Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 289, 25 August 1910 — Page 2

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THE niCXDIOND 1AIXA1MUX1 ANI SLNTEXEGIIA2J, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1910.

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MUSrJLEIS IVflnn DYFAR WERS Lena D:xircd Rain Cams Today end Greatly Helped the Parched Crops. a INSPECTION; BY HELMS EXPERT SAYS HI HAD FOUND THAT THE RAIN WAS ABSOLUTELY NECEMARY TO PRESERVE THE CORN CROP. -

IUId to badly needed that some people war almost at the point of praytax for It fall today for the first time , fi any quantity in four week and farmers and others whose business largely dependa on crop conditions were much pleased accordingly. Corn and paatorage particularly were benefited. Joseph Helms of Boston township, one of the leading corn experts in Extern Indiana said today that tn a general Inspection of the corn crop of the county he had found rain to be essential for the future development of the crop. Some fields are already daeaged by the drought ' s" '4 Condition of eorn. ' 1 .Hetabo found perplexing conditions such as the stalks being about the same diameter from- the ground to the top and also that a large percentage ' of the fields were barren. He will

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Purdue university. Fields where the stabs are barren are thought to be . due to late planting aa In nearly all eacea where these conditions existed, , tie field waa planted after May IS. Lata plantings are also thought to

be -responsible for the amall diameter of the corn sulks. Generally, however, the conditions were favorable to a large yield If the crop has plenty et rata between-now and harvest Preparations for the Wayne county ecr aahooL which will be held here la February, are betas made. Mr. IZclas expects a membership of 1,600 raere. The moat difficult questions wttch will confront the promoters Is Ittt of the lecture rooms and places to exhibit the live stock. The Collsecs for exhibits and .the new auditorlea of the high school for lectures have been suggested. ELGK1 AUTO : RACES ttbt Important Event of the Kbd in the West Will . i Start on Friday. ALL DETAILS COMPLETED -Elgin, 111.. Aug. 25. The national stack chassis races, the moat Import- , ant automobile contests that the west wCl see this year, will begin over the t&fee and a half mile circuit here tomorrow and conclude Saturday. The C&teago Motor club and the Elgin Au . tesaobtle Road 1 Race association, undar whose Joint auspices the contests are to take place, today announced the completion of every detail of the arrangements. The number of entries la far la excess of the early expects ttoaa aad If the weather conditions are favorable for the two- daya It a beUaved a certainty that the meet will be fully aa successful aa the similar event pulled off laat year at Lowell, Usee. The schedule of Yaces and prises for the two days' meet is aa fol lows: Friday three races: ' Class B. division 161 to 230 cubic laches piston displacement minimum weight 1.400 pounds, distance sixteen laps, or approximately 135 miles. For v the Pox River Valley trophy and $300 la eaah to the winner. Trophy to be worn outright Class B, division 231 to 300 cubic tubes piston displacement minimum w!3t 1,700 pounds; distance twenty It;, or approximately 170 miles. For ta Kane County trophy and $300 cask to the winner. Trophy to be won . oatricht - CUsa C, division 801 to 450 cubic In- . caes piston displacement minimum weight 2,000 pounds; distance twenty- ' fsv laps, or approximately 204 miles. ' ; Vsr the Illinois trophy and $400 eaah ta Che winner. - Trophy' to be won out-itat--t , C&turday Race for the Elgin Natkzii trophy. , Three hundred miles for stripped ctrsx chassis. Open to the chassis of try gasoline car which la In accordesse with the definition of a stripped cftsek chassis defined under Class B. , . with a plstoa displacement under 600 cctle laches and minimum weight of tTt) pounds. Possession of trophy tzr oaa year and SL000 in cash to tta winner, 1300 In eaah to second, ' cp t3 la cash to third. CEETS IEXT MOUTH Te laiiana Yearly Meeting of ' iViia will convene on September f . Kt . East Main Street Friends' tl mi with a meeting on ministry aad c. rrfcL The procedure of business r' 1 tz'JZ financial reports of the C ":rt:.l fctitutlons ana discussion of T3 tzTlx fcorUot, questions, rr-iaoa taa cnia been suar r :1 3 Cj cUrk ct Ce meetlBg to i f r" t- J t f

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Chicago .,75 . 35 ... .682 Pittsburg .. .. .. ....66 43 .606 New York.. .. .... ..63 45 .583 Philadelphia .. .. .. ..56 55 .505 Cincinnati.. .. ..56 57 - .496 llrookjyn .. .. .. .. ..44 67, . .396 8t Louis .. 44 68 , .38 Uoston.. .. .. .. .. ..41 74 .357

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Philadelphia . .... ..7 - - 34 i .690 Boston.. .. .. .. .. ..67 48 '.583 New York.. .. .. .. ..65 50 .565 Detroit.. .. ..4 6t .557 Cleveland.. ..50 63 .443 Washington .. .. .. ..51 i 65 .440 Chicago.. .... .... ..45 - 67 .402 8t Louis . . .34 : 77 .306 . AMERICAN AttOCIATION. ' ..,..---.. Won. Lost Pet Minneapolis .. .. ..'..88 44 .667 Toledo.. .... .. .. ..70 60 .538 8t Paul .. .. 71 62 .533 Kansas City .. .. .. ..68 61 .527 Columbus.. ..64 64 .500 Milwaukee 57 73 .438 Indianapolis ...... ..55 75 .423 Louisville.. .. .. .. ..47 81 .307

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. National League'. - Cincinnati 1; Brooklyn 0 (10 inn.) Chicago 11; Boston 1. Philadelphia 10; Pittsburg 5. New York 4; 8t. Louis 2. i , American League. -Boston 5; St. Louis 2. Washington 3; Chicago 2 (10 Inn.) Philadelphia 3: Cleveland 1. New York 6; Detroit 0. American Association.' Kansas City 12-1; Louisville 6-1. (Second game 5 innings.) Columbus 6-9; St Paul 1-8. Milwaukee 10; Toledo 3. . Minneapolis 6; Indianapolis 0. GAMES TODAY. National League. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. Boston at St Louis. New York at Chicago. Brooklyn at Pittsburg. American League, St Louis at Philadelphia: Cleveland at Boston. Detroit at Washington. Chicago at New York. American Association,. Minneapolis at Columbus. Milwaukee at Louisville. St Paul at Indianapolis. Kansas City at Toledo. E Mosaic Work Was Placed on the Front of the New High School Yesterday. INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED The mosaic relief work, which is practically the only ornament which will decorate the front of the new high school building, was placed in position yesterday. It Is the only work of its kind in the United States and its, beauty is certain to add attractiveness to the general appearance of the building. The decoration Is fitted In the wall on the third story just above the auditorium. It Is thirty-one feet long by about nine feet wide. It is divided into three parts, each of three characters representing the earlier : industries. The figures from left to right designate the following: -Glass blowing, churning, printing, stone cutting, boiling, blacksmith, brick laying, carpentering and spinning. The designs are made by artist Mercer of Philadelphia. The different parte of the figures are hand made. Just below the relief work in three bulla eyea will be placed designs of horns of plenty. The work on the high school Is progressing rapidly. It will be ready for opening on September 1. E IS CHOSEN Earl Spangler qualified In the state golf tourney at Logansport yesterdiy with a score of 90. Wilbur HIbbard, from the local club got a 94 score. Spangler'a record is a good one - as he has only played two years. S. K. Swayne of this city has been elected president of the state golf association and the tournament next year will be held at the local country club. ALEV HASRESIGIIED State Supt. of Education to Accept Presidency of Univ. of Maine. GREATH0USE A CANDIDATE (American New Service) Indianapolis. Ausr. 25 Robert J. Al ey today resigned aa democratic nomi nee ror siate auperintendent of public instruction. In the letter sent- to 8tate Chairman Jackson todav be aava he will 'accept the Presidency of the university or Maine. The Democratic state committee meets this afternoon to aelect a man in hla nlace on th ticket. It looks Jfke Charles Greathouse of this city, formerly of Mt

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LAST MORS PAID PRESIDEUT MOIITT Dead Chilean Executive to Be "Taken tifHis Fatherland "i I for. Burial. ' i

BERLIN HOLDS SERVICES AND FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES ATTENDED THE - CEREMONYWARSHIPS OF CHILE ARE TO ESCORT BODY. (American News Service.) 7 Berlin. Aug. 25. The world ; today paid the last honors to President Pedro Montt of Chile, who died suddenly In Bremen on August 16, Just after his arrival from America.:; The funeral services were 1 held " today : In ' .the Catholic church at St Hedg. Beside a personal representative of the Kaiser, there were present envoys of al most every country on the globe. Including the American .. . ambassador, David J. Hill, and the secretary of the embassy, Irwin B. Laughlin. About the church, since the body was placed there on -- arrival from Bremen, a guard of German troops has' surrounded the historic edifice. which waa built by Frederick the Great and a guard of honor has watch ed the body lying In state. At tbe requiem mas today, the Kaiser was represented by Gen von Kessel. Military honors bad been or dered to mark the progress of the coffin to the railroad station, on its way to Bremen. .From there it will be taken on a Kosmos liner to Punta Arenas, where a squadron of Chiliau warships will be waiting. PAYS TO THE COURT Rather than take the responsibility of turning over the balance of tbe estate of the late Matthew Artis to Ozelle E. and George O. Artis, wlio are said to be niece and. nephew respectively of the decedent, the Dickinson Trust company as administrator of the estate in filing its final report turned the money over to the ccurt The ad ministrator has an affidavit of Adallne Reed of Dublin in which he declares that the Artis children are the heirs. The court will determine the relationship and make disposition of the SI,607.06 balance which the administrator paid into court : i - HOG CHOLERA SCARE (American News Service.);' St Petersburg. Aug. 25. The chol era epidemic, believed to have been controlled in St Petersburg, has broken out with renewed severity. Advices received today from Kief aay that it ia sweeping that ciay also, being particularly bad in .the Jewish quarter. - . The authorities believe it waa car ried to .Kief by Jewa who returned secretly to their homes after being driven out I The death rate is placed at more than . 1,006 ' a day. The epidemic Is raging at widely separated points including Kara, in trans-Caucasia, Omsk in Asiatic Russia on the trans-Siberian railroad; Tosk, Uralsk and near Moscow. The inhabitants of the latter city are in terror. : sv LINK IS RULED OUT (American News Service.) Chicago, Aug. 25. Judge Karstens today refused to permit representative Michael Link to testify regarding the "jackpot scandal when on the stand in the Lorimer bribery case. This waa a serious blow to the prosecution. Link's testimony today was that he accepted a thousand dollars from Lee O'Neill Browne after he had voted for Lorimer without believing he was committing a crime in doing so. GOES TO SALEM. O eaeeBee Kenneth Karns has accepted a position of supervisor of manual train ing and director of the athletic staff of the Salem, Indiana, high school. He will leave on September 1,, assuming cnarge or ma department on Septem ber 12, when the school opens. HIS FINAL REPORT. Final report of Benjamin G. Price, administrator of the estate of Lydia Price, deceased, waa filed in the circuit court today. The official distrib uted $1,509.76 among seven heirs. Asthma! Asti POPHAM'S ASTHMA REMEDY gives instant relief and aa absolute cure in all cases of Asthma, Bronchitis, aad Hay Fever. Sold by druggists ; mail receipt of price fSM. in! park by mail W cents. WSUAMS MFC r ii Timlin For sale by T. F. McDonnell. As the KRYPTOK LENSE ie the best for SEEING, so Is the Sto!z : Electrophone the 1E8T HEARING DEVICE. We handle both and ask you to Investigate same. .. , C3

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' GREATLHMPROVED Mrs. I. M. Worth, at First ' Thought Fatally Hurt, Has a Chance to Recover. MRS. BECKER ABOUT SAME SUSTAINED :c SEVERE INTERNAL ABDOMINAL INJURIES BUT WILL RECOVER YOUNG WORTH WAS GREATLY SHOCKED. - : , Slightly Improved and with fair chances for recovery, Mrs. I. M Worth, at first thought to have beea fatally injured in an automobile accident south of town yesterday, is still at the' home of (.on Smelser, on the Liberty pike, near, the scene of the accident. I. M. Worth, Perry Becker and young Robert Worth, other members of the party injured are much improved. . ..r'X; ' ; However, there is no change in tlie condition of Mrs. Perry Becker, J as severe internal injuries have been discovered. The physician states that these Injuries are not serious but will take some time to heal. She was also cut and bruised when she lumped from the machine. " A Nervous Shock. Little Robert Worth reecived a serious nervous shock from the accident besides getting a bad . scalp wound. He was brought to the home of a neighbor yesterday soon after the accident, but waa so frightened that he refused to return to Richmond over, the same road, on which the accident occurred. While a physician was dressing his wound he lay quit 3 still on the ground but wept pltepusly and called for his mother. In his eyes was a wild look of terror and he seemed to regard every one aa, a possible enemy. After being brought to Richmond he refused to say a word about the accident The boy was so terrified that ho could not answer Questions about it but merely stared at his questioners. Both Worth and Becker have re turned to the city. After a careful examination of Becker's ankle it was found to bo a very bad sprain. Instead of a break, as feared yesterday after noon. Otherwise he is uninjured. Mr. Worth is greatly improved.' The breathing of Mrs. Worth is less difficult today and the blood clots on ber lung are decreasing in size. The accident occurred at the bottom of Smelser's . hill,, about five " miles south of the city. The machine skidded and the car was hurled into the bed of a deep ravine.-.-MOTOR BOAT RACES (American Npws Service) Alexandria Bay, N. Y., Aug. 25. What promises to be the most t notable International motor boat contests ot the year began today under the joint auspices of the Royal St. Law rence yacht club and the Thousand Islands yacht club. The races will continue through the remainder of the week. The United States is represented by the famous motor boat Dixie, Canada by E. Mackay Edgar's Maple Leaf III, and England by the Duke of Wesminster's Wellesley, Saunder s hydroplane, and ' Mr. Hanbury 's Tborncrafts hydroplane Zigarella. LARNED IS WINNER (American News Service.) Newport, R. I., Aug. 25. William A. Lamed of New Jersey, Ave times championship title holder today ' defeated Thomas C. Bunday, California's phenomenal tennis player, for the national championship. Larned captured three out of four sets.

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Palladium carriers will collect tomorrow instead of Saturday on those routes on which collections fall due on Saturday. The change was made owing to the circus being here on Saturday. - - - IT CAUSED A PAIIIC (American News Service) Newark, $J. Aug. 25. Two persons were drowned and five others narrowly escaped "death early today when the Majestic, an excursion boat plying between Newark and Coney Island cut iu two In the dark a naptha launch at the drawbridge of the Lehigh Valley railroad trestle at Newark Bay. , " Tbe dead: Mary Kops, aged 50; David Sunes, aged 39. The accident threw the 400 men, women and chilrden on the excursion boat into a panic, that the officers finally quelled. Passengers dived after the seven persons in the water but two sank before they could be reached. A HOSPITAL CHANGE . Reid Memorial hospital is so crowd ed at the present time that it Is prob able the children's ward will be con verted in a regular ward with accommodations for four patients. The board of trustees bave approved of tbe plan and it is not thought that the change will -seriously interfere wltn original ' arrangements. There have been few children who were . patients at the hospital. The change of the ward will not make it necessary to turn children ' away as accommodations can be quickly provided when ever they become patients. The hospital is in the best condition in its history, ., , , , , , . , .. . GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP .:, , , (American News Service.) ' Deal Beach, N. J., Aug. ,25.-i Many of the . best known golf players of the country, both amateurs and professionals, assembled here today at the opening of the fifth annual open championship tournament of the Metropolitan golf association. The tournament which is being ' played on tbe grounds of the Deal Beach golf and country club, will continue over tomorrow. NOTICE TO VEHICLE , OWNERS. Vehicle Licenses - are now ready and you are hereby notified to procure same on. or before September 1, 1910 at office of City Controller. E. G. McMahan, 22 6t . ; . City Controller. FELL FROM THEATER Relatives at Centerville have received a telegram telling of the death of Omar ' Ebersole, aged 19, son of Charles Ebersole and wife, of Center ville. Young Ebersole fell thirty-five feet from a fire escape on the Shubert theater, at St. Louis. 'He .was removing the nut from a bolt when it slipped and. he fell backward, striking his' head , on the pavement. " His seventeen-year-old brother witnessed the accident. . - The body will be brought to Centerville tonight and the funeral will take place tomorrow 'morning, from' the Metnodtst cnurcn. ' - Depth. "Some of your thoughts are very deep,, said Pennum. "Yes," answered Inkum. ."At least three feel down In the waste basket."

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150 WERE KILLED RY FOREST FIRES

Reports Today Say It Is Posi1 tively Known that Numr ber Are Dead. 200 REPORTED MISSING RAIN , AND 8N0W HAVE EXTINi GUISHED SEVERAL SMALLER FIRES BUT THIRTY LARGE ONES 'ARE STILL RAGING.. (American News Service.1 Helena, Mont., Aug. Reliable reports today brought tbe number ot known victims of forest tires up to a hundred and fifty. More than two hundred are still in perilous situations and orders have been Issued to direct efforts toward saving lives rather tnan the timber. Rain and snow have extinguished many smaller fires but over thirty large, fires are still raging. Estimates on tbe loss range up to fifty millions. Railroads stone have suffered a flftli of that sum. CHEERING REPORTS. Spokane, Wash.. Aug. 2$. Rain and snow are checking the Northwest forest fires. Following the scattered raiufall of yesterday, today brought more cheering reports. It is believed that the worst is past and yet before the fires now raging burn themselves out. the property loss may be fully $50,000.000. : ' : ' ' Although the loss of life among the forest rangers will not be as great as was at first supposed, fresh reports reecived today indicate that the total death list will be above 200 at the least. ' . Though the situation in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon is improving, according to today's advice?, the situation in California is worse and it is feared that the fires In the Sierras will do Immense damage. At Helena and at Butte, Mont., companies of the militia were today held under arms. In readiness to be sent into the field against the tires at the order of Gen. Norris. City Statistics Deaths and Funerals. WERNSTEDT Frederick C. Wernstedt, aged 61 years, died last evening, at his late home, 50d South Ninth street from pneumonia. A wife, son and daughters survive. .Funeral serv ices will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home and burial will be In Lutheran cemetery. The Rev. E. G. Howard will have charge. The deceased had been an employe at Gaar, Scott & Co., for over thirtythree years. He was a member of Herman I. O. O. F. lodge and Oriental Encampment, and First English - Lutheran church. -' Births. II. K. Dingevorta and wife, 530 S. Seventh street, girl, first child. .

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Observe 1 01 st Anniversary of Founding of First Church in the County. RAIN HURTS ATTENDANCE BUT NEVERTHELESS THERE WAS ) A GOOD SIZED CROWD At THE CHAUTAUQUA : GROUNDS PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT. As a preliminary feature of the Richmond Chautauqua!, Wayne county Methodists today celebrated the hundred and first anniversary of the first church in this county at the Chautauqua grounds this afternoon. Several thousand people were expected to attend the celebration but because of rain' and threatening weather the crowd was much smaller. . Notwithstanding the weather, the Methodism of Wayne county waa well represented at the celebration. Tbe ' first church in -Wayne county waa built several miles north of Richmond in 1809. Practically all ' the 1 small towns and churches throughout the county had one or more of Its members In Richmond today. The principal feature of the afternoon's program waa the address, "The Church of the Future," delivered by the Rev. J. H. Doddridge, D. D of Vlncennes, Ind. ; Old time Methodist hymna were sung by the entire assembly with great enthusiasm. Mrs. Ray Longnecker sang a solo, "The Endless : Day. The four Methodist choirs of the city united under Mrs. Grace. B. Gormon to ' aaslst In the hymn singing. The meeting was pre sided over by . David W. Stevenson, president of the Methodist association of Wayne county. The principal musical program will be given at the meeting this evening. Also the Rev. Earl M. Ellsworth of the Cincinnati conference, will deity er an address, "Room at the Top." CAPTURE TWO SPIES ,, (American News Service Berlin, Aug. 25. On the receipt ef official advices from Emden ft wai learned today that the German author I ties, suspect the Englishmen captftrr ed In the Brandon fortllcations -ef being disguised British oncers. ' ; Secret code have been found ea the men, held aa spies, sad (he Cs man authorities have learned It said, tnat ute men oevewpea poo. graphs of the fortifications. ,2 Press comment Is bitter, particular reference being made to the Incident in connection with the German scare that agitated England a year aso. ;r . Married peeeta sboott kn ft osVaaaOieVslJttie IBs, a-dlor ttoM eft t children that may ceene. Tber aee mmjtf t or Uter to have ooceetoe to treat sCfe - and Anally a permease eare. U wMi iU ; O - bnttS Otn M ta t-e

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