Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 262, 30 October 1907 — Page 1

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PERISH IN ftN EARTHQUAKE City of Baratagp, in Bokhara, Central Asia, Mas Been Destroyed. AfiE BUT TWO WHO SURVIVED CATASTROPHE The Governor And His Mother, It Is Understood, Escaped With Their LivesDetailed Information on the Disaster Is Not Yet Available.

T.-'spkond. Russian Turkestan, Oct. SO The. entire cily of Karatagp in Hokhara, Central Asia, was destroyed hy an earthquake which was followed 1y a lerrible mountaiii slide in which the entire population, numbering fifteen thousand were buried. 'Only two Mirvived, the governor and his mother. Details of the convulsion are unavailable but the news so far received leads to the belief that a great ckr.fcm opened in (he valley and engulfed the city. KILLS BROTHER-IN-LAW AND SON AND SUICEDES Tragedy Is Enacted at Tusla, Indian Territory. DUE TO FAMILY TROUBLE. Tusla. Indian Territory.. Oct. ."0. D. J I. Stock well today shot and killed YV. K. Campbell and his own s-on and then committed suicide. His wife took refuge at Campbell's house. The men Ave re bi ol hers-in-law and the trouble Avas due to a family disturbance. CATHERINE ELKINS TO WED AN ITALIAN Daughter of Multi-Millionaire Will Become Royalty. A COUSIN TO THE KING. New York. Oct. MO. Engagement of Catherine Elkins. daughter of the multi-millionaire West Virginia senator to J'rince Luigiamedo of Savoy. Aaosta. Duke of Abenzzi. first cousin to the Jiing of Italy and admiral of the Italian liavy, will be announced soon. A BIG STORM IN TEXAS Reported That Several Lives Were Lost at Galveston. New York. Oct. .". A message from Houston, Texas, just received, reports n big storm at Galveston and several lives are reported lost. All communication is cut off. EARLHAM INSTRUCTORS WILLJLL PULPIT Rev. 0. M. Frazer to Be Away For Three Weeks. TO VISIT IN NEBRASKA. New Castle. Ind.. Oct. ?,'. o. M. Fraeer. pastor of the Friends' church, and his family will leave next Tuesday. Nov. .". for North Loop. Nebraska, fur n three weeks" visit. The minister will be away from his pulpit three Sundays, but lias arranged for excellent tervires during his absence. On Sunday. Nov. lO. president Kelly, of Earlliam college, will take Mr. Frazers place and New Castle people will be pleased to learn of an opportunity to hear this distinguished educator speak. On Sunday, Nov. 17. Prof. Murray KenAvorthy of the bible department at Earlham, will be here and his coming is also a treat. On Sunday. Nov. 24. a former pastor. Kev. W. P. Angell, will be here. ECONOMY TO HAVE A BANK. Hagerstown. Ind., Oct. 30. It is announced that a national bank with a capital stock of $25,000 will be organized at Economy before the end of the year. The capital is to be raised among residents of the town and vicinity. The. officers have not been selected.

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! It is believed t here was eonsideri able loss of life in other cities. Marjatafh in Russian Turkey, a hundred i miles from Samarkand, felt the ef fects1. Occurred October 20. London, ,Oet. ::0 From announcements of the seismic bureaus the shock occurred shortly before midnight October 20. Shocks continued most of the day. Noted at Washington. Washington, Oct. :i0 The weather bureau here recorded the quake. BEVERIDGE TOUCHED BY FRIENDS' VOTE Thanks Extended to Him Calls Out a Letter of Marked Appreciation. SAYS ONLY DID HIS DUTY. FOR THIS REASON THE DOING OF IT WAS ITS OWN REWARD BUT VOTE OF THANKS WAS A KINDLY THING. The following correspondence will explain itself: Mt. Kisco. N. Y.. Oct. M, 1!M7. Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, U. S. Senator. Indianapolis. Ind. Dear Sir: At the Five Years Meeting of the Religious Society cf Friends in America, held at Richmond. Ind . from l."th to 'J'Jnd of the present month it was unanimously decided to present the thanks of the body to you for your successful effort in having the Army Bill so amended in the United States' senate as to exempt from military service those who for religious convictions oppose all wars. It gives me much pleasure to hereby convey to you the thanks of the meeting representing the great body of Friends in America. Very truly jours. JAMES WOOD, Chairman and Clerk. Indianapolis. lud Oct. '';, ltn7. My Dear Mr. Wood: I cannot tell you how touched I am by the action of the Friends in extending to me a vote of thanks for what I did with reference to the Army Rill. While I do not deserve any thanus. having done what. I did because it was the right thing to do. therefore, finding my reAvard in the doing of it, nevertheless, this action on the part of the Society of Friends appeals to me most powerfully. It was a tender, gentle and a kindly thing to do. and 1 shall not forget it. With kindest regards and best wishes, faithfully. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE. Mr. James Wood. Mt. Kisco, N. Y. HAS BEEN FREE FROM FIRES. Richmond this fall has been particularly free from visits from the fire demon. The fire department since the opening of the Avir.ter season, has had but few calls. Generally there are numerous alarms in the fall of the year resulting in most cases from defective flues, which the property owners neglect to attend to during the summer. APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP At the meeting of the Elks Thursday evening action will be taken on applications for membership. GIVES ft TALK ON Miss Francisco Speaks in the Earlham Chapel. Miss Lucy Francisco, head of the music department at Earlham. gave a j most entertaining talk in chapel this morning, which was the first of a series which she will give during the year, concerning the music of the border lands of Europe. This morning sue took the music or Russia and played five numbers, illustrating it. The chapel exercise was one of the most enjoyable of the term.

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HOPE IS RENEWED FOR IMPROVEMENT ON THE WEST SIDE President Merrill of Board of Public Works Confident That Sewer Deadlock Is About to Be Broken. DIVISION OF THE WORK MAY SECURE BIDDERS. If City Can Get the Sewer Built Its Part Will Have Been Accomplished Suits Against City Dismissed. President Merrill of the board of public Avorks is in a happy frame of mind. He is now confident that the Northwest Second street sewer deadlock, Avhich has threatened to render null and void the Northwest Second street viaduct agreement between tin' city and the P., C, C. & St. L. rail road company, will be broken before the close of this year. If the city succeeds in letting contracts for the building of this sewer in tAvo sections the city will then have fulfilled all its terms of the agreement and Avork on building the viaduct, which the residents of Fairview have fought for so hard during the past five years, will be started. Are Taking Notice. Mr. Merrill states that, since the announcement made that the Northwest Second street sewer system would be built in two sections, local and oiu of town contractors -have begun to sit up and take notice. He states that so far fi-e contractors have notified the board of public works that it is their intention- to submit bids for one or both sections of this sewer system. Mr. Merrill stated that by dividing up this job in two sections no contractor who took one or both sections would be obliged to tie up much money in the job. When the board first passed a resolution to build this sewer system the resolution provided tha. contractors submit bids for the entire Avork. including lateral sewers. This meant an investment of about $4S,000. Under a recent act of the Indiana legislature no contractor can receive payment, for a public improvement until the completion of the work. On account of this law and the large amount of money a contractor would have to tie up in the Northwest Second street sewer work, all contractors fought shy of the job. Since the board has reconsidered its original resolution and has eliminated the lateral sewers, providing that only the trunk mains of the system shall be built and the work shaJl be done in two sections it means that a contractor who submits a bid for making both sections of the seAver will only have to invest about $24,000 in the job. This makes the job attractive; from a contractor's point of view anf next month when the contracts arc let, there will probably be several bids in the hands of the board. Suits Are Dismissed. In the circuit court the suits of the P., C. C. & St. L. railroad against the City of Richmond and the C. R. & Ft. W. railroad against, the City of Richmond, which were the outgrowth of the trouble between these railroad companies and the city over the Northwest Second street viaduct, were dismissed at the cost of the plaintiffs. In 190:: Avhen the city council and the board of public improvements authorized this improvement the two railroad companies filed the above mentioned appeal suits. RICHMOND DELEGATION WILL GOJO MUNGIE Carnival Will Be Given There On Thursday. TOWN TO BE PAINTED RED. There will be quite a delegation of Richmond people go to Muncie Thursday to assist the Muncieites in their rousing big carnival which will be held on that date. Every man. woman and child in Muncie will turn out Thursday and paint the old town red. In the evening the city will be gaily illuminated and hundreds of merry makers will take part in a masked parade. Nothing like a city turning out and having a good time once in a while. JESSUP M DELEGATE Prosecuting Attorney Honored By Governor Hanly. Gov. Hanly has appointed delegates to represent the state of Indiana at the national rivers and harbors congress to be held at Washington. D. C. Dee. 4. ." and 0. The list includes Wilfred Jessup, Richmond.

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THIRTY PRISONERS AT COUNTY'S JAIL Sheriff Has His Hands Full With Eight Insane Men Among Them. ALLOWANCE IS TOO SMALL OFFICER CLAIMS ADVANCE IN LIVING EXPENSES HAS MADE FORTY CENTS A DAY AN INSUFFICIENT SUM. Sheriff Mereditth now has thirty prisoners to care for at the county jail. j This number includes eight insane men I Avho. the sheriff states, give him more 'trouble than the other twenty-two in-:-mates. One insane man is confined in the padded cell and he is a constant ! care. The sheriff states that he re ceives no more compensation for the care of these insane men than he does for boarding the sane prisoners. The sheriff of Wayne county still receives forty cents per day for the board of each prisoner. This rate was established in the days Avhcn provisions j could te secured for a song. In those ! days a sheriff was able to make ten or ' fifteen cents per day off each prisoner, ibut at the present time, when the price 'of provisions is at. a high water mark lie is obliged to scheme hard to make forty cents cover the expense of proi A iding each prisoner Avith three square meals per day. "The alloAvance of forty cents for the daily board of each prisoner Avas all right when potatoes were fifteen cents per bushel and butter eight cents a pound. But at the present time when potatoes are eighty-fiA'e cents per bushel and butter about thirty cents per pound. I find that it is hard to proAide a prisoner with three good meals on forty cents." states Sheriff Meredith. He is not the only sheriff in the state who has uttered a similar complaint. The annual perquisites in connection Avith the sheriff's office used to amount to almost the same as the sheriff's salary. The increased cost of living and acts of recent state legislatures have reduced these perquisites to almost nothing. Just recently a ruling Avas made that it was illegal for a sheriff to receive ins and outs fees on prisoners. The state law provides that the sheriff shall attend each meeting of the board of county commissioners and shall receive a fee for performing this duty. Sheriff Meredith religiously attends these board meetings but his bank account is not fattened by zeal in performing this duty. STEEL TRUST PROSPEROUS New York, Oct. 30. The Steel Trust is in an exceedingly prosperous condition just now, according to the statement made at the meeting of the board of directors of the United Steel corporation. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Rain Thursday; fresh to brisk east winds. OHIO Rain Thursday; act winds. fresh north-

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A. SPEKENHIER Postmaster. AMUSEMENTS WILL BE SERMON THEME Evangelist Shannon Will Have Something to Say on Timely Subject. TALK NOT TO CHILDREN. IT IS MEANT FOR GROWN-UP FOLKS MUCH INTEREST IS SHOWN IN THE UNITED BRETHREN REVIVAL. Increasing interest in the revival meetings now being conducted in the U. 15. church leads to the announcement that they will continue indefinitely. Mr. Shannon has cancelled three other engagements in order to remain here a feAv days. J 1 is theme Tuesday night was repentance. Tonight he Avill speak on "The Use and I Abuse of Amusements." He will have something to say concerning dancing schools, dancing and dancers. He will speak of games and sports also theatres and various other performances such as masquerade balls, masquerade hallow-e'en parties by and for churches and such like things. Mr. Shannon says that this address is not for children but for grown-up folks and particularly for parents. In fact he says that he has but very few talks for children. lie says that it is i next to useless to talk Avith the children about morals or religion unless we can have a better parental cooperation. CHANGES III WEATHER CAUSE OP SICKNESS Physicians Are Kept Busy at The Present Time. PNEUMONIA IS PROBABLE. Local physicians report that there isan unusual amount of illness in the city. OAving to the disagreeable weather of the past few days. The majority j of tl;nsp the nhvsieians are called to wait upon are suffering from heavy! colds. There is not much serious il!-: ' ness in the city at the present time. but physicians state that if the raw. j damp Aveather continues an epidemic I oi pneumoma auu sup van uu iwncu for. COLLISION WES FATAL One Killed and Three Injured Near Wheeling. Wheeling. W. Va., Oct. ?A-One was killed and three injured today in a collision of traction cars at Elm Grove, near this city.

MAY PROVIDE ICE SKATIHUT PARK Richmond Amusement Company Has in Mind Project To Flood Athletic Field.

IT WOULD NO DOUBT PAY. THERE IS ALSO TALK OF A TOBOGGAN SUITABLE PLACES FOR ICE SKATING ARE VERY SCARCE ABOUT HERE. , Richmond is to have ice sbkating and plenty of it, during the coming winter if the plans of several members of the Richmond Amusement company materialize. It is the plan to flood Athletic park during the winter j months. When frozen there wou'd be about a five acre skating surface, one : of the largest ponds of the kind in j this section of the country. The Avat-j er will at no place be deep and the children will be safe. For the reason that, there is much danger in skating on the ponds aral streams surrounding Richmond, especially for the' children, the flooding of Athletic field would be a boon to the younger lov-j ers of the out-door sport. j It cannot be said that the idea is! entirely original with Richmond. All j the larger parks in the big cities have such skating places in the winter months, and not only do they afford a source of great pleasure for young and eld alike, but they are money makers for the park managements. j Athletic park is naturally adapted for winter skating. Ry placing a few' banks around the large field water! can be easily run into it. A small! stream runs near the field and it is thought that the course of this can be I cnanged enough to furnish a large supply of the water needed. City water Avill also be used. Beiieve a Money Maker. Friends of the scheme think that iti would be one of the greatest money makers for the amusement company that could b6 inaugurated. Richmond and surrounding country, if is asserted, affords very poor places for ice skating, and it is thought a skating fever would undoubtedly sweep the city. " In addition to skating, a few of tiie members of the organization feel that : a long tobbogan would he a money! maker also. This can be constructed j at very little expense. The idea is to build a "start" about fifty feet ahove the top of the hill at the west end of the park, and run the toboggan to the east. This would entail much work however, and would also require a great deal cf care during the winter months. Its money making possibilities, however, are not. questioned. It is certain that the skatin? nroposition will receive attention at the ' nands or the Richmond Amusement comnany at its meeting Thursdaynight. Plans for next year's base ball team will also be drawn. It Is the hope of the local association to nlace a team in the field next year that w ill j be a winner in every respect. Manaeer Clarence Jessup is corresponding with a number of very likely players.

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HIT QUI CRASHES INTO IKTEBURBAN; MOTQRMAN HURT Brakes Refused to Work While Running on the Down Grade Into the City and Accident Was Unavoidable. WILLIAM HEIGER WAS LUCKY IN ESCAPING. Plucky Motorman, Who Stuck To His Car Although He Saw What Was Coming, Is Not Seriously Injured. In a street car wreck which occurred near Seventeenth and Main streets about ll:r. o'clock today, Wm. linger, motorman on a local city car was badlv injured about the hip and leg. besides being otherwise bruised. That he was not instantly killed or at least more seriously injured. Avas remarkable. Slippery tracks were responsible for the wreck, sending a city car into the rear of an inbound iiiterurban. Roth cars were badly damaged, the city car more so. as the entire front portion of the city car was mashed. The intcrurban passed the local ear at Moorman's switch cast of Richmond, and the city car than started to follow the intcrurban into toAv;. Roth cars were going at a good rate of speed, and particularly avus this true when they started down the long East Main street incline from Twenty-Second street. Avestward. lleiger held his car about one square away from tho intcrurban. At Seventeenth street the interurban stopped to allow a passenger to alight. Refore it had again fully gained headway the city car. completely from under tho control of Motorman Heiger. crashed into the rear end. The force of the collision was great. lleiger was penned in the debris for several seconds before the Interurban had pnlled away. Had the interurban been at a staudrtlll when the crash came, it is thought lleiger would have been instantly killed. Tho windows of the interurban were broken while many pa::cs of glass on the city car were shattered by the force of the collision. Erake Would Not Wcrk. Motorman lleiger. when atked about the wreck and" its cause. aid that his car absolutely refused to take the brake in the proper manner. Ha had plenty of time to s-top h's car he asserted. He noticed the interurban was at a standstill. He then applied the brakes, but as the track was slipery they did not Avork in the proper manner. When they did work, tin brakes had but little erfect, as the car slid almost one half square, and directly into the interurban car. lleiger showed an unusual amount of nerve, as he remained with his car, and in its vestibule, although he knew that the crash would undoubtedly come. He did not desert his car even after he was Injured, and came into the city upon it. Still suffering much pain, he refused the offers of his fellow workmen to assist him to bis home. 110 Lincoln street, going alone. The wrecked car was taken to tho barns in West Richmond, while the Interurban car came into the city, picked up several passengers and rcfume.l its schedule. 0. V. JOHNSON RESIGHS Manager of Carpet- Department Goes to Texas. WAS WITH KNOLLENBERG'S D. W. Johnson, manager of the carpet department of the Geo. H. Knollenberg company, has resigned his pos'tion and will leave shortly for Texas, where he will enter the employ of a large carpet house. Mr. Johnson has been in uichmond for the past eight months and during that time has proved himself to be one of the most efficient and progressive carpet men in the city. Mr. Johnson s loss will be keenly felt by the newspapers, for as is the case with all progressive business men, he was a liberal and judicious patron of the advertising columns of the local papers for his department. AREflOOMINGLAFOLLETTE Republicans of Wisconsin Favor Him for President. Madi3on, Wis.. Oct. 30. A committee was organized here to promote the candidacy of Senator Robert M. La Follette for the Republican nomination for president.

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