Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 299, 27 October 1914 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. TUESDAY, OCT, 27. l$U

POSTAL DELIVERIES PUCE POPULATION OF CITYAT 27,412 Handley Gives This Estimate Counting Four Persons to Each House Average of Five Totals 34,263. Lawrence A. Handley, superintendent of malls at the Richmond postofflce, believes census takers are too liberal In allowing Ave members to a family when estimating city population. Figuring the average family at four, he fixes the population of Richmond at 27,412. This figure was secured from statistics collected by mall carriers. They carry 6,853 residence deliveries, including Easthaven, where there are 1,100 persons. Easthaven is figured as one delivery. Giving Richmond the same privilege other cities take when figuring population, this city would have 34,263 inhabitants, or an average gain of a thousand a year for the last fifteen years. Besides almost 7,000 residence deliveries the mail carriers have 880 business deliveries. In making these deliveries they travel from seven to seventeen miles a day. Charles Stoddard bas the longest daily walk. He covers 14.3 miles each day or 86 miles a Week. There are three carriers who walk 13.3 miles daily. The longest distances are covered by mounted carriers. The average is 11.5 miles daily.

THIS WAY DIOGENES, HONEST CHAP HERE ! Boy, page Mr. Diogenes. The regular honest man, the old Chap hunted for with a lantern so long and so fruitlessly, bas been located in Richmond. The real, simon-pure honest man Bound a purse containing quite a little jium of money at the corner of Sixth and Main streets, took it to a policeman aad requested that its owner be located. He modestly refused to give bis name to the officer, fearing the owner of the purse might seek to reward him. The owner of the purse may have lit by calling at police headquarters, 'providing, of course, a satisfactory description can be given. VILLA EXECUTES LEADER OF PLOT BY LEASED WIRE. ' EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 27. Francisco Mugica known over Mexico as the "Argentine Cowboy" was executed yesterday in Aguas Calientes on the charge of plotting to assassinate General Villa. The official report of the affairs telegraphed here by Villa's secretary pays that Mugica confessed before he died that he had been employed by General Pablo Gonzales, commander of the eastern division and a supporter Of Carranza, to kill Villa. German General Receives Treatment in Hospital. BY FREDERICK WERNER. BERLIN, Oct. 27 (By wireless via payville. N. Y.) General von Moitke, Chief of the general staff, is suffering from liver and gall complaints, it was Officially announced today, but his illfaess Is not causing any anxiety. The general is being treated by competent fhysicians at the genoral headquarers and has already improved greatly. General von Falken Hayn, Prussian War minister, former chief of the eneral staff and a hero of the China campaign, has temporarily assumed the duties of General von Moltke. FIRST SNOW FALLS The first snow of the winter fell in the city last night. The cold rain which fell during the late afternoon turned to snow about 6 o'clock. The small flakes whirled In the streets for a little while, melting as they dropped on the warm pavement. All doubt as to the ability of the .old weather to stop the "come back" which autumn has been staging was settled. High shoes, overcoats and winter clothing were in demand when the first really cold weather indicated what winter has in store Clear weather later in the evening 1 reparod the way for the heavy frost. WEATHER PREVENTS CIVIC BODY'S WORK Inclement weather kept the attendance of the Southwest Richmond Improvement association meeting last night so low that no business of imrortance was taken up. Next Monday night an effort will bo made to hold another large meeting. This will lie in the new Joseph Moore school. At that time the committees will have reports to make regarding the petitions which will be presented to the county commissioners asking that the south Hide bridge be located at South E Btreet. MAN ASKS DIVORCE. George Elisk today filed suit against his wife, Mary, asking for a divorce on the grounds that she deserted him seven years ago, after tbey had been married abont thirteen months. Lowel Hartshorn, of Derry, N. H., Is exhibiting a potato vine which mearures six feet eight inches. Until the frost came the tops stood perfectly upright reaching above an ordinary man's bead.

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NEW YORK EXCHANGE SETS PRICE OF EGGS BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Oct. 27. The New York Mercantile Exchange sets the prices for Chicago butter and egg dealers, according to Franklin Kennedy, deputy attorney general of New York, who is in Chicago in connection with the government suit to dissolve the alleged butter and egg trust. The New York Exchange controls 80 per cent of the produce business of America, according to Mr. Kennedy. Tho next hearing in the suit will lie before Referee Ed R. o Mallay in New York at a date to be set.

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"The coolest and most courageous Belgian soldier under fire." This is the title that has been bestowed by friends and enemies alike on the young King of Belgium, who is indicated by the arrow. The photo shows the King, cool and apparently unconcerned, standing in a gateway, close to a spot under fire of the Germans. The men with the bicycles are messengers ready to carry instructions from the King to his various commanders, with whom he la in constant close touchy " -

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.1 ! f LEWIS DRILLS TEAM WITH NEW PLAYS The Richmond Independents will hold a practice under Coach Lewis tonight at the customary place at 7 o'clock. New plays will be given out and intricacies of the game explained. Home of the players are deficient in their knowledge of the game. The coach will teach every man tho whys rnd wherefores of every ijuestion that might arise both on offense and defense. Czar Nicholas of Russia is said to own more costly china ware than any other person in the world.

NEGLECT OF FATHER BLAMED FOR MURDER OF GIRL BY MOTHER

BY LEASED WIRE. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 27 "You kidnaped my baby from me, you neglected her, sent her to work when she should have been under a mother's care. It is you who are to blame, you and you only. If you had only left her with me, she would be alive today." Hurling these bitter denunciations at Ira Macklin, her divorced husband, Mrs. Dora Allespaugh, mother of Hazel Macklin, the 15-year-old school girl, strangled to death here, brought to light the sad and weary childhood of the little victim. The meeting of the divorced pair took place in the office of Police Chief Millard P. Kerr. Mrs. Allespaugh who had been sought for the past forty-eight hours, appeared voluntarily in Chief Kerr's office shortly before 10 a. m. The police head then summoned Macklin and the latter responded at once. The man and woman who had not seen each other since their divorce eight years ago, faced each other in silence. Chief Kerr then began questioning Mrs. Allespaugh, who was remarried four years ago. TORPEDO BOAT GOES ASHORE TBY LEASED WIRE. NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 27. The torpedo boat destroyer Paulding went ashort at Lynn Haven early today during a heavy gale that was blowing off the coast. She was still ashore at noon but efforts were being made to refloat her. There were thirty-two men on board the Paulding. The battleship North Dakota and the naval tugs Alice and Massassoit went to the rescue and stood by. The wind was blowing sixty miles an hour when the Paulding struck. LONDON REPORTS BESELER SUICIDE BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON, Oct. 27 A dispatch to the Evening News from Rotterdam says that General von Beseler, conqueror of Antwerp, Is dead. He is reported to have shot himself Thursday in his room at Bruges. WIFE FIGHTS WELL BUT GETS WHIPPED Ralph Moore, colored, pleaded-d guilty to giving his wife a beat.ng in a north-end boarding house in the presence of a number of boarders, after they began a quarrel at the breakfast table. All the witnesses testified that Moore struck her after she had called him a vile name. All agreed that Mrs. Moore put up a good fight. One said that kettles, pans, knives and forks flew about like schrapnel when the tide of battle carried the disputants from the dining room to the kitchen, and another man said he did rot interfere because he knew better than to mix into a family row. Moore drew $.3 and costs. FRENCH GET ACTION BY LEASED WIRE. I,0..iJON. Oct. 27. French artillery is bombarding the German posts In Southern Alsace all the way from Belfort to Muehlhausen. according to a Berlin dispatch to the Central News via Copenhagen.

GERM CANNON DRIVE ALLIES' SHIPS TO SEA

BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff ' Correspondent of International News Service. PARIS, Oct. 27 Furious night attacks mark the battle between Dixmude and Nieuport in Belgium where the Germans who crossed the Yser, are trying to break through the wall of stell presented by the allies. The Germans are still forcing the fighting in the northern sphere, but they are compelled to stand violent counter attacks. The Belgian port city of Nieuport has been nearly wiped out by shells and flames. The famous old lighthouse built in 1284 was struck by shells thrown from the German guns against the British warships and was badly damaged. Drive Away Ships. The heavy guns of the Germans, which were rushed to the coast to defend the German trenches, have proved superior to the guns on the French and British warships, it is reported. The German cannon are heavier and of longer range that the naval guns of the French and English. The warships are reported to have been driven from CITIZENS HESITATE TO GIVjJP MONEY Taxpayers Hold Currency Until Last Minute Before Meeting Obligations. With everything prepared for a tax rush in the office of the county treasurer, the rush has failed to appear, and in consequence about $20,000 a day must be paid into the county from now until Monday night to equal the collection of the second installment last year. About $220,000 should be the total collected on the second installment by Monday night. About $205,000 of this Is in the city of Richmond. Little more than half has been paid in. This is not accounted for by officials as due to a financial stringency, but because many taxpayers believe their is a financial stringency and will not part with their money until the last minute. The office will be open from 7:30 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and on Tuesday, Thursday and Monday nights, from 7 to 9 o'clock. YOUNG WOMAN LEAVES HER HOME BY LEASED WIRE.l LAPORTE, Ind., Oct. 27. This city ip confronted with a sensation in the mysterious disappearance of Hazel Severs, aged 17, who left her home some time last Sunday night clad only in her night clothes. It is feared the young woman ' committed suicide by drowning herself in Pine Lake and today the lake will be dragged for her body. MANY CONTRIBUTE GOODS FOR HOME AVith the exception of money, donations of all kinds are coming into the Home for Friendless Women on South Tenth street today. At noon about twenty-five of the out-of-town donors were given a dinner, the annual custom of the home. Many of these persons make the trip in for the sole purpose of donating truit, vegetables, canned goods and money to the institution each year. It is reported that the nerves of city dwelers stand the stress of battle better than men woh have lived in the country. The explanation is that the citv type of man has become habituated "to noise, and terrific noise is an element of battles.

their moorings by the shells from the German batteries on' shore. The main portions of both armies are still being fortified with elaborate care. Trenches are bing built by the Germans past Thiaourout inv the direction of Bruges and cement emplacements are being constructed for gun bases. Country Desolated. The hostilities around the Belgian border from the north are the fiercest of the war. More than five thousand square miles of . territory In that reregion have been blackened, blasted and desolated by the fighting. Fields of grain are rotting in the autumnal rain; hamlets are blackened also, villages are deserted and crumbling; great forests are charred with poweder. Tme blight of war lies extremely heavy on this section of the French and Belgian soil. The Belgian forces west of the Yser, which were rolled back by the Germans, were reinforced by French and British, and during the last fortyeight hours were resisting stoutly the repeated attacks of the invaders.

RESIDENTS PROVIDE MAIL RECEPTACLES Seventy Per Cent of Citizens Obey Postoffice Order for Boxes. With more than two weeks left In which to enforce the order to have postal receptacles placed at front doors, seventy per cent of the rest dences are equipped. The thirty per cent is composed of those who cannot understand why a side door slot or a back door mail box will not serve the purpose. The post office employes believe that most of the thirty per cent will have obeyed the order by Nov. 15th. and that not five per cent of the residences In Richmond will be punished by curtailed mall service after the order is in effect. The post office handled ten tons of all classes of mall last week. This weight was made up by 132 000 pieces. In addition to parcel post matter delivered by the carriers, the special wagon delivered 14,269 pounds. TO START NEW YEAR 111 JAIL Colored Man Gets Long Term for Theft of Watch and Money. s Tim Murphy helped himself to a gold watch, $3 in money and a knife belonging to two fellow borders, Chas. Boreman and George Zeyen, when they left the door of their room open, and as a result he will eat Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's turkey in the county bastile. He pleaded, not guilty. He said he had found the missing things in the hall, but the fact that the key to the room occupied by Boreman and Zeyen was found in Murphy's room was hard testimony to overcome. He drew a fine of $25 and costs with a jail sentence of sixty days. Alvin McKinney, arrested for intoxication, pleaded not guilty and put up a spirited defense, producing four witnesses who asserted he was not unduly stimulated Saturday night. The testimony of the arresting officer and a saloonkeeper that McKinley was drunk had more influence with the court and McKinley drew a fine of $5 and costs. SUSPEND TARIFFS WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. The Interstate Commerce Commission today suspended from October 29 until January 29, 1915, new tariffs of the Great Northern, New York Central and many other railroads in all parts of the country, increasing demurrage charges on perishable freight in refrigerator cars. In 1868 one of the employes of Nelson Negus, of Marpuette, Mich.. Isot a watch on the latter's farm. While drawing sand from a hill a few days ago Negus found the watch, which is still able to keep time. Australians and New Zealanders are the greatest meat eaters in the world The former eats 262 pounds of meat a year each, and the latter 212 pounds, while the Americans eat 185 pounds. and the Brtisn only 105 pounds. The "Kent street ejectment," common in England in the days gone by, cosisted in taking off the front door. It was originated by landlords in the Kent street (Southwark, London) dis trict, where many tenants were in arNeeded in Every Home Just think what convenience and pride it gives to every housewife to be prepared for emergency. - She can be of immediate service to her family, neighbors or friends in case of accident or sudden illness and spare a great deal of suffering by keeping a bottle of Dr. Jones' Liniment handy. A slight injury may eat into the flesh and develop into a bad wound. Pneumonia may develop from a slight cold, etc.. but a little of Dr. Jones' Liniment applied in the nick of time gets to the sore spots at once and effects relief. For youngsters with earache, chilblains or frost bites Dr. Jones Liniment will relieve the pain immediately. Old people are usually afflicted with coughing spells, rheumatism, cold and cramps in the hands and feet and other pains peculiar to the aged. Dr. Jones Liniment applied whenever needed stimulates the circulation, stops the pain and proves a blessing. The comforts of home are incomplete without a boule of Dr. Jones' Liniment. .

MURPHY

PECK PLANS SHOW TO HELP CARRY Oil RELIEF FOR NEEDY

Plans are now in progress for hold ing a minstrel show for the benefit of the poor of Richmond. Roy Peck, a former comedian in one of the best known minstrel shows In the country, and Elmer Eggemeyer. a well-known business man. are promoting this show under the auspices of the Central Charity Bureau, to which the profits derived from the performances will be turned over for use this coming winter. Peck said today that he wanted to Include as many people In the cast of the show as possible and he requests that everyone who Is willing to take part In the show write to him, care of the Entre Nous club. Charity Needs Help. Charity workers say that the coming winter is to be a particularly trying one for a large number of people and the Central Bureau desires as large a relief fund as can be raised. There is much talent in Richmond and Peck, who will direct the production, is confident that an excellent show can be offered. He wants aU those willing to assist him in this worthy undertaking to communicate wit him before 8unday. No limit his been fixed tor the number of performances to be gtvou toot datea for tfcnm. but as many perfonaances will be put on as there la a 4eman. Everything pertaining: to the production of this show is to be donated, so that the expenseswill be at; a minimum. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. GAISER The funeral of Andrew' Gaiser, who died yesterday at his home east of Centerville, will be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clockufrom St. Andrew's church. Friends may call at, any time. The funeral cortege will; leave the residence at 8:30 o'clock., and will arrive at St. Andrew's church.1 at 10 o'clock. Burial will be la St. Andrew's cemeter. M'CLELLAND The funeral ot Frank McClelland was held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from St. Paul's Episcopal church. Rev. J. 8. Lightborn officiating. The pallbearers war C. E. Newman. Frank Farquhax, I! M. Jones, George Watt, Thomas Davis, and W. C. Ferguson. Burial was la. Earlham cemetery. BIRTH 8. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Christopher. 18 North H street. girL Mr. and Mrs. David Spellmaa. S21 South West Third street, boy. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Orr. 46 South Tenth street. girL Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dykeman. 2020 South A street, girl. Mr. and Mrs. John Morarttr. 105 North Twentieth street, girl. BANQUET BOARD PLANS FOR NOV. 9 Members of the Laymen's Missionary Movement committee, of which Dr. David W. Stevenson Is chairman, lunch-ed at the T. M. C. A. today to discuss plans for the Laymen's Mis sionary Movement banquet, which will be held at the Y. M. C. jL. Nov. 9. Definite arrangements for the banquet were not completed, as the speaker for the evening has not been se cured. THE MAN OF MEANS was never offered a opportunity to make profitable investments than the present. foreignl conditions and war. complications make it pooaitila to buy at very low prices Stocks which should sell very mucn nigner. xou Union Pacific ' to net morsv.than 7. Southern Pacific to net more than 7' U. S. Steel i to net more than 10 Many stocks are on the bargain counter. We shall be glad to keep you posted and send you our list free of cost. A. & J. FRANK DeaUra in Bond and Stock ' Traction Bid, DR.E.N.P Chiropodist. Branch Office 408 Second National Bank Bids:. We treat corns, bunions, ingrown nails, in fact, we relieve you of all foot troubles instantly. Try our electrical foot massage. Manicuring, shampooing, hair dressing, scalp treatments and facial massage. Our work Is positively first class. Please give us a trial. We are now open for business. TELEPHONE 2499. 3. Cecelia V. Henderson Plane, Voice, Theory and Harmony Music Studio, Phone 1702 206 N. 11th St. DR. A. O. MARTIN DENT18T Colonial Building Suite 212-21