Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 21 February 1907 — Page 4
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The Richmond Palladium. Thursday, February 21 , 1 907
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM
Entrdat Richmond PostoffJes as Second Class Mattar
Was Member of Floradora Sextet
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1907
RICHMOND, IND.
NUMBER 30 1.
HigH License Corruption FincL
In a hard fight to force the legislature to pass the high license bill,
the Indianapolis News has made many charges against the brewers' lob
by bat none more startling than that in last night's Issue when the News
alleged that a corruntion fund la now being raised with which to pur
chase the bill's defeat. The News says:
"Tho iinvvori! rf the- staff? of Indiana have a corruption fund of
something like $36,000, to say nothing of contributions by outside brewers and by distillers and tobacco men, to use in the fight against the high
license bill. This urobably accounts for the civility that has been dis
played toward the army of lobbyists that the brewers have had around the state house and hotels ever since the session of the legislature op-
the brewers' association of the state decided to
raise money for the purpose of defeating the bill. There was only one way to cet it and that was to levy an assessment. So the association
decided to levy a tax of Scents on each barrel of beer that was produc
ed in the state last year, this money to constitute the corruption fund with which the onslaught was made on the legislature. It was found that the breweries of Indiana produced last year about 900,000 barrels rr ,opi- This thn. produced a fund of about $27,000. But It costs
more to lobby and maintain an army of lobbyists than even the brewers
had figured on and before long the fund ran low. It was necessary to make another assessment. So a few days ago coincident with the hasty
return of Albert IJeber a week ahead of time from the East, notice was
sent out that an additional assessment of one cent a barrel would be made. This brought in about $9,000 and enabled the red-vested brigade
tn kppn rlerht on with its work of lighting the high license bill. Of
course. $36,000 and the amounts gathered from other brewers and distil-
u-ra rmrl from tohacco men who always heln them out make a lot of
mnnpv ami with tho sum accumulated it seems that almost any one
ought to be able to do something, but it is believed that the money will
he wasted in the effort to kill the high license bill. And it is true, also,
that the hired lobbyists' fund does not by any means represent all the money that has been spent to beat the bill, for the brewers themselves
have been busy and there is not a member of the legislature who has
not been lobbied almost to death by them and their cohorts to vote
against tho bill."
News of the Railroad; Local and General
BY O.OWEN KUHN
ABANDON LIBERTY ROUTE
NO TRACTION LINE COUNTY.
TO UNION
LADY ASHBURT0N, WHO INTRODUCED HARRY THAW TO EVELYN NESBIT. The woman who Introduced Harry K. Thaw to Evelyn Nesbit is now Lady
Ashburton, having wedded the English lord some months ago. She was known as Frances Belmont, an American actress. A few years ago she was one of the
celebrated sextet of chorus girls in "Florodora." Later she became leading woman for Charles Ilawtrey and went abroad. The widowed Lord Ashburton met her and bis fate, one might say his second fate. The couple were married In Paris. Lady Ashburton's maiden name was Frances Donnelly.
Murderous Railroading
the
PEACE IS NOW ASSURED
This 13 the title of the New York Times' editorial discussing recent electric railroad accident near New York. In part it says:
The responsibility of the accident does not attach altogether to the
drivers of the electric motors. A railroad management that in any cir
cumstances encourages or permits, whether for "making up time" or for any other reason, a speed that so manifestly passes the limit of safety must bo held accountable to public opinion for the consequences. The management may '-at up in palliation the demand of its passengers to
be taken to their times in the shortest possible time and without default of the schedule convenants. That defense fails because no passenger
asks a railroad to run its trains in a manner that imperils life.
RELIGIOUS WAR IS ENDED
French Chamber of Deputies Takes Ac
tion Which Results in the Termina tion of this Long Drawn Out Con
troversy.
NO REFUGE FOR LEPERS
IS VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM
Two-Cent Railroad Fares
Speaking of Pennsylvania's acAion on the 2-cent fare Question the
Detroit News notes that similar bills are pending in sixteen states. It goes on to say: Whatever the Immediate and dir t results may be, an agitation so general and so determined as the circumstances cited can hardly end without having produced reliable information on which wise and just regulation of the transportation function can be based. The public is learning to demand the truth about its corporate servants, and to insist upon having it-
BRIEF NOTES BY WIRE
Cluster of Currents Plucked from the Vibrant Wires of Telegraphic Communication.
Publishers' Press Albany, i . uovernor naghes will deliver a Washington's birthday address before the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Columbus, O. Charles H. Tinker, 60, former vice president of RugglesGale company, died of apoplexy, following protracted illness. Alpena, Mich. Plant of the Alpena Portland Cement company almost completely wiped out by fire. Loss 1400,000. Insurance $200,000. Portsmouth, O. While standing on fcis engine Harry Banner, 24, a brakeman, was crushed to death in a fatal sldewipe whlch damaged both engines. Clereland. O. On man killed and another fatally Injured by an ezplo Sion of hot metal In the Newbury plant of the American Steel and Wire company. Cincinnati. O. William J. Odell, 50, president of Odell Commission company, died following an operation for appendicitis. His wealth estimated at $5,000,000. London. Ont. Chicago Pacific express, westbound, on the Grand Trunk wrecked In the yards here. One train nan was killed, 400 passengers severely shaken up. Philadelphia. Congressman Reyburn (Rep.) elected mayor of Philadelphia, defeating William Potter, Democratic and city party candidate by B3.000 plurality. London. Joseph Chamberlain Is completely broken physically, although he is mentally alert. He passes most of his time Indoors at his Birmingham residence. Chicago. Michael Donlin, member of New York National league team, robbed of $500 in cash and a diamond Ftud by a stranger, who worked a confidence game on him. Springfield. O. As Henry B. Valentine, colored, drew a. revolver ani threatened to kill his wife. Pearl Valentine, she fired twice, killing him in
stantly. Trasredy followed a quarrel. Sacramento. Cal. Legislature killed proposed constitutional amendment to extend to women right to vote at all flections. An eight-hou-hill for street railway employes pass ed both houses. Alliance, O. Mrs. Samuel Kinsewife of prominent merchant, while C" lirious from pneumonia climb through window to the porch from which she jumped to the ground anf died of her injuries. Dallas. Tex. General J. W. Cabell commander of the Transmlssissipp department United Confederate vet erans. was placed under a bond fo$3,000 in connection with the Honduras lottery matter. March 2 set for hearin?.
ANOTHER JUDGE FOR OHIO
Federal District in Southern Ohio to
be Supplied with ar Additional Jurist.
Publishers' Press.J Paris, x . ufcv approval
by the chamber of deputies of the gov
ernment's church and state policy, ne
gotiations between L. De Selves, the prefect of the Seine, and Monsignor
Amiette, coadjutor archbishop of Paris, on the subject of contracts for
the lease of churches were resumed
The newspapers unanimously recog
nize the completeness of M. Briand's triumph, but some of the Republican
organs, while admitting the necessity of ending the religious controversy are plainly discontented because it entails negotiations with ecclesiasti
cal authorities. The Moderates and
Conservatives rejoice at the prospect
of religious peace.
WAS VICTIM OF SHARKS
Publishers' Presvi
Washington, Feb. 20. The senate passed the Foraker-Taylor bill for an
additional federal district Judge In CAUSE OF HIS UNDOING
souurern umo, ana tne xsevm Dill for
holding terms of ,the federal circuit and district courts at Dayton. O., each May and November. The bills were
called up by Senator Foraker and dis
posed of without discussion or oppo
sition. Both measures passed the house and there is no doubt that
President Roosevelt will attach his
slgnlture. It is believed Senator For
aker will indorse Judge John J. Adams of Zanesvllle, for the new
Judgeship.
Defaulting Treasurer of New Britian
Savings Bank Became Entangled in
All Sorts of Wild Cat Schemes Is
Still Missing.
Publishers Press New Knuun, Ccim.. Ftb. 20. That
William F. .Walker, defaulting treas
urer of the savings bank of New
Britain was a victim of all kinds of
sharnpra and rtisrpnntaW hrnlfprs la
WARRANT FOR CONTRACTOR asserted In a statement by W. H. Hart
of the bank's committee appointed to straighten out the bank's affairs. "I
Head of Cleveland Firm is Sought by can. xJot ve 'ou names of people or
the Police on Charge of Bribery in Ohio.
Publishers Press.JColumbus, v., rcb. 20. A warrant
was issued for M. F. Bramley, head
of the Cleveland contracting firm hav
ing a paving contract here, out of
which the bribery scandal originated.
It is reported from Cleveland that Bramley has gone to Colorado, where his firm has contracts at Pueblo. Nel
son Cannon, who made the bribery charges, was discharged by the con
tractors. Records at the City hall are being Investigated by the state bureau
of accounting.
Hart, "but I can say safely that Wtl-
ker was in all kinds of wildcat speculation and associated with a lot c" sharpers. .We have followed no eni
of clues that led into thin air. He dealt in Wall street through disreputable brokers, and was caught in many other ways."
SUBSIDY FOR ATHLETES
CLERK . CUT TO PIECES Is Killed by Italian Laborer in the
Railroad Yards at Cleveland, Ohio.
Publishers Press Cleveland, o., Feb. 20. Because he accidentally knocked over a keg of nails W. C. McFar'and, a transfer clerk of the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad, was literally hacked to pieces by an Italian laborer in the Dennison avenue yards. McFarland i3 in a dying conation as a result of seven stabs in his body besides a serious wound inflicted by an iron bar, with which he was felled by the Italian, who after that assaulted him with a knife. Th" Italian escaped.
Appropriation for Team from United
States to Participate in Olympian Games. New York, Feb. 20. A bill will b?
Introduced in congress to appropriat the sum of $100,000 to cover the e penses of a team of representati
athletes of the United States, to co: pete in the Olympian games, to 1
held at Shepherd's Bush, London, i
190S. That the United States w::
send a strong team to England nex
year is an assured fact, but Presides
James Sullivan and his associates In the amateur athletic union believe that the nation should provide the sinews where the issue at stake is national, and not individual.
The Fact that There is No Hospital
in the United States for This Class
of Cases Is Brought Out Before
Committee Hearing.
Publishers Press.J
Wasiu,, . .: . . j. xitarings be
fore the house committee on appro
priations on expenditures for the ma
rine hospital service developed the
fact that there is no hospital In the
United States to which leprosy pa tients may be sent without pay excep cne in Louisiana, which accepts on?: itate patients. It was also brought ou that the proposed leprosy hospital i Hawaii will afford no refuge to pa tlents from the United States. Tha hospital is intended only for experi ments as to the best methods of cure
and only 40 patients are to be taker
at a time, and these from the leper is land colony of the Island. On the
point of taking patients from the
United States. Surgeon General Wy
man said the suggestion has not me'
with favorable consideration, because
the Hawaiian people would be very
much opposed to having their island made a leper resort for the whole United States. "They have about 1,000
lepers that they are taking care of
now on the island of Molokal and that is where we are located," he said.
WERE GIVEN A BANQUET
SUFFRAGISTS OUT OF JAIL
Women Arrested by the London Po
lice While Storming the House of Commons. Are Feasted by Their
Colleagues.
Publishers Press London, ..... dozen woman
suffragists were released from prison and were entertained at luncheon b; their colleagues. Much enthusiasm
was aroused by the reading of congratulatory messages from the Na tonal Woman Suffragist association'?
session in Chicago, and from the Wo
man Suffrage league of New York.
The text of Sir Charles Dilke's bll
to enfranchise women and removwomen's disabilities, provides for tn
franchising every registered man anf woman of full age residing in th
area where an election, either parlis
mentary or local, is being held, ant!
that nobody shall be disqualified b: sex or marriage from being elected t
either house of parliament or to lcc
bodies, or from exercising any pub!' functions whatever. It is similar
til! Sir Charles Introduced Izz -ar. p"3 " '. ' defeated.
If fn need of a hog. sheep or cattle Hipping tank, write before buying to Vie National Medical Co., Sheldon, la.
It's the highest standard of quality,
its a natural tonic, cleanse3 and tones your sj-stem, reddens the
cheeks, brightens the- eye3, gires flavor to all yoa eat; Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does. A .G. Luken & Civ
DickersorTs Mother Dead. Publishers Press!
Colunibu?. O., Feb. 20. Bowed by
Jhe weight of years and the grief
brought to her gray hairs by her son
confined in the annex of the Ohio pen
itentiary awaiting execution for mur
ler. Mrs. Anna Dickerson, mother of
Ben Dickerson, Is dead. When Dicker on was charged and found guilty of
urder in 1903 her health began to
,fil and she never recovered. Dickerjon killed Rat. Ilughea at Coshoe-
t3r, O.
Use artificial gas tor light and heat-
Must Stop at Hawaii. Publishers Press. iicriv. ..aof Car ter received a request from Secretary of Stafe Root to notify agents of steamboat companies that Japaneslaborers In Hawaii with passports foHawaii only will not admitted to th' mainland. The steamer Mongol'a which sailed for San Francisco, caries 200 Japanese from here. Bryan On the Old Wcrld. Columbus. O., Feb. 20. W. J. Bryan was the orator at the annual banquet :f he- local board of trade. His subject was "The Old World and Its Ways." In which he save impressions derived by his recent trip around th world.
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Attorney Lindemuth Announced Yesterday that Original Plan Had Been Given up. O. L. Stivers a newspaper man of Liberty, who was in the city yesterday said that the work of pushing the Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction line from Connersvillo to Hamilton would commence" with early spring, and that C. L. Henry president of the company had made the statement that cars would be running into Liberty by this time next year. Mr. Stivers said that it was the general impression at Liberty that the building of this double track line to Hamilton, and eventually to Cincinnati would cause the promoters of the Richmond and Hamilton project to change their plans and build from Richmond to Liberty, thence to Brookville, aud on to Harrison, O., there to connect with George B. Cox's Cincinnati road. This he said, would appear to be a better proposition than to build from this city to College Corner and to connect with Henry's road, for it would then be necessarj' to build to Hamilton. The attention of A. C. Lindemuth one of the active promoters of the proposed line to Hamilton was called to the matter last evening, and he stated positively that there would be no change in the plans of the company. "The promoters of this line originlaly contemplated building by the way of Liberty," said Mr. Lindemuth. "but-they were compelled to abandon the idea. Three surveys were made of the route, and it was shown conclusively that the cost of maintenance, power, etc., would be so great that it would not justify us in carry
ing out the project. Any one familiar with the country between Richmond and Liberty can well understand "why we came to this decision.
Owing to the number of hills and streams that it would be necessary to cross in the construction of such a line, the expenditure to be incurred would be a most fabulous sum." WEIGHING OF MAIL BEGUN Two Extra Clerks are Placed on Duty at Local Station. The quadrennial weighing of the mail began yesterday at the Pennsylvania station and at all points along the line, and will continue for ninety days. The government contracts for mail transportation for the next four years will be based upon the amount handled by the Pennsylvania during this period. All the railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio river are weighing at the present time. Two extra clerks havo been placed on duty at the local station, while five others will run out of Richmond on the different divisions of the Pennsylvania and weigh all mails placed upon the trains. The local clerks at the station will weigh it by the truck load on the large platform scales while all empty mail pouches will also be weighed and an exact record of all weights kept during the "ninety
days. Records of the weighing will j
be sent to Washington and to the gen eral offices of the Pennsylvania rail road company. J. M. Hoover and T,
L. Weadick will assist at the local sta tion during the weighing season.
Charles Lamb will weigh on the trains
between Richmond and Logansport. E. W. Wheeler and J. Feighter will
weigh on the Grand Rapids trains be
tween Richmond and Grand Rapids
Wm. A. Snowden will run between
Richmond and Springfield, O., while
Albrt Hindman will take the Cincin
nati run.
Pittsburg, and has been tested thoroughly. It was stated yesterday by one of the officials in this city, that if the engine proves what is expected of ft, namely, great speed, more engines or the same type will be purchased. It has six drivers, each eight feet in diameter. The weight of the drivers is 170,000 pounds, while the entire weight of the engine is 240,000 pounds. Several engines have been In use on the Pennsylvania with almost the same weight, but none with such high driving wheels. One of tha largest
water for more than twenty eight hours, and then not more than S6 hours with the consent of the shipper. The penalty in each instance is $500. George Merlcle, a fireman on tho G. R. & I., running into Richmond, has been promoted to the position of freight engineer. The Interstate commerce commission has announced that it will not authorize the payment of railroads of rebates and claims for overcharges previous to Jau. 1, 1907, the date on which the anti-rebate law became effective. Dick Perrj' is now a freight engineer on the G. R. & I., he having been promoted to that position but recently. He has been with the G. K. & I. fur several years. The Richmond Street and Intcrur-
passenger engines now in use through ban Railway company will place six Richmond is a D 16 D type, pulling i new open cars Into service on the city
train No. 31. between Cincinnati and Logansport daily, arriving here at 4:33, whose drive wheels are eighty-two
er opens. Many of the old cars are
inches high. MUST PAY REGULAR FARE. Few Religious Workers Will Ride Under Railroad Rate Hereafter. After much discussion the Western Passenger association, with headquarters In Chicago, has decided to give no free or reduced rates of transportation to members of the Y. M. C. A. or Y. W. C. A. to the W. C. T. U., theological students and nuns and brothers of the Roman Catholic orders. It is said that the Central Passenger association, with which the C, C. & I and the Pennsylvania railroads are affiliated, will also follow in the footsteps of the Western association. Ministers, officers of the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America, deaconesses in garb, secretaries of the railroad Y. M. C. A.'s and sisters of charity, will continue to receive tho half fare rates it is said, although there has been much agitation among the railroads belonging to the Central Passenger association, to discontinue the rates to even these. The matter will be decided at the next meeting of the passenger officials in Chicago.
FEAR REDUCTION IN FORCE.
Reported that the Panhandle will Be
gin Retrenchment.
Although it has been reported in lo
cal railroad circles for several days
that the head officials of the road in
Pittsburg would soon begin a general reduction of forces, a local railroad official of the Richmond division yester
day said that he did not think that there was any truth in the report as
lready the railroads were scouring the
country for good, reliable men, who
were thoroughly competent. He also
said that there was always an opening with the Pennsylvania and he did not see wherein the railroad officials in Pittsburg could find room for their de
cision to make a general reduction in the forces.
The rumor, however, has caused a
good deal of uneasiness among clerks in the local offices, and has been the topic of much discussion for the past few days.
STRIKE AVERTED ON C, C. & L. The machinists of the C, C. & L.
have reached an agreement with the
officials of the road, and a strike was narrowly averted. The boiler makers, however, are still holding out for more wages and they may strike unless the
officials of the road do not come to
their terms within a short time. By the agreement between the officials
and the machinists, the best machin
ists are to receive 22 cents per hour,
while others are to receive 30 cents. Machinists, helpers will receive 16 cents.
LARGEST ENGINE IN WORLD.
Giant Panhandle Locomotive Expect
ed in Richmond Soon. The Pennsylvania railroad will soon
lace the largest passenger engine in
he world, In service between Nefr
York and St. Louis. Tha engine is
expected to pas9 through Richmond
within the course of the next few day3 as it has been turned out of the American Locomotive company's works in
DISABLED ENGINES TO SHOPS. Richmond Division But little Affected by Recent Order. Local train officials have received orders to give all disabled engines Immediate shop orders In case there are any out of service here. Thoro was a large number of engines disabled during the recent cold weather in tho east and northern divisions of the Pennsylvania, and although the different divisions do not uso power from the others, unless absolutely necessary, the call for help has been issued from eastern divisions. It is said that at least one hundred engines were put out of service owing to the severity of the snow storms in the east. At the present time there are only seven Richmond division engines running in and out of Richmond, which are under shop orders. v COL. SHAW IN CITY. Col. Wm. M. Shaw, district passenger agent for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Co., known as the Burlington route, was in this city yesterday, conferring with local passenger officials. Col. Shaw is one of the oldest district passenger agents in tho middle west, he having been with different roads in Cincinnati since 1S71 and has made frequent trips to this city during that time. Owing to his
cheery disposition and a happy faculty In knowing how to tell the best of stores, he Is always welcomed at the local offices. He reports that the Burlington Is doing an unusually heavy passenger business at the present time, all along the line. DISCONTINUE SUMMER RATES.
now being overhauled aud placed in condition. F. I Strickler, formerly a Western Union operator at the Pennsylvania station, has resigned his position as fireman on the Richmond division, in which capacity ha has been serving for some time, and will take a night position with the Western t'nlon In this city at its up towu offices. The Western Union telegraphers located In the branch office at the Pennsylvania station, have as yet heard nothing in regard to whether or not they will receive a fifteen per cent increase in salary along with the other employes in the Richmond offices.
"Had dyspepsia or ludlgestlon for years. No appetite, and what I did eat distressed me terribly. Burdock Blood Bitters cured me." J. II. Walker, Sunbury, Ohio.
VELyi3 STL
(Just Llk Cut) Will be placed on sale on Saturday, Fob. 23 At 8 O'clock a. m.
Hereafter People Going to Must Pay Full Fare.
Resorts
The local Pennsylvania offices have received the announcement that during the coming summer the Central Passenger association, with which the Pennsylvania and almost every railroad in the middle western states is affiliated, will discontinue summer excursion rates throughout the territory within its jurisdiction. Hereafter persons going and coming from summer resorts throughout the country located In the territory wherein the railroads are members of the Central association, will have to pay the full passenger fare. The action Is taken by the association in view of the fact that the several legislatures in the states where its roads are operated, are after the lines with the "big stick" and uniform two cent rates are likely.
The former summer excursion rates to popular summer resorts was one and one-half cents per mile and It Isj
thought that the extra half cent which the travelers will have to pay will not
materially affect the traffic.
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Albert Hindman, a postal weigher, but recently assigned to the run between Richmond and Cincinnati, was called to Hagerstown yesterday on account of the death of his sister. He will probably report again for duty the latter part of this week. The G. R. & I railroad is not following the footsteps of the Pennsylvania
main lines in trying to pull through! tho nrsnt "short" apsxnn .-lth-nit I
" vw t .U Dromotinz firemen to the ranncftv nfl '
engineers, , and in the past few days six firemen running in and out of Richmond on that road have been promoted. Out of respect for Samuel Spencer, the lata president of tho Southern railroad company, the employes will raise a fund to erect a suitable monument in his memory In Atlanta, Ga. Charles T. Sunday, a fireman on the G. R. & I., running in and out of Richmond has been promoted to the petition of freight engineer. ' The Rock Island railrofifl haft 16 cases pending against it for tlolating the law which provides that live stock being shipped on a railroad, may not be kept in the cars without food or
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