bermudian, the president-elect issued a statement thanking the people of Bermuda for their consideration toward him and telling them what a good time he had had. Mr. Wilson, as well as the other members of his family, looked much benefited by the vacation. Bermudians have invited the president-elect to spend his winter vacation here after he takes the presidential chair. SUBJECT OF ROADS Crawford Is Told What His Constituents Want. (Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Dec. 14. A large number of farmers and persons interested in the good roads movement met here this afternoon in a conference called by Ear Crawford, joint representative, to talk over legislation that will bring about improved highways. Charles Jordan, secretary of the Richmond Commercial club, and a delegation from that city was in attend- ; ance. Almost every township in Wayne county was represented, and a number of interested persons from other counties also appeared. Crawford called the meeting to get ideas of what provisions should go into a bill that will eventually mean good roads for the whole state. ARE RUSHING WORK To Complete Decoration of Offices in Court House. It is expected that all work specified in the contract for the redecoration of the court house will have been completed about the first of February. The commissioners' court room, the commissioners' private office room, the auditor's main office and private office have been completed and work is now being made on the recorder's office. Following the redecoration of the recorder's office the circuit court room will be finished, as Judge Fox has ordered a vacation from December 21 until the first Monday in January. NOT GUILTY (National News Association) HOULTON, Me., Dec. 14. The jury in the case of the Rev. Charles Nelson Kmelius, Mrs, Annie Jacobson, his mother-in-law, and Edgar Jacobson. her son, returned a verdict of not guilty this afternoon. The jury went

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REACH AGREEMENT ON J5ENATE HEAD Senators Bacon and Gallinger to Alternate in the Chair Until March. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Party leaders in the senate reached an agreement today which provides that Senator Bacon, Georgia, a Democrat, and Senator Gallinger, New Hampshire, Republican, shall alternate as presiding officers of the senate. Senator Gallinger will take the chair Monday and hold it until January 4, inclusive; January 5 to January 18. Senator Bacon will preside; January 19 to February 1, Senator Gallinger; Bebniary 2 to February 15, Senator Bacon, and Senator Gallinger for the . remainder of the session. The arrangement does not interfere with the previous plan of having Senator Bacon sit as president of the court during the impeachment trial of Judge Archbald. ANDERSON DENIES FEDERAUHARGES Testified that He Did Not Meet McManigal in Cleveland, Ohio. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 14. District Attorney Miller resumed the cross examination of William Shupe, a Chicago defendant in the dynamite conspiracy trial, today, dwelling at great length on the action of the Ironworkers officials in the Milwaukee convention of 1911, when courtB, government and state officials were violently denounced and McNamara was proclaimed a martyr. George "Nipper" Anderson, defendant from Cleveland, O., followed Shupe on the stand. Anderson said he never knew of a parcel being delivered by special delivery to the home of defendant P. J. Smith, which a postman has testified he delivered there. He said he has lived with the Smiths fourteen years. Anderson vehemently denied participation in violence during a strike at the Superior Foundry company's plant at Cleveland in 1907. He contradicted Mc.Manigal's testimony that Anderson and Peter Smith had met McManigal at the station in Cleveland and received a suit case full of dynamite. Anderson said he was never in North Randall or A':ron, O., w here he is alleged to have caused an explosion. He testified he watched the returns from the Johnson-Jeffries fight on a newspaper score board at Cleveland on July 4, 1910, the date he is alleged to have caused an explosion at Akron, O. A SAFE JEPOSITORY Italian Carried a Big Roll Tucked Away in Sock. The custom of carrying money in stockings is not confined alone to the women of this country- Some men do it and. according to Mike Odolla, an Italian, arrested for public intoxication, who said lie got hi3 Up from his wife while in Italy. When arraigned in police court this morning Stella and Mike Odolla both protested their Innocence. They told the court "no gotta da cent to pay a da fine." Mayor Zimmerman fined them Jl and costs, whereupon Odala extracted a roll from his sock which was considerably larger than any ex hibited 4& jiaiisa court lor some time-

Residents and Business Men, Wondering When Authorities Will Reduce the Present Charges.

HOLD THAT THEY CAN BE REDUCED Supt. Johnson Says thafi Changes to Equipment Precludes Reduction ini Rates This Year. Will the city ever lower the light and power rates to compete with those of the Light. Heat and Power company? This question has been asked and repeated by laboring men and business men year after year, since the construction of -the city light plant. Each year the plant has been increase ed in point of capacity and equipment, but when city officials or those in charge of the plant are interrogated in regard to the lowering of light rates an evasive answer is forthcoming. Nimrod Johnson, superintendent of the plant, was asked today if the city had any intentions of lowering the rates. He said it had none so far as ho knew. Superintendent Johnson intimated however, that such acUon wag impossible, at least at present, because a new unit is to be installed within the near future. Mayor Zimmerman has often made the remark in council and board ot public works meetings that a large number of the "so-called boosters of Richmond are pikers" because they do not patronize the city light and power plant. Laborers Suffer. It is said that the majority of city light consumers belong to the laboring classes. Many shop men who have taken the city light for years are clammoring for lower rates. They declare that when they were first solicited to patronize the city's plant thew were given to understand that within a comparatively short time the rates mould be lowered to the level of those of the L., H. & P. company. "I have taken the city's light for years," said one laboring man today, "and I have paid considerably more money for light bills than I would have paid if I had patronized the other company. I took this light because I wanted to support the city as much as possible. It was through public spirit and I believe every man should do this. But I believe the city should show some consideration to those who have helped build and maintain it plant." There is an agitation on foot to urge the citly officials to take up this matter. Those behind the movement, the plans of which are, as yet tentative, contend that if the city would rel duce its rates that it would secure more patrons and in this way increase in net profits. Competing Rates. The rates of the Light. Heat and Power company for lights are nine cents per kilowat. with a discount of twenty per cent and ten per cent up to fifty kilowats. For from fifty to 100 kilowats the rate is 8 cents, with a discount of twenty per cent and tea per cent. The rate of the city plant is 9 cents less twenty pr cent up to fifty kilowats and for from fifty to 100 kilowats the rate is 8 cents less twenty per cent. The power rates of one company are a 1 tout the same as those of the other, it is understood. Requests made by a number of persons interested in the welfare of the city, that the city pay for the lighting of th streets out of the general fund, were totally ignored by city officials. The street arc lighting is not paid for. This is a burden to the light plant according to the superintendent, and it is unfair to patrons of the plant, who practically pay for the street lighting and alpo of parks and public buildings. This amounts to quite a sum each month. Persons in a position to know declare that the refusal of the administration to comply with these requests is an attempt .to bolster up the city treasury and to make political capital out of this at the next municipal election when Dr. W. W. Zimmerman intends to make his sixth race for mayor. RECEIVES MONEY FOR PARCELS POST Postmaster Haas is In receipt of J200 to be used for the Installation ct the parcels post system in Richmond. He has not decided in what manner the parcels post deliveries will be made is this city. In some of the cities the postmasters bare used their appropriation for horse hire. Preparations for the beginning of the service here are going on. It is not known definitely what changes will be made, as the patronage of th new department will decide many of the questions now confronting the Xapst oflLcd Afjc,riM'nh - - - -