Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 156, 20 July 1908 — Page 1

RICHMONB FAIXABIUM H AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 156. RICHMOND, INDM MONDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS, AGAIN BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS IS TWO DIE ON CHAIR NEGRO VOTERS HAVE NO FAITH GOVERNMENT NOT WITH VENGEANCE IN HIS HEART, HERRON SLAYS MAN WHO SENTENCED HIM TO PRISON BLUFFING COUNTY New York Murderers Pay Penalty for Their Vicious Crimes.

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ThIs Time the Matter of Acceptance of City Tickets on D. & W. Prevents Resumption of Business.

tWO FRANCHISES ARE IN HANDS OF CITY OFFICIALS i)One Prepared by Them, But Returned Unsigned, and One Prepared by the Affected Traction Company. The Dayton & "Western traction fcompany has returned unsigned the franhcise recently prepared for that road by the board of public .works. The officials of the company refuse to attach their signatures to the franchise because they object to the proVision which requires the company to accept tickets issued by the local city line which is controlled by the Terre Haute, Indianapolins & Eastern traction company. Otherwise the terms of the franchise are satisfactory to the D. & W. people. At the caucus held last evening by the board of public works, it was decided that the board should insist that the franchise should include this provision. This morning Secretary E. M. Haas of the Commercial club communicated with one of the officials of the D. & W. and asked him if his company would not accept the franchise as prepared by the board, regardless of the objectionable provision in regard to tickets. Mr. Haas was informed that the company would not under any circumstances accept a franchise containing this clause. Sends Another Franchise. The company has sent to the board of public works a franchise, signed by the proper officers of the company, which lg identically the same as the one preparedbythe board, except it does not require the company to "accept city line tickets. This franchise provides that all D. & W. local cars while operating within the city shall etop on signal at each street corner. Local business men support the company in its stand against accepting city line tickets, as they are of the opinion that it would be unfair to compel the company to do this. The D. & W. pays the T.H., I. & E. for the privilege of operating in this city. The proceeds from thesale of city tickets goes to the T. H., I. & E. The D. & V. receives no share of these proceeds bo ,it is argued, it would be unjust to compel them to accept such tickets as cash fares. - , A movement wag inaugurated today to bring pressure to bear on the board of public works toaccept the franchise prepared by the D. & W. and just received by the board. Local shippers are very anxious to have all traction matters settled and they have o sympathy with the board in its (hold out on such a trivial matter as lias been raised. If the board reconsiders and contents to sign thefranchnse it will be promptly satlfled this evening by the city council and council will then take action to suspend for ninety days the ordinance prohibiting the operation of freight cars on Main street. If the D. '& W. franchise is not ready to be pre sented to council this evening for rati ficatlon, it is quite probable that no action will be taken to suspend the Main street freight ordinance. This would be a keen disappointment to the local shippers. When the first freight cars enters the city the event will be bailed with almost as much enehusi asm as the people of San Francisco displayed when the Atlantic fleet sail ed through the Golden Gate. TODAY'S OLYMPIAD Daniels and Eury Carry Stars And Stripes to Victory. London, Eng., July 20. C. M. Daniels, the American, won the semifinal in the 100 meter swimming race today in a minute, five and two-fifths seconds, which Is equal to the best time ever made. Ray Ewry, an American, won the standing broad jump final at 10 feet, 11 inches. NOT REPRESENTED. , Local Attorneys Not Attending State Bar Meeting. Local attorneys were not represented today at the meeting of the State Bar Association which was held at Indianapolis. It is probable one or more local attorneys will attend tomorrow's Sessions and banquet The principal speakers for the occasion ere the two opposing candidates for povernor, Thomas Marshall and James 23. Watson. A number of Important Subjects will be discussed.

BOTH CONFESS TO GUILT.

Ossining. X. Y., July 20. Charles Henry Rogers, murderer of Fred and Willis Olney and Alice Ingerick, was put to death in the electric chair at six o'clock this morning. Twenty minutes later, Angelo Lauderio, known as the bad man of Mulberry Fend, paid the similar penalty for shooting to death. Banker Don D. Ambrass. Rogers confessed that he committed the triple murder for robbery, while Lauderie said he killed his fellow countryman for revenge, after several attempts to blackmail him. PROTESTS AGAINST HIS ARRAIGNMENT City Inspector of Weights and Scales Says Inspection Is Not a Farce. DILATORY TACTICS SHOWN. HAD POWER TO MAKE ARREST WHEN HE FOUND ICE TRUST GIVING SHORT WEIGHTS BUT WALTERMAN DID NOT PROCEED Henry Walterman, city inspector of weights and scales, takes exceptions to the statement that his inspection of the scales used on the delivery wagons of the local ice trust Is a farce and attempts to explain. He states that he is doing everything possible for him to do in compelling the ice combine to give full weights. "About a month ago I tested all the scales used on ice delivery wagons and I found all of them to be in good condition. I warned the men employ ed on these wagons that If they used defective scales or sold ice without weighing it, they would be prosecuted," Walterman informed one reporter. To another he stated he had in spected the scales on the ice wagons two months ago." Walterman also denies that he re luctantly tested the scales on ice wagon No. 3 last Friday. It 13 alleged that these scales weighed twelve pounds short on each one hundred pounds. This, it is claimed, was dis covered by Walterman after the Long Brothers, meat dealers, had entered a protest to the effect that they had re ceived a short weight of ice. Walterman states that as soon as he tested the scales on the wagon and found they were "short" he told the wagon crew that the scales would either have to be repaired or new ones put on. He states that the wagon Is now equipped with new scales. "It is awfully easy to get those ice scales out of order." said Walterman. "The men throw big pieces of ice onto them and it does not take long to 'spring' them." When asked why inspection seals were not in any instances, shown on the ice wagon scales, Walterman said that the seals were paper and were pasted on the scales. "With their wet hands it does not take long for the ice men to rub the seals off," he said. ''The city should provide lead seals for ice scales." "Why don't you take steps to secure these kind of seals?" Walterman was asked. "I have taken the matter up with the board of public works" he replied. "When you inspected ice wagon No. 3 at the Long Brothers establishment and found the scales defective, why didn't you arrest the icemen? You have police power to do so, haven't you?" Walterman was asked. "Oh I don't know. They fixed It up with Long Brothers alright," was his answer. When the ice combine was formed (Continued on Page Eight.)

Bryan is the First Presidential Candidate to Have Speeches "Canned"

Did you ever hear William Jenl nings Bryan make one of his "silvertongued" orations on any subject from "What is the Principal Ingredient of a Lemonade?" to "My Opinions on the Government Ownership of Railroads?" If you have not you have this' opportunity every day. No, this is not meant to tmislead the reader in to believing that the "Peerless One" is to speak daily in Richmond it is to iunform you that a local phonograph record house has a supply of "canned" Bryan orations. Recently Wiliam Jennings talked Intoa mahcine until it went out of eommision. What he told the machine was "canned" and the ever vigilant democratic national publicity bureau lost no time in having these canned speeches shipped to all parts of the union. Now the above mentioned ever vigi lant democratic national publicity bar

But Few Richmond Colored Men Will Bolt Republican Ticket for the Minority Party.

ADVISES COLORED MEN TO VOTE FOR BRYAN. Waldron's Statements Are Generally Considered to Be a Part of a Clever Political Subterfuge. With but few exceptions the negro voters of this city, who have been accustomed to support the republican ticket will not bolt this year. Leaders of the local nqproes are not in sympathy with the movement advocated by the Rev. J. Milton Waldron D. D.. president of the National Negro Amer ican Political League. Waldron is pastor of the Shlloh Baptist church, Washington, D. C. It is believed In this city Waldron is promoting a cam paign issue and there is some question of his consistency. The impression amone the colored men of this city Is to the effeot the republican party has been the friend of the race and nothing can be gained by its repudiation for democracy. Attention is directed to the South, where democracy holds and iron clad sway and the question asked, what have the democrats done where they are in control that is of benefit to the negro? Dr." Waldron claims that all the anti-Roosevelt and anti-Taft negro organizations, and their sympathizers among the colored race, are being merged with the National Political League, of which he is president. He says the league has determined to support Bryan for president and that it will conduct a campaign of its own among the colored people of every state with -the intention of defeating Mr. Taft. Have Nothing to Gain. The men of education and refinement among the local negro citizens hold that nothing can be gained by supporting Bryan that will be of benefit to the negro race. It is urged that the democratic party has not, since Its Inception, shown any inclination to advance the negro race by means of the ballot. Fear is expressed that if the colored vote be thrown to the democratic nominee, there will be nothing to be expected afterward from the republican party, which up to the present has appeared in the light of a friend to the negro. One of the most advanced colored men of the city Is Dr. W. G. Huffman In discussion of the subject of Dr, Waldron's manifesto and organization of anti-Taft and anti-Roosevelt politi cal associations, Dr. Huffman said: "I do not want to see the negro race eliminated as a political power and practical unit. It looks to me as if that would be our fate if we supported Bryan. There was some ill feeling created over "the remark of Mr. Taft relating to the negroes, but I believe that since explanations have been made and a better understanding of the real statement brought about. nearly all of this disfavor has passed I think our people will be found supporting the republican ticket, as the friend of the race. I look upon the matter as one worthy of consider ation. I do not see where we can gain by supporting Bryan. From the pres ent and past -we have learned the democratic party has not been friendly to our race where it has been in control. We can not expect much, therefore, in the future. Then, if we desert the republican party we will be cast out in every way and have nothing to expect in the future. The race has had large experience wrth democratic control in the South." , In his statement prepared for the public Waldron gives as the reasons (Continued on Page Eight.) reau is arranging to have preserved Bryan speeches and songs extolling the virtues of the Master of Fairview placed in "penny-in-the-slot" machines. Those machines now operating in Richmond may soon be handing out canned Bryan orations. When this comes to pass one may look for the small boy letting out a howl when he invests a penny to hear a "coon song" and gets "The Cross of Gold;" and one may expect a protest from the sweet young thing who invests a penny to hear "In the Chade of the Old Apple Tree," Genevieve," and connects with "The Sins of the Republican Party." Recently an effort was made to have President Roosevelt speak Into an Edison machine, but he refused. It is probable that Mr. Taft will follow the example of President Roosevelt as has stated that this is not to be a campaign of Imitation.

jf 1 .. A MISTAKE IS MADE MAY NOT SPEAK HERE 1

Identification of Victims of Saturday's tragedy Almost Impossible. FRIGHTFULLY MUTILATED. Fort Wayne, Ind., July 20 The remains of the six victims of the auto acident near Columbia City Saturday afternoon were so badly mutilated that the body of Miss Josephine King was brought to Fort Wayne with the belief that the remains were those of Miss Fayma Bradshaw. . The mistake was discovered by the Bradshaw family doctor. The remains. of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sherman King and their two daughters were sent to Wabash, Ind., for interment. Carl Timmis, the chauffeur, wil be interred In Fort Wayne. He is thejanly son of Mr. and Mrs. August TiramisVanxl was a skilled mechanic before he took charge of Mr. King's ponderous touring car. Harry S. King of Wabash took charge of the remains at Columbia City, after the coroner had held his Inquest Mrs. King lived a few minutes after the others were ground to death. She was caught on the pilot of the engine which was spattered with blood. A suit is now pending in the Indiana appellate court against the Pennsyl vania railroad company for failure to maintain a watchman at the ill fated crossing and the company has set up a counter claim that it offered to put. in a subway if the town would grade to this subway and remove the excavation. The town refused to bear any part of the expense. DOUBLE TRAGEDY OVER CARD GAME Frankfort, Ind., Man Shoots Another and Kills Self. Frankfort, Ind., July 20. Clarence Jones, a young business man, Sunday shot and instantly killed Claude Pruitt. a young and well known farmer, and then almost immediately afterward sent a bullet from the same revolver into his own brain and fell dead within fifty feet of where his victim lay. The men had been drinking and it is alleged the 6hooting was the result of an argument over a card game. Pruitt was 23 years old and only recently married. Jones was 28 years old and leaves a wife and daughter. CAPTURE ASSAULTER AFTER HARD STRUGGLE Negro Fights for Fifteen Minutes. New Tork, June 20. The officers today after a terrific struggle, arrested Walter Bryi-"WT a six foot negro on the charge of assaulting pretty Marcella Klein, aged nineteen, in the appartment of the girl's uncle. The victim struggled fifteen minutes before being choked into insensibility. Bryant called when the girl was alone ostensibly to see the colored maid and attacked Miss Klein. The assault occurred on the seventh floor of an apartment, 2610 Broadway. ARRIVE ATJVIANILA. Maine and Alabama Cast Anchor There Today. Manila, P. U Jane 20. The battleships Maine and Alabama arrived here today. The crews are all well and enjoyed the trip across the Paifl tonrnselj.

Republican Leaders Want to S&T ' .fiSf Keep Secretary Taft at XVpji- -"V Home This Campaign. SfV- I TO DELIVER FEW SPEECHES 1T Vv.VV?

Hot Springs, Va., July 20. Present plans do not contemplate that Wrilliam H. Taft will make any political speeches during the campaign, except those to be delivered in Cincinnati in September and October. There is much opposition on the part of republican leaders . to what they term the undignified touring of the country by a presidential candi date. They favor his remaining in quiet at his own home and there re ceiving such delegations as come to him. The success of the Canton cam paign of President McKinley is frequently referred to as an example of the effectiveness of this attitude on the part of a candidate for president Important political conferences are scheduled to be held In Cincinnati when the candidate goes there next week. It is his present plan to leave here Saturday night and while he will return as soon as the demands upon him permit, it Js quite possible that he iuajr remain mere unui me lasi ui me week. WTith Mrs. Taft he will be a guest at the home of Charles P. Taft. Huge Fireworks Planned. The notification ceremonies on TuesdayAioon will be a small part of the real political business to be transacted. An elaborate program of fireworks has been arranged for Tuesday evening, which Mr. and Mrs. Taft will witness from the steamer Island Queen, which will carry them and the notification committee. Secretary Treasurer Dolan will go to Cincinnati from Chicago, accompanied by a committee from the brotherhood, and the candidate will be given the pass word, grip and learn of the other intricacies of the union labor organization. INSANE MOTHER LEOPS IN RIVER Carries With Her to Two Children. Death, New York, July 20. Mrs. Gussie Benson aged twenty-five, the wife of a former Harlem grocer became demented last Friday and took her two children, four and two years of age and jumped into the East river. The bodies were recovered and identified today. NEGROES CANNOT USE ELKS TITLE New York Supreme Makes Ruling. Court White Plains, N. Y., July 20. The supreme court today granted an injunction restraining negro Elks "Improved Order B. P. O. E." from using the title in any shape or form. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair in north, showers In south portion Monday night; Tuesday showers; fresh east winds. OHIO Showers by Monday night; Tuesday, showers; fresh cast winds.

The photograph of the man with the beard is the Rev. S. D. Prickitt, the former recorder of Metuchen, New Jersey, who was shot down and killed by Archibald Herron, whom he had sentenced to prison for wife-beating, while a justice of the peace. The other man is the murderer, Archibald Herron. The woman shown here is Mrs. Archibald Herron, wife of the murderer, and a cut of Dr. Prickitt's home in Metuchen, N. J. and lawn up on which he was shot down by Her ron is also shown. Herron at the time he was sentenced, swore vengeance on Prickitt. STfltllGE STORY TOLD ATJOHERIL Friend of Young Men Killed by Pennsylvania Train Says They SuicFded. CORONER TO INVESTIGATE. THERE WAS MUCH MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF THE TWO THRONGS ATTEND FUNERAL. Greenfield, Ind., July 20. While the mourners and the preacher were gathered around the corpses of David Bennett Hall and Ernest Harper, the young men who were killed by Pennsylvania passenger train N. 9 Thursday night, yesterday, John Grigsby a well known young man, came and re quested the permission to make a statement which he thought the dead men's relatives should know. Grigsby stated that Hall and Harp er had told him a week ago that they intended to commit suicide together. The coroner will endeavor to substantiate Grigsby's story. The bodies of Harper and Hall were found early Friday morning near the Leonard crossing, the buggy demolished and the horse dead. Some mystery sur rounded the tragedy at the time. The young men were very intimate. Fifteen hundred people attended the funeral. FIGHT DUEL EOR LOVE OF GIRL One Italian Is Dying With Bullet in Head. Mt Vernon, N. Y.. June 20. Because both loved the same girl, Fran cesco Chilarello and Sabbato Tuni cello, fought a duel in the woods near here today. Chlarelio Is dying with a ballet in bis head,

Strict Rules of Postoffice De

partment Demand That Highways Covered by Rural Route Be Kept Up. , INSPECTION OF ROADS RECENTLY COMPLETED. Township Trustees and Other Authorities Communicated With and Advised of Government's Policy. Information direct from the office of P. V. DeGraw. fourth asistant postmaster general. In regard to the condition of roads In this county, which are traversed by rural mail delivery routes, is to the efrect the government has not attempted any bluff by its communication to the county commissioners. It is evident further the postal seeks to cooperate with the local authorities and make the request that road conditions be improved for the sole purpose of making better and quicker mail service in the rural districts possible. The folowing letter in regard to th matter is self explanatory. The Richmond Palladium. Richmond. Indiana. Gentlemen In regard to a publication in your issue of May 24. lOfW, under the caption "Is Uncle Sam Trying to Bluff Rural Routers?" in which the statement is made that although the attention of the county commissioners has been called to the condition of at least two county roads traveled by rural delivery mail routes. It is not probable they will take any action: that the commissioners take xception to the reports submitted to the deoartment and state they were made without authentic Information; and further that the rural residents of Wayne county do not put much faith In the repeated notices from the postal authorities in regard to roads, it being the belief among these people that the frequent notices constitute a govern ment bluff, I have to say that the postmasters and rural carlrers to keep Itself advised of road conditions, with a view of asking local authorities and patrons to keep the highways in such condition as will enable the department to render the best services. So important that the road traversed br the rural carriers shall be In such condition that the service can be expeditiously performed, giving the residents located on the portion of the route last served as early service a possible, that the department has always made it a condition for the establishment and maintenance of rural , delivery service, that the roads shall be kept In passable condition during all ordinary seasons of the year. What the department regards as a passable condition, is such condition as will enable the rural carlrers to traverse the roads daily with horses and vehicles at a reasonable rate of speed. No extraordinary expenditure is asked, but simply that the roads traversed by rural carriers shall be kept In rood re pair. If after the department has

called the attention of the proper au- . horities to needed repairs action Is not taken within a reasonable time, consideration is then given to re-ar

ranging so as to avoid the road ia question. To this end that there might be no question as to the road conditions on ne routes fro mRlchmond, Indiana, a careful inspection of the same has been made recently and township trus tees or other road authorities are being communicated with and advised of the policy of the department. It is not anticipated, however that It will be necessary to withdraw service from any of the roads now covered for the reason that it Is expected that, as Is almost universally the case throughout the country and In line with previous experience of the department In Indiana, the road authorities will be glad to cooperate with thedepartment In providing efficient rural delivery of mail. Very respectfully, P. V. DEGRAW. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, INDIANA EDITORS WILL HEAR TAFT Go to Cincinnati on Day of Notification. The Indiana State Editorial Association has decided to participate in the Taft notification exercises at Cincinnati, July 2. The plan Is to reserve S3 many cars as may be necessary to convey Indiana republicans by special train from Indianapolis to Cincinnati on the date mentioned. A low rate will be secured.