Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 352, 27 October 1909 — Page 1

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A.ND oUN-TFTEGR AM. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 352. 'RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. A DULL CAMPAIGN HOW 0RAWI11C TO THIRD WOMAN NOW SAYS SLAYER IS MARRIED 10 HER TRYING EXPERIENCE JAPAN WILL GIVE Taking an A ctive Part in English Politics ROYAL HONORS TO MURDERED LEADER President of Great Northern Had to Live Four Days On Elk Meat. A-SLEEPY FINISH

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So Quiet Has Been the Campaigning of the Two Contestants That Ho Interest Has Been: Attracted. 21 M M ER MA fTAPP E AR S TO BE CERTAIN WINNER

He Will Receive Almost Solid Support of His Party Reid Not Very Well Known to Bulk of the Voters. An enterprising reporter brought in the news today that there was to be an election a municipal election and that it was to be held in this city next Tuesday. After consultation of the records this report was verified. Thefe has been a campaign going on - lir our midst for several weeks, but so

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te a real sensation to the Palladium readers when they learn that the cam paign will come to a close next Tues May. There are two candidates for mayor, lr. W. W. Zimmerman, the republican pominee, and almost certain winned. And Pettis A. Reid, the democratic pominee. ?ljwmerman Well Known. " Dr. Zimmerman is well known to the voters of Richmond. He has long been In the political limelight. Mr, J , Held Is not so very well known, judg f ng from the numerous queries the last few days, "who Is he?',s : In answer to these queries the local 'Who's-Who-andWhy shows that he is a respectable &tuea, and the head of a loom! . manufacturing concern

-which Is dependent of the-United Btatet Eteel corporation. Four years ago Dr. Zimmerman was defeated by Dr. Schillinger for may or, because he was deserted by a good ' bulk: of the republican voters. He is not called upon to confront this condition now. He will, it is true, lose a few of his party, votes, but these will fee offset by the democratic support he !Wlll receive. , Many Dissatisfied. The nomination of Mr. Reid dissatisfied a large number of democrats an1 many of these have publicly announced that they Intend to vote for Dr. Zimmerman. After his nomination last spring Dr. Blmmerman issued a clear-cut statement in which he pledged himself to . good government. . Thls statement - had the right ring to ft and it had the effect of rallying to his support the great bulk of the republican vote.

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election andluu put forth no strenuous efforts during the, campaign. Notwithstanding the fact that Reid is little known to the great mass of the voters he has made but little effort to make, himself better known. His campaign -so 'far has been listless and ha3 leeo'pdorly managed. la the local betting resorts one can , - (tad Zimmerman money, but there la Sittte or, no Reid money In sight, a straw showing the way the wind blows. Stemming everything-up, it appears that this very tame -municipal campalgn will close with a Zimmerman landslide. ...

P1ST IS A HERO Single Handed . the Divine Raided and Broke Up a ? . Prize Fight. HE ACTED AS "CmZEf4." (Amwlcu Nw VLc New York. Oct. 27-SVOher ' John J. Preston is the hero of Weettawken, N, j... today, because ae raided a prizeflsat alone, K only as a priest, but as a cltl . t forbid this disgraceful exhibli tloa. Stop right where you are." That is what the pastor of SL Law rence Catholic church shouted in the rooms of the Plymouth Athletic club Into which hejferced an entrance early today. . .;..:""''.','" As the priest ran through the crowd to the ringside and held up his hand for silence, a pugilist known as "The Dixie Kid" was leaning, battered and exhausted, against the ropes. Rushing at him was Charles Sieger, of Hoboken, his victorious opponent. Men In the crowd were calling to Sieger to "go In and finish him' and to th Dixie Kid" to hold on, when the priest's entrance threw the crowd Into confusion. In less than three minutes the hall was empty. Father Preston then went to the police station, where he made a formal complaint.

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The Countess of Granard, formerly Miss Beatrice Mills, is taking an active part in English politics. Picture shows a group that participated in the opening of the Liberal party's bazaar at Hornsey. a London suburb. From left to right are: Earl of Granard, Mrs. R. E. Dummet. Countess of Granard, R. E. Dummet, Dorothy Drew, granddaughter of Gladstone, and in front. Master Edwin Avscough. Note the rope of pearls worn by Lady Granard.

WOMAN PASSENGER IN All AEROPLANE Army (Jff leer's Wife Takes a Right VWilbur Wright T This Morning. ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY MRS. VANOEMAN GIVEN THE LITTLE At 11 AL EXCURSION AS A REWARD FOR COURTESIES SHOWN THE WRIGHTS. CAmertcan News Service) College Park, Md., Oct 27. Mrs. R. H. Vandeman, the beautiful wife of an army officer, accompanied Wilbur Wright on a four minute trip in an aeroplane this morning. She was the first Woman passenger in a' heavier-than-alr flying machine in America. She wore a long gray cloak over a black silk dress, and a black hat. Lieutenant Lahni tied a cord around the bottom of her dress just prior to the flight. Lahm is a bachelor. Two circles of the park were made and when the irachlne alighted Mrs. Van deman : said it was "simply grand." Her husband, many army officers and newspaper reporters witnessed the flight. She was a friend of Miss Wright and the voyage was a reward for tbe courtesies shown the Wrights. Wilbur once denied the request of Alice) Roosevelt Longworth for a sky trip. Wilbur afterwards took Lieutenant Fbulois as a passenger1 and remained in tfoe air twenty-nine minutes, mauonverlag with great ease and1 pre cision. FLOOD WAS RAD ONE (American News Service) - e&tf exico City, Oct 27. It is feared tnat scores nave iosi luetr nves in iue flooded Tobasco district. ... Reports received here today tell of immense property loss from the cloudburst, the Inundation of towns, and the destruc tion of thousands of homes. First estimates of the damage will be too low, according to today's news. A large stretch of country from the Mecalpa river to the Usumacinta is desolated and along the Mesacalpa river a dozen cities are under water. Aid Is asked for the sufferers. A MONORAIL SYSTEM (American News Service) New York, Oct. 27. -Construction work on the City Island monorail road, the first of its kind to be built In America, will begin this afternoon. The line -will connect the Harlem River branch of the New York, New Haven & v Hartford . railroad with - City Island.-; :-V, .', . --', j The monorail Is along the lines of a similar road which for several years has been working successful as an elevated structure In Germany. The cars are to be mounted on a single rail In the City Island road, the cars being held in place by steel framework and wheels. The motives power Is electricity..

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Coroner of Butler County, 0., Announces That Friday He Will Begin Probe to, Place Responsibility. DIVISION OFFICERS END INVESTIGATION However, the Railroad Men Today Declined to Give Out Any Public Statement Railroad Commission Acts. (Palladium Special)" Hamilton, O., Oct. 27. Coroner Bur nett today announced that he would hold the ineuest on the six victims of the Collinsville wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad on Friday. All surviving members of the train crews will be subpoenaed and an effort will be made to bring" Engineer Elmer Brown here. -The coroner will try to definitely fix the responsibility. The remains of the tramp killed in the wreck were buried today without identification. PROBE IS FINISHED. Richmond Division Officials, -However, Offer no Statement. The investigation as to the responsibility for the Collinsville catastrophe under the direction of Superintendent Nettleton Nef f and his staff of officials, was completed today but no official statement was made concerning the result. Superintendent Neff was the one to whom press . representatives . were referred, but he could not be reached. Calls at the office were fruitless, as it was said that he was busy. Telephone calls were given more futile, aa Mr. Neff was reported "not to be in." It is rumored that the investigation has resulted in a surprise. It is said that the responsibility will be placed on an entirely unexpected party, so far as the public is concerned. However, the rumor is given but little credence, since it is impossible to get any confirmation of it. A third official investigation will be made of the accident. This is by the Ohio Railroad commission. Announcement was made yesterday that ths members of the commission would visit Collinsville in a body and make a personal investigation. HORSTINC TO MARRY Henry Hunting, a well known city employe, and Miss Mary Maher of this city, were granted a marriage license yesterday. Mr. Hursting is 56 years old, while his bride Is 52. Mr. Hurstlngs first wife died in 1906.

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S. S. Saxton Will Make the Brick Improvement on Eighth Street. START WORK IN THE SPRING STREET WILL BE LAID IN METRO POLITAN BRICK WITH CEMENT FILLER CRONIN AN UNSUC CESSFUL BIDDER. The contract for the improvement of Eighth street from North A to South A street was awarded this morning, in the office of the board of works, to the S. S. Saxton company. Saxton 's bid for a metropolitan block brick street with a cement filler was $1.90 per square yard. The other bid received by the board was that of John F. Crbnin, his bid being for $2.09 per square yard on metropolitan block with cement filler. Owing to the difficulty in making the improvement during the winter months, the street will not be paved or any work begun on that thoroughfare until April 1. By the terms of the contract the work must be completed by July 1. The Estimated Cost. . The estimated cost of the improver ment is $6,500. However this does not include the space . betjl-een the car tracks or within eighteen inches on either side. The Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Railway , company will have their work on tiat section of the street done under a seperate contract, at the same time the other I portion of the street is undergoing its changes. The company stated that it would have the work done then m order that the Whole street might be torn up at the sp.me time and the unnecessary inconvenience occasioned in laying the bricks will thus be done away with. The old curbs along both sides of Eighth street will be left as they are, it being decided by the board of works to grant this request of the property owners providing they would withdraw their petition for asphalt and consent to a brick improvement. A BUSINESS WOMAN American News Service) New York, Oct. 27. Mrs. E. H. Harriman - will actively conduct her own business affairs. With this end in view she has taken a lease of offices at 473 Fifth avenue. The building is the uptown branch of tbe Farmers Loan and Trust company, and is between Fortieth and Forty-First streets, opposite the new public library. -Mrs. Harriman's office will cover the greater part of the second floor. THE WEATHER. INDIANA -Thursday fair; moderate - west to northwest winds

Minnie Rosenau Sees Man Who Murdered Girl. Found In Islip Woods, and Informs Police She Is His Wife.

MARRIED IN RUSSIA IS HER STATEMENT Police Learn That Young As toria Woman Who Disap p eared, Was Seen Very Much With Otto Mueller. (American News Service) (American News Service) New York, Oct. 27. Otto Mueller, alias Frederick Gebhardt, the self con fessed murderer of Anna Luther, near Islip, L. I., made a second confession today, admitting that he had four wives. Also that he had served ten years in Sing Sing. His fourth wife was Anna Wessner. The police expect to fasten three murders on him. New York, Oct. 27. A third wife to day claimed Otto Mueller, alias Frederick Gebhardt, the confessed slayer of Anna Luther, as her husband. She is Minnie Rosenau, employed by a family named Laurence in Brooklyn. The woman recognized Gebhardt at the inquest in Islip, when the slayer told the story of his crime "I am positive that Pohardt Is my husband," said the woman today. "Hmarried me under the name of Otto Mueller, four years ago in Russia. I am a German and so is he, but we were both working in Russia at the time, he as a locksmith. "I brought him a fair dowery which he did not succeed in getting until 181)5, when he deserted me and cama to America." The young woman declared that she wbuld taTce her brother to Islip so that there would be no mistake In her Iden tification, as the brother also knew Mueller in Russia and Germany. The brother is Edward Rosenau, and be lives in Manhattan. Bears Out the Story. A fact in the case would seem to thoroughly bear out the glrl"s story is that Gebhardt, in his testimony on the stand at the inquest, stated that he had come to the United States In 18iV, th year that the girl says he deserted her. Another woman was brought into the case today. The police in Investigating Gebhardt'B past in Astoria, learned that a young woman who had been much in his company, had mysteriously disappeared. The police are searching for her and a woman companion. Gebhardt's iron nerve that stood by him during the time he was put through the "third degree" by the police, and w hich stayed with him while ho confessed, and again while he re peated the confession on the stand, deserted him entirely when his wife brought their two children to his cell after the inquest. Clutched at the Bars. The man clutched at the bars when he saw the children coming down the corridor and when the children were within his grasp he reached out for and fondled them as well as he could from the steel latticed cell. "My boys, my boys," he moaned, with the ter- streaming down his cheeks. "I tiui'Vlive to see them (Continued on Page Seven.) Duchess D'Aosf a 5syRTi. iff' in m 5

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American Jfew Service) Libby, Mont, Oct. 27. Louis V. Hill, president of the Great Northern railroad, has undergone a trying ex perience, being compelled to live four days upon elk meat. While visiting the proposed Glazier National park with a photographer and others, he got separated from the party. He met a hunter and engaged his services to escort him out. Neither had any food but found an abandoned camp and secured some bread. The hunter kill ed an elk and for four days this was their sole ration. Finally they reach ed Belton, where Mr. Hill was picked up and brought to this place, .none the worse for his experience. PRESIDENT KELLY MAKES STATEMENT ABOUT POLITICS He Desires Public to Know That Earlham Is a College And Not in Any Sense Political Machine. PUBLISHED ARTICLE IS SPURNED BY HIM He States That in Matters o Character the Faculty and Students Can Act as Indi viduals Mistake Made. The mayoralty campaign In this cit is exciting comment at Earlham col lege. It is becoming a matter of in terest among both the students and th members of the faculty. In a convci satlon Monday afternoon President Robert L. Kelly stated that the college would take no official action in the race for mayor in this city. "Of course," he added, "the professors who are entitled to a vote sanctioned the resolutions passed by the West Side Monthly Meeting of Friends." This statement by Dr. Kelly has been misinterpreted, according to the president, and he issued the following statement this noon: Statement by Kelly. ,"The statement In yesterday's Item that I had made announcement that Earlham College will not take a hand in the present municipal campaign I subject to misinterpretation. Earlham college is an educational Institution, not a political machine. In matters of civic character, the faculty and students act as Individuals. "As an individual I may say that 2 wrote and offered the resolution which was passed unanimously by the voters of the West Side Friends Meeting last Sabbath, pledging those present to support tbe candidacy of Mr. Reid. At that meeting and since it has developed that every member of the Earlham faculty actin i as an individual ba decided to vcf.e for Mr. Reid, not on political grclinds. but on moral grounds. Earlham College is not located within the corporation and those who live at the college will not have the opportunity to vote for mayor. Mighty Huntress Italian noblewoman, shown with slain zebra, is now hunting In the wilds of Congo Free State, Africa.

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ate Than Any Held for a Man Below That Rank of Japanese Ruler. MIKADO IS REPORTED TO BE GRIEF-STRICKEN i Messages of Condolence Have Been Sent by the Nations of The World, Including the United States. Tokio, Oct 27. The body of Prince . Ito. "the Japanese Bismarck. who fell before a Korean assassin at Harbin, will be honored in Japan with almost royal rites and mourning ceremonies more impressive than have ever marked the funeral of any man below the rank of Mikado. The Iwate, one of the finest ships of tbe Japanese navy. will briug the body from Manchuria Messages of condolence from the na tions of the world, Including tae United States, arrived today. In nrany of them was noted a tone of genuine mourning that was appreciable even through the staid diplomatic phraseology. : i The Mikado is grief stricken over the Harbin tragedy. For years. Prince Ito had been clos er to Japan's ruler than any other of the emperor's advisers. Ito. Indeed, was known as the "elder brother of the emperor." and between the two cordial personal relations, such as seldom mark tbe relations or rulers and thel aides, were always apparent. Execution Is Reported. A report was received today that I to' a assassin had already been executed at Harbin, but that his companions were still held. The three companions of the prince who were also injured, when he was shot at the Harbin railroad station, the prince's private secretary, Japanese Consul General Kakawan and M. Tanaka. head of the South Wnchur1aa railroad, were today In a serious condition, having been more badly hurt than was at first believed. The physicians attending them, however, gave out hopes of their recovery. The extraordinary council of the - ministry, summoned by the Emperor, immediately upon receipt of the sews -of Prince Ito's assassination, was In session for several hours. ' Although no statement of whatever decision was reached by the ministry was given out when the meeting disbanded. It Is believed that Ito's concil-. latory policy will continue, but that quick punishment will be Inflicted by the Japanese authorities noon the Korean rebels who are rich ting against the domination of Nippon on, that country, v , , Seoul Was Very Calm. It is reported that the news of the assassins deed was received in 8eoul calmly, but it is feared that .the rebel organizations will seise the opportunity for a fresh outbreak. The- train 'that bore Ito's body from Harbin toward the sea front met with honors all along the line. At every station a military guard was drawn . op. ana Kussians ana vmaew with tbe compatriots of the slain . prince in paying tribute to him. At Mukden, as well a less import ant places, the Russian diplomat agents met the train. All Japan today put on mourning for the prince. In every city and village honors were paid to him and public business was dropped wherever possible. Tokio and the other important cities as well, are draped with mourning colors. SHREWD CHINESE MOVE. (American News Service London, Oct. 27. China has seised the opportunity presented by the as sassination of Prince Ito for one or the shrewdest diplomatic moves ever made on the diplomatic chess board. Pekin insists that the Chinese gov ernment Is entirely freed from respon sibility for the death of Ito. because she has been shorn of police power in the Manchnrian railroad sone. ac cording to dispatches receive nem today. This disclaimer Is regarded as of tremendous significance. The Chi nese government, with, consummate deftness, has turned a disadvantage Into an advantage that has the force of an appeal to the capital of the world, by showing that she la unable to prevent so Important a political slaying as Ito's assassination to her own territory. Lost the Railroad.-. China lost control of the railroad some time after the boxer uprising, when Russia took control there, declaring that such a move was Imperatively necessary to Russian administration. Then Japan took the Jurisdiction and today China is kelpies and without authority to one of the most Important stretches of territory In all her vast empire. It Is believed here that Cfciam disclaimer in the Ito case will result la renewed activity to the far -Continued on Page Seresv)

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