Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 131, 25 June 1908 — Page 1

MCHMOND PAIXABI JL-JD AIMD SUN-TELEGRAM. JTOL. XXXIII. NO. 131. RICII3IOXD, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 2o, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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AN INSPECTOR Conditions Surrounding Three Sources of Milk Consumed In Richmond Are Foul, Says Owens. PARDIECK, SMITH AMD RUGH THE SUFFERERS. Pther Places Found in Bad Condition, But Given a Chance to Immediately Clean Up Places. SENT HERE BY THE STATE. NOT THROUGH ACTIVITY OF ANY local officials that owens is ordering a general Cleaning up. WORK IS NOT COMPLETED. The State Inspector Will Remain Here to See That All Are Treated In the Same Way and Dairies Are Improved. John Owens, one of the state food iand drug inspectors and an authority on milk, inspected ten dairies In this county yesterday afternoon and he makes the following report: Pardieck Brothers Sells 35 gallons of milk. Conditions bad and condemned on the spot. The whole premises are in a bad condition. No screens to the cooler. Barn in bad shape and a filthy shed used for a milk house. No milk can be sold from this dairy until conditions have been improved. Harry Smith Sells 25 gallons to Charles Sheppard. Conditions bad. Piles of manure about the premises. Milk aerated in barn yard. Well not properly closed. Milk cooled in horse trough. Smith stated that he intended to go out of business at the end of this month. Inspector ordered him to ; cease business immediately. J. L. Rugh Sells 12 gallons milk. : Condition bad. Dairy was inspected I last summer but conditions same to1 day as was then. Premises covered with refuse, piles manure and dust i heaps. No drains in barn. Barn not whitewashed. No milk house and 'milk allowed to cool on hack porch. J Rugh informed inspector that if ho was permitted to sell milk today he would work all night improving conditions. His dairy was inspected this i morning and condition rated as poor. 'He will be permitted to operate until : Saturday, by which time he must raise grading of his dairy. Rugh .must clean up his place generally and establish a cooler. D. F. Gard Sells 26 gallons milk to City Restaurant. Dairy graded as (fair. Floor of the barn in bad condition. No drains to carry off liquid refuse. Barn not whitewashed and a general cleaning up is necessary. If these Improvements are made dairy vwlll be graded good. Water condi tions at this dairy excellent. Alexander Meek Sells 20 gallons to l' Arlington hotel. Condition fair. No milk house. Milk kept In dank, foul cellar. Must provide milk house, drain for barn, a milk cooler and the place must be generally cleaned up. Barnard Weiss Sails 25 gallons to Pardieck Brothers. Conditions poor. Ordered to clean barn, barn yard, barn floors, partition off the horses, whitewash the barn. Pending compliance of these orders he will be per mitted to sell. Cornelius Rati iff Sells 35 gallons. Conditions bad. Given a week to im prove conditions with the penalty of condemnation for not complying with orders. Dairy never been Inspected before. Accumulations of manure in barn, barn yard filthy. No milk .'house, no aerator. Must clean prem ises up. Must place a drain in the barn, must establish a cooler, must whitewash the barn and erect a milk bouse. Premises not in a condition to be approved by most liberal inspector. Charles Haines Sells 20 gallons to Pitts. Conditions good. One of the most refreshing and satisfactory places visited. If a few improvements are made dairy will be graded excel lent. R. P. Lankert Sells 28 gallons. Conditions good,, With a few improvements dairy could be rated excellent. Milk cooled in house. A little clean ing necessary, also a barn drain and screens for milk house. Task not Completed. Mr. Owens has not yet completed bis task of inspecting all the dairies In the county but he expects to finish this work within the next day or two. Of the ten dairies inspected by him yesterday three were condemned on the spot These were the dairies of (Continued on Page Two.)

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Ex-President Cleveland Will Not Lie in State As Is Customary. DEATH MASK IS TAKEN. Princeton, N. J. June 25. Contrary to precedent, Grover Cleveland's remains will not lie in state. The funeral will be held at five o'clock Friday evening, unostentatious and extremely private. The two older children will attend but the two younger will remain in New Hampshire. A death mask was taken today. PRESIDENT CASTRO AND VENEZUELA BE If South American Country Persists in Sneaking Actions, Uncle Sam Will Have To Apply the Shoe. POWER TO ACT IS NOW WITH THE PRESIDENT. Much Speculation as to the Probable Step Roosevelt Will Take in Dealing With Southern Country. Washington, June 25. The Venezue lan situation has become so acute by the withdrawal by the ynited States of its legation at Caracas that specu lation is rife as to the next step to be taken by the president. Developments show clearly that President Castro has instructed his ministers here to remain until he' has be given his passports, so that Castro will be able to say that the two preliminary aggressive steps were taken by the United States the withdrawal of Its legation and the dismissal of the Venezuelan Minister. This diplomacy of Castro is, however, transparent to the state department officials, the highest in rank of whom is Alvah A. Adee, who will take no step that is not ordered direct from Oyster Bay. The state department is obviously smoothing over the present tense situation by declaring that there is nothing unusual in it, and points to the fact that France has twice withdrawn her minister from Venezuela, and that other European nations are about to act in the same way, without necessarily declaring war. The United States Is acting promptly and it is believed would have ordered the Charge d'Affaires, Jacob Sleeper, home earlier, but for the belief that it would have been charged tq the president that he was only waiting for congress to adjourn to handle the case himself. President Roosevelt now occupies the strong position in that he passed the matter up to congress and gave it a free hand, expressing willingness to do whatever it indicated when he laid the correspondence before the senate. The senate had only two things to do. One was to authorize the president to declare war; the other to temporize further. The latter idea was chystalliied in a resolution, which was prepared and to be acted upon, to the effect that the United States should make one more effart by sending a warship or two to Venezuela with a plenipotentiary commission on board, and to demand that Castro arbitrate. The United States government does not at this time contemplate actual physical coercion of Venezuela with the army and navy, but it goes without saying thai if the blockade proved ineffectual the United States would not haul down the flag and come home; in other words, war would be resorted to. The question of war has been discussed by this government, and not only plans, but estimates for the contracts have been prepared. The navy is always ready. The war department is always ready, with the exception of a supply of transports. Castro alone is the dominant figure in Venezuelan affairs and it is believed he will continue to play that role, as he has done for nine years, unless conditions should be developed to break his one-man power. Acting Secretary Adee has communicated with Secretary Root, and it is probable that a conference will soon be held between Secretary Root, Assistant Secretary Bacon and Acting Secretary Adee. The declination of the Venezuelan government to issue passports to Sleeper at his request Is regarded by the Latin-American element in this city as a rather hateful sign. They believe that Sleeper did not demand his passports as a political step, but rather with the purpose of insuring free passage for the legation party through the rigorous quarantine lines which would have to be crossed to take ship.

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After Investigation of State Board of Charities New Condition of Things Will Be Demanded. REVELATIONS MAY BE OF A STARTLING NATURE. This Is Almost Certain Since Overcharge for Board Is Common Other News from Indianapolis. (Special Correspondence.. Indianapolis, June 25. It is not unlikely that the sensational report made by the Marion county charities board regarding conditions at the county jail here, will result in a general investigation over the state of such institutions, by the Indiana Board of State Charities. One suggestion made in the report has caused much speculation. The board asserts that if there were anything that could be substituted for the institution known as the county jail, it would favor the abolishment of that means of detention, adding that there is too much opportunity for political juggling and unfair dealing at the expense of prisoners, under the existing system. Some few weeks ago there was released from the Marion county jail a young man who had been confined there eight months. He was a fellow of some polish, an educated m?-n and expert bookkeeper. He came far from being of the ordinary run of those unfortunates that are thrown into county jails to await the pleasure of calendarcrowded courts and police officials who are often- inclined to convict before a trial. This young man watched things closely and kept a diary of his experiences In the -county jail. Nothing was overlooked. When he was released he gave to the newspapers his story, made up from the diary. It seemed too terrible for belief, but the proof was at hand, as the young man had not failed to back up his accusations by the evidence of others. His story told of starvation diet for which the sheriff collected his 40 cents per prisoner for each day of confinement. The "meals" it was shown, could not have cost the sheriff more than five or six cents. Filth and vermin were disclosed, and an actual count of body lice picked from one poor fellow at one "sitting" put the total at more than 100. To all of these charges Sheriff Clay had nothing to say. He refused to offer any explanation, declined to put up a defense, and just "let it go at that." The result was that the charities board went into the matter and delved deep, and its report Indicates that the actual conditions had not been overdrawn. The board found that the boarding of prisoners under a fixed allowance by the county, opened the way for all manner of abuses, as the quality and cost of the food became, under such a system, simply a matter of the sheriffs judgment, and such judgment wouuld be gauged solely by the humaneness of the sheriff or those under him. The outcome of the revelations will be an appeal to the legislature for a law or change in the Upresent law that will make the county directly responsible lor the care of prisoners, the cost of feeding them to be paid as other bills are paid, eliminating the possibility of a rake-off by the sheriff. , The feeding of jail prisoners has been a species of "graft" on which sheriffs have thrived for years, and the money pulled down Is always at the expense of the prisoners. If the sheriff is gTeedy, the prisoners are half starved, if he is in a measure humane, they fare better and the sheriff makes less. Was Cleveland's Friend. It was not generally known that Vice President Fairbanks was a warm friend of the dead former president, Grover Cleveland. Such was the case, however, and the announcement is made that Mr. Fairbanks will attend the funeral at Princeton. They bad met on many occasions and exchanged views, political and otherwise, and the vice president had come to look on the former president as the highest type of the American citizen. In an interview, Mr. Fairbanks said that Grover Cleveland was one of the few men who survive, in his own lifetime, the misrepresentation and abuse of political narrowness one of the few whose full stature shows through the clearing smoke of times once troublous and disappointing. To Unite With Local Club. The board of directors of the Commercial club has taken favorable action on the suggestion of the Richmond Commercial club, that a state federation of Commercial clubs be formed, and the secretary of the local organization has been instructed to Inform the secretary of the Commercial club of Richmond to this effect, and also to say that the Indianapolis Commercial club would name representa(Contiaued on Paso Tw)

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She Addresses Woman's Federation of Clubs in Boston. RICHMOND AS AN EXAMPLE. SHE TELLS THE CONVENTION OF THE GREAT WORK BEING ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS CITY BY ART ASSOCIATION. "Boston, Mass., June 25. Mrs. M. F. Johnston, president of the Art Association of Richmond, Ind., was the principal speaker at the Woman's Federation of Clubs here yesterday. Mrs. Johnston spoke on "Art." She is well qualified as a speaker through her acquaintance with the artists of the country and her position at Richmond. The art association of that city which has a population of about 20,000, is recognized throughout the United States as one of the leading associations. Its members are progressive and deeply interested In the welfare of the organization and the promotion of a general interest in art. The association at Richmond Is one of the few In the west that is well known by reputation in the eastern art centers. The fact that the association has a fund from which it makes annual purchases of art productions is a matter of importance to eastern artists and many of them who ignore other western associations send pictures to Richmond. Eastern critics say that in the last two rears there has been a tendency at Richmond to reduce the number of pictures and hang only those cf great merit. This brings about a better understanding of the true merits of art. Mrs. Johnston is an accomplished woman and her address was interesting and pleasing. She said in part: "Wherever people are wanting more beauty in public life and are trying to do something at first hand to bring the pleasure of art to all the residents of a community, the story of the art association of Richmond ought to be helpful." She went on to describe the birth and growth of the association telling what it had accomplished. "American painters have been much interested in the Richmond exhibition." she said, "and generous in exhibiting. The attendance at these exhibitions has equalled the astonishing number of half the population. Forty neighboring towns sent visitors to this year's exhibit. The standard of taste in Richmond has been raised while the display of handicrafts is changing the ideas of the beautiful in all environment which are seen and used dai'y. We hope to keep this democratic art movement in Richmond for 25 years, so that a generation of children jaa grow under its influence."

The large photograph in the center is a recent one of James Schoolcraft Sherman, of Utica, New York, who was nominated Vice President at the Republican Convention, Chicago, and who Is seriously ill in Cleveland. Below is a photograph of the Sherman house on G street, Utica, New York, to which Mr. Sherman will be taken as soon as he recovers enough strength to make the trip. On the left are photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman's sons, Richard at the top, Thomas in the center, and Sherrill at the bottom. All were summoned to their father's bedside but were later notified that their father was out of danger and will therefore not go to Cleveland.

FIVE PEOPLE DIE IN CHICAGO FIRE Fire Followed by Explosion, Kills Woman and Four Children. OTHERS WERE INJURED. SEVERAL OF THE EMPLOYES OF CHEMICAL COMPANY WERE BURNED AND ONE MAN IN HOSPITAL MAY DIE. Chicago, June 25. Five bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Pabst Chemical company plant, 177 Huron street, which was wrecked by an explosion this morning. They are Mrs. Jane Kelan and her four children who lived on the third floor of the building. The fire was Immediately followed by an explosion and one woman is said to have been burned to death, while a dozen others, employes of the chemical works who were trapped at work on the first floor were badly burned. They were thrown to the floor by an explosion which occurred in the basement, and before they could rise they were trapped in the flames but aided each other in beating out the flames with their garments. One man.jamped from the second story window and is thought to be dying at the hospital. John McDonald a fireman was probably fatally scalded when an engine was overturned on its way to the scene of the fire. INDIANA GOVERNOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION. Indianapolis, Ind., June 25. Governor Hanly today issued a proclamation recommending that all the state offices be closed Friday, and that the flag over the state house fly at half mast for thirty days, as a mark of respect for Grover Cleveland. '

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LEEDS PRESIDENT REPUBLICAN CLUB Young Men of the Party Meet And Select Officers for The Present Year. BROAD -WORK IS PLANNED. DURING THE CAMPAIGN THE OR GANIZATI0N WILL DO MUCH TO WARD CARRYING REPUBLICAN TICKET TO VICTORY. At a meeting of the Young Men's Republican club last evening, a reor ganization was effected, new officers elected and preliminary steps taken to place the club in readiness for the campaign, in which it intends to cut an active figure. The following were the officers elected: President Rudolph G. Leeds. Vice-president Charles G. Kolp. Secretary Paul Com stock. Treasurer Demas S. Coe. Byram C. Robbins, former president of the organization, acted as tempor ary chairman of the meeting and there were more than fifty enthusias tic young republicans present The meeting was held in the horticultural room at the court house and the next meeting of the club, July 13, will be held in the same place. At the next meeting all the final arrangements will be completed. A large number of the club members favor making the club a permanent organization with attractive club rooms and club features to make the organization attractive to all the republicans in the county. The club has not as yet given this matter thorough (Continued on Page Seven.) THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Thursday and Friday; light to fresh northwest winds, beJ.LI.

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MOURNS DEATH OF GROVER CLEVELAND Statesmen and Politicians Pay High Tribute to the Expresident Who Died Yes- , terday. HIS LIFE WAS A MODEL FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS Republican Statesmen Bow Their Heads in Grief Over Death of One of Country's Most Noted Men. New York, June 23. The entire nt , tion is mourning the death of Grover Cleveland. Nothing but words of praise are given by democrats and republicans alike the entire country over. A few of the tributes paid tte man follow: Adlai E. Stevenson, Bloomlngton, 111., who served as vice president dur-j Ing Cleveland's second term I am deeply grieved to learn of the death of Mr. Cleveland. His will be a large place in history. He was the possessor of great talents, of untiring industry and of executive capacity that had few parallels. The passing of Grovwr Cleveland marks an epoch. He was indeed a striking figure In American , history. His like we may not soon see again. He was a great man, a great president. Hl3 early struggles, hi tireless energy, his lofty Ideals and the splendid success that crowned his efforts should be an abiding inspira tion to his countrymen. Judge M. J. Durham, Lexington, Ky., comptroller of currency under Cleveland's first administration I regarded Cleveland as America's greatest statesman. General Joseph B. Doe. assistant secretary of war during President Cleveland's second term History will give Grover Cleveland a place among other foremost presidents. That he was not more popular with the ioliticians of his party is to his everlasting credit. Joseph G. Cannon. Danville, III., Speaker of the national house of representatives I very much regret Cleveland's decease. I recognized bis great ability, his courage and patriotism. He will dwell in history as one of the greatest presidents of this republic. Hoke Smith, governor of Georgia, secretary of the interior under President Cleveland Mr. Cleveland was one of the rare men that live in a generation. Duty was with him the constant rule of conduct Charles S. Fairchild, Boston, secre tary of the treasury in Cleveland's first administration Grover Cleveland was a great and good man. George Gray, Wilmington, Del., United States district judge I bad hoped that his useful life might have been prolonged for many years with comfort to himself and for the benefit of his country. The wisdom, conservatism and courage which charsr. -terized his two administrations have made his place secure ia American A. Johnson, governor of Minnesota I regarded him as one of th country's greatest men. Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, former attorney-general in President Cleveland's cabinet My official relation with Mr. Cleveland begot personal affection as well as esteem and respect for his high mental and moral qualities. He was a typical produst of American blood, life and training. His sense of duty always overshadowed all other motive. J. Frank Hanly, governor of Indiana He was possessed of many sterling qualities. Fixity of purpose, strength and will and stolidity that knew no wavering were elemental traits of his character. Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life Assurance society Grover Cleveland was a most remarkable man deliberate, sound In conclusions and always careful In action. He was the highest type of public servant, and It Is to be regretted that we have so few men of his sturdy character in public life. Charles W. Fairbanks, rice president of the United States Grover Cleveland was one of the ablest and most patriotic statesmen the country has produced. He devoted himself te the public service with singleness of purpose and stood by bis convictions on important public questions with a sturdy courage that commanded admiration among the great body of the people. Norman J. Coleman, former lieutenant governor of Missouri, secretary of agriculture during Cleveland's first. administration He was a most patriotic

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