Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 181, 10 June 1914 — Page 1

RICHMONB PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 181 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS FUGITIVE HURT ATTEMPTING TO BOARD FREIGHT Middletown (O.) Man Faces Robbery Charge Upon Recovery From Operation Removing Right Leg. Hoboes Repress Longing for Booze J Talk Highbrow Stuff for Uplift Sixth District Republicans Boom WETS PAD LISTS IN OPTION FIGHT, DRY MEN CHARGE PULMOTOR GIFTS TAKEN BY PAL. Judge Comstock For Congress Race The necessity of a pulmotor in Richmond to resuscitate persons nearing death from drowning or suffocation when ordinary means of bringing about artificial respiration have failed, has impelled a number of persons to volunteer contributions to buy the apparatus. The Palladium offers its services to take charge of the contributions and when a sufficient amount has been raised will turn it over either to the city or the hospital authorities to be placed at a central point. $ fr'fr Entertain in Richmond's Jurist Reserves Decision But Indicates Willingness to Accept If Nomination Is Made Unanimous. Jungle This is the type of hobo that Is fast disappearing and is being replaced by the "gentleman variety." The uplift spirit has taken hold of the profession. Read what Mulligan has to say on the hobo problem. S. E. Nicholson's Report to Committee Declares Perpetration of Gigantic Frauds and Asks Probe. COURIER BACKS BOOM! I

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Two unkind fates confront Harry ftlartin, Midilletown, O., injured in a Railroad accident in this city late yesterday afternoon, and now confined fet Reid Memorial hospital. If his condition does not improve "within a few hours he will die; if he Tecovers, he will be turned over to the Middletown authorities, who will jendeavor to have him sent to the penitentiary. When Martin's accident was reported to the chief of police at Middletown he said he held a warrant charging the man with robbery, and that he fled from the city about six or leight weeks ago. Martin fell under a freight car about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, while trying to board a west bound train jpassing near the Eighth street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad. Boy Finds Man. Apparently no one witnessed the accident, but after the train had passed a boy saw Martin prostrate on the ground, his right leg terribly mangled. The lad ran into a saloon and sum'inoned the porter, James Rowe, colored. By binding a towel tightly about 'Martin's shattered leg, Rowe was able to stop the flow of blood. Martin was removed to the hospital in a private ambulance and his leg was amputated at the thigh, also three toes on his left foot. After the operation his condition was very critical, but this morning he showed slight improvement, and the physicians said he had a lighting chance for recovery. Rowe says Martin was very plucky all the time he was waiting for the ambulance to remove him to the hospital. He calmly asked for a glass of water, and then remarked that if he had not been drinking heavily ihe would never have met with such an accident. Family at Middletown. Martin is 24 years old, and has a wife and two children at Middletown, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Han Martin, reside. His brother, William Martin, arrived in Richmond from Middletown this morning. His mother was prostrated when informed of the accident. Martin, who says he has been touring this part of the country looking for work, arrived in Richmond about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon as a 'blind baggage" passenger on an east bound passenger train. He was taken in charge by Officer Lawler. Martin told him he was looking lor work, and Lawler released him when he promised to leave the city, after first purchasing a hat for him. Leaving Lawler, Martin went at once to the railroad tracks and in a few minutes attempted to board a freight train. , Just how he happened to fall under the wheels is not known. Takes Beer Money. William Martin said today that his brother came to Richmond from Indianapolis, and that he boarded the train by mistake, thinking it was a train to St. Louis. It is believed he was attempting to make a hobo trip to St. Louis when the accident occurred. The chief of police at Middletown paid today that Martin was charged !with having stolen ten dollars given him by a compnnion to get a bucket of beer. Martin is tatooed all over both arms, and one of the sketches on this human picture book is so indecent that it was covered with adhesive binding by one of the attending physicians. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TO ATTEND FEAST Cambridge City Banquet Ati x caa "vt : l tracts otate r utilities iu Meet Wayne Workers. Elaborate preparations for the big Democratic banquet, to be held tomorrow night in Cambridge City at the K. of P. hall have been completed. It is expected to be one of the most successful Democratic meetings held in Wavne countv in many years. The hosts fnr tiin nfran nn nre the mem. bers of the Western Wayne County Democratic club All the candidates for state offices on the Democratic ticket as well 3 the recently nominated candidates for county offices have been invited to be the special guests of the club and it. is believed nearly all of them will be in attendance. The principal speakers at the banquet will be Judge Robinson of Greenfield. Judge D. W. McKee, Connersville, State Senator Fred Nuys of Anderson, and Homer L. Cook, candidate for secretary of state, and Dale J. Crittenberger, candidate for state auditor. Delegations from all over Wayne county are to attend this banquet and delegations from Henry and Fayette counties are also expected. WEATHER FORECAST FOR INDIANA Fair Thursday. tonight and

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"I've bartered my sheets for a star-lit bed, I've traded ray meat for a crust of bread I've changed my books for a sapling cane. And I'm off to the end of the world again." "I am quoting these lines from Ray Williams, an organizer of the International Sunshine society, hiker and bindle stiff." So began Jim Mulligan, the name he gave, as he opened his heart to a reporter who came across him sitting at the side of the path that leads along the C. & O. right of way to Reid's springs, north of the city. "What is a bindle stiff? Of course you know there are hoboes, and tramps, and gay cats, and boomers and bindle stiffs. The bindle stiff is the hobo who carries his pack on his back, and you seldom see him on the city streets," Mulligan explained. Not that Mulligan would have you believe the knights of the road are deBOOB FLEECER SHORN LAMBS Richmond's champion "boob fleecer." as the police refer to him. would make the famous J. Rufus Wallingford blush for shame as a mere amateur, has departed, with him a considerable amount of the hard earned savings of his victims, and today Chief Goodwin admitted that a week's search for him had been fruitless. This smooth individual for three weeks was known in Richmond, where he conducted a profitable business for three weeks at 103 South Ninth street, as "Prof. Harris." At Findlay, O., where he is wanted on a charge of grand larceny, he was known as "Prof. Hamilton Fay a." On June 3, the police announced today, the Findlay officers requested the arrest of this clairvoyant and general all around faker, but an investigation revealed the fact that "Harris" had hurriedly left for parts unknown the day previous. Promises Hindoo Stone. Since his disappearance two of his local victims have made complaints to the police. One man ruefully admitted that he had paid the clairvoyant a round sum of money, the amount he refused to disclose, upon Harris' promise to secure for him a "Hindoo stone," which Harris represented to be a mysterious jewel with magic powers. The victim is still looking I lor the stone and only a tew aas ago em eu at t ie T) ucf wnere narris nau i his office and inquired it it nad arrived yet. Another woman, it is understood,! ' 1I I lil i I I rM I It) Llie JUIH LIliXL OU7 llfl'4 i i. i; . U .. . r-Virt V, rt A invest them for her, which he prompt-j ly did in his own business, which pays' no dividends except to himself. Business Flourishes. Harris, a big, fine looking man, blew into Richmond, opened an office at once and proceeded to do a land office business. The board house keeper states that his victims came in droves, in response to his advertisements, printed on cards and distributed broadcast all over the city. Harris represented himself to be a "born clairvoyant with supernatural powers." The police agree that he had supernatural powers as a confidence man. He advertised himself as a wizard, who could locate buried treasures, if his percentage was paid in advance, and asserted he was able to locate vast mineral wealth. He also announced in bold type that his reputation for fair dealing and honesty was such that "hankers, brokers, business men, mechanics and ladies look to me to learn of some safe investment of their cap

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generating. The uplift movement has reached down into trampdom, and the most hopeful sign of the profession, as

Mulligan viewed it, although his face and a bulging pocket belied the sentiment, is the decrease of boozers among tramps. Hoboes Hate Tramps. Tramps, he went on to say, are the bane of the hoboes. They do not observe the rules of the road. They are not up in the code, they let themselves get dirty, they are lacking in selfrespect, i .it r v. . . .' U 1 Mulligan said. "They are beginning to see a man can't be a good hobo and a good boozer, too. They still smoke too many cigarettes, which clouds their minds." The reporter generously handed him the mate of the one he was puffing as he sprawled in the grass beside the philosopher of the road. Mulligan said every railway term(Continued on Page Five) GETS C I BLEAT "STUNG His powers as a clairvoyant, Harris announced, included the art of telling whether a husband, wife or sweetheart was true or false; an ability to restore lost affections, and a remarkable magic which, when radiated from him, brought good luck to all who came in contact with it. There was a great demand for his services as a good luck agent and a love doctor, and, the police have been informed, he frequently was so busy he had to decline to receive anxious patrons. It would not surprise the police if Harris moved into some other profitable field of endeavor with at least one thousand dollars in loot obtained in Richmond. HEAT PROSTRATES 4 SCORE VICTIMS 111 DETROIT PLANT DETROIT, Mich., June 10. Ten persons are dead and more than one nunureu, in a serious cuimmuu ai I being cared for in hospitals today as a result of the heat wave which for three days has held this city. No relief is in sight. Big automobile factories here are considering suspending operations on account of the prostrations of eighty employes in one plant. A man who sought relief by sleeping on a roof rolled off early today and was killed. Four men were taken to hospitals suffering from the heat and died there. Two persons have committed suicide. The other deaths here were thrflambies who succumbed to the hea.. Street temperatures in Detroit are ranging from 80 to 105 degrees. SEVEN DROP DEAD, Chicago Suffers Hottest Forty-Two Years. Day for CHICAGO, June 10. Chicago again today sweltered in the intense heat wave which has caused seven deaths and one hundred prostrations in the last twenty-four hours. A total of fourteen persons have died within the last seventy-two hours from the ef

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PARACHUTE LEAP TO THRILL CROWD AT PARK OPENING J. O. Gill, Balloonist, Adds Sensational Risks to Exhibition for Thousands Expected at Morton Lake.

Directors Parking Rooms, Arrange Auto Places, Check Picnic Grounds and Provide Extra Police. Everything is in readiness for the reception of hundreds persons of Richmond and Wayne countv who are ex pected tomorrow to assist in formally opening Morton park and giving it a good send-off for the year. Arrangements have been made to park automobiles and care for packages, lunches and other articles. A telephone, which is listed as No. 9, was installed today. There will be special police on the ground to preserve order and watch vehicles. Access to the grounds may be best gained over Sixteenth and Nineteenth streets. J. O. Gill arrived several days ago with his balloon. Yesterday he took his apparatus to the grounds and prepared for filling it. The balloon is a new one, and has never been used before. Gill will give Richmond people something new in parachute drops. In order to make the drops more sensational, he has discarded two of his 28foot parachutes, and will use instead two 20-foot paiachutes, dropping to the ground in a third which will be twenty-eight feet across. He will also try for the first time, a new method of folding the parachutes, which he originated himself. Fears No Accident. Gill says he has never had an accident, although he has been in the business ten years. He has owned his own balloons for the last six years. With his method of filling the balloon, it can be made ready for an ascension in fifteen minutes. Entries for the races assure interesting contests. The single canoe and single rowboat races and the swimming races will be the most popular for the public as far as entries are concerned. Checks have been made out and signed. As soon as each race is completed, the winner's name will be inserted, and he will be given the check at once. Cups will also be handed out I to the winners as they cross the line, j The directors of the Lake and Park I company expect the sale of lots tomorrow, the first day of a ten days' sale, to be good. A discount of 15 per cent j from list price will be given, and shares of stock will be taken in as i cash on lots for $":!. The purchaser pays 10 per cent cash and lo per cent 'every two months for eighteen months. I There will eb no taxes until 1916. Expect Lot Sale. The lot sale will be in the hands of the officers and directors. Charles W. Jordan is secretary, with H. R. Robinson, president; Richard Sedgwick, vice president and W. H. Romey, treasurer. The directors are James A. Carr, Dr. T. Henry Davis, E. M. Haas. A. M. Gardner, E. Gurney Hill, George 11. (Continued on Last Page) BATHERS BY NIGHT SWIMMING AT PARK Morton Bathing House Opens and Electric Lights Make Beach Bright as Day Night swimming in Morton lake is expected to be a popular sport from now on, as the city light plant has connected the bath house with current. Charles Parker, the owner, has had the bath house and beach wired for two months, but has been unable to get service from the plant until yesterday when the short connection was made. Although the fact that lights were on at the pool had not been advertised, a few persons saw them last night and indulged in the sport of night swiming. The beach had its first real formal opening last Sunday when about seventy-five men and a number of women tried the lake. The bridge which was built a hundred yards fro mthe beach has made it accessible from Glen Miller park and Hawkins' bathing pool. A raised pathway was constructed from the bridge to the bath house, making it convenient to reach the Dlace.

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A. R. Veteran Will Make! Good Opposition to Nomi nees on Other Tickets. Judge D. W. Comstock, of this city, said today that he had not reached a decision regarding his candidacy for j the Republican nomination for con-1 gressman from the Sixth district,! which was indorsed by the Republican ! county convention last Saturday. I It is practically certain, however, j that Judge Comstock will be the nomi-j nee. It was learned today that en-i thusiastic indorsement had been given the Comstock candidacy by Repub- j lican leaders all over the district, and ! the general undestanding is that j there will be no opposition to him and : that he will be nominated by acelama- j tion at the Cambridge City convention,; June 16. j It is also understood that Judge j Comstock is willing to accept the nom-i ination if there is a unanimous call j for his services. County Representation. The district convention at Cambridge City will convene at 10:30 o'clock. June 16. Each county will have the following representation: Fayette, 11; Franklin, 7; Hancock 10; Henry, 18; Rush, 14; Shelby, 15; I'nion, 5; Wayne, 26. Following this convention Wayne and Fayette will hold a convention to nominate a joint representative, probably a Fayette man, and Wayne and I'nion will hold a convention to nominate a joint senator. Wayne's delegates to these three conventions have been selected. Courier Backs Comstock. Regarding the candidacy 0f Judge Comstock the New Castle Courier, one of the most influential Republican newspapers in the district, savs editorially: "The endorsement of Judge Daniel W. Comstock for the Republican nomination for congress in the Sixth district by the Wayne county Republican convention will meet with hearty approval in all parts of the district. Judge Comstock recently retired from the appellate bench where he served for several years with distinction. He is a veteran of the Civil war and a past commander of the department of Indiana, G. A. R. Two prostrations, the first of the year, due to the excessive heat, were reported today. Jack Roach, an em - ploye of the city street department, was overcome on North A street yes - terday afternoon. Robert Ptein, a farmer living northwest of the city, was overcome while plowing yesterday morning. Both are recovering. Roach was doing street repair work in front of 1119 North A street when he was overcome. The city ambulance took him to his home.1541 North E street. He is a middle-aged man and had been working on the streets which reflected the burning heat all day. When a neighbor saw Robert Stein's team dragging a plow across the field, he became uneasy about .Mr. Stein. He found the owner had been overcome in the furrow. Stein was taken to his home, where he is resting today. Reaches 93 Degrees. After reaching a maximum of 93 at the water works pumping station yesterday afternoon, the temperature dropped several degrees late in the evening, making the night more endurable, although persons living in the flats along Main street experienced a bad night to sleep. The brick pavement and the close buildings held the heat until an early hour this morning. Readings taken at 1:30 o'clock in the business district show Eighth and Main to be the hottest place in the city. A thermometer at the Ross Drug company under an awning registered 100 degrees. Other readings were: Quigley Drug company. North E street, 93; Conkey Drug company, 98; Westcott pharmacy, 91. At noon today the official temperature was 92 degrees, one degree lower than that maximum yesterday. Many smaller thermometers in the downtown district registered from 96 to 99 degrees. Forced to seek comfort, men today are shedding coats and collars despite the decrees of conventionality, which are becoming less and less of a bugbear to suffering mankind, sufJUMP BY HORSE SAVES MAN'S LIFE HOI,I,ANSBURG, O., June 11 George Morrison today is wondering how he escaped being trampled to death when he was knocked under one horse and saw its mate jump over him, on the Will Payne farm, one mile east of the city. He had unhitched the team and intended to turn one into the barn yard and leave the other one outside, closing the gate between them. The harness became tangled, and when he tried to separate the horses, he was was knocked under one horse, while its mate, following closely behind, jumped over him, striking him in the head. His injuries are not fatal.

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JUDGE D. W. COMSTOCK. "Judge Comstock is a staunch and steadfast Republican and has never wavered In his support of the principles of the party and its nominees In county, state and nation. As a candi date for congress he would make a j dit?nifid forceful and effective cam-1

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would serve and credit. the district with honor "Th conaressional convention will meet at Cambridge City on June 16 and the Wayne county delegation will : go to the meeting with several strong! arguments as to why its candidate should receive the honor, which in these days of an apparent political revolution as a result of the general and the

wide-spread dissatisfaction overjtho onairmarii whlch ww acceptednew Democratic laws, cannot be! a,a k kh i

looked upon as an entirely emtpy . , UUU AS Utl 11 LI I TTAJ , 111 1 J I No man has the nerve to standi ill' r, iiii in ,-v.i i v v i iiu l a. uri'uuiu tin , 1 1 1 . ... , . . not be elected to congress from the , Sixth district this year and in case one is the party and the people would never have cause to regret that Judge Comstock was the man to beat tinly fering in his swaddling clothes of coat, I vest, collar and tie, while, women flit 1 about in filmy white frocks, with low ! necks and short sleeves, ' The continued heat since the rain last week has had no marked effect j on the crops, with the exception of j strawberries, said A. D. Cobb, county i agent, today. Cobb said the heat was ! stunting the strawberry crop. Corn, j he said, was growing fine as were ! the other crops. The recent rain left ! a great deal of moisture in the soil which is being held pretty well. Clover and timothy crops are not showing any effects of the baking sun as both will soon be ready to harvest. The wheat is just beginning to show tne effects of the continued heat and drouth, although Cobb said the extent of possible damage could not be judged. The oats crop is suffering more than any of the grains. STRAWBERRY FEAST POSTPONED 1 WEEK Because it was thought that the 1 berry season would be at its height later, the annual strawberry meeting I and picnic of the Wayne County Hori ticnltural society has beer, postponed I from this to the following Saturday, j June '20. This year's meeting will be held at Centerville and everyone Is invited to attend. Mrs. Minnie Wright ! will read the address of the day. Thrifty Italian Converts Stone It remained i thrift v Italian, for F"rank Ross, a who auglicized his name, to slap the high cost of living squarely in the face, and at the same time give workmen a shining example of how to make ends meet on a small income. 1 Ross resides on the northwest cor- ! ner of North Third and D streets. His ! lot adjoins the steep bank of the steep bank of the Whitewater river. A I small plot slopes to the precipitous brink of the limestone flanked river. That small piece of stony soil, where no one but a thrifty foreigner, coming from a land where land is precious and the smallest parcel is intensively cultivated could see an opportunity, appealed mightily to Ross and his sense of economy. The more he viewed its possibilities for truck gardening, the more convincing grew the opinion that it could be converted into a vegetable garden, Roes set to work to execute his plan. Removing the big stones, the first impedent retarding successful gardening, the Italian built a series of small terraces to prevent soil from washing down the bank. The banked up soil,

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Workers Take Steps to Form Permanent Body to Continue Struggle for Dry Majority in City.

Padding of poll lists and the perpetration of gigantic frauds are charged of the liquor dealers of Richmond by the members of the Citizens' Local Option committee, which held its final meeting last night at the First M. . church. S. Edgar Nicholson, chairman of the committee, says in hia report: "We have patiently waited for the naming of a grand jury and hare been ready to give the grand jury names of persons who have been reported to have information concerning frauds and violations of the law." At the conclusion of the report, he demands to know, in the name of the committee, why, after the prosecuting attorney's promise of a grand Jury investigation, three months have been allowed to elapse without a sign of actlea. Report in Full. The report in full follows: The Citieens' Local Option committee had a final meeting last evening at the Pirst M. E. church to hear final reports of the campaign and to transact other Important business. The principal subject considered was the question of perpetuating a 've temperance movement constructIn Richand agitation. After continued dlscussion in i mously which the opinion was unanlexpressed that a representative citizens movement ought to be planned to have charge of temperance : interests in the ritv. definite stens wpre talcen to acc0m"plih this purpose, It was the consensus of opinion that the fight against the liquor traffic has not ended, but has only just begun. In connection with various reports some Interesting facts were brought nut in rrrtTiotirtn with fhn rninrt nt . auu uiirviru i v . u r niaur uujnv. ill i . ,,, ..-v, 1 . . ,-....: , . .. . . , . . . i . t the more it is apparent that the liquor interests of Richmond attempted to i practice fraud upon a gigantic scale prior to the recent local option elec- . i n..iJ 1. ii. AA,1n11 nnnnvAM. Iw. In ! . ' . 1 .,... . ' . , ! spite, of all our efforts to the contrary ; iucj " r i n in mi f 'tu t aucoiut. More Votes Cast. "At the November election of 1013, at which time it was thought that a large vote was polled, a total of .".111 votes were cast for the office of mayor. Four months and a half latnr. at the time of our city local option election, a total of S.JH.t votes were cast and counted, an excess of 1.004 over the number in November. An examination of our poll books show, however, that there are 1,238 persons, whose names are on the poll books who did not vote, making a total of S.153 voters in Richmond, who upon the face of the record are entitled to vote. In addition there is a total of 279 name on (Continued on Page Two) THIEF GETS WATCH Daylight Robber Enters Melhuish Home. While Mrs. N. R. Melhulsh. 23 Soutlif Eleventh street, was away from home yesterday afternoon, a thief broke Intoiier apartments and got away with a gold watch and some money. The po-' iice probably will make an arrest, soon. Mrs. Melhuish was absent from her home from 2 to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. When she returned she found that entrance had been gained through a rear door. The thief did not touch anything except the watch and the money, and evidently was familiar with the plan of the apartments. It is believed that persons who have been employed at the Melhuish noma have knowledge of the affair, although the person suspected was never employed there. Mrs. Melhuish refused to give the value of the watch, or the amount of money stolen. Slaps H. C. L. Garden Plot Into filled as it is with small stones, proved i deep enough to let the vegetables he sowed to take root. Tomatoes were his crop last year. Fifty bushels is the estimate American neighbors place on the output he garnered. This season he has varied his crop, and he expects more than enough vegetables to supply his own household, with a generous portion to sell. When Ross began intensive cultivation of the steep, rocky bluff, his American friends made sport of the idea and predicted failure. Some even scoffed at the venture, but Ross had a "hunch" and he carried it out. Today hundreds of pedestrians crossing the Doran bridge are attracted by the sight of vegetables growing luxuriantly on a plot that formerly was covered with a rank growth of weeds. Ross is of foreign parentage, America his adopted home, but his European thrift, his ability to take advantage of an opportunity, stamp him as an American In spirit. This is th kind of citizenship that inspire.

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