Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 265, 15 September 1913 — Page 1

fflCHMONB PAIXADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 265 RICHMOND, IND MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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E IN RICHMOND VERY -SERIOUS DR. DAVIS CrematoraPast Summer Was Only AfcV to Handle Half of Refuse of the City. OFFERS NO REMEDY Fund to Enlarge Plant This Year Used for Other Purposes by Board. City Health Officer Davis today admitted that during the last summer the municipal crematory had been able to dispose of only one-half the garbage of the city. To prevent the accumulation of garbage at the plant it was necessary to give about onehalf the accumulation each week to two hog raisers south of the city and v few days ago garbage was denied one of these men because complaints had been filed with the health office. A year ago this month council appropriated $3,000 for the health department to be expended this year for enlarging the crematory, but owing to the crippled iinanciul condition of the city. Mayor Zimmerman and the board of public works had this money transferred to another fund. The budget for 1914, authorized by council, contains no provision for enlarging the garbage disposal plant, notwithstanding the fact that the garbage question next year promises to be more serious than the last summer, because of the steadily increasing growth of the city. Plant Inadequate. "From now on until next summer the crematory will be able to dispose of most of the garbage," said Dr. Davis today, "but last summer when it was most important to have the garbage burned promptly, only onehalf, of the accumulation could be taken care of at the crematory. "In a city this size a crematory large enough to dispose of all garbage is the only satisfactory method of handling this question. There is not enough garbage in the city to interest capitalists in organizing a garbage disposal company, and the plan of selling garbage to hog raisers is impractical." "Before the crematory was built," continued Dr. Davis "the city experimented with selling its garbage to the farmer who submitted the highest bid for the contract. These contractors, however, only took such refuse as could be fed to hogs and left the rest of the garbage in the rsceptacles, so that plan proved a very poor one." The oven at the crematory is lined with firo clay bricks and Dr. Davis Btates the 2,000 degrees of heat in this destroys rapidly the clay linings, and frequently it is necessary to suspend operations at the plant two and three days until the oven has cooled sufficiently to make repairs. In the meantime the only method of disposing of the garbage is to send it out of the city, which is a heavy expense to the city, for it receives no compensation for garbage used by farmers. "If the plant was enlarged by the Addition of another oven one could take care of most of the garbage while the other was shut down for repairs," said Dr. Davis. But Dr. Davis has been unsuccessful in his efforts to have the city -adfiivfation see the wisdom of such action. To Push Ordinance. The city health department is now preparing to place in operation the new garbage ordinance which requires that the refuse from every home and place of business be placed in three receptacles, one for combustible material, one for slops and one for such articles as broken crockery, glass, pieces of metal, etc. The combustible material will be used as fuel at the crematory and a saving in the coal till of the plant is anticipated. Drivers of garbage wagons have "been instructed to notify the citizens of this ordinance and, after a short time, if it is being violated by any one, lie will be reported to the sanitary officers. If his warnings are ignored, the violators of the ordinance will be prosecuted by the city attorney. TRUST INVADES T. R.'S STRONGHOLD OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Sept. 15 At last a trust has invaded the home town of Colonel Roosevelt. A big oyster company, which controls most of the beds along the southern shores, has secured control of the local beds which were formerly regarded as the legitimate property of two hundred oyster men and clam diggers of Oyster Bay. HENRY L. WILSON PLANS LECTURE NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Henry Lane Wilson, who has resigned as ambassador to Mexico, is writing a book and getting ready to make a lecture tour with a lyceum bureau. Mr. Wilson has arrived at the Waldorf from his home in Indiana to receive his household furniture, which was forwarded from Mexico City. The book will deal with Mr. Wilson's seventeen years in the diplomatic service, including his work in Mexico and events of a recent date. AN ANNOUNCEMENT The domestic science committee of the Fall Festival wishes to announce that articles, such as quilts, bedspreads, fancy work or home laundry work must be at the high school not Jitter than Monday, September 29.

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WEATHER FORECAST

STATE AND LOCAL Fair in north; local rafhs in south portion tonight; Tuesday probably fair. TEMPERATURE Noon . 74 Yesterday. Maximum 74 Minimum 41 FOREIGN T VIOLATES E Liberty Man Fined for Selling Peaches Without License. APPEALS THE CASE McLeland Not Afraid of Cutting of Prices Opposes illegality. Roy D. Hawley, of Liberty, Ind., who brought a carload of peaches to Richmond last week for wholesale distribution, was fined $15 and costs in police court this morning for engaging in retail business withing having first paid the license fee exacted by the city from transient retailers. The charge was filed by Homer McLeland. McLeland stated that he had furnished money to the wife of a friend of his with which to purchase a bushel of peaches. The receipt for the purchase price was introduced as evidence. Henry IT. Johnson, the defendant's lawyer, urged that his client's action did not constitute an infraction of the law, as he intended to establish himself permanently in business here and so could not be required to take out a license. He declared that the law was intended to protect the merchants of the city from nomad peddlers and not from legitimate competition. Appeals Case. Will Bond, as attorney for the city, rested his case on the fact that Hawley did not have a permanent residence here, and had no place of business, merely making his sales from a freight car, and so could not be regarded as a bonafide Richmond merchant. Hawley gave an appeal bond and the case will be carried to the circuit court. McLeland said today that he did not object to Hawley selling the peaches at any price, but that he based his charges on the fact that Hawley had not taken out a "hawker's" license at $10 a day, which he should have done because he had no permanent headquarters, the plaintiff says. SEVEN COME 1EVEN Five Colored Men Play Game Two are Fined. By the poor light of a lantern, five colored men grouped themselves around a table in the Starr Coal yards Saturday evening for a little amusement with the "bones." An early start had been made and the game was going in full swing at 7:15 when Officer Longman came upon the scene, breaking up the party. Bert Warner and Orlie Reed were arrested, but Harrison Jinks, Henry Edwards and Reed Popple escaped into the darkness and have not been arj rested. Warner and Reed each drew I five dollars and costs in police court i today. T. A. EDISON ILL AT HIS JERSEY HOME Thomas A. Edison, the world's most promient inventive genius, who has been forced to suspend work in his j famous laboratory at Llewellyn Park, j near West Orange, X. J., suffering from a cold and an attack of indi gestion, j

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AS CHURCH PASTOR Minister at Second Presbyterian Tenders Resignation at Sunday Service CONGREGATION SPLIT Result of Differences on Account of Control Board's Action. The resignation of Rev. Thomas McXary, of the Second Presbyterian church, has been tendered to the con gregation, and a meeting will soon be held at which time action will be taken on the matter. Rev. McXary spoke to the congregation yesterday morning and explained the reasons for his action. He said that it was not any personal dislike that caused him to tender his resignation, but that he believed.it would be to the advantage of the congregation if such a step were taken. "I like the city, congregation, church and opportunity better than any 1 have ever come into contact with, but I feel that it is for the general good of every one concerned that I resign. Perhaps another man can be secured who will do better work here, and perhaps I can do better work elsewhere." Differences arose in the church on account of the action of the board of control, which expended some money about a year ago for improvements and this led to some dissatisfaction. In commenting upon this subject Rev. Mr. McXary said: "I don't think that our people are any more unreasonable than others. I have never received anything but the best of treatment, and there has been no trouble except this small matter in the congregation. I feel, however, that perhaps my services are not what they should be, and that perhaps another could do more towards bringing the congregation together. It is not my personal wish to leave the congregation, but I feel it my duty." Rev. Mr. McXary has no definite plans formulated for his future work and has not, as yet, received a call. DONATION DAY SET FOR OCTOBER 28 Home for Friendless Women Needs Gifts of Produce. The annual donations for the Home for Friendless Women will be received at that institution, October 28. Mrs. Thomas, matron of the home, made this announcement today. . Because of the small allowance made for each prisoner at the home it has been necfessary for the officials of the institution to call upon residents and farmers for donations. Last year j the weather was bad and many farm ers were unable to bring their donations. Need Donations. Mrs. Thomas believes the farmers will be unusually liberal this year, not only because of their abundant crops but because of the need of donations. Every form of produce will be accepted gladly. Several insane persons are being cared, for there as well as a number of incorrigibles, delinquent and neglected children. Only forty cents' a day is allowed for the maintenance of adults and twenty-five cents for children. Work on the new juvenile ward adjoining the Home was opened today. The structure is being built upon the recommendation of the grand jury which inspected the building and believed the old ward inadequate. APPOINTS MISS JONES Supt. Giles Fills Vacancy "at Hibberd Building. Announcement has ben made by Superintendent Giles that Miss Esther Jones has been appointed to the Fourth grade of the Hibberd school, which position was made vacant by the resignation of Miss Elizabeth Sud-hoff.

Breeding Association Proposed for County

For the purpose of organizing a cooperative breeding association in Wayne county, Prof. Garver. of Purdue University, and a federal official are expected here next week to assist County Agent A. D. Cobb in the movement. Prof. Garver lectured here last year fn the Commercial club rooms and brought with him several specimens of thoroughbred cattle and swine. Because of inclement weather the lecture was not largely attended and the farmers and stock breeders will be given another opportunity to hear him on scientific stock raising. To Organise Farmers. The outcome of the meetings to be held here, will result in a stock breeders' association being organized

RABID DOG BITES GREAFHHILDREN Pasteur Treatment is Given Victims at Indianapolis Today.

ORDER INVESTIGATION May Put Quarantine on All Unmuzzled Dogs in Boston Township. Three children of William Greaf, three miles south of the city on the Straight Line Dike, who were bitten by a rabid dog the first of last week j were sent to Indianapolis today to take j Pastpur trpatment. After acting queerly for a few days, killing several chickens and biting a hog, the dog attacked Cora, the seven year-old daughter last Monday, breaking the skin on her face. Mr. Greaf tied the dog up, but it got loose the next day and bit Frederick, threeyears old, and Clifford, two years old. The skin was broken on the faces of each of the children. County Health Officer King, who was called, believed the terrier had rabies and ordered it quarantined. The canine died Friday night, and the head was sent to the State laboratory at Indianapolis by special messenger. An examination showed that it was infected with hydrophobia. County Pays Expense. The county is paying the- expense of the treatment for the children. Dr. King says they will not become infected since the treatment, if given within seventeen days of the time of the injury, makes the person immune. Dr. King says seven persons from that neighborhood have been bitten and taken the Pasteur treatment in the last thirty days. Three other dogs have died recently with rabies. Dr. King believes all were bitten by a stray dog dhich came to the H. Hunt home, and was killed because it acted queerly. Sheriff Investigates. To prevent the further spread of the disease, Dr. King wanted to Issue an order providing that all unmuzzled dogs in Boston township be killed. Sheriff Bayer refused saying he wished to investigate and see whether there was a need for such action. As the law requires the sheriff and the health officer to work together in this matter, no action will be taken. CLOSES TAILOR SHOP Landlady, Mrs. M. H. Brown, Charge of His Establishment. Robert E. Graham, 24, owner of a tailoring shop in the Gennett theatre building, closed his place of business Thursday and has disappeared. The landlady, Mrs. M. H. Brown, 917 South A street, has taken charge of his shop and is preparing to close it. She says that she knows Graham's whereabouts, as she had a letter from him, but she refuses to further discuss the subject. "I have nothing to say about the matter now," said Mrs. Brown today. "I may have something to say later." Mrs. Brown is 49 years old. Graham has been engaged in business at the present location for. the last seven months. He is the son of Frank Graham, at 110 South Fifth street. Graham left the city on an eastbound car, it ! said. Before leaving he gave a letter to his brother to be mailed to Mrs. Brown. "TIPPLERS" BEWARE Thirty-five on "No Booze" List of Richmond. ' Thirty-five "tipplers" cannot buy liquor in Riohanoud, according to Trustee James Howarth. This is the largest number that has been compelled to do without "booze" since the law was enacted, preventing saloon keepers from selling alcoholic beverages to persons. Seven men have been added to the list within the last eight month Accwding to the trustee the law is ineffective, as the persons who want the liquor can easily get it through a frjend who will buy it for them. Only one violation of the law prohibiting persons from procuring liquor for delinquents has been prosecuted in the last two years. in Wayne county, if 'the plans of the local agent mature. " Seek Co-operation. . The federal official plans the breeding of Jersey milk cows. It is believed that one large association should be composed of smaller breeders associations in various parts of the county. The best and highest grade bulls will be obtained and owned by the various associations. Each year the Tarious associations will have an opportunity to exchange bulls and thereby prevent the deterioration of stock. Four meetings will be held in various parts of the county. The first one will be given- in this city some time next week. Because many fanners are busy preparing their wheat fields, the meetings will he held at night

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Wreck Probe Brings Perplexing Problem

Was Engineer Rogers of the Pean-1 lvania railroad's Xew York-St. Louis i sy

flyer, wrecked last week near Wiley's j positively, is whether the wreck could Station, O.. violating a "slow" order ' nave been avoided if proper precauwhen the accident occurred? : tions had been taken. Was a "slow" order issued, and if When a repair gang is working on so did some operator neglect to give , the road it always is the rule to issue it to Rogers? orders for all trains to ruu s-low over Did the gang at work making repairs ; the section of track being repaired, and on the track neglect to place the yel- ; it is alo customary to place out warnlow warning flags the required 2.0.H) j ing flacs to show the enginevrs of all feet above and below the place they j trains jut where this work is being were working? I done. Investigate Question. j Officials Silent. It was learned today that an inves- I It has been reported generally that ligation along such lines was Leing ! the road gang at Wiley's Station did conducted by the railroad authorities ' not put out warning flags, but no ofand the Ohio Railroad Commission, ficial confirmation of this report can although the investigators have made I be obtained. Neither can an official

every effort to keep secret the presumed indirect causes of the wreck they are probing. The fact that the stretch of track

where the wreck occurred was not pro-, proceeding slowly and it is not rxpectperly ballasted, causing the vibration rd an official report will be made on it of the train to displace a rail, is deft- i for at least ten days or two weeks.

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MANY TOWNS OFFER PENALJARM SITES Commission to Hold Meeting During Latter Part of Month. Offers of sites for the location of the state penal farm, to be considered, must be in the hands of the commission by September 30, said Dr. S. E. Smith, president of the commission. Twenty-five towns in different parts of the state have proposed sites, which they have asked members of the commission to visit. A meeting will be held the latter part of the month to investigate the proposals. Members of the commission i will make the trips of inspection to all Hie locations "offered before recommending a site. JORDAN MEETS WITH TRACTION OFFICIALS A conference with O. M. Packard and T. H. Hazelrigg, railroad builders and promoters, called Charles W. Jordan, secretary of the Commercial Club, to Indianapolis this morning. Packard and Hazelrigg hare back of them financiers of London and Paris, through whom they propose to furnish the capital for the Richmond & Eastern traction line, with extensions to South Bend and Cincinnati.

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statement be obtained as to whether Kncineer Rogers was given a "slow" order. The investigation of the wreck is York and Successor IH7 :-vv'-" $&m 7 lj i'.i " , ' ; . "I ? DAVIS ENTERS HIS DENIALS CHARGE Health Officer Says He Did Not Influence Dairymen to Abandon Tests. Dr. T. Henry Davis, city health officer, today entered a denial to the charges that he had been responsible for encouraging local dairymen to cease tubercullne testing their herds, or that he had supported legislation which i made it optional with dairymen whethluri uiaue ouu ircis. Dr. Davis declared he was an advocate of tuberculine testing and that he and Dr. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, had fought the bill aimed to eliminate such tests vigorously but unsuccessfully. No Explanation For This. Dr. Davis, however, had no explanation to offer why he did not use bis influence as city health officer the past four years to stimulate a popular demand for a healthful milk supply. Such a campaign was being conducted by Dr. C. S. Bond when he was succeeded as city health officer by Dr. Davis. For failure to continue the Bond policy Dr. Davis only stated that under the new law it was practically impossible to induce dairymen to adopt a reform unpopular with them and not required of ahem, and that he (Continued on Page Three)

PRIEST SLAYS TO FULFILL

GIRL DEMANDING CRIME New York Rector Drinks the Blood of Victim of Mad Love. IS BELIEVED INSANE Marries Girl Himself, and) Commits Deed in Fashionable Flat. Optional News Aoctatlon XEW YORK. Sept. 15 The Rer. Hans Schmidt, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth and Morningside avenue. self-confessed murderer of Anna Aumuller. the young Hungarian girl, whose dismembered body was picked up in the Hudson river last week, is a prisoner in th Tombs, his first night, according to the attendants, being passed In sound sleep. He was up early and looked amply strengthened for the great ordeal of this afternoon, the confrontation of the parts of the beautiful girl whom be slew to hide his guilt. This step la necessary for purposes of identification and at its conclusion CoTo"nT Weinberg will confer with Assistant District Attorney Murphy regarding the date of the inquest. New York Stirred. The horror of the crime has stirred Xew York as no other murder in years. That this man. exercising the functions of a priest of the church. should steal into the flat he had ap parently rented solely for the purpose of killing the girl, whom he had mar ried, performing the ceremony himself, and put to death the beautiful young Hungarian girl, soon to become a mother, and then, while her body was yet warm, cut it into nine pieces, drain the blood into a bathtub and carry the body piecemeal through one of the principal streets to a ferry. where he consigned It to the river, passes the comprehension of the po lice and detectives engaged on the case, and caused them, inured aa they are to all sorts of crimes, to shudder as the priest willingly recited all the gruesome details. Murdered in Flat. The pretentious apartment house at 68 Broadhurst avenue, not far from the church, was the scene of the murder and it is a remarkable commentary on the selfishness and living-to-self life of New York, that the girl waa murdered, and cut to pieces without any person of the twenty-four families living In the building having an Inkling of the tragedy. It was on the third floor of this building, in a rear 4-room flat, that the crime was committed on the night of August 31. There the detectives, headed by Inspector Joseph Faurot, head of the Xew York bureau of detectives, found a butcher's knife, with its ten-inch blade as keen as a razor, and a carpenter's saw, the implements with which Schmidt confessed he slew and dismembered Anna Aumuller, as well as photographs and tell-tale letters which the priest had failed to take away when he cleaned up the flat after the butchery. Through these, the police were led to St. Boniface's rectory and from there, under the direction of Father Braun, the parish priest to St. Joseph's in Harlem, where the capture of the murderer-priest was accomplished. Priest Confesses. Schmidt's collapse and confession came the instant he recognized the picture of his victim which the police exhibited to him and realized the meaning of the detectives' presence in the rectory. The tale of horror and bloodshed that the priest told, held even the veteran detectives spellbound and aghast. Mote than once they were on the point of refusing to believe that the priest was telling the truth. but the evidence he offered against himself was too convincing to be denied. When he had finished the young curate he is only 32 years old took his captors to a vacant lot at One Hundread and Forty-fourth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, where he had burned the blood-soaked mattress on which Miss Aumuller had been murdered, and showed them the charred remains of the excelsior and rotton ticking just as he had left them. Held for Murder. With their prisoner, the detectives motored to police headquarters, and there the grilling of the curate was resumed. As soon as Faurot had satisfied himself that Schmidt had told the last detail, he turned him over to Assistant District Attorney Deacon Murphy, whose stenographer took a transcript of Schmidt's confession. By that time Coroner Feinberg had arrived and after a brief hearing in Inspfctor Faurot's room, the priest was held without bail on the charge of murder. The statement made by Father Schmidt to Father Luke Evers. the chaplain of the Tombs prison, lads many to the belief that the murderer is unbalanced mentally. Pierce His Past. While Schmidt sits calmly in hit cell, announcing in a matter of fact way that he is ready to pay the penalty for his crime, the distinguished members of the Catholic clergy here. piecing together Schmidt's rather disconnected story of his past, are making efforts to life the hidden pages of Schmidt's early history in an effort to prove that not oly is the man insane, but that he was thrown into Jail in Europe as an imposter and that be never was ordained as a priest. Through as clever a bit of detective work as the police department here has ever experienced, the police suspicion finally directed itself upon Schmidt. The officers could hardly credit their conclusions and were placed in a delicate position as to how to approach the priest. Finally, however, they went to the rectory after (Continued on Page Three.)

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