Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 41, 29 December 1914 — Page 1

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yi MO 41 a'lHum and Bun-Telegram RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CEN

WARNS BRITISH TO QUIT VIOLATING MARINE LAWS

0. S. PROTESTS SHIPS SEIZURES ON HIGH SEAS Washington Demands Payment for Detention of All Cargoes Held up by the British. ACTION IS SURPRISE South American Nations Expected to Follow Lead and Demand Cessation of Allies Practice. BY LEASED WIRE. 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 President Wilson today confirmed reports that a protest had been sent to Great Britain by the United States against the treatment given to American shipping on the high seas. The protest was :ient to the British foreign office on Saturday, but no reply has yet been received. The President made it clear to his callers that the position taken by the United States government was undebatable so far as the theory of international law is concerned. He indicated that the American position was technically and legally above reproach. It was the name stand that Great Britain herself has taken in former wars, he stated. There is no treaty violation Involved In the protest, which is based purely on International law. The President also stated that each case of Investment of a vessel had been made a ground of protest almost from the start of the war, and that the present cases. Payment Demanded. The protest deals with other phases ox we matter Deyona me ract toai damages will have to be paid by Great Britain in all cases of detention regard less of the outcome of the present negotiations. Diplomatic circles In Washington today were greatly interested in the protest made to the British government by the United States against the policy of Great Britain in detaining vessels carrying American cargoes. The sending of the demand that the British government cease seizing ships and cargoes of Americans at sea, came as a surprise to the diplomats who had no advance information that it was being prepared. South America Protests. It was expected, however, that the lead of the American government would be followed by other neutral nations. High officials of the Washington administration pointed out that South American nations epecially have been complaining of the interference with shipping by the warships of the helligerets. They in most cases have followed the attitude of the United States on neutrality matters, and it is believed here that their diplomatic representatives will try to obtain the views of this government for transmission to their home government. BERLIN SATISFIED. German Press Believe Great Britain Will Accede. BERUN, Dec. 29. News of the i transmission of a note by the United States government to the British gov-1 rnment warning England against continued interference with American i shipping on the high seas created intense satisfaction in official circles to-i day. Belief was expressed on every i hand, however, that England would ; give way to the desires of the T'nited States rather than risk incurring the ! hostility of the American government. America is a powerful friend to have t this time. The German press com-, Bients at length upon the protest and takes occasion to say that England has arrogantly boasted long enough of er domination of the world's seas." HOLD FUNERAL TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec. 29 - A double funeral will bp held for Mr. and Mrs. Knott Hillman, an aged rouple, who were burned to death Sunday when upon their return from spending Christmas with their children. Hillman lighted the kitchen fire with kerosene.

JEALOUS LOVER SHOOTS AT GIRL BUT KILLS SIX-YEAR OLD MAID

!New Jersey Man Fires Through Window, Missing Victim and Killing Niece Sitting at Table Slayer Confesses Crime. fBY LEASED WIRE-1 j MILLVILLE, N. J.. Dec. 29. John 1 Jlorn, 25, is locked in the jail today, j (Charged with the murder of pretty' Beatrice Bailey, six years old, of Mill-' JJ ille. The child was shot ami instant-; Jy killed at the home of her grand- i Jiiother, Mrs. Alice Pettit. in Buehpchiitum, when a bullet, fired through the window at Miss Alice Pettit. 17-Bear-old daughter of Mrs. Pettit, penetrated her brain. According to the police Horn con fessed 10 ine snooting at the Pettit Jiome some hours after he learned the , iretty child was his victim. ; Det- . ss Lore and Brady, who piade the arrest, say that Horn detlared he was jealous of Miss Pettit,

ALLIES MASS TROOPS

Prepare to Take Constantinople by Storm. BY LEASED WIRE. ATHENS, Dec. 29. France and England have made preparations to occupy Constantinople, it was learned today. A fleet of transports bearing a big allied army has been assembled off the western entrance of the Dardanelles. The French and British warships are preparing to launch another severe attack upon the Turkish forts in a supreme effort to force a passage. The chief reason for this great attack. It 1b said, is the necessity to furnish fresh arms and ammunition to Russia. SECRECY CLINGS ABOUT OUTLOOK IN RUM ELY SHOP Experts Prom La Porte Offices Deny Knowledge of Directors' Plans for Richmond Branch. The future of the Rumely plant is as much in the dark as it has been for the last year. The arrival of two members of the designing and engineering department at the plant today, making their regular visit, did not have any significance, according to Glen Morse, works manager. The two men from the head offices say they know nothing of the plans of the officials, part of whom are In Laporte and part in New York. They exploded the ideas advanced by Vincent Rumely who gave out an Interview here recently. Refutes Rumely Story. "Vincent Rumely is a nice fellow, but he has no authority to talk and nothing to talk about except his individual ideas," one of the men said. "He is a draftsman working under me and I sent him down here to do some work in the country. He knows no more than I know and I know absolutely nothing." The interview given out by Mr. Rumely found its way to the Chicago offices. What transpired had. the effect of cutting off all possibilities of future Interviews until there is-?-- a definite announcement by the Rumely officials. Mr. Morse and the two traveling representatives said the head offices are opposed to publicity at this time, as it raises false hopes with the people. The men said full publicity will be given any acts of the officials which have a definite bearing on the future of the concern, as soon as some decision is reached regarding the various plants. MAY OPEN SOON. LAPORTE, Ind., Dec. 29. That the Rumely factories in Battle Creek, Mich., Laporte and Richmond, Ind., would open soon but with a very few men at the start, was announced today by John II. Guy, financial vice president of the Rumely company, upon his return from New York, where he attended a meeting of the directors of the company. Four thousand men were formerly employed in the plants. HURT IN GAR CRASH ASKS $5,000 DAMAGE Charles Wolford filed suit in circuit court today asking $5,000 damages from the T. H. I. & E. Traction company. Mr. Wolford claims he was permanently and painfully injured Sept. 9 in Knightstown while enroute to Indianapolis in an automobile with Earl Brandenberg. He said the automobile was hit by a freight interurban and demolished. Brandenberg was not in the machine at the time. The injuries described by Wolford as a result of the accident are numerous. The most serious is the loss of his lower eye lid which he says was torn off. He declares the tear duct was permanently injured and his eye disfigured and rendered almost useless. and when he found his attentions were rejected decided to avenge his wounded feelings. Horn will be arraigned today. Sitting at Table. The Pettit family was seated at the dinner table, little Beatrice chatting and laughing gaily with the others. She was seated next to Miss Pettit. Suddenly there was a report of a gun. It was accompanied by the crash of a window breaking. Little Beatrice fell from her seat at the table. The family rushed to her side and discovered she was dead. Some hours after the shooting, when the news reached the house where Horn lived that little Beatrice was the victim of the bullet, he ran to the Pettit. home. There the family was mourning over the girl's death. As Horn strode Into the room the detectives were telling of their efforts to find the slayer, with tears streaming down his face, Horn walked up to Mrs. Pettit and said, according to the detectives. "I did the shooting; it was " mistake."

CHANGES PLANS FOR VALUATION ON REALJSTATE Mathews Starts Second Term Determined to Get Assessments Fixed on True Land Value.

TEACHES ASSESSORS Insists Officials Obey State Law Commanding Assessments Based on True Cash Value. The year of 1915 will see a change in real estate valuations for assessment purposes in Wayne county, according to County Assessor Mathews, who starts his second term of office Friday. In March the assessment of real estate, which takes place every four years, will begin. Almost all of the township assessors will be new to office and there will be a large amount of instruction work necessary before the assessment begins. Mr. Mathews says he will make plans for holding meetings of assessors as soon as- he returns from the annual conference of the state board of tax commissioners with the county assessors in Indianapolis, Jan. 4, 5 and 6. A number of township assessors will attend the meeting to get the (Continued on page six.)

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Lady Decies, who was before her marriageMiss Vivian Gould, daughter of George Gould of New York, laughed heartily at the report that she had been wounded in the shoulder by a fragment

of German shell and disfigured so that she could not appear in evening dress without exhibiting a scar. j "I haven't seen anything of the battlefields yet, but 1 hope to soon," she said. "My husband j has been training some new Irish formations of troops ; I have been with him and have done a little work to assist the Red Cross, also."

WAIF CAST ADRIFT ASKS POLICEMAN FOR SHELTER Roy Thompson, 6 Years Old, With Big Tears Rolling Down Pinche Cheeks, Approaches Richmond Officer on Street and Asks for Home Woman From Canada Deserted Child.

He was just six years old and ho was a pitiful little object when he crossed South Sixth street, shivering as the rain fell upon his tattered clothing. The police officer on the j beat had his attention attracted to the youngster and he stopped to speak to him. The boy came directly to him. There were tears in his big blue eyes, j "Mister p'lceman, kin you find a i home for a little boy?" was the aston-j ishing question the six year old asked i the officer. "Why, maybe I can," replied the of-' fleer. "Haven't you got one?" j Tears Drop From Face. "No sir. I'm a little boy and I haven't got a home," was the reply, and big tear drops rolled off his pinched cheeks. "My mama is in the hospital CLEAN SIDEWALKS TO PREVENT FALLS Broken bones, bruises and other painful injuries may be prevented by citizens if each resident and each rusiness man will see that the treacherous coating of ice is removed from the sidewalk in front of his place of business or home. There are jobless men who would be glad of the opportunity to earu a little change in this way. It is the duty, however, of each person to clean his walk to provide a safe passage for others.

Lady Deeies Laughs at Rumor of Injury

and my papa is dead, an' I want some place to live and some place to cat." "What, is your name?" questioned the officer, scarcely believing child so young could be a homeless waif. "My name is Roy Thompson, and 1 want a home," answered the boy, sobbing this time. The officer promptly took him in charge and upon investigation learned that the child actually had no home. From what can be ascertained of the little fellow's brief history he was brought here from Canada by a woman whose name is unknown to the police and was turned over to Miss Florence Harris, a spinster, living on South Sixth street. Boy Cast Adrift. She is poor and it was hard for her to provide for her own wants and the boy's too. Then she became quite il! and was hurried to the hospital, the boy being left to shift for himself. A kind hearted woman, mother of several children and a neighbor of Miss Harris, took charge of the waif but found it impossible to support him and her own children, so when the police officer walked down the street this morning she sent the child to meet him to ask him for a home. This woman says that the little boy thinks Miss Harris is his mother and that she believes his name is not Roy Thompson but Wilbur Alexander. The boy has been sent to the Home for the Friendless and will probably be sent to White's Institute,

PREDICT 30-DEGREE FALL FOR MERCURY

Weather Forecasters Note Approach of Zero Wave From Northwest. BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO. Dec. 2!. Another cold wave is coming. The government forecast was for a drop of more than .'!0 degrees in the upper Mississippi valley today with a temperature near zero tonight. The wind will shift to the northwest and become a gale. The day dawned for nearly all the Middle West and the Great Lakes region with rain and sleet and snow and a temperature above freezing. The rain gradually gave place to sleet and then to snow. Cities suffered delay in street car traffic, and there was considerable damage to telegraph and telephone wires. The storm promises to move swiftly and tomorrow will be cold and fair. WeatherForecast FOR INDIANA Rain turning to snow and much colder tonight. Cold wave. Wednesday fair and colder. Temperature. Yesterday Noon . . 39 Maximum . . Minimum . . l'.i

LOCAL CONDITIONS Rain followed by snow tonight and Wednesday, i Cold wave tonight or Wednesday. GENERAL ONDITIONS The northwestern area are of low barometric pressure moving rapidly southeastward causing rain and snow east of the Rocky Mountains will be followed by much colder weather during ! th next 36 hours with temperature at ?ero. Another cold wave prevails over California with freezing weather, j W. E. MOORE, , .Weather Forecaster

RICHMOND INDUSTRIES PREPARE FOR NEW YEAR

APPEAL TO SENATORS German Societies Support Neutrality Bill. Letters urging Indiana's senators and Representative Finly Gray to support the neutrality bill which provides for the prohibition of shipments of munitions of war to European countries were sent last night by the officers of the Mapnnerchor, the German Alliance and the South Side Improvement association. ROW RECORDS DEEDS FOR NEW STORE LOCATION Furniture Dealer to Raze Jenkinson Building and Erect Modern Show Room Gives $25,000. Two deeds of property purchased by William H. Romey, representing $35,500, were recorded today. One of the deeds is for the Narcissa Lewis Jenkinson property on Main near Tenth street. According to the deed the consideration was $25,000. Mr. Romey purchased the property for the purpose of erecting a new building for the Romey Furniture company, of which he is practically owner. Mr. Romey has no definite plans for the building. It is probable that the structure will be devoted entirely to a modern furniture store. The old buildings, which are In an advanced state of decay and which are the oldest landmarks in the buisiness district, will be razed within a short time. Lot Extends Back. The lot on which the building is located has a forty-nine and one-half foot Main street frontage and a mean depth of 155 feet. The old buildings occupy only a part of the lot. A dry cleaning plant, furniture remodeling company, sign painter and confectioner have their business places on the lot. The deed for the Romey property at Ninth and Main streets, was also made a matter of record. The purchase price was $10,500. This property was purchased several years ago from Richard A. Jackson of St. Paul. The building, which is not an old one. will be remodeled and used by the German-American Trust and Savings bank and for office, according to present plans. Mr. Romey has prospective buyers for the property, however, and if one of the deals now on is completed, it will be one of the biggest real estate transactions in the city for several years. The details have not been made public. The lot is thirty-three feet wide on Main street and ninety feet deep. EIGHT FREIGHT CARS JUMP C. & 0. TRICK Road Detours Passenger Train to Richmond Over Big Four and Pennsy. Eight cars of a southbound C. & O. freight train jumped the rails between Williamsburg and Webster I about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon : and were badly damaged. It was first i reported that a tramp had been badly injured in the wreck but railroad ofj ficials announced today that no one was injured. The cause of the accident is not known. The wreck disarI ranged the schedule for several hours. The fas southbound train was detoured from Losantsville to Lynn over the Big Four and from Lynn into Richmond over the G. R. & I.

TWO ARMIES OF AUSTRIA RETREAT BEFORE RUSS

Grand Duke Nicholas Cuts in Two Host Seeking to Relieve Cracow and now Strikes at Movements of Von Hindenburg's Troops. BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY, Staff Correspondent The International News Service, j BY LEASED WIRE. ! PETROGRAD, Dec. 29. While the Austrian army in northern Galicia is : in retreat, the battle between the German and Kussian forces in Poland continues a deadlock, with ail ! vances at some points offset by retirements at others. Having cut in two the Austrian army that pressed forward after the lifting of the Kussian siee at Cracow, Grand I mke Nicholas, the Russian commander in-chief, is now expected to exerciue similar strategy against the German contingent of Field Marshal von Hindenburg's armies. The master i stroke of the Russians has crushed ' the Austrian forces, and it will be I some time before they can rally and I oe in a position to give any maieriai

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BUSINESS HOPES

TO SEE REVIVAL i IN TWO MONTHS , , , , , M. James A. Can Says Crop Prospect Encourages Man ufacturers of Agricultural! Implements. PIANO TRADE GOOD With Invoice Over Geimett Firm Will Employ 700 Men Automatic Tool Worki Increases Force. There are no visible indications of a substantial increase in business, but the prospects are that there will be ft satisfactory revival in trade for vaiv ions agriculture implement manufac turing concerns because of the excel lent crop outlook, according to James A. Carr of this city, president of th American Seeding Machine company of Richmond and Springfield. O. This statement of Mr. Carr was ech oed today by officers of other manu-j facturing concerns in this city. j Although representatives of the M.j Rumely company were in the city to-1 day making an inspection of the local' plant of the company, it is generally believed that within the near future this plant will be abandoned. "Richmond people, in my opinion might as well make up their minds now to get along without the local Rumely plant." Mr. Carr frankly stated. He added, however, that he had no positive information to that effect, but expressed his opinion as a result of his own observations. Speaks from Experience. "From personal experience I know that six or seven plants cannot be successfully managed by any concern. I think the Rumely company, like the American Seeding Machine company and others, will get down to a one or two plant basis. If it operates two plants. I do not think the local plant will be one of them. It is not a modern plant," Mr. Carr stated. Mr. Carr stated that the business of the Seeding Machine company this year would equal that of last year, but be said the business for these two j ears was over fifty per cent less than that of normal years. "Business has been very dull with us since June. 191.1. althpugh we now have about five hundred men on the payroll, working on an average, nine hours a day," he continued. Expects Late Revival. "Business conditions the first of this month were very dull but the month is closing with a good trade. Orders are coming in now but in trying to ascertain what the future holds in More in the way of business you can't see a foot ahead of you. Crops, however, are splendid and machinery will have to be purchased to harvest them so I will not be surprised if along about February or March trade experienced a decided revival. Money Is also easier now than it has been for months. "1 think the bankers of the country scared the farmers to death late In the summer. They told them that they did not know what effect the war was going to have and generally discouraged them. We do not realize, here in Richmond where our banks have pursued their usual policies, how hard it was to get money up until a short time ago. "We are now getting out a good shipment for South America and trade may pick up there considerably, al(Continueo on Page Eight.) ATTEND FUNERAL. ' Dr. R. .1. Peirce and Dr. R. D. Morrow attended the funeral of Dr. N. C. Burcham of Abington yesterday afternoon, as representatives of the Wayne County Medical Association. Dr. Btm cham died at his home Saturday and was buried yesterday at Cambridge ! City. j Official dispatches state that all , the important passes in the Carpa: i thians are held by the Ruesians. The ! efforts of the Austrians to transport 'troops to the relief of the hard-driTen forces in the Carpathians proved a failure. It is officially announced that tnoro than 23,000 prisoners. Including 25J ; officers, have been taken in Galicia and Poland during the latter half of last week. j A quantity of war stores fell into ; the Russians' hands, including fifty : rapid-fire guns, two ammunition trains, hospital tuipplis and several heavy pieces of artillery. Official dispatches say that General Dunkl's Austrian army, whose pursuit 'of the Russian army arter the relief of Cracow, has been turned into a retreat, is in danger of annihilation. Hundreds of straeglr. overcome by the cold weather and lack of food, are falling behing in the retreat and are being made prisoners. 1 Field Marshal von Hindenburg's army has been halted before Warsaw, and the plight of Przemysl is now imore serious than it was before the RiiKBinna retired from the racloft I

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