Richmond Palladium (Daily), 10 September 1904 — Page 1

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TAMED INSTITUTION TO BEGIN NEW YEAR IN GOOD FINANCIAL SHAPE All Litigation Has Been Disposed of New Directors Have Also Been . Named. Oxford, O., September 10. Oxford College has changed hands and will le opened next Wednesday with great promises of success. The change was announced today by Allen Andrews, the Hamilton attorney, who said: ."Caleb A. Shera, Charles II. Shera, Ceorge B. Welliver and myself have disposed of our holdings in the Oxford College, have resigned as directors and have completely severed our connections with the college. "Through the action of, the stockholders, old and new, the following directors have been chosen: "John C. Slaybaek, of Hamilton; Agnes Morris of Oxford; John W. Fenton, of Oxford; J. A. Kohl, of Cincinnati, anl Fannie Ruth Robinson. "All litigation regarding the college has been 'amicably settled, and should not continue in its prosperous . career." 4 - Oxford College, one of the most j .". noted institution of learning in the country, was founded in 1854 under : the name of the Oxford institute. Its j founder was Dr. John W. Scott, the father of Carrie Scott Harrison, the first' wife of President Benjamin Harrison. It was in the college that Harrison courted Miss Scott who Was .married to him, in 1852. , . . Dr. Scott was followed, as president o f the college by Dr. Robert Morris, whose daughter, Lillian, was married to Dr. Faye ..Walker,; who had charge of the "college, after the retirement of Dr. Morris. Under the administration of Dr. Walker, the', college became involved in much litigation, which has been happily disposed of and leaves the college to begin the new year without any financial embarrassment. The enrollment . is very large. Fannie Ruth Robinson will be principal. " the SPECIAL

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-y Club. There will be a meeting of the tYoung Men's Republican Club at the Coliseum next Tuesday evening. All members are requested and urged to be present Make it a point to be on hand early. FACTORY The Border Locknut Concern . Well .T ' v Underway. . After many weeks of work on its erection, the Border 4 Locknut comviwnyV new ' factory, HWesti Richmond, 'between the G. R. & I. and the Chicago division tracks, is assuming a finished appearance. The first story almost entirely completed and ork on the second floor is well under way, with prosiects of completion be- , fore the cold weather. Messrs. Alford and Border, the owners, are well pleased with the progress of the work and confidently hope and expect to see the factory running this winter or next spring. The building is about 100x50 feet long, made of brick and will be fitted up with all modern appurtenances in the way of machinery, fittings, etc. Improving Building. Tht TCniffhts of Columbus buildinc?. . - -. -or pTifth and Main streets, is being re I paired. The west side is being made ready for a coat of cement or imitation stone. , . t ; . ,' ..

THE PRIZES

..That Will be Given in the Golf Contest. There are eight prizes to be given away in the Indiana Golf Association championship games to be held at the golf links in this city September 15, 16 and 17. The cups are of solid silver, beautifully designed, and are mounted on ebony. The largest cup, the trophy for the men's championship, is sixteen inches high, and that for the women's championship is fifteen inches from the ebony base to the top of the silver cup. The next two prizes go to the runners 'up, 'one for men, the other for women; the third is for low score, one for men and the other for Avomen. One exceptionally fine cup will be the consolation prize, and this will be personally presented by the president, S. S. Strattan, Jr. The prize in the driving contest is a pewter mug. BASEBALL Richmond Will Play Rushville Team Tomorrow. Tomorrow a team from this city will go to Rushville to play the baseball team of that city in the afternoon. The lineup of the local team will.be: Gaa, catcher; Warfel, short stop; Miller, third base; Evans, second base; Schattel, first base; Lacy, pitcher; Renk, pitcher; McNally, right field; Peck, left field; Craft, center field; Boyce and Williams, sub stitutes. DAYTON'S GROWTH New City Directory Gives it One Hundred and Thirteen Thousand. That Dayton, Ohio, is growing rapidly is shown by the new city directly, just issued. According to the new book that city 'has 113,000 inhabitants. Of J. B. Dignam Being Pushed in the State. Men from the Indianapolis bureau of Dignam 's Magazine, published in this city, are traveling over the State in the interests of the magazine, "pushing" it with both retailers and the public. The Dignam 's Magazine has attained an exceptionally large sale in so short a time, and as the magazine is a very good one, the sales are increasing Avith great rapidity. "FAIRIELAND" Netted a Considerable Sum For the Home of Friendless. The report of the financial managers of the "Fairieland" fete, held Wednesday, evening, shows that the sum taken in far exceeded the most wide expectations ) of -Ithe managers, and that a very large amount of money will be turned over to the Home of the Friendless, the recipient of the charity funds. "Fairieland" was a great success financially and the twelve managers are very much pleased over the showing. ; It is expeeted that between $50 and $100 will be handed to the managers of the Home of theFriendless. FflRH NO. 2 Divorce Proceedings Filed With The County Clerk. There are so many different grounds upon which divorce proceedings are filed, that the reporters have invented a code by which they are known. The one here mentioned is from No. 2, and is as follows f v Elizabeth Hawkins vsv'Oniar Hawkins, divorce. Cause, cruel and inhuman; treatment.

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TELLS OF LOSSES AT PORT ARTHUR AND ALSO AT LIAO YANG RUSSIANS GOING NORTH Kuropatkin Said to Be at Tie PassFortress at Port Arthur Holding Out. (By Associated Press.) Tsing Tan, September 10. A Japanese officer en route, to Kaichou says the Japanese losses at Port Arthur in the last few days are very heavy, exceeding 15,000. The Japanese losses at the battle of Liao Yang exceeded 20,000 St. Petersburg, September 10. It continues to be reported this morning that the Russian army is moving northward from Mukden. General Kuropatkin is said to be at Tie Pass, which is now the most important point to hold. St. Petersburg, September 10. Workmen leaving Port Arthur last (Continued on eighth page.) A And the Police Department Will Put a Stop to It. Since the opening of the campaign in this city every boy that is able to walk has fitted up a drum of some kind and is almost constantly beating it. All kinds of improvised drums are used, such as store boxes, cigar boxes, tin cans, etc. ;. L ' Superintendent Gorman has received a number of complaints about this continuous drumming in the streets of the city. It is verv annoviner to nervous people, in fact, it is hard on people who have real good health. It is the desire of Superintendent Gormon that only organized ward drum corps furnish campaign music and all others will have to keep out of the streets. Besides the nuisance created there is danger of . the,, little fellows being run over with street cars, automobiles, rigs, etc. Parents would confer a favor by seeing to it that their boys are kept off the streets. Of Coal for Each Person in State Mined Last, Year. State Statistician Johnson's figures of coal show that approximately 11,000,000 tons were mined last year. Green county led the production with 2,958,000 tons, valued at the mines at $3,110,000. Vigo was second with 2,127,000 tons, valued at $2,318,000;' Sullivan third, 1,674,000 tons, valued at $1,849,000, and Clay fourth, 1,230,000 tons, valued at $1,956,000. If the output of last year were divided among the inhabitants of the State each person would receive nearly four tons. " PARKER Does Not Agree With the Reports About Himself. (By Associated Press.) Esopus, September 10. Parker's secretary issued a statement denying that Judge Parker was dissatisfied with the State and National Committee, and that he would go to New York personally to look after the campaign work. J. C Phelps, of Dallas, Texas, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gennett and family, of East Main street.

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CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS THE STATE OF SONORA IN CONSTANTLY TORTURED Escaped by Cutting Ropes With Stone Stole Ride on Train. Portales, Xew Mexico, Sept. 10. n i i t raiiKer r,iianu returned telling a j thrilling story of his escape from i brigands in the State of Sonora, Mexico. He lost fifty pounds and is a pitiful sight. He was forced by bandits to write his wife for ransom. He was tortured constantly and fed very little. He was tied with ropes at night and terrorized with rifles by day. On the night of August 30 he cut the ropes with a sharp stone and escaped while they slept. He lived in berries at Zeds for five days. He finally reached a railway sixty miles distant and beat his way on a lumber train to Douglas, Arizona. He then borrowed funds again at El Paso, Texas, enough to get home. Several Cases at Liberty Caused by Eating Watermelon. f Liberty, Ind., September 10. The ease of watermelon poisoning, followed, by death, in the family of Allie Bias, is causing much excitement. The burial of the little boy, Ross, wras had yesterday. Mrs. Bias, the mother and another son, eleven years old, are alarmingly ill, and little hope is entertained of recovery. Allie Bias, the father, is slowly convalescing. The physicians in attendance, Dr. S. D. Kelly, county health officer, and Dr. Frank- Dubois, ex-surgeon U. S. A., are of the opinion that the sickness of the family and the death of the boy was caused by eating a watermelon that was pulled when green, and was left lying until vegetable poison developed. The melon was one of a carload shipped from Yincennes to this city one week ago. A portion of the shipment is still offered for sale, and the health officer expresses a purpose of condemning it. CITY TEAM Of Football is the Latest Project on Foot. Several of the old time high school football players are working hard on the project for a city football team, to rank as semi-professional. There is much good material in the city at present, many of the star players of the Richmond. high school and other schools and colleges being here, and a good team could easily be developed. It; is understood that the first meeting will be held next week and practice will start soon. Muncie, Rushville, Marion and other city teams, besides high school, Earlham and other teams, will be played. PARTY Will Arrive From Europe at Eight O'clock. Mr. D. G. Reid and party, who have been touring Europe since July 1, will arrive in New York harbor at S o'clock tonight and in New York City tomorrow. Query Answered. Mrs. Mary Custer, of Centerville, had a query in the Enquirer some time agu - to uie value ot violins macie ai v,iciuuiia. me ,nouirer ans-

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Were Foreigners When Porter Took Their Shoes. The conductor of No. 21, the fast train from New York, said this morn ing to a Palladium reporter that with the disappearance of their shoes in the sleeping car came the climax for members of the Inter-parliamentary Union, who are on their Way to St. Louis and are getting their first experience in American methods. Protests were made by some when the car porter came to their berths with light tread after they had retired and seemed intent on removing their footwear without their knowledge. After the custom of shining the shoes during the night was explained they seem ed satisfied to trust them out of their signt. ine visitors had had a tear oft arriving at the World's Fair in their j stocking feet. GOOD SHAPE Is the Boiler in the City Building After Repairs. During the past week Charley Turner and Frank Ray, two of the city's best boiler makers having repaired the boiler in the city building and put it in splendid shape for the winter's work. The whole thing was gone over and thoroughly fixed up. The work was done under the supervision of Councilman Peck,, chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds. . ' . . COOK DEAD Father of Dr. T. J. Cook, Late of This City. Word was received in this eitv that Mr. Clarkson T. Cook, aged eightythree, and the father of Dr. T. J. Cook, who recently moved to Newcastle, died there yesterday. STREET CAR Thrown Cross Ways Across Track This Morning. One of the new street cars, No. 60, driven by Motorman Sutton got off the track near Eighth and Main streets at 11:15 this morning. The car was almost straight across the track. The accident was caused by the switch rail working loose after the front wheels of the car had passed over it. It was nearly an hour before the car was replaced upon the tracks. FORGER IS CAUGHT Is Chased for Mile, After Offering Bogus Check for Payment. Newcastle, Ind., September 10. John Foster was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of forging the name of Frank Beeson to a $100 check, tendered in payment to Lon Rodgers for a new buggy. The alleged forgery was detected at a glance and officers were called. Foster ran and was pursued by -many Iersons. He was arrested a mile from Rodger's sfore. He is thought to be the son of a Brown county farmer. It is alleged that he robbed a penny slot machine at Mooreland some time ago. SIX HUNDRED Men Thrown Out of Employment by a Fire. (By Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Pa., September 10.-Two firemen were fatally injured, nin build ings burned, and four damaged today at the Harbison Walker s? works' SlI Haysborough. Six hundred persons were thrown out of work.

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PASS TBRODGH INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION EN ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS GOT OFF AT STATION Which for a Whil Was Filled With Brilliant Uniforms and Sound of Foreign Tongues. Yesterday, when live minutes apart, two special all-Pullman trains pulled j into the union station here, there gut j off "a large number of men, clad iu various costumes, and for a while the station was full of uniforms of various sorts and brilliancy, and here and there a blackbroad cloth suit. The trains bore the interparliamentary Union, composed of several hundred members of the various parliaments and diplomatic corps of different countries. French, English, Belgian, Dane, (Serman, Hungarian, Italian, Holland, Norway, Portugee, Roumania, Sweede and Switzerland, all were represented by ten or more diplomats. The 'party is. touring the United States in two special Pennsylvania trains each composed of eight Pullman sleepers, as guests of the nation, and after a tour of the east, were on their way to St. 'Louis. The trains stopped here a half hour or so, and then departed for the Exposition. All speak English, but the sound of foreign tongues and accents was heard everywhere. , F. M. Barber, the special representative of the Associated Press, Sun, and Publishers Press Associations on the train, said that'the party had met with no accidents nor mishaps of any kind, and that all were enjoying themselves to the utmost. Noted Parliamentarians in the party were Richard Bartholdt, chairman of the congress committee in the I. V., Congressman Hitt, Hepburn, Barrows, and others; Austria, Baron D'Huart, LeComte D'Alviella, Emile Huet, Leon Broquet, Emile Braun; Denmark, Hon. Bluhme and M. Krabbe; England, Hon. P. Stanhope, W. Randal-Cremer, Sir John and Lady Leng, Sir Howard Vincent, Sir Wil(Continued on fifth page.) J. F. HANLY Will Speak at the Coliseum October : J " Tenth. County Republican Chairman Gardner has been notified that the Hon. J. Frank Hanly will speak at the Coliseum on the tenth of October. That will mean an immense crowd. Mr. Hanly is speaking to large audiences nearly every night. ! GOOD COW .Ti i. Could 'Swallow Nails, Screws, ' Etc Without Bad Effect. Hamilton, O., September 10. William Rigling, the butcher,' killed a cow yesterday that 'had a queer assortment of junk; in its stomach. This is the inventory: Nails" .. .. .... .... . ...17 Screws Metal brackets Pitchfork tines i -' V' v .-' ' ! - I i Total ..21 The pitchfork tine was working out of the cow's stomachy but it bad not affected its health. Some of the nails had been in the cow's anatomy so long that they were badly corroded. Others had been there so long that they measured six and seven inches. A Good Move. An agent for a, carriage manufacturing, company was here today and got ;ther bigs 'tent at JEIeventh and Main streets. It will be repaired and used to exhibit buggies at the fairs.