Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 132, 15 April 1915 — Page 1

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AGED CITIZENS RECALL GRIEF EXHIBITED HERE Public Meeting: Adopts Resolution Mourning Death of Liberator and Condemning Author of Foul Deed. WHOLE CITY MOURNS Col. Bickle Denounces Booth and Calls Upon Authorities to Visit Severe Punishment on Assassin. Fifty years ago today Abraham Lincoln died from the effects of a pistol hot wound Inflicted by John Wilkes Booth. News of his death plunged Richmond Into grief. The Palladium in. Us issue for this week fifty years ago was printed with black column rules and gives the following account of the manner in which Richmond re ceived the sad news: "When the sad news of the assassi nation of President Lincoln reached this city, all business was suspended, stores and shops were closed, flags displayed at half-mast, bells tolled. and. the doors of business places and private residences were bung with mourning. Many persons - appeared upon the streets, and the deepest feelJiUUKJk jaanifealed. la the. alter noon J a large meeting of the eitlsens assembled at Starr hall. On motion Dr. Lewis Burk was called to the chair and L. . D. Stubbs, Esq., was chosen secretary. "Prayer was offered by the Rev. A. Aten. On motion a committee was appointed, consisting of Jesse P. Siddall, George Holland. Daniel B. Crawford, John Yaryan and William O. Scott to draft resolutions in reference to the sentiment of the meeting. After the retirement of the committee the Rev. Mr. Chapman being called, made some appropriate and impressive remarks." Report of Committee. . The resolutions committee in part reported: "Whereas we have just received the afflicting intelligence of the death of President Lincoln: "Therefore be it resolved that in the death of President Lincoln the nation mourns the loss of Its wisest pilot and of its truest friend. "That while to George Washington we award the proud honor of being the author of our united liberty, the history of the past four years unmistakably marks Abraham Lincoln as the great restorer of these liberties. "That so foul an act demands the rigorous punishment of the author, whether that be one individual, or the result of organized effort, but even in the midst of our grief we deprecate any wanton or lawless acts of violence on the mere grounds of suspicion." Blekle'a Resolution. After the unanimous adoption of this resolution, the following preamble and resolutions offered by Col. Bickle. were received with much approbation: "Whereas intelligence has reached us of the assassination of President Lincoln by the most fiendish and diabolical act of cruelty and hellish ingratitude, which the heart of traitorous fiend in human shape could conceive, and whereas, by this act, the United States, In the midst of rejoicing for the triumph of the union over anarchy, liberty over slavery, equal and just laws over haughty aristocracy and oppression, peace, good will and equality over bloody strife, hatred and insolent domineering, have been called to mourn in unutterable grief the sudden fall of a great and good man, who led by the oracles of God and the teachings of pure religion, tempered justice with mercy, benevolence with duty, forbearance with necessity, and in all things exhibited a humanity as sincere and pervading as his patriotism was pure and unsel- . fish, and "Whereas, all our sympathies and sufferings, our pity and endurance, our liberality and commiseration, have by this one fell stroke- of brutal ingratitude and treachery been set at naught with the same scornful disregard of national clemency, as was exhibited in the traitorous blow, struck at national unity. Guard Against Traitors. "Therefore, Resolved that we recognize in this deep calamity the same providence of Ood which we devoutly believe has guided, us in our national struggles, admonishing us to be on our guard against traitors, whether confronting us in the field or sheltered under our hospitality, who have thus demonstrated .that malignity is their entlment and vengeance is their motContlnued On Page-Nine.

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BECK LOWERS FLAG IN LINCOLN'S HONOR At 6:15 o'clock this morning, Postmaster Beck loosed the rope and lowered the post office flag to half staff in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln and in response to President Wilson's proclamation requiring federal buildings to carry . the national standard at half staff. In the schools today, special mention was made of Lincoln and history and stories concerning his assassination were reviewed. There was more Bpirit in the anniversary than was displayed in former years. FARMERS TO PLANT CORN WEEKS EARLY Recent Rains Enable Work on Farms to Progress Rapidly. Recent rains have made ideal conditions in the country and local farmers are prophesying the early planting of a large acreage of corn. So much plowing has been done already that the majority of . farmers are at least six weeks ahead of time in their spring work,, and little remains to be done in preparation for corn planting, but the final harrowing and dragging to pulverize and level the seed bed. There are those who argue that early planted corn is too great a risk, and often falls -victim to late ' frosts, and the attacks of early broods of insect pests, but when the ground is ready and the sun shining brightly every day the-, temptation -to-vstralrjrtoo rwrti and the seed Is planted. .-' The early planted crop: has this advantage, that the plants make a good growth, and are firmly rooted before there is any danger from drouth and excessive hot weather.

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On their last raid against Paris Zeppelin dirigibles made their best stroke of the war so far. They wrecked factories in which night work on munitions of war was being done. The upper picture shows the havoc wrought at the Martin factory in Courberoie, a Paris suburb.. . In tho same

BONDS REMAIN AS SET DOWN BYANDERSON Hearing in Chicago Featured by Clashes Between District Attorney Dailey and - Ex-Judge Robey.

SHEA RECONCILED CHICAGO, i April 15 Judge ; C.: C. Kohlsaat in the United States Court of Appeals today denied the motion of attorney for Donn M. Roberts and eleven other election conspirators for a reduction of the bend fixed -by Federal Judge Anderson at Indianapolis. - Anderson fixed the bail at $1,000 for each , year of prison sentence pending their appeal of the case. . The hearing was featured by clashes between District Attorney Dailey and ex-Judge Robey. The former denounced the Terre Haute gang as wholly disreputable, while Roby endeavored to defend their respectability and said they were in jail only because exorbitant bonds were demanded. SHEA TO SERVE TERM. INDIANAPOLIS, April 15. The de cision today of Dennis Shea, former sheriff of Vigo county and under sentence of five years in prison for election conspiracy to drop his appeal from the federal coure decision and serve his term, left but eleven -of the orig inal nineteen to continue their battle for freedom. , Shea reached . his decision upon receipt of word that his brother John Shea bad been appointed his successor by the yigo : county commissioners. It was rumored that other appealers in the Marlon county, jail are showing signs of weakening and that strong pressure Is being brought to keep- them from doing so. -. v . ? -, .5 Another report was to the effect that Edward Driscoll who withdrew his appeal Tuesday and was sent to jail is contemplating the cancellation of his withdrawal. raid bombs were dropped on the. fine home In the Place Cormeilles at Leval-lois-Perret, near Paris, as shown below. The interior was completely wrecked. The French minimized the effects of the raid, but expelled a Swiss newspaper correspondent who wrote an article for a German news-

BIG PARADE OF ELKS FORGASTS BIG SHOW ; One! hundred, and seventy-five members of Richmond lodge of ' Elks participated in 'the; parade at noon today that gave official announcement of tonight annual minstrel performance at the Gennett. It was perhaps the most pretentious street ' para.de j ever "put on" by a local organization on such an'ocasion. , 1 -- Fifteen hundred . gas balloons in scores of shades and hues,' were carried in clusters by the marchers, and were released at frequent intervals to the great' delight of the children who were along the line of march. - Several automobiles headed the parade, and two bands of music added zest to the affair. At both tonight and tomorrow night's '' performances . the audiences will be large. ' ' RUSSIAN ATTEMPTS TO INVADE HUNGARY FOILED BY TEUTONS I Berlin Claims Advances Stop While Petrograd Reports Counter Attacks of Teutons Fall Down. BERLIN, April . 15. Today's report from the general staff was brief and reported no important events except the failure of the Isolated French attacks on Wednesday. The following report "from the German general staff, covering the Carpathian operations up to April 12, was issued here today: "The Russian attempt to force an invasion of Hungary by using the Przemyst . siege army has failed. An attempt to invade by way of - Lupkow heights, east of Dukla pass, was similarly unsuccessful. "Since; the Russian attacks at Czertoec and' Mezo Laborecz were definitely checked, the enemy has been attack Ingmore to thestwar4. The Russians wertj also-repulsed hear Kotiowa with, heavy losses. "Visibly exhausted by these continued losses and under pressure along their entire front, the Russians have stopped their attempted advance. ( paper describing tne terror caused by the big gas bags over the city. .. ... To the left is Count Zeppelin's lat est photograph. The inventor has been working on balloons since Ameri can Civil. War days, when he made an ascension in the United States, but he continues hale and energetic.

PREACHER'S DAUGHTER STEALS GOODS TO LOOK PRETTY ON SALARY OF $5, WEEKLY STIPEND PAID BY EMPLOYER

FORGES CHECKS TO GET MONEY FOR MARRIAGE Alfonso Wolfe, Kidnapped by J. C. Thomas and Brought Across State Line, Confesses to Chief. constable gets ride Hollansburg , Officer and Prisoner Hang to Oil Tank of Speeding Test Car Thomas Reads Warrant. Chief Goodwin, seated in his office looking out of a window, laughed heartily yesterday afternoon when a test car stopped in front of headquarters. From off their precarious seats on the oil tank stepped Constable Harve Hamilton of Hollansburg, O., wearing a large nickle-plated badge, and a frightened looking man whom the Ohio officer held tightly. At the same time the driver and the two occupants of the front seat, Sam Fred, a Main street merchant, and J. C. Thomas, an employe of the Fox clothing store, disembarked. Surrounding the frightened looking Individual they marched him into the chief's office and announced their captive as a forger, having passed one bogus check for $25 on Fred, and an other one for $28 on Fox. The captive gave his name as Alfonso Wolfe, residing near Hollansburg. He insisted for some time that bis captors had seized upon the wrong man, but after an hour or two of solitary contemplation in a cell he confessed to having passed the two forged checkB. Later it was learned that Wolfe turned forger for the purpose of marContinued On Page Three. TELEPHONE AROUSES FAMILY THREATENED BY BURNING STABLE Unconscious of a raging fire within a short distance of them, the family of M. S. Howells, tenants on the James White farm three miles west of New Paris, owned by Dr. C. W. Connelly of Eaton, slept while the flames from a fire in the barn swept toward the bouse. They were awakened by telephone when William B Reid living five miles east of the fire saw the flames and called the family. The barn and contents is a total loss. The origin of the fire, discover ed at 12:30 o'clock this morning, is a mystery and the fire had gained such headway when help arrived that it was impossible to find any evidence. The barn is one of the old fashioned bank barns built with heavy timbers. The old wood and the loft of hay and straw made one of the biggest blazes persons living in that vicinity could remember. All the live stock and farming implements were lost. The live stock in cluded five cows, six horses, seven pigs and one hog. Two cows were re moved from the barn so badly blister ed that they were shot. Effort of fire fighters who arrived too late to save the barn were directed towards saving the house which was In the past of a long tongue of flame fanned by the wind. Dr. Connelly, the owner, carried, insurance on the build ing and contents. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Friday. Warmer eaatand central nortion tonight. For Richmond Partly cloudy to night and Friday, warmer. Temperature. Noon - 56 Yesterday. Maximum 57 Minimum .... 30 GENERAL CONDITIONS The area of high barometric pressure and cool weather has remained practically sta tionary during the last twenty-four hours, delaying the warm wave which is now west of the Mississippi. Warm weather is within three hundred miles of Richmond and should reach here during the next thirty-six hours, with high temperatures. High temperatures continue throughout the Middle West with 80 degrees in South Dakota. W. E. Moore, Weather Forecaster.

Mrs. Fairy Neher, Daughter

Brethren Church, Dayton, Abandoned by Husband, Tries to Make Living Working in Local Store on Small SalarySteals Wearing Apparel in Order to Dress Becomingly Takes Loot Out of Store in Stockings.

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Manager of Store Notices Loss of Silk and Accuses Woman Search of Trunk Reveals Missing Articles and Manager Turns Girl Over to Police Father Heart Broken and Girl in Distress Over Action Charge of Petit Larceny Preferred Against Prisoner Father Visits Her.

"I like pretty clothes," sobbed Mrs. Fairy Neher, employed as a saleswoman at a Main street dry goods store, her wages being $5 a week, after her arrest yesterday afternoon on a charge of having stolen from the firm during the past nine weeks various articles of clothing and other things dear to a woman's heart, of the invoiced value of $218. The young woman, who is 26 years old, was deserted by her husband, Louis M. Neher,intil recently a resident of this city, about three weeks ago. A few weeks' prior to his desertion she accepted employment as a saleswoman because, she said, her husband would not support her. She has lived in Richmond about a year. t Mrs. Neher is the daughter of a

ZEPPELIN TRIES TO DROP BOMBS ON SHIP YARDS Approaches Within Few Miles of New Castle But Guns Frighten Away Daring Invader. LONDON, April 15 Successful evading of a squadron of ten British military aeroplanes speeding in pursuit, the German Zeppelin which attacked towns in the industrial district about New Castle last night dashed out over the North Sea. It is believed here that the purpose of the raid was to attack the Armstrong Works at New Castle on Tyne. Here many British warships are constructed and the plant baa been working twenty four hours a day since the war began. The Zeppelin, however, failed to each New Castle. After pass ing over Seaton, a few miles from New castle, it turned south across the Tyne. The fact that the air ship was fired upon at Blyth and Carmlington is believed to have convinced its commander that any attempt to make a successful attack upon New Castle would be hopeless. AIRSHIP IN TREES. AMSTERDAM, April 15. A Sluis dispatch reports that a German air ship, probably a Zeppelin, has been caught in the trees at Aalterburg and has been fired upon by troops of tne allies. Some of the crew are said to have been killed. TORPEDO STEAMSHIP. LONDON, April 15. The British steamship Ptarmigan, of the General Steam Navigation company was torpedoed by a German submarine in the North Sea today. Advices today stated that eleven members of her crew were saved. The Ptarmigan was 784 tons. PELTZ PARKS AUTO; POLICE GUARD P. 0. When Joseph Peltz, a rural route carrier, decided to park his automobile In the post office driveway last night, he stirred the police to action and unconsciously caused a robbery scare. Peltz drove his machine to its Siace and jumped out, starting down rorth Ninth street on a run. A policeman saw him and summoned another 'policeman. With revolvers drawn, the$ approached the building and at the same time, another pedestrian passed through the alley in the rear of the post officeSeveral other policemen were summoned and Clarence Zeyen, a post office clerk who was working alone at the time was notified of the suspected peril of the government funds. After an all night vigil, it was learned early this morning that there was no cause for alarm.

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GOODS FIXED AT $218 I prominent resident of New -Carlisle, O., the Rev. Harrie C. Funderberg, who is associate elder of the First Brethren church of Dayton. O. Mrs. Neher's seven-year-old daughter has been living with her patents for some time. Since her husband deserted her Mrs. Neher has been living at a boarding house at 214 North Ninth street. She was taken Into custody In her room at this house. Father In Tears. The Rev. Funderberg arrived in this city this morning, heart broken over his daughter's predicament. He was weeping when he called to see Chief Goodwin and Prosecutor Reller. He said he did not know what caused his daughter to take things which did not belong to her as she had had Christian training and had never been in trouble before. He said he did not ask clemency for her and would accept without protest what ever disposition the authorities made of her case. The Rev. Funderberg learned for the first time today that his daughter had been deserted by her husband. He said she had been writing him that she was getting along fine In Richmond and never mentioned in her letters that she had been having trouble with her husband. Secreted in Stocking. Mrs. Neher said that she smuggled out stolen articles from the store where she worked by placing them in her stockings. Included in the long list of things taken by the young woman were dresses, dress goods,- corset covers, underskirts, stockings, shirt waists, pocket books, toilet articles and other things too numerous to mention. Most of them were found in her room. After admitting her thefts when taken to her room by the manager of the store and Officer Vogelsong Mrs. Neher sobbed convulsively for a time. "Why did you take these things?" Officer Vogelsong inquired. Wants Nice Things. "I wanted to wear nice things like the other girls," the $5 a week saleswoman cried.' "My husband wouldn't give me money and I went to work to support myself, but I didn't have much to spend on clothes. I also took clothes so that I would have plenty to wear if I ever got out of work.' The manager of the store where the young woman worked had been trying for some time to ascertain what-employe had been stealing: - Yesterday the last strip of a piece of silk disappeared and upon investigation it was found that Mrs.- Neher had handled it last. He asked her to leave the store oS some pretext. - She accompanied hi and(he then told her the police were' going to search her room. She said that was satisfactory to her.- After she had. opened her trunk and two or three missing- articles had been removed she broke down and confessed. As the articles- stolen -were taken by the girl at- - various times - a - grand larceny charge cannot be preferred against her- as - no single - article is valued in excess of $25. She has been slated, on a charge of petit larceny. , CHECK OFFENSIVE - MOVE. PETROGRAD. April 15. The Anstro German of ensive northeast of Ussok pasB has been completely smashed, the Russian war-affice announced today. In terrific counter asaults on Tuesday and Wednesday the attacking Teutonic troops suffered terrible loss.