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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
ELECTION PROBLEM
CONFRONTS BOWMAN

There being some controversy as
to the number of hours which shall
constitute day for the members of
the registration board, Louis Bowman,
county auditor, recently wrote to
Thomas NJ. Homnan, attorney-general
for an opinion. In a letter received
yesterday afternoon by Auditor Bow
man, the attorney-general says that
the registration law does not state
the number of hours which consti-
tutes a days work for members of the
board.
The letter is as follows:
Your letter of the second inst. at
hand. The registration law does not
state what number of hours shall con-
stitute a day. Neither does the elec-
ton law state what number of hours
shall constitute a day. Our supreme
court has decided in the case of the
pay of jurors that "a hours constitutes
a days work. The registration law
states that registration officers shall
be paid at the rate of 81 per day for
the time necessarily engaged in the
discharge Of their duties
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
PEACE OR WAR.

WILKESBARRE. Pa. April A.
Peace or war in the anthracite region
hinges upon whatever action the oper-
ators take in Philadelphia next We'd
nesday when the representatives of
the miners made formal demand for
recognition of their union. Wage de-
mands have been subordinated to rec
ognition of the union.
Positive assurances to this effect
were given by district leaders today
who declared that the national leaders
viii inform the operators when theys
meet in conference in Philadelphia,
that, unless recognition of the union
is guaranteed they will recommend to
the miners to turn down any other
proposition and tie up the entire anth-
racite field in general strike.
The district leaders are going ahead
with their plans for national conven-
tion instead of submitting any offer
the mine owners might make to ref
erendum vote. Each local organiza-
tion union will elect delegates to the
convention. They will be permitted TO
send their representatives either with
or without instructions.
The date OF the convention will prob
ably be April % and the notices for
the election of delegates will be mail
ed about April Is il the Philadelphia
joint conference is over by that time.
President John p White OF the Unit
ed Mine workers of America probably
will preside at the convention, accord
ing to present plans. II has not yet
been determined whether the meeting
shall be held in this city or Scranton.
Some of the coal company oficials
are said to be in favor OF recognition
of the union in a modified form. Con
servatives among the miners leaders
are also in favor of modified from OF
recognition IL that is the best that can
be secured this year.
All the mines are under picket
guards who inteTogate every man go
ing to work.In cases where the pickess
are satisfied that the workmen are do
ing repair duty they are allowed to
proceed; otherwise they are turned
back with instructions TO remain idle
until they are instructed by the union
to resume their duties. The tie-up is
complete and the collieries are CON-
PEELED TO use their own store supply
for keeping fires in the boilers OF the
engines that work the pump and fans
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
PERRY TWP. PUPILS
ARE TO GRADUATE

The program for the annual COM
mencement of the Perry township
schools which will be held tomorrow
evening at the Methodist Episcopal
church at Economy was announced to-
day by County Superintendent c. o.
Williams
The invocation will be pronounced
by the Rev. George Martin. Charles W.
Jordan secretary of the Richmond
Commercial Club will deliver the class
address. Mr.. Jordan was formerly
county superintendent of public In
struction. c. o. Williams. present
county superintendent. will present
the diplomas to the graduates. Music
for the occasion is to be furnished by
the Fleming orchestra.
Graduates from the high school are
Mary BaIlengsr. Avis Veal, Elsie Veal.
and Clara Hill The graduates from the
common school are Blanche Beall.
Harold Fenimore. Rena Cox, Hazel
Fletcher, Hazel MendenhaI, Clyde
Franklin, Ruby Morrison and Eldridge
Saunders.
c. Roy Williams is principal of the
high school and Virgie MendenhaII as
sistant principal The teachers are
Love Lindsey. Bessie c. Taylor and II
ne NJ Wilson
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
ULT|MATUM
WAS ISSUED
BY DOCTORS

When the board of trustees Of the
Reid Memorial hospital adopt the sys-
tenn of management of the institution
as recommended by the councilmanic
hospital investigating committee in its
report, the Wayne County Medical So
ciety will support the hospital in every
manner and form to the last ditch If
the board does not see fit to accept the
suggestions and place them in opera
ton support will be withheld by the
physicians. This was decided at the
meeting of the Wayne county Medical
society yesterday afternoon at ST.
PauPs parish house, when a resolution
to this effect was presented and pass
ed unanimously. No discussion of the
resolution or of the recent actions of
the council regarding the hospital was
permitted, the resolution going
through by unanimous vote immediat-
ely after it had been read. The thir-
ty-five members of the society eviden-
tly acted on a prearranged schedule
The society, while not by direct &C.
Iiou vi SIdlclucuI SIioWtuS
to the board of trustees, by the reso-
luton passed yesterday, made it plain
to the trustees that that body must
comply with the provisions of the re-
port submitted to the city council by
the hospital probe committee. The
resolution extends thanks to the COM
mittee, composed Of private citizens
and councilmen, who took up the ar
duous task of compiling evidence on
hospital conditions.
Who suggested the resolution is not
known. Secrecy surrounds this step.
When the members of the society ar
rived at the St. Paul's parish house,
where the meeting was held, the res
olution in a neat, typewriter form,
was found on the table. 1t was read
Then put on motion for passage, sec
onded and passed unanimously with
out a word being uttered either for or
against it.
BY the wording of the resolution, the
society puts the question of support
or non-support of the hospital by the
physicians up to the board of trustees.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
RAIDS LOCAL STORE
Aged Peddler Helps Himself
to Goods Displayed.

James Dudley, aged 81, vagrant, who
makes his living by peddling nick
nacks about the country was arrested
shoestrings and tie sets from a local
five and ten cent store, and in police
court this morning received a fine of
$40 and costs and ten days in Jail.
When placed on trial, his whole body
shook as if with palsy, his hands grip
ped his hat, and tears poured down his
cheeks when he replied to the prose
cutor's query, II don't know what TO
plead" His effects, two bundles of
needles, several diaries, and the tie
sets. were placed on the table and the
manager of the store placed the small
er bundle of shoestrings and tie sets
aside, saying those had been stolen
The old man said he did not know
how they happened to be in his clothes
but said that he supposed he had stol-
en- them.
He was sent down to the county Jail
last December for begging. Then he
gave the name of James Wilson His
Jail term will be thirty days IL was
explained in police court by an en-
ploye of the store where the articles
were stolen that he filed his pockets
with articles, went out, wrapped the
articles up in paper, came back and
helped himself to more until he was
finally noticed and caught at his thiev-
ing. .-.
John B. Morrison, ill at his home 307
North Fourteenth street. received
word through the local police depart
ment, this morning. that brother liv-
ing at Endsley. Alabama. was serious
ly iii, and asking that he come there
as soon as possible. The condition of
Nr. Morrison is such that he cannot
make the trip. The telegram came to
chief of police Gormon, asking that
he locate John B. Morrison and re-
quest the latter to communicate with
]. F. McNulty.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
Suffragettes in Convention
at Indianapolis Condemn
the So-called Marshall
etion.
III IGNORES WOMEN
RESOLUTION READS
Representation by Ballot for
"One-half of the Persons
Resident in Indiana" One
of the Demands.
(National News Association

INDIANAPOLIS, April 4.-indiana's s
new proposed constitution was flatly
sat on by the suffrage forces of the
state in the convention Of the Wom-
ems Franchise League, which held its
closing session today.
1--WE emphatically condemn the So
called Marshall constitution" the reso-
luton reads, ION the grounds that it is
revolutionary in character and also be-
cause it ignores the women of the
state
Further the resolution urges upon
political parties to insert in their plat
forms planks which Will demand a con-
vention in the near future to frame
and put before the voters a new con-
stitution that shall correct defects in
the present instrument.
Especially" the resolution said,
''the unjust and antiquated provision
which excludes from representation
ident in Indiana"
However, the resolution expresses
confidence in the good Intentions and
wisdom of the men of Indiana"
But, we beseech them not to wait
until majority of the states as we'll
as the most backward of the nations
of the earth have enfranchised women
but that they take measures at once to
secure the cooperation of the women
in the administration Of public af-
fairs"
s.Another paragraph of the resolution
ss1gs: while we regard the cause of
ANpn1en's enfranchisement as funda-
aSnenfal underlying all the reforms for
which the good people are today work
ing. such as peace, temperance, social
purity, better housing conditions, child
labor legislation and so forth, yet we
do not think this great cause is to be
furthered by violent methods, or by re-
sorting to the tactics of the demago-
igues and the machine politician"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
IMPROVED WATER
SERVICE ASSURED
Extension of a Main Will
Give the North End
Better Protection.

Business of small Importance was
transacted by the board of works this
morning. The mayor was absent.
The city agreed to pay for one water
main on an extension of a main from
Tenth and North | streets to Eighth
and North l streets. This will close
up dead end existing on the North
Eighth street line, and will, by reason
of the better water service given, low
er the insurance rates ON the Rumely
Co. plant about fifteen per cent. The
water works company, represented by
Howard Dill, then agreed to close up a
short gap in the water mains from
Tenth and North to Eleventh and
North J. This will make complete
circulation of the water in the mains
in the north section of the city and
stop all dead ends" In addition, the
new water plug to be taken by the
city will give added protection to the
Watt and Keller factory and lower the
insurance rates on that plant consid-
erably. The plant is now protected
by only one water plug
bitches, bumps, holes, and trenches
also came up for consideration. The
board of works agreed, representing
the city, to pick up and repair Rich
mond avenue and North Third street,
damaged by the water company's
trench holes, for the sum of SITS.
This will release the company from all
further obligation in the upkeep of
these two streets, except when more
trenches are dug. The gas company
will now be approached and asked to
repair the holes they have left in the
city streets.
A sewer on Main between Twentieth
and Twenty-first streets, which is
partly stopped by roots, will be clean
ed out and man hole inserted before
the sidewalks are cemented.
Signs at the Glen were also discus
sed. A Dayton company offered to
place large sign on the arch at the
Main street entrance at the Glen, to
contain the illuminated letters, Glen
Miller Park" in the center over the
main driveway, and over one footpath
the word Richmond" and over the
other Indiana The letters are to
be of large size, and will be illuminat.
ed by 200 electric lights. Exclusive
of a transformer and the lights, the
sign will cost $235, but with the cen.
trail sign to contain the words 'The
Glen,' the cost of the sign would be
only S195. The matter was taken un
der advisement
City attorney Gardner was instruct
ed to draw up lease for five years
for the light plant office. The rental
is S55 per month. Supt. johnson was
given power to have walk construct
ed at the back of the office leading
to the alley. The inside of the office
will be papered and painted soon.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
GANG CHIEFS
SLAIN TODAY
IN A BATTLE
(NatIonal News Association

HILLESVILLE. Va. April 4.-Sidna
Allen and Wesley Edwards of the no.
torious Allen gang, which shot up the
court house several weeks ago, killing
the Judge, prosecutor and one juror,
were killed today in a battle with de-
tectives. according TO a report brought
herepat noon by a courier.
Two of the detectives were perhaps
fatally shot, according to the report,
which has not Yet been confirmed.
The battle in which the two gang
leaders were killed occurred near Vol.
unteer Gap in the Blue Ridge noun
tains- The report is based on the sto-
ry of a rural mail carrier who arrived
at Mt. Airy. y. c.. today. He said that
negroes had told him of the fight. The
news was received here by long dis
tance telephone. According to the re
port men have started from Mt Airs
TO investigate the story.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
WEATHER
BURDEN TO COUNTY
During First Quarter Relief
of the Poor Cost the
Townships $2,675.51

During the first quarter of this year
suffering among the poorer classes in
Wayne county has been greater than
for many years, judging from the re-
just been presented to the county au-
ditor. after having been approved by
the board of county commissioners.
There was $2,675.51 spent by trustees
in the various townships of the county
during January, February and March
of this year to relieve the suffering of
the poor
The amount of charity work done
by James Howarth, trustee of Wayne
township, exceeded that OF all of the
other trustees. Wayne township spent
$1,7O4.S5 toward aiding poor people
during the past three winter months.
,, This is explained by the unusual rigor-
Gus weather and the fact that work,
in some instances, was rather hard to
obtain.
The charity work carried on by the
township trustees consisted of giving
groceries, fuel, shoes and books, pay
ing physicians and undertakers and in
some cases paying room rent and CIV
| ing transportation from one place to
! another over the railroad and interur-
| ban lines.
Township Trustee Howarth said this
morning that from now on no more
coal would be given out. He said that
most of the people made application
at his Office for fuel and provisions
during the first quarter have now OBJ
tanned work. During the quarter he is
sued orders for coal to the amount of
$7o4
1t has been the custom of the trus-
| tees to visit families when aid was
| asked in order to ascertain their condi-
ton and to see if they were really de-
serving persons. The trustees state
that as rule the persons requesting
aid are worthy people.
| Following is the amount expended
in each township for the first quarter:
Wayne township. s1,7004.s5; Perry,
s2116; Center, s16O.69; Washington,
$162.73; Jackson, $41916; Green, 500
SO; Harrison, 81; Dalton, 81, New Gar
den, $3.50; Arlington, s26; Clay, SAB
so; Franklin, s41.39; and Webster,
$3.50.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
FESTIVAL WORKERS
NET LAST NIGHT

The May Festival executive COM
mittee held meeting last evening.
Reports were made by chairmen of
subcommittee to the effect that ar
rangements for the event are being
completed rapidly. The Festival is to
be held May % and "a The Coliseum
has been secured for the affair.
Indications are extremely bright for
the festival being a complete success
n every particular. The rehearsals Of
the chorus and orchestra show decij-
ed Improvement. and there is little
doubt but that the event this year viii
surpass all others.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
Mississippi Three Feet High
er Today Than ANY Time
in Its History and Near Fa-
tai Al Foot Mark.
IPESTILENCE is AN
ADDED HORROR NOW
Manholes of Sewers in Mem
phis Blown Out and the
Drinking Water Polluted.
Many Lives Lost.
(National News Associ7tion)

t-NdtIoildI -NC"S <ASSoAiht
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 4.-Reports
of the loss of lives continued to reach
here this afternoon as the flood situa-
tion hourly grows more desperate.
The river today is three feet higher
than ever before known here, and by
Friday night or Saturday morning the
A foot stage, which the government
says is the highest mark the dykes
will stand, is expected. A special
warning was sent to the people on the
Arkansas side today to leave their
homes as soon as possible, as it is
believed the first break will come on
that side of the river, The danger of
pestilence was added to the other flood
terrors today, when the manholes of
the sewers were blown out in all parts
of the city and the flood carried the
sewage through the streets. Part of
the city's drinking water has already
been polluted. Health officers held a
hurried consultation this afternoon
and drastic action will be taken to
prevent typhoid epidemic.
George Smith and Miner Seay. liv-
ing near Clarksville, Tenn, were
drowned when their skiff overturned
when they attempted to cross the Cum
berland river.
At Mariana, Ark, today William
Lynn, farmer, shot and killed three
negroes who refused to go into the
flood to rescue his cattle.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
TWO LEvEE BREAKS.

CAIRO, ILL.,, April 4.-Two breaks in
the levees occurred here shortly be-
fore dawn today and the flood wa
have swept through the drainage dis
trict and left the city practically iso-
lated and in imminent danger of par
tial destruction. The flood water is
IA feet higher than the streets of the
city. Four hundred men working to
save the Big Four levee were maroon
ed when the break occurred. They
were left standing on the top of the
embankment, part of which had al
ready been torn away by the flood.
A steamer was sent from here to res
cue them and began battle with the
current which is swift and treacher-
Gus to reach the embankment without
creating counter currants and eddies
that will cause the levee to crumble
into the water before the helpless la
borers can be taken off.
First Levee Break.
The first break occurred when the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad levee pro-
age district gave way. The drainage
district, which is north of the city
proper and is protected on all sides
by levees, forming an added protection
to Cairo in case of flood, is given over
largely to market gardening. There
are number of houses in the district
and these already have been washed
Iao,a fropo tbair foundations and ora
floating in the flood, threatening to
hammer away at the levees protecting
the city as they are tossed about in
the currant. A number of factories
are also located in the drainage dis
trict and these have been inundated
and put out of commission.
The break in the drainage district
has allowed the weight of the floods
from both the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers to attack the north wall of the
levees that protect the city proper
The current is racing through the
district and the north wall has become
a new danger point.
Railroad communication has already
been cut off and the situation is SER
ious. The loss from the flood to date
was estimated at $4,000
Nearly every able-bodied man in
Cairo and 1,5e0 imported laborers
struggled along the seven miles of le-
wees that protect the city in last
desperate effort to check the flood TO
day The water is still rising rapidly
and it was feared this morning that
the walls would give way SOON A
special fight is being made to streng-
then the north wall which feels the
full weight of the flood for the first
time following the break today Ii is
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
ElRsr VIOLENT DEED.

SHAMOklN. Pa. April 4.-The first
violence in the anthracite region. at
tributed to idle coal miners, occurred
today near here when the home of Al
exander Williams. an engineer at
Kathryn colliery. which is attempting
TO operate with non union men, was
dynamited. The occupants of the
house had narrow escapes. About the
same time an attempt was made to
blow up portion of the Reading rail-
road tracks and wreck train carrying
non strikers TO work
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04

BOSTON, Mass, April 4.-Accord-
ing to Mrs.Clio Bracken, the famous
woman sculptor, the feminine figure
is more beautiful without corsets only
theoretically, and that as matter of
fact the average woman wears her
gowns with much more grace than if
there were no stays beneath them.
When Mrs. Bracken was approached
with the argument that Venus de Milo
did not wear corsets, she answered:
But neither did she wear clothes"
Corsets are absolutely necessary to
the average woman of mature figure,
and she has learned to fit and wear
them so well that her clothes are as
graceful as if they followed the lines
of the ideal the uncorseted figure
photograph shows Mrs. Bracken in
street attire.)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
NICHOLS NOW SAYS
HIS TALE IS FAKE
Self Confessed Assassin of
DR.. Knabe Calls Story
a Booze Dream.
lNational News Association

PORTSMOUTH, y. H., April An
stead of keeping his promise to fur
nish the police authorities with addi-
tional startling facts concerning the
murder of DR.. Helene Knabe at Indi-
annapolis last October, Seth Nichols.
the booze-fighting ex-sailor. acknowl-
edged he was aboard the warship Dixie
when the murder was committed and
that his confession was a fake pure
and simple.
Nichols declared that he had read
much in the newspapers regarding the
murder and that constant drinking OF
liquor kept the crime uppermost in his
mind. The sickness and loss of his
wife together with the constant drink
ing had brought him to such a state
of mind that he believed he had com
mitted the crime. After two nights
good rest he declared that he saw
things differently.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
PRESIDENT HAS ACTED.

AsHINGTON, April 4-President
Taft today ordered the quartermaster's
department to ship army rations to
the flood sufferers in the Mississippi
valley. This action was taken follow
ing visit to the White House of Sen.
James of Kentucky. The President
also indicated to his visitor that he
would urge an appropriation of $780,
600 by congress to buy food for the
desperate flood sufferers of the affect
ed states
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
,SPIRITUALIST FUNK
CALLED BY DEATH
(National News Association

MONTCLAIR, N. J., April 4.-Dr.
Isaac X. Funk, prominent author and
publisher, died at his home here to-
day of heart failure. He was 73 years
old. DR.. Funk interested himself
greatly in psychic research and many
times insisted that he had been in
communication with the spirit world
and had been face to face and spoken
with the spirit of the famous preacher
DIR. Henry Ward Beecher. His writings
upon spiritualism were numerous
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-04
Home of Engineer of a Nom
Union Mine Was Wrecked
and Attempt Is Also Made
to Wreck Train.
is FIRST VIOLENT
ACTION OF STRIKE
British Coal Miners by a
Large Majority Vote Today
to Reject the Minimum
Wage Act of Govt.

LONDON. April THE total vote
of miners of the United Kingdom on
the question of acceptance of the min.
imum wage scale bill was officially an
nounced today at 20l, 900 for the &C
ceptance and 244.ooo against The min
ers federation officials announced ,hat
they would advise all miners 10 re
sumo work.