Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 162, 5 July 1907 — Page 1

A AJDIUM 8 PAGES TODAY TODAY AND SUN-TELEGRAM. rvoL. xxxn. xo. iri. KICII3IOXD, IXD., FRIDAY, EVKXIXC, JUIA" 10O7. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. CARRIE WILKINS KILLED BY AUTO MAY TAKE CHILD FROM HIS MOTHER DESPITE PROTEST STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY WILL MEET GLIDOEN TOUR WILL SOON BEJAUGURATED Machines Are to Pass Through Richmond, July 17. DEARLY FORTY ARE SACRIFICED ON ALTAR LIF THE FOURTH Imporiant Figure in the Haywood Case. ! Summer Session to Be at Pur AT INDIANAPOLIS due University.

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former Resident of Richmond Met Her Death While on the Way to Attend a Fourth of

July Celebration. DEWEY YOUNG ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF MURDER. Deceased Was a Sister of Mrs. Joseph C. Kern, Formerly of Richmond Body Will Be Brought Here for Burial. Miss Can-Ie Wilkins. formerly of Richmond, and a sister of Mrs. Joseph Kern, until recently of Richmond, but now of Indianapolis was killed in an automobile accident at Indianapolis Thursday. The Star gives the following account of the affair: Shortly after having been struck and j-un over by an automobile at Twentieth and College avenue yesterday, just jaftcr noon. Miss Carrie Wilkins, 51 foears old, 2234 Central avenue, died at 3t. Vincent's hospital, from internal injuries. Dewey Young, 19 years old, yiriver of the automoDlie, was arrested at once and is now charged with murder. He was locked up at police headquarters without bond. A Fourth of July celebration which !had been prepared at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Wilkins, 2i:', liroadway, was brought to a sudden close by the tragic occurrence, since dinner had been spread upon a long table beneath the trees In the Wilkins yard and the guests were waiting for the arrival of Miss Wilkins, when the word came that she had been probably fatally hurt a block from the place. Among hundreds of other persons at tracted to Twentieth street and College avenue the celebrators flocked to the scene of the accident. After the woman had been taken to the hospital and the guests at the Wilkins home were ebout to take their places at the table, the news came that Miss Wilkins had died within a few minutes after her arrival at the hospital. In the two-seated touring car with Young, the driver, were James Madison, 1C College avenue, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wright of Kokonio, Ind., and Miss Grady Jerrett. a sister of Mrs. Wright, who was visiting from Franklin, N. C. The auto with the pleasure party had been making the rounds of the city parks on a Fourth of July pleasure trip and was 'within a half block of the Madison home when the accident occurred. One of the women was prostrated by the excitement of the accident and was for a short time Yesterday in a critical condition at the iMadlson home. Struck As She Alighted. Miss Wilkins, who was a tailoress at Hast Washington and Delaware streets, was on her way home. She 3iad boarded a College avenue car and jhad stepped off at Twentieth street, ;f rom where she should have gone a 'bfock west and half a block north to .reach, the Wilkins home on Broadway. According to eye witnesses Miss WilJdns v.as struck as she walked north beside the open car from which she ftiad just alighted. ' According to estimates made by persons who saw the accident, Young was klrlving his car at a speed of ten to twenty miles an hour. No person was !found who said he made any attempt ?to stop his machine or to sound, a signal other than the exhaust. Young himself asserts that he used the ex,haust as a signal and released the clutch. The woman was struck in the back "by the forward part of the machine, !and, according to the account given by the nearest eyewitness, was carried ten feet before she fell face downward beneath the right front wheel. ,Tioth right wheels passed over the middle of her back. The woman regained consciousness soon after she had been put on a cot on the Carse porch and directed the people about her to notify Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kern, 2231 Central avenue, with whom she made her home. Mrs. Kern is a sister of the dead woman. Miss Wilkins was formerly a resident of Richmond, Ind. She came to Indianapolis five years ago with the family of Joseph C. Kern, a tailor. She had been invited to attend the little celebration at the Wilkins home on Broadway, where about twenty-five grown persons and children were to cat dinner and supper yesterday and give a display of fireworks in the evening. The body will be taken to Richmond for burial. In a week or more the woman had planned to go to the Silver Lake Assembly, near Buffalo, N. Y., to spend the summer. A STORM IN WISCONSIN. f Nearly Tw nty Lives Were Lost In Western Portion. St. Paul, Minn., July 5 At least seventeen lives were lost in the severe storm that swept over a portion of western Wisconsin. Numerous other persons were Injured and much damage to farm projierty and to dwelling houses Is reported.

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STEVE Steve AOamM Is charged in Harry one of the latter accomplices In several were planned by the "inner circle"

Orchard has testified that he and Adams were the agents chosen for Carrying out the alleged plots against men who were to be put out of the way. Adams

made a confession to the authorities, but DAY OF PLEASURE FOB LOCAL PEOPLE The Fourth of July Seemed to Be Notable in This Regard This Year. ALL WERE ON THE MOVE. GLEN WAS A POPULAR PLACE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND THE CROWD AT THE BALL GAME WAS LARGE. Although. Richmond had no formal celebration of the Fourth of July, it can be truly said that perhaps at no other place did the people enjoy the day more. It appears that practically everyone made an effort to find entertainment and was successful. Hundreds left the city, either to visit or picnic; many visitors came to the city to spend the day with relatives and friends. Glen Miller park was a popular resort during the entire day and at night. There was a band concert in the afternoon and at night a second concert and a display of fire works, which, while not elaborate, was nevertheless pleasing and appreciated, owing to the fact that such an event is an extreme novelty. The street ear company did a big business throughout the day, getting liberal patronage from those who visited the Glen and patrons of the ball park, where two games were played with the Dayton Shilohs. The afternoon crowd was quite large. At the Country club the day was a most pleasant one and at night this was especially true. Many private displays of fire works were given in the evening, the day being rather in advance of previous ones in this par ticular. The large display of flags over the city indicated that in the search for pleasure, the significance of the day was not forgotten. GAVE A BIGJ3ARN DANCE. Twenty-five Couples Guests of Whitesells, Thursday. Hagerstown, Ind., July 5. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whitesell entertained at toeir country home, east of town on Thursday evening , about twenty-five couples at a barn dance. The barn and lawn were decorated in the red, white and blue, refreshments also being served in the national colors. Cox ISrothers furnished the music for the ocasion. INVITED TO WINCHESTER. Red Men Will Hold Memorial Services There Next Sunday. Local Red Men have received invitations to the Memorial day exercises of Mohawk Tribe Xo. 72 at Winchester, Sunday, July Tth. S. M. Harlan of Union City, and S. A. Canada of Winchester, will make addresses. LODGES IN SHORT MEETING. Did Not Attempt to Transact Business Thursday Evening. Owing to it being the evening'of a national holiday, the lodges adjourned after short sessions Thursday night.

ADAMS. Orchard's confession TrtTh having been

crimes w hich, according to Orchard, of the Western Federation of Miners. it is said that he repudiated it later. ANNIE HELMS SEHT TO GIRLS SCHOOL Fourteen Year Old Girl Held by Juvenile Court to Be Incorrigible. GETS MEN INTO TROUBLE. THE AUTHORITIES ATTRIBUTE THE GIRL'S DOWNFALL TO A LACK OF ATTENTION BY HER PARENTS. Annie Helms, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Helms, who has during her. short life been responsible for one man being sent to the state prison' and for another man serving a long period in the county jail, has been found guilty in the juvenile court of being an incorrigible, and has been sentenced to the Indiana Industrial school for girls at Indianapolis. About two years ago Archie Frankenburg, a local bartender, was arrested in New Paris on a charge of eivine liauor to Annie Helms. He was held at the county jail for some ', time awaiting trial. When his case I was heard in the circuit court Frankj enburg was acquitted. ! The first of June this year, when there was a carnival company showing here, the Helms girl was found one night in Glen Miller park in company with a negro by the name of McRoberts, who was an employe of the carI nival company. The Helms girl and j McRoberts were taken to police headquarters, where she charged the negro j with criminally assaulting her. He ! plead guilty to the charge in the cirj cuit court and was sentenced to the penitentiary. The authorities charge the girl's downfall to the lack of attention shown her by her parents. When Frankenburg was arrested George Helms desired the case against Frankenburg be dismissed. He stated that if the prosecutor would take this action he would punish his daughter for bevig implicated in it, beating her with a broom handle. Prosecutor Jessup stated that if Helms attempted to do this he would have him arrested and given the maximum punishment provided by law. "Because I forbade Helms to punish his daughter, I suppose that he now holds me responsible for her downfall." remarked Prosecutor Jessup this morning. LEO ONLY BY0NE OTHER Richmond Near the Top in Recruiting Work. The Richmond recruiting station was the banner one in Indiana during the month of June with one exception, that being Indianapolis. The class of men being secured in this locality have been of comparatively high order while the number has been pleasing to what is known as the Indiana recruiting party.

Mrs. Ida Winters Threatens to Kill Her Offspring If the Au- . thorities Attempt to Take Him From Her Care.

PETITION FILED BY BOARD OF GUARDIANS. Probable That the Boy Will Be Sent to White's Institute What to Do With the Wom- . an is a Serious Question. Master Frederick Winters, the two-year-old son of Mrs. Ida Winters, an insane woman, who has been confined in the women's jail at the Home for the Friendless for about a year, will be taken away from his mother immediately, notwithstanding the fac that she has threatened to kill the child if the authorities make such an attempt. Prosecutor Jessup has filed In the circuit court a petition for the board of children's guardians of Wayne coun ty, for the custody of little Frederick, and his commitment to some orphanage. He will probably be sent to White's institute at Wabash. In the petition, prompt action Is asked of the authorities as it is set forth that the child is in constant dan ger of violent treatment at the hands of his mother. Prosecutor Jessup states that a few days ago Mrs. Winters, after a long spell of good behav ior, suddenly became violent and as saulted Mrs. Rebecca Haas, an aged wo man, who is kept at the Home. After assaulting Mrs. Haas, the maddened woman turned on her child and beat little Frederick in a most terrible manner. With the cunning of an insane person, Mrs. Winters, after assaulting the baby, put powder on its face to hide the marks left by her fists on his face. Question Is Perplexing. What to do with Mrs. Winters is a question that has for some time vexed the county authorities. Her admission to the Easthaven. hospital has been denied, the commissioners do not care to send her to the county Infirmary owing to her violent actions, nor can they order her cared for at the home of her mother at East Germantown. About two years ago Mrs. Winters was arrested for assaulting her mother. She was placed in the Home for the Friendless and there lit tle Frederick was born. Some time after his birth, she took the child and escaped from the institution, returning again about a year ago after a fruitless search about the country for her husband. On her return she was placed in the Home again, and has been held for several months on the charge of assaulting her mother. Legally, the authorities have no right to hold the woman any longer on this charge, but there is nothing else that can be done .-ith " her. " About three months ago she suspected that Frederick was to be taken from her and at that time she Informed Prosecutor Jessup that if she was present when an attempt was made to take the boy from her she would kill him. She stated that if he was taken from her by stealth she would escape from the Home and follow her son. to whatever place he was taken. It is believed that the woman meant what she said. WANTS ELECTRIC LIGHT Hagerstown Council Making An Investigation. Hagerstown, Ind., July 5. At a meeting of the city council Wednesday evening, Charles Werking was appointed to go to Pittsburg. Pa., Timrsday evening to investigate the probable cost and best plan of lighting the town with electricity. DANCE WAS WELL PATRONIZED. Hagerstown, Ind., July 5. The dnace given by Xenophin Gohring and Darwin Durbin was well patronized by the young people Thursday evening. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Saturday, partly cloudy; showers and cooler in north portion; variable winds. OHIO Cloudy and cooler.' CIRCULATION STATEMENT. THURSDAY (July 4) Total Circulation e "700 Net Circulation 6,527 LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. LARGEST COUNTY CIRCULATION. LARGEST RURAL ROUTE CIRCULATION. LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION.

WELL KNOWN LECTURERS.

Upon invitation the Indiana Horticultural society will hold its midsummer meeting at Purdue experiment station, Lafayette, Aug. 7-S. The date and place selected afford the horticulturists and other rural people of our state an opportunity to meet with the society and become better acquainted with the station, its faculty, and the work being carried on there for the benefit of agriculture. This should and will probably, occasion a large attendance. The program has been prepared with care the aim being to Include the discussion of a number of lines of horticultural interest, and procure the most able talent to lead the discussions. Among those who will attend, and give one or more lectures are Prof. Whitten, chief of division of horticulture, University of Missouri; Prof. Blythe, section director, United States weather bureau; Prof. Barnard, secretary Indiana pure food commission, and eminent and practical men and women from our state. Liberal premiums will be given for exhibits of fruits and flowers in season. SAYS ROCK ISLAND DEAL WAS RANK ONE Saturday Evening Post Takes Slap at the Messrs. Moore and Reid. THINKS WORSE THAN C. & A. HARRIMAN, SAYS THE POST, IS STRICTLY TYPICAL OF THE WHOLE GROUPTO WHICH HE BELONGS. An editorial in the Saturday Evening Post says: Fortunately, the administration has decided not to prosecute Harimanr With the very liveliest sense of that gentleman's abilities, we deny that he has done anything which justly entitles him to a crown of martyrdom. For what would he be prosecuted? WTould it be for manipulating and inflating Chicago and Alton. Then Messrs. Moore and Reid must be prosecuted for their manipulation and inflation of Rick Island capitalization, which was about twice as rank as the Alton deal. Would the administration also prosecute J. J. Hill and J. P. Morgan for converting a hundred millions of Burlington stock into two hundred millions of bonds? The Vanderbilts did this to Lake Shore stock. Would Harriman be "prosecued because he crushed competition by joining the Southern Pacific and the Salt Lake roads to his Union Pacific system. Hill was not prosecuted, even when the supreme court declared his merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific illegal. And he should not have been unless the Vanderbilts, Cassatt, the Moores, Spencer, Ryan et al, were also prosecuted. Every "railroad king" has for a decade been openly directing his energies to doing this same thing. Mr. Harrlrrian's deeds have been inju riously magnified at Washington of late as though his practice was a thing peculiar to himself and in contrast with the practice of other railmagnates. This is not at all true. On the contrary. Harriman is important just because he is strictly typical of the whole group to which he belongs. His practice is precisely the typical practice. Personally he Is less agreeable than some of the others, and he has undoubtedly been sassy to the president; but those are points which the Interstate commerce acts do not cover. To know what Harriman has done is valuable, not In order to judge him personally, but in order to remedy a condition that makes his- strictly typ ical operations possible. A NEW HEATING PLANT One Will Be Installed at Easthaven Hospital. THE COST WILL BE $5,000. An entire new heating plant will be installed at the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane before fall according to the statement of Dr. Smith, superintendent. The new plant will be what is known as the vacuum system, the one at present in use being of the gravity variety. The new heating plant will cost in the neighborhood of $5,000.

MILLION DOLLARS WORTH.

The automobile tour for the Glidden and Hower trophies, which will cover 1570 miles running from Cleveland, O., to Toledo, Ohio, to South Bend. Ind.. to Chicago, 111., back to South Bend, Ind., to Indianapolis, to Columbus, O., to Canton. Ohio, to Pittsburg, Pa., to Bedford Springs, Pa., to Baltimore, Md.. to Philadelphia, Pa. and then to New York City, will pass through Richmond on July 17. During a similar tour last year, which went through Canada, the inhabitants of the country through which the tour passed, owing to the unusual spectacle, made the day a holiday and the towns were decorated, all stores and factories being closed. When one stops to think that the enormous amount of $1,000,000 is represented in machines on this tour, it is no wonder that a holiday is made to view them. As there will be about 100 automobiles on the trip, passing at intervals of from one to three minutes, all householders and farmers' along the road traversed are requested to keep aJI dogs, chickens and barn-yard animals from the highway, as the participants in the tour have no desire to hurt anything. IS CURRENT TU CONFESS Said That He Has Decided Upon This in Order to Save His Own Neck. HAYWOOD CASE SITUATION. IT HAS REACHED THE SENSATION STAGE AND STORIES OF IMPENDING SURPRISE ARE NUMEROUS. Boise, Idaho, July 5. The Haywood trial, which was resumed today has now reached the rumored and promised sensational stage. The state's cae in chief was in two weeks ago and the defense has about completed its evi dence with the exception of general and specific details by Haywood and Moyer, who are to go on the witness stand in their own defense One important line of testimony relating to the Bradley explosion in San Fraadsco is yet to be placed before the jtlry. The depositions ot fifteen witnesses who believe that the explosion, which Orchard says was caused by one of his bombs, was the result of a gas leak, are to arrive here at once and two days will be consumed in reading them to the jury. People are beginning to make up their minds one way or the other as to Haywood's guilt and the truthfulness of those parts of Orchard's confession wherein he implicates Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone. There is about an equal division of opinion.- All the Pinkertons and their associates are loud in their expressions that a complete case against the defendant has been presented. Friends of the state administration believe all of the defendants are guilty, but that the state has failed to make a case against them. Rumors in Circulation. Many rumors are in circulation promising great surprises. Rumor No. j 1, which is constantly spread by mends or the prosecution, Is - that Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners is about to turn states evidence, confess, send Haywood and Pettibone to the gallows and get immunity for himself. The publishers of this rumor are not sure that Moyer will place his fate in the hand3 of the state, because the rumor men say. he is fearful that he would be assassinated if he turned Informer and was given his liberty. Moyer and his co-defendants ridicule this rumor. Rumor No. 2 is that Steve Adams, who confessed once, is wavering and may at the last minute save his own neck by corroborating Orchard. Adams relatives and attorneys are apparently not alarmed by this rumor. Rumor No. 3 is that Mrs. Moyer is trying to persuade her husband to turn state's evidence and "save himself, no matter what happens to Haywood and Pettibone. While the rumor spreaders are busy the attorneys for the state are hard at work trying to put In rebuttal evidence and refute the testimony of the chief witnesses for the defense. AGED W0MAN CROWNED. Oregon Honors One Who Has Lived More Than a Century. Portland, Ore., July 5 One hundred and twenty years old. Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood, the oldest white woman in America was crowned queen of Oregon in the celebration of the Fourth of July at this citr.

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Records So Far Collected Show That Thirty-seven Lives Went Out in Accidents On the National Holiday.

NEW YORK LEADS WITH TOTAL OF TEN DEATHS. Pittsburg Follows With Nine And Chicago With Two Record in Indiana Is Frightful One in Several Years. Thirty-seven men, women and chfTdren dead and ll.trwl maimed is the result of Thursday's excess patriotism in the United States. 'J he roster of dead is four more than last year's morwill increase from tetanus for weeks. Several were drowned. New York leads with ten deaths, Pittsburg nine, and Chicago two. The tttll injured exceeds two thousand. Record It Frightful. Indianapolis,. July ,". Thousands ot dollars in fire loss, throwing hundreds of men out of employment and scores of persons injured, Is Indiana'srocord of the celebration of the Fourth of July. In many respects the record of yesfprrfav Ihi f hn mnKt frlihlfiil In iiinrnr years. The list of injured does not exceed the figures last year. La it year U2 were hurt. The flro loss last year was only .$.Vmio. while thl year it will reach nearly $1.V.mk, and n.. . . 1 . 4 U . k ...Iff aa a, ivmiil iimie matt im'ii will be thrown out of employment. A fire at Indiana Harlxjr, believed to be due to the celebration of the Fourth destroyed a part of the plant of the American Steel Foundry, causing a loss of $7."i,!0 and throwing 1.7n out of employment. A fire at Evansvllle caused a loss of $1.".wm and threw out of employment. There were smaller fires in other parts of the state. The accidents of the state are of the usual variety, both as to causes and the nature of the Injury. Cannons, cannon fire-crackers, powder, runaways, etc., contributed their part to the record. Injuries were of all kinds and a number of them will prove fatal, phv-s fcicians say. Ten Die In New York. New York, July o.Independence day ushered in with much noise, went out last night in a blaze of pyrotechnics, the most Imposing that New Yorkers have ever witnessed. Viewed from its brighter side, the holiday was truly glorious. A smiling sun and moderate temperature brought the tens of thousands to the beaches, the public parks and amusement resorts, and everywhere there was noise and funrnaking. ' The police are reckoning the cost in casualties of the days celebration. It is known that this Fourth's celebration has cost ten lives, that a half dozen persons are dying and that hundreds of others are being treated at hospitals for injuries ranging from slight burns with the possibility of tetanus devel opments, to bullet wounds and lost limbs. JAMES E. PHILPOT WEDS Bride Is Miss Mattie Hale, a Muncie Girl. Muncie, Ind., July 5 A wedding of exquisite simplicity took place Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hale, of Columbia avenue, when their daughter. Miss Mattie Hale, was mar ried to James E. Philpott, of Cambridge City. The color tones were green and white, white carnations, ferns and sweet peas being used in decoration. The window ledges and archways were banked with ferns and carnations. An embankment of ferns and sweet peas and garlands of vines decorated the parlor. For the entrance of the bridal party. Miss Maude Smith played the Mendelssohn wedding inarch and during the ceremony Miss Ethel Boyd sang "Tonight." The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. M. Carter. The ring ceremony was used. Miss Bertha Hale, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid. Will Maz11, of Pittsburg, was best man. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, of Milton, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hale and Miss Lela Hale, of Losantsville; Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt, Miss Emma Lanty and Mr. Taylor of New Castle. THOUSANDS ON TRACTIONS. Indianapolis Had a Tremendous Travel On the Fourth. Indianapolis, July 5 A record-flrealr-ing Fourth of July crowd was handled at the traction terminal station yesterday. It is estimated that not less than H0.000 people used the Interurbaa roads to cet in or out of the cilv-