Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 1, 8 November 1909 — Page 2
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA3I, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1909. DIPHTHERIA CASE REPORTED TO KING MORGAN'S GIFT TO ART MUSEUM HOW Up to date. ALL PLATE and WOOD FRAME. Write mm. dark Show case Co.. CoJamfcas, Ohio.
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County Health Officer Closes Schools at Whitewater V As a Result.
LONG STANDING EPIDEMIC FOR THE PA8T TWO AND A HALF YEARS THE DISEASE HAS INTERMITTENTLY APPEARED IN THE LITTLE COMMUNITY. Diphtheria which has been holding sway intermittently at Whitewater for the past two and half . years,' has again broken out in a family by the name of Hunt, iiving near Whitewater, and Dr. J. E. King, county health officer, has ordered that the schools be closed until Wednesday, in order to avert any further infection. Why the disease can not be stamped out and why It remains in that particular neighborhood is mystifing the health officer and Whitewater physislans. All their efforts to drive it out have proven unavailing. In Very Mild Form. The disease appears in a very mild form and none of the sufferers so far have had the disease in a critical form. The authorities fear, however, that unless the source of the disease can be found and destroyed that in time the epidemic will become serious and deaths will undoubtedly result. , When diphtheria first made its appearance in Whitewater, two years ago last June, it was thought that the person affected had become infected while on a visit to relatives in Darke county, Ohio. Cases have occurred so regularly since then, however, that the authorities are now inclined to doubt this and believe the disease is probably due to some local condition. IS ROUGH ON KLING Ban Johnson Says the Outlaw Can't Play for Three Years. SAYS TRADE IS IMPOSSIBLE (American News Service ChicagorNov, 8r-President Ban B. Johnson of the American League today in discussing the reported trade of Johnny Kling to Brooklyn by Chicago, said: "If Kling is swapped, the club that gets him won't be able to use him for three years. I don't see, In fact, how he can be turned over to another club. He violated the terms of his contract by falling to report to the club during an entire season. Then, later he played here with a semi-professional team. From the time he refused to report he laid himself open to punishment. The National commission has discussed Kling's status informally and the rule made last spring will stand. He cannot play under the laws of the organization. A THREATENING FIRE Departments Fight Blaze at - Gas Plant of L. H. & P. ! Company. WAS VERY SMOKY AFFAIR i The fire departments were called to the gas plant of the Light, Heat and Power company yesterday about noon to extinguish a small blaze in the roof, believed to have originated by ' the contact of an exhaust pipe with the dry wood. In some peculiar manner the fire got between the roof and the ceiling, and was exceedingly hard to fight. Great volumes of smoke rolled out of the burning building, giving the appearance of a bad blaze. Several ventilators were partially destroyed and the damage probably amounted to $25. - The great danger of fire in the plant was the fear of an explosion from gas and the large quantities of oil contained in the building. PAINTERS AT WORK Work on redecorating the federal building is progressing rapidly. A large force of painters are employed both on the exterior and interior work. The lobby will be tinted in different shades of green. Postmaster J. A. Spekenhier's office will be colored in different shades of tan while the mailing room will be colored green. A JUDGMENT GIVEN Marcus . " Porterfield was given $1,000 judgment on a claim in the case of which he is plaintiff against the estate of Sarah Shafer, deceased, this morning by Judge Fox. Mrs. Shafer for six years resided at the home of Mr. Porterfield. and during that time he did not receive any reimbursement.
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One of the 15th century works of art presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by J. Pierpont Morgan recently. The pictures are of the Florentine school of the fifth century, the style of Francesco Pesillino is exemplified in them. The Museum in New York "has received a million dol- ; lars worth of such treasures yearly.
LORD MONTAGU IS A LOVE SICK Threatened to Kill Himself When His Affinity Left The Ship. THEY LIVED IN NEW YORK THE WOMAN, LADY CROFTON, RETURNED TO ENGLAND AND WAS WELCOMED AT THE DOCK BY A FORGIVING HUBBY. CAmerlcan News Service) London, Nov. 8. "If you leave me now, I'll kill myself!" Haggard and pale, J. Walter Douglas, Lord Montagu, today made this threat to the beautiful Lady Crofton, with whom he was found in New York after a three months search by the efforts of the beauty's husband, Sir Morgan Crofton. Lady Crofton returned on the liner Kron Prinz Wilhelm, and on the same ship were Lord Montagu and his younger brother. At Plymouth they were met by Sir Morgan Crofton. It was when the trio of passengers were quitting the steamer, and had just caught sight of the husband, that Lord Montagu was heard to make his last desperate appeal. "My wife and I are reconciled." was all that Sir Morgan would permit himself" to say. Remained in Cabins. The elopers occupied separate staterooms on the liner, and during the entire trip seldom left them. I.ord Montagu was deathly pale, and appeared to be under a terrible strain. Lady Crofton was debonair, her manner marked by a touch of hauteur. Her beautiful . face was without a trace of pain. She paid only perfunctory attention to the man for whom she left her husband and little baby many weeks ago. - Without delay the party came on to London. Interest in the love affair which led the society woman to the Hotel Gotham, New York, in company with Lord Montagu, reached its height today. Every set of England's fashionable society is watching the affair keenly, and it is the principal topic in a thousand drawing-rooms. In spite of the announcement of the reconciliation between the husband and the wife, society was skeptical today and prophesies of further sensations were numerous. TO GIVE A T The banquet of the Men's Union of the First English Lutheran church will be held Wednesday, November 10, at the church parlors. It will be known as a Luther banquet in celebration of the anniversary of Martin A. Luther's birth. The program will be as follows; President Everard Knollenbere. toastmaster. Luther as a Churchman Lee B. Nusbaum. Luther's Influence In Church Music O. P. Nusbaum. Luther and the German LanguageCharles H. Johanning. Luther's Unfinished Work H. C. Bentlage. Lutheran Loyalty. JIM JEFFRIES &5"
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OLSON IS COMING Indiana Wrestler Will Meet the Italian Madino at the Coliseum. MATCH FRIDAY EVENING Charles Olson and Alfred Madino, the rough Italian, will be the feature match in a triple-header wrestling card at the Coliseum next Friday evening, and consequently the fans are looking forward to the match with great anticipation on account of Madino's previous record here. The Italian made a splendid showing against Dr. B. F. Roller, the Seattle giant, an.l won many friends by his aggressiveness and determination. He is not only big and strong, but possesses a big fund of wrestling science. In addition to the Olson-Madino bout, Frank Prindle, the well known Indianapolis grappler, will meet Walter Evans of Nashville, Tenn., who claims the championship of the South. Prindle is well known in Richmond, having wrestled here before. It will be Evans's first appearance here. The second preliminary will be between Charles Oel, the Richmond printerwrestler, and an unknown. Seats for the match will go on sale Wednesday morning at the Simmons cigar store. TO THE CONVENTION Several Delegates Will Attend Kokomo Y. M. C. A. Meeting. HAVE SPLENDID PROGRAM Richmond will send a large delegation to the state Young Men's Christian Association convention at Kokomo, November 18, 19, 20 and 21. Sharon E. Jones, president of the local association, likewise president of the state association, will head the Richmond delegates, which will include the majority of the directors and trustees of the association. Kokomo has prepared for a 6plendid convention. The program will include addresses by many notables, who are eminent in political and religious circles. Several cities are candidates for the convention meeting place of 1910, including Richmond. This city wants the convention providing the time for holding it is changed from the fall to the spring of the year. NEW FENCING CLASS The Y. M. C. A. fencing class was organized Saturday evening under th; directorship of R. J. Horton, physical receive their equipment, the work will be taken up-. Saturday evenings were chosen as the meeting time. Refinement of Cruelty. "That was a fierce punishment Swift ' got for overspeeding and not paying his fine." j "What did they do to him?" j "The prison yard was being repaved, and they put Swift on as driver of the steam roller." Boston Transcript. I
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ON MURDER CASE Today the Story Told by the Foreigners Hung Together Well. NEW VERSION NOW GIVEN TALE IS TOLD OF HOW REDIC GRAPPLED WITH CRACKLIC AND HOW HE WRESTED A REVOLVER AWAY FROM HIM. Coroner A. L. Bramkamp was busy all day today taking the testimony of , witnesses to the double murder in the Austrian camp west of Centerville, early Saturday morning. The foreigners apparently got together on j their story of the crime over Sunday. for their versions coincide now in practically every respect. The general trend of the story is to the effect that Sam Cracklic and Stif Borat, the two murdered men, and two unknown companions, came to the camp about 1 o'clock Saturday morning, and after asking for something to eat, started trouble and a general rough house. All of the witnesses declare that Cracklic tried io rob Rodi Redic at the point of a gun. Redic then grapr3d with Cracklic, it is said, and took the revolver away from him, firing two bullets through Cracklic's breast. A handy beer ke; and ax was seized by Redic and used with telling effect on Cracklic's head. He Called for Help. It is alleged Redic called loudly for help and shouted that he was beine; robbed. Several of the occupants of the house were asleep at the time, but were soon awakened from their slumbers by the raixup of the two men. It is alleged all took a hand in the conflict, but according to the testimony of practically all of the witnesses. Joe Dulic, the proprietor of the boarding house, who is being held for the crime, is freed from all blame, and did not strike the blows that are alleged to have resulted in the death of the two hold-up men. Rodi Redic and Joe Chupuvic are the men who struck the death blows, according to the witnesses. Redic has been arrested and Is now in custody. Chupuvic will probably be arrested this evening it is said. The foreigners have at last been made to understand that nothing will be done to them if they acted in self defense and the authorities believe that they are now getting the truth of the affair. Dulic will probably be released, it is said. His wife has not been arrested. The testimony of all of the witnesses will require several days, it is said, and Coroner Bramkamp will not file his verdict until a thorough Investigation has been made. A Lawyer's Advice. It is said that Walter D. Cook, a lawyer at Centerville advised the foreigners shortly after the murder, not to talk and for that reason no logical statement could be obtained from them before today when, by much reasoning, they were made to understand the object of the rigid examination. The grand jury will be called next Monday and will make a complete investigation of the matter. What to do with the dead bodies of the two murdered men is a question. There are no relatives to claim them. It is said the trustees of the cemetery at Centerville refuse to allow them to be buried in the cemetery in that place and Richmond certainly does not want to bear the expense, and is
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not required to do so. The state medi cal school at Indianapolis, to whom all unclaimed bodies are usually sent, has stated that it does not care for the bodies of the two men owing to their mutilated condition. It has been suggested that the bodies be cremated and this course will probably be pursued. The twq hold up men who made their escape have not been found and probably never will be located, it is said. No accurate description of the men could bo furnished the police and no one seems to know who they were. Joe Dulic still maintains that he is innocent of the crime and did not strike any blows, although he is alleged to have told the police when he came to this city shortly after the double murder that he knocked the men in the head with an ax because they were trying to rob him and had threatened to shoot him and his wife. HEARS FROM TEDDY Mrs. Roosevelt Gets Telegram From Her Lion Hunting Spouse. HE DENIES HE IS DEAD (American News Service Rome, Nov. 8. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt today received a dispatch from her husband, the former president, in which he declared there is no basis for the rumors of an accident to him and saying that he is well. The cable was Bent from Nairobi, British East Africa. This dispatch from the former president sets at rest for once and for all the fake rumors of a serious mishap to him which for days have agitated the world. Mrs. Roosevelt, on hearing of the reports, had made arrangements to hasten to Africa should she learn that her husband was ill. WANT All INCREASE Miners Think They Will Soon Be Justified for Such Demand. CONDITIONS ARE BETTER (American News Service) Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 8. "Increasing industrial activity, better demand for coal and better prices sure to follow, will warrant the demand on the part of the miners at the next convention for better working conditions and better wage rates," declared National President Tom L. Lewis, of the United Mineworkers when passing through this city enroute to the annual convention of the American Federation of Laoor at Toronto, Canada. A dispatch from Cleveland quotes President P. M. Osborn of the Pittsburg vein coal operators' association as saying: "It will not be possible under present conditions for the operators to consent to an increase in the wage scale. Operating expense must be reduced instead of increased." 'S ! Dr. I. S. Harold, formerly of this city, has been selected as secretary ; and general manager of a well known sanitarium at Wenatchee, Washing ton. Dr. Harold has been in the west for more than a year and expects to make his future home there. A CONTItiUOOS SHOW
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Continuous vaudeville will be played hereafter at the Murray theater, according to announcement made today by Manager Murray. The first performance will commence at 7:30 o'clock, and the second at 9 o'clock, but those who come In late for the first performance will be permitted to remain for the second. The method of clearing the house after the first performance has not been pleasing to some of the patrons who come in late. I
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And That EndeJ the Naval Sweat box Punishment. On one cf Mr. Lincoln's excursion to Fortress Monroe on the steamer Hartford in 18i53 bis attention m directed to a narrow door bound with iron, the use of wuicb he was anxious to learn. "What is this?" he asked. "Oh. that is the sweatltox." was the reply. "It is used for refractory and insubordinate seamen. A man in there is subjected to steam heat and bas very little veutilation. It generally brings him to terms very quickly." President Lincoln's curiosity was aroused. "This." he said to himself, "is treatment to which thousands of American seameu are probably subjected every year. Let me try it for myself and see what it really is." Taking off his hat. for he was several inches over six feet in height, he entered the Inclosure, which he found to be little more than three feet in length or width, lie gave orders that at a signal from himself the door should be immediately opened. It was then closed and the steam turned on. He bnd been Inside hardly three minutes before the 6lgnal was given. President Lincoln had experienced enough of what was then regarded aa necessary punishment for American seamen. There was very little ventilation, and the short exposure to the hot and humid air had almost suffocated him. Turning to Secretary Welles of the navy department, the president ordered that no such inclosure as the sweatbox should ever after be allowed on any vessel flying the American flag. It was not an hour after this order had been given before every sailor on every ship in Hampton Roads bad beard of it. The effect was most remarkable on the older sailors, many of whom had themselves experienced the punishment of the sweatbox. Some of them wept from joy. But the good results of this act of President Lincoln were not confined to the American navy. Great Britain, France. Germany and other European countries beard that the sweatbox had been abolished in America as Inhuman. One and all of these nations in turn fell Into line, and today the sweatbox is not to be found on any vessel flying the flag o fa civilized nation throughout the world. RAN THE BLOCKADE. Putting Through a Risky Piece of Business at Santiago. Some naval officers at a dinner party the other evening were discussing the efficacy of the Cuban blockade In 1898. That many vessels ran the blockade at Havana. Cienfuegos and elsewhere was admitted. "But only one vessel ever ran the Santiago blockade." said one of the speakers, "and that was one of oar own vessels, the little Gloucester." He then described bow the Gloucester ran the blockade, while commanded by Dick Wainwright. then a lientenant commander, who bad previously been executive officer of the. Main when it blew up. "We bad been sent down to Asserraderos to communicate with the Insurgents. said the raconteur, who was on the Gloucester at the time. "Upon our return it was quite dark, and we were proceeding slowly to oar station on the inside line of the blockade when the electric signaling apparatus broke down. We could not give a signal, particularly the private Identification signal of the night. Had we been discovered by one of the blockading Teasels It would at once have flashed the signal, and if we did not immediately respond it would have promptly opened fire. We would have been blown to pieces in a minute. "It was a risky piece of business, but Dick Wainwright was perfectly cool, and the Gloucester actually picked Its way without being discovered through the whole blockading fleet, took up its station on the Inside line, under the Morro. and as soon as the signaling apparatus was repaired reported Its arrival. It was a clear case of blockade running, but It was mighty ticklish while it lasted." San Francisco Call. An Intelligent Cow. A few nights ago a citizen went home and found a cow In his yard. He drove her out. He then went into the house and later heard the animal In the yard again. He drove her out the second and third times. The citizen's son came home later and found the animal in the yard and drove her out. The citizen then made an investigation and found the cow got in by wading around the fence on the river side. He bung up a lantern to deceive the cow as she came in. and the next morning, so he says, he found the cow in the yard with the lantern hung on her horns, using the same to bunt out the best grapefruit in his grove. Say what you please, bat that was an Intelligent cow. And the story is true of coarse It is. Fort Myer Press. Swell Stock. "Could I sell you an imported Per sian cat for $1,000?" ventured the cat j and dog fancier. Whatr exclaimed the mnltlmlUIon-1 aire In surprise. "Why, I just bought j a $5,000 bulldog from you the other day. "Yes. bat I thought you'd want a $1,000 cat for that swell bulldog to chase. You surely wouldn't allow a $5,000 bulldog to chase a common cat, would you?" Pittsburg Press. An Important Advantage. "Do you think a college education affords a nan an Important advantage?" "Oh. yes! One has to have It In order to get Into a university club." Chicago Record-Herald.
Jena's Reading Rooms. The small German university town of Jena has seven free reading rooms, with newspapers and books. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.
A CHURCHCOMBIliE? Boston Clergyman Says Sects Have Tried for Heavenly Monopoly. DISCUSSES ELIOT THEORY
(American News Service) Boston. Nov. 8. In a sermon on the "New Religion." as outlined by Dr. Charles W. Eliot. Rev. Charles W. Casson. last night said that the church trust is far greater than any commercial trust ever attempted, and that for centuries churches and sects have been trying to monopolise heaven. "Eliminate monopoly from religion and It will disappear from Industry." he said. "I assert that God and truth and heaven are no more to be monopolized than the air or the sunlight. "One day last week $27,000,000 was given to charity. People thought that a great work of religion but we would be far more religious as a republic if no one man had $27,000,000 to givo away." 110 DANCE BY COPS Owing to lack of interest In the affair i there probably will be no policemen's ' ball this year, it is said. The ball U i usually held in the Coliseum the lat ter part of October or the first of November, but no arrangements have yet been made for the event. It has been the custom for years for the policemen to give an annual dance and ;no special reason is assigned for the fact that It should be discontinued this year, except that Interest la dead among the big cops this fall. A Y. M. C. A. PAPER News of Interest to Y. M. C. A. members will be furnished hereafter by a semi-monthly bulletin, published by the association under the supervision of George L. Goodwin, secretary. It will be known as the Y. M. C. A. Monitor, and will be entitled-to second class mail privileges. Mr. Goodwin stated that the paper's circulation on the first issue would be about two thousand copies. WIS M SOULS DAY The congregation of St. Andrew's church held short services at the cem etery south of the city yesterday in j honor of the departed. The graves , were decorated and fitting tribute oth erwise paid to the dead. D.WS STIFF FINE Ernest Kelley. an old offender, and i a man who has probably caused the police more trouble than any other in- ' dividual in the city, was fined $25 and Costs and Given an additional jail sentence of 3il dsys in the city court this afternoon on a charge of public Intoxication. Kelley was Just released from jail Saturday. Before he had been out an hour be started trouble In Englebert's saloon near Fourth and Main street, and after getting good and drunk was unmercifully thrown oat. He started another scrap on the street with Peter Hildebrand and his arrest resulted. BOY WAS RELEASED Harlow Mays was arrested Saturday night for intoxication, bat owing to his youth was released in the city court this afternoon. The boy claims that Charles Brubaker gave him the whiskey and the authorities are Investigating the matter. Brubaker was fined SI and costs for drunk. The two caused excitement in the vicinity of the C C. lb L. depot by throwing beer bottles at each other. , What, Indeed! "James was always kind of morose." said Mrs. Paige to her caller, "but now he's married again it seems as if be couldn't bear to have anybody smile. "There yon go.' be says to Almiry the other day. 'always singing them secular songs in this rale of woe. What if yon was took sudden. says he, 'and called to your last account with the "Soldier's Tear In your month?"' Tooth's Companion. : No Trespcssico Oatfac pre treesm SIGNED A Silas Shendler, W. S. Miller, ' James Eby, Isaac Moore, Joe Moore, Charles Miller. Sam Goble, H. L. Meyer. -Harmon Tieman, Mrs. John W. Miller-