Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 52, 30 December 1908 — Page 2

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HAVE MEETING , Budget of $1 2,000 Provided to Carry on Work of Associa tion in Indiana for the Ensu ing Year. RICHMOND IN FIELD TO GET NEXT MEETING Terre Haute and Crawfordsville Also Want to Captre This Session Financial Re port Was Pleasing. The state executive committee of the Indiana Young Men's Christian Asso elation, met this morning at the Westcott hotel with but a partial attend ance of the members. Two sessions were held this morning, one of the finance committee and the other of the student committee. Action was taken to adopt a budget of $12,000 to carry on the state work for the fiscal year, 1909. The student committee decided to hold the third" annual confer ence of the college association presi dents at Depauw University, Greencastle, Ind.. late in March. This afternoon immediately after the luncheon at the hotel, the state com raittee met and considered past, pres ent and future business. One of the most important things up for consideration id the selection of the place of the next convention. Richmond Is making a Etrong bid for this honor. while Terre Haute and Crawfordsville are also making an earnest endeavor to obtain the convention. Secretary Hansom said this afternoon that it was probable the committee would not decide this question this afternoon. Richmond is forecasted as the -winner in this contest. The members of the state commit tee present at the meetings today include John C. Haswell of Marion, John F. Wallick, of Indianapolis; C. S. T Mi cades, Indianapolis; John F. Habbe, Indianapolis; J. W; Landrum, Terre Iiaute; W. C. Belman, Hammond; Dr. Corge W. Switzer, Lafayette; E. E. Stacy, A. W. Hansom, G. W. Wells, and E. G. Jaqua, state secretaries, all of Indianapolis; also Sharon E. Jones of this city. George L. Goodwin, the local secretary, was in. attendance at the luncheon. " The 'state executive commiiiee is ronipoeeu 01 iweniy-iuur members. : At the present time there are three vacancies. This afternoon all of these may be filled. Henry W. Dowling, a member of the state railroad commission., was expected to be chosen to fill one ot these vacancies. The meeting of the finance committee this morning was probably the most important held today. It was found that the state association bills for the year 1908 had been met in every instance and despite the financial troubles of the early part of the year. This speaks well for the business management displayed by the committee. It had to be accomplished by much effort on its part. The budget of $12,000 allowed for next year, will be sufficient it is believed to promote the state Tork. The members assembled today will be in attendance at the banquet given this evening at the new building which will be one of the biggest events of the dedicatory exercises. The members will be called upon to speak by Toastmaster Sharon E. Jones of this city and president of the association. Betides members of the state committee who will respond, there will be several from this city. It is probable the principal responses will be made by Frederick S. Fish of South Bend, a state executive member and the head of the large Studebaker Works at that city. Charles Brown, former Y. M. C. A. secretary and who was instrumental in .teouring the subscriptions aggregating S100.000 for the erection of the building will be in attendance and respond to a toast. He is now at Michigan City and is making an effort to establish an association in. that city. The ladies' auxiliary will have charge of the banquet this evening. Its menu is a very elaborate one and Includes for the first course noodle boulion, oyster paddles, for the second course, turkey, turkey dressing, gravy, peas, sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, fruit and salad and for the third course ice cream and cake and coffee. The banquet will be served In the gymnasium and the decorations will be simple but very appropriate. FUNERAL 0FMRS. DUNBAR. : Centervllle, Ind., Dec. ,30. The funeral of Mrs. Mary Dunbar of this place, will be held 'Thursday aftornoon at 2 o'clock, froi the residence of J. A. Dunbar. Burial will be at Grown Hill cemetery. Lincoln's ancestry has been traced to Samuel Lincoln, who lived at Norwich. England. Emigrating to America, he settled at Hingham, Mass., in 163S. Some of his descendants, who were Quakers, settled in Rockingham county, ;Va- The . President's grandfather removed to Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln, the President's" father, was a carpenter. Long before women's newspapers ere started, and .fashion plates in their modern form were thought of, women derived their knowledge of the fashions from dolls dressed In modern costumes, which were sent from one country to another, more especially from Paris, then, as now. the leading canter ot the mods. . . ..

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Jack Johnson, tne new Heavyweight in hpllow style. NO FIGHT LEFT III SULLIVAN John L. and Kilrain Put on Farce Exhibition Last Night.. EXCHANGED "LOVE TAPS" SPORT LOVERS WHO ATTENDED AFFAIR FEEL THEY WERE HANDED "LEMON" PRINDLE THE WINNER. Of all the "lemons" that were ever hung on the sporting public, the exhibition at the Phillips theater last evening, in which John Li. Sullivan and Jacob Kilrain, old time pugilistic stars, were the attraction, was the worst. John L. Sullivan announced before boxing a three round bout with Kilrain that it would be an exhibition of the manly art of self defense. Whether the two fighters were afraid of the intervention of the police or it was their usual performance. Is not known, but at any rate the two hit each other little "love taps" which would not have mashed an ant. That there is one fight left in Sulli van, as he claimed, is doubted by the persons who were in attendance, for he reminded all of an old wash woman, both in figure and in form. The fight pictures were very uninteresting. In the first round of the Coney Island fight, in, which Jeffries and Fitzsiramons participated, the two boxed the entire first round without even touching each other, If the pictures are criterions of the real article. The wrestling bout between Kid Stern and Frank Prindle was won by Prindle, taking the first and only fall in 18 minutes. Works Both Ways. "So you think it is an advantage to a man to go to congress for awhile?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. It gives the people in his own town a chance to think he is a great man in Washlngtoo and the people In Washington a chance to think he is a great man In hia own town." Washington Star. Hr Motto. "I think it is high time," said Mrs. Oldcastle. "for the people of this country to take a firm stand against vivisection. "So do I." replied her hostess. "No north, no south. Is my motto." Chicago Record-Herald. Tho Barrier. First Tramp- You won't get nothing decent there; them people is vegetarians. Second Tra.ni la that right! First Tramp Yes. end they've got tog wot ain't. Philadelphia Inquirer. FARM IS SOLD. Cambridge City, Dec. 30. The John B. Thomas Farm of one hundred and fourteen acres, lying on and one-half miles northwest of Greensfork. has been sold to Mrs. Fannie Hamilton of Elwood. Consideration. $5,500. The sale was made by Wm. Doney. Howok;

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He beat Tommy Burns COACHES ARE BARRED Indiana High School Athletic Association Rules. KNOUFF ON THE BOARD Indianapolis, Dec. 30. Professional coaches were barred, the football schedules were limited to six games, the penalty of suspension was ordered for members playing against schools not in the organization and other important new rulings enacted at a meeting of the Indiana State School Athletic association at the Claypool hotel yesterday afternoon. The representatives of the various high schools who are here to attend the State Teachers association meeting were called together by President E. E. Ramsey of the Bloomington high Bchool and the session proved to be prolific of new regulations. As a result of the several important acts of legislation yesterday the State High School Athletic association promises to become stronger and more efficient in every way. Erorytb'ng done tends to build for good, clean, amateur contests and to increase the power of the organization which has done so much for interscholastic athletics in this state. The officers of the High School association are: President, E. E. Ramsey of Bloomington; secretary at meetings, C. W. Knouff of Richmond; treasurer, L. X. Hines of Crawfordsville; permanent secretary, J. T. Giles of Marion. E. E. Ramsey was re-elected to membership on the board of control, which is composed of the following: I N. Hines, C. W. Knouff and E. E. Ramsey. LK CASE UP Famous Cambridge City Litigation is Filed in Circuit Court. HAS LONG BEEN CONTESTED Suit has been entered in the Wayne circuit court by Alonzo Hooton vs. George T. Kepler, Mary Kepler and Helen Outland to foreclose an assessment lien. Hooton's attorneys are Felt & Binford of Greenfield and A. Feemster, of Cambridge City. The suit is another echo of the famous sidewalk Improvement case at Cambridge City. Hooton was the contractor that put down ia cement sidewalk in front of the residences of the defendants. They refused to pay their assessments claiming the assessment was too high. They instituted suit against the town board of Cambridge and tried for an injunction. No costs bond was filed, however, and a dismissal of the suit secured. Hooton now is seeking to collect his money. Gin is still used as a medium of exchange in some parts of the Niger country in Africa, but the government discourages 1L Owing to the extreme conservatism la thsss districts the task is difflcolt

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Negro Rape Affair Attracted Men of Race, But no Hearing Given. TWO MEN ARE INVOLVED MRS. ETHEL FLOYD ALLEGES JOSEPH LAMB AND HARRY MILLER .CRIMINALLY .ASSAULTED HER AT HER HOME. About fifty negroes gathered at the city building this afternoon at th hour for city court in anticipation of hearing a loud-smelling rape case. They were disappointed since the case will be filed directly in the circuit court, as it is beyond the jurisdiction of the city court. The principals in the affair are Jos. Lamb. Harry Miller and Mrs. Ethel Floyd, all negroes. According to the allegations of Mrs. Floyd and the evidence secured by the police the case is about as repulsive as any ever given an airing in local courts. Lamb and Miller are employed at the Panhandle round house. They are fast friends. According to Mrs. Floyd's story Lamb came to her home on Monday afternoon to see her siste--in-law. The latter was not at home. Mrs. Boyd, aged eighteen, says she went up stairs in answer to the cries of her baby. Lamb followed her, grabbed her, threw her on the bed and committed the crime. She says yesterday afternoon Miller came to her house and upon ascertaining there was no one at home, made improper advances toward her. She sayj he of fered money and despite her protests pulled her on his lap, as he sat on a chair and criminally assaulted her. Each man is charged with rape. The woman has not borne a bad reputation. She is frail in body and the police are inclined to believe her story in regard to Lamb but have misgivings about the Miller episode. SHETLAND PONIES. Aetivo as Terriers, Sure Footed Mules, Patient as Donkeys. Shetlands are "foaled in the fields, live in the fields and die in the fields." They have a rooted dislike for indoor life and thrive best when allowed to feed naturally on green grass, with perhaps hay in winter. Until two years old nature provides a soft, woollike covering. Afterward the mature coat of hair appears, to be shed each spring, when the ponies appear sleek and handsome. Full grown, they are immensely strong, with wide quarters, powerful legs and a great width and depth over the heart and lungs. And, as Bengie wrote in 1870 in his "Tour In Shetland:" "The Shetland pony is the most lovable of animals in the wide creation. They are sprightly and active as terriers, sure footed as mules and patient as donkeys. The horse is accredited as the noblest of the lower animals, and the Shetland pony stands at the head of this noble race as the most intelligent and faithful of them all." The great value of the Shetland to the coal miners lies in its ability to work In the low galleries in thin seamed pits, where other ponies could not travel. Their strength does not correspond with their diminutive proportions, and they will travel thirty miles a day in the seams, drawing from twelve to fourteen hundredweight Underground their lot is hard, but use becomes second nature, and they are treated, if roughly, not unkindly. St. James' Gazette. Tho Chinaman and His Dragon. If a Chinaman wishes for happiness and peace in this world and the next be feels obliged to consult his majesty the dragon as to where his house shall be built and bis grave be made. Through the earth, so say the Chinese, flow two currents the dragon and the tiger. Now, for a man to have good fortune in life or, as he would eay in "pigeon English," to "catAee chance," his bouse must be put in a certain position in reference to these currents. If he is to rest quietly in his grave, that also must be correctly placed. So called "wise men" make a business of choosing favorable sites for homes and graves, professing by means of a wand and incantations and other kinds of tomfoolery to be able to detect the presence of the dragon and the tiger and to tell In what direction they flow. Skating. Skating is believed to have been invented in northern Europe in prehistoric times. William Fits-Stephen sneaks of it In London toward the end of the twelfth century, but it did cot really catch hold until the cavaliers who had been in exile with Charles II. brought it with them from Holland. On Dec. 1, 1662, Mr. Pepys, having occasion t$ cross the park, "first in my life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skates, which is a very pretty art." On the Sth he went purposely to see the sight and again found it "very pretty." London Chronicle. MRS. BROWJJ RECOVERS. Mrs. Mary Brown, East Main street, who suffered a sprain a few weeks ago while putting bread in the oven, is recovering, and is now able to be up. The

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THIRTY DAY CLOSING JUT SALE Of Men's and Boys9 Smitts amd vercoatts Everyone should step in and see our Great Reductions. Suits and Overcoats selling at 45 to 65 Per Cent. Reductions. 918 Main St. . . Fricdgemi & Co,

SAYS UNITED STATES IS NOT DOMINANT POWER LOUIS LOMBARD, Lombard is the son-in-law of Congressman "Tom" Allen, of St. Louis, once head of the Union Pacific railroad, who has Just returned to this country, after an absence of nine years, ia which he has become a prominent figure in European musical circles. Mr. Lombard Bays it will not be many years until China, Germany ani United States will be the dominant powers of the world. COMMITMENT ISSUED. The commitment papers of John Miller to the boys reform school at Plainfield, have beenprepared by the county clerk. Miller is the colored lad, who will be sent to the reform school upon complaint of his older brothers. He is accused of petit larceny. When the Essex county board of supervisors last year passed a resolution placing a bounty of 25 cents on hedgehogs killed in the county there were some that claimed that there were not many of these timber and produce destroying animals In the county. The committee on bounties reports that 3,617 hedghogs have been killed in the various towns. At 25 cents each this brings the total amount paid in bounties on these animals alone up to$904.25, and this amount will undoubtedly be increased a litle by claims that will be presented at the December session. In an English village an official notice reads as follows: "The public are warned against using the well for domestic purposes unless previously boiled.'

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A MINE DISASTER Officials of Kentucky Company Refuse to Talk. LARGE COFFIN ORDER GIVEN Cincinnati.'O., Dec 30. A Cincinnati order for forty coffins was received here today from Maybury, Kentucky, where a mine disaster is reported to have occurred yesterday afternoon, imprisoning a hundred miners in the L,ick Branch Colier Company's mine. Officials of he company refuse information. A Poetical Epitaph. The epitaph collector displayed enthusiastically the photograph of a severe and stately marble tomb. "A new epitaph, he said, "and one of the best In my collection. It is the epitaph of a body of Indians slain in battle near Cooperstown. It was composed by a clergyman, TV. W. Lord, and I consider It most poetical. The epitaph upon the tomb was as follows: "White man. greeting! We, near whose bones you stand, were Iroquois. The wide land which now is yours was ours. "Friendly hands have given back to us enough for a tomb." New York. Press. Some particulars are given in the British, Medical Journal of a proposal to provide an ocean sanitarium for tuberculosis. The suggestion is to fit up a sailing ship of about 2,000 tons for not fewer than fifty patients, each to be provided with a large and wellventilated cabin. The deck would be used for what is commonly called the veranda treatment. The Intention of the promoters is that the ship shall cruise in the neighborhood of the Canaries, where it will have the advantage of the trade winds and of an equable climate, while a port will' not be far distant in case of bad weather. ATTEND BIBLE MEETING. E. M. Haas, J. S. Harris and Miss Elvlna Steen, were among the Richmond persons attending the conference of the bible class workers and teachers of the state yesterday at Indianapolis. They returned home very much pleased with the meeting. The meetings were addressed by many of the most prominent Sunday school workers of international fame.

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SPECIAL MEETING OFJCITY COUNCIL Appropriation for New Sewer Is Needed. A specal meeting of the city council has been called for tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. The meeting is called to vote an appropriation e .?(, 235.65 to the payment of the," 'city's share of the southwest sewer system. THE MISSING MISSIVE.' Oris Romano of Unel Sam's D4 Lottor Offio. Something like 2,000.000 letters annually fall of delivery In the United States owing to insufflcieut poitnge or Incorrect addresses. The dead leUer office at Washington employs a large force of clerks to handle these. The packages that have been received at the dead letter office have contained false teeth, glass eyes, brass "keys soil thousands of other things that ne would never expect to find in the malls. It would be interesting to know, how many engagements nave been broken, bow many friends have been estranged, how -many fond hearts have not been reunited, bow many deals have fallen through, how much money has been lost and bow many quarrels have been prevented by letters that never came. , .A pretty romance was revealed, at the dead letter office the other day when a young woman called there to see if a wrongfully, addressed letter Lad been received. It had, and she was greatly relieved. ' "I heard that Jack was untrue, she said, "and wrote him breaking our engagement. The day after I wrote I fouud out that' I was wrong. My heart was almost broken, but Jack kept right on coming to see me and never mentioned the letter. I began to think I must have misdirected it and find that I did. It must bare been fate. Now he will never know. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Clerk But yon just bought this novel and paid for It. -Customer Yes. Clerk Then why do yon want to return it? Customer I read it all through while waiting for my change. Cleveland Leader. The government of Austria' make special inducements to farmers who will reclaim waste lands and make use of them. Cane Called 8 o'clock.

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