Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 20, 3 December 1913 — Page 1

BICHMONB PA: AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 20 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 3. 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS 1

MINISTER CONSIDERS MAKING THIRD RACE FOR CONGRESSMAN Kev. T. H. Kuhn Said to Be Aspirant Against Gray.

COMMITTEE ACCEPTS BECK'S RESIGNATION Walter Chambers Named to Fill Position of District Chairman. Rev. T. H. Kuhn, twice a candidate on the Democratic ticket for congressman from the Sixth district, who cut down an overwhelming Republican majority until it was possible to elect a Democratic congressman and was then deserted by Ins party which elected Finly Gray, is considering making the race for the democratic congressional nomination next spring. Mr. Kuhn is now living at Fortville, Jnd. Some of his friends say that he will have no trouble in getting the Hancock and Wayne county delegations should he permit his name to come before the convention. Other opposition to Mr. Gray may develop from Khelbyville, where Charles Hack, an attorney of that place is polishing his armor and grooming himself to also enter the lists against the present representative from the Sixth district. "While both of these men have been mentioned as possible candidates for the nomination, I doubt whether their tight will ever reach the district convention, said Charles B. Beck whose resignation as chairman of the Sixth district was accepted yesterday by the Democratic state committee. Beck Gives Opinion. "I do not think that Mr. Kuhn would be able to swing the Wayne county delegation from Congressman Gray under any circumstances. Mr. Gray Bave for a few minor trouble with patronage has been very successful in establishing himself in this district. 1 doubt if any one can muster sufficient strength against him to make it worth their while to organize ugainst him." Democrats of the state are preparing for an entire reorganization preparatory to the county and congressional elections to be held next year. At a meeting or the state committee In Indianapolis yesterday a calL was issued for a get-together meeting and love feast to follow a reorganization meeting to be held January 8. Invitations to the love feast will be nent to President Wilson, Vice-President Marshall and a number of other prominent Democrats. Convention December 29. A call for the election of delegates to district conventions to be held Dec. 29 was made by the state committee. The delegates are to be elected Dec. 26 and 27. Delegates will be sent to the district conventions on the basis of one for each 150 votes cast for Governor Ralston last year. It Is understood that Bernard Korbly will be reelected state chairman at the reorganization meeting on January 8 without opposition. The state committee fixed the place for holding the various district conventions with the exception of the Sixth. It is probable that delegates from this district will' meet at Cambridge City owing to its central location. At yesterday's meeting of the state committee, the resignation of Mr. Peck, as chairman of the Sixth district, which was tendered three months ago, was accepted and Walter Chambers named to fill out the unexpired term. Mr. Beck tendered bis resignation when he learned that he was plated for the Richmond postmastership. NOVEMBER OF 1913 WARMEST IN YEARS Maximum Temperature Registered At Station At 54 Degrees. Ye gossipers of Boreas Ye remnants of a fast disappearing race who renovate records for years in meniorlum and fasten weather predictions on .the heels of reminiscences, harken! November just past was the warmest month since 1909. According to statistics prepared at the offices of the Richmond Water Works company by YValter Vossler. director of the deather apparatus, this fact is true. The average temperature of the month was 45 degrees. The highest register of the mercury was 74 degrees. November 22, while the lowest reading was 14 degrees, November 11. The maximum temperature was 51 degrees and the minimum was tabulated at 36 degrees. The comparative table for November as arranged by Mr. Vossler for the last five years is as follows: Year. Max. Min. Ave. 1913 54 35 45 1P12 71 50 41 1011 68 11 37 1910 67 17 35 109 74 23 50 MUSIC ASSOCIATION TO MEET FRIDAY Owing to the fact that there was no quorum the meeting of the Richmond Musical association scheduled for this morning was postponed until Friday afternoon at 4:30. The meeting will be held at the Commercial club. Officers Trill be elected for the coming year and plans made for the May Festival

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Mendel Beilis is the Jewish workman who was acquitted of the charge of slaying a thirteen year-old Christian boy after the machinery of the whole Russian government had fought for his conviction. The prosecution charged that the boy was killed in a ritual exercise which baseless, accusation has been made against the Jewish race for centuries. Seated on the acquitted man's knee is his daughter, Maria, aged 8; David, aged 12, is sitting on the left; on Beilis' left is a woman friend of the family; next to her are Ruth, aged 5 and Darnel, aged 9. The older man in the picture is a family friend.

Highwaymen Continue Holdups, Woman Shoots Twice at Prowlers, Police Unable to Catch Robbers

NEGRO HAS $2 READY Burts Surprises Prosecutor By Drawing Check For Temporary Release. KNOWS LAW ANGLES Police Unwilling to Let Culprit Escape From County Jail. Held for burglarizing the Carr home, Edward Burts, colored, captured by Burton Car-, offered to furnish $2,000 bail when Prosecutor Reller today asked that sum upon the request of the negro that he be released from the county jail. The readiness with which Burts offered the sum took away the breath of the prosecuting attorney, who believed $2,000 sufficiently high to preclude its acceptance. Hardly had State's Attorney Reller mentioned the sum before Burts signed a check on an Indianapolis bank for the amount. The police believe Burts' ability to furnish bond links him with a professional gang of burglars. They say that burglars work in groups, and that one of the party usually has enough money in a bank to go bail for a member who may be caught. After bail has been accepted the culprit disappears, forfeits the money, and the state is unable to prosecute the case. Forwards Check. The $2,000 check has been sent to the Indianapolis bank on which it was drawn. Prosecutor Reller did not indicate what action he would take if the bank honors the check. Burts has shown a detailed knowledge of court procedure, according to the police. Not only has he maintained strict silence, but after he engaged Attorney Richardson to defend him, he at once asked a hearing in circuit court. The state's attorney and Mr. Richardson held a conference today, and the negro burglar broached the subject of cash bail. Mr. Reller believed he could forestall his temporary release by placing bail at $2,000, but to his surprise the negro at once signed his name to a check on an Indianapolis bank. Should the prosecutor refuse to honor the bail, Burts probably will plead in circuit court next week. The police are unwilling to let Burts slip through their fingers, as they believe he is a member of a gang of crooks that has terrorized Indiana. Chief of Police Gormon Is scouring the state and has been In communication with Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati to obtain the antecedents of the negro. I j WEATHER FORECAST . FOR INDIANA Continued unsettled weather tonight and Thursday. Probably occasional rains. TEMPERATURE. Noon , 55 YESTERDAY. Maximum 55 Minimum 51 RICHMOND, BY W. E. MOORE. Continued unsettled tonight and probably Thursday with conditions still favorable to some rain. SUMMARY. The present unusually long spell of gloomy, unsettled weather Is due to persistent low pressure over the southwestern United States, while a "high" is central over the northwest. There is no real cold weather anywhere in the United States at present. Rainy weather continues in the southwest.

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Stick-up Men Rob Pedestrian of Gold Watch, Not Overlooking Pocket Knife South Side Woman Shoots Twice At Prowler Burglar Studies East End Home Appointments - Citizens Buy Weapons and Re-Enforce Windows and Doors Police Make No Arrests Burglars Prowl Over the City.

Burglars and stick-up men, after giving the police a rest for twentyfour hours, took fresh courage last nignt, relieving John W. Barrett, a retired railroader of a $65 gold watch, and attempting to enter the Unthank home on South Ninth street. Estella S. Hollarn, daughter of the superintendent of Glen Miller park, passing the Williams homestead, 1802 Main street, last night saw a man crouching beneath a window. Miss Hollarn's approach was unnoticed. The prowler escaped when he saw that he was noticed. Chief of Police Gormon was ignorant of the latest developments of the crime wave which has made the city unsafe after nightfall. It was learned that a patrolman visited the Unthank home after Mrs. Laura Meyer Unthank had fired two shots at a man whom she saw loitering in the back yard. Police Chase Prowler. The police gave chase to a prowler at 7:30 last night near Seventeenth and Main streets. The man broke from three patrolmen and dashed through an empty lot east of the Margaret Smith Home for Aged Women at Seventeenth and Main streets. The ladies of the home heard the loud talking of the police as they pursued the men and heard the crashing through the brush on the lot. Only a few pedestrians witnessed the affair. They said the police had been warned of men who were peeping in windows and had been detailed to some house when they found a man hiding in the lot. For the last three weeks, low whistles, believed to be signals, have been (Continued on Page Six) ELECT BLICKWEDEL PRESIDENT AGAIN Members of South Side As sociation Hold Annual Election. NEW BOARD NAMED Adolph Blickwedel was re-elected president of the South Side Improvement association at the annual election of directors and officers last night. Other officers chosen were: C. C. Beall, secretary; Anton Stolle, treasurer; Hans Koll, first vice-president; Conrad Zwissler, second vice-president; B. A. Kennepohl, third vice-president. The new board of directors which elected the above officers immediately after being placed in office follows: John Habing. Edward Temme, Fred Miller, August Sturm, Conrad Zwissler, J. C. Bayer. Fred Hackman, A. B. Kennepohl, Hans Koll, Anton Stolle, C. A. Beall and Adolph Blickwedel. The new officers will be installed the first Tuesday nitht in JaauarjCi

Meal at HomeMW HOTEL FIRE

GENN SPENDS LESS MONEY THIS YEAR Street Commissioner Uses $25,400.04 Up to December 1. ASHES COST HEAVILY For Removal of Rubbish Head of Department Spends $10,393. The Books of Street Commisioner Genn show a total expenditure in his department of $25,400.04 to December 1. this year, constrasted with $26,107.73 at the corresponding time in 1912. Genn includes in the expenses for this year's work and material amounting to $8,655, necessitated by the March flood, which damaged streets, bridges j ana sewers to mat extent. The largest single item in the ex penses of the street department is for the removal of ashes and rubbish, which cost the city $10,393.09 this year, or $239.01 more than in 1912. To repair streets the department ! has spent $3,750.45, while street clean- j ing has meant an expenditure of $3,475. 60. On December 1, 1912, Genn's j books show that these two acounts, respectively, were $4,200.47 and 4,-, 208.46. In most of the divisions of the de- j partment funds required are almost the same for the two years, although , to December 1 last year eight times as much had been required to clean snow from the streets as now shown for this year. Making the highways passable after the heavy snows of 1912 cost $857.60. This year only $104.40 has been spent. Figures for different kinds of work by the street department which will be added to the bills for this month to make up Genn's report for 1913 follow: Work on dump, $982.20; sewers, $1,422.80; cleaning alleys, $727,60; repairing alleys, $4.35; repairing gutters, $35; street sweeping. $2.67.30; street crossings, $157.20; fountains. $35.10; cutting weeds. $246.40; work on bridges and culverts $143.85; road roller. $294.20; cleaning gutters, $521,10; sundries, $517.75. NATIONAL FLORISTS 1914 CONVENTION AT INDIANAPOLIS -E. G. Hill, the Richmond florist, has obtained the next convention of the National Chrysanthemum society for Indianapolis. This convention has never before been held outside of New York and Chicago. Mr. Hill made the announcement yesterday at New Castle at a meeting of the Indiana Florists" society. The exhibition of the Nnational Chrysanthemum society numbers among its exhibitors some of the best-known millionaires of the east and the rivalry is very keen among them. G. O. P. CONFERENCE FOR NEXT TUESDAY A conference of the Republican city committee and members of the party will be held next Tuesday evening in the council chamber "of the city building. The meeting is called to discuss the future of the party, and to make ior, co iunuiug & permanent organiza tion.

07 Tfl nCATUi LI IU ULHIII Poverty Stricken Men Die; When Flames Attack Fire Trap. 179 SLEEP IN HOUSE Identity of Victims May Never Be Known, Police Believe. The fire, from the standpoint of loss of life, was the worst in the history of Boston Heroic rescues saved scores of lodgers. Twenty-seven charred bodies, nearly all burned beyond recognition, so far recovered. Identity of dead may never be known. Building was a fire trap, police say. No bell was sounded, as ordered by law, to rouse sleeping inmates. Fire and police officials score the state's fire laws. BOSTON", Dec. 3. Twenty-seven persons were burned to death early today in a fire which destroyed the Arcadia lodging house, this being the heaviest death toll ever recorded in a fire here. Two persons were fatally injured, while more than a score were slightly hurt or overcome by smoke. There were 179 men asleep in the lodging house when the fire broke out. The flames spread swiftly through the flimsy building, and a number of men caught on the upper floors leaped from the windows. All the victims were povertystricken men. the lodging house being a 15-cents-a-night affair, catering to the poor. Many of them were homeless wanderers, and for this reason the authorities believe that the names of all the victims will never be known. The conflagration was attended by many thrilling escapes. Firemen spread nets and into these many of the panic stricken lodgers leaped. On man wrapped a mattress about his body and jumped from the Ifth floor, the mattress saving his life. Inmates Panic Stricken. Policemen lined along the fire escapes were forced to beat the fugitives with the clubs to start them on their way to the street and clear the fire escapes to make room for others fleeing from the building. The streets for blocks In three directions were scenes of the wildest confusion while the fire was burning. The dead, dying and injured were distributed about on the sidewalks neglected, while the first arrivals were striving to rescue others from the flames. Every available ambulance in the city was rushed to the scene and all manner of conveyances were pressed into service to take the injured to the hospitals. A special staff of doctors and nurses was in readiness at the City Hospital when the first ambulance arrived. Fire Escapes Inadequate. The meager fire escapes on the rear of the building offered escape to but few. Those occuping rooms to the front were cut off by a wall of flames which soared up the stairways and drove them to the windows to escape suffocation. There was no nre escape on the front or side of the building, and most of the dead were found near the windows. The great rapidity with which fire leaped from floor to floor caught the lodgers unaware and scores awoke to find their beds hemmed in by the flames. There they clung as the flames belched forth from windows beneath them and crept across the beds that they had vacated. Several narrowly escaped being hurled from the coping Into the street in the rush for the ladders, which fell just short of the coping on which they were clinging. The firemen ascended as far as they could and caught the lodgers as they Jumped to the top of the ladders four stories in the air. THANK JUDGE FOR ORDERJTO LEAVE James Johnson and Morris Crawford Lose No Time in Quitting Town. "Thank you, your honor," was the polite manner in which James Johnston of Marion, and Morris Crawford received Mayor Zimmerman's order for them to get out of the city in an hour. Both were deeply moved by the mayor's kindness and lost no time in heading for the corporation line. Johnston, who claimed he had been employed on the streets by a gas company at Marion, was closely questioned by the court and Police Chief Gormon in an attempt to prove he was one of the men at whom Patrolman Schroeder fired in the Pennsylvania yards Sunday night. He pleaded guilty to begging. With a sentence of 140 days hanging over him if he entered a saloon before he left Richmond and was not out of the city in an hour Morris Crawford slung his umbrella repair kit over his shoulder and departed. He was slated for public intoxication. FIRE DEPARTMENT ANSWERS 6 CALLS DURING NOVEMBER During November the Ere depart- ; ment responded to only six calls, j which is the lowest number for any j month of the year. The next low- ; est was in October with nine alarms. Fire Chief Miller estimate the loss for 1 last month at $300,

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Taunt of Children, "Scab," Goads Strike Breakers to Shoot Man in Front of Saloon Streets Deserted by Residents Who Fear Violence of Mob Agitators.

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY CRIPPLEDCITIZENS TERRORIZED BY POLICEMEN

Factories Close Down, While Railroads Report Freight Congestion as Strike Difficulty Tics Up Traffic General Sympathetic Strike Is Expec.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 3. Indianapolis today is faring the most critical labor situation in its history, and there is a possibility that before tomorrow a general strike of all organized trades will be called to support the striking teamsters and chauffeurs in their demands for living wages. In such an event disorders of the most serious nature are to be anticipated, which the city government will find impossible to cope with, thereby necessitating the state to assume control of the situation. The Indianapolis press has ignored the possibility of a general strike in this city, but labor leaders declared today that a resolution calling for such a walk-out was only defeated by three votes at a meeting of the executive committee of the Central Labor Council last evening. It is generally understood that unless by Thursday enough firms have signed union contracts to give employment to at least 1,500 men, a general sympathetic strike will result, which will completely demoralize business conditions in Indianapolis which are already seriously affected. , v Police Rule with Despotic Hand. Indianapolis is now being ruled by the iron hand of a police despotism. There are the usual number of persons on the streets, but the slightest evidence of congestion at any point brings mounted officers charging into the crowds and they show no partiality in the cracking of heads. A general feeling of uneasiness is prevalent everywhere. Business in Indianapolis is practically at a standstill. One large factory employing over 600 men closed down today for lack of coal which could not be hauled to the plant. Prospect of other manufacturing concerns taking similar action is imminent. It has been reliably reported that two of the largest department stores in the city have sent out notices to their patrons that all accounts must be promptly settled owing to the condition of business. All Stores Are Deserted. Stores are practically deserted and but few of the jobbing houses are attempting to transact business. Railroads are also greatly affected by the teamsters strike and an official of the Big Four stated today that all the sidings on the division between Peoria and Indianapolis were congested. Freight conditions on other roads running into this city are practically the same. Up to noon today 111 firms which are members of the Commercial Vehicle Protective Association have signed union contracts which affect about 700 teamsters and chauffeurs. Whethei the required 1500 will be given employment by tomorrow is something only future developments can foretell. One coal dealer who employs about twenty teamsters stated today that the strike would have ended today had not three of the largest companies which are members of the vehicle association refused to meet tha demands of the strikers.

Eugene Rutledge, 18. was shot In (the left leg during a fight with a number of alleged strike breakers. i who were driving a wagon belonging to the Minter Coal and Coke company this morning. Rutledge Is a teamster and was on the sidewalk in front of a saloon. According to the men on the wagon two shots were fired at them rfom this saloon, and they fired in return, one of their bullets striking Rutledge. The men on the wagon were sent to police neadquarte-rs by Bicyclemen Long andSheridan, who were the first to answer the emergency call. Three of the emergency police were also rushed to the scene. After being shot Rutledgecrawled down an alley half a square south of Washington street, where he was found and sent to the City Hospital. Each of the strike breakers was required to make a written statement at police headquarters and was then released. All gave out-of-town addresses. None of the men had special police power, it is said. POST OFFICE ISSUES 2,95 MONEY Total of $20,426.60 Received During Month of November. Money orders number 2,973, to the amount of S20.426.60 were issued by the Richmond postoffice during November. Of this number nineteen were sent to foreign countries. Four i remittances from other countries were i received during the month. I During the month orders to the 'amount of $9,325 were paid here. This i left the postoffice with a balance of i $19,526 to be forwarded to Indianapjolis after the JS.213 collected by the . smaller offices of the county had been fcreceiTed here.

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OPPOSE ONI Special Policeman Hugan. doing duty In the vicinity 'where the shooting occured declared that the strike breakers on the coal wagon -were the first to draw their guns, sod did so because groups of children, playing in the street shouted "Scab" at them) About twenty shots were fired during the skirmish, but Ratlegde was the.' only victim. j Following a remarkably quiet night, the third day'of the strike of over three thousand union teamsters staru! ed off with little or no excitement, the streets having a deserted sppearv ance. The limited number of ice wagons and other delivery vehicles.' each guarded by six men. about equal-! ly divided among negroes and whites, moved cautiously throcgn the streets.; but were not molested. Grocers and other supply stores are replenishing their stocks by using their pleasure automobiles for transporting food stuffs to their places of business from the wholesale bouses. DR. LYONS SPEAKS TO ray MEN More Than 200 Hear Address At Hoosier Drill. The first of the Y. M. C A. reuV gious extension meetings was held at noon today at the plant of the American Seeding Machine company where i mere than 200 men heard Dr. S. R. ! Lyons make an eight minute talk of "Finding God Through Jesus." Special music was furnished by Philip Gates. J. H. McAffe sang a solo. The men voted to continue the meetings at the plant. Another meeting will be held tomorrow at the Starr Piano factory. Arrangements have j been made whereby the entire Y. M C. A. building will be thrown open to the employes of these factories on certain Saturday evenings during this month,