Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 365, 15 February 1908 — Page 1

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UNIQUE PETITION IS SIGNED BY MEMBERS OF HONEY CREEK BRANCH OF DUNKARD CHURCH AGAINST THE MAN WHO WAS FORMERLY INTERESTED IN THE DEFUNCT HAGERSTOWN BANK.

SIGNERS DESIRE A PER CENT ON DEPOSITS LOST Members of Church Caught in The Crash, Want the Religious Body to Force Wyatt To Pay Their Losses. WAS ON HIS STATEMENT THAT MEMBERS INVESTED t the Time He Withdrew From the Bank He Said that He Still Held Stock in Concern, Misleading Brethren. WILL MAKE SETTLEMENT, AS WYATT. WHO IS NOW RESIDING IN CALIFORNIA, IS VERY WEALTHY IT IS THOUGHT HE WILL PAY. MOVEMENT MAY SPREAD. As Soon as Other Depositors Are Apprised of the Details of the Complaint, They May Bring Action to Secure Funds. 1 lag'Tstown, Ind., Feb. 1T. A re tnnrkahle comolaint. was filed at. the last monthly business meeting: of the Nettle Creek branch of the Dunkard church, near I lasers! own. It. was (signed by leading members of the church, all in good standing, and was suinnorted and aimroved by others whose affidavits and written state inputs aceomnanv the document. The ttecusations are against, a former weal Ihy resident of this community, whose Midden departure for California, early! in 1905 was the subject of much comment. Following is the complaint: "To the ltroihrcn Church, at lAirdsburg. CaL: "Brother Kdmund Forney. Elder V'p. the undersigned complainants, u of whom are now and were at the time; ii 1. .... ......1 CH ine grie aui es neiein ineui iimeu members in good standing of the German Baptist Dunkard church. Nettle Creek branch, situated near Hagerstowr, Ind., do hereby make, prefer wnd charge the following against .lames M. Wyatt. who for twenty years last past has been a in ember in pood 5tarrriing of the said church: "That said James M. Wyatt Is guilty of falsehood, deceit, false and fraudulent statements, as hereinafter set forth. "That said .lames M. Wyatt. whose tiome was in Henry county, near the town of Hagerstown. Ind., had and owned a great amount of real estate und personal property and was reputed to be. and actually was wealthy pnd a man of sood standing in this community. Operated a Bank at Hagerstown. "That ho. .Tames M. Wyatt. P. F. Vinson and John Bowman wero owners of and operated a bank of deposit and discount in the town cf Hagerstown. known as the Commercial Bank of Wyatt. Allen & Co. "That said bank failed and was notoriously insolvent, and that its affairs were wound up by a receiver who paid the depositors IS per cent of their deposits. "That said bank failed em July "J. 1?0.", and at tin- time of the failure vas still known as Wyatt, Allen Co., and all of its business was transacted in that name. "That more than a year before said failure James M. Wyatt withdrew from said banking firm, and sold out. his interest to the remaining partners in said bank.

"That, he deceitfully and purposely '-. hnde, was maid of honor. They let withheld the facts of his sale an!,for Floriia 011 their honeymoon. withdrawal from the bank from the public, and from these complainants, DANGEROUSLY ILL lie well knowing thai we transacted 1 I -

uu&iness anil neposu.Mt nnr money in fa'.d baik en the stteugih of Ids credit, and relying on Sum ;lr5 being the f-tron g man financially of the firm find the man in whom we exolicpv relied for the safety of our funds.' and that he actually comvaled and kept tContiuucd on Past Two.)

BREECHES BUOY SAVES ELEVEN MEN

Howard B. Peck Driven Ashore Today. Hast Port. L. I.. Feb. ' 1 '.reecho s buoy .saved 11 men from death, when the schooner Howard li. Pick, was driven ashore ibis morning. A line was shot to the vessel ami the nu-n wen hauled ashore. U is believed all will recover. The vessel is a total loss. The log was responsible. PYTHIAN CELEBRATION HAS BEEN POSTPONED Impossible to Secure Desired Talent. Owing to the inability of the committee te secure desired talent, it has been decided to postpone the celebration ef the forty-fourth anniversary of the order of Pythianism, in C'oenr de Lion lodge, which was announced for next Tuesday night. Another date will be chosen and will bo announced later. SENTIMENT GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE Amount of Valentine Mail Showed This. There is more sentiment this eur than ever before, judging from the amount of valentine mail at the Richmond post office -several times as much, in fact. Picture post cards of appropriate nature were in evidence in bundles, bunches and stacks, and there was a generous amount of packages ami big envelopes. The post cards had the rest, of the mail, however, '".snowed under." FOUNTAIN CITY MASONS TO BE BUSY gjn ClaSS Of Candidates Will Be Initiated. A lare class ef candidates will be given the Master Masons degree at Fountain City February 2tl. The degree work will start at nine o"cleck in the .morning and last throughout the day and a good part of the evening. Masons from all over the county will attend. E GOLD IS GONE Miss Theodora Shontz Married a Member of the French Nobility. CEREMONY WAS AT NOON. New York. Feb. !." Another Amen can heiress today became the wife 01 a member of the nobility of France ;;i high noon. Miss Theodora Shontz daughter of Theodore P. Shontz. be came the bride of Hue IV Chaulius The eeremony was particularly bri: liant and was performed by Manage s Lavelle of St. Patrick's cathedra! Prince Galitzine was the best man am: Miss Marguerita Shontz, sister of tin Joseph C. Mc-ii J-nh.tll. Miie of th. best known residents of the city, u ! dangerously ill at his soli's bonii '.lv 1 ....... . ! -Nomi venieenin street. He j ' fori,ls f,om Jaundice and dropsy Mi Mendenhall is known in his man friends as I'esey." louits are enter lained as te his recovcrv.

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PASSENGERS HAD A NARROW ESCAPE Fl Entire C, C. & L. Passenger Train Passed Over a Culvert, the Under Structure of Which Was Washed Away. PULLMAN COACH WAS THROWN FROM RAILS. It Turned on Its Side and the Sleeping Passengers Were Thrown From Their Berths But Escaped Serious Injury. Uiinnins at. the rate- of L miles per hour, the rear Pullman car on train Xo. ;;. C. C. l.. due in Richmond this niornini; at 5:15 o'cleiel; jumped: the rails on a culvert, the under strnctare- of which had been washed away, rolled over on its side and the three passengers and two train men in the coach escaped with nothing worse than a severe jolt Ins. The accident is one of the most, remarkable that has occurred in this part of the country in years. How the people who were in the Pullman escaped death remains a complete mystery. The train was a little late on its schedule and was running at a high rate of speed to get in on time. The low culvert where the accident occurred is about two miles west of the G. R. & I. crossing which is about a mile south of Webster. The high water of yesterday washeil away the under structure of this culvert, leaving only the rails suspended across the stream's bed. At the time the train crossed the culvert the bed "was almost dry. tin- rain having ceased and the hish water passed away. Owing to the heavy snow- storm that was raging the engineer of the' train was unable to see that the culvert was in a dangerous condition. It is uesumed that the jolting of the enTine and the forward coaches spread he rails on the culvert so that when he Pullman reached it. if was instant.y burled into the stream lied, aliphtng em its side. The train continued or some distance before the Ptiliman was niif-sed. Then it returned to the ;evne ef the accident, all the meiu?rs ef the train crew expecting to ind the mangled bodies of the people v'ao were" in the sleeper. At the time the coach made its wild 'ive the three passengers, one ef vhom was a woman, were peacefully leepins in their berths. The Pulli;n conductor and the porter were 'ozing: in the smoking apartment. The HE WEATHER PROPHET. -OR INDIANA Fair and colder Saturday night with brisk to high northwest winds. Sunday fair.

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One of the most elaborate books ever printed is the edition De Luxe of J. Piorponf Morgan's splendid art collection in London. A few copies have already been finished. In the picture is shown two of the perns of Mr. Morgan's collection. At the left is. a picture of the beautiful Miss Farren, bySir Thomas Lawrence, and on the right is "Le Lillet. Uoux" by Pragonard, of whoso work Mr. Morgan has three beautiful examples. In the panel below is a picture from a recent photograph of Mr. Morgan. shock of the car falling eu its s-ido hurled passengers and trainmen in all directions. After they had recovered from the effects of the unexpected and alarming awakening, no time was leist by the inmates of the coach in crawling through windows out. into the open. When the train returned the passengers returned to the wrecked car, clothed themselves and secured their baggage, and then boarded a day coach and continued on their journey. Local railroad officials state that they tlo not know the names tf the passengers in the Pullman car. A wrecking crew was at work this forenoon gathering up the remains of the big diving Pullman car and repairing the culvert tmeler structure. THE REASON WHY New York Woman Tells Women They Are Unfit to Vote as Men Do. DRESS CUTS A FIGURE. New York, Feb. 15. Mrs. Cora F. Trow caused consternation in a meeting of the West Knd Women's republican club yesterday by stating that until women had learned how to hold legal electiems in their own clubs they had no right to demand the balkt. I She said that women voted for the of ficers of their clubs because they liked the way a candidate dressed her hair or because they disliked the woman who placed the opposition candidate in nrimination. Women should study civics, she said, and become qualified to take part in the government of the country before they de manded the right, to vote. COLORED GIRL GOES TO REFORM SCHOOL Mabel Webster Seems to Be Habitual Thief. Mabel Webster, colored, has been sentenced to the girls' reform school. She appears to be an habitual thief

CIVILIZATION IS

POSSIBLE BY THE GENIUSES Let a Genius Appear in the Savage Tribe and the Tribe Will Become Civilized, Says Prof. E. H. Lindley. PERILS OF DEMOCRACY ARE POINTED OUT. He Says That One of the Chiefest of These Is That We See No Differences in The Individual. "Democracy has emphasized the leveling process, the likeness of men, until it. has become one of the perils of democracy that we see ne difference in the individual. No law has anv value whatever except as it gives men power to develop the individual. What has been the value of the personalitv in the development of the rare? The very keystone in the arch of Darwin's theory of evolution has been the individual. In meeting changing conditions the one man of the crowd who has differed from his fellows enejtigh to survive, has carried on progress. "Society is made over again and again by the individual and it is the province of the school to discover and to draw out the individualism in man." With these utterances as his text. Dr. K. II. Lindley of the university of Indiana, delivered before the Wayne County Teachers' association this morning, one of the ablest addresses ever given before that organization. The speaker who still holds his resielence in Richmond, though he lives at Bloomington most of the year, in his opening remarks declared that this city has done more in art and education to develop the individual, than any other city of Indiana. He touched the oft-discussed question cf genius and said that society can not produce it of its own will, but that, it can foster and develop it. Civilization has been made possible by geniuses. Let a genius appear in the savage tribe, and that tribe will soeui take its plae among civilized peoples. The civilization which these- men have led can be carried on only by the fostering of individuality among men. A republic like emr own in one way fosters and in another way hinders the development of a man. among his fellows. It hinders it by thinking of all men a on the same level. This error in our national make-up must Pe corrected by the w isdom of our public schools." Dr. Lindley will be the principal speaker at the banquet of the School(Continued on Page Six.)

FOUND SOMETHING? Then why not help the owner regain it? Nothing easier in the world and doing so gives you that giOd feeling that conies with Knowing thai you have been able to do a favor for seme fellow being. The surest and easiest way in which a lost article can be returned to the rightful owner is to insert a FOUND aJverilsenient in the Classified columns of the Palladium. The owner, you can wager, will b.- anxiously f.cancinsr the FOFNO advertisements to see if the lost artiei hoi hfrn found. .lust 'urn to paa" six anil look m(r io1'h f'lassified A'ivaruemnts. Tak our Wjord-Xor-it tli-axe eii pxUi reading.

HEAVY RAINS OF FRIDAY HAVE MADE THE FLOOD SITUATION THROUGH CENTRAL WEST VERY THREATENING AND PEOPLE ARE MOVING BACK FROM THE WHIRLING TORRENTS.

WEALTHY MERCHANT COMMITS SUICIDE Removed Boards From Bridge And Hangs Self. Muneie. Ind., Keb. 15. Henjainin Newbergr, aged 51, a wealthy merchant at Mathews, Ind., ceunmitted suicide today, by removing th' planks from a bridge spanning the Missis-sinew river and fastening a iepo to a beam and then placing the other end around his nee-k, jumping inio the waters. Ill health was the reason assigned for the deed. MAINE BLOWN UP TEN YEARS AGO Navy Department Lowers Flags. Washington, Feb. 15. The navy department gave its first official cogni zance of Maine Day and flags of the navy department everywhere were hung at half mast. Tea years aeo today the Maine was bleiwn up in Havana harbor. WILL MEET DEMAND OF NINE-HOUR LAW Railroads to Draw in Horns And Comply. Chicago. Feb. K. -Flans arc being made to meet the conditions of the Federal law limiting to nine hours the working day of telegraph operators, ami it is said that it is the intention of the operating officials of the railroads to meet, as far as possible, the conditions of the law when it becomes effective, March -1. SHAFF DEAD AT E IN PITTSBURG She Was Former Resident of Richmond. Mrs. Shaff, a former resident of this city and daughter of the late Dr. Moses Haynes, is dead at her home in Pittsburg. Pa. Mrs. Shaff was the wife of a well known Pittsburg minister. Her body will probably be brought here for burial. RAILROAD S VICTIMS Attorney General of Ohio Brings Suit Against Them For Back Taxes. NATURE OF A TEST CASE. Columbus. O.. Feb. 15 Attorney General KUis. brought suit today, again;-r the Columbus Hail way Co.. Liule Miami. P.. & O. S. V.. Cleveland and Pittsburg. Cincinnati Street Railway and the Forest Ci'y railways to recover $1. !'"". oon alleged to be due the state in back taxes and penalties for their non-pa tnent of suits. The suit filed is a test case to d'iermine whether or not public service corporations, not. in active operation of their own lines or plants, are liable for the taxes under the Willis and Cole laws.

HOUSES WASHED AWAY AND CROPS ARE THREATENED

Reports From Southern Indiana Indicate that Streams Are Rapidly Rising. Carrying Destruction in Their Path. DANGER FLAGS DISPLAYED ALONG THE OHIO RIVER. Both in Evansville and Pittsburg, Pa., Flood Warnings Have Been Posted to Notify The People of Their Danger. OLD WHITEWATER RISES. RIVER ALL DAY YESTERDAY CREPT HIGHER AND HIGHER UNTIL AT LAST IT BROKE OVER THE DAMS AT SEVERAL POINTS. DAMAGE IN WAYNE COUNTY. Reported That Many Bridges Have Been Swept Away White Many More Are So Insecure Travel Over Them Is Dangerous. The ordinarily peaceful and easy-going Whitewater river went on a rampage yesterday, due to the exceptionally heavy down pour of rain and for a time a flood was threatened. Fortunately, at an early hour this morning there was a fall In the temperature and the rain was turned into snow. Shortly after the arrival of the cold wave the river began to go down and at noon today all danger of a flood had passed, although the river is still considerably swollen. Tributary streams to the Whitewater were greatly swollen by the heavy rain and reports have been received that there has been considerable damage done throughout the county as a result of the high water. So far a is known no bridges are down, but several of them have been so damaged as to render them dangerous for travel. This morning at the Doran bridge the river wm fourteen feet high, but rapidly falling. Lent evening in that district of the city known ae Happy Holly, the river broke the confines of its bed and completely covered the bottom lands. This water did not quite extend to the several houses located in these bottoms, but it was feared that it would and the tenants of the little homes made hurried preparations to abandon thorn if necessary. At the Nixon paper mills, m-hich ate located in Happy Hollow, the ragihg river at its high water mark, just lacked one foot of going over the protecting walls and pouring into the factory buildings. This concern in the pat has been a frequent victim of the. river. People tvho stood on the Main street bridge last evening were unable to see the Starr Piano company dam. At this point the river rose so rapidly that it had scaled the dam in a short space of time. The high dykes which protect the territory occupied by th piano factory, held the river in check for a time, hut eventually this dyke was submerged and the water encroached upon the factory buildings. Not much damaee was done. At six o'clock last evening the dyke showed just about a fcxjt above water, but by eight o'clock it was submerged. ; Tt was reported that :.orn dania 1 was done to tn Carpenter mills, which , concern i.- located on the east bank of j the river between the two bridges. At ih municipal Light, Heat and Powee;ompany and street car company power plants no damnze was don. To reach thes plants the rivr has to rie to a considerable heightb. INDIANA FARMERS FLEE FLOOD. White River Spreads and Threatens Lowlands. Hazleton. Ind.. Feb. 15. The Wabash. White and Patoka rivers, responding to fifteen hours of rainfall. i which Las caused each stream to go on fa rampage, bid fair to cause a recordI breaking iood in this seer ion. . i On account of washed out bridges 1 Continued ui l'ase JvoJ