Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 315, 20 September 1910 — Page 1

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PRESIDEHT TAFT AUD PREDECESSOR REACH AGREEMENT Colonel Roosevelt Receives Indorsement of His Successor and Taft Is to Receive Party Praise. NO SUPPORT IN 1912 PROMISED PRESIDENT Factions of New York Republican Party Are Today Placing Different Versions on the Meeting. (American Nw ServlcO New York. Sept. 20. The confernee between President Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt at New Haven hat left the national po- ' litical situation practically unchanged but new phases have been added to the seething conditions in the republican camp In New York state. The net result of the conference summed up today by political experts In this wise: Col. Roosevelt stands before the state with the tacit affirmation, of President Taft upon the principles which the progressives advance, the principal feature of which is the Cobb . direct primary bill. Will Indorse Taft In return President Taft has the assurance that while the Saratoga convention will Indorse his administration, no delegates will be pledged to support him In 1912. While both of these conditions had generally-been understood, today they stand out bearing the official brand, and stories that Taft and. Roosevelt were hopelessly estranged are officially branded, as being- beyond the real facts. President Taft yesterday reiterated ' the stand which he has always taken, that he he will not meddle In state affairs that deal with factions, although he stands ready to give aid. in conformity with his high position. ' to the choices of tho party. - .-. . The factions of th republican par. ' ty In New Torkstate had different versions of tho political conference and Its effect today. Tho progressives were Jubilant and claimed tho result of the meeting as an Indorsement by President Taft of tho principle which Mr. ' Roosevelt and his followers have been and are now urging In this state. On tho other hand the old guard leaden were apparently Just as elated claiming that CoL Roosevelt's hurried trip to New Haven was the result of hi own political weakness. Spokes , men for the Barnes-Woodruff-Wads-worth triumvirate declared that Roosevelt had displayed his fears by seeking the conference. PilOVOIT BOIIOS

- Bonds for the Improvement of the National Road, west of the river were signed by tho county commissioners this morning. This Is the second imprint of the. $58,000 worth of bonds. Tho first set were not printed correctly and a new set was ordered. The bonds have been purchased by the Second National bank. U10I1T HAS FAIR (American Nws ServlcO White River Junction. Vt. Sept. 20. The annual exhibition of the Vermont State Fair association opened here today, to continue until Friday. The eshlbits of live stock and poultry are the best seen here in years, and everything points to a most successful fair. , PdfciinnTs Ddly Avenge Circulation For Week Ending Sept 17. 1910. (Except Saturday) TOTAL DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION Including Rural Routes. Mall Circulation. Small Towns, Complimentaries. City Circulation, Etc, Six Days . - G,089 AVIRAQK CITY CIRCULATION 3,353 This Include Regular Complimentary list - , Tu Report .Doe ; Not Include Cample Copies.

FRIENDS CHURCH MEETING STARTS Meeting of the Ministers, Overseers and Elders Was Held Here Today. REPORTS ARE PRESENTED

INCLUDING THOSE FROM ENGLISH QUARTERLY MEETINGS, THAT WERE BROUGHT HERE BY THE REV. DANN AND HIS WIFE. Ancil E. Ratliff of Fairmount and Emma S. Hedges of New Castle were this afternoon re-elected clerks of the meeting of the ministers, overseers and elders of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, which convened this morning at the East Main Street Friends' Meeting House. Reports from about thirteen quarterly meetings were read before the delegates and laymen In attendance. The reports from quarterly, meetings of the Indiana Yearly Meeting showed that the attendance "on Sunday morning is generally good," and that the attendance at "midweek and prayer meetings Is small." Continuing the report -says, "The ministry is considered satisfactory, being doctrinally sound and spiritually helpful and adapted to the needs of the congregations." .The Rev. Arthur Dann and wife of London Yearly Meeting of Friends were present at this morning's session and the reports brought by them from the English quarterly meetings were read. The Indiana Yearly Meeting . of Friends will meet tomorrow as the first masting of the ministers, elders, overseer and laymen. Friends are beginning to arrive from many parts of the world and a large attendance is expected. II Invade Preble County and Are Devouring the Numerous "Tobacco fields. b v'TURKEYS -FIGHTING - THEM (Palladium Special) Eaton, O., - Sept. 20. Grasshoppers In such .numbers as to seriously damago the tobacco crops have Invaded Preble county and the work being done by this pest is considered by the farmers equally, as bad as the continued . drought experience in the early part of tho season. In many localities the grasshoppers have worked on tobacco to such an extent that the plant has the appearance of having been cut by hail. ' On a farm owned by Charles Hart, west 'of Eaton, the damage is said to be particularly great As an aid to the extermination of the pest many farmers have resorted to the use of ducks and turkeys in finding the hoppers, and have turned whole flocks of each of these fowls into their tobacco flelds. - . HOOD LOST OUT Col. Roosevelt to Speak at Indianapolis, Anderson and : Also at Muncie. ONLY IN STATER ONE - DAY Indianapolis, Sept 20. Col. Roosevelt will speak at Anderson on his way out of Indiana. October 13, after his speech at Indianapolis, and he probably will speak at Muncie. according to an announcement from the republican state committee this afternoon. Open air meetings will be held at these places. Arrangements will be made to , hold tbem as near the stations as possible to conserve time. If Roosevelt's special train Is hurried eastward the speeches may .be from the rear platform. These engagements were arranged when Senator Beveridge met Col. Roosevelt In Chicago. HE BROKE UP DANCE Russell Shields, night watchman at the FUft National bank, was arrested lasfTflght it the colored dance hall on South Sixth street charged, with firing a revolver 'to break up the dance. Several conflicting stories were told about the affair One had it

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that the gun fell out of his pocket in tho dance hall and another that he fired the gun to frighten the dancing party. He appeared In police court this morning, plead not guilty and his trial was arranged for tomorrow morning. He furnished bond for $100. I ...-..'...';.' . - .

WILL ACCEPT THE EXAMBS REPORT Action on Case of Charles Potter Must Stand as It Was Certified to.

AUTHORITY IS EXCEEDED IS OPINION OF STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTS IN ' THE REPORT MADE ON THE LOCAL CASE BY TWO EXAMINERS. " Wayne Township Trustee James Howarth said this morning that the report of the field examiners of the state board of accounts, of the condition of affairs of the trustee's office during the administration of Charles Potter, would have to be accepted as final. A dispatch from Indianapolis says that the report was certified to and would not be changed. The dispatch says: "That Charles E. Weybright and Harvey T. Barrett, field examiners in the employ of the state board of accounts, exceeded their authority in charging Charles E. Potter, former township trustee of Wayne township, with only $399.80 when he should have been, under strict construction of the law, charged with $3,895.80. was stated at the office of the state board of accounts Monday." The report of the condition of affairs in Wayne township was certified to Saturday afternoon. "Under a similar construction." continues the report, ."W. A. A. Conley, who preceeded Mr. Potter, overdrew his salary account by $707.50, having received $1,333.50 - for his salary for 1904. Mr. Conley died after leaving office and the statute of limitations has run out. No money is charged back in the Conley case." DEHORITY IS SILENT. Indianapolis, Sept. 20. W. A. Dehority, state examiner, head ' of the board, today refused to Bay whether the board will re-open the Potter case. He says that owing to the pressure of business he has not . . been able to reach It. FINGER PRINT CLU (American News Service.) Chicago, Sept 20. Finger prints left on a . window sill of Clarence D. Hlller'a home, were the means of identifying the negro accused of murdering the, chief clerk of the Rock Island Railway in his home early yesterday morning. It is on these that the police today depend to put Thomas Jennings,' a paroled convict on tril for his life. The police predict Jennings will . break down under the "third degree" and confess the murder. Hlller was killed during a struggle with a burglar after his 13-year-old daughter had been attacked in her room. THOSE GLEII TRACKS Still Down, the Mayor Has Reminded the Board of Public Works. GROWING TIRED OF DELAY ' To remove the freight car tracks of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company from Glen Miller park, action will probably be Instituted. - soon, by the board of works. - Mayor . Zimmerman stated at a meeting of the board of works that he didn't believe Ferdinand Winters, the counsel for the T. H. I. & E., was ever coming -back, from Europe and there! Is little use of waiting longer. '.No' further statement of the case was made . but ; it Is understood the mayor will take action about the first of next year, thus giving the company plenty of time to obey the order of the board for the tracks to be removed. The tracks were ordered out nearly a year ago, but the company claimed that' its attorney was in Europe and asked that action be postponed until be returned. This was promised by the board. PRESENTS A CLAIM ' Martha J. Henderson filed a claim against the Commons Dairy company late yesterday afternoon for $5.07, the amount of a check on the Union National bank of Angyt gg. flft which was returned. SheT claims that she is further indebted by sale to the company of 94 pounds of cream. She asks judgment for her share from the receivership. THE WEATHER. STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Wednesday; not much change vi in temperature. 4.

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Suit Filed by His Tailor Is Followed by Suit by Cafe Proprietor. j . TWO VERY COSTLY MEALS iffevEb to NOT BEEN PAID FOR, "NEITHER HAS THE WEDDING SUIT OF EXSHERIFF. ' New York, Sept 20. The crusade of the creditors which hitherto has been in verbal form today took legal shape against Robert "Winthrop , Chanler, whose unprofitable investment in matrimony with the beautiful Lina Cavalieri, has resulted in the filing of two suits for the collection of debts and preparations by the singer to carry the prenuptlal contract through the courts in a legal battle for the Chanler fortune that will- be the society sensation of two continents. - The second suit against Sheriff Bob was made known today when it was learned that Jean Martin, proprietor of the Cafe Martin, had asked ' the courts to have Mr. Chanler satisfy , a claim for two dinners which were served to Bob and Lina In the courtship days. The first suit, which was placed on the calendar to come up in court today, was brought by William Barnes, a Fifth avenue tailor, who desires payment for Mr. Chanler's wedding raiment. This suit is for $987., The sec ondsuit, brought by M. Martin, Is for the two dinners, which were served on May 7 and Nov. 17, 1909, the cost being $15.20. . A POLICE All Vehicle Owners Must fake Out Licenses Within For ty-eight Hours. PENALTY WILL BE ARREST A11 residents of this city who do not take out a vehicle license within the next forty-eight hours will' bo arrested and prosecuted," said Chief of Police Ale Gormon this morning. "The tags have been received and. every body owning a vehicle will be expected to secure tags," Mr. Gormon said that a number of people had taken their orders for the license but had ' not ' taken the tag. "If they don't get the tag and use it, it will not be our fault." said the chief of police. ?They had better get the tags or take chances of being axrested." MEET IN ROCHESTER American News Serrlech Rochester. N. Sept. 20. Several hundred ' delegates are attending the annual convention of the : New. England Waterworks Association, which met in this city today for a three days session.

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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt; (1) Mayor Gaynor, (3) William Loeb; (4) Cornelius Vanderbilt, (5) James W. Gerard, (6) Elbert N. Gary, (7) George H. Sheldon. r BARNARD IIOW MAYOR ; - Son of the Congressman Is Named Executive of the City of Newcastle. IN RICHMOND LAST NIGHT George M.Barnard, son of Congressman W. O. Barnard and well known in this city, was elected mayor of New Castle at one o'clock this morning as a . compromise candidate to succeed Mayor Forkner, who recently resigned. Last evening Mr. Barnard . was the guest of friends in this city and attended 1 the Murray theater entirely unaware that the council at New Castle was considering, his name as mayor of that city. ; The news came as a complete surprise to . his friends for he had not been mentioned as a candidate. ' Mr. Barnard is an active young attorney of New Castle and was formerly prosecuting attorney of Henry county. He will assume his duties as mayor In a short time. WANT HEW EXHIBIT Th e Fall Festival ' Association Wants Tuberculosis Display Now at Dayton. DISPLAYED BY PRINTERS . Several new exhibits for the Fall Festival may be secured from the Dayton Fall .Festival, especially, the, tuberculosis exhibit.' Charles Jordan and Wilfred Jessup attended the festival, yesterday and receded : several suggestions about exhibits -and floats. The -Industrial parade of the Dayton Fall Festival - was held yesterday. One of the exhibits that Interested them was the tuberculosis exhibit and float They will try and interest ' the typographical union of this city in the exhibit and secure it for. the Fall Festival in this city. The exhibit consists of tents and equipment for the treatment of ; typographical '"consumptive patients. To Help the Fall Festival -Finance ally is to Increase Your Battle Ac-count

VISITS GAS PLANT AND ALMOST DIES Found Almost Asphyxiated if ' - a Sleeping Room and Was " Taken to Hospital:-

VICTIM IS CARL VEREGGE CAME FROM FOUNTAIN CITY TC VISIT, . FRIENDS AT THE G AC PLANT FOUND ATMOSPHERt TOO HEAVY. Very near to death from the effect of artificial gas, Carl Veregge, 11 vine east- of Fountain City, was found it a room, of the gas plant at the Rich mond Light, Heat and Power companj this morning. He was rushed to the Reid Memorial hospital where he die not fully regain consciousness until late this afternoon. His condition It yet serious but the physician believes he will recover. , Veregge came to Richmond yesterday , afternoon and was , visiting several friends at the gas works. He was given a room near i the front of the building. He went to bed on a couch in this roqm. There is a large gag meter near the bed. About five o'clock this morning when an employe of the factory went to call Veregge he was found prostrate on ' the . floor apparently asphyxiated. He showed no signs of life until after being taken to the hospital. ALPS DEW THEM Black; Mass of Storm Clouds ' Prevents Flightshot Daring Aviators. AWAIT BETTER WEATHER ; (American News Service.) Brigue, Switzerland Sept. 20. A black mass of storm clouds and a keen -wind that swept down from the Saltine : Peaks put another check today upon - the aspiration of Chavez, the - Peruvian aviator and Weyman, the American, , in their plan to defy death by flying across the Alps in their aeroplanes. " Dawn found a. big cloud - upon the plateau overlooking the Rhone Valley, where the aerodrome stands, and the aviators ' had : their machines ' already for -the final tuning.- However, even these dare-devils were awed by the weather prospects. . The peaks of Simpion Pass were obscured In black rain clouds and beneath the Rhone Valley was gray with mist and fog while a stiff wind eddied down between the mountain walls. Neither Weyman nor Chaves gave up hope because of the unpropitkms conditions. Botit decided to wait, de claring they would try when , the

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NOT HEEDED In His Communication He Asksr : Council to Make the Taxi Rate $1.25, but Rate l$! Fixed at only $1.10.. . MAYOR ARGUES THAT STEEP RATE IS NEEDED Points Out that Improvements: Contemplated Can Not Be Made with a Rate. Which Isf Less than $1.25. ' HE OPPOSES LOAN SYSTEM! 3AY8 THAT BORROWING MONEY,. IS POOR POLICY POINTS OUT WHY DEMOCRATS COULD MAKE MANY IMPROVEMENTS. COUNCIL IN TABLOID. City tax rate' fixed at $1.10. Mayor in communication favor $1.25. Zimmerman's message. ' Another . year of economy promised by the mayor.' '

City council fixed the tax rate of Richmond for lsll at $1.10 "ata see- ' sion last night. This Is an laietease,',. f sve cents over 1910, but a decrease' jf one cent oa the rate framed ttn at :he several secret sessions of council, ind the finance committee, theld jra " :ently for the purpose of drawrzi uj . ' Ae ' im - budget-aa 'smssirm satisfactory tax rate. The bn4t er ". .

iUuace , appropriatinx ttTtft? t;' . general purposes and S5i&t2.29 tor he 'Municipal Light plant, wee read . ',-- he second time. ,"'', Mayor Zimmerman's message :to : ' ouncil concerning the. tax fate que cv; ion was read by the mayor just afer City Clerk Baits Bescher had pre -tented the tax rate ordinance for see nd reading, when it was open for intendment yIt was the general opiaon ' that the message would oe "hot " 1 itunY but there was some disappoint' nent over it. ; With the exception of Councilman King, who did not make lis position very clear,' there was a ;eneral disagreement with the conv nunication on the part of the councilnen. " , . ' The recommendations of the mayor concerning the tax rate were as fok 'ows: , Message of the Mayer. "To the Common Council of the' : City of Richmond: "Gentlemen The board of pablio ' works has asked that the tax rate he U15, but the controller's recommend- . ition has been otherwise. ' "The tax rate should be $1.2 and kept there until the improvements are nade that are necessary at this time, wd those that will follow, and then when the debts are paid, which are : many,. the tax rate can be reduced to the needs at that time.' "To borrow money and pay interest '.s fooling the people and 'throwing -money away; if you win sit down with . , . your pencil and -figure 'the exact lm-: provements that should be made duftng this administration yon win fad the tax rate should be $1 JS, but the most of you seem to be afraid of the howl that will be pat up for raising '. taxes. Ton will have just as loud a -howl if you raise the taxes afx cents as if you raise' it ten cents and so on up, until you do what you should do in a business way. ' .- Rich Man the Howler." "The man that makes the bowl is . the man that is rich; or does not need improvements. I have had some rich men say to me, 'keep the taxes down, s and I have answered, 'Why; just to pay interest to banks and fool tho pee-.-pier Then they have nothing more to say. One was a banker and 'did net need improvements, but he forgot that ' the other people paid taxes to pay for their improvements. - " ' "You are running . behind every time you borrow money. The attaatJon is this. When a business man goes into , business he invests money and gets a profit on bis goods, that Is money to his account, but when the ' city bor- -rows money it invests it In attests, alleys and sidewalks and paying Its of' fidals and never gets.tjiar returns, ex-. " cent services perform&J. : so there is, not any wa'y to get any return money : to the city's account, except when la-- ,

vested in light or .In works, -r "Now. gentlemen of te council, I implore yon not to besSraU to make the taxes encash to xvr tsr improvements; 1 then on tie - cter hand if yoe do not make tbem U-er

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