Richmond Palladium (Daily), 30 August 1904 — Page 1

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A WHITE WOMAN IS ACCOSTED 1 NEAR CRAWFORSDVILLE ASSAULTEDAND ROBBED Posses, Headed by the Woman's Husband Scouring the Country for Assailant. (By Associated Press.) Crnwfordsville, Tnd., August .10. Mrs. Jacob Waddel, wife of a farmer residing eight miles south of Crawfordsville, is lying at the home of her son, Mr. Todd, in this city, in a precarious condition as the result of being assauulted and robbed by an unknown cegro. Mrs. Waddel arrived in Crawfordsville at 1 o'clock from Kentucky, where she had been visitine. She had expected her husband to meet her at the station, but owing to a misunderstanding, he did not think she would come that morning. Being thus disappointed she started out in the darkness to find the home of her son but, being unfamiliar with the streets, went in the wrong direction. ' In a lonely spot south of the city near the Masonic cemetery Mrs. Waddel was terrorized by the appearance "of a negro who accosted her. The negro asked where she 'was going and on being told, offered to escort her, She feared his company and refused, whereupon the 'negro drew a revolver and demanded Mrs. Waddel to climb a fence and enter a vacant lot, where the crime was committed. waddel had on her person, and alter assaulting her fled, leaving his victim prostrated. When she recovered she ran to the home of Mrs. Louisa Evans and being finable to awaken the family, crouched beside the porch where she was found on the verge of nervous collapse. She was taken to the home of her son where she now lies in too serious a condition to be removed to her own home. Posses headed by the husband of the outraged woman, are scouring the country and the police are searching every nook and corner in this city for the assailant of Mrs. Waddel. STREET FAIR Eagles, Veterans and Teachers to Hold Meeting. Pern, Innd., Aug. 20. Peru will have a street fair next week under the auspices of Peru Aerie of Eagles. Next Wednesday the Eighth Cavalry and Thirty-ninth Regiment of Indiana will convene in their annual re1 I.ah f I ' t - ll .1 ,1 .n.l J-f n VI f 111111)11 llt;tc J.v. uunuicu uricians will be here. The Miami County Teachers' Institute will be held all next week. Next Sunday the Peru Maennerchor will celebrate its silver jubilee, and there will be singing societies from South Bend, Ft. Wayne, , Wabash, Logansport, Kokomo and Danville, 111., here for the celebration. On South Twenty-Second Street Very Popular at Present. A very popular place at present is the tennis court grounds in South Twenty-second street, near the old athletic ' park. Tennis has sprung into popular favor of late, and each afternoon parties of players may be seen on the courts. Several excellent scores have been made and some of the matches have been very close. The tennis court has lately been fitted up, re-rolled and made better in many ways. i t .t r -;:

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Ad It is Believed Sustained Internal Injuries. Camden, O., August 30. Frank Bennett, employed on the farm of Joseph W. Doron, the Hamilton capitalist, met Avith an accident this morning that Avill probably prove fatal. Bennett was working on a tower on a barn on the Doron place at a distance of sixty feet above the ground whei he lost his balance and fell. He struck a projection part way down which somewhat broke the fall, but when picked up he was unconscious and it is believed has sustained internal injuries which will prove fatal. He was fixing a wind mill when the accident occurred. OF REPUBLICANS WAS HELD AT COLISEUM LAST NIGHT DRUMAND BUGLE CORPS And Glee Club Organized Preparations Being Made for the Cannon Meeting. About 200 enthusiastic young Republicans met at the Coliseum last night for the purpose of taking the initiative in organizing for the campaign and especially for the big meeting next Thursday night, when the attraction here will be the Hon. JoE. atson. Mr. Byram C. Robbins presided at the meeting. About thirtj'-five persons joined the drum corps, and more are wanted. At the same time and place a glee club was organized for the purpose of entertainment during the campaign. It is the intention to have -a large glee club and all Republicans (and Democrats if they want to) are requested to join the club. The bugle corps will have a complete new outfit, and will present, a fine appearance. A Call. The bugle and drum corps will have a special meeting tomorrow night at the Coliseum and all Republicans who have drums and fifes are requested to come to meeting and bring instruments. A Request. The Young Men's Republican Club will please meet at the Coliseum half hour earlier on Thursday night before the Cannon meeting. It is the intention to attend in a body. Notes. The Coliseum will be open to the public Thursday night at 7 o'clock. The stage will be reserved for vice presidents. Before the Cannon nf?eting thei Young Men's Club will have a pa

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rade. All drum corps are invited to participate. Those desiring to do so will please meet at the Coliseum at 6:30. The Richmond City Band will furnish music before and during the meeting. The following committees were appointed : Drum Corps Committee Gus Pfafflin, J. M. Gaar, Carl Jessup. Committee on New Members One from each .ward Pleasant TTn thank, fifth ward, chairman; Ed Hollarn, Scott Webb. Roy Norris. Fred Davenport, R. L. Study. Dorsey Noland. Paraphernalia Committee Charles Williams, Carl Baker, Roy Peck. - Glee Club J. F. Taggart, D. S. Coe; George R. Ford.'. . . ; - V." ..it-fVvV''. .,.:. ...'; . 4 . i i i .. ; t t. .

Col. Bain Entertains J! Large Audience

AT THE CHAUTAUQUA YESTERDAY SUBJECT,

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Edmunnd Vannce Cook Reads From His Own Work The Ladies Concert Company Pleased Everybody Doings of the Chautauqua Given In Detail.

Altho' the sky was over cast yes- in Colonel Bain's discourses. If any terday and the clouds gave promise of one expected to hear a diatribeagainst rain, the enthuusiasm of those in at-' what is popularly known as the "new tendance on the Chautauqua was un- woman" they were destined to severe dampened, and the interest manifest- disappointment for it would be dittieil greater perhaps than on any pre-'cult to imagine anything more ehivalvious day, the program being even rous and appreciative, as well as more more interesting and delightfully pre-'sane and just tjian Colonel Bain's atsented, if possible, than those hereto-! titude which befitted the reputation

fore given. Colonel Bain's name alone of ' his Kentucky progenitors as exwould give eclat and a sure guarantee ponents of modern chivalry. Colonel of success to any program but with Bain deplored that the person known the charming music from The Ladies to a great and undiscriminating pubChorus in addition, the occasion was lie as the "New Woman," should made one of the successes so far of j be more or less the creature of the this year's series of entertainments. : humorous journals and of certain exIt should be remembered that in com- j aggerated tvpes who, to many, rep-

paratively open air performances as resent all that is distasteful in the these, with the sides of the tent open, ; ultra modern woman, as, from logical the results, especially with musical deductions made by Colonel Bain, the events, are not .always all that the en-'genuine "new woman" was really a tertainers would desire, as it is very ' more interesting if more highly redifficult to either sing or speak in fined product, than some of her prethe open with that degree of effective- decessors of an earlier generation,

ness attained in an auditorium entirely confined within Avails. Col. Baine's Lecture. The lecture of Colonel George W. Bain, entitled "The New Woman and the Old Man," surpassed the expectations of his friends and admirers who have several times before had the pleasure of listening, to. his elouent ..utterances, on other tnuiiei rain s versatility

wonderful tact and adaptability being the best of which was that of the faparticularly exemplified in this lec- mous Scotch professor who offered a ture, and being replete with that hu- street urchin a dime if he would go mour, pathos and practical philosophy always so delightfully dovetailed . (Continued on eighth page.)

CITY COUNCIL ITS FORMER ACTION IN CEPTING REPORT ACOF CITY COMMISSIONERS In Regard to the Assessments of Benefits and Damages on Linden Avenue. The city council had an adjoured meetinsr last nisrht to take up the

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complaint of the citizens of Fairview Cambridge City Oil company will beAvho are property owners on Linden gin their first well this week on a avenue, that they had been assessed piece of leased land adjoining this for the making of the street when place. The well is located between they had a specific agreement with two gas wells that have shown oil in Knollenberg & Kemper that they the upper sand of the Trenton. By would not be assessed. drilling about 300 feet deeper than It will be remembered that when the they do for gas they reach, the oil city commissioners made report on bearing sand, and if the conditions the above named improvement the obtain here that they find eighteen sum of $143 was awarded Kollenberg miles north of here they can feel con- & Kemper for damages, and other fident of success. North of here in property owners were assessed for the the Indiana oil belt, when oil appe'ar-

improvement. , The people residing on Linden avenue found objection to the report of the commissioners after the report had been adopted by council and it was this that necessitated the adjourned meeting last night. The mayor called the meeting to order and stated its object. It was found that, the only thing for council to do would be to reconsider the action of council in accepting the report of the commissioners, wrhich was done. Whether this action will stand or not remains to be seen.

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AND THE OLD MAN.9' merely adding a higher degree of cul ture1 to those womanly virtues which will, always obtain, according to Colonel Bain's optimistic outlook, as long as women continue on this round earth. "The degree of attractiveness or irepulsiveness of an object, and things in general," said Colonel Bain, eids . upon ?onr i schooling, " and SumWoftp OIL PROSPECTS CAMBRIDGE CITY OIL COMPANY TO BEGIN THIS WEEK INDICATIONS ARE GOOD And the Conditions That Exist Elsewhere Prevail Here In the Oil Belt. (Special to the Palladium.) Hagerstown, Ind., August 30 The ed in the upper sand in the gas wells it always became an oil field. Pros - pects look very bright. Eighty-Ninth Reunion. The nineteenth annual reunion of the Eighty-ninth Indiana regiment will be held in Decatur Tuesday and Wednesday. A number of people of this city will be in 'at tendance. Mrs. Kenyon nreturned to Indianapolis yesterday after visiting Mrs. J. A. Coffin an.

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After September 1 Will Be C. H. & D. and Pere Marquette. Toledo, O., August v0. It was announced here last night that on September 1 the present offices of the C, II. & I), in this city will become the joint office of the C, H. & D. and Pere Marquette. E. C. Law is to be in charge" of the freight business and J. A. Williamson of the passenger business. F. W. Fellenz, local commercial agent of the Pere Marquette, is to be made western freight agent of the two companies at Kansas City, and Edgar Britton, district passenger agen of the Pere Marquette here, will become district passenger agent in charge of Canadian territory, with headquarters at London, Ontario. JAPANESE LOSE AT ANPING CAPTURED EIGHT GUNS FIRING AT LIOA YANG Heavy Cannonading From the SoutheastCruisers Are Disarming. (By Associated Press.) Shanghai, August 30. The Russian cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer (Jroseovoi finished disarming today. , Liao Yatf-Jluerust 30. Kifle and morning to tne southward. H 15 OeM lieved that a great battle has begun today. This is the anniversary of the Japanese emperor's birthday. Up to !) o'clock there has been an incessant shower of shrapnel. The heaviest cannonading is from the southeast. The whole Russian front was systemjatically searcher by the Japanese shells (after which the infantry advanced. The Russians have been holding the ground gallantly with comparatively small losses. Tokio, August 30. The Japanese lost two thousand men at Anping,captured eight guns and eight others at Anshanshan. St. Petersburg, August 30. A dispatch from General Sakharofften this morning from Liao Yang says the main Japanese attack is against tha Russian's center and right, where the Russian losses are heaviest. The Japanese were close to the Russian positions. St. Petersburg, August 30. General Sakharoff reports a large Japanese force advancing northward along Taitse river valley, west of the railroad. f Cannon's Itinerary. (F7 Associated Press. New York, August 30. The Republican congressional committee has arranged a schedule for speeches by Speaker Cannon as follows: South Bend, Ind., September 15th; Columbus, O., the 16th; Dayton, O., the 17th. Beginning September 21 he will spend four or five days in West Virginia. JJxjA JLiia AJMJJ UiMiUA-UO. ( Tutewaller Anna M. Tutewaller died last night at her home, 540 North Eighth street of tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-one years The funeral 'will be Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 j fro mthe home. Interment at Earl- ; ham cemetery. Body Recovered. (By Associated Press.) Nashville. Tenn.. August 30. The body of E. C. StahliCan, drowned last night in the Cumberland river, was recovered today. He was a son of Mayor E. B. Stahlman and the news editor of the Banner. "fi Ressift Emie returned to Hell eviip. Kv.. this morninc. after visit-1 - , 7 D; . ing Miss Mary Peltz.

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WAS THE THEME OF MR. VINCENT THIS MORNING SPEED AND SCHAFFER Each Delight Large Audiences Full Report of the Teachers' Insittute. I (By Prof. W. A. Fike.) Emerson the Man" was the jV.rasubject of Mr. Vincent, wlu de lighted a large audience with a splendid address. Mr. Vincent is one of the strong men of the Chautauqua. He has something exceellent to say and then says it in such a clear, forcible and wel articulated manner that it i a pleasure to sit' an hour within the range of his voice, lie first 'discussed Emerson as being influenced by his ancestors, and thinks with him that it is impossible to escape the influence of our mothers and fathers that we may be the subject of different environments, and ourlives may be inttuenced much in this way, yet there is something about us, some indescribable something we obtain from our ancestors that helps tomake us what we are. This Emerson possessed in a great degree. The speaker dwelt ujkhi the characteristics of the man, his schooling ami preparations for the ministry, his uneasiness in this profession, which, because of some particular ordinance of the church, he finally abandoned. His first steps toward becoming a lecturer and writer were jjdei'r&LXS at length, as was also profession. irpli "tlontlo ' IbSlleaiHfit'non fa -one of the pioneers of the American platform as well as one of the chief e.'ionents of transcendentalism. From a practical side Emerson regarded health and happiness as two of the most essential features of man's complete existence, and he always contended tat we should fight our ills by not acknowledging their presence. Emerson was a man to be admired. He was not only loving but lovable and became endeared to all who knew him, much of which was due (Continued on Page Five.) Rules For Lovers are Laid Down By Alexander Dowie. Waukegan, 111., August 20. In his afternoon's address at Zion City today Dowie again praised Roosevelt as a candidate and laid down new rules for love making in Zion. Among the latter are the following: A young lady under 18 will not even be allowed to speak to a young man on the street. If she is 18 or over she may speak to a young man only by the consent of both his and her parents and Dowie. Dowie commended Roosevelt most highly, and asked all who would from now on pray each day for his election to rise. The whole audience arose as one. PROF. WISSLER And His Family Have Gone to New York. (Special to the Palladium.) Hagerstown, Ind., August 30. Professor Clark Wissler and family left last night for their home in New York City. Mr. Wissler is connected with the New York Museum, also fills a chair in the Columbia University. Professor - Wissler: was recently ap pointed a member of the international eongress of art and science, which honor came to him unsolicited.

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