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

BICHMONB FAIXADIUM Id 2 AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOIi. XXXVnL NO. 38. RICII3IOXD, INDM TUESDAY, EVENING. DECE3IKEK 24, 1912. SIXEE COPY 2 CENTS ELLS ABOUT STREET CAR MUDDLE HERE Famous Painting Which was Sold for $87,000m j BIG STE ES GOES ASHORE XMAS SPIRIT THE COOKING A

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An Indianapolis Newspaper Gives Publicity to Struggle of the City with Street Car Company.

OUTLINES STORY OF THE COMPANY City Demands Public Utility Commission as Result of Trouble with Service Corporations. A staff correspondent of an Indianapolis newspaper writing on the desire of Richmond for the establishment of a public utility commission reviews the contest between the city and the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Trac tion company and its predecessors. The text of the news dispatch in part follows: The citizens of Richmond are so anxious to have enacted a law creating a public utilities commission that they have appointed a committee of five citizens to help it along. This committee will send a letter to each member of the legislature in a few days. The city of Richmond has never had J any luck with its corporations. Its corporations always had all the good j fortune and the municipality always all the misfortune. So the munici-

pality is after a public utilities com- while fifty policemen, a score of depumission in hopes that it can thus get ty sheriffs, and a hundred armed citian even break with the corporations. ' zens were scouring the woods in the Richmond has trouble with its water vicinity of lies Junction the two men

company, with its gas company and with the street railway and interurban systems. It is of the latter this dispatch will relate. The gas and water propositions will be the subject of another story. Own All Street Car Franchises. In the beginning, it should be ex plained that the Terre Haute, Indiana ! polls and Eastern Traction lines does : not wish, any kind of public utilities! commission. It does not even wish an act entitled a public utilities law, and this company, ownsall the street car , franchises in Richmond. The street j car system nere was originally constructed by local capitalists and it was finally sold , to what was , called the Richmond City Street Railway company. This company bought the property to sell, and a few years ago' purchasers were found in the persons of John F. Miller, toen general supenn tendent of the Pennsylvania lines, and j Daniel G. Reid, the multi-millionaire, at that time assistant cashier in a local bank. Every day some one representing the street car company would dump half a bushel or so of nickels into Mr. Reid's bank and Mr. Reid could not help but see what a great business the line 'was doing. The cars were crowded all the time and photographs of those crowded cajs are still in existence in Richmond. Many Tickets, But Few Nickels. The deal was made and Mr. Miller and Mr. Reid placed I. A. Gormon, the present superintendent of police, in charge of the operation of the property. But Mr. Gormon could not get the nickels. They did not come in. And he found, too, several thousand tickets in possession of the citizens of Richmond that had been given them by an officer of the street car company. "I had an awful time of it," laughed Mr. Gormon. "I don't know where the nickels that were dumped into Dan Reid's bank came from, but I suspect they were sent here from Indianapolis, and for more than a year I was refusing tickets that had been given away originally by the company in order, to make a showing that the company was doing a big business. Honestly my shoulders used to ache," continued Mr. Gorman, "from putting fellows off the cars that were trying to ride on these deadhead tickets" Murrinrk Gave Clnati Sppulr

The line was next sold to jame8 j apon at Vendel Muha. a Hungarian, Murdock. of Lafayette, and his asso- six veeks ago- At the time he chelates, and what was called the Mur-a m1tted the offense he left the city godock syndicate gave the people here a ing to Da.vton- He returned a few much better service than ever. Then da's and win be compelled to the Murdocks sold the line to th i face a charge of carrying a concealed

Terre Haute. Indianapolis and Eastern (Continued on Pag Sight) Peace Good Will

Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of Christ, in the church, cathedral, and home, by sending one to the other expressions of good will and friendship, and by making little hearts very, very happy. Christmas is the most extensively celebrated day on earth. Every civilized and Christian country will observe it tomorrow. Sinter Rlaas. as the children call good St. Nicholas in Holland; Weinachtsman, or Christmas man, as he is known in Germany, Jean Noel, the distributor of gifts in France; Kristine, who brings the toys in Norway, and Santa Claus. the best known of them all, will play important parts in the imaginations of millions of little children. THE PALLADIUM, on behalf of its advertisers, extends to you who read these little talks on the value of reading THE PALLADIUM'S advertisements closely and constantlv everv dav, a verv MERRY CHRISTMAS.

ILLINOIS BANDITS ATTEMPTEOHOLDUP But the Safe on Train Was Too Tough They Have I Eluded the Posse. (National News Association) SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Dec. 24. who held up the Chicago and Alton "Hummer" in a daring robbery about midnight, walked calmly into Spring field and got their breakfast early to day. Two men, the description of whom tally exactly with those given by the ! express messenger of the "Hummer, Lentered the Angel restaurant about 5 ! o'clock this inorninK. ordered "thetr breakfast and discussed the robbery within hearing of the waiter. Fifteen minutes after they had left the cashier of the restaurant notified the police j A FRUITLESS EFFORT. ! SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 24. A posse is today seeking train robbers who climbed over the tender of the fast Chicago and Alton "Hummer" which runs between Chicago and St. Louis, covered the engineer and fire man with revolvers, forced them to uncouple the engine and baggage car from the rest of the train and run it a short distance ahead where five unsuccessful attempts to blow the express safe were made with nitroglycerine and dynamite. The robbery occurred near. lies Junction. After working 45 minutes with the explosives, the robbers fled wtrn fifteen deputies from Springfield arrived on a switch engine, which was rushed to the scene after Flagman Horace Smith of the passenger train, who had been fired upon, ran to the operator's station at lies and had him wire to the city for officers. With headlight dark, the switch engine approached. There was a fight between the deputies and the bandids, but the latter escaped. A sack of corporation bonds, and what are thought to be lottery tickets, i as well as a number of small packages, ! were taken from the car by the bandits, who later threw away the loot as the posse were in close pursuit. The passengers on the train were not molested. COVATCH IS TAKEN BY THE POLICE George Ellet and Andy Covatch, alias Smith, were arrested last night on North Nineteenth street north of the railroad. The men were quarrelj 7T" ne nd dl? no g0 ho,me wn ordered t0 so y police. Covatch is wanted for pointing a dangerous weapon when he completes his" sen

tence of eleven days in the county jail. iof four years: James F. Riley, HamEllet paid a fine of 81 and costs. !mond, a Democrat, was appointed to

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Ballet Dancers Practicing at tbe Bar,

by Edgar IeKs, is a painting that was sold for $87,000 at the sale of the Henri Kouart collection In Paris. Tbe cauTas isabout 2 feet 2 inches high anil an incl: greater in breadth. The composition i very simple. Just two dancing girls in the regulation ballet costume. Sach holds up ne foot at a faguinjt altitude by a bai running along ths wail of the room. TWO TRAGEDIES OF CHRISTMAS (National News Association) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24. Left alone by their mother while she did Christmas shopping this forenoon, Robert and Margaret Schubnell, aged 5 and 7 years respectively, amused themselves by sending letters up the chimney to Santa Claus. They accidentally set fire to the baby buggy, containing their eleven-months-old sister. The buggy was consumed and the infant burned to a crisp. XMAS GIFTS COFFIN. DENVER, COL., Dec. 24. Kenneth Kane, a railway mail clerk, collected packages containing Christmas presents, arranged them in the shape of a coffin on the kitchen floor, placed a Christmas card from his sister, who is ill in a Chicago hospital, at the head and laid down inside of it, then he sent a bullet crashing through his brain. He was angry because his wife had invited a large Christmas party to their home tomorrow. PAHS DnnCPFIVP I UnilU I IIUUIILUUUL I APPDINTSJNOTHER Several Changes in Political Offices Made by Governor Today. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 24. Thomas A. Dailey, progressive member of the state board of pardons and payrolls, and recent candidate on state ticket, was supplanted on the board today by the appointment of Adolpn Seidenstiker of Marshall. Indianapolis, by Governor Seidensticker is a demo crat. He was a member of the 1911 house of representatives and was in the race for the speakership. The appointment changes the political complexion of the pardon board so that the majority of the members now are democrats. Dailey was appointed as a republican by Governor J. Frank' Hanly. The first recognition that has come to the Progressive , party in .Indiana from the present 6tate administration came with the appointment of B. B. ti o . : it .1.. ri x- ol .ujgive candidate for treasurer of jtate, j to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Henry Moore of Indianapolis as a trustee of the State. Tuberculosis hospital at Rockville. The term will end December 1, 1913. Other appointments were P. L. Cassady, a Republican, of Ft. Wayne, as a member of the board "of trustees of the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Logansport for a term succeed President H. B. Brown, of 1 Valparaiso, on the board of trustees of the State School for the Deaf. TRIAL OF HAHN IS POSTPONED

Raleigh Hahn, of Arlington. Ohio, was not ready for trial this morning when arraigned on the charge of issuing a fraudulent check. Hahn obtained 510 from the Second National bank on December 5. after he had been identified by his brother-in-law, William Rich. The check he passed was on the First National bank of Brookville, Ind., and was returned unpaid, as Hahn had no account there. He told the court he would be ready for trial when his father-in-law came to the city. He is expected some time this afternoon. Mrs Hahn is in the city. Her father is a wealthy farmer wd will help her husband, she maintains. The minimum fine for the offense is J100. i

jREEK ARMY- WINS DECISIS BATTLE

Turkish Column Moving to Relief of Janina Was Repulsed Today. National News Associatlon ATHENS. Dec. 24. Ten thousand Turkish soldiers marching to the relief of Janina have been decisively defeat ed by the Greeks near Liaskoviki. Official despatches announcing the Greek victory caused wild jubilation when received here today as the Turkish expedition, was believed to be the final effort of the port to save Janina. The Turkish army lost several hundred men killed and wounded and at last reports was fleeing in utter rout to Liaskoviki with the Greeks in close pursuit. CRY "CNT' WITH WAR." CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 24. Mobs of Young Turks paraded through the city today crying "On with the war." Wild excitement was caused when details of the demands of the Balkan allies in the peace congress in London were received here and the demonstration of the Young Turks was a protest against any terms that deprive of a large part of its possessions. Terms as presented to Turkish envoys in London would reduce the sultan's possessions in Europe to about 2,500 square miles instead of its present area gf 63,350 square miles. The government will make known its acceptance of rejection of the terms only through its envoys but the fact that they have been made public here indicates that the Ports will seize the popular protest as a reason for rejecting them. The political bickering that has prevailed for many months was eliminated today and leaders of the various parties arranged for conferences with one object in view, resumption of the war with Greece and the Balkan nations. A leading member of the military party said today that "If the government yields to the terms proposed by the allies it will sign its own death warrant. The Turkish nation will never submit vO its destruction. We were beaten by the allies, but we will fight to the last against any terms that practically destroy our country. "We ask only for justice and we will have justice ' or war. There is no doubt that tbe demands of the allies were known to all the powers before they were submitted to us. They intend to use the Turkish nation as a buffer and . destroy its nationality. We shall never submit." DESPERATE BATTLE OH B0ARDA TRAIN Which Did Not End Until a Negro Bandit Was Riddled with Shots. (National - News Association) TULSA, Okla., Dec. 24. The negro train robber who was shot and killed last night while operating on . board the St. Louis and San Francisco train No. 412, bound to Kansas City from Oklahoma City, was not identified today. The robber boarded the train as it was leaving Chandltr, Okla., held up and robbed the conductor at the point of a pistol and then drove him into the express car, following after bim. The negro covered the express messenger ordering bim to open the safe, but just as he was about to comply a negro train porter entered and opened fire on the robber. This was returned but neither man was shot. The porter, his ammunition exhausted, rushed back into the train and sounded the alarm. W. E. Gordon, a private detective, went forward and In an exchange of shots fatally wounded the bandit.

Dismisses Charge of Petit Larceny Against Miller and Fines James Kidwell a

Small Sum. BOTH DEFENDANTS WERE VRY HAPPY Kidwell Asserted that He Was Led into Stealing Tire Casings by a Dayton Junk Dealer. In the role of Santa Claus. Judge Fox today gave as good a present to one man as possibly could have been given, and to another he gave as good a present as he could under the circumstances. John Miller, indicted by the October term grand jury on the charge of petit larceny, was the recipient of the first

present a complete dismissal of the i lue Pouce oeiieve mat nyaer win-; - - charge against him. James Kidwell. ' full' attempted to poison members of j A terrific sea was breaking when also indicted by the October term ! tne household after he had murdered ! the lifesavers started from this stagrand jury on the charge of larceny, ' Daton- I,is motive is believed to'tjon for their fifteen mile run to the

was not sentenced to the penitentiary j but was given a fine of $10 and sen-; tenced to the county jail for ninety j rl o -c its o nao-rn Ha Via was twenty years old. Kidwell is a white man, aged about 65. In sentencing Kidwell the court in formed the defendant that he was I t technically cuiltv of Btealine tire cases i and that he could be sent to the penltentiary. The judge adaed that he was not inclined to sentence him. but i was comnelled to irive him some sort of sentence. Kidwell testified that a man by the name of John Pendercost, a junk dealer of Dayton, had bought several drinks for him and had stolen the tires and given them to Kidwell. Kidwell said he sold them. Kidwell has been in trouble before. Negro's Cass. Miller was alleged to have stolen a gold watch valued at $20 from Peyton Lytle. Both are waiters at the Ward-en-Westcott "hotel. The prosecuting witness was unable to state in what county he lived. "You certainly know what county this is, do you not," asked the prosecutor. "Oh, yes, it's Richmond county I guees," was the answer. The prosecutor, exasperated, dismissed the witness. The defendant declared that he found the watch and kept it for a joke. - He said it was his intention to return it on the following morning and to "teach the owner a lesson not to be so careless." Miller has served time in the Plainfield reformatory. BARON SPENDS HIS XMAS jyiCHMOIID Canadian Officials Refused to Let Austrian Cross the Boundary. It will be a sad Christmas for Sam Baron, proprietor of a shoe repairing shop at 18 South Eighth street. He had planned to spend the holiday with his sister, who recently married in Austria and is now living in Canada. Many years had elapsed since brother and sister parted in their native village in Austria. Baron left Richmond a few days ago for Branford, Canada. He had no trouble until he reached the Canadian boundary. Here a bluecoated Canadian immigration officer took Baron in tow. Baron was able to answer all questions satisfactorily until he was asked if he had taken out his final naturalization papers in the United States. The Austrian admitted that he had taken out his first papers, but that he had not received the final papers. He was turned back. Baron attempted to convince the Canadian officials that he merely wanted to spend Christmas with a sister whom he had not seen i for many years, but little sympathy was shown him in his plight. He returned to Richmond today. IN DANGER Gaetano Mogliano. an Italian, was arrested this morning at an early hour , for public intoxication. He was arrested on the railroad tracks on North Twelfth street by Patrolman Vogelsong. When arrested the man was staggering along the tracks with a freight train rapidly overtaking . him. He pleaded not guilty when arraigned but Mayor Zimmerman said he was still drunk and fined him f 1 and costs. THE WEATHER

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Coroner Holds that Snyder Tried to Kill the Dayton Family by Putting Arsenic in Their Food.

NEWCASTLE STIRRED BY THE MURDER Mrs. Dayton Admits She Lied When She First Told Police that There Was No Cellar Under the House. Another chapter in the murder of Henry Dayton was written today when i Coroner Pierce declared that testi

mony of witnesses and symptoms of J niidst of a furious snow storm lifeillness described by Mrs. Dayton indi-j savers from the station here put out cate that Joseph Snyder, whom the .;in a motor lifeboat today to tbe res

ton, fed arsenic household. to members of the n.,. . 1,.. . n ... nave oeen a aesire to put out or the way all persons who might suspect him of the crime. Snyder's knowledge of drugs, obtained while he was working in a hospital. and the study which he gave to medicine, convince the police that he studiously set about to kill by poison ,n au memners oi tne nousenoia. rs. iayton. in ner statement to tne coroner told of feeling ill after she had Partaken of food which Snyder has Prepared for her. The symptoma she

described were those that follow after ;of the company which owns the steamarsenic has entered the human system, jer reported she needed assistance at

Snyder did most of the cooking for the household, witnesses told the coro1 ner. The police say it would have been an easy thing for him to add arsenic to the food in such small quantities that its dreadful effect wouia not oe noticed at once. The coroner is convinced that Snyder actually added the poison to the food. Mrs. Dayton's Story. Dr. Pierce obtained a statement from Mrs. Dayton yesterday. Mrs. Dayton said Snyder did nearly all the cooking. "We would become nauseated

and constipated and vomit continually . though it extended well inland the after eating food which Snyder pre-1 storm is most severe along the coast pared for us,' said Mrs. Dayton. "On j where It interfered with shipping and . December 11, after Snyder failed to 'delayed traffic to a great extent in get possession of the letter said to be j the cities in its path. Reports of Tennis confession, he prepared some soup sels ' ashore at Barnegat and Sandy for me. None of the other members Hook reached here earlyin the day. of the family partook of it. After 1 1 The center of the storm was off the had consumed approximately balf a j Virginia rapes north of Hatteras and cupful, I became dizzy and could not j was moving northward, eat. I went to bed and was confined ! According to Forecaster Searr It is there. The next day Snyder cooked j the same storm that began on the Tcxsome steak and onions which made as coast Sunday night and has been

me feel worse. The next day he told j me some milk would do me good, and he handed me a glass of milk. After I had tasted it, I became so ill that I sent for the family physician. He came,' and during his visit Snyder was visibly excited. He appeared to be worried, a fact which did not strike me then, but was recalled later. The children and myself have all suffered from internal pains. I never opened the letter containing his confession until Thursday, December 12. I never knew of the death of my huBband until that date." Effect of Drug. Coroner Pierce said the symptoms described by Mrs. Dayton indicate that I arsenic was fed the family by Snyder. "This poison when given in email doses affects the digestive organs, causing nausea and vomiting." he explained. "If Snyder had a knowledge of drugs, he would have probably chosen this poison. After the arsenic was given members of the family, they would have been weakened and confined to their bed. And unless an examination was made after their death, it probably would have been supposed that they died a natural death. Young Son III. Mrs. Dayton told the coroner that her son, Archie Bowles, was very 111 after Snyder had prepared the dinner on Friday, December 13. After dinner young Bowles was confined to his bed and the members of the family feared he would die. "I do not know what Snyder's object could have been for killing my husband," continued Mrs-. Dayton in her statement to the coroner, "as he was not jealous of me. I never noticed any odor nor lime about the house. "On the morning my husband left home never to return again he passed from the front room where be had been sleeping into a room north of the room where Snyder was sleeping. I heard him close the door leading to the kitchen from Snyder's room. "He left me on previous occasions and when he did not return I supposed ! he had again left me. A week previ ous he had planned to go to the country on that date. On one occasion he left me and stayed away from December until March. He had mistreated me and abused my family. "On the morning he disappeared I did not get up until nearly 9 o'clock, as I waa . sick. Snyder prepared breakfast. I helped with the dishes, and mother swept the floor. We did not see anything that would indicate! that a mtmrr hmA taken nlira and aa ! I went to the pantry I did not see that the cellar trap door had been iCoatinued on Page Ten.J

PassenD is tress Near Atlantic Citv, Rescue Attempted. and HEAVY SNOW STORM SWEEPS THE COAST White Christmas Is Assured the Greater Part of Eastern United States Suffering Is Great. (National News Association) ATLANTIC CITY. Dec. H. In tta. cue of the steamer FurrUlba, which went ashore at Barnegat. near dangItfrmia V o tr llarwr rltirini, f i ntcKt stranded steamer and the wares tossed the high powered boat around Hk cork but as she passed from sight it was seen 6he was making headway. The wireless despatch was as fol'lows: "Ashore off Bamegat. Heavy snow aft. In disand wind. Ship afloat t ress. Need assistance. Wind increases tsigneai unnsay. taptn. j The Furrtalba which is a fruiter, is Raid to have from 60 to 6ft passengers 'aboard. A wireless received by agents once. A SCHOONER ASHORE. SANDY HOOK. X. Y.. Dec. 24. Th schooner John II. May went ashore j hre In a driving snow storm today. Ldie-savers lert it s i. m to rescue the crew. WHOLE COAST SWEPT. NEW YORK. Dec. 24,. A hearr snow storm driven by high winds Is raging along the Atlantic coast from i Maine to the Carolinas today. Alrushing northeast propelled by a 50mile gale. In New York the snow was eight inches Jeep. No letup In the storm is looked for before evening. The snowfall throughout the New England states was not heavy but the weather bureau predicted a heavier fall before night-in Maine and New Hampshire. Columbus Dividing Line. Pittsburg and vicinity got seven Inches during the night while territory west of Columbus,-Ohio, were without flakes. The snow that New Yorkers found blanketed upon the city when they awoke today was soggy jind greatly handicapped surface and elevated railway traffic. The interurban railroad service was delayed nearly an hour from regular schedules bat tbe through western trains were not more than thirty minutes off. their running time. The street cleaning department had more than 10,000 men at work three hours before daylight and thousands of snow shovelers were set to work on the elevated structure long before day broke. Commuters from Jersey and other outlying districts where ferryboats were used to reach town were greatly delayed as the ferries bad to crawl along through the heavy smother of snow. . According to Forecaster Scarr tbe storm later will drift out to sea but this may be 12 or 15 hours hence. PITTSBURG WHITE. PITTSBURG, Dec. 24. Pittsburg will have a "white Christmas." A snow fell ranging from three to seven inches visited this section of tbe state last night and fine flakes continued to drift downward today. The temperature was 25 degrees above zero. CONNER ARRESTED ' Charles Conner was arrested on North D street this morning where be was fighting and creating a disturbance. Conner has been drinking heavily and is on the verge of delirium tremens. He broke a large window in Kennepohl's restaurant on D street, and was trying to start a fight when arrested. He was seeing white elephants when placed in tbe city jalL There will be no issue of The Palladium on Christmas Day. it being a holiday for the entire force.

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