Richmond Palladium (Daily), 19 December 1904 — Page 4
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DEFAULTING TREASURER
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2D CLASJ MATTER
rtolltr rlaiTrarar h RJirrler tO any P Ift Of
the city for seven cents a wwk., SUBSCRIPTION BATES l DAILY x
, ... .i.nntha in advance . .11 .V)
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CASS MAKE
COUNTY CAN NOT GOOD SHOWING
SHORTAGE OF $75,343.66
Outside city, one month, in advance.
Outside city, one year, m
WEEKLY By mail one year, 11.60 In advance,
mum c riTZGIBBONS. - Editor
Sjp f AM MW mm m m m Jf. O. HOLLY. - Business Manage
H. S. CARTER, - Reportor
' bmmsey POUNDSTONE al Staff
8 00 Sureties Abandoned Hope That Ober-
chain Will Return to Logans-port.
UNIONgL4BEL
The Palladium will be found at
the following places: Palladium office. , Westcott Hotel. Arlington Hotel. Union News' Company Depot. Gates' Cigar Store, West Main. Two cents at all places of sale.
The Palladium Santa Claus fund is
now near the fifty dollar mark. Five
dollars were handed in since last re
port. It is more than likely the fund will reach one hundred dollars before it's close. Our citizens certain
ly appreciate the efforts put forth by
this paper as shown by their generosity.
The Indianapolis Star, like the
Palladium, is conducting a Santa
Claus 1 una. Iheir tuna is now over
700, and it is still
EVEN
AWAY
Ey a Kiss Were the Nurse and Attendant.
Jersey Ciiv. N J.. December 18.
With a thrill of indignation, Warden
Me Andrews, of the Jersey City Hos
pital, heard a kiss and some tender words whispered in the third floor
hall of the institution. And then he
found Willard Cody and Miss Mary
Meehan, proiessional nurse, occupy
ing one rocking chair. "This is an outrage," he exclaim
ed. "Both of you lose your positions
for such nonsensical conduct. Cody,
renort to me at mv office. Miss Mee
han, co to vour room." 7 V
"JSot much," replied the young woman. "No one else in the world
has a better right to this spot than I. Willard, light a match, please." Willard obeyed, and by the flickering light the young woman showed Warden McAndrews a marriage certificate. "I am now," she said, proudly, 'Mrs. Willard Cody." Warden McAndrews thereupon gave them his blessing, and a celebration of the nuptials of November 10 was held at the hospital in the afternoon. Cody and his bride were employed in several hospitals in New York before they went to Jersey City. It was a case of love at first sight when they met in the institution across the river.
Logansport, Ind., Dec. IS. Count y Auditor O. C. Gard completed his annual report, which shows that E. F Obenchain, defaulting County Treasurer, is charged with $137,S64. But
$02,500 has been accounted for, leav
ing an alleged discrepancy of $75-
343.G6.
This would show a shortage at least
$15,000 greater than was heretofore
believed to exist. Records of loans made by Obenchain and stock funds in his vault as collateral account for i i . t." i aaa r i l i l .
only aoout ?o,uuu oi me snonage. The bondsmen now believe tht Oberchain took the balance with him in the form of cash.
On the strength of this discovery
his sureties today abandoned the hope they had fondly cherised ever since they took charge of the office
that Oberchain would return and aid
them in straightening out. the aff
airs of the office.
Did Satchels Contain Cash. When the shortage was roughly
checked up last Monday, it was be
lieved that Oberchain left here without., a dollar, of the county's fund,
that "all the money which the treas
ury was short had been advanced by him to friends for securities of great er or less value. They declined to admit that he might have taken any part of the county funds for his personal use It was openly admitted as probable that he had ended his own life because of the disgrace. The discovery of today leads many to be-
ieve that the two satchels Oberchain
took with him when he left were lin
ed with currency.
The day Oberchain left for Indi
anapolis he retired tn his private
vault. He pulled down the curtails
and remained there ten minutes. Then he left, carrying two grips
which appeared to be heavy. The
- i i - - -
bondsmen believe that both grips
were weighted with funds Obenchain
had drawn trom t tie city Dank sever
al davs previous and taken 'to his
office safe.
Little Sympathy for Oberchain.
The discovery of this additional
short a are has almost obliteratel the
sympathy felt for Oberchain, even
by the men who will have to make
good his alleged shortage. It became
known today that, in the June set
tlement, there was a discrepancy of
$5,000 between the Auditor's and the Treasurer's duplicates. This discrep
ancy was in favor of the county.
SEE OUE BIG v SLIPPER DISPLAY. RICHMOND SHOE CO. Corner Eighth and Main.
DEATH RATE! CITY AND COUNTRY
man, and he -took from his pocket
"a roll of bills as big as a piano
leg," stripped of a yellow-back, and gave it to the woman, who grabbed up her baby and began to cry. "We went out," Forbes continued "and I asked him his name. He
would only tell me he is in the flour
business." The tall, thin man is not unknown to other policemen in the Tenderloin, who speak of him irreverently as "Good Johnny-on-the-spot." One night two months ago a starving man dropped in Twenty-third street. The tall, thin man was "on the spot" and gave the unfortunate enough money to feed, clothe and house him for two weeks.
THE SUBJECT IS SELEGTED
FOR ANNUAL BUTLER-EARL
HAM DEBATE IN MARCH
EARLHAM HAS OPTION
Of Which Side it Will Debate Subject Selected by Butler on Saturday.
FRANK LANE FOR XMAS TUR
KEYS. . PHONE 773.
lS-7t
MAN
OF CHARITY
EVERY BABE
Will Boost its Papa's Salary Under Ruling of County Commissioners Topeka, Kan., December 17. In order to encourage the raising of big families the commissioners of Shraw" nee county have voted to increase the salary of every employe in the court house $5 per month for each baby born in his family. . "In placing a premium on babies" said Commissioner Sterne, "We are simply carrying out the Republican policy of encouragement to infant industries and the Roosevelt idea of big families." In case of twins the employes will get a raise of $10 a month and if triplets $15. "The County Board has no way of offering a bounty to the people generally as an inducement to raise big families," said Mr. Sterne, "but it can reach the employes of the county through a salary increase and proposes to do it." . . 4 .
Directs Officer to House
tion.
of
Destitu-
New York, December IS. A man inconspicuously clothed said to patrolman Forbes, of the West Thirtieth street station: "Officer, I will thank you to go with me to a certain house in Seventh avenue. Yes, there's trouble, but not the kind von think I've been
asked to see a woman who, with her children, is destitute. I do not like to go on such errands alone, for sometimes I meet not only deceit but violence." He took Forbes to the top story of a tenement house, 452 Seventh avenue. There lives Mrs. Mary Reilly. She has eight children, of whom the oldest is thirteen years and the youngest, William, one year old. The baby has been ill with pneumonia. Before last rent day Mrs. Reilly 's husband, who earns $5 a day, when he is sober, took to drinking and 'disappeared. He is a bricklayer. Mrs. Reilly went out scrubbing and washing clothes, but fel ill, and had it not been for her neighbors she and her- children would have starved. She was served with a "dispossess notice." But she will not leave. She told what is told here to the tall, thin
The students of Butler College decided on Saturday afternoon that the subject of the annual debase between Butler and Earlham to be held at Indianapolis in March, would be: "Resolved, That it Would he to the Advantage of the People of the United States to Purchase and Con
trol All Interstate Railroads." Butler was given the right to se
lect the subject seme time ago by
harlhnm. Latiham has the option of
which si(1e of the subject it shall de
bate upon, j he members of the debating team vill start at once to pre
pare for the debate, as they have hac
r.o in formation up to .the present
line as to the subject of the debate
Butler has the advantage as to the
subject for the reason that the same topic has been used this year in the
regular college debates.
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE WERE MORE IN THE COUNTRY
THE NOVEMBER REPORT
Of the State Board of Health Shows Some Very Interesting Figures.
QUAKER CITY POULTRY MAR
KET FOR XMAS TURKEYS.
PHONE 393. lS-7t
There are some interesting figures m the death roll set forth in the regular monthly report for November of the State Board of Health. Among them is the fact that the death rate resulting from violence and pneumonia shows a greater per cent, in the country than in the city, which is an unusual reversal of conditions. The figures also show that smallpox is becoming more fatal in its results, there being an increase in the death rate among smallpox patients of 11 per cent. Consumption. the figures show, claimed 337 people, an increase of
about forty over November of last-
ear. Among the victims this year
was one person over ninety years of age and forty-seven babies under the
age of one year. Of the number 277 were females and 130 males.
Total Death Rate. There were 103 deaths last month
resulting from violence, and, strange
as it may seem, the country shows the greatest per cent, in this respect. The death rate from typhoid fever and pneumonia was also slightly higher in the country than in the
cities.
The total citydeath rate from all
diseases last month was 14.S and the
lea th rate in the country from all
diseases was 10.1. The death rate
in Indianapolis was 14.4 for everv
1,000 inhabitants. The increased fatalities among the smallpox patients. Dr. Hutry says, is natural, as the first year the epidemic appears it is in a light form, but each succeeding year it shows more fatal results. Pneumonia, however, shows a decrease in the number of deaths. A
Lyear ago, during .November, there
were 241 deaths. Last month 220 people died from the disease." The most prevalent diseases of the month were bronchitis, kmsilitis and rheumatism.
SATISFIED
President Zimmerman Does Not Care
to Go to England. Cincinnati, December 17. Presi
dent Eugene Zimmerman, of the Cin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and Pere Marquette system this evening em
phatically denied the oft repeated ru
mors that he intended to retire from
active business life and makSe his
home with his daughter, the Duchess
of Manchester, in England.
"I am not going to England to
live, not even for a protracted visit. America is plenty crood enousrh for
he said. have succeeded in persuading
my daughter to send for little Lady
Mary, her daughter, and we will haw
i family reunion during the holidays XT "W T- i a m
in rsew lork.
Lady Mary sailed Thursday on the
Baltic, with two nurses to look after her, and will reach New York about
December 27.
When the Duke and Duchess of
Manchester began preparations for
their present visit to America it was
planned to leaye the children at home in charge of the Dowaevr
c? Duchess. When the news reached
Mr. Zimmerman it was immediately vetoed, he even offering to care for
he children himself if the Duchess
would only bring them along.
me,"
"I
The beautiful snow has been fall
ing since early last evening and was
still coming down as the Palladium
went to press.
Mr. Frank Fitzgibbons, of De
Sota, Missouri, is at home to spend
the holidays.
RUBBER BOOTS FOR THE BOYS SI .25. $1.50 AND UP.
RICHMOND SHOE CO. Corner Eighth and Main.
ASSAULT JUSTIFIED
Jury Returns Unique Verdict in Justice's Court at Muncie.
Muncie, Ind., December IS. A
DelaAvare county jury in a local jus
tice s court has put a new interpretation upon the statutes of Indiana. In the case of the State against
James Storey, a traveling salesman, who was charged with assault on
Harry Young, the jury returned this unique verdict:
"We, the jury, find the defendant
not guilt-. We find that he was jus
tified in the assault."
Storey claimed that Young had
been too intimate with his wife, and, going, into the shoe store where
Young worked, he had impressed his view of the matter on Young by j means of a pair of brawny fists.
Council will meet in regular ses
sion tonight, llie matter ot denutv
I '
to the city clerk
be decided.
and treasurer will
Contractor Relieved of $75. Hillsdale, Ind., December 18.
George Russell, a well known man of
this place, was held up last evening
at C
5 o'clock at the crossing of the 6 E. I. railroad and the Monte
zuma and Hillsdale pike while he was returning in a wagon from, Montezuma. He was compelled, at the
point of a revolver, to give up $75,
all the money he had with him. Rus-
ell is a mining contractor and had
been to Montezuma to get the .fo
with which he intended to pay off
his debts. There is no clew to the robbers.
Ladies' Fur Trimmed Nullifiers at $1.25 and $1.50. Finest ever Shown. RICHMOND SHOE CO. Corner Eighth and Main.
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Clothing For
Xonas
For men, women and children. Buy useful presents. Nothing will please the wife, husband or child more than some useful article of clothing A nice fur scarf for the wife or daughter, a suit or overcoat fcr the husband or son. Great News for Christmas shoppers. Our entire stcck of cloaks and furs selling at half price ; also handsome children's cloaks
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Men's Department Overcoats, Suits, Pants, Fancy Vests, Hats, Shoes. Ladies' Department Tailor-made Suits, Furs, Cloaks, Skirts, Petticoats, Shoes.
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