Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 10, 21 November 1913 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXABIUM ran -4 AND SUN -TELEGRAM SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS VOL. XXXIX. NO. 10 RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 21, 1913

WILSON STANDS PAT

REFUSING

MEXICO

RECOGNITION CLAIM Bryan Brands As False Moheno's Assertion of U. S. Recognition. REBELS WIN BATTLES William Bayard Hale Enroute to Washington Aft er Conference. WASHINGTON', Nov. 21. The United States will never recognize General Huerta nor his government. There has been no change in the situation that would warrant the report circulated in Mexico City by Minister of Foreign Affairs Moheno and sent to a New York newspaper by its correspondent that a sudden change in the situation indicated Huerta's recognition. This was made clear at the state department today when Secretary Bryan said: "The report current in Mexico City that President Wilson is preparing to recognize Huerta is absurd. President Wilson's attitude in this matter has been clearly shown by his announcements. Nothing has occurred recently to alter his decision. Phases of Situation. The Mexican situation today had these leading phases: The action to be takeji by the new congress regarding concessions. The expected call upon Admiral Fletcher to protect British Interests at Tuxpam. Whether Huerta will eventually repign is a question upon which varying opinions are held in official circles. Although It seems to be the general belief that Huerta will not retire for many weeks, at least, despite President Wilson's belief that his power is decreasing. Although President Wilson is inclined to excuse the Constitutionalists from the charge of wanton brutality In dealing with federal prisoners it is not likely he will resume any negotiotions with them through William Bayard Hale. Hale now is said to be en route here. WAR OFFICE HIDES SUCCESSES. Officials Meet With Poor Success in Keeping Reserves Covered. 1 MEXICO CITY1, Nov. 12. The war office is trying by all means possible to keep the people in ignorance of rebel, successes, but it is impossible to hde the fact that the federals are meeting with reverses both in the north and south. Large bands of rebels are reported in operation at Mazatil and La Gmnidora, also Tulca. Bodies of rebels who have been operating independently in the state of Michoacan and State of Zacapecas, are reported to be marching to join the forces under Gen. Carranza. This, it is pointed out, may be part of the preliminary movement in a campaign against the capital. Another rebel advance on-Torreon, is reported, while private dispatches tell of the capture of Tampico, an important, export center, by rebels. General Villa's men are reported to have taken Munica and Cosihuirichio, 'n. Huerta To Stick. General Huerta intends to cling to his position as provisional president of Mexico. Strengthened in his stand of defiance toward the United States by the action of the new congress in endorsing his dissolution of the previous Chamber of Deputies, he proceeded today with plans for a session of congress that will last far into December. At the same time Senor Moheno. minister of foreign affairs, and other supporters of the government were industriously circulating rumors that the United States soon would recoznize Huerta's government Moheno said to friends who visited him after the first session of congress had adjourned : "I have reason to believe that President Wilson will soon recognize Gen. Huerta's government." NUMBER TO HEAR LABOR ADDRESSES Indications Point to Packed Hall At Meeting Tonight. Indications today point to a packed hall when the laboring men of the city meet tonight to hear labor leaders talk of the need of better organization in Richmond. Several members of the committee say they feared a mistake in not securing a larger hall. Hesides T. H. Flynn, the organizer of the American Federation of Labor there will be a number of other speakers both from this city and elsewhere. Invitations to be present have been extended to James Keegan of Indianapolis. J. M. Duncan, president of the International Typographical union and a number of others. The meeting will begin at S o'clock. TRIAL OF BROWN SET FOR DEC. 10 The trial of Richard Brown, held in the county jail on the charge of shooting Howard Starr of Webster with intent to kill, has been set down by Judge Fox to be held in circuit court December 10. The case was not set down sooner as it was feared that Starr's injuries from the shots might prove serious. Starr is now improving and will be able to testify against the prisoner. The shooting occurred near the Webster ticket office of the C. and O. railroad, where Brown is ticket agent.

PLAN TO ORGANIZE CLUBS FEDERATION

Women Desire General Body to Handle District Meeting. MANY NOW ACTIVE Want Reorganization Completed Before Christmas Holidays. . Club women of Richmond are planning to effect a reorganization of the old Federation of Women's Clubs which passed out of existence four years ago. The purpose of again establishing this general body is to have some official organization to handle the convention of the Sixth District Federation which assembles In Richmond next May. The movement was launched two weeks ago and while a number of organizations have not announced their intentions to affiliate with the general organization, every indication points to its success. The club women of the city have found it very difficult for any separate organization to call the attention of the other clubs to matters which it considers of interest to all. For instance, the Domestic Science association is endeavoring to enlist the help of other organizations in bringing a visiting nurse to Richmond. "In order to present the arguments of the association on the need of such a nurse in Richmond, it has been necessary for the organization to send a representative to the meetings of other clubs. "Were there a general organization in the city composed of delegates from each club, the matter could be submitted there, with the assurance that every organization in the city would receive an accurate exposition of the proposition at its next meeting. Those who are enlisted in the movement say they expect to organize the federation before the Christmas holidays. Engineers Take Word of No One Corps Inspects Masonry At Pumping Station That the survey of the water works property may be absolutely accurate the corps of engineers employed by the utilities commission to check the inventory submitted by the company are inspecting the foundation of the I pumping station to ascertain how j much masonry is in the foundation. H. A. Garman, chief of the corps, said they took the word of no one, but investigated everything for themselves. They have followed all transmission lines, walking from the pumping station to where the distribution system begins, and covered all lines running through the city. Where there is any doubt about the size of a main the engineers dig and take the measurements. BOARD RECEIVES BIDS ON WIRING Bids for wiring of Baxter, Vaile and Starr schools were received by the school board at its meeting yesterday and contracts were awarded. Craighead and company received the contract for the first two named buildings. Harry Wood was the successful bidder for the Starr building. The bids ranged from $190 to $250. The three buildings already have a few of the rooms fitted for electric lighting but this time all the rooms and hall will be wired for electric lighting. J. J. HILL SHOCKS BIG BOND HOLDERS tee '4 VS. ' James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder" of the Great Northwest, who recently administered a knockout blow to bond j brokers the country over by declaring ; at the banquet of the Investment I Bankers' Association that "the coun try is watterlogged with bonds;" and that " confidence cannot be restored until the name 'bond' has won back something of its old standard." Mr. Hill added that such a condition will not exist until issues are limited by moderation conformed to the value of j the security and confined to the mar gin of safety and the form of credit for which the bond was originally designed.

Rebel Leader Breaks

. - CcvvK ' - r 4 - ' - -T-Tvyi jpi William Bayard Hale, President Q5 7$? "" . .1-- " " ' 'XV Wilson's personal envoy in Mexico, ffirQft v f'j J V photographed at the United States jffi'Z. ' . l Consulate at Nogales, where he was fMj " , -iy , (J C-Kl conducting negotiations with General UlfAiS 4f ' Carranaa, the Constitutionalist leader, Mj'lijr, If frjUC f ' until the latter abruptly ended his J. -alv "mr S 't$!V ' -. dealings with Hale. A' Cl & Xygfl " VJ

Robert Underwood Johnson Praises

nfcnlav nf Works "Certainly a most creditable art display," said Robert Underwood Johnson, formerly editor of the Century j magazine, after viewing the pictures of the Indiana art exhibit now open at the high school building. Mr. Johnson takes a deep interest in art and his ideas upon the subject are considered worthy of note by all art periodicals. Mr. Johnson stopped in Richmond Tuesday as the guest of his brother, Henry iT. Johnson. He has not decided what line of work he will enter since he has severed his connection with the magazine of which he was for a long time the editor, although he has a large number of attractive offers. It is his intention to give a number KICKED BY HORSE, DIESJMNJURIES Huber L. Glunt, 5, Succumbs At Home of Parents, Near Webster. WEBSTER, Ind., Nov. 21. Hubert L. Glunt, 5, son of Samuel Glunt, who was kicked in the head by a horse September 6, died last night at the family residence near here. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2. o'clock at the Whitewater M. E. church. The boy had tied the horse to a tree and in walking past it the animal kicked him, fracturing his skull. He was taken at once to Reid Memorial hospital, where he remained six weeks. He was removed to his home a month ago. EIGHT CENTS APIECE FOR THESE EGGS When it comes to high prices paid for eggs. Rev. T. J. Graham says New York and Philadelphia are not in it with Richmond. He explained that fresh eggs of extra size recently brought seventy-five cents a dozen in Philadelphia, the visual Drirp i;r-fifty-five cents. Although this is good price, fifty cents was prfiu iur i. -.. a dozen eggs in Richmond recently, which gives this city the lead with the price soaring at $1 a dozen. It was this way according to Rev. Graham. During the Fall Festival a dozen eggs weighing one pound, thirteen and one half ounces was awarded a prize. Some one took half of them leaving the Fall Festival committee to pay for them. A bill of fifty cents for the half dozen was submitted and paid.

WILLIAM BAY AkU MALE.

of Artists Here of lectures this winter in the middle west. He will be heard at Indianapoiis, Cincinnati and a number of other cities in this part of the country. He stopped in Richmond while on his way to Chicago to attend the meeting of the American Association of Immortals, a literary organization of which he is a member. His visit to Richmond, the first he had paid in the last six years, was necessarily of short duration, but he said that he hoped to return soon for a longer stay. While here he stated that the BobbsMerrill company will publish "The I Salamander," the latest work of his son, Owen Johnson, as soon as it has been completely published by a magazine which is nowrunning it in serial form. TOOK HER AMOMRANGERS So Says Laura Mull in Her Complaint For Legal Separation. Failure to prove her qualifications as a resident xf Wayne county, prevented the hearing of divorce proceedings of Laura Mull against John Mull from being heard in circuit court today. Mr. and Mrs. Mull were married in Covington in 1911. She is 52 years old and his age is 36. Mrs. Mull charged cruel and inhuman treatment which she says consisted of her husband taking her to Virginia andleaving her there among strangers. She has been there until August, when she returned to her farm near Centerville. Mull says he will contest the suit as he gave Mrs. Mull a large sum of money with which to make improvements on her farm. He is a cement worker and testified that his salary is ?100 a month. Judge Fox stated that Mrs. Mull must reside in Wayne county two years before the case can come under his jurisdiction. W. R. ASSOCLATION TO HEAR REPORTS Reports of the four standing committees of the West Side Improvement association, will be heard at the regular monthly 'meeting tonight in ' the Baxter schoolhouse. ' The committees from which reports iare expected are: Committee on public ! service, committee on industries, committee on public grounds and buildj ings, -committee on civic beauty.

HUSBAND

With Hale

Mil HANTS SFT FIRF to Tiwmrn uinno IU IIIVIDCtl IfinUO $250,000 Loss Results When Flames Sweep Through Oxford Plant. ! CITY ' IS THREATENED OXFORD, Eng., Nov. 21. An incendiary fire attributed by the police to the arson squad of the militant suffragets did enormous damage today, sweeping an extensive area of timber yards and threatening for a time to destroy the plant supplying the city with artificial gas. The loss is estimated at $250,000. The conflagration, which was the biggest and most disastrous in recent years" here, began . at six different places accompanied by terrific explosions. Women were seen in the vicinity just before the flames were discovered and suffrage literature was found in the vicinity. Another circumstance which points to militants as the authors of the fire is the fact that Chancellor LloydGeorge against whom the suffragets are bitterly hostile, is scheduled to speak here tonight. Before the fireman reached the scene great piles of lumber were ablaze. The flames had reached within le than fifty feet of the artificial gas works when a sudden shift in the j wind turned the course of the fire. 1 All the fire-fighting force of the ! city, aided by volunteers, united to prevent the flames from spreading through the city. is Fort Wayne Man Elected By Odd Fellows. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Nov. 21. With a majority of only six votes esse Macbeth, of Fort Wayne, was elected grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which has been in session here. Mr. Macbeth won over a field of nine candidates on the third ballot. The office is much sought as it is a stepping stone to the grand master's chair. At the morning session, yesterday, the Grand Lodge approved the new law regulating new lodge buildings. In the future outside lodges wishing to carry on building operations must first obtain consent of the building committee. New officers are: W. M. Nauer, Vernon, grand master; J. T. Arbuckle. Rushville, deputy grand master: W. H. Leedy, grand secretary; William Norris, grand treasurer.

Macbeth

WARDEN

INSTITUTIONS GET

DONATION

BOOKS

Esther Griffin White Gives About 600 Volumes in City and County. 4 00 TO CAMBRIDGE High School. City Library, and Reid Hospital Are Recipients V)wing to lack of room, to care for the contents of her large fair.il v library. Ksther Gnftiii While this week disposed of a lar;?e number of ialuable volumes by giving them to various public iustitiitions in Wayne county. To the new city library at Cambridge City she has given 100 volumes, most of them from the collection of her sis-j ter. Mrs. H. t Umcry. who died last i year. The collection embraces a com-j plete Encyclopedia Hrittanica. the bio graphical edition of Thackcry. a considerable amount of recent fiction, and an excellent print of Raphael's Madonna. Part of the books were taken to Cambridge City estrday by County Representative Judkins and the remainder were shipped today. The Richmond high school receives a valuable collection containing among other things, a life of Uncoln in nine volumes, the works of Marion Crawford, a recent biography of George Bardard Shaw ad the autobiography of Joe Jcferson. To th Morrisson-Reeves library. Miss White gave a number of high class reference books, ax the same time sending :;6 recent novels to the Reid Memorial hospital. ' STAY WITH WORK, ADVICEJF WEED Speaker Emphasizes Importance of Selecting Line of Life Work. Inportance of selecting a certain line of work and staying with it was the main theme in a short talk by Herbert S. Weed before the high school students today at the regular chapel exercises. II emphasized the importance of staying with what one things Is right no matter haw much one is tempted to do the other thing. "Keeping away from temptation is a great help in getting adjusted in the aim of life," he said. "Some get so interested in things that benefit themselves that they pay no heed to the other fellow, but are concerned in nothing but their own welfare." He said that he felt a great interest in the development of the school but he was more deeply concerned in the students making good. The orchestra rendered several selections. Principal Pickell announced the Thanksgiving program for next week. RICHMOND MEN TAKE 32ND DEGREE Edward D. Frank and William E. Oliver of this city took the work of the thirty-second degree, with a class of 128 candidates at the semi-annual convocation of the Scottish Rite Masons at the Temple in Indianapolis Thursday. The degree of the Shrine was given today at the Murat Temple. A new attendance record was established at the convocation with a registration of 1,580. "BAGMAN" REFUSES TO TELL OF GRAFT nm:mm Everett P. Fowler, the so called "bagman", of Tammany Hall in the alleged grafting from contractors on road and canal work in New Yark state, whho has announced that he will fight the charge of having extorted a check for $250 from a Munroe, N. Y. contractor. It was at first rumored that" the indictment of FowJef had caused him to decide that he would make a complete confession and expose the alleged men higher up. Fowler insists that there is nothing for him to confess as he is innocent of the charge.

RULE OF COMPANY

REQUIRING DEPOSIT REGARDED INVALID City Attorney to Advise Board to Declare Rule Null RECEIVES COMPLAINTS Wharton Says Stand Was Taken As Guarantee of Good Faith. City Attorney Rond today announced that, in his opinion tb recent rulk promulgated by the Richmond Light. Heat & Power company, requiring every person not owner of real estate to deosit 5 with the company. th deposit bearing six per cent Interest, before natural gas servtce could be secured, is invalid. His reasons for believing such rul to be invalid were that it had never been approved by the board of public work, as required in Section 8 of th natural gas franchise acquired by the company last August This section specifically provides that all just and reasonable rules promulgated by th company shall became operative after they have been approved by the board of public works. Mr. Bond also stated today that at the board meeting next Monday he would advise the board to declare th deposit rule of the gas company null and void because it aac never been sanctioned by the board. Commission May Decide. If the board acts favorably on th city attorney's recommendation, and the company still persists in requiring deposits made before natural gas Bervice is provided non-real estate holding patrons, it is very probably th city government will bring the matter before the state public utilities commission for a decision. Probably the Light. Heat Power company would not wait for the city to take such action, but would carry the case before the commission itself, seeking to prove that the rule in question is fair and just and that the board of public works was unwarranted In withholding its approval of it. Whether the city or the 'company carries the case before the state utilities commission it is almost certain the company will continue to enforce the rule until a final decision has been rendered by the state commission. Complaint Pour In. "Complaints against the company' deposit rule hare been pouring in to me for the last two days." said Mr. Bond. "I met Manager Wharton of the Light, Heat and Power company yesterday and entered a protest against the rule, but he took position that the company was justified in establishing it, so I now intend to bring the question before the board of public works." Mr. Bond said he not only was of the opinion that the company has no franchise right to establish such a rule without the consent of the board of public works, but he also believes the rule to be a most unfair one. He said it was true that dishonest people frequently defrauded the company of money due for gas. and that deposits would protect the company against such class of patrons, but he also pointed out that It worked a hardship against trustworthy people who could not afford to malm such a deposit. "I believe the merchants secrton of the Commercial club has a rate book of local residents. This would, be available for use by thTfXal. Heat and Power company in requiring deposits of only such people mhose ratings were poor," added the city attorney. MARRIED 111 -JULY; KEPT J-AGT SECRET Albert Schuerman and Wife, Nee Lottie Canan, Tell of Wedding. Again history has repeated Itself and Cupd has balanced his book in another romance and marked the entry closed. But the friends and relatives did not know of a marriage that took place at Covington. Ky., last July I until yesterday, when they were In formed that Albert Schuerman and Miss Lottie Canan had returned from that place as Mr. and Mrs. Scheurman. After the wedding, which took place during a brief vacation spent in Covington, they returned to this city, keeping their secret. No one suspected until yesterday, when they announced that they would be at home to their friends on North F street Bhortly after Thanksgiving. Mr. Schufrman is employed at Ed Sudhoff's groceryT WEATHER FORECAST f 4 STATE Unsettled tonight and Saturday. Probably occasional rain and colder. TEMPERATURE. Noon 63 YESTERDAY. MaxiTium 70 Minimum SO W. E. Moore' Forecast. Tnsettled weather is expected to continue tonight and Saturday with rain at intervals and follawed by decidely colder weather. Brtk to high shifting winds. Summary. The above forecase is made because and Immense "low" with a diameter of more than 2.000 miles I moving toward the Great Lake. Its center last night was orer South Dakota.