Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 227, 19 September 1907 — Page 1

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IC AND SUN-TELEGRAM. KICII3IOXD, IXD., THURSDAY EVEMXG, SEPTE3IBEK 10, J0O7. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. VOIi. XXXII. '0. 227.

SUSPECT TRACTION COMPANY OF WORKING A BLUFF GAME Jtails Are Being Hauled to South E Street for the Purpose, It Is Thought of Evading City Ordinance.

CITY ATTORNEY STUDY SAYS IS NOT WORRIED. Operation Over a New Line Could Be Prevented by City Ordinance Shippers Are Becoming Impatient. All today truck load3 of rails were transported from the Pennsylvania railroad to South E street. It Is almost an assured fact now that the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern will build a line along South E street connecting with Main street by ".ines which will probably run along South Fifth street and South Twenty-third street. City Attorney Study is of the opinion that the traction company is transporting rails to South E street for the purpose of "bluffing" the city. Under the terms of the franchise ' granted by the city to P. J. Freeman and J. M. Lontz, the traction company can place a car line on nearly every street in the city. South E street included. This franchise also permits the hauling of freight. Why the traction company does not place a line on North E street, where the ocal shipners desire it to be placed, is not known unless it is for the purpose of venting its spite sgainst the city of Richmond placing a line where it is not desired. By placing this line along South E street the traction company will be in a position to continue to operate through passenger and freight service but the cost of making this line will be considerable. It Does Not Worry. Mr. Rtudv states that this latest move on the part of the traction people does not worry him In the slightet "There is a city ordinance whTch provides that any traction or street car company can be prohibited from plrcing a line on a street where it is deemed that It would interfere with peneral traffic. South E street Is ciulte narrow and if the traction company places a line there I will see to it that no cars are ever operated on the line. This can be prevented by enforcement of the ordinance I mentioned." said Mr. Study. Local jubbers are becoming quite Impatient over the delay in establishing traction freight service through the city. Thi3 impatience has been enhanced by a recent action of the C C. & L. which discontinued Its dally local freight service and which now only operates two local freights per week out of the city. With this severe handicap to local shipping facilities it can be seen why the jobbers of this city are extremely anxioiT for the city and traction company to come to some kind of an understanding. STATE'S WATER SOPPLY Analyses Show It to Be in Fair Condition. Analyses made by the bacteriological department of the State Laboratory of Hygiene of sixty water samples received from various parts of the state Indicate that Indiana's water supply is in fairly good condition at the present time. Twenty-two of the samples were found to be bad, ten were fair and thirty-eight were good. GOT $29,000 FROM SCHMITZ Lawyer Says That's the Reason He Defended Frisco Mayor. San Francisco. Sept 19 Eugene Schmitz, San Francisco's convicted mayor, paid J. C. Campbell, attorney for him at his recent trial. $29,000. The quoting of these figures is the answer that Mr. Campbell made to a sensitive friend as to why he ever 1st himself get into such a cn?? as the defense of Schmitz. GOES TO SOUTH DAKOTA. Miss Harriet Overbeck Has Position In a University. Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 19 Miss Harriet Overbeck has gone to Mitchell, South Dakota, where she has a position as vocal teacher in the Dakota "Wesleyan University. Miss Overbeck is a talented young woman and can fill the position creditably. BEVERIDGE COMING HOME. Senator and Bride Have Sailed for New York. Paris, Sept. 19 Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and Mrs. Beveridge sailed from Cherbourg for New York yesterday on board the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wil-

MERELY AN ACCIDENT NO ONE JSTO BLAME

Verdict Filed in Latest Hagerstown Wreck. CAR HAD BEEN INSPECTED. After an Investigation, which consisted of the examination of all the railroad men in any way connected with the wreck which occurred at Hagerstown last Sunday afternoon, in which Peter Muhl, a prominent Hagerstown resident, lost his life, Coroner Bramkamp has filed his verdict with County Clerk Penny. In hi3 report Coroner Bramkamp makes the assertion that the wreck was one of the accidents which cannot be accounted for. The car which caused the wreck had been inspected at both Richmond and Nolans and at neither place was anything out of the ordinary noticed about the truss rod which broke. The car which caused the wreck was not heavily loaded and for this reason the mystery surround ing the breaking of the truss rod seems unfathomable. LIGHTNING'S CAPER AT THE RICH HOME Turned a Mirror to the Wall Without Breaking the Glass in It. LINOLEUM WAS RIPPED. FORCE OF THE SHOCK FELL ON THE KITCHEN, WHERE THE FAMILY WAS GATHERED, BUT NONE WAS HURT. Llghtnlng played a queer caper at the home of Frank Rich, two and onehalf miles north of Richmond, Wed nesday afternoon.. It struck a tree near the house, and jumped to the corner of the kitchen. Weather-boarding was torn from the corner of the building, the plastering was loosened and some of it fell and considerable damage was done. One of the odd features was the turning of a mirror around so that the glass faced the wall but was not broken. Wooden shutters protecting the windows were torn loose but the glass in the windows was not damaged. The current passed to the cook stove and then to the floor, ripping the linoleum for a considerable distance. The family all chanced to be in the kitchen at the time and were showered with plastering, but no one was shocked. It was considered a very fortunate and unusual escape. So far as known, no other place in that vicinity was struck. HEARING IS POSTPONED Kepler Case Will Be Called on Friday Morning. The hearing of the case of Alonzo Kepler, charged with assault and battery on Mrs. John Evans, colored, was called this morning but on a motion of Attorney John F. Robbins, who represents Mr. Kepler, the hearing was postponed until Friday morning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Evans has retained Attorney Henry U. Johnson to assist Prosecutor Jessup in the case. It is probable that a jury will be asked for by Mr. Robbins. DELAYS SCHOOL OPENING Diphtheria Still Prevails at Whitewater. A week ago last Monday the Whitewater school was to have opened for the season but it was not on account of one of the pupils being ill with diptheria. The school was to have been opened again last Monday but one of the children in the primary department was found to be suffering with this dread diseasj and the opening was for a second time postponed. ROCKEFELLER RESIGNS AS A BIBLE TEACHER Business Before Bible, Says Standard Head. New York, Sept 19 John D. Rockefeller has resigned as leader of the young men's Bible class in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church owing to bus iness demands.

THESE SEPTEMBER DAYS HOTWARMEST This Is Only a False Impression of the Sweltering Populace.

THERE HAVE BEEN OTHERS. EXTENUATION OF THE HEATED TERM IS MIGHTY PLEASING TO THE FARMERS WHO HAVE GROWING CORN. The very warm weather of the past few days has many times occasioned the remark that the weather is warmer than any September in recent years. This is not the case, however, as the warm days of this year are no warmer than those of last. The highest point the thermometer has reached during the week was SO, Sundaj-. On Monday the mercury registered 85, while on .Tuesday and Wednesday it registered desxees as the highest point. The minimum temperature for the four days was 5o. (53, 5! and CI. Lt Is thought the cool days and nights of the past three weeks and the sudden change is responsible for the be lief that the present weather is warm er than in past years. The change was sudden and hence more noticeable. There has been .41 of an inch pre cipitation during the week. A threat ening thunder cloud swept over Richmond Wednesday evening. The rain fell in sheets for a short time, but only .lft of an inch was recorded at the pumping station. The lightning was intense for a few minutes. With the continued warm weather, thunder and electrical stprms are predicted by the weather sages of Rich mond. It is said thw rapid change of the weather is conducive to such and at this season of the year the storms are more severe than any other when caus ed by rapid weather changes. The warm weather is welcomed by the farmers of Wayne county. Although a rapid weed grower, the farm ers care nothing for this. It is the corn they are worrying about and as each warm day postpones a little further the earliest frost, the farmers become happier. It is said that an early September frost would do thousands of dollars worth of damage to the corn crop. PROF. HARLOW LINDLEY IS DOINGJINE WORK He Has Blazed Way for Future Accomplishments. COMMENT OF THE BULLETIN Professor Harlow Lindley of Earlham, who for the past eighteen months has been connected with the state library in the capacity of archive compiler, is doing a good work in the department with which he is associated. The most recent bulletin from the Indiana state library says: Professor Lindley has blazed the way for future work in this department. Many localities have been visited; old newspapers and documents have been located and some, secured for the library. By Mr. Lindley's efforts, deposits of valuable historical material will be made in the library. This material will be open for reference by any citizen. By the courtesy of state officials the old records have been examined and data obtained. The localities visited were Goshen, Elkhart, South Bend. Notre Dame, Laporte, Logansport, Vincennes, Terre Haute, Paoli. Corydon, New Albany, Jeffersonville and Louisville, Kentucky. Hereafter the archives of the state will not be neglected. We ask the co-operation of historical societies, clubs, libraries and citizens. Mr. Lindley's work will continue during the fall and winter. CHAPMAN WILL ATTEND Great Evangelist Is to Speak At Liberty. Liberty, Ind., Sept. 19 Union tent meetings are In progress here under the auspices of the Protestant churches. The Rev. J. H. Elliott, D. D., of Chicago, is conducting services, and C. W. Naftzger, of Muncie, is the singer conducting the campaign. Great crowds are in attendance. On the 27th the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, the famous evangelist who began his ministry here in the eighties, will hold a conference for ministers, and he will speak in the afternoon and evening. THE WEATHER PROPHET. OHIO Showers probably Friday; light to fresh southeast to south winds. INDIANA Fair in south; showers in north portion, probably Friday. Light to fresh south winds becoming variable.

FIRST GROUND WILL BE TURNEDJEXT WEEK Contract to Be Let Monday for Excavation.

GROUNDS SOON CLEARED. The first ground for the new Y. M C. A. building will be turned next week and then the active construction of the new home will begin. Next Monday at the meeting of the building commit tee and the directors, the contract will be let for the excavation. The old bricks, the last remaining semblance of the old Reed homestead, have not been entirely removed, but the ground will be thoroughly cleaned, prepara tory to the excavation within the next few days. IS Will Be Brought to Easthaven Soon as Possible. Connersville, Ind., Sept. 10. New quarters have been provided in the Fayette county jail for Harry Robinson, the Insane man, who killed Austin Ford, a fellow prisoner, two weeks ago. Robinson is dangerous and he has attacked officers since the Ford tragedy. He has been confined in a small dingy cell but an iron bar parti tion has been so arranged that he now has about one-third of the jail to himself. He has ceased his singing and preaching and is sullen and ugly most of the time. He will be taken to the Richmond hospital as soon as possi ble. E-COMERS GET EINE WELCOME TO CAMBRIDGE CITY The Bulk of Them Arrived on Wednesday and They Were Met at the Stations With Open Arms by Friends. CITY TO THE WEST IS ALIVE WITH COLORS. Horse Show One of the Events Of Wednesday AfternoonReunion and Reception Also Held at That Time. Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 10. Over here in Cambridge City this week there is one big, best time. The bulk of the home comers arrived yesterday and the population of this pretty little town welcomed the expatriates with open arms at railroad and in terurban stations. At the homes of friends and relatives of these prodigals gorged them with home made eatables "like mother used to make." On every street corner one could see an impromptu reunion of old friends who had not seen each other In years. The women showered kisses on each other while the men shook hands fervently, either in silence addressing each other with affectionate profanity, a good oldfashioned American custom. Alive With Colors. Cambridge City is alive with colors. Main street is lavish with orange and red carnival colors, while along the curbings of each side of the street are booths and display stands. Fancy poultry cackle at the passersby while his eye is caught by displays of fruits and vegetables from the fertile farms of old Wayne county. Here and there along Main street and contributory side streets are the tents of traveling shows, snake charmers, fortune tellers, monkey shows and other attractions too numerous to mention. At night the town is brilliant with Illumination and Cambridge City and her hundreds of guests parade up and down the streets. Gave a Horse Show. Yesterdaj- afternoon on a side street there was a horse show. Nearly a hundred of the best horses of every description were participants. Down a lane of horse admirers these animals were put through their pates. Out at the eastern edge of town, Capitol Hill, there was a ball game in progress. About two hundred people saw the game and some of the expatriates who have been absent from Cambridge City for years and years, returned to town heavy hearted because the Grays lost to Dublin. Reunion and Reception. The home comers reunion and reception was held at the Masonic Temple yesterday afternoon. Hundreds of former residents were present. After a selection by the band Mrs. V. C. Meredith gave the opening address, touching on Cambridge City of former years and Cambridge City np to date. Chas. E. Shiveley of Richmond responded. Miss Elizabeth Overbeck

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SECOND DOLLAR IS FOUND IN EAST END

Jumped From the Down Town District in the Course of A Business Day. SHOWS TRAVELING POWER. PALLADIUM ANXIOUS TO KEEP TRACK OF THE DOLLARS AND ASKS THAT THEY BE BROUGHT TO THE OFFICE. Dollar No. 2, which was started in circulation the first of the week by the Palladium for the purpose of demonstrating the advantages of spending your dollars at home rather than to spend them out of the city, has again been located. It was thought for a time that this second dollar had lost its Identity the same as the one launched last Saturday, but Wednesday after noon it was discovered at Toler's drug store on East Main street, having been spent with Mr. Toler by Mrs. Treda Wilcox about 5:45 o'clock. It again changed hands at 7:15 o'clock last night and came Into the possession of Mrs. Peyton Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell took the coin to her husband's meat market, where it spent the night In his till. Since that time no information has been secured as to its whereabouts, but Mr. Mitchell undoubtedly started it in circulation again. The sudden transition of dollar No. 2 from the business districts down town to the residence portion of the city in the east end, shows the traveling pow er of a dollar and the many business transactions that are possible to a dollar spent at home. A Suggestion. The Palladium is very anxious to keep track of these dollars and any in formation that can be afforded to thl3 office will be much appreciated by the management, for the success of the project depends on knowing and publishing the various transactions they pass through. Don't thwart the ex periment by keeping the dollar in your possession, for it must be kept in cir culation if the desired results are re alized. As a record is to be retained at this office of the dollars and their movements since they were first launched, will you please bring either one of the dollars to this office when it comes into your possession. The Palladium desires to call in both dollars before the end of the week, so whoever brings in the dollars will be reimburs ed with others. MRS. DARNHARDT IS ON Librarians of Indiana Will Meet in October. LINDLEY WILL ALSO SPEAK. Librarians and those Interested In library work are taking particular interest in the coming sessions of the Indiana Library association at Indianapolis Thursday and Friday, October 17 and 1. The program arranged this year is said to be of unusual interest, as the best talent in the state has been secured for it. Ada. u. Bernhardt, librarian at the Morrisson-Reeves library in this city, will speak on "Library Records and Reports." Prof. Harlow Lindley of Earlham, who has charge of the Indiana archives department of the state library, will speak of the work which he is doing. HOSTESS TO ALICE LONGWORTH MISSING Strange Absence of Mrs. Chas. F. Joy. A STRICT SEARCH IS ON. Williams, Ariz., Sept. 10. Informa tion from Grand Canyon by a messenger, says Mrs. Nicholas Longworth's hostess at Grand Canyon, Mrs. Charles F. Joy, a prominent St. Louis society woman, has been lost since early Wednesday morning. Hotel guides, Indians, with men and 'women guests. and the woman's husband, a former congressman, are searching in all directions. High gales have blown down all the telegraph wires. CONDITION IS CRITICAL. No Change for the Better in Capt. Braffett. Capt. T. W. O. Braffett, an aged Richmond resident, is still in a criti cal condition at his home on South Thirteenth street. There has been no change manifested Xo the better in

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MEN'S ORGANIZATION AT FIRST LUTHERAN Male Members of the Congregation Organize. NEXT MEETING OCTOBER 8.

The men's meeting at the First English Lutheran church Wednesday evening effected the organization of a permanent association of the n:en. Representative men of the congregation were present and gave the movement an impetus which promises to make this one of the efficient men's organizations of the , city. Temporary officers were elected, and a constitution was adopted after, which a social time was enjoyed and light refreshments served. The next meeting was set for Tuesday evening, October Sth. RECEIVES HIS COMMISSION. E. K. Shera has received his commission as a member of the board of police commissioners. T TO CERTAIN DEATH Ten Thousand Persons Saw Aeronaut Meet His Fate At an Ohio Fair. WENT AS A SUBSTITUTE. PARACHUTE GAVE WAY BEFORE STRONG WIND AND THE UNFOR TUNATE MAN FELL LIKE A ROCK TO THE EARTH. Troy, O., Sept. 10 In the presence of 10,000 persons, of whom over half had never before seen a balloon ascension, Edward Richards of Dayton met an awful death Wednesday afternoon. The event was the Miami county fair and among the features advertised to draw the crowd was a balloon ascension. The races had just been run and the crowd gathered around the big gas bag which was being filled near the center of the grounds. It was nearly 4 o'clock when Prof. Smith, who was to make the ascension, asked Richards if he would not make the trip for him. Richards, who has made several asoonclnnil hofnro rpadllv fATTlft tf an agreement and began his preparations for the trip. As the bic bac was started In its upward flight Richards grabbed hold of the swineine bars and amid a mighty cheer cried to the crowd, "Well good-by." . Rain Stops Ascent. The wind was heavy and the big balloon shot upward to a height of more than l,2o feet. The clouds began to gather and as' the rain began to fall, Richards cut the parachute loose and it was opened within a minute and he was descending slowly to the earth. The crowd stood In the rain and watched him come down slowly. Soon there was cry and it was noticed that the wind had gotten the advantage of the parachute and was carrying it away. . Richards swung heavily on the bar, trying to control the course of the slight, umbrella-shaped thing that he thought was to carry him safely to the earth. A part of the parachute gave way. then another and within a few seconds the thing had turned wrong side out and Richards, who had loosed his hold was coming down like a rock. Women Avert Heads. Men and women turned their heads. Soon the body was lost to sight. It had fallen Into a tree over a mile from the grounds. In the top of the big walnut tree the body had carried the branches with It in its downward course, breaking the fallt When physicians reached the scene they found the body almost a mass of jelly. The broken parachute fell Into the top of the same tree. Richard's remains were taken to Troy and later will be shipped to Dayton, where the funeral will take place. It 13 said he was to get ?50 for the trip. WRECK AVERTED BY A TIMEIUISCOVERY New York Central Fast Mail in A Collision. ENGINEER PAINFULLY HURT. Utica. N. Y Sept. 19. The New York Central fast mail and newspaper train collided with two derailed cars of freight east of here early this morning. The freight train buckled and the cars turned on the passenger track just as the mall train came along. En gineer Eberlee saw the obstruction In time to reduce the speed of the train. The locomotive and one mail car was derailed and the engineer was painful ly hurt. " '

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BUIIDY IS CLASSED WITH CHARLES W. EATON AS ARTIST

Referred to by Publication at Duluth, Minn., as One of Greatest Landscape Artists Of the Country. COMPARISON IS MADE WITH EATON'S WORK. At the Age of Fifty-four, Richmond's Best Known Artist Is Receiving the Recognition That Is Due Him. Classed with Charles Warren Eaton, and spoken of as one of the greatest landscape artists of the country, today, J. E. Bundy of this city, was paid a beautiful tribute by the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune of Sunday's issue. In part is said: "While these two painters are alike, their attitudes are different, Mr. Bundy finds a beautiful spot in the beech-woods; some spot where nature has been kind enough to grow tho beeches in that witching careless way that admits the sunlight here and there only enough to show the beauties of the autumn foliage, a quiet spot, haunted by the timid squirrel or woodcock. "He contents himself by telling la his own poetic and charming way the beauties that nature shows him In such places. His pictures are loved for different reasons. "Mr. Bundy was born in Guilford county, N. C, fifty-four years ago, coming to Richmond, Ind., at an early age. He had the temperament of an artist developed early, but there was little encour;;ement for an artist among the plain, simple Quakers among whom he lived. All the time he conducted a photograph gallery in this town, his heart was out among: the beechwoods whero tho nuts were dropping. But his work In his photograph gallery was done faithfully am! some of his early photographs wer remarkable considering that he nev?r had had a day's Instruction In an art academy nor a lesson from any painter. The woodland was continually flaunting him an Invitation to better acquaintances. In a recent letter In which he tells of a contemplated visit during the summer painting season to some of the places frequentel by art lsts of New England, he says that he makes the visit not with the hope of new fields to paint, but of finding tho better way of expressing the beauty of tho beeches. 'For thirty years tho woods have been my alma mater and I shall never get away from them. Little can one Imagine the fidelity to tho work he loves displayed by this man. Beech Tree Paintings. "Those who know him tell of 3om twenty carefully painted studies of what he considered the most beautiful beech tree he had ever found. These paintings had been done during a period, extending over five years la which time he had painted his 'old friend' in every conclevable condition, of light, weather and season. Hero was one showing above all else tho soft moss about the roots, that made one long for such a place to rest from the noise of the turbulent street; another shows promise of coming leaves in the buds of sprln?; still another seems to invite to the leafy Bhade of this royal tree on a hot summer's day, and again all is In the white shroud of winter and one Is bidden to go shivering to a neighboring fireside. As ono after the other of these treasured records of days spent In joyous study of his 'old friend' were shown, he said, 'I knew every twig, every bit of moss that clung to the trunk of this old tree. Here is the last picture of my old friend. It was a day in March. The snow had melted until I knew, that the velvety green of the moss would show through in spots and" I made my pilgrimage to paint it This is what I found, and he brought forth a most carefully painted new cut stump. I never thought any one would have the heart to cut this beautiful tree or I would rladly have paid them to let it stand, at least as Ions as I live.' " SELF WILLSTAIID AGAIII Wants to Continue as Supreme Court Reporter. George W. Self, present reporter ofc the supreme court, has announced that he would be a candidate for renomlnation. It is insisted by friends of Mr. Self that he is entitled to renomination on account of his long party service and fealty and because of the satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the duties of the office. HAVE DISSOLVED PARTNERSHIP. SheVa and Starr, fuel dealers, have dissolved partnership, the latter U continue the business.

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