Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 79, 11 February 1913 — Page 1

UM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 19. RICHMOND, IXD., TUESDAY,EVEXING, FEBRUARY 11, 1913. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS MINERS TRY TO BLOW UP TROOP TRAIN $25,000 Worth of Gaming Devices Destroyed MADERO HAS SHADE TREE BILL PASSED Itl SENATE JAIL SYSTEM IS SCHOOL OF E Proposed Law Was Fathered By the Richmond Commercial Club. FOR ATTACK VICE SE1DEL

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'Advance Guard of Soldiers in West Virginia Find 70 Sticks of Dynamite Arrest 19 Men.

BATTLE YESTERDAY VERY BLOODY ONE Now Believed Combined Death List of Miners and Guards Will Total Twenty No Fights Today. (National News Association) CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 11 What was declared to have been a deliberate attempt to dynamite a train bearing three companies of militia to the Paint Creek district was discovered today and nineteen persons, inoluding J. F. Karsons, former Socialist candidate for the legislature, were arrested today. Guards who preceded the train declare they found seventy sticks of dynamite under the rails and connected with a detonating cap which the locomotive would have exploded when It passed over. Although advices received today stated that only sixteen persons were killed in yesterday's fighting, several militia officers privately admitted that the dead will reach at least twenty. Catling guns were today placed at all points of vantage along the mountain side. A11 trains of the C. & O. were equipped with machine guns, (screwed to the rear platforms of the coaches and properly manned for instant use. Skirmish fighting was reported from remote sections today but it was believed the soldiers had the situation under control. A PITQHED BATTLE. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 11. With tne arrival of militia in the Paint Creek district, the situation, though , critical, was quiet today following yesterday's battle between strikers and armed mine guards at Mucklow and at other points in that region. Estimates today placed the dead at 18 to 0. Until a search of the mountains can be made it will be impossible to estimate the fatalities. John Crocket, reported dead, was found badly wounded on the mountain side early today. Crockett and Lieut. R. L. Taylor had been attacked by strikers earlier in the night and both were wounded. Taylor, though injured in the legs, escaped. Fred Bobbett, a bookkeeper for a coal company, Fred Vance, a guard, end eight other men injured during the rioting were in a critical condition today and their recovery was doubtful. The Huntington and Fayettesville companies of the militia reached the Paint Creek Junction early today and were at once detrained. Four other companies were scheduled to arrive .today. PASTOR jIVES TALKS Rev. Traum to Deliver Five Lectures in Week. The Rev. S. W. Traum, pastor of the First Christian church will deliver five lectures this week. Last evening the pastor delivered an illustrated lecture at Centerville; tonight he will speak at Parker City; Wednesday at Dunreith; Thursday at Mooreland. and Friday night at Kennard. He will talk on foreign missions and show stereopticon views, illustrating points In his addresses. He will return to this city Saturday, and Sunday will give a stereopticon lecture at the church of which he is pastor. MOST OF FIREMEN DESIRE A STRIKE (National News Association) NEW YORK. Feb. 11. The official vote of the firemen on Eastern roads was made public today, showing that 6.6 of the members favored a strike. HAS HIS NERVE (National News Association) CHICAGO, Feb. 11. "Good evening, gentlemen, meet Mr. Webb." With this greeting members of an auto bandit crew held up the patrons of four saloons last evening. Today the police seeking them believe their leader is Robert (Teddy) Webb, the daring leader of the auto pirates that have terrorized the city for months. The auto used by the crew was stolen. The members of the band drove leisurely through the streets after the robberies were committed. THE WEATHER TATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Wednesday. Colder tonight with cold wavfcy "

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The above photograph was taken at the New York Police headquarters and shows more than $25,000 worth of gaming devices that were confiscated in a raid on the most notorious of the gaming houses in the Tenderloin In marking each device for identification an axe was used, so as to render these tools of the gamblers practically useless.

FORMER BOSS COX MAY M CHARGE Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court's Action in Whitewashing Grafter. (Palladium Special) COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 11. George B. Cox, former Republican boss of Cincinnati probably will be reindicted and forced to stand trial as the result of a decision banded down by the Ohio supreme court today, sustaining the bill of exceptions filed by former Prosecutor HunC now mayor of "Cincinnati, to a decision of the Hamilton county court sustaining a demurrer to an indictment returned against Cox, charging him with giving false testimony before the grand Jury in 1906. The prosecution charged Cox with receiving $66,000 as interest on county funds deposited in bank. Cox testified that he knew nothing of such deposits in the Cincinnati Trust company of which he was president, and received no interest. TWO SCHOLARSHIPS Miss Florence Long to Bryn Mawr, and Chas. Trueblood to Haverford. f " The Earlham scholarships to Haverford and Bryn Mawr have been awarded. The winners were announced in chapel this morning. (Miss Florence Long was chosen to go to Bryn Mawr. She has majored in mathematics in Earlham and has accepted a position in the Richmond high school for the rest of the year. Miss Long will also continue part of her college work. Miss Mary Kenworthy, daughter of Rev. Truman Kenworthy, pastor of the East Main Street Friends church, was elected as alternate. Miss Kenworthy has majored in Latin and Greek. ( Charles K. Trueblood, son of Prof. William N. Trueblood, received the Haverford scholarship. He has specialized in biology. Philip W. Furnas was chosen as alternate for Haverford. Furnas is prominent in college jaiirnalism and majored in German. The Bryn Mawr scholarship is valued atf four luindred dollars and the Haverford scholarship at three hundred dollars. AN ARSON SUSPECT (National News Association) CHICAGO, Feb. 11 Morris Fried man, former president of the North-, western Can Company, was under arrest today as a result of the probe of alleged arson trust activities here. Friedman was charged with arson in connection with the destruction of a part of the can company's plant in a fire last May. Another official of the concern is being sought. SMOKE CAUSES RUN OF FIRE COMPANIES Dense smoke caused by hot ashes thrown on an oil run at the Light, Heat and Power plant below the Main street bridge this morning resulted in the fire department being called to the scene. The hot ashes were smothered by the firemen, damage was done No K

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BERT PARKER GIVEN HIS LIBERTY TODAY At This Morning's Session of Court Judge Orders His Release.

COULD NOT BE HELD He May Not Be Called As Witness Against His . Brother. l. . . , Bert Parker, who has been held at the county Jail since February 3, pending the investigation of the grand jury in the murder of Irvin White, which occurred February 1, was released this morning on an order from Judge Fox. Parker was brought before Judge Fox this morning and Attorney John Robbins said that as the grand jury failed to return an indictment against the younger brother there was no law which would compel him to remain in jail. If a habeas corpus was filed there is no doubt but what he would be released," said the judge. Parker probably will not be used as a state witness against his brother and there is nothing to prevent him from leaving this part of the country. To any question which might be asked him, his attorney could object to on the ground that it might be incriminating to himself. Had the grand Jury indicted him the case of the state against Clarence Parker would have been made stronger. A court attachee said that It is probable he will leave this city before his brother, the confessed murderer, is being tried. No date has been set, as yet for the trial of Clarence Parker,' who is held at the county jail, without bond. It is probable that the case will be called within the next two weeks. DIRECTORS CHOSEN FORJSSOCIATION Three New Men on Board Plans Made for Annual Banquet. Three new directors to the Wayne County Fish and Game Protective as sociation were elected at the annual meeting of the society at the court house la6t evening. The new members are George Brehm, Theo. P. Kepllnger and Walter Englebrecht. The retiring directors are Dan Scherb, Jeff. Wilson and J. Fay Holiday. Plans for the banquet of the society were instituted and the event will be held soon after Easter. DOMESTIC TROUBLES OF DAVIS FINISHED (National News Association) LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 11. Robert B. Davis, known as the New York baking powder king, will again have to fight his wife in the courts to prevent her getting a larger allowance and a separate maintenance decree. Notice has been .filed with Superior Court Judge Conrey by Mrs. Davis lawyers on a motion for a new trial. This will be argued March 10. Mrs..Davis was denied separate maintenance by Judge Bordwell several months ago. She sought to have her $1,500 monthly J allowance increased to $3,000. This also was denied,

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SUE TRADE BOARD Suit Will Be Filed Against Chicago Institution Within Next 48 Hours. Clfattonal Nwi Asaoefotion) CHICAGO, Feb. 11. A WW attacking the board of trade a a price-fixing institution in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law was to be filed In Chicago within the next 48 hours, according to a report about the Federal-building iodayr? The Mil is" at the order of Attorney-general Wickersham. The big grain exchange is to be arraigned by the government for fixing what is known as the "call" price of grain each day at the close of trading. Under a new rule of the board which has been In existence for many years, no broker is permitted to deal in grain at any but the "call" price from the closing of the exchange on one day till the opening of the trading the next day. The result of this rule is the fixing of the price of grain during a period of about twenty-one hours each day. Only during the three hours of trading is the price subject to natural fluctuations. The penalty for violation of this rule by any broker is suspension. As a consequence violations are rare. The government will contend in its bill that this naming of a call price to govern deals in grain during 21 hours suppresses the natural competition that otherwise would result in artificial Inflation of the cost of food-stuffs to the consumer. MORTGAGES RELEASED During January Amounted to $36,945. During the month of January more mortgages were released on farm lot3 than were mortgaged. The mortgages amounted to $3,630 and mortgages amounting to 36,915 were released. This cannot be said of school fund mortgages as $8,000 in mortgages were recorded whih ($7,500 were released. Chattel mortgages amounting to $S,249" were recorded while $4,932 were released. ' ' ! FEAR NO EPIDEMIC AT FOUNTAIN CITY (Palladium Special) FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind., Feb. 11. Raymond, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ewbank, of south of ' this place, is seriously sick with diphtheria. The child is a brother of Robert Ewbank who three weeks ago had just recovered. The Ewbank home was released from quarantine Saturday and the following day the second case cf the diphtheria appeared. There is no fear of contagion since only a short time elapsed between the two quarantines and no children were exposed during the interval. KENNY WILL SPEAK AT EARLHAM CHAPEL There will be special exercises In Earlham chapel tomorrow morning in honor of Lincoln's birthday. Some gifts will be' presented to the college and Mr. Joseph W. Kenny, of Indianapolis, will leak on. the life of Lincoin. Mr. tor a few enny was an Earlham ora - ars ago, " "

President Directs His Three Thousand Loyal Troops to Storm Positions of Rebel Troops.

BARRICADES BEING MADE IN STREETS Insurgents Also Occupying! Buildings Which Command Stragetic Positions Fight Certain. BULLETIN. (National Nws Aasoaiation) MEXICO CITY, (Noon) Feb. 11. A battle is now raging between the federal troops and the insurgents under Col. Diaz near the arsenal. Heavy firing of artillery and small arms is heard here. MEXICO Clir, Feb. 11 (8:30 a. m.) President Madero arrayed his loyal federal troops in battle formaUon early today to attack Col. Felix Diaz's insurgents. Three thousand federal infantry and cavalry moved from the national palace court yard shortly afterwards for the arsenal and barracks, both of which were held by the rebels. The insurgents strength was equal to that of the loyal forces, each side having three thousand men, but Diaz declared that he had a total of ten thousand men at his command in the vicinity of Mexico City. REBELS ARE READY. EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 11. A telegram received over the wires of the Mexican Central railroad states that a decisive battle between the loyal forces of President Madero and the Insurgents under CoL Diaz, the self proclaimed provisional president, is Imminent. . -. - President Madero ' has personally taken command of his troops and had stationed himself upon the roof of the national palace, where he could command the battle field. At a council of rebel officers presided over by Diaz, the suggestion was made that no attack be made upon the National palace until the reinforcement of the Zapatist rebels arrived, but this suggestion was vigorously opposed. Insurgents took possession of buildings within range of the national palace and earthworks were thrown up behind which sharpshooters stationed themselves. The United States posts along the border are being strengthened and the border patrol increased, to prevent Mexicans in the United States from smuggling arms across to the Mexican side. SENT TO MEXICO. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The battleships Virginia and Georgia of the a .! ri i. ri. for Vera Cruz, Mexico, early today, according to a wireless dispatch received at the navy department. Under forced draught they will arrive there Friday or Saturday. No troops will be landed until Consul Canada at Vera Cruz gives the word that such action is necessary. TO GUARD BORDER. AUSTIN, Texas. Feb. 11. Under orders of Gov. Colquitt. Texas rangers have been sent to Eagle Pass, Laredo, and Brownsville to be in readiness to protect border towns from attacks by Mexican Insurrectos. Reports reached the governor today that such attacks were imminent and after a consultation with the other state officials he ordered the rangers out to guard the towns. ASK 1 BATTLESHIPS Naval Committee Submits Its Report Today. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The house committee on naval affairs voted today to authorize the construction of two new battleships in the naval appropriation bill, which will be reported later in the day. ACTION IS DELAYED. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 The house judiciary committee today voted to postpone until the next session of congress all action on the proposed amendment to the constitution providing a single term of six 'years for the president. This will prevent legislation on thi9 subject at this session. SENATE ASKS "WHY?" WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. The senate today passed the resolution offered by Senator Poindexter of Washington which calls for all information j as to the authority and reasons of the secretary of the treasury for ordering

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Provides For the Appointment of Commfssion of Three Men. The Shade Tree bill, fathered by the Richmond Commercial Club, passed the senateesterday and will probably be read in the House late this afternoon or tomorrow. The bill provides for the regulation of planting of tree in streets, highways, parks, commons, public places, within any city or incorporated town in the state; upon county or school property or that of any public corporation in any city or town, providing for the care, protection and preservation of trees, by a commission appointed by the city. Senator Commons of Wayne county imruuuctfu uie um. u was passed without a dissenting vote. The bill provides that the commis sion shall be appointed by the mayor

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by a majority vote of the board of trustees. Three On Commission. The bill reads in part: Such Commission shall be composed J of three reputable citizens of the city or town; one shall be appointed for a term of three years, one for a term of four years, and one lor a term of five years, and the successor of each shall be appointed for a term of five years, and thereafter the term of such commissioner shall be five years. In case of a vacancy occurring in the membership of such' commission. a successor shall be appointed by the same appointing power, for the unexpected term of the member causing such vacancy, and which Commission when so appointed shall serve without any compensation whatever. Upon the appointment of such Commission In any City or Town, such Commission shall be vested with and have full control and power in all matters relating to the planUng, care, protection .and preservation of all shade or other trees hereafter to be planted, and shall have the right and power to determine and direct the kind, manner of planting, and place of planting, any and all trees, in any street, highway, park, common, or public place within any such city or town, or upon the grounds of any Country School, or other public corporation, situated within such city or town, and to prescribe rules and regulations for the care, protection and preservation of all trees. Penalty Imposed. It shall be unlawful for any person, contractor or corporation to cut, disturb, or in any manner interfere with or to pass any wire or other substance through or within the space of the branches thereof, or to, in any man ner to interfere with any such tree. without express permit and authority an tn An iHvon anif -rnntwl hr aM Commission, and then only In the manner as such Commission shall determine and prescribe. Any person, comI Pny. corporation or contractor within lthfcitv nr town, who ahull violate any of the provision, of this act. herei In declared to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum, not less than One nor more than One Hundred Dollars. RICHMOND PEOPLE ARE IN HONDURAS Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Leeds of this city were expected to arrive at Puerto Cortex, Honduras, Friday. Today news was received through the press associations mat tne navy department ! , made uneasy by the threatened political disturbances in Honduras and j other Central American republics, had ordered four warships to those waters. cruiser New Orleans being detailed to Puerto Cortes. So far as Is known,

however there have been no dlrd- Ummlttee on Electric Railroads for ers at that port. tne paBt yr The committee reportThe acute situation in Central Am-!ed that a Btrt ear liM or extension erica has been caused by the assass-waB Tcry probabie m the southeastination of the president of Salvador, n part of tne cty but recomniended whica people of that country claim that committee which succeeds tbe was Instigated by the president of ' present one . nBe ,tB influence In seeurGuatemala. It is feared this crime j will set all the republics ablaze.. I (Continued on Page Seven)

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In Annual Report to Commercial Club Committee Indorses Penal Farm Bill Commends Grand Jury.

PROMISE OF BETTER RAILROAD SERVICE Street Car Extension Discussed-Bother Reports Are Given Eight Directors of Club Were Re-Elected. The entire "Red" ticket was re-elected at the Commercial club election of j directors last night. The votes were rlnso In niw rw ll raultln mik !,ng u neceBWirT to ca ,DRent mem. bers to vote off the tie. The -Red-ticket was composed of the eight retiring directors. The re-elected men are James A. Carr, Demas S. Coe, Nusbaum. William H. Quigg. John L. Rupe and G. E. Seidel. After the election, the regular monthly meeting was held and committees made their an nual reports, several bills pending before the state legislature being endorsed at the meeting. Upon the recommendation of ths committee on Legislation and Taxation the Penal Farm bill was heartily endorsed and will be supported by the club. George Seidel. chairman of th committee, presented the annual report and told of the disgraceful condition of the present jail system, call ing the jails Vthe recruiting offices for criminals' and "the common schools of vice." Conditions Deplorable. Mr. Seidel commended the grand jury on the moralizing work they have just completed. He cited the Wayne county Jail as an instance of the crying necessity for the institution of the penal farm system. He stated that jail conditions were deplorable, being merely a school to educate the young first-offenders In crime. Mr. Seidel has been at Indianapolis attending the state legislature and talked to some representatives as to their stand on the bill. Although it is not a certainty that the bill mill be passed at this session of the legislature, Mr. Seidel stated the penal farm bill will eventually pass, and the Commercial club was recommended to support it to secure its passage as soon as possible. The large appropriation which the passage of the bill carries with it seems to be the main objection. The appropriation called for by the bill is $90,000. Additional Trains. In the annual report of the committee on steam railroads, it was stated that the C. Sc. O. railroad had promised better passenger and freight service i ln people OI mis City. 1 He COm mittee has succeeded In getting a promise for an additional train from the north and from the south. The trains hare not been placed on the schedule as yet but it is understood the ;J2 "Jt nati will be an accommodation and will pass through this city at about H o'clock in the morning. The southbound train will pass through sometime during the afternoon. The report stated that better freight service had been promised and that the results mere now evident. The committee has also succeeded In getting several advantageous concessions from the Pennsylvania railroad. It Is probable that arrangements will be made to secure Weavers Station as a nag stop In the future. The commitV jtee will soon be actively engaged In attempting to secure oeiter service over the G. R. I. linen to the north. Extension Probable. Street car lines to the north and south-eastern portions of the city and one to the Reid Memorial hospital hare w r K-