Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 168, 1 August 1908 — Page 1
THE RICHMOND) FAJXAB1UM
AND SUN-TEL EGR AM. VOL. XXXIII. N0.1G8. RICII3IOXD, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. FOUR NEGROES WHO AID Id MURDER Of WHITE MAR LYNCHED NOW PLANS FURTHER $100,000 IS STOLEN NOW WORKING EOR LANE TRANSFERRED A TRIPLE TRAGEDY TRACTION QUESTION PUNISHMENT OF TRUST. TMENT OF NOW RESEMBLES A CHINESE PUZZLE Adams Express Company Vic Manager of Light, Heat and Power Company Goes To Altoona, Pa.
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Farm Hand Shoots Employer, Latter's Housekeeper, Then Suicides. THOUGHT TO BE DEMENTED
3! tim of Clever Series of Trunk Robberies. NSURANCE RATES
jviob Surrounds Russellville, Kentucky, Jail, Forces Keys From the Jailer and Take The Blacks.
WARNING ' "TO NIGGERS" LEFT ON THE BODIES. Crime on Hands of Whites Attributed to Feeling Against Blacks for the Farmer's Murder. Russellville, Ky., August 1. Four negroes were taken 'from the Jail here early today and were hanged to a tree by a band of fifty white men who were firmed and masked. No shots were Bred. The negroes were Virgil Jones, fTom Jones, Robert Jones and Joe ttleilly. Their bodies were found at sunrise Jwlth this note pinned to them: "Let this be a warning to niggers to let white people-alone or you will go he tame way." The negroes were members of a netero organization which had recently passed a resolution indorsing the murder of James Cunningham, a farmer living near here, who had been shot jfrom ambush by a discharged negro farm hand. The negro who shot Cunningham had been taken to Louisville for safekeeping while the other four Kvere arrested for conspiracy and were In jail here awaiting trial. Shortly after midnight a mob roused Taller Butt, who responded in his flight clothes and protested, but at the point of a Winchester gave up the keys to the Jail. Two of the negroes were taken In their night clothes and the others were partly dressed. Quietly, but hastily thoy were extorted to the historic lynching ground J.nd strung tip as they pleaded piteousy for mercy. The mob then politely returned the keys to the jailer and Mlsperesd. A farmer driving to town (discovered the grewsome quartet hanging to a tree and notified the authorities. Everything was quiet today. BONDS ARE SOLD Dickinson Trust Company Buys South L Street Imj provement Issue. TERMS OF PURCHASE. B. B. Myrlck, Jr., county treasurer, today sold the South 1 street bonds to the Dickinson Trust company on a bid of par and accrued interest. There were no other bids offered. The Issue Is $16,000, there being twenty bonds of $800 each, two payable annually for ten years. They bear !V& per cent, interest payable semi- annually. Bonds and interest are payable at the First National Bank, Richmond. There were a half dozen Indianapolis brokers negotiating for the Issue but they could not make satisfactory arrangements. None of the companies engaged in buying gravel road bonds in Indiana jwill make an outlay of their own fcqual to the par value of the bonds sought. They will pay from 93 to 97 er cent, the contractor for the improvement and others interested in the road making up the balance as a bonus for the bonding company. The actual bid to the county, however, must not be less than par. The Dickinson Trust company takes the issue 6old today subject to the scrutiny and approval of their attorney who will see to It that all procedures with reference to their issue conformed to the law. WANT MODEL ROAD Movement on Foot to Have Government Build One In Wayne County. rrO PRESENT A PETITION. A movement, for which Postmaster SA.. J. Spekenhier is responsible, is on foot to secure a monster petition ask ing the United States government to build in this county a model road, one mile in length. As soon as the peti tion Is prepared the citizens of Richmond and Wayne county will be asked to sign it. The time is too short to circulate it throughout the county, but it will be generally circulated about :Rlchmond and then left at the court house where people living outside the Wi may sign It.
fir 68 1: Attorney General Bonaparte, who is spending his vacation in Lenox, plan ning a renewed fight against the Standard Oil Company. FRAUD METHODS ARE DISCLOSED Young Roumanian Victim Fake Employment Agency. of IS PUT UNDER ARREST. WAS BEATING HIS WAY THROUGH CITY ON TRAIN NOT SENT TO JAIL BUT PLACED TO WORK ON SEWER. Light was thrown on the fraudu lent employment bureaus such as prevail in this country by a sixteen year old Roumanian, who was taken from a freight train in the local Panhandle yards last night As near as it can be spelled in English the name of the young foreigner is Bade Eli. He is unable to converse in English only by brief sentences. His vocabulary is very limited, as also is his ability to understand the language. He says he arrived in the United States about five months ago. He made the trip as a stowaway among the steerage. His brother in Chicago sent him money and he endeavored to reach the windy city. An employment agency's representative told him they would find work for him at Canton, O., for $3. Arriving at Canton he found there were thirty foreigners who had been sent there in the same manner and all after the same "work." At Canton the bunch was divided up and distributed In groups of five to various points. Eli was sent to Crestline, O. But there was no work and with native instinct he began to wander about the country. Without money he secured transportation by stealing rides on freight trains. He was arrested for this offense at Columbus, O., and sent to the work house for thirty days. Released at that place he boarded another freight despite his incarceration for the offense and came to this city. He was pulled from the train here but broke away and ran back. He climbed on the train three times before the officer retained him and took him to jail. The young Immigrant expressed his willingness to work tnis morning and the police believed it would do no good to send him to jail as he would not understand the nature of -the offense. One of the officers took him to West Richmond and the stranger joined the construction gang at work on the sewer. There are others of his countrymen employed on the sewer. The lad appeared above the average of his class in demeanor. COL. McGRAW IMPROVES. Former Well Known Local Much Better. Man Is Col. John S. McGraw of Philadelphia formerly of this city, who has been seriously ill is much improved. This comes as good news to his many local friends. HOLD UP A CAR. Buffalo, N. Y., August 1. Four masked men held up a trolley car this morning taking twenty dollars in small change and a gold watch from John Stromm, the conductor.
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New York, Aug. 1. The arrest of three young men in Brooklyn today. disclosed the fact that the Adams Express company has lost nearly a hundred thousand dollars though a series of trunk robberies during the past few months. The depredations were committed through a system of bogus tags and checks, causing the trunks to be delivered at the wrong place, where they were robbed. Other arrests are expected. IS NOTA JEW. Local Hebrews Deny Pankowski Is of Their Race. Local Hebrews assert Valentine Pankowski, the Pole accused of abusing his family, is not a Jew as stated yesterday. They declare he is a Polish Catholic. ZOO ADDITION. Another addition, a red fox, has been made to the menagerie at Glen Miller park. It is the gift of O. P. Kessler of South A street. This is the second reynard to be placed in the cages. ELEVATORSJNSPECTED. Al Stone, inspector of elevators was in the city yesterday Ai his quarterly rounds. He found the most of the elevators in first class shape. None was condemned and only a few minor Improvements were recommended. WILL REMOVE WIRES STREET Light, Heat and Power Company Will Not Put Them In Conduits Though. MANAGER LAUGHS AT CITY. SAYS THAT NO COURT WOULD HOLD CITY'S CONTENTION THAT IT COULD NOT LEGIS LATE AGAINST SELF, LEGAL. "I have received orders from the general officers of the company to make measurements for placing the Main street wires ot the Light, Heat & Power company elsewhere. No matter where these wires will be placed they will be overhead," said Manager Frank Lane of the local plant of the light and power trust. This was the first admission of any officer of the company that the com pany would comply with the terms of the Main street pole ordinance, which requires that all overhead wires except trolley wires shall be off Main street by the first of next month. However, Mr. Lane frankly stated that the company will not comply with that section of the ordinance which requires the placing of all overhead wires removed from Main street in condutis. Mr. Lane stated that the city is not complying with this section of the ordinance and for that reason it has no authority to compel the competitor of the municipal light plant to comply with it. The local manager insists that his company will never agree to place Its Main street wires underground as long as the Main street wires of the municipal plant are permitted to be placed overhead on streets adjoining Main. He laughs at the statement made by the board of public works that the city can not legislate against itself and has a right to dispose of its Main street wires in any manner it sees fit so long as the wires are removed from poles on Main street. Mr. Lane states that any court would rule that discrimination was shown should the eity attempt to compel the Light, Heat and Power company to place Its wires underground while the city reserved the right to place its wires overhead. ii ll TELLS THE STORY No Business Being Transacted In Circuit Court. "Nothin doin." This laconic sign penciled on a piece of card board and placed in the win dow of the door at the north entrance of the circuit court room tells the entire story. The judge was gone, the
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Commercial Club Committee
Will Ask That Proper Rating Be Given to Business Houses of City. RELIABLE ADJUSTORS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY Pointed Out That Much of the Present Dissatisfaction Is Due to Careless Listing of Property. An important meeting of the special fire insurance committee and the official board of the Commercial club, al so the fire insurance agents, was held last evening and definite action was taken in regards to securing lower rates for business establishments. One of the resolutions adopted by the special committee and presented to the official board reads as follows: . "That it be stated to these insur ance agents, that it Is the desire of the Commercial club that each one of them take up the question with each of their companies as to the restoring of equitable rates In this city, with the understanding that these agents will be given a reasonable time in which to take it up with their companies and accomplish the results desired." The meeting last evening lasted until about midnight and the committee announced the policy it will pursue in an effort to secure lower rates for this city. It is practically an assured fact that the state fire insurance bureau will heed theemand of the Commercial club for a readjustment. The special committee agrees that the Dean schedule is the first systematic arrangement made by fire insurance companies to regulate rates, but the committee contends that the rating of mercantile risks in this city under the Dean system was not competent For this reason the committee recommends to the board that the rates here be readjusted. The committee also recommends that arrangements be perfected so that insurance inspection shall not be made by every Tom, Dick and Harry, but in a systematic and competent manner and by men who are thoroughly ecquainted with this line of work. The committee will also recommend that the Commercial club use its in fluence to have council adopt a building code, requiring municipal supervision of the construction of new buildings and requiring that all new uuuuiiigs ue cuiieiruciea in such a manner as to reduce fire risks. The committee contends that if one man erects a building with fire walls and ocner improvements to reduce fire risks it is only fair to him that the man who erects a building adjoining shall take the same precautions In the construction of the building. GOOD PROGRESS MADE Workmen on the Y. M. C. A. Building Are Rapidly Completing the Structure. SECT GOODWIN IS PLEASED The work on the Richmond Y. M. C, A. building is being pushed rapidly. The plasterers started to work yesterday and will be through In about one month and at that time the carpenters can go to work on the wood work The plumbing is about done and the steam heating plant is about completed. The electric wiring is all In and it Is considered one of the best Jobs of three-ply wiring in the state. Mr. Goodwin stated this morning that he was well pleased with the way the building is progressing, and that the men are sparing no effort toward making It one of the best buildings in the city. He said that the building was open at all times for any one who wished to visit It. LAYINGPLANS. Attaches and County Officials to Picnic Tuesday. The final meeting of the court house attaches and office holders was held yesterday to perfect plans for the annual outing to be held at Glen Miller park next Tuesday afternoon. Indications are for an unusually pleasant event. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Saturday night and Sunday; warmer Sunday; light variable winds shifting to south.
SUCCESSOR ARRIVES HERE.
Frank Lane, manager of the Richmond Light, Heat & Power company, which is controlled by the Susquehanna Street Railway and Light company, has been notified of his transfer to the management of the Altoona, Pa., plant of the big corporation. John Perkins, who has teen manager of the Altoona plant, has arrived in this city to take charge of the local plant. Mr. Lane was formerly manager of the Altoona plant, but was transferred to this city just two years ago today. Mr. Lane has been a most efficient officer during his connection with the local plant and has made many warm friends. Mr. Lane and his family will leave for Altoona a week from tomorrow. GOVERNOR LITTLE HAS ACUTE MELANCHOLIA Friends Are Worried Over His Condition. St. Joseph, Mo., August 1. Governor John S. Little, of Arkansas, has been placed in a sanitarium here. He has been suffering from a nervous breakdown almost ever since his elec tion, which, has developed acute melancholia. His friends are worried over his condition. CLEVER HORSETHIEF Drives Horse Out of Anderson Livery Stable and Does Not Return. GAVE NAME AS REDDICK. SAID HE WAS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE POLICE NOW CASTING NET FOR YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL. "Just as easy," a stranger must have murmured as he drove away from the Anderstfa livery stable on North Seventh street yesterday morning. The horse was one of the best in the stable and the buggy was in splendid condition, what more could a well meaning horsethief expect? And it was really too easy to be true. From all reports the stranger still is driving. Anderson has heard nothing from him since and is sure the property has not been returned. The police were notified this morning and a reward is offered for the capture of the thief or the recovery of the property. The stranger gave the name "Reddick" to Anderson. He is about twenty years old and at the time wore .a black suit, black slouch hat, black shirt, dark glasses. Is smooth shaven, about five feet eight inches tall and weighs about 165 pounds. The horse is an eight year old black gelding, weighs 1.000 pounds, ig fifteen hands high and has a white speck on forehead. The buggy is of the piano box pattern, McFarland manufacture, red running gears, new rubber tires, right front wheel new, trimmings blueblack, in good condition. This morning Supt. Bailey sent telephone messages to all marshals and sheriffs in surrounding counties. Postal cards bearing descriptions of the thief and outfit will be sent. also. (Continued on Page Seven.)
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Oh My! Oh Me! Such an Awful Time as Hagerstown Had
Hagerstown, Ind., August 1. Hagerstown has had an exciting time of it this week. Farm nouses were robbed, a dog was run over at the fair ground, a small boy fell off some steps and mutilated himself somewhat, several horses ran off, and an unknown woman fell unconscious and had to be taken to the Richmond hospital. Now that the fair is over Hagerstown expects to once more enjoy the simple life. " Thursday the Durbln home east of town was ransacked and some valuables stolen- Friday the home of W. O. Jones near town was visited by thieves during the absence of the family. After swiping the trousers to Mr. Jones' Sunday suit the thieves helped themselves to a repast reposing on the dining room table, then left without leaving their cards behind. The same afternoon about the time Mr. Jones trousers were being stolen.
Aurora, 111., August 1. J. A. Morrell. a wealthy farmer near Blackberry Center, was fatally shot today and his housekeeper was murdered by John Anderson, a farm hand. Anderson later committed suicide. No cause Is known except that Anderson had been drinking heavily and was
possibly demented. Anaerson was or dinarily a faithful employe. Early this morning he entered Morrell's room and as the latter awoke he blazed away with both barrels or a shot gun.. The housekeeper rushed to the telephone and Anderson followed. shooting her dead In her tracks. CUPID TAKES HIS SUMMER VACATION But Few Marriages in the County in July. Dan Cupid Is enjoying a summer va cation the same as every one, although he may be an immortal. Only twen ty-flve marriage licenses were Issued during July. This was not one each day, and there is further indication the end of the year will show a big shrinkage in the annual number. EVANS HAS HOT YET Bffl LOCATED Chauffeur Who Wrecked the Gaines Machine Is Still At L;arge. COMPANION IS INJURED. ROY CALE WHO MADE THE TRIP, WAS THROWN FIFTY FEET THROUGH THE AIR WHEN MA CHINE STRUCK TROLLEY POLE Although Wilbur Evans, the young chauffeur who met with a serious mishap while driving an automobile be longing to Bert Gaines his former employer through New Hope at an early hour yesterday morning escaped with only minor injuries, his companion Roy Cale was not so fortunate. Calo was hurled about fifty feet through the air when the machine struck a trolley pole and his face and hands suffered severely. His scalp was punctured and both knees bruised badly by the fall. Evans was cut and bruised, also. Cale has returned to the city but no trace of Evans has been found. It is believed the young man was under the impression he would be held for the damages to the machine, so decided to leave the city. Calesays the two took the machine from the auto Inn about 1 o'clock In the morning. Evans, who was employed as a mechanic at the garage was on duty at the time and Gaines had returned from Hagerstown only a short time before. It was the inten tion of the pair to run over to Eaton and back for the pleasure trip. They were going at high speed through New Hope when the machine skidded to the side of the road and Evans, who was driving lost control. The car struck the pole with terrific force and was knocked sidewiee about 50 feet. The impetus was such as to hurl the (Continued on Page Seven.) little Stanley Wissler of New York, who Is visiting his grandma. Mrs. Amanda Gebhart. fell off a step and alighted on a sharp stone. Stanley had a piece gashed out of the back of his head and his lip split. Several stitches were required to close the latter wound. The day before Mr. Jones' trousers were stolen an unknown woman who had ben visiting relatives at Greensfork, created considerable ex citement at the fair ground by passing into a comatose condition. She was taken to the Richmond hospital where an operation was performed on her. Another distressing accident was the untimely end of little FIdo, the white Spitz pup of Miss Crystal Keys, FIdo got In the road of a rapidly moving delivery wagon. The veterinary at first decided on amputation but on second thought decided chloroform. Two or three runaways enlivened things this week, but none were of a sensational order.
An Early Settlement of the
Question Which Has Bothered Richmond for a Year Is Not Likely. SHIPPERS IN MAELSTROM OF PUBLIC OPINION. Their Interests Are Shattered While Citizens Divided, Stand both for and AgainstAny Compromise. The local traction question instead of assuming some definite shape, is rapidly becoming to appear more like a Chinese puzzle. Here is a list of some of the tangles which have resulted from the efforts of the city and the traction companies to get together on the proposition of operating freight cars through Richmond: (a) The traction companies desire to place the eastern extension of their north end freight line somewhere. (b) The local shippers express tha same desire. (c) The North Twenty-second street people don't care where the line Is placed so long as it Is not on their street. (d) The residents of North Twentieth street have signed a petition to have the line placed anywhere except on their street. (e) About 5,000 citizens are expected to sign a petition to have the line placed anywhere except on North Twenty-third street. . This petition will be presented to council Monday evening. (f) The board of public works. Mayor Schillinger and "Boss" Study object to placing the line anywhere except on North Twenty-third street. Thev also reluctantlr consented to agree to the clause In the franchisa recently granted -the T. H. I. ft E. which permits that company to place Its line on North Twenty-second street In the event the company was enjoined from placing Its line through the Glen. (g) Judge Fox In the quo warranto proceeding to eject the traction companies from the park ruled against the petitioner's. Now the petitioners state that in the event the petition to council Monday night is Ignored, Injunction proceedings will be Instituted. (h) Traction officials and shippers neither of whom are anxious to run the line through the park, state that If Injunction proceedings had been filed In the first place, the line would now, In all probability, be on North Twenty-second street and the contro versy ended. (I) Prominent local attorneys as sert Injunction proceedings can not be sustained because It will be Impossible to prove any one person suffers material damage, other than that resulting to all other local property own ers. The law requires, to sustain an injunction, speciric Injury must be proved. It Is alleged, the entire blame for the failure to effect a settlement of the traction question appears to center on two or three citizens who own property on Main street near the corner of Twentieth street. They objected to freight cars being run on Twentieth street because the cars would have to run by their property. One of these men drew up a remonstrance against cars operating on Twentieth street and, without having any serious objections to the plan, a majority cf the North Twentieth street residents signed this petition. All of this took place over a year ago. When the remonstrance was filed a mass meeting of east end people was held and all of them favored the placf . I r. T( H A Glen Miller park. Feeling that this sentiment still existed the board of public works, when the T. H. I. & E. franchise matter recently came up for consideration. Insisted that the freight line be placed In the park. They argued that the placing of the line on any of the side streets would effect a few property owners while If the line was placed In the park It would equally effect every taxpayer In the city. However, since the mass meeting was held, there has been, evidently, a radical change of opinion among east end people as to where the line should be placed. Those behind the petition to remove the lice from the park frankly state that they think the best place for the line Is North Twentieth street, where the company already has tracks. It Is quite probable that a number of residents of North Twentieth street would now sign this petition but for the fact that a year ago. out of a neighborly sentiment, they signed a remonstrance against freight cars being operated on that street They are accustomed to having cars run past their homes and they state, privately, the operation of one or two freight cars dally on the street would make little or no difference to them. However, the Main street property ownXCon tinned on Page Two.)