Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 40, 27 December 1913 — Page 2

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 1912 COMMERCIAL CLUB PREPARjSJOR 1914 Municipal Bureau Expected to Materialize During Forthcoming Year. Could Not a Big Corporation Afford to Pay These Men More Than Sum of $25,000 a Year? BOMBARD TORREONi KILL JOJEDERALS Rebels Train Guns on Citj Occupied By Huerta's Soldiers. 3EATH SUMMONS ACCUSED JOSEPH OF VOTE Well Known Mail Carrier Succumbs to Pleural Pneumonia. Commissioner Charged With Entering Alleged Pact to Help Friends.

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Better Traction Service Is Sought For North and South Territory. Commercial Club plans for 1914 Jiave been outlined in a general way by the secretary. Charles W. Jordan for President S. E. Swayne. The plans are mostly for civic and school betterment, including advance in vocational work in the Bchoola, more active work in pushing the north and south traction line proposed last year, investigation of taxation and insurance rates and co-operation with the city government with the idea of assisting the city officials in any way possible. The following list of some of the main plana which the club looks forward to now, has been submitted by Secretary Jordon: Municipal bureau inauguration. The plans of the Commercial club and independent municipal research bureau are expected to materialize to such an extent that local capital can be interested and the bureau started in 1914. Park Development. Development of Morton park. The Richmond Lake and Park company, a branch from the Commercial club, plans the beautificatlon of the park grounds surrounding the newly formed lake. It is also planned to level the lake at places near the head, where the water is only two inches to two feet deep. The weeds and growth will be removed. Roads will be built through the park and boat and bathing service will be provided. Taxation legislative campaign. The large amount of delinquent taxes in Wayije county is responsible for the plans to make the laws more stringent regarding the collecting of taxes. Legislation is desired by the Commercial club which has a committee making a study of the question. Extension of industries. The usual inducement will be offered to any new industries which may locate here. Better Traction Service. Increased traction service. Not only the north and south traction line Idea will be brought to a point where capitalists will invest their money to start the construction work, but additional lines, probably to the hospital and Morton lake may be asked. Advertising Richmond-booster trips, general advertising and signs will be used to make the residents of other towns keep Richmond in their minds as one of the progressive cities of the state. Encouraging broader community relationship This has been accomplished to some extent by the Fall Festivals, and is more evident this year than last, it is said. The same plans will be carried out, but more extensively in 1914.' Educational growth of schools and library. Encouragement will be given any plan for the vocational work in the schools, and if possible, any new Jaws regarding schools and. libraries will "be carried out. Investigation of Insurance rates. With Richmond's increased fire protection through additional water mains and pumps, the Commercial Club expects to bring about lower fire insurance rates. Better Sanitation. Improvement of sanitary conditions. A committee will make an investigation and plans will then be made to improve sanitary conditions in Richmond. Assistance to public officials in the performance of their duties. Whatever the Commercial Cub may be able to do to aid the city officials in glvln? an economical and efficient administration will be taken up. Exigencies during the year will be attended to by committees. Investigation of road building. The Commercial Club has a good roads committee which has been quietly conducting work for the last year. The committee will take a more active interest and investigate plans for new roads and the construction work on any roads now being built. VACCINATION CAUSE OP STUDENT'S DEATH 9 Year Old Boy Dies From Infection, Coroner's Verdict Says. INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 27. That Frank Cltne, 9, died from the infection of vaccination was the verdict of Coroner Durham today. The lad was one of many children who" were recently vaccinated because o the-jrevallence of smallpox in that neighborhood. It is said to be the first death from smallpox vaclne on record. There are seventy cases of smallpox now under treatment here, sixty being reported within the past thirty days. TRUSTEE MAY ASK FOR LARGER FUND Unless there is a material slackening in the calls for assistance at the trustee's office, the township will be compelled to borrow money to replenish the poor fund before the end of winter, according to Trustee Howarth. In epite of the fact that Christmas is just over and hundreds of people received assistance at that time, calls for supplies of food and clothing continue at a rate that bids fair to deplete the fund before the winter Is over. SETS NEW RECORD PARIS, Dec. 27. A new altitude record in aviation was set today by M. Legagneux, a Frenchman. He arose 20,668 feet. When he descended he was almost unconscious. Physicians said he had a narrow escape from being frozen to death.

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FIRE SWEEPS CITV St. Louis Business Dfstrict Swept By Flames. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27. Fire discovered early today raging in the heart of the business district of St. Louis, caused a loss of $100,000. Nearly all of the business block bounded by Broadway, Locust, St. Charles and Sixth streets was destroyed. The five-story building occupied by the Harris Shoe company, collapsed and endangered the lives of scores of firemen who were fighting the blaze. None of the men was hurt, according to reports at fire department headquarters. The heaviest losses were sustained by the shoe company, the Adams Stamp company, the MeKnight Tailoring company, the Y. M. C. A. restaurant and the Vienna cafe. LABOR ORGANIZATION TO BUILD TEMPLE EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 27. A special organization to raise funds to build a labor temple here will be formthe IrBt of the new year, It was decided at the meeting of the Central Labor Union. A large committee will be formed to work continuously for the raising of funds sufficient to buy a lot and to build on it a home for all local unions. Working men will be asked to buy shares of stock in the project. 1 NEWS NUGGETS FIGHTING PARSON. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Seeing a man beating a woman beneath his window, Rev. Elmer Williams, fighting Methodist minister, fired a revolver at the man. But the bullet missed and the man and woman fled in opposite directions. PRICE, ONE POTATO. S ED ALIA, Mo., Dec. 27. One potato was the admission price to a cantata at the First Baptist church. The audience obeyed Rev. R. Landerson's request that large potatoes be brought and swelve bushels of spuds were distributed to the city's poor. STORK, SURE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 The stork has presented Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. Storii with a little Stork. SMALL MAN DEAD. LONDON, Dec. 27. The world's smallest man, John W. White, whose height is only twenty-one inches, is dead here, aged 51. OFFICIALS INSPECT ADDITION The county commissioners today made an inspection of the newly completed annex to the Home of the Friendless, and made a list of furniture that will be required for the new rooms. Bids will be asked for later. The estimated cost of the furniture is $200. CONTRACT AWARDED. The county commissioners today let the contract for furnishing drainage tile for the Easthaven road to S. W. Culbertson for $30S90. John W. Duke was the only other bidder. Eight and twelve-incn tile will be used. In Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted, no hotels are llowed to open their bars.

LIVES LOST IN ASTERN GALE Property Damage Will Exceed Million Dollar Mark in 5 States. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. With thirteen lives lost and millions of dollars damage done to property, the terrific wind, hail, rain and storm, which began Christmas night and swept over five states, abated today, leaving a cold snap in its wake. In this city the thermometer dropped 16 degrees to 27 and even colder weather is expected tonight. The storm was one of the fiercest that ever Bwept over this section of the country. The masters of the A. C. Ropes and the "Undaunted" coal barges, with eight seamen, lost their lives when the barges foundered off Forked River, New Jersey. CoJd Kills Two. Two men died of exposure and were found on roads near Trenton, New Jersey. A workman was drowned in the East river when his rowboat was swamped. The full force of the storm which fell upon that stretch of the Jersey coast which reaches ount into rhe Atlantic ocean like an elbow. Records at Long Branch showed that the wind attained a velocity of 123 miles an hour, the highest ever recorded in the weather bureau. Seabright, New Jersey, was the plaything of the ocean. Waves whipped by the gale tore away supposed flood proof bulkheads, smashed bath houses, washed away or undermined fishermen's cottages, tore away portions of two big summer hotels, inundated the main streets and buried the railroad tracks under 18 inches of sand, brick and rock. MAN WEARING MASK ATTACKSJOUNG GIRL Emma Wolf Manages to Free Herself From Assailant's Grasp. While passing an alley, immediately east of the Seidel Buggy company, where she works, about 6 o'clock last evening, Miss Emma Wolf, Id and pretty, 545 North Nineteenth street, was grabbed by a man and dragged into the alley. A fierce struggle ensued, the man who wore a mask over the lower part of his face, placing one hand over the girl's mouth to prevent her from screaming. Biting and kicking her would-be assailant. Miss Wolf finally managed to free herself from the man's grasp and called for help. The latter ran north to the railroad yards and disappeared. Miss Wolf, although frightened, was not injured. More than 50 per cent, of the sheep of this country are on the large ranches of the west. Ewitzerland shares with Scotland the distinction of being the best educated country In the world.

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KILLS HIMSELF AND 3 New York Father Murders His Whole Family.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 Henry Knell, 29, secretary of the Philadelphia Steel Forge company, shot his wife to death today, smothered his two young children to death with gas and then committed suicide. The quadruple trage dy took place in the family home on Long Island. Domestic trouble is said to have been the cause. He had quarreled several times with his wife recently. The tragedy was discovered by neighbors who heard the shots. Knell apparently had made careful plans for the death of all as he had filled the window cracks with cotton. The police believe that his wife discovered the plans to kill all with gas and he killed her Immediately and then proceeded with the deadly work. COLLEGE STUDENTS DO Y, NLU WORK Eight Men Will Work At Spiceland During Coming Week. Eight men, comprising the Earlham Gospel team, will leave Monday for Spiceland, Indiana, where they will remain for the entire week, working among the young men of the town In the attempt to arouse intereat in Y. M. C. A. wor&i Two of the eight men, Josiah Marvel and Benjamin Johnson, are Richmond residents. The other memfcars are Horace Reed, Ross WilliamsA Howard McMInn, Harry Rodgers, Everett Davis and Silas Lancaster. The entire week will be devoted to work among the young men of the locality. In the afternoon social sessions will be held and the different members of the team will get an opportunity to become acquainted with the Spiceland boys. In the evenings meetings with speeches and programs of different sorts will be held. TAKE WOMAN THIEF Chicago Police Hold Leader of Robber Band. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Miss Elizabeth Baker, a handsome woman, dressed in the height of fashion, is being held todav hv the nolice as the leader of ' a band of eight women who have acj cumulated more than $6,000 worth of I stolen property in the last few days. Miss Baker was taken on a charge of receiving stolen property, and the dectives who raided her apartments on the north side said they found evidence that the woman was the directing spirit of the robber band. A census taken in the Philadelphia public schools reveals the fact that out of 2.1(H) pupils in one of the schools j nearly 20 per cent, bear the name Cohen.

GENERAL VILLA BUSY

Prepares to Fight Decision Battle Early Next Week. MEXICO CITY Dec. 27. The city of Torreon was bombarded for eight hours Friday by rebels. Machine guns stationed in the hills rained shells into the town and killed ninety federal soldiers. Scores were wounded. Officials of the war office admitted today that they Jiad received applications from fifty Japanese officers for positions in the Federal army. It was stated that no immediate action would be taken on the applications. VILLA TO LEAD TROOPS. To Conduct Battle Early Next Week. CHICHUAHUA, Mex., Dec. 27. Gen. Francisco Villa will personally lead his troops In the final attack on Terreon. The Constitutionalist leader will leave for the scene of battle early next week to line up his men in the attack on General Refugio Velasco and his federals now shut up In the besieged city. On the outcome of the Torreon battle will depend Villa's future movements. If he is successful in driving Velasco out, VWa will Immediately, begin his march on Mexico City and attempt to drive Gen. Huerta out of power. TWO FOREIGNERS SHOT. Spanish Merchants Killed for Aiding Huerta. EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 27. Two foreigners and eight Mexicans have been summarily executed by Gen. Villa, the Constitutionalist leader, since his occupation of Chlcho&hua, according to dispatches received here today. Jose Goneales and Augustin Gonzales, Spanish merchants, were the foreigners shot to death. They and the Mexicans who were prominent business men, were accused of having aided General Huerta. RQBBINS TO MEET BOARDJF WORKS New Cabinet to Present Plans to Mayor-Elect Tonight. Mayorelect Robbins will hold a meeting tonight with the members of his board of public works, Alfred Bavis, John McMInn and Charles Marlatt, Street Commissioner George I. Knollenberg and City Attorney Bond, when they will discuss a plan calling for the installation of a more complete system of records in the street cleaning department. Mr. Bavis has worked out a record sheet which will be kept by the street commissioner and which will keep a list of all the employes of the department, the exact amount of work they do each month, the hours devoted to this work and the cost of the work. At the close of next year it will be possible to ascertain exactly whether the department has or has not accomplished the best possible work, and it will show the defects. If any, in the administration of the department. Detailed Record. The commissioner of streets will be able to keep this detailed record sheet by a system of daily reports which sre to be submitted to him by the foreman of the work gangs. Mr. Bavi has completed a draft of these dally reports and those who have seen it have highly complimented Its author. This record keeping system for the street department will be submitted for inspection at the meeting of city officials this evening. Mr. Robbins says that the first of next week he will call another meeting for the purpose of devising ways and means for a better garbage collecting and disposal system. TEACHERS' COFFERS CONTAIN BUT LITTLE County Association May Disband Owing to Treasury Condition. The Wayne County Teachers' association probably has held its last meeting. The next regular meeting should be held in February, but owing to the fact that there is but tl.75 in the treasury, and most of the members are opposed to an assessment, it Is probable that the organization will be permitted to disband. The expenses of the association are met by an annual assessment of 50 cents a member. The last two meetings were very expensive, as the lecturers, Charles EmerBon and Edward Stelner, are high-priced attractions. As a result the organization is practically on its last legs. County Superintendent Williams said today that he would be willing to see the organization disband, providing some district teachers' organization could be organized to take Its place. Owing to the fact that the state meeting hencefore will be held in October, the county organization has practically received its death blow so far as a fall meeting is concerned. How to bind dilapidated text books so that they look lmost as good as new is taught in manual training class es In Hampton institute, Hampton. Va.

His first sickness in forty years reulted today in the death of Joseph Manhaut. n3. a well known mail cart?r who resided at the Grand hotel. '.r. Manhir.i was sick less ih&n six .vs. having teen taken 111 with pleu1 pneumonia late Saturday night. He as not married. Mr. Marthant entered the mail serve as a clerk under Postmaster Frank rider In 159. In ISSt). he was appointed carrier by Postmaster Isaac 't-nkinson. In his twenty-four years f service he had not taken a day off for 6:ckius8 or any other cause.

Mr. Marchant was born In 1SJ0, in; Nantucket, Rhode Island and was brought here by his parents, Joseph and Charlotte Marchant while he was still an Infant. The only surviving member of the immediate family, a brother, Fred, of Ogden. I'tah. was summoned Christmas day when Mr. Marchanfs condition was found to be serious and his death expected. The father of Mr. Marsnnt was proprietor of a baking powder and tea store here for years. Mr. Marchant was aseoclated with his father, but upon the death of bis parents he sold the store. He carried mail in the north end for twenty-three years. Mr. Marchant was proud of his record for steady working, and it is believed his attack of pleural pneumonia was caused by the fact that he refused to take a duy off to recuperate from a severe cold on his lungs. Alter a doctor was catled Saturday night and who pronounced him In a serious condition, he refused to be removed to the hospital, and it was not until his strength was almost exhausted that he consented to the change. He was taken to the hospital Christmas day. Besides his brother, he has a cousin. B. B. Myrick of North Eleventh street. Another cousin, Sophia Marchant, Is principal of the Starr school. He was an Episcopalian. He had no fraternal affiliations. Funeral arrangements win not be made until the arrival of the brother. Friends may call at the home of Mr. Myrick at any time to view the body. OVERMAN FAMILY Ifl NARROW ESCAPE Fountain City Persons Drive Auto Into Moving Freight Train. MACHINE DEMOLISHED Thirty Cars Pass Over Front End of Automobile. How John Overman, a well known Fountain City man, while driving his automobile near Lynn Christmas night, having as passengers his wife daughter Clementine, and son. Howard, drove headlong Into a moving Big Four freight train and how all of them escaped injury, notwithstanding the fact that fully half of th sixty-five cars of the train passed over the front of the automobile, even tearing off the front seat, was learned for the first i time today by Richmond friends of the Overmans. The Overmans were enroute to Lynn where they were to meet their young son Rex, who was returning from Indianapolis, where he is a student at the state Institution for the blind. When the machine approached the Big Four crossing south of Lynn. Just at dark. It was snowing very hard and the wind shield was crusted with the snowflakes. making It almost Impossible for Mr. Overman to see six feet ahead of him, so be was driving his I car at a slow rate of speed. He ttid he did not notice a train passing the j crossing because of the heavy fH of ; snow and because the sides of the cars were white with flakes of ice. Suddenly the machine crashed Into a car which was about the center of the train. The impact did not throw any of the occupants of the machine to the road, but Mr. Overman saya he and his son promptly fell out of the front seats and just In time for the next second ft was torn away by one of the cars. Mr. Overman and his son then seized Mrs. Overman And Miss Overman and pulled them out of the rear seat. For two or three minutes they dazedly watched the rear cars of the train pass over the automobile absolutely demolishing the entire front of It. After the train had passed along another automobile arrived on scene of the accident and conveyed the Overmans to Lynn, sound in body anl limb but all suffering greatly from the shock of their narrow escape from death. NOHR MAY TEACH STUDENTS TO DANCE Folks dances and gymnastic steps jof the lighty springy character, posl slbly will constitute part of the course ' , of gymnastic instruction at the high school during the next semester. Robert Nohr, school physical director, has already introduced the dances to the classes and the night school : pupils are well acquainted with the ! character of dance which Mr. Nohr i proposes to teach regularly. $52,500 TAKEN BY POST OFFICE ROBBERS KEARNEY. Neb.. Dec. 27. Post office authorities today admitted that there was J 52.500 In currency la the seven registered packages stolen from the local post office last night. A dozen post office inspectors were ordered here to Investigate the robbery.

ONE ENTERS A DENIAL

Doddridge Denies Trade to Secure Dr. Fouts' Appointment. Representative Progressive ef Wayne county, behind closed doors in the office of the county recorder. It vwas learned today from authoritative sources, discussed qualifications of candidates for the appointive offices controlled by the county commissioners. Progressives were also discussing an alleged agreement between County Commissioners Llnderman and Doddridge, whereby the former was to vote for Dr. Fouts. of Centerville as county health commissioner, and Doddridge was to vote for Robert Beeson, retiring county commissioner, for highway superintendent. The call for the meeting to discuss the appointments to be made by the board of county commissioners brought Progressives from all over the county to the gathering, including Mayor-elect Robbins, who left as soon as he heard what the purpose of the meeting was to be. With him went a number of prominent leader of the party. Albert Anderson, Progressive member of th board of county commissioners said he had heard of the agreement between Llnderman and Doddridge regarding the trade of vote for county health commissioner and highway superintendent. Commissioner Doddridge denied knowledge of the agreement. He said he did not know that Dr. Fouts was a candidate for office until he had been o informed today, and that he looked upon the candidacy of Fouts In the same light as he did upon that of other applicants. APPLICANTS APPEAR Several Seek Superintendency of Poor Farm. AapHcanta for appointment as superintendent of the county poor farm, with their wives appeared before the County Board of Charities today to tell of their qualifications for the place. The board submitted Its recommendations to the commissioners late In the afternoon. ESSAYS CONTINUE TO REACH EXPERT With the close of the contest less than two weeks oft, essays In response to the Palladium's offer of three free trips to the state corn show are arriving at the office of County Agent Cobb at a rapid rate. Mr. Cobb Is endeavoring to secure a large delegation of Wayne county farmers to attend the state corn show and from present Indications he will be successful In his efforts. REFORMERS WANT QUIET CHICAGO CHICAGO. Dec J7. Mayor Harrison today received a formal demand from the religious and civic organizations of Chicago that he order all cafes In the city closed at 1 a. m. on New Year's day. The mayor bad already announced that he would close every saloon at the regular legal closing hoar, but that cafes would be permitted to remain open all night, the only restriction being that they must not sell liquor after 1 o'clock. BEILJSS WILL LEAVE FOR ENGLISH HAVEN PARIS, Dec. 27. Mendel Beiliss. acquitted in Kieff In the "Ritual murdertrial, has been permitted to leave Russia, according to a dispatch from Odessa today. The perfect of Kieff has Issued the necessary passports and Beiliss and his family will soon leave for London, after a short stop In Paris. Beiliss Is still undecided as to whether he will make his future home In the United States. ISSUE DIRECTORIES Directories have been distributed by the Richmond Home Telephone company. The new directories contain many names which were not In those Issued last year. All phones Installed up to two weeks ago are listed. NO NEED TO NAME HER. The Relative Whe Never Abandon One Afflicted With Insanity. "It's a fanny thing about a lunatic's relatives.' said the superintendent of an insane asylum. "There are reuable statistics about the way a lunatic's relatives stand by biro. The relative who stands by a lonatie least, who stops visiting him In the asylum first of alL Is a brother. The next relative to drop off Is a wife. That sounds bard, but it's true,' Don't count on your wife If you are going to become a lunatic. Next banbaDd drop off. A little truer than wives huebands are, tot only a tittle. Next fathers abandoa the lunatic, next sisters. "One relative never abandons him. Till she dies, or be dies, she com regnlarly on visIrJns day. bringing underwear and ties, cakes and tobacco provided, of coarse, that the lunatic's a male. If It's a female this relative Is equally faithful. And even though as sometimes happens, the poor, mad creature hates her. cornea ber. trie to strike her when she visits him. she still remains falthfoL When ber visits cease they cease for on! one reason death. "Nor do I need to tell yon which relative this one Is." New York Tribune.