Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 196, 29 August 1908 — Page 1

AXXABJIJM 1 M IN JL JIJLJLLd AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOIi. XXXIII. NO. 19G. RICHMOND, IJO., SATURDAY" EVENING, AUGUST SO, 190S. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS, COMMITTEES FOR FALL FESTIVAL WERE CHOSEN FAMOUS RUSSIAN NEAR DEATH'S DOOR. DEATH RESULTED AFTER WALKER'S NEW YORK AND WILL MARRY ONE OF ENGLAND'S GREAT MEN WORKSjOB WATSON Markle Says Republican Candidate Is Misunderstood. NDIANA ARE THE BATTLE FIELDS OF INTRIGUE, TELLS EALL OFF UP j .s.

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Street Fakirs Are to Be Barred And Everything Made Solely For the Interest of County Residents. The executive and arrangement committees of the Young Men's Business club met last evening and perfected a definite organization to promote the Fall Festival, which will be held in this city three days during the first week in October. The question of raising funds was the most important topic of discussion. It is necessary for the club to raise between $3,000 end $5,000 and the committees last evening decided to raise this amount In one day. In accordance with this plan, subscription committees were named, each of which will have a certain section of the city to canvass. As the business men of the city are heartily in favor of the movement, no trouble is anticipated in raising the necessary sum of money. The subscription committees will meet next Monday evening at the city building and will then decide on the date the canvass "will be made. The executive and arrangement committees intend to have every business section of the city benefited by the festival. To do this it was decided to hold the various shows and . displays In various sections of the . city. This will keep the crowd on the move. The club has reserved the market place on South Sixth street, the vacant lot at the corner of Tenth and Main streets, Elm Place between North Ninth and North Tenth streets in the rear of the Jones Hardware Company, the A. H. Bartel company and the Arlington hotel. It Is also probable that the vacant lot at the corner of North Tenth and B streets will he used. At these places will be held poultry and live stock shows, agricultural and Industrial exhibits. The exhibits on South Sixth street will be In the market house. A big tent will be placed at Tenth and Main Btreets and booths will be placed along each side of Elm Place, which is a Cemented roadway. Tom, Dick and Harry Barred. Street fakirs and street shows will positively- not be tolerated. The club Is of the opinion that the festival Is Bolely for the benefit of the people of Richmond and Wayne county, not for every Tom, Dick and Harry from here iuerw ana eisewnere. wno operates a fake attraction. To eliminate such fakirs the club has reserved the right to all street corners. One of the unique features of the fes tival will be the township competitive exhibitions in live stock, poultry and agriculture. Each of the fifteen ' townships in the county will be repre sented in this competition and the one Having the best display will be awarded a handsome cash pr?ze. Every exhibit will be perfectly safe as special police service will be provided. Stable men win be employed by the club to care for and guard the live stock exhibited. V It has not yet been definitely decided as to the exact dates of the festi val. This depends upon the time the Tenth Infantry camps in Richmond This regiment will be here some time the first week in October. To ascertain the days the regiment will be here Jaul Comstock and Perry J. Freeman -ill go to Indianapolis next week to confer with Col. Greene. To entertain thesoldlers, the military committee will probably decide at its next meet ing to hold two balls at the coliseum one for the privates and non-commis eloned officers and one for the commissioned officers. List of New Committees. The general arrangement committee for the festival Is divided Into three sections, one for the agricultural di vision, one for the Industrial division and one for the military division. The agricultural committee in eludes Thomas Williams, chairman Wilfred Jessup, vice chairman; Joseph I. Helms, Thomas Butler, Walter Runge, Joseph II. Hll, Dr. Markley Albert Gregg and J. A Spekenhler. The committee to have charge of the Industrial feature includes: Ed Miller, C C. . Common,' chairman, W. P, O'Neal, . W. Merrill, Ray K. Shiveley, R. L. Study, William M. Bailey, Chas. Morgan. J. B. Gordon, and W. E, Rummell. The military arrangement committee Includes Paul Comstock, chairman Charles Kolp, Nettleton Neff. John M Lontx, Cash Beall, Dr. A. O. Martin and W. P. Haughton. Finance Committee. Nimrod H. Johnson, chairman. Main (Continued on PThree.)

COUNT LEO TOLSTOY. Tolstoy, the great writer of Russia, the man who has more than any other, been responsible for the awakening in his country, is eighty years old and is lying near death. Royalty and the common masses are mourning, for they realize that Russia will lose her greatest man when Tolstoy dies. USE HEW SYSTEM TO FIND RECORDS Police Adopt Photographic Post Cards for Purpose Of Identification. SCHEME IS NEW LOCALLY. HAS BEEN TRIED WITH SUCCESS IN A NUMBER OF LARGER CITIES REID IS THE FIRST "VICTIM." To determine the identity of persons arrested In this city and believed to have criminal records or "undesirables" the police department has ad opted a system of post cards. On the reverse of the card is placed the picture of the suspected party and alongside is written his description. The face of the card is used for the address and other remark by the superintendent of the local department. The scheme has been tried in larger cities and proved successful. It provides a Quick means of communication and one that is superior to the usual circular. The photographic print is much better for the purpose of identification than a reproduction made from an electrotype. It shows the subject just as he exists and without any alteration of feature or lineament. The first person to be photograph ed for this purpose is Lee Reid. Reid is in the' county jail on a charge of burglary. He is accused of entering the Gennett residence and stealing a pair of trousers belonging to Fred Gennett. Reid refuses to give any information concerning himself except he is of Scotch descent and came to this city from Cincinnati. The man professes his innocense. The police believe he has been implicated in previous trouble and an attempt is being made to secure information regarding him The post cards will be sent to all police departments in this section of the country. GAVE PROMISE TO LEAVE. Ed Lindsay Given a Chance to Es cape Jail. On his promise to leave the city and not return. Edward Lindsay has been permitted to escape prosecution on the charge of public Intoxication and pre vious conviction. He claims he will go to Cincinnati. Lindsay was released from jail yesterday and last night was re-arrested. He is regarded as a man of wasted talent, and lost oppor tunities. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Showers Saturday night or Sunday night, probably Sunday; variable winds. OHIO Warmer Saturday night; showers at night or Sunday; light to fresh southeast to south winds.

Was Driving From Home to Milton Atop of a Load of Straw, When Horses Frightened and Ran Away.

JOSTLED FROM POSITION AND LUNGED TO GROUND Wagon Wheels Cross His Neck And Fracture Was Complete, Death Ensuing in a Few Minutes. Milton, Ind., ,Aug. 20. James H. Walker, a farmer, living near Milton, and well known in Richmond and the western part of the county, was killed jeesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock in a runaway accident about a half mile west of Milton. The unfortunate man had his neck broken by two wheels of a heavy hay wagon passing over it. Walker has a farm about two miles west of Milton. He started into town yesterday afternoon about four o'clock with a light load of straw. The wagon was drawn by two young horses. Just as the animals started to go down a steep hill about a naif mile out of town they became frightened at some object and immediately bolted. As the frightened team dashed down the hill at full speed, Walker was unable to retain his precarious seat on top of the straw pile, because of the wild lurching of the wagon. He fell to the ground directly under one of the front wheels. This wheel and a rear wheel ran over his neck, com pletely fracturing it. The team con tinued on its wild course and was not captured until It arrived at Milton. A colored man by the name of Robbins was driving a log team a short distance behind Walker's wagon. He witnessed the accident and went at once to the assistance of Walker. Af ter Robbins reached him. Walker only breathed a few times before expiring. Robbins placed the body on his log wagon and hauled it to Milton. Walker was fifty-eight years old and a prosperous farmer. He is a member of one of the most prominent pioneer families in the county. Besides his wife, he leaves one daughter, Miss Carrie Walker. The funeral will be Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock,, at the Milton M. E. church. The burial will be at West Side cemetery. tin! ! nrnmn p-rnrnr ii ill ntnun ointti O'Neal Says Loose Bricks Will Be Restored to Place In Pavement. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Assurance was given by W. P. O'Neal of the board of public works this morning, that there is no cause for alarm and Main street will be put back in good condition, when the work of repairs is completed. The water works company has dug a large number of holes in the pavement to make repairs or alterations to its pipe lines and in many instances the bricks have not been replaced. Mr. O'Neal - says the company is waiting for the dirt to settle and after that time the bricks will be replaced as previous to the time the excavation was made. The assurance will be wel comed by those who have become anx lous as to the condition of the city's main thoroughfare. T TO ENTER FIELD Custom Made Shirts Will Be Regular Output. A company composed of Milton Elrod, Erman Smith and others, and known as the Elrod Shirt Co., a new industry in Richmond, is equipping and fitting up a modern and up-to-date shirt factory in the Wakefield build ing. corner 9th and Main streets. They will make strictly custom made shirts to the individual measure. pajamas, night robes and underwear. They have engaged the services of Mrs. Anna Billings, who will be their cutter. Mrs. Billings is already well known to the trade in Richmond. This factory will employ from eight to ten girls and two salesmen, and will operate In eastern Indiana and vest ra Obi? .

H. Markle, night yardmaster at Tipton, is making a tour of the state in the interest of James E. Watson, republican candidate for governor. He probably will come to this city and deliver an address. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. He says the railroaders have an unjust prejudice against Watson, which will be dispelled when they understand him and what he has done far them.

PLAN TO RETAIN NATIONAL HOUSE Republican Leaders to Wage Fierce Congressional Campaign. HITCHCOCK MET SHERMAN. LIST OF CONGRESSMEN WHO WILL PARTICIPATE IN STATE AND NATIONAL BATTLES COMPLETED. New York, Aug. 29. Chairman Frank Hitchcock of the republican national committee, had a long conference last night at the Manhattan ho tel with James S. Sherman, republican nominee for vice president; Representative William McKinley, chairman of the congressional committee and Representative Loudenslager, secretary of the committee The conferference began upon the return of these gentlemen from pyster Bay, where they were called by President Roosevelt for a talk about the congressional situation. It was very late before the confer ence concluded, but the list of con gressmen who are to be invited to make speeches in both the national and congressional campaigns was completed. It is said that President Roosevelt displayed keen interest in the arrangements being made for a vigorous campaign in all parts of the country to retain the present majority in the house. He "was able to give Chairman McKinley and Mr. Loudenslager many valuable suggestions, and these were approved also by Mr. Sher man, who was chairman of the congressional committee until his nomination for the vice presidency. No details of the conference at Oys ter Bay were made public. It wa3 admitted, however, that arrangements were made to enlist speakers for the contests in a number of districts in Southern states which are now represented by democrats. Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor, who was a caller at national headquarters, was asked for an expression of opinion concerning the New York governor ship question. He would not say whether he believed that Mr. Hughes should or should not be renominated, btu he expressed this opinion: "Politicians should not temporize with the will of the people. The leaders should learn the will of the peo ple and then properly represent their views." HIS SECOND WHEEL HAS BEEN STOLEN Penny BeHeves an Evil Genius Pursues Him. Melville Penny has an idea. This may seem strange, but the idea is that he is pursued by a hoodoo or an evil spirit. This may seem stranger, but not when it becomes known that Penny's second wheel of this season has been stolen. The theft was reported to the police this morning. The bicycle was taken from In front of the Prudential Insurance company's local office. It is a Hearsey Special. The front tire is red and the rear one of the usual color. The frame is enameled blue and the fork covered with a coating of aluminum. PARKER NOT FOUND. The efforts of the police department to locate Winfield Saulter Parker, whp disappeared from his home in Center township, June 23, have not abated. There is reason to believe Saulter is not dead, as his wife has feared. TAKEN ILL AT CAMP. Mr. Addleman, one of the campers at the Chautauqua, wfcs taken seriously ill with acute indigestion Thursday and was removed to the home of His daughter, Mrs. Jesse Bailey, on North 9th street. Mr. Addleman is a farmer residing about two miles north of Middleborough. His friends will be glad to learn that his condiau jg improved,

Leaders Who Have Sized Up Political Situation Over the Country Come to This Conclusion.

GOMPERS STIRS UP A HORNET'S NEST. His Political Actions Will Be The Cause of Trouble in Indiana, and for Himself, It Is Claimed. Special Correspondence. Indianapolis, Aug. 20. From all that can be learned, coming from party leaders who have been in the east within the last sixty days, and who have tried to sense the political situation, it is again a case of New York and Indiana. A republican leader who has just returned home from New York says that both parties can find enough to do by confining their best campaign efforts to these two states. "In New York," said he to your correspondent, "there is a cat fight on both sides of the fence. The democrats have their Murphy-McCarren-Conners row, while the Hughes supporters on the republican side of the fence are at outs with the Roosevelt faction. It is simply a question of which side gets out its vote, in my opinion. There are no factional troubles in Indiana, but there is a feeling that the Hoosier state is debatable ground and that each side must do its best to win. With an Indiana man as the democratic vice presidential nominee, the par ty Is full of confidence. Of course, there is nothing In the past perform ances of Kern to justify such confi dence, but it exists nevertheless, and it must be taken into account. Taft is strong in Indiana, but he will win with greater ease if he comes Into Indiana and work. The people are anxious to hear him and he must an swer the demand. He has not been heard in this state since he made his speech on the Philippines in Indian apolis, some years ago. He is a con vincing talker, and he has no mean opponent in Bryan, whose incessant speech-making again threatens to tire the people." The address of James E. Watson, at Fort Wayne, opening the republican campaign, has brought out much fav orable comment. The frank state ment made by him in regard to his at titude toward labor is accepted as a challenge to his accusers, and there is much speculation as to the result of the meeting of labor leaders that he has promised to attend in this city, agreeing to answer every charge put against him. The announcement that President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, is to take the stump for Bry an, is going to stir up trouble in the Indiana state federation, which is part of the national body. There are many labor leaders of the John Mitchell stamp, who do not believe that politics and unions can profitably work together. The aims of labor unions, they argue, are entirely outside political lines, and they predict the downfall of Gompers if he persists In his course. The fact is recalled that Gompers has always fought socialism within the ranks of the federation, and as socialism has never been looked upon as anything but a political movement, his attitude is now looked upon as inconsistent. The fact that Mitchell, while stating that he is a democrat and will vote for Bryan, refuses to be drawn into the political whirlpool, is taken as the safe and proper attitude of all labor leaders toward party politics. This is also the position of President Lewis, of the United Mine Workers .who does not favor Gompers action and who frankly says so. Several of the local labor leaders have expressed themselves in like manner, and there will be trouble if Gompers makes any effort to drag unionists into politics as a unit or any part of a unit. These leaders predict that Gompers will get his answer when the next national convention of the federation is Leld. The republican state committee's office force is busy flooding the state with pictures of Taft. A hundred thousand lithographs were in a consignment Just received at state headquarters, and Secretary HMdick says he has demands for every one of them. Bryan pictures are not in demand, as practically everyone wno cares to display them has some left over from years gone by. ANOTHER FREAK ACCIDENT. Another freak accident was added to the list yesterday afternoon when C. Heath, one of the cable splicers for the Home Telephone company, fell to the ground from th wires on South 19th street. The cause of the accident was the breaking of a rope. Although bruised, he was not seriously injured.

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vv. v'' f 1: . . v - 1 5 Ti: HI Miss Clementine Howlers, the af fianced bride of Winston Churchill, of England HUSBANDS KILL WIVEUHEN DIE Double Tragedies at Mellen, Wis., and Port Huron, Mich. SON KILLS HIS FATHER. RISES FROM SICK BED AND SLAYS PARENT WHEN LATTER BEATS WIPE OTHER CRIMES OF A DAY. Mellen, Wis., Aug. 29. Frank Cram er shot and killed his wife and then turned his rifle upon himself, tearing the whole side of his face off. caus ing his own death three hours later, He shot his wife in the head, blowing nearly the whole top off. Mrs. Cramer had her husband ar rested a week ago for cruelty and since then he was under bonds to keep the peace. Lake Captain Kills Wife and Self. Port Huron, Mich., Aug. 29. Elmer E. Campbell, a lake captain, snot ana killed his wife on the Btreet late Frl day and then ran into their home and drank a dose of carbolic acid and fired three bullets into his body, dying In a few minutes. Slays Father, Protects. Mother. Dover, Ky., Aug. 29. Lewis Bruce aged 45, was slain by his son. John aged 21, at their home five miles south of here. Bruce was beating his wife when the son, who is Buffering from typlioid fever arose from his bed and shot him. Fatal Fight by Neighbors. Lutia. Mo.. Aug. 29. As the result of a quarrel John Fugate. a stock deal er. was shot and killed by F. L. Hampton, a neighbor. Hampton claims be shot Fugate in self-defense. Millionaire Commits Suicide. Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 29. John Henry Brigg3, aged 62 years, a million aire cattle raiser, shot and killed him self this morning at his home in Atica. A bullet went through his brain. His wife found the body. Briggs served in the civil war with the 135th Indiana volunteers. Despondency due to in health was the cause. JUDGE'S REMINDER ON THE DOCKET Means to Do No Work at All Next Week. "Set no case for this week, appears on two pages of the trial docket of Judge Fox of the circuit court. This means the Judge will "lay off all next week and again take up the cares of "his honor" Tuesday, Sept. 8. On that date the case of the State vs. Hunt is set for trial by Jury. The court will also rule on the demurrer to the complaint in the case Involving the repairs at Bethel A. M. E. church.. The argument mta htaii jes terdAT,

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HISUFE STORY amous Kentuckian Explains in Graphic Manner, Events Surrounding Killing of Governor Goebel.

IVE THOUSAND PEOPLE HEARD KENTUCKIAN. His Simple Narrative and the Earnestness in Which He Told It, Made All Believe in His Innocence. ...TFive thousand people at the Chau tauqua last night curious to see the man about whom the biggest political' scandal of the last decade has gather ed, craned their necks and watched; for the appearance of Caleb, Power upon the platform. Montaville Flow--ers, the reader was to precede Mr.! Powers and in the minds of many the names of Flowers and Powers became so badly mixed that they didn't know which was which. Tliose who did dlf ferenciate were willing to hear Flow. ers the greatest of readers, but they were Impatient to see Powers. When he appeared at 8:30- they beheld a slim tall figure which though In the prime of years is worn and frail. Out from behind glasses looked deepset gray-blue eyes, the cheek bones showed prominent above the hollow cheeks and the Jaw 6et firm and square. Pow ers was dressed In a suit of steel gray. His voice was low and clear but with out volume. His manner had the ut most simplicity. He told his story without frills or furbaloes, straight forward and convincing. He seldom appealed to the emotions, he never ranted, he used the names of his per secutors as sparingly as he could do so and tell his story. When he had told it the five thousand people who had come to see and stayed to listen were convinced convinced that Caleb Powers was a wronged roan, that there is no blood upon his hands, but that innocent, he has suffered for the crime of someone else. He had won all hearers to his side, and he had done it by simplicity and clear statement of his case. A prominent lawyer said after the address: "Powers could not have done more. He showed why he had gath ered -the men from the mountains and why he had gone to Louisville. He made it plain that he could have had no motive to kill Goebel. for it would mean political ruin rather than political safety. He showed that he did not have a fair trial for the court of appeals would not have sent the case back four times for retrial If it had been so. Above all he brought out the fact that another man had made a skeleton key to his office." The story told by Powers was this:! Case a Political One. "The case against me was born In politics, bred In politics and reared in politics. In 1899 William Goebel was nominated by one wing of the demo cratic party. The party split because of the methods UBed by Goebel to get; his nomination. Ex-Governor John M.' Young was nominated by the otber wing of the party. "I was young and unknown, but I wanted to be secretary of state. I made an active campaign for the of-, flee and was nominated. Our ticket was elected but from the time thla was known the morning after the election, there were rumors that we would be ultimately defeated by the Goebelelection law. "The Goebel election law had been passed In 1893 for Just such an emergency. At that time the republican ticket was elected In Kentucky. The' democratic legislature sitting the following winter created a board of last resort which should settle all election disputes. Tbey had the power to declare the defeated party elected by throwing out enough counties to elect. After our election this board declared for the republican ticket. There were two honest democratic members and they were forced to resign. Under the law the dishonest member remaining had power to fill their places. He appointed men like himself. The entire democratic ticket now contested the election. There was grave danger that the republicans would be defeated so we resolved upon a monster mass meeting at the capital. I, went into the mountains of Kentucky to organize a delegation. Later the leaders decided not to hold the meeting but they could not reach me for I was in an inaccessible country. I brought my delegation to Frankfort. That is how the twelve hundred mountaineers came to be there. They held a mass meeting of their own and most of them returned home five days before the assasi nation. Story of Assassination. "On the morning of tbe day Goeber was assassinated, J. L Butler, Horton Golden, and myself left Frankfort for Louisville to arouse public sentiment against the Injustice the democrats were planning. Later It was held by my enemies that I left on an unknown mission and to let my office be used by a hired assaein. "News of the assassination reached

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