Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 267, 24 October 1906 — Page 1
BIG MONB ABIUM. H VOL, XXXI. NO. 267. Richmond, Indiana, Wednesday Morning, October 24, 1906. Single Copy, One Cent.
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CHILD DEAD AND THE FAMILY HAS
110 BURIAL FUND
Fiction Fails to Paint Wore Cruel Picture of Poverty
and Sorrow Than Now Seen in John Vincent Home.
A WILLING FATHER HAS BEEN UNABLE TO WORK
Misfortune of Every Kind Has Beset the Family and They Have no Relatives to Which They Can Appeal.
VINCENT FAMILY, FUND.
The Palladium
.$10
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA AND OHIO Rain Wednesday except fair in extreme south; Thursday rain brisk northeast winds.
Circulation Yesterday 3363 A Week Ago 3145 Month Ago 2827
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The Palladium with the subscription of ten dollars starts a fund for
the family of John Vincent at West
ville, just four miles east of Rich
mond and it is sincerely hoped that
others will respond until the amoun
contributed reaches a large sum.
The circumstances 'which call for
such a fund could they be seen by all the Palladium readers would no doubt
result in a small fortune being raised
for the family. They became partially
Known yesterday when Mrs. Vinfent
appeared at one of the local banks to draw out the money which she had on deposit there. She saul her four
year old son had died and she wanted
the money to help in burying him
She was surprised and sadly disap
pointed when the clerk in the j bank told her that there was but twenty
five cents to the family's credit on de
posit: The mother took the money
and loft. But she did not go home.
She could not think of returning to "Westville without some money with
which to bury her child. She remain
ed in Richmond all day, going from
one store to another in an effort to
raise money. She got. but nine dol lars and in the evening, without hav
lug eaten anything all day she left for
home with a heavy heart. A Visit to Vincent Home.
Word that she had been in the city
reached the Palladium office and a representative of the Palladium went
to the Vincent home in Westville.
Here he found a story of suffering as bad as fiction ever pictured. A four
year old bos, curly headed and with Jjlue eyes lay dead. He had been the hope of the family, a child that the
fond mother had one day trusted
would enter the ministry. The two
other small tots at the home, leaned on the knees of their father and mourned the loss of their brother while the parent could not be reconciled and would not leave the side
pf his little son.
Such a scene might . be found in jnany a home but in few in this state Would the family be without visible means for burying their child. Few in
deed would there be where the parents could not look somewhere for help and find it. The circumstances
here though are cruel and unusual. Nothing But Misfortune. The Vincent family has not lived long in Westville going there in May. They have had nothing but misfortune since living there and Mrs. Vincent is anxious to have her child buried at Mt. Washington, Ohio, near Cincinnati, where her parents- live. The family feel hat they must leave Westville and don't want their child buried where they cannot go to put flowers on his grave. But there is no money with which to take the child to Cincinnati for burial. Mr. Vincent came to Richmond .from Middletown, Ohio, Ir the spring and secured employment in one of the local factories. While at work he was hit on the head by a large pulley and was incapacitated. The manager of the factory thought little about the matter and paid he injured man a small amount. The case was very serious, however. A father unable to work, heavy debts to pay, three children to support and no friends to call on is the situation which faced the
Vincent home all summer and this fall. Mrs. Vincent picked berries at the Kuth berry farm besides baking bread for sale and doing what else she could. Her husband though, willing could not do much and the condition became worse and worse until death took their favorite child. The father walked to Richmond Monday to get aid for his family and when he returned home late in the evening, unsuccessful in his mission, his sou was dad. ' Relatives Also Poor. To make the case all the more karsh, Mrs. Vincent can get no aid Continued on Page Two.)
The Palladium's circulation yesterday showed a gain of 218 over one week ago and 536 over a month ago. Pretty conclusive evidence that we are correct in stating the Palladium is the most popular newspaper in Richmond and Wayne county as judged by its constantly increasing number of readers. The Palladium has become popular rapidly more on account of its Sunday edition than anything else. Heretofore Richmond newspaper readers have missed out on Sunday as there was no Sunday paper for them. Now, however, they may have the Palladium on Sunday, filled with interesting reading. Furthermore the price of the Palladium seven days a week is no more than the price of the other dailies with only six issues each week.
HOWARD
REV. E, G.
, NAMED PRESIDENT
Richmond Minister at Head
- of Olive Branch Synod - for Coming Year.
MANY REPORTS ARE HEARD
COLLEGES IN PROSPEROUS CON
DITIONS BUT NEED OF MORE CHURCH BUILDINGS SORELY
FELT MISSIONARIES SCARCE.
DANIEL KENNEY'S DEATH
A PROMISING YOUNG MAN
End Came Monday Night in Baltimore Where he Had Resided for a Number of Years Was the Son of John Kenny of This City.
uaniei Kenny of Baltimore, JVId.J
formerly of Richmond, died in Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore on Mon
day night after a prolonged illness. His condition became very serious Monday and the young man's father,
John Kenny, of Fairview, was summoned. He left for the East, Monday morning and yesterday word came that the son had passed away. He was about 35 years of age and had been engaged in the mercantile business in Maryland for several v-ears. A wid
ow and three children survive. Mr.
Kenny was a brother of Father Ed
ward R. Kenny who died very suddenly at Indianapolis a year or so
ago. During the past summer he was in Cincinnati for treatment for several weeks and then came to Richmond for a visit to his father before returning to Baltimore. At that time it was believed he was on the road to recovery but shortly after return
ing East he again became incapacitated for business and from that time until his death was in a hospital. In addition to his father, four brothers survive. They are Thomas, John, Charles and Joseph W. Kenn The funeral will take place Friday probably at Havre de Grace, Md.
ENTICED A YOUNG
LTO
GIR
RICHMOND
Brunswick Hotel on a Serious Charge.
HE IS 45, GIRL BUT 17
One of the Leading Women on American Stag&
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The Rev. E. G. Howard, pastor of
the First Eliglish Lutheran church pf
this city was yesterday made president of the Olive Branch Synod at its meeting at the St. Paul's Lutheran church. The other officers elected
were as follows:
Secretary William S. Sigmund,
Columbus, Ind.
Treasurer B. C. Bowen, Muncie.
Statistical Secretary H. H. Comes,
Shephardsville, Ky.
After the regular election of offi
cers yesterday afternoon the various
secretaries made their reports.
The first report was that of D. D.
R. Roth, of Baltimore, who represent
ed the Foreign Missionary Board, of the church. Dr. Roth stated that al
though the foreign missionary work
conducted by the board was rapidly
becoming broader, and more efficient
from the point of interest, there was.
a deartn or men and women, wnci
felt it their duty to take up the work
of missionaries in the heathen lands.
He stated that whether it was indiff
erence to the cause or the lack of
love for the work he could not say,
but nevertheless the work so far as men and women voluntarily giving
themselves to it was not as satisfac
tory as it should be.
Publishing House Busy.
The next report was by. Henry
Bonar, the superintendent of the
Lutheran Publishing Society of Phil
adelphia, Pa., who stated that the
work of the publishing society was
growing rapidly and that a number
of works had passed the first edition
in their sale. He stated , that the
that the printery had to be run over
time to accomodate the work that Rush County Man Arrested at
naa to pe none lor ine uenerai synoa.
In making his report as to the con
dition of the Deaconess's Mother
House located in Baltimore, Md., Dr. E. C. Hay the superintendent, stated
that a great work was being accomplished by the school and that it could not accommodate the many applicants who wished to take the regular deaconess's course. x H. L. Yarger, of Atchison, Kansas, Secretary of the Board of Church Extension, showed that out of the twelve million Lutheran people in the United States and Canada, that many of them were unchurched. He showed the work of the Board in Califor
nia and other places, where churches Marshall O' Bangan, agea 43 years had been established. and Mry Taylor, aged 17 years, were
Dr. F. G. Gottwalt secretary of the taken into custody by the police Mon-
uay ai me request oi L.anaiora jox,
of the Brunswick Hotel. No charge
was placed against either of them the girl being released shortly after she
was arrested and the man locked up to await word from Raleigh, Ind., where the two live. O'Bangan and the girl arrived in the city Monday morning and went
to the Brunswick Hotel where the former represented himself as being the uncle of the girl and said that they were in the city to attend a trial at the Court House in the afternoon, in which he was plaintiff. The girl complained of being ill and went to her room and O'Bangan went out
into town. Later he returned somewhat intoxicated and went to the room where he locked the door. The landlord notified the police who tried to persuade the man to open the door, and then tried to get through the transom which was too small and finally broke the door down. Miss Taylor stated in her talk with Supt. Bailey, that O'Bangan had enticed her to this city, by telling her that he had been injured on the" traction cars and had brought suit in which she was to be a witness. The girl also stated that about five months ago O'Bangan assaulted her. This information was communicated to the Prosecutor of Rush county who may prefer a charge against O'Bangan. Some person in authority will be sent from Rush county to take the man back. In the meantime the girl is staying at the hotel awaiting the arrival of relatives. Supt. Bailey stated that it is his opinion that the girl is feeble minded and therefore easily fell to the dupe of O'Bangan.
The latter has been fined twice in the local courts for drunk and bears a bad reputation at his home.
New York Gracious! From wh at they say, whoever is elected I'M go to the bow-bows!
YOUNG WOMAN TELLS POLICE
OF HOW BRUTE OF MAN DECEIVED AND ABUSED HER CASE A SERIOUS ONE.
(Continued to Page Eight.)
MAYOR WEAVER CLOSES THEATER
Refuses to Permit Production of Play the "Clansman" in Philadelphia.
GRANTS NEGRO REQUEST
QUAKER CITY EXECUTIVE SAYS THAT PLAY TENDS TO UNDESIRABLY STIR UP RACE FEELING SUIT TO FOLLOW.
Time Will Soon Be Up. A week from next Monday tax paying time will be over and delinquents will be compelled to pay extra for over time. Xo grace will be given at the County Treasury. The receipts for Monday as compared with those a week ago are $997.29 short.
Publishers PressJ Philadelphia, Oct. 23. After conferences with representatives of the Walnut Street Theatre, the "Clans
man company ana negroes wno opposed it, Mayor Weaver this afternoon ordered the Walnut Street thea
tre closed until another play is secured to succeed it. The theatre therefore was not open tonight. The mayor, in his order , closing the theatre, said that from the evidence submitted to him, he was satisfied the play stirred up racial hatred; that it had been constructed for that purpose. After the mayor had announced his
decision to suppress the production of the show, the negroes present gave him and Director McKenty a vote of thanks. Judge Maxwell Stevenson, counsel for the theatre announced that tomorrow he would appb' to a court for an injunction to restrain the Mayor from preventing the production of the play.
COL. M M'LEAII WEDS HIS NURSE
Wealthy Terre Haute Lawyer Marries in Spite of His Daughter's Protest.
HE IS DOUBLE HER AGE
BRIDEGROOM IS VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR AND IS WELL KNOWN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
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WORKERS
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GATHER IN CITY
Opening Session of tne American FriendsV Conference to be Held Today.
MANY DELEGATES HERE
OVER SEVEN MILES OF CEMENT WALK PUT DOWN
There have been during the past summer over seven miles of cement walks put down in the city and of this number Fairview has had over three miles of it. There still remains something over a mile of cement walk which is under construction, to be finished.
SESSIONS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THURSDAY AND WILL BE OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TO THE FRIENDS.
Publishers Press Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 23. Col. William E. McLean, 76 years old, a wealthy retired lawyer of wide reputation, formerly prominent in Indiana politics, was married here today to Miss Jesse Oliver, 37 years ' old. Miss Oliver has recently acted as Col. McLeans nurse . The marriage, some of Col. Mc Leans friends claim, has been oppos
ed by the grooms relatives, particularly his daughter who lives in Washington, D. C. While visiting his daughter recently, the Colonel, his friends allege was practically a prisoner in his daughters Washington home. . This angered him and immediately made arrangements to marry Miss : Oliver. . ' The bridegroom is a veteran of the Civil War, and is a contemporary and friend of Daniel Voorhees, Col. Tom Nelson, -Col. Richard Thompson.
former Secretary of the Navy, and other prominent, men. He has lived much in the National Capital where, he has many acquaintances and friends.
PRESIDENT NAMES TWO NEW MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET
Oscar S. Straus a Democrat of Long Standing to be New Head of Department of Labor and Commerce.
GEORGE VON L. MEYER IS POSTMASTER GENERAL'
Other Members of the Official Body Are Shifted, Cortelyou Going to the Head of the Treasury.
FIRST DIRT IS TURNED
WORK BEGUN. AT HOOSIER
Excavating for the Basement Under Building Along E Street to be Done First Work is to be Pushed Very Rapidly.
r t MISS MARGARET ILLINGTON. Ose of the full fiedeed stars of recent years is Miss Margaret Hlington, nov with John Drew in "His House In Order." a plav which is making a grea success In New York. She comes from Bloomington. 111., and is the wife o Daniel Frohman. the celebrated manager. Last year Miss Hlington made he London debut in "The Lion and the Mouse." She has been a leading womai for about four years now.
Has a Stray Horse.
Word was received by Supt. of Police Bailey yesterday that a.f small brown mare had strayed to the farm of Gaar Jackson's just north of Centerville and was being held there until claimed.
At 9 o'clock this morning in Kast Main street Friends' church, the first session of the American Friends Missionary Conference will be held and the deliberations of the body. Which Is representative of all of the American Yearly Meetings w-ill continue until Thursday evening. The meeting is one of utmost Importance to the Quakers of America, inasmuch as it is. hoped that the conference will devise some plan whereby the foreign missionary work of all the Y"early Meetings can be placed under the management of one central body. Delegates began arriving yesterday and it is anticipated that most of them will be here when the opening session, takes place this forenoon.
The first spade of dirt was turned yesterday morning at the Hoosier
Drill, in what is to be one of the most expensive factory improvements in Richmond. Of the several buildings which are to be erected at a cost of over a hundred thousand dollars, that which will face along North E street from the end of the present structure at Fourteenth and E streets 232 feet east will b5 constructed first. This is to be three stories high with a large and convenient basement under the whole. Excavating for this cellar will occupy the force
of men at work nosv for the next few weeks when the foundation work will begin and the building pushed to a steady completion. It was found that the large water main which runs along on North 14th street will have to be lowered about five feet below its present place, owing to the depth of the proposed basement. This work will be done by the water works company-within the next few days.
tPubllshers" Presul Washington, Oct. 23. The President tonight set at rest the cabinet conjecture of the past few months by directing the following announcement: "Upon the retirement of Secretary Shaw and Attorney General Moody from the Cabinet the following changes will be made: Secretary of the treasury, Hon. George B. Cortelyou. Postmaster general, Hon. Georga Von L. Meyer. Attorney general, Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte. Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Victor H. Metcalfe Secretary of commerce and labor, Hon. Oscar S. Straus. The new members are Mr. Meyer of Massachusetts. Ambassador at St. Petersburg and Mr. Straus of New York, ex minister to Turkey. When Mr. Cortelyou became a member of the Presidents official family it was understood that ho would ultimately preside over the treasury department. His selection as postmaster general was largsly due to his desire to preside over a department in which he was a few years ago employed as a stenographer and later a clerk. There wero certain reforms in the postal service which the President desired to be
made and Cortelyou carried them out. ' According to previous announcement Attorney General Moody will retire January 1st. and Secretary Shaw in February. Record of Mr. Straus. Mr. Straus is a Democrat of Ion standing and of the conservative school. In the campaign of 189K ho bolted his party on the silver issue, repudiated Bryan and supported Palmer and Buckner. In 3900 he supported McKinley and Roosevelt. In 1901 he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt complimenting him upon his politics and administration and announced that he would give him his earnest support. This he did, making a' number of speeches In behalf of the Republican ticket. It is announced that recently in New York state lie publicly announced that he could not cnnnnrt 1 Iri-ircf
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and successful career. He has massed i a large fortune in business and gained renown by his philanthropy. He was born December 23, 1850 and has had the degree of LL. D. conferred on l, I 1 It I, . .1 T 1Tt..i-...
mm uy itauiugiuu aim mnri" sity and the University 4 of Pennsylvania. He was the frVst president of the Civic Federation, which was organized in New York City with the principal of arbitration between Caiital and Labor as its fundamental basis. He has been president of the New York Board of Trade and has held high positions in other commercial
organizations. He was appointed minister to Turkey by President Cleve
land and served from 1SS7 to 18S9. He was appointed to -the same post by President McKinley and filled it with honor from 189S to 1900. Among his many writings Is a work entitled "Reform in the Consular Service."
WILL R0BB1NS CANT BE ELECTION OFFICER The county commissioners will meet next Satruday in order to. fill vacancies upon the boards oi election Inspectors. There is only one vacancy so far, and this occurred through a technicality in the law. Will Robbing who was selected to serve ia Abington township, by right of his being trustee in that township, will have to withdraw because he has a relative that is running for office, and. the law requires that no man shall' serve as election inspector who has relatives running for office.
. Henry Starr Recovering. Henry C. Starr, who has been seriously III for the past several weeks.
i is convalescent and hopes are enter
tained that ha will soon be able to resume his work. Mr. Starr has been suffering . from serious attacks of stomach trouble, which have made him bedfast-
RateS tO Springfield. The management of the Earlhata football team , has secured a rate of J 1.50 for the rooters who wish to accompany the team to Wittenberg, next Saturday. In case more than j fifty people go a rate of 1.25 .will lal given . them.