Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 231, 17 September 1906 — Page 1

RICHMOM) AI ABIUM, VOL. XXXI. NO. 231. Richmond, Indiana, Monday Morning, September 17, 1906. Single Copies, One Cent. CITIZENS READY TO LYNCH FIENDS AT MILLER HOME L IS

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FIEIIBISH ASSADLT COMMITTED DPOII ELDORADO WOMAN! Mrs. Lewis Miller Suffers at Hand of a Brute Who Takes' Advantage of her Hus-j band's Absence.

THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Monday except show WITH A ers and cooler 'n the northwest portionjTuesday fair; fresh south winds. THEFT OHIO Fair Monday and Tuesday Fresh east to south winds.

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Town of Liberty Wrought Up Over Assault Made on Mrs. Ora Miller Saturday Night. fHUSBAND SAYS THAT HE WILL SHOOT ASSAILANTS (Mrs. Miller Lying in Precari ous Condition, Tells How She Was Bound, Choked, Burned and Kicked. Liberty. Ind., Sept. 16. (Spl.) If ;the fiendish robbers who attacked Mrs. Ora Miller here last night, and left her in a dying condition had been jcaught, this quiet little city would have been the scene of a lynching. And even this evening the feeling is 'intense. The husband of Mrs. Miller, who is now confined to her bed, is furious, and says that in case one, or both of the men are ever caught, he jwill ake the law into his own hands and shoot them down at sight. Those who know Mr. Miller believe that he will carry out his words. The bloodhounds which have been here from Dayton, have not been able to find any trace of the men. The larger crowd which gathered about the house shortly after the affair, has spoiled the scent for the dogs. . Significant Stealing of Horse. The feeling about the affair was made more manifest this afternoon, when a horse and surrey were stolen near here, from Louis Puckett, , a farmer who was hunting paw paws in a grove northeast of the city. . The ; rig was driven through Liberty and from the appearance of the man in it, tha people thought that he was one of the woman's assailants. A large crowd at once gathered about the public square, and a searching party was organized. Men in rigs ,and armed' with revolvers," took different roads leading out of the city, in the hope of overtaking the rig. Mrs. Miller is in a precarious condition today. The nervous shock has affected her heart and the. attending physician fears that she may have received internal injuries. While lying in bed, suffereing great pain, Mrs. Miller told of the brutal assault of the masked men. Had Put Children to Bed. She had prepared for bed after her husband had left the house to go down town. She locked all the windows and doors, and had put her two children, the hoy aged three, and the rirl aged six, in their beds. She then noticed that there was a splinter Jn her thumb, and went to the kitchen to try and extrac it. While standing alongside the lamp, picking her finger with a needly, she was struck over the head and felted to the floor. Broke Bed Room Window. While in this condition she was "bound about the feet with a towel and about the hands with some handkerchiefs. The men then gagged her with a towel. Mrs. Miller had protested that'there was no money in the house, but the, men would not listen to her. A sale had been held by Mr. Miller in the afternoon and they felt certain that there must be aJarge sum of money secreted about the place. In an effort to make her tell where it was, they burned her feet with matches and choked her. Mrs. Miller became unconscious, and when she revived, she was in the bed-room where she had been dragged. Hearing the men working in the other part of the house, she tried frantically to loosen herself, and got one hand free. She then pulled herself to the bedroom door and locked it. By great effort she reached a window facing an alley. She struck it with one hand nnd partially broke it. The men hearing her, tried to break into the bed-room. She then struck at the window with both hands and broke it out. This frightened them and they left. Bravery of Miss Bethge. Mrs. Miller called feebly, "they're killing me, they're killing me." This was heard by Alma Bethge, a young woman in the house across the alley. She ran to a house a square away where she knew G. CMaupin to be at home. Telling him of what had happened they both started to run to Mrs. Miller's aid. The young woman beat Mr. Maupin in the race and went to her own room, where she secured a revolver. With this she went bravely into the house, and says that she would have shot the men had she seen them. Miss Bethge says that she was not in the least frightened and believes that some of the neighbor men were. Little Girl Not Frightened. Mrs. Miller's little daughter, Lora, "was awakened by the robbers and tried to help her mother. " She beat on the back of one of the men with her chubby fist, and tried to make him leave her mama alone. After they put her mother in the bed room she went into her brother's room in order, she says, to protect him. , The (Continued to Page Eigttt.) -

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RETURN FROM FISHING

MADE SOME BIG CATCHES Messrs. Cranor and Duke Have Re turned from Michigan Where, in One Day, They Caught Two Hun dred and Ten Plenty of Luck. L. I. Cranor and Geo. M. Duke of Williamsburg, have returned from Manistique, Mich., which is located on the upper peninsula, where they have been fishing for the past forty days. The fish and game were plen tiful and one record breaking catch after two days' fishing, was 210. The men stated yesterday that bass and trout were the most common fish in and around their camp, but a plentiful supply of pickerel could be caught in the lakes. "While they were away they caught sight of several deer, but as the deer law was in effect, they could not shoot 'them. They report ed a frost in that locality the last day of August. CANDIDATES WILL REPORT IN WEEK Prospects Are That Eariham Will Have Better Football Team than Last Year. HOPE FOR A SQUAD OF 50 NEW RULE ABOUT TRAINING TABLE WILL NOT EFFECT LOCAL COLLEGE AS IT NEVER HAD ANY. One week from this afternoon the Eariham football managers will send out a call for candidates and it. is thought that about fifty hopefuls will donn their moleskins for the preliminary working out. The call this year will be for the light, swift , quarter-back class of men. Capt. Wann of 04's fast aggregation will head the team. Thistlewaite and Lindley are sure to be back. Of the other members of last year's team it is not certain who will be back.. So far Eariham has five games booked: Whittenberg. Cincinnati, Wabash, Rose Poly, and Franklyn. The last of these will have been played off by Thanksgiving, which will close the football season in all col leges and academies. Owing to the new rules no training tables wili be run in any college as it if? thought that with this feature removed the atmosphere of professionalism, which has lain around the game will to some extent be removed. Eariham never having had a training table, will not feel the force of this ruling. A NATUDALIZATIOH DM IN CIRCUIT COURT FRIDAY Judge Fox Will Make Foreigners Who Appear With Proper Witnesses And Credentials Citizens of the United States. Judge Pox, of the Wayne Circuit Court will hold court at nine o'clock Thursday morning for foreigners defining to become citizens of the United States. The persons are requested to appear at the sa'.d time with SI and two witnesses. This action is the result of the new naturalisation law which goes into effecz September 27. This new lay differs from the old one, only that instead of 5ppearing before the County Clerk, the person must appear before the Circuit Court Judge, with th3 fee and two witnesses who will be sworn. Attack of the Heart. - Centerville, Ind.. Sept. 15. (Spl.) Mrs. Martha I lanes, of Richmond, while attending the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Cynthia Tuttle, on Friday, was suddenly attacked with heart trouble. A physician was called, and with the assistance of relatives she was conveyed in a carriage to the home or her daughter, Mrs. Harry Meek, south of Richmond. Her condition was much improved this morning. Roberts Surrenders. Anstis Roberts, colored, went to Police headquarters yesterday and gave himself up. He was wanted on a charge of assault and battery, having hit "Battle Axe" Graham in the eye Saturday night. The trouble arose over an old feeling between, the two.

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for the Hatch Carnival was Arrested Sunday and is Now in Jail. GOLD WATCH WAS STOLEN FROM EARLHAM COLLEGE Alleged Fire Insurance Inspec tor Called at College Last Week, and While Going Through it Took Watch. "Eariham College? Yes? Well,1 I'm an insurance inspector and would like to look over the buildings." "Very well," acouiesed Mrs. Wm. McFurnas, matron of the college. The man roamed around the various buildings and returned to Eariham Hall, where he went into several of the rooms. Mrs. Furnas stepped into her sleeping room and found the man with his hand upon the lock of a small writing desk. He turned quickly with the remark: "I was just loking for a chemical fire extinguisher." His inspection apparently complet ed he left. A few minutes afterward Mrs. Furnas looked for her gold watch and found it missin; also several small articles of jewelry. She did not suspicion anything until yesterday when she was talking to Professor C. K. Chase aDout missing articles. Professor Chase advised her. to report the loss to police headquarters which she did. Officer McManus on Case. Officer McManus was detailed on the case and arrested Berry Stanwood press agent for the Hatch Carnival which showed here l?.st week. At police headquarters Mrs. Furnas identified Stanwood as being about the same size as the man who had posed as the 'Insurance Inspector' and stated that she was almost cer tain that Stanwood was the man. Stanwood was committed to a cell where he spent the night. Stanwood has a good alabi as there are several persons who saw him at various times during Saturday afternoon, when the sneak-theft is claimed to have been committed. James Stillwell, proprietor of the Phillips House whi?e Stanwood has been for the past three weeks, stated last night that wiien he came out from dinner about half past one o' clock Saturday afternoon, he noticed Stanwood sitting on a chair tilted back in the corner. He stated that Stanwood was asleep. At several different times up to five o'clock in the evening both Mr. and Mrs. Stillwell noticed Stanwood sleeping in the corner. It is stated that about five o'clock Stanwood arose and walked toward Main street; After a short time he returned with several other carnival persons and ate his sunper. J. Frank Hatch stated yesterday that he would "bet a thousand dolars that Stanwood doesn't know where Eariham College is and that he did not swipe the watch." Mr. Hatch will return from Miuicie where the carnival is -showing this week, this morning and look after Stanwood's case. BOY IS KILLED BY BATTED BALL Milwaukee Lad Was Fatally Struck While Watching a Game of Baseball. BOY NEVER RECOVERED CONSCIOUSNESS AND DIED WITHIN TEN MINUTES AFTER THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. Milwaukee, Sept 16. Cune Schilling, aged 12, was killed this afternoon by a batted mall while watching a game between the Molines and Woods' Laundry teams. The boy was seated on a side line watching the game, when Walter Mulvitz, pitcher for . the Molines, swung at the ball. He caught it squarely on the end of the bat and it was driven with terrific force against Young Schilling's head, striking him at the back of the head and the base of the brain. His skull was fractured and his brains oozed out. The game' was immediately broken up amid great excitement. The boy never recovered consciousness and he died in about ten minutes. One of the most pathetic features of the Sunday tragedy was the absence of the boy's parents from home. They were spending the afternoon in a park while their son's body lay on. a slab at the morgue. Schilling was a son o - August Schilling, a cigar mafcer-

A WORD OF WARNING. ' Uncle Sam "You fellows In future want to be careful about the trouble t

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MISS LILLIAN HORTON WINS PRIZE.

Miss Lillian Horton, of North 9th street is awarded the Palladium's $1 "tip prize" for the best piece of news for the past week. Miss Horton "tipped off" the story which the Palladium published yesterday morning, concerning the attempted robbery, and assault, at the home of Mrs. Ora Miller in Liberty. Other good stories came in through the medium of the prize offer last week, but none in anyway approached the Miller story in news significance. The prize which the Palladium gives Miss Horton does not fully express the paper's gratitude for her kindness. The story would have been missed had it not been for her, and the Palladium readers would have been with out one of the best news stories developed in several weeks, ' The prize is on again for this week. It does not always take a big story to win it. Some weeks few big things happen. Try to win the prize this week.

BRYAN CLAIMS HE WAS MISQUOTED Peerless Leader" Says Government Ownership Statements Were Twisted. WHAT HE REALLY DID SAY IF RAILROADS ARE TO CONTROL GOVERNMENT THEN IT WOULD BE BEST TO HAVE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. Publishers Press! East Radford,. Vt., Sept. 16. "My Madison Square Garden speech has been misrepresented and misquoted," said William J. Bryan, in an interview on the subject of government ownership of railroads. He denies that in that or any other speech he declared unequivocally for government ownership of railroads. He says an alter cate proposition would be forced upon the people if these corporations continued their present disregard of the rights of the people. "If the question before the people s, shall these corporations continue without check of any kind in their present methods or shall we have government ownership? the answer is government ownership," said the "peerless leader." "If the corporations can be controlled and regulated i the interest of the people, then government ownership, may not, for the present, be necessary." WANTS REQUIRED SUPPORT Lillian Charles Sues Divorced Husband for Money Due to Her Minor Child. Through her attorneys, Robbins and Starr, Lillian Charles has filed motion and affidavit of attachment against Marion Charles. It is alleged that April 9, 1906, the plaintiff was granted a divorce from the defendant with the provision made by the court, that the defendant was to pay $3 per week toward the care and maintenance of the child. The order has not been coni; vnlied -with for the past five weeks,"

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IMPROVING

ENTIRE ROADBED James Bannahan Tells of the Work That is Beinig Done Along the Line. MUCH GRAVEL BEING LAID CONTEMPLATED IMPROVEMENTS SHOULD MADE ROADBED AS GOOD AS IT CAN BE MADE WITH GRAVEL. James Bannaham, or Peru, foreman of the shovel gang on the C. C. &Li.. was in the city . yesterday visiting friends. He reports that in the neighborhood of 90 yards of gravel are laid on the road each day. , The C. C. & Li. railroad is paying particular attention to their roadbed and it is tnought by the authorities of the road, that it will be second to none when the present series of improvements are completed. The road has alraedy received the congratulations of their friends for the excellent up hill battle they are fighting against the Pennsylvania as competitors for the Cincinnati traffic. The condition of the road when it first started, and the road of the present time are as different as two railroads could he. The work nf ernveling will be continued for some time and it will not stop until the roadbed is in the best of shape. STRUCK BY BARBED WIRE Isaac Houck Is Injured While Putting Up a Fence on His Farm Near Centerville. Centerville, Ind., Sept 1C. (Spl.) Isaac Lu Houck met with a painful accident on Thursday while at work on his farm south of Centerville. Mr. Houck was stretching a barbed wire on a fence, when the stretcher slipped and the barbed wire struct Mr. Houck on the head, infiicting several gashes. Mr. Houck was able to drive home, when a physician was called to w up the cuts. -

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YEARLY MEETING REGIUS III WEEK Committees Now Busy at Work Getting Ready for the Big Annual Event. OVER HUNDRED DELEGATES SAME PLAN OF ENTERTAINING VISITORS WILL BE FOLLOWED AS IN PAST MEETINGS MEALS IN THE BASEMENT. The Indiana Yearly Meeting, which is the largest in the world, will con vene one week from tomorrow morn ing at the East End Friends church when Clerk Timothy Nicholson will make the opening address. The preliminary business and affairs of the meeting will be settled and gone over on that day and the meeting proper will open on Wednesday. It is ex pected that the number of persons at tending this year will be larger than ever before in the history of the con vention. The matter of accommodating the many visitors has received the care ful attention of the - Committee on Entertainment of which Mr. Nickol son is the chairman, and it has been decided that the general rule followed in former years, will be carried out in this regard this year. , A canvass will be made of the homes of the various members of the church to find out if they will take boarders, how many, if they -will furnish rooms and meals to gether or simply one or the other and the prices thereof. The list of this information will be posted in the vestibule of the church, where the vis itors may select their rooming quar ters for the time of the meeting. The ministers from out of the city will be taken care of by the local church and no expense will be placed upon them. During the meeting there will be an association of women who will serve meals in the basement of the church at twenty-five Gents pr r.eal, or if a ticket for five is bought, at twenty cents per meal. Delegates to the meeting are ap pointed at the various quarterly meeting? ami will average about ten to each, making a total of over a hunrdred delegates. Of the thirteen yearly meetings on this continent, eleven are represented at the local meeting. PROF. HARRIS ENGAGED He Will Assume Charge cf th First M..E. Church Choir at Next Sunday's Services. The Official Bjr.r 3 of the 1st M. E. Crurch'have engaged Prof. J. Lk. Har ris recently and he will asscme charge ncrt: Sunday. - Irof. Harris recently came furmi ISooruibgion. I1K anrl is a teacher of void culture haIr.i his studio in the MacL'ic Temple.

HER DRESS WAS CUT AND WOUNDS WERE INFLICTED Bloodhounds Put on the Trail and go to Home of Laboring Man, Who Proves His lnnocence Another Clue.

Eldorado, Ohio, Sept. 16.- (Spl.) While her husband was at a neigh-j boring farm, a masked man entered) the home of Mrs. Iewls Miller. Hving two miles west of here this morning at ten o'clock and after cutting,' her on the arm and leg with a large pocket knife, criminally assaulted! her. Mrs. Miller has been In feeblal health for the past six weeks and' with the shock today, her condition. Is precarious. Blood hounds were sent from Dayton and after readily picking up a! trail at the Miller home fol'owcd It to the house of Edward Wilps. a married laboring man living here. Twice' the dogs were tried and each tiaia they followed the same trail. Wilps Has an Alibi. The authorities called on Mr. Whilps to give an account of hi' whereabouts during the day and ho proved conclusively that he was In the city all morning. Tonight several boys reported that wills in the woods of Isaac May, near the Miilerj home, they saw a man. apparently trying to hide from them. The degs have been taken to these woods and an effort will be made to follow the man. Excitement Is Intense 'and should the guilty person be found a lynching may follow. Assault a Fiendish One. The assault was a fiendish one. MrJ Miller had an errand to make to the home of Jacob Ricker. less than an eighth of a mile distant. He was at the Ricker hme less than a half hour and In that time the deed was committed. On returning home he found his wife lying unconscious. He quickly called Mr. Ricker who aid-' ed him in reviving Mrs. Miller. When, she regained consclouness she told the story of the hi ions act. She said her husband hac lardly left the' house when a masked man entered and pounced upon her before sho' could even scream. He brandished a knife which he used when she tried to free herself. The knife cut through Mrs. Miller's dress Infiictingj a wound on the arm and her leg. Mrs. Miller is about twenty elr,, years old. EX-GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN DEAD! Aaron Thomas Bliss Passed, Away at Milwaukee Early J Yesterday Morning. PARALYSIS WAS THE CAUSE; DECEASED WAS A WEALTHY! LUMBER DEALER TWICE ELECTED GOVERNOR AND SERVED IN CONGRESS. Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 16. Aaron Thomas Bliss, ex-governor of Michigan and a wealthy lumber man of Saginaw, died this morning at 4 o'clock' at Sacred Heart tanatorium of paralysis. . f Ex-Governor Bliss jcame to Sacred Heart 'sanatorium in July. About a year ago he had a stroke of paralyjbis and he had partially recovered when he came here. He remained r.ntil August 10, when he returned to Sagi naw greatly improved. His condition becoming wore. he returned to Milwaukee with Mrs. Bliss, his family physician and a nurse a week ago. His condition be gan to Improve until a sudden change for the worse Su;.!av Inorning. He sustained a" second Etroka of paraly sis and aied almost immediately. The deceased had a busy political life. He had bee.i aiderman. super visor and member of the board cl education of Saginaw; was state Senator In 18S2: member of the boar,, to locate the Michigan soldiers" home member of congress from the , Sth Michigan district from 1S$9 to J8Sl; aside on the staff of Gov. Alger in department con-ma nder G. A. R. 1897; elected governor of Michigan in 1900 and re-elected In 1902 on the Republican ticket.