Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 144, 19 June 1906 — Page 1

HMOM) F AIX AMITM VOL. XXXI. NO144. Richmond, Indiana, Tuesday Morning, June 19, 1908. Single Copies, Two Cents. ASKS THAT FILES BIG CLAIM E IS THE WEATHER PROPHET. GO INDIANA Thunderstorms and cooler Tuesday; Wednesday partly cloudy, increasing cast shifting to west winds. FOR DEPOSITORS RETOMIEO HOME

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; .oilman O'Neal Introduces Ordinance to Such Effect In Council.

SPECIAL SESSION TONIGHT MEASURE COMES AS NEW MOVE IN TELEPHONE SITUATION AND IS AIMED AT ALL MAIN STREET WIRES. THE TELEPHONE SITUATION. At a special meeting of council tonight an ordinance for the placing of all Main street wires underground will be considered and In all probability passed. The ordinance Is objectionable to the Central Union Telephone Company because it contains a rate clause, , but acceptable to the Home Telephone Company. Central Union officials states that In case the ordinance is passed his company will ignore it - and take the matter to the courts. . Contrary to the statement of Superintendent Cline of Central . Union Company that hisCompany never accepts agreements or franchises which includes rate ' clauses. Councilman Englebert produced for edification of council a telegram from the mayor of Evansville showing that Central Union had accepted a rate clause franchise In that city.. The Home Telephone Company will sell to the Central Union unless its franchise re made to correspond, as far as rates are concerned, to the maximum rates offered the Central Union Company by council. Last., evening at council meeting Councilman O'Neal Introduced an ordinance calling for the placing of all wires on Main street In the business district of the city underground. The ordinance was given its first and second reading and at a special session of council, which will be held this evening, final action will be taken and It Is tho general impression that the ordinance will be passed.

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nance, Councilman Leftwick offered an amendment to the rate clause. Council then went into committee on the whole and it was decided to refer the ordinance back to the city, attorney for alteration. The ordinance In its revised form, will be presented

to council at the special meeting this evening. Tho ordinance was drawn up along the lines laid down by the Home Telephone Company and the annual maximum rates included in the ordinance were $18 for a single residence line, $15 for a four party residence line, $30 for a four party business line and $36 . for a single business line. Mr. Leftwick's amendment called for a maximum rate which would be the same as the rate now asked by the Home Telephone company, $15 for a single residence line and $30 for a slgle business line. Two Petitions Submitted. The following petitions were subi mltted to council: By Home Telephone Company. To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Richmond: Gentlemen We are heartily in favor of a general ordinance requiring all companies, when they reconstruct their systems in the city, to put their wires underground, off the business part of Main street, and that a maximum limitation of rates be required of all companies. By Central Union Company. To the Mayor, Hoard of Public Works and the Common Council of the City of Richmond: You are hereby petitioned to grant the request of tho Central Union Telephone Company for the placing of its wires underground, for the following reasons: Whereas, the request of the Central Union Telephone Company of Richmond for underground privileges, If granted, will be of great benefit to the city and a safeguard to life and property, C And, inasmuch as the privileges asked for neither Increases nor decreases , the right of said company, under its existing franchise, And, inasmuch as said company

agrees to furnish underground facili ties for said city's fire alarm and police wires, and make the necessary changes in the present fire alarm system without cost to said city. And Inasmuch as tha.only difference between said city and the company, regarding the terms of the contract covering said privileges, is the question of inserting a maximum rate clause In the contract. And, inasmuch as the insertion of Bald clause would detract from the value of the company's existing rights, without corresponding return, it is our opinion that the city authorities should waive this point, and allow the Central Union Telephone Company to place its wires underground. In ac-

' cordance with the contract submitted by it to the city for acceptance, a copy

of which is hereto attached. The petition of he Home Telephone Company was signed by about twg hundred business men and the pet! tlon of the Central Union Company Continued on Page Two.)

OHIO Showers Tuesday and possibly Wednesday.

GENERAL CONDITIONS. Generally low pressure and unsettled weather prevails over the country east of the Rocky Mountains. A storm belt, extending from Manitoba Canada, to Texas, is moving eastward. Heavy rains have occurred in the lower Missouri valley, Minnesota and Manitoba. Showers, in places heavy, have also occurred in the Ohio valley and the Middle States. A secondary center of disturbance was over Southern Iowa Monday and it may cause showers here. Generally fair and cool weather prevails over th3 Rocky mountain regions and throughout the Pacific coast states. GOV. PATTISON IS AT Ohio's Executive Removed to Home to Recover, Became Suddenly Worse. A. L. HARRIS, SUCCESSOR STATE PATRONAGE NOW PASSES FROM THE; DEMOCRATS TO REPUBLICANS GOVERNOR HAD BEEN LONG SICK. Publishers' Press Cincinnati, June 18. Governor John M. PaUlson" of Ohio, died at his residence in Milford, about nine miles from here at 4:20 o'clock this afternoon. His death came as a shock to his friends, as there had been no report of any change for the worse during the day. In fact the news received here up to the time of his death, was considered favorable. The governor was reported by his attending physicians at 1 o'clock, to be "doing nicely," and there were no fears for his ultimate recovery. Soon afterward, however, his condition took a turn for the worse and hurry calls were sent for all the physicians who have been in attendance since he was brought home from Columbus. He was suffering from exhaustion, and although most powerful of stimulants were used they were impotent and the doctors were finally compelled to admit that medical science could do no more and that all hope was gone. Only the immediate members of the governor's family were at the bedside when the end came. No arrangements for the funeral have as yet been made. Republican Become Governor. Lieutenant Governor Andrew L. Harris, of Eaton, Ohio, will now become governor, transferring the state patronage from the Democrats to the Republicans. Mr. Harris is about seventy years old, and is a retired farmer. He was elected lieutenant governor last fall when Pattison deiV-ted Herrick for governor and when the the balance of the ticket went Republican. Governor Pattison had made only two important state appointments and the appointees of former Govenor Herrick will undoubtedly be reappointed, thus assuring the Republicans control of the state patronage. THIEF USES CHLOROFORM Fumes of Anesthetic, However, Awakens Intended VictimThought to be a Novice. fPalUilium ipec'al. Muncie, Ind., June 18. Although the statement that burglars sometimes use chloroform to prevent the occupants of houses from awakening while ransacking is going on is gen erally disputed both by the burglars themselves and by police officers, S. J. McCreery and wife, wealthy residents of Gaston, were awakened by a burglar who was administering chloroform to them. It was, in fact, the fumes of the anesthetic that roused Mrs. McCreery, who looked up and saw a man with a bottle in his hand in the act of applying it to the nos trils of Mr. McCreery. Mrs. Mc Creery was so frightened that she was unable to make a sound, al though the chloroform had not yet affected her, but the fumes awoke Mr McCreery also, and the burglar, see ing that his plans were foiled, leaped through an open window and escap ed. Mr. McCreery, armed, hastily followed, but could not overtake him The burglar is believed to have been new at the business. He obtained nothing of value. Bottle Plant to Increase. Palladium Special. Greenfield, Ind., June 18. The Townsend bottle factory plant, in this city, is undergoing many Improvements to increase its capacity. Additional gas wells will also be drilled. The factory makes a specialty of catsup bottles, and It is owned by Chas. S. Townsend & Sons of Indiananolls. 'The plant has never ceased to operate, since it was started here, and the

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Receiver Spekenhier Asks Bowman Estate to Pay Total of $106,137.87.

HAS $17,000 NOW ON HAND THIRTY PER CENT HAS ALREADY BEEN ALLOWED ON CLAIMS AND MORE SETTLEMENTS WILL BE MADE LATER. J. A. Spekenhier.receiver of the firm of Wyatt, Allen & Co., yesterday filed a claim against the estate of the late John Bowman, and against Hugh Allen, administrator of the estate, for $106,137.87, as the amount now due the depositors of the defunct Commercial Bank, of Hagerstown. It is now almost a year since Bowman killed himself immediately before the investigations of the affairs of the bank led to the fact that he was an embezzler to the extent of about $200,000. During the past year. Receiver Spekenhier has paid the depositors 30 per cent on their claims, and there still remains a little less than $17,000 with which to pay the claims of $106,000, which he filed yesterday. Out of this .some money must be paid to those holding claims against the estate, awarded by the court, but these paople will receive the same amount, pro rata, as the depositors. As soon as some of the notes held by the estate fall due. it is thought that another percentage on the claims will be declared, and the whole case ended. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED Prof. Will Earhart Has Given Up the Leadership of the First Presbyterian Choir. The resignation of Prof. Will Earhart, as leader of the choir at the First .Presbyterian church has been accepted. The congregation at the church greatly regrets- to lose the ser vices of Prof. Earhart, who has been in charge of the music there- for eight years. Owing to the fact that he is to be away from the city during the summer and that hie duties are constantly becoming heavier Prof. Earhart desired to be relieved of his choir work. . . For the present. Frank. Braffett will have charge of the music. Next Sun day a quartett composed of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Krone, Miss Stella Brush and Frank Braffett will furnish the music. VETERINARIANS WANTED UNCLE SAM IS ANXIOUS In Case Meat Inspection Bill Passes 150 Good Jobs Will be Open to Somebody Examinations Have Already Been Ordered. In anticipation of the passage of a meat-inspection bill, the United States Civil Service Commission is endeavoring to obtain a strong list of eligibles for the positions of veterinary Inspectors in the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. These eligibles are desired to fill 150 vacancies. The positions have a salary of $1,200 a year. An examination to obtain eligibles will be held In Indianapolis June 25, and the subjects on which the candidates will be examined will be spelling, arithmetic, letter-writing, penmanship, copying from plain copy, ceterinary anatomy and physiology, veterinary pathology ajid meat Inspection, and theory and practice of veterinary medicine. The last three subjects include general questions on anatomy and physiology of disease in general, and such special pathology as is characteristic in the diseases common to food-producing animals. The symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of diseases incident to domesticated animals will be considered, also the laws and rules promulsated for the regulated inspection ol meats The age limit is twenty years or over on the date of the examination. Applicants must be graduates of a veterinary college. The necessary application blanks and additional information may be had of H. K. Milhouse, secretary of the civil service examiners, wth headquarters on the fourth floor of the Indianapolis Federal building. Will Teach at Chicago. Prof, and Mrs Will Earhart will leave soon for Ohio where they will visit a short time after which they will go to Chicago were Mr. Earhart is to be superintendent of the Normal school for nusic teachers at Northwestern University. The course lasts but three weeks after which Mr. and Mrs. Earhart will spend the remainder of the 'summer on the lai-oa

News ttem. The Czar Is unalter crown estates. MISS DAISY COX CAUSES SENSATION Sea Captain Calls Former Earlham College Girl His First Lieutenant. ARRIVES IN NEW YORK SHE WITH HER CHUM HAD BEEN IN PORTO RICO WANT TO SEE MORE OF WORLD AND SAIL FOR EUROPE. Palladium Special. New York, June 19. Miss Daisy Cox of Richmond, Ind.. who said she was "Just a Plain School Marm" though her beauty belied the term plain, with her chum Miss Grace L. Hinckle, of Hillsdale, Mich., also a schoolmarm arrived Saturday from Porto Rico on the Steamship Ponce and sailed away today for a European tour on the steamship Patricia for Hamburg. They created a decided sensation in steamstn circles. "For any news of this ship see my first and second officers" said Captain Harvey to a reporter Sunday as he pointed to two forms in .blue flannel topped off with sombreros covering two very pretty faces. The first officer was Miss Cox and the second officer was Miss Hinckle. The first officer said that outside the captain and navigating officer the most interesting feature of the voyage was a large school of twenty five or thirty big whales which actually caused the stoppage of the shin to get through them. She said that herself and chum decided they had not seen enough of the world in the cruise around the West Indies and being out for a good time and a liberal education decided to invade Europe. "It was the most pleasant trip I ever had" said Capt. Harvey as he stepped ashore. Those girls were the life of the boat. I'll bet there will be more martime terms used in Michigan and Indiana than were ever heard before when my two officers get home." Miss Cox is not a re'sldent of this city but is well known here having attended Earlham College for four years. After her graduation two years ago she accepted a position as a teacher in the public schools of Porto Rico. Her home is a small village a few miles from Indianapolis. EXPECT 1,200 DELEGATES Marion Begins Today To Entertain the State Convention of Sunday School Workers. IPalladlum Special! Marion, Ind., June 18. The State Sunday-School association, which Is to meet in Marion tomorrow, is expected to fill the hotels and homes with 1,200 delegates. The local committee has provided for all the delegates who will remain three days. Bishop McCabe, many national officers and all the State officers of the association, are expected, in addition to the delegates. The first meeting will be held Tuesday evening and the Uast meeting on, Th.urs.dax evening.

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ably opposed to any reform requiring STRANGE CASE AT MARION WOMAN'S HALLUCINATION She Thought Police Were Pursuing Her and Was Taken From a Train at the Request of the Conductor of the Train. Palladium Special. Marion, Ind., June 18. A welldressed, educated and refined young woman was taken from a north-bound Big Four train yesterday by the police at the request of the conductor of the train. The conductor said the young woman boarded the train in Cincinnati and presented a ticket to Alexandria. Her actions were those of a sane person until she arrived at Alexandria, when she refused to leave the train. Her hallucination was that the police were pursuing her. The conductor carried her to Marlon, where she was placed in the charge of police. She refused to give any information concerning herself, and the only information the police have is contained on a fly leaf of a book of poems the young woman carried. The inscription is, "Fj:om Effie to Miss Lydia Dartenstein, Xmas, 1898." This was the only thing among her possessions that gave any clue to her identity. She was taken to jail and was placed in the custody of Mrs. 'Clark Mills, the matron. KELLOGG TAKES STAND Asserts Canadian Scheme Was in Good Faith and That He Did Not Intend to Defraud. Palladium Special. Bloomington, Ind., June 18. The first witness called today in the trial of Ulysses B. Kellogg, promoter of a Canadian land scheme, was the wife of the defendantMr. Kellogg then took the stand in his own behalf, and the calling of his name sent a stir through the crowd, which filled the court room Mr. Kellogg went into details concerning his trip to St. Paul, where he met Messrs. Smith & Rogers, form ing the Northwestern Land and Emigration Company, and then they went to Alberta and looked over the land, and made a contract by which he was to get 5 per cent and all, expenses Then they returned and had their con tracts printed, and blocked out the plans to get a party from this city to look at the Canadian lands. HOMER DAVISS0N QUITS He Will Become 'Chief Clerk to R. G. Barnard, in the Engineering Department of G. R. I. Homer A Davisson, formerly assistant tne chief clerk in the office of Engineer Robt Ferriday, has resigned to take the position of Chief Clerk to Engineer R. C. Barnard, formerly of this city, who is now in charge of the engineering department of the Southern Division of the O. R. & I., with headquarters la Fort Wayne. Mr. Davisson's new position is a fine promotion.. No one has, as yet, been appointed to succeed Mr. Davisson in the engineer's office in Richmond,'

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the giving up of any part of the vast THE MONEY BE ILLEGEL City Attorney Holds That Council Cannot Financially Centennial. THE BLOW IS A HARD ONE COUNCIL AT MEETING DID NOTH ING TO ENCOURAGE PLANS FOR THE CELEBRATION MEANS A SMALL AFFAIR. Last evening City Attorney Gard ner stated that in his opinion that it would be illegal for council to appro priate the $5,000 asked of the city to assist in celebrating the Centennial anniversary of Richmond. He also stated, that in his opinion, counci would have no right to appropriate this sum even if the citizens voted at a special election in favor of the ap propriation. After hearing this re port council took no action in the mat ter, and it is probable that it will not be considered .' a in. There were l raj members of the Centennial committee present at council meeting, but they were given no chance to express their views, and after adjournment they complained over the treatment accorded them. T A. Mott and C. V. Hodgin stated that in case the city did not assist in ft nancing the Centennial all of the spec tacular features would be omitted and that the observance of the one-hun dredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Richmond would be confin ed to a special program which would be carried out by the Wayne County Historical Society. They stated that it will now be necessary to raise guarantee fund of $1,000 to have the history of the city, which is being pre pared, published. It is thought that this sum can be realized by the sale of the book. Gardner's Report in Full. The following is the report submit ted by Mr. Gardner: To the Mayor and Common Counci of the City of Richmond. Ind. Gentlemen: In the matter of the power of the Common Council to appropriate $5000.00 for the purpose of aiding in the celebration of the Centennial An niversary of the settlement of Rich mond, I find no power given Munici pal corporations in Indiana to appro priate money for sucli purpose. Without express authority, a muni cipal corporation may not appropri ate the public revenues for celebra tions, entertainments &c. Such pow er can not be implied. (McQuillan Mu nicipal Ordinances. Sec. 69. 1 Allen Mass. Hood vis.. Lynn; Gerry vs. Stoneman, 1 Allen Mass. 319.) A municipal corporation can exer cise such powers only as are granted (Continued to Page Two.) Farewell to Mr. Reid. Daniel G. Reid passed through this city yesterday at 4:50 p. m. in his pri vaie car, on tram iNO. zu. Me was seen at the station by a number of his friends, who bade him farewell! as this will be his last trip west for some time. Mr. Reid went to Missou ri and Kansas after leaving here, last wees. ;

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ase Like Famous Charlie Ross Affair Ends in Favorable Manner.

ABDUCT0P. IS ARRESTED JOHN J. KEAN, WHO TOOK CHILD AWAY FROM HIS HOME AND CONFINED HIM IN EMPTY HOUSE, ONCE PROSPEROUS. f Publishers' Press Philadelphia, June IS. After a week's confinement in an untenanted house, subsisting on a bread and milk diet, and suffering from exposure, lit tle Freddie Muth, the seven-year-old boy who was abducted last Tuesday, was returned to his home. Columbus avenue this afternoon, Mayor Weaver and a number of city officials accom panying him to the door of a cab. In waiting at the City Hall, where they withdre) His abductor. John J. Kean, is in the city jail and his trial is to be rushed by the local authorities. ! Her nerves giving away under the severe strain and lack of sleep during the week in which her boy was missing, Mrs. Muth collapsed when' the news of his reoovery reached her.' Her hair in places has turned grey and she was but a shadow of her for J mer self. She was carried tenderly! to her bed, by Mr. Muth and the at tendants in the Muth store and re-. mained practically unconscious until a few minutes before Freddie's arrival, i Thousands of widely excited people. had congested about the house await-j ing the arrival of the police and the boy, and hearing their cheers as the carriage drove up in front of her homo' Mrs. Muth attempted to descend the' stairs and succeeded after some dlffi-' culty. It was ten minutes after four o'clock that the carriage bearing Freddie and his father dashed up to' the door. Jumping down hastily, tho driver threw open the door. The boy jumped out first, and with his school books grasped in one hand, ho ran to his mother, who caught him up in her arms, hugged him and kissed1 him, and then went with him inside., Mr. Muth was close at the hls of his son, and after he had passed in tho house, the doors were bolted, the cur tains drawn down and the family steadfastly refused to answer the re peated knocks or rings at the door bell. After Mr. Muth had taken Freddie! to his home, the lad told his parents of his experiences. He said: "After I had left school and had met the man who said mamma wad sick, he took me on a 15th street car.) 'Bear up, he said, 'Your mamma is very ill.' At Girard Avenue I got frightened and cried. . "The man took me off the car andi we took one on Girard avenue. Then we changed again, I don't know where, and finally got off. All the time he was telling me that we would' soon reach where mamma was. He took me to an empty house and kept me there that night. I cried, for I wanted papa and mamma. The man' went out and brought me some oysters and bread. It was very dark. I slept on an old overcoat. The man said, 'The cars are not running,', when, I asked him to take me home. , "Next day he went out. I went to the window and saw people looking, up at me. I tried to raise the wln-j dow, but could not. The man brought me more bread and oysters. "The.n he took me to the house next door, which also was empty. He kept moving from one house to another, as if people were after him. I cried, and cried, and then the police-! men came and got me." ' Credit for the recovery of the boy, who was brought from a supposedly: empty house at 425 North Sixty-SecJ ond street, is given to Special Officer, Claire, who has been working night and day on the case. The boy shows no ill effects from his imprisonment. 1 John J. Kean, the kidnapper otd little Freddie Muth, was once a prosperous broker, a man who was respected in the business world and! whose word would comnr.d a moderate amount of capital, until a few years ago. ; MAYOR WOT A SPENDER Two Ordinances Voting Money Wera Vetoed by Him One Passed Over His Mark However. Ordinances passed ?.t the council meeting two weeks ago, appropriating in one $100 for the benefit of the Richmond Art Exhibit and 50 for the expenses of the delegates to the Indiana Municipal League meeting, and In the other f 100 for a full page picture of the Municipal Light Plant in the Centennial Pictorial Souvenir, were presented again to council' last evening, each co'ntainmg the mayor's veto. By a vote of 8 to 2 the first ordinance was carried over the mayor's veto but the- second was lost by a vote of 6 to 4, a two-third vote being necessary. Under suspension of the rules an ordinance transferring $500 from the coal fund of the municipal light plant to the miscellaneous fund was carried.