Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 1, 16 February 1908 — Page 1
MOM) . PAIXABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXX III. NO. i. I5ICII3IOXI), IXD., SUNDAY MORMXG, FEIU51WKY 10. 1JMKS. sinc.ij: copy, n cknts. CLEVER BAND OF YOUNG THIEVES WAS ROUNDED UP ONE OF MOST FAMOUS FIREMEN OF THE WORLD. SALOON MEN WILL FIGHT THE CLOSING ORDER SATURDAY REIGN OF TERROR IN NATIONAL CAPITAL LABOR LEADERS ARE NOW AFTER OFFICE HOLDERS MISSING GIRLS HIDDEN ON SHIP HYPNOTISM AS AN AID TO TEACHERS IS NOW ADVOCATED Congressman Sims Makes a Few Charges. Charges Will Be Investigated By Commander.
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About Everything in Center Township That Was Loose Was Taken by Them, According to Confessions.
POULTRY DEALER ALSO ENMESHED IN TOILS. Claimed That He Operated a "Fence for the Youthful Band Two Boys Were Given Their Freedom. As the result of an appeal made by residents of Centerville and vicinity, Chief Bailey of the Richmond police department bus rounded up a clever Jmnd of young thieves who bave Deen making life a burden to (be pood people of Center township. In the polire flrag-net George Linting, a Centerville )ioultry dealer, has been :iared. It. is rllepe(j by the police that Tainting bas been acting as a "fence" for the ! youthful crooks. The entire gang, the members of Vhich were not known to Chief Bailey, uere taken into custody as the result of confessions made by Tom Ammerman and Roily Savage, who were ar-jesU-d the first of last week for stealing about worth of catalpa seed. "VV1imi the boys were examined by Bailey he charged them with being Implicated in other thefts. Finally the lads broke down under the investigation and relntetl a story of wholesale Ihlevery. They implicated Karl DarJiell, Charles Blue, Billy Newman, Koy Jlilbert and Charles Thrine. They alo stated that all the chickens and 'turkeys stolen by the gang were sold to Linting. When the lads implicated by Ammerman and Savage were brought before Chief Bailey, they were persuaded to make complete confessions. A jierusal of these documents shows 1 hat about all the gang did not attempt to steal were the houses in Cenlerville. Collectively and individually the members of the Rang during the past six months have figured in about twenty "jobs." At. various farms in the neighborhood of Centerville numerous chickens and turkeys were stolen, butter T-as stolen from the creamery, meat was taken from a slaughtering establishment and catalpa seed was appropriated. AH told the property stolen by these young crooks is estimated to be valued at three or four hundred dollars. Darnell and Blue are just mere lads and Judge Fox has allowed them their liberty on a promise of fu1ure good behavior. Charley Thrine known as "Dickey Hat." is an orphan toy and has a knack of being perpetuately in trouble. He appears to bo li second edition of Huckleberry Finn. "Dickey Uat" in his confession stated that Animerman offered to allow him to live at his home if he stole half a liog from the slaughtering house. Uany of the statements made by Thrine are very amusing. Tainting has been released on bond. Three charges of having received stolen goods liave been placed against him. COUPLE WILL MARRY AFTER FORTY YEARS Aged Globe Trotter to Old Sweetheart. Take New York. Feb. in. Parted by a lover's quarrel more than forty years ago. a marriage ceremony today reunited "William Dixon Spaulding and Mrs. Mary Field Bates. Back in civil war days Spaulding was a suitor for the liand of Miss Field, but a misunderstanding parted them, and they did not meet again until a short timeigo. Miss Field, in the meantime, had married Dr. James Hale Bates, who died four years ago, leaving her a fortune estimated at Sl.ooiMxX Mr. Spaulding. who is a well known writer and globetrotter, is seventy-five years old. and Ills bride a few years jou tiger. "PICK IT UP," TOPIC OF ADDRESS Tilman Hobson to Address Men Today. This afternoon Tilman Hobson, the evangelist, will spe-al; ut the Grace M. K. church on the suhj.vt of "PUk It Vp." This meeting is for men only. nd it is expected that thue win be a large number in attendance. The meeting will start promptly at 3 o'clock. Since arriving in this city 3?vangelist Hobson has Attracted large rtwrds to his meetings and has concerted a large number of recpl
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.: are- . . . r! "k This is a picture of New York's newfire commissioner. Hugh Bonner. Mr. Bonner is one of the best known fire men of the world. He was for many years chief of the department of NewYork and organized the department in Manill-. He is expected to straighten out New York's badly demoralized tire department MAYOR MAKES GOOD IT Boehne of Evansville Many Letters. Gets Evansville, Ind.. Feb. IS. The mail of Mayor John W. Boehne, of this city, is loaded every day with letters from men and young women, who desire to be married. This grows out of the fact that a lew days ago Mayor Boehne received a letter from a farm-
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er in Colorado, who said he i" j years' Day. Memorial Day, the Fourth the mayor to- get a wife for him.j0f jny Rm Thanksgiving Day are "There are plenty of girls in Colora-specifically named an legal holidays
do" he wrote. but I am a little bit particular and desire an Indiana girl, j They are the best 'brand.' " n ti. . .i i i Ma-U,r H.enue sae uie tetter Pud-k-ity and since then he has been worried by the number of letters that, have come to him in regard to matrimony. In one day the mayor received fifteen letters from girls, who said they would be gl'd to accept the hand of the Colorado farmer, as he was so ; good as to compliment the Indiana! girls. The mayor says he wishes it distinctly understood that he is not running a matrimonial bureau. TAX GATHERERS MORE SUCCESSFUL Increase Is Shown in Collection of All Taxes. The annual report of the auditing department of the state auditor's office shows that tax officials have been busy collecting delinquent taxes during the last year. A decided increase is shown in the collection of taxes for nearly all the funds. Total settlements of county treasurers for the year give the following payments to the different fuuds: State tax. general fund. $:.M'.15.u7.75: Siate benevolent institution fund, S7Sl.-tos.il: staie school fund, SJ.'.CC,!tst).5.": state educational institution fund. $ l::o..',.l,,.c.o: county tax, s..5-,5,-CStUt; township tax. Sl.:'""j.r.-.'?..:1 : tuition tax. S.".. 1o.".S7.l'7: special school tax. .l.77.-".!' road tax. $1.J7.frfiS.OtS: relief of poor lax. s:;X'i.717.". The total of taxes collected during the year amounted to JMl.sti0.5!5.41. CULEBRA CUT YIELDS GOLOJO SILVER Returns of Find May Insure Government. ' Ilarrisburp. Pa., Feb. 15. Ores containing gold, silver and copper Jiave been found in the celebrated Culebra cut of the Panama canal. This has been ascertained by chemical investigation at the laboratory of Col. H. C.
Demming. consulting state geologist state convention to indorse his candiin this city. Three lots of the ore daov for United States Senator, with were sent here for determination and ,,0'iir. f iweivinc- the solid vote of
in every one of them the three metals were found, one of the samples l ing c-onsufet amy ncru-r in the precious metals than the others. Larger quantities are to he shipped jto ascertain what the profits will be: when the ores are properly worked up ! in bulk. The belief here is tha all! i the returns of the rich find will insure 1 lo the United States government.
Claim That Washington's Birthday Is Not a Legal Holiday and Steps Will Be Taken to Test the Law.
CLAIMED THAT THESE ARE NOT LEGAL HOLIDAYS. Dealers Claim That the Police Have No Right to Make Them Suspend BusinessAttorney's Opinion. It was stated last evening that in the event the police make an effort to close the saloons in this city next Saturday, which is Washington's birthday and, under I'rosecutor Jessup's construction of the law, a legal holiday, the saloon keepers will take steps to test the law. Since the action of the local authorities in compelling the saloons to remain closed on Wednesday last, Lincoln's birthday, several saloon keepers have consulted attorneys and have been informed that under the laws of the state, neither Lincoln's birthday or Washington's birthday were legal holidays and that, the police had no right to compel them to suspend business on either of these days'. Last "Wednesday an effort, was made by the temperance people in Indianapolis to have the authorities there close the saloons. City Attorney Crate Bowen was consulted on the matter by Chief Metzger of the police department and Mr. Bowen stated that the authorities would have no right to close the saloons on that date or on ; Washington's birthday. He said that j a decision of the supreme court of In- ! diana covers the question and makes it unnecessary for the saloons to close on either date. Under the acts regulating the sale of intoxicating linunr lie snirl. Christmas. New nd the Vision of the Supreme Court was that only tnose naraeu shall be enforced holidays for ti e sa loons. This action of the cou: t oc- - mt tlm n Memoris dav 111 I ' - " - " " " " " was not one of those named, it "having since been named by an amendment to the statute. TOWNE LONGS FOR A LUCID INTERVAL Democrats Are Mad to Sit Up And Take Notice. Washington, Feb. 1...- Former Representative Charles A. Towne of New Y'ork. in an interview today said: "I dissent with emphasis from the present tendency of many democratic leaders to represent the president as a typical democrat, and the disposition to commit our party to the program of continuing Rooseveltism. It is. in my opinion, not only wrong, but unwise as a policy. It is both bad patriotism and poor tactics. It surrenders the advantage of party initiative and abdicates the historic characteristic and beneficient doctrines of the organization. I believe the people are ready to welcome a president who would be content to enforce the laws, without seeking also to enact and interpret them. I believe in short, that it would be both patriotic and politic for the democratic party to promise the nation a lucid interval of constitutional government." BECKHAM FORCES TO CANVASS STATE Will Ask Commonwealth Endorse Him. to Louisville. Feb. 15 If the Kentucky Legislature should die in a deadlock, the original plan of former Governor J. C. W. Beckham and his followers w ill be carried out. This ! prog-ram comprehends a long and bitter contest within the Democratic party with the former Governor the central figure. He will take his cause to the people, will canvass the commonwealth, and will ask the next the Democrats in the next General Assembly. : , ':"" 'THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Cloudy Sunday, with snow flurries near Lake Michigan, OHIO Sunday, fair.
Washington, Feb. 1," The charge that a reign of terror exists in the city of Washington was made in the House of Representatives today by Mr. Sims of Tennessee. He referred to the robbery of a woman last evening in front of the British embassy, and it was
the iwenty-hrst oCJF'neh crimes committed ia this citf since September last. He denounced the police force of the city and referred to the fact that, although there was within quick call by telephone a regiment of cavalry and a regiment of marines, their services had not been enlisted to run down the criminals, who, ho said, were as a rule, negroes. THREAT IS ISSUED TO EXPOSE SEVERAL TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES Asserted That Many in Wayne County Have Been Using Discrimination in Selection Of Teachers. WAGE SCALE HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. Poor Teachers Employed at Minimum Scale in Preference to More Efficient Ones Resolutions Adopted. "Be it resolved that the trustees of Wayne county in the future apply the minimum wage law so that there will be no discrimination against any class of teachers." The above was one of the resolu-
tions adopted at the close of the : didates for state and other offices. Wavire county Teachers' association! If is expected that the next fewweeks will see an unwonted stir in the Saturday. It followed an attack upon ,ndiana political situation as a result the methods of several trustees. It is;0f the efforts of labor leaders to get asserted that some of the so officials j at the truth and to reform what they
,i.ivi,,o to !iv monev hired t eaehers ! . ' . . . . I who are not f.tted for then- posi.tons , -. au.-,.- " """i- ; calling for the lowest scale of wages, In these townships it is difficult for an able teacher holding a first grade license to obtain employment. In other tc wnships it is the method of the trustee to get hold of all the teachers in sight who have the first grade license and to reject all applicants who hold second or third class license. The teachers of the county have taken a decided stand against such high handed proceedings because they believe that it is working hardship to the schools, and to the profession of teaching. Unless the trustees change their method and abandon the discrimination, they threaten to expose the offenders. WATSON WANTS TO AID RAILROADERS Introduces Bill Which Meet With Favor. May Washington. Feb. 1.". Representative James E. Watson has introduced a bill in the interest of railroad employes. Under its provisions it shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, "to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car not equipped with secure ladders, side steps, running boards and roof handhold and the location and application of said ladders, side steps, running boards and roof handholds shall be as prescribed by the Master Car Builders' association in standards for the protection of the train men." PRINCESS PATRICIA TO WED ft- COUNT Conversion to Catholicism Delays Marriage. Rome. Feb. 15. The rumor of the betrothal of the Princess Patricia of Connaught, and the Count of Turin is apparently well founded. The delay ; in the official annourieement is due ! to the question of the conversion of; the princess to Catholicism not yei be- : ing settled. The constitution does not insist that 1 the -wife of a royal prince be a Catho- i lie. but a mixed marriace would be uu- j 4 $rcde&ied iu the House of Savoy.
Will Send Protest to Governor Hanly and to. President on Behalf of People to Stop Political Activity.
CANDIDATES' RECORDS WILL BE EXPOSED. Labor Committee Has Made Investigation and Four Candidates for Governor Will Get Ax Is Kuhn One? Indianapolis, Feb. IT.. 'Candidates for Indiana state offices, both democrats and republicans, are now- being scrutinized by organized labor. Influential labor leaders from all parts of the state are in Indianapolis at this. time, and they are here to go over the records of the men who aspire to the office of governor. Two republican candidates and two democratic candidates for governor, it is said, will have their records placed before the people. One of the most important of the things to be done by these labor leaders will be the sending of committees to tho state house and to Washington, D. C, to protest against the activity of state and federal officers and employes in state politics. Labor men say that these servants of the people are paid salaries by the people to do the people's work and that they should not give the people's time to boosting this or that candidate for governor, or for other political preferment. The people do not pay their servants to do political hustling. A committee of labor men will ask Governor Hanly to put a stop to the political activities of state employes and officers. Another committee will travel to the nation's capital, and there lodge a complaint against federal employes w ho are said to be working on the people's "time," in the interests of can regard as tneir proper political :unctions. three montns to an investigation of the men j who now aspire to state offices. As a 'result of these inquiries, several can- ; u",c" "K i-enumru -' ueceiiu themselves and to explain their rec ords to the assembled labor men. It is intimated that some surprises will be sprung. The democrats who ! are to be put on the griddle, it is said : are such men as w ill furnish a real .surprise to the public and to the demi ocratic party. ! The men who have this matter in ; charge say they do not desire to injure any man. They declare that they feel the time has come when political parties in Indiana should make up clean slates of honest men in whom the people may place the utmost confidence. ANOTHER RUSH TO THE GOLD FIELDS Rivals That of Klondike Ten Years Ago. rush to Alaska, rivaling that to the Klondike ten years ago, has started. Indications are that 20.000 miners and prospectors will go to the Northwest gold camps in the next few months. High wages reign in every mining camp of Alaska and the British Yukon. In addition the Morgan-Guggen-beim-Havemeyer interests are build-: ine a trans-Alaskian railway tin the!
Copper River valley to reach what : coming 1 Indianapolis was to address Henry Rratnober, for years the Lon- the "Big Meeting"' of th" Young Men's clou Exploration company's copp'T ex- Christian association, but when it was pert, declares is the richest copper: learned that th" Nbraskan was to vis.district yet discovered. jit the citj many oilier events w re New gold strikes are reliably re-j planned. l)emirats jrdKd to Piit'-r-ported from tlu! outlying Klondike j tain him at a banquet, ministers wi.-h-creeks from th Srwart. White and cd to hear him on theolouy. eongregaPelly rivers and the Tanana, Koyoukit j tions of prominent churches wished to
and Copper river districts. RESIGNS POSITION. Irraa Horn has resigned her position as bookkeeper and stenographer with the firm of E. F. Shideler and company of this city.
Why Not Make a Trade? There is more than one way to get rM of an article and make a profit by the transaction. For instance If you have- fomething you want co dispose of, why not offer it in exchange for something somebody else has? Thar is. offer to exchange jf for some definite thing you want. The best and quickest way to do this is to put a FOR TRADE advertisement in the Classified columns of the Palladium. People are always looking for a deal of some kind and they will be quick to snatch up whatever you offer for Trade in the Palladium's Classified columns. Have a try at it. Look at today's Classified Advertisements on page six. "
st. loui:-. Mo.. Feb. l.Y Charges have been made that do ernnic :it sailors have been using the naval training ship Huntress, anchored at BisseH's Foiut. North St. Louis, as a rendezvous and hiding place for runaway girls under age. will be investigated by Lieutenant Commander W. F. Roberts, of the Missouri Naal lieserves. Mrs. Bertha I'radlers reported to the police that she had learned that her sixteen-year-old daughter, Met a had spent the week before her disappearance from home as a cucst on the Huntress. Complaint has also been made that Miss Lulu Kleine. aged missing from her home here, spent some time on the federal ship since her parents last saw her. Roy Sanderson, a handsome seaman, in charge of the Huntress, admits these girls spent some time on the ship since they left home. He says he does not know where they are.
THE SHAH STILL LIVESJT IS SAID Report That Persian Ruler Is Dead Not Believed. London. Feb. 1.j No credence w hatever is attached here to the reports from Vienna that the Shah of Persia had been assassinated. The charge of the Persian legation in london declared today that there was no ground for apprehension, and that if anything had happened to the Shall the legation undoubtedly would have been notified. A telegram received here from Paris says the Persian minister to France received several messages from Teheran last night on ordinary business and that no mention was made of any incident that could have occasioned tho rumor. SHERIFF ACCUSED OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY ' Charges Fiecj by His DaUgh-ter-in-Law. Kokomo, lnd.. Feb. 15. Au affidavit charging Sheriff Joseph M. Lindley with assault and battery has been filed in Justice Doty's court by Maud N. Lindley, the sheriff's daughter-in-law. She alleges that on the evening of February 4. the sheriff entered her home, cursed her. struck her in the mouth with his fist, kicked her and finally dragged her to jail and locked her up f c- several hours, releasing her only when her friends threatened the sheriff with prosecutiou for unlawful arrest. BRYAN BUSY IN THE CAPITAL CITY Will Deliver Many Addresses There. Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 15. Practically all Indianapolis will join tomorJ"lngB Bryan, who comes to thi cit" as th Principal figure of almost a dozen important affairs, covering a Period of two full days. Politicians ! anfl church. folk will divide between themselves the time of the Commoner, aDd citizens generally will have numerous opportunities of seeing and Hearing him. The primary object of Mr. Bryan's see him in the pulpit, prominent. it izen.3 wished to entertain him at their homes and hundreds of plain people demanded that they be allowed to greet him. As a result of this combination of wishes and demands, several meetings and dinners have been planned.
Dr. E. H. Lindley Says That Lessons Drawn From This Science Will Aid in Controlling Children.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IS ALSO DEALT WITH. Claim That This Belief Will Revolutionize Religion, But Speaker Points Out Weaknesses Along With Praise. "The IVdagogieal Message of Hypntism and Suggestion." was the mibjert of Dr. E. H. Lindley s second address before the Wayne County Teachers' association Saturday afternoon. Again the speaker showed his deep know I edge of pedagogy and science as well as his mastery of the occult arts, and his lecture wast enthusiastically received. Dr. Lindley declared that from hypnotism has come the suggestion which will reolut ionise the art of pedagogy. To suggest to the child, not demonstrate to him. is the principle which he expounded. In France the. incorrigible children are treated by skilled hypnotist who reform them b suggestion. Speaking of Dowlc. he declared that while the second Elijah was a rank imjHster, he had many remarkable cures to his credit, all duo to hynotism. He spoke at length ou Christian Science, discussing the good and the bad which exists in that great movement. It is his opinion that Christian Science will yet reform the orthodox church and that hypnotism will revolutionize medicine and pedagogy. In part he said: "Every night you pass through a series of states In any of which if arrested, you would be hypnotised. Hipnotlcs covers a wide range, far wider than the average layman thinks. There arc four Btagen. In the first stage, the subject merely sleeps. In the second stage the subject not only sleeps, but his motor activities are slightly under control of the hypnotist. The hypnotised person in the third stage, will perform any services at the suggestion of the operator, but he still refuses to accept illusions. For instance, if it is suggested to hlni that he heard an orchestra play when there is no orchestra playing, he says that he does not hear it. The higher faculties of his mind are still free. In the fourth and final stage the subject will do anything and accept any illusion which in made by the operator. His individuality is completely submerged into that of the other. "Hypnotism is not an anomoloua and infrequent state, but a universal condition. Fully eighty per cent of the normal people of the world can be hypnotized by a skilful operator. Whether a person in such a state can be made to do anything against his will is a burning moral question. It appears from observation that in proportion as a character nas solidity, it will resist an unwh.. esome suggestion. "The French are leaders in this science. Their word for the relation of subject and operator is repolr, a word for which we have no equivalent in English. It means a fusion of two individuals. They have used It in the treatment of diseases for thirty years, and it is slowly making its way into tflis country. In Paris incorrigible school children are treated by a successful hypnotist. If they have kleptomania, are subject to nail biting or are cigarette fiends, they are first hypnotized and then told not lo do these things. Slowly around them during these scenes, are built up the principles of right living. "HypnotiRm was one of the agents which Dowie, the healer, relied and It mut be said of him that though a rank imposter. he had many remarkable cures to his credit, due to his power to suggest. "Christian Sciene-e is making tfa greatest use of hypnotism today. ThU world-w-ide movement is found-d upon a rude philosophy, but it is a tremendous force nevertheless. The philosophy of Mary Baker Eddy, when viewI cd bv the side of that of Plato, loo! s like a mud house compared with a cathedral. Her leading principle is that matter does not exist. Now it would be hard to make a man with a bleeding arm believe this, but it does appeal to the man in easy circumstances. That is just why Christian Science gets hold of se many people in the upper strata of society, and it will yet revolutionize the orthodox churches of the, world. But it will find its downfall becaus It operates in opposition to all the known laws of science. No man has a right to stand between you and the ligature or the antiseptic, when you are bleeding to cicatb. Surgery is a field into which Christian Selene cannot and should not bo allowed to ent-r. "Thi new faith will rejuvenate mtdj kine as well as the church, becaus I what we need most in faith in faith, j .Vedicine w ill reject most of it. but w 111 I accept and incorporate the vital prillI tiples." 4
Lfx. Lindlcj also paid his respects to