Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 318, 30 December 1907 — Page 2

THE RICJIMOXD IAJULAIIUM AND SUN-TEL.EGKA31, 3IOXIAY, DECE3IRER SO. 1907. SHOOTS HIMSELF OWING TO GRIEF WOMAN WAS MURDERED BY VICIOUS STRANGLER. WEDS All INDIAN TO CLE AW UP Kokomo Startled Saturday by Suicide of Ira C. Hoops, Prominent and Wealthy. Marriage Completes a Romance Covering Period of Five Years. efore Inventory On All Our HEAVY-WEIGHT SUITS and OVERCOATS SON'S TROUBLE CAUSE. BRIDE'S FAMILY OBJECTED.

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OEVOTED FATHER HAD SUFFERED FROM SUBTLE MENTAL DERANGEMENT SINCE ARREST OF HIS BOY.

Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 30. Ira C. Hoops, sixty years old,, a wealthy attorney of this city, committed suicide et 9 o'clock at his home in West Taylor street while mentally deranged. Unobserved by members of his family Mr. Hoops quietly entered the parlor, made a pillow of his overcoat, j lay down before the grate and fired ; a shot from a 32-caliher revolver into , his riuht temple. The bullet passed i entirely through his head and kicd ' bim instantly. His mother and her j mother and sister. Mrs. Rosanne J .Michael and Mrs. Anna J. Michael, of Japorte, who were in another part, of the house, heard the shots. Running Into the parlor they found the lifeless body with the revolver beside H. Grieved Over Son's Conduct. Mr. Hoops had been suffering from ! subtle mental derangement for sevpral months. Last winter, his son, Richard Hoops, who was a student in X.ake Forest University, was arrested !'or robbing houses in Kvanslon, 111., a suburb of Chicago, and confessed his guilt, but was not prosecuted, because it was shown that, when a boy, he had met with an accident which may have led to kleptomania. The father, who was an upright and Inspected man, was deeply grieved IDver this occurrence. RAILROADS BUILD MILES OF TRACK During the Year 365 Railroads Built 5,212 Miles of New Road Bed. lew York, Dec. rso. Statistics compiled annually by the Railroad Gazette fchow that during the year just ending L66 railroad companies have, built approximately 5.212 miles of new road in the United States, and i77 in Canada, these figures including 1 miles of new main track relocated, but not new secend, third or fourth track siding or Hectric lines. E LEVEE'S "FARMERS" . , j FoeS Of Vice Prepare MeaSUre . . . . AgamSt rerVertS. Chicago, 111., Dec. 30. The Illinois : Jegislature will bo asked next month. to pass a bill making it a penitentiary offense, to place women in disorderly houses or to live from the earnings of women already in these houses. The movement is backed by influential charity workers In Chicago. It is aimed at the hundreds of men who Soaf in the city levee districts, existing j olely on the money furnished them by the women they have "farmed out." AT LASHHOWS UP When Time of Wedding Came, He Was Absent. Princeton, Ind.. Dec. There was H happy reunion last night at the home tot Jacob Brasclton. near Patoka. wheu William E. Hawkins, who has been jnissing since last Friday, ret timed to claim Miss Fhice Draselton as his nrlde. The two were to have been Harried Wednesday evening, but the trroom-elect failed to report, and the wedding was called off rA. noon that Clay. RELATIVES HELD fOR MAKING "QUEER father, Son and Domestic Held by Lima Police for Counterfeiting. Lima, O.. Dee. SO. A complete counterfeit mint was uncovered by the police here today at the home of Perry Daniel on, South Main street. Daniel his mn Fred, aged IS, and Minnie Stephenson, a servant girl, were placed In custoday. ' Molds Metal, etc., were confiscated. The Daniels, it is charced have been passing many spurious twenty-five cent pieces daring the holiday season, and fcave tor weight the coins could scarce e detected.

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Mrs. Sophia Kebrer, for whose murder by strangulation Guiseppe Capuzzo is n trial in New York. The police say he is more dangerous than the notorious 'Mack the Ripper."

PENNSY 10 OROP The Two Cent Rate Is Responsible, It Is Claimed. Pittsburg, Dee. 30. Believing the United States supreme court, will declare constitutional the two-cent rate on railroads, the Pennsj-lvania road will drop forty local (rains running out of Pittsburg on holidays and Sundays and there will be fewer weekday trains after Jan. 1. To avoid serious results "shooters," or second sections, will be held in readiness. It is also' reported the company will compel all shop employes to take a ten days' vacation each year, those remaining doing the work of all. THE LAND OF ROMANCE. Siaaln and the Peculiar Temperament of Its People. If I were asked to sum up the dominant Impression that the survival in Spain of the old world mediaevalism makes, I should say that Spain Is in the precise and specific sense of the word the home of romance. The special character of the Spanish temperaI ment and of Spanish developments in literature and in art is marked by a quality, rising and sinking with the rise and fall of Gothic, which we call the romantic spirit a mixture, that is, of the mysterious and grandiose with the grotesquely bizarre of the soaringly ideal with the crudely real, a mixture wbScn to us today nas the cunning fascjnation of art, but was really on both 8ides the natural outcome of the experiences and feelings of the men who created it. This romantic spirit was once the common possession of all Christendom, but the Spanish temperament peculiarly lent itself to the romantic attitude, and it is in Spain today that we may catch its final vanishing echoes. It is the church, always the most powerful stronghold of tradition among any people, which enables the stranger most vividly to realize how well the romantic spirit has been preserved in Spain. Notwithstanding Invasions from without aud revolutions from within, especially during the early years of the last century, Spain Is still the country where the mediaeTaj spirit of romantic devotion is most splendidly embodied and preserved. Havelock Ellis in Atlantic. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Member May Drink There, but la Not Allowed lo Eat. The British house of commons has its own code in regard to the partaking of liquid and solid refreshments. A member making a long speech may take a drink, and the house is liberal euough not to care whether the color i of the contents of the glass is white or j brown or black, whether, in fact, the j glass holds water or whisky or beer, i Mr. Gladstones egg flips, which his j wife carefully compounded for him f and he brought to the house in a bottie, are classic. But woe betide the man who scorns drink and must have meat. Contempo- ! rary recollection ouly recalls one mem- J ber rash enough to disregard this rule, j It was a number of years ago, in the stormy time of the home rule debates, ; that an Irish member, in the small hours of the morning, produced from his pocket a paper bag and drew out a buu, which he proceeded calmly to eat. The house was instantly in an uproar. There were loud cries of "Order! Order'." and that bun was never finished. No member may read a newspaper In the house If he had the temerity to smoke, the sergeant at arms would quickly place him under lock and key. Appletou.'s Magazine. ' . Leaving; ... ..i.utia 11:15 p. m. via C, C. &- I la mis you in Chicago at 7:00 a. m. Through sleepers and coaches. You will like it. apr6-tf PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY

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Some Substance Was Sewed In the Lining. Wooster, 0.. Dec. .TO. The Kev. William H. Hubbel, mayor-elect of Dalton, was the victim of a peculiar explosion lust night. His coat suddenly; burst into a blaze and was ruined i though he was not injured. He hud no matches or explosives in his pock-;t( et He thinks the explosive was sew-! i ed in the lining of his coat which came from a store. Pittsburg department j BUFFALO BILL Mill GO BACK TO WIFE Friend Says Reconciliation Will Be Brought About. Denver, Dec. SO. A reconciliation between Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Hill) and Mrs. Cody will probably take place within the next few days. J. L. Sabin a friend, says the famous showman will be in North Platte, Neb., where his divorced wife lives, this week. "Col. Cody has just suffered a bereavement In the death of Lieut. Clarence Stott, his son-in-law, of whom he was very fond," said Sabin. "He attended the funeral, and his daughter,! who is left alone by the death, per-! suaded him to return to North Platte with her. I have every reason to believe that Col. Cody desires a reconciliation and that Mrs. Cody will stand ready to welcome him back." Mlijadseih The manager of an office had advertised for an office boy. In consequence be was annoyed for an hour by a straggling line of boys of all Bizes, claiming various accomplishments. y'Well." he said to a late applicant, "I suppose you can read anything, and write anything, and figure a little, and use the typewriter a little, and" aw; interrupted uie ooy. i i could do all them things I'd strike yer fer yer own job. I ain't nothln' but an office boy." He got the position. Bohemian. Remedy For Eirru In Katiom;. A hint to those who may thoughtlessly at some time or other indulge In excess in eating. If this Indiscretion is committed, especially in high seapoued things with rich sauces, a draft of cold water acidulated with lemon juice will take off the sense of weight at the stomach and assist the digestive process by moderating the alimentary fermentation, Old EnnlUh Elections. As an illustration of the Tiolence that was once common during political campaigns in England is a quaint bill from a lawyer after an election at j Andover In 17GS: "To being thrown out of the George inn. Andover, to my legs being thereby broken, to surgeon's bill and loss of time and business, 500." A Loophole. 'But, Tommy," said his mother, "didn't your conscience tell you you were doing wong?" "Tes'm," replied Tommy, "but I j don't believe everything I hear. Phil adelphia Press. Th Purchasing; A Brent. "Dad." asked Bobby, "what is bilogy?" "Go ask your mother," replied dad curtly. "She spends the most money Harper's Weekly. . ( PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAYj

Denver. Dec 30. News has been received here that Miss Cora Marie Arnold, of this city, was married last Monday in Santa Fe, X. M., to Albine Chavarria. a full-blooded Indian. The wedding ends a romance which began five years ago. during the Mountain and Plain festival, when a number of Indians were brought to this city. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Rendon, a Presbyterian clergyman, and was witnessed by the bride's sisters, Miss Lillian and Geneva Arnold, of Denver. Chavarria is chief of the Santa Clara Indians, a trib- of the Pueblos in New Mexico. With a large number of his tribesmen he was in camp in the city park, in Denver, five years ago, when Miss Arnold saw him and immediately formed an attachment for him. After frequent visits to the camp Miss Arnold invited the Indian to call at her home. She lived at the time in a fashionable flat with her sisters and her step-father, George Wilder. The bride's family always objected.

00G UNO POULTRY SHOWTO BE SOON Fanciers' Association to Exhibit in February. Premium lists for a bis dog and poultry show of the Fanciers' association of Indiana, to ba held February 3 to 7, at Tomlinson hall, will be ready for mailing January 1. More money and more cups will be offered as prizes this year than ever before. Over $2,000 in cash, and probably twenty-five silver cups will be awarded. A VIP.TnRY IN MFniPIMF! 1 i For over four Castor Oil in pills! hundred years medical men have tried find a way t0 strengthen or concentrate castor oil A. rare combination and a peculiar process of compressing castor oil with j refined sulphur and other excellent medicines has resulted in a most likeable product that physics more pleasantly than any preparation ever discovered. Most all druggists recommend Blackburn's Castor-Oil-Pills, because they are sweet and little, and delightfully effective and beneficial. The public like them for the same reasons, and because they get fifteen doses for ten cents or forty-five doses for twenty-five cents. All reliable druggists sell them; imitations do not have portrait and signature of Mr. Blackburn on the back of red cornered packi age. PIPES AND CIGARS. Smoking Said to Serve as an Index to Character. A person who smokes a .cigar with the label band on is always a vulgarian; a person who displays two Inches of ash adhering to a cigar Is generally ostentatious; a person who selects a CJar uecause u is spnnnea wun ngui Pts is an ignoramus who credits any t popular reporr. ana a person and a person who chews up the end of a cigar or a cigarette is more often than not of an irascible or peevish nature. So says the London Tribune, which adds: Smoking is also a great test of natural courtesy in any individual. One can trace selfishness, boorishness, self assertlveness. timidity or good temper in a smoker's demeanor In any mixed company. Judging upon the example of Mr. Kipling, it has been asserted that the man who knocks his pipe ashes out behind the parlor couch is usually a genius. But this is a somej what empty assertion, and at any rate i it comprises a belief that is in nowise shared by housewives and landladies. As a concluding rule for diagnosing character by tobacco habits, it may be accepted that the best men smoke quietly and without ostentation, offer you a good cigar without a preparatory oration on its cost and merits and smoke their pipes and cigars out to the end. When a man is concerned because his friends are not smoking with him, he is a person to be cultivated. Dates Supplied. "Don't wait for your oDPortunitv make it." So read Mr. Kalestalk. who fcad recently started in business as a ; greengrocer. j He was still pondering this "excellent dogma when his eye caught an Item in the sporting columns of the local paper, -Spioshton Wanderers Football club requires dates for ensuing seaeon. Here was a chance for Mr. Kalestalk. so he wrote to the secretary of the club: "Dear Sir I presume you require dates for use at half time. Shall be glad to supply quotation for same either by the stone or hundredweight" London Graphic. A Rather Light Meal. An old South Carolina darky was sent to the city hospital. Upon his arrival he was placed in the ward, and one of the nurses put a thermometer in his mouth to take his temperature. Presently when the doctor made the rounds he said. "WelL my man. how do you feeir "I feels right tol'ble. sar." "Have you had anything to eat?" "Yassar." "What did yon nave? "A lady done gimme a pieca of - -Argonaut

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FOREIGNERS KILLED II SOUTH; NATION WILL FORCE JUSTICE

, 'Washington, D. C, Dec. oO. Comi plaints made to the st'ite department i by the Italian and other European governments regarding the treatment J of foreigners in the south, and partij cularly in Mississippi, have become so : pressing that, the matter is to be submuted otticially to congress lmmedlately after the holiday recess. These particular complaints do not coucein tne peonage cases, wnicn are

now ueing prosecuteo ny trie depart-; new laws be passed expressly autnorment of justice at various points in iizng the federal government to bethe southern states. They are much come party to any caso involving the more serious. Cases have been pre- treaty rislits of foreigners, sented to the state department in This will create a tremendous senwhicli it appears that foreigners have sation, especially in the southern actually been murdered in cold blood, states. In all of that section of coun-

and yet nothing whatever has come of try special efforts have been exerted ; Dressod Mpat rniP"' agoinst Fredit. , within the last iwo or three years to rirk J'WTh. president of the tompa-

The federal government is absolute- secure a fair share of the enormous ly powerless in such matters. It has ; European immigration into the Unitno jurisdiction ut all in case of mur-;ed States.

WILL B FOR 1 Since Township Trustees Will Not Handle as Much Money, They Will Ask This. NEW LAW RESPONSIBLE. With the effectiveness of the depository law the first of January, the township trustees do not handle the township funds, as previously. For this reason the trustees do not have to have such a heavy bond, and most of the township trustees have announced their intention of asking a reduction in the amount of the bond. A PIECE OF STRING. It Plays a Prominent Part In the Life of Japan. Writing from Japan, an American says: "You must come here to appreciate some of the quaint customs and usages which contact with other peo- j pies has not yet driven out. To read : about them gives you only a poor idea. For instance, did you ever know what an important thing a piece of string is here? The children, workmen, idiers, Fervants, all carry pieces of string for use in case of emergency. With us the emergency would arise only when a parcel had to be done up. but the Jap uses his piece of string as a first aid to the injured, to repair a rent in his clothing, to fix a broken down jinrikIsha, to mend tools, to take measurement, and. in fact, the string is his universal tool chest The queerest use to which it is put. according to my way of thinking, is w hen a police officer arrests a man. ties a bit of string about the arrested man's wrist and then leads him by the loose end of the thin hempen fetter to the lockup. You ask, 'Why doesn't the Jap crook break the string and find a gateway?' He could, but he would not Thaf i where his respect for the law comes in, and I the bit of string holds the man as se curely as though he were manacled by our own humane chilled steel, nickel plated and snap locked method." New York Tribune. "How well the baby talks!" remarked the visitor. "Doesn't he?" returned the proud father. "What is he saying?" Um well," replied the proud f atner 1 hesitatlnzlv "I guess you'd better ask i Ju? roSner abouftbat"

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ders. All such crimes ?re punished by stats laws alone. Only in the l)istrie! of Columbia and territories can the United Slates see to it that a foreigner gets proper treatment. Federal Power to Rescue. The complaints have become so general and so serious that the secretary of state and the president have coneluded to present the matter to congross, wnn tne recommenaation mat He Had Just Become of Age While His Bride Was White Haired Widow. WOULD BE MOTHER TO HIM. Des Moines. Iowa. 1) member 'M. David Louis Dunce, aged 1M. was married here tonight to lis. la H. Droyles, aged ."o. Her hair is vliite as snow and she is the mother of nine children and grandmother to 11'. The bride three years younger than the groom's moUier. Dunce became acquainted with the widow when he went to her home with her own sous of his age. At the wedding; Hume was accompanied by one of thoe boys r.s Iwst man. The hridf's married daughter was her bride'smaid. A PROPER EPITHET. Easy Way In Which a Domestic Rupture Was Averted. The troubles which are brought to a parisli priest for solution are almost iniluite Id their variety. In a certain Prusian village, snys Friedrich August Dressier in "Moltke In His Home," an old woman came to her spiritual adviser ud proposed a separation from her husband. "If he would beat me," she said, "that would be all right; that would ebow that be was really my man. Dut he calls me worse names; he calls roe j a 'subject r I will not stand for that!" "So, 'subject.' eh?" said the prieet "Yes, that is bad. It is a bad word. I did not think he would say that But are you eure you understood? Did he say 'subject' or 'object?'" The old woman shook her head. She was not certain. The priest smiled serenely. "Ah. I thought so." he said. "Now, I am sure that is what he called you. 'Subject would have been very bad. It would be hard to forgive that bnt 'object pooh. It la nothing. If at alt It flatters one." The woman laughed happily. "And. then. I need not leave him? I can still keep him for my man?" she asked eagerly. "Certainly," said her mentor, "and rejoice. 'Object. that Is very fine, very! I was sure he did not say subjectr " She went away entirely satisfied, and the priest heard of no more disagreements between the couple

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Overcoats Overcoats Overcoats, Overcoats, $12.00 $14.40 $17.60 $20.00 $ 8.00 $10.00 $12.00 $14.40 L Of BEEF TRUST All ISSUE Dressed Meat Company Stockholders Bring Action Against President. COMPETITION ELIMINATED. New YorK, Dec. What is looked upon as merely the first gun In a fight that is to be waged by local meat dealers to maintain their independence of the beef trust was fired yesterday In ai uction brought by the minority stockholders of the New York IJutchers' ny. The company is an organization of independent dealers, and the action is described by those who are bringing; it as an attempt to prevent the packing house trust from con! rolling tho meat situation in New York. Interesting revelations i.re promised by the independents, who are behind he action, to the methods followed by the beef trust in its efforts to eliminate the competition of independent companies in New York. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE WITH HOT LEAD Poured the Molten Metal to His Ear. InMiddletown, X. Y., Dec. 30. As a result of having moltep lead poured in his right ear James H. Conkling Ilea in the Thrall Hospital unconscious and dying. Tin surgeons believe that Conkling, a well-known businesn man, tried to kill himself in this remarkable fashion. For, they say. only a man determined to die could enduro such usony, and then it would havo to be self-inflicted. Time Works Wonders. "Hello. Dixon!" said Thompson. "How's things?" "Simply swimmingly, thanks, old chap! Couldn't be better. I was never doing so well in my life! I've got a hundred pounds in my pocket at this very moment" "Good, good! I'm glad to hear It! Delighted!" "Yes; a hundred pounds a hundred pounds! Y'ou understand? "Yes. I congratulate you!" "But you believe me. don't you? A solid hundred pounds In golden sovereigns in my pocket a hundred, pounds!" "So you 6a id. Why do yon keep repeating it?" Well, as a matter of fact I'm tenting j tnat stor7 dou a fellow repeating 5"arn ontn h comes to believe it himi seir. i eipecr to inorougniy convince myself about Thursday. You might lend me a sovereign till then, will you?' Pearson's Weekly. A Concert That Failed. Hans I'fitzner, the composer of "Th Rose In the Garden of Love," says th Munchener Neuesten Nacbrichten, had a peculiar experience at Cologne, where he had arranged to giTe a song recital at one of the hotels. In bis own account of the "concert that failed," written in rhyme, the composer 6ays, "Only two tickets were sold after much advertising and the display of many pictures." The purchasers were his friends, who were prevented from being present When ail hopea as to audience had failed he asked to have supper served In the empty concert room. But Instead of allowing him to take the meal la "grand solitude" the lights were turned out and, so was h.