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1 A il AND SUN-TELEGRAM RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 11, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS VOL. XXXIX. NO. 1

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WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH OUR CHURCHES Tell the Rev. Mr. Parker Gospel Message Lacks Appeal. ONLY TWO SATISFIED Many Maintain Church Too Busy Gathering Funds For Extensions. The Rev. U. Earl Parker, pastor of First M. E. church, who recently distributed about the city to men in various walks of lite a list of questions pertaining to the modem church, has been informed that it Is up to the church to "get busy." For several days answers to these questions have been pouring into the First M. E. parsonage. He already has received 175 replies and expects to receive almost as many more before the end of the week. The Rev. Parker has realized that the church has not kept pace with the twentieth century gait, so he was prompted to make his unique public appeal for the opinions or the laiety as to the needs of the church today. The prompt response to his appeal has shown the deep interest Richmond takes in this question, and the suggestions contained in the replies he has received are especially pertinent, for the majority of them are from people not generally classified as "church men." Appeal is Weak. "It was a remarkable thing that most of the replies I received have taken exception to Question No. 7, 'What is the chief cause of the religious indifference of so many in our community?' I have been vigorously informed that the mass of our people are not indifferent to religious work," said the Rev. Mr. Parker today. "I have been told that the lax cnurch attendance is due primarily to the fact that the church has not taken sufti (lent interest in making its appeal to the people more popular." In the replies the Rev. Mr. Parker has received there has been a general criticism that the church has been too busily engaged in raising funds for its support and expansion to properly perform its social service function. A number of replies have informed the Rev. Mr. Parker that revivals are held for the sole purpose of benefiting the church, to the extent of enlarging its revenue through increased membership; not to benefit the public. Only two people who sent in answers to the Rev. Mr. Parker's list of questions are entirely satisfied that the churches of Richmond are doing all the work that the church of Jesus Christ should do. The critics of the church who have answered the questions of the Rev. Mr. Parker are engaged in thirty-three vocations. In the list are lawyers, doctors, journalists, merchants, capitalists, idlers, merchants, mechanics, day laborers, clerks, bookkeepers, policemen, manufacturers and politicians. Typical replies to the Rev. Mr. Parker's questions from men engaged in various occupations, but with their names withheld, will be made public shortly. These replies will also furnish material for a number of sermons the Rev. Mr. Parker will preacn at the First M. K. church, probably beginning the first Sunday in December. OLD PAPER TELLS STORYJHANGING Gormon Recalls Time When, As Sheriff, He Hanged Nathaniel Bates. A copy of the Richmond Daily Telegram for August 26, 1SS6. telling the story, of the execution of Nathaniel S. Bates by Chief of Police Gormon was found by Mr. Gormon a few days ago and has been on exhibition at police headquarters. Bates, who was convicted of killing his wife at Hagerstown, was brought to this city and hanged. Mr. Gormon as sheriff of the county, pulled the lever which jerked the trap from beneath Bates' feet promptly at 12 o'clock, August 26. The paper contains a detained description of the hanging, the actions of the prisoner on the day of the execution, the clothes he wore, and the count of his pulse tolled off by attend ing physicians until his death. Gor mon said Bates never flinched. During his imprisonment he counted the days until the hanging, looking forward to it as a grerit event. Concrete Institute Head Names Charles As Expert As one of nine experts, City Engineer Charles has been asked by President Richard L. Humphreys, of ten American Concrete institute, to serve on a committee to write speciications for concrete highway and street paving. Most of the work will be done by correspondence, and will be published in a booklet issued by the institute. The other authorities on concrete work who will serve on the committee are Edward X. Hines. " Wayne county, Mich.; Thomas II. McDonald, Ames, la.; A. R. Hirst. Madison. Wis.; James R. Marker, Columbus, O.; H. G. Shirley. Baltimore, Md.; Percy H. Wilson. Philadelphia; Fred C. Smith, Sioux City, la., and J. B. Hittle, Chi-

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FARJWAY CHINA Chin Ah Wong, Richmond Chinaman, Returns From Visit to Nativity. SAYS PRICES ARE HIGH Wong Declares He Is Unable to Bring Family to the United States. Even from far away China comes the echo to the wail that has gone up over the high cost of living. Chin Ah Wong, a Richmond Chinaman, who returned Wednesday from a visit of several months in his native village of Sen Tun in the province of Canton, reports that wages have been doubled since his last visit there fifteen years ago, but that the prices of commodities have soared accordingly. Has Wife and Son. Wong has a wife and son in his home town. He says he does not want to bring his wife to this country because he could not mase Cue right kind of a living for her here. He is able to support his family in that country at the present time on $150 a year. "Better keep her over there and have her in comfortable circumstances than have her here and both of us have a hard time making both ends meet," he says. Wong expects to bring his son to this country to complete his education in a couple of years. He had considered sending the boy to Earlham, but has not fully made up his mind. He expects to educate the ooy so that he will be an expert accountant, or befitted for some other office work. Second Trip Home. vong came to this country in 1S81, when he was but thirteen years old. He made his first trip home fifteen years ago when he returned to be married. During the last fifteen years China has changed so much that he hardly knew his native country on his recent visit home, he says. There is now a daily newspaper in his home town, train service and electric lights, he says. Several companies are prospecting for gold near the village. The regiment of soldiers quartered there has been changed in appearance and become more proficient in drill, due to the return of officers educated at West Point and European military schools. HATTON EXPLODES Recruiting Sergeant Says Army Has No Companies of Sharpshooters. Men traveling over the country claiming to have authority to organize companies of sharpshooters for service in case of Mexican intervention are branded as frauds by H. S. Hatton, recruiting sergeant of the local station. He said that such persons had no connection with the army, and in speaking of such organizations showed they had no knowledge of the army. in the army there are no companies battalions of corps of sharpshooters. The ranking of marksmen, sharpshooter and expert riflemen are given to stimulate interest in the use of small arms. To attain any of these ratings, which carry with them an increase of salary, the soldiers compete on target ranges, says Sergeant Hatton. To become a marksman a soldier must make an average of seventy-five per cent of hits in a range of from 200 to 600 yards. He is then eligible to compete for the next rank of sharp shooter, on a range from 200 to 1,000 yards. The highest rank is given only after the other two, and to men firing under varied and adverse conditions. CITY NEEDS PUMPS Kennepohl Says Board Must Buy More Ground. New dumping grounds for the city must be provided soon by the board of works, according to B. A. Kennepohl, president. Mr. Kennepohl said the dumping grounds near the Tenth street and Doran bridges were being filled up so rapidly that dumping would have to be prohibited there in the next year or two. The board has no other grounds in view, and Mr. Kennepohl said members had no idea what provisions would be made for the disposal of the refuse. WEATHER FORECAST STATE Fair tonight, slightly warmer in central portion; Wednesday fair and warmer. TEMPERATURE Noon 31 YESTERDAY Maximum 30 Minimum 22 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Continued fair tonight and probably Wednesday. Warmer on Wednesday. The standard self-registering thermometer near Earlham showed 12 above zero last night, the coldest of the present season. It had risen to 20 by 7 a. m. Freezing cold weather was reported from northern Florida, while in Montana and Wyoming it was 60 in the shade. Under the infhience of another "low" now developing in the West, warmer weather and a general thaw is expected Wednesday

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Land Thursday in this vicinity.

Nelson 0J Shaiighnessy, Charge B Affaires, Wilsons Representative in Mexico City Ready to Sail for American Territory

This picture of the O'Shaughnessy has a happy

those of the Huerta-government. Since the retirement ot former AmDassaoor neiiry i.ane usuu, mi. Shaughnessy has taken up the duties of the Ambassadorship, probably the most delicate position in the whole United States diplomatic service. Possessed of an Irish brain and a generous gift of Irish humor, OShaughnessy appears to be equally successful in keeping pacified the folks in Washington aad those In the Mexican capital. Americans in Mexico swear by him.

Washington to Ignore New Mexican Congress

Wilson's Policy Hinges on Attitude of European PolicyEngland Supports United States Mexican Depositors Clamor for Bank Deposits Huerta's Regime Lacks Popular Support.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 11 Acts of the new Mexican congress will not be recognized by the American government as valid. This government will take the same attitude toward the newly elected senators and deputies that it has taken toward General Huerta. tit la Hvoirmment nf tbp Mpxiran

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dent of the day. Washington observers believe that the crisis will come when the new congress assembles and tries to gain financial support from European governments. By this time, unless Huerta is eliminated. President Wilson's policy will include drastic measures. These hinge in great measure on the attitude taken by Europe. As long as Huerta is encouraged by European financial interests, ne win mase a stuouorn ugnt io maiuiam lumsett..uyic ENGLAND SOUNDS WARNING Westminster Gazette Voices Support of American Diplomacy. LONDON. Nov. 11. A warning to General Huerta was sounded today by the Westminster Gazette, the govern- j ment paper, commenting on premier Asquith's Guildhall speech, in which he made it plain that no antagonism exists between England and the United States in regard to Mexico, The Gazette savs: "ThP iripa that anv valid election in the sense in which Democratic or con - stitutional countries understand the word can be held in Mexico, is prota - bly a domestic fiction, but the electoral head was of General Huerta's own choosing and it is well to keep him reminded that his failure to conform to its results leaves all governments free to reconsider their acts of recognition. "Brieflv the limit of British action, or that the British government should t i.coif in a nndtiAn r,f m a tin tr protests, which in default of forcible action might be flouted and defied." Semi-official confirmation was obtained today that England will with draw recognition of Uie Huerta government in Mexico unless steps are immediately taken to conform to the demands of the United States. MEXICANS WITHDRAW MONEY. Depositors Make Run on Two Strong BanksMEXICO CITY, Nov. 11. The runs on the Banco Xacional and Banco Londres Mexico continued today. Soldiers with carbines were stationed ! at both banks to preserve order, i Thousands of depositors drew out all their money. All clamored for silver

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but got very little coin, in the banks is shattered Confidence FEDERALS HOLD CITY.

Carranza's Army Unable to Take ; many it is not known, and there are Chihauhau. .scores of children and others missing. LOREDO, Tex., Nov. 11. Fighting Lack of food has added to the sufferdesperately and with ammunition run-; ing meat markets and stores, after

ning low, tne r eaerai army wnicn is I holding Chihauhau, has repeatedly re - I dreds of dead on the field. 300 CAVALRYMEN LEAVE. Flying Squadron of Fifteenth Cavalry Leaves Chicago. rtnrAfin Vnv 11 Thrpp hundred cavalrymen and officers comprising the j flying squadron of the Fifteenth U. S. cavalry, bid goodbye to Fort Sheridan, j their friends and sweethearts and ' ; packed their equipment for the jour ney tQ theyMexican border today over the Rock Island on two special trains. Tourist sleeping cars were prpVided for the enlisted men and Pullman cars fnr tht nffirorci Mayor Says Building ISeed - J 4 il eJ At Earlham. Rnresentatives nf the Twentieth Tpnturv Tanioum rnmnanv arp ran1 ftrring with Mayor Zimmerman today relative to the construction of a maui soleum in this city. The agents, A. C. Sheets and George D. Bore, have with them specifications for a building; containing one thousand cyrps. i As Earlham cemetery is crowded.-. ; and many persons prefer this method ; i of burial. Dr. Zimmerman 6aid it was; probable that a company would be i formed for the erection of a mausoleium similar to the plan3 which tne 1 agenis na e un mem. HELEN-WARREN IN MARRIED LIFE THE SECOND YEAR i A n-ifa'o trials x-i t Vt 1 l act Hct ffin cr j unsympathetic, inconsiderate husband, i who too often puts personal pleasure

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. Cf matrimonial lifa is a complete j story, and its appealing Interest keeps the attention animated for the next installment. BEGIN TO READ THE STORY TONIGHT.

ico was recently made in Mexico City, diplomats in the Mexican capital, even

CLEVELAND SUFFERS FROM FIERCE STORM Many Lives Lost and Citizens Lack Food, Clothing and Coal. CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 11. Cleveland has been completely isolated from the outside world for two days, during which time the city has been rent by a sixty mile wind and is I wrapped now in a blanket of snow I from four to ten feet deep. i Many lives have been lost, how , exhausting their supplies, nave ciosea ; their doors. Street car traffic has been practical ly at a standstill and telephone and light wires are on the ground all over the city where they were blown by the terrific storm of Sunday and Sun" day night. j Only meager reports can be obj tained as all wires are down. LIGHT SHIP FOUNDERS. Life Preservers Picked Up on Shore Tell Tragic Story. BUFFALO, Nov. 11 A number of . .f'" . t,,, h" ! he UshtBhip No. 95 stationed about ! twenty miles from this port were i picked up on the Canadian shore toI day. It is believed the ship has foun- ! dered with her crew of seven. FIND VESSEL UPSIDE DOWN. Officers of Wrecking Tug See Ship in ; ponT wrnnv T vv u U. "r, ' I ,y 7 The vessel floating bottom-side up in ;, uaKe nuron is now aoout eignt mnes 1 above here. The wrecking tug Sarnia City, returned here today and Captain Reed of the tug said he thought another boat was under the one whose hull could be seen. The storm continues with unabated fury. STALLED THIRTY-SIX HOURS. Four Engines Haul Train to Pennsylvania City. WASHIXGTOX, Pa.. Nov. 11. After being stalled in the snow three miies. for thirty-six hours the train of , uie v asoiiigiou a: v a uesuurg ian- i - ! road reached here at 5 o'clock this! j morning. Sixty passengers were in I j the two coaches. It required four en-: l gines one hour to make the three mile t run. Senator Cummins of Iowa, who J j was a passenger on the train, left for .; a ; the east this morninz. . . ii - - : . r t-i- l . . : 1 I j WILLLMS TO READ i -r t titt- m trr'T'TXT" ' County Superintendent" before the; county superintendents' section of thej ; State Teachers' association meeting in j ' Indianapolis, December 23. He will; I begin work on the paper at once. j

TEMPERANCE MEN WILL FILLCHURCHES

Movement Starts to Place Prohibition in New Constitution. ARRANGE FIELD DAY County Convention to Be Held Monday in Richmond. Many of the pulpits of Wayne county will be occupied next Sunday by representatives of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League on the occasion of the annual field day. Church people in every community of the county will be urged to join with teiuperance forces in a movement to place prohibition in the new constitution of the state when that instrument shall be drawn up by a constitutional convention in May. li15. For this purpose pulpits will be occupied on Sunday as follows: Morning. Richmond K. Main St. Friends, Rev. K. S. Shumaker; Grace, M. K.. Dr. Madison Swadener: First Presbyterian, Rev. F. P. Leckliter; Reid Memorial U. P., S. P. McXaught; First M. K., R. V. Minton; Earlham College. Friends, J. E. Cox; Third M. E.. Rev. W. P. McKinsey; First English Lutheran, Prof. F. C. Tilden; Second English Lutheran, Rev. S. A. Ross. Afternoon. Richmond St. Paul's Lutheran, Dr. Madison Swadener. Cambridge City M. E. (Union), Rev. E. S. Shumaker. Fountain City M. E. (Union). J. E. Cox. E. Germantown Evangelical, S. P. McXaught. Richmond Second Presbyterian. Rev. W. P. McKinney. Hagerstown, M. E. (Union), R. C. Minton. E. Germantown Evangelical, S. P. McXaught. Richmond Colored Baptist (Union), Dr. Madison Swadener. Following the Field day there will be held a convention of Wayne county temperance people on Monday at 10 a. m. in the First Presbyterian church here. This convention will project an organization of the drys of the county to aid the state Anti-Saloon ! League in its crusade against the sa loon. Representatives of the Anti-Saloon League will be present at this convention. Fieid day services on Sunday and also the convention on Monday will be expected to endorse the contemplated action of the Xational convention of the Anti-Saloon League which is being held in Columbus. Ohio, this week, in launching the movement for prohibition in the Federal constitution. Congress will be asked at once to pass a joint-resolution, submitting prohibition to the legislatures of the .various states for their adoption. OFFICER JAKES GIRL Returns Dora Anthony to Orphans Home. County Humane Officer Joe Williams, of Greenville, O., took Dora Anthony, who said she was 18 years old. from the care of her stepfather and mother and returned her to the custody of the Darke County Orphans' Home. The Anthony girl disappeared from a private family near Greenville, wheie she had been staying, about three weeks ago, and was found last week by the Richmond police with a family named Burkett, 31 Bridge avenue. Officer Williams asserted that the Burketts had induced the girl to leave the family in which she had been placed by the Orphan' Home of Darke county, and that as the mother had no legal right to he-, it was virtually a case of kidnaping. ORDERED FROM HOME Preston Carr Files Affidavit Against Italian. Because he ordered Preston Carr om his home last night. Nicola Ges- ; ,d , wh hag b board. ; , , th c h 10Q7 yjrih Yit. teenth street, was given a line of $1 and costs in police court today and ordered to find another rooming place at once. Caar alleged the Italian pointed a revolver at him last night. He said he had ordered Gesaldo to i leave the house several times in the !past. Tne Italian said he had the permisj sion cf Mrs. Carr to stay and that he j na(j interfered last night in a family j quarrel. The mayor ordered the Italian to move to avoid trouble in the , future. TOLL OF STORM NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Death's toll as a result of the snowstorm is as follows: Chicago 2 Cleveland. Ohio 1 Detroit, Mich 4 Hammond, Ind . 3 Lacrosse. Mis 1 Peru, Ind 2 Pittsburg, Penn 2 Sandusky, Ohio 1 South Bend, Ind 1 Youngstown, Ohio 2 Total 19

INCREASED WAGES FOR AT LEAST 200 TRAINMENJN CITY Report of Arbitration Board Provides For 7 Per Cent Increase.

DECISION IS FINAL One Half of Entire Number, Affected on Richmond Division, Live Here. Between 200 and 230 trainmen and employes of the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania system will be directly affected by the recent derision of the railroad arbitration board, granting an increase of 7 per cent beginning October 1. The board, which has had the matter under consideration for more than a year, made its final report to the federal district court at New York last evening and tha decision is final. Passenger conductors and brakemen, freight conductors and brakemen, yard men and conductors and yardmasters come under this new decision, which came as the result of the Xewlands arbitration amendment of the Krdman act. Although the representatives of the forty-nine railroad companies involved in the Ngbt. filed a dissenting report, the decision must be accepted by the railroad companies. Fixes New Scale. The scale of wages as fixed by the board is as follows. Conductors. $135; baggagemen. $S2.50; flagmen and rear brakemen, $78; brakemen. $76.50; overtime, per hour, conductors. 45 cents; assistant conductors and ticket sellers. 35.7; baggagemen, 27.5; flagmen and rear brakemen. 26 cents; brakemen. 25.5. For the freight service the 'chief awards are: Through runs, conductors. 4 cents a mile; flagmen. 2.67; brakemen. 2.67 a mile; any run less than 100 miles to be paid for as if it were 100 miles. In way freight, pickup or drop, mine or roustabout service, same minimum, conductors are awarded $4.50 a day of 100 miles or less, ten hours or less; flagmen. $3.10. and brakemen. $3. overtimes to be paid for as time and one-half. Of vital importance to the employes is the finding that the present schedules of pay are not to be changed or disturbed in any way where they exceed the amounts named. Nor are employes to be curtailed either in mileage or hours of labor to offset the incretses granted. Increases Average Ten Dollars. Out of the entire number affected on the Richmond division more than half are Richmond railroad men. The increase will average approximately $10 more on the month to every man within the "rulings of the decision. The board found that since the last increase in 1909 that the cost of living had raised at least 7 per cent. When the railroad representatives opposed the decision they pointed out to the board that the earning powers of the roads would not permit the increase, but the board in retaliation said that the interstate commerce commission would have to decide on the raising of rates If that was the only possible method of relief. The Pennsylvania company was represented by W. W. Atterbury. a rice president of the road. Although the Chesapeake & Ohio road has a large part of its property north of the Ohio river, it is not affected by the ruling. It Is controlled by the southern board of arbitration. GUEST OF G. TAUBE SEEKSJOJIID LIFE Shoots Herself in Auto Returning to Road House Party. INDIANAPOLIS. Nor. 11. Afterparticipating with two other womeit and three men in a dinner party given by Gus Taube of Richmond. Ind late last night, and later accompany ing them on a joy ride to a road house. Mrs. Marie Elliott of 213 West North street, tried to commit suicide in th automobile while the party was re turning to the city early today. Th woman was taken to the hospital with a bullet in her shoulder. RUNS SL0TJAC1IE New Madison (Ohio) Executive in Quandry. NEW MADISON. Ohio, Nor. 11. What mill Mayor-elect Kimmel do on the slot machine problem is the question now paramount in the minds of citizens of this place. Some months ago Mr. Kimmel placed a slot machine in his place of business and did a thriving business with it. Mayor John Duffield. seeing in the machine a source of revenue for the town, had council pas a tax of $5 a month on all slot machines operated in New Madison. Kimmel paid the tax cheerfully, but a few days before election Mayor Duffield had the tax raised to S10 a month. This was too much for kimmeL Duffield was a candidate for re-election and had no opposition. Klflune! immediately declared) himself injfhe race for mayoralty honors just three days before election and won out by a handsome vote. Now the question is. what will he do with his slot machine when he assumes the local reins of government.

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