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PALLADIUM 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXI. NO. 363. Richmond, Ind., Wednesday Evening, March 27, 1907. Single Copy, Two Cents.
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DEMOCRATS SORE OVER THE ACTION OF POLICE BOARD
Believe They Should Have!
Been Consulted in Refer m
ence to ADDOintment ot a
fMember of Police Force. COMPLAINT WAS MADE BUT WITHOUT RESULTS.
To Help In Digging Roosevelt's Canal.
Teeling Toward Governor Hanly for Failure to Name a Successor to C. W. Merrill Not of Kindest.
Ixcal democratic leaders are "sore" over the action of the board of metropolitan police commissioners in apnointinc Oscar Brown, a democrat,
a n. mpnihpr of the Dolice force. The
democratic powers-that-be have nothing against Mr. Brown, as they know him to be a loyal democrat, but they
are indignant because the police com
missioners made the appointment
without consulting them. It is learned that after the an nouncement had been made of
Brown's appointment. President Merrill of the board of public works went to see Edgar F. Iliatt. one of the
members of the police board, and he told Mr. Hiatt that inasmuch as the democrats of this city were not rep
resented on the police board he thought it would have been only just
and courteous on the part of tue com
missioners to have consulted with Major Schillinger, B. B. Johnson. City
Attorney T. J. Study, himselt ana otn
er democratic leaders as to the demo
crat to receive the appointment. It is stated that this plain talk on the part of Mr. Merrill slightly ruffled Mr. lliatt, and as a result Mr. Merrill was Informed that the commissioners were sorry their action did not meet with the approval of Mr. Merrill and his associates, but that the board of police commissioners had acted as it saw fit and would continue to do so. Governor Hanly Condemned. It has now been over seven months since there has been a democratic member of the board of police commissioners and the things the local democrats are saying about Governor Hanly would probably not make a hit with him. His failure, to appoint a successor to Mr. Merrill, who resigned last September, was first excused on
the ground that the governor wished to see what action the legislature would take on the metropolitan police law. The legislature has met and adjourned and the metropolitan law is still in force but the governor has tak
en no steps toward filling the demo
cratic vacancy on the board. Mr. Hi-
atfs commission expired on January
1, but he still continues in office until
the governor sees fit to reappoint him or name his successor. Just what reason Governor Hanly has in refusing
to fill the vacancies on the local po
lice board are unknown.
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THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Showers this afternoon and probably tonight. OHIO Thursday probable showers and cooler.
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
TUESDAY. Total Circulation Net Circulation
7,069 6,843
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. LARGEST COUNTY CIRCULATION. LARGEST RURAL ROUTE CIRCULATION. LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION.
BY CARRIER. Seven Papers for Seven Cents.
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KSIONJET
TO PLAIi WORK ON SAHITY OF THAW
MAJOR GAILLARD, PANAMA CANAL ENGINEER. 'Major David Du Bose Gaillard, one of the two army engineers appointed by the president as assistants to Lieutenant Colonel Goethals in constructing the Panama canal, Is a South Carolinian by birth. He was born in 1859. He was graduated from West Point in 1SS4 and became an officer in the engineer corps. During the Spanish war he held the rank of colonel in the volunteer army. Major Gaillard has done highly important engineer work. On Lake Superior, the Columbia river and at other points the river and harbor work under his direction testifies to his ability. The major is married to a South Carolina belle who was Miss Katherine Davis of Columbia.
SECURES BIG INDUSTRY
Hamilton to Have a Gigantic
Coke Furnace.
CAPITAL OVER A MILLION.
TAKE PARK GROUND TO ENLARGE YARDS
Pennsylvania Railroad Has Condemned a Strip Fifty Feet Wide at the Glen.
CITY HAS NO RECOURSE.
CHANGE WILL BRING THE COMPANY'S RIGHT-OF-WAY ALMOST TO ROADWAY AT NORTH OF
THE RESORT.
The P., C, C. & St. Ij. railroad has Just completed plans for the enlargement of its east end yards in this
city. These plans Call for the addi
tion of two new tracks and the com
pany will condemn a strip of land in Glen Miller park, fifty feet wide and about 500 feet long, to place these tracks as the right of way the com-
jany owns is not large enough for the addition of new tracks.
President Merrill of the board of
public works states that he regrets the action of the railroad company in condemning this land, but he says the city has no recourse to prevent such action as the railroad has this authority under the law. By the addition of the fifty feet Etrip of city property the right of way of the railroad compans' In the east end yards will run almost to the roadway which skirts the north end of Glen Miller lake. Local railroad officials state that the increased freight traffic in this city demands that the east end yards be enlarged.
While Richmond is hoping for more
factories word comes from Hamilton, Ohio, that a deal has been closed for
the immediatrection. ofa gigantia
blast furnace at Cokeotto, near the Hamilton Otto Coke company's plant. The sum of $rN,04K has been subscribed by Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Hamilton capitalists, and is immediately available for construction work. The furnace will have a daily supply of 25 tons of pig Iron. Ultimately, and within a very short time, capital to the amount of $1.,"U0,nh will be brought into the new industry.
WILL OPEN TOMORROW. 4 Southern Indiana Teachers' Association at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, March 27 The officers of the Southern Indiana Teachers' Association will open their headquarters at the Grand Hotel tomorrow
morning. The first session of the teachers' association will be held at Caleb Mills Hall tomorrow night. Few of the members of the association have arrived aside from the Evansville delegation, which came Monday. The reduced railroad rates on account of the association meeting do not go into general effect until tomorrow.
MAYBE ITS COMING NOW
Governor Hanly Is Considering
Appointments.
RICHMOND HAS VACANCY.
PASSION WEEK SERVICES. They Are Being Held Nightly at the First M. E. Church.
Passion week services are being held
at the First M. E. church. Tonight S. H. Jones will be the leader, the service to begin at 7:". o'clock. - Tomorrow night. Henry Luring will be the leader. Friday the services will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in
stead of at 7:i;o.
Indianapolis, March 27 Governor Hanly is today considering a number
of possible appointments for positions created under the "Taws of the past
session. He is also taking up for con
sidcration the names for vacancies on
various metropolitan police boards.
Reports are reaching this city that
his own appointees on various boards
throughout the state are allowing enforcement of the laws to become lax
and probably this will be looked into.
Too Sick for Business. t Although it had been planned for
the governor to take up consideration
of these appointments and he expected to do so, he was not able to stay at his office and is now confined to his bed, due to a nervous breakdown.
Acute indigestion also has something
to do with his condition. Papers in
appeals for clemency from two men who are to be hanged at Michigan
City, Friday, were taken to his house and he is now considering them. It is understood he will commute the sentences.
CARS NOT YET RECEIVED. Street Car Company Is Improving Its Local Tracks.
Justice Fitzgerald Has Excused the Jury From Any Further Duty Until Next Monday Morning.
OUTLOOK HOPEFUL FOR IMPROVEMENT ON THE WEST SIDE
Pennsylvania's Plans and Specifications May Be Submitted Some Time During The Present Week.
BANK BUILDING WILL NOT START FOR YEAR March 1 Time Set for Beginning the Work.
AN UNEXPECTED DELAY.
DIVISION OF THE COST ALREADY AGREED UPON.
City Engineer Charles Will Turn His Plans Over to Supt. Neff Whenever the Company's Are Ready.
UNION OF HARRY AND EVELYN HELD PERFECT.
Clara Morris Gives Out an Interview With Wife of the Accused Man That Shows Devotion of the Two.
New York, March 27 Justice Fitzgerald today excused the jury in the Thaw case until Monday. At that time if the lunacy commission has not filed its report the jurors will be excused again.
The lunacy commission met at
Their Union Is Perfect. Clara Morris, former actress, in a published interview with Evelyn Thaw today presents a most interesting
story of the girl's present life. Nothing is said of the Thaw trial but the
story is brimful of Evelyn herself.
'Let it be known," says Miss Morris, once for all, that whatever did not
begin with 'Harrysaid,' ends with 'Harry did.' Harry was nevrr two breaths
away. Harry l naw ana nis wire Eve
lyn are mated as well as married. That they waded through sin and shame and
blood to secure their perfect union, is but mere detail to the young egotism
of their passionate love. And if anyone is cruel enough to desire to pierce too loving hearts with one poisoned lance to their great suffering, they have but to hint at annullment of the Thaw marriage 'It's cruel, cruel, Ev
elyn gasped, 'it's the one thing Harry cannot bear quietly. While there is
breath in Harry's body no one will take
me from him. No one. "
Plans and specifications for the via
ducts over the Richmond and Indianapolis division tracks at the West Second street crossing, which were to
have been submitted by the Panhandle to City Engineer Fred Charles the
first of this week, have not yet been received, but It is expected they will be submitted to Mr. Charles some day this week. The plans and 'specifications prepared by the city engineer and his assistants for the city's share of the work have practically been completed and as soon as the plans and specifications of the railroad company have been received, Mr. Charles will turn his over to Superintendent Nettleton Neff of the Richmond division. Division of the Cost. Under the agreement by which the improvements at the West Second street crossing are to be made, the city pays 40 per cent of the cost and the railroad company the remaining t'.O per cent. From the estimates that have been made by the city and railroad engineers it is stated that the entire cost of the improvements will amount to about $50,000, of which the city's share will amount to about 120,000. Some time ago the city council appropriated $20,000 for the city's share of expenses but there is at the present time only about $13,000 in this
t J f undr .the other .$7,000, having been
transferred to various funds. It will
Owing to an unexpected delay, work on the new building to be erected by the Second National bank at the corner of Eighth and Main streets, will not begin until March 1, lis. According to the plans now being drawn the building will be four stories high, the first floor being devoted to the two banking concerns, the Second National bank and the Richmond Trust company. The former will have the same f oom as it now occupies and the new company will have the room now used by the McDonald drug store. There will likely be a common entrance from Main into the building, and it will be possible to pass from one bank room to the othec. without going outside the building. The second floor of the building will be retained by the law firm of Robbins, Starr and Robbing while the other floors will be arranged to suit the prospective occupants. Until it is necessary to begin the actual work of construction. McDonald's
drug store will not have to vacate its room.
WILLIAM HOLLER
AN INSANE
MAN
MAKES ESCAPE With Nothing But a Blanket For Protection He Is Wandering Somewhere in This County.
DEPUTY SHERIFF AND ATTENDANTS SEARCHING
Holler Was a Patient at Easthaven Once Before and After His Release Created Excitement at Centcrville.
CONFERENCE MAY BE ASKED BY PRESIDENT
Suggested Railroad Interests And Interstate Commerce Commission Confer.
MORGAN APPROVES PLAN.
IT ORIGINATED WITH JACOB H. SCHIFF AND LOOKS TO FEDER
AL CONTROL OF THE DIFFI CULT SITUATION.
Washington, March 27. President Roosevelt is considering the sugges-
tion of Jacob 71. Schiff to Invite the
be necessary for council to make anjrailroa(1 interests to confer with the
appropriation to cover up the defi
As yet the local street car company
has received none of the new summer
cars which were ordered some time
ago. The work on the tracks has al
ready begun and they will be placed
in first class condition.
Ben Greet at Purdue.
The committee for the gala week at
Purdue university has signed a con
tract with the Ben Greet company of
Shakespearean players to give two
outdoor performances on the campus.
Will Lecture at Ovid. he Rev. T. H. Kulin will go to Ovid. Ind., Saturday, where he will lecture.
ARSON CASE IS NOW ON TRIAL;
J. MERCER UNDER SERIOUS CHARGE
It Is Claimed That He Fired the Barn of His Father-in-Law, J. H. May, In Spirit of Revenge, During- the past two days Deputy j in progress a man driving a horse at Sheriff Oscar Mashmeyer has been j a fast rate.' in the direction of the lit-
seouring through Washington and! tie town of Orange, was noticed. TuesJackscn townships, serving subpoenas j day witnesses for the state testified to on witnesses desired to appear in the 'this effect. It is alleged by the state case of the state against Jonas Mercer, J that Mercer was on bad terms with his
a resident of Bentouville. a hamlet i fatheivin-Iaw. and th.it h. humot tv,
across the Fayette county line, which 5 barn to revenge himself.
TOOTH DROVE HIM INSANE
Hamilton Man Suffers Intense Pain
And Is Now in Strong Ward At the Hospital.
Hamilton, O., March 27 John Ab
bott, Lindenwalk, tried to pull a tooth
with a pair of pincers. The teeth be
came ulcerated and neuralgia developed. The pain was so Intense that it almost drove Abbott insane. He was removed to the strong ward in a lo
cal hospital today. It is feared that
he cannot recover.
TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.
Cambridge City to Have More Cement
Walks and Better Drainage.
Cambridge City, March 27 County Surveyor Howard, accompanied by Marshal Drischel and J. E. Gray, made
several important surveys on Mulber
ry. faoutn jones ana tasc cnurcn
streets, Tuesday afternoon by the ord
er of the town council. The above
streets were surveyed for making
drainage improvements. North Foote
and North Chestnut streets were sur veved for cement walks.
EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED.
Keystone Flyer on the Pennsylvania Left the Tracks.
is now on trial in Connersville. Mercer
is charged with arson. A dispatch from Connersvills states that the state has rested its case and that the defense has begun the introduction of
evidence. The state charges Mercer
One Odd Coincidence. The day the barn was burned. Mercer had his horse shod, and the blacksmith, according to testimony, placed a peculiar cork tip on one of the
norses nmd slices. xt was broucht
with burning the barn, together with! out in the trial that the horse which valuable machinery and live stock, of i was seen to be driven at a rapid pace
sidfS in the western part of Fayette
uutj iitar the liush county llii-.
Story cf the Fire. On the night of January .". the barn
oi j . n. .ia was uestroyea ny ru e and j five neighbors, who will appear in his the total loss resulting amounted to (behalf. It is not kr..-n u-h,f ti,o
While the fire was fense is. " -
during the fire, left tracks on the road which showed that it had a cork tip on one of its hind siu:. Mercer is a wt-il known man. and
i there will be from twt-ntv to twentv-
Pittsburg, March 27 The Keystone express on the Pennsylvania railroad was wTecked early today after leaving Pittsburg. ' The engine and three cars left the track but no one was seriously injured.
TWO MASONIC CANDIDATES. Richmond Lodge Followed Its Work With Refreshments.
S,.W or $1M ..
Richmond lodge of Masons gave the master Mason's degree to a class of two candidates at its meeting Tuesday night. They were A. 1. R. Lawrence and Harry K. Young. At the close of the initiation, there was refreshments and a social season.
ciency in the special West Second street improvement fund. " Representatives Will Meet. As soon as the plans and specifica
tions for the improvement work have
been exchanged by the city and rail
road company, representatives of the two will get together and make any
changes necessary so that everything
will be satisfactory to both parties to
the agreement. After this has been
done the working agreement will be
submitted to council for ratification and to the Pittsburg officials of the road for their approval. The company has been put to considerable expense
in drawing up its plans for the im
provements and it is not thought there will be any chance of the Pittsburg of
ficials vetoing them. Dream May Come True. After the working agreement has
been accepted by both the railroad
company and the city, bids for mak
ing the improvements will be adver
tised for. After the contracts have been let the dream of the people who live in the northwest part of town will be realized because work on the improvements will then actually begin. It is thought this work will start some time in May.
RECKLESS EXTRAVAGANCE. How Can John D. Stand Such a Rapid Financial Pace?
Lakewood, N. J., March 27 John D. Rockefeller has Increased the wages of laborers on his local estate 15 cents a day. ,
Interstate Commerce Commission on the general situation. Word comes from London that J. P. Morgan has cabled the president, urging that he approve the plan. The president has been conversing on the subject with cabinet members and the Interstate Commerce Commission and a public
statement may be issued shortly from the White House. Federal Regulation. Schiffs plan contemplates a scheme of congressional legislation to protect the railroads from adverse and
conflicting legislation by the states
and conserve the interests of both railroads and the country at large through federal regulation. It is agreed by the railroad interests that if they had to look to only one governmental head there would be less liklihood of threatening financial disturbances.
A COLD SNAP IS FEARED.
Great Damage Would Be Done Fruit Now in the Bud.
to
The many fruit trees about the city
that are in bloom add to the theory that spring is really here. There will be serious loss to fruit and early vege
tation if there should be an extremely cold spell now. This warm weather will do great damage, if a hard
freeze should now come, for flowers
and trees are budding rapidly.
William Holler, an inmate of Easthaven insane hospital and who formerly resided on a farm near Abington.
is now wandering unclothed somo place in the county and Deputy Sheriff Oscar Mashmeyer and employes of the hospital are searching for tha man. Up to- noon no trace of his whereabouts had been obtained. Holler is a dangerous man and the authorities are greatly worried about his being at large and every effort will be made to apprehend him speedily. A Desquieting Effect. Tuesday evening Holler absolutely without clothing, but carrying with him a blanket, took out a window in the room in which he was oou fined, then dropped to the ground and disappeared into the night. It was not for some time after Holler took French leave that the attaches of tho hospital became aware of his escape. The news that an unclothed Insane man was circulating some place In the vicinity of the hospital had anything but a quieting effect on tho people living in that part of the. county. A sharp lookout for Holler is being kept In Abington and that vacinlty
as it is thought he might return to his brother's home. Excitement at Centerville. Last January Holler escaped trom the home of his brother, where he had -been tal.en af,r -being discharged from the insane hospital, and with a large gun wandered into Centerville where he succeeded In keeping the streets cleared of citizens until the arrival of Shrtff Meredith, who brought the man to the county jail and later had him removed to L'asthaven. About two years ago while Holler was living with his brother ho Kar him wandering one evening about thrt farm and the insane man tmmaglned that his brother was a chicken thief, whereupon he took a shotgun and nearly succeeded in blowing one of his brother's hands off.
HECHT ACQUITTED Oil BRIBERY CHARGE Tearfully He Embraced His Wife and Children When Jury Returned Verdict.
HE PASSED A TRYING DAY.
EX-MEMBER OF STATE PHARMACY BOARD WAS ACCUSED OF HAVING OFFERED TO SELL EXAMINATION QUESTIONS.
DEWEYS ARE QUITTING HOME WHICH AMERICAN PEOPLE GAVE TO THEM Wife of the Admiral Is Said to Be Responsible for the Move Furnishings and All To Be Leasee.
Washington, March 27. Admiral
George Dewey and his wife are leaving
the home in Rhode Island avenue presented to them by the contributions of
the American people, to live in future at No. 1001 K street, the home of Mrs. Dewey, before her marriage.
After her marriage to Admiral Dew
ey, the K street house was leased first to the late Senator Alger, and later to
Secretary Hitchcock. Mr. Hitchcock has given up the place and workmen have begun making repairs and alterations. Their orders were so Impera-:
tive that they worked far into the night and tby continurd twday. -s-terday some of the personal btrlonging1?
f Admiral and Mrs. Dewey wt-re
transferred from the Rhode Island avenue house to the K street home.
It is understood that non of the furnishings of the Rhode Island avenue house will be moved. Mrs. Dewey's home in K street is magnificently furnished, and it is said that the Rhode
Island avenue place will be leased furnished. The K street house was the home of Mrs. Dewey during the lifetime of her first husband, Gen. Hazen, of the signal service. Mrs. Dewej- is said to be responsible
for the abandonment of the Rhode Is
land avenue house as their home. Her K street house Is much nearer the re5-
idenc-e of her mother, and sh likes
that location Letter than the Lou- preRented by- the American p-ople to her
husband. The title to tli Rhode Island avenue house stands in Mrs. Dewey's name.
Winchester, Ind., March 27. After being out about an hour and a half tho jury in the case of David Hccht, of Evansville. ex-member of the state pharmacy board, who was indicted for soliciting a bribe from F. B. Porter, a drug clerk of Parker, returned a verdict of not guilty. Scene Was Dramatic. When the decision was read Hecht sprang to his feet, his wife screamed and clasped her husband to her breast. Hecht then thanked the jury while the tears streamed down his cheeks and took them each by the hand. It -was
a touching scene and several men kissed llecht's two little daughters, who
were crying with joy. The jury went
out at 5 o'clock and reported at On the first ballot the vote stood ten
to two for acquittal.
Hecht is alleged to have offered to
sell the chemistry Questions prior to the state examination and cix letters
passed between him and Porter.
A Trying Day. It was a trying, day for the defendant. As the final hour drew nearer and nearer, when twelve of his fellow men should decide his fate the defendant, his tall form bent and his hair whitened, although he Is but -17 years of age, grew more nervous and at times seemed on the verge of a nervous collapse.
Meeker at Hamilton.
Ezra M-ker aud Lis ox " team, r-
jcentlr in Richmond, have be-n spendjing the week at Hamilton, O.. wheie thev xufat with a pleasant retention.