Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 155, 11 May 1914 — Page 1

MO PAIXAD) AND SUN-TELEGRAM Vol xxxix.no. 155 RICHMOND, IND MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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HUERTA PEACE ENVOYS LEAVE FORMEETING Mediators Have No Specific Instructions as to Course With A. B. C. Conferees at Niagara Falls.

American Lawyer Goes With Mexicans to Advise in Settlement of Controversy With United States. By HARRY H. DUNN. Bpeclal Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. VERA CRUZ, May 11. President Huerta's delegates to the mediation conference at Niagara Falls, Ontario, sailed for Havana today on board the German Liner Kronprinzessin Cecelie. From Havana they will proceed to Key West and thence proceed by train to Niagara Falls. The three delegates, Emilio Rabasa, Augustine Rodriguez and Luis El Guerro, were accompanied by their families and a corps of attaches the entire party numbering about thirty. At the last moment the delegates were joined by W. F. Buckley, an American lawyer, who has collaborated with Senor Rabasa, in legal work In Mexico City. His presence was requested by Senor Rabasa. Mr. Buckley said he would go to Niagara Falls with the delegates, but not in an "official capacity." Receive No Instructions. Senor Rabasa, who is chairman of the delegation, said that neither he nor his colleagues had received any ! definite instructions, but would outllne their plans on the trip and meet emergencies as they might arise. "Will recognition be demanded by President Huerta's government?" Senor Rabasa was asked. "We have received no such instructions yet. but I think that a likely basis 'of action," he replied. Senor El Guerro would make no statement as to the delegates actual plans. "I am unable to say much at this time," was his reply when asked what he an dhis colleagues intended to do. "We are sure of the success of our mission, if humanly possible, however." Lauds Americans. Senor El Guerro paid a tribute of : respect to the American soldiers who ' guarded the party into Vera Cruz after they had left the territory controlled by General Maas. "We have been well treated by the Americans all the way," he said. "Every courtesy and convience was afforded us." The three delegates are of different types. El Guerro is short and stout and apparently deeply impressed with 'the importance of his mission. Rabasa Is like a keen yankee and though the youngest of the three, being about 45, ehows impregnable reserve. He is "camera-shy" and dodged the .photographers at every opportunity. Rodriguez is about 70 years old and walks with a limp because of the partial paralysis of one leg. He has a "grandfatherly" air and apparently looks to the younger men for guidence. DOG WRECKS CYCLE? MISS W00DINJURED lAnthony Stolle, Jr., Loses Control of Motor, Crashing Into Bridge. Miss Hattie Wood, 642 North Tenth Btreet, was seriously but not fatally injured in a motorcycle accident Sunday afternoon on the Boston pike, two miles south of Richmond. She was riding in the side car of the motorj cycle driven by Anthony Stolle, Jr. Her companion escaped with only a few bruises and a slightly wrenched back. ; "We were driving south on the Bos ton piKe, sioue earn toaay, "wnen a dog ran in front of the machine. I turned the front wheel to avoid the dog, but the back wheel ran over him, causing me to lose control of the machine. It collided with the rail of a bridge. I was thrown over the handlebars and Miss Wood was thrown out of the sidecar backward. When 1 got to her she was unconscious. People in the neighborhood summoned an ambulance from the city and she was taken to her home. I was afraid at the time fthat she had been fatally injured." Miss Woods' attending physician tsaid today that the yeung woman was bruised all over her body and suffered much pain, but only had a thumb bone been broken and she suffered no internal injuries so far as he had been able to ascertain. She will be confined to her bed for some time, however. Stolle was able. to return to work today. The motorcycle was badly (damaged. .AGED RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Anna Meerhoff, one of the oldest and most prominent German residents of this city died yesterday afternoon at her home, 119 South Tenth street. . She was 87 years of age. Mrs. Meerhoff had taken a prominent part in church work of the city. She Is surjYived by her husband, Henry Meerhoff, a well known plumber of this city; lone daughter, Mrs. Cassia Weisbrod, .and four sons, John, Will and George of this city, and the Rev. Mr. Meerhoff of Chicago. The funeral will be held from the home Thursday at 1:30 'clock, the Rev. Conrad Huber officiating.

DOMESTIC TROUBLES COMMENCE AT DANCE! END IN POLICE COURT

Fred Miller Draws $25 Fine for Kicking Wife Down Stairs When She Neglects Pretty Baby. Fred E. Miller, 952 Butler street, a former professional roller skate racer, with tears streaming down his face, confessed to Mayor Robbins that he had attacked and severely beaten his wife Saturday night, but said he had been driven to desperation by her wanton, careless, inconsiderate actions and her constant neglect of the two year-old baby daughter. Mrs. Miller, pretty, despite her swollen, discolored face, and fashionable gown, sat by the side of Prosecutor Reller and smiled contemptuously during her husband's recital of his. domestic woes. Next to her sat Mrs. William Pugh, 208 South Eighth street, her sister, who also was the recipient of several of Miller's blows while trying to protect her sister. The fight started at a public dance on South Eighth street, and was concluded with the knock-out blow at the Pugh home. Draws $25 Fine. Prosecutor Reller admitted there were extenuating circumstances in connected with the assault, but urged both a fine and imprisonment as punishment. Mayor Robbins assessed a fine of $25 and costs and added ttoirty days' jail sentence. Attorney A. C. Lindemuth, for the defendant, at once appealed the case to the circuit court and Miller was released on bond. "I will at once institute habeas corpus proceedings to secure the custody of the child," Miller said after the trial. He also contemplates suing for divorce. In his statement to the court Prosecutor Reller said Miller followed Mrs. Miller to the dance and would have kicked her down a flight of stairs if she had not seized the railing. She then went to her sister's home, and her husband followed her, attacking her and knocking her down, rendering her unconscious for nearly an hour; that he also kicked and struck Mrs. Pugh when she sought to interfere, and that he exclaimed when he first struck his wife that he intended to get even with her if he was "sent to the electric chair." Attorney Lindemuth, because of the prosecutor's statement, withdrew a plea of guilty for the defendant and entered a plea of not guilty, and then placed Miller on the stand. Miller said that his wife had been neglecting the baby and "walking the streets," and associating with men and women of bad reputation. "I have wanted her to be a good mother and raise our baby right," sobbed Miller, "but she has associated with bad women, walked the streets, frequented wine rooms and neglected the baby and myself. I am going to have the baby. It's the prettiest baby in the world.' FISHERMEN TO EAT 200 POOND TROUT When 200 members of the Wayne County Fish and Game Protective association sit at the annual banquet tomorrow evening, they will face the task of eating 200 pounds of baked trout. Fish takes the leading place at the banquet. Enough has been provided to carry out the plan of the committees of the association to have a longer eating time and a shorter speaking program than last year. As usual the dinner will be held in the Odd Fellows' building at Eighth and Main streets. Ed Cooper, chairman of the menu committee, announced the following: Baked trout, dressing, baked potatoes, potato salad, cold slaw, pickles hot rolls, coffee, punch. The service will be by ladies under the direction of Mrs. Frank Spekenheir. The program committee has been active in the past few days and except that no definite promise has been secured from State Fish and Game Commissioner Miles, the program is complete. Instead of Judge Jackson, of Newcastle, Hon. Fred C. Gause, of that city, has been secured. A number of Newcastle anglers will accompany him. Other speakers are Denver Harlan, Judge Abbott, Judge Fox and Dr. Schi:linger. George Deuker, president of the association, will preside as toastmaster and there will be music by a saxophone quartet. The ticket committee is composed of J. F. Hornaday, at Hornaday's hardware store, and Walter Englebrecht at the Jones Hardware company. DEFY U. S. COLORS WITH SIMPLE FLAG The kind of flag which Mexico is flying in defiance of the red, white and blue of the United States, has been a source of inquiry in Richmond since the opening of the breach betwe nthe countries. The Federal government with which this country is now attempting to treat, is carried on under a red, white and green flag. The three colors are displayed in three perpendicular bar?, coming in the order named. In the center of the white bar is the national coat of arms. No description of Carranza's revolutionary flag is obtainable. T WEATHER FORECAST FOR INDIANA Cloudy tonight and Tuesday; probably showers and thunderstorms; cooler east and south portion. TEMPERATURE. Noon

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ThousandsPay Homage to Mothers Dead and Living

Memories of mothers, here and gone, brought into the churches of Richmond more people than even Easter day services or Christmas sermons drew. It is estimated that 8,000 attended services, many in the morning and evening. In honor of Richmond's 6,000 mothers who are living and countless others, thousands of carnations were worn. Florists sold out before the demand was supplied. As most ministers generalized on the subject of "Mother" last year when the day was observed, most of them picked out some mother who has done her life's work of rearing her family especially well. Parker Cites Example. Rev. B. Earle Parker, of the First M. E. church, used Susanne Wesley, mother of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. In the Wesley family there were nineteen children, thirteen of whom lived to maturity, and Mrs. Wesley herself was one of twenty-five children, Rev. Parker said. "John Wesley is a supreme example of the superiority of good training over force of environment," Rev. Parker declared. "Isle of Axholme, where he was reared, was inhabited by 14,000 of the lowest grade peasantry of England, illiterate and morally vicious. Yet in the midst of such an environment, one of the most illustrious families of the world was reared. The children went out into the world and became university professors, poets, noted scholars, preachers and reformers." There was not an available seat in the church and the big annex room ON SLOPE OF BY LEASED WIRE ROME, May 11. With the death toll in the recent earthquake -in Sicily now estimated at from 150 to 250, further shocks were felt today on the slopes of Mount Etna, causing intense alarm. These tremors were particularly severe in Randazzo, a prosperous village, upon the mountainside. The people fled from their homes carrying their portable household effects with them. Clouds of smoke and vapor are still issuing from the crater of the volcano, giving rise to fears that an eruption may follow. Deep rumbling noises, like distant thunder, can be heard in the middle of the smoking mountain and the scientists who are on the ground are advising the people to remain out of the danger zone. Burial of bodies of the victims of the earthquake began today, many of them being unidentified. This was particularly true in cases where whole families were wiped out. 600 Are Injured. Temporary field hospitals have been set up for the care of the wounded, of whom about six hundred have been gathered in. The relief workers face a water famine. Water mains were broken by force of the earthquake and wells and springs were polluted by the debris which fell into them. Soldiers, Red

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was almost filled. There were about 500 at the morning church service. A special musical program was arranged by C. F. Hutchins, choir director. The Lincoln's Men Bible class, with eighty-eight present, was photographed. A picture was also taken of the Golden Rule class of women with about sixty present. There were 316 in Sunday school. Next to God's Love. "Next to God's love, mother love fs the greatest thing," Rev. E. E. Davis o the Second Presbyterian church, said. "It is a debt that can never be repaid because it is a debt of love." Mothers Ruled World. Rev. L. E. Murray of the First Christian church, after paying a tribute to mothers, said that it is the influence of mothers which rules the world. "Maternity itself does not mean 'motherhood,' unless it is accompanied by the Christian influence which trains the children of the world. There is a larger meaning to motherhood than the bearing of children. It is the Christian rearing of children," Rev. Murray declared. "The ballot placed in the hands of mohers means clean government," Rev. R. C. Leonard told a large audience at the CeVitral Christian tabernacle services yesterday when Moth-, ers' day service exercises were held in connection with Red Men's day. Aboat ninety members of Hokendauqua tribe of Red Men were present. Rev. Leonard gave a short history of the organization, wliich is the old(Continued on,I?age Five) T ETNA Cross nurses, priests and volunteers are co-operating in the relief work They are clearing away the debris as fast as possible in the search for mor bodies, while food and clothing and tents are being distributed among the ten thousand homeless. Throughout the night the work went on by torch light, except upon the coasts, where searchlights from ships were turned inland. Shocks Fell Pedestrians. At Linera and other villages in the province of Catania, where the greatest force was felL nothing remains but heaps of ruins. The force of the tremors was greater than the shocks which destroyed Messina in 1908. Survivors say that they were thrown to the ground and tossed about as if in a rock-bound boat. General Moccagette, who is In command of the troops in the quake zone, telegraphed to the government today, saying that strict precautions had been taken to prevent disease. Army surgeons, co-operating with the Red Cross, have adopted rigid sanitary measures. Funds are pouring in for the relief of the homeless. King Victor Emmanuel heads the list with a personal donation of $10,000. The government has paid $10,000. About $4,000 has come from the Italian colony in New York.

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DRANK UN DUTY; YINGLING TO QUIT POLICE POSITION

After Investigation of Con duct and Several Reprimands Board Gives Patrolman Chance to Resign. William Yinglir-?, a police officer on the night force, has been given the opportunity of handing in his resignation to become effective June 1, by police commissioners. ' "Charges of indulging excessively in intoxicating liquor while on duty were filed against Patrolman Ylngling, and sustained by the police board at its meeting Saturday night, "President Will Eversman of the police board stated. "Yingling was on day duty May 7, when a circus was in the city, and was in plain clothes. Complaints were made that he was not in condition to be on duty at that time and I made an investigation. It was evident to me that he had been drinking." President Eversman also stated that Officer Yingling had complained Saturday night that the action taken against him by the police board was too severe and that he thought he should only be reprimanded. Eversman then stated that Yingling had once before been reprimanded for the same offense by the present board and that he understood the former board had also reprimanded him once or twice. On the day of the local option election, the board president stated, Officer Yingling drank while on duty and it was necessary to relieve him. For this offense he received a reprimand on his promise to quit drinking. It is said a complaint was made against Yingling on local option election day by a man who said he had smelled liquor on the patrolman's breath. "I had a glass of beer on circus day, "Yingling said today. "I was in plain clothes and I thought it would be all right. They got me with the goods. I was not intoxicated by any means. I intend to turn in my resignation." Yingling has been a member of the police department for several years and had the reputation of being an efficient officer. He was shot in the hand about two years ago while trying to arrest a burglar in the east end. Alfred Kutter, secretary of the Moose lodge has been appointed to succeed Yingling. PREACHER ASSAILS BY LEASED WIRE INDIANAPOLIS, May 11. The congregations of Indianapolis Methodist churches toflay were stirred over the comments of Rev. Joseph N. C. Bickel, pastor of the Irvington M. E. church, on the wedding of Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daughter of the president of the United States, and William McAdoo, secretary of the treasury. Rev. Bickel asked his congregation to contrast the marriages of the two daughters of the president. "Miss Jessie Wilson," he said, "married a comparatively poor man. Love and not wealth was her object. "Miss Eleanor Wilson married a man twice her age, for wealth, luxury and honor. I doubt if love enters the home in such a marriage." WIFE STARTS EAST WITH POST'S BODY LOS ANGELES, May 11 The body of C. W. Post, the Battle Crek, Michigan, cereal millionaire who took his life at Santa Barbara on Saturday, was taken east aboard the private car j "Lecompton" attached to the Santa Fe limited this morning. Accompanying the body are Mrs. Post, a nurse and a retinue of servants. ORGANIZED WAR ON FLY BEGINS "A fly in the house is as dangerous as a rattlesnake, as filthy as a louse, and as disgraceful as a bedbug." This is the way one of America's most eminent physicians describes the fly. It is no exaggeration. C.Gordon Hewitt, Canada's greatest entomologist, declares the fly to be as dangerous as a mosquito! California scientists counted the bacteria on 414 flies. They averaged 1,250.000 per fly. DO YOU WANT SO DANGEROUS A PEST AROUND? The fly killed more American soldiers during the Spanish-American war than did the bullets of the enemy. He carried typhoid fever to them on his filthy feet and proboscis. As long as flies are around you may suffer the same fate at any time. Typhoid bacilli will remain alive' on a fly's body for twenty days or more. By destroying flies, Norfolk, Va., reduced its death rate from typhoid sixty per cent in one year. Thirty-five have died of typhoid in this country during the past year. At the Norfolk rate, flies are responsible for twenty-on of those deaths.. YOU MAY BE NEXT. Scientists have proved that the fly plays a prominent part in the spread of the following diseases. Read the list carefully: Tuberculosis, Typhoid, . ' Dysentery, Summer complaint, "Pink eye." Eyrsipelas, Anthrax, Smallpox. The fly carries DEATH with him everywhere. He can be wholly eradicated. Help us make an end to him in Richmond. THE FLY COMMITTEE. Supt. J. T. Giles, Chairman.

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WILSON LAUDS DEAD BOYS ;i President' Expresses Grief at Death of American Marines Slain by Mexicans in the Taking of Vera Cruz

BY W. N. TAFT. Special Correspondent of the International News Service. BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, New York, May 11. President Wilson, speaking for the nation, today expressed the deepest grief over the death of the marines and sailors who met death at Vera Cruz. At the same time he said he personally felt a profound pride that they had died as they had and "a sort of envy for those permitted to do their duty so quietly and so well." The presidential tribute was delivered in the presence of 50,000 persons at the funeral services held here over the bodies of the seventeen heroes brought to port on the funeral ship Montana, but in his address the president did not omt the two other American lads whose bodies are to be brought back later. President's Address. The president said: "I know that the feeling which characterizes all who stand here today and the whole nation cannot possibly be expressed in words, in oratory or in eloquence. "They are too deep for solution. For myself I may say that I have a mixture of feelings a profound grief that these lads had to go to their death, a profound pride that those who died as they did, and if I may 6ay so, from my heart, a sort of envy for those who were permitted to do their duty so quietly and so well. "Here is the roster of all the officers and men of the navy and of the marine corps; suddenly there are added nineteen stars, nineteen stars which have gone into a firmament of honor and whose names will always be enshrined in our hearts. Died For Duty. "Duty is not an uncommon thing and men are doing their duty all the time all around us. What gives these men their distinction is that they did not give their lives for themselves, but they gave them for us because we called upon them. "Are you sorry for these lads? "Are you sorry for the way in which they will be honored? "I hope to God that none of your names may be added to this list. But if you do you will go to join a wonderful company. "We may have sympathy for these lads, but we know that we do not go away with our heads cast down but with our gaze on the future, the immediate future of this country. We have gone down into Mexico to serve mankind if we can find the way. "We do not want to fight the Mexicans. "We want to serve them and help them find themselves. War of Service Excellent. "A war of aggression is not a proud thing, a thing for which we should be glad or proud to die. But a war of service is a proud thing and we should all be glad to do our part therein. "All of these men were of our blood and all of them were of our stock. They were not Irish, nor Germans, nor Hebrews. They were not when they went to Vera Cruz. "They were Americans. They were of our blood. They proved that they were of our spirit. "I have never had to go to war. I have never been in a battle. "But I imagine it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you." "So, while we are profoundly sorrowful and while there goes out of our heart very deep and affectionate sympathy for the friepds and relatives of these lads who for the rest of their lives shall mourn them, though with a touch of pride, who know we do not go away from this occasion cast down, but with our heads lifted and our eyes on the future of this country, with absolute confidence of how it would be worked out, not only upon the mere vague future of this country, but the immediate future. "We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, if we can find out the way. We do not want to fight the Mexicans, we want to serve the Mexicans if we can. because we know how we would like to be free and how we would like to be served if there were friends standing by ready to serve us. A war of aggression is not a war in which it I; a proud thing to die, but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud thing to die. "Notice that these men were of our blood. I mean of our American blood, which is not drawn from any one country, which is not drawn from any one stock, which is not drawn from any one language of the modern world, but free men everywhere have sent their sons and their brothers and their daughters to this country in order to make that great compounded nation which consists of all the sturdy elements and of all the' best elements of the whole globe. . "I listen again to this list with a profound interest at the mixture of the names, for the names bear the marks of the several national 'stocks from which these men came. "But they are not Irishmen. Germans, or Frechmen or Hebrews anymore. They were not when they went to Vera Crui; they were Americans every one of them, and with no difference la their Americanism because of Continued on Last Face),

THE HEROIC DEAD Nor shall glory be forgot, While Fame her record keeps. Or honor points the hallowed spot. Where Valor proudly sleeps. Theodore O'Hara.

BY LEASED WIRE NEW YORK, May 11 Nation, state and city united today in a tribute of reverence to the American sailors and marines who gave their lives for their country in the fighting at Vera Cruz. While church bells tolled a requiem President Wilson, Governor Glynn and Mayor John Puroy Mitchel led a demonstration of patriotic mourning without parallel since the war days ot 1898. Seventeen flag-d rapped coffins containing the bodies of those who died fighting for the Stars and Strips In the present Mexican trouble, were brought in solemn state aboard a United States cruiser to this port, and today their grateful countrymen, from the chief executive down to the humblest citizen did homage to their memory. Early today the seamen of the cruiser Montana silently lowered the coffins, one by one, over the ship's side to tugs on which they were brought ashore to be placed on gun caissons at a military funeral. Battery Park Crowded. Battery park was black with a crowd aggregating many thousands long before the hour set for the opening ceremonies. The day was warm and the hot sun shining through a thin mist gave an uncomfortable touch of humidity. As the caskets, each covered with a great starry flag, were place on Pier A, the men, women and children packed closely behind the police lines, watched silently and reverently with I bared heads. ) All of the bodies had been trans ferred before Secretary of the Navy Daniels, with his staff, left the yacht Mayflower, which escorted the funeral ship from the Virginia capes to the port of New York. The landing of secretary Daniels was the signal for the ceremonies. President Wilson, accompanied by his secretary, Joseph Tumulty and Dr. Cary T. Grayson, arrived over the Pennsylvania railroad from Washington at 7:13. An automobile met the presidential party at the Pennsylvania station, and Mr. Wilson was taken to the home of his friend. Colonel E.,M. House, for breakfast. Wilson Reviews Parade. It was then announced that Mr. Wilson had changed his plans for the day. Instead of going direct to the j Brooklyn navy yard, as he originally intended, he Eaid he would review the funeral cortege from one of the stands in front of the city hall, going to the navy yard afterward to deliver his i funeral oration. j With a precision born of long pracI tice, the sailors' and marines of the battleship Texas, who were assigned to escort the bodies to the Brooklyn navy yard, formed into line of march at Pier A. beginning at 8:30 o'clock. Half an hour was allotted to the officers to get the lines formed. Following the sailors were members of the various military and civic organizations who took part in the procession. Headed by twenty-four mounted policemen the cortege then moved between a solid line of faces, flanking Broadway on both sides, toward the city hall. The make-up of the cortege was as follows: Mounted police, combined bands from the battleships Wyoming and Texas, battalion of bluejackets from the Wyoming, battalion of bluejackets from the Texas, militia band, battalion from the naval milii tia, caissons with bodies flanked by riders and national guardsmen, carriages containing distinguished representatives of the United States government, the navy, the army, and New York city, and a detachment of mounted police. Parade is Simple. There have been large and great parades in New York. Had it been desired there might have been one of the greatest civic and military turn-outs the city ever Baw; but the idea of every one. from the president of the United States down, was to have the cortege and everything connected with the memorial, as compact and as simple as possible. This made it more impressive. Throughout the city all flags were at half-mast. In addition to theenormous -crowd which thronged 'Broadway, Park Row and Main street, street, around city hall, there were three hundred Spanish-American war veterans, two hundred members of the civil committee, eight hundred school children and several hundred delegates from patriotic associations. As the funeral passed the children sang "Nearer My God to Thee." Place Wreath on Caisson. After delivering his funeral oration. Mayor Mitchel placed a wreath upon one of the caissons, the being symbolic of New York City's tribute of honor and , sorrow. From city hall the route of the procession was through Center end Canal streets and across Manhattan bridge XConUnaed, on Page Two.)