Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 252, 18 October 1907 — Page 1

CHMONB PAIXABITJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, VOL. XXXII. NO. 252. RICII3IOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1907. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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SHALL THE FRIENDS ENTER FEDERATION

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This Is One of the Important Questions That Will Come Before the Five Years Meeting, Now in Session. FEAR FOR INDIVIDUALITY IF JOIN INTER-CHURCH. Much Discussion Over the Report of American Friends Board of Foreign Missions Thursday's Work. Shall the Friends' church enter a tinlted federation of other religious deDominations of the country, to carry on a general Christian work? This is the question that will be put to the Five Years meeting of Friends, before the deliberations are finished, and ivhlch will mean much to the church generally. A plan was adopted by the Inter-church conference held in New Sfork City in 1905, whereby the thirty leading religious denominations of America should appoint four delegates to an lnter-church conference on federation, to be held In December. 190S, n& which would compose a body to parry on a united effort along church lines, and to encourage devotional fellowship and give mutual counsel concerning the spiritual life and religious activities of the church, and to further Use a combined Influence in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the people. The Five Years meeting, by virtue of its ruling power, probably will be asked to appoint at least four delegates to the inter-church council and there are many doubts among those anticipating such a request, as to whether or not the Friends can, with propriety, enter into such an alliance and keep true to their original doctrines. There are many, however, who maintain that the organization Is not one which will in any way compromise the position or doctrines of Friends, and these will give their support to the movement. Fear for Individuality. The main objection against becoming allied with the lnter-church council, as many acquainted with the situation are led to believe, is that if the Friends enter the council, thereby giving it recognition, the Individual efforts of the church as a whole will not be lost sight of. while by association in the work with other denominations, customs of Friends cannot help but be compromised. Some fear that the inter-church council will only tend toward an amalgamation of religions. . Those favoring the move, state that the Friends in no wise would compromise their conservative Ideas along certain lines, by recognizing the cofcll. Elicited Discussion. When the American Friends board of foreign missions presented a copy nf its constitution for the considera tion of the Five years meeting this morning, it elicited much discussion A few members of the meeting chalIpneed the right of the missionary so ciety to have a constitution when it is an integral part of the larger body This objection was set aside, however. when it was explained that the American board Is an older organization than the Five years meeting. The question of the disposal of missionary finances also contributed some misunderstanding and after the question bad been debated by the delegates. It was decided to act on the proposition later. The question of the province and duties of the superintendents of evangelistic effort was discussed. Jasper Hadley of Iowa, spoke, as did J. Lindley Spicer. Louis E. Stout. Thomas Wood of New England and Eliza H. Carey of Kansas. All have had experience In the superintendent's field. (Continued on Page Six.) IS THIRD OFJHE SERIES Evangelist Shannon Has Important Subject. At the U. B. church tonight. Evangelist J. E. Shannon will deliver the third in a series of addresses on "The Ethics and Dynamics of Christianity" or "God's Choice for and Method With a Man of Today." IS NO CLEW TO GQODBAR He Seems to Have Made His S Getaway Effective. Joseph Goodbar, who used a knife so effectively on William Waking a few weeks ago, seems to have made his "getaway" very effectively, as no clew has been secured- to his whereabouts. Waking is recovering and it seems will not suffer any very ill effects from his encounter.

LUTHERAN SYNOD 10 BE HELDNEXT WEEK Richmond Will Be Represented At Louisville.

HOWARD IS PRESIDENT. Eyes of many of the local Lutherans will be turned toward Louisville, Ky., next week, as the Olive Branch synod, to which the First Second and St. Paul's Lutheran churches belong, will hold its annual convention there. All three local churches will be represented. The Rev. E. G. Howard of Richmond is president of the uynod and will deliver the opening sermon. There will be much business of interest to come before the body. ENTRIES FOR THE AMATEUR Lively Contest Is Promised at New Phillips Tonight. Below are the entries for the amateur contest to be held at the New Phillips tonight, following the regular performance in vaudeville: Rtna Soper and Lee Evans, comedy song and dance; Davy Huddle-ston, recitation; Ethel O'Connell, song: Armstrong Brothers, vocalists, and the Whangdoodle Quartet. TIP FROM ORIO TO BE FOLLOWED HERE Wayne County School Master's Club Will Be Organized Saturday. JOHN W. COOK TO SPEAK. IT IS PROBABLE THAT MEETINGS WILL BE HELD FOUR TIMES A YEAR LEADING EDUCATORS PROMINENT. There has long been a need for clos er fellowship among the teachers of the Wayne county schools, and to meet this need many of them will gather about the banquet board at the Westcott hotel Saturday night, where a Wayne county school masters' club will be perfected. Those attending will listen to an address by Pres. Johu W. Cook of DeKalb, Ills. The organization of the club will follow in the line of an exceptionally young precedent. There are few other masters' clubs in the country. The local master pedagogues secured their Idea from the teachers of the Miami valley, who have perfected an organization limited in membership, whose objects are purely social. The local organization will be patterned largely after the Ohio organization. The membership will be limited, however, to male teachers in Wayne county. Preliminary plans and ideas as to tne manner in which the organization should be conducted, are meager. It is thought, however, by those most interested in the proposition that meetings should be held at least four times each school year, with the privilege of holding as many other meetings as it thought necessary. T. A. Mott. R. L. Kelly. C. W. Jordan. Lee Ault, N. C. Heironimus and I). R. Ellabarger, all prominent instructors of the county, have taken the initiative in the proposition to perfect an organization and have issued invitations to the banquet Saturday night. THREE WHO LOST MONEY Caught by Failure of the Cargill Company. Hagerstown, Intl., Oct. 18 Sher.l Campbell and Daniel Kiser of this place and John Kinsinger of East Germantown were among those who lost money In the Cargill Investment Company of New York. BIG CONTRACTS ON HAND Walter C. Wilson Doing Well At St. Cloud, Minn. Walter C. Wilson, who resigned his position at Earlham, has entered into partnership with Arthur E. Morgan in general contracting and engineering. Their offices are at St. Cloud, Minn. Mr. Wilson went there in June, since which time they have had under way over S00 miles of drainage besides bridge work, platting of towns and a variety of work which requires an efficient corps of workers. PETER SMITH VERY SICK. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith have been called to Topeka, Kan., by the serious illness of his brother, Peter Smith.

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L ASSAULT Robbins Says This Charge Should Be Made Against Bernard Green. HOLDS JESSUP IS MISTAKEN HE HAS IMAGINED HIMSELF TO BE TWELVE MEN, WHEN HE IS, AT MOST, BUT ONE, SAYS ROBBINS. In regard to the case of Bernard Green, who Saturday last committed an assault on Hazel Harris, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris, Attorney John F. Robbins is still of the opinion that Green should be charged with criminal assault, notwithstanding the statement made by Prosecutor Jessup Thursday that in his j opinion Green is only guilty of assault j and battery. It will be remembered that Mr. Rob bins. last Monday, when Green was arraigned in the circuit court, expressed Li;; opinion to reporters that Green was fc'uilty of criminal assault instead of assault and battery as charged by the prost-cutor. Mr. Jessup overheard Mr. Robbins. i.nd on Investigating the statute referred to by Mr. Robbing decided not to prosecute the assault and battery charge against Green until he had fully decided as to whether the negro, could under the statute cited by Mr. Robbins be charged with criminal assault. When Mr. Jessup announced his decision to the court Henry U. Johnson, attorney for the defendant, charged Mr. Robbins vv itli "butting in," and the prosecutor with bad faith. Thursday Mr. Jessup announced that ho had fully decided to prosecute Green for assault and battery, as he had at first determined to do. Mr. Robbins was shown Prosecutor Jessup's statement in regard to the charge to be filed against Green and asked to make a statement. He declined to do so at first, but finally gave out the following: Robbins' Statement. "I expressed my opin.on freely on this question in the court room a short time ago, to the reporters. At that time I did not know ihe case was pending in the circuit court, neither did I know what attorney was employed in the defense of the case. I soon learned, as you will remember. I have no disposition to meddle in this case. I suppose, however, that any man has a right to express his opinion on a question of law, ana to fairly criticize the action of a public officer. I do not impugn the motives of the prosecutor, I simply arraign his judgment. "It is a somewhat novel situation to see the state's attorney on the verge of nervous prostration through fear that justice may be meted out to a guilty man. He will not deceive anyone by parading a conscience that seems to be better than the laws of his country. If he could only calm his agitated breast long enough to give his mental activities a working cnance. he might be led out of the fog and error, by the clear light of reason, and obey the law. He will never solve the question, that so distresses and perplexes him, through the aid of this wakeful and vigilant moral faculty that has so clearly led him astray. The case of Green is a plain one. He committed an assault and battery upon a female child, under fourteen years of age. by unlawfully touching her person In an indecent manner. Was this the only crime of which he was guilty? This depends upon his intent and purpose at the time he siezed hold of the child. Was it merely to spank her? If so he is only guilty of assault and battery. Was it to commit a crime upon her person? If so he is guilty of a felony. What his intent and purpose was is a simple question of fact to be determined by a jury from the evidence of the acts done by him. If these acts were of such a nature as to afford no evidence whatever of the guilty intent, the jury, being composed of men equally as intelligent and honest as the prosecutor, would not convict him of a felony. If the violent presumption of the prosecutor is to be indulged, that a Wayne county jury would disregard eir oaths and the law. and convict without evidence, any lawyer knows that in such case the trial court would be bound to set aside the verdict. But if the acts done did afford some evidence, however slight, of the guilty intent, then the jury would have the lawful right to find the guilty intent from this evidence and convict of the felony. Does the prosecutor mean to tell this community that there was absolutely no evidence of this guilty intent? He knows better. And "he very well knows, or might know, if he would read the law. that it is not his province to pass upon the weight and sufficiency of this evidence. That is for the jury. He has imagined himself to be twelve men, where he is, at most, but one." THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Saturday fair; fresh northwest winds. OHIO Saturday fair, colder, freah southwest winds, shifting to brisk northwest.

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Delegates to Five Years' Meeting are Guests. Earlham College is a place of special interest to the large number of Quaker visitors who are in Richmond at the present time. They are making it a point to visit the institution where they are shown every possible courtesy. Many of these visitors have never before been at Earlham and their visit probably will be of benefit to the school as they can hardly fail to secure a good impression. FIFTV LIVES LOST WHEN DANISH BOAT GOES DFUHERDCKS Steam Alfred Orlandson Was Driven Ashore Off St. Abbes Head and All Attempts at Rescue Were Futile. LITTLE WAS LEFT OF VESSEL IN MORNING. Trains Collide at Greensboro, N. C, Killing One Person And Injuring Fifty Six Die At Chattanooga. London, Oct. 18. Fifty lives were lost when the Danish steamer, Alfred Orlandson went ashore off St. Abbe's Head, Scotland, last night. A heavy sea was running when the vessel struck and efforts of the life savers were futile. An attempt to launch life boats failed because of mountainous seas. Throughout the night the doomed vessel pounded on the rocks and was smashed by gigantic waves. At dawn today little of the vessel was left. It is regarded as certain that all hands were lost on the rocky shore. TRAINS IN COLLISION. One Person Was Killed and Fifty Hurt. Greensboro, N. C. Oct. 18. A passenger and freight train crashed together near here late last night. One was killed and fifty hurt. SIX MET DEATH. Street Cars Collide at Chattanooga With Fatal Results. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. IS. In a collision between two street cars this morning, six were killed and several seriously injured. PERSIST III THEIR TO IT Anti-Union Presbytery Is Not Willing to Come Into The Synod. UNION IS MADE COMPLETE. LAST FORMAL ACT TAKEN AT SESSION JUST CLOSED AT EVANSVILLE MONEY IS NEEDED FOR MISSIONS. The first synod of the United Presbyterian and Cumberland churches, held at Evansville, has closed and is already announced, will meet here next year. In its final business session the synod confirmed the joint resolutions of the Presbyterian and Cumberland Presbyteries held at Vincennes and Petersburg .and thus performed the last formal act of the union. Just before the synod adjourned news came from the "anti-union" Presbytery in session at Bethel church, near Owensville, that the union would not be recognized and that the Cumberland "loyalists" will not associate with the united Presbyterian congregations. The property held formely held by the Cumberlands, however, belongs to the United Presbyterian churches by virtue of a decision handed down by Judge GilcLrist. The "anti-unionists" at Jefferson avenue C. P. church at Evansville say they will not attend services on Sunday when a "union" minister will accupy the pulpit for the first time in the church's history. Dr. George Knox, of Lafayette, reported for the committee on home missions. An appeal for more funds was made. He stated that the settling in Indiana of a large foreign element toaA mission work Imperative.

ANTAGONISM

TRAMP JUNKER HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE

Charles Miller Captured by the Police, But His Companion Escaped. OPERATIONS EXTENSIVE. THE TWO MEN HAVE HANDLED CONSIDERABLE LOOT, DISPOSING OF A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF IT MURPHY ESCAPED. Charles Miller, a tramp lunker i wanted at Eaton, O., to answer a ' change of grand larceny, was arrested Thursday afternoon at the junk shop of Siegel Brothers on North D street by Officers Vogelsong and Winters, j Jim Murphy, Miller's companion who j Is also wanted at Eaton to answer I a charge of grand larceny, succeeded : in escaping from the officers and Is j still at large. He was not with Mil-J ler at the time of his arrest. The po- j lice believe that Murphy was ''tipped I off" that the police were after him, I making it possible for him to escape, j The capture of Miller is regarded as j a good one. He will be returned to Eaton for trial. The local police wanted him tried in the Wayne circuit court on a charge of bringing stolen property into the state. Prosecutor Jessup, however, decided that it was best to return Miller to Eaton as it . was feared that no evidence could be secured to convict Miller of bringing stolen goods into the state. Officers Vogelsong and Winters succeeding in capturing considerable stolen property which was in the possession of Miller and Murphy. These men have been operating in this vicinity for about two weeks, making their headquarters in a camp on the New Paris pike near the Gaar road. Most of the goods they stolen were taken in Ohio. Their efforts to dispose of this loot to local junk dealers caused their downfall. Eaton Marshal Arrives. Thursday noon the town marshal of Eaton arrived here and asked the as sistance of the local police in captur-t ing these two thieves. Later in the afternoon one of the Siegel brothers telephoned to the police stating that Charles Miller was at their place of ; business trying to dispose of, what' he thought to be stolen property. Vo-, gelsong and Winters were sent to the Siegel junk shop and made an easy capture of Miller. This thief had in : his possession a cow hide and tight' or ten pounds of brass. The police then learned that Murphy had driven to the Holzapfel junk shop. When Officer Vogelsong arrived there he found that Murphy had been warned that the police were after him and had made good his escape, abandoning the horse and cart to their fate. All that was found in the cart was a hog hide. Vogelsong took charge of the deserted horse and cart and drove it back to the Siegel junk shop, j These junkers told Vogelsong that . they had sold the horse to Miller and j that he had given a mortgage on it. I Vogelsong left the horse with them. ! One of the Siegels stpted that two weeks ago Miller and Murphy arrived here from Union City pulling the cart with them, their horse having died enroute. The Siegels sold them a horse for S10 and Miller gave them a mortgage. Visiting the camp of Miller and Murphy on the New Paris pike, the of-j ficers found other plunder, consisting ' of a complete set of tools stolen from a traction engine on the National road, also brass mountings from the traction engine. It is thought that during their operations between Rich-, mond and Eaton. Murphy and Miller ; have disposed of a considerable part 1 of their loot. THOUSANDS TO BE BUILT Demand for Autos Will Heavy Next Year. Be The automobile manufacturers of the country are now figuring on next year's output of machines. According to figures given out at the office of the American Motor Car Manufac- j turers' association the total American production will be about 53,000 machines, of which the association members will build 37.000. Placing the average selling price of these 53.000 automobiles at $2,533, the manufacturers will receive $139,133,000. AN OLD BANIUOLLAPSES Texas Institution With Liabilities of Millions. Houston, Tex., OcL 18 One of the oldest banking houses in Texas went to the wall Thursday afternoon when T. W. House, banker, filed a general assignment under the state law. The pliabilities are over 1 2,000,000.

TEACHERS OF COUNTY WILL ASSEMBLE HERE Association Is to Hold Its Annual Meeting.

A LECTURER IS SECURED. Wayne county teachers will be gath ered in Richmond tomorrow to attend i the Wayne County Teachers' associa tion, which will be held in the high I school auditorium. John W. Cook. presiaeni oi me ;sonnern uunois State Normal school, will lecture. Below is the complete prosram: 10:3o A. M. Music--Richmond Hi;h School. Devotional service Pro?. R. L. Kelly. Music Richmond Hish School. t Jrccwer ':;IetLods of st,,dJ "-Dr NOON. -1 U P. M MusicRichmond High School. Lecture, "Tendencies of Modern Education." Dr. John V. Cook. General business. OFFICERS. President Walter D. Cook. 1st. Vice-president Leroy Kimmel. 2nd Vice president-Ora M. White. Secretary Alice Test. Treasurer C. W. Jordan. LIMITED CAR RUNS INTO A CITY CAR Wild Confusion Among Passengers on the Local Street Car Line. NO ONE WAS INJURED. THE ONLY DAMAGE DONE WAS TO THE LIMITED IT HAS TO BE SENT TO THE SHOPS TO BE REPAIRED. Thursday evening at an early hour

a Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern nnsanitary and there WM great limited cer, running at a good fatS fttion Consequently water

speed, crashed Into the rear end of a were called In to make an investlgacity car as the latter suddenly stopped j Hon. These experts finally reached A ,..,. j xTo.-iMie conclusion that the unpleasant at the corner of Fifteenth and Main: I ta6te to the water originated from the street. Both' cars were filled with paa-j growth between the boulders, sengers and the fact that no one re-jwhlch formed the 8ldeg of the re8er. celved the slightest injury Is regarded vo,r ThJs p,ant growthf whlle CAU8. by everyone who witnessed the acci-jins an unpleasant tase to the water dent, as remarkable in the extreme. ;;he expcrts stated dld not make the The city car was running east ajwafcr unsanitary. Nevertheless, the short distance ahead of the traction car; off,cerE of the watep worRg company which was in charge of a local motor- decIded that the water used by the peoman. who was making his first run on -f tirhniond should not onlv h

a traction car. Some passengers, wanted to get off the city car at Fif teenth and Main streets, so the city car suddenly came to a stop at this point. The motorman on the traction car immediately applied his air brakes, but for some reason they failed to work properly, and as a result, the heavy limited crashed into the frail city car. Wild Confusion Ensued. Immediately there was the wildest confusion. The force of the collision lifted the city car rear end up, but strange to say no damage except of a trifling nature was done to this light car. On the other hand, the pilot on the limited car was ripped off. the air pipe smashed, the glass in the vestibule broken and the entire front platform of the car badly smashed. It is needless to say .uat when the collision occurred there was a wild and frenzied outpouring of passengers from both cars. The scene was an exciting one for a few minutes and It was thought for a time that some of the passengers had been Injured. It was soon learned that none of the passengers or the crews had received even a scratch. The limited had to be sent to the shops for repairs. 'S LEG AMPUTATED Hagerstown Patient Released From Hospital. James Mann, who was brought to Reid hospital several weeks ago efter falling down a stairway, breaking his limb so that it had to be amputated, has returned to Hagerstown. lie probably will resume his work there with P. H. Davis as cigar maker in a few days. A TUBERCULOSIS LECTURE Dr. S. Edgar Bond Will Heard by W. R. I. A. Be In line with its policy of public betterment and education along various lines, the South Side Improvement Association will tonight hear a lecture on "Tuberculosis" by Dr. S. E. Bond, who is well informed on this subjecL The meeting will be held at the Baxter school building and the public is invited to attend. The stereopticon will te used,

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BIG CEMENT JOB ABOUT HALF DONE AT WATER WORKS Improvement Under Way Is Expected to Remove Cause Of All Complaint Made Within Recent Months.

TWELVE HUNDRED BARRELS OF CEMENT USED, lThe Company Is Also Laying a New Pipe in Order to Secure better circulation of The Water. About three miles Ewtieast of this city, at the Richmond Water Works, company reservoir, worfc Is about half completed on the biggest cement Jofc ever undertaken in this part of th country. For three weeks the water works company has had a large gang of men at work cementing the sides of the reservoir and placing a cement abutment around the top of the reservoir. It will be at least a month b fore the Job is entirely completed. Then the Richmond Water Works company will have one of the finest reservoirs in the United States and the residents of this city will no longer have to complain that occasionally the water has an unpleasant taste. It was on account of this occasional unpleasant taste to the water that the Richmond Water Works company decided to expend ser. eral thousands of dollars to Improve Us reservoir. Complaints Made. About six years ago the company placed a cement floor in the reservoir and at the same time cemented all four sides about three feet up from the bottom. From the top of this cement side to top of Urn reservoir immense boulders were placed. In the past two or three years there have been frequent complaints regarding the unpleasant taste of the water. Residents of his city feared that the water va agltaequently water experts banitary DUt pleasant to taste. The big reservoir was then drained and while the people of Richmond are being supplied with water direct from the galleries the work of entirely cement ing the reservoir is under way. Magnitude of Job. Some idea of the job the water work company has undertaken, can be gleaned from the following figures. The width of the reservoir from top to top is 250 feet, from bottom to bottom. 200 feet. The length of the "big hole in the ground" from top to to,i is 350 feet, from bottom to bottom 300 feet. Vertically, the reservoir 1 about 20 feet deep, while from the top of the slopes to the bottom the depth varies from 33 to 36 feet. When filled, the reservoir holds ten million gallons of water. Now to cement the sides of this reservoir and to build the stone abutments around the top, it will be necessary to use twelve hundred barrels of cement, or about seven car loads and twelve hundred wagon loads of gravel. Bargain With Township. The road which leads from the Nei Paris pike to the reservoir has a very steep grade. This road runs through rich deposits of gravel. A short time prior to the beginning of the work" of improving the reservoir, Township Trustee Poter determined to cut down the grade of this road. When the officers of the company heard this they went to Mr. Potter and told him that if he would allow the company to cut down the grade of the road so that they could obtain gravel, they would pay the township for this gravel and the money could be used in further improvements on the road after the company had secured all the gravel necessary. Mr. Poter promptly accepted this proposition. Laying New Pipe. Besides cementing the sides of thi reservoir, the company ia placing a 14 inch line of pipe from the southwest corner of the reservoir to the northeast corner. This piping is part of a plan to secure better circulation of the water when the reservoir Is filial again. Near the southwest corner there is a twenty-inch check valve whlc'a pours the water out of the reservo'r for use in the city. Just a few feet to the north east of this check valve is a fourteen inch check valve which empties water into the reservoir. Th: system will keep the water in the reservoir in constant circulation so that it will at, all times be fresh as well a pure: The public is invited to visit the reservoir at any time. The road that runs to the reservoir is the first one east of the pumping staion, running north from the New Paris pit.