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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
sDLzER ENDS CASE;
FAILS TO TESTIFY
Governor of New York Seeks to
Shield Wife.
DECISION is DUE ON MONDAY
impeachment Court Has Three Issues
to Consider in Rendering Verdict
Executives Action Causes
Surprise.

Albany, n. Y, Oct. 1O-The Sulzer
impeachment trial came to an end
abruptly on Wednesday when ex-Sen-
ator Harvey Hinman, who had been
battling valiantly in defense of the
governor, dropped languidly into his
chair at 3:45 o'clock and murmured:
The respondent rests"
Delivered on Wednesday, following
the rejection by the court Of counter
attacks by Mr.. Suffers accusers and
his defenders, the effect of the an
nouncement was electrical, little short
Of dumfounding. 1t meant that the
fate Of Mr.. Sulzer will be decided at
the beginning of the coming week.
1t required a full five minutes for
the nine court of appeals judges and
forty-eight senators composing the
court to relaize the full import of the
statement made by counsel for the de-
fendant.
It established the fact that William
Sulzer had no personal defense or ex-
PLANTATION to make of the charges pre-
ferred by the assembly that he has
been guilty of NAL and corrupt prac-
tees" involving violations of the cor
rupt practices act, perjury and per-
sonal degradation by INDUCING in
stock gambling since the people elect
cd him governor in November last by
the largest majority ever given a po-
IiticaI candidate in this state.
According to D. G. Herrick, chief of
his attorneys, Governor Sulzer decid-
ed not &c defend himself in person
because he did not want to be placed
in the position of shielding himself be-
hind his wife-for it was for Mrs. Sui
ger, according to the testimony, that
the governor had his Wall street deal
ings
Judge Herrick said that the COVER
nor had heard from many quarters, in
Guiding Washington, that amy man
who would shield himself behind his
wife ought to be removed"
Friends of the governor pictured
him as a man VINO had martyred him
self for the sake of his wife.
Upon the evidence submitted by his
aCCusers and that of the one vital wit
ness offered by him counsel of both
sides will proceed to sum up in the
effort to establish their conflicting
points of view When they have COM
pleted their undertakings the court
will dispose of the motions made by
M Suffers counsel to dismiss the
three important articles contained in
the assembly indictment, numbering
eight counts.
II this final effort to save Mr.. Sulzer
is defeated, the court viii proceed to
vote on these three propositions:
Whether or not the respondent (Mr.
Sulzer) is guilty of any or all of the
charges contained in the articles of
Impeachment?
II guilty, shall he be removed from
Office?
If removed from office, shall be be
forbidden to hold public office again?
The temper of the court at the SUI
preme moment Of the crisis confront
ing Mr.. SulzeT, following the an
nOuncement by Mr. Herrick, his chief
counsel, was manifestll+ Shfavorable
to Mr.. Sulzer.
The person who assumed full re-
sponsibility and ultimate consequences
Of those offenses was the bright-vis-
aged, boyish-looking Russian, Louis A.
Sarecky.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
THREE HELD FOR MURDER.
One Of Slayers is Wounded by Pol
lock Before He Died.

Calumet, Mich, Oct 10.-EIeven ar
Calumet, Mich, Oct. 9.-Eleven ar
rests were made in connection with
the fatal shooting of Joseph Pollock
Jr., deputy sheriff. by men supposed
TO be strikers at Hurontown, near
Houghton, but only three are held.
One Of the three is Joseph Manerieh,
Who was shot through the stomach by
Pollock and who is in a serious condi-
0oG in hospital.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
METER CAUSES FIVE DEATHS.
Russian Rabbi and Family Perish in
Gotham Flat.

New York. Oct 10.-Solomon Schas-
ser and four of his young children
were found lead in the Schasser apart
ment overcome by gas. The mother
and a daughter were removed to a
hospital unconscious. Some one had
put a quarter in the meter, and the
Schassers went to sleep with gas es-
Gaping from two jets. Schasser was
an ilinerant rabbi from Russia
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
HELD UNDER THE MANN ACT.
St. Paul Lumberman Accused of White
Siavery-is indicted.

~, L
Slavery-is indicted.
Chicago, Oct S.-William Rufus Ed
wards of st. Paul, wealthy lumber
man and coal dealer, was indicted by
the federal grand jury in this city on
a charge of violating the Mann act.
He is accused of transporting Miss
Ada M. Cox, stenographer. from
Chicago to ST. Paul for immoral pur-
poses.
Miss Cox in 1910 was a stenogra-
pher in the office of M. E. Mogg,
president and general manager of the
Shelby County Coal company Mr.
Edwards had business relations With
Mr.. Mogg> and in July, 1910. met Miss
Ccx il Mogg's Office.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
WIRE TAPPERs MAKE HAUL.
Former Canadian Official Loses Over
$4,000 to Crooks.

$4,000 to Crooks.
New York, Oct 8.-Sixty-four thou
sand dollars was the profit of the Con-
dorf overlapping gang when they
fleeced wealthy victim from Canada
in this city.
D. S. Curry, former comptroller or
Winnipeg, Manitoba, but in recent
years an invalid, travelling in search
of health contributed this money by
the straight overlapping swindle.
Members of the gang lured Curry
from West Baden, Ind, to this city
short time ago and into pool room
on West Forty-fifth street. where the
"old racing operator" had a secret
wire cut in on the racing results.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
COLLECTOR OF PORT QUITS.
j. Mitchell too Busy With Political
Fight

New York, Oct. 1O.-John Purroy
Mitchell. fusion candidate for mayor,
sent a letter to President Wilson re.
signing the Office Of collector of the
mort of New York Mr. Mitchell, who
was appointed to that post last
summer. gives as a reason for his &C
ton the fact that he is engaged in
a local political contest, asserting
that he felt it his duty to offer his
resignation under such circumstances.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
Radasr Panama Body Departs.

Madison The Wisconsin commits
sion to the San Francisco exposition,
including Gov McGoyern, left Chicago
over the Santa Fe road on October s.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
LOUIS W. HILL IS STRICKEN.
Gives Up Hunting Trip in Oregon
and Starts for Home.

Portland, Ore, Oct 9.-Louis w.
hin chairman of the Great Northern
railroad directorate. was taken Ill In
Portland Just as he was preparing for
hunting trip. He Cancelled his hunt
ing plans and started Immediately LOT
St. Paul in his private car. It was
reported his condition was not seri
Gus.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-15
GIANTS TAKE SECOND GAME.
Mathewson Blanks Mack's Men, to 0,
After Big Battle.

Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Oct. 10
Plank and Mathewson fought it out
on wednesday for the second game OF
the worlds series and Matty was the
stronger, The struggle endured for
ten innings and nine of them were
blanks. In the tenth Plank gave way.
The Giants, pressing him and follow
ing up every opening, suddenly
straightened out his slants and
brought the veteran to the dust.
Three runs we're hammered in dur
inc the tenth and they won the game.
This ties the score, as the Athletics
won the first game in New York on
Tuesday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03

BOSTON, Dec 8 Twenty-seven
persons were burned to death early
today in a fire which destroyed the
Arcadia lodging house, this being the
heaviest death toll ever recorded in
fire here.
Two persons were fatally injured,
while more than a score were slightly
hurt or overcome by smoke.
There were 179 men asleep in the
lodging house when the fire broke out.
The flames spread swiftly through the
flimsy building, and a number of men
caught on the upper floors leaped from
the windows
All the victims were poverty
stricken men. the lodging house being
15-cents-a-night affair, catering to
the poor Many Of them were home
less wanderers, and for this reason
the authorities believe that the names
Of all the victims will never be known.
The conhagration was attended by
many thrilling escapes Firemen
spread nets and into these many of
the panic stricken dodgers leaped
On man wrapped a mattress about
his body and jumped from the ffth
floor, the mattress saving his life
Inmates Panic Stricken.
Policemen lined along the fire es-
capes were forced to beat the fugi-
tives with the clubs to start them on
their way to the street and clear the
fire escapes to make room for others
fleeing from the building.
The streets for blocks in three di-
rections were scenes of the widest
confusion while the fire was burning
Thn Ix-sr, f,,;,
tributed about on the sidewalks neg
lected, while the first arrivals were
striving to rescue others from the
flames.
Every available ambulance in the
city was rushed to the scene and all
manner of conveyances were pressed
into service to take the injured to the
hospitals. A special staff of doctors
and nurses was in readiness at the
City Hospital when the first ambu-
lance arrived
Fire Escapes Inadequate.
The meager Hre escapes on the rear
of the building offered escape to but
few. Those OCCUPYING rooms to the
front were cut off by a wall of flames
which scared up the stairways and
drove them to the windows to escape
suffoCation. There was no fire escape
on the front or side of the building,
and most of the dead were found near
the windows.
The great rapidity with which fire
leaped from floor to floor caught the
lodgers unaware and scores awoke to
find their beds hemmed in by the
flames.
There they clung as the flames
belched forth from windows beneath
them and crept across the beds that
they had vacated
Several narrowly escaped being
hurled from the coping into the street
in the rush for the ladders, which fell
just short of the coping on which they
were clinging. The f1remen ascended
as far as they could and caught the
dodgers as they jumped to the top
of the ladders four stories in the air
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03

Burglars and stick-up men, after
giving the police a rest for twenty.
four hours, took fresh courage last
night, relieving John w. Barrett, d re.
tired railroader of S65 gold watch
and attempting to enter the Unthank
home on South Ninth street.
Estella S. Hollarn, daughter of the
superintendent of Glen Miller park,
passing the Williams homestead, 1902
Main street, last night saw a man
Hollarn's approach was unnoticed.
The prOwler escaped when he saw
that he was noticed
Chief of Police Gormon was ignorant
of the latest developments of the
crime wave which has made the city
unsafe after nightfall. 1t was learned
that a patrolman visited the Unthank
home after Mrs. Laura Meyer Unthank
had fred two shots at a man whom
she saw lettering in the back yard.
Police Chase Prowler.
The police gave chase to a prowler
at 7:30 last night near Seventeenth
and Main streets. The man broke from
Iilee pau IollHeH anu udsueu through
an empty lot east of the Margaret
Smith Home for Aged Women at Sew
enteenth and Main streets
The ladies of the home heard the
loud talking of the police as they pur-
sued the men and heard the crashing
through the brush on the lot Only a
few pedestrians witnessed the affair
They said the police had been warned
Of men who were peeping in windows
and had been detailed to some house
when they found a man hiding in the
lot.
For the last three weeks, low whis-
ties, believed to be signals, have been
CONTINUED on Page Six)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03
BL|CKWEDEL
PRESIDENT AGAIN
Members of South Side AS
SOciatiOn Hold Annual
Election.
NEW BOARD n A ME d

Adolph Blickwedel was reelected
president of the South Side Improve
ment association at the annual cleo
ton of directors and officers last night.
Other officers chosen were: c. G..
Beall. secretary: Anton Stole. treas
urer; Hans Koll, first vice-president; :;
Conrad Zwissler, second vice-presi-
dent; B. a. kennepohl, third vice-pres
ident.
The new board of directors which
elected the above officers Immediately
after being placed in Office follows
John Habing, Edward femme, Fred
Miller, August Sturm, Conrad Zwiss-
ler. ]. c. Bayer. Fred Hackman, A. B.
kennepohl. Hans Koll. Anton Stolle,
c. A. Beall and Adolph Blickwedel
The new officers will be installed the
first Tuesday night in January.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY CRIPPLED.
CITIZENS TERRORIZED BY POLICEMEN
Factories Close Down. While Railroads Report Freight Con-
geston as Strike Difficulty Ties Up Traffic-Cen-
eral Sympathetic Strike Is Expected

INDIANAPOLIS Dec 3-Indanapolis today is facing the
most critical labor situation its history possib
Will be called support the striking teaster and chauffeur
their demands living
most serious nature be anticipated which
ment will find impossible with thereby necessating
state to control of the situation.
The Indianapolis press has ignored possibility gener-
strike this city but labor
luton calling walk-out three
votes at meeting the executive committee of the
Council last evening.
is generally understood that unless by Thursday enough
firms have signed union
1900 general sympathetic strike will result, which
completely demoraze indianapolis which
already seriously affected.
Police Rule with Despotic Hand.
indianapolis being ruled by the hand police
deposm There the usual number of the
but the slightest evidence congestion
ed officers charging into the crowds and they show pay
the cracking of heads general feeling of
lent everywhere. Business in indianapolis is practically
stands One large factory employing
today for lack of coal which could be hauled plant
Prospect of other manufacturing taking
tion imminent 1t has been reliably
largest department stores the city have
their patrons that all be promptly owing
the condition
All Stores Are Deserted.
Stores practically of the jobbins
houses attempting to transact business Railroads
greatly affected by the Big
-Four stated today that all the sidng the division between
Peoria and Indianapolis
other roads running into this city practically the
Up to today Ill firms which members of
mera Vehicle Protective Association signed
tracts which affect about 700 chaueur
the required 800 will be employment
thing only future developments foree
employs about twenty teamsters stated
which members of the vehicle the
demands the strikers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03
THANK JUDGE FOR
ORDER TO LEAVE
James Johnson and Morris
Crawford Lose No Time
in Quitting Town.

Thank you. your honor" was the
polite manner in which James John.
stOn Of Marion, and Morris Crawford
received Mayor Zimmerman's order for
them to get out OF the city in an hour
Both were deeply moved by the may.
oT's kindness and lost no time in
heading for the corporation line
Johnston. who claimed he had been
employed on the streets by a gas com.
pany at Marion, was closely question
ed by the court and Police Chief Cor
mon in an attempt TO prove he was one
of the men at whom Patrolman Schroe
der fired in the Pennsylvania yards
Sunday night. He pleaded guilty to
begging.
With a sentence of 140 days hang
ing over him If he entered a saloon
before he left Richmond and was not
out Of the city in an hour Morris
Crawford slung his umbrella repair
kit over mis- shoulder and departed. He
was slated for public intoxication.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03
Burts Surprises Prosecutor
BY Drawing Check For
Temporary Release.
KNOWS LAW ANGLES
Police Unwilling to Let Cul-
prit Escape From COun-
ty Jail.

Held for burSlarizing the Carr home,
Edward Burts, cOlored, captured by
Burton Car, offered to furnish $4,000
bail when Prosecutor Keller today
asked that sum upon the request of
the negro that he be released from
the county jail.
The readiness with which Burts of
fered the sum took away the breath
of the prosecuting attorney, who be-
lieved $4,000 sufficiently high to pre-
clude its acceptance. Hardly had
States Attorney Keller mentioned the
sum before Burts signed a check on
an Indianapolis bank for the amount.
The police believe Burts ability to
furnish bond links him with a pro-
fessional gang of burglars. They say
that burglars work in groups. and that
one of the party usually has enough
money in bank to go bail for a mem
Der who may be caught After bail
has been accepted the cu1prit disap-
pears, forfeits the money, and the
state is unable to prosecute the case.
Forwards Check.
The $4,000 check has been sent to
the Indianapolis bank on which it was
drawn. Prosecutor Keller did not in
dicate what action he would take if
the bank honors the check
Burts has shown a detailed knowl-
edge of court procedure, according to
the police. Not only has he maintain
ed strict silence, but after he engaged
Attorney Richardson to defend him,
he at once asked a hearing in circuit
court. The states attorney and Mr..
Richardson held a conference today,
and the negro burglar broached the
subject of cash bail
Mr.. Keller believed he could fore
stall his temporary release by placing
bail at $4,000. but to his surprise the
negro at once signed his name to a
check on an Indianapolis bank Should
the prosecutor refuse to honor the
bail, Burts probably will plead in cir
cult court next week.
The police are unwilling to let Burts
slip through their fingers. as they be-
heVe he is a member of a gang of
crooks that has terrorized Indiana.
Chief of Police Gormon is securing
the state and has been In communica-
ton with Chicago. Indianapolis and
Cincinnati to obtain the antecedents
OF the negro.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03
NOVEMBER OF 1918
WARMEST IN YEARS
Maximum Temperature Reg
istered At Station At
"a Degrees.

Ye gossipers of Boreas1 Ye rem
nants of a fast disappearing race who
renovate records for years in memor-
ium and fasten weather predictions on
the heels of "reminiscences, harken,
November just past was the warmest
month since 1909. According to sta
tistics prepared at the offices of the
Richmond Water Works company by
Walter Nossler. director of the death
or apparatus, this fact is true
The average temperature of the
month was 45 degrees. The highest
register of the mercury was "A de
grees, November %, while the lowest
reading was IA degrees, November II.
The maximum temperature was 81 de-
grees and the minimum was tabulated
at Sc degrees.
The comparative table for Novem-
ber as arranged by Mr. Vossler for
the last five years is as follows:
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03
NATIONAL FLORISTS
1914 CONVENTION
AT INDIANAPOLIS

f G. Hill, the Richmond florist, has
obtained the next convention Of the
National Chrysanthemum society for
indianapolis. This convention has
never before been held outside OF New
York and Chicago. Mr.. Hill made the
announcement yesterday at New Cas-
tie at a meeting OF the Indiana Flor
lists society. The exhibition of the
Nnational Chrysanthemum society
numbers among its exhibitors some of
the best-known m;llionaires OF the east
and the rivalry is very keen among
them
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03
Rev. T. III. Kuhn Said to Be
Aspirant Against
Gray.
COMMITTEE ACCEPTS
BECK'S RESIGNATION
Walter Chambers Named to
Fill Position of District
Chairman.

Rev. T. H. Kuhn, twice a candidate
on the Democratic ticket for congress-
man from the Sixth district, who cut
down an overwhelming Republican ma
1ority until it was possible to elect a
Democratic congressman and was
then deserted by his party which ell
ected Finly Gray, is considering max
ing the race for the democratic con-
gressional nomination next spring.
Mr.. Kuhn is now living at FortvilIe,
Ind. Some of his friends say that he
will have no trouble in getting the
Hancock and Wayne county delega-
tions should he permit his name to
come before the convention. Other op-
position to Mr.. Gray may develop from
Shelbyville, where Charles Hack, an
attorney of that place is polishing his
armor and grooming himself to also
enter the lists against the present rep
resentative from the Sixth district.
while both of these men have been
mentioned as possible candidates for
the nomination, | doubt whether their
fight will ever reach the district con-
Vention, said Charles B. Beck whose
resignation as chairman of the Sixth
district was accepted yesterday by the
Democratic state committee.
Beck Gives Opinion.
81 do not think that Mr. Kuhn would
be able to swing the Wayne county
delegation from Congressman Gray
under any circumstances. Mr.. Gray
save for few minor troubles with
patronage has been very successful in
establishing himself in this district.
! doubt if any one can muster suffici-
ent strength against him to make it
worth their while to organize against
him
Democrats of the state are prepar-
ing for an entire reorganization pre-
paratory to the county and congress
sional elections to be held next year.
At a meeting of the state committee
in Indianapolis yesterday a call was
issued for get-together meeting and
love feast to follow a reorganization
meeting to be held January 8.
Invitations to the love feast will be
sent to President Wilson, Vice-Presi-
dent Marshall and a number Of other
prominent Democrats.
Convention December 20.
A call for the election of delegates
to district conventions to be held Dec.
90 was made by the state committee.
The delegates are to be elected Dec.
26 and 81 Delegates will be sent to
the district conventions on the basis
of one for each $50 votes cast for Gov
ernor Ralston last year. 1t is under
stood that Bernard Korbly will be re-
elected state chairman at the reorgan-
ization meeting on January without
opposition.
The state committee fixed the place
for holding the various district con-
ventions with the exception of the
Sixth 1t is probable that delegates
from this district will meet at Cam
bridge City owing to its central loca-
tiOn.
At yesterdays meeting of the state
committee, the resignation of Mr..
Beck, as chairman of the Sixth dis
trict, which was rendered three
months ago, was accepted and Walter
Chambers named to fill out the unex-
pired term. Mr. Beck rendered his res
fgnation when he learned that he was
slated for the Richmond postmaster
ship.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-03

Eugene Rutledge, IS. was shot in
the left leg during a fight with a
number of alleged strike breakers.
who were driving a wagon belonging
to the Minter Coal and Coke COM
pany this morning. Rutledge is a
teamster and was on the sidewalk in
front of a saloon. According TO the
men on the wagon two shots were
fired at them from this saloon, and
they fired in return, one of their bull
lets striking Rutledge.
The men on the wagon were sent to
police headquarters by Bicyclemen
Long andSheridan. who were the first
to answer the emergency call. Three
of the emergency police were also
rushed to the scene. After being
shot Rutledgecrawled down an alley
half a square south of Washington
street, where he was found and sent
to the City Hospital
Each of the strike breakers was re-
Quired to make a written statement
at police headquarters and was then
released. All gave out-of-town ad-
dresses. None of the men had special
police power. it is said.