Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 290, 30 November 1907 — Page 1
AJDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, VOL. XXXII. NO. fiOO. 8ATTLE WAS WOII -BY AtlTE-SALOOH FORCES 111 HENRY RICHMOND, IXD., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEM11ER SO, 1J07. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. JUfi? CALLED UPON 10 DECIDE MENTAL STATUS OF WQMI MOTHER OF SECRETARY TAFT ISJAR DEATH Her Favorite Son in the Wilds Of Russia. WIFE BEATER GETS SENTENCE ENOUGH TO LAST 101 DAYS
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fifteen Saloons Will Be Put Out of Business Within the Next Year, Thirteen of Them Being in New Castle.
TWO OTHERS LOCATED IN SULPHUR SPRINGS. Bedford Promises to Be Dry At an Early Date Fulton, Owen and Tippecanoe Counties in the Battle. ' New Castle, Ind., Nov. A blanket remoustrance has been filed in New Castle and Henry township "vs. ill bo without .saloons within a year. The temperance people are celebrating their triumph. 'Shortly before o'clock last evening Wrieht It. Steele. Guy A. Reeves and John M. Clawson, who bad been given power of attorney to sign the remonstrance, walked into the comity auditor's office followed by a number cf temperance 'people, and formally fib'd the remonstrance. The remonstrance filed contains hi) names, a majority of lfO, as only 007 were necessary. The saloon men have ou file forty withdrawals, but a strange thing is that only eighteen of the forty can be foun 1 on the remonstrance, hence the withdrawals will havo little or no effect. Heveral saloon men in interviews expressed their intention of not lighting the matter. On the other hand certain saloon men backed by the brewery interests are expecting to light the remonstrance in connection with the legality of the names. Just a few minutes previous to the filing of the Henry township remonstrance the temperance people of Jefferson township, in which Sulphur Springs Is located, had walked into the county auditor's office with a remonstrance that will make that township dry. The number of names necessary for the success of this remonstrance was 237 and the temperance people were successful In securing No withdrawals were filed by the saloon men of Sulphur Springs and the remonstrance will . undoubtedly hold good. With these two remonstrances on file, fifteen saloons will be put out f business in the course of the next year thirteen iu New Castle and two in Sulphpr Springs. Next Monday there will come before the county commissioners an application by William Plpher of this city and one by Charles Haskett of Sulphur Springs, and both will be confronted by remonstrances. FILE THIRTEEN WITHDRAWALS. Saloon Men Fight Liquor strance Today. RemonBedford, Ind., Nov. 30. A quiet but Vigorous campaign has been going on among the temperance people with a view of closing the saloons in the Second ward by remonstrance, whicli vould mean that Bedford would be a lry town as soon as the present saloon licenses exnire. The remonstr ance was filed Friday and the saloon keepers also filed a list of thirteen withdrawals. Whether this thirteen will prove lucky for the saloon element or uniucivy ior iae leu.uau: people is a question which is yet to be decided. WITHDRAWAL CARDS FILED. Saloon Keepers Fight Blanket Remonstrance at Lafayette. Lafayette. Ind., Nov. P.O. Three hundred withdrawal cards were filed vrith the county commissioners late Friday afternoon in an effort by that number of people to take their names from the blanket remonstrance in the Seventh ward of this city against all saloons in the ward. For a week the temperance forces have been busy securing Bigners to the remonstrance in the Third, Fourth and Seventh wards. Many men said that their wives and family had signed their names without their knowledge. In the First and Fourth wards many Signers have also signified their intention of withdrawing their names. In the Seventh ward there are S0t. voters and if Sou of those who have pignd should demand that their tiames be removed it will be impossible for the remonstrance to be successful. A bitter fight is expected when the matter comes up before the commissioners Monday. FULTON COUNTY FIGHT ENDS. Two Remonstrances Filed With Majority of Voters' Names. Big Rochester, Ind., Nov. 30. Roches - ter and Fulton county will be dry one jrear hence. Two remonstrances, which will be considered by the county commissioners next Monday were filed with the county auditor Frifay. The Rochester remonstrance Contains a majority of names of voters and the Henry township remon-
strance has a majority of eighty-seven. Eighteen saloons will be driven out of business. There are only two outlying townships in the county that will have saloons and remonstrances will be filed in these townships as soon as application for liquor licenses is made. The saloon fight in this county was short, but effective. The saloon element, filed twenty-six withdrawals and the temperance workers secured 1 17 more names, giving a majority Jhat can not" be attacked. OWEN COUNTY TO BE DRY. Saloons to be Driven Stronghold. From Last Spencer, Ind., Nov. SO. Last night the citizens in Marion township filed !a remonstrance with the county audij tor which will put. an end to the sa- ! loon business in Owen county. IS STRICKEN SUDDENLY Widow of Frank Spinning Dies From Apoplexy. FUNERAL TO BE MONDAY. Mrs. Hannah Spinning, widow of the late Frank Spinning, was stricken suddenly with apoplexy, while waiting for a car at Eighth and Main streets, Friday evening, and died al- ! most inimediately after being remov ed into Knollenberg's store. Mrs. Spinning was subject to apoplexy, this being her third attack. She was in ber usual he.lUh at lhe thne amJ ,,er j dpath (.omes as a great shock lo her friends. Mrs. Sninning had been living at her home, 101 South Twelfth street, for some time, with her niece. Luce, who is a student at Miss Cora the Rich - Richmond high school. Mr. Luce and. Mrs. Carrie Gettle, of Mt. Healthy, a suburb of Cincinnati, are brother and sister of the deceased. The funeral will take place Monday morning from the home, at 10 o'clock, and burial will be at Earlham. Friends may call Sunday afternoon and evening. COLORED MAN SHOWN QUICKEST WAY OUT "Skeeter" Williams Departs Over the Ohio Line. Wm. Moore, the colored man who was taken to police headquarters FriI day afternoon, because of his apparent insanity, was shipped over the Ohio 5 line last night with the admonition i that he should never again come within the Richmond city limits. The man claimed his name was "Skeeter" i liiiams, wno one season roue . m. - ' Whitney's string of horses. Police court attaches termed the man "buggs." Friday night he said his; name was not Williams, but Wm. Moore and he was docketed as such, . Miss Ethel Canby of Richmond is visiting the family of L. F. Lantz at Milton.
MRS
HANNAH
SPINNING
JOHN R. HOWARD.
FINANCIAL CRISIS Wall Street Is Satisfied That Such Is the Case, Report Says. PAYMENTS IN CURRENCY. THIS WILL BE RESUMED WITHIN A SHORT TIME AND IT IS EXPECTED CHICAGO WILL TAKE THIS STEP NEXT WEEK. Nov. : So. Wall Street is satisfied that the financial crisis has not only pass ed, but is safely iu the distance. Reports from money centers point to an early resumption of currency payments and it is reported Chicago banks will be on a normal currency basis next week. The issue of treasury certificates is not large as was expected. The results, however, were satisfactory. PROSECUTOR JESSOP TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL His Friends Were Alarmed for Some Time. Prosecutor Wilfred Jessup was taken suddenly ill at the court house Friday j afternoon. His friends were alarmed ! at his condition for a time. Later he j went to his home near Centerville and j according to the word that has been I received he is still confined to his bed. ! Stomach trouble is given as the cause of his illness INTERLOCKING RULES HAVE BEEN AMENDED Indiana Railroad Commission Issues New Ones. IiMTERURBANS INCLUDED. In a set of rules established Friday by the Indiana Railroad commission, amending rules regulating the installation of interlocking devices that wera established Aug. 24, I'.xm;, the comj mission says that hereafter in all in-: j terlocking devices constructed or re-! ' built, the derails in the main track of single track steam lines, and in the j track taking the current of traffic :n ; double-track steam lines, shall be lo- i cated not less than "kX teet in advance I 01 me crossing or iounng point wnic.i it is intended to protect, unless other-! wise determined by the commission.! The commission als oruled that re- j verse derails shall be Dlaced 200 feet i in advance of the crossing. The rules 'apply to interurban lines also, except that the derailing devices must be placed 2" feet in advance of the crossing instead of oOu (Mt.
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COUSTY OFFICERS UNDER INDICTMENT
Henry County Commissioners Charged With Violating Bridge Contract Laws. WORK OF THE GRAND JURY. FIVE WARRANTS IN ALL, AGAINST C. D. MOHLER, TWO TWO AGAINST AGAINST M. M. HUFF AND ONE RUSSELL. New Castle, Ind., Nov. 30 Two county commissioners, Charles D. Mohler and John M. Huff were arrest ed on indictments filed by the rand' I jury. The jury completed its work i ! Friday after a session of four weeks. ! The indictment of the board was for J failing to comply with the law gov-! orning the award of bridge contracts i in that contracts were illegally let and the commissioners did not place on file a profile and survey of the ground on which the bridges were to be erected, along with the plans and specifications of the bridges, as the law requires. The indictments charge the commissioners with having failed to do this in two different instances. There are five warrants in all, two of them being against Mohler, two against Huff and one against Robert! M. Russell Commissioners Mohler and Huff submitted themselves to arrest last i evening by the sheriff and gave bond in the sum of $300. Commissioner : Russell, whose home is in Lewisville, ; was at Indianapolis during the dayi and could not be seen. The offense' is not considered a serious matter by! the friends of the commissioners, who ' believe that they failed to observe the law as closely as they should more through negligence than with intention to break the law. HARRISON OGDORN HAS STR0KEJ APOPLEXY He Was a Former Resident of Richmond. Harrison Ogborn, for many years a resident of Richmond but for sixteen years past living at Indianapolis was stricken with apoplexy on Thanksgiving day. Owing to his age it is not thought that he will recover. He will be 74 Dec. 2nd and is a member of Richmond lodge of Masons. PROPHET THE WEATHER INDIANA Increasing cloudiness and warmer Saturday, rain at night or Sunday; colder Sunday in north and central p rtions, fresh south winds, shifting to northwest by Sunday. OHIO Partly cloudy Saturday; rain or snow at night or Sunday; variable winds becoming south and frwlw
Was Mrs. Anna S. Bradley Sane or Insane and If Sane Was the Murder of Brown A Deliberate Act?
GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY PRESENTS STATEMENT. Mrs. Bradley Expressed Her Joy When the Introduction Of Testimony in Her Trial Came to an End. Washington, Nov. PA At ten o'clock Charles Turner began addressing the jury in the Bradley case in behalf f the government. He said the jury must decide whether Mrs. Bradley was sane, and if sane, whether her act was deliberate. That's the whole question, he declared. He reviewed the story of the crime and the facts leading to it. Mr. Turner had spoken but a short time when he became suddenly ill. He walked from the court house and was absent about fifteen minutes. He said he is exceedingly nervous and s e at times in a passion oi oratory suifered a collapse. When he returned he apologized to the court and jury and resumed the argument. He said he pitied Mrs. Bradley, but there aro others to be pitied Mrs. Brown and the Bradley cnildren. Washington, Not. SO. "Oh, I am so glad It's all over at last." The words were uttered by Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of former Senator Arthur M. Brown of Utah, as she, with a smile, was led from the courtroom to the prison van which was to take her back to jail. The presentation of evidence had just been concluded and court adjourned until this morning, when arguments began. Justice Stafford announced than an agreement had been reached among counsel for four hours of argu - ment on each side. These will be completed Monday afternoon and Justice Stafford said he would then de - n- ,o,-n ,m) m to the Jury. The testimony of the two gorernment insanity experts. Dr. Edward H. Bruce of Baltimore and Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe of New York, was the feature of Friday's proceedings, both of these alienists declaring that there .was nothing in the record of the case to in- ! dlcate that Mrs. Bradley was insane. Counsel for the defense attempted to impeach the testimony of these experts by showing that they had been eallsd for the government and that as . a matter or course iner were lesuiylng in the interest of the government. Each of them repudiated trns cnarge and declared that they would have testified to the insanity of Mrs. Br&dley as readily as they testified to her san- ! Ity had they found her to be insane. They were questioned at length and both cited the acts of the defendant, testified to by witnesses as showing her to be sane. Rev. David H. Utter, pastor of the Unitarian church of Denver, Col., who in former testimony has been referred to as "the priest," was pmcea ou ine unu. i-ic was Mrs. Bradley's pastor in Salt Lake ! city and testified to a conversation he ! had with her in 1905, she saying in -trt nM-nrrfinir tn Mr testimonr that Senator Brown would marry her when j a gun was placed before him, but the pastor added he did not understand that she proposed shooting him. Hi rather thought someone else womd undertake to force him to marry her. Mrs. Bradley was recalled and stated that she had no recollection of such a conversation. The pastor occupied a seat at her side during most of the , day and appeared to sympathize with her in her predicament. MONROE RIEE DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS He Was Prominent in the Boston Neighborhood. MANY RELATIVES SURVIVE. Boston. Ind., Nov. ;. Monroe Rife, aged about years, a prominent citizen of this place, died last night after I a short illness. Mr. Rife had been prominent as a horseman. The sur - viving children are Mrs. Amy Pyle. Mrs. Anna Overholzer. Frank, Harry and Edward. Mrs. Rife also survives I as does one brother. Dr. J. J. Rife, a j half-brother Robert and three sisters. Airs, saran jonnson, airs, uamei fiyan 1 Mrs. Hester Powell. The funeral be Monday amoon at 2 o'clock sun Ume) at the Methodist chtirch in ; BoEton: interment in the cemetery ! tnereTYPO. UN ON WILL MEET. Richmond Typographical Union will meet tomorrow and have an election f officers.
DOCTOR SAYS IS NO HOPE.
Worcester, Mass., Nov. P.O. Mrs. Louisa M. Taft has suffered a relapse and is lying at the point of death, while her favorite son. the secretary oi war. is in the wilds of Russia speeding toward Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway. Dr. Church, family physician, said this morning that there is no hope of recovery and death might come at any time. DORAH DRIOGE WILL GOOD AS It Is to Have a New Floor At the Expense of $3,000. WORK NOW IN PROGRESS. ALL THE BOLTS IN THE IRON WORK ,ARE BEING TIGHTENED DRIVING MUST BE ACCORDING TO LAW. For ten days, beginning this morning, there will be no traffic over the Doran bridge, as Contractor L. M Jones has received the lumber to bo used in reflooring the structure. Work began early this morning and will be rushed to completion. It will cost the city in the neighborhood of $:?.fHH to repair the bridge, but it is demanded, as the structure has been in very bad condition for almost a year. The flooring has been patched and repatched until it is now unsafe according to the assertions that have beeu made to the board of public works. In addition to the reflooring, a corps j of men is climbing over the structure j tightening all the bolts in the iron 1 work. Since the work started the (bridge does not sway as much as it j formerly did. The Richmond Street and Interurban railway company will ! also lay a new set of tracks across the bridge while the reflooring is being done. After all work is completed the public will be impressed of the importance of not driving their horses over the
bridge faster than a walk. The vio-1 tertion to his cry for mercy. Although lation of the city ordinance which says stating that his wife bad aggravate! that all rigs must walk over the bridge! him into boating her. Spurlock said he has cost the city several thousand do!-! remembered nothing of It. and wag unlars on this one bridge aloee. since it ! der the influence of tr.re? drinks of was erected more than twenty years ! wh is!. ey at the time. Although claim-
ago. Tl e police department will be ' given instructions to guard closely the; bridges ard arrest all those pe.sons caught d, ivi11g their horses faster than a walk. PROGRAM ANNOUNCED FOR GARFIELD CONCERT ,t Will Be Given at High School Hall, December 6. PI I PI I Q QPPnMn VPMTIIRP - Friday, December (, the Garfield orchestra will give a conceit in the high ; school hall. It is the second enter - j tainment to be given by this organization. the first beini: iriven two veas
tion. the first being given two yea"S,'ocks eyes were black from the ef-
,ago jts SUccebs, and the uigent demanris fnr another from the friends
of the school is responsible for this ! addition to several bruises. While she year's event. Misses Elizabeth Hase-1 w-as lying on the ground after Spnrmeifcr and Karoline Karl will assist, i lock Ftrttclt her, be kicked vicouly
The program, which has been announced is as follows: j Manrico overture C. W. Bennet ! School Orchestra. The Heavens Resounding.. Beethoven! School Chorus. Santa's Ballad ifrom Der fliegende Hollander R. Wagner' Miss Elizabeth Hasemeicr. (at Cradle Song Vaunah (b) Sweet is Tippcrary Wm. Ames Fisher Miss Karolyne Karl. "Witchery." Ballata W. F. Sudds 1
.'"....vllt Put in Its Appearance This
Girls' Chorus. Valse Caprice Op. 33 . .C. Chaminadei Miss Hasemeier i (a) The Gates of Tears 1 Carrie Jacobs Bond ib) Gavotte Chadwick Miss Karl. The Thunder ...'aker ... . Henderson Boys' Chorus. Memories of the War L. P. Laurendean School Orchestra. A Merry Life L. Dtnza School Ciiorus. INJURED ARE RECOVERING.
Ulysse3 Picket and Audie East. wholaF favored this fall in point of good
were severely Injured by being struck' weatber and a "spell may be conflby a city car while driving at Fif-;dently expected now. Few, If any. teenth ami Main streets a few days lean remember nicer fall weather than ago, are improving slowly and their 'has featured the months of October
recoTer is now asinrcd.
City Judge Converse Would Not Listen to the Plea of Arthur Spurlock for Mercy At Hands of the Court.
CLAIMED TO BE PENITENT AND BLAMED WHISKEY. Testimony Given by Chief Bailey and Sergeant McManus, of Damaging NatureMrs. Spurlock Gone. When Arthur 11. Spurlock, wife beater, appeared in police court in answer to the charge, he plead for bis freedom and said he wps ashamed of his actions if he h:ul committed an assault. He maintained that he rmenibered nothing of it. The court took the case under advisement a short time and when Spurlock was again brought into the court room to hear his sentence he waj given a fine of and costs and ft ft days in jail. He sat petrified lor a minute by the size of the sentence and then heaved u bitter sigh. He showed no other emotion and sat looking around the court room. It was thought Friday that Spurlock would at least arrange some sort of a. defense lint such was not the case, as he depended solely on his plea to gain his freedom. Spurlock said: "I am guilty but am ashamed of it. If I had not been drinking the affair never would havehappened. 1 don't, make a practice of drinking and will take an oath that 1 will never drink another drop, cither in Richmond or elsewhere, if you will but grant me my freedom. I think 1 have been punished enough for what I did. My heart is broken. The whole, affair hurts me more tlian It does her. Again I say, I am ashamed of it." The. man said that he and his wife had been residents of Richmond for six weeks. He said that the quarrel of a few days ago was the first tfiey had ever had and he was greatly aggravated or the affair would not have happened. . Court is Not Moved. Spurlock's plea was such as many other oolice court victims often give, being decidedly tangled and for that reason Judge Converge paid little ating that which hp he nothing of the crime had committed against his pretty little wife, he maintained that , he felt very sorry over the affair. The men who wre aliout police court when the case was called for trial were anxious that a lieavy sentence be imposed upou the man. They were pleased when Judge Converse gave him such sentence, but would have been better pleased had the court assessed the limit. Prosecutor Jessun was not present to present the case for the state and although himself ill. City Judge Converse questioned witnesses. Daniel McManus police sergeant and Jesse Bailey, superintendent, were the only prosecuting witnesses. Spurlock'H wife having gone to Indianapolis fearing further trouble with her husband. McManus told of the details of the assault as it occurred ne.-.r his home and on his own porch. Thh alone aroused ; the Ir of thosf who heard the p;iro McManus maintained that Mrs. Spur- . .ock's j fects of the beating. She carried a ! long gash on the sddp nf hr f.. in at her right shoulder, badly bruising it. Spnrlock's fine and jail sentence will man 101 days in Sheriff Meredith's hostelry. FIRST REAL SNOW OF SEASON IN RICHMOND Morning. IFALL WEATHER VERY FINE. Richmond got the first, real touch of winter today when a lively little snow aiorm put in its appearance and for a few minutes was sufficient to almost cover the ground. The fall was continued more or less throughout the day. It was the first real scow of the ! season and comes at a date much later than snow has often come in previous years. This section has been unustiuad NoYember.
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