Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 70, 17 January 1910 — Page 1

MONB PALLADIUM 3UN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXV. NO. 70. RICII3IOXD, IXD., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY IT, 1910. SINGLE COPY, 8 CENTS.

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AGED WOMAN DID HOT PROPOSE TO PART WITH A PET Authorities Could Separate Her From Child and Her Husband, But Never Would She Give Up Doggie.

HARRY RIFE TOLD HE MUSI DIE III ELECTRIC CHAIR WELCOMED BY TAFT HUGH TH. MILLER Artist Christy, His Wife and Daughter HAS HOT DECIDED AS TO CANDIDACY National Civic Federation Be gins Its Session at Washington. ,

SO SHE RETURNS TO HER SMALL DWELLING

Robert Shoop, However, Will Be Taken to the Hospital And Little Girl Will Be Sent To Some Home. This morning the sympathies of those-who heard the appeal of Mrs. Alice Shoop, to be allowed to retain the custody of little four-year-old Ituth French, a child of alleged unknown parentage, were first akin to pity, but such feelings were slightly dispelled when the woman demonstrated more affection for her pet dog than she did for the child of her husband. Impelled by good motives to assist this poverty stricken family in every way, the officials of the charitable organizations of the city proposed that Mrs. Shoop and the little girl be taken to the Home for Friendless to spend the rest of the winter while the husband, Robert Shoop, an old rag picker, be taken to Reid Memorial hospital for treatment for poisoning to one of his legs. They Flatly Refused. When the family was visited by the township trustee last week, at their two room hovel, on the extension of South High street, near the south corporation line of the city, his good motives were shot full of holes by the flat refusals of Mr. and Mrs. Shoop to accede to the proposals made. The result was that the Shoop family was tut off the charity list of various organizations. . Even more drastic steps than first anticipated were then Instituted. Tha authorities decided that the French child should be sent to a state institution to be cared for and educated, and papers for her transfer were made out. This morning, the child, with Mrs. Shoop, who calls it "granddaughter, were brought to the township trustee's office. Rev. C Huber, pastor of St, Paul's Lutheran church, who is one of the officers in the Associated Charities, was present and the woman was impelled to relinquish claim on the child. Mrs. Shoop said that the reason why the child was not kept in a cleanly condition was for the reason that the pump was not working properly and they could not draw water. Many Tears Were Shed. When the time came for the woman nnd the child to part, the sympathies of those present were moved by the scene. The woman endeavored to remain impassive to the separation and was successful until she had finished putting on the child's overshoes and had said goodbye. At this point the child forgot the pleasures of a doll nd some candy given it, and set up a wall heard over the court house. The woman also shed many tears. She was asked to accompany the child to the Home for Friendless, but refused. Rev. C. Huber started out with the child and had much difficulty. When last seen, the child was still continuing its uproar of objections to the enforced separation. It is believed that the woman feared if she went to the Home for Friendless that she would be placed there ' in "confinement. It was proposed to her by Mr. Howarth that she go to her home and encourage her husband to go to the hospital and have his leg treated. At first the objection to this was most strenuous. She did not want him to go there because, she thought the authorities would cut off his leg. The nature of the treatment and the necessity of it was impressed upon her mind and she promised that she would get her husband to go to the institution. She Wanted Her Dog. When trustee Howarth suggested that she go to the Home for Friendless, while her husband was at the hospital, he almost lost the ground already gained. She broke out In hysterical weeping and when the cause of her objection was finally obtained, it was to the effect that she had a pet dog at her home, also some chickens, which she would not desert. She said that the authorities might take away her grandchild and separate herself and husband, but that never would she leave the dog. The little pet which she says she has possessed for several years was not present but the authorities do not think enough of it to allow It to become a part of the household of the Home. for the Friend less. Mrs. Shoop will be allowed to remain at her home with the dog and chickens. The parentage of the little girl would not be divulged by Mrs. Shoop. She told Mr. Howarth that it was left at their home several years ago. Shoop proposed to the officials that if they could get the officials of the South Side . Improvement association to return $60 which they have paid on their home, they would leave the

Zanesvllle, Ohio, Jan. ".Throughout all the disagreeable and nauseous features of the habeas corpus case of Mrs. Christy against her artist husband one feature that stands out most prominently and most impressively is the pluck that is being daily manifest ed by Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy, about whom, until the present court proceedings were instituted a few month3 ago, comparatively little was known. Day after day this beautiful little woman sad eyed and motherly, has fac ed the multitude of staring eyes and the rude gapes of the curious throngs like a real heroine. She has faced the music without seeming fear or trepidation, and again today reiterated her belief in the success of her suit. That she is an actress, and a clever L TO AID 111 EIGHT EOR A PRICE REDUCTION Gibbons Thinks That Something Should Be Done to Relieve the Condition Without Delaying Longer. HE HAS EXPERIENCED THE WEIGHT OF EVIL But, He States, Has Been Unable to Analyze the Causes Prices Do Not Keep Pace With the Wages. (American News Service) "Washington, Jan. 17. Cardinal Gib bons will lend his aid to the fieht against high food pi ices In the United States. "I feel," said his Eminence, "that something ought to be done to correct this evil. I myself have felt the weight of high prices of the necessaries of living yet, have been unable to analyze the causes. For a long time 1 have noticed that prices of foods of all kinds seemed gradually to be getting higher and higher, but while I have thought over the matter, I do not know just what causes the advance in price. Of one thing I am certain, prices of necessaries have not kept pace with wages; that is, wages have not Increased in proportion to the increased cost of living. "Something must be done with economic conditions in the country when wages and salaries remain the same, when at the same time food snjrolies

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one, Is established. In court, as the most interested spectator or as the principal character, she can weep, smile, chatter, blush or frown at will, seemingly having control of all womanly emotions at all times. That she is clever was established by the manner in which she parried the crossexamination thrusts of her husband's counsel, Attorney Frank A. Durban. The most important, if not sensational, feature of the case that has yet developed was the introduction of the letter written to the artist by Mrs. Christy last November, and in which she used the expression: "The little dark places in my life." That the calcium light of heartless publicity is to be turned full upon these little "dark places' is an accepted conclusion, making friends of Mrs. Christy

properly continue to increase in price." "Do you believe trusts are responsible for the increased cost of living," Hols Eminence was asked. "As to that I am not prepared to say," replied the Cardinal. "Something evidently is wrong when many of the commonest necessities in foods are priced at such enormous figures." JOHN R. WALSH IS TO GO TO PRISON Supreme Court Today Denied King of Finance Writ Of Certiorari. TERM IS FOR FIVE YEARS FRIENDS OF FORMER MULTIMILLIONAIRE IN INDIANA HAVE STARTED A MOVEMENT TO SECURE HIS PARDON. (American News Service) Washington, Jan. lT.-John R., Walsh, erstwhile multimillionaire, convicted of criminal juggling of the finances of a national banking Institution, must don prison stripes and do the lockstep for five years at Fort Leavenworth. The Supreme Court today denied him a writ of certiorari, for the reopening of his case. He will be seventy-seven, years old when the sentence expires. A movement of wide scope is being quietly pushed in southern and western Indiana for a petition to President Taft to pardon Walsh because of the great benefits accruing from his aggressive promotion of railroads and other Industries. The claim will be made that the securities taken from Walsh will be greatly enhanced by present prosperity and eventnally, wiU result in profits of millions of dollars.

shudder at the ordeal that confronts her. After the letter had been introduced as evidence and read, Mrs. Christy parried Attorney Durban's thrusts by declaring it a sham and a myth and written merely for the purpose of arousing her husband's jealousy and thereby hoping by it to excite In him the interest and love for her that he formerly professed. However, since, as she admitted, Howard never answered the letter, its mission was a failure. As the letter Indicates and the cross-examination also developed, while the wife and mother is striving as hard as she and her learned counsel can to secure the custody of her daughter, she still loves her artist husband and desires a reconciliation.

ALL DETAILS OF OFFICIAL PROBE WERE SUBMITTED Senator Nelson Today Presented Report of Conference Committee for Ballin-ger-Pinchot Dispute. BOTH PRINCIPALS TO RECEIVE A HEARING In the Main the Agreement Is A Concession to the House This Congress to Hear The Report Made. Washington, Jan. 17. Senator Nelson of Minnesota today reported to the senate the agreement of the conference committee on the Ballinger-Pin-chot investigation resolution. The report is, in the main a concession to the house. The important point sought after by the friends of Pinchot ia to provide both for the official or ex-official of the interior department, or bureau of forestry, respectfully, whos-3 conduct may be in question, to hare permission to be heard before the investigating committee, either personally or by counsel, was agreed to. The agreement provides that the report shall be presented to this congress. Punishment for contempt Is fixed at a fine of not more than a thousand dollars, or imprisonment for one year, or both. Otherwise, the resolution is as heretofore published. Notwithstanding that certain political and other interests are seeking

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When the News Was Broken To Eaton Murderer, He Said He Was Glad That Suspense Was Now Over.

HARMON REFUSED TO INTERFERE IN CASE Consequently Former Resi dent of Boston, Ind., Must Pay Penalty for His Crime, Midnight, Tuesday. (Palladium Special) Columbus, O., Jan. 17. Harry Rife, condemned to die shortly after mid night Tuesday was told this afternoon by Warden Jones and Chaplain Rich ards, that the pardon board and the governor had refused to interfere with the death sentence and that he should prepare for his death in the electric chair. He did not seem to bo much affected by the news and said that he was glad that the suspense was ended. Had Two Requests. He had two requests to make, one that he be given a new suit of clothes in which to go to the chair and for his burial, and the other that he be furnished with sufficient writing paper to write letters to all his friends. He was much more nervous during the forenoon, while he was waiting for word from the governor's office than after he learned that he must die for his crime. He has been converted since his arrival at the prison and has been spending a greater part of his time lately reading religious works furnished him by the chaplain. Rife was a native of Boston. Ind.. on A waa mn trintaH locf CanrAnirtaii f rw V v , , , . the murder of his former sweetheart. Mrs. Lida Griswold. who was public librarian at Eaton, O. The crime occurred last June. - A CONFESSION MADE Suspected Mill-brook Murderer Says He Burned Stolen Property. TRIES TO IMPLICATE A JAP (American News Service) Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Jan. 17. Frank Schermerhorn, the coachman arrested for the murder of Sara Bryner, the pretty governess at the home of Millionaire Barnes Com p ton at Millhrook, confessed today that he burned the property stolen from the Compton residence the night of the murder. Schermerhorn is expected to: reveal more details of the crime within a few hours. He is under close guard to prevent a second attempt at suicide. He persists in an attempt '.o implicate the Japanese butler. THE WEATHER. INDIANA AND LOCAL Rain or snow in South and North portions tonight and Tuesday; colder Tuesday.

The Woman That Rife Murdered

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IS THREE DAYS' MEETING

(American News Service) Washington, Jan. 17. President Taft delivered the opening address today to the coference of the National Civic federation, which began a three days conference with six hundred delegates present. Governor Wlllson of Kentucky welcomed the delegates on behalf of the governors' conference, and expressed himself in earnest sympathy with the movement for uniform legislation. Seth Lowe, president of the federation, presided at today's nieeiALIMONY WANTED , RY MRS. SWISHER t wsmtc xkiu 1 nununro map Year or $2,500 Paid in A Lump Sum. AMENDS HER COMPLAINT AND IN ADDITIONAL PARAGRAPH, SHE AVERS THAT IN HER OPIN ION HER HUSBAND CAN AF FORD TO PAY HER. Mrs. Willa Myrtle Swisher, former manager of the Gennett theater, who is asking for a divorce from Ira Swisher, formerly of this city, now traveling with a theatrical stock company, which he owns, filed a second paragraph to her complaint this moraine, in which she prays the court for a allow ance per year, or $2,500 alimony in a "lump sum." In the first paragraph of the com' plaint, which was filed several days ago, Mrs. Swisher avers abandonment and failure to provide. In the additional paragraph filed this morning. she says that, although the extent of her husband's property holdings are not known to herself, she is familiar with the fact that the earnings from his business are considerable and suffi cient to warrant the demand for ali mony. As yet Mr. Swisher has taken no ac tion in fighting his wife's suit, but with the demand for alimony It In probable that he will. He Is the own er of the North Bros, stock company. which has given several productions in this city. It has always enjoyed a very good patronage in this city and the same is true of its visits to other cities, according to reports. Mr. Swisher arrived In the city yesterday. WAS GREAT SUCCESS The Greater Richmond Poultry and Pet Stock association closed its second annual show Saturday evening after a most successful affair. The attendance was so good that the association was able to pay all bills and premiums and also have a surplus. Prepararations will be begun at once for the election of officials to have charge of the show next year. The annual meeting of the stockholders will be held In February. GRISWOLD.

Former Lieutenant-aovernor.

However, Is Strongly Considering Entering Secretary Of State Race. HE IS MOST POPULAR PARTY MAN IN STATE And It Is Thought Columbus Man Would Add Great Strength to the Republican Ticket Next Fall. (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan. 17. Hugh Th. Miller, of Columbus, former llentenant governor of Indina. has not yet made a definite announcement as to whether he will be a candidate for the nomination for Secretary of State, but there is an impression abroad that he will accept the place If It Is offered to him. His name was mentioned several days ago and immediately it met with favor, and on all sides republicans were heard to comment favorably on It. Miller is probably the most popular republican In the state. He Is recognized as an absolutely clean man. both in politics and private life, and as far as is known nothing can be said against him. It Is acknowledged that he made one of the best. If not quite the best, presiding; officer that ever held sway over the Indiana senate, lie is an ideal presiding officer. During his term as lieutenant governor he presided over two sessions of the senate, and in both of these there were matters of the most gigantic Importance to be handled. The session of 10O7 will long be remebered as the most sensational session of the legislature that has been held In many years, because . of the great number of Important matters that came before It. There was the thousand dollar license .bill, the Insurance bill,' the depository bill and many others, all of which stirred op political fights of the fiercest kind. Always Remained Cool.. But in the thick of all of it Miller kept his bead and was at all times master of the turbulent body. lie . seemed to understand thoroughly the rules of parliamentary practice, and never once was his ruling on any question upset. True, be had behind him a big republican majority In the senate, but even the majority was not at at all times unanimous, and It was up to the lieutenant governor to keep them all In line as well as to see that the business of the session was dis patched. Democratic members of that senate have declared that no republican presiding officer ever treated the minority with more fairness than did Mr. Miller, and they still have warm place for him. Then, when the special session of 10US came on he was still lieutenant governor, and everybody know the tact with which be bad to handle the lrw. 1 nntlnn Mil anil thn nth.r mat?ra that came on at that session. Is Temperance Man. Mr. Miler Is a strict temperance man and has always stood for the enactment of anti-liquor laws. In the office of secretary of. state, however, be would not have anything to do with the creation of new' laws. Republicans who are talking about him as a possible candidate for the place, however, declare that he would be the strongest man In Indiana to bead the republican ticket at the coming election. For this reason they say that he will surely be nominated If be consents to allow bis name to be used In that connection. With Mr. Miller In the race there would be at least one candidate for each place on the republican state ticket this year already announced. For auditor of state the present deputy auditor, Jobn E. Reed, la an avowed candidate. Jonce Monybaa, of Orleans, is out for treasurer of state. Ed V. Fltxpatrick. the present clerk of the supreme court. Is a candidate for renomination. William Bosaon of this city. Is a candidate for attorney general. W. S. Blatchley. the present geologist, is a candidate for renomlnation. Judge Frank S. Roby. present judge oT the appellate court, and James E. Piety, of Terre Haute, are candidates for places on the supreme bench. While there does not seem to be any early scramble for nominations, there is plenty of good timber coming to the front out of which to nominate a winning ticket. Lineup of Committee. With the date for the election of republican district chairmen leas than two weeks off. It appears almost certain that the next stite committee will be composed of the following members: First district, Edgar Durre, Evansrille. Second district. Win Hay. Sullivan. Third district, M- Bert Tbarmaa. New Albany. Fourth district, A. A. Tripp. North Vernon. Fifth district. Thad Peek, Greencastle. Sixth district. Elmer Its ett, hsayTflle. . - X Continued on Page Two.)