Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 258, 9 September 1914 — Page 1

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GOLL SENDS GREETINGS TO QUAKER CITY lYoung German, Former Resident, on Eve of Departure for Army, Remembers His Adopted Home. DTHANKS PROF. KELLY I Love the People of Rich ; mond," Says Writer, But : He Detests People of Engi land. Far off on a European battlefield, a feoung German, formerly a resident of Richmond, is thinking of the Quaker City of the West. From the scene of carnage and destruction he is dreaming of the American community whose Slight school he attended, whose beautiful environs left so powerful an imtpresslon on his soul that the roar of cannon and the clash of steel have mot effaced the memory. "I used to live in your nice city and d did not only use to love the people 3n your town, no I still love them, and I hope they have not forgotten me in the short time I left America." So writes Conrad E. Goll In a letter to the Palladium. His communication teems with patriotic utterances and breathes fervor for the Fatherland, but he still loves Richmond, and to Prof. B. W. Kelly, who taught him to write English In the night school, and to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Burgess, Mr. y..MUler and family, the German Milltaerverein and the Maennefchor, he sends his best regards. Ready to Muster. Delayed on its route, the first letter cf Goll, reached Richmond after the second one was in type and ready to be presented to the readers of the Palladium. In his first comunication, which follows in full, Goll says he is ready to join the army and go to the front. Perhaps his name has already been mdded to the long list of patriots killed by Germany's enemies. "I don't know if I receive your answer of this letter for I have to be a soldier in a few days, and maybe a Frenchman or a Russian has killed me by the time you get this letter. "Please tell them people I know in your city all goodby. And if they don't kill me in that war, then I'll be back in America in a short time." Text of Letter. Goll's letter in full is appended: "Frankfurt on Main. "August the 19, 1914. "Richmond Palladium, "Richmond, Indiana. "I guess you have got your paper full of news about the war in Europe, mt I guess also that you haven't got the truth about everything. This is the reason I write you this letter. I vised to live in your nice city, and I did not only use to love the people in your town, no I still love them, and I hope they have not forgotten me in a fhort time I left America. I was in Richmond for about ten months. I used to go to the night school in Prof. Kelly's clasB and that is the most principal reason that I can write this letter in (English), no, I don't want to Fav in English, I'll say in American. The English nation Is not worth that t take their name in my mouth. Who Started War. "The English don't go into business until they know they can get something out of it, or if they see it is not po easy to take something away from the Germans, then they send telefirams to other nations and tell them ies about the German emperor and (Continued on Last Page.) QUEEN WILHELMINA BACKSNEUTRALITY She Places Five Important Towns and Seven Provinces in State of Siege. BY LUDWIG VON KLEIN, International News Service Staff Correspondent THE HAGUE, Sept. 9. Queen Wiljhelmina today signed a decree proclaiming a state of siege in five imSrtant towns and seven provinces of olland. This action was taken to maintain Holland's neutrality, the deIcree also forbidding the exportation inf goods purchased by agents of the belligerents. The towns effected by the decree, rwhich gives the military authorities supreme control, are Harlingen, Texel, .Flushing, Hellevoetluis and Terschelhing. The provinces are Limberg, Seeland and North Brabant, which form the entire southern part of Holland, resting against Belgium; Gelderland, Ion the eastern frontier against Germany; Friesland and Groningen in the north, and North Holland along the .Worth Sea and the 2uyder Baa.

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T: TRIES TO FLEE Would-be Murderer Confesses When Police Catch Him at Cousin's Asking for Second Cup of Coffee. Thinking Wife Dead Perpetrator of Crime, Makes Written Confession Coolly Reciting Crime. After being declared dead by physicians, Mrs. William Groff revived and is clinging desperately to life. She was stabbed and slashed about the throat and body by her husband, who was caught by the police when he stopped at a cousin's to drink a cup of coffee before fleeing. He confessed to planning the deed for a month. - Mrs. Groff is lying at her home, 405 Main street, momentarily expected to succumb to four knife wounds, one of which pierces her lung. Her throat is cut and her abdomen slashed while the muscle of her left arm is cut al most from the bone. William Groff, with a police record extending over a year and a record behind him of having spent about onefourth of his latter years in jail on short sentences for drunkeness, is not remorseful because he is confined in jail for stabbing his wife. He has expressed remorse however, that he cannot get out of jail to "get revenge" on his son, Edward Groff. Carries Sharp Knife. For four weeks Groff has carried around with him a knife and whet stone confessedly with the intention of stabbing his wife. The. knife finally accomplished -Its -putposfe at 5:45 o'clock last night. It is as sharp as a razor. Believing he had accomplished his threat of killing his wife, William Groft made the following statement to Prosecuting Attorney Reller in which he reveals his motive and tells the story of the stabbing: "Richmond, Ind., Sept. 8, 1914. 'I, William Groff, am fifty years of age. I was born at Indianapolis and lived there seven or eight years, and then my folks moved here. I married my wife at Eaton, O., thirty-one years ago and lived with her until a year ago. During our married life she frequently had me arrested. She got a divorce from me and turned my children against me. When I got out of jail six weeks ago I made up my mind to kill her. I got the knife with which I killed her a month ago, and I have been carrying it all the time since then. "I knew where she worked and started down the C. and O. railroad tracks so as to meet her when she came out of the collar pad factory. She was about a square away from me when I saw her coming up the street with two women. I walked toward her and met her this side of Glaser's house on South Eighth street. While she was on the sidewalk I said, "I (Continued on Page Six) EXTRA FLYER KILLS EMPLOYE OF ROAD ON TRACHPEEDER Pennsy Train Mangles Body of Daniel Van Buskirk While Inspecting Lights Near East Germantown. EAST GERMANTOWN, Sept. 9. Daniel Vanbuskirk, 30, the well-known telegraph operator on the P. C. C. and St. L. railroad at this place, was run down by an extra eastbound passenger train Tuesday afternoon at about 3:30 o'clock and instantly killed. The accident happened about a quarter of a mile east of the telegraph station. Vanbuskirk was riding on a railroad speeder, inspecting the signal lights when he was run down by the east bound train. His body was badly mangled as the small car on which he was riding was entirely demolished while he was hurled to the side of the track. Almost every bone in his body was broken as a result of the impact. The passenger train was trav eling at a speed estimated from fortyfive to sixty miles an hour. The engineer did not see the man on the track until he was within several hundred feet of the car. The deceased was one of the best known young men of this community. He has been in the employ of the Pennsylvania for many years located at East Germantown. He is survived by his wife and eight-year-old daughter, Lillian. The Weather For Indiana Generally fair tonight and Thursday. -

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American Red Cross Relief Corps Enroute to War-Stricken Europe

,. v - The top picture is one of the Hamburg American liner Hamburg, repainted in red and white and renamed the" Red Cross., .Jtnrt tefewi6i'afle4-fr New York for Havre on Monday. Below at the left are (from left to right) Miss Helen Scott Hay, supervising nurse; Miss Jane Delano, president of the American Red Cross, and Major Hobert Paterson, in charge of the expedition. At the right is a group of the heroic nurses photographed before they sailed. After landing at Havre, the nurses will be divided up Into units of ten nurses each, and dispatched to the various countries with whose armies they are to serve in the field.

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"Despite Fresh Reinforcements, the Germans, Defeated, Are Retreating Before the Allies on the French Left Wing," the Official Announcement reads Another Great Battle Is in Progress Stretching from Paris to the Eastern Frontier German Right Has Weakened and Is Retreating Before Advance of the Allied Forces.

BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, International News Service Staff Correspondent , PARIS, Sept. 9. "Despite fresh reinforcements, the Germans, defeated, are retreating before the allies on the French left wing," says an official announcement issued here at 3:00 o'clock this afternoon. This statement continues: "The allied forces have checked the German advance on the left and in the center, and are advancing. "The Germans advancing on the allies' right has been arrested. The invaders are making no attempt to capture the Nancy position. "The situation in Alsace and the Vosges is unchanged. A supplementary statement issued in Bordeaux by Minister of War Millerand read as follows: "Another big battle is in progress stretching from the outskirts of Paris to the Eastern frontier. The German attack on our right has weakened for the first time, and the French left wing is advancing. The troops defending Paris have engaged with the Germans near the River Ourcq, and issued victorious. The defense of Mabuege continues heroically against the heavy German siege guns." The reference to the allies' success against the German center was the first official claim of victory at that point, although it had been admitted in an earlier official statement that hard fighting was in progress there. The earlier statement in referring to the situation in the center, said: "A severe engagement has been fought in the center, with alternative advancing and falling back." i --- - ... -

ADVANCE The allies had marched a heavy force along the center to meet the concentration of the German column. The fighting here was severe around Zenneny, Vitry Le Francois and the Aisne river. The Germans had strengthened their right flank after the advanced lines had been pushed back ten miles to the main forces, but according to the war office, these reinforcements were helpless before the French artillery and British cavalry. The official statements indicate that the Germans had attempted to assume the offensive, but had been unsuccess ful against the forward movement of the allies. Fighting is going on all along the line. Advices to the war office make this certain. A NEW CONFIRMATION. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. New confirmation of the success of the allies against the German right wing in northern France reached the French embassy here today in a dispatch from the war office at Bordeaux. The message reads: "On the seventh the French and English offensive compelled the Germans to withdraw. Two of its army corps have been thrown on thee left side of the Curcq. The fourth army corps has attacked us in the region of Vitry Le Francois. A falling back movement of the enemy has been clearly observed. "The success of the Russians continues against the Austrians, whose forty-eighth division of infantry has surrendered in its entirety." LONDON IS SILENT. LONDON, Sept. 9. The government press bureau was silent today save for one or two trifling announcements. London known only that a tremendous battle is raging about seventy miles east of Paris, and that the allies are making progress "favorably, although laboriously,'' x

AUSTRIANS ARE ATTEMPTING TO WIN POLES Post Notices in Russian Poland That Austro-Germany Victory Means Freedom for Poles. Austrian War Office Claims Austrian Fleet Has Driven - the French Fleet From Cattaro. BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. A great battle is in progress between . Russian forces and a large Austrian army at Rawa, Galicia, says official dispatches received at the Russian embassy here today. The fighting began September 8, and a general engagement continues along the whole of the Austrian front. In the center, the Austrian army is breaking, the dispatches say. The Russians also have attacked a strongly fortified position at Grodek, west of Lemberg. "On the left bank of the Vistula," the advices state, "our advance is developing favorably." VIENNA, Sept. 9 Official an nouncement was made today that the Austrian fleet had forced the French fleet, bombarding Cattaro, to withdraw, and that the Austro-Hungarian forces in the south were making (Continued on Page Five) WILL NOT BROADEN E TAX SCOPE Would Not Bring Instant Revenue So President Wilson Does Not Favor Plan. BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. President Wilson is not likely to favor the proposal to broaden the scope of income tax as an emergency measure. Administration officials say that the extension of the income tax so as to include ail married men with an income beyond $3,000 and unmarried men with an income of more than $2,000 a year would be unpopular. According to white house officials, President Wilson does not favor It, because no additional income would accrue from it for at least a year, and that the government's need Is Immediate. It Is probable that some form of stamp tax will receive the administration's bud-

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Maubeuge, One of Important Northern Defenses of Paris, Had Been Under Bombardment for Two Weeks and Its Gallant Defense Was of Great Value to the French Nation Americans Ordered to Leave Paris by Herrick and French Capital Is in Panic White House Denies Message from Kaiser to the President (BY LEASED WIRE.) BERLIN, Sept. 9. The French fortress of Maubeuge has fallen, according to an official announcement made here today. It is stated that the Germans took 40,000 prisoners and 400 guns.

Among the prisoners, the war office states, are four generals, and many other officers of high rank. Maubeuge, which is on the Sambre river, has been invested by the Germans for more than two weeks, and most of the time has

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The transportation of prisoners into central Germany is done with ordinary freight cars, the passenger coachafs being used for the conveyance of wounded troops.

GERMAN AMBASSADOR SEES SCHIFF. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. German Ambassador Von Bernstorff returned to the Retz Carlton Hotel from Seabright, N. J., this morning where he spent the night at the residence of Jacob H. Schiff, the banker. The ambassador said he knew nothing of a message from Emperor William to President Wilson. Count Von Bernstorff 's visit to Seabright was regarded as significant because of the reports that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of which Mr. Schiff is head,afe taking the initiative in trying i,o restore peace between Germany and the Allies. On this point, Count Von Bernstorff said: "My visit to Mr. Schiff had no significance. It was just a friendly call."

WILSON RECEIVES NO MESSAGE FROM KAISER WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. President Wilson has received no message of any description from Emperor William, White House officials declared today.

FEAR GERMAN RAID IN PACIFIC LONDON, Sept. 9. A dispatch from Auckland, New Zealand, says that five German cruisers are in the Pacific Ocean. They are the Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Nuernberg, Stettin and Emden. The New Zealand government fears they will raid English shipping. The Nuernberg was last reported at Honolulu, whence she sailed supposedly to give battle to Australian warships.

FRENCH SILENT REGARDING GREAT BATTLE BORDEAUX, Sept. 9 The war office at noon confirmed reports that disease had broken out in the Austrian army in the eastern theater of the war, but made no comment on the progress of the battle between the Germans and Allies. The silence of the French war office in regard to the great battle in France may be most significant when considered in connection with a dispatch from Paris stating that a panic had seized the people there.

AMERICANS ORDERED TO LEAVE PARIS. PARIS, Sept. 9. Sudden panic seized Paris today and many persons who had announced their intention of remaining here fled. This feeling of panic was increased when Myron T. Herrick, the United States ambassador, ordered all Americans to leave the city at once, no matter whether they are residents or merely visitors. The exodus to the south, which has been ready since the German invaders began to advance upon the capital, grew in volume today. So great is the mass of fugitives moving along the road to Tourain that traffic along the highway has to move at a snail's pace. In the mighty jam are persons of every rank and conveyances of every description from luxuriously upholstered limousines to donkey carts. Many fine automobiles are being abandoned along the roadside because of the shortage of fuel. It is impossible to secure accommodations along the way owing to chaotic conditions arising from the great flight. Most of the fugitives remain cool, the only feelings being expended in rage against the Germans. In other sections of the crowd unreasoning fear has added to the disorder.

FLOODS DELAY JAP OPERATIONS TOKIO, Sept. 9. Land operations against Tsing-Tao may be indefinitely delayed as a result of heavy floods on Shantung Peninsula, it was stated at the war office today. The floods are the worst in twenty years, and are preventing the movement of Japanese troops. "The situation is unchanged, except that the Germans are constructing bomb-proof shelters to escape being killed by aviators," so concludes the official statement.

AMERICANS SAW RUSSIAN TROOPS NEW YORK, Sept. 9 Mortimer L. Schiff, the New York banker, and Horton Rorrick, a banker of Toledo, "Ohio, stated on their arrival from England on a Red Star liner today that they, had seen Russian troops at Southampton embarking on British

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