Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 54, 1 January 1910 — Page 1
CHMONB PA1XA3DI -J 4JS1 3UN-TELEGR AM. 7 VOL. XXXV. NO. 54. RICn3IOXD, IXD., SATURDAY EVEXIXG, JANUARY 1, 1910. SINGLE COPT, 3 CENTS. HEW YEAR'S DAY i HAS USHERED III EMPLOYES TO GET GENEROUS SHARE OF LARGE ESTATE RESEIITS JHE SLURS
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BEVERIDGE BOOM PERCEIVED III A IIEWSPAPEB DEAL ... Purchase of Chicago RecordHerald by H. H. Kohlsaat Said to Be the Work of Mrs. Marshall Field.
Former Chinese Minister Returns to His House Commercial Club Gets Com munication From a Belgian Committee. MPORTANT LAWS
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Most of Enactments Which Affect Railroads Are Amendments to the Existing Laws
On Statutes. ANKS CANNOT NOW PLAY ANY POLITICS Some of the New Acts Try to Protect Prohibition States From Having Liquor Shipped in to Them. (American News Service) Washington, Jan. 1. Some of the Work of the Joint congressional com mittee on revision of the laws of the "United States appear in the recent act to codify, amend and revise the laws of the country, which become effec tive today. With the New Year sevral important new laws and revisions and amendments of old laws will apar for the first time on the statute looks. Most of the enactments which efect railroads are amendments to exsting statutes. Probably the most mportant one becoming operative to day, is a penal statute which forbids ny national bank to make a money contribution of any kind in connection with an election to any political ofice. Another clause of this statute iwys iani 11 bqhu u uDiuwiui ior any corporation to make a money contrion at which presidential electors, ce presidential electors, repreBentaives in congress or United States senators are to be voted for. If a corporation violates this law It may be fined $5,000 and the corporation officer making the contribution be : individually fined $1,000 and im prisoned in a penitentiary for one year.; The . National lawmakers betters that this statute will effectually
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contriDuting to campaign funds. Prohibition Assisted. An effort has been made by congress to protect prohibition states from interstate trade in alcoholic fluids within their, borders, Sent in from "wet" states. A new statute, operative today, forbids railway employes, express company employes or persons work ing for other common carriers, deliv ering alcoholic liquors of any kind other than to the person to whom the shipment is confined. A fine of $3,000 with two years' Imirlsonment, is the penalty for violan of this law, which is designed to oli8h the blind tiger business hithrto carried on through express offices n prohibition states. Every package f spirituous liquors must also be plainy marked to show Just what it is. If t is whiskey the law declares it must e so labeled. Among amendments to existing statutes are revisions of the treason aws and other offenses against the vernment, including filibustering. riminal correspondence with foreign vernment8 by citizens of the UnitStates, and offenses against the neu trality of other governments. Some Other Statutes. . Offenses against public Justice, in- ' eluding bribery of judicial officials, v and perjury, are provided for in revision of statutes which already existed, j, the penalties being made more severe ,. In nearly every offense. Statutes on counterfeiting are made more stringent, the postal laws are revised in many clauses. There are revisions of the laws governing foreign and interstate commerce. Peonage and admiralty regulations have also received ' attention in various revisions of existing laws. All the foregoing changes in the laws are provided for in one general act, which was approved by President Roosevelt March 4, last S ASOfI NOW CLOSED The season for shooting quail closed at midnight last night, and even the sportsmen are glad that the birds are again protected by the state laws. Other game, such as is hunted In this viv cinlty. Is not protected and may' be ; 4 hunted provided the state laws, rela--f, tive to taking out hunting licenses, are complied with. During the past year there were 678 hunting licenses Issued by County Cleric Harry E. Penny. There were 5D licenses issued during December. COST OF THE COURT
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court have been approved by -that of- : ficiaL a The total expenditure amount ed to 9 1,217.87. Expense for jury service was the largest item. It amount ed to $470. Sheriff Meredith made the report in ard to Jury service, which is as jpws: Twenty-six men served as jur total mileage which these men veed in I order to serve and for lich allowance was made, 2.164; days Jr stnrlce pnt In by the jury, 181.
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WTu Ting Fang, former minister of the United States from China, and his family. From left to right are: Madame Wu; her daughter-in-law, Madame Wu Cho Chu; the nurse and baby boy, Jun Chong, the ex-minister's grandson; and Wu.
SUICIDE THEORY IS HOT CREDITED Frank Weigel Met His Death, Yesterday Morning, in Accidental Way. HIS FATHER-IN-LAW TALKS HE TELLS, THE CORONER THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT DEATH WAS DUE TO ACCIDENTAL CAUSE VERDICT. All possibility that the death of Frank) C. Weigel was due to suicide was removed by the, testimony of his father-in-law, Mr. Cook, to Coroner Bramkamp. Mr. Weigel was accidentally asphyxiated early yesterday morning in the bathroom of his residence at .115 North Fourteenth street. Mr. Cook stated that upon being summoned to the bathroom, by his daughter, Mrs. Weigel, who found her husband, he saw Weigel lying on the floor, across the rubber hose which connected the stove with the defective artificial gas jet on the wall. The gas was still burning in the stove when Mr. Cook entered the room. Cook turned off the gas, and not Mr. Weigel. It is believed by Mr. Cook and also by Coroner Bramkamp, that the deceased was too weak to withstand the fumes which had collected in the room from the defective jet. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, at his residence. Burial will be in New Paris cemetery. A BLASTED CAREER Brilliant Writer Dies in Poverty as Result of Dissipation. SENDS PATHETIC LETTER (American Newa Service) Chicago, Jan. 1 In abject poverty, shunning relatives and friends of his prosperous days, with . faculties impaired by years of dissipation, H. Bartlett Lindley, graduate from the United States naval academy at Annapolis, contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, newspaper writer and at one time a well known attorney, died in the Cook county hospital yesterday. A week ago, ill and evidently realizing his end, Mr. Lindley appealed to Arthur Burrage Farwell to obtain admission for him to the county hospital, lie was taken from a Clark street lodging house suffering from pneumonia and physical collapse. In a pathetic letter to Mr. Farwell Lindley ascribed his fall from a onetime lofty position to drink and morphine. WANTS NEW RATING State superintendent Robert J. Aley has received a communication from Prof. Joseph C. Burgess, principal of the new high school at Whitewater, and county superintendent C. W. Jor dan. It is asked by the last two named officials that as the requirements of a certified high school are met by the Whitewater high school, that it be listed as a certified high school. This is the second highest rating a high school may obtain in this state.
COST OF LIVING FELT Oil BOWERY
Beginning Today Cheap Lunch Houses Will Increase The Prices. ONE CENT ADVANCE MADE FROM NOW ON MEALS THAT HAVE COST FIVE CENTS WILL BE PLACED ON THE MARKET AT PRICE OF SIX CENTS. New York, Jan. 1. Those who live from hand to mouth at the Hand-in-Hand restaurants, long a feature of the Bowery and the East Side, will suffer an increase of 20 per cent, beginning today, in the cost of meals that heretofore have sold at five tents each. Hereafter the meals will be six cents. The increase, according to employes who quote John S. Conroy, general manager of three restaurants, is due solely to the increased cost of provisions, a cause that has perplexed greater minds than those of the Bowery. From such a large area is the patronage of these "soup houses" drawn that the management felt compelled to advertise in the daily papers giving their clientele notice of the increase. A Sample Menu. Here is a menu of the present fivecent meals, as made up by C. Bott, Cashier of the Hand-in-Hand, at 338 Bast Twenty-third street: Baked Beans, bread and coffee. Oatmeal, milk and coffee. Fish cakes (Friday) and coffee. Doughnuts and coffee. Four buns and coffee. Fruit cake (whole) and coffee. Pie (whole) and coffee. Soup (quart) and coffee. Other restaurants are maintained by Conroy at No. 219 Bowery and No. 2 Mulberry street. A striking feature of the provision made for feeding the five-cent meal is the fish order for Friday. ' Without this change in the bill of fare the restaurants would lose a great deal of their Friday trade, regardless of the fact that most of it comes from the derelict highways of life. The men are fed from a counter built in the shape of a horseshoe, precisely in the manner employed in the more stylish "quick lunch" places. They are quiet and orderly. Women supplied with tickets issued by the Salvation Army are also fed. TRAGIC HEW YEARS Chicago, Jan. 1. Mrs. Frances Gardiner, 20 years old, was instantly killed when a revolver in the hands of her father, William T. Netwig, a watchman, employed by a brewing company was accidentally discharged, while he was examining it in the kitchen of his home, plunged Into grief a new year's reunion of the family. The bullet struck Mrs. Gardiner in the neck, severing the jugular vein, and she died almost instantly. Her father was placed under arrest. TO BE DISCHARGED Superintendent S Smith, of Eastern Indiana Hospital, has notified the proper county officials that Joseph W. Wyatt, an inn- te of the institution would be discharged as cured. THE WEATHER. INDIANA Cloudy and probably rain tonifht and Sunday.
CONDUCTOR COOK GETS JR TRIAL Mexico States That the Amer- , ican s Not Discriminat- ' ed Against.
TRIAL UNDER AN ODD LAW COOK PROSECUTED UNDER AN ANCIENT STATUTE WHICH MADE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR TRAIN UNDER HIS CARE. -" ,-v - - Mexico City, Jan. 1. James A. Cook, the American railroad conduct- , or, who is held in custody as Guada lajara, charged with complicity in the robbery of a train of which he was in charge on the Mexican Central railroad, is having a fair trial, and his case is being expedited as much as possible under the Mexican laws. The trial is being conducted under the laws of the State of Jalisco, with which the State Department of Mexico, has no right to interfere. The authorities of Jalisco, nevertheless, have been asked by the Mexican state department to use every effort to reach a verdict in the Case of the accused man. These were the facts as stated by Government officials here, notwithstanding reports received here to the effect that Mexico has been urged by the state department at - Washington to hurry the trial of Cook, and that representations had been made that the tardy methods seemingly employed by the government of Mexico, were being criticised in an unfriendly manner in the United States. An Odd Discovery. Sub-Secretary of Foreign Relations Gamboa stated that nothing in the nature of criticism had reached the foreign office. The statement made by Mr. Gamboa agrees with information given out at the United States embassy. Attor neys here, who have interested them selves in investigating the law under which" Cook is being held for trial, have discovered the unique fact that the law originally framed to apply to trains of mule or ox teams before the era of railroads in Mexico. These trains were the only means of freight transportation. They were often the prey of bands of robbers or Indians, and were sent out under escort of armed guards in charge of one individual. This man was held personally re sponsible for the safe conduct of the train in his care. The law is said to ,have been applied, with little modi fication, to conductors of freight trains since the advent of the railroad in Mexico. EX-MAYOR HAS JOB (American News Service) Indianapolis, Jan. 1. -All guesses as to what Mayor Bookwalter will do to get money after he relinquishes the mayoralty job to Auctioneer MayorElect Shank, were settled today by an announcement by Bookwalter that he has accepted the management of the Merchants' Heat and Light company of Indianapolis. WAS SHOT TO DEATH (American News Service) Sharon. Pa., Jan. I.- George Morris, aged twenty, a strikebreaker at the South Sharon plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company was waylaid and murdered on Haywood avenue after'midnighL The body contained three bullet wounds. . .
Will of Clarence W. Marks, a Chicago Shoe Dealer, Shows He Remembered All Of Those Working for Him.
NONE WILL RECEIVE LESS THAN SUM $200 Besides Caring for the Men Who Worked for Him, Members of His Family Are Well Provided for. (American News Service) Chicago, Jan. 1. -The will of the late Clarence W. Marks, head of the C. W, Marks Shoe company, which has been probated, bequeaths to host of former employes and friends a portion of his million dollarXortune. The petition .-shows that disposal is made of personal property valued at $777,000, and about $130,000 realty Every person who was ever in the employ of the' shoe company receives at least $200, and these amounts run up to $10,000. Chas. R. Corser and his wife are most generously treated by the pro visions of the will. Mr. Corser is given four hundred shares of stock in the shoe company and two lots with all the improvements. Mrs. Corser receives $30,000 cash and the house and all the furnishings in which she and her husband live. This is the residence formerly occupied by Mr. Marks, and which was turned over to Mr. and Mrs. Corser at the time of their wedding. Mrs. Corser is directed to expend $5 000 for the cremation of Mr. Marks's body and the selection of a grave, and $1,000 is to provide for its perpetual care. . Many of tha beneficiaries reside in Massachusetts and Vermont. - -T - - . PRESIOEIIT TAFT GIVES GREETINGS To Thousands of Fellow Coun trymen He Wishes a Very Happy New Year. WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION IN THE RECEIVING LINE WITH THE PRESIDENT WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT. ALSO MEMBERS OF THE CABINET. (American News Service) Washington, Jan. 1. President Taft wished a Happy New Year to thousands of fellow citizens today. Despite sharp winds, a long line of citizens assembled outside the white house early waiting for the white house gates to open for an exchange of greetings. Vice President Sherman, members of the cabinet and diploma tic corps were received at eleven o'clock. Directly following. Chief Justice Fuller and associates of supreme court, then the senators and representatives and finally the off! cers of army and navy. Then it was open house for the plainest of people and the president wore his broadest smile. A GREAT PAINTING The Nativity" Subject of Remarkable Canvas by M. T. Nordyke. IS AT MEMORIAL CHURCH "The Nativity." is the subject of a remarkable oil painting by Mlcajah Nordyke, the well known local artist. The canvas is nine by forty-eight feet, painted in three sections, but so cleverly joined as to give the- effect of a continuous composition. The picture was painted by Mr. Nordyke for the Reid Memorial church and is hung In that structure. It represents the Three Wise Men and the Shepherds following the Star of Bethlehem. By means of a small electric light back: of the canvas the Illusion of a starlit night and the shining brilliant radiance of the Star of Bethlehem Is perfect, giving the painting the appearance of actual life. The color scheme, technique and prospectus of the picture Is excellent and the canvas is attracting a great deal of attention,
CONGO IS RULED FAIRLY
The local Commercial club is in re ceipt of a personal hand written let ter from A. Beernaert. Minister of State at Brussels, in which he en closes a communication signed by all the leading men of Brussels rehearsing the difficulty that country is having at present with Congo and the continued and alleged unfair attack made on the Belgian government In the African possessions by the English people. Copies of the communication have been sent all over the world as the committee declares that it wishes everyone to know its stand in the matter and wish to publicly give vent to an emphatic protest. It is alleged that there is undue prejudice by the English people against the Congo possessions in Af rica and that they are making unfair charges against the Belgian for the benefit of their own interests. The latter country feels that it is being placed in a wrong light with the world at large because of the unjust charges and wishes to correct the im pression. IS THE ORDER MADE Governor Marshall Says That Chicago Gamesters Must Stay Away. AT CLARK STATION, IND. WINDY CITY MEN ARE REPORTED TO BE READY TO OPEN POOL ROOM ORDERS. TO SHERIFF OF LAKE COUNTY. (American News Service) . Indianapolis, Jan. 1 Governor Marshall went on the stand for the Chicago Gamblers desecrating Indiana soil. He issued formal orders today to Sheriff Grant of Lake county to assemble a big force of deputies and go to Clark's Station where the Dearborn Park Gambling establishment formerly did business and where a colony of Chicago gamblers are reported to be making preparations to open a poolroom today. If any gambling is discovered Sheriff Grant has orders to cut all wires leading Into the establishment and make a raid. ST. LOUIS FEELS REAL EARTHQUAKE Seismograph at the University Registered Efght Distinct Shocks. DISTURBANCE IN PACIFIC FIRST SHOCK LASTED FOR THIR TY-FOUR MINUTES AND ONE OF THEM WAS A "DOUBLE-HEAD" EARTH SHAKER. (American New Service) St Louis, Jan. 1. The St. Louis uni versity seismograph registerd eight dis tinct earthquake shocks early today. One of them, a double shock with vari ations of seven-eighths of an inch, occurred at 5:10 o'clock. The first shock continued for thirty-four min utes and forty seconds. Direction from west to east, indicating occurrences on the pacific coast. MAKES HIS REPORT County Clerk Harry E. Penny made his annual report to the State Medical board of registration and state optometry board today. There were two physicians to locate in this city during the year, including Oliver Morton Deardorff of Hagerstown on certificate, and EJP. Weist, who located here by transferring his license from Union county. FILES A PETITIOH Eden Martindale of Clay township. has filed a petition in the circuit court for the administration of the estate of David TeaL who died suddenly while riding in a buggy, on December 26, 1900. The petition shows that the estate includes personal property to
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RICH CHICAGO WOMAN RELATED TO SENATOR
Through .His Wife and Mrs.' Field, Has an Ambition to See Indiana Statesman -President Some Day. (American Nws Srvlce) - -- Chicago. Jan. 1. H. II., Kohlsaat purchased the stock of Victor Lawson and Frank H. Xoyes in the Chicago Record-Hern Id and this morning asumea soie ownersnip ana coniroi. Mr. Kohlsaat formerly was in con trol ojtbe Record-Herald. 'About one year an his -daughter. Miss Pauline KohlsaatAwas married .to Potter Palmer, Jrson of Mrs. Potter Palmer. In this connection there was a report that whatever Interests Mr. Kohlsaat had acquired had been financed by Mrs. Potter Palmer. There is no truth In the report. Mr. Kohlsaat said. How Ha is Related. Albert J. Beveridge, United States senator from Indiana, married a sister of Mrs. Spencer Eddy, whose hus band is in the diplomatic service, Mrs. Beveridge Is, also a niece of Mrs. Marshall Field, "one of whose 'ambitions, it Is said is to see Senator Beveridga president of the United States., It was reported that. desiring a paper to' champion Senator Beveridge's .- Interests, the Fields backed Mr. Kohlsaat in the deal to take over the RecordHerald. Asked concerning this. Mr. Kohlsaat replied: "There is nothing to that whatever. I have dealt' -through myself and am the sole owner. . Frank B. Noyes will resume his residence In Washington. D. C. . where he holds an. interest In the Washington Star. . JOSEPH TRfEBER DREAKS HIS ARM Peculiar Accident This Morn ing to a Post Office Carrier. WAS JOGGING UP HORSE WITH HIS WHIP, WHEN THE ARM SNAPPED BETWEEN THE ELBOW AND THE SHOULDER THOUGHT IT SPRAINED. Joseph Trieber. a rural route cartier, met with a very peculiar accident on North A street this morning. Mr. Trieber had started out on his route and was driving his horse across K. Seventh at A street, when he took the whip from its socket and with his left hand began to gently tap the ani- . mal. In order to reach the horse with the whip it was necessary for him to lean out of the wagon. In manipulating the whip Mr. Trieber experienced a painful sensation In his left arm. He presumed that he had merely strained a muscle, but the pain became more intense and before he had gone . two blocks, he discovered that he had no use of the arm whatever. A physician was called and it developed that the arm was fractured. Mr. Trieber was removed to his home, 115 North 6th street. The letter carrier is of the opinion that he Is the victim of circumstances, as several weeks ago his home burned almost down on ' South Twelfth street. A WIRELESS RESCUE C. 0. D." Signals Brings a Steamer to Help of a Disabled Ship. SHAFT CRANK WAS BROKEN (American News Service) New York, Jan. L Summoned bj "C. Q. D. signals the Clyde liner Apses today reached the disabled Algonquin of the same line and took her in tow. The Algonquin with a heavy passenger list broke her crank shaft near Bodie Island off Cape Hatters yesterday and had drifted t be! plessly until aid reached her. She Was bound for Galveston.
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