Richmond Palladium (Daily), 31 December 1904 — Page 1

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RIHLUfJG FORT CAPTURED

LARGEST AND STRONGEST OF THE EASTERN FORT RIDGE MADE STUBBORN RESISTANCE Admiral Togo Given an OvationReport to Emperor Work of Assault Splendid. Fusan, December 30 Itihlung fort, captured yesterday, is the largest and strongest of the eastern fort ridge. Tunnels for mines were cut through solid rock and two tons of dynamite were used to blow up the walls. The spectacle was magnificent and th8 work of the assault was splendid. Half the garrison was killed by the explosion of the "first charge. The Russians made a stubborn resistance. Four heavy guns, seven rapid-firing guns and two machine guns were captured as well as thirty quick-firing guns, which were stored in the fort. Togo Cheered at Tokio. Tokio, December 30. Admiral Togo and Vice-Admiral Kamimura, with their staffs, arrived at the Shimbassi station at 9:20 o'clock today. Their journey from Kure to Tokio was a continuous ovation. At an early hour today the streets were filled and the city was gayly decorat ed with flags, lanterns and New Year's decorations. Representatives of the emperor and empress, Prince Fushimi, Jr., older statesmen, min isters, prominent Japanese and thou sands of school children greeted the arrival of - the naval heroes' at the sta tion. The presidents of both "houses of the Diet presented them with the recommendation passed by the re spective branches of parliament. The quiet, gray-bearded Admiral Togo in a blue service uniform, seem ed embarrassed at the noisy ovation. Rear-Admiral Shimamur, chief of the staff, laughingly elbowed forward, Vice-Admiral Kamimura and the junior officer trying to clear the way, but the crowd closed in on Admiral Togo, and they were frequently forced to push the crowd backward in an endeavor to clear the reaching hands. Finally, Admiral Togo and Vice-Admiral Kamimura were freed their enthusiastic admirers and sur rounded by officers. They reached the carriage sent by the emperor to the station to convey the distin , guished party to the palace. As Admiral Togo appeared a grea shout arose, hats were thrown in the air, arms were raised and "Banzai' followed "Banzai." Preceded by erendarmes. the partv drove under triumphal arches, waving flags and discharging fireworks, through the cheering crowds, to the Navy Department, where a brief stop was made, during which the congratulations of the ministers were received and future victories were toasted. Admiral Togo and Vice-Admiral Kamamura then proceeded to the palace to report to the emperor. They will probably remain in Tokio about one week for the purpose of consulting with the general staff and perfecting . plans for future operations. HOTEL LEXINGTON To be Opied at Chicago on Next Sunday. A number of local Knights of Pythias have received invitations to be present at the opening of the new dining room of the Hotel Lexington at Chicago on next Sunday. This hotel is owned and controlled by the executive board of the endowment rank of the lodge. The hotel was purchased four years ago by the board and is now a paying institution. A ' large amount of the capital stock is owned by prominent Knights through out Indiana. Miss Laura Berheide, of Terre Haute, is the guest of local relatives and friends over New Year's. . -

COUNCIL MEETING

Was Turned Into Committee of the Whole. The meeting of the city -council last night was turned into a meeting of the committee of the whole and what was done by that body is not known as the members refused to make any statements as to what action was taken. It was stated however, that the meeting had nothing whatever to do with the appointment of a deputy to he city clerk. There will be no ses sion of the council on Monday night but the regular meeting will be held on Tuesday evening instead. , Drug Stock Removed. By arrangement with the trustee and referee in bankruptcy, the drug stock of the Thistlethwaite store at Main and Anderson streets, is being packed up, preparatory to removal to ndianapolis. J he Daniel btewart

mig company nem pnur ciuim ""those of uovernor-elect Manly are

he stock ot Clem lhi.stlethwaite at he time the involuntary proceedings in bankruptcy were filed. Elwoad Call-Leader. GOLDEN WEDDING CELEBRATION DR. M. C. BENHAM AND WIFE MARRIED FIFTY YEARS IS A NOTABLE EVENT Children of the Happy Couple As sembled to Honor the Occasion Home in Glen View. , Today the comfortable home f Dr. M. C. Benham and wite in Crlen View is the scene of a very pleasant o-n t hon rcr in hnnnr nt thp rittiPth I marriage anniversary of the doctor 1 "'n " " " i and his most estimable wite. lue children of this favored couple have gathered here to me present at the festivities incident to the important event.

Fifty years ago today at Delphi, inoomincr legislature." Ind., Dr. M. C. Benham, of Ohio, was tms statement from the chief exunited in marriage to Miss Randolph, eeutive nf the State practically seta member of the famous Randolph tjes jne qUestion. family of Virginia. They immediate- Tjie legislative investigating comly took up their residence in Ohio, mjttee, too, has suddenlv discovered later moving to Richmond, where that it has nothin to do with the they have resided for the past tKven- question nf erecting an epileptic hos-ty-three years. The good doctor and pita? that the jaw creating it prohis wife are among the best known vi(les that the committee shall invesand most highly respected residents ti?ate tne affairs of the "existing" of this city, and their comfortable institutions, and as there is no epiand commodious home in Glen View epiie institution " existing" the corntoday resounds with melody, of the raittee has nothing to do with it, not kind that' conies from the heart. The even tne making of a reeommendahome is handsomely decorated in yel- tjon as (o tjie amftint of money that

low and gold m honor ot the occa-

sion. The oldest child, Harry Ben- committee, of which Senator Newham, died in early boyhood. The chil- ilouse js chairman, favors the plan dren living are: Mrs. J. A. Rendeha- oUtHned bv Mr. Hanly, and will make er, of Chicago; Mrs. Martha Adding- a eport in accordance with it. The

ton, of Chicago and Dr. J. Frank Benham, of Indianapolis. The guests at the golden wedding dinner are Dr. Harry Benham and Mrs. N.V.Closser, of Richmond; Dr. J. rrank and Mrs. Benham, with two sons, ot Indiana polis; Mr. and Mrs. Benton C. Addington and Miss Sarah Addington, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Huffhes, of Greenville, Ohio., and Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Rendthaer, of Chicajro. A number of handsome resents were received by the aged couple. The entire day is given over feastinsr in honor of the event. to BASKET BALL rn A-ll- TV T-k.P i - TM1 T iau mpaa rux x,CiCu, va x,is Night. The Tau Alpha Phis basketball team tleteated the .iks DasKetoan team at the uarnem gjmnasium last , O , , 1 , evening, JO to io. ine lineup. Elks iau Aiphafhi Ray forward Wiggins r.gjiiif ... xt Lancaster center Sands Gaston . . ruard Meyers Snavley ...... guard Test Keferee lleironimous.

HANLY FAVORS NEW HOSPITAL

THINKS ADDITIONAL INSTITUTION FOR INSANE IS NEEDED SOUTHEASTERN HOSPITAL Will Be the Name of the New Insittution if it is Built No Definite Location Decided Upon. if the present plans of the legislatlve investigating committee and carried out a new hospital for the i,isane will soon be built in the southeastern section of this State. The exact location has not. been settled upon as yet, but a number of cities are working hard to get the institu tion. If the new hospital is built it will be called the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane. The build ing of a new hospital will in a great wav relieve the congestion which the majority of the hospitals now have. All of them are at the present time overcrowded and there is no ap parent remedy for it. It is the in tenticn when the new hospital is built to have fifteen counties which now send patients to the Central Hospital to send them to the new one. Four counties will be taken off of the Northern and three from the Eastern which is located near Richmond. Just which counties these will be is not at the present time known. The patients from these different coun ties' who are now confined in the old hospitals will be removed. Just what amount will be appropriated for the new hospital is not known, but it is very probable' that" the- new one will be as large as any of the others and will be built with the lastest and mo;t modern convenience for the care of th jnsane. Governor-elect Hanlv jn speaking of the new hospital said : in ii. . i i t Lhe actual needs of the State, should "i oeneve mar ine piau, iu jucei include the building of a new hospit i f the jnsane, that there should be an institution for the treatment of epileptics, and that the beginning of hntli should be nrovirled for bv the nno.ilf tn h nrmronrinted. Thp other Lw0 committees will have another meeting and will also have another talk with Mr. Hanlv. It is thought that tie plam guested by Mr. HanU win he asneed on. SKATING Capacity of the Coliseum Floor Tested Last Night. The capacity of the floor of the Coliseum was tested last- evening, when over three hundred persons all of whom wore roller skates were on the floor at one' time. Manager Hen ley was in a dilemma to know just wliat in An with nil nf tliA nponle. I " " r 1 Thev Parted comins earlv in the evening and it Avas not long until a per fect swarm of them were standing about Charlev Henlev in an effort to ci-ntec. TU snnnlv of skatps was t I . SOon exhausted and the unluckv ones were forcea to f?n(j seats and watch their more fortunate friends glide over the numiced floor. In several instances where one member oi a party haabeen able to obtain a pair of states the skates were transferred from one person to another so that Uli of thpm hA a hnrcp w -- wv mm mm

TESTIFIED IN HIS

OWN BEHALF v- ? I JAMES GILLESPIE ON STAND AT RISING SUN TELLS STORY OF ACTIONS On the Night of the Assassination of His Sister Denies That He Tired Shot. A Risjng Sun, Ind., December 30. James) Gillespie; charged with the murcUr of his twin sister, Elizabeth, which occurred upon the night of December 8, 1903, as. she-1 was preparing to entertain ; the Women's LiteraryClub at her, home, took the stand Hiis morning! to "testify in his own behalf. ' Thwe was some conjecture as to the possibility of Gillespie going upon the witness stand, as the defense was much -disconcerted at the outcome of Dr.. William; Gillespie, brother of Jameff Gillespie, conducted by Sena tor Rjttinger, of Anderson, yester day. ,3 v, ' GiQespie -walked , to the . stand with firm tep, his face was very pale and his steel gray eyes glanced furitively at tlje faces, ot the jurors as though he fojshed to . read their inmost thoughts. He 'denied that he shot his sistepfHe. :aid Ithat he was in an outhojose i "inthe .rear of Belle Seward 'fhome when the shot was fired. He tltpnght the. shot was an explosiont he said; ancl the "sound seemed" to comeXroml; the -dii'eetiQn of the ryer. Th'if examination ' of . Gillespie was inteutiteicl by the Judge .allowing oneHnfentfl" dentist for the purpose of having a tooth extracted. Juror Schroeder claimed that the pain was so intense that he was unable to listen to the evidence. The remainder of the jury was taken to the jury room and the attorneys for both the State and the defense spent the remainder of the forenoon in arguing the admissibility of certain evidence of James Corson, county auditor, Avho says that he heard Myron Barbour say to Earl Seward on the night of the murder: "lie ought not to have shot; he ought not to have shot, for old grandma's sake." Myron Barbour is said to have told Mr. Perkins, cashier of the national bank, where Barbour was formerly employed, that James Gillespie killed his sister, Elizabeth. Mr. Perkins advised Barbour to tell all he knew and he (Barbour) said he was afraid to tell. STRANGE CASE Centerville Boy Declared of Unsound Mind. Horace Henderson, twelve years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Henderson, of Centerville, has been declared of unsound mind by a commission consisting of Drs. Gable, Fonts and Young. The commission met at the office of Squire Harvey in Centerville on Thursday. It has not yet been decided whether the unfor tunate boy will be removed to Fort Wayne or sent to Easthaven. There is no age limit for the patients at Easthaven, but the Feeble Minded School at Fort Wayne is much better adapted to taking care of the chil dren than is the local hospital. The youngest person confined at Easthav en at the present time is sixteen vears of acre. The child's case is a very pathetic one. Until one year ago the boy was considered to be ontrnt m nis school work and was always well physically. About a year ago he had his first attack. He desired to attend his school without shoes or stockings when the snow was on the ground. His parents restrained him and after a month or so he be came perfectly rational until a few months ago. He now imagines that he is a clown in a circus and other hallucinations. For the last few days he has been living the campaign

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MAJOR WINNER

Smallest Married Man in the World Passed Through Here. Major N. G. "W. "Winner, the small est married man in the world and the smallest' member of the K. of P. lodge living, passed through Richmond last evening. The major is a very interesting bit of humanity and in company with his wife, he is trav eling through the State exhibiting themselves in business houses. Mr. Winner is very bright and is an entertaoining conversationist. He has been with both the Rinjrlinjr and Rob inson circuses. He is thirtv-three years old, 36 inches tall and weighs ! 42 pounds. His wife is twenty-four years of age, 35 inches tali and weighs 40 pounds. It is quite likely that later on'the major and his wife will be on exhibition in Richmond. Good for Shelbyville. A marriage epidemic seems to have struck the town of Shelbyville. Eight large weddings occurred there in one day this week. ANNIVERSARY OF IROQUOIS FIRE ONE YEAR AGO THE BIG FIRE OCCURRED QPRVIP.F? WFRF HPf II In the Women's Temple in Chicago in Memory of Those Whose Lives Were Lost. One year ago last evening the citn - i i l . t x lzens ot menmonu were snocweu io hear the news that the magnificent Iroquois Theater, of Chicago, had been burned and that G00 persons had lost their lives. Considerable excitement was caused here on account of so many local persons being in Chicago at the time and they thought that perhaps some of them had per ished, caused much anguish in a num ber of homes in this city until it was learned that the loved ones were a-if Ypstprdnv thp Troouois Me mortal Association held memorial MW;a nt tl.P Women's Temnlp in PVl VO U . . s ...... m - ' Chicago in memory of those whose lives were lost in the great catastro phe. Speeches were made by a num ber of prominent people and messages were received from all over the United States from persons who lost relatives and friends in the fire. N lnle the memorial exercises were eing held a vaudeville performance was being given in the Iroquois Thentof wlii eh is nnw n vnndevillp llOUSP. nn'vp.r vrdav where hundreds of little "girls perished a man appeared before a handful of people and sana: "Uoodbve L.ittle Oirl, Goodbve." The place where Eddie Fov had stood one year ago in his comical makeup and tried to quiet the people was occupied yesterday by a troupe of performing monkeys. It must have been a verv hard task for the performers yesterday to go on with their parts in a place which a year before solemn death had been the star and occupied the entire stacre. It was not the fault of the performers that they frave their acts as they were under contract and to break the contracts would mean a great deal to the majority of them. ACCIDENT On the Ice Yesterday AfternoonSmall Boy Hurt. Roland Parker, aged eleven years, son of Theodore Parker, while skating on the ice yesterday afternoon, fell and broke his collar bone. He was taken to the home of his father in Sheridan street and Dr. King was called. The little sufferer is resting very well, although his injury will confine him to the house for some time. , 'i. -

CLAIMS TO HAVE

SEEN TRAGEDY ANOTHER WHO CLAIMS TO-BE AN - EYE 1 WITNESS vTO THE AWFUL ACT My Irwin, Actress, Offered to Fur ' nish Bail in Most Any Sum l "" Required. , New York, December 30. Another man who says he witnessed the tragic , , death of laesar, loung, the bookmaker, with whose murder Nan Pat- " terson is charged, has been found in Jacksonville, Fla., according to information received in this city today. ' The alleged witness is W. B. Meyers, who is said to be a wealthy naval stores dealer in Jacksonville. . According to the story which came here today in a letter from Judsre H. . D. Twiggs, of Savannah, Ga., fo the counsel for " the prisoner, ' Meyers claims to have seen the tragedv in the cab and declares that Young fired the shot which ended his life. , , Judge Twiggs writes that Meyers, came to him ior consultation in a - legal matter, soon after the Young traredv. and casuallv mentionpd ihai. while in New York a few davs belore, ne nau witnessea a most re-, markable affair. In reply . to , ones- . tions. Judge Twiggs writes, Meyers ".- C41il V 1-1 rt 7 0AW n , Ltaw ' ue uau wcu . n iiian buwi uuu. self in a cab, giving at the same time rl the exact location of the spot where, the Patterson-Young affair took place , and that he had . learned that tho ? J man s , name was . x oung but ; bejohd . th,at be knew.tiotliii.'Vhn.infcrm-t ed that Nan Patterson had been arrested, charged with the murder of I AnniT -Tnr-w Tioiwm oAf H rk--- " "c x.rrio declared that he knew the girl to be ?nnocen w ai ne wouiu nd his name and that he would go to ew Wk to testify if she were pu ?n ' , auerson lias been in the Tombs since , W ftuicu, caiiy iav DUlir, lie Having failed to secure bail prior to her trial, which resulted in a disagreement of the jury. It is not believed that the next trial will begin within three m.ont a erlies the P11"1 s released on bail, which has been offered by three wealthy men of rairmount. W. V a., she will be obliged to remain there. May Irwin, the actress, has offered to furnish bail in any amount up to $50,000 for the release of Kan Patterson from the Tombs, according to an announcement made bv Miss Pat terson's counsel.. Miss Irwin called personally at the Tombs prison today and left a letter addressed to the forTner hr)w antl announce ment followed a few minutes after Miss Irwin en wy. en DUf.net Attorney Jerome's attention was called to the offer of bail he said he had no statement to make and was not prepared to say what course the prosecution would take. Miss Patterson's bail before the recent mis-trial was $20,000, but after the jury's disagreement she was remanded without bail. JEW PHILLIPS Has Good Show and Large Attend ance. "Utah," a charming love story, was presented to a fair sized audi ence at the New Phillips last evening by the Berry Stock company. A number of new specialties were given and the entire audience seemed to be very well pleased with the perform ance. I his alternoon the company will present "Little Alabama,' 1 a thrilling story of the south during the civil war. The management has reduced the price for the matinee this afternron to 10 cents for any part of the house. A large number of new specialties will be given at both performances today. This evening a live pig will be given to seme member of the "audience. - -