Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 261, 18 October 1906 — Page 1

ABIUMo VOL. XXXI. NO, 261. Richmond, Indiana, Thursday Morning, October. 18, 1906. Single Copies, One Cent.

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5 DEAD; 100 HURT FROM EXPLOSION

AT FUECOVERY

Ohio's Historic Spot a Scene

of Death and Destruction

as Result of a Discharge of

Dynamite.

HOMES MADE HOSPITALS

WHILE THE FLAMES RAGE

Fire Departments From Near

by Towns Go to Rescue of

Little City List of Fatali ties Will Probably Grow.

rpublishers PressCelina, Ohio., Odt. 17. The dynamite explosion in the Minarding Hardware Company's store at Fort Recovery, Ohio, at noon today wrecked the entire middle section of thel town. Four persons were killed, two are missing and at least a hundred persons injured. Physicians had to be summoned from outside points to aid the injured. The property damage will reach $100,000. Buildings in the neighborhood of the hardware store wrecked and the hardware store Itself was demolish

ed. Fire followed the earthquake like shock and for a time it seemed as If the entire city as doomed. The fire apparatus and -firemen was sent from this city and other towns however, and were successful In checking the blaze before the town had been completely destroyed. ' As the explosion occurred in the business section at a busy time of the day there were many people in the streets who were injured. The fprce of the explosion broke every wradow in the town and the shock

whs felt In some or the surroun dinar'

towns. The List cf Fatiiities. The dear are:

Miss Cleo Weis, aged 23,, book

keeper. ' : " ' ; ; ' ' ; Henry Lammers, aged 23. Joe Rosener, aged 45. Charles Wagner, aged 40.

A customer and traveling salesman whose Identity has not been learned

are reported missing. The injured are:

John McMullen, leg almost torn

from body, cannot live.

Mrs. John McMullen, leg cut and

side gashed. D. Kidder, leg broken. ' Al. Rishler, leg broken. Henry Claughman, Internal injur ies.

Mrs. George Record, body badly,

bruised.

Many others were injured but all were able to go to -their homes and

in the contusion their names wertl

not obtained. Cause of Explosion Unknown.

The cause of the explosion Is not

known. It is suggested that a gaso'

line tank In the building caught firet

In some way and exploded, setting

off a large quantity of dynamite which was kept in the place. It ty declared however that the explosioif occurred in the engine room of th(j

Journal Printing Company, next dooij

to the hardware store and that the jar set off the dynamite In the store, Boh the store and the printing offic

were destroyed so it cannot be determined where the first explosion occurred. Just a few minutes before the terrific crash occurred a parade had taken place "through the main street In front of the hardware store and printing establishment. The street was crowded with people watching the parade. People living on the outskirts of the downtown section rushed to the rescue of the injured. They . fountf. sthe street lined with unconscious men and women who had been stunned by the explosion. They found many persons suffering from cuts from broken glass and some were crushed by the walls of the building which had collapsed. It was then found that the fird

was assuming alarming proportionsj Xearby towns were called upon anr firemen and apparatus were rushed here from Cold Water, St. Henry and Portland, Ind. By 2 o'clock the fire, fighters had succeeded in checking the blaze. A dozen buildings were? destroyed before the fire could be goU ten under control.

THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA Fair Thursday and. Friday; fresh southwest winds. v OHIO Fair Thursday; Friday partly cloudy; fresh to brisk southeast winds.

Circulation: Yesterday 3165 Previous Day 3145 Richmond and ' Wayne county's appreciation of the Palladium still continues to manifest itself in increased circulation every day. You have watched this circulation report space every day' since Monday and have seen the number of subscribers increase from 3,061 to 3,165 in this short space of time. No better example of the growing popularity of the Palladium could be asked. It is a fitting acknowledgement of the Palladium as the newsiest paper published in Richmond or Wayne county.

BLOT PLACED OH ' HIS FAIR NAME IS

REMOVED BY JURY

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QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP

Dr. FranK brouwer Atter a Trial Lasting For Ten Days

is "Exhonerated of Charge

of Wife Murder.

PLEA OF HIS ATTORNEY

MOVED JURY TO TEARS

Freed Physician Will Resume His Practice at Toms River and Mav Prosecute His

Slanderer.

RRGUED IN CIRCUIT COURT

Decided That Statement of Claim

Agent Should be Taken in Litigation Involving Richmond Street and Interurban Company. " "

A rather unusual feature in connection with a damage suit arose yesterday in the "Wayne Circuit Court

relative to the cases of John S. Lac

key and Owen Dillon, both of whom

have brought suit .against the Rich mond i Street and Interurban Com

pany.. Owing to the fact that this

company is a part of the recently

formed system of traction lines which are all under one ownership , though operated independently. Attorney

Johnson, for the piaintiffs, recently

took action to ascertain just what

company was operating the line be

tween Richmond and Cambridge City

at the time of the accident -which

caused the death of Mr. Lackey's

horse and which seriously injured Dillon. In answer to interrogatories filed by Mr. Johnson, answers were tnade in a sworn statement from the claim agent of the Indianapolis, Columbus & Eastern Traction Company. Attorney Johnson, yesterday contended that the answer to the question as to the ownership of the line in question should be made by some officer of the company. By agreement however, between the attorneys, the answer of the claim agent as to the ownership, is to be taken as authoriative, thus giving assurance to the plaintiffs that their action for damages cannot be invalidated by a technical error, which the naming of the wrong company as defendant would be. The case will be tried in November.

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Toms River, N. J., Oct. 17.-Dr

Frank L. Brouwer's prophecy of last

Sunday afternoon that before the

next Sabbath day came he would be

a iree man ana me dioi piaceu ujiuu

his name by the state of New Jersey,

which charged him with the murder

of his wife wiped out, was fulfilled

shortly before six o'clock tonight

when the jury, which has been lis

tening to the evidence in the case for the last ten day's returned a ver

dict of not guilty.

The miblic generally have been

confident of an acquittal in the case since last night when three doctors, all well and favorably known in Nor

thern New Jersey, swore positively

that it was ptomaine poisoning, and not arsenic, strychnine or ground

glass, that killed Mrs. Brouwer

Their evidence was given in such a straight forward, matter of fact

manner, that it naturally impressed

the jury and all efforts of the prose

cution to fill the missing gaps in the

chain of circumstancial evidence,

against Dr. Brouwer failed utterly. Shook Hands With Jury.

Immediately after the verdict was rendered Dr. Brouwer was discharged

He shook hands with and personally

thanked every member of the jury and then went to the home of hia

counsel where he held a levee for

short time and met many of tha

townspeople who have all along maintained that he was perfectly innocent of the crime charged. Today was devoted to the summing up on both sides and the charging1 of the jury by Judge Hendrickson. The dramatic feature was the argument for the defense by Attorney Wilson who, after talking for two hours, wound up a most eloquent plea by begging: "Send this man home to his aged mother and motherless children." . Jurymen Cry Like Babes. Three members of the jury were

GOVERNOR

HANLY

POTS SHOULDER TO

FAIRBANKS

BOOM

In Speech at Spiceland He Re-

clares That Vice President is Well Qualified to Succeed Roosevelt.

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HE HIMSELF DECLARES

HE SEEKS NO OFFICE

In Reply to Ralston's Speech

The Governor Denounces it as a Jumbled Misstatement of Facts.

DON'T WAIT TO BE BLOWN UP. When the President has a job at his disposal, ever notice the great majority of citizens who want it? In Russia the Czar is not troubled that way.

SESSIONS BEGIN

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MONDAY

MING

The Rev. M. Colver to Address

Opening Meeting of Olive Branch Synod.

PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK

IN ADDITION TO REGULAR BUSI

NESS ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO MISSIONARY SOCIETY'S WORK.

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Red MenvHave Returned

Richmond's delegation of Red Men

returned last evening from Indiana

polis where they have been attending

the sessions of the Great Council.

ONE OF THE FIXTURES AT WASHINCTON.

To Confer First Degree. Thi evening at the regular meeting of Herman Lodge of Odd Fellows, the First degree will be conferred upon a class of candidates by the degree team from Whitewater lodge. Tomorrow night Whitewater lodge meets and another class will also receive the first degree.

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ALVEY A. ADEE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT. Alvey A. Adee. second assistant secretary of state, is one fixture of that office. Administrations change and first assistant secretaries come and go but Adee stays "on the Job," despite all the vicisBitudps of politics. entered tbe diplomatic service in 1S70 as secretary of legation at Madrid an.! was transferred to the state department in 1877. President Cleveland np pointed hiui second assistant secretary in lSSti He was present at tin signing of the treaty of peace between Spain and the United States aiid bus been actine secretary ef state several times. - -

The Olive Branch Synod which is

composed of Lutheran churches in Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky

will convene at 7:30 o clock Monday

night in the St. Paul's Lutheran church. . The opening sermon will be delivered by the Rev. M. Colver, of Middle-

town, Ind., who is the president of the Synod. One hundred and fifty persons are expected for the convention and provision for. their enter

tainment have been made by the members of the St. Paul's congrega

tion and those of the First English

Lutheran' church. It is expected that

the meeting will last for at least four days with a possible extension of a day or two, which may be occasioned by certain affairs which may come up. In addition to the regular synod's business will be the affairs of the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society which will probably take the better part of one day.

A special program of .devotional mu

sic for choir and organ has been ar

ranged by Organist Charles Weis-

brod. Program cf Sessions. The general outline of the conven

tion program is as follows:

Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock:

Opening sermon by the Itev. M. Col-rer.

Tuesday, 9 A. M. Opening session

consisting of Communion services for the Synod and the Women's ;

Home and Foreign Missionary So

ciety,' sermon by the Rev. H. is.. Sen-

ner, or Louisville, Ky., organization of the Synod, reports by the presi

dent and Treasurer, election of president, secretary, treasurer and statis

tical secretary. Appointment of committees for the work of the

synod. Regular work of the Synod

and reports of the committees.

Evening A Union Meeting of the

Synod and the Women's convention.

Wednesday and Thursday Consid

eration of the Synod work in the field and reports pertaining thereto. Wednesday evening, sermon by the Rev.

S. S. Waltz, D. D., Louisville, Ky.; Thursday evening, sermon by the Rev. Carl Zinesmeister, of Nashville,

Tenn.

Friday the Board of Directors of

Wittenberg College, at Springfield, will make their report for the past j

scholastic year. i

SPECIAL EDITION TO

SHOW BIG INDUSTRIES

Splcelano, Ind., Oct. 17. Governor

Hanly spoke to a large crowd in the

Stiegleman grove here this afternoon.

He devoted part of his speech to a

reply to Samuel M. Ralston's address

at Greenfield Tuesday night, and tho Governor did not mince words in denouncing Mr. Ralston's statements as misrepresentation and wilful perver

sion of facts. He also gave the Dem

ocratic leaders Taggart, Kern and Alonzo Greene Smith some hard

knocks.

The Governor aroused great entnu-

I siasm when he announced, for the first time in a public speech, that

Charles W. Fairbanks was the logical' nominee for the presidency in 190S. and that he was heartily in favor of his nomination. Mr. Hanly's tribute

to the Vice-president was cheered, as were his utterances in reply to Mr. Ralston.

The Palladium Will Aid Work of Showing

Our Advantages as Commercial Center.

The Palladium has always been anxious to, promote in every way possible the interests of Richmond and its industries. .This city is one of the most ' important , in Eastern Indiana in the number 'arid variety of its manufacturing industries, and these industries are of great interest to the general public. The life here as a city is based upon them. It is well for the people and the community in general to know more definitely the number and condition, the peculiar style, capacity and products of the numerous concerns which" have made and are making

Richmond well known all over the

country, and the Palladium is preparing to issue, in the near future, an edition containing accounts of as

The Governor's Address. . Governor Hanly, in replying to RaT-

ston's speech said:

"The Democratic official keynote of

the campaign was delivered Tuesday

night at Greenfield by the Hon. Sam

uel L. Ralston, the paid attorney of

the Big Four Railway Company. It

is due to Mr.- Ralston, howover, to say that he did not write it. It is not his

child. It belongs "to a syndicate.

Among the members of The syndicate who prepared it are Alonzo Greene

large a number as possible . of the Smith, Thomas Taggart and John W.

financial, manufacturing, wholesale Kern, none of whom had the courage

and jobbing plants, .with a good idea to deliver it after they had it pre-

of their special products and the pared.

magnitude and 'capacity of each. "The speech is a" seasoned one. It

This edition will be the result of was prepared days ago, and would

special care and study by thoroughly have been delivered earlier but for

competent representatives of the pa- the inability of the syndicate who

per who will call upon the manufac- wrote it to find some one who would

turers, real estate, commercial and be willing to deliver it.

financial lines. The Governor after answering Mr.

The intention is to give a careful Ralston then went on to show what

and accurate account of the business the Republican party in Indiana had;

interestes represented in this general done to cleanse the politics . of tho

edition and the advantage of such state.

showing will be evident to all the He said:

business men. The object is to show wnne i care proiounaiy ior uia

Richmond as a great manufacturing good opinion or my countrymen, i

and financial center, and to that end knew in the beginning there would bo

the hearty co-operation of everyone is solicited.

BEVERIDGE HERE TONIGHT

TO BE A GALA AFFAIR

Reception Committee to Meet Sen

ator Who Will Probably Arrive

This Afternoon Speaking Begins

at 8 O'clock.

Tonight the political fire works of

the city will be touched off in a Republican speech by Senator Albert J. Beverdige at the Coliseum. The doors

will open at 7:30 and the speaking

will begin at 8 o'clock. The reception committee will be composed of A. M. Garlner, county chairman, Dr. G. H.

Grant, Elwood Morris, William Plummer, S. S. Strattan, Jr., and Mat Von Pein. Over three hundred vice-presidents have been invited to officiate.

The Richmond City Band will furnish the music and there will be a large parade 'on Main street after the meeting. Up to a. late hour last night no word had been received f rom the Sen

ator as to when he will arrive in the

city, but it is expected that it will be some time in the afternoon.

OWES

SUIT NOV. 14

$5,000

vituperation and calumniation. I knew the things accomplished could not ba done without heartburnings and with

out the infliction of a wound here and

there. When the storm was fiercest

and the issue doubtful I said to my friends, I can afford to -wait for tho

deliberate judgment of my countrymen. The time will come when they'

DAMAGES ASKED know and iiderstand and appre

ciate the character of the service

rendered. I can afford to wait.'

"And I say to you now that much as

I care for your good opinion, I can still afford to wait till passion has

subsided; until personalities have been forgotten; until the wounds have healed. I can afford to wait, conscious

that the day will come when the administration will have the approval of my countrymen, and have it too.

without regard to their political con-.

victions. But, sirs, the cause at issue

can not affora to wait, ine things I ask for must be done now; the oi-. portunity is here; the hour strikes; , the occasion bursts full-blossomed and you can not afford to wait. The needs and welfare of the people, preclude that you should wait. The cause if savd, must be saved by you and saved how in this election.

Plaintiff Formerly Member of Richmond Fire Department and Was -Hurt Through Alleged Negligence of Pan Handle Railroad

ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION ON PLANT HAS BEGUN

The Pennsylvania railroad company has begun actual construction, of its electric lighting plant. Instead of a special building to house the machinery, a part of the railroad shops will be used. The electrical apparatus has been ordered and will be in position within a short- time. The company officials deny emphatically that it is the intention of the company to use this plant for supplying power for the proposed electric cars on' the Pan Handle. v It will be used exclusively to furnishing lighting for the yards, passanger and freight depots ?nd other buildings of

the company.

- The damage suit of Charles Howes against the Pennsylvania railroad

company will be called in the Wayne Circuit Court on November 14. The plaintiff formerly was a member of

the Richmon fire department and was injured as a result of being

thrown from a hose wagon, the driver

of which had been compelled to make

a very short turn jo prevent beinc

run 'down by a locomotive, at one

of the grade crossings in the city. The fact that the crossing was open

for traffic and neither flagman nor

lowered safety gates warned the driv

er of the hose wagon that the cross

ing could not be made in safety, is taken as evidence of negligence on the part of the Pennsylvania company and is the basis for the action, asked. .

COMPELLED TO REFUSE A FREE EUROPEAN TRIP

Judge Luther C. - Abbott has received an invitation from the Euro

pean Excursion, Company, to accompany one of their parties on a six weeks trip through the continent and England. Owing to several engagements which the Judge has booked he was compelled to send his regrets. The trip was to be gratis and the prop osition was made the Judge by an old friend in the East who is inter-

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Tribute to the Vice-President. "I have said that I am not a candidate for any office, present or pros- , pective. That, I think. Is broad enough, to cover the presidency, but I am willing to be specific as to that. I am not now nor shall I become a candi

date for the presidency in 1908. But there is a man in Indiana who ought ' to be a candidate for the presidency

In 1908. He has earned not only the right to be a candidate, but the nomination of his party, and the election by the people. In poise of character.

In breadth of statesmanship, In expe

rience in public affairs, in the cleanness of his life, we find that In abund- '

ance which qualifies him for the exalted office and makes of him a fit

successor of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. ! , ,

"That man ... Is", Charles W. Fair-

banks, the Vice-President of the United States. I . am for. his nomination and. for his election, not only because

be is the first citizen of my own State ; but . because of his qualities of mind

and heart and the rare qualification he has for the great trust which the

President of the United States administers." - - ...