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s THE WE A 'IIP: T MM ANA. Fair in . s uth showers In i north portion fur.ght r ; SOUTH BENB NEW Sunday; cooler in north portion Sun dav. Edition lwi:k Michigan. ij lr. ti' with I'.' al show j, crs tonight fr Sunday; i AVERAGE DAILY NEWS-TIMES CIRCULATION FOR JULY WAS 16,817, READ THE 'WANTS' cooler in north portion to ni-'ht; cooler Sunday. ji VOL. XXX., NO. 231. SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1913. PRICE TWO CENTS LARGEST SWORN CIRCULATION IN NORTHERN INDIANA. flFTEMM M DERM IS BOUGHT OUT BY BIG INTERESTS I. H. McMichael, Dismissed Chief Page of House, Tells of Deals in Which Illinois Man Took Part. ANTED WITNESS TO ASSUME ALL BLAME Agreed to Pay Him $100 a Month if They Sent Him to Arkansas For Either Perjury or Forgery. WASHINGTON, A tier. 16. In a dramatic statement. I. II. McMichael dlsmussed Chief I'age of the house, representatives Friday night, present ed to the house lobby investigating committee a sweeping charge of cor ruption against Kep. James K. Mc J'ermott of Illinois, for years hid sponsor. With intense earnestness. McMich ael. in . picturesque language, cor roborated the allegations of M. M. Mulhall, against McDerrnott and made ; additional charges, at times shocking the committee and spectators with outbursts of profanity and slang. The witness protested that for years he had exerted every effort to support McDernioit, had loaned him money, had helped him in his campaigns. Now, he said. McDerrnott, had "thrown him down" and he felt that he must tell the truth. In addition to the charges already made McMichael swore that the Chi cago representative told h'im that he received 7,5u0 out of a fund of $10,000 raised by the pawnbrokers of Wash ington to oppose a bill passed in the last (onurrss regulating interest rates in the District of Columbia. In this connection MeMichael's told of a trip to New York when McDerrnott con ferred with John McDerrnott of an association of brewers and with Geor' II. Horning, a local pawn-, broker. McDormott Worried. Concluding his testimony, McMich ael tesliib -d that McDerrnott, since the Mulhall expose, had endeavored to iet him to conceal McDermott's part in the transaction. "I met McDerrnott In the hall of this oiti. e buUding." said McMichael. his voire unsteady with emotion, "and lie said, 'My God. I'm a ruined man. What am I going to do? Do you suppose anvbody will believe this old guy ." "I said to him, Tve worked hard for you six years, harder than I ever worked for any man. 1 tried to elevate you and help you to a big position." -I told him I had done all I could for him. He said, "you've got nothing to lose. You don't live with your wife. I'm a congressman and I've got a wife and children. Say you wrote these letters unbeknownst to me, and that I did not know anything about it. Kven if they prove that you commit ted perjury and forgery they can only send you down the river to Arkansas for two years and I'll pay you Sluo a month while you are there." Kcftiodl tin Offer. "I said to him, 'Yes, you're willing to pav me $loo a month to go to jail f,r you but you won't pay the wages ou 'hunt stly owe me. l'e got 1 1 in "my pocket. That's all I've got to show for six ears work but I won't do this for you." " Apparently struggling t control himself. McMichael told the commit tee of furnishing $7." to take Mulhall to Chcjigo to aid McDerrnott in the l'Ml campaign. "Where did ou get that money?" asked Kep. Garrett. "My mother had just died." said McMichael. "and I was executor for my mother's estate. The money was in a bank here to the credit "of the estate and I gave Mulhall .i check for it. I had to hustl.' to put it bark. T never got any of it from McD. rmott." Mr. McMichael told at length of making trips to various pawnbrokers in Washington to secure money either for McDerrnott or himself. MrI,erm"tt told me." he said, "that the pawnbrokers had raised $DVn" to light the loan shark bill, nnd biter he t"ld me he got ST.oCo of if. When I asked him why he did not pay me v hat he owed me with part of it. lie said, 'my God. man. 1 had to pav it on del'ts and I still owe .McDerrnott Hoar Story. Throughout MeMichael's recital. Kep. M "Derntut with his counsel sat immediately- opposite the witness, chewing ..n a ciar. and watching his erstwhile confidential man with a Heady gaze. He expressed neither arpr;so nor Indignation at any point m the complicated story. A story of how lobby work for the National Association of Manufactur ers was done from the inside of the house 4 f representatives, was related to tlie houi-e investigating committee Friday by J. 1 1. McMichael. former ihief page of the house. Nattily at tired in a summery outfit of blue and white serge. McMichael blew cioums of smoke in the faces of the members ef the '-ommittee from the v.dtness chair while he discoursed in vivid and picturesque lur.gua ge. On ho Pay KoII, I'rom the fall of 1903 until Janu ary. 1 C 1 L McMichael said, he was al most constantly on the pav rool of Martin M. Mulhall. the National As portation of Manufacturers' field agent at fO a month, while he was successively democratic chief page of the. house, attendant jn the house press gallery and elevator conductor in the capitol. Ho told of introduc ing Mulhall to Kep. James JZ. Mc Derrnott of Illinois, for whom he worked as a kind of secretary, nnd !d that McDerrnott worked with Mulhall, and provided the latter with a room in the basement of the capi tol, where McDerrnott, McMichael and Mulhall conferred. . "Did you ever see any money pass between Mulhall and McDerrnott?" asked Chairman Garrett. "I never seen any money actually pa S3 between them," said the witness leaning back in his chair and pausing to puff at his cigarette. "But I had reason to believe that plenty of it was passing. I got mine open and above board." "Why do you say you had reason to believe money was passing?" The witness leaned forward and pounded on the committee table. 'I'm Not a IVxd." "I'm not a fool." he declared vig orously. "When two guys like me and McDerrnott sit down to a table and two of us ain't got a penny, and a third guy comes in and we have eats and drinks and get up with the dough. I know that dough don't grow on trees, or on the table." The witness said he. McDerrnott and Mulhall, after conferring at the capitol would adjourn to a dining room in a small hotel near the cap itol, for "extended sessions". He de scribed the room provided In the cap itol for the conferences as a "good place to sleep off drunks". "How would you or McDormott know about the other having money after these conferences?" asked Chairman Garry t. "We'd just smile at each other." he said. "Koth of us was careful not to let the other know about how much money we had. If Mulhall gave me two bills I'd hide the larger one and flash the smaller one, because every time I flashed anything over $2 he copped half of it. He would go to the cashier and give him his money and draw two dollars and come back to where I was. He'd say to the cashier, "for God's sake don't let Mac see this". We were both doing this." The comrrfttee and the spectators laughed heartily at MeMichael's de scription of these transactions. "At this time your relations with McDerrnott were confidential?" asked Garrett. "Oh. yes," said the witness. He said that a hotel cashier named Re gan had made affidavit as to these transactions. Ilegan will appear later. The money he received from Mul hall on these occasions the witness said, was always deducted from his monthly stipend. He sain that his employment by Mulhall was for the purpose of keep ing Mulhall and James A, Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, advised of the status of legislation in the house and in various committees and documents to the National Association of Manu facturers" officials. NEW PARCEL POST ATES ii EFFECT Packages Can Be Sent Up to 20 Pound Weight To Use Autos Instead of Carriers. New parcel post regulations which have just gone into effect, raising the weight limit for first and second zones from 11 pounds to 20 pounds may cause some readjustment in the meth od of delivery in the South Bend of fice hut such changes will have to be worked out when the new conditions arise, according to Schuyler C. Tip ton, superintendent of mails. There will probably be no addition al help but the heavier packages will be delivered by auto or wagon instead of by parcel carrier. Tipton also announced that the mail delivery is to be extended to the 1000 and 1100 blocks on o'Krien and Kl mer sts.. and the 100 block on Huey st. Sidewalks and other improve ments have been installed in this dis trict and the department has author ized the extension of the delivery. Tho New Herniations. In the new regulations for the par cels post the parcel must not exceed 72 inches in length and girth com bined and 20 pounds in weight for the first and second zones. In the re mainder the weight limit remains t 11 pound?. The local parcel post rate ranges from five cents for one pound to 13 cents for twenty pounds; for the first zone, fifty miles, live to 2 4 cents: sec ond zone, tifty to 150 miles, live to 2 4 cents; third zone, 130 to COO miles, seven cents for one pound to 57 cents f 11 pounds; fourth zone, 300 to 00 miles. eight to fi$ cents; fifth zone, (100 to 1.000 miles, nine to 79 cents; sixth zone. 1.00 to 1.40 miles. 10 cents to $1; seventh zone, 1,400 to l.SOO milts. 11 cents to $1.11; eighth zone, all over l.SOO miles. 12 cents to $1.32. AUGUSTINE FAMILY HOLDS 21st ANNUAL REUNION The Augustine family held its 21st annual reunion at I -ako Park, Hul son lake. Thursday, with 36 members present. The day was spent in mu sic, games and contests. A ball game between Edwin Dunlavey's and Sim King's teams played in the afternoon, resulted in a score of 17 to 5 In favor of the Kings. The following officers were re elected: Jacob Augustine, president; Harrison Ilardman, vice-president; William Drown, treasurer, and Mrs. Ralph RoekhilJ. secretary. Sim King. B. 1 Augustine, John C. Dunn and 15. K Fields were appointed commit tee on arrangements. The next reunion will le held at Lnko Park the second Thursday in August, 1014. MUSICAL SOCIETY PLANS PICNIC AT CHAPN LAKE The first annual picnic of the I. A. O. Cm. Musical association will be held at Chapin lake. Aug. !0. Special cars wiil leave the corner of St. Joseph st. and Vistula av at :4o iu the morn- W N .BEND WHY CAN'T VV ' "l-LL JUST Pur 'EM? S (flLL OP THERE. ?N THREW BRICK: GETS SIXTY DAYS MIL Lucky Not to Face Manslaugh ter Charge, Farabaugh Tells the Prisoner. Steven Banaszak, who threw a brick at Patrolman Delinski last week and severely wounded him. was given the heaviest fine imposed recently by Judge Farabaugh. He drew a 50 day jail sentence and a fine of $30 and costs. .Vincent Szymankowski was found not guilty of assaulting Patrolman Do Iee.hut was given the maximum fine of $3 and costs on a charge of being drunk. George Hanaszak said to have been connected with the affair, was found not guilty. The affair occurred cn the night of Aug. 7. zymankowski was arrested by Patrolmen De Lee and Delinski for being drunk. He resisted the two policemen. Hearing of his friend's arrest, Panaszak sought to release him by throwing a brick at the policemen. Delinski was struck on the head and severely cut. In imposing the fine and jail sen tence Judge Farabaugh said: "Von may consider yourself lucky you aro not here this morning charged with manslaughter. I am not giving you this heavy fine and sentence because of the fact that you hit Olficer De linski with a brick. It is because I want to teach you and young nrenjike you that you must respect the authori ty that man represents." ins morning. The aid society will furnish the dinner. A long list of events will be held. Rev. Cecil Franklin, pastor of tho Indiana a v. Christian church, will de liver the address of the day. The program is in charge of the following committee: I?. J. Cramer, Inland Kempfon, Pen Cordier, Theo. Hans, Hay Crepps and Harry Rudduck. It Starts A HAIR upon a husband's VEST once caused much CONSTERNATION ; a SPECK of POWDER on his SLEEVE once threatened SEPARATION. A sweet MASH-NOTE left in his COAT brought WORDS of ACRIMONY, domestic STRIFE, and now the WIFE is drawing ALIMONY. A BUTTON red which cut the THREAD and from a SHOE did drop, solved instantly a MYSTERY for ROSE, the lady COP. It's just immense, this TALE intense, it's lively, keen and cuttin'; romantic, too, this NOVEL new Will Irwin's THE RED BUTTON It starts Monday in WE HAVE A CANNING SEASON MATT M'GEATH MAY LOSE SIGHT Champion Weight Thrower Gets Fear ful IJlow From Cane at Theater. NEW YORK, Aug. 16. Matt Mc Trath, famous policeman-athlete, may lose the sight of his right eye, as the result of a blow from a cane received while trying to quell a disturbance in the lobby of the New York theater where he is employed as special offi cer. A man who says he is John Brink, civil engineer, is charged with assault ing McGrath. Prink and three other men, all ap parently intoxicated, bought tickets for the Jardin de Danse, on the eXw York theater roof. The doorkeeper refused to admit them and they start ed to light. McGrath came to the rescue and was iloored with the cane. He blew his police whistle and olli cers of the Broadway squad arrested the four men and also a fifth, who apparently had Joined in the light be cause the lighting was good. McGrath, champion weight thrower, was suspended from the police forco when he killed a man he found in his Brooklyn flat, but recently was re instated. "A taxpayer's suit" though, held up his re-instatement and the matter is still in the courts. BEAT UP SOCIETY MEN WHO TOOK NOCTURNAL NIP NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. I., Aug. 16. Penj. K. Gatin and .Malcolm Stevenson, members of the wealthy Narragansett colony, photoplayers and society Jockeys, were beaten up and arrested Friday night when caught taking nocturnal liquid re freshment from Kim cottage, after that hostelry had closed. Lou Anthony, the proprietor, ex plained that he had no objection to "good customers" helping themselves and the men were released. Monday the News-Times. ILKE THIS? DUCKS ARE HIT OF THE MARKET Biff Crowd of Shoppers Turns Out Peaches and Crab Apples for Sale. Twelve little ducks In a basket wero the real feature of tho market Satur day morning. A constantly changing group of admiring women hung over them and each one said to the others, "Aren't they the sweetest things you ever saw?" Tho ducks were Indian runners and showed their Inheritance by climbing over the edge of the basket and trying to run away. They were not more than two days old. The ducks were sold in a lot to a Polish family who are looking forward to some excellent Sunday dinners. The ducks shared honors with two little Pelgian hares, offered for sale at the same wagon. The hares were very pretty but did not attract pur chasers so quickly. Colfax av. was crowded with mar keters Saturday morning. A long line of wagons extended almost the full length of the block and a group purchasers surrounded each wagon. Trade was unusually busy. Home grown peaches were selling at $1.23 a bushel, and crab apples at 15 cents a peck. Apples of good size and excellent quality were on sale in abundance. Afew crates of plums com pleted the fruit supply. A few home grown watermelons sold for 20, 2 5 and SO cents apiece. There was a lively traffc In spring chickens and eggs. Monkey Land in Come Trua Simians to Have Island Colony All Their Own in Mid Atlantic. CHICAGO, Aup. 16. The musical comedy sor- about "monkey land" is coming true. The monkeys are polns: to have a country all their own where they may organize rebellions, defy powers and be CIpriano Castros. The Journal of the American Medi cal association makes the announce ment Saturday. The Canary islands are to pet the first monkey colony. European scientists who have wrestled for years with the Darwinian theory, are planning to establish "monkey land", according to the jour nal. They will transport only mon keys' with primitive habits from Af rica. The organ grinder comedian is barred. The transplanted imiins will be invited to mako themselves perfect ly at home. A study will be made of their language and their natural abil ity to learn to talk, gesture and sins:. SULLIVAN. Ind.. Aug. IK. Rush Batson, "2, of Ilymera. Is dead from' burr.s received In the explosion of gas in Jackson Hill mine No. two, two weeks ago. Ratson is the fourth miner suc cumbing to injuries received in the ex plosion. He leaves a widow and two children. S BOTH PIS GIRL STREET FIGHT Dominick Lapico Opens Fire on J Retreating Joe Staltare Fol-j lowing Quarrel Over a Pint; of Beer. GIRL HAPPENS TO WALK IN THE WAY Attorney Fred Gabriel Gives Chase and Succeedes in Stopping the Wielder of the Revolver. Because Joe Staltaro refuser, to sn.ire a. pirn in oeei wuu mm r nua afternoon, Dominick Ilplco pulk-d out a revolver, emptied its contents -at the fleeing Staltare, three shots taking effect, seriously wounding the man. Anna Pocesny a li year old girl pass ing1 along the street al.-o received one of the bullets through her right leg. The girl is not seriously injured. The shooting occurred on Vit Washington street about six o'clock. After liring his revolver at Staltai, who ran for a block and then fell in the yard of Ralph staples, i:il; W. Washington street, Ivipico attempted to escape. Attorney Fred Gabriel who was sitting on a porch m ar where the shooting took place, gave chase and captured the man and held him until the police -:rrived. Tho street was thrown into an up roar when the man bean liring. All tho bystanders could tell, was they suddenly saw the two men running east on Washington street and one lir ing his revolver. Everybody scattered until tho pursuer's gun was empty and tho pursued dropped in a yard.; Scores witnessed the alfair from their front porches where they were tit ting. Staltare was taken to tho pvorth hospital where arter an examination three bullets were found in him. one entered his head, back of the left ear and flattened itself against the man's skull. Another passed through, the right side of his back and the third lodged in his ri.ht shoulder blade. The one in his head .and back were removed. Hospital authorities do not belive him dantrerouslv wounded. Tolls of Shooting. According to Lapico, he and Stal tare and Tony Vodala had been play ing cards during the afternoon. at Lapico's hoarding place, lo:',!' W. Washington av. After the game Stal tare" went out and bought a pint of beer and with Vodala drink it. Iapico says Staltare refused to share it with him and he became angry. It appears that a few hours later the men met in front of the place and began quarreling over the matter. Lapico says Staltare suddenly pulled out a razor and threatened to cut his face off. Lapico says he then drew his revolver and began liring at Stal tare, who lied down the street. Roth men are ly years of age. The glri who was wounded by a stray Nullet lives at l."u Poland st. lr. Von Parandy was called to the seeno and removed the girl to her home and dressed her wound. She is pro nounced not seriously hurt, the bul let passing through her right lower leg. The police say both men have been in shooting .affrays previous to Friday. Staltare only recently finished a jail sentence for one, whole Iapico is said to have fired at a man in a house. It was due to the sprinting qualtie of Atty. Gabriel that Staltare wa- captured immediately. Atty. Gabriel at one time was a champion college sprinter and said Friday night that his Ion? legs stood him in good stead. Xo onp seemed to think of pursuing the assailant until Gabriel took up the chase. Officers Moore and Diver made the arrest. CONTRACTORS SUE SUB-CONTRACTOR Claim KW lianl Kcngati IIa Not Coni' pkud Hi Part of Powiuaii St. Sower. Charging rfcat Richard Keojran has failed to complete his contract as sub-contractor to build a section of the Rowman sewer in the southeastern part of the city, the Stewart v Sheets Co. has filed suit for fl."'") damage? ami the attachment of J i . o o worth r.f machinery. Stewart v: Sheets are the general contractors for the s.-wer. According to the complaint, Kean was to build the Studebaker park section of the sewer. The general contractors were to p'.y the wages of his men. They albge they have ad vanced $700 to Keogan hut that the latter abandoned the work on Aug. 7. after having been occupied ini e May 27. mly a small portion of the sew r has been Cor.StrU.-ted they :,;y. A writ of attachment was is;:"ii for excavation, dratseraper. 1-oib-r and engines and a centrilug.il pump. Torcm:i tiii: m rrox. WAS 1 1 1 NGT' N, A u g. ) When Pres. Wil.-on touched a but ton in the executive offices Satur day afternoon a three-pound gun in Grant park. Chicago, was dis charged, opening the second an nual water carnival in that city. OT ENEMY GLYNN REFUSES ' LET COURTS SETTLE DISPUTE Lieutenant Governor Claims Court of Impeachment Can Not he Overruled Even by Court of Appeals. GUARDS ON DUTY AT THE EXECUTIVE SUITE ART? A XV, X .Y. .Aug. IK. !d"artin H. Glynn, chcekmate.i Friday night tl. ? movement of Wm. Sulzer to in voke the arbitra.tement of tho courts on the question as to which of th two is the present lawful chief exe cutive of the state of New York. Replying to a formal proposal by the impeached executive to submit the issue to adjudication on an agreed statement of facts, Mr. Glynn Friday night declared it was beyond his pow er to "barter away any of the func tions attaching to the othce In which 1 am placed by your impeachment." "Any attempt on my part to do sj", he said, "or to stipulate a method by wh'eh it might be done, would pro perly place me in the position . ;i now occupy- that of being impeache 1 for malfeasance in olhce." Mr. Glynn declared farther that he proposed t perform cery function of tho office of governor, "except in so far as I am restrained by your illegal action or by physical force". The announcement of the lieutenant governor's policy came late Friday night and followed negotiations between the respective counsel of the two men In the ia! afternoon, which it was then supposed had resulted in a virtual agreement to take the case to the court of appeals. Mr. (ilynn's letter, addressed to"Th, Honorable William Sulzer." and sign ed as "Acting- Governor", follows (.lynn's Letter. "Pear Sir: I have your letter of this date refusing to oomply with my demand this day served upon you that you surrender to me, your successor in exercising the fumtians of the of fice of governor, the governor's privy seal, the executive chamber, and the hooks and papers appertaining to such office of governor. At the end of your letter thus refusing you suggest that steps be taken to secure a deci sion by some cour. as to which one. of us is entitled to txereise the duties? of otlice. , "I know of no way by which I could make, and no condition that would justify me in making, any such stipulation. The constitution was de signed to, and I am advised and be lieve does, spccifieally and completely cover the juncture" now existing, nnd is supplemented by statutes pappod by the legislature, and now In force. "Ts is beyond my power to barter aw f any of the functions attaching to the ollice In which I am placed by your impeachment. Any nttempt on my part to do so, or to stipulate a method by which it might be done, would properly place me in the posi tion you now occupy that ef beln impeached for malfeasance in office. I cannot and will not attempt to do if. "The entire matter is now In tho highest court of the state the court of impeachment. No order that any lower court could make, no Judgment that it could render, would have the slightest binding force upon this high court. No member of tho court of appeals; certainly no member of the lower body, the supreme court, can in any degree nor under any circum stances. Interfere with the Jurisdic tion or the decision of such court of impeachment, save, and save only, as the member of the court cf appeal shall east their individual votes as such mernbe-M of the court. K Highest Court. "The decision eif the court of im peaehment. one made in binding en every court and every person in tho state ar:d must be so respected and treated. An.v attempt to interfere with the Jurisdiction or the proceed ings of such court ef Impeachment, by any member of any lower court, would be ;ts futile as would any at tempt of a JuKtico of the peace to en Join the chief judge of the court f appeals from exercising his functions as such chief Judge. "The constitution has fixed this n. the only way for the settlement f the matters now pending. I know of no other, and I must 'therf fore de cline to enter Into any stipulat! :i whatever with you on the Mibject. "I hold myself in readiness to per form, and shall perform, every func tion fit the of governor, exce; t in-so.f.ir as I am restrained by rr.i.r ilbgii action, ,,r by physical forc." The letter was- delivered to Mr. Sulzer at the executive mansion Fri 'bv night. Mr. Glynn motored to h.s country residence Friday niirht after a consultation with his eoiir..-el. Goy. S ;'7..-r ! ft the- xecutive cham ber e.ir!y and after a she.rt s;dn In n:i autoriiobi'e, returned to the mansion. The do-.rs . f th' executive e.!,. the -:T;T,,; Ver securely locked Fri- d ty night, while guards j aced up ar.d down i.ofh within and out the corri dor. It was that the guards Aoujd continue their v!gijar.c. throughout the nu-ht. Condition triou. The v riou: condition ,f Mrs. Sulz'-r Fri h: v f It. o. r. t ssitatrd the re. -.ill . . o . i f t A b r a h a m s f r m N e w Vo.-k. N.. off: -.a! bulb-tin was forth coming Friday night from the execu t:e mansion corw-.-rning Mrs. Su'.zt, out an afternoon's ulletin. dictat' d t. A' r.ihams aft' r he had le.irr.- 1 rie patient's c- ndition o th t.deph- stated that she was "still i: ;a pre. arious condition" with a tem- ; ratu f !"2 an 1 Ulse lis is lc!;rbojS nf times and an inereasiaa temperature -ml i!uctuit!r:g p.:!st t night. s. a'armel tho- at he- bed side, that a bcal ph sutan was callec In and It. Abrahams hurriedly uni mcned Irorn New Ycrk. C