Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 298, 9 December 1907 — Page 1

ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL,. XXXII. NO. 98RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, DECE3IKEK , 1907. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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GRIM DEATH TAKES KING OP SWEEDEN

Oscar, Most Popular Man Ever Ruling Northern Country Answers Call of His Maker Early Sunday Morning. Hearts full of grief relatives stand near. When Flag on Palace Fell to Half Mast, Moan of Anguish Was Emmitted From Multitudes Outside of Grounds. HIS LIFE AN EVENTFUL ONE. THE KING WAS ACCOMPLISHED, BEING AN AUTHOR AND MUSICIANHIS ASCENSION TO THE THRONE WAS SURPRISING. Born Jan. 21. 1829. Entered Swedish Navy at age of 11. Educated in Sweden's leading university, where he captured valuable prizes. Rose to rank of admiral. Gustavus died in 1652, and young Oscar is considered possibility for throne. Sent to Germany with view of marriage. Weds Sophia, daughter of prince of Nassua. Becomes crown prince when Charles XV inherited crown. Charles dies in 1872 without male issue. Cscar ascends thrcne at age of 43. Becomes most popular man in Sweden. Won laurels as poet and orator. i Awarded silver medal by Swedish Academy in 1857. Celebrates silver wedding in 1882. Growth of Academy of Music due to untiring labors of King. - Under reign of King Oscar Swedes have made great progress. Died Dec. 8, 1907. Stockholm. Dec. 9.- Oscar If., King of Sweden, died at 9:10 o'clock Sun day morning. The death of the monarch occurred in the royal apartment of the palace, where, surrounded by the members of his family, including Queen Sophia and the crown prince, Gustavus Adolphus. and high ministers of state, the inevitable end had been' awaited, while outside the palace great crowds stood with bowed heads and tearful eyes long after the announcement came of the death of their beloved sovereign. Their hearts filled with grief, for Oscar was something more than a ruler to his people and had endeared himself to them as an intimate and personal friend. When the flag on the palace was dropped to half mast there was a moan of anguish from the assembled multitude and many of them cried, "Our dear old King is dead." The succession of the throne of Sweden now passes to Gustavus Adolphus, prince of Vermland, the oldest Fon of the late Kins. At a meeting of the Council of State Punday afternoon the new King took the oath of allegiance under the title of Gustavus V, and adopted the motto, With the People for the Fatherland." The princes then took the oa&i of allegiance with the new monarch ac: cepted the homage of the state officials. Oscar a Democratic King. Oscar II, King of Sweden, had as his paternal grandfather one of Napoleon's marshals, Jean Baptiste Jules Hernadotte, who was the son of a French attorney, and was born at Pau, France and died in Stockholm in 3844, as King of Sweden and Norway with the title Charles XIV. Oscar I. fcon of Bernadotte, succeeded to the throne on the death of his father. He married Josephine Eugenie Beauharpals, daughter of Kugene Beauharnais, the great Napolean's stepson. Oscar I died in 1859 and his eldest son. Charles XV ascended the throne. He who later became Oscar II, was a younger eon of Oscar I, born January 21.-1S29. He seemed so far removed from the throne that at the age of eleven years with his father and his two elder brothers alive, he was not regarded as n possible heir even by his own family and was put into the Swedish navy, beginning as an ordinary midshipman and rising tothe rank of admiral. Meanwhile his general education was not neglected. He took a full course at the leading university In Sweden and carried away several prizes most of which were literary. Suddenly in 1852. Gus-tav, Oscar. I's second son, died, and young Oscar, the pallor, began to be looked upn as a Continued on Pase Two.)

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FINE WAS GIVEN Judge Converse Dealt Harshly With Inmates of House Of III Fame. A LITTLE GIRL'S STORY. A PITIFUL RECITAL REVEALS HER RUIN THAT WAS BROUGHT ABOUT THROUGH ELDER'S INFLUENCE. Anne Smith was given the limit of the law this morning in the city court, for keeping a house of ill fame. Judge ! Converse fined her $100 and costs and added a six months jail sentence. He informed the woman that he was sorry he could not give her more. Cecil Durflinger a sweet faced little girl fifteen years of age, who has been fre quenting the place run by Mrs. Smith, having been enticed there by the wo man, was the prosecuting witness . against Mrs. Smith. By the statements the Durflinger girl gave on the witness stand, she also convicted Rosetta Lutz and Ethel Smith SegD of being inmates of a house of ill fame, and John Stableton and Elmer V. Smith of associating. Ethel Smith Sego, is a daughter of Mrs. Smith. She is only sixteen years of age. Her husband is a soldier in the regular army. Judge Converse gave her $25 and costs and thirty days The Lutz woman was given $50 and costs and thirty days. Stableton and Smith, were each given $10 and costs and ten days. The Durflinger girl will probably be taken away from her parents and sent to the Girls' Industrial home. Her young life has almost been ruined through her association with Mrs. Smith and the inmates of the house she conducted, at Fourteenth and North II streets. On the witness stand Cecil Durflinger stated that she had known Anne Smith about four years. She then told of the checkered career she had led. It was a disgusting and heartrending recital which cannot be put in print. The girl stated that Mrs. Smith had provided medicine for her and had induced her in other ways, to continue her life of shame. None of the women or the young men arrested made any statements to defend themselves. "The police and Cecil have done all the talking. Guess we will keep our mouths shut", stated Rosetta Lutz to the amusement of the crowd of hangers-on who drank in eagerly each word of the filthy testimony. When the court imposed sentence on Mrs. Smith she remarked with an air of bravado "Can't you tack on a little more?" Judge Converse told her he would willingly do so if he could. "Well thank heavens I'll be fed", replied the woman. The raid made by the police Saturday on Mrs. Smith's house of ill fome was the first made since the time a few years ago when Richmond was made a "closed" town and all resorts closed. The Rev. J. O. Campbell, Sunday afternoon conducted divine services at the county infirmary. All the inmates of the infirmary were pleased with the sermon.

AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND

OSCAR G. PORTER FIELD. CLOUD SURROUNDS S Was Cut to Pieces by Indianapolis & Eastern Car Saturday Night. THOUGHT TO BE MURDER. WITH THIS IDEA UPPERMOST, MARION COUNTY OFFICIALS ARE MAKING INVESTIGATIONMAN DISAPPEARS. That John Martin, the man run over at Cumberland, Saturday midnight by an interurban car of the Terre Haute, & Eastern railroad company, was knocked in the head and robbed and then placed on the car tracks is the belief of the people of that village. The circumstances surrounding the death, as discovered yesterday by the coroner indicate foul play. An Indianapolis dispatch says of the case: "When Martin's clothing was searched but 50 cents was found. When last seen at Cumberland, anyhow before he was found on the interurban tracks, Martin had a roll of bills. Neal Scanlon, the last, man with whom Martin was seen and with whom he had been drinking, packed his suit case some time after Saturday midnight and is missing from Cumberland. "Martin had been working. Saturday night he was paid off for the week and three; different persons whoua he saw Saturday night told the coroner that he had at least $10. Others said he had a big roll of bills. Leaves Saloon With $10. At about 11 o'clock Saturday night Martin, with Neal Scanlon, was drinking in Fred Shakel's saloon. So far as can be learned no one saweither Martin or Scanlon from the time they left the saloon until Martin's body was discovered on the interurban tracks by Oscar Frye, just before the car ran over it. Frye, in attempting to prevent the car from running on the prostrate form, lighted three or four matches and ran toward the body, hoping to be able either to flag the car or to remove the body from the track. But the car came too rapidly and the body was horribly mangled. The corpse was placed on the car and brought to this city. Whether Martin was dead before the interurban car ran over him or whether he was merely unconscious is something which Coroner. Petersdorf has been unable to di trover so far. The body is so badly mangled that it is impossible to discover any other injuries than those inflicted in the car accident. Can Not Find Scanlon. When Dr. McGaughey tried to find Neal Scanlon yesterday he was told the man had packed his suit case and left early yesterday morning. The disappearance of Scanlon and the peculiar- actions of Porter, his roommate, in trying to cover up the fact that Scanlon had left Cumberland, caused Coroner Petersdorf to notify Sheriff Clay yesterday afternoon of the affair. The sheriff went to Cumberland to make an investigation,

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TO CALL OF DEATH Dr. Joseph W. Jay, One of the Best Known Men of Richmond Died Today. WAS A SELF-MADE MAN. A LIFE LONG MEMBERS OF THE FRIENDS SOCIETY ALSO PROM INENT IN MEDICAL AFFAIRS OF EASTERN INDIANA. Dr. Joseph W. Jay, who had been in failing health for some months at his home on National avenue, died about 8 o'clock this morning of old age. He was one of the best known and most highly respected residents of the city and news of his death will be a matter of sincere regret to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Dr. Jay was born in Miami county. Ohio, Jan. 22, 1825. He was the eldest son of Thomas and Eliza (Wareham) Jay. Being the son of a man of limited means. Dr. Jay in earlv life received only a common school education. By his own efforts he attended Franklin college, Ind.. and later spent nearly two years at Earlham college. In 1S4( he commenced teaching, an occupation which he followed for nearly eight years. In the meantime he took up the study oi medicine with Dr. Jonathan Ellis, of Marion, Ind., and in the spring of 1855. graduated from the Eclectic. Medical college of Cincinnati. He only practiced about, three years and then studied dentistry at Indianapolis with Drs. Moffitt and Stoneman. commencing his practice in ISo'J at Knightstown. but since 1871 he had been a resident of Richmond. Dr. Jay retired from the practice of dentistry in 1!K5. Dr. Jay was married four times. His first wife was Anna U. Pritchard. to whom Iite was married on May 28, 1S5G, and who died February 27, 1S07. On January 7. 1800 he married Sarah J. Pritchard, who passed away on May 3, 1S9. On June 23, 1872. he was married to Mrs. Susan M. Hawkine. her demise taking place on December 21, 1881. His last marriage was to Jane M. Shute on October li. 1883, and she with four children survive. Dr. Will Jay of Rushville. the oldest son. is by the first marriage and Harry, Elizabeth and Mary oy the third, as was also Fred, another son, deceased. Dr. Jay was a lifelong members of the Friends" church, and was identified with the East Main Street congregation. He was prominent in the Eastern Indiana Dental association and the Indiana Dental association, being one of the founders of the latter. THE WEATHER PROPHET. OHIO Rain Monday, turning to snow Monday night or Tuesday; much colder, fresh south to east winds increasing. INDIANA Rain and colder Monday; Tuesday snow flurries and colder, brisk east winds, becoming north.

PARCELS POST IS ADVOCATED FOR RURALITES

Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, Thinks That There Should Be Legislation Favoring Its Establishment. THINKS IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE UNJUST. Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus Hits Chinese Exclusion Act Claiming It Tramples on Privileges. Washington, Dec. 9. The annual report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General De Graw which has been made public contains four recommendations for legislation tending to improve the distribution and handling of mail, particularly that on the lural routes. Mr. De Graw wants legislation that will give a parcel post delivery by rural carriers to communities remote from postoffices, at a special rate of postage of 5 cents for the first pound or fraction thereof and 2 cents for each additional pound or fraction of a 'pound, the weight limit being set at eleven pounds. The report also recommends that the same uniform dress worn by the city letter carriers be extended to the rural carriers. He further suggests that congress appropriate $12,000 for the publication of a new edition of the street directory of the principal cities of the United States and urges legislation that will secure an improved method of disposing of undeliverable articles by sale, so as to eliminate, as far as practicable, the objectionable lottery features involved in carrying out the existing laws on the subject. Mr. DeGraw opens his report with reference to the extension of the rural delivery service throughout the country and calls attention to the marked decline in requests for new service, which, he says, indicates that the appropriations made by congress have equaled the demands. Indiana is Fourth in List of Routes. Petitions for new service were filed at. the time the estimates were framed for the current year at the rate of 4,500 a year, but during the fiscal year 1907 these fell off 2,133. In his table showing the number of requests for new service, the action taken on such and the number of routes actually in operation, the figures for Indiana show that seventy-nine requests were were i ding e of! filed during the fiscal year end June 30, 1906, while at the close the fiscal year 1907 there were but nineteen cases pending for consideration. Four requests were referred, thirty-five routes established, twentyseven discontinued and twenty-nine got reverse reports. The number of routes in operation June 30, 1907, were 2,113 which same is the fourth largest t number in the country: Illinois leading with 2,771 and Ohio second with 2,493 and Iowa third with 2,314. There were ten routes that have only a tri-weekly service. Parcels Post Fills Long Need. In reference to the parcel post service on rural routes, Mr. DeGraw says: "There are reasons why a system of parcel post delivery should be extended to communities served only by rural delivery. The conditions precedent tothe .establishment of rural service requirej remoteness from other modes of communication. From the very nature of the service it is apparent that the :iople who receive its benefits have not access to the convenient and cheap methods of transporting packages afforded to the residents cf cities by private corporations which do not undertake to deliver packages to people living miles from a railroad. The star route contractors, J by whom, prior to the establishment ' of rural delivery, many rural residents had received mail service, through delivery at postoffices situated in their respective localities, were permitted to collect and deliver packages outside the mails. CHINESE EXCLUSION RAPPED. wv i c vc i j a ua icviai ban i l at 1 1 1 - j pies on Privileges. j Washington, Dec. 9. The subject' of immigration, particularly that of the Chinese consumes the greater por tion of the annual report of Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus, which has been made public. He takes a decided rap at the exclusion act, declaring the Government tramples on the privileges given all races and creeds in the constitution and, while observing that there is a, need for restrictions of certain classes of immigrants abong the orientals, he thinks the present law has features that are unnecessary and unconstitutional. One significant feature of the lengthy document is that the question of Japanese immigration is . not even

0IE0 AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER

Mrs. Martha C. McMahan Expires at Tipfon, Ind. WILL BE BROUGHT HOME. 'Centervii'.e, Ind., Deo. 9 Mrs. Martha t McMahan died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. 15. Bartholomew, Tipion. Ind. The body will be brought to Centervi'.le this evening:. The funeral services will be held at the home of Dr. .1. M. Fonts, at '2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and the burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery. mentioned is not even mentioned in the voluminous report. Mr. Straus thinks the laws governing admission of the Chinese into this country are. unjust. He sees the ne cessity of such laws, but declares that the manner in which they are framed makes exclusion of the race in general imperative and brings forth a condition that is fraught with irritating circumstances. FRIGHTENED HORSES VISIT CANDY STORE Entrance, However, Was Unceremonious and Damaging to Big Window. NARROW ESCAPE FOR TWO. ANIMALS HITCHED TO A HEAVY DRAY ATTEMPTED TO DEMOLISH A FT. WAYNE AVENUE BUSINESS BLOCK. The front part of the confectionery store of Herman Kuchenbuck, ltli) Ft. Wayne avenue, is nearly demolished, as a result of a runaway, horses colliding with it. A spirited team of horses belonging to Harry Crowe, 111 North Seventeenth street, were standing along side a platform at fe Panhandle freight station. Tlfc were hitched to a heavy dray. Suddenly a screen covering of one of the entrances into the freight station was lifted. This frightened the animals and they promptly bolted east on Pennsylvania avenue in the direction of Ft. Wayne avenue. Kuchenbuck and his daughter were standing back of the soda water counter in the store. They were onlythree feet from the big show window. Both had their heads below the counter, cleaning glasses. Consequently they did not notice the approach of the maddened horses, who without warning, dashed into the window. With a crash the wagon tongue sent a shower of window glass in all directions, then ripped loose several boards at the side of the soda water counter. One horse went half way through the opening in the window. Mr. Kuchenbuck and Miss Kuchenbuck. frightened nearly out of their wits by the unexpected and sensational entrance of the team of horses, made a wild dash for a place of safety. "My daughter was nearest to the window when the crash came, bue when we stopped running she wa3 ahead of me," explained Kuchenbuck. to a police officer. As a result of the collision with the confectionery show window, both horses were slightly cut. One animal had a large piece of glass in his side, but it did not go entirely through the hide. The other horse was considerably cut about the neck and. head. BEATS MAN FOR GIVING ADVICE George Hort, Colored, Given Fine for Action. IT WAS A FINISH FIGHT. George Hort, colored, was fined $10 and costs this morning in the city court for assault and battery on his brother-in-law, Levi Nickens. Both men were employed at the local Panhandle shops. Nickens and two other colored men, test'fied that Iiort was drunk at the time and that when Nickens told him he should braca up and make a man of himself, Hort bocame angered and after a few words struck Nickens. Nickens did not retaliate until Hort struck him in the face, then Nickens assumed the aggressive and gave his brother-in-law a good beating. REPORT ON JTRUST FUNDS. Chas. G. Carpenter Shows Condition of Yearly Meeting Finances. A report has 'been filed with the county clerk which sets forth the financial conditions of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends. Tv report was made by Treasurer Charles C. Carpenter, and givs a complete ac-i count of all of the trust funds belong- j ing to the society.

FIERCE FIRE ADDS GLOOM

TO Now Eating Into the Bowels of Mine Wherein It Is Estimated Four Hundred Men Paid Price of Their Occupation. HEALTH AUTHORITIES AND MINE OFFICERS IN CLASH. Adds Deeper Sorrow to Bereaved Women Who Still Await News of Their Loved Ones in Awful Hell Pit. DISPUTE OVER BURIAL. BLACK DAMP IS INTERFERING MUCH WITH WORK OF RESCUING PARTIES WHO ARE LABOR ING DAY AND NIGHT. Monongah. W. Va., Dec. ?. With only forty-three bodies of dead miners actually removed from the wrecked mine of the Consolidated Coal company, fire, which broke out Sunday morning, but is now under control. The heartrending work of bringing the charred bodies out df the hell hole was resumed to day. In addition to bodies in the mines, fifteen were found dead on the outside, which leaves O'JS bodies still in the mines. Health authorities and the mine officers are now in a clash. The health board wants lo bury the dead bodies in a trench without identification, while on the other hand, the mine officials wish to tun tue mover to friends. This argument between the two interested parties is doing much to increase the sorrow it the immediate families of the dead miners. It too, is delaying the work of rescuing parties. Worked Ail Night. All through last night the work of recovering the men entombed in the mines here went steadily forward, hhift followed shift into the black opening of the man-ways, and shift after shift dragged themselves into the fresh air, reeling and exhausted. These, as they appeared were forced into the temporary hospitals, but they refused to take rest. Iast night they took out two bodies from No. s. Tonight they will take out, many more dead who have alreadybeen dug out of the wreckage and are lying along the catacombs ready for removal. The authorities of the mines believe that it is best to postpone the removal of the bodies until after nightfall in order to avoid the demonbtrations of the grief -stricken crowd. May Take Three Weeks. Every hour the probability grows that it will require at least three weeks to bring the last of the dead miners to the surface. This morning a gaunt old miner named John Morgan came staggering out of the hole at No. 8, gasping for breath. He was noted for his bravery. He had been a miner all his life, and his face was shot blue with oil burns from the blasting. "I have been back a mile and a half." he said. "I went in as long as I could get any air. I had to crawl out with ray mouth to the ground to get breath. There is no hope. They are all dead. The yare at least two miles in." Outside the crowd, gazing over the sunny hills, measured a mile and a half with their eyes. "Why, it must be away over there," said one, indicating ti.e far-off sky Ifne. Yes, just beyond that sky line there were hills and hills outside the range of vision under which the dead were lying in hundreds. The deadly black damp binders the work of rescue quite as much as the broken rock and timbers. It is this which most exhausts the men. "Here and there among the debris were groups of twinkling lights, the lamps of the dead miners. As the dawn brightened the. car tracks became black with moving processions of people, which halted and bunched around the mine. The hammers of a score nT men working on a temporary morgue rang out sharply. Cots, beddings, blankets and stretchers were stacked here and there. Special officers kept the crowd beyond a barbed-wire barricade. Suddenly out of the lark mouth of the slope came one of the night shifts, a dozen men in all. roped together like steers. Their faces were black and gleaming with sweat. Their eyes rolled whitely. The leader seemed strong enough, but number 4 staggered and hung to his rope. The last man out. a huge Norwegian cursed savagely. "No use." he said. "it's hell in there. What's the use anyway. The mine is on fire, look." Scenes Heartrending. Heartrending scenes crowded fast one upon the other in this sorely afflicted mining community today. Funeral processions were in sight in all

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