Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 70, 1 February 1915 — Page 1

VOL. XL., NO. 70. m &TtX'iS?'' RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY I, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

FRENCH SMASH

NEW TRENCHES ALONG AISNE Germans Lose Many Men in Hard Fighting Now Proceeding in Argonne Forest Territory. GUN DUELS FREQUENT Austrians Lose 12,000 Soldiers in Battle With Russian Forces at Tarnow in Galicia. BY LEASED WIRE. BERLIN, Feb. 1. The following official statement was given out this afternoon at 2 o'clock relative to operations in East Prussia: "There Is nothing important to report from East Prussia. Southwest of Mlawa and north of the Vistula river the Russians have been driven out of some of the places which they had occupied on Sunday. South of the Vistula, the Germans have gained further ground. German attacks have been renewed south of the Pilicia river." The war office announced this afternoon that there have been no developments in the western theatre during the last twenty-four hours. The statement further says: 'The passes through the wooded mountain districts of the Carpathian ranges have been the scene of the most violent fighting. After four days of heroic fighting our troops succeeded in throwing back the Russians from Uzsok pass although subsequently our troops had to give up the advanced line they were holding along a ridge and retreat to another position, which was taken up on another ridge in the rear. This movement resulted from the fact that the Russians had superior numbers. "The Russians again attempted to break through our lines, but their attacks were repulsed. The enemy delivered attacks on our position near Revhely, south of Vezersgall, Velever near Oekermacz." FRENCH STATEMENT. PARIS. Feb. 1. Destruction of German trenches, which were In the course of constructions, along the Aitne river, by French artillery is reported In the official statement. It stated the Germans lost heavily in the hard jQghtin which has been in progress in the Argonne; . ArttMery duels are reported from a number of districts, particularly west of Flanders. AUSTRIANS DEFEATED. PARIS, Feb. 1. According to a dispatch to the Tribune de Geneve, the Austrians suffered an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the Russians near Tarnow, 12,0000 Austrians being killed, wounded or captured. The Austrians are reported to be in full retreat, leaving guns and ammunitions behind. ANOTHER SALOON ASKING LICENSE MEETS JEBUFFS County Orders Frank Fosler Sixtieth Applicant, to Prove City Entitled to Additional Liquor House. An application to establish the sixtieth saloon In Richmond was held up today by the county commissioners, when Frank Fosler, the applicant, failed to prove that Richmond can legally have that number of saloons. Fosler asked a license to establish a saloon at 187 Fort Wayne avenue in the room formerly occupied by the Crane pool room, which has been removed. He had character witnesses and went through the usual routine of securing a license, until it came to the right of the city to have sixty saloons. There are now fifty-nine saloons, based on an estimated population of 29,500 inhabitants. About six of these have been established in the laat two years. At the time they were issued, some doubt was expressed that Richmond can ' claim that population when the last United States census only counted 23,500. Uses Postal Figures. Fosler said the postofflce figures show that there are 7,000 homes in Richmond, which would indicate that the population is 35,000, thus allowing eleven more saloons to enter the city. Postofflce officials figured the population at four persons to each home, making a total of 28,000. The commissioners asked Fosler to bring his proof at the next meeting and if they are sufficient, the extra license will be granted. Other licenses renewed are Westcott hotel to Warden-Westcott Hotel Company, John Sliver and Charles Wiehmeyer, Fifth and Main streets; Chas. E. Graham, 328 Main street; Louis Knopf, 401 South Fifth street; John J. Daudt, 12 North Sixth street; John H. Sullivan, 817 North E street. BOMB WRECKS HOUSE BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Feb. 1. A bomb that exploded on a window sill in the home of Joseph Carracillo early today, hurled two families from their beds, tore a hole in the building, broke windows In near by houses and terrified the entire neighborhood

Nellie Ely Describes

Demolished By hcnstrians in Invasion

. $41 J! Wrecked Furniture BY NELLIE BLY. MITROWITZ, Slavonia, Nov. 18. I leave tomorrow at 7 a. m. in a wagon for a two days' trip to the firing line of the present Austrian-Hungarian-Servian war. I have my sleeping bag and food for two days, for we shall be in the open country, where there are no houses only soldiers fighting. The clothes I have on and my sleeping bag, a towel, soap, tooth brush and comb complete my baggage. I hope I don't have to walk. If I do someone else will write my story. My mysterious ailment still makes my nights wretched and my days helpless. Our party has been farmed out among the natives. The only hotel was utterly destroyed by the Servians. I can't see how the town escaped. The people, if I may judge from those I have seen in the rain, are unITALIAN ADMITS THEFT OF COAL WORTH 10 CENTS Detective Burns Tells How Men Hid Lumps in Extra Work Coats Colored Man Pleads Guilty. The fact that the Pennsylvania railroad and several manufacturing companies have had considerable quantities of coal stolen recently by north end residents was brought to light in city court his morning when the cases of Frank Giosganio, an Italian, and Sam Peterson, colored, were given a hearing. Each was charge with petit larceny for stealing small quantities of coal and each pleaded guilty. Giosganio and Peterson each drew a fine of $10 and costs and tend days in jail. The former stole coal valued at 10 cents, and the colored man stolo fuel valued at 20 cents. Take Lump at a Time. "Italians working for the railroad company have taken quite a quantity of road coal of late," Detective Burns of the railroad company testified. "At first they would hide it away and then remove it after quiting work. We stopped that practice, so recently many of them have been bringing extra coats when they came to work. When they returned home they would hide a lump or two under their extra coats and walk of with it. I caught Giosganio doing this. When questioned Giosganio acted as though he did not understand what the prosecutor was saying to him. "He understands English, all right," put in Burns. "At least he did Sunday night when I talked to him." The Italian then replied to the proescutor's questions. William EVersman, president of the police board, effected the capture of Peterson. He said much coal had been stolen lately from the company for which Eversman works. He estimated that nearly two tons of coal were stolen last Thursday night. Late Saturday afternoon Eversman and two other men hid in the engine room at the factory. Peterson soon arrived and filled a sack with coal. They pursued and finally caught him. USES PIPE TO DRIVE MAN FROM SALOON Pat Geagan, a non-union man employed at the Reliance foundry, where a strike is in progress, was arraigned in city court today on a charge of public Intoxication. A police officer testified that Geagan was in a combative humor and a saloonkeeper finally had to chase him out of his place with a gas pipe. An officer of the Reliance factory charges that a striker assaulted a strikebreaker with a beer mug in a north end saloon Saturday night. This case is being investigated. Complaints galore in connection with the Reliance strike have been filed recently but the police say they have so far been made unable to secure enough evidence to warrant a prosecution.

Slavonian Town

I"! and Bird Cage Left interesting. The "uppers" are dressed plainly and unfashionably. The working women have short decorated skirts, quite to their knees, and short decorated sheepskin or cloth jackets. Over their heads they wear handkerchiefs. All the men wear pigskin coats, decorated with many colors To see them soaked with mud to the knees (Continued on Page Seven.) GREAT STORM SWEEPS OVER Twenty Boys and Girls Injured at New Orleans When Asylum Collapses Under Heavy Wind. 4 DEAD IN CHICAGO Wire Communication Interrupted and Rail Traffice Tied Up by Snow and Rain Downpour. BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Feb. 1. Practically the entire country from the Great Lakes to the Rocky mountains and south nearly to the Gulf of Mexico was storm swept today. All varieties of weather were, in evidence. While the south was swept by rain, the country west and north of Chicago was experiencing sleet, snow and rain. This combination had cut off the northwest from wire communication, no wire being obtainable to any point north or northwest of Milwaukee. In Chicago, Saturday night's heavy snowfall had been followed by a warm wave which brought rain, the streets of the city being a combination of slush and ice through which pedestrians slipped and floundered. Four deaths were reported to the police. The weather gave employment to 1,200 men in the slush covered street. Ice driven by northwest wind blocked the Chicago river for many hours. The weather man stated that there was no indication of the storm letting up today. Eastern Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas were severely lashed by the storm which flattened telegraph wires and interrupted . communication. Several property losses were reported from Tyler and Marshall, Texas, Tulsa, Okla., and Malvern, Ark. Snow and rain accompanied the high winds. Twenty boys and girls were injured in New Orleans when a building of the St. Alphonso asylum collapsed. Thirty children escaped injury by leaping from windows. The win attained a velocity of 52 miles an hour and many buildings were unroofed. Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota reported snow, rain and sleet, which interrupted wire communication and caused property damage. The difficulties of the telegraph and telephone companies increased as the day advanced and all business was subjected to indefinite delays. CRASH INJURES TWO AT INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 1. Fred Wright, a motorman, was seriously hurt, Miss Winnie Roberts, 19, was cut about the face and two of her teeth were knocked out, and a dozen other passengers suffered bruises today when a street car collided with a railroad coal car on West Washington street. The accident was due to the dense fog that covered the city throughout the day

WHOLE COUNTRY

G. 0. P. RENEWS FILIBUSTER ON SHIP MEASURE Holds Lines Intact and Reports no Exhaustion of Resources to Defeat Ship Purchase Bill.

TACTICS ARE COSTLY $800,000 Already Spent, But Democrats Insist Legislation Must Pass Congress Late This Week. BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Feb. l.Refreshed by a rest of nearly thirty-five hours, senators returned to the trenches this morning and again waged the fight over the ship purchase bill. The Republicans were confident that they will be able to keep up the filibuster indefinitely. Senator William Allen Smith, Senator Burton of Ohio, and Senator Jones of Washington, were ready to talk at length in their efforts to defeat the measure. The Republicans have held their lines intact throughout the thirtyseven hours' session which marked the close of a week of hard fighting, and appear to be far from having exhausted their resources of verbal ammunition. Many who have talked are already within the rule forbidding a senator from speaking twice on the same subject. Democrats Confident. The Democrats were equally confident of being able to wear down their opponents by the end of the week and were hopeful of being able to held the senate In session continuously until the filibusters were forced to capitulate. They have the advantage of numbers and age of members. The average age of the Democratic members is 54.6 years, while that of the Republicans is a trifle more than 60. So if the idea that "youth will be served" in a test of endurance applies, the odds would seem to favor the administration forces. Senator Williams of Mississippi today estimated that the cost of the filibuster already has exceeded $800,000. He figures that Senator Smoot's address cost $225,000 in printing bills and stenographic fees. Senator Smoot spoke for eleven hours and thirty-five minutes. Senator Burton's speech, which extended over thirteen hours, cost $250,000; Senator Lodge, $150,000 and Senator Gallinger $200,oou. , WUJUm XlReArroed- , A score of senators .appeared when the senate met and the usual call of the roll to obtain a quorum was begun Senator Williams of Florida, in charge of the bill, entered the Demo cratic cloakroom with a bulging port folio "I brought my campaign out fit this time." he said, "an the other Democratic senators have been warn ed to bring theirs. We are going to stay here until we pass this bill. That means running all night and all day without any sleep until we are through." Aim of Bill. In an effort to smash the Republican filibuster the white house will make it clear in the next few days that the administration does not advocate in the bill the purchase of belligerent ships of any kind. Only neutral ships, it is understood, are to be bought by the government, and there is no dan ger of complications with European belligerents. Republicans in the filibuster have declared that there are no neutral ships to be purchased, and that only interned belligerent vessels are procurable. This statement is disputed bv administration oficials, and a state ment is expected to be made before long, showing that the ship purchase plan never has contemplated the Duy ing of belligerent ships. Smith Takes Floor. After a quorum had been obtained Senator Smith of Michigan, spoke on the reiect of unemployment. He as serted there were 500,000 unemployed men in New York City. Senator Walsh of Montana then read statistics showing that the total number of voters in New York at the last election was only 482,000. Smith, however, insisted that his figures were correct. The voice of the Michigan senator became hoarse within a few minutes after he began. There were two Republicans and eight Democratic senators present during the morning. PRAYER BINDS MEN TO DIVINE POWERS Rev. H. C. Harman Compares Spiritual Force to Laws of Gravitation. "Although not visible to the human eye, prayer is a spiritual force recognized by all as being the means of linking human endeavor to divine resources. "Prayer in the spiritual world resembles gravitation in the physical world," said the Rev. Harry C. Harman at the First Methodist church yesterday. ' Neither is gravitation visible but men recognize it as a law with whose terms they must comply or, find their works destroyed, said the Rev. Harman. With the comparison of prayer and gravitation the pastor explained the power of appeals for Divine assistance. SUES ON MORTGAGE. The Richmond Loan and Savings company today entered suit in circuit court against Martha Allen to forclpse .& mortaaae for $600

FIVE BRITISH SHIPS TORPEDOED IN GERMAN SUBMARINE RAID

Four Reported Sunk and One Creeps Into Havre Sinking Eighteen Teuton Underwater Boats Within Radius of 2,500 Miles Force Consternation in Shipping Circles Allies Increase Warship Patrol to Escort Merchantmen Into Port

BY HERBERT TEMPLE, LONDON, Feb. 1. That Germany has finally launched her threatened submarine war against British mercantile shipping in order to isolate the British Isles and cut off British war and food supplies was the universal conclusion today following the sinking of four British merchant ships, and the unsuccessful torpedoing of another in the Irish sea and the English Channel during the last forty-eight hours. Con sternation prevails in shipping circles and marine rates are soaring. Following a conference at the admiralty today it was learned that the naval patrol all around England, Scotland and Ireland will be extended. British warships probably will be sent out to sea to escort the incoming liners into port. Fears are felt for the safety of the Lusitania, which is on the Atlantic, bound from New York to Liverpool. Tokomaru Sinks Quickly. The Tokomaru was sunk off the French coast within a short distance from warships which were patroling the channel. Members of the crew of the Tokomaru who arrived here today, said that the ship was stationary, waiting for her pilot, when an explosion occurred. The vessel was about twenty miles off Havre. The crew immediately disembarked as the ship began to sink quickly. No submarines were seen, and no warning was given, but it is taken for granted that the ship was torpedoed by a German underwater craft. The Ikaria, bound for Brazil, was twenty miles north of Cape Lehevre, when a violent explosion occurred under the water line on the starboard side. She began to settle at once and became unmanageable. Tugs pulled her into Havre, France, in a sinking condition. WOMAN KEEPS HUSBAND HOME EVERY EVENING Charles Thompson Pleads Not Guilty to Assault on Wife Tells Police of Watch Over Conduct. Charles V. Thompson, North I street, owner of sixteen properties which he has acquired in twenty years by frugally saving his earnings as a laborer, ruefully remarks that he might as well be as poor as Job's wellknown turkey as far as getting any benefits from his industry is concern ed. His wife won't let him, Thompson avers. He entered a plea of not guilty this morning to a charge of assault and battery on the boss of the household. Mrs. Thompson. She failed to appear in court to prosecute him so the case was continued until tomorrow morning. Thompson was released on bond. This self-confessed henpecked husband emphatically denies attacking his wife, although witnesses assest that they fought their way through the front door of their home and he struck her several times after pitching her into a snow bank, Saturday morning. "I was only wrestling with her to get the key to the cupboard where she keeps my money locked up," Thompson asserted. "Anyway, she is bigger and stronger than I am." Thompson says the income from his properties amounts to about $200 a month. He also works as a laborer. "And I have been paying over to her all the rent money and my wages for a long time just to keep her from fussing with me. If I do what she tells me then we have a little peace in the house," he added "I haven't been down town of nights for four years. I stay right at home. And the days I am not working I stay at home. She won't let me get out of her sight except when I am working. Even then she claims I trifle around with other . women. I won't enter some of my tenant houses when I go to collect rents for fear she will get jealous and start trouble. I stand on the outside until I get paid. One tenant said there was a leak in the house but I didn't dare go in to see." This statement is included in the confessions of Richmond's champion henpecked husband, in the opinion of the police. WHISKEY FOR COLD AFFECTS HER HEAD "It was my first drink, your honor, and if you let me go this time Richmond will never be bothered with me again," pleaded Mrs. Mary Reid, apparently about sixty years old, living on a farm three miles north of Cambridge City, when she was arraigned before Mayor Robbins this morning. The charge against her was dismissed. "I had a bad cold and was feeling weak, so I went into a wholesale liquor place and bought a flask of whiskey," she said. "The first drink went to my head. I will never, never take another drink. Please let me go." The woman was found on the street acting very queerly and speaking to everyone .who approached her. At first It was thought she -was crazy.

Another steamship, the Kilcoan, is reported to have been attacked, but at the time this dispatch was written no news had been received relalve to her fate. British newspapers . are bitter against are bitter against the latest phase of German warfare, which is called a breach of the recognized code of hostilities. It is charged that the Germans have also violated the international law by displaying the British flag on their submarines. It is evident from the number of underwater craft at work that the German admiralty is using many of its available eighteen submarines. The Royal Mail packet, Leinster, reported at Dublin that she had been

chased into port by a hostile submarine. Naval experts declare that Germany's eighteen powerful submarines can easily paralyze British shipping, despite the guards of warships. These submarines are new craft, equipped with the latest devices of destruction. Sunk Without Warning. That the British steamer Tokomura was torpedoed by a German submarine without any previous warning being given was the declaration of members of her crew. They said : "We were just ready to enter HavTe in the morning when a torpedo struck us amidship, carrying away the buland smashing part of the bridge. The captain and third officer were on the bridge and saw the periscope of the marine. As she made off S. O. S. calls were sent out and half a dozen French torpedo boat destroyers came up im mediately. Before the firemen and engineers could get out of the stockhole the water was up to their knees Until word to the contrary was received today the Havre authorities be lieved that the steamer Ikaria had also been sent to the bottom. JONES TELLS HIS STAND ON ROAD TAX RATE Highway Superintendent Ex "plains i Attitude Toward ward Road Supervisors of County. DETAILS HIS VIEWS Believes Townships Should be Charged Only With Initial Opening and Grading of Roads. W. O. Jones has submitted the fol lowing: "The undersigned, a county highway superintendent, desires the use of your columns for the purpose of correction of misquotation and for the further purpose of a statement of his-position relative to the improvement and maintenance of township highways. "In the issue of your paper of January 21, 1915, there appeared an article entitled "The Road Tax Work, Etc., in which undersigned and County Treasurer Chamness were quoted at length. Previously there had been prepared by the county auditor and county treasurer compilations in comparison of expenditures in maintenance for previous years of both township and county highways and distinguished as such for the purpose of providing our state senators and representatives with such in their consideration of amendments or changes proposed to our present highway laws, as the same might, or might not, affect the local constituency. "A reporter came to the superintendent's office immediately after the receipt of this compilation and asked for an explanation of them. This explanation was given, Mr. Chamness, county treasurer, happening to be present at the time. In this conversation covering considerable time absolutely nothing was said in any wise reflecting upon any road supervisor or any farmer in Wayne County, in the working out of road taxes or in the expenditure of township road funds. There was, however, expressed the opinion of the writer in the condemnation of the present system of township road maintenance and repair, which neither directly nor indkctly, in his opinion, brought about an adequate return for the aggregate expenditure, and in this various illustrations were given illustrative of the evils of the system, and which are and have been recognized by township and county officials and tax payers generally for the period of years past. Denies Use of Word. "The writer specifically denies the use of the word "Graft" in any conversation with a reporter. The writer has absolutely no objection to being quoted, but must ask that he be quoted correctly. The writer further has no criticism to make or reflection to offer upon any road supervisor in this county, for he believes they are doing all the work they can for the compensation offered, in the time end under conditions permitted by statute. "Further, if you will permit, the writer desires to state his position relative to the improvement and repair of township highways. After several (Continued on Page Three.)

MELTING SNOW a

WRECKS WALLS OF HORSE BARN Roof of Chrisman Livery Sta ble Gives Way Under Heavy Burden of Water and Slush. . -: MACKE LOSES STOCK Water Drips Through The Shelves at Furnishing Store Shed Back ; of Frankel's Store Collapses. Thousands of dollars worth of prop erty was jeopardized yesterday and today when a steady rain fell and a most doubled the weight of the deepest snow which has covered Richmond for years. A partial collapse of the Chrisman livery barn on North Seventh street, resulted from the enormous weight on the roof. The north wall is partially caved In and the roof has settled to one side. The owner of the building, Charles Chrisman, will be at an expense of several hundred dollars In repairing the wall and replacing the roof, which will not have to be renewed, however. Fall Injures No One. The accident was a fortunate one in some ways. It happened yesterday morning when there were few persons about the libery barn and when the saloon was closed. In the downpour of water and snow which followed, no one was injured. The place is now in a dangerous condition but men are working on the roof in an effort to prevent further collapse. The roof lightened itself of much weight when the wall gave way. Frank Macke lost about $200 because of a frozen downspout which caused water to collect on the roof and finally find a crack in the wall by which it poured down two stories Into the store room and flooded the shelves on the east side of the slore. A quantity of shirts, underwear and collars were soaked by the dirty water. A Bhed in the rear of Sol Frankers clothing store collapsed entirely but gave Edward Hollars, night watchman at the Palais Royal a burglar scare first. Rear 8hed Collapses. i- Late Saturday-nght the crack of the 1 , 1 4.2 . - . euuiuug umoers were neara In Frankel's store and In the Palais Royal. After midnight the spraining of the timbers resembled the noise caused by a burglar using a Jimmy to open a window. Mr. Hollarn investigated on the outside and after finding no burglars came to the conclusion that the intruders were in the basement. Patrol, man Remmert was called and while the investigation was under way, the shed fell with a crash. The roof fell to the floor and the sides were flattened out. There was little in the shed to be damaged. The wreckage will be torn away and the shed replaced. Snow and ice slid from the roof of the high school to the skylight of the gymnasium smashed in several large pieces of glass and let water and snow on the gymnasium floor. Charles Jordan of the school board and Principal Pickell moved the apparatus so there was no damage. Damage to the skylight will be only a few dollars. The two men also opened the gutters on part of the old Garfield building roof. Ice has caused the water to back up and leak into several rooms. Leaks Through Roof. At the International Harvester conv pany on Fort Wayne avenue, some damage was caused by water which found a crack in the wall from, the roof to the basement and let the rain and melted snow make its way through the building. Streets were in bad condition as only a few residents took the trouble to open gutters. The sewers carried away what water reached them without being taxed. The city made no effort to clean away the slush which stood ankle deep at the crossings almost all over the city. Hundreds of roofs leaked yesterday and many citizens stayed home from church to shovel the heavy loads off the roofs and prevent damage. Nealy all drain pipes were frozen and the water was held on the roofs until they were opened. Country roads were softened and city streets were placed in bad condition to handle heavy hauling. About half the water was held by the slush and allowed to soak into the surface. On Main street which was bared today for the first time, many bricks have worked their way up and the city will be at some expense to repair the damage. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Cloudy weather with probably snow or rain tonight and Tuesday. Colder. Temperature Noon 42 Yesterday Maximum 43 Minimum 34 LOCAL Rain or snow. Colder to night and Tuesday. GENERAL Great area of low barometric pressure now covers most of the United States with rain, and snow and thunderstorms over Oklahoma. As the storm moves slowly eastward cloudy and unsettled weather will prevail for the next 36 hours with lower temperature. ? W. E. MOORE. Weather Fosecasten'

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