Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 309, 21 December 1907 — Page 1
RICHMOND PALLADIUM H A AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXII. NO. :joi. RICHMOND, IXD.. SATURDAY EVENING, DECE31I5KK 21. lJMU. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS.
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HEARTS OF CITIZENS HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY CONDITIONS HEART ACHES AND DISTRESS ARE RAPIDLY BEING ALLEVIATED BY FUNDS WHICH ARE BEING DONATED TO CAUSE OF POOR WHO ARE IN NEED.
PRETTY GIRLS IN POSTERS SHOULD BE RULED AGAINST MELLOW REFRAIN. "UPS-LIGHTS COT" WILL KOI BE HEARD MEN OF AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND
OLD MAN MADE LONG THIP THROUGH SHOW STORM TO AID WORK
Farmer Residing Near New Paris, 0., Brought to the mi... ri . r n 1 I
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Clothing and Supplies. MANY TO BE CARED FOR BY CHARITABLY INCLINED. Daily at the Rooms of the Associated Charities Tales of Poverty and Distress Are Heard by City Missionary. MANY SUPPLIES DONATED. SHOE STORES AND COAL MERCHANTS GIVING TOWARD WORK OF TAKING CHRISTMAS CHEER INTO MANY HOMES. "I am a farmer living near New Paris. I have read in the Palladium that a mini her of worthy people in this city are in need owing to lack of employment. I want to do what I can to relieve this Suffering." said an aged man Friday as ho stood In tho editorial room of the Palladium. This farmer was told of a certain family living Jn the north end of the city which was. in dire need of assistance. Without wasting any time ho went to the home of this family, where he told them that he would at ones? bring some warm bed clothing and wearing apparel. This old man in a snow storm drove all the way to Richmond for the purpose of extending his charity to some unfortunate. The efforts of tho Palladium to stimulate interest among its readers in behalf of the worthy poor, have met with the most gratifying success. All day Friday the telephones in the Palladium office rang and neonle kept members of the reportorial staff busy inquiring the names of poor people who deserved charity. All those who made such inquiries v ere referred to Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, at the headquarters of tho Associated Charities, South Fifth street. Friday afternoon the Palladium took much clothing, wh'ch had been left at the Palladium offices during the day. to the Associated Charities headquarters. When the motor-phaeton arrived there the rooms were found to be well fPUd with neople. The sight of the clothing deposited in the office 'of the headquarters made the eyes of all bright ?n. The burden of all the statements made by most supplicants, of Mrs. Candler Friday was no food or coal in the home, the husband, father and elder brother out of employment. Many told of sickness and lack of Vroper medical attention. CONTRIBUTIONS. Palladium s;,l oo Item -J5 (o A. Kutche ;;o O. It - Oo 0. O. K - on H. M 1 E. W 1 oo It. H 1 n J. H. Shallengurg 1 (m W. R. P 1 o Cash r on C. 1 1 oo W. L 1 oo Mrs. M. O. X 1 On CM 1 on F. D. W 1 on K. M. P 1 OO It. F 1 rt Subscriber '2 0 U. F. Matt is .v Leslie Sinex . Jf . I J . L. . 1. ii. ii J. . W. R -T W. A. Dunham 1 m A Friend ro Friend , Ixx-al Prudential Force f oo II. II. I o K Cash LCash ' 1 oo M. H. W. .. '2 oo P., C. C. & SL L. shop employes 14 oO The following saloon Keepers have raised one hundred dollars: Ed H. Roser, Geo. L. Klein. Dan Galvin. A If Collett, Louis Knopf, Gus Kennepohl, Ed Muey, Albert Btauber, Fred Brokami II. P.
Miller. Jesse Kchultz, Harry Minck. A. W. Blickwedel. Joseph P. Ilift', Ed Cutter. J. VI. Scholl, Oo. I'ille. Mat Miller,
Louis Muth. John Steele. Clem Hfi'a, Ben Bowing . ... J. E. Brown A. Header W. F. L E. F J. M. K 100 oo 1 1 oo 1 oo 2 JO 1 no r oo 1 oo j oo j, oo r 'o 1 on 1 OO 1 no o oO Good Cheer Club 11. U M. Cash Vivian Donthit . !J. C. E n. u h J. Q Richmond Baking Co Total sl';.s ': J. H. C. and family Clothing Zwissler's Eakery and Helpers .o loaves of bread Charles Feltmau... i pairs boys' shoes O. If. Little One ton coal E. K Overcoat Hoosier Store Box full of children's winter caps, shoes, overshoes. A. Harsh Coal A: Supply Company.. One ton coal Richmond Baking Company loo Bread checks Cunningham V Lahrman lo pairs of shoes OUT FULL PROGRAM All Department Appropriations Will Be Cut to the Lowest Figure. SAVE UNCLE SAM'S CASH. ACCORDING TO OUTLINED PROGRAM CURRENCY REFORM WILL BE THE LEADING QUESTION TO CONSIDER. Washington, Dec. L'O. The republican leaders in congress have had their heads together and they now have a pretty general idea as to the legislative program for this session of congress. Their decision may be summed up as follows: A currency bill will represent the only general legislation of the session. Appropriations will bo sealed down to the lowest possible figure. The legislative body will not commit itself hastily to projects which will call for a large expenditure of money in the future. The work of the session will be so shaped as to make it possible to adjourn early in Mai. There is small prospect of enacting a currency law early in the new year. Adjournment will be taken next Saturday until the first week iu January and it is not planned to give any serious thought to currency legislation until after the holidays. The leaders say a bill may possibiv be introduced soon after the reassembling of the body, but there are indications that senators and representatives will wish to debate the subject at leugth, and it will not be a surprise if the talk runs unchecked until March or April. FIVE MILES OFF SIRE Standard Oil Loads Lighters To Evade State. Galveston, Texas. Dec. 20 Rather than risk its costly floating plants within the jurisdiction of Teaa wMin extends three miles into the gulf, the Standard Oil Company is loading eight of its big vessels five miles off shore from Port Arthur, taking on crude and refined oil cargoes for export. The oil is carried out in lighters, and this very hazardous service is costing the company $2,000 a day. or 850.000 a month. The Security Oil Company is charged with being a trust concern and is enjoined from removing any of its property from the state. . The Standard has big contracts with the Security for oil and is afraid that if its vessels get within the jurisdiction ; of the state they will bo seized. THE WEATHER PROPHET INDIANA Fair Saturday and Sunday; fresh west winds. (.OHIO Cloudy Saturday and Sunday,
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Members of West Side Improvement Association Do Not Take Kindly to Display Of AnkJes on Bill Boards.
SUCH ADVERTISING SAID TO BE DEMORALIZING. Association Also Takes Action In Reference to Proposed Sale of Light Plant, Sustaining Committee. Firmly believing that bill board advertising, particularly that of show advertising, which displays chorus girls in negugee attire, is detrimental to the public in more ways than one, the West Side Improvement association at its meeting Friday night, drew up resolutions against the practice in Richmond. Although the show girl feature of bill board advertising is not mentioned in the resolutions adopted, President Heironimus, of the association ,sald today, that this was one of the chief features discussed before it was decided to place 'he stamp of disapproval upon such methods of advertising. In t he discussion on the subject at the association meeting, the sentiment reflected was that many of the posters used, which displayed the dainty ankles of chorus women, or furthermore those which showed their entire tighted forms, was demoralizing to the younger generations. The following is the resolution adopted by the association on the subject: Whereas, Advertising bill boards are not only a blot on the beauty of any landscape, but are also a menace to morals, cleanliness, safety and sanitary conditions generally, therefore Resolved, That the West Richmond Improvement Association regards with decided disfavor, any such medium for advertising, and stands ready to co-operate most vigorously with any legitimate efforts to abate or abolish this prevalent nuisance. The association expressed satisfaction at the progress in street repair work, and the outlook for the erection of a viaduct at the Panhandle crossing at Northwest Second street. It was the opinion of members of the association that the city light plant should not be sold to the Light, Heat and Power company, and the action of the council committee on contracts and franchises and the board of public
works in advocating the retention oJt s Quite Probable That Adair
tae municipal plant was approved. WITH LOVERS ARMS ABOUT HER, TEACHER DIES Young School Mistress Drank Carbolic Acid. WAS FAILURE SHE SAID. Huntington, Ind., Dec. 21. Mabel Burwell, 20 years of age, and a teacher in a country school north of here, committed suicide this afternoon just after she had dismissed school and after all the children had left the school building. Her lover, Riley Crider, was the first to discover the girl, and she died while he held her in his arms trying to revive her. A note on the teacher's desk stated that she had taken her own life because she thought herself a failure as a teacher and she .wanted to give up her place to another and more efficient person. PRESIDENT PAYS a COMPLIMENT TO CHURCH A. McLean Says Missionary Rally Most Successful. LARGE SUM FOR MISSIONS. Fnusual interest centered in the missionary rally that was held at the First Christian church Friday, the principal address being delivered by the Rev. A. McLean, president of the foreign missionary work of the church. The address was along general lines of missionary work in the church and was of an educational nature. In the course of his remarks he stated that the rally held here was the best that he had attended recently. As a slogan for the Christian mission board next year, the watch-word will be. "$300,000 for Foreign Missions." ! The following advertisement appears! in a London journaS: "M. N. O. Be original. Drowning unpleasant this
time of year. When sensible you maylone hundred G. A. R. r.osts in various
call at S6.-SIS."
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ADAIR EXPLAINS HIS PENSION BILL AND IS ENDORSED Sol Meredith Post Favors the Pension Measures Now Pendina Before the National Congress. WIDOWS WILL RECEIVE BENEFITS AS WISHED. Bill Will Be Enacted Into a Law As It Has Received Almost Universal Indorsement After first rejecting the Adair bill providing for pensions for widows of Civil and Mexican war veterans the Sol Meredith post, G. A. R., of this city, reconsidered this action and voted to approve of the bill after a letter of explanation from Congressman J. A. M. Adair, father of the bill, had been received. When Congressman Adair first submitted his bill to i he Sol Meredith post for its approval, the local veterans opposed it on the ground that the existing laws in regard to widows' pensions were unsatisfactory and that the Adair bill did not improve upon these laws. In his letter which was read to the members of the post Thursday night, Mr. Adair makes the following statement in defense of his bill. "Section two of my bill bars none and allows those who are now receiving; those who Have claims pending and tnose entitled to a pension, to apply and procure the amount for which you ask, $12 per month. "To sum it up, a soldier's widow whether she is or is not drawing a Jjjension, may apply under my measure and receive that to waich she is justly entitled. $12 per month. Docs not this cover fully that for which you are contending?" Mr. Adair also savs in this letter. I that section 1, of his bill is very broad and provides that widows of all soldiers. iucludiDg those who served sixty days in the Mexican war and ninety days in the Civil war, are entitled to a $12 per month pension, no matter when or how many times they married. At the conclusion of the letter Mr. Adair says that the two locsl newspapers have misinternreted his bill. He states th?t in ?n article published by the Palladium the statement is made that "Congressman Adair's act is simply a measure for the increase of pensions for widows and minor children under existing laws." Mr. Adair takes exception to this state- ! ment. He says that his bill is an act i jn itself which entitles tho; j receiving pensions under who are "existing laws' to reap the benefits of his bill. It i3 puite probatjie that the Adair Diu wln be enacted into a law as so far tne bill has been endorsed bv over SarU of tie country..
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ELWOOD W. M'GUIRE. President Dille & McGuire Mfg. Co. BQUN3 OVER TO JUVENILE COURT James Temple Arraigned for Stealing Harness Parts. COURT'S WARD SUSPECTED James Temple was this morning bound over to ,he juvenile court on a accused of having stolen harness rings and spreader straps from O. L. Dailey, a farmer. Clester Deevers, a youthful ward of the juvenile court, was suspected of being Temple's accomplice but an investigation of the case revealed the fact that Deevers was not implicated. FEAR OF COAL Local Coal Dealers Say That Chestnut Supply Is Very Low at Present. SHIPPING ORDERS ARE BAD. IN ORDER TO SECURE CHESTNUT DEALERS MUST ALSO ORDER EGG SIZE, FOR WHICH THERE IS LITTLE DEMAND. Local coal dealers are fearful of a chestnut coal famine, owing to the fact that the supply is running low and it is almost impossible to secure more of this class of coal. At the mines, a rule is maintained whereby only a limited amount of chestnut coal is permitted to be shipped and when the demand has practically consumed the supply, a shortage results. Local dealers have been notified that if the dealer will order a car of the egg size, the mines will permit a car load of chestnut to r.loo be shipped. The hardship this works on the local dealers is obvious for in order to secure a sufficient supply of chestnut which is greatly in demand, they must also order the same amount of egg size which is not in such demand, consequently the dealers have this class of coal left on their hands. Local dealers are trying to educate the trade to buy their coal mixed, using equal parts of chestnut and egg sizes. It is claimed that just as good results are obra'ned and that it assists to forestall a possible shortage. THE SCHOOL IS CLOSED i Miss Williams Makes Address! To Pupils. J 1 The Hiser's school closed for th holidays with appropriate exercises. One of the features of the program was a talk by Miss Williams. i stenographer and bookkeeper for the Starr Piano company.
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GREAT DANGER OF ANOTHER EXPLOSION IN DARR MINES
Fear of This Is Greatly Handi capping the Work of the Rescuers and Recovery of Bodies Is Doubtful. ONLY ELEVEN BODIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED. Question of Scientific Treatment of Gases From Mouth Of Mine Will Determine the Quickness of the Work. Jacobs Creek, Pa., Dec. 21. With only eleven bodies removed from the wrecked Darr mine, and the great dagger of another explosion, more terrific than the first, and with the almost insurmountable obstacle of great volumes of poisonous gas, the recovery of the three hundred miners will be extremely slow. It is now a question oi the scientific treatment of the deadly fumes. A canvass of the miners homes shows that three hundred men are in the mine. Conad Schuth, 4S years old, crazed by the death in the mine of his son and other relatives, ended his own life Friday by drowning in the river near the mine. He was a widower and leaves four small children. Mrs. Garrino Delano was restrained from committing suicide today with great difficulty. She lost her husband and two sons in the disaster and In quest of the bodies was crossing the river in the "sky ferry," a basket car suspended from a cable, when she was seized with the idea of leaping Into the stream. In the frail car the efforts of three men were required to restrain her until the landing could be reached. President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America, telegraphed from Indianapolis authorizing district oScials to draw upon the national treasury for $1,000 for relief cf the families of the victims. OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN Royal League Elects for Ensuing Year. At a meeting of the Royal League, the following officers were elected to serve djjrinK the ensuincr term? Anmon-A. Ed. Ranke. ! ice Arcnon A. C. Thomas. Orator F. M. Howe. Past Archon W. A. Vietze, Jr. Scribe Win. Vietze. Collector J. M. Ranks Treasurer Albert C. Thomas. Prelate F. M. Howe. Guide Jos. M. RanksWarder M. Howe. Sentry Howa
Ranks of the G. A. R. Are Thinning Rapidly and Each Year Veterans Join Shades of Their Leaders One by One.
FOUR LOVED VETERANS DIED LST YEAR. Memorial Exercises to Be Dec. 26 When Old and Young Alike Will Jojn Hands in Memory of Those Gone. "ABSENT AT ROLL CALL." Capt. I. R. McDivitt. Surgeon M. TJ. Ballard. Surgeon M. H. Haynes. LieuL William Allen. During the past year, four members of the Sol Meredith posL G. A. R. have died. The post still has quite a good sized membership, but year by year the grim reaper thins the ranks of the comrades affiliated with the local post. On Thursday evening December 26, when the Sol Meredith post holds its annual memorial exercises aud tho adjutant reads the roll call, four gallant soldiers. Captain I. R. McDlvitt, Surgeon M. B. Ballard, Surgeon M. II. Haynes and Lieutenant William Allen will not answer "here" when their names are called. Since the roll call last year these men, who responded to the call to arms In the dark days of "61, have for the last time beard the sweeL mellow refrain of "laps, lights out," and have gone to join the shades of their great leaders. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. To the memorial exercises the Sol Meredith post has invited the Women's Relief Corps, the Ladles of tho G. A. R. and the Denver Brown post of the United Spanish War Veterans. The services will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. To the soldier dead. th young veterans of the rr with 8paln and the aged veterans of the great, war of the rebellion will join hands In paying tribute. UNEMPLOYED TO BE BENEFITTED Board of Works Will Start Potter's Field Fill. WILL BEGIN IN JANUARY. To provide work for a few of the noemployed men of the city, tho city ! board of public works haa advertised j for bids for haujing dirt and filling the potters field at Earlham cemetery. Bids will be opened January 3, and work on this job will start as soon as the contract Is awarded. At the last meeting of council was appropriated to improve the potters field. The township has also appropriated $1J0 for tb work. MRS. BONYAII BETTER Physicians Hopeful of Complete Recovery. Mrs. L. H. Bunyao, who has been ' very sick for some days, wa reported 'Improved today and the doctors are very hopeful of her complete recovery, j Mrs. Bunyan has a. stomach trouble, I the exact nature of which has not yet 1 been determined. She Is under the icare of a trained nurse. ICE SKATING SOON If Present Conditions Rule Long, Lake Will Freeze. Just a little bit more of the present kind of weather and the young people will be enjoying Ice skating at Glen Miller lake, the river. Ice pond and other paces In and about the city. Ice skates this year are popular Christmas presents with the young folks. MORE DIPHTHERIA. Diphtheria, which claimed the life of the little child In the Smlthmeyer family of South Seventh streeL has now stricken, the mother of the child.
although the case is not considered) seriouf