Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 319, 24 September 1910 — Page 1

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EICHMONB PAULAB AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOI XXXV. NO. 319. RICHMOND. I"D.. SATURDAY VVt. SEPTEMBER 24, 1910. r, SINGLE COPT. 3

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RECEIVER WANTED FOR CHESAPEAKE &

OF 11 Suit Filed Today at Logansport, in Cass Circuit Court, at the Instance of Governor Marshall. A FRAUD ALLEGATION MADE IN COMPLAINT u ansa us a n.swiiiiiii.aiiss Kiiaiv ation Was Obtained from the State Through False Representation. (American New ServlcO Ine that the orcanlcation la not a bonafide corporation of Indiana that Its director are all non-residents of Indiana and that the concern Is a' stock Jobbing proposition, suit was filed in the Cans county circuit court today at the Instance of Governor receiver for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company of Indiana and reTCCailOn OI Ua lUIIier. iuo vvniruuatlon was formed a few months ago to take over the property of the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railway, which was sold for $6,000,000 by Receiver Goodrich on the federal court's order. ' The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company of Indiana recently filed mortgage for forty million dollars In favor of the Mercantile Trust Comnan nt Naw V-M-lr Dissolution Is Asked. Dissolution of the organization Is asked for on the grounds that It obtained certificate of Incorporation Imm ik. auMMivv tsf t o . A fn t.I ia Mm-MAtitatitn' nil that it warn formd for fraudulent purposes. ': The mortgage given to the Mercantile Trust Company, covers all the -.rr.n.rtr allarat ta be held hv the corporation, but which the suit alleges Is actually held by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad company, a foreign corporation. Copies of the mortgage were filed in all the counties of Indiana through which the rail road 'runs. Including Wayne county. The complaint alleges that the purchase price was furnished by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, a for eign corporation, which could not acquire and hold property in this state under Indiana laws, and that said cor poration connived and assisted In the formation of the C. and O. Railroad Company of Indiana, to which the property was transferred by the par ties, who bought It at receiver's sale from Goodrich. This, the complaint . declares, was merely an evasion of the Indiana laws. Regarded as a Blind. The road cuts diagonally across Mate from Cincinnati to Chicago pass ing through Richmond, Muncle, Ham mond and other towns. Upon this stretch of railroad the mortgage will cause the Issuance of approximately .$200,000 worth of bonds per mile. The entire road was sold at foreclosure re cently for approximately $6,000,000. The Incorporation of the road under - Its new name and subsecuent actions are regarded by the state as a blind for unscrupulous financial operations. It Is, believed by the state's attorney that the road bearing such an Indebt edness would consider Itself entitled to excessive freight rates and also would have a plea for a reduction of taxes. But these are only Incidental claims. By Issuing the mortgage or trust deed, the right of way and all property of the road was transferred to the trust company in New York to secure the payment of the Issue of $40,000,000 worth of bonds. It Is now claimed that the road is in the hands of the same directorate as that of the regular Chesapeake and Ohio company. The practical claim of the state is that the new corporation is a fictitious one. Governor Marshall expressed his reasons for his action as follows: "One of the things the people have been - blowing about for a long time Is watered atocka and bonds, and all anyone has done so far Is to talk. It is like Inveighing against larceny and never arresting anybody who steals. It sounds nice on narvar anl . Hr-trW tlie ear of the people. But it doesn't stop things. Two years ago I tried to get recommended to the legislature a revision of the corporation laws of In diana so as to prevent the watering of atocka and bonds. I accomplished nothing then. Called "Cutting a Melon." "From private Information and from far-fa nn f mr-k nt thim nmvMiKnv la an effort, to cut a melon, as they say on Wall street It Is an attempt, very - apparent, to permit a New York trust company boldly to pick up an Indiana vnAra!nn and MWf It out of - that power, of the Indiana authorities, and this la manifestly against the policy of fcla l.ata 1 waa nr.r that Infant Inn of the legislators that a corporation

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SIX KILLED 111 A WRECK AT TIPTON

(American Newt Service.) Tipton, Ind., Sept. 24 Six are killed, several Injured, when a Ft. Wayne limited car on the Indiana Union traction line crashed bead on . into a Southbound freight a mile north of here this afternoon. The dead are: Dr. W. T. Holhouser. Brooklyn. N. Y.; W. H. Holhouser, Brooklyn, N. Y.; VerdellaRallsback, Hymenla, Indiana J Joseph Baker, motorman of the Ft. Wayne limited; Lewis Brook, Kokomo; Ed. Walsh, Marshall, Mich. The limited car telescoped the heavy freight car, throwing the passengers into a heap in the rear part of the car. Those in the smoking compartment had no chance of escape. The speed was terrific. " The injured are: Carl Grace, a trooper from Fort Harrison; Mrs. T. A. Moore, Elwood; W. W. Lundy. Ft. Wayne; Miss Belle Jones, Greentown; J. W. Montgomery, Elwood; Mrs. Montgomery, Elwood. The latter's skull is fractured. One motorman claims he had the right of way and so the other motorman must have violated Instructions. . W. W. Lundlck, a traveling salesman of Fort Wayne, had one arm and a leg broken. In all sixteen persons were injured but the above are the most seriously hurt. Dr. Holhouser and his brother were on their way to Kokomo to attend the marriage of Dr. Holhouser to Miss Coxon, daughter of W. G. Coxon, superintendent of the Great Western Pottery Company. fall Into the power of-outsiders to engineer It as they please. To make an issue of $200,000 worth of bonds a mile on a little road such as the C, CL under such provisions as those under which It was reorganised Into the Chesapeake and Ohio . Railroad Company of Indiana seems to me an intention to take advantage of an honest law, made tor honest purposes, to exploit the public and to cut a melon. I am going to try to find out whether the deal is an honest one or not. If there is any attempt to use' our laws for fraudulent purposes, I am going to stop It I don't believe in indiscriminate charges of crookedness against corporations, but when ever he finds a scheme to exploit the public It is the duty of a governor to stop it." ALLEGED ASSAULT - MADE Oil CRIPPLE 4 Dublin People Aroused by the Beating Administered J. Hoffman by Officers. KNOCKED FROM TRICYCLE AFTER BEING CLUBBED OVER THE HEAD 18 THE ALLEGATION MADE BY THE SISTER OF THE UNFORTUNATE MAN. (Palladium Special) Dublin, Ind., Sept. 24. The town of Dublin, west of Richmond, is greatly aroused over an alleged brutal as sault by officers on Jerome Hoffman, a half-witted crippeL, who gets about either by crawling or by use of a tri cycle. For years he has been torment ed by boys and recently he secured a revolver. After securing the weapon he became Involved In an argument with a Dublin merchant, and it Is said flourished the weapon. The gun was taken away from him by his brother. While Hoffman was seated in his tricycle In front of his father's home, so Mrs. Gertrude Cox, Hoffman's sis ter stated today. Marshal Wonell appeared and rebuked Hoffman for his actiona. Hoffman swore at the officer, who Mrs. Cox says, clubbed the crip ple from his tricycle and toppled the machine on him. . Jerome and his sis ter say that Deputy Marshal Raby then took a hand in the game and struck the prostrate cripple. A crowd gathered but no assistance was given Hoffman.' The crowd and the officers were dispersed by Hoffman's octogenarian father, Jacob V. Hoffman, who came out of the house armed with a cane, which the crowd mistook for a gun. Thursday Hoffman was arrested In a barber shop and taken to Cam bridge City. On learning of the de tails of the case Deputy Prosecutor Feemater refused to , prosecute the cripple. THE WEATHER. STATE Generally- fair tonight and Sunday. v Colder tonight. . LOCAL Shewers thia afternoon followed by change in temperature .'. tonight or Sunday.

IS YG11G KEELOR THE HEIR TO BIG FSMlLrfORTUIlE? Has a Grandfather Who Is Unknown to Keelor's Parents, in His Will Left Him a Million Dollars?

IS HE IN THE NAVY OR MARINE HOSPITAL? Is He a Hospital Apprentice on Training Ship or Studying Embalming at the National Capital? Washington, Sept . 24. Horace Logan Keelor, the Richmond (Ind.) youth, who enlisted in the navy without knowledge of his grandfather's bequest to him of $1,500.000, on condition that he earn $75 a month until he becomes 25 years of age. Is on the receiving ship Franklin at Norfolk. He was first thought to be at Newport. He gets only $22 a month as a hospital apprentice, but all he needs to do is to get out of the navy and fulfill the will's stipulation. In view of the circumstances, "he will make application to the department. Did Horace Logan Keelor, formerly of this city, have a millionaire grand father whom his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Keelor, --North Eigh teenth street, knew nothing of? Is he a seaman In the United States Navy, or an embalmer's apprentice In the Marine hospital at Washington, D. C? Mrs. Keelor, mother of the young man. Insisted, In speaking to a Palladium reporter, that her son had only one .grandfather, Thomas Logan of this city, who Is very much alive and who, while well off In worldly goods. is no millionaire. She also stated, that It her son was In the navy he had not informed her of the fact, and that the last she had heard from him, which was just a few days ago, he was attached to the em balming school at the Marine hospital. "But how did that 'heir to a1 million and a half story originate?" queried the reporter. She Thinks It a Joke. "I think that one of his Chicago friends is playing a Joke on him. Prob ably one of the boys at the undertak ing school he attended there," she answered. "But the naval recruiting officer at Chicago says that Horace enlisted and gave J. A. Spekenhier of Richmond as his reference," persisted the reporter. Mrs. Keelor could not understand how that could be possible,, but said that being attached to the Marine hospital he waa consequently in the hospital branch of the Marine corps. which Is a part of the naval service. "What did Horace say 'in his last letter to you?" Mrs. Keelor was asked. "He said that he was in the Marine hospital and that he liked his work He had heard of the story going the rounds of the press and jokingly stated he was getting a lot of unwarrant ed advertising. Today I received a postal card from New York friends congratulating us on Horace's good fortune. The whole business does not amount to anything but the papers are bothering us to death. They call us up to confirm the story and ask for pictures of Horace." Owing to the continued increase of business at Flume the facilities have been found Inadequate and an addi tional breakwater has been in the process of construction during thelast year. The total value, of all farm animals enumerated on January - 1, 1910, was $5,138,486,000, as compared with $4525.259,000 on January 1. 1909, an In crease of $613,227,000, or 13.6 per cent. Palfcdiom's Ddly Avercne Circulation For Week Ending Sept. 17. 1910. (Except Saturday) TOTAL DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION -Including Rural Routes, Mall Circulation, Small Towns, Complimentarles. City Circulation, Etc, Six Days G,089 AVERAGE CITY CIRCULATION 3,353 This Includes Regular Complimentary list. ;." This Report - Does Not tnclude Sample Copies.

A MOTHER FIGHTS FOR THE CUSTODY . OF LITTLE CHILD And the Adopted Parents of the Baby Girl Vigorously Oppose the Litigation of the Child's Parent.

NO DISPOSITION OF THE CHILD IS MADE Court Will Wait Until Next Week When Attorneys for the Litigants Will Make Their Arguments. Fighting for -the possession of an il legitimate child for whom the young mother apparently once did not care, the circuit court today was the scene of one of the most pitiful cases in its history. A strenuous contest was made by the child's parents by adop tion for her custody. Next week attorneys for both sides will make their arguments and no disposition will be made of the child by Judge Fox of the circuit court until then. Edith Turner, a comely grass wid ow of 21, was the petitioner to set aside the adoption of her three year old daughter Mildred, by Frank Bran son and wife. The child has been in the care of the Bransons for about two years but only within the last three weeks has it been their heir-at-law by adoption proceedings. .So attached to the child did the Bransons become that their emotions on the possibility , of becoming separated from the baby girl were similar to those stirred within the breast of the child's mother. Arrayed against the young mother were the Bransons, her divorced busband, Thomas Adams, and Probation Officer Elizabeth Candler. She was supported in her purpose to again gain custody of the child by her mother, Mrs.'Turner of 122 North Sixth street. Attorneys ; Robblna and .Robbins rep resented the interest Of the - Bransons, while P. J. Freeman looked after the Interests of the Turner woman. Were Given Baby's Custody. The Bransons were given posses sion of the child in 1908 by the child's mother, as it was generally understood between the two that the Turn er woman could not take care of the child, as she worked all day and the child's grandmother was unable to care for it as she was 11L Early this month adoption proceedings were In stituted in the circuit court and the child was given to the Bransons by Judge Fox, who at that time under stood the baby's mother had abandon ed her. The mother claimed that she had not been notified of the action and contested its legality for this reason. On the stand today Edith Turner testified that the child was born out of wedlock. All efforts to obtain, the name of the child's father were futile as the court ruled the evidence irrelevant to the issue. She was married to Thomas Adams in 1907 and after a year's marital relations they separ ated. She lived then with her parents. The child was sent to the Bransons. Last May she obtained a divorce from her husband on the ground of failure to provide, and her maiden name restored. She is employed in a laundry and has worked in local restaurants, never getting more than $5 a week. ' She admitted seeing the child but infrequently and has not contributed to its support or even given her presents since she has been with the Bransons. Her divorced husband was called to the stand and he said his wife was severe in her punishment to the child while the baby was with them, often whipping her, calling her a brat and declaring that she wished her dead. He said she would attend dances and the skating rink and leave him to care for the baby. When Mrs. Branson was called' to the stand, she put the child which Is very pretty and neatly dressed, with a red ribbon in her hair on a chair. She said the child's mother two years ago had then consented to the child being adopted by them, but although they were unwilling to do so then, she permitted the baby to stay with them. Mrs. Branson declared the young mother had only visited the child four times in two years and had not addressed the child on these visits so that she . would know she was her Lmother. Branson is a railroader and he too, testified much the same as Ms wife. Judge Fox postponed arguments In the case until next week. He win decide whom of the litigants shall retain, possession of the child after hearing the attorneys argue and cite authorities In such cases. Some of the 1.175 teachers tn London unemployed at the end of last year had to become typists and envelope addressers, while one became) a cab driver. Probably the best timekeeper in tho world is the electric clock in the Berlin observatory. It is inclosed in an airtight glass cylinder and its de

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Schwab and Chinese Princes

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Charles M. Schwab of the great United States Steel Corporation, and on his right, the Chinese Imperial Prince Tao Tsai; below Prince Tsai Hsun, all of whom figure In the new contract that has just been obtained by Mr. Schwab to build a navy for China. , All of the war vessels that are to . raise 'China to a nation of ten-fold more power and importance will be built in the United States. Hundreds' Of millions are to be expended. The news of the contract follows the extraordinary attention paid by Mr. Schwab to the Prince Tao Tsai ..recently. ' Mr. Schwab will meet Prince Tsai Hsun shortly at San Francisco to settle upon the details and complete the bargain, - " J i, - .

COUTRIBUTIONS FOR

Over $1,500 Raised This Morning by Indiana Yearly Meeting for This Purpose Several Reports Are Read.

About $1,500 was raised at the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends at this morning's session at : the East Main Street Friends' Meeting House, for church extension work. The collection was taken after the report of the evangelistic and church extension committee and a . fervent- plea . by Daisy Barr for. a liberal collection. The report of the committee showed that nearly $45,000 had been expended last year. The statistics show that there were 1051 conversions; 553 ap plications for membership; ? 48 meet ings with pastors; ' 59 meetings with partial pastoral care and 14 meetings without pastors. The ; report " also showed that there was a gain in 'the number of supporting pastors. - Two new,! churches, have been 'erected at the cost of $16,000 and one parsonage at a cost of $875. Improvements were made amounting - to ; $5,733. The report was one of the best read before the Yearly Meeting this year and ' It was largely due to the excellent showing made that the large amount of money was subscribed. : Arthur Dann Spoke.. After the reading of the report, Arthur Dann of England, spoke on! the condition of Indiana". Yearly Meeting as he observed It. He said that some members of Indiana Yearly .Meeting were not doing their ' duty; : if : they were the East Main Street Friends church would not be too large for the Friends, but would be too smalL The report of ..the .representatives showed that the following appropriations had been made for the ensuing year: ' 1 Peace Association ............$ 200 American Board of Foreign" Mis- " - sions .. .. ..r.... 2,500 Missionary Board, Southland coi- ; ' lege .. ! 700 Evangelistic committee .' 1.500 Church extension ". 1.000 Indian affairs .................. 80 Bible schools - .100 Christian Endeavor ... . .". ...... i 150 Home missions .......... ...... 25 Incidentals ......... .., . 2,000 Total . .$8,855 All of the report of the representatives was accepted except that referring to Southland college. The missionary board of that institution had asked for an appropriation of $L0O0, each year for eight years, but the representatives thought that they could not bind the representatives during the coming years. The board wanted this appropriation to build a dormitory for girls. Conditions are such at tho institution that three children sleep in one bed. After some discussion by tho Yearly Meeting the matter was referred back to the representatives, after a favorable vote had been taken. . On Indian Affairs. 1A committee composed of Joseph A. Qoddard. Pcnlaali Trueblood and WO-

CHURCH EXTEIJSIOU

liam J. Hiatt was named In the report to investigate the relation of , the Yearly Meeting to the associataed committee on Indian affairs and report to the next Yearly Meeting. 'The committee appointed to fill the 1 vacancies on the board of trustees of White's institute nominated Isaac and William. Elliott and the nomination was approved by the Yearly Meeting. Ella Stanley was named on the visiting committee of that institution. Edwin Jay; Mary E. Baldwin and Edl ward'Bellis were named on the missionary board of Southland college of Helena, Ark. -. Epistles from Iowa Yearly Meeting, held at Oskaloosa, Iowa; from Kansas Yearly Meeting held at Wichita, Kan. ; and from. Canada .Yearly Meeting held at Newmarket, Ontario, were read at this morning's 'session. " All the epistles spoke of the growing interest of the young people in the affairs of the church and the advance being made against 'the liquor traffic and against war. At the 'opening of this morning's session Cornelius R. Small made his report as a delegate to the biennial Anti-Saloon - League ' of lAmerica, and the report was approved. Credentials of ' Franklin S. Blair, a minister of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting were read. . Mr. Blair has been in Mexico as a missionary. Friday evening witnessed the reorganization of the evangelistic and pas toral committee of the Indiana .Yearly Meeting, of Friends and the discussion of the Sunday school. - The former of ficers of the evangelistic and pastoral committee. Joseph. A. Goddard, chair man and Ira Johnson, superintendent, were re-elected. - The committee on evangelistic and pastoral ' work is one of the most important of the Yearly Meeting. The committee aids the pastors and small churches and acts in an advisory capacity on church matters. The re port of the committee showed that there had been over one thousand conversations during the . past year and that five hundred joined the various monthly meetings. Dr. D. W. Dennis Speaks. Dr. David W. Dennis of Earlham college delivered the most Important address before the meeting last evening. He, considering the Friends Sun. day Schools. "Better Preparation for Teachers In the Bible Schools,"; was his subject and in . his address he showed that not only : the teachers, but the pupils, should prepare for the Sunday lesson. Dr. Dennis also said that the Sunday school should take advantage - of - the ; discoveries which are . made in Egypt and Babylon and the great universities of the country and use them, as an aid in the study of the Bible. Richard Haworth of . Tairmoust (Continued From Page Cx.)

MILLM store

WAS BROREll KITO A! TIIEII LOOTED Over $500 Worth of V&lucbb Plumes and Hats Were Stolen at Miss Austin's Store During the Night. THINK WOMAN AND A MAN MADE THE RAID Chief Gormon Believes It fs & Move in Systematic finery Burglaries Being Mada Over the West. Sometime last night a "gentleman . burglar" and an , expert assistant, thought to have been a woman. "Jimmied" a door at the millinery shop of Mary Austia, in the Weatcott hotel building, and got away with more than $550 worth of expensive French and willow hat plumes, and some fine -stock of untrimmed bats. - Only the most expensive articles were taken from the store, Including hats and plumes valued from $5 to $50. The total amount of the loan is not known, as Miss Austin is still examining her stock, which was strewn about the store by the thieves. That a woman waa with "Mr. Raf- , fles" is the opinion of the police, and employes at the store, because of the ' discriminating taste with which the valuable hats and plumes were picked out. No cheap articles were taken. In many Instances one variety had been " examined and . then thrown on - the floor. Beside removing the -separate plumes from boxes 'and drawers, the burglars had torn trimming from a number of hats, some of which bad , been sold. - -. . . .;.- A Systematie; RaloV: f ' In the opinion of Superintendent I. A. Gormon, of the police depaitaeit. the , burglary is a move in a syxts- . metic millinery raid, takin g!aceu3 ' . over4bawesWHe plaosa u- tX. the story that it was comctttted by ; local talent. ; A few days ago, Mr. Gor;mon, received a notice from the'Superlntendent of police at . Detroit, Mich'., telling the local department to ; be on the lookout tor millinery thieves -who had operated in Detroit last Sunday night and escaped with about $400 worth of plumes, similar to those stol- ; en in Richmond last night. , ' A few weeks ago similar letters were received from : the Dayton, O. and Indianapolis police departments. and there was a careful examination of stores In . Richmond, to ascertain - - whether or not there had bees an at tempt to sell any ) millinery goods ta Richmond. No evidence of such sal was found. Superintendent Gormon is workixjC on the clue that there is an organised company committing the burglaries all over the country and that there to a store for selling the stolen goods, ' -probably in one of the large eastern cities or in Europe. All polios depart ments in the large cities will be. notified immediately. Miss Austin, having this morning prepared a list of tke stolen goods, so far as can be deter -s mined at this time. Entry was effected either through door or window which opens on the t -alley just east of the hotel building. . The screen in the window had beest removed with the aid of a "Jimnry" ' and then the window forced open. The prima oi linger uyi sre visaoiv on ? the , lower part of tho window sash and though no official, examination fit . them has been made it is thought they t are from a man's hand. There are extremely indefinite prints on several of the show cases and the door glass, which appear to hare been made by woman s nana.. Side Door Was Opened. -The side door has been opened by the skillful thrust 1 of a' chisel or "jimmy", and was open when found this morning. - One of - the burglars had evidently entered ' through : the window and stood on the table near the window, as the crown of a hat on the table was crushed. The traces of the "jimmy' are easily seen on Ct door and window. After effecting the entry the and woman made a careful ation of the back room. many valuable plumes front the on shelves. The money drawer was "jimmied and about fl In pennies t en. Even the penny from an adverC ment charm was removed. ' The aluxa inum was left. r After apparently making a pr I ary examination of the back roots teS laying out goods they wished to ts the- thieves entered the show reecn : and tore many plaaaes from hats. They also removed $70 worth of "willows' and "Frenches from an taMShi tlon case, where very vxiziila crtSai are kept. XZany articles act waxttJ were thrown on th floor which were found many chteai and trimmings. i ' . , - After ranssc.lrq s3 gsrfas ami era of the front racart Craves looted the tton TZtzx tzX tt U t Heved they , wet tttrrl cr?. cl this, point, A late -tx rrT'; 3S iSsaes t4 fc-a and plaeed oat a tatia cix34tct z't

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