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COPELAND GETS OFF WITH A FINE

Milton Wife Beater Was Thankful and Promised Good Behavior. HIS WIFE RECEIVES HIM. 8TATES 8HE WILL GIVE HER HUSBAND ANOTHER CHANCE BUT HE MUST TREAT HER NICELY. 'You deserve a greater punishment for the crime which you have committed, and I have little sympathy for a man who will strike his wife," stated Judge Henry C. Fox this morning, to John Copeland, who was arraigned before the court for assault upon his wife at their home in Milton, last Tuesday night. The judge then assessed a fine of $5 and costs, acting upon the recommendation of the prosecutor. "I have little patience with a man who will strike his wife. It is the worst crime that can be committed and should you, on your return to your home, again assault her, this court will show you no mercy," said the judge forcibly. Get Another Chance. Mrs. Copeland, who was in court this morning with her relatives, stated that she was willing to give her husband another chance, but she would leave him if he in any way treated her cruelly hereafter. She said that it would be only upon his solemn pledge to live as he should, that she would even consider the proposition now. She still bears a scar upon her forehead where Copeland bit her and her left eye is bruised where he struck her. Copeland Thankful. Copeland .seemed thankful that the court's punishment was no more severe and seemed firmly impressed that no toleration would be shown him if he xepeated his offense. After he had left the witness stand he took his place at the side of his wife, hanging his head in deep humiliation. He continued this demeaifbr during his entire stay in Richmond. The Copeland party left on the ten o'clock limited car for Milton. SHOCKED BY DEATH OF GRANT HARRISON Well Known Young Man Dies Suddenly. Hollansburg, O., Dec. 29. This comtminity was greatly shocked Sunday, when word was received of the sudden death of Grant Harrison at his home at West Manchester. Death came without a moment's warning and was due to heart trouble. He was the third member of the family to die within a few months. He was buried here today. The funeral was held ; at the Christian church. It was con-j rinrtcri hv t.h Rev. C. W. Wnpffer nf ! Richmond. Mrs. Elizabeth Lovin, a sister of the deceased, died last May. A month later, another sister, Mrs. Mattie McCown, of this place, died. All were well known residents of this community. Mr. Harrison lived here the axeater portion of his life. GAVE QUOTATIONS. But Policeman Didn't Mind What Edward Griffin Might Say. Edward Griffin, who was arrested Saturday, admitted to the court yesterday afternoon that he had quoted scripture to the officer who had arresed him, the sum and substance of his scriptural quotations being, the promise that long after the mebers of the department were dead he would be shoveling coal upon their sonls in hell. The charge was drunk and Griffin was fined $1 and costs. Making Musio Hat art. The woman had two concert tickets to give away. To person after person living la an apartment bouse whero she had many acquaintances the ticketa were proffered and were declined with thanks. ."What ails all those people, anyhow?" exclaimed the woman in dlsKust. "Have they no music In their souls?" "They have," said a friend, "but one of the violinists who plays in that orchestra Uvea In the building, and you couldn't hire one of his neighbors to go to bear him. Their case is by no means exceptional I have tried to Rive away concert tickets myself, and experience has taught me that of all people In New York who abjure concerts none stay away quite so religiously as those who live next door to one of the performers." New York Press. Appeasing the Evil On. Among barbarians and savages the devil is the chief deity. Their Idea was aptly put to a missionary by a Maori chief of New Zealand: "Why should we strive to please your God, who is all good, by prayers and sacrifices? He will do us no harm. It is the evil one, , who is forever seeking our hurt, that we must endeavor to appease. Therefore we offer sacrifices to him." 8L James' Gazette. The Men's Banquet tomorrow evening will eclipse anything of the kind ever given in Richmond. Get your ticket earlv.

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TO GIVE DUE NOTICE Acknowledges Receipt of Local Telegrams and Promises Prompt Attenlion. SOME DOUBT NOW EXISTS INERPRETATION OF LATEST TELEGRAM PERMITS COMPLEXITY THAT HAS CREATED MISUNDERSTANDING IN CLUB. Word was received this afternoon by President John F. McCarthy of the Commercial Club from the interstate commerce commission, notifying the merchants and manufacturers who are anxious that the freight service of the Dayton and Western Traction company be resumed that the commission will give prompt attention to the application of the company. The matter was turned over to the proper committee which will proDably communicate with the traction company this evening on the subject. It is riot known by the telegram whether the traction company has not taken the steps with the interstate commerce commission which it stated to Secretary Haas of the club, it"had, or whether another form of ap plication should have been taken by the company to gain Its end. The telegram was as follows: "Your message of the 28th received. Application for permission to establish rates to and from Richmond on short notice must be made in regular way by Ohio Electric Railway company. On rerecelpt of such application, prompt action will be taken by the commission. "J. M. Jones, in charge of the tariff" "Washington, D. C." It is inferred from the telegram that the traction company filed the 30 day application to ?o an interstate business in preparing its tariff of rates for the interstate commission. In this event the company would not be allowed to do an interstate business between this city and Dayton until January 17th. However the filing of the application whereby prompt action will be received will permit the companies to do a business within a few days according to the version of the affair gained from the telegram by the club president. A Book That Wasn't Published. A singular, plan for honoring heroes was proposed in 1832, if we may credit the following footnote to "La Typographic" a poem by Le Pelletier, published in that year at Geneva: "In February last several newspapers announced that the largest book ever printed will shortly appear in London under the title The Pantheon of English Heroes. The pages of this book will be twelve feet long and two feet wide and the letters six inches high. It has been found necessary to erect special machinery for the manufacture of the paper required. This gigantic work will be printed by steam In characters of gold, no, ordinary printing ink being used in the process. Only a hundred copies will be issued, and these will serve to adorn the principal libraries in England." You will not find that book In any public or private library. MISSIONARY MEETING. The Woman's Missionary society or the First Presbyterian church will meet Wednesday afternoon Instead of Friday with . Mrs. Samuel Albert, 215 North Fourteenth street. LUTHERAN CHURCH WON. Th Simdav School of th First English Lutheran church established its supremacy over tiiat of the First j

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Q IS PROBABLE Not Thought Court Will Be Asked to Issue a Restraining Order. WILL FIGHT AT THE POLLS THIS PLAN OF CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN DECIDED ON BY SALOONISTS IN THE COUNTY LOCAL OPTION WAR. There is little probability any attempt will be made to secure a restraining order to prevent the county commissioners calling a special local option election. It is believed that rather than take chances of defeat right at the start, the saloon forces will unite and exert all influences toward defeating the proposition at the polls. Interest in the subject has grown to a fever heat and it is the subject for general discussion wherever a group of voters congregates. The petition praying for the election will be presented to the commissioners at their first regular meeting in the January term, January 4. Move not Popular. If statements of many leading citizens are any criterion for the thoughts "of the majority of the people in the county, there is not much sympathy with the move in petitioning for an election before it is seen definitely just what the next legislature will do on the temperance question. It is generally thought that the dual feature option bill will be finally adopted by the legislative solons, notwithstanding the democrats will make a determined fight for the township and ward unit idea and the republicans in the main will stoutly advocate the retention of the law now in effect. The dual feature it is argued will come as a compromise between the two factions. In case the law is in any way changed, there is a question aa to whether or not elections held under the present statute will remain void and it is argued that Wayne county cannot afford to take any chances in expending , a large sum of money for an election, . when its results may be offset so soon by the state legislature. The friends . of the proposition say that the result of an election held now will not be offset should the present statute be amended or. even repealed. - There is a division of opinion on the question as to whether Wayne " county will go dry and this opinion is about equally divided. AGED DRUGGIST GONLTO REWARD R. B. Powers Died last Night at Son's Home. - R. B. Powers, aged seventy years, for many years a druggist of this city, died last night at the home of his son, Fred Powers. 1717 North C street. After leaving the mercantile business. Mr. Powers was a traveling salesman for a wholesale drug firm. He had retired from this business but a year or so. The funeral service will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of his son. The services and the burial will be private. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday afternoon and evening The Men's Banquet tomorrow evening will eclipse any Richmond. Get your ticket

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Richmond's Household Store THE THIEVES OF JAPAN Ingenious Rascals, Among the Cleverest In the World. ONE OF THEIR FOXY TRICKS. The Method by Which They Steal th Shoes Off the Women's Feet In the Public Streets How a Miser's Money Chest Was Bared and Looted. An Englishman entered a first class car of one of the railroad trains that run between Tokyo and Ye'ohama. He was a little red in the face and apparently ruffled in temper. He had just discovered that his pocket had been picked in the station, and he exclaimed bitterly against thieves in general and Japanese thieves in particular. An American who had been engaged in Yokohama for a number of years noticed the Englishman's quandary. Turning round to me, he said: "Our English friend seems a bit excited. If he growls at having his pocket picked, what would he say If he had the shoes stolen off his feet?" "That la clearly an Impossibility," I laughed. "I don't know about that," he returned. "It may not happen with our western style of shoes, button and lace; but, all the same, I have heard and I know It to be a fact that the sandals of Japanese have been stolen off their feet." "Well, how Is It done?" I asked. "Very simply," he answered. "Suppose a Japanese woman who has a particularly fine pair of lacquered clogs Is one of a great crowd that Is watching a passing procession or a re-. ligious celebration of priests In front! of a temple. Along comes an expertl pickpocket or pickfoot. I don't know' which you want to call him. Hisj keen eyes, fastened on the ground, dis- J cover those desirable clogs. There-' upon he makes up bis mind that he wants them. "The first .thing she knows the owner of the clogs feels an unpleasant sensation In her left foot. Naturally she wants to stop it, and quite mechanically and almost absently she slips her right foot out of Its clog and begins to scratch that uncomfortable spot in her left foot with her toes. She feels relieved. Forgetting all about the incident, she becomes absorbed in the spectacle again. Soon the irritation crosses over to a similar spot in her right foot. Absently, once more, she slides her left foot out of its clog and begins to soothe the troublesome spot with her toes." "The thief was responsible for the irritation and walked off with the clogs," I said. "Certainly. The rascal caused the trouble with a bit of straw or wire," he returned. "But one would think that the moment the foot of the victim touched the ground its clog would be missed and the thief would run the chance of being caught before the second could be stolen." "Oh, that ia one of the cleverest parts of the trick," explained my friend. "The thief comes supplied with a pair of cheap wooden clogs' costing but a' few sen, and the owner: of the lacquered footgear goes away with them and never. notices the difference, at least not until it Is too late to profit from the knowledge." "Are Japanese thieves so very clever, then?" I asked. "Oh. very!" he returned. "Some time ago I heard of one of them who used to carry a handful of watch rings to fit .into the .stems of all sorts: .of

FREE COAL or the IPOOIR Will You Help Be a Party to the Distribution ? Owing to the hard times, and the large number of persons and families in want of the necessary fuel to keep them warm this winter, and their inability to purchase the same, the UNITED COAL YARDS COMPANY is going to do its share towards helping out these poor unfortunates in this city. Commencing Jan. 1st, for every 40 tons of Domestic Coal or Coke we take orders for, we will deliver FREE two one-half tons of soft coal upon evidence that such parties that may make application for help are absolutely in need of fuel. The wants of such-parties will be carefully looked into through the proper channels that we may know all applicants are In absolute need of fuel, the names beig furnished us from time to time for such deliveries. . We wish to call the attention of the public to the fact that all orders will be taken at our regular prices, as enumerated below, which you will note are lower all along the line than you have paid for several years at this time of the year. The reason for this is that we absolutely refuse to become a party to any combination of coal dealers, making our own prices, and guarantee the coal to be of better quality than was ever offered for the prices we ask. As long as we receive the patronage we are now receiving, we believe in sharing with the unfortunates that are in need of help. We stand ready to make this proposition until April 1st, and by putting your shoulder to the wheel and sending all orders for coal to us, you share in this charity-giving object. UNITED COAL . YARDS COMPANY

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watcnes tnat ne 'might"" come by dishonestly. Once he lifted a watch in a train, and the owner, missing It, but not knowing who the thief was, set up a shout and had a policeman summoned. The police, to satisfy the victim, insisted that every one in the train show bis watch. When the turn of the thief came he drew out of his pocket the '.olen timepiece, and its original possessor, not recognizing it on account of the changed ring, missed an easy chance to regain his property. "It was the same fellow, I believe," he continued, "who managed by the expenditure of a little money to have himself enrolled under different names in the various lists of different towns. When arrested he gave one of these various names to the authorities. The police, on looking np the record of the name given, were unable to find any black marks against it. Thus he always managed to escape with a light punishment for his first offense, committed I don't know how many times. "But I don't know that any of these fellows were as clever as another thief I heard about. You know many of the Japanese sleep on a sort of bed made up on the floor, called a feuton. Well, an old Japanese miser kept his money In the house, concealed in a small chest of drawers. In the daytime he never took his eyes off his treasure, and at night he had bis feuton pushed tightly against it, so no robber could get at his money without awakening him. "For a long time a gang of thieves bad been puzzling their brains to find a way of stealing the hoard without being detected. Well, on a certain night one of them entered the house and gently, little by little, puUed the bed on which the miser lay away from the chest of drawers. Then he quickly emptied the drawers of their currency, shoved the bed back to Its original position and made his escape. "Several days passed before the unfortunate miser detected bis lost." Chicago News. A wise skepticism Is the first attribute of a good critic. Shakespeare. The Horse Won. There is an old apple woman with a kindly face on one of the Broadway corners downtown. The other day a truckman left his horse standing at the curb and went into a nearby building. The horse, a great white fellow, attracted by the piles of succulent rosy cheeked apples, craned bis neck In a most palpable request for a taste. The woman gazed for a moment and then shook her head. "G'wan, y old Warney," she exclaimed. But the horse did not "g'wan." Instead he advanced one hoof upon the sidewalk. "Would you see that, bow!" the woman said. "Well, 'tis such a human way y' have" She gave him an apple and then turned away, muttering, " 'Tis expensive to be charitable." New York Post. Not Anxious at AfT - 1 "One word of our language that Is almost always misused," said the particular man, "is 'anxious. You will hear people exclaim how anxious they are to see a certain play or anxious to get a new bat or anxious to take a trip to Europe when they are not anxious at all, but eager or desirous. If anxious . were used only in the right place we wouldn't hear it half so often." The majority of people are half alive, says American Medicine, for they breathe Just about enough to sustain life, effortless and nearly lifeless. Bob: Just made some splendid biscuits OoW Medal Flour. Bkttv.

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All This Week Fuel Saver 604-608 Main St. 3Z 100 MUCH POLITICS Campaign Argument at Economy Starts a Fight. IT ENDS IN CITY COURT Because he whipped Thomas M. Stewart, the "town busybody" of Economy, as Prosecutor Jessup said, Simon Atwell, a well known young man of Perry township, was fined $5 and costs in the Wayne circuit court. The case was decidedly the most unique heard recently and was echo of a political feud that arose In the township before the last election, the feeling running high between the supporters of Charles Harris and John W. Taylor, the leading rival candidates for the office of township trustee. It seems that during the campaign Atwell took objections to Stewart's assertions against Taylor who was at that time Atwell's employer. Stewart continued his talk against Taylor and one day after the election, according to the story, Atwell and Taylor drove to the Stewart home. Atwell lETt the buggy, called Mr. Stewart Into the yard and there hurled the "red flag" in the so-called busybody's face. The "lie" was passed and the two men came to blows. Taylor sat in the buggy until he thought the battle royal had gone far enough, then clambered out and separated the belligerents. In a little note written to the court Dr. Clark of Economy stated that Stewart asked that the case be disj missed and the costs would be paid by Stewart. Prosecutor Jessup however did not see fit to dismiss the case, although he stated to the court that he personally thought Atwell had not gone far out of the way in committing the assault. The judge thought that $5 would square the affair with the state. ft

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JESSUP TO ASSIST Will Act as Instructor to Ladd for Couple Weeks. CASES ARE SET FOR TRIAL Prosecutor Jessup will assist ProBe-cutor-elect Charles A. Ladd for the first few weeks of the latter' terra, according to the statement of Mr. Jessup this morning to Judge II. C. Fox and he asked that a number of the cases pending for hearing the October term be docketer for the January term of court. The case of the State vs. Samuel Wilson accused of assault and battery was docketed for January 11. The case was to have been heard this morning, but young Wilson is out of the city, visiting a sister, and will return and probably enter a plea of guilty to the charge. The court decided not to forfeit the young man's bond. WJ. Relieves soar stomach. palpitation of the heart. Digests what you eat Terre Haute Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. Eastern Division (Time Table Effective Oct. 27. 107.) Trains leave Richmond t.ir Indianapolis and intermediate stations at 6:00 a. '7:25. 8:0. '9:25. 10:00. 11:00, 12:00, 1:00. 2:25. 3:00. 4:00. 5:25. 6:00. 7:30. 8:40. 9:00. 10:00. 11:10. Limited trains. Last car to Indianapolis, 8:40 p. m. Last car to New Cattle, 10:00 p. m. Trains connect at Indianapolis for Lafayette, Frankfort, Crawfordsville, Terre Haute, Clinton. Sullivan. Paris fin TiCf-ftF n1d through CMckemis For New Year's) Dinner Hazelton Lehigh Anthracite, Egg, Stove and Chestnut $7.50 Blue Ridge, Lump or Egg (for grate, range or heating stove) ..$4.00 Jackson Hill Splint Gump) . (little smoke and ash) ...$4.50 Pocahontas, genuine, for furnaces . $5.00 (8hov.) Cadillac, hotter than sunshine $3.50

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