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H AND SUN-TEHEGR AM. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 327. RICU310.Ni, 1XD., TUESDAY EVEM.XG. SEPTEMBER 29, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. IIIDIAIIA YEARLY HANLY ASKS CHARGE BE LARGE BOND ISSUE TO MEET EXPENSES LIQUORS WERE FOR AUTOMOBILE PARTY A Friend of Legislators Former Democratic Politician Arrested After Ten Years MEETING OPETIS Agreed at Conference of City Officials, Not to Increase Taxes. Defense Springs Surprise in Landlord Gay's Trial Today. First Sessions of the Meetinq Of Ministry and Oversight Today.

NVESTIGATED

Appears Before Special Session of Legislature Branding Knisely Bribe Story as False.

COMMITTEE NAMED TO CARRY ON THE WORK. To Consist of Two Republican And Two Democratic Members House to Remain in Session Some Time. NIGHT RIDER BILL WAS KILLED BY CLOSE VOTE Six Republicans Vote to Slaughter Measure Intended by Governor to Protect Tobacco Growers. FOR EARLY ADJOURNMENT. REPUBLICANS DID NOT SEE THE ADVANTAGE OF CONTINUING EXPENSIVE SESSION AMD HELD CONFERENCE. Indianapolis, Sept 29. Governor Hanly this afternoon asked that the lower house of the legislature investigate the charge preferred against him by Representative Knisley that he (Knisley) had been offered a public office paying $2,000 per annum, if he would vote for the county local option bill, which charge he branded false. The house adopted a resolution to sppoint a non-partisan committee to Investigate the charge. Howeyer the speaker encountered considerable difficulty in naming this committee and up to 3 o'clock this afternoon it had not been completed. Daily and Condo were named as the republican members and Downey and ' Pierson were ' democratic members appointed. Downey, however, declined to serve on account of poor hearing. Hottel was named in his place, but he declined to serve for the same reason. Jackson was then appointed to the committee, but he declined to serve on the ground that he is not a lawyer. The speaker is still looking for the second democratic member of the com- . xnittee. The house will remain in session until the committee has completed its Investigation. It is not known whether this investigation will be conducted In private or in public. Indianapolis, Sept. 29. The special session of the legislature -was expected to adjourn this afternoon when it convened at 2 o'clock. Four candidates on the republican state ticket had made it possible. Just after the morning session, James E. Watson, John C. BlUheimer, George W. Self and Lawrence McTurnan, met at the resentatives including' Condo, of Claypool hotel, called In several repGrant county, chairman of the ways and means committee. They wanted to know if there was any way that the session could be brought to a close today. With the night rider bill and the bill ratifying the contract for the completion of the Southeastern Hospital only on second reading, it looked aa though another day could not be avoided. Suspension of the rules to pass those bills would require several democratic votes and the democrats were holding out for as much delay as possible. Nobody had a practicable suggestion except Condo. "Kill the governor's night rider bill," he said. When the candidates were assured that this would enable the rules to be suspended out of democratic pratitude they told Condo to go ahead. He went Six republicans were persuaded to vote with the democrats against the night rider bill and it was killed by a vote of 53 to 43. The democrats then kept their word for suspension of the rules and passed the hospital bill. Two appropriation bills remained to be acted on at the afternoon session of . the house, both being on third reading. No doubt of their passage was felt. One night rider bill was passed by the house that provides a severe penalties for burning tobacco. Indianapolis, Sept 29. The need for an additional 52,100 dollars worth of legislature, which is to say, another day of the special session, arose yesterday afternoon when the committee on ways and means was unable to report on two of Governor Hanly's bill yet remaining and so reported to the house. The bills in question were the Night Rider bill which carried an t .(Continued on Pace Two.)

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o VERLIN RATLIFF. Indianapolis, Sept. 29. Walter RatHff, representative from Wayne county, is not the only one of his family to cause interest among the members at the special session of the legislature. verlin, his son, has likewise been interesting. Verlin is a page, by appointment, for the special session only. He is interesting because he Is different from the other pages. The page, be It known, is not different from other boys. He likes new games and plays them with all his heart while they are new. Being page is a new game albeit there is the wondrous sum of $2 per day in wages to go with It and the page plays hard at it while it is new. All pages are good pages during the first week or two and most all pages are bad pages aftere that. They develop ways of getting out of work that do great credit to their ingenuity, but does not get their part of the work done. Verlin Ratllff is different from the others. He plays. the game hard and the members of the House all like him. He's handy when a boy is wanted, which is the chief purpose of having pages, and he has earned his $14 a week which is remarkable in a page. TAFT SPEAKS AT E Thousands Attend Event Fargo, North Dakota Last Night. at PROVING GOOD CAMPAIGNER AS EACH DAY PASSES, TAFT IS MAKING NEW FRIENDS AND DELIVERING STRONGER SPEECHES VOICE FAILING. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 29. Big crowds manifesting both interest and enthusiasm have surrounded the Taft party wherever it has stopped in its course over the Great Northern railroad through Minnesota and North Dakota. Sixteen speeches were delivered yesterday and many more were scheduled for today and his addresses are working sad havoc with the splendid voice he started out with. The day had two features the Grand Forks, N. D., meeting and the Fargo rally last night In both places tremendous crowds were out, and in each the candidate had to make three speeches. The Fargo meeting was made unique by the striking feature of a huge barbecue. Ten steers and twenty sheep furnished food for the multitudes. The feast was participated in by thousands of excursionists, who had come as far as 450 miles distant. It was just dark when the Taft special reached the end of its day's run, and the people of Fargo were out in force to extend the welcome. , A torchlight procession, enlivened by music of fourteen bands, and made picturesque by the squad of mounted cowboys, with their characteristic yells, escorted theOhioan through the town and out to the forts where the barbecue waa served. While Mr. Taft has discussed labor, tariff and the Roosevelt policies at the various points along his route, he has made new combinations in his speeches and has in many touches of local color and human interest The comment was general among those who have follow ed bis H n that Y a 4c ' - WIM id 1 improving with each day's experience I as a campaigner.

MONSTER BARBECU

HOSPITAL ASKS $4,000.

SMALLER AMOUNT WILL BE SECURED FROM COUNTY BY HOSPITAL BOARD MILK INSPECTOR'S SALARY TO BE $1,200. At a conference last evening between the board of public works, the mayor, city controller and finance committee of council, it was decided not to increase the tax levy of the city and to retain in the budget the clause providing a salary of $1,200 for a milk Inspector. The council committee asked that an appropriation of $4,000 for the Reid Memorial hospital be incorporated in the budget, but the administration officials, in accordance with the policy they have maintained from the first, refused to do this. However it is an assured fact that council will authorize this appropriation, which is $2,000 less than the appropriation made for the institution this year. It was definitely decided it would be inadvisable to increase the tax rate from $1.05 to $1.25 to meet the expenses of the city for next year and to meet this year's deficiency. Next Monday night it will be recommended to council by its finance committee that this expense be met by floating a $25,000 bond issue, payable in six years on annual Installments of $4,000 or $5,000. Such a loan could easily be paid o(T by the city in five years, but it was thought best to increase the time to six years. At the conference, a communication from the trustees of the Reld Memorial hospital was received in which the city was asked to appropriate $4,000 for that Institution. It stated in the communication that the trustees believed the county, through the county commissioners, would appropriate $2,000 for the institution, in which event It was almost certainthe hos' pital would only have to use next year about $2,000 of the $4,000 the city has been asked to appropriate. The $6,000 is asked to assure all expenses. Mayor Schillinger has all the time been opposed to such appropriations alleging that the hospital is a private institution and that the city has no authority to assist in its maintainence. The finance committee agreed to allow the $1,200 salary for a milk inspector remain in the budget, but it is probable council will pare this amount down on the ground that a competent man can be secured for less money. KUHN PROVES TO BE LIGHtNIHGJCAMPAIGHER Begins Speaking Again Tonight After Week's Rest. The Rev. T. H. Kuhn, one of the whirlwind campaigners of the state. Is now actively engaged in his campaign for election to congress from this district on the democratic ticket He will be actively at work from this time on in every nook and corner of the district Just to show how much territory Richmond's "lightning campaigner" can cover when he gets fairly started, the following schedule of speeches he will deliver this week is given: Tonight Lewlsville. Wednesday Greensboro, Mechanicsburg and Middletown. Thursday night Falmouth. .Friday night New Palestine. Saturday afternoon Fortville. Saturday night Charlottesville. Last week the Rev. Kuhn was compelled to rest because of hoarseness, he having spoken on the average of two times a day for two weeks. . I THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE KILLED Floods in India Sweeping Deccan Region. Bombay, Sept 29. Thousands of people have been drowned, and many towns wiped out as the result of the floods now raging in the Deccan region, which is densely populated. Rivers rose seventy feet in a short time. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Tuesday night; Wednesday fair and warmer; fresh west winds becoming variable. OHIO Partly cloudy Tuesday night; Wednesday fair and warmer, fresh nd brisk west wind

WERE BOUGHT SATURDAY. BOTH DEFENDANT AND HIS WITNESS TELL STORY WHICH COMES AS BOLT FROM SKY UPON STATE'S ATTORNEY.

Unexpected evidence was Introduced in the trial of the State vs. George Gay in the Wayne circuit court this morning. It was such evidence that caused apparent consternation to the prosecuting attorney. It dealt with an alleged automobile party that was at thevWestcott hotel on the evening of May 23 and had ordered a quantity of liquor to be on hands for their use the following day, as they would return from the east. It was stated by Gay the liquor confiscated by the police when the raid was made the afternoon of Sunday, May 24 had been Intended for this party. Mr. Gay did not state whether the party ever came back or not. Howard Bass, a negro waiter, who was employed at the Westcott at the time testified upon the same subject. The story of the auto party fell like a bolt from a clear sky up on the state's attorney. He was not worried to any appreciable extent and in a side remark declared the story to be a lie. It revealed to the state for the first time the line on which Gay's attorneys expect to base their hope for an acquittal. Gay testified that about 8 o'clock on the evening of May 23, a stranger came to him in the office of the hotel and said he was one of a party of automobilists. He said he had a party of twenty-five or thirty and if all of them came there might be forty persons. Gay stated he did not know just what was wanted, so the two went to the bar room. The stranger told him he wanted beer, whisky and seltzer. He said he wanted four or five cases of beer. Gay told him that would be a whole lot and the stranger told him then the party might be back the next day. He (Gay) told his customer that he supposed if the liquor was bought on Saturday it would be all right to serve it on Sunday. The stranger said also the party would want to take some liquor away so to have oa hand a few empty flasks. Gay said "Tim" was on duty, when he and the stranger went into the bar and was very busy, so he made the sale, had tie order filled and accepted the money. He said he had the goods sent to the bath room, as the party was to be served in the cafe. Not Cross Examined. Mr. Gay was not subjected to cross examination as his testimony was not offered in regular order and the attorney for the state agreed he should take the stand with that understanding. Howard Bass, colored, said he was employed by Mr. Gay at the hotel May 23 and 24 of this year. He said he was acting in the capacity of a waiter and Saturday night was assigned to Beatrice in the cafe when he went on duty. He said at this time he did not know there was any beer or other supplies in the bath room. He said: 'Mr. Gay told me a party of automobifists was coming and I should wait upon them. I don't remember the date but it was on a Saturday evening and Mr. Gay told me there would be about twenty-five or thirty in the crowd. "It was between 8:30 and 9 o'clock when the party consisting of men and women came into the cafe room and I served them with drinks. There were men and women in. the crowd. They stayed until about 11 o'clock. Mr. Gay told me the party would be back the next day and go up in the morning and clean up the room. The nexVCay, while I was there two men came in. Neither asked for nor got any beer. Shortly after the two men had come in, Mr. Gay came in. One of the men was a bartender at Jessup's. Soon afterward the policemen came. On the cross examination Bass said In answer to the question: "When did you first tell this story?" replied he told it to Mr. Robbins- (meaning John F. Robbins, attorney for Gay) last Saturday afternoon. He said the conversation took place in the office of Mr. Rupe (meaning John X Rupe, another attorney for Gay.) He said he told Mr. Robbins everything just as he related It on the witness stand this morning. He said, the members of the automobile party were dressed in the usual way. The men had on caps and the women wore veils. They came Into the cafe room and asked for drinks. He filled their orders and the only money he received was what was given him as tips. , Bass was shown the bottle of Old Prentice whisky and the bottle of Greenbriar sour mash. The Old Prentice bottle was about two thirds full. Bass said he had filled whisky flasks from these bottles. He was shown two empty whisky bottles. He said they were empty when he went on duty. These were the same bottles that were In the consignment Gay said he sent up for the guests, only he had stated the whisky bottles he sent up were full. The attention of Bass was called to the Iron cork puller. He said it was

FRANK C. MARRIN. Frank C. Marrin is the former Brooklyn Democratic loader who disappeared ten years ago, and has just been arrested by District Attorney Clark on a charge of having swindled the late Mrs. Barry, of Brooklyn, out of $10,000.

CINCINNAT1ANS ACCEPTJNVITATION Business Men's Club of That City to Attend Fall Festival. REPORTS ARE ENCOURAGING MILITARY DAY PROMISES TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST OF FALL FESTIVAL SOLDIERS WILL ARRIVE OCTOBER 6. YesterdayMhe Cincinnati Business Men's club accepted the invitation extended to the organization by the Toung Men's Business club of this city to attend the Richmond Fall Fes tival on Wednesday Oct 7. "On To Richmond", the old war time slogan of the northern hosts In Civil war time has been appropriated by the Cincinnati business men and their invading army, 200 strong will be received with open arms instead of with shot and shell. The members of the CInicnnati Busi ness Men's club will leave the Queen City at 9 o'clock in the morning over the Pennsylvania railroad and will arrive in Richmond about 11 o'clock. They will be accompanied by Smittie's band, one of the best musical organizations in Cincinnati. Members of the Young Men's Business club will meet their guests at th'e station and will escort them to the Westcott hotel where an elaborate dinner will be served. In the afternoon the Cincinnati business men will be shown all the festival attractions, local industries and points of interest and at 4:30 in the afternoon they will return to Cincinnati. This delegation will probably be the largest single delegation to attend the carnival and the business men of this city promise to give the Queen City visitors such a good time that It will be a long time before they forget Richmond and its hospitality. From reports received at the fall festival headquarters the past two or three days, it is reasonable to believe the largest crowd gathered in this city for years will be on hand the last day of the carnival, military day, although the crowds on other days are expected to ba great The Tenth Infantry is expected to arrive in Richmond late on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct 6, the second day of the festival. Hundreds of people will go out on the national road to see the approach of the troops. in the room when he went there. He said he had had no occasion to use it as the corks in the whisky bottles he served from had been drawn. Attorney Robbins interrupted to say: "Of course he had no use for it That puller had been there for five years." The prosecutor arose and in a shout asserted: "Why certainly it has been there for five years, because that place has been used as a bar room for five years. The trial was continued this afternoon. Sergeant McManus was recalled to the stand for a recross examination. Other witnesses also gave testimony. HUSBAND SUES WIFE. Frank Schroeder Seeks Divorce on Abandonment Charge. Suit has been entered in the Wayne circuit court by Frank Schroeder asking divorce from Dessie Schroeder. The plaintiff claims the defendant has left and abandoned him wholly without cause and has since refused to live with him. Schroeder claims that in all things he was without fault

SEEK OPItllOII OF MASSESJI OPTION Both Republicans and Democrats Would Like to Know . Public Thought.

REPUBLICANS OPTIMISTIC. 8TATE CHAIRMAN GOODRICH ON HI3 RETURN TO INDIANAPOLIS PREDICTS VICTORY FOR HIS PARTY IN NOVEMBER. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 20. With their ears to the ground the leaders of the republican and democratic or ganisations are trying to get as near to the real opinion of the masses over the enactment of the county local op tion law. - The anxiety of both sides to discover as soon os possible the political ' significance of the action of the legislature is marked. Almost without exception the re publican politicians seem to feel that the enactment of the law is the best thing that could have happened at this time for their tickets. Chairman Goodrich, who returned to the headquarters last night after an absence of two days declared that there could be no doubt but that the victory won by the republicans in the legislature will pave the way to the election of their state and national tickets in Indians. "I don't think that there is any doubt but that the republicans will carry Indiana In November, he said "The party workers are feeling good. We are getting reports already from many counties, showing a marked change in the situation. Major G. V. Menzles of Mt. Vernon, who was at the democratic headquarters expressed the opinion that at least a week will be required to show what the effect of the enactment of the law will be. That the enactment of the law is proving a, source of embarrassment to the democrats in close counties was learned when it was reported that the local republican organizations are Insisting that the democratic legislative candidates shall announce publicly whether or not they will stand for any amendments to or for the repeal of the county local option law at the regular session. SEALING WAX EXPLODES WOMAN MAYLOSE SIGHT Mrs. James Townsend Is Ser iously Injured. "Fountain City, Ind.. Sept 29. By sealing wax bursting and fly In In her face, Mrs. James Townsend. who lives south of town, has lost the sight of one eye, and it Is feared that she will eventually become totally blind. The accidept was a most peculiar one. . Saturday. Mrs. Townsend was canning tomatoes. After sealing the cans she placed several of them on the hot stove, where they remained long enough to permit the tomatoes to bofL When -Mrs. Townsend went to remove the cans the sealing wax on several of them burst and the fragments flew in her face and eye .

THE ATTENDANCE IS LARGE.

MORE DELEGATES FROM VARIOUS MEETINGS EXPECTED ROLL CALL AND SHORT BUSINESS ATTENDED TO. MEETING PROGRAM. Tonight 7:15 p. m. Devotional Meeting. Wednesday. 8.00 a saw-Devotional Meeting; Permanent Board Meeting. 10:00 a. m. Opening Yearly Meeting; Call delegates and alternates; read minutes of visiting Friends; appoint committees on returning minutes and Gospel services; directions to delegates; epistles from London and Dublin. 2:00 p. m. Appointment of clerks, etc.; book and tract; peace; miscellaneous. 7:13 p. m. Devotional meeting. Most auspicious was the opening meeting of the eighty-eighth session of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends this morning at the East Main street meeting house, there being fully five hundred local members and visiting delegates present. Every train arriving in the city during the forenoon brought Jta contingency. The cool weather which Is prevalent, necessitated most of the delegates arriving from a distance wearing winter clothing, having donned their overcoats and heavy wraps. The morning session was given over to ministry and oversight and was declared convened by Clerk Ancil Ratllff of Falrmount, promptly at 10:30 o'clock, the assistant clerk, Emma Hedges, of New Castle, being at the desk. It was quite fitting that Prances W. Thomas of Spiceland, perhaps the oldest minister of the meeting .should offer the opening prayer. For seventy years he has been a faihtful servant of the meeting and his spirited petition for Divine presence and Christ like unity throughout the meeting, strangely touched the hearts of both young and old. Rev. Keates, pastor of the South Eighth street Friends church, followed with prayer that the presence of so many people of God in this city might be the means of producing a great spiritual awakening In Richmond. Jacob Baker, of Adrian, Mich., and well known throughout the dominion of the denomination offered a prayer for the great society of Friends as his wish that the greater activity might mark the ensuing history of the denomination. Robert Douglas, of Versailles, O., then gave the opening address of the session in which he pleaded for a greater unity of the society, both in spirit and thought than has ever prevailed before. Ira C. Johnson, evangelistic superintendent of the meeting was present and exhorted the brethren to remain firm in the faith and not to be baffled by any of the modern contentions that might have a tendency to discourage peace and love. Following several other short addresses, the clerk read the credentials of the visiting delegates from other yearly meetings, and those responding were, Edward Mott, of Cleveland, O., from the Cleveland meeting; Jacob Baker, of Adrian. Mlch meeting; and David J. Coppock, of Rich Square, N. C. meeting. The Rev. Allen Jay. on behalf of the Indiana Yearly Meeting expressed words of greeting to which most responded. The attendance of fraternal delegates is not as large as usual at the opening session, but it is thought that more, will come In later today. A roll' call of the monthly meetings and quarterly meetings was taken and all reported delegates with the exception of New Garden. Walnut Ridge and Puget Sound. Delegates responded to the roll call from the following points: Dublin, Falrmount, Marion, Spiceland. Traverse City. Vandal la Van Wert, West Branch. Whitewater, Portland, Winchester, Walnut Ridge. The committee on assignments has been very active during the day and locations for-entertainment are being made as rapidly as possible. It is thought that by tomorrow noon practically all the delegates will have arrived. BELL'S HELD TO CIRCUIT COURT Authorities Making Investigation of Case. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bell have been held to the circuit court on the charge of larceny. They are accused of obtaining a quantity of goods under false pretenses and then selling them. The authorities are making a thoro""5 lavestigatioa of the case,