Richmond Palladium (Daily), 31 October 1901 — Page 1

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BAIJLY PALLADIUM. WEEKL K!TABMI1ED 131. RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, lt01. ONE CENT A COPY.

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Murderers Awaiting Execution Confined Together at Michigan City. BOTH ARE STILL HOPING Joseph Keith ami John Rinkard Have Xot Yet Sou? lit Cousolation of the Chaplain. A New ScaffoM Has Jast Been Built For. Their Especial Benefit. Michigan City, Ind.. Oct. 31. Joseph Keith and John Rinkard. the two murderers at Michigan City under aent"ence to hang, occupy a large room to themselves. They can see the sun rise and the sun set. The room is large enough for them to walk about and take exercise. A special guard keeps watch on them. A like fate confronts them and they have apparently become friendly. Both are hoping that the supreme court will reverse the sentences. Keith will hang Nov. 15, if the sentence is not reversed. These men may not know that a new scaffold has been built. Keith was sentenced to hang in May, but the supreme court granted a stay of execution. Warden Shideler did not have full confidence in the safety of the old scaffold, so he had a new one built, last spring, wltn Keith in mind. The new one has a drop of seven feeet and two inches. Thertd one'sdrop was a little less than six feet. The old one was a double scaffold, painted black, with two white spots, built for Murderers Parker and McAfee to stand on. It is reported that Keith and Rinkard have not yet sought the consolation of the chaplain. 1)1SM1S!K1 1HK APPEAL. Supreme Court Silenty Sustains Wwii I uttinc law Indianapolis, Oct. 31. The supreme j court has refused to decide whether I work in cutting weeds along the pub-' lie road is sucti work as entitles a land i owner to credit on his road tax, dis- j missine an anoeal from the iudement i holding that it is. The judgment was j pronounced ta a maaaaiuua proceeding against a road supervisor in Perry township and directed him to issue a receipt for $12 on account of work done in cutting weeds. The effect of the dismissal is to leave the judgment in full force, but the supreme court refused to pass on the merits of the appeal, because it was taken by a road supervisor who had ceased to hold office before the appeal was perfected. Uundnipii Want Protection. Portland, Ind., Oct. 31. On Nov. 11 the Jay circuit court expects to take up the trial of the case of the state of Indiana ex rel. Auditor Mangold of Adams county, vs. Daniel P. Holds, ex-recorder of Adams county, the action being one to recover from the defendant and his bondsmen money which, it is alleged by the complainant, is due the county. There are two counts, each asking the sum of $2,000. When Mr. Bolds was , tried on the criminal charges in Wells county he was acquitted, after a long and bitterly fought trial. Fouiut ! tbe ttiver. i Hartford City, Ind.. Oct. 31. A tele- i gram received here yesterday from the chief of police at Racine, Wis., tells of the finding of the dead body I of M. J. Grady, one of the most promt- i nent real estate dealers of this city, j Grady left here Saturday night on a business trip for Detroit, Chicago and Racine. The body was found in the river and there is much mystery surrounding his death. Will - lop K.ibberles. Versailles. Ind., Oct. 31. Benjamin Adel of Milan was arrested yesterday charged with wholesale robberies over this section of the state. Several other arrests will be made. Numerous chicken houses had been robbed and then burned, and one man had 1,100 pounds of bone dust taken out ef his stable. Dashed tbe Komancr. Marion, Ind., Oct. 31. John McMahon and Ruth Vandyke, who, it is claimed, eloped from Elwood and j were found living together at Matth j ews, the latter dressing as a man. j were arraigned in circuit court yesterday, fined $5 and costs each and given 20 days in jail. suspeeta Arrested. Evansville, Ind., Oct. 31. Charles Bishop of Louisville was arrested here on suspicion of being implicated In the Howell robbery. Oct. 16. Another suspect named Will Ellis is under arrst at Rakerville. Tenn. Killed By Ka--r Mail. Knox. Ind., Oct. 31. The Lake Shore fast mail struck and instantly killed lS-year-old Laura McClellan. She was waiting for a freight to pass mi did not notice the approaching 2er. .

Sued For Infringement. A suit was started in the LI. S. circuit court at New York last Tuesday, by F. M. Peters against biscuit manufacturers for infringement of paper boxes for crackers. The package in dispute is one used by the National Biscuit company for its Uneeda and In-er-seal go-ads. An injunction and heavy damages are asked for. Richmond parties are interested in this suit.

C. R. & M. at Marion. The C. R. & M. is not having a bed of roses to lie on at Marion from all appearances. According to the Tribune of yesterday Councilman Croke of that village the night before informed the council that the C. R. & M. bad stolen two streets there and was gui ty of highway robbery. He said their methods branded tbem as anarchists since they did not seem to recognize the law as a necessary adjunct to their business. He accused the city attorney af representing the company more than he did the city. It appears . ,that the company have elevated crossings over two streets and have driven piling in the streets to support them and appear to intend to leave it that way. The c uncil passed a resolution requiring the removal of this piling. In the matter of making grades in certain other streets to be crossed the company was required to give a $50,000 bond to insure the city from any damage in the making of the street changes, which the company must make at the'r own expense; and the company not being ready to file the bond the matter was postponed to a meeting to be held later, when the bond will be required. FOUlTiSlFE Did Mr. William Littlefield of Valga, South Dakota A Romance. Mr. Littlefield, who caused the s nsation yest riay by going od his second quest for his wife, returned from Muncie this morning, having found her, and all may yet be happy though he was in a doubtful frame of mind to some degree. He had his money, but the lady did not return with him. She told him that if they came back together it would attract attention and cause talk, and fcr him to come back ard she would return t'ui aiternoon. He inquired for her at the depot at Muncie and a transfer man who took her to a hotel directed him to her abiding place. He saw her through the window. She gave him his money, what there was left, and he came back to Rich mond. He said if she came this afternoon he would take her west with him, but if she did not he wuld go without her. She told him she went because she was angry with her mother. Littlefield says that be saw Miss Smith's advertisement for a husband in a matrimonial paper published in Toledo and answered it. A correspondence and exchange of photographs resulted in an engagement. He started here with his threshing slothes 'and long hair, but fixed up at Chicago. His home is at Volga, South Dakota. He came here last Wednesday and they arranged to marry and were married at S o'clock Monday evening of this week. Before the wedding she quarreled with her mother, he thought because she thought the wedding was not sufficiently eiaborate. The next morning, before going, she said to a neighbor that she "didn't like to go so far from home with that man, but that she was going away; how far she could not say, but far enough that the folks would do well if they ever saw her alive again. He adds that he came S00 miles to get her and he did not like to give her up. New Paris Wants Sleep. (New Paris Mirror, Oct. 31.) On two or three nights of last week hack loads of students, said to j be from the Richmond High School, j and out for a time, were on oar j streets making Rome howl. They indulged in songs and class yells as ! they drove about town to a late hour ! keeping the people awake. They j probably had no evil intent, but it j was a nuisance which Marshal Bish ! does not propose to see repeated, and i should thev come azain thev will probably learn that they can not do on the streets of New Paris what they would not think of doing on the streets of Richmond. Gov. Tafts Illness. j Cincinnati, October 31. No news j concerning the reported iline-ss of I Gov. Wm. H. Taft at Manila has I b11 received by relatives here. They ' co' apprehend any serious illness for they would have heard from Mrs. Taft. ! President Goes Home toi j Vote. j ; Washington, Oct. 31. President ; 1 Roosevelt will go to New York Mon-1 j day to vote Tuesday, returning Tues- j t day evening. I

QUEER STORY

TOLD BY A GERMAN REFUGEE. Heir to a Vast Estate and Threatened With All Sorts of Troubles. Richard Sternberg created quite a sensation at the Brunswick hotel last night. He had been there but a day, and retired in good shape, but in the eight aroused everybody by his outcries, and finally ran out of his room crying that some one was after him trying to kill turn. The nolice were called and he was taken to headquarters; He was In a veryexcit d state, and soon lost consciousness. Dr. Markley, city physician, was called, and fout d the man in a complete state of catalepsy caused by the excitement into which he had worked himse.f.He could not be aroused but recovertd consciousness this morning End told his story, which is romantic if true and seems also to hint at a sort of insanitv trust at Fort Wayne. He is about twenty vears of age. He says that his mother is worth 1700,000, and his home is at Breslog, Schlieswig, Germany. His name is Richard Sternbeig. He and three sisters ate the only heirs to his mother's property. He has been in this country for eighteen months and speaks the language fairly well for that time of familiarity with it, but is still hard to understand or to make understand. He has been around the country a good deal, but has located .nowhere as he had money when he came and his mother sends hi n $8 per week, which supports him. He finally got to Chicago and then to Ft Wayne where he fell in with a German who is known here. We do not use this man's name for fear of doing him injustice. Sternperg says that he wanted to go home and wrote to his mother for money and is expecting 1100 by money order, as he usually gets his remittances from home This German at Fort Wayne knew this and also that he had property coming to him, and began steps to have him declared of unsound mind that he might get this money and be appointed his guardian. Sternberg being informed of this ran away before beiDg detained by the officers and came here. What there is of foundation for his story cannot be determined until it is investigated. Tbe police here placed him in a boarding house, and will investigate the case thoroughly. Tickets found in his pockets show that he has been playing policy hard, and he may be more crazed than now appears. TRACWONE. The Commissioners of Preble County and Mr. Winters Agree. Mr. Winters has met with the commissioners of Preble county. The New Paris Mirror says: Tuesday Mr. Winters met the commissioners and the whole matter was gone over at length. It is stated cn the best of authority that an agreement was finally reached in which Mr. Winters receded from the demands in the franchise presented by him and the franchise to be given will be substantially the same as that agreed upon last spring. The traction company will be required to build all its own bridges and pay a mileage which, with the eight miles already built in the county, will average $25 per mile for "the entire nineteen miles. Work is required to be commenced on the line not later than April 1, 1902. and to be completed Jan. 1, H:2. Friday afternoon of this week is fixed upon as the time to meet again and complete the negotiations and sign up the franchise. Indiana Apple Belt. (Cambridge City Tribune ) The apple belt of Indiana this season is confined to very narrow territory along the eastern edge.and comprising Wayne, Union, Fayette and Franklin counties, the southern portion of Randolph and the eastern part of Henry and Rusb. Aside from this the yield is indifferent, although in places there are good orchards. The yield in this vicinity is fully 75 per cent, of a crop, and is larger than any other given locality in the United States. Cambridge City has been a buying and shipping center, and it is safe to say that more apples were handled here this season than ever before. Moulton & Reidel of Ander son were the largest buyers and secured about 2,500 barrels. J. C. Ayers & Son of Muncie shipped 1,000 barrels from Germantown and 325 from Lewisville. They also shipped j two cars from this place and a car of Kiefer pears. F. M. Ebert has been l buying largely, but not all at this 1

place. He purchased about 12,000 bushels. At Falmouth he secured two cars, but found the " best field in the western edge of Franklin county from Acdersonvilie south to Oldenburg. Gnyton and Ccpeland have purchased and shipped about 300 bushels and Frank T. Frohnapfel some 200 bushels. This does not include the purchases of these gentlemen for their retail trade, but has reference exclusively to what is termed "winter apples." About $7,-

000 has been paid to farmers in this vicinity for apples a crop that does not come often, it is true, but is in special favor this year when tbe corn crop is a failure in- many instances. 1 GAS HATTERS. The New Injunction Suit K Filed at New Castle. I The suit of the Citizens Gad Co., Enterprise Gas Co., Indiana Shovel Co., and tbe town of New Castle against the Richmond Gas Co., to enjoin them from pumpiug gas out of this county was filed yesterday in tbe circuit'eourt at New Castle. - The case will be pushed as rapidly as the law permits. In the meantime the defendants re busily engaged in laying tbe pipe line and are pushing tbe work as rapidly as possible so as to get the gas into Richmond before the winter sets in. . This morning several wagons came into town loaded with pipe for the line in this vicinity. The New Castle Tribune wipes its eyes and shrieks that "The pumping station is about complete and everything will be ready in a short time to rob us of our fuel." I Quite a Number of Them in the Past Twentyfour Hours. ; KLCTE-CRIVEL. Mr. George E. Klute nnd Miss Catherine E. Crivel were united in marriage last evening at 6 o'clock at tbe home of the bride, Rev. C. Huber officiating. A very pleasant company of relatives and immediate friends were present to witness tbe f?rernony and partake cf a sumptuous supper. REHSTEIXEt-MENTENDEIK. Mr. Gustav A. Rehsteiner and Miss Alma C. Mentendiek were very quietly married last evening at 7:30 at St. Paul's Lutheran parsonage, Rev. C. Huber officiating. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Rehsteiner went out to the old homestead where the mother of Mr. Rehsteiner re-: sides. ' I'RECK-THOMAS. j Mr. Charles Preck and Miss Amelia j Thomas were united in marriage last evening at 8 o'clock at the home of the bride, Rev. C. Huber officiating. A very large company of relatives and friends were present, and a very nice supper was served. The presents were many and beautiful. ! ;REOi-HILL j Frederick C. Gregg of Indianapolis and Miss Ida Agnes Hill, a promi-j nent young lady of this city, were ; married yesterdhy afternoon in this j city by Rev. I. M. Hughes. j IN COURT. A Number of Old Cases Disposed of--Seifert Gets a Judge-Other Matters. Letters of administration wre issued to Caroline Stahl on the estate of Annah Stahl. Bond, $2,000. H. C. Starr and R. A. Jacksonsureties. Amos Huddleston vs. Wm. Kizer. Evidence heard and taken under advisement by the court. State vs. Joseph Seifert. Attorneys for the defendant filed affidavit and motion for a change f venue. Judge Fox finding it difficult to get a judge from any other court appointed Lewis D. Stubbs special judge to try the case. The case will come up tomorrow morning, t tough perhaps not for trial. Lynn Ellsworth Keppler, attorney for John W. Keppler, administrator, vs Abram Ervin et aL , filed a petition to sell real estate. Exparte Alda W: Kincaid et aL Order for the sale of real estate. L. C. Abbott attorney. Warren Shumard vs estate of James M. Starr. Dismissed at costs of plaintiff for want cf prosecution. John W. Macy et al., vs Winchester Electric Light Co., Thomas Ward, receiver, filed his final report. It was approved by the court and the case was dismissed. This is a case which has been hanging fire for several years. Bass, white fish, pickeral, cat fish at 929 Main street. We also have a fine lot of chickens for Saturday. i

WEDDINGS

A TOWN IN RUINS

Firm of South Carolina Merchants Hitler Suspicion of Arson. HAD REMOVED GOODS Fire Broke Ont Mysteriously In Their Store and Spread Throughout the Whole Town. Twenty-Three Business Honses At Tiimnonsville Destroyed Many Chicago Families Suffer. Columbia. S. C, Oct. 31. Twentythree business houses, comprising the heart- of the town of Timmonsville, were burned yesterday. There was an explosion in the store of Smith & Dennis that aroused the town, followed by flames bursting out. A keg of powder is supposed to have exploded. There was no apparatus for fighting the fire and citizens were compelled to witness the destruction of their property without being able to stay tbe flames. One block of 10 brick stores, including the Bank of Tlmmonsville, is in the burned district. The loss is conservatively placed at $100,000, with less than one-third insurance. W. F. Dennis, of tbe firm of Smith & Dennis, general merchants, was arrested for alleged arson. Smith, it is said, bad left the town when citizens called at his place. Because of the peculiar manner in which the fire started suspicion rested on these men and a search of their premises revealed boxes of goods, shoes, etc, stacked in their bouses and barns. " It is reported that those goods were removed from their store before the fire. MANY KAMI Li IKS SCFFEJt Fire Wipes Out Two Blocks ot I wcllines In t'hicaao. Chicago, Oct. 31. Seventy-five families lost their homes last night and $250,000 worth of property was destroyed in a fire that started in Peterson & Co.'s picture frame factory at Union street and Austin avenne. Fanned by a strong wind the flames got beyond control and spread to the traU kiug estabUehtuent .&L Ft. in,-, berg & Stopp and a lon row of residences adjoining. Two blocks of dwellings skirting Milwaukee aver.ue were wiped out before tbe fire was subdued. The Peterson factory, which with contents was valued at $175.oco fully insured, was destroyed. The bulk of the remainder of the loss was on residences, fairly well covered by insurance. There were many rumors of lives lost in the fire, but it is believed that all people living in the burned buildings escaped. One of the incidents of the fire was the cremation of the body of Frank J. Ruck at his home, 148 Milwaukee avenue. He died in the afternoon of blood poisoning. So quickly did the flames invade the building that there was no chance to remove the body and it was incinerated. IMseoveretl t he IMot. Colon. Colombia, Oct. 31. General Pedro Nel Ospina, Colombian minister of war, together with Former Presi dent Caro and certain other nationalists, recently conspired to oust Vice President Marroquin, the acting executive. A timely discovery of the plot resulted in the flight of Senor Caro, who took refuge in the German legation at Bogota, and the arrest of General Ospina, Dr. Hilguin, former minister of foreign affairs, and Senor Saavedra, all oi whom are now imprisoned at Cartagena, where General Enrique Arboleda and other prisoners are expected to arrive soon. .Mis. tirant B.tter. Washington, Oct. 31. Mrs. Grant, the widow of General Grant, has almost recovered from her recent indisposition. She suffers from a bronchia! allection which, however, does not cenflne her to her room. Mrs. Sartoris, Mrs. Grant's daughter, returned to Washington yesterday and will remain with her mother during the winter. Agreement Reached. i Ea-on Register, October 3I. President Valentine Winters, of the Daytou & Western Traction Co., held a meeting with the county commissioners Tuesday morning in regard to the extension of the D. & W. line to Richmond. They were riot long in reaching an agreement and Mr. Winters will have the franchise, as agreed to, prepared and today (Thursday) it will be signed by all parties concerned. Commissioners make the franchise 50 years, instead of perpetual, as asked for, and instead of the $40 mileage now asked of the company they agree to make it $25 on the entire road through the county. The traction company agTee to build their own bridges. It is said that work on the extension wiil be commenced immediately and by spring cars Will be running

into Richmond. They only have about thirteen miles of track to build.

France After Turkey. Paris, France, Oct. 31. The report is officially confirmed that three battleships and two cruisers under Admiral Gaillard have gone frora Toulon to the Levant to make a demonstration against Turkey. They sailed witb sealed orders. Ohio judge Adopts Whip . ping Plan. Akron, O..Oct. 31. Judge Anderson has ordered six boys whipped for stealing chestnuts or be sent to the reform farm. The whipping iar to be done by the fathers of the lads under direction of the sheriff. THOSE POLES For the ; Municipal Electric Plant Result of an Investigation. The Palladium received a pleasant call this morning from two members of the cammittee on the municipal light plant, prompted by the attention which was called to the condition of the poles being used, in last night's edition. These gentlemen stated that they considered tbe poles good, tbe material used in painting them good, and had looked into it thoroughly; and that where bad poles were used tbe company would remove them. In order to more tborougly investigate a trip was taken this morning by a representative of this paper to look at the poles again. Wbat he saw others can see and no argument is needed about the contract for these poles no information can be bad at tbe usual channels. The city civil engineer knows nothing o' it. The city clerk, where the contract would naturally be, has not got it now, never has bad it, never has seen it. So the only thing tbe reporter could get at was tbe contract with the Light, Heat & Power company. As this plant is to be superior to theirs nothing would be expected to be inferior to w hat they were required to supply. That ordinarce requires ti e poles to be of live white cedar, straight,,shaved, and not less than G inches in diameter at the top, 38 feet high, 5 feet in the ground, set plumb and true to tbi line- - At the last meeting of council a bill was allowed the new concern of $1,000 for 200 poles, hardware and labor. Five dollars to the pole ought to pay for something extra good. In the 3"ard where these polos were lying this morning were 27 just fin ished, thepaint yet green. Tte raint is yellow ochre priming coat. They are to have a coat of green ov r this. Of the 27 poles cot one was straight. Nineteen of them bad holes in the butt, of different sizes, some had two boles. Onlyfiveof them were solid in the butt and of these, one was said by a lumbermau who was lording some boards into a car near by to f-e of the "will do" variety. Seven of them are so bad that the reporter put his hand in the hole where the heart was rotted out and could pull the wood out by the nandful. Twelve of them are but little better. They are 30 feet in length and the paint indicates that they are to go in the ground but four feet or less. Not one of them is over six inches through at the top, anu most of them are under that; many under inches. The iran ho could set them ''true to the line'' would be a most skillful mechanic' Cebu Insurgents Lay Down Arms. Washington, October 31. General Chaffee wires that the insurgents on Cebu Island have laid down their arms in good faith. There were 60 officers and 470 men armed. New Suits Filed. By Abbott: Ex parte Alva W. Kincaid, Smith Ross guardian of Sarah Kincaid, a person of unsound mind. Partition. By Johnson: Mary F. Henderson vs. James W. Henderson, for divorce. Marriage Licenses. Henry Sittloh and Clara Minner, Rich mend. Gustave A. Rehsteiner and Alma C. Mentendiek, Richmond. Walter Bragg and Prudence Chaves, Fountain City. Guardianship. Medsker & Medsker today filed tbe application of Thomas and Sarah Weed for the adoption of Harvey Green. The application . states that they are residents of Cambridge City and desirous ef adopting the said Harvey Green, who was born July 19, 1S82, and is now VJ years of age; that he has no property aDd neither father nor mother liyirg. They took him when he was three years of age and he has lived with them ever since, but is now in the military service of the United States in the Philippines. They desire to change his name to Charles H. Weed.