Richmond Palladium (Daily), 14 June 1904 — Page 1
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ANOTHER BABY
FOUND ON BANK
JANE HILL
One of Richmond's Most Popular Young Women, Passed Away.
TULL DEVELOPED CHILD PACK-
ED IN A SHOE BOX AND PLACED ON RIVER BANK Ed Muey, While Bait Hunting, Made the Startling Discovery A Clue. Yesterday, while Mr. Ed Muey was down in the vicinity of Larsh 's Mills
near Backmeyer's looking for crawfish and other bait to be used in fish'Y ing, he saw a bundle lying on the bank and his curiosity was at once
aroused. He immediately proceeded to investigate. As he drew closer to
tfie bundle he discovered it was a shoe box. He picked it up and he saw it was one of Haisley's boxes and on opening it found the remains of a full time girl baby. Mr. Muey was thunderstruck as it were, and at once notified Coroner Markley, who reached the place in all haste. The coroner found that the baby was wrapped first in a common rag, aMd around the body was an evening Item dated June 2. Around it was tied a piece of twine. Coroner Markley made a thorough investigation and it may be possible to locate the guilty parties in this
case and run them to justice. Backmeyer, the gardner, who (Continued on Page Five.)
After long, weary weeks of waiting and after suffering great ag ny from a severe complicated disease Miss Jane Hill passed away yesterday afternoon at three o'clock at the home of her mother, Mrs. Anna Hill, o south fourteenth street, at the age of 21 years. Miss Hill was one of the city's
most popular young women and her many friends are shocked to hear of
her untimely death. She graduated
in 1900 from the local high school and until her illness was a student at
Earlham.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow afternoon at the home Rev,
J.T ..White, nastor of the Christian
- - - i church officiating. The remains will
I be taken at 4 o'clock to Lexington,
Ky., for burial in the iamily lot b Thursday morning.
THREE DEAD
TffO DYING
. MR. C. 1 ffASSON
HAS EXHIBIT
r
A PLEA FOR
MORE
HOME
Mr. lives
FOR DELEGATES AND VISITORS WHO ATTEND SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. OPEN YOUR JHOMES
And Help Entertain These People Who Will Come to Richmond.
LYNN SMITH
Returned to Alaska Yesterday After Attending His Sister's Wedding.
the executive Sunday school Eighth street was learned
FATAL TERMINATION OF
LONG EXISTING FEUD BETWEEN NEIGHBORS ROUT AND TOW FAMILIES Met at Election Booth Where Men Were Voting Sheriff Left for The Scene.
Bryantsville, Ind., June 14. Three
dead and two dying is the result of
a feud between the Rout and Tow
families. The dead are James Rout, Charles Rout and Milton Tow. The wounded are James Tow and Frank
low. ihe teud existed many years between the Routs of Bedford and
the Tows, farmers near here. There were over three hundred here today
for a free gravel road election. When
the three Rout boys drove in from Bedford three Tow bovs were at the
election booths. Within five minutes after the arrival of the Rout boys at the booth shooting began so sudden and so terrible it was not known who fired first. They were not fifteen feet apart. When the firing ceased thre lay dead, James Tow dying with a
bullet through the neck, Frank tow shot in the arm and side. He may recover. One of the Routs escaped.
Thirty shots were fired. None of the scattering bystanders were hurt. Bedford, Ind., June 14. Sheriff Smith with a half dozen deputies al-
A RICHMOND MAN WHO
IS A
STUDENT OF THE PHILADELPHIA
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
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ANOTHER
COMBINE
Terre Hante Tribune and Gazette
Consolidated.
Terre Haute, Ind., June 14. The
Tribune was purchased by the Gazette and will be published as one paper only tomorrow. The Tribune-Ga
zette James S. Barbour, president,
W. L. Halstead general manager.
At the meeting of committee of the city last night, at south Friends' church it
that five hundred more places j so the coroner, have gone to Bryants are needed for delegates who '. ville. will attend the convention of Sun-j
day school workers. Reports were received from the different churches
of the citv. and verv few reaehei
their required number.
This is getting to be a very serious
matter. Ihe committee wil not know
Shows Some Fine Wftrk at the Art
Exhibit Varied Talents Displayed.
Extended mention has been made
from time "to time in the Palladium of the Philadelphia academy of Fine
Arts as having one of the most rep
resentative annual exhibitions of American artists' work to be seen in jit .v ... this country1, and also that it has turned out many of the most successful black and white artists of the day notably Mr. Everett Shinn and his talented wife, .Mrs. Florence Scovel Shinn, the latter the illustrator of 7 -'--.x
"Mrs. Wiggs:" Miss Charlotte Har
ding, Miss Fakinie V. Cory, both acquiring fame as delineators fo child life; Mrs. Olice Barber Stephens, Mr. Ernest Haskell, Mr. Walter Appleton Clarke, and indeed thse whose names are most familiar to the public as illustrators of the popular books and magazines. Mr. Charles M. Wasson of this city has been a student in the schools of
the Philadelphia Academy for several years past 'and his work at the current are exhibition shows the results of their rigid methods of instruction, some of these ' being for magazine production and more carefully work
ed out in consequence than if intended for mere easel pictures. Mr. Wasson showing Jairttself, also, possessed of v varied' I ajtnf displayed in other more pretentious pytrait sketches. Mr. Wasson 's present excellent wirk is indicative of much promise of future accomplishments. E. G. W.
ffOOL INDDSTRY
In Wayne County Increasing Year.
Each
Wayne county farmers are begin-
jning to give more attention to wool
growing than formerly. The value of the wool marketed in Wayne county in the last two months is in excess of .$30,000. It is a nice industry and a profitable one.
CONFEDERATE
REUNION
SPEECHES FULL OF LOVE AND LOYALTY TO THE SOUTH. GENERAL S. D. LEE
PREPARING TO
CLEAN THE CITY
JOHN SEAMAN MAKING A CAN
VAS TO FIND THE UNSANITARY PLACES SOME PARTS IN VERY BAD CONDITION Hog Pens a Great Source of Disease and 111 Health-"Dog Days"
Prepared For.
The health authorities and sanitary officers of the city are making their annual cleaning up, preparatory to dog days, at present, and the city, especially the unsanitary parts, are receiving a thorough overhauling, and
I all sanitary steps possible will be
taken. The item of refuse barrels, dumps, etc., is receiving attention and these will be looked after and the unsanitary ones removed. John Seaman, deputy health officer and City Sanitary officer, is at present making a thorough house to house canvass in order to understand the exact sanitary conditions of the district of the city and to do away with all factors tending to poor sanitation. He is going over the entire city, getting a list of the unsanitary places and the sources of ill health and disease and determining the places where sanitation needs to be increased. He is engaged in a good work (Continued on fifth page.)
Lynn Smith left last night for Alaska, after spending several weeks here with relatives. The Palladium
mentioned his long and arduous jourunv in ATnrrli to vorwli Seattle, n i
march of six hundred miles with a!wl,at to do if the people of Richmond
mail carrier as his only companion and travelling with dog teams, and also mentioned that it was to attend his sister's wedding at Xew Castle on
IT MARY'S
CATHOLIC SCHOOL
June 2nd that he came to this country. Smith is now employed regularly with the North Alaska Transportation company and the present one is his fourth trip to Alaska. He visited his brother, Arthur L., of the Second National, while here and his fine stories of life in Alaska
will not open their homes to these
j Sunday school workers who have j been invited here by the ministerial; j association of our city. i j If from the standpoint of duty you ;
will not open up your homes to these , visitors please save Richmond from j this embarassment by coming to the i rescue. If you have agreed to take I two people and can take two more J
in this emergency please send your name to E. J. Humpe at once. I f vou can take some and have not
proved verv interesting to his friends
") He experts to take a month in which 'done so, please bear in mindthat a to make the journey but the season is j condition is before us. These people so far advanced now that the danger . are coming and Richmond cannot af-
of the trip will be considerably less. ' frd to say to one-third of these peo-
pie, as far as we are concerned you
NO CLOE YET
To the Burglaries Committed Sunday Night.
The police department are using evrey effort to ferret, out the parties who committed wholesale robberies on Sunday night last. They have as yet no information that would lead to arrests, except that a couple of home tal.'uts had been seen loitering around there a short time ago.
CARRIES OFF THE HONORS IN A PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST AWARDS OF THE JUDGES Who Were Rev. E. O. Ellis and Rev. Elmer G. Howard Several Contestants.
DEO
Said He .Believed in .Time theirs
Would Not he Called "The Lost Cause."
Nashville, June 14. Speeches at the -Confederate reunion are all. full of ove for the memory of the bravery and sacrifices of the South in the civil war and of loyalty to the reunited country. General S. D. Lee said he believed in time theirs would not be
CATHOLIC PRIEST Hurries from the Altar to Console a Dying Man.
(Special to the Palladium.) Cincinnati. June 13. Clad in the sacred vesiments of the church, Father L. A. Tieman hurried from the al-
Some time ago the executive committee of the Richmond Chautauqua
mav walk the streets of Richmond all J in order to get people interested, of-
night. The plan of entertainment 1 fered three prizes for the best essays
imposes no burden on any one as it on the subject,
is simr.lv lodcrina- and breakfast. Let! Its advantages to
every citizen of Richmond with a I first prize was five dollars, the second grain of public spirit respond to this J $2.00 and the third $1.00. The conappeal. Tf you can not entertain at ! test was open to all the schools of your own home, privilege is given to ! the city and there were quite anumentertain people at the hotels at a . ber of contestants. special rate for delegates. Send in - The committee appointed to decide your names and number you will en- i the winners of the contest was Rev. tertain at once to E. J. Humpe, city i Elmer G. Howard, pastor of First
chairman.
IN TENT AT HOSPITAL
ALFRED CLARK SUFFERING FROM BLOOD POISONING SUCCUMBS LIVED IN THE OPEN AIR
And Breathed the Oxygen in a Tent Back of St. Stephen's.
called "The Lost Cause," but would! tar of St. Rose yesterday morning be seen that in the: providence of God I into the street, arriving there just in
those fearful sacrifices were necessary for the highest good of this nation and of the world. He believed in telling the story that the struggle was not in grief, not in revenge, but proudly as fits a soldier. Randolph
time to administer the last rites of the church to a dying man. Thrown high in the air and fatally hurt in a collision at Torrence road and the crossing of the Pennsylvania tracks, between an incoming aecomo-
McKim spoke of the strange features j dation train and the wagon in which of this occasion that was incom'pre- j he was riding, "William Buck, 24 sinhensible to others, of the devotion to j gle, driver for the Funke dairies, the memory of the stars and bars and j Hyde Park, landed in the street a of unreserved loyalty to the stars and short distance from the church, stripes. "We of the South," said j Hearing the commotion on the outhe, "are Americans and nothing that i side caused by the accident, Father prtains to the honor, the glory, the j Tieman went from the altar, from welfare of America is or shall be for- ; which he was preparing to conduct
I services, to the street to the aid of ' ill rll'ltlV o v
U1C l 111?
eign to us
TWO
FDNERALS
NEW
VERANDA
Councilman .Norris .Improved .His Business House.
A nice improvement was made at the grocery of Councilman Edgar Norris on north Eighth street. He has had erected a splendid veranda to cover the entire front and extends over the sidewalk. It adds considerable to his store. ,
C. ff. JORDAN
To Address Superintendents Association in St. Louis.
County Superintendent Jordan will deliver an address at St. Louis on June 2S, on "The Consolidation of Rural Schools in the County," before the superintendents association.
After facing bravely the rigors of the open air treatment, in a tent
pitched in the back yard of St. Ste-
v 1 i n t . i Air t i i
"The Chautauqua, pnen's nospuai, iviireu iarK sue-
Richmond." The ' cumbed to tne ratal disease wnicn ne
had contracted yesterday afternoon. He. came to this city from the west a few weeks ago and when itwas seen that the disease was fatal, in the last extremity, it was determined to try the "open air treatment." This did some good, but the disease has secured a fatal hold and Clark died yesterday afternoon. The funeral will take place Wednes day afternoon, from the residence of Alfred Hadley, 303 north twenty-first street. Interment at Earlham.
SEVENTEENTH
HAS RETURNED. Elda J. Canaday who has been visiting her numerous friends in Indiana chiefly in La Fayette and this city for the past two months, has eturned to her home in Bellevue, O.
Enirlish Lutheran church, and Rev.
I E. O. Ellis, pastor of south eighth street Friends' church. The commitj toe went over the essays by numbers,
11'' 1 1 I I 1 1 1 V 1 V- 1 11 i ' v i 11' v . v.. v v v on the following: First prize, $5.00, Master John O'Connor, 022 north tenth street. Second prize, $200, Miss Marie Gagen, 100 Ridge street. Second prize, $2.00, Miss Marie Ga ton. 30 south twelfth street.
Honorable mention was made of , Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Lipscomb
tlie essays oC Alice Locier, 002 south eleventh street, and Miss Jessie M. Sands, Abington. The three prize winners are pupils of St. Mary's Catholic school and Miss Locier who received honorable mention is also a member of that
school. Miss Sands attends the pub- boy, was born to Mrs. Lipscomb. Oth-
Other Births.
President Roosevelt has one great admirer in this city, John Lipscomb. Yestenlav the seventeenth child, a
lie school at Abington. R. L. Kelly returned from Pendleton yesterday.
er births Mr. and Mrs. G. Vogns, a boy, fifth child; -.Mr. and Mrs. Perry Creak, a girl, first child; Mr. and Mrs II. Finley, a girl, second child.
Of Prominent Citizens Occurred This Afternoon.
Allen M. Harris. The funeral of Allen M. Harris occurred from his late residence, 201 north thirteenth street this afternoon at 1 o'clock and .was very largely attended. Mr. Harris was well known over the county and here in Richmond, and the large attendance at the funeral only attested that friendship. The services were conducted by Rev. E. O. Ellis and were most impressive. The pall bearers were: "William Thornburg, M. C. Heney, Harry Doan
M. Williams, T. J. Study, W. A. Sample. Interment was in Earlham ceme
tery. Nathan S. Lamar. A large concourse of people assembled at First M. E. church at 2 o'clock this afternoon to pay homage to the memory of the late N. S. Lamar. The choir rendered several appropriate selections. Dr. Swadener conducted the services in a most impressive manner and preached the funeral discourse. Following were the pallbearers: Judge H. YV Comstock, John W. Macey, Hon. H. N. Johnson, D. S. Coe, Lafayette Larsh and Rev. Bunyan. Interment was in Earlham cemetery.
POLICE AFFAIRS
A Full House This Morning "With All Kinds of Troubles.
Four colored men Earl Henry, George Henry, George Nicholson and W. L. Rawls were in police court charged with vagrancy. On promise to do so they were permitted to leave the city. Henry Kemm was fined $1 and costs for drunkenness. Frank Pritchet was arrested and charged with larceny. He had a hearing and was bound over to circuit court in the sum of $500.
Frank Moss was charged with assault and battery on a colored man. He was fined $1 and costs.
FLA& DAT
Is Being Observed in a Quiet Way.
This is Flag Day all over the United States and wherever the stars and stripes float A good many are floating to the breezes in this city. A