Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 297, 8 December 1907 — Page 1

BIG MONI) PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXII. NO. 297. RICHMOND, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, DECE3IBER 8, 1907. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS.

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BUCK FORMS TAKEN FROM COAL MINES

Up to a Late Hour Saturday Night, One Hundred and Twenty-five Bodies Had Been Taken Out. HORROR AND PATHOS STILL PREDOMINATE. With Tears Streaming, Heart Broken Mothers, Wives and Sweethearts Are On Hills Awaiting the News. INVESTIGATION TO RESULT. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WANTS BUREAU OF MINES WHICH CAN TAKE STEPS TO ALLEVIATE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. Monongah, W. Va., Dec. 7. With Unabated energy, five rescuing parties working from every possible- point to enter and explore mines Nos. C and 8, of the Fairmont Coal Company, a mibsidiary of the Consolidation Coal company, of Baltimore, where a terrific explosion of black damn occurred Friday, were tonight putting forth every effort to reach the Ulo men who they had every reason to believe were Mill in the mine, dead or alive, although there was scarcely a hope entertained that, a single one of the 400 or more men who went into the mine yesterday morning luul survived the terrific explosion and thn poisonous , gases with which the mines filled immediately after the death-dealing crash. hundred and twenty-five bodies bar! l"n brought to the surface tonight and the dozen undertakers from this and surrounding towns, who haveheen on duty since the catastrophe had the bodies washed and made as presentable as possible in an improvised morgue, Into which one of the nine buildings bad been converted. A Heartrending March. All day. Saturday there was a heartrending march up and down the aisles along which these bodies had been laid, by sobbing wives, mothers and sweethearts, orphaned children andi strong men. each seeking a near relative or a friend. There are between 5,000 and 6.000 Inhabitants In the mining town of Monongah and it is doubtful if in this ortiro nnnnitinn fhpro nro n srf.m r,f persons who have not either a near relative or a close friend numbered among the victims of the disaster. Hundreds of men are standing about the entrance to the two mines.

They said nothing, but when approach- Fox, but Bill refuses to abide by fooled and asked a question they would ish human laws he regards Judge Fox

give way to their emotions and often j give way to tears. Women on the Hills. Saturday the women were the chief actors in most pathetic and heartrend!ng scenes. They crowded the side of the hills overlooking the, ill fated . . . , , . . , jnines and cried aloud. As the day , advanced they became almost crazed, through grief and suspense. One woman pulled out her hair, handfuls at a time, another tore all the skin from both of her cheeks with her finger nails. Some lay down on the frozen ground and cried themselves to sleep. In this condition many w-ere carried to their homes nearby without awaking. ROOSEVELT'S PLAN. Hopes to Check Peril Which Constantly Surrounds Mine Workers. Washington. Dec. ".Clarence Hall, the government explosives expert, ar rived nere today alter an mvestiga-i

tion of the mine disaster near Fayette dog was not rewarded by a sight of his City, Pa,, only to learn that a more divinity. He then wandered to the terrible accident had occurred at the court house and searched every nook Monongah mine in West Virginia, and corner, crying as though his heart Hall left immediately for Monongah . would break for his missing friend, to make an official Inquiry. (Wednesday Bill continued his' fruitless "It is peculiarly sad", said Hall, search. He was almost in despair, 'that on the day the message of Pres- but Thursday morning while on duty Ident Roosevelt was read to congress at the corner near the Judge's home he In which he recommended the crea- spied his honor. No poor scribe can tion of a bureau of mines :nd a step picture the enthusiastic delight with toward stopping the continual slaugh- j which Bill gree ted his frioud.' Since ter of miners, the morning papers; that day Bill has refused to let'judge thould contain the news .that thirty-: Fox get t-ix feet away from him. If two men had met death in the Naomi the judge makes any more trips Bill mine and that four days later we has determined that he will not be left should hear that many more lives had behind.

been offered up to this monster of the mines. "These catastrophes not only are Increasing in number but growing more terrible in the number of persons injured and Wiled. "It cannot be claimed that all these explosions are due to the carelessness i Of the miners. In this country we do

not yet know how much of any given I explosive can be used safely in the Demas S. Coe, county auditor-elect, pTcsence of coal gas or coal dust, who will take his office January 1, has These recent disasters seems to me to filed his bond with the county coramisrmphasize the need for the informa- sioners and it has been accepted. - Mr. tion which the president has called Cue's bond is for ?lO.00. and was furfor in his recommendation for thejnished by the American bonding comcreation of a bureau of mines." Jpany of Baltimore, Md.

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"BILL" IS HAPPY; MASTER RETURNS Just a Yellow Dog Great Friend Judge Fox. But of LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. CANINE PICKED HIS HONOR AS HIS AFFINITY, DESPITE THE OBJECTIONS OF THE "COURT" THEY ARE NOW CHUMS. "Bill," just an ordinary yellow dog, innocent of a pedigree, is the happiest canine in the city. His soul's affinity. Judge Henry C. Fox, who was out of the city two days last week, has returned home. From a legal standpoint Bill is not the property of Judge as his lord and master. When J Jill met Judge Fox it was a case of love at first sight, on Bill's part. He showered his attentions on tne COurt, but the court ignored them. , . . ,n a-, v,, Bill was not to be denied, however, so at len&th Ju(1Se Fox capitulated and he no longer attempts walking down side streets and alleys in fruitless efforts to avoid the dog. Today his honor has nearly as great an affection for Bill as Bill has for him, and the dog io allowed to bask in the sunshine of his presence without remonstrance on the part of the judge. When Judge Fox went to Portland last Monday he. neglected to inform Bill, of his intention to absent himself from the city. As a result Bill waited Tuesday morning on a street corner near the Judge's home from an early hour until nearly noon, but the DEMAS COE FILES American Bonding Company of Baltimore His Surety.

AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND

WILLIAM H. KELLEY Attorney.

TEDDY BEARS JEALOUS OP TEDDY CATS Peace and Quietude of Toy Counter Shocked by Ravings Of Envious One.

"Gr-r-rr-rrr! You're a scab! Grrr rrrrr " ""Nothin' o' the kind and I'm here to stay! Meaou Meeaaoouuu " "Get out or I'll chow your ears off grrr; bow wow wough." "Spishch, meou, spat, I'll swat you one." "I say you're a scab you've got Teddy Bear fur on you take that." Then the Teddy Bear hit the new arrival on a Richmond department store counter the "Teddy" Cat. For fifteen minutes the "Teddy" Cat and the Teddy Bear had it out and fur flew all over the room in which they had been ptrmitted to get together without being watched by the clerk. For a few moments, the floor walker had left them. He had ex CLASSES WILL FIGHT IN ATHLETIC SPCRTS Color Bearers at Earlhamj Will Be Chosen at Mass Meeting of Students. MEANS TWO FACTIONS. PLAN WILL STIMULATE CLASS AND SCHOOL SPIRIT AS WELL AS PROMOTE GREATER INTEREST IN ATHLETICS. A meeting of the entirestudent body of Earlham will be held Monday for the election of the color leader. Much interest is being taken in this division j of the entire school into factions which i will contend against each other in r.ll athletic sports. The standing of each man in the number of credits will be ! examined into by the faculty and the limits which they have set will determine to which class each person belongs. 'Any one. who at the beginning of the Fall term has lesls than ine actual college credits, will be dubbed a Freshman; between nine and eighteen a Sophomore, and so ou. This action of the faculty will put all of the men in their proper places and will make everyone work to keep up with the class he entered school with, not in spirit as heretofore, but in truth. JAPANESE TEA MONDAY. The North Fourteenth street Mission will give a Japanese missionary tea Monday evening, Dec. 9. THE WEATHER PROPHET INDIANA Generally fair, Sunday; rising temperature. OHIO Sunday increasing cloudiness; sossibly rati

pected trouble and it was just a bit of carelessness that allowed them to come to blows. They had been quarrelling under their breath since the arrival of the "Teddy" Cat. This new arrival dropped into Richmond a few days ago. He put on airs without consulting the owner of the store. The Teddy Bear union took up the matter and the fight, started. The "Teddy" Cat is an assuming animal. He comes attired in bright colored leather boots, cocked hat, eje gJasses and fancy spike-tailed frock coat. He has a real-for-sure tail and ears and legs, making a Beau Brummel appearance that certainly would make a hit with the Miss Teddy Boars that is if there were any Miss Teddy Bears.

ONE-HALF TO BE PAID en TOWNSHIP Will Appropriate $400 for the Improvement of Potters Field. MONEY FROM POOR FUND. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AUTHORIZE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE CITY IN HIS MOVEMENT. Wayne township has agreed to pay one half of the expense of improving the potters field at Earlham cemetery. The county commissioners have sanctioned this action but the trustees has been informed that the money used for this purpose must be drawn from the township poor relief fund. By the action of Wayne township the city of Richmond will pay $400 for putting the potters fieli in good condition and the township will pay an eciual amount. PLANS ARE PERFECTED FOR BAPTIST CHURCH About $3,800 Will Be Used in Making Improvements. Plans have been perfected for the improvement of the First Baptist church on North Eleventh street. About $3,SOO will be used in consummating the improvements. On the south wing of the church a large addition will be made to the Sunday school rooms, thus increasing its seating capacity. A basement with lavatories, and similar liMtures will be installed.

ROOSEVELT IS WISE BUT POLICIES BUST HOT 6E ENFORCED

National Lawmakers Think The Ideas Expressed in the Message Good, But Not Practical at Present Time. SENATORS MAY OPPOSE POSTAL LEGISLATION. New Congressional Directory A Most Interesting Volume Cortelyou Likened as to King Wang" by Many. Washington, Dec. 7. The attitude of congress toward the president's message now that members h;ive had an opportunity to study its recommendations carefully, may be summed up as follows: ' Most of his recommendations have merit in them, but we doubt the wisdom of attempting to enact them into law at this session. The advice we get from our constituents is that the country wants a rest a sort of breathing spell. What may be called the Roosevelt policies will in the main all be adopted eventually; but with the financial situation uncertain and with a presidential election coming on we think it best to let most of the president's suggestions wait until the next session or until a special session immediately after the presidential election. This, be it understood, is not the unanimous view of the republicans in either senate or house by any means. In each branch are republicans who are anxious that congress shall proceed at once to carry out practically all the recommendations the president, makes. Senator La Follette, for instance, savs emphatically that the financial situation has not influenced him to abandon his fight for more drastic railroad legislation. Sentim-nt in the House. Over in the house of representatives perhaps one-third of the republican members are willing to follow the president's advice. ! What may be called the old guard in both senate and house seems to be fixed in the determination that there ,,,,,, i , , . , shall not be any legislation inimical to the business interests of the ro.in.,i try at this session. Banks and Parcels Posts.

In both senate and house are some 1 when asked what the thought of the ardent advocates of postal savings suggestion made by Councilman Bartel banks and parcels nosts, which the t , , j , . . t 1 , V at council meeting last Monday when president recommends be established, .but the members who control legisla-1 Ue said that jail imprisonment was not j tion are at this time opposed to both sufficient punishment for brutal hust proposition One point made against bands and that they should be punish-

postal savings banks is that in time of war the people would draw their savings from these banks and thus embarrass the government at a time when it most needed money. The one vital objection to the enactment of a parcels posts law at this time is that the government can not .if ford the v. npnso nf ,ir if ,v- ,r !m'

......... . v. , iL 11 - jjvjodi uit that both these recommendations will county jail. The judge says that In his become law before the session ends, opinion public whipping of brutes who but with the most influential senatois mistreat their wives, is none to mild opposed to favorable action at this a lesson for them to receive, session and with the speaker of the! Sergeant McManus says that he does house and the chairman of the h ouse nt favor the whipping post as a methcommittee on postoffices and post-1 od of punishment for such a prisoner-

roads against both propositions it seems improbable hat favorable legislation can be put through. Some far-seeing politicians are disposed to predict that if the republicans are not careful they will make a good deal of capital for the democrats before the winter is over. It must be said for the minority that it seems to have more ginger in it than it has had for several years. Directory is Instructive. The new congressional directory is a highly instructive volume. The longest autobiography in it was contributed by an Iowa member, Daniel Webster Hamilton, democrat, of Sigourney, who tells how be labored on a farm- and taught school. As a climax he says he "married Elvira Gibbons, a Quakeress and a resident of his home country and they now have a Rooseveltian family of nine chidlren." In spite of the fact that William Alden went to the senate and George W. of Illinois died, there are still five Smiths in the house. The shortest autobiography is that of Representative Robert Bruce Macon of Arkansas, which occupies exactly three lines and is so condensed that he does not even give his age. Then there is Joseph Grant Beale. a new republican member from Pennsylvania who claims to be a thoroughbred". This is what he says: "Mr. Beale's forefathers came to this country with William Penn, so he claims that he is a thoroughbred Pennsylvanian. and his forefathers, as well as himself, have been born in Pennsylvania until the memory of man does not run to the contrary." Another new member has pride of ancestry; this is Represen

tative Richmond Pearson Hobson ofi(jause

Mernmac lame, wno coasts that he is the tenth in descent from Elder Brewster of the Mavflower. Cortelyou Like "King Wang." Secretary Cortelyou is very much in the position of the gracious "Kins

Wang," with the difference that Instead of having an elephant on his hands he is anxious to acquire information about three that are somewhere in this country under bond of $1,000. If anybody can identify Rog

er, Tom and Alice, as the pachy derms have been christened, he will confer a favor on the secretary of the treasury by stepping to the front. Roger, Tom and Alice were introduced to the customs officials a year ago, but as those officers were not expert judges of paehydermul beauty, they have forgotten Jhe features of the three big beasts. Th trio has traveled much in its day. and the treasury department says that the beasts are now in this country under a bond of the owners, amounting to $1,000, to pay the duty on them. The owners, seek to avoid the payment of duty on the ground that duty was paid ou the first visit of the elephants to this country. The owners, however, cannot identify the animals to the satisfaction of the customs officials and the latter are almost as much at a loss to accomplish the same result. Hence Secretary Cortelyou will call down blessings on the head of the man who cau help him out. PUBLIC WHIPPING FIT PUNISHMENT FOR WIFE BEATERS Judge Wm. C. Converse of the City Court, Says the Punishment Not Harsh Enough For Fiendish Wife Beaters. CITY CANNOT PUNISH BY THIS METHOD THOUGH Solitary Confinement With Bread and Water Diet, Is Good Enough for Such Men Says Police Sergeant. Judge W. C. Converse, of thme city court, believes that a public whipping post for wife beaters, would be a desirable thing, but he states that this city could not authorize such punishment, owing to the fact that the legislature provides the methods by which law violators shall be punished and as yet ,. , . . 4 , .. , the legislature has not seen fit to ena law autnorizing pumic wmppin as a puishment for wife beaters. Judge Converse made this statement ed by b.Mng given a public whipping. Of all the classes of offenders that appear before Judge Converse, he Is harshest with wife beaters. A man convicted f such an act need not look to Judge Converse for leniency he can ' depend upon a long sentence in the even a wife beater, but he says that he does think such brutes should be punished by hard labor or solitary confinement on a bread and water diet. A local newspaper man. who witnessed the public whipping of a negro at Georgetown, Delaware, states that punishment is a most cruel one and sickens the. person who chances to witness it. However. Delawareians say that the punishment has the desired effect and it is a rare thing when a man once whipped gives the authorities the opportunity to punish him by this method a second time. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY EASTERNER ORDER Appointive Officers Are Soon To Be Chosen. MEETING AT MASONIC HALL An election of officers of Loyal chapter No. 49, Order of the Eastern Star, resulted as follows: Worthy Matron Mrs. Olive Allison. Worthy Patron Mr. A. W. Hempleman. Associate Matron Mrs. Jessie Medearis. Treasurer Mrs. Otta Ward. Secretary Mrs. Belle Ilorton. Conductoress Mrs. Millie Fox. Associate Conductoress Mrs. Eva The appointive offices will be filled by the Worthy Matron, Mrs. Olive Allison. The appointments will be announced at the next regular meeting. The meeting held in the Masonic Temple and the attendance was larse.

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LDODSHED

TODAY IN GOLDFIELD Predicted That With Dawn, Four Hundred Non-Union Strike Breakers Would Arrive to Begin Work in Mines. THOUGHT ARMED MEN ' WILL BLOCK ATTEMPT. All Was in a Buzz of Excitement in the Mining Town Saturday Night Over the Expected Appearance. SOLDIERS IN POSSESSION. ON ARRIVAL, UNDER CHARGE OF COL. REYNOLDS. TROOPS TOOK IMMEDIATE CHARGE OF GOLD MINES WILL REMAIN THERE. Goldfield, Nev., Dec. 7. Tonight all is in a buzz of excitement over the report that on Sunday, four hundred nonunionist strike breakers will 'arrive in this city to take the place of the striking miners. Knots of sturdy men stood about discussing tho outlook. All were armed to the teeth and loud threats were heard ou every hand against the incoming miners. Bloodshed will certainly result If they make their appearance. Leaders of the "strike attempted to impress upon the men to keep clear heads and shun liquor, as brains would have to be used on the morrow. Col. Reynolds and part of the United States troops who were assigned to keep order during- the miners' strike, immediately took possession of ithe mine properties. The unionists were in session in the headquarter at the time, and a dlscusjslon of the situation is still, In prog- ; ress there. The section of the train carrying three hundred soldiers did not reach here till late this afternoon. Numerous highway robberies and assaults have been committed in the last few days. . but no outbreak can be traced to the miners, who deny responsibility for them. Threats Against Soldiers. Threats have been made though tha miners' officials, speaking for tho membership, repudiate responsibility for them that the regulars will not long be left without warfare to keep them busy. It has been learned that an attempt was made Thursday night to dynamite the line which furnishes power and light to Goldfield. It failed only because the explosive was frozen and failed to go off. The miners are holding a series of secret meetings and are already circulating a round robin among the citizens. Informing President Roosevelt that troops are not needed. The report that troops would be ordered to the camp was at first regarded by the miners as a "bluff," intended to intimidate them. President MeKlanon of the local miners' union, a brothI er-In-law of William D. Haywood, is la charge of the miners campaign. Vincent St. John has been in the hospital for several weeks as a result of a gunJ shot wound received in a duel between himself and another labor leader. Buildings Reported Dynamited. Salt Lake, Utah. Dec. 7. A dispatch jfrom Parks. Nev., says the wires from ! Goldfield are down. Before communication was closed a flash was received by the Southern Pacific operator that several buildings had been dyna mited by striking miners and their sympatnizers. The Southern Pacing lost track of 'Its trains, owing to the. wire trouble. SPANISH WAR VETERANS TO CELEBRATE EVENT Will Observe Anniversary of Denver Brown Camp. COMMANDER WILL COME. On Monday evening, December 16, the members of the Denver Brown jcamp. United Spanish War Veterans, " V.-1I1 celebrate the second anniversary of the installation of the camp. The i' Boys of have invited all ex-soldiers and their families residing in the city to attend the celebration, which will be held at the G. A. R. Hall. Department Commander James L. Anderson, of Indianapolis, has promised to be on hand for the occasion. WM. HAMILTON DEAD. Wm. Hamilton, aged 56 years, died at his home south of Millville, Saturday morning at seven o'clock with cancer ol stomach, .