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I IUM Eli if; , VOL. XXXI. NO. 88. Richmond, Indiana, Saturday, April 14, 1906. Single Copies, Two Cents. t SPEAK Oil PEACE TO BE ANNUAL AFFAIR CONDITIONS ARE

RICHMOro:

DIES SUDDENLY WHILE DRIVING Joseph Mulligan Breaks Blood Vessel as the Result of Violent Coughing.

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THE FARMER'S STRIKE VERY IS FAILING FASI

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Earlham Entertains Second Conference of Intercollegi- - ate Peace Association.

PROMINENT MEN ATTEND DR. RICHARD OF COLUMBIA ADVOCATES ESTABLISHING NA- , TIONAL COLLEGES FOR PEACE AND ARBITRATION. The second annual conference of the. Intercollegiate Peace Association which embraces colleges In the state of Indiana and Ohio opened at Earlham college yesterday morning at ten o'clock. There was In attendance officials representative from the following schools: Goshen, Indiana University, Dennlson, Antloch, Wilmington and Perin College,' Iowa. Last night representatives arrived from Miami, Wittenberg and Moore's Hill. The conference gives every Indication of accomplishing the purpose for which it was organized at Goshen College, Indiana", last year. This idea is to create in the colleges the spirit of peace and arbitration as opposed to war. At that time it Included only the Mehnenite; Quaker and Oerman Baptist schools but this year invitations . were- sent to all the colleges of the , two states. ., The. .Delegates Welcomed. President Kelly welcomed the deleKates .and speakers this morning following which William Dudley Foulke ex-member of the Civil Service Commission spoke on "Disadvantages of Non Resistance." Mr. Folilke who Is a personal friend of "President Roosevelt and one of his advisers voiced ome. of the Rig 8tick sentiments which the following speakers took exception to. ' . . .- Dr. DenJ. F. Trueblood, secretary of the American Peace Society of Bonton spoke on "A Century of Arbitration" pointing out the advances made along this line.' In the afternoon Prof. Ernest Richard of Columbia University spoke on What College and University Men Should Do to Promote Better International Feeling." The address was significant in that Dr. Richard's advocated establishing National Colleges In the United States. France and , Germany for the purpose of teaching nothing but peace and arbitration, lie also suggested a plan of having traveling professors who should teach peace and arbitration. Dr. Richard feels that a- better International feeling can only be established by creating a spirit of peace In college men. He. also suggested awarding prizes for essays on peace topics. Prize for Peace Essay. A discussion followed Dr. Richard's Address on "How to Organize the schools to promote the peacq movement." Valuable suggestions were made but no action will be taken until this morning at a meeting' of delegates. President Kelly announced a prize of $25 to be given for the best essay written by an Earlham student on Peace and Arbitration." .The money , Is given by Mary and Ellen Seabury of New Bedford, Mass. At the meeting yesterday the matter of generally observing a day to be set apart for peace and arbitration was discussed. It was the consens'us of opinion that May 18 should be observed appropriately for this purpose as it Is the date of the first peace tribunal at the Hague. Last Night's Session. The speaker at last night's session was Dr. Edwin D. Mead of Boston, who delivered one of the most scholarly and eloquent addresses ever hecrd at Earlham. Dr. Mead took for his subject, "The United States and the United World." He spoke of the birth of the NorthWest territory and how from the very tart it had taken a stand for freedom In that It barred slavery from Its territory. He said "freedom and peace have always gone hand in hand and especially was this true in the history of the United States." Dr. Mead spoke of the deckled stand the anti-slavery men" had taken for peace, and how auspicious it was, that the present movement for the promulgation and advancement of the ide: of " peace in the colleges and universities of the CQiintry should be taken up in the old north-west territory, the dis trict which had always stood for free dom, hence petice. s He showed how from the first organ lzatlon of peace societies in America In 1813. they .addressed themselves in promoting and bringing about among the nations of the world, a policy which has since been such a blessing to the United States.

OBSERVANCE SUCCESSFUL Many Children Attend Joint Services Held at Churches Yesterday Supt. Mctt Says Schools Can Always Quit for Good Friday.

Attendance at the churches of the city yesterday in observance of Good Friday was the best that has ever been known, and in many of the congregations, there was a large percentage of school children. This was the first time in the history of the public schools of the city that they have ever been dismissed on account of any religious observance, and according to Supt. Mott, the experiment was successful. This year several churches combined and had Joint services, with the pastors of other congregations speaking. The School Board was petitioned to allow the children to be dismissed early in the day so that they could attend. A majority of the churches wished it, so the Board consented., It Is estimated that a large per cent, of the children attended, although a few put their short vacation to other purposes. Next year, if the churches desire it, the holiday will be granted again, and it is probable that it will become. an annual custom. DE Day Set Apart for Remembering Old Soldiers Will Be ; .". 'Fittingly Observed, REV. CAMPBELL TO SPEAK CHILDREN WILL BE ASKED TO COLLECT FLOWERS TO DECORATE GRAVES OPEN AIR EXERCISES. I . Arrangements are being made for the Decoration Day program and Indications are that this year the day will be very fittingly observed. There will be special services on both Decoration Day, May 30, and on Memorial Sunday, May 27, and speakers for both days have been secured. , In order that all semi military organizations of the city may have a part iri the clay's observance, a committee from each of the Sol Meredith Post, O. A. R.; Denver Brown post, Spanish War Veterans; and Sons of Veterans, will be appointed and arrangements will be completed by these committees. There will bo the usual services at the graves of the dead comrades and if possible, there will be out-of-door speaking. In accordance with the general order issued by Commander-in-chief Corporal Tanner, of the Grand Army of the Republic, the speech of Lincoln of the battlefield of Gettysburg, at the time of the dedication of the National Cemetery, will be read. The Rev. J. O. Campbell, of the Fifth Street M. E. church, will give an address and there will be several musical selections. In case the weather is unfit for services In the cemetery, the address will be given in the Circuit court room, in the Court House. School Children For Flowers. On the J Sunday preceding Decoration Day, the Rev. Mr. Kuhn, of the Christian Church, will deliver an appropriate sermon, and it Is expected that all members of the G. A. R. and the other two organizations that observe Decoration Day, .will be present at the church. In order to have an abundance of flowers with i which to decorate the graves, an appeal will be made to the public schools, as In former years. The school children always respond and supply many flowers. Within a short time, a request will be published asking that there be no baseball games or races or other forms of public amusement In the city on Decoration Day, so that the residents will have a chance to devote their entire attention to the special services arranged for by the committees. Orders New Touring Car. J. A. Spekenhier has ordered a new White steam touring car, which is to arrive on April 18, next Wednesday. It will be one of the finest machines in the county. WEATHER INDICATIONS. Indiana Thunderstorms and cooler Saturday; Sunday fair. Ohio Thunderstorms and cooler Saturday; Sunday fair.

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Rain of Ashes from Mt. Vesuvius Has Ceased and Sun ,s Shining.

CONFIDENCE IS REGAINED WHILE RESCUERS CLEAR- AWAY THE RUINS THEY FIND A WOM AN AND HER 4' BABE LYING ALIVE AMONG CORPSES, Publishers' Press Naples, April 14. Reports received from all the cities and town3 in the vicinity of the eruption are very encouraging. Friday scores of people ascended Mount Vesuvius. The. rain of ashes has ceased entirely, the sun was shining all day and everywhere tho people are regaining confidence Bands of peasants living in the direct vicinity of the volcano, who sought refuge from the flow of lava, in caves, were rescued after being buried in the debris for five days." Their only means of subsistence was roots and herbs. Workmen clearing the roads are digging up many bodies. The military encamped in the several towns are making very determined effort to relieve" the suffering of the populace and are issuing rations to the starving people as quickly as possible. . 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 Mayor's face, declaring that it was not sufficient to feed their offsprings. His Holiness has contributed 80,000 pounds t6 the relief of the desti tute, wnne King Emanuel made an additional contribution of 4,000 pounds. Find Woman and Babe. While rescures were at work clearing away the ruins at Ottojano, a woman and her newly born babe were dug out of the ashes among a number of corpses They were both living. ...ThjB- stories i of the havoc wrought by the volcano are harrowing as the survivors manage to tell of their experiences. The dead are lying everywhere in and around the ruined towns, and owing to the fact that the lava is cooling very slowly, it haa 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 and Is constantly being added to. Died at Ninety Years. Mrs. Nancy Williams of Fountain City Passed Away Yesterday .. Ehe was a Pioneer. rrallaaium Special.! Fountain City, April 13. Mrs. Nancy Williams, widow of Christopher Williams, died today. Mrs. Williams was one of the pioneers of the New Garden township. Born in North Carolina, she came to Wayne county and to Fountain City nearly eighty years ago. She was married at sixteen. Her children are: Mrs. R. M. Lacey, Mrs. John Coate, Mrs. Frank Swain and Isaac Williams, of Richmond; Mrs. Harrold. of Mt. Carmel; Samuel Williams, of Winchester, Richard Williams, west of Fountain City and Frank Williams of Berne. In addition to these children there are sixty grand children, seventy great grand children and two or three great-great grand children. The total number of living descendants is 140. PALLADINM MISSED ISSUE. Perhaps for the first time since the Palladium was founded in 1831, a regular issue of the paper was missed yesterday. An accident that befell electrical machinery now being installed was responsible for the failure of the Palladium to get out Its issue. It was a deplorable state of affairs that confronted the management in the early hours of yesterday morning, but it was a condition that could not be copei with at that hour. Through the courtesy" of the Item, which paper offered the use of its press. The Palladium is issued thia morning. The repairs in the machinery at the Palladium office will be made today and the paper will be issued Monday morning from this office as usual.

WELL KNOWN YOUNG MAN

HE WAS TAKING A BUGGY RIDE WITH CHARLES PITMAN WHEN HE WAS STRICKEN HAD GOOD HEALTH. Whle driving with a friend yesterday afternoon, Joseph Mulligan, a well known young man residing in Fairview, became suddenly ill and expired within two minutes of the time he was first stricken. He was apparently in the best of health, and his. sudden demise was attributed to the bursting of a blood vessel in the throat,' caused by violent coughing. Mr. Mulligan, who was 25 years of age, has been working In a finishing room until recently, when he resigned and has been spending much of his time driving. Yesterday afternoon, he went out with Charles Pitman in a buggy and they spent most of the afternoon riding about the city. Mulligan appeared in the best of health and was in his usual spirits. They were driving to his home on the corner of Sherman and Boyer streets, when he became unconscious and before the house could be. reached, only about a block away, he was dead. Mr. Mulligan was a well known and "highly respected young man. He was a member of the Hibe rnianlodge and various other organizations. He leaves a father and mother and five brothers and sisters. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. TEACHERS WILL STUDY HAVE NO IDLE MOMENTS Township Pedagogues Preparing to Attend Summer Schools Indiana State Normal will get Many of Them for Spring Term. Now that the township and district schools of Wayne County have been dismissed, the teachers who have been thrown out of employment until September are planning to spend their spring and summer months in various ways. Some are to attend schools in different parts of the country, others will stay at home and a few will take positions as assistant teachers in other places. Several have gone from here to Terre Haute to attend the Indiana State Normal School. Among them are the Misses Edith Mason, Effie Wilson, Minnie Marshall and Mable Hunnicutt, of Economy schools, Miss Bailey, of the Webster township schools and Miss Myrtle Skinner, of Fountain City. Miss Daisy Petty has gone to Michigan to spend the summer. Miss Petty taught in tho East Germantown schools. Foster B. Curtis, of Franklin township will attend school at Danville, 111., Miss Lulu Clements, of Green township will attend the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, and Marvin Wallace, of Abingtoa, will take a post graduate course at the State University in Bloomington. Several are intending to attend the spring term at Earlham or the Earlham summer school. Among the latter are Millard Markle, assistant principal at Webster, Ancil Elliott, of Boston and Miss Ethel Thomas, of this city, who taught at Fountain City. GIVE USE OF ITS WIRES Postal Telegraph Company Will Send Telegrams to Vesuvius Sufferers Free. The Postal Telegraph Company has sent word to -the local agent that the office here is authorized to accept and transmit free telegrams relating to subscriptions to the relief fund for the benefit of the stricken people of Southern Italy. W. I. Capen, Superintendent of the Postal Company, wishes to aid the relief fund through the free use of the wires of his company, and for that reason, he has caused them to be thrown open to the use of anyone wishing to subscribe money to the fund. Coal Tender Jumped Track. The C,jC. & L. train due in this city at 3 43 p. m. was 45 minutes late" yesterday on account of the tender of the engine jumping the track a few miles this side of Jonesboro.

If ha ever does take a swat at hands to spond any time on these E Robert Underwood Johnson Now Sojourning at Naples, Italy. EXPERIENCE DESCRIBED DECLARES PICTURE PRESENTED WAS THAT OF DANTE'S INFERNO TRUDGED THROUGH VOLCANO ASHES. Robert Underwood Johnson, 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 : Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of the Century Magazine, who has been an eye witness of the events here the last few days, said to the Associated Press: "Each day it becomes more impossible to visit even at a distance the afflicted , districts. The ashes have reached preposterous proportions, filter into everything, block the trains, trams, automobiles, carriages, and horses. Only soldiers seem to overcome the obstruction. "Beefore the interruption I took a train for Torre Annunziata. On arriving at Torre Del Greco the heavens seemed to open and we were soon half buried in ashes and hot cinders. The train drew up in total darkness, relieved only by lightling flashes. Thus we awaited events. Soon the darkness took purple and yellow tinges, the detonations became louder than the loudest thunder clap, and the ashes burnt our eyes. It was a perfect picture of Dante's Inferno. The train could. not proceed, so thick were the ashes on the track, and just at this point the train broke in half and the poor women fugitives, thinking they were about to lose their lives began to chant litanies for the dead, giving a last weird touch to the infernal scene. "Carbineers came to our rescue and proposed to take us to the sea. We then found we were on a bridge with the sea on one side and Torre Del Greco on the other hand. In the darkness we descended liand 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 Portici. where finally we found a cab which brought us to Naples."

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it there'll be something doin', but tho farmer always h too much work on his fancy exercises.

DEFEATS THE OFFICERS OHIO FIREBUG SUICIDES Horrible Death of Clarence Frank, who Burned His Home and After Admitting His Guilt, Blew His Head Off with a Shot Gun. Publishers' Press Columbus, Grove, Ohio, April 13. Clarence - ' Frank, self-confessed fire bug, frustrated the plans of officers to place him under arrest at Leipsic Junction today, by blowing off tahe top cf his head with a shotgun. Death. vas instantaneous. Frank, after a "sweating" by deputy fire marshal Goodell, acknowledged that he was responsible for the blaze which threatenea to destroy his home. He was to have been arrested, but the officers found only his corpse when they arrived. Frank leaves a wife and several children. , RATE IS HOT INCREASED TO RUN $1 EXCURSIONS C., C. & L. Will Run First Sunday Excursion, to Cincinnati April 22 Excursion on Same Dal to Muncie, Marion and Peru. No increase is to be . made In tho Sunday excursion rate to Cincinnati this summer on the C, C. & L., and the old fare of $1 for the round trip on the special trains, will be charged as heretofore. The first excursion of the season on this road will be run out of Richmond on April 22. There will be one train to Cincinnati and one to Muncie, Marion and Peru, with a round trip rate of $1 in ach direction. No arrangements have been made for the Benton Harbor and Chicago excursions as yet, but it is expected that they will be given as heretofore. T.e long distance excursions have al- j been popular with residents alor j C, C. & L. road and the usurJ . tronage Is expected. The round trip rate of $2 is given t Chicago and Benton Harbor, on the special Sunday excursion trains. Skeleton To Be Returned. The camel's skeleton, a part of the Earlham Museum "will be returned to the college sometime this week. The skeleton was sent some time ago to Wards Natural Science Establishment In Philadelphia for remounting. The skeleton was first mounted by Dr. Caldwell Grave when a student at Earlham. Made Inspection Trip. Pres. Kelly who is a member of .the State Board of Education has returned from an Inspection trip, of the high schools at Red Key, Portland, Albany and Pennville.

FRANK MITT HERE OH VISIT

Former Richmond Resident Now Chamberlain to Pope Pius X at Rome. TELLS CF..MT. VESUVIUS HE SAYS THAT ONLY GOOD THING IN CONNECTION WITH THE ERUPTION IS THAT LAVA ENRICHES SOIL. Frank McNutt, of Rome, Italy, arrived in this city Thursday afternoon and registered at theWestcott Hotel. Mr. McNutt returned to New York yesterday. He is a former resident of Richmond and this is the first visit to the town of his nativity for several years. Mr. McNutt is one of the chamberlains to Pope Plus X at the Vatican, but he has been absent from his post since last November, spending the winter in New York, where he was called by business interests. .' When seen at the Westcott 'Thursday night Mr. McNutt stated that he 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 interestingly on the horrors attending the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. He said that he thought Naples was in no danger of being devastated, but that the effects of the eruption would be felt in that city and the surrounding country for some time to come. "As soon as the eruption ceases," he said, "the people will return to their homes and patiently await the coming of the next eruption. There is only one good thing In connection with the eruption and that Is the lava will be a great fertilizer for the soil." Mr. McNutt and his wife, who is at present In New York, will sail for Rome on April 29. Has Had Interesting Career. The former Richmond man haa had' an interesting career. During the Harrison administration, through the influence of the late James G. Blaine, who was secretary of State, Mr. McNutt 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 Lto XIII and when Poue Pius assumed the papal throne, Mr. McNutt was retained as one of the Vatican chamberlains. His Roman home is a magniucent palace and In the summer he makes bis home In an old castle, dating back to the thirteenth century, which is situated in . the Tyrol mountains, Austria.

It Is Said that Deposed Ruler

of Zion Is Nearing "End of His Career. : MAKES OFFER TO SELL OUTELIJAH III WOULD TAKE $525,000 FOR HIS FINANCIAL AND EG CLESIASTICAL ZION CITY. INTERESTS IN Publishers Press Chicago, April 13. The mow prob able suspension of the DowiVoUva eruption appears tonight to the early removal from all earthly trlf of the once mighty and milittit Elt jah JII. - - Dowie's personal attendants ari keeping up a brave front and! ttrenu- ' ously deny that their leader) Jj fast losing hla hold on life, but jftronjV'other sources quite In as clot) touch with the first apostle, reports Il;t a pear authoritative say JohnAlesaader Dowie is almost a dead mr?.; ttit he has frequent lapses of mer ry and maunders like an Insane mti; alio that he has had several la$ zt Into unconsciousness within thefft If hours. He spends almost ti entire time on a couch or In Irl. The slightest opposition Is said k ilroir. him into a towering rage whl j Lives him utterly exhausted. 'i Offers Made to Dow la, ! The story given. out last t" i and printed here and throughout country that certain offers had be t made and were under consldera'" l ; and that Dowie would not go to T ' at all but would return to Mc ' categorically denied today. One story today was thai C i City, 3, was :a voiiva party offered Dowie a It :Jon of $100 per month, in return t which he was to relinquish all cfc.'2i upon Zion City and never go tt:rt again. Dowie is reported to have sCiounced the whole Zion City, outfit od scornfully rejected the -"begj-rly pit," tause.-'. v"v''v; LjSnA later story tonlglitiirarjKh-. agreed to sell out hla financial and ecclesiastical Interests in Zion Cltyj and the Christian Catholic church fox? $525,000. - ' - TWO RAILROAD MEN PASS AVJAlfl George W. Faust and Charley M. Bennett, Well Known Here Are Dead. ONCE LIVED IN RICHMOND MR. FAUST D'ED AT DENVER COLORADO, AND MR.- BENNETT i . AT URBAN A, , OHIO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. George W. Faust." and Charles. ST, Bennett, railroad men formerly resU dents of this city died this week. Faust who formerly Had a run as en gineer between Columbus a&d Indl anapolis died In Denver where he went in the hope of recuperating from continued Illness. Mr. Bennett died la Urbana, Ohio, Thursday morning as a result of parefls 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 rail roaders. FauBt has lived in Indlanapo lis 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. II 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 hurried" ly. lie leaves a wife and three chlk dren. Bennett advanced In , railroad worK here until he occupied an Important position. In 1888, he 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 t on the road. From there, he became" superintendent of the Cincinnati and Mus kingum Valley Railroad, which place he occupied until recently, when ne became superintendent Maintenance of Way of the Pennsylvania lines.

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