Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 308, 20 December 1907 — Page 1

MOOT P AIX ABIUM u AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXII. NO. 308. RICII3IOXD, IND.. FRIDAY EVENING, DECE3IIJER 20, t0O7. SINGLE COPY, S CENTS.

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CARRYING HALF-STARVED BABY, ft MOTHER APPEALS TELLS OF SUFFERING SURROUNDING HOME IN NORTH RICHMOND WHERE HUSBAND AND BROTHER, THE ONLY SUPPORT, IS ILL.

IS 0W FRETTING HIS LIFE AWAY BECAUSE OF NEED Mrs. Candler Supplied the Family With Necessities of Life, After She Had Investigated Conditions. HUDDLED TOGETHER TO KEEP BODIES WARM. V Unfortunate Situation Found In Home in Fairview Where Poverty Ruled, by Officers Called to Investigate. PALLADIUM FUND GROWS. More Than One Hundred Dollars Were Reported Thursday and Today Donations Were Continued. A sickly, emaciated young woman, carrying a thinly clad baby, entered tho office of the Associated Charities on South Fifth street Thursday and told a story of suffering that Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, city missionary, states is one of the most pitiful she lias heard in her long career as a charitable worker. Tho woman said that she and her little one wore living in the north end of town with her brother and his family, which consisted of the wife and two children. The woman stated that her husband had deserted her. Her brother, she said, had been out of employment for some time and that ic- . cently ho was taken ill and is now confined to his bed threatened with pneumonia. Tho woman also told Mrs. Candler that her sister-in-law was ill and confined to a bed. "The two little children are scantly clad and arc " unable to leave the house, because they have no shoes. The house is cold. My brother is penniless, helpless and so discouraged that he Is fretting his life away." said the young woman, looking pathetically at her half starved infant. Mrs. Candler seut shoes, clothing, medicine, fuel and food to this house of gloom. The Associated Charities will have to care for this unfortunate family for pome time and it takes money to do this kind of work. Huddled Together for Warmth. Over in Fairview, there is a family which Thursday morning used the last article of food in the house and burned Its last piece of coal. When Mrs. Candler and Township Trustee Potter called there., the woman and her little ones, were found huddled together in an effort to keen the sting of the cold out of their bodies. The man of the "house was not thorn. "He has gone out to thejeountry to see if he can't pet a job chopping wood. He has been unable to find employment in the city", said the woman. These examples of suffering are given in answer to a charge made Thursday by a Main street merchant, that the Palladium ws wrong in attempting to raise a charitable fund because there were no worthy poor in this city who were in actual want. Mrs. Candler Busy. In the face of his statement. Mrs. Candler says that Thursday from early morning until nearly two o'clock in the afternoon, she spent her time calling at the homes of worthy poor people who live In every section of the city. It can be said without exaggeration, that Mrs. Candler is the busiest woman in Richmond. If it is believed that the tales of suffering related in the columns of this paper are "hot air", for the purpose of advertising the Palladium and stiring up maudlin sympathy in the hearts of its readers, one has only to visit the headquarters of the Associated Charities on South Fifth street. Every day respectable, hard working people, swallowing their pride from sheer necessity, go to that little building and with drooping heads ask for charity. One can teU by the actions of these supplicants that they have never before begged of charity and that this time they have brought themselves to do so. only after a hard fight with their pride. Contributions Coming In. The Palladium hopes to at least raise a fund of f 1,000. Over $100 and

WORTHY OF EMULATION:

The first day of our campaign or adftltiona.1 funds for the Associated Charities has born fruit in the most encouraging manner. Over one hundred dollars was subscribed yesterday for the cause of relieving the hard lot of the worthy poor in our city. Among the contributors yesterday was a little boy named Leslie Sinex. Leslie came into the Palladium office shortly after the noon hour and said. "Here's fifty cents to help the suffering poor and I earned it all myself. ' Questioning the young lad, brought out that he earned fifty cents every two weeks for carrying a working man's dinner to him at one of the local shops. This young boy's spirit of self sacrifice is worthy of emulation by much older men. A suggestion was made to us yesterday which we feel it would be well to place before our readers. Many of us have clothing stored away in chests and wardrobes that we have no further use for. Why not- sort over this old clothing and send wlwt is not necessary for further personal use to the Associated Charities V This will provide the association with clothing in plenty to supply those who are unable to obtain sufficient protection from the cold, raw weather we are now experiencing. . EDITOR PALLADIUM. CONTRIBUTIONS. Palladium $ 'J."i Item A. Kutche " G. 11 - 0. O. K 11. M 1 12. W 1 It. H 1 J. II. Shallengurg 1 V UP 1 Cash r C. L 1 V. L 1 Mrs. M. O. N 1 CM 1 F. D. W . 1 V M T 1 Id. , X . .. . ........a...... .L II. F. 1 Subscriber L' 11. F. Matt is Leslie Sinex J. II. C 1. 11. II J. V. It W. A. Dunham 1 A Friend Friend " Local Prudential Force H. H. I o Cash Cash 1 M. 11. W 2 P.. C. C. .VSt. L. shop employes 14 jthe following saloon keepers have raised one hunderd dollars: Ed H. Koser. Geo. L. Klein. Dan Galvia, Alf Collett, Louis Knopf, Gus Kennepohl, Ed Muey, Albert Stauber. Fred Urokamp. H. P. Miller, Jesse Sehultz. Harry Minck. A. W. miekwedel, Joseph P. Uiff, Ed Cutter, J. H. Schell. Geo. Pille, Mat Miller. Louis Muth, John Steele, Clem Hec.iv, Ben Bowing .... 100 H M oo CO 4lO X m on K H OO OO no on TiO r.n r.o jr. -.'." no rn On '27 (K) (to r.o oo Total 2.S! L" J. H. C. and family Clothing Zwissler's Bakery and Helpers 30 loaves of bread Charles Feltman.. . ," pairs boys' shoes O. H. Little One ton coal E. K Overcoat Hoosier Store Box full of children's winter caps, shoes, overshoes. several acceptable contributions, such as coal and bread, were received Thursday. All today contributions have been received, showing that the Palladium knew what it was doing when it appealed to its readers on behalf of worthy charity. Dr. E. Simmons has offered medical services free of charge to any worthy poor person appealing to him. BLIND MM RECEIVES DEGREE FROM CHICAGO Clark, Sightless, Graduated Next to Head of Class. GOT BACHELOR'S DEGREE. Chicago, Dec. 20. George R. Clark, blind from birth, received his degree of A. IJ. from the University of Chicago last night, after a college life filled with remarkable experiences. He was tha first blind student who ever received a bachelor's degree from the university. Though his college life was beset by many difficulties, when graduated he stood next to the head of his class, lie also found time to perfect himself in telegraphy and type writing.

PEHHSYLVAKIA WILL PAY SCHEPMAN BIG

OF $14, Appellate Court in Indianapolis Rules in Favor of Original Decision of Circuit Court to Award Tailor Damages. FELL BETWEEN TRAIN AND LIMB WAS SEVERED. Two Important Rulings Were Handed Down by the Higher Court Which Mean Much in Railroad Operation. George Schepman, a well known loGl tailor, will as a result of a decision rendered Thursday by the Appellate court, receive $14,000 from the P., C. C. & St. L. railroad company as the amount of damages awarded him by the Henry circuit court and interest upon the same. In making this decision the appellate court establishes two important rulings. One is that a railroad cornpan violates the law by p.aeing unvestibuled cars on trains advertised to the public as solid vestibuled trains. The other ruling is that there is a violation of the law when a railroad company in making up a train, places a combination car, mail car or baggage car back of a passenger coach. In February, l!nr, Mr. Schepman boarded a P., C. C. & St. L. train at Indianapolis for passage to this city. The train had been advertised as solidly vestibuled. In the rear of one of the passenger coaches was a combination car consisting of a baggage compartment and a smoking compartment. While the train was near the Indianapolis belt line, and running at a good rate of speed, Mr. Schepmaii ieft the day coach to go to the smoking compartment. As he stepped on the platform of the combination car, which had no vestibule or side rails, he lost his balance and fell through the open Fpace between the two cars and had his right leg cut off. ' Mr. Schepman, through his attorneys, Shlveley and Shiveley. filed sutft in the Wayne circut court for $50,000 damages. The case was taken to the Henry circuit court on a change of venue. It was heard there in the spring of IIX;, and the jury awarded Schepman $12,500 damages. This decision was appealed to the appellate court. While the rase has been pending before the appellate court, Mr. Schepman has ben drawing interest on the amount of damages awarded him at the rate of six per cent. In consequence the railroad company is now indebted to him about $14,000. The following is the ruling made by the appellate court in the Schepman case: 6043. P., C., C. & St. L. Railway company vs. Schepman. Henry C. C. Affirmed per curiam. (1) Under Section 5101, Burns, 190.1, and in view of the ordinary operation of passenger trains, was clearly negligence for the railroad to couple the "blind" end of a combination baggage and smoking car, on which there was no platform, to the rear end of a vestibule car, leaving a space between the cars through which a passenger fell in passing from car. to car. (2) No contributing negligence is necessarily involved in attempting to pass from one car to another on a vestibule train when the car is in motion, after night. BOWMAN WILL HAVE NO When Republican Committee Reorganizes, He Will Be Chosen Chairman. WARFEL FOR SECRETARY. NEWSPAPER MAN WILL BE SECRETARYA. M. GARDNER ASPIRES TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND MAY BE NOMINATED. When the republican county central committee meets and reorganizes in January, there will be no opposition to the election of Louis Bowman, trustee of Jefferson township, as chairman and the election of Edward F. Warfel as secretary. A. M. Gardner, who for several years has rendered his party most valuable services in the capacity of county cnairman. is not a candidate for reelection to this office. Mr. Gardner aspires to be joint representative from Wayne and Fayette counties to succeed Richard Elliott of Connersville. Mrs. E. W. Williams, of St. Paul appeared in a case before the supreme court of Minnesota the other day. She i la the first woman lawyer to plead before that body.

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REMOVES EYEGLASSES TO RECEIVE BLOW

Accepts Contractor's Invitation With Bad Result. DID NOT STRIKE BACK. Indianapois, Ind., Dec. 20. An invitation to tawe off his spectacles and be hit in the face was accepted with crashing results by Charles W. Moores president of the board of school commissioners and United States commissioner for this district today on the third floor of the court house. William F. Nugent, a contractor, extended the invitation, and when it as accepted by Mr. Moores he hit him a stiff blow in the face and would have followed it up by another had not bystanders Interfered. Mr. Moores did not strike back. JAPAN IS FOR PEACE CLAIMS SECY. TAFT WHO IS NOW HOME Big Secretary Says Appearances Show This Sentiment of Slant Eyed People, But Would Go no Further. TRIP OF NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE HE CLAIMS One of the Chief Reasons Was To Investigate the Workings of Administration Policies in Philippines. New York, Dec. 20 Secretary Wm. Taft and party arrived in quarantine on the President Grant at ten o'clock this morning. Secretary Taft was well arid fating1 fine after his 120 days' trip around the world. He took the one o'clock train for Washington. He was interviewed by Hearst news service. Of the burning question of politics he said he was not well informed. Of all other matters he was most willing to talk. Taft places most importance of his great tour, on his visit to Philippines. It was to observe the results of the administration policies in the islands, he says, that the trip was made. Taft declared "Everything and everybody is in favor of peace in Japan. The people are friendly toward us. The exports of Japan to this country are a powerful peace factor." He said appearances throughout Japan favor j continued peace. There he halted, j It was plainly evident that he could i have no desire to go beyond appear ances. He told of his trip through Russia and his visit to the Car. All were of. no political significance, he claimed. MISS ETHEL IS Persistent Rumors Have It That It Is True. BANKER'S SON FAVORED. New York, Dec. 20. A Washington dispatch Bays: A big Christmas tree will be erected at the White House, and Miss Ethel will give a dinner party to a few young friends on Christmas Eve. Mrs. Longworth's illness came upon her just as she was about to do her Christmas shopping, and yesterday and today the physician allowed her to choose gifts for her friends from selections sent up at her reauest from several of the shops of the city. Today she said: "It's too terribly provoking to have appendicitis just at a time when it comes most inconveniently. I am glad that little trouble-maker has been removed, for it can nver again interfere with my Christmas shopping." Washington is interested in the persistent rumor that Miss Ethel, who will be given a ball on the 3rd of January, which will be in reality her informal coming out party, is engaged to young Charles Glover, the son of President Glover, of the Riggs bank. Another devoted swain in the train of the daughter of the White House is Captain McCoy, one of the president's military aides, and usher in the White House. It is said that he is looked upon with favor by the presidentTHE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Friday and Saturday, increasing cloudiness; probably rain In extreme south portion. OHIO Fair Friday and Saturday.

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SHORT VACATION DOT POPULAR WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN

After Adjourning Today the Richmond City Schools Will Reconvene December 30 New Years Day Off. EARLHAM GETS LONG PERIOD OF REST. Quaker Students Will Not Take Up Studies Again Until January 6 Many Are Leaving For Their Homes. This was the last day of school before the holidays, and it is safe to state that none of the scholars left the drudgery of the school room with any regret. It is also safe to assert that not many children now-a-days take much stock in that "delightful" little story in the school reader about "the little boy who so loved his dear teacher, that he didn't want to leave school and his precious books, for nothing more than a week's vacation at the holidays just to eat turkey and pie and candy.' In fact most of the scholars are complaining already about the shortness of the Christmas vacation. There will be but nine days vacation and of that number only five are regular school days. School will re-convene on Monday, December 30, continue over Tuesday, 31 and then dismiss for New Years day, resuming again on the second of January. It is thought by most of the children and many of the parents that there is little use of convening school for the two days previous to New Years. One father said this morning, "This thing of holding school for two days preceding New Years day is useless. As for my children, I think they are entitled to those two days to add to their holidays and I shall leave it to their wishes whether they go or not." EARLHAM STUDENTS LEAVING. School Will Not Convene Again Until January 6. Today at Earlham college, the last of the final examinations were held for tho fall term of school and the students are returning to their homes in large numbers to spend the holidays. Those who did not "flunk" will spend the holidays in happy anticipation of the next term. The vacation will be longer than usual, school not convening until the sixth of Jan. Among the Earlham students leaving for the holidays are Miss Edna Trueblood, and Miss Miriam Furnas who will return to their home at Indianapolis; Miss Edith Stout who will go to her home at Paoli, Ind.; Miss Dorothy Quimby, of Philadelphia will go to Martinsville, Ind.. to vis't the Misses Horace Marshall and Twonette Nutter former Earlham students. Miss Alice Quimby, of Philadelphia will be the guest of Miss Martha Meyne, of Hamlin, Ind. Miss Helen Carter has returned to her home at Plainfield. Ind.; Mis Anna Hinson and Mr. Byron Huff have returned to their homes at Martinsville and Miss Ada Binford who has returned to her home at Knightstown. Ind. HOUSE BOBBED AT Purse Containing a Hundred Dollars Confiscated. ENTERED THE HOUSE. j Hagerstown. Ind.. Dec. 2. A Pockit 'book containing $1)0 was taken fi'om a bureau drawer in the house of Charles SmLa. living east of town, last Thursday. Mrs. Smith and daughter Opal had gone to town and Mr. Smith had taken his gun and gone hunting. : The theft occurred during their absence and is thought to have been done by someone who was acquainted with the house. No one was seen by neighbors to enter or leave the house, but from unmistakable signs it is bejlieved the burglar entered by way of tne cellar door. SHOPPERS WERE HERE Twenty-three North Countians Visit the City. Twenty-three persons came from Fountain City to Richmond this morning to do their Christmas shopping.

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Disastrous Year in Mining History

In the number of lives lost in mining operations the year 1907 has been thtf most Jisasterous on record. Up to lec. 19 the list of deaths by mine accideuts stands at 2,374. Deaths in mine disasters in 1906, when 1.219 were killed iu one accident at Courrieres, France, totaled 1,600. Since 1S56 the average number of deaths by accidents in mines has been 1,000 a year. The years in which the average has been exceeded by over 100 have been 1878, when 1.413 miners were killed; 1SS, with a death list of 1.110 and 1901, with 1.131 deaths. Safety appliances have not kept pace with the increase in the number of miners employed, which has raised- the liability of lari;e death lists in single disasters. Following is a list of mining accidents and the lives each cost since January, 1907: Number of deaths. Jan. 14 Clinton. Ind S Jan. 2?, Primero. Colo 20 Jan. 24 Florentz. W. Ya. ... 11 Jan. 2S Staarbrucken. Ger.. 14S Jan. 29 Stuart. W. Va 91 Feb. 4 El kins, W. Va 3S Feb. S Wanamie, Pa 7 Feb. 12 Hakhmuth, Russia... 40 Feb. IS La Esperanda, Mex.. 123 Mar. 16 Kleinroschen, Ger... 75 Mar. 17 Saar Louis, Ger 22 Mar. 29 Diesfontein, S. A M April 14 Elore, Mexico 14 May 2 Charleston, W. Va... 11 May 3 Black Diamond, Wash 6 May 6 Liege, Belgium IS May 12 Valadene, Mexico... 90 May 13 Marion, N. C 14 May 19 Johannesburg, S. A.. 18 May 19 Engleville. Colo 7 June IS Princeburg, Pa 7 July 11 Hazelton, Pa 7 July 22 Toyoka. Japan . . 470 Aug. 3 Boxbock. Prussia.... IS Aug. 20 Tsing Tau, China.. 112 Sept. 7 Coahulla. Mexico.... 7 Sept. 20 Negaunee, Mich.... 17 Oct. 4 Bolton. England 9 Nov. 11 Raubaud, France .. 7 Dec. 1 Fayette City. Pa 30 Dec. 6 Monongah. W. Va 400 Dec. 16 Yolande. Ala 7.1 Dec. 19 Connellsville, Pa 400 Only two mining disasters have occurred in which more men were killed than at Monongah and Connellsville. These are that at Courrieres, France, last year, with a death list of 1,219, and that at Toyoka, Japan, on July 22 of this year, when 470 miners met death. FEW AMERICAN SCHOLARS Owen Wister Jars Much SelfComplacency. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 20. The unvarnished statement of Owen Wister, Harvard, '82, that in scholarship this country is minus 100 per cent is the rudest shock this complacent center of learning has received in many years. The statement was made before a gathering of Harvard graduates and members of the faculty. Of the fortythree leaders in the colleges and universities of the world, he said, only three were Americans and no American university possessed one single teacher of undisputed pre-eminence. DEMOCRATS HAVE SCRIMMAGE IN HOUSE John Sharp Williams and DeArmond Mix It Up. WILLIAMS GETS "LICKED. Washington, December !. Immediately after the house adjourned Thursday, Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, a.ni Representative !&vls A. DeAxmond of Missouri, became engaged in a personal encounter on the floor of the house. The men closed in and dealt each other several blows. Friends rushed to separate the two men. Mr. Williams'3 face wa3 streaming with blood. PAGE FUNERAL 10 BE SATURDAY Will Be Held From Home of Dr. J. E. Taylor. ATTENDANCE TO BE LARGE. The funeral of Park Page, who died at Camden. O., will take place at one o'clock Saturday afternoon, at the home of Dr. J. E. Taylor, 30 South Tenth street. The Rev. W. M. Nelson will officiate. The funeral will probably be largely attended.

FAINT HOPE ENTERTAINED BI RESCUERS

Thought That All Men Caught In Darr Mine Explosion Were Trapped Like Rats And Life Extinguished. LATEST ESTIMATE PLACES LOSS OF LIFE AT 190. Rescuers Are Working Night And Day and the Big Fans Kept Constantly Going That Life May Be Sustained. OFFICIALS' STATEMENT. SAY IT IS WONDERFUL THAT THE FORCE OF EXPLOSION DID NOT EXTEND TO THREE OTHER MINES CONNECTED. Jacobs Creek, Pa., Dec. 20. It . faint hope that any of the two hundred miners, trapped in Darr mine are still living, but work is proceeding on the theory that some may be found in paces of safety. The faus used o force air into the mine are working. This gives some hope. The most reiable information paces the number in the mine at the time of the exposion, at one hundred and ninety, but there may be more. Thirteen mangled bodies have been recovered. If yesterday had not been a church holiday many more men would have been caught iu the explosion. Officials say it Is a miracle that the force of the explosion did not extend to the three other large mines connected with Darr mine. As the case at Monongah, the explosion followed a brief shutdown, the Darr mine having been closed Tuesday and Wednesday. It was just 11:.T o'clock, when the tenth trip of loaded cars had been brought out to the tipple and there came an awful rumbling sound, followed immediately by a loud report and a concussion that shook nearby buildings and was felt within a radius of several miles. At tho same time there came out of the mouth of the mine an immense cloud of dense smoke and dust that floated across the Youghiogheny river. Intuitively every one Iu the vicinity knew what had happened, and all ! started for the one place, the mouth of the mine. The. river separates the mine and homes of many miner b , that only a portion of those who started for the scene were able to reach It, there being scant facilities for crossling the stream. To those who could I not cross the water the smoke and dust pouring from the mine's mouth told a story of seething flames back in jthe workings and from this soree came : reports that were persistent until lato in the day that the mine was burning. The ventilating fans were kept in operation almost without Interrution, however, the power plant having withstood the force of the explosion, and up to this time the rescuers have found no fire any place in the mine. s far as known, only one man who went to work this morning escaped. Joseph Mapleton. a pumper, emerged from one of the side entries shortly after the explosion. V He had left the part of the mine where most of the men were working and was on the way to the engine room for oil. "I was in entry said he, "when I heard an awful rumbling. I started toward the entry, but the next instant I was blinded and for a little time I did not know anything. Then I got to the side entry and worked my way out." The main office of the company is in Pittsburg and Immediately upon receipt of the news of the explosion the , officers hurried to the mine and are' leading and directing the rescue work. About 1,50 feet from the mouth jf the mine a heavy fall of roof was encountered by the rescuers. It is believed that most of the men will be found nearly a mile and a half beyonl this point. How long it will require to remove enough of the fallen roof to make a passage to this remote workings can only be conjectured, as It depends upon how often these falls are -met with. It is hoped from the progress made up to this time, however, that the farther section will be reached early tomorrow. There are several side entrances through which it is expected some men will be reached. A remarkable feature of the disaster is the almost complete absence of the harrowing scenes usually enacted by women, friends and relatives of the victims on such occasions. Conditions preventing of easy access to the mouth of the mine are partly responsible for this and those in charge of the work are doinc evervthincr nossible jto keep the women and children away from the scene. The blacksmith chop has been fitted -up as a temporary morgue and a number of physicians are in waiting to render any services that may be required of them, '-.. J