Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 179, 5 May 1910 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AXD SUX-TELEGEAM, THURSDAY, 31 AY 3, 1910.

JAP OFFICER IS H HERO. OF DEEP In a Sunken Submarine He Pens a Message for the ' World to Hear.

TAKES BLAME ON HIMSELF PACING CERTAIN DEATH THE GALLANT FELLOW IN HIS . LETTER ASKS FORGIVENESS FROM HIS EMPEROR. London, May 5. Death news from the bottom of the sea, showing a degree of heroism and self-humiliation seldom encountered, even in naval circles, is recounted in a translation published jn the Times of a message written by Lieut. Tsutoma Sakutna, who was in command of tho Japanese submarine Ho. , when it foundered last weeK, 'while maneuvering in Hiroshima bay, all on board being lost. In the message, which was found in th conning tower of the submarine when It had been brought to the surface. Lieut. Sakunia explained that he alone was to blame for the disaster to the craft and the death of fellow-officers and men. He describes in detail the heroic and almost superhuman efforts that he and the doomed men with him made to save the submarine and their own liyeB. The message was as follows: Worked Calmly to End. "It Is with the deepest regret that I write this message to describe the loss of this boat, with my fellow-officers and men, due to my own fault. I would here specially mention that all steps have been taken to raise her, my comrades and men working earnestly and calmly till the end. I ordered the ship to dive with the engine running, hut as I found she went down too far, I tried to shut the valves which admit the sea water to tho ballast tank, but unexpectedly the chain working these valves broke, and I'was left helpless, unable to control the boat. "Meanwhile the tanks were filled with water and the boat went down at an Incline of about 25 degrees. After striking the bottom the water began rushing in, the switchboard was immersed in water, all electric lights went out, the fuses burned away and the boat was filled with poisonous gases, bo that we experienced the greatest difficulty in breathing. ' Hand Pumps Only Hope. "Under these conditions we worked our very utmost with the hand pumps to empty the main ballast tank, which I believe we succeeded in doing, al though we could not read the guages, owing to the darkness. No electric current was available, as I mentioned before, and our last hope of rising to the surface lay in working the hand pumps only. , .."j .write this in the dim light coming from the conning tower J 1:43 a. "I earnestly beseech, his majesty to grant me forgiveness and to succor tho families of my comrades and men who have lost their lives-in this perishing boat. This is my only wish 12: p. in. - - : "It la with the utmost difficulty that I can breathe, though I am sure we must have blown out the gasoline entirely from the tanks., I can not continue any more. 12:40 p. m." ' Net a Laughing Matter. Cut off from family and home by a relentless tide, fat Mr. Bodger bad been forced to clamber till be gained pathway cut In the cliff's face. It was a narrow path, and Mr. Bodger waa no narrow man. Getting more ; frightened every moment, he proceeded warily along the fast diminishing way till at last It faded suddenly Into what the poets would call "sweet nothingness." Already he waa overlapping, and It was Impossible to turn. , An excited crowd watched bis prog- . reaa from above. ',!'.:v.' "What on earth am I to dor gasped Bodger desperately on his four Inch ledge as he gripped a toft of tea weed . with one hand. "Do, guv'norT came buck a voice. "Do anvflnk yon like. ' but for - good ness sake don't larf or your wesklt 'II bump yer off as sure as eggs Is eggs!" London Answers. - Cant Please Everybody. The manager of an asbestos mill conceived a novel Idea for' his announcements. He bad them printed on thin asbestus aud Inclosed In envelope of the same material. As be was .uncertain of the correct addresses of some of the stockholders, he ordered his stenographer to write on each envelope "Please. Forward. ' The Idea was clever, but one may appreciate the feelings of the widow of one of the stockholders when she received an asbestus envelope addressed to her late husband with the' In-au-l;tton "Please Forward" beneath the address. Lipplncotta. All Were Pretty. During an equestrian performance a number, of ladles in the front stood tip, thus obstructing the view of tlrnse persons who were seated. In vain were they collectively requested to sit down till at last a happy thought oc curred to one of the sufferers. He called out to measured tone: -Will the pretty lady In front ktadlj alt down 7 whereupon about fifty Ud women briskly- seated themselves. London Taller. ' OM teheel Prejudice. Doctor, I met "a medical practitioner of ft new kind tne other day, and I cant classify him. He diagnoses all diseases by looking at tho linger nails of his patients. What would you ctttsUar . "I should caH him humbug." CMTribune.

News of Surrounding Towns

MILTON. IFJD. Milton, Ind., May 5. Newton Lamb has returned to bis home In Richmond. It is reported that some one attempton tn ontor TCnrl Doddridee'8 home

through a window one night recently. Port of the years work under the suMr. Doddridge frightened him away. pervision of Mrs. J. E. Coffin shows

It is said that Mr. Doddridge Knows tho fellow. M. W. Paxson was yesterday. Miss Marshall is at Connersvillo spending a few weeks with her aunt, at Economy. She : will soon enter Earl ham for a course of study. The lecture given by Dr. Elijah P. Brown, was very able and greatly appreciated by his hearers. His' subject was "Watching the World Go Round." Mrs. Decker and daughter were at Cambridge city yesterday, calling on friends. Mrs. Kltterman was at Connersville yesterday. Sam Hoshour is suffering from a felon on his finger. The Christian Church Bible School will observe "Mother's Day" Sunday morning. All mothers are especially invited to come. A special program will be given in honor of motherhood. All who can will please wear a white carnation, the Mothers'Day flower, or any other white flower. . The "Loyal Women Adult Bible class will have charge of the evening services with a special program. Wear the white flower. Everyone Is cordially Invited. Mrs. Shumaker received word of the death of her friend, Mrs. Cupp of Markle. She was an aged lady and " recently fell and broke her hip. The M. E. Sunday school , : will observe "Mothers' Day" with an appropriate program in connection with the temperance lesson of the day, Sundaymorning. Everybody, especially the Mothers, are invited to be present. Wear a" white' carnation or othor appropriate white flower. . Miss Idah Hutchinson, who has been visiting at her brothers. Frank Hutchinson, returned to Bentonville, yesterday. . Harold Hoshour has secured employment at New Castle. Prof, and Mrs. C. H. Wood will soon leave for their home at Winchester, where they will spend the summeer returning in the fall. Mrs. Wood reports a fine meeting of the Eighth district Woman's clubs, at Winchester. . Chas. Doddridge of Doddridge, was greeting friends here and visiting his sister, Mrs. Frank Morris, yesterday. The Ladles Aid of the M. E. church met with Mrs. Borders yesterday afternoon The aid will have a market Saturday at the Odd Fellows kitchen, Odd Fellows' hall. . ' . Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Roberts of Chicago and Miss Emma' Louise Fetta of Richmond, visited their aunts, Miss es Mary and Sarah Roberts, yesterday. Mrs. Mary Deck is very feeble. - She is apparently growing weaker. Mrs. Mary Parkins is much the same. Mrs. L. M. Gentle, and Mrs. G. A. Borders are delegates to the D. of R. assembly at' Indianapolis from Milton. r of R. lodae. Mrs. Alice DuGranrut and Mrs. James Doddridge are the alter nates. I The "Lodge Women" of the Chris tian church Bible school, neia tneir regular business meeting and social with Mrs. W. H. Miller, yesterday aft ernoon. Miss Carrie Walker on her return from New Albany, visited the Rev. and Mrs. G. Jensen at Shelbyville and the Rev. and Mrs. A. TL Jones at Flatrock, both of whom were former pastors of Milton M. E. charge. Mesdames Barton Van Winkle Parker, Park Thornburg and Barbara Ferris,will be the hostesses for- the next meeting of the Priscilla club. The Rev. C. H. Pinnick will preach at Doddridge chapel Sunday. The Eastern Star met last evening. Bragg's grocery store is still undergoing repairs on the interior. CAMBRIDGE CITY, IND. Cambridge City, May f. Mrs.. Scott Thomas and her ' cousin, Mrs. John Hilligoss of Anderson, have been the guests of Mrss. Katherine Drischel. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Swiggett havs returned after having spent the winter in Ashville, 5f. C. Mrs. Daniel Cordell, of Hagerstown, is , spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Will Kelsey. Don Drischel has returned to Richmond to resume his duties as fireman on the third division of the Pennsylvania R. R., after a short visit with his mother, Mrs. Katherine Drischel., Mrs. J. E. Coffin went to Anderson this morning to visit her son, Gregg. She will also visit her daughter, Mrs. Otis Harris, of Marion, before her re turn.-''.'; ;v' .''""' -': '-;-:'.-' Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Hayes of Detroit, are the guests of relatives in this place. Mr. and Mrs. Will Brumfield have returned after a visit with friends in Indianapolis. The membership of the ; Christian church will tender a reception to their new pastor and his wife, the Rev. and Mrs. Burnan, Friday evening, at - the church. An invitation is extended to all, as citizens, .regardless of church denomination, to be present and give them a kindly welcome. i Mrs. Bertram Berger of Kokomo, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Steele. Mrs. Charles Hageman and daughter. Miss Gaynelle, spent Wednesday in Richmond. Mrs. M. B. McCaffrey has returned after a trip through various parts of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Murray of Ha'"town. were visitors in Cambridge City. Wednesday. . Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Masterson of Shirley are the guests Mr. and Mrs. Dean House. - - The Epworth Lea:ie met in business session at the ho s of Miss Cmrlyle Diffenderfer. Tuesday evening. , The following officers were elected for the coming year: President. Mrs. J. E. Coffin; first vice president. Miss Cora Hebbler; second vice president, Hattie Toms; third vice president. Elizabeth Ohmit; fourth vice president. Hazel

Bertsch; secretary, Julia' Boyd;' assistant, John Bailey; treasurer, Charles Protzman; pianist, Gaynelle Hageman; assistant, Alice McCaffrey; chorister, ' Clayborn ' Stoneclpher. A re-

tne ieaKl,e has doubled its membership and increased in both interest and zeal. Mrs. Coffin has shown her'self a genial and tactful worker among the young people, and they are willing to adopt the plans which she suggests. The one presented Tuesday evening is the giving of a substantial gift toward the building of the new church. ' Grace Jenkins, the little daughter of Mrs. Stella Jenkins, is quite sick with the measles. - Attorney J. C. Dodson was in Richmond Wednesday on legal business, v The pay roll for the laborers now employed by Contractor P. H. Brendlinger, on the P., C, C. & St. L. construction work, at this point, now amounts to six hundred dollars per day and is being increased daily.' HAGERSTOWN, IND. Hagerstown, Ind., May 3. Mrs. Susan. Underbill, of Richmond and Mrs. George Jones of Dayton have been visiting with their 'mother, Mrs. Anna Bowers.'. r v..-;,- i.' W, E. Armstrong has recovered sufficiently to go to Indianapolis where he will visit with a sister. ' H. W, Keagy is having the foundation put In for a garage at his residence Mr. Keagy recently purchased an automobile of the American Co. at In dianapolis. Tobias Funk of Sugar Grove died Wednesday morning. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Mary A. Funk of this place. Thos. Allen of Indiananolis attended the funeral-of Lewis Allen and visited with his eister. Mrs. Shaw at Greensfork, Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Conway and two children of near Mooreland are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Anderson, Mrs. J. H. Kidwell is again suffering with her foot in which a rustey nail penetrated and had to have it lanced, Tuesday. Mrs. Henry Keagy spent the first of this week at Indianapolis. . .Dr. David Clapper of Mooreland spent Tuesday in Hagerstown. Mr. and Mrs. John Teetor are visiting relatives in Kansas and Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marlatt and family recently visited for a day with Mrs. Marlatt's mother at Milton. Charles Keagy "of Altoona. Pa., is'a guest of his brother, H W. Keagy and wife.' Mr. and Mrs. John Jarbo entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hartley, Mrs. Laura Hines and Mr. and Mrs. Keagy. Miss Anna" Dilling was hostess to the missionary Society ' of the M. E. church Tuesday afternoon. Miss Fanny Peirce has gone to Dakota where she has a brother living. Miss Peirce will take a claim. .... Forgetful. Absentminded Annette belongs to a club of young women in the west end of towu. Sbe went to a bridal shower given by the club and left her preseut at home. "I'm so sorry that 1 forgot it." sbe said. ! "Never mind." the other girls told her. "You can send It nrouud later. A few weeks later the club gave an other bridal shower, aud again An nette left ber gift at home. - "Do you know what I've done?" she said when she discovered her mistake. "I've forgotten my present." No one felt disposed to "help her out. "But. then." sbe added, "didn't one of the girls forget ber present last time, and didn't we suy it would be all right if sbe sent it around later? I'm sure that happened to somebody," Newark News. Hampered by Conventionalities. . Washington was crossinpr tbo Jieiaware river at Trenton. "Of course." he said. "I flon't mind stauding up in this boat aud gazing sternly in the directum ot i!ie unsuspecting foe. since the artists inslsr. hi depicting me in this absurd attitude, but the blithering chumps ought - to know better than to paint these block of floating ice projecting a foot above the water Any man with au oun-e of gumption knows that the lee in this river isn't eight feet tbii k." Angered by these reflections, be fell unou the Hessiaus shortly afterward with extreme ferocity. Chicago Tribune. ;'" Easy. ' "Sir Arthur Con an Doyle." said a writer, "sat at dinner u his last visit here beside a uidy who asked leave to consult bint about Nome I befts. "'My detective powers." he replied, are al your service, madam " Well, said the lady, 'frequent and mysterious thefts have been occurring at my house ir a long time. Thus there disappeared last week a motor horn, a broom, a box of golf balls, a left riding boot, a dictionary and a half dozen tin pie plate.' Aha. said the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes, 'the case, madam, is quite clear. You keep a goat." " Exchange. $100 Reward, $100 3 The: readers.-of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at tvast one dreaded disease that , science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh betes a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional .: treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting; directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.: thereby dee troy ins; foundation of the dis ease, and eriving- the patient atrena-ta bv building up the constitution and assisting: nature In doing Us work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer On Hundred Dollars for any case that ft falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. - Address: F. J. "CHKNBT & CO, Toledo. Ohio. . Sold by" Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.

Sensational Dash Merely Farce Lieut. McLaughlin's Ride to Bear Peace Tidings in Porto Rico Made Because He Forgot to Telephone. .

Indianapolis, May 5. R. 51. Cass, an electrical engineer employed bv the .. " 'v i who was a sergeant in the signal corps of the regular army during the Spanish-American war, relates a bit of interesting history in connection with the war that might be of value to his torians. It - is regarding General M ilea's invasion of Porto Rico and the nearness which the United ; States troops came to engaging In a battle that would have made other engaseinents or the war appear as small onesj in comparison. i mc.aentauy tne t wenty-seventh battery of Indiana volunteers, 177 strong, and composed almost exclu-'i sively of Indianapolis young men, was on what was to be the firing line with field pieces loaded with shrapnel shells. With the battery were three ether batteries and several regiments of infantrv. Tho Sr,an5h armv was in

block houses in the mountains sur-' named Arroya. On the sme transrounding the American troops, and the; Pr were other batteries and a full: first guns were about to he fired byjuiP1116111. for a severe campaign, j o mnar That section of 1 he army was under I

the peace proctocol in his hand. He hpd killed a horse .-nrf hart finished his journey o:i the mule just in time to prevent a battle. Forgot the Telephone. It is Cass's assertion tuat this messenger was Lieutenant McLaughlin, of the signal corps, and that in his eagerness to get the message to General Brooks and prevent a battle he ran out and started on a horse when he could have used the signal corps teleI.houe, whic'a had a line stretched to General Hrooks's headquarters. "Lieutenant McLaughlin's blunder discredited the signal corps in Porto i Rico," Cass said. "We had our lines connected with both divisions of the army and McLaughlin, who was at Guayama and only six'or seven miles from General Brooks, received the message about , the peace proctocol from the cable station at Ponce, fortyeight miles away. Instead of telephoning at once to General Brooks he ran out with the message and rode to General Brooks." Narrow Escape From Battle. It was one of the little incidents of the war and the illustrated magazines of the United States made much over the ride of the messenger with the copy of the peace protocol. Long stories were printed about the narrow escape from a great battle. The battery boys in Indianapolis well know it was a narrow escape from a deadly engagement. The Spaniards were well intrenched, and ' they were well supplied with field pieces of ancient pattern, but" effective equipment when shooting down the mountains' sides. One of , the American cannon, or the signal gun, was loaded with a shell and one of the gunners had sprung back with the lanyard in his hand after the commands "Ready, aim," were given. Had the word "fire" been given by the officer in charge and it was on the end of his tongue the engagement would have started. And it was at this thrilling instant that

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galloped up on the n,,e with the . -.i i. .... .a message in his outThe officer reserved the command "fire," and a few secends later came a warning not to fire. The members of the Twenty-seventh battery always thought the messenger rode from Ponce to Guayama and then out the few remaining miles o v General Brooks's headquarters. Cass said this was a mistaken Impres sion, that McLaughlin received the message over the telephone in Guay- j ama and then started on the horse toj (leHTer t wllhout thinking of the tele-1 jnone which he himself had assisted ! iu stretching to Brook's headquarters, ! . . . - . Interests Exper,ence. ' I uy event many Indianapolis 1 young men regard the mule incident as the most interesting one in their Porto Rico experience. They were landed on thev south coast, near the east end of the island, at a small town command of General Brooks, and it ; w as moved up to Guayama. a town of ' about twelve tiipusand. a few miles in land and a short distance west ot and a short distance west Arroya. Still farther west, or about forty-five miles, wa3 Ponce, the largest city in Porto Rico. The other section of the army started f t Ponce and moved inland, the plan being to join the two armies at Cayey, near the center of the Island, and on the military road leading across the island to San Juan, the capital, which the Spaniards were trying to protect. The Brooks I army was stopped at Guayaam, when ! it was ascertained the Spaniards had

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planned an engagement at a pass on the military road k few miles Inland. The other section of the army moved inland, and it was preparing for an engagement at a pass near Cibonito when the news of the peace protocol was received. Cass., was one of the

I ftr-AA mwnitnrs vhn rolaved the mes- i sage thiwigh the signal corps system. A number of the members of the old battery have pictures of the messenger delivering the peace protocol message that was printed In double page in Harper's Weekly shortly after the close of the war. A Rain Soaked Summit. On tht top of Ben Ntvis the rainfall mourns to I'M im-beM in the course ot a year. Bicycles. Notice Our 1910 BICYCLES. Pierce .$40 to $60.00 Racycle $35 to $50.00 Dayton $35 to $50.00 Avalon ., $30 to $35.00 Crown $30.00 w1 25.00 Starr $25.00 Pearl $25.00 Coaster Brake, extra ..$5.00

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