Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 217, 21 July 1913 — Page 1

KICHMQWB PA ABIUM AND SUN-TELEQRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 217 RICHMOND, IND MONDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS j DEPLORABLE STATE QF AFFAIRS FOUND BY LOCAL POLICE TO SEND WARSHIP TO FRONTERA, MEX. Men Who Are Uncovering Great Lobby Conspiracies PROTEST FILED BY LOCAL COMPANY IS GNORED BY BOARD An Urged Request From the U. S. Consul Is Quickly Responded to. ( Oik Mrs. Maupin, Widow H. Dayton, Drunk and Baby Critically 111. Franchise For Allegheny;: Company to Be Sent to Council Tonight. WILL NOT RECOGNIZE

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Aged Grandmother, Blood Poison Victim, Confined to Her Bed. With her curly yellow head lying on a dirty pillow in a filthy room in her home, 1106 North I street, Dorothy Dayton, 3 years old, was found this morning in a critical condition. Later she was removed to the hospital. She was uncared for other than what her drunken mother was able to do for her, and the suffering the child has gone through is indescribable. She wan irst noticed by tfte poiice Saturday afternoon, when her cries for a drink 'attracted the attention of the neighbors, who summoned the authorities. She was lying on a bed, naked and covered with flies. The room was full of flies and filth, according to Patrolman Lawler, who ascertained her condition. All that was done for the child was to cover her with mosquito netting to protect her partially from the flies. Visited by Reporters. This morning newspaper reporters went into the home and found Mrs. Clara Dayton Maqpin drunk. She is the widow of the late William Henry Dayton, who was found murdered in the cellar ol his home last December. There was no one else in the house capable of taking care of the little girl. According to the testimony of neighbors, the child cried for three days, and did not stop until this morning when she fell into a restless sleep, weak and exhausted. The police summoned two physicians to look after the child Saturday. Mrs. Dayton-Maupin was told that her child would die unless medical aid was procured for her at once. She said she hoped she would die with the child.- Mrs. Dayton-Maupin, .has been drunk since Saturday, peighbors state. She recently married Dr. Maupin, an herb doctor, in this city. Aged Woman Very III. In one of the upper rooms of the house was Mrs. Clara Enlow, mother of Mrs. Maupin. She is confined to her bed with eczema or blood poisoning. She has not been out of her room for several weeks, according to the neighbors. She had stockings, tied around her arms for lack of proper bandages. Her arms were swollen and red. The skin was peeling off her finger3 and her condition was pitiful. She is past seventy years of age. When asked who attended her she said the children would bring her things to eat. She said her daughter did not come upstairs and she was unable to go dOWtt,; ' Prosecutor Reller and Probation Officer, Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, were informed of the conditions at the Dayton home this morning. Recently Mrs. Candler attempted to take the children from Mrs. Maupin, intending to have them made wards of the Board of Childrens' Guardians. Mrs. Maupin objected to this, saying that the family was , going to move to Kentucky and live with some of her relatives. One of the children then became ill (Continued on Page Three) TEN DROWNINGS IN THE CENTRAL WEST Five Meet Death in Chicago Ball Players Had Narrow Escapes. (National News Association) CHICAGO, July 21. Ten drownings were on record today in Chicago and other cities of the Middle West. Five deaths were due to the dangerous undertow, running more treacherous yesterday than ever before in the memory of old Lake Michigan seamen. Five members of the WashingtonAmerican baseball team were saved from drowning by life guards at the Chicago beach. The five Chicago drownings were attributed to the lake undertow. Simeon Barber, 19, rocked a boat in which he was alone, at Virginia, 111.; Fred Salzman, 26,vlargaret Mullins, 19. and Anna Hauc 20, fell out of a boat at Cincinnati and the swift Ohio river current carried them under a fleet or coal barges. At St. Louis, Wm. Shelton of Granite City, was drowned in the Mississippi, and his 11-year-old son narrowly escaped, when Shelton's launch was overturned in a collision with the government customs launch, Meteor. Walter Johnson, Bob Ainsmith, John Henry and Frank Laporte of the Washington baseball club were caught in the undertow while bathing at the Chicago Beach. Prompt work by life guards saved them from being carried ut into the lake. Gedeon, another player on the . team, was washed against a post by a wave, and was rescued unconscious by life guards.

(National News Association) WASHINGTON, July 21. Either a United States battleship or a gunboat will be sent to Frontera, Mexico, in response to an urgent request from the United States consul there for the protection of American lives and property, the Navy Department announced today. The Revolutionists, it was stated, have occupied two American owned plantations there and have threatened to attack the port. The Navy department will send one of the warships now at Tampico to Frontera. The United States does not intend to recognize the Huerta government in Mexico because that administration is reported to be tottering to its ruin and is not expected to last long. This was the gist of President Wilson's discussion of the Mexican situation with the Washington correspondent today. The President said that at present he was studying the Mexican problem so that he would be able to discuss it thoroughly with Ambassador Wilson when the latter reaches Washington on Friday but he indicated clearly that the administration does not intend to recognize Huerta, no matter what advice may be brought by the ambassador. The chief executive has been advised on the highest authority that President Huerta is losing his grip on the Mexican Republic and that the days of his rule are numbered. It is not considered good policy to recognize a government which has but a short time to live and the United States will reserve its approbation for another and stronger regime which it is hoped will succeed the Huerta government.

J. WATSON LISTENS TO COL, MULHALL Former Sixth District Congressman Interested in Proceedings. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, July 21 Former Congressman James E. Watson of Indiana, was an interested listener today when Col. M. M. Mulhall .of Baltimore continued the identification of letters before the Overman Lobby committee bearing on the political activities of the National Association of Manufacturers. Secretary Schwedtman of the N. A. M. according to one letter introduced warned Mulhall to stay away from Indiana during the latter part of the campaign of 190S. Newspapers had been attacking Mulhall and Schwedtman advised temporary absence as the best way of meeting these attacks. Schwedtman expressed fear of the growth of the Socialist movement and said that the United States should look with admiration unon the fieht party. Paul D. Cravath, through Senator Overman, got into the record a statement from Thomas Gibson, of New York, denying the correctness of the statement on which David Lamar declared he based his charge that a forgery of $82,000,000 was made on the books of the Union Pacific. Fred A. Sims, acting chairman of the Republican Indiana state committee, gave out an interview saying that Mulhall was not connected with the N. A. M. nor the Republican national committee. This caused trouble, and Mulhall. according to his testimony today, was instructed by President Van Cleave to call Sims a coward. This Mulhall said he did. Sims explained to Van Cleave that when he made the statement about Mulhall. he did not know he was being interviewed. Mulhall declared that Judge Davenporty, attorney for the Buck Stove and Range company, of St. Louis, trailed Samuel Gompers during the 1908 camTUliPTl With ctonAOTQnhora n-hn ronnrt. ed all of Gompers' speeches in the hopes that he might say something which might be brought to the attention of the federal court. Mulhall declared that his expense accounts were prepared by a woman accountant, who assisted him. He declared that she was the "best woman j accountant that God Almighty ever I put on earth and she went crazy be- ' cause of hard work." Her accounts j were always accepted by the X. A. M. j without question. j A 'woman who is said to have been i his friend and assistant is now in an j insane asylum in Baltimore. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Tuesday, with rising temperature. TEMPERATURE Noon 70 Yesterday. I iX Uill .....a. ..... V! Minimum 64 J

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COLORED MINISTER Some of the Most Prominent White People Laud the Rev. Townsend. A MEMORIAL SERVICE White citizens joined with colored citizens in paying tribute to the late Rev. James M. Townsend, soldier, minister and statesman, at the memorial exercises held at the Bethel A. M. E. church yesterday afternoon, under the auspices of the Crispus Attucks Loyal Legion. The church auditorium was filled. The exercises were opened by a song by the choir, and the invocation by the Rev. Goins. Rev. Jones gave a scripture reading. Other speakers were Mrs. M. E. McCurdy, Judge Henry C. Fox, Rev. George Sampson, D. W. Comstock, department commander of the Indiana G. A. R., Mr. Garrett, Timothy Nicholson and Philander Outland. Mr. Hunter gave a vocal solo and Wesley Howard gave a violin solo. Tribute by Comstock. In speaking of the late Rev. Townsend's behavior on the battlefield, Judge Comstock declared that he was a gallant man at all times. In part Mr. Comstock said: " I do not overlook the fact that I am speaking to those who knew him in his sacred office. For you he blessed the marriage feast, placed his hand in baptism upon the head of infancy, brought hope to the chamber of the sick, cheered the departing spirit and at last laid away your hallowed dead. He was a preacher of the word, not a Pharisee. He sought to persuade, rather than to Trighten or coerce. He was the kindly light that led; he was indeed the Good Shepherd of the Flock. That in the discharge of his duties as a minister of the Gospel, he was devout and efficient, I need not say. Rev. Townsend as a Citizen. "As a citizen he was interested at all times in public affairs and active in what related to the general welfare. As a public officer called to places of great responsibility, he showed himself capable and worthy of the confidence of his fellow citizens. He was a student, and we may well believe that at Oberlin college, where he received his theological education, he made the most of his opportunities: was serious and earnest and was early imbued with a profound reverence for sacred things. "He cultivated a contrite heart as became a follower of the Lowly Nazarene. And, when he entered upon the ministry he did it wit the pure spirit of Christian faith and humility. In short, in all the walks of life, public or private, it is well known that he was exemplary. The fact is that no one can speak truly without speaking well of him. He was a man of fine fibre. He had a nice appreciation of the proprieties of life. His daily walk and conversation appealed to every decent man for that courteous treatment due from one gentleman to another. This is saying much it is a great record but to stop here would leave the story of his life but partly told. A Gallant War Record. "In 1863 he enlisted in the Fiftyfourth Massachusetts regiment and followed that regiment in its varying fortunes to the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. Col. Robert W. Shaw, the gallant young colonel of that regiment, was killed upon Fort Wagner within the breastlL;onunuea on rage four.) i CHINESE REPUBLIC HAS BEEN SEVERED (Xational Xews Association) CANTON, China, July 21 A complete severence of political relations between Northern and Southern China was proclaimed here today. Business is at a stand-still. Revolutionary leaders are threatening to seize government building. British torpedo boats are proceeding to this port from Hong Kong to protect British lives and interests. The governor-general of Kwang Tung province proclaimed his territory independent of the Pekin government and declared in the same proclamation that the provincial council had nominated him commander-in-chief of the revolutionary, forces,

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Big Congregation Which Witnessed the Ceremony Wanted to Pet Youngsters Receiving Many Gifts. "It's a common occurrence to baptise children in this church, but when it comes to baptizing triplets that's a different matter," said the Rev. F. A. Feeger, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, in speaking of the baptismal of the Farwig triplets yesterday morning. The ceremonial application of water or initiatory rite of the Christian church, was given in the usual manner to Cora Belle, Colburn Wilson and Bertha Josephine Farwig at the regular church service. The congregation was augmented by a number of friends and others who weie anxious to witness the ceremony. Following the altar service and the singing of a hymn the triplets were baptised. Sponsors for Infants. Sponsors were Dr. Colburn, after whom the boy was named ; Henry Far

MISSCULBERTSON RETURNS FROM VISIT WITH AUTHOR

Richmond Woman Tells of E 1 laHeeler-' Wilcox, Whose Writings Now Appear in the Palladium. When only 7 years old, Ella Wheeler

Wilcox, whose feature articles arejAmencan writer. &ne nas ine amniy now appearing in the Palladium, first i to adapt herself to any kind of life.

began to write. Six years later her ambition lead her to submit some stories to the publishers. At first they came back accompanied by the usual rejection slips. But she did not let that discourage her. Finally, as the reward of her indominable will and perseverance, a publisher accepted the girl's writings. This unconquerable will with which she secured the acceptance of her stories as a girl, is the secret of her success and world-wide popularity, which amounts almost to worship with many people, says Miss Meb Culbertson, of this city, who is a close personal friend of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Miss Culbertson has been the guest of Mrs. Wilcox at her country

LOCAL FRIENDS' CHURCHES ARE TO BE REPRESENTED

At the Annual Conference of the Young Friends of America .Held This Week at Winona Lake. Friends' churches in this city will be well represented at the fourth annual conference for Young Friends of America, which will be held at Winona Lake, July 23 to 30, inclusive. Lillian E. Hayes, of Dunreith, Ind., is president of the conference. The conference will open Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The work of the week will be explained at that time. Beginning with Thursday morning the following program will be taken up each day, with the exception of Sunday: 7:00 Rising Bell. 7:30 to 8:00 Quiet Hour, led by Ira Johnson, Evangelistic Superintendent of Indiana Y. M. 8:55 to 9:50 Mission Study Classes. Program for Classes. Class A "Decisive Hour," led by Errol D Peckham, A. B., student st Hartford, Conn. Class B "The Church Missionary Committee." Leader, Charles E. Tebbetts, Richmond, secretary of American Friends' Board of Foreign Missions 5 Class C "Church of the Open Country." Leader, Clara I. Cox, editor "Friends" Messenger," High Point, X. C. Class D "The Upward Path." Leader, Edith Hunt, missionary superintendent of the Indiana Y. M. C. E. Union. 9:50 to 10:20 Recess and informal conference, witlfcpeakers who have been secured for the evening services, and leaders of classes. 10 : 20 to 11 : 10 Simultaneous classes on. various subjects will be open, to

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wig, an uncle; Edward King, Bertha Farwig, after whom one of the girls was named, and Cora Iielle King, namesake of the other girl. According to the order of the church children baptised in infancy must have sponsors. The big congregation all wanted to pet and fondle the infants after the ceremony, which the babes went through without a whimper. The babies are as healthy as can be and are increasing in weight each day. A group picture was taken of them Friday, and Saturday night these pictures were placed on sale at a Main street store. The photographs sold like "hot cakes," and a large dish was filled with nickels and dimes when the store was closed that night. Since the birth of the triplets Mr. and Mrs. Farwig have received gifts for the former from various retail and wholesale firms in this city and other cities. Among the presents was a case of baby's food sent by a firm making this product. "Informal showers" have also been held from time to time by women in the Farwig neighborhood and it is said that the triplets have enough new "duds" to clothe 100 children. npme in Connecticut several summers, and has recently returned from New York,. where she visited Mrs. Wilcox, who lias just" returned: from Africa, where she spent the winter. Popular in Europe. Miss Culbertson says that abroad, where the people respect genius more and care less about money, Ella vneeier vwicox is me most popular ana writes aDOut it witn sympatny ana understanding. Not lonS since, Julia Opp asked sev eral London booksellers, Miss Culbertson says, what American author's works sold best in the London shops. The reply was, "Those of Ella Wheeler Wilcox." Last winter she was presented to tae Queen of England, whose attention had been attracted by Mrs. Wilcox's poetry. In Africa she was the guest of royalty wherever she went. A larewell reception was given in her honor at the dock just before she sailed for the United states. Her poem upon the death of Queen (Continued on Page Twelve) the delegates during this period. The themes for discussion in the classes will be: Bible Study Leader, Henry J. Cadbury, M. C, Haverford, Pa. Friends' History Leader, Enos Harvey, pastor Bloomington meeting. S. S. Methods Leader, Edgar Stranahan, general secretary Church Federation, Wichita, Kan. Personal Work Leader, Edgar Woollam, secretary Bible Institute, i Cleveland, O. j For Boys and Girls. I Methods of Work Yith Boys and Girls Leader, William J. Sayers, I Poughkeepsie, X. Y., pastor Poughrkeepsie meeting, and secretary of the Men and Religion Forward movement. 11:15 to 12:00 Period for the study of methods to be used in all branches cf Christian Endeavor work Leader, E. P. Gates, Chicago, field secretary of Illinois C. E. Union. lSODinner. 1:00 to 6:00 Period of recreation. (Continued on Page Three) EMPIRE STATE WILL -AUCTION OF BOOZE (National News Association) ALBANY, N. Y, July 21. For the first time in history the state of New York is to have an auction sale of whiskey, wine and beer, that had been seized by excise agents throughout the state in- recent raids. The sale is to be held under the provisions' of a new Daw which is effective this year. The goods were seized in fifteen raids and the stock that was found to be illegally on hand consisted of nine hundred barrels of red and white wine, five thousand botUes of champagne and claret and cordials; four thousand botUes of beer and several casks of grape juice. The sale begins tomorrow. .

Members of the Senate Lobby In vestigatmg Committee as they appear in session at Washington. From left

to right: Senators Thomas W. Walsh, i At exactly 9 o'clock the board of pubof Montana; James Reed, of Missouri; j He works, the member of the publio Lee S. Overman, (chairman) of North j service corporation committee of the Carolina; Knute Nelson, of Minnesota i Commercial club, the representative and Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa. ! of botl th local gas company and the

(Copyright Service.) by International News BIG BARN BORNEO: BELIEVE CHILDREN STARTED THE FIRE Four Children on the Ben Sharp Farm Had a Narrow Escape. (Palladium Special.) CHESTER, Ind., July 21. Damage to the extent of 1 2,000 resulted yesterday when a large barn, hay. grain, carriages and farming implements belonging to Ben Sharp, between Chester and Fountain City, were completely destroyed by fire. Two horses were saved. Four children were playing in the ! barn when the fire broke out in the haymow. After they had entered the . barn to door had blown shut, forcing j the children to crawl out through a I hole on the other side of the barn to save themselves and give the alarm May Have Used Matches. It is thought that the children had been playing with matches and had started the fire in that way, but they deny knowing anything about the origin of the blaze. With the help of neighbors who soon arrived, a bucket brigade was organized, saving the house and the other buildings. Will Sharp, the son, was overcome by the heat, and was in a serious condition for some time. He is feeling much better this morning. The loss is partially covered by insurance. SAYS HE WILL NOT KNEEL TO CAUCUS Chamberlain's Attitude May Tie Up Vote on the i . Tariff Bill. (Xational Ne-.fS Association) WASHINGTON. July 21. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, announced today that he would not be bound by the senate Democratic caucus to vote for the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill. This would leave only forty-eight senators on whom the Democrats can rely to support the measure, and would make the vote of Vice President Marshall necessary to break the tie. Chamberlain did not state that he

would vote against the bill on its final lo work and the men had requested -passage, and his Democratic colleagues him to come to the meeting and pro-

believe he will . be found .among the faithful when the bill comes to a vote. THE COST OF LIVING. Not Be Reduced by Bill, Says Senator Burton. Will WASHINGTON. July 21. Senator Joseph Burton. Republican, of Ohio, in the senate today attacked the ad - valorem duties in the Underwood - Sim - mons bill; denounced as false Demo - cratic predictions that the bill would reduce the cost of living, and critl - cised the measure for Its free trade

tendencies. Burton declared that the j committee and the city would like to members of the Democratic party ad-! have had included in the contract, bat mitted the Underwood-Simmons tariff jit was impossible to obtain all of the bill would not reduce the cost of liv- concessions. Mr. Swayne said that the ing. He quoted from a signed inter- j entire contract was made subject to view signed by Secretary of Com-; the will of the Commission and theremerce RedSeld in which Ked field fore the city would be protected.

termea tae Denent to oe aenvea rromt me iana om morai ana mental, ana siatea mat no intelligent man expects tne Din to oe more man a step to

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BIG PUBLIC MEETING

Representative Citizens Met With Board Bavis Is Not Satisfied. The only formal protest to the grant in? of a franchise to the Allegheny Natural Gas company as filed today by the Richmond Light. Heat and Power company at the public hearing on the franchise, held at the city building, as required under the new utilities law. The board of works rtfused to give the protest any consideration on the grounds that the objections were not valid. After the hearing the contract was signed by the board and will be presented to council, which meets tonight. If council takes favorable action tonight the application will be made tomorrow to the public utility commission. '. Allegheny company and a good sized crowd of representative citizens assembled in the council chamber to diecuss the granting of a franchise to the Allegheny Gas company to supply: Richmond with 40 cent natural gaa. L., H. 4 P. to Take Permit. At the opening of the meeting WiW fred Jessup, attorney for the local company, presented two copies of a foi mal protest against the granting of: the franchise, stating that the objections they had to offer were embodied; in the communication. He also pre-, sented a copy of the noUce to the pub-' lie utility commission that the Light,' Heat and Power company has accept! ed the indeterminate permit In lieu of the present franchise, which has ex-v plred. In the protest of the local company it is claimed that at the time the city started the negotiations with the other company, the L., II. and P. company tried to make a contract with the Logan company, but it could not get a price from them that would permit the retailing of the gas at a profit. The protest states that the best price they, were able to get was 23 cents per 1,000 cubic feet for domestic consumers and 21 cents for commercial consumers, and this price only when a very great! quantity was used. 4 Excessive Rates Alleged. The protest charges that the price ; offered is above the rate named in th contract which the Logan company has with Marion and Muncie. The protest also states that il would mean j a loss of J65.000.00 for the first three years if the local company was com-1 polled to pay the price asked of it byH the natural gas company for its pro-j duct. , The local company filed the protest as a taxpayer. It claims that the Dew j company must tear up the streets and that its contract with the city will not, insure a continued supply of sas. 1 The Light, Heat and Power com-! pany also asks in its protest that amendments be made to the proposed contract with the Allegheny company ; which would specify the quality andj pressure and to show reliable evl-! dence that it has offered to the local S company as lo wa price as to companies in other Indiana cities. The! local company also requests that some" provision be made In the contract to' supply the city with artificial gas when the natural gas gives out. Following Mr. Jessup the proposed contract was read section by section j and the citizens present were called on to express their opinion on the gas 1 proposition. Benham and Bavis. Dr. M. C. Benham was the first to . respond, stating that he was in favor of 40 cent gas. that he believed the ; city should not turn down a single commodity which it was possible to obtain. He said that he thought the t contract should be accepted. Dr. Benham was followed by Alfred ! Bavis, who said that he was present jto represent the 600 men at the Hoosier Drill company, where he worked, t He said that he had gone to the shop , tect the citizens aeainst the en tan el v ments in the proposed franchise. He j said that he was not opposing 40 cent ' gas, but was against some of the pro- , visions. Mr. Bavis objected to the word j "vahie," claiming that the word "cost" should be substituted; also because I some provisions were made subject to 1 the Utility Commission while others . j were not; also that proper provision ! was not made for the repairing of the j 1 streets. j j S. E. Swayne and City Attorney Will j 1 Bond answered Mr. Bavis, stating that ; there were many provisions which the t Charles Jordan Speaks. Charles W. Jordan, secretary of of the j work j Commercial Club reviewed the Continued on Paso Three),