Richmond Palladium (Daily), 12 September 1904 — Page 1

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FOUND DEAD ON THE ROADSIDE YESTERDAY

ACUTE MELANCHOLIA Deputy Coroner Markley Renders a Verdict of Suicide It Was ; Premeditated. lesieruav morning me ueau uoav of Curtis Harris, aged twenty-five, was found by the roadside a short distance west o Cambride City, with a bullet hole over the heart. Beside the body 'of the dead man was found a revolver, and at first it was naturally supposed to be a case of suicide. Later investigation gives credence to the murder theory." - The, right hand of the young man was badly scratched and torn, indicating a struggle and as no cause for suicide has been revealed the officers are investigating the case in the hope of finding some clew that will lead to r ' ' i . -i .: . ii. i t 1.1.. murder. The body was discovered lying by the roadside by Miss Ida Williams and Miss Emma Adams, two young women who resided near the scene. Neighbors were hastily informed and the body removed to the home of John Campbell, just across the Henry countv line, where Harris had been employed. Young Harris was a prominent, worker in the Evangelical church at Pleasant Hill. He was regarded as a man of excellent habits and no cause' could be assigned that would, lead 'to the suicide' theory. Saturday night he was in Cam- . bridge City until about 10 o 'clock, when . he started home, 'purchasing 1 a' lunch in a restaurant before starting. Nothing out of the ordinary was noticed in his conversation.' Coroner's Verdict. Peptuy Coroner John M. Wampler went to Cambridge City yesterday and viewe dthe remains. He also took all the evidence he could find. Dr. Wampler said he learned that Curtis borrowed a revolver from a friend Saturday and told the lady at the house at which he was stopping that he didn't care to live any longer. He brooded a good deal over something or another. He led a pretty fast life some time ago and .recently joined church. It was after 11. o'clock Saturday night when he left Cambridge City and he told the friend with V 11 Will 1 1 7 KV V E (.M V v didn't think he would see him any more. The friend thought he was joking, but later developments proved to the contrary. He never reached home but killed himself while on the way. Dr. Wampler 's verdict will be that the young man came to his death by his own hands, with suicidal intent, while suffering with acute melancholia. For Oil Near Hagerstown Excites Local Interest. A week ago the Standard Oil Company's agents appeared in this county and set about leasing all the land that could be procured for the purpose of drilling for oil. A ropalty of one-sixth was offered and accepted in almost every case, while a cash payment to hold the conveyance was invariably made. As no oil well had ever been drilled in this territory, where there has been a good production of natural gas for twenty years, local, people were greatly surprised when a tall derrick went up and drilling was begun, four miles north of Hagerstown and outside the defined .gas limits. Almost immediately a company of Richmond and Cambridge City capitalists was formed and a second derrick is now building just outside the limits. S. C. Whitesell returned' this morning after spending Sunday in Hagerstown.

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Given to The Public One of The Ablest Doou ments of State Clear, Forcible, Logical

The Issues of The Campaign Discussed by The Present and Next President of The United States at Oyster Bay.

Oyster Hay, X. Y., September 12. The following letter of President Roosevelt, accepting the nomination of the Republican convention, was made public today: Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1904. -Hon. J. (i. Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee: My Dear Sir: I accept the nomination for the Presidency tendered me by the Republican National Convention, and cordially approve the platform adopted by it. -In writing this letter there are certain points upon which I desire to lay especial stress. It is difficult to find out from the utterances of our opponents what are the real issues upon which they propose to wage this campaign. It is not unfair to say that, having abandoned most of the principles upon which they have insisted during the last eight years, they now seem at a loss both as to what it is that they really believe, and as to how firmly they shall assert their belief in anything. In fact, it is doubtful if they venture THE BATTLE OF ALTERCATON BETWEEN THEODORE M'CLELLAN AND . THEODORE SMITH The Latter Was Badly Cut at the Hands of the Former Saturday Afternoon. There was considerable excitement in North Ninth street Saturday afternoon about 4:43 when an altercation occurred between Theodore McClellan, the laundryman and Theodore Smith, of 133 South Fourteenth street. The fight occurred in McClellan 's laundry and was finished on the street. The story goes that Mr. Smith's sons had been working for Mr. McClellan, but was discharged on Saturday. Mr. Smith went to the laundry, to inquire about the cause of the discharge and incidentally to collect the wages due his boy. One word brought on another and Mr. Smith was ordered out of the place and then shoved out, and he claims to have been struck with a flat iron. In the melee Mr. Smith received two bad cuts, each of 'which was opened to the bone one on the forehead and the other on the back of the head. He bled profusely from the wounds and was taken to Dr. Bulla's office where they were bandaged. Squire Spink's constable was on hand and ordered McClellan to appear in court this morning. A complaint was also filed in police court. The case was called in the latter court this morning and was continued until Wednesday morning. A large crowd of people gathered about the place and excitement ran high, together with all kinds of rumors. Rev. T. H. Kuhn at Christian Church. There will, no doubt, be a large assemblage at the Christian church tomorrow evening, to hear .Rev. T. II. Kuhn, of Frankfort, Ind., who will speak at 7:30.

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resolutely to press a single issue; as soon as they raise one they ' shrink from it and seek to explain it away. Such an attitude is the probably inevitable result of the effort to improvise convictions; for when thus improvised, t is natural that they should be held in a tentative manner. T The party, now in control of the Government is troubled by no such difficulties. We do not have to guess at our own convictions, and then correct the guess if it seems unpopular. The principles which Ave profess are those in which we believe with heart and soul and strength. Men may differ from us ; but they cannot accuse us of trickiness or insincerity. The policies we have pursued are those which we earnestly hold as essentia! to the national welfare and repute. Our actions speak even louder than our words for the faith that is in -us. We base our appeal upon what we have done and are doing, upon ouj record of administration and JegislaJ tion during the last seven years,1 ill which we have had complete contro A Makes Some Startling Discoveries-j-Used Carbolic Acid. (By Associated Press.) New York, September 12. Epirt, the criminologist, announces some startling discoveries. Last April a body was found near Homestead, L. I., and was buried bv the authorities as Martha Laimber. A letter was found -with the body containing a hundred dollar bill, to save the poor woman from a suicide's grave. It is clamed now that the woman was killed by a blow during a quarrel with her husband. He then poured carbolic acid into her mouth and carried the body over ten miles away and left'it with money and note. . TO EICHM01 To Enlist Came Sheriff Christopher Forty Four Years Ago. The twentieth annual reunion of the 69th Indiana regiment will be held at Lewisville on Thursday, October 6. A large attendance is anticipated andj a good, old-fashioned reunion is expected. ' One of the especially invited guests is " Comrade" Charles M. Christopher sheriff of Henry county. When the civil war broke out and the soldier spirit was rampant in the land, "Christy," then a swadiing of ten years, ran away from his Randolph county home and went to Richmond where the 69th was in camp. He was told that he was too young to enlist and could not carry a musket but that did not stop "Christy." He secured a drum and became the "drummer boy of Whitewater," while the regiment j remained in Richmond. Therefore, ' the astute sheriff is alwavs invited to me oytn reunions and is a regular attendant. Miss Caroline Harland, of Chicago, arrived this morning to accept a position as head trimmer in the millinery establishment of Mrs.- C. A. Brehm, 41 North Eighth street. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Greenstreet arrived from Newcastle this morning. They have been spending the summer in the Maine woods.

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of the Government. We intend in the

'future to carrv on the Government in the same way that we have carried it on in the past. A party whose members are radically at variance on the most vital issues, and if united at all, are only united on issues where their attitude threatens widespread disaster to the whole country, cannot be trusted to govern in any matter. A party which with facile ease, changes all its convictions before election cannot be ! trusted to adhere with tenacity to any principle after election. A party fit to govern must have convictions. In 1896 the Republican party came into power, and in 1900 it retained power Oil certain definite pledges, each of which was scrupulously fulfilled. But in addition to meeting and solving the problems which were issues in these Campaigns, it also became necessary to meet other problems which arose I after election; and it is no small part I of-our. claim to public confidence that these were solved with the same success that .had attended the solution of LDTHER FEE6ER I Goes to Capitol University, Columbus, Ohio. Luther Feeger, who lately resigned his position on the repertorial force of the Sun-Telegram, left this morning for Capitol University, Columbus, Ohio, to enter upon a course of higher studies at the institution. Mr. Feeger Avill make a record at Capitol and will likely distinguish himself. He was captain of the Earlham debating team, and won the state oratorical contest, and was one of the most prominent students at the college in I everything. Will Keller, who has been filling Mr. Feeger 's former place on the Sun repertorial force, leaves for Indiana University next Mondav. i Football Team Reported This Morn mg. Earlham 's football team reported this morning, a week in advance of the opening of school. It is the first time in the history of Earlham athletics that the candidates for positions on the team have taken enough interest in the sport to report in advance. Coach Brewer, of Indiana University, will take charge of the players at once. The college will open a week from today in all departments, with an increased attendance. The dormitories will be crowded, in fact, there will scarcely be enough room to accommodate all. Five Thousand Given Work. (By Associated Press.) Chicago September 12. Over 12,000 strikers applied to the stock yards today. About 5,000 were given work. Fourteen thousand non-union men are still working in the stock yards. There were several clashes todav. Safes Blown Open. (By Associated Press.) Wapakonetta, O., September 12. The safe in the Central depot was j blown lastn igbt and a couple of hunjdred dollars stolen. -j Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 12. Robbers blew the safe last night of the bank of Palmyra, Nebraska, and escaped.

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those concerning which the battles at

the polls were fought. In other j words, our governmental efficiency proved equal not only to the tasks that were -anticipated, but to doing each unanticipated task as it arose. Criticism has been made by our opponents in regard to our foreign policy, and the way the navy has been made useful in carrying out this policy. Here again all that we ask is that they truthfully state what has ben done, and then say whether or not they object to it; for if continued in power we shall continue our foreign policy and our handling of the navy on exactly the same lines in the future as in the past. To what phase of our foreign policy, and to what use of the navy, do our opponents object? Do they object to the way in which the Monroe Doctrine has been strengthened and upheld? Never before has this doctrine been acquiesced in abroad as it is now; and yet, while upholding the rights of (Continued on Second Page.) CITY SCHOOLS - OPENED TODAY ALL BUILDINGS REPORT GOOD ATTENDANCES REAL WORK BEGUN And the 1904-1905 School Year Outlook is Very Encouraging at Present. The two month's vacation is over, and this morning the city schools opened. The opening attendance was very good, considering the fact that the opening days seldom see an at tendance as large as that of the second week. This morning's session was merely the preliminary, and the regular school work, recitations, etc., opened this afternoon. The reports of the enrollment will not be completed until the last of the week, the . many changes from one school to the other mixing things up for several days. St. Mary's Catholic school also opened this morning, with a jgood .attendance. The changing in the boundaries of the school district is causing a good deal of trouble and ill feeling on the part of those who are changed. The need of a school building in the east end is greatly emphasized this morning, as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth street schools were crowded. The new boundaries will le strictly adhered to,however, by the teachers, and many pupils will be changed from one school to another. Nearly all the students have returned from vacations, and were ready if not willing, to enter upon another year's school work this morning. The outlook for the school year is verv encouraging. A brother of E. B. Hutchinson, general claim agent of the Panhandle line, is visiting him on North Meridian street. He is accompanied by his wife and will Temain several days, after which they will return to their home in Maine. Indianapolis Star.

AT HIS HOME IN WASHINGTON, DC.

CAUSE NOT STATED On of the Best Known Mn in the Country Chief of Dead Letter Office. Word wax received in this'eitv this morning to the effect that Mr. 1). P. Liebhardt, of Washington. I). 1, had committed suicide. Those who l.ad known Mr. Liebhardt best were loth to believe the news correct. No particulars were contained in the dispatch save that he had taken his own life. The deceased was bom in Wayne county, near Milton, about sixty years ago, and was one of the brightest and best men that ever went out from this county. When ihe war broke out, although then quite youugis patriotism knew no bounds, and he enlisted in the 57th Tiidimui rpt't infill- On "MnvZ-H.! 1 . 1tl4he was commissioned quartermaster and at the end of the war was mustered out as Captain. Mr. Liebhardt was a painter by trade and was superintendent of that department of the Hoosier Drill works when that concern was at Milton. Later on when the Dorsey Machine works was orfianized he became a stockholder and also its secretary." In this capacity he was both competent and efficient. In LSS8 when Judge John L. Rape was chairman of the Republican county central committee, Mr. Liebliardt was its secretary. During the Harrison administration he was chosen chief of the dead letter office at Washington. When Cleveland was elected his place was filled by a Democrat. After the election of President McKiuley he was restored to his former position, and has held it ever since. Under his admin-, ist ration he systematized the business of that office and printed several pamphlets on the workings of tie uepartment. . Mr. Liebhardt was married and had a wife and two children, one of his daughters dving at Milton several years ago. The other daughter, Miss Ina, in the department with her father, was a clerk under Machen. , Mr. Liebhardt leaves two brothers, Frank of this city, and another at Milton.. , . . .. The cause of the suicide is not known. Mr. John Lv Rupe, who knows the deceased intimately well, says, "he was over sensitive, and when the truth is known it will be found the suicide will be attributed to that. It was certainly not from any wrong doing of Mr. Liebhardt 's, for he was the personification of honor and respect. DETECTIVES Trailed Three of the Canadian Pacific Train Robbers. (By Associated Press.) Bellingham, Washingon, September 12. Detectives have trailed to Lynden three of the men who held up a Canadian Pacific express near Mission, B. C. Besides seven thousand dollars worth of gold dust, several - -1 P mAnar trara cATtTd lacnOgts rt. wivuv - - Mr. and Mrs. John Kaufman' arrived from Harrisburg, Pa., this morning to visit B. B. Johnson and family. . j