Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 88, 13 April 1906 — Page 1

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TIE MEQNB . F AI2L ABIXJM J VOL. XXXI. NO, 88. Richmond, Indiana, Friday, April 13, 1906. Single Copies, Two Cents. E 1 TICKET HOISTS THE WHITE FLAG FURTHER PERILS DOWIE'S HEALTH IS FAILING FAST It Is Said that Deposed Ruler of Zion Is Nearing End of His Careers THE FARMER'S STRIKE. OF STRENGTH ARE THREATENED FORAKER HAS GIVEN UP Railroad Senator from Ohio Has Given Republican State Convention Torrental Rainstorms at Vesuvius Bring Down Ashes Terrorizing Populace. Up Hope of Getting His Bill Passed and Says That There Will Be Rate Concludes Work in Short - Order. . Legislation.

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RICHMOND MAN WAS RENOMI NATED FOR APPELLATE JUDGE THE LIST OF ALL OTHER NOMINEES. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Secretary of State. FRED A SIMS. Attorney-General. JAMES BINGHAM, j State Statistician. JOSEPH H. STUBBS. Judge of Supreme Court. (First District.) i JAMES H. JORDAN. f Auditor of State f i JOHN C. BILLHEIMER. Treasurer of State OSCAR HADLEY. J Clerk of Supreme Court. EDWARD FiTZPATRICK. Superintendent of Public Instruction .. FASETT A. COTTON. s ; ... .State Geologist. W.'s. BLATCHLEV. - , .For Appellate Judge. (Southern District.) "WARD H. WATSON. , C. C. HADLEY. , For Appellate Judge. (Northern DUtrict. J. M. R ABB. DANIEL W. COMSTOCK. FRANK ROBY. I Palladium Spr-Hal. Indianapolis, April 12. The Republican state convention is a matter of history. 'The nominations were made today in the presence. " of a large crowd, ptr)ms the largest that evtT attended a' political convention in Indiana. " '-Long before the 'convention opened the galleries T wero crowded , .many .more general admission tickets being issued than were seats for. The delegates were slow in arriving, and it was' 9:20 before the convention was vailed to order. ? ; Charles n. Lnndis, permanent chairman, was in his Beat early, as was' temporary Chairman Brick. With them on the front row of the stage seats were George B. Lockwood, State Senator Hendee and Representative Branch. The stage filled slowly. When Congressman Watson came in there was applause, which was repeated when other members of the "Washington delegation came in. Convention Opens. The invocation was pronounced by Edwin A. Schell. of Crawfords ville. The report of the committee on ere dentlals was presented by W. E. Eng llsh and adopted. W. R. Gardiner, of Washington, presented the report of the committee on resolutions, and It was adopted without discussion. The reading of the report was interrupted several imes by the confu sion on the floor of the convention. The section regarding public depositories was warmly applauded, as was also that clause calling for dally settlements of State officers. The delegates approved plause the . enacement of a election law. by apprimary Hanly Applauded. The reading of the 2-cent fare plank was received with enthusiasm. When (Continued on Page Five.) Mrs. McMinn Improving. Mrs. Chas. McMinn of 303 North Fourteenth street, who has recently undergone two serious oiratloni and an attack of pneumonia is improving rapidly. Richmond Fans to Attend. Several Richmond people will go to Cincinnati Saturday and Sunday, to see the ball games. The Cincinnati Reds are favorites with Richmond fans and there are many ardent admirers of the players of that city. May Get Water-Works. I rtUi(1lnm Special. 1 Hagcrstown. Ind., April 12. The town board has ordered a special election to be held early In May for the purpose of voting for or against water-works. There has been long agitation of the subject. , The proposition is a direct pressure system not to exceed $10,000 In cost. Sentiment Is about evenly divided. WEATHER INDICATIONS. Indiana and Illinois Rain and cooler Friday; Saturday fair. Ohio Rain Friday; Saturday rain nd cooler; Increasing east winds.

I Publishers' rrvsa Washington. D. C. April 12. Mr

Foraker of Ohio, who throughout the entire session nas argued tnat con gress had not the constitutional au thority to confer any but an admin lstratlve power uion the Interstate Commerce Commission, and has advo cated as a substitute to the Hepburn rate bill, his substitute providing for an entire legal proceedure in the courts, partially hoisted the white fla in the senate today. wnwe noimng just as strongly as ever to his contention, which he has already supported by the offering of much authority, the senator announc ed that he had abandoned hope of hav ing his bill adopted. He said he real ized that some plan to regulate rail way rates would be adopted and pass ed by congress. JUDGE COMSTOCK WINS HARD FIGHT "nirl UMwna" flirt UaxoaK yjiu vvayiic lsiu iiciocii Proud in Getting Richmond Man's Name on Ticket. THREE TIMES A NOMINEE GRAND STAND PLAY OF RICH MOND INSURGENT FAILED TO DEFEAT COMSTOCK DESERTER'S DISLOYALTY A SURPRISE. Wayne County may well feel proud of the work she did at the state con vention. Several men are on the state ticket through the aid of the local delegates but one man above all others owes his nomination to "Old Wayne." This person is Judge D. W Comstock of this city who was noml nated for the third time as an appel late judge. On Wednesday morning the politi cal "dorters" had .Indge Comstock figured as the last" man in the race. Those who knew could not possibly see how he could win. The Wayne county delegates anivedat the Claypool Hotel In Indianapolis and went to work. It was the nomination of Judge Comstock first then the rest of the ticket, with the delegates from "Old Wayne.". They soon got the whole Sixth district with them. Having that well In control more pledges were made and when the count was made in one of the most exciting races of the convention. Judge Comstock was declared a nominee. ' There was but one thing to mar the splendid work of the Wayne County delegates for Judge Comstock. When the vote was called for, instead of Wayne giving her thirty seven votes solid for Comstock, she gave but thirty six. There was an insurgent in the crowd and the delegates from other counties looked over at "Old Wayne's" delegation with surprise, when they heard the announcement of the vote. The grand stand play of the Insurgent failed, however, to affect the general result of the vote and Judge Comstock had won through the loyalty of hla neighbors. WILL CLOSE THE SALOON Mlnck Brewing Company Owners of i Building Stop the Business at Hazzard Place. The Minck Brewing Company, owner of the building at north Fourteenth and F streets, in which the Hazzard saloon Is located yesterday announced that the Brewing company would close up Its building to saloons after May 4. This particularly means that Hazzard will no longer have a bar on the north side of the railroad because the sentiment is so strongly against It. This leaves but one saloon in the Fifth ward. Lennard's place on North 12th and F streets. Petit 'Jury Announced. Deputy Sheriff George Smith yesterday finished the work of serving the summonses to the men who are to form the petit jury for the April term of the. Circuit Court. The make up of the jury is as follows: Erastus L. Culbertson. Center township; Charles I. Stoner, Boston township; Edwin S. Martindale. Clay Township: Morris T. Pyle, Franklin Township: Charles M. Hill. Franklin township: Edward Beeson, Jackson Township; Boston C. Neff. Jackson township; John Miles. Harrison Township; Milton Miller, Jefferson Township j Henry ' McMahln, Washington Township: George W. Deuker. Wayne Township; and Levi Meyers, Wayne Township.

RELIEF FUND OF $400,000

WHILE RESCUERS CLEAR AWAY THE RUINS THEY FIND A WOMAN AND HER BABE LYING ALIVE AMONG CORPSES. I Publishers' Vrea Naples, April 13 Late Thursday night the towns in the vicinity of the eruption were threatened with a fresh peril, torrental rainstorms bringing down masses of sand and ashes and adding additional terror to the Kpulace. Latest reports estimated the dead at San Gulseppe at 400. At Resina the rations issued by the Mayor were indignantly refused by the mothers of large families, who threw the loaves of bread In the May or s race, declaring that it was not sufficient to feed their offsprings. His Holiness has contributed 80,000 pounds to the relief of the destitute, while King Emanuel made an additional contribution of 4.000 pounds. Find Woman and Babe. While rescuvea wr- at- work clear ing away the ruins at Ottcjano, a woman and her newly born babe were dug out of the ashes among a number of corpses. They were both living. The stories of the havoc wrought by the volcano are harrowing as the survivors manage to tell of their exsilences. The dead are. lying every where in and around the ruined towns, and owing to the fact that the lava Is cooling very slowly, it has. been impossible to take a very small fraction of the bodies. In many places the lava towers to a height of sixty feet and the entire countryside has been denuded of all vegetation or traces of human habitation. The relief fund now amounts to about $400,000 aud is constantly being added to. 'ICE AT EARLHAM TODAY This Morning Pres., Kelly, W. D. Foulke and B. F. Trueblood Will Speak. NEXT YEAR'S CONFERENCE MANY COLLEGES WOULD LIKE TO ENTERTAIN THE GATHERING IN 1907 BIG SCHOOLS SEEK MEMBERSHIP. The Intercollegiate Peace Congerence which opens today at Earlham Is attracting widespread attention throughout the country. With an excellent program, on which Secretary Phillips of the Mohonk Lake, New York, Conference has sent his con gratulations to Secretary Russell, the conference should prove highly in structive. Dr. Edwin D. Mead, of Boston, Mass., Prof. Ernest Richard of Columbia University and Dr. Benjamin Trueblood, of Boston, Mass., are the principal speakers on today's program. At the close of Prof. Ernest Richard's address a meeting of the delegates will be held with Pres. Noah E. Byers, of Goshen College, acting as chairman. This meeting will probably decide the place and date of next year's conference. The- rivalry between the colleges for next year's meeting is intense. It was learned yesterday that several of the leading universities and colleges In Indiana and Ohio would apply for membership in the confer ence. The students at Earlham will be ex cused by the different professors from their recitations after 10 o'clock today. A cordial invitation is extended to the public of Richmond to attend all sessions. The program for today Is as follows: 10 a. m. Introductory Address by President R. L. Kelly, of Earlham College:' T Address Hon . William Dudley Foulke. ex-member Civil Service Commission of Richmond. A Century of Arbitration" Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary of the American Peace Association, Boston, Mass. 3 p. m. "What College and Universi ty Men Should Do to Promote Better International Feelings" Prof. Ernest Richard. Columbia Universltv, N. Y. Conference of Delegates, led by President Noah E. Byera, Goshen College, Goshen. Ind. How to Organize the Schools To Promote the Peace MovemenL" 8 p. m. "The United States and the United World," Mr. Edwin D. Mead, Boston. Mas.

If he evr doe take swat at hands to spend any tims on thsss llu!! SAW ERUPTlOl Robert Underwood Johnson Now Sojourning at Na files, Italy EXPERIENCE DESCRIBED DECLARES PICTURE PRESENTED WAS THAT OF DANTE'S INFERNO TRUDGED THROUGH VOLCANO ASHES. Robert Underwood Jonnson, a former Wayne county : man,; and brother of Attorney Henry U. Johnson," of Richmond, is now in Naples, Italy, and he witnessed the eruption of Vesuvious. A dispatch from Naples? says: f Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of the Century Magazine, who has been an eye witness o$' the events here the last few days, said to the Associated Press: "Each day it becomes possible to visit even at more ima distance the afflicted districts. The ashes have reached preposterous proportions, filter into everything block the trains, trams, automobile, carriages, and horses. Only soldiers seem to overcome the obstruct Jon. "Beefore the Interruption I took a train for Torre Anijunzlata. On arriving at Torre Del CJreco the heavens seemed to open and we were soon half burled In ashes and hot cinders The train drew relieved only In total darkness. lightling flashes, events. Soon the Thus we awal darkness took ges, the detp mrple and yellow tinit ions became louder than the loudest thunder clap, and the ashes burnlf our eyes. It was a perfect picture of Dante's Inferno. The train coulA not proceed, bo thick were the ashe on the track, and Just at this pout the train broke In half and the poor women fugitives, thinking they were about to lose their lives, begaj to chant litanies for the dead, giving a last weird touch to the Infernal cene. "Carbineers came to our rescue and proposed to take us to the sea. Ve then found we were on a bridge with the sea on one side and Torre )el Greco on the other hand. In the 'darkness We descended hand in hand forming a human rope, and a false step would have meant death. The port was so choked with ashes that small boats could not navigate. "Wearily we trudged back to 'the station to find there was no prospect of another train. "We had then been five hours In that plight, so seeing that heroic measures were necessary, with a companion. I trudged miles In two or three feet of ashes to Portlci. where finally we found a cab which brought us to Naples." ' i Attorney Johnson Is Sick. Attorney Henry U. Johnson is confined to his home with a Severe attack of grip. He has been ill for about three weeks, but expects to be oif soon. Orders New Touring Car. J. A- Spekenhier has ordered & new White steam touring car, which is to arrive on- April 18, next Wednesday. It will be one of the finest machines In Um county.

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LEFT TO PROF. TRUEBLOOD HE WILL ARRANGE DEBATES' Earlham College Oratorical Association at a Meeting Yesterday1" f7eor4 ganized for Coming Yea.r Clareru's Sumner President. At a meeting of the Oratorical Association of Earlhjtni, held yesterday, the association ejh powered Prof. E. P. rueblood of tb Elocution Departn!mt, to selectpand make all prelimina ry arfcaagentrnts tor the debates, in which Eatoam will participate ' next year. TheqniajJJon came up during the meeting of thesidsabillty of the Quakersmeeting opponeftftauitside of Indian, as a great expense la Mnu.Q'B con nutted - with such affairs. T however,, was left to the jurisdiction of Pro?. Trueblood. f ' The- following officers were selectm for the spring term: f President. "Clarence Sumner;" Vicepresident, Chester Hawoith; Secretary, Berne Spradling, Corresponding Secretary, Gath Freeman; Delegate, Grover Grimes; Treasurer, Frank Gardner. PRESIDENT Oil PLAY GROUNDS He Is Visited at the White House by National Playgrounds Council. HE FEELS NEED OF THEM ROOSEVELT 8AY8 THAT HIS IDEAS OF THE PLAY OF CHILDREN HE RECEIVED FROM JACOB RIIS. I I Publishers' Pressl Washington, April 12. The President this afternoon made the following remarks to the members of the National -Playgrounds Council who called at the White House. "I trust It is not necessary for me to say what a pleasure It is to meet you and how very earnest and hearty my smypathy is with your purpose. I owed my first Interest in the playground question, among a great many other things, to Jacob Rils when h spoke of the poor children who not allowed to play In the streets had to play in the streets as they found no other place to play, t have felt very keenly the need of playgrounds and of course, as he chil dren grow older, the needbf athletic grounds. "While aiming to devlop the plays as far as possible, lat the children work out their own solvation in their own way; simply exercise such supervision to see thai they do not do harm. Remember in the last analysis, the play hasto suit them and not us." ' Wantsttorney Robbins. Mrs. John Locke went to see Attorney John F. Robbins yesterday la an effort to secure him as counsel to defend her husband who will shortly be tried tor hog stealing. It is probablethat Mr. Robbins will consent to act as Locke's attorney. .

fflAI MITT IS HERE Oil VISIT Former Richmond Resident v .Now Chamberlain to Pope Pius .1 at Rome. TELLS OF MT. VESUVIUS HE SAYS THAT ONLY GOOD THING IN CONNECTION WITH THE ERUPTION IS THAT LAVA ENRICHES SOIL. ..r, . " " 11 .... k McNutt, of Rome, Italy, arrived tnthl8 city yesterday afternoon and retfistefcid at the Westcott Hotel. Mr. McNutt wnleturn to New York this morning. He Isi former resident of Richmond and thisNta the first visit to the town of his natrWy for eceral years. Mr. McNutt isne c! the chamberlains to Pope PiusJC at the Vatican, but he has been abst from his post since last November, spending the winter in New York, where he was called by business interests. When seen at the Westcott last night Mr. McNutt stated that he had made his flying visit to Richmond for the purpose of seeing Mr. W. D. Foulke on business, and was sorry that he could not stay longer In Richmond, so that he could renew acquaintanceship with his many friends here. "I have lived in Rome for several years," said Mr. McNutt, "and I expect that I shall always live there as I like the country." Speaks of Vesuvius. Mr. McNutt spoke very Interest iy on tne horrors attending tne eruption of ML Vesuvius. He salsT that he thought Naples was In no danger of being devastated, but that thre effects of the eruption would be tfit in that city and the surroundingcountry for some time to come. "Jfs soon as the eruption ceases," he uald; "the people will return to theijr homes and pa tlently await the Jomlng of the next eruption. Theraris only one good thing in connection with the eruption and that is tfte lava will be a great fertilizer fo the soil." Mr. McNutt anl his wire, who Is at present in New York, wirt sail for Rome on April 29. s Had Interesting Career. former Richmond man has had an interesting career. During the rrison administration, through the fluence of the late James G. Blaine, who was secretary of State, Mr. Me Nutt was appointed secretary of the American legation at Constantinople, Turkey, and later he occupied . the same post at Madrid, Spain. He obtained his present position during the lifetime of the late Pope Leo XIII and when Poue Plus assumed the papal throne, Mr. McNutt was retained as one of the Vatican chamberlains. His Roman home Is a magnificent palace and in the summer he makes his home in an old castle, dating back to the thirteenth century, which is situated in the TjtoI mountains, Austria. WARMEST OF SPRING. The temperature yesterday afternoon was the warmest of the spring. The mercury climbed, to 78 during the afternoon. The merchants who handle seasonable goods are fin ding the warm weather to their advantage. Business in wearing appeal Is taking a decided boom.

MAKES OFFER TO SELL OUT

ELIJAH III WOULD TAKE $525,000 FOR HIS FINANCIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL INTERESTS IN ZION CITY. l Publishers' PrJ Chicago, April. 12. The most probable suspension of the Dowie-Vollva eruption appears tonight to be the early removal from 'all earthly strife of the once mighty and militant EliJab III. Dowie's personal attendants are keeping up a brave front and strenuously deny that their leader i fast losing his hold on life, but through other sources quite in as close touch with the first apostle, reports that appear authoritative say John Alexander Dowie is almost a dead man; that he has frequent lapses of memory and maunders like an Insane man; also that he has had several lapses Into unconsciousness within the past 24 hours. He spends almost the entire time on a couch or in bed. The slightest opposition is said to throw him into a towerinjr rage which leaves him utterly -exhausted. v Offers Made to Dowie. The story given out last night and printed here and throughout the country that certain offers had been made and were under, consideration- and that Dowie would not go to Zion City at all but would return trv.tfifoa wo. categorically denied today "vOne story today waa tbaf th Voliva party offered Dowle a pension, of $100 per month, in return fro which he was to relinquish all claims uponZion City and never go there again. Dowie is reported to have denounced the whole Zion City outfit and scornfully rejected the beggarly pittance." - ' . A later story tonight la that he has agreed to sell out his financial andv ecclesiastical interests in Zion Citv' and the Christian Catholic church top 525,000. Likes North Best. ' Wesley Cornell nd-; family . who spent the past winter at Tampa, THa., arrived home Wednesday nteht of last week. They had plenty of 'work during their stay in Florida and many days of happy recreation that kept them from Retting homesick. They like the southland but they like the noithland better. Cambridge Tribune. 10 RAILROAD MEN PASS AWAY George W. Faust and Charles . Bennett, Well Known Here Are Dead. --irINCE LIVED IN RICHMOND MR. FAUST 0CO AT DENVER, COLORADO, AND MR. BENNETT AT URBAN A, OHIO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. - , George W. Faust, and Charles. M, Bennett, railroad men formerly residents of this city died this- week. Faust who formerly Had a run as. engineer between Columbus and Indianapolis died In Denver where he went in the hope'of recuperating from continued Illness. Mr. Bennett died in Urbana Ohio yesterday morning as a result of paresis from which he was a sufferer for many years. Over the entire Pennsylvania System these two men were known and were popular with their fellow railroaders. Faust has lived in Indianapolis of late years, but he once resided in this city and was a member of the Webb Lodge, F. and A. M. He also belonged to Lodge No. 11, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He was known as one of the most careful and expert engineers on the road and usually had charge of special trains that wished to make the trip hurriedly. He leaves a wife and three children.; ' ?!. "A ;; . Bennett advanced In railroad work here until he occupied an important position. In 188S, be was promoted to the position of superintendent of the Indianapolis Division, with headquarters in Indianapolis. He held this place three years and then became superintendent of the Chicago division. one of the most important on the road. From there, he became superin tendent of the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad, which, place he occupied until recently, when he became superintendent Maintenance of Way of the Pennsylvania lines.