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A ABIXJM, VOL. XXXI. NO. 74. RICHMOND, INDM MARCH 27, 1906 Single Copies Two Cents. TENDER THEIR ' GOLFERS GRUMBLING TO NEW TERM TO BE BUSY BRAVE FIREMEN BURN TO DEATH O'CONNELL WENT FISHING OLD WHITEWATER GOOD RIS DON'T LIKE THE SNOWFALL THE OPENING AT EARLHAM CAUGHT A BIG POCKET BOOK t l8UPT. HARRISON AND TWO i j NURSES TO RESIGN FROM REID HOSPITAL. SPECIAL SESSION OF COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER SALE OF MUNICIPAL PLANT. NEW YORK LADDIES DIED AS THEY PLAYED WATER ON BURNING BUILDING. AT MIDNIGHT THE RIVER WAS It Is Probable that Links at Country Club Will Not Be Used Before First of April Great Hardship on Devotees. May Day Festivities "Annul" Peace Conference, and Athletics All on Program for Coming Term Special Courses Are Offered. Well Known Molder at Hoosier Drill Works Opens Season with a Prize. Fish Story. WITHIN A FOOT OF BANKS AND STILL RISING.

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Miss Harrison's Administration at Hospital Has Been Eminently Sat- , lsfatory to All. Miss Anna Harrison, superintendent of Reid Memorial Hospital, Miss !Alta Holtnan, assistant superintendent and chief of the operating room, and Miss Pinkerton. one of the graduate nurses, have tendered thet- resignation to the trustees of the institution, to take effect in each case May 1. Miss Harrison resigns because of her desire to take a rest 'from the arduous work. Misses Holman and Pinkerton have resigned to become private nurses. John L. Rupe, one of the members . ef the board of trustees, stated last night that Miss Harrison's successor . -had not yet been appointed but that Mlss Ashby, head of the nurses school at the Indianapolis city hospital, would be named. Miss Ashby will be in the city April 4 and will Inspect the hospital. Miss Ashby Recommended. Miss Ashby is a most efficient nurse and lias been highly recommended by every physician In Indianapolis consulted by the trustees of the Reid Memorial Hospital. Miss Ashby will not, in case she accepts the position, take up her duties at the local hospital until June 1 and one of the nurses at the hospital will bo appointed as temporary superintendent during the month of May. Miss Ashby will bring with her an efficient nurse who wil be able to work In the operating room.lt is hardly probable that a successor to Miss Pinkerton will be named. Miss Harrison's administration of ' the affairs of Reid Memorial hospital has been eminently successful, both from a standpoint of executive ability and her wide knowledge of the affairs of institutions of this character. The most cordial relations have always existed between Miss Harrison and the trustees of the hospital and there Is great regret expressed upon ' the part of the members '. that Miss Harrison is to sever her connection 'with the institution. Miss Holraan, who is the assistant to Miss Harrison, and who has been In charge of the operating room is re'garded as one of the most" skillful nurses connected with any hospital in Indiana. She has been a valuable aid to Miss Harrison. Miss Pinkerton formerly was n nurse at St. Stephen's, under Miss Harrison and after a short time, away from that institution she resumed her duties when Reid Memorial was established. Like ,Miss Holman she has been held in Tiigh regard in her professional duties. IS MUCH IMPROVED Harry Winder, ex-city clerk, a few Greeks ago suffered aslight stroke of (paralysis but he is now able to be 'out on the streets ttga;n. WERNLE HOME FEAST (Committee Is Appointed to Take Charge of Arrangements For ' Annual Fair May 27. The annual feast at the Wernle Orphans Home will be held on May 27, this year, and arrangements are being made for the event. A committee composed of John Knollenberg. John , AcJterman, Edward Stein, Frank Hackman and Edward Stegman was appointed to have general charge of lha celebration. Members of the Eagles Lodge are busy preparing for (he celebration of the second anniversary of the installation of the chapter of that order in this city. The celebration will be held on Friday night. April 6. The chapter was installed here on April ft, 1904, but this year the celebration vill be held a day previous. At the time of the Installation, theje were bout one hundred members. Now, the lodge has a roll of

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over 400 members in good standing, lias been purchased at an enormous as been purchased at anenormous xt and now they are fitted up equal ny In the state. A program will Tepared. for the celebration and A town lodges will be invited to I i. ; :

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Among the most persistent grumblers over the weather being forced on the disgusted Richmond public, are the golf players. The links of the Richmond Country Club are hidden under a several inch covering of snow and the members of the greens committee will be unablet o start any improvements on the links unti this snow is thawed off. It 's very probable that there will te no play permitted on the local links until the first of May, which will be a great hardship to the many devotees of the great Scotch game. The course this year will be lengthened several hmdred yards, but the new course will ont be ready to play over until late In the summer.

AID SOCIETY MEETING The Ladies Aid Society of the First M. E. Church will meet this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. M. Williams. As this is the annual election of officers, every member is uprged to be present. SENATOR SMOOT IN DEFENDING HIMSELF BEFORE SENATE INTRODUCED MUCH GOOD EVIDENCE. REPUTABLE WITNESSES They Testified That Utah Official Has Not Been Living With Plural Wives as Charged. Publishers' Press Washington, March 26. Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, scored heavily before the Senate Committee on Privleges and Elections when his defense against the charges that he, by reason of his connection with the Mormon church, was unfit to be a senator opened today. Reputable witnesses from Utah gave testimony regarding the Senator's' fitness in a clear and convincing manner and the recent charge that he had two wives was refuted by the affidavits of the women with whom his namo had been connected bv the witness Owens, who swore that Owens lied In his testimony. The charge that all of the officials of the state of Utan were Mormons was conclusively shown to be false. It is likely that the case will be concluded this week as A. S. Worthington, attorney for the defense, declared his witnesses vould not occupy more than a couple of days. TO GIVE BEAN SUPPER Ladies of the G. A. R. will give a bean supper on the evening of April 7 at the G. A. R. ha!l. ORDERS A PETIT JURY Judge Henry C. Fox has ordered a petit jury for the April term of court. A grand jury will also be1 drawn this week at the order of the court. WILL CLOSE APRIL 1 A Most Successful Season of Skating Will End at Coliseum at That Time Moonlight Skating. The Richmond Athletic Association makes the announcement that the Coliseum will be closed up for the summer after April 7. after the most successful skating season that Richmond has ever had. During the' next two weeks, skaters at the Coliseum will find a novelty iu the way of decorations. Lights and mechanism has been ordered which will produce 4 moonlight effect. Next week j there will be a grand mask carnival which will be the last big event of the season.

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If Council Votes to Sell Light Plant an Election Will be Called and the Matter Left to the People. As proof that the city has really received an offer for its Municipal PowPlant .Mayor Zimmerman stated last night that a formal proposition is being drawn up in writing by the firm that made the offer several days ago and that this proposition will be submitted to Council within a week. The Mayor refused to divulge the name of the company wishing to acMr. Carnegie is backing a spelling more easily understood. News Item. quire the plant, but sajs that they mean what they say in making the offer of $250,000 for the property, and that this fact will be proved to the residents of the city, as a special meeting of .council will be called when the proposition is received. A vote will be taken at that session and the matter will be settled once for all. If a majority of the Councilmen vote in favor of selling the plant, an election will be' held, at which tax payers will have a right to vote to retain or sell. If those Councilmen who wish to sell are In the minority, no election will be held. When asked regarding his personal views on the question Mayor Zimmerman stated that sir.ee he has gained his original point, that of securing for the city cheap light and power, he does not think the proposition half bad. The Mayor called to mind the cost of each street light before the power plant was built, and the present cost. The difference is $23, on each light. He said,, however, that he does not wish to be misunderstood, it being immaterial to him what action council takes. If the plant can be sold for a fair price and at the same time have the purchasing company bound up in a franchise that will provide light and power for municipal and commercial purposes at the same price as at present, the mayor says that he can see no objection to selling the plant. A GALLED MEETING There will be a called meeting of the Fifth Street M. E. church this evening. MEETING POSTPONED Pf.llaI:um Special. 1 Chester, Ind., March 26. On account of the death of Mrs. Minnie Norris the regular meeting of the Ladies Union Aid Society has been postponed till Friday. Miss Bertha Hampton will entertain the Eociety.

With the Inter-Collegiate Peace and Arbitration Conference and the May festivities, the Spring term began at Earlham yesterday will be the busiest of the year from a students standpoint. Extra courses have been offered by the faculty, many of these being fractional courses offered especially to the teachers who generally enter Earlham at the beginning of the Spring Term.

HIS HEARING WEDNESDAY The Board of Public Works has continued the hearing of the charges against Charles Sinex of Hose Co. No. 3, until Wednesday V THE NEW TEACHER. reform society for suppressing useless 'S BILLS ARE COMING UP HE WILL ASK THAT A TAX BE PLACED ON PAPERS USED FOR CIGARETTES. IT HITS TOBBACO TRUST "Whip" Hopes by Proposed Legislation to Make State Laws More Effective Must Fight. Pallitliuvn Special. Indianapolis, Ind., March 2C. A special to the News from Washington says: Representative Watson will introduce two bills this week affecting the cigarette industry. He proposes to levy a Government tax of 1 cent on each 100 sheets of cigarette paper and will provide in the second bill that it shall be unlawful to ship cigarettes or cigarette papers into any State that has enacted an anti-cigarette law. He says he believes the only "way to make State legislation against the cigarette effective is to back it up by Federal legislation. The tobacco trust is preparing to oppose hte proposed legislation vigorously. Mr. Watson hardly expects to get the bills through Congress at this, session, but, he does have hope that they will be passed at the next session. .

MANY OTHERS ARE HURT

Five Hundred Employes in Factory Building Make a Wild Scramble to Save Their Lives List of Dead Publishers' Press New York, March 26. Falling with a collapsing roof into a fiery furnace, four firemen, all members of Company 14, were burned to death this afternoon in a fire which practically destroyed a block of houses on Redford street, between Carmine and Downing Streets. . Eight persons were letters, He hopes to make orthography seriously two of them fatally, hurt, while a score of others were painfully bruised in their efforts to escape from the burning building. The dead: CAPTAIN JOHN F. WALSH. FIREMEN DENNIS HEALY, THOMAS HALPIN, JR., AND GEO. B. CHRISTMAN. Five hundred employes in the factory building in Carmine made a wild scramble for their lives and so great was the spread of the flame3 that not one of them was able to escape by the stairways. The firemen met death while standing on the roof of a building on the furthest edge of the fire endeavoring to check the progress of the flames. They stood their ground even after the house nearest them collapsed. Suddenly the entire roof of the building on which the firemen were difecing their energies collapsed and be-! fore the men could escape they were hurled into the flames. THIS IS LAST WEEK This is the last week of the township schools outside Wayne township, and the teachers are busy winding up the term's business. A FINE COLLECTION An art dealer by the name of Young has collection of pictures on display at the Westcott this week. The exhibition is pronounced a good one by local artists. PASSED JXAMIIIATIOH Raymond F. Layman, of North Seventeenth street, has successfully passed the civil service examination necessary to admission to the mail service and has been appointed clerk on - the Grand Rapids ind Indiana Rail wray.

Eugene O'Connell, a molder at the Hoosier Drill Works, has the prize fish story for this season. According to those who heard him tell it, the early fisherman gets the prize just as the early fish gets the worm, but this time the prize happened to come in green backs and Mr. O'Connell Is glad he went. It happened something like this. The day was fine and, thinking that fish would be biting, O'Connell got out his old tackje and proceeded to the river, at a point a little below the mouth of one of the city's sewers. Here he cast his hook. Suddenly the cork went under and when he pulled it ont there was fastened to it a lump of sjuff, covered with mud, about the .frize of a man's fist. This did not look like good luck, softhe hook was baited and thrown back into the water. Then the spirit of investigation came over the fisherman and he kicked the small packet. The mud dropped off and disclosed to view an old pocketbook in which there were several water soaked bills, enough, Mr. O'Connell says, to buy a new fishing outfit, with hip boots, and have a little left over.

JOHN LOCKE WILL BE BROUGHT HE PROSECUTOR JESSUP GOES TO INDIANAPOLIS TODAY FOR REQUISITION PAPERS. BIG FOUR WANTS HARRIS Railroad Company May Share With County the Cost of Returning Both Men to This State. Prosecutor Jessup will go to Indi anapolis today for the purpose of presenting to Governor Hanly a for mal request that he issue a requisi tion upon the governor of California for the return to Indiana and to Wayne County, of John Locke, the "Hoosier outlaw." There seems to be no charge that can be placed against Harry Harris In Wayne county, and for this reason the requisition that was drawn up by Prosecutor Jessup yesterday does not contain a request for his return. . Sheriff Smith Is anxious that Locke shall be returned to, Wayne County but he said yesterday that he was not so anxious that he cared to undergo the experience of parting himself from about $300 to make the journey to the Pacific Coast and return with the fugitive unless he was fully satisfied that the county commissioners would reimburse him. Big Four Wants Harris." Owing to the fact that the Big Four railroad company is as anxious as Wayne county's sheriff for the return of the fugitives, the detective of that company will recommend, it is as serted, that a F,-cond requisition be Issued for Harris who will be tried in Illinois on the cahrge of robbing freight cars. The Big Four Is ready to waive any claim to Locke in order that he may be brought to Wayne county and prosecuted on the charge of stealing hogs from the farm of John Macy of Pery townf.hip. It is likely also that the Big Four detectives will be able to arrange the matter of transportation for the Wayne county officers as well as for themselves and by this means the cost of returning Locke to Wayne county will be comparatively small. A reward of $100 offered by Sheriff Smith for the arrest of Locke will be paid to Supt. Dinen of San Francisco. Sheriff Smith may go in person for Locke. WILL ARGUE ON FRIDAY Attorneys for Defense in Case of Parker vs. Dayton and Western Want a New Trial. " Attorneys for the defense in- the case of Mrs. Estella Parker vs, the Dayton & Western Traction Co. will argue a motion for- a new trial on Friday of this week, before Judge Fox in the Wayne Circuit Court. Mrs. Porker received $4,000 for personal Injuries sustained by being struck by a Dayton & Western car.

WATER IN LIGHT PLANT;

Residents in "Happy Holow' StayAwake Preparing to Move When! NecessarySituation Threatening. Whitewater river is showing the efs fects of a steady downpour of raluj which together with the mild weather 1 has combined to melt the heavy falL' of snow that has lain upon the! ground for two weeks past, sending it into the stream directly or through i its tributaries north .of Richmond. j Between noon and midnight yester day the river rose steadily, on an av-j erage of six Inches an hour and the total Increase In the depth of the! stream was. In the neighborhood o eight feet at midnight, with every Indication that unless the rain subsid-j ed early today there would be a serlous flooding of the lowlands, endan gering the properties of the light and; pvyer plants situated in the riverj bovibms and also the homes of the! residents of that section of the cityi resting a the river valley known 'aaj Happy HoTlow. ' j Just in Her Banks. t At midnlghtthe river was within a foot of the banks In the Happy Hoi-! low districts and. though there had' been at thai hoii no disposition , among the tridents to seek higher ground, there -?,s not much sleeping done. The cou ons were regarded as alarming but lt until the banks should overflow wLt'd the situation be deemed serious. At the Nixon paper mill, a watitt was kept all night and the rise on the river bank carefully noted. The water can reach a certain mark and then It floods the building and machinery, as it has done in the past. Conditions at the plant of the Light, Heat & Power company and at the Starr Piano . Co.. faefrvrv wrn very alarming at midnight when the water commenced to interfere with the machinery. One of the enginei. was suspended at the power plant, a l the fly wheel was in ten inches of water, and a pump was constantly in use! keeping the water away from the oth--er wheel pit. Chains were attached to the dynamoes and other machinery so that they could be hoisted out of danger in case the water overflowed Its banks and- made It necessary to: abandon the building. The city plant was not affected, it being 10 feet' higher than the L. H. & P. Co. plant. Stone Wall Too Low. The stone wall guarding the rporperty of the Starr Piano Co. had its first realttest and was proven too low for an emergency. At ten o'clock, the; water was within a few Inches of the' top anft by midnight, it had begun to: flow over the wall. Al of the lower rooms of' the factory were flooded t the depth of several inches, wbichj continued to rise rapidly. Some ma-i chinery Is damaged although no estl-j mate of the loss could be given last! night. Men were constanly on the lookout along the river bank and lnf the factory, working to save whatever property was liable to damage by high waters. CHEESMAN WILL SPEAK An Effort Being Made To Make tht Centerville School Commencement Better Than Ever. Palladium Special. Centervillet Ind., March 26. W. K. Cheesman, trustee of Center township, will conduct the cbmmencement exercises of the district schools of J Center township at the town hall oni the evening of April 19. Efforts arej being made by the trustee, teachers j and pupils, to bring this commencement up to A high standard. - HAZZARD BRINGS SUIT Gec-ge Hazzard, of Washington state, who recently compiled a history of Henry county, has filed a suit for $3,000 in the Federal court against T. H. Johnson, J- P Prigg, Samuel Zirkle,. Sr., and William II. Burgess, all of Henry , County, alleging conspiracy to embarass the sale of the book- ..'- ! MOORE BUYS PROPERTY William A, Moore, one of the heirs of the late Mary A. Moore, bought the residifjice at Fifth and . North D. '- streets at the sale by the adnainlstrari tor 'of the estate for $2500. r. . '-

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