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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26
OILvILLE

Especial to The Richmond virginian.(
OILvILLE. VA. May e5.-Th
drought continues in this section.
citizen having just returned frol
Caroline. reports good rains in thai
county last week.
Friday morning the home of Jetes
Avis was made glad by the arrival
Of a fine hoy. Mother and son have
been doing well up to this morning
when Mrs. Avis was taken suddenli
worse with some heart trouble, and
Mt this writing, she Is considered III
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26
A. |. MONTAGUE TO
DELIVER ADDRESS

Congressman Andrew Jackson Moni
tague has accepted an invitation d
deliver the opening address at TIL
commencement of the Benedictin1
Military college. The exercises. owe
which Mayor Ainslie will preside, wi
be held Saturday night. June Tth.
Besides Congressman MontAgu@
other speakers Of distinction will tak}
part in the exercises Governor WI
II. Mann was to have delivered an
address. but owing to his physic1l
condition he will be unable to attend
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26
ITALIAN VOTERS
To HOLD MEETING
MAY ENDORSE TICKET TO BE
SUPPORTED IN PRIMARY
ELECTION.

An open meeting of the Italian
American Political club will be held
at the rooms OF the club. Fraternity
hall. No. Els West Broad street. on
Wednesday night at s o'clock. All
candidates have been invited TO be
present.
This club numbers about three
hundred members. and WILL probably
at this meeting, endorse a ticket to
be voted for at the coming primary.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26

Do the Californtans the sinister hand Of
the little brown man in the appropriation of
100000 for the Panama-Pacinc exposition Can't
they work up war scare out of this by claim.
Ing that the 100000 is for the purpose of ac-
curing sites for forts in California?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26
Two BurgIaries Reported.

According to a report made yester-
day at Second police station the store
of John L. Branch. 10 East Broad
street, was entered yesterday morning
and about So in currency was taken
from the cash drawer. Entrance wa
gained by breaking a glass in> the read
Of the building.
Max Needles. the tailor. reported (
the police that an attempt was mad
to enter his place. The would-be hur1
lar was frightened away before
could effect an entrance to the sho5n
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26

The New York Sun complains that those up-
sulzer in his fight for Statewide primary do
so not because they love the primary more, but
Murphy less. and in making that complaint the
Sun puts Its finger upon the real significance
OF the fight.
To our mind the question to be settled by the
struggle now on between Sulzer and Murphy
lis more important one than whether New
York Is or is not to have primary: more i'm
portant than whether the Democratic party is
to keep or repudiate It's pledges; more impor-
tant than whether the Democratic party is to
be returned to power at the next election. Tie
question to be settled IS this: Is Murphy to
continue to be the boss OF New York State?
He was practically kicked out of the national
Democratic convention; he lost his fight for a
Murphy man for the Democratic candidate for
governor of New York; he faces revolt In Man
haitian and Brooklyn. For him to lose this
fight with Sulzer probably means for him to
lose his fight in New York city, In which event
no more and possibly never another like him.
That's the real fight Few people outside New
York know anything of the relative merits of the
Sulzer and Murphy-inspired primary bills. but
they are watching the fight between the governor
and boss of New York and the sympathy Of the
majority of them are with the governor, for
they know 1t is fight of the boss against popu-
lar government, a fight which OF late has been
won by the people-with gratifying regularity.
Relying on the well-established fact that revo-
buttons In fashions move backward the Washing
ton Star expresses the hope that the rapid
changes In dancing styles may yet bring us back
to the old.time Virginia dances. May its hopes
he fulfilled even though the hoopskirt comes
with them,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26
Let the Virginian F follow You

III YOU are going away. either to the
seashore, the mountains or the country,
let THE NIRGTNIAN follow you.
Remember there will be no extra charge
and you will be able to keep up with the
happenings In your home town. All you
have to do is to call phone Madison 1853
and tell us where you are going, and your
paper will be there by the time you are.
DO 1T NOW.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26

Boston woman says that slim men are
cranks. But at least they are more comfortable
In this weather than the sane fat ones
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26

A contemporary has an editorial on the trials
o. kingship, but they nothing to the trials of
home secretary in England In these days of
suffragettes.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26

1t Is rather hard on Mr.. Roosevelt that he
must make dry trip to Ishpeming
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26

To the plans committee OF the city Democra-
tic committee-a word with you.
Richmond faces a crisis. The question OF an
nexation or no annexation is important and
pressing Upon how 1t is solved depends the
future OF this city to large extent. You are
not asked TO decide this question, but TO de-
eide only whether the duly constituted repre-
.-srnrztt~rs 81 rnz people Of 4 handful OF enthu-
sisstic partisans shall decide it.
The Tiroinia believes 1t Is voicing the sent-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26

nents OF the vast majority OF the people Of
Richmond when 1t urges you to let the council
nrake the decision. If 1t does not make 1t right
the means are at hand to see that the question
Is reopened and submitted to other councilmen
who will reach the settlement desired by the
people. In any event referendum in which less
than half the people interested take part
and In which probably less than onefourth will
take part is not the proper method of settling
this question.
The very difficulty which you are having with
the question of the proper form of the questions
to be submitted in this restricted referendum;
the doubt as to the legality OF the proposal to
place the questions upon the primary ballot; the
impossibiiity of learning the wishes of the peo-
PIE under any plan which may be devised by you
at this time; the short time in which the people
will have to reach decision as to any parti-
cniar plan and the unwillingness of the people
to decide the definite question OF annexation or
no annexation. without further light on the sub
tect and without knowledge Of the plan to be
formulated by the annexation committee of the
council-all these things clearly show the fu-
tility and worthessness, II not the danger of the
proposed referendum
In view of the difficulty In the way of select
Ing even the least Objectionable plan by which to
conduct an objectionable referendum, The Vfr-
gintan believes you should decide not to attempt
the impossible. You cannot prevent the city
Democratic committee from remaining firm In
Its determination to hold this referendum You
cannot prevent 1t from naming another COM
ndttee to make the vain attempt to devise an
equitable plan. But you can refuse to do 1t
yourself; you can throw the weight of your in
fuence into the discussion of the matter when
/. comes up before the committee again and,
falling to have adopted your recommendation
that the idea OF referendum be dropped, you
can wash your hands of the matter
Believing this suggestion to be for the good
CT Richmond and for the determination of the
best method Of settling this question Of annexa-
ton and believing that the majority Of the peo-
pie of Richmond regard the matter in the same
light, The Virginidn makes 1t to the plans COM
nittee of the city Democratic committee, with
the belief that that committee will consider It
carefully before acting, with the belief that that
committee wishes to do what is best and is not
averse to listening to advice on the subject
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26
Clergyman and Cobbler.

OF course, a minister ought to practice all
he breaches. Yet the shoemaker never wears
all the shoes he turns out.-Chicago News.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-26
A Fellow Feeling.

Chicago should sympathize with the Japs-
"too much Johnson."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Washington times., 1913-07-13

and John said that they had. not seen
their mother "for an awful long time.
Years" Just how long they cannot
say. They were never told where their
mother was.
AIonzo Stevenson. a colored waiter. IN
locked up at the Sixth precinct police
station charged with murder. the police
alleging that he stabbed Hammond In
the back with butcher knife. Steven
son denies all part in the affair. and the
police have as yet been unable 20 nresx ss
knew that Hammond was dead he ad-
mitted using the knife upon him. but
changed his statement when ne was
confronted with Hammond's corpse.
Joseph johnson. chef at the Cnicago
and alleged companion Of Stevenson.
Is being. held by the police as a United
States witness.
Search Futile.
The police have searched In vain to-
day for Dennis McInerney and Hancs
waple. said to be companions OF Ham
nond at the time Of the stabbtng.
Lieutenant Duvall. of the Sixth Pre-
cinct. and his men are on the lookout
for them. but 1t is said that they have
not been to their homes
According to the police version Of the
affair stevenson and johnson were be-
ing teased and that resentment started
q fight in which Hammond was stabbed.
The dead man was an iron worker
employed on the new high school build
ing being erected in Georgia avenue
HIS brother David Hammond. also an
iron worker. fell to his death from the
new Raleigh Hotel several years ago
Asrp NIL
left wife and five children. Four sis
ters survive him. They are Mrs. Fannie
Dolandson, of 1910 Jefferson street
northwest, who went to the mosgue
this morning to claim his body: Mrs.
Ella Essex. who is III and confined in
one Of the city hospitals; Mrs. Lille
Thompson. and Mrs Ward.
During their married life. the Ham
monds. It IL Understood. made their
home in Georgetown
Funeral services have not yet been
arranged. They are In charge Of Mrs
Donaldson.
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
breaches
WITHOUT A COAT
Baltimore Minister StartIes
Congregation by His Un-.
conventional Dress.

BALTIMORE, July 13.-Rev. Austin o..
Boda, the pastor of Riverside Baptist
Church, stepped into the pulpit at Riv-
erside Church today without a coat
and preached his sermon
He made no explanation to his con-
gregation. He ignored conventions and
waved shirt-sleeved arms in gestures to
emphasize the points he made in his
discourse.
During the time DR.. Boda was in the
edifice he devoted himself strictly to
the service. Cool and apparently COM
Portable he Joined in the singing and
calmly and coilectedly preached his ser
mon.
After the service he discussed the
innovation for which he Is responsible.
He declared that he wanted all Balti-
more to know that the city has at least
one church in which the mode of dress
will exclude no one from worship.
Il do not seek notoriety in this man
ner," he said earnestly. But when 1
read in a newspaper lately that a cer-
tain resident of the city claimed that
he did not believe any pastor Of Balti-
more had the nerve to advocate men
attending church without their coats l
decided to disabuse him mind as far as
/ am concerned"
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
DANIELS SECOND
SON TO GET GAVEL
Josephus, Jr.'s, Claim Is Barred
by Edict Issued by Wife of
Navy's Secretary.

Josephus Daniels, jr., will not get the
historic gavel presented to his father
the Secretary of the Navy. at the Perry
centennial celebration at Erie. Pa Mrs
Daniels has decided otherwise, and the
souvenir will go instead to Worth Bag
ley Daniels. second son Of the Secre-
tary, and by him kept as a reminder OF
the deeds of his uncle, the late Ensign
Worth Bagley. after whom young Dan
iels is named
Secretary Daniels claims to have made
the decision himself that the gavel
should go to Worth instead of Josephus,
jr., but the fact remains that Mrs
Daniels has long come to the conclu-
sion that Josephus, jr.. is getting the
lions share of the gifts presented to
his father. This comes about, she eX-
planned this morning over the telephone,
by reason of the fact that many of
tials j. D.'-which tust fit Josephus,
jr., a coincidence to which the eldest
son is always careful to call attention.
No." said the Secretary this morn
ing. Il decided it myself. but have no
doubt that the decision would have been
reached anyway. because of course Mrs.
Daniels has the veto power in all
things"
The gavel is made partly from the
wood of Commodore Perry's flagship
the Niagara. both of which participated
in the famous lake engagement, and
the metal bands on the souvenir are
from a spike taken from the Niagara.
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
LOBBY INQUIRY
IS GOING DEEPER
Senators Prepare to Get Facts
About Mass of Letters
Held by MuIhaI.
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of Chicago. and Fairchilds. Of New
York.
MuIhaIl told how he went into the
fields of labor in New Jersey and paid
labor men to fight Billy" Hughes,
because he was too friendly to labor:
how he helped in the recollection Of
senator Aldrich, in 1901. how he was
in Philadelphia In 1894, trying to
break strike OF printers who want
ed an eight-hour day. He employed
spies within the union to get inside
Information. He employed Michael
Collins and William j. Ryan, ne said,
to hnd out what the labor unions
were doing. For this work, he spent
about $500 a week.
In 1905, he was sent to New York to
help kill the Page bill. providing that
the burden of proof should be placed
on the defendants in damage suits in
volving contributory negligence. He
saw william Barnes. jr.. and the Page
bill SOON died in the judiciary commit
tee of the senate at Albany.
The Senate committee has not yet
passed on the question whether II will
permit the N A. M. and the A. +. Of
L. to be represented by counsel. At
torney Jackson H. Ralston appeared
for the Federation of Labor and put
before II all the correspondence and
papers relative to its lobbying efforts.
Mr.. Ralston asked to appear as counsel
for the federation
Proximity Of James A. Emery, coun-
sci for the N. A. NJ. to Mulhall yes
terday afternoon caused an explosion.
Mulhall thought Emery was prompting
Senator Reed and he objected sharply,
saying Emery represented '.the worst
gang in the country and declaring
this was a fight to a finish.
1t is likely the Senate and House in
yestigations will be running at the
same time the coming week. The Gar
rett committee would like to put J. II.
McMichael on the stand Monday, and
II 1t does Will go at once into the
charges that McMichael, as a House
employe. was doing the work of spy
for the n. A. M. Mulhall alleged that
McMichael received $50 weekly and ex-
ira sums to get Information when chief
Of House pages.
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
Thunder and Rain Force
Speaker Clark to Quit

Lowering clouds and reverberating
thunders that drowned even the roar
of the Potomac proved too much for
Speaker Champ Clark yesterday, when.
as one Of the Missouri Society, he at
tended the annual outing at Great Falls.
Unfiinchingly he has faced tumultu-
Gus scenes in the House of Representa-
tives and the roar of legislative debate
has never made him quail. but a thirty
minute July storm was more than he
cared to face and consequently. when
Congressman Decker made a nice little
Introductory speech and turned to pres
ent the Speaker, that official was we'll
on his way back to Washington.
Three State societies, those Of Mis-
souri,, Michigan, and Indiana, met ST.
multaneously at Great Falls yesterday
afternoon, though not jointly. The
Missourians were the only ones who
had any sort of a program. The shower
which came UP shortly after 5 o'clock
drove the 400 picnickers to shelter for
a time, but did not seriously interrupt
the occasion. Congressman Decker,
Lloyd, Rubey.- and Dyer were present,
and made brief addresses to the Mis-
sourians.
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
PRINCESS GOLHzENA
STRANDS NLONDON
Russian Whose Stage Career
Came to Grief in America, in
Home for Oppressed.

Princess olga Goiitzena. the fair Rus
sian whose attempt at stage career
In America came to gfief. has had .
similar experience in England, and 10
now in . cottage near The Hague. In
q sort Of open house maintained for the
oppressed Of all nations by Charles
Leonard Van Noppen- The princess
gains admission a. a victim Of the Rus
sian Empire.
In London, the princess has told the
same tale that she narrated to news
papers in New York and Warrington
of family persecution because Of her
histrionic aspirations ard her refusal
to live with Prince Golitxena, : DASH
ing young officer In the Cars Imperial
Oficisls Of the Russian embassy in
this city who interested themselves In
the princes1 plight when she wss In
this city and New York grsW rather
weary when informed today that the
princess was stil1 asserting that she ID
being followed constantly by Dptes. The
embassy tried to induce the princess
to 70 back home. Join her husband and
cease bringing the Russian court into
the public print. The princses djd nos
listen to tffis advice, and the embassy
officials finally gave her up.
In London. the pxtnces8 had the same
sort Of trouble getting . place on the
stage ~ in New York s-s,-
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
CR|SPELL GIRL ALIVE
WHEN THOUGHT DEAD
Victim of Drowning Bought
Dresses Day After Supposed
Murder, Clerks Say.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, July 13.-The
body of Alice CrispelI, found drowned
( in Harvey's lake last Monday, has
been taken from its grave and is
awaiting second autopsy in the
local morgue.
A New York analytical chemist will
seek for poison in the internal or
gans, and is expected to report his
findings to the authorities within
three days.
e The most amazing development in
this mysterious case came to light
when 1t was ascertained that the girl
was alive Saturday, July 5. although
it had been supposed that she was
killed on July 4.
The proof came in a typically fem
mime way. Two girl clerks in a local
department store identified a photo
graph of Alice Crispell as that of a
girl who had come into the place on
July 2 and bought two dresses. One
had to be altered. and Alice called for
both at o'clock Saturday. fully
twenty-four hours after she was sup
posed to have died in the waters of
the lake. twenty miles away. A mem
orandum of the sale and alterations is
on file in the store as mute evidence.
to corroborate the testimony Of the
clerks.
There is much speculation as to where
the dead girl spent Friday night and
Saturday. The theory advanced by. one
Of the detectives is that she was afraid
to go home after she left Johns and tha I
she went into strip Of woods, where
she remained all might and the next
day. until the shades Of night came.
when, under cover of the darkness, she
came to Wilkesbarre and got the
dresses. Returning to the lake, the
supposition Is that she was overcome
by remorse and threw herself into the
water. District Attorney Bigelow will
investigate this phase Of the case.
William Crispell, father of Alice
Crispell, is under the surveillance of
county detectives. 1t is suspected that
he possibly knows much concerning
the murder. He has been grilled
frequently, and while he has not
changed the essential details Of his
story. he is plainly in a nervous state
and worried over the activity Of the
authorities.
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
Latimer Will Take
Bench This Week

Judge j. Wilmer Latimer will assufn-
direction of the District Juvenile Court
this week He has planned no radical
reforms. but he expects 10 make tour
of other cities so that he may gather
some points on the methods of running
this distinctive branch of the court svs,
tenn. "
Judge Latimer holds membership in
The District Bar Association, the Cos
mos, Chevy Chase. and Lawyers Clubs
the Beard OF Trade, and is on the fac,
ulty OF the George Washington Law
School
He was born in West Virginia. and
graduated from Columbian University
Law School Mr.. Latimer Is married.
and has two children. Their home is In
Chevy Chase.
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
INQUEST TO DECIDE
WHO STABBED MAN
John H. Hammond, Iron Worker,
Stabbed in Back at Penn
syIvania Avenue Hotel.

A coroner's inquest to fix RESPONSE
bility for the death last night of John
II. Hammond. an iron worker. who was
stabbed in the back in a Pennsylvania
avenue hotel. will be held at the morgue
by Coroner Nevitt at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
In the meantime, two little children
Of the dead man, Leola. a bright little
girl of thirteen. and John. eleven years
old, are sobbing out their grief un-
comforted by parental hand in a board
ing house at s24 Eighth street north
west. What Is to become Of them no
one knows. Mother and father have
been separated for years. Just how long
no one seems to know. and for week
the little ones have been in charge Of
Mrs. NJ. T. Shepherd. proprietress of the
boarding house.
Previous to that they were cared for
brief period In a boarding house at
1011 II street, Leola says, by a Mrs.
Arrow. The little girl does not know
where she was previous to that. I'VE
have never been any place very long,
she pitifully explained.
Mother Missing.
It was at first supposed that the
mother of the children was In Balti-
more, but 1t was said today that she is
with relatives In Georgetown. Leola
The Washington times., 1913-07-13
Clergyman Injured by
Motor Car Recovering

the Rev. DR.. John NJ. Schick, pastor
OF Grace Reformed Church. Fifteenth
and o streets northwest, who was
knocked down by an automobile al
Fourteenth and p streets yesterday AZ
ternoon just after leaving his home Ia
answer a sick call. is showing rapid
Improvement at Emergency HospitaI n
is not believed that his condition. Il
dangerous: He is suffering from a dis
located hip and injuries to the chest
and back.
Dr. Schick, who was Colonel Roosa-
vets pastor during the time tie
colonel was in Washington, had lust
le1t the curb to board a Fourteenth
street car. when the accident occurred
HIS view of the approaching automobile
was ooscured, 1t is said. by a passing
wagon. He came from behind The
wagon and found himself in front of
the automobile, but IT was too late 10
escape.
w. J. Wells. driver of the machine.
Drought II 10 quick stop and hurried
the clergyman 10 the hospital