Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 7, 22 February 1908 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXABIIJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, VOL. XXXIII. NO. 7. IUCIDIOND, IND., SATURDAY EYEXIXG, FEliUUARY 22, 191)8. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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HARRY MARSHALL DENIES THAT HE

IS IVlan Who Attempted to Kill i Kjs Father Asks for His Release From His Place of Confinement. AUTHORITIES THINK HIM SANE, BUT ARE AFRAID. Thought That as He Has Been Declared Insane, They Have No Authority to Allow The Man His Freedom. Deserted by all the mom hers of his family, except an aunt who lives in Orange county, ami strenuously denying that he is insane, Harry Marshall who has been confined in the countyJail since last April, wants to be released. His aunt, Mrs. Sparks, states that she will provide a home for him, but Sheriff Meredith refuses to free Jiim for legal reasons, and Superintendent Smith of the Easthaven Inflane hospital refuses to admit him to that institution at the present time because there is no room for him. Judge Fox states that inasmuch as Marshall has been adjudged insane, the court has no authority to act in ils case. In the circuit court this morning. Attorney John F. Robbins stated that Marshall had asked him to work in his behalf. Mr. Robbins stated that he thought the man ought to be released Troin jail and said that he understood that the young man's grandfather was willing to provide n home for him. When Marshall was brought into court he stated that his grandfather had never told him that he would care for him: that, his father, (Jrant Marshall, had ignored him and that he appeared to be deserted by nil his relatives except his aunt, Mrs. Sparks, who had told him he could live with her. Mr. Robbins said that he really did not see how the young man could be released from jail as he had been arrested on a criminal charge, shooting with the intention of killing his father, and that later he had been adjudged insane and ordered held at the jail ptvidtug admission to Easthaven. Mr. Robbins thought that it might be possible to release him if one of his, relatives would provide a home for him. Judge Fox stated then that he would have no authority to take such action and Sheriff Meredith protested against it. "I am held responsible for him and until I receive a yroper order for his release I intend to hold .him at the jail. Personally 1 do not think he is insane as he has never ncted that way in jail." stated the sheriff. Meredith is of tho opinion that it will be necessary for Marshall "To be admitted to Easthaven before lie can be given his liberty. Prosecutor Jessup stated that he nad Interested himself on behalf of the young man but to no avail. He said that the father refused to do anything for the boy and insisted that he 1e held In custody for fear that If he was released he would make another Attempt on his life. The prosecutor stated that Marshall suffered from emotional insanity and that he thought he could be cured by having his skull trephined. He said that the costs of having such an operation performed on his son, but that he had refused to do this. NO APPOINTMENT IE BY Will Announce Merrill's Successor Soon. Mayor Schilliuger has not yet appointed a successor to C. W. Merrill, who resigned his place on the board of public works to become city Clerk. Mayor Schillinger states that ho is considering several applicants for the office and will probably announce his appointment the first of next week. FREIGHT TRAIN ACTED AS PROTECTOR Crashed Into a Gap in Track Intended for Passenger. Sedalia, Mo., Feb. 22 An attempt was made last night to hold up a Missouri-Pacific passenger train Xo. 4, near Otterville. The attempt was unsuccessful owing to the fact that an extra freight train ran ten minutes ahead and went into the gap where h rail had been removed. Engineer Johnson and fireman on the extra weje buried beneath the cugiue on which, weffe piled several cars.

INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE MEETS IN CHICAGO

Hearst Points Out Short Comings of Old Parties. Chicago, 111., Feb. 22 The National conference of the Independence league opened in the auditorium hero today with five hundred delegates in attendance who voiced a unified demand for a new national party. Win. R. Hearst outlined the deficiencies of the present parties and demanded a party founded on old' American principles, those of Washington and Jefferson. BATTLE FOR FLAG Seniors and Juniors Have a Conflict Over Colors of The Former Class. RAMPART WAS STORMED. At the banquet tendered the members of the junior class of high school by the members of the senior class, which event was held at I. O. O. F. hall last night, a row ensued, and as a result the juniors captured the senior banner. About seven o'cloc k, six juniors invaded the hall, which was only garrisoned by two seniors, John Clements and Emmet Bartel. When these two noticed the approach of the attacking party they tore down the banner and threw it over the partition which separates the cloak room and the room used for a kitchen. Bartel and Clements then mounted to the top of the partition with the intention of defending the banner from the contaminating hands of the juniors. Scorning such an obstacle as a thin, wood partition. which lacks about three feet from reaching the ceiling, the juniors rushed to the attack and scaled the rampart, which was surmounted by a strand of barbed-wire. Clements and llartel valiantly attempted to repulse the attack, but only succeeded in getting hurled off the partition head first. The invaders then dropped down into, the kitchen and secured the seniors' banner. Both attackers and defenders had their hands considerably scratched by the barbedwire. After this outbreak of hostilities the hatchet was buried by the two classes and the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing and feasting. The stolen banner is still on the missing list. "The juniors took us by surprise. If we had known they were coming so soon we would have had a larger force on hand to defend the hall," stated Clements today. The fair co-eds of the senior class hail cements and Bartel as heroes. SEN0R1TAS "RUBBER" Visited Sailors on Board Admiral Evans' Ships Yesterday. IMPROMPTU BALL GIVEN. Callao, Peru. Feb. 22. Dark-eyed Peruvian senoritas, with their madres and padres, flocked aboard the vessels of Admiral Itobley D. Evans' United States battle ship fleet yesterday afternoon, and "rubbered" arounrK to their hearts' content. Orders have been issued permitting visitors in the afternoon between 2 and 5 o'clock, and tae entire population of this section of Pent is taking advantage of it to board the ships. Aboard the Kentucky several families were visitors. As there were a number of Peruvian belles among these, some of the handsome American officers immediately bestirred themselves and had an impromptu ball aranged in no time. The ship s band was brought forth, a space cleared on deck and there was dancing galore for several hours. One of the bright spots in the stop here was the arrival and distribution today of over 800 bags of mail from the United States containing loving messages for almost every one with the fleet. Admiral Evans is improving and is now able to walk with a cane. RELIGIOUS ADViSOR OF PRESIDENT DEAD Bishop Satterlee Died This Morning. Washington, D. C, Feb. 22 Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee, bishop of Washington, a well known prelate, writer, friend of J. P. Morgan, and regarded as spiritual 'adviser of President Roosevelt and his! family, died here thin morulas.

CAMPAIGN WILL

BE WAGED AGAINST PROHIBITION WAVE AlljedJYades and Societies Will Join .Hands With Liquor Interests in Hope of Checking Sentiment. SYSTEMATIC EFFORTS WILL BE MADE BY THEM Federation Will Carry on Its Business Through an Executive Committee Composed Of Union Representatives. Chicago, Feb. 22. Battle is to be offered prohibition in every city, town and county in the United States through the medium of a vast National federation with executive headquarters in Chicago, and composed of every association connected directly or indirectly with the liquor trades. This was the formal announcement made by John A. McDermott, manager of the Organization Bureau of the project. Arrangements for the liauor interests and allied trades and societies to Ljom hands in a stupendous campaign fcigainst Prohibition have been under way lor several months, but it has not been felt that the time was ripe for a public announcement of what, it is declared, will be the most remarkable fight yet undertaken in this country by a single industry. The general plana have now been formulated, however, and accordingly have been made public. The federation, which will carry on its business through an executive committee composed of representatives from the more important organizations included, is planned to take in the brewers and maltsters' associations, the retailers and wholesalers' associations, and manufacturers and dealers' clubs, liberty leagues of salesmen and all associations connected with the allied trades. In the term "allied trades" the liquor interests group the glassmakers, saloon fixture manufacturers, cooperage works, i cigar manufacturers, soda water makers and every other trade and manufactory which in any way contributes to the business carried on by the liquor trade. Will Appeal to Labor. In addition to these associations it will be sought to obtain the co-operation of labor organizations connected with the liquor and allied trades and the active help of such general organizations of citizens as the German Alliance and the United Societies of Chicago. The plan, in short, is for welding into a cohesive whole, with all parts pulling together, of every species of society in the country which can have a direct or indirect Interest in seeing that prohibition is beaten. It is estimated that the organizations which will give active aid to the Central Executive committee will have a total membership of 1,200,000 voters, representing 7,000,000 personB. The campaign to be entered upon will include the formation of a publicity bureau, which will send out masses of booklets, leaflets, statistics and arguments of all kinds in support of the liquor trade. The liquor trade, through its spokesmen and writers, is to insist that If national prohibition occurs it will be a "calamity only equaled by the Civil War" and "conditions akin to those produced by a revolution" will take place. For the Farmer's Benefit. Besides a general "education" of the public at large, a special campaign is to be made for the farmers' benefit. It is stated that $200,000,000 of all farm products taking every kind are used annually by the liquor trade, and that the agriculturalist faces a tremendous loss if prohibition continues to gain in the future as It has in the past. In addition to these publicity" movements, the federation will be thoroughly organized in every stafte through state associations, composed of all the organizations in each state directly or indirectly interested in the liquor trade. These state associations in turn, will see that each state is organized in city, town, county and rrecinct. "A sweeping organization of the entire United States" is the slogan in this regard. With this network of organizations the liquor trade will then be in a position, so its spokesmen prophesy, to offer battle against prohibition in much more telling fashion than in the past. Local option and every kind of prohibition or temperance legislation will be fought to the utmost. Unpaid franchise tax under the socalled "Ford Amendment." now aggregate about $21, fiTiO.ono in New York city alone, according to the report of the tax commission. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Sunday fair and warmer. OHIO Sunday fair nd warmer "

CAN YOU BEAT IT?

Evansville, Ind., Feb. 22 Employes and several tramps at the municipal lodging house went on a strike today, claiming the wood they had to chop was too hard. T C, C. & L. Passenger Train In Northern Indiana Stranded. CAN MOVE NEITHER WAY. Snowed in and probably not out yet, is the experience of Conductor Beckschultz and his crew on a C, C. &, L. passenger, which since early Wednesday morning has been stalled in a snowdrift between Merrillville, and Beatrice, about thirty-five miles south of Chicago. The train left Cincinnati Tuesday night at l o'clock. The train passed Beatrice, Ind., when to their surprise, the engine crew discovered they could go no further. After struggling for several hours they tried to go back to Beatrice and found this also was impossible. There, in this position, the train has been standing ever since, unable to move a foot. The last dispatch received fro mthat point said the train had as yet been unable to get out. A large number of men is employed digging the train out, and it was thought tat they might succeed in getting out tuis afternoon. EDGAR M. HAAS ISSUES OFFICIAL corns CALL According to Representation, Wayne County Will Have The Largest Delegation at The Big Meeting. WAYNE TO SUPPORT HER CANDIDATE TO THE END. Campbell's Colors Will Be Flaunted 116 Delegates To Vote for Representative At That Time. Today District Chairman Edgar M. Haas, issued a call "To the Republicans of the Sixth congressional district of Indiana and all those who desire to cooperate with them," to meet in a delegate convention to be held at Shelbyville, Thursday, April 9, for the purpose of nominating a successor to Congressman James E. Watson. Carrying the banner of J. O. Campbell, and with the battle cry "We win or go down with our colors flying." the Wayne county delegation, twenty-four strong, will attend. All the delegates it is a safe bet, win support the minister to the bitter end, if such action is necessary. The call issued by Chairman Haas reads as follows: Pursuant to an order of the Republican District Committee, you are invited to meet in delegate convention, in the city of Sbelbyville, in Shelby county, on Thursday, April J), for the purpose of nominating a candidate for representative from this district to the congress of the United States. The convention will assemble at iO:30 a. ni., for the purpose of organiza tion and the transaction of all other ! business except the nomination ofj the candidate for congress. The convention will reconvene at 1 i o'clock and proceed with the election of a candidate for congress. The convention shall be composed of 116 delegates, apportioned among the several counties of the district on a basis of one delegate for ever votes, and for each additional fraction of more than 100 votes cast for Fred A. Sims for secretary of state at the November election. li the several counties being entitled to the following representation, viz.: Decatur, 13; Fayette, lv Franklin. 7; Hancock, 11; Henry, 1"; Rush,, 13: Shelby, 16; Union, 5; Wayne, 24. Necessary to choice, Z0. Tickets to the convention will be distributed by the district chairman to the various county chairmen for their respective counties. The county committees of the several counties wherein delegates have not been chosen, will apportion to the different townships of their respective counties the representation to which they are entitled, and make the necessary arrangements for the selection of delegates accordingly, giving notfee at least two weeks by publication in the republican press of their counties of the time and place of meetings for tbe selection of said delegates. EDGAR M. HAAS. Chairman Sixth Congressional District. fiefcmouit lad, Ftb, 3VU&

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LABOR WILL BE DEALT WITH IN SPECIAL MESSAG

E Roosevelt Will Send Special Message to Congress Dealing With the Situation From Railroad Standpoint. WILL SHOW RAILROADS ARE RESPONSIBLE. Aim to Stop the Reports Issued by Them That He Is Responsible for Contemplated Wage Reduction. New York, Feb. 22.-A Washington special says: The rights of labor and the serious condition of the unemployed, it is stated, will be the two main features of a message the president is about to send to congress. It is understood that the labor question will be treated from the standpoint of the railway employes especially, as nearly all the information the president has relates to that class of labor and the dangers which threaten it in the near future. He has been in consultation with such eminent authorities in railroad situation and labor economies as James Speyer, of New York, and President Mellen of the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad. It has been the uniform custom for the president, before sending messages on special subjects, to consult with some of his closest friends. 'Twas Anticipated. The president anticipated to some extent his interest in the railway employes' situation by his recent letter to the interstate commerce commission. He showed in that letter that he intended to make a direct issue with railroads that purposed to reduce wages or dispense with the services of men and compel, them to justify their action. He will not meekly accept the allegation that it is the hostile attitude of the administration toward capital that makes such reductions necessary. It is expected, therefore, that the message will be an answer to such criticisms, and that the President will have ample reports from Labor Commissioner Neall and Chairman Knapp, of the interstate commerce commission, to sustain whatever recommendations or statements he will make in the document. Another question, that of the increasing number of the unemployed, the president has already discussed with experts. In order to treat the subject fully the president has asked for statistics and other data aside from the generalized statements that have been made to him about the unemployed. The Railroad Side. The railroad situation, however, is the branch of the subject in which the president is credited with being most interested. The railroads, or at least some of them, have intimated that it is because of "administration policies" that they will be obliged to reduce the wages of their employes. He does not know how many railroads will reduce wages, but he had anticipated any possible situation by his letter to the interstate commerce commission. While it is not clear how the president can meet the situation by legislation, if the facts warrant it, he purposes to throw the whole burden for the reduction in wages and dismissals from employment upon the railroads themselves by proving that the business of the corporations is in such shape as to make retrenchment necessary. Incidentally-, if the railroads carry out their plans of reducing wages and dispensing with the services of many employes the number of the unemployed will be increased, and this is the connection which it is said the president will make in his message between the two features he purposes to discuss. WIFEY WILL HAVE NO MORE VIGILS.! Hubby Must Now Go Home Early in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Feb. 22 Without exception the police have ordered all clubs in Greater Pittsburg closed at midnight in the future. The order is the result of many complaints from parents and wives.

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DATE SET FOR SMITH-VAUGHAN CASE Study May Ask Postponement From March 16. The date for the hearing of the Smith-Vaughan breach of promise case has been s t for March 10. It is doubtful, however, if the case will start on that date at Attorney T. J. Study, who represents John J. Vaughan, states he will not be ready to try it on that date. Attorneys for the 'plaintiff insist that it be called for a hearing at that. time. DRISCHEL ARRESTED Cambridge City Marshal, Accused of Assault and Battery. TOWN BOARD IS ANGRY. Yesterday afternoon Marshal Dan Drischel of Cambridge City, came to Richmond and immediately called upon Sheriff Meredith, who arrested him on an affidavit, filed in the circuit court by Prosecutor Jessup, charging him with assault and battery on Wil liam Armstrong, an employe of the Starr Piano company. Drischel was reieased on bond. No date for the hearing of his case has yet been set. Drischel denies that he assaulted Armstrong. When the statment was made to one of the members of the town board of Cambridge City that Prosecutor Jessup would appear before the board and demand the dismissal of Drischel because he had attempted to collect an illegal fee, the board member referred to, stated that such action on the part Ol the prosecutor would be resented by the board. "We will not thank the prosecutor for interfering in our own business We feel that we are capable of acting on the case without his assistance," be stated. Judging from this remark, the town board of Cambridge City intends to back its marshal and will refuse to dis charge him from office for alleged grafting" tactics. If it can be prov en that Drischel, in nis official rapae ity. attempted to secure a 2 fee for hh services in the Armstrong case, it is probable that he will be prosecuted ou the charge of malfeasance of office. BEAUTY FOUND DEAD Natica Rives Burden Met Death by Inhaling Gas Fumes. SUICIDE HAS BEEN DENIED. New York, Feb. 22 Mrs. Natica Rives Burden, aged 22. one of the most prominent young society matrons of this city, was found dead in her handsome residence, 908 Fifth avenue, yesterday afternoon. She was a very warm personal friend of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and was as well known in Washington and European capitals as in New York. Her father was O. H. P. Belmont, and she was the step-doughter of Former Corporation Counsel Rives of New York. She was married to William T. Burden, prominent in society and a millionaire many times over, but six months ago. Her married life was considered happy. Her death was occasioned by gas poisoning. The family say it was an accident. They assert that Mrs. Burden had been ill for some time and that her sick room was heated by a gas stove. In some manner the tube was disconnected. It is pointed out that it is improbable that her luxurious bedroom in one of Fifth avenue's handsomest mansions would be heated by a cheap ga stove. The coroner has no other Information, and reporters have been refused admission at the home. TRAIN WRECKED. Couneisville. Pa,, Feb. 22 A Baltimore and Ohio train w as wrecked at Salesbury Junction this morning. The passengers were badly shaken up and one was severely hurt. The entire train was derailed.

RICHMOND BUSINESS MEN WERE URGED TO ADVERTISE CITY

Clinton Rogers Woodruff De livered a Message of Civic Improvement to Commercial Club Last Night. "CITY BEAUTIFUL" WAS ADVOCATED BY HIM. Public Improvements Are the Greatest Advertising Medium for Any City Cleveland Cited as Example. Richmond business men were urge to advertise and boost the city by adopting a practical plan for public improvements, when the Hon. Clinton Rogers Woodruff addressed the Commercial club members last evening in the Masonic hall. There was a large audience, many of them women, and everyone was greatly impressed with the statements made by Mr. Woodruff. He is a recognized authority on municipal affairs and is a practical advocate of "the city beautiful." Mr. Woodruff was Introduced by the Hon. William Dudley Foulke. After his presentation he stated that he was greatly pleased to be in Richmond and then launched immediately Into his subject. For a time, Mr. Woodruff stated, he found many people Interested in the fundamental principles of pubric improvement but this interest died out when it came to applying the principles locally. However at the present time, he stated, there is now a general movement to advertise and "boost" cities and towns through the medium of public Improvements. The speaker cited Cleveland. Ohio as a city which had gained world wide advertising because of its good city government and its adoption of a unique plan of public improvement which is now being used as a model by cities all over the United States. Mr. Woodruff stated that it cost the city of Cleveland $16,000,000 to make these improvements but that the advertising they had given the city had more than reimbursed the municipality for this amount. "Civic competition is no longer based on population, stated Mr, Woodruff "but by good city goverment and public improvements. Speaking of the public improvement plan adopted by the people of Cleveland, the speaker stated that this plan originated among the members of the board of commerce in that city. Cleveland needed a new city hall, a new county building, a new library, a new chamber of commerce building, a new federal building, and a new terminal statfon. Instead of having these buildings erected one at a time and In various parts of the city the business men of Cleveland hit upon the plan to group all of them and to erect all of them at the same time. Today one of the buildings is comple-' ted and the others in course of construction. This "group" plan has not only beautified the city but has dd ed greatly to the value of property In the business district of Cleveland. 'Between thirty-five and forty cities in the United States have now adopted the 'Cleveland group' plan. It has caused Cleveland to be talked about all over the country. Some cities, many of them far western cities am spending hundreds of thousand i of dollars in advertising. Cleveland huC spent its 'advertising' money to improve the city and has obtained better results," stated tho speaker. Mr. Woodruff stated that notwithstanding the fact that some people could not sympathize with Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland either on account of his economic theories or because of his politics, it would have to be admitted that he had j Cleveland in a splendid manner. Un- , der his administration the parks and ! boulevard svetoma hari . f i A l.T U jed. the play grounds Increased and other improvements made. Today.be stated, Cleveland was one of the most beautiful cities in America. Mr. Woodruff stated that a jrreat many cities in the south had found public improvement to be a paying investment. This plan was advertising these cities broadcast and was attracting to them both caj.ital and labor. "I find all over the country" he stated -that hard-headed unsentimental business men, are erecting beautiful building3 and they find them to be rare business assets." He appealed to the business men of Richmond, to join in the work of making Richmond "a city beautiful" and promised that the result of such work would be of ' increditable value. He said that he knew the men in the audience were practical business men and that they operated their businesses- along carefully prepared and Intelligent lines. He said that the plan for the improvement and goverment of the city should be prepared and carried out along the same lines. In the city of Washington a plan for public Improvements which would be made there In. the course of the next one hundred years bad been prepared and was already being carried on. "The era

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