Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 83, 30 January 1909 — Page 1

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AXP SUN-TELEGRAM: VOL. XXXIV. NO. 83. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1909. SINGLE ' COPT, , CENTS,

CRIES FOR FUEL HEARD BECAUSE OP THEAIHER IfJot Only the Poor, But Also The Well-to-Do Residents Of the City Were Caught Unprepared.

Now Engaged on 1 m n niiim'ATFR Alleged Murderess of Late French President New Production Wkllr llllllblllllbll LODGE HOLDS ITS AtlllUAL MEETING STATES SHERIFF

NO BLIND TIGERS TO BE TOLERATED

FRIENDS ENTER STRONG PROTEST III LEGISLATURE - "-,-- Document Filed With Senator Kirkman Prays for County Unit, Divorce Reform and Sunday Law.

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BUSINESS CRIPPLED BY THE WEATHER MAN High and Fierce Biting Wind Kept Shivering People Indoors Train Service Demoralized.

BLIZZARD RAGES. Chicago, Jan. 30. A fierce blizzard continues today throughout the entire country. There is at Jeast one death here and one in New York city as result of accidents on street railways, caused by blinding snow. The temperature Is ranging down near zero and many points in the west are cut off from wire communication. All trains are several hours behind schedules. . Richmond's first blizzard for 1909 was attended by much suffering on the part of the poorer people for want 4of fuel. Failure to keep warm, however, was a complaint registered by Marly every one, whether rich or poor. Business was at a standstill. The railroads and the traction lines Are perhaps suffering the most but the merchants likewise are losing much trade as the '; farmers' Could not get to town because of the drifts ' and citizens put off shopping until another day. " - fi,r.n-11 ' Mrs. Elizabeth Candler,; of the Aseoclated ' Charities stated this " noon that she had been rushed the. entire morning to wait on persons desiring fuel and other aid. However' the general call was "fuel, fuel.' fuel." Many during the last week of spring weather had neglected to replenish their bins and when-a fire became a necescity they were out of funds and had to appeal to charity. : The empty coal bin also applied to many of the well-to-do citizens. The coal man was kept busy the entire morning answering appeals of customers to deliver a quantity of coal Immediately. In fact they were about the only men in the city who prospered by the existing conditions. Business Men Complain. Business men on Main street complained of much discomfiture because it seemed impossible to heat their store rooms. Clerks shivered and hung around the registers. The proprietors did not object to this usual breach of the rules because there was no trade. In the resident districts things were kept booming in the furnace and stoves in order to keep warm and it was only in the most protected places that people fared well In this respect Frosted windows Were the least of the troubles. Railroad trains due in the city early in the morning were thrown entirely out of schedule. Six hours late was Kood time today for many trains on the Indianapolis.-Richmond and G. R. & I. divisions and the C. C. & L. As ft consequence the mall schedules lo tally were thrown entirely out of gear. Postmen Have Troubles. : The mail received early enough for morning delivery was very light. In the city the carriers had considerable trouble with drifts but succeeded in delivering their routes. .However, on the rural routes every carrier had to turn back and give up after going a few miles. Drifts further than the eye could see, in man; Instances, and on a level with the fences blocked their progress. Thej had been warned by Postmaster Spekenhler not to take any unnecessary

risks before leaving although it meantlMurcia were obliterated, the quake

that the patrons had to wait until Monday to get Friday's and early Saturday morning's mail. The temperature itself was not so low. At the pumping station 10& degrees above was the lowest which was reached up to 6 o'clock this morning. Yesterday noon it was 43 degrees above. This noon it was but 11 decrees above. A high, sharp wind has been blowing for the past 14 hours. Blows Hurricane. It was the wind which did the damage. It blowed a perfect ; hurricane and carried with it small flakes of enow and ice which stung when they truck one in the face. Because of the conditions the streets today were practically deserted. The storm began last evening before supper and reached its glory a few hours later. Those who braved It early In the evening were sorry when they started home later. The wind was so strong It made walking almost Impossible. The street car system was affected peatlx. v. ... . v

MME. STEINHEIL SEVENTY KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE Reports First Sent Out Claiming Destruction of Barcelona, Spain, Were Greatly Exaggerated. ' ROMARA IN MOROCCO REPORTED DESTROYED Meagre But Later News Is Expected to Show Great Loss of Life. BULLETIN. Paris, Jan. 30. A dispatch by way of Gibraltar says that from twenty' five to seventy perished in the earth quake followed by a landslide at Romara, on the Moroccan coast. It Is feared that greater fatalities occurred in the more remote sections. All the details are meager. BULLETIN. New York, Jan. 30. Tne French Cable company says there is no truth in last night's report that Barcelona was destroyed by an earthquake and tidal wave. Communication is restored and very little damage is done. ENGULFED BY SEA. Tidal Wave Strikes Barcelona Quake. After London, Jan. 30. An earthquake and tidal wave which it is feared will parallel the awful catastrophe of Messina and Reggio shook and crumbled the eastern and southeastern coast of Spain yesterday causing terrible loss of life. The subterranean disturbance shook down villages by the score, toppled hills and mountains and dumped towns into the sea. . . . The tidal wave that followed, as was the case at Messina, completed the work of destruction, washing down the buildings left by the quake and drowning scores of persons not killed in "the shock. Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain, with 450,000 inhabitants, situated on the eastern coast near the southern end of France, was razed by the quake and engulfed by a great wall of water that swept inland from the raging Mediterranean, Villages Obliterated. Several villages In the province of tearing down the buildings, the tidal wave washing the remains, together, with the bodies of the .victims, hundreds of yards inland. Totana, the principal town In Murcia, is lost. The scenes immediately preceding the shock are described as much similar to those at Messina and Reggio. The first intimation of the disturbance was a rumbling and roar from the bowels of the earth. In an instant the trnth dawned upon the inhabitants; the next instant the earth rocked violently, felling the buildings, and ' the , Mediterranean rushed from Its bed in upon the shore, over the rocking cities and back inland. . The city of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast consisted of an old city formerly surrounded by walls, which were converted into promenades and many beautiful suburbs of modern architecture containing the various manufacturing enterprises to which the city owes a great deal of its import ant

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HORSE PINIONED IN BRIDGE KILLED BY TRACTION CAR Unfortunate Animal While Be ing Led in Blinding Snow Flurry Runs Off and Meets Its Death. ESCAPE FROM WRECK NARROWLY AVERTED Reaped as JJiratJutbushaf " The Fast Moving Car Was Not Thrown Off the Rails By the Contact. ; Men the 6 o'clock interurban car, west bound, swung around the curve just east of the Nolans fork bridge last evening, the motorman was horrified to see a horse pinioned between the ties of the bridge. He had no time to do anything but shut off the power. The horse was struck and killed. The mangled body was dragged a distance of almost 100 yards. The horse was the property of the Harmon Shofer barns, South Sixth street. Alarmed Animal Bolts. The horse had been ridden by a Cambridge City employe of the Shofer stables, who was leading four other horses to this city. It was dark and snowing and the rider had been having trouble to keep his horses in tow, Just west of Centerville, he had dis mounted to arrange the halters on the four horses and it was necessary for him to Jet go the bridle of the horse he had been riding for a moment. No sooner was the horse released than it leaped and ran away at a terrific pace. Falls Between Ties. It ran as if frightened greatly and the man had no way to overtake it At the curve in the road justeast of the stream, , the horse left the roadway and ran onto the interurban tracks. In an attempt to cross the bridge it fell between the ties, about twenty feet from the east abutment. When the car struck the horse it was going at high speed and it is regarded as miraculous that It did not leave the rails. The car was well filled and an awful catastrophe would have ensued. THQRNBURG CASE ON TRIAL BEB. 22 Washington's Birthday Won't Be ObservedT In the Wayne circuit court the case of Thornburg vs. Atkinson has been set for hearing Monday, February 22. Washington's birthday will not be observed as a holiday by the court. The case of Given & Co. vs the Jones Hardware Co. has been continued from Saturday, February 6, to the following Monday. ANOTHER MILLINERY STORE Mrs. Brehm Opens Second Establishment on Main Street. Mrs. C A. Brehm announced this morning that she would open np another millinery store at 533 Main street. Mrs. Brehm will remain at her present location, North Eighth street. Ibut will manage, both atore- .

Meredith Says He Intends to

Cast a Wet Ballot, But If Drys Win, He Will See That It Is Dry. OFFICIAL IS PEEVED AT TEMPERANCE MEN Openly Supports .Cause of the Wets Because Prohis Refused to Support Candidacy of Jim Watson. "You can just put it down, that If there is only one wet vote cast , In Wayne county, that one will be mine, unless I drop dead before I get to the polls. But. let me tell you. also, that if Wayne county is voted dry, she will be dry, so far as I am concerned There won't be any blind tigers run on the side, if I can find out about them. If the majority of the people show they want it dry, they shall hare it as dry as I can make it. I don't care if I have to go into a private home to stop them, I'll do it, if I find out about them. And. another thing, there won't be anything doing in th club houses or lodge rooms. They will have to go. There won't be any locker system, you can bet on that' Reasons Are Political. The above statement, was made by Sheriff Linus P. Meredith this morning. Meredith is an out and out .sapporter of the "wets." He says his reasons are political, that the prohibi tionists and prohibition democrats refused to- vote for the, republican can didate for governor at, the last general mtMlcftns. Many of them, Meredith cays, have turned about and now are alli.'d with the local optionists and &re trying to vote the county dry. He cites: as an example Joshua Allen, of Tefferson county; Allen was a candidate fr prosecuting attorney oa the democratic ticket. He was beaten. Meredith claims that since the election he has forgo'.' en the local option clause in the republican platform and that during the campaign he claimed the t'emocrata ofrored a better propceiilen and now is open in his support of the "dry;?. ' The shiff claims the prohibition voters, who refused support to Watson, need not expect him tr vote wirh them now. when t'iey had a chance to help the u-Tiiper-a"ce movement jy voting for the republlcm candidate. Will Approve His Stand. The declaration of the shritf against blind tigers will be welcome information to the "drys." The cry has been raised that if the county goes "dry" innumerable blind tigers and speak-easies will spring up in all localities and that the officers will be unable to locate them and as the re sult intoxicants will flow freer than from the licensed saloons. ' The avowal of Meredith was made to a Palladium reporter in the pres ence of witnesses. He said he ,had written five letters and intimated they were to the operators of alleged blind tigers in different parts of the county. The sheriff claims he would be able to locate some of these places and if the county goes dry all will have to close up tight as a drum and stay closed. It has been but seldom that a public official of Wayne county has made as broad and positive assertions as those of the sheriff. He avers he will proceed on the theory that if it be shown the majority of the voters want a dry county, their wishes will be complied with, so far as he is concerned. The application of the statement of the sheriff concerning club and lodge rooms, it is probable will be felt, if the county be voted dry and the sheriff follows out his threat. DANCES AND SKATING These Reasons Assigned by John Lieneman Why Wife Lost Love for Him. COURT GRANTS A DIVORCE Bad company and attendance at dances and skating rinks were assigned by John Lieneman as the reasons why his wife Katie lost her affection for him. The story was told to Judge Fox of the circuit court this morning in John's attempt to obtain a divorce. Several other i things we re told the court, among them that Katie had left the city several years ago in the company of another man. The court seemed to think Katie did and John didn't, M Jofea was given a divorce. -

TWO LOCAL FRIENDS ' SIGN THE PETITION Said to Represent Thirty Thousand Indiana Quakers of The Two Large- Yearly Meetings of the State.

Yesterday there was filed with Senator Roscoe E. Kirkman of Wayne and Union counties a petition and protest from the Western Yearly Meet ing and the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, representing all told, about thirty thousand people. Of the six prominent Friends who have signed this document, two are Richmond men, Timothy Nicholson and Murray Kenworthy, a member of the Earlham fac ulty. This petition prays for the contin uance of the county local option law, prays that the anti-Sunday baseball bill be not repealed, and asks for re form in the state divorce laws. The document complete is as follows: Complete Petition. Honorable Gentlemen: Whereas during the special session of the legislature in September, 1906, the annual session of the Western Yearly meeting of the Friends' church waskSeld at Plainfield, Ind.," and it j se to the legislature a petition prayi ir, for the passage of the county local JUjtion law then pending; and the In diana Yearly Meeting of Friends, held In Richmond, Ind.", a few days after the enactment of the said local optlotf tion commending the legislature- lor this action; ' And whereas, the demand for and the popularity of this law, based, as it is, upon the democratic principle that the majority shall rule, has been abundantly demonstrated by the prompt action of several counties in at least five congressional districts in the northern, southern, eastern and west ern portions of our state, in accepting its provisions, and many other coun ties have petitioned the commissioners to call elections as provided by this law; and that the result of all the elec tions thus held, whether in republican or democratic counties, has conclusively shown by the large majorities against the continuance of places for the sale of intoxicating liquors, it is a question of morals and civic right eousness and not of partisan politics. This, too, has been demonstrated by our legislators, as no legislation favorable to temperance has ever been secured except by the votes of both republicans and democrats in the legis lature; And whereas, while every enactment of a legislature should have a fair and timely trial before amendment or repeal, a bill to repeal said county op tion law has been introduced in the legislature in less than ninety days after the law became operative; Therefore, we the undersigned, the members of the legislative committees of Indiana and Western Yearly Meet ings of Friends, officially represent ing a membership in Indiana of more than thirty thousand, respectfully but solemnly protest against the repeal or amendment of the county local option law By the same authority we protest against any amendment of our present Sunday law which prohibits the play ing of any baseball, football or other game, where a fee is charged on the first day of the week, commonly call ed Sunday. We also protest against our present iniquitous divorce laws, by which, according to statistics, in some of our counties one-fifth, and in the average of the entire state one-seventh of the marriages are annulled by our courts. We respectfully pray your honorable bodies to so amend our divorce laws as to greatly lessen the crying evils from the administration of our pres ent statute. We respectfully suggest an amend ment which shall prevent the trial of a divorce suit in less than six months af ter it has been filed, and that no di vorced person shall be permitted to marry in less than one year after the annulment of a previous marriage, Very respectfully, TIMOTHY NICHOLSON. Merchant, Richmond BENJAMIN F. MARSH. Attorney, Winchester ELISHA B. RATCLIFF, Farmer, Spiceland WILLIAM P. HENLEY. Banker, Carthage DAVID HADLEY, Minister, Danville MURRAY KENWORTHY, Professor Biblical Literature and Greek. Earlham College. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair and cold Sunday with

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G. BARNARD SHAW. ELVOOD M'GUIBE HAS GIVEN T0Y,M,C.A. Second Contribution of Well Known Local Mahufccturer Is to Heto in Raising the De licit. $3,000 IS SECURES WITHOUT SOLICITING Plans About Completed to Canvass for Necessary Amount Wonderful Membership Growth Shown. Although the finance committee of the Young Men's Christian associa tion has made no canvass to secure the funds needed to raise the $15,000 deficit, there have been several volun tary gifts made by citizens. Last evening another large gift was received by the committee. Mr. Elwood Mc Guire, a well known manufacturer, presented the committee with a check calling for $oOO. Mr. McGuire believes in the efficiency and benefit of the as sociation and this is the second sum of this amount to be given by him vol untarily. . The .first and largest, sub scription made since the deficit was announced was from R. G. Leeds for I2.50Q. Have Completed Plans.. The committee . which has . about campleted its plana for. raising money to meet the deficit, will, make public its "modus operandi" next week. With the success that has been met without making any solicitation from the citizens, it is believed by the committee that no difficulty will be encountered in secureing the needed sum. Over 600 Members. That the Richmond young, men and also the older men, including nearly all the business men, believe in the as sociation is attested by the fact that there have been enrolled CJ." members since December 27, when the' building was dedicated. Now that classes in the night school department - will - be opened soon, the list of -membership is expected to grow continually. The fondest hope of the officials in respect to the membership has been achieved and it is now believed that within the next month the membership will num ber approximately 80O.PECULII1RJCCIDEIIT Horse Found in Stall With Broken Leg From an Unknown Cause. HAD TO SHOOT THE ANIMAL When an employe of the Hackman Jb Klefoth Company went to the stables this morning he found a valuable horse down in the stall, suffering from a broken foreleg. How the horse's leg was Injured was an absolute mystery. It was necessary to shoot it. The value was about $150. There was no evidence the horse had caught its leg over the baiter strap, or that it had been taken from the stable and returned alter it had suffered the injury.

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Over Two Hundred Members

Of the Strong Odd . Fellows Lodge Attended the Affair Last Night. " c SECRETARY HANDLEY READS HIS REPORT Shows That the Lodge Is In Splendid Condition and That? ' Splendid Gains Were Mad3 Last Year'. ,l :! . . , i 1 .'.. . ' ' ; - Members of Whitewater Lodge Odd Fellows held their annual roll call . meeting last . evening at the lodge 'i , rooms. There were more than . 200 , members present and many who were t unable to attend sent letters.' Reports were read by ' Secretary Lawrence' Uandley and were most Interesting. The order served light refreshments .- and Instead of toasts being responded to, the. first decree work was given: by the. team. It was the first time many of the members had witnessed i the new work, which Is said to be the best ever instituted rin . the . order. Twenty-three membership applications, came in last evening. . " , Whitewater lodge - is perhaps - the largest of the local I. O. O.. F." lodges from . the point of membership. ' and . the wealthiest from the' standpoint of stock held in the Odd Fellows building. It was shown . that the k order owes $1,000 and has $400 in treas ury. It owns $23,700 jprorth or stock in the building fchtaia at the present, time is worth" about S4S.0O0. .' The en- ' tire expenditures for the. year were. f 2347.04. .This amounted to $328.25, fcjSer month, $83,59 per week.' $11.93 per day and 4ent pertow. , . is as follows; r : . Whitewater . lodge . has Invested In the stock br the . Odd Fellows Hall Building association $23,700 which, is the par value of 948 shares. .We own 148 shares more than half of the 6tock of this building, the . original cost of which was $10,000.00. There has always been an indebtedness on the building and it is only in recent years we have been able to see the end of I II ill UlUl. 1WJ IV IB f l,inra auu are paying on that indebtedness about $2,000 to $2,500 per year, so you can see that with good luck we will be able to report the debt as canceled in a few years. Then instead of a dividend of $948 which the lodge receives each year we will be able to swell that amount to at least $2,000. Then we will be In condition to do still more in carrying forward the. work of the order. . Year's Death Roll. Death has visited our lodge efght times during the past year and taken from among fls the following brethren: 4 Mansfield. Jefferles, March 16, 108. James L. Snow. April 18. Thomas W. Roberts, May 13. William Bellis, May 16. Charles Teale, July 22Li r ton Runyan, August 20. W. W. Spauldingr December 13. W. H. Wenger, December 13. Several Socials Given. It has been the habit of Whitewater lodge in late years to break the monotony of lodge work with numerous social sessions, but during the last year all affairs of that kind which necessitated the eipenditure of money was omitted. A year ago I reported to you the purchase of sixty-five shares of the capital stock of the Hall Building association and that the $1.000 we had borrowed to make up the purchase price of $1,C25 bad been paid back within one year from the time we borrowed it Some of the brethren may not know it but we have had a nurse constantly employed for Brother Chas. Evans, at Columbus. Ohio, for a period of nearly three years at the rate of $1.50 per nighL Within the last two months we have been able to cut that amount down to 75 cents per night. During nine months every night at $2.00 per night for Brother John S. McGraw. and I am happy to be able to state to you that this nurse has been dispensed with. Following is a report of the expenditures for nurse hire death and relief of all kinds from Jan. 1. 1908 to Jan. l.1909: For deaths of brothers, wives , and widows I 700.00 For nurses .. J,la7.Zi For other relief of all kinds, including Home 1.632-54 Total .. .. .. ..$3,577.75 Revenue of Lodge. Oar receipts for dues, fees, and dividends were $3,253.21 and the expense for rent, grand lodge tax. snpplies. salaries, insurance, postage, printing, etc, made it necessary that we borrow $1,000. This we have done, In the hope that we may have better luck in if year and soon be ah'e to pay (Continued on Paso Eight)