Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 357, 8 February 1908 — Page 1

RICHMOND PALLABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. xxxii. o.r.7. KICHMOM), IXD., SATURDAY EVEXlXCi, FKllKUAKY 8, 190S.

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SINGLE COPY, Z TEXTS. SENSATIONAL WAS ATTACK ON DANCING AND CARD PLAYING Evangelist Hobson Branded These With Theatre Going, Pernicious Evils of the Day In Stinging Language.

TAGGART REFUSES TOSURRENDERTHE KEYS OF OFFICE KEETHLER'S DEFENSE AVAILED JIM NOTHING Was Fined in the City Court Today. FIFTY-FIVE PUPILS GIVEN CERTIFICATES TO HIGH SCHOOL YOUNG MAN SHOT AND KILLED FATHER MOTHER-IN-LAW GAVE SMELSER HER BLESSING IN COURT ANNUAL DINNER A GRAND SUCCESS Then Turned Gun on Self With Fatal Result. Hundreds of People Served by Horticultural Society.

This Morning Clifton W. Merrill Was Sworn and Gave Bond But Taggart Would Mot Accept Him.

EX-CITY CLERK MAY BE FORCED TO DELIVER KEYS Froecutor Jessup Will Take sjeps to Retire Him Immediately by Filing Quasi-Civil Proceedings. Clifton W. Merrill this morning Save bond and was sworn in as eit.y clerk, by Judge- V. C. (Jon verse in the ity court. Notwithstanding the action taken by Mr. Merrill, he has not yet occupied the oit'ico of the city clerk, for the reason that John F. TagKart refuses to acknowledge him as his fcuccessor. After Mr, Men ill, whose bond of 'J,ow is endorsed by the American Surety company, had been sworn Into office as city clerk he went to the clerk's office and found Taggart in possession. Merrill told him that he had qualified for office and that he Jiad come to assume his duties. Merrill then asked Taggart for the keys of the office. Taggart promptly informed his successor that he would not give up his office until Merrill's appointment was confirmed by the c ity council. Without the keys In his possession and with Taggart acting as city clerk. Mr. Merrill, in company with B. B. Johnson, went to the office of Prosecutor Jessup. The prosecutor states that Taggart can be compelled to retire from the office and he will take pteps to retire him promptly by filing cmasl-civil proceedings. It is the opinion of attorneys that Merrill has a perfect right, under his appointment by the mayor, to qualify and assume the duties of city clerk until the next, council meeting. It at this time council refused to confirm his appointment, which is improbable, then Merrill would bo obliged to retire from office. WISH TO RAISE FUNDS Hill MARKERS Big Dinner Is Being Served by G. A. R. For the- benefit or the Sol Meredith l'ost, G. A. R., which is trying to raise a fund to secure markers for the praves of the soldiers buried at Earlham cemetery, a lunch is being served today at the G. A. R. hall. This least cantinue until S o'clock this evening. At noon today hundreds of people were served. L. ERT SLACK HAS IE Has Made Formal Declaration Of Candidacy. L. Erf Slack, who recently spoke to the Richmond Commercial club, and Who made known his candidacy lor the democratic gubernatorial nomination while here, lias made his formal announcement in his home papers nt Franklin. Mr. Slack has f-erved in toth the house and senate of the Indiana legislature. He is an advocate X local option. WILLS DIVORCE . CASE HEARD SOON Will Be Heard Before Soecial Judge. Next Monday afternoon attorneys In the divorce case of Wills against Wills, in which the plaintiff asks for maintenance during litigation and payment of her attorney's fees by the defendant, will be heard in the circuit court before Special Judge John L. Rnpe. STUDENTS' J300D RECORD. Louise Forr, $2t North H street, and Raymond Mofer, SIT North 10th street, of Whitewater school, B srafle. were neither absent nor tardv. durjug the past term.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Robert Keethler was fined $1 anl

cou mi,, morniuK in tn city court j MJI WllUAJl ill U.'il. l'-VUl'-.l JfitttU IJOL ) guilty ami was represented ly Attor- j ney P. .1. Freeman. Keethlcr's defense i was that he was not drunk and that ! when he was arrested lie was not in a puonc place, me onic.tr tuKing nun in custody at tin: old Schneider factor v building. E SIMPLICITY iL The Late King Carlos of Portugal and the Crown Prince Laid to Their Last Rest Amidst Simple Ceremonies. DEEP LOVE FOR DEAD SHOWN AT THE BIER. The Royal Family Wept Convulsively Over the Remains Of the King Troops Guarded Cortege. Lisbon, Feb. .S The simple, but impressive funeral services today was the final act in the bloody tragedy of Saturday, in which King Carlos and the crown prince lost their lives at the hands of assassins. There was a solemn march through the city and the ceremonies at the church of San Vincents were impressive. Additional troops were brought into Lisbon today. They accompanied the cortege and lined the route of march. The last of the special foreign missions to attend the funeral arrived in Lisbon last night, and hundreds of floral tributes were received at the palace. Practically every government was represented. Charles Payne Bryan, the American minister, sent two wreaths, one to King Manuel with expressions of the most profound sorrow of President Roosevelt and the American people, and the other to Queen Amclie, conveying the heartfelt regrets of the American nation. When the body of King Carlos was placed in its coffin the Queen mother, Maria Pia; Queen Ameilia, his wife, and Manuel, his son, were admitted to view the remains. There was a painful and heart rending scene. The queens and the young king broke (..i-.vn and wept bitterly Maria Pia had been luieeling in prayer beside the body of the king. Suddenly, the victim of uncontrollable emotion, she grasped the dead man'e hands in hers and kissed them repeatedly, her face streaming with tears. Friends were obliged to remove her gently though forcibly from the side of the bier. When the wife and son ctf the dead monarch were admitted to the mortuary chamber they knelt in prayer, tears flowing from their eyes and their voices choked with emotion. It was midnight when the bodv in ! its coffin was solemnly transported to the royal chapel. All the doctors and high officials of the palace were in attendance. The head priest attached to the palace led the procession, carrying in his hands the palace cross. He was followed by the palace Majordomo, and then came a group of courtiers, and other officials. Behind the eottiu marched the Duke of Oporto, the king's brother, and Vice Admiral Tapello, the latter bearing the King's punned helmet and s-word. The troops presented arms as the cortege Vassed. King Carlos died a poor man. His entire fortune consisted of insurance policies held by the Bank of Portugal as security for advances made.- After Uiese repayments have been made it is i declared that there will not remain ' more than .?-! mm to be distributed to I tire 'heirs of the king. Senor Machado. the leader of the republican party, in an interview to- ' day. denied indignantly that there was any connection between his party and the assassinations, which tragedy the party deeply regretted. Machado explained that the republicans were an oppositional group; that their course had been perfectly legal and that nothing was further from their minds than a propaganda of force. He said he was certain the mouarchial regime in Portugal was doomed, and that it would die out peacefully within a few years. There would, however, be no violence. The days of the barricade are gone forever. Machado said, and In this age ballots are mightier than bullets. It is announced today that Captain Azevede Conntinhe has been appointed Civil Governor of Ijslnin. This is the first time in is years that a military officer has been named to fill this POSt.

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The Garfield Graduating Exer-

cises Held at the High School Yesterday Afternoon Were Very Interesting. PROF. D. W. DENNIS OF EARLHAM GAVE ADDRESS With Forceful Simplicity He Told the Young People Why An Education Paid Heironimus Defends System. Yesterday afternoon at the graduating exercises held by the Garfield school, fifty five pupils were given certificates promoting them to the high school. It was a large class and one which had sustained a high standard of scholarship throughout its course at Garfield. The exercises were not elaborate, but they were fittingly appropriate. The address was delivered by Dr. D. W. Dennis of Earlham college. He spoke on the subject, "Does an Education Pay'" The music was furnished by the Garfield orchestra. Miss Carolyn Ilutton rendered a violin solo and Mrs. Elmer Gormon sang. Dr. Dennis's address was characterized by a forceful simplicity. He pointed out that the period of childhood has lengthened for the purpose of allowing the greater preparation which our age demands. The boy who does not take advantage of that fact cannot compete with the one who does. As an illustration he cited England's loss of prestige as a manufacturing nation, to the United States, due to the policy of England to train her mechanics exclusively in the shop. Iu the United States they are given a technical education and then placed in the shop and factory. Following Dr. Dennis, Prof. X. C. Hcironimus presented the certificates j to the class. In doing so be pointed I out that those who have criticized the discontinuance of granting diplomas, have done so through a mistaken, notion of the purposes of Garfield. It is a part of the secondary educational system of the city, and its course is completed in the high school. For that reason the authorities thought fitting that certificates, not diplomas, be given those finishing the NA work. The following pupils received certificates: Everglean Anderson, Marguerite Border, Howard Brunner, Blanche Compton, Lura Cones, Ernestine Conley, Irene Conner, Clarence Cox, Thomas Davis. Ruth Dickey, Dorothy Dill. Willard Duning, John Fisher, Mabel Gaines. Fred Girty, Willard Grave, Brandon Griffis, Pearl Haner, Ralph Hasemeier, Elsie Hawekotte. Paul Hoffman, Ruth Hunt, Benjamin Johnson, Wanda Johnson, Ruth Kohlstedt, Iona Lamb. Grace Leeds, Ruby Leeds. Parker McCormick, How ard McCullough, Alice McManus, Lou- j ise Malsby, Hilda Marlatt, Elsie Muel-j ler, Ralph Personett, Ruby Ranks, j Margaret Richer. Myra Roll, Edith ! Runge, Richard Sedgwick, Charles Smith, Lucy Smyser, Albert Suepple, Katherine Sullivan. Harold Taggart, Belle Taylor, Ray Thomas, Mary Tingle. Charles Twigg, Edith Uhl. Ethel Chte. Leona Weaver. Myrtle Weidner, Nell Wigmore, Wilma Willett, Herman Wine. SONS HELD FATHER FORJHE OFFICERS Man Killed His Wife and Boys Captured Him. Marshall. N. C, Feb. S. After an I all night vigil in which they sat with! guns leveled at their father's head.! John and James Randall, yesterday) turned their prisoner over to the sheriff whom thoy had summoned by wire Randall is accused of killiug his wife. When the two sons learned of the crime they captured their father and held him for the officers. j THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Snow or rain in south portion Saturday night or Sunday; colder Sunday. OHIO Sunday snow or rain and warmer in north portion. HICKS' PREDICTIONS. "Covering the 10th to the I'th in western parts of the country, the barometer will begin to fall and the temperature rise as early as the 10th, and as these conditions pass eastward, cloudiness and rain will appear, growing into general storms of rain and wind in western sections by the evening1 of the 12ti.

Chicago, Feb. 8. Wilheim Williams who shot and killed his father, John Williams last night and then shot telf. died this morning. The. shooting was the result of a Quarrel.

PIRATES SAILING PACIFIC WATERS Japanese Fishing Crew Murdered. Victoria, E. C. Feb. S. News brought here by the steamship told of the capture of Japanese fishing schooner and the murder ot tho crew of seven by pirates. CHARGES MADE TO CITY CIVIC LEAGUE AGAINST SALOONISTS At Meeting Last Night Organization Was Informed That Saloonists Were Working Against Lee Reynolds. SAID HE COULD NOT BE USED FOR THEIR INTEREST Call Issued by Timothy Nicholson for All Voters to Go to Polls and Defeat Element Working Against Reynolds. The City Civic league, of which- lit tle has been heard, of late, is once i agaiu taking an active part in politics. I At a meeting last evening the league ! decided to support the candidacy of Lue Reynolds, who is running against Waller S. Ratliff for representative. '. Today the Palladium received the fol-' lowing self explanatory letter from Timothy Nicholson, one of the active workers in the Civic league: Editor of the Palladium: "At a meeting of the City Civic league last night we were informed that the saloon interests of Richmond j and Cambridge City had organized to ! defeat Lee Reynolds' nomination for 1 the legislature, one of the saloonists having said 'we must defeat him as we , cannot use him or influence him, as he is for local option.' "Now any republican who desires the welfare of our city, county and state should resolve that the above class, which includes gamblers and other disreputable people, shall fail in their effort to defeat Lee Reynolds, by discharging their duty and privilege by going to their voting places next Monday and working for their defeat. "Republicans should also endeavor to prevent democrats from voting and thereby vitiating the nomination. Do not forget the last nomination for mayor, when more democrats than republicans voted for the nominee. It will be safe to vote for any candidate whom these saloon interests are opposing. Respectfully TIMOTHY NICHOLSON'." ELECTION RETURNS JO BE READ Announcements at the Sousa Band Concert. A unique feature of the Sousa band concert Monday night will be the announcement of election returns as they are received during the evening. At frequent intervals during the program the returns will be read for the accommodation of those men in the audience who might wish to know the result of the day's battle of ballots. LOITERER GIVEN GOOD SENTENCE Was Fined $10 and Costs and Given Ten Days. Wiley Thompson, colored, was fined i $10 and costs and given 10 days in! the county jail, for violation of the j city loitering ordinance. Thompson j pl4 not guilty to the charge.

She Placed One of His Little Tots in His Arms and Said: "May You Live Long to Care for the Little One."'

POINTED ULTIMATUM GIVEN OUT TO SMELSER. Prosecutor Gave Him Choice Of Family or Penitentiary And Man Accepted Former Is Under Bond. "You can take your choice live with and support your family or go to the penitentiary." This was the ultimatum handed to Seth Smelser. wife deserter, recently returned to this city from Sidney, O., where he was arrested at the request of the local police, when the man was arraigned in the city court this morning. At his side sat Mrs. Smelser and her mother. Each woman held one of Smelser's little children. When the prosecutor gave Smeiser his choice the man did not hesitate long in making it. "I'll go hack with my family and live witii them," he satd earnestly. His wife then placed her head affectionately on his shoulder. She was told by the prosecutor that in case her husband ever abused her or deserted her agaiu to make complaint and that no time would be lost in placing him where the sunshine would never touch him. Smelser in giving his reason for deserting his wife and two little children stated that his wife did not cook for him when he was out of work. This statement caused the little woman to cast her only reproachful look on her husbaud. Smelser has been released from custody on his own recognizance in the sum or $1,000. The charge of wife desertion will not be dismissed. A touching scene took place" before Smelser left the court room. His aged mother-in-law walked up to him and placed his youngest child in his arms. Then she placed one hand on Smelser's head and the other on the child's head. "I give you my blessing", solemnly stated the old woman. "Seth may you life long to care for this little one and may the child live long to bring blessing and comfort to you." BACK STAMPS GOOD Asserted That They Are an Aid To Business Men Who Have Letters Delayed. BUSINESS MEN INTERESTED Local business men will be much interested in an agitation which has been started by the first assistant postmaster general to discontinue the stamping on the back of letters tho time of receipt by the distributing postoffice. He advocates the move as an economy, saving thereby the salary of a few clerks. Postmaster Spekenhier of the local postoffice disagrees with the first assistant postmaster general as to the wisdom of such a course, he holding that the stamp is almost of vital interest. With such a record as it establishes on the back of the letter as to the time of its receipt by the postoffice, it enables letters to be traced with more facility, and it has been the means of explaining many complaints about delayed mails. THAW JURIES TO BANQUET TONIGHT One Which Disagreed to Entertain Most Recent One. New York. Feb. S. The annual diuner of the first Thaw jury will be held tonight at the Broadway Central hotel. It will have as its guests the jury which found Thaw innocent.

LOOK AND LEARN. Never lay the Palladium down without having read the Classified Advertisements on page six you have not finished the paper until you have read over those interesting little items. They am a veritable gold mine of information in many divergent lines. You will find there anything from a house FOR SALE to a GIRL WANTED. You will probably find thr very bargain you have been wanting in the advertisement of some one who Is selling househo'd goods. Or maybe you have something you want to sell don't care if it is a traction engine or a package of needles, a Palladium FOR SALE advertisement will dispose of it for you. Try it and see you'll be convinced of the good in little things especially in little Classified Advertisements. Turn to page six now and set your share of the good things. . 1 " ' .

The annual dinner of the Horticultural society was served today at the court house. As usual the feast was par excellent and about five hundred people were gorged to their hearts' content. Turkey, cranberry sauce, beans, jelly, coffee, salad, potatoes, gelatine, cake and pie were included on the menu.

OF BATTLE FLEET LEFT PORT Admiral Evans and His Ships Left Punta Arenas and By This Time Have Rounded Cape Forward. BRILLIANT RECEPTIONS FOR OFFICERS AND MEN Admiral Evans Was Unable to Attend Owing to the Severe Attack of Rheumatism With Which He Is Afflicted. Punta Arenas, Feb. S. Amid the booming of cannon from shore and abroad the aggregation of warships in the harbor the American fleet, under Admiral Evans, at 11 o'clock last night began to voyage through the western section of the Strait of Magellan. When day broke this morning the fleet was scheduled to have rounded Cape Froward, the extreme southern point of the South American mainland and turned its prows northwestward for the run of 150 miles to the Pacific end of the strait. Senor Chaigneau, governor of the territory of Magellan, gave an official rece !n honor of the visiting Americ. .n his residence yesterday. The function was a brilliant one. There were 400 guests present, including John Hicks, the American minister to Chile; Henry L. Janes, secretary of the American legation; Rear Admiral Sporry, An red A. Winslow, the American consul at Valparaiso; Lieutenant Commander Higgins, the fleet engineer and Lieutenant Cone, commander of the torpedo boat flotilla. The reception given on board Rear Admiral Evans' flagship, the Connecticut, was a splendid affair. Several hundred of the prominent people of Punta Arenas, in addition to tho Chilean and British, officers now here, were present. Much disappointment was expressed at the absence of Rear Admiral Evans. While his rheumatism has improved, still it did not permit him to attend the entertainment The reception continued all the afternoon, the last guests leaving the flagship at six o'clock. Last night the people of Punta Arenas were treated to an electrical dis- ! play from the warships, flash lights and twinkling lines of lesser illumin- , ation, such as never before has been witnessed here. Rear Admiral Evans has sent a letter to John Hicks, American minister to Chile, expressing his thanks to the Chilean government for the splendid reception accorded the American fleet and its personnel, and his regret that his schedule will not permit the fleet to visit Valparaiso. To See Naval Show. Santiago, Chile, Feb. 8. The Chilean cruisers Ministro Zenteno and Esmeralda and five torpedo boat destroyers will meet the American fleet, under Rear Admiral Evans, off Talcahuano and escort it to Valparaiso. Thousands of people will go down to Valparaiso from here and other interior points to witness the naval review and the pas.-ing of the fleet. Tho American cruiser Chicago, from Callao. has called at Arica and is now on her w-ay to Valparaiso. TWO VOTING PLACES. For the third voting precinct in Wayne township, for the Republican primary election next Monday, two voting places, instead of one, have been provided. They will be at the Norris home and at Middleboro.

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DANCING WAS SUBJECT TO VIVISECTION.

Evangelist Said He Could Never See Why a Married Man Took His Wife to Dance and Let Other Men Hug Her. Never, in all probability, did a Richmond audieuce ever hear such a sensational attack on card-playing, tueatrc going, and dancing, as was made before a large audience last night at the revival meetings in progreKS at Graco M. E. church, when the Rev. Mr. Hobson, evangelist, uncompromisingly branded all three forms of popular amusement as the source or many of the most pernicious evils of the day. Not since Rev. C. Fenwlck Ileed aroused the city a few year ago by a sensational indictment of these, supposedly innocent amusements has there been such an arraignment as that made by Rev. Tilman Hobsou last evening. While the older devotees of the church nodded their head in acclamation, the younger generation who has heretofore enjoyed tbes favorite pastimes unmolested. werecaused to "sit straight up and listen." They never before had heard such an uncompromlzing denunciation and expose of the evil attending thee pastimes. Each on was in turn subjected to a laboratory vivisection, then a microscopic inspection, and lastly a wholesale application of red hot caustic to the sore spots, just for good measure. There was not one conciliatory note sounded In its favor, yet at no time did the speaker berate the people who were in the habit of enjoyiutc these amusements. Rev. Hobson's arraignment was of the amusements themselves, and not the youns people who are unwittingly drawn Into the practices. He stated that at all times his personal sympathy was with the card player, theatre goer and dancer, because of their blindness M the evils attending them. Just how the entire audience thought about the attack is doubtful, but Judging from the close attention of tho audience and frequent audible exretsions, the majority approved, although several were seen to leave the room, it is not thought that any offense or exception was taken to the speaker' views on the subject. The general subject of the speaker was "A Square Deal," and he ruceavored to show that the tinner was :ot giving God a rquarc deal. Ho pointed out that men are willing to enjoy the luxuries of life and the good ' natural gifts of this world which are from the beneficent hand of God. yet ire so ungrateful as to sin and desecrate those gifts and never reciprocate God's favor in any way. "A sinner is a reltel. because he Is a transgressor of God's laws. "Sin is cruel, unjust and not a square deal." In speaking of the evils attending the dance the speaker said: "Did you ever hear of any girl that wanted to be laid out in her ball gown? Ball gowns are to nice and airy and so modest in their entirely. I am afraid of the man of physique who favors dancing. He Is dangerous. Just because a man i conventional and educated is no assurance of hi morality. An educates sinner is Just as much to be questioned as an ignorant sinner." "I never could see why a man would take his w ife to a dance and let some other man hug her for so much per. Do you know that the white race Is the only one that permits promiscuous dancing. Even the Hottentots have more sense than that. I can show you asylums which are full of people who are there in consequence of tho results of these evils, likewise the penitentiaries. I served in the secret service for considerate time and I know what I am talking about, and you can see it too. if you will stop for a moment to consider." "Did you ever bear of a card-playing, theatre-going or dancing church member bringing a soul to Christ? If so name one and I stand here ready to apologize." VALUABLE PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD That Siezed for Delinquencies To Go Under Hammer. Monday at the court house th sheriff will offer at public sale considerable property which has been seized for delinquent taxes. It is expected that there will be a good sized crowd attend thi3 sale as some of the property to be offered is valuable.