Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 31, 9 December 1908 — Page 3
PAGE THREE. FORTS WILL FIRE Oil DUTCH SHIPS No Rule to Prevent Chimney Fires, Says Fire Chief Ed Miller People Should Use Pricaution, He Says, and Investigate the Nature of the Blaze M . tsejore lurning in Alarms.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SU2C-TELEGRA3I, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1908.
First Unfriendly Move on Part Of Holland Signal for Venezuelan Attack: GUNBOATS ARE PURCHASED
President castro negotiated for them from germanyPRESIDENT ATTACKED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY.
Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Dec
. The three Dutch cruisers now tnaking a demonstration off the Ven
ezuelan coast were re-enforced Tueaflay by the battle shop Jacob Van Heemskerk. The Frlestand Is now anchored in
Maracalbo Bay, In sight of tlrfe Fort-
Nss of San Carlos, the Venezuelan
Stronghold that was bombarded by
German cruisers In 1903 during the
blockade of Venezuelan porta by
Great Britain, Germany and Italy. The locations of all the Venezuelan
forts along the Maracaibo Channel feave been observed and mapped by
the Dutch warships. The Venezuelan government has resolved to fire on the first Dutch war
Ship that commits an unfriendly act,
fend the beginning of what may de
Velop into a strong movement against
president Castro has been noticed
The four Dutch warships continue lo display their activity along the
coast from Puerto Cabello to Ixiiaira nnd they have appeared Fuerto Cabello, La Guayra and Vela De Coro.
It has been learned here that President Castro recently closed nego
tiations for the purchase In Germany
of three gunboats.
Leaflets are being distributed every
day in Caracas atacking President Castro, aid urging Acting President Gomez to a course of treason. Efforts
lire being made to discover the auth
ors of these attacks and whenever
they are found they are promptly car rled off to jail.
Cable advices from Santander, Spain, say that President Castro has
tiot yet arrived there.
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NATIONS AS RIVALS
Action in Building Large Navies Decried by Church Council.
SESSIONS HAVE ADJOURNED Philadelphia, Dec. S. -The first Federal Council of the Church of Christ in America, organized to further the movement of unity of action among the protestant denominations in the interestof spreading the gospel, adjourned Tuesday to meet in December, 1912, at a place to be selected by the executive council of the organization. Strong resolutions were adopted at the finel session in opposition to Increased armament by the nations of the earth. A feature of the session was an address by Prof. Henry Wade Rogers, of Tale University, who said the time was at hand for obligatory arbitration of disputes between the nations. He deprecated the unchristian attitude of the tTnIted States and its "ma drivalry" rith the nations of Europe in building the largest, swiftest and deadliest battleships. Resolutions were also 'adopted condemning the divorce evil and commending organizations that have taken up the subject of better divorce laws. The council also passed a resolution calling upon school authorities to give children more time during the week for religious instructions in their koines and churches.
WOULD PREVENT PUMPING OF GAS Madison County Farmers to Appeal to Legislature.
"There is no fixed rule that could be stated for preventing chimney flue fires except by keeping the scot burned out," said Ed Miller, chief of the fire department last night. He had been asked to offer a rule for the benefit of the public in preventing chimney fires. This class of conflagrations, which in the most cases is not at all dangerous, has been the source of half a dozen or more calls for the department in the past week. Upon arrival there is nothing for the department to do but stand around while the soot burns out and then return to headquarters. The expense of these runs is not in the slight damage done once in awhile, but in the cost to the city of its fire department maintenance. Miller eays there can be no rule stated, because none would apply in probably more than one case. "It Is just like with fires that are fires, there are no two that are to be at
tacked exactly In the same way" said the chief. "However," he continued,
"if a little care would be taken a
great deal of good would be accom
plished. It's the story of an ounce of
prevention being worth a pound of cure. There is practically no danger
from the majority of flue fires. You see the soot collects in the chimney
and when a spark falls it is ignited. It burns with a flash, similar to powder and the only danger come in
sparks from the chimney falling on tiie roof. It Is not hard to extinguish
these without calling the department,
If you have a good chimney it is best just to let the soot burn, whenever it wants to. If the heat passes through the bricks and scorches the wallpaper that is no sign the house is
going to be on fire."
The chief advises persons to inves
tigate before turning in alarms of fire.
as often it is found there is no work
for the department after it has been
called.
If 1
Try them just once
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FATHER IS UNCLE
Serious Charges Registered Against Jacob Swafford, An Ohio Man.
HEARING THIS AFTERNOON
Eldorado, O., Dec. 9. Jacob Swafford, 55, bachelor, of Commers township, this county, is in jail at Eaton, on a grave charge, brought against him by his niece, Nellie Swafford, 25. The woman had been keeping house for her uncle the last three years. Last September, she went to Hamilton, O., and applied for admission to the Helping Hand Society of that place. She was taken in and later became a mother. It is said she charged her uncle with being responsible for her condition. The Rev. Wm. H. Mason, superintendent of the Humane society of Butler county, filed an affidavit against Swafford.. The Swafford woman has been married, but she and her husband have not lived together for several years. She now has three children. Swafford will be given a preliminary hearing before Squire L. T. Stephens this afternoon at one o'clock. Swafford was arrested by Sheriff Hoffman ,.f jn Sommers township late
TAFT ACCEPTS BED CBOSSPeESIDENCY Gives Him Great Pleasure to Continue Work.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 9. Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American National Red Cross society, Mr. Taft was unanimously re-elected president of that organization, and he afterward told the members that it would give him great pleasure to continue as its head. He accepted the office only after he had been assured by the Nominating Committee that it had secured from the Judge Advocate General of the army the opinion that it would be entirely legal for him to retain the presidency of the Red Cross at the same time he is acting as the nation's Chief Executive.
Users of natural gas in this city jnay be affected by the action of farmers in Madison county, who are circulating a petition to be presented to their representative in the state legislature. The petition - would have a law enacted to prevent the pumping of natural gas from any wells of the state. The Richmond Natural Gas company obtains its supply from the field in Henry county and practically every bit of the gas is pumped. The proposed bill would make it not only unlawful to pump gas but to use any
unnatural means to increase the flow. J
NOTICE TO BIDDERS. Proposals for supplies for the use of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane for the month of January, 1909, will be received by the Board of Trustees at the Hospital before 3 P. M. Monday, December 14, 1908. Specifications may be seen at the Second National Bank, or at the Hospital. By order of the Board,
S. E. SMITH. Med. Supt.
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TURKEY NEGOTIATES
FOR ARMY SUPPLIES
German Factories Kept Busy
Making Guns.
Berlin, Dec. 9. The Turkish gov
ernment is negotiating for the purchase of $1,875,000 worth of shrapnel and infantry ammunition with a German company at Duesseldorf.
The small arm factories of Berlin
are unusually busy with the manufac
ture of army rifles. It is reported that Bulgaria has notified the Powers of her willingness to indemnify Turkey in the sum of $16,500,000 for the damages sustained by the Bulgarian declaration of independence.
PREPARE FOR WAR
Roosevelt Thinks It, Time to
Establish Adequate Machinery.
BILL ASKED OF CONGRESS.
Washington, Dec. 9. An emergency
volunteer army measure was advocated Tuesday by President Roosevelt in a special message sent to congress and the draft of the bill accompanying the message was introduced in the senate by Mr. Cullum. The president eays the bill is intended to strengthen the present law, which was placed on the statute book "piecemeal and hurriedly, partly on the. eve of the war with Spain and partly after hostilities had actually commenced." After declaring the present law to be faulty and wholly inadequate to a speedy and proper organization of a volunteer force, the president says the bill proposed, which was drawn under supervision of the Chief of Staff of the Army, has the hearty approval of the war department. The message says further: "It is designed to afford the complete machinery by which, should we be confronted with a foreign war, the executive power could proceed at once to transform enthusiastic and patriotic citizens Into efficient ana" organized soldiers. Happily there is at present no cloud upon our horizon, but that very fact affords us the best opportunity to proceed with deliberation and care in the preparation of laws adequate and indispensable for our possible war needs.',' The proposed bill is elastic. Under its provisions a force of 2,000,XH men could be raised as well as one of 50,-000.
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Men's Fine Silk Ties at 25c Men's Fine Dress Pants at $1.98, $2.50, $2.98 &. $3.50
Men's Blue, Black, Grey or Fancy Brown Overcoats at $4.98, $6.00, $7.50, $8.50, $10.00 and $12.00 Men's Telescope Hats in black or brown, worth $3.00, at $1.50 Navy Brown Telescope Hats at. .'. . 98c to $1.25
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CLAIMS GUNNESS ' WOMANJSNOT DEAD Attorney Worden Appears for Insurance Company.
Laporte, Ind., Dec. 9. Attorney H. W. Worden, who defended Ray Laraphere in the Gunness case, appeared in the Laporte circuit court for the Connecticut Fire Insurance company, which was sued by Wesley Fogle, executor of the estate of the late Mrs. Belle Gunness, for $2,300, the amount of a policy on the Gunness house and contents, and filed a plea in abatement alleging that Fogle cannot be executor of the will of a woman who is not dead.
Bazaar at the First Presbyterian Church Thursday Eve., Dec. 10th, and Friday Aft and Eve, Dec. 11th Dolls, Fancy Articles, Aprons, at the First Presbyterial Bazaar. The Pure Food Room will have home made mince meat, pie and milk for sale on Thursday evening, and A Pure Food Market will be held in the same room Friday afternoon and evening. Home made candy at the First Pres. Bazaar. Tea served at the Japanese Tea Room in Japanese attire.
Breaking into houses where funerals have just taken place and plundering them is spoken of by the Berliner Tageblatt as the latest trick of the theives of that city. While this may be a new form of criminality in Berlin, says the writer, it is really only an immitation of an incident described In
Dion Cassius as having taken place 2,-
600 years before Christ,
A left-handed high school girl out in the State of Washington has won a contest by throwing a baseball 192
feet 6 Inches.
A dinner to celebrate the thirteenth wedding anniversary of a New York
couple took place Friday, Nevember
13. In order to emphasize the disbelief in hard-luck, superstition, the
guests had to walk nnder a ladder to reach their places at the table; they found the salt cellars all overturned, the prongs of the forks pointing the wrong way, and many other things
which come under the head of "un
lucky." At each plate, however, there
was placed, as an antidote, a four-
leafed clover, and this and the undoubted happiness of the celebrants seemed to remove any fears as to the
many hoodoos.
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Even Scottish Barmaids Are Abashed at Carrie's Talk
Dundee, Scotland, Dec. 9 Carrie
Nation raided several public houses
here last night. At the first saloon she admonished the bartenders who told her to leave. Some physical force
had to be used to get her out. Large crowds collected and followed the hatchet woman as she entered the different "pubs."
Entering a fashiouable "pub." where
barmaids are employed, she addressed
them especially on the shame to womanhood of their business and urged them to quit what she called their hellish life. The barmaids appeared
to be much abashed. Eventually the manager politely insisted that Mrs. Nation withdraw. Thereupon Carrie left the high road for the poorer quarters, patting little barefooted children on the head on the way. By this time the crowd, which had grown dense and unwieldly, made a great rush "to get inside a public house which Carrie entered. The shouting and hustling became theratening and Mrs. Nation desisted from further crusading in the interest of public safety.
EIGHT MURDER
ND1CTMENTS
Trial
Started Today, State Being Ready-
union City, Tenn., Dec. 9.-Eight in
dictments, charging alleged members of the night rider band of Reelfoot
Lake with murder in the first degree, were returned by the grand jury late
Tuesday, the indictments alleging that the men named Garret Johnson, Sam Applewhite, Arthur Cloar, Fred Pin
ion. Roy Ransom, Bob Huffman, Tid
Burton and Bud Morris had a part in the actual putting to death of Captain
Quentin Rankin at W alnut Log on the night of October 18 last.
All of the men indicted are under ar
rest, and when their cases were called
for trial today the prosecution announced ready.
PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.
REVOLUTIONIST NAMES CABINET General Simon Has Haitian Situation Well in Hand.
Port au Prince, Dec. 9 General Antoine Simon, who has assumed the presidency of Aaiti, and who has the situation well in hand, has appointed a Cabinet headed by General Hippolyte as Minister of the Interior.
Poixt: Gold Medal Flour makes bakinr a.v. Theresa.
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program PHILLIPS raEATCR.jviDECT
A. Overture M lss E va H azeltine, and Drums. B. Stanley & Alieen Comedy Singing and Dancing. C. Illustrated Song Miss Thompson. D. Pongo & Leo Comedy
Gymnast on the Lofty Loop. E. Geo. Shorty Edwards For merly Leading Comedian with Simple Simon Co. F. Frederick Force and Mil dred Williams, in "The Girl Ahead."
CAST: Shadrach Tibbetts, clerk in the dew drop inn. Fred V. " Force; Pokeberry Jones, the mail carrier, Geo. F. Blackie; Lillian Lively, the "Girl Ahead" of the Adamless Eden Burlesque Co., Mildred Williams. SCENE:-The Dew Drop Inn and General store. Dusenberry Corners, Maine. TIME The present. Songs and musical numbers will be introduced during the action of the playlet, including Miss Williams' remarkable offering, "The Human Ocarina." ) G. The Cameragraph. Latest pictures.
OoDDeir -Skatting Coliseum Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Morning, Afternoon and Evening.
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COMING THURSDAY, DEC. 17 B. C. Whitney Presents The big musical comedy succe ss of New York 'A KNIGHT FOR A DAY"
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Reception of the GREAT AMERICAN FLEET In Australia, showing the ships that are now circling tha world. A great treat. Song HEART OF MY HEART.
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