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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
ACCEPT Ex-CONV|CT
AS DR., HYDE JUROR
Asking Private Conference
with Judge and Asks to
Be Excused.
(Eational News Associatior)

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 4.-Three days
after he had been accepted as a juror
in the trial of DR.. r. Clarke Hyde for
the murder Of Col. Thomas Swope, a
juror confessed to the judge that he
was a former convict. He was ex
cused from service. The selection of
the Hyde jury is going slowly. A new
venire was in court today.
The former convict-juror asked for
a private conference with Judge Por.
terfield. He said:
Judge. there is a great burden on
my mind and fear I have committed
perjury. Twenty-Five years ago after
serving prison sentence, I was par
doned. When you told me the day I
was examined that persons who had
been convicted OF a felony were ex.
empt from jury service. did not have
the strength to rise and confess my
past before the crowded courtroom V
The man was sentenced for assault
with intent to kill. He committed the
act in an effort to avenge his sister,
who had been mistreated.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
BURNS AND SHOCK
RESULT IN DEATH
Mrs. Hobart Knight, of Beall-
view, Died at Hospital
Last Evening.

Mrs Hobart Knight, a resident OF
Bea!lview died at the Reid Hospital
at half past six last evening as a re-
suit of severe burns received Wednes-
day when leaning over the cook stove
in her home. Mrs. knight had been
in dangerous condition ever since
her removal to the hospital Thursday
morning, and gradually became worse
until the attending physicians finally
gave up hope Of saving her. late yes
terday afternoon.
Mrs. Knight contracted a cold the
early part CT this week. and was keep
ing her chest and throat wrapped
with a cloth saturated in turpentine
On Wednesday evening. she was bend
in the rae suddenly ignited, and in an
instant her clothes we're ablaze. She
ran to the home of a neighbor and aft.
er some difficulty had been encoun,
tered the flames were extinguished.
AS soon as doctor could be sum
moned, the coat which had been wrap.
ped around Mrs. knight when she ran
to her neighbor's. was removed, and
large pieces of skin came off with it.
The physician was worried over her
chances for recovery, and Thursday
morning advised that she be taken to
the hospital for special treatment. Her
burns. although not deep, covered her
entire chest, right side, and limbs. 1t
is thought that the shock of the accj-
dent was as much responsible for her
death as were the burns.
The funeral arrangements will not
be announced until the arrival Of rel
atives from Marion and Wabash some
time To-Day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
TRUE TO DUTY.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Nov. A.
With the pangs of excruciating grief
tearing his heart and his mind still in
the tumult OF recent calamity, ]. r.
Reigner, editor of the Antlers News
Record last night sat down one hour
after his wife had burned to death
before his eyes and wrote this story
and put it on the wire:
Under the weight of a1fliction and
disaster that would have paraly1ed the
ordinary mind so as to make it unfit
for the banity OF routine business life.
sense Of duty and the training and in
stincts of the newspaper man, proved
stronger than the apathy Of sorrow"
This is the story Reigner wrotes =
few moments after his wife was dead:
Mrs. J. H. Reigner, wife Of the
editor Of the Antlers NewsRecord.
died tonight at 7:10 o'clock from burns
which she received at about one
O'Clock this afternoon when her dress
caught on IRE as she was standing
near the open fireplace. Her clothing
was soon afame and her body was
badly burned. Peter Lemaster heard
her screams and ran over and her
husband who was on his way home
was the second to arrive. They were
both too late to render any assistance,
az she had torn her clothing ofI. Doc
tors were summoned and gave opiates
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
OUTSIDE POWERS
MAY INTERFERE
In Turco-Italian War Owing
to Slaughter of Women
and Children.
(National News Association


PARIS, Nov. 4.-With protest
against the alleged slaughter of help.
! less women and children captives by
! the Italian soldiers in Tripoli lodged
| in the hands of all the powers by the
| Turkish government outside interfer-
| ence in the Turco-Italian war is be-
lieved in official circles here today to
/ be more probable than at any other
time since the outbreak of hostilities
Following the receipt of this latest ap-
peal from the Otteman government
based upon the massacres OF noncom
batant Arabs by Italians and scenes of
horror depicted III dispatches and let.
| ters from Tripoli. opinion throughout
| Europe is believed to be growing 20
strong as to command Official notice.
While no official assurances have been
given by the French. British or Ger.
man governments that intervention
| vas even under contemplation by
them, nevertheless the press and pub
lie generally are arraying themselves
on the side of huma nifty and demand
ing official action in the interests of
humanity.
| Official denials by Italian govern.
ment officials that innocent natives in
! Tripoli are being killed has been Off
set by dispatches and letters from the
scene Of war. Tales of shocking cruel
ty and slaughter also are being receiv-
ed daily at Malta from persons who
declare they were eye-witnesses Of the
terrible deeds they depict.
While the Italians deny premeditat-
ed slaughter in Tripoli, admission was
made in statements emanating today
from Italian sources that Arab men
and women had been killed. The
women, it is said, were found guilty
of carrying ammunition secreted in
their clothing for the use of the Tur-
| kish soldiers, while the Arab men
were mistaken for native soldiers in
the confusion and shot down by mis-
take
Italy now claims that the Arabs are
inflicting barbarous tortures upon
Italian captives. Italian soldiers cap
tured near the eastern oasis outside
of Tripoli are reported to have been
tortured by having their ears and nos
es cut off and then hanged and shot
to death.
The possibility of an uprising of
moslems in Egypt may force the hand
of the British government. Reports
from Cairo, Alexandria and other
Egyptian cities today state that dem
onstration of the natives over reports
of Turkish victories have in some in
stances exceeded over reports of Tur-
kish victories have in some instances
exceeded the control of the authorities
and the spirit IT the moslem popula-
ton of Egypt is becoming more threat
ening daily.
Danger OF an outbreak Of religious
fanatics is causing keen anxiety to
Lord Kitchener. the new British
agent.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
TIMES MANAGER IS
NJ M'NAMARA TALESMAN
Begs to Be Excused Claiming
Bias-BOrdWell With
holds Decision.
iNational News Association

LOS ANGELES. Cal. Nov A.
Harry Chandler, general manager OF
the Los Angeles Times, drawn on the
fourth panel of Ceniremen to serve as
jurors in the case of James B. McNam
ara, charged with dynamiting the
Times building appeared before Judge
Bordwell today. He asked to be ex.
cused on the ground that his position
at the Times was such that he was a
biased juror. Judge Bordwell refused
to excuse him for this reason. =
Chandler then pleaded that he had
arranged to go to Arizona for three
days trip, leaving this afternoon and
Bordwell consented to excuse him un-
til Wednesday morning
Your honor" said Chandler, lit
won't be possible for me TO serve on
the jury"
That may be and is probably true,
but the only easons l can consider
this morning are business reasons and
sickness and like-reasons which
would excuse man from jury SER
vice in general
WELL" said Chandler, Il am a very
busy man. That is about the only
reason l have to offer I want to 20
to Arizona this afternoon and be gone
for three days
Judge Rordwell considered for some
time. Then he agreed to permit the
the trip.
''If you have any other business
reasons you may present them at that
time and we can consider them then"
added the court
Chambers name, though he is still
a member of the vcnire will not be
put in the box with the others until
his return
The excuses offered by the other
veniremen covered the usual field of
business and similar sorts. Twenty
men of the panel were finally secured
for service. This is the highest total
of any drawn except the first, when
125 men were summoned
Chandler informed the Judge that
he had been subpoenaed as witness
by the state but Bordwell told him he
could not hear excuses bearing direct
ly on the Mcnamara case
After examination of the veniremen
was completed a committee of the
talesmen made up of r. F. Balm.
Walter Frampton. Geo w Mckee and
F. D. Green called on Judge Bordwell
The Judge was busy and told the men
to come back later. The judge is sit
ting in a final edjustm of another
case.
The committee went to confer with
the judge about the health of another
juror. 1t is believed this man is Sea-
born Manning. who has been in bad
health since the beginning Of the case
and who has shown the effects of
markedly during the last
few days.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
.LOR|MER GAVE To
|, BROWNS DEFENSE
Admitted by Minority Lead
er of III. Legislature
Denies Bribes.
(National News Association)

CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-United States
Senator VIM. Lorimer helped defray
the legal expenses of Lee O'Neil
Browne, former minority leader in the
Illinois legislature, when Browne was
indicted and tried in Cook county on
the charge of bribing former Repre-
sentative Chas. A. White, Democrat,
to vote for Lorimer.
Browne himself admitted this today
on the witness chair in the senatorial
investigation.
Pressed by members of the senate
committee Browne said: "Yes sir,
Lorirer loaned me some money to
aid my defense" 1t was the first time
such admission had been made
Il told Senator Lorimer at the
time" Brown continued, that I was
forced to borrow money some where
for my defense, as the expenses would
be monumental.
he said he would be able and willing
to loan me some money.
II took it. haven't repaid it yet,
but l expect to-"
Browne. questioned further, said
contributions to his defense fund did
not include any liquor interests, per-
sonal liberty societies, lumber COM
panies. the beef trust. any one large
corporation or any stockholder of such
corporation.
The witness admitted that he knew
Edward Hines.
Asked by Chairman Dillingham;
whether he had ever known, in any
way. Of any money being paid for
votes for I.orimer, Browne replied:
so help me God. l don't know of
dollar spent in that way"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
TEXAS FEVER ALARMS
CATTLE RAISERS
(National News Association,

WASHINGTON. Nov. 4-Fourteen
states in the south and southwest to-
day were placed under quarantine by
Secretary Wilson. The prevalence of
Texas fever is the cause. The states
quarantined are California. Oklahoma,
Texas, Missouri. Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi. Tennessee. Alabama, vir-
giria, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida. In these states
the removal of cattle is prohibited ex-
cept for immediate slaughter and then
only upon a certificate of the govern
ment Officials.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
LuMeEaMAN INJURED,

SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Nov. 4.-John
l.. Henry, SIS. a prominent lumberman
here. was probably fatally injured here
at noon today when he was run down
by Big Four through freight His
right leg was cut of near the knee.
his left leg was broken and his right
arm mangled. Physicians called said
there was practically no chance of saw
ing his life. He was on his way to
dinner at the time the accident hap
pened.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
City Forester Has Planned to
Educate the Richmond
Public in the Care of Its
Shade Trees.
SAYS MAPLE TREES
ARE NOT DESIRABLE
Cannot Stand the Punish
ment Inflicted by the c.
ment Sidewalks - Syca-
more Trees Preferred.

The trees in this city have been
sorely neglected.
This was the statement made to
President Homer Hammond. of the
board of public works by Prof. John
F. Thompson, head of the botany de-
partmert of the local high school, and
also city forester. Prof. Thompson.
in conference with Mr.. Hammond,
Saturday afternoon. declared that the
trees needed attention and needed it
badly.
Plans are being laid by the profess
sor to educate the public mind in the
proper care of trees. OF course, Mr..
Thompson will devote most of his
time to shade trees. He says that
most persons believe the maple to be
the best shade tree, but he disayrees,
saying that the maple cannot stand
the punishment which is inflicted on
trees by cement sidewalks.
He suggests that in planting shade
trees the sycamore be used and
says that the plain sycamore is
preferable. He says the tulip tree
is also a good shade tree. These lat
ter trees can stand severe punishment,
he says.
Mr.. Hammond, who until recently
filled the position OF city forester. and
Mr. Thompson concur in the belief
that all trees should be on the ''in-
side" of the sidewalk and that the
walk should extend to the curbing
Tree Surgery Poor.
Prof. Thompson says that tree sur
gerry is not the best thing FOR trees. He
says, however, that if cavities in trees
were cleaned, then painted with coal
tar to kill insects, ard filled in order
to keep water out, it would help trees
II great ~deak = r. - ~-e--- ~~-.
Prof. Thompson is doing great
deal to educate school children in the
care Of trees, by giving illustrated
lectures to classes in forestry. He in
tends to issue manuscripts on this
subject during the coming winter.
Very little will be done in the for
ester's department during the winter,
but in the spring it is predicted there
will be great deal OF tree trimming.
Permits are issued for this work and
MY. Hammond and Mr.. Thompson will
divide the work Of looking after the
trimming of city trees. In case OF diff
ficult work. Mr.. Thompson will super
wise it.
Another question which has interest
ed the city officials for some time and
which was discussed yesterday is the
trouble being experienced with line
men from the various wire companies
in butchering the entire tops from
trees in order to stretch their wires
from pole to pole. They have cut
trees at will to accomplish their pur
poses.
Prof. Thompson says that wires
stretched through trees will not in
jure them unless the wires are not
properly insulated.
The butchering of the trees along
the north side of the Earlham cam
pus was discussed, but the city has
nothing to do with this, due to the
fact that the trees are just outside the
city limits. The high tension wires
of the traction company, it is said.
have been running the trees along the
campus.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
MAI. BUTT PLAYED
GOLF WITH TAFT
tNational News Association

HOT SPRINGS, Va. Nov. 4.-Presi-
dent Taft played a round OF golf with
Maj. Butt today. He has changed his
plans SO that he will leave for Cincin-
rati tomorrow night instead of Mon
day as he originally intended He will
register in Cincinnati Monday and vote
there Tuesday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
HERO browns.

UTICA, n. Y. Nov. 4.-William
McSweeney, aged 35. lost his life in
the Erie canal here today in an effort
to save from drowning Miss Lotto
Smith, young woman who accident
ally fell into the canal The woman
was rescued by others as McSweeny
perished.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
CAPTURED CONVICT.

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 4.-Bill Minor,
notorious yeggman and train robber,
who escaped Georgia state prison
several weeks ago, was captured by
sheriff's posse in swamps OF Burke
county this morning and Tom Moore
was killed. Moore was his companion
in flight from prison. Southern ex-
press offered big reward for Minor,
who robbed Southern train near
Gainesville several months ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
SKULL FRACTURED
IN FOOTBALL GAME
tNatsonaI News Association,

PRINCETON. n. J., Nov. 4.-Hunt-
ington Frothington OF the Harvard
freshman football team, was seriously
injured in the game with the Princeton
Freshmen which Harvard won by a
score Of IL to 0, today. Frothingham's
skull was fractured and his condition
is critical -
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
ATRSHIP FELL IN
ATLANTIC OCEAN
National News AssociAt tion)

ATLANTIC CITY. Nov 4-The Van
imam air ship, Akron, fell into the
ocean after a preliminary flight today
and was damaged in the fall. Two
vessels stood toward the airship where
it was floating aimlessly about and
made ready to tow it back to shore.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
NICARAGUANS ARE
AGAIN IN REVOLT
(National News Association

WASHINGTON. Nov. 4.-Another
revolution in Nicaragua is reported in
official dispatches to the state depart
ment today kilograms from Managua
said that Gen Chamorro who fled from
Nicaragua several months ago is now
back in the republic at the head OF a
movement which threatens the pres
ent administration.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
CHOLERA PREVENTS
SAILORS LANDING
(Eationsl News Association)

WASHINGTON. Nov. A dispatch h
to the navy department from the COM
mander of the American cruiser Ches-
ter. at. Malta today said that cholera
has broken out in that port and that
the officers and men of the vessel
have been restricted to the ship. The
dispatch said many deaths have al
ready occurred
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
KILLS HIS CHILDREN.

BOSTON. Nov. 4--Ludwig y.
Jaeger, 33 years old, shot and killed
his two children. Oily. aged S, and
Anita. aged 4. on the beach at Win
throp. He turned the revolver upon
himself and sent a bullet through his
own brain. falling across the bodies
Of the two children. When a hospital
ambulance arrived, the two girls were
dead and Jaeger Is dying. He Ii, the
son of m, ofhcial at Hamburg Ger
many and comes bf prominent and
wealthy family.
Jaeger was divorced two years ago
by his wife who is now Mrs. Struburx
and lives in Winthrop
Jaeger called at her house and got
the two children without her know
ledge. He coaxed them to the beach
by giving them candy and then killed
them.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
Strange Suicide Arrangement
Unearthed by Chicago Po-
lice Finding the Bodies of
Three Germans.
|CHOKES AGED WOMAN
TO GET HER WEALTH
Father Coaxes Two Children
from His Divorced Wife's
Home and Shoots Both.
Then Killing Himself.
(National News Association)


CHICAGO. Nov. 4.-Henry Letsch.
his wife and 12-year-old son Herman
were found dead on the floor OF the
dining room of their home at SOFT
Guneson ave. Jefferson Park, today,
under circumstances which indicated
that they had died in the furAlment
Of fanatical and strange religious
suicide pact
A letter written in German. found
in the home. gave tho police the idea
that the three persons had died by
slow starvation and by poison. Be-
hind the terrible tragedy is said to bo
story Of a strange and horrible re-.
ligious belief
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
THE WEATHER

STATE AND LOCA-continued fair
and not much change in tempera-
ture.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05
REVEALED WEALTH.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Nov. a.
Awakened by a masked man clutch
ing her throat and pointing a revolver
at her head, Mrs. VIM. r. Foster y
years old, was forced to reveal to the
robber where she kept $1,000 in jewel.
ry. She attempted feeble resistance
but was choked into submission.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-05

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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-20
z. ~. sf.7t - II q ~ :. 81 -
{ D J = MARI i !


The comnit teeI appointed to- esti-
4 na i, the value OF the street car sys-
tenn Of Copenhag put the price
which the city ought to pay az |. lit
tie over 81 700, 900. But the company
thinks the estimate IS too low, and %
the courts Will have. to take up the
matter
Two telephone girls III Copenhagen
! We're Knocked from their stools BY !
sthunderbolt While in service, and one
Of them was partly paralyzed the next
day. The accident caused much I'M
easfness among the other girls.
They never thought Of being injured
by lightning while tending to, their
work Is
Olaf Poulsen, the great Danish &C.
tor. was surprised BY august guests
at his cottage in Fredensborg the
other evening. The king Of Denmark
and the younger princes and prin-
cesses came to see him. Not SO very
long ago Mr.. PoulsenS was invited to
dinner at the court, and when he re-
turned home the young people Of the
court accompanied him close up to
the door Of his house. s5ss
The house owners union Of Aarhus
had a hot meeting a few days ago.
The executive committee was severely
scored because it had not reported to
the union 2 communication to the
banks of the city, requesting them to
prevent the building Of too many
houses by refusing to loan money to
such enterprises. It was reported at
the meeting that in April about 600
stores and other buildings will be va
cant.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-20

The assassination of Premier Stoly.
pin was supposed by many Finlanders
to mean that his policy against Fin
land would be modified in the interest
Of Finnish rights and Finnish liberty.
Now the duma has shattered their
hopes. Slowly but surely the new
premier, Kokovtsoff, is putting his
iron heel on Finland, and the duma
has supported him by the crushing
vote of 230 to 100. The new law pro
vides, in short, that Finland shall pay
q special tax for the support of the
Russian army, and that Russians shall
have the same rights and privileges
in Finland as the native Finlanders.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-20

darkness. Unable to distinguish the
slightest outline Of his figure, / was
yet impressed with the thought that
he was endeavoring TO muffle the girl.
to prevent her uttering second cry.
1mpelled BY this intuition I flung out
my arm hastily, and by rare good luck
1t came in contact with his hand.
None of that, you little curl" NUT
tered sternly, unmindful of his efforts
to break away. mo hand on her,
mind you! Mrs. Brennan. what does
this mean?"
She made no attempt to answer, but
l could hear her now cropping her way
through the darkness toward the place
Of our entrance. Bungay detected the
movement also. and made a violent
effort to break loose from my grip.
that he might hurry after her.
you lit go o me-" he cried ex-
citedly. "er. by golr, I'll use knife.
She'll give this whole thing away If
she ever gifts out"
For answer hurled him backward
with all my strength and sprang after
the fleeing woman But was already
too late to stop her, even had that
been my intention. With strength
yielded her by desperation, she thrust
aside the heavy cupboard. and as the
light swept in. sprang forward into the
rude shed. With another bound, gath
ertng her skirts as she ran, she was
up the steps and had burst into the
outer room. A moment later I also
stood in the doorway, gazing upon q
scene that made my blood like fire
The fighting had evidently ceased
suddenly with her first cry. Maria