Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 137, 11 June 1906 — Page 1

RIG FA ABIUMo "TOL. XXXI. NO, 137. Richmond, Indiana, Monday Morning, June 11, 1S06. Single Copies, Two Cents.

iPLOT DISCOVERED TO KILLTHE POPE Four Hundred Police Officers Cuard Him at Services in Vatican Sunday,, flOO "REDS" ARE ARRESTED

TO HOLD MASS MEETING SECURES LITTLE GIRL CHARLES L. TUCKER ESCAPES FOR TIME i - His Execution Set for Last Night Was Postponed by Warden Bridges. MAY FESTIVAL FOR 1907 Committee From May Festival Association Met Saturday and Made Arrangements for Meeting Which May be Held in Reid Church. Mrs. Ruby Cartwright Tull Ignores Court and Gets Child by Ruse.

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PEOPLE LEARNING OF THE PLOT, FEARED A TRAGEDY AND DID NOT ATTEND GREAT SERVICES AT HOLY PLACE.

tPublihrV Prcia Rome, Juno 11. Never before In the history of the Vatican has a service at .historic St! Peters been conducted under so strict a guard as was that of v!8trd:iv when the Pope officiated at the beatification services for the Spanish martyrs with a guard of 400 police officers in and about the edifice. The receipt of information from Paris that a plot against the life of the rontlft had been discovered. causecMhe Rome police to use the strictest of precautions and nearly every member of the secret service was on duty. It developed Sunday that, although the plan was perfected in France, it had its Inception in America and according to the police the plan was to kill the pontiff so soon as he appeared in the cathedral. Reds Are All Aflame. The recent arrest of anarchists at Ancona a:d other points In Italy and the activity of the Italian authorities In arrestng all known anarchists has inflamed the "reds" to a pitch when they will stop at no outrage to make manifest their contempt of the authorities. This being the case, 'it is felt by the Rome authorities and the Vatican officials that they must put forth every effort to prevent an outrage against the pontiff who is hated greatly by all anarchists, because of their contempt for dellgion. The news that a plot against the life of the pontiff had been discovered had tho effect of keeping the attendance down at tho services Sunday. Although 30,000 invitations had been sent out to persons who had expressed a desire to bo present the fear of a possible tragedy kept away all but about 2,000. In fact there were one quarter as many officers in the mammoth auditorium as there were spectators. One Hundred Arrests Made. " It Jv announced that nearly one hundred "Known anarchists have been arrested in various parts of Italy since the order was issued Saturday to gather them in preparatory to the visit of the King cf Ancona. The police ,will rot relax their vigilance, but will continue to arrest all anarchists, no matter of what nationality, Italian "reds" being sent to jail and foreigners banished. SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE MORE OF IT IS SECURED President Ha Had Secret Service Men at Work in the Packing Houses of Chicago to Make his Case Even Stronger Than it Is. Publishers Press Washington, June 10. Secret service men are reported to be enroute here with sensational Information In their possession as to the use of preservatives by the beef trust. .They were sent to Chicago by order of the Fresldent. ns soon as he had been advised verbally of the results of the Investigation of Labor Commissioner Nelll and James Reynolds. It is said that they have concluded nn exhaustive Inquiry, which will not only bring the packers to their knees but will remove the power of tho influences that are being exerted aginst congress and the great cattle intesests with a view of forcing the .president to capitulate. This pressure has become gigantic Every business, political and financial, ramification of the great trust. Is being utilized directly and Indirectly to have a halt called on Governmental exposure. 4T WAS CHILDRENS' DAY There Were Special Programs of ln terest Given at Various Churches In the City Yesterday. Yesterday was "Chlldrens' Day" and special rrograms of music and recita tions under the auspices of the Sab bath school departments were given. At Grace Methodist and First Method ist the programs were rendered last night to audiences that filled the churches. At the First English Luth eran, the First Presbyterian and Sec ond English Lutheran the exercises jwere held In the forenoon. Roy Johnson Injured. Roy Johnson, of New York City, for merly of Wayne County, was seriousjly hurt recently while boarding an i elevated railway train. His skull was iiractured.

A committer from the May Festival Association met Saturday afternoon and made further arrangements for the mass meeting of the members of the chorus and the griends of the Association. This meeting will be held on Monday evening, June 18, and will be In the nature of a social gathering. The promoters of the Festival will talk with those who are 1 interested in seeing the May Festival a permanent institution in Richmond, and if It is thought expedient, plans will be made at this meeting for the continuance of the Festival. Either today or tomorrow, a formal invitation will bo issued, asking the members of the chorus and others to attend the mass meeting. Efforts are being made to secure the Reid Memorial Church for the meeting. It is the belief of the men who backed the festival this year that it will be made an annual event.

BtaLMMATE AT EARLHAM COLLEGE Large Audience of Students and Townsfolk Heard Dr. Dennis's Sernxm. A SCHOLARLY DISCOURSE "SUBDUE THE EARTH,", COMMAND THAT HAS COME UP FROM THE AGES, STILL THE MODERN COMMAND. Before an audience that completely filled Llndley hall, Dr. David W. Dennis of the college faculty delivered the annual baccalaureate sermon yesterday forenoon to the class that on Wednesday will be graduated from Earlham. It was a notable and a scholar ly discourse; one characteristic of the sneaker and one that held tne largo audience interested from first to last. Subdue the Earth. "Subdue the Earth", the command that has come up from the ages past, and which is still the modern command, was the subject of the sermon. In part Dr. Dennis said: "Thl3 Is the first command given to the human race. There are two reasons why it did not overwhelm the people to whom it was given. First, the race was young ana no task however great discourages youth. Second, they who received the command did not know how great the task was. To them the Mediterranean was the great sea. They knew noth ing of the three thousand miles of the Atlantic nor of the other three thousand miles beyond it which consisted of jungles, morasses, deserts and mountains followed by yet nine thous and miles of ocean. We do not yet know all the command means and we never will until the last conquest is complete. Take hold somewhere and help subdue the earth. No Idle man, rich or poor who Is an idler from choice, can claim standing room undo: this command. Duty calls where opportunity offers. Do not deceive yourself for a moment witn tne hal lucination that you ought to do wnai you cannot get a chance to do. Struggle for Existence. "Subdue the earth. This command Is heaven's warrant for existence. This struggle always has been individual with individual, race with race, species with species, plant with animal, every animated thing with every force and condition, earthquake, flood fire, storm, winter, summer, desert, ocean forest. Into this struggle for existence, otherwise often called the battle of life you students are about to enter in one form or another. The underlying principle by which God has led us and all other creatures to the best of which we were severally capable should need no defense; it has been and is right because it is God's way. "We must not cheat ourselves into thinking the struggle Is over because the purpose and tools of the struggle are different. The struggle did not stop because gun powder made armor an incumbrance instead of a help or because of its use a walled town be came an anachronism. Take off your hat before every species of plant or animal you meet. It and its ancestors have won In the fierce struggle for existence from the morning of creation until now, while ae ton)s in the rocks declare that hundreds of thousands of other species have become extinct; could not maintain the struggle. The survivors have practic-J ed more virtues than vices or tha (Continued to Page Eighf j WEATHER INDICATING. loi Indiana Fair Monday, t? er in central portion; Tuesday! .i warmer in the north and cent rtions fresh north to northwest f?up v Ohio Generally fair MKO-nd Tuesday; fresh north winds!

TAKEN FROM KERN HOME

CHILD WAS VISITING THERE AND MRS. TULL SECURING HER, GOT INTO'A PHAETON AND DROVE AWAY. Despite the edict of the Henry County court-In denying Mrs. Ruby Cart-wrfght-TuIl-the custody of her three-vear-old daughter, she succumbed to her mother-love Friday evening and braved the anger of the court by kid napping her child from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Kern, 137 Chestnut street. Saturday evening the Child in the company of Its mother and its step-father, Albert Tull, was seen on Main street. Mr. Cartwright of New Castle, the grandfather of the child and its legal custodian, is ex pected in the city today and he will probably institute proceedings the vvayne circuit court to recover tne lit tie girl. From a legal point of view the case presents many complications. The child was by the first marriage of Mrs Tull to Otto Cartwright, of New Cas tie, who deserted her shortly after the birth of the child. Cartwright is now in the army and Mrs. Tull secured a divorce from him about a year ago, at which time Judge H. C. Fox granted her the custody of the child, who was living with her grandparents at New Castle. Last April Mrs. Tull, after she was married . to her second hus band, went to New Castle for the purpose of claiming her daughter. Old Mr. Cartwright refused to give the little girl iip and appealed to the Henry County Court. This court handed down a decision that Mr. Cart wright was the legal guardian of the child and that Mrs. Tull was not enti tied to its custody until she could provide a suitable home. It is stated that Mrs. Tull now claims she has a home for the child which meets the requirements of the Henry County court. Was Visiting at Kern Home. Last Thursday Mrs. Hayden Kern was in New Castle and she obtained the permission of Mr. Cartwright and the court to bring the ltitle one to this city for a two weeks' visit with her Both Mr. and Mrs. Kern are well ac quainted with Mrs. Tull and the child made its home with them for three months last summer. Thursday even Ing Mrs. Tull spent several hours at the Kern home with her little daugh ter. She is passionately fond of the child, who is as pretty as a spring flower. All the time Mrs. Tull was at the Kern home she never allowed the little girl to leave her for an instant. Friday evening Mrs. Tull returned to the Kern home and received per mission to show the child to a relative, whom Mrs. Tull said was waiting out side. Mrs. Kern- followed Mrs. Tull after she left the house with the child and was surprised to see her going in the direction of Richmond avenue Mrs. Kern quickened her steps in time to see Mrs. Tull, the little girl and a woman who was a stranger to her, driving off in a phaeton. Last night Mr.' Kern stated that he tried to secure authority to secure the child from its mother.but failed because he was not the little one's legal guardian He notified Mr. Cartwright at New Castle, of Mrs. Tull's action and Mr Cartwright said that he would arrive in Richmond Saturday. He failed to put in an app.earance, but it Is expect ed that he will arrive here today. WEEK OF WARM WEATHER The Official Temperature Record Shows That Mercury Was Pretty Busy EverV Day. The week ending Saturday was one of hot weather, the mercury striking ninety or higher on three da'ys. The maximum was 91; the minimum 51 The record by dajjs according to the observations taken by Walter Vosslex of the Water Works pumping station were as follows: Date Highest Lowest

June .... 3 85 51 June .... 4 91 57 June 5 . 83 64 June .... 6 87 67 June .... 7 90 71 June .. .. 8 91 6S June .... 9 85 64

Small Claim Is Filed. A claim has been filed with the County Auditor by the Richmond School Board, for the amount spent during the past year for books, shoes and clothing for Indigent school child ren. The claim was for the year end ing June 6, 1906 and will be presented to the County Commissioners at their next session. The total claim is for $1SS.7L Books cost $27.04, Shoes, which were the biggest item on the bill, cost $147.85 and clothing cost $11.82. An Open Air Solo. w Raymond Wehrle'y, a well known calist, gave a solo at the open air meeting of the East Main street Friends church last night. There was a larze attendance.

WHILE The Beef Trust So the old niai's didn't tak. OFFICIALS VISIT CITY'S HOSPITAL They Find Plea of Board of Trustees for Money to Be a Most Worthy One. COUNCIL ACTS PROMPTLY A COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF COUNCILMEN O'NEAL, BARTEL AND DEUKER WILL LOOK FURTHER IN MATTER. With a view toward looking into the financial situation at the Reid Memorial Hospital, the Mayor, City Attorney, City Clerk, City Council, Township Trustee, and the Trustees and members of the medical staff of the Hospital, visited the institution north of the city yesterday afternoon. A statement giving the reason of the Trustees for asking aid from the city, was submitted to Council at a recent meeting "and this caused the visit of yesterday. When the city officials arrived, they were shown into the office, where John L. Rupe, of the Board of Trustees, explained the situation. He said that while the institution had an endowment fund of $23,000, there are so many charity cases that the money derived from this fund Is not sufficient. For the past five months, the Hospital has been running at a net loss of $300 per month. It is impossible for this to continue indefinitely and for that reason, aid is being asked from the City Council. Following the talk of Mr. Rupe, several questions in regard to the number of charity patients, were asked by the Councilmen. One in every three cases is charity work and no fees are derived. The officials were then shown all over the Hospital building. To many of them, this was the first visit and they were greatly Impressed with the beautiful building and with, the work tha.t is being done there. They then appointed a committee to confer with the Hospital trustees, and to report to the next session of Council. This committee Is composed of Messrs. O'Neal, Deuker and Bartel. The city has a right to appropriate money to be used in the maintenance of public institutions such as the Reid Memorial Hospital. It is believed that money will be turned over to the Trustees so there will be no shortage in the future. Fourteen Were Baptised. At the Children's Day services at the First M. E. church yesterday, twenty-one were made members of the church and fourteen were baptised. In the evening a special program was rendered by the Sunday school. During the evening fourteen were advanced from the cradle roll to the primary department and fifteen went from the primary into the main school. Entre Nous Won Game. The Entre Nous ball team swamped the Eagles yesterday by a score of 13 to 0. The feature of the game was the pitching of Walter Lichtenfels for the Entre Nous team, he striking out eleven batters.

THERE'S INVESTIGATION, THERE'S HOPE. going to investigate you? Don't worry; he Investigated m: but it

FOUGHT BIG BLACK SNAKE WRAPPED ABOUT HER NECK Pittsburg Woman Goes to Feed Her Chickens and is Attacked by Large Reptile Chickens Cackle and Attract Help to Scene. Publishers' Press Pittsburg, Pa., June 10. Mrs. Josephine Smith of 218 Quincy street, Mount Oliver, was attacked by a black snake over four feet long in the yard of her home today. The reptile coiled about her neck and was slowly strangling her to death when Mrs. Jacob Brenneman, a sister came to her assistance and succeeded in killing the snake with a hatchet. The snake attacked Mrs. Smith as she was about to enter a chicken coop and wound Itself around her throat stifling her cries for assistance. Mrs. Rrenneman's attention was attracted f the scene by the cackling of the frightened chickens. RECITAL WAS PLEASING BY ELOCUTION STUDENTS Second Number In the Commencement Exercises Was Given in Earlham Chapel Saturday Night' Before Good Sized Audience. The annual elocutionary recital held at Earlham Saturday night was one of the best ever given at the institution. The auditorium was well filled. The reading by Miss Gertrude Polk on "Old Mother Goose" was well received. The recitations by Miss Myrtle Purdy and Bessie Trueblood on "When Jack Comes Late" and "Mr. Coon and Mr. Rabbijt" were also very good. Miss Marie Kaujman sang a beautiful solo at the close of the evening's program. The program as rendered follows: Piano Miss Jessie Beeler "An Object of Love, Mary E. Wilkins Laura R. Do an. "Old Mother Goose" :.. Pauline Phelps Gertrude Polk. (a) "When Jack Comes Late" Helen Berger (b) "So Was I" . Anon Myrtle H. Pusdy. "Mr. Coon and Mr. Rabbit" Joel Chandler Harris Bessie Trueblood. Vocal Solo . Helen Stanley "We are Seven," from Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggins Katie Cochran. A Legend of Service Henry Van Dyke Delia Harter. Encouragement Paul Lawrence Dunbar Ethel Publou. Vocal Solo Miss Marie Kaufman Frank Ryder Sentenced. Frank Ryder, twenty-six years of age, was given aflne of $10 and costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail by Police Judge Converse Saturday morning, for stealing two saws. Ry der was" recently married.

OLD FOLKS SPEND DAY AT BETHEL

Annual Gathering Was the Most Successful Ever Held in Little City. SIX HUNDRED PRESENT IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT MEET ING WILL BE HELD "FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS UNLESS OTHERWISE ORDERED." The Annual Old Folks Meeting, held yesterday at Bethel, was the most successful of any reunion the resi dents of Bethel ever held and it Is es timated that between five and six hundred were there during the day Thirty persons went from this city, making the trip in hacks. They re turned at eight o'clock last night. The sessions were held in the Christian church. The morning program was in the nature of a reminiscence meeting. The time was spent In talking over events which happened years ago when the community of Bethel was young and when the resi dents were the pioneers of the settle ment. Among the speakers was F. F. Haisley, of this city, who is at the head of the Annual meetings. In the afternoon, the Rev. Mr. Harklns of Union City, delivered a ser mon. This was followed by music and adjournment for an informal ses sion. The large number of visitors took their dinners and suppers with them and at at the homes or on the lawns of their friends. At the end of the meeting. It was announced that annual meetings will be held "for the next 100 years, unless otherwise ordered." One of the old est visitors was Hezekiah Van Nuys, who arrived Saturday from California, He is over eighty years of age. Delegates Are Named. The Richmond camp of Modern Woodmen will be well represeted at the annual "log-rolling" at4 Tipton, July 4. The delegates from here have been named as "ollows: William Sharpe, N. C. Heironimus, C. W. Addleman. Paul Temme, O. Coryell, Ben Schroeder, H. H. Stelnbrink. George Unthank, Ernest Mote and James Dillon. The home of Ross Witt, near Boston, was struck by lightning Friday night and burned. Tne loss was heavy Harris Sprained Ankle. Henry Harris, who Is catcher for the Richmond Reds team, a local base ball organization, sprained his ankle yesterday afternoon while playing ball and was removed in the ambu lance to his home at 422 Lincoln streeL J. B. Frye Is Very Sick. J. B. Frye, a well known conductor on the Grand Rapids & Indiana rail way, is at his home In Fort Wayne suffering from a complication of dis eases. He is not expected to live Mr. Frye has been on the G. R. & I for forty years and is popular with. his fellow employes

A7TY. VAHEY RESPONSIBLE LAWYER WHO HAS FOUGHT SO HARD TO CLEAR TUCKER OF MABEL PAGE'S MURDER SHOWS HAND AGAIN,

IFublishors' Press. er condemned to die between midnight and sunrise, any day this week, still lives. The time of his execution had been placed between midnight and 12:30 tonight, and the witnesses were on hand, but as the time ap proached for him to pay the penalty for the crime of niurderinc Mabel Page, In Weston, on M&rcli 31. 1004, word was received from Warden Bridges that the time had been chan. ged. When Tucker win" meet hla fate 13 unknown, but as Gov. Guild still refuses to intervene in his behalf, Tucker must die. Just why Warden Bridg es changed the time of the execution is not known. It Is presumed that lawyer James II. Vahey, Tuckers devoted counsel, has had something to do with the slight delay. Tucker maintains his Innocence as firmly as when first arrested and declares that If he dies he does so' an innocent man, wholly without knowledge of the crime or who committed It. HISTORY OF THE CRIME. Boston, June 10. Mabel Pago warf murdered in her home at Weston on March 31, 1904. She was stabbeed to death at the trial of Charles Louis Tucker, the state contended that rob bery was the motive. In the statement of Governor Guild, which he issued as a result of the hearing for the com mutation of Tucker's death sentence, his excellency intimated that Tucker went to the Page house for the pur pose of making an attack upon the young woman. ". On the day of the murder no. one was at the Page bouse except Mabel. She was a woman who was held In the highest respect. It Is believed that the murder took place about noon. According to tho ' evidence which convicted Tucker, .he went to the house and told Mabel Page that her brother Harold had been injured In Boston and had been taken to the Massachusetts general hospital. ' Left Note to Father. Miss Page wrote a note and left It for her father, saying that she had Igone to Boston to see Harold, who had been hurt. Then she went to her room, which was on the second floor of the house to change her clothing. She had gotten about half way through with her drenslng when the attack was made upon her. She was stabbed in the back, and then in tho throat and breast. , Mr. Page, the father of the young woman, who was about 80 years old, and who died recently, returned home about 2 o'clock in the 'afternoon and found the body of his daushter in her, room. , On Saturday evening, April 9, Tucker was arrested at his home. After he had been taken to the station, the police made a search of his home.' In one of the pockets of one of his coats that was found hanging on a door knob of his room the police found the . famous Canadian , stickpin ' which Lawyer James H. Vahey jleclai convicted Tucker, and a knife, the blade fif which had been broken In three pieces. ' ' Stick Pin Connecting Link. On June 2 of last year Tucker was put on trial In the superior criminal court n East Cambridge, and it proved one of the roost sensational trials that ever took place in this state. The evidence was entirely circumstantial.' The stickpin was the only link in the chain that connected the accused young man with the Tucker house But one witness testified that this pin had been the property of Mabel Page. That was Amy Roberts. More than a dozen witnesses were called who testified that they had seen Tucker wearing a pin similar In de-t sign long before the crime was com-: mitted. ' i The Case Was Appealed. The case was appealed and carried from various courts to the supreme court of the United States at Wash-; ington. Every decision was adverse to Tucker. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair in the week beginning June 10 of this year. But his counsel did not Ve up the 5ghL They got up a petition addressed to Governor Guild which was signed by nearly 120,000 people In this state, asking that the death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. Governor Guild refused to commute the sentence, and scored Tucker'a character. Stork at Harper Home. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Harper, SL Louis, Saturday morning. The information reached Richmond friends yester day. Mrs- Harper was formerly Miss T!dna. Studv of Richmond, daughter