Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 211, 13 September 1908 — Page 1

ABUJM AIMD SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 211. RICH3IOND, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTE3IBER 13, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS. RECEIVER TAKES 0RV1LLE WRIGHT CIVIC LEAGUE IN PUBLIC MEETING SOUNDS ISSUE MEfl ENGAGE FIGHT "SENATOR" HAKLY NOW IN PROSPECT ASK POLITICIANS JESSE RAYMOND COUNTY BURNING ISjEW RECRUIT BENEATH RAYS OF BLISTERING SUN Keeps Adding to List of Broken Records. Five Said to Be in Encounter At "The Red." Bethel Young Man First to M'FG COMPANY Join Navy.

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Application Made by Robert Stimson, Principal Debtor Of One of the City's Large Manufacturing Industries. THE COURT HAS NAMED DICKINSON TRUST CO.

Liabilities of Plant Approximate $140,000 and Assets Said to Be Only About $90,000 or Less. WILL OPERATE THE PLANT. COURT PROVIDES FOR CONTINUANCE OF AFFAIRS UNTIL RAW MATERIAL AND PRESENT STOCK :S DISPOSED OF. ANOTHER PLANT PROPOSED probable That Car Brake Manufac tory Will Take the Buildings and Open Up an 'Entirely New Con cern. Late yesterday afternoon Robert E Stimson, president of the Richmond Ind., Manufacturing company, and one of the largest stockholders in the con cern, filed suit in the circuit court pe titioning that a receiver be appointed for the plant, which is one of the largest manufacturing concerns in eastern Indiana. Shortly after the suit had been filed. Judge Fox appointed the Dickinson Trust company of this city as receiver. In the com plaint the liabilities of the concern are given at $140,000 and the assets at $90,000. Mr. Stimson's grounds for asking that the concern be placed in the hands of a receiver are for the collecting of a personal claim against the concera, amounting to $89,747.92. The court has instructed the re ceiver to operate the plant for thirty or sixty days so that the unfinished products can be completed and placed on the market, and to use up the raw material now on hand. After this has been done the receiver is instructed to sell the plant at public gale so that the indebtedness of the concern can be met; The only local creditor besides Stimson is the Second National bank, but it is not known what Its claim against the concern amounts to. "It is expected that the amount realized from the sale 'of the plant will not equal the amount of the indebtedness. However whatever the deficiency is, it will be made up by Mr. Stimson and his associates," stated Charles E. Shiveley, who is Mr. Stlmeon's attorney. The stockholders will In all probability, realize nothing from the sale of the plant. Causes for Failure. Mr. Shiveley states that the cause of the failure was the financial stringency and increased competition. It is understood that for some time the company has been in distress, but was kept going by funds advanced by Mr. Stimson. It has been known in local business circles for the past few days that the Richmond, Ind.. Manufactur ing Company might within a short time go Into the hands of a receiver, eo when it was announced yesterday afternoon that - Mr. Stimson had applied for a receiver little surprise was occasioned. The principal stockholders in the company are Mr. Stimson, Mrs. Stim " son, E. E. Perry. J. F. Wild of In dianapolis, E. F. Claypool of Indiana polls, and Mr. Stimson's father who resides In California, j Stock in the concern Is also held by several In dianapolis parties whose names are not given. The company was organ Ized In 1901. The plant was purchased from E. E. Perry and J. F. Wild of Indianapolis. The company was in corporated with a capital stock of $125,000 and since Its organization has manufactured Iron bedsteads and vehicle and bicycle lamps. For sev eral years the concern did a flourish tng business and just prior to the financial stringency last fall it had a pay roll of about 2T0 men and women. Mr. Shiveley states that It is quite probable that the plant will be purchased by a company soon to- be or ganized to manufacture car brakes. The majority of people interested In this new company he states are local men, J-nd he predicts this company will be one of the largest concerns In the city. ast evening at a meeting held at Jacksonburg the Harrison Township Republican Club was organized. There was a large number of voters In attendance and the enthusiasm was great. The following officers were elected: President, William Wilson; Becretary, Lon Hormel; treasurer, B T, Wickersham,

Washington, Sept 12. Orville

Wright broke two previous records this afternoon, remaining in the air an hour and fourteen minutes and forty seconds and averaging over forty miles an hour. HURRICANE IS MOVING. Washington, Sept. 12. The West Indian hurricane Is moving over the eastern Bahamas today and vessels are warned that there is danger off the South Atlantic coast for the next two days. BRYAN PROPOSES; FAILSJO FINISH Hearst Says Nebraskan Always Troops After Some Mystic Idea. SHOWS NO APPRECIATION. COMMONER ACCUSED OF BEING UNGRATEFUL FOR WHAT HEARST DID TO PROMOTE HIS INTERESTS PUBLICLY. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 12. William Randolph Hearst, when shown Mr. Bryan's denial of Mr. Hearst's statement that Bryan four months ago proposed to support Mr. Hearst four years hence in return for Mr. Hearst's support in this campaign, made the following statement: "I do not see why Mr. Bryan is always proposing policies that he has to recant, saying things that he has to retract, and doing things that he has to deny. "When Mr. Bryan came to New York some four months ago I did not call on him as I had nothing to see him about. He did call on me as apparently he had something to see me about. "I kept his visit a secret but Mr. Chanler in a suit brought against me, stated in his affidavit that he had seen Mr. Bryan at my house and so the visit was inadvertently made public. That visit was without result as I purposely avoided politics. "Shortly after, I received an invita tion from a friend to dinner. When I went to the dinner I found Mr. Bryan there. After the dinner, Mr. Bryan stepped aside with me in the hall and said exactly what I said he did. "I wish he had not said it. I was surprised and humiliated by the proposition. It showed that Mr. Bryan had no appreciation or conception of the work I had done for him or of the reason I had worked so hard and made so many sacrifices in the cause. It showed that he considered me merely a trader working for some personal advantage or promotion in politics. I left the house humiliated as I say, but more than ever opposed to Mr. Bryan, more than ever convinced that I was right in opposing him.,, DRUNK IN DRY TOWN. New York, Sept. 12. Frederick Higbie, forty years old, a laborer, was found dead on the stoop of Allen's Garage, in Southampton, L. I., a victim of alcoholism. As Southampton is a prohibition town the inhabitants are wondering where Higbie obtained his liquor, and an investigation will be made. Higbie leaves a widow and two children. GO OUT ON STRIKE. Millenockes, Maine, Sept. 12. Twelve thousand employes of the great northern paper mills here and at Millinockes have gone on a strike and the mills have been closed.

RATLIFF'S POSITION SEEMS VERY MUCH ASTRIDE FENCE

"I have no statement to make." This was the reply made yesterday afternoon by Walter S. Ratliff, state representative from Wayne county, when asked if he would vote for or against the county local option bill which will be Introduced in the legislature when it meets in special session this week. The position Mr. Ratliff now occupies is best described as between His Satanic Majesty and the deep, blue sea. His actions in the legislature at Its special session will be watched with the keenest Interest by the voters of this county. Recently Mr. Ratliff, in reply to the charges made against him by the Wayne County Civic League that he was In sympathy with the liquor Interests, stated that he endorsed the republican state platform which is pledged to county local option, and that he would sunnort such a measure

Rev. Howard Addresses Large Gathering on Lawn at Court House in Support "of Prohibition Movement.

WILL WAGE THE FIGHT ON LIQUOR INTERESTS TO END Tells How Money Spent for Liquor Will Benefit Populace Speech Free From Political Argument. Before a large audience last evening the Rev. Elmer G. Howard of the First English Lutheran church denounced the liquor traffic as most infamous and declared that vigorous steps should be taken to ward off the evil that will harm coming generations. "The liquor men have forced the fight and it is up to the people to fight or surrender," said the minister. His address was undoubtedly one of the strongest pleas for temperance that has ever been heard in Wayne county. It was nonpolitical in the sense that it was nonpartisan. No party was indorsed and he gave his support to no special candidate. In part Rev. Howard said: "We are not to think of the liquor foe as the individual man who may be chanced to be engaged in the various branches of trade at the present time, but as the organized traffic that goes on from generation to generation. The gravest difficulty in every moral conflict is to bring the forces of righteousness into hand to hand conflict with the enemy. "At the present time our forces are unified as never before. The sagacity of no Themistocles could have ordered a more satisfactory array of forces than which is necessitated by the present attack of the liquor foe. "The liquor interests declare that a national federation is to be consummated that will include every trade and manufactory that in any way contributes to the liquor Interests. They expect to have a great political movement to be inaugurated. 'A sweeping organization of the entire United States is the slogan." Local option and every kind of prohibition and temperance legislation is to be fought to the utmost. 'We are going to start a fight that will daze some of our opponents by its scope' the liquor people publicly announce. "It is asserted that national prohibition, should it occur, would be a calamity equalled only by the civil war. It is proposed that the farmer receive special attention and that the agriculturist faces a tremendous loss if prohibition continues to gain as it has in the past. "Union labor is aroused. Look at the number of men that would be thrown out of work should prohibition become effective. "A condition that will continue to endanger and destroy the public health, the public wealth, the safety, and the morals. The issue before us therefore is made up. It is forced upon us, and we must fight or surrender. "It may be concluded that prohibition does prohibit and that the liquor dealers have just reason for alarm as to the outlook for their own business Interests. "Will prohibition produce a financial and industrial panic? It would seem sufficient that this claim of the liquor men is devoid of any truth from the fact that there has not been a panic in any state which has become dry. "The Georgia brewers said that business would decrease and there would be many failures, but this has been proven false, and the state has become adjusted to a larger prosperity that the removal of this economic parasite will only bring. "Every city In Kansas that has Its (Continued on Page Two.) if he was re-elected this fall to the legislature. Temperance workers in this county state that if . Mr. Ratliff was sincere when he made this statement he will have to support the county local option measure when It is introduced at the special session. Anti-temperance people can not view Mr. RatlifTs statement in this light. The say the pledge made by him weuld only bind him at the next regular session of the legislature. They say that he was not elected to the legislature which meets in special session this week on a county local option Issue and that he is privileged to vote against such a measure at the special session." While all this controversy is going on Mr. Ratliff maintains a -discreet silence. Which ever way he votes on the county local option bill at the special session is certain to bring him in violent opposition ia his campaign for re-alecUosu -

There was a lively fight last evening at the "Red" saloon. Main street, four or five men participating in it. Officer Edwards has placed one of the combatants, Bill Lytle, under arrest and the other will be arrested as soon as they can be located. The cause of the trouble is not known by the police.

ANXIETY SHOWN T E Fear of Danger at Eucharist Convention Retained and Trouble May Come. CHARGE OF RADICALISM. POLICE AND 20,000 LAYMEN WILL GUARD HOLY FATHERS WHILE ON REVIEW ABOUT LONDON STREETS. London, Sept. 12 While the authorities are hoping today that there may be no serious hostile demonstration tomorrow during the great catholic parade, considerable anxiety is felt owing to the ugly frame of mind the protestant extremists have been thrown into by the positive refusal of the Home Office to interfere with the matter, and by similar action on the part of the police authorities, who not only informed the Protestant alliance that they would not stop the parade, but would do everything in their power to protect the Catholics and prevent insult to the church dignitaries who will be in the line of march. As the radical members of the protestant alliance have exhausted every effort to prevent the parade and have failed, it Is now feared they may resort to violence. In order to prevent disorder along the line of march there will be three thousand policemen on duty and troops will be held in readiness and will be rushed upon the scene at the slightest sign of disturbance. Elaborate preparations have been made by the police authorities to handle the situation and it is hoped that the knowledge that the authorities are determined to act with the utmost vigor in suppressing disorder may have the effect of preventing any outbreak. Besides the arrangements made by the police for guarding the line of march It is said that at least 20,000 laymen will also be on guard to see that the parade is not interfered with. GOOD PROSPECTS FOR ORCHESTRA Prof. Earhart Will Take Up Work at High School With New Term. HE HAS BEEN TEACHING. DURING SUMMER ACTED AS INSTRUCTOR AT ROBERT FORESMAN SCHOOL AT CHICAGOSTUDIED AT YALE. Prof. Will Earhart, Instructor of music of the Richmond public schools, who has been instructor at the Robert Foresman school at Chicago during the summer has returned home. Mr. Earhart was accompanied by Mrs. Earhart, who assistaed in the work at the school during the term of six weeks. After the term ended Mr. and Mrs. Earhart went to New Haven, Conn., where Mr. Earhart studied music at the Yale library which has some of the best books in the country on music j subjects. Mr, Earhart announced last evening tht although he had not been home long enough to learn the prospects for the high school orchestra for the coming term he believes there is not the least reason why the orchestra should not be bigger and better than j ever. Nearly all the members of last 1 year's orchestra will be back and the I cello will be added, being played by Herbert Smith. The orchestra will be organized the first of next week and will commence work immediately so that by the holidays it will be one of the leading high school orchestras , of the state. THE .WEATHER PROPHET. i INDIANA Fair tonight and Saturday; trash winds.

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Believed Governor Would Like To Don Toga and Has Adopted Peculiar Method to Gain It. ENLISTED WITH OTHERS IN CHAUTAUQUA ARGUMENT No Doubt But Governor Has a Following in Rural Sections Democrats in Quandary About Senatorship.

(By Special Correspondence.) Indianapolis, Sept. 12. Those politicians who are inclined to attribute Governor Hanly's call for the special session of the legislature to purely personal reasons have finally hit upon an explanation that sounds more reasonable to themselves than any other they have been able to offer. It is one that is running rapidly the cur rents of gossip and all who hear it suggested wonder why they had not thought of it before. It is this: Governor J. Frank Hanly wishes to be U. S. senator from Indiana The first answer is that his wish is preposterous. He has alienated the affections of men who do things in Indiana politics and no man in that situation is likely to receive the vote of any legislature bent upon electing a senator. Quite true, say those spreading the new theory. Governor Hanly knows his chances with the other politicians of his party are slim, but he does not care. He feels, and probably not without cause, that he is tremendously popular throughout the state among the voters, particul arly among the farmer voters. He feels and this too, probably not without cause that if it were a mere question of getting the suffrage of the people-, he could be elected to any office Indiana offers What has this to do with the 17. S senatorship the gift of the legislature, not the people? is the query of the unconvinced. And the answer is: Governor Hanly has spent the last many months on the lecture platform of middle western chautauquas. He has been among the western folk in whom the desire to elect their own senators has been growing. Some of them, notably Kansas and Illinois have already practically effected the change, by having the endorsement of candidates for the senate by the party primaries. Witness the defeat of the Senator Long by Bristow in the Kan sas primaries. How long will it be before Indiana has adopted the same mode of procedure? Not long, thinks Governor Hanly and who shall doubt that he is right. Supposing, however, it is as much as five years. Five years Is not long to wait for such an opportunity, But the confidence in this answer to the question of why did Hanly do It? Is causing it to be extended furth er. The special session is altogether unlikely to consider such a change in the primary laws, but the regular ses sion could and it Is not improbable taat it will. And there you are. Gov juaniy expects to make use of the large popularity which he believes is his in the state In just this manner, say toe men who have worked out this theory. In the light of its reasonableness, men who have assumed to say that the governor's strong stand for local option and all temperance legislation is his means to a profitable place on the prohibition lecture platform are abandoning the latter suggestion and thinking seriously of the possibilities of direct primaries for U. S. senators. Speaking of the governor, it is intimated pretty directly that he will be on the stump within a Bhort time. That he would be effective in opposition to Thomas Marshall especially in the light of recent weaknesses displayed by the democratic candidate is admitted. However, it had been expected that he would confine Ms stumping to speeches favoVing county local option, in an effort to make sure the passage of the proposed bill at the special session. The announce ment that he is expected to take the stump in answer to Marshall does not cause any considerable joy in the household of the democratic leaders. No person is better in position to give the lie to the ill-considered charges of extravagance and incompetenc In the state house, being hurled by Marshall than the governor. He is expected to do so. The allegations against the capability of the railroad commission, for instance, will not hold water after the governor has turned loose a battery of facts, say the leaders and he is as eager as any person to defend the work of the com mission, created and first operated under his administration. Further emphasis upon the mistake of the democratic candidate is exepcted from no less person than J. V. Zartman, secretary of the Indiana Manufacturers and Shippers' association, through whose efforts the railroad commission law was pat into its presen? effective form. Zartman led the fight for the shippers against (the railroads at the time the bill was

Jesse Raymond of near Bethel, ind.,

was enlisted by Yeoman Ferguson of the local recruiting station yesterday as second class fireman. Raymond is the first man that has been enlisted by the local station although there are a number of young men of this city who are interested in the work. Their parents object and for this reason Yeoman Ferguson will not enlist prospective candidates. SENATOR F TO OPEN RALLY Will Address Monster Delega tion at Camp Taft in New York. BEVERIDGE WILL SPEAK. MARYLAND IS PLACED IN LIST OF STATES TO ROLL UP A GOOD SIZED MAJORITY FOR JUDGE W. A. TAFT. New York, Sept. 12. Announcement was made today at the headquarters of the republican national committee that Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio will address a monster rally at Camp Taft, in New York city on Oc tober 1. This meeting will be pre ceded by a rally on September 23 at which Senator Albert J. Beverldge of Indiana will be the principal speaker, The itinerary of Mr. Taft is being ar ranged, but it will not be completed until Chairman Hitchcock consults Senator Joseph M. Dixon, in charge of the western spearkes' bureau in Chicago Monday or Tuesday. - The fight for Taft and Sherman in the Carolina was discussed today by Chairman Hitchcock and John Capers, national committeeman from South Carolina, and for years a most careful student 'n North Carolina; "With the pos' ception of Maryland, the repu ave a better chance of carryi .v.-J Carolina than any of the BOutLefil states," said Sir. Capers afterward. "In making this statement I do not except Kentucky or Missouri either." Bound down east to speak for Taft and Sherman, Secretary James Wilson of the department of agriculture passed through New York today. He declared that the sentiment among the farmers is for protection and predicted that as the farmers and the people in the small towns whose interests are identical with those of the farmer have for years voted the republican ticket, they will do so at the coming election. The political situation in Maryland was reviewed today oy cnairman Frank H. Hitchcock, of the republican national committee and Thomas Parran of Baltimore, chairman of the republican state committee. Mr. Parran said he was confident that Taft and Sherman will carry Maryland. He estimates that the republican majority will be about 10,000. This view is based on a recent survey of the situation. The republicans are said to be more satisfied with the nominees on their ticket while the democrats are determined not to swallow Bryanism. passed by the republican legislature and no person in Indiana is more familiar with its operation. He is known to shippers and manufacturers in all parts of Indiana and his word on the effectiveness of the law and the competence of the present commission will be accepted. To revert to sanatorships, the democratic situation with regard to that matter is not as smooth as might be. A disturbing factor has shown itself. With much talk about Taggart wanting it for himself in case the democrats should gain control of the general assembly, the really strong candidate for the bare possibility is, of course, John E. Lamb of Terre Haute. ! He is quite acceptable to the Crawford Fairbanks Taezart democratic politicians, who in idle moments allow themselves to dream of the chance of a democratic legislature, concede that Lamb will succeed Hemenway. However, there is that hustling young man L. Ert Slack. Slack proved himself a stronger candidate than the Taggart candidate for governor (Ralston) and stronger than any person beside the compromise candidate, Marshall. His private opinion of himself is said to be that he is another Beveridge, destined to lead the forces of the young men of his party. He is willing to begin the leading at the first opportunity and Just now Is devoting much of his time toward building fences that lean that way. There Is no doubt that the young minority leader of the senate has a big personal following in his party and there is likewise no doubt that his activity at this time is disturbing the peace of those politi clans who are dreaming that dream for John. E. Lamb.

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Ground Is Parched and Many

Fields Are Ablaze From Sparks Emitted From the Stacks of Locomotives. EXPOSED RIVER BOTTOM SHOWS MANY SAND BARS. Clover Cut and Lays on the Ground, Farmers Fearing To Permit Engines to Enter Their Fields. WHOLE COUNTRY SUFFERS. MANY THREATS OF RAIN FAILED CLOUDS THOSE OF SMOKE FROM FAR DISTANT NORTHERN FOREST FIRES. FRUIT IS SHRIVELING UP. The Corn Crop la Not Alone In Dam-, age Done Wheat Sowing. Delayed Cutting Corn for Shocking and Feeding. "Water, water, we need water." Thia is the urgent cry of the rural residents of Wayne county. It has become more and more pressing as the days have passed, but there has been no answer from the clouds. And now thet pleading is going op from city residents and townsfolks. Cisterns in the city are going dry, lawns are parched and the sod has baked. F Richmond is remarkably fortunate . its Bupply of hydrant water and there is little likelihood of the drought making danger from fire greatly Imminent, so long as the large springs that furnish the supply continue their uninterrupted flow, there is no chance for a local water famine. The Whitewater river shows plainest the effect of the continuous dry spell. It has not rained in this vicinity since August 17, when the fall amounted to one half of one inch. In countless places the bed of the river is exposed. Long sand or mud bars lie bare and the mud usrface has baked to a crusL The larger rivers have decreased in volume with the falling off of the supply from the tributalles. At Cincinnati the Ohio Is but four feet, deep. Boys and young men are wading and swimming clear across the river. At the mouth of the Licking river they are catching fish with their hands. A fall of a foot and a half will decrease the water volume one half. In the rural sections clover is cut and remains laying upon the ground where it was left by the mower. Farmers are afraid to take thrashing machines into the fields, as the sparks from the engines might cause con flagrations. For days the grass along the railroads through the county has been burning. Farmers have plowed about the edges of their fields adjacent to the right of way of the railroad to prevent spread of the fires. Fence posts have been burned off at the ground, and the loss from this source will be great. And there are no indications of conditions becoming better. The whole country Is suffering in the same manner. Rain has been falling and storms have raged along the gulf coast and there has been a little rain in the Dakotas, but elsewhere none. Neither of these conditions offer any hope of rain in this district. "Fair tonight and Sunday. Not much change in ternlooking ahead thirty-six hours. Many days during the last several weeks there have been what have eeemed pa be threats of rain, but were not. Days have been slightly cloudy and the air has had that feel of Impending rain that most people accept as a sure sign of its coming. The explanation given for this Is that the clouds are clouds of smoke. It is from the Northwest where forest fires are raging, and have been raging for weeks. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Manitoba. Many find this explanation difficult to believe until they are reminded of the manner in -which ashes were carried almost around the world after the volcanic eruption in the Isle of Martinique. Corn Crop Has Suffered. As for the damage done by the drought, the corn crop has suffered most. There should have been liberal rains in July, August and this month. Conditions have been made bad for autumn sowing of wheat, too, since the ground is so dry and dost so prevalent that wheat sown now is more likely to shrivel up and die than to take root and grow. The result Is seen in the grain markets, where corn has already climbed high, and next year's wheat is selling at advancing figures. Vegetables have been damaged and the supply is short Stock is suffering because of the parched meadows and grazing lands, yutogethe