Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 190, 23 August 1908 — Page 1

CHMONB PAXJLABHJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. JVOL. JCXXIII. NO. 190. RICHMOND, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 10O8. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS,

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ITODAY WILL BE ONE OF FEATURES AT CHAUTAUQUA (Governor Folk, Who Speaks This Evening, Will Be the Main Attraction Great Crowds Are Expeceted.

kuNDAY SCHOOL AND CHURCH TMS.MORNING. (Mrs. Lake Speaks This AfternoonEvents of Yesterday Afternoon Were Interesting and Instructive. TODAY'S PROGRAM. 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. 10:30 a. m. Sermon. "A Fireproof Conviction ..Dr. John P. D. John 2.00 p. m. Temperance LectureMrs. Leona Lake. 4:00 p. m. Sacred Concert Whitney Bros.' Male Quartet and Mrs. Whitney. 7:00 p. m. Vespers.,' t 7:00 p. m. Address Gov. Joseph Folk. 8:30 p. m. Sacred Concert Whitney Bros.' Male Quartete and Mrs. Whitney. The second big crowd of the Chautauqua season is expected to attend today. The attractions offered are equal to any on the program and are expected to prove a successful drawing card. The fact that Governor Folk has found It Impossible to speak in the afternoon is not expected to cause a decreaese In the crowd any, He will begin his address at 7 o'clock In the evening, so that many visitors from the rural districts will remain to hear him. Governor ' Folk Is known throughout the country for the reforms In politics he has accomplished In his home state, Missouri. He is heralded as one of the greateset workers for political reforms in the country and Is regarded as a man who practices as well as preaches. Dr. John P. D. John, who delivers the morning sermon, is one of the best known divines of the country. Mrs. Leorna Lake, who will fill the afternoon hour, Is regarded as one of the best known temperance lecturers now on the platform. She is a forceful speaker and the afternoon crowd will be entertained by her In a satisfactory manner. The program last evening was supplied by the Whitney concert company and John Ratto. the Imperson ator. The concert was up to the usual high standard. It was the first appearance of Ratto and he demonstrated too much has not been said about him in the advertisements. He characterized the German as a slow plodder, the Italian as an emotionalist, and the Swede as a bungler about his work. The characterizations of President Roosevelt and the condemned desperado made the best impression on the audience. ) CLARK'S UNIQUE SUBJECT. I "The Blunderbuss in Sunday School" ' Was Strong Lecture. The unique subject chosen by Dr. -, Joseph Clark in his address before 5 the Sunday Schools yesterday afternoon was "The Blunderbuss in the Sunday School." He told how when a boy he went into the barn lofe and ! found an old gun with a big mouth. His grandfather told him that It was a blunderbuss and that all he had to do was to load it and then point it in some direction and pull the trigger. He would be sure to hit something. He believed that all he would have to do here was to say something, make ' lots of noise, and he would be sure to hit somebody. ' The theme of Dr. Clark's address was summed up In one statement: Religion is business and business is religion. He said that he knew from experience that the two may go hand in hand. He lauded Roosevelt and Bryan as two busy men who had time .to preach occasionally. That they jwe great preachers Is shown by the j converts they make each time they occupy the pulpit. Bryan at one time fjiad forty people at the altar. Dr. Clark closed by stating that I there are many calls, the "Call of tbe Wild," the "Call of the Blood," and ! numerous others. The call he wished to make was the "call of the heart,' The Influence of love Christ love, mother love and love in general, was J to his mind the motive sforce of the i world. Follpwlng Dr. Clark the Whitneys gave a children's program. The j youngsters had returned from the athiletlc games and were on the front I seats. The quartet sang children's ballads, repeated "The Little Red iDrum," and gave other selections from 'Eugene Field. Mrs. Whitney gave some excellent children's Impersonations. The feature was pleasingly closed by Mr. Edwin Whitney, leadin jfiantinuad Oil Face Two.) t

BUM GUESS HANGS SELF New York, Aug. 22. Dan Clery, who tried to emulate "Bim, the Button man." guessed wrong on the national candidates and hanged himself today. Cleary guessed Roosevelt, Hearst and Johnson and was wrong each time. With his little capital locked up in unsaleable campaign buttons he grew despondent and ended all by the rope. Cleary was an Eighth ward character and known to hundreds of men, women and children of the district. He sold campaign buttons and cheap jewelry for a livelihood. In his room were found French and Latin works and manuscripts.

FOREST OF POLES WILL BE REMOVED Removal of Wires to Conduits And Poles in Alleys Will Come Soon. TO IMPROVE THE STREET. FROM A LANE THROUGH A PINE FOREST MA'lN STREET WILL BE CONVERTED INTO A CITY THOROUGHFARE. By Monday the city will have 'practically completed removing all its wires from Main street. About all the wires the city now has on Main street are the fire alarm wires. During the past week Chief Miller of the fire department has been busily engaged in removing these wires and he states that his task will be completed tomorrow. He stated last night that the past three days many of these wires had been placed in the ducts of the Home Telephone company conduit and that all Main street wires from Eighth street east had now been removed. "Also inform the public that"by reason of removing Main street fire alarm wires north of Main street all alarm boxes on Main street have been removed to the north side of the street," Not all the Main street fire alarm wires will be placed underground. Some will placed overhead on streets adjoining Main street. This week the city will begin work changing the street lights to poles which are off the property lines. This is to be done so that the street lamp poles which are located on Main street corners may be removed. The splendid arc light system established recently by the West Main street business men's association will be a thing of the past after this week. Many of the extra lamps which have been placed by the association are on the poles of the Bell Telephone company and other companies. It is necessary to remove these poles in compliance with the Main street pole ordinance. It was stated last evening that the association is now planning to erect incandescent light arches across Main street. The city has no objections to this plan and it is quite probable it will be carried into effect. The street car company will soon be ready to remove its wood poles as the iron poles are now in position. This week the work of attaching the trolley wires to the iron poles will be completed. By the first of next month it is expected that nearly every wood pole on Main street will be down. PENNSYLVANIA HAS ' ' TYPHOID EPDEMIC Many Cases in Schuylkill River Country. Philadelphia. Aug. 22. Typhoid fever is now epidemic in many Pennsylvania towns and special safeguards are being taken here to prevent the spread of the disease. The disease is worse in sections of the state drained by the Schuylkill river and especially in the towns of Royersford and Spring City. Hundreds of persons in Royersford and Spring City are ill and in the various towns of Chester and Montgomery counties the hospitals are filled with vistims. EMPLOYMENT TO BE GIVEN 1, Steel Company at Cleveland Enlarges Plant. Cleveland, O., Aug. 22. The Otis Steel company is planning to add a 152 Inch boiler plate mill to its plant at Cleveland. The addition will cost about $600,000 and give employment to 1.000 more men-

ODDS 3 TO 1 ON TAFT.

New York, August 22. Betting is running 3 to 1 on Taft. Two bets of 3 to 1 that Taft will be elected President were made in Wall street yesterday, one of them being $6,000 to $2,000, and in the other case $3,000 to $1,000. Another bet of $1,000 to $1,000 was made that Bryan will get fewer popular votes in the coming election than he did the last time he ran. A bet of $2,500 to $2,000 was made in Wall street that the Republicans would carry New York State for the National ticket. The bets have not been taken, although many inquiries are made.'' NINE POLITICIANS GET HIGH PLACES Made Members of the Advisory Body of National Committee. NAMES ARE ANNOUNCED. DOVER WILL BE MADE SECRETARY BUT HITCHCOCK IS SERVING AS CHAIRMAN EX-OFFICIO CHAIRMAN SUPREME. New York, Aug. 22. Chairman Hitchcoc of the republican national committee this morning announced the names of the nine heavy weight politicians who will compose the advisory committee to handle knotty problems during the coming campaign. They are Richard Ballinger of Washington, Cornelius N. Bliss of New York, Pow ell Clayton of Arkansas. W. Murray Crane of Massachusetts, William Nelson Cromwell of New York, John Hayes Hammond of New York, Frank lin Murphy of New Jersey, Charles P. Taft of Ohio, Arthur I. Vorys of Ohio. Mr. Hitchcock will be chairman of this committee, ex-officio. Elmer Dover, formerly secretary of the national committee will be secretary of this committee. He now has office rooms on the fourth floor of the Metropolitan tower, but is expected to spend a great part of his time trav eling. It is reported that it is the plan to keep this committee in office untitl the close of the campaign and with Chairman Hitchcock it will really form the court of last resort in re publican politics. Chairman Hitchcock will announce later the names of the fifty-three mem bers of the committee which is to as sist the treasurer, George R. Sheldon in' the financial management of the campaign. RJNJN PENSY Special Runs Distance in Ex cess of 100 Miles Per Hour. Warsaw, Ind., Aug. 22. All speed records of the Pittsburg. Ft. Wayne & Chicago division of the Pennsyl vania railroad were broken between this city and Pierceton, a distance of nine miles. A special train carrying Prof. F. E. Turneaure, dean of the engineering department of the Univer sity of Wisconsin; Prof. C. E. Crandall of the railroad engineering department of Cornell university, and F. M. Gra ham, the Pennsylvania chemist at Altoona ran the distance at a speed in excess of ltX miles an hour. The ob ject was to determine the impact of trains with the rails while running at different speeds. The train making the record run was composed of a lo comotive. a coach and caboose. The train, on another test, ran ninety-two miles an hour and stopped within 700 feet from the time the engineer shut off steam. MOLAI HOFID ROUTES SULTAN AZIZ'S FORCES Reported Sultan Himself Is Captured. Tangier, Aug. 22. A wireless tele gram says that the advance guard of Sultan Aziz's forces has been routed by Mulai Hafid fifty miles from Morocco City. It is reported that Sultan Abdul Aziz has been captured. On August 18 General D'Amade. the commander of the French forces in Morocco sent word to the French gov ernment of a report he had received at Casablanca to the effect that Sultan Abdul Aziz had defeated Mulai Hafid's troops and made a triumphal entry into Morocco City. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Sunday fair, light to frch west to northwest wlnd&

DEN Of ROBBERS WAS UNEARTHED UK DETECTIVES

Rendezvous at Brooklyn Held Loot Worth $25,000 and All Kinds of Valuables Which Had Been Stolen. EXPLOSIVES WERE FOUND IN URGE QUANTITIES. Woman Arrested as Accom plice and Police Assert Capture of Her and Three Men Is of Importance. New York, Aug. 22. Loot valued at more than $125,000, the proceeds of many robberies, pawn tickets representing valuab'es worth far more than this, the most complete counterfeiting outfit ever captured by the New York officers, and a set of burglars' tools of more than two hundred separate pieces, are but a part of the contents taken from a robbers' rendezvous near the foot of Fourth street, Brooklyn, after Central office detectives arrested three men on a charge of burglary and one woman on a technical charge of being a suspicious person. The four prisoners were arraigned in the Tombs police court today. The three men were captured after they had everything ready to dyna mite a safe in Newark. They had been followed by the police for several weeks, but the detectives waited until the could capture the men in the act of blowing open a safe before arresting them. Commissioner Flynn, of the secret service is confident that the . band is responsible for the floating of thousands of $1, $2, $5, $10 and $20 bills which have been scattered throughout the country. The bills while made on poor paper were exact counterparts of the real bills, as the counterfeiters used sensitized papers and printed di rect from negatives made from good bills. One of the men prisoners who was arraigned in New ork is Humpty Williams, who has spent seventeen years in jail, and who is known to the police as being one of the most expert safe crackers in the world as well as one of the shrewdest of his kind living. Woman Makes Denial. Mrs. Lizzie Jacobson, who was arrested in the treasure house of the band In Brooklyn, denied all knowledge of the bands' work, but the police headquarters recognized her as having served one term in jail and had her picture placed in the rogues' gal lery several years ago. A $1 bill printed on one side which was of the latest 1008 series, was found in the woman's pocket. Besides the loot enough dynamite and other explosives to wr-ck a dozen buildings was found in the robbers headquarters. Several other arrests are expected. Inspector McCafferty and Commissioner Bingham declare that the rounding up of the three men and the woman are the most important arrestswhich have been made in several years. Not only had the men made counterfeit bills but the molds for fifty and twenty five cent pieces were also found. The counterfeiting apparatus for bills consisted of an elaborate set of plates, a copying camera wMch was fitted with the finest French lens and several hundred bottles of chemicals to give the bills when printed the desired shade to imitate age. PLAY SECOND ROUND Country Club Golf Championship Matches Were Played Off Yesterday. FOUR STRONG MEN LEFT. In the second round of the Country club championship cup contest yesterday afternoon Will Dill, who won the cup and the club championship last year, was defeated by Wilbur C. Hibberd, a former club champion, by the score of 3 up and 4 to go. Dudley Elmer, another former club champion defeated George Bond. 4 up and 3 to go. Frank Braffett defeated S. E- Swayne 8 up and 6 to go, and John Thompson defeated George Seldel 3 up and 2 to go. Hibberd, Elmer, Braffett and Thompson, four of the best players in the club, are now left to compete in the semi-finals. In the first round for the president's cup. consolation, J. Y. Poundstone defeated W. D. Waldrip 1 up. S. S. Strattan won from Charles McGuire by default. E. P. Trueblood defeated O. R Tlrinrt a iin and 1 tn m anrl WSt 'son defeated Tbieme 2 up and 1 to go.

NAVAL COLLEGE HAS FOUND HITCH IN ITS PROJECTS

Commanders Key and Sims Have Been Outspoken and Changes in Naval Construction May Result. CHANGES WOULD HELP VESSELS' WAR ABILITY. Nearly All Experts of Navy Are at Conferences and in Official Circles Alarm Is Felt. ' Washington, Aug. 22. Officials of the navy department here are in receipt of information from Newport, R. I., where the naval college has been in session to the effect Commander Key is winning out in his fight against the bureau of construction of the navy and securing a number of important concessions to plans for construction of the new battleships of the Delaware class, now in the ship yards. Commanders Key and Sims have been two of the most outspoken crit ics of plans for the new warships either within or outside of the navy. Their positions as aides to the presl dent have been of great value In en abling them to present their views with the most force in the quarter where their criticisms could be most effective. It is known here they have won over the president to their way of thinking and that the visit of the president to Newport and his confer ence with the naval war college was to point out the necessity of giving careful consideration to Key-Sims criticisms and suggested improvements, Changes are Suggested. In official circles here it is said Key and Sims have won out in their contention as to placing of armor belt and ammunition hoists. They are contending also, for freer decks and larger guns on new ships of the Delaware class. They argue that decks of the newer vessels should be free of most superstructure as supports. hoists, etc., which they hold are im pedimentia and serve to obstruct the best working of the ships apd to lower her free board. With these removed and heavier guns installed Key and Sims believe the fighting efficiency of the new boats will be greatly in creased. Nearly all experts of the navy are now at Newport taking part in con ferences, details of which are un known here. Reports have been to the effect that conferences have been marked by much difference of opinion especially between representatives of the board of construction, who are defending the plans of new ships and critics of the Key-Sims school, who are pointing out the alleged defects. The concessions made are held to prove that the differences between the two schools of construction are not irreconcilable and that an agreement will be reached without friction. Critics Have Won Out. In unofficial circles here it Is the general opinion that critics of the present board of construction have won and that all new vessels of the navy will be more effective fighting machines than was possible under plans of the board. As a consequence, it is expected tnere will be a shake-up in the personnel of many of the most important boards of navy establishment and that new blood will be infused generally. This will sound the death knell of the present regime, in which the spirit of bureaucracy has grown to an alarming extent. BARK CLERK STEALS TO PLAY RACES Kohler Wins, Then Loses, and Is Now in Tombs. New York. Aug. 22. Because he believed that he had evolved a system to beat the races. Harold B. Kohler, bookkkeeper in the National Park bank, who lives at No. 39 Seventh street. South Brooklyn, is a prisoner in the Tombs, awaiting the action of the grand jury on a charge of embezzlement. Kohler devised a system of playing favorites for place which looked so well on paper that he could not wait to save up sapital for the gamble. Instead he took ?3SO from the bank and went to the track. He played, won, lost his head, and became a Broadway all he had won and the bank's money besides and faced ruin. The bank discovered his defalcation and he confessed. The cashier, Maurice H. Ewer, turned him over to the police and made a charge of embezzlement against him on which he was held. .

FORMER GOVERNOR FINED FOR GAMING.

Guthrie. Okla., Aug. 22. It took a jury only five minutes to convict Cassius M. Barnes, former governor of Oklahoma and now mayor of Guthrie, of gambling. The mayor was arrested several weeks ago with other prominent men. His companions pleaded guilty. Judge Strang, who will sentence Barnes, was appointed by the defendant as attorney-general during his administration as governor. BRYAN'S LEADERS SIGHT DANGER IN SOUTHLANDS He Is Given No Cause for Op timism at Conference and Southern States Are Conceded Lost. CANDIDATE IS SURPRISED BY ALARMING PROSPECTS Southern Trip Abandoned as Nothing Could Be GainedMoney Is Coming But Slowly to Pay Costs. Chicago, Aug. 22. William J. Bryan had his confidence broken today as a candidate for the presidency. He was told in plain English by his cam paign managers that his chances in a big majority of the states he hoped to carry are bad or even hopeless. New York, Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia and Tennessee were states in which the three times candidate was informed he had the barest fighting chance. There were just two rays of hope in the gloom with which candidate was enshrouded by the reports of his managers. Kansas and even Iowa he was told, mig'at go for him in the fall election. Information was given the candidate on the desperate situation in the south and that caused him to change all his plans regarding the campaign. It had been his intantlon to take a leisurely swing through the middle states; another one down south and a third through the east. stopping for only a few prepared speeches in each of the bigger cities But in a long conference with his ad visers today these plans were chang ed. The southern trip was abandoned entirely, because he was told that the two doubtful states there are virtually hopeless and that his presence would not do any good. 1 The arrangements for the middle west states is to stand but with regard to the east it has been tentatively arranged that he shall repeat the campaigns he made in 1S9C and 1900 through middle west. There is a possibility that arrangements for the trip may be completed while the candidate is here, as he remains here until Monday. Money Short. Too. Report of the bad conditions in the states named was not the full measure of bad news given Mr. Bryan, eith er. He was told that money for the campaign is coming in slowly very slowly In fact and In such driblets that the total will hardly be sufficient to pay for the expensive and extensive headquarters expenses, much less run a campaign. Wherefore a financial system must be devised and no man had one ready made. Hitchcock is Scheming. Still further it was reported that Frank H. Hitchcock, manager of the Taft campaign is putting a few obstacles in the way of the Bryanites scheme to capture the labor vote, or at least the endorsement of the labor organizations. The plan of the Bryanites was to have various state federations endorse Mr. Bryan with resounding resolutions, but those who have been going around for that purpose have found that the quiet Mr. Hitchcock had been before them and had sent out emissaries all over the country to organize delegates of the federation against such endorsements. MAIL CARRIERS . . GOJO MARION Interesting Program Prepared For Their Convention. Quite a number of the members of the state rural mail carriers' associa tion In this city and county will attend the state convention at Marion September n and 7. They are already laying their plana to attend and it is estimated that Wayne county will be well represented. The proximity of the place will allow a number to attend. Congressman G. W. Rauch and Major George W. Steele, former congressman will be among the speakers at the convention of the state rural mail carriers association - to be held In Marion September 6 and i.

"COUNTY OPTION" MAKES SALOON'S WALLS TREMBLE

Words Appearing on Banner In I bunaay school Parade May i Have Sinister Meaning toj Liquor Dealers. SALOON MEN PREPARED TO MEET ANY ATTEMPT, j Claim Argument of Taxation j Figures Will Be Forceful) When Hime Arrives forj Struggle Will Count. To those citizens of Richmond and 1 Wayne county who are opposed to the temperance movement, which threat ens to sweep through county and leave it as dry as a well picked bone, the Sunday scliool parade yesterday afternoon was an alarming spectacle. Every man, woman and child participating in the parade is openly opposed to the sale of intoxicating liquors laj thl3 county. True the women and' children could cast no ballots should the anticipated battle between the "wet" and "dry" forces be fought out in old Wayne, but the leaders of the 'wet" army who witnessed the parade i realized that these women and ciildren, in nearly every case, reflected j the opinions of the voters In their re-j spective families. ' After the parade passed there waii not a "wef supporter who did not reflect: Was not the narade a show of' strength on the part of tbe temper-1 a nee advocates? In nearly every! case they decided this was one of the J prime motives of the parade. This conclusion was reached because Included in the parade there was an ordinary buck board but which displayed on each side signs which ominously i read "County Local Option," the battle cry of . the anti-saloon forces' throughout the state. On the front seat of this buckboard rode President Kelly of Earlbam college and Timo-' thy Nicholson, two of the mightiest -war chiefs of the temperance army in this county. Two Liquor Stronghold. Should a county local option law bi passed by the next legislature It will, be a signal for the anti-saloon forces! In Wayne county to declare war onj the liquor interests. The "wet" army is strongly Intrenched in Wayne county and If the clash ever comes It promises to be r most bitter fight It Is true there are only two liquor i stronghold! in the county, Wayne and Jackson townships, all the other town-' ships being dry, but the liquor men! claim they are as Impregnable aa Gib-! ralter and that as long as they holdj out the county will remain wet. At the present time there are fifty-, seven saloons In Wayne county, fortynine in Richmond, seven in Cambridge City and one In Ea3t Germantown.) All of these annually pay into the county treasury $6,300 for licenses and fees for the issuance of licenses and recording them. The city of Rich mond, wliich issues each liquor license I at the rate of $250, receives annually from the saloons $12,250. Cambridge City gets ?150 for each Honor license issued and Its income from this source annually amounts to $1,050. The total amount all the liiuor deal ers in the county pay out each year' equals 1 19,700. Wets Have Argument, j Local "wet" chieftain' argue that! if the city of Richmond was deprived of its liquor license Income there would not be enough money in thai city treasury to operate the munici-j pal government machinery. , One skirmish between the "wet" j and "dry" forces has occurred this ! year, resulting in victory for the tem-j perance warriors. This skirmish was ' fought at Hagerstown with the result, that three saloons were driven fronij that community and ft is now dry toej the first time in years. HAINS PLANS TO FIGJtf FOR SDNSi Father Is Now Undergoing a; Severe Strain. Washington. Aug. 22. General Peter 1 Hains. father of Capt. Peter C. Hains and Thornton Jenkins Hains, who played the principal parts In the killing of William E. Annis, is now in : Washington. Gen. Hains, it is understood, is here to see some of his friends to get their advice as to the . fight to be made for his sons' lives. "I have nothing to say, said General Hains who asked if he would . make a statement. "I think I know the subject on which you wish to que-', tion me, and I can say nothing at this time." Gen. Hains spoke in a quiet, rather tired, but determined voice. He : showed the strain under which he has been durlag the past feifcdajv - -