Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 25, 11 March 1908 — Page 1

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RICHMOND PAiLABIUM AND SUII-TEIEGFAIVf. VOL. XXXIII. 0. 23. RICHMOND, IXD., WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1008. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS. &

PENITENTIARY-A BAD OPIUM DEN Prison Surgeon Makes Some Disclosures. HOPEFULARESIGNS OF A BIG SPRING DEADLOCK ONE PLEADED GUILTY TO THE CHARGE OF HAVING MURDERED GOV. STEUNENBERG FEATURE OF THE STATEMENT! L OF TRADE

CHIEF ACTORS IN THAW SENSATION TO GOTHEIR WAY Fair Evelyn With a Goodly Supply of Gold, Will Travel Beaten Paths and Thaw Family Will Be Relieved.

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Practically Assured, However That Little Woman Who Saved Neck of White's Murderer Will Be Rewarded. New York, March 11.- Papers in the suit of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw against her husband, Harry Kendall Thaw, for the annullment of their marriage were served on Thaw in Matteftwan asylum today. At the same time fi complaint was handed to the defenant's mother, Mrs. Mary Cafely Thaw, she being made codefendant, because of the possibility that the courts of New York county will appoint her guardian of his estate. The papers set forth that Thaw was Insane .t the time of the marriage and gives s proof, peculiarly worded letters, nd his will, etc. It is understood that Evelyn first took aversion to her hustand -when he killed White. She deflares she fears he will murder her if he ends with him. This sensational finish to the ThawWhite tragedy came about through he efforts of Dan O'Keilly, personal counsel for young Mrs. Thaw, at the Hotel Belmont and A. Kussell Peabody, who Is Thaw's personal couuel. Will Provide For Her. Everything has been arranged. Jfarry Kendall Thaw will defend tho action, but back or it all there is a definite understanding that tho wife Is to be provided for. "What Is to become of young Mrs. Thaw If her action succeeds?" M Pea body was asked. "She will be provided for," was tue reply. "By the Thaw family?" "By Thaw." This is the important feature of the affair, for the Pennsylvania statutes the marriage having been contracted in that state do not provide for any settlement on a woman whose marriage was annulled, and there are grave doubts as to whether any settlement can legally be demanded in New York under similar circumstances. Therefore all of the interested persons, Thaw perhaps excepted his stay in Matteawan being indefinite have got together in an amicable arrangement, and the final phase of the Thaw case will witness the chief actors going their respective ways the wife with a goodly stock of Pittsburg gold the laborer being worthy of his hire and he Thaw family with that deep sigh of relief and resignation which goes "with a hard bargain made necessary by force of circumstances. Amount Unknown. On all sides there is silence as to the price. That is to be an affair outride of law and the courts. No one will talk about it. A shrewd guesser, however, ventured a prediction that it would amount to about $50,000 in cash and an annuity of $7,000 or $S,000 .per year. Young Mrs. Thaw will, of course be permitted to marry again. Mrs. Thaw herself will have to take the witness stand at the trial of her action, and then will come the nnflclimax to the series of dramatic inci-' dents which have marked the progress of the Thaw case. Where, on two historic occasions, the wife bared her soul In the tremendous effort to save

her husband's life from the grip ofiries for the purpose of peddling

the law, she will now be seen swear ing away the bonds that bind them together. Holds Him in Terror. Her task completed, she will ask her discharge. And he will bo there, too, under guard, though, for he is stamped insane, and thereby hangs one of the stories that is being toid of this wonderful complex affair. There have been stories of Thaw's attacks upon her in the Tombs, on the Bridge of Sighs, in the waiting room just off the trial chamber and in the asylum. All of tliem have been denied, though evidence of the facts is plentifully at hand. True or not, however, the fact remains that Kvelvn Nesbit Thaw holds her husband in mortal terror. It has not been a week since that she expressed the couvictton, with blanched face and trembling hand, that if he was set at liberty he would kill her before 21 hours had elapsed. His counsel have expressed a similar conviction. His family, even, share these fears. FIRE DOES DAMAGE. Pittsburg, Pa., March 11. The entire business section of Tarentum. Pa., was totally destroyed by fir.? this morning. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Thursday. OHIO Warmer Thursday.

Lincoln. Nb.. March 11. The Nebraska penitentiary is not a reformatory, but a huge opium den, according to Dr. Giffen. prison surgeon, in a report to Governor Sheldon made public today. Dr. Giffen. who was formerly connected with lilackw ell's Island prison and Bellevue hospital. NewYork, reports that of 41'J prisoners confined in the institution there are between loo and addicted to the morphine habit, anil that morphine Is being regularly supplied to the prisoners by outside persons whose identity is unknown.

T VIOLATION OF NEW PEDDLING ORDINANCE Albert Minke, Fruit Peddler, , Taken Into Custody Yesterday Afternoon for Violating City Law. DISCRIMINATION IS ALLEGED BY TRADESMEN. Claimed That NO Effort Is Being Made to Bring to a Stop Several Different Classes Operating Here. The first anest under the new peddling ordinance was made, yesterday afternoon when Albert Minke, a fruit eddler, was taken into custody. The case was not given a hearing in the city court this niorninig, because CityAttorney T. J. Study had other business to attend to. Nearly all the fruit peddlers in the city were at rlh-e headquarters this morning entering vigorous protests against the enforcement of the ordinance, which they allege shows discrimination between themselves and the grocers. Minke was arrested several months ago for a violation of ihe old peddling ordinance. When the case was given a hearing the ordinance was declared to be unconstitutional. Refuse to Pay. " All of the fruit peddlers in the city, with the exception of two Roumanian Jews, have refustr: to pay the required fee for a license. "I pay my taxes and I have a right to make my living the way I do without paying the city a fee for the privilege," is the way one peddler put It. Discrimination Alleged. It is alleged that the authorities showed discrimination in arresting Minke. It is stated that no effort is made to require the men who peddle coal oil. fish and milk about the city to secure peddling licenses. The ordinance now on the statute book provides that its terms shall .not apply to any grocer or peddler who hawks about the city, wares of "his own produce." It is maintained that that section of tue ordinance shows discrimination between the grocer and the peddler, who as a class rarely sell wares of their own produce. it is maintained by the local fruit peddlers that the coal oil hawked about the city is not the produce of the oil peddlers, nor do the fish peddlers raise their own fish, It is also stated that there are many milk dealers who buy milk. from daiit about the city "I suppose I can not peddle fruit until some action in the Minke case has been taken," said John McNearney, a fruit peddler. "If I folV)w my trade I get pinched. If I quit work I get pinched for violating the loitering ordinance." The police were informed this morning by several fruit peddlers that, the two Roumanian Jews peddling in the city, violated the pure food law. This complaint will be investigated. PRESIDENT UPHELD Majority Report Is Favorable To Roosevelt's Action in Brownsville Affair. TWO MINORITY REPORTS. Washington, D. C, March ll.-The senate committee on military affairs submKted three reports to the senate today on the Brownsville affair. The majority report upholds the president. The two minority reports do not do this, as one Is to the effect that it was not proven the negroes did the shooting, aud the other as&erts their innocence. Senator Koraker signed both tne minority reports.

Railroads, Jobbers and Retailers More Than Pleased With the Outlook for the Coming Season.

RAILROAD TRAFFIC TRUE INDEX TO BUSINESS. THIS IS DECLARED TO BE AN UNDISPUTABLE FACT FREIGHT BUSINESS IS NOW PICKING UP EVERYWHERE. The decrease in the number of idle cars as shown by the reports of the car efficiency committee of the American Railway association is one of the most encouraging signs of the times. The decrease of almost !,000 cars in the car surplus in the district composed of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan in the three weeks ended Feb. 19 shows that there has been good increase in freight traffic in these three states and the next report is expected to show an even larger decrease. True Business Index. The traffic of the railroads is Ihe true index of tho business condition of the country, and as tho idle cars decrease in number it may safely be asserted that general business has increased in like proportion. Reports from local plants bear out the figures of the railroads, as practically all of the larger industrial corporations of the city say that there has been gradual increase in their orders. Earnings Increased. In all the falling off in freight traf fic it is remarkable that passenger earnings of the railroads of the coun try are show ing increases. There -has been no great falling off in passenger j traffic, and the earnings of the railways from this source are quite satisfactory to their managements, it is stated in Richmond. Jobbers Hopeful. Among local jobbers and retailers there is a much more hopeful feeling. The traveling men of the jobbing j houses are now out after spring or-1 ders and are meeting with much sue-1 cess. The grocery houses especially are finding business better than was anticipated, and the dry goods jobbers say tlvey are well satisfied with the orders which they are receiving. The dry goods men say that owing to the closing down of the mills last fall, stocks are low in the East and they have had much trouble in securing good assortments, and in some lines their supply of goods is very limited. Collections with the majority of the jobbers are reported fair. The retailers of the city are looking forward to a good spring trade, and already the nice days are bringing out many shoppers. The month of February is always the poorest in the year, and while during the month just ended there were many complaints from the retailers, the majority of them was surprised to fmd after they had closed up their books for the month that February of 1908 was up to and in mand instances ahead of the corresponding mouth of last year. Since the first of February the majority of manufacturing plants have been adding some new men, and while no great number has been put on at any time, there has been lu tho last month quite an appreciable reduction in the number of idle men in the in5ustrial ranks of Richmond. With the i coming of spring weather, it is exj pected that there will be a close ap prqach to former conditions in local j manufacturing circles. MORSE AND HIS PARD PLEAD NOT GUILTY Accused of Conspiracy to Defraud. New York, March 11 Cha. W. Morse, the former vice-president and Alfred H. Curtis, former president of the National Bank of North America, were indicted for a conspiracy to defraud the bank and making false entries. Both pleaded not guilty today. They were released on bond. The penalty on conviction is ten years' imprisonment. ASSAULTED AND LAID ON RAILJDAD TRACKS This Was Done to Cover the Crime. Wellston. 0.. March 11. Richard Stewart was found unconscious on the railroad trucks this morning. Police say be was assaulted and laid on the bracks to cover the crime.

Caldwell, Idaho, March 11 Harry Orchard yesterday before Judge Fremont Wood in the District Court, was allowed to withdraw his former plea of not guilty entered at his first arraignment by order of the Court when he stood mute and entered another plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree as charged in the inOPEN DOOR POLICY HAS RESULTED AS WASJXPECTED Announcement by Campbell That He Would Not Select His Own Delegates Has Given Other Candidates Chance THREE OTHER ASPIRANTS IN THE CITY THIS WEEK. Working to Secure Their Part Of the Wayne County Delegation to Congressional Convention, April 9. The "open door" policy of the Rev. J. O. Campbell, Wayne county's congressional candidate on the republican ticket, has had the result looked for by the friends of the preacher politician who advised him against taking the action he did in making a public statement to the effect that he would not select his own delegates to the congressional convenion. Three Candidates Here. Since the first of this week, three of Mr. Campbell's opponents. E. E. Moore of Connersville, Tom Davidson of Greensburg and Judge Barnard of Newcastle, have been in the city, building fences and stretching lines to secure their share of delegates from this county. It is reported that they are meeting with some success. In this, work they are being assisted by men who supported Campbell at the county primary, with the intention of delivering him over, in case he defeated Jessup and Yencer, to the candidate who was really their choice as a successor to Congressman James E. Watson. Subject of Comment. The action taken by the Rev. J. O. Campbell in refusing to name hi3 choice of delegates to the district convention is the subject of general comment on the part of politicians throughout the district. It is the general opinion that Mr. Campbell made ian unwise move in refusing to name j his delegates. ' Wayne county is now ian open field to all the congressional

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HARRY ORCHARD. dictniew. Judge Wood will sentence Orchard on March IS. Orchard pleaded guilty to having killed former Governor Steunenburg by the explosion of a dynamite bomb at the side gate of his residence here early in the evening of December 30, 1905. He was arrested for the crime on January 2 and in February con

MURDER AND SUICIDE Police Assert Miss Meed Shot Fellow School Mistress and Then Killed Herself. BOTH WERE WELL KNOWN. Boston, March 11. Two women were shot this morning in the fashionable Laurens School in Blackboy. The women are Miss Meed of Philadelphia and Miss Hardee of Savannah. Ga. They conducted the school. Miss Meed broke down with overwork, and was taken to a sanitarium. She returned to the school last night. As she was subject to melancholy, the police believe that Miss Meed shot Miss i Hardee and then committed suicide. Both are graduates of Wellesley and are aged about thirty-five years. PRINCE DE SAGAN' GOESA-BEGG!NG Wants Goulds to Sanction Marriage to Anna. Paris. March 11. Prince de Sagan, who. it is believed is already the husband of Mme. Anna Gould, has secured a passport for the Uuited States and sailed for America today on the Kaiser Wilhelm. De Sagan said that ho hopes to win the consent of the Gould family to his marriage to the former countess. WARM WEATHER SIGNS. i j The warm weather of today brought many small boys to the s'reets and j vacant. lots with their baseball outfits. ' It will not be long before the national game is raging in Richmond. EFFORT TO REFORM HER. Daisy Goodwin, the sixteen year old girl arrested in a North F street resort, will be given a hearing in the juvenile court Saturday morning. An effort to reform the child will be made.

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fessed that he was hired to kill Steunenburg by William D. Haywood, secretary" Charles H. Moyer, president, ami' George A. Pettibone, honorary member of the Western Federation of Miners. Haywood and Pettibone were tried in Boise and set free. The case against Moyer was dismissed. The picture shows Orchard in characteristic pose in the recent Pettibone trial. FIRE DRILL NOW BEING PRACTICED IN LOCALSCHOOLS Superintendent Mott States That in All Instances the Result of These Drills Has Been Satisfactory. SUCCESS IN TIME OF DANGER PROBLEMATICAL. ; Superintendent Mott Is Not So Sure as to Success When Halls Are Afire Chemicals Will Aid in Tests. During the past two days every public school in the city has practiced the tire drill, to prevent a horror similar to the one at the Collinwood school. Superintendent T. A. Mott states that the result of these drills has been most satisfactory. "In every case the school building has been emptied in P'ss than two minutes time and ihe children have Mi the building in perfect order," said the local superintendent. In the future the policy of the school board will be to have tie fire drill practiced in every school in the city at least once a week. If the principals of the schools so desire, the fire drill will be practiced more often. Success Problematical. It is not in every case, as shown by! the Coi'inwood school incident, that I the fire drill proves successful ia saving the lives of the pupils. Mr. Mott! states that If a fire starts in the tase-i ment or roof of a school building there j is no reason why the fire drill should not be successful, but in the event that the fire starts in the hallwava lt cess y problematical, owing to the; lact mat tne cnudren on wing") (Continued on Page Seven.)

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sult Owing to Heated Campaign, or a "Dark Horse" Will Prance Under Wire. HUGH THOMAS MILLER HAS SOME POWER. Other Candidates, It Is Claimed, Are Asking Overtures to the Lieutenant Governor Just Now. Indianapolis, Ind.. March 11 Will the Republican state convention go to a deadlock on the governorship proposition? The contest is so heated that either a "compromise" candidate or a deadlock seem to be "on the cards." Close observers of Indiana politics, sifting claims back and forth, and shaking out facts here and there, and taking the prevailing judgment as a guide, are giving out the opinion that in spite of all Uncle Jack Gowdy'a confident assertions. Congressman James M. Watson will not be nominated for governor by the Republicans on the first ballot, April 2. "Horse Race" Predicted. The field, it Is now figured, will ho able to muster more than 900 of tho 1.476 delegates. If C. W. Miller. Hugh T. Miller and W. L. Taylor, in concert, muster, hay 950. Mr. Watson will start off with 520. He needs This means a "horse race." Taking tho judgment of disinterested men. it is estimated that C. W. Miller of Goshen, will run second at tho first voting teBt, but that W. L. Taylor of Indianapolis, with 141 Seventh district ehouters behind him. will run pretty close to thtj Goshen man. Some men expect the 950 field votes to go 425 for Miller of Goshen, 325 to Mr. Taylor, and 200 to Miller of Columbus. Field Divided. The WatBon men say positively that W. L. Taylor shall not receive the nomination under any conditions. This may be taken as clear warning: that the Watson strength. In the event that It must break from the Kuhhville man. will go to Miller of Columbus. It is found, In conversations with Hugh Miller men, that the lieutenant governor's crowd Is softened towards MrX Watson considerably as compared with their seeming hostility of a few weeks ago. It looks as if the final line-up would bo Watson and Miller of Columbus against Miller of Goshen and Taylor. Miller Position. Where will Hugh T. Miller go with his bunch of delegates when the convention settles down to placing a nomination? Will he be able to say what his delegates shall do? If he is able to direct their course, whither will he lead them? If he is at heart a part of the "field" against Mr. Watson, he may help the strongest of the three candidates in the "field." It is needless to say that the Watson people are warming up to Miller of Columbus with all sorts of affectionate manifestations. It is evident that many queer breaks will result from the break and new alignment after the sparring is over. If Mr. Watson fails to land a nomination on the first ballot he will lose j many votes on ballot No. 2, and he j will be sadly In need of all the dcle- ; gates he can call from all sources. If he tries to call them too early in the j game, he may arouse resentment and i defeat himself. is SPECIAL MESSAGE SENT TO CONGRESS Roosevelt Urges Extension of Time Limit. I Washington, D. C March 11. The President sent a message to Congress today, recommending the passage of a, law extending the time limit to one ; year by which the discharged negro j soldiers at Brownsville may be re-ia-f ated. E INTEREST THAN WAS GRANTED Experts on Treasurer's Books Puzzled. Colnmbus, O., March 11. An Investigation of the t ia.te treasurer's office today revealed Jo.OhO more interest on 1 hands than the banks claim to have

h'ald- Experts cannot understand the l book. McKionon in helping the committce today.

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