Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 93, 8 February 1910 — Page 1

RICHMOMB PAIXABITJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXV. NO. 93. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, l EIJHUAKY 8, 1910. sga SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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Republican Primary Yesterday Brought Out a Vote Better Than the One That Was Held in 1906. GEORGE MATTHEWS A VERY BIG SURPRISE In the Well Filled Race for Clerk, West Side Man Finished on Top, Winning by a Close Margin. NAME STEEN FOR SHERIFF FOURTH ATTEMPT OF THIS CANDIDATE TO LAND NOMINATION FOR THAT OFFICE PROVES TO BE A SUCCESS. REYNOLDS BEATS RATLIFF WHILE THE HOTLY CONTESTED RACE FOR CORONER GOES TO PIERCE MATHEWS WAS CHOSEN FOR ASSESSOR. Despite the fact that It was predicted yesterday that there would be a falling oft in the rote cast at the republican primaray election, over the vote cast four years ago and this contention appeared to be correct on the face of the early reports received last eveninga compilation of semi-official figures gathered today (the official count is tomorrow) shows that there was an Increased vote yesterday over the primary of 1906. However, there was a marked falling off in the vote of yesterday, compared with the primary vote of eight years ago. For instance, in 1902, there were 6,705 votes cast in the sheriff contest, against 5,268 yesterday, and 5,102 in 1906. The primary yesterday was a spirited one and there was considerable interest taken in several of the races, notably the ones for sheriff, county clerk, representative and coroner. A Nip and Tuck Affair. In the sheriffs race it was nip and tuck between Steen, Mashmeyer and Bailey. They finished in the order named. This race is an illustration that patience and persistence have their rewards. The successful effort of Steen's was his fourth attempt to land the coveted republican nomina tion for sheriff. George Matthews, in the clerk's race, showed unexpected strength and finished a winner after he had been generally placed In the "also ran" list. He directed an energetic campaign in the country, and the support he received there proved his greatest strength. Beeson Is Happy Man. Bob Beeson is wearing a broad and "much obliged" smile today. Bob was opposed by Crist in his race for commissioner from the western district, and Bob was vigorously opposed during the campaign by the Evening Item. Despite this opposition Beeson finished a winner by a small majority. Dr. Mora Bulla was defeated in the race for coroner by Dr. Rolla Pierce. The fight put up by the defeated candidate was a remarkable one. During the greater part of the campaign Dr. Bulla was confined to his home with pneumonia and in consequence his canvass was a most incomplete one. Pierce won by a small margtn. Walter Ratliff's smiling features will be missed at the next session of the legislature. Lee Reynolds won in this event in a common canter. An Interesting Table. The following table shows the vote cast for the candidates who received opposition": Barnard, Cong 3,843 Harvey, Joint Rep 3,714 Iadd, Prosecutor ?,550 Albertson, Treas 4,116 Linderman, Comtu'r 3.0S6 Howard, Surveyor 4,194 William Mathews, nominee for assessor, won over Thomas F. Swain by 118. The country districts favored Mathews as did a few of the city voting places. Albert Oler, the third candidate, was early counted out of the race. Thompson a Surprise. The surprise of the sheriffs race was not so much that Albert Steen was nominated by 230, as the showing which Ezra Thompson made. Mr. Thompson had not been considered so strong as the returns indicated. Oscar Mashmeyer. who ran second was favored by a large city vote and a fairly good representation of the country vote. Jesse Bailey, ex-chief :f police made a good race and came in third. Lafayette Larsh. former sheriff, did not run as well as his friends anticipated. While the country districts had been conceded to Lewis Bowman, of

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Abington Boston Center Clay Dalton Tranklin 1st Franklin 2nd Greene Harrison Jackson 1st Jackson 2nd , Jackson 3rd Jefferson New Garden Perry Washington Webster Wayne 1st Wayne 2nd Wayne 3rd Wayne 4 th Wayne 5th Richmond, First AVard Second Ward Third Ward Fourth Ward Fifth AVard (N.) Fifth Ward (S.) Sixth AVard Seventh Ward Eighth Ward Total Plurality Hagerstown, for auditor, Albert Morel's friends had conceded the city to him by a ratio of 2 to 1. Bowman carried 19 out districts and the seventh ward. He entered the city with a majority of about 900 and the city cut this down to 562. AValter Commons, the nominee for joint senator from Union and Wayne counties, won by a majority of 1630 in this county. This race was watched with much interest. Mr. Stivers of Liberty carried but two precincts, viz. Abington and the Dublin precinct of Jackson township. In a few of the other precincts, outside the city, the result was fairly close, but Mr. Commons simply walked away with the nomination in this city. Cannot be Defeated. Mr. Commons will be the next senator from Wayne and Union county. His majority in this county is so large that he might give Mr. Stivers every Union county republican vote, at the primary to be held in that county, February 21, and still win. Union county has about 1,200 votes. IS But There Are Grave Fears for Life of the Ruler of Sweden. MONARCH ISJJPERATED ON Stockholm, Feb. 8. The physicians of King Oscar Gustave, who was operated on for appendicitis at midnight, today declared that he was resting easily. Grave fears for the monarch's life are entertained, however, and the royal family is at his bedside. It was reported today that there were no indications of complications which form the greatest danger and that the attack was taken in time, it is believed, the most favorable factor in the case. When the king was rushed from the opera to the operating table, it was asserted that a delay of a few hours would have been fatal, immediately. John L. and (American News Service) ' Boston, Feb. S. When the Cunarderlvernia sailed today she took as saloon passengers John L. Sullivan, world famed pugilist and his bride of a few hours who was Miss Katherine Harkins of Sharon and a schoolday sweetheart of the former champion. They were married last night, the plans tor the wedding were given but little publicity.

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16301 1420 STATE IS By Cincinnati Sports and Our Sacred Soil Is Used for Gambling. GOVERNOR ON THE TRAIL (American News Service) Indianapolis, Feb. 8. News has reached the executive headquarters that Cincinnati sports are utilizing Indiana soil for gambling purposes and the governor's officials are hot on the trail. At Mission or Hanover, or somewhere down in that neck of the woods, the Big Four railroad is running special "sport" trains and the governor intends digging into the matter and discover what gambling -schemes are being carried out. Definite information is not ripe for publication, but the governor is determined that Indiana shall not be a "wide open" state. IN JACKSON ESTATE Capt. Caleb B. Jackson, who died recently at his home, west of Centerville, left a personal estate of the probable value of $2,000, according to the petition for administration filed with the county clerk today. Letters testamentary were given the two sons, Flavius J. Jackson and Thomas E. Jackson, who gave bond in the sum of 4,000. Mr. Jackson possessed real estate in addition to his personal property. The provisions of his will have not been made public. PLUM FOR H00SIER. (American News Service) Washington, Feb. 8. President Taft has nominated Newton W. Gilbert of Fort Wayne to be vice-governor of the Philippines. Bride to Ireland Recently Sullivan approached a priest and asked for a dispensation permitting his marriage to Miss Harkins. - The dispensation was denied as Sullivan's first wife, whom he divorced is still living. Sullivan is going to Dublin to begin a three months engagement in vaudeville which will take him through Ireland, England aad Scotland.

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3561 BIG COP SPRINTS LIKE ART DUFFY And in a Marvelous Exhibition of Speed Lands the Fugitive Offender. MAIN STREET IS EXCITED AND GASPED IN AWE AT THE WAY VOGELSONG MADE THE DUST FLY IN HIS WILD CHASE AFTER ONE ZABER. The assertion, which has frequently been made, that a fat man can't run was thoroughly disproved by Patrolman Henry Vogelsong this morning, in a short, but very exciting race on Main street after a prisoner, in which race the big officer and Sim Zaber were the only contestants. Vogelsong was in police headquart ers when a woman entered and told the policeman that Zaber, who was wanted on a charge of larceny, was then standing on the corner of Fifth and Main streets. Exit Vogelsong. But at the first appearance of the blue coat and brass buttons Zaber felt wings sprouting to his feet and beat a farewell down Main street. And then Vogelsong lengthened out and broke into a dead run. The crowd stood back and gasped at this marvelous exhibition of speed. Puffing like a steam roller and all out of breath, the big policeman caught up with the fugitive just around the corner of North Sixth and Main streets. The affair created intense excitement for a few minutes as Main street was crowded at the time of the chase. Zaber is alleged to have stolen two suit cases from the interurban office on South Eighth street, Sunday night. He will be arraigned in the city court tomorrow morning. AVERS TRESPASSING And Three Men, Said to Be Railroad Workers, Were Arrested Today. COMPLAINT BY A FARMER There are instances where persons have been arrested for 6ide-8teppin manual labor and charged with vagrancy, but to be pinched for working is just about the limit, thinks G. W. Zea, J. W. Hill and John Bluebecker, three men who were taken into custo dy this morning by Patrolman Vogelsong, for trespassing on the propertyleased by William Eggelhoff. a farmer, residing west of the city. The men claim that they are employed by tlie Pennsylvania railroad company and were engaged in erecting a fence on land owned by the company when arrested by the officer. They ?tate that they were ordered off the grounds by Egglehoff. The men declare that Eggelhoff is laboring under the delusion that his lease on the grounds is still effective, not being aware of the recent purchase of the land by the railroad company from the farmer of whom Eggelhoff had been leasing the farm. THE WEATHER. STATE AND LOCAL Rain op snow tonight; colder Wednesday.

83 TWO (1EGR0ES HUNG Are Executed in Missouri Today for Mistreating a Woman. A TENNESSEE RACE FEUD (American News Service) Kansas City, Feb. 8. John Williams and George Reynolds, negroes were hanged this morning for inhumanly treatment to a woman in a vacant house last December. A FIERCE RACE WAR. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 8. Three negroes were killed in a pitched battle, between a hundred negroes and two hundred whites at Hales Bar where the government is building a big dam. Wm. Flaherty, one of the contractors had appointed three negro bosses and had put white men under their orders. Trouble last night w as the result. The police reserves from here restored order. FOWLER IS IN RAD Three Women, Whose Hearts He Trifled With, Are on His Trail. ARRESTED ON A STEAMER (American tfews Service) Boston, Feb 8. Charges of defrauding three women whose promises to marry him he is alleged to have secured, are made by the police against W. H. L. Fowler, fifty-four years old, who was arrested as he was about to board a steamer for Portland. . The police say that there are scores of other women in various parts of the country who have been cheated of their money by Fowler. The specific complaint upon which the arrest was made was lodged with the police of Hull by Mrs. Mary C. Loneman, a widow of Quinry, 111. She says she is out $1,X on a check which she gave Fowler. Abbie 1L Swanton of Everett ha3 informed the police of that city that Fowler leview a nix of $750 on her credulity. Another complainant Is Eugenie Meredith of Wilmington. 111., who has told the police that Fowler cashed her checks to the value of ?2,."iO. The police say that Fowler found the susceptibilities of Illinois women a rich field of financial operations and that they are certain that dozens of them will lodge complaints against him. A MAGNETIC NEGRO (American News Service) Washington, Feb. 8. Despite the fact that "Bishop" Jonas Samuel Sturdivant, the negro who exerts such a strong influence over four white women, that they have followed him from city to city, is now in prison in Baltimore on a charge of assaulting the women who were found living hrc in the house with the "Bishop", thy refuse to be shaken in their belief in him and his teachings. They are without funds to buy food or to leave here. The only one in the party who speaks English fluently, is Adda Coddington. She says she was born in New England, and that her father was

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IIFIRIW PROBE STILL CONTINUES And It Is Thought Report Will Be Made Either Friday or Saturday. QUESTION THE INMATES AGAIN TODAY, AND TOMORROW OFFICIALS OF THE INSTITUTION ARE TO APPEAR BEFORE THE COMMITTEEMEN The committee conducting the probe of conditions at the county infirmary, relative to the treatment of inmates by Superintendent Frank Townsend, expected to complete its investigation, insofar as the examining of inmates was concerned, this afternoon. However, its work will not be finished until statements have been secured from Mr. Townsend, Dr. Fouts of Centerville, the infrmary physician, and others connected with th institution in an official capacity. Exacted a Promise. Each day spent at the institution has resulted in the committee finding information to prove or disprove assertions and statements made by some inmates and a local newspaper, that the conditions at the infirmay were not in some respects as ideal as might be. Although the committee is not conducting star chamber proceedings in its investigation, yet it has not made anything public, having exacted a promise before it begun Its work that no information which came to Its attention would be divulged until it made its report. It is probable the report of the committee will be forthcoming either Friday or Saturday of this week. All the proceedings are being taken down by an expert stenographer and the committee expects to review this testimony before rendering its verdict. SUIT IS WITHDRAWN And the Man Who Fought for British Peerage Gives Up Fortune. . WAS ANGERED OVER DELAY (American News Service) London, Feb. 8. Henry Sackville West, who claimed the Sackville peerage, alleging himself to be the legitimate son of the late Lord Sackville. today withdrew his suit which had for its stake a name, a fortune ard historic Knole Park. He took this step, in a letter to the judge before whom the case was being heard, because he was refused a delay which he asked, that he might secure important evidence from Spain. A week ago his counsel withdrew, with his permission, because postponement was not granted. West claimed that Lord Sackville married his mother, Pepita, a Spanish dancer. FOR ADMINISTRATION. Richard Shute has filed petition for administration of the estate of Samuel E. Shute, who died in Cricago. January 2Z. The probable personal property value of the decedent is given at S0. However, it is understood that he possessed real estate of considerable alue. .

UNFAVORABLE WAS THE REPORT MADE TO CITY FATHERS

Committee on Contracts and Franchise Advice to Return Gas Franchise to Board Was Adopted. METER READERS MAY HAVE TO USE BADGES Ordinance Requiring This Was Introduced Last EveningTalk of Brick Paving for North D Street. I' r. favorable report ou the proposed franchise of the Richmond Natural Gas company to enter the artificial gas field, in this city, waa made by the council committee, on contracts and franchises, through Its chairman Frank Waidele, last evening at the council meeting. It was recommended by the committee that the entire affair be sent back to the board of works and city attorney, A. M. Gardner. The recommendation was placed in form of motion and unanimously adopted. This attitude of the committee was anticipated, as the provisions of the company do not seem to meet with IHipular favor, as it was generally regarded that the provisions of the measure did not fully protect the city. Meter Reader Ordinance, Councilman Williams presented an ordinance requiring meter readers for all corporations and other corporation employes who are accustomed to enter residences to wear badges. The ordinance was placed on file after the first reading and it Is probable that reveral amendments will be offered on its next appearance. It was suggested by one of the councllmen that meter readers should have signed statements from the head of the corloration for which they are employed, as badges are easily duplicated. The penal clause of the ordinance provides for a fine of not more than $50 on conviction. It is hoped by those favorable to the adoption of the ordinance that It will serve as a protection to homes, preventing impostors from getting information which might be valuable to them in the event they planned to commit a burglary. North D Street Matter. An early start has been made by the administration, relative to some permanent repair of North D street, from the Doran bridge to Ft. Wayne avenue. Councilman Evans presented a communication touching upon the improvement, in which be said that residents of the second ward and oth ers, who were accustomed to nse the street, were complaining about the six inches of dust which constantly cover the street in the summer time and the equal depth of the mud during the wet periods of the year. The matter was referred to the board of works and the streets and alleys committee. Brick Is suggested by some; cement by others. Stallion Ordinance. Harry Kauffman. Oscar Williams and John Burdsall were appointed as a committee to investigate conditions re sulting in the passage of the ordinance, relative to stallions. The committee will report at the next meeting. One of the councllmen stated that he believed the ordinance was unjust and its passage aws due to the complaint of one man. To Regulate Street Cars. Better regulation of the speed of street cars on South Eighth street was suggested by Councilman BartcL He stated that their speed was unnecessary and he understood that the cars spent 5 to 7 minutes at the end of the line. The matter was turned over to the city attorney and if the complaint is found to be justified, the police will be notified. Resolutions Entered. By Williams complain from restdents who have no alleys in the rear of their homes because ash collectors refused to go into yards after ashes; by Thatcher recommendation for the installation of arc light on North E at the alley between Twenty-first and Twenty-second; by Waidele bad condition of drain, causing water to enter cellars at Nos. 207 and 209 Richmond avenue; bad condition of Richmond avenue between West Third and West Fifth, also Lincoln street, and the poor condition of several hedge fences; by Engelbert report of committee as to mud on eidewalk at Sixteenth and North E street, referring matter to attention of board of works. A (American New Srrrlce) Chicago. Feb. 8. Mayor Busse has apitointed Byron Arnold subway engineer for Chicago. Mr. Arnold, it is said, will be commissioned immediately to draw up a set of plans for a subway for the city which win cost in the neighborhood of f 1U0WW. . - '

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