Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 99, 15 February 1909 — Page 1

BICHMOWB FATXABIUM AHD SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIV. XO. 99. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS. CHICAGO III GRIPKIBBEY SUIT IS FILED III COURT Quite a Number Are Now on File. THE REEVES CASE WILIJE SETTLED It Involved a Multiplicity of Mortgages. BILL OF Kaiser Bill and King Ed Hold Meeting in Berlin. OP SLEET ST DEMOCRATS READY TO BE PRESENTED

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MUCH SUFFERING Storm, Which Is Sweeping Eastward, Has Blocked Transportation and Done Considerable Damage.

GALE SWEEPING ALONG AT SIXTY MILE CLIP In the Northwest When Storm King Went on the Warpath, Many Unstable Buildings Were Wrecked. Chicago, Feb. 15. Chicago is in the irrasn of a sleet storm which being general over the northwest, has prac tically tied up commerce. As a result of the sleet and cold yesterday telephone and telegraph communication has been temporarily de ranged and train service on all roads leading to Chicago and over the entire 'territory visited by the cold wave ha3 been greatly hampered, i Telegraph comunication between Chicago and New York was almost at H standstill last night and it became necessary to call into service such long distance telephone wires as remained intact. Over the city telephone service was ' deranged and tho wire men of the telephone companies were kept at work day and night tnendlng crossed wires and broken connections. High Wind Causes Wreck. 1 The wind beginning Saturday night maintained such velocity as to wreck Unstable buildings, ad much damage lias been reported, not only in the city s but over the northwest. , While the cold has not been interne ' much suffering has been found by. the - police and - representatives of 'Charitable organizations. These latter were kept busy yesterday acting on the advice of the police to who mpersons in teed applied for assistance. - Traffic has been hampered by the tall of sleet and throughout the day extra gangs of men in the employ of the street department were kept busy . blearing the streets. The street rail ways kept salt cars on the tracks aV Bay. Cold Wave Goes East. Reports made to the local weather station last evening showed that the Cold wave was being hurried eastward y by the sixty mile an hour gale and that the effects of it were being felt throughout the Ohio valley and other boints. The storm came unpredicted by the 1 tveather man. According to the foreCast given out Saturday night there ftoould have been "snow and somewhat Solder, with Monday generally fair. 'he forecast given out yesterday, "snow and colder Monday, with high northeast to north winds," will prove Correct. The storm of rain, turning Into sleet which continued throughout yesterday forenoon, wrought havoc to telegraph tines and delayed railroad and street Car traffic. Rain was reported from Cairo, 111., find elsewhere throughout the Ohio Valley and in the East. Snow fell throughout Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, western Missouri and Oklahoma. Farther west the weather was cold and clear. RAIN 'AND LIGHTNING. Evansville, Ind., Feb. 15.- One of the worst electrical storms in years passed over Evansville and Southern Indiana yesterday and considerable damage resulted. In some places the rainfall amounted almost to a cloud burst. The Ohio River here stood 16.1 feet at 6 o'clock Saturday night and at. 6 at night it stood 20-6 feet. A Stage of 30tfeet on this rise is expected. Most of the side streams of the Jower Ohio are rising rapidly tonight and rain is still falling. CHURCH BLOWN DOWN. Learned. Miss., Feb. 15. A storm truck this place from the northwest about two o'clock yesterday with ter rific force, blowing down a negro church, killing Dick Harris's wife, and one child of Maggie Bennett and injuring several personsAbout seventy-five persons were in the building at the time. If It had not been for the arched ceiling all probably would bave been killed. s . WAS A SNOWBURST, Hamilton. Ohio, February 15. The C, H. and D. linemen were all ordered out at 11 o'clock last night to prepare for the snowburst that struck Lima, Ohio, at 10:20 tonight, starting from Detroit. All telegraph lines are reported down at Lima and north. The thermometer dropped 35 degrees from C to 11 o'clock p. m. in this city. NO SIGN OF LIFE. Pensacola, Fla... February 15. The ocean-going tug Simpson, which reached Pensacola Sunday afternoon, reported passing Saturday, about 100 inlles east of Pensacola, the wreck of

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INEXCUSABLE IS LIE GOODWIN SAYS No Argument Over the Falsehood Question at Baptist Church Meeting. ALFRED DAVIS DISAGREES HE STATES THAT A FIB IS PERMISSABLE SOMETIMES, CITING THE FACT THAT MOSES WAS SAVED BY A LIE. Whether a person is ever justified in telling a lie and whether or not a liar is justified before the Lord, was the question of debate between members of the brotherhood of the First Baptist church yesterday afternoon. The difference of opinion existing between the members was not placed to a vote and the Question was, therefore, not settled. Secretary George L. Goodwin of the Y. M. C. A. took the stand that a liar Is never justified before the Lord. He declared that a truth was always better, no matter what the circumstances might be. -Excuses For Liars. Alfred Davis and A. J. Ford made the arguments that a man in many instances was justified in telling a lie. Mr. Ford referred to the fact that Moses was saved by a lie. It was also stated that in the diplomatic relations of countries, trouble had been averted, by the use of fies. Reference supporting this allegation vas made to the relations between Spain and the United States, it being said that the two countries remained on peaceable terms for eight years before war was finally declared. Mr. Davis also stated that in every day life, tragedies were often averted by the use of lies. Mr. Goodwin remained obdurate to all arguments tending to convince the others in attendance, that lies did not have their place in the world. FREIGHT WRECK - AT SPENSER, IND. Several Trainmen Hurt But None Killed. Speucer, Ind., Feb. 13. Today an east bound double-header freight train of the Vincennes division of the Vandalia road crashed Into the rear end of freight train No. 81 derailing both engines and several cars. The injured are: William Mac Allen, J. Grinen, E. E. Calvin, E. Browning and Harvey Wilhite who are all trainmen, living in Indianapolis. The accident occurred near Romona and was due to misconstrued orders. MOTION SUSTAINED. In the case of , Edwin M. Campfield vs. the German Insurance company, the motion of the plaintiff's counsel to strike, ont certain words In the an.

BOYS WILL IN THE WORK Y. M. C. A. Lads Hope Raise $1 00 Toward Securing Secretary. to COMPETITION VERY KEEN FIRST CLASS TO RAISE $10 AND THE ONE WHICH RAISES THE MOST WILL BE GIVEN A FINE BANQUET. Saturday, February 20 will be. Boys' day in the local Y. M. C. A. Orville Brunson, local secretary for boys' is planning to have the Richmond division do its s'aare in raising funds for a state secretary of boy's work. He says that Indiana is greatly behind the neighboring states in the organization of the boy's department of Y. M. C. A. work. It has no state secretary for boy's work and very few boys' departments. At present Richmond is one of the four cities of the state which has a boys secretary, giving all his time to the work. But Brunson believes that all this will be changed if funds can be raised and a state secretary put in charge of the boys' work. This secretary would unify the departments that now exist and organize one In each of the cities that support a Y. M. C. A. To aid the movement the local boys' department has pledged $100. The ten boys' Bible classes propose to raise the sum next Saturday. Bright and early every boy in these classes will be out" helping, to raise the ten dollars, which is the share his class must contribute. To encourage the boys, Secretary Brunson has promised a banquet to the class which first reports with its ten dollars and also the class which raises the largest sum. The presidents of the other eight Bible classes will serve the banquet to the winners. HEW YORK FLYER HITS A BOWLDER Pullmans Turn Turtle But the Steel Sides Save Lives Of the Passengers. GOING 60 MILES AN HOUR ALTERNATING FREEZES . AND THAWS CAUSED BIG STONE TO BECOME LOOSENED AND ROLL UPON THE TRACK. Altoona Pa., Feb. 15. The Pennsylvania eighteen hour "flyer' from Chicago to New York, struck a huge boulder while traveling sity miles an hour, in a thick fog, at daylight this morning. Four Pullmans left the rails and two turned over on their sides. The steel ears of the train withstood the Impact wonderfully. . No passenger sustained an Injury worse than a severe shock. The recent alternating freeses and thaws are supposed to haveloosened th boulder

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Suit has been filed in the Wayne circuit court in behalf of Joseph rf. Jenckes vs. Frank C. Kibbey and Caroline Kibbey on notes; demand $3,500. The Kibbeys are involved in a number of suits now on file against them in the circuit court.

AMERICAN GUNS WERE LOCKED UP; BACON GETS BUSY Those Bloomin' Canuks Be lieved That We Blawsted Yankees Were Invading Their Bloody Old Country. AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS THREATENED Two Light Batteries Traverse Canadian Soil and the Howl That Goes Up Was Heard In London. Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. Secretary of State Robert Bacon at last has justified his appointment by a bril liant stroke of diplomacy. He not only effected an armed invasion of Canada but, further, secured the withdrawal of the expedition without the loss of a man or gun or without an open declaration of hostilities with the government of Great Britain. At one time, however, it looked bad, Wabash railroad, the general staff, the department of state, the British embassy in Washington, the United States embassy in London, the Canadian government and the British foreign office were required to avert disaster to the American army of invasion. And at the end of the drama, similar to many others, enter Theodore Roosevelt. To begin with, the army of Invasion was weak numerically, consisting merely of two light batteries of artillery from Ft. D. A. Russell, at Cheyenne, Wyo., without infantry or cavalry support. The expedition into Canada was not in the original plan, but merely an incident to the batteries' trip from their American post to the Philippines, these troops being among the many affected by a recent general order, which considerably strengthens the United States garrisons in the Orient. As a matter of fact, the entire army is just now being given what in New York police parlance would be called a "general shakeup." And Prayed for War. The quartermaster's department, which has to do with the transportation of troops, was notified by the general staff last fall which troops were to go there. Among other .things it was called upon to provide transportation for two batteries of light artillery from Cheyenne to the transport Kilpatrick, which will sail from New York to the Philippines via Suez Monday. Bids were advertised for, and the Union. Pacific railroad, as the lowest bidder, was awarded this contract. The battery packed up, told its respective girls good-bye, prayed for war with Japan and was ready to move. In the meantime some astute individual connected with the war department discovered that the Union Pacific had routed the train from Chicago to Buffalo, via Detroit, over the Wabash, and that the train, bearing the United States troops fully armed, uniformed and thirsting for gore, would pass through Canada from Windsor to Niagara. He called this fact to the attention of the secretary of war, who wrote a nice letter to the state department asking it to fix it up. Enter, now, Robert Bacon. Bacon Got Busy. With a business-like brevity, acquired at Broad and Wall streets. New York, when he was a junior partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Bacon sent Secretary Wright's note, with a real nice note of his own, to the . British foreign, office by way of the customary diplomatic channels. He merely asked if the British government would mind a- few United States soldiers going across a very small corner of the British domain. "My Word!" and Also "Den It!" What happened in Downing street is not a matter of record, but it is unofficially reported that Downing street jointly, severally and individually, had a fit, and that the third under secretary of : state said to the fourth deputy keeper of the seal, in a fit of anger: r. "My word! What -an extraordinary' proceeding." At any rate, Mr. Bacon's little missive was dated January 9. About Jan-

TAFT WILL TAKE OATH OF OFFICE ON A-MEW BIBLE Century Old Sacred Book of The Supreme Court Not to Be Used by Clerk of the Supreme Court. CLEVELAND USED BOOK OF HIS MOTHER

Presidents Desire to Keep Bibles They Take Oath on As Valuable Keepsakes of Their Families. Washington, Feb. 13. That the incoming president always takes the oath of office on a Bible and that the chief justice of the United States administers the oath is generally known, but not where the Bible comes from. The one who is able to give more information on this subject than any other is James H. McKenney, clerk of the supreme court, the man who always has the sacred book at the right place at the right time, and in whose hands strange to say, it always so opens that the august personage who is about to pledge his fidelity to the constitution and the best interests of the United States finds his palm resting upon some passage which is an augury of good for all concerned. The purchase of the book is one of the "perquisites" of the clerk. Generally New Bible. "No," said Mr. McKenney, in response to a question, "no, we do not use our century-old Bible for swearing iii of presidents, but it often happens that the clerk ' supplies a new book for the occasion. It is the intention that the man who takes the oath of office should have the volume as a keepsake, and it generally transpires that his family, If not himself

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nowever, nor even in a majority oi cases, are we called upon to supply a new book, for it frequently happens that the president or some member of his family, is the owner of some treasured volume of the Scriptures, which it is desired that he should use upon this occasion. Present From Mother. "This was not the case when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated. He was the owner of a small Bible, not longer than your hand, and which apparently had seen much usage. His mother had presented it to him when he was a boy, and he had treasured it ever since. When he was consulted about taking the oath when first inaugurated as president, he stated that he desired his mother's present should be used for this purpose. When the oath was administered to him at the beginning of his second administration the same volume, which on this occasion had been hunted out by Mrs. Cleveland, was again brought forward and again presented as the one upon which her husband should make his pledges. Gift of Negro Bishops. "Quite in contrast with this little volume was the one used in administering the oath to Mr. McKinley. The negro bishops joined together and presented to Mr. McKinley one of the biggest books I have ever seen. It was an extraordinarily large family Bible, bound in heavy morocco, trimmed in gold and stored in a much ornamented box. I remember very well that I was quite fagged out from carrying it to the senate chamber and from that chamber to the platform in front of the capitol. After the Bibla had been used for this purpose I turned it over to the president but notwithstanding he had already received it. the donors afterward called at the white house and presented it with formal speeches to which Mr. McKinley made appropriate reply. In Roosevelt's Case. "President Roosevelt was sworn in on a Bible that had been used for the same purpose when he was inaugurated governor of New York. We had bought a Bible for his inauguration when we received word from Mrs. Roosevelt that she preferred the use of their own volume, and it was' accordingly substituted. "We still have on hand the Bible bought for that occasion, but we shall not use it for Mr. Taft. Unless he furnishes a book himself we will- get a new one. and will keep the Roosevelt Bible on hand for emergencies, such, for instance, as occurred when Arthur took the oath of office in this city. He had been sworn in New York, but it was suddenly decided that it would be safer to administer the oath In Washington. "Accordingly, Chief Justice Waite and about twenty other people of prominence were called very suddenly together In the vice president's room at the capitol. I had to send uptown for a book, and had but a few minutes to execute the commission. I succeeded however in getting the book in time for the ceremony, and was one of the few present when Mr. Garfield's successor wast initiated Into his high office. . ' - '- "We now make it a point to have an available book on hand at all tiMe, and will probably keep the Roostfrslt

Announcement has been made that the Reeves case, which has been in litigation in the circuit court for several months probably will be settled within a short time. The case involves the possession of property on which there was a multiplicity of mortgages.

RAINEY IS ANGRY OVER THE SPEECH MADE BY TAFT Illinois Congressman Takes As Personal the Remarks About Panama Scandal Made by President-elect. PROMISES GIVE FACTS REGARDING THE CANAL Critic Still Insists That a Scheme Is on Foot to Acquire Many Valuable Rights In the Zone. Washington, Feb. 15. Congressman Rainey of Illinois takes as personal to himself the declaration made by President-elect Taft at Meridian, Miss. that people should not be "led astray by buncombe speeches on the floor of the house of representatives." Mr. Taft was talking about the Panama Canal, and evidently had in mind the sensational speech In which Mr. Rainey mentioned the names of Charles P. Taft, William Nelson Cromwell and others in connection with schemes to exploit timber and railroad rights on the isthmus. In commenting upon the statement of the president-elect Mr. Rainey said: Rainey Promises Facta. "The president-elect, like the president, members of congress and news papers who have attacked me because of my Panama Canal charges, is but throwing dust over the real issue. shall answer all of them for once and all before the end of the present session of congress and when I do come back at them with the facts I will really give them something to talk about. "Neither Mr. Taft nor anyone else has as yet made a real answer to my charges concerning the spoliation scheme now being attempted upon the Isthmus of Panama," continued Rep resentative Rainey. "They have over looked the real issues, and instead have come forward as mere character witnesses for William Nelson Crom well and others, who are behind one of the most stupendous grabs ever un dertaken. I have made no attack upon the Panama Canal project itself. I am in hearty sympathy with it, as are all the American people, but offered this evidence to show that there is a scheme afoot to acquire the various timber and railroad rights of the Isthmus by improper means, and that the present administration and the incoming administration are both aware of it. Apology Not to be Made. "When I make my final speech, on the floor of the house I shall not make an apology to President Obaldia, Mr. Cromwell. Mr. Taft or anyone else. I can deliver the goods and will do so. I am only waiting for those wao are now attacking me to conclude these attacks and when I do reply I do not expect to descend to their level of personal abuse." In his speech Mr. Rainey charged President Obaldia of Panama with treason, declaring that he was hand-in-glove with American financial buc caneers. GET ft WIRELESS FROM THE FLEET "Everybody Is Happy" sage Reads. MesPortsmouth, N. H., Feb. 13 The wireless station here this morning caught messages from the battleship Connecticut In North latitude, thirty six longitude eight. The message sent by the fleet was: "Fair weather; everybody happy." THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA AND OHIO Fair Tuesday I

Measure ts Duplicate of One Introduced Two Years Ago And Which Was Nearly Made a Statute. WELLS OF FORT WAYNE IS BILL'S SPONSOR

Purpose Is to Purify Methods Of Political Parties by Which Nominations Are Made Provisions. Palladium Bursa Indianapolis, Feb. IS. The democratic primary elections bill, the one that is to receive the suplort of the party in both houses of the legislature, has made its appear ance in the bill introduced by Representative Wells, of Fort Wayne. It is the same as the bill that was in troduced in the house two years ago. by Representative Downey, of 8helbyville and which came near to going through, even though the republicans were in the majority in the house. .Two years ago Reoresentativ King, of Wabash, who Is now the republican floor leader In the house. voted for the Downey bill as against' the Roemler primary bill, but whether he will do so this time is not known. To "Purify" Methods. The bill says this in the first sec tion: "It is the intention, of this act to purify and reform the methods by which organized political parties shall make nominations of candidates for public ' offices, to perpetuate and strengthen political parties by eliminating .therefrom the ' evils hereby sought to be corrected, to secure to each Individual member of such party an absolute freedom and Independence in the expression of his preferences relating to nominations by such parties and ' to prevent and prohibit the use and influence of Improper and corrupt methods. "It is not the intention hereof to destroy or Impair the organization of any party now existing or hereafter to exist, therefore each of such parties and each and all of the committees thereof shall possess all of the ordinary powers and authority heretofore established by the usages, traditions and customs of such parties not inconsistent with the provisions hereof, and this act shall be so construed as to give force and effect to this expressed Intention." The, Primary Elections. Following this explanation of the intention of the law follow the provisions regulating nominations. The bill provides that all nominations for congressman, members of the legislature, judge, prosecutor and all state, county, township, city and town offices shall be made at primaries and applies to all parts of the state. It also provides for the election of members of the state, county, township, city and town central committees of each partjr at primaries. The state central committee shall consist of one member from each congressional district and it shall have power to elect a chairman, vice chairman, treasurer and such other officers as It shall deem proper, at a meeting to be held on the third Tuesday in April after each primary election, at such place as shall be fixed by the chairman of the state committee. The state committee shall have authority to call a state convention for the election of delegates to the national convention and to nominate presidential electors. Elect Committeemen. . The county central committee shall consist of one member from each township in the county, to be elected by the voters of the party, but in any township where the vote of a political party at the last preceding election for secretary of state exceeded 300 the party shall be entitled to one committeeman for each SOO votes or fraction thereof In such township. The county committee shall meet on the third Tuesday. in April, on the call of the chairman of the committee and or ganize by electing officers. The township central committee shall consist of one member for each voting precinct in the township, but where there are less than three precincts in the township the voters at large shall elect three members who shall compose the committee. This committee shall meet on the third Tuesday In April after the primary and organize by electing officers. The city central committee shall consist of one member from each voting precinct in the city at each city primary election, and shall meet on the first Tuesday In August and organize and elect officers. Town central committees n consist of five persons to be i!-tJi y the voters at large la such town at the primary election for the nomin ation of candidates for town trustee.

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