Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 124, 4 April 1913 — Page 1

if: RIG AODIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 124. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL, 4, 1913. SINGLE COPT 2 CENTS

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M Cairo Bags of Sand Piled on Top of The Concrete Wall Alone Keeping the River Out of City Today. WATER WORKING IN THRU DEPRESSIONS fFlatboats Distributed to Take Away Defenders of the City When Last Hope Has Been Abandoned. (National News Association) CAIRO, 111., April 4. Rain, which continued throughout the night and early today placed Cairo in the most dangerous position since the Ohio and Mississippi floods began. The waters passed the top of the let ee and were being kept out only by the bags of sand piled on the walls. Military authorities admitted that the outlook was decidedly gloomy. A new danger developed today. The waters of the Ohio river have worked their way under the depressions occupied by the business and residential districts and are coming up in what are called "sand boils." 'As quickly as a "sand boil" appeared, heavy loads of dirt were jdumped into the cavities. Only jthe hastily constructed bulkheads on top of the levee today kept out the flood waters. These bulkheads are of lumber braced .with railroad ties, sandbags and cement. Fifty flatboats have been ; distributed about the city where they can be readily reachJed by the residents if the water breaks the protecting walls. CRYING FOR HELP. EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 4. ! Piteous cries for aid reached Evansville today as conditions became more desperate by the (strong winds, heavy rains and rising waters throughout the . flooded territory. Tell City, Rockport, Grand View, Leaven- j worth and other towns report; frightful conditions and awful! sufferings. The Ohio river here registered 48.2 feet today andj was still rising slowly. The north side of Evansville, (along Pigeon creek, has ten feet of water. Water was splashing jover the upper boulevard levee land threatening the fashionable district of the city. ILOSS OF ICE WILL NOT AFFECT PRICES Usual Prices Will be Maintained This Summer, Says Rettig. Although between 300 and 400 tons of ice was lost in the recent flood which destroyed part of the ice house of the Rettig & Johnson company, the price of ice this summer will not be jaffected. This statement was made by !Mr. Rettig of the ice company who ialso stated that no cash sale by the drivers will be tolerated this year. Only tickets will enable persons to ; procure ice. The price of thirty-five cents will I be charged to persons who buy 100 pounds or more at a time. For less ithan 100 pounds a rate of forty cents "will be charged. For business houseB (which purchase 200 pounds or more at one delivery will be charged twenty(flve cents. Business houses which purchase one ton or more at one delivery jwUl be charged $3 per ton.

NURSERY BUSY. Palladlum Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind April 4..During the past winter the Gaar nurs,ery located in this town has shipped .from seventy to seventy-five thousand ;young trees, additional laborers have been employed in digging and shipping ghe plants. :- v--,..,

Six Sflritars .At libera, Two Women, Arc leprei (National News Association) AUBURN, N. Y., April 4. Six strikers, two of them women, were shot down by the police during a riot today, which was precipitated by attempts to disperse crowds near the Columbian Rope company's plant. One man and one woman will die. The police seized a woman agitator and placed her in a patrol wagon. The strikers liberated her and attacked the police, using

clubs and stones. The police then fired into the crowd and six victims fell to the ground wounded. The militia has been called out :.nd the situation in this city today is very grave and further troubles are anticipated.

TIN COULDN'T HELP IT, HE Averred Broken Water Main Was Cause of His Downfall. "Your Honor, the water main was broken last night and I was so thirsty that I just had to have something to drink," said Mike Martin, who was arrested for public intoxication last night, to Mayor Zimmerman in polio court this morning. Martin was fined 1 and costs and sent to the county jail. Martin stated that it is his belief that no one should be fined today or tomorrow. "I'm not a drinking man, Your Honor," he pleaded, "but last night I could get nothing to quench my thirst except intoxicating liquors. I even tried to get Cocoa Cola but the man at the soda fountain said that he didn't have any sodawater. Last, night was enough to drive a sober man to drink." FRENCH RELEASE Big Zeppelin Balloon Which Crossed Frontier Told to "Beat it" Back. GREAT EXCITEMENT Excitable French Attempted To Burn Craft Last Night, But Was Prevented. (National News Association) LUNEVILLE, France, April 4. Upon orders of the minister of war the German Zeppelin balloon, which landed here yesterday, was released today and the members of her crew also were liberated. Captain George Fritz, commander of the balloon set the men at work repairing the motor and said he would be more careful during nights in the future to avoid crossing the French frontier. Incendiaries tried to burn the balloon during the night, evidenUy thinking that the occupants were German spies. LUNEVILLE, France, April 4. The German military dirigible airship Zeppelin IV, made a landing in the military parade grounds here yesterday and was seized by the French authorities. The incident caused tremendous excitement notwithstanding the fact that the German officers aboard the airship explained that they had been lost in the clouds and did not know they had crossed the French frontier. The inhabitants of the eastern frontier regions of France have been much agitated the last few weeks over reports that German dirigibles had been observed or heard nighUy hovering over the forts! But the stories, like those of the Phantom airship of England, never were properly substantiated by the people of Luneville, who therefore were considerably startled shortly before noon yesterday when a brownish yellow airship appeared at a great height in the clouds coming from the direction of Nancy. The airship was lost to view, but reappeared an hour later. It was apparent that the pilot was having a battle with the wind and that he was making an effort to reach the earth. Finally a safe landing was made in the parade grounds where two squadrons of cavalry were drilling. The cavalrymen rode up and formed a cordon. They caught the ropes thrown from the dirigible and securely moored it. Local authorities and Brigadier General Antide Leon Lescot were immediately summoned and were closely followed by a huge crowd of excited people. ; It required the efforts of two companies of infantry to keep the indignant populace at a safe distance. Zeppelin IV which is of the latest and largest model carried ten passengers of whom 4 were officers in uniform. A Prussian captain and lieutenant and two Wurttemburger lieutenants. The captain explained to General Lescot, through an Interpreter that the Zeppelin was undergoing a test prior to being taken over by the war department. He and the other officers had been assigned to that task.

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CENTERVILLE MAN FINEDJOR DRUNK Thought Police Headquarters Was The Interurban Station.

"Gimme uh ticket to Centerville," demanded Fred Coon to Night Sergeant Scott Winters last night through the window looking into the main office at police headquarters from the anteroom in the city building. Sergeant Winters told the man that he was at police headquarters and not in the interurban station but Coons refused to leave demanding that he be given a ticket to Centerville. He was arrested for public intoxication and fined $1 and costs in police court this morning. Coon, who is a resident of Centerville, strolled Into the city building last night believing that it was the interurban station. "If you haven't any tickets gimme a timetable," demanded Coon. Sergeant Winters was unable to convince the young man that he had come to the wrong place. Coon was taken to the county jail. An effort is being made to find some one who will pay his fine and have him released as he is said to be employed in Centerville. FOUR MEN HANGED! Was Necessary to Shorten Rope Three Times Two Strangled (National News Association) MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 4. P. Walter Jones and Arthur Gilmer, both white men, and John Adams and Coleman Jones, negroes, were hanged from the same scaffold in the county jail here today. Jones, who was formerly a prominent and wealthy citizen, was hanged first at 6:18 o'clock, but it was not until 6:45 that he was pronounced dead. He finally strangled to death, the rope being so long that his feet touched the floor, his struggles presenting a horrible spectacle. The rope was then shortened and Gilmer was executed. It was found, however, that the rope was still too long, and he, too, strangled after a horrible struggle. For a third time the rope was shortened, and the last two executions, those of the two negroes, went off without a hitch. All of the four victims had been convicted ! of murder. BROOKS SELECTS EXECUTIVE BOARD Names Men to Direct the Progressives in the Coming Campaign in City. Progressive City Chairman Howard Brooks today announced the members of the city executive committee, just appointed by him. They are as follows: R. J. Wigmore, W. W. Reller, Dr. S. Edgar Bond, J. Clifford Price, Demas S. Coe, Jesse Bailey, Charles O. Williams and Harry Wessell. The four officers of the city committee, Chairman Broks, Vice Chairman Chas. Potter, Secretary Roy Fry and Treasurer Richard More, are also members of the execuUve committee. On the evening of April 10, there will be a meeting of the entire city committee, including precinct chairmen, to decide whether the Progressive city ticket shall be named at a primary election or at a .convention. The general sentiment appears to favor, a primary election. LEVEE GIVES AWAY AT WEST (National News Association) MEMPHIS. Tenn., April 4 The levee at West Hickman, Ky.. gave way this afternoon, and the flood waters went through the town. Five hundred homes were in the track of the flood but the inhabitants had all sought refug on higher groand. -

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L Sentencing of Mrs. Pankhurst Signal For Renewal of Outrages by the Militant Suffragettes RAILROAD STATION PARTLY DESTROYED Train of Empty Cars Blown Up and Several Women . Are Arrested Olive Hocken is on Trial. (National News Association) LONDON, April 4. Suburban railway station at Oxsted, in Surrey, was blown up and partly destroyed by suffragettes today. The walls were cracked, the windows smashed and the doors blown away. The police found a time clock and a can of petrol in the wreckage. The theory of the investigators is that the explosion was caused by a heavy trial of gunpowder and that the women evidently had planned to burn the station but the petrol failed to ignite. The flame of feminist violence was fanned into a roaring conflagration by the three year sentence imposed upon Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, who began to serve her term at hard labor today. Olive Hocken, an artist and friend of Mrs. Pankhurst, in whose studio a suffragette arsenal was found, was arraigned today in Old Bailey court on a charge of conspiring to destroy government property. "I will never submit to this or any other government that holds women in bondage," exclaimed Miss Hocken. "I want to serve notice upon the British people that we are just beginning to fight." A great crowd of members of the Women's Social and Political Union gathered at Old BalTeyJTorthe trial. The police in the suburbs today arrested two suffragettes named Phyllis Brady and Milllcent Dean carrying portmanteaus, which, upon being opened were found to contain candles, petroleum and other substances usually employed by those contemplating arson, also a number of placards . containing the inscription, "Beware how you treat Mrs. Pankhurst" were found. A telegram from Stockport stated that a train of empty cars was blown up there, evidently by women. The engi neer was severely injured. At Man chester three suffragettes were arrest ed for smashing art works in the Manchester art gallery. A GIRL DETECTIVE IN THESPOTLIGHT New Jersey Man Arrested on a Murder Charge After Her Investigation. (National News Association) LAKEWOOD N. J., April 4 Pale and trembling and on the verge of nervous collapse, Joseph Morarity, alias William Leehan, rrrested at Fort Lee, N. J., charged wiui the murder of Mrs. Charles L. Turner, of Lakewood, in April, 1911, was lodged in the Ocean county jail today. Morarity was formerly employed as a private secretary in the home of M. Horn of Pittsburg and has a wife and child living. The arrest of Morarity was brought about chiefly through the efforts of a girl detective, Miss Helen Shindler, who, to gain the suspect's confidence went to live in the same rooming house, where Mr. and Mrs. Morarity lived. She got a room adjoining theirs, where she could hear all that passed between Morarity and his wife. Turner the husband of the murdered woman, is employed on the estate of George Gould. Mrs. Turner disappeared in April, 1911, and her body was found a few days later in Pine Needle Lane. Death evidently was due to strangulation. PARKER Oil HIS WAY TO MICHIGAII CITY Henry County Sheriff Left Last Evening With Murderer. (Palladium Special) NEWCASTLE. Ind, April 4. Sheriff K. K. Kirk and Chief of PoHoe James Boualog left Newcastle last evening with Clarence Parker and James E. Lear for Michigan City. Parker will serve a life sentence for the murder of Irrin White in Richmond. Feb. L Lear was convicted on a chars of bigamy. He will srre tw 7oV

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Water Supply Was Resumed in the City This Afternoon, After Nineteen Hours Delay

WEBSTER CONFIDENT HE WILLED GIRL Says He Has Clews as to the Whereabouts of Winter's Child. GORMON HAS VIEWS Local Police Chief Believes Grandmother Knows About Child. (Palladium Special) NEW CASTLE. Ind.. April 4. Councilman J. D. Smith returned from Indianapolis yesterday afternoon where he was sent by Mayor Barnard to hold a consultation with detectives who are working on the abduction case of Catherine Winters, the nine-year-old daughter of Dr. W. A. Winters. The fact that Mr. Smith refused to state the nature of his talk with the officials was indicates that the detectives have some definite clew on Avhich they are working and in all probability the child will be located within the next week. The gypsy theory has been given up an dthe authorities of New Castle believe if she was not kidnapped she was murdered by a degenerate. A new clew was gathered by detective Webster who reported that Ivan C. Whlsler. of Plattsvllle, Wis., brother-in-law of Dr. Winters by his first wife, and the physician were not on friendly terms. It is possible that he may have abducted the child. The child and her brother are heirs to an estate of $6,000. It would have been impractical for any one to abduct her for this reason as the money would have gone to her brother in case she dieed. Harry C. Webster is working on the case and expects to solve it. He is one of the best know, detectives in Indianapolis. He returned from Indianapolis yesterday" where he went in an effort to locate relatives of the child who are believed to have some knowledge of her whereabouts. It was authoratively stated that the child had not been located as yet though her father expects to be apprised of the whereabouts of his child at any time. Chief of Police I . A. Gormon of Richmond is of the opinion that the relatives know where she is. According to information given Gormon 'the child and her grandmother were great friends and after her grandmother and her father had a quarrel the grandmother left the home and has been living apart from the family. Her mother is dead and as a result of the intimacy and love between Mrs. Whisler, the grandmother. Chief Gormon believes she may know the whereabouts of the missing girl. Dr. Winters resumed his dental practice yesterday. He still believes the gypsies have abducted the child. HOWARD MESSICK IS CHOSEN BY SCHOOL Much Interest is being aroused over the coming tryout at Chicago University April 19. The University offers one year's tuition to the person giving the best impersonation of any poem written by one of the classic authors. Howard Messlck has been chosen to represent the Richmond school. He will read the "Revenge" by Tennyson. The poem has good opportunities for expressive voice modulation. Prof. Trueblood of Earlham is coaching Mr. Messick for the tryout. PARDOII BOARD MEETS Takes No Action in Case of William Hinshaw. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, April 4. No defi nite action was taken today by the board of pardons on the petition for a pardon for William Hinshaw. who is serving a life sentence for wife mar. der. He was formerly a minister at Lynn. Ind. Two other petitions for pardon of murderers also, failed to secure deanite action. The Board recommended a pardon for Walter Pariah, sentenced to the reformatory from Bartholomew county in 1909 for petit larceny and for Mrs. Vita Grabb, sentenced from Floyd county In 1911 for forgery. Five paroles were recom mended. Including Charles Morgan of Boone county. Dello Welty, Vanderburg county, Alexander Huey, Fountain county, Clare Swallow. Vigo country, and Charles H. Green of Laporte comity, all serving from one to twenty years for minor offense. THE WEATHER STATE -AND LOCAL Cloudy and colder tonight preceedad by rain in lh north pertiea. Saturday, fair,

TEMPORARY BRIDGE DECLARED UNSAFE Structure Erected Near New Paris Condemned by Officials.

DAM BREAKS AGAIN Bridge Leading to Water Works Station Was Washed Away. The temporary bridge constructed by the P. C. C. A St L company at New Parts, Ohio, was condemned this morning and all trains between Richmond and Dayton and Columbus were unable to operate. Passengers from Miami City a suburb of Dayton were carried as far as the bridge where they were transferred to another train which brought them to this city. iThe bridge will be strengthened and in condition to use by tonight. Seven P. C. C. & St. L. locomotives from this city went to Dublin pumping station where they obtained water this morning. The railroad company was seriously handicapped because of lack of water. Cannot Ship Product. The Starr Piano company has been unable to obtain shipments out of this city cince the heavy flood of last year and owing to the large amount of stock on hand, a number of the factory hands have been temporarily laid off. The men will be taken back to work as soon as the railroads are able to handle freight east and south of this city. Bridges Damaged. t As a result of the excessive rainfall last night the bridge located at the Richmond water works company's pumping staion was washed away. The bridge was impaired during the highwater last week and so weakened that it could not stand the slightest pressure. On the Smyrna Pike between New Paris and Middleboro in Wayne township one of the small tridges was washed out. The damage will not exceed $75. Dam Washed Away. The temporary dam which was built across the Whitewater river north of Main street by the Light. Heat and Power Co., was washed away by the high water last night. Work was begun at once this morning to rebuild the dam and the plant will not be crippled because of the lack of water if the new dam is completed before the water goes down to normal. Officials of the company say that the dam will be completed today or tomorrow. SAMPLES OF WATER WILL BE EXAMINED Health Officer Davis Sends Samples to State Laboratory. k zzm.. twr uir purpose oi reueTirg lean of many residents as to the alleged unsanitary condition of the water supply. Dr. T. H. Davis has sent four samples of water to the state laboratory at Indianapolis for analysis. The water used as samples was taken from various places of supply so that 1aa.1 .a 411 V. V . ' ditioa tt the water used in the cityJ The steps taken by Dr. Davis to find the true causes of the condition of the drinking water developed from the agreement of the city health board that the broken main had nothing to do with this condition of the water supply. It is generally believed by members of the board and Health Officer Davis that the supply is infected by river water. Dr. Davis stated today that the ground is soaked by the rain water and the rising water of the flooded rivers has broken over the galleries thus affecting the water of the reservoir. Unless other sanitary conditions are materially benefited, another Investigation will ultimately ensue. According to Dr. Davis this condition would have been aided had the residents left their faucets open thus preventing compressed air forming in the pipes. BERTSCH FUNERAL HELD YESTERDAY (Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITT. Ind, April 4 The funeral of Thomas Bertsch, who died Tuesday night at the home of his daughter Mrs. John Gearing, of East Cambridge, was held Thursday afternoon in the Lutheran church of German town. Rer. Arbangh of West Lafayette ha Ting charge of the serTioes. Mr. Bertsch was eighty-three years of age. and was a native of the state of Pennsylvania. NIGHT SCHOOL. - Night school will he held this evening at the usual hoar a the high achooL The members of the various Jclaaaes urged to be prs nt.

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T FACE A CHARGE NOW This Afteronon Man on! Whose Property Main Was! Dynamited Was Blamed! for Destruction of Main. BUSINESS IN CITY IS MUCH affected! i Many Men Thrown Out of Employment Today Members of Repair Gang Worked Throughoutthe Night. BULLETIN An affidavit charging Alfred C. Underhill with maliciously1 and mischievously injuring and causing to be injured the water main which conducts the city's water supply from the water works pumping station to the city of Richmond, thus completely stopping the supply of water to the city, was filed at police headquarters this afternoon by Chief of Police Gormon and Prosecuting Attorney Reller. He was ordered arrested and brought before the police court at the session tomorrow morning. About noon today Richmond's water supply was resumed after the city had been without this service since 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon and, in consequence, without any fire protection. The city was cut off from its water supply by the alleged careless blasting of a stump in a field a half mile east of Hawkins pond. The blasting was done by Perry Blackburn, who was employed by Alfred Underhill, who owns the property, which he has been clearing for some time. ' The blasting which demolished a large section of the only water main running into the city from the pumping station, two and a half miles northeast of Richmond, was done within a few feet of the main and within fifty feet of where the last break occurred, eighteen years ago. The authorities are making a rigid investigation of the affair. Statement by Dill. "I do not believe the water main was dynamited maliciously, but it most certainly was a case of gross carelessness," stated Howard Dill, superintendent of the water works company, today.When asked if it was true that Underhill had had trouble with the company and had made threats against it. Sir. Dill said that some time ago, Underhill formed him that he expected to derive some benefit if the proposed second main was laid through his field and that if he did not get satisfaction the "company would pay for it." Mr. Dill said he did not know whether 'Underhill made this remark in jest or in earnest. "Underhill was shown that the company had a right of way through his field for the main now down, granted by the man who owned the property before Underhill secured it, added Mr. Dill, "and he has not molested it and has not attempted to keep our inspectors off his field, but he has bothered us in other ways considerably." Mr. Dill learned today that one of the posts in the Underhill field, marking the site of the main, had been trken down several months ago and he said he found this post today at least two hundred feet from the main. "I intend to keep this post. It may be a clue to something interesting Mr. Dill said. Water Safe to Drink. The water works company, just before the water was turned on, requested the newspapers to inform the public that for a time the water would be very cloudy but that it would not be injurious, this statement being confirmed by the health officer. It is difficult to estimate the total amount of the losses incurred by the people ' of RichContinued on Pass Sevan).

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