Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 229, 15 September 1906 — Page 1

RICHMOND 2 A Aiim VOL. XXXI. NO. 229. Richmond, Indiana, Saturday Morning, September 15, 1906. Single Copies, One Cent.

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TAFT AND BACOII ARE TO BE SENT TO CUBAN ISLAND

After All Day Session of the Cabinet, President Decides to Fully Ascertain Exact State of the Trouble. A LETTER IS FORWARDED TO THE CUBAN MINISTER Hoosevelt Urges Him to Have all Cuban Patriots Lay Aside Their Petty Differ cnces and End Disturbance iPublishers' Pressl Ovster Bav. N. Y.. Sept. 14. As j , ?ne result of the all day cabinet session held at Sagamore Hill today, President Roosevelt, announced late tonight that Secretary of War Taft And Asst. Secretary of State, Bacon, would go to Havana as the special representatives of the United States, to ascertain the exact conditions of affairs and lend such aid as lies, in their power to secure an Immediate secession of hostilities. In a letter addressed to the Cuban Minister Quesada, the president urg es all Cuban patriots to lay aside their prime interests and prejudices and try in every way possible to end 'the disturbances on the island. In brief the President's action is a decision against Immediate intervention tout a hint of the United States' in tervention in case peace is not re stored upon the island at once. 1 Messrs Taft and Bacon will start from Washington to Havana on Sunday. They will go by the way of Key West from which, point they will probably sail on the Dixie, which will be sent there to carry them to their destination. PRES. PALMA ENDORSED CUBAN CONGRESS PASSES EXTRAORDINARY LEGISLATION. Message of Pa I ma Asking for Measures to Crush the Revolution is Carried Out Although the Independents Refuse ta Vote. Havana, Sept. 14. With less than the constitutional two-thirds majority present in either of the two houses of congress, the special session, summoned here by President Palma endorsed all of the acts of his administration and passed extraordinary legislation which is calculated to place the government on a war footing and enable it to cope with the insurrectionaries. This has not restored confidence, however, and from surface indications affairs in the island are practically hourly growing worse. The House was the first of the two bodies to get down to work. There were Sfi members present when President Freyre Aldrae, a Moderate, and a very close friend of President Palma, called the body to order. One of the rural moderates raised the question of a quorum Immediately but was quickly squelched by thechairman who announced that, inasmuch as "extraordinary conditions existed In the republic it would be necessary to deal with them in an extraordinary manner: that the congress was the best judge of its o-vrn qualifications, and that therefore, unless the hous decided otherwise he would rule that there being more than one half of the total membership present the body was able to transact business. There was no vote taken inasmuch as there were no Liberals there and the three Independents, who in the past have voted with the Liberals and who "were present did not care to force the (Continued on Fage Three.) WHITEWATER'S BIG NIGHT Large Outpouring of the Membership and Refreshments Were Served During the Evening. Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows started the season's work last night. First degree was exemplified by the team and following this refreshments were served in the banquet hall. There was a large outpouring of the membership and the evening was greatly enjoyed. An Aged Plasterer. Joseph Van Zant, 74 years of ago, is at work plastering the new school house west of the city. Mr. Van Zant, when a bo assisted in the work of plastering the rooms of the first school house on the site, did the work also when the second structure was built, and is now officiating, in the same capacity on the third-

THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA Fair warmer Saturday; Sunday showers; fresh southeast winds. OHIO Fair Saturday and Sunday except rain Sunday in west portion, fresh northeast shifting to southeast winds. TO HAVE NEW DIRECTORY POLK'S MEN ARE AT WORK They Have Recently Returned from Marion, Where They State There Are Many Residences Vacant as Well as Business Houses. The R. !. Polk & Co., of Indianapolis, who have compiled the city directory for the past several years, have several of their men at work in the city now subscribing advertising and collecting names and data for a new book. It is estimated that the book, when completed, will be a third?gain as large as the last one. They, expect to have the book on the market about the middle of November. The crew at work here has but recently finished the canvass of Marion, where they state that over four hundred houses are empty, and something like twenty-seven business rooms are vacant. At the present time it is almost impossible to find either home property or business ooms here without tenants, and even some families are doubling up inthe larger renting houses of the city. WILD ACTS OF INSANE MOTHER Almost Severs Head of Her Sleeping Child and Then Attempts Suicide. JUMPS BEFORE A TRAIN. TAKE PERILOUS LEAP FROM TOP OF HOUSE AFTER HIDING BLOODY KNIFE UNDER HER DAUGHTER'S BED, fPublishers' Press! New York. Sept. 14. Mrs. Victor Anthony, a youngmother in Jersey City, while temporarily insane this afternoon, cut the throat of her three year old daughter, Annie, while the child was asleep, almost severing the head from the body. Then she jumped rrom the roof of a tenement nouse at AO. us ravonia Avenue into the freight yards of the Erie railroad, landing on a track directly in front of an approaching freight train. The engineer stopped the train as the pilot of the locomotive touched the woman on the track. She was taken to a hospital unconscious and will die. Mrs. Anthony lived with her hus band, who is employed on the Erie, the child Annie and three other chil dren in apartments In the Pavonia Avenue house. She had been ill and acting strangely for several days. While the little one was taking a nap this afternoon the mother became violently insane. After killing her daughter she hid the knife under a bed and -made her way to the roof. BUSY SEASON AHEAD. County Treasurer Ben Myrick Will Have Plenty to Attend to During October. The month of October will be a busy one at the county treasurer's office. Nov. 5 is the time limit for paying fall taxes and the bulk of these taxes are paid during October. People have already begun to make payments on the second installment and in another two weeks the rush will be on in earnest. Many tax payers paid up their taxes for the year in full last May, so it is expected that the amount of fall taxes collected will fall short of the amount collected in April. The delinquent list this fall is expected to be much smaller than in the spring, as taxpayers are beginning to have a wholesome dread of paying the extra ten per cent on their taxes for delinquency. HAPPY OVER BABY BOY Bloomingsport Professor Tells His Students That School Willi Not Keep For One Day. Bloom in sport, Ind., Sept. 14. The stork visited the home of Prof, and Mrs. Arlie Hinshaw last night leaving a fine baby" boy. So great was Prof. Hinshaw's happiness that he telephoned to school that there would be no recitations in his room today.

KILLED OH EVE

OF HER VACATION Susie Carmichael Run Over by Freight Train at East Haven Last Evening. DID NOT HEAR THE TRAIN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN HAD BEEN GRANTED A SHORT VA CATION AND WAS LEAVING TO I TAKE IT. Susie Carmichael, -employed as an ironer in the laundry at, the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, was killed by a freight train on the Pan Hndle railroad last evening. Miss Carmichael is a middle aged woman and almost totally deaf. The train was in plam view when she started across the tracks and it is thought that she did not hear it. She had just been granted a short leave of absence in order that she might take a pleasure trip to Cincin nati. Supt. Smith thinks she was so engrossed in anticipating her visit that she did not take the precaution to look up and down the track before crossing it. It is necessary to cross the tracks of the railroad in order to reach the street car which goes into the city. Al. Prough an engineer at the hosDital was only a short distance be hind the unfortunate woman and call ed to her in a vain effort to prevent her death. She was horribly mutilated about the head and death was almost instantaneous. Coroner Markley was called and he will prepare a verdict in keeping with the facts as stated above. He says that there was no suicidal intent on the part of the deceased. Her skull was crushed by he , wheels of the train. She was a cousin of the Quinn family on South 10th street. Her remains were taken to Wilson and Pohlmeyer's undertaking establishment. She was affiliated with the Catholic church. HAD A BIG TEN SPOT THEN HE DIDN'T HAVE IT 'Rat" Foster, Hostler for Frank Lack ey Finds Ten Dollar Greenback But Owner Appears Before he Had It in His Pocket. "That is my ten-dollar bill" said a neatly, dressed woman and "Rat Foster, before he had gotten the crook out of his back, from reaching for the bill, passed it over. The wom an tripped swiftly to an interurban car and got on board. "Rat stood speechless. - It seems that as "Rat" was going down Mam street early yesterday morning he spied a "X-er" on the pavement. He reached for it and was lifting it up when the woman appeared. "Rat says that he was too dumfounded to hang onto the money. Committed to Prison IPublishers' Press! Danville, Ind., Sept. 14. James Ross has been sentenced to prison the maximum penalty, fourteen years

for attempting to kill Constable Oli- woman and after an unmerciful beatver M. Wilholte. Ross Is the man who ing, she was thrown out of the house

a few months ago, hearing that he was to be arrested for kidnapping a girl, hid in a clump of bushes and sent two bullets through the constable's hat, defying arrest, but afterward voluntarily surrendered. A BIG CAR IN THE CITY WAS MADE GOOD USE OF Columbus Street Car Used at Indian apolis During State Fair Stopped Here Last Night and Helped to Carry People to Carnival Grounds. The largest city car ever run on the street car tracks of Richmond was the one which was used between Eighth and Main and the Carnival grounds last night. The car is one, that along with others, is being returned to Co lumbus after being at Indianapolis during the State Fair. It has fifteen seats, accommodating about 12o ir-1 sons and is equipped with air-braking apparatus. Many persons waited at the corners for this car just to ges a curiosity ride last night. The cars will be run to Columbus sometime today. --. Trial of Golden. The hearing of Patrolman Golden, charged with assault and battery upon Edward Hilling, will take place in J 'Squire Abbott's court today.

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Books that will be popular with BRIDE WAS STRDCK BY MOTHER-IN-LAW But Six Months Married She Lies Critically III from Brutal Attack. HER FATHER BRINGS SUIT LOGANSPORT HAS A CASE WHICH WOULD TEND TO INDICATE THAT MOTHER-IN-LAWS MAKE MARRIAGE A FAILURE. Logansport, ; Ind., Sept. 14. (Spl.)Mrs. Lillian Pearl Rife, a bride of six months, is lying at the home of her , - ... ...... t father, . James, W. Brandt, near v On ward, in a" critical condition, the 'result of a brutal beating , alleged, to have been ' administered by Mrs. Phoebe A. Rife, her mother-in-law, and Mrs. Kate Oldfather, sister of her husband, Perry L. Rife. - A very bitter feeling has been aroused in the neighborhool and the assailants of the young woman -have been warned not to leave their homes The young people lived in the old homestead, and the husband managed the farm. A disagreement arose be tween the bride and her mother-in-law, and the last named went to the home of her daughter. It is alleged that during the Ifisband's absence the senior Mrs. Rife an(j ner daughter returned to the homestead and attacked the young and warned not to return. The husband, as alleged, upon hearing the de tails of the affair, obeyed the diction of his motherland the young woman was sent to her father's home, while he remained with his mother. The father of the young woman has brought suits against the Rifes for $5,000 damages. THE TYPOS ARE WINNING Local Union Receives Encouraging Reports from the National Officers of the Organization. Officers of Richmond Typographical Union have received a notification from the national headquarters that after October 1 they will have to pay only 7 per cent of their wages to the strike fund, instead of 10 per cent, the amount they are now paying. " : The members of the local union state that the reduction is due to the fact that the union is winning its eight hour fight in the east, and its number of the printers who have been out of work pending a settlement have returned to work. Plea Not in Vain. James Fitzgerald, a stranger, arrested for begging on the streets and slated for vagrancy, touched a responsive chord in Judge Converse yesterday when he plead to be released. Fitzgerald asked that clemency be shown and the court permitted him to go on a promise to leave the city. .

the pupils during the new term of school.

BIRD, BOY, GUN. . Centerville, Ind., Sept. 14. (Spl) A bird sat on a telephone cable near this place, and a boy shot at the bird which flew away in safety while the" shot cot the cable. Nearly one hundred phones were thrown out of service, and linemen with difficulty found the cause of the trouble. POLICE COMMISSIONERS IN SESSION LAST NIGHT Vacancy Occasioned by the Resigna tion of Officer Sutton was not Fill ed Thought that B. F. Wissler Will-be New Member. At the-jneeting of the Police Com missioners last night at City Hall the resignation of Officer Charles Sutton was formally accepted. Although the many applications which are on file were gone over and considered, no person was selected to succeed Sut ton. It was stated that for the present and probably until the next meeting of the Board which is October 3, the place will remain vacant. Jesse Reeves, president of the Board, stated that so far the Board had received no intimation from Governor Hanly as to whom he is going to, or has appointed to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of C. W. Merrill. It is becoming a strong belief that Benjamin Wissler, who after accepting a place on the Board of Health under the Democrats resigned, will be appointed to the membership. A PLAN TO RAISE MONEY FOR DE PAUW UNIVERSITY Marvin Campbell Trustee at the Institution Tells Northwest M. E. Conference of His Popular Subscription Scheme. IPublishers Pressl Lebanon, Ind Sept- 14. Marvin Campbell, a trustee of DePauw University, has placed before the Northwest Indiana M. E. Conference, In session here, his plans of raising $10,000 each year- for five years for the benefit of that institution. He will ask for subscriptions of $5 each from 2,000 Methodists, which constitutes about one-tenth of the membership in Indiana. He has received up to the present time pledged from about 1,070 persons. He has spent since March $1,328 in his campaign. The conference expressed approval of his plan as outlined. Disapproves Higher Criticism. At the devotional services this morning Bishop Hamilton expressed his disapproval of higher criticism. He said that while the Bible may need some correction Christian people have nothing to do with any theory that does away with its" effects. He referred especially to the theory of evolution-

CITY CANVASS TO

BE MADE THURSDAY Sunday School Solicitors Wil Start Work with the Ringing of Bells. TO CONSUME FOUR HOURS AT' MEETING LAST NIGHT OF THOSE INTERESTED IN THE MOVEMENT THE DETAILS WERE ARRANGED. At a meeting last night several Important points were decided upon in relation to the canvass of the city by th e Sunday School association. Thursday was fixed as the day and the canvass Will be made between the hours of two and six in the afternoon At two o'clock all the church bells will start ringing and will continue for five minutes. The object of this canvass is to put the Association in closer touch with the Sunday School situation, in the city and to try and get the people in closer connection with the church In view of this twenty churches have volunteered 409 persons to assist in the canvass. This number will 1 be apportioned in the various wards as follows: First ward, 75; Second ward 50; Third ward ,50; Fourth ward 50; Fifth ward 60; Sixth ward 55 and Sev enth ward 55 persons. . Final Instruction Tuesday. Tuesday night each ward superin tendent and precinct-chairman will meet at a designated place in their re spective wards to ; receive final instructions for the canvass. The in formation desired is along the following lines; Number of families in ward and those attending church or Sun day school, and those adults not in Sunday School; number under twen ty-one years of age and- those between the ages of twelve and thirty-five years. This last point has to do with the Y. M. C, A. age and will help materially in that department -of work, as it is between those ages that the Association draws most of its members. This is probably one of the most significant and comprehensive steps taken lately in connection with the church, and it is hoped by all thp.t every person will lend his efforts to the making a success of It WAS STEALING A RIDE Knight of Road Thought to be Witty Was Found to be Intoxicated at Headquarters James Hennigan. Knight of the Road, was taken from the "blind baggage retreat of Xo. 21. which arrives at the Pennsylvania station at 9:10 p. m. last night by Officer McNally. Hennigan afforded a great deal of amusement by his witty sayings and it was not discovered that he was drunk until he was searched at the City Hall .when an empty whiskey bottle was found oa Mm, and the transparent odor of a poor brand of throat wash was wafted to the nos-

WILL ASK FOB A HEARING BEFORE LEARNED JUSTICE

Harry Thaw's Attorney Announces that on Account of Notoriety of Case a Jury Should Not Hear It. NEW RECRUIT TO LEGAL COUNSEL IS SECURED Attorney Iselin, Formerly Associated With Jerome, and Still Closely Allied to Him to Help Thaw. Publishers PrssT New York, Sept. 14. Clifford TV. Hartridge, chief counsel for Harry, K. Thaw, charged with the murder ot Stanford White on the roof of Madison Square Garden, served noticethis afternoon on Assistant District Attorney Garvan that on September 24 hewould apply to the justice sitting in Fart 1 of the supreme court, to have the trial of Thaw taken from the docket of the court "of general sessions and transferred to the crim inal branch of the supreme court for an immediate trial. In servinc this notice Mr. Hart ridge accompanied it with an affidavit by himself and one of his associate counsel, John B. Gleason. In his affidavit Mr. Hartridge says that "because of the great notoriety given to the case it is desirable to try It forthwith and before a learned justice." Mr. Gleason's affidavit says that District Attorney Jerome informed him that the docket of the court of general sessions was so crowded that the Thaw case could not be reached until the middle of November. A New Attorney Secured. A new recruit . to the ranks of Thaw's counsel appeared today, when John II. Iselin, of Iselin and Cans, visited the prisoner and inscribed his name in the Tombs counsel book as "counsel for TTarrv ft. Thaw" " T have been retained in the easa at. the Rtursrestinn of Mr ITarti-Mcn said Mr. Iselin, "but although I have been Working on the case two months this is the first time I have had occasion to visit Mr. Thaw. I have no idea who will be the trial lawyer." . Mr. Iselin and his partner. Howard S. Cans, were formerly on the staff of district attorney Jerome. They are closely Interested with him at the present time. In the first place, they are his coun sel in a criminal libel suit he has instituted against William ' Randolph Hearst for $200,000. Mr, Iselin Is also the district attorney's consul In tho proceedings to oust Justice Deuel and appeared in that capacity In the hearing before Referee Stover yesterday. Mr. Cans acted as treasurer of the Jerome campaign fund In ; both Kin negotiations. Mr. Iselin and Mr. Cans retired from the district attorneys of fice at the beginning of this year to engage in private practice together with assistant district attorney Rand. Mr. Rand. It Is reported, will also bcr engaged In the defense of Thaw. WOMAN FELL FROM CAR Person, Whose Name. Could Not Bo Learned, Thrown from Car at 12th and North E Streets. A woman whose name could not be ascertained, last night, stepped from the North E street car due at 8th and Main at 7:45 o'clock, while It was in motion, and was forcibly thrown to the ground- No person oa the car was aware of the accident until a passenger happened to look around and saw her rising from the ground. Before any person could get to her she was on her feet and away "up 12th street. ROGUE'S GALLERY GROWS Herbert Eshenfelder and Euaena Brown Get Pictures Into Police Photo Album. Herbert Eshenfelder C alias H. n. Ford) and Eugene Bo wen have had their photographs taken, and added to the local Rogue's Gallery. The former forged two checks for $500 and got $S00 from two local banks on them, and the latter offered a $15 dollar check at a restaurant for cash. "Thru" With Old Way. IPuMisbers' PresJ Petersburg, Ind., Sept. 14, Super intendent Thompson of the city schools today expressed . himself In favor of the Roosevelt sj-stem of spelling and he issued orders to the teachers . to instruct the pupils accordingly. He has ordered the pur chase of spelling .books, containing the revised system. The Petersburg . schools are therefore " "thru" with the old way, as taught by the forefathers.