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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
THREATEN TO STRIKE
New Bedford Mill Workers
Ask Big Increase.

tNational News Association)
BOSTON, March 15.-Trouble in the
textile mills in New Bedford and Fall
River is threatened because Of the re.
fusal of the operatives in these two
cities to accept q voluntary offer OF q
five per cent increase. made to them
by the mill owners. They demand an
increase of from Is to TN per cent
The mills in New Bedford and Fall
River are thoroughly organized. The
operatives are members of the Textile
Workers OF America. federated with
the American Federation OF Labor.
Some sixty thousand operatives
would be affected by q strike.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
TRIAL Or MINISTER
ON MURDER CHARGE
All But Witnesses Barred
From Trial Today
Story Related.
National News Association

PITTSBURG, March 15.-All bu,
those whose presence as witnesses
was necessary we're barred today from
the trial of the Rev. w. d. Mcfarland
minister and educator, who is on tria
here in criminal court, charged with
causing the death of Miss Elsie Coe
his former secretary, through the per
Torrance Of an illegal operation.
Lillian Coe, sister of the girl. be
cause Of whose death Mcfarland ID be
ing tried. suffered complete COLLAPSE
and Was unable to continue her story
today. The chief witness wes Mrs. Lo
retta Henderson, who was present ri
the alleged criminal operation. 81
related the details, and was questioned
at length
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
CALL OFF PRIMARY
(National News Association

news ASSOC l6tiONy
PROVIDENCE, r. l.. March ia
proposal to rescind the recent decfs-
ion to elect delegates to the national
convention by direct primaries was
considered at q meeting here today of
the Democratic State Committee of
Rhode Island. A majority of the COM
mitteemen favor the primary system,
but some OF the influential party lead
ers oppose it on the ground that it
would be much more expensive than
the convention plan
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
OIL TRUST HEARING
(National News Association,


ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March 15-The TAX.
ing Of testimony in the legal fight for
control of the Waters Pierce Oil Com
pany was resumed today before Spec
ial Commissioner Jesse Mcdonald.
One of the first important witnesses to
be heard Is NJ. NJ. Van Buren,. son-in-
law of John ID. Archibold of the Stand
ard OIL Company. The Pierce interests
allege that through Van Buren the
Standard Oil magnates are seeking to
obtain control of the Waters-Pierce
company and operate it as a part of
new oil combine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
Two Ice-smashing Tugs Left
at Once to Liberate lind
lana" From Her Perilous
Position.
STORM is RAGING
THROUGHOUT WEST
Transportation Greatly Ham
pered, and Trains Are Run
ming Hours Behind Their
Schedules.
(Nationai News Assoc iation)

"
KANSAS CITY. March 10 Four
of the trunk lines entering Kansas
City from the west are held up by
what indicates being the worst snow
blockade OF the season. Heavy SHOWS
fell In central and western Kansas all
day yesterday and last night. A man.
tie Of white. varying in depth from six
to twenty-five inches. is reported at
railway offices AZ extending from
Central Kansas to the Colorado line.
Several transcontinental trains are
stalled, Just where no one knows, not
even the railroad officials. Wires are
down and communication with points
on the lines 10 impossible. The Bur.
lington 10 the only line to Colorado.
Concordia. Kan. reports four feet Of
;snow on the grounds with drifts Of
lnearly thirty feet around Ellis. A
Union Pacific train has been snow.
bound at Oakley since Sunday.
There are two hundred passengers
aboard including theatrical COM
pany.
CHICAGO. March 15.- Two ice
smashing tugs left Chicago harbor
ltoday to liberate the steamer Indiana
which was caught In an ice floe be-
tween Chicago and Racine and 10 held
fast. The steamer sent wireless calls
for help.
The steamer Kansas caught outside
ne Chicago harbor was brought into
port. Two engine-room hands work.
ing in the storm that swept the lake
patched the hole caused by the Ice
Jam and ice breaking tugs managed
70 hammer q passage through the
foes to the harbor entrance. The
Kansas was badly crippled. The boat
was caught after 1t had aided the
steamer Alsbams, which hadr been,
caught In the ice. The Kansas backed
away TO give the Alabama sea room
and was itself caught in the jam.
A damp heavy snow storm swept
through Chicago by a stin wind
today while the storms that have
ragged for q day continued throughout
the middle west. In Chicago trans
portation was greatly hampered and
throughout the middle western states
trains ran hours late and only made
their way through the storm under
the greatest handicap. More snow
was the promise Of the weather man
here.
Street cars in Chicago were almost
at standstill while the clinging snow
ON the third rail Of the elevated lines
practically put that service out OF
commission. Thousands of workers
were late at their offices and other
Thousands made no attempt to get
through the storm.
Traffic ON all lines into Chicago was
delayed and the tie-up extended to
the through western trunk lines west
Of Omaha.
Advices from Omaha say that at
least fifty trains are snow bound in
Nebraska. Colorado and Western
Kansas, and that there 10 small
chance to break the drifts.
The weather prediction is for abate-
ment of the storm west Of the Missis-
sippi river and better conditions here
tomorrow.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
NEWS NUGGETS
tNational News Associationl

tSational News Associationl
LAWRENCE. Kan. March 15.-
Three highbred setter pups, a bull
dog and a maltese cat have been
enrolled as students at the Univer-
sity of Kansas for experiments to
determine whether the lower ami
mails can think
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March Is.
Teach your girls how to flirt
and when to flirt," was the advice
given the mothers at the Chill
dren's welfare conference here by
Laura B. Garrett in an address on
Noble Motherhood"
HARTFORD. Conn, March Is
To prove her loyalty to the cause"
Miss Jean kynoch. Red Cross
nurse of this city has refused to
wed a rich clubman until she votes
and until he himself becomes a suf-
frage worker.
WASHINGTON, Pa. March Is
Harry Williams is serving his 140th
Jail term here for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct.
LONDON, March 15.-Opposing
the campaign to prevent eating oys-
tiers on the grounds of cruelty, the
professor of physiology at the Lon
don medical schools declares eat
ing is merciful way OF killing the
bivalve.
N7W YORK, March 15.-Mrs E.
Fl. w. Billings. grief-stricken over
the loss of an umbrella which she
had had for % years, has offered a
large reward for it's return.
EVANSTON, ILL.,. March Is
Miss Margaret Kirk. the bride to-
day of Albert Bellings Paddock,
secretary of the American embassy
in Berlin, was married in a gown
of old family rose point lace which
was insured for $685. 900.
PHILADELPHIA, March Ia
Thirty per cent OF Bryn Mawr col
lege graduates are married accord
ing to 1912 college register issued
| today.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
THE WEATHER

HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY
Forecast for Richmond and vicinity,
colder tonight and Saturday. clear.
Maximum temperaturein in last "a hours
80 at noon. Thursday. Minimum tenn
perature In last - hours, IS at s a. m,
Friday. Temperature at 1880 d. M.
today. IS. Barometer 29.7. Direction
and velocity of wind. southwest. Is
Sniles per hour.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
MURDERER TO DIE
(National News Association)

National News Associatton)
. ALBANY, N. Y. March 15.-The list
of executions In this state. which
have averaged almost one a week
since the beginning of the year. will
be added to early in the coming week.
when Salvatore Caruso will be put to
death In the electric chair at Clinton
Prison. Caruso was the leader of a
gang of highwaymeh who murdered
Danton Fowler. paymaster at n brick.
yard. and George Gagadale. a negro
driver, near Hudson, in September.
1910.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15
IN NORTH CAROLINA.

RICHMOND, Va, March 15.-De-
tective Baldwin today reported to
Governor Mann over the telephone
from Hillville that eight members of
the Allen gang have escaped into
North Carolina and are in hiding in
the mountains of that state. Tele.
phone wires are being cut by the gang
as they flee.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-15

N7W YORK, March 15.-Mrs. E.
Fl. w. Billings. griefstricken over
the loss of an umbrella which she
had had for % years, has offered a
large reward for its return.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
EIGHT HOUR DAY

Attorney General Wickershama has broadened the interpretation of the Federal eight hour labor law. so that it applies to every mechanic and Ia borer employed by the United States
 Eight hours has come to be regard ed as the normal days labor through out the United States.
 Yet private employers are inclined to defy the lightning by insisting up on longer day.
 The devotion of Connecticut en7 ployers to the longer day is so great that nine hours has been established as the days work for adolescent boys and girls, in the state trade school. which Is supported by public funds.
 The reason for this departure from trade school practice is said to be to accustom the pupils ito the work they will have to do in the factories. x
 The reason is not sound. The eight hour day has come, and it has come to stay. It will be universal before long.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
OILNG STREETS

f
 Such streets as have been oiled show for the present, at least, a de- cided advantage over sprinklinga The work has been accomplished with a minimum of annoyance, and there has been little complaint of oil tracking in," or lying in pools. to the discom- fiture of automobilists and others On streets that have been treated, the dust appears to be completely laid, on Sundays as on other days. Sprinl1- ling gave an intermittent result. Streets were either very wet, or very dry. There was mud behind the cart and flying dust before it.
 Whether one treatment will be suf- ficient in Bridgeport practice, remains to be seen.
 Under sprfnkling, there was q month or two in the spring of the year. and even in winter, before the sprinkling carts were abroad, when every breeze carried it's especial bur- den.
 This nuisance should be of consid- .erably less proportion, now that oil is used.
 Oil is not the only treatment for laying dust Some solutions have d saline base with an affinity for mois-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
'eMR. DOOLWY," 4B TO-DAY,
 HAS AI6AsSED "A FORTUNE

Whatever may be F9niey Peter DJ1nneis income. 1t. is certain that he has done exceedingly well for a young man who Is only forty-61ve years old today. Mr. Dunne is e native of Chi- cago, born July 10, 1867, and was edu- cated in the public and high schools of the Windy City. At the age Of IS he began his newspaper career as Q newspaper reporter. For a tanne he was on the sta@ Of the Chicago News, and aftsrward was with the Tribune. writer on the Tiares-Herald and the Chicago Evening Post, and editor Of the Chicago Journal. It was while he was connected with the Evening Post that he first introduced to the public that genial character of Archy Road, the now world-famous sdr. Dooley."
 In 1900 MT: Dunne took up his resi- dence in New YorD and has since de- voted his entire time to turning out the "Mr. Dooiey's stories and occa- sional magazine contributions Ten years ago he married Miss Margaret Abbott, a daughter of the late Mary Perkins Abbott, 8 well known journal ist and author of Chicago.
 Mr. Dunne Is probably the highest paid of living humorous writers. The published collections of his '.Dooley'' yarns have won immense popularity in England and throughout the Eng- lish-spealdng world.
 During his early career MT. Dunne was haseham reporter. and his first big newspaper assignment was to make a trip around the world with the Chicago Naticnal League baseball team, then the champions of the world.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
TO STATE. PRISON
 FOR il TO 15 YEARS
Man Accused of Being White Shaver Gets Heavy Term From su-
 peEior Court.

New Haven, July 10-Apparently affected by the testimony of little sixteen-year-old Katie Franz who, Monday, told hef story in the trial in the Superior Criminal court, Gen. arc Bocci. charged with placing the little Brooklyn girl in the white slave traffic. after enticing her from her home, literally threw up his hands yesterday afternoon. after his law yer had closely contested his case for the past two days.
 Shortly after his attorney had lan- nounced that he had but two more witnesses to examine, Bocci was seen to speak with his counsel and then walk to Judge Bennett's bench with the sheriff. He pleaded guilty on a count of abusing female cfild un- der sixteen years of age and harber- ing minor female for the purpose of prostitution. On the first count, Bocci was given frpm three to seven years. while on th4 other count he received a flat term of eight years in States prison.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
RORABACK SEES
 TAFT VICTORY
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN IN HUGE JOKE ABOUT MOOSE PARTY HELPING CHICAGO TICKET.

Canaan, July T10---J. Henry Rora- back, chairman of the Republican State committee, in an interview, de- cIares that President Taft will carry Connecticut next November by good majority. &
 What are the chances for Taft in this State next November" he was asked. {
 "The chances are excellent" he re- piled. President Taft will not only carry Connecticut by a safe majority but he will be elected. You mark the prediction
 What effect will the third party have upon the Taft ticket?'' was the next query.
 ''It will have no injurious effect, he replied. Indeed the new party will help rather than injure the chances of Republican success"
 You mean that the new party will have more Democratic votes than Re- publican votes?"
 That is exactly what l mean"
 Chairman Roraback said that he would soon issue call for meeting of the Republican State committee to be held either in the last week of July or the first week in August. The meeting may be held at some summer resort
 At this meeting the call for the State convention will be issued and a date set for holding the Republican primaries. Under the rule adopted by the last Republican convention all of the Republican primaries might be held on the same day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
SCHOOL FOR
 TROLLEY MANAGERS

q scrutiny of the trolley cars that Fun in and out of Bridgeport, during busy hours, shows the necessity of a school for managers of trolley enter prises.
 The trolley monopoly has pretty much outworn an ever scanty well come. Everywhere the citizens are contefnplating the muniefpilation of street railway transportation, or it's stringent regulation. The managers. like naughty little boys who defy mother. continue to rub the public the wrong way.
 The New England country is dense ly settled. Nowhere is the field of the street railway more profitable. Yet any western line, running through sparsely settled country, will show better conditions for patrons.
 In Bridgeport and its environs, typ ical of the situation in New England, passengers are packed in like sar- diness or attached to straps, and until recently were piled up on running boards, where their own lives were In danger and the life of the conduc- tor much endangered.
 Now that the use of the running heard as passenger carrier has been
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
FIRST THINGS

Seventy-six years ago today, on the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, it was first demonstrated that lascents could be made by railway locomotives. Before that time the upgrade from the Schuy1kill had been made by the aid of stationary engines and ropes. Thus another objection to the steam railroad was shown to be baseless. Those wise people who know it all
 and who are the bane of innovators of every age; had sagely observed that while locomotives might be all very well on level they would be useless in country where steep inclines had to be negotiated. For time the Judgment was accepted as final, until July 10, 1886, the management of the Philadelphia & Columbia road deter- mined, to put it to a test. To the amazement of all the spectators, the locomotive puffed slowly but surely up the incline
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
CENTRALIZING MONEY

Standing in the political market place are financiers deterinined 70 monopelize the circulating medium 1f the country-all the money
 These people desire to establish a great central bank. which shall re- lieve the government of the duty of issuing bank notes.
 The official name of the scheme is .sThe Aldrich Currency and banking plan but any modification of the plan. which preserves it's essenSaa1 features, will serve as well.
 The Aldrich plan Is a means by which the fnanciers. mainly those in New York. hope to centralize in them- selves all the functions of govern ment represented by the sovereign power to issue money.
 Tn some sense there is now mon ey trust A few men control the great insurance companies and other institutions of saving. and hence wield enormous power.
 Buf the present money trust IS mere infant compared with that which would come into being with the adoption of the Aldrich plan, or any plan. of a similar nature.
 A scrutiny of the Republican plat form. the one upon which MT. Taft is running. warrants the construction that broad changes in the currency scheme of the country are. contem- plated. although the Aldrich plan is not endorsed.
 The concentration of money and credits in private hands has not been good for the country. It is certain that no measure that will create a further centralization should be al this time adopted.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10

staunchest supporters were to be found among the women. declared for equal sufrrage John P. St. John, of Kansas, who vii be honored as the oldest Pro- hibitionist by the convention opening today was the paetyss candidate and the vote jumped to 16O.S00 Every State Of the Union, with the excep- ton of South Carolina. helped to roll LID a total of 250290 for Clinton B. Fisk. of New Jersey in 1S68 Four ria. boiled 27A 191 votes. Free silver and other doctrines caused split tn 1908. but in 1900 part of the lost ground was regained. Tn the lest election, Eugene Chain, of Illinois, was the Presidential standard bearer, and re- neived 25A Sfa votes Is2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10

suspended an effort is being made to squeeze the additional number Of per- sons into the cars. between the seats. where there is already less room than the seated passengers need for com fort and safety.
 This practice should be stopped. lt is no hardship to demand of the troll ley lines that serve Bridgeport an honest ride for an honest nickel.
 This means seat for every passen- ger. The riding public has the priv ilege and the duty of resentfng all ef- forts to make them share their seats and their toes with others.
 ; Politeness aiding systematic over crowding of trolley cars. is a public injury.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
4DRYr PARTY TO NOMINATE
 CANDIDATEE FOR PRESIDENT

Enthusiastic in spite of past defeats, the Prohibition Party Of the United States will assemble in national con- vention at Atlantic City today, for the purpose. of nominating caQdidates for President aiad ce-President and surgents'' are apparently in control of the convention machinery, and the declarations of principles will likely be even more radical than four years ago. Besides the inevitable demand for the federal prohibition of the man ufacture or sale of alcoholic bever- ages, which is always the main plank of the Prohibition party, the conven- ton will probably declare for the di- rect election of United States Sena- tors, income and inheritance taxes, parcels post, public ownership of tel egraphs and telephones, corporati ton regulation. warfare on the social evil uniform marriage and divorce stat utes for all the States, an employers child labor, equal suffrage for men and women, conservation, and other radical and humanitarian doctrines
 A number of candidates arc in the field for the empty honor of leading the party to defeat. The singing o4 Onward, Christian Soldiers" and oth- CT militant hymns, will mark the open LIE UT tue SVG9AOAAs
 The temperance movement in Amer ica had its beginning a century ago, in 1912, although "dry" sentiment did not find organized expression in a po- litical party until 1S89 Maine had passed prohibition law in 1851, while in the five years following anti-liquor statutes had been enacted in Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York. Michigan and Iowa Maine alone has remained true to the cause through all the interven- ing years, and that state narrowly es- caped going "wet'' in a recent elec- tion. Prohibition is now most power full in the Southern States, although the Prohibition party, as a political organization, has had little to do with the spread of "dry'' sentiment in the 'biack belt.
 The first national convention of the Prohibitionists was held in Chicago in 1869, when, as the result of agitation by the Good Templars, the "Nationa, Prohibition Reform Party was for n1ally launched-not, however, by the breaking of a bottle of wine over the bows of the new political craft. The first nominating convention of the Prohibition party was held in Column bus, O., forty years ago, when James Black of Pennsylvania was named for President. A total of 5,608 votes were boiled by the party that, year. Ir 1876 there were 9,552 votes cast fol Green Clay Smith for President, and in 1880 the famous temperance orator Neal Dow, received 10.305 votes. IT 1884 the party, recognizing that its
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
TWO MEN IN THE CAB.
(New. York World.)

Regarding the recent accident on the Lackawanna, I wish to say that the engineer of the fast express vn- doubtedly is to blame in a measure, but the fundamental blame for all such disasters lies with the railroad companies. It has long been recog- nizezd by railroad men, both the train men and managers, that one man should never be sent out alone on 9 fast engine of preset type and weight, but should always have an assistant a man of clear vision and perfect hearing, with sufficient knowledge of the engine to be able to stop the train and run 1t carefully to safety in case the engineer should be strick- en by accident or disease. With two men on the alert it would be next to impossible to pass a danger signal.
 Unlike the locomotives of twenty. five years ago when the fireman work ed in the cab with the engineer and could assist him from time to time, the present-day engines are built so the boiler extends entirely through the cab. and so far as assisting the engineer is concerned the fireman might as we'll be in the next car back.
 D. EDWARDS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
A SUBSTITUTE.
eNlew York sun.)

eIN6W XOTkt sum-
 How much simpler, franker and more convincing than that call to con- vention issued on behalf of Colonel Roosevelt and signed by certain of his most faithful political body servants would have been some such declara- ton of faith as the following:
 ''To all the people of the United States who know that the present form of government is a failure. the existing Republican institution a fraud, the American public men of to- day criminals or incompetents, and who recognize that hereafter liberty will perish, injustice rule and the re- public sink into deserved oblivion un- less Theodore Roosevelt Is reelected President of the United States and all powers, administrative, Judicial and legislative. placed in his hands, this call is issued"
 1t is true that this is what the doc- ument issued by the manufactprers of the Third Party means, but why not say it?