Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 307, 19 December 1907 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXII. NO. 307.

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, DEC EM HER 10. 11)07.

SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS.

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AND

HUNGRY

CHILDREN

LAY SIDE BY SIDE IN BED

dfSlLY A RAGGED SHEET AND THIN BLANKET PROTECTS I THE LITTLE FORMS FROM THE COLD WHICH CREEPS INTO THE BARN-LIKE HOUSE.

HOLIDAY CANDY - TOJ COVERED State Food Commissioner Instructs Local Dealers.

WORKS MUCH HARDSHIP.

FATHER MUST NOW APPEALTO CHARITY FOR FIRST TIME

flo Fuel in the House and Furthermore No Provisions to Feed the Five Children and Anxious Mother.

UNWORTHY POOR WILL NOT RECEIVE AID FROM FUNDS.

Only Those Absolutely in Need Through Unfavorable Cir

cumstances Will Be Aided

By Associated Charities.

NO CHANCE TO DUPLICATE.

ASSOCIATED CHARITIES HAS

NAMES OF WORTHY POOR AND ALL CASES ARE INVESTIGATED BEFORE DONATIONS ARE MADE.

FAMILY IS STARVING: CHILDREN ARE ILL. Out in the north-eastern part of the city, there is a middle-aged man with a -wife and five children living in a Lara-like house. Three of the children are ill and confined to a narrow bed. The bed clothing for these little unfortunates consists of a ragged sheet and a thiu blanket.. The sick children occupy the only bed in the house. In tho kitchen sleeps the mother, father and the other two children. Their beds are the floor. At night they are covered by coffee sacks and two small blankets. In the kitchen there is a dilapidated stove, but there is no flro in it because the head of the family lias no money to buy fuel. Neither has he money to buy food or clothing. The head of this family is a man who has worked hard all of his life, but the expense of providing for his wife and little ones has made it impossible for him to save money and now that the hard times are here, he must appeal to charity or stand helplessly by and watch his loved ones suffer all the tortures of poverty in its most malignant form. There are other cases like- this in the city and it is to help these worthy unfortunates that the readers of the Palladium are asked to subscribe to a charity fund which is to be turned over to the Associated Charities.

ARE RESPONDING TO CALL

From the way the donations have started to come in, response to the Palladium's appeal tor aid for the Associated Charities, there is no doubt as to the generosity inherent in the citizens of Richmond and vicinity. Those who are fortunate possessors of a goodly supply of worldly goods, realize that to a certain extent it becomes"their duty in time of stress to help those who are less fortunate. The number of people in Richmond today who are worthy of and need aid is greater than it has been in years. Strong men might as well be but babes as far as their strength avails them in obtaining work. These men do not want charity they are willing to support their families by the sweat of their brows, but work is hapd to get now. When suffering San Francisco asked aid of us, Richmond responded by sending over $3,000 worth of clothing, food and money for the stricken city. What will Richmond now provide for her own suffering citizens? Surely as much, if not more than was sent to a suffering city over two thousand miles away.

Let a little of the Christmas cheer that will soon brighten many a home in Richmond, light up the

homes of those who have been look

ing forward to a cold, dreary and

liunerv dav next Wednesday. Iet

there be the means to provide cloth

ins: for the little children, women

and even men, who are all too scan

tily clad to face the cold blasts that make many of us draw our warm

overcoats closer. Let the empty

larders be restocked and empty coal

bins tilled. Your donation, wheth

or largo or small, will do its share

oward relieving the great suffering

now being undergone in this city

The poor are ashing for bread and

heat see that you do not give but

a stone. EDITOR PALLADIUM.

CONTRIBUTIONS.

Receives Congratulations. The Palladium has received numerous congratulations for the attempt the paper is makiug to raise a popular subscription for the benefit of the worthy poor of this city. There is no doubt but that a good sized fund will lie raised, as an appeal for charitable purposes has never yet fallen on deaf ears in this city. Township Trustee Charles Potter says that so far this winter, there have been more calls for assistance than any time since be has been in office. Mr. Potter says that people who have jievej before sought the charity of others, are now through sheer necessity, appealing for assistance. No Duplications. There is no danger that th6 money raised by the Palladium, which will each day be deposited at the Second National bank, to the account of the Associated Charities, will be used for the support of the unworthy poor. Through the council of associated charities, In which body every charitable organhation in the city has a representative, a list of people deserv

ing of assistance, has been compiled. The money the Palladium will raise by its popular subscription, will only be used to relieve the sufferings of the poor families included on this list. Through the systematic work of tho associated charities council, it is now no longer possible for a person undeserving of charitable assistance to receive aid by appealing to the sympathies of a charitable worker with a false tale of woe. An example of how charity workers were formerly "takenin" by this class of people is told by Trustee Potter. He states that two or three years ago a woman came to his office and was given a dollar to buy grt cedes, after she had told a most heartrending tale of suffering she and the members of her family had . experienced. A few "(Continued on page Nine.)

Palladium $ 25 H Item 25 00 A. Kutche :.: 00 a. n 2 oo O. O. K 2 OO If. M 1 E. W 1 00 R. H 1 00 J. II. Shallenburg 1 oo V. R. P 1 00 Cash 5 00 C. L 1 OO W. L. v. 1 00 Mrs. M . O. N 1 OO CM 1 00 F. 1). W 1 00 K M. P 1 OO R. F 1 OO Subscriber 2 00 U. F. Mattis 50 Leslie Sinex . . . . 50 J, II, C oO

Total SI 04 50 J. II. C. and family Clothing

Zwissler's Bakery and Helpers..

50 loaves of bread

Charles Felt man

.....5 pairs boys' shoes O. II. Little One ton of coal

H. E. Barnard, state food and dru

commissioner, has issued an order to Richmond candy dealers not to permit candies to remain in their store un

covered during the holiday season.

Several merchants wrote to Mr. Barnard saying that the delay in handling candy caused by taking it from covered show cases when the sales are

made, makes it almost impossible to take care of the holiday trade. Mr. Barnard, in reply, said that he had no

power to lift the order at a special time during the year, and that if it is necessary to keep the candy covered up in November it is also necessary to keep it covered up during the holidays.

FLAG OF ANARCHY WAVED 111 AIR III TOWN OF WEBSTER

Not Through Malice Toward Government or State, But to Bring C, C. & L. Trains To Halt at That Station.

BIRTH OP TWINS STOPS COURT ACTION

400

Pennsylvania Woman Failed to Appear as Witness.

THERE IS NOTHING BUT MALICE TOWARD RAILROAD

IEW ALLSTEEL CARS

Pennsy Will Inaugurate Them

January 1.

Pittsburg, Dec. 1!). More than 100

all-steel nassenjier cars will be in use

on the Pennsylvania between New

York and Philadelphia soon after Jan

uary 1st. The cars are being built at

the plant of the Pressed Steel Car company here, and are the first to replace the wooden equipment on any railroad.

After Donating Funds to Erect Station, C, C. & L. Has Up To Date Refused to Place Ticket Agent in Charge.

WAS THEN SENT FOR.

Shamokin. Pa., Dec. lO.-Failing 10 answer a court subpoena. Judge of the local court ordered the arrest of Mrs. Mary Yozorsky. The sheriff respond

ed, but found the woman in bed with I

new born twins. SLe was excused.

MEN

IMPERILED B! A

TERRIFIC MINE

EXPLOSION

DARR MINES OF PITTSBURG COAL COMPANY ARE THE LATEST TO ADD TO THE INCREASING LIST OF HORRIBLE MINE DISASTERS.

A CABHEGIE DOHAT10H Promises Connersville New Library Building.

WANTED C. C. & L. agent for the station recently erected at Webster at the cost or JR 1,000, which amount the residents of that place raised by popular subscription.

Connersville, Ind.. Dec. 10. Mayor Barows has received a letter from An

drew Carnegie, offering to set aside .?17,50o for a public library building. A few weeks ago Mr. Carnegie re-

BOLD ATTEMPT TO ROB EXPRESS

Train Carrying $60,000 Marked by Three Men.

WERE UNDERNEATH CAR.

Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 10 A bold at

tempt to rob the Buffalo Express which

fused to make a contribution for libra- (was carrying sixty thousand dollars in ry purposes in this city, saying that gold from the mint here for Buffalo,

LOCAL CLUB GIVEN HONOR BY SENATOR

JAS. A. HEME

WAV

Residents of the little town of Web

ster, when they deeded to the C, C & L railroad company a lot on which to erect a station, and then by popular

subscription raised $1,000 to meet the

the present quarters appeared to answer the purpose. Upon being better informed, he reconsidered his determination.

EMPLOYES PAID.

Richmond has paid to each of its employes a half month's salary.

cost of erecting this building, were con- j This is the city's Christmas present to

Will Introduce Parcels Post Resolutions Passedjjy the Commercial Club Before National Law Making Body.

SAYS THEY MEET HIS rEA OF THE SYSTEM.

He Is the First to Make Acknowledgment of Receipt of Resolutions Copies of Which Were Sent to Washington.

fident that their action would be appreciated by the railroad company. Today one can not find a Webster' who does not possess a deep rooted opinion that railroad corporations have no sense of appreciation. - The new station at Webster has been completed now over ten days, but up to the present time the railroad company has placed no agent in charge. In fact the C. C. and L. absolutely ignores the. existence of the attractive little depot. When a resident of Webster "wants to go to Richmond or elsewhere during the hours the sun shines, he walks to the agentless station, seizes a signal flag and waves frantically until the

approaching train comes to a stop.

After nightfall the Webster - traveler uses a red lantern to stop trains. It is just recently that the C. C. & L. conse M to stop its trains, or in fact allow them to even hesitate at Webster, signal or no signal. This action on the part of the C, C. & L. was the outgrowth of the refusal of the citizens cf Webster to appropriate subsidy to the railroad company, at the time the promoters of tne company first proposed to build the line through this county. When the residents of the little town of Webster voted to deed a lot and

the men who work for it.

YOUNG SWIYTHE IS

AT LARGE

M

Milton Lad Who Is Charged With Grand Larceny, Was Turned Loose.

was frustrated last night. Before the

train pulled out, three men were dis

covered under the express car. They

attempted escape but one was caught.

When arraigned this morning he gave

the name of Wm. II. Hewitt, of New

York. The men sawed a piece out of

the acetylene pipes with the idea to turn out the gas and rob the car while

in darkness.

MINE WORKERS CO.

ARE III SESSION

TROR

IS

RAGING BELL OF FIRE

Smoke Issuing From Shaft

House Tells of Flames Below.

RESCUE WORK IMPOSSIBLE.

ONE HUNDRED AMERICANS AND THREE HUNDRED HUNGARIANS PENNED UP IN RAGING INFERNO LITTLE HOPE OF SAVING ANY.

Meeting at Indianapolis Today Considers Old Agreement.

McConnellsville, Pa.. Dec. 19 A terrific explosion wrecked the Darr Mines of the Pittsburg Coal company on the Youghiagheny river eighteen miles from this city, at noon today. The explosion tore away the mouth of the shaft and destroyed the shaft house and machinery. An immense.

volume of smoko issued from tho

shaft indicating that fire was raging below. Of four hundred miners in the workings, one hundred are Americana

and the rest mostly Hungarians. Up to one o'clock it was impossible to do anything effective in the Hue of con

trolling the flames or rescuing the imprisoned men. Little hope Is held of any of the entombed men being taken out alive.

WAS ARRESTED TUESDAY.

BLUFFTON, IND. AUTHORITIES SAID THE YOUNG MAN STOLE A VALUABLE DIAMOND WHILE STAYING IN THAT CITY.

JOHN MITCHELL PRESIDING.

Lester Smythe, the young Milton man, arrested Tuesday morning at Connersville by Marshal Drischel, of Cambridge City, is at large, it is re-

Senator James A. Ilemmenway, of

raise money to build a station on it porieu m lucumouu. rui u... they thought that the railroad compa-', known reason the Connersville authorny would open its heart-but they "ies released Smythe after he had have been mistaken. The C, C. & L. j been placed in the jail by Marshal still bears malice. Perhaps in time Drischel. When the sheriff of Wells ti,a mr,9nv will mk whst.Pr a rsr- county, where Smythe was wanted for

Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. 19 The con

ference of United Mine Workers, Pres

ident Mitchell presiding, which is being attended by officials of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania is con

sidering the advisability of reviving

the old interstate agreement. A conference was held with operators this

afternoon.

MURDERS DOUBLED

DURING

NOVEMBER

1 1 J 1 A. 1 1, I

t Bof w fmm ular stopping place for accommodation stealing diamonds anu oeaung a uua.u Indiana, according to dispatches from PP bl arrived at connersville and de-

BUTTLE TALES TO BE TOLD

Men Who Fought in Battle of Stone River to Meet.

WILL BE HELD IN K0K0M0.

i Washington, will introduce in congress i

the resolutions recently passed against ithe parcels post by the Richmond Com- ! mercial club. He will ask the clerk to read the resolutions, which will be ; somewhat out of the ordinary, as usui ally they are referred to committees j without reading. His reason for ask- ; ing that the resolutions be read Is that he considers them the clearest and strongest presentation of the objec

tions to the parcels post that he has

yet seen.

Following the meeting of the Rich

mond Commercial club in which the resolutions in reference to the parcels post were passed, copies of them were forwarded to the Indiana members of

the national body. Senator Hemen-

way is the first to make acknowledgement of receipt of the resolutions and

he has done so in the following letter addressed to Edgar M. Haas, secretary of the Commercial club:

Washington, Dec. 16, 1907. E. M. Haas, Richmond, Ind. Dear Sir: I have yours enclosing

report of the committee of the Com

mdSSfeil club on the subject of parcels

post: The report is very gratifying to me, as it confirms my views on the

question and furnishes one

Local veterans who participated in the battle of Stone River, are looking forward with considerable anticipation to the reunion of veterans who fought in that heated fight. The reunion will be held at Kokomo, Jan. 2, and will be the eighth celebration by the survivors. The sessions will be held in the Christian church at Kokomo. The auditorium lias a seating capacity of some 1 .." people and it is the hope of the committee that as

many of the veterans attend as possible. Meals will be served in the same church for the benefit of those attending and in the evening a banquet will be held. A very Interesting program has been arranged, composed of ad

dresses by prominent men and narrations of war times. A number Richmond veterans expect to attend.

the station, seen.

but this remains to be

INSANE MAN DIES IN JAIL

Scott

Reynolds Peacefully Passed Away.

manded the custody of the young man.

he was greatly astonished to learn that the Connersville police had released him. For this action they were unable to give a satisfactory explanation. The Wells county sheriff and Connersville police officers started out to search for Smythe. but it is needless to f?y. the young man. after his tm-

! looked for release from jail, decided

tjat Connersville was too hot a place for him to make his headquarters, 60 he promptly vanished to parts unknown. Marshal Drischel says that after ai-

During That Month Thirteen

Lives Were Taken.

FAIRBANKS CLIQUE SHOWS ITS HAND

Delegates to National Conven tion Picked.

PERHAPS WILL BE RATIFIED

MORE MALE SUICIDES.

HELD FOR SAFE KEEPING.

MANY TRUANT HUSBANDS. Cincinnati, December 19 The Humane Society reports 2,600 cases of wife desertion here during the last year and will ask the Legislature for more power to deal with offending husbands.

arguments that I have heard against parcels post. I have always opposed this legislation, for the reason that I believe it would result in great detriment to the general business of the country and would also result in benefit to the large mail order houses of the cities. You can advise the members of your club that I shall use every honorable means to defeat the enactment of parcels post legislation. A ery truh'. J. A. 11EMENWAY.

Scott Reynolds, aged 57 years, died this morning in the county jail of a complication of diseases. Reynolds was insane and was placed in the county jail last June for safe keeping. Not

long ago an abscess formed on his

, i brain and burst. He became critically

ill and was placed by the sheriff in a private room on the second floor of

r 'the jail. This week he ssustamed a

ui uie test i , , .

paralysis

More men than women became tired of living in November, according to figures compiled by Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health. Vital statistics for Indiana for November show that there were twenty-six suicides in the State. 'Of this number nineteen were men and seven were women. In November of last year thirty-two persons committed suicide in Indiana.

Statistics for this November show a

Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 19 A Hut ot Indiana delegates to Republican national convention has been made up at the party headquarters here ami when the district conventions meet In February they will have only to ratify the selections. All are tried and true friends of Fairbanks. The delegates at large are Senators Hemenway und Heveridge, Governor Hanly and Chair man Goodrich.

i - it i 1 i l, I i . V,

resting muie ne pwceu mm m iubi , mw r.f nrri-

told the chief -

Connersville jail and

ot police that Smythe was wanted in Bluffton on a charge of grand larceny, and for him to hold Smythe until the arrival of the Wells county sheriff. Drischel says that after placing Smythe in jail, he notified the sheriff

ilntal deaths. In November. 13U

there were 137 accidental deaths and in November of the preceding year there were 143 accidental deaths. Of the accidental deaths last November cteam rnsiris rail sed thirtv and street

anil i ii i tru i uii.ii tdis tauoi u iti.

FERRARI'S TRAINER TORN TO PIECES

Sutton, Ferocious Lion, Killed Man While in Cage.

APPEARED IN RICHMOND.

Richmond, Va.. Dec. 19. Alfred

Clark, a trainer with Ferrari's animal

stroke of

and an abscess

(formed on his right lung. He gradu

ally lost vitality and this morninig peacefully passed awa aoout o o'clock. None of the members of his family were with him when the end came. Reynolds was a harmless old man.

Prior to being placed in the county jail he would wander away from his home and become lost. After being placed in jail he frequently got lost wandering about the corridors. Reynolds will be buried at Fountain City. He leaves a widow and two children.

SMITH ISJCOIIITTED He Was Charged With Second Degree Manslaughter.

New York, Dec 19 General Manager Smith of the New York Central railroad was acquitted on the charge of second degree manslaughter, for the death of twenty-tbreo persons la a wreck last February.

of ells county of Smythe s arrest and -,,,0r- iqo th number of deaths . w j w t- . . . . f November, iub. tne number oi u dms Show, was attacked by Sutton, a ferotold him to come to Connersville 3t . t v-m rnadi wa? fortv-one and . ,. ... , t. due to steam roaas was ion une mu j ln Jt8 cage an(i Clark waa

once to secure the young man. The 'ells county official, when he returned

to Bluffton, was man.

a highly indignant

FORAKER WILL BOON RED

EIRE

Consul Walter C. Hamm, of Hull. England, says: "Among the 23.00O or more ships that have entered the number river ports during the last seven years, there has been but one ship of American register. This was the bark Homeward Bound from San Francisco loaded with barley, which reached Hull in March, 1CX6." No more striking evidence than this can probably be given of the decadence of the American marine.

THE WEATHER PROPHEI INDIANA &. OHIO Fair Thursday and Friday.

Will Make His First Presidential Speech.

ROOSEVELT TO BE SLAPPED

Cleveland, O., Dec. 19. Before the national convention of the Merchants' Marine league here next Saturday, Senator Foraker will make his first speech since he announced his presi

dential candidacy. The senator's sup

porters have been notified to' have red fire handy as something will be doing. He is expected to make a few pointed remarks on Roosevelt-Taft policies.

About the first ship subsidy ever mown was that given by Isabella and

Ferdinand of Suain, to Columbus when he sailed west for the Indies and dis

covered America.

thf number due to interurban roaas

and street cars was four.

Twice as Many Murders. There were almost twice as many

murderers during November of this

year as during the same month last year, the number of murders for the two months respectively being thirteen and seven. Of those who were murdered ten were men and three

were women. Seven men and two

women who were murdered, died from

gunshot wounds. One man s throat was cut and three men were killed byblows on the head.

SCENT THROUGH MAILS

literally torn to pieces. The animal was shot in the head fifteen times before it was subdued.

Clark appeared in Richmond with the Ferrari animal show several yeara ago. and is remembered here for Lii unusual bravery.

HATLESS HABIT CAUSES EPIDEMIC

Toledo, 0., Postoffice Was Put Out of Business.

Toledo, Dec. 10. A skunk tide sent through the mails as a registered pack

age from Benson. Mich., to Cincinnati

College Students in East, II! With Grip.

WELLESLEY IS AFFECTED.

Boston. Mass., Dec. 19. An epidemio of grip throughout New England Is r suiting in a high death, rate, more than 150 deaths being due to this and to

nearly put the local postoffice out of ' pneumonia in Boston this week, business early today. The night j About 20O Wellesley college girls are watchman turned in a fire alarm, j in charge of physicians, and ninetythinking that the odor came from a : four Smith college girls Lave been sent smoldering fire among some debris la home UL At Harvard university e basement. Candles were burned lo thirty-four cases are reported at tha combat the odor, but without effect. Stillman Infirmary. The college fad

The pelt was forwarded to Cincinnati without special Instructions regarding its care.

of going hatless and coatless is blamed for the wholesale sickness at Welles ley,