The Madisonian, 1913-05-27

NIPPED IN BUD DASH FOR FREEDOM PLANNED ,FOR JUNE 9, WHICH IS FLOW FLOW-! - ! FLOW-! ER MISSION DAY. LEADERS 60 TO EDDYVILLE Were To Grab Women of Mission So Societies - cieties Societies and Use Them as Shields From Attacks of Guards. ' Woatern Newspaper Union News Service. Frankfort, Ky. An order entered at the Kentucky reformatory to transfer to Eddyville penitentiary, Allen Hall, a murderer of Pulaski county, serving a life sentence, and Clarence Fryer, a negro murderer of Garrard county, serving a life sentence, disclosed that Warden Wells nipped in the bud a des desperate - perate desperate plan for a general delivery of convicts. It was planned to make the delivery on the Sunday the local baseball sea season - son season opened, but the death of Warden Mudd prevented it. Soon after War Warden - den Warden Well took charge he scented trouble, and as a result of an exami examination - nation examination of 30 convicts he learned that the attempted delivery would be made June 9, which is Flower Mission Day. The blowing of the prison whistle for dinner was to be the signal for the convicts to attack the guards simul simultaneously - taneously simultaneously and disarm them. The con convicts - victs convicts planned to grab the women of the mission societies, who were dis distributing - tributing distributing flowers, and use them a3 shields from the attacks of the out outside - side outside guards. No Tax Is Due on Notes. The Kentucky and Louisville Mutual Insurance Co. will not have to pay taxes to the state on the notes held by J the company against the policyholders. Chief Justice Hobso'n determined that the notes upon which the common commonwealth - wealth commonwealth was endeavoring to collect taxes have no cash value at a volun voluntary - tary voluntary sale and are only an obligation to the company to pay the assessment when they become due. The Jefferson circuit court adjudged that the notes were of value unless such assessment as had been paid, on them and were subject to taxation as omitted prop property. - erty. property. The company holds $62,000 worth of such notes which are given by the policyholders to guarantee the payment of the assessment when they come due. The judgment of the lower court was reversed. Editor To Be Honored. Work on the monument to be placed over the grave of Theodore O'Hara, noted as poet and editor, in the Frank Frankfort - fort Frankfort cemetery, probably will begin shortly. Plans for the monument hav been under way since July, 1912, and it. was 'announced that a general con conference - ference conference between Lieut. Gov. McDer McDer-mott - mott McDer-mott and the committee will be held in Frankfort soon. Thi3 committee is composed of Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, Miss Sally Jackson and W. W. Long Long-moor. - moor. Long-moor. The top of the monument will be in the shape of a harp. On one side will be the first verse of "The Bivouac of the Dead," which was written at the exercise incident to the unveiling of the sate and national monument In the Frankfort cemetery. Militia To Be Inspected. . Capt. E. L. D. Breckinridge, inspec inspector - tor inspector instructor with, the organized militia of Kentucky, will inspect Com Company - pany Company K7 Carrolltoh, May 24; Company L, Pineville, May 27, and Company I, Lexington, May 28. The date of theN state encampment of the Kentucky brigade, National guard, under com command - mand command of Brig. Gen. Roger D. Williams, at Middlesboro, has been fixed as July 16-23, inclusive. Whitley-Pine Knot Contest. In deciding that the county seat elec election - tion election of September 7, 1913, when Whit Whitley - ley Whitley City defeated Pine Knot for county seat of the new county of McCreary, the court of ; appeals " Instructed the county judge to call an election for the regular November election day. The 1912 election waB void because the constitution requires all . elections to be held on the regular election day. Execution Day Is FJxed. Gov.'McCreary fixed June 20 the date for electrocuting Thomas Lawson and Thomas Martin, who killed Hardin In Ingram - gram Ingram in Shelby county, and June 27 the date for the execution of General May, who killed Belle Meredith and her husband in Harlan county.. . Mercer and Madison Not Raised. Madison and Mercer counties' as assessments - sessments assessments were not raised by the the-State - State the-State Board of Equalization. Carroll county was raised 10 , per cent on land; 1 Qwens, 15 on land and 10: on lots; Rockcastle, 10 cn land and lots, and Scott, 6 on land and' lots. " '

BLOW FROM PELKEY BELOW HIS HEART FELLS THE GIANT IN . ; FIRST, ROUND. ' PRINCIPALS ABE ARRESTED Dislocated Neck Caused the Death Say the Physician Who Performed Autopsy Arena Is Burned. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Calgary, Alberta. Luther McCarty, recognized white heavyweight cham champion - pion champion pugilist of the world, was knock knocked - ed knocked out and killed by Arthur Pelkey in the first round of their scheduled ten ten-round - round ten-round bout here. A short right hook landing just below the heart staggered the champion and he fell to the can canvas, - vas, canvas, djiing less than 30 minutes later. The authorities placed Pelkey under arrest, and he is being held pending the action of the coroner's jury. Pelkey had landed but four blows during the minute and " forty-five sec seconds - onds seconds that the men were in the ring, and McCarty had just broken out of a clinch when he raised his hands and toppled backward to the canvas. The knockout ; blow was a terrific hight-hand blow over the heart. , Mc McCarty - Carty McCarty collapsed. He was carried from .the ring after the referee had counted him out, but never regained conscious ness. Here is the history of the fatal round The big 1 fellows posed for a photograph and then sparred off. . Pelkey was sure of himself and began using a left jab to the face. He land landed - ed landed three straight lefts and McCarty then. made a weak come-back with the right to the body. Then, when Mc Mc-. - . Mc-. Carty rushed, Pelkey met him with a - stiff left to the jaw, and a right to the heart. McCarty wavered for a mo moment, - ment, moment, staggered 'and flopped on his back. A dislocated neck caused the death of Luther McCarty during his fight with Arthur Pelkey, according to in information - formation information given out following an au autopsy - topsy autopsy conducted by Dr. Moshier at the Tequest of Coroner Costello. It was stated by the physicians that death undoubtedly had been caused by the dislocated neck and that the heart was found to be- sound. A clot of blood on the brain aided in convinc convincing - ing convincing the physicians that "death was not due to the blow near the heart. ' Tommy Burns' prize fight arena, in which Luther McCarty was. killed in the fight with Arthur Pelkey, was burned to the ground. "ASHES HURLED INTO FLAMES. San Francisco. The ashes of Joa Joaquin - quin Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras," were cast into the flames on the fu funeral - neral funeral hill which had been raised with bis own hands. Nearly 1,000 persons made the pilgrimage to The Heights, the poet's home in the Fruitvale Hills, and stood with" bowed heads during the ceremonies, conducted by mem members - bers members of. the Bohemian Club, in accord accordance - ance accordance with Miller's last request. Col. John P. Irish, for many years Miller's fellow member of the club, applied the torch and cast the ashes on the flames, while the club choir' of 40 voices sang a hushed threnody written by the poet. AUTO RUNS WILD ON FERRY. Camden; N. J. Hundreds of passen passengers - gers passengers were thrown into a panic, one man was drowned and two boys in jured when an automobile with three passengers started forward on a ferry ferryboat - boat ferryboat entering the dock here and was brought to a standstill only after it had plunged through the iron guard rail and half way over the front of the boat. William F. Goos, a deck hand, endeavored to hold back the heavy au tomobile and was pushed into the -river and drowned. Philip Kurtz and Jacob Mintzer, seventeen-year-old boys, who were, in the path of the ma chine, were thrown down and injured. BEER BOTTLE EXPLODES. , Portage, Wis. Harry: Sherman, manager of a stock company, was se seriously - riously seriously 'injured. In the "struggle scene" of a play, Miss Florence Frey was to strike . Sherman with a -beer bottle. As she was raising the missile over Sherman's head, the bottle ex ploded, and the glass penetrated Sher man 8 face, nearly severing his nose. It was feared he would bleed to death, but a doctor in the audience stopped the flow. Coolness on the part of the , house attendants prevented a threat threatened - ened threatened panic , and the audience retired. Sherman was taken to a hospital. FOUR ARE INJURED. ' Toledo, Ohio. Four men were hurt, two probably seriously, when the two .motorcycles on which they were riding collided on the Point Place road, about one mile north of the city limits."

KING GEORGE SOUNDS FIRST PO POLITICAL - LITICAL POLITICAL NOTE OF ROYAL VISITS TO BERLIN. KAISER'S DAUGHTER A BRIDE r.-i , -:r Princess Victoria Louise Is Wedded to ''"prince Ernest August, Who . Be Becomes - comes Becomes Ruler of New -State Created by Emperor 'WiltTafn. ? " L Berlin, May 26. "The preservation of peace Is my fervent desire, as It was the chief aim and object of my dear- father's life," , declared .... King George of England Saturday at a luncheon given by the British ambas ambassador - sador ambassador to th members of royalty, who were assembled here to attend the wedding of Princess Victoria - Louis, Emperor William's only daughter, and Prince Ernest of Cumberland. This is the first political note sounded during the wedding ceremo ceremo-niesof - niesof ceremo-niesof Emperor William's only daugh daughter, - ter, daughter, for which three emperors and many princes are gathered. The king's words seem, according to the opinion expressed in influential cir circles, - cles, circles, to epitomize the chief signifi significance - cance significance of the royal visits as a' demon demonstration - stration demonstration of the peaceful and friendly relations among the three powerful dynasties. Love . and diplomacy entered into the marriage Saturday of Princess Victoria Lcuise and Prince Ernst Au August. - gust. August. In brilliancy and in point of the great number of royal 'personages present the nuptials far outshone any similar event during the past decade. Kings, monarchs of lesser rank and crown princes and princesses saw the fair-haired, blue-eyed twenty-one-year- old daughter of the German kaiser become tha wife of the strapping twenty-six-year-old prince, and with the ceremony was healed a breach between the houses of Hohenzollern and Guelph which had existed for about half a century. The ceremonies really began Thursday, with the mar marriage - riage marriage ceremonies Saturday as the cli max. The civil ceremony took, place in the new marble palace at Potsdam; the religious rites were celebrated-in this city. - Princess Victoria Louise had for her attendants three of -the prettiest girls of her own caste In Europe. They were Princess Mary, daughter of King Charles of Roumania: Grand Lnicness Olga, eldest daughter of the czar ot Russia, and Princess Yolanda of Italy As would be Imagined, the wedding gifts are almost fabulous. Their value is estimated at close to $3,000,080 The kaiser was so glad that the old auarrel with the house of Guelph was settled that, after the marriage had been arranged, he promised to create a new German state and make the groom the ruler- of It. Accordingly Prince Ernst became the .. duke of Brunswick and the grand duke of Lunebure. This gives the young hus band a responsible job and makes him the equal in rank with the kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg and the prince regent of Bavaria. A consider able portion of the province of Han over, which belongs to Prussia, was added to the new states. TWO KILLED IN FEUD FIGHT Four Others Seriously Wounded . Brother Kills Brother, Son Shoots His Father. Merigold, Miss., May 26. Five min utes after a trivial fight between Mar ion Henry and a man named John Law had started Saturday, In which both were hurt, two men were dead and four seriously wounded, a brother had killed a brother and a son. had seriously wounded his father. With the exception of Law, all parties to the 'tragedy were well-known resi dents, wealthy loggers and farmers The dead : Will McMullen and Jake McMullen, brothers. . The injured: Marion Henry, Sr., Marion Henry, Jr., D. J. Breen, a prom- nent mill owner, and John Law, stranger. " a ' A deep-seated and long standing hatred existed between the McMullens and the Henrys, father and son. Amputates His Own Foot. Penn Yan, N. Y., May 26. Isaac Bassett of this county is a man of nerve. Fearing he would die from gan gangrene - grene gangrene which originated in his large toe, Bassett amputated the diseased member a week ago with his pocket knife. ThlH, however,' did not arrest the progress of the disease, so he cut off his foot Saturday with the same surgical ' instrument. Bassett la seventy-five years old. He lives in the extreme western part ,of the county; many miles from a physician. Thugs Beat Business Man. . Cleveland, 0 May 26. Thomas F. McMahon, head of the McMahon & Troughton Candy company,- was - se severely - verely severely beatin and robbed Friday; by two thugs. " Police captured one man.

SLIGHT COLD DEVELOPS INTO PNEUMONIA AND MIKADO HAS HIGH FEVER. DOCTORS ISSUE A BULLETIN TheyTell of Increased Temperature, But lnsit There Is No Cause for Alarm Wilson Cables His Sym Sympathy - pathy Sympathy to Emperor. Tokyo, May 24. The mikado la seri ously ill from an attack of pneumonia. It had been known for several days that the emperor was ill but it was not until Thursday that the Illness was known to be serious. The court physicians issued the following bulletin: "The emperor, who has been suffer ing from a e light cold for several days, has developed Inflammation of the lungs. Wc do not consider, that his condition justifies anxiety, but his temperature Is high." Yoshihito, who is thirty-four years old, has never been of robust health and at the time he ascended tbe throne fears were entertained that his reign would not be a long one. From time to time have come rumors that the good man," as he is known by his subjects, had developed tuberculosis, but these were always promptly de nied officially; t Washington, May 24. Secretary of State Bryan and Ambassador Chlnda will resume the active discussion of the California land law situation next week, according to -Information avail able the state department Thursday. Umcial dispatches from Tokyo In dicated that the Japanese government is far from being satisfied with the American reply to the original protest against the-enactment of the Webb law. The United States'reply, accord according - ing according to foreign office officials at Tokyo, Is regarded there as being entirely too frank, in its tenor and in a man manner - ner manner insulting to the Japenese nation. - Acting tactfully at a time jwhen re relations - lations relations between the two governments are reported to be a trifle strained. President Wilson sent a message to the emperor- of Japan, offering his hope that the latter have a speedy re recovery - covery recovery from the Illness from which he is suffering. The cable follows: "His Imperial Majesty Joshi Hito, Emperor of Japan, Tokyo. "Reports received through press agencies are current to the effect that your majesty is indisposed. I have heard these reports with sorrow and with great concern. Should they prove to be true I desire to offer to your majesty for myself and for the gov government - ernment government and people of. the United Statesthe assurance of my' sympathy and to express the ardent hope that your illness may prove to be of brief duration and your recovery rapid and complete. . . "WOODROW WILSON." FLA OFF THE WIRE Geneva, Switzerland, May 21. King Peter of Servla will abdicate as soon as peace is restored in the Balkans. The king is sixty-nine years .old and the carrying on . of the war against Turkey has broken his health. Memphis, Tenn., May 21. City cen censors - sors censors of moving pictures placed em embargo - bargo embargo on all pictures showing dances such as the bunny hug, grizzly bear and rags. Everything suggesting such must stop at once. ' , Edinburgh, May 23. A bomb was exploded in 'the Royal observatory here Wednesday, making a big hole in the - second floor and destroying a large quantity . -.of valuable instru instruments,. - ments,. instruments,. Suffragettes are suspected. Baltimore, Md., May 23. One person is known to have been drowned and several men, women and children are reported missing as a result of a col collision - lision collision between the Bay freight steam steamer - er steamer Avalon Jid the Bugeye Elijah, with about 40 berry pickers aboard In the harbor here. SIX DIE IN TRAIN WRECK Cars Are Swept 300 Feet Down Moun Mountain - tain Mountain Side by Landslide Caused by Cloudburst.' 'Huntington, W. Va., May 23.--S1X persons were killed and a number In Injured - jured Injured Tuesday night when- a mixed train on the Sewell branch of the Ches Chesapeake - apeake Chesapeake & Ohio railroad was swept 300 feet down a, steep mountain side by a landslide and completely ; swal swallowed - lowed swallowed up. " -j . . . - Boiler Makers' Strike Growing. Grand Rapids,-Mich., May 24. The strike of tlte 'Pere Marquette boiler makers Of . the Wyoming yards as assumed - sumed assumed more serious aspects Thursday when 2001 machinists and helpers walked out in & sympathetic strike.

George P. Newett is the editor ant publisher, of Iron Ore, of Ishpeming, Mich., who is being sued for libel by Colonel Roosevelt. The case is set for trial this week. H. M. FLAGLER IS DEAD OIL AND RAILWAY MAGNATE SUCCUMBS IN FLORIDA HOME. Greatest Achievement of Life Was Building of Railroad From Miami to Key West. West Palm Beach, Fla., May 22. Henry M. Flagler, wealthy railroad builder and owner, who has been seri ously ill for some time, died here Tuesday. The end came with mem bers of the magnate's family at his bedside. Mr. Flagler has been sick for three months, although it was thought several weeks ago that he would recover. Mr. Flagler was born at Canandal Canandal-gua, - gua, Canandal-gua, N. Y., in 1830. Little is known of his early life except that he was clerk in a country grovery in Orleans coun ty, Michigan, while In histeens. Later he moved to Saginaw, Mich., where he engaged in the manufacture ' of salt Becoming interested in. the possibili ties of the petroleum Industry, he moved to Cleveland,, where he or ganized the company of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, engaging in the refining of oil.. The Standard Oil company was the, outgrowth of this venture. In 1885 Mr. Flagler paid his first visit to Florida and became impressed with the business possibilities pre sented there by the railroad field in connection with the development of winter resorts. He built the Florida East Coast railroad and later erected the Ponce DeLeon and Alcazar hotels at a cost of $3,000,000. His greatest achievement was the extension of his railroad from Miami to Key West INSANE PATIENT KILLS FIVE Roommates Slain Without Struggle as They Sleep Guards ' Across the Hall Hear Nothing. Blackfoot, Idaho, May 23. Peter Bradovitch, an insane, Austrian con fined in the southern Idaho insane asylum here, killed his five roommates by beating them over the head with a table as they lay asleep Wedifesday. . . , Thre was no evidence of a struggle between the maniac and his victims except on the body of Peterson. Two bruises on his arm showed that he J had tried to ward off the blows. So quietly did Bradovitch accomplish the killing that guards sleeping across the haJ were not awakened. Bradovitch was committed to the in insane - sane insane asylum two years ago from the state penitentiary, where he waB serv serving - ing serving a life sentence for murder. MEN0CAL IS CUBfN . HEAD, Is Inaugurated President of hsland Re Republic - public Republic Promises Clean Business Administration. Havana, Cuba, may 22. With the Inauguration of Gen.' Mario G. Menocal as president - in . succession to Jose Miguel Gomez and of- Dr. Enrique Jose Varona as vice-president the Cuban republic Tuesday entered on a new phase or its existence in a spirit of high hopa ; for -the preservation of peace and the establishment of tbe prosperity of the island.

Judge Richard C. Flannigan of Ish Ishpeming, - peming, Ishpeming, Mich., is the magistrate be fore whom the Rcosevelt-Newett libel case is oh hearing this week. PLAN PARTY CHANGES REPUBLICANS WANT SENATORS ON CONGRESSIONAL BODY. Progressive Conciliators Appointed by Senator Sherman, Will Meet Cummins. Washington, May 24. Reorganiza Reorganization - tion Reorganization of the Republican congressional committee to include senators as well as representatives was planned at a conference of 31 regular and progres sive Republican senators who met and selected a committee of five to bring about a joint caucus with Republicans of the house on the new plan. , The Democratic ' congressional committee Is already reorganizing on similar tines, at the suggestion of President Wilson.- - ; The conciliators, appointed by Sen Senator - ator Senator Sherman of Illinois, who was em empowered - powered empowered to do so by. the progressive Republicans ' who met in Chicago, with Senator Cummins to plan for a presentation of their scheme to the executive committee of the Re Republican; - publican; Republican; national committee, which Chairman Charles D. Hilles has call called - ed called for a session here. The members of the conciliation committee are Senators Cummins, Crawford and Jones, Representatives Crampton of Michigan, Rogers of Mas Massachusetts - sachusetts Massachusetts and Anderson of Minneso Minnesota, - ta, Minnesota, and ex-Governor Hadley of Mis Missouri, - souri, Missouri, . The members of the committee of five selected by the senators to ar arrange - range arrange for a joint conference with the House Republicans are Senators Gal Gal-Unger, - Unger, Gal-Unger, Townsend, Clark of Wyoming, Norrls and Jones. BRITON RULERS IN BERLIN Emperor William, Welcomes; King George and Queen Mary to, Ger German - man German Capital, i . Berlin, Germany, May 23. True "Hohenzollern weather" brilliant sunshine and cloudless sky set in for the wedding activities of Princess Vic Victoria - toria Victoria Louise, daughter of the German emperor and empress, and Prince Ernst August of Cumberland. The of ficial receptions began here Wednes day with the arrival of the bridegroom and the state entry into Berlin of King George and Queen Mary of England. At. the station awaiting .the : arrival of the royal , train were Emperor Wil Wil-liajm - liajm Wil-liajm and Crown Prince Frederick Wil William - liam William In the uniforms of their British regiments, with the empress and the crown princess. All the royal per personages - sonages personages and princes assembled in Ber Berlin - lin Berlin and a mass of brilliantly -uniformed military and navaj officers and min ministerial - isterial ministerial and court functionaries sur surrounded - rounded surrounded them. ' THREE GUNNERS ARE KILLED i

Rifle Bursts in Practice In Fort Moul Moul-' - ' Moul-' trie Shaking Entire City of Charleston, S. C. v" ' t - - ' Charleston,' S. c:, May 24 Three men were instantly killed and nine others badly injured by the explosion of one of the three-inch rifles' in Fort Moultrie In the harbor off tils city Thursday evening. The explosion which occurred, blew off the breech block of the gun and almost annihilated the force that was working it. O ' 1 ' The roar of the explosion (was dis distinctly - tinctly distinctly heard throughout the city "and the resulting shock made all the houses tremble. ' '; - " - -, .Ml.-. . "'.".Kit. '