Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 289, 25 August 1909 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1909.

ARBITRATIOli LAW DECLARED TO BE OUCOIISTITOTIOIIAL Judge of Common Pleas Court Today Rules Against Striking Pressed Steel Company's Employes. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTENDS TAKE HAND

Department of Justice Officials Are. Today Investigating Charge! That Peonage Is Being Practiced. (American News Service) Pittsburg, Aug. 25." The Pennsylvania compulsory arbitration law was today declared unconstitutional in a decision banded down by Judge MacFarlane in the common pleas court. The law had been invoked by the Pressed Steel Car company's striking employes. The chief point of the decision Is that arbitration cannot be made compulsory on the petition of one party to the differences. 8HIP STRIKE BREAKERS. (American News Service) Chicago, Aug. 25. One hundred strike breakers were shipped to McKee8 llocks, Pennsylvania by P. L. Berg of the employment agency, to day. They were heavily guarded. UNCLE SAM IN IT. (American News Service) Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 2&. The United States government is going to take a hand in the Pressed Steel Car com pany strike at McKees Rocks. Agents of the department of justice are here and will begin today an investigation into the charges of peonage brought against the corporation by the strikers attorneys. The district attorney , fci" tho United States said that all parties directly interested would be allowed representation including officials of the Austro-Hungarian consu late here, and that it would make no difference In the situation if not a vestige of peonage were found to ex ist at the ptant now. if it is shown that it existed at any time since the strike began, prosecutions would be Immediately sUvted. ' Insurance Increased. v The Pressed Steel Car Co. has authorised the insurance firm of C. M. Logue & Co. to increase the lnsurance on their plant from $300,000 to 14.000,000. This will cover everything except raw material and will be likely distributed: between about two hundred companies'. The Allegheny county board of underwriters have named a special rate for this insurance, but . interested parties refuse to make it public. ' The troopers and strikers in and around the bloody strike zone are in a very ugly mood. Serious conflicts were several times during the . night narrowly averted. Some of the foreign strikers openly declare they will have revenge for the blood of their dead comrades. No Bodies Found. The report telephoned to the news papers at a late hour yesterday afternoon that three decomposed bodies had been found, one of which was identified, proved on investigation by the coroner to be erroneous, although given general currency throughout the town. All the dead have been shipped to their homes and those who were res! dents of McKee's Rocks will be buried today. , ' As an evidence of how strained the situation Is President Wise of the strikers' executive committee while talking to several strikers was ordered to move on by a trooper and as he did not at once obey was threatened with arrest and a promise that he would be filled with more lead than he could carry unless he complied. Wise, served In the volunteers in the Philippines wil today make charges against trooper Oscar Wolff, whom he alleges threatened that he would "get him" and that the other troopers would "get" the rest of the leaders. 'Arrest a Foreigner. Anton Favitich Vuk, a Croatian, who Is the foreigner leader of the strikers, has been arrested by troopers and hH attorney will today apply for a writ of habeas corpus. Vuk is said to be the only foreigner - who can keep his fellow countrymen in restraint. He speaks several languages. Forty-four of the men arrested in connection with Sunday night's riots were given preliminary hearings before Alderman McDowell. Six were held for court, nine paid small fines, eight were discharged and twenty-one were jailed for terms running from five to thirty days. A socialist orator from Chicago attempted to address the strikers last . night but was quickly hustled to the box car prison. His name could not be learned. A meeting is scheduled for today at which it Is-expected Eugeno V. Debs will speak but it is doubted If the assemblage will be permitted by the authorities. ' Civic experts from all sections of the country and representing societies ind clvio organisations of various kinds are investigating In Schoenvllle. k number of magazine writers and photographers re.aIso on the scene.

BOY IS BADLY HURT

George Burris, Carrying a Bucket of Water, Falls Off His Wheel TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL George Burris, the eleven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burris, living on Center street, was seriously injured this morning by falling off his bicycle at South Sixth and E streets. He suffered concussion of the brain and other injuries and remained unconscious until three o'clock this af ternoon, according to attendants at Reld Memorial Hospital. He is employed at carrying water for the Light, Heat and Power company and was returning from where he secured the water, on South Sixth street, when he fell off his wheel, in making the turn at E street. His head struck the gutter, causing concussion of the brain. His other Injuries are less severe but nevertheless very painful. A physician was called and at first thought that he fell from his wheel as a result of being overcome with the heat. However, eye witnesses say that his bucket caught in the wheel, causing the accident. He was taken to the hospital in the city ambulance. BOARD REOPENED 8TH. STREET CASE Resolution for Improvement Adopted and City Will Readvertise. CAR COMPANY PETITION IT WILL PAVE WITH BRICK BE TWEEN TRACKS IMMEDIATELY IF GIVEN SPECIAL CONTRACTOTHER MATTERS. At the meeting of the board of works this morning the question of paving feighth street was again discussed.. Another resoultion was adopted and bids will be advertised for as was done formerly. The Terre Haute, In dianapolis & Eastern traction was represented by J. J. Appell, vice president of the concern. He stated that the company desired if possible to secure a special contract for laying of bricks between the car tracks. It is agreed by the company to begin work immediately if the special contract is granted to them. The company desires a brick pavement between the tracks, asserting that asphalt is impractical. The board will take the matter under advisement and rende its decision at its next meeting Friday morning. Will Probably Be Brick. It is declared that it is very probable that the entire street from South A to North A will be paved with brick notwithstanding the fact that in a former petition asphalt was requested by the majority of the resident property owners. Many have changed their mind in this regard now, it is said, and it is thought considerable difficulty will be experienced in getting a majority to petition for asphalt again as its faults have been clearly pointed out by those favoring a brick pavement. The board also acted on the suggestion of City Attorney Study that an expert engineer from . the Central Bridge company at Indianapolis be employed to thoroughly inspect the Main street bridge and make a report as to its stability. By doing this it is said, in case of a collapse of the structure, the city would be freed from all responsibility. The engineer will be engaged immediately. Bids for the improvement of the alley between South Seventh and Eighth street, between C and D were received at the meeting of the board this morning. The contract will probably bo awarded Friday. Spurjjwj.. ... ...,r Pond. Major i'oud. wbu was responsible for Introducing to the public some of the greater and lesser lights of the lecture platform, bad many an experience full of eccentric humor. Sometimes bis charges met him with the greatest good humor. Ofteu those whom he approached felt compelled to beat back his persuasions almost at the point of the bayonet, for nobody was so persuasive as Major Pond. The great preacher, Charles Spurgeon. repulsed him in an ascending scale of denial. The first reply ran: "It will only be a waste of time for you to see me. as I am not at all In your line." The second said: "Tour good natured pertinacity Is so admirable that I trust you will not waste it upon an Impossible object. The whole United States In bullion would not tempt me to deliver one such lecture. The third reply was conclusive: "I have in ns plain a manner as possible declined to make your acquaintance, and 1 beg. with all courtesy and decisioa. to do the same again. I know your business, and I have no wish to enter upon It further. The Editor This phrase "He led her to the altar makes me tired. Society Reporter Why? The Editor It's hackneyed, for one thing, and In the second place it's nonsense. Led. Indeed ! Most girls have to do the steering because the man has Mind staggers. Cleveland Leader.

SPAI1ISH REVOLT IS KOW EXPECTED

Nine Thousand Prisoners' Are Held in Jails at the Present Time. PEOPLE MUCH INFLAMED AGENTS OF ANARCHISTS AND RADICAL' SOCIALISTS ARE PENETRATING EVERY SECTION OF THE KINGDOM. (American News Service) Madrid, Aug. 25. With Spain drained of soldiers to put down the Moroccan war, the nation is in peril of another revolt which would totally eclipse the Barcelona riots Tor bloodshed and ..violence and. might eventual ly plunge the monarchy into a chaotic state of anarchy from which it would never fully recover. Nine thousand prisoners men, wo men and children, are held in Spanish jails, charged with political offenses. Troops are making many indiscriminate arrests. The people are inflamed with a violent rage against the government for supporting such a policy. Agents of the anarchists and radical socialists are penetrating every section of Spain, stirring to revolt by speeches in secret meetings and literature surreptitiously distributed. The civil governor of Barcelona frankly admits that another riot of bloodshed and plunder would present a more savage aspect to Spain than the riot ing at Barcelona recently. Carefully Planned. The present revolt is being carefully planned while the Catalonia uprising was brought about on the spur of the moment without plan or preparation. The cabinet is in session today pre paring the most repressive measures The spirit of unrest is to be put down with an iron hand and antagonism to ward the government is to be crushed out ruthlessly. In the general raids families have been separated and girls torn from their mothers and cast into a common jail with felons and murderers. Again Storm Center. Barcelona is again the storm cen ter. All of the members of the Casa De Poro, a socialist society to promote the cause of personal liberty, have been arrested. The civil guards with loaded guns and fixed bayonets break down the doors of houses and even drag men and women from their beds. Senor Diaz, a rich merchant, and his children, were taken from their beds and placed under arrest. Men of wealth and high standing are not immune. That is what makes the situa tion so much more alarming. There is danger of an epidemic breaking out on account of the un healthy conditions of the jails. The prisoners are crowded into dirty, un ventilated cells with mouldy food and impure water. The Montjuich prison is overcrowded and the old Castle of San Juan has been pressed into serv ice. IS MUCH IMPROVED Harri man's Physician Says Railroad King Is Progressing Well. SOME TELEGRAPHIC TIPS (American News Service) New York, Aug. 25. E. H. Harri man's physician declared over tele phone from Arden this morning that the reports that Harriman's condition is critical are simply abused. Harri man rested well last night and was feeling much stronger this morning. The stock market was weak this morning, believed to be due to Harriman's declared intention of extending railroad properties rather than increasing the present dividends. RESIGNATION RUMORED. (American News Service) Washington, Aug. 25. Unconfirmed report is in circulation here that J. S. C. Blackburn, governor of the Canal Zone, has resigned. The rumor is believed to have originated in Kentucky. A COSTLY BLAZE. (American News Service) Ludington, Mich., Aug. 25. The entire plant of Butter's SaU and Lumber company, including two million feet of lumber, burned this morning. The loss is nearly a million dollars. Lobster Well Diggers. "Lobsters dispel drought in Australia." said a traveler. "Australian colonists, at the height of a drought, often find their dried springs miraculously flowing again. Fresh water lobsters work that miracle. In every creek and spring, you see. there are large lobster settlements. If these lol iters fall to find moisture they perish: hence when their streams dry up tbe.v follow the water down into the earth They dig. dig. dig jest like our Panama canal workers and In the end their strong claws pierce through the soft clay covering of some hidden spring, and a rill of sweet, fresh water bubbles up. Some thousands of lobster artesian, well borers, working away frantically like that, day, and night," he said. are bound to discover enough springs to break any reasonable drought. Los Angeles Times. Arn.An: Mother says "they can't say anything Is rood about Gold Medal Flour." Chasiti.

IS UP AGAINST IT

Only Preble County Democratic Official Has Hard Problem. TROUBLE OVER A Eaton. O., Aug. 2.1 County Surveyor-elect-William Markey, the only democrat who ever succeeded in landtug this office in Preble county, is confronted with a problem no doubt more perplexing and harder to .solve than was the question of how to successfully receive a majority of votes at the last election . Surveyor Markey's question arises over the selection of a deputy. -To most officers upon assuming duties. this is a mere trifle. But Markey's selection is made a problem because the county fails to afford another survey or of the faith advocated by democ racy. To employ a republican as a deputy would bring forth a volume of censure from his constituents, and to Import n deputy from another county would also cause an infraction of precedence and bring effective knocks to his second campaign for office. Markey i3 open to all solutions forwarded. CALLS GRAND JURY Today Judge Fox Issued Order For This to Sheriff Meredith. BUSINESS TO CONSIDER Sheriff Linus Meredith was instructed this morning by Judge Henry C. Fox to call the grand jury together on Monday, September 6th, for the purpose of considering the yearly routine and more particularly, to investigate the shooting of John Lancaster by William Harris, last Saturday night. As announced in Monday's issue, prosecuting attorney Charles Ladd desired the grand jury investigate the shooting. He also wishes some liquor cases investigated. It is probable that the grand jury will make some recqnimendation for the improvement of the jail and probably recommend that an addition be built onto it to accommodate the insane. The county council meets during the same week and whatever recommendation the grand jury makes in regard the proposition will have in fluence with the county council. THE SILLY SEASON. Mothers Worried About Daughters Meeting the Wrong Men. More than one young woman's moth er is making herself unnecessarily miserable this summer for fear the cherished daughter will want to marry the wrong sort of man. Her worry Is as useless as it is out of place, if she could but realize it, for in a way no one Is more competent to make the decision than the two youug people involved. This is, of course, a modern view and one that presupposes no such involved requirements as were wont to be laid down in the days when parents, on the assumption of the infallibility of their own wisdom, arranged matches according to their own ideas. Such times are happily nearly extinct In this country, for the young American woman feels it her inalienable right to take a portion of her destiny into her own bauds. Mothers have one right that none but writers of melodrama will deny them that If, to Insist on a daughter's wait ins until she is old enough to marry. The maturity not of years, lint of experience, is a safeguard without which few can risk that decision which is to the woman the destiny of the best two-thirds of her lifetime. She must know herself, and she must know men. She must have some groundwork of comparison, some definite standard, on which to base her judgment, for every quality Is relative, and the man who may seem to the seventeen-year-old a marvel of cleverness may bore her at twenty-three. Xor does the seventeen-year-old jet know her own tastes and temperameut sufficiently to know whether any given persou is cougenlal. Till she has attained her full growth mental, physical and spiritual and come t realize her own needs, how can she tell anything about who can fulfill those needs? Statistics show that twenty-five years ago girls married at the average age of nineteen. Owing possibly to the complexity of present day conditions this average has risen to about twenty-four years, and it ought to be even higher for the college girl, who practically stops living the life of experience during those years that she devotes to her books. ' There Is also the question of what one owes the nation, though this fortunately coincides with some of the qualities on which personal happiness depends. I refer to health and strength, for the fine physical specimen can make a way against all odds, besides having the one heritage thst money cannot buy to hand down to the children. Incidentally, as the scientists srt every day pointing out to us, good health has a good deal to do with good brains and disposition. The value of this one vital qualification every mother owes It to her daughter to Impress upon her, and If it were oftener done it Is safe to say that there would be a very great deal less misery of all sorts. rpUwo of toe heart, Digests wbatyou eat

HAS WIFE REFUSED FUIID FOB DEFEIISE

It Is Understood Mrs. W. H. Harris Declines to Assist Her Husband. UP TO PAUPER ATTORNEY AUTHORITIES ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE , MAN'S ACCOMPLICE JOHN LANCASTER IS RECOVERING FAST. John Lancaster, the prominent gardener who was attacked from ambush Saturday night by William, H. Harris, and shot five times, is recovering from his wounds as rapidly as miglit be ex pected. " However his wife, who is an invalid, is still almost prostrated by the affair. Mr. Lancaster expected to come to the city today on business. The two bullets which lodged in his left wrist have not been removed as the physicians have not succeeded in locating them by probing. Who Will Defend Him. Just who will defend Harris is not known. Sheriff Meredith says that he refuses to say a word about the case. As his wife, formerly Miss Jane Kerlin, aged 76, who is very wealthy, stated yesterday to a well known local oil dealer that she would not supply the money for his defense, it is probable that Perry J. Freeman, county pauper attorney will serve as attorney for Harris. Harris himself has no funds, so far as can be ascertained, .to use for his defense. It if very probable that his defense will be insanity. The identity of Harris's accomplice in the crime has not been discovered, so far as the authorities are concerned. It is believed, however, that he is the same man that accompanied Harris to the South Sixth street market Saturday night. Harris wrangled with Lancaster there and his friend stood a few feet away and listened. No one appears to be able to give an accurate description of the accomplice as Harris was creating a disturbance and no attention was paid to the other man. 101 RANCH MAY COME There is a rumor on the streets that the "lOl Ranch Wild West Show" will appear in this city in the near future. This show is one of the biggest on the road and in many features surpasses Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, of which the "lOl" shows are patterned after. The "101" ranch Is located in Oklahoma and is one of the largest in world. CONTRACT AWARDED James Howarth, trustee of Wayne township, has given the contract for furnishing the school supplies of the township schools to Nicholson & Bros. Some of the supplies which he could not obtain in this city through local firms will be inspected by him tomorrow when he makes a visit to New Castle and Spiceland. Not by the Sweat of His Brew. The Knights had moved Into a new neighborhood, and Mrs. Knight was wondering aloud nt tbe breakfast table as to the occupation of a certain neighbor. "Oh. I know what he does, mamma." said the lright eyed four-year-old of the Knight household. "What?" asked mamma. "Why. he takes up the collection at church!" Delineator. ranch

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FINDS LOST MONEY This Afternoon Reuben Rich Stated He Had Recovered His Purse.

WAS AT TENT ENTRANCE About 2:30 o'clock this afternoon Reuben Rich, appeared at this office and stated that he had found his pocket book and money which be lost at the show grounds Monday evening. Instead of his pockets being picked, as tie believed, he had dropped the pocket book near the entrance of the big tent. It was picked up by Herbert King, a young boy living at Centervtlle. Mr. Rici received a letter from, the boy this morning and immediately went to Centervllle and identified the pocket book and money. BALLOON ASCENSIONS. Tbe CI Me tfce Day la the Best Tlrae ( Mate Therm. "Did you ever know why It Is that a balloon ascension at a country fair, promised for 2 o'clock in the afternoon, never occurs until about 6T asked an expert parachute Jumper. "It always happens, and the explanation generally is that the preparations for the ascension eoukl not be made in time. This is rarely the case, for the balloonist never had any Intention of going up earlier tbsn Jnst toward the close of day. The reason for this Is that not only Is sn ascension at any other time fraught with a little more danger on account of tbe winds which usually prevail, bnt sis becanse by these same winds the balloon and parachute are apt to be carried too far away, perhaps so far that Injury may befall them before they can be recovered. "The old and experienced balloonist never makes sn ascension except Just at sundown, becanse with tbe going down of the sun the winds subside considerably. He can go almost straight up, break away his parachute and come down In the very lot from which the ascension was made. "There is really very little danger In parachute leaping when the man who does it Is experienced. The parachute must open and bring him down safely, though he will have a hair raising drop like a chnnk of lead for shout 100 feet, the distance usually covered before the big bag opens. Then be can guide his descent readily by raising or lowering this side or that In order to spill a little air and thus keep it from drifting. "A balloon can't be guided, bat a parachute with a man of experience hanging to it can be controlled as easily as a boat, for the reason that by tilting it on one side you can force It in the other direction and thus maneuver so that If it Is desired you can deposit yourself on tbe very spot of the ascension. It is only the inexperienced men who drift or those who fear they may Incline the bsg too far for safety." St. Lotils Globe-Democrat. BITS FROM THE WRITERS. Audacity stands In tbe place of ancestors to those who are not well born. - Lucas Cleve. A long, slow friendship Is the best; a long, slow enmity tbe deadliest. Seton Merrimsn. Among the quieter satisfactions of life must be ranked in a high place tbe peace of a man who has made op his mind. Anthony Hope. Many men have ability, few have genins. bnt fewer still have character. Character Is the rarest thing In "togland. John Oliver Ilobbes. Who steals hearts steals souls, where fore It behooves woman to look that the lock be strong and the key bung high. F. Marlon Crawford. Any fool can get a notion. It needs training to drive a thing through training and conviction; not rushing after the first fancy. Budyard Kipling.

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POPE'S BLESSIIIG OTTO AMERICA

Brought to This Country To- . day by Archbishop K John Farley. HOLY FATHER IS CORDIAL HE IS IN GOOD HEALTH AND CONDITION DESPITE GREAT WORK HE HAS TO DO, THE PRELATE STATED. (American News Service) N York. Aug. 25. Archbishop John M. Farley arrived today after a two months trip abroad. He brought witfr him tbe apostolic benedictic from rope Pius to the Catholics of America,' "I am delighted to be home, ha said. "I feel t hat I am Messed In having been able to make the trip abroad once more. We attended-the Jubilee of the Am erican college In Rome which has been founded for fifty years. The Holy Father received us most kindly. His reception was a particularly great blesing to us, and we will never forget it. "He appears well and happy. If the ordinary man went through tn ono day what he does, the work woul I drive him to look for a health resort. Clear of Vole. "He is clear of voice, light of foot" and keen mentally In spite of his advanced years, and I believe he has much more life and work before htm. America, of all the Catholic world, has the warmest place in his heart, I believe." Archbishop Farley brought baclc with him a magnificent ring presented to him by the Pope. It is said to be one of the handsomest ever given to a prelate by any Pope. Around a large amethyst are clustered 24 diamonds. The archbishop, who was accompanied by his secretary. F. K. Louis, and a score of priests who left here on May 20. to attend the American college celebration, was met at Quarantine by a delegation of priests and laymen on the steamer Sam Sloan. When the Cunard liner Caronia, on which the party came from Europe, was off the statue of Liberty, tho archbishop and his secretary were taken aboard the Sloan and brought to the city. The Vanity of Criminals. Criminologists speak of the braggart vanity of the criminal. It Is true of erotic offenders, perhaps. Bnt the thief will tell of tbe number of times . he has fooled tho pollen merely by way of self justification. Be admits tbe premise that he was n fool ever to become a criminal, and be recounts his triumphs only to Indicate to you that at least be is not an absolute idiot. Also criminologists point out tbe childish vanity of tbe criminal who bedecks bis person with jewels when he is prosperous. In this tbe criminal is no vainer that bis honest brother. But jewels are about the only sort of property that he can safely possess, as was tbe case with the Jews In the old days when they were tbe driven race. The criminal may not with any safety become a bank depositor, and he Is usually too much of a spendthrift to carry n roll of cash. Bnt be finds that If be Is arrested, and can show some handsome diamond ornaments and a valuable watch be will have no dl faculty in securing a good lawyer and a bondsman, and will have a lighting chance for acquittal at his trial. Charles Somerrille In Everybody's. y