Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 49, 7 January 1916 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1916 .

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PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS TO COME HERE

Hoping to forestall any possible effort to induce 'the Wayne county Progressive central committee to go on record as being opposed to placing a Progressive ticket in the field this year. State Chairman Edwin M Lee, of Indianapolis, and District Chairman Roberts, of Greenfield, will attend the committee meeting to be held tomor row afternoon. These two party leaders will urge immediate organization for the pri mary campaign and the nomination of a strong ticket. , It is generally understood , that sentiment among the committee members for and against such action is about evenly divided and a very lively meeting is anticipated. Since the supreme court has ruled that Progressives can participate at the Republican primary next March sentiment in favor of not putting out a Progressive county ticket this year has greatly Increased. Some Progressive leaders base their advocacy of disbanding the Progressive county organization on their objections to the candidacy of J. Frank Hanly for the Progressive- gubernatorial nomination. MYSTEROUS BLAZE RAZES STORAGE SHED A barn owned by Dr. C. A. Peterson, 35 South Tenth street, in the rear of his residence, was practically destroyed by fire about 1 o'clock this morning. Origin of the blaze is not known, possibly resulting from a trash fire in the. alley yesterday afternoon. Wood alcohol and gasoline kept in the barn caused the flames to spread rapidly. Until recently Dr. Peterson kept his automobile in the '!' '.rn. Lately it has been used mostly for storage. The total loss resulting from the fire wijl not exceed $200. Just betore the blaze was extinguished sparks started a fire on the room of an adjoining residence but this blaze was put out without any damage being done. OFFICERS RE-ELECTED All former officers of the Swayne, Robinson company were re-elected at tho annual meeting yesterday. S. E. Swayne was elected president and treasurer; II. It, Itobinson, vice president and superintendent; W. P. Robinson, secretary. Miller and Kemper company secured the contract for building a new foundry ou North Second street The work ia to be com pleted so that, the foundry will be ready for occupancy by March 1. DEFENSE PROGRAM FOUGHT BY FRIENDS Members of the Society of Friends here have received copies of "A Mef mortal to the Members of the Senate and House of Congress" from the. Philadelphia Society of Friends, which asks all Friends co-operate in expressing disapproval to senators and representatives of the preparedness plans. The pamphlets contain the following reasons why all Friends should unite in opposing the propaganda : "We are already defended geographically. "The people of the United States are a composite people of many racial strains. The international bonds pledge good will. "The terrible war now in progress is exhausting the strength of the noncombatants. "A policy of military expansion on a grand scale will commit the United States to militarism. "The great war is abundant proof that great, armaments are not a protection against attack." Seventy-five steps a minute is the average walking pace of a healthy man or woman.

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Powerful British Wonian Exerts Uncanny Influence on Politics

Mrs. Herbert J. Asquith, the most influential woman in London, who is credited -with engineering the withdrawal from Gallipoli; and (left to right) Lord Haldane, whom Mrs. Asquith is said to have made Lord Chancellor; Ralph D. Blumenfeld, the American who has become a Britisher and a London journalist and has just been defeated when Mrs. Asquith sued his newspaper, the Globe; and Harold Tennant, brother-in-law of Mrs. Asquith and Under Secretary of State for War, who offered a persecuted Englishwoman of German birth and her daughter places in the War Office, thus carrying out the Asquith policy of refusing to bait the Germans.

COMPLAINT COVERS LIST QF INJURE In the complaint filed by Mrs. Harriet Spekenhier against William Kinder, of Centerville and the Central Auto agents, of Richmond, asking for $10,000 damages as the result of an accident at Tenth and Main streets in October, 1915, she alleges that her injuries are of the most serious nature. They consist of a broken right arm, two fractured ribs, fractured nose, paralysis of the facial muscles and severe cuts and bruises about the head and shoulders. The plaintiff alleges further that Kinder, who was driving the car, was on the wrong side of the street, and that he had evidently become confused with the brakes and levers of the car. MAYHEW LOSES PET. Clarence Mayhew is mourning the death of Caesar, a Boston terrier, which has been his almost constant companion for ten years. Caesar was taken ill with pneumonia and although given the best of medical care, the veterinary declared mat there was no chance to save his life. Rnther than see the animal suffer, Mr. Mayhew had him chloroformed. AWAIT BOY SCOUT CAR. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 7. Boy Scouts of Indianapolis, are eagerly looking forward to the coming of the American Red Cross car, Jan. 8. The car will be, here two days and the Scouts will be given first aid lessons. AGENTS VISIT CITY. Ira F. Schwegel, central passenger agent for the Louisville & Nashville railroad, and C. D. Harper, tr. vel'ng passenger agent for the Soo Line, were in town today on business.

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Deaths and Funerals. BROHMAN -Funeral services for Frederick Brohman will be held at 1 o'clock Monday from the residence, and from St. John's Lutheran church at 2 o'clock. Rev. A. J. Feeger will have charge. Friendr may call Sunday. Please omit flowers. SELL The funeral of Frank Sell will be held at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the home, 122 South Eighth street. Interment will be at Abington. P'riends may call at any time. RODENBERG Funeral services for Henry Rodenberg will be held at 1:30 o'clock C'unday from the residence and at 2 o'clock from St. John's Lutheran church. Rev. A. J. Feeger will have charge. BMends may call at any time, but are requested to omit flowers. LA MARTINE Mrs. Frances La Martine, "3, 2209 North F street, died Thursday night at Reid Memorial hospital from heart disease. She is survived by two sons and two daughters. Funeral services will- be held in Cincinnati Monday, where the burial will take place. The funeral will be private. Cincinnati and Dayton papers please copy. IIARDWICK Mrs. Catherine Hardwick, age 45, 224 Charles street, died Thursday night from dropsy. She is survived by her husband, Albert Hardwlek, and one son. Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock Monday at St. Mary's church, with Father Cronin officiating. Interment will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call at any time. NELSON Mrs. Mary Jane Nelson, 67 years, wife of William B. Nelson, died Thursday afternoon from a complication of diseases. She is survived by her husband, three sons and three daughters. They are Mrs. George Rummel, 224 North Twentieth street, at whose home she died; Mrs. Henry Crockett, Cambridge City; Mrs. Chas. Loring, Frank Nelson and Charles

Nelson, Indianapolis, and Clarence Nelson, city. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday from the residence. Interment at Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time.

PRE-NUPTIAL PACT DISTRIBUTES ESTATE Through a pre-nuptial agreement, Daniel Moss, 136 South Eleventh street, will receive one-third of the estate of his wife, Hannah B. Moss deceased, according to the petition filed in circuit court asking for the appraisement of the property for the purpose of fixing the inheritance tax rate. William G. Bennett, a son of Mrs. Moss, will receive twr thirds of the estate and $2,000 in money. He is also appointed executor of the estate. Joseph W. Bennett, a son, will receive $150; Belle Hannis, daughter, will receive all the personal property not included in the disposition to the other legatees. Artelissa Bennett, granddr. lighter, will receive all of the jewelry owned by Mrs. Moss. APPEALS FOR GOAL DECLINE ONE THIRD Despite the cold weather of the past week, the calls for relief at the oLice of Township Trustee Edgerton hrve not increased but are fewer In number than last year. More men employed in the city is the reason assigned by Mr. Edgerton for the present condition. The average calls for coal are ten a day, while last year an aver of fifteen a day was made. At least fifteen orders for groceries are issued every day ty. Mr. Edgerton, while last year the average was more than twentyfive. --By Tad

SHERIFF RELEASED

WHEN MOTHER DIES Yesterday afternoon Elmer E. Post of Liberty, sheriff of Union county, was released on bond of $10,000 following his arrest on a charge of mur dering Carlo Hurd, colored, on Christmas day. Last night the Union county sheriffs iriother.' Mrs. Francis La Martine of Richmond; died at Reid hospital fol lowing a protracted Illness. "My wife has been a patient for fourteen months in a hospital at Rochester, Minn.," Post said today while in, Richmond, so It has been one trouble after another for me. I am thankful that I secured my release on ball before my mother died." Sheriff Post says that he killed Hurd in self-defense while attempting to arrest him. "This murder charge placed against me is nothing but political spitework. Post declared. "I will not have the slightest difficulty in establihsing my innocense. I had no grievance against liurd. I shot him because it was a case of getting him before he got me. Hurd was a man 6 feet 3 inches tal! and weighed 240 pounds and was all muscle. He tumbled my deputy and myself about like playthings and when he reached for his gun I shot him. I am sorry I killed him, but I had to." - ATTEMPTS TO STOP WIFE AND STRANGER Claiming that his wife was leaving with a strange man, a man said to be Guy Trotter created a disturbance at the Pennsylvania depot yesterday afternoon and Insisted that Officer William Lawler arrest the couple, waiting to board the 4:45 train for Mrs. Trotter and the stranger whose I name could not be learned arrived at the station shortly before train time and a few minu'os later Trotter came on the scene and began a tirade agair -,t bis wife and the man and when Lawler ordered him to stop making a disturbance, Trotter turned on the officer and told him he would "break" him unless he arrested Mr. Trotter and her companion, but as he had not right to do so the otiicer refused. When the train came fn the couple boarded it and departed for parts unknown for it is not believed they went to Pittsburg. DR. SMITH ATTENDS SANITY CONFERENCE Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, has returned from Indianapolis where he attended a conference of the commission on mental defectives which is arranging a program of action to determine the number of defectives in the state, proper care of them and means of prevention of defectives. The matter of most importance at the conference was the decision to hold a conference In Indianapolis the first part of February to which officers of the national association are invited. The Indiana commission, of which Dr. Smith is a member, was appointed by Governor Halston. LOSES 50 CHICKENS. Mrs. James Kraft, who resides on the North Twelfth street hill, complained to the police today that fifty of her chickens were stolen last night. A year ago her husband lost two horses when their barn was destroyed. PRESIDENT'S NAME PLACED IN PRIMARY INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 7. Upon direct, order from the white house, petition has been filed placing President Wilson's name on the Democratic presidential ballot In March. This action was taken after both Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the president, and Thomas Pence, secretary of the Democratic national committee, had authorized James H. Fry, deputy state auditor, over the long-distance telephone. to act as a representative of the presi dent in presenting the petition. The telephone service of this coun try represents a valuation of $350,000,000. The production of white arsenic in the United States in 1914 indicates an output amounting to 4,670 short tons, valued at $313,N7. This exceeds the largest previous output, that of 1913 (2,513 tons, valued at $159,236), by 46 per cent. Apparatus has been invented for converting gasoline into illuminating gas and storing it for safe use in places where commercial gas supplies are not available. Open a Charge Account

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American Consul Who Sacrificed Own Life For Woman on Persia

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MASCAGNI COMPOSES DESPITE THE WAR Mascagnl, the great composer, has not allowed the war to Interfere with his artistic activity. He is working on ! three operas which will all be produced unless plans go awry, in the fall of this year. i MRS. GERGGESON DIES. KITCHELL, Ind., Jan. 7. Mrs. Kate Gerggeson, wife of Fred Gerggeson,died at her home here early this morn-! lng. She is survived by nine children, j Funeral services will be held at the; home at 12 o'clock Sunday with Inter-j ment in Lutherania in Richmond. I 533 MAIN ST.

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Egypt, and of whom a London jm 1 . J 5 A place had been found for him SEEKS ADMISSION TO CIVIC SOCIETY Fifty-one new applications to date for membership In the South Side Improvement association have been received by John Hayer. representing the organization. The names of these applicants will be balloted upon at a meeting on January 18. WELFARE CLUB MEETS Members of the St. Andrew's Welfare society met In St. Andrew's lyceum last night and held a social. Card playing was a feature. ii m FROM CHILDHOOD up there Is much needless suffering la the world. - CHIROPRACTIC adjusts the cause of so-called disease and enables Nature to restore the greatest gifts of all good health. Visit us and let us tell you what CHIROPRACTIC has been doing for others. G. C.WUcoxen, D. C. 35 South 11th Street. Phone 1603 Hours 1 to 4 and 6 to 7 p. m. and by appointment.

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