Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 3 March 1907 — Page 4

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The Richmond Palladium, Sunday March 3, 1907.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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RICHMOND, IND- TJnT NEW SCARLET FEVER CASE Camilla Haner, Who Attends the Finley School, Is Sick -Dr. Bond Acts Promptly. Another case of scarlet fever was reported at the health office yesterday afternoon, it being in home of Frank Haner, 135 South Fourth street. Camilla Haner, the child, affected, attended school at tho Finley building Friday, and Dr. Bond will close the second grade room taught by Minnie E. Hale, Monday morning, and keep it closed until all danger is passed. It is probable that after an investigation is made other rooms will be closed but this is not known at the present time. The case is the first one In the city where a school room will have been closed, as the result of a pupil attending, contracting the disease. All other school rooms have been closed because their attendants were indirectly exposed to the disease. Although the . case is reported at the Finley school. Dr. Bond said yesterday that if It had been the direct out growth of the cases, which closed the three rooms at the school last week, the child would have contracted the disease sooner and hence he did not believe that the child had contracted the disease then. . City Sanitary Inspector Young thoroughly disinfected the- affected room yesterday afternoon. Statement by Bond. Dr. Bond made a statement to this Aper that he -wished to announce that fell parents of children who attended the school, should take immediate precautions to keep their children Bway from others in order to prevent the spread f the disease. -- Red Men Very Active Hagerstown, Ind., March 2. -Hagerstown lodge of Red Men has been very active all winter. Last night five warriors were advanced to the chief's degree and received into full mem bership. These were all young men and all promise to become active and useful members of the order. ,On next Friday night a banquet will be given. In honor of these newly obligated brethren, to which visiting brethren will be admitted. Cambridge 'City lodge has invited the Hagerstown degree team to confer the adoption degree In its lodge on April 4th. The invitation has been accepted and practically all this lodge will" attend with the team. ELKS TO MEET AND TALK OVER MINSTREL A rehearsal for the first part of the minstrel show, which will be given April 19th and 20th at the Gennett Theatre by the Elks, for the benefit of the Y. M. C A. fund, will be held this afternoon, at tho Elks lodge rooms. The opening chorus and incidental music has been received and It i3 desired that those who take part in the show shall hear, it and all members are urged to attend. , At this meeting plans will be discussed. A howl ing one-act farce, with a local bear Ing, will bo written and put on by the cleverest talent in the city. Dividend is Declared. Indianapolis. March 2. Directors of the State Life Insurance company held a meeting last night and spent an hour in discussing the dividend question, and at the close of the discussion the regular annual dividend was declared for the ensuing year. The declaring of the dividends had been deferred upon the recommendation of Secretary Wynn because of the threatened abolition of preliminary term insurance during the present session of the legislature. The Rev. Kuhn Kept Busy. Rev. T. H. Kuhn has returned from t ten days lecturing trip, which was eminently satisfactory. Rev. Kuhn booked five return dates at points at which he spoke during the past week and a half. He will be particularly busy during the coming commencement season, as he is much sought after for commencement lectures. He has already booked several and is expecting to book at least fifteen more before the commencement season begins. Last year Mr. Kuhn delivered twenty-nine commencement addresses in different portions of the state. Watson Active for Cromer Washingtow, March 2. President Roosevelt has assured friends of Representative Cromer that he will try to reach a decision today as to whether George W. " Cromer shall be appointed postmaster of Muncie. Representative Watson called Friday on the President in behalf of Mr. Cromer. The President said that some protests have been received and that he wanted a little time to consider them. Teachers Hold an Institute. Yesterday morning the teacher? of Boston and Wayne township schools held a teachers institute at the court house. In the afternoon the teachers went to Conterville to hear O. L. Wadkins, of Indianapolis, deliver his celebrated lecture on "Wordsworth," which was delivered before the Center, Abington and Harrison township teachers' Institute. National extracts and spices sold nnder a positive guarantee. Come back and get your money if not satisfied. For sale by the National Medical Co., Sheldon, Iowa,

5rTV NUMBER 301. IN A FALSE POSITION Wells County ' Superintendent Explains to Legislators His Attitude Toward High License. Bluffton, Ind., March 2. County Superintendent A. R. Huyette will send letters to every member of the legislature and to county superintendents over the state explaining his position on the $ 1,000 license bill, recently killed by the house of representatives. Mr. Huyette says he was placed in a false position by Representative Burns, of this county, who declared that he had written Mr. Huyette for the sentiment of the teachers of this county and had been informed that the sentiment was in favor of killing the bill. Mr. Burns also stated that he had the petition of Mr. Huyette and twenty teachers, asking him to vote for the "bling tiger" bill, and the county remonstrance bill, but not to vote for the high license bill. Mr. Huyette denies that Burns ev er wrote him concerning the bill and he declares positively that he never asked Burns to vote against it. On the contrary, he asked Mr. Burns, he asserts, to vote for it, and told him it was the sentiment of the teachers of Well3 county that the bill should pass. WILL SETTLE SHORTAGE Bond Company to Make Good the Amount City Treasurer Martin of Muncle Is "Shy." Muncle, Ind., March 2. The surety company which was on the bond of former City Treasurer Robert M. Mar tin, through its legal representatives, this week announced that though it would settle in full the amount of Mr, Martin's alleged shortage, said to be still 13,000, it would not do so until the city had determined, through the courts, whether it is entitled to the 5 per cent, of delinquent taxes collected. as It professes to be, or whether Mr. Martin is entitled to those fees, as he says. They amount to only a few hundred dollars, but the courts will be asked to decide them Immediately. CONVERSE IS PLEASED WITH THE AMENDMENT Judge Converse, of the city court, was in an excellent frame of mind this morning over the action taken by the house yesterday in amending the towns and cities bill so that any fourth class city is given the authority through its council to elect a police judge by a two-thirds vote. For a time Judge Converse feared that the office of city Judge would be abolished. It is known that Mayor Schillinger has expressed himself as being opposed to acting as judge, so Judge Converse feels confident that if the new towns and cities code is passed in Its amended form he will retain his office. He is of the opinion that council will vote to retain him in office. The members of the Board of Public Works are still on the anxious seat as to the action the legislature will take In regard to their office. Owing to the close vote in ordering the bill to be passed to engrossment yesterday, members of the Board are hopeful the bill will be killed when voted upon In the house. Theatrical Bill Killed. Local theatrical managers will be pleased over the fact that the house of the Indiana legislature defeated the "Theatrical Trust" bill. The bill required all theaters to admit any responsible, moral attraction that came along. The bill aimed at what are known as "trust houses." These are theaters that refuse to admit attractions that are not in the theatrical trust. The managers of theaters In all parts of the state were opposed to the bill and maintained a vigorous lobby against it. May be Held for Murder. Goshen. Ind., March 2 Frank How land, of White Pigeon, Mich., is In cus tody here and probably will be held for murder. Last night, it is alleged, he shot Charles Carroll, a fellow Lake Shore employe. Trouble over alleged attentions by Howland to Carroll's wife led to the shooting. i Small Fire. The fire department was called yes terday morning to extinguish a small blaze in the basement of the home of Robert Hodgin, 217 North Four teenth street. The- fire originated from a match being dropped in a pile of waste. The loss was small. Harry Braxton Resigns. Harry Braxton, -who was for ycar3 a popular conductor on the Richruond division of : the Panhandle, but who has for some time been located at Twin Valley, O., wo-kfrg on the I. C. & E., will return to this city, having resigned his position. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Zoller and son will go to Milton Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Olive Williams, Mrs. Zoller's grandmother. Aitlflcial gas, the !0ta Century faei 16-tf

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TO TOAST MOTHER STATE Swirl of Metropolitan Life Has Not Driven the Memory of Hoosierdom From the Minds of These Indian ians Transplanted in New York. New York, March 2. Two hundred transplanted Hoosiers from whose minds the swirl of metropolitan life has not driven the love and memory of Indiana will gather at the WaldorfAstoria next Wednesday night to dine and toast their mother state, The occasion will be the annual din ner of the Indiana society. An imposing array of talent is presented in the list of those who will respond to toasts, among the distin guished speakers being Senator Bev erldge, Finley Peter Dunne, John T, McCutcheon, Meredith Nicholson and David Graham Phillips. Col. J. B. Curtis and Col S..S. McClure are looking after the affair. While a number of dinners have been given in the past by Hoosiers living in New York, an especial effort is being made to make this affair the most successful yet- At the same time an effort will be made to stren gthen and develop the Indiana so ciety which until recently has been bit unpretentious. TO FACE FORGERY CHARGE George Hazzard, of New Castle, Who Is Accused of that Crime, to Be Tried in Rush County. New Castle, Ind., Maren 2. The much-talked-of charge of forgery against George Hazzard, in connection with his history of Henry county, will come to trial April 23. It will be tried in Rush county, where it was taken on a change of venue after Hazzard's attorneys had petitioned for a change from this county, where It was feared the historian could not get a fair hear ing. The charge on which Hazzard is to be tried was filed by Henry Brown, president of the Mooreland state bank, who charged that Hazzard had forged his name to a contract calling for the payment of $250 for a full page biogra phy and picture in the history. Hazzard is supposed to be in Wash ington, D. C. He told his bondsmen he would return and face the charges. SIX ROOMS ARE CLOSED CONTAGION IN SCHOOLS Young Son of City Treasurer Johnson Has Diphtheria and Sister to the Lad Attends Baxter School Her Room to Be Closed. The three-year-old son of City Treasurer Nimrod Johnson is ill at the home of his parents. Ill Kinsey street, with a most severe attack of diphtheria, and owing to the fact that Helen, a sister to the boy, has been attending the Baxter school. Dr. C. S. Bond, city health officer, will have one room closed at the scTiool Monday morning. The room which the girl has been attending was thoroughly disinfected yesterday, but it Is thought best not to allow those indirectly ex posed to gather again until all danger is passed, without a doubt. Six Rooms Closed. At the present time there are six rooms In the city schools closed owing to the presence of contagious disease In the city. The kindergarten, which was closed several days ago at the Finley school on account of scarlet fever, has not been reopened and will not be for several days as It is not necessary to use haste in the matter. The four rooms at the Hibberd school, which were closed on account of the discovery of scarlet fever in the Wm. Quigg home on South Twelfth street, will remain closed for several days. It is -not known just when they will be reopened. As yet no new cases have made their appearance as the result of the indirect exposures at the Hibberd school as It takes between six and eight days for the disease to develop. The quarantines on the homes, which were directly exposed from association with the mem bers of the Quigg family, have not as yet been lifted and will not be until Monday. School Authorities Pleased. Although the closing of several rooms in the city schools during the past several weeks has interfered considerably with the work done in the schools, the school board and Supt. Mott are well pleased, in that the di' sease has not spread more. . After the closing of the rooms, on account of thi u;:tase7 it has always made Its re appearance in a different portion of the city. Dr. Bond, the city health officer and City Sanitary Inspector Young are taking every precaution to see that the quarantines are enforced to the letter. Mrs. Geo. Young is Dead. Xew Paris, Ohio, March 2. Mrs. Sarah Young, wife of George Young, and a sufferer from bronchial trouble and catarrh for years, died Friday from a complication with pneumonia. During her illness she expressed a wish to unite with the Methodist church, and she was received into that body by Rev. Grauer. She leaves a husband , one son, Howard, who lives here, and one daughter, Mrs. Ralph Smith, who lives in Pottasch. Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Smith formerly lived In Richmond and were well known citizens. The funeral will oeccr from her late home Mon day afternoon; interment in Springlawn i

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CHARGES BY MRS. EDDY Head of the Christian Science Church Declares Her Will Was Stolen and that an Effort Was Made to Take Her. Very Life. Concord, N. H., March 2. In a signed statement today George W. Glover, the son, says Mrs. Eddy told him on January 2 that she had made her will. Mrs. Eddy is quoted by Glover as saying; "One day a warning from God told me I had better look after it. I went to get it and it was gone. I could have sworn it was there.1 I asked Mr. Fry where the will was and he said he knew where It was and went to get it, but It was gone. Before night of that day I made another will. . I've got it in a good, strong place, where no one can get it. Men stole it who came and wanted to get . me away and murder me for the will. Some one got into the house and robbed and stole the furniture, but I have it all back now. They came in through a window, hut I have had the windows fixed so that no one can get In when the doors are fastened. They sent me a team of fine horses. They wanted me to get in and drive and get killed. They want my life." Glover thought his mother much older and feebler than when he saw her before, four years ago. Legal Action TakenA bill In equity to secure an actcounting of the .financial affairs of Mrs. Eddy, head of the Christian Sci ence Church, was filed in the superior court for Merrimac county Friday by Mrs. Eddy's son, George W. Glover, of Deadwood, S. D.; the - letter's daughter, Miss Mary Baker Glover, and George W. Baker of Bangor, Me., nephew and "next friend" of Mrs. Eddy. The bill is directed against Alfred Farlow and other trustees of the Christian Science Church in Bos ton, Calvin D. Drye, Mrs. Eddy's secretary; Lewis C. Strang, her assistant secretary, and Herman S. Herring, first reader of the church In Concord. Besides demanding an accounting of all transactions In connection with Mrs. Eddy's affairs the bill asks for restitution in case anw wrongdoing appears; for an Injunction during litigation against interference with her property and business, and for a re ceiver. In a statement issued by Ex-United States Senator William E. Chandler, special counsel in the action, it is declared that Mr. Glover is actuated by no spirit of disrespect to his mother, but believes that the proceeding is In her real interest. Mr. Glover says the action is not directed against the religion of the ' Christian Scientists. The statement further declares that Mr. Glover has long thought his mother was growing too feeble in body and mind to attend to important business matters, but that he was unable to confirm this sus picion, because those Immediately about her seemed unwilling to allow ever her nearest relatives to have an interview long enough to reveal her actual condition. Hurrying to Concord. Boston, March 2 Trustees of the Christian Science church are hurrying to Concord today to confer upon the suit brought against Mrs. Eddy's followers. Before leaving for Concord, Alfred Farlow said Mrs. Eddy is in excellent health and is attending to her own business. WEAK, WEARY WOMEG LEARN THE CAUSE OF DAILY WOES AND END THEM. When When When the back aches and throbs, housework in torture, night brings no " rest nor sleep. When urinary disorders set in. Women's lot is a weary one. There is a way to escape these woes. Doan's Kidney Pills cure such ills. Have cured women here in Richmond. This is one Richmond woman's testimony. Mrs. Frances Hamilton, of 27 Nortti Ninth street, Richmond, Ind., saya; "I was induced to try Doan's Kidney Pills by my sister who had used them and had been cured of kidney trouble. I was having severe backaches and pains In the loins and shoulders, and at times it was very severe. I got" a box of Doan's Kidney Pills at A. G. Luken & Co's. drug store and began using them. I took only two boxes all and was entirely freed from my aches and pains, and have neer had a return of my trouble since, al though it was several years ago that I used them. My sister and I both think there is nothing so good as Doan's Kidney Pills and very gladly recommend them to other kidney suf ferers." . For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, Xew York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. - Membership Nears 500 Mark. The local camp Modern Woodmen Is sharing in the general prosperity of the order. Sixteen candidates are to be adopted Monday night, and it is expected that by the end of the year the membership will be near the five hundred mark. Electric Current Off. Electric current will he cut off at the Municipal Light "Plant Sunday, March 3rd, -from 2:30 to3:3.0 P. M. This is made necessary on account of making some changes in the steam lines. Board of Public Works.

News of the Railroads Local and General

THE C, C. & L. HAS STRIKE MACHINISTS AT BETTER PERU DEMAND WAGES. General Superintendent Dalton Charge of Situation and His Decision is Awaited. in The strained relations which have been existing for some time, between the officials of the C. C. & L. and the machinists in the Peru shops, came to a head yesterday when the machinists with their helpers laid down their tools and left the shops and jsaid that they would not return under any circumstances unless a better wage scale was granted tian that recently given them. General Supt. R. P. Dalton has it within his power to either raise the wages or replace the old men with new ones. It is not thought by the officials of the road that any demonstrations will be made in case new machinists are imported. No Direct Effect Here. Philadelphia, March" 2. To meet cials of the Brotherhoods of Railway Trainmen and Conductors, will have no effect on the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania, although it may be indirectly affected through other divisions of the system. Local officials state that they do not think that the men will walk out, as the railroads at the present time will meet almost anyreasonable terms the men ask, in order to keep the min the service, owing to the present conditions, which exist all over the Pennsylvania, , and other roads of the country. Especially is this true of the freight conditions, and the reputation of the railroad is at stake at the present time. The vast amount of freight on the different divisions must be handled promptly and successfully. The Richmond division conductors are well satisfied with their conditions and under no circumstances will they strike if the other men walk out, as they have been through strikes and find that they generally terminate with the discharge of the men, and at the same time profit little, if anything to those who remain in the service. They say that the Pennsylvania rail road has been kind to them in the past and at the present critical moment, they would not walk out, a?A leave the road in a rut,' such as would happen in case the trains were left for non union railroad men to move. A G. R. & I. conductor, yesterday said that he would not strike as he had been through the famous strike of '92 and '93, and was "burnt" to such an extent that under no circumstances would he obey strike orders. He based his opinion on the same grounds as did several Richmond division conductors: The railroad telegraphers, who are also affected by "the strike orders are not members of the trainmens" union, and will not strike in the event that all the other trainmen walk out. They also base their opinions upon the generous manner in . which they have been handled by the Pennsylvania as a railroad corporation. The movements of the men on the other divisions of the Pennsylvania and the other railroads, are watched with eager interest, among all the rallioad men located in Richmond, i Pension Fund Raised. Having granted a ten pc cent In crease in wages to Its active employes, the Pennsylvania railroad has gone a step further and raised the annual appropriation of its pension fund for retired employes by 35 per cent., from $390,000 to $600,000 per year. . This announcement is contained In the annual report just completed by the pen sion department of the railroad, and which was received at the local sta tion yesterday. According to the report, $467,614.47 was paid out last year to the 1,940 men on the present Pennsylvania pension rolL ' There are now 1,940 men on the pension rolls of the company. In January, 1906, there were 1,810. During the year 200 men died, three-fourths of whom were over 70 years of ageThis decrease was offset by the retirement of 331 men. Of this number 201 were in the 70 year class and 129 between the ages of 65 and 69. Besides containing the announcement of the 35 per cent increase in the annual appropriation, the amount distributed in 1906 and the number of men now on the pension rolls, the report sets forth a complete statement of the operations of the pension department of the Pennsylvania railroad since the pension system was organized In 1900. At that time there were only 1.190 men on the retired list, who received $260,433.36 a little more than half the amount distributed last year. Since 1900, the pension department has distributed a total of $2,493,870.86,1 which gives an average for the seven years of $356,268.69. The number of employes retired and pensioned up to the present time is 3,031. In addition 1,090 men have died. The average age o f employes at the time of retirement was 71 years and 3 months, with an average, length of service of 34 years and 2 months. Several Richmond men are now on the pension role. According to the rule, an employe has to serve the Pennsylvania thirty years, and at the age of sixty-five years can retire from the service In case he sees fit. At seventy years retirement is compulso ry. Should a man serve the Pennsylvania thirty years and be below the age of sixty-five he is not entitled to the pension although several local men say that such should be the case. ARE VOTING ON A STRIKE. The recent strike ordered by the officials of the Brotherhoda of RafJtray Trainmen and Conductors is no being voted on "by the members of the organization. It was learned at -the local station yesterday that the strike i districts were confined to territories 1

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northwest and southwest of Chicago. No men east of the "windy city" have been asked to leave the service. It is probable according to the state ments of local officials who are ae quainted with the grievances of the trainmen and conductors, that the strike will not affect any portion of the Pennsylvania unless the members of the two unions east of Chicago decided to walk out in sympathy. This, however, is improbable, although pos sible. AGAINST FOREIGN LABOR. Kicnmona division section men along with other section men oa the lines west of Pittsburg and also in the western and southwestern states are contemplating forming a union in order to keep foreign laborers from working on the roadbed, and also set a unnorm price tor labor. The sec tion foremen ask $73 per month, while a uniform scale of $2 is asked for roadbed labor. Whether or not the section hands of the country get what they .want remains to be seen. In speaking of the matter a local section foreman said that all labor should be restricted to Americans, as foreign labor was unsatisfactory to a considerable extent, and again It could be secured at such a low figure it was an injustice to the American men who wished positions on the j wiu, vui iuuiu uui tick iucui uniug to the great amount of foreign labor, He said that the better class of road bed men who would work otherwise, would not work with a bunch of illit erate Italians and other foreigners, as their style of life is very objection able. . COMPLAIN OF CAR SHORTAGE. Local lumber dealers have had good reason to complain of the car shortage on the railroads of the coun try for the past several months. Red cedar shingles, one of the most lm portant items in building operations. are almost impossible to secure from the Pacific coast, where they are all made, because of the lack of transportation facilities. "The price on red cedar shingles," said one prominent lumber dealer yesterday, "has been. sent booming as a result. Today these shingles are selliug at $1.30 more per thousand than they were last year, at this time. Some advance would naturally be noticed owing to the growing scarcity of red cedar material, but this great advance is due entirely to the great car shortage. At least 250,000,000 shingles are now on the coast waiting to be shipped." One of the results of this scarcity in shingles Is the use of galvanized iron and slate for roofing purposes. Although shingles show the most marked advance, poplar lumber is also raising in price owing to the scarcity of forests of this kind according . to the statement of the lumber dealer yesterday. The majority of such lumber is now received from the South, and the car shortage has also hindered the shipments of it. . All other kinds of lumber have advanced materially in price during the past year, and those Richmond people who are contemplating building during the present spring will find that it will cost them seiveral hundred dollars more than the same building would have cost last year.' RAILROAD NOTES. It is reported that the Lake Erie and Wesern - shops at Peru .will receive a number of new additions and an increase in the number of employ es, within the course, or the next few weeks. The officials of the road have already' made "a visit" to the "shops looking over the ground. The Rock Island has placed large orders for new equipment for the system. It is said that the officials and directors of the road, Daniel G. Reld being one, are contemplating great things for the road in the near future. t ' . It is probable that the union station in Cincinnati will be abolished aid a larger and more commodious one built. No site has as yet been selected. The Pennsylvania enters the present station and when asked as to what he thought of the matter a Richmond division official said he did not think that there were any grounds to the report. In speaking of the matter yeserday a local railroad official said that the great improvements contemplated by the Pennsylvania, would not be stopped in the least by the adverse legislation in this state and others along the system, according to his belief. It has been disclosed for the first time that the Pennsylvania railroad corporation, holds a large block of stock in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and has in the past largely dom inated the latter road's affairs It Is. reported that the railroads in the western states will carry the legality of legislatures passing two cent rate bills, to the higher courts ia order to test the laws in all the states where such laws have received favorable attention at the hand of th3 legislators. The Central Passenger association has given notice to the local ticket office that hereafter no party rfttes will be given on' the railroads of Ohio. The Pennsylvania therefore will cease to sell party tickets to Cincinnati and other Ohio points. The ruling it' is said will greatly affect theatrical companies traveling in that state. The Pennsylvania will move Its grade crossings In Indianapolis at the cost of $2,000,000. - In round numbers $280,000,000 was spent last year In rolling stock for the American railroads. More than JSoO.OOOyOOO was spent for freight cars at $1,000 each. The price for passenger ars varies, but averages about $8,000. The price for a good

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locomotive will average about $15,000. The Xickle Plate railroad has withdrawn from the Indiana Car Service association. The Pennsylvania. Lake Erie & Western, Wabash, the O. R. & I. and the Lake Shore railroads will continue the organization. It is not known as to why the Nickle Plate took the step it did. Report has It nt the local Pennsylvania station, that the baggagemen, porters and ushers on the' Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburg will soon Jbenefit by a ten per cent, increase in their salaries. Although not much Is known at the local offices In regard to the strike situation on the Pennsylvania. It is said that the trainmen east of Pittsburg are seriously considering the advisability of such a step. Because the G. R. & I. and other Michigan railroads cannot secure sufficient men for employment, the age limit at entering the servieei has been raised from thirty-five to forty years. The Kansas legislature is going after a twenty per cent, decrease in Pullman sleeping car rates. GILMAliS HOT. INDICTED REPORT BY GRAND JURY Dayton Investigating Body Says Sus picions Point In Certain Directions, But are Not Strong Enough. to Warrant Action. Dayton, O., March 2 The) grand jury today held that the Oilman family had nothing to do with the murder of Dona Oilman and refused to indict any member of the family. The grand Jury report says: "We have spent considerable time in the investigation of what is commonly known as the Gilman case. The Importance of the case and the fact that the crime itself was one of the most heinous ever committed in this country, the mystery surrounding It and all things in connection therewith, prompted us to make a most thorough and careful Investigation. We have earnestly endeavored to secure satis factory proof of the Identification ct the murderer, but while there are suspicious circumstances which may point this way or that, we are unable at this time, bearing in mind tie Instruction of the court, that indictments should be returned only in such cases as we might- reasonably believe wotil i result -In a conviction, by a petit jury, to secure proof sufficient to warrant. In our.mlnde, the return of an Indictment against any one." Hoke.idauqua Lodge Growing, v At the meeting of Hokendauqua lodge of Red Men last night there were thirteen adoptions and one card. This will bring the total number of members of the lodge up to 53$. The officials of the tribe do not expect to 6top long on this number, and prohpesy a membership of at least 600 by the first of July. Pemesyivaiiifia LINES Wintor Tourist Far to California Mexico Florida and South Colorado and Southwest Homsssskers' Excursions West Horthvvcst Couth Gouth west v : Pot details, consult Pennsylvania. Lines Ticket Agent C W: Elmer, Richmond, ind.