Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 320, 25 September 1910 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXV. It O. 320. J 'ZUCimOND. IND.. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1910. SINGLE COPT, 9

GOvEOITS SUIT. WILL SERVE AS A GEIIERAL EXAMPLE Lltfcaticn Against the C. 6 0. of Inna WiCi Result in Revision of Laws, Governor States. . IS AN ODJECT LESSON TO PEOPLE OF STATE

Defendant Road Has Had a ; Stormy Career Since Its Organization, One Trouble Following Another. -, "This Is. perhaps, the first Urn a ooncrete example has been presentad to the people of this state of how tockf and bonds aro manipulated on a tremendous scale. It I do not accomplish anything mora I will present such a caaa as will result In the next leflslatura wising the laws of the atate and preventing tho formation of corporations In this state on wind and water. I am against the Investment of wind and water as money." Thus Governor Thomas R. Marshall declared himself Saturday to the Indianapolis correspondent of the Palladium on the alleged fraud practiced on the people In the transfer of the C. C. L. railroad to the Chesa peake 6 Ohio railroad company and Its reorganisation as the Chesapeake A Ohio of Indiana. The chief executive expects to show the people of the atate in the prosecu tion of the suit to dissolve tne c. o. tt Indiana that the corporation was formed for the purpose of stock Job bing and Juggling. . A Pretended Organisation. ; Ho avers that it la merely a pretended corporation ; and that It was organised In the expectation that the ttats o facials would think a foreign corporation, which the governor heHares Jg jhtr real ojqior. was acting Itt comtUlflee -with state laL Ha aid that the Chesapeake & Ohio was the real owner and that the stockhold ers as announced do not possess bona fide shares of stock. Among the num ber of stockholders named Is Harry C. Starr, formerly of Richmond and elected rice president of the road at the organisation meeting held in this city In July. The atate asks that the court dissolve the pretended corporation on the grounds that it Is organised for fraudulent purposes In that lta direct ore seek to evade the state laws and that It be restrained from exercising any of the powers allotted to legally constituted domestic corporations and from carrying out the purposes the company has planned. " .The road has had one of the most checkered careers that any commer ctal concern In Indiana has ever had. It has had a struggle from the time It was first proposed. . . The glowing possibilities of com maIIImOI ilia Vannseles n( at MllAail awsesaea t-aav a vaaaaas a eaaaae isMiivau wuia pany to rednce lta freight rates to local shippers caused the builders to . demand a bonus of $225,000 from Richmond aione. Tne money was voted the company after a hard tght. The fight for the bonus here was much the same as elsewhere where the road entered. Its Erratic Career. Tor a few years the company enjoy ed ordinarily good business. An occasional wreck stirred things up and then wrecks became more frequent Then a freight war with the Penn aylvanla railroad company was startad and while the company has won In many issues of the contest the matter haa not yet been definitely settled. Not . having sufficient capital It Is said the road was unable to stand the drain on lti treasury which was caused by the panic of 1907, and the road was placed In the hands of a re ceiver. Upon lta sale to the C. O. railroad company lta affair reached a climax with the suit for dissolution which was filed In the Cass county circuit court on Saturday. The road wag hid In at public auction In this dty on June 23 by representatives of the C. O. railroad company for over ia.ooo.ooe. The amount actually paid over here, waa a little more than WO.000 It la understood. The organisation of the C. A O. In Indiana was then perfected and a few weeks later a suit was filed In the federal court at Cincinnati wherein a banking Institution claimed It had a million aa a resuit of the deal. This action is now pending. The company's officials recently filed a mortgage In favor of the Mercantile Trust company,, of Ntw York City calling for a loan ot tti.C50.CC3. Thli action prompted Governor Marshall's investigation and salt for dissolution. For along time In English history wtlte has been considered the un fciy tzlsr for coronations. Charles I i7 tcstatnU when he was THE WEATHER. IIANA AND LOCAL Showers ;

SEND IN ENTRIES! All exhibit and horse show entries for the Fall Festival should be made Immediately with secretary Will W. Roller at rooms 20 and 21 Colonial building. It Is Important that the entries be made aa soon as possible In order to maintain a system and assure the exhibitors of good positions.

HAS PITIFUL STORY "Lake Erie Bill," Crossed in Love, Is Now Alleged to Be Unbalanced. IS RELEASED FROM JAIL "Lake Erie Bill," a professional hobo with a history, was released from custody at the county Jail on Saturday by 8herlff Meredith on orders from Judge Fox of the circuit court. The tramp, who In his better days went by the name of Thomas McMahon was charged with trespass, having broken into the cigar store' of Harry Beard at Cambridge City on Setember 12. The man is , mentally unbalanced and It was Intended to make an effort to get him Into the Eastern Indiana Insane hospital. When aralgned before Squire Bowmaster of Cambridge City he was found guilty but the sentence was suspended, as the man was also declared to be Insane by the Justice of the peace. Prosecuting Attorney Charles Ladd moved that the affidavit charging trespass be- dismissed and gave as his reasons that as the man was Insane he could not be guilty of the act In the eyes of the law. During his confinement In the coun ty Jail the man sat In a corner removed from the other Inmates and whistled and clapped his hands almost all the time. He, became a tramp about twenty years ago when his sweetheart, a Columbus, Ohio, girl, married to another man. His home Is at Cambridge City. STILL AT LIBERTY Jrtha Hicks: who aw recently deciv red Insane by a lunacy commission Of 'Squire Abbott's court ' and placed in the Home for Friendless, from which she escaped on Wednesday eve ning, has not been apprehended. Tbft police have searched the city high and low for her. They are at a complete loss to account for her getaway. They expect that , she is either visiting friends who' have hidden her or that she Is in the country. It Is feared that she may suffer from exposure. ' POSSESSION WANTED Possession of real estate and dam ages In the sum of $300 are asked In a complaint filed In the circuit court on Saturday by the' attorney for Mertie Richardson against Benjamin Miles and wife. The plaintiff also desires that the title to the property be quieted. The farm which consists of 82 acres has been In the plaintiffs posses sion since 1899. The defendants have been in possession since 1907. OUT OF IT (American Nwf Service.) New York, Sept. 24. "I am not : a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination; I have authorized no one to present my name and I never have been a candidate," said Mayor Gaynor today at his country home at St. James. The mayor haa been asked for a positive expression upon his attitude toward the democratic nomination for governor. 48

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eggeHsMPJMgMnHnHBgeSH One of the Fall Festival Features

One of the many attractions at the Richmond Fall Festival Hippodrome wfll.be the trained dog. pony and monkey show ot Leon Morris. This Is one of the beet' acta of its kind in the -country. The diving monkeys furnish the feature performance of this act. There are numerous other acts hooked for the Hippodrome, which,, promisee to bo one ot the most popular places la the city durlnx the bis event . The hippodrome grounds are on South Fifteenth street between B and E streets. The hippodrome will be open an next week. Charles M. Marsh., who managed the hippodrome at the Dayton Fan Festival which was such a splendid attraction will arrive in Richmond early in the week to take charge of arrangement for the hippodrome hereduring, the Fall Festival. Much work Is entailed la preparation for the hippodrome,, which promises' to be equally as good aa that at Dayton, including acta which have made great hits wherever they hare boon given. Mr. Kemper of the decorating firm has arrived and already outlined his plana for the stadium. He win

EARLHAH IS HOW DUE OF THE BEST IIIDIIM SCHOOLS Reports Submitted by the Institution to Indiana Yearly Meetings Pleasing to the Many Delegates.

COLLEGE HOWEVER IS NEEDING MORE MONEY A Collection for the Institution Was Not Taken as a Personal Canvas Has Been . Contemplated. - Saturday afternoon was Earlham .af ternoon at the Indiana Yearly Meet ing of Friends. Reports . from ' the president, board of trustees and treasurer showed ' that the college now i ranks as one of the leading educational Institutions In Indiana and that it was gravely In need, of finances. i The fact that Earlham college Is now recognized as one of the five best educational institutions In . the state was emphasized in the address ot President Robert I Kelly before the Yearly Meeting yesterday afternoon. Dr. Kelly In a very earnest address, following his annual report,, said that there were three organizations in this country, which pass upon the quality ot work done by the educational institutions. These are the Carnegie Foundation, the General Education Board, endowed by John D. Rockefeller and the Indiana State Board of Education. Earlham college,, as an Institution maintained by Friends, waa not considered by the - Carnegie Institution. The General Education ' Board has made an Investigation of all the leading colleges of the United States and has selected five In Indiana as reaching Its standard and Earlham Is one ot the five. The state board of education has also made certain requirements for colleges wishing high standing and Earlham is .one of the Indiana Institutions . contanlnjs '$t. qufremehts. . ... ' An Educational Trust. . "There is a great tendency today to build up an educational trust," Baid the Earlham president "Just now there IS great danger for Earlham and all Other institutions, for it is thought that certain ' educational Institutions may.be ground to powder, under the roiling machine of the big trust. , The general education board has made a classification of colleges, saying which ones are good, which ones are poor and which ones are not worthy of life. Some colleges have already dltd as the result of this classification. "Each college has today a life and death strugggle," he continued, "such as It has never had before, especially If it Is not on a good financial basis. I am gratified to think that we rank well as a college. One of the denominational colleges recognized by the general educational board has already increased Its endowment fund until it is twice that of Earlham. Two others have very much increased their endowments and today Earlham stands fourth in the standard as to the finances." Debt is Now $45,000. President Kelly asked that the Indiana Yearly Meeting consider the conditions of Earlham and make it possible for the college- to give the best education that any college can give, and subscribe to the fund to remove the debt of the college which Is now about $45,000. . , A collection was not taken at the session yesterday . afternoon because the authorities of the college wish to make a personal canvass of the members of Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings and . secure subscriptions from people that have not contributed (Continued on Page Two.) 4?

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HAKIS ASKS PARDON Father of Convicted Army Officer Wants Him Restored to Liberty. SENDS PLEA TO GOVERNOR (American News Service.) New York, Sept. 24. Governor Hughes today notified District : Attorney Frederick G. De Witt of Queens county that an application for the pardon of Captain Peter C. Hains Jr., the army officer, who shot and killed William E. Annls at the Bayside Yacht club in August two years ago, had been made by General Peter C. Hains, the prisoner's father. - Captain Hains on bis conviction of manslaughter In tha first degree, attar his trial last flUAs aenta Sing Sing to serve a term of. not less than eight years ahd not more than' sixteen. - General Hains, in his appeal to the governor for a pardon," reviews the whole history , of the Hains tragedy and pleads extenuating circumstances. THEY MAKE SURVEY M. S. Markle and L. R. Petry completed a survey of the Whitewater River gorge from the Main Street bridge to Test bridge last evening and found that the gorge was over one hundred feet deep at several points south of the city. Mr. Markle is an assistant in the department of Biology of Earlham College and Mr. Petry is a student at the University of Chicago and a graduate of Earlham. Their topographical survey of the gorge will be presented to the college. ROAST KING'S ARMY New . York, Sept. 24. A special cable to the Evening Post here today says: "London, Sept. 24. The British army maneuvers, it Is admitted by pa pers of all shades of opinion, resulted in a frightful fiasco. The Express calls it a gigantic muddle. - There was hopeful confusion. Some battalions fired on their own allies in the fear ful and wonderful tangle. - The foreign attaches openly, expressed their con tempt for the British generalship. - . "The aeroplanes, which were to do the scouting, couldn't fly."

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HEW ATTACK MADE OIIUOOSEVELT It Centers About His Very Drastic Primary Law for the State. TO BE A BITTER STRUGGLE COLONEL 8AY8 THAT HE . EXfECT8 A HOT FIGHT BUT THAT EVERYTHING WOULD COME OUT ALL SATISFACTORILY. ' (American .News Service.)

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 24. A nfwlof John Rolphln

fight aaalnsl CoL: PoMw.it cfr-' lng around the drastic direct primary bill which he urges as a chief issue of the republican state convention de veloped today This fight promises to be as bitter as the struggle over the temporary chairmanship and the wires started buzzing today towards the effecting ot a ' compromise be tween the warring factions. At Saga more Hill this afternoon Col. Roosevelt admitted that he had a new fight on his hands but declined to discuss it at length. He merely declared that some of the upstate delegations to the convention were dissatisfied with the direct ' primary bill which he ' is urging, and the enactment of which he wants pledged in the republican platform. The colonel said he believed everything would come out alright. The details were learned later today o .1 ' -dt ob.cm uicSBuwb, -uiu-s mem -no and Broome counties, it waa said, sent word to CoL Roosevelt that, while they stood ready to vote for him for temporary chairman, -they opposed the Cobb direct primary bill. Hughes Also Favbra It. . The colonel ' alighted upon the Cobb bill which! would place every office from United States senator down at the disposition of the electors. : Governor Hughes also favored this measure, v, . For a time the only opposition to this issue came from the old guard, but later delegations which Indorsed the colonel began to announce their aversion to the Cobb bill.- The. criticism culminated In the ultimatum sent to Roosevelt from up-state leaders. . -A compromise would be effected, it was intimated 'here this afternoon. It la believed that the colonel will grant concessions although he win still cling to the direct primary issue as a principal feature for the platform. . There is a possibility that the fight will be threshed . out in ; the convention ban. However, It Is generally believed that a compromise will be made before the convention opens. . Chairman Willcox, of the public service commission called on the former president today to enlist his aid in the movement to have telephone and telegraph companies put under the aupervision of the - commission. ; This may also be given a place in the platform. PAINFULLY INJURED. Charles Ackerman, a clerk at the Hooaier Mercantile company, painfully injured hia hand yesterday when he moved a large .box into the " -tore, catching the flesh of one finger on a naU and tore hm. flnser open to the bone. : It wu tter-xry f or the phjrsician to make several atitchea before the wound waa closed. HOT A CANDIDATE. For Uie information of my friends, I wish to state that r fcave never heea, and, am act now, a etrf iStt far tie office of county aaperinteadeat of schools. - I greatly appreciate the kind oUcitatkm ot frtenda dedxtes -XM to bo st candUata, but I feat con-pelted to decline the noctaatkm.

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gtjassMBttstm 0IES0W3H1JI)RIES William Ragsi, Hurt by . Falling Lfcref Tree, . Expired Ust .flight. WAS HURT LA0T THURSDAY William RAgsdale?Ieord, who was Injured on Thursd afternoon by large limb of a tree! Jag on him and crushing htm in the Sdo minal regions died - at Reid MeSfiai hospital . on Saturday evening. $le suffered from internal injuries s severe that at no t. .-.I . time did the attending: physician hold much hope for histxecovery. - Ragsdale was working on the farm ma ox uie my. tie. wa tta rVvtree and ln.trlnv caught him. before he could . get out of its way. He was a well known col orea man ana wnen .young was per haps the strongest man in the county being large Of stature. THINK IT PECULIAR Local Veterans Do Not Approve of Body's Pension Action. WANT A DOLLAR PER DAY War frniTi h-lti- in U1. action of tn naUonal encampment of the O. A. R. In the question of a dol lar a day for the veterans Is the mem bership of Sol Meredith post of this city. The .members are at a loss to understand what prompted the national association to turn down the proposition asking congress to increase the pensions of the old soldiers. The Richmond post waa almost to a ; man,, in favor of the increase. It does not believe that because the national association did not see fit to approve of the old soldiers' . appeal that the law will not meet with strong approval from a majority of congress men. Local veterans have not given up hopes. Several of i the members have declared that the decision of the national encampment does not represent the sentiment of the majority of the posts in the United States. The voting strength of the encampment, had all posts been represented, was more than 800, but there were only 250 delegates in attendance who passed on the resolution in regard to the pension increase. Pdfcilcn's Ddly Avercse Grcdclicn For .Week Ending Sept.. 24, 1910. (Except Saturday) TOTAL DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION . Including Rural Routes, Mall Circulation. Small Towns. Complimentaries. City Crcuiatioa, Etc., Six Days - . . - ,.-'r5.C311 AVERAGE : CITY CIRCULATION 3X33 This Use. Hanoi Kot

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SIX KILLED! f'otorman on Trtiticn Freight ? Car Did Wot VcIt at RfeHt Switch and CoEi&s with a Limited Car. ' TWELVE ARE INJURED: FEW OF THEM FATALLY Wreck at Tipton Saturday Aft ernoon AVai ttwV Second Traction Hcrrprln the St&ta the Past fcci A GROQS-ELECT KILLED BROOKLYN MAN, GOING TO HI WE DDI NO, MEETg HORRISLB DEATH, AS DOES HIS MOTHER, TO BE -BEST MAN." American News Service Upton. Ind., Sept 24. Six were Kiuea. cweive injurea, several probably fatally, In a collision on the Indiana Union traction line; two mCea north ot here today. This was the second disaster on In diana traction lines durtzg the prae ent week, the first having occurred eja tne waoasn vaey cae at Kingsianw Wednesday. Tha - death of , ClyiSa Brown of Warren. fatL, today Imatht , the number ot persons 'killed te; that -disaster to 41.' 1 v , ? The two wrecks were trourht about under clrcumatanoea almost txtt2l. In both cases there was a mlstts Li orders. One of te trains over ' rca ..4A. '.'..'- a.k(.k ' 1. :' . ". and metlhA othr on a aliArn tY 'f-t j The. Mthtwizs , -are J those killed In today'es wreck: iose-t Kaker, motorman, Logansport: Lewia uroo, KOKomo, ind.; or. w. c. IloitW .. T).1.1H . , wmr '.:.t.":,.' Brooklyn; Verdet Rallsback, Hymeria. . IndVi B. F.. Welsh. MarahaU. Mich. , i la - - The following are most seriously m lured: : J. K. Ballinaer. KBAlhirvilla. , Tnd A V. rhirH- mwtA -flf linHuak. olic; Cbarlea Grave, Indianapolis; "J, E. Hawkins, Indianapolis; Mrs. II. Hutchins. Alexandria; Mrs. -Belle Jones, Greentown, Ind. ; J. W.' Montgomery, El wood; Mrs. T. A. Moore, El wood; Vincent Zantogfle, SharnS ville. - - ' Dr. Holthouser was on his way 'to Kokomo where be was to have been' married . tonight His brother, who was also killed," was to have been tho best man at the wedding. The brido to have been was Iflss Nellie Coxon, daughter of the secretary of the Great Western Pottery company. KokomO. Miss Coxen waa prostrated when aha heard of the death of her fiancee. The collision was between a north bound limited passenger train and a south bound freight The south hound motorman had orders to trait at tha first stop north of the crossing, it la said, but overran that point, thinking , he could . make another switch. A clump of tress hid the approaching cars and they came together at tho ran ' Tha trtrht dn4 hw-a . toe ironi ot we uaiiioa, aemotisautX the smoker. Tho motorman and all, the passengers in the smoUng ' eocapartment of the limited were killed. The motorman ud conductor on tho freight car Jumped and were not injured. ' "I guess we over run orders, said -, TV. T - V V . nviuiuiau . wma um.vj nun mm- mw - fully recovered from the shock caaed by jumping from tho car. Conductor Seebree was equally dazed at the) oo enrrenoe and could ' not explain why they had paaaed tho awiteh. Farm nouses ware opened for -tho reception of tho Injured sad tho ao4K m at tho dead. SinMizi?t Can.' rat sent out extra ears, with ecta, gri all of the dead and Injured were kirr brought here. ASK WALSH MW1 Washington, , Sept. 24. Georcs , T. Buckingham, a lawyer of filed a formal, petition, for the of John R. Walsh, formerly of the Chicago National bask, with tho department of justico today, It Is signed by several fcunarol tlrrrrrl syiapatbizm. T7alzi b trw tx Ltsfenworth, Eaa, penltexfJary Itavtrr been convicted Dee. IS, ISO. oat eatargo of loanJaar Mxoaett tXX9J&t while pnsddont. of the en a::2 c? vel Tfca etsacf Hz, wtZt bo tried ta Che ZUrlr ttmX cf vcaea ra tra tz

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