Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 122, 2 April 1913 — Page 1

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lED PARKER AVERRED HIS BROTHER LIED iBert Parker Was Not Called To Testify in Defense Roy Evans, of This City Was Eye Witness. (Palladium Bpeclal A NEWCASTLE, Ind., APrtl 2. After elilsratlng for two hours the Henry kounty jury In the case of Clarence Parker of Richmond, was found guilty iof murder in the second degree and Sentenced to the state penitentiary for ife. The verdict wan returned yestterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, and sentence was passed by Judge Ed JackWon. Parker's defense was extremely rweak. His attorneys fought to secure W verdict of manslaughter. Parker alleged that he struck White but once nd kicked him twice after he had een assaulted by White. The jury was divided on the first ballots. Three of the Jurymen balloted to ind Parker guilty of murder in the first degree, two for manslaughter and the remaining seven for murder in the second degree. The jurymen for first degree murder -were the first to change and voted to have Parker sentenced for murder in the second degree. Other jurymen finally consented to the second degree verdict after two hours deliberation. V Bert Did Not Testify. Bert Parker was not placed on the stand to testify in his brother's defense. ? , Bert Parker was with his brother the night of the murder -which occurred on North A street in Richmond. 4 The murder "occtrrTed on the night of Feb. 1 after the men had engaged In a fight over a card game In Miller's saloon on Main street. Parker followed White after he had emerged from the saloon and walked north on Eighth street. He caught up with him when White turned west on North A street and Parker struck him. White's hands were found in his pocket indicating that he had not attempted to defend himself. Ed 8a ys Clarence Lied. Parker while testifying In his own defense contradicted himself several times. He testified that he did not follow White on Eighth street, but that White followed him. He asserted that as he was passing Torbeck's saloon on North Eighth street his brother Ed Parker saw White coming and told him that White would "get" him if he did not leave. He said he walked down Eighth street and White followed him and struck the first blow. EEd Parker testified that he did not say that and did not know White. He further testified that he did not look In the saloon window after he had been ordered to leave although Patrolman John Rottinghaus and Walter Schiller testified they saw him do this. He denied making threats against the life of White. Jesse Black and Ollie Milton testified they heard Parker make such threats. Evans Saw Murder. The main witness for the state was Roy Evans who saw the crime committed. Evans is a railroader at Richmond dnd saw Parker strike WTiite. Evans did not go to the scene of the murder as he was a stranger In the city and was afraid he would be Implicated In the crime. He did mot testify before the grand Jury rwhich indicted Parker. Parker was asked by Prosecutor Reller if he did not ask his brother to pay his gas bill so he could stay near the saloon and "get" White when he came out. He denied the insinuation Iof the prosecutor. The prisoner showjed no emotion when the sentence was jpassed. His wife and children left jNewcastle for Richmond before the iverdict was returned. Hog Weighed Thousand Pounds ; Brought $95. A hog measuring more than nine ?eet in length and weighing 1.000 pounds was butchered at the Holzapfel cold storage plant yesterday. City Meat Inspector Charles Pitman believes the hog to be the largest ever brought into the city. It was received from the Glen Miller stocX yards. Hogs are selling for $9.50 per hundred pounds, this hog bringing $93. "The hog was in fine condition and every part passed inspection. It weighed 300 pounds more than the largest hogs which we have had, the usual weight of what is considered a large hog, being from GOO to 700 pounds. It was necessary to use cattle wagons to carry the enormous animal as the hog wagons were too small. The animal will be made into sausage and lard."

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'' : ' (Copyright, International News Service.) THE UPPER PICTURE IS A TYPICAL FLOOD SCENE AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. THE LOWER PICTURE SHOWS

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(National News Association) DAYTON, O., April 2. Plans have been drafted for the reconstruction of Dayton, under which the federal government will be asked for a loan of from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000. A meeting of bankets and building association managers with $60,000,000 worth of assets will put up the collateral. The property loss is now estimated at $160,000,000 and the task of reconstruction is appalling. "Dayton is facing one of the gravest problems -that ever con fronted any city in the world and we want the world to know thai we need money and food for our stricken people," said John Patterson, chairman of the relief committee today. "Reports to tht contrary are untrue."

WHAT OHIO FACES.

. (National News Association) COLUMBUS, O., April 2. The restoration of $300,000,000 worth of wholly destroyed or partly damaged property in the shape

! of homes, factories, business blocks, railroads and county bridges

was the gigantic task facing the people of this state today. The state relief commission of which Governor Cox is chairman, today decided on an inspection tour through the devastated sections. One hundred and twenty-nine bodies have been recovered at Dayton and seventy at Columbus. These two cities, with Hamilton, have sustained the heaviest casualties. The total deaths throughout the state will approximate 500.

RICHMOND FACTORY NOT TO SHUT Rumely Officials Declare Loj cal Branch is to Keep on i Working. i j (Palladium Special) LAPORTE, Ind., April 2. Officials of the M. Rumely company today emphatically denied reports to the effect that the Richmond branch of the factory would be closed. The Rumely officials made public this morning a statement to contradict such rumors. "The Rumely factories will keep right on making machinery and all men employed at the Richmond ; branch may rest assured that the facjtory there will not shut down," the statement read.

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TWO CHILDREN ARE PAINFULLY BURNED Sarah and Delfie Archie May Die as Result of An Accident. GASOLINE EXPLODED House Caught Fire but the Blaze Was Soon Extinguished (Palladium Special) NEW PARIS, April 2. Sarah and delfie Archie, aged 14 and 12 respectively, daughters of William Archie, ;olored, were probably fatally burned this morning when a gasoline can exploded in the kitchen of their home. . The children "were in the kitchen and their mother was away from the house. Mr. Archie was in the barn at the time. Little Sarah attempted. to pour gasoline out of a can into the stove. The oil in the can exploded and the children were found by their father and some of the neighbors a few minutes later, their arms and legs being frightfully burned. 'Their clothing was nearly burned from their bodies. The house caught fire, but the blaze was soon extinguished. . 1 Attending physicians say there is litUe hope for their recovery. COMPANY.TO MAKE KITCHEN CABINETS Directors of - the Art Brass and Chandelier Works on South J street will probably. lease the building and its equipment to a concern in this city which will manufacture kitchencabinets. The company was not on a paying basis and the manufacture of products was stopped there last j year. It is proposed by the company ' which will manufacture the new cornmodity that financial aid be given by the South Side Improvement AssociaJot the extent of ? 2,000. .

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CatletSsbnrg is SaM to Be Swept Away By River (National News Association) HUNTINGTON, W. Va., April 2. Word reached here today that Catlettsburg, Ky.f across the river from here, has been wiped out by the flood and many persons drowned. The town has been cut off from here for several days.

WILL BREAK EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 2. 47.4 inches and was still rising that the flood will pass the 1884

15,000 HOMELESS. ZANESVILLE, O., April 2. With 15,000 people homeless

and depending upon relief stations

erty loss from the flood has reached $20,000,000. In proportion to its population, Zanesville is the worst sufferer of all the flood

swept cities. Fully 1,000 houses path a mile and a half wide was assistance from the outside world

HAMILTON SITUATION. HAMILTON, O., April 2. The total number of dead here is reported to be only sixty-two. No bodies have been found since yesterday afternoon and it is believed that the list of dead will not exceed seventy. The water is now down in all sections of ihe city and the work of cleaning away the debris caused by the flood is progressing with considerable rapidity. Every person is being put to work, militiamen being under strict orders to force every idle man into service.

MRS. WERKING, 84 ON A DEGREE TEAM (Palladium Special) MILTON, Ind, April : 2. Mrs. Rebekah Werking of Milton, who is 84 years old and who has been a mebber of the Rebekah Degree lodge of Cambridge City for fifty years, acted on the Rebekah team Monday night. The Milton people who went to Cambridge City to attend the degree, gave the work at the conferring of the degree on two candidates. After the ceremonies a luncheon was served. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAI Showers and thunderstorms tonight and Thurs- - day. Cooler Thursday.

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- A . SCENES AT DAYTON. RECORD. The Ohio river here reached this afternoon. It is now certain mark, which was 47.82 feet. for help, this city's total prop were swept away and a clean cut through the city. Monetary is absolutely imperative. SCHOOL TEACHER COMMITS SUICIDE (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, April 2. Miss Elsie Loeper, aged 34. a former school teacher, was found dead at the home of her parents In Park avenue, this morning. She had committed suicide by inhaling gas through a rubber tube. She was the daughter of Jacob Loeper, who is employed in the office of the city engineer. She had been suffering from a nervous breakdown. PASS AMENDMENT. (National Kiwi Association) HARRISBURG, April 2. The Pennsylvania senate today unanimously adopted a resolution ratifying the proposed amendment to the federal constitution for. the direct election of U. S. Senators-

Water Only One Foot From

Top of the 55 Foot Concrete Levee But Crest is Expected Today. BATTLE ALL NIGHT WITH HIGH WATERS Most of Movable Property Has Been Taken From City and Most of Citizens Have LeTt Cairo. (National Htwi Associativa) CAIRO, IttV April 2 The; most critical period in the battle of Cairo against the Ohio river, flood was expected to pass to-' day. At 11 odock the river reg-f istered 54.2 feet and the water was splashing over the top of the 55 foot levee. The few remaining residents and the soldiers on duty contin ued their efforts to stay the waters. .i Several small leaks in the con crete wall were successfully checked. The residents of Cairo and the state troops spent a sleepless night patrolling the' levees by shifts. Several times! the water forced its way through the Illinois Central levee which protects Cairo's business dis-' trict. The main business streets are now forty feet below the surface of the waters raging against the levees. Directly back of the business district and on the same level are the.: residential sections. , Preparations for the worst damage the flood can do were completed today. Every merchant had removed all the stock possible to the upper stories of their buildings and not an article of furniture remained in the lower floors in the houses in the city. Those who did not abandon their homes were living in. the second and third stories. If the levees hold against the flood waters today, Cairo will be safe. The crest of the Wabash river was passed this morning and the highest stage of the Ohio was expected late this afternoon. UNCLE SAM RULES EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 2. The United States government has taken control of the flood situation between Evansville and Cairo and all boats have been seized for possible emergency. Captain Naylor of the United States army arrived from' Louisville with power to contract for any supplies needed in relief work. The Louisville & Nashville bridge at Henderson, Ky is said to be in danger and Captain Naylor is prepared to establish a line of steamboat transportation between this city and Louisville, if necessary. RIVER BIG HIGHBALL LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 2. The Ohio river was converted into a huge highball when a warehouse of the Rugby distilling company undermined by the water collapsed and dumped 5.000 barrels of whiskey Into the flood waters. The whiskey barrels started to float down the stream and an offer of 50 cents a barrel salvage brought hundreds of men and boys into action and It is believed that most of the whiskey was saved The plunge of the building sent a huge wave through Portland and caused a panic among the people imprisoned in the upper stories of their homes. The crest of the Ohio river flood reached Louisville today, the water stage registering 45.1 feet. The river will remain stationery for a time and then fall slowly. Shawnee town, TIL. is now submerged. Columbus. Ky., Is cat off from communication. REFUGEES ARRIVING. MEMPHIS, Term.. April 2. Three thousand refugees from Cairo and the lowlands below there have arrived at (Continued on Pag Foor

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