Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 225, 11 September 1906 — Page 1

F H A. Single Copies, One Cent. VOL. XXXI. NO. 225. Richmond, Indiana, Tuesday Morning, Sept. 11, 1906.

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NOT VERY L Governor Cobb is Reelected by a Plurality of 7,000 and Four Republican Congress men are Victorious. LlTTLEFIELD WINS HARD FIGHT WITH 950 VOTES ftepublican Vote is Lowest in Twenty Four Years and the Democrats Carried all but Twenty Cities. Publishers' FressJ Portland, Maine, Sept. 10. Returns received at midnight indicates that Governor Wm. Cobb, Republican has been re-elected over Chas. W. Davis, Democrat by a plurality of 7,000 votes and that four Republican Representatives to Congress have been named by reduced pluralities. Chas. Littlefield on whom a bitter fight was made by President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor was re-elected by less than a thousand votes. Two years ago his margin of safety was 5,000 votes. The Democrats gained in the cities. Returns from twenty cities and 295 out of 500 towns and plantations give Cobb a vote of 51,423 and Davis 4S,547, a net loss for the Republicans of 5,575 and a net gain for the Democrats of 9,512. Cobb was elected two years ago by a plurality of 26,816. The Republican vote is the lowest In twenty four years. The vote for Congressmen up to midnight is Amos T. Allen 1,500 plurality against 5,000 two years ago, Chas. E. Littlefield 950 plurality a loss of 3,400 over two years ago, Ed. C. Burleigh about 5,000 plurality, a slight gain. L.. Powers, 3,500 plurality a loss of 4.000 votes. The Democrats carried all but. two of the twenty citfes in the state. They increase their representation In the legislature to 12 senators and six representatives. FEE ASKS A URGE FEE HE HAS WORKED OVERTIME Former Custodian of the City Hall Presents Council a Bill for $1,030 Which He Claims is Due Him for Driving the Patrol. Harry Fee, custodian of the city hall under the previous administration, startled council last night by presenting a claim against the city for $1,030. Fee claims this amount of money Is due him for extra services, while custodian. The services he specifies as driving the patrol wagon and city ambulance. He claims he has put in 5,150 hours extra service in this work. The claim was laid over for final consideration at the next regulars, meeting of council. HE CARRIED ONLY SMALL INSURANCE Frank Hippie of Wrecked Philadelphia Concern had but $7,500 in Policies. ATTORNEY'S STATEMENT EXPERTS ARE NOW BUSILY ENCAGED IN EXAMINING SECURITIBS FOR TRUST FUNDS IN CARE OF INSTITUTION. Publishers' PressJ Philade!. ., .. ,,.. Contrars to general belief, Frank K. Hippie, the suicide president of the wrecked Real Estate Trust company, carried only a small amount of life insurance. This became known when F. C. Xebourg. counsel for the Hippie family, announced that policies for a total o; only $7,500 on the life of Hippie have been found. The special experts employed by the state banking department to investigate the aflais of the trust com pany are at present engaged in examining securities for trust funds in the care of the institution. These trusts aggregate more" than $26,000,000, and there is considerable anxiety felt on the part of the beneficiaries of these funds over their safety. Up to this time there has been only a hasty examination of the securities and with the exception of about $50,000 they were found practically intact.

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INDIANA Showers and thunder storms Tuesday with cold in the north portion; Wednesday show ers and colder; light to fresh south winds. OHIO Fair Tuesday except sFfowers in Ohio valley; Wednesday showers; light south winds. BLUNDER OF DEMOCRATS STATE COMMENT CAUSED Wayne County Convention Forgot to Mention the Rev. T. H. Kuhn in the Resolutions Say it was Oversight and Not Significant. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 10. (Spl) At the Republican State headquar ters today there were some Rich mond visitors who imparted the in formation that the Wayne County Democrats at their convention last Saturday forgot to pay their respects to the-Hev. T. II. Kuhn, candidate for Congress In the Sixth district. The fact that the resolutions adop ted by the convention neglected to even mention the preacher candi date for Congress was regarded as rather queer even for a Democratic gathering. It was also stated that some of Mr. Kuhn's friends in Wayne county and other parts of the dis trict are indignant at the actio'or rather the lack of action on the part of the convention, and although they say that the fact that Mr. Kuhn was not endorsed really was the result of oversight and has no significance, they feel that it was an unbecoming slight. LIGHT PLANT IS Report of Superintendent Rogers For Past Eight Months is Made Public. MADE $1,211.33 IN AUGUST THERE IS NOW A BALANCE OF OVER $23,000 IN THE CITY TREASURY AS RESULT OF MU NICIPAL VENTURE. The report of the Municipal Elec tric plant superintendent for the month of August, made to Council last night was: Expenditures. Operating expenses ..$2,293.08 Building and equipment . 1,001.50 Total $3,294.58 Receipts from light and power ..$4,505.91 Operating expenses 3,294.58 Excess receipts over operating expenses $1,211.33 Balance in treasury July 31, 1906 , $22,003.70 Amount paid in during month 4,693.41 Total $26,697.11 Balance on hand, August 31, 1906 ..$23,402.53 The report of the superintendent of the Municipal electric light plant for the past eight 'months was as follows: Receipts $41,099.92 Expenditures. New construction $9,102.21 Maintenance.. .. 17,902.75 Total $27,004.96 Receipts for light and power for eight months $41,099.92 Operating expenses for eight . months 17,902.73 Excess receipts over operating expenses .$23,197.17 Balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1906 $12,187.57 Receipts paid into treasury Sept. 1, 1906 41,099.92 Total .. .. .. ..$53,2S7.49 Expenditures past eight months $27,004.96 Interest six months 2.SS0.00 Total f29.SS4.96 Total receipts ..$53,287.49 Total expenditures 29.SS4.96 Balance in city treasury $23,402.53 DISCRIMINATION CHARGED Indiana Oil Companies File Complaints Against 41 Railroads for Favoring Standard. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 10. (Spl) The National and Tiona refining companies and Evansvllle Oil Company have filed complaints with State Railroad commission against forty one railroads, alleging discrimination in favor of the Standard Oil Company. ' v "

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Indiana's Annual Fair Opened Auspiciously at Indiana polis Yesterday. EVERY DEPARTMENT GOOD AIRSHIP MAKES ITS INITIAL FLIGHT AND PLEASES AND EX CITES ALL WHO SEE IT THE FREE FEATURES. Indianapolis," Ind., Sept. 10. (Spl) With nothing to mar the outlook for a successful week, the Indiana State Fair was opened today. The exposition itself looks promising in all didections, every department readily showing that the whole enterprise has had amazing growth in recent years. There may be in point of numbers no more horses and cattle and other live stock on the grounds this week, but the older members of the State Board of Agriculture, long familiar with blooded stock conditions both at the Fair and over the State say that for evenness of quality In stock barns and pens, the animals now at the exposition never had an equal. In the way of orchard and field products, also, the Fair will have much to offer, for the year has been a generous one for growers of fruit and tillers of the soil. In the number of fowls, the poultry show is far ahead of any other Indiana Fair. But It is in machinery that the exposition is big. Thousands of yards of canvas have been stretched over many acres of ground to shelter from the sun and rain thousands of plows and similar farm implements. The Fair carried out about the same program today that it will follow throughout the week. The Bedoubin Arabs and other acrobats gave open air vaudeville turns. The Weber Band of Cincinnati, the Indianapolis Military and The Indianapolis News Newsboys bands began their daily concerts early. The race course was in fine condition this morning and the trotting and pacing races began this afternoon. AIRSHIP AT THE FAIR. Horace B. Wild Makes Flight That Causes Excitement. Horace B. Wild and his airship Eagle" made at the Indiana State Fair, this morning, what was doubt less the most sensational flight ever seen in Indiana. The aerial craft left its aerodrome near the main gates about 10:30, and as It shot upward into the warm sunlight, the whole exposition proceedings were stopped. iwenty minutes after leaving the aerodome the Eagle was back and over the point where it started. Wild threw fifty feet of rope over board, with one end attached to the airship. He slid along the saddle toward the propeller, and the bie- bal loon, shaped like a caterpiller, turned its nose toward thf o-i-rn nr Swarms of people poured into the corner of the Fair grounds where the decent was being made, and a hundred men seized the craft when it came within reach and led it a hun dred steps to the place where the start had been made. The airship will give exhibitions ev ery morning between 10 and 11 o'clock, when the weather permits. ORDERED TO E TRACKS Council Wants Street Car Track Recently Built Into Glen Taken Up. AN OLD FEAR IS REVIVED COUNCILMAN ENGELBERT DE CLARED ,THAT THE COMPANY SHOULD PAY FOR PRIVILEGE IF IT WANTED IN THE GLEN. The old time cry that the street railway company is trying to secure entrance for its tracks into Glen Miller park, was raised by council last night, and the result was the pas sage of an order for the company to remove the spur of tracks placed in the park, for the benefit of the pa trons of the recent Chautauqua. When the company first asked per mission to build the spur, it specified it would remove it by September 4, or , upon the order of council. The company has not removed the tracks. Councilman-at large Engelbert stat ed that the car company has been trying for years to -hold up the city and gain entrance to the park. "If they want in, let 'em pay for the privilege," he declared.

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To prevent any more revolutions ALERED IS AGAIN RAISING A KICK Underhill Calls for Grand Jury Investigation of North F Street Improvement. COUNCIL LAUGHS AT IT COUNCILMEN CALL ATTENTION TO LITTLE MATTERS THAT NEED ATTENTION WAS A BUSY SESSION. So engrossed was the attention ot city council last night in matters of more import, that minor affairs received but slight consideration. Councilman Williams called attention to the condition of the stairway leading to the piano factory at the foot of D street and the river bluff. The steps are badly in need of repair. They are city property. Councilman Englebert called the attention of the board to ihe bad condition of North E street at the junction with Eighth and Ninth streets, where the pavement has been torn up and not replaced in the proper manner. He also called attention to the junction of South Thirteenth and G streets, where sidewalks have been put in but no cross walks. Pedestrians have to take to the middle of the street in muddy weather in order to pass. A communication was read from Alfred Underhill, which directed the attention of council to the contract recently awarded by the board of works for the improvement of North F street from Sixteenth to Nineteenth streets by grading, graveling and bouldering. Underhill asserted the contract was let for $2.39 per foot. He pointed out the fact that the west end of the street was improved for $1.6214 per foot. He claimed the former price is excessive and suggested that a grand jury investigation of the case be called. The communication was regarded in a humorous manner by council and referred to the board of public works. Tilting of the Lid. There was a slight tilt to the lid in Richmond Sunday, according to cases in the city police court yesterday morning. Alonzo Frame, bartender at Muth's was fined $25 andd costs for the alleged sale of liquor on Sunday. Frame gave notice of an appeal to the circuit court. Thomas Mulligan was fined $25 and costs for selling liquor without a license, it being alleged that he disposed of a pint of whiskey on the "bootleg" plan. Death of Anna Roach. New Paris, O., Sept. 10. (Sl) Che death of Miss Anna Mary Roach which has been expected for some time occurred Sunday afternoon after a long illness of lung trouble. The funeral will take place from St. John'3 church Wednesday morning. Miss Roach was twenty-one years of age and she with four brothers lived on North Washington street, their parents having died recently

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PRESRYTERIAIIS IN' TWO DAYS SESSION Rev. C. W. Parks Spoke to Members of Whitewater Presbytery Last Night. GO SIGHT SEEING TODAY VISITORS WILL VIEW REID MEMORIAL CHURCH AND SPEND SOME TIME IN THE GLEN IMPORTANT BUSINESS. The sessions of the Whitewater Presbytery which are being held at the Second Presbyterian church began last night when the Rev. C. W. Parks addressed the delegates upon the subject of "Christ Our High Priest". The. Rev. R. H. Donahue pastor of the First' Presbyterian church at Greensburg was chosen moderator of the meeting,while Rev. W. S. Foreman of New Castle and the Rev. W. S. Scoular of Kingston, Ind. were chosen Secretaries. Yesterday afternoon the delegates traveled over the city viewing the points of interest, but the greatest crowd of sigh sser's will leave the church this afternoon at one o'clock. They will go first to the magnificent J Reid Memorial church. After this the delegation will be taken to the Glen and other places of interest. The Notables Present. The delegates to the meetings yesterday numbered about thirty elders and laymen which is considered very good for the first day of the meeting. Among the notables in the Presbyterian church who were present last night, were. Rev. George Knox, of Lafayette and I. H. Houser the Presbyterian State Sunday School Superintendent. Probably the most important thing that will come up before the Presbytery at this session, will be the filling of the vacant places upon the Home Mission Committee, which looks after the needy churches of the Presbytery. As several of the important members of this committee have accepted charges in other states, the revising of the committee will be looked after today. At three o'clock this afternoon special exercises will be held preparatory to the address by J. Wilbur Chapman at eight o'clock tonight. The meetings of the body will close with, tonights sessions. Invade Canal Zone. Charles E. Shiveley, Supreme Chan cellor of the Knights of Pythias has announced that the Pythians have finally invaded the Canal zone, the first lodge being organized recently at Cristobal. Other Panama lodges will spring up quickly, it is believed. The C. W. B. M. Meeting. The C. W. B. U. Auxiliary of the Christian church will meet Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. with Mrs. Pettis Reed on South Eleventh street Officers for the coming year will be elected.

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IS STATE LI Butler College Professor Gets Office Sought for by.Dayis and Lindley. VV: RICHMOND MEN NOT IN IT ON FIRST BALLOT THEY EACH GOT TWO VOTES ' BUT AFTER IT WAS A BATTLE BETWEEN BROWN AND MISS ELROD. Indianapolis, Ind. Sept. 10, Spl.) Demarchus Brown of Butler College was elected State Librarian to suc ceed W. E. Henry by the state board of education this afternoon. The two Richmond men. Profs. Walter S. Davis and Harlow Lindley were not in the running after the first ballot. Then they each got two votes but af terward they fell out of the race and the fight centered to Mr. Brown and Miss Jennie Elrod, assistant in the library under Mr. Henry. It requir ed eleven ballots to decide the election, the vote finally standing eight to one for Mr. Brown. The position pays $1,800 a year. Mr, Brown desires to give much of his time to literary work and it was largely for this reason that he sought the place. He is now a member of the State Board of Charities. The new librarian has been an instructor in Greek and is highly educated. WILL PRINT 200 COPIES Council Orders Recent Investigation of Light Plant to be Placed in Print. By the vote of 6 to 2, council last night decided to have printed 200 copies of the report of the Investigation of the affairs of the municipal electric light plant. The expense of the printing will amount to $39.75. Case was Dismissed. In. the city police court yesterday Edward Hilling, arrested on a charge of wife desertion was dismissed. The fact that Mrs. Hilling and children have gone to Cincinnati caused Prosecutor Jessup to offer a motion to dismiss proceedings. Judgement Suspended. Judgement was suspended In the case of Larry Loft us, charged with assault and battery in the city police court yesterday. There was a finding of guilty but Judge Converse was disposed to be lenient. Case of Bowen. In the city police court thi3 morning the case of Eugene K. Bowen, alleged to have forged a check for $15 and attempting to realize upon it, will be called. Attorney W. M. Kelley will defend Bowen who maintains that he is not guilty of forgery.

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E ORDINANCE IS OF NO VALUE New City Attorney Tells Coun cil That it Can Make Central Union Co. Put Its Wires Underground, Howevert ). SHOWS WHY THE RECENT ORDINANCE WOULD FAIL He Says That it Cannot be Positively Proven That Bell Company is Reconstructing Its Plant. According to T. J. Study, city attorney, all that Is necessary to com-' pel the Central Union Telephone Co. to place its Main street wires underground Is an ordinance passed by the city council to that effect. The ordinance that was passed by' council at a recent meeting,, declaring that whenever a telephone company reconstructs or rebuilds its system, it shall place the wires on Main -street in underground' conduits was declared by the city, attorney to be worthless, so far as its practibllity is concerned. The ordinance fixes no penalty for violation of the ordinance or failure to meet with its provisions. Furthermore, the ordinance intends to counteract the franchise un- . . . . . 1 r1 . 1 TT- I . uer wnicn ine tenirar umuu vuiupany operates and which gives it practically unlimited privileges. The part of. the ordinance referring to the maximum charges that may be assessed by the telephone company was declared by the city attorney to be worthless in its relation to the Central Union. It may be held valid when applied to the Richmond Home Telephone Company, however, as that company accepted it. Franchise Is an Open One. It would be folly for the city to attempt to enforce Its ordinance upon the Central Union, as the . result would be an intermldable law suit, which could result in no way other than disastrous to the city's Interests, according to the statements of the attorney. The franchise under which the Central Union operates Is an open one and by fixing rates the city would violate the terms. It was pointed out by the attorney that if an attempt were made to enforce the existing ordinance It would be necessary for the city to prov that the Central Union is reconstructing Its system. Although the evidence points to this fact It would be possible for the 'phone company to declare its extensions are mere repairs and unless the city could prove otherwise the suit would lost upon the first assumption. Solution of the Trouble. Study solves the trouble by suggesting that council pass an ordinance, which demands that all telephone or other wires be removed from Main street and placed In underground conduits. Notice of the ordinance could be served unon the telephone company and If it failed to act In accordance the city has the police authority to have the pole and wires removed upon its own dlscrelinn Relative to the maximum rate of charges fixed by the ordinance, the attorney stated that there seems to be no doubt but that there will be deep seated competition between th.e Central Union and Home phone companies, If both continue In the field. There is nothing to prevent the Central Union from raising its price, but It Is hardly likely to do so. when the Home company offers lower rates. With the Home phone offering a price of $36, it will be necessary for the Central Union to operate at or beneath this price, In order to secure business. The Bell, or CentralUnion, could not be compelled to keep its price at $36. REPORT MADE BY WHELAH IS VOLUMINOUS AFFAIR City's Financial Transactions From January 1 to September 3 Are Given in Detail Bonded Indebtedness Was Reduced. The report of Omer Whelan. former controller of the city of the financial transactions in which the city has been Involved during the period from January 1..J906, to noon September 3, J 906, was, read to coun cil last night.-The report is-a yolumnious affair atul .shows the receipts, expenditures . and - appropriations made within the period, and balances of the appropriations. It shows the city's temporary - loan- indebtedness to have been-$30,000. During the" time the amount---wa redticed $20,000 leaving the - present temporary loan Indebtedness -of -the city now is $10,-. 000. -.- " ""