Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 194, 11 August 1907 — Page 5

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OUT BY EXPLOSION Practically Every BuHding in Place Damaged and Many Destroyed. TWO MEN WERE KILLED, HALF A CAR OF NITROGLYCER INE LET GO WITH TELLING EF FECTS MAN LOOKED FOR A LEAK. Detroit, Mich., August 10 Two men were killed, three more probably fatally injured and scores of people were slightly hurt by the explosion of half a car of nitroglycerin at the Michigan Central railroad station at Essex. Ont., seventeen miles inland from the Detroit river, today. Practically every building in the little town of 1,500 people was dam-

aged, many of them being blown toUyaiter Grimes.

pieces. The shock of thn explosion was plainly felt for twenty miles around Essex. It was so heavy In this city that windows were broken In a Jefferson avenue, automobile garage. The Dead. "JOSEPH McNARY, brakeman, of Amherstburg, Ont. LEO CONLON, brakeman, of Am herstburg, Ont. The Fatally Injured. JAMES MANAGAN. fireman, of Amherstburg. A. O. STIMERS, station agent of Es sex. THOMAS BARRY, conductor, of Ergineer David Cottrell and Mrs. Mary Morion, of Ypsilanti, Mich., a passenger on the train, were severely but not fatally injured. Scores of residents of the little town were cut by flying glass or Injured by falling walls, but none of them, as far as known, is seriously hurt. It is re ported that one man is burled in the ruins of Green's elevator. He Looked for a Leak. Everything for a radius of 300 yards from the station is in ruins. The car containing the nitroglycerin was side tracked Friday night near tne ireigm shed to be taken today to a quarry at trntiArolKnrc rnr Tho train was be-1 r;;: .n it i aaid. brakeman McNary discovered that the nitroglycerin was leaking in the car. He started to onen it and stop the leak when the explosion occurred. With a shock that was felt for twenty miles, the explosion tore the new stone station to pieces, destroyed the freight sheds and nearby cottages, A. j A I leveled ureen s eievator, anu mur u Laing & Ritchie's mill like kinanng. Train Destroyed. The engine and tender of the train with the other cars were reduced to scrap iron and where they stood there was only a hole twenty feet deep and fifty feet across. Panic reigned in the little town as glass cracked and houses and buildnr nnivered under the shock and then cave way in part or entirely. McNary's mangled body was found 200 feet away from tne traews in a in field, and brakeman Conlon was dug from under a coai car, oeau. Physicians from nearny towns eufm Tied over to Essex and neipea aress the wounds of tne injured The financial loss will probably be ohont S200.000. Hardly a building m the place escaped severe damage. SCHOOL FLOURISHING ONE, Report by the Dublin Treasurer Quite Satisfactory. Dublin. Ind., Aug. 10. W. E. Floyd made his report to the auditor this week as treasurer of the school board here. It proved that the school is m a flourishing condition financially, as for the last three years mere nas Deen $100 or more in the treasury at the close of the school year. The board has retained for the coming year the same exce.lent corps of teacners tney had last year. SUIT FOR COMMISSION. J. D. Pults Want $200 From Alison Myers. Eaton, O., Aug. 10 J. D. Pults has brought suit in tne common picas court against Alison .Myers 10 recover $200. with interest from Jan 14 190. which amount he claims to be due as a commission on a land sale. Pults claims that Myers engaged him to find a buyer for his farm. This Pults claims to have done and now asks for his commission. FOUR JOBS OFFERED HIM. Stranger Had no Trouble In Finding Employment. Fountain City, Ind., Aug. 10. A stranger appeared at the creamery one morning and inquired if there was nny place he could get work. Tnslde of half a minute he had four jobs offered him of farm work. New Garden township farmers have been experiencing the same trouble as their neighbors on shortage of hands. By swapping work however, especially during hay making and threshing they have been able to get along fairly well. But nobody goes long looking for a job. TAKES PLACE AS A FIREMAN. Claude Scott of Hagerstown has taken a position with the Big Four In the capacity of a fireman between Itichmond and Cincinnati. He made his first run Friday and states he likes the work very much. Mr. Fcott will be a fireman for Euslneer Ehuck.

Social and Personal Mention (Conducted by Miss Florence Corwln. Office Phones, Both 21; Residence Phone, Home 1310.

Following Is the social calendar for the coming week: Monday Mary F. Thomas W. C. T. U. will hold Its regular meeting at the home of the president; Mr. Paul McCarthy will entertain at a birthday ! party. Tuesday Mrs. Henry Brok&mp will ontortafn thA Ttisdav Afternoon 'Euchre club at her home on Sheridan street; the Spring Grove Sewing Cir cle will have a picnic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Houghton in Spring Grove; the Ladles' Aid society of the Second Presbyterian church will give an auto social at the home of Mrs. Charles Brohman on North Nineteenth street. Wednesday Miss Ella Bessleman will entertain the Missionary society of the First English Lutheran church at her home on South Fourth street; Mrs. Jeanette G. Leeds will entertain at an informal bridge whist party; Mrs. Frank Kitson of North C street twill entertain the Priscilla club. Thursday Mrs. Henry. Weisbrod will entertain the members of the Helping Hand society at her home on South Fifteenth street; the West Side Dozen club will meet with Mrs. Friday The meeting of the Frances E. Willard W. C. T. U. will be held at Rhoda temple and the annual elec tion of officers will take place. Saturday The Old Settlers' picnic and dance will be held at Centerville and will be attended by a large num ber of people from this city. The Spring Grove Sewing Circle will have its annual picnic Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Houghton in Spring Grove. The members and their families will constitute the party. fr Mr. and Mrs. Yarrington Barnes enT tertained at a dinner, party at the Country club Saturday evening compli THE CITY IN BRIEF Butterick's patterns. Morris & Co's. Miss Nola 01r of Economy, spent a day in Richmond. Jay County Fair, September 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. L. D. Randall of Richmond, was in Milton, Friday. Mrs. M. T. Fry of Hagerstown, spent Saturday in Richmond Mrs. Janette Buntin of Greensfork. visiting relatives in Richmond. Mrs. Harry Hart of Greensfork, spent a part of the past week in Richmond. Wanted Competent girl, good wag es paid. Mrs. John Weller, 1803 Main street. It jeanes 0f Richmond visited Mr and Mrs c Mitchell at New paris Buy good feed at Gilbert's Feed Store, 11 and 13 N. 9th. Phone 196. 10-2t Mrs. Emma Lamb Brown of Rich mond was at Economy transacting business. Joseph Griffin of Richmond, was at Cambridge City visiting Mr. and Mrs. Loren Keever. Miss Alpha Mustard has returned to Richmond after a visit with Miss Stelha Hunt at Greensfork. Mrs Lizzie Toms of Richmond, is , & wgek wUh Mr find Mrg B w Ql&rk &t Economy Misses Mabel Hassamer and Ruth Bartel of Richmond are guests of Miss Ruby Bryant at Liberty. MIS3 Eva Ellis and Clifford Bevington of Richmond were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul McNeill at New Paris. Mrs. Ella Potter and daughter, Mabel, of Richmond are spending a week at the Wm. Culbertson home at Olive Hill. Port Enyeart and Bailey Fraunberg of Cambridge City, were in Richmond to witness the ball game between Richmond and Decatur Migg Blanch Hindman who has been t Hagerstown went to Cambridge Cit Saturday to visit her grandmother Mrs. Mary Hindman at the home of j ner aunt, Mrs. Laura Richey. She will then make a visit to Frank Par sons and wife in Richmond after which she will go to Toledo, Ohio, to make her home with her father, COLLEGE CORNER, IND. colleee Corner. Ind.. Aug. 10. One of tn? twJn babeg of Mr an(J Mrg Harry Ludy died Tuesday and was buried Wednesday at West Grove Senah Mull, who has been staying with her son Marlon, near Hagerstown was at home Sunday. Lemuel Foland and wife visited their daughter, Mrs. Morrison, at Economy. Mrs. Haley of near Bryant's Chapel, has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Lundy, during the sickness of their children. Mrs. Ella Linderman and Laura Pike were at Greensfork on business Tuesday Mrs. Oliver Taylor of Milton spent a few days visiting her sisters, Laura End Jessie Mull, this week. Laura and Jessie Mull were at Rich mond Thursday. Lyman Lyboult, who has been suf fering from poison, is better, LARGE BARN DESTROYED FIRE. BY New Paris, O., Aug. 10. The large barn with its contents belonging to Oscar Maddock about one and one half miles east of town, was totally destroyed by fire Friday night about 10 o'clock. Three head of horses and a buggy were all that was saved, but the horses are so badly burned that it Is feared two of them will have to be killed. It is thought by many that the fire was incendiary. The loss Is about" one half covered by insurance.

tnentary to Mr. Augustus Cadwallader, of Philadelphia, Mr. William Cadwallader of Pittsburg, and Miss Elsie Cadwallader of Yardley, Pa. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Swayne, Miss Juliet Swayne and Mr. Harry Allan of Chicago. Miss Helen Jameson has returned from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Study of Ft. Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. George Crane and child of St. Louis are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Henley on South Seventeenth street. Mrs. Webster Parry and Miss Katherlne Gift entertained a number of their friends at whist Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Parry on North Ninth street, there being guests for six tables. This was the second whist party of the week given by Mrs. Parry and Miss Gift and both were charming midsummer social functions. Prizes were awarded, the first to Mrs.

Charles G. Kelp, the second to Mrs. Walter Spencer of Houston. Texas, and the consolation to Miss Mary Teas. A luncheon was served in courses. Nastursions rormea tne uecorations of the rooms. The guests were Mesdames Charles Kolp, Maud Jones, John T. Foulke, Edward R. Beatty, Walter K. Henley, Ira C. Wood, Edgar F. Hiatt, J. Everist Cathell, of Des Moines, Iowa, Walter Spencer of Houston, Tex., Francis Edmunds, E. K. Shera, Charles D. Slifer, Will White, George L. Cates and J. G. Hunt; Misses Ella Callahan, of New York City, Augusta Mering, Earla Roney, Ella Lemon, Esther Parry, Bertha Larsh, Constance Bell, Electa Henley, Nellie Mawhood, Mary Teas, Grace Wiley, Anna Finfrock and Elizabeth Porter. The Misses Ruth Marlatt and Abble Schaeffer assisted the hostesses. FORM BIG WHEAT POOL Plan to Boost Price to Dollar a Bushel. One St. Louis, Aug. 10 St. Louis capitalists have formed a pool of $2,500,000 with which to boo6t December wheat above the dollar mark in St. Louis and Chicago markets. The money Is on deposit with a big local trust company and the campaign will be launched in the next few days. CAMBRIDGE CITY. IND. Cambridge City, Ind., Aug. 10. Miss Freda Phinney of Indianapolis is here visiting her cousin, Lillian Wricht. Myrtle Cosgrove and Laura Shipman will spend Sunday at Richmond. Hazel Shelton, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. H. Bryan, .return ed to her home at Columbus, Ohio, to day. Mrs. John Guyton is quite ill at her home on East Main street. Mrs. B. L. Klrkwood and daughter, Irene, will spend Sunday at New Castle, with her mother, Mrs. Jessie Hixson. Miss Margaret Shipman will spend Sunday visiting friends at Indianapolis. Mrs. Elma Holloway and daughter. Dorothea, -of Indianapolis, will spend Sunday with Elbridge Vinton and daughters. Mrs. Loren Helmsing and children of Hagerstown, returned home today, after a short visit with her mother, Mrs. J. R. Wharton. La Veda Hollymeyer of Eaton, Ohio, who has been visiting Pauline Clawson, went to Milton today to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Alice Kuntz. Lena Ingermann, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Laura Morse, north of town, returned to her home in East Cambridge today. Mrs. Will Kelsey will have a sale next Saturday at her home in the north part of town. Miss Maud Drischel of Indianapolis will spend Sunday with her fathy. Daniel Drischel. 'C. C. Denney of New Castle is here on business today. Olan Boyd, manager of the St. Louis branch of the Baldwin Piano company, is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Boyd. , Miss Mabel Barefoot, who has been spending the past eight weeks visiting friends and relatives in this city, re turned to her home at Winchester, In diana, today. Florence Fosdick, who has been vis iting Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dbdson for the past week returned to her home in Indianapolis today. City and County STATIST5CS. Births. .Mr. and Mrs. Killiam Sharp, 1210 Sheridan street, a boy, third child. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anteshute, a girl, first child. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frazier, 304 North 4th street, a boy, third child. Deer are relatively plenty in various parts of Japan, and in such show places as Maru and Miyajima are held as sa cred, becoming so tame as to eat from the hands of visitors. They are generally smaller in size than the Amercan deer. During a thunder storm near Glasgow a golf player named George Harrie was struck and killed by lightning, which ripped off his clothing, Including his boot3 and extracted his teeth. It made a hole three feet deep where he had been standing. Tons of grass hoppers have been found imbedded in an ancient glacier of Montana-

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CLOSE TOKMO Fire and Explosion Do Great Damage in Business Portion of Boulder. MANY OF THE INJURED. BANKS WERE PLACED UNDER GUARD TO PREVENT LOOTINGWOMEN WERE BLOWN OFF THEIR FEET. Boulder, Colo., Aug. 10. Fire that started early today in the Colorado & Southern freight depot here, destroyed the depot, with a Quantity of freight, and spreading a distance of one hundred feet enveloped a powder house containing 1,000 pounds of dy namite, which exploded with a tre mendous shock, injuring perhaps one hundred persons and breaking the plate glass in every business house in the city, as well as the windows in hundreds of residences. It is believ ed that two of the injured will die The property loss is estimated at $250,000. The fire originated from some unknown cause and is believed fto be incendiary. Some of the Injured. Twenty-five of the injured were tak en to local hospitals. The others were removed to their homes. The fatally injured are: Roy Lafavre, volunteer fireman, and Ike O. Wilson, volunteer fireman, Boulder. Among the others injured are: Jack Livingstone, Denver, a machinist, blown fifty feet against the side of a building, three ribs broken, clothes burned off; Edward Cook, side and arms badly burned, bruised; Alexander Spartell, blacksmith, clothes burned off, badly burned about body; Erbie Miller, carpenter, badly hurt by falling timbers; family named Ramsey, living in a small house near the station, house wrecked over their heads, four members of the family badly Injured. Banks Placed Under Guard. In the business section plate glass windows fell in splinters on the sidewalk, following the explosion. Not a whole pane of glass remains in the center of the city. Guards of armed men were thrown about the banks and mercantile establishments to prevent looting. Scarcely had the eddying smoke from the explosion drifted away than a band of volunteers rushed into the powder house, and fighting their way through the choking mist and flames, located several kegs of giant powder which had failed to explode and which they carried out in their arms to a safe place. On a sidetrack at the platform of the burning depot stood a car contain ing eight tons of dynamite. Despite the fact that cinders were falling on its roof and that little flickers of flame were apparent on its walls, a switching crew backed down and coupled to the smouldering car, and while the brakemen beat out the SDarks. the engine pulled the car two miles into the country, where it was left on a sidetrack. Women Blown off Their Feet. The Boulder club's weekly reception had just been ended and many men and women were standing on the sidewalk a few blocks away waiting for their carriages. A half hundred of them were blown off their feet by the force of the explosion. According to a Japanese newspaper 700 frogs were killed and 2,000 wounded in battling among themselves. The Lena is the straightest of all the great rivers. For SOO miles It runs in almost a direct line to the sea.

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Do Thes Birds Understand What They Talk About t Those of us who possess talking parrota are often asked the qmestlon, "Do you thiak they really wnderstand what they say?" Sometimes I have been inclined to say "Yes," so striking has been the fitness of the birds' remarks; at other tin, "No." When a bird has been carefully taught or has learned from his own observation a considerable number of set phrases and sentences, there are ertaln to arise occasions when one or another of his exclamations fits In happily -arHh the conversation or circumstances of the moment. Some fw instances of such coincidences (for every one of which I can vouch) may Interest your circle of readers. Some years we. were presented with a young green parrot. The bird must bare been only a few months old. as she gave no sign of her red tail. This, however, quickly appeared, and Polly soon gave evidences that she was listening to sounds and learning to reproduce them. We now began to give her talking lessons by continually repeating over and over again set worls or phrases and were soon repaid foronr pains. Polly began to talk and quickly mastered a good many of her lessons. She added a good many self acquired accomplishments, such as cab calls, milkmen's and paper boys' cries and the cawing of rooks. Her piercing whistle would often cause the milkman to stop and look around, thinking the call was for him. Polly also learned to imitate the song of the canary. She would look up at her little yellow mate in her cage above and call her "Sweet, sweet, pretty little Dick; pretty little Dick." On one oocaslou the dressmaker was ushered Into the dining room and was startled by the bird exclsiiming: "Hello! What's your name? What do you want?" She surprised a lady visitor on one oocasl3u with the rather unusual inquiry, "Are you nice?" About this time I was suffering from a very painful . complaint, and it would almost seen nr. If my suffering drew out the bird's sympathy, for on one occasion kIio takl to me: "Hello! What's the luatter with you? Are you quite well?" I replied, "No, not quite well, Polly," v.-hereupon she replied, "Not quite well." She was once in the room where a memltcr of tlie family was practicing singing and presently made the remark, emphasizing the last word, "What's the matter with you?" When sigus of going out for a walk are apparent we are invariably aud repeatedly bidden "Goodby, goodby," with the accompaniment of many kisses. Upon our return Polly inquires, "Where have you been?" and upon being Informed usually replies, "Glad to see you back." During last winter my wife was one morning putting up an old stove for Polly's benefit near her cage. On the half landing the bird watched her with great Interest and presently said, "Do you feel cold?" "Count your bless ings" was a phrase Polly found great difficulty In mastering, "Count your bless" being all she succeeded In uttering and soon dropping this as too troublesome. However, after a time we tried her again. Now she drops out the "Wets" and solemnly exhorts us to "Count your, count your sins." A few weeks ago a servant was engaged in polishing brasswork near Polly's cage, and the bird Immediately started talking to her. "Hello, Polly! What do you want? What's the matter with you? Are you quite well? Do you feel cold? Where have you been?" and much more. Eliciting no reply, she shouted out, "Why don't you talk?" and drew the retort from the woman, "Because I nm too buy. Tolly." Tolly replied, "How shocking'" II. Dann in London Spectator. Fynshly What is Wally doing now? Harrison Well, when I last saw him be was engaged in a literary pursuit Frnshly Indeed! I didn't think he had enough brains to write. Harrison He wasn't writing. He was chasing a newspaper that the wind had blown away. London Mall. There is an average of one child killed every three days in New York city by being run over by vehicles. WmM.

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PAYING THE PENALTY. Th Way Btckmann Bogged Frankl'a Pardon Before Witnesses. One day Beckmann, the comic actor, wl-j induced to take off a well known newspaper editor, Frankel by came. In one of the characters he was repre sentlng iu Berlin. He performed bis task so cleverly that at the close the audience broke out Into loud calls for Frankel. The journalist brought an action, and Beckmann was condemned to go to the house of the Insulted party and there beg his pardon in the presence of witnesses. At the hour appointed Frankel snt in the circle of his family, together with a number of relations and friends who had been convened for the occasion, waiting the arrival of the delinquent. He tarried long, and half an hour had passed In weary suspense when at last the door opened, and Beckmann put bis head la and asked: "Does Mr Meier live here?" "Oh, no," answered Frankel. "He lives next door." "Ah, then, I beg your pardon, said the actor and hastily withdrew, having thus acquitted himself of the Imposed penance, to the great annoyance of Frankel and the intense amusement of tho assembled witnesses. London Tit-Bits. Six or seven millions Is estimated to be the number of rubber trees In the Malay states.

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The Meney MaKing Game. The first of all Kuglish f-ames Is making money. That Is an all absorb log game, an4 w kaock each other down oftener lnplylng at that than at football or any other rougher sport, and It is absolutely without purpose. No one who engage" heartily in that game ever knows why. Ask a great money maker what hx want to do with his money be never knows. He doe n't make It to do anything with It. He gets It only that he may get It "What will you make of what you have got?" you ask. "Well, I'll get more," ho says, Just as at cricket 70a get more runs. There's no us In the runs, but to get more of them than other people Is the game, and there's no use la the money, but to hare more of it than other people Is the game. So all that great foul city of London there rattling, growling, smoking, stinking a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every lore you fancy it Is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of pity very nasty play and rery hard play, bat still play. It Is only Lord's cricket ground without the turf a huge billiard tsble without the cloth aud with pockets as deep as the bottomless pit but mainly a billiard table after all. John Rnekln. Just the Other Way. She Did you ever take yotir motof csr to pieces t e? bow it worlcedl n Ve!!. not etnrt!y. I hsve taken - - in't work. month