Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 252, 9 October 1906 — Page 1

MQWB ED ABIUMc VOL. XXXI. NO. 252. Richmond, Indiana, Tuesday Morning, October 9, 1906. Single Copies, One Cent.

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L BANK WILL BUILD A FINE HEW HOME Present Banking Room and Store Rooms, of Thos. F. McDonnell and Wm. E. Jenkins to Be Used. WILL BE 2 STORIES HIGH AND IS TO COST $75,000 Capital Stock of Institution Will be Increased to $251,000, Making It Strongest Bank in Eastern Indiana. Richmond's and Pastern Indiana's tdggest bank institution, the Second National Bank Is hot only to increase its capital stock to $250,000, but the bank aiso is soon to have a new home which will be adequate to its needs, as well as being an architectural adornment to Richmond's leading thoroughfare. For many weeks it has been known that the Second National Bank contemplated these things, but it was not until yesterday that formal announcement was made relative to the action of the Board of Directors at the meeting held on Saturday. Resources will Be $625,000. The present capital of the Second National bank is $150,000, the surplus is $150,000 and the undivided profits amount to $75,000. Additional stock to the value of $100,000, will be issued in due course of time and wiljbe sold for $250,000. The money thus raised will be divided as follows: $100,000 ad ditional capital, making the total cap ital of the bank $250,000 and $150,000 will be added to the surplus fund. This will give the Second National bank total resources of $625,000, mak ing it one of the strongest banking institutions in the middle west, and three times stronger than any bank in Eastern Indiana. " Though the new stock will not be issued for several weeks, options have already been taken upon the entire amount, the present stockholders having been given the first opportunity to subscribe to the new block of stock. In addition to the present stockholders, the new issue will bring into the institution a number of prominent and very substantial business men who Rave heretofore not been identified . with the Second National. Building to Cost $75,000. Furthermore, the enlarged Second National Bank will in the near future commence the construction of what will be when completed, the finest banking building in Indiana, not excepting Indianapolis. The new struc ture will be erected upon the site of the building occupied at present by the Second Natiorfal Bank, McDonnell's drug store and the Jenkins Jew'elry store, giving a frontage of sixtysix feet on Main street and a depth extending from Main to the first alley north. The cost of the structure will be approximately $75,000, including the furnishings. The plans originally contemplated railed for an office building of perhaps five or six stories in height, but within the past week the "directors have decided that the new structure shall be a banking house exclusively, and it Is likely, therefore, that the structuroJwill not be over two stories In height. The plans have not been drawn and the material that will be used has not been definitely decided Upon." It cannot be told at this time just when work on the bank's new home will begin, though likely it will be several months. During the visit of D. G. Reid to Richmond, the past week, matters concerning the building project were discussed and the plans in general agreed upon as above stated EDITOR UP FOR CONTEMPT Henry O. Eldridge Called to Answer for Editorial Criticism Case . at Goshen. Goshen, Ind.. October 8. (SpT.") Henry O. Eldrigee, editor of . the Middlebury Independent, has jrr-ated a sensation by intimating through the columns of his newspaper, that Judge James S. Dodge, of the Thirty-fourth judicial district, has been influenced in his decision by peamit politics. A bench warrant for Eldridge has been issued by Judge Dodge, for alleged contempt of court, and he has been cited to appear on the 16th inst. Judge Dodge has excluded the press from his dockets and records. He has issued orders not to allow'newspaper men inside the bar of the courtroom, nor in any of the offices under the control of the court. Judge Dodge's radical decisions have caused much comment among lawyers and Vnany appeals have been taken from his court. Gone to Jamestown, N. Y. Cambridge City, Oct. S. (Spl.) Mrs. Amanda MauR left for Jamestown. N. Y., this morning, where she will make her home with her daughter. Miss Lillian Mauk, for the winter.

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. . r INDIANA AND OHIO Showers with changing temperature. MANY LEADERS TO HELP OUT HUGHES Root, Cannon and Shaw will Deliver Speeches in New York Campaign. TAFT BOOKED FOR WEST ROOSEVELT IS TO PLAY A THINK ING PART AND WILL NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TAKE THE STUMP. ' - - Washington, October 8. Secretary of State EHhu Root is to make a campaign speech in New York city on October 22. He will speak in Carnegie Hall. This announcement was made today by Chairman Sherman, of the Republican congressional committee, after a conference with the President. Mr. Sherman also announced that Secretary Shaw and Speaker Cannon would take an active part in the New York campaign. Mr. Sherman also said that Secrei tary Taft would be asked to take a part in the campaign if he found itw convenient to do so after his return, from Cuba. If he consents the Secre-. tary will be asked to speak in the, West. It originally was intended to send Secretary Taft to Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa. Roosevelt Gives Advice. Representative Sherman, Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, and Representative Overstreet, of Indiana, had a conference with President Roosevelt at the White House last night in. regard to campaign work. "There has been no suggestion in any responsible quarter that the Pres ident will make speeches in the New York campaign," said Mr. Sherman. "It would be unprecedented. No one in authority has even thought of asking the President to speak." In discussing the situation in New York State and elsewhere with Mr. Sherman, the President is following out the wishes of the party leaders that they have the benefit of his advice in the conduct of their i electioneering work. President Aids Hughes. In the talk that he had with Charles E. Hughes on October 1, while the President's train was running between Jersey City and Trenton, the President made several suggestions to Mr. Hughes, and he will not hesitate to indicate his views as to the course the Republicans should pursue in the State and congression al contests. As Mr. Sherman declared however, the President has not been asked and there is no thought of asking him to speak in the New York campaign. CAPT. COMLV GETS BACK FAIR NAME Court Martial Acquits Him and Secretary of Navy Approves the Action. TRIAL COURT UNANIMOUS COMLY HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH NEGLECT OF DUTY FOR ALLOWING ALABAMA TO COLLIDE WITH ILLINOIS. IPublishers' Pre"-' Washington, Oct. S. Acting Secre tary of the Navy Newberry today forally approved the verdict of acquittal in the can of Captain STsnrnel P. Comly, United States Navy, who was recently tried by court martial on the charge of neglect of duty. .Captain Comly commanded the battleship Alabama last July when that ship collided with the battleship Illinois off Newport, R. I., and his trial was ordered by the secretary of the navy on the recommendation of ' a court of inquiry which investigated the accident. One high official of the navy department said today that Captain Conily should never have been tried as it was evident from the outset that he was in no wise responsible for the collision of his ship with the Illinois. It is understood that tha trial court was unanimous in its finding of . "not guilty." The navy department .today received the findings of the court martial in the case of lieutenant Alfred W. Pressey, who was officer of the Deck on the Alabama at the time of the colli sion. It is believed that a verdict i of "not guilty was also reached in j his case. . 1

BEVERIDGE BEGINS TOUR NEXT WEEK

The Senior Senator To Speak in Many Towns Through out the State. DISCUSSES THE ISSUES BEFORE LEAVING FOR BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, POINTS OUT SOME TARIFF SCHEDULES WHICH SHOULD BE REVISED. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 8. (Spl.) Senator Beveridge left here Sunday night for Boston, where tonight he addressed the Republicans of Boston in the opening of the campaign. Before leaving the . senator had some interesting comments to make on the present political problems. "The present campaign is more of a eulogy than anything else' he said. "There is universal approval of the great laws that were passed by the last congress. By these I mean the railroad rate law, the meat inspec tion law and the pure food law. No one is complaining about them, so that there is nothing for us to defend along those lines. "As to future issues, there is a general approval of railroad regulation and' absolutely none for Government ownership of railroads. This sentiment is found everywhere. I believe that there are some schedules in the tariff that should be revised, and wherever I have said this in my speeches, there has been universal approval. I do not mean that there should be a tariff tearup, but that changed conditions require some readjustment in some particular places. t Occupation of Cuba. "From what I can judge of the expressions of the people where I have been it seems'to be the general opinion that at some time our occupation of Cuba must become permanent. If we establish a new government in Cuba and then leave it to them, there will be another breakup just as there has been now. It is the nature of all the people in the tropics. There fore, the public seems to think there will be a necessity for permanent occupation. When this will occur is another mat2r." When Senator Beveridge returns to Indiana he will make speeches in the state campaign as follows: Logansport, October 17; Richmond, October 18; Noblesville, October 19; Dunkirk, October 20; Hammond, October 22; Warsaw, October 23; Winamac, October 24; Terre Haute, October 25; Bloomington, October 26; Linton, October 27; Knightstown, October 29. NEGRO KILLS A NEGRO Boss at a Construction Camp is Shot by a Desperate Man Another - Bloomington Murder, i . . . .. v i .... v Bloomington, Ind., October's. Satxirday night a desperate negro named Crockett ' shot and instantly killed Buck Lewis, a negro boss employed at the Bruce Head construction camp eighteen miles northwest of this city. Lewis was a hard-working negro and had saved several hundred dollars, which, it is thought, the murderer obtained. Crockett escaped and it is not likely he will be captured. ROAD IS NOT FOR SALE President Bradford of Wisconsin Central, Makes a Statement No Consolidation With C. C. & L. Cincinnati, Oct. S. W. A. Bradford, president of the C. C. & L. and the new president of the Wisconsin. Central, says that the Wisconsin Cen tral is not for sale to any person or syndicate, and that it will not be joined with the C. C. & L., but will continue its connections as at present. The statement of Mr. Bradford dispels the reports that the Wisconsin Central is in the market to be purchased by the highest bidder. From all indications here will be a harmony of interests between the C. C. & L. and the Wisconsin Central, as soon as the former again gets an entrance into Chicago. The Wisconsin Central is 1,200 miles long, enters Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaikee and other Northwest centers, and is now building to Duluth. Put on Pension List. Madison, Ind., (Spl) Professor J. B. Gafritt, fifty years with Hanover College, now seventy-four years old, has been placed on the pension list of the Carnegie Foundation at a good salary for the remainder of his life. This retires him from teaching in college as an emeritus. - y Administrators' Day. The , Wayne County Court will hear the reports, and make the examination of the reports, of the various administrators that have ; been appointed, on Oct. 20 and November Srd, ;

Dollars to doughnuts John D. Rockefeller would not swap, his own boyhood days for those of his wellguarded grandson! . , The grandson of Rockefeller is as closely guarded as if he were some great treasure. News Item.

"CIGARETTE" RAKER HAS LEFT CANADA Legislative Briber Has Gone from Hamilton, Ont., to England. 1 LIVING AT LONDONDERRY SHERIFF SOURBIER OF INDIANAPOLIS, SAW BAKER WHILE HE WAS AT HAMILTONWENT UNDER NAME OF CRAWFORD. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct, S. (Spl.) "Cigarette Baker," legislative bribe giver and erstwhile representative of the cigarette interests when the Parks anti-cigarette bill was before the last Indiana legislature, isn't living the life of a Millionaire in Canada any more, according to Sheriff Ed ward Sourbier, who returned this morning from Hamilton, Ont., which is said to have been Baker's temporary home until a few months ago. Sourbier said today that he did not go to Hamilton tto see Baker and make an effort to induce him to return to Indianapolis and face the charge to bribery which hangs over his head here. Sourbier accounted for his presence in Hamilton by saying he went there on purely personal business. Baker's present whereabouts is not known tc Sourbier, the latter says, although he admits that the much-wanted representative of the' cigarette trust was in Hamilton for several months, and until June 6, 190tJ, when he left for some unknown place. "No, I didn't go to Hamilton to see Baker and try to get him back in In-' dianapolis by persuasion," Sourbier said. "I was there on personal business, business which has nothing to do with the sheriff's office. Baker was in Hamilton up until June 6, when he left. Where he went to I fo not know. Since he went away however, I have had a letter from him and the letter was postmarked Londonderry, Ireland. Known as John L. Crawford. Baker went under the name of j John L. Crawford in Hamilton. I saw him on the street there about the first of last June. I did not talk to him then, and made no effort, to get him to return to Indianapolis with me. I have been informed since then that Balrer left Hamilton June 6, about a week after I saw him there. I knew he was not in Hamilton when I went there this time, so, naturally, I did not go for the purpose of inducing him to come back home with me. There is only one man in Hamilton who knows who Baker or 'Crawford was, and he is a police officer." "Dou you think Baker is in Londonderry?" was asked the sheriff. "Well, I don't know. I don't suppose he is; you can't' tell anything about it," , ' Sheriff Sourbier has stated several times during the last few months that he hoped to induce Baker to re turn to Indianapolis and face the charge of bribery against him here.

WHITEWATER IS HONORED INVITED TO INDIANAPOLIS Degree Team of the Local Lodge of Odd Fellows Will Put on First Degree Work Before Grand Lodge November 20. The ' degree saff of Whitewater Lodge, I. O. O. F. of this city has been highly honored by Grand Master Hollywood, who in a letter received yesterday by L. A. Handley, secretary of Whitewater lodge, formally and officially invites the degree staff to visit Indianapolis on the night of November 20, during the session of the Grand Lodge, and exemplify the First Degree. The invitation has been accepted and Whitewater team will immediately set to work rehearsing for the event- On Friday night of this week at the regular session of Whitewater lodge the team will discuss matters relative to the forthcoming visit. Perhaps no other degree team in Indiana in any order has gained a greater distinction than Whitewater, and the fact that an invitation has been received from the Grand Lodge to exemplify the ritualistic teachings of Odd Fellowship, indicates the high place the organization holds in the State. INJURED IN A RUNAWAY Arthur Leisure is Lacerated by a Barbed Wire Fence Second Accident of the Kind. Rushville, Ind., Oct.- 8. (Spl) While Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Leisure and little child were driving to this city from their home, near Henderson, their horse ran away, upsetting the buggy into a barbed wire fence and demolishing it. Mrs. Leisure and babe were thrown clear of the fence and escaped with but few bruises. Mr. Leisure, however, held on to the lines and was dragged along the fence. His clothes were badly torn to shreds and his flesh was badly lacerated, especially about the- right arm. This is the second aclident of the kind that has occurred in Rush county within a week. Dr. Cregor, of Carthage, being injured in exactly the same way. DESKS LATE IN ARRIVING It Was Not Possible to Open the New v School in District No. 11 as Contemplated. Owing -to the fact that the desks had not arrived for the new district School No. 11, just west of the city, the regular winter sessions of the school did not begin yesterday, as was contemplated by S-pt. Jordan and Trustee Potter. AH of the other fixtures of the4 school building are completed and ready for use. It is thought .by - the authorities that school can be begun j next Monday and plans will be laid to that end. j

'$ TRIAL BEGUH AT MUIICIE Trouble is Found in Getting a - Jury to Try the Young Society Leader. 7 GOOD COUNSEL EMPLOYED HARD FIGHT WILL BE MADE TO EXHONERATE EX-MANAGER OF GARMENT COMPANY OF EMEMBEZZLEMENT. The trial of George C. Benham, the young society leader of Muncie, well known in Richmond began yesterday. Young Benham it is alleged misappropriated funds while manager and secretary of the Muncie Gar ment Company. A dispatch from Man cie relative to the case says: Nearly the entire day was spent in an effort to get a jury to try George C.Benham, the ex manager and ex sec retary of the Muncie Garment com pany,, on charges growing out of the wrecking of that institution .and his alleged appropriation of sums of mon ey said to aggregate about $45,000. Everybody in the county, almost has read in the newspapers the story of Benham, society leader- and respected young business man, and many of the prospective jurymen had formed or expressed some opinion. In addition to the regular Circuit Court jury a special venire of thirty-five names had been drawn. Late in the day, how ever, a jury was completed and Prosecutor Albert "E. Needham outlined the case of the State. Benham, home from a summer spent in the north, seems to have gained some flesh but he shows plainly the effects of worry. "The thirty-six' charges brought against him by the officers of the bankrupt company" include forgery, grand larceny, embezzlement and obtaining money under false pretenses. Four of the charges have been combined in the trial that is now in progress. For Benham's defense there -appear Henry M. Span, of Indianapo lis, and ex-State Senator Walter L. Ball, of . Muncie. Prosecutor Bert Needham. in charge of the State's interests has always been a friend of the accused while Will H. Thompson & Thompson, assisting the State's attorney, was a member of the sarnie social clubs to which Benhkm belonged." ' . - CONDITION IS SERIOUS Recent Stroke of Paralysis Suffered May Prove Fatal. . The Palladium last night received a telegram from Dudley Cates, who is now attending school in San Jose California, stating that theRev. J. B. Wakefield, formerly rector of the St. Paul's Episcopal church in this city, is very seriously ill as the result of a paralytic stroke. The Rev. Dr. Wakefield is now eighty three years and. his advanced age will make it particularly hard for. him to recover.

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A GREAT PROGRAM IS TO BE SECURED FOR MAY FESTIVAL

Executive Committee of the Association Made Arrangements for Musical Treat at Meeting Last Night. TO SOLICIT GUARANTEE FUND IN NEXT FEW DAYS A French Cantat May be Imported by Prof. Earhart and Sung by Big Chorus Soloists Without Peer. At a meeting of the executive com mittee for the 1907 May Musical Festival, held last night at the salesrooms of the Starr Piano company, it was practically decided that thej Theodore Thomas Orchestra should be engaged for next year's event, This, however, will depend ' largely, upon the support that is given the management by the people of Richmond as either the entire one thousand tickets must be sold, or a guarantee fund of $5,000 be raised, before the orchestra can be booked. The work of raising the guarantee fund will be begun at once, and it ia thought that this can be completed by the latter part of this week. 'It is thought that the merchants who have heretofore subscribed to this fund will gladly do so again, because of the fact that the festival has always, been a paying venture, and they have ,not been called upon to" pay their shajof the guarantee fund. To Import French Cantata. One of , the probable features of next year's event will be the rendering of a French Cantata, by the) Richmond chorus under the direction of Prof. Earhart. The selection which Prof. Earhart hopes to be able to give will be entirely original in this country, never having been given in the United States. The actual work of the rehearsing for the festival will not begin until the larger attractions are booked. , According to the statement of Prof. Earhart the Theodore Thomas Orchestra will carry with" it one of the best quarters known in musical ciri cles In this country. .' It is composed of Corainne-Rlder-Kelsy, soprano; Janet Spencer, contralto; Edward Johnson, tenor; and Herbert Witherspoon, bass. Three of the members of . this organization were soloists at the Cincinnati May , Musical Festival this year and re-, ceived great praise for their work. REDUCES RATES THE LITIGATION DISMISSED Road Lowers Its Rates on Carrying Indiana Coal From 25 to l z Per - Cent Railroad Commission Notified of It. ' By a slashing cut of from 25 to 27 1-2 per cent, in all rates on Indiana coal, the Monon railroad has practically cleaned the boards of its many differences with the Railroad Commission. Steps have been taken recently by representatives of the railroad to come to some basis of settlement of the cases that are pending In the Appellate Court between the Monon 'and the commission, and Saturday It was announced that the commission had received a list of revised coal rates affecting every town on the Monon railroad. These rates are in harmony with those promulgated by the commission and previously contested by the railroad, so the commission ordered the suits it had pending against the Monon dismissed. One 'appeal the railroad has against 'the commis-1 sion was not dismissed by the Monon, owing to the fact that this suit brings up the constitutionality of the Railroad Commission law. The commission, however, was to move for the dismissal of this suit in the Appellate Court yesterday on the ground that the rate differences that led to this suit have been settled. . Bryan to Speak at Eaton. Dayton, O., Oct. 8. (Spl) The alleged Itinerary of W. J. Bryan was sent over the wires Saurday, but Chairman Garber declares that so far as it concerns Ohio it is entirely wrong. He has not yet given out the assignments of Mr. Bryan in , this state. Mr. Campbell stated in his Hamilton speech that ..Mr. Bryan would in each county of the Third district and it . is exjrected that the speeches will be made in Dayton. Hamilton and Eaton.

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