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QUAKERS HOPE TO TAKE HONOR AT ORATORICAL Fred HoIIowell Represents Earlham With Oration Rated as Best Work of His College Career.
WARD LONG SPEAKS Mrs. Vayhinger Classes Foes of Liquor as Heroes at Annual Collegiate Prohibition Contest. The annua! convention of the Indiana State Intercollegiate Prohibit ion association opened at Earlham college Friday evening with a program in the Earlham chapel, at which Mrs. Culla Vayhinger, president of the Indiana W. C. T. U. was the principal speaker. Her address was on the progress prohibition is making. The annual prohibition contest which has been entered by representatives from six colleges In the state, will be held at the Presbyterian church this evening. Fred T. Hollowell, is the Earlham representative. His oration will be on, "The Birthright of Civilization." Oration Rated High. DePauw, Butler, Taylor, Valparaiso and Wabash are the other colleges represented. The Earlham orator won the state peace contest two years ago and his oration for this contest is rated better than any of his former orations. The contest is held at the First Presbyterian church to be convenient for a large number of Richmond people who are expected to attend. The Richmond public is invited to attend. The program for the Initial meeting of the convention last evening opened with the invocation by President Robert L. Kelly. This was followed by the audience singing "America."'. The welcoming address was given by Garfield Cox, of Earlham, who won the 'state oratorical contest "last February. State President Ward W. Long, made the response and thanked the students and faculty of the college for the hospitality shown the delegates. Raps Liquor Traffic. "The one reason why the liquor question has not been solved is that while there is sentiment on the matter, there is little conviction. The prohibition cause is not to be apollgized for," said Mrs. Culla Vayhinger, president of the State W. C. T. U. "The men who are prominent in the cause of driving out the liquor traffic are just as great heroes as the heroes of the Civil war? The saloon is the only institution in the world that dares not let women and children have first place?" A temperance mass meeting addressed by Mrs. Culla Vayhinger, state W. C. T. U. president for twelve years, will be held Sunday afternoon at the Reld Memorial Presbyterian church. Rev. Hanna. acting pastor at the church will have charge of the devotional exercises. Rev. U. S. A. Bridge will introduce the speaker. The Reid church quartet will furnish the music. After the address several Richmond people will accompany the speaker to Milton where they will be entertained at supper. Mrs. Vayhinger will make an address at the Christian church in Milton at 7 o'clock. CONSPIRATORS LOSE HOPE IN OBTAINING BAIL "All Aboard for Leaven worth," Expected Sunday or Monday for Terre Haute Fraud Crowd. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. April 17. The flame of hope for freedom on bonds in the ranks of the imprisoned Terre Haute election conspirators apparently had dwindled into a flicker when Donn Roberts and the other long term men sat down to their bread, molasses and coffee this morning. "It looks like a trip to Leavenworth," gloomily remarked one of the three .men. ' Get the big ones out first, was the word passed out to the people who are endeavoring to get liberty for the convicted Terre Haute officias when noon arlved today without success. The big ones referred to are Mayor Roberta and Judge Redman. It was believed that with these on the outside their influence would be a great help in obtaining bond for the lesser lights. That the big ones were little nearer liberty was indicated by directions given by Roberts to his wife to see Frank Fox and get him to furnish $30,000, and then dig for the remainder. The time for the departure for Leavenworth for those confined here who failed to obtain bonds, has not been definitely fixed, but the opinion prevailed that "All aboard for Leavonworth" would be the call for either i Sunday " Monday.
"HEN ROOST CLUB" STAGES MUSICAL ACT
Cambridge City School Teachers Star in Friday Night Minstrel Cast. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., April 17. A musical evening formed the program at the meeting of the Friday night club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Scheidler, west of town. The entertainment was given by members of the Hen Roost club, the personnel of which was Prof. H. C. Kabel, Prof. J. T. Reese, Misses Leah Throckmorton, Mary Fisher, Rose Greisenger and little Misses Virginia Kabel and Pauline Kniese. Mrs. Charles Kniese at the piano, played a number of southern melodies. Prof. Reese took the role of president of the Hen Roost club, and Prof. Kabel, secretary, called the roll, and also impersonated the parson in characteristic style. Other features of the program 'were a suffraget song by the ladies of the club: a recitation in dialect by Miss Fisher; popular song, "De 'Possum an a Handsome Bird"; sole, Prof. Reese, "Who Stole de Ham?" duet, Misses Throckmorton and Fisher, and the closing ode, "Who Carved Dat Lovely Chicken?" by the club. BOBBINS READY TO PICK BOARD ON CENTENNIAL Representative Commission of Twelve or" Fifteen Persons Will Arrange Pro gram for Festival. AUTHORITY COMPLETE Governor Places Prof. Harlow Lindley on Committee to Plan - Celebration f or Stage's Birthday. Mayor Robblns said today that at council meeting next Monday night he would announce his selections as members of a commission which will have charge of making arrangements for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the city of Richmond, to be observed some time next year. "There will be not less than twelve members of this commission nor more than fifteen," Mayor Robbins said, "and they will be representative men and women who I know will take great interest in the work and who are thoroughly competent to arrange for a celebration all our citizens will be proud of." The local celebration next year will be of a two-fold nature, observing not only the founding of the city of Richmond but the one hundredth anniversary of Indiana's admission to the union as a state as well. , Names Prof. Lindley. Today Governor Ralston made public the state commissioners he had selected to arrange for an historical and educational celebration of Indiana's centennial. One of the eight commissioners is Prof. Harlow Lindley, head of the history department of Earlham college and director of the department of Indiana history and archives of the state library. Prof. Lindley is one of the best informed students of Indiana history in the state. The local commission in charge of arranging for the observance of Richmond's centennial will probably consult with Prof. Lind ley in regard to that part of the program of the local celebration devoted to the observance of the state's one hundredth birthday. The commissioners to be appointed by Mayor Robbins will have complete authority in arranging the program for the celebration and in carrying it out. The commissioners will appoint var ious sub-committees to assist them in their work and it is expected that by next fall tentative plans for the big event will have been formulated. City council next September is to make a liberal appropriation to be used as the nucleus of a centennial celebration fund. The rest of this fund will be raised by popular subscription. PENNSY WILL BUY $20,000,000 WORTH OF GAR MATERIAL PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 17 The Pennsylvania railroad went into the market today for $20,000,000 worth of equipment and for material for cars and locomotives which It will build in its own shops. This Is the first equipment buying of any magnitude by the road in more than a year. The company now plans to build 144 locomotives in its shops at Altoona. Sida will be requested for the material to build these. The program calls for 146 all steel passenger cars. Bids also will be asked on 1,744 freight cars which the company plans to have built by outside companies and on material for 2,102 freight cars to be built at Altoona, as wtU as 56 passenger cars t be built at Altoona,
Kaiser Inspects War Monster; New Howitzer Shoots 32 Miles
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T' 'TKeTJalier's TETlgfit -Legged Boot" is shown herewith, the monster eight barreled howitzer which can shoot 32 miles, especially designed to fire projectiles across the English channel from Calais to Dover, to protect German landing parties. - The gun-weighs 159 tons and fires its eight projectiles in "bouquets." The Kaiser; is shown inspecting, the monster, the latest product of the Krupp plant at Essen. The ruler of the Germans is pointing and is standing next to the standard.
NICHOLAS SHOT BY HIS GENERAL BERLIN CLAIMS BERLIN, April 17. Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Russian army, who is reported to be ill, was in reality shot .by one of his generals, who later commited suicide, it is stated by the newspaper General Anzeiger. The paper says: "It is learned from an . authentic source that the reported sickness of Grand Duke Nicholas is due to a wound in the adbomen, the bullet being fired by the late General Seivers, commander of the Ten Russian army, which was defeated by the Germans. The grand duke summoned General Seivers to explain his defeat, and in the heated parley which followed, the Russian commander struck the general. General Seivers then drew his pistol and wounded Grand Duke Nicholas, after which he turned the weapon on himself, committing suicide. The fact that General Seivers killed himself was not learned until after he was buried. GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS HOPES TO END STRIKE CHICAGO, April 17 Gov. Dunne was expected to arrive in Chicago today to spend the entire day in trying to bring the warring factions of capital and labor together and avert a disastrous strike of the building trades union. With 13,000 carpenters on a strike, demanding 70 cents an hour or locked out by. their employers, and fully 125,000 other members of the building trades organizations forced into idleness, Governor Dunne had mapped out a program which he hoped would terminate the labor battle and permit the resumption of work on $20,000,000 worth of buildings now under construction in Chicago. AGED MAN SUES WIFE FOR DIVORCE Tottering with infirmities, Jacob E. Weiss of Milton, made bis way to the witness stand yesterday afternoon and testified against bis aged wife, from whom be is seeking a divorce. 1 Weis3 is eighty years old and his wife is 6ixty-nine, according to their testimony.. It is understood Weiss wants the divorce to settle some property disputes. Weiss tumbled frequently in his testimony and was confused. He made charges in his divorce complaint of events which took place thirty years ago. Arguments on the case started at 2 o'clock this afternoon in circuit court. Mrs. WeisB appeared to testify but made no attempt to fight the divorce.
FRIENDS NAME CITY FOR MEN'S MEETING A tentative date for the national men's conference of the Friends church, which originated with S. E. Nicholson, editor of the American Friend, has been set to conform with the dates of the annual meetings of boards of the five years meeting in October. The men's conference will be held in Richmond and only the date remains a matter of question. It is understood there is a sentiment for various reasons to have the men's conference here at the time the church boards hold their annual meeting. UNITED STATES ORDERS PROBE OF JAP ACTIVITY WASHINGTON, April 17 The cruiser New Orleans today was ordered by Secretary Daniels to proceed from San Diego to Mazatlan to investigate reports relative to the Japanese operations at Turtle bay on the coast of Lower California. The New Orleans was directed to report by wireless to Admiral Howard the number and names of Japanese warships in the bay and what their activities are. SET POMERANZ CASE FOR TRIAL APRIL 27 Attorney and Wealthy Father of Grand Leader Employe Plan Defense. Ben Pomeranz, who has been employed as a floor walker at the Grand Leader department store and who was implicated by Mrs. Fairy Neher in some of her wholesale thefts from that concern, will be arraigned - for trial in city court Tuesday, April 27, on a charge of petit larceny. Pomeranz entered a plea of not guilty yesterday. He has been released on bond ot $300 ; provided by his father, A. Pomeranz of South Bend, Ind. , The elder Pomeranz accompanied by Mr. Hagerty, a prominent South Bend attorney and politician, arrived in the city today. A. Pomeranz is said to be a well-to-do merchant and he' is much grieved over the charge which has , been preferred against his son. Mr. Hagerty asked that the trial of the case be postponed until April 27. During the last - session . of the . legislature he represented St." Joseph county in the lower house.
HEAR BARNES CASE AGAINST EX-PRESIDENT
SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 17 Today the stage is set in Syracuse for perhaps the most bitter political battle in the history of the Empire state. On July 22, 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, then leader of the Progressive party saw fit to accuse William Barnes, Jr., chairman of the state committee of being a grafter, corruptionist and other things like that. Barnes, perhaps the best known boss in the country, retaliated by sueing the former president for $50,000. Roosevelt answered by filing a. bill of particulars giving the instances when Barnes was corrupt and appended a statement that he never said anything he could not back up. Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Barnes are expected to arrive tomorrow. Many witnesses have been summoned for each side. The Roosevelt evidence is supposed to go to show, among other things, that members of the Lincoln league were henchmen of Barnes and that when the boss failed to get them state appointments they supported themselves by levying tribute from the underworld at Albany and by be coming dealers in the gambling re sorts of the capital. Among other linen washings that the suit is expected to bring out is the alleged combination of William Barnes and Charles Murphy, boss of Tammany, whereby William Sheenan was ditched and James O'Gorman was elected United States senator. Roosevelt will allege that Barnes and Murphy made the deal between them. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Sunday; rising temperature. Temperature. Noon 53 Yesterday Maximum ........................ 69 Minimum .. 42 FOR RICHMOND Fair tonight Sunday fair and warmer with Increasing cloudiness. Warmer Monday. GENERAL CONDITIONS The cool wave over the Great Lakes caused the fall in temperature over Eastern Indiana and Ohio, but warm weather prevails west of the Mississippi. Temperatures will begin to rise by Sunday. The storm in the southwest is causing rain in parts of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. . W, E. Moore, weather-forecaster.
MAKES CITY CENTER FOR ELECTRIC POWER
Economy and Other Towns Look to Richmond to Supply Current Fingers of the Light, Heat and Power company, the wires sending current to surrounding towns, may extend themselves northward. Citizens of Economy, Chester, Fountain City, Williamsburg, Greensfork and other small towns are making an effort to have local curent brought to their townB and the matter was brought to the attention of the Liberty Light and Power company today. The Liberty Light and Power company is now suppying Liberty and College Corner to the south and New Paris to the east. Lines are being set to Brookville. Yesterday the Rheinheimer quarries at New Paris contracted for electrical equipment which will replace its steam outfit. This will require power equal to the biggest factory in Richmond.' - The power for the Liberty Light and Power company is supplied by the Light, Heat and Power company, thus giving Richmond the possibility of becoming a center of supply and distribution for electrical current and power. WOMAN'S MIND RETURNS AFTER CELESTIAL TRIP Mrs. Harmon Removed From Pennsylvania Train in a Comatose State Recovers From Religious Trance. MOTHER GIVES KEY Member of Holiness Workers Failed to Regain Normal Condition Before Arrival at Dayton. The mystery concerning Mrs. Delia Harmon, who has been in a semicomatose state at Reid Memorial hospital ever since 6he was taken from a Pennsylvania train ten days ago, has at last been solved. She has been in a trance. When Mrs. Harmon joined the Holiness workers, a peculiar and fanatical religious sect, at New Martinsville, W. Va., one of the first things the brothers and sisters taught her to do was to divorce her mind from her body as she willed, permitting the mind to wander with gladsome freedom into the realms of space, where the harmony of spheres sounds sweetly. But, it appears, Mrs. Harmon forgot the combination necessary to bring the wandering mind back to her lonesome body, the first time she attempted the stunt on a train en route to Dayton, Ohio. When the train reached her destination she was apparently in an uncon scious state, and upon arriving in Richmond the perplexed conductor deContinued On Page Eight. MAYOR LENDS MORAL FORCE TO VISITATION Home visitation which is being con ducted by J. Shreve Durham in this city with the co-operation of pastors and business men of the city has received the endorsement of Mayor Robbins who has issued the following proclamation: April 16. 1915, To the People of Richmond: The Richmond Home Visitation, embracing persons of every religious faith and denomination, will on the afternoon of Thursday, April 22, 1915, between the hours of two and four o'clock visit every home in Richmond for a Religious Home Visitation canvass. This systematic visitation is endorsed, I believe, by representatives of every known religious faith and de nomination, and is therefore non-sectarian and interdenominational. It is a movement in which all people, without regard to creed or denomination, have united. I believe that a movement of this systematic character and brotherly spirit for general betterment will commend itself to all of our citizens, and I therefore recommend it publicly, to the attention of the . people of Richmond, as worthy of their support and cooperation. WM. J. ROBBINS. Mayor of Richmond. Tomorrow from all the pulpits of the city, pastors will call for volunteers to take part In the two-hour campain which is to cover the entire city, reachin each home and placin In it an invitation to attend church. Statistics concerning the religious preferences of citizens will also be collected at this time to be turned over to pastors at a later date.
THIRD ATTACK ! REPORTED FROM 7 SUFFOLK COAST Wave of Terror Spreads Over England as German Aviators Begin to Edge Nearer to London.
WARNINGS SENT OUT British Critics Believe Teutons are Spying Out Location of Arsenals and Military Depots. BY HERBERT TEMPLE, LONDON, April 17. A third German air raid within twenty-four hours was reported from Suffolk and Essex on the North Sea coast early today. Seven bombs were reported to have been dropped near Colchester, while a, German air raider, probably a Zeppelin, was reported to have been seen at Felix-Sloe one of the places attacked Friday morning. The damage of all raids is estimated at $100,000. While no fatalities resulted from the latest burst of German aerial activity over Eastern England, the dairing raid of Zeppelins northeast of London yesterday morning followed by the , bold daylight attack by German aeroplanes southeast of London in the , afternoon are causing an unparalleled j wave of terror. -Fear Night Raid. ' The expected attack on London did i not develop last night, but extraordinary precautions have been ordered by Secretary of War Kitchener, for the German aircraft are edging nearer and nearer to this city. Stong warnings were issued to the people of London by the newspapers, especially the Time, to take every precaution possible. Look for Arsenals. Belief was expressed in official circles that the raids on Friday were for the purpose-of spying out the location of British arsenals, artillery depots and naval stations for the real big raid that is to follow later. The most important of the British naval dock yards for the building and repairing of ships, are at Devonport, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Chatham, all on the south and southwestern coast of England, and accessible tp German aircraft. The Yarrow torpedo works, one of the most important armament factories in the United Kingdom, is on the Thames, between the sea and London. Shiswick and Thornecroft, where there are important torpedo boat destroyer yards, are also on the Thames. The great Woolwich arsenal, the biggest in England, is south of London, not from the scene of yesterday's aerial activity. HURTY ADVISES HEALTH SURVEY TAKENAT ONCE Club Federation Asks for General Appeal From Societies and Officials for Expert's Services. A letter received by the Commercial club today from Dr. Hurty at Indianapolis, urged the health committee of the club to make arrangements to bring a government man here for a ninety day survey of the city. Dr. Hurty set forth his reasons for wanting the survey made here In two closely written pages in which he said be wanted this city to be the prime mover along those lines in Indiana since interest has been aroused to a high state by the visit of Dr. Cofer, assistant surgeon general of the United States health bureau. The Commercial club public health, committee will hold a meeting Tuesday to study the contents of the letter and decide what action shall be taken along the lines directed. - At a meeting of the special commits tee appointed by the Women's Feder a ted Clubs it was decided to ask the city officials, the medical society, the anti-tuberculosis society and the Commercial club to send telegrams to Surgeon General Blue of the Department of Public Health at Washington to urge that a special representative ot that department be sent to Richmond to make a health survey of the city. The committee believed that If the department of Public Health is assured of the co-operation It will act favorably in the matter. Dr. Cofer! stated that he would ask the government to make this survey so. that this community could be used as an example as to what might be done in every state. Dr. Hurty has also made the' request to the government office and stated that the work In Richmond' will have the full co-operation ot the state health officers. ; - SCHOOL TERM ENDS. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., April 17.-: Miss Evelyn Hayes, teacher at the" Kiser school, north of town, will enter Hfnnofjk KAnnal turn ttt& mwml one week from Monday. . J