Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 3, 18 February 1908 — Page 1

ICHMONB ABIUM AIVJD SUN-TELEGRAM. A OL. xxx nr. no. :j. ItlCIIMOXD, LND., TUESDAY EVEXIXG, FKIiKl AIIV IS. HM)S. , sixgi.i: COPY. CENTS. MEAT SITUATION ATTRACTS INTEREST ALL OVER COUNTRY DtMOCRATIG HOST HEARD BRYAN LAST NIGHT AT BANQUET "UNDER PROW CLIFTON MERRILL IS MADE CLERK The Men Who Engaged in the Dastardly and Successful Plot To Assassinate King Carlos and the Crown Prince of Portugal

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By a Vote of Six to Five, Mayor Schillinger's Man Is Placed in Office by Legal ' Sanction.

COUiMCILMEN BUCKED IN BRONCHO FASHION it Did No Good However, for! The Mayor Cracked His Whip and Council Responded to His Wishes. TAGGART ACTED AS CLERK. CITY ATTORNEY STUDY TOLD HIM HE WAS DOING SO ILLEGALLY, BUT THE EX-OFFICER HELD THAT HE WAS NOT. LAW BOOKS RESORTED TO. 6tudy Wished to Show Taggart He Was Wrong and Taggart Vished to Make the City Nothing.' Attorney Out a HOW COUNCIL VOTED ON MERRILL APPOINTMENT. AYE. Bartel Deuker Levtwick McMahan Von Pein NAY. Brown Eurdsall F.nglebert Wettig Williams By a vote of six to fivP council in j t; pedal session last evening contirmctl the appointment of C. Y. .Merrill to succeed John F. Taggart as city clerk. Council bucked bronco-fashion jit the idea of appointing a democrat to ihf officv but Mayor Schillingor. ably coached by City .Vttorno T. J. Siiuly. cracked the whip and w?U Mr. Merrill's' appointment was confirmed. When the special session of council opened John F. 'Passu rt acted as city clerk, notwithstaiidins t fact, iliat' Jlr. Study told him and the coumiljnen that he was doins so in without legal authority. When Mi. Study cited some authorities ufsnpport his contention that Taggart had stepp"'l down and out from office the minute Hie had tendered his resisnaiion. Tas-Kart-caino boldly out into the open nnd showed that it was bis purpose to vithdraw bis resijinntion, if possible, nnd continue as city clerk. Ho calmly stated that Mr. Study was misquoting the authorities, then attempted to twist the snme amiioriiies around so that they would read to the effect that lie had the authority to withdraw his resignation. , WTmt Tagsart read was a decision cf a circuit .jm'.R:" in which it was ruled that if fin elective officer did not Stipulate the time his resignation was to take effect he had the authority to withdraw it. lie then read his resignation to show tluu it did not contain Any clause as to the- time it was to take effect. The decision read by Mr. Study was the one made by the supreme court of Indiana on the ruling referred to by Tasgart. This ruling of the supremo court set aside the ruling quoted by the ex-city clerk. It is as follows: "When an officer has transmitted his written resignation of n office to. and has been received by. the officer or authority appointed by law to receive it, to take effect immediately, tie cannot withdraw it. and there is a vacancy to be filled by the proper auihorip." As soon as council convened in special session Mr. Study staled that the mayor's appointment of Mr. Me:ri'J as city clerk was a valid appointment and that Mr. Merrill was Ugallv city clerk until council had either continued or rejected tliv appointment. Me paid thi Tasgart had tendered an absolute and unqualified resignation and that everything he had done since then was illegal. Councilman Ki.glelert wanted to know it in the event that Merrill's appointment was rejected, whether Taggart could legally continue to act as city clerk. Mr. Study replied that in such an event Taggart would he a de facto officer one who intrudes himself into and liolds a public office without legal Authority. After Mr. Study had cited his authorities on the subject the Ulayor permitted Taggart to address council. Mr. Study asked hir.i if he claimed to be legally city clerk. Tagpart replied that he d;d After Taggart had concluded his Statement to council Councilman Von IVIh majestically arose and moved tliat the appointment cf Merrill as city clerk be approved. "Under protest I second the notion" said Councilman Denker. - Immediately Von (Continued on Fage Five.)

TRUSTED FRIEND WENT TRAVELING WITH THE FUNDS

Another Chapter Has Been Written in the Hard Luck Story of Druggist Wills of Cambridge City. ICACC ROBBED TILL OF BETWEEN $75 AND $100. After Coming to Richmond He Left for St. Louis and Was Captured in That-City Will Be Brought Back. Another trouble has been added to the already long list of J. H. Wills, the Cambridge City druggist-. Yesterday he was robbed by a trusted friend. In the nasi two months he has U(,0I1 twice fined for assault and battery, once for maintaining a "blind tiger" and his wife just recently brought I suit for divorce. The 'trusted" friend was S. M. boasc, a middle-aged man. who is partially paralyzed. Lease has been operating a five cent moving-picture theatre belonging to Wills. Yesterday Wills had to come to Richmond on business and he left Lease in charge of the drug store. About noon the man opened t.ie cash drawer, no one I . ' being in the store at the unie, and : helped himself to everything that was . in it. This amount is estimated be-j tween $7.") and $10. After securing the moue. Lease came to Richmond, escaped on a train and was finally arrested in ir?t. Louis. The account of bis flight and arrest after a long chase is an interesting one. The first thing that Lease did on arriving in Richmond was to wire Wills at Cambridge City that he was iu trouble and that he would not return to Cambridge City until 11 o'clock last nigln. After sending the wire, Lease went to the local Panhandle station and bought a ticket to St. Louis and left on Train Xo. 7. which departs from here at 1:2') iu the afternoon. After lit' man had had two hours start the local police were notified of the affair. Chief Uailey wired to the Terre Haute policv to take Incase off the train oa its arrival there. I'nfortunateiy the officers there searched the wronir train and Lease continued blissfully on lus journey. The !St. Louis police were next notified to watch for the man and they succeeded in catchinir him as he stepped off the train in that city. Chief Bailey left for St. Louis last evening and h will bring Lease hack with him to answer a charge of grand larceny. Lease had only lived in Cambridge City about- two months. He was an old friend of Wills and on his arrival :n Cambridge he told tho druggist a hard-luck story and asked for employment. Wills at once placed him in charge of the "Xiekleodium." THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA AND ILLINOIS Rain cr j snow and warmer Tuesday night; '. Wednesday clearing and colder, j OHIO Wednesday rain or snow: warmer in eastern portion.

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Pictures have been received he e of some of the men who were engaged in the successful plot of assassination of King Carlos of Portugal, and they are here presented. At the left is Manuel Silva Buissa, who fired three shots into Carlos', any one of which would have proved fatal. This regicide was a schoolmaster. At the right is a picture of Louis Iiopez, the store clerk who shot down Crown Prince Luiz as he stood in the carriage firing his revolver at the assassins. In the center is the latest photograph of Portugal's boy King Manuel, who has already proven himself a monarch of ability.

MARRIAGE IS BLISS At Least W. F. Rost Seems to Think So and Has Dismissed Divorce Action. COUPLE'S MANY TROUBLES. William V. Rost and his better half, Mary A. Rost, have decided that wedlock may have its disadvantages, but that it is a whole lot better than single blessedness. This morning at the plaintiff's request, his divorce action was dismissed in the circuit court. Mrs. Rost owns a fine farm iu this county but she and her husband have been having a hard time living together, it seems. Several weeks ago Rost packed his clothes and came to Richmond where be instigated a divorce action. After doing this he went to Preble county, o., and obtained employment as a farm hand. Just a short time ago, Mrs. Rost learned of the whereabouts of her missing hubby and she immediately went after him. When she found him he was working in the field. Without was, of timc she tol(l Wm slle was tired of living: alone and wanted him fQ com& bfic,- honie wjth Rogt heaved a sigh and returned to the old homestea d. In his divorce complaint Rost. charged his wife with cruel and inhuman treatment. He said that she cursed him and threw things at him. A few months ago Mrs. Rost had her husband arrested on a charge of drawing a revolver on her. The divorce case of Eliza A. Tull against Hiram W. Tull was also dismissed today. MINERS RESCUED FROM THEIR PERIL Only One Was Killed by Rush Of Mud. Mt. Carmel, Pa., Feb. IS After their comrades had dug desperately for fifteen hours, the twenty-seven entombed miners were rescued from the Midvalley colliery this morning. One man was killed by the first rush of mud into the mine, but all the others are well. WIRELESS MESSAGE FROM THE FLEET Vessels Are Now 380 From Callao. . Miles Lima, reru. t ew. u a wireiess dispatch was received today from the American fleet which says the vessels are ".So mites from Callao.

RUPE IS PRESIDENT

Selected by the Directors Reid Memorial Hospital as Head. OTHER OFFICERS SELECTED At a recent meeting of the directors of the Reid Memorial hospital officers for the ensuing year were elected, committees appointed and members of the medical staff selected. The appointees are as follows: John L. Rupe President. Clements W. Ferguson Vice president. John H. Johnson Secretary. Adam H. Bartel Treastirer. Hospital Committee. George H. Eggemeyer, John Johnson, Adam H. Bartel, John ii. L. Rupe, ex officio member. Finance Committee. S. S. Strattan, Jr.. S. W. Gaar, John II. Xicholson, John L. Rupe and A. II. Bartel, ex officio members. Buildings and Grounds Committee. Charles E. Marlatt. H. W. Deuker, C. W. Ferguson, G. II. Eggemeyer. Medical Staff. Dr. F. W. Krueger, Dr. J. M. Bulla, Dr. Charles Marvel, Dr. J. E. King, Dr. S. C. Markley, Dr. J. E. Weller, Dr. M. F. Johnston, Dr. J. M. Thurston, Dr. C. S. Bond, Dr. C. P. Colburn. Dr. H. H. Weist. Dr. U F. Ross. Dr. I. S. Harold. Dr. E. P. Buche, Dr. G. H. Grant. AGED MAN'S EFFORTS GMIEDJM NOTHING He Attempted to Rescue Child And Both Suffocated. Bradford, Pa., Feb. IS Richard Karl, an aered man and his two yearold grandson were suffocated at their home early this morning. The aged man had returned to recue the child, and boih perished in the home which was destroyed by fire. E FACED PERJURY CHARGE Entered a Plea of Not Guilty And Was Released. N'ew York, Feb. IS Charles W Morse nlMded not ffniliv todar tn the ! . , . , K j hilJI- He as r-lpased on a $:,) bo&4.

Blcli0i BWTS

SCALE OF PRICES Independent and Union Ice Companies Have Merged Interests and Announce Plans for the Future. ACTION NOT UNL00KED FOR BY THE PATRONS. Predicted Two Weeks Ago That Merger Would Be EffectedAppraisements of Property Made Today. On March 1, B. B. Johnson, proprietor of the Independent Ice & Fuel Co., and George Rettig, proprietor of the Union Ice company, will merge interests under the name of the Richmond Ice Delivery Co. The announcement that the only two ice companies in the city have formed a combine comes on top of an announcement made about two weeks ago that the price of ice had been advanced. It was learned today that the ice combine was formed at the time the two companies held a joint meeting and decided to advance the price of ico to a sliding scale of from 15 to :J5 cents per hundred pounds. Former ly the price of ice was on a sliding scale, varying from cents to 30 cnts per hundred pounds. Appraisements of the property own ed by boMi the I nion and the Inde-i pend.-nt ice companies are being made today. Under the terms of the agreement entered into by Mr. Rettig and Mr. Johnson the combine is to continue for a period of ten years. One of the first acts of the ice combine will be to compell every consumer in the city to purchase coupon books. This action does not meet with the approval of the meat dealers, grocers, hotel keepers and other heavy consumers. They have in the past been paying by the week or cash for each consignment of ice received. The ice combine will control four ponds and two artificial ice plants. Both of these plants will be kept in operation as the supply of natural ice this year promises to be very scarce. The Union Ice company has three ponds while the Independent company has one. TWO KILLED Iff T Foreigners Engaged in Mortal Combat. Comielsvilie. Pa., Feb. IS As the result of a riot at Dunbar, between rival boarding house factions of foreigners, two men were stabbed to death, and six others were cut after a desperate battle. Officers arrested forty-flve men and these were taken to the Umiontown jail. A wagon load of weapons was secured.

BOARDING HOUSE RIO

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St. Louis Butcher's Journal

Hands the Local Meat Inspection Ordinance Several Full Ripe Lemons. DEFECTS OF MEASURE POINTED OUT AT LENGTH. Asserted That the Measure Will Put the Local Meat! Dealers Out of Business if Enforced. The Butchers' and Packer' Gazette of St. Louis, in a long article about the action of the Richmond city ouncil in passing the meat inspect ton or-j dinance takes a fall out" of the ordi- , i it ar.ee in question and states that it ; will be found effective so far as put

ting the butchers of this city out of There were others who had been hikebusiness. The article also states that . warm toward hint, and there were

I the Richmond city council has no ju risdiction over government meat inspection. After stating that C. B. Hunt of this city has brought action to test the alidity of he local meat inspection ordinance the journal has the following comment to make: Inasmuch as the city council of Richmond. Inii.. has io jurisdiction over government meat inspection, it could not therefore enforce the provisions of its ordinances, providing federal officers were unwilling to inspect. It would seem, therefore that, lacking the power to enforce the law under certain circumstances, would render it invalid and therefore unconstitutional. Det the city council of Richmond. Ind.. pass inspection ordinances modelled after the national inspection system and as the meat inspectors appointed would be under the jurisdiction of the city council, the ordinances could be enforced. Thr city council has no control over federal meat inspectors and therefore i;; without power to enforce the present ordinance, which can not be regarded otherwise than in restraint of trade. The forcing of federal inspection might also work a hardship on firms doing only a local business. It should

also be considered that the govern-; known views. His subject was. -rim ment on account of the added expense i iofnt of view." He carried his audi might not grant all requests, as firms eru.,. , a characteristic Bryan fashion, having federal meat inspection uener- j He was cheered until there were hunally do an interstate and export busi-j ,ire,js t sore political throats. He cnncss. The national inspection sys- i (!,,a vr.,i k, prove that President tern requires firms doing an interstate Roosevelt had taken up with the iavics business to have federal inspection. I ile had created. but the city council of Richmond. Ind.. n his first speech he dwelt at lengilt goes the government one better and on what he was pleased to term the

mm oj .wire .i sj.-ieiu oer wimcii u has no jurisdiction to apply locally. If the city council of Richmond.

... . . . . . r- . .. j question, if constitui ional. would be tf - jfective to that end. We believe in . proi'P1 lnsef uon- ljUr ,f,t 11 brought a nout by tne enactment or state and citv laws ftlid the annointrnpnl .if oni- ! petent meat inspectors. In Beoria. 111., a movement for the same kind of an ordinance has been inaugurated in order to save the city, according to the statement of one of the aldermen, the expense of meat inspectors. The national meat inspection law was not designed for any such pnrpo.-e and efforts to so construe will proe foreordained fiascos. AHHUALREPGRTSC II City Controller Will Show the Condition of the City's Finances. PRINTED IN BOOKLET FORM. City Controller Parry in a communication to council last evenir.c stated that he would be ready to submit the annual financial rtiiort of the city at the next council meeting, if required to do so. Mr. Parry btated that Unlaw required this report to be made in book form, so he sugge.;.t-d that it would be a good thing to have the reports of all departments of the city reproduced in this booklet. Council ejrdered this be done and that four hundred books should be printed.

inn., uesires io put. out or i.nsmess all j reference to the reason why ...e demthe local butchers who may slaughter j oerats can claim priority to remedial for the home trade, the ordinance in j legislation that has been suggested dur-

Made Two Speeches in Indian-

apolis Last Night Which Bore on Political Topics Confronting People. DEMOCRACY GETS CREDIT FOR MORAL AWAKENING, Says That the Party Has Brought It A!i About Eloquent Plea for Harmony Is Registered. Indianapolis, lnd.. Feb. I.-Williara Jennings liryan was last night the gins! of honor at a banquet given iu his honor at the Claypool hotel by the Indiana Democrat ic club. There wt'ie politu ians about him who had boiled the ticket both times he headed it. n. any who had sworn they never would break the bread at his lable. Tlure were hundreds of nis radical and faithful followers, who were alwas ready to brave almost anything in his liehalf. It was a new era for Hoosier Democrat ie hosts. Factional lines wen wiped out. At the htad of the host Biyau sat and i-milrd; he was more serene than tver before. iSome uih whispered to him just "before the feast was spread that the banqueters mom than likely would nominate him for the presidency. That broad smile spread over his expansive face. 'I'm not liie the school girl who said that 'this is so sudden." As Bryan marched into the banquet room, with John Worth Kern, who was touted as his probable running mate in the national campaign, he came near seat-, ing himself in a chair before which there was a card bearing an omlnou The " guests included party leaders frotn every county, making it the most notable gathering in the recent history of the democratic party in Indiana. Bryan made two speeches during the evening. The first was Masonic Hall, w lu re ho talked for an hour to nearly 'J,.nK Hugh Dougherty presided at the meeting. The principal address was at the banouet. Brvnn there nroceeded to ciaWate bis v .II. , v indicat ou of the democrat e narlv platform in the last 12 jears. He concluded h.s first speech with a brief jing the last few years, j In his banquet speech he dwelt briefMy on the vindic ation of his policies and he elaborated on "The point o view.'' The Great Awakening. He snoke of the great moral awakening that has taken place, and claimed that the democrats were largely responsible fr it. It was apparent that the great commoner regarded the- tariff, trust and railroad regulations questions. n vita! issues of the campaign. He discuss.-t these issues from his well-known point of view. He did not attempt to ma',e ither more important than the other. In fact, be did not seem inclined to eclare for anything as a jH-rrnaiien? is--tie. He discussed the labor question along lines he has been following- He advanced his former ideas about imperialism. One of the moFt interesting chapters of his speech was relative to the recent financial crisis. He railed it a plain 'panic,' and laid it to Wall street gambling. He declared thn' there has been too much gambl'ns there during the last 111 years iu wa'eitd stock. He did nrt accuse President Roosevelt of being responsible for tLm panic. A!l Harmony Now. Bryan declared that l.e never ban seen the democratic party united as 't is now or the republicans divi.Je.j as they are. He asserted thae President Roosevelt had made his radical idea", respectable. He declared that, the president has beer, especially helpfu" to him. He ridiculed the efforts of the republicans to keep from revising the tariff before the election. He suggested that in as muc h as George Ade has been elected a delegate to the national convention that he ought to b chosen to write the tariff plank, as It would require a ht.morist to write It for the republicans. He said the democrats s-tood lor an investigation of railroads that r.-ould prove what they were worth minus their watered stock, 'then they would pass legislation to resulate them. Mr. Ilo'ilett introduced Mr. Kern j (oas'niaster at the banquet. He reXrred to him Indiana's choice for