Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 92, 17 May 1908 — Page 1

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Jo H A AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. XO.92. RICHMOND, IND., SUNDAY 3IOII.IN;, 3IAY 17. 1!M)S. sin;li: copy, n cunts. OFFERS BiG REWARD FOR SATISFACTORY SOLUTION OF CASE A DAMNABLE LIE ROOSEVELT AND TROOPS ARE SLAIN JAP IMMIGRATION TO BE MARRIED SOON NOTHING IS LEFT DOLLIVER ADDRESS BUT TO SEND THAW TO ASYLUM AGAIN So Says Major Lacey of His Reported Connection With Gunness Case. French Forces Suffer Losses In Engagements With Arab Forces. George Hamilton Will Take a Bride Next Month It Is Announced. THE METHODISTS CONFRONTS U. S.

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Laporte County Commissioners Think $9,000 a Large Enough Sum to Carry on the Gunness Mystery. DEFENSE OF LAMPHERE USES MUCH STRATEGY.

Sheriff Smutzer Finds That Man Whom He Trusted as Chicago Detective, Is Spy For the Defense. La Porte, Ind., May Hi The board of county commissioners, after a bitter debate here today, in which the conviction was expressed by its members that Mrs. Belle Gunness is still alive, appropriated .f.(K;o to be spent clearing up the mystery of the "House of Death." When an attempt was tna.de in the city council to obtain an appropriation of $14,000 to pay detectives, coroners, special assistants and providefor the expenses of the trial Of Ray Lamphere, unexpected opposition was developed. John G. Matthews, one of the most potential members of the body, declared he did not believe Mrs. Gunness was dead and insisted that all of his neighbors and friends were of the same opinion. Mr. Matthews has a wide acquaintance End his statement indicates very nearly the trend of public opinion on the Gunness case in. Laporte county. Thinks She Lives. Matthews argued it was ridiculous to suppose Mrs. (Junness's head could tiave been burned off her body, while the heads of her c hildren were scarcely tnore than scorched. "What sense is there in appropriating money to pay detectives who insist &.t the start that Mrs. Gunness is dead," remarked a member of the Council. This attitude of Matthews started a tiot discussion that lasted all day. The Gunness case in all the phases of the mystery were discussed. In its final net ion the council agreed upon a compromise resolution appropriating .?!,- passed to stand reading which practically amounts to its final adoption. Of $!,KK, $r,MX was appropriated for the county commissioners, Hvho are to use it as they desire in tinravelins the mystery, but "it is tacitly understood most of the $,.hh is to be offered for the apprehension of Mrs. Gunness. Must Show Proof. To earn the reward proffered on these terms, it will be necessary for the detectives to prove Mrs. Gunness Is alive and return her into court. It Is admitted by the attorneys for the prosecution and defense that the trial tf Lamphere may last for weeks, so tnany elements of uncertainty have arisen. Proof throughout must be circumstantial. The defense believes it will be able to shut off the so-called ponfession made to the Rev. Mr. fcchell. Sheriff Smutzer is in receipt of a letter from I. X. Youster of Carper, NVyo.. who tells his interesting experience on the Gunness farm. He says he once visited Mrs. Gunness's home With $70O in currency and sr.cn in drafts in his pocket. He was a peddler. Mrs. Gunness's children were Dice to him and Mrs. Gunness told them to go away and not pay any attention to the old man. The writer fays he is convinced he would have been murdered for his money, but for the fact that his shabby clothes concealed his prosperity. Sheriff Smutzer was amazed today to discover that the supposed Chicago City detective, in whom he had trusted Is really in the employe of the defense. J?mutzer and his deputies had given the man all the information regarding the case against Lamphere in the possession of the sheriff's office. County Prosecutor looks upon this piece of Strategy on the part of the attorneys for Lamphere as both a calamity ana End an outrage. THE VANDERBILTS RETURN TO HOME Mrs. Vanderbilt Enthusiastic About Coaching. New York, May K. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt. and their little daughter Kathleen, returned from Europe today on the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. Mrs. Vanderbilt said she made the trip with Mr. Vanderbilt and Miss Kathleen from London to Brighton on the coach Venture, driven by Alfred Gynne Vanderbilt. She was enthusiastic about the success of the coaching project and said it had been received with great approval in England.

THE END IS NOT YET.

M. M. Iaeey. of Fountain City takes exceptions to the dispatches sent out from Laporte Ind., which state he is one of the men who have offered to locate Mrs. Gunness, the celebrated murderess. The dispatches said the major offered to produce the woman for This is what the major has to say on the subject: "No such letter was ever written by me. It is an infamous and damnable lie. If such a letter was written it is a forgery in every respect, and the arch murderess and "Borgia" of the twentieth century is a sweet singing angel with a golden harp, as compared with such a scoundrel. The end is not yet." THREATS TO USE BULLETS IN THE CLEVELAND STRIKE Police and Striking Car Men Clash Several Times Saturday, But No Blood Has Been Spilled. ACTING GOV. WILLIAMS ON SCENE OF CONFLICT. He Refuses to Go Back to Columbus During the Critical Stages Police Department Wants Men. Cleveland, O., May 16. The street car service is demoralized and armed police are under instructions to restore order after a day of rioting and to protect the property of the traction company, even though violence he used, in the strike against Mayor Tom Johnson's new municipal company, the realization of his long fight for threecent fares. Tonight police battled at West. 117th street and Detroit avenue with a crowd of 700 striking street car conductors, motormen and sympathizers. Another big squad of police met r.00 strikers and their allies before the Lake View barns in the opposite eastern side of the city. The sheriff's office, acting; on the authority of the county commissioners, swore in special deputies late in the day and a score of these men were sent to the Detroit. Avenue car harns in Lakewood to protect the barns and cars. Attempts to run the cars from that barn had been abandoned early in the day, Mayor Miller of the village, refusing police protection. Acting Gov. James M. Williams, chief executive of state, because of Gov. Harris' absence, is remaining in his offices here instead of going to Columbus, the state capital. He kept in touch with the situation throughout the day and discussion of summoning militia was rampant, but nn Chief Kepler's declaration that he needed no help, no formal appeal was made. Late tonight the police department advertised for three hundred "able bodied men" to be sworn on as special police. The city's force of r00 men fought all day long, both night, and day shifts being held In reserve at the opening of the strike and being hurried from one side of the city to tbe other, in only partially successful efforts to drive the strikers away from the cars and car barns. A policeman fired the first shot of the strike into a crowd which attacked a car. Threats to use bullets were made in the battle tonight. TILLMANS HAVE SAILEJHOR EUROPE Senator Goes Abroad for His Health. New York. May ir,. Senator and Mrs. Tillman sailed on the Canopie today for the Mediterranean. Senator Tillman goes abroad in search of rest for his illness. "I've no fixed plan," he said before sailing, "but I expect to return about the middle or the last of next October. Prom here I go to Gibraltar. There 1 go ashore and travel about a month, perhaps up to Spain. Then I am going down through Italy." THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Partly cloudy with probtele shower.

Thousand Prominent Members of Church Hear the Great Statesmen in Washington Saturday Afternoon.

COURAGE IN AMERICANS ADVOCATED STRONGLY. The Present Century Offers Opportunity for Accomplishment of Great Things, Says Chief Executive. Washington, May Ifi. One thousand prominent Methodists, delegates to the general conference just 'osed in Baltimore, arrived in Washington shortly after noon today, and are this afternoon the guests of the officers of the American university on the university grounds, near Georgetown, where President Roosevelt and Senator Dolliver addressed the visitors. Senator Dolliver in welcoming the delegates thanked them for the interest they had exhibited by leaving their labors and visiting the foundations of the institution the church is laying in Washington. He thanked also the President and Mrs. Roosevelt for their attendance, saying that the words of the president would exert an influence not. only on account of his high office, but also because of the more impressive influence that "Rises from the most fruitful and popular leadership any generation of Americans has ever known." Tribute Paid. President responded by saying: It. is a pleasure to be with you today and to bid you welcome on behalf of the nation, here in the capital of the nation. Important though the Methodist church is ;,n many lands, there is none in which it has played so great and peculiar a part as here in the United Staff es. Its history is indissoluble intewoven with the history of our country for the six score years since the constitutional convention made us really a nation. The whole country is under a dabt of gratitude to the Methodist circuit riders, the Methodist pioneer preachers, whose movement westward kept pace with the movement of the frontier, who shared all the hardships in the life of the frontierman, while at the same time ministering to that frontiersman's spiritual needs, and seeing that his pressing material cars and the hard and grinding poverty of his life did not wholly extinguish the divine fire within his soul. Such was your work in the past; and your work in the present is as great: for the need and opportunity for service widens as the field of national interest wide ns. True religion, through church organizations, through philanthropic organizations, in all the field of kindred endeavor, can manifest, itself as effectively in the crowded and complex life of today as in the pioneer yesterdays; and the souls of men need, the light now and strive blindly toward it. as they needed it, and strove toward it in the vanished iast. Xo nation in the world has more right than ours to look with proud confidence toward the future. Nowhere else has the experiment, of democratic government, of government by the people and for the people, of government based on the principle of treating each man on his innate worth as a man, been tried on so vast, a scale as with us: and on the whole the experiment has been more successful than anywhere else. Moreover, on the whole, I think it can be said that we have grown better and not worse; for if there is much evil, good also greatly abounds, and if wrong grows, so in even greater measure grows the stern sense of right before which wrong must eventually yield. It would be both unmanly and unwarranted to become faint-hearted or despairing about the Nation's future. Clear-eyed and far-sighted men who are both brave of heart and cool of head, while not for a moment refusing to see and acknowledge the many evils around us, must, yet also feel a confident assurance that in the struggle we shall win and not lose, that the century that has just opened will see great triumph for our people. But the surest way to achieve this triumph is. while never losing hope and belief in our progress, yet at the same time to refuse to blind ourselves to what is evil in the complex play of the many forces, working through, and with, and against one another, in the upbuilding of our social structure. Prosperity such as ours, necessary though it be as the material basis of national greatness, inevitably tends to undue exaltation of the merely material side of the national character: and we must largely rely on the efforts of such men and women as those I am addressing to build up the spiritual life without which the material life amounts to nothing. As generation succeeds generation the problems change in their external share; old needs vanish, and new needs arise: but It remains as true as ever that in the last analysis national greatness, (Continued oa Page Poor.)

OPPONENTS LOSSES HEAVY.

Algiers. May 1;.-The French force, under Gen. Yigy. lost thirteen men killed and sixty-five wounded during a fierce engagement yesterday with the fanatical Arabs. The engagement lasted the greater part of the day. and Boudenib. the stronghold of Mulai Hansen was bombarded. Three officers are among the French killed. The Arab losses are described as heavy. CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS REMOTE Conference in Jackson Township Decided Against the Step at Present. MILTON AND DUBLIN OUT. SCHOOL EOARDS OF THOSE TOWNS DO NOT TAKE KINDLY TO IDEA OF SENDING PUPILS TO CAMBRIDGE CITY. Cambridge City, Ind.. May 16. Indications are not favorable to the proposed consolidation of the high schools ofCambridge City. Dublin, Milton and Jaeksou township. A meeting was hebl here this afternoon, which was attended by State Superintendent F. A. Cotton, County Superintendent Jordan and the members of the school boards of the towns named and trustee Trussler. It was very evident that sentiment is against the proposed consolidation. The attitude of the school boards of Dublin and Milton will tie the real cause for the failure. The change of the rule of the state board of education is responsible for the school boards of these places receiving authority for taking the stand they have assumed.. A few months ago the state board passed a rule providing that all commissions would be taken away from high schools not offering a nine months term and having a faculty of at least three members. Neither the -high schools of Milton nor Dublin could have come within the scope of this ruling. At its meeting Friday, however, fhe state board rescinded this rule and returned to the old form of grading. This will enable Dublin and Milton to retain their schools and deals a severe blow to the consolidation project. The plan of consolidation was offered so as to comply with the board's rules arid organize a central high school equipped with a thorough system of study ;tnd a sufficient number of teachers t care for the need of all pupils. Roth Milton and Dublin are connected with this place by traction line and the expense of a central school would be much lower than that necessary to conduct three institutions. Although realizing what it meant to them in the way of pxpense to provide additional teachers and operate their schools nine months the school boards of Milton and Dublin did not favor the idea of giving up their schools. The change made in the rules by the state board played directly into their hands and enables them to retain their schools. A new high school building is needed in this place and it now appears t'.iat if it is built it must, be done at the expense of the local school board and township trustee. The hii'i school classes meet now on the third story of the graded school building. The accommodations offered the 00 pupils are far from modern and a change will be necessary. The building is old and without the proper safe guards against the probability of fire and panic. VIOLATE ROLES AND WAJITO DEATH Serious Accident in Pennsylvania Collieries. Wilkesbarre, Pa.. May 16. Richard Muilaiy was killed and Miko? Wiiliams and Mike Sinco were seriously injured in the Franklin colliery'of the Lehigh Valley mine this afternoon. They were violating rules by walking down the long slope after time for lowering men had passed. The rope which was I hauling up a loaded car broke and the car crashed upon them. WIFE OBJECTED. Because Perry Williams, a contractor on the Young Men's Christian as- j sociation building, paid the wages cue! an employe, the wife of the latter pro- j tested and wrote him a letter. Williams was put in a quandary by the contents of the epistle and turned it over to Police Sergeant McManus. It is not believed to be a cae in which rolice Interference is necessary and it ift iikaigr nothing w ill result.

Despite Agreement of That Country to Stop Influx of Laborers Number Coming In Is Still Large.

OFFICIAL REGISTER SHOWS SMALLER NUMBER This, However, Is Not Accurate as Many Slant-Eyed People Cross the Boundaries Unknown to Authorities. Washington, D. C. May l',. Once more the immigration question has forged to the front, as a disturbing factor in fhe relations between the Tinted States and Japan. In spite of an agreement, reached months ago with the Japanese government, under which the latter pledged itself to stop emigration of laborers to the United States, the number of such entering this country continues large. It is understood that the president has addressed a strong remonstrance to Japan, but the state department declines to make any statement. Regret is expressed in officials at the failure of Japan to arrest the flow of its laborers to the United States. To prevent the passage of an exclusion act directed against Japanese and Corcan laborers, the president induced congress last year to incorporate in the immigration law a provision requiring him to refuse to grant admission to persons unprovided with passports from the country of their origin. The president stated he was satisfied that passports issued by Japan to visit Mexico, Canada and Hawaii were being used to enable the holders to enter the United States and ordered that all such persons be excluded. "Official" Decrease Shown. Although it was understood that this action was approved by Japan, the latter failed to restrict emigration to this country. It became necessary fcr the state department, to address several remonstrances to Japan, pointing out that there was no perceptible decrease In the number of laborers coming to this country and that something must, be done to stop the flow or the president would abandon his hostility to an exclusion act. An examination of the monthly bulletins of the bureau of immigration and naturalization indicates that there has been a steady decrease in the number of Japanese entering the United States. During last. October, before the agreement was reached. :cj more Japanese entered than did in October, l'.HHi. The agreement entered into force in January, r.xiy A drop of 4.."ol occurred in the immigration for that, month as compared to January. 1!7. February showed a decrease- of ''. I.'.T, March of 11,1 its, and April of 1.IV,. On the face of these figure:; it may he asked, "Why is any complaint being made by Japan?" The bulletins of the bureau merely give the number of emigrants "officially" admitted. They do not take count of aliens who surreptitiously cross the Mexican and Canadian frontiers. Many Slip Past Agents. The bureau has received information showing that a large number of Japanese laborers have slipped past its agents. Under the regulations issued by Commissioner General Sargent, if a Japanese oV Corean laborer is found in continental territory of the United States without having been duly admitted, be may be arrested with a viewto his deportation. It is difficult to locate a Japanese or Corean without warrant to be in this country. Consequently the government must, turn to Japan for redress and demand that it prevent the departure for the United States of its laborers. It looks as if there has been an evasion of the agreement, and it is expected that the attention of Japan being called to it immediate action will be taken. CONFERENCE DELEGATES GO TO WASHINGTON Roosevelt and Fairbanks Address Them. Baltimore. Md., May 16. The Methodist delegates journeyed to Washington in special trains today to be the guests of the American University. Roosevelt and Fairbanks made addresses.

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ENDS COLLEGE ROMANCE.

AnnouncetiH-nr ha b-vn mnd in j this city of the nia:r;ai:' of Gt evse K. Hamilton, formerlv ot Uie!in.oil and! 1 Miss Iaiy Cox, if West .Wwtou. a, suburb of Indianapolis. Hamilton wont the distinction of b-inc one of thej first representatives of American col- , i-'-ge.- jo win i lie Cecil Hhodes scholarships offered for excel'ieuc y of educational and physical uualificat ions. At j present no is located irh the General J Insurance companv at St. Paul. Minn.! . : ... 1 1 lie marriage o! the two win come as t'.ie culmination of a romance which j bad its iiiceoHon when tae two were j students at Kai'lhain college. Both ire graduate of that institution. ft In OF FIRST STEP IN ITS CONSTRUCTION Corner Stone Laying at Local Y. M. C. A. Today Will Be An Auspicious Occasion for Association. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EXPECTED TO ATTEND. Order of Services Will Be in Accord With the Program Which Has Been Announced Messer the Speaker. Tt is expected that a large crowd will attend the exercises 1n connection i with the laying of the corner stone ! at the Young Men's Christian Associa- : tion Building this afternoon at " ' o'clock. The event has been looked i forward to with interest by all those who have desired the establishment of such an institution in this city. More than o.ooO persons contributed to the fund and all of these have been anxious to see some indication of the erection of the building. The corner stone laying marks the completion of the first step in the actual construction work. The stone will ! be placed in the north east corner a i- ! jacent to Kighth atid North A streets, j It will contain a copy of the Bible, his- : tory of the Richmond Young Mn's Christian Association, copies of the daily papers and building campaign clippings, copy of souvenir program. ; copy of souvenir book. Richmond, list i of subscribers to the building fund, list ; of incorporators, copy of "Association : Men." copy of "Association Boys." j The order or services will be jn aci cord with the program, which has been j published. The first gathering will be I at the Gennett Theater, directly across I the street from the site of the buildine. The invocation will be delivered ; by the Rev. S. R. Lyons, pastor of the ' Reid Memorial United Presbyterian church. Prayer will be offered by the Rev. Conrad Huber. pastor of the St. I Paul's Lutheran church. The scripI ture reading will be by Charles 11. j Brown, who conducted the subscripI tion campaign. Greetings from the : brotherhood of the Young Men's Chris- ! tian Associations of North America i will be offered by E. K. Stacy, state secretary. Thurman Overman will I sing a solo. The address will be di livered by L. Wilbur Messer. The ; ceremonies at the laying of the stone will be condueted by Adam H. Bartel, chairman of the board of trustees. The benediction will be pronounced by the Rev. Alfred Ware. DILL A SPEAKER Addresses American Waterworks Association. Or.e of the speakers at the 27th annual convention of the American Water Works association, which niet at Washington. D. C. diring the past week w,-:? Howard A. IH'A, of the Richmond City Water works company. Mr. Dill addressed the association at the morning session yesterday on the subject "The Operation of a Sixteen Inch Syphon at Richmond. Ind." Mr. Dill is superintendent of the local company and told his hearers of t'.ie construction or the syphon system, which is used in this city. He is a member of the finance committee of the national organization.

MARKS COMPLETION

This Is the Concensus of Legal Opinion in the Case Which Took Sudden Change Yesterday.

JEROME ANNOUNCED PEOPLE REST CASE. Sudden Collapse of the Proceedings Does Not Appear Favorable to Slayer of Stanford White. Ponghkoepsie, X. Y.. May 16. Many Kendall Thaw's fight for release from Mattcawan. came to a sudden ending in the supreme court her tonieht. Thaw was in the witness chair raiy to testify in his own behalf and appeared to be confident that he would be able to convince the court that he was perfectly rational and sane. He had just returned to the stand after conferring with his counsel and experts and was waiting eagerly for the next question when District Attorney Jerome of New York, announced that "the people rest," and Thaw was directed to leave the stand. Within ten minutes after this Mr. Graham and Mr. Jerome had agreed to call no further witnesses, to make no arguments tnd to dose the rase by submitting briefs to Justice Morshauser of White Plains Monday. When Thaw and bis associates returned to the court room'after considering Jerome's demand that his experts be allowed to cross examine Thaw. Mr. Graham notified the court that Thaw was willing to submit to a cross- examination providing it was to be conducted by six alienists to be appointed by the court and none whom were connected by either of the trials for the murder of Stanford White; that three of thce alienists be agreed upon by Jerome and the counsel for Thaw; that the expense of these experts be paid jointly by Thaw and the county of New York, and that the examination be limited entirely to the personal study of the present condition of the priMUit r's mind, and that all facts bearing iijon the condition of his mind during the trials for murder be excluded. It is believed here that as a result of the clever maneuvers of District Attorney Jerome, Justice Morshauser will recommit Thaw to Mattcawan. The justice, tonight refused to receive the briefs. He directed the counsel to confine their briefs to the legality of the original commitment to Mattcawan by Justice Howling, after the jury had pronounced Thaw not guilty of the murder of Stanford White. Mr. Graham desired to R'lbmit briefs on the question of Mjiity at this time, but Jerome announced he had none to Riibmit. Inference amoni? the lawyers who watched the proceedings of the cap" and saw a sudden collapse of the proceedings, tonight declared there is nothing left for Justice Morshauser except recommit TLaw. AUTOISTS ARE FATALLY INJURED Caught Between Street Cars And Panic Follows. New York. May Christopher J. Ritter. a wealthy Richmond Hill contractor, and Frank Nicholson, his chauffeur, were probably fatally injured this afternoon when Ritters auto caught between the street cars at Kosciusko street and Ostrand avenue and demolished. A panic ensued on the cars and the police were called out. DEALER IH ART WAS ARRESTED Claimed He Sold Bogus Pictures. New York. May 1'",. William Clanj sen, one of the most prominent art j dealers in the city, was arrested on a 1 charge of having sold to William E. , Evans, a well Known collector of paint j in e.s. a number of pictures as genuine, ; which are alleged to be forgeries, i Clausen was arraigned in court and released on bail. SHIPP KNOWN HERE. One of the men honored by President Roosevelt during the conference of governors and statesmen at Washington during the past week was Thomas R. Ehipp, formerly of Indianapolis. He was chosen by the president as secretary of the conference. Mr. Shipp is well known in this city, where he has visited a number cf times. He formerly was secretary to Senator Beveridge and in that capacity gained many friends. ,