Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 148, 2 May 1913 — Page 1

ABIUM mh h Ll y u U ANO SUN-TELEGRAM r VOL. XXX VIII. NO. 148 RICHMOND, IND FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS SASS PASSED IN A DEBATE UPON TARIFF California Leaders Who Are Back of Alien Land Bill CEHTERVILLE MISS WHITE A MILITANT, SHE STATES BLOWS HEAD OFF Isaac Houck Committed Suicide This Morning at His Home.

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Bewhiskered Republican Leader, Mann, Informed That it is Shearing Time and he , Retorts Neatly.

CALIFORNIA TRIES TO HELP PRODUCTS By Getting Increase in Rates ; But was Turned Down A Long Discussion on The . Lemon Schedule. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, May 2. Representative Currie, of California, in the house today offered an amendment to increase the duty on figs from 2 to 2 cents per pound. The amendment was rejected. A similar amendment affecting raisins was lost. Representative Hayes, of California, sought a restoration of the Payne law rate on olives, but his amendment suffered the fate. Criticising the Democrats for levying an annual tax of more than a half million dollars on the poor man's mince pie, Representative Willis, of Ohio, Republican, moved to Zante currants on the free list, but was defeated. Representative Hayes, of Colifornia, tried to have the duty on almonds increased to 4 cents a pound, and to have the present duties on "walnuts restored, but both amendments were rejected. Representative Moore, of Pennsyl4 vania, sought an increase in the duty on peanuts, but the amendment was killed. Representative Thomas assailed Republican Leader Mann, reminding the bewhiskered representative from Illinois that it was shearing time. He said the perambulation of Mann had cost the government $10,000,000. "Is this some more of that moonshine debate?" asked Representative Langtry, of Kentucky. "I may be bewhiskered, but I am not bewhiskied,"- retorted Mann. T have hair on my head and hair on my face, but unlike the gentleman from Kentucky, I have no hair on my brain." The Lemon Schedule. The lemon tariff controversy came ) up in the house again today, Republi- ! cans contending that the rate on lemons in the Underwood bill was too low, and Democrats directing their fire at the California lemon trust. Lemon duties have been a source of dispute for. more than twenty years. The Underwood rate on lemons is 24 per cent. In the Wilson bill of 1897 lemons carried a duty of 10 per cent. The present law carries lemons at 8 per cent. Under the Underwood bill it is estimated that the California lemon producers would lose control of all the markets east of the Allegheny mountains. The present law, Democrats contend, , gives them absolute control of the New York market despite the cheapness of lemons raised in Sicily, and the low freight rates across the Atlantic. 1 California Republicans claimed , the Underwood rate was too low, and proposed an amendment increasing the duties to the level of the present law. Leader Underwood continued to assert today that he would take no action to shut off legitimate debate. MAY CLOSE THE MILLS. BOSTON, May 2. Sales of wool have dropped again owing to conflicting reports from Washington regarding the tariff. The trade is very nervous, dealers and manufacturers are likely to proceed very cautiously until the bhl has passed. Recent sales have reduced to a considerable extent the burdensome stocks of. certain grades, and the market is now in fairly ! god shape to meet the proposed tariff changes. Predictions are being freejy made that many mills will close down for longer of shorter terms, or until the tariff uncertainty is removed. RUSSIAN NOBLEMEN FIGHT OVER WOMAN f National TCewn Association? WARSAW, Russia, May 2. The police, investigating the murder of Prince Ladislas Drucki Lubeski. for which , Baron John Bisping. one of the wealthfeet landlords in Lithuania was arrested, today found letters which show tliet the two men had quarreled over the affections of a beautiful young woman bearing one of the highest titles in Russia and distantly related to the imperial family of Romanoffs. Baron John Bisping Is a cousin of the murdered man, and is still . detained here, having been brought from Terestn, where he owns a big estate. The baron's defense probably will he that after quarreling with his relative over the affections of the beautiful young relative of Czar Nicholas, they repaired to the garden of the Tersin estate where they fought a duel in which the prince was killed. CALLED TO LAFAYETTE. Mayor Zimmerman was called to "Lafayette this morning on account of ! the death of a sister-in-law. He will I jMturn Tuesday. j

Reading from left to right those in the photograph are: E. S. Birdsall, Republican, t East Auburn (father of the original anti-alien land bill that aroused the opposition of the Japanese government and the Democratic administration of President Wilson) ; Newt W. Thompson, Republican, president pro-tem of the State Senate; A. E. Boynton, Republican, and Governor Hiram Johnson, Progressive. These men aided Attorney-General Webb in framing the substitute bill, which will bring about the same results as Birdsall's measure without conflicting with any national treaties.

POINTS SOUTH MAY SECURE TRACTION Reports That Newcastle and Cincinnati Will be Connected. WOULD TOUCH MILTON Dead Ends of Companies Would be Tied UpHenry's Statement. (Palladium Speclal NEWCASTLE, Ind. May 2. Reports, apparently from an authentic source, indicate that a traction line may soon be started from this city to Connersville and points south of that city, which will eventually give an outlet toward Cincinnati. According to reported plans the Indianapolis and Eastern line, known as the Honey Bee traction system, will be the connecting link between the lines north and south. The Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern traction line, operating between Indianapolis and Richmond, with a spur at Cambridge City to Milton, is an important loop. A subsidy was recently voted in Fayette county which will make possible the extension of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati line which now operates between Indianapolis and Connersville. A movement has already been started looking to the voting of another subsidy in Fayette county, and the word from Connersville is that the proposition will be favorably acted upon. From Connersville also comes the news that an organized effort to secure a right of way for the extension of the lines through Franklin county would be approved. Charles L. Henry is at the head of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction line and the operations of his concerns in Cincinnati make it seem almost certain that such a thing as building through from Connersville is not an improbable feat. The extension of the T. H. I. & E. from Milton to Connersville or from Dunreith to Rushville would completely tie up the dead ends of two prominent interurban properties. The extension of the I. C. line from Connersville to Cincinnati would give an all trolley route from Fort Wayne to that city, which, when properly considered, is not such a wild railroad dream as many might suppose. The Honey Bee line has perfected arrangements with the T. H. I. & E. to use the station of the latter company for freight and passenger traffic and through a working agreement with connecting lines, and the building of extensions from Milton to Connersville and from Connersville to Cincinnati, the desires for an all trolley could be gratified easily, and it is said that this program will be worked out within a few years. PREFERRED DIVIDEND On M. Rumely Stock May be Reduced. (National News Association) NEW YORK, May 2 It is reported that Directors of M. Rumely Company have practically decided to reduce the preferred dividends due in June tc either 1 per cent or 1 1-4 per cent quarterly. The common dividend, under the circumstances, would naturally have to be passed. It is officially stated that the rumor that the Company contemplates making a new issue of $5,000,000 collateral notes secured by farmers' notes is not true.

WALLACE'S TRIAL OPENED IN COURT Charge Assault and Battery With Intent to Commit Manslaughter.

The trial of the state against William Wallace charged with assault and battery with intent to commit manslaughter was started this morning in the Wayne circuit court. The case is being tried before a Jury. Wallace is charged with having assaulted Jesse Hilling on March 13, 1913, with an iron dray pin. Hilling testified that there was no provocation on- his part for the assault being committed. A conversation between the two was being held relative to the hitching of a horise and Wallace remarked that his black horse was lame. Hilling testified that while he was in the act of removing the harness from one of his horses in order that the animal might drink from a tub in a barn, Wallace struck him with the iron bar.. He rushed at Hilling cursing him and saying he would kill him, according to Hilling's testimony. Both men are employed as teamsters by Forrest Munger. Hilling said he was struck over the head with the iron pin and fell to his knees. When Hilling struggled to his feet he was again assaulted by Wallace who struck him aver the head again. The men then clinched and Wallace was thrown against one of the wagons. Hilling stated that he called for help and dragged his advasery to the alley in the rear of the barn. Hilling, on cross-examination, testified as to trouble which the men had had previous to this time. While unloading machinery from a box car Wallace was said to have chided Hilling that he could not do a man's work. Hilling responded that he could haul as much machinery as Wallace could. Insinuations against Wallace's honesty, it is believed, tended to open the breach which existed between the two men. Hilling admitted that at one time he had been in jail for six months in Rushville pending trial for murder. While employed in Rushville hauling chickens Hilling shot a man who assaulted him. He was acquitted by the jury. Hilling alleged that he shot in self defense. The jury is composed of W. S. Eliason, Frank Allison, Link Jones, Joseph D. King,' Ed. Allen, Clarence L. Pitts, Oliver Spencer, John W. Retz, J. E. Dunkan, Herman Ostermani Jas. R. Bookhout and John Decker. ER A To Take the Place of R. J. Horton The names of several physical directors of various Y. M. C. A. organizations throughout the country are being considered by the local Y. M. C. A. to fill the place vacated by Roy J. Horton. Mr. Horton has resigned to accept the place of physical director of the Y. M. C. A. at Indianapolis. He will be at the head of that department and will have several assistants. Mr. Horton has been physical director of the Y. M. C. A. in this city for about Ave years. His work here was very successful, and he has organized several clubs and other organizations. In 1910 he took charge of athletics and gymnasium work in the public schools, and since then regular instructors in this work have been appointed by the school board. During the past three years swimming contests have been held under Mr. Horton's direction, a swimming expert coming here each year and instructing the boys. Over three hundred boys have taken these lessons.

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WERE KILLED Report of Brutal Action of Mexican Rebels Were Received This Morning. (National News Association) MEXICO CITY, May 2: pne hundred and sixty men, women "and children, passengers on the Interoceanic railroad were killed near Ozuniba, state of Mexico, when a bridge was dynamited by Zapatista rebels while the train was passing over it. News of the tragedy which occurred - late yesterday was received here today in a war department dispatch by General Mondragonvv Only ten persons " on the tram es-1

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caped with their lives, and they were ; in a pistol duel on a Kansas City so badly injured that all of them may ! Southern train No. 5 early today durdie. Ozumba, the scene cf the out- J ing the robbery of passengers. The rage, is fifty miles from this city. ! lone bandit escaped with $1,500 in Troops have been sent in pursuit of ' cash and jewelry. A trail of blood

the perpetrators under orders to execute them without trial if captured. The passenger train was passing over a long bridge spanning a ravine when dynamite planted at each end was exploder simultaneously. The bridge collapsed and the train was thrown hundreds of feet into the canyon. Fifteen rebels who were hidden in the hills nearby immediately swarmed to the scene and robbed the bodies of the dead. IS TO INVESTIGATE As to Cause of Accident to C. Muth. An investigation into the causes of the accident to Charles Muth, who claims damages against the city for injuries sustained by falling from a wagon when the vehicle almost turned over in a deep hole in North J street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, will be made by City Attorney Bond. Muth left a notice with the board of works as to the cause and nature of hi injuries, which he claims he received on Saturday, April 26. He did not state the amount of damages wanted. The street on which the accident occurred was opened several years ago, but has never been improved. Witnesses state that the hole in the street was not the cause of the accident. According to law, a ten days' notice must be issued to the board of works before any action can be taken against the city. It will be more than a week before Muth can file his claim. A RECOGNITION OF CHINESE REPUBLIC Formal Aciion Taken by V. S. Government Through Legislation at Pekin. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, May 2. Formal recognition of the republic of China was given today at Pekin to the constitutional assembly by Edward T. Williams, charge de affairs of the American legation there. Immediately after

ward President Yuan Shi Kai address-, informed that in accordance with the ' ing her without providing for her suped a cablegram of thanks to the presi- newly enacted laws they would have j port, and that he is an habitual drunkdent of the United States, which was j to remain on the docket for sixty daysjard. Cole has been one of the regreceived at the state department. i before being tried. julars at the county JalL Recognition follows the formal con- j "If I made the law, I would compel ! It is alleged by the plaintiff that Cole stitution of the Chinese assembly. The , complaints to remain on the docket j was sent to jail last month, and when

step was demanded by this government a month ago a a condition precedent to republic. recognition of the Chinese

MILLIONAIRE GAVE BATTLE TO BANDIT

Jesse E. Short, Wealthy Missourian, Badly Wounded Robber Also Shot. FIGHT IN A SLEEPER When Asked' For His Money Short Opened Fire Robber Made His Escape (National News Association) KANSIS CITY. Mo!. May 2. A millionaire ahd.a bandft-were wounded left by the wounded robber was exI pected to lead to his capture, j Jesse E. Short, Jr., a millionaire 'mine owner of Joplin, Mo., is in a hospital in a serious condition and it is feared hia injuries may result fa- ' tally. 1 The bandit bearded the train in the Union station here and started to rob the passengers while the train was still insiide the city limits. He covered the passengers with a revolver and made them stand in line in the aisles while he took money and valuables from them. When the robber came to Short, the mine owner drew a revolver and be gan firing. The bandit returned the fire and Short was badly wounded. The robber was also wounded and fearing a general resistance by the! passengers, he jumped from the train and fled. He is described by the passengers as a young man of good appearance, neatly dressed and not masked. STATE WEAVING A WEB OF EVIDENCE Damaging Testimony Against Columbus, Ind., Man Charged With Murder. (National News Association) COLUMBUS. Ind., May 2. Interest is increasing in the trial of J. Rufus Clark, charged with the murder of the jaged McQuaid brothers in Jennings j county last October. Jay Cook, a j North Vernon saloon keeper, witness ! for the state, testified today that he j heard Clark say he was game enough j to go and get the money the McQuaids I were reputed to have in their country home. He also identified a cap, found ! after the murder, as the cap Clark f re- ! quently wore. Miss Margaret McQuaid. '.the aged invalid sister of the murdered men, who told her story to the jury in a wheel cnair, broke down and cried several times. Clark 6howed no con - cern. no matter what kind of evidence was introduced. NEW RULING ON ALL DIVORCE COMPLAINTS Attorneys of the Wayne county bar who asked that Judge Fox hear divorce cases now pending on the docket, were for one year before being heard, and : then would not permit an absolute didecree was granted,' said the judge,

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Had Been in Drug Business For Several Years in That Place. (Palladium Special) CENTER VILLE, Ind., May 2. Walking into hid bedroom at his home on East Main street, shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, Isaac Houck, a well known citizen of this place, deliberately placed the muzzle of a shot gun under his chin and practically blew his head off. Mrs. Houck, who was in another part of the house at the time, heard the report of the gun and rushed into the room where she saw the mutilated body of her husband. The brains were dashed out. Mrs. Houck was almost prostrated. Several neighbors who heard the shot ran into the Houck home. Many reasons are assigned for Houck ending his life, principal among which is the report that he had financial troubles. This, however, is denied by some, who declare that Mr. Houck had been In ill health for some time. It is said that Houck has had domestic trouble and the suicide is at tributed to that alleged fact. He is survived by the widow, an adopted son. Richard, 14, a brother, Abraham, of Shirley. Indiana, and sister. Mrs. Hannah Johnson, of this place. Funeral arrangements have not, as yet, been made. Mr. Houck has been in the drug business here for several years. It is understood, however, that he sold his place of business last week to Mr. Grisby, formerly a drug clerk at Milton. No note was left explaining reasons for his rash act. SCUTARI ANNEXED BY MONTENEGRO Little Kingdom Again Sounds a Defiant Note to Ultimatum of Powers. ALBANIAN OUTLOOK Two Flags Now Floating Ov er That Country Greece Secures Salonika. (National News Association) VIENNA, May 2. Montenegro sounded its final note of defiance in the face of the powers today when Crown Prince Dantlo, in the name of King Nicholas, issued a proclamation ! ! announcing the annexation of Scutari to Montenegro. TROUBLE IN ALBANIA. BERLIN. May 2. The Turkish flag will be raised over Albania at Tirana today by Essed Pacha, former commander of the Scutari garrison, who proclaimed himself monarch of the New European kingdom. A telegram from Corfu stated that Essed Pacha and Djavid Bey have acquired an army of 50.000 Turks and are preparing to establish a provincial government at Cria and defend Turkey's sovereignty against both the Albanian patriots, who have been promised autonomy by the European powers and the armies of the Balkan league. Two flags now fly over Albania. One represents the provincial government, which has the support of Europe, and the other Essed Pacha's government, which has only the support of the Young Turks. SALONIKA TO GREEKS. ATHENS, May 2. That complete accord has been established between Greece and Bulgaria over the future status of Salonika was the statement made here today by Foreign Minister Coromilas following receipt of a wirej less message from a Greek warship in ; the Salonika harbor to the effect that ! the Bulgarians had evacuated that ;city. I War has been threatened between .Greece and Bulgaria over the possession of Salonika, and several engagements were unofficially reported. CORA COLE FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE A divorce suit was filed by Cora Cole against Locnie- D. Cole alleging that the defendant is guilty of desert- ; his time expired he left her and went to Webster. W. Va. The plaintiff asks j Helen Clay Cole and Marietta Cole.

Attends State Suffrage Convention and in Interview Urges Strenuous Action to Get Ballot.

CHORUS GIRLS CAN ASSIST THE CAUSE Richmond Woman Says il Stage Beauties Had Petn tioned Legislature foa Votes would Have .Won. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS. May 2 Miss Es ther Griffin White, a newspaper woman' of Richmond, and a delegate to the state suffrage convenUon. is one of those who believes in strenuous meth-i ods to secure the vote for women. Miss' White said today: "Personally, I don't believe in window smashing and bomb throwing, because it is apt to hart in-' nocent bystanders, but it has been demonstrated that the suffragists get nowhere until more or less strenuous, measures are employed. I am an Insurgent all the time. This meeting men as brothers is a thing of the past. The only way to get at them Is toi go it with hammer and tongs. Not-j withstanding all protestations to the contrary, women's exterior is the thing that man notices first, last, longest and all the time." Referring to the Incident when 500 women went up to the Indiana state house and asked to have a woman's suffrage amendment submitted. Miss White said: "Now, if those five hundred women had been chorus girls, not one over 20 years old. it is dollars to doughnuts that woman's suffrage in Indiana would have gone through with a swing and a whoop." DR. KELLER'S VIEWS. INDIANAPOLIS. May i When Dn Amelia Keller, president of the Woman's Franchise League, and a practicing physician, arrived to open the convention of that organization today, she was a little tardy and somewhat flushed. When asked what was tbo matter, she informed a sister suffragist that she had Just welcomed a new suffragist into the world, and had not had any sleep. "How can we best win over the legislature?" queried a delegate at the session this afternoon. Dr. Keller, recalling the experience of the suffrage workers who appealed to the recent legislature, arose from her chair on the platform an said: "There is only one way to win over the legislature, and that ia to get out and collect $L 000.000 and buy if Dr. Keller's an-; swer created a profoaad sensation. but she bad not yet finished. "Men of education and refinement-, can be reached by argument and res-,' son." continued Dr. Keller. "Tbey, would scorn the use of money, buti such men are scarce in the Indians! legislature.' TO V0TEJM STRIKE Big Walk Out on Eastern Roads is in Prospect. (National News Association) NEW YORK, May 2. A strike Tote may soon be cast by the 100,000 trainmen and conductors employed by the fifty-four eastern railroads as the result' of the refusal today of the railway amnagers to submit the wage dispute to arbitration. The original demands called for an increase of 1 per cent and these were rejected by the managers committee yesterday with a statement setting forth various reasons why no increase of wages would be granted. DESERTER RETURHED C. W. Edwards Taken to Ft. Thomas, Ky. Under military guard, Charles V. Edwards, alias Charles Green, who gave himself up Wednesday to Recruiting Officer Bond as a deserter from the army, was returned to Fort Thomas, Ky.. this morning where be will be tried in court martial and ; given the full sentence, which provides i for an imprisonment of two years. The prisoner said he deserted last September from the Fort Raleigh Barracks, Kansas. He was placed on the train at :02 this morning, handcuffed, by Corporal Eel. who was sent ber from Fort Thomas upon the man's apprehension. THE WEATHER STATE ANO LOCAL Fair tonight and probably SatuaJay. Continued warm,