Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 204, 8 July 1914 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXIX. NO. 204 RICHMOND, IND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

FAIRVIEW OPENS

EXTENSIVE PLAN FOR GOOD ROADS Improvement Association Seeks Three Miles of Better Streets Under Gravel Highway Law. President Appoints Committee to Study Situation and Report Findings at Called Session Soon. First Bteps in a big improvement in Fairview's main-traveled streets, t under the three-mile road law, were taken last night at a meeting of the Falrview Improvement association. The first three steps of last night were creating enthusiasm for better roads, mappirSiput a system of maintraveldfc streeXfVon which to make the improvement, and the appointment of a conjTSttee to investigate the sentiment wtoard such a move, and to make further plans. Tho committee, consisting of J. P. Evans, David Davis, Ben Wickett and two others, will hold its first meeting tonight. The plan of roads was furnished by Wilfred Jessup, who was asked to explain a method of paving Sheridan street. After an investigation he found the improvement could not be made by the usual procedure because the value of adjacent property is not double the cost of such improvements, a requirement in cities of the third class, to which Richmond belongs. Plan More Extensive. The improvement Mr. Jessup suggested was of so much greater scope than the original plan of the members that extra time was asked in which to Investigate. The members, while having little to say, are enthusiastic over the possibility of securing a share of improvements denied them for years. Mr. Jessup proposes to Btart the improvement at the corporation line on Richmond avenue. This street is being opened by the city, but will be unimproved from Fifth to Seventh street. Continuing, it would take in part of Fifth street, and the proposed improvement of Center street past the triangular shaped piece of ground known as "Richmond's future manufacturing center." The streets included follow: On Richmond avenue east from Seventh to Fifth street; north on Fifth to Center, east on Center to Second treet, skipping to Charles street over the Second street improvement; east on Charles street to Ridge street, north to School street, east to Sheridan treet, south on Sheridan street to - RitehmoridtOTtterWgfflg.'gfcqntinulng to' some proper teninajw1tb in the three-mile limit. Eighteen feet of concrete' road, built ty the public as an entirety, and the remainder of the streets over eighteen feet in width, paid for by the adjacent property owners is the plan. Explains Road Law. Mr. Jessup, who is well known as a toad attorney, explained .the three-mile road law and gave his reasons why this law furnishes Falrview with its only hope for improvement. He said: "The citizens of Falrview are alive (Continued on Page Nine.)

. W. W. Bomb Kills Four Persons in Blast Wrecking Tenement

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The appalling wreck of the d ouble-decker seven-story' tenement' house at No. 1626 Lexington avenue, New York, caused July 4 by the explosion of a dynamite bomb which Arthur .Caron, of' Industrial" Workera of the World notoriety, was ma nuf acturing in his room in the building. I Ana Jb4 t&e other war killed, , ' -

PEI1HSY ADDS MEN TO REPAIR FORCES OIILOGAl BRANCH Moving Crops on .This Division Will Not Require Large Additional Force, Says Le-Boutillier.

Although orders have been issued from the central offices of the Penn sylvania railroad at Pittsburg for a large number of employes, who have been laid off during the last six months, to be returned to work, the Richmond division will only put on twenty-five men, according to Superintendent George LeBoutillier. These men have been added to the car repair department in this city during the last few days. According to his statement this morning, there are no prospects at the present time of adding any more employes. In the Logansport-Chicago division a much larger number of men are to be added on account, of the increase in the business there due to the moving of crops. According to the local division superintendent, the Richmond -Cincinnati division does not handle much of this business as It is handled largely through Chicago. Repair Shop at Capacity. The work of repairing freight cars is distributed over all of the divisions of the Pennsylvania and Superintendent LeBoutillier said this morning that the reason more of the work is not done in Richmond is on account of the lack of facilities in the Richmond shops. There are now 100 men employed in car repair work here, including the twenty-five men recently employed. The repair shop is working at full capacity. "Business outlook on this division is no better than it has been during the last few months, which is exceedingly poor," said Supt. LeBoutillier this morning. "At the present I can see no prospects of any increase in business until fall or perhaps not until next year. There are no prospects of any more men being employed on this division until business picks up materially," he said. "The moving of the crops will not materially increase the business on this division, as it will on some of the other divisions of the road, especially those out of Chicago." According to dispatches received from Philadelphia and Chicago today, thousands ol men will be ordered to report for duty this week, to prepare tor moving crops. Moving crops west of the Missouri river will begin about July 20, while those east of the river will not begin before August 15. Orders have been given for the construction of eighty-four new locomotives for Pennsylvania lines. They will cost approximately $1,680,000. I. O.O. F. MEMBERS VISIT HAGERSTOWN Saturday will be Odd Fellows' day in Hagerstown. A number of members of the encampment here will attend on invitation, leaving at 5:05 o'clock Saturday afternoon and returning early Sunday morning. An Indianapolis degree staff will give three degrees to twenty candidates in the Hagerstown encampment Saturday afternoon and night. Odd Fellows from all over the county will attend. V-MW-V.-i

GAAR-SCOTT PLANT TO MAKE THRESHERS Rumely Company to Make Light Separators Operated by Gasoline Engines. It was learned from authoritative sources today that the great volume of business done by the M. Rumely company this season, will be reflected in the Gaar-Scott plant this season. With almost 500 men at work now, prospects indicate a general resumption of a full working force this fall.

Disposition of the plant's acquired by the Rumely combine has been de termined with such a degree of finality by the directors since the Rumely brothers were ousted, that it is almost certain that the Gaar-Scott plant hereafter will be used as a general repair plant and for the manufacture of a new type separator, drawings for which have been completed. The new piece of machinery, it was learned, is intended for farmers who have gasoline engines. The separator will be of such light construction that the power developed by a gasoline engine will suffice to operate it. The separator will enable the farmer to do his own threshing. Tentative plans of the big concern have designated the Gaar-Scott plant as the place where the new machin ery will be constructed. With this ad ditional line, and the establishment of the repair shops of the big concern here, the local plant, it is expected, will take on a full complement of men soon. BAYER GIVES PIERCE DETAILS OF WRECK Coroner Takes Testimony of Driver of Ill-Fated Automobile. Skidding caused the wreck of the Bayer automobile. The testimony of George Bayer, driver of the automobile which was wrecked, resulting in the death of Miss Ada Kelly of this city, and Miss Imogene Smith of New Castle, and the injury of three other occupants of the car, was taken Tuesday afternoon by Coroner Pierce. According to Bayer, the skidding of the front wheels of the car was the cause of the acci dent. He testified when he turned into the middle of the road after passing Omar G. Murray, he felt a strain on his steering wheel, which indicated to him that the wheels were skidding. Attempting to straighten the. jwheels again, the car "swerved to'theT right of the road, then to the left. It then made a wider swerve to the right, threaten ing to go over the interurban tracks and down the embankment. Bayer then shut off the power and attempted to right the car again. This was the last he remembered, according to his testimony. Relative to the speed of the car, he testified that when he passed Joe Peltz he noticed his speedometer registered thirty-five miles. He said he did not look after that, but he did not open his throttle any further. Coroner Pierce has not taken the testimony of either Miss Grace Kelly, Omar Murray and one of the physicians in charge of the injured persons. He will complete his investigation before the end of the week. Miss Grace Kelly, who is now at her home on North Twelfth street, is improving steadily. The other victims of the accident are slowly recovering from their cuts and bruises. Mrs. John Bayer, mother of George Bayer, is also recovering from the nervous shock. AWARD JUDGMENT ON HORSE TRADE A verdict $2.75 short of the amount of the demand, was returned in circuit court by a jury which heard the case of Harry Turner against Will Rich to recover $150 on a note given in payment for a horse. Mr. Rich is charged with having given a worthless note in jayment for a horse he bought of Mr. Turner. Turner was given judgment for $147.25. GIRL GIVES CONSENT ON HER BIRTHDAY Nettie Fields Married to Man Who Loved Her From Infancy. For many moons, Nettie Fields and Luther Baldwin, both of Dalton township, loved. Baldwin, who is forty, first liked the girl when she was a small child and as she grew regard for her increased. Last year they talked of marrying, but Nettie was only seventeen and she needed the signature of her parent to obtain a license. Since they could not marry, they planned the things they would do when the day arrived on which Nettie would be eighteen years old. That day came yesterday. Nettie, aged 18, and Luther, aged 40, hitched up and drove to Richmond. They were granted a license. Then they sought Judge Fox, who was not then in the building. Before the ink on their marriage license had dried, they had discovered the sign of Judge Abbott, Wayne county's marrying 'squire. Without delay, they climbed the narrow steps which scores of other couples had climbed before them. Judge Abbott was in and in a marrying mood. Without ado, he had the two standing before his bench, while he repeated the marriage form. In a flash it ceased to be Nettie Fields and became Mrs. Luther Baldwin, and the first act, the wooing, was over, e" act .two starting. ; r. and Mrs. Baldwin ' returned to on township, where . they, , will e their home. , - - .-

POSITION AS MAYOR DOES NOT TROUBLE MISS VIRA BENTON

RobbinsV Pretty Substitute Talks to Newspaper Men, Relieves Special Judge and Keeps City Running. "Oh, I don't mind being mayor. It's not a very hard job but probably this is a dull day," confided Miss Vira Benton, first woman mayor of Richmond, to an admiring ' and def erential delegation of newspaper men, when they called on her at the city building this morning. "There weren't even any cases for city court," she continued, regretfully putting down an apparently interesting novel. "There might be a drunk or two to be brought before Your Honor before the day is over," suggested a reporter. "In that case I shall sentence them to a church where they will have to hear an exceptionally long sermon," replied Richmond's acting mayor. The reporters shivered. They could not imagine how one so young and fair could mete out such stern justice. Yesterday afternoon, just before Mayor Robbins left for Columbus, Ind., to attend the annual convention of the Indiana Municipal league, he informed Miss Benton, who is stenographer for Controller McMahan, that he would expect her to boss the city in his absence. Doesn't Worry Her. There is many a suffragette, which Miss Benton is not, who might envy her job, but the pretty stenographer of the city controller accepts her responsibility in the most 'matter-of-fact manner. She knows about city affairs from A to Z, so why accumulate wrinkles of worry, she reasons. City hall is almost depopulated except for policemen and firemen, but she has five aides whom she can boss around with the greatest ease, John McMinn, of the board, Building Inspector Hodgin, Assistant Engineer Davis, Chief of Police Goodwin and Fire Chief Miller. Miss Mayor Benton almost docked" McMinn for reporting two hours late this morning, but she relented when he offered the excuse that he had been engaged in that zero of all jobs, moving his household effects from one house to another. Justice Abbott was an early caller at the acting mayor's office, gallantly inquiring if he could assist her in presiding over city court. Miss Benton informed him there would be no court, but if there was one she would not require his services. Easy as Typewriting. ""MayvofrR6bbfns Is expected to return to Richmond this evening. However, so far as Miss Benton is concerned, he can stay away as long as he wants to. Running the city is easier than running a typewriter. Miss Benton declined to discuss city affairs this morning and one newspaper man impudently told her that if she could not "slip him some news he would have to beat it." "You are at liberty to go any time you want to. Your presence here is not necessary," replied Miss Benton with correct mayoralty dignity, whereupon the offending scribe shriveled up and fled amid the ribald laughter of the witnesses of his discomfiture. LAFAYETTE HAS ONE. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 8. Lafayette has a woman acting as mayor for the first time in its history. Miss Elizabeth Younker assumed the duties yesterday and she is in charge of all departments of the city government. ASSEMBLY SPEAKER CRITICISES WILSON CABMRIDGE CITY, Ind., July 8. The administration is assuming too lenient an attitude toward Mexico, it is a mistake to pay Colombia $25,000, the government should not own the Philippines. These were the points made by Senator William E. Mason, of Illinois, at the Cambridge City Chautauqua last night. Senator Mason's address was on "Presidents I Have Known." He told of his personal relations with executives of the nation from Cleveland to Woodrow Wilson. Two concerts by the Black Hussar band in the afternoon and evening pleased. PIERCE ALES REPORT Coroner Attributes Taylor Death to Rat Food. "Rough on Rats," an arsenic rat poison made up in biscuit form, was the cause of the death of Angeline M. Taylor, who ate a considerable quantity of the poison on June 27 and died the following day. In a report returned today by Coroner Pierce, death is attributed to arsenical poison self administered with suicidal intent. Mrs. Taylor had been despondent before her death and was probably mentally unbalanced according to the coroner's return. Death by accidental drowning tells the story of the death of Willard Hewitt, aged 11, 215 North Third street, who waded into the Whitewater river about ten days ago and suddenly disappeared. The Weather FOR INDIANA Party cloudy tonight and Thursday. TEMPERATURE. ...... 89 Noon .... Maximum Yesterday 88 , . 4a Minimum

WIFE OF SPEAKER IN GRAVE PERIL

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MRS. CHAMP CLARK. Mrs. Champ Clark and daughter, Miss Genevieve Clark, were caught in a five-hour electric and rain storm which swept the country around Wash ington, while in a small launch at Fort Washington, Md. The storm came up before the party could get ashore, and almost capsized the boat Late in the night they landed at Fort Washington, where Mrs. Clark and her daughter remained until morning. SEIDEL TO ACCEPT POSITION ON BOARD AS PENAL TRUSTEE Ralston Appoints Richmond Man, Father of Farm Bill, to Serve Three Year Term on Board. The honor of being one of four men named as the first board of trustees of the state penal farm to be estab lished in Putnam county befell George E. Seidel, president of the Commercial club, and, as former chairman of the committee on legislation and taxation, "father of the penal farm bill." Mr. Seidel has not been officially notified by Governor Ralston of his appointment. He first received word in an Indianapolis morning paper. However, he will accept the appointment when it is officially made. The appointment was unexpected by Mr. Seidel, although his name has been linked with the bill through its legislative steps, and he was present at Indianapolis to see it presented. As chairman of the committee on taxation and legislation Mr. Seidel presented the penal farm bill his committee had drafted to the 1911 session of the legislature. It drew forth discussion from many cources regarding imprisonment and methods of punishmen as well as jail and penitentiary upkeep, and the moral effect of penitentiaries on men with corrupt morals. Serves Three Year. However, the bill was laid aside and a committee appointed to investigate further the needs of a penal farm in Indiana. At the 1913 session of the legislature the bill was passed. Gov ernor Ralston then appointed another commission to select a site for the farm. S. E. Smith, superintendent of Easthave Hospital for the Insane was chairman of the board. The four appointments made yesterday by the governor are: James L. Randall, of Greencastle, one year; 1 William C. Ball, of Terre Haute, two years; George E. Seidell, of Richmond, three years; G. A. H. Shideler, of Ma rion, four years. The trusteeship carries with it no salary, members of the board being paid only traveling expenses. There will be much work connected with the first term of the trustees, as the va rious phases of the new law must be worked out. RICHMOND PEOPLE AT SMITH FUNERAL Impressive ceremonies featured the funeral of Miss Imogene Smith at New Castle this afternoon. Miss Smith and Miss Ada Kelly were killed last Friday night when the automobile driven by George Bayer of this city overturned on the National road west of Richmond. Miss Smith's funeral, like that of Miss Kelly, who was' laid to rest at Earlham cemetery Monday afternoon, was largely attended. Miss Smith, the daughter of Postmaster and Mrs.. Edward Smith, of New Castle, was One of the most popular young women in that city and her death cast a gloom over the entire community. The Richmond people who attended the funeral of Miss Smith were Mr. and Mrs. Gus . Hafner, Walker and Horatio Land and Miss Fannie Kramer. Mrs. flafner is the sister of -the other TictiHi of the acciden, Miss Ada

WITH SHOTGUN THREATENS TO TAKE PATROLMEN'S LIVES Stackleather Defies Bundy and Menke After Son Prevents Attack on Wife and Children. For threatening to kill two patrol men, Bundy and Menke, covering each of them with a shotgun and preventing them from arresting him, a warrant was issued today for Julius Stackleather, 828 North F street, who la now believed to be in Brookville, Ind. The trouble occurred last Saturday night, but was not made public until the warrant for the man's arrest was Issued today. Stackleather had been In the country Saturday, and on his return home that evening found his wife absent, leaving the young children at the home to shift for themselves. When Mrs. Stackleather returned he made accusations against her, and finally, seizing a shotgun threatened to kill the entire family. The oldest son, not yet of age, boldly gave battle to his parent, and succeeded in wresting the gun from him. Before Stackleather could secure his other shotgun Mrs. Stackleather and the children fled from the house and notified the police. Threatens Menke. When Patrolman Menke arrived he found the house vacated. Aa he stepped upon the lawn Stackleather came from behind a tree and covered the officer with his shotgun. "If you don't get away from here I'll blow your head off," Stackleather told the policeman. Menke told Stackleather to listen to reason, and submit to arrest, but this only infuriated the man the more, and he said that he would not talk with him or any one else, and unless Menke left at once he would open fire on him. Knowing that the man was capable of carrying out his threat, Menke departed, saying he would come back later. While Menke was beating an orderly retreat Patrolman Bunday arrived. Bunday started to enter the house, asking one of the children as he did so where Menke was. Just then Stackleather came out of the house, holding his shotgun. "Menke will be in hell, and you also if you don't let me alone and get away from here," Stackleather grimly announced. With the muzzle of the gun pointing at his head Bunday retired out of range. When both officers returned to the house Stackleather was gone. Night Sergeant Winters notified every patrolman to look for Stackleather and to be careful in handling him, as he was armed and ready for a fight. Stackleather is said to be possessed of a demonical temper when angered, and the police believe he would have shot Menke and Bundy down if they had attempted to place him under arrest.

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U. S. Countess American's Bride

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Just as a means of letting her friends know she lias fulfilled her t. of taking an American as her third husband, the Countess de Bote Lucy, who was Miss Julia O'Neill, of New Orleans, is in Parts with her latest husband, Edward Wilson, of New York, to whom she was secretly married in London. When the beautiful American widow of T. D. Batehalder. the wealthy Chicago lumberman, divorced Count. Lucy last Derssater after a marriage of less than a year, she vowed her next husband would do an American. "No more foreign husbands for me." she said. One Is a plenty, r There are no men in the world like Americans. Too next man I

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$7,000,000 IN . FARM PRODUCE, WAYfpjECORD 1913 Statistics Reveal Value of Crops and Live Stock $600,691 More Hum in 1912.

Prosperity Comes From 2,423 Farms of 239,770 Acres, Producing 2,444,264 Bush els of Corn. BY A. D. COBB. The farming industry of Wayne county in 1913, showed an increased aegree of prosperity far surpassing that of the previous year according to the state agricultural report published today. The report Is compiled annually in the office of the chief of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics, and If made up from the township statistical reports of the various township assessors. The selling value of crops and live stock on January 1, 1914, is estimated at $7,000,t0 for Wayne county. The report shows that in a13 there were 2,423 farms of five or more acres in the county with a total acreage of 239,770 acres. The number of acres either leased or rented is placed at 54,319. There were 3,315 acres of waste land showing a decrease of 204 acres from 1912. 69,585 acres of pasture. 25,877 acres of timber, which in comparison with the 1912 report, shows that 1575 acres had been cleared for cultivation within the year. Efficiency Reflected. During the year eighty-three silos were built on Wayne county farms bringing the total up to 210. There were 488' windmills, 40 more than last year. One peculiar fact about the report Is brought out by a comparison with the report of 1912, which shows- that in 3913 there were 3,022 acres of farm land more than in the previous year. This might be attributed to the great display of vigilence slfpwn by the township assessors last spring. In 1913 the county produced 475.463 bushels of wheat exceeding the 1912 crop by 202,654 bushels. Corn yielded a grand total of 2,444,264 bushels, an increase of 129,512 bushels. Only 369,783 bushels of oats showed a loss from the previous crop of 265.337 bushels. In 1912 only 927 acres of rye were harvested with a yield of 13.680 bushels, but in 1913 the acreage was increased to 3611 acres with an increased yield of 36,158 bushels. Alfalfa Crop Increases. That alfalfa is becoming recognized as a valuable crop by Wayne County farmers, is indicated by the fact that the acreage --.was-, increased by 143 acres bringing the total for 1913 up to 572, which produced 1248 tons. The clover seed crop for the year was 4,308 bushels, an increase of 1,075 bushels. The loss from hog cholera in the (Continued on Page Nine.)

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