Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 316, 16 November 1914 — Page 1

RIGHMOMD TP A TJ, A l"DfTTM" VOL. XXXIX. NO. 316. 2$$SS18rJgta?gnm RICHMOND, IN P., MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1914. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS BOARD INSPECTS SITES FOR SPAN ON SOUTH SIDE County Commissioners Note Cost of Building Approach . to Bridge at Proposed E Street Location. BRIDGE WILL OFFER CHANCE TO REPLACE FAKE INSPECTOR THE AUDACIOUS, FIRST BRITISH DREADNOUGHT TO FALL VICTIH TO GERMANS This vessel struck a mine off the north coast of Ireland and was sinking when the White Star liner Olympic rushed in response to her wireless calls for aid. The Olympic towed the Audacious to a harbor on the Irish coast, where the dreadnought sank in shallow water. COMES TO TRIAL IN L0CAL COURT U. S. Marshal Brings Skinner, Alias Lamont, Before Perry Freeman After Arrest in Muncie. STREET ARCH Mueller Favors Moving Steel Span to Point Below Proposed Structure in South End Soon.

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After Further Deliberation Officials Hope to Reach Decision to "Provide Work for City's Jobless. Saturday afternoon the county commissioners, accompanied by County Bridge Engineer John Mueller, Clarence Gennett, R. G. Leeds and representatives of the South Side Improvement association and the South West Side Improvement association, inspected the three proposed sites for the south bridge, South E street, South G street and South L street. The sites were inspected from both sides of the river. Mr. Gennett was urged to accompany the commissioners as a representative of the Starr Piano company, whose interests might be seriously jeopardized by back water if the channel span of the new bridge does not provide sufficient space to accommodate such flood waters as were experienced last year. The party first inspected the South E Btreet site. This was pronounced as the most expensive site for the new bridge. The C. & O. railroad tracks on the east bank at this point, in view of the well-known antagonism of the state railroad commission to grade crossings, would necessitate making the eastern approach to the bridge under an expensive viaduct. Such construction would completely block South Fourth street and force the payment of damages to the owners of property on that street. The only alternative to this would be to provide an expensive roadway around from South Fourth street by the side of the bridge approach on South E street and inclining down and meeting the latter street near South Fifth street. Fifth Approach Costly. The headroom under the proposed railroad viaduct would have to be fifteen feet, which would necessitate a 4 per cent grade to reach it from South Fifth street. This deep approach excavation would give rise to (Continued on Page Eight.) STREET CAR HURLS" TO STREET Blanche Davis, Colored, Suffers Severe Bruises When Thrown From Buggy. Miss Blanche Davis was seriously injured Saturday night when a South Eighth street car struck a buggy in which four persons were riding. The accident occurred at Eighth and South A streets at 9 o'clock. In the buggy were Blanche Davis, Gilbert Drew, J. W. Paxton and May Hiatt, all colored. They were driving in a hired buggy with a horse owned by a New Paris liveryman. It is said the occupants of the buggy were laughing and talking and driving rapidly down A street as the car came north on Eighth. Witnesses say the car did not sound a warning. Neither could stop at the street intersection in time to prevent the smash. Miss Davis was thrown some distance from the buggy , apparently alighting on her hend. She suffered a scalp wound, which was closed with several stitches, bruises on her face, cuts on her arms and hands. Her back Is sprained. After being taken to the hospital for immediate attention, Bhe was removed to her home at 828 1-2 North Fourth street. Others in the party were injured slightly. Mr. Drew was believed uninjured but collapsed later. His injuries are minor. Although the buggy was almost demolished, the horse was uninjured, and, after the harness was removed, it was taken to a local barn until the wner claimed it. $800,000 GOLD COIN GOES THROUGH CITY Shipment for Reserve Bank at St. Louis Changes Trains Here. With $800,000 in gold in a mail car, Pennsylvania train No. 9 stood for almost a hour on the main track at Campbellstown where the engine broke down. The train was due in 12:10 a. m., when the transfer of the money was to have been made to Train No. 13, from New York to St. Louis. No. 13 was held in Richmond to await the consignment of gold until a switch engine could be sent to Campbellstown to bring the train to Richmond. It reached here at 1:10 o'clock this morning. The money was accompanied by two guards armed with rifles. They traveled in the mail car. When the train reached here, they transferred the nine safes containing the gold from the Chicago train to the St. Louis train. Two Richmond patrolmen were stationed near the trains for additional safeguard. The money was sent to the Federal Reserve bank at St. Louis, which jnens today.

WOMAN

The sooner a new bridge Is built spanning the Whitewater in South Richmond the sooner will it be possible to replace the present inadequate and, according to some, dangerous bridge over the river at Main street. The new south end bridge, by providing an additional crossing for the heavy interurbans while a . new Main street bridge was in course of construction, would relieve the almost impossible congestion and danger that would ensue were the old Doran bridge the only one available. This is the view of John Mueller, county bridge engineer, who has several times celled attention to the dangerous strain the present Main street bridge is being subjected to from interurbans, electrolysis and rust. "Ordinarily," said Mueller, "we fig

ure the life of such a steel bridge as that over the river at Main street at fifty yeare. That structure, however, has not been kept properly painted and has consequently been subjected to the weakening effects of corrosion from factory and locomotive smoke fumes, as well as rust. As originally planned and built some sixteen years ago the bridge was never .intended for the strains it was been made to stand from the interurbans. All these things make the life of the bridge as it now stands very uncertain. Traffic Grows Heavy. "Sooner or later the Main street bridge will have to be replaced by a (Continued on Page Six) TAKINGJMANS ROLL Tells of Robbing Herbert Heagy After Putting Him to Bed. Harry Chambes, alias ' James Nolan, arrested in this city Saturday afternoon, has been bound over to the circuit court on a charge of grand larceny. Patrolman Vogelsong, who made the arrest, said today that Chambers had confessed that he had robbed Herbert Heagy, Columbus, Ind., in a room at the Westcott hotel last month. He said Heagy was intoxicated and he took him to the hotel. After undressing him he took all the money Heagy had, $35, put him to bed and left him a short time later. Chambers said he went to Cincinnati and returned to Richmond last Tuesday to see a woman. Chambers was told that conviction on a charge of exand larcenv meant i imprisonment from one to fourteen years, and that it was unnecessary for him to make a confession, but he di$ so nevertheless, saying that he wanted to enter a plea of guilty and "take his medicine." After Chambers had been arrested his room at a boarding house was searched, and two gold watches, three fobs and a chain were found. On the ; inside of the lid of one watch the name "Charles O. Bess" was engraved. Whether these articles were stolen the police have not ascertained. Chambers says his home is in Missouri, but that he has worked in various places all over this section of the country. He was married to an Eaton (Ohio) woman, but she divorced him. WOMAN'S PICTURES CflUSniST FIGHT Paul Craig and Arthur Schram Fight When Craig Displays Likeness. A public dance held Saturday night ended in a fist fight between Paul Craig and Arthur Schram. The scrap occurred on the street in front of the building and caused considerable excitement. Schram says that Craig had a photograph of Mrs. Earl Schaeffer and a young woman Schram has been attentive to and that he had been promisculously displaying it. This was objected to by Schaeffer and Schram and trouble started. In city court this morning both young men were arraigned. Craig pleaded guilty to assault and battery and after hearing the evidence a similar charge against Schram was dismissed, but he was at once slated on a charge of provoke. This case will be heard Wednesday morning. Judgment in the Craig case was withheld until that time. Craig said Schram invited him to meet him outside the dance hall and he accepted the invitation. Words followed, Craig said, and Schram called him a liar, whereupon Craig saye he struck him. Craig said Ora Bell prevented Schaeffer from getting Into the melee. Schram said a week ago Craig was displaying the offensive photograph at a dance hall despite Mrs. Schaeffer's protests, and when he started to do the same thing again last Saturday night he told Craig he wanted to have a talk with him. He said he protested with Craig against his actions and that Craig called him a liar. "I told him he was another," Schram said, "and he hit me."

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40 CENT ADVANCE ITION Chicago Stock Market Opens With Price of Hogs Jumping. BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Nov. 16. The Union Stock Yards re-opened today and slaughtering was resumed in packing town after ten days' idleness forced by the foot and mouth disease. Only onetenth of the average Monday run of stock was received. Hog prices were forty cents above the figure at closing ten days ago. Cattle and sheep ! prices were strong, but practically un- ; changed. j The entire yards had been whitewashed during the quarantine and loomed white in the early dawn when the first shipment of stock, 226 head of cattle was driven in at 6:30 a. m. There was rejoicing in packing town where nearly forty thousand girls have been without work. A pathetic feature of the opening was the appearance of long lines of unemployed at the big packing house. All had to be ' turned away, as there will not be work enough for the regular force until tomorrow and the next day. Government inspectors were at every unloading place before 6 o'clock to inspect the animals and to see that the stock had not come from herds inj fected with the foot and mouth dis ease. BERLIN REPORTS CRUISERS DISABLED BY LEASED WIRE-l BERLIN, (By Wireless), Nov. 16. A dispatch from Geneva reports the British cruisers Falcon Brilliant and Rinaldo have been disabled by Ger man guns on the Belgian coast. Naval records show that of these three vessels only the Brilliant is a cruiser.

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BY LEASED WIRE. NEW YORK, Nov. 16 Final and practically complete details of the sinking of S. H. M. Audacious and the rescue of her crew of 960 men by the lifeboats of the White Star liner Olympic wer brought her by Hugh Griffliths and James Randolph Beams, who arrived on the New York last night. Griffiths was bandmaster on the Olympic and Beames a cornetist. Both men watched the Olympic labor from 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 in the evening in saving the crew of the Audacious. There can no longer be the slightest doubt that the Audacious Is now lying at the bottom of the sea, twenty miles west of Tory Island. These men confirm practically every detail of the story of the great British Dreadnaugh's sinking as told author!AUSTRIANS DEMOLISH SERVIANS' DEFENSE BY LEASED WIRE. VIENNA, via Berlin and Amsterdam, Nov. 16. Field Marshal Potiorek, commander of the Austrian troops operating in the southern war theatre, reports, under date of Sunday, that the Servians' first line of defense, west of Valjove has been successfully stormed by his troops and that the Servians have retreated to their second line. Subscriptions to the war loan were opened today. Before the official opening of the lists, however, 925,426,000 had already been subscribed. The municipal government of Vienna alone took $6,250,000. Practically all cities in Austria and Hungary have pledged their capital to the loan,

titively by the International News Service in its dispatches of last Saturday night. Outstanding Features. In their narratives these Important declarations stand out: "The Audacious was not cruising alone when she was struck by the mine. She was in a squadron, perhaps accompanied by as many as six other ships of her own class. "When she was struck on the morning of October 27, she was deserted by her hister dreadnoughts. This Is

a rule of the British admiralty, since ; one mine is taken to indicate the pres-; ence of otherB. i "She was not sunk by the explosion ' of her own powder magazine, but was , destroyed by the British cruiser Liver pool, when it was found that It would be impossible to save her. TROOPS FROM INDIA REACH MARSEILLES BY LEASED WIRE. PARIS, Nov. 16. Twenty-five thousand Indian troops, cavalry and artillery, passed through Paris today from Marseilles to the front. These included the cream of the British empire mounted horses from India. The Indians, who arrived in Marseilles on twelve transport steamers on Thursday, were given a day to get rid of their "sealegs," after having spent twenty-three days upon the dater during the long voyage from Bombay. An enthusiastic reception was given to the Indians by enormous crowds and the dark-skinned soldiers could not conceal their pride at being picked to "help save the empire." They were to have been reviewed this week by Field Marshal Lord Roberts, who died in a military hospital in northern Franco from pneumonia on 3aturady.

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FIGHTS ALONG BELGIAN LINE German Soldiers Well Equipped to Withstand Icy Wind and Snow in Northern Battles. BY LEA8ED WIRE. BERLIN, Via Amsterdam, Nov. 16. A lull in the fighting on the FrancoBelgian front was reported to the war office today. This is due to a severe snow and sleet storm that began Saturday. No decisive result has been attained in the fighting, though the attempts of the allies to re-capture St. Eloy have been repulsed. The following statement was issued: "The fighting east of the coast is less violent. This is probably due to the severe weather. Sleet and snow are being driven by an icy wind until a veritable blizzard has resulted. "The German soldiers are well equipped for the winter campaign, and their offensive will be resumed as soon as weather conditions permit. "Our line has been maintained and we have had some small gains at various points. The enemy has made repeated attempts to retake St. Eloy, south of Dixmude, but these have been repulsed with considerable loss to the attacking forces. No decisive result has been attained. "Farther east the weather conditions are better, and our offensive in the Argonne continues." BOMBARD TOWNS BY LEASED WIRE. ATHENS, Nov. 16. French warships bombarded Foggia Nova (Phokia) and Devebournos, two Turkish towns on the coast of Asia-Minor uorthwest of Smyrna on Sunday. Both towns were se on Are, according to information received at the Turkish Legation, whose officials state neither Devebournos nor Foggia Nova were fortified.

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Police Place Little Credence in Skinner's Story of Irresponsibility Actions Puz-1 zle Chief Goodwin. BULLETIN. MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 1 That W. J. Lamont, who haa bean paaa ing aa a federal inspector In connection with the fight on the foot and mouth disease in Indiana, la an eacapod lunatic from the state Insane asylum of Columbus, 0 waa learned by the Muncie police here thia afternoon following hla departure with the United Statea marshal for Richmond. W. J. Skinner an uncle, whose name Lamont waa ualng, advised the police of hla nephew's osoapo and also advlaed the fake Inapector to give himself up to the off tela Is of the asylum aa the only way to got out of hla difficulty. That J. W. Skinner, who fraadoJeaOy represented himself to be an agent of the United States bureau of animal industry,, known in Richmond and In dianapolis, where he first operated, aa "W. J. Lamont," would be taken Into custody by a United Statea deputy marshal at Muncie today, waa the Information contained in a telegram received by the local police department from the marshal's office at IndlaMpolis. This afternoon a dispateh from Muncie stated that Skinner had been taken into custody in that city by Deputy United States Marshal D. C. Rankin, who left with him at noon on a traotion car for Richmond, where Skinner will be arraigned on a charge of having impersonated a United States officer with the intention of committing a fraud. This is a felony under the federal statutes. Skinner will be arraign ed before Deputy United States Commissioner Perry J. Freeman, late this afternoon. Arrested in Muncie. Skinner was arrested by a police man at Muncie Saturday night after he had fled from Union City in an au tomobile. Ho escaped from that-town shortly before Chief Goodwin of the Richmond department, whom be had (Continued on Pago Three.) PARLIAMENT GRILLS CHURCHILL Oil LOSS OF BIG BATTLESHIPS BY HERBERT TEMPL1 LONDON. Not. !. Tke vast the European war waa realize ra Baf land today for the first time nrkaaV Premier asquith told the aoaao C commons that Great Britain pending between $tft0,0O and : 000 dally. The first minister artlled v iland McKenna. who waa asked what1 precautions had boon taken by him as home secretary to prevent the operation of spies in England. In rqphr Mr. McKenna stated that 14,600 aliens had been Interned in coneoatratseav camps, this number not including thi prisoners taken In action. Ho admitted, however that about 29.000 aMeaa had escaped thus far the government's dragnet, and are still at liberty First Lord of the Admiraly Churchill came in for a grilling because of Brit ish naval losses. The feeling in London is that thus far the honors at aea have been with the Germans, and thia is causing great feeling against Churchill. The defeat and the death of Admiral Craddock off the Chilean coast is attributed by many to the failure of the battleship Canopaa to join the British squadron. It haa since been rumored that the Canopns. which was laid down in 1897. and was of 15.960 tons, had herself met with disaster. SINK BRITISH BOATS BY LEA3ED WIRE. ATHENS, Nov. 16. A dispatch from Mitylene says that advices received from Tourkish sources report that several British vessels have been sunk at Basrah in the Italian Gulf, by Turkish river boats. The Weather FOR INDIANA Fair and continued cold tonight and Tuesday. TEMPERATURE. Noon 25 Yesterday. Maximum 68 Minimum 36 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. LOCAL Fair and continued cold tonight, Tuesday fair. GENERAL CONDITIONS The Canadian storm which arrived Iaat night on schedule time is . moving, toward the Atlantic ocean. . The clodest weather of the season covers the country east of the Rocky mountains. A severe storm has prevailed pn the Gulf coast for the last several days. Torrential rains have fallen, 7 4 Inches of rain falling at Tampa and Pennsacola. Fla., while 54 inches fell at New Orleans In the last twenty-four nourar - j

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