Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 21, 29 November 1908 — Page 1

t: RICHMOND PAIXABIXJM AOT STTre-TFTreTR A1VT. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 21. RICHMOND, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVK3II5ER 29, 190S. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS.

OVER TWO HUNDRED MINERS ARE STILL ENTOMBED AND NOT ONE MAN WILL ESCAPE

Rescuers Are Burrowing Frantically at Mouth of the Mine, But Their Efforts Will Se Futile. EXACT NUMBER OF VICTIMS NOT YET KNOWN. Majority of Those Buried Are Americans, But Many English Miners Thought to Be Among Those Trapped. Women and children WEEP AT MINE'S MOUTH INSTANT AFTER EXPLOSION OC1 CURRED AND CURLING SMOKE SOUNDED WARNING THEY I FLOCKED TO THE SCENE. Marian na. Pa., Nov. 28. It was Heiihin three minutes after the state Inspector and mine superintendent tiad returned from inspection of its tfepths that the model Marianna mine Of Pittsburg & Buffalo Coal company, waa blown up by the tremendous explosion, today. Two hundred and sev-lenty-nve men are still entombed beneath the thousands of tons' of coal caving in upon them at the depth of 640 feet, and the authorities do not believe that a single man will escape. The Marianna mine, which had (doii in nnorotfnn ltK than three months, was considered the model mine of the world. Rescuers to the number of 200 qre burrowing frantically at the mouth of the mine in the futile effort to dig Mown through the tremendous masses of coal that block at least the upper reaches of shaft, while other rescuers Headed tiy i'resiaeni. jonn m. jonns of the Pittsburs & Buffalo Coal Co., have rushed to the scene in special trains from Pittsburg and Monongattela with the latest appliances which 'are being erected at the head of the haft to bore to the entombed men. In the excitement and panic, it is Impossible thus far to learn the exact number of victims or their names, but the books of the company indicate that the majority of the 275 buried .re Americans, and most of the others are English miners, imported by the company two months ago to work the richest shafts. The explosion occurred this morning at 11:25 o'clock and the entire neighborhood was brought from the houses Jn the vicinity, anxious to learn the fate of those working beneath the ground. John H. Jones, president of the company, was at first inclined to (disbelieve the report of the explosion, saying that State Mine Inspector Jjoutit and Mine Foreman Kennedy had just completed a two days examination of the mine and found it to be In perfect condition. Smoke Alarm People. . An instant after the report of the explosion was heard, the alarm was Intensified by the issuing of smoke from the two shafts of the mine. A jnlnute later the entire village was alive. Those men who were not working, and women and children, as though called together by the general alarm, ran from their houses and congregated at the mine. Then the Bmoke that till then shot in dense clouds from the shafts, gave way to a deadly conflagration which drove those who came hither, to places of greater safety. At 12:30 a special train and relief party of nearly 100 men left Monongahela for the burning mine. Reports o that town were to the effect that there were only 100 men in the mine at the time of the explosion and that tnost of these were Englishmen. In v smite of that, however, the babel of anguished tongues that arose in the multitude on the outside of the mine was heartrending in the extreme. ? All Races Represented. ; Almost every race in the country Vas represented in the cosmopolitan throng. Women were tearing their hair and bewailing the loss of those they knew and loved and little children who are apparently orphans, clung to their mothers' dresses in their bewilderment and grief. The first of the relief party arrived t the burning mine about one o'clock out notning could be done immediately. Engineers and mining experts employed by the company were on hand es soon as they could be rushed to the scene, when the work of extinguishing the flames began Immediately. Until that part of the work is fully accomplished, nothing in the way of rescuing can be done. Women Are Frenzied. , Most of the women of the mining pown are frenzied by the belief that members of their families suffered in the disaster and what few men there re about the entrance this morning jtre being anxiously Questioned in the floaea different tongues and dialects.

It was learned here from one of two foreigners who managed to crawl from the shaft at the instant of the explosion, that a defective fan handled by an inexperienced hand caused the catastrophe, while another said that one of the men attempted to light his pipe. The situation becomes more desperate every minut. Begrimed with dirt and oil after their morning work in nearby mines, workmen began gathering around the ill-fated mine. Then the wailing increased as different families found that the one particularly wanted to appease their anxiety did not appear.

SIX KILLED IN MINE. Asphyxiated Men Fall to Bottom of Shaft. Detroit, Mich.. Nov. '2S. Six men met death WW feet under the ground in Oakwood salt mine, one mile west of Detroit this afternoon. Asphyxiation by hydrogen sulphite gas was the cause of the deaths. Three of the bodies have been recovered from the watery graves at the bottom of a shaft by the rescue party an hour after the accident had occurred. Three others have yet to be reclaimed, but are located at the bottom of the shaft in a position which is difficult to reach. STRAUGHN WILL GET NO STATION Indiana Railroad Commission Rules in Favor of T. H., I. & E. THE PETITION IS DENIED. BUSINESS FROM LITTLE CITY NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY ORDERING TRACTION COMPANY TO MAINTAIN DEPOT. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 28. The town of Straughn. twenty miles west of Richmond, on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern traction line, will have to continue to struggle along without an interurban depot. The State Railroad Commission so decided today. Some time ago, B. S. Barton, of Straughn, filed a petition with the railroad commission asking that the interurban company be required to erect and maintain a depot at that place. He said there was no shelter for either passengers or freight and that this was a great inconvenience to the patrons of the line. The railroad commission made an investigation and held a hearing of the case. A man named Willis testified that he has a store at Straughn anC rtiat he offered to allow the company the use of his store as a waiting room for $7 a month and .$4 a month for heat and light. An arrangement of that kind was made, but did not continue long, because Willis could not handle the freight that was offered for the interurban line. Sincethen there has been no gent at Straughn. The railroad commission learned that the total revenue from freight forwarded from Straughn from Nov. 1 to Nov. '21. was $30.57. Besides this, there were shipments of milk on tickets purchased at Lewisville, amounting to $t0. In six days there were 46T passengers out of Straughn, who paid fares amounting to $31.15. On this showing the railroad commission decided that to compel the interurban to erect and maintain a depot and an agent at Straughn would cost more than the revenue would justify, and that it would work a hardship on the company. Therefore the petition for a depot was refused. GETS JUDGMENT. Judgment has been given in the Wayne circuit court in the case of the George A. Shaw Company vs. Charles Peterson on account for $90.31.

Startling Theories Are Advanced

Examining Magistrates Investigations in Stein heil Case Ex

pected to Cause Tremor in France New Arrests Expected.

Paris, Nov. 2S. New arrests are I ! promised in the strange mystery which surrounds the case of Madame Steinheil and new developments tending to throw light on the murder of Mme. Steinheil's husband and stepmother, are momentarily anticipated. All France is shaken by the rumors of Mme. Steinheil's connection with the death of President Faure of France, who died of poison nearly ten years ago. New and startling theories are being advanced by the Parisian press and since the investigation has been taken from the hands of M. Leydett and turned over to M. Andre, the exaniing magistrates revelations are expected which will cause a tremor to pervade all France. Mme. D. Arton, at whose home Madame Steinheil stayed a few days after tba ffiuxde? of .her husband od Aec

AS A DREAM MONEY COMES TO MECHANIC

Richmond Man Gets $3,200 From Cherokee Indian Land Claim H. 0. BURDEN HAPPY MAN. THE BLOOD OF MORNING STAR, GREAT INDIAN CHIEF, COURSES THROUGH HIS VEINS AND HE IS PROUD OF IT. Like the culmination of a dream came the notice to H. O. Burden, 1530 East Main street this city, that he lias been allowed $3,200 by 1he national government. The notice was received by Burden yesterday and last evening he was overjoyed while spreading the news among his friends. The money has been paid to the mechanic by reason of his relation to Chief Morning Star of the tribe of Cherokee Indians that was removed from Alabama to Indian territory many years ago by the government. Chief Morning Star and his tribe owned ihe land on which they roamed but this was exempted by the government. Time has brought a change, however, and now Uncle Sam is making payment to the descendants of these aboriginees, for the land which was taken away. H. O. Burden is one of six children each of whom will receive the same share. The government has set aside $19,460 to be divided among the members of the family. Burden has two brothers, Charles and Clarence 11., both of whom are mechanics, also, and three sisters, Mrs. Lorella Booher. Mrs. Margaret Wade and Mrs. Clara Clemens. Frank Burden, the father of thw children who will partake of the distribution, was the son of Chief Morning Star's son. Frank Burden's father lived in Alabama and later removed to Tennessee. He was killed in a figh. with a revenue officer in Kentucky in 1851. Bowie knives were used as weapons. The son left the next year and came to Indiana. He arrived in Richmond with but 20 cents as his total financial asset. He possessed an indomnable will and plenty of courage.He secured work as a farm hand, was frugal and by careful saving and investment managed to ecquire property. He died at New Paris, the owner of a farm of 130 acres, which was free from all indebtedness. The son H. O. Burden, who has just received his apportionment frpm the government, is a mechanic and welldriller. He has juBt completed a 48 foot well for J. L. Craig, of North Twenty-second street. Although pleased at the receipt of his money, Bur den was too content to remove his working clothes last night. He wa3 down town wearing the same suit and hat he had worn during the day while drilling the well. It was spotted with mud from the splash of the drill, but the man was exceedingly happy and cared naught for appearances. The Burden family is proud of its Indian ancestry. H. O. Burden has made an investigation of his family tree and can tell many interesting stories involving his father and grandfathers which are sensational to say the least. Burden says they are ev ery one true and seems to love to re late them. The claim to the Indian lands on which the money was realiz ed w'as dated back to 1712. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Showers Sunday; warmer OHIO Rain in south, rain or snow in north portion Sunday; warmer, except in extreme soutnwest por tion. mother-in-law, Mme. Jeppy, both of whom were strangled to death, made a statement today to the correspondents In which she defended the name of the accused woman. Mme. Steinheil, she said, is a prey of strong emotions and 6ince the death of her husband she has brooded until her mind has been weakened. Experts will examine the accused woman, and if her friends are correct in their diagnosis of her case, it will be found that she has a strange ma nia for telling lies and no more resist the desire to tell untruths than a dispomaniac can resist rum or a kleptomaniac can resist the temptation to steal. The chamber of deputies by its action in taking up the case, haa made a national figure of Mme. Steinheil and a question of national Importance oat .ot tba murder, at her iusbaaA. , . .

DIVISION IN RANKS OF BREWERS MAY BECOSTLY TO THEM

Quarrel Over the Senatorship May Be Responsible for Weak Fight Against Option Elections. BREWERS MEET NEXT MONTH TO PLAN WARFARE Will Be Satisfied if Democrats Stand on Platform and Substitute Township and Ward Option. By Ellis Searles. Indianapolis, Ind.. Nov. 2S- The brewers of Indiana are awake to the fact that they are about to have the fight of their lives, both in the legislature and at the polls of county local option elections. They are to hold a meeting next month to consider these matters and to make preparations to face the crisis that stares them in the face. Just where this meeting will be held is not yet announced, but the meetings of the Indiana brewers are usually held in Chicago. There was talk about town today that disseution has broken out among the brewers over the senatorship. and that treachery in the camp is feared The charge is that Albert Lieber, of this city, and Crawford Fairbanks, of Terre Haute, have formed an alliance against Stephen B. Fleming, of Fort Wayne, and that they are not playing fair with Fleming in the senatorial fight. Fleming is the chief backer of Edward G. Hoffman, of Fort Wayne, who is one of the many senatorial candidates. It is known, too, that Lieb er and Fairbanks have 1101 warmed up to Hoffman's candidacy. Just who they are supporting is not made pub lic, but it is said that Fairbanks is for John K. Lamb of Terre Haute, and that Lieber is for John W. Kern. But ! It is believed that both will land in the Kern lineup before the time comes to show their hands. Fleming is fighting Hoffman's battle alone, as far as the brewery interests are concerned, he being the only brewer that is supporting him. But Fleming is a match for any of them when it comes to playing real politics. The story today is that Fleming learned that Lieber and Fairbanks are trying to "slip one over on him," and that he came to Indinapolis at a gallop as soon as he heard it. It is said he found that the other brewers were arranging to hold a meeting to consid er the senatorship and other things in which they are interested, and that all j this was to be done without his knowl- j edge. In fact, that he was not to be urged to attend. This made Steve mad, so it is said, and he started for Indianapolis at once. Here he met Fairbanks and Lieber and had a talk with them, but what passed between them is not known to any except the three. It was noticed, however, before Fleming left for home that he did not know anything about the meeting that is to be held. When he was asked whether the brewers would hold a meeting, he said he did not know a thing about it. He did not know when or where the meeting would be held if held at all In fact, the whole business seemed news to him. But Albert Lieber, a short time before, told a rewspaper. man that the brewers will meet next month, probbly the latter part. But he said he did not know where the brewers will get together. This, it is suspected is being kept quiet in order that Fleming will not find out the meeting place. To Lay Plans for Fight. Lieber said the brewers will discuss the senatorship and numerous other subjects. He did not say they would talk about local option elections, but they will, just the same, and they will lay their plans for the campaign. They must either do this and win the elections or their business is going to be all shot to pieces. On the subject of the county local option law and its possible repeal by the legislature at the coming session, Lieber said that the brewers will be perfectly satisfied if the democrats will merely stand on the state platform and do what the party said it would do. This, of course, means the substitution of the township and ward local option for the present county option law. Wabash county is to be in the spot light now for a while as plans are being made there to hold a county local option election. It may be the first in the state. A meeting called by the ministers was held there Friday and it was decided to circulate the petition at once. These are the things that are causing the brewers to sit up tlights, and these are the things that they will talk over when they meet in Chicago. But if they become separated into factions, the brewers are sure to suffer, for they will need all their strength in the fight against the temperance people at the .polls.

Wealthy 'Railroaded' to Asylum Relatives of Rich Chicagoans Seek Money and Fill Insane Ward at Dunning with Their Kin to Gain End.

Chicago, 111., Nov. 28. That dozens of wealthy men and women have been "railroaded" to the insane asylum at Dunning by relatives who sought to secure their estates, was the charge made to the committee of the county board that is Investigating the institution, today by F. Gardner. Gardner appeared in the county building just as the committee began probing the evidence in connection with the deaths of Gustav Pieper, Karl Witt, Oscar Groosman. oseph Leshinsky, Anna Smith. Paul Weber and Kalmer Krutt. He rapped on the door behind which the committee was in executive session and demanded that he be heard. MEMBERS OF HOUSE ARE DISSATISFIED Signs of Uprising Against Speaker Cannon Are More Vonounced. MUST CHANGE HIS METHODS SQUARE DEAL ON TARIFF REVISION DEMANDED BY PEOPLE ABOVE ALL OTHER THINGS AND SPEAKER MUST GIVE IN. Washington, Nov. 28. Within a week it will be known definitely whether or not the fight against the re-election of Speaker Cannon is to be pressed. Members of Congress are flocking to Washington on every train and are responding with surprising promptness to suggestions of insurgency. An attempt surely will be made to change the rules of the House,xand perhaps to provide for the election of the. committee on rules, instead of Its appointment by the Speaker. A larger crowd would rally to this proposition than the one requiring the members to vote against Mr. Cannon. Frank H. Hitchcock returned to Washington today and will confer with all the Congressmen he can assemble between now and a week from Monday, when Congress opens. Mr. Hitchcock has not expressed his approval or disapproval of the plan to fight Cannon, and his investigations are expected to be valuable as indicating whether or not a winning fight could be made. Taft Still Undecided. This sudden uprising against Speaker Cannon even though it be limited in extent is not traceable to the Taft influence except in a general way. Mr. Taft has no present direct hand In it and has not decided what his course shall be. It is rather the outcome of a long growing spirit of rebellion in the House against the rigid class leadership which has kept too many members inactive when they and their constituents believed they should be busy. With Speaker Cannon in the chair and a committee appointed by him drafting a tariff bill, it is easy to see that there is some basis for the popular apprehension that the people will not get a square deal. The committees on rules and ways and means have been so long Intrenched in power that they hold themselves responsible to no authority but their own. Has Changed Somewhat. This has been their invariable attitude toward other members and the people. This attitude haa changed Bomewhat since the hearings began and even Mr. Payne is loud in his protestations that his committee will do the square thing. But the people have the record of the Republican House leaders for the last twelve years on which to base their estimate of what to expect. Aside from the tariff question, the members of Congress who now constitute the insurgent element have a list- of personal grievances against the committee on rules covering a period of years, and while they (Continued on Page Two.)

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j Gardner said that he had been mak1 ing investigations for a year, and that

he would give the committee the names and addresses of those who were incarcerated. Arrangements were made to call the man and receive Lhis testimony at a later date. Gardner also said that he had received numerous threatening letters as the result of his activity. The last, he said, was received October 4, and warned him that he would be slugged unless he dropped the Investigation. Evidence of cruelty charges at the institution was taken up by the committee today. Lax business management accusations will be considered later. No report is expected from the committee until some time next week. MARSHALL FAVORS REPEAL OF LAW Will Endeavor to Have Metro pnliian Police Law Done Away With. IN FAVOR OF HOME RULE. IN LETTER TO MUNCIE OFFICIAL HE SAYS HE WILL MAKE REC OMMENDATION TO NEXT LEGIS LATURE. Muncie, Ind.. Nov. 2.S. Thomas R. Marshall, governor-elect, in a letter written to a local city officer, declares without equivocation that, when he said before his election that he favored "home rule" by cities, he meant it lit e rally, and as governor he will endeavor to carry out his promise made to the voters to bring about the repeal ot the metropolitan police law, by which fourteen Indiana cities are governed and, failing, will allow these cities to govern themselves in a police way without his interference regardless of the politics of the cities concerned. Democratic politicians here are en deavoring to interpret the letter to mean that Mr. Marshall will appoint democrats that the city administra tlons recommend, but the democrat to whom the communication was address ed thinks otherwise since Mr. Marshall Is specific in his statement as to the "pledge to appoint and remove exclu sively" upon the recommendation of the mayors and councils of the several cities." Local politicians have been torn up over prospects for several weeks, and each party has several candidates for police positions, dependent on Mr Marshall's attitude. Presumably, the same condition exists in the thirteen other Indiana cities governed by the same law. The majority of the cities governed by the metropolitan police law have republican administrations, Adheres to Pre-election Promise. "If Mr. Marshall adheres to his pre election promises." said a politician, "it means that he will refuse to grasp the opportunity for great political power in a machine way. that would be pre sented to him if he were to take ad vantage of the law as it reads, making his own appointments in the towns af fected by that law. It means, further, that he is voluntarily surrendering cer tain undoubted legal privileges com monly called 'rights and that be is sacrificing not only politics, but also patronage and partisan friends, to pre-election promise. "Before the election, Mr. Marshall in a public speech in the Auditorium here, pledged himself to work for the repeal of the metropolitan police law and. failing, in that, to allow the city administrations concerned to name their own police departments. Few of his own party thought that Mr. Marshall would deliberately 'pass up the opportunity to secure the power that making such appointments would give him and were unprepared, there(Continued on Page Two.)

ARMY WINS GREAT

ANNUAL GAME FROM THE NAVY More Than Thirty Thousand People, Including Many No-' tables, See West PointersTrounce Middiea THE GAME WAS MOST STUBBORNLY FOUGHT.' Several Players Forced to Retire From the Game Overconfidence Lost for Navy. ARMY-NAVY RECORD. 1890 Navy, 1891 Army, U92 Navy. 1893 Navy. 1899- :-ArBiy, 1900 Navy. 1801 Army, 1902 Army. 1903 Army, 1904 Army, 1905 Army, 190ft Nary, 1907 Nary, 24; Army, 0. 32; Navy. 16. 12; Army. 4. 6; Army. 4. 17; Navy. 5. 11; Army, 7. 11; Navy, 5. ', 12; Navy, 8. 40; Navy. 5. li; Nary, 0- ; Navy. 6. 10; Army, 0. 8; Army, 0. s Philadelphia. Pa., Nov. 28. With a record of six games for the Army and six games for the Navy, also one tie game, the West Polutcrs won the rub ber this afternoon at Franklin field by a score of 6 to 4. All the points were made in the first half. A crowd of over thirty thousand people, watched the contest which was without doubt the most bitterly fought and tba most Intensely interesting of all the classic gridiron battles Uncle Sam's army and naval cadets have fought. The crowd included nearly all the prominent array and navy officers stationed in the east. Washington was almost depopulated of its government officials, but President Roofeyelt remained on his job at the White House. However. Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Ethel and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Lonaworth came up from the capitol lo a private oar. Miss Helen Taft. daughter of the president-elect, came over from Bryn Mawr and was the center of attraction. Washington. Philadelphia and New York society folks turned out en masse. Even from so far as New Orleans and San Francisco came hundreds of persons who, urged either by patriotic or social motives, c'aose this particular time to make their eastern pilgrimage. Fir teen special trains were run from New York and la the Gotham delegation was Alfred Vanderbilt, champion of the horse show. Seated in the boxes along the army side of the field were the following; prominent army and government offl. cials: Secretary of War Luke E. Wright. Colonel H. C. Scott, chief of, staff. General J.' Franklin Bell. Gen-' eral F. D. Grant, General Sharp". Senator P. C. Knox, Congressman Henry H. ' Bingham, Theodore Voorhees, James McCrea, General Arthur Murray, chief of coast artillery, A. G. Vanderbilt. Col. J. C. Nicholson. U. 8. Senator Frank O. Briggs. of New Jersey, Congressman R. Wayne Parker, Congressman R. O. Rodenberg. Congressman W. G. McKinley. Congressman Leonard Wood, Gen. Nelson Henry, General Brooke, General J. C. Bates, Senator Dick. General S. B. M. Young. General George A. Garret son. General Horace Porter, Theodore Glbbs. General Cbas. F. Roe. General Jofaa A. Johnson, General George B. Harrie, Judge Advocate U. S. T. S. Dupont. General Clarence Edwards, bureau of. insular affairs. General Wm. Crosier, chief of ordnance. Col. John A. HmlL1 17. 8. army. Col. Chas. W. Leonard,' General Corbin. Clement A. Gri scorn, ' General J. H. Wilson. The naval cadets were the first to appear on the field. They bad a goet for a mascot. Uncle Sam's sea fighters were given an uproarous welcome and they responded with a vocal ex-' plosion that shook the stands. Short-) Iy after the arrival of the navy boy the grey clad West Pointers romped on the field and the greeting given the naval cadets was duplicated. It is a historic fact that there is no' love lost between these two historic i institutions and the game emphasized! this fact. It was a desperate struggle j from start to close. Men were laid i out time and again but after a bucket of water had been dumped on them, j these trained fighting men. even though a rib was fractured or a knee joint displaced, showed the game spir- j it of their respective servlce-i by Jump-J Ing np and resuming their places. J The strain of this gruelling fighting . told in the second half and several players were forced to retire from the contest. The Navy was the favorite at 7 to 5 ' odds and one of the cause of its defeat was over confidence. The Went i Pointers sailed into their rivals w 1th i cyclonic fury and simply piayed them ' off their feet ' In less than ten ninute after the first half opened the' Army had scored a tonchdown. Tbe Nary, then rallied and Iought their