Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 111, 20 March 1914 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXAB AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 111. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS BOARD WORKS PREPARES TO BUY FLUSHER FOR STREETS Parisian Mobs Demand Revenge For Murder of Figaro's Head WAYNE DELEGATION WELL PLEASED WITH DEMOCRATIC TICKET Majority of Delegates Vote for Successful Candidate in Each Contest in State Convention. WOMAN WHO KILLED EDITOR OF FIGARO City to Pay Bonded Then if no More Bonds Indebtedness Are Issued And Present Revenue Not Reduced

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Plans to Transfer $1,140 Saved From Salary of Assistant Street Commissioner for Purchase.

STREET OILER ALSO WILL BE PURCHASED Members Believe Machines Will Cut Down Expense While Adding to Sanitation of City. It Is almost certain that the Richmond street department will be equipped this year with a street oiler and a Street flusher. A 600 gallon street oiler can be purchased for $351.25 and the cost of street oil would not be excessive. Kvery macadam and gravel street in the city would be oiled and the actual expense of the work assessed against property owners, so it would actually cost the city for this work only the price of the oiler, the wages ok the driver and horse hire. Mayor Robbins and members of the board of workB have figured out that the purchase of a street flusher, which ran be purchased for $1,300, would be tn actual saving to the city. Only Satisfactory System. "The only satisfactory system for piling streets will be for the city to do its own oiling and assess the property owners for the work," President Bavis, of the board, said today. "Methods pursued in the past for oiling streets have been cumbersome and unsatisfactory. If the city assumes responsibility for this work by doing It itself endless red tape will be dispensed with and at a minimum expense to the property owners and with but Bmall expense to the city. "It is our plan, when the annual spring cleaning of macadam and gravel streets is begun, to lightly oil each street as soon as it has been cteSfnedr;"' Later in -4he season, after the first coating of oil has thoroughly soaked in, the streets would receive a heavier application of oil. It will cost the property owners little or nothing to have this work done and I believe the big majority of citizens will willingly meet such assessments." Provide Money. By dispensing with the services of an assistant street commissioner and a timekeeper, which the new administration did when it assumed control of city affairs, $1,140 was saved, which sum was provided for in the 1914 budget. The sum saved in this manner, plus $160, would pay for a uniform pressure street flusher. A reduction of over one-half of the annual cost for the care of brick streets by the use of a flusher, also warrants its purchase, so the board of public works is to ask council for authority to transfer from the payroll account of the street department the amount required to purchase a flusher. If council consents to such action bidg on a flusher will be advertised for immediately. President Bavis is confident council will approve of the fund transfer and he said today he expected to see the flasher in operation the first of May. Cut Down Expense. "At the present time the city is paying $90 a week for the care of the five miles of brick streets. These streets can be more thoroughly cleaned and sanitary conditions improved vastly with a flusher at an expense of only $42.50 per week, which includes cost of water, driver's wages and horse hire, a saving of $47.50 a week. This expense of $42.50 is estimated on the basis of two flushings a week, amply sufficient to keep the brick streets thoroughly cleansed and in a most sanitary condition. "The flusher will also save residents of brick streets 35 cents a week, which they have been paying for sprinkling. "Another benefit from the flushing system is that the water pressure is so great that it not only cleanses the bricks as thoroughly as a housewife's pan, but drives the water instantly into the gutters, so that water is not left standing on the streets on hot davs to steam and increase the humidity." ARREST PREACHER Marion Police Judge Fines Quaker Preacher. MARION, Ind., March 20. Acting on Information received in a letter from B. L. McVicker, a mail carrier of Marion, the Kokomo police arrested Mrs. Mollie McVicker, divorced wife, a Quaker preacher, and a man giving the name of Charles Shultz in a room in a Kokomo hotel, where they had registered as Charles Shultz and wife. Taken to police headquarters they were soon afterward tried on a statutory charge, and a tine of $25 and costs on each was assessed. Shultz seemed lo have plenty of money, and paid the fines, whereupon the couple at once disappeared from Kokomo. Mrs. McVicker pleaded with the judge to protect her on account of her profession and her prominence in her home city, but he told her the court records were public. The arrest created a cessation, in

- M. GASTON CALMETTE. - The noted journalist and editor of the Paris Figaro, whose murder at the hands of Mme. Henriette Caillaux, wife of Calmette's political enemy, M. Joseph Caillaux, has aroused thousands of admirers of the dead man to parade about the streets of Paris, demanding that Caillaux be executed to expiate his wife's crime.

10,000 Weeping Men See Calmette Buried

PARIS, March 20. A mob of 10,000 persons with cries or grier upon tneir lips interrupted the burial of Gaston Calmette, the famous journalist, who was assassinated by Henrietta Callaiux, wife of former minister of finance, Joseph Caillaux. Breaking through the police lines at the cemetery the excited men and women flung back all opposition as they fought to get near the grave to see the interment of the dead man. After a sharp conflict, the republi can guards and the gendarmes succeeded in pushing back the masses of humanity. This exciting incident ended the ceremony after the three mile cortege had made its way to the graveyard, beneath the gaze of hundreds of thousands who thronged the streets. Just at the moment when funeral PUNS TO Shareholders Will Seek More Funds to Insure Strong Position. NEW YORK, March 20. -Following the announcement that a Efficient amount of notes of the M. Rumely company has been deposited to warrant their extension until March 1, 1918, interests connected with the company took a more optimistic view of the situation today. Confidence was expressed that the M. Rumely company had passed its most difficult period, and with a good year for the farmers, as all reports now seem to indicate, that the company will be in a much stronger position in 1915. A movement is under , way for forming a stockholders' committee of the concern to work out a plan for permanent financing. Some shareholders t are considering steps for raising two million and three million dollars in addition to the four million recently secured from bankers' and farmers' notes held by the company. Rumorswere current of an assessment on Rumely shares, but confirmation was lacking. HAYWOOD TO PREACH The Rev. H. Li. Haywood will preach in the St. John's Universalist church in Muncie both Sunday morning and afternoon services. The Muncie pastor was called to Akron, O., by the death of a sister.

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boulevard ' awaiting any signal for violence, a senate commission headed by M. Jean Jaures, the famous socialist, was beginning its session to investigate the political intrigues exposed in part by the murder of the journalist. In St. Lazare jail, Mme. Caillaux, the beautiful central figure in this tragedy of love, jealousy and politics, was comforted by two nuns as she gazed out into the rain. All the police in Paris were on guard for prefect Hennion feared that j the funeral of M. Calmette might prove the spark which would cause the greatest explosion of violence that has followed the killing of the brilliant anti-government .editor. At St. Benis, a suburb, there was a grave outbreak in which a number of persons were killed. THIEVES BREAK ST. PAUUSCHURCH Pry Open Rear Door of Edifice and Ransack the Pastor's Study. Prowlers broke into St. Paul's Episcopal church last night, fruitlessly ransacked the rector's desk in his study and table drawers in the room above the study, then took their departure through the front door of the church, paying no heed to the valuables on the altar. The men entered the church by prying open a rear door opening into a passageway which leads to the study. Everything in the study was turned topsy-turvy by the thieves in their frantic search for valuables. Failing in their quest they evidently decided that it would be too hazardous to leave the building by the door they had broken open so they went through the auditorium, unlocked the front door and fled. "A church is a poor place to look for money," laughed the Rev. J. S. Lightbourn, rector of the church, "and our visitors were not rewarded for the risk they exposed themselves to. When the janitor arrived at the church this morning he found my study in great disorder and summoned me. I made a careful search but found nothing missing." The thieves left no clues by which their identity could be ascertained by the polica.

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Convention Declared the Largest and Most Enthusiastic Ever Held by Followers of the Rooster. STATE TICKET United States Senator B. F. Shively, of South Bend. Secretary of State Homer Cook, of Indianapolis. Auditor of State Dale J. Crlttenberger, of Anderson. Attorney General Richard M. Milburn, of Jasper. State Treasurer George A. Bittier, of Ft. Wayne. Supreme Court Judge M. B. Lairy, of Logansport. Clerk of Supreme Court J. Frederick France, of Huntington. Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles A. Greathouse, of Indianapolis. State Geologist Edward Barrett, of Plainfield. Judges of Appellate Court Judges Hottel, of Washington; Ibach, of Hammond; Felt, of Greenfield; Caldwell, of Winchester; Frank M. Powers, of Angola, Wayne county's twenty-five delegates to the Democratic state convention have returned from Indianapolis vastly pleased over the ticket nominated yesterday. On nearly every contest the Wayne county vote was split, for the delegates were not instructed for any of the candidates, but all th successful candidates were supported by the majority of the Wayne delegates. The contest for the nomination as state treasurer was the most interesting to the Wayne countians, George A. Bittler, of Fort Wayne being a hot favorite with the majority of the Wayne delegation, although T. W. O'Connor, of Monticello, bis opponent, was loyally supported to the bitter end by six or seven delegates from western part of the .county...:.. The convention was the largest and most enthusiastic the Democrats ever held in Indiana. There were more candidates than ever before. When the 1,836 delegates assembled it was known that the fight over the platform was at an end, and that there would be no trouble during the proceedings over a declaration of principles. The convention lasted late into the night. Great enthusiasm was shown, and at times policemen were called by Chairman Kern to clear the aisles of cheering delegates. With the exception of treasurer of state and attorney general the candidates were chosen either by acclamation or on one ballot. It required eight ballots, occupying more than five hours, to select George A. Bittler, or Ft. Wayne, as candidate for treasurer. He was opposed by six candidates but the opposition to him at no time was bitter. Nomination Made Unanimous. Bittler was regarded as the choice of the German faction, while the Irish flocked to Thomas W. O'Connor, of Monticello. On the eighth ballot. Biti tier received 1,000 votes, , O'Connor I 672 and Fred Lauenstein, of Evansville, 154. The four minor eandidates John Isenbarger, George Macomber, Lou Bernethy and William A. Morris, had been dropped on previous ballots. On motion of Charles T. Murphy, O'Connor's manager, the nomination of Bittler was made unanimous. Richard M. Milburn, of Jasper, was nominated for attorney general on the second ballot. He was opposed by Edwin Corr and George W. Curtis. Homer Cook, of Indianapolis, the Taggart candidate, won easily the race for the secretary of state nomination. He was opposed by James F. Cox, of Columbus, and S. B. Wells, of Scottsburg. Dale J. Crittenberger, of Anderson, won the auditor of state nomination in a walk. Taggart put him in nomination as the candidate of the Seventh district, although Mayor Bell presented the name of Myron King, of Indianapolis. Nearly two-thirds of the Indianapolis delegation voted for Crittenberger. W'Uliam B. Gray was the third aspirant. Chosen on First Ballot. M. B. Lairy, of Logansport, was nominated for supreme court judge on the first ballot. He was opposed by Charles P. Drummond, of South Bend, and James F. Gallagher, of Michigan City. J. Frederick France, of Huntington, won easily the nomination for clerk of the supreme court from Harry E. Grube, of Plymouth. Charles A. Greathouse, of Indianapolis, was nominated candidate for state superintendent of public instruction by acclamation. Edward Barrett was nominated candidate for state geologist over W. G. Beatty on the first ballot. Judges Hottel, of Washington; Ibach, of Hammond; Felt, of Greenfield, and Caldwell, of Winchester, were renominated for the appellate court bench by acclamation. Frank M. Powers, of Angola, was nominated for judge of the appellate court over Judge James Moran, of Portland. WEATHER FORECAST 4 , FOR INDIANA Saturday Increasing cloudiness and warmer. Probably followed by snow by night. TEMPERATURE.

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First Photograph of Mme. Henriette Caillaux to Be Printed in This Country. Mme. Henriette Caillaux, wife of the recently resigned French Minister of Finance, is in St. Lazare Prison, Paris, awaiting trial for the murder of her husband's bitter political enemy, M. Gaston Calmette, the eminent French editor. A close guard has been placed over her to prevent a possible attempt at suicide. SEEKS HE! P PREPARING BRIEF

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For Water Rate He Presented. Schedule ; j At a meeting of the public service corporation committee of the Com"tnerektt elub-held yesterday afternoon-, f City Attorney Bond stated that he probably would withdraw the schedule of rates which he used in his oral argument before the commission and would not submit any schedule to the commission. He said that it had been his plan to make a careful examination of the schedule of rates prepared by Special Engineer Watts, but he did not receive the schedule in time to make the examination. He also made the statement that he thought Mr. Watts had intended to make the rates on the basis of dailv consumption rather than on the semiannual basis, as Mr. Watts included in his schedule. Bond Asks Meeting. i The meeting of the committee was called at the suggestion of the city attorney for the purpose of conferring on the question of the data to be included in the brief which will be filed with the commission next Monday. Mr. Bond said that he has had from the beginning, the idea that water for domestic consumption should be reduced, and that he thought that a 20 cent rate would be about right, although he admitted that if the domestic rate were reduced it would mean that other rates would necessarily have to be increased to allow a sufficient amount of revenue. Mr. Bond asked the assistance of the committee in the preparation of the brief. MYSTERY SURROUNDS E Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Urie Lose Large Sum, Relatives Are Mystified. Mysterious circumstances, which probably will not be cleared up until Mr. and Mrs. William Dudley Foulke arrive in Rome, surround the robbery of Dr. J. F. Urie, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Foulke, in Rome, the disappearance of a letter telling of it, and the sending of a sum of money to Mr. and Mrs. Urie. 1 Within a few days Mr. and Mrs. Foulke. will leave Richmond, and wiil sail for Rome, where they will meet i Dr. and Mrs. Urie. It is evident from, a letter recently reecived from his son-in-law, that he had been robbed of considerable money. From the , tone of the letter Mr. Foulke believes a previous letter had been sent explaining the robbery. The first letter miscarried. Dr. Urie also thanked Mr. Foulke for having cabled money so promptly after his loss through the robbery. Of this Mr. Foulke knew nothing until the arrival of the letter. Mr. and Mrs. Foulke. and Dr. and Mrs. Urie will tour northern Italy and spend some time in the Swiss lake region. Part of the summer will be spent at a camp in the Alps. SEEK DESERTER Posters offering a reward of $50 for the capture of Jack Williams, aged 21, formerly of Cambridge Ctty, who left there to enlist in the army, have been distributed. Williams is charged with

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McMahan Says Within Two and One-half Years, Tax Rate May Be Lowered to $1.03 and Within Approximately Eight Years It Will Be Possible to Reduce Rate to $1 a Municipal Light Plant Sinking Fund Will Be Sufficient t Clear Plant by That Time.

Providing the city is assured that its present revenue will not be reduced and no additional bonds have to be issued for loans, the city will have no bonded indebtedness after November 12, 1916, two and one-half years hence. It will then be possible to establish for the year 1917 a tax rate of $1.03, seven cents less than the existing rate, because the seven cent sinking fund levy will no longer have to be maintained to meet the bonded indebtedness. The bonded indebtedness of the city at the present time is $42,500. This year $8,000 of this amount will be paid off, $17,000 in 1915 and $17,500 in 1916. City Controller McMahan has also estimated that within approximately eight years it will be possible to reduce the tax rate another three cents, making it $1.00 for the year 1912. This reduction will be possible because the municipal light plant sinking fund at that time, with the resulting increase through compound interest, will be sufficient to meet the $144,000 bonded indebtedness of the plant, which matures in 1927. thirteen years hence. After a sufficient amount has been paid into the sinking fund of the plant, which is estimated should be about oarnlnea can under th law. he tlirned into the general fund of the city. This would increase the city's revenue WOMEN MET DEFEAT BUT ARNUBILANT Ballot in Senate Shows a Majority in Favor of Woman Suffrage. WASHINGTON, March 20. Advocates of woman suffrage won a victory in the senate today by defeating a motion by Senator Bryan to refer to the judiciary committee a newly introduced woman's suffrage amendment, presented by Senator Shaffroth. The motion to refer the proposed amendment to the judiciary committee was defeated, 25 to 37. The resolution for the amendment then went to the committee on woman's suffrage. Though defeated In their efforts to secure a two-thirds vote for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, suffrage leaders were jubilant today because the ballot in the senate showed a majority for their cause. Miss Antoinnette Funk announced that they wonld back Senator Shaffroth and the resolution he had drawn up calling for a constitutional amendment in the following form: "Whenever the legal number of voters of any state to a number exceeding 5 per cent of the legal voters, voting at the last preceding general election held in such state, shall petition for the submission to the legal voters of said state the question whether women shall have equal rlghtawith men in respect to voting at all elections to be held In such state, such question shall be jso submitted and upon such submissions 'majority of the legal voters of the state voting on the question shall vote to grant women such rights, the same shall thereupon be deemed established, anything in the constitution or laws of such state to the contrary, notwithstanding." This amendment is designed to' meet the objection of senators who in- i sisted that the question of suffrage is one for state action only. STARTS ROAD WORK Jones Ready to Put Highways in Shape. County road repairing machinery has been overhauled, and Is ready for the season's work. A few men started to work this week. At the first sign of a permanent thaw all road superintendents, who have their men and teams ready, wiil begin work. The machinery to work the National road from Richmond to Cambridge City is ready at Centerville, and the road roller will be started tomorrow, unless it opens tip with freexing temperature. Highway Commissioner Jones has been in charge of getting out the ma1 chinery. and has specified all roads

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to such an extent that the citizens could be relieved of an additional thre cents tax burden. "It is planned to install a luminous arc street lighting system all over the city this year, the cost of the Improvement to be met out of the funds of the city plant, and a lower lighting and power rate has become effective, but nevertheless the former rate of payment into the sinking fund of the plant will be maintained this year," President Bavis. of the bard, said today. "The plant is now equipped to handle all business it can reasonably expect for many years and there Is no reason to anticipate any extraordinary plant expenditures for a long period of time, so after this year I think it will be possible to pay into the plant sinking fund the bulk of the accumulated surplus, year by year, so that it will be possible to quit making payments into this fund several years before the bonded indebtedness of the plant matures. Then the citizens of Richmond will reap the benefit of having one of the lowest tax rates in the state." Of course, it will not be possible for the present administration to relieve; the city of its bonded indebtedness if the municipal incom is curtailed and more loans have to be negotiated. The appearance of Eilver clouds on the financial horizon of the city of Richmond, it is needless to say. have been hailed with delight by city officials. DOPE FIENDS AGREE TO LEAVE Accept Mayor's Offer of Freedom By Promising to Go Elsewhere. Mayor Robbins today in police court told the three negro opium fiends thai they would be freed if they agreed to leave the city by 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. "Yes, sir, yo hono'. 111 get out th'n." ventured Clarence Washington. "ITi git.- chimed in Ella Washington. : : "Yet. jedge. Hi get out of towjj said Ed Anderson, nodding bis bead.' F. H. Strayer, appearing in behalf pC the colored fiends, told Mayor RoV

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bins that the trio bad some household" goods they wanted to sell before leav- u ing. and asked that they be given until "" tomorrow to arrange their affairs. The mayor granted this request on tha ground that they would not return, to r Richmond. ' , When asked where they wem going. Ella Washington told Mayor Robbins that they were going to Louisville, Kentucky. - - Despite the fact that Charles filler, colored, one of the original ifegroVs arrested in an opium joint, jaade tha statement that there were at least four other "hop" joints" in the city, the . police believe they have the eity well cleaned of joints. : Before Miller escaped a few- weeke ago, he said that he could clear-up . the mystery of the location of tha opium dens, but his confession was never made. - - . The raid on the Washington-home-on Newman's Hill, two days ago,-i the 'second. this year. At .each,-place a quantity of the coutraoBndv jlnt! was taken, and efforts are being made " to stamp out the traffic. . - Dayton ami Indianapolis authorities have been notified of the law viola' tions.

REV, DAVIS INSTALLED Illinois Man Now Pastor Second Presbyterian. of The Rev. E. E. Davis was officially installed as pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of the Whitewater Presbytery at last evening's meeting of the Presbytery. The Rev. T. J. Graham was given the consent for his transfer from Richmond to Fargo. N". D. The congTt-gations of the First and Second Presbyterian churches atteud ed. The Rev. J. B. Meacbam. of Rush, ville. preached the sermon declaring "that it was necessary fr tDe Christ to die to save the world." The Rev, H. H. Peters, of the Connersville German Presbyterian church, gave the usual church charge to Dr. Davis. The Rev. T. J. Graham gave the charge to the p-opl telling them to be alert In the church work and to follow the leaders nip of the pastor

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