Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 26, 12 March 1908 — Page 1
EIGHMOKD PA.1L3LABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, VOIi. XXXIII. 0. 26. IUC1I3IOXD, IXD., THURSDAY EVENING, 3IAKCII 1, 11K)S. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. GREAT FLEET WILL REICH MAGDALENA CAPITAL PUNISHMENT GETS .SEVERE BLOW Ohio Senate Would Do Away With Custom. STATE HAD TO SEIZE RIGHT LIQUOR DRINK WAS YOUNG HOLMESJOWNFALL Man Hanged Today Warned Other Young Men. TIED BOVSTO TREE AND THEN BUILT FIRE UNDER THEM SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRUNTERFERS Probably Saves Lives of Men In Fierce Gun Fight. EVELYN WILL CARRY JHE SECRET OF HER ACTION TO GRAVE III HOTEL
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TARGET PRACTICE WILL TAKE TIME OF CREWS. They However Will Be Given a Rest After Their Long ' "Cruise From Callao No Report Expected Today. San -Diego, Cal., March 12. The American battle ship fleet, under command of Hear Admiral Robley D. Kvans, is less than 200 miles south of Magdalena Hay, Lower California, and should put into that island protected harbor late this afternoon. No i.onnrtu rif tho arrival will be available however, even for the department at Washington, until some time during tonight or Friday morning. The navy wireless station at Point Loma, which' is equipped with the strongest instruments, and is in charge of the most capable of the navy's operators, has never been able to communicate with a vessel at Magdalena Bay until well after the setting of the sun. The best work is done after midnight. It is explained that the light waves during the day overcome the other 'impulses of the wireless, and communication by day is seldom maintained over a space of more than 400 miles. Magdalena Hay is 620 miles in an air line from San Diego. A Season of Rest. . The crews probably will be given a flay or two of rest after the long run trom Callao, Peru, which was left Feb. 29, before tho strenuous work of target practice is taken up. The ships will take their turns at the targets in divisions, of which there are four vessels each. It will rest with Admiral Evans as to whether the divisions are sent to the range in regular order or as circumstances dictate. . Admiral Evans himself has command of the first division, which includes the Connecticut, Kansas, Vermont and Louisiana. Admiral Emory is in command of the second division, comprising the Georgia, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia. Admiral C. M. Thomas, the second head squadron commander, who acted at many of the South American shore functions as the representative of Admiral Evans, is also commander of the third ittvleinn 1. f t 11:.. fl 1. ! . . J ' itviaiii yji mc iirri. ilia iici&diuj 1:5 Uue Minnesota and the remaining members of the division are the sister ships, Ohio, Maine and Missouri. Plan of Target Practice. i ne iourui envision is commanded by Rear Admiral Sperry, whose flagship is the Alabama. The Illinois, Kentucky and Kearsargo comprise the command. The record target practice work will be done with only four ships on the range at one time, but after it is completed will come the battle tactics end fleet mauuevers, with every ship In line. California's coast cities were gratified today by the announcement of the tentative partial itinerary of the licet from Magdalena Bay to San Francisco. Various rumors had coma to the coast saying that this or that rity might be cut off the visiting list. The official declaration that stops would be made at Sau Diego, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz came as a grateful reassurance from the Navy department, and plans for the various receptions are going forward with renewed Vigor on the part of the city committees tht have them in charge. The enthusiasm of the people knows no bounds, and alt are looking forward to the visit, of the fleet as notable events in the history of the Fr.cific coast. . SPIRITUALISTS ARE TO BOILDJEW HOME $100,000 to Be Expended for Orphans' Refuge. El wood, Ind., March 12. The First Spiritualist church of America, which has a large membership here, proposes to establish an orphans' home near this city, which is to be self-sustaining, the building costing not lvss than $100,000 to be located on an eisrhty-aere farm. THE WEATHER PR0PHET INDIANA Warmer with probable showers, Friday. 9H10Warmer. - - V
Columbus, O., March 12. The senate yesterday by a vote of to V, passed the bilL by Senator Schmidt of Cuyahoga county, Jteojishing capital punishment. The bill contains no restrictions or qualifications, simply providing that all persons convicted of murder in the first degree shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life. A similar bill passed -the senate two years ago, but was defeated in the , house. That bill made an exception of prisoners killing guards or; officers, the death penalty being reserved for that crime alone. BANKER IS DEAD.
Jenkins, Accused yo1 Fraud, Succumbs To Apoplexy. New York, March 32. John G. Jenkins, sr., former president of the First National bank f Brooklyn, who was under indictment with his three sons, for fraud, in connection with the failure of the bank, died of apoplexy this morning. PROHIBITIONISTS WIN BIG VICTORY Intoxicating Liquors or Cocaine Cannot Be Sent Through Mails. LARGE BUSINESS DONE. REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF AMENDMENT SAID THE GfcEAT COCAINE TRAFFIC SHOULD BE STOPPED. Washington, D. C, March 12. By specific amendments to the postoffice appropriation bill the House, of Representatives yesterday placed an inhibition upon the transmission through the mails of intoxicating liquors and cocaine or any o.f its derivatives. Both amendments were incorporated in the provision for the transportation of the mail; the one relating to alcoholic liquor was offered by Representative Houston (Dern.) of Tennessee and that relating to cocaine by Mann (Rep.) of Illinois. During the discussion of the Houston amendment. Representative Sherley of Kentucky, called attention to the fact that, while there was no specific law now prohibiting the sending of liquor through the mails, the Postoffice Department by regulation did prohibit it. At the same time it permitted tho transmission of other liquids, such as ink, mucilage, drugs, etc. He had no objection to the exercise of such authority by the Postoffice Department, but contended that it should be based upon statute instead of arbitrary ruling. Under present conditions it was possible, he claimed, for a man to mandamus the department to accept intoxicating goods suitably wrapped or packed so as to prevent breaking and damaging other mail matter. In urging the adoption of tho cocaine amendment, Representative Mann asserted that a very large business in this drug was done by mail, and that victims to the habit who were prevented from purchasing it at drug stores without a physician's prescrip tion succeeded in getting all they wanted in that way. OFFICERS DROWNED BY STAYING WITH SHIP News of Affair Just Reached This Country. Victoria. B. C, March 12. Refusing to leave the steamer Windsor, a freight vessel, when she was wrecked on a reef off the abrol turns group, AVesteru Australia, Capt. Joseph Walter, chief officer David W. Jones and Chief Engineer John Jenkins were drowned, according to news received from Australia today. All the other officers and crew were saved. The Windsor was bound from Fremantle to Hong Kong with sandal wood and was to have come across the Pacific to Victoria or Puget Sound. HARGIS TRIAL DEFERRED. Will Be Arraigned in June Term of Court. Jackson. Ky.. March 12. Upon affidavits filed by the qfndenats the trial of Peech Hargis. slayer .of his father. Judge James Hargis, was set for the seventh day of the June term of the Breathitt Circuit court. Mrs. Hargis was in court, dressed in her usual mourning. When the young patricide came from the jail he took a seat close to his mother and engaged in tamest convergaUoiL -with. ier. .
Under Authority of the "BlindTiger" Law, Officers Were Justified in Seizing Liquor At Hostelry.
JUDGE CONVERSE'S DEVISION IS NOT FINAL It Will Be Appealed to the Circuit Court But Litigation Is Expected to End at This Point. The case of Lewis Parker, charged j with violating the blind tiger law, is ; on trial today in the city court. It is i alleged by the state that Parker is i the proprietor of the New Windsor hotel and the owner of the bar locat ed there. Last Sunday, room 19 in the hotel was raided and a large quan-; tit'y of booze was obtained. Parker! is represented by Attorneys II. U. Johnson and J. F. Robbins. States Attitude. Prosecutor Jessup this morning maintained that the state under the authority of the blind tiger act, had the right to confiscate the seized liquor even in the event that Parker was not convicted of the charge of having in his possession liquor for unlawful sale. The prosecutor contended that the issuance of a warrant to se?rch the hotel for the liquor gave the state this authority. He said the affidavit filed against Parker was separate and apart from the search warrant. Attorneys for the defense maintained that Mr. Jessp had misconstrued the law on this point and a long debate followed. Attorney Robbins stated that the state had no right to proceed against Parker as he did not own the liquor seized by the state. Mr. Robbins further stated that Parker was not the proprietor of the hotel bar. Prosecutor Jessup answered this statement by stating that he could place a man on the witness stand who would testify that a few days prior to the raid on the hotel, Parker had approached him and had offered to sell him his interest in the New Windsor hotel bar. No matter what decision Judge Converse renders in the case it is certain that his ruling will be appealed to the circuit court. Judge Fox's ruling, however, will probably be final. INVADED STORE Wm. Bergen Frightened Employes of Rosenbloom-Bun-tin Establishment. GIVEN HEAVY SENTENCE. OBSCENE LITERATURE FOUND ON HIS PERSON AND HE WAS FINED $10 AND GIVEN THIRTY DAYS IN THE COUNTY JAIL. .William Bergen, colored, was fined $lO and costs and given thirty days in jail this morning when he faced Judge Converse on a charge of carrying obscene literature and pictures. Bergen was arrested because yesterday afternoon he secreted himself in the basement of the Rosenbloom & Buntin furnishing store on Main street. He was discovered there by Frank Borton, an employe of the firm, but was not captured until after he had succeeded in getting into the open. Borton went to the basement to see if the furnace was doing its duty. He found it to be hungry, and while feeding it some coal he noticed a dark countenance with the whites of the eyes shining large and ominous. Immediately the merry tune Borton was whistling, ceased, and the perpetrator of the pucker beat a rapid retreat for the store room. Borton's cry of "there's a man in the cellar," threw the other members of the establishment into the greatest confusioiS. While Rosenbloom hurriedly went in quest of a police officer, Harry Buntiu. Charles Wilson and Borton held a council of war. After considerable deliberation the trio decided to invade the cellar and give battle to the hiding "desperado." While they were fruitlessly searching the basement, Rosenbloom returned minus the police officer. To forestall any possible chance of the colored invader coming up the basement stairs and gliding out the rear door, Rosenblm-m locked the door. Ass he did so. he saw the dark-hiud visitor raise the grating over the cellar window, emerge, and make a wild dash for liberty. ' I've got him fellows," yelled Rosenbloom, and he started to open the door and give chase but he discovered that he had locked the door. Before he could open it the fugitive was, out of fci&Ut.
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Pittsburg. Pa., March 12. At ten o'clock this morning, Morris B. Holmes aged twenty-three, was hanged in the county jail for the murder of his sweetheart, Nancy B. Miller, a year ago. He declared that drink, was the cause of his downfall, and this was his death warning to other young men.
TO FACE TRIAL TOMORROW Study Would Not Commit Self On the Charge Made. Albert Minke will be tried tomorrow morning in the city court on a charge of violating the city peddling ordinance. City Attorney T. J. Study states that Judge Fox sustained the validity of the old peddling ordinance and that the one nosv in effect ia exactly the same as the old one with the exception that rates for license fees are lower. Mr. Study did not commit himself in regard to the charge made that men who peddle fish and oil about the city are as liable to arrest as the fruit peddlers. He said that it was up to the police to make the arrests. FAMOUS KENTUCKY COL CAPTIVATED LARGE AUDIENCE Col. Bain Lectured on the Topic, "If I Had to Live Life Over Again," at the East Main Street Church. TELLS OF HIS BOYHOOD DAYS ON PLANTATION. His Eloquence and Plea, Touched All Those Who Heard Him Hopes to See Liquor Evil Crushed Out. Quite a large sized audience heard an excellent lecture delivered last evening at the East Main Street Friends' church by Cof. George A. Bain, one of the best known temperance lecturers in the United States. Col. Bain has been on the lecture platform for the past thirty-eight years and he has assisted materially in starting the temperance wave which is now sweeping all over the United States. The title of Col. Bain's lecture was, "If I Could Live Life Over." It was a descriptive lecture, almost poetic, and the reminiscenscs of an aged man who has lived a life worth the living. Those who heard the venerable Kc-n-tuckiau were captivated by his eloquence and personality. If he had to live this life over, said Col. Bain, there would be some things that he would not change. These would be his boyhood days on the blue-grass Kentucky plantation; his sweetheart, now his wife, and the happiness of his old age. His description of the Kentucky plantation was extremely beautiful, and when in word painting he described his blueeyed sweetheart of the old days, there were many moist eyes in the audience. Would Not Partake. Col. Bain stated that if his life was to be lived over he would again renew his pledge not to partake of intoxicating liquors. Speaking on this subject he told of how the temperance war was lolling over the country and said that he expected to live to see the day when licensed traffic in liquor had been driven out of every state and territory in the union. Col. Bain said that when he first took the field as a champion of temperance, thirty-eight years ago. he chose his home state, Kentucky, as his field of action. So strong was the feeling against temperance at that time that he took his life in his hands in preaching its doctrines. Once, he said, his young wife stood before him and saved his life from the hands of an enraged mountaineer, who intended to shoot him. Today, Col. Bain stated, one hundred of the one hundred and nineteen counties in Kentucky are "dry." He said that if he had to live life over again, he would want to live in Kentucky. The speaker also said that if he lived his life over he would again "swear off" smoking. lie said that he had not tasted tobacco in thiitytwo years and that l.y doing so, he estimated be had saved $2,500, which amount he recently expended in erecting a home in the blue grass eountry. At the close of the lecture one young . man .went io Col. Bain and told him that he had resolved never to drink; intoxicants or -use tobacco -aiain.
Four Lads in Eastern Section Of City Attempted Southern Lynch Methods on Two Youngsters.
RESCUED AS FLAMES CREPT TOWARD THEM. Loud Cries Attracted Attention of Several People Who Saved Lads in the "Nick! of Time." For a playful attempt, which might ' have resulted in a tragedy, to burn Howard Smith and Ralph Kettle "to tne stake," four east end lads, Reginald ! Smith, Guy Williams, Francis Glass ; and Vernon Handley, all school boys, j are under arrest on charges of assault j ley and Prosecutor Jessup laughingly told of the incident. The four lads under arrest will be given a thorough lecture in the presence of their stern papas, on the evils of burning human being and will then be released on promises of future good behaviour. Last week the six lads implicated in the affair, were playing about an east end grocery. The groceryman, it is alleged in 'mock seriousness stated that Howard Smith and Ralph Kettle were bothering him and that he wished the other boys would dispose of them in some way. Promptly these two lads were seized by Reginald Smith, Glass, Williams and Handley and dragged out of tne store. Victims Were Bound. After the two victims had been securely bound, hands and feet, they were tied to a tree. "We are going to burn you fellows to a ptake like they do people down south," the captors Informed their thoroughly terrorized victims. While Reginald Smith and young Kettle strained at their bindings lo secure release, the other boys calmly collected some wood, it is asserted, which they placed near their victims. After this wood had been piled into the shape of a funeral pyre, it was ignited. The captors enjoyed the spectacle for a few minutes, then took to their heels, with the screams of their victims ringing loud in their ears. The uproar made by the two boys, lashed to the tree and threatenea by the flames, quickly attracted people to their rescue and they were released from their precarious position before the flames had an opportunity to Ignite their clothing. KEMP KILLED IN . PIST0L DUEL Slayer Claims He Was Forced To Take Man's Life. New Orleans, March 12. C. Farney Hyde has been arrested for the killing of State Senator Elect, Duncan S. Kemp in a pistol duel at Amite. Sev eral shots were exchanged. Hyde claims he was forced to fight. STRIKERS MOWED DOWN WITH GUNS Many Were Killed by Chilian Troops. San Francisco, March 12. According to the officers of the Norwegian steamship. Christian from Chili, 2.o strikers were mowed down with machine guns at the Nitrate beds near Iquique. The men were rioting and the troops fired on them. Many were killed. BUSINESS MAN SUICIDED TODAY IGeo. H. Eldridge Was Promi nent Indianapolis Man. j Indianapolis. March 12. George H. Eldridge, aged fifty-five, vice president of the E. IL Eldridge Lumber company. ' committed suicide this morning by ' shooting himself in the bead at his home. Ill health and business troubles was the caus.
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Shawnee, Okla.. March 14. As the result of a pistol duel in a darkened room, three men were shot and two are expected to die. Further bloodshed was prevented by the interference of sixteen year-old Bessie Nichols. Ma ceo McClutcha and Wm. McCIutcha. Charles Nichols and Joe McClutcha. have been arrested. The McCliUchas entered Nichols's bed room at night. The trouble started at a dance.
WILL TEACH CHILDREN. Postal Savings Banks Will Cultivate Saving Habit. Washington. March 12. Children are to be encouraged to save their pen nies by a feature of the postal savings bank bill to be reported by the subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Post-offices and Postroads, which is considering the various postal bank bills. The committee has taken the best features of all of the bills and is drafting what it believes to be a.s near perfect a measure as can be made. CHINA WANTS NU If Japanese Do Not Furnish These to Rebels, Ship Will Be Yielded. CHINA HOLDING ITS OWN. ALSO SUSTAINS CONTENTION THAT THE CARGO OF THE JAP ANESE VESSEL WAS LIABLE TO CONFISCATION. Teking, March 12. The negotiations between China and Japan, regarding the Tatsu, the Japanese steamer that was seized by China February 7, on the ground that she was conveying arms and ammunition to Chinese revo lutionists are proceeding on the basi of China's offer to compromise on condition that Japan put a stop to the im portation of arms and ammunition from Japan Into Chinese territory. China seems to be holding her own in the proceedings, for her claim to the right to consider the Portuguese side of the question separately from the controversy with Japan has been ac cepted by Japan, at least provisionally and she has been able to sustain her claim of justification in making the seizure on the grounds that the Tatsu discharged her cargo in Chinese wat ers. China also has sustained her conten tion that the cargo of the Japanese ves sel was liable to confiscation. She ad mits in substance that she was wrong in hauling down the Japanese flag on the Tatsu, and for this error has apol ogized, but she has not receded from her argument that she had the right to confiscate the ship and its cargo nor from the principle of equable ad justment of the difficulty, upon which she has all along insisted. It is understood in Hong Kong that the consignees of t he cargo of the Tat su have repudiated their obligations on the ground that the vessel digressed from the course she was chartered to follow. ATTORNEYS DREW UP SPECIAL FINDING Was on the Case of Clifford Against the City. City Attorney T. J. Study, was In Greenfield yesterday, where he and At torney Cook of that city drew up a special finding on the case of Free mont Clifford. against the City of Richmond, on claim for payment for the collection of omittea taxables. This case was recently heard at Green field. The special finding has been forwarded to Judge Robinson who heard the cafe. BROTHERS DO BATTLE. After Offices in Washington Town ship. Milton, Ind., March 12. There are some unique situations in the nominations for the Washington Township offices. M. D. Doddridge, Republican nominee for Trustc , and W. I. Doddridire, the Socialistic nominee for the same office, are brotbors. The nominee for Assessor on the democratic ticket, George W. Crull, and Yancey Willits, republican nominee for assessor, are step-brothers. "
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Was Insane When They Were Married Is Not Real Reason for Divorce. SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN AGREED ON, IT IS SAID, Not Natural to Assume That She Would Have Bared Her Hideous Past in Court Without Some Understanding. New York, March 12. Evelyn Ksbit Thaw made her first formal statement relative to her suit for the an nulment of her marriage with Harry K. Thaw yesterday afternoon In the office of her counsel, Dan O'Reilly, "Despite the fact that I am suing my husband to have our marriage annulled on the ground that he was insane where the ceremony was performed, I an frank to admit that is not the true rea son. hat is prompting me in this will remain a secret as long as I live. and never, in my right sense, will I utter a word. I am determined to carry the secret to the grave with me.Further than that I found my causo during the first trial. I will remain mum in this matter forever." "Is this suit based upon Thaw's jeal ousy V" was asked. "No," exclaimed Evelyn. She de clined to say, however, what was th specific cause of the quarrel and suit. Her attorney, O'Reilly said that ho would never tell, when ahked. but volunteered the information that the quar rel occurred in the early part of Lb Thaw trial. Suit for Alimony. Dan O'Reilly, counsel for Evelyn, i-ald this afternoon that a separate suit may be started to compel a settlement If Harry Thaw refused to keep his pYomlse to make an alimony settlement voluntarily. Mr. O'Reilly quot ed the decision in the case of Jones vs.
Urlnsmade, in the court of appeals 1005, in which it was decided that a wife separated or divorced from an insane husband, is entitled to alimony. He said that the suit would be based upon this decision substantiated bj separate affidavits. Will Not FightThaw's fight will amount to nothing more than a mere formal dr5nse, if present indications are reliable. Hi counsel, A. Russell Peabody, says Thaw will fight, but Mr. Peabody's own words In discussing the case are regarded as evidence that there will be no serious" fight Thaw yesterday sent a letter to hN wife, begging her to come to see him today, and hourly he expected her. He kept asking his guard every few minutes if she had arrived. Thaw's letter to Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was in the nature of an appeal to her. He asked anxiously that she go to him. It Is supposed that she received the missive through her counsel, Daniel O'Reilly, but of course, the former chorus girl wife did not grant her husband's prayer, being determined, it is said, to have their marital tie severed. Settlement Agreed On. Despite many denials made, there is pood reason for believing a financial settlement has been agreed upon for many months. Assuming that young Mrs. Thaw has been unfriendly toward ber husband, except in her public attitude, for more than a year. It Is hardly reasonable that she would have testified to all the degrading events of her ... life, without the assurance that she would be well cared for by Thaw's fam-" Uy. It is said by her friends that she has an affection for her hpsbaud that had more of sympathy than of love, but that she was determined through both; trials never to live witb him again, no matter if be should be freed. Even now, her counsel says, she ha no hard feelings against Tbaw, but ' would do all in her power to belp him. Mr. O'Reilly says that she will go oa the stand and testify in an effort to get him out of Matteawan. Her fear of Thaw is one rean for her determination never to live with him again. Their quarrel was over some trifling personal matter, according- to Mr. O'Reilly. From another source. It
j was learned that Thaw became Jealous I early In the first trial and that the qtjarrel was over his jealousy. Despite the quarrel, she passed through, both trial3 without the slightest manifestation of any ill will, and so long aa Tbaw was in he Tombs sfce was a model of a loving and devoted wife. Sbe rarely failed Jn her daily visits. A MEMPHIS DENTIST Said to Be Booked by Evelyn aa Next Husband. Memphis. Tenn. March 32. Accordinz to society gosfcip here, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw may come to Memphis to lira
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