Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 14, 22 November 1908 — Page 1

HMOH PAIXABXUM Section One Pages 1 to 10 AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 14. RICII3IOXD, 1XD., SUNDAY MORNING, NOYE3IREK 23, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS. PRESIDENTIAL VOTE III INDIANA WILL ied ALIVE IN LANDSLIDE CZAR NICHOLAS APPEARS ON STREET MAY ATTEMPT TO ENJOIN THE COMMISSIONERS ONE KILLED IN PRELIMINARY RACES LEGATIONS EXTEND THEIR OTOLENCES

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HOT EVEN A JAR EXPECTED WHEN TAFT TAKES PLACE Never in History Will There Have Been Such a Frictionless Chanpe in the Administration.

BE KNOWN MOB Attenas Funeral of Grand Duke Alexis. Three Men Killed in Cincinnati. First Fatality of Savanah Races. Diplomatic Corps at Pekin Call at Palace.

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...... THOS. R. MARSHALL T HAVE NO PERSONAL STkFF Governor-elect Says He Will Be Satisfied With National Guard on Greater State Occasions. Ellis Searles. Indianapolis, lnd. Nov. 21. The (rote cast in Indiana for the presidential candidates will be officially canvassed at the governor's office next Monday, and then we win know exactly the size of Taft's plurality over Bryan In this state. A good many people have wondered why it was that these figures were not given out along with the figures on the state election several days ago. Men who made election wagers have had their money tied up by the stakeholders because the otficial announcement of the result in this state has not been made and for that reason no stakeholder has had any right to pay over the money in '-im bands. Thousands of dollars are still in the bands of stakeholders in this city and the winners are anxious to get hold of It, but they have had to wait. All this delay Is brought about bemuse of the law governing the canjvass of the vote. The law covering the recount of the vote for presidential electors is different from the law that controls the count of the vote for state candidates, because the one is a federal election and the other a state election. It is provided by law that the governor shall appoint oae election marshal for each congressional district of the state ami these marshals shall rvisit the county clerks of the counties In their respective districts and obtain the certificates of the. vote cast at the lection. On the fourth' Monday in November, these marshals bring these certificates to the office of the secretary of Btate in this city. The canvass of the vote is then made by the governor and the secretary of state and these marshals. The figures are transcribed Into a record book by the fce:retary of state and the commissions elected as shown by the vote. Then, and not until then can the official plurality of the winning ticket be known. This explains why the announcement of the official plurality of Taft ever Bryan in this state has not been made public." No one knew what it jwas. Election Marshalls. The following is a list of the election marshals appointed by the governor to bring the returns to the secretary of Btate tomorrow : First District-John W '. Wilson, Petersburg. ' Second Adrian Hammersley, Washington. , Third Lee Herr, Troy. Fourth Arthur Overstreet, Columbus. Fifth John Bryan, Martinsville. Sixth Ben jamiu S. Miller, College Coiner. Seventh Harry F. Hendrickson. Indianapolis. eighth ASDury Kerwood, Muncie. Ninth Lucien Higginbottom, Delphi. Tenth Lawrence Lyons, Brook. Eleventh Xenophen H. Edwards, Fairmount. Twelfth-Louis H. Litman, LaGrange. Thirteenth John Spangler, Winaxuac. These marshals are to report with their returns at the office of the secretary of state at 9 o'clock Monday forenoon and the canvass of the vote begins at noon. Wants No Display. When Thomas R. Marshall becomes Governor of the state of Indiana he Mill not have a personal staff if his present intentions prevail. He is simple in his tastes and he says he really does not at this time see the necessity for the traditional accompaniment of gold lace, brass buttons and military titles of the personal escort to the governor of Indiana on state occasions. He says he will try to pull through his term without this display. - When occasion demands the presence of a personal staff for the governor, he has it in his mind to request the officers of the Indiana National Guard to serve In tltis capacity. It has been the custom for the governor of Indiana to have a personal fctaff. comprising about a score of civilians who are thereby vested with military titles. This staff, in gorgeous uniforms, is the escort of honor to the governor on important ceremonial occasions. Mr. Marshall believes, however, that the custom is an unnecessary one. He Is not at all given to display, and says that in his opinion on those rare occa sions when a governor's staff seems Imperative, the trained officers of the

Cincinnati, O., Nov. 21. Three men were killed and many injured and possibly several buried in a landslide on Harrison avenue this morning. The dead and Injured are laborers who were working with a steam shovel, who were digging away a hill. . A keg of dynamite exploded, starting the landslide.

FEDERAL RECEIPT SHOWN IN COURT Dr. Arthur Jones Says U. S. Certificate Permits Him' To Sell Liquor. OPPOSED CITY COURT. WHITEWATER MAN SAYS HE FEARED CONVICTION THERE AS FEW ACQUITTALS WERE GRANTED THERE. Something in the nature of. a surprise was the copy of the federal retail dealer's special tax receipt exhibited in the court room yesterday, in connection with the case of the State vs. Dr. Arthur Jones, of Whitewater, accused of operating a blind tiger. The receipt was in the possession of the state's attorney. It bore monthly coupons and was good until July, 10W. Dr. Jones said he has this kind of a certificate permitting him to sell intoxicating liquors as a retail liquor dealer. Jones does not have a regular county license, such as issued retail dealers. Dr. Jones's store, where the dealing is alleged to have taken place Is located at Whitewater, which is in Franklin township, a dry township by remonstrance. Dr. Jones made another rather startling disclosure when he said he believed if his case had been submitted for trial in the city court it would have "gone against" him. He said he had noticed in the newspapers there are many convictions and very few acquittals in the city court, so he did not want his trial held there. He said he knew there would be a case in the circuit court and as he is subject to organic heart trouble he did not want to be worried to death by undergoing two examinations. He said he did not know jury trials are held in city court. The doctor declared his attorney, Byram Robbins, bad told him things were likely to go against him in the city court. He had been asked why he did not give some of the evidence offered in his present hearing in the case against him in city court, where the destruction of the goods taken in the raid of his place was ordered. All evidence in the case was corncross anJ re-direct examinations concluded. The case now is ready for the argument, which will be held tomorrow. .The arguments will be made as soon as the court convenes and the case placed in the hands of the jury. Another jury case is set for trial and as soon as the decision in the Jones case is made, the members of the hegular petit jury will be called upon to serve again. Another trial before jury is set for tomorrow. Unless a continuance be taken in this case, it will mean a protracted service for some of the jurors. Wine for Own Use. In his redirect examination Jones declared he had used the grape wine, which was found in a keg. and has provided one of the points of contention in the case, for his personal use only. He declared he intended it as a tonic and remedy for debility resulting from heart disease. He r,aid the wine did not taste good to him and for that reason he had consumed only half a table glass of the liquor in the four years it had been in his possession. On his re-cross examination the witness was asked as to his acquaintance with the "blind tiger" law. He said he knew of the existence of such a law and told the date he said he believed it was passed. Dr. Jones is charged with violating this law. Mrs. Jones, the physician's wife, sighed audibly when she was called back, to the witness stand by her husband's counsel. She testified the wine .had been made solely for her hus band's personal use. Mrs. Jones was treated kindly by the prosecutor and no exhaustive cross examination was attempted. She sighed again in her relief, when permitted to leave the stand. Mrs. Minnie Gibbs, a sister of Mrs. Jones, testified that she had been a clerk in the doctor's store at Whitewater for five years, and now resides with the Jones family. She told of the conduct of affairs about the store and of the custom . of the , doctor In keeping a supply of liquor about the premises, -which she alleged was for medicinal purposes and private use. , The state has made a strong effort to secure the conviction of Jones. The Lease is reawded as iasortanJL If

St. Petersburg. Nov. 21. Czar Nicholas made his first appearance on the street today since his coronation, the occasion being the Interment of the remains of Grand Duke Alexis.

DAVIS TO READ PAPER. Appears Before Sixth Councillor District Meeting. "School Sanitation and Hygiene" will be the title of the paper Dr. T. Henry Davis of this city will read before the fifth annual meeting of the Sixth Councillor District of the Indiana Medical Association which meets atRushville, December 8. ESCAPES DEATH James Adams, Wife and Children Struck by Street Car. INJURIES ARE NOT SERIOUS ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT THIRTEENTH AND E STREETS WHEN MR. ADAMS, NOT SEEING CAR, DROVE IN FRONT OF IT. James Adams, his wife and two small children had a narrow escape from death yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock, by a street car colliding with their rig at the corner of North Thirteenth and E streets. Mrs. Adams was quite painfully injured and one of the children received painful cuts and bruises' about the face and back. ? -My.-Adams and the other child were slightly 'scratched. - Both children were severely shocked. Shortly after the accident the entire family was removed to the Reid Memorial hospital in the city ambulance. An examination of Mrs. Adams' injuries, made at the hospital, showed she had suffered a severe scalp wound quite a portion of her skull being exposed, and one of her ears had been partly torn off. Mr. Adams' injuries were so slight that he returned to his home at Needmore, on the southern outskirts of the city, after he was assured that the injuries sustained by his wife and two children were not of a very serious nature. Mr. Adams states that he and his family had been calling at the home of a relative on North Thirteenth street, Rlverdale, and when driving home could not see the approach of a street car on North E street because of a high board fence. When he noticed the car he had time to pull the horse about to prevent it being struck but in doing so the car "side-swiped" the rig, demolishing it and hurling the occupants violently to the street. The accident attracted a large crowd and at first it was thought Mrs. Adams had been fatally injured. This accident was the fourth one of a similar nature which has occurred in his city the past three weeks. Three weeks ago yesterday a car struck a wagon at West Third and Main streets slightly injuring two men. This was followed by the collision of a car with a closed wagon at Third and Main streets, in wheh one man was slightly injured, and by the collision of a car with a dairy wagon at the corner of North E and Nineteenth streets. Another man was injured in this accident. conviction be obtained, it will be the first in this county for operating a "blind tiger" and will establish a precedent of Importance in future cases of the kind. All convictions in liquor cases have been on other charges. KILLED ON A BOAT Boilers on Mississippi River Steamer Blow Up, Killing Seven TWELVE OTHERS MAY DIE. Plaque Mine, La,, Nov. 21. With a roar that could be heard many miles, the boilers of the river steamboat, .H. Ml Carter, blew up today, opposite Palo Alto, eight miles below this town, causing the death of seven persons. Injuring twelve whom will die. The dead: George Leblanc, Casimlr Leblanc and five negro deck hands. As soon as the explosion occurred, the boat was wrapped in flames. This prevented Injured deck hands making their escape. Within a half hour the boat was burned to the water's edge. The loss was totaL The boat carried

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Enemies of County Local Option Election May Take Legal Steps to Save County Funds.

STIFF FIGHT NOW SEEMS IN PROSPECT. Enemies" of Saloon May Contend Nothing Can Stop Election After' Enough Signatures Are Secured. According to. Information given to pihe Palladium last night, It is possi ble that a still legal fight may arise before the board of county commissioners order a specii'l election for the purpose of permitting the voters of the county to decide whether local option shall prevail. It was asserted that a number of citizens who believe that the coming session of the general assembly may repeal the local option law, or may amend it so that any action taken under its present provisions would be invalidated, are considering the advisability of bringing suit to enjoin the commissioners from ordering an election until after the session of the general assembly. If such procedure results, it will be based ou the ground that such an election would cost at least almost $3,000 and that such an expenditure would be unwise and unnecessary at the present time. It Is pointed out that the saloons already under license cannot be put out of business for practically a year and that a few months delay in holding an election would not be material one way or the other. Ready to Defend Plans. The temperance forces ..will be ( ready- to "defend their plans, however, j should an attempt be made to enjoin , the commissioners from ordering an j ei "Jon and it is likely that they will j r pnd that under the statute as it. ; ;s, taere Is absolutely no way by ) ;h a delay in ordering an election be brought about, providing the ition is signed by the requisite j nu flber of voters and the validity of . y . . , . . . I tne signatures is noi successiuny attacked. There has been much said about the cost of a special election of the na-l ture that would be called for under the county local option act.' The law itself does not provide for inspectors or sheriffs, but there is one provision wliich is to the effect, that anything concerning the holding of an election not specifically mentioned in the new act, shall be provided for under the provisions of the general election laws. This means that inspectors and sheriffs will have to serve and as a matter of fact under existing general election laws, an election could not be conducted without inspectors. Under the law and according to custom, inspectors are paid for four days service, or $8 each. They are paid for one day when they call at the court house to procure and receipt for the ballots and other ejection supplies and in addition, inspectors outside of those in Wayne township are allowed mileage at the legal rate of 5 cents a mile. Another day is allowed the ini spectors for service during the elecj tion. The day ends as soon as the j polls are closed. For the fraction of I a day served in the count of the vote the third day is allowed and the fourth day is allowed for returning to the court house the day following to make returns to the canvassing board.s Clerks and judges receive $2 a day each. Sheriffs are paid $1.50 each and. are allowed for two days as they are on duty from 16 to 20 hours. In a general way the expenses of the proposed special election will be as follows: Ballots and other election supplies $ 250.00 Sixty-four inspectors at $S each 512.00 One hundred and twenty-eight" clerks at ?4 each 512.00 One hundred and twenty-eight " judges at $4 each 512.00 One hundred and twenty-eight sheriffs at $3 each SS4.00 Eight hundred and ninety-six meals at 35Vcents each 313.60 Rental of voting places, $3 each 320.00 Drayage of booths 25.00 Conducting canvass 50.00 Mileage of inspectors 73.00 Total $2,953.60 COMPLETE INSPECTION. Pennsy Officials Go Over Richmond Division. - Supt. Neff and the other division officials of the Pennsylvania have just completed the .regular monthly inspection trip report that the road bed is in excellent condition. THE WEATHER . PROPHET. INDIANA AND OHIO Sunday; not

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Savannah, Ga.. Nov. 21. One killed and one injured was the record in the practice events on the automobile course today. John Duharze, driving the French S. P. O. car down to White Bluffs, in trying to avoid a dog which had got on the track, was thrown off the course when his machine skidded. The car struck, a stump and a telegraph pole in rapid succession, demolishing the machine, killing M. Derose, the macninist, and seriously wounding Du&arze. Duharze was taken to the hospital with a broken thigh and other injuries.

SLAND OF HAITI TORN By STRIFE News of Encounter Between Loyal Forces and Insurgents Expected. FORCES ARE MOBILIZING. REPORTED EXILES OF LAST ILLFATED REVOLUTION ARE TRYING TO LAND ON ISLAND WARSHIPS UNDER ORDERS. Port Au Prince, Haiti, Nov. 21. With most of the Haitien army mobilized and troops pouring Into the province of Les Cayes from every side news of a sanguinary encounter between the loyal forces under General Celestln and General Le Conte and the insurgents under Gen. Antolne Simon is momentarily expected. While tlie government officials declare that there is no real danger of the revolutionary-' movement- becoming general and. insist that -General Simon's forces are small ' and poorly armed, those most cognizant of the situation fear that the entire island is to be again plunged into warfare. It is reported that General Faverolles and the loyal forces in the Les Cayes district have . surrendered to General Simon, and that Les Cayes city is in the hands of the rebels. All of the telegraph lines, which " at roost are apologies for the real thing, have been cut by the revolutionaries, and President Nord Alexis is depending on mounted couriers for news from the front. General Simon is very popular in the south, where he has been Governor for twenty years, and experts declare that he will have the ardent support and backing of the entire populace in a contest against the presidential control. Was Deposed by Alexis. Nord Alexis deposed him. according to the governmental officials, because he refused to come to this city to "confer" regarding conditions in the south. Simon's friends say that the order to report here was for the purpose of getting him out of his province, in order that he might be arrested and shot as a conspirant against the government. Reports are current that the exiles of the last ill-fated revolution who took refuge in Jamaica and St. Thomas, are now endeavoring to land on the southern coast and join General Simon. In order to prevent this, the gunboats. Nord Alexis, Vertiere and Centenaire, with troops and muni tions aboard, have been sent to patrol the coast, while troops are to be landed in Les Cayes to aid in the op erations there. Everything is quiet on the surface in Port Au Prince, but should the revolutionists gain an initial success, it Is said that the foreign consuls here will ask for warships to protect their interests.

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Dne of the smaller advertisers in the Palladium who carries 2 inches 4 times a week and pays about $4.80 per month for his advertising, kept a record of direct results obtained during one month. He relates that he had customers call at his place of business from Greensfork, New Paris, Kitchels, Centerville and Cambridge City on which his net profits were approximately $45.00. This advertiser thinks he has received indirect returns several time3 this amount which he was nnable to trace. The name of this advertiser will be given upon request v

Pekin. Nov. 21. Three representatives of the each legation making up the diplomatic corps in Pekin. were received in audience at the imperial paiice today for the purpose of expressing their condolence for the death of the late emperor and dowager empress. The function was a most solemn and impressive one.

LAMPHERE'S LIFE NOW IN BALANCE Defense Must Prove That Mrs. Gunness and Children Escaped. LAPORTE WOMEN SCORED. CHRISTIAN MINISTER AROUSES MEMBERS OF CHURCHES WHEN HE .SAYS THEY SHOW LACK OF MODESTY BY GOING TO TRIAL. Laporte, Ind., Nov. 21. Evidence to prove that Mrs. Bella Gunness is alive and that she had accomplices in her murders wtv helped her to escape after she had slain her three children and fired her own house was offered by the defense in the Lamphere trial to save the life of the accused when the case opened here today. Some surprise was occasioned when the defense called Joseph Maxon. one of the state's star witnesses, for direct examination and questioned him as to his actions on the night of the fire. . The theory of the defense is that Maxson knows much that went on that night which he has not yet told, and when he took the stand he faced a rapid fire of sharp questions by Associate Counsel Ellsworth Weir.i -Doctor Witness. There are twenty-five witnesses for the defense and the principal one is Dr. Walter S. Haines of Chicago, who will be in Laporte Monday to testify to the finding of strychnine in fatal quantities in the three stomachs. Maxson will remain on the witness stand during a great part of the day and he will be followed by Daniel M. Hutson. the farmer neighbor of Maxson. who swears be saw Mrs. Gunness alive on July . An exposure of some sort was anticipated when Attorney Worden for Lamphere, called Prosecuting Attorney Smith to the witness stand, but the sensational promise fizzled out when Mr. Smith was made to admit that be had driven to the Gunness farm after dark to get Lamphere's trunk and had told men In his employ there to keep dark about his visit. The State's attorney testified that he wished to keep the news of his discovery of the trunk from newspaper reporters, but admitted that be was unsuccessful. Pastor Assails Women. A furore was created in Laporte by the attack on Laporte women and those from other places who are attending the Lamphere trial by the Rev. M. H. Garrard, pastor of the First Christian church. Dr. Garrard said: , "I have been thoroughly disgusted with the way women have flocked in large numbers into the courtroom to have poured Into their ears all the details of the notorious trial now In progress. It seems that these women have 'camped out' "and mean to stay. I am told that many of the officials who are compelled to listen to this stuff, would gladly stop their ears to it all and get away from it if they had their (Continued on Page Two.)

FEWER CABINET CHANGES THAN EVER BEFORE.

Heads That Will Fall Will Be Among Assistant SecretariesJobs That Are at Taft's Disposal. special o ranaaium. Washington, Nov. 21. Promise is held out that there will not be even a jar when the Roosevelt administration ends and the Taft administration begins on March 4 next. Almost worldwide attention has been attracted to the coming "merger" of the two administrations. The opinion is freely expressed that history does not record a case of such frictionless change in the headship of a great government. There probably will be fewer lmnie- . diate Cabinet changes than ever before marked the incoming of a new 5 president, except in cases where a . vino nr.il1ant Vi a . on A a A TVila is due, of course, to Mr. Taft's having so long been a member of the Roosevelt cabinet and having associated as such with Mr. Roosevelt's present advisers. The only man who has en. , tered the cabinet since Mr. Taft quit it. except Secretary of War Wright, with whom be was associated in the Philippines, is Mr. Newberry, who has just succeeded to the secretaryship of the navy, and the president-elect knows Mr. Newberry and his qualifications almost as well as he does any other member of the cabinet. There is no reason, therefore,' why he should noi uu au tne uoue ne warns ia matting up bis own cabinet, appointing his new members one at a time 'and lhu); always having experienced ' hands at the helm. Mr. Taft is the first man to be elected president since Martin Van Buren. who served In the cabinet of his predecessor, and Van Buren, having been elected to the vice presidency, was not in the cabinet during Jackson's second administration. . Heads That Will Fall. - The heads that fall in the early part of the Taft administration are likely to be chiefly those of assistant secretaries and important bureau chiefs who failed to show that they would be useful to the : administration. These places, much more than places in the camnet, are used lor tne paying or po-, litical debts. As a matter of fact, it has ceased to be popular to appoint men to cabinet positions for purely political considerations. - President Roosevelt has made but one such appointment. He made Henry C. Payne postmaster general to please and keep peace with Mark. Hanna, and the appointment failed of its purpose. The duties of a cabinet member as the executive bead of one of the great departments have grown so tremendously important that no president can afford to have a weak man in his cabinet. President Roosevelt has set the example of appointing the very best men he could find with out 'regard to geographical considerations (which formerly were always taken Into account) or even party Hoes. H has not hesitated to call democrats into his cabinet, and no one has ever questioned the loyalty of the service they rendered. It is not likely, therefore, that the president of the future will go back to theold practice of us ing cabinet places as coin for the payment of political debts. The assistant secretaryships, however, are still considered the legitimate spoil 8 of politics. So long as the president has a man he can trust at the head of a department, he doesn't need to worry about the kind of assistants his minister has. If the minister doesn't like or 4 rust the assistant he doesn't need to turn any duties over to him. That is a matter wholly in the hands of the department's head. Instances have been known in recent years where an assistant secretary went through an entire administration with no more important duty to discharge than to sign bis pay check. I a some cases it has been because the cabinet member didn't trust his anaistant; In other cases it has been because he was jealous of him. There is at present a member of Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet who for years had an assistant to whom no important duty was ever assigned. The assistant died and a new one, of the cabinet member's own choosing, was appointed, and now the assistant practically runs the department. Assistant Secretaryships. There are more of these assistant secretary places than most people imagine, for most of , the men filling them do not come often Into the limelight. There are three assistant secretaries of state, three assistant secretaries of the treasury, one assistant secretary of war, one assistant to the attorney general and alx assistant attorneys general with a solicitor generT nntrn!rfnop alt ' tAaaHtt - -mw