Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 206, 23 August 1906 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAI ABIXJM, VOL. XXXI. NO. 206, Richmond, Indiana, Thursday Morning, August 23, 1906. Single Copies, One Cent. CONGRESSMEN ARE BRANDED BY LABOR TE CITY STENSLAND BANK WRECKER ARRESTED THE WEATHER PROPHET OHIO AND INDIANA Showers Thursday and Friday, cooler in N READINESS north portion Thursday; cooler Friday; variable winds.

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e,jStand of National Legators on Labor Bills Being Ascertained.

WATSON LABOR'S FRIEND AMERICAN FEDERATION IS SATISFIED WITH THE WORK HE HAS DONE FOR IT GOMPERS' EDITORIAL. Publishers Press Washington, Aug. 22. Organized labor is busily engaged In placing the union label on senators and congressmen. While Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor is stumping Maine in opposition to the reelection of Representative Littlefield, the, great force of clerks at the Federation headquarters here, is -working overtime in editing and reading proofs of spicy political flatter, that will appear in the forthcoming number of the American Federationist,. the official organ. . This is to be published with editorial comments, the replies of a large .number of congressmen to the request ef the Federation for a definition of their views upon the elaborate program of legislation, which organized labor presented to Speaker Cannon and President Roosevelt in March. Many of the responses will be published without comment. Those upon whom' it was today exclusively announced io the Publishers Press that the brand had been placed, the the following: Representative J. M. Griggs, of Georgia, chairman of the democratic congressional committee O. K. Senator Charles Dick of Ohio evasive. Representalive Richard Bartholdt, of Missouri. (Rep.) enigmatical. , Representative J. E. Andrus, of New York, (Rep.) not satisfying. Representative W. S. Bennett of New York, (Rep.) enigmatical. Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri, (Dem.) O. K. Representative H. II. Bingham of Pennsylvania, (Rep.) enigmatical Representative Frank Clark, of Florida, (Dem.) erroneous beliefs Representative D .E. Finlej', South Carolina, (Dem.) not fully defined Representative W. M. Calder, of Nek York, (Rep.) enigmatical. Representative J. C. Chaney, of In diana, (P.n.) doubtful. Representative Charles Curtis, Kansas, (Rep.) enigmatical. Representative John Gill, Jr., Maryland, (Dem.) satisfying. Representative II. A. Cooper, of of of Wisconsin, (Rep.) against goven ment by injunction Representative D. L. Grange, of Rhode Island, (Dem.)--not entirely in accord on Chinese exclusion. Representative E. D. Crumpacker, Df Indiana, (Rep.) hostile. Satisfactory statements without comment: (Rep.) Minn.; Lincoln cfcfcmfwcw Representative C. B. Buckman, (Rep.) Minn.; Lincoln Dixon, (Dem.) Ind.; J. J. Fitzgerald, (Dem.) N. Y.; A. B. Capron, (Rep.) R. I.; D. E. Finley, (Dem.) S. C; C. L. Bartlett, ; (Dem .) Georgia; Jack Beall, (Dem.) ' Texas; E. J. Bowers. (Dem.) Miss.; i G. F. Burgess, (Dem.) Texas.. Editorially, Mr. Gompers says "all will understand that he who is not with us is against us." AFTER A STATE OFFICE N. I Piotrowski, Husband of a Richmond Woman, Nominated by Democrats for Treasurer. Nikodem L. Piotrowski. a wellknown Chicago lawyer who was nominated by the Democrats of Illinois for State Treasurer, is well known in this city. His wife wa3 formerly Miss Theresa Maag. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Maag. of South 7th street. Mr. Piotrowski came to this country from Poland and has made rapid strides in the legal profession. ,JTor a period of four e$?r" fhalf years he was assistant corporatioti3uttorney of Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison. DREW A BUTCHER KNIFE Strange Actions of a Man Who Was a Passenger on an Interurban Car, Cause His Arrest. Caranriage City, Aug. 22. (spi) A man, who would not give his uarae, residence or destination, caused a siir of excitement on an interurban t:ir yesterday afternoon. It is alleged that he was drunk and had nffpr-i n piece of candy to a little boy sitting on his moher's lap in the opposite seat The mother snatched the candy out of his and threw it out of me w;nuov.. ine man oecame angry at this and drawing a vicious looking butcher knife paced up and down the aisle of the car. At Centerville the conductor telephoned here for aid and when the car arrived the man was arrested.

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BY STATE CHEMIST An Investigation Looking into! the Purity of Richmond's Water Supply. DR. DAVIS' STATEMENT SAYS THAT CLAIM OF TYPHOID FEVER LOCALLY IS NOT WELL FOUNDED AN ANALYSIS OF THE WATER PARTIALLY COM PLETED. "Prof. Barnard, State Chemist, has been invited by the Richmond Water Company and by myself as a member of the State Board of Health, to come to Richmond and make a sanitary survey of the watersheds of the city." Dr. T. Henry Davis, to the Palladium. The present agitation relative to the epidemic of sickness that has ap peared in Richmond this summer, and which nrohnhlv has afflicted between 100 and 200 persons, has resulted in snmfi mixtion as tn whpthpr the water supplied by the Richmond Water Company is in any way responsible. There were opinions expressed that tne disease wmcn naa aitiictea many Richmond people, migh be typhoid fever in miM torm, tnougn it was generally characterized as "summer grip, tor want or a netier name because oi me ia uiui it nau ut?u i . , , ivf " ij puuiu lever, iuts cause, it cis uaiurallv inferred, must be traced to the water, and Dr. Davis, as president of the State Board of Health, has at intervals during the past or so. sent samples of the city water to the State Cnemist for analysis. Dr. uavis said to the Palladium last night: "The :eyidenitc of sickness in Richmond is not typhoid fever in the opinion oi me pnysicians. .None nas so diagnosed it. I nave taiKea wnn ur. Weist, Dr. Wampler, Dr. Marvel, Dr. Charles S. Bond, and other physicians and all of them stated to me that the disease was not typhoid fever and did not resemble it. Of the sam ples of the city water that I sent to the state chemist for analysis, the last two have not been reported up on, but on those that have been reported upon, a great difference in the character of the water, is noted by the chemist, some good and some bad, but the chemist declared also that none of the samples of water tested r U I When asked by me whether there was any occasion for the Richmond people to feel alarmed over the condition of lilt; Wiiiei, ue dctiu triiiiJinLiv;ciii j uu, at least not until he had completed i-i t : .1 i, till I the tests of all samples sent him Prof. Barnard has been invited by the Richmond Water Company and by mvRPlf. TTiMtihPr of the state f ,J to date no occasion for alarm among " I H1C VllltUO. II. IO All 1 'V- 1 OWUCli VUlli I ion that the sickness . which has af flicted so many persons has been brought on by the excessively hot ( days, the cool nights and irregular diet, a sufficient combination to cause the disturbances without reference to the water." BLOOMING OF A CEREUS WAS BEAUTIFUL SIGHT Plant at Home of Dr. and Mrs. c S. Wilson, Gave Forth Nine Magnificent Blooms Last Night and Many Persons Called to View Them. Many persons were attracted to the home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Wilson, 115 South 14th street, last evening, to look upon the blooming of a Cereus plant, which twines around one of the porch posts. It is peculiar of these plants, which are of the cactus species, that they bloom only after they are five years old and then at night only. The blooms before bursting are conical in shape with the petals twined around each other, and as the evening advances the white of the inner blossom forces its waythrough the petals until the flower attains its glory it long slender satinpetals and intricate inner organism. The odor is heavy, and is suggestive of the Magnolia bloom. Mrs. Wilson started the growth of il. - t A 1. J. A X I"-"" -vt'lrs ago u puiting a Cereus leaf into some soil. The plant flourished and last night it boro eight large blooms. One bud !ha(1 m)t - ,t expecteii jthat it wi1 come out tonight. The plant bloomed once before about five weeks ago, when it carried four blossoms. The blossoms come to their best about midnight .after which time they gradually wilt until day, when they are but a withered narody of their regal night beauty.

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Invade Beautiful Glen Miller Park Today,. SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY PROGRAM OF INTEREST WILLI TAKE PLACE THIS AFTER NOONNO ADMISSION WILL BE CHARGED TO GROUNDS, The White City is in readiness for the reception of the advance guard of Richmond's fourth annual Chau tauqua. Nearly 300 canvas houses will be the homes of several hundred Rich mond people from now until Septem ber C. The first campers will move to the beautiful Glen this morning and until darkness tonight the work of arranging the temporary abodes will be the all absorbing duty. Only a prolonged siege of bad weather can prevent this year's Chautauqua from being a success, j Col. James Shaw, will be on hands to see that the opening of the formal program tomorrow starts off accord ing to schedule and up to last even ing there had been no word received from any of the speakers that they will be unable to fill their dates. There is therefore, every reason to expect that the entire Chautauqua program will be carried out in every detail as prepared Tetrauq Quartet to Play The Tetrauq Concert Quartet has been engaged by the Chautauqua management to play each forenoon, beginning Monday and continuing to th coge f tn Chautauqua. This ,m be ,endid feature of the morn ing sessions and was only arranged last vening ' Sunday School Rally Today, , As a preliminary event to the Chau tauqua proper, the Sunday School rally will be held today. The arrangements for this are complete and the plans have been carried out successfully by various Sunday school workers particularly Prof. Fiske, Ed. J Humpe and Lee B. Nusbaum. The program will be as follows: Song Choir and Congregation. Invocation Dr. C. Huber. Anthem Choir. Address Dr. H. M. Hamill, O' Nashville, Tenn. Anthem Choir. The City Sunday School Associa tion Dr. S. R. Lyons. " Song Choir and Congregation. Benediction Rev. J. O. Campbell. There will be no admission charg1 r. ,1 1. J! ... " .j. cu siuunus iouay ana tne general public is cordially invited to atI Athletics at Chautauqua. Arrangements have been made for j athleti rontests nt thp ntao niqua J ' w ..".t.. grounds Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. The affair will be under the auspies of the Association and in charge of Professors Heironimus and Brunson. of Garfield school I The contest Is expected to Drove a very popular one. Bovs under ifi and others under 13 will be nermitPrf tn i ... 1 compete. iso admission to the erounds will be chare-pd - - n - - vuvwhj. i A IlSt Of first CPr-nr. ot wvuuu aim i 1111 vi prizes have been procured by the Association, and will be awarded the place winners Following is a list of events that will go to make up the program: Short dashes, potato race, sack race, three-legged' race, coat race, shoe race, stick the peg, put the shot, and others. Robert Ferriday to Leave. Robert Ferriday, engineer of the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania, lines, has resigned and on September 1, will become engineer of the Cairo diviison of the Big Four, with headquarters at Cairo, I1L Guy Scott engineer of the Marietta division of the Pennsylvania lines, will succeed Mr. Ferriday here. DELAY WAS HOT UNDUE PRINTERS ARE ACQUITTED Senate Committee on Printing Finds that the Preparation of Certain Bills During Last Session Was Prompt Enough. Publishers' Fressj Washington, Aug. 'sz. The government printing otfice is acquitted on the charge of undue delay in sending final prints of bills to congress in the last end of the recent session. An inquiry into the causes of delay was made by the senate committee on printing, and its report was made publie. The inquiry had especial reference to the general deficiency appropriation bill and -be omnibus public building bill. Thu conclusion reached was that the mount of time consumed in handlii g these two measures was "not unreasonable, but ratJier positively expeditious.

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1 .12. It . Snapshot of things that never BAGGAGE RULE HOW EFFECTIVE "Tp g LOCal IflterUrban Off IC6 Receives Copy of the Order of Company. ON STEAM ROAD BASIS oiii cc Donvinr cnn tup Pbff HANDLING OF BAGGAGE BY ALL THE SO-CALLED MERGER LINES. The local interurban office has rerpivprt the new baesraeerules just promuigated by the traffic department of i.1 .!! T ? j. . . i I uie iraciion syndicate represented in Indiana by Hugh J. McGowan,- and in Ohio by W. Kesley Schoepf. They provide for the free handling of baggage by all the so-called merger lines in the two states. Heretofore a charge was made for all baggage ex. cept that carried by hand. Tnis change is in keeping with oth ers recently made by traction mana pflrc a I f irr Li n o trt t n o I o Pin c gkT r no , w fc" . T , , j , , , , , 1 ""o" nvn-cco maj lxkj v, ! from almost any point in Indiana to almost any point in Ohio and the holder of a through ticket may now check his baggage through without cost. The syndicate lines in Indiana adopting the rule embrace the Indiana Union Traction, Indianapolis & Northwestern, Indianapolis & Eastern, Indianapolis & Martinsville. Richmond Street & Interurban, Muncie, Hartford & Ft. Wayne and Indianapo lis Coal Traction, the line to Plainfield; and the Ohio lines embrace the Columbus, Newark & Zanesville, Urbana, Bellefontaine & Northern, Columbus, Buckeye Lake & Newark, Co lumbus, London & Springfield, Dayton Springfield & Urbana, Cincinnati Northern, Lima & Toledo, Cincinnati Interurban and the Columbus & Lake Michigan railroad. MISS FIELDS TO GO EAST Salvation Army Cadet is to Begin a Course in the Army Training School in New York. Miss Nellie Fields a cadet In the Salvation army who was formerly lo cated in this city, but who for the past two months has been stationed at Logansport will leave this afternoon for New York where she will take a six months course in the Salvation Army training school located in that city, to prepare her for a Captaincy in the Army. Miss Fields will be sent to New York through the generosity of many friends in this city. She made a good record while here and her friends thought that she should be prepared for a Captaincy, hence the sending of her to New York. Miss Field has been, in the city since Monday visiting friends, prior to her departure East. After she has taken the required six months course in the training school at New York she will, be assigned to duty as captain. - .

SUMMER DREAMS happened during the summer. WAS FINED FOR ASSAULT A JAIL SENTENCE ADDED George Dunlap, of Centerville, Con victed of Assault and Battery Up on Marcellus Beitzell -Case Heard Before Judge Converse Yesterday. George Dunlap of Centerville, was fined $25 and costs, given 25 days in jail and placed under a $200 peace bond fqr the next six months, upon being convicted of assault and battery on Marcellus Beitzel, of Centerville. The case was heard in the city court yesterday afternoon. Dunlap hit Beitzel on the side of the head with a leather covered steej cane, while the latter was standing on the sidewalk near the new park at Centerville Tuesday afternoon. No defense was offered by Beitzel and only the one blow, which cut a gash about three-quarters of an inch Lng and three inches above the ear, laud ed with, injury as Beitzel warded the second off by throwing up his arm. . The assault, it is said, had its ori gin in an ill feeling that has existed between the two for several years, the enmity of Dunlap evidently being deep seated. Both men are well known and both are Civil War veterans. The case attracted much interest and there were a number of witnesses from Centerville. THAW'S DEFENSE DECIDED IS EMOTIONAL INSANITY Attorneys Reach Decision After Visit of Alienists to the Tombs, Where Prisoner is Confined His Wife Chief Witness. .Publishers Press! New York, Aug. 22. A decision was reached by the attorneys for Harry. K. Thaw that Thaw's defense to the charge of killing Stanford White will bq a plea of emotional insanity. This will include as a part of the defense the declaration that Thaw's insanity existed until after White was killed. End that Thaw is now sane again and has been since the killing. The decision to make this plea was reached after the reports of two alienists who visited Thaw in the Tombs. It was decided also that Mrs. Harry K. Thaw will be the chief witness of the defense in Its effort to prove that Thaw was insane when he killed White. PARSONAGE NOT SECURED Reid Memorial Congregation Has Not Come to Definite Conclusion Relative to Home for Pastor As yet no arrangements have bef n made for a new parsonage for the Rev. Dr. Lyons, pastor of Reid Memorial church. According to the contract with the United Brethren people the present parsonage has to be vacated by the first of September, when the pastor of that congregation will occupy it. The committee who has the arrangement in charge at the Memorial church have as yet come to no conclusion as to what manner of f a parsonage they wiJJ secure for Dr. j LyonsI

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DlDMOTTAKfeATf ICEr NEWEST THEORY III SCHOOL WORK The State Superintendent, Cotton Issues Manual of General Interest. USE OF NEW TEXT BOOKS COURSE OF STUDY IS SUBSTAN TIALLY THE SAME AS LAST YEAR BRINGING SUBJECTS CLOSE TO CHILD. At the sessions of the Wavne County Teachers' Association to be held in conjunction with the Richmond Chautauqua during next week, there will be 'no business transacted, all matters of a business character to go over to the October session. It is likely, however, that the teachers will informally discuss among themselves many subjects that one just at present agitating the minds of school pa trons. The new manual issued by I State Superintendent Cotton will come in for attention as copies of. the manual have already reached the hands of Wayne County teachers. The state superintendent discusses the new text-books, recently adopted This discussion is new. The course of study is substantially the same as that of last year. In the "Outline of Township Institute Work," also just issued, the State Superintendent emphasizes again the necessity of making the school work correlate with the life of the community in which the children live. On this point Mr. Cotton says: "Every subject taught must be brought just as close as possible to the child. It must be taught in terms of the child's experience. The dominant interest in the community will determine the terms to be used. In a rural community it is agriculture. In other communities it may be some phase of mining or manufacture or commerce. The child's interest may be measured by the activity he puts forth. The healthy child must be do ing something. "Busy Work" Criminal. "If the teacher doe3 not employ all his energy he will use the surplus upon side lines of hi3 own. It is essential that the work be genuine and that it test the full creative activity of the -child. Mere "busy work," that is, work to keep the children quiet, is criminal. The child must be doing something that is vorth while. Here may be found unanswerable arguments for all phases of hand work which can be used in the schools. It is not necessary to retort to the commercial argument when the educative value of such work is so apparent. And there Is not a subject in the course which can not be made richer and more Interesting and more effective by bringing to bear upon It the everyday experience of the child. It is the only wv je child has to in-

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Heartless Absconder of Chicago Is at Last in Hands of Authorities.

SAID TO BE ACROSS OCEAN SECRETARY KIRKEBY OF DEFUNCT BAND SAYS HE IS CERTAIN OF ARREST BUT WON'T DISCLOSE THE PLACE. If uMIshers prssl Chicago, August 22. Paul O. Stensland Is in custody. He will be brought to Chicago within a- short time. He was captured across tha ocean." This statement was made this afternoon by Marlus Kirkeby, secretary of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. He left a meeting in President Forgan's offices in the First National Bank to make the announcement. "The directors have just subscribed $1,000 to have the fugitive brought back here. Secrecy as to th place of capture has been demanded by the detective agency that followed Stensland. I can say, however, that he is not in America, not in Mexico or in the Canadian northwest. He was captured across the ocean." "Is your information cerain? Have you confidence in it?" he was asked. We are absolutely positive that Stensland is under arrest. We know that he will be here within a short time as possible." "The police are looking for him In Mexico. Is that not where he is?" "lie Is not in Mexico. He is across the water." "Do the police know where he is? "Im not sure. The information came direct to us from private detec tives. "We have forwarded $1,000 to have the man brought here. This 1 p!1 that I am at Liberty to say. I authorized the statement that Stensland is In custody. Meantime the police believe that a man arrested In Aguas Calientes Mexico is Stensland. STILL FIGHTING WITH HONORS EVEII Government Troops and In surgents Clash at Little Town of San Luis. EFFORT TO STOP FIGHTING VETERANS OF THE WAR OF LIB ERATION MEET TO DEVISE PLANS TO STOP ANY FURTHER BLOODSHED. I Publishers Press J Havana, Aug. 22. In a battle today between the government troops and those of the insurgents, at the town of San Luis, In the province of Pian Del Rio, the government . troops were slightly defeated from a strategic standpoint. In an attack upon the insurgents the two sections of the government troops became separated and one small force of thirty men attacked the complete insurgent force under Querias, of three hundred and were badly defeated. In a later engagement between the larger section cf , the government forces and the main division of the insurgents the state troops, put the Insurgents to route, who retired tb San Luis, the town which they had captured in the first engagement. Veterans of the war of the Libera tion met in Havana tonight in order to devise ways and means to stop the war without further bloodshed. Those veterans of the rank of "General" and "Colonel" were appointed members of a committee to consult with the other veterans and authorities as to the best way to acquire the results. It Is insistently reported in Havana tonight that Canderas operating in the South, has been severely wounded in the shoulder with a machine gun, and that his party is aJ most disbanded. CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED At the session of the Board of Public Works yesterday, Henry Nolte was awarded the contract for the improvement of North V street, from ICth to 19th, by grading, graveling bowldering. The bid was $2.29 per lineal foot. John F. Cronin was awarded the contract for improving both sides of North 12th street. Ili3 bid for cement walks and gutters was $1.65 and for sewer $1.18 per lineal foot. The Board approved the primary assessment roll for the improvement of Charles street, and instructed the clerk to advertise for bids for the construction of cement sidewalks on both sides of Linden avenue