Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 29 March 1907 — Page 1
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PAUL.
MAKES WILD DASH III AN EFFORT TO REACH FREEDOM
Leonard Leopold, Accused of Assisting in a Murder, Tries
Fruitless Plan to Gain His
Liberty. . -
DASH FOR ELEVATOR FROMMVITNESS STAND.
Upon Being Captured He Tried to Butt Out His Brains and Is Now in a Serious Condition. . jS. .
Chicago, March 20. Leonard Leofxld, accused jointly with Howard Kicholas, of the murder of Margaret Leslie, the actress, made a wild dash for. liberty in Judge Ball's court today. He had been called as a witness at his own trial and occupied a chair on the witness stand. His attorney asked liim one or two questions and before answering the last one 'he dashed to I he doorway leading to the jail elevator. The move was so sudden that attaches were taken by surprise. He grasped the elevator cable just as he Was grabbed by officers. His caplure rendered him frantic. He tried to dash out his brains and rendered himself unconscious. He pleaded on
lelng revived, saying, "Don't hang me
Don't hang me."
Court adjourned and Leopold was
taken back to jail where he is in a se
rious condition.
Head of Russia's New Popular Assembly
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30 ARE KILLED Oil j
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Miss i Florence Roberts and
Theatrical Troupe Have Miraculous Escape.
MOST OF DEAD, ITALIANS
DERAILMENT OF TRAIN DUE TO THE CARELESSNESS OF A
SWITCHING CREW WHICH LEFT
A SWITCH OPEN.
Colton. Cal.. March 29. A disas
trous wreck on the Southern Pacific
occurred east of this town late yester
day afternoon when westbound train Jso. 0, from New Orleans for San Francisco, ran into an open switch while
Koing at the rate of forty railed an
hour, and 10 of the 14 coaches were
derailed. Twenty-six people are Jinown to have been killed and the list will total much higher. The injured
numbered about 100, many of whom swill die. The 'wrecked coaches were hurled 5n every direction. Most of the dead Svere Italians from New York and New Orleans. They occupied the smoker end day coach. The rf-l were terribly mangled. George L. Sharp, of Muncie, Ind., Vas instantly killed. The baggageman of. the train, whose name had not Tcen ascertained, was also killed. Engineer Clarence E. Wormington and Fireman Victor Crebb, both jumped and were caught in the wreckage. They were both terribly scalded and turned. John Golden, the train conductor, was In the Pullman section of the train and escaped injury. Out of about eighty Pullman passengers there were but two who sustained serious injury. The three Pullman coaches and the diner which were on the rear of the train, did not leave the track. The occupants of these cars 5v-ere practically unharmed. Theatrical Troupe Escapes. The Florence Roberts theatrical Company occupied one coach which Wag hurled from the track and both rnds crushed in by impact against the others. But two members of the company out of a total of seventy-two people were injured. Miss Roberts herself escaped entirely unhurt. The escape from death of the occupants of this car was remarkable. The derailment of the train was caused by the crew of a switch en- j Cine leaving a switch open at this j
point. It is said that the engine passed through the switch -a few minutes before the Overland appeared. A switchman named Morrison was in the yard. After the switch engine had passed onto another track the engineer asked the fireman if he had rethrown the switch. The fireman recalled that he had neglected to do so, and the engineer whistled frantically for Morrison to close it. The signal was not given in time as Morrison did not reach the switch before the Overland had plunged through and been .derailed.
FE0D0R G0L0VIN, PRESIDENT OF . THE DOUMA.
Feodor Golovln, who has been elected president or speaker of the new Russian douma, the parliamentary body now in session for the second time In that empire, is in the world's eye at present. He is forty years old, a Constitutional Democrat in politics and a man of influence in his country. By birth he is an aristocrat, though he has cast his lot with the cause of the people. The Constitutional Democrats and the Socialists united to elect Golovin. These parties represent the opposition to Russian autocracy. Should the Russian people through the douma obtain at last a constitutional form of government President Golovin's name will be large In history.
NINETY-SEVEN CASES ONJCIVIL DOCKET Work on This Has Just Been
Completed.
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THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Generally fair and much coder tonight and Saturday;
Sunday fair. OHIO Saturday partly cloudy and cooler; showers in east portion.
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
" -THURSDAY (March 28) Total Circulation Net Circulation '. ..
7,081 6,855
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. LARGEST COUNTY CIRCULATION. LARGEST RURAL ROUTE CIRCULATION. LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION.
BY CARRIER. Seven Papers for Seven Cents.
Fair Weather Easter.
Washington, March 20. Once a year Uncle Sam's weather factory makes a three day weather prognostication. This happened today when the forecast was given out for Easter. The bureau declares that there are more people actually interested in Easter weather than in any other day, and for this reason a forecast for Sunday is given todaj'. Fair weather, according to the weather bureau, Is scheduled for Sunday.
RESGNS
BEGINS
BEFORE HE HIS DUTIES
Edward Stien Will Not Take a Place on Police Force Of Richmond.
SALARY IS NOT ENOUGH.
THIS COUPLED WITH THE FACT THAT THE HOURS ARE SO LONG MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO GET SUITABLE MEN.
OLD WOOLEN MILL
TO GROUND
BURNS
Landmark in the Vicinity
Milton Consumed at an Early Hour Today.
of
JURY WILL NOT BE BUSY.
Deputy Clerk Gus Iluey has just completed arranging the civil docket for. the April term of the circuit court.
The first case that appears on the
docket is that of Frank M. Milliken
against Hattie Custer and others to quiet title. This case was filed in
1903. There are several other old
cases of the same vintage as the Milliken case. On the docket it is shown that at the present time there are ninety-seven cases awaiting trial.
Jury Will Not be Busy. Xo cases will be set for tial during
the first or second week of the .April
term, that time being occupied in
calling the docket. About tnreefourths of the cases that appear on the
civil docket have been continued over from the January term of court.
It is probable that all the members
of the petit jury will have been subpoened by the last of this week and
will be announced next Monday. Indications are that the April term petit
jury will not have any more work to
perform than the petit jury of. the January term.
Settlement Plan Ratified at a Meeting Hekf at- Detroit,On Thursday. CANCELLATION OF BONDS.
Are at Cincinnati. Nettleton Neff, superintendent of
the, Richmond division of the Pennsylvania and Guy Scott engineer of maintenance of way, went to Cincinnati' on business connected with the
railroad.
PERE MARQUETTE ISSUE IS SO DISPOSED OF AND CASE SEEMS
AT AN END WAS SMALL OP
POSITION. ,
Detroit, Mich.. March At a stockholders' meeting of the Pere Mar
quette railroad here the recently an
nounced settlement of the Chicago,
Cincinnati and Louisville matter was
ratified.
Receiver Harmon, of the Pere Mar
quette, issued $00,000 receivers' certificates to William A." Bradford, of Cin
cinnati, and restores to him the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad in consideration of the canceling of the
thrpA and a half mil linn nf Pprp Ma
quette bonds given Mr. Bradford for
the C, C. & Li., at the time when it was proposed to make the" latter road a part of the Great Central system. rThe only opposition to the ratification was made by General Stephen H. Gale, of Exter, N. H., representing a committee that voted .$1.20O,0m, of stock out of a total of $21,000,000.
WORK OF AN INCENDIARY.
MILL HAD BEEN SOLD AND WAS iTOHE jTO RN - BOW N OUB RICK COULD BE USED AT CAMBRIDGE CITY.
EASTER IS GREATEST
MOVABLE FEAST DAY
Has a Ranee of Thirty-five Days in Which
to Fall Earliest Date is March 22, and it Comes But Rarely.
This morning about 3 o'clock the old woolen mill at Milton, familiar to a majority of the residents of this county, burned to the ground. The fire is supposed to ' have been the work of an
incendiary. A t few days ago this property, which had not been used for the past fifteen years, was sold to J. W. Judson, of Cambridge City by Benjamin Tanner, who resides in Michigan. Mr. Judspn bought the property for the puropse of tearing it down and using the bricks for the building of the new factory building of the Cambridge
City Casket company. The purchase price was $750. Thursday the old
machinery in the mill was removed and work was begun on tearing the
building down. Could Not Check Flames.
About 3 o'clock this morning the
residents of Milton were awakened
by the light of the burning building
The flames could not be checked and
Milton's relic of once prosperous com
mercial days was consumed. It is the general impression that the fire was
started by someone jealous of the
thought that the old Milton landmark
was to be torn down and its biicks used for the building of a factory in Milton's neighboring and rival town, Cambridge City. Owing to the fact
that the mill was nothing more than
a shell with nothing inside of it to
catch through accident or carelessness
the theory that the mill was destroyed by incendiary, seems to be well substantiated.
Edward Stien, who a few days ago was appointed a police officer to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Officer Harry Hebble, has tendered
his resignation. Stien is a tinner by trade and he gives as his reason for resigning his position on the police force that he has been made a better offer by the company with which he is connected. Stien was to have assumed his police duties next Monday, April 1. Oscar Brown, the democratic appointee, will assume his duties on that date. At the first meeting of the police commissioners in April, next Friday evening, it is expected that a successor to Stien
will be named. Acceptable Men Scarce. The commissioners find it a hard task to secure acceptable men for the police service owing to the small salaries and long tedious hours the men are on duty. At tho present time police officers receive only $60 per month. Nearly all the men considered favorably by the police commissioners command these wages and besides work only eight or nine hours each day and in nearly every case have their Sundays to themselves. Salary Increase Likely. There has been considerable talk of increasing the wages of the local police officers from $60 to $70 per month and it is very probable this action will be taken by the commissioners as an inducement to attract desirable men to the police service. Ctiy officials
are complaining of the expense the city is now being put to in maintaining
present police force but if the
HEARING RESTORED TO
HIM IN A PECOLIAR WAY
A. W. Pierce Renains Lost
Sense While Hunting.
CAN HEAR WATCH TICK.
Ilagerstown, Ind., Mar. 29 Allan Y. Pierce has had his hearing , re
stored in a remarkable manner. For
years his right ear drum has been af
fected and the hearing was almost destroved. Recently he was hunting
and using a heavy gun in which unus
ually large charges of powder were
used. He shot many times in the course of an hour. When he returned
home he discovered that he could hear
as well in the right ear as the left. He tested the hearing and found it all right, being able to hear his watch tick at a distance. He is confident
the jar caused by the discharge of the
gun affected some change in the mechanism of the ear which restored
his hearing.
HOLLER IS NOT YET
TAKEN OY OFFICERS
Reached the Home of His
Parents and Fled When Officer Approached.
PROVIDED WITH CLOTHES.
HOLLER REALIZES THAT HE
WILL BE SOUGHT AND IS ON
THE WATCH TO KEEP OUT OF
REACH OF CAPTURE.
the
commissioners decide to increase uat only the salaries but the force, an open but ineffectual revolt on the part of the city officers is predicted.
THAW'S ATTORNEYS HIGHLHOSFIDENT Feel Certain of His Being Declared Sane by the Lunacy Commission.
Easter Sunday is the great 'novable
feast of the church year. When 'it Is fixed the other movable dates of the
church readily fall into place. . Easter can not happen earlier than March 22, nor later than April 23, but between these extremes it has a range of thirty-five days on which to occur.
Easter Sunday is observed to com
memorate the raising of Christ from
the dead. When this commemorative practice began, about the close of the
first century after Christ died, the records showing the exact dates of crucifixion and resurrection had been lost, but it was known that the Saviour was crucified during Passover week. The Christians of the Asiatic churches, therefore, kept the 14th of the month of Nisan. the day on which the Jewish passover began, as the resurrection day. bat the Westminster - luii.hts more accurately kf-pt the anniversary on the Sunday following the Passover day. The difference in custom caused a most bitter controversy between the Eastern and Western churches, i
and was at last settled in A. D., by a decision of the Church Council at Nice. This declared! that Easter Sunday should be observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the 21st of March. Should the full moon fall on a Sunday, the Sunday after is Easter Sunday. This arrangement was adopted because March 21 is very near the date of the . vernal equinox, and a tradition existed that this equinox had occurred immediately before the crucifixion. It i not possible to state the exact frequency with which this date falls in March. It occurs fifteen times within the first half of the twentieth century. ..It may be noted that this day falls on its extreme dates. March 22 and April 2:5. only at very long intervals. In l-StJ Easter fell on its latest date, which had not occurred in the nineteenth tvntury. and will not occur "again until li4:S. The last time Easter fell upon its earliest date was in IMS. and this did not. happen again during the
nineteenth- century
MATCH JUST FOR SPORT.
A Shoot Is To Be Held at Home of Al-
vin Threewits With No' Prizes Attached.
A shooting match designed for the sport of the event, withouc any prizes being offered, will be held at the home
of Alvin Threewits. four and a half
miles south west of Centerville Saturday afternoon. There will be both rifle shooting and ciay pigeon events. Everyone desiring to take part is invited. ,
Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Word has been received in this city that the Jewel hotel, laying between Petoskey and Bay View, Mich., was burned to the ground Thursday night. The hotel was very popular with Richmond people and a large colony of them stopped at the hotel last sum
mer and fall, once, according
It will be rebuilt to reports.
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DR. CHENOWETH IS HOME. Returns From Hunting Trip in Ozark Mountains.
pen at all during the twentieth-
Dr. L. S. Chenoweth returned yesterday from it week's trip in Missouri and Arkansas. While there he spent a few days hunting and fishing in the
and will not hap-heart of Ozark Mountains, "with good
success.
JEROME NOW DOWNCAST. PROSECUTOR REFUSED THE RIGHT TO SUBMIT WHAT EVIDENCE HE HAS TO THE LUNACY BOARD SECRET SESSION.
New York, March 29 Attorney Pea body appeared at the Tombs today and after a visit with Thaw, said: "Harry is feeling fine today. I never saw him look more fit for any kind of an emergency." Peabody declined to discuss the de
fendant's plans. It was stated, how
ever, in other quarters that Delmas is preparing actively to go on with the case Monday. There was no session of the lunacy commission today on account of it being Good Friday. The work of examining Thaw will be
taken up again Saturday.
The inquest thus far is favorable
to Thaw. It has been decided to limit the scope of the inquiry solely to the question of Thaw's ability to understand the proceedings and advise his 'counsel in a rational manner. Jerome was balked in his effort to strengthen his case before the commission, first in his evidence being thrown out and second in his failure to have the hearing made an open one.
Thaw's counsel are happy while
Jerome is downcast.
William Holler an inmate of the
Easthaven insane hospital who escap
ed from that Institution Tuesday eight
is still at large somewhere in tho woods of Union county, just over the Wayne county line, despite the efforts
to capture him. At the insane hospi
tal it is stated that Holler will b3 retaken and returned to the institution. A"nofficerwent taHthe "hbme'of Holler's parents Thursday, which is in Union county and a short distance south of Abington, and it was learned that the insane man had been there but when he noticed the approach of the official's horse and buggy, which he knew to be a strange one, Holler took to his heels and ran to the protection of the thick woods near h?s parents home, every inch of which he knows by heart. The officer spent the entire day searching for the man but his efforts were useless. Relatives Would Keep Him. Mr. and Mrs. Holler do not wish to have their son returned to the insane hospital, despite his hopeless mental condition, and they rendered no assistance to the officer in his search for the insane man. They stated that Will came to their home Thursday morning at an early hour in a very pitiful condition. He was clad only in a suit of underwear which was drenched, Holler having slept all of Tuesday and Wednesday nights in driving rain storms. His feet were also in had condition as the result of his wandering through the country. The unfortunate was clothed and his bruises and cuts ministered to anJ the man appeared to be perfectly content to rest at his parents home. He seemed to be aware that he would be sought for by the authorities and as
soon as the strange horse and rig, driven by the county officer, was feen
'approaching, Holler dashed from the!
house.
MAYOR HAS VETOED
ORD A ICE
VOTE
HOSPITAL MONEY Reason for It Has Not Been Given and Probably Will Not Be Until Council Meets on Monday Night.
CITY ATTORNEY STUDY OPPOSED TO AMOUNT.
Administration Said to Believe $7,500 too Much to Vote at One Time and That Plan Is Wrong.
Mayor Schllllnger today vetoed th? ordinance passed ten days ago by tho city council, appropriating Zm for ' the malutainanee of Held Memorial hospital this year. No reason is assigned for this move on the part of the mayor, but it was not unexpected. Mayor Schillinger could not be seen this afternoon and President Merrill, of the board of public works, was ask ed to give an explanation for the veto ing of the ordinance, but he had nothing to say on the subject. City Attorney T. J. Study opposed ' the plan of appropriating un annual lump sum for the maiutainance of tha hospital, at a council meeting ten days ago, stating that the city was not financially able to meet this expenditure. Mr. Study stated that he. which is taken to mean the Schillinger ad-' ministration, is in sympathy with municipal support of the institution, but he suggested that the city pay the ex-' penscs of the siok poor cared for at the
hospital each quarter. This plan ho thought would be less expensive to tho city and satisfactory to the citizen.-..'
Council could not see the same way the city attorney did and the S7,.Vx appropriation was made without a dissenting vote. When the ordinance is returned to council Monday night with the mayor's veto- attached, it is almost certain to be passed over his head.
Trustees Are Indignant. Trustees of the hospital are said to
be indignant ovtr the action t alien hjr
the administration. Two or thre davs aco one member of the board of
trustees called up " Mayor Schillinger
and asked him to take some action on.
tne ordinance as the institution was in need of joney. I have ten days to.
consider Vae ordinance," was the reply ; of the mayor. One member of tho 4 board of trustees states that last fall when the hospital fund clause was In-r
serted in the municipal appropriatloa ordinance, the administration fought the hospital appropriation on tho -ground that it was Illegal. Mr. Study
and Mayor Schillinger at that time
said the trustees should have the leg-j islature pass a law legalizing appropri
ations for such purposes and stated that if the legislature tooK such action.
the administration would then withdraw its opposition to the hospital appropriation. The trustees now hold
that the administration ha not made good its promise.
BURR IS NEW HEAD
OF THE ELKS' LODGE
Annual Election Was
' Thursday Night.
Held
DIVIDENDS TOO LARGE
Gompers Resents Attacks
Made on Union Men.
NEED OF IMPROVEMENTS.
"Washington, March 20. Samuel
Gompers. in a signed article in the Fed-
erationist, today resents the recent at
tack of the railroad managers on the
laboring men, blaming the latter entirely for recent wrecks. Conipers
says equipments that cost money are
wholly, ignored and that money which should be spent in improvements is
spent in dividends- -
CARNEGIE NOT GAMBLER. Says He Never Made a Dollar Through
Stock Speculations.'
New York, March 23 Andrew Car
negie made a vigorous attack upon
certain wan street methods in a
speech at a dinner given in his honor by the United States Military Tele
graph Corps at the Hotel Manhattan last night Mr. Carnegie declared that he had never made a dollar gambling in stocks and added that it was time that business men declined to recognize men who make money in Wall street and render no, value for it.
WENT ON ALL WINTER. Work Pushed on Track Between Bradford and Urbana.
The work on the new double tracks between Bradford, O., and Urbana, is progressing rapidly. The work has not been stopped during the entire winter, as the weather has been of such character as to permit development of the road. Gravel from the new East Germantown pit will be hauled to the new section as soon as the tracks are laid in the pit and operations begun. Nothing but gravel ballast will be used along the thirtyfive mile stretch of double tracks.
Body Was in the River.
IS IN SPLENDID CONDITION,
The annual election at the Richmond lodge of Elks took place Thursday evening and there was. a good sized crowd present. Owing to tho fact that there was no opposition t the officers elected the election was tame in comparison with others in the past. The lodge is in 'splendid, condition and fs enjoying a steady growth. The following are the newly elected officers: A. A. Burr, exalted ruler. P. L. Torrence, exalted leading knight. W. P. Eggcmeyer, exalted loyal knight. Cash Beall, exalted lecturing knight. John Palmer, tiler. E. If. Categ, trustee. Board of governors J. B. Gordon, James Zoller. 1. E. Iliff, E. E. Eggcmeyer, John Bayer.
NATATIONS SENT 00T
Commercial Club Banquet Next Tuesday Night.
All members of the Commercial
club have received cards of invitation
from the secretary to the banquet to
be held at six o'clock next Tuesday evening at the Masonic temple. Each member should notify the secretary by
noon on Monday as to whether lie will
attend. Ieuker's orchestra will fur-
Covington. Ky.. March 20. The body of Nolan Cummins, aged 4. who was
reported as kidnapped last Saturday.? nish music and it id hoped George P. was found floating in the Lacking river j Early, of Pittsburg, will be able to at-
jtoday. . .1 tend and make an address.