Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 324, 21 December 1906 — Page 1

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Weather Prophet. INDIANA Fair, slightly colder Friday; Saturday fair; fresh northwest winds. OHIO Cloudy with snow or rain Friday; Saturday fair; fresh and variable winds.

'A BAD WRECK AT PROMISED TODAY MARION IS DETERMINED

EAST GERMANTOWN

vo Freight Trains in Rear End Collision Cause Big Loss, But Luckily, No One Is Seriously Hurt. i JAKES FAIL TO STOP ! FREIGHT IN THE REAR ghteen Cars Derailed and Flames Add to General Contusion Traffic Was Seriously Blocked. lis a result of a rear end collision ween two divisions of freight train t 3.1 yesterday, on the Panhandle 'East Germantown, fourteen miles st of Richmond, eighteen cars were ; in a heap and the contents spiilFive of the cars were heaped jve the engine on the train which ised the wreck. The loss is hard 'estimate, but It is thought to be ween S10.000 and $25,000. The ick was remarkable In that ao one a seriously hurt. ;he wreck was caused by the failof the brakes to stop the second in, which was going down the kson hill. he freight train was running been Bradford, O., and Indianapolis, three sections. The first section h reached Germantown and had eh a siding at that place while seca two reached the station and was nding on the main track awaiting ers. Section Three Heavily Loaded. !u the meantime, section three, and most heavily loaded train of all, rvintr several cars of crushed t ne, was going at full speed when I top of the old Jackson hill v.-as wched, which is about one milo from fmantown. The heavily loaded ( in started down the incline with , rifle speed, and when Ensiaecr lanion. first saw that section two 1 the main track, he endeavor! 10 p his train, but owing to the sleety Edition of the track, and the noavy d behind him, the air brakes on the Sin would not hold and the train nt crashing into the rear of section . The impact was terrific and five ys were splintered, on section wo, lie the first four cars In the rear of engine on section three, lost thdr cks. the cars loaded with stone jnlng under them and lifting them top of the stone. The stone cars i, up to the engine forcing it into t-tlon two several feet farther. I Had to Fight Fire. . Vrecking crews were -called from hmond, Bradford and Indianapolis I when they arrived fire had broken among the cars which were piled promiscuously on the engine, ''e Richmond crew fought the Uaraes i almost an hour, but the fire conued to give the crew trouble during " i entire time the debris was boiug ared away from the main track. Utheugh thousands of dollars worth damage resulted from the wreck it considered a lucky one as there wasJ 8 loss of life. Engineer O'Banion 6 1 his fireman, In charge of section ee. did not leave their engine when 5was seen that a crash was certa'n, R: stayed at their post, and received -thing more than a severe jar as the o sections came together. The two 'n did not give up hopes of stooping ir section until the engine wis Citfiv imnn sort Inn two. The CMAse on section two was gutted but 'men were in the car at the time. When it was noticed that fire was 'idly gaining headway, it was reL :ted that one of the cars in the de rm's was loaded with giant powder, but J. 'vmen stuck to their post and traveV' fnucht the flame's in order to :cc 1Jit their spread. mf Trains Were Detoured. The main line of the road is s'ill 7'Cked, but one of the switches was ared sufficiently to let the pa.sr?n- - trains running last night, through. until six o'clock last evening 11 Hsenger trains were sent by the wav iXew Castle, thence to Richmond. Mhe Richmond wreck crew returned ;ythe city last, night about C:C0 lock, the Indianapolis crew reNining on the scene to complete the Vl-aring of the track. ackson's Hill, which is attributed I Nbe'ng one of the main causes of" the (fOeck, is over one mile long, and his tn.n the scene of several serious Hck8 jon the Indianapolis division. 'avily loaded freight trains which rle to receive orders at Germantown I Nl It a difficult matter to stop at the (age, owing to the hill's incline. C Vhe wreck will be investigated by r officials of the Indianapolis divisr t( and the blame for the acni.lent - i t I"4 Piano Men Coming. fcdward Welhmeyer, Alfred KcnlenOnk. Anthony Bullock. William ,mp and Theodore Hrnschlager, of tJwaukee, will spend Christmas in ;hmond. They are employed ani ? Matt Waltermann, another former jj-bmond man, in the Waltham piano tory at Milwaukee.

Special Election Will Likely be Held to Vote Money with Which to Build Lighting Plant Company Reduces Rate.

As Richmond's lighting and power situation is a live topic, the following from Marlon will be of interest. The Marion City Council, by unani mous vote, has instructed J. F. Charles, city attorney, to investigate the legal phase of the proposition to hold a special election to vote a tax to be usel in installing a municipal light plant to supply commercial light Ing. At the last city election tfce proposition to establish a commercial lighting plant carried by a large ma jority, but no funds have ever been available. The city councilman do not propose to let a recent reduction in the cost of light furnished by the Marion Light and Heating Company deter them in their efforts to obtain a city commercial lighting plant. C.C.& L.WILL GIVE NEWSPAPER PASSES Local Road to Combine with v Monon in Fighting the Commerce Commission. IS MAKING CONTRACTS OFFICIALS OF TWO ROADS CONTEND THAT THE RULING AGAINST NEWSPAPER TRANSPORTATION IS UNJUST. The C. C. & L. has begun making advertising contracts with Indiana newspapers payable in transportation, as formerly, ' except that the transportation so issued will be good only within the boundaries of the State. In making these contracts, the road has joined with the Monon in defying the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has interpreted the Hepburn rate law to mean that nothing but cash may be accepted by the railroads for transportation. The C. C. & L. and the Monon regard this ruling as unjust and declare that the law provides that money or its equivalent shall be accepted. The Big Four has announced that after January 1 its advertising In newspapers will be paid for in cash and not in transportation. TO TAKE CHARGE APRIL 1 Fred Hoover is to be Wire Chief for Home 'Phone Company's Automatic System. Fred Hoover, who has been in Chicago for the past few weeks attending the school conducted by the Automatic Electrical Company in that city, has returned to spend Christmas with his parents. Mr. Hoover will be wire chief for the new automatic telephone system which is being installed by the Home Telephone Company and has been in Chicago learning the ins and outs of the mechanism of the automatic. He will return to Richmond about the first of April and take charge of the new system which it is thought will be ready for service at that date. SAYERS GIVEN DECISION Milwaukee Lad Gets the Best of Amby McGarry In Their Fight at Baltimore. Publishers' Press.! Baltimore. Md., Dec. 20. Maurice Sayers, of Milwaukee was given the decision over Amby McGarry, of New York at the end of their fifteen round bout tonight. Cambridge Lodge Elects. Cambridge City, Dec. 24, (Spl.) Cambridge lodge No. 5, F. & A. M. elected the following officers: Cal. Wissler, W. M.; John Fair. S. W.; fe iauwi u. . -. . -11. Little, treasurer; M. E. Mason, secretary; James Winters, trustee; H. C. Johnson. S. D.; Thomas Peet, J. D. ; Jas. Van Meter, Tyler; C. H. Loeb and P. II. Zehrung. stewards. Wants Increase in Pay. Train dispatchers throughout the country are organizing a movement to demand an increase in pay. Going to California. Dr. and Mrs. George H. Grant and jUae former's -mother, Mrs. Mary E. Grant, will leave for Califoni o be away jOr several weeks.

Senior Class Day at High

School Looks Good to Pass Without a Scrap. JUNIORS ARE TO BANQUET THEY ARE MAKING, GREAT PRE PARATIONS FOR THE EVENT IN THE k O. O. F. HALL THIS EVENING. ' This is Senior class day at high school and it is going to be observ ed in a very pleasant way. There will be no Senior public but the Juniors will give their annual banquet to the fourth year classmen. This will take place in the I. O. O. F. hall Miss Katie Moelk will serve and there will be dancing. The Juniors will spend the day in decorating especially for the affair. For years past it has been the custom for the Seniors and Juniors to go to school on class day, the .same as on other days but from now on the two upper classes will probably spend their class days out of school. The school board not long ago made a ruling that there should be no demonstrations of class spirit at any time or any where on the High school premises. This was a pretty big jump from the old rule and so they have decide to have their class day celebrations out of school. The Seniors have the privilege of wearing their colors today and the Juniors have the privilege of trying to take them off. This however will not be attempted as the Juniors are a very wise class. Their absence from school will be marked as "unexcused" and only demands a note from home. The pins that the Seniors have been waiting on so long came yesterday and now they are happy. They are of solid gold with a black back ground on which Is R. H. S. '07 in gold. They are small but show up quite well. FARMER TAKES HIS LIFE DONE WITH CARBOLIC ACID Ellis Ballinger Living Across the Ohio Line Was Found Dying in his Barn Lived But Two Hours After Discovery Uamden, O., Dec. 20, fSpl.) With j the tell-tail phial of carbolic acid by i his side, Ellis Ballinger, 55, a well 1 known farmer of the Fourmile Valley j was found in the throes of death in his barn. He lived two hours but never regained consciousness. The discovery created a furor of excitement throughout the valley, for Mr. Ballinger was one of its best known citizens. All sorts of rumors were rife, and, the coroner being ab sent, Dr. D. W. McQueen, Camden, and Dr. Gilmore, Fairhaven, conduct ed a post mortem, which bore out the facts as given above. There is absolutely no known cause for the deed as the man was in good health, In good circumstances tinancially, and to family and friends had appeared all right mentally. He is survived by a son, Carl Ballinger,one brother, John Ballinger, Oklahoma, four sisters, Jennie and Bulah Newton, Dayton, Mary Mumfort, Denver, ' Colo., and Elizabeth Ware, Missouri. ARRANGING FOR DISPLAY Richmond Manufacturing Company Will Send Beds to the Chicago Furniture Show. Will Bell, representing the Rich mond Manufacturing Company Ka in Chicago preparing for the company's exhibit of beds at the annual furniture show, which is to take place early in January. Chas. Winn, an" employe at the factory will be in charge of the local display at Chicago. The affair attracts attention from all over the country and fine prizes are offered. ARRESTED FOR BEGGING Well Dressed Stranger Had But Thirty-One Cents on His Person When Searched. Albert Lyons, a stranger in tcvwn, was last night 'arrested by Patrol Driver Livelsberger for begging. 1 Le young man was dressed very 'well r.nd gave every evidence of being In a better financial condition. When he was searched at police headquarters lie had hut thirty-one cents on his person, which is thought by the police, to have been begged during the evening.

Circulation Statement.

Dec. 20 -Nov. 20 -Oct. 20 -Sept. 20 - - 4,081 - 3,829 - 3,271 - 2,836 Another record circulation gain was established yesterday. In the four months ending December 20th exactly 1243 new subscribers have been added to the Palladium's circulation. This gain is over THIRTEEN times the gain claimed by the only other Richmond newspaper that publishes its daily circulation. The first of. last January the Palladium had 411 paid subscribers. Yesterday it had 40S1 paid subscribers. Given an increase of only 29 new sub scribers by the first of the year and the Palladium will have increased its circulation just 1,000 per cent in one year's time, a greater record than ever before established by a Richmond newspaper. A TERRIBLE DEED OF HONE WOMAN Hurls Her Three-Year-Old Niece from Third Story of Flat Building. CHILD FATALLY INJURED MANIAC WAS READY TO THROW SEVEN MONTHS' OLD CHILD OUT OF THE WINDOW WHEN OVERPOWERED. Publishers' Press! Chicago, Dec. 20. Attacked sudden ly by insanity, Mrs. J. Selene hurled her three-year-old niece, Gladys Hersch, from the third story window of a Vincennes avenue flat buildin, this afternoon. The little one was fatally injured. Startled by the child's screams and the crash of the glass through which the little one had been tossed, iho maniac's sister, Mrs. Benj.unin Hersch and their mother rushed nto the room and grappled with the luna tic who was struggling to throw the Hersch's seven months old baby after her sister. Turning on the older woman, Mrs Selene tried to force the former through the window and actually had her body half outside when ne'gabors attracted by the struggle, overpowered her. Mrs. Selene was hurried to the detention hospital. It is said she is suffering from emotional insanity. CONTEST FOR ATTENDANCE Defeated Crowd Waits on Winners at Christian Church Banquet in Fountain City. Fountain City. Dec. 20, (Spl.) The Christian church Snnday scr-ccl has been haying a contest for attendance and the "defeated side waits on the successful side at inn supper which the Sunday school will give at the hall Friday night, December 28th. On New Year's afternoon a jollification be will held at the church which all churches are invited to take part in and New Year's night they will have the burning. The Rev. T. J. Legg of Indianapolis will hold a series of meetings commencing at this date. Ferguson Made President. Cambridge City, Dec. 24, (Spl.) Stockholders of the Cambridge Natural Gas Company at their annual meeting selected the following officers: C. Ferguson, president; T. J. Miller, vice president; Edward McDonald, secretary and treasurer; A. C. Forringer, superintendent. All affairs were "found in excellent condition. MONEY ORDER FOR 2 CENTS; COSTS 3 . . Portland, Ind., Dec. 20. (Spl.) The smallest money order ever 'issued at the Portland postofiice calls for 2 cents. The applicant -as informed that the fee would be 3 cents and he was advised to try stamps, but he insisted and was accommodated. Orders for the maximum amount. $100, are issued frequently, but the 2-cent order will probably hold the small record for a while.

Stenographers, Graphophones

and Telegraph Used to Rush "Coal" Testimony. SHIPPERS' INVESTIGATION LEADING MEN OF THE RAILROAD WORLD BEFORE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION AT CHICAGO YESTERDAY. Publishers' Press. Chicago, Dec. 20. Shippers thornselves were blamed by leading rail road men before Interstate Commerce Commissioners Harlan and Lane here today for the car famine throughout the country. If the shippers would only unload their goods from cars in stead of using them for storage pur poses, the railroad witnesses argued there would be cars enough, or n?arly enough to meet all demands. Chicago felt a distinct shock of Rooseveltian strenuosity in connection with the hearing, when, at the Presi dential command to "rush the coal famine evidence," a battery of graph ophones was hustled into the Maiscic Hotel that the testimony taken across the street in the Federal building niigth be transcribed in record lime Relays of stenographers were kept flying from the the federal buildiug to the hotel all day, their note boons 1111 ed with testimony hot from the wit nesses lips. Up to the graphophones raced the stenographers, shouted tho testimony into the machines at tbc rate of 250 wor-y a minute and turned the cjilnders over to other stenogra phers, who at top speed, transcribed the words with their typewriters. Thirty minutes after the session ad journed all the testimoX" was ready for transmission to Washington, but a trail of frayed stenographers filed out of the Federal building and a big bat tery of graphophones was sufferinig from hot journals. WOHT LOSE OFFICES JORDAN RECEIVES WORD Attorney General Miller Says That Advisory Board Members Need Not Qualify Within Ten Their Election. Days After The following - will explain itself: Mr. Charles W. Jordan, Richmond. Ind. Dear Sir: I have yours of the 14th inst., asking in regard to the failure of township advisory boards to qnali fy within ten days after the election If such failure was due to misunder standing on their part as to the com mencement of their terms of office, and it was their bonafide intention thereafter to qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties, they may do so within a reasonable time; otherwise, the general rule that a person elected to oflice forfeits the same upon neglecting. to qualify withn the proper time controls. Your other injuiries involve legal questions which are highly doubtful, and in the present uncertain state of the law, I would not feel justified in expressing an opinion. I suggest that you consult your township attorney and be governed by his advise. Very truly yours. CHARLES W. MILLER, . Attorney General. A MISTAKE IS RECTIFIED Industrial Edition Palladium Did Not Give Second National Bank Full Credit. In the recent industrial edition o the Palladium, the Second Natinoal Bank .was credited with having $40,000 sur plus funds and individual proJts, when the figures should have been $400,000. The bank has paid in Civ idends to its stockholders $383,000.00 instead of $160,000.00 as stated. R0VISI0N FOR SERVICES County Poor Farm Superfntendent May Have Minister and Quartet Whenever he Likes. The County council nas not been asked to vote money to send a min ister and a quartet to the county poor farm but the county commissioners have been instructed to pay for the services of administer and a quartet 'out of the poor farm fund whenever the superintendent desires to hold religious servics at th farm. The cost will be $1.23 each Sunday that services are held.

It Was Intended to Put en Pressu-e From New Fields Yesterday, But Mishap Prevented It Wells Are Good Ones.

Owing to a break in one of tbo smaller trunk lines of the Rietunoad Natural Gas Company, leading Jrom the Lewis villo field to Richmond, the company was yesterday unable to tern the full pressure into the many homes of Richmond as contemplated. Tao officials of the company feel cerrain that when all the force of the new wells Is directed towards Richmond, no more trouble will have to be exre rienced this winter as all the wells in the new field give evidence of boing the best that tho company has drilled in the past few j-ears. FLOWER MISSION BUSY WITH BALL Annual Event of Worthy Ch . -itable Organization Takas Place Next Friday. NEED OF GOOD SUPPORT IN ADDITION TO BEING SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT THE DANCE WILL RAISE FUNDS THE POOR. Members of the Richmond Flower Mission are now making preparations for their annual ball, which this year as last, is to be given In the Coliseum on Friday night, December 28, and since it is the one money-making enterprise undertaken by the mission it is important that it shall be a financial success. The Flower Mission Is one of the most useful and practical branches of our associated charities. Its work is among the sick poor, with especial attention to children, and its services are in constant demand throughout the year. Medicines, . clothing, tho hire of nurses, the furnishing of proper food for invalids, call for a large expenditure of money and the society has great difficulty" in meeting all its financial responsibilities. The growth of the city and the natural increase in the number of people needing charitable aid add to the duties and make a larger fund necessary each year. People wl)o aro in touch with the work and know its value and importance are -liberal in responding to tho mission's appeals, but others who might promote the interests of the beautiful charity and would do so if they took serious thought often show a curious indifference. "We shall be absent from the city," "we do not : attend balls," "we are too old for I such gayeties," are some .of the excuses offered. But let them buy tickets in any case. If they do not at tend the ball themselves they can ! find young people on every hand who ! will gladly take their ticket the man will gladly take their places. The price of a ticket to this entertainment is a small contribution to so good a cause, and noue who make offerings for chart's sake should pass this opportunity by. Captured in Texas. IPubllshtrs Press. Austin, T., ic. 20. Police arrest ed William C. Anderson, alias Charl ton, who is wanted In Kansas City on a charge cf embezzling funds of the First National bank of that city. Anderson was formerly assistant paying teller of the institution. When arrested he had about $300 in money and an automobilf he purchased in San Antonio. He ha, been here about 10 days. Anderson was taken to Kansas City. Anderson disappeared three weeks ago. He was employed by the First National bnk at Kansas City 18 years. The name omcials placed his shortage at 9,000. which amount they said Anderfon took within a week of his departure. When he left Kansas City he wa supposed to be going on a hunting trip. Scott is Assisting. W. E. Scott, secretary of the Com mercial Club, is assisting In the Y. M. C. A. work by distributing tickets to be sold for the concert at the Coliseum next month. Charles Brown promoter of the Y. M. C. A. is spend ing a few days with his family In Pjqua, O. Mid Term Orations. Dublin, Ind., Dec '. 20. (Snl.) To day's session of the Hieh School will be featured by "the" delivery of midterm orations by the members of ihe Senior class, an annual event. Seven will speak. - -

GOVERNOR SPARES PATRICK HIS LIFE New York Executive Commutes Death Penalty to Life Imprisonment. CONVICTED 5 YEARS AGO

LAWYER, AFTER FIGHTING IN LVERY COURT OPEN TO HIM IN VAIN, IS SAVED FROM THE ELECTRIC CHAIR. I Publishers' Tress. J Albany, N. ec. 20. ' Governor HIggins commuted to Imprisonment for life the sentence of death under which Albert T. Patrick has remained nearly five years, since his conviction of the murder of William Marsh Rice, an aged Texas millionaire, in New York city. In announcing the commutation Governor HIggins issued the following memorandum: "Albert T. ratrick was convicted of ,the murder of William M. Rice and the judgment of conviction was affirmed by a divided court. It Is not claimed thAt Patrick committed the murder in person, but that ho procured the act to be done. He was convicted principally on the confessed that he murdered his master while he lay asleep.- Instituted thereto by Patrick, and Jones by h.s testimony purchased his own Immunity from trial or punishment. Neither this fact alone, or the review of any of the acts already passed on by thw courts at some stage of these proceedings, would seem to rae to warrant interfering with the judgment of 'death pronounced against the defendant, but three of the seven judges of the court of appeals were so strongly of the opinion that errors were committed at the trial which were substantially prejudicial to the rights of Patrick that I feci that the death penalty ought not, under all the circumstances, to be inflicted. In view of all these, and the (rave doubts expressed by these judfes, I am satisfied that I ought to relieve the defendant from the extreme penalty- of the law, and commute his sentence to imprisonment for life." 1 , Patrick was ' convicted March 27, 1902, and sentenced to death. SInco then his fight has been continuous. la every court in the state open to him, he made , bis appeal, but always in vain. Patricks brbther-In-law. John T. Milliken of St. Louis, is said to have financed his battle at great cost. It Is known that Patrick intends to continue his efforts to establish his Innocence. . " ,:. IS TOLD BY HIS. WIFE Mrs. Patrick, on Receiving Word from Governor,. Went at Once to Her Husband. Ossining, N. Y., Dec. 20. Albert T. Patrick knows his life has been spared. His faithful wife, the wom.tn lio married in tho Tombs, after he -had been condemned to death, was the ore to bear the good .news to him. Mrs. Patrick arrived late this afternoon, and went directly to the Drisjii She was at once admitted to the dea!i house, where she communicated in Patrick tho action of the Governor, Patrick did not seein to be groliy surprised. Ho received the Information with his customary coolnehs. .His wife remained with him for a considerable time and then left the prison. . PATRICK LOSING MIND. Governor Higgins Thinks Strain Has Been too Much for Him Let-' - ter Writing Mania. Publishers' Presn.J Albany, N. Y.,' Dec. 20. According to Governor Higgins, who today commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of death "imposed on Albert T. Patrick for the murder of tho aged millionaire W. M. Rice. Patrick Is in a fair way to losing his mind. The Governor made the following declaration after he had been informed that Patrick was displeased at the commutation of sentence: - "Patrick had better look out or lie will be In the Mattewan Asylum for the Criminal Insane. The strain he has been under has been practically too much for him. There's no question about that.' It Is said that Patrick has lately acquired a mania for writing letters. The state superintendent of prisons and t ftoTsmoi- reciv letters almost daily from the prisoner. HOUSE HAS ADJOURNED Will Not Take Up Its Labors Again Until January 3 The Regular Holiday Vacation. Publishers' Presa.1 Washington. D. C. Dec 20. It tool: the House fifty minutes to pass a homestead bill, referring to the Shoshone .Reservation opening in Wyoming and to refer the President's message to certain committees for consul eration. The adjournment was ta!: en until January 3.- : '