Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 183, 30 July 1906 — Page 1

RICHMOND FA VOL. XXXI. NO. 183. Richmond, Indiana, Monday Morning, July 30, 1906. Single Copies, One Cent.

TE

PRAYER

THROUGH MAIL Richmond People Have Received Letters in the "Endless Chain" System. IS SAID TO BE A FRAUD EACH PERSON RECEIVING COPY OF PRAYER REQUESTED TO SEND IT TO NINE OTHERS. OR . SUFFER FOR NOT DOING SO. aij "endless chain" prayer, which had Its origin In some place unknown, but which Is reaching out all over the country, disturbing the peace of mind of many persons and thoroughly alarming those Inclined to be superstitious, has reached Indiana and hundreds of Richmond people are dally receiving letters embodying the prayer and strict injunction to obey the commands set forth. A majority of Richmond people who thus far have received the "endless chain" letters, have hastened to comfly with the reuest to "not break the chain." and should the letters multiply as fast in the next few days as they have during Saturday and Sunday, the letter carriers will bo burdened down. Here Is a verbatim cony of one of the letters received by a Richmond young woman yesterday: "Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, we Implore thee, Oh, Eternal God, to have mercy . on all mankind; Keep us from sin by thy precious blood, And take us to be with thee etternally. Amen. "This prayer was sent by Bishop Lawrence, recommending It to be sent to nine other persons. He who will not say this prayer will be afflicted with some misfortune. One person who paid no attention to it met with a dreadful accident. He who will re-wrlte this prayer and distribute It to nine other persons, commencing on the day It Is received, and sending out only one each "day, will, on or after the ninth day, experience great Joy. At Jerusalem, curing the "Holy Feast," It was said, "He who will re-wrlte this prayer will be delivered from every calamity." Please do not break the chain. Many Richmond recipients of. the letters have been sorely troubled as to what they should do. Some have already begun their replies; others have regarded the commands lightly and take the matter as a hoax, while others have turned tho 'letters over to ministers. Ohio recently was flooded with the letters and at Marysville, that 6tatc, a committee of ministers' Investigated and Issued a statement through the press. A Richmond man who learned that tho "endless chain" had reached here, yesterday cave to the Palladium a clipping from the Marysville Tribune of last Wednesday's issue, whlch throws some light on the matter. The satement issued by the committee of mlnlsers Is Included and Is as follows: "As the letter has a tendency to disturb many and is making its appearance so frequently in Marysville, the undersigned pastors feel it to be their duty to call attention to it In this public way. " "The Columbus DIspattch has, mado Jnveslgatlon and found that no Rishop Lawrence has ever authorized euch a letter in any way. Hence a part of it is a bare face falsehood. The rest of it Is hypocritical superstition. Who has the authority to tell any person that he will suffer some Kreat calamity if he refuse to pray a prayer he has dictated to him? That is what all are doing who rewrite this letter and send it out. Again, some who receive this letter will not be able physically to write the nine leters demanded on pain of calamity. Rut they have no excuse offered them and no pardon for neglect. They must or suffer. This we believe to bo the baldest superstition and gross wickedness. further, this letter makes this prayer and the re-writing of this "endless chain letter" a sort of charm. We believe prayer and the wuuio v milium mu in oe mnnuciy above such superstition as that. Teople who pray with that sort of feeling never got much benefit from it. Wo urge people therefore to have nothing to do with the spreading of this letter and we also take this opportunity of condemniung the whole system of "endless chain letters." Marshall Harrington. W. McK. Rrackney. PUT COLORING IN . MEATS Fort Wayne, Ind., July 29. (spl. On the strength of -an affidavit Hied byy Health Officer Rmggeman, the Kckhart Packing company and Henry F. Refnewald encred pleas of guilty to adulterating meat products, and they were each fined $11 hi Squire Tancey's court. This was accompanied by a pledge to obey the law against .adulteration and coloring in the future. Other prosecutions .will follow

THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA Fair Monday, warmer In central portion; Tuesday fair; variable winds. OHIO Fair Monday; Tuesday Fair, warmer; liflht to fresh west to northwest winds becoming variable. STILL FOLLOWING THEM SEEKING MRS.. ROOSEVELT Elizabeth Case Followed President and Mrs. Roosevelt to Church Notwithstanding That They Change Their Place of Worship. Publishers' Press! Oyster Ray, NY Y., July 29. President and Mrs. Roosevelt visited the Presbyterian church this morning to listen W an address delivered by Rev. Charles L. Thompson, secretary of the Presbyterian Hoard of Home Missions. The President and his wife are regular attendants at Christ episcopal church. Rev. Alex G. Russell, pastor of the Presbyterian church, conducted the services and announced that the offering would be devoted to the cause which Dr. Thompson represents. Another new worshiper at the Presbyterian church this morninng was Miss Elizabeth Case, or Esac. as she prefers to style herself, the mysterious woman who has .been mnkinnz ineffectual attempts to see Mrs. Roosevelt for the last three weeks. Miss Case took a pew in the rear of the church but made no effort to speak to either the President or his wife. A CROWD OF DADOES Goldie Kelly Ryder Arrested in Italian's Car in Pan Handle Yards. HER HUSBAND LOOKED ON WHILE HIS WIFE FURNISHED AMUSEMENT TO IGNORANT FOREIGNERS, IN ARMS OF ANOTHER HE APPLAUDED. Goldie Ryder, formerly Goldie Kel ly, now wife of Frank Ryder, and a well known police character, was tak en Into custody by the police yesterday afternoon, at an Italian sleeping car in the Pennsylvania yards, near Glen Miller. No charge was preferred against her and her case will be considered by the Prosecuting Attorney this morning. In a box car, surrounded by Italians. with her husband as one of the spectators, according to the police. Goldie Ryder hung in the arms of one of the swarthy sons, as he swung her in the maze of a Latin dance, to the music of an acordion. Liquid cries of praise and amusement sprang from the lips of the impetuous spectators as the American girl tripped the steps of the Southern dance and her husband looked on In silent approval. Up and down the two glided, the girl held tighter and tighter, her face flushed with the sentiment of the movement. Closer and closer she drew herself, abandoning all decency and respect for herself and for the husband who allowed the license of amusement to suffer his wife in the greedy arms of another. Officer Sutton had been watehine the affair and telephoned to Night-Sergeant of Police Betzold for orders. He was instructed to bring the girl to po lice headquarters regardless of the countenance lent the affair by the presence of the woman's husband. Both Ryder and his wife, who is a very attractive little woman, have figured in various police scenes. Both have served time for various offenses and once Mrs. Ryder broke from the Home for Friendless Women where she was being confined on a charge of contempt of court. The nolice are stirred un over the case, and Sergeant Retzold says that it was the farthest thought beyond his imagination that any woman, let alone an American, could allow herself to furnish amusement to a crowd of ignorant foreigners. CIRCUS 'RUBE' BADLY HURT Rider in Robinson's Hippodrame In Serious Condition Lost All His Teeth. rPubllshers' Pressl Winchester, Ind.. July 29. (Spl.) While in one of the races at John Robinson's circus, Martin Green, 35, who was playing the part of a reuben. struck a teut pole and was knocked from his horse. There were three in the race and the other two men envded h'IU to close to the poles. All his teeth were knocked out, his skull fractured and he received a broken knee.

DANCED

DEATH SUMMONS MARTIN CULL 51011

Suffering from Partial Stroke of Paralysis He Died at Indianapolis. WAS A PROMINENT MASON BODY WILL BE BROUGHT TO THIS CITY WEDNESDAY WHERE IT WILL BE PLACED IN VAULT TEMPORARILY. Word was received here last night of the death of Martin Cullaton, formerly a well known resident of this city. Mr. Cullaton died at eight o'clock last evening in a hospital at Indianapolis. Friday, while at the home of his son, Mark, he slipped and fell, injuring his spine in such a manner as to cause partial paralysis. He was removed to a hospital, but owing to his enfeebled condition and advanced age he grew steadily worse and death came to his suffering. Mr. Cullaton formerly owned the M. Cullaton Printing and Book Binding plant, which was located on North 9th street. A few years ago he retired from the business and after a short residence here, moved to Indianapolis where his son now has employment as a printer. During the past year, Mr. Cullaton' shealth had not iermitted him to do much work. The deceased was one of the most prominent Masons in the State. He was for many years Master of the Richmond lodge of Masons and was a member of the Richmond Commandpry and the Royal Arch Masons. The body will be brought here Wednesday and be placed In the vault at Earlham. Services which will be held later in the week will be conducted by the Masonic fraternity. Game Postponed. The ball game between the newspaper men and the City Hall attaches which was scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until Wednesday owing to the fact that several of the players could not play on the date first arranged. T WILL RESIST THE WHITES Red Skins in Oklahoma Have Organized with "Crazy Snake" as Their Lender Keep Whites off Their Lands and Preserve Customs. Publishers' Pi-essJ Guthrie, O. T., July 29. Five thousand Snake Indians in Indian Territory have formed a government of their own for the purpose of resisting encroachment of whites on their lands. A full quota of officers has been elect ed, the main purpose being to save the old Indian customs from civilization. The leader is "Crazy Snake," who has several times led revolutions against the federal government DD. WM. T. HARRIS GETS HIGH REWARD Ex-Commissioner of Education to Receive Carnegie Pensions of $3,000. THE LARGEST YET MADE SPLENDID MAN WHO HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR EDUCATION JS RECIPIENT OF MANY CONGRATULATORY LETTERS. IPublishors' Tress Washington, July 29 Dr. William T. Harris, ex-commissioner of education has the honor of being the first American educator to be selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive the highest retiring allowance, an annual income of $3,000 for meritorious service in the cause of education. While the tender of the annuity and its acceptance was made two months ago, before Dr. Harris sent in his resignation as commissioner of education, he has only now decided to give out the correspondence. Since making the proffer to Dr. Harris, the Carnegie Foundation has made several other allowances, but that to the ex-commissioner remains the first and highest. Dr. Harris is the recipient of a large number of letters from educators and friends who congratulate him and the Foundation upon the initial recognition of one who for so many years has been foremost ia the cause of education.

GOVERNMEN

ASK REMOVAL OF ALLEN

WORK IS UNSATISFACTORY Patent Attorneys Will Send Delegation to Wait on Roosevelt in Regard to Unbusinesslike Methods in Patent Office. Publishers' Press Washington, July 29. Patent attorneys throughout the country are arranging to send a delegation to see President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, and request him to either rejaove Commissioner Allen or cause such change in methods that will place the patent office on a satisfactory basis. The work of the patent office, attorneys declare, has been running behind since the appointment of Mr. Allen, five years ago. There are now 23,022 applications for patents unacted upon. FUST TRAIN GOES . OVER EMBANKMENT New YorK Central Train'in Bad Wreck and Seven Are Already Dead. ENGINE JUMPED TRACK ALL DAY COACHES WERE DRAGGED DOWN THE RIVER BANK BUT THE PULLMANS REMAINED ON THE TRACK. tPublishers' Press! Newburg, N. Y., July 23 Extra passenger train No. 37 on the New York Central loaded with, excursionists from the seashore, jumped the track -while going at a high rate, near Chelsea, opposite this city tonight. The engine and day coaches toppled over the embankment into the river. Seven persons were killed, and all passengers mostly women and children in day coaches were injured. The train was the Pacific Express westbound out of New York to Chicago on time at 9:30 P. JM.. due in Poughkeepsie at 11:35 P. M. It passed Fishkill Landing some minutes late. Owing to the heavy load and the slippery rails the train was not able to keep its schedule. When passing Chelsea the enginne for some unknown reason jumped the track, dragging with it the baggage asd all coaches in front of the Pullmans. The sleepers were not. derailed and their occupants escaped injury. The engineer, fireman, baggage master and four passengers were killed instantly. ADVANCE IS MADE IN PORK PRICES Kansas City Butchers Are Notified of Most Sweeping Advance in Years. THE HAND OF A COMBINE NOTWITHSTANDING THAT LIVE STOCK MARKET REMAINS THE SAME, BUTCHERED PRODUCTS GO UP SEVERAL CENTS. I Publishers' Press Kansas City, Mo., July 29. Kansas City butchers have been notified of an advance in the prices of pork and pork products that are more sweeping than any that have been made in a lon time. The prices will take effect Monday and they will be the highest in twenty years. Meat has been advancing in price all the summer. Tork has advanced particularly. Fresh pork has -been sold wholesale at eleven and one half to twelve cents a pound to the heavier buyers. Beginning tomorrow the price wilt be thirteen and one half cents and it is to be maintained by all the packing companies, according to information received by the butchers. Mutton sold in carcass at seven and one half cents a pound last week. Tomorrow the price will be ten cents a pound. Lamb sold at eight cents, a pound last week and is to bring ten cents beginning tomorrow. Since April the wholesale prices of ham have advanced from to bacon from ll's to 17. boiled ham 15 to 2 Hi cents. There has been practically no advance in the live stock market i;ing the summer.

REV. 0. M. FRAZER ' GIVES UP PLACE

Abides by Decision of Pastoral Committee and Prevents Trouble in Church. AN INTERESTING SESSION WHITEWATER FRIENDS ASK COMMITTEE TO EXPLAIN ACTIONS, BUT THEY DO NOT DO SO A RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. The membership of the Whitewater Friends church was nearly all present yesterday morning to consider the recall of their pastor, the Rev. Oliver M. Frazer, whom the pastoral committee had held to be unqualified to continue longer ia charge of the church, on account of what they termed his unsound doctrine. The meeting was an interesting one, and had it not been for the diplomacy of the young minister, a serious split between the congregation and the pastoral committee might have occurred. Tho committee did not set forth in, what particular the doctrine of the Rev. Mr. Frazer was unsound and it was this point which angered the congregation. The pastor, however, ended what promised to be a war of words between members of the church, and accepting the decision of the committee and announcing that he would preach his farewell sermon August 12. The Situation Analyzed. The situation seems to be as follows: It is known that the pastoral committee has . based its action on the alleged unsoundness of the pastor, of which they absolutely refuse to make any statement or any explanation to the congregation, or to take the matter up in the disciplinary manner. The questions involved are two; first the question of Congregational Government, whether an official action of the Pastoral Committee of a congregation shall be passed upon by the congregation before becoming final, or the power of the committee be considered absolute in the congregation. The second question Is that of dealing with a minister: In this case the pastor has been adjudged unsound in doctrine, and has been virtually dismissed on such basis. In this action the discipline and the congregation have been ignored. The discipline of the Friends is explicit in its statement that in case a minister is judged to be unsound the Pastoral Committee shall take the matter up In the local monthly meeting of ministry and oversight. It is known that the Pastoral Committee who have given Mr. Frazer such summary treatment, are not in sympathy with the movement in the church represented by Earlham College and the American Friend. Roughly speaking, this is apparently a representative struggle, which is wide-spread in the Friends' Church at the present time. It is a reconstruction period, in which the original conceptions of the church are being worked out, and the expunging of non-Quaker doctrines, which have been assimilated In the late revival period of the church. It is believed that out of the period of reconstruction is coming a new awakening of the Friends' church. EAGLES ARE AHEAD ON THE CARNIVAL Notwithstanding Two Bad Nights There Will be Balance in the Treasury. DISAPPOINTED SOMEWHAT EAGLES DID NOT BARGAIN FOR SUCH TAME EXHIBITIONS AS MANY OF THE MOVING PICTURE SHOWS. Saturday night closed the first Carnival held under the auspices of the Wayne Areia of Eagles 666. Although they had two bad nights to contend with, it Is stated that they axe financially successful. The lights went out on them one evening which served to lower the show receipts and Saturday night it rained which seriously impaired the gate receipts, but the favorable conditions existing at other times brought them through, bright and shining. One of the members of the executive committee stated yesterday that although the shows were up to the contract and along the lines set forth by the company, they were a little disappointed in several of them. They did not bargain for such tame shows as the moving picture exhibitions. The Eagles have no plans for a carnival to be given next year. The Druids will give a street carnival this fall.

HAD A VIOLENT STORM

Paterson, New Jersey. Swept by Wind and Hundreds of Dollars Worth of Damage Is Done. Publishers" Tress Pater-son. N. J.. July 29. A violent electrical storm, accompanied by high wind, which struck this city this afternoon, caused hundreds of dollars damage. .Chimneys and trees were blown down in all quarters and several persons had narrow escapes. WINCHESTERS NEW DEPOT TO BE A FINE STRUCTURE Big Four Will Erect a Station There Which will be a Credit to the City A train shed Will Extend over the Main Track. Winchester,, Ind., July 2.l. (Spl.) The new depot that will be built here by the Big Four will be one of the finest stations along their line. The structure will be ninety feet long and twenty-two feet wide, and will include a train shed, which will extend over the main track. A basement will be placed underneath most of the building. There will be a general waiting room, with separate rooms for the men and women. ,vse rooms will bo furnished with modern furniture and the walls will be artistically frescoed. The ticket office will be located at the west end of the general waiting room. This office is to be fifteen feet and six inches by sixteen feet. The baggage room, v.ich will be at the west end will be ienteen feet and sixteen inches by eighteen leet and will have a concrete floor. IT'S F, SAYS SEN. WARREN Wyoming Law Maker Says indianian Will Head the Republican Ticket. HE HAS BEEN ON A TRIP THINKS THAT ROOSEVELT WILL NOT ACCEPT ANOTHER TERM AND COUNTS CANNON AND TAFT OUT OF RUNNING. Publishers' Press! Washington, July 29. After a brief trip west, Senator Warren of Wyoming, has returned to this city and predicts that Vice-President Fairbanks will be in the Republican race for the presidency. Roosevelt, he declares, will not accept another term; Taft and Cannon are out of the running, while Foraker is a possibility. After asserting his belief that the president meant what he said when he announced that he would not again be a candidate, the senator said: "Furthermore, I believe the people will realize that notwithstanding the great popularity of the president and their great love and admiration for him, they cannot afford to change their unwritten law of terms. Of course, the president really has had but one full term." In speaking of Mr. Fairbanks, the Senator saids "There is nothing onl earth against Vice-President Fairbanks; he is competent in every way. The question probably will arise between now and the day of the nominating convention whether the country will continue in the direction of radic al legislation and administration or whether the pendulum will swing back towards a pronouncedly conservative candidate. In the latter case VicePresident Fairbanks would certainly be at the head n" the list." WAS AN IDEAL WEEK Only One Day Last Week Did the Thermometer Climb to the Dreaded Ninety Degrees. The weather record kept at the water wofks pumping station for the week ending Saturday evening six o'clock, shows the past seven days to have been a period of almost ideal summer weather. There was no temperature above 90 and it was only the high mark one day. Rain fell Monday, there being over an inch of it. The rain last Saturday night is not included in the record. The figures follow : High. Low. July 22 84 66 July 23 78 64 July 24 80 49 July 25 82 50 July 26. 86 51 July 27 .. .. 88 ,57 July 28 90 43

LOSE LIVES IN SEVERE SQUALL Fishing Sloops are Caught Off New Jersey Coast in a , Terrific Wind. THE NORA TURNED OVER SEVEN PERSONS ON BOARD HER WENT DOWN TO A WATERY GRAVE WHILE THE OTHRS WERE RESCUED. t Publishers' Press, Anglesea, .V. J., July 29. As the result of a severe squall which swept over the Capo May Peninsula this afternoon fifteen lives were lost and the sloop yacht Nora. Captain Herbert Shiver, of Philadelphia, and the Alvin H.. Captain Samuel Hunch, the latter owned by K. I. Hoi man. the Pottsville. Pa., lawyer, were wrecked, while nlnteen persons were rescued in a more or less exhausted condition by Captain Henry S. Ludlam. of the Hereford Inlet life saving station, the crew of the yacht Violet and the steamers Ocean City and Isrella. On board the Norn was a partv of thirty Philadelphia fishermen and her crew of three. Captain Shiver, seeing that it was becoming to .rough to stay outside, started in to Grassy Sound. While crossing the Hereford bar, a scuall strrck the sloop which was proceeding under gasoline and sail power, veered her around and turned her completely over. All ol the party aboard were caught un der her, but many of them managed to cling to the wreckage until Captain Ludlam and his volunteer crew and the yacht Violet reached the scene. They found Captain Shiver swimming around in the water trying to get those who had nothing to cling to back op the wreckage. Seventeen men. all of Philadelphia and Captain Shiver, were picked up by the life savers and the crew of the Violet. Captain Lilly. which yacht steamed un to the scene and took aboard the survivors as rapidly as possible. Scarcely half an hour after the Nora capsized the Alvln IJ., which also had on board a party of fishermen, friends of Attorney Holman. also tried to nut into the inlet 'and was struck by a squall and capsized. The accident was seen by the commanding officers of the Ocean City and Isrella and they put out to the capsized craft. Eleven persons were rescued, one, whose identity has not yet been established being swept under bv the whirling waves and drowned. All of the others were brought ashore and cared for. Coroner Thompson of Cape May, after an exhausttlve investigation of the wreck of the yacht Nora stated just before midnight tonight that only seven lives were lost in the wreck of the Nora. All of the others were rescued by the life savers, but owing to the fact that some of ihem were not Immediately landed the earlier death list was larger than it really was. The , drowned were: Fred Fischer, Roxborough, Pa. Herbert Hammel, Lansdale, Pa. Walter Snyder, 15 South Salford street, Philadelphia. ' Griffith ""Williams, 1240 Point Breeze, Philadelphia. J. Star key, 2346 North 26th street, Philadelphia. Unidentified man. Missing: Samuel Lodnard. Woodbury, N. J. Drowned from the Alvin B., John Fogarty, Haverford, Pa. T IS HAWLEY AND GREEN WIN First Match is Played on Country Club Courts Three Matches Are Scheduled for thii Afternoon Are Now 16 Teams in Doubles. In the opening snatch of the city tennis tournament played Saturday afternoon, at the Country Club, C. Green and Hawley defeated G. Nixon and P. Davis 7-4; 2-6 and 7-5. The tournament started off well, the teams in the first match showing about equal abifity. Mr. Davis played under a dissdvantage, having a new racquet. Ha may be depended on to play a mucb , better game in the consolation doMei and in the singles. Other machee in the tournament will be playei thit afternoon. Those who will play today are: Wiggins and Gardner vs. J. Harrington and E. Wilson; Jenbns and Herbert vs. Bartel and Wdchman; Hamilton and Reller vs. C.tes and Starr. It has been decidec to allow another team to enter, makftg sixteen clubs and ight matches fa the qualifying rounds, thus allowitf? Hill and Thornburg to play on thefirst round. Hill and Thornburg will fleet Meyerg and Bond probably Tuesy. Made Norther Trip. W. J. Phillips, the "bug man" at Rattliff's farm west oftbe city has retturned from a rip trough the nortU eastern part of the iate.

MANY

URNAMENT

OPENED