Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 194, 21 May 1909 — Page 1

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AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 194. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, 31 AY 21, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS. TOD ALL WEATHER IS SAHEJO SHERIFF A Little Rain Don't Spoil His Fishing Trips.

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ADVENTURE'S CALL IS LESS WELCOME All Because "Waddy" Is a Proud Papa Now. FIGHT MADE FOR Henry H. Rogers Laid to Rest

OFFICERS GUARD WHILE SERVICES ARE HELD TODAY Funeral of the Late Multimillionaire Standard Oil King, Rogers, Held Under Eyes of Many Sleuths.

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WARSHIPS SENT TO THE RESCUE hev. David C. Huntington Sent Appeal to State Department, Praying for Action in Turk Massacres. ACTING SECRETARY CALMED HIS FEARS Sends Letter to Divine Telling Him That Turkish Troubles Are Satisfactory and ..i Sit-

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In response to his protest the Rev. David C. Huntington, ? rector of St. ' Paul's Episcopal church has received a letter from the secretary of Senator .Elihu Root assuring him that ample protection is being afforded American missionaries in Turkey. After reading of the tortures and deaths of missionaries at Adana. the Rev, Mr. Huntington, forgetting at the time ' that Elihu Root no longer Is secretary of state wrote a letter to that digni(tary asking him to use his influence i with the government to provide pro jection for the missionaries. The rector informed Senator Root that inasmuch as the country could afford to spend an immense amount of money to send the Atlantic fleet on a practice cruise around the world, he believed It could afford to send at least one battleship to Turkey to pro tect the Americans there. The divine aid he believed the - lives of these Americana as valuable as the benefit that may be gained from the practice cruise of the fleet. Letter From Wilson. The letter from the secretary to the flev. Mr. Huntington follows: "Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt, Ay reference by Senator Root, of your tetter addressed to him on the 10th instant. In regard to the disturbances la Turkey. I have the pleasure to say that official reports from Turkey Indicate that . the re-established Constitutional Government is taking vigorous measures for the complete restoration of order, and that troops have been hurried to the disturbed districts which, it is hoped, will prevent a recurrence of the recent lamentable destruction of Innocent life and property. 1 1 am, 8ir, Your obedient servant. HUNTINGTON WILSON, Acting Secretary." " TAKES JXCEPTIOMS iformer Congressman Cousins - Denies Patten's Wheat Prediction. A GREAT CROP PROSPECT Chicago, May 21. The declaration of fames A Patten that higher wheat prices will continue and a short harvested was criticised by Former Congressman Robert G. Cousins of Tipton, Iowa, who Is at the Auditorium hotel. "I have just returned from a tour of the middle west he said." While Patten is a man with large experience and great scope to draw from In hie predictions, what I have seen and know do not support his contentions, especially regarding the coming wheat crops. Prospects for a great crop and excellent yield were never better. The winter wheat crop may be a little short, but spring crops will be hampers. In many places people are sowIns wheat in their dooryards, every foot of farm being under cultivation. Air. Patten- ha overdrawn the true condition of affairs.' G0VEIE1EIIT17ILI YIELDJO DEMAIID .English to Add Eight More Dreadnaughts to Navy. London. Uay 21. The Pall Mall Geunces today that the sjovit has yielded to the Insistent of the public and will build eight Dreadnaughts during the present fiscal year. The agitation over heavier armaments ha stirred- Bbglaad snore deeply than any other national question in many years. .:. . HEAVY LIABILITIES Chicago, Hay '. 21. Maxwell - Brothers Company, a lumber firm, filed petition in bankruptcy today. Liabilities are $450,000. A receiver is appst for- - - 4

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While everybody is complaining of the weather and wearing a perpetual look of scorn, L P. Meredith, the high sheriff of the county enjoys fishing trips. . Yesterday in company with Attorney Will Kelley he disported along the creek bank and this morning the pair was telling a real for sure fish tale. It was a whopper, but nobody smiled.

MAY CULL UPON SUPREME COURT Bank of Bryan vs. Millet Case Is a1 Very Complicated One. WILL DEMAND RESEARCH IT WILL BE HEARD FIRST IN THE CIRCUIT COURT COMPLAINT IS ONE OF THE LONGEST EVER FILED HERE. In announcing he would sustain the demurrers to the answers to the complaint in the case of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Bryant vs. Miller, Judge Fox stated it is probable the case will go to the supreme court regardless of the circuit court decision. The court held, the paragraphs of the complaint good but the paragraphs of the answers bad. ' The court said the Question is not a clear one and demands ' considerable research. The complaint In this case is one of the longest ever placed on file in the Wayne circuit court. It contained fifty-two paragraphs originally and since has been amended several times. Up to Attorneys. .' The attorneys have not determined whether the trial will require a jury for settlement or jaaL-Pne of the. attorneys appears to- favor a lury trial and the other says there are so many important' points of law involved that) he would prefer a trial before the judge. The court has left the matter with the attorneys for a decision. The ease was- brought to the local court on a change of venue proceeding from Jay county. GRAND OPERA MATCH Miss Farrar and Signor Scotti Will Be Married in June, HTis Said. G00-G00ED AT A DINNER New York, May 13. Miss Geraldine Farrar, the American- diva, will wed Signor Scotti, the grand opera star, in June, in Paris, it was learned today. Mies Farrar confided the secret to a friend, who in turn confided it to the reporters. . At a farewell dinner at The Netherland, the first Inkling of the engagement was made known through their impassioned glances at each other. FEAR Ail ABDUCTION Corona, 111., May 21. Twelve year old Grace Terry Is missing from her home and her parents fear she has been abducted. A general alarm was sent out today. SCARED THE WOMEN A Fugitive Flying Squirrel on Main Street Causes Near Riot. CAPTURED BUT ESCAPED A sportive flvinsr saulrrel at Eighth and Main streets last evening furnished considerable amusement to a number of boys and men, and unpleasant excitement for a number of women. The squirrel was discovered by a gang of lads, running across Rirtith and Main streets, and pursuit was instantly made. It ran from sidewalk to sidewalk.' Women hurried to get out of its path, pulling their dresses up as they ran. " The squirrel finally secured entrance to a drug store and ran In ; and out from behind bottles on the cases. It was finally captured but gained its freedom through a hole in the floor of 8immoaa's Cigar Store. -

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WHO SHALL APPOINT Will Mayor or Board of Public Works Name the Dairy Inspector. HEALTH BOARD TO DICTATE Whojappoints - the .. dairy, inspector, the new municipal ' office created by council last Monday evening? ; . Mayor Schillinger stated yesterday that he was not certain whether he or the board of works made the appoint ment. This question will be settled soon and an officer named, who shall start on his duties immediately. It is more than probable that a local citizen will be given the position and one who is not a veterinary surgeon, either.' , ' ;V" : From certain viewpoints. Mayor Schillinger thinks that he appoints the Inspector, under the ordinance. From another standpoint, the dairy inspector office is under the supervision of the board of health and it 4s probable that this board will nominate a man and the board of works appoint him. DEED OF A MOTHER East Hampton, Conn., May 21. Mrs. Louis Carsten cut the throats of her three children on her farm near here this morning and then attempted suicide. Two of the children are dead. The mother and a son are dying. Presumably the woman was insane. WILL GO TO DAYTOli Business of v Importance will ; come before Triumph lodge Knights of Pythls this evening. Arrangements will be made to go to Dayton in a body next Wednesday and attend a session of the Oregon lodge of that city. TO TAKE COMMUNION A class of 32 of St. Mary's parochial school will take first communion Sunday morning at 8 o'clock at the church. - ' The program will be arranged. later. BIG QUAKE CAUSE OFjllS IliSAIHTY Geneva Man to Be Taken to Easthaven- Hospital. Suffering from derangement that resulted from the San Francisco earthquake, Isaac Hilty, of Geneva, is to be brought to the Eastern Indiana Insane Hospital. - Hilty was- employed In a livery stable when the earthquake occurred and tried to make his escape from it. He found the doors closed and unable to open them, went Insane from fright. - He has been- In a California institution and returned to , the home of Geneva relatives. He became violent recently and had to be locked

TWO ARE ARRESTED Men Held at Spokane Suspicioned as Being Train Robbers. HELD UP GREAT NORTHERN Spokane,.. ash .t y a rfM Slatten and' J S. Melnnis . have been arrested on suspicion of being two of the robbers who held up the Great Northern mail train near Colbert last Saturday. FROM GOOD FAMILY, Winnipeg, Man., May 21. J. S. McInnis, a telegraph operator, comes from one of the leading families here. "Doc," as he was sometimes called. Is said to have wandered a great deal, and was last heard from in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. ROOY IS CREMATED London, May 21. The body of Geo. Meredith, the novelist, was cremated today. , MONGOLIAN FREES HERSELF OF ICE Big Steamer This Afternoon Pulls Away From the Frozen Pack. 500 PASSENGERS ABOARD BIG STEAMER SEVERAL DAY8 AGO RAN INTO AN ICE JAM OFF THE COAST OF NOVA SCOTIA AND STUCK FAST. BULLETIN. St. John's N. F May 21. The steamship Mongolian, with five hundred passengers aboard, freed herself this afternoon from the Ice pack where she had been Imprisoned for two days. She proceeded cautiously and apparently was not damaged. r St. John's N. F., May 21. Although the 500 "passengers on - the steamship Mongolian, of the Allan line, which is held fast m a big ice floe a short distance off this coast, are in no danger, many, are 'growing impatient and threatened to take to the ice and. walk to the shore as five have already done. Today the'stranded ship and the vast field of Ice rise and fall with the sea's heavy swell. ; But . the Mongolian's steel frame has withstood the grinding weight of her frigid fetters and. he I not leaking. The sailing schooner, Diana, returning from the Nortn. coast, tried yesterday to open up a channel at the harbor's narrow opening. . ? The forceful, steadr southern trnT of the Labrador current has carried the Ice pack and with it the Mongolian. a considerable distance south of the point where the ship lay Wednesday. On all aides of the vessel, stretches the leaespaet. hat Irregular lee field

GREAT BUSINESS OF OIL TRUST STOPPED

Fleets Lie Idly in Harbors and Oil Caravans on Desert Pay Tribute Deceased Was a Benefactor. New York, May 21. More than fifty detectives and policemen in plain clothes, besides dozens of uniformed officers, guarded the church of the Messiah at Park avenue and Thirtyfourth street today, while the funeral services for the late H. H. Rogers were being held. Twenty-five detectives accompanied the body from the residence to the church. No explanation of the precaution was obtainable. Immense throngs gathered about the residence early today but everything was solemnly quiet. Stopped for Two Hours. It is estimated that seventy-five thousand toilers ceased work during the ceremonies, the stupendous business of the Standard Oil company coming to a standstill all over the world. including the fleets in foreign harbors and wherever caravans were burdened with the standard's products. The fu neral services were simple, but were attended by famous and powerful money kings and monarchs of the business world. Dr. Robert Collyer conducted the services and the pallbearers were business associates of the dead multimillionaire. A special train took the xemains to Fair Haven, Ma,is. WAS A BENEFACTOR. Pittsburg, Pa., May 21. All operations on the National Transit Pipeline company, the Standard Oil company's transportation system,' from "Glean to Oklahoma, ceased for two hours today out of respect to the memory of the late Henry H. Rogers. Even the tel egraph system, which rivals the West ern Union and Postal companies in comprehensiveness, closed down- be tween the hours of ten and twelve today. Gift Brought to Light. - The death of ... Mr. Rogers has brought to light the fact that, like Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. John D. Archbold Mr. Rogers had a. favorite educational institution. The Meadville Theological school of the Unitarian church at Meadville,. Pa., was ; the recipient of 1125,000 under the name of the "Rob ert Collyer funds. H. H. Rogers was the benefactor . and he adopted this means of keeping the matter from the public Many other instances are giv en of Mr. Rogers's unostentatious benefactions but, as he was emphatic in providing that the matter be kept secret, those Interested refuse to name the sums or the Institutions. SHARPLESS COMING President of Haverford College Will Give Lectures At Earlham. FIRST SATURDAY EVENING President Isaac Sharpless of Haverford College, one of the most noted workers In the Interest of the Friends and a prime mover in the great peacemovement, will be at Earlham College, commencing Saturday evening, to give four Jectures on the various phases of Quakerism. Pres. Sharpless has made a thorough study of Quakerism in Its different phases and Is well versed. The first lecture will be given- Satur day evening In Lindley Hall. The subject will be Quakerism and Moral Reform. On Sunday morning he will speak In the chapel on the subject of "Quakerism and . Creed. President Kelly has extended a cordial invitation to the public. ROB A POST OFFICE Zanesiille, Ohio, May 21 The post office at New Concord. Ohio, was burglarised this morning. The robbers secured eighteen hundred dollars' worth of plunder. TAFT HOME AGAII1 Washington, May , 21. President Taft arrived here at 11 o'clock from hla Southern trip. . He is in. excellent health.' - -

Taps of the big bell in the tower on No. l hose house summoning him to desperate action are not welcomed near as much today by Carl Wadman, the popular hoseman, as they were yesterday. And it is all Carl's fault He thinks now of last night's visitor to his house a ten-pound baby boy. "Waddy" was one of the happiest men in town- today and his friends were rejoicing with him, after they heard the news and Indulged in his havanas. Mrs. Wadman and the baby are doing well, but Carl broke a window in the engine house this morning, while washing it, as he chanced to see the reflection of his smile.

A TRAVELING MAIL FOUND (II BUGGY Lynn, Ind., Wrought Up Over The Queer Actions of a Salesman. WAS MISSING FOR WEEKS THI8 WAS LEARNED WHEN HIS FIRM WAS NOTIFIED IT IS BE LIEVED THE STRANGER IS MEN TALLY DERANGED. Lynn, Ind., May 21. Temporarily deranged in mind, James Stout, a sales man for the Gray tobacco company of Toledo, Ohio, was found ensconsed in a carriage on the farm of Prank Kinsey, one mile east of here this morn ing. When Kinsey went out to the barn this morning he noticed the carriage had been run out some time during the night. - He made an investigation and found Stout asleep within. ; Hs awoke the stranger and being unable to, receive, intelligent f answers Ltrom him, summoned th3 marshal from Lynn. Stout was brought here and later taken to Winchester and placed in jail. Stout did not appear rational at any time this morning. He claimed hs was in Columbus. Ohio, and kept talk ing about his wife being dead. Hs was at Lynn- yesterday and appeared rational. The marshal telephoned to the Gray company at Toledo and learn ed that the man had not been heard from for three or four weeks and the company had become alarmed about him. It is probable he will be taken to the Ohio city. - - IS HOW BELIEVED JOHIISOII ESCAPED For Days Life Prisoner Has Been Hiding Within the Prison. SEARCH WAS FRUITLESS TWO BURGLARIES COMMITTED IN . COLUMBUS LAST NIGHT LED TO OPINION NEGRO 13 OUTSIDE OF WALLS. i Columbus. O., May 21. Prison officials now believe that Harvey John son, the daring holdup man. who mysteriously disappeared inside the prison walls a few days ago. Is outside of the prison. Two burglaries were committed last night by a man who tallies with his description. Since noon Wednesday the peniten tiary officers and guards have been searching for him and twice daring Wednesday night he was seen. One of the wall guards said he saw him stick his head out of a bolt shop window and he fired. The bullet was afterward found imbedded near , the window. Captain Krouse, of . the guardroom also saw the little negro. but was unable to capture him on ac count of the darkness. A double guard was on duty all last night and Warden Jones slept only two hours. The entire floor in bolt shop No. C where the desperate colored ma worked, was . ripped up and . traces were found of Johnson, where he had crawled beneath the floor. His work ing clothes were found there and also a very crude. Improvised ladder. Warden Jones has issued an order that the guards shall shoot to kill It Johaaon do not voluntarily give up. r DoubT guards were put on yesterday. 8ome of the prisoners said that he might hava crawled into one of the penitentiary sewers. ... THE WEATHER FHOPIIET.

INDIANA Prebas'r fair

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nuls for Years Any Work Congress May Do Toward Making Such Legislation. ARE OTHER TANGLES FOUND IN THE CASE Many People Say the Feature Would Produce Frauds, the Rich Would Escape Paying And Many Would Suffer. Washington. D. C, May 21. People with swollen fortunes and those In a ' fair way to graduate into that class because of their excessive annual revenues need not sit up nights worrying about the prospect of a federal income tax.' There is a good deal of talk about such a thing Just now, but ft to well understood that no such law can- be put on the statute books at the present time and probably not for many a long day to come. Several senators have relieved themselves of a good deal of buncombe Intended for coneumpttoa by their constituents, but most of them know they are perfectly safe, and1 many of them would be frightened to death If they thought there was the HgM prospect of aa Income tax being voted by congress at the present time. The senate might adopt such aa amendment, although that to hardly probable. Even If it did the amendment could not pass the hoase under present conditions without opening up a fierce debate which would postpone action on the tariff for fVMiths and possibly Indefinitely. EfTerte of Cummin Ksrwsst. . Some senators, like If r. Cummins of lowa, honestly believe In an income tax and would vote for It at the prss " eat time hscsuss lltsj think Os aeve noes under the proposed tartar bCl will be a great disappointment. Hr. Aldrich has suggested that the judiciary committee should look Into the matter and report next winter whether a constitutional Income tax law can be drawn, an-1 If so., whether there Is any need for the revenues it .would produce. Unfortunately for those who believe , the United States should resort to a tax on incomes as an ordinary means of raising revenue, there are several things In the way, and the senators composing the Judiciary committee understand that probably better than any body else. First of all is the position taken by the United States . supreme court. Its decision is as good law today as It ever was.;. That is to say. the principles laid down by the supreme court are for the present at least the supreme law" of the ' land. , It makes no difference whether the court was unanimous or hot. Its decision is final until that same court chooses to reverse itself. Many, able lawyers ' believe the. Income tax law of "1894 should have been held constitutional" Others have the' contrary opinion. . Others ' think the 1894 law might be amended in such a way as to be approved by the court. The only way to find out whether the court has changed - ite views as the result of an infusion -of new blood or whether the last income tax law- can be amended so as to pass muster is to pass a new law of the same general character and have - It tested tn the' courts until the Supreme court ones more renders an opinion. Binding to Federal Courts. ' In the meantime the existing decision is aa binding upon any federal . court in the United States as if it were made yesterday. The difficulty is that in the two' decisions rendered .- by. the Supreme court knocking out ' the Income tax broad principles were applied. The law was not' found wantIng because of loosely drawn language. The court did not spilt up on technicalities, nor was the Income tax assailed because congress had failed ' to do certain things. - ' . On the contrary, the Supreme court attacked the general principle of the Income tax. In several particulars It was declared to be repugnant to the constitutional provision which prohibits the levying of a direct tax except in proportion to . population. The court did not go to the extent of declaring every feature of the law ns -constitutional. It' attacked certain - sections which were vital, and when they were ruled out the rest of the tow fell of its own weight. . : Unless there were a pressing demand for more revenue aa income tax -law could not - possibly be passed . through Tooth houses of congress. est cent aa the result of n tons; agitation . on that single subject. la the firstplace, the advocates of the taw C3er with each other greatly aa to the Ins- -- portant features. la spite ct te experience of Great ; Britain which ka -foand the Income tax a great revenue producer, there are many textaentbd oonxressnien who object seriously to' any sncn system or raising because they believe in the first

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