Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 53, 31 December 1909 — Page 2
THE RICHMOND PAI,LADIU3I AND SUN TELEGKA3I, FRIDAY, DECE3IBER 31, 1900.
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CITY OFFICIALS TO TAKE OFFICE IN A QUIET WAY No Time Will Be Wasted in Pomp and Ceremony at the City Building by the New Administration,
Choate, the Presiding Officer
PRESENT OFFICIALS NOT TO BE PRESENT
Council Will Meet Monday Evening and the New Officers Will Find Plenety of Work Awaiting Them.
Monday noon, the officials of the new administration, including those who were elected to office last No
vember and those appointed by mayorelect Dr. W. V. Zimmerman, will be given the oath of office and sworn into duty by A. M. Gardner, who will act in the capacity of a notary public. The event will not be attended by the members of the present administration. They will simply surrender their offices as though it was an everyday occurrence. However, the friends of the new administration will celebrate the event in an appropriate manner. The inaugural will be short and sweet. All the law requires is that the officials be sworn in office by a notary public and that they file their bonds. However, it is probable that
some of the officials will make short responses in which they will announce their plans. The program of Dr. W. W. Zimmerman is well known and those of the other officials will be in accord with the chief executive's ideas. It is a Surprise. It perhaps 'will be a surprise to some that the inaugural is not held tomorrow. However, the law clearly states that city officers shall not be sworn into office until the Monday after January 1. After all the officers have been sworn in, Dr. VY. W, Zimmerman will take his position at the mayor's table and order the new council to meet at the council chambers that evening. Important business will be under-
SWEAR-OFF COSTLY TO UNCLE SAMUEL
"Good" Resolutions Decrease The Use of Tobacco And Liquors.
GOVERNMENT NEEDS COIN
TREASURY OFFICIALS ARE HOP-
11 MILLIONS PAID
Relief Department of Pennsylvania Gives That Sum In 23 Years. REPORT WAS MADE TODAY
(Palladium Special) Pittsburg, Doc. ol. Reports compiled
by the Relief Departments of the Pennsylvania Railroad System show that
! since their establishment, some twen-
ING, HOWEVER, THAT THE CUS-j ty-three years ago, there have been
CIRCUIT COURT A VERY BUSY PLACE During Past Year There Were 337 Cases of Civil Action Disposed Of.
BANNER TERM WAS APRIL
TOM ARY VOWS WILL BE BROKEN IN SHORT TIME.
Joseph H. Choate, the distinguished lawyer who presided at the meetings of the American Historical Association and the American Economical Association which recently held a convention in New York.
Missionaries to Foreign Field Report Shows the Steady Growth of the Student Movements and Splendid Work of the Colleges.
Rochester, X. Y., Dec. 31 The report of the executive committee of the student volunteer movement of foreign missions, at present in session in this city, sets forth that the primary and permanent function of the movement is that of a recruiting agency seeking to enroll a sufficient number of well-qualified volunteers to meet the retirements of the mission boards of North America. The best evidence of the efficiency and
power of the student volunteer move
taken by the new administration right merit is the number of sailed volun-
from the start. The' franchise desired
by the Richmond Natural Gas company, permitting it to enter the artificial field, will be up for consideration. Other matters of almost equal importance are expected to be presented. No little confusion has been encountered by members of the present administration in the tendering of their resignations. Some have sent them to Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, believing him to be the proper official to receive them, while others have tendered them to Mayor Schillinger. However, no matter who receives the resignations, they will be accepted.
HUNT FOR HEIRESS
(American News Service)
New York, Dec. at. Search was made in New York today for Miss Roberta B. Dejanon, the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter ot Ferdinand Dejanon, of New Jersey, and grand daughter and sole heriess of Robert Buist ,a millionaire seed merchant of Philadelphia, who has been missing since Wednesday from the Bellevue Stratford hotel in Philadelphia, where she made her home with her grandfather. Whether she eloped with Frederick Cohen, a waiter at the hotel, who had been serving meals in the apartment of the Buists, or committed suicide, as she said she would do in notes fovnd after she disappeared, is in doubt, but a charge of abduction has been made against Cohen and he is said to have been seen with the girl at the Broad street railway station.
teers. At the Toronto convention in 1902 it was reported that 780 volunteers had sailed during the preceding four years. In the quadrennium following the Toronto convention and
ending with the Nashville convention in 1906. one thousand volunteers sailed. During the four years which have since elapsed, ending with the Rochester convention, 1.283 volunteers have sailed, or nearly three hundred more than for the quadrennium ending with the Nashville convention. The total number of volunteers who have sailed since the beginning of the movement in 1886 is 4,346. Shows the Rising Tide. Another test of the rising tide of
practical missionary interest among students is the increase in their missionary giving. At Nashville it was reported that the students of North America were contributing $80,000 a year to missionary objects. They are
now giving ?i(,uoo a year toward such objects, or an increase in four years of nearly 60 percent. There are literally scores of colleges and schools each supporting entirely or in large part its own representative on the foreign field. The students of Yale head the list at present with their contribution last year of fully
$10,000 to missionary objects. Among women's colleges the students of Vassar made the largest contribution, hav
ing given last year $3,385. The last four years have been a record-breaking period in the promotion of mission study among students. In the year preceding the Nashville convention there were 1,049 mission study classes in institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada. Last year there were 2,084. In the year before the Nashville convention the total number engaged in mission study was 12,629. During the
last year it was 25,208. The number has doubled in four years. Hope to Double the Number. An attempt will be made to double
the number of well-equipped volunteers who can in the immediate or near future press out to the mission fields. Today throughout the far east in all the principal parts of the near east, such as Turkey and Russia, in southern Asia, in the East Indies, throughout the larger part of the American continent, and even in parts of
Latin America, says the report, the Christian church faces nothing less than an acute and momentous crisis. This crisis can be met only by the sending out of more workers than
are now forthcoming of thoroughly capable and well furnished missionaries. On the home side is the growing pressure of the expanding ability of the church to send forth an army of workers, primarily as a result of the uprising of Christian laymen in the laymen's mission movement, not to speak of the various forward movements in some of the Christian communions and of the very effective work of the young people's missionary movement in the Sundayschools and among the large numbers of other young people.
Washington, D. C. Dec. St. With the treasury balance hanging dangerously close to where it was in 1S93, when it was necessary for the United States to borrow $262,000,000 to keep things in good shape, your Uncle Samuel is looking with some misgivings to the annual 'swear-off on New Year's day. New Year's day "good resolutions" generally cause a big slump in the
internal revenue receipts. The months of January, February, March and April invariably show the greatest slump. The receipts for Januaryare always considerably less than the receipts for Pebruary despite the fact
that the latter is the shorter month. Resolutions Go to Smash. This internal revenue experts point to as an infallible indication that good resolutions begin to go to smithereens after the first month of the year has passed, if not before. March receipts are generally greatly above those for February, but it is the big receipts for April that seem to prove the truth the truth of the saying that good resolutions made on New Year's day are made to be broken. These receipts apply to whiskey, beer, wine and tobacco. Consolation for "Drys."
But while good resolutions may go' to bits, and thus help swell Uncle Sam's cash balance, there is consolation for those who would prohibit the
manufacture and consumption of liquors. The saloon man is becoming fewer. The decrease in him is plainly indicated by the decrease in the special tax imposed by Uncle Sam on every place where liquor is sold over a bar. The first five months of the current fiscal year shows a decrease of $282,779 in the special saloon tax as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. The revenue department officials say this is
due to the wave of prohibition whicil has swept over various portions of the United States. . Swear-Off Is Feared.
The general receipts for the last
five monihs of this year July, Aug use, September, October and Novem
ber s-hov a big increase over the corresponding period last year. For the past two months this increase lias helped to keep the treasury balance from slumping toward a point where
it might become necessary to attack the gold reserve or issue bonds. It is for this reason that government officials are looking with apprehension on the annual swear-off which will begin on Saturday.
paid in benefits the sum of $7.;5S,iri.M. This is brought out in a report for the month of November, issued today, which also shows that the number of employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad System who were members of the Relief Funds on December 1. tnn, was ItXS.tUl. as compared to ir2,24S on
the same date in 11S. The total amount of benefits paid in I! up to the end of November amounted to $1.oa.74v."7. The relief department of the Iine3 east of Pittsburg and Erie in the month of November, paid to its members the sum of $11.A'2.S.", representing $47.1S. paid to the families of members who died and ?07,'.K51.S." to members who were incapacitated for work. The total payments on the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie since the relief fund was established in l!8, have amounted to ?10,;lvVi7.Si. In November, the relief department
of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg and Erie paid out a total of $42.-
477.x. of which $15,750.00 were fori
the families of members who died, and ?;.7l-7.K for members who were unable to work. The sum of $7,:K)l.'15.ol represents the total payments of the relief fund of the lines west since it was established In 1SSO.
WERE MORE CASES ACTED UPON THAN FILED BECAUSE MANY CAME OVER FROM DOCKETS OF 07 AND 'OS.
FOR A CHAUTAUQUA
Guarantors Will Be Chosen at
Once and a Meeting To Be Held.
HEART DISEASE MOST NOTICEABLE
Since vesterdav when it was an
nounced mat infre -were --i c-s ivl in the circuit court during 1909 of which number 85 were for divorce, the report has lwen completed by Miss Addison Peele deputy county clerk. It shows that during the year there were 337 cases of civil action disposed of in the local court and of this number 78 were divorce suits. In resnect to divorce cases, the report throws additional light on the problem. Abandonment seemed to have been greatly overworked, for there were 43 divorces granted by Judge Fox on that grounds. Drunkenness, which is commonly averred in divorce actions, but which charge is seldom presented when the case comes up for trial, was responsible for three divorces being granted. Other
charges on which such cases were successfully prosecuted include: Nonsupport. 5; adultery. S; cruel and Inhuman treatment. 18: criminal 1.
The reason why more cases were
disposed of during the year than were
filed is due to the fact that at the opening of the January term of court
of the present year there were a large
number of cases which had hung over
from 1908 and 1907. The April term
of court was the busiest of the year
as during that period 169 cases were disposed of. In the January term. S3 cases were stricken from the docket
as against S5 for the October or present term of court, which ended today.
WILL CHOOSE DIRECTORS
If possible, the guarantors for th 1910 Chautauqua assembly will be selected in time for holding a meeting of that body before January 13, in order that the policy of next summer's assembly may be determnied by those . who will be in charge. At the -" antor's meeting, directors mill be , lected and these will elect officer. I The board of directors and officers.
xor me assembly are suit co r
Uiuiing in service and have alrea" f engaged much ot the talent for Ut assembly next summer. Only this morning, the contract with W. "Hill" Hone, humorist and poet. waa closed. He will deliver short i .et ches at the afternoon and evening meetings August 29 to September 1. Iast year's assembly did not t -
with entire approval because th.l
were so few humorous sketches la
the officials do not intend to repeat
the mistake next summer.
k crictirc Minr
II UVIkllUL IIIIIM "
Most of Cases Investigated by Coroner in 1909 From That Cause.
WERE FOUR MURDER CASES
THERE WERE FIVE RAILROAD
AND ONE AUTOMOBILE FATALI
TIES AND THREE MET DEATH BY DROWNING.
Government Food Inspector
Leaves This Statement. Before Suiciding.
APOLOGIZED TO CORONER
EXPOSURE CAUSES DEATH OF VETERA!
Homeless Old Soldier Wander ed Into Water Works Plant to Die.
PREPARES DIARY AS LIFE PASSES
City Statistics
SOFT COAL FAMINE
Shortage in Central Illinois Reached a Very Acute Stage Today.
SUPPLY IS NEARLY GONE
Births. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Igelman, South Fourth street, boy; third child.
Deaths and Funerals. SIECK The funeral of William Sieck will take place Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the home. 127 South Sixth street. Further services will be conducted from the St. John's Lutheran church at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Feeger officiating. The burial will be
In Lutherania. Friends may call any time. FISH Thomas n. Fish, aged -kJ years, died last evening at his home, 27 North Eleventh street. Death was due to a complication of diseases although the deceased had been afflicted with tuberculosis for some time. Only for the past week, however, had he been seriously ill. The funeral will take place Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home. The Rev. Nelson will officiate. The burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call this evening. MEXDENHAllr-The remains of William Mendenhall, who died early Christmas morning at Medford, Oregon, arrived this morning and were taken to the home of relatives on North West Seventh street, where the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The burial vill be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call fany tima.
(American News Service) Bloomington, 111., Dec. 31. The soft coal famine in Central Illinois reached its most acute stage today and the situation has become alarming. Bloomington coal dealers were deluged with telephone calls from contiguous towns asking for cars of fuel, the outside dealers declaring that their supply had become entirely exhausted owing to the inability of the railroads to fill their orders. In numerous instances dealers ad
vanced prices, following the example ot Bloomington dealers and disposing
of their final stock at an advance of r cents to SI a ton. Soft coal is now selling uniformly at Jsi.50 a ton in most of the cities or central Illinois, and those possessing mines are supplying patrons in one ton lots in order to make the distribution cover as many households as possible.
WILL VISIT DAYTON
Members of Whitewater lodge. I. O. O. F., are planning to attend the meeting of the Dayton lodge, January' S at that place. The Dayton lodge has issued invitations to lodges in Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana, in order that the first degree work of the Dayton team may be displayed. As Whitewater lodge members believe they have the best team to put on this work in the country, the Dayton meeting is attracting much attention among the members.
As He Heard Footsteps Death, Attorney Prepared for End.
of
WRITES TO LAST MINUTE
COURT BAILIFF FINDS THE BODY GOING TO MAN'S ROOM BECAUSE HE DID NOT APPEAR TO TRY A CASE.
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A POSTAL VACAT
New Year's will be observed, as are all legal holidays by the post office. The city carriers will make one business and one residence delivery of mail and then be excused for the rest of the day. The stamp and general delivery windows will be closed at 10 o'clock. The rural carriers will not make their regular trips unless they decide to do so of their own accord.
NAMED
COMMANDER
(American News Service) Boston, Dec. 31. Capt. John C. Fiemont, U. S. N., recently in. command of the battleship Mississippi, and son of "The Pathfinder, of , the Rockies.' took command of the Charlestown na
vy yard today, filling the post made va
cant by Rear Admiral William Swift, who goes to Washington as aid on the
jstaff of Secretary Meyer.
GRANTS I PETITION
William T. Gentry, at one time a resident of this county, died at Fort Snelling, South Dakota, June 2S, 1SS3, and this morning Judge Fox approved of a petition of Mrs. Alice Blanche Couk, a relative, to be given letters of administration. She claims that the deceased left an estate in this county, valued at $1,200, for which
there- were never any letters of ad
ministration issued. Mrs. Cook lives
(American News Service) Kalamazoo, Mich., Dec. 31. Hearing the footsteps of death. Attorney William A. Luby, alone in his office, kept an hourly schedule of his approaching end, while he fought for his life during thirteen hours. When Luby failed to appear in court to try a case, a bailiff went to his office and found the body on the floor with
the vest and shirt torn open and the hands clutching at the heart. On the desk were these notes: Dying Man's Diary. '"I am not feeling well. The doctor has told me that the next attack will finish me. The attack has begun. I am taking the medicine prescribed. It is one o'clock Wednesday afternoon. I am taking medicine every two hours. At 4:0 my condition does not improve. Am still taking my medicine. I must have been asleep the last two
hours. I do not remember, wrote
Luby shortly after 7 o'clock. At 9
o'clock he wrote: "I am not feeling as
easy." There was no other notation until 2 o'clock this morning, when he wrote: "Cold; I know my condition is serious. It is hard to breathe. I am Mr. Luby was widely known as an attorney and a writer.
Organic heart trouble was the chief
cause of deaths which reauired an
investigation by Coroner A. Ia Bram
kamp, during the year 1909, accord
ing to the verdicts filed with county clerk Harry E. Penny, by the former
official. The report shows that Cor
oner Bramkamp was called to investi
gate forty-six deaths and that eighteen of this number were due to heart disease.
One of the most interesting parts
of the report is that pertaining to
deaths from violence. There were four murders during the year, Jere
miah and Raymond Meek being killed by Joel Railsback, after he, his parents and brothers had been fired upon by the Meeks. i Two Austrian Slain. The double tragedy took place about three miles west of the city on May 17. The other two murders were those of Austrians, who attempted to rob an Austrian camp, near Hiser's station, early in November. There were five killed in railroad accidents, one in an automobile accident, three by drowning, one from hemorrhage resulting from cuts sus
tained by falling on a pitcher, two who
committed suicide by gun shot, one
died from suffocation while suffering an attack of epilepsy. Two died as
the result of burns. There were two
accidental deaths, one from a fall and
the other from escaping gas.
The report also shows that Coroner
Bramkamp was called to investigate deaths from the following causes: Un
determined, but natural causes, 1;
premature birth, 1; cerebral embolism.
1 : epilepsy. 1 : acute enteritis, 1 ; over lying, 1; and consumption, 2.
LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT
LETTER FOUND IN MAN'S CLOTHING FROM SON URGED HIS FATHER TO COME TO HIS HOME
TO SPEND WINTER.
VETERANS ARE MAD
(Palladium Special?
Cambridge City, Ind., Dec. 31. Silas
Craig, an old soldier, died suddenly
last evening about 8:."5) o'clock at the
water works plant, from pneumonia
due to exposure. The man was a wan
derer and had been in this vicinity
only a few days. His body was sent
to Lima. Ohio, today to the home of
C. C. Craig, a son. for burial.
The man was perhaps G3 years old
although he may have been younger, The presumption is that he is a wan
derer and had come to Cambridge City
to obtain work as a common laborer
on the Pennsylvania construction
work. However, as this work has been temporarily abandoned, he cou'.d
not obtain a position and was in no Dhvsical shane to proceed to some
other point.
He came to the water works plant
last evening, and his pitiable condi
tion prompted the employes to giv
him a chair near the 6tove. He was sitting there when of a sudden he fell
from the chair, and died almost in
stantly. A physician was called who stated that the old man suffered from pneumonia, due to exposure. His pockets were searched for the
I purpose of Identification. A recent let
ter from his son, C. C. Craig, at Li
ma, was found. The tone of the let-;
ter was such that the impression was given that the son was in good circumstances, as the father was urged to come to Lima and spend the" win
ter. The son was communicated with and he ordered the body sent to Lima.
(American New Service) El Paso. Tex.. Dec. 31. Declaring
in a letter he left that he was ending
his life to benefit medical science.
Gus A. Schell. government pure food
inspector, shot and killed himself. He apologized to the coroner for the trouble he was causing and declared
he had ten diseases. It is believed, he became mentally deranged on the subject of disease when he found -had tuberculosis.
His letter said: -Mr. Coroner. Dear Sir: Excuse
me for the trouble I may cause. This
is a clear case of suicide with the best intention of assisting medical
science. I herewith will my boor to
any good institution for the furthering
rt Ida nmfiulnii T hint mt 't
least ten diseases, including tuberc -losis. B rights disease, stomach mnu
many others."
Schell was appointed Inspector In
Kansas City, Mo where his divMvcd, wife resides, and was Inspector ii..fi-.
packinghouse until he got tubercuks .
and asked for a transfer. He was
to the El Paso Lard Refinery. n.
He talked always of the disease !
thought were consuming him.
failed to report at the factory. his landlord. Investigating, found in his room HI.
While the landlord was telepho
for a doctor, Schell shot himself.
ifln Mtii ntwnnu
sonn flAiiin in smin rmm n , hi wi i.i
ncarlr 3.500 conductors ana motor
men whose records for the past year have been clean. The amount reached the largest sum of money ever paid by the company to its car service men in regard to satisfactory service.
kiiin TPT.ttla
Tho tmifflna y"u Ilk, mo wB wr
made from Uold MedaJ Flour.
Anyway, Hs Wasn't
"Own up, now. Who's the head of
your family?
"My wife used to be." admitted Mr. Kupeck. "but since my daughters are
grown np we have a commission form
of government-' Louisville Courier
jJournsJ,
(American News Service) Chicago, Dec. 31. A movement to
be started at the G. A. R-'s New Years day campfire in memorial hall to have the Illinois departmenet join others
in protesting against the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Robt. E. Lee in the Hall of Fame at Washington. Joseph F. Darling, past commander of Colum
bus Post, will speak on the subject. Others who will make addresses are Gen. Philip Hayes, department com
mander of Illinois G. A. R.; Maj. Gen.
Frederick D. Grant. Martin B. Mad
den. William Busse, Thomas H Gault and John F. Scanlon.
WILL SUBMIT BIDS
The contract for the mail messenger service at the post office will be let January 5, at the post office, by a special agent from the department at
Washington. There are a number of bids submitted already. These have
been sent to Second Assistant Post
master General Joseph Stewart of
Washington, by Postmaster J. A. Spek-
enhier. James Brumley, who found
that the iob did not nay at the salary
Jof $1,040 a year, is ag3n bOder.
DECREASE 1(1 BEER
(American News Service) Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 31. In the
last four months there has been a fall
ing off of nearly 80,000 barrels in the
output of Milwaukee beer, as shown
by the tax receipt records. In the fiscal year ending July 1, 1909. there
is shown a reduction of 321,255 barrels from the amount sold in the prev
ious year.
Internal revenue collector Henry
Fink attributes the decrease in business done by Milwaukee brewers to the effects of the prohibition wave
which has swept over tbe country.
STEAMER IN DANGER
(American News Service) New York, Dec. 31. Advices received today from Bufort. N- C. by wireless, state that the steamer Excelsior of the Southern Pacific line.
which Bailed from this port last
Wednesday for New Orleans. Is drift
ing In heavy seas about forty miles
north of tbe Diamonds.
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