Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 42, 30 December 1912 — Page 1

ABIUM TI AND SUN-TELEGRAM "VOL. XXXVIII. SO. 42. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER .30, 1912. SINGLE COr" 2 CENTS

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SCHOOLS HELD UP AS MODEL t Board of Education Meeting Kelly Recommends All Schools Be Patterned After Those in this County. fTHE TEACHERS ARE GIVEN GOOD WAGES An Increase of $17,200 in 1912, Over 1911, in County Teachers' Pay Roll, Justified, Says Williams. A 'At the meeting of the state board f education at Indianapolia last week the Wayne county school system was held up as a model and it was recommended that all county systems be Snodeled after the one in vogue here.. Aside from the Richmond. Hagerstown, Milton and Dublin schools the schools in the county are operated on a system demanding the same requirements for graduation in all echoola. A record of each pupil's work is filed each year with County Superintendent Williams and reference to these reports can be easily obtained by request. ThiB system according to President R. L. Kelly of Earlham, the representative of the tate board of education who made the recommendation to the board, is of great help to college authorities who wish to learn definitely what work has been completed by applicants to the colleges from this county. Examinations Hard. In other counties the work is irregular and not as well systematized as here, it is said. Different requirements are made of the students in different localities, he says, and often the advancement of a class is held back because of a few less capable or less industrious students. The system of teachers requirement examinations in Wayne county was also recommended to the board. "The teachers in Wayne county are higher salaried, said Supt. Williams this morning. "This is due to the stiff examinations required of the teachers. The examinations are more difficult here than elsewhere and more applicants fail to pass the examinations here than any other county in the State. "In Wayne county there are four district school teachers receiving $80 per month and fifteen receiving $75. The average throughout the state is $65. A Big Increase. There is an increase of $17,200 over ithe pay roll for teachers in Wayne jcounty during; 1911. In 1911 the total amount paid was $172,000. Randolph county has the best school buildings of any county in the state though. the system is not considered equal to that of Wayne and the .school sessions are not held as long.J Over $250,000 was spent during the past five years for schools in Randolph .county. It is expected by the local school authorities that an action will be taken by the state board of education at 4their February meeting to systematize .'the school work and regulate all the : systems after the one in Wayne county. The Wayne county schools are in i session 160 days while the average county school session is 144 days. ADOLPH GOTCH DEAD Wrestler's Brother His Neck. Breaks Xationl News Association) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 30 Adolph Gotch, 37 years old, a brother of Frank Gotch, the champion wrestler, was found dying in a rooming house early today, evidently haven broken his neck in falling from a bathtub. He died several hours later and the coroner declared that death was accidental. Gotch evidently had fallen as a result of the slippery surface of the enameled tub.

Start the New Year RightThen Keep It Up On New Year's Day the Chinese pay off all debts, thus putting "good resolutions into action." You are probably even now considering resolutions to do certain things. Here is a resolution easy to keep and helpful to your bank account. "Resolved. That I will read The Palladium's advertisements closely and constantly every day, in order that I may be well informed on the latest and most important merchandise news, and to the end that I may know where to buy and what to buy everything I need during 1913 most economically. "That I will be most efficient in the management of my household and most economical in the purchasing of home and personal needs. ' "That I will depend upon The Palladium, which publishes all the most important news of Richmond's leading stores to direct me to reliable4 merchants satisfactory merchandise, attractive values, and dependable store service." Make this resolution a deed every day.

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GIRL DIES; USES ACID ASA LOTION Wanted Glycerine for Chapped Hands Makes Mistake in Bottle. SUCCUMBS TO SHOCK Mother Calls Three Physicians in Vain Attempt to Save Girl. Going into a pantry about 11 o'clock Saturday night to secure glycerine to rub on her hands, Olive Shelley, aged twenty-three, 316 North Nineteenth street, picked up a small bottle of carbolic acid and before detecting her mistake poured the fiery liquid on her hands. Calling to her mother who had retired, the girl screamed and swooned dying almost immediately. The coroner states that death ' -was Que to heart failure, brought on by the shock when she learned of her mistake. The case is a most peculiar one, the coroner states. Miss Shelley, who was employed in a Main street store, had just taken a bath. Her hands were chapped. As she believed that she knew where the desired bottle was, she did not take a light with her to the pantry. After the discovery of her mistake three physicians were summoned by the young woman's mother who was under the impression that the girl had merely fainted from the burns caused by the acid. Instant Death. The terrified mother, in an attempt to ease the pain, applied soothing lotions on the girls hands and used other restoratives to bring her from the state of unconsciousness in which she was supposed to have fallen. Upon the arrival of Coroner Pierce, it was learn-

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from heart failure. An examination of the girl's mouth was made to determine whether she drank any of the acid but it was found that none of the acid had touched her lips or mouth, as they were not burned. The young woman, who was born in Scott county, Virginia, has lived in this city since the age of six years and was well known in church circles. She attended high school until she reached the junior year when she left the high school to take a business course. In her school work she established" enviable records. Prior to a ten-weeks sickness from which Miss Shelley had only partially recovered, she had been actively engaged in Sunday school and church work at the Grac M. E. church of which she was a member. She was able to leave her bed about a week before Christmas for the first time within six weeks and was looking forward to taking up her church duties. Saturday afternoon she had spoken to her employer about the taking up of her office work. She is survived by her mother and three sisters. Ethel, Alva and Junia. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Grace M. E. church. Burial in Earlham cemeterv.

ELMER A, GORMON DIESATJ)ETROIT 111 but Five Days Was Connected with the U. S. Secret Service.

Elmer A. Gormon, aged 39 yeajs, son of I. A. Gormon, chief of police, died in a Detroit hospital yesterday about noon. On Christmas day Mr. Gormon was stricken with pneumonia and his father was called to his bedside. Upon a turn for the better, I. A. Gormon returned. A telegram was received that his son had suffered a relapse and was sinking rapidly. The sick man only lived a few hours after his father's second visit. Mr. Gormon has been connected with the United States Secret Service for a number of years at various places in the country and has been stationed at Detroit for the past four yearsHis work there in the detection of counterfeiters has been noticed all over the country. , Gormon was born in this city and aside from a small amount of work at Purdue University, received his education here. Later he was bookkeeper for the Richmond Street Railway com pany and at the time that his father was sheriff he devoted most of hi? time in the study of criminology at the county jail. His first work in '."ai's line was at the Jeffersonville prison where he had charge of the paroled prisoners. At the time of the extensive land grafts in the West he was sent by the government to work on the cases wii'n William J. Burns, head of the Borna Detective Agency. His work there gained him such distinction that he was taken into the Secret Service with which he has been connected sine?. At Akron, Ohio, last year, Mr. Gormon, disguised as a tramp, captured ten counterfeiters unassisted and thus broke up one of the most noted gangs worn m ana arouna ueiron nas Deen such as to establish him as one of the leading operatives connected with the government service. He was a prominent Mason and Knights of Pythias. Burial will be in this city under the direction of the Masonic order. He is survived by the widow, one daughter and his parents The remains will arrive Tuesday morning from Detroit and will be taken to the residence of Supt. I. A. Gormon, 130 Fort Wayne Avenue. Further arrangements will be announced later. A PROTESHNTERED Over Lifting Lid in Naughty Chicago. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Dec. 30 Trudging along rain soaked streets, five hundred men today w ent to the city hall to protest ! against lid tilting on New Years eve. The men who protested are those who answered a call in the churches yesterday to join a parade planned by the Chicago law and order league, the church federation, the anti-saloon league, and similar societies. The paraders met today at the First Method1 ist church and from there marched to jth city hall through the loop district. Some days ago the chief of police j announced that patrons of cafes and j restaurants who had ordered drinks j before one o'clock might stay and conj sum? them up to 3 o'clock New Year's j morning. The parade was a protest 'against the extension of the one o'clock I closing hour. j Attorneys armed with law-books j marched inlhe van of the parade and ; read the closing ordinance to the ! chief. The mayor and city council were also to be visited by the cru- ; saders. ! MISS HAMMOND ILL i i ! Miss Anna Hammond of Union City, Indiana, is lying at the point of leath 'at the home of H. M. Hammond on j South Eighth street. Miss Hammond, iwho is eighty -three years old, came jhexe sevia weeks ask.

PROMINENT GERMAN DIPLOMATS DEAD Baron Kilderlen Waechter Expires from an Attack of Heart Disease.

(National News Association) STUTTGART, Germany, Dec. 30. Baron Alfred Von Kiderlen Waechter, secretary of foreign affairs for Germany and generally referred to as the "new Bismarck of the German empire," died suddenly today ot heart failure in his sixtieth year. Herr Kiderlen Waechter who was a Bavarian by birth, represented a new school of diplomacy in Germany and was the moving spirit in politics which was played with France and Spain over Morocco. At the time of the Agradir incident when Germany sent troops into Moroccan waters for protection of German interests, Herr Kiderlen Waechter became known as the stormy petrel of continental diplomacy. The late statesman fought in the war of 1878-71 and later entered the diplomatic service, being in turn first secretary to the German embassy at St. Petersburg and Paris and later councillor to the German embassy in Constantinople. Herr Von Kiderlen Waechter was the second of Germany's first rank statesmen to be removed by death in the past few months, the other being Herr von Bieberstein, ambassador to England. HOUSE WAS SEARCHED Snyder, Confessed Murderer, Still at Large. Reports to police headquarters that Joseph Snyder, the confessed murderer of Henry Dayton, was being shielded by Mrs. Dayton and hid in the attic of the home on North I street wer inYeBugaiea ana louua io oe xaie. v nun i ever a visitor crossed the Dayton threshhold said an officer today members of the family appeared to afraid that something wiH be found against them. Neighbors are of the opinion that the Dayton family is acquainted with the whereabouts of Snyder and are keeping him posted as to the actions of the authorities. Mrs. Dayton has recovered from the nervous breakdown which followed the finding of her husband's body in the cellar beneath her home. Nothing new has developed to aid the police in their search for Snyder and his capture will be a matter of months and possibly years, it 1b believed. His guilty conscience will not betray him the police believe. The signature of the suspect who registered at the hotel at Greensfork the night of Snyder's disappearance has been procured by Prosecutor Allen and will be turned over to the police. The signature I believed to correspond with the hand writing of Snyder proving beyond a doubt that he passed through Greensfork and that it was j he who was seen by Patrolman Koons of the New Castle police force the fol-j lowing day. ' After searching the home of the Dayton's Saturday afternoon. Patrolman Lawler reported that he saw nothing which would indicate that a man had been hiding in the house and that the reports were false. Elwood police authorities are werking on the report that Snyder is working in that city. SMALL BLAZE The fire department was called out last night to extinguish a small fire at the home of Gus Helmich, South Eleventh and F streets. A flue burned out. The damage was slight. Helmich was formerly a member of the fire department. That no fires have resulted from lighted candles on Christmas trees is very unrsual. according to Chief iljlier o th.depejtmaai,.

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BIG AMOONT SPENT ON CITH PARKS Number of Improvements Made During the Past Year at Glen. WANT MORE ANIMALS Hollarn Will Recommend that a New Boat House Be Built. During the year of 1912 more money was expended on the Richmond city parks than was ever expended in any one yeaiy according to the annual report of Park Superintendent Edward Hollarnfl During the past year $7,800 was expended. The main things accomplished were the remodeling of the roads in Glen Miller, building a new farch and bouldering the ravine In the front part of the park, building a greenhouse, cleaning the lake, building new fences, procuring new benches for ail the parks and transplanting and trimming all trees and shrubbery. ,) The pay roll amounted to 54,200; bouldering the ravine and making the arch cost $1,652.82; installing a new lighting system $435.48, coal for the greenhouse $190, city's share of the new band stand $150, building a new greenhouse and installing new boilers, $516.20, roofing barns, $491.22, purchasing a team of horses, $435, repairs on Star Park house, $250, paint and hardware, $156.20, cleaning the lake, $127.50, two hundred new benches, $395. Glen Improvements. As many as 750 loads of mud and sand were removed from the lake at the Glen park. Next year a new boat house probably will be built or the old one remodeled as Superintendent Hollarn states that this will be one of the recommendations which he will make for next year la his report to be submitted to the board of works at the first meeting In January. A new catch basin has been made at the end of Glen Miller lake for the purpose of taking up all the leaves and other refuse which might tend to block theBewer. Among the noticeable features of the Glen are the excellent roads. As a result of an order issued by the superintendent, all automobiles and heavily loaded carriages were excluded from the park in the early spring until all the frost was out of the ground. This rule will be enforced each year. Over 140 feet of brick ! curb and gutter were layed in the Glen and 325 feet of tiling for draining purposes were placed. A seventyfive foot walk was constructed. Food at Zoo. The food for the animals in the Glen Miller zoo cost the city $127.50. This amount is small considering the number of animals at the park. A few acres of ground enabled the park employes to raise vegetables which constituted a large part of the animals food. Three hundred bushels of corn, sixteen tons of hay and four ton of alfalfa were raised. All the monkey food except the whiskey furnished them through the cold weather, was raised in the park garden. Cow beats, potatoes, turnips and cabbages were fed the monkeys. Among other things which will be recommended that the city purchase are two cub bears and three young deers. There is at present only one deer at the park. One of the elks has been for sale or trade for the passed six months but as yet nothing has been offered which would justify a sale. It will not be necessary to expend as much money next year as was necessary daring 1912. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Cloudy weather, probably rain or snow in ncrUi or

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NEW VORK GARMENT MAKEflSJDK STRIKE (Before Niht 80,000 Men Will Be Idle. Better - Conditions Asked. (National News Association) NEW YORK. Dec. 30 The great strike of Garment workers that is expected to involve 1 23.000 men and women in this city was inaugurated here today in a driving rain storm. More than 1.000 drenched pickets took their stations at as many factories at 7 a. m. and notified all the workers arriving that the fight for higher wages and improved working I j conditions naa begun. Reports to union headquarters stated the strike order was generally obeyed and President Rickert of the United Garment Workers predicted that by night 80.000 would be out. New York's $205,532,727 annual output of men's ready made clothing has been completely tied up according to strikers and if the struggle is successful here it will be extended to other large cities of the country. Forty thousand women under the leadership of Rose Schneiderman probably will join the strikers. A spokesman for the four thousand manufacturers Involved said that the employers would refuse to deal with the United Garment Workers of America, under whone auspices the strike was called. The demand of the strikers is for an increase of from 15 to 20 percent in wages, an eight hour day and the abolition of tenement house work. Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont and Mrs. Rose Astor Stokes are said to be planning to co-operate with the women workers. According to this report they will endeavor to get the Ladies Waist and Dressmakers union to join in the demand for an increase In pay. The waistmakers are expected to strike within ten days, affecting 70,000 workers. E IS PLAYED BY TURKS And Resumption of Hostilities Appears to Be Certain Right Now. (National News Association) LONDON, Dec. 30. With the deadlock firmer than at any previous time and with the possibility of a resumption of hostilities looming up with menacing distinctness the negoMations into the Turko-Balkan peace conference was resumed today in St. J unes palace. Rechid Pacha, speaking for the Turkish envoys told the representatives of the allies that be had communicated with Constantinople but received no instructions which would allow him and his colleagues to withdraw front tbe stand they had taken. This reply angered the plenipotentiaries of the ilinucu uui iuc were clothed with all the power necessary without wasting time by calliLg uPn the Prts for frcsh instructions very t,me an obstacle arose. The Turks insisted that they were Justified in demanding the retention of Adiianople because "it was being bravely defended," when hostilities came to a close. A Balkan Conference. Today's session did not begin until afternoon and during the morning tbe delegates representing tbe allied governments conferred at tbe quarters of th Greek delegates. Premier Venllos of Greece, presided at the meeting and after it broke up the gravity of the conference indicated that the Balkan envoys had resolved on a bold step. Dr. DanefT of the Bulgarian envoys, sounded a note of warning before the conference was resumed: "We desire peace but we do not desire to fight for it unless forced to," said Dr. DanefT. "If we are compelled to resume hostilities Turkey must be prepared to accept no quarter and some of the representatives of the allies have been treated unjustly by the Turkish envoys. We have appealed to the British foreign of&oe for counsel and were advised to pat up with certain obstructions in view of the traditions of the Turkish diplomacy. However, our forbearance is about exhausted. We are being chided by our own countries and unless we force an issue we will look ridiculous in the eyes of the world. "Our armies have been kept in tbe field and we are able to cume the war upon an hoar's notice." The deadlock in the peace conference is again menacing the tranquility of Europe as no def nite steps will be taken to settle issues arising from the Balkan war until it 'is seen whether peace or continuation of war is to resalt from the London conference. Reports from Vienna stated that Russia had again begun troop movements to t?e southwestern frontier

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LONGEST SENTENCE THAT WAS IMPOSED ONLY SEVEN YEARS'

Six of the Convicted Men, Including Clark Who Plead Guilty, Had Their Sentences Suspended. EXAMPLE WAS MADE OF FRANK M. RYAN je Draws Longest Term, Hockins Got Six Years Minimum Sentence Was a Year and a Day. SENTENCES FOR THE DYNAMITERS Cline, Farrell, Coughlin, Cooney and Murphy, sentences suspended. Clark, of Cincinnati, who pleaded guilty early in the trial and turned state's evidence, also received suspended sentence. The following sentences were then imposed: Frank M. Ryan, 7 years. Hockins, Clancy, Young, Tveitmoe, Cooley, Butler, Munsey anc Frank Webb, six years each. Barry and Peter J. Smith, four years each. Bernhardt, Ray, Shupe, Mooney, Phillips, Wachmeister, one yea. and one day each. Hlggans, Painter, Hoolihan, Shir man. two years each. Beum, Legleitner, Smythe, Anderson, Basey, Burt Brown, W. J. McCain, Morrtn, Reddin, Cunnsne, Hannon, Penned, three years each. (National Nws Association) Indianapolis', dc. 30. sentences aggregating 113 years wore im posed today by Judge A. B. Anderson in federal court today upon 2S labor leaders, found guilty Saturday in the national dynamite conspiracy cite. The heaviest sentence was sevrn years, imposed on Frank M. Ryun. president of the International Assoc lation of Bridge and Structural Iron workers. Secretary Hockins, former secretary and who was charged wiih betraying the conspirators, mt serve six years. Six of the prisoners were reierted on suspended sentence and tbe others received sentences ranging from on year and one day up to six year. In releasing the six men on sup?nded sentence Judge Anderron explninrd that he would rather make a tnistako by suspending sentences thai make a mistake by imposing punishment After breakfast on coffee, bread and syrup, and a sbort -exercise in tbe corridor of -the jail, the thirtyMight prisoners were loaded into pa "ol wagor.s and other c-overed vehicles and hur ried diratlr to th foloral ing taken into tbe building secretly, thereby disappointing the large err""! which filled- "the surrounding streets. This was done because of a desire to avoid , the poabibility of any kind ot demonstration. . , . New Trials Refused. . The wives and children of tb prisoners were on band at the court for the ordeal, as usual, and the court as open to the public. Judge Anderson quickly overruled motions for ac trials and tbe . arrest of judgment When asked by the court If they knew any reason why sentence should not be imposed on them all tbe prisoners remained silent. Judge Anderson then called befote him Patrick Farrell of New York. Cooney and Coughlin of Chicago. Murphy of Detroit and Hiram Cline of Muncie. and gave them a line of questioning that greatly resembled a defense that had been overlooked by thir own at torneys. The were cases tbe jury had had difficulty In coming to conclusions on. District Attorney Miller cooperated with Judge Anderson in his endeavors to clear up certain points. Prisoners Mostly Calm. The wives and children of those who were sentenced bore up bravely todsy, in marked contrast to Saturday's pitiful demonstration. Most of the prisoners themselves maintained their calm but serious demeanor while the sentences were being imposed. Edward Phillips, father of a litUe golden-haired daughter of five years, nearly collapsed and staggered as he was led from the court room. Ho probably was the most visibly affected of alL Herbert Hockins. secretary of the international organization of Ironworkers, who stood tbe brunt of sarcastic abuse throughout the trial, smiled for the first time in weeks. lie evidently had expected a heavier sentence. William Shape's eyes filled with tears, but be managed to control

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