Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 92, 7 February 1910 — Page 2

THE RICH3IOXD PAL IADIU3I AND -SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1910.

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RML FATALITIES SHOW AH INCREASE Indiana Commission Unable to Give Any General Reason for It.

BULLETIN FOR QUARTER DURING LAST THREE MONTHS OF THE PAST YEAR 79 WERE KILLED BY STEAM ROADS TRACTION RECORDS. Indianapolis, Feb. 7. The accident bulletin of the railroad commission for the quarter ending December 31, 1909 Just issued, records a sharp increase in the number of persons killed and Injured on both the steam and electric roads of the state during the quarter, a condition which the commission is at a loss to explain. During the quarter there were seventy-nine deaths on the steam roads, as against seventy-one for the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. Fifteen were killed on the interurbans as against eleven for the corresponding quarter of 1908. The increase in the number of employes injured on the steam roads, the commission says, is even more striking. On . the steam roads, during the quarter, 525 employes were injured, as against 309 for the corresponding quarter of 190S. On the interurban roads forty-eight employes were injured, as against eighteen during the corresponding quarters of the preceding year. The total injured for 1909 was 573, an increase over 1908 of 163. Killed by Interurbans. Three passengers were killed by tho interurbans during the quarter as against none killed during the corresponding quarter of 1908. No passengers were killed on steam roads during the quarter. Of the seventy-three passengers injured during the quarter on the steam roads, twenty-two were injured in a collision on the C. & K. Railroad, at Tocsin, October 29; twelve were injured in a rear-end collision on the C, I. & S. railroad at Gibson, December 27, and twelve were injured on the Wabash railroad at Lagro, October 31. Of the passengers killed on the interurban roads, one met death by getting off a motor car and being struck by a trailer, a second was killed by leaving a moving car, while the third was killed while being ejected from the car by the conductor, the passenger being reported in an intoxicated condition. Many Different Causes. Many different causes were discovered by the commission for deaths of employes on steam roads. Twenty-two cases were assigned as follows: One conductor killed by unknown cause, his body being found on the track; one conductor killed by falling from a car; one brakeman killed in rear end collision on siding; one brakeman killed by falling from car while making a running switch; one brakeman killed by a collision in a yard; one brakeman killed by a train running on an opposite track on a double track system; two brakemen killed in a head-on collision on a main line: two engineers killed in a head-on collision; two firemen killed by falling from engines; two firemen killed by head-on colli sions; one laborer killed by falling from a train; two laborers killed by being struck by train; one lineman killed by being struck while riding on a velocipede; one trackwalker killed while walking the track; one crossing watchman killed by being struck by a train; one laborer killed while attempt ing to board a moving train; one operator killed by being struck at a crossing. Cause of Deaths. Deaths to interurban employes were recorded with the following causes: One laborer killed by falling from a car running at a high rate of speed, the car not being properly equipped with brakes: one motorman killed by an electric shock, while working with a headlight: one conductor killed by being crushed between cars, his car in backing, taking a wrong course on a Tong switch: one motorman killed by an electric shock while using the telephone on his car; one substation operator killed by an electric shock while working about his station. An increase in the casualties at highway crossings and to trespassers is also noted in the report. "We are not able," says the commission, "to give here any general cause or reason for the increase in. fatalities. We can only call the attention of the public and the railroad companies' employes to the fatalities, in the hope that much more care and consideration and thought may be given toward decreasing them in this and future quarters.'' Tl OF THEM WOMEN Among the thirty-four applicants for census enumerators who took the required examination, Saturday, at the office of County Superintendent G. W. Jordan, two were women. There were forty-two who signified their intention of taking the examination, but 6nly thirty-six showed up. Two of this number were taken ill during the examination and bad to withdraw. GRANTED A DIVORCE. 'Judge Fox granted Lela W. Wilcox a divorce from Harry Wilcox this morning. The case was tried in the circuit court Saturday morning, but the court withheld judgment until today. Cruel and inhuman treatment drunkenness and other charges were averred-

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3 KID SIMMS, CLEVELAND. All arrangements have been com pleted for the big boxing and wrest ling tournament which will be held at the Coliseum, Tuesday. This promises to be bristling with interesting events as the participants are capable men in their respective classes. Thursday night at Anderson, Kid Brown, who is to meet Tommy Dillon in a six round bout at 133 pounds, secured the decision over Young Texas in three rounds, i Brown has boxed two tenround draws with Jack Dillon, their first encounter being at Indianapolis about a year ago and a few months later the second was held in Dayton. Brown defeated Bobby Long a short time ago at the Mitchell club in Indianapolis. The bout was scheduled to go ten rounds, but the referee stopped the mill in the fourth session to save Long from further punishment. Dillon, his opponent in the main bout of the evening, is also a clever mitt slinger and is reputed to have a heavy swing with either hand. Two Indianapolis boxers. Tommy Moore and Willie McGee, will appear in a four round exhibition, the former to meet young Oliver of Benton Harbor and the latter will lock horns with Kid Simms of Cleveland. Simms is touted as being a comer and will make it interesting for McGee, who is under the protective wing of Ray Bronson, the crack lightweight. Moore fought a six round draw with Larry Donovan in Indianapolis recently, although Donovan outweighed him at least 10 pounds. For the wrestling contest it is unnecessary to say much as the Richmond fans know Charles Olson, who will meet George Puttman. the Buffalo giant, in a finish match, best two out of three falls. T IS A FREAK (American News Service) Chicago, Feb. 7. A male child, weighing less than five pounds, but with teeth, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francesco Cuglianzo of Chicago. Two of the teeth were clear through the lower gum about an eigth of an inch. All of its teeth are begining to show through and inside a day or two the baby will have a full set, upper and lower. Culpeper's Remedies. Old time physicians prescribed even more unsavory remedies than rancid butter, which was Emperor Meneliks cure for malarial fever. In '"Culpeper's Herbal," published originally iu IGoG and reprinted as recently as 1S20, are such prescriptions as "oil wherein frogs have been sodden till all the flesh is off from their bones." "horse leeches burned into powder" and "black soap ami beaten ginger." Some of Culpeper's remedies are of a more practical nature. "If redhot gold be quenched in wine," he says, "and the wine drunk it cheers the vitals and cures the plague. Outwardly used it takes away spots and leprosis." Making It Pleasant For Her. Mrs. Gootlsole (removing her wrapsi I've owed you a call for a long time you know. I hate to be in debt, and I just felt that I couldn't rest easy until I had discharged my obligations by coming to see you. Mrs. Sliptung Whyi my dear Mrs. Goodsole, you shouldn't have felt that way at all. Chicago Tribune. Paid Him Back. The Mean Thing You're so conceited, Conuio. that I believe when you get into heaven the first question you'll ask will be, "Are my wings on straight?" Connie Yes. dear, and I shall be sorry that you won't be there to tell me. Illustrated Bits. Now They Don't Speak. Belle How silly men act when they propose! Why, my husband acted like a perfect fool. Nelle That's what i everybody thought when your engaget ment was announced. Cleveland Leader.

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REFUSED By POPE Because Fairbanks Insisted On Speaking in a Methodist Church. INCIDENT OF ROMAN TRIP FORMER VICE PRESIDENT CALLS ON ALL CHRISTIANS TO ASSIST IN EFFACING DENOMINATIONAL LINES. Rome, Feb. 7. The visit to Rome of Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States brought about a very delicate situation owing to the fact that he wished to pay his respects to the King, the Pope and the American Methodist church. Incidents of this kind are not infrequent, and extreme care has to be exercised by those upon whom the arrangement of the audiences fall in order to avoid offending the susceptibilities of either side. By a tactful arrangement Mr. Fairbanks's audience with King Victor Emmanuel was fixed for Saturday, and that with the Pope for Monday, and when everything seemed satisfactorily planned, the Vatican suddenly announced that it would be impossible for His Holiness to receive the former vice president if he carried out his announced intention to speak In the American Methodist church here, because the Methodists had been active in proselyting among the Catholics. Tried to Avoid Trouble. Negotiations were begun by friends with a view to avoiding any unpleasantness. But Mr. Fairbanks finally declared that although he was animated by a strong desire to pay his respects to the head of the Catholic church, whose followers had played such an important part as good American citizens, he could not withdraw from his promise to deliver an address before the American Methodist church. Mgr. Kennedy, rector of the American college gave a dinner at noon in honor of Mr. Fairbanks. The hall was decorated with American flags. Among those present were 144 American students, the largest body of Americans that has attended the institution. A Toast by Kennedy. Mgr. Kennedy gave a toast to the former vice president, expressing high appreciation of the honor conferred upon the college, and said that Mr. Fairbanks was not among strangers, but still in an American house, among men proud to be Americans and anxious to return home to labor for the good of their fellow countrymen. Mr. Fairbanks, in rising, gave a toast to the Christian church, making no distinction of denomination. At the American Methodist church Mr. Fairbanks's address acquired exceptional importance because of the incident at the Vatican, and it is looked upon as his final answer to the conditions imposed upon him relative to his audience with the Pope. During the course of this address he said: "It is impossible to emphasize too strongly the good work the Christian church is doing in all lands and among all nationalities. The agitation going on in the political, social and economic worlds is due to Christianity breaking down the castes and prejudices and lifting mankind to a higher plane. The democratic idea which is taking root in political institutions is due to the expanding influence of Christianity. All Christian churches are worthy of support. Cease the narrow denominational wars and direct your energies toward the common enemy. Let the Catholics and the Protestants of all denominations vie in carrying forward the work of the Master, which is worthy of the best in them all." Don't Give Up. Among some skaters was a boy so small and so evidently a beginner that his frequent mishaps awakened the pity of a tender hearted if not wise spectator. "Why. sonny, you are getting all bumped up," she said. "I wouldn't stay ou the ice and keep falling down so; I'd just come off and watch the others." The tears of the last downfall were still rolling ovtr the rosy cheeks, but the child looked from his adviser to the shining steel on his feet and answered, half indignantly: "I didn't get some new skates to give up with: I got 'em to learn how with." Life's hard tasks are never sent for us "to give up with;" they are always intended to awaken strength, skill and courage In learning how to master them. Selected. Narrow Escape. She Of course he bored me awfully, but I don't think I showed It. Every time I yawned I just hid it with my hand. He (trying to be gallant Really I don't see how a hand so small eoul J er hide er that is beastly weather we're having, isn't It? Philadelphia Press. Told Often Enough. I ought to know what Is right and proper." "So?" "Yes; I've three grownup daughters at home to tell me." Detroit Free Press. An Old Saying Amended. The Man Won't you marry me, then? Bachelor Girl Certainly not! When singleness is bliss 'tis folly to be wives. Illustrated Bits. A man must be excessively stupid as well as uncharitable who believes there is no virtue but on his own side-

ROOSEVELT ATTACKED

IN A SPICY NOVEL Mrs. Ida Car Clauseen. who a few years ago was an international beauty. j and who has just arrived from Europe with the novel "Forget It." whose publication was refused in Paris because of the pointed allusions made to fori mer President Roosevelt, in connection j with the controversy over the refusal of the American minister to present the lady at the Swedish court. The president backed up Minister Graves and this is why he comes in for a share of the attack. S0CKER IN THE COLLEGES. Illinois and Chicago Schedule Game For Next Fall. The athletic heads of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois have scheduled an association football game for next fall. Coaches A. A. Stagg and George liuff plan to introduce socker as a western intercollegiate sport od Nov. ID at Marshall held. According to the coaches, the first intercollegiate socker contest will be intended as the formal introduction of the sport Into the conference and probably the forerunner of aunual association schedules between the "big eight" institutions. CROWLEY NOW A "PRO.' I Gold Lure Proves Too Strong For I Great Marathon Runner. j Jim Crowley, the great Marathon ! runner, has quit the amateur ranks. Hereafter he will run in professional races. Crowley has been offered a race JIM CBOWUT, WHO HAS JOT3TED TBI PROFSSSIONAI. BASKS. j against Tom Longboat, the proposed j match to take place in Buffalo in the eariy part or teDruary. As an amateur Maratboner Crowley was In a class by himself. Time after time he demonstrated his ability to cover long distances of ground in fast time. Although the Marathon distance Is his forte. Crowley Is also a fast middle distance runner. Time and again be has demonstrated that be can travel five miles with the best of them. In a recent race at Celtic park. New York, he hung op new American records from ten and a half miles to seventeen miles. TAFT TO CHICAGO (American News Service) Washington, Feb. 7. President Taft today announced he had decided to accept an invitation to attend the St. Patrick's day celebration at the Fellowship club of Chicago.

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I COSTS LARGE SUM $19,000 Is Spent by a Mother in Seeking Titled Son-in-law. PURSUE CHASE IN EUROPE UPSHOT OF THE ENTIRE AFFAIR IS A DIVORCE FOR THE FATHER OF THE GIRL "WITH THE OPEN SOUL." Salt Lake City. Utah. Feb. 7. Charles C. Parsons, formerly of Denver, came out victorious in his action for divorce in Judge Morse's division of the district court, as the court dismissed the complaint of Mrs. Jennie B. Parsons, who asked for separate maintenance in the sum of $500 a month and granted Mr. Parsons a di vorce on the ground of desertion. It was the second divorce the husband had obtained from Mrs. Parsons. ! The decision came after the case had been on trial for a week, with the evidence sensational in the extreme. Among ether things it was shown that Mrs. Parsons and her daughter Geneva. "Hhe girl with the open soul." had spent nearly $19,hm m Europe while trying to capture a titled husband for the young woman. i After all this Iai6h expenditure of money by Mr. Parsons, he told the court, when his wife and daughter returned from their tour of Europe they refused to have anything to do with him and at once charged him with misconduct in their absence, using as a basis of their charge the fact that they had received telegraphic messagi es telling them of his behavior. Didn't Remarry for Love. On cross examination Mr. Parsons admitted he did not remarry his wife on account of love for her, but solely on account of his daughter. Under the circumstances, he declared that he could not have any particularly great love for his wife. He denied, however, that he ever even intimated that he wanted her to go to a sanitarium for the insane in California. Mr. Parsons told of the frequent demands for money he received from his wife while she was abroad and of letters telling of alleged duels between i Gabriel D'Annunzio and the count of Turin over his daughter. He said he made a thorough investigation of the D'Annunzio affair and learned that at the time he was supposed to have been fighting the duel as related by Mrs. Parsons he was In Rome rehearsing one of his new plays. Mr. Parsons declared he was thoroughly convinced of the falsity of the statements made by his wife in that respect and that it worried him to think that Mrs. Parsons would view with complacency, even in her Imagination, an affair with a man of the reputation of D.Annunzio. After learning of that incident he wrote at once and urged wife and daughter to return to America. From that time on his one desire was to get them back on this side of the Atlantic. Daughter on Mother's Side. I When Miss Parsons, "the girl with the 'open soul,'" took the stand, she displayed evidence of an unfilial feeling toward her father. Once, asked as to her relations existing between herself and her father, she said: "My father never lavished affection upon me, only money like a man would bet on a race horse when he hopes to win something. He wished to make me attractive for social purposesthat was all." Stewart D. Walling of Denver, conducted the cross examination. "How do you explain the measure of your affection for your father?" he asked. "I can hardly explain that, Mr. Walling," she replied smiling. "You can not measure affection by inches. I know of no moral tape measure." "Did you ever tell any one In Denver or any place else that you thought your father was a criminal?" asked the attorney. "I may have said that to you. Mr. Walling, but I said It as I would have talked to an attorney or a doctor or a priest, thinking it would be sealed. And I think if you were a gentleman it would not be used now." "Open Soul" Dreams in Case. Miss Parsons told of telepathic communications received by her "open soul," and of dreams that shed much light on the conduct of her father. So vivid were these dreams the mother was convinced that her husband was being blackmailed and she wrote him: "Denver probably has fresh food for scandal." Miss Parsons confirmed the statement that he name had been used in a play written by D'Annunzio. She had translated the names for him herself and she told her mother of the incident. She also testified that DAnnunzio's plagiarism of her poems testified that certain poems in a book of verse published by the poet were reallv written by Miss Parsons and that 'the great Italian poet has obtained them by telepathy. A Sign. . - . "Blanchard must lately have made a lot of money somehow." "I haven't heard about It. "I haven't either, but he addressed our Sunday school recently and said It was a blessing to have a struggle.' Chicago Record-Herald.

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Columbus Will Entertain the! Annual Meeting of the Lincoln League. MEETING NEXT SATURDAY Indianapolis. Feb. 7. Roy W. Emig of Columbus, secretary of the local committee In charge of the preparations for holding the biennial meeting of the Indiana Lincoln league of Republican clubs. February 12. has written to E. E. Neal. president of the organization, for a list, as nearly as can be compiled at this time, of the delegates and visitors, in order that he may make suitable arrangements for the banquet to be spread in the evening. N'eal has not yet received the complete list of delegates and has sent out a hurryup call to the delinquents. The name of a new candidate for president has been broached, that of John Clark, deputy postmaster at Marlon. This makes four candidates with one of the hardest fights in the history of the organization for the presidency. The other three are Grant Fitch of Columbus; Judge E. H. Jackson of New Castle, and Myles J. Furnas of Winchester. Ivory J. Dry bread of Franklin has announced his candidacy for the secretaryship, and W. H. Adams of Wabash, present secretary. Is expected to be a candidate to succeed himself. Marlon county Is entitled to 172 delegates to the meeting, and Harry Hargrove, county organizer.' and James C Curtis, district organizer, are prepar ing the list. THE UMPIRE WAS GAME. And He Made the Kickers Play Out the Last Inning. Speaking of the doings of the veteran umpires, an old timer claims that Honest John Keily Is entitled to the record for freak doings among the Indicator handlers. Back In the American association days, in a game played on the old Union grounds In Allegheny, Galvin was pitching for Pittsburg against Casey of the Athletics. Kelly was the umpire. In the ninth inning, with the score 5 to O in favor of the Athletics, the first man up for Pittsburg made a home run hit to center, and the visiting team at once set up claim that It was too dark to play. The center fielder came all the way In and pretended that he could not see the ball In the gathering darkness. "Here," 6aid Kelly; "give me a glove," and with that he started for center field. "I'll see how dark it Is out there," he said. "You, Casey and Galvin, bat me out a few." Players and spectators gasped, but Kelly made good bis bluff. He went out to deep center and, with the smoke of the mills lying low about him. actually caught ten or fifteen long line drives and high flies ! from the bats of the two pitchers with out missing one. Then the umpire came in and. taking off his glove, said: "Play ball. If I can see 'em out there, you fellows can." The game was resumed, and the Pitts burgh won in a great batting rally by 6 to 5. New York World. WET AND DRY MOONS. Old Superstition and Cold Facts From the Astronomers. There is an old superstition which dies bard, and that is that the posi tion of the horns of the new moon j tells what the weat'jer will be. If the horns of the crescent are on the same level It will hold water, and hence It is a dry moon, but if It is tipped up then the water will run out, and It Is a wet moon. One thing has helped keep this belief alive. The moon Is "dry" In the part of the spring that is usually fair, while it is "wet" during the season of autumn rains. If this were a sure sign of the weather we could have our predictions published many years in advance, for an astronomer can predict the exact position of the moon at any time in the future. The cause for the different positions of the crescent is simple. The moon is south of the sun in the autumn and north of it in spring. The crescent is found by the light of the sun falling on the moon, and the horns are naturally in a line perpendicular to the direction of the sun from the moon. That is all there is to this old superstition. Boston Herald. Confucius. Confucius regarded bis own life as a failure. He spoke against ambition, yet he coveted high office, nothing less than that of political adviser to some great ruler. A man of the highest lineage in China, be was yet poor and early supported himself by teaching. His pupils showed hir an extraordinary devotion. The pick of the young men in bis native state of Lu sat at his feet, and it was they who transmitted his tremendous influence. But Confucius saw not his immortal success, but his temporal failure. Only i for a few brief years did circumstances ; permit him to exercise his practical j genius for government. He became first a magistrate, then chief criminal judge in Lu, and. to quote Professor Legge. "crime ceased." Confucius, however, became dissatisfied with the ruler whom he served, a weak man who neglected his duty and gave himself up more and more to dissipation, so he reslrned his post and banished himself. London Spectator. AssxAzns: Mother says "they can't say anytMa t rood &bout Gold JXedaJ Flour." Cuim.

COUSHM Wednesday, Feb. 9 ..Boxing Bouts.. Kid Brown vs. Tommy Dillon; Kid Sims vs. Willie M'Gee; Tommy Moore vs. Young Oliver. Wrestling match Chas. Olson vs. George Puttman. Prices. 25. SO and 75c. Seats now on sale at Simmons Cigar Store.

DATE FOR LECTURE The first of the course of ten lectures on the Gospel of Matthew which will be delivered by Prof. Elbert Rus?ell of Earlham college, will be aiv-c-u in the Y. M. A. building Tuesday evening. February S. It waa anI nounced in many of the churches yesI teiday that the first lecture would be this was a mistake, however. The lectures will be given for ten consecutive Tuesday evenings and women as well as men are cordially invited to attend. REPORTS BY LAYMEN Reports on the session of the Laymen's Missionary Movement at Dayton, last week wore given yesterday afternoon at the South Eighth Street Friends Church by E. G. Hill, Prof. Elbert Russell. Rev. Truman Kcnwortby and Rev. Levi Pennington. Election Returns Will be received In many places this evening with Interest. We want to call your attention to one special place where you can always get your eyes correctly fitted with glasses at reasonable prices. DANER, TOE JEWELER S10 Main Street. F. H. Edmunds. Optometrist. A DAIRY FEED that will make the milk' flow Cotton Seed FJesi 41 per cent, protein, and Quaker Molasses Dairy Feed are two of the greatest milk producing feeds on the market. GET OUR PRICES IT PAYS. Feed and Seed Store 33 S. Clh St Pbose U73 PENNANTS For Colleges Schools and Guts ALSO EARLHAM PENNANTS ma picture ef sc&sd tsd seal sll celtrs farais&ed PQt zzi HwdZa QUIGLEY Drcj Stores