Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 222, 13 September 1907 — Page 1
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FATHER TRIES TO KIDNAP HIS CHILD GIATEJiCITflfllT
Fred McGuire Had Opportuni
ty to Get Possession of His
. Little Son and Made a Mad
Race for Freedom.
WIND GAVE OUT AND
HE GAVE UP THE RACE.
McGuire and His Wife Do Not Live Together But the Court
Has Not Given Her the Cus-
' tody of the Child.
About 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon, the wildest confusion reigned in the northeastern part of the city, owing to
the bold attempt of Fred McGuire, for
jnerly of this city, and now a resident
of Eaton, to kidnap his year-old chfld from the mother, who lives on North P street. As McGuire ran south on North Thirteenth street and then east
on North E street, holding the baby In
his arms and pursued at close range by
the frantic mother, women ran out of
houses, while factory men abandoned their work and poured out of the shops to witness the exciting chase. No one, however, offered to stop the fleeing
man, and but one person who witnessed
the kidnapping retained enough pres
cnce of mind to telephone to police
headquarters. McManus to the Rescue.
Sergeant McManus abandoned his
desk ,mounted his bicycle and was soon in hot chase of the fugitive father with the kidnapped child. Pushing his
way through hundreds of factory men and women, who pointed out to him the direction McGuire had taken and who
urged him to make the' pursuit a hot one, McManus finally cleared himself
end bicycle of the excited throng. At
the corner of Fourteenth and E streets, McManus caught sight of the kidnapper and kidnapped. McGuire saw the officer at the same tim and rMlliintr
the useiessness of further flight, stop- Completes Her Trip Across the
ped at the corner of Sixteenth and E
streets and awaited the arrival of Mrs McGuire, to whom he handed the as
tonished and cooing cause of all the ex
citement, and Sergeant McManus. Was Allowed to Leave. Enroute to police headquarters McGuire stated with a laugh that if. he had not lost his wind he would have caught a Dayton & Western car and escaped over the Ohio line. "She would never have got the baby if I had managed to get over in Ohio," McGuire fctated. There Is no law which prevents a father kidnapping his child unless some court has eiven the mnthpr
the legal custody of the child, which New York' Sept- 3.-Her twenty
has not been done in the McGuire case, one hundred passengers cheering her as
bo after husband and wife had talked queen of the seas, the mammoth Cu
over their domestic troubles at police nard llner Lusitania, ended her record headquarters. McGuire was allowed to Bmashlng dash across the Atlantic at leave the city. Mrs. McGuire, at head- Sandy IIook at 0:05 thls morning. The quarters Informed her husband that if Lusitanla beat the best time ever made
jie wouia Jive with her In a home of
their own she and the baby, whom the
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WESTERN MEETING
NOW III PROGRESS
Business Sessions or the
Quaker Body Have Started at Plainfield.
MANY IMPORTANT MATTERS
REPORTS BY THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF WORK INDICATE THAT THE YEAR HAS BEEN AN ACTIVE ONE.
LOISTAIIIA IS OUEEII
OF THE OCEAN WAVE
Atlantic in Record Breaking Time.
FIVE HOURS TO THE GOOD.
Plainfield, Ind., Sept. 13. Two hundred Friends ministers and overseers
attended the preliminary meeting here Thursday afternoon at the opening of the forty-ninth annual assembly of the Western yearly meeting of the
Friends church. Regular services for all Friends began this morning, and
unless the present indications are false,
this session will be the most import ant of years.
The services will continue until
next Wednesday and the biggest pro
gram has been arranged for next Sun
day. Last year the Sunday attend
ance ran over 20,000 and with the new interurban and brighter prospects,
there should be from 23.000 to 30,000
next Sunday. Between 8 and 10
o'clock, when services will be held, that number will, of course, be made
up of others than Friends, as many vis
itors are expected from southern Indi
ana. At the preliminary meeting Thursday
the little heir to the Spanish throne, afternoon the ministers secretly dis
cussed the events of the last year and
laid plans for next. The meeting was In the nature of a heart to heart talk and had no direct bearing on the regular assembly proper. Hold Business Session. The first regular business session was called to order at 10 o'clock today by President Lewis E. Stout of this city and gives promise of being Interesting. The social purity committee submitted its report and offered suggestions for next year's work. This committee has been looking after unfortunate young women and has as Its object the abolition of winerooms. The committee tells of its progress during the last year and attempts to arrange a- mora effective, system, iot nes.tyear. The temperance committee also has an
interesting report to make. The mem-
Keep ftEue Commneg
on tBue Move
PLEA IN ABATEMENT; A SENSATIONAL TURN
Latest Development In
Land Fraud Case.
the
GRAND JURORS FORCED.
HAGERSTOWN PEOPLE DECLAREJOB LIGHT Vote Is Decisive in Favor of
Electricity.
Boise, Idaho, Sept 12 Frank Mar
tin, former attorney-general, charged with conspiracy in land fraud cases, has filed a plea of abatement, accompanied by a sensational affidavit. He
charges three members of the grand jury were forced by District Attorney
Ruick to sign and did not know Sena
tor Borrough was included. PREPARING BRIEFS Iff FBEIGHTJNTEHCHANGE Saturday Is the Last Day for Their Filing.
THREW HIMSELF ON
MERCY OFJHE COURT
However, It Developed the
Court Had None.
LEHAN GIVEN 55 YEARS.
REPLY TO THE PANHANDLE.
It. K. Shlveley is engaged in preparing the briefs for the railroad commis
sion of the state, in answer to the briefs filed by the Pennsylvania relative to the interchange of freight be
tween the Pennsylvania and the C, C. & L. railroads. Saturaay is the last day for the filing of the briefs In reply and Attorney Shiveley will have the briefs ready.
Meadville, Ta.. Sept. 13. Henry Lehan who a month ago waylaid Alma Whitehead, fourteen year daughter of
the Rev. R. B. Whitehead, and left her
in the woods all night, was sentenced
to fifty-five years solitary confine
ment in the Western penitentiary.
Lehan pleaded guilty and threw him self on the mercy of the court.
NICK IS QUITE POSITIVE Says Teddy Won't Have the
Presidency Again.
SERMONS ONEDUCATION
Ministers Will Anticipate Op
ening of Schools.
Hagerstown, Ind., Sept. 13. The
vote on the electric light question was '
NEW RECORD MEANS A STIFFER
FIGHT THAN EVER BEFORE FOR BUSINESS ON THE ATLAN
TIC OCEAN.
MANY DID NOT ATTEN D. "LV't1 iC'l',? w,!!i tt.t!.m?.l.t
and the liquor problem will receive much attention. The committee on evangelization In its annual renort. will call for a dis-
. -wmwir M rr -i . r-r a r Tl ftir.lf 111 TrOI . . . . .
a. tci j "6"- cussion on tne matter or building a voters on both sides casting their bal- more effective missionary machine, lots. Yesterday was a dead day in The book committee will report favorHagerstown, many going to the state ably on a more extensive distribution fair and the farmers not being con- of literature. It will attempt to put
cerned in this election. The votes of out more hooks and distribute more
the first precinct wa3 53 to 13; second Pamphlets next year than ever before
nrecinct. 48 to 11: third 80 to 18 mak- me unanciai Doara will also have a
..In. response to a request from the lo
cal school board, all of the members
of the Ministerial association will preach next Sunday morning on the subject of education. As the public
schools for the winter open next Mon
day, the ministers will impress the ad
vantages of education and urge all parents to see that their children comply with the state laws, relative to public
instruction.
San Francisco, Sept. 13. Nicholas Longworth, who has just returned from Honolulu, says all the power of
the republican party could not compel
Roosevelt to remain in the white house
four years more.
FINANCIAL SUCCESS IS FULLY ASSURED Thursday the Biggest Day in Fair's History.
STATE BOARD IS HAPPY.
CAPT. BRAFFETT VERY SICK.
ing a total of 186 to 42 in favor of the town being lighted by electricity.
MUST BEPORT ON BIRTBS
fond mother still retains, would return to him, but that she would never live
with him so long as they lived with
other relatives. Locked up Their Home.
About two weeks ago McGuire and
ins wne naa some rrouDie and as a
result he locked up the house on North F street, where they had been
living with little harmony and Mc
Guire went to Eaton to live with his
grandmother. Mrs. McGffiire reopened the house and continued to live, there with the baby. Thursday afternoon McGuire, who had been ordered by the police to stay cway from the house, reappeared.' Vhile he was talking with his wife at the front door the little baby, vrhom both parents are passionately fond, came out of the house and began playing about the door step. Suddenly McGuire reached down, picked up the bewildered child and fled out of the gate and south on North Fourteenth street. As soon as Mrs. McGuire could recover from her astonishment she gave chase, screaming at ever step for her husband to give the baby back to her. The woman's screams aroused the entire neighborhood and soon all the
people in the section of the city were swarming ir.to the streets to see what the excitement was. Appealed to the Police. McGuire r.nd his vlfe have been having trouble for some time. Several months ago McGuire tried to
have the local authorities force Mrs. McGuire to give up tTe custody of the baby. Prosecutor Jessup refused To have anything to do with the case. Fred McGuire is a son of Jesse McGuire, who recently met a tragic death by falling through an elevator shaft In the Kelly block on South Eighth streetl
by her sister ship, the Lucania. by
five hours and eighteen minutes Er-
vln II. Brown, representative of the
Cunard line, and friends met the ship at the Hook. The Lusitania's record from Queenstown to Sandy Hook is five days, one hour and twenty minutes. Since sailing, the big liner was followed daily by wireless messages flashed from aboard. The new record set by the Cunarder means a fight for speed and business on the Atlantic. The Hamburg-Amer-ican'line is already talking of building a ship to beat the Lusitania. ,
OBJECT TO HIGHER RATES.
State Board of Health Will Be More Strict.
report to make concering the Friends'
money matters. The report Is said to
be the best of recent years.
Two delegates will be elected to rep
resent the Western Yearly meeting at
the Five Years meeting, which will be
held at Richmond next month. The
Western Yearly meeting Includes about
fO,00O Friends scattered over south western Indiana and western Illinois.
Some Doubt Is Entertained as to His
Recovery. Capt T. W. O. Braffett, of South Thirteenth street is reported no better and his recovery is considered doubtful. Capt. Braffett is one of the best known residents of Richmond.
CIRCULAR LETTER IS
TO BE ISSUED SOON
Telephone Squabble Is Now Mooreland.
on at
New Castle, Ind., Sept. 13 Busi
ness men of the little town of Moore
land have begun a boycott against the
local telephone company and the fin
al outcome of the controversy will be watched with Interest. The trouble
arose over an increase in the rates of
the telephone company for phones in
business houses of the town.
RECOVERY JS ASSURED. Frank Bescher, Injured Boy, is Doing Nicely. Frank Bescher, the young man who was Injured by a cut of cars at the C, C. & L., the first of the week, is doing well and his recovery is assur-
MRS. JAS. KEISER INJURED.
Right Limb Was Broken at the Ankle
As Result of Fall. Hagerstown, Ind., ' Sept. 13 Mrs. James Keiser, living 'east of town, while making kraut Thursday, stepped from the kitchen door back into the summer kitchen, breaking her right limb at the ankle.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Fair Friday; light west to northwest winds. OHIO Fair Friday; fresh light winds, mostly west.
Beginning with October 1, the state board of health will require the physicians of Indiana to make out birth returns on new forms that have been adopted by the board. In anticipation of the change Dr. J. N. Hurty,
secretary of the board, has sent out Farmers' Help in Getting
state, calling their attention to the new forms and giving notice , that hereafter all failures to report births
within twenty days will mean punish- Secretary E. M. Haas, of the Com
ment by law. Dr. Hurty says that the mercial club, Is preparing a circular law compelling birth returns is to be letter to send to the farmers of enforced throughout the state to the Wayne county, soliciting their supletter, port In securing the location of the
Libby, McNeal & Libby pulp and
FI Wll t RPQMIUirr HM kraut factory for Richmond. The let-
Factory Is Solicited.
tno will Vts-v
I AOT Tlilinnmu mini .-r- I lt iueu ij secure in3 ln-
LMO I inuriOUAT IMIUn I . formation desired by that cbmpai
MEETS AT THE PARISH HOUSE. The Ministerial association will meet on Monday next at 10 a. m. at St Paul's Episcopal parish house.
Indianapolis, Sept. 13. Whatever misgivings the state board of agriculture may have had as to the financial success of the big exhibition which closes today, they were swept aside last night when the officers of the
board gazed fondly upon a dozen bulg
ing money bags that lay in the office
of Treasurer Lagrange. Yesterday was the "biggest Thursday" and the biggest "any day" In the history of the state fair. At 6 o'clock, when the last ticket taker had made his report, the fair board knew that its was "on easy
street." Sixty-two thousand people
paid their way Into tho fair yesterday
More than 10,000 more people
bought tickets to the grounds yesterday than paid their way In on Thursday of last year, when the number
of paid admissions was 51,000.
SPLENDID REPORT IS SUBMITTED Oil
PUBLIC L
IBRARY
There Has Been Marked Advancement Made in a Number of Ways at the Morris-son-Reeves Institution.
MORE THAN 35,000 VOLUMES ON THE SHELVES.
There Has Been a Gain in Circulation Over the Large Increase Made the Preceding Year Figures.
FORMER PASTOR IN CITY. The Rev. W. E. McCarty, formerly pastor of Third M. E. church of this
city, is in Richmond calling on friends.
The Rev. McCarty is located in the
northern part of the state.
CONTEST WILL CLOSE AT 12
O'CLOCK NOON ON SATURDAY
At 12 o'clock noon on Saturday, Sep
tember 14, the Palladium and Sun-Telegram pony and cart contest will come
to an end and all votes must be in by
that time. It will be impossible to ver
ify the votes on Saturday, and the first two or three days of the week will be
required. Contestants are holding many In reserve that will increase the
work. As soon as all are verified the count will be made and the result announced. Details for making the count
will be announced probably In Sunday
morning's paper.
my.
Will
Begin Fall Sessions on September 26 Candidates Are In Prospect.
On the last Thursday of September the local lodge of Elks will resume meetings for the winter. It is said that a large number of candidates is
booked for Initiation this fall. The Elks hope to be able to be in their new home some time next spring.
COUNTY JAIL CONDEMNED.
However, the Floyd County Commissioners May Object. Indianapolis, Sept. 13 The State
Board of Health has condemned the
jail at New Albany. Dr. J. N. Hurty.
secretary of the board, made a report
on a visit that he had made of the
jail
has condemned the jail, it is said the
officials of Floyd county will contest
j the erection of a new one.
TREMPS-KRAMER WEDDING.
Well Known Young People Were Mar
ried Thursday Evening.
Centervllle, Ind., Sept 13 Ernest Tremps and Miss Lois Kramer were
married Thursday evening at the resi
dence of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Kramer, southwest of Centerville, the Rev. Aaron Napier of
ficiating. A reception was given to
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. An drew Tremps, west of Centerville.
MEETING IS POSTPONED.
Horticultural Society Delays on count of the State Fair.
Ac.
The September meeting of the
Notwithstanding that the board P?6 CUnt7 hortitur society,
nuii.u was auuuuutcu lur VClliervllJe, on Saturday, Sept. 14th. has been postponed one week on account of the state fair.
Waflclhi For ttltne Sllay all Honnic EDoMaF
REVIVAL AT U. B. CHURCH. Rev. J. E. Shannon, Missionary Evangelist, to Be in Charge. Rev. J. E. Shannon, missionary evangelist of the United Brethren church will be here Sunday, Oct. 6th, to hold a revival for an indefinite time!
How The Vote Stands In Pony-Cart Contest BOYS. Carol Adams, Hagerstown 103,351? Sylvester Hamilton 82,920 Anthony Hafner 76,206 Nathan Mills 29,005 Leo Medearis 16,197 Walter Anderson (Fountain City). 12120 Leo King 7623 Fred, Palmer (Williamsburg) . 6,618 Russell Brehm 5 679 Alvin A. Keller 4,595 Henry Schneider 4078 Geo. Weller (R. R. No. 1) i C07 Chauncey Eurr 154$ Earl Miller Z Howard Hartzler m Robert McDaniel hq Noel Matthews 7 j Elmer Colvin mm $q Elmer Piohe 2l Fred Ward (Lynn) Harry P. Thomas (Cambridge City) . 20 Francis Brooke (Greensfork) ... ... m 7 Ralph Gault $ Teter Lichtenfela 5 GIRLS. Mary Morrow .. ... .. .. . ..73,93 Mary E. Harmeier 47 629 Ellen Dickinson 5329 Irene Crull (Greensfork) ... 2,064 Pearl Rothermal 2038 Doris Monroe ... ' 75
Morrisson Reeves library report for the fiscal year has been completed by
Mrs. Ada L. Bernhardt, librarian, and is now In the hands of the printer. The report makes an excellent thowIng for the year on the part of tho
management.
One of the important features of
the report Is tho correction of tire er
roneous idea that is provaW t to th effect that more fiction is purchased than literature of any other character.
Of the 1454 volumes nu'Thaned during the year, only 2S5 volumes of ad
ult fiction were purchase.!. History,
biography and travel coastituted the larger purchase.
Below is the report:
To the Morrisson committee of tto
Morrisson-Rceves library: The Morrisson Reeves library ranks
second In size of the public libraries
of the state, according to the 1905-6
report of the Indiana Library Commission, the Indianapolis Public library
only being larger.
There are now upon tho shelves
35,302 volumes. During the year 1,454 books were added; 311 were worn out
and lost. Fewer books have been purchased than the preceding year, bocause of contemplated expensive Im
provements. However, attention has
been directed to tho departments of American history nnd political science and eight hundred stereoptlcon slides
were bought from the history class. "
Tho Athenaeun, Spectator, New
York Sun, Advocate of Peace, Ameri
can Monthly Magazine, Indiana Maga
zine of History and Notes and Queries have been added to the large number
of periodicals furnished tho Readlnjc
room by Mrs. Mark E. Reeves.
The Reeves committee lias purchas
ed for the U3e of the library a stero-
optlcon, which has been fitted with electrical attachments and set up In
the lecture room. This stereoptlcon with slides, purchased by the Morrison committee offers unlimited means of entertainment and education. The lecture room and tower room on tho ground floor have been fitted with electric lights and the walls frescoed. They are now attractive meeting places for organizations. The Tuesday club has occurled the lecture room each Tuesday night during the winter and the History class has met In the tower room. The Sketch club gave an exhibition of the paintings of Miss Florence Chandlee, deceased In the lecture room during April. Mrs. Margaret Williams, a former Richmond woman, also exhibited her
sketches.
In addition to the classification and
cataloging of new books, the remain
der of books under the old classification has been included In the present
system and the stereoptlcon slides arranged and catalogued. The cataloging of ell the government books In the library was begun In March. These books have outgrown the space alloted to them, and additional shelf room Is necessary. To obtain this It was thought best to add a third deck of sticks to the present stack room. The contract has been awarded to Geo-ge Stlkeman of New York, the builder of the stacks now in use In the library. To pay for these Improvements, the treasurer has reserved from this year's funds $2,361.72, the amount of the contract, which he now holds. The Morrlsson-Reeves library was
made a depository for government
books in 19 through the efforts of the Hon. Henry U. Johnson, our rep
resentative In congress at that time. The librarian was notified In April, 196, that the privilege had been
withdrawn from the Morrlsson-Reeves
library in favor of the Muncle library.
After a long and spirited correspon
dence, the treasurer, Mr. Reeves, made a special trip to Washington
and finally succeeded through thm
Hon. James E. Watson in adinsMn
the matter, although It required the redisricting of almost every government depository In the state. There has been a g&In in circulation over the large Increase last year. No question Is more frequently asked
of the librarian than as to the relative circulation of fiction nnd non-fiction books. The number of non-fiction, books Issued is growing relatively larger. Near a fifth of the books issued at the desk the rast year wre non-fiction. This may be due to the character of the books and because they are displayed upon open shelves as they are received. The children's room has been improved by rebuilding 1he outside hel-
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