Richmond Palladium (Daily), 18 July 1904 — Page 1

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PANHANDLE. SOUGHT HOME AT ONCE Paniily Says He is Irrational Rev. Ellis Will Make Full Breast to the. Official Board. Rev. Ellwood 0. Ellis is at home, having arrived Saturday evening at :05 from Cincinnati. After leaving tne aepot ne weni aireci io m uumo, corner of ninth and south A streets, and walked into the presence of his family from whom he had absented himself for nearly two weeks Rev. Ellis is not the same looking

man he was when he left here on the Slick,the woman whose name has been fifth of July. His Van Dyke beard ( connected with that of Rev. Ellis, has been shaven off and he looks hag- since his absence. She, got into a cab gard and worn. ( and was driven to her home on South When he arrived home he told his Fifth street, this citjT. Several partfamily of his wanderings. "When he ies at the station witnessed the arrivleft home, he said, he felt under a al of the tAvo parties that have been

strain and thought he needed rest. He left on the 3:50 train on July 5, for Cincinnati and from there went to Nashville, Tenn., where he remained until last Friday night, when he returned to Cincinnati, arriving there at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. He spent a few hours in Cincinnati and returned home as above stated at 9 :05 over the Pennsylvania railroad. The word of the arrival of Rev. Ellis -spread like wildfire over the city, .d it was the topic of conversation yesterday A Palladium representa

tive was among the first to hear that

Rev. Ellis was in the city, ana lmmen diately sought the family for any in- ' formation that they were willing to

y. give out. Of course, the return of 'j Mr. Ellis was as sudden as his disappearance, and he took the family -una-4 wares. They were not prtfared to i make a statement Saturday night nor ! yesterday, and this morning when a ; Palladium representative called at the ( home, he was informed that Mr. Ellis was irrational and not in a condition to talk. Arthur Ellis, a son, who seemed to be spokesman for the family said his father had returned Saturday night a little after 9 o'clock and that he told them about his actions for the past two weeks, but that he didn't care to repeat for publication" what

his father had told them. He said his father was nervous and excited and under the doctor's care since he came home. Rev. Ellis told Mr. B. Johnson Saturday night that he had been to Nashy ville, Tenn., spoke of where he had been stopping and so forth. Mr. Johnso nasked him about not going alone, when Mr. Ellis replied: "So I understand since I came home." Mr. Ellis further said: "I am willing to abide by the official action of the church board. Whatever it says I am willing and ready to do. When the board meets I will make a full and complete breast of my doings for the past two weeks. ' ' , Mr. Johnson further said they were awaiting the arrival of Samuel Cowgill, of Montezuma, Indiana, a lifelong friend of Rev. Ellis, the man who toured the Holy Land with Mr. Ellis and paid all of the expenses, a few

years ago. Ibis trip was written up by Mr. Ellis and published in the Palladium. Mr. Cowgill will likely arriye today and when he does the fu- ; tu're of Mr. Ellis and his family will k be determined upon. ' As far as the church is concerned, the services of Rev. Ellis are at an end. This has been determined upon as will be gleaned from the following action of the official board taken last Friday night and read in meeting

yesterday: ipany confining itself then' to songs, Statement from the Meeting pt Min- etc., more than to instrumental selecistry and Oversight of South Eighth tions. Street Friends' Church. The many improvements that have At a meeting of the official board taken place at Jackson's Park were the following action was taken in re- the subject of a great deal of favorai ference to the unaccountable absence ble comment among the visitors. of the pastor: I ,

Th pastorate was declared vacant, and Elbert Russell, Eliza H. Hiatt u'pnd Benjamin Johnson appointed to

arrange for a "pastor at a suitable time in the future. Benjamin Johnson, Elmina "Wilson and E. Gurney Hill were appointed to provide for the attendance of ministers at the Sabbath morning services. The? pastoral visitation of the membership was placed under the care of Charles A. Francisco, who will be assisted in this work by other members

of the church. The church is encouraged to stand firmly together in this time of her stress, going forward in the work of her Lord. By direction and on behalf of the meeting on Ministry and Oversight. EDWARD BELLIS, Clerk. July 15, 1904. It was as one of the Friends' ministers said this morning. The truth must be known. The church was through with Rev. Ellis no matter what plea might be offered. If he was insane, they could notu se him, and if he wasn't insane there could be no possible reason to retain him. The Slick Girl. The same train that brought Rev. Ellis to this citv also brought Bessie the talk of Richmond for some time, j The charitably inclined still insist that Rev. Ellis could not have been in his right mind to do as he has done, and they believe that time will prove (Continued on eighth page.) JACKSON'S PARK DUNBAR CONCERT COMPANY HAS LARGE PATRONAGE. EXCELLENTPROGRAM The Selections Were Given in an Especially Able Manner Milton Band Was Fine. The entertainment at Jackson's Park yesterday afterroon and evening was attended by a large number of people from this city, the heat of the day driving many from the city to the cool shade of the Park and the novel entertainment offered formed a pleasing diversion. Half hour service on the interurban was given, and this accommodation proved very acceptable to those who visited the park. The grounds were .crowded all day long, early and late with both picnic parties and those who were over to hear the entertain ment and concert. The Dunbar concert company showed itself to deserve all that the ad- , vance agent had spoken concerning it as the best concert company in the country. Its selections were rendered in a fine manner and the applause was prolonged after each rendition, The concert company wa sthe first thing of the kind heard in this city , for several months, and the patronage extended to it was all that could be I desired by the most grasping promoter. The Milton.Band was at its best, which is a very good best indeed, and the pieces were played in askillful manner. A change of program was given in the evening, the concert comMiss Helen Coughlin has returned after a short stay in Piqua, Ohio, to visit Miss Hazel Murphy. . .;

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AND PURSUED AS FAR AS KUN-TEAPAOTZSU.

THE STEAMER PERSIA Detained an Hour in Red Sea by the Russian Steamer Smolensk. A Russian Attack. (By Associated Press.) London, July 18. The Japanese embassy has a Tokio dispatch reporting that the Russian attack on July 17 on Mo Tien Pass. The Russians repulsed and pursued them as far as Kunteapaotzsu. Aden, July 18. The British steamer Persia was detained an hour in the Red Sea by the Russian volunteer fleet steamer Smolensk, which transferred to the Persia a portion of the Japanese mail taken from Prinz Heinrich. Che Foo, July 18.-The belief is growing that final assaults will be made on Port Arthur this week. Cor respondents from Japanese and Chinees ports are arriving preparing to enter at the first opportunity. ENTERS PROTEST. (By Associated Press.) Berlin, July IS. The German government protested against the Russian seizure of mail on the Prinz Heinrich and demanded a return of the mail sacks. Russia has not yet answered. ACCIDENT. Wm. Piehl's team became frightened on north eighth street this morning and started on a run, striking an express wagon. All three horses were knocked down and one of them was injured. That is the only damage reported. KERN AT ESOPDS Attending a Conference in New York Today. (By Associated Press.) Esopus, N. Y., July 18. John W. Kern, of Indiana, who was the guest of Judge Parker, left this morning for New York, where a conference of the leaders is to be held, after which they will come here. EXCESSIVE HEAT Dock Worker Drowned in the Chicago River. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, July IS. Excessive heat continues. A dock worker became insane from the heat and plunged in to the river and was drowned. By Weeds Are Many of the Swimmers in the New Hawkins PooL Several of the boys and men who have swam in the Hawkins swimming pool, east of the city, complain that they have weed poisoning all over them. The weeds have all been cut down, but neverthless many exhibit large patches of poisoning on their bodies. AN UNLUCKY FIND. A German tinker named Landsberg found a purse containing $110 at Rostok. lie took it to the police station where its owner claimed it and gave Landsberg a quarter. The disappointed finder shot himself. There was a severe hailstorm at Dayton last evening., The atmosphere was cooled considerably thereby.

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FOR THE KILLING OFJOSEPH IDDINGS.

MRS. HICKS LAUGHED When She Heard the Verdict A Motion for a New Trial Will Be Made. Indianapolis, July 18. After deliberating twenty hours a criminal court jury yesterday declared Ella Hicks guilty of murder in the second degree and that she should be imprisoned for life. She killed Joseph Iddings. The woman heard the sentence read, but there was not a single sign of emotion on her face. She laughed and joked wkh Casey Kimble, the pailer, as he took her back to her cell. Stephen Troyer, foreman and spokesman for the jury, said: "We did discuss the advisability of hanging the woman, but there was no ballot for hanging. We decided that that was the best way to punish murderers when the surrounding circumstances were of the proper character, but this crime, we decided, was not of the sort that should be paid for with a death sentence. , "The environments the woman had and her intelligence were taken into consideration. She lived in a neighborhood where she and her neighbors often drank and I suppose they often fought. Had she been from a different community or had she been a more intelligent woman and more able to understand the gravity of her offense we might have voted to hang her." Her attorneys will make a motion for a new trial. , THREE WOMEN Murdered in Indiana Since First of December. The mysteries of the deaths of three women murdered in Indiana since the first of December, last year, are yet unsolved. On Dec. 8, 1903, Miss Elizabeth Gillespie was assassinated at her home in Rising Sun. Her brother James, sister, Mrs. Seward and Mr. and Mrs. Myron Barbour, were arrested. The jury disagreed at the first trial. The second trial will be called at the September term of court. The defendans assert their complete innocence but declined to give an opin ion as to who killed Miss Gillespie. Miss Sarah Schafer, Latin teacher in the Bedford schools, was found cruelly murdered on the morning of Jan. 22. James McDonald was tried and acquitted. The grand jury adjourned without returning another indictment. The most recent murder was that of Mrs. William Starbuck and her baby, whose bodies were found in a well on the Starbuck farm near Greensboro, Saturday night, July 9. Two suspects have been placed in jail, but the mystery surrounding the crime has not been solved. LUCKY INTER Finds Two Gems in Wabash River Worth Over $400 Each. Pearl hunting does not often form the basis of a college education, but there is every reason to believe that it will in the ?ase of Albert Glazier 16, of Owensville, Ind., who is repupted to be the luckiest finder of pearls along the Wabash river. Young Glazier watched older men hunting pearls and finally fitted up a small fleet of his own and started out alone, dragging the river bed for the pearl-bearing mussel. In less than a week he had brought to the surface the largest and probably the most valuable pearl ever found in this state. On his way home to inform his mother of his good fortune, he met a rich . pear 1 buyer who immediately paid him $400 for the stone. The- next morning the boy hurried

back to his camp: He had scarcely commenced digging when he turned up another pearl almost' as big as the first one. He refused an offer of $300 for the gem and is holding it for a higher price. Old mussel diggers tell him the pearl is worth nearly $500. Several men have tried to purchase a half interest in the boy's fleet but the young pearl hunter refuses to take a partner. He has about $150 worth of smaller pearls piled up about his camp ready for the market. He is determined to use all the money derived from the business to pay his way through college.

TERRELL'S CONDITION. Reports from Richmond are to the effect that Terrell, the murderer of Wolfe is a little better and can eat a little now and has gained three pounds in flesh since he has been in the hospital there. Whether he is realy insane the authorities there have never stated or given an opinion. They must surely know as it would be a very difficult matter to deceive an expert so long. It is contended by some that Terrell will never be sent to prison even should he become sane again but would be released by Governor Durbin. Should the ppresent governor's time expire before Terrell became sane the next governor would have no power, it is said, to send Terrell to the penitentiary and could do nothing but have him released as other ppatients are released from the hospital when cured. Marion News Tribune. Walter Rossiter has returned from a ten days' visit to the St. Louis Fair. li RAILWAY TRAINMEN TO HAVE OUTING AT JACKSON PARK ALL DAY AND EVENING Dance to be Held in Evening List of Athletic Events A Good Program. Richmond Lodge of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will give its first annual picnic at Jackson Park next Wednesday. The affair will last all day and evening and will be attended by the members and their families only. Features in the way of athletic sports have been arranged for and the event promises to be one of the most enjoyable given by any organization at the park this summer. Musuc will be provided. A dance will be held in the evening. The list of athletic events is as follows: Fat men 's race, prize 1 box of good cigars. Sack race, 1 box cigars. Gents' race, 1 B. of R. T. pin. High jumping, 1 B. of R. T. button. Children's race, 1 silver dollar. Ladies ' race, 1 pair kid gloves. Free-for-all race, 1 32-ealibre revolver. Cigar race, 1 box cigars. Glove contest, five rounds. Baseball game, five men and four ladies to a side. A lady's sweater will be given to the lady making the longest hit. The participants will bring their dinners and suppers in baskets and will eat at one long table. Other re freshments will be served by the Brotherhood free of charge. The committee having charge of the affair is busy preparing for the event and promises an enjoyable afternoon to the railroaders and their families who attend. The committee of arrangements is composed of Ed .Flood, chairman; F. L. Holly, J. H. Brown, John Allen and Sam Arnold. II. L. Ashley went to Indianapolis this morning.

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A BLUNT INSTRUMENT Was Used and He Was Struck Behind the Right Ear Testimony of Doctor. (By Associated Press.) London, July 18. At the inquest on the body of Kent Loomis the doctor testified in his opinion the wound behind the ear of Loomis was received before death. The wound is described as 'the size of a half dollar and seemed, to have been made by a blunt instrument behind the right ear, indicating murder. CORONER'S VERDICT. (By Associated Press.) London, July 18. The jury found the deceased was Frederick Kent Loomis; that he was found dead in Bigbury Bay. There was no evidence to show how he met his death. The body was ordered to be shipped to America. The medical examination of the remains of F. Kent Loomis was conducted by two local doctors at the village of Thurlestone. They found a contused wound below and behind the right ear indicated by extravasative blood in the scalp and rupture covering the brain. There was also a general bruise involving the scalp and integument oi tne Drain on tne leit siar cbo1 the ear. Both of the mjuries ; in the opiniba jpi the doctors were caused before death. American Consul Stephens, at Plymouth attended the proceedings. Among the articles found on his body were a gold watch which had stopped at 6 o'clock; English gold and silver coins; $60 American notes, a re ceipt fo." subscription to Blennerhasset Clu ; a railroad publication in which was the name of Kent Loomis; a receipt from the Grand Hotel, New York, of $250 which Loomis desired sent to his wife; a gold ring with the name Mildred engraved on the inside. Consul Stephens fully identified the deceased as a messenger of the State Department carrying dispatches to Paris. BICYCLE RIDING On the Sidewalks Will have to be Cut Out. A young man named Jones was in police court this morning charged with riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. He was found guilty and fined $1.00 and costs. Superintendent Gormon says there will be other arrests made if this practice is not discontinued. He says he will make offenders respect the law if they have no respect for him. SELLIGH TOBACC To Children Has Proven Very Expensive.' . . There were two cases of selling tobacco to children in 'Mayor's Court this morning. One was George W. Harris and the other .Ldgar ijundy. Both pleaded guilty and were fined $10 and costs each. The practice of selling tobacco to children is carried on in certain quarters in the city and the police want to put a stop to the practice. The Colored Men's Business League will meet Tuesday evening at Bethel A. M. E. church at 8 o'clock. The members and friends interested are requested to be present, as matters of importance will be considered. ; ""Mrs. Ella Haskett and sister, Mrs. Case, spent Sunday in Dayton.