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COLD CAUSED DEATH OF FRANCIS JOSEPH; AGED RULER KEEPS AT WORK UNTIL END

Heir Apparent and Children Rush to Bedside - When Physicians Diagnose , Development of Pneumonia. REIGN IS LONGEST RECORDED IN HISTORY Misfortunes and Unhappiness Assail Emperor From Day He Ascended Throne of the Hapsburgs. PARIS NEWSPAPERS ASSAIL CHARACTER Matin Sorry That Monarch Did Not See Approaching Hour of Expiation of His Crimes. BULLETIN A Havas dispatch from Madrid aaya the Auatrlan cmbaaay haa announced officially the death of Emperor Francla Joseph. Thla la the flrat official announcement of the Emperor'a death to be received. PARIS, Nov. 22. The death of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria 'was caused by a cold which the aged monarch caught while walking In Schoenbrunn Park, ten days ago with the King of Bavaria, according to a Zurich dispatch to the Parlsen. The cold developed Into pneumonia of the right lung. When It was realised yesterday that the emperor's condition was serious his daughter arch-Duchess Marie Valerie and his nephws, the ArchDukes Charles Francis, Heir apparent, and Joseph Frederick, were summoned to the bedside. , - The emperor practically ' died In harness, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News. The Dispatch says that the emperor rose at his usual hour on Tuesday and Engaged In governmental business, -;. Paris Newapapera Rabid. Although no official confirmation of the death of Emperor Francis Joseph had been received In Paris early this morning, the press generally accepted the news as authentic. In their comment the newspapers are merciless. The Matin says: "The sinister old man who for sixty-eight years wore the double crown disappears too soon, notwithstanding his eighty-six years, for he has not seen the approaching hour of expiation of the crimes for which he will bear eternally in history a crushing responsibility and stigma. But the spectre of punishment must have hunted his latter days if this man, so monstrously indifferent, was accessible to any feeling whatever this man who witnessed unmoved the worst catastrophes heaped up by fate on his family and his country. The Irony of fate." Vienna Excited. The death of the emperor has caused notable emotion In Vienna, says the Exchange Telegram company's Amsterdam correspondent. The general public was not aware of the serious nature of his illness, and according to these advices because of non-alarming character of the bulletIns issued. "May you live Ion? and happily! This Is the usual good wish shouted to a monarch by his people. But In the case of Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, it is a most bitter piece of irony. His reign was one of the longest recorded in history and probably the most unhappy. The unparalleled misfortunes which beset him in the nearly seven decades of his reign may be divide into family tragedies and political disasters. His must have been a strong riiaracter to withstand these terrific buffets of fate, which would have unseated the reason of a weakling. To the superstltutlous peasant, Francis Joseph's -misfortunes were due to the famous "curse of the Hapsburgs." In 1S57, the year that he became the crowned king of Hungary after an area of bloody repression had put down a patriotic revolt, Francis Joseph attended a great ball In connection with the connntlon destlvities. Into the ball room crowded with the highest dignitaries of his court there rushed a broken hearted woman: mother of the young Count Karolyl, who had fallen among the victims. Straight up to the emperor she strode and while the panic stricken courtiers stood spellbound, she flung him this mother's curse: "May Heaven and Hell blast your happiness! May your family be exterminated! May you be smitten In the persons of those you best love! May your children be brought to ruin and may your life be wrecked, and yet may you live on in lonely, unbroken and horrible grief to tremble when you recall the name of Karolyi!" Falling unconscious at the feet of the emperor, the grief-stricken woman was carried out to die. The future emperor was born August 18. 1S30, at Vienna, the eldest son of Arch-duk Francis and nephew of Ferdinand I emperor from 1835 to 1S4S. His father, a weakling, resigned his claims to the throne when Ferdinand abdicated, and at eighteen, in the year, 1858, three years before the beginning of the American Civil war, the young FrancU took up the sceptre.

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WATCHFUL WAITING BRINGS ARREST OF HELPFUL RELATIVE At the request of a woman relative, Clem Turner called at her home on North 1 Fifth street yesterday afternoon to assist her in ' removing ' her household effects. .' When -Turner r4 rived, he found the doors locked but managed to gain entrance through' a window. Finally tiring of waiting for the return of his relative, Turner went to bed. It seems that neighbors witnessed Turner climbing through the window, and one excited woman telephoned to the police that the North Fifth street residence had been entered by a burglar. Turner was aroused from his slumbers by a policeman and he rubbed his eyes In astonishment. Protesting vigorously that he had committed no crime Turner was escorted to police headquarters and held there until the woman, who had been the innocent cause of his discomfiture, arrived at headquarters and explained the situation. EPIDEMIC RAGING AT FOUNTAIN CITY Because of the diphtheria epidemic which is spreading over the town, parents are keeping their children out of the Fountain City schools. During the past week, attendance has , fallen off at least seventy-five per cent., County Superintendent Williams was informed today. There has been much agitation to have the schools closed but only one room has been dismissed by the health officer. PIG CLUBS TO COME To organize pig clubs in Wayne county, F. M. Snyder of Purdue university, Is scheduled to arrive in Richmond today. Letters from Mr. Shanklin asking for assistance of the various supervisors of the county, have been received. Ivan T. Beck, Wayne township agriculture supervisor, and Miss Grace L. King, county domestic Bcience supervisor, will lend assistance to the organizer.

INCREASE IN BRIDGE MATERIAL FORCES PLAN ALTERATIONS OR GREATER ESTIMATES

Plans for the South G and Main street bridges will have to be altered, or the estimates for the spans will have to be increased. This is the proposition confronting the county commissioners at their meeting Saturday. Since the estimates' were made for the September session of the county council, prices of materials for bridge construction have advanced." The estimates at that time were $180,000 for the Main street bridge and $185,000 for the South G street bridge. , Mueller Alters Plane. Engineer Mueller said today that he is working out changes In his former plans which will in no way injure the stability of the bridges, but which will reduce construction expenses. U the

ELECTED AS CORONER; REFUSES TO SERVE

EATON, O., Nov. 22. Stanley Campbell, Democrat, elected coroner, refuses to qualify for the office and the duty of naming a successor necessarily devolves upon:" the -board of county, commissioners and the county auditor. Campbell, a clerk, in a local drug store, was elected ' by friends wiio- .voted for him .rjust.for fun." Neither the Democratic nor Republlt can parties had a candidate on the ticket and friends ' in Eaton wrote Campbell's name in the blank space provided: He - received more than forty votes. Dr. Carl W. Beane, of West Manchester, is the present coroner.; ' .... v.. ': SCOTT IS SENTENCED TO STATE PENAL FARM Despite the fact that the jury before which he was tried, disagreed after it had been out twenty-seven hours, Thomas Scott, colored, Boston, entered a plea of guilty to the charge of assault and battery in circuit court today. Judge Fox sentenced him to sixty days on the penal farm and fined him $50 and costs. Scott was charged with having attacked and seriously Injured Carter Richmond. The trouble occurred in the C. & O. railroad yards at Boston, the night of Sept. 2. W. C. L U. WORKERS PREDICT DRY STATE Sentiment for a dry state by legislation next spring was found to be strong at Indianapolis, according to Wayne County delegates at the National W. C. T. . U. convention there. Mrs. O." N. Huff of Fountain City, was district delegate, and with her were Mrs. S: E. Nicholson, ' Mrs. F. W. Hodgin, Mrs. W. A. Ellis, Mrs. Mary Baldwin, Mrs". R.' W. " Randle, Mrs. R. E. Kirkman, all of Richmond; Mrs. Ella Hiatt of Economy, and Mrs. Mary Woodard of Fountain City. The convention closes tomorrow. The union has not affiliated with any political party nor has there been any sympathetic understanding between the union and the Democratic party since the latter repudiated the liquor men, according to Mrs. S. E. Nicholson, who returned last night. The union looks to support from any source which might lend aid to state and national prohibition, she said. commissioners, approve of these changes, It may be possible to keep the . estimates as they ! were in September. Since , the county council has been called for Nov. 29 to pass on the bridge appropriations, it will be necessary for the commissioners next Saturday to decide definitely upon the amounts.' Advertisements for the meeting of the county council do not state the amounts of the . appropriation." They merely state that appropriations for the Main and South G street bridges will be asked for.' Since this is an emergency session, only five of the seven votes will be needed to pass the appropriation.

SELLS CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING

HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Nov. 22. Today ' is the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. David Sells, parents of John Sells of Perry street. Mr. Sells is 80 years old and Mrs. Sells is 84 years old. They were born in North Carolina and were married there. Later they came to Indiana. They have lived at their present home northeast of here for more than thirty years. DEUTSCHLAND NOW OFF FOR GERMANY; HAD GOOD GETAWAY NANTUCKET, Mass., Nov. 22. The merchant submarine Deutschland, returning to Germany with a valuable cargo, was believed today to have left American waters in safety. Darkness, which set in soon after she started from New London, Conn., yesterday afternoon, prevented observation of the submarine's progress along shore and there was no word from her since she passed Watch Hill, R. I., at sunset, last evening, ten miles off shore. W. C. T. U. BELIEVES IN PUBLICITY WORK INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 22 The thirty-eighth annual convention of the National Women's Christian Temper ance Union, will close tonight with the , announcement of membership awards. The program of the last session will be given by the presidents of the following states, Indiana, Montana, New York, Michigan, Nebraska, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, Maryland and Florida. Invitations for the 1917 convention also will be extended tonight. f . The value of news articles to the union was explained in detail today at the "efficiency congress" by Mrs. Susan McWbirter Ostrom, Indianapolis superintendent of the press department She told the delegates that local organizations would better hold one meeting and have it reported weU than four and-have no reports in the papers. CASTINGS COMPANY PLACES ORDER FOR 5,000 TONS OF IRON A single order for 5,000 tons of iron for shipment in 1917 has been placed by John M. Lontz, president of the Richmond Malleable Castings Company, which will be ready to commence operations Dec. 15. The average daily shipment will be seventeen tons. Mr. Lontz returned from New York yesterday. , The high walls for the new building of the castings company to adjoin the gas tractor building in the Rumely group on Washington .avenue, are practically completed and big timbers for the roof have begun to arrive. Bases for two of the four smokestacks each to be as tall as the city light plant stack, have, been completed. Four annealing furnaces will ' be installed. The wood block floor, which was one of the noticeable features of the gas tractor building, has been removed and will be replaced by a clay floor. The wood blocks, enough to. make several freight car loads, have been sold. Cement bases are being installed in both buildings for machinery. ODD FELLOWS MEET IN STATE SESSION Delegations representing Odd Fellows lodges in Richmond left here today to attend sessions of the grand lodge, I. O. O. F. at Indianapolis Wednesday and Thursday. Lawrence A. Handley, secretary of Whitewater lodge, accompanied Joseph C. Pyle, of Boston lodge, to Indianapolis to introduce him to grand lodge as grand conductor for next year. Mr. Pyle will be installed tomorrow. No matters of particular interest were placed in the hands of the Richmond delegation for action at the grand lodge ' meeting. Whitewater lodge was represented by Walter B North and Everett Thomas. At the grand . encampment meeting held in Indianapolis yesterday, George Bishop, Dr. R. A. Chattin and F. Scott Webb represented the local encampment. CONDOLENCE MESSAGE SENT BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Nov. .22. Messages of condolence on the death of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary were prepared at the state department today in expectation of immediate official announcement from the American ambassador at Vienna or the Austrian Charge here. President Wilson will send messages both to the Royal family and to the Austrian charge . here, , while Secretary Lansing will send messages to the charge here and to the minister of foreign affairs in Vienna. ,

49 CENTS A DAY FOOD COST FOR "DIETSQIIAD" Twelve Chicago Employes Start War on H. C. L. to Demonstrate How Cheap You Can Live.

CHICAGO, Nov. 22. Twelve employes of the Chicago health department today began a two weeks' experiment intended to demonstrate that a person can live properly on forty cents a day. At the first meal, breakfast served at 8:20 o'clock. Dr. John D. Robertson, health commissioner, directed the "diet squad" to learn to eat slowly, asserting that "the faster you eat, the more you eat" Forty minutes was allowed for breakfast, the menu for which consisted of fresh apples, liver, bacon, one egg, muffins, butter and coffee. Each dieter was pledged to deny himself all nourishment except the meals prepared at the school of domestic arts and sciences. The experiment is attracting wide attention especially among physicians and economists, numbers of whom asked for specimen menus and reports of progress. H, G. JOHNSON DEAD Henry C. Johnson, president of the Seymour National bank, a former resident of Richmond, died at Seymour yesterday after an attack of heart trouble. Mr. Johnson has man:r relatives in Richmond and is well known in financial circles here. He was the son of the late Daniel Johnson and his mother was a Richmond woman. Mr. Johnson was former president of the State Bankers' association, a member of the board of trustees of the Southeastern Indiana Hospital for Insane and president of the Seymour Water Works company. PREPARE' MEASURE' 1 FOR FOOD EMBARGO WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. Representative Fitzgerald, Democrat, chairman of the House appropriations committee, announced today that he favored an embargo on food stuffs and that it was his-purpose to prepare a bill and to press the subject . early the coming session- of Congress. "Two reasons chiefly impel me to favor embargo exportation on food stuffs," said Mr. Fitzgerald. "It is the most effective weapon in our con troversy with Great Britain over her unwarranted, outrageous and indefensive blacklist of American merchants. As our foodstuffs are needed abroad, an embargo will be more effective than weary months of diplomatic negotiations which end in the' continuance of the indefensible practices against our rights." LABOR FEDERATION PROPOSES MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHOOLS BALTIMORE. Md., Nov. 22 The American Federation of Labor, after much debate, adopted a resolution in favor of military training in the public schools. The convention also authorized the appointment of a committee to draw up another resolution touching on phases of militarism not brought out in the first one. Andrew Furuseth, chairman of the committee, declared that while he was opposed to any Increase In the standing amy, it was his belief that "men who will not fight and women who won't be mothers are an abomination in the world." DEATH ANGEL CALLS CAROLINE FLOHRE The funeral of Mrs. Caroline Flohre, 85 years old, member of St. John's Lutheran church and one of the first German residents of the community, who died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Fred Miller, 516 South Seventh street, Tuesday afternoon, will be held Friday afternoon. The Rev. A. J. Feeger, former pastor of the St. John'i church, will officiate, and the Rev. H. Specht will read the prayer. A native of Germany, Mrs. Flohre came to Richmond while a small girl. She had been a resident of Richmond practically her entire life. Formerly she was one of the active members of St. John's church. Besides Mrs. Miller, four other daughters, Mrs. Adolph Blickwedel, Mrs. Henry Loehr, Mrs. John Brehm, and Mrs. August Wickemeyer, and one sen, Charles Flohre, survive. Friends may call at the home. South Seventh street, at any time. It is requested that flowers be omitted. CHAMNESS IS IMPROVING Albert N. Chamness, county treasurer, who has been confined at his home on South Twelfth street, for several days with a severe attack of tonsilitis, is improving.

WAR REVIEW FOR THE DAY

The fate of the. Roumanian armies In Western Wallachia appears to .be hanging in the balance. The exact measure of the fruits gathered by the Teutonic invaders from their capture of the Important Wallachian city of Carlova, reported yesterday, Is not yet apparent, but fears are expressed in Entente quarters for the safety of the Roumanian forces that have been operating In the Orsova region, on the western Roumanian frontier, now that the main line railroad has been cut at Cariova. Battle Rages Near Monastir A new battle has opened on the Macedonian front where the Bulgarians and Germans who evacuated Monastir, are making a stand against the pursuing Serbians and French. Paris reports the Teutonic armies making a stubborn resistance and a heavy fog also holding up the advance. Comparative quiet continues, to prevail on the Franko-Belglan front, London announcing nothing more important than artillery and patrol activity. Hospital Ship is Sunk The British hospital ship Brittanic has been sunk with the loss of about fifty lives, says a British official announcement today. The Greek steamer Erissos has arrived at Marseilles and reports that she was stopped by a submarine which seized 118 sacks of mail and forced her to throw her cargo overboard. CARPENTERS TO VOTE ON PENSION SYSTEM FOR AGED MEMBERS Interest of carpenters organized as Local 562, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Is centered in a referendum vote' being taken on the establishment of a pension system for union carpenters more, than 60 years old. The proposition will be explained "at a mass meeting In Luken's hall tonight, for men and women. Charles Miller, an organizer for the U. B. C. J., will address the meeting. Talks will be made by local union members. Robert Graham, president of the Central Labor Council probably will preside. Members of all buildings trades locals have been invited to attend. The proposed wage scale of 50 cents an hour and an eight hour day January 1, has been placed in the hands of contractors, subject to minor amendments. Locals in the building trade council have established a system for keeping in touch with big prospective bouldlng jobs. They say building prospects for the coming season are excellent and building this month is so heavy that it is almost impossible to supply the demand for skilled workmen. REV. J. DINGELDEY SUMMONED BY DEATH The Rev. J. Dlngeldey, 74 years old, the first superintendent of the Wernle Orphans's home, is dead at Cleveland, Ohio, following a long illness, according to a dispatch received here by friends today. He will be buried at Youngstown, Ohio, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Dlngeldey became superintendent of the orphanage here upon its founding and was its head until twenty-five years ago. Louis Dlngeldey, a eon, was In the shoe business here for many years. SWIMS ACROSS LAKE TO SATISFY WAGER Details of a cooling episode, an aftermath of the election, in which two traveling men of Indianapolis, a Richmond citizen and the Glen Miller lake figured most prominently came to light today when the board of censorship in charge of the secret relaxed to the extent of giving out everything but the name of the local principal a Hughes man. The Democrats were James Carson and Wilson Tarrel, both of Indianapolis. The Richmond man, it is said, admitted that his swim from one bank of Glen Miller lake to' the other was "chilly." Weather Forecast For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Probably rain tonight and Thursday. Colder Thursday. Temperature Today. Noon 47 Yesterday. Maximum Minimum ...47 ....31 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Rain tonight. Thursday rain or snow and colder. General Conditions Two storms passed this morning east of the Rocky Mountains, one central over southern Canad and the other over Texas. As they move eastward they are expected to cause rain or snow sometime during the next 24 hours and colder Thursday.

ADAM LAW

HELD INVALID BY JUDGE HOOK AT KANSAS CITY Justice Advises Railroads to Enjoin Law From Going Into Effect to Huny up Decision. SUPREME COURT MUST NOW PASS ON STATUTE Washington Believes TribunalWill Be Unable to Pass on its Legality Until After) t January 8. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Not. 22. The Adamson eight-hour law was held unconstitutional here today by Judge William C. Hook, in the United States district court. Action In the case was precipitated yesterday when Frank Hagerman, special counsel for the government filed a motion before Judge Hook, asking Immediate decision in the injunction proceedings against the law brought by Alexander New and Henry C. Ferriss, receivers for the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad which the government contends should be dismissed. Wants Case Hurried Along Judge Hook directed the receivers of the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad, who brought the original action In this case to enjoin the law from going into effect to assist the government In expediting the case to the supreme court of the United States for final decision and instructed them through their attorneys to invite the representatives of every railroad in this country to participate ia the hearings before the United States supreme court - Government to Co-operate. This was requested in the government's motion to dismiss the injunction petition of the railroad, the government desiring to avoid "prolonged," unnecessary arfd scattered litigation, that would be made necessary by the hearing of countless similar suit ; file 1 by every rail system in every Federal district in the United States through which their lines run." It is expected that the ultimate decision as to whether the law will go into work January 1, will be handed down before that time. A transcript of the present case will be filed In the United States supreme court before It re-convenes December 4. U. S. OFFICIALS INTERESTED Do Not Believe Supreme Court Can Act Before January 8 on Questions Involved in the Suit. WASHINGTON. Nov. 22. Government officials were greatly interested in Judge Hook's decision holding the Adamson act unconstitutional and while hopeful that final decision by the supreme court may be given by January 1, when the law becomes effective, they were not certain that It will be possible to expedite proceedings sufficiently to have a 'determination by that time. Attorney-General Gregory showed interest In the decision but declined to comment. It was believed, however, it will hasten the contemplated agreement between the department of justice and attorneys for the railroads to center the fight on a test case with a stipulation that the supreme court's decision shall prevent the bringing of other actions and lead to the abandonment of those already instituted. Considering the question of expedition, officials familiar with supreme court proceedure pointed out today that the court will not be in session again until December 4. For more than 100 years the court has never handed down decisions except on Mondays. Unless it were possible to have this case argued and decided December 11 or December IS it seems improbable to officials that an opinion would be given before January 8, since the two intervening, Mondays fall on Christmas and New Year's INDIANA GOES DRY DECLARES TAX MAN "The Democrats are going to put Indiana dry at the next session of the legislature," declared L. L. Druet, field deputy of the district federal Income tax collector, here today. He then recited a message left by Tom Taggart for three big brewers "who called at French Lick when Taggart had gono to southern Missouri on a hunting trip. The business of the district Income tax collector Is in very satisfactory condition, Mr. Druet said. He spent ten days here recently straightening out accounts for business men and finding persons who should pay Income tax. FIND FORD III MUI1CIE An automobile owned by the Starr Piano company, which was stolen while standing in front of the Y. M. C. A. Saturday night, has beqn found in Muncie. Chief Goodwin received this information from the Muncie police today. . The car was found in a barn on the outskirts of Muncie.