Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 11, 26 February 1908 — Page 1

RICHMOND PALLADIUM U u u AINJD SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. XO. 1 1. kiciimond, iXD., vi:i)m:.si)av KViiMNc, fi:i;ki ai:y o. iimks. SI.(1LK COPY, ' CENTS.

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DEMOCRATS WILL SELECT DELEGATES -ON MARCH SEVENTH

County Chairman George Harris Today Issues His Official Call for Meetings All Over the County. TOWNSHIP DELEGATES HAVE BEEN APPORTIONED Wayne and Dalton Townships Will Have the Larger NumberCounty Chairman to Be Selected March 21. Chairman Ocorfie U. Munis of tin democratic count v central commit iff has issued a call for the holding of j ward and township meetings on Sat-j unlay March 7. Township and ward) chairmen will he elected, organization.;! perfected and deieat'!; to the Mate and district convention:! chosen at these meetings. As? fioon after these mcctiuxs as is possible, the chairmen of tho various wards in this city will get together and elect a ward chairman. On March "Jl ihe township chairmen will meet at the city building and chose; a county chairman. The call issued by Chairman Harris is as follows: The democrats of Wayne county will meet in their respective townships Saturday, March 7, I'.Hts. for the purpose 'f electing a township chairman and pcifecting the township organizations. At these primaries dele-gates are to be selected for the state convention at Indianapolis. March 115 and also delegates to the district congressional convention to be held at Shelby ville, (date not yet determined.) The apportionment for these delegates are as follows: Abington and Boston. .1. Cruiter and Harrison. I. Franklin. New Garden. Green, Webfcler. Perry and Clay, J. Jackson. 'J. Jefferson, 1. Washington. 1. Wayne and Dalton, In the city of Richmond, on March 7. the democrats of the various wards will assemble in same and elect ward chairmen and perfect organizations. Delegates will also he selected as above directed. The five precincts outside the city in Wayne township, will affiliate with their approximate wards. At earliest convenience, the, newly elected chairmen of the respective wards, will assemble at some convenient place in Ihe city and elect a chairman for Wayne township. On March 21, the chairmen of the jeveral townships will meet in the city building, Richmond. Ind.. at 1' o'clock, p. m., for the purpose of electing a chairman for Wayne county. Respectfully. GEO. B. HARRIS. County Chairman. NO DECISION YET Judge Anderson Silent on the Traction Case. Judge Anderson of the United States district court at Indianapolis has as jet made no ruling ou the case of the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern 1 raction company, to permanently restrain the city from enforcing the Main street ordinance directed against the I. vV W. branch of the company. This case- was argued before Judge AnderMn last week. It is expected that he will announce his ruling some time jtext week. BRIDEGROOM WAS HIS PROFESSION Neil Married Many Women. Young i Cleveland. Ohio. Feb. 26 That .lames C. Neil, arraigned in the Common Pleas Court Tuesday on a charge of bigamy, was a professional brideliroom, and had a dozen or more wives,

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me county I rosocutors are now fully fied that after McKldowney and bis convinced. They have evidence, they i two companions '.tad been at rested fay. to show that he had an office in! they all admitted that Kiev had scthe city and that he sent out letters ; cured booze at the Muth bar. throughout the cotmtiy inviting young i Not much of a defense was put up

vt'iitt-u i mi. ti- iiiatrimomat game. Unlike other matrimonial agents, .Neu is ne.ievetl to have acted as the uiij mihoi. .-veeorinng to the County .i-rc'seeniors. ne would, as soon as he !had inveighed some young girl into ).clicing in his plan, marry her hiiu.velf. Neil pleaded not guilty to bigamy hi Court today. He could not give $3,000 Itail. He is charged wiih marrying Catharine Wehmeytr at Kemlall ville Ind.. in i:hC. and P.irdie Pepper in Cleveland, November tf, 1007.

HARBOR AT CALLAO WHERE THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE FLEET IS ANCHORED

f ' ' 7 - -- "-h ' . ( ' HARBOR AT CALLEO. f "'K" Sii f '' J Calico, is the enfate for the enter- . -Mik . l-m. ' t a in men t of the American battleship mfc w C ' Vs , , ' fleet. The picture shows the harbor (&S- (; Wm , , ' at Calico where the V. S. fleet is now fc-MP W ' ' " anchored. On the lrl't is a picture of p " ' ' llo"lay' AJimrul lvaus" second coin-

CONTEMPT MAY BE CHARGED AGAINST F Dan Rosier, Prominent Stock Buyer, Refused to Appear In Court Against Louis Muth, Saloonist. MUTH WAS GIVEN HEAVY FINE BY THE COURT. Found That Muth Had Desecrated the Holiday to the Extent of $50 and CostsCase Appealed. In the city court yesterday afternoon Louis Muth. a local saloon keeper, was fined $."0 and costs for selling liquor on Washington's birthday, a legal holiday under the laws of Indiana. After Judge Converse had found Muth guilty of the charge W. II. Kelley, attorney for Muth, appealed the case to the circuit court. The state had three witnesses, Dan Rosier, Louis Price and John MeKldowney. to appear against Muth. but McEldowney was the only one in the court room when the case was called. The other two had departed, Price ! fri- fc.it in o- u in lini-wl ttv mi ilmnpRosier is a prominent farmer and stock buyer of Union county and owing to his good standing in that community he was released on his own recognizance after his arrest hist Saturday. Yesterday morning Rosier failed to report at police headquarters as he had promised to do, so Sergeant McManus in a blinding rain storm drove eleven miles to Roster's l'arnf to take him in custody. On arriving there McManus learned to his disgust that Rosier had departed the day before and was supposed to be in Cincinnati. It is probable that on hi- return home he will be arrested for contempt of c t trt. The police also searched for the missing Trice, but learned that lie had returned to his former honi in Illinois. The police are of the opinion that the two missing witnesses had beon "tampered'' with. McKldowney on the witness iand stated that he -had bought booze at the Muth saloon on Washington's birthday. Three police officers icsiiby .Muth. The defense denied ! liquor had beeu sold the three that men j axid stated that they had been in the j j restaurant part of the establishment. THE WEATHER PROPHEJ. INDIANA Snow flurries in north portions Wednesday night and much colder: Thursday fair. j OHIO Wednesday night, colder; i Thursday, fair and much colder.

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THREE LIVES LOST IN BMKOLLISIOI Trainmen Had Lives Snuffed Out Today.

New York. Feb. 20. In a frightful rear-end collision two freight trains on the New York,, Is'evvJIaven &. Hartford railroad, on the Harlem branch at llartow Station this morning. Charles Mesncr engineer, Louis ileagmere, conductor and Charles Denier, fireman were hilled. Traffic was blocked for hours. FINAL APPEAL TAKEN Erdman Law Being Taken Advantage of to Prevent Labor Trouble. FINLEY MAKES STATEMENT Washington. Feb. Because of a failure to reach an agreement as to a reduction of wages uf the employes of the Southern, negotiations have been broken off and President Finley announces that he will carry the case to the Interstate Commerce Commission and to Commissioner of Labor Neill. under the Erdman act. President Finley has given out a statement in which he expresses confidence that there will yet ne an amicable adjustment of the cilitroversy between the Southern Railway and its men. and expresses regret that the latter cannot see their way clear to accept the wage scale which the management has offered. President Finley's statement follows: "Our employes working under contract, having declined our proposition in regard to a reduction in wages, we still feel confident that there should be an amicable adjustment, and do not propose to proceed in any arbitrary way. We have notified our employes of our regret that they cannot at the present time see their way clear to accept the suggested wage scale, which the management considers imperatively necessary under existing conditions, and have stated to them that we : will ask tire mediation of the Chair- ! man of the Interstate Commerce Comj mission and 1 1 it? commissioner of la- ; bor. under Section "' of the Erdman . act. We hope for an amicable ad- ! jtistment." " PARTING WITH WIFE MOST PATHETIC ! fslnrtim's Captain Entered Sing Sing Today. New York. Feb. 20. Making a brave bat a pitiful effort to control his trembling limbs. Captain Wru. Van Schaick .'former captain of the ill-fated steamer General Slocuru. entered Sing Sing this morning co begin a term of ten years. The parting with his wife s pathetic j

MUCH-SUEO MAN

IS THE VICTIM OF ANOTHER ACTION Seems That Albert McClure Worked a Clever Game on Coal Mining Companies Shipping to Richmond. STORY AS ATTORNEYS AND OTHERS TELL IT. Claimed That Attractive Letter Heads.Aided His Scheme Speculators Were Bit, It Is Claimed.x Albert E. McClure. known among local attorneys as "the most sued man in Wayne county," has been made the defendant in another civil action. This action is brought by the Wagner Manufacturing company. It is a unit on account and the demand is for $;!50. Young McClure the past winter has worked an aboslutely novel game on various coal mining companies and wholesale dealers in coal outside the city. McClure gets the money but his victims do not, the attorneys state. They also state that he cannot be held for on any criminal charge. This morning a county official and a well known local attorney disclosed the scheme McClure used in "working" the coal concerns who have been his victims. A coal mining company, they stated in explaining MoClure's system, would ship to Richmond one or two cars of coal for speculative purposes. McClure would notice these cars standing on sidings awaiting purchasers. He would then write to the coal companies in question, using splendidly engraved stationary which gave the impression that he was a prosperous coal dealer, and offered to buy the coal providing pay the freight he companv would end th, track demur - rage. His proposition would be accepted, it is stated, and then McClure would sell the coal at a price way Wlow the local market price. McClure. it is claimed, would in every case forget to pay his coal bill after disposing of the contents of the car. "I know of a case where McClure sent in an order, under his splendid looking letter head, to an out of town coal company, asking that a car of coal be shipped to him immediately on credit. His order was complied with, notwithstanding the fact that the same company had a short time previous turned down a similar order sent in by one of the most reliable and substantial coal concerns in this city," stated an attorney. Sheriff Meredith has been kept busy hunting McClure to serve papers on him. tut the sheriff states, he has only once been able to find him Sn far as known the young man has n property in hi? ow n name .which his j creditors mieiji attac h.

MANUFACTURERS TO AGREE TO PAVING

PROPOSITION At a Recent Meeting It Was Decided That North Ej Street Should Be Paved, but No Sidewalks Laid. COST OF IMPROVEMENT SHOWN BY THE BOARD. Sidewalk Construction Will Add Much to Assessment And This Is Why They Are Opposed Cost to City. At a recent meeting held by the manufacturers whose establishments atv (located ou North K street between Tenth and Sixteenth streets, it was virtually decided that they would withdraw all opposition to the paving of that section of North K r.treet. providing the board of public works would not ins;ist that the proposed improvements should include cement walks. These business men favored the plan of placing cement curb and gutters. George Seidel of the Seidel Carriage company, was appointed to arrange a meeting between representatives of the mauufatcuring interest:; interested by the proposed improvements and the board of public works. This meeting will be held in the near future. II. B. Johnson and W. P. O'Neal, of the board, state that the plating of cement sidewalks on both sides of North E street from Tenth street to Sixteenth street, is not imperative. It iti understood that the board will offer no objections to a compromise agreement to have only the street paved and cement curbs and gutters placed. The board lias sent statements to the manufacturers showing what the approximate cost of the proposetl improvements would be. In this statement it is estimated that the cost of the improvements to the property owners, not including sidewalks, would amount to .-b", per lineal foot. With the walks the cost would amount to about S.T.L'o per lineal foot. The city would bear no share of the cost of placing the sidewalks, but would pay onetenth of the cost of paving the street a nil placing the cement curbs and gutters. This would mean that the city would pay i)7 cents per lineal foot on the cost of these improvements. With the sidewalks included in the improvements, it. is estimated that the total cost to the property owners would be $24.22S, while the total cost to the city would amount to sT.Tntt. Mr.' Johnson of the board, states that he recognizes theterrible "condition of North I) street is in. but that he does not think steps should be taken this year to pave that street. The city, he states, has planned for so many public improvements this year that it cannot afford to have North D street paved. He is of the opinion, however, that North E street should be paved this year. SALOONISTS IN IT Richmond Liquor Men to Take Hand in Political Game This Campaign. CANDIDATES INSPECTED. A meeting of the local saloon keepers was held yesterday afternoon. At this meeting, it is understood, a permanent local organization was effected and the saloonists intend to take an active part in the present campaign, it was not learned what candidates for the republican and democratic nominations for governor were endorsed. Candidates to the upper and lower houses of the state legislature will receive the careful attention of the organization las it is realized that at the next bcsj sion of the legislature an'attempt wiil be made to adopt drastic legislation against the liquor interests of stare. the. Hoiuise V7 XL M7VMkU

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WILL THIS MAN'S PIPE GO OUT.

Detroit. Feb. 2. A chime of beils operated by chicl.ens is the original plan of James PrUkett. of Saginaw. Mich. On the floor f the chk It'n hcuse he will place a metallic tatl.-. hih will be conr.ccttil with the chi.n s far above in ti e tower by au in-i.l ittd wire. Tie t :'.r. of tit . r. otitis a;.d he:.-. Pii-iett tit--,ir-. will set up a vib:atory motion in the table which wi'.l sta; t a powerful tlcctrimotor in operation. This motor in fun will release the spring controlling the chimes, whwh will tlren W.sin to ring. Thus all the chic'-c-n or. the farm will know that dinner is on. and while They are dining will have music to whet their appetites. NO WOMAN IN BLACK Police Deny the Reports of Strange Night Prowlings Of Men and Women. NEEDLESS HARM IS DONE.

heard afl the testimony introduced by "There is absolutely no truth in the both tides of the case ami this cveareports that have been circulated ing he wilt hear the arguments of the about town the past two months that . attorneys. The last witnens In the

there are in Richmond Mack-the-pocp-j case testified late yesterdav afternoon, ers' and mysterious women in black, . in this case the city is represented by I who haunt dark alleys ami jump out City Attorney T. J. Study and AttorI on unsuspecting passersby, flashing i Uey W. W. Cook of Greenfield. ' bullseye lanterns in their faces in; ir Stn.tv

j ho,)( of discovering a lost affinity or a man who has wronged them," stated a police officer today. "Such reports cause needless alarm, especially to women," he added. "Tho jack-t he-peeper report originated when a tramp called at a west side home to get a 'band-out'. No one responded to his knocking on the door so he peeped through a window ftio if 1 1 1 : r. wn nnvnnrt ni tinma

woman saw him and immediately had ! ted th testimony of Arthur A. Curme, , . r. . . , - , local court reporter, and Attorney H. hysterics. For the next few days fol- It , , . .. . . , i U. Johnson, both of whom figured In lowing this incident the town wasjthe Mon iseon-Reeves case. Their flooded w ith 'jack-the-peeper' re- i testimony could not be introduced In ports." I previous hearings. Doth Mr. Johnson

Women frequently report to police headquarters that they have been insuited on the streets at night by unknown men, or that they have seen mysterious strangers peeping through the windows of their homes. Older members of the police force remember what the late Chief Page used to instruct the members of the department when such reports came to him. "Don't waste your time hunting for men who might do such things," he would say to his officers." Kep a close watch on the women who enter these complaints. You will find in i nearly ever case that if a woman has! been insulted or a man peeps through a window at her that she has encouraged such actions. Its hardly ever the case that a man insults a decent woman who attends to her own business." THREE BATTLESHIPS TO GOJNTO SERVICE Will Probably Be Sent to the Pacific Coast. Washington, I). C, Feb. 2G. In about two months there will be three new battleships in service on the Atlantic coatt, and it is probable that before the end of spring they will bs on their way to the Pacific coast, to take their place in the reorganted Atlantic fleet, with the new battleship Nebraska. These ships are the Mississippi, New Hampshire and Idaho. BUCKSJOV. HUGHES Refuses to Oust Superintendent of Insurance. Albany, N. Y.. Feb. Py a Vote of 2! to 20, the f;f.nai- this morning refused to oust Superintendent of Ini Mirance Keb-ey, as decided by Gover nor Hughes. Jinme us U11M

JUOGE ROBINSON WILL RULE ON THE CLIFFORD TAX CASE

All Testimony Was Submitted To the Court Tuesday Afternoon and Attorney Study Hopes Favorable Decree, IMPORTANT TESTIMONY SUBMITTED IN HEARING. H. ii. Johnson and Arthur Curme Allowed to Tell What They Knew of MorrissonPlummer Drug Stock. Judge John C. Robinson, of Spencer, who is sitting as special judge on the Hancock circuit leneh at Greenfield, to hear the case of Freetuotit Clifford, against the City of Richmond, has j stated that" he was confident iht th.. ourt would rule in favor of the city, -if ne ,oes not do this, it is almost an assured fact that he will render a p ' (.ial flnjjUK in favoP tlf (hc piainti.T i Wlijch woul,j ,,ermJt tJie cy to take aa i appeai lo tlle supreme court ." Mr. Study says that the city introduced all the evidence which was in to jtroduced at the previous hearings of A ! Hie cause, and besides th court admit- ' and Mr. Curm testified that an Inren- : tory of the stock in the Morrlsanni Plu miner Prujf company. as submiti ted to the court during the hearing of the Morris-son-Reeves case. It will be remembered that Clifford i contended thst he had "discovered" i this stock, while working under a con- . tract piven by the city to search for secluded taxable outside the city, and ' that he had placed it on the city tax duplicate. The testimony of Mr. ; Curme and Mr. Johnson Is of great benefit to the city as it bears out thn f contention made by the defense that i the stock In question was known of! prior to the tim Clifford was naI ployed by the city. MOTHER BLAMED FOR USIfiGFmtER CURE Coroner's Jury Accuses the Parent. Brazil, Iowa, Feb. 26 STrs. E. K. Palmer was blamed by a coroner's jury today for the dath of her ten year old son who was treated by Christian Science prayers. HAHLY HOT WORKING FOR POLITICAL FAVOR Explaining Why He Vetoed Measures. Indianapolis. Tnd.. Feb. 20. In a statement which he is sending out. explaining why he voted several measures at the last session of the legislature, including the bill for the repeal of the metropolitan police law. the senate insurance bill and the bill providing for the payment of the claims to Vlncennes university, Governor Hanly declares that he is a candidate for no omce. During the last three weeks reports have gone abroad that Governor Ilanly would go before the legislature at the expiration of his term en a candidate for the United Slates senat. SCHILLINGER STILL REFUSESJTO APPOINT President of Board of Works Not Selected. Mayor Schfllinger ha not yet appointed anyone to fill the vacancy on the board of public works, caused by the apiOinlment of President Merrill as city clerk. Mr. M err Ill's atoiittrfjunt to this office wan confirm1!! bv feio'.ii 4 wetrk ago last Monday. '

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