Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 288, 24 August 1910 — Page 1

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Of And Light Flurries of Snow To day Also Assisted the Fire Fighters in Work of Subduing Flames. I LOSS OF LIFE LESS THAN FIRST STATED Only Seventy-five Positively Known to Be Dead but Many Missing People Are Not Yet Reported.

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THEIR HOMES DEAD BEARS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED. ' . (American News Service.) Helena,. Mont, Aug. 14. With light rains and snow falling oyer the forest fire aone the situation today la somewhat improved. Fires, however, are till raging fiercely, but it the present conditions continue the fires may soon he coakuered to tome extent. Owing to conflict! reperttjany of which were duplicated from different souree, It now appears that the lose of life nay prove less than heretofore anticipated. Confirmation! have reduced the total casualties to about seventy fire and many heretofore reported missing have been heard from Indirectly 'but many others are still unheard from. 4a . IS GROWING WORSE. Ubby. Mont, Aug. 24. The fire situation la this part' of Montana is getting worse. Bad fires are reported In all sections of Lincoln county. One hundred and fifty men arrived here last night and have been sent to the front Flte hundred men are needed In addlUon to the men now fighting fires. DEARS ARE BURNED. TJsk, Wn., Aug. 24 A terrible forest fire has started two miles southeast of Delltm. Kennedy's camp and HolsIngtons camp are doomed. The fire is traveling toward Sand Point, Idaho, with a terrific gale blowing. Another fire has come Into view IS miles west of Usk, over the Pond Orlelle divide, traveling towards the towns of Usk and Cnslck, but no serious alarm is felt Everybody In the wake of the fire has moved to a place of safety. A number of bears have been found by the roadside, burned to death. BURY TWO VICTIMS. Newport Wn., Aug. 24. Two fire victims. Mrs. E. Delnhart and George Campbell were burled last night in the Newport cemetery. , Mayor Luts. who was appointed deputy tire warden, has a large force out Reports from Priest River Indicate the entire country Is being covered by fire. Many men are needed in the Kaniksu National forest A big fire west of Kalispell Is at least ten miles long, tt is in good timber. MOVE TO SAFETY. Med ford M Oregon, Aug. 24 There Is aot a woman or child to be found In the territory known as "Unsurveyed." lying a few miles beyond Butte Falls. They have all been removed to places of safety, while the men have remained to combat the flames which ' are raglnr In that neighborhood. Late reports are to the effect that many of the homes-are In danger. It Is now a common sight In Butte Falls to see heavily loaded wagons driven Into the city by women Only enough food for the men was left behind. Over 1.000 men are fchtltj fires in the erater national forest reserve, bat the situation there Is much improved. THE WEATHER. STATE Showers tonight -or Thursday; cooler In north west portion tonight V A.OCAL Showers tonight and Thurs--a A a A s eje Vwvitr Tvninw

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OHIO SYNOD WILL BEGIN THURSDAY AT LOCAL CHURCH Consideration of Official Reports by Boards and Treasurers of Institutions o Be First Work. HUNDRED DELEGATES IN THE CITY TODAY Application of Iowa Synod to Become Affiliated with General Synod Is Very" Important Matter. Consideration of the official reports of synod "officials and treasurers of Institutions and by the various boards, and suggestions of the necessary action to be taken on these reports by the Evangelical Lutheran joint synod of Ohio and other states, which convenes tomorrow morning, were matters before' the sub committees of' the preliminary committee of ' the synod yesterday and today." The synod will open tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock, at St .John's Lutheran church with a devotional servPcltediuufs Daily Avcrcfle Circulation For Week Ending Aug. 20th, 1910. (Except Saturday) This Includes all our Regular Com- , plimentary Lists AVERAGE CITY CIRCULATION 3,306 . TOTAL DAILY AVERAGE ' For the Same Week, Including Rural Routes, Small Towns,' city Circulation. Etc, Six Days G,ooa THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE SAMPLE COPIES .

Ice, which will be conducted by the Rev., C. H. I Schuette, of Columbus, Ohio, the synod president Afterwards the business before the synod will be taken up and the first thing will be the president's , report . Other matters which will demand attention include financial and general reports on all institutions and of all boards of the organization. . ' Delegates Arriving. , Already about a hundred of the delegates have arrived. Before the opening of the 'convention tomorrow it is expected a hundred or more other delegates will be here and the convention promises to be one of the most successful ever held. A book containing the official reports to be made at the convention has been distributed among the delegates. The report relative to . Wernle Orphans' Home east of the city, will be of the new dormitory. Reports of the treasurers and boards of other educational and charitable institutions will be made, Including those on Theological Seminary and Capital University, both at Columbus, Ohio, Luther Seminary at St Paul, Minn.,- St Paul's Seminary and Academy . at Hickory, N. C, Pacific Seminary at Olympia, Wash., Norman school, Woodville, Ohio, St John's Lutheran Home, Mars, Pa., and on departments of aid, home missions, negro missions, Jewish missions, indedependent foreign missions and others. ..... Petition From Iowa. Communications and petitions from Iowa synod,, Australia, England, Canada and other districts . and conferences which are not a part of the organization will also comprise a part of . the business. The question of the Iowa general synod becoming affiliated with the general synod in convention here will be one of the most important to come up for consideration, t The program for the convention was not completed this afternoon as the various committees were still working on different matters. .

GREATLY III DEMAUD (American News Service.) Washington, D. C Aug. 24 Persons who are versed In the science of the wireless telephone have an opportunity to enter the employment of Uncle Sam, providing they pass the civil service examination that is being conducted at various points .throughout the country today. The examination is the first of its kind ever held by the United States Civil Service Commission and gives evidence of the intention of that body to keep pace with the world' achievements. A position of "assistant . In wireless telephony for the signal service at large, paying $1,080 a year Is now open and an appointment will he made from those who pass today's examination which consists largely of theoretical and practical questions in electrical engineering, with especial attention to wireless telephony.

ORE C0UI1TY HOT BIG EfJQUGH FOR T, R.JID JAMES Ex-president Roosevelt Changes His Base and Vice President Sherman Today Returned to Utica. EACH IS TRYiriG TO EXTERMINATE OTHER Col. Roosevelt Is Resting Up at His Brother-in-law's Home and Will Leave for the West Tonight.

(American , News Service.) ' . 4 . V Utica. N. Y., Aug. 24. This is the battle ground of the day in the fight between -Vice President Sherman and Col. Theodore .Roosevelt The expfesident is determined to exterminate the vice president so far. as his political fortunes go If he can accom

plish it. The vice president is detenu-jit is clear that a fight to the finish Is ined to hold his ground., The issue is ion. clear-cut. Roosevelt is bitter because! William Barnes, Jr., boss of Albany, of the vice president's alignment with j having picked up the gauntlet thrown the Woodruff-Barnes-Ward combina-1 down by Roosevelt, today began plan-

tion in preventing . the naming of Roosevelt for; the temporary chair- j manship of ; the state convention, l Sherman Is angry . because Roosevelt

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f ore, the Oneida County Grangers for Senator Davenport's candidacy for renomination. Sherman is strongly opposed to Davenport, who is an ardent supporter of the Hughes policies. Roosevelt wants Davenport to get the an anti-machine man and also because his candidacy would so sorely di please Sherman. - '- Teo Small For Both. So today these two political Gladiators are arrayed against One another, but one county will not hold them. Roosevelt is just over the line in Herkimer county, at the old homestead of his brother-in-law, Douglas S. Robinson, resting up for his start for the west tonight while Sherman Is in Utica. The vice president had a sudden engagement to go out of town yesterday just about the time Roosevelt arrived. He recalled that he ha J an engagement to go to Watertown to help launch a new banking institution. Had the Taft letter and the fact that Col. Roosevelt was to be here today anything to do with his going? Certainly not, insisted the vice president . He freely admitted that he had originally planned to go to the Grangers outing, but. Oh well, he had to go to Watertown. That was all. So he went to Watertown and Col. Roosevelt came into Utica and got a great reception from the Grangers.. They literally swamped him and when he spoke of Davenport as the ideal politician it was easy to see that the . grangers were for Roosevelt and Davenport and not particularly impressed with Sherman. Curiously enough, after Roosevelt had gone to Herkimer last night Vice President Sherman came back to Utica. He had nothing whatever to say as to the Taft letter, Roosevelt's visit or anything else. Col. Roosevelt could not be Induce! this morning to make any further comment on Sherman, but he showed by his manner that he is full of fight and that -there will be no let-up in the fight on the vice president It is apparently Roosevelt's ambition to get all the sweet revenge he possibly can. - Dix Is Confident John A. Dix. chairman of the state democratic committee, was an optimistic visitor in town last night Dix has been making the rounds of the upstate cities and he wanted to see how the crowds bore received Roosevelt Dix surrounded himself at the Bagg3 hotel with a throng of democrats. He predicted that the row kicked 'np by Roosevelt and Sherman in the republican party in the state will have the effect of splitting the ranks so wide that the democrats will have things their own way this fall He is sure a democratic governor win be elected. A change in the running schedule of Col. Roosevelt's special train will make it possible for him to accept an Invitation to take breakfast tomorrow morning at the Ellicott club in Buffalo. The train win leave Utica at midnight and reach Buffalo at C: 30 , in the morning. The colonel win hare breakfast at the club and resume his trip out of Buffalo" at 8 o'clock. : HE FILES SUIT: Ennls KJtterman has brought suit against Mack Lamb and others in the circuit court to foreclose a mortgage on five acres of ground. The plaintiff loaned the defendants S400 on May 31, 1905 and he now claims fgOO Is due, ineluding principal and unpaid interest

ROOSEVELT-TAFT FORCES III FIGHT

WITH "REGULARS II T. R.'s Statement, "There Will Be No Compromise' Has Been Taken Up by the Petty State Bosses. OLD GUARD PLANNING FOR ITS NEXT STEP In Opinion of Politicians Taft , Has Given Strong Support to Roosevelt and to the Insurgents. (American News Service.) New York, Aug. 24. "There will be no compromise," Theodore Roosevelt's words . uttered as he left New York yesterday, have been taken jup by state bosses, who are defying Taft and the ex-president in the fight to control the New York republicans and ning details of the struggle which will reach its climax with the opening of the state convention on September 27. . In the opinion of politicians, not onis Sherman at outs with the prestdent and Roosevelt, and .Taft has giv en strong support to- the insurgents and the Roosevelt forces by his letter to the republican campaign managers urging further revision of tariff, This is regarded as finally and def t the vice president, with the expon ents of the Old Guard. f What Next Step Will Be. . , The next step in the campaign of the . old guard of the state will be decided at a conference to be held as soon as Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the state committee, arrives. Woodruff has cut short his vacation on his Adirondack ; estate to hurry back. Following him will come ViC3 President Sherman and William L. Ward, state committeeman and Westchester county leader. With all the chiefs assembled, one of the first moves will be the planning of a, fight to overcome the effects of Roosevelt's support of Senator F. M. Davenport who is leading the fight against the Sherman organization at Utica. Roosevelt's action in coming out for Davenport yesterday in his first speech, delivered near Utica, Is regarded as one of the most important developments of the situation, being taken as proof that expresident's fight on Sherman in the state convention will be hot One plan of the progressives which, it is said, is regarded favorably by Roosevelt lieutenants, is to have a resolution Introduced at the state convention, moving for the selection of another, temporary chairman than Sherman. Such a course would bring the fight to a dramatic climax. THIS IS CHEERFUL Prediction Made That Coal This Winter Will Reach Highest Price. A STRIKE AND SHORTAGE (American News Service) Chicago, Aug. 24. With coal now selling at winter prices and an advance scheduled for September 1, dealers predict that prices for next winter win be the highest since the last big miners strike in the west, and perhaps higher than ever before, and that house owners win be forced to bid against each other for their fuel. The Illinois miners strike and an alleged shortage are the reasons given. . i Prices today are higher than usually is the case at this time of year, and an increase is slated for Sept 1. Pocahontas on that date is scheduled ; to Jump from f 4.25 to S4.50. Last year it was $3.75 and Jumped to $3.90. Lump coal, the favorite of the poorer classes is $4 at present but win be $4.50 after September L This is an unusually high price for August and heretofore has prevailed only In the dead of winter. It win be 15 or $ as soon as there Is a demand, which win be within thirty days. -r -'- CAPT, KOtKJT BETTER. Captain William R. Mount who has been in for several weeks Improv-

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PROBABLY FATALLY INJURED. MRS. I. M. WORTH, right chest crushed and lung ; punctured; not expected to survive the day. PAINFULLY INJURED. PERRY BECKER, of the - local branch of the International Harvester Co., badly cut and ankls sprained. MRS. PERRY BECKER, abdominal injuries, scs!p wounds and bruises. ' ROBERT WORTH, aged six years, scafp wcur.d end . cuts and bruises.-v - . ? . - w 4 I. M. WORTH, manager of local branch of Interna-; tional Harvester Co., right leg sprained end slichtly cut

One of the most tragic automobile accidents In this vicinity In ysars occurred this morning at 9:15 o'clock when an International, high wheel,. hard tire ear, occupied by I. M. Worth, manager of the local branch of the International 'Harvester company, Mrs. Worth, Perry Becker, alee of the International Harvester company, Mrs. Becker and Robert Worth, the ! year old son of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Worth, skidded off a culvert en the Liberty road, six miles south of the city.' The autolsts were enreute te Liberty to attend ths fair. .The machine turned completely over and dropped Into the reck bet torn of a little stream, pinning Mr. and Mrs. Worth under it As the ma chine made its plunge Mrs. Becker jumped, alighting on the bank ef the stream but rolling down Jnto the water. Mr. Becker and Robert WerCl were hurled from the car. Neighbors soon reached the injured automobillsts and calls were at once sent in for the Richmond city ambulance, s private ambulance and physicians. Within an hour the Injured were receiving medical et tention. ' , : Although so badly Injured that to speak caused him the creates agony, Mr. Worth said that as the car reached the culvert about half way up the Smelser hill, and going at a fairly good speed, the beck wheels suddenly skidded snd plunged down the steep Incline Into .the creek bottom. ' When physicians reached the Injured, Mrs. Worth was found te be SO badly injured, that she could breath only with the greatest tfflcu'ty. Her chest had been crushed by a rear , wheel. Worth, who was driving was pinned under the front seat ef the car. ' I. M. Worth is the general agent of the International 'Harvester (Com. pany, living at 111 South Seventh street Forty the district agent of the International Harvester company, living 'at 1 1IS Couth A street Mr. Becker and Mr. Worth were going to demonstrate at the Ub erty fair the International ear in which they were riding.

Injuries of Wounded. At noon today, physicians gave the following detailed account of the In juries sustained by members of the ill-fated auto party: Mrs. Worth, right side : of - chest crushed, three or more ribs broken, collar bone fractured, right lung punctured In three places, forming blood clots of large slse.- - Breathing Is very difficult although she Is conscious. Probably will die. " Mr. Worth, right leg seriously sprained, back and hips strained and severely bruised. Ho bones " were broken. ' Mrs. Becken, numerous cuts and bruises and probably Internal abdomal Injuries. Condition uncertain. Robeth Worth, deep scalp wound and cuts and bruises. Not serious. Mr. Becker, sprained - ankle and bruised. Mr. Becker, the only member of the party able to give en accurate description of the accident says that Worth was just driving on the culvert when the front wheels caught In a rut and then began skidding .to the left Worth was unable to pull the car to the road again and tt rushed from the . . Crashed Into a Ti The machine crashed Into a tree just off tie road, which tirew theocenpent to the bottom of Che slasoct tfry stream bed. The rear seat was tons off by the force of the blow. ttrs. Worth, ft Is bettered was lit by a wheel ef tae nar"rs JL e

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car hit the ground It went Jarward iew rest, as the engine had not stopped. Worth was eans&t cue rront seat when the car fell TL9 car passed entirely over yocrj TTcrO and Mr. and Mra. Becker te Its C&X through the air. The frost whecJ were tUuUtered, lamps broken and the car generally converted Into a wreeTz. Becker says he had no idea of C ting out alive for the fall was laere than twenty feet asa the bed of t stream Uttered with sharp rods. Road Is a Bad One. The condition of the road lust pact the current is considered more to blame than Worth's driving of the ear. The valley runs parallel with the read at this point and the pike bends i iy at the end of the culvert The bankmeat is a steep one, Ettas! wfti , sharp rocks, stumps and trees; It I between twenty and thirty feet t the bottom. The party was enroute to LOerty to attend the - Union Coses, ty fair. Other International pec;I . were la s car foUowlcj ahost tsiJ a mile dlataet In tlis -f--t wars Lendis, Eaton asent of the 'Iztcrrtional .Harvester company, Oeorca Lnold, the New Parte scant V. I TLewshang of Richmond and C. .C. XwTD . of Union Ctty. . .r ' ' . , .- wibem tie tact car racsei ever C -bris tie extss ct lis fcjrl t the wTwcTrsi ear were trrrZ. the tXtUt CHj c :jf x : taovel frc C,tCrri r:' tNrsrz,l crcr cZzSC "

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