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AS DELEGATES FOR MEETING REPEAL BILL BEFORE HOUSE
Township Meet ings Announced for April 4 at 2 O'clock, Ward Meetings in City, April 3.
COUNTY ENTITLED TO 46 DELEGATES Alternates to District Convention to Act As Delegates to Joint Senatorial and Representative Meet. The Progressive state committee has issued a call for the state convention to be held in Indianapolis, April IS. Wayne county will elect fortysix delegates to the convention, according to the call issued today by Progressive County Chairman J. C. Price. The township meetings will be j held on Saturday, April 4. at 2 o'clock, the ward meetings in Richmond, Friday, April 3, at 7:30 o'clock. The text of the call follows: Pursuant to a call of the Indiana Progressive state committee, all members of the Progressive party and all citizens who expect to co-operate with the Progressive party are invited to rnr-t in their various wards and townships for the purpose of electing delegates and alternates to the Progressive state convention to be held at Indianapolis on Saturday, the eighteenth day of April, 1914, at 9 o'clock a. m., also delegates and alternates for the district convention, the time and place of which will be announced later. The alternates to the district convention are to act as delegates to the joint senatorial and joint representative convention. Township meetings will be held on Saturday, April 4. at 2 p. m., the ward meetings in the city of Richmond to be held on Friday, April 3, at 7:30 p. m. Meeting places and the number of delegates and alternates apportioned to each convention are as follows: Ablngton and Boston townships, one delegate and one alternate; meeting place Boston. Center township, two delegates and two alternates; meeting place Centerville. Clay and Harrison townships, two delegates and two alternates, meeting place Greensfork. Dalton and Perry townships, one delegate and one alternate; meeting place Economy. Franklin township, two delegates and two alternates; meeting place "Whitewater. Green and Webster townships, two delegates and two alternates; meeting place Williamsburg. Jackson township, three delegates and three alternates; meeting place Cambridge City. Jefferson township, two delegates and two alternates; meeting place Hagerstown. New Garden township, two delegates and two alternates; meeting place Fountain City. Washington township, one delegate and one alternate; meeting place Milton. Wayne township (outside the city of Richmond), four delegates and four alternates; meeting place court house, Richmond. First waTd (city of Richmond), two delegates and two alternates; meeting place court house. Second ward, two delegates and two alternates; meeting place city building. Third ward, two delegates and two alternates; meeting place Masonic temple. Fourth ward, three delegates and three alternates; meeting place Pythian temple. Fifth ward, seven delegates and seven alternates; meeting place No. 3 hose house. Sixth ward, three delegates and three alternates; meeting place Thirteenth and Main streets. Seventh ward, four delegates and four alternates; meeting place No. 5 hose house. Eighth ward, one delegate and one alternate; meeting place club rooms. Hunt and Maple streets. Total, 46 delegates, 46 alternates, each to state and district conventions. J. C. PRICE, Chairman. ROY FRY, Secretary. WEEO SEES MISTAKE Admits No Ground for Arresting Italian H. S. Weed, former secretary of the Y. M. C. A., a dry poll worker at the recent local option election, admitted to the police today that lie had no grounds for challenging Carmir line Pic-! carillo, who was arrested on an affidavit of Frank Hiatt for an alleged attempt to vote illegally. Mr. Weed challenged Piccarillo at the Twenty-fifth precinct polls. although tlie latter had made no attempt to vote, knowing he did not possess the qualifications of a voter, it is said. Piccarillo was released on bond immediately after his arrest, and today the case against him was dis missed. The dry workers stated that after additional investigation on tiieir part they believed they were mistaken ir what they believed Piccarillo s inten- ; : tion to nave Deen, ana admitted that
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Frederick Weyerhauser, the aged "Lumber King" reputed to possess more wealth than even John D. Rockefeller, has been ordered confined to his room in his palatial Winter home by his physicians. The "Lumber King" is suffering with a heavy cold. The weight of his four score years makes serious the illness of the modest, powerful figure of whom so little is known by the general public. According to the best informed men of the time, Weyerhauser owns 60,000 square miles of standing timber, and is interested in so many corporations that millions are mere pawns in the playing of his game.
FAIRVIEW TO FORM EMENT CLUB Meeting for Organization to Be Held Tomorrow Evening. For the purpose of organizing an improvement club or association, citizens of Fairview will meet at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night at the Fairview school building. John Burdsall, one of those promoting the plan of an improvement association for that section of the city, deClares that residents there realize . that they must be organized in order ! to bring matters before city officials !
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111 TITO T'TOMlT VI1 Qnnar H I Purr in w , "In order to obtain improvements in reet, lighting and sewer conditions ! street.
.hki. iuf;r-uici emu pun nit i "up.i.y upjust?s tree Diitt nery tnat same way," said Mr. Burdsall. "There j '8 often indulged in by those ignorant are many things which could be donejf the harmful results, for the mutual benefit of every resi- J The bulletin says that shade trees dent and property owner in that sec-! should be gone over every two or three
tion ot Richmond, if we had an organ-1 ization. where first we could secure ; the opinions of ed." the citizens affectREV, JOHN J, YOUNG DIED IN NEW YORK Former Pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church Organized English Charge Here. Members of St. Pauls Lutheran Chnroh havp heen infnrmorl nf tha i death of the Rev. John J. Young, for-! raer pastor of the congregation, being ! the immediate predecessor of the Rev. Conrad Huber, present pastor. The Rev. Mr. Young left Richmond in 1893, after serving St. Paul's for eleven years. At the time of his death, the Rev. Mr. Young was pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church in New York city, which had grown into a flourishing charge under his pastoral supervision. Mr. Young was born in Bavaria and came to the United States as a boy. Practically his whole ministerial career was devoted to German congregations, the one in ew iork city being regarded one of the most progressive German churches in the city. His work at St. Paul's was characterized by pastoral devotion. The First English Lutheran church, an outgrowth of Sc. Paul's church, was organized during the residence of the Rev. Mr. Young in this city. SCHOOLS TO DISMISS Sohools of the city will be dismissed Friday owing to the meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers' associaFriday and Saturday. Practically i every teacher in the schools of the
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CITY TO OBSERVE STATE ARBOR DAY Schools to Have Exercises and the Pupils Will Plant Trees. Arbor day, April 17, will be observed at the various schools of the city by the planting of trees and shrubbery, and a program fitting to the day. Ar bor day is now compulsory in the schools of the state, as a recent law enacted states that a day shall be set aside each year for the planting of trees, vines and shrubbery. The planting of trees should be done in accordance with the bulletin ii.r.i..,1 1 ,. il m . n.. a timely occasion for the prunning and ' trimming of trees. The bulletin ! 'pars, tor these trees need as much j attention as fruit trees. Where in- i sects have been at work the tree should be painted with a broad band of "tangle-foot." All broken or decayed limbs should be removed, but care should be taken not to break the bark of the trunk. This can be avoided by sawing the limb to some depth on the bottom side before working on the upper side. The scar should be painted over to keep out decay. Where disease has attacked a tree, or a hollow has resulted from some cause, the cavity should be thoroughly cleaned of decayed wood and then filled with a rich mixture of cement. I Neglect of these simple precautions may cause the ruination of a shade tree that is fifty years old. The trees should be closely watched for caterpillars and other insects, for the trees a'ong fntire street ma' be (le" ,stroyed h?toTe anything can be done to save them. Trees should be care fully watched for signs of disease, for if taken care of in time a tree may generally be saved. ii CLEAN THE So Argues City Clerk Baltz Bescher. City Clerk Bescher would co-operate with the Commercial club. West and South Side Improvement associations and the Aftermath in their cleaning-up . movement by getting together the citizens of the part of West Richmond : . . . . muuu bordei'ine on the W hitewater nnH i . , - The dump and hillside have been a source of complaint for years, and residents of Richmond avenue even welcomed a billboard to hide the eyesore. Bescher would have the dumn clean-1 ed, he said, by the citizens, and then i planted with trailing vines to cover the bare eartht xJr
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Speaker Denies He Is Candidate for President and Wants to Disrupt Democratic Party.
KNOWLAND ATTACKS PRESIDENTS PLAN Crowds Pack Galleries to Hear Closing Argument Majority Vote Expected to Be Convincing. WASHINGTON, March 31. Defending the economic policy of free tolls and fighting court decisions of its legality, Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives, challenged the policy of President Wilscn in advocating the repeal of the Panama canal act which Dermits American coatwise vessels to pass free through the canal. The speaker declared that this policy was a repudiation of solemn platform declarations and demanded that the Demorats hold true to the faith proclaimed by their national convention. He declared that he is not a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1916, for if President i Wilson's administration amounts to a i failure "the nomination will not be worth having," and he denied that he has ever entertained the slightest ill will of the president because of his own failure to secure the nomination at Baltimore. Denounces Press. Speaker Clark was particularly emphatic in his declaration that neither he nor the president desired a breach in the party and in his criticism of the "jackal press, some of which represented that we are seeking to disrupt the Democratic party." "The Panama tolls repeal means the practical abandonment of the Monroe doctrine," he said, "which we forced into the international code and which the American people will maintain at all hazards. That is the only proposition the American people, ever agreed upon'tthd the reason they agreed upon that, was because it was a genuine American pronouncement. Defends His Position. "The president is too big a man not to desire that this great ouestion 1 should be fought out on its merits. free from personality, which can do no good and may do much harm. With most of those who have asserted that I am seeking to disrupt the partv wish is father to the thought." The speaker then quoted excerpts from articles in the New York World declaring him to be involved in a plan ' ! to defeat the president and disrupt the party. "In another World article," he continued, "those of us who stand for American rights as against British domination 9 ncpil0H f- .Mti. the president.' Merciful God. What " llJl an idiotic phrase. I have heard of j .b 0f anvbodv boltine a man in office' tve aJo t noTnS hv T ptoot u 1 , . ' the' plt?o. wh "h I- purelv Z nCt, ,ii ki. The heaviest artillery of the house was wheeled into position for the final struggle on the repeal measure which has precipitated one of the most vigorous legislative battles ever waged in Congress. Discuss Majority Vote. The main question was whether the majority for repeal would be less or greater than the vote by which the rule limiting debate was carried. Gain or loss by either faction in the house, it was declared would affect the result in the senate. Speaker Clark was assigned to make the final assault on the repeal and the closing hour of the debate was set (Continued on Page Six) PMRC77I CD IUUU LI1IULI.LI.LII LOOKING FOR BAIL Tennessee Banker Removes Cash in Vault After Fire Guts Building. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 31. Efforts were being made today to obtain bail for William B. Brown, mayor of Gallatin, Tenn., who was arrested and brought here on an indictment charging him with embezzlement of $30,000. Mayor Brown is assistant cashier in the First National bank of Gallatin. Herbert B. Jackson, a cousin of Brown, is also in jail here charged with conspiracy to aid Brown in his speculation. The alleged shortage in Brown's accounts is in excess of $60,000. although the indictment only charges hku with taking hair that j U'lV . I 0n the niormxlR of March 20 the r ... K- ...- , I UN III II1 A (I f.11 Illf 111 I.QI. 1. ...... latin was set on tire and it was reported the vaults had been looted of many thousands of dollars. Fire insurance investigators found that the lock on the safe door had not been j tampered with, but the books and rec-! ords were destroyed by fire and that : the cash in vault had been removed. ! They caused the arrest of Brown and i -
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DEWITT H. HARDEN, WHO HAS practiced law in Chicago for the last six years, was disbarred when it was learned that he had never been admitted to the bar. A CORONER'S JURY FOUND that Fred Voetel, of Chicago, died from eating the fried heart of his pet dog, which he killed. M. D. SCHAEFER MEYER, OF Denver, has invented a device to make telephone evesdropping impossible. An indicator discloses the fact that the line is in use and if the interrupter attempts to talk the telephone will give out the busy signal. IGNORING FOUR COUSINS, JOHN C. Crafts, of Boston, provided in his will that his pet dog "Pete," receive an income of $1,200 a year. The cousins will make a contest. THE COUNTY CLERK OF BELVI-
dere, N. J., received two certificates of appointment of two men as commissioner of deeds. One man has been dead two years and the other a year. VELASCO MUST HOLD TOWN AGAINST VILLA, C0MMAND0F HUERTA Rumored That Federal Leader Has Asked Armistice of Rebel General No Confirmation Obtainable. DICTATOR TO SEND MORE TROOPS TO CITY Carranza Sends Secret Orders to Villa Rebels Unable to Take Last Stronghold of City. BULLETIN. JUAREZ. Mexico, March 31. Gen. ! Francisco Villa, the Constitutionalist 7, cmei, reported today to v i,. v .1 1 1 i ii. ca m- piuvisionai presi dent of the Constitutionalists that the federals in Torreon hid been defeated and driven into the center of the city. The following is the telegram: "I beg leave to report to you that the forces under my command have i " suujwuun anu i nope i-ou that Tor i ronn id In .i- ,l. i I '.'"'"... t""""""1 the telegram was dated Torreon and u un-Fiiitrui.. is the first official word to be received from Villa as to the course of battle there. MEXICO CITY, March 31. "Velas co, Torreon: The Mexican govern - ment instructs you to fight to the end. Do not surrender Torreon under any conditions. Reinforcements coming to aid you." The foregoing dispatch was sent from the government's wireless sta tion here early today. To insure its
receipt at lorreon. .Minister of War! Indiana senators, the Indiana conBlanquet instructed the w ireless oper- ; gressional delegations. Secretary ator at Saltillo to take it also and re- j Bryan and especially Representative lay it to Torreon. j Gray. General Blanquet said he believed Cheer Bryan's Name, (hat General Velasco would receive When Bryan's name was mentioned the dispatch because of the fact that the applause was deafening. The ovathe Federals had whipped the rebels , tion continued several minutes.
in ineir aiiacK on ine west side or lorreon wnere ine wireless station is located. Have Faith in Velasco. "We are confident that General Velasco will not surrender until he is absolutely crushed," said General Blan - quet, "but we are taking no chances. Dispatches from the United States intimate that Velasco is attempting to arrange terms of surrender. We doubt this, but have notified Velasco that he must hold on. President Huerta was again in con-
ference with army officers during the to free tolls tor the Panama canal, for night. National palace attaches re- j his defense of the policy of the adminfused to discuss reports that the pres-1 ist ration respecting the attitude of
ident was completing plans to take the field at the head of the army. That a big troop movement was contemplated was indicated by orders to Continued on Page Six. I WEATHER FORECAST FOR INDIANA Cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Probably showers. TEMPERATURE. Xoon 43 Maximum r,'j Minimum .41 W p MOORE'S FORECAST W. fc. MUUML o 1 UntUAo I . run nitninunu I n n a . . a vjci asiuuai iams may u expecieu tonight and Wednesday with moderate temperatures. SUMMARY. The coming storm now covers the
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Sixth District Democrats Select Connersville Man for Congressional Ticket After Stifling Small Revolt HANCOCK EDITORLEADS FIGHT! Convention Endorses Legislative Career of Congressman and j Applauds Speech. Name of William Jennings Bryan Re-' ceives Ovation. Wilson's Policies Declared Sound. i Tremendous Enthusiasm Marks Gathering of Democrats j From Counties of District. Gray Happy.
BY W. R. POUNDSTONE Staff Correspondent. CAMBRIDGE CITY. Ind.. March 31. Representative Finly Gray of Connersville was nominated for congress for the third time at the Sixth District Democratic convention held here today. There was a full fledged revolt launched against Gray bv the Hancock county delegation this morning, but it was "steam rollered" by the well oiled, smooth working Gray machine and died in convention this afternoon after a feeble struggle. It was moved, after Mr. Gray had been placed in nomination by a Shelby county delegate, seconded by George Bayer of Richmond, that a motion to nominate Mr. Gray be made unanimous. When the vote was taken on this motion the majority of the Hancock county delegation shouted, "No." Gray Delivers Speech. After Gray's nomination he made a brief address in w hich he outlined his career in congress and declared himself to be a loyal Jeffersonian Democrat and an ardent supporter of President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. Mr. Gray devoted much time in outlining his position on the Panama canal tolls. He declared that the President was justified in demanding the repeal of the exemption clause for American coastwise ships. However. Permanent Chairman Robinson of the same county, declared with a grin: "The ayes seem to have it." The motion to nominate Gray by unanimous consent was again placed before the convention and adopted without a dissenting vote. Just before the afternoon session, John Eagan, former mayor of Greenfield, who was a prospective condidate against Gray, decided not to saeritice himself, notwithstanding the pleas or Editor .Mitchell of the Hancock Democrat and other Hancock "rebels" that it was his duty to make ; a sacrifice of himself, as Grav was not a fit man for the position. Vote For Gray. With the refusal of Eagan to have his name placed in nomination, the anti-Gray delegates of Hancock county held a caucus and reached the decision to vote against Gray but to place no candidate in the field against him. Mr. Eagan said just before the opening of the afternoon session that if he could have secured the promised support of the Rush county delegates he would have gladly entered the lists against Gray, notwithstanding that his defeat would have been certain. He said that he had voted for the reDeal in the first nlnre whito h w.-s j stin with the minoritv. but that now the majority is with him on this matter. He said he took this stand and was censured both at home and in congress Resolutions adopted were sweeping and enthusiastically endorsed the r.a-; , tional and state administrations, both , uui Mlliiiioiurin Clll rilVI"l u hit- ma.' jn reference to Representative Gray's congressional career, the report
Qf the resolutions committee, congrat-J "He is entitled to his opinion, but t ulated the people of Indiana on being) he aint no Democrat. He wouldn't j represented in congress by a Demo-j stand on the platform, and he fought j crat of such true Jeffersonial princi-jthe organization," heatedly replied ' pies and endorsed his every act and Fettig. ' especially commended him for his ad-
vanced position on the tariff, able' J speeches on the currency hill, both in : caucus and on the floor of the house, j for his part in the pension legislation, I for his independent vote against the ship subsidy clause, for his opposition ' the United States under the HayPauncefote treaty, for his oppisition to war with Mexico, and his defense of the administration's policy, respecting intervention, for his stand against further increase of the navy and for his advocacy of a naval holiday in the!
interest of international peace. jey for the support of herselt and famOther Commendations. j i,v- n has been guilty of cruelty. Also lor his efforts to stop the in- shp says, and now she asks to be crease of war tax. for his faithful at- ',iv?rcwl and piven'the custody of tendance to duty in congress, for his thir two children. The couple il untiring efforts to give effect to Dem- n,arr,ed in 1902. oeratic policies, and for his detennina-! " " tion to carry out promises made by I STRIKING MINERS hini to his constituents. I rrr, rrrr rr One of the interesting features of PARALl ZE TRADE the report of the resolutions commit- j tee is the declaration urging the re-; LONDON. March 31. Great mainimoval of all assistant postmasters in ifacturing centers are threatened with the first and second class offices front paralysis by the strike of coal miner civil service list. Ithat went into effect today. The mlnThe permanent chairman of the -era of Yorkshire struck yesterday meeting was Charles A. Robinson of twentv-four hours ahead of the time Greenville. Peter Lux of Shelby set and all the men called out quit al county was elected permanent secre-'once. The strike leaders predicted to-
Editor Leads Attack. imam .wiiAiU'ii. ennor ni ine Man. cock Democrat, Greenfield, was the it;our;i m 011111 i-crvuib &fluuek Xver
resentative Gray, the only incident w hich marred the serenity of the convention. "If Lon Mull had had any nerve he could have been nominated instead of Gray," said Mr. Mitchell to newspaper men. "That man Gray is not entitled to represent this district in congress". He is a joke. As a matter of fact, he is serving in congress only as the mouthpies of his brother. Judge Gray. "The bulk of the delegates at this convention do not want to renominate Mr. Gray, but no desirable man could be secured to make the race against him, so Gray is being renominated today because he is the only available man." Mr. Mitchell is one of Indiana's Teteran Journalists and a lighter from start to finish. He said ten of the 6eevnteen delegates from Hancock county were prepared to vote against Gray. John Eagan. former mayor of Greenfield, was the man the Hancock "rebels" were prepared to nominate against Gray if they had been given the opportunity to do so. Perfect Organization. At the morning session of the convention the temporary organization was affected with W. F. Chambers of New Castle, chairman, and Lawrence Bertsch, Cambridge City, secretary. The resolutions committee was composed of the following: Simon Doenges, Fayette; A. J. Shriner, Franklin; Everett Harver. Hancock; W. W. Pripg. Henry; Al Williamson. Rush; Charles Hack. Shelby; Jesse Stevens. Union, and Dr. M. P. Ren ham, Wayne. Committee on Credentials Zeli Hart. Franklin: John Baek. Fayette; Fred Merlan. Hancock: John Ice. Henry; Omer Abernathy, Rush: William
Mangle, Shelby: George Booth. Union; i Benton Wilson. Wavne. Endorses Case. The convention this morning endors- ' ed the candidacies rf P V. r ce nf ' Brookville. for state fish and game commissioner, and Roy Frauehnburc. Cambridge City, for inspector, state public utilities commission. Two interesting addresses were de- ; Mvered at the forenoon meeting by V " ";; Bittler. of Fort Wayne, candidate for state treasurer. Both predicted another Democratic triumph in the state this year, and every reference made by them to President Wilson and Governor Ralston was greeted with enthusiastic applause. Hammer Crawford. Before the convening of the forenoon session th delegates" devoted their time to "glad handing" Mr. Gray (Hancock "rebels" Pioppied I, and to "panning Earl Crawford, whose antagonism to the Taegart machine has resulted in a turn-down for his candi- ' (5ac-v for renomination as j0jnt repre. tentative from Wayne and Fayette counties. Peter Fettig. of Connersvuie. leader ! of the Fayette delegation, read Craw ford out of the Democratic nartv toI day when he announced that Crowford was not going to be renominated be- : cause he was "not a Democrat." 'Crawford says he is a Democrat. and the Taggart machine cogs are not democrats, some one informed Rettig. MADE WIFL WORK Iva May Stripped Tobacco; Now Asks Separation. EATON. O.. March 31 Because Frank Hapner was lazy and wouldn't work, his wife. Iva May. alleges she kept boarders and often busied herself stripping tobacco to receive monday that more than lOO.OOO would be 'out by midnight and that by Friday all m mps nuuiu w i-itri uu. 1 1 n n than 500,000 on Ptrikeo enforce thett jUttiuauu imniwma