Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 241, 8 July 1909 — Page 2

TIIE RICHMOND PAL LADIUM AND SUM-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY. JULY 8, 1909.

JfAGE TWO..

TELEGRAPH CLERKS TO FUBIIISH CLUE . , - " .... Y' " A '''"'.- . -p-'"-Police Now Dependent Upon Them to Solve Elsie Sigel Murder. LEON IS STILL MISSING

TELEGRAPH EMPLOYES IN NEW YORK SEARCHED ALL LAST NIGHT HUNTING FOR TELEGRAM OF FUGITIVE. New York, July 8. Clerks in the employ of the Western t Union and Postal Telegraph' companies are now depended on to furnish a clue to the whereabouts qf William lL Leon, the murderer of Elsie Sigel. It has been established that on the day after Elsie Sigel's body "was found in a trunk in Leon's rooms, 782 "Eighth avenue, a messenger delivered a teleirram. supposedly from Leon; o the restaurant of Cow Sing & Co.. 17 Doyors street. Moy Han; who is an uncle of Young Dat. wbq Is 'implicated 'in the murder and hunted by the. police, is part owner of this restaurant. ';Young Dat is said to have been in hiding at that time at Moy Han's home, 53 Bayard street. Coulcfn't Write English. When tho boy; went to the restaurant with the message a ' number of Chinamen were there, but none "Could write English," and a Chinaman paseins on the street was called in to receipt for the telegram. . This, message Is supposed to have been hurried to Young Dat at 53 Bayard street. The clerks employed in sorting out the thousands of messages on that day, worked all last night, and it is expected the original will be in the hands of Police Captain Carey' today. This message may give a positive clue as to the direction Leon took when he Bkipped. ' MAKE THEIR REPORT Sinking Fund Commissioners Show $9,558.06 on ' July First. N HAVE BOUGHT UP BONDS The sinking fund commission made report to council last evening in which the condition of the fund was stated. The amount in the fund Jan. 1, 1909 was $13,748.29. The receipts for taxes since that date were $2,658.03 and the receipts from interest $160.66, making the total $16,566.98. Of this amount there has been paid for seven bonds due Feb. 1. with commission $7,008.92, leaving a balance in the fund July 1, of $9,558.06. '' ' Since July 1, however, the commission has bought one lot of fire $500 bonds which were not due until November 1916. The commission stated it deems it wise to redeem and cancel . any city bonds which are for sale at any time there is any money in the fund not needed in the near future. The commission characterizes such action as "business sense" and its duty, as city,, officials. Baseball Results

i ' NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won Lost Pet. Pittsburg.. .... ..' ..49 18 .731 Chicago . .. 41 25 .621 New York.. ....... ..39 24 .619 Cincinnati.. . .. .. ..35 33 .' .515 Philadelphia... .. .. . .30 36 .455 St Louis .. .: V. .. ..26 38 .406 Brooklyn.. ..'V..,. ..23 42 .373 Boston . . . . . : . .'- .... 19 4S .284

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Won Lost Pet. Detroit., .. .. ' ..46, .25 .648 Philadelphia .'. .. .. ..42 26 .618 Boston 42 30 .583 Cleveland.. .. .. .. ,.38 ,31 551 New York ,.31- 37 .456 Chicago .Y. V.2S . 38 .424 St. Louis .. ,26 - 42 .382 Washington .... 22 46 .324

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won Lost Pet. .551 .538 .519 .506 .500 .486 .466 .436 Milwaukee . Minneapolis Indianapolis Louisville . , Columbus.. St Paul . . Kansas City Toledo .. .. . til . ' 0 .43 -37 v4l .. 38 " -.40 :U9 .. i 40 .. r.y.j.33 ,' 37 .. .,V'34 ,-,-'39 . .vvr.34'44 43 RESULTS YESTERDAY. , National. League. . Pittsburg 5; Chicago 2. Philadelphia 1 New York. V Brooklyn 75 ; Boston 4L, :" k American League." -Cleveland 4; Detroit 3.' ". New York . Boston-9 StJ Louis-Chicago Rain-. ; - American Association. -Louisville U Toledo 52. (First game 15 innings.) . . Indianapolis 2; Columbus 0. St. Paul 6; Milwaukee 1. Minneapolis 12; Kansas City Little Bluer Papa, why is it mor blessed to give than to receive? 1 Professor Broadbead Because, my dear son, if yon permit yourself to receive yon are compelled to give about three tlmen aa mnch in order to prop erly esyrsM - yew - grattaad. Smart aec

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Chicago, July 8. "Stanley Ketchel can whip Jack Johnson; Jeffries and Johnson will never fight, and Sam Langford can whip them all," are the best guesses of John L. Sullivan, "champion of champions," who is at the Auditorium Hotel on his way east from Canada. , . . j .'. '; "There must have been something wrong with the Papke-Ketchel fight. E WITH PRESIDENT Tart's Brother-in-Law a Sum- , mer Guest. Beverly, Mass.,' July 8. Prof. Louis T. Moore, of Cincinnati, the husband of Mrs. Taft's sister, has arrived at the Stetson cottage on Burgess Point. Prof. Moore, who is connected with the University of Cincinnati, will spend the summer with the Tafts, it is understood. Mrs. Moore has been the constant companion of Mrs. Taft ever since the latter was taken ill and she will assume, it is believed, whatever social duties devolve upon Mrs. Taft during the president's stay at the point. Thst Settled It. The commissioners ,in lunacy were nonplused. The man on whose mental condition the cottrrs hnd appointee them to pass seemed perfectly sane U spite of all testlinosy to the contrary His every action, his .every remark was rational. They were alxmt to girt up in despcir wiien matters took an unexpected turn. "Oh. doctor, permit me to return the umbrella I borrowed from you last wee!:," saiLthe patient. And then, at the thoustht of earning their fees with no qunlms of ccn science, the lenrnrd mon derided .thrtt any ore who trould vo?nr.trtri!y return a borrowed umbrel'a should be placed under restraint. This step!? ptvt-fs how trifles will ever mold our destla!e3. New York Times. Ho Followed Directions. Ked tape lends one - to curious lengths. A writer in the Columbus Dispatch tells of a street railway car that picked up a young heifer on its fender and carried It some distance through the street. In making out tlHvrcrtnlred report to the superintendent the employee wrote in answer to the query on the blauk form. "What di3 the victim say?" "She was carried along on the fender, and then roiled off and ran away without saying a word," , , v The Way Out. "Think. ..lore:" said Mrs. Gobsa Golde. "I ordered a dinner gown, and that tiresome dressmaker has sent me a traveling suit." "Well, what are you going to do about it?' Gobsa Golde demanded. The only thing is for ns tb go abroad again," she sighed. Cincinnati Enquirer. Amiable. They say Thelma's husband Is a very amiable man." "Amiable! I should say so! I hare known that man to laugh at a Joke when he was taking down the stovepipe. Baltimore American. It Is Impossible to make yonr conduct perfect, but it is easy to make it better than It has been. Atchison Globe. , (.

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July 5," he said, in discussing the fighting game. "Papke had no license to go against Ketchel, who, I believe, can whip Johnson good and plenty. He has the punch and his showing against Jack O'Brien shows he can use it. With proper care, Ketchel will whip Mr. Pohnson. "Jeffries cannot get in condition to fight Johnson. He has gone the pace, but if he could get right he would knock the head off the colored man.

E IS TO Will Act on the Conkey Case Tomorrow. The decision of Judge Converse on the motion to quash the affidavits charging John A. Conkey, the druggist with selling liquor without a license will be rendered in city court tomorrow. The court is making a thorough investigation of the references in such a question. Conkey's counsel claims he ought to be arraigned under the section charging him as a druggis. The prosecutor claims he has the privilege of selecting any statute he may care to. repps Experiment. Out of It Grew the Great Fabric ef the Gsrm Theory. It was a fixed belief of the ancients that many living creatures could come into existence in a spontaneous fashion, to which allusion has often been made. The true beginning of the germ theory arose out of a ludicrously simple observation made by Redi. a Florentine physician, aboutf the middle of the seventeenth century. He debated with his confreres in Florence the question of the origin of the maggots appearing in decomposing meat. The old view held, of course, that the maggots were bred within dead and putrefying substances. Iledi. taking a piece of meat, covered the mouth of the Jar in which it was contained with a piece of fine gauze. He beheld the flesh flies, attracted by the smell of the decaying meat, coming tp deposit their eggs, after the manner of their kind, in the decomposing substance. The gauze, however, kept them, from effecting thin natural object, with the result that the eggs were laid on the surface of the gauze and the maggots there batched out, while the decay of the meat went on uninterruptedly without a single maggot appearing in its substance. On this childishly simple experiment the great fabric of the germ theory of today was founded, for if the la w of universal parentage applied to the case of maggots and meat it was clear, argued Redi. that It must apply universally. Subsequent , experimentation ' proved the words to be true, and so to day, when our attention is focused upon germs or microbes so minute that we might accommodate many hundreds of thousands of them on the surface of a postage stamp, we again come face to -face with Bedl's first principle that each germ could only hare sprung from a preceding and parental organism. Brooklyn Eagle. . HITS SPECULATING , Atlanta. Ga., July 8. The Georgia Legislature today adopted a resolution instructing the Georgia senators and representatives in congress to vote to deny the use of the mails to the Chicago board of trade, the New York cotton exchange and similar bodies, . r.""'.. " "

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"Sam Langford can and will whip Jack Johnson if -he ever gets him into a ring, which I seriously doubt. Johnson knows it and is side-stepping. Sam Langford is consistent, has the punch, knows the game and can whip them all right now, one after the other. Kaufman is too slow slow as a coach horse and the others are outclassed so it's up to Ketchel or Langford to turn the trick and my bet is that either will do it." PECK IMPROVING BUT VERY SLOWLY Is Winning in Struggle Against Death. Cash Peck, who has been lingering between life and death at Reid Msmorial hospital for nearly three weeks, is reported as a little better today. The attending physician announced this morning after hia visit that there were hopes for his ultimate recovery. Mr. Peck is delirious a large part of the time, but is getting stronger physically. His delirium is caused by the disturbed condition of the brain cells, due to being struck on the back of the head by a heavy painters' hook, when he fell off the ladder while painting the residence of Miss Sarah Sanderson on North Sixteenth street. F Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday with the secretary of state by the Dublin Cement Tile and Novelty Works, with a capital stock of $10,000. The company is to engage in the manufacture and sale of cement products, such as tile, brick and the like. The directors of the concern include Isiah Fricker, Charles M. Evans and Charles E. McKee. WAS OPERATED ON Milton, Ind., July 8. Mrs. Will Bradford, formerly of Milton, now of Connersville, recently underwent a surgical operation at Indianapolis. Relatives here received word that she is getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs. Bradford was Miss Ethel Ohmit. and the grand daughter of Mrs. Anna Rothermel of this place. CLUB HAS MEETING Milton, Ind., July 8. Mrs. Charles Davis was hostess for the Merry -Go-Round club Tuesday afternoon. The club guests were Mrs. Homer Will iams. Mrs. Charles Kniese. Mrs. Hiram Crook. Favors were awarded to Mn. Elmer Weaver and Mrs. Willard Will iams. The afternoon was one of the most enjoyable that the club has ever passed. The next meeting will be with Mrs. . Carrie Johnson. We always c tke ssd

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v. ... , vestigated. PROF. MUNR0 IS PROBER Boston, July 8. Politicians at City Hall today woke up to the fact that Boston's city government is being subjected to another remarkable investigation. This latest searchlight is being wielded by Prof. William B. Bennet Munro of Harvard college, the man who is to take president Lowell's old place at the head of the department of government of that institution. Prof. Munro is to write a book within the next few months on Boston's municipal government as it really is. and not as it is viewed by either politicians or so-called reformers. Prof. Munro is considered one of the world's best authorities on municipal affairs. ASKS THE POLICE TO HUNT Woman Says He Has Gone15 Years. Been Pittsburg. July 8. The police are in receipt of a letter from Mrs. J. W. Stirzell of 1517 Erie street. Philadelphia, requesting him to locate her brother, F. R. Whltewho had left the Quaker City fifteen years ago. A description of White at the time he left Philadelphia, was enclosed and the letter stated that a wealthy relative had left the Whites a fortune, $15,000 being the share awaiting the missing man. BATTLESHIP FLEET AT Great Armanda Ready for Summer Practice. Provincetown, Mass., July 8. Seventeen battleships and eight torpedo boats are assembled here at the Rendezvous of the Atlantic fleet, under the command of Rear 'Admiral Seaton Schroeder on the flagship Connecticut. The fleet will maneuver from today until early in August. ASK FOB GUARDIAN Indianapolis, July 8. Attorney J. W. Fortune . of Jeffersonville today applied to the probate court for the appointment, of a guardian for W. H. Whitaker, alleging that the latter is of unsound mind.. Whittaker recently resigned as superintendent of the Jeffersonville reformatory. SHE BROKE All ABM Margaret, the little daughter of Mr. and ' Mrs. Joseph Kutter, South Sixth street fell over a can in the alley back and broke her left arm at the elbow. The injury is a severe one. The atr tending physician fears that the arm will "be stiff. OBLONG WANTS HIM Harrison Jenkins, a young colored man was arrested today upon the request of Oblong, 111., authorities. In a telegram to Supt. Satubach the Oblong chief stated the charge is larceny, but gave no particulars of the case. . . HOT MUCH IMPROVED John P. Hlghley, the well known traveling salesman, who was removed to Spiceland last week, suffering with muscular rheumatism, has not improved since going to the sanitarium. His entire body is affectel by the affliction. NO ACTION TAKEN. A committee of the Central Labor Council met last evening to consider the question of the labor unions holding ajoint picnic in the near future. No definite action was taken. . In north Wales the Welsh word for "now- is "rwan." In south Wales it is "rwan- spelled backward viz. nawT." It is conjectured that the first north Walton who made use of the word was standing on his bead at the time and that his pronunciation became general. Cardiff Western Mali. ft cses

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Victoria to Seattle Victoria, B. C, July 8. Backing bis confidence with a $1,000 wager, William Gibson, an aerial inventor, is planning to sail from here to Seattle, Wash., a distance of 03 miles in SO minutes. Gibson declares his machine will carry him to San Francisco in five hours when completed. . The Inventor is putting the finishing touches upon his air craft and today private tests were made. Gibson claims that his machine is superior to that invented by the Wright brothers. The craft is a monoplane, sixty-five feet long, A THIRD DEGREE VICTIM PROTESTS Has Tormentors Arrested for Murder Attempt. Greensburg, Pa., July 8. Alleging that he was drawn up and hanged three times during the administration of the "Third Degree," Joseph Moraskey has charged Justice of the Peace Jacob Smith and Constable David Keeley of Suterville with attempted murder and both have been arrested. Moraskey was charged with theft and was hanged in ' order to force a confession. City Statistics Deaths and Funerals. GUTHRIE James Guthrie, aged 38, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 1007 North Fifteenth street. He is survived by his wife, mother and two children. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time. Births. - Mr. and Mrs. Lou Philabaum, 104 Randolph street, boy, second child. KILLS HOUSEKEEPER Ken nebunk port. Me., July 8. Fred Rankin clubbed Miss Littlefield. his housekeeper, into unconsciousness last night, causing Injuries which will result In her death and then attempted suicide. He shot off three of his fingers and then cut 'his head. He will die. HEW METAL LABELS New metal labels will be placed on the mail boxes of the city to replace the old card board kind. The new labels will not wear oat and are not affected by the weather. On each label is printed the time that collections are made at the box. Arrow are the most wearable collars. 5c Cluett. Peabody Jb Co., Makers

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